The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-07 00:00:00

LORD DURHAM.

(Abridged from the 2nd Edition of the Devonport Telegraph.)
It having been determined at a public meeting of the li-
berals of Devonport and its neighbourhood, that'an address
congratulating the Earl of Durham on his arrival, and ex-
pressive of entire satisfaction and approval of his government
in Canada, should be presented to him, Lord Durham ap-
pointed two o'clock on Saturday to receive the address. The
doors of the Town-hall were opened to the public at half-
past one. The interior had been tastefully decorated with
silk flags and banners, and presented a very animated and
interesting appearance; a large number of ladies, members
of the corporation and their friends, and distinguished
strangers, who had visited the town for the purpose of at-
tending the presentation, having been previously admitted
by tickets. In a very short period, the capacious hall was
crowded in every part. Among those on, or immediately
round, the benches were observed—the Countess of Durham,
Lady Mary and Lady Emily Lambton, Lady Elizabeth
Bulteel, Mrs. Ellice, Lady Buller, Miss Buller, Mrs. Run-
dle; Sir A. Buller, Sir W..lilolesicorth, Bert. M.P., J. Run-
-ale, Esq. M.P., T. Duncombe, Esq. M.P., G. Wakefield,
Esq., J. C. Ellis, Esq., magistrates of the borough, &c. &c.
A few minutes before two, Lord Durham arrived in a car-
riage at the western entrance of the hall; he was met at the
door by the Mayor and Thomas Woolcombe, Esq., who con-
ducted his lordship to the committee-room at the end of the
hall, -where the gentlemen who composed the deputation
were presented. Ilis lordship, accompanied by the deputa-
tion and a large body of gentlemen, then ascended the plat-
form in the hall, where he was received by the most enthu-
siastic acclamations. The address, which condemned in
strong terms the faction whose successful machinations had
induced his lordship's return, was read by the mayor of De-
vonport; on which the Earl of Durham rose, amid loud
plaudits, and read the following reply :—" Mr. Mayor and
Gentlemen—l beg you to accept my warmest thanks for the
expression of good will and esteem with which you have
greeted my return to England. You will never have reason
to repent the confidence that you have placed in me, or the
declaration which you have this day made of your approba-
tion of my government in British North America. So far
as it seemed to me imperatively necessary, in order to allay
the most alarming irritation and excitement in the Canadas,
and to lead men's minds from the contemplation of present
evils to the prospect of future remedies, I have already ex-
plained the nature and scope of the policy which I pursued
as governor-general. Upon that subject I shall, when par-
liament meets, be prepared to make a representation of facts
wholly unknown sere, and disclosures of which the parlia-
ment and people'of this country have no conception; and I
shall then fearlessly demand from the assembled legisla-
ture that justice which neither they nor the people of
England ever will deny to a public servant who has faith-
fully and honestly discharged the duties assigned to him.
What relates to myself, however, is of no importance, when
compared with the interests of your fellow subjects—the in-
habitants of British North America. To the furtherance of
those interests I have publicly and solemnly declared that I
would devote myself with singleness of purpose, and inde-
pendently of all party considerations iu this country.
I ain
glad of an opportunity, at the very moment of lauding in
England to repeat that pledge. The necessity of this course
is well understood by the people of British America, and be-
fore long will be also comprehended by the people of England;
involving, as it does, the very existence of British supremacy
all over the world, and the efficient maintenance or weak
abandonment of that policy wick is expressed in the words
ships, colonies, and commerce.' Referring to the conclusion
of your address, and to the principles which have governed
my political conduct at home,l can, with truth, assure you,
that they are unchanged and unchangeable. They were
formed on the maturest deliberation, and been strengthened
by observation, as each succeeding event demonstrated to my
mind their soundness and policy. My attention, therefore,
to the cause of that reform of our institutions to which you
allude cannot be doubted. It has been tested by the share
I took in the preparation of that reform bill to which this
important town owes its political privileges; and it has been
confirmed, I should imagine, beyond all question, by my de-
clarations to the people of Scotland in 1834. I need not
make any new professions; I have nothing to add to, nothing
to retract from, thgp declarations, which, in my conscience,
I believe to be thAxpressions of principles alike conducive
to the honour and dignity of the throne, the security of pro-
perty, the prosperity of industry, the promotion of wise and
liberal institutions, and the general happiness of the people."
His lordship, having concluded, retired amid the warmest
plaudits of the meeting.—Sir W. Molesworth then addressed
the meeting, having first proposed three cheers for the Earl
of-Durham: in the course of his address, the hon. baronet
said—" All that is necessary for the public to entirely ap-
prove of his lordship's conduct is, that he should have an
opportunity of laying the whole of the circumstances con-
nected with his Canadian mission before the public; and
when his lordship's plans are laid before parliament, I feel
assured that it will be seen that they were best fitted to secure
that portion of her Majesty's dominions." And the hon.
baronet expressed his conviction, that it is the duty of every
sincere reformer to " unite in assisting to carry out his views,
tending more to the peace and prcmeperity of the Canadas than
any thing else." Three cheers were given for the Queen,
and for the Countess of Durham; and the meeting broke up,
having first voted thanks to the mayor.

