The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

GOP SAVE THE QUEEN!"

Profoundly thankful are we of the STANDARD that
our name is not found in this black list of accessories
to murder and treason ! We have never denied to her
Majesty the title of Christian, although we may have
wished to see Christianity more in favour at the Palace
—to see Christianity more in favour and socialism less
in favour with her government. We have never as-

serted that her Majesty has forfeited her right to the
throne, although we have never shut our eyes to the
fact that " the heavy blows and great discouragements"
which her ministers profess their readiness to deal
against those principles which alone seated her illus-
trious ancestors upon the throne, might be pushed so
far as to jeopardise that right. We have never " all
but denounced her as a prostitute," or, to use the cor-
rect language of our contemporary, " quoted Jezebel."
Where may that author be found, good Mercury? We
have done none of these things—perpetrated none of

these " fierce ravings"—and are as innocent of any
participation as accessories to the attempt upon the life
of a sovereign, " so denounced," as is our contempo-
rary himself.
But, seriously, does this besotted scribe imagine
that even the muddy souls who, in beer-houses, in
Shaving-shops, or in taps, muse over his weekly ollapod
of stale calumnies and threadbare jokes, can be im-
posed upon with such trash as we have just quoted ?
Does our contemporary suppose that men can readily
be found in England who will be content to swallow
such a tissue of gross absurdities ? If he does this we
can only pity his hallucination. The great body of the
people of England see in this disgraceful outrage an
impressive condemnation of a base and venal set of
men, who, to preserve for a few more weeks or days the
pay without the power of official station, are ready to
peril their country's noblest institutions, to weaken the
safeguards of the monarchy, and even to expose to the
murderer's weapon the sacred person of the Sovereign.
The great conservative body throughout the empire
their monarch, and view with
revere the person of
loathing and disgust the unprincipled conduct of a
despicable faction which is ever ready to interpose that
object of regard as a shield over their own measureless
transgressions.
Her Majesty individually possesses in a great degree
the affections of her people, and peculiarly of the Con-
servative party. That party--if we may quote the
impressive words of Sir Robert Peel---,‘never make the
principles or politics of the monarch the condition of
We can by no means say the same
their allegiance."
of their opponents. True it is that, when the gale of
court favour fills their sails, and a flowing tide
bears them gaily on to the objects of their ambition,
they are ever the fawning and obsequious slaves of
royalty ; but let their sky be obscured, their elysiurn
disturbed, and the royal eye averted only for an hour,
and then where is that exclusive loyalty, that devotion
to the person of the Monarch of which we now hear
so much and so loudly ? We hear it no longer, but,
instead, we have the curses loud and deep of disap-
pointed ambition like the gnashing howl of dogs driven
from their meal of corruption.
Such a day of trial is, we trust, approaching. Her
Majesty will not long be permitted to risk in her own
person the consequences of her ministers' unpopularity.
Already her princely husband has had an opportunity

of witnessing how deep is the loathing with which they
are regarded by the respectable classes of British
society; and this last atrocious attempt may be instru-
mental in convincing his Royal Highness of the danger
incurred by neglecting such unequivocal demonstra-
tions. Under a sound Conservative government her
Majesty will at least enjoy the protection likely to be
afforded her by having around her royal person
ministers who will not fear on any occasion to encounter
themselves the consequences of their own acts !

will be seen, from our parliamentary summary,

that a further disCussion of Lord Stanley's Irish Re-
gistration Bill took place on Thursday evening, when,
on moving that the order of the day be read and the
house resolve itself into a committee, an amendment
was brought forward by Mr. C. Wood that the Re-
gistration Bill for England should be first considered,
which, after. considerable debate, was negatived by a
MAJORITY OF ELEVEN, in favour of Lord Stanley's
motion, and AGAINST MINISTERS

Sir D. Norreys then moved, as an amendment to
the motion " that the Speaker do leave the chair," an
instruction to the committee "to enable every person,
otherwise qualified, who shall have for a period of one
year paid poor-rates on an annual valuation (to be
specified), to register his vote," which ?vas also nega-
tived, by a majority of 93 in a house of 533 members.

