The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

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MY CHILDHOOD.

Scenes of my childhood ! ye are gone—
Your shadows hover o'er me ;
As dreams of the night fade one by one,
So now ye pass before me.
Days of my childhood ! ye are past.
And all things now remind me,
Like chaff that's borne upon the blast.
I leave the grain behind me.

Hours of my childhood! ah, tho' past,
Memory still shows ye (faithful painter!)
Yet, like the shades from a taper cast,
The farther ye recede the fainter.

Dreams of my childhood! ye are come,
For aye to linger here,
Like a glory round my own sweet home
Your shadows now surround me.

EXPECTATION.

BY L. B. L.

She looked from out the window
With long and asking gaze,
From the gold clear light of morning
To the twilight's purple haze.
Cold and pale the planets shone.
Still the girl kept gazing on.
From her white and weary forehead
Droopeth the dark hair,
Heavy with the dews of evening,
Heavier with her care ;
'Falling as the shadows fall,
Till flung round her like a pall.
When from the carved lattice
First she leant to look,
Her bright face was written
Like some pleasant book ;
Her warm cheek the red air quaffed,
And her eyes looked out and laughed.
She is leaning hack now languid
And her cheek is white.
Only on the drooping eyelash
Glistens tearful light.
Colour, sunshine hours are gone,
Yet the lady watches on.
Human heart, this history
Is thy fated lot,
Even such thy watching
For what cometh not.
'Till with anxious waiting dull
Round thee fades the beautiful.
Still thou seekest on though weary,
Seeking still in vain ;
Daylight deepens into twilight,
What has been thy, "sin ?
Death and night are closing round,
All that thou hast sought unfound.

CONTEMPOI?ARY PRESS.

