The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

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on men distinguished by professional eminence, by their
eculiar fitness for the discharge of the

and by

he respective offices

The moderate

a of the partie

s that usually range them-

selves among the Opposition are beginning to contrast
the conduct of the first minister with the shame-
less reports that prevailed when the house of BED-

FORD was in the ascendant. They are beginning,
too, to say, is it not better to support an admi-
nistration able to carry on public affairs creditably,
and to pass necessary measures of reform, and who declare
their desire to promote moderate salutary reformation in
our laws, in our social arrangements, and in our financial
and fiscal system

than to assist in turning them out, in
order to reinstate a parcel of red-tape humbugs, incapable
of carrying through parliament any measure of impor-
tance—a set of ravenous vultures, who batten on the
public vitals, whose liberality is all a sham, and whose
fine professions are all bombast. You may depend
noon it, that these sentiments and these ideas are daily

old HUM

quite right when

he says that it would be as easy to make a rope of sand as
to combine the Whig-Radical, Irish, and Red-republican
parties in the House of Commons, because they have no
common principles, and want all the elements of cohesion.
The member for Montrose for once adopts the good old
" Tell truth and shame the devil ;" and this is a
significant intimation to Lord JOHN that, should he per-
sist in assuming to himself the leadership of HER MA-
s Opposition, he will incontinently find himself and
n and followers "alone in their glory."
A renort has been circulating in the clubs during the

maxim,

his few hack piaceme

.lent would be actually summoned
Aness on the 21st, the day to which
prorogaed ; but that is not probable, nor

for the dispatch of be

it was last
indeed would be courteous, unless on some sullen emer-
gency, because there is not time between this and then to
give the members the usual notice to attend. There will
be a cabinet council, I believe, on the 14th, when the day
of meeting will be decided, and that I am still inclined to
think will be the 11th of November. By the way, the
impudent assertion made by Lord J. RUSSELL that Lord
DERBY had pledged his government to lay open their
whole financial rimier's-.

and policy immediately on the
assembling of the new parliament, was worthier of an Old

than of a statesman apeing respectability.
se no such pledge, and no one knew that
Ll JOHN. But when did trifles stand in the

way of a Wh

a bit of clever sharp practice was tc

e nerpetra

women, many of whom were young, with a
few of the elders or prophets, who, on arriving at the vans
•-- to Mr. Chadderton, took possession of them as
nary purpose of bathing. Whilst a portion
entered the vans, and whilst they were un-
left on the shore commenced singing a
qnd a considerable concourse soon collected to
.oceedings. It was shortly discovered that
s baptism by immersion, which was per-
dilef elder, attired in trousers reaching up
—is middle, dipping one after the other in the tide the
fair enthusiasts as they presented themselves in the ordi-
the blood run cold, and cause _ -' nary blue flannel gowns at the doors of the vans, the
Think, in such a great national establishment, in the congregation outside singing during the ceremony. The
scene was altogether a very singular one, and not alto-
nletropolis of civilisation, in this boasted age of pro- scene
decorous, occurring, as it did, in the presence of
areas, and enlightenment, and philanthropy, of ten- numerous spectators, who were not disposed to attach to
deny brought-up women cast naked on " shakes- it any great degree of solemnity.

London I

seen shocked and shamed by the
lential report, read by Lord
Imissioners of Lunacy,respecting
in the great Bethlehem Hospital.

publication
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the treatment of li

of the fe

The income of

stablishme

t is upwards of £20,000

dressir

smanaged almost

I hymn

I witness their r

sses crede

--,
The poor creatures bereft of reason

their object 4

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ost deplora

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to I

of all malac

are here subjected to cru,

humanity to blush scarle