The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

"An Inquirer."—Yea! ch
" A Sufferer by the Cheap Train " makes rather too 11111.,
to
fuswhom s about
the blame attaches are not b
those against vill°lll
his comlaints ; and we elieve that the Partliele
levels his censures. corr
In our notice of the loss of the brig Guide,
we were ine ect
in saying that the steamer Pluto struck on the Hartawoo
rtilkspo:inwte are very glad to say we were misinforme
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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1343

a of
When Sir James Graham informed the „
Commons and the public, that, notwithstanding 61-
clamourous opposition by which his Factory and gdet.
cation Bill had been assailed, he should feel it his duty
to throw the onus of its rejection upon Parliament
self, we believed him. We believed that a ministeLrL
the British crown would never tamper so far with
thus delibers"'Y
own character, as to violate a pledge
recorded in the face of the nation. That pledge hes;
however, been violated. The proposed measure IL
not had its fate submitted to the will of Parliament, -4
has been abandoned by authors, the Government
of Sir Robert Peel; and from that Government tes
great Conservative body of the people demand an
planation of an act of treachery or cowardice, so sigeo
—so apparently incapable of being justified til3nn,afor
grounds, other than those which might be tirgeun. to
the surrender of the church, or the monarchy algal{,
be trampled beneath the feet of an insolent agitatioToss
Thus far, we must confess, we are utterly at°
r the
to discover any valid plea by which to account f 0 ood
cif cumstance, that a measure, brought forward is g
faith,—for we trust such was the case—is thesulap
doned without even an attempt to seek for it tiiai";
proving verdict of Parliament. It may be, an".o,
urged by Sir James Graham, that it has met with vito-;
lent opposition from all Claisei 'of dissenters• lrded,
and so would any measure which sought, or te action
to fasten a stone, or secure even the slightest P
urged,
of the fabric, of the Established Church. It is or
too, that churchmen, even, have been either hositith
indifferent to its success'; but there we join issue
Sir James Graham. A certain.section of the elnilrity
it is true, whose notions of the extent of °di: the
which she ought to exercise over the education °I
their
people are somewhat extreme, have thrown backs t
heads, and either contemned openly, or sneered as,
directly, the provisions of the bill. But the great gil
of churchmen, we can assure Sir James Graham'' be
be
especially those most conversant with the evil Oa ie
remedied, and the difficulties by which that reins lite
to be approached—have prayed in their hearts for or
success, and are now bemoaning the vreakeestisi'Esr
whatever else it may be, which has led to the whet
pointment of their anxious hopes and prayers. "-op,
have not, it is true, afforded to Government thet..iglit
port, by petitioning and otherwise, which tbeY,'-theY
have afforded. But then, it may be anscrers'ild it`
had confidence in the sincerity of Government't:to-abt
the conservative majority of Parliament. TbeY
—foolishly thought—that the motives of platfnr—iesio-
tation, the beating of the dissenting "drum esc
1 those
tic," the farce of manufactured petitions, oaooo
other appliances by which a factious minority In were
voice heard above the voice of a whole PeOle'so,o?
things perfectly understood by Conservative etateotott,
as they are understood by every other rnall':inot the
and child, above the age of petticoats, throng"'

empire. honfr
't o that section of churchmen, of whose co
address
s
d;:r Sir James Graham complains, we shall n(4,141°
one " word of reprobatiok. To the Wesleyan 134),"):v';100
are
churchmen in principle, or should be, -o,ode
continued hostility to the bill, after all the eflbrts 0 itO
to
propitiate them, has so materially conduced onli
failure
we attribute no evil motives. We Pr 3/ they
looklat when they contemplate their work-"lnatioa
upon the masses of suffering and de,./.3„ theY
eawhich this measure would have alleviated---wiled-ition,
ter their own schools and compare the CO" ;pro
ism mental and physical, of the favored few, whose was of
there cared for, with the hundreds of thottsanaods
perishing human beings from whose lips their 1)
have struck down the cup of life and health---theY •
be able to subdue the stings of that conscience ,!
o' %or °I
we fear must upbraid them, far beyond the P-
09°1
the most sectarian spirit to stifle.
But to the Government of Sir Robert pee- w Oh'
speak out from. the very fullness of our
howbeart;jePref-
we deplore this unhappy step wi-use
cafe that wretched hankering after ttloiee:tapPeP.,,,,!Lcolic.
j
enemies—that sacrifice of principleas
which is the besetting sin tis great statesl"ieel
good man! By this fatal measure Sir Roh march an
once more shewn to the enemies of the el
constitution of their country the weapons, bYchorcir'
they may be laid prostrate in the dust; and Tat Ors,
men he has aftbrded a warning—we fear, the roes
ing needed,—that IN HIM, when their theiribe chor'
invaded by the howl of auitation—when
and religion are invaded by dissenting ciaooloo
THEY MUST NOT, CAN %TOT TRUST

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