The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

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THE GLOW-WORM.

(From Blackwood's Magazine for August, 1834.)
0 Gem, more precious than the thrice-tried ore,
And jewels that the cavern'd treasuries hold,
.(For what rare diamond ere did life enfold?)
Thee at her bridal hour the chaste Earth wore,
When /Ether, her proud bridegroom, came, and o'er
.Htsiven's Archway spread his mantle, gemm'd with gold
Oiatass in all their glory manifold—
.. o' Ye t deent'd Earth's bosom still adorned more.
• - ItastAbon, like Hero, lightest to thy nook
Some bold Leander with thy constant flame,
Whose Hellespont may be this running brook.
0 let this wise-man-worm his pride abjure,
And his own love be half as bright and pure!

FAREWELL TO THE SESSION.

( From the Morning Herald.)
Farewell to the session—another
Half-year of reprieve to Lord John;
To think how this, that way, or t'other,

His ministry still can go on
How he vet can bamboozle the nation,
And the profits of office retain ;
Since the old trick of appropriation
Can ne'er serve his purpose again.
Farewell to the session—'twas funny,
Through weeks nearly forty, to see
The world-be-wise looks of Lord Johnny,
And Spring Rice trying like wise to be;
'Twas funny to list to the latter,
When, with voice 'tvrixt a squeal and a croak,
He tried through the budget to patter,
Or pump'd up some second-hand joke.
Farewell to the session—and farewell
To Cupid, well stricken in years,
Who, though foreign sec., could not bear well
The mention of foreign affairs.
Earl Minto farewell—the vacation
Will give you some time to attend
A few lectures on plain navigation,
With some practical trips to Gravesend.
Farewell to the session—big Daniel
Has sail'd for the " big bill of Howth ;"
And has ta'en on the voyage Den's manual
To teach him to fritter an oath :
Joe Hume sails for Greece, for they owe him
A debt which they'll pay him in haste,
Their fingers are itching to show him
How they reverence his fine classic taste.
Farewell to the session—the premier—
Bound no more in his place to attend—
Has, " smiling before him," a demi-year
On subjects more pleasant to spend:
A wit, bon vivant, and a lover,
He can now in his old course push on,
Flirt, chat, write, pun, get half-seas over,
Or arrange a new case of crim. con.
Farewell to to the session—but steady:—
The imp of the Herald cries out
That my farewell is too long already,
So I'd better mind what I'm about.
I had much more to say, but in volumes
That much more could scarce be expressed,
So in pity, dear sir, to your columns,
I'll write " farewell in haste" to the rest.

