The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-17 00:00:00

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LINES ON THE LATE ROYAL NUPTIALS.

BY JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Ocean and land the globe divide,
Summer and winter share the year,
Darkness and light walk side by side,
And earth and heaven are always near.
Though each be good and fair alone,
And glorious in its time and place,
In all, when fitly pair'd, are shown
More A their Maker's power and grace.
Then may the union of young hearts,
So early and so well begun,
Like sea and shore, in all their parts,
Appear as twain, but be as one.
Be it like summer; may they find ►
Bliss, beauty, hope, where er they roam !
Be it like winter, when confin'd—
Peace, comfort, happiness, at home!
Like day and night—sweet interchange
Of care, enjoyment, action, rest ;
Coldness nor absence ne'er estrange
Hearts by unfailing love possess'd.
Like earth's horizon, be their scenes
Of life a rich and varied ground!
And, whether lowering varied Serous
Heaven all above it and around!
When land and ocean, day and night,
When time and nature cease to be,
Be their inheritance in light,
Their union one eternity !

THE WAR WITH CHINA.

(From the Morning Herald of Friday.)
From sundry questions addressed, last night, to
Lord John Russell and to Lord Palmerston, it appears
that ministers have no " official" intelligence as to
any proclamation of war against China. (These men
never have " official" accounts of any thing, at the
proper time.) It appeared, further, that the war will
be carried on at the cost of the united Empire, and in
the name of the Queen of England; and that no mes-
sage from the Throne twill be sent to the Houses of
Parliament. Hero again we are to he favoured with
a violation of all precedent by the Queen's reputable
advisers.
This war with China may lead to results of a fearful
character. England is not in a position lo engage
wantonly in war. Her cause of quarrel ought to be,
beyond the possibility of cavil, just. She ought to stir
only in the maintenance of her true interests, in the
assertion of her honour.

England, under her present rulers, has not stirred
to defend her interests or:lie honour in cases in which
both have been grossly assaiked by Russia, by France,
and by the United States. 'England is now about to
vent her wrath upon China„\in a case in which truth
and justice are on the side of our opponents.
The present occupants of office have so conducted
the affairs of the country, as to swell its expenditure
greatly beyond its income. This result, too, has been
brought about simultaneously with the establishment
of a course of policy, unparalleled in point of mean-
ness and indecision. The cowardice, and stupidity,
and baseness of the " Liberals" have cost England
more than the most manly and unflinching course of
action could have done. We have truckled to Russia,
and to France—yet we have saved no money by the
debasing experiment. We keep our army below the
level of efficiency which the services imposed upon it
require ;—we starve our navy—yet still we run in
debt. New taxes are the concomitants, under whig
rule, of the basest parsimony in the administration of
the naval and military services ; and at the very mo-
ment when new taxes have been rendered indispensa-
ble by whig folly, in other respects, our rulers think
fit to rush into an unprovoked and most expensive
war with China. The additional pressure upon our
revenue will, moreover, be surpassed in intensity by
the additional pressure upon our trade. The French
have offered considerable obstruction to our commerce
on the coast of Africa, and in South America—while
Russia has driven us from certain profitable markets
in the East of Europe. It has now become the gra-
cious pleasure of our ministers to destroy our trade
with China—to hand over, in fact, that trade to our
rivals of the United States.

We have truckled to Russia and France—because
France and Russia are strong ; we seek to bully China,
because China is reported weak. Yet it is far from
improbable, that we may meet strong foes, when we
anticipate only a feeble one; it is not by any means
unlikely that having quailed before the armaments of
France and Russia in other quarters of the globe, we
may yet be doomed to encounter them in the Chinese
seas. The French government has actually directed
a fleet of observation to follow our squadron to the
coast of China. The navy of England was not wont
to be " dogged" from hemisphere to hemisphere !
" We cannot be expected," exclaimed Lord John
Russell and his fellow-pillagers of the public purse,
" to keep up war establishments in time of peace."
Where, however, is peace to be found ? We have war
in India, war on the coast of China, war in Canada—
and the signs of arming for war on the part of all the
great nations in Europe! Our fleet, all the while, is
dismantled and only half-manned—the pretext being
the inability of the country to sustain the expense of
protecting her coasts and her trade. Yet money by
millions is about to be wasted in the prosecution of
our disgraceful outrage on the laws of China—money,
which, if judiciously applied to the uses of our navy,
might enable us to defy the combined fleets of Russia,
France, and the United States !

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON THE IST OF MARCH, 1840.

(From the United Service Journal.)

[Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which
the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.)
Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 40th Foot—Bombay ; Chatham
2d—Windsor 41st—Madras; Chatham
Royal Horse Guards—Reg. Park 42d—Limerick
Ist Drgn Gds.—Canada; York 43d—Canada ; Naas
2d—Glasgow 44th—Bengal Chatham
3d—Edinburgh 45th—Newport
4th—Birmingham 46th—Gibraltar; Jersey
sth—Nottingham 47th—Malta, Inniskillen
6th—Manchester 48th—Gibraltar; Templemore
7th—Leeds 49th—Bengal; Chatham
Ist Dragoons—Sheffield 50th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham
2d—Ballincollig 51st—V. D. Land ; Chatham
30—Bengal 52d—West Indies ; Armagh
4th—Bombay 53d*—Ionian Isles ; Plymouth
6th—Dublin 54th—Madras; Chatham
7th Hussars—Canada; York 55th—Madras ; Chatham
Bth—Leeds 56tht—Jamaica •' Dublin
9th Lancers—lpswich 57th—Madras ; Chatham
loth Hussars—Dorchester 58th—Portsmouth
11th Light Dragoons—Cantrbry 59th—Malta; Tralee
12th Lancers—Brighton 60th*(1st battaln.)—lonian Isles;
13th Light Dragoons—Madras Birr
14th—Hounslow rad batt.)—lon. Isles; Clonmel
15th Hussars—Bombay 61st—Ceylon ; Clonmell
16th Lancers—Bengal 62d—Madras ; Chatham
17th Lancers—Dundalk 63d—Madras ; Chatham
Grenadier Guards (1 st batt.) 64th—Jamaica; Boyle
Portman Barracks 65th—Canada ; Clare Castle
(2cl batt.)—Canada 66th—Canada; Kinsale
(3d batt.)—Wellington Barracks 67tht—West Indies; Buttevant
Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 68th—Jamaica ; Cork
St. John's Wood 69th—America; Youghall
(2d batt.)—Canada 70th—W. Indies • Templemore
Scotch Fusileer Guards—(lst batt)7lst —Canada ; Stirling
St. George's Barracks 72d*—Cape of G. Hope ; Dundee
(2cl batt.)—Tower 73d—Canada; Sheerness
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 74th—West Indies; Fermoy
(2d batt.)—Canada 75th—C. of G. Hope • Plymouth
2d Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 76th—West Indies , Enniskillen
3d—Bengal; Chatham 77th—Malta; Hull
78th—Edinburgh
sth—lonian -
4th—Madras ; Chatham
sth—lonian Isles; Galway
6th—Bombay ; Chatham
81st—Barbadoes ;
7th—Gibraltar; Cork ,HChullatham
Bth—America; Guernsey 82d—Jamaica; Portsmouth
9th—Bengal ; Chatham 83d—Canada ; Belfast
10th—Burnley 84th—Kilkenny
11th—Canada; Gosport 85th—Canada; Plymouth
12th—Mauritius; Brecon 86th—Bolton
13th—Bengal; Chatham 87th—Mauritius; Dublin
14th—West Indies ; Chester 88th—Dublin
15th—Canada; Plymouth 89th—West Indies; Gosport
16th—Bengal ; Chatham 90th—Ceylon ; Dover
17th—Bombay; Chatham y I st—Cape&St.llelena; Aberdeen
92d,-Malta ; Birr
18th—Bombay ; Chatham
93d—America ; Fort St. George
19th_Bristol 94t11—Madras; Chatham
Nth—Stockport 95th—Ceylon • Carlisle
21st—Bengal ; Chatham
96th2—Manchester
22d—Dublin 97th—Dublin
23d—America ; Castlebar
98th—Newcastle-on-Tyne
24th—Canada; Portsmouth
25th—C. Good Hope ; Devonport 99th—Athlone
26th—Bengal; Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist batil—Weedon
27th—C. Good Hope ; Wexford (2d batt.)—Windsor
28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham Royal Staff Corps—Hythe
Nth—Woolwich Ist W. Ind. Regt.—Demerara, &c.
Nth—Bermuda ; Newry 2d—New Providence & Honttura.,
31st—Ben Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon
gal ; Chatham
32d—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of
33d—Gibraltar ; Tynemouth Good Hope
34th—Canada; Chatham Royal
African
35th—Mauritlus ; Chatham siAerrfriauonCeolonial Corps-
36th—America ; Limerick
Royal Newfd. Veteran Company-
37th—America; Waterford
Newfoundland
38th—Templemore Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta•
39th—Madras ; Chatham
* Ordered home. t The 56th and 67th are to go to Canada
t Ordered to New South Wales.

DESIGN OF THE POSTAGE COVER.—In less than half the
usual space for the face of a letter, the artist, W. MulreadY,
R.A., has placed groups of upwards of forty figures. In the
centre is Britannia in the act of despatching four winged
messengers. The figures on each side of her are groups
emblematical of British commerce, and communication with
all parts of the world. On the right are East Indians on
elephants, directing the embarkation of merchandise ; next
Arabs, with camels laden ; next, Chinese ; on the left, Ame-
rican Indians concluding a treaty, and negroes packing casks
of sugar. The whole design occupies rather more than an
inch in width along the face of au ordinary envelope. In
what may be called the foreground on the one side, a young
man is reading a letter to his mother, whose clasped hands
express her emotion at its contents; on the other side, is a
group of three figures, each one eagerly pressing around to
read, or at least catch a sight of the welcome letter.—
Westminster Review.
WAITING TO " GO OVER THE WAY."—Many versons
complain that Sir Robert Peel's conduct is inexplicable.
They cannot imagine why he so patiently stops on the oppo-
sition side of the house, when by a vigorous move he might
transfer himself to the other. And what makes the matter
still more of a puzzle to them is, that he ever and anon ex-
hibits indubitable symptoms of an intention, nay a desire, to
"go over the way." But Sir Robert's case is not so enig-
matical as it appears, and may be illustrated by an old story,
which, if it be only a juke, nevertheless carries a good moral
with it. " One day," says the narrator, "I observed a sim-
ple countryman standing on tip-toe against the Mansion
House, manifestly with the intention of crossing over to the
bank. On my return that way, there he was on tip-toe still ;
and so, on a third, fourth, and I don't know how many visits
to the spot, I found him fidgetting to make a start, but not
an inch nearer the object he had his eye upon than he was in
the morning. At last, out of a mixture of compassion and
curiosity, I asked the poor fellow what he wanted, that he
waited there so long, anti his answer was that he wanted to
go over the way to the bank (as I suspected), but that he
was waiting till all the carriages had passed." The appli-
cation to Sir Robert is too palpable to need pointing out ;
but if he continues waiting till the Irish agitators have done
crossing his path, he will find the obstacles to his " going
over the way' as interminable as the countryman did the
carriages, and, like him, throw away all his patience at last.
—Morning Herald.