We have received from various towns thoroughout
the country most gratifying reports of the municipal
elections, some of which will be found in another part
of our paper. Generally, these elections have shown a
decidedly conservative tendency in the substitution of
,known conservatives for known radicals.
'We must, however, once again warn our readers that
these and such indications, how gratifying soever as far
as they go, do not at all adequately illustrate the increas-
ing strength of the conservative party. It were great in-
justice, and a stupid erring against the light, to suppose
that every one 'who went along with Lord Grey, con-
tinues to accompany Lord Melbourne, the slave of that
person who drove Lord Grey from office, and with whom
the premier of 1831, 1832, 1833, declared that• he would
disdain to hold communication, It is in the nature of
Movement that it must cause separation without proving
inconsistency, as one and another arrives at the end of
his proposed journey. In this way the O'Connell go-
vernment has left, we are persuaded, three-fourths of
Lord Grey's supporters, including all the sane and honest
Memberi of the party, far behind.; and the conservatives
have shown a disposition, for which their unspotted
honour is voucher fully sufficient, to take up their ground
on the same constitution upon which well disposed and
intelligent reformers have made their stand; there is
really no means of justly distinguishing between the
several allies. We have already pointed to what has
occurred in the Houses of Parliament, as demonstrative
of the fact that many, very many reformers of high rank,
must suffer great injustice if' they are suspected of fa-
vouring Lord Melbourne's government.
The result of the municipal elections, as far as it has
been ascertained, provesust the same thing with regard
to the humbler classes. And why, then, are we to wrong
ourselves by supposing that the happy process has not
extended to the middle class, to the reforming magis-
trates and town councillors, as well as to their reforming
constituents ?—Standard.
CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS.—If thA;Hietory of Eng-
land were now to be written, 'meter is for it, at once
authentic and invaluable, would be found in the vast
Conservative meetings by which every great town and
district throughout England, have of late been animated,
and continue to be so, in the various classes and compre-
hensive numbers of those who attend theni, the perfect
Unanimity of sentiment which they exhibit with regard
to• the one great evil which now oppresses the British
empire, and the one grand remedy by which alone it
can be cured. The evil to be guarded against, as is felt
and declared by all Conservative Englislnrien;higb and
low, rich and poor, temperate and zealous, is the danger
of inordinate and wanton change, the sacrifice of the
tried for the untried ; and the nature of the remedy is
pointed out by that of the evil. It consists in a general
*anti strenous co-operation of men who love their country
for the prevention of all change not proved by satisfac-
tory evidence or reason to be indispensable to the public
good, and for the overthrow of that weak and unprinci-
pled Ministry, whose accession to office was the signal for
such calamitous experiments on the safety of the nation,
while its continuance in office is announced by its own
members and their partisans to depend on, and be insep-
arable from the unmeasured progress of revolution. It
is vain and ludicrous for the administration, or the allies
of the destructive press, to bully away their own fears at
the spread of Conservatism through the kingdom. They
see in it the death of the movement to which they both
belong. The harmony of the Conservatives utterly con-
founds them, and it is futile for the motley-erew of Pa-
pists, Radicals, and corrupted Whigs, to encourage each
other by mutual recommendations to cultivate a similar
_concord. The fact is, that the spirit of harmony among
the Conservatives requries no cultivation. It is native
to the soil. There is among them but a single interest,—
namely, the promotion of good government in the Church
and State; and a single policy, to wit, irreconcilable war-
fare against those who would destroy them both.—Times.
POPULAR CONSERVATlSM.—Conservative " trades-
men's" associations and conservative " operatives' " as.
soCiations, have been organized in various parts of Eng-
land, and have commenced a series of vigorous and decisive
proceedings in cordial alliance with the conservative
aristocracy of their respective neighbourhoods, whom
they alternately support and lean upon, and with Whom
they maintain an encouraging intercourse of festive
.meetings and political discussion. Now, the beauty of
ouch a muster, such discipline, and such reciptocal
pledges, consists in its being a direct attack upon the
public enemy in the strong-hold of his own free choice.
The very foundation-stone of the whigc.radical or move-
ment empire was to be the insurrection'of the town de-
mocracy against the noblest institutions of Church and
State. r When the flower, therefore, not of the agricultu-
ral—for thatis all safe—but of the " urban" population
itself, througliewhose eager and unanimous assistance the
cause of conservatism was to have been effectually
crushed, the spirit of regulated freedom and constitutional
monarchy subdued, and whip dominion, the grand object
of all, assured to its present possessors—when, instead
of this glorious victory for whig-radicalism, the intended
instruments whereby it was to be accomplished,' namely,
the large and opulent towns of Great Britain, become
foci of 'loyalty, and of Zealous attachment to good and
. rational government, it is nothing less than a mine
sprung within the very citadel of revolution ; and the
fatal effects of it have become already visible.—Thugs.
STATE OF IRELAND.—It is a fact as humiliating as it
- is painful, that in all the countries of Europe taken to-
gether there is not one tithe of the dark ferocity so
visible in the sister kingdom. There,' not merely unre-
. sisting manhood, but helpless age and unconscious
childhood fall beneath the arm of the midnight assassin.
There murder pursues its victim with a deadliness of
purpose which nothing can divert. There that very pnr-
pose is often undertaken under the solemnity of an oath ;
and the naked blade, still reeking with blood, or, what is
more awful still, the holy symbol of man's salvation, be-
comes the seal of the irrevocable engagement. From
this moment the steps of the victim are traced with the
unerring instinct of the bloodhound. He may fall in
open daylight, while proceeding unconsciously along the
king's highway. But, generally, his house is forced at
midnight, its inmates butchered in a manner characteris-
tic of the most savage barbarians, and itself enveloped in
flames often lights the ruthless murderer to his solitary
but on the heath. These are not occasional deeds; they
. are of daily, or rather, of nightly occurrence; and, how-
ever their frequency may blunt in um the feeling of sur-
prise, to the rest of the world they must appear indica-
cative either of gross indifference on the part of govern-
ment or of unexampled depravity on that of the people.
Yet the pre-eminence of Irish guilt is not wholly attri-
butable to either of these causes. Though the govern-
ment is frequently and most culpably remiss in the dis-
eosery, still more in the prevention of crime, we know
not that in this respect it is much worse than that of
'_.other nations. Nor, though the Trish character is, and
.-211*.ver been, from the earliest period of history, as
"e'"us as that of any people on earth, is human nature
more hideous there. than elsewhere.' If crime be more
prolific there than in other countries, the fault is rather
in the
wretchedly ineapan the soil. The chief cause is the
of
,exwate education of the people. In a
literary point
are, on a level with tit!nldeed, they may be, and probably
moral, and still more Ma
vo7s.er order of England ; but in a
%;,,,ronegt.a.rts one, there must be s'o'me-
them disgracefully
them only, to be the cause.' NyZ,LiVect the-priests, and
as they are
deno.uncing the crimes against. ize thely as zealous in.
discipline
murder,
n visiting the slightest infraction 7,1,4":
pursued
—did they inculcate the eternal truth, that
wever and wherever perpetrated, inuat"baet