The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

POLITICAL PERFIDY

indignant was the larger portion of our daily
and weekly press at the coup d' &at in France ! and what
sudden virtue did they affect, and abhorrence for the
breaking a constitutional oath, as they loved to call it,
after the thing sworn to had been annihilated totally, till
there was no constitution left to which fidelity could exist
as a tangible property ! And did the press do this from
their virtue ? Net a bit of it ; but because they are
tainted with republican principles, which they deny in
terms, and do their utmost to enforce in fact. Have they
not been long lauding the man, and do they not now laud
the man's memory whose remarkable perfidy broke all
ties ? who, when he put on the property-tax, did it with
the solemn asseveration that he intended it only for a
period, and subsequently, in the heat of debate, forgot
himself, and let out that, simultaneously with his impos-
ing it, he commenced a system of taking off certain taxes,
with the intention of perpetuating it. They even ap-
plauded the truth of the statesman who, dating from his
own mouth his conversion to free trade from a certain
period, had subsequently to thet period spoken most elo-
quently against the repeal, which in his hesrt he had
purposed to effect. It is quite fit, and in character, that
the free traders should erect statues to such men as I see
they are doing."

" A Journey to Mandera" is descriptive of a place
little known to modern tourists, the text being a
recently-published work by a Von Ferdinand
Werne. We pass to a second notice of Jeffery, the
late Lord-Advocate, whose life, by Lord Cockburn,
has been published ; and, after a continuation of
" My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life," of
which the next part will probably be the conclusion,
the magazine concludes with a powerfully-written
eulogium on the late Duke of Wellington.

ARIETIES

" PITCIT-DARICNESS" has been so improved as to read
•" bituminous obscurity,"

A BACHELOR, the other morning, remarked that
wives who use the needle are like the enemy spoken of in
the parable—they sew tares while the busbandmen sleep.
A POOR EMACIATED IRISHMAN, having called a phy-
sician in a forlorn hope, the latter spread a large mustard
plaster, and immediately clapped it on the poor fellow's
lean breast. Pat, who, with a tearful eye, looked down
on it, said, " Dochter, it strikes me it's a dale of mustard
for so little mate."

A WESTERN REPORTER gives the following description
of a conlitgration : " The devastating element, unsatisfied
with floods of water, belched forth its crimson tints, and
spread the fiery flag of devastation over entire squares,
unchecked by the superhuman exertions of the firemen,
who seemed like lost spirits in the halls of pandemonium,
as they flocked around the terrific spectacle."
A KNowING YOUNG 'UN.—" You see, grandma', we
perforate an aperture in the apex, and a corresponding
aperture in the base, and by applying the egst to the lips
and forcibly inhaling the breath, the shell is entirely dis-
charged of its contents." " Bless my soul," exclaimed
the old lady, " what wonderful improvements they do
make. Now in my young days they just made a hole in
both ends and sucked."

THE READER may have beard a good deal from the
poets concerning " The Language of Flowers !" but
here is quite a new dialect of that description, in the shape
of mottoes for different fruits and vegetables :
Motto for the 1.111..tc:.!` Give me leave."

For tlie Rose: " Well, blowel“—
For the Asparagus : " Cut and come again."
For the MarrOWfat pea : " Shell out."
For the Apple : " Go it, my pippins."
Fnr thp rshbage "My heart is s

[None will dispute the claims of the Prince Consort to
the respect and admiration of all Her Majesty's subjects.
He has indeed won golden opinions from all sorts of
people ; but the adoption of our correspondent's sugges-
tion would involve a practical difficulty for which he would
not easily find a remedy. In the event of the death of
Her Majesty—which heaven forefend—what would be the
position of Prince Albert, with reference to the Heir Ap-
parent ? He could not fall back like a Queen Consort
into a Dowager; he eould not divide the inheritauee with
d—my heart is my own."
the new King.)—Ext.