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS FOR DEC. 1838.

(From the World of Fashion.)
Cloaks are composed of velvet, and lined with satin ; the
velvet is either black, or some rich dark hue; the lining
should be either rose, green, or yellow; it is wadded and
quilted, and in some instances turns over, so as to form a fac-
ing, but not a very deep one, on the fronts of the cloak; an
embroidery, either in the colour of the lining or in small
shaded flowers, encircles in the border, and ends in a gerbe,
which mounts rather high at each corner. The pelerine is
pointed, is of very moderate size, and descends but little be-
low the waist; it is embroidered to correspond; as are also
the bottom of the sleeves, which are long and wide, but not
immoderately so. Some were made %sith sleeves, which an-
swer the purpose of a muff, and are, in fact, more comforta-
ble; they are wide, and deeply trimmed with sable, so that
when the arms are folded on the bosom, and the hands en-
veloped in the sleeves, the resemblance to a muff is peifect.
SHAWL—A new one has just been introduced, called
chatelama. It has come from the banks of the Ganges, and
promises to become very fashionable. They are of a large
size, and of one colour only—either green, groseille, Peru-
vian blue, ecru, or grey; they are bordered with a galon,
composed of gold and silver twilled, interspersed with acorns
of the same.

BONNETS.—VeIvet ones begin to appear; but the most
decidedly fashionable, as well as novel, are those of the drawn
kind, composed of black crape, edged with ruches of the same,
and crown trimmed with black lace, intermingled with
flowers. Bonnets are decidely smaller, and those of the
demi-bibi shape are in great request. It is a pretty and be-
coming modification of the cottage form.
HATs.—*The brims up to the present time encirle the face,
en aureole, and the crowns descend low behind. Those of
shot silk and velvet are a good deal in request. The favourite
style of trimming for hats consists of an intermixture of
feathers, with either black or white lace. The most novel
fancy feathers are the marabouts argus.
DINNER DRESS.—II. is expected that furs will be very
generally adopted in the trimmings of dinner robes. Some
are trimmed en tunique, that is to say, a rouleau ,of sable
descends from the waist on each side, and is turned back
round the border at a considerable distance from the bottom.
The extremity of the skirt is finished with a broad flat band
of sable; the corsage, half high, is trimmed with a lappel,
forming a V, and edges with a narrow rouleau of sable, and
the sleeves large at the lower part, and terminated by sable
cuffs, have the tops confined to the arm by three narrow
rouleaus of sable.

