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great interests of. the country ? The position which
England holds in the affairs of the world never was so
feeble, undignified and unenviable, as it is at the present
moment. The king of England can hardly be consi-
dered more than a fourth-rate monarch. His sceptre
has no sway beyond the limits of Windsor Castle, and
his sovereign authority is unable to quell the dissentions
which rage among his sickly servants in Downing-street.

• At home and abroad, we see the elements of revolu-
tion and destruction in active force, and the demons
who delight in blood, chaunting their unhallowed Mean-.
tations. Ireland is a mass of pollution, crime, and
misery, . while the demagogues and incendiaries who
trample upon her—who have too long • been allowed to
arrogate to themselves, supreme power—whose trea-
sonable practices have too long been" connived at by
certain persons who shall be nameless—still aim at the
consummation of their treasons, and seek to wrest her
from the British crown. O'Connell. tells his country
men, in the teeth of the coercive bill,
.and through the
medium of the public press, that he will never remain
silent, and never cease to, agitate until he shall have
obtained a repeal of the Union and yet the man is at
large, vapouring with as much fury and audacity as if
he held a carte blanche of protection from the Govern-
ment, or exercised the honourable functions of a whig
spy. Kilkenny, and the county thereof, are, it is true,
proclaimed! The curfew,bell, there, sounds its terrible
note to the dPmented peasant, who must not be seen
out of his mud cabin, from sun-set to sun-rise. But of
what avail is the doniel-ic incarceration of this man while
the agitators of Dublin are allowed to print and publish
their exasperating appeals? It is folly to complain of
the tares when we do not interdict him who sows them.
It is cruel to make war upon the victim when we do not
punish or restrain the guilty seducer. In short, Ireland
is an anomaly, but it is rendered so by the government.
Those only who are her worst enemies are conciliated,
while her real friends ate treated with marked and un-

merited contumely.
But it is nut Ireland alone which is a repulsive gan-
grene in our national system, • and- a reproach to the
executive government; for turn to what side we will.
we see nothing but revoluion in embryo, or anarchy in
full developement. Oar connection with the West. In-
dies, and our interest in these once invaluable colonies,
are on the brink of dissolution. We have tolerated the.
ignorant empiric, and encouraged quackery to so un-
limited an extent, that the patient is exhausted, and his
recovery extremely doubtful.' We have tampered, and
tinkered, and cobbled, and experimentalised, till we have
made the law a- record of fully, and the king's subject al
pauper. Jamaica, under the government of an inditer
of condemned farces—a shallow exquisite 'of the theatri-
cal saloons—is actually in a state of quasi rebellion-.
The last accounts from that island are to the 6th of
March.• At that time the -utmost consternation pre.vailed,,
and the bonds of society were breaking up. • A deliCient
crop, and a discontented population, were working evils
of a fearful magnitude, and unless Lord MUlgrave be
recalled, the consequences will be of a inuchdiore serious
nature than any' we have yet had occasion to lament'
relative to the deeply injured planters and proprietors of
the West Indies.

We would willingly come nearer home in search of
consolation, but we know nut where to find it. Must
assuredly it is not to be- found in our relations at the
north or south of Europe. Blood still continues to be
shed wantonly in Portugal, and the_ trade of that ancient
kingdom •is nearly annihilated. British interests are
there totally neglected, and. British property, shut up in
Oporto; is -plundered with impunity. itii respect to
Holland, the iacidie policy of Lord Palmerston draws its
dull, Jumbering, tedious length along, .fOr the murderous
conflict before:Antwerp has led to no satisfactory- result.
On- th. contrary the ministerial journals are compelled
to admit that the latest negociations have led to toe de-
velopement of new difficulties. The simple infereuee
from this is,
.that the King of Holland will not consent
to be robbed, ur that the rights of. his knave and toy al
subjects should be impaired, merely to gratify the ag-
grandizing policy of Louis Philip, or the obtuse liberalism
of the British government. But meanwhile the trade
between the two countries continues suspended, and toe
goods 'of (Ali manufacturers, which formerly fouud
ready market through the cnanuel of the Scheldt, are
alluweno rain our warehouses. The thncii
shiphin ,-
unjustly detained, also rots in our Ilarb,uts.

