The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1842

Since the appearance of Sir Howard Douglas
amongst us, we are happy to say that he has more than
realized, all the anticipations which we have held out as
to his reception. On the afternoon of Wednesday the
gallant candidate made his appearance amongst the.
merchants on 'Change, and was greeted with the most
hearty congratulations. In the evening of the same
day he addressed the Protestant operatives of the Park,
in Toxteth-hall ; last night he met the burgesses of
West Derby Ward; and on both occasions his straight-
forward profession of Conservative and Protestant
principles—of attachment to the monarchy, the, esta•
blished religion, and the constitution of the land—
were received with the almost unanimous approval of
overflowing auditories.

It must have been an object of sincere gratification
to that portion of the constituency who have in days
past supported the cause of Conservatism in Liver-
pool, in the person of Sir Howard Douglas, to notice
the unimpaired bodily and mental vigour with which
he now appears amongst them, after so long an ab-
sence. In all respects the gallant candidate is, physi-
cally, as capable at the present moment of performing
efficiently the duties of a representative of this great
commercial body in Parliament, as at any former pe-
riod of his life ; and we cannot overlook the added
experience with which time, the important duties in
which, since his first appearance in Liverpool, he has
been engaged,-a-rid—the well-known acuteness' 'of his
observation of passing events, have matured the judg-
ment and statesmanlike abilities which he is now pre-
pared to lay before the acceptance of the constituency
•
of our borough.

It is the intention of Sir Howard to visit every ward
and explain to the electors his sentiments upon the
great questions which at present agitate the public
mind, previous to the day of nomination ; and we have
no fear that the result will be other than a cordial re-
cognition of his eminent fitness for the office to which
he aspires, on the part of the entire constituency. The
burgesses of Liverpool will return to Parliament by
their unanimous voice. their old and tried champion ;
and by so doing add another to the long list of staunch
supporters of the Throne, the Constitution, and the
Established Protestant Church of the realm, who rally
round that Conservative Government which now, hap-
pily, holds in its keeping the destinies of this great
country. •

This gratifying assurance is now, indeed, placed be-
yond the possibility of doubt, if such a feeling could
ever have found its way to the mind of any Conserva-
tive. The dejected and forlorn Radicals of our borough
have declared—or, rather, Mr. Thomas Bolton, in
their name, and "for his party," has declared—that no
opposition to the return of Sir Howard Douglas will
even be attempted by them. We accept Mr. Thomas
Bolton's heartwrung declaration of the utter prostra-
tion and lost condition of " his party." Radicalism
must be far gone indeed—stone-dead—when it dare
not offer one factious kick at its triumphant oppo-
nent ! We are satisfied of this fact ; -but our assu-
rance is not based upon the mere word of Mr. Thomas
Bolton. We cannot take that gentleman as the repre-
sentative of the defunct thing; for we have a distinct
remembrance that, on a very recent occasion, its car-
case was galvanised and made a terrific splutter in the
world, without either that gentleman or " his party "
being very much consulted or having much control
over the operation. Messrs. Thomas Bolton and Wil-

Liam Earle may imagine that they are representatives of
Radicalism within our borough; but we bear in mind
that Sir Joshua Walmsley thought otherwise, when
that learned and illustrious personage reanimated its
cast-off rags, and, at the head of his assembled Pro-
tectors and Repealcrs, snapt his fingers at the preten-
sions of these members of our Whig aristocracy, and
obtruded his claims upon that portion of the constitu-
ency of Liverpool which they fondly deemed their
own.

Upon such a question as the proposed grant of land
to an institution so beneficent in its purposes as the
Asylum for the Education and Protection of Female
Orphan Chili-ken, it might certainly have been antici-
pated that our M 'Council would have been able
to arrive at a decision, if not unanimous, at least un-
marked by acrimony of temper and language. There
are some minds, however, it would seem, so peculiarly
constituted, that they cannot, even to promote the most
sacred object and when appealed to by the most ele-
vated sympathies of our nature, forego the opportunity
of displaying the rancorous and bitter feelings which
they entertain against the persons, the principles, or
the creed of those to whom they are politically op-
posed. To such men there is no neutral ground which
passion cannot enter—no question so hallowed, so di-
vested of party, as to be unsusceptible of being warped
into an occasion for the manifestation of party or sec-
tarian strife—no time, or place, or circumstance in
which the kindliness of humanity is allowed to get the
better of the carping spirit of the partizan.
Amongst the number of human beings afflicted with
this unhappy obduracy of temper, Mr. Thomas Bolton
stands conspicuous. In his breast a truculent secta-
rianism appears to have utterly excluded every amiable
feeling of our common nature; and yet, offensive as
are most of his exhibitions, we never remember to have
seen that offensiveness so flagrantly manifested and
persisted in with more shameless obstinacy than at the
Council meeting on Wednesday, with respect to this
grant to the Female Orphan Asylum. In ordinary
cases it is quite sufficient to draw down the hostility of
this acrimonious Socinian upon any institution—that it
is conducted upon the principles of the Established
Church—that it emanates from or that its benefits are
shared, without their principles being compromised or
insulted, by members of that church. But that the j

bereaved and destitute children, for whose protection
this benevolent institution has been originated, should
be trained exclusively in the faith of ti

religion of jhe realm, is an enormity which Mr. Thom
Bolton cannot tolerate, and which called forth on tl

occasion an extraordinary measure of his rancor()

vulgarity. It is nothing to him that these poor ehil

dren are trithout parents, without guardians, or with-

The rectors and the clergy of the Church