The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-11 00:00:00

greatest respect. The:position of the COnservative par-
ty is the most delicate and serious in which a party.was
ever placed. If they of
save the empire from imme—
diate ruin, on the side of Ireland, they must, in some iti.
stances, tolerate—perhaps support, 'the men who have
brought the -ruin to our doors; and 'who threaten to
bring, though more :remotely, like ruin on the side of
England. How perplexing, then, is the condition of an
adviser ? Can we adviseto tolerate any where, and even,
if. need be, to support the men who have brought us into
great peril, and do not disguise the design of plunging
us into greater; men otherwise contemptible for their
folly, and hateful for their selfish and perverse runbition
—if " the word ambition " is to be debased by using it
to describe the sordid love of place and money ? On the
other hand, can we hesitate to advise meeting the iinme-
diate instant danger, by whatever means ? No, we can-
'not; -great emergencies call for great sacrifices from-honest
men, and from honest men they will never be demanded
in vain. Let every exertion be made to return :Conser-
vatives from the sister kingdom. Oh ! let the wealthy in
England think of the stake now awaiting the hazard of
the die,—let 'the utmost exertions possible be made to
return Conselatives for the sister kingthen; but if these
exertions seem in some instances desperate,let equal ex-
ertions in suet instance-0)e employed to exclude repeat-
ers. Theministers are stupid, wicked, perverse, greedy,
whatever any one can' call them worse; but in Ireland
they occupy the breaCh'between law and anarchy; and
where they are not strong enough to maintain the posi-
tion'lay themselves, and where we cannot maintain .it
alone, ,anarchy is 'to be kept out, it must be kept out
by, a union: of strength. * * *
Mr. O'Connell makes no distinction between. Repealer
and.Ministerialist, when the 'supportin'g of 'either is ne-
cessary to keep out a'Conservative—he kneWs very well
that the difference between himself and the -great body of
Ministerialists, is merely a difference in degree, which
time mai", and'a 'permitted eotitintiance of Popish activi.:
ty 'must-efface. He will, therefore, not only support Mi-
nisterialists on the hustings_ against 'Conservatives—he
will, as lie did befint,:being his tilible column of Repeal-
erste Sirpport the Ministt.tS in parliament, whenever' they
.go far--enough for Iris ttrste rn opposing 'ConservatiVe
y j
rinciples. will rote 4,4;t11at black is White "'for them,
if they Will onl, se.eptid;7lfis ;views of -ciestruction. lie
knows that Witli sixty or—saventy Repealers he will, in
f'aat; be theinasteri/fithe administration, if' only 'he per-
mit them tottilieltiteipublic Arages:ls it the interest of
the 'Conservative -ptrifty to. give him this autlibrity ?
Would itbe wisegtenftttifet4iitg,of dislike-to Loi'd Grey's
cabinet,tcereintfree that-ettbinet by a band of hostile
•flesperadoeS,-disposeti as-Well to 'aid' thefuWith"the sword
as to urge with the-yin-, 'we intreat all who may haVe
evenfor amement exulted' in the-triumphs-gained-by the
Ilepealers
,over liliniSterialists in Irelandlo retied
upon this view of the qnestion.—We have spoken of the
repeal of the Tnion as one of the -consequences ,vvhidh
the return of a majority of Repealers would, according.
to 'Popislenetions,, place immediately within thereach of,
the Irish Papists; but we are by .no means sanguine
enough to hope that this:is.the,first 'Consequence which.
woula be' sought. 'We believe that any increase of the.
Popish, which .i§-44" the 'Repeal " party, in parliament,,
would in-a very'shoittirne make the legislative and even
political separation' of these islands an object more desira-
ble for England, than a continuance of the connexion
under any posSible-arrangement. Let the reader con-
template the ,future' state of England in the- case supposed
in the following extract, whiCh we copy from the prefacie,
to William Prynne's Legacy, reminding pur friends that.
Trynne lived -in times essentially similar to .our .-
that he was-a man 'of learning, sense, and honour, and a,
martyr of liberty.
1. "1 makeno question _of it, if the- Jesuistsprevail in
England, they intend and will turn all things topsy-turvie,
upside down eingsliall up, size '§hall.under. In Parson's
High Council of Reformation all the whole state must
be changed, and the land and seignories.of clergy and
nobility, universities' colleges, and what not, must be
altered, abridged, and taken away. And is not all this
visibly effeeted-already for the most part, and the rest pro;•
jected and near-accomplished ?
2. "I 'verily thitik that all the Puritans will join wholly
with the Jesuits at length (how far soever they seem to
be, and are yet, in external profession of religion), there
being, at least, half tr hundred, principles and-odd tricks
coneerning,nOvEßlN'ENT, AUTHORITY, TYRANNY, POPU".
UARITY, tt. 'Sze. 'which they lump, ad just
together in, as if both were made of one mould. And is
not this really verified (though not' by the old loyal 'En-,
7glisll-Purttans;) yet-at 16-at-by SUlldfy irrtiiiitiN. ANA-
BAPTISTS, INDEPENDENTS, some temporising PRESBY-
TERIANS, and by many army officers, soldiers (in late or
present power), if they will but - compare their-last six
years' actions wvith the Jesuits, which bath given great
advantages to ourl?omish adversaries to draw more pro-
selytes to their .religion. 0 ! let them consider it seri-
ously in:the-fear of God, and lament it with the greatest
'grief of heart ! "—London Standard.
* See Militiere's " Victory of Truth," dedicated. to the King
of Great Britain, to invite him to 'embrace the Ronan Catholic,
faith, 1654.