TURBAN CAPS will be in very great vogue for dinner
dress. Some are composed of tulle Sylphide, others of blonde
net; but the most elegant are of blonde lace. The caul is
always low, and placed far back; the front, small and light,
is decorated with velvet flowers, placed on one side only.
Turbans will enjoy more than their usual vogue, both in
dinner and evening dress. Those for social parties, of grena-
dine gauze, either plain or figured in rich full colours, and
trimmed with a dyed bird of paradise; black ones are the
most in request. The turbans for grand dinner parties are
either of velvet, trimmed with feathers, or of gauze, embroi-
dered in gold; these last are decorated with espirits.
EVENING ROBES.—The materials are extremely varied—
the richest silks, the most superb velvets, and satins. India
muslins, gauzes, and tulle are all in request. Tile generality
of velvet robes have no trimming round the border, but the
corsages and sleeves are profusely decorated with lace.
Some have short sleeves made a little full, the fulness ar-
ranged in oblique puffs, by very narrow bias descending from
the shoulder-piece.

HEAD-DRESS IN EVENING DRESS offer greater variety
than we ever remember. The bonnet Clorinde is composed
of black tulle or lace, with black ornaments intermingled
with orange ribands and yellow monkshoods. The effect is
exceedingly striking and original. More simple, but exqui-
sitely pretty is the bonnet Roche!, which has nothing Jewish
about it. but its name ; the caul small, and placed very
backward, is composed of tulle Sylphide ; the front of blond
lace, an extremely open ground, and very light pattern, is
disposed en aureole round the face, and intermingled with
small field flowers; this is one of the most generally becom-
ing caps we have ever seen.
BALL DRESS.-1-leavy materials are decidedly hors de la
mode for ball robes—tulle, gauze, mouisseline de sole, and
organdy, all, be it understood, over satin slips, are the mate-
rials will be in request this winter. Some of the most ele-
gant ball robes are composed of tulle, trimmed with a deep
flounce of blonde lace.

,1741;TaaiNs.—Their revival has been announced
so often that we have hitherto given very little credit to it,
but we are forced at last to admit not only that there is a
strong probability, but even almost a positive certainty, that
as soon as the season has fairly opened, both will be intro-
duced as full dress. The first resemble in no respect those
cumbrous machines of whalebone and buckram, in which our
great grandmothers were encased; they are light, flexible,
and of modern size, and are so constructed that by touching
certain springs, a lady may raise or lower her hoop in a mo-
ment. Trains, which are certainly indispensible with hoops,
are very graceful, if properly managed.
BALL HEAD DRESSES are of hair, and decidedly low.
The antique style is most prevalent in the ornaments of fancy
jewellery adopted for them. Wreaths of small gold flower-
and Venetian pins of gold, with the heads enriched with pres
cious stones. Artificial flowers will also be very much em-
employed both in wreaths and sprigs.
FASHIONABLE COLOURS are claret, crimson, and several
other deep full shades of red; dark and light green, some
new shades of brown, particularly red brown, grey, violet,
orange, and flame colour.

MANCHESTER RAILWAYS.—We perceive that the Parlia-
mentary notices have been given by the Liverpool and Man-
chester, Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and Manchester
and Leeds Railway Companies, to construct a short line of
about two miles in length, through the town of Manchester,
with the view of uniting the three important lines already
mentioned. and, in fact, of connecting all the great railways
in the north of England, and by which means, as one uniform
guage of rails has been observed, the passengers and traffic
will be able to pass from one line to another with perfect
convenience. When this spirited project shall have been
completed, it will afford to the mercantile and manufacturing
interests of Lancashire and Yorkshire facilities of intercourse
which have hitherto been deemed unattainable. The inti-
mate comrnerciel relations now existing between Liverpool
and the West Riding of Yorkshire will render this Railway
one of vast importance. The raw produce sent from Liver-
pool to Yorkshire, and the return of manufactured woollens,
alike require expedition and certainty in the conveyance.
Passengers may also be conveyed from one side of the king-
dom to the other, viz., between the ports of Liverpool and
Hull, in the same carriages; as well as along the other rail-
ways with which this line will communicate; goods may also
be forwarded in the same manner in one waggon throughout.
The great cotton spinning district of Oldham and its neigh-
bourhood has hitherto been unapproached by any water navi-
gation, its great altitude having rendered it inaccessible. The
Oldham branch from the Manchester and Leeds Railway
will, however, do all that is desired. Raw cotton may be
brought from the docks at Liverpool to the numerous cotton
manufactories there, in the short space of about three hours;
which circumstances cannot fail to have a most beneficial in.
fiuence on the trade in that district. We understand that the
two passenger stations, one for the Liverpool and Manches-
ter. and the other for the Manchester and Leeds Railways,
will be within a few hundred yards, and within sight of the
Manchester Exchange, which must be a great advantage to
the merchants. We conceive the town of Manchester will
also derive a material benefit from the railway, as it will un-
doubtedly abstract from the streets a great quantity of heavy
traffic, which at present has to be carried through the town,
to the inconvenience as well as danger of the inhabitanec.—
Leeds Inteiligencer.

