The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-16 00:00:00

THE SPEECHES, WRITINGS AND CORRESPOND-
ENCE OF TITUS O'FLAHERTY, ESQ.

[The nature and object of the series of articles now com-
menced in the Liverpool Standard, will he better seen by and
by, than I could here explain or describe to the leader. Suf-
fice it to say, they will constitute a melange, agreeable, at
least, it is to be hoped, to the taste of the liberal party—that
bright and honest party to which I am proud to belong, but
which, 1 regret to admit, is rapidly diminishing, not in re-
spectability, because that it never possessed, but in numerical
strength throughout the kingdom, or rather eitteendom!
T. O'FLAHERTY.I

November 14th.
My London Political Correspondent writes me a long let-
ter to-day. He says the folks talk and think of nothing there
except the great conflict which is anticipated, as soon as
Parliament re-assembles, between Durham, Melbourne, and
Brougham, in the House of Lords. Brougham is represented
as " panting for the fray." The latter noble and learned
lord calls Durham the Tiger, Melbourne the Lion, and him-
self the Von Arnburg of the promised piece. Be that the
caste or not, no doubt there will be a full house, and plenty
of fun ! '

My Correspondent, who is a great reader and literary gos-
sip, apprizes me of two or three new works and publications,
which have just appeared in the metropolis, and which he
promises to send me in a few days. The first is No. lof the
•• Whig Medical Gazette," published on Saturday last. The
following is the advertised table of contents:—

I. Lecture on the Digestion of Royal Dinners; on the
Indolence, Lethargy, and other Evils they engender
in Statesmen, &c. Delivered at the Medical Theatre,
in Downing-street, by Professor Melbourne.
11. On the Use of Narcotics in Official Life; containing
the result of several Experiments on the Author's
Constitution. By Dr. Glenelg.
111. On the Use of Cosmetics in Ditto. By Dr. Palmer-
ston.
IV. Singular Case of the alarming Effects of Fear on the
Human Subject, namely, William Lamb, occa-
sioned by the receipt of a threatening Letter from
his Agent and Cousin, George Lamb-ton, in Canada.
Communicated by his Medical Attendant.
V. Report of a remarkable Phvsiognomical Identity be-
tween the celebrated Comic Actor Liston, and a
certain Irish Secretary. By Assistant-Surgeon
Morpeth.
VI. On the Anatomy of the Organ of Voice in the Feline
Species, and the resemblance in Cadency occasion-
ally discovered in the Human. By R. L. Shed, of
Greenwich Hospital.
VIE. The Diseases and Treatment of the Joints of the Dorsal
Extremity. By Dan O'Connell, Accoucheur of the
Lying (in) Hospital, Dublin.
VI 11. Observations on the dangerous Practices and. Recipes
of Itinerant Quacks and Empirics. By Dr. Bow-
ring.
IX. Report of a Case of Obliquity or Deception of Vision,
wherein the Patient could not distinguish Black
from White, when it suited his purpose. By Joseph
Hume, Esq., late Surgeon in India, now A.S.S.
and Physician to the Incurables.
With a variety of other interesting Articles and Intelligence.

The second work which he mentions is a New Annual, to
be published in a few days, of which he has obtained an early
copy. It contains twelve Portraits of the most eminent and
unprincipled Whigs and Radicals of the present day. My
Correspondent does not furnish me with the set list of literary
contributions, but he says he has read and particularly ad-
mired the following ;—" Lines to my Darlin' Son, Mast
Courtenay. By Datuel O'Connell, Esq."—" Ode to Sleep.
By Lord Glenelg."—" I got in a Mess, by my Speech at
Totness. A dolorous Ballad. By Lord J. Russell."—" Fare-
well to Cambridge. Written at the close of the late Regis-
tration Revision. By tke Right Hon. T. S. Rice."—" In-
teresting Anecdotes of a Watch Dog, the Ponto of Downing-
street. By Viscount Ebrington."—" Song, Oh! find me a
Seat;' addressed to Mr. O'Connell. By William Ewart,
Esq."—". Voltaire in Canonicals; or, Sacred Things turned
into Farce. By Sidney Smith."—" Of the Comparative
Dramatic Genius and Merit of Shakespear and the Author
of Don Carlos. By Lord J. Russell."—" Wallace; a Mur-
derous Tragedy, or Tragedy Murdered. By Murder Young."
" A new Canadian Boat Song, for three Voices, as sung by
Messrs. Duncombe, Turton, and Gibbon Wakefield," &c.

Sir John Campbell announces—" Selections from the
Speeches of the Attorney-general in Edinburgh, szc., con-
taining all the Sneers, and reviling and traducing Remarks
on the Peerage. Dedicated to Lady Sttatheden and her el-
dest Son."

THE CORN LAWS.—" Arguments for the Abolition of the
Corn Laws; wherein the Author demonstrates that the only
way to perpetuate and increase the Tyranny of the Money

PoWer in the State, is to annihilate the Counter-interest, that
is, the Landed, or Agricultural. By Col. Peyronnet Thomp-

LIVERPOOL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—Now that the muni-
cipal struggle is well over, I will relate the following anec-
dote.—A proud Whig canvasser, in Exchange Ward, called
upon a Conservative tradesman for his vote. Not receiving
a satisfactory answer quite so quick as he desired, he said,
" Sir, you must vote my way, or I shall withdraw my custom
from your shop." " Your custom and you," retorted the
Conservative, " are two contemptible things;—walk out of
my shop." Now, my object in repeating the above, is to as-
certain whether the reply quted is not libellous. Surely the
man who calls a Whig, and a Whig canvasser, a thing, is
open to a prosecution !