The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

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CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

Of the various oppositions which have from time to
time attempted to embarrass the government and throw
-the country into confusion, the motley array of 'which
• '-'-Lord J. Russell -lc at present the leader is heyOnd all
e question -the niOSt unprincipled' and shameless. From
-• the question of the. sPeakership . to. the one decided on
Thursday e.venieg in their favour, the one undisguised.
Object of this inveterate and mercenary faction has been
to drive Sir R. Peel and hiS colleagues frotn office. With
the • fell s' consciousness
.before them that ~without the
f- •acceation of Mr‘ O'Connell and the eleet.of his respeeta-.
. • ' *acilterentk (a. contingency which would,-they Well
know, produce ere. long. a' convulsion throughout the
kingdom, which no-trick or mieliinatiOn COW(' allay,) it
•', would be impossible for them to hold the seals of office a
' fortnight, the whigi.have ,opPesed almost every motiOn,
without, respect to its character, that••lias been proposed
by Pee), with the sole hope of compelling loin, by
repeated Majorities, to resign: The last and. Most im-
pertantef theamprinciplet connbinatiOnS has' left ministers
• 'in a minority of 33,,and*we now learn, from the. manly
and eloquent, declaration of the premier himself, that not-
. - withstanding this majority, lie intends to object to the
resolution for •the plunder of, the Irish church to the
utmost ; and that should lie.he further obstructed in the
principle to which he: deterinined, to.adhere,.it will be.
"impossible. car 'him to continue to retain the situation he
'now holds.
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'The result of this declaration must be to fill the minds
of the property and respectability of England with dismay
,-'=and alarm. If Sir Peel be forced out of office, a moral,
ffio 'less than 'political "convulsion, Must speedily follow,
and the realization:of the 'worst anticipations 'of the most
timid alarmist of five years ago will certainly be the issue.
What can the weak, vacillating, and incapable faction
-* that has for ever disgraced the narrie of, whit,, do without
the allianCe of O'Connell and his banditti ? Could they
carryon the affairs of the nation a single week ? What
they kill do, goaded by a sense of their own desperate
,position, for the character of the party is irretrievably
•.• -; gone, and urged and dragooned by the men whom they
- called "to their aid, 'it is not difficult to conceive.,
. But will Englishmen standby and see the most venerated
;* institutions of the country desecrated or destroyed for the
•
purpose of appeasing the appetite of thesemeo for: lace ?
• Will thersee their King deprived of his lawful and just
• prerogative, insulted and betrayed .by having a ministry
. ford upokhim, of ,whose incapacity lie. has already
-rOeivedsuChindisputable proofs? and who would sac'
fice their loyalty and the best interests of the kiugdom to
thefrir greedyrapacity Tor plaCe *lf Euglislimen will con-
- sent to look calmly mi Whilst a drama is enacted, the only.;
possible denouement of which.must be the destruction of
.• . all that Englishmen have heretofore deemed
,worthy of
their love and veneration, then are they nolonger worthy
of their name. An addreas'is,iri course of signature to
Sir Robert Peel, in Londen, and has already received
several thousand signatures, expressive of -the warmest
' admiiption of the trauscendant ability, the fearless in 7
tegrity and the consummate prudence with which he is
. now administering the functions of his: office,,and calling
" upon him to, cOntintle; to stand, by his King whatever
:uppoaitien may await him." . Sir Robed Peel said truly
towards the close of hiseloquent speecfithat public opinion
. 'Was altogether independent of majorities in the.llouse of
• Columns. Bat that opinion to beOf any avail must be
made manifest; and how can it he better and more consti-
.. tntionally expressed than by addresses of confidence to
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Ministers from all parts of the country-? If the conserva-
tives of Great Britain will take no trouble for themselves;
if they will exercise no energies in their Own helaalf; but
• forming as they' dc the great majority of the wealth and
• intelligence of',England, .allow so glorious and in-'I
teepid a supporter,of these principles as Sir Robert Peel
to be driven from thehelm by a conspiracy so anpatriotic •
and unprincipled as thecineOf which* is ahont to become
• the victim,•they will deserve all the evils that must result
from their supineness. The time has at length arrived for
the most active and vigorous exertions, and any defee-
tiun. on their part becomes not merely' blameable but
wicked.
- Every county, city, town, village, and hamlet in the
'three kinadorns where the principles of the present mi-
nistry are appreciated as they deserve to be, should pour
an its address; .and those who, professing,a'dcsire to. see
.• the country rescued frarri its present appalling ,state of
excitement and agitatiOnoimit, frern*negligence or in,
erttieSa, adding their names, will deserve to be regarded
with suspicion and distrust. Not an hour is to be lost:
The opinion of the people of England must be expressed
strongly on the causes of the present awful crisis, and. if
• the appeal be 'properly responded to, Sir Robert Peel
'must feel ithiS duty to his eountry, no. less than to-his
to maintain his post. To this point the energies
all true conservatives in every part of-the country
-Inuit be immediately directed. -The sort of appeal which
:they might niake, if they would take the trouble so to do,
'would be • irresistible.7-Blockburn Standard.
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