The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

"lON AT THE PRESENT SEASON wears its dirtiest, THE SERVANT THAT WAS " SUCH A TREA-
ntst, and most disconsolate garb. The streets are SURE," AND THE CHERRY BRANDY.
)Very with black mud or blacker ice, a yellow halo Tr-. (From " The Greatest PlaguißifLife,' or, the Adven-
tures of a Lady in Search of a Good Scrvent.")
of I don't suppose I could have finished a quarter of 'an
and hour before the first double-knock came at the door, and
; the that slut Mar not down stairs to answer it. So I rushed
of Italian grinder-, c.areely un
herroom and bundled her down as quick as I could ;
tattered children and half- {Bough she had been at her old tricks again, I could see,
and tearful, pester the and wasn't really in a fit state to be trusted to go to the
wares, and of winter door ; but what could Ido ? They had knocked again,
The popu-
•,g-time are, and I had only just time to sit myself down, and take up
one of the books off the drawing-room table, when the
and street door was opened. And then, to my great horror, I

amps, even the

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fares, curse with triple intensity the wood pavemen
the luckless garrons that slide and stumble over it

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Tlik TORY PARTY AND SIR ROBERT PEEL.—And ROW
one word in reference to the position of the gentlemen
who occupy what is called the opposition side of the house,
and who, in point of numbers, as far exceed the strength
of the ministerial party as, through their own misfortune
or the faults of their leaders, they come short of it in moral
power. Is the breach which has severed Lord George
Bentinck from Sir Robert Peel quite irreconcilable ? We
verily believe that it is. _We do not think that any con-
tingency can occur, that any pressure from without, any
movement from within, can arise which shall be of suffi-
cient force to bring these gentlemen cordially together.
The Protectionists will never forgive the man • who has
twice betrayed them. Sir. Robert Peel can neither forgive
t the many personal attacks to which he has, by
ts, been subjected. Benjamin Disraeli is
de. It would be very ridiculous to affect
iorance of these truths, and %verse than absurd to un-
to their importance. They have broken the

thorn in I

party to pieces,—at least for the'preseut. They have cru-
elly, wantonly, and most wickedly dissolved a political
alliance, more influential than any which has existed in
this country since the era of the Revolution. Moreover,
look at the thing as we may, we can discover no adequate
reason for it. The country was at peace, the revenue was
flourishing, trade was brisk, public feeling wasp quiescent,

thout any previous warning given, Sir

Robert Peel thought fit to declare himself friendly to the
abolition of the corn-laws. He pleaded, as an excuse for
so complete a change of opinion, his fear of a coming fa-
mine. His predictions were ridiculed, his statements dis-
puted and denied ;• yet let us not forget, that the very
men who thus scouted the minister's reasoning went far
before him in the measure which they proposed as the
best wherewith to combat an impending calamity. It was
the Protectionists who first suggested the propriety of
suspending the operation of the corn-laws ; it was Sir
Robert Peel, the newly converted enemy to their existence',
Who rejected the proposal, and for the time actually ren-
dered them more stringent. Neither party can forget
this.. The Protectionists have some right to affirm that
other motives than those which he avowed must have
swayed their then leader in his decisions. Sir Robert
must feel that by resisting their proposal he has made
himself, ill some sort, the cause of the distress which is
desolating Ireland at this moment. And what is the con-
sequence ? As regards Peel, beyond all question that be
has lost his status in the political world. He may affect,
for a while, to play the part of Mentor, and advise both
sides as calmly as if he took no personal interest in their
discussions. But the leader of a great political party he
can never again be, inasmuch as the Whigs themselves
would distrust, were he openly to join them.
it of the smallest use to speculate on the healin

