The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE

tiberpoof t'iTtanbarb.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1855.

THE LATE ARCHDEACON BROOKS.

THE people of Liverpool have decided to commemo-
rate the virtues and longservices of our late Archdeacon
by a statue, to be placed in one of the niches within
St. George's-hall. Our readers will recollect that,
some weeks ago, we suggested a church as the most
fitting monument ; while some have recommended a
girls' school, and others an endowment for the unfi-
nished church, which is already popularly known and
spoken of as Archdeacon Bnooxs',---and very appro-
priately, being the last within the bounds of this great
parish in which he was permitted to interest himself.
Against the decision in favour of a statue we would say
nothing more than, that .we should have preferred
something which, while it would have equally marked
the Parishioners' sense of their late Rector's many
virtues, would have been calculated to promote the
highest interests of those who were sometime his flock.
The people have said a statue, and, therefore, a statue
let it be : and we earnestly hope, that the subscrip-
tion-list will not only allow the committee to engage
the first talent for its execution, but furnish a large
balance for other objects after all expenses are de-
frayed. In one point of view, even we are ready to
admit that a statue is preferable to what ourselves ven-
tured to suggest ; for, had a church been decided
upon, it could hardly have been expected that any but
churchmen would have contributed towards its erec-
tion. Certainly, no consistent Dissenter could have
done so. To a statue, however, particularly to one
which is to be erected in a secular building, such as
St. George's-hall, the Dissenter may contribute as
consistently as a Churchman ; and of many thousands
of them, we believe, he had secured the love and
respect, no less than of his own people. And, there-
fore, while we retain our previously expressed opinion,
and should have rejoiced had our fellow-townsmen
coincided with us, we again say, a statue let it be, and
one at once worthy of him whom it is intended to
commemorate, and of the noble building in which it
will be placed.
But, is it really imperative to confine the con-
tributions of the people to one object? Let the statue,
by all means, be first provided for : but cannot some-
thing else be done, more immediately connected with
the great parish over which the late Archdeacon so
long presided ? We have already said, that one of
the suggestions was to raise an endowment for the
yet unfinished church in the district of Vauxhall:
and we do not believe that any insuperable difficulty
would be found, if it should be attempted to carry it
out. Nothing could be more appropriate, for he took
a special interest in its erection, and already it is
popularly connected with his name by the people in
its more immediate neighbourhood. And no one can
look at the neighbourhood without being convinced,
that an adequate endowment would be as great a
boon as the church itself. There can be no doubt
that the erection of a House of God, and the location
of a Minister of God, in such a place, are great steps
in the right direction; and that even under the most
unfavourable circumstances some spiritual good must
result from them. But, for many reasons, it is im-
portant that the Minister should be provided with a
maintenance: for, not to speak of the difficulty of
raising a sufficient income in a poor district ; not to
speak of the fact that he must feel painfully conscious
that every augmentation of income testifies of self-
denial and self-sacrifice, upon the part of those who
can least afford them ; how painful a position is it for
him to be placed in, to know that whenever the line
of duty diverges from that of popular prejudice, he
can only follow the former at the risk, or rather with
the certainty, of having his already-limited-means,
still further reduced. As long as his income arises
from pew-rents he will be regarded by the bulk of
his congregation, not as the minister of God and their '
servant for Jesus' sake, but, as their servant directly
and immediately, engaged for their service, and paid
with their money. And though they cannot, upon
any particular occasion, show their dissatsfaction
by dismissing him from his post, they will not
fail to withdraw themselves and leave him to
starve in it. This is a position in which no
honest man should be placed, be he high Church-
man or low Churchman. It gives to his congregation-
a power which, even for their own sakes, it is
not desirable that they should possess. However,
even supposing this difficulty to be overcome, and the
congregation taught to regard God's minister as a
shepherd, and themselves as his flock, others remain
behind ; and not the least of these is, that his income
will in all probability be at its lowest, when he has
the greatest need of all his resources. Pew-rents in
a poor neighbourhood will never produce any very
large sum, but will assuredly produce less than usual
in years of distress, let the distress arise from what
cause it may ; and these are the very times at which
he will be constantly called upon to put his hand in
his pocket. The expenses of himself, and of his family
if he has one, are largely increased ; he is surrounded
by numerous cases of sickness and poverty ; and his
income, which was barely sufficient before, is dimi-
nished by a third, or a half, or even more. And how
many opportunities of doing good are lost by the
Minister who is constantly compelled to turn a deaf
ear to the complaints, or shut his eyes upon the
miseries of his people, we need hardly say.
Butt besides all this, it will not be denied, that they
who minister at the Altar have a claim for their own
sakes. They are entitled not only to a maintenance
for themselves, but to such a maintenance as will
enable them to make provision for their families.
Clergy-orphan Schools, and Clergy-widows' Funds,
are all very well, but there ought to be no necessity
for them ; and painful must be the lot of one who, while
he is spending and being spent in the service of God,
has no more cheering prospect for his loved ones, when
himself shall be removed from them, than is generally
afforded by these and similar institutions. So far the
case would be different, if our Clergy, like those of
Rome, were bound to a life of celibacy ; but, to say
nothing of the inexpediency and wickedness of re-
quiring from them such a vow, we may safely assert
that they are hardly allowed a choice in the matter.
They not only may, but, as a general rule, they ought
to, and must, marry. We say must: for there is a
general prejudice against an unmarried clergy, and
not without foundation in reason. But surely the
who'require them to marry, should enable them
to do so without the almost-certainty of leaving, at
some future period, a family of paupers behind them.
It would be easy to extend our remarks upon this
subject; but enough, we think, has been said to show,
that no testimonial to our late Archdeacon could be
more useful, none more appropriate, than an endow-
ment for a church in a poor district which owes its
erection in so great a measure to his exertions. Doubt-
less there are many others which need it as much ; but
if the evil, in this town of overwhehnning magnitude,
is to be abated, a beginning must be made somewhere;
and nowhere can it be made more appropriately.

