The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

ing Saturday

No less an authority than the Thunderer of Printing-
house-square took upon himself to contradict inferentially

one of the principal statements contained in my last let-
ter. I announced on Monday that the office of Secretary
for Ireland was still vacant. The Times on Tuesday
morning said that Mr. VILLIERS STUART had been ap-
pointed ; this is not the fact, rely on my information ;
discredit that of the Thunderer—Lord ABERDEEN has
not yet named his man.

You will have seen, by an authorised paragraph in the
Times, that there is no truth in the statement that Mr.
DISRAELI was going abroad for two years for the benefit
of his health. What I stated some time since was the
fact, and I can vouc

I now, that

release from the trammels

of official life I

las made the right hon. gentleman himself

again ; in short, that he never was in better health. He

will enter parliament in a few weeks, a wiser man as
regards two points of his ill-fated budget ; and I do not
hesitate to aver that he will support a more equitable and
liberal adjustment of the income-tax. The present Minis-
ters aro, it is confidently stated, to adopt extreme Liberal
measures, in order to propitiate certain parties ; their
remaining any great length of time in office, however, is

not problematical

better known as Fox MAt-LE,
being one of the legion of Whig brats named after CHAS.
JAMES Fox, when he was in the meridian, said, the other
day, at a Bible meeting held in Edinburgh—" A change
has come over me, and I shall not, for the rest of my life,
probably, be so much in the habit of meeting in public
with my fellowLcountrymen as I have been ; but I can
say this, that when my voice is required to maintain their
liberties—when threatened by those who would invade
them or their Protestant liberties—when threatened by
those who would touch one inch or one iota of our Pro-
testant bulwarks—my voice shall be at the command of
those who wish to hear it. It shall be raised in defence of
Protestantism and the Protestant Bible, and, if I add no
other, this at least will be the most glorious one to which
I can address myself." Thus spoke Lord PANMURE,

Lord PANMURE, lon

and the words were worthy of him, and every loyal Pro-
testant subject of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY. Lord
PANMURE has long called himself a constitutional Whig,
which is identical with " lover of place." Why should
Lord PANMURE, by no means old, leave, as he terms it,
public life ? Is it because he thinks that the country, for
some time to come, will have none of his clique, as a body,
in the Government, and that he can never again expect
to be at the War-office ? No. Lord PANMURE, like

a hard life of it, is retiring to the
otium cum, Sc.c., of Brechin Castle. Belonging, as he
does, to a family remarkable for the longevity of its
members—his father died the other day nearly 90 years
old—the present baron is going to husband life's taper by
enjoying his " father's ha' " to which he was a stranger
for nearly thirty years. The castle, and its surrounding
sunny uplands, are to be put in order ; for a great many
years there has been nothing done on the estate
in the way of improvement, such at least as that
required. The old Lord—the last fast man of the
last century—did not trouble his head much about

a sensible man, afte

such matters. Long in Parliament, his evenings were
frequently passed in BELLAMY'S Kitchen, where he
awaited the ringing of the division bell; on these evenings
it is recorded that he would discuss eighteen or twenty
tumblers of brandy and water, and BELLAMY'S tumblers
were (and are) no jokes. In this way the old baron lived,
;much estranged to his son and successor, so much so, that
the present Lord had to apply to the courts in Scotland,
many years ago, for an allowance out of the patrimonial
estates. £5OO per annum was awarded Fox MAULE; this,
together with his salary when in office, was pretty nearly all
his income. Notwithstanding, he has lived jolly and well,
and at the Ministerial dinners, whether at Richmond,
Blackwall, or Greenwich, he was generally selected to act
as chairman. He is a man of frank and simple manners.
A few years ago he used to " stand" a breakfast and a
guinea, twice or thrice a week, at his official residence, to
a Parisian gentleman, for no other purpose than to talk
French over the chocolate, and improve the pronunciation
of the host and his noble and amiable lady.
_ _

