The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

POLITICAL VARIETIES.

The Morning Chronicle emphatically points to the sig:
nificant fact that the French papers do not made the mos'
diitant allusion to the Duke of Wellington's letter on 01
national defences, or to the excitement prevailing amongs
us on that subject.
In 1846, we had a revenue exceeding the expenditure 17,
£1,781,659 2s. ld. In 1847 an expenditure exceeding ‘""
income by£326,608 Bs. The retrograde movement, there'
fore, is to the extent of more than two millions per annum'h'
But the worst point is, that the declension from bad 1"
worse is still rapidly going on.
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In 1841, the late Lord Sydenham, in writing to a *len
at home, used these memorable words have sent
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the Colonial Office a long report on emigration, whit:
some of you won't like, because it declares that to thro"
starving and diseased paupers under the rock at Quo'
ought to be punishable as murder."
Two Cabinet Councils have been held last week isis,
Downing-street, and it is understood that Her Majestri
Ministers are anxiously engaged in the preparation_
measures to submit to Parliament on its re-asserobl
early next month. An awfully-deficient revenue roof;
prepare the people of England for additional taxation In
the thirty-third year of peace and the sixteenth of reforgia
The Whigs were always wretched bands at finance, 013_
they appear determined to maintain their unenviable '
putation.
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CONSERVATISM AT BIRMINGHAM.—We are iden_
with Protestant Toryism, and to the extent of our hurou'd
ability, we have never shrunk from maintaining Right
Truth, because for a season they may have chanced to
unpopular; but we own with reluctance that while tr
circulation of the Advertiser has more than tripled witbio
the last nine months, the. Conservatives of Birmingho7.
as a body, have manifested but little interest in the
cess of our enterprise. That we have studied to deg:l;i
support we can conscientiously declare; and the grrio
reason we have not accomplished more rill be found ai
the depressing influence which the scarcity of friends fl.l
of necessity occasion. We have in several cases metti,';
noble arid most disinterested supporters. To them we 7,
to award our sincere and ardent thanks ; but there j 9.4
FACT which we will not seek to disguise ; that on sever
occasions, when, to serve the Conservative interest,
have incurred great expenses, we have met with a veil.;
adequate return from those connected with the Tory pat
while our political opponents have testified by their ele,
purchase of our journal, that the matter was at least
serving of attention.—Birmingham' AdUertiser.
PEACE WITH Roms.—The Times hints that one ocitbo
first measures of the government, after the recess,
the introduction of a bill into parliament calculated 0
move the legal doubts which exist as to our diploolatey
relations with the Papal See. There are two statrt
which prevent it. By. the sth of Elizabeth, cap. 1,
enacted, that " any person who shall advisedly and 7,0
tingly attribute, by any speech, open deed, or.oct' the
manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence _.. p
Bishop, or See of. Rome, within this realm, shall inc%o
prcemunire." The next statute is that of the Ist Will
111., cap. 2, which enacts the exclusion from the co 11
and Government of this realm. of " any person who s> of
be reconciled to, shall hold communion with the Sebs
Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion." Some d°°6,
has been attached, by great legal subtlety, to the exPreof
sions " reconciled to and hold communion with the m'ill
Rome ;" but the next clause, " or shall profess the Pilo
religion," is evidently explanatory of these terms.
object of the act was to exclude from the throne of ae
land a Prince who, like James 11., would have embrryl
the Romish faith, and the words, "reconciled to and tv
communion with, clearly relate entirely to the pert.e,
religious faith of the Sovereign. Whatever these arror'oo
ments be. says the:Times, they must of course rest";oo
a footing of complete equality, if England recogi'ty
the Sovereign of the Papal States and the Pontiff of of
Roman See, Pius IX., recognizes the Protestant QueeLP
these realms, and the legal bead of the Reformed Cl"'
of England.
LIBERAL MISRULE.----" Experience," says Dr. Jot"
son is the great test of truth, and is perpetually coow
dieting the theories of men." "If an empire,' said cod
poleon, " were made of granite, it would soon be real!,s
to powder by political economists.,' Never was ther',4l
period when the truths stated by these master minds °ct
so clearly and strikingly illustrated as the present; 13;011f
was there an epoch when the necessity was so fear'ioef
evinced of casting off the speculative dogmas of &foci'
times, and shaping our course by the broad light be
experience has thrown on human transactions. If tbly,il
done, it wisdom is learnt by experience, and error exPei,d
by suffering, it is yet possible to remedy the evils ; th°;o'
not before a frightful and yet unfelt amount of miserYo4:
been encountered by the people. For the last thirty Ifree
the liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled 6V
tion of the affairs of the nation. One by one they tfif
beat down all the ancient safeguards of British inelujijsi
and given effect to the whole theoretical doctrines 0!„,,o'
political economists. So complete has been their asnW
ancy in the national councils—so entire in geners4oo!
acquiescence of the nation in their direction, that
one single exception ALL their doctrines have been ca 001
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and the year 1847 exhibits a fair, and 4,
:e result of thg_liberal system wo,`oolr,
n. The result is so curious, itse,nste,
truction, its warning of coming 0150,
gladly avail ourselves of the 01;.,
year, to portray them in a few paragraphs
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