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

of England in Liverpool must not be pt.

.rmitted to sup-

ply to them the-place Of their naturzi protectors; and

this humane and pious personage would rather see
those children abandoned to wretchedness and infamy

in our streets, than allow the pastors of a church,
which is hateful to his sectarian spirit, to become the
fathers of the fatherless.

For .the particulars of the proceedings of Mr. Bol-
ton, in the course which he has thought proper to pur-
sue at the Council meeting, we must refer to our re-
port. We are confident that it will excite in the public
mind unqualified disgust ; and it is with pleasure that
we notice, as contrasted with it, the conduct of the
more respectable members of his party. All are not
lost to shame—all are not, insensible to the claims of
decency and humanity as paramount to the indulgence
of sectarian spleen, although. Mr. Thomas Bolton is so.

In particular, we cannot but express our admiration of
the sentiments expressed and. the course pursued by
Mr. James Aikin, which we may safely put forward as
a reply to the raving bigotry of the insignificant section
of his party from whom-. he differed upon this occa-
sion. Why does not Mr. Aikin display more fre-
quently the same tone. and spirit in the Council, as an
example to his unreflecting friends around him ?
Of
.course the • opposition of Mr. Bolton and his
small tail to this grant of the corporation is based, pro-
fessedly, "npOn their regard for " Liberty of COnsci-

Mr.:Bolton,is afraid lest the education of the
desolate orphan children, for whom this institution is'
designed, if 'conducted upon Protestant and Church Of
England principles, should jar the feeling's of their stir-
relativeS ; and contends that each of

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these unfortunates should be trained in the particular
sectarian views of religion to which their parents be-
longed,' and should attend such place of worship only
as their friends—(who are they ?)—may require. But
is that, we ask, the true ground of Mr. Thomas Bol-
ton's factious fury upon this questicin ? We unhesi-
tatingly answer, No. Mr. Bolton knows that the
adoption of such a °principle in the Orphan Asylum is
utterly impracticable, and would entirely defeat its sa:-
lutary.operation. The true ground of this amiable
Dissenter's opposition to the grant to this institution is
the rancorous hatred which he bears to the Established
Church of the realm. The very name of that church
or of its clergy is at any time sufficient to work up his
meek temper to madness, and render him alike forget-
ful of decency and of gentlemanly feeling.
On the occasion in question it will be seen from our
report, that, not satisfied with the display of his cus-.
tomary truculent bitterness against the establishment
itself, he did not scruple to direct a volley of coarse
detraction against the gentlemen who compose the pre-
sent finance committee. Baffled in his attempt, as a
member of that committee, to bully it into submission to
his views, and to thwart its proceedings upon this
question .by moving amendment after amendment—in a
tone of factious insolence which would be disgraceful
in any one excepthiniself—he did not scruple to de-
nounce his colleagues .to the Council and the public 'as
men whose actions and motives were devoid of honour
and integrity. The castigation which so gross a vio;
lation of truth and decency drew upon him would, by
any other gentleman, be remembered with shame and
confusion. We anticipate no such impression, how-
ever, upon the stolid and obdurate mind of Mr. Bol-
ton ; and we trust, thexefore, that Mr. Aspinall, whose
vindication of the character of the Council was, upon
this occasion, above all praise, will persist in the course
to which, we understand, he has pledged himself; and,
at all times, insist upon an adherence to the rules of
gentlemanly and decent language on the part of this
unruly individual.

We shall not say a word upon the unfortunate exhi-
bition of Mr. *William Earle in this debate. We can
only pity the infirmity of, temper and obliquity of mind
which lead a gentleman, capable of far better things,
to be content to rest his reputation as a member of the
Council upon the facility with which he plays alter-
nately the character of the mountebank and the frenzied
tabby. Poor William Earle !

Although the constituency of Liverpool have forgot-
ten that Colonel Torrens, ex-M.P. for the radical bo-
rough of Bolton, is at this moment, unfortunately, both
out of place and out of parliament—an uncomfortable
predicament for so eminent a patriot--that gallant offi-
cer has not omitted to notice that Liverpool is just now
unprovided with a representative. Accordingly, in the
advertising columns of the London Times of yesterday,
the worthy colonel has presented us with a refresher,
in the shape of an intimation that he is willing to sup-
ply our wants in that particular, provided any set of
gentlemen in the borough are prepared with the ne-
cessary ",ready," in sufficient superfluity, to tempt
them to embark. it for the purpose of securing the be-
nefit of his valuable services.
Many thanks, colonel, for the' kind'volunteer ; but
we are provided, you see ; and, as the song says,
".'Tis good to be off with the old love
Before we are on with the new !"
The long address with which you have favoured us,
reads " very trippingly on the 'tongue," and is " all
very fine ;" but conservative Liverpool is not yet re-
duced to the necessity of putting up with any battered
castaway of whiggery, merely because the kennel has
been shut against him, the carrion hung up.above his
reach, and he is ready.to worry the patroni at whose
heeli he was so lately in dutiful and loving attendance,
as an obedient,' well-fed, and well-bred spaniel ought
to be. : •.

Perhaps radicalisin blight have had something to say

to you, good colonel, but for that unfortunate allusion
to the money, which is contained in the last paragraph
of your address. They could have swallowed your
abuse of whiggery and its fraudulent schemes; but
unless you can ailbrd to stump up, you are but a lost
colonel. The Whig gentlemen of Liverpool won't
crack deaf nuts, depend upon it.