The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-16 00:00:00

THE LORDS' PROCESSION.

(From the Morning Herald of Saturday.)
The depth of the discount to which Whig •` popularity" has
sunk was manifested on Thursday in so unequivocal a man-
ner, in St. James's Park, on the occasion of the House of
Lords going to address the throne, that the government press,
not being able to " lie away" the notorious fact, adopts ano-
ther line in the system of " enormous lying." The weight
of public opinion, which fell crushingly on the ministers, was,
forsooth, the purchased expression of a hired mob. Pur-
chased, indeed ! Why, the respectable assemblage that
cheered the conservative lords, and beneath whose spontane-
ous, heartfelt, and indignant execrations, the bed-chamber
ministers cowered, were as incapable of being purchased as
the treasury journals are of telling truth.
The whigs have been accustomed to buy the fetid breath
of hireling ragamuffins to serve a political purpose ; but in
the park on Thursday were assembled to witness the magni-
ficent procession of England's peers, the respectable middle
classes, whom the whigs have been particularly anxious, by
every species of cajolery, to enlist in their service. They felt
on Thursday that those middle classes had cast them off, for
we venture to say, that taking any promiscuous crowd of the
same rank of society in England, the despised ministers, who
cling to office by the apron strings of the ladies of the bed-
chamber, would have received the same treatment at their
hands—and notwithstanding the affected incredulity of their
sycophantic journals, they know it. On Thursday they
looked like men who felt not only that their unpopularity
was " no mistake," but that they deserved what they got.
Why did those wretched ministers fly from the palace,
like fugitives conscious of merited disgrace, if they did not
feel that the unpleasant and castigatory reception which they
met with on their arrival was the expression of cordial, ear-
nest, honest disapprobation ? We never heard a burst of
execration from a popular assemblage more truly heart-in-
spired and spontaneous than that which greeted Lord John
Russell, and astounded the ears of Lords Howick and Pal-
merston. We did not see Lord Melbourne arrive at the
palace ; but we saw him go away under the circumstances
described in our paper of yesterday ; and never did a fribble
premier encounter a more terrific storm of popular execra-
tion.

It is in vain for the treasury journals to endeavour to
conceal from their employers that they are universally hated
and despised. Nor is that wonderful ; for they themselves
very lately acknowledged they had lost the confidence of
parliament and the country, and they certainly have not by
their bed-chamber plot recovered that lost confidence.
They may cling on to office a little longer, but to recover
from the state of public hatred and contempt into which they
have sunk is utterly impossible. The popular manifestation
of Thursday was the natural emotion of a moral, a Christian,
and manly people, disgusted with the baseness, the tyranny,
and the utter incapacity of the Melbourne whigs—the vassals
of the Irish agitator, the destroyers of England's glory.

EXTRAORDINARY COW AND CALF.—Though Mr Starr, of
the More, near Bishop's Castle, has retired from the farming
business, he still retains his usual predeliction for having a
few of the " right sort," viz., the old smoky-faced Montgo-
meryshire, crossed with Hereford, not Durham, as reported
in some of the papers ; and from a cow of this description,
Mr. Starr, about a fortnight ago, had a calf of the following
extraordinary dimensions :—Height, at the shoulders, 3ft.
3 in. ; length from the end of the tail to the nose horizontally,
6 ft. 4 in. ; and its weight 136 lbs. After the calf had sucked,
and a bowl-dishfull of beasting had been given to the cow,
she rewarded her master with a large stable bucket-full of the
same nutritious beverage ; and at this period, a fortnight
after calving, she gives twelve quarts per day after suckling
the calf. This surprising cow was bred by Mr. Richards, of
Dolarddyn, near Welshpool ; and the sire of the calf is from
the celebrated stock of Mr. Robert Luther, of Acton, and is
now in the possession of Mr. George Starr, jun., of Owlbury,
near Bishop's Castle.—Seaviats Journal.