TILE NATIONAL -- DEBT.The total amount of the unre-
deemed public debt on the 31st March, 1855, was £751 645, 818,
of which £3,007,775 was in
Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock,
,
paying an annual interest of £7
per
rmteernest of £22,360,002 ;
Three per Cent. Stock, paying an ,1-91 ; £745,333,404 in
Fitv. Stock paying an
£2,871,515 in Three-and.
3243-11a3if,124 inC
interest of £100,503; and
paying an interest of £21,656. On the sth Ofel Cent. Stock,
the unredeemed debt amounted to 1194,980,481anaunary, 1820,
nual interest payable thereon to £27,736448, th'us edxitil'e an-
a decrease, between 1820 and 1855; of £43,334,663 thing
capital stock, and £5,179,093 (net) on the annual interest.the
The gross increase of interest amounted to £21,851,031
. against a gross increase of £16,671,985. The gross total
amount of debt created from 1820 to 1855 was £523,358,606,
and the amount of debt redeemed, £566,693,342, thus leaving
a balance of £43,334,663 debt redeemed.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY AIORNING.

"WE live in strange times," is an exclamation which has
rung in the human ear, if not exactly since the existence of
thOse halcyon days when " ADAM delved and Evi span," cer-
tainly from a period long antecedent to the memory of that
fabled phoenix " the oldest inhabitant," and stretching back
into the midst of those remote revels, whereat the Muse of
History has been rendered unsteady by imbibing too largely
of the Lethean potations of tradition. Each repetition of the
oiacular sound claims for itself, on comparison with its prede-
cessors, the peculiar merit of being not merely the latest effort
but the best entitled to " wake the slumbering echoes," and

