The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CORRESPONDENTS.  human grill upon a large scale. No—no--we Mr. T .onlas Lunt, of must not remain satisfied—Europe must not rea prospect tower at Li- main satisfied—with reprobation of this particular 1 _•: ebt-srin rwrilaarl  nations must 'ask themselves the question, whether France is to be permitted, by any mode of warfare,-by any variety of murderous appliances—to massacre one half of the population of an entire continent, either for the advancement of her absurd schemes of ambition, or to remove dangerous elements from beside the throne of Louis Philippe. Because France cannot repress- the fierce passions of her disaffected population—because she cannot banish from before their eyes the bloodstained splendours of the revolution and of the empire—because she labours under a plethora of appetite for conflict and triumph, and must be letting blood—we cannot consent that she shall be allowed to select any portion which she chooses of the earth's surface, upon which to effect an object which the hangsrnan or the headsmen could accomplish with infinitely less sacrifice of human life, and much more certainty of the necessary infliction of punishment falling upon the right heads. Apart from all questions of mere humanity—or even of prudence—and we agree with our contemporary, the London Times, that it is worthy of our consideration, what might be the consequence if, at some future period, an army of 100,000 men, trained in this African warfare, and capable of the atrocity of burning alive those whom they are unable on the instant to reach with the sword :—apart from these considerations, we have a right to ask what business has France to be colonizing in Africa at all. Europe permitted her, and thanked her for the act, to repress the piracies of Algiers, and to root out the pirates from their nest; but we took from her a pledge to abstain from permanent occupation. Is she grown so mighty now that we dare not remind her of that pledge, and insist upon its fulfilment ? Or are we so cowardly that we are content to owe our own immunity from her assaults to this war which is exhausting her strength, whilst it is desolating Africa ? One or other of these questions must be answered in the affimative, if we do not interfere for the protection of the suffering people of that continent, and for the credit of outraged human nature.  e case as  The orange movement which has just taken place in Ireland, and the responsive demonstration made last week in Liverpool will, we trust, not be without their effect on ihe public mind; and may even be startling enough to arrest the attention of the present administration. The government organs are evidently sore and uneasy, whilst the organs of Popery—and amongst the rest a distinguished specimen in our own town—have been seized with a fit of railing, and almost exhausted the vocabulary of Billingsgate upon the heads of the loyal and discountenanced supporters of the constitution and the integrity of the empire. By what may be called, so far as orangeism is concerned, the middle party in the country, consisting of those Protestants and Churchmen who, never having known what it was to exercise the duties of their religion with the fear of outrage before their eyes, or to feel the necessity of combination for mutual protection, are averse to this and every description of party display, a just and proper interpretation has nevertheless been put upon the proceedings of the body in both countries. Such men have opened their eyes to the fact that, in Ireland especially, and in England  wherever Popery has fixed its unruly masses, Protestants have been, and are day by day being, driven to a display of their strength and union, as a measure of defence, and of precaution against coming violence. They cannot but feel that, as religionists, their feelings have been outraged and their loyalty proscribed; and in men so situated, the reflecting portion of Englishmen are willing to pardon proceedings which, in some degree, violate their own notions of propriety, and which they themselves do not, and because the necessity for them has never arisen, they think they could not be driven to practise.