The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

MY CHILDHOOD.

Scenes of my childhood ± yo are gone—
Your shadows Tiovi r o'er me ;
As dreams of the night fade oue by one,
So now ye pass befurerne.

Days of my childhood ye are past,
And all thinks now remind me.
Like chair that's borne upon the blast.
I leave tile grain behind me.

Ilours of my childhood! ah, tho' past,
Memory still show 4 ye (faithful paintor!)
Yet. like the shades from a taper cast,
The'farther Ye recede the fainter.

Dreams of my childhOod l.'ye are come,
For aye to linger, here,
Like a glory round my own sweet home
Your shadowi noWsurround me.

EXPECTATION,

BY L. E. L.

She ,looked. from out the window
With long and asking, gaze,
From the gold eleir light of morning
To the twilight'spqrplehaze,
• Cold and pall, the planets shone,
Still the girl kept gazing on. •
Prom her white and weary forehead
Droopeth the .dark hair,
Heavy,with the dews of evening,
Heavier with her care
Falling as the shadows fall,
Till flung round her like a pall.

When from the carved lattice
First she leant,.to logic,
Tier hriitlit face was written
Like some pleaiint book
iler warm cheek the red air quaffed,
_And her eyes looked out. and laughed.
She is leaning hack now langpld
And her cheek in white.
Only on ;he drooping eyelash
Glistens tearful light.
Colour, sunshine hours are gone,
Vet the lwly watches on.

liuman l' art. this history
is thy Lited lot, '
Even such thy watching
For what enmeth not.
Till wit h_a.nxious.witititus_dull
ltound thee fades the beautiful.
Still than seekest on though weary,
Seeking still in vain ;
Daylight deepens into twilight,
What has been tliy4a ?
Death-and night are closing round,
All that thou halt sought unfound.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

