The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-03 00:00:00

nit LIVERPOOL STANDARD:

of England heard in the glens of the north and the mur-
derous defiles of the west. O,E WORD FROM THE KING,
AND THE FACTION IS SILENCED FOR EVER !

We wait most anxiously to hear that word. - We
take leave, with all humble submission, to represent that
the time is almost come when that word should be spo-
ken. We have had for four 'years a period of faction,
during which the property of every man has.beOn tam-
pered ctfth, and when no man who has invested his pro-
Perty in any undertaking is certain that it is safe for
twenty-four hours.. Lord BROUGHANI, who has been in-
vited to the arena of the HouSe of Lords in the absence
of Lord LONDONDERRY, is extremely desirous to place
the corporations of England upon the same democratic
basis as those of Scotland. If this advice is to be fol-
lowed up, we might as well have an elective monarchy
or a republic at once. The corporation of Glasgow,
which was formerly in the hands of wealthy and inde-
pendent merchants, is now in those of radical attorneys
and furious dissenters. What are the consequences ?
No man of auy sense would now lend to that corpora-
tion an hundred pounds. Its credit, its usefulness, its
dignity, are destroyed. So mean and vicious are the
reformed members, and so acrimonious in their religious
hatred, that a proposition was actually made in the com-
mon council, only a short time ago, to stop, on the
score of economy, the few pounds given annually by the
corporation to defray the expense of the sacramental
elements in. the city churches! Thus wickedness shel-
ters itself under economy, and modern liberality is made
the pietext for dishonouring the most sacred institutions
of christianity, and sapping the foundations church
establishments. What has happened in Glasgow would
happen in Liverpool if Lord BROUGHAM and Lord Joint
RussELL had their'will. . The corporation of this town
can borrow; at present, any sum of money at three per
cent. Could it do so if Mr. Wm. RATHB6NE, Mr. JAMES
BRAtiCHER,• Dr. CoLtms,lMr. CHARLES ABURCROMBIE,
and their party were in the common council ? On the
contrary, we much question if they could, under such
circumstances,
.bOrrow a single shilling. If they were
in power, he would be a bold man who should offer fifty.
pounds for an hundred-pound bond.
It is to avoid this wanton spoliation of property, this
destruction of credit, this suspension of trade and cum-
merce, that we call upon the intelligent part of our coon-
.'
trymen to uphold the monarchy; and give their strenu-
ous support to those ministers who have the King's en-
tire confidence.

The London University, or the Broom College, as
some people call it, is rapidly on the decline, withering
away like a tree scathed by lightning. At a meeting
the other day, one of its shareholders proposed that the
money already advanced, and upon which no interest
has yet been paid, or is likely to be paid, should be con-
Vetted into a'grant to the general fund, somewhat in the
form of an endowment. This plan was objected to by
the parties interested, although they all have the strong-
est conviction that any thing like a dividend is entirely
out of the question. In short, the school is a decided
failure; the original plan cannot be carried into execu-
tion, the funds arising from fees are totally inadequate,
its professors are disheartened by the poverty of the
establishment and the paucity
.of students, and, in short,
it would not surprise us to see, before another year or
two, the boasted London University transformed into
stables, a pawn. shop, or a gin.palace..
So much fur the barren labours of those who, warring
against divine truth, have dared to rear an academy .in
which the term religion is unkdown, and the voice of
the preacher of the gospel never heard. 'ln thiS lesson
to human pride we can trace the auger. of the unitarian
and the socinian. They have touched the institution,
and it is blasted. They
.have had the direction of it, and
it is a wreck. They have excluded the bible from its
halls, and it is.nOw doomed to the owls and the bats, a
ruined temple,—

A fixed figure for the hand of scorn
To point his slow unmoving finger at.

Surely, after this exposure, the disinterested proprie-
tors will not have the face to aik fur a charter in favour
of an institution which is virtually in it •state of insolv-;
eney. Surely they cannot expect that at the hands of
the conservatives whiCh the 'wings would not give, 'and
which Lord BROUGHAM, the founder of it, made no ex-
ertions to obtain. The fact is, that his lordship does not
appear to entertain any very high respect for his asso-
ciates. , The Lady HEWLEY cause has opened the eye";
of the public to the way in which charities are wrested
to improper purposes, and shown how the unitarians ma-
nage property in trust. The sect has greatly declined in
public opinion ever since, and they have only to be
thoroughly known to be correctly estimated. Lard
BROUGHAM has found them out; they can no longer be
of any use to him; and he has, accordingly, cut the
painter !