receive the attention of an apathetic auditory. The most

recent provocative of the oft-repeated adage, was that which
on Tuesday last received its impulse in the Great Park at
Windsor, when and where numerous oxen, fed under the
special eye and authority of the Commissioners of HER
MAJESTY'S Land Revenue, were exposed for sale. That oxen
should become obese while roaming " at sweet will" among the
luxurious pastures of the Royal demesne, is no matter of won-
derment. Many a harmless drone has long ere this period
waxed fat amidst those secluded shades ; the remarkable
feature of the case being that the Commissioners of HER
MAJESTY'S Land Revenue should become bucolic, and turn their
attention to the fatting of beeves. So it hath come to pass,
however, and the first sale of oxen fed under their august aus-
pices took place in the Great Park on Tuesday last. The state
of the weather was unfavourable, but the novelty was great,
and the Great Babylon of modern days poured forth her nu-
merous connoisseurs of bovine symmetry and obeseness to
inspect and pass judgment on the success of the great experi-
ment which was to convert a state department into a com-
munity of graziers. It was pronounced successful in all
respects; and judging from one important criterion, the
money test, HER MAJESTY'S most honourable board of Land
Commissioners are entitled to the credit which attaches to
successful "feeding." The stock exposed consisted of seventy-
three superior horned Scotch oxen, " rising five" as the stock
catalogue phrases them, eighteen of which were fit for the
butcher. These seventy-three beasts realized the large sum of
£1,250. After this display, who shall declare in his place in
Parliament or elsewhere, that "the right men have not got
into the right place," in the Land Revenue Commission ?
Such thrift pervading this great department will in all proba-
bility stimulate it in others ; notwithstanding the cogency of
such an expectation, there are not wanting those who whisper
in reference to this as well as other popular displays of public
economy, "all is not gold that glitters," and, in the homely
phraseology of the great Pennsylvanian printer, it is suspected
that in this instance the Commissioners may have "paid too
dear for their whistle."

