The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-17 00:00:00

HINTS TO ELECTORS.

Who found Canada •in peace, produced a rebellion in it,
and left it under an arbitrary government, and in a state of
violent commotion ?

The Melbourne Ministers.
Who found trade flourishing, mild left it flat ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who entered office to pass the appropriation clause, and
then meanly and basely gave it up ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who found the boundary question with America on the
eve of settlement, and left it more hopelessly open ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who found England quiet, and left it at the mercy of the
Chartists ?

The Melbourne Ministers.
Who sanctioned the Carlow job?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who entered into compact with O'Connell?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who increased public expenditure and the civil list ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who truckled to Russia in the cases of Cracow and the
Vixen?

The Melbourne Ministers.

Who promoted and fostered Popery?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who aimed " a heavy blow and great discouragement at
Protestantism in Ireland ?"
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who traded in jobs and commissions ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who lowered the Court in its popularity by base attempts
t o d'moralize and degrade it?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who gave places to D. W. Harvey and Sheil, and offered
a judgeship to O'Connell?
The Melbourne Ministers.

Who interfered in the affairs of Spain, without any other
effects than the disgrace of England and the waste of money ?
• The Melbourne Ministers.
Who left commerce unprotected in Mexico ?
The Melbourne Ministers.
Who commenced a war in India, of which they arc now
afraid ?

The Melbourne Ministers.
Who endeavoured to keep their places without earning
their pay ?
The Melbourne Ministers.

And beyond all these, to whom does Great Britain owe
her present distracted and weakened position, the peril of
her institutions, the decay of her foreign influence, the dis-
graceful condition of her navy, the insolent threats of an
insurrection in Ireland, and the attempt to foist on her peo-
ple an infidel system of education ?
The Melbourne Ministers.

We call on ail men to remember these things ; and so to
prevent the possibility of such miserable, unprincipled, and
pitiful ministers ever regaining power. One more such ca-
binet would ruin the country.—Manchester Courier.

We have much pleasure in stating, that the health of the
Right Rev. the Bishop of Bath and Wells has been daily im-
proving since his lordship's arrival at Weymouth. The bishop
is able to take airings daily in his carriage and on horseback.
—Dorset Chronicle.

BLESSINGS OF MUNICIPAL REFORM.—The poor rate for
the borough of Bath, for the year ending 25th March last,
was £10,929 ; the borough and watch rates £13,924.
England, in its present excited state, was likened the other
day, by a gentleman, to a barrel of beer in a state of fermen-
tation, working out at the bung-hole:
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Owing to the excitement occasioned in the provinces by
the ragamuffin Chartists, money is being withdrawn to a
large amount from savings' banks.
CARDINAL PUFF.—We understand that the most noble
the Marquis of Westminster has granted Mr. H. Clowes of
this city, permission to take a portrait of this splendid horse,
the winner of the Tradesmen's Cup at our last races.—
Chester Courant.

Saturday morning, 100 of the A division. belonging to toe
metropolitan police force, with a number of the F division,
left London, by the Birmingham railway for various parts of
the north. At present there are but 18 of the A division in
London.

The following instances of atrocious cruelty are stated to
have lately occurred at Constantinople :—A woman of the
island of Ting, resident in the Turkish metropolis, impaled
her own son, a child between five and six years old, because
he had dirty habits, which she was unable to correct. A
widow, wishing to marry again, but finding that her intended
was unable to maintain her two children by her former hus-
band, dug a grave, and buried them both alive. As these
wretches were Greek subjects, they were both sent to Athens
for trial.

A curious phenomenon, it is asserted, was witnessed at
Montfort-sur-Rilla, in the Eure, a few days since. Towards
the middle of the day, which had been unusually warm for
the season, a large yellow looking cloud came over the plaee
from the north, and several heavy drops of rain fell from it.
It was observed that these drops were quite yellow, and, on
some of them being carefully examined while drying, it was
found that they left a yellow powder as a sediment on the ob-
jects upon which they fell. We have not heard whether the
nature of this sediment has been investigated.
We find the following trait of ferocity narrated by the Quo-
tidienne, as having occurred a short time since in Algiers. A
Spaniard was leading some horses out of the gate of Bab el
Oned, when he was met by an Arab, who, from some cause
or other, addressed some insulting epithets to him. The Spa-
niard enraged, leaped down from his horse, and seized the
Arab, when a violent struggle ensued, in which the latter,
being of far superior muscular strength, threw his adversary
on the ground, and partly with his teeth, partly with his
hands, tore off the unfortunate Spaniard's lower jaw, which
he carried off as a trophy, leaving his victim to expire on the
spot.