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

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot tell how it is, that when any political event of any
importance occurs in London, the Times and Morning Post
• are always the last papers which reach Liverpool through the
newsmen, and it is rather singular that the Chronicle should
,be q.. first. It was nit formerly the case, particularly as re-
gards the Timm Btitit is for the conductors of the journals
to question to look to'it.

rkbt Eibtrpoot tan Grit.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1835.

We have Jamaica papers to the 27th February, but
they do not possess tntich interest. A few extracts from
them will be found in another column.

to our last number we asked—" Are we to have a re-

volution r We no* ask—ARE WE NOT ON THE

VERY BRINK OF REVOLUTION ?
• The Duke of WELLINGTON in the House of Lords,
and Sir ROBERT PEEL in -the House of Commons, on

,
Wednesday evening, announced that ministers had ten-
.
Alered their resignation to the King. His Majesty,
therefore, is at this moment virtually without a govern-
ent. ~Combined factions have succeeded in frustrating
all the salutary measures of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and have
compelled him, from a sense of honour, to place the seals
he held for the benefit of his country in the hands of his
Sovereign from whom he had received them. The men
Whose incompetency was adulated by the whole nation
have, by a most disgraceful and infamous coalition, been
enabled to outvote the conservatives in the House of
Commons, defeat the paternal objects of the Sovereign,
and throw the country into convulsion and disorder.
The struggle is therefore begun. It will be, fearful in
.tl.B opeiations—momentous in its results. Before this
day two months it will have to be decided whether the
'People of England have the sense, the nerve, the firm-
ness to preserve what remains of the British constitu-

tin, the rights of the protestant church, and the prero-

gatives of the crown;., or whether, following the flood-
tide of anarchy, they.are determined to sweep away, at
*nee and for ever, all the venerable institutions of the
kingdom, civil and religious. May Divine Providence
direct them to-what is good ;if so directed we have no-
thine- to fear. .
The-time is come when every man must " set his house
in order," and prepare fesuthe vvorst.. The popish bigot
11 preparing his faggot,S2—the vampire sits upon the
tirurch tower—the vulture is come to a feast.. When ir
nation violates covenants, invades the rights of property,.
and commences the work of spoliation, there is. no end
t"' its rapacity and its devastatio..ns. A single robber can
11",, Put down, or hung up, according to his deserts,
I'Y the arm of the law;—but when the majority
of rt people have lost all sense of justice and begin
to plunder, they set -all laws human and divine at
Ikfianee--they trample upon-every sacred maxim—they
Jaagli at theprecepts- of the geSpel—they regard neither
age nor sea, infirmity nor innocence, riches nor poverty.
ilaere is no asylum -secure against their ravages; no
._;iding place for the virtuous ; nu sanctuary which 'they
'nn not profane ; no firesi& which they do not invade ;
and no chamber which they do not pollute. The rush of
`evolution is like that of a stone set in motion from the
top of a mountain ; its impetus increases as ;t advances;
and it rolls on, carrying tree and shrub before it, until it
is either dashed into fragments at the base, or lust in the
ePtlis profound of the adjacent lake. Anarchy runs riot
the same way, destroying all, until it destroys itself.
Lie infidel revolutionists of France were men quite as
'esPectable, and not one whit more visionary or furious,
than the present democratic factions in the kioUSe of
t'lntnirions. The former Washed :out. their enormities in
ie blood of each other. They :despoiled innocence,
Plandered churches, fired palaces, murdered kings and
40bles, flung the " staff c'f lifq'.into the Seine, ravaged
and pillaged without limit er remorse, produced famine,
tlliBerY, and desolation, and then!' Oh merciful PRoVi- ,
h "BNCE ! they turned their butchering) hands upon each
thee, an.i the sworn friend glutted in the sworn friend's
Is it to come to this in England ? Must we be corn.
to confess that the majority of tour. countrymen,
blinded for purposes beyond._ our penetration, have lost
4i
sense of justice, and are prepared to' run the hazards
a sanguinary revolution ?:• We do not, we will not
ielieve it. In the House of 'Commons there are Men—
t'eal'lless and unprincipled men—who would drive' if not
t‘:(1 the people to any extremity, but we do not
`ink they haVe the power. The nation we still
L'ildlY believe is sound at the core, and we should like to
4-'ne the people tried upon This baneful question-of popery
nil spoliation. in London, we concede, there is fraud,
,ii
laq, and corruption enough out of which to forth a
‘ ,"lostituent assembly," and materials enough for a re-.
But London is not vet to Great Britain what
444 was and is to France. Her debauched citizens do
t 44 rePresent the people of England. The latter have
iiieorannunity of feeling with the former. As to plinci-
Ne'''or attachtPents there is no reciprocity between them.
nruch the better, for if it were otherwise neither the
h ivr~4'4 nor the throne would lie safe for four, and twenty
41„, In ibis dilemma, then, we see no course open but an
4'4 to the people. The last election purified the
4.11 of Commons of a considerable portion of the scum
was thrown upon the,surface by the first reformed
thi II Went ; and there is every reason to believe that the
tiht`l would be an improvement upon the second. We
""t, for the life of us, discover any party out of which
l'ilbi,ynistrY could be formed but the conservative one.
4.ing, cannot again receive into his councils the men
4-1:411 he dismissed as incompetent, and who have ever
fit ce heaped the most studied insults upon his Majesty.
4 11'1301 be painful, it would be humiliating, it would be
Lgrading to see in the King's presence such men a-s
tt,t.,-I(.lJ°liN RUSSELL, Mr. SPRING. RICE, Mr. EDWARD
,t,t)Ch, Mr. POULETT THOMSON, Dr. LUSHINGTON,
kr'll3Etotrorram, Lord PLUNKETT, Sir Jotis CAMPBELL,
it
SHELL,
or Mr. O'CONNELL. We hope never tto see
King of England surrounded by a set of persons
tiltn he despises, and whose sentiments he abhors.
yp
how
could such an odd mixture of pyebald
oe
11,14 Cites, and excrementitious demagogues, the filth of
tv4y nd• and the rubbish. of London and Ratcliff-high-
-I,.irdloPe..to carry on the government for a single week 2..
„ t" PLuNKETT is a battered hack, not very fastidious
ins associates, but still even he would feel some
11115 at •
Joi .
ning the ranks of the agitator and the queue