The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-23 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

On the first intelligence of the Swiss insurrection, we
declared it to be "the war of those who have nothing to
lose against those who possess property—the war of in-
dolence against industry—of disorder against order—of
vice against virtue;" of these melancholy truths we have
full confirmation, from a document seized on one of the
conspirators, which is couched in-the following terms :
" The Insurrectional Committee of Public Safety.
• Considering that the majestic insurrection of this day ought
for ever to destroy poverty, the perpetual source of every species
of oppression,
is decreed as follows:

- "Art. I.—At the end of the insurrection, the poor citizens who
are at present badly lodged, shall not return to their ordinary
homes; they shall he immediately installed in the houses of the
conspirators (the rich).
"Art. ll.—The furniture necessary for furnishing comfortably
the Sans Culottes, shall be taken from the abovenamed con-
spirators," i. e. the rich.

The rebels wear publicly the Teutonic costume; ano-
n._yrnous letters were sent to parties threatening them
that they should perish by a new Sand (the assassin of
Kotzebue) ; daggers called the daggers of Aaron were
made; on the blade was engraved ultima ratio populo-
rum. Even so long since as MO they drank to the
abolition of the nobility (junker thurms). The society
of " William Tell" drank the health of Joshua, because,
as one of the members observed, he had killed thirty
kings.
Such then is the nature of the Swiss insurrection,
which we asserted to " date its origin from the year
1830;" it was generated in the hot bed of revolution,
the Palais Royal, and the rue D'Anjou No.'6, by Louis
Phillippe and his republican apostle Lafayette, who has
lived to see the end of every revolution in the extermi-
nation of those spirited on to it.
The Diet has taken possession of Basle and Schwytz,
but the poison rankles too deep in the body politic of the
Swiss to hope for its speedy extirpation.
What will the great powers do ? Will they, as in
Portugal, by their blessed system of nonintervention,
look on, and see Switzerland made one vast ceinetry
The government of the Palais Royal will fan the flame
of rebellion in order to divert notice from its own acts;
a few days, however, may bring us intelligence of the re-
solutions taken by Austria and Prussia, whose states are
so proximate.
As to England, her attention will probably soon be
•alletito an object that concerns her more immediately.
enr goveinment of the lonian Islands has been such as
to alienate the hearts of all the inhabitants from England.
if a corps of Russians, if only one thousand men were to
appear, it would be sufficient to enable the inhabitants to
throw off the intolerable British yoke.—Guardian.

In the House of Lords, last night, the Bishop of Ro-
chester complained of a slander pronounced against him
at a late meeting at Brighton. This lying libel, the
author of which was, his lordship said, a Mr. English,
accused him (the Bishop of Rochester) of having de-
manded £7OO as a fee for consecrating a piece of ground
at some such place as Bayswater, or Broadwater, in the
diocese of Rochester, adding that he had afterwards con-
sented to take £5OO. The first answer which he (the
Bishop of Rochester) gave to this slander was, that
there was no such place as Bayswater, or Broadwater, in
the diocese of Rochester; the second, that neither he
nor any other bishop ever received any fee for consecra-
ting ground, whatever fees were payable upon such oc-
casion being paid by, and not to, the bishop consecrating.
The bishops of Chichester and Hereford confirmed what
had been stated by the right reverend lord, as to the
practice of consecration. The Lord Chancellor admitted
that the law of privilege extended to the protection of
what may be called the extra-parliamentary character
of the members of the two houses of the legislature,
but suggested that, of late, the houses had scarcely vin-
dicated their privilege in this particular, save in cases
where the parliamentary conduct of a nobleman or a
crentleman had been made the subject of misrepresenta-
tion or insult. The learned lord admitted the falsehood
of the charge made by Mr. English, and expressed his
regret that such a charge had been made. Lord Wyn-
ford showed that the right reverend lord had no choice
as to calling the attention of the house and the public to
this infamous calumny ; and ccmplimented him on the
manner, so becoming a Christian prelate, in which his
lordship repelled it. Here the conversation dropped.
We are very much obliged to Mr. English- for bringing
this charge against the Bishop of Rochester; and we
hope very sincerely that he will get the excisemanship,
or whatever other object of ambition he spoke for at the
Brighton meeting. If a few such folk as Mr. English
did not remain
" To clatter still the brazen kettle,
Though all the bees have gone to settle,"

we might be in danger of forgetting that tales like this
of Mr. English have been the staple of Whig wisdom
and Whig eloquence for twenty years. We might lose
all recollection of the Lord Advocate's review of Mr.
Wakefield's work, in which the property of the church
in Ireland was stated at more than £8,000,000 sterling,
being rather above eleven times the truth, as is now con-
fessed by the colleagues of the said Lord Advocate. We
might no longer remember those libels of Lord Durham,
vicariously punished in the person of John Ambrose
Williams; and even lose sight of Lord Grey's recent
plagiarism from Mr.. Benbow, viz., the assertion than
every clergyman, iA:lrtlan.d..is sworn to keep a school,
every clergyman who is not a schoolmaster is a perjured
man, the truth being-that no clergyman in the sister king-
dom takes any such oath as that alleged by Lord Grey.
We repeat it, we are obliged to Mr. English for this
remembrancer, so complete in all its parts, of the lying
creedof Whig slander, delivered
,with true Whig sang
froid. There was, to be sure, some awkwardness in
the preciseness of the locality cited by Mr. English,
though we doubt that even the Lord Advocate, or Lord
Durham, or Lord Grey, would have done the trick bet-
ter. There is no such place as Broadwater in the dio-
cese of Rochestsr, now—at least on terra firma ;—but
Rochester may, like Canterbury, have its portions of
diocese consumpta per mare, and for these portions there
can be no question that Broadwater would be a very pro-
per designation. Now, we doubt whether the Loid Ad-
vocate, when he asserted the existence of £8,000,000
of ecclesiastical revenue in Ireland, had as good a pre-
text as even this, seeing that Ireland scarcely has
£8,000,000 of revenue either upon earth, subterranean
or submarine ; and we are quite certain that Mr. Eng-
lish will much more easily find Broadwater in the dio-
cese of Rochester, than Lord Grey will find in the Statute
Book the pretended law which he quoted upon the au-
thority of ME Benbow. We take leave of Mr. English
with renewed thanks for his picture of Whiggism in mi-
niature.—Standard.

This committee on manufactures, trade, and shipping, met on
Friday to conclude a report, when Mr. P. Thomson proposed a
series of resolutions expressive of the increasing prosperity of
the country, in which he was supported by Mr. \Varhurton,
Morrison, Mr. G. W. Wood, &c , and opposed by other mem-
bers, who represented the propositions as at variance with the
evidence, and suggested their being printed, and time given for
their consideration. After much discussion a division ensued
in the usual sva7 in select committees, by assent or dissent, when
there appeared eight for and ten against Mr Thomson's propo-
sitions, who, not being satisfied with the result, contended for
the question being put again by show of hands, which being
done, the. former result was confirmed. The chagrin of Mr.
Poulett Thomson and lies partisans being now considerably in-
creased, an alteration in the wording of the propositions was
suggested, but retaining the principle of prevailing prosperity.
Another division was taken upon the altered form, when the
numbers were six for and twelve against, so that the evidence
will now in all probability be submitted to the public without a
report. We understanethar, in contrast to the prosperity evi-
_dente of Mr. Gurney, the bill-broker, in Lombard street, and
Mr. .1. Cook, a broker in colonial produce in Mincing-lane, some
apiinlfing evidence of the. condition of the hand loom weavers
id Lancashire will appear,,—Mernieg