The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-01-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CONNELL—nothing but falsehoods to conceal their weakness, and protocols to cover their deficiencies—they at length fell by their own hands, in desperation and in drunkenness, the most repulsive suicides that evercame under the notice of a political coroner.  In the disastrous year which has gone, and whose demise we have celebrated with due formality, we certainly had the gratification of seeing that the peaceful but compulsory system was completely successful. But while we admit the fecundity of its November blessings it would be vain to attempt to wash out or conceal the stain which is engrained on its memory. Its most important measure—that which the ministry exhausted all their fading energies to carry—was one of merciless oppression towards the poor. The charity of England became congealed under their influence; and all that was generous in the national character, and which had been truly national and beneficent for centuries, was turned to stone, while the maxims of christian philanthropy were converted into the forbidding and cold axioms of modern philosophy. The poor, whom the scriptures tell us " are always with us," and must always'be with us, were, with their motherless or fatherless children, denied any parochial relief except in cases where neglect would be murder. There was no compassion in the whig poor-law for misfortun,e, or old age, or accident, or unforeseen incapacity, or unexpected deprivation. No. The whigs took great delight in grinding the faceS of the poor--in degrading those who could not vote for them—who could not augment the public revenue by sipping at their gin palaces, and drinking the horrid poison distilled by- the uuir.,..tily see on every whig hustings. This, however, was their crowning measure. It was— it is a measure of atrocious cruelty. We care not by whom devised. All we have to say is that it is a bill framed by a fiend, cold, heartless, and. passionless—a monk hating humane society, knowing nothing but the vices of society, and measuring his philanthropy by the standard of frail credulity, and the easily augmented number of his victims. If there were no other act in the statute book of the whigs, this would alone consign them to everlasting ignominy. The foul blot can never be removed. They were the ostentatious and professed friends of the labouring classes. They have proved themselves to be their most pitiless and remorseless enemies. In the pursuit of a principle abhorrent to human nature they inverted the rules of prescribed liability, and they made the victim of fraud and seduction—the helpless mother of a guilt-begotten child—the only responsible party, and the only sufferer, in a case of conjoint criminality. The feebler sex were, by the whig law, made the scapegoats of domestic treason—of artful intrigue— of shameless dishonour—of base perfidy and cruel desertion. A bounty was given to crime. A bonus was held out to the hoary seducer, and every female servant, if poor, (as poor she must be in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,) was exposed to every temptation and fraud, without the hope of redress—nay, without the chance of sustenance, in a land famous for its liberality and its christian charity.  This is the blackest spot in the ministerial proceedings of the year whose wake we now celebrate, as they do wakes in Ireland, with inexpressible delight. In fact, it was the only measure of the session and the year that we have any recollection of, or was of much importance.. Who would trouble himself to recollect one thousandth, part of any one debate in the first reformed House of Commons ? It was babble and twaddle, and cant, and small talk, and chaffering and snarling from first to last. One member accused another of falsehood on one night; on the succeeding night the lie was flung back with interest; and it was bandied backwards and for— wards until it was clear that both were equally guilty. Then came the ministerial intrigues with the beggar O'CoNNELL, which commenced in'whispers, was continued under the grossest breaches of confidence, warmed into bullying, and ended in the resignation of Lord