The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-13 00:00:00

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THE FAREWELL.
(For the Liverpool Standard.)

TO ELIZA.
Farewell, farewell ! I will think of thee often,
When the shadow of years o'er each feeling is cast ;
When time every bitter emotion shall soften,
And remembrance awake not a pang of.the past.
Farewell! and when nature gives birth to each treasure
That exhales front the blossom, or breathes from the tree,
And each tear that o'erflows is the tear-drop of pleasure,
I'll dwell on my days of enjoyment-with thee.
But saw, when the sunshine of pleasure glows round thee,
And gilds the gay current of life with its beam,
Will thy heart ever think of the ties that once bound thee ?
Where are they ? what are they ? what were they ? A dream
For me the dull stream of existence shall borrow
No sweet ray of hope, its dark wave to illume ;
And.the willow that hangs o'er its murmuring sorrow,
Shall banish each thought that could light up its bloom.
Then farewell, and for ever, to vou who were dearest !
Farewell to each hope that.could cherish that spell !
A cloud will pass over the sky when 'tis clearest :
It has been so with toe—fare thee well ! fare thee well !

E-1.) B

STANZAS,
ADDRESSED TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

All hail to thee ! Hero of Waterloo's field !
Long, long live thou yet, to be hononr'd by all:
Oh ! bright be the visions thine old age shall yield—
As bright as the scenes which thy mind can recall!
Each patriot renders his homage to thee,
Defender of Liberty's favourite seat ! ,
Preserver of England, the home of the free !
Pale tyranny ever from thee did retreat.
The bravest. of heroes ! we honour thy name ;
We sing of thy valour, unequall'd in light :
Thy conquests, unnumbeed, we loudly proclaim—
Defac'd not by cruelty's withering blight.
Nor yet, while we echo the warrior's praise,
Forget we the fame to the. senator due :
As gratitude's tribute our plaudits we raise,—
To God—to thy Queen—to thy country how true !
Yes,—braving the perils Which others would fear,
Regardless of danger, nor courting applause,—
Mon bast been our guardian when dangers were near—
East stood by our church, and our throne, and our laws