In the name of outraged justice, ai`iti violated cove-.
nanis,• and the _meicantille interests of the country, we
ask, why is this endured by•the people of England? The
Marylot- in this piece- of • political strategy is Talley--
ituid,.andhis dupe is Palmerston. Euglandand the wings
are playing the game of the French jaculainl,.aud:we-pay
as we play.. Every .trick is a dead loss to us. We hate
been allured into the speculation, and have lie.en fleeced
i'or.our stupidity and credulity. ..At the outset we ,were
tuhi, day,after day, that,it the intei est of this csiun-
iry to cahivate good relations with the •govei•innent of
the citizen king, inasmuch as that -the reolution hub
snaken to their base the old, prejudices of Franci!, and
that a freer and more advantageous cemmercial inter-
se vi ould be the result of our alliance'.' • In expecta-
iion of tLis we consigned to them a pliilosupher, in toe
shape of • Dr. liowring, I..tauther kind_ of' a poet by tire
way,) to rake lessons in !mance, and bool,ke,tping in the.
ministerial bar-et :Az' of t'ai is. e were with a

flee and a libtrul, encuiiral..;ettica•.-of
oat cottons anti eutievy.. iitityring xt as c0i1.11,-...ut
.11,-...ut Le tad eon, inettl the Dulte tie of Lie le-
,:iixt:tal ot Lis set.it3,ams. 'rite mii,iner listetied
tand oulylattgiledin his ssiet-e.

act I,(Aitie !,-,ziak to 1,1111; aiAl set-ming can...li,ar
Life L.': gut-ti trunit.. s in sLeii j 'out

ii,ac day to this,—itunt otilusupLer's
to-the-date „ne step haBl;t•ten

ay to e Ptenen li.ss into
et:ect, putt i ecivrueir: . At," e t n-
twe to iiebtr w ii. Tn..ly ha..e 1.,,t etcn SU
witch as 161ailen their imanises reialive to
beirreen harts anti Loudon.- tt as to hate
L,dt ...is it,

yet nothing whatever has been clone to complete the ar=
rangements, so that Bowring and his employers look very
much like—what shall we say ?—like April fools!
We might enlarge upon these blunders 'and absurdi-
ties if our space would permit, but this, fortunately for
the reader, is exhausted, and we are tired of the subject.
The nation is in a state of imminent peril. Embarrass-
ment presses upon the people, and a declining revenue
perplexes the government. It is no wonder, therefore,
that the papers should announce the indisposition of his
Majesty's ministers,—Lord Grey with the headache,
and the heartache, Sir James Graham with sea-sickness,
Mr. Pouiett Thomson with the tallow fever, Lord
Holland with the gout, Lord John Russell with the
measles, and Lord Althorp with the tic douloureux !

In the STANDARD of Friday last, we glanced at the
consequences o 1 abolishing the punishment of Death for
the crime -of forgery, and since that time, the London
Papers have supplied a practical and a melancholy com-
mentary on our argument., in the accounts which they
almost daily contain of new cases . of that kind, of the
most atrocious character. There is a party of "phi-
lanthropists par-excellence" in the country, whose tender
sympathies are easily excited for wrong-doers, but who
appear to feel no compassion for those who suffer wrong.
A section of this claSs of Philosophers is located in this
'place, and is now employed in getting up an address
which we transcribe from one of their hand-bills.

"TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

"We, the undersigned, Inhabitants of Liverpool and its •Vi-
cinity, beg leave most humbly to express our grateful sense of
mercy, becoming the throned Monarch better than his Crown,'
displayed since your Majesty's Accession, in the case of many
unhappy individuals, who, according to the inequitable and fre-
quently unpracticab.e laws of this laud, were subject to the
awful punishment of DEATH.
also duly estimate the readiness with which the Royal
Consent was given to the Acts fur the amelioration of the Cri-
minal Code, passed during 'the last Session of Parliament.
We would beg leave to express our hope, that your Majeety
will leave to posterity the noble.boon of enactments established
upon the combined principles of Justice and of Mercy; thus
placing before other countries a glorious example of Clemency,
as well as a vigilant regard for the varied interests of the com-
munity, a union of objects which, we are persuaded, may be
attained by the substitution of secondary punishment, fully
adequate to afford protection to property, and, at the same
time, removing from this great nation the odium of having law
still the most sanguinary in theworid."