From one branch of the public administration to another
the transition is easy at all times, if not in every instance
natural ; and from the great park at Windsor the step, on
paper at all events, is but a trivial one, which lands us in the
Home-office. Here we at once come upon proceedings of a
different character ; and to some it may appear more in
keeping with official dignity than entering the competitive
lists with successful exhibitors at cattle-shows. It must be
fresh in the recollection of all HER MAJESTY'S well-disposed
subjects, that a week or two ago three revolutionary propa-
gandists, who, after issuing a printed address, counselling
assassination as a means of politically regenerating Europe,
and publishing an insulting letter addressed to the QUEEN,
were indignantly spurned from the island of Jersey. Equally
vivid must also be the recollection that, after their ignomi-
nious expulsion from that asylum, thirty-five of their coad-
jutors and admiring associates prepared, and signed, and pro-
mulgated, an audacious declaration in relation to that event.
In this declaration these abettors of murder and admirers of
assassination—among whom are included the " famous
romancer," VICTOR HUGO, and his sons—not only justified
the audacious letter, but, in the strongest terms their some-
what emphatic vocabulary could furnish, they denounced the
people of Jersey, reviled the English Government, and defied,
while they traduced, the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, conclud-
ing their doughty rigmarole with the insolent and sneering
adjuration—" Now, banish us !" The document having been
brought under the notice of HER MAJESTY'S vigilant Home-
Secretary, he, after a slight season of dozing, took the
haughty refugees at their word, and issued peremptory orders
for their extrusion from the island. This order has been
enforced, and, mirabile, the ringleaders, if not the whole fra-
ternity, of the revolutionary exodus, have squatted down upon
their injured honour, to assuage their outraged sensibilities
in the adjacent island of Guernsey. Whether, in this new
retreat, they will again so deport themselves as to call forth
once more the remonstrances of these loyal islanders, whom
they have constituted their involfintary hosts, it is, of course,
impossible to say ; but if they do, even the somnolency of
Downing-street will scarcely •be a sufficient wgis to shield
them from the just resentment o f the British people, long-
suffering though they are in extending the imaginary right;
of national hospitality.
The past week has been one fertile in topics for grave dis-
cussion in the clubs. Ministerial shifts—l had nearly written
dodges—and quasi official rumours of different kinds have
kept the " button-holders" of the club-saloons in a state of
active mental oscillation. Combined with-these have been out-
spoken declarations, and more alarming and portentous
because less understood inuendoes relative to our state of
amicable arrangements with those " tarnation smart" poli-
ticians who rule the roast in Yankee-land. Any, or all, of these
subjects, taken seriatum, would have formed admirable topics
for consideration, and might not have proved too heavy for the
stomachs of those political epicures, the delicacy of whose
organization is overwhelmed by such un embarras des riehesses
The Cabinet vacancy, occasioned by the death of SirWILLIAM
MOLESWORTH, has, for the last few days, been quite as great a
difficulty with the club distributors of office as it is said to have
proved in higher quarters. Among the leading luminaries
of the ministerial system Lord JOHN RUSSEL has been spoken
of, but he is still reckoned so erratic a political comet, that his
influence is dreaded within the perturbed sphere of Cabinet
action ; and as a prevailing opinion exists in the ministerial
mind that both his lordship and the PREMIER are charged with
negative electricity, generated by the rubs and buffets they
have mutually given and sustained, any attempt to bring them
together must prove abortive, without the intervention of a
positive, (goose ?) who would, of course, inevitably perish in
the explosive adjustment of the volatile fluid. The name of
Lord ELGIN has been mentioned, 'apparently by some one
deeply read in the " Art oflngeniously Tormenting." His lord-
ship's known performances in the colonial line being so an-
tagonistic to the club notions of a colonial secretary,
that they cannot see the chance of administrative co-
operation between him and those at present located in
the easy-chairs of Downing-street, while his qualifications
for any other Ministerial position are so remote that
no club lorgnette of sufficient power has yet been discovered to
bring them and possession into the field of view at the same
time. In desperation, Mr. LOWE has been spoken of, but his
Australian reminiscences are presumed to be of too recent, and
his displays connected therewith of too dazzling a lustre to
make that a safe or practical game. The Duchy of Lancaster
has been once more alluded to as a budding-bed whence a
recently-struck statesman might be transplanted with advan-
tage, and the Earl of HARROWDY, who, while representing
Liverpool, must necessarily have acquired some commercial
knowledge of colonial matters, is by more than one of the Club
oracles pointed to as the " coming man" who is to wield colo-
nial sway. This rumour connects itself also with a singular
letter penned by Lord STANLEY to Sir W. JONES, as chairman
of an educational meeting, and read by Capt. TOWNSHEND in-
that capacity at Fakenham on Thursday evening. The Del-
phic oracles of old are supposed to have derived their chief
value from the great number of plausible interpretations
which could be readily put upon them ; and the Sibyline books
to have owed their principal virtue to the fact that while a
considerable number of them were destroyed, the remainder
continued of undiminshed value. Lord STANLEY, it is under.
stood, has been of late improving his mind by oriental travel,
and whether he has discovered the recipe for concocting oracles
which shall express any meaning the listener chooses to at-
tach to them, or has accidentally stumbled upon the rule for
compounding Sibyline books, it is no easy matter to conjecture;
but if the note in question be an average specimen of his let -
ter-writing, the sublime art of mystification seems in a fair
way of showing a spirited revival in his hands. Every body
is familiar with the chapter of the celebrated novelist,
entitled " An explanation in which nothing is explained."
Such is precisely the character of Lord STANLEY'S
letter. It literally contains an infinite deal of nothing; and
suppose the beginning, or the middle, or the end were taken
away from it, the remainder would still be of as much value
as the whole ! and that remainder or that whole would still
express any meaning the listener chose to put upon it. So
adroit a specimen of epistolary composition naturally arrested
the attention of the Times, and that adept in the science of
any or no meaning soon fitted the missive with an interpre-
tation suited to its own views. Donning its conjuror's cap, and
assuming the most imposing of its sonorous tones, it thus
delivered itself in relation to the awful document : " We
believe it is not impossible that Lord STANLEY may become a
member of the present Government." Having contributed so
much to the general stock of information on so important a
point, the'demonstrative JUPITER, wrapping himself closely up
in his robe of mystery, retired to the highest pinnacle of his
political Olympus, whence he has not since deigned to look
out, leaving the wondering world in puzzled admiration of so
sage a commentary. Those who make less pretence, affirm
that some proposition has been made to Lord STANLEY in
relation to the Duchy of Lancaster ; and the Globe, the
official organ of the Government, without committing itself to

