The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

tion are "palpable to feeling as to sight," and many ex-

ary denotements of a more than usual vitality are
perceptible to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
The repose which the body political and fashionable has
ately taken, has bean remarkable for its profoundness, and
to all probability the action that will succeed
be as remarkable for its vivacity. Around us on

according

every side preparations are quietly making for a grand
start into full career—all the elements of a great and a
momentous winter season are gathering thick and fast.
Her MAJESTY and the Court have already left the chilly
north, and located themselves in the old Royal Castle of
Windsor, ready for immediate and warm work. Her
MAJESTY'S Ministers are all at their respective posts,
confident in their integrity, resolute in their purpose,
united in their council, ready to answer all corners, and to
accept all challenges. Her MiJESTY'S Opposition arc
straggling into town from their different vacation hiding-
places, solitarily or in twos or threes, and, though not

onfident in their integrity, not resolute in purpose,

sited in council, are panting to engage in any
enterprise, however desperate and discreditable, that offers
the slightest chance of bringing with it personal gain or
party advantage. Attending the court, and following the
leading spirits of the time, all the rank and fashion
and frivolity cluster around ; and this monstrous con-
glomeration of human intellect, and pride, and power,
and ambition, and fashion, and folly, only await the

assigned by the Constitution to enter upon its

wild, its dazzling, its important course. There is yet a
brief pause ere the splendid melodrama or pantomime
begins, and that pause is eagerly seized upon by clowns

and merry-andrews in the ring to excite a temporary
laugh, to awake a passing hope, or to provoke a transient
discontent, which may be turned to account of the parties
they serve. The clowns in the pay of HER MAJESTY'S
Opposition have a monopo'y of this employment, and it
is but just to say that they labour for their employers with-
out sparing their lungs or conscience. It is really'arnusing to
le falsehoods they invent, reiterate, retract and re-
pudiate day after day, without apology or ablush. Now they
procleim, with impudent pretension to authority, that the
Government have determined to return to a paper currency,
and to abolish the Bank Charter Act, and all our existing
money laws. Anon they declare that the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER depends upon a reduction of the
interest on the National Debt as the fulcrum by which
he may readjust the national taxation. Another time,
they shout out Eureka ! and stun all hearers with
that a repeal of the Income Tax is the

listen to tl:

the cr

stery of " the bottle conjuror," as they are
pleased in the GRAHAM slang to designate the brilliant
leader of the House of Commons. By and bye they
swallow their last words, and swear in voices of thunder
that the perpetuation of the Income Tax is the gra❑d
operation that " looms in the future"—its perpetuation,

might'

igain one droll fellow bellows that the
franchise it to be conferred on all who pay taxes, while
another confounds all ears and understandings with the
deafening shout that Convocation is about to be restored
in all its antient freedom and force. Joining their voices,
discordant in every other respect, these ridiculous mounte-
banks finish their respective cries with one awfully grand
refrain, to wit—that the DERBY Government must be
overthrown in the first week of the ensuing Session of
Parliament, and that Protection as a principle is dead,

is extension

and as much extinct as the mammoth and the
mastodon. To the whole brood of rumours, on-dits, con-
jectures, insinuations, and feelers promulgated by the
heralds of the Socialist, Radical and Whig coalition, we
“pply the words of Prince HENRY to the in-
ventions of drunken FALSTAFF :

buried

may safely app

" These lies are like the father that begot them

Gross as a mountain, open, palpable

One thing is certain, that between this and Chistmas we
shall have a Parliamentary campaign, short, in respect to
time, but intensely interesting in respect to events. With
great judgment the Government have decided on calling
Parliament together a week earlier than they originally
intended, in order that the arrangements for the funeral
of the Duke of WELLINGTON should not interfere with
the " general political action," should it be the desire of

the enemy, as they say it is, to engage in one. It does
not, however, look very like anxiety to come to the
Icratch, when we find them withdrawing their man
s, whom they proposed to set up against WILSON
for the Chairmanship of Committees. Neither
does it look like over.boiling ardour, when we find them,
as the time for actual engagement draws near, making all
manner of excuses for holding back, deliberating what
course they should take, and whether they should

PATTEN,

attack, or wait till they are driven to the trenches.
To be sure, it is hardly reasonable to expect them to make
up their minds to " march forward in order," seeing that
the most " admired disorder" reigns throughout their
When that steady old partisan, JOE HUME, can.
not be kept quiet, what can be done with younger and
friskier blades ? But JoE is thoroughly disgusted with
the service, and in all likelihood will quit it altogether.
After all, he is an honest old fool, and revolts against the
dishonest crew with whom he finds himself linked. He
protests against " demeaning himself" by associating with
Lord Jolts RUSSELL, or trusting " his hollow promises
and professions." "Si sic omnes, what a reliable army
Lord JOHN commands !

It will be a remarkable spectacle, in the beginning of
the great contest about to ensue—one of the curiosities of
party warfare in England—to behold Mr. DISRAELI rise
in the House, immediately aftei the command of Her
MAJESTY to her faithful Commons to elect a Speaker,
and propose the Whig &taw LEFEVRE as a fit and pro-
per person to hold that distinguished position, and to see
that proposition seconded by Lord J. RUSSBLL, and sup-
ported by the leaders of all sections ; and more remark-
able still will it be, to witness the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER nominate the Conservative WILSON PAT-
TEN as Chairman of Committees, and to hear that propo-
sition also seconded by the Whig commander-in-chief,
and acquiesced in by the captains and would-be captains

band of Radicals and Revolutionists—(be-
ause they can't help it.) These exchanges of civilities
will, no doubt, be termed the courtesies of the champions
preliminary to the grand melee ; but, depend upon it,

however they may claim credit for chivalrous conduct in
allowing WILSON PATTEN'S appointment to pass unop-
posed, they would not do so if they thought they had the

getting in a man of their

their poverty, and not their will, consents." The
in of members will occupy the House a few days,

s wearin

and I believe it is arranged that her MAJESTY'S speech
will be delivered on Tuesday, the 9th, when the business

of the session will virtually commence

Another war in the East," cry the organs of the va-

rious opposition factions, with Stentorian lungs ;
disaster to be laid at the door of Lord MALMESBURY ;"
nd forthwith they proceed to print in large characters, and
n double-leaded type, upon the startling Intel-
igence received by electrictelegraph, that " Nine thousand
Ish troops have disembarked in the Gulf of Persia,
Herat, which is menaced by the Persians !" Where

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