The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

Admitting as we do the Queen's name to be a tower
of strength, we are glad to find that they of the ad-
verse part neither have, nor pretend to have it on their
side. We take her Majesty's most gracious speech or
dissolving the late parliament as the only index b)
which we can judge of her disposition towards either
party in the state at the present moment, and, upon
examination of its terms, we undertake to say it will
appear that the royal address is Conservative—that it
is an appeal to Conservatives, and that Conservatives
alone can give due effect to its proper intent and ob-
jects. Let the Whigs give a better version of it if they
can ; let them take it to the hustings and make speeches
upon it; let them placard the walls with it; we care
not; we still affirm that, upon any fair construction
the Queen's speech is—what it ought to be—Conser•
vative, and that every elector who desires to comp])
with the injunctions of his royal mistress will vote for
Conservative candidates only.
In the first place, her Majesty says, "On alai/ con-
" sideration of the present state of public affairs, I
" have come to the determination of dissolving parlia-
" ment." From this it is plain that her Majesty, hav-
ing at last obtained a thorough insight into the rascally
character of the Whigs, has determined to get rid of
them. So long as they continued to keep her in the
dark—so long as they only permitted her to obtain
partial views of public affairs—she allowed them to go
on with a free course in their folly; but a "full con-
sideration" of the state of things altered her mind;
she then saw how she had been bamboozled, and she
instantly determined to give the nation an opportunity
of passing sentence upon them. We never enter-
tained a doubt that her most gracious Majesty would
sooner or later become a Conservative, nor that at any
time a full and mature consideration would lead her to
dismiss, and rejoice in being rid of, those evil counsel-
lors by whonr she has been too long surrounded ; but
we greatly exult in the thought that this hapgy con-
summation is arrived even now. Her Majesty, having
fully considered the state of public affairs, has per-
ceived that the Whigs are everywhere in disgrace—
that their policy was bringing the country to the verge
of ruin—that in parliament they had come to a dear
lock, and therefore that nothing remained to do bu
give the people an opportunity of cashiering all thos
unworthy representatives who had aided and abetter
them in their evil courses. Wherefore she gracious])
complied with the earnest wish of all her faithful Con-
servative subjects both in and out of the great council
of the nation, and, upon " full consideration," dis-
solved the parliament.
But further : her Majesty has condescended to as-
sign certain reasons for taking this step, and from
these also, it clearly appears that Conservatism is the
only clue by which we can find our way securely
through whatever may seem obscure or difficult in the
instrument. The reasons are two : first, " the para-
mount importance of the trade and industry of the
country;" and, secondly, the necessity of " providing
for the exigencies of the public service in the manner
least burthensome to the community."
Her Majesty felt a due and just regard for the
" trade and industry of the country," and therefore
she wisely determined not to allow them to be trifled
with or damaged by her Whig ministers. In the last
parliament she saw that interests of such paramount
importance could not but sustain injury, from the
ruinous measures of her ministers, if they had been
unfortunately able to carry them, and from those who
would propose good ones not being in a proper situa-
tion to originate them. Wherefore she prudently re-
solved to dissolve and break up a complication so every
way disadvantageous. In a Conservative parliament
all this will be changed. Those who with her Majesty
form a just appreciation of the paramount importance
of the trade and industry of the country will constitute
the great majority, and she will have the opportunity of
making up a new government of the best materials.
" Providing for the exigencies of the state in the
least burthensome manner." This her Majesty has
discovered could not be effected under Whig regime,
for two reasons : first, because these Whigs have a
way of creating interminable exigencies themselves
and, secondly, because their mode of providing for
each is the most burthensome possible.
Who caused the present financial exegencies of the
state ? The Whigs, and the Whigs alone. Their
commissions and their place-making—their jobbing
and their pensioning—their improvident tampering
with the best sources of revenue—their foreign policy
and their home—their Canada war—their Syrian war,
and almost their French and American wars—their
wasteful extravagance in every department, and their
blundering budgets ;—these are the things which have
created the " exigencies ;" and to get rid of exigencies
no choice is left but to dismiss the Whigs. No won-
der, therefore, that her Majesty's anxious concern fo r
the " trade and industry" of the country should have
had a large share in influencing her determination to
call a new parliament and get rid of the Whigs.
As to providing for exigencies "in the least burthen-
some manner," she well knew that Conservatives are
the only party to look to for such sort of provision.
The Whig mode—much as they talk of free-trade—
has been found to be a general screwing up of taxes
upon trade and upon everything. That is the Whig
mode of meeting exigencies. Therefore, her Majesty
(long may she reign over us) has done with them, and
is resolved, by appealing to the nation and securing to
herself a strong Conservative Parliament and Ministry,
to repair the damage and provide for the exigencies
caused by the spend-thrift Whigs—" in the least bur-
thensome manner."

Sir Robert Peel, we may depend upon it, is the man
for this. Some of the exigencies, we dare say, he will
provide for by removing them altogether. This we
should expect from his economy, his prudence, skill,
and good management. For others, he will provide,
in the " least burthensome manner." He will lay no
new burthens on our colonial trade, nor deprive any
home interest of its rightful amount of protection ;
he will not favour slave-grown foreign sugar, and
depreciate colonial free ; and above all, he will eschew
the miserable and mean delusion of that sinking crew
who now cry up
cheap bread in the agonies of despair
and death. Their death-bed repentance, however, has
come too late. Down they are going, and go they must.
Her Majesty concludes with an appeal to her forth-
coming Conservative Parliament and to all Conservative
electors, to which, we are satisfied, they will cordially
rds are these:—
The words respond.