The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

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MEMORY.

BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS.
(From the Metropolitan Magazine.)

Oh! what a priceless treasure Heaven cast
Upon the storm-tossed mind, to chain the past—
And give back every wrecked delight again,
In pristine gladness, to the aching brain !
Fresh as the early spring, each childish thought
Comes thronging home, with fairy fancies fraught !
That trusted time, when pleasure hath full scope,
And earth seems one vast magazine of hope—
Progressive years but adding to our joy !
What aspirations betwixt man and boy !
What proud resolves ! what daring projects wrought !
The future statesman spoke—the hero fought !
A cloud passed over Nature's glowing face,
Where sad experiense left a darkened trace—
And first Misfortune felled the heart so low,
It never rose above the deadening blow !
Is this the same enchanting, blithesome world,
Where pleasure's radiant banner was unfurled ?
And expectation, with its glistening wing,
Its gleam of gladness o'er the heart did fling?
Yes—every floweret of the earth's still clad
In gorgeous tints? the song of birds as glad !
The sky's as bright!—but—in my heart a gloom,
Cheerless and dismal as a sunless tomb ?
'Tis well 'tis so! for, if the world, in south
Kept the same charms with fascinated youth—
How wean the heart from its allurements? How
Prepare the soul to pay its final vow?
Its passport to the grave !—to rise again,
Pure and unspotted from earth-born stain—
Meet to abide, where saints and angels dwell
And all the mercies of the Godhead tell
In hymns of triumph, which through Heaven resound,
Whilst universal gladness reigns around—
And Memory yieldeth, from its hidden store,
What lends to Paradise a joy the more.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE GOVERNOR OF CANADA.

(From the Morning Herald.) ,
Among the many disgraceful appointments made by
the present ministry, it may well be doubted whether
the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the gover-
ship of Canada be not the most disgraceful in itself, as
it assuredly is the most perilous in its possible effects
on the integrity of the British empire. The Governor
of Canada, at the present juncture, requires qualities
in all of which Mr. Poulett Thomson is notoriously
deficient. The Governor of Canada ought, moreover,
to be under the influence of principles precisely the
reverse of those professed by the late President of the
Board of Trade. _ _ _

The value to England of the Canadas is infinite.
But Mr. Poulett Thomson belongs to a school which
holds colonies cheap—a school which gabbles about
colonies to the effect that they are always profitless,
and, generally, most expensive to the mother country—
a school which teaches that trade with independent
countries is always to be desired, rather than trade
with colonial dependencies.
Mr. Poulett Thomson holds, in short, that England
would gain by the erection of the Canadas into an in-
dependent state. His creed on this point harmonises
precisely with that of the French Canadians—of the
men who have recently been discomfited in their at-
tempt at rebellion. True, the process by which the
whig Governor of the Canadas has arrived at that con-
clusion, may differ from the process which has led the
Canadian rebels to the same point. Still a " sympa-
thy" as to ends exists, whatever discrepancy of opinion
as to means may be discovered.
The British loyalists throughout the Canadas kno r
that the Governor holds opinions most injurious in
their tendency upon all British interests. The rebels
know, on the other hand, that if they can. succeed in
their treasonable designs, they will create a new field
for the application of the Governor-General's " philo-
sophy !" Can such a state of things be deemed other
than most perilous ? Will the " sympathisers" of the
United States' border fail to turn such a state of things
to account ?

But while the whig Governor-General's principles
must be admitted to be most pernicious, what are the
personal qualities that fit him for the high command
that has been thurst upon him ? Mr. Poulett Thom-
son is a singularly feeble personage—a man devoid of
energy, and of that species of prudence which the dif-
ficulties of his very peculiar position demand. He
promises, in short, to be just the sort of instrument
that Mr. Van Buren might desire.

If no fresh rebellion should, during the approaching
winter, break out in Canada—if Canada should, in
fact, continue a portion of the British empire—we shall
owe these fortunate events not to the sagacity and cou-
rage of Mr. Youlett Thomson, but to the matchless
loyalty and zeal that carried the Anglo-Canadian vo-
lunteers through all the hardships of their service in
1837 and 1838.