LANDSLIP.—A landslip took place on the Scottish
central railway, near Perth, on Thursday morning, by
which the traffic was greatly inconvenienced.
THE SIMOOM, screw-frigate, has proceeded from Ports-
mouth to Cork. She is to embark there the 31st Regi-
ment, and convey them to Corfu ; thence she conveys
the 41st Regiment to Malta, embarks 740 of the 76th at
Malta, and conveys them to Halifax, and then brings to
England a portion of the 91st Regiment.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance of
a very extraordinary character occurred last week at the
adjourned Somerset sessions, held at Taunton—namely,
four generations of the same family were placed at the
prisoners' bar together. The offence was stealing wood,
and the parties were—an old woman, named Pole, aged
82; Jane Tapp, her daughter, aged 48 ; Ann Pole, her
grand-daughter, aged 27 ; and a child in arms, her great-
grand-daughter.
A GENERAL CAB FARE.—A mode of making cabriolets
less objectionable vehicles in London would be to limit the
charge (within a certain circle, as in Paris) to one shilling
only for two persons, and sixpence for every extra person
or luggage. The operation would be similar to the penny
postage, depend upon it, for many would prefer this to an
omnibus for cheapness— and many more, when they knew
at once what they had to pay. Thus the cab would be kept
generally employed even in fine weather, instead of stand-
ing half a day idling. For cleanliness and civility, the
in the " Begg, name and number of the proprietor, large inside, would
t two in
battles of the same character going on at presen , prove partly, if not quite effective.—The Builder.
A HUSBAND'S LIABILITY.—A trial occurred in the
the metropolis of England, the third in Paris. Our Lon-
don belligerents are the theatrical managers, the play- Court of Exchequer the other day before Baron Platt,
order-writers, and the rival play-bill-stickers, the latter a
swphoincislibrtiaewssorfantilrusananne7 10igrhtdeubptosnexthtreaysuapapnotsiednorne--
formidable class of ouvriers. In Paris the parties are,
traded. A milliner brought an action againstg Mr.
Louts NAPOLEON, the Moniteur, and divers of the metro- Trahle, for dresses, &c., amounting to £33 14s. 9d. The
politan newspapers. It would be difficult to say which of defence was that the husband allowed his wife a sufficient
sum for such necessities,—somewhere about £5O a-year,—
the three is the most interesting. Certainly, the funniest
is the battle of the bill-stickers. his income not exceeding £4OO per annum, whereupon
These worthies are Baron Platt told the jury that the principal question for
mostly all of themearnest men in their avocation ; they their consideration was whether the sum of about £5O,
sally out at all hours, chiefly in the dead of night, which it had been proved the defendant had allowed to
a march on each other, as well as • hid wife within a period of fourteen months, was sufficient
" the Public There Is
stealing
one "merry cock-eyed sprite", who,to provide clothes for a lady in her position of life ; if
at screech. of day, thought so they were bound to find a verdict for the
will, for a consideration, stick a bill on the dome of S t they
defendant. The jury did not think so, and consequently
pawl's,—for the matter of that, yea on Temple-bar,
or Buckingham Palace. Lately asked by alie was ordered to pay • but husbands having extravagant
wives may find satisfaction in the law as laid down by
celebratedo
wit and writer if he could manage to "do a bill" Baron Platt.
deputation from the Protestant
Temple-bar, his naïve reply was, that "he would stickna THE MADIAI.--
A iew last week with Lord John
Roster on the Duke of --, if it were wanted." Well, Allianceus had an
per-
these jockies, deeply interested in their employers'enrvOffice, on the subject of the
fare, are going all over London and a radius of ten
we,.
secustlolln,
sa at
nowtlie Forire
carried on in Tuscany. The deputation
consisted of the Earl of Cavan. Hon. A. Kintlai_r_de,xM.p.r,
miles. Honest BENJAMIN -WEBSTER, of the Haymarket
and Adelphi Theatres, complains that his bills are no Cap.tataaliCondor, Mr. J. Cook Evans, Rev.r Josiah
Kemble, Rev. Dr. Steane, Cliorn7rit,.Ail..saenetey,
sooner up than a myrmidon of the man of paste, in the Russell saild
under theparticularg case of the
employ of the spirited lessee of T. R. D.
erne, and Mr. John 11nalicsr,egor.—Lord John
those Of
Haymarket bills ; the entrepreneur of Old Drury again tuted e deputation. The prosecution had been Insti-
-1.1 sentiments were very much in accordance with
thereceliavteed governmenttiie upon :
lawnlaaassed indo 1786, which was an un-
says he despises the action. It is a pretty quarrel as it enlightened time. of the course pursued by
stands. But, for the honour of the rival managers, I
believe it stands between the rival bill-stickers. The H. Bulwery was 12111eilliti government, it appeared that Sir
revseubject, and from despatches
play order war goes bravely on, and ugly facts are coming with respect to any furxtturslsyt
sidered proper to take in commegiewahit
employed in the case ; but
out. lam sorry for a certain class, for the most part
dent Sovereign,
. his lordship
tieservind artistes,—musicians, vocal and instrumental,
reserve his opinion.—The deputation begged anind p
inegh witiight. bee con-
forto
to be allowed
_ _. then withdrew.

-- -
I can state, with perfect certainty, that, had the leading
men of the Carlton—and I mention the club without
reservation—l say, had they known what the vote on the
last budget would have led to, namely, a dissolution, and
consequent election for Oxford, a few weeks beforehand ;
or, had they had time to organise their plans, it would
have been all up with Mr. GL A.DSTONE in that venerable
seat of learning. Further, had BERNAL OSBORNE'S new
berth rendered it necessary for him to abdicate, he would
no more have come in again for Middlesex than your
correspondent, who has been out of Parliament for a good
many years, and does not mean to return to it. I give no
opinion one way or the other, I state facts as regards
Oxford and Middlesex, to show that the coalition-cab has
it not all its own way.

Who

.card of the famous " battle of the wigs"
ars' Opera ? " There appears to be three