The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

he, " has no power to levy troops, nor has she any at her
command, but such as offer their voluntary services.
Her Government can take no measure for the prosecution
of the war which it has nit beforehand to explain in Par-
liament. Her armies and fleet can make no movements, nor
even prepare for any, without their being publicly announced in
the papers. No mistake, however trifling, can occur, no want or
weakness exist, which is not at once denounced, and even

sometimes exaggerated with a kind of morbid satisfaction. The
QUEEN'S ambassador can enter into no negotiations without
' the Government having to defend him, by entering into all
the arguments which that negotiator, in order to be success-
ful, ought to be able to shut up in the innermost recesses of
his heart. Nay, at the most critical position, when war and
diplomatic relations may be at their height, an adverse vote in
Parliament may at a moment deprive the QuEEs of the whole
of her confidential servants." The picture here minutely
painted is by many denied to be a true one, particularly as
regards the ambassadorial functions and defence. Negotiations
are not interfered with in Parliament till they have been
brought to a close ; and if within the last few weeks a con-
trary course of operations has been witnessed, the fault lay
not with Parliament, but with Ministers, who declared the
negotiations finished, although it afterwards suited their con-
venience to aver that they were not concluded. In point of
fact, the criticism to which their diplomacy was subjected,
and the condemnation which it underwent, arose out of the
suspicion engendered by the fast and loose style of
their own declarations, and their own notorious disagree-
ments. As regards HER MAJESTY'S inability to levy troops,

except through their own voluntary act, there are not wanting
statesmen of authority, who believe, and their belief is sym-
pathised in by the public, that the devoted loyalty, unswerving
fidelity, and chivalrous daring of those volunteers, is not
surpassed by the bravery and attachment of any horde of
organised serfs which have ever been driven to battle beneath:
the Russian• banner; nor will their atheivements in the brunt
of battle• pale- before the deeds of any German levies who ever
took the field; whether in accordance with their own will, or

in obediene.--- to• that of another. The remarkop of His Royal
Highness were• at least unusual, and no smallnumber of sedate
and thinking linen: pronoisn€ them unfortmate; so fat.; as
they have a tenancy to commit their author 3,8. approving or
&approving of constititutional peculiarities; with which
foglishmen are naturally jealous of any intevference;- and
which a sounder poky would hate induced him to.avoi& His
observations did mor4r than. even % this, however, they' had, the
effect of throwing the might ofthe•crown into that talanceiu
which the Ministry hr been- weighed and found mnting.
That 2Fince ALBERT ever intended to do any or these.

things; orlo express an opinion• favourable to the continential,
despotism;• and adverse to British. freedom, ij exceedikgly
unlikely;. bct that it has been liable-to Stith misconstruction;•
and•been• commented on accordingly, is-a gong presumption,
ell-its-inexpediency.

The public features of the pastrweekhave6een in no small
degree connectecr,with the recentmovement for. the agitation
of lidministratire.Reform. The-first meeting:of the Associ-
ationi.whichlasjustbeen forma to effect that purpose, was

