The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-08-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RETRIBUTORY MURDER—against the tribes of Affghanistan. We entered their territory, in the outset, with a criminal object in view. 'We have outraged by this unhappy step international law and eternal justice ; and the doom which fell upon our heads, dare we say it was not the award of an avenging God upon us for a national crime ? It is, perhaps, not more than the submission which we owe to outraged humanity and justice that we should retract from our criminal quarrel. But we are far from being convinced that it is in such a spirit that the alleged ordinance of the Governor-General of India has been issued for the withdrawal of our troops from beyond the Indus. From Lord Ellenborough and from the present administration we expected no blind perseverance in a fatal wrong—no murderous and revengeful policy; no colonization of a country to which we have no claim ;—bnt as little did we anticipate a step, such as the immediate abandonment of Atfghanistan appears to be, which must fasten upon our reputation, in the eyes of she eavag-e tribes by whom our.lndian euipire is surrounded, the taint of weakness in maintaining .ci quarrel superadded to thatof injustice commencing one! n  Most strongly do we fear, therefore, that the position of British power in India is not at this moment so secure as we would wish it to be ;—that our retirement from Affghanistan is a step dictated by imperious necessity, to preserve us from threatening evils nearer the centre of our own territory. We cannot for a moment bring ourselves to believe, that without some strong overruling circumstances, such a step would be taken. We are confident, at least, that the GovernorGeneral of India would never dare so far to outrage the feelings of Englishmen as to desert those unhappy fellow-countrymen and countrywomen who are held in bondage by their barbarous and treacherous captors, whilst the possibility remained within his reach of striking a blow for their relief.  With our present deficiency of information we shall say no more upon this distressing subject. But, if we mistake not, a day must shortly come when it will be not our duty alone but the duty of every Englishman to speak out upon it, and to speak firmly and decisively ; and when no legislature will be permitted to throw its shield between CRIMINALS, against the British nation, however high their rank, and the just punishment which they have earned !  This day—so at least we are informed by placards posted on our walls—the town of Liverpool is to be visited by no less a personage than "the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin (!)"—better known to the world as THE BEGGARMAN, DANIEL O'CONNELL ! The object—the professed object, rather,—of this mean and malignant creature's appearance amongst us—is to assist in some mendicant exhibition to be got up to-day at the Amphitheatre, in behalf of " the society of Saint Francis Xavier." What this society or who this Saint may be, or what are their joint claims upon the pockets of the Irish Papists of Liverpool, of course, the majority of the dupes who may be collected together upon the occasion know not. Of the saint himself all that we remember at this moment is that he was the founder of the order of Jesuits—an order which, for its political interferences with the liberties of the human race, has been proscribed from time to time in every state in Europe, and which is at this moment prohibited, under pains and penalties, from showing its head in these realms. Of the society whose progress amongst us the object of the meeting in the Amphitheatre is to advance, we can only conclude that it is, in fact, the obnoxious Jesuit order in question. Some great Popish work is no doubt just now to be advanced by the society and the saint, for which money is required; and, upon the principle, we presume that great instruments must be used for the achievement of great ends, the most eminent mendicant of the day has been retained for the occasion, and will, in addition to the exercise of his excruciating power of wheedling the gullible public, exhibit his " most sweet person" at the charge of " two shillings and sixpence do the boxes and eighteenpence to the pit," the gallery being permitted to see and shout at the monster gratis.  the common qualities most in reque  export  d although th  tion in our cotton marl  return to spund business,  facturing districts  night-and-day working—