The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-10 00:00:00

a pity that their principles did not come into action at
home ! But we have peace and Lord PALMERSTON to
hasten the crisis. We have an English lord and an Irish
beggar—the son of a peer and the son of a Smuggler—to
push the machine down hill till it reaches the plain where
must be erected the required and indispensable gallows.
,
That some men must be detonated, others hanged, and a
few thousands shot; before anything like settled times can
be restored we most firmly believe. Justice must be ren-
dered to Ireland ! The whig lands must pay for this
most patriotic experiment. Lord LANSDOWNE, the Duke
Of DEVONSHIRE, the Marquis Of WESTMINSTER, Earl
FiTzwiLLiam, and a host of whig proprietors, as Sir
ROBERT PEEL well knows, and confidently waits the re-
sult, will have to pay a large share of the costs of agita-
tion. The time will be ripe before the filberts in October.
The grand crash must come, and the sooner the better.
We began with Lord PALMERSTON, and we end with
him. He is a poor creature utterly destitute of intellect.
We use the word poor in a mercantile sense. He is, how
ever, from this unfortunate neediness, a pliant and useful
person. He has sufficient plausibility to deceive a whig.
He was selected because he was supposed to know a little
of the fornis, and some of the secrets, of official business.
A greater mistake never was committed, and Lord John
Russell knows it ! But we leave him. Lord PALMER-
STON will cut a very queer figure in history. He will be
treated as a clerk which the whigs bribed from the tories
to tie red tape as the tories had tied it. That is the man !

There is a story told of an illustrious and liberal Duke
that being once called upon through mistake, to pay one
of the numerous subscriptions attached to his name, he
expressed considerable surprise, declaring it was the first
time he had everbeen called upon to pay. " I have no
objection," said his Royal Highness, " to give you the
use of my name, but giving you money is quite out of
the question."
The Whigs and radicals understand this trick well.,
Whenever they wish to fleece the public they string to-
gether a certain number of popular names prefixed to
subscriptions of sums apparently equal to the means of
the donor, and calculated to regulate the subscriptions of
those whom they intend to impose upon. It is the same
sort of trick which professional swindlers practise upon
bumpkins in an alehouse. They exhibit flash notes in
order to convey an idea of superfluous cash, and by offer-
ing to bet they induce the country simpleton to exhibit
and put down genuine money, which of course they re-
lieve him of, as the saying is, in "no time." There is
little difference between the cheating in the one case and
the swindling in the other. It is quite as respectable to
raise good money by means of flash notes as by fictitious
subscriptions.
We perceive that this mode of raising the supplies is
very extensively popular at the present moment. The
Irish beggar is much pressed for—" say a thousand
pounds," and the hat is going round in search of shil-
lings and pence among his friends. Of course the more
pelf he can screw out of Englishmen the more grateful
will he and the "Irish nation" undoubtedly be. Every
honest woman in England ought to give the mendicant
a shilling for her character, and her husband and brother
a sixpence each for knowing what that character is.
The chief of the begging department in London is
JosEptt Humn, who has written himself down for £5O.
Honest JOSEPH knows very well what he writes, and as.
he never gave away fifty pounds for any purpose, either
good or bad, in the whole course of his life, his friends on
the committee perfectly underitand him'. Many worthy
people, however, will follow his example, but unlike him,
they will have to pay the money. We should like to
know if the Duke of BEDFORD, who stands for '£loo, be
of the paying'class. We strongly suspect that his grace
is entirely innocent of the frolic, so far as the money is
concerned, being guilty only of the disgrace of doing
that which his son Lord JOHN is ashamed to do, viz.,
affix his name to the list of subscribers. If on the other
hand the Duke of BEDFORD be the bona fide contributor
all we can say is, that it is a cheap way of providing for
a younger son. Lord JOHN owes a good many hundred
,pounds to the beggar—he is indebted to
.him for his last
year's salary ; so that there is some ground for a recipro-
city of feeling, though an unequal reciprocity- in the
mere matter of cash, a vast advantage being on the side
of his lordship. If by any mischance the hoMe secretary
were ejected from office he would lose £5,000 a-year,
and that is a sum which the Duke of BEDFORD does not
despise. Better, then, to bribe the lord of misrule than
have another lord thrown once more pennyless on his
hands.

