The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-30 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

MR. SPRING RICE'S ELEVATION TO THE
PEERAGE. .._
_ .
~, r. (From the 21,torning Herald.)
If itti.44Fos4 blunderings in matters of " the bud-
get"—if such miserable failures in finance, as have,
disgracefully-to-the government and ruinously to the
state, di6tittkuished the fiscal administration of Mr.
Thotilita Spring Rice, be accredited qualifications for
the peerage, we never need want for new lords while
the whigs continue in office.
Candidates for coronets successfully tested by the
whig rule of promotion, which requires an utter ab-
sence-of those talents and qualities that can raise men
to public confidence and honourable distinction as
commoners, are numerous in the whig ranks. If the
house of Lords is to be a receptacle for the living
lumber of tried whig incapacity, the materials for re-
plenishing the aristocracy are abundant indeed. The
tried incapables of the whig cabinit and their connec-
tions' will afford a most plentiful supply.- So far, how-
ever, as either the wishes or the necessities of the coun-
try are concerned, the supply, even on the smallest
possible scale, would he sure to exceed the demand.
When the whigs sent their missionary, O'Connell, to
" preach down the House of Lords," they took a less
effective mode of lowering the character and influence
of that branch of the legislature in the country than
by converting it into an asylum from public odium and
contempt of, broken-down statesmen and bankrupt
Chancellors of the Exchequer. To degrade the cha-
racter:of-that house and tuereby sink it in the public
estiniat:ton .14 the surest way to undermine its founda-
tionseund prepare the public for its fall. A history of
the 1-ttpitchforked" of the whig administration, with
theiit. -: sone! merits and distinguished services, would
forrrtiXery instruettise if not an amusing volume, nor
wouge,ko,4 small one, inasmuch as during their nine
years-04 office the whigs have made upwards of ninety
peers-ssa thing unprecedented in the history of Eng-
land.
In lie late tricky, but blundering exploit touching
the rnridhag of exchequer bills, Mr. Spring Rice wound
up rrsos.t worthily his contemptible and disastrous finan-
c:al career. In relation to the issue of that exploit, he
gravely told the House of Commons that the credit of
the country had borne the severest test that it could
have undergone. And a severer sarcasm on himself
he could not have uttered. It required all the elastic
and recuperative force of English credit to overcome
the almost ruinous experiments to which he subjected
it. A patient surviving the treatment of a profoundly
ignorant and bungling quack doctor, proves not the
doctor's.skill, but the strength of his own constitution.
But however the credit of the country, from its own
inherent vitality, may have survived the last shock
given to it, by Mr. Rice's financial management, this
one thing is certain, that that last exploit of the perpe-
trator of the great Shannon job has added four mil-
lions to the permanent debt of the country. This is
the cheap government which the whigs promised. The
expression " cheap and nasty" has passed into a pro-
verb; the " nastiness" the whigs have given the coun-
try in abundance, but the " cheapness' is yet to come.
When the tories Went out of office there was a sur-
plus of upwards of £2,000,000 of revenue above ex-
penditure. After nine years of whig economy the sur-
plus has vanished. It converted into a deficiency of
morelhan half a million of revenue as compared with
expenditure. Without going into details this is the
surn:total of whig savings to the state which the coun-
try has tc congratulate itself upon, and for which they
owe a large debt of gratitude to a Tinistry who, driven
from the confidence of parliament and the country, are
esconced behind the ladies of the bed-chamber.
Under the circumstances of an increasing army, and
the beginning of a system of crushing public liberty by
the expensive and odious machinery of a vast gendar-
merie, with a large deficiency in the revenue, and
£4,000,000 added to the public debt, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, to obtain a little popularity, brings in
a bill .to cut off another vast portion of the national
inditne by his absurd penny postage scheme, and then
" cut' his stick," as the vulgar idiom is, and takes re-
fugedn the house of Lords, leaving his successors to
struggle with the embarrassments which his folly shall
have produced in the best manner they can. But first
he perpetrated a " cross," or sham fight with O'Con-
nelfrespecting the Bank of Ireland, which joint stock
jolflier'
grAree naturally enough, anxious to destroy.
ElidN'frbrn being fatigued with fingering the gold
of 'Chi-Atte"; it appears a snug sinecure is to be re-
serwl . flue of Mount Trenchard by the oust-
ingf. 'tpg,,togenarian Sir John Newport from the
comererilup of the exchequer. At least so a minis-
teriaL:paper says : thus the beginning, middle, and end
of4fis.. Svrtrig Rice's patriotism has been signalised by
i'3l/U-; fiivorhid jobs the last is not the least.
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."4""rliE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.

