The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

JANUARY

t from Lord John
ession just opened,
—anything to make the

mder or with awe; and,
it we read the usual ex-

Majesty's

,
but we cannot

—, Liu. ibo perusal with the same pas-
It did surprise us that a statesman, so

Lord John R

;ell, at a time when

I social and economical de-
vying the public mind, could
f as being respectful to the

Lty of Parliament

and to-the intelligence of

the nation, to show
cordance with
Gov
Her
on the int

) little of the polic-y in a:e

e proposes to carry on his

,rnmer.

blusters appear to have looked
linessbefore them with only one

eye, which
Lion of the

lyfixed upon every other'por:
e United Kingdom of Great
Colonial Empire attached to

Britain, ar

her sway, bein

t entirely overlooked. Ire

land—her crin

wretchedness—
The Monti
_ .

s—her social disorganization and
ngross the lion's share of notice.
Ire told, (and her
ld this part of the speech

,rnage, WE

Majesty i

d emphasis,) has a

paragraph
tort' Paraa

a very peremn—

le River hate al.(

touched upon; and we are told that her Majesty's
"relations generally with foreign powers inspire her
with the fullest confidence in the maintenance of
peace." But England and Wales are only referred
to in order to assure us that preparations are being
made for carrying out the Local Courts' Bill for
the recovery of small debts, and that measures will
be brought forward for improving the health of
towns.
Perhaps we have

) right to complain of this ap-
Ireland has for years past, and will

probably for years to coin(
fair and reas
Lion. Her
lame share

up more than her

cable share of the legislative atten-
isent condition gives her a title to a
With Lord Palmerston at the head of
we are likely enough to have
irotests to notice

the Foreign Off

But there
are important subjects upon which the people of
Great Britain feel a deep interest, and the import-

disagreeme

ance of NI

itch mid

have ful

justified Govern-

went in ref

mito them, however briefly
of these

question of national education is

condition and prc

ustrial popula-

Lion, and our are

iufacturing interests, ought

to have been

ortny or a passing notice ;
laps, press itself upon the
Legislature sooner than they
he new Poor-law

Ine appointment o:

Commission exiii(
sion; and althougl

the end of the present ses-
have since had a Ministerial

avpos, with respect to a proposed supervision of
their acts, the country would have been more satis-
fied to learn whether the full maintenance of the
law itself is to be insisted upon, as a measure upon
which the existence of Government is to be staked.
Our colonies, too, from their vast extent and im-

anon, if n

they have had

from our re

'illation,.

red that their exist-

Downie

-stree

veil has been par-
.e to judge of the

'l' measure

and if we

n Ireland or

e existing distress

used on Wei

from the measures

lay, and Friday

ti notion of their
abolition of the

would bring in from the re

es little, save effect-
at, which that duty

he corn specu

pocket Of

n of the Navi-

gation Laws is a measure which, if it was to be
adopted at all, ought to have been adopted sooner;

lolly aid us

an bre

The use of

British community, although
colonial arower.

on ti

does little for
may confer a

lity of

If any material

may be fox

improvem
,nd, and t

3r these purposes,

=ion or

isionate survey'

he permanent

ajesty is facetiously made tt
absence of political excitt

air of her social
of which, her
that the present
b" affords " an

)• far it

must confess ourselves quite un-

.er has

) the adoption

;, to be in a state
,ns of every grade

which government
v far the head of

I to bear himself

and difficulties, will de-
rhether his lordship
nd discretion to steer
neither bend

and =democracy on