But will no other member of the cabinet contrive to
fling in a bone to the mendicant in the name of a near
relation ? Lord MELBOURNE is, perhaps, reserving his
accruing salary for amore important affair, but where is
Lord LANSDOWNE'S subscription ?—where Lord GLE-
NELG'S ?—where Lord HOLLAND'S ?—in short, where is
the aggregate mite of the cabinet ? Let them beware
what they do. Every farthing that goes into the hat will
be weighed, and its donor booked. If the ministry re-
fuse to subscribe handsomely they will be reminded of it
when the day of reckoning comes. If they be anxious to
save their money, and provide for their master otherwise,
they should dissolve parliament, in which case there
would be an opportunity of plundering from some dozen
RAPHAELS what is wanted from the greedy radicals and
their shirtless followers.

The dock estate bill has been arranged in the commit-
tee to the entire satisfaction of the trustees and rate-
payers. The corporation have not been permitted to
grasp any of its patronage, or lay their hands on a single
shilling of its revenues. The police remain, as at pre-
sent, a separate force.

But we are told that the bill is to be amended or op-
posed altogether on the • third reading in the House of
Commons. This, we suspect, is only Town-hall talk in
the angry and disappointed feeling of the moment. It is
very unusual to alter private bills after they have passed
the committee; but if the attempt be made, and it should
succeed, the corporation will be made answerable for tho
consequences. What these consequences would be we
shall not at present point out, for we are unwilling to
believe that any body of men can contemplate so much
wanton mischief. If they make the attempt we shall
have a few words to say upon the subject.

We beg leave to call attention to a very able and
pungent letter in another column, signed " A MER-
CHANT," in which the financial and commercial policy
of Mr. SPRING RICE is severely overhauled. It will
amply repay an attentive perusal.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV. DAVID M'NICOL

The remains of this much esteemed minister were yesterday
interred at Stanhope-street chapel, in the midst of the tears
and regrets of a great concourse of spectators. Although the in-
terment was not, as we understand, previously announced to be
a public one, yet, such was the spontaneous feeling of veneration
towards the deceased, that no funeral has taken place in this town
since that of the much lamented Mr. Huskisson which has been
so numerously attended. Besides upwards of thirty mourning
coaches and private carriages, the different officers belonging
to the Wesleyan societies in the town voluntarily followed two
and two a-breast, accompanied by a large number of the pri-
vate members to pay their last expression of respect to the
memory of their beloved pastor. The funeral service was read
with great solemnity by the Rev. George Marsden ; an im-
pressive and powerful address was delivered in the chapel to the
dense and overwhelming congregation assembled, by the Rev. T.
Lessey, and the Rev. Dr. Bunting concluded the service by a
most pathetic prayer, that the Mysterious and afflictive provi-
dence might be blessed to the bereaved family and the mourning
multitude. Such a scene does honour to our human nature,
and especially tends to show how strong the tie, how deep the
affection, and how tender the sympathies. which unite the true
pastor and his flock. Indeed, from all we know end hear of the
deceased gentleman, we believe that these feelings were not
misplaced. The suddenness of his dissolution, might excite a
temporary feeling of sorrow, but, when we behold all classes of
the community around the grave of a departed Minister, in
unfeigned grief, we cannot but consider it as homage paid to
religion and character. The eloquent and powerful preach-
ing—the pastoral sympathy and kindness —the frank and gene-
rous spirit—the instructive and pleasing conversation, and
ab(%e all the holy and exemplary piety of this excellent man,
tribute
trowoor icntshe confidence and affection of his friends whilst
livng, drew them to his tomb when dead—there to pay the last
pect to departed worth-.