The lino—the statesman—the patriot's fame—
All, all is thy due—all to thee shall be giv'n :
Posterity's annals shall honour thy name,
Till earth by the thunder of heav'n he riv'n.
Then, hail to thee! Hero of Waterloo's field!
Long, long live thou yet, to be honour'd by all :
Oh! bright be the Visions thine old age shall yield--
As bright as the scenes which thy mind can recall.
ends, Dec. 9th, 1839. J. M. 1.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
„(Froin the Leeds Intelligeneer.)
The tremendous punishment inflicted upon the-whig-
radicals of South Lancashire at the last general elec-
tion, convinced the reflecting portion of them that,
however they might annoy their adversaries by factious
opposition, there was no chance of their obtaining the
representation of the county, unless some great chemise
should take place in the politics of the leading mem-
bers of the conservative party.
The results of the registrations which have taken
place since the last contest only added strength to the
ascendant conservatives, and there seemed nothing
left for the whigs but resignation to their inevitable
lot. To keep up their spiritS, however, some cunning
wag has recently invented a tale to the effect that three
of the leading Roman Catholics of the division who
have hitherto always suppOrted the conservative cause
had intimated their intention to withdraw from that
side and join the ranks of the whigs. The gentlemen
alluded to are Sir John Gerard, T. J. Trafford, Esq.,
and C. Scarisbrick, Esq., the present High Sheriff.
The reason assigned for the change of principle im-
puted to these gentlemen was the offence taken by
them at some attacks made upon the Roman Catholic
religion by the Rev. H. Stowell and other gentlemen
at some recent public meetings. The account of their
conversion, which first appeared in a Preston paper,
very quickly travelled the round of the liberal press,
whose conductors saw, or pretended to see, in it the
promise of a great change in the respective positions
of the two parties in South Lancashire. The total
number of votes said to be under the influence of
these gentlemen was estimated at a thousand ; and, as
everybody knows, a thousand taken from one side and
added to the other would make a difference of two
thousand—so it was at once concluded, that at the
next election, one, if not both, the present conserva-
tive members must be unseated. What a pity such a
pleasant prospect cannot be realised ! Nay, the story
had scarcely got into circulation before it was contra-
dicted. First, the Wigan Gazette assured its readers
that so far was Sir John Gerard from changing sides,
that but a few weeks before he had been actually ask-
ing for Votes for the conservative members ; and that
Mr. Scarisbrick was so far from taking offence at the
language of the speakers alluded to, that he had but a
few days before been giving land upon which to erect
a Protestant Church ! Then, as regards Mr. Trafford,
the Manchester courier of last Saturday says, " we are
authorised and desired by him to give the most direct
contradiction. to the paragraph." In fact, the whole
story is a " weak invention." Those who made it
gave it to the world trusting to accident for some plan-
sible•means of hacking out, or hoping that, like thou-
sands of other inventions, it would be allowed to Cir-
culate without contradiction. Nothing indeed could
be much more absurd than to impute to gentlemen of
intelligence and knowledge of the world motives so
improbable as those assigned for relinquishing the
principles upon which they have hitherto acted. It
must be evident to the gentlemen in question, what-
ever were their motives for uniting themselves, in the
first instance, with the conservative party, that there
has been nothing whatever in the conduct of its lead-
ers---whose proceedings alone can have a direct influ-
ence
upon the interests of the Roman Catholics as a
bodye---to constitute a just ground for the withdrawal
of that confidence which they have felt they might
justly repose in them. They must have seen, also, that
though there are many individuals who, exasperated at
the Marines in which O'Connell and others have abused
the power which has been con erred upon them, have
desired the repeal of the Emancipation Act, the wish
of a vast majority of the Protestants of England,. is
not to deny to Roman Catholics the rights and privileges
to which they were admitted by the provisions of that
statute, but only that those upon whom power is con-
ferred should be men who will rigidly observe the
conditions upon which the removal of their disabilities
was granted. What the Protestants now complain of
is, that ministers have admitted into the councils of
their Severeign men whose whole political career has
been marked by the most bitter hostilities to the Pro-
testant Church and Protestant establishment of the
country—Men-who, having-sworn they would " defend
the settlement of property,- voted for the spoliation of
the Churche- who having also sworn that they would
" never exercise any privilege to which they might
become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant re-
ligion in the United Kingdom," added their weight to
each successive blow that ministers struck at the
Church in Ireland; and Who, as the most effectual
me.eris of weakening the attachment of the people to
the • established religion, are incessantly labouring to
deprive the rising 'generation of that scriptural instruc-
tism which all Protestants believe to be the only true
foundation of sound faith and good- morals. But this
is not all, ministers are notoriously dependent upon the
Irish Roman Catholic party for their places. For the
small majority they can boast in the Ilouse.of Com-
mons, they are indebted to the avowed enemies of the
-Protestant- Church, whose support was purchased in
the first instance by " blows" against the Establish-
ment, and is preserved by schemes for. the weakening
and " great discouragement" of Protestantism. Is it
suprising that under such circumstances, provocations
they may be called, the Protestant people of England
view with jealousy and alarm the present position and
increasing influence of the Roman Catholics'? In the
House of Commons as at present constructed, it is
evident, there is no security for the maintenance of the
Protestant institutions of the country. Still more
evident.. is it that in the present Ministry there is no
such-securitye On what, then, can the people rely but
on their own resolute expression of opinion warning
those to whom the destinies of the country are com-
mitted of the awful responsibility they will incur if,
regardless of the indications abroad, they persist in the
course of policyWhichhas provoked so general an ex-
pression of public indignation.
We have already observed that it is not the wish of
the people of England to deprive the Roman Catholics
of -the benefits they - had a right to expect from the
repeal of the penal law; all that they desire is security
for the maintenance of their own Church ; and those
Roman Catholic,gentlemenwho accept of office with
the honest purpose of respecting the conditions upon
which they were admitted to .power, will have no.reason
to 'complain of the opposition or hostility of the en-
lightened Protestants of England.

THE MEEFING OP PARLIAMENT.—The following circular
was addressed, on Mg ay last, to the Ministerial members
by Lord John Busse ".".14/meeting of Parliament being
fixed for Thursday, the Gth Uf January, I take the liberty of
requesting your attendance in the House of Commons on
that day, and of apprising you that business of the greatest
importance to Ow. interests of the country may be expected
immediately on flie opening of the session.
".I. RUSSELL."

RorunN OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—•-His Excellency.
Viscount Ebrington, and suite, arrived at Kingstown, on
Friday morning, from Bristol, in her Majesty's. packet Mer-
lin, Captain Townley, after a very short passage of nineteen
hours. His Excellency was accompanied by his sisters,• Lady.
King and Lady Eleanor Fortescue ; his niece the lion. Miss
Feliowes, and his soy!, John Fortescue,•Esq., who is one of
his aides; de camp: As the Merlinarrivedat the early hour of
five in the morning, the honous prepared forhis Excellency's
arrival could not be carried into effect. His EXcellency
landed immediately from the Merlin, and proceeded to the
Vice-regal Lodge, in the Phoenix-park.
Advices from Liege state that Mr. John Cockerill has set
out for St. Petersburgh, taking with him one of the principal
per,,ons employed at his works, and three engineers. The Em-
peror Nicholas, it is added, has advanced to Mr. Cockerill
10,000,000 francs at 5 per cent, secured on all his establish-
ments in Belgium, Russia engaging to purchase annually to
a certain amount machinery. to be manufactured in them
which is:to diminish annually, as the emperor, assisted by
Mr. Cockerill, shill have created similar establishMents
in
his own dominioo,