The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

cast. I need not tra

mother

unfortunate wife anc

1. -ceasing cause of pnmixed dissatisfaction, from the fre-
t, ever presenting quent accidentally erroneous, and often intentionally un-
vhich she deemed just, verdicts. It would appear from some of their deci-
blown fact, that sions that they were habitually indifferent to the solemn
of superior order
obligation of an oath, the sworn evidence being not un-
vable than that of one which never frequently a matter of minor consideration, when in com-
it has fallen at ail. To the waking petition with the momentary impul
- . ieradded self-reproach feelings. particularly when they hay(

at lot a

ever. I

of their private

there is

partial or vindictive

:0 indulge,

;ed by bu

Of petit juries ti
of liberated Al

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who. fir want of intelligence, too frequently decide, even
in eases of life and death, by a verdict that would greatly

first impressed with the idea that it could only be meant
as a black joke. When one of their own nation or colour
is arraigned for any crime, no matter how deep the com-
plexion, though proven guilty, acquittal in most follows
_ _

he had been for those eight
d from the effect of which
)rary relief. Add

Imminds's Colonial Mao,

,s the only (

iy court, to the

THE FOUNTAINS AND CHURCHES OF ROME.—Here,
as everywhere, we were pursued by the shameless, wretched

kes the ruined aspect of the great outward thi

ferred, what need I

any such spring,

they were utterly I

They thought the

the only being"

ion at the

would not live among those people for anything in the
world ; and, when I think of England and America I
thank God that I was born in the on and shall live in the
other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the
fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more sa-
tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn
them, gods and goddesses, dolphins, shells, &c., interfere
with the effect of the beautiful element itself ; and though
of course, there is no comparison between the graceful
forms of the basin of the Acqua Paolu, Trevi, &c., and

height of nearly sixty feet, and falling back in a cataract.
is a finer thing in itself than a whole Olympus of carved
stone divinities. From this fine fountain, by the side of
which one enjoys a noble view of Rome, we went to St.
Peter's ; and here I was only astonished at finding how

1, or any

nth which they are
conclusion that the
ther direction. We

perfectly I knew it ; how absolutely like what I had
imagined it was ; so that, except that the roof was a little
higher than I expected, I felt as if I had been there a
hundred times, and in no way exceeded or differed from
)ectations. The four-post bed (the one idea those

rks and places

must first afford them- com-

heir minds_from I

than the material ones

which ever a pig

,uch an irnproveme
and even the clergy-

horrid canopies over the high altars ever suggest to me)
in the middle arrested the sweep of the eye from end to
end of this majestic temple, and disfigured it painfully to
me ; but, except that there is nothidg in the whole that
was not simple, sublime. and absolutely satisfactory in its
huge, beautiful proportions—l was not prepared, and was
proportionately thankful, for the absence of all the tawdry,
tinselly, holy trumpery so perpetually hanging about the
different shrines in Catholic churches, making them look
like old curiosity shops, and disfiguring both their beauti-
ful forms and the beautiful materials they are built of.—
Mrs. Butter's (Fanny Kemble) Year of Consolation.

this conclus

•
n JOHN RUSSELL'S APPROACH TO CONSERVATISM.
nwhile, Lord John Russell has marched as steadily

went truth and

of our

iently to e

Peel has gone off in the direction of the movement. He
is no longer the advocate of extreme measures. The fa-
mous Irish Appropriation-clause is dead and buried, never
to rise again. There is not a whisper about an extended
suffrage, either in Great Britain or Ireland. Corporation
reform has reached its limits ; and the constitution of
1831 seems to be complete. At the same time his lord-

indulger

his dail

He bas conceded to the Church a point

and ti

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d him f

of the
I haw

ich the prof

6ssed friends of the Church peremptorily
A.saph retains its bishop, and, unless corn-
him, Lord John is about to sanction the
I. besides. His Irish

of a tava

policy also, whether sound or otherwise, is at least impar-
tial. There is no attempt to elevate one party above ano-

!tem would be pro-
under which he la-

A that

it its influence

Ei.y, his c

if heard at all, it seems to produce no
. Undoubtedly, we cannot approve of
the arrangements made to meet the exigencies of the
Irish famine at the outset. We think that, considering
the genius of the people, they were as ill-advised in theory
as in their execution they have proved fruitful of abuse.
Rut me are far from accusing Lord John of seeking this

,nd, to avoid which, indee-d, in dealing with Ireland,
teems to be, under any circumstances, impossible. In

miy not a party

her sad TY

s we presume that it must be, it
!e of a powerful party opposition.

re, what do we find

)rward, which

except their presur

munity

Ivstem ; to the

Could Peel, or Canning, or Pitt
himself, d these things better ? We do not
luAieve that they could : we are confident that, under the
-rme of them would have had the hardihood
—^ we. then ?—we who, for fifteen

o attenr

more, have fought the battle of the constitution
Tory banner, and played no mean part in keeping
uartv toaether ? Exactly where we have always

been,—the uncompromising advocates of genuine Tory
principles, the friends of social improvement so long as it
hall be judiciously carried on, faithful to the Church,
l to the throne, and true to the people. But as to party,
) forth. we hereby proclaim

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