The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-03 00:00:00

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TO PRINCE ALBERT,

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The cliffs of England!—Know'st thou where
Their crested heights the sea-birds sweep ?
Know'st thou the cliffs which point 'mid air,
Like holy spires which Sabbath keep ?
It is thine own adopted land !
The birthright of thy royal bride ;
The kingdom that awaits thy hand ;
knd for her sake, who crowns thy side,

True love for those white cliffs evince,
And British hearts will hail their Prince!
It is a land whose fame hath rung
Where'er her " Christian Flag" hath flown !
When Justice, Mercy, Freedom sprung
To grace her sword, and guard her throne?
A land that God designed to be
An ark on Persecution's tide
A home for sacred Liberty!
A haven midst the nations wide.
Oh, for that land thy love evince,
And British hearts shall bless their Prince !
A true descendant of that line
Which stood 'tween Luther and the brand,
Will fence, as with a shield divine,
The Christian altars of our land !
Guard England's honour, 'tis thine own !
And to a royal race impart
The noblest treasure of the`throne
Is centred in a people's heart !
Yes, love for Britain's weal evince,
And British hearts shall bless their Prince!
And to thy queenly bride—yet more
May every day's affection prove
That brightest crowns fade dim before
A husband's living crown of love !
May Plenty breathe her joyous song,
In peasant cot, on village green,
And Love, than thousand armies strong !
Still shield our Albert and our Queen !
The cliffs of England !—Know'st thou where
Their crested heights the sea-birds sweep?
Know'st the cliffs that point 'mid air,
Like holy spires which Sabbath keep ?
Oh, love for those white cliffs evince,
And British hearts shall bless their Prince!

THE THIRD DEFEAT OF :MINISTERS.

(From the Morning Herald of Friday)
The Queen's, respectable advisers have been again
left in a minority—a minority of 28. The subject
was the notorious Newport and Monteagle job.
- If these men were not the meanest and most despi-
cable place-holders to whom the destinies of a great
nation ever were entrusted, the reeignation would fol-
low, as a matter of course, from this signal and most
humiliating defeat. But Lord John Russell and his
worthy accomplices, rather than abandon office, will
brave defeat and discomfiture every night in the ses-
sion. The flaming " patriots" and " reformers" of
1831 have in 1840 subsided into the most obsequious
of palace toadies—the most reckless and profligate of
jobbers. They have contrived to render the name of
Whig synomymous with all that is infamous and gro-
velling.
The job which was under discussion last night, is,
perhaps, the most atrocious of their innumerable of-
fences against public decency. The circumstances of
the case may he briefly stated.
Mr. Spring Rice proved, perhaps, the worst Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer that ever was inflicted on this
country. He mismanaged everything entrusted to his
care. It became necessary, in fact, to his colleagues,
that he should be got ria of. They tried to secure his
return as Speaker of the House of Commons; but,
as Mr. Leader stated last night, they met with little
encouragement in their project even from their habitual
supporters. They then bethought themselves of the
Comptrollership of the Exchequer; and that office they
finally contrived to secure for him.
Sir John Newport's appointment to the Comptrol-
lership of the Exchequer was a gross job. His retire-
ment was brought about by a job even more gross. By
a special act of Parliament the Comptroller of the Ex-
chequer is specially precluded from the enjoyment of a
pension, or of a retiring allowance—it being deemed
all-important that the individual filling that important
office should have nothing to hope from Government.
In defiance of this express statute, Sir John Newport
was bribed by a pension of £l,OOO a-year to resign the
Comptrollership of the Exchequer in favour of Mr.
Spring Rice. -
And from what source was this pension supplied ?
There is a fund of £1,200 a-year placed at the disposal
of the Sovereign, for the relief of men eminent in
science, in literature, and in art, to whom fortune may
not have been propitious. Of this sum of £l,2oo—a
sum sacred to genius and to misfortune—the present
occupants of office were not ashamed to appropriate
£l,OOO a-year to the purpose of bribing Sir John New-
port to resign his office in favour of Mr. Spring Rice.
Can any portion of the public hesitate to pronounce
men capable of jobbing so profligate to be utterly unfit
to administer public affairs
The defeat of last night constitutes the third defeat
which the Queen's high-minded Ministers have al-
ready sustained in the present session. "We have
shown fight," exclaimed Lord Morpeth. " Yes," re-
joined Sir James Graham, " and you have shown
yourselves gluttons of punishment."