Owing to the late hour to which the proceedings
had extended, it was then proposed by Lord Stanley
to adjourn the committee to Monday (last night),
which proposition was, with his usual degree of petu-
lance, opposed on the part of government by Lord
John Russell. He was, however, at once challenged
to proceed to a division on the question ; and, it not
being either convenient or useful thus to invite ano-
ther manifestation of the opinion of the house on the
character of this shabby and disreputable mode of
proceeding, the Member for Dublin came to the.rescue
of the Colonial Secretary, and declared his purpose of
obstructing the progress of the bill by moving the
adjournment of the house. The scene which ensued
baffles description. It was one of those trials of the
patience. of the house, by the exhibition of ferocious
blackguardism, to which the mendicant usually resorts
when baffled and beaten from a position ; and in which
—we are glad to report the fact—he was supported by
only a very small, and that by no means the most re-
spectable, portion of the ministerial party. The length
of time, however, during which the uproar prevailed,
afforded an excuse to that mean and factious person-
age, Lord John Russell, of which he was not too
higiiminded to avail himself. The chairman then re-
ported progress, and the committee adjourned over to
Monday, on which day his little lordship announced
his intention of throwing every further impediment in

the way of the bill, whilst Mr. O'Connell declared that
he himself Would not be held bound by any arrange-
ments which might be entered into.
We can, of course, under these circumstances, form
no judgment as to the probable fate of the bill. That
ministers are defeated upon it is incontestible, and that
they ought either to resign or allow it to pass into a
law is equally so. They will, we dare say, do neither ;
but if beaten again, as no doubt they will be, on Mon-
day night, they will quietly hand over the duty of ob-
structing it to the bully whose peculiarly brazen front

is alone capable of the task. It is well known that
several of the respectable members of their party—at
the head of whom stands Sir B. Hall, the member for
Marylebone—have expressed their disinclination to
proceed further in a purely factious opposition to the
measure ; and the country will therefore have to be-
hold for the first time, in a reformed House of Com-
mons, the declared will of a majority, upon a great
constitutional question, negatived by the factious ob-
struction of a minority, led on by a bully whose very
name is an odium and a disgrace to the country which
has the misfortune to own him. How long will Eng-
land submit to such a degradation in the face of the
whole civilised world ?

THE QUEEN OF THE ISLE STEAM-SHlP.—This vessel
has recently teceived new steam-boilers, and her speed is
considerably improved. She sailed from Douglas for this
port or. Saturday last, with upwards of three hundred
passengers, and made the passage in seven hours. The
Isle of Man is now very full of visitors.
LIVERPOOL REGATTA ON THE MERSEY.—In consequence

of the Cork Regatta having been fixed for the 4th of August,
the committee of the Mersey Regatta have deemed it expe-
dient to alter their day of sailing from the 4th of August to
the 21st of July.
APPROACHING PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION.—To

avoid disfranchisement of electors in boroughs all poor-rates
and window-taxes, payable from a voter in respect of his
premises, previously to the 6th of April, must be paid on or
before the 20th of July, whether demanded by the collector
or not.

SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—Northern: Mr.
Justice Coltman, Mr. Baron Rolfe.—Home: Lord Abinger,
Mr. Baron Gurney.—Midland: Lord Chief Justice Tindal,

Mr. Justice Littledale.7o.ziord: Mr. Baion_ Parke, Mr'

Justice \Villiams.—Norfolk: Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr.
Justice Patteson.—Western: Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr.
Justice Maule.—Welsh : Lord Denman, Mr. Justice
Erskine.—Mr. Justice Bosanquet remains in town.
THE ROYAL GORDOVIGION EISTEDDVOD.—It will be