The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-06-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NAPOLEON-of the mistress of the seas, we write this ? Alas, it is true ! Under whig misrule we are so poor, so hard up, to use a Greek phrase, that we are obliged to do that as a thief or a Orate which we ought to do as powerful intercessors bound by solemn covenants. And what do the whigs at the last moment of the last desperate hour do in favour of the young. queen of Spain and her very worthy and chaste mother ? They partially suspend the enlistment act, and they allow volunteer scamps, of needy circumstances and forlorn fortunes, to crimp among thieves, and enlist Irish murderers, in order to raise a force, in these islands, of from 10,000 to 20,000 men, who are to invade Spain, aid the queen, and arrest the progress of Don CARLOS in his hitherto tri umphant career towards Madrid and the crown. Colonel EVANS, the member for Westminster, it is said, is to command the.voluntary expedition. He is assisted by several stock jobbers and a few money-hatching and unprincipled lawyers of the city of London. " Westminster's pride," therefore, is to support " Westminster's glory," by the aid of pickpockets and scamps—by gaol heroes from Kilmainham—hy patriots who have cheated the gallows—by the scum of plunderers who will console themselves, even in extremity, that. they have had the honour of being shot, instead of the disgrace of being hanged.  That shot the greater portion of these honourable heroes will be, should they at all enter upon the war, we have no doubt whatever. Colonel EVANS may be a brave man enough; but that he is a general remains to be proved. Supposing EVANS to be a MARLBOROUGH or a IVELLINGToN. which •eve take leave to question, still comes the difficulty, what command will he have over the beggarly and plundering horde who go for no other purpose but that of plunder ? Again, what are 10,000 or 20,000 men in the fields of Spain ? The Duke d'ArguovumE had some difficulty in marching upon Madrid with upwards of 100,000 men. Our volunteer ruffians and gaol birds will consequently have hardly a chance, if they act at all. ZUMALACARRYGUY will make short work of them ; and if they are destroyed, who is to relieve the burthen thus thrown upon the English poor-rates•?  The influence of popery upon the lowest and most numerous class of its devotees is essentially the same in all countries where the laws are not enforced in a despotic manner. It has a demoralizing tendency—it produces mental slavery—it engenders crime. In Ireland no man dares to speakagainst the abominations of that idolatrous system without placing his life in the most imminent peril. We do solemnly believe that there is not a single protestant in Ireland whom a popish priest could not cause to be murdered by holding up his hand and pointing to his victim. Two murders a day, according to Mr. Secretary LITTLETON, is the average number in that frightful country. Only imagine that SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY human beings are assassinated annually in cold blood, many of thein in open day, in that island, and you will have at once a picture of what popery produces in Ireland. These crimes are not perpetrated by desperate men, who are driven to deeds of blood in order, as they conceive, to conceal the robbery they have accomplished. No; the murderers are generally small farmers, many, if not- most of them, in comfortable circumstances, who obey to the very letter the priest's directions, who  are devout at mass, regulur at confession; and yet for an assumed, if not imaginary, grievance, caused by the enforcement of a just right by a protestant, they conspire to murder him, cherish the deepest and darkest feelings of revenge, wait an opportunity with indomitable perseverance, and seldom or never fail in accomplishing their diabolical purpose. Such is popery in Ireland. We lament to state that crime is increasing with the. increase of popery in other parts of the King's dominions. The form it assumes in these places is exclusively of Irish origin. It is malignant revenge for imaginary wrong, ending in outrage and blood. We have before us an extract from a Newfoundland paper of the 21st May, which is as follows :  " ST.