any specific prOposition, or condescending upon any particular
office, contents itself with saying the impression intended to
be conveyed by the Times is without adequate foundation.
From this one is led to infer that the Globe has penetrated
the meaning of the Times, although, for reasons best known
to itself, it does not choose to communicate that meaning.
Another subject, and one of much more grave importance
than any mere ministerial shuffle, or Cabinet disruption, has
occupied a large proportion of the public consideration
during the past week, and that is the lowering cemplexion of
our political relations with the United States of America.
For a protracted period, extending now over several years, a
feeling of dissatisfaction has been operating in America
against the mutually friendly and profitable relations which
have subsisted between that country and Great Britain,
True enough, the feeling referred to exists chiefly, if it
be not entirely, confined to that section of American
politicians whose schemes of restless territorial aggrandisement
render them dangerous citizens and false friends. Who in
point of fact find the unjustifiable projects which they enter-
thin against their neighbours' property most severely checked
by British policy, most sharply rebuked by British morality.
This is the class known as the filibustering adventurers, who
acknowledge no soil sacred but their own, and who look,
notwithstanding their outrageous pretensions to political
liberality, more hopefully to the aid of Russian despotism
for carrying out their schemes than to the generous alliance
of a free and intelligent people. That such is the -character
of those who seek to disturb the relations of amity- between
this country and the United States, is unfortunately no mat-
ter of real safety; nor,is its undeniable truth even a matter
entirely of congratulation. While the intelligence and wealth
of the. United States are unquestionably with us, numerous
little points of difference have been allowed to grow up in
'our intercourse, which, had they been attended to at the
outset, would have been easily adjusted; but which, having
been allowed to lie over from their innate insignificance, have
unhappily acquired such a susceptibility of tiMplitude, that
in the hands of unscrupulous and designing men they have
been made to assume an importance Sin .:their pretended
number, which is sufficient to give those malcOrstente a means
of seriously annoying their better disposed countrymen, and
materially damaging our interests. To these must be added
the extraordinary:executive blunder of our attempting, covertly,
to recruit for our Foreign Legion in the United States. The
proceedings in thii case have been so notoriously reprehensible,
that our Foreign Secretary, the Earl of CLARENDON, has
been constrained to admit the illegality which our agents
have been guilty of, and, more humiliating still, to make a
virtue of necessity, by renouncing those means of accomplish-
ing his ends in that country which would have been per-
fectly in accordance with the laws of nations. Such is
the unfortunate disadvantage of trusting to expediency,
instead of relying on principles of international law and
justice. That any serious rupture with the American
Republics is imminent at the present time, no one cognisant
of the facts is prepared to believe. ' The act which should
kindle the torch of war between the two countries is too ob-
viously the work of insanity on either side to admit of a ready
belief in its occurrence. Still the existence of jarring feeling,
more particularly at the present moment, is to strengthen the
hands of our enemies, while we weaken the resources of our
friends ; and it should never be forgotten that every recur-
rence of these jars is a further playing into the hands of our
enemies. The importance of our amicable relations with
America is easily perceived by the alacrity with which even a
threatened rupture of it has been taken up. The nation, we
are told on good authority, "drifted" into the Turko-Russian
war ; no danger of us drifting into a war with our transat-
lantic brethern. If ever that unfortunate event should occur,
which heaven avert, the nation will ring with it from side to
side before a step so fatal to the interests of the human race
shall be adopted. Its causes will be deliberately and carefully
considered; and, if after that, an appeal to the last dread
arbitrement of arms should be inevitable, both parties will
buckle on their armour with the stern resolve of champions,
who know the arduous nature of the struggle they engage in.
No:accident or chance-medley melee will engage either side, so
far as to prevent an easy adjustment of differences. If the
sword should ever be drawn in such an unhappy contest, it
will not be till some real and tangible ground shall have been
shown for such an unhappy contention. Still, both sides
would do well to keep a bridle on their tongues, and to watch
well the tendency of their respective acts. Strife is easily
kindled, but it is no easy matter to controul, if once the con-
flagration is commenced.
However forbidding the aspect of war may be, the part of
men who have embarked in it is to look its evils sternly in
the face; and, seeing these, to try, if possible, and extract
such consolation as may be got from them. Looked at in this
light, the present struggle in which we are engaged, arduous
although it no doubt is, continues to afford hope of a success-
ful and not distant termination.— On numerous points victory
still sits upon and gives prosperity to our arms; each new
advantage paving the way to further and yet more conclusive
successes. By sea and by land the forces of the Allies press
more home upon the resources of the enemy. Our fleets and
armies are in high health and spirits, and flushed by success
are still eager for the conflict; the enemy pent up in many
places, in all removed from easily afforded succour, seems
yielding gradually to the destiny he cannot conquer or avert.
In such a position it is gratifying to observe that the national
spirit rises with the exigencies required of it ; and despite the
paltry and pitiful• arts of those who, from a conscientious
weakness, or for the purposes of base political intrigue, would
sully the honour of our arms or stigmatise our counsels as
pusillanimous, is still resolved to continue the strife till it can ;
be closed in an honourable and lasting peace.

