The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

first, to give you an idea of the scene: You go to the
3f Southwark," opposite Bedlam, (and the

" Cathedral

said cathedral certa

Mr. Pugin the same
and having paid a shil-
ral individuals arrayed in long stuff

does not do

credit as some other of his works

ling to one of se

laving their decidedly Irish faces surmounted by a

p, shaped something like that a carpenter
wears at work, you enter the church, and are fortunate if
you find a seat. The preliminary service, which I cannot
pretend to describe, goes on in a muttered tone with occa-
sional chaunting at a glaring, gilded, and wax-lighted
while, if you (from the speech of the officiator being

Square black

in " unknown tongues

or inaudible) show any sign of

The Radical press is not much more decent than the
Radical opposition, as regards the new Administration.
It is quite clear that they calculated upon a Palmerston
Ministry; and hence the alacrity in voting out Lord John
on the Militia Bill. To have voted out the Whig-
Radicals, however, for the purpose of letting in Lord
Derby—

"For Banque's issue to have filled their minds"—
that has plunged them in despair. Accordingly, there is.
as usual, much attempted abuse of the new Ministry, in
which the party press shows equally its elegance and
erudition. One of the " organs, for instance, informs
us that the Duke of Northumberland has no more claim
to be at the head of the Admiralty, than having once
ventured to sea in a tour to Ecypt. The Navy-list could
have informed them that his Grace is a retired Rear-
Admiral. Another tells us that Mr. Disraeli contested
Mary lebone on Whig principles. Now, passing by the
fact that " Whig principles" are quite inappreciable, Mr.
Disraeli never contested Marylebone. He addressed
High Wycombe, in Bucks. on Radical principles, when
a very young man, being, like Pitt and Southey, and
many another, caught with the cant of " liberality" in
early youth, and having, like them, had the good sense .o
abandon it. The taunt is excellent from the adherents of
Lord John Russell—the Protectionist orator of 1818, and
the " fixed duty" man of 1848.

Another Opposition journal " does not know who the
Earl of Lonsdale is," and a third assumes that Mr.
Benjamin D'lsraeli wrote the "Curiosities of Literature."
But the gentlemen " having peculiar sources of informa-
tion" in the case of the smaller fry, become particular,
and " lie with a circumstance." One of them, which
surmounts its pages, as some Pimlico public-houses do
where the royal flunkies take their beer, with the lion
and unicorn, tell us that Mr. G. A. Hamilton, financial
secretary of the Treasury, is "a smart young graduate of
T. C. D." The man is advanced in years, and a gra-
duate of Oxford. It is, however, not unpleasant to read
the Radical press, to whom the coming-in of a Conser-
vative Ministry was so unlocked for. that they had not
time to buy their usual " peculiar sources"—a Burke's
Peerage and Parliamentary Companion—and uho are
generally milk-and-water in their criticism, except the
journal of Mr. Bright, the quaker, which is, of course,
vulgar, abusive. ani very angry.
Sir Edward Sugden—of whom it is needless to say that
no man ever knew more perfectly the stupendous science
of English law—has, as you will see, taken the title of
Lord Sr. Leonard's.

Prince Louis Napoleon Buonaparte's Historical and
Political Works have been collected and ably translated,
forming a very remarkable collection of matter, not with-
out much ability. Funnily enough, however, the second
sentence of the Prince's words in the present collection,
I hope arranged not by the waggery of the editor, is as
follows :—" ?he liberty of the press affording to every
one the opportunity of making known his opinions, we
now write what formerly we should have had to content
ourselves with thinking!" This is the beginning of a
" political reverie !" He would be a wild dreamer indeed
who ventured to have such a political reverie at present in
France-

The " University of London" has demanded from the
Crown an Academical Constitution, and looks to obtain a
representation in Parliament.
It is universally remarked, that never did a Ministry go
nut and come in with so little excitement as at present.
Lord Derby comes to the helm with the calmness of
legitimacy.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

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MONDAY NIGHT.
DESPITE the gloomy forebodings of the free-trade
journals as to the incapacity and inexperience of the
members of Lord DERBY'S administration, we have much
pleasure in stating that business during the past week
has been very steady, and that the commercial classes
manifest more confidence in the prosperity of the future.
The public funds have also been well maintained ; and
although a faint and insignificant growl has come forth
from the " Anti-corn-law League," the ex2lanation of
the new Premier on Friday night has given more satis-
faction than the most ardent admirers of his political
principles could have anticipated, Consols having been
well maintained on Saturday, and Railway Stocks and
Shares being the turn better. The Produce markets
have also been steady. Both here and in London a large
business was transacted in sugar ; and although sellers in
the early part were more inclined to realise, prices were
supported. The demand for coffee and, tea, although
limited, has not been accompanied by any depreciation
in price.