The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

the EXCHEQ

greatest monument

Startle not, gentle reader :
luments to the memory of the late
cian Sir ROBERT PEEL, of a verity that same in-

of all the mo

x is the one that makes him most remembered—
)t endeared ! On the ill-fated night when Sir Ro-
countenance radiant with health and generous
cess—proposed that abominable tax, he

Beira, not in e

approached it cautiously—declared in his conscience that

he had mad

,e, and intended to make,

orking man more good than the impost

harm. Besides, it

was on

.ome hon

r three years :—s

members smiled credulously

Ministers there were, ex-

Load JOHN

nong the number, who smiled

also, but not credulor

,iy,—expressed a well-feigned hope
that it would only be for three years. Ah, JOHNNIE,
JOHNNIE ! at that moment T am afraid you were looking
for the reins of government, and, in your own mind, con-
sidered that the tax would be no bad thing for an incoming
minister, and he, too, a Whig. The tax has been con-
tinued, and will be continued, notwithstanding anything
said to the contrary. The country, however, may expect
—and that ere long—to see a more sensible and equitable

tment of it-

Of literary and theatrical gossip, there is always enough
snare at this season, though I admit, with others
Ti s lieg,s, being nearly surfeited by the
litions of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." produced
__'ion of the Christmas folks. The theatres
I,cl nightly, the pantomimes being on the whole
One is surprised at the breadth of
cal allusions, after what has been recently
loings of the licenser's pruning knife.
-JEW'S, one of the most versatile and Sc.

an
of Her MAJ

delc:ct

r than usual

complisliedacioi; of the day, as your readers are aware,
has run a-muck—not wisely, I think,—with the critic of
the Morning Chronicle, a paper long famous for the ex-
cellence of its musical and dramatic notices. It appears
that the aforesaid critic—mentioned by name by Mr.
MATnEws—found fault with the scenery, or something
of that sort, belonging to a piece recently produced at the
Lyceum. Now, when one recollects the house, the
great care and taste with which the dramas are "mounted,"
Madame ITESTRIS herself being guarantee for excess of
splendour, such a charge might seem unwarranted, es-
pecially, too, if the glowing pencil (? brush) of BEVER-
LEY, one of the best scenic artists, be taken into account.
ANGUS REACH is the critic referred to by Mr. MATHEWS;
one of the most pophlar light literature boys of the time,
and beyond a smart remark, intended to do good, would
not, it is believed, say or write a word in opposition to a
manag.
ement. rlowe7er, it is a very pretty quarrel as it
stands ALB, SMITH is in dudgeon at the immense
glut on his free list—Mont Blanc—he now finds that the area of his exhibition room is a world too small for his paying customers, so out he issues a circular saying as
much, with what taste, good or bad, your correspondent
saYelh not. This of course will get ALBERT angrily
spoken of, for whitthe bye, he will not care very
Apropos, AtnERT_ SmITH much. must hive made, and
is still making, a fortune by his reunions. My own opi-
founded on a quarter of a century'si experience, is
nion,
ought to be no free list at a except to the
that there
London has long been infested
churches.
b
e of whom, on the most slendYerPaY-order
hunters, any one
in
tion, knocks at your door at all hours—at the dinner hour
ic-
•-•—and all patience,—there's ere' °s no
clans you out of

especially
shaking off such cattle—

‘‘ He best can paint 'em who shall feel 'em most."
Of books, the crack one, ofTtolr,enliayst batchi‘ioo
Ris,
.0 In
Glorious,q u e s t i oti
ably, JOHNNIE RUSSELL
perennial-singing
Lord JOHN is a scholar
Tnom.assAl.oortE has had justice done
to him by the ex-Whig premier.
of the right sort—ripe and graceful ; there is not a line of
humbug in his noble prefaratory notice to the poet's f
loifei
Why should there be, when such a man is treated
Once in his society, his
presence was never forgotten ; and
to hear him sing l-
-s own songs of course. It vra
s perfect
hi
vocal enchantment. I well remember the simple mu-
sical nights,—when the House of Commons was happily
"counted out,"—of the late Speaker, SUTTON, afterwards
Viscount CANTERBURY—an elegant bon vivant in every
sense of the phrase ; all the Italians at the Opera—Lum-
LEY'S then, of course—LABLACRE
, a
lust, MARIO, and
a dozen others in good note, were not preferred to Tom
MooRE and his touching lyrics by the dilettanti, who were
welcome within the cloistered walls of MANGERS

. will have seen that the Duke of WELLINGTON. ,
the other day, returned to the QUEEN the garter worn by
the illustrious Duke his father. The Duke's garter was
an antique article, so seedy and threadbare, that were a
chamber-ma'd to fall in with such a concern, among the
floss and fallen cobwebs not unfrequently the charac.
teristics of a bed-chamber in the best regulated families,
she would certainly consign it to the dust-bin. The late
Duke of WELLINGTON, too, from his peculiar position,
appeared in the garter more frequently than the other
knights of the order, hence, no doubt, its worn-out and
tawdry appearance. It is believed that the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY will be prouder Of THE OLD DUKE'S Old
garter, than of all his other orders and distinctions put
together, and LONDONDERRY has not a few. And well
he may, for it was a fine appreciation 'on the part of Her
MAJESTY to give the vacant garter to the Marquis, a
soldier of unsmirched honour and unquestioned heroism,
though by no means a SOLOMON in the Senate.
The only event of the week was the private view given of
the interior of Apsley House by the Duke of WELLING.