The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

" Merry as a marriage bell.'

A smile is on every face we meet : bright eyes are

glancing upon us on every side : congratulation is on
every tongue : and we only hear an occasional sigh as
some kind-hearted mortal exclaims, amidst the general

" ALAS FOR THE PHILOSOPHERS !"

Our Monday's contemporary takes occasion to chuckle
over the circumstance of Mr. Harvey's having, notwith-.
standing the objection against his eligibility, taken his seat
in the council as alderman for Castle-street Ward. W
never doubted that Mr. Harvey would do so. The object
for which that gentleman was elected would not have been
effected unless he had done so ; and we never anticipated
that any qualms on the score of decency would deter him in
such a case from exercising the full stretch of his disputed
authority.

With respect, however, to the continuance of this gentle-
man in his usurped seat, we arc not so sanguine as our con-
temporary. An application will be made to-morrow for a
writ of " Quo Warranto," to try the question, which is at
least a doubtful one ; and we should not be surprised, al-
though our contemporary might be, to see the claim of Mr.
Harvey abandoned at once on the issuing of the writ.

We are informed that some of the gentlemen of the nap
were overheard, yesterday, felicitating themselves upon the
" liberal " victory in Exchange Ward, as a proof that their
much-vaunted " liberal " policy in commercial affairs was
becoming in high odour amongst the merchants of Liverpool.
We dare say that such an impression will be sought eagerly
to be created; and certainly the very name of the ward it
self—" Exchange Ward,"—in which the whips arc enabled
to make their solitary boast of victory, would in the first

instance favour the supposition.
The public, however, must be made aware of the description
of merchants by whose suffrages, and superior enlightmeat
on matters of commercial policy, Exchange Ward has been
won by a whig candidate. We give the names and addresses
of a few of these as they stand in the register; and would
venture very strongly to question,—not whether they would
be ornamental at a levee,—not whether Mr. Henry Holmes
would plume himself upon being permitted to "march through
Coventry" with them ; but whether, even in the case of such
a consummation, the gentlemen of the flags would be found,
in great numbers, anxious to be, as spectators, placed in very
close contact with the ruffling of their clothes in the wind :
3231, Meeken, John, Hatton .garden ; 3232, irl`Cann,
John, Henry Edward-street; 3233, M'Carthy, Martin,
Henry Edward-street; 3234, Maguire, Terence, Henry Ed-
ward-street; 3236, Mulhane, James, Henry Edward-street;
3237, M'Avoy, Peter, Henry Edward-street; 3238, M`Der-
mot, Michael, Henry Edward-street; 3239, M`Donaugh,
John, Hodson-street; 3240, Al` Manus, Charles, Hodson-st• ;
3241, M`Nally, Owen, Hodson-street; 3242, Murphy, Jno.
Hodson-street: 3244, M'Cormick, Martin, Lace-street;
3245, M'Connell, Michael, Lace-street; 3246, M'Garrigal,
Owen, Lace-street; 3247, M'Lesn, Patrick, Lace-street;
3248, Maloney, John, Lace-street ; 3249, Mulloy, Patrick,
Lace-street.

And these be your merchants, gentlemen ! Upon what
Exchange do they " most congregate ?" The Stock Ex-
change, we presume, or the Pig-market. These be your
admirers of " liberal commercial policy"—the absence of
restrictions upon commerce, and restrictions of every other
description ! The M`Carins and 111`Carthys, the M'Avoys
and the Murphy's, are from henceforth to be rated amongst
the mercantile aristocracy of Liverpool.
" Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary !"