LITTLE MEN AND LITTLE MEASURES.-LORD
PLUNKET.

(From " Fraser's Magazine" for December.)

In 1800 he was a firm opponent of the union. None of
the many vociferous patriots of the day made more violent
speeches; none struggled more boldly, prophesied more
falsely, or promised or swaggered with greater folly. " For
my part," says this patriotic person, " I will resist it to the
last gasp of my existence—to the last drop of my blood; and
when 1 feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, 1 will,
like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar,
and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of
my country's freedom." Fine words ! eminent patriot!
"The invaders of my country's freedom," thus denounced,
and thus terrified with the imaginary future hostility of half-
a-dozen little Plunket-Hannibals, were M r. Pitt, Lord Castle-
reagh, Lord Westmoreland, and others. The first-named
statesman soon after died, and so died the Plunket enmity;
for time rolled on, and then this lofty Carthaginian—not
quite forgetting to sustain his character by a little occasional
specimen of the " Punica fides"—consented, with great com-
placency, to abandon his party, and to take office with the
rest of the denounced " invaders." He sat on the same
bench with Lord Castlereagh, at the same council-board with
Lord Westmoreland, and breathed not a word of enmity to
either of them. Could maghanimity go further? But we
pass over this period of his lordship's history, merely remark-
ing that it lasted during three administrations, till at length
a better place was vacant, and Mr. Canning—another " in-
vader"—bestowed it as a reward on the subservient and use-
ful William Conyngham Plunket, thus changed into Baron
Plunket,—yes, Baron Plunket in the peerage of the United
Kingdom, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Nor
did advancement stop here. Together with that Mr. Can-
ning, Lord Plunket had stanchly, ,and for a very long time,
opposed parliamentary reform. Loud were his protests
against such a revolutionary measure; frequently did he vote
against it. 'Who, then, by whom the former speeches agains:.
Lord Castlereagh were forgotten, would have expected in
three short years to see this noble anti-reformer metamor-
phosed into Lord Chancellor of Ireland under Lord Grey,
with an increase of pay, and with no further objection to a
stronger reform than had ever been seriously suggested or
opposed before ? Who would have predicted such a result
when, in 1800, he stirred up the
.patriotism and purity of the
Irish House of Commons, by using a few pretty words about
" eternal hostility," and resisting to " the last drop of my
blood," and " the last gasp of existence," and about " Han-
nibal," &c.?

Well, but probably Lord Plunket was a little addicted to
special quibbling, and intended to bind only his family in-
stead of himself? Alas! even this apology is wanted; for
here, with one or two additions, follows Mr. Cobbett's racy
commentary on the intended Hannibalism.

Lout Plunket, father of the Hannibals:—
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Fer annum £Booo
Hannibal the First, the Hon. Thomas Plunket:—

Dean of Down, with a union of six parishes, the
tithe and glebe of which produce per annum. .. 2863
Hannibal the Second, the Hon. John Plunket :
Assistant Barrister of Meath, per annum £6oo
Crown Prosecutor on the Munster Circuit 800
Counsel to Police
Total per annum
Hannibal the Third, the Hon. David Plunket:—
Prothorrotary and Chief Examiner in the Court of
Common Pleas, per annum
Besides his patronage, as follows:
One clerk of pleadings, £4OO a-year 400
Two assistants, at £5OO a-year .... 1000 '
Another assistant, £2OO a-year.... 200
Three clerks at £5OO a-year £lsoo
Other clerks

