The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

WHIG-RADICAL LOYALTY.

(From the Staffordshire Gazette.)
.In common with all her loyal subjects, we sincerely
rejoice on the occasion of the marriage of our youth-
ful Queen. Happy in being united to the object of
her affections, but happier still in the kind disposition
and spotless character of the husband of her choice,
we trust that under Providence she is destined to en-
joy a full measure of conjugal bliss ;—we trust too,
that in her illustrious consort she will find a bosom
counsellor, not less able than anxious to protect her in
all the difficulties, and advise her in all the perplexities
inseparable from her exalted station.
But still we are disposed to congratulate the country
on the great event of the week, it were idle to deny
that our satisfaction is not wholly without alloy. We
had hoped that in the conduct of a great national so-
lemnity, all political feuds would have been forgotten,
all party jealousies laid aside, and the honour of the
Sovereign alone regarded ; but no : the same worth-
less crew that in furtherance of their selfish and sor-
did ends have gone nigh to compromise the character
of their maiden Queen, have now done all that in them
lay to prejudice her prospects while entering into the
holy estate of wedlock. Instead of following the
wholesome precedents of former reigns, and inviting
the flower of the British peerage without distinction of
Party to assist at the royal nuptials, or to partake of
the royal hospitality, we find that with hut two excep-
tions, none of the conservative nobility were permitted
to bear a part in the rejoicings of the day ! Of these
two exceptions the Earl of Liverpool, an old personal
friend of the Queen, was the one—the Duke of Wel-
lington, invited only three days before the wedding, was
the other. Such exceptions serve only to heighten the
marked affront which was thus put upon the rest of
the conservative peers, whose loyalty, had it not been
of that sterling Rind which forgives while it grieves for
the acts of a young and ill-advised monarch, would
have resented such a cruel—such a deliberate insult.
kiappily, however, for the Queen, the acts of her mi-
nisters are not confounded with her own ; would that
she were well assured that they whose devotion she has
been taught to question are the most zealous guardians
of her injured dignity ;—yes, and it is only among the
opposites of her present ministers, that honour, fidelity,
and loyalty are to be found !
Loyalty indeed ;—the word jars on the ear when tit-
tered by whig-radical lips,—and yet they would have
the country to believe that all its loyalty is confined to
them. Granted that we find them on all public occa-
sions boasting of the devotedness of their affection to
the royal person—of their anxiety for her happiness,
and their zeal for her service ; granted too, that we
find them whenever a hasty word escapes the most
humble of their opponents, eager to make it a pretext
for impeaching the honesty of the party and lowering
them in the eyes of their mistress;—we however can
discern 110 loyalty in all this, we see nothing on the
contrary but seltishne6s and shamelessness.—When
the day comes, and come it must, of conservative as-
cendancy, we shall then see whether the ex-ministers
will maintain the same principles, and speak the same
language that marked their official career;—we shall
then see whether they will retain the same respect for
their Sovereign, and the same constitutional reverence
for the ministry o her choice !
Of whiy-loyalty some remarkable instances are on
record, and may not here be out of pl
ace. Many of
our readers will remember how Fox (in opposition) as-
sailed the character
than
fhgood King George the Third,
whose head he moreenan onee demanded in the ar-
dour of debate, and whose death he declared would be
but a feeble expiation of the calamities he had brought
upon the country! Descending to more recent times,
who can have forgotten the language in which the en-
tire whig party indulged When King William the
Fourth paused for one week in his career of reform,
and placed the Duke of Wellington in the post which
bad been so insolently relinquished by Lord Grey.
The foul-mouthed threats and treasonable harangue
of of that brief period almost transcend belief, n
us in no doubt as to what Queen Victoria may expect
whenever she shall see fit to dismiss the destructives
from power. It is when exposed to slander and per-
secution that true loyalty is displayed, and not when
basking in the sunshine of court favour ; and, tried
by this standard, the contrast between Conservatism
and Whiggery is complete.
It may be said that in our own county, for example,
the rejoicings on the occasion of the Queen's marriage
have been principally confined to the side of our op-
ponents; they have, and properly so ; for while it is
one thing to offer public insults to a reigning sove-
reien, it is another to convey to her the marks of pub-
lic approbation. To the former we should never stoop;
the latter, for the present at least, perhaps, comes best
front our opponents.
In conclusion, we shall only observe, that if the
wnTradicals had been-1h o
called
when the return
of their party to power,
though for by the peo-
ple, was prevented by a knot of bedchamber women,
this country, in
all probibility, would have been ex-
posed to the horrors of civil War . That such a dire
we
calamity did not then befal it,
ance of the conservative party;
tiat a like hazard
owe to the forbear:
should not again threaten it,
wrust to Prince Albert
to prevent.

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The " great anti-corn law meeting," which
the city the other day, would appear to be a failure, sfo hemld the
anxiety now shown to gain signatures to the petitions which
were then agreed to. In the lobbies of the courts of law, at
Guildhall, this morning, two men were in attenriance, to
solicit signatures to the anti-corn law petitions. The majo-
rity of the persons who attached their names to these preci-
ous documents were attorneys' clerks, many of them mere
lads. How, then, these petitions can be represented as cow_
bag from " the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city
of London," we are at a loss to say.—Courier.
THE QUEEN'i Gi &NT CHEESE.—The Pennard cheese was
made on the morning of the 20th June last with the milk of
7JO cows, fifty dairy maids officiating at the ceremony. The
shape is an Octagon, the lineal edge 14 inches, depth 22;
measures, Irons angle to angle, 36 inches, containing 20,820
cubic inches; weight 10 cwt. A powerful press was made for
the occasion, capable of giving a pressure of 40 tons. " The
follower" is formed of a block of mahogany five inches thick,
with the royal arms sunk in it, which appears in has relief on
the top of the cheese. To prest,we it effectually from vermin,
&c., a prison of beautiful wire-work surrounds it, covered
with an octagonal pyramid of the same, surmounted by the
royal crown. On the Queen's wedding-day a party from Il-
nposter was received by Messrs. Norris and Dunkerton, the
projectors, and entertained ill the roost hospitable manner,
in the room where the cheese stands, when a sung written
exprmly for the occasion by Nir. T. Dibdin, and set to
music by T. Williams, was sung to the great delight of a nu-
microns compauy who had assembled on this joyous occasion.
The following is one of the verses
" The Pennard men then built a cheese
The like was never teen !
"'Vas made, and press'd, and fit to please
Our gracious lady Queen !
And wedded to her royal love,
May blessings on her fall,
And Pennard cheese at diner prove
The bat thing—eir alll