held on Wednesday' evening, in Ditity4ane Theatre. The
stage, an the occasionj.was occupie& by a. large' gathering of
the chief' promoters' of the movement, conspicuotte among
whom were two earia- and thirty members of parliament,
includingthe unhesitatling, Mr. LAYASTY and a considerable
sprinkling.,:of military agd naval officers„Some 'medicaligentle-
men, and a , squadron •of grievance-mongers from. the' Irish
cohort of malcontents whieh musters nightly in .the 'House of
Commons. BOxes, pit, and galleries wer:r filled by motley
groups of th-admieers of anything which promises exeite-
ment, and these,.as -each ,sueeeseive point wasmade by thefew
speakers whb addressed the zesenably, applauded till echo rang.
again. The chief speaker of the evening was,-111i; Ls..renn,;
who, with his -sual ardour of assertion, con hived consider
ably to overcolour the pictures-which he drew.-- At an earik
wriocl of his colloquy, he averredthat, if he might be permitted:
to divide the nation. into ,two parts as • connected with the-
movement,
" he should see placed: on one side all! the men ,of
common sense, rerpettability, andwealth—all who, by their
own, • toil, perseverance, and sweat of brow loped to raise
themselves and do,pod public seevieeopposed, ay. the other
eide;•to a small partly? who claimed for themselves a monopoly
of the governinent„ and who !vegetated' and grew fat upon
those corruptions andievils which, please God,4his msociation
determined, if pomade,. to .remover.Ta the Course,' of .his
ad&essi- he dealt smeralleavy hits ab various members of the
last and present adminiStration becoming attention to
his ewe laudation he-referred &to the-Sebastopol committee,
and alluded With stinging virulence totheamount of patron-
age, place, and pay inenepolited..by the: EtTIiSELLS,'
and Rnuoms, He admitted the fact so often pressel iupon
attention, yet so earnestly denied,, thattlie Liberal pasty.' had
made a great mistake in pressing the :reductions in payment
of the,:vablic servieta.too. Air.. As halied no resolution sto• j,
propose,. and as his speech would have been incomplete with:
out a ,peroraticin in which .some -sting:should .be foundi. he
injected- the venom of' hiSioratory into alliatribeagainst;Lord .
PenmEnairox,,who he'd. glared was " tge,firet.Prime Mitinter
who had ever jested at the -suffekings-of, the country,f!.and
Belem* averred that., "-he had never seen the noble herd in
earnesteucept when hewas, vilifying the,people." Oratory so
rank as.this, may, indeed, tickle the ears ofithose who frequent
theat-n-galleries, bat it is, hardly the sort-suited to an intelli-
gent audience—it may. 'footer- spleen, keep. alive discontent,
and be,instrumental iaplacing such farthing candle brilliancy
before-the dazzled esres.of,a bewildered people—but assuredly
it will...never be the torch to light them:ion the way to real
improvement, individually or collective4i: . From begioniiag_to
end Mr... LALeRD'a karranguewas destitute. of. practicaLjtulg.
meat or recommendation ; it was a vapid:tissue of platitutles„
var et pecetered.niliiii in which the egotism of, Mr. Lizattn,
with conspicuous, glimmer. in the midst' of the thick
darkness by which he, unintentionally: surrounded it.. Mr.
Leanswr, the next speaker, appeared- to: considerableadivan-
tage, after the frothy eloquence of the intrepid archssologist.
He had at least cce„,practir,al grievance to bring before his
audienee, and he did. it -with plain,but tellinghrevity. He
~about six weeks ago ,he was .asked ,by Sir 11%..14.cr,
F,'YAZIS if the scarcity of. shipping was. AM. as great as it had
been ? His reply.-was, that shipning might be had to any.
extent. Sir DE LAQT,ETA.ZIS Slatthit •statement was ,most
, strange, as more than a month before he had been desirous of
sending out 3,oo(k.horses to Anti' -,dixision in, the C.Viraea, and
had been told it, was impe3siblp ‘to find ships to.earry, them
out. As much surprised at this story as the gallantoffieer had
been at his, Mr. LIIPSAT, TM* inquiry, and found that a
friend of his own had lately; written to Levi
offering in twenty-four hours!. time to supply. a .magnificent
fleet of the finest ships in the,-world, capable-of carrying_oult
2,200 horses, ,at the low rate:o sixteen or aeventeen,shillibaga.
per ton registered teenage,. To this, the .usna/.. answer, that
the offer would ,be . considered, was retuxned. Some. time
afterwards, another offer-was made to Government to fuldi a
fleet capable of takingout 2,600 horses;; but so far_es. the
speaker understood, the, larger portion of the horses.referred
to by Sir De I.A.e.i.RvAku,a had not beewsent out yet. Now
this, ifs true .to the letter, and not a:naere:fancy sketch like
some: of Mr. Le...e.g.p..!.s richly-embellished, facts, was. really
semethinglike a tangible ground of complaint. "tariff alteram
partern however,, a good maxim, andhaving, heard a good
deal about the deficiency encountered:by. Gov.erunaent in their
attempts. to procure horses, as well, as.not having been fur-
nished with any data to point cut the.maneewhereso large
a, "mount" way be at once procured, it may be as well to
suspend judgment in the matter for a moment.
The subject of Administrative. Reform, was brought before
the House of Commons on Friday evening by Mr. LATARD, on.
which occasion he introduced his long-threatened motion,.
I,n a, long and weary cl:httribe, he recapitulated the statement&
he had made on the same.subject in divers places previously,
and Wound up by an. assault upon the Ministry, warning the
nation that the partial, successes which have of late erowned
the allied arms in. the Crimea, were no certain forerunners of
ultimate success. Sir E, &LITTON moved an amendment on
Mr. LAYARD'S proposal; it was to the effect that merit should
be the test of success in securing public appointments, and also
that merit should, be encouraged by fair proraotiort and legiti-
mate rewards. He sincerely urged the question on the consi-
deration of the lanusP, as one of great importance to the best
interests of the country, but he condemned.while he repudiated
the language used by Mr. LAYARD and others out of doors.
As not unfrequently happens with those who endeavour to
realise the play of " She Would and She Would Not," Mn..
GIaDSTONE could not agree with either the motion or the
amendment. His panacea for the evil was the ejectment of
Ministers, which could be repeated, he contended, as often as
. departments were filled by incompetent persons. "They make
a solitude and call it peace," was a charge brought against the
Romans in their thirst for conquest—the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer would incessantly create vacuums in office, that they
might be well filled ! After a protracted discussion, the debate
was adjourned till this evening.

On Monday last, Mr. SAMUEL IVAnnEm, Q.C., brought a

case, 111 Away v. BEWICKE, before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P.
WOOD, in which, as counsel for the plaintiff, a common day-
labourer and gardener at Louth, the learned gentleman en-
deavoured to establish the claim' of his client to property
• worth £50,000 a year. The case, in .some of its particulars
at least, bears resemblance to that.which he '194 supposed in
his splendid work of 'fiction, " Ten Thousand a Year."
MANDY seeks to establish. his claim as heir-at-law to one
DOROTHY WINDSOR, who was the lawful possessor of pro-
perty in Newcastle-on-TYne and in the county of Northum-
berland, which is now worth the princely revenue referred to.
This DOROTHY, a widow, formerly DOROTHY STOTE, daughter
of Sir RICHARD SIOTE, Kilt., died without issue in 1756, and