The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-07-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CAIZI.OS need not concern, himself about tile performance of their religious duties; the ceremony would- be imposing enough without that. Instantly shot ! Terrible, but just . • It will be recollected that previous to the intervention of Lord ELIOT in April last, the most wanton cruelties were perpetrated by the combatants on both sides. The sanguinary and cowardly MINA began the work of extermination by massacring in cold blood all th#! Carlists who fell into his hands. As he never ventured to meet ZI7IIALACARREGUY his was only the murderer's work. He pillaged and shot all persons suspected of being favourable to Don C4atos. In fact, he made alleged suspicion the pretext for robbing the innocent and committing the worst of crimes.  These enormities, perpetrated by the cowardly patriet, naturally enough led to acts of retaliation on the opposite side. In this state of things the Duke of WELusGrorg, from motives of benevolence, interfered. The noble duke instructed his representatives to 'act with strict impartiality, and to exact the same terms from both. Lord ELIOT succeeded in his mission ; MtNA was recalled ; the .murders ceased ; and the captives taken, instead of being shot as rebels, were treated as prisoners of war, and were to enjoy the privilege of exchange. But from these privileges Don CARLOS exempts Ole heroes of the Isle of Dogs, in case they should ever set foot upon the Spanish territory. They will, therefore, not be treated as prisoners of war ; ther-a►ill be ixstantly shot—shot ns dogs.  The curious facts which have .transpired in evidence before. the select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the validity of the return of Mr. O'DwvEa for Drogheda furnish a clue, and an Irish One to boot, to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S disapproval of a qualification clause in the corporation reform bill. It is well known that O'DwYta presented a fictitious qualification, which the committee rejected, and he was conse()trendy unseated; which lamentable event we, as in duty bound, wept over in our last. . The truth is beginning •to shine -nut. Lord forrs RUSSELL knows quite as well as we (16 that there aro at least fifty members in the present House of Commons • who arenor one whit better qualifiedtban Mr. O'Dtrs.r.= —men who sit by means of sham propertv--whose free' hulas consist of caitlei in :the-a4r—Whosetteteittled income is founded in falsehooi and fraud, and who have no more right to a seat in the House of Commons than an Irish pauper going home upon a parish pasthas a right to a seat in the direction of the Bank of England; These men have sworn that they have a clear income derived from land of so many hurn!reds a year, well knowing that they have averred or sworn what is untrue. The way la which this O'DWYER attempted to qualify himself is highly instructive, although exceedingly repulsive; still. we hive, for the first of these reasons, inserted a portion • of the evidence below. It is but right that the people of • England generally, and the religious and conscientious portion of the electors iu particular, should know something of the nature of the collusive bargains and barefaced frauds which are entered into and committed in order to secure the admiision of certain patriots into .the House of Commons. Exposure will do good. , There in is always something about the exterior andsiweri f a swindler which sooner or later leads to. his,xletection.: It is hardly possible that a member of the swell mob could pass for a gentleman anionizst gentlemen.. 'The 'Actor peeps out—the aectation betrays—the thief' is written in his eye. So it will he with the patriots of the House of Commons when their rags, their tricks, and their frauds are fully exposed to public view, and JouN 13171.1. • is again restored to his senses. Knowing this, and fearing this. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has sufficient craft and cunning not only to anticipate but also to endeavour to avert the consequences. The ques-: tion is, will he succeed ? He refuses to admit any vs, lification clause into his 'corporation bill. Is it possible to speak of this without thinking of Mr, O'DWYER, the rejected,—we had almost said the convicted joint of ale twit ? It is policy, no doubt, on the part of this crafty hurdling, to favour his particular friends to the utmost extent of his power. He knows that were a property-Vs" lification required few of his supporters vibuld be eligi hie as common councilmen ; and he moreover dread& at" tent ion being now roused to the frauds ec'tirinsitted btv c`7l'.