The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-31 00:00:00

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ENGLAND'S QUEEN.

BY JOHN T.C. BARNEY, OF THE AMERICAN SHIP " HEN.
" NOW IN THIS PORT.

PORKIIILL,

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
When beauteous stars from nature sprung,
—had their bright forms were dress'd,
o.tie sparkling orb majestic hung,
Bright beaming in. the west.
11,,,Tii-eing millions view the sign,
And hail it from afar;
Enraptur'd, bless its charming light,
And call it Enzland's Star!

Beneath her influ'nce deserts wild
Are deck'd in virgin bloom ;
She makes the wintry tempest mild,
Deep forests cease to gloom :
And man, erect, with eye cf fire,
Th' oppressor's threat can dare ;
May still to dignity aspire,
- And bless fair England's Star !
She can atrighter mantling glow
O'er blushing beauty shed—
A smile of beauteous radiance throw,
A halo round her head : -
The warrior rouse, through tented field
To drive the rapid car ;
'hile tyrants, pale and trembling, yield
To England's blazing Star !
Then sweep, ye bards, .the.sounding lyre,
In animating strain; -
Sages, consume, with pens of fire,
The fell oppressor's chain !
On to the field, ye brave and free!
Nor dread the storm of war ;
Your guide to victory shall he
Proud England's beauteous Star !
ilay 20th, 1839.

TIIE CONSERVATIVE ENGLISHMAN'S SONG.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
Old England for ever ! My own lovely isle !
The land of the free, and the land of the brave !
Long may she be favour'd with Liberty's smile,
And long may her fleets gem the ocean's " blue wave"!
Old England fur ever! linconquer'd in arms !
InvinciCle queen of the land and the main
Unequall'd in might, as unrivall'd in charms-
-0 ! long may her glory new laurels attain !
Old England for ever ! Religion's own place:
Of each lovely virtue the darling abode :
Long may she be blest with the pure streams of gran,
And long on her shores be Heav'n's favour bestos d!
Old England for ever! Her church and her state!
in unity's strength long, long may they stand!
0 ! ne'er be they injur'd by foeman's keen h ite !
0 ! ne'er be they sever'd by faction's rude hand!
Old England for ever!! And her youthful Quacn !
Her shores and her mountains, her hills and her dales :
0 ! dear to my heart is each beautiful scene,
Adorning her uplands—adorning her vales !
Old England for ever ! The land of my birth !
The land of my sires, and the land of my love!
The fairest—the happiest—the freest on earth !
Long be she exalted ail nati,-.as above !
Liverpool, May 28th, 1839.

I. M. L.

" REFORM" FOR EVER!!

(For the Liverpool Staizdard.)
How well it is the sun and moon

Are placed.so very high,
That no presuming hand can reach,
To pluck them from the sky !
If 'twere not so, I do believe

That some " rd'orining" ass
Would soon attempt to take them down,
And light the world with gas

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE SPEAKERSHIP—STATE OF PARTIES.
(From the Morning Herald of Tnesdap.)
Mr. Shaw Lefevre was, last night, chosen Speaker of
the House of Commons, by a majority of eighteen.
Mr. Handley, the gentleman who put Mr. Shasv Le-
fevre in nomination, expressed regret that the election
to the chair of the House of Commons should have
become " a party question." The appropriate reply to
this observation was supplied by the Honourable Wil-
liam Duncombe. The party colouring has been con-
tributed by the ministerialists themselves. They, when
thy clutrived to set at nought the unrivalled claims of
Lord Canterbury to the Speakership, converted into
occasions of party strife appointments which ought to
be regulated exclusively by a regard to the honour and
dignity of the collective representatives of the people.
The majority of EIGHTEEN in favour of the minis-
ter al candidate has been secured by a renewal of that
" compact alliance" between " all classes of reformers,"
which late events seemed to have disturbed. All the
high contracting parties to the Lichfield HoUse al-
liance appear, once again, to understand each other
perfectly.
By what link are the members of the ministerial
majority united ? Shall we be told, by agreement in
certain general principles of government ? If so, we
should venture to require a specification of the princi-
ples alluded to. We should demand information as to
the principles of government on which the whigs, the
Irish Roman Catholics, and the radicals of the. House
of Commons e agreed.
The whigs, as a body, affect to be opposed to further
organic changes. They would be thought to resist the
invitation to engage in " a revolution every year
they profess adhesion, in shorteto the reform bill. The
Irish Roman Catholic members, however, and-the ra-
dical members affect, on the other hand, to prarierunce
the reform bill " a failtire." ,The radicals pteterfd:to:
demand household Suffrage, and-Certain corresponding-
changes, by 'city of "justice to England." ,O'Connell
and his- mercenaries, again, feign to demand, as, " jus-
tice to • Ireland;" the creation of . twice as many re-
presentatives of their own stamp as "Ireland noW: 'Fos-

sesses. . . . ,
. . .
•There exist, in fact, between the three factions, vt'ho
compose the ministerial band in the House of Com-
mons, differences of opinion quite as startling as' are
therditf2rences 'Whic:ll divide nny Of the sections cif.
'"
liberals" from the conser6tives and.Sirr(obert Peer:
it is by no conformity of opinion, therefore, that par-
liamentary " ref rmers" ,are. united. - No : the union
in question is prompted by motives of the most sordid
kind: - ' •• . - - - .

