The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

FRO3I OUR LONDON COR RESPONDENT.

Monday Morning.
THE venomous RUSSELL-COBDEN faction—which extends
from its head the crooked-minded puny lordling who so
ridiculously misrepresents the merchants and traders of
the first commercial city in the world, to its tail, the im-
pudent, brawling cotton-spinner who caricatures the re-
presentation of the West Riding of Yorkshire—has been
remarkably active during the week at its congenial voca-
tion. Its labour has been emphatically a labour of love.
Nothing has been too hot, too heavy, or too dirty for its
handling. Unsettling everything, and settling nothing ;
obstructing, annoying, stinging, spitting poison, and
sowing mischief, out of pure hatred and malice : such
has been its constant employment, and to the performance
of which it seems to be "to the manner born." If ever
there was a base " organised hypocrisy," it assuredly is
this odious faction, which, sanctimoniously pretending
that it is panting to make its appeal to the country, has
recourse to every vile and contemptible artifice to prevent
that appeal from being made. Quousque tandem abutere
Catalina patientid nostri ? The people, so often
duped, are at length beginning to see through the
wretched flimsy veil with which it audaciously
attempts to cover its selfishness ; and this time the
Chesham-place confederation of intriguing Whigs and
restless Revolutionists will be caught in its own toil. In
spite of all its numerous tricks and devices to postpone
the hour, Parliament will be dissolved in June, and the
general election will take place in July. Ah ! the faction
has found out that it was a little too precipitate in crying
out for a dissolution, and a little too sanguine in antici-
pating a result favourable to its pretensions and its paltry
personal interests. It has had a report from its famous
" man of business"—the notorious COPPOCK—and that
report has been such as to throw the hereditary Whig
officials, and the expectant place-holders and " pickers up
of unconsidered trifles" into a state of dismay and despair.
No one doubts the ingenuity of COPPOCK in finding the
ways and means, or his unscrupulous application of them
when found, in the purchase of the free and independent
voices of the reformed constituencies of the Ur.ited
Kingdom ; hut even the great genius of COPPOCK can,
in this instance, accomplish little for his employers, so
thoroughly are the people disgusted with their shameless
spirit of cabal and their unparalleled political profligacy.
The very utmost that COPPOCK can procure the RUSSELL
and COBDEN faction—allowing him unlimited use of the
money bags, and all the aids to be derived from the various
kinds of liberal electoral machinery established throughout
the length and breadth of the land—is, that they may not
be in a much worse" condition in the new than in the
old Parliament, so far as England and Scotland are
concerned ; but as to Ireland, they must make up their
minds to be there infallibly " licked." In plain, unso-
phisticated English, this means that Lord J. RUSSELL'S
game is up ; that he has sold himself to the Manchester
demon for nothing ; that the DERBY Ministry will gain
by a dissolution all they want to make them a powerful
Government—a majority in the House of Commons—and
that instead of returning to office in six weeks or two
months, as the late Ministers fondly flattered themselves
when they retired from Downing-street, they will rusti-
cate in the shades of opposition for many a long day to
come. There let them stick