£4lOO
Hannibal the Fourth, the Hon. Patrick Plunket:—
Secretary of the Bankrupt Commission £9oo
Purse Bearer to the Lord Chancellor... BOO
Counsel to the Chief Remembrancer
Crown prosecutor on Leinster Circuit
Total, per annum 2900
Hannibal the Fifth, the Hon. William Plunket:—
Vicar of Bray! (a crown living,) per annum .... 470
Hannibal the Sixth, the Hon. Robert Plunket:—
_

Rector of Bamingham (a crown living) per ann. 530
Hannibal the Seventh, the Rev. Sir Francis Blosse

Son-in-Law of Lord Plunket, with a crown living,
worth, per annum, say 5OO
NEPHEWS.
Hannibal the Eighth, William M'Causland :
Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, appointed when
under 20
Hannibal the Ninth, James M'Causland :
Secretary of the Smith's School Fund .... £5OO
Solicitor to the Hibernian Society
Solicitor to the King's Inn 2OO
Law Agent of Charitable Donations
, Total, per annum 1300
BROTHERS-IN-LAW.
Hannibal the Tenth, Rev. Oliver APCausland :
Rector of the crown living of Tanlaghtfarlagan,
per annum
Hannibal the Eleventh, William M'Causland :
Chief Law Agent of Charitable Donations, per
annum

All these places, these several exemplifications of the "eter-
nal hostility" of the Hannibals, have been gradually and one
by one procured from different administrations, and from men
of all sorts of different opinions. Some were obtained from
Lord Castlereagh and Earl Talbot; some from Sir Robert
Peel, Mr. Goulburn, Lord Stanley, Lord Morpeth, and Lord
Glenelg, when governing in Ireland; some from the Duke of
Wellington; others from Lord Melbourne, Sir Anthony
Hart, and Loul Manners, and the Marquisses of Wellesley,
Normanby, and Anglesea. And we believe we may safely
add that, when the length of time during which all these Han-
nibals have enjoyed pay is considered, it is not an unfair cal-
culation to estimate the aggregate amount received by them from
the public at £300,000! We have heard of place-hunting,
plundering, and corrupt families, of the Greys, the Ponson-
bys, and the Elliots, but never yet was there so gross a case
as this one of the Plunkets. Nepotists of great selfishness
there have been, but never was there one in the history of
this country comparable with the swaggering Irish Chancel..
lor. He has succeeded in throwing three sous upon the pub-
lic purse as lawyerr, three others as clergymen; he has ob-
tained for himself, during the last 25 years, place after place,
and has not rested even when the highest office in Ireland
was secured, but has gone on extorting for nephews and
brothers-in-law, and for cousins anti connections, who are so
numerous that nobody has counted, and so obscure that no
one searches for them. How many more will be pampered
at the national expense we have no means of knowing or of
guessing; but it is certain that age has augmented, rather
than decreased, Lord Plunket's avarice and ambition, while
it has weakened his recollection of past professions. Yet if
this family :eally is to be fed, clothed, and supported by grants
from the Treasury, and votes from the House of Commons,
we would gladly know what sort of claims are advanced, and
what eminent services they or their relatives have performed ?
If, indeed, there be any catalogue of great actions to which
they can appeal, if any distinguished careers of usefulness,
no one of their strongest political opponents would envy them
their reward, or interfere to prevent them obtaining it, or en-
deavour to reduce the time and the pleasure of its enjoyment.
Well, then, what are the merits of this liberally endowed con-
nection? What have been their deeds? And what is the
balance of obligation due to them? We must needs "pause
fora reply." . _ .

We know that Lord Plunket opposed the Union, but cun-
ningly enough, he steered clear of sedition and the rebellion.
Mr. Grattan had obtained and accepted horn the Irish parlia-
ment a vote of £50,000 for his "1 wriotic" exertions, and
thus had excited the emulative zeal of the then juvenile Mr.
Plunket. Nor did he stand alone, as the old and well-known
epigram denotes :
" Say, what has given to Flood a mortal wound?
Grattan's obtaining fifty-thousand pound.
Can Flood forgive an injury so sore?
Yes, if they give him fifty-thousand more."