----- ^‘Aelbourite and his associates are maintained in
office by the combined-power of the Irish Roman Ca-
tholic and of the English radical metribers; simply hi-
cause each of these factions hopes.to secuie:_froin the,
very vices-of the Melbourne cabinet—from its weak-
nes—from its; want of prineiple----certain _advantages
which never conld be extorted from a strdng or a pa-
triotic.governinent. The•Melhomme-cabinet pOsseSses
no principles of legislative action whatever :—that is
to say, the Melbourne cabinet proposes to itseifno
great ends which it has resolved to secure, or, RA the-
alternative, to abandon office. But what is trite-in this`
respect of the Melbourne cold, et, is true also both Of
Mr. O'Conliell'S bona of patios, and of the
mentary radicals. There no great ends for which
either the Irish Catholics or the radicals support Loid
Melbourne in office, inasiurPJn as the radicals and the
Irish Catholics have, during-fonryei-irs, invariabh-,con
trived to sunport his lordship! even When his policy has
been directir opposed to the professed principles of
both. The Melbourne cabinet has sinned against all
pretended principles of Mr. O'Connell anti of Mr.
Ward. Witness the history of the appropriation clause,
as well as the history of the debates on the ballot, Mid
on every project for the extension of the it:AT:rage. 11
Sir It. Peel had been in office, the professed " princi-
plefi" of Mr. O'Connell, on the one hand,. and of
Messrs. Ward and 'Warburton, on the other, Mild
scarcely have been treated with less consideration than
they have been by Lord John Poiss€ll; and, therefOrk;
if Mr. O'Connell and Messrs. Ward and Warhurton,
eared; in reality, one straw about their ". prineiplesi"
they would feel as little interest in maintaining,Lord
John Russell in office as in maintaining Sir Robert •
Peel. Mr. O'Connell, however, is quite contentlo bb-'
wail the neglect of his " prineiplesa' without opposing
the whigs, whd neglect thernsHsolong as these I,vhigs
are, in .turn, content to
.pl;ce .the patronage of Ireland
at Mr. O'Connell dlspoal, Messrs. Ward, rUitd
Warburton, and Molesworth, in like manner,•arequitic,
content to groan over Lord John Russell'i denuncia-
. tious of their " priniples ;" and yet to sur.)port Lord
John Russell most streimonSly-Lo long as there exist:,
a chance that the I.?nglish radcalatnaar:convert the whig.
cabinet to use.: as profitable as those to which Mr.
O'Connell has turned Lord Melbourne and hiscoadju-
tors., The English radicals in parliament have not vet
succeeded as Mr. O'Connell has ; because they are ?al
weaker in numbers than the Po.nish TAIL, and lie-
cause, out of doors, their influence is far less than tht
influence of- O'Connell, over the -" masses" in Ireland.
lf, however, Fortune should favour the parliamentary
radicals but a for instance, some rebellion in
Canada should, hereafter,, sSarie a formidable charaic-
ter—or if, sometime hence, the scheme of corn-law
agitation ahould find favour- in the eyes of the work*
classes of this country—then might we witness the par-
liamentary ludic* invested with adegree of • influence
over the whig- ministry, not less extensive than the in-
fluence wielded by Mr. O'Connell,, doubtful stniV-,
gle for independence in Canada would render the
tai-
terposition with the rebels of such men as Mr. :Hume.
of infinite importance to Lord-Melbourne. The ad-
' heSion of a large section of the Working.classes tc
Messrs. Warburton,
.Leader, ,and Molesworth, iotaV
secure:to these gentlemen, eithetaseats in the Whig ea-
binet, or, at all events, a mastery over its movements.
It is in the hope of acquiring, through the infitieneeiof
accident, or of some strange. combination `o f.circutril''
stances, such a measure of contrdl'oVer the Mclbournia"
rninistry,-that the English parliatrientary radica/S, tin .
defiance of their pretended principles," obsequiously
support that ministry. It is, because he has Requited
control of such a kind; that Mr. O'Connell has rasps.
hid vatiatcd " principles" to the rinds, and has .stip
porte.d, at all hazards,'an administration that resists ;he.*
repeal-scheme, rind lends no favourable ear to the. pro-
ject for doubling the number of ;Popish votesaand, by.
consequence, for doubling' M. O'Con.nell's.poWer.
Tlie whole scheme of union bet Ween the-whigtii; the
radicals; and the. Raman Catholies,lis agroSs and pttil-
pable fraud. 'I hat scheme:of union is based not on any
community of " but on a violation of :all
principle. The whigs hold office, on no other
orn exactly
eornpe.ueu to uo, in what-they' insv be
exadligerai'plgce And pay.
O'Connell and his band sustain the whig's, in excharige
for Irish patronage—not in acknowledgment' of the