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(From the Hampshire Telegraph)
o. onel-Pasley's cylinders, ready charged with powder, we ,
believe four in number, having arrived early in the week,
aceensPanied by several of the corps of sappers and miners, it
wasileternained on Thursday to make a trial of their power
on the wreck of the Royal George ; but it being found that
tha'Southerly wind threw in too much swell, the attempt was
given op; -lad yesterday being a remarkably tranquil day it
was thought nothing would prevent the uninterrupted success
of the experiment. Accordingly, at slack water, about half-
past-one,: the cylindcr was lowered, and by the report of the
diver, was placed outside, and close to the wreck, in about
Sat ifetaawster ; the voltaic battery was then applied to the
conitiseting. wires, end though there was every evidence
that it was us the most effective order, still no discharge took
plaea.a. ten presumed that in moving such a ponderous
body, Weighing. nearly 5000Ibs, some disconnection of the
wires. may have happened. It may be that the smaller or
ismiting magazine may have got wetted by the powerful
pressme of waters calculated to be equal, at the depth to
veil' .‘ the magazine is sank, to 60Ibs. upon every square
Inc ::,,The real cause cannot; however, be ascertained as the
ha •
ce hy which it was lowered, was carried away in endear
is,.
voualogvta rase it again; it being evidently entangled in same
of the ttinlairs of the wreck, though the diver had asserted it
waskplaCed outside, and clear of all. No further attempts will
be qatle to explode the cylinder till the dead of the next neap
tidei„,Whan a longer Interval of slack water is afforded ; but
in the meantime the divers will make an attempt to sling the
cyliger,sigain, and ascertain it it can be hauled out from its
prl!ii.situation and then hoiited up. Colonel Pasley is quite
of laian that the large bulk of powder is so sufficiently
secui4illhatit is uninjured; and grounds his belief on the
fact that in the Thames a large body of powder, not half so
weltfroteCted, remained 60 feet under water for 48 hours
unftliried.;- there are others however, who surmise that
thea'itate`ative coating of wood and metal which encases
the preien't cylinders is not sufficient to resist the enormous
preisirc which a depth of . nearly 15 fathoms puts upon it
arattfte recovery of the cylinder in question can alone deter-
mine the queatioa. It is to be understood that at the-next
neaaa, about six days hence, another trial will be made, of
which public notice will be gisen by hoisting red flags in
the: 'Success hulk, and ell the dockyard lumps assisting.
On. the preseat occasion, the day being fine, nearly sixty
sailhig_eraft were looking on, and about 300 open boats, to
whfah Inns t- be added the Messenger steamer, with the stand-
ardllying, having his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
On board, who visited the working lighter, and minutely in-
quiied into every particular. The Pique frigate lest a working
party of seamen on the occasion, and the usual hospitality of
naval officers was manifested in all the ships, particularly in
the Blenheim, where Sir Hnmphrey and. Lady Senhouse and
the other officers gave a splendid ilejeuni s' to their friends, in-
cluding the Bishop of London and family, Earl of Dundon-
ald, the Hon. Mrs. Fleming, Sir John Hippesley, Miss
Bolton, (niece to the late Lord Nelson) and a large party of
Wiltshire ladies.
Since the above was written we understand that Colonel
Pasle:y, accompanied by Mr. Sadler, the able and zealous
second master attendant of this dockyard, who has been in-
defatigably employed in affording his professional assistance
in this undertaking, proceeded this afternoon to Spithead,
and ift'order to prove the correctness of his system, caused 2
eaniaterS, each containing 451bs of powder, to be lowered near
to the wreck of the Royal George, in 15 fathoms of water,
one 6r Which was exploded by the voltaic battery, the other
by Beckford's fuse. In the former case the explosion was
instantaneous ;in the latter two minutes. Both experiments
werayserfactly successful ; and as the operation was precisely
thaaktended, to explode the large cylinder, it is clearly shown
that .the failure of yesterday, cannot be attributedto any fault
in Colonel Pasley $ system. The explosions produced no
commotions, only a smoothness in the water, immediately
followed by *black cloud of mud spreading on the surface to
the extent of many feet. They were, however, felt on board
her Majesty's ship Blenheim.

during th• session just expired, 133
days.
A PEERAGE.--Whigs being in power, the
a peerage, is to contest the southern divi-
liberal principles, and being beaten to do
`hem division. Mr. Towneley, of Towne-
,e of our recipe.—Blackburn Standard.

,rcumstance, that all the equity itiages,
ae fifteen common law judges (inclading
s,) received their education at this univer-
by the following list :—Lord Chancellor,
Trinity. Master of Rolls, Lord Lang •
Chancellor, Sir Lancelot Shadwell, St.
lench, Lord Denman, Chief Justice, St.
Littledale, St. John's ; Sir John Patte-
An Williams, Trinity. Common Pleas,
idal, Chief Justice, Trinity ; Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas Erskine, Trinity. Exche-
a-, Chief Baron, Trinity ; Sir James
jr Edward Hall Alderson, Car
; Sir
aule, Trinity. Of the four remaining
'es, Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Jug-
ived their education at Oxford. We
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