The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-26 00:00:00

A CABINET QUESTION.

( From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
When Lord John Russell visited Dublin, he was Ciceronied
to all the lions by our Marquizzical Viceroy. As the noble
lords were one day inspecting the Richmond Lunatic Asy-
lum, the Marquis thought proper to introduce his friend to
one of the female patients, with whom, on former visits, he
had much agreeable conversation. " Madam," said the
Marquiz. "permit me to present to you Lord John Russell."
" Lord John Russell !" said the lady, eyeing the little states-
man with the most sovereign contempt, " Pray, when did
you hear from Dan ?" saying which she turned her back
upon both their lordships, and walked away; leaving them
to " ch the cud of sweet and bitter fancies" over the de-
batableew question—Why Cassandra was reckoned a mad-
woman ?

THE CABINET QUESTION.
DONE INTO METRE BY A PR. DEV. OF THE DUB. EV. MAIL.
AIR—"So Miss Myrtle is going to be married!"
Her Vice, who the Queen Mar-quizzed,
And Johnny—her Cabinet-man— •
Paid the lunatic lady a visit,
And thus the dialogue ran—
" This, Madam, is Lord John Russell"—
Lord Johnny his bowing began,
When the lady, turning her bustle,
Cried, " When did you hear, from Dan?
When the lady, turning her bustle,
Cried, " When did you hear front Dan?

Well, wasn't it a comical question
As ever in crazy pate ran,
And of most dyspeptic digestion
For the stomach of cabinet man ?
Yet 'tis natural that sight of Whig minister
(On the ass-ociational plan)
Should suggest the inquiry so sinister,
" When did you hear from Dan?"
Should suggest the inquiry so sinister,
" When did you hear from Dan ?"
" In madness," says Shakspeare, "there's method ;"
Nat. Lee says " there's happiness" too;
And this hint at the cross-bones and death head
Is a compliment happy as new.
For ourselves we puzzle our wits, Sir,
As " Inen did you hear from Dan 1"
For ever—nor make such a hit, Sir,
As " When did you hear from Dan?"
Men never now think of the Cabinet—
Melbourne, or Lansdowne, or Rice—
Without thinking of Her in the Cabinet,
Who touched off their picture so nice;
And in lieu of the popular phrases
So current between man and man,
The favourite cant of our days is,
" Pray, when did you hear from Dan 7" '
The favourite cant of our days is,
" Pray, when did you hear from Dan?"

A letter from Tampico, published in the Indicateur de
Bordeaux, gives a list of the number of vessels which have
come into Mexican ports in despite of the French blockade.
Pony entered Alvaredo, five at Tecoluta. two at Barra
Ciego, one at Matamoros, and lately the Waterwitch from
Liverpool.
HORRHILKEFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND WHISKEY DRINK-
.
• ists.--.4n unfortunate man, named Netherct)te, and his wife,
who have been some months past residing in this town, had
a falling out a few evenings.since, when the husband in a fit
of jealousy stabbed her in three different places with a sharp
table knife. Two of the stabs were in her breast, and the
third, which was aimed at her side, would undoubtedly have
been fatal, but that, fortunately, the direction of the blade of
the knife was turned and prevented from entering any vital
part by striking against her hip bone. It appears that the
woman is a very unfortunate character, much addicted to in-
dulging in the infamous and pernicious habit of whiskey
drinking, and that when under its influence her conduct is
54;,S*:— not much better than some of the unfortunate prostitutes that
disgrace the streets. The husband is also addicted to this
~..* beastly degrading habit, and at the period that this untoward
:„,4s.' '' ' , circumstance took p la, e, we learn, was in a fit of intoxication.
„a . ,
,r,..' •4,.,- . Nethercote has been committed to gaol by the-magistrates.
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. ..i. ben will the. people of this unfortunate take warn-
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_,"-.. jag hem the many awful and fatal evidinces'viith Wlich the
.*l/4 . press daily t.eeni of the results emanating from the use of in-
. 4,,, ~ t 04,41414 inuctril ?—Fernianergh Reporter.
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