The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

Then came the

Emperor of R

and, like Sempronius in t

for war

'—La guerre

licians gape on Friday evenin

IA few, esp

gathered in quarters

dieve a word of the intimation. It appeared first in The
-Press, a weekly paper, conducted, doubtless, with much
spirit and tact. Mr. DISRAELI, it is said, h

it; farther, that more than one of its art

bided by that gentleman. Mr. NEWDEGA TEM°, 18 spoken
.was interested in the success of the Press.

Again; with respect to thaf

much-esteemed n

31aron Bun Now, the Russian Minister, all sorts of state:
inents were flying about,—the embassy was broken up,

end the Baron himself had left or vas about to le

ILondon to join his Imperial Master at St. Petersburgh.
'This is all flam. Baron Bur/crow was on Saturday night
the centre of a diplomatic circle, and previously eat his
dinner with Englishmen, as he has done any day the
last twenty years.

However here is a fact, but, as Sir Charles Coldstream

says, " there's nothing in it ;"—Baron Buturow, by com
/nand, has drawn from the Bank of England £800,00(

sterling; leaving, in fine, only a fund snffici

interest on the Russian bonds.
late to say that this is an "ultimatum"-
-.wants to make clean decks with England before
'lt may look like it, but the truth is further down in the
svelL Money—coined money—and much of it, is wanted
13y Russia to carry on the war—not only on the shores of
:the Danube, but in Asia •

Some peop:

—that NicuoLAs

hence the draw in question,

"Russian houses in the city have, also, been drawing
w the bullion in the Bank cellars, to send gold to Od
-and St. Petersburgh, in payment of corn and tallow ;

~ heavily

-here, again, is a clearing of accounts previous to ng
/a course ! These points have been all amply discus
helieved or rejected,—more or less—according to till
peraments of the parties.

The mare's nest of the week, however, _
alleged refusal of Lord PALMEESTON to endorse the
QUEEN'S letter for Church aid, &c. Surely matters have
mot come to such a pass as to induce the 1103 IE SECRE-

has been the

'/Asir to fly in the face of the whole clergy, with the
Awo Archbishops at their head : the alleged refusal of
Lord PALMERSTON was, however, believed, though the
-silence of The Times cooled the ardour of many. The
affair, it is now said, was baseless.

One thing is pretty certain, a great change, if not a
complete break-up of the Coalition Cabinet, may be relied
Jon before a long time shall have elapsed. ABERDEEN
will not remain in it, should Russian hostilities draw
England into the field : should this not be the case, he
-will only wait—as he is waiting—for a becoming oppor-
tunity of retiring. So also with LANDSDOWNE, in regard
to the latter plea. The noble marquis, in the fine, high,
nd dry days at the close of last autumn, could not walk,

even tottering, without assistance.
to be regretted,—personally as respects the Conservativt.
SkazitnEvs and the Whig LANSDOWNE, each of whom
an tremulous accents may ejaculate —" Pity the sorrows of
a poor old man !" They have been consistent men in
•their way, however unnatural their present conjunction.
ITENUT PETTY—Lord LANSDOWNE—is now between
.seventy and eighty years old ; half a century and more of
which years has been passed in the fiery furnace of poli-
tics—no ordinary wear and tear has he stood ; and th
'GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON—EarI of ABERDEEN—is a
few years younger, he is beyond the " threescore and
ten," and has had enough of political strife in his time.
'fake away these two old soldiers from the Cabinet, you'll
End the young ones fall out.
The Corporation of the City of London have resolved,
'0%..1 resolved wisely, it is considered, to be silent in regard
to the proceedings of the Royal Commission of Inquir
until the proper time. Meantime a strong case is
-made out. The witnesses now examined are fiTIP
facts which "no.

These matters are

—ood,,v can deny."
t The conservation (en-
of ?) of the Thames looks ugly: a re°
erected, but not so sweeping as the disaffected desire.
The vacancy caused in the Irish representation by the
death of the late Lord CLoNcuuny's son, CECIL LAW-
LESS, who sat in the House of Commons as member for
the renowned borough of Clonmel, has set the COPPOCIES
and other electioneering gentlemen of that class in active
/notion. Mr. LAWLESS gave during last session of parlia-
ment consistent and independent support to the ABER-
DEEN administration on more than one occasion, both in
the senate and in the committee-room. Mr. HATTER,
the government " whip," found that the scion of the
house of CLONCURRY rendered valuable practical service
to his Imo-