Who is the author of this piece of maudlin sentimen-
tality, we neither know nor care, but, we have our sus-
picions that the coinage proceeds from the jacobinical
and revolutionary mint, because it is impressed with the
mark of the Beast, and because the word JUSTICE does
not form a part of its motto. No one can read this ad-
dress and nut draw the inference that His Majesty would
be entitled to a still higher degree of admiration, were
he to let loose all the felons in his jails, and forget that
he has solemnly, swum "to do justice." History has
been defined
,to be " philosophy teaching by example."
Surely the almost still smoking ruins of Bristol and Not:-
tingham, the blazing fires of Kent, Sus.ex, and Norfolk,
are not quite forgotten ; these tragedies never would
have been acted if the principal parts had nut been
performed by itinerant lecture's and philanthropic and
tender, hearted petitioners ; the one class exciting
to the commission of crime, and the other arresting
the course of justice by its clamours for mercy. These
silly, self- conceited, self - dubbed philosophers hasT
but a very small modicum of wisdom, or they would
perceive that crime cannot long, continue on the in-
crease without calling fur measures to arrest its pro-
gress ; on this subject we need only • write the word
IRELAND ! If this course be persevered in, the time will.
and must come when the rod of justice must be both felt
and seen. An undue relaxation of the law's omnipotence
must lead to an undue severity in its execution. We
suspect that these people would be more usefully em-
ployed, if instead of
.mending -state affairs .they would
conble their own.

After lying three days at the Exchange Rooms, we
understand that not titly names have been appcmded, to it.
• • Since writing the above, the London papers of Wed-
nesday contain the opening of the OA Bailey Sessions
on that day, in which we dad oar opinions on the law of
forgery singularly condi-wed by the recorder of London,
in his address to the grand juri,—
"The learned judge awelt at sonic length. on ,the peinicious
elfeet of forgery on the eondneiciat wui.d, a criaie waieh, lie
was sorry to peicei7e, was so touch on the increase, and though
at floe present moment, by a recent act of the legislature, it vtas
nut au offence visited by death, yet it inigiit become h,question
with Par.iainent tviiether it•shunid nut to-enact the old .iaw." •

IT was Lord John Russell who took upon-liimself, ap-
parently in the name of the government, to .recognise the.
principle of ethoiring- into the purity of electors, even
in the absence of' any Charge "against toe sitting mem-
bers; and .L6rd John, in so-doing has 'cow mit agiie v-
UUs mistake,- for wilich we eaicalate he is 'icaly Cu L:lit

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Thus it. is, when bipeds of inferior organii.ation
ineddle with matters tar abus.e-the reach of Luca- utait-.L.-

standin;;. Lorti.jotin was ttie cunclacior
i3ill, &ad: a motley bill tie 'inade it, as Captain
ley and a few:score others could testify' at Liie present

writing so that abuoi enquiring into inioery

i 6 a of crrols, for Y to a Lvlti is

tespwiwule. iiiit jt t its see wikat it is.
counaiLtue of: toe liouse Comm -Is Las reported
that " an exicit6ice spatin of treaking, and other

ucis (.4" et) itcti,ic were ptactise,i," An Ctie (.;t*

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Anuther .eutuniittee has reptirted to the li•.:use, that

" brzue, y alid t,,,

'ate custe,eceian uurough t 1 xtrt if t.i !"
These aio dneet and serious ci.drges, and we believe
well tuuntied ones too, against the oieect.is of Lonuon-
de;-ry illl(1 tiettfutd. dyes Jin ;Hew).

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