The campaign in the Crimea seems now about terminated
for this year ; and, from the precautions used, there is every
reason to anticipate that the next season's operations will be
Commenced under auspices more cheering than those which
harbingered that which is about to be concluded. A peculiar,
if not absolutely gratifying, feature in the present position of
affairs, is the retirement of General SIMPSON, and the appoint-
ment of a new general to command the British army in the
Crimea. Official men of all grades, and red-tapists of every
degree' of intensity, have told us, times without number, and
day after day, that we, as a nation, have invariably been unfor-
tunate at the commencement of a war —that, in fact, the lion
requires to be well beaten before he will put forth his strength.
Whether this be true of the nation or not, it seems unques-
tionably true of those who govern it. Ministers, whether
conveying compliments or administering rebukes, appear to be
equally mal-adroit and unfortunate; and the case in hand af-
fords no relief to the unpleasant aspect of the dreary picture
which their proceedings have all along presented. In the recal
or retirement of General SIMPSON, they have acted in a manner
which lays them open to grave suspicion as connivers at the
disparagement' of their own chosen servant. In the ap-
pointment of his successor their conduct seems singu-
larly exposed to misconstruction, if not deserving of the se-
verest condemnation. Not because there is any reasonable
ground for doubting the courage or capacity of Sir WILLIAM
CODRINGTON; but because prior to his appointment they
tacitly acquiesced in an implied impeachment of both.
General CODRINONTON is comparatively a young officer ;—so
much the better, say not a few of our pseudo-military critics,
and probably they are right—but while juvenility is no
enhancement of legitimate pretence, the circumstances attend-
ing its advancement may be seriously detrimental. Sir W.
CODRINGTON'S experience of actual soldiership is understood
to be almost confined to his military service in the Crimea,
and there his general services are known to be of a most com-
mendable character ; at the Alma he greatly distinguished
himself by his intrepid courage and cool bravery, which
enabled him not only to acquit himself manfully, but which
contributed in an eminent degree to the full success of that
great victory. In the heady and spirit-trying strife of Inker-
man he was also distinguished for the fearlessnessof his courage,
his intrepid valour, and the placid coolness of his judgment,
which again contributed largely in fixing the opposition and
securing the victory of that vital and sternly-contested field.
By these and many other feats besides, he has been favourably
known to his countrymen in their greedy studies of those
deeds of daring which have immortalised our army ; but in
active warfare, it is the soldier's glory or misfortune, as the
case may happen, that the last achievement, at least for the
time being, eclipses all its predecessors. In the case of General
CODRINGTON, his last recorded act was his command of the
unsuccessful attack upon the Redan, on the Bth of September
last. Since that time to the present, his conduct on that
occasion has been the topic of free and not very complimentary
comment. In the published despatch of General SrmrsoN, no
explanation of his equivocal position is made. No step was
taken subsequently by' the Commander-in-Chief, or failing
him, by the Government, to clear up the unpleasant
mystery which hung about that dire event. Without
doubt, ample means were in possession of General Snarsox
and the government also, effectually to remove any mark for
obloquy upon his name and conduct ; but minister and gene-
ral both remained silent, and the public drew an inference
from that silence which was not favourable. Under such cir-
cumstances, it is not singular to find the general feeling one of
wonder that General CODRINGTON should be appointed suc-
cessor to General SIMPSON. Those fully informed upon the
subject were aware that in the last as in his previous instances
of distinguished service General CODRINGTON did all that
could be done in the circumstances ; knew that his plans were
carefully prepared and skilfully as well as daringly carried
into execution; and the charge now is that all this knowledge
was concealed, that a gallant soldier and a skilful leader was
left open to attack as a bungler and poltroon. No fault as far
as present circumstances tend to show can be found with his
promotions ; severe reprehension is deservedly bestowed on
those who tacitly acquiesced in censure which a breath could