)rm will be

anct judging by the exertions which art
mow being made, the subordingtes of the mongrel coali-
tion feel nervously anxious that Mr. LAWLESS' successor
should be equally up to the government standard of ex-
cellence, and prepared to battle for their permanence of
position. There is some talk in Conservative circles that
the representation which Father BUUKE, in his capacity
oaf Returning Officer General, has allotted to Mr. JOHN
O'CONNELL, will be contested by a resident and much-
esteemed landed proprietor in the county of liperary,
an sound Protestant and constitutional principles, but I
Confess I do not attach much importance to this rumour,
which as yet, at all events, has assumed nothing more
than the nn"

appearance of the most ordinary piece of political
gossip. The government do not apprehend any opposition
on this occasion from their natural and legitimate
antagonists, but they believe it quite possible that at the
eleventh hour some prote'ge of the disappointed tenant-
league faction may be pressed forward, and that under the
-auspices of the newspaper triumvirate who hold sway in
Dublin the contest may be commenced. It is to meet
such an emergency that their exertions are directed, and
that arrangements have been made to supply the present
popular- candidate with the. ainenve of war. mho len+mirrs

LC 15111CWO I war. ine return
zf another O'CONNELL to Parliament,U
from what I know,
is, I believe, nearly certain. Cionmel will follow the
example of Kerry ; and this brings me to state a fact
Which has not been heretofore announced, that • the
youngest son of the late " Liberator," notwithstanding the
nationalities of his name and antecedents, is about allying
•

in marriage to an English lady, with large English
pecuniary appendages, and that his retirement, consequent
on the nuptial tie, from the English Parliament, is by no
-means an improbable event. Young DAN, so they call
Lim here at the " Fielding" and other social clubs, has
been a resident in London since O'CoNNELL's death left
the family residence in Merriou-square a "bleak house."
Although enjoying the reputation of a Derrynane legacy
to the extent of £5,000, he quieted himself down to liter-
ary work, and, with much commendable earnestness,
became a successful contributor to some of the more
popular London periodicals. A perusal of his " Reminis-
cences of Irish Society in 1846" induced the spirit of
Isom of a fair lady as to its author, and
that which I have modestly indicated,
Mance between two members of distill-

enquiry in the 19,
the result has bee
the approaching

anu zngifsh
families.
Some weeks since, in this department of your paper
:v ou were the first to announce the mournful state of ill
health in which that accomplished and well-conducted
lady, Mrs. WARNER, was placed. Since that announce-
rnent—made, it may be, against her own wishes, for
she appeared willing to pine in sorrow and in secrecy—
much has been done to alleviate the distress of her hapless
condition. She has personally all the comforts this world
can afford, including a carriage from Her Majesty the
QuEEff, when the poor actress is able to avail herself of
it, to take a little air. She is sinking—slowly, it is true—
but sinking. "She is dying," said her husband in the
Insolvent Court, on Saturday, as he was passing his last
examination. Mr. COOKE, the old and well-known bar-
rister, " albeit unused to the melting mood," as he pled
the cause of the insolvent, for the sake of his family, was
obliged to sit down :he became affected to tears. His
emotion was creditable to him ; and so was the manner in
which Commissioner PHILLIPS dealt with the case.
They—Commissioner and Barrister--are experienced in
the ways of the world; know much of its sorrows and
rices, by observation in that court of theirs ;—they felt
and spoke as

-0 men on the occasion. Indeed, the thread-
and callous creatures who—how they live nobody
inows—pass all their hours listening to cases here, were
lunch moved; and this is saying much.
All correction is wholesome. Don't deal in platitudes—
who doubts it ? Is it not said, on the best authority,
"He who spareth the rod," &c. Incontinently these
reminiscences occurred to me, as I descended the outer
""-. National Gallery, whither I had been to
..eations. I passed some minutes inside com-
muning with DA VINCI, SEBASTIAN° DEL P 1031130,
"PETER PAUL RUBENS, GUIDO, REMBRANDT, CLAUDE,
MURILLO, VANDYKE, CORREGGIO, RAFFAELLE, NIC
"T kN, and a dozen others of tb not
and LAWRENCE

view :the al

Le ancient ,
nd HOGARTH

rr
Inll,roVeTn"". ST I (10
ent in the technic
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effusiO;
tern _

art part of the London
as compared with their
ST. CECILI.4.! I

Then, without knowing
.cnce between harmony and melody.
newer —rwise now. Three drainas out of four
!rota the French—ships, fashions and farces we
baade n-mch scruple about—say three dramas out of
taken from our gentle neighbours, were set down by
rormae erivol" original ; there is now a leetle more in-
Rg al that regard ; and CHARLES MATTHEWS,
to.k.!TCE, and CHARLES SELBY, and CueatnEs
pren4V_ capital French " varnpers," cannot put forth a
they may—clothe, invest the characters as English as
—I4T-boots, &c.,—but will be at once

trip_ "rite oi
oed