The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ONE WORD. The dumb dogs do not bark. They have for so many years, and for party and selfish purposes, extolled the virtue of the Ailiericans, and the perfectibility of American institutions, that, like Lord BROUGHAM extolling the innocence of Queen CAROLINE, they actually believe all they have so falsely and factiously asserted. Lord BROUGHAM is a weak man, and on that ground we forgive him; but do all the advocates of American Institutions take shelter under that excuse Is tile liberal press so miserably fallen that it deems the advocacy of silence the safest course ? or has it not the courage and the honesty to denounce what it has invariable hitherto professtd to abhor ?  What would have been said if in this noble land, in this much calumniated constitutional monarchy—this land of an hereditary peerage which the "well beloved" JOE PARKES has proscribei—this asylum of the "gentlemen of the press," whom JONATHAN THREEHALFPENNY ROEBocK. has threatened to write down—what would have been said here and elsewhere, and even in America itself, if one hundredth part of the cruelty and crime had been committed here which has been committed in the United States ? The now silent liberal press would have rung changes upon it for the next fifty years. The small scribe would have lived upon it for a long period, as ConBETT did upon the flogging of certain soldiers in the Isle of Ely. The dishclout politician, playing Mercury in a bath of soap-suds, would have levied sevenpence for every plunge in the froth, averaging some fifteen hundred times per week. All the chroniclers of the state would have become rich by exchanging their small beer for nutriment of a more substantial nature. 13!"t let us give a case or two in illustration.  Two men were recently convicted and sentenced to death in this country fora horrid crime. That they will be executed we sincerely hope and believe. A few weeks ago the Sidney papers contained a trial and the conviction of two men for the same crime, under similar circumstances. The people of England, to their honour, have expressed no sympathy towards the criminals. In New South Wales, however, an attempt was made to murder the witnesses who had borne evidence against the condemned, on the ground that the " two young men sentenced to be hanged had only been guilty of a lark," This shows the difference in moral feeling between the convict population of New South Wales and that of the people of England, and long may it remain so.  But we regret to say that the difference is equally striking between the "citizens' of the republic and the subjects of the King of England. What we call "murder" they term "a sudden and justifiable ebullition of popular feeling." The meanest man in these realms, the vilest scoundrel in Great Britain, is under the protection of the laws. The suspected man in the United States, be he as pure as nnsunned snow, be he guiltless as an angel, if the mob will it, Ile must suffer death, as their own papers sac•, "without law or gospel, judge or jury."  But take another case. A thief-taker of the name of PORTEOUS, who had made himself obnoxious to the mob of Edinburgh, was, some seventy or eighty years ago, seized by the mob of that city and hanged. He was, it is now acknowledged, a great ruffian in his day, but he had committed no illegal act. On the contrary, he had brought to justice some of the worst and most desperate characters who infested Edinburgh. - He was the master of police; but those who have read SCOTT'S novel of the