BUSINESS TOR THE REFORMED PARLIAMENT.
There will, be so much to do in the reformed Parlia-
ment, that -:we' fear there will scarcely be time to do any-
' thing. There will be so much despatch used in the des-
patch of business, that we are afraid that there will be
very little-business despatched. There will be so many
snakes to be killdd,. that we fear the majority will only
be•seetched. If only the one half of what is proposed
be actually accomplished, we need not care whether the
other half shall ever-be taken into' consideration. Yet
as the reformers Are proverbially opposed to half mea-
sures, we have a right to expect whole doings, if they
do anything.
We are oppresled with prospects. There is not a can-
didate who takes the pledges, that does not also take
upon himself a new project of national regeneration. If
they all succeed in carrying their plans into . effect, our
laws will forma code without a plan. The scaffolding
will be stronger than the house, and the house will never
be finished.
There Are motions and rumours of motions getting up.
A few of these are curious 'enough—if true. •
It is saidthata bill is in preparation on the ministerial
side of the house, ,to Abolish the order of. vicars, .and to
distribute the work of existing curates-among the bishops;
deans, 'and dignitaries of the church. Curacies Are to
be , raised. to livings and livings are to be reduced to

curacies.
Captain MARRYATT is 'to propose a series of resolu-
tions to compel 'naval 'Officers to inflict the.ininishment of
flogging; not on the 'offender, but on his father, his uncle,
and his.first. cousins. No officer in the service is to be
considered exempt from the office of handling'the cat-
o'-nine-tails, if necessary.
Mr. HOME' is to bring forward 279 bills; arid 11,34 S
'resolutions'on -finance, including 2,000 tables of expen-
:diture, and an estimate of, probable ,savings in govern-
ment othces, with other calculations, including; it is raid,
nearly ten millions-of billions of figures. It is under-
stood that an important reduction \yin be effected in the
:pnblic' departments in the consumption of ink, by ccm-,
pellingthe clerks not to. dot their is or cross their is.
SirJOHN CAM HOSHOUSE, if returned, is expected to-
:bring in a bill to establish by the tr-iithority of the legis-
lature a-law that -what -a man says on one side of the
.Ir.touse should never be broughtagainst him when he has'
taken his seat at the other that there is no inconsistency
in contradicting as a minister what a man filly have