The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

perceive that the liberal Editor of the Liverpool
Chronicle is mightily offended because a few Orangemen, out
of respect to a departed brother, accompanied him to his grave
on Sunday last. Ile calls the attention of his readers to it,
on Saturday last, in a leading article, from which I extract
the following passage :—" On Sunday last, a number of indi-
viduals dared to parade themselves before their fellow-citi-
zens, wearing the party colours of this detestable order. True
it is, that the pretext was to accompany to the grave the re-
mains of an Orange news-vender, but we warn the authori.
ties that it was probably intended to try the disposition of
the magistrates. If they appear disposed to permit them, we
have no doubt that on the next 12th of July, or perhaps
earlier, we shall have the peace of the town invaded by
Orange riots." You perceive, sir, he calls the Orange order
a " detestable order," and no doubt they are, and ever will he,
a very " detestable order," in the estimation of all radicals,
papists, and revolutionists. And why? Simply because they
are a loyal body, attached to our glorious constitution in
church ant. state, and united together for the support and
maintenance of those good, great, and Christian principles,
for the defence of which, " the glorious, pious, and immortal
William," Prince of Orange, was called to the throne of these
realms. This, I repeat, is enough to make them detestable
in the estimation of the enemies of our Protestant constitu-
tion. But he says, " They dared to parade themselves before
their fellow-citizens, wearing their party colours." There
was surely no great parade in quietly walking in a funeral
procession, and as it regards their " party colours," they had
no need to be ashamed of them, for they are not the badge of
treason or rebellion, but the badge of loyalty to their Queen
and country. But he insinuates that the funeral procession
was a kind of feeler as to whether the magistrates will allow
Orange processions, and says, that " no doubt on the next
12th of July, or perhaps earlier, we shall have the peace of
the town invaded by Orange riots." Now 1, for one, have
no very great desire to see Orange processions in Liverpool ;
but if the authorities of the town will allow the feelings of
this loyal Protestant community to he outraged year after
year on St. Patrick's day, by large processions of Irish pa.
pists, carrying "party colours" and banners, I think, in
common justice, they ought not to prohibit a procession of
loyal men, who are united together for the laudable purpose
of protecting those privileges which they hold dearer than life
itself. Why does not the Editor of the Chronicle call the
attention of the magistrates to the notice of the Popish pro-
cession to take place on Thursday next? He seems to be
much afraid of the peace of the town being disturbed by
" Orange riots," but seems to apprehend no fear from Po-
pish riots. But this is quite in keeping with radical liberality.
Radicals in general are mighty liberal towards popery and
rebellion, and as illiberal towards Protestantism and loyalty.
But, sir, 1 tell the Editor of the Chronicle that the Orange.
men of Liverpool are not to be frightened, or deterred from
doing what they conceive to be their duty, by any, or all, the
radical papers in the kingdom. Many of them are the de.
scendants of the poor Protestants of Ireland, who were butch-
ered in the rebellion of 1798, at Enniscorthy, Vinegar-hill,
and Scullabogue ; and they do not, and cannot forget the
wrongs inflicted on their' fathers ; and though they do not
wish to return evil for evil to any man, on the contrary, they
can and do pray for their " enemies, persecutors, and slan-
derers," yet knowing by better experience the persecuting and
intolerant spirit of the apostate church of Rome, and that
she only wants the power, not the will, to " compel heretics
to be of the true church," they conceive it to be their duty to
their God, to their Queen, to their country, to themselves
and to their children, to endeavour, with the blessing of the
Almighty, to preserve their religion and liberties, for the
preservation of which their forefathers spilt their blood ; and
should the time unhappily ever arrive, when the spirit o f re-
hellion should again break out and threaten us with destruc-
tion, I trust that the Orangemen of Liverpool would rally
round the altar and the throne, and, like their fathers before
them, sooner die than surrender.—l am, sir, yours, &e.,
Liverpool, March 14, 1842. AN ORANGEMAN.

CURIOUS
WAGER.—We are informed that one of the
of the American equestrian company, which ar-
rived at this port on Tuesday last, has undertaken to drive
ten horses, tandem fashion, through the streets of Liverpool,
in the course of a few days. We are informed it is a favour-
ite feat of the party who has undertaken the wager.
SOMETHING ODD.—Lord John Russell, who followed Mr.
O'Connell in the debate on Mr. Duneombe's jail motion,
stated, " that in the county Middlesex it was peculiarly re-
quisite that Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to
visit the prisoners in the jails, as the great proportion of
them were Roman Catholics!!!" cluery.—ls it not odd
that in Protestant Middlesex, where the Protestant popula-
tion is /witty to one, it should happe.n. that there are more
Roman Catholics than Protestants moil .?