have removed ; and every one feels that to have subjected their
generalissimo to undeserved detraction was a villanous pre-
parative to futuie advancement. That Sir WILLIAM COD-
EINGTON -Will acquit himself nobly and well in his exalted
position, there, is not the slightest reason to doubt ; his ante-
cedents are all in favour of such a presumption; but he will
not have to thank his ministerial friends for any prestige which
they have thrown around him.
Rumour is once more busy in settling the affairs of state
in martial and in diplomatic matters. Sir HAMILTON SET.
mous supersedes the Earl of WESTMORELAND as British
Ambassador at Vienna ; with this move, the soothsayers,
who see marvels through millstones, profess to connect im-
portant diplomatic manoeuvres, and placing the finger on the
compressed lip, like the author of " Douglas," endeavour to
impose "silence with a stilly sound." Another of the vagrant
oracles, which float for ever in a courtly atmosphere, has it
that the Horse Guards will speedily present the highest
vacancy. In other words, that Viscount HABDINGE is about
to resign the office of Commander-in-Chief, which the same
veracious chronicler avers will be bestowed upon the Duke of
CAMBRIDRE. Who holds the mirror of CADWALLADER up to
the horizon of such high events, it is no easy matter to
determine, but no harm can accrue from taking a sidelong
peep at that picture of the future has presented on its surface.

CASTLE-STREET WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

&11,—Our Radical friends do not like the loss of their
"Gibraltar ;" and the quiet way in which the victory was won
appears to have made them ridiculously vituperative.
The Journal appears to be the only Radical writer who had
common sense at his command, and yet he seems to think, in
his "Talk," that Mr. Livingston ought to have gone round
the town to raise up an opposition to his own return !
Mr. Livingston, no doubt, accepted the pressing call of his
friends to stand, but he left his cause in their hands, and in-
deed was in London, I understand, up to the day of election.
The business was done by those interested in a business way,
and our Radical purity men ought to be delighted that no
canvassing, treating, or other naughty practices were-adopted.
Avison and Livingston were on a par in this respect, but
the tact and energy of Mr. Livingston's friends gave the
finishing-stroke to the victory.
Mr. Avison has chosen in his address to speak of the
electors turning him out by a "discreditable manceuvre."- I
hope the electors will remember his words ; they do not ap-
pear remarkable for modesty, for it supposes they had no right
to do so.

Mr. Avison might fancy himself Prince Gartschakoff for a
moment, and ask whether he- could be foolish enough to ex-
pect that the French ought to have blown the trumpet before
they rushed upon the'Malakhoff ?* How absurd!
The Radicals have lost their Malakhoff; or, if they please,
their Gibraltar—and "there's the rub." They were fairly
beaten,. and they have been taught that the freemasonry of
electioneering can be practised by Tories, with crowning suc-
cess. Let the Reform Association sanction its Secretary's
projects of objecting to Tory Aldermen, on purpose to throw
them off' by this shabby trick, and next year they may be
taught a lesson another way.—Yours, truly,.
ONE OF THE FORLORN HOPE WHO TOOK
CASTLE-STREET. WARD.