The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-26 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1842

That the proceedings of the millocrat party in the
House of Commons during the past week have been
disgraceful; and indeed infamous, we need not say is
our own opinion, for it is that of every \veil principled
man, of whatever shade of politics, throughout the
kingdom. Bold and bad men, ready to become the
mercenary tools of a faction, however base, there will
always be found in any representative assembly; and
We are therefore little surprised that Gibsons and Cob-
dens should be found in a British Parliament to ob-
struct the constitutionally declared will of its majority—
to arrest the public business of the state, and even to
do all that in them lies to withhold the returning tide
of prosperity from a suffering people. But do we
grieve that these insolent and factious proceedings are
just now resorted to ? No ! We hail every step of
this " blatant" band with pleasure, because in every
step We see, and the people of England will see, more
and more; their hollowness, their reckless dishonesty,
their utter want of principle and truth !
For what is it that these men just now seek to hurry
On the GOvernrnent to inquiries into distress—to
Pledges as to future policy and future measures ?
Have they 'ail), indisputable truth—any panacea of un-
challenged efficacy--to offer for the relief of that dis-
tress ? No. They seek for inquiry—they agitate and
brawl—at this moment to unsettle the public mind, to
cripple the working of measures already passed, to
Prolong the existence of the very distress they corn-
Plain of Until they may be able to achieve out of it a
Popular convulsion. The Tariff of Sir Robert Peel
has just come into operation ; the new sources of corn-
reercial health—the new fields for the exercise of corn-
Mercial enterprise which it opens out are just beginning
to develope themselves; and they dare not give it a
fair trial lest their fraudulent prophecies of its ineffi-
cacy should be falsified before they have succeeded in
the objects for which those prophecies were put forth.
The new Corn-law, which was to do nothing for the
87ri"9 masses, is just now pouring a copious supply
°L food into the markets of Great Britain ; and they
dare not wait to appeal to the calm judgment of the
until Public, with respect to the necessity of further changes,
the beneficial operation of the present measure is
before the world! A bountiful Providence is shower-
-1,1,1g
has dawn smiles and sunshine upon the exertions of •
the native corn grower; and they dare not wait until
gathered in his harvest ! The dark cloud which
obscured the prospects of our commerce in foreign
ulitarkets is breaking up ; they dare not wait until the
sky k
Clear ! Confidence is returning to every breast ;
the energy of the merchant, the manufacturer, and the
tradesman is being put forth ; the hope, at least, of re-
these comfort, is visiting the poor man's hearth;
frse ribald brawlers dare not wait upon the issue
Neaten
"OD SIIIP IS RIGHTING, by the aid only of
world
and her own gallant crew; and those who
cootlld have usurped her helm and laid down her
anudrse' Only to dash her upon the rocks, are now frenzied,
kn ery t that " breakers are ahead," because they
inc 7 that in a few hours more she will float proudly
the tumult
water, and their howling rage will be drowned in
;44141tuous cheers which waft her from the land !
belie a state of calm and steady prosperity, such as we
v,e_aeve ourselves to be at the present moment, slowly,
resZaPs but surely, approaching, agitation is power-
whip' 1,11 such a state of things the scum of faction,
upon tile bubbling of the caldron brings up to float
from
surface, surface, is thrown down again into the dregs
vhich it rose. Busy hornets, which have buzzed
and stun .
g their little hour, are trampled without corn-
r:viieuttion _
to the mire. Stilted speechifiers rant and
permitted deaf
ears
; and men, who but yesterday were
of stupiedd t° catch you by the button, and, with looks
tiong for- IMPOrt, to the cure of dole out their nauseous prescrip-
aside at eue,
all the evils of the state, are elbowed
aims have with disgust and scorn when their vic-
thie more
s and their profitable demands upon their sympa-
nuisances •leisure. The extinction of this race of
the yro s felt to be at hand. Agitation feels that
these-ft:4,44d i 5 Blippingfrorn beneath its feet; and hence
44°11a exhibitions of dying spite and envious rage
On the Part •
rbi - of A BAFFLED, A TRAMPLED, AND DES-
SRD FACTION.

We Were grleved, and even amazed, in common with
the great mass, of churchmen throughout the country,
at the sentiments which recently fell from the lips of
Lord Wharncliffe upon the subject of the annual grant
of money for educational purposes.
" lie, for one," remarked his lordship, should be
did not think
senter, was equally "
ashamed to hold the situation he filled if he
that every man in this country, whether Churchman or Dis-
l'aent entitled to the support of the
,govern-
and to share in the distribution of a grant for the pur-
P°4es of education. He found the church making the first
eta
of the country; but be must say,
iN upon the property
that attached as he was to the church, he thought the church
itself
Was greatly obliged to the Dissenters for the hey had set her. anxious to
mple
Of course the committee was
act with the church!,
Was this, we asked ourselves, the language of a CO_nservative minister ? Was Lord Wharnclifle empow-
!redy his
bs:Conservative colleagues—by those men who
in past time have duty
. , So strenuously maintained the
of the state Au adticate the people in the established re-
ligion of th,e. Chnrch' of England, and denounced by
the /atitudittarmi aysteln of the Board of Education—
to put forth Stle4
rate opinions' as a The
,14flguage as containing their delibe-
government ? Even, so ! doctrine that the Church no right to
of England has
"make the first lai "
of , c —tn. upon the state for the noble
purpose educating the people is the doctrine main-
tained by the 'Conservative government of Sir Robert
Pea! The fulsome adulation of dissent, the prostra-
tier, f the church before the poreh of the conventicle,

