The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

LORD MULGRAVE

We extract the following from the first number of the Dublin
Standard. We hail this new conservative journal with delight.
It promises to prove a valuable coadjutor.
" Lord Mulgrave may Le an amiable man in private life, he
may possess genius and talent, but their displays are fictitious,
not real—our children will not find their record in the benefits
which Ireland will derive from his government. His address
and manners may be elegant and pleasing, but the Protestants
of Ireland are not to be smiled and bowed out of their liberties
and rights. The turnkey of Newgate may adjust a pair of
fetters with great tact and delicacy, but still the fetters when
on will not be less felt, and he would be a fool who should suffer
the manacles to be rivetted on him as a mere experiment how
better he could walk. We should, probably, be delighted with
Lord Mulg;rave if we knew him in any character but that of
King's Lieutenant. Harmless follies may be laughed at; mis-
chievous follies should be restrained.

"To those who habitually respect the laws, it is painful to
speak slightingly of the authorities placed high in the ministra-
tion of them. To do so, unaffectedly pains us; but, when great
public interests are at issue, compliment should give way to
duty, and things should be described as they are, in the stern-
ness of truth.

" Lord Mulgrave is a vain man, and his vanity that is within
public observation is of the meanest description—it is the vanity
of being thought a handsome man.; that such is the case, the
pains he takes and the artifices he resorts to, for personal deco-
ration and exterior effect, prove the premises. A great mind
cannot descend to the fashion of a shoe-tie, and its aspirations
take a higher flight than the adjustment of an elf or love-lock.
A man occupied by such cares is either too young or too old to
govern a country—he is unfit to govern at all. Lord Palmer-
ston is a coxcomb whose age we all know, despite of his curls
and his rouge; but our foreign and home policy alike show that
it is not Narcissus, young or old, that we want, but statesmen—
" Men in whose rule we fully may confide;
Not him who with peculiar grace can ride,
Or lady ogle, smile upon the rabble,
Dance the giddy waltz, or small-talk gabble;
Court admiration as he walks the streets,
Bowing to every vagabond he meets;
And, lest his lures fur want of practice fail,
E'en seeks his quarry in the common jail;
All kinds of villains letting loose agen,
To take the lives and goods of honest men,
And in our courts, as in the senate, see
The rampart reign of popish perjury.' "

A MAIDEN SPEECH.

At some radical meeting in Roscommon (and heaven knows
it is not worth inquiring what it was about) the Lord Dillon is
reported to have concluded an eloquent harangue in the follow-
ing bashful terms:—
" I will give you a pledge—l will promise to maintain the
rights of Irishmen. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, this is my maiden
speech—my first entrance into public life ; lam like the modest
virgin, blushing at the hymeneal altar. I feel that lam stand-
ing on the altar of my country, and about to register sacred
vows (Hear, and cheers.) 1 may say, lam but just yoked."
Bless us all!—was this spoken by Lord Dillon ? It must be
some " error of the press;" and, therefore, courteous reader,
male and female, read, (nostro periculo,) for Lord Dillon—Lady
Dillon.

This very " easy change"—as the grammarians say--renders
the whole passage consistent and intelligible—save where her
ladyship promises to "maintain the rights of Irishmen"—read
here again, on our authority, Irislvonzen. Now, we see plainly
why her ladyship, who has but just been "yoked," and come
from " registering her sacred vows at the -hymeneal altar"—
" blushes so modestly and virgin like" on her " first entrance
into public." We can now perceive h,w, as this is the first
maiden speech of the speaker, it is likely to be the last—and
that Mr. Joseph Myles Wllonnell should say—" Now that we
have you, we shall take care, my lady, to keep you in harness;"
and after the loud cheers with which this good joke was re-
ceived, her ladyship should continue—" You shall find that I
will remain in harness. I am anxious to be employed in the
service of my country. (Loud cheers.) I am, and I avow it
with pleasure, a reformer, and, please Gud, I shall die one.—
(Great cheering."
We wish Lord Dillon joy of his bargain—she his " a strapper,
by St. Anthony !"
Where does this happy couple spend the honeymoon ?
Dublin Evening Mail.