The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-12-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

REV. HUGH M'NEILE AND HIS CALUMNIATORS.  (From the Dablin Evening Mail.) Accustomed as we are to the infamous expedients of the Ministerial press, we thought we could regard their worst misrepresentations with a comparatively equal degree of contempt ; but we confess we were penetrated with feelings of disgust and horror, stronger than have been called forth by any political slander since the time of Lord Norbury's assas sivation, in reading the following paragraph in the government paper of Saturday night t  "INCITEMENT TO MURDER THE QUEEN " To do the ministers of the Established Church in England only common justice, it Must be confessed that they are by no means behind the most benevolent of their Irish brethren in audacity and treason. Nl`Neile (but he's a "native," we believe, although located in England, certainly a brotherin-lain of little Tommy Magee; the Icrlehdeaton) has been holding forth in Lancashire. at apublia meeting, over which LOrd Kenyon presided. .We shall give tin extract from the Speech ; it is hideous as A.whial ; but to one passage we must invite particular attention. It is the most extraordinary and atrocious declaration of the necessity of murdering the Sovereign that ever dropped from a traitor's lip. His words are these :  "What peace so long as that woman Jezebel lives ?" The sentsnce was applauded to the echo—but we must give the extract in full  " But, my lord, it is said that ministers of the, gospel should not intermeddle with things of this kind ; that they should be ministers of peace, promoters of peace. We hear this on every side. All who are anxious to get rid of our advocacy, because they feel they cannot answer our arguments—(cheers)—endeavour to put us down by professing vast concern.about our spirituality. (A laugh.) 'Ministers of peace! Where is this found, I would ask ? Where are we called ministers of peace ? Not in the Scriptures. What a strange 'delusion is abroad. (Hear.) There is no such thing in the Bible. We are ambassadors' for Christ. And what did Christ say ? Think you that I came to send peace on earth? I tell you nay, but rather a sword.' A swordl 'DoubtlesS it is a word: We..possess, indeed, a peace the. world knows nothing-of. He said to his followers,- ' Peace I leave with you. My. peace I gisie-'unto you. Not as the world gii7eth, give 1 unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither be ye afraid. We have a peace within : but as to our ministry, it is A. sword, and not peace. It cannot be'peace, while the world is under the power of the'deirit, who is the enemy of all righteousness. Wbast peace, so long as that woman, Jezebel, lives? (Loud eheerst.) 'lt cannot be pOsSible till peace comes in its ptoper scriptural place !...' The wisdom that cometh from above is rtitst rune, then peace= able' (Cheers.) When the world shall be pure, then the ministers of the church will be men of peace. But while:the' world is corrupt, I-say, my lord,' we are men of War. (Ali• plane.)' Our MaSter has given us a• sword. His ministry was a sword, piercing through many hearts ; and the ministry of every -faithful follower of his is a sword—a sword that cometh in contact with the great abscess of man's corruption ; and there cannot be peace while there is this leaven of iniquity inthe world." (Cheers.) • What could have been the objeet of a falsehood so enormous, so palpable, so self-detected ? Nobody could beliete it—no human creature ever did, or ever could, or ever can, take such a meaning out 'of words as plainly directed not against our gracious queen, as this scandalous charge of treason is directed agaLrist the pious, learned, and loyal Hugh M'Neile.• What then, we repeat, could have been the object of the paragraph in question ? It plainly was not to mislead—for no reasonable creature ever had a mind so obtuse as to be misled by it ; it is " gross as a mountain, open, palpable"—plain, downright, unsophisticated. We can divine the object, and that without much studying. The masters of the government exact from their slaves a " blackmail" of calumny on every advocate of Protestantism. The dues must be paid, if not in meal, in malt—if not in calumnies wearing the garb of probability, in calumnies starknaked. No matter how indecent the exposure, the obscene thing has to be sent out—the imperious tyrant brooks no excuse. Every Protestant advocate must -be slandered, or at least the willingness to slander must be exhibited at the stated time. Ah ! to what dirty offices the patronage of Rome compels her proteges!