IMPROVED SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—At the weekly
meeting of the board of guardians for the Nottingham
Union, on Tuesday last, the returns showed a decrease of
70 inmates of the workhouse within the previous seven
days, and the number of applications for relief
much fewer than on the preceding Tnesd
effect of I dropped 4s. per c

ally employed,

was Very

not heal, and this is one of them. Had Peel acted with
a little more of courtesy and candour ; had he reasoned
with the members of the Conservative party in private ;
had he given to their chiefs his confidence, and made out
something like a case, we venture to say that there is
hardly any measure towards the accomplishment of which
he would have failed to command their cooperation ;
none, at least, short of that which drove him out of office ;
and which, seeing the results to which it would surely
lead, he ought, at all hazards, to have abandoned.. For
it is a 'lishment

of any particular
make amends fo

-
I signs of improvement were becoming

evous error to suppose that the accomp'
purpose, however important in itself, can
nr the dislocation of a loyal and high-
Such a party cannot fall without opening
the doors of office and influence to men of arfar laxer code

decidedly Manifest

find that the Whigs of 1847 do not make use of the op-
poirtunity, which seems to have been created to their

ue purpose

e, during

amid such an acerbation of feeling, it must be apparent
to himself, and to the most devoted of his followers, that
Sir Robert Peel's continued presence in the House of
Commons can accomplish little good to any one. He can
scarcely expect to be received by his late party as their
chief any more. It is impossible that he should be con-
tent to play a secondary part under t' leaders

THE LATE SEVERE WEATHER.--A correspondent at
Harewood, in this county, informs us, that in carelessly
looking at an old wall, at Harewood, he saw therein a
small hole and drew from thence four tom-tits, one hedge-
sparrow, one robin, and one wren, which 'birds he sup-
posed were diiven into companionship by the severity of
the weather, and had perished from the cold. The
circumstance is the more remarkable, as the pugnacious
disposition of the robin towards other birds is well known:
—Hereford Times.

An inquest was held laMweek in Middlesex, upon a lady
named Potts, whose delight was not only to take all the
medicines she could obtain, but to compel others to do
the same. When she visited a sick friend shegwould empty
--.1-wsic bottles and pillboxes. Aloes constituted her
and ,

servative) shall give in their adhe-
ie nature of things that he should
pass over to tht of the Whigs ; or that, passir
over, he should be by them received in a manne-
of his acknowledged talents and undoubted habits of bu-

Iney for the word (
ion. Neitt

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ranks

Avourite physic, and a physician stated that he had pre-
pared in twelve months as much aloes for her as would
have supplied the town of Uxbridge. Amongst those
whom she induced to take medicine was a boy, to whom

A more novel, lut equally, successful application of the
inhalation of ether is recorded its the Edinburgh Journal.
Professor Simpson had administered it in a case of difficult
labour. The patient was deformed, and on a former oc-
casion had suffered dreadfully in labour during three or
four days : on the present occasion the patient was deli-
vered in as' many minutes. A remarkable circumstance
Simpson was, that, whilst
s continued, and yet

breathing the ether

worthy

The Whigs E

Lot in want of leaders

have T

Juord John himself a host ; and, frilling him, many
more aspiring youths than can be boasted of by the op-
posite party. And happy as they will always be to take
advantage of Peel's assistance, and to profit by his speeches

and his votes, when he shall be pleased to speak and vote
in their favour, they will never push aside one of their
own set to make way for him, or admit him, to the end of
What, then, can he do
Sit apart, and watch for his
created to advise, but
'option of his recom-

i the-House of (

country's welfare, like some or

havinino power to compel the
me.ndations ? Surely such
some to himself—undoub

will prove very it

dly it will be. the

source of

much inconvenience to others. For influence he will have
n2ne,except with some dozen or two of ancient colleagues ;

,eing- moved by

_memories of a happier sort, may
,hrink from deserting him in his downfall. The rest of
he house, be they called by what name they may, will
ieglect him, and yet not altogether so his powers of
peech must tell in any popular assembly, his intimate
acquaintance with parliamentary law and usage will give
him a thousand opportunities of damaging, if he cannot

linost irresistible
Let him retire into
hich his sovereign is

the h-lbour-thr

unconscious of pain
in inquest held on Saturda

)ther

St. Giles's, Mr