to thank it for the example which it has set her, is the
adulation of an united Conservative administration !
Oh, that men, and especially statesmen, would but
do all and dare all for PRINCIPLE ! For ten years
past that powerful party which now occupies the mi-
nisterial benches of the houses of parliament has main-
tained itself in the affections of the people of England,
by the promise of a sound, religious education for their
children. Whilst liberalism has paraded its halls of
science, its mechanics' institutes, and its schools, with-
out so much of religion as would startle the prejudices
of Jew, Turk, Infidel or Heathen, Conservatism
.has
pointed to a system of education for the people, based
upon the revealed word and the whole truth of God,
and superintended by the faithful pastors of their na-
tional church. lifore than upon any other question,
the hearts of a Protestant people—above all, of a Pro-.
testant democracy—were set upon the realization of
this blessing.; and yet, after ten years of hope and even
trust, we awake from our delusion to find realized
only the taunting prophecies of our opponents, and
learn that, to promote the spread of religious and mo-
ral training amongst England's rising generation no-
thing is to be done
Nothing, did we say ? Then we are in error. We

are not, it is true, to witness the concession, by go-
vernment, of an extensive measure of national educa-
tion, superintended by our national church, and
founded upon our Protestant Bible; but we are, in all
probability, to be presented with something almost as
good—a system of education for the people BASED
UPON MR. HULLAH'S PLAN OF TEACHING SING-
ING! Yes; Socialism has discovered long ago that
the infidel knowledge with which she crams her vota-
ries is widely disseminated by the
.instrumentality of
concerts and fancy balls ; Socinianism- and Atheism
approach the understanding of their blind dupes by
means of lectures and exhibitions; and a Conservative
government—(oh shame o—professes its hope of " see-
ing THE MORALS (!) of the lower classes improved,"
by adding the teaching of writing, arithmetic, and li-
near drawing W. to the knowledge of crotchets and.
quavers, barS and rests, 'Conveyed by Mr. Wilhem's
system to the pupils of Mr. Hullah Surely the blind-
ness of a government which can thus palter with our
hopes, thus bow the knee to the Dagon of liberalism,
thus supply a cold and lifeless modicum of secular
knowledge to immortal beings who faint for the pure
waters of life, is a thing for Christians to grieve over,
and to cause devils to hold jubilee
Well, we are deceived—might we not almost say
betrayed ? Our hopes of a system of national educa-
tion for the people of England, based upon the truths
of religion, are knocked to the ground. The MO]
school system, too, is to be maintained; the hotbed of
popish agitation and priestly obscenity—MAYNOOTH—
is still .to be supported by a Protestant government,
What, then, we ask, becomes the duty of a Protestant
government ? Agitation? No. Protestants must
not go about this matter in a passionate spirit.
UNION, however, Protestants must have. We must
strengthen our position for resistance or for remon-
strance, although as yet we take up no offensive wea-
pons. We must be able to array ourselves in the front
of our valued institutions, in numbers sujicient to sway
the course of a ministry which freckles to numbers
whilst it betrays principle, and seeks to conciliate, in-
stead of to put down, error. Protestants must be up
and awake, if they would not be trampled under the
feet of enemies without their walls or treacherous
friends within

I That the Protestants of Liverpool will not be found
wanting in the emergency which is approaching, the
evidence is placed before their fellow-countrymen in
our columns of this day. From this town went forth,
we fear not to say it, the first warning which shook
Popery in her onward march to supremacy in the
British isles. From the Protestant Association of
Liverpool went forth those spirit-stirring appeals, and
that noble example of faithfulness in the cause of the
church and the constitution of our country which
struck down the sacrilegious hand already advanced
to commence the work of spoliation and defilement,
and surrounded the altars, the throne, and the houses
of England with hearts ready to defend them to the
death. And that strong Protestant faithfulness will
not desert us now—those spirit-stirring warnings will
not be unuttered now: but to the ears even of a Con-
servative Administration they will pierce, in tones firm
though respectful, determined though affectionate—in
the language of truthfulness, which springs from
resolved hearts, and which WILL RE HEARD !

Our contemporary, the Albion, affects to be very
jocose with us in his last publication, and appears to
have " catched" (to use his own elegant expression) a
very novel idea of interpreting plain English. Before,
however, this merry personage takes upon himself to
give to the world versions of other men's writings,
interpolated with his own italics, we would recommend
to him a week or two's attendance upon the Grammar
class at the Mechanics' Institution, or the School of
the Town Mission for teaching adults.

In the article which our contemporary, like a very
small dog we have read of,
" Has done all that a thing so diminutive could"
to convert into most ridiculous absurdity, we neither
stated " that the repeal of the corn-laws would be
succeeded by immediate prosperity," or that " earth-
quakes would, in future, take place over our heads."
We never spoke, either, of " covering an odour."
Really, people who are so obtuse as to be unable to
read correctly a grammatical sentence, much less write
one, ought to pause before they exhibit, thus publicly,
their stupid discoveries. Errors of Grammar may
creep into the hasty compositions of any journalist.
In the case, however, of the paragraphs which have
excited the Albion to giggle, every error alleged hap-
pens to be so only in the imagination of our flippant
censor.