The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

THE MARQUIZZICAL PILGRIMAGE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

Was ever Viceroy with such pageant greeted?
Was ever Viceroy in such tones addressed??
No; not since SANCHO, in his island seated,
Furnished the world with themes of endless jest,
And as on Dapple's back he home retreated,
Pondered the moral of untasted feast—
Groan'd o'er his bruis'd estate and morn condition,
And rued the indulgence of a fool's ambition.

It was in some such strain of "music wedded to im-
mortal verse," that we meditated, ere we left our downy
couch this morning, to celebrate the glories of the late
Viceregal Pilgrimage. But the kindness of a friend
(as the phrase goes,) having furnished us with a copy
of the Freeman's Journal of yesterday, we found the
subject treated of so amply, and in a manner so per-
fectly in concordance with our own humour, that we
renounced the attempt, and we flatter ourselves that
our readers will not find themselves losers by our sub-
stituting theyo-irr of our excellent contemporary, for
the prose run mad which was at that moment banning
in our brain, and ready to overflow at the first vent it
could make in our intellectual system.

For our own parts, we confess ourselves unequal to
compete in such festive celebrations with our opponents
of the Radical press. Impar congressus Achiliei, it is
ours to shun the conflict, and content ourselves with
binding up the sheaves "after the man who the main
harvest reapeth"—and, with this humble view of our
duties, we proceed to follow in the Freeman's train,
and to bundle his beauties into little fasciculi, each a
jewel in itself—easy to be carried in the memory, and
convenient for application when need be. A label at-
tached to each will be the sum and substance of our
own labours, over and above the manual dexterity of
the scizzars and paste brush.
Proceed we then to view—his EXCELLENCY ON THE
CLIFFS.

