The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-02-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JACKSON. The pistols missed fire, and the man, who is said to be a maniac, was seized, examined, and held to bail ! It appears that, by the laws of the United States, an attempt to commit murder is a bailable offence. The particulars will be found elsewhere.  We understand that the policy which Sir ROBERT PEEL intends to pursue, notwithstanding the triumph which a faction has obtained in the election of Mr. ABERCROMBY, is to bring before parliament, first by direct allusion in'the royal speecit, and next in due and formal course, all those important measures which he considers necessary for the peace, the security, and the prosperity of the country. In the first instance, he will appeal to the intelligence and justice of the House of Commons, but should he appeal in vain, he will next address himself to the people. If the commons should think fit to reject his measures, the nation will not thereby be in a worse position than it is at present. Should the commons force upon him objectionable measures, he will leave these to the consideration of the House of Lords; but if, contrary to his expectations, the lower house shall endeavour to obstruct his measures by factious proceedings, and embarrass the government by Means of Sir JouN CAMPBELL'S specific, viz. stopping the supplies, he will then immediately counsel the King to dissolve the parliament, in order that he may make another 'appeal to the people at large. This will do.  Faction has triumphed in the first movement of the second reformed parliament, and ministers have been beaten by a majority of ten. It would be senseless affectation to deny that this defeatis of serious importance, or that we view it with deep conceid. It is exceedingly ominous that the first wound inflicted u; on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S administration is inflicted by the vampire brood of united Irish papists whom the right honourable baronet endeavoured to conciliate in. 1829, by admitting them to seats in the Wash parliament. We have no desire to rake up old grievances, but it is impossible to shut-our eyes to a fact so glaring, and which basproduced circumstances alike melanchely and degrading. " It is melancholy to see a great country like this placed at the mercy of a handful of unprincipled demagogues ; and it is degrading inasmuch as it`demonstrates a want of feeling and gratitude. on the part of those whom the minister of 1829 made such extraordinary sacrifices to conciliate. It is plain that the beggar O'CONNELL now commands the majorities in the House of Commons.: He can, by holding up his hand, decide whether the minister is to succeed or be beaten. By leading his obedient slaves to the aid of the treasury he can vanquish the whig opposition ; and by supporting the whips he can defeat the government. This is abundantly and painfully proved by the division on Thu rsday last. The majority in favour of Mr. AuEttcaostuY is only ten. O'CONNELL can command at least thirty votes. No man in the empire— not even the crown. itself—possesses so. much power. Of these thirty there is not a single member who dares vote contrary to the will and pleasure of their heartless leader. They are all as much under his curb, and •as much subjected to his caprice, as are the animals who drag a stagecoach or a coal-waggon. They speak or are silent—they vote or absent themselves—precisely as he directs; and they would just as soon think of contradicting or opposing him as would a gang of Guinea negroes, chained to the deck, think of insulting the commander of the vessel— the man who bought them in order to sell them, and who if he thinks proper can throw- them overboard, making them free in a watery grave, and putting an ehd to their sufferings in a moment of passion, or in a fit of drunken Such are the popish representatives of Ireland in the hands of O'CONNELL, and such are the slaves whoni the parliament of 1829 admitted into the sanctuary of the British constitution—admitted, as the facts testify, to POLLUTE AND DESTROY IT !  But the more degrading confession has yet to be made. Such are the men who have placed Air. JAMES ABERCROMBY in.the chair of the House of Commons ! It is a triumph to them ; it is the triumph of. brute force over intellect and intelligence ; it is the triumph of a disdp