We have received • from various towns thoroughont
the ,country most gratifying reports of the-municipal
elections, some of which trill be found in another part
of our paper. ,Generally, these elections have•shown a
decidedly conservative tendency in the substitution of
known conservatives for known radicals.
'--We must, however, once again warn our readers that
these and such indications, how gratifying soever as far
as they go, do not at all adequately illustrate the increas-
ing strength of the conservative party. It were great in-
' justice, and a stupid erring against the light, to suppose
tpat ,every.one
.who-went along with Lord Grey, con-
tinues .to accompany Lord Melbourne, the slate of .that
person who drove Lord Grey from office, and with whom
thees7etnier of Isl,l, 13.32,1333,.dec1ared that he lvould
disdain to hold communication, It is in the nature of
movement that it must cause separation w ithout proving
inconsistency, as one and another arrives at the end of.
his proposed journey. In- this way the tOConriellgo-
vernment has left,. we are persuaded, three-fourth:4 of
Lord. Grey's supporters, including all the sane and honest.
members of ,the party, far behind; .end the eonservati yes
have shown a disposition, fur which their unspotted
honour it voucher fully sufficient, to take op ;belt .ground,
on the same constitution upon which well disposed and
intelligentereformers have made ,their stand; there is
really no means of justly distinguishing between the
several allies. We hare already pointed to what has
eecurredin the 'Houses of Parliament, as .demonstrative
of the fact that many, very many reformers of high rank,•
must suffer. great injustice they are suspected of fa-
vonring Lord Melbourne's government.
The result of the municipal elections, as far as it !has,
been ascertained,. proves just.the same thing with regard
to the humbler classes. And why, then, are we to wrong
ourselves by-supposing that the happy process has -not
extended :to the middle class, to the reforming- magis-
trates and town-councillors, as well as to their reforming
constituents ?—Standard.
CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS.—If the History of .Exag-
.
land:were now to be written,. materials for it, at (nice
authentic and invaluable, would be found gin the vast
Conservative meetings by which every great town and
district throughout England, have oflate been animated,
and continue to be so, in the various classes-and compre-
hensive- numbers of those who attend them, the perfect
unanimity of sentiment which they exhibit with regard
to the one great evil which now oppresses the British
empire, and the one grand remedy by which alone it
can be cured. The evil to be guarded against, as is felt
and declared by all Conservative Englishmen, high and
low, rich and poor, temperate and zealous, is the danger
of inordinate and wanton change, the sacrifice, of the
tried for the untried; and the nature of the remedy is
pointed out by that of the evil. It consists in a genera
and strknotts en-operation of men who love their country
for the, prevention of all change 'not proved by satisfac-
tory evidence or reason to be indispensable to the public
good, and fur the overthrow of that weak and unprinci-
pled Ministry, whose accession to office was the signal for
such calamitous experiments on the safety of the nation,
while its continuance in office is announced by its own
members and their partisans to depend on, and be insep-
arable from the unmeasured progress of revolution. It
is vain and ludicrous fur the administration, or the allies
of the destructive press, to bully away their own fears at
the spread of Conservatism through the kingdom. They
see in it the death of the movement to which they both
belong. The harmony of the Conservatives utterly con-
founds them, and it is futile for the motley-crew of Pa-
pists, Radicals, and corrupted Whigs, to encourage each
other by mutual recommendations to cultivate a similar
concord. The fact is, that the spirit of harmony among
the Conservatives requries no cultivation. It is native
to the soil. There is among them but a single interest,—
namelv, the promotion of good government in the Church
and State; and a single policy, to wit, irreconcilable war-
fare against those who would destroy them both.—Times.
POPULAR CONSERVATlSM.—Conservative " trades-
men's" associations and conservative " operatives' " as
sociations, have been organized in various parts of Eng-
land, andhave commenced a series of vigorous and decisive
proceedings in cordial alliance with the conservative
aristocracy of their respective neighbourhoods, whom
they alternately support and lean upon, and with whom
they maintain an encouraging intercourse of leaflets
meetings and political discussion. • Now, the heanty of
such a muster, such discipline, and such reeiprecal
pledges, consists in its being a direct attack upon, the
ptt,blic enemy in the strong-bold of his own free choice.
the very. foundation-stone of the whig-radical or move-
ment empire was to bethe insurrection of the town de-
mocracy against the noblest institutions Of Church and
State. When tut; flower, therefore, not of the asp icult u-
ral—for that is all safe—but of the " urban" population
itself, through whose eager and unanimous assistance the
cause -of conservatism was to have been effectually
crushed, the spirit of regulated freedom and constitutional
monarchy subdued, and whig dominion, the grand object
of all, assured to its present possessors---when, instead
of this glorious t ictory for Whig-radicalism, the intended
instruments whereby it was to be accomplished, namely,
the large aturopulent- towns of Great Britain, become
foci of and of zealous attachment to good , and
rational government, it is nothing less than a mine
sprung within the very citadel of revolution ; and the
fatal effects of it have become already visible,— Times.
STATE OF is a fact as humiliating; as it
is painful, that in all the countries of Europe taken to-
gether there is not one tithe of -the dark ferocity so
visible in the sister kingdom. There, not merely tiLir-.
sisling manhood, but helpless age and unconscious
childhood -fall beneath the artn of the tnidnight assassin.
There murder pursues its victim with a deadliness, of
purpose whichnothing can divert. There that very pur-
pose is often-undertaken under the solemnity of au oath ;
and the naked blade„ still reeking with blood, or, what is
more awful still, the holy symbol- of man's salvation, be-
cornea the seal of the irrevocable engagement. From
thisanoment the steps of the victim are traced with the
unerring instinct of the bloodhound. Ile may fall in
open daylight, while proceeding unconsciously along the
king's highway. But, generally, his house is forced at
midnight, its inmates butcneted in a manner charactelis-
tie of the nest savage barbarians, and itself enveloped in
flames often lights the ruthless murderer to his solitary
but on the heath. These are not occasional deeds; they
are of daily, or rather, of nightly occurrence ; and, bow-
qvet- their, frequency may blunt in rev the feeling of sur-
prise, to the rest of the world they must appear indica-
native either of gross indifference on the part of govern-
ment-or of unexampled depravity on that of the. people.
Yet the pre-eminence of Irish guilt is not tv holly attri-
butable to either of these causes. Though the govern-
%Pent is frequently and most culpably remiss in the dis-
covery, still more in the prevention of crime, we know
not that in this respect it is much worse than that of
other
nations. Nur, though the Irish character. and
I:,ai,sioett,:r',,,bteien, from' the earliest period of history, as
more Lideott'dt of
any
people
on
earth'
is human nature
prolific there thane than elsewhere. If crime be more
in the culture nn
in other countries, the fault is. rather
inadel,zttlie soil. The chief cause is the
wretchedly
views
indeed,
etcation of the people. In a
literary point of
they may be, and. probably
are, on a level with the 10„
but in a
moral, and still more in a rellato(tlra(le.r of England ;
IN one, liere must he some.,
thing
on iy, , t
o disgracefullybet reTugs.e :Tue. etabeet the p rzieeasltos,u
zealous
in
t:ey. ate
denouncing the crimes• against moorfaiy:rsea
n visiting the slightest infraction
-die) they inculcate the eternal truth, that ;=e
svever and wherever perpetrated, must be pursued