(From the Freeman's Journal, Sept. 4.)
" VICE REGAL TOUR."
(VISIT OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT TO THE CHIEF CITIES OF
MOHER—FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" Nothing can equal the enthusiastic welcome with which
his excellency is everywhere received."
HIS EXCELLENCY FORSAKEN BY THE GENTRY.)
" What if a few tories hide their diminished heads and
skulk aside at his approach. What if a few of those called
the gentry, men of conservative principles, to whom the
generous and enlightened policy of the noble viceroy is
bitter as gall and wormwood, and who on this occasion have
more than ever put forth the cloven foot and exhibited their
enmity to the people, by refusing to do honour to their Lord
Lieutenant. What if they have stood aloof and refused to
pay due deference to their chief governor," &c.
His EXCELLENCY A SYLPH.
" Is he not borne along by the breath of popular opinion,
and everywbeie surrounded and almost at every step greeted
by the majesty of the people ?"
HIS EXCELLENCY A MER-MAN.
" The cheering of thousands, like the mighty rush ofmany
waters, is made to echo along the picturesque glens and pre-
cipitous valleys of the western shores, and heard reverberat-
ing over the romantic scenery of our cliffs and our mountains.
Every spring of life seems to show a double elasticity, every
national feeling to become more and more enkindled, and
every pulse to beat high with praise and patriotic emotions at
the sound of the illustrious name of Normanby, whose pro-
gress through the country is one continued ovation, the tide
of democratical effervesence swelling higher and higher, and
wafting him an the waves of popular applause to the very brink
of the Atlantic."
HIS EXCELLENCY APPROACHETH THE PRECIPICE, AND
NATI! lILASLIN To BE THANKFUL.
" Here, on the verge of the cliffs of Moher, his Excellency
had reason to feel grateful—the tout ensemble was complete,
and every preparation made worthy of the man whom the
people wished to''—
[—"to honour." But his Ex. escaped a watery grave.]
HIS EXCELLENCY BOTHERED.
" After the boat race in Liscannor bay was over, the
crowds pushed forward from all sides to the towers, where
soon the voices and rising clamour of thousands were heard
commingled with the roar of the surge beneath, which furi-
ously beat against the iron-bound coast, that presents a never
yielding barrier to the rushing tides of the ocean."
HIS EXCELLENCY PHILOSOPHISETH.
" Here the nhilosopher might conceive the idea of the
sublime, for if terror be a source of the sublime, the sensation
is in its utmost degree excited, while the mind shrinks as it
were within itself, and recoils with horror from the abrupt
sight of the precipice before it."
HIS EXCELLENCY'S BRAIN TURNETH AFTER VANITY; AND
HE RECEIVETH ABSOLUTION.
" Never was man more honoured than the Marquis of
Normanhy on Moher's Cliffs. If he were vain, there was
room to feel so; and if he Yielded for an instant to the indul-
gence of that passion, and offered incense to the goddess of
vanity, man would think it :mpassible, under the witchery of
the moment, to withstand the irresistible impulse, and Hea-
ven would have registered the pardon of the offence."
His EXcELLENCI 111 Ili FRESH REASON TO BE THANKFUL.
" On his account were provided the refreshments which
struck all with astonishment. Wines. &c. were of every
description, and in the greatest profusion, and as many as
could sit at several ranges of tables, in different successions,
for many hours of the flay, were sumptuously feasted, and on
a scale of almost eastern magnificence."
Nis EXCELLENCY DINETH (notreckoneth) WITHOUT HIS HOST.
"This was the work of Cornelius O'Brien, Esq., M.P.,
the hospitable lord of the soil, and builder of the towers,
whose place, in his absence, was supplied by John O'Brien,
Esq., of Elmvale, a man of great property, great talent, and
sterling patriotism."
EXCELLENCY TAUGHT TO COUNT HIS HOST'S ABSENCE
VERY GOOD COMPANY.
" Never was Mr. O'Brien, though absent, less forgotten;
never was be more remembered; and never can there be
any circumstance of his life which will be longer and more
rapturously recollected."
HIS EXCELLENCY A "GRAVEN IMAGE."
" 0, it was a sight on which Heaven might like to dwell,
to see the chief governor thus the idol of the people, and the
common centre round which revolved the more generous
passions and higher sympathies of our nature, as within a
ant oprßykpliereofatyaction."
"The morning dawned, as mornings so critically seldom
dawn, in surpassing loveliness. Hopes that could have been
indulged only in dreams were more than realised. All the
clouds and all the storms hushed and gone, light, balm, and
beauty, in its most comprehensive sense, asserted that em-
pire in nature which, in these latter and duller times, has
been nearly reduced to—Poetry."
SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT FOR HIS EXCELLENCY'S SUITE.
" Were his Excellency's suite to sing as they advanced to
the air of ' We brought the summer with us,' the propriety of
the singing might be canvassed, but the air would be voted
appropriate by acclamation."
SUITABLE OCCUPATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY'S ADMIRERS:—
A long :more, and a strong snore, and a snore altogether.
" With the dawn the dancers sought an interval of repose
(they had taken refreshment sonic hours previous)the
dreamers, having satisfied their eyes at the windows that it
was a fact, returned—lazy patriots !—to soak over the pros-
