The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-04-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GEORGE 111., has been compelled, by a most unnatural alliance, to receive as his advisers a set of men who assert the right to appropriate the revenues of the church in any way they please, thereby condemning the principles of our holy religion, and saying to the spirit of protestantism, THUS FAR •SHALT THOU GO AND NO FARTHER  The object of the minister is to restore the Romish religion in Ireland, and extirpate that which was established at the reformation. Lord JOHN RUSSELL says that where there is no protestant congregation there should be no church and no endowed pastor. The mean ing of this is—there shall for the future be no pro-1 testants in that particular place. The very name of our religion is to be blotted out. The ensigns of our church are to be torn down; the emblems of our faith obliterated; the records of our protestant fathers destroyed, and the house of prayer converted into a gin-palace, a mass... house for mummery, or a den for thieves. This is the meaning of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S appropriation clause, It is in effect a sweeping and unhallowed PROSCRIPTION of the protestant religion in Ireland. What right has Lord Jowl, or any other man, to assume, that because There are at present but a few protestants in a particula district, there never will be any increase of their number'? He not only passes judgment on the existing generation, but be also dives into futurity, and condemns the unborn,  preventing those who may live hereafter from participating in the blessings of our reformed religion. The Church was established for all generations.. It was founded for the worship of those who now live, or may live after we of the present day are in our graves. The appropriation clause, however, robs those who have not yet come into the. world. It deprives our children, and our children's children, of their rightful inheritance, and it gives popery a power and a cradling place whiCh it had not before. We `. have said that Lord JOHN RUSSELL restricts the 'operation of his spoliation experiment to Ireland. 'Why to Ireland ? Simply because any scheme of fraud practised against her is less loudly condemned than it would be if committed in England. But the minister's principle is as applicable to England as it is to Ireland---to Devon as to Down. The clergy and the. electors of Devonshire must think of this. The children of unitarians, independents, anabaptists, and other sectarians in Devonshire, are as much entitled to be educated at the expense of the church of England as the children of Roman Catholics and similar dissenters are in Ireland. It Would  not be robbery more in the one case than the otherii And to this it will come, from one end of England to, the other, and from one end of Scotland to the other likewise, if Lord JOIPT RUSSELL'S administration (for it is absurd to call it Lord MELBOURNE'S) are suffered to remain many months in office. We throw out these hints as hard nuts for the elector's of Devonshire to crack at their leisure. If they return Lord JOHN RUSSELL they will strike a blow at the church of England, the-effects of which will be felt when perhaps they bitterly regret it. We say the same to the electors of Cambridge. If they support the plundering principle in the person of Mr. SPRING RICE, they will commit foul murder on themselves. The universities cannot survive the downfall of the church. The revenues of the colleges would be a rich bone for some future poodle of the house of Bedford. Once rob the university and 'what would become of the town of Cambridge? The ruined tailor would be in its gaol ; the broken down cobbler in his last shoes; the once jolly landlord would be a lean man, living upon the parish and his recollections ; in short it would be a town with empty shops and uninhabited houses. If the electors, therefore, have any pot