It is made a subject of accusation against Earl de
Grey that he used no exertion, and employed none of
that influence which he might have commanded, for
the purpose of making the new corporation of Dublin
a little less Radical than it turns out to be ; but it
strikes us that there is little weight in the charge. In
the first place, it was quite evident, from the state of
the burgess-roll, that not all the influence which the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is master of could have
made any material difference in the new " reformed"
council ; and, secondly, it would not have been good
policy in his excellency to have interfered in the election
for the sake of such very limited results as he might,
by so doing, have been able to procure. The orders
given at the Castle, it is understood, were, that the ser-
vants of the government should take no part in the
contest; and these orders, we may presume, were
strictly obeyed ; for even in the Castle Ward the coun-
cillors returned are all Radicals, and of the entire
council elected more than two-thirds are Roman Ca-
tholics, Radicals, and Repealers ! It is rather an odd
coincidence that a municipal government of such a
thoroughly Radical character should be coeval, in the
commencement of its regime, with that of a Conser-
vative administration, and that Lord Eliot, who, for a
Conservative, was rather forward in speeding on the
Municipal Reform Bill for Ireland while it was passing
through parliament, should be the Irish secretary, and
resident in Dublin, at the initiation of its operation.
Such a bill for Ireland we have always regarded as a
monstrous production, and, for anything we can yet see
of its working, it is only the whole absurdity realised.
Regrets, however, are now unavailing; the deed is
done ; and whatever annoyance or obstruction it may
be to his government, Lord de Grey must expect to
find, and prepared to deal with, a Repeal corporation,
not only in Dublin, but in almost every town in Ire-
land that shall be blessed with a reformed municipa-
lity. Of the new corporation of Dublin, 42 are Ro-
man Catholics and only 18 Protestants ; the total of
the pure O'Connellites is 46 ; so indulgent are the fates
to the late master of her Majesty's late ministry ! He
has lost a cabinet, but he has gained a corporation ; he
no longer stands at the king's gate, first beggarman,
with well. filled wallet, taking toll of all that pass in or
out ; but he becomes first magistrate of the capital of
the " first flower of the earth, and first gem of the
sea," and the chief ahnoner of its bounties; he may
expect no more advancement by the royal prerogative,
but he becomes a lord through the suffrages of the peo-
ple, and next session of parliament promises to present
a Repeal petition at the bar of both houses of parlia-
ment in his full costume of Lord Mayor of her Ma-
jesty's good city of Dublin. This is no creation of
the imagination; it is matter of ordinary and perfectly
sober calculation.

Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the renowned Repealer, alias
disloyal separator of the kingdom, was yesterday chosen
, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and in that capacity will,
doubtless, invest the cause of " Irish Independence"
with whatever force and dignity he can bestow upon
it. He has long been promising his dupes a restora-
tion of the Irish parliament, and its re-establishment
in College-green, and now he may fairly say that he is
paying down a good instalment of the debt. The new
municipal council will be a good type of the long-pro-
mised parliament—the shadow of the coming event.
The- Repealers will become pOssessed of a handsome
house to meet in—the city mansion-house, and other
appurtenances in the capital both ornamental and use-
ful; and agitation will henceforth assume not only a
legalised but a far more dignified exterior than it has
heretofore enjoyed. The new corporation, we are as-
sured, will become possessed of such control over the
parliamentary registration, as hereafter to render the
city of Dublin a mere borough in their hands. Well,
let the world say what it will, is not Daniel O'Connell
a " clever vagabond "to the last ? There is something
ludicrous in the fact, that while the different members
of the late ministry scatter and hide themselves, like
rats, in holes and corners, the Mephistophiles of the
set turns up arrayed in greater honour than he ever
possessed before, and stands revealed—a Lord Mayor
in all his robes ! That such a circumstance can pro-
duce any serious effect on the destinies of Ireland, we
are not at all disposed to admit, more especially while
the government of the country is in Conservative
hands ; but we advert to it as a proof, and we think it
is a striking one, of the strange and paradoxical sort of
result which arises from the liberal system, and liberal
legislation. However, liberalism, we may suppose, has
now run to the extent of its tether, and we have, for-
tunately, a Peel and Wellington ministry to give due
effect to the laws. The government of Earl de Grey
in Ireland has commenced most auspiciously, and is,
indeed, everything that one could wish. We should
have'no objection to the movement which would give
to the Romanist and Papal party the mere trappings
and outside show of power, and transfer the substance
and reality to the proper authorities. Should Earl de
Grey be so fortunate as to effect a solid exchange of
this kind, we would gladly run with others to see such
a harmless raree show as Dan O'Connell in his Lord
Mayor's coach, with Dr. M`Hale or the most reverend
Dr. Murray as his chaplain, 'Porn Steele and " my
dear Kay" for his sheriff's, and any other Tom, Rey-
nolds or grimalkin, for his fool. 'Twould be a sight
worth seeing, and almost as innocent and merry as the
burning of Guy Fawkes on the fifth of November'
But Lord de Grey, we anticipate, will be able to effect
this desirable consummation. Let it be borne in mind
that since the act of Rotnan Catholic emancipation was
passed, or nearly so, the Whigs have had the adminis-
tration in their hands, and we have not seen how that
measure would work under a Conservative government,
and that the experiment is only now about to be made'
The result will be an interesting one.