pects of the day, for a period varying as their inclinations."
' "THE PRIEST IN HIS BOOTS."
"FATHER MICHAEL COsiYN alone mounted his coal black
steed, and off went he to the bounds of his parish to escort
his Excellency through the same, or haply, should he have
been inclined to pass directly to Kilrush, to direct him by all
means from a course so counter to the desires of the trustiest
of lieges. To meet the same emergency a few members of
the deputation drove up, somewhat later, with a copy of the
intended address."
HIS EXCELLENCY BREAKFASTETH—THE EARLY BIRD
GETTETH THE WORM.
"In this truly triumphant fashion did the procession move
on, till at Baltard-house, the princely residence of the Rev.
Mr. Comyn, it sustained a novel but pleasing interruption.
This was an invitation to his Excellency, on the part of the
worthy priest, to take refreshment, which was by him, though
the hour was rather early, right graciously and gratefully
accepted."
A PRINCE SUDDENLY TURNETH UP AND RECEIVETH INVEST-
MENT OF HIS TITLE FROM THE HANDS OF HER MAJESTY'S
REPRESENTATIVE.
" The prince—on that day he obtaining full investiture of
the title—led the way; his Excellency and suite followed,
and a idst renewed shouts of applause from the people, who
exulted afresh in the reflected honour."
HIS EXCELLENCY DRAMMETH IN THE MORNING.
" They entered the hospitable mansion, and in bright and
brimming, bumpers of champaibne pledged the Marquis, and
the Queen, and old Ireland for ever."
THE PRIEST'S MARE " RUSTETH "—THE SEA FALLETII
ASLEEP—AND HIS EXCELLENCY FORGETTETH HIMSELF.
" The race commenced immediately, and went off in gal-
lant style, Vere Hunt coming in second, only because the
priest's mare did not second his designs—the sand-hills
crowded with eager gazers—the stewards and other gentry
careering on the strand—the sea sle'eping in smiles—the air
fresh and bracing—the rich dresses and animated counten-
ances of the fair gleaming all around the cliffs at either side,
pealing hack the merry greetings of the multitude—and his
Excellency in front, appearing for the moment to forget the
envied drudgery of his state—seldom in this weary, work-
day world may such a treat be expected, and methought he
felt so."
THE PRIEST 'METH GALLANT, AND WALTZETH WITH
THE PARS,,N AND THE BAGPIPER.
" In the meantime a canoe race was got up and over, after
which mastication commenced without delay. Dinner con-
cluded, the rer. chairman gale the ladies,' in a pleasant and
pertinent cpee,lt.followed by a song as appopriate, after which
all adjourned to the outside of the canvas, and danced to
the music of Fitzpatrick's pipes (Fitz. would merit a para-
graph if space permitted) till the lengthening shadows war-
ranted to desist. Such a galliard as was danced by the par-
son and the print, I"),,ctor Fitzgerald and Father Comyn
seldom gladdened the hearts of the beholders."
We have only to add, that "preparations for coffee
were visible :" and that
"The ladies retired in an orderly way,
" Having not teested anything stronger than tay."
But before we conclude, we must fulfil the melan-
choly duty of placing in contrast with the foregoing
bombast a true but hurailiaing view of the reception
which the representative of our young and beloved
Sovereign met from the nobility and gentry of Ire-
land, throughout his ridiculous and mischievous pro-
gress. The following extract from the Clare Journal
of the 3d instant is the evidence of an eye-witness,
who, without any inducement to flatter, feels too justly
the claims of royalty not to regret the occasion which
forces him to record a aisagreeable truth :
" His Excellency's reception in Ennis," quoth our local
contemporary, " was anything but cordial or respectful, ge-
nerally speaking. Very few, indeed, of the inhabitants went
either out of curiosity or c,onpliment to wait upon him, and
the shouting and disorder of those who composed the crowd,
was extremely provoking and mortifying.—There was no
gathering of trades, with their show
sashes and colours, no
enlivening note from the Patriotic band, so ready before now
to bestow cheap melody. There was nothingil 'stirring' in the
entry of his Excellency into Ennis I oweerveerhe may have
bad the hearts' homage of those" for
w there,tl y he
people, the Multitude were wanting; there was only
of the blow-pipe instead of the peal of the organ. the whine
re-
oret to be obliged to record this, we should Is to be en-
abled to say that he had received the grateful respect of all,
we should have been better pleased to be enabled to say he
deservedly received it."

Lord Crewe is passing the season at Crewe Hall, in
Cheshire, enjoying the society of a few select friends.
AN UNPROFITABLE CLIENT.—A ludicrous circumstance
occurred on Monday last, at a town not one hundred miles
from Denbigh. An enormous black bull that was being
driven by a farmer's servant to be slaughtered, entered sans
ceremonie into the office of the senior attorney of the place,
which happened at the moment to be occupied by only a soli-
tary,clerk. After remaining for about five minutes, the un-
welcome visitor turned his unwieldy carcase round and made
his exit, leaving behind him as prima facie, evidence of his
visit, the walls of the office welt besmeared, and the floor
totally inundated to the no small disarrangement and con-
sternation _of the professional gentlemen, who at the time
was comfortably seated at dinner, and popped in at one door
just WOO brorned client was popping eut at anotber.—Chei-
kir Ganda.. .

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