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THE AFFAIRS OF CANADA.
( From the Morning Herald.)
The latest accounts from Canada have filled our mi-
nisterial journals with delight. Lord Durham has
beem making a tour in Upper Canada ;—he has re-
ceived sundry congratulary addresses ;—he has review-
ed the troops at Toronto ;—he has given a public din-
ner to a promiscuous party of English subjects and of
Americans ;—and he is, in one word, (if the whig pa-
pers may be credited) a most popular personage—the
eery man, in short, whom the emergencies of the times
require to preside over our dependencies in North
America.
Now we never, for our own parts, doubted Lord
Durham's fondness for self-exhibition, or his fitness to
sustain the style of mock-majesty. His progress has,
doubtless, been very grand—his review brilliant— his
dinner of the finest quality—and the addresses full of
civilities. We are not disposed, moreover, to question
Lord Durham's expertness at the game of political
conciliation. He will (we are very ready to con-
cede) conciliate the Canadian traitors, and the ene-
mies of England in the United States, as effectually
as Lord Mulgrave has conciliated the Irish enemies of
the English connection. Lord Mulgrave, too, like his
brother viceroy, has had his triumphant tours, and ex-
hibited dazzling military spectacles, and given good
dinners, and received flattering addresses. But trea-
son, unchecked, is at this moment rearing its head in
Mr. O'Connell's new Dublin Association , and treason,
we fear, is likely to derive fresh energy in Canada
from all Lord Durham's movements.
The dinner-party of the Canadian viceroy would
seem to have been the greatest of his achievements.
At that party, out of 200 guests, 50 were citizens of
the United States; and after the health of the Queen
had been toasted, Lord Durham proposed the health of
the President of the United States ! Now, let us
mark the import of these demonstrations.
The spot selected by Lord Durham for his military
display, and for his public dinner, was on the United
States frontier, and in the near neighbourhood of the
places chosen by Mr. Van Buren's subjects, or consti-
tuents, or whatever other title may best describe them,
as the scene of their brutal piratical incursion into the
dominions of the Queen of England. From that part
of the United States the traitors derived their princi
pal resources. In that part of the United States the
traitors found co-operation—co-operation, be it re-
membered, totally unchecked by any counteracting
demonstration in favour of the English government.
The piracies of the Caroline, the invasion of Navy
Island, and the innumerable outrages perpetrated on
loyal Canadians at the outbreak of the rebellion, were
all planned near the spot where Lord Durham gave
his entertainment, and, very probably, by some of
Lord Durham's honoured Yankee guests ! What !
were there no loyal Canadians—no men who had
stepped forward in the hour of peril, to vindicate Bri-
tish ascendancy—were there, we ask, no men of that
stamp on whom Lord Durham's hospitality might have
been exercised, at least as profitably, as on natives of
the United States, who are reeking from the perpetra-
tion of outrages on the subjects of Great Britain ?
To honour the abettors of Mackenzie and his gang is
a course of action in the Viceroy of Canada little bet-
ter adapted to restore tranquillity to that country than
would be a tribute of honour rendered to Mackenzie
himself. The thing was an insult to the loyal inhabi-
tants of Upper Canada.
And the health of the President of the United States
was proposed by Lord Durham immediately after the
health of the Queen ! Let it he recollected that the
President of the United States showed himself not un-
willing to aid the Canadian traitors, by all the safe
means at his disposal. He prejudged the case of the
Caroline, and demanded reparation for the destruction
of that piratical vessel? He declared himself unable
to repress the piracies of his fellow-countrymen ; and
he took advantage of the embarrassment of our affairs
in Canada, to declare that the time had arrived for de-
ciding the question of the north-eastern boundary !
As far as he could, in short, without committing him-
self to a rash course of policy, Mr. Van Buren has
recently, as on all former occasions, approved himself
the determined enemy of England! Yet the health
of Mr. Van Buren was toasted by Lord Durham, im-
mediately after the health of Queen Victoria! We
must be permitted to doubt whether such a nemonstra-
tion was calculated to strengthen the attachment of the
Queen's loyal subjects to the Canadian Viceroy's prin-
ciples of government.
Lord Durham bids fair, in melancholy truth, to be-
come a mere toot in the bands of Mr. Van Buren.
3', armed with the whole execu-
The latter functionary,
tive of the United States, declared publicly that he
could not repress the piratical movements of his coun-
trymen against the subjects of the Queen of England !
The power of repression therefore vested of necessity
in the Governor of Canada—in Lord Durham. And
how did he deal with the marauders from the United
States, rho were captured at Point-
au-Pelee ? He
detained them prisoners of war, and sent
to
thvelmanbfarecskh,
unpunished, to their native country, o
outrages against British subjects ! If Mr. Van Bu-
ren's fellow-subjects were prisoners of war, Mr. Van
Buren himself must be the open enemy of England.
These movements in Canada are fitting counterparts
to the "conciliatory" movements in Ireland—nay, in
England. The Queen's ministers offer very high
judicial appointment to a man whom, four years be-
fore, they denounced in a speech from the throne as a
public enemy. In acknowledgment of this offer of
advancement, Mr. O'Connell immediately organises a
scheme for the dismemberment of the empire ! Lord
11 airfare too has already given some offence to the
nieh friends of the English connection, by publicly
entertaining Mr. O'Connell at the Castle ; but his
lordship, we suppose, will soon take a lesson from
Lord Durham, and when he shall next regale the men-
dicants the toast that may be expected to follow the
health of Queen Victoria, will probably be the health
of the Pope! To that complexion the march of " con.
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