The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

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Quel norne ti daran ch' altri nou dons

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STANZAS FOR MUSIC

For the Liverpool Standar

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'e shaded

n ever ale faded

leaves scattered wide, and their fragrance all gone.
! for the sweet dreams in youth which we cherished,

vanished like dew-drops beneath the sun's ray;
trections deep-rooted have one by one perished,

Lt the first streak of day

Weep for the I

are now hushed and still,

om Ire loved in days long past away;
,ne, and we tread o'er their ashes low-hearted,

.h beauty could ever decay
Weep for the past

rs Club, Nov., 1840

JOHN PALMER

&WA', WHIGS, AWA'!

BY BURNS

Our thistles flourished fresh and fair,
And bonnie bloomed our roses ;
But whips came like a frost in June,
And wither'd a' our posies.

Awa', whigs, awa' !
Ye're but a pack o' traitor loons,
Ye'll ne'er do good at a'.

Our sad decay in church and state

Whigs cam' o'er us for a curse

And we have done wi' thriving

tlwa', Whigs, awa', &

THE NEW POOR LAW
(From the Morning Herald.) _

160,000,000 bushels

The increasing cost of the new poor law bids fair to
enlist against it the feelings of many who are, as yet,
unconvinced of the dangerous nature of the principles
on which the new poor law is founded.
If the new poor law had been followed by a general
and enduring reduction of parochial burdens, still that
change would have been deemed of very equivocal
value, if accompanied by the growth and diffusion of
feelings, which in their exercise are incompatible with
the security of property. Now no one may deny that
the new poor law has been all along regarded with ab-
horrence by the labouring classes. Some persons may
deem the popular feeling on this subject exceedingly
unwise : but as to the existence of the feeling, no one
can entertain a doubt. The labourers of England be-
lieve that they have, by means of the new poor law,
been robbed of their elder and stronger title to paro-
chial relief in circumstances of diatress; and such a
belief is dangerous to the institution of property.
Look to the actual result ; let that result be compared
with the prognostications of the authors of the new
poor law. These " philosophers" promised us, that
the " moral character" of the poor would " be ele-
vated" by the operation of their nostrums. They now
declare that habits of dishonesty amongst labourers are
spreading so widely, that nothing may impart security
to property but the establishment of a rural police. in
this statement. rightly interpreted, is to be found the
condemnation of the new poor law. If under the
operation of the new poor law, the morality of the la-
bouring classes has not been improved, the new poor
law is admitted by its authors to be a fraud.

But the rates, too, are rising. In every quarter may
he heard complaints of the increasing burdens on
ratepayers. Look at the vast increase, too, in the
amount of private contributions for the relief of the
poor—for many of the higher and middle classes dis-
like the new poor law, as much as labourers do ; and
these benevolent individuals have not been slow to as-
sist unfortunate persons, who, but for relief at the
hands of private generosity, must have taken refuge in
the abhorred union workhouses. Look, too, at the
monstrous sums paid to commissioners and their su-
bordinates ;—look to the impending cost of a rural
Police ; and look to the stipendiary rural magistracy
that will assuredly. follow. The gentlemen of Eng-
land—the owners of the soil—will, if the centralising
system shall be carried out, be at no distant period
displaced and set aside. The offices and honours
which belong to them by hereditary right will shortly
be lavished on the creatures of the Home-office; and
let the country gentlemen be once stripped of their
magisterial influences, and deposed from their national
rank as leaders of the labourers ;—let this revolution,
we repeat, be accomplished, and an organised attack
on the property of the landowners will be attempted
forthwith. The corn laws will be assailed then as they
have never hitherto been assailed ; and a rural police
will be found effectual in carrying out the views which
an " open question" government entertains on that
subject.

THE LONDON UNIVERSITY
_ (From the Standard.) _ _

We received yesterday from the House of Commons
printer, probably the most extraordinary volume ever
issued by the authority of a legislative assembly. It is
entitled " Papers—London University," and it con-
tains 319 folio pages, very closely printed : two-thirds
of these 319 pages are bestowed upon the minutes of
the senate at its several meetings, and the remainder
are occupied with a full report of the examination
questions and papers for pass and for honours—a hash
of interrogatories in history, ethical and natural philo-
sophy, theology, mixed up with problems in geometry,
algebraical equations, propositions in physiology, mid-
wifery, physic, surgery, chemistry, and mineralogy,
and copious quotations of passages to be translated
from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, French, &c. _

The questions in the few departments of knowledge
with which we have any slight acquaintance seem to
be droll enough, and remind one of the playful little
pamphlets published in the bonci fide Universities, en-
titled " Pluck Papers." Judging from what we see
of the examinations in the London University, by the
faithful record which Parliament has been kind enough
to publish, the scale of learning is not pitched very
high by the senate, as we may hereafter show, if some
of our young friends do not spare us the trouble of a
selection ; and whoever reads the papers will not be
surprised that about one-third of the pupils are re-
turned as taking honours. The puzzle is to under-
stand how the remaining two-thirds fail to shine in an
examination, which few schoolboys need fear to en-
counter. The question for consideration, however, is
the publication of this farrago by Parliament at the
public expense. 'What would be thought of a parlia-
mentary publication of the Oxford and Cambridge and
Dublin papers—and they would be really worth some-
thing ? The answer to our question is, that "the
learning" of the London University " has been let fly
upon the "public" at a cost of four or five hundred
pounds, upon the motion of that great scholar and
strict economist, Mr. Joseph Hume.

THE USURPING GOVERNMENT

(From the Edinburgh Evening Post.)

The Whig-radical, O'Connell-Melbourne ministry
must now think seriously of putting their house in or-
der. It is utterly impossible that. they can be allowed
much longer to carry on the government in the present

gone of their party papers

—not even their most selfish and unscrupulous parti-
zans—will dare to pretend that they now possess a ma-
jority in their favour, so far as the constituencies are
concerned. What signifies the support which they
continue to scrape together in the House of Com-
mons, small and precarious as it is, when they have
the stark-staring fact before them, that, if the people
at large were appealed to, their opponents would com-
mand, to a dead certainty, a majority of nearly, if not
more, than one hundred against the Bedchamber ad-
ministration ? And, moreover, of what avail is the
countenance of the court, faithless as it usually is,
when put in the scales against the determined and en-
ergetic
feeling of the country. Yet on what other
means does this miserable ministry of shreds and
patches depend for the prolongation of their degraded
existence ? We put the question, but we need not
pause for a reply.
The answer-a death-knell to whiggish ears—is to
be found in the results of the recent registrations in
England, and the not less unmistakeable evidence of
the municipal elections. As we have recently recorded,
the Whig-radicals have suffered the most galling and
undeniable defeat in the boroughs of England. We
point to the case of Liverpool as an example of the
progress which the conservative cause has made and is
making in the sister kingdom. We believe that in
every considerable town similar success has attended
the efforts of the conservatives—a fact which we defy
the whig-radical journals to disprove or even to con-
tradict.

D BARNET.--We believe it is now, under-
ll place in the army or navy. The
_ _

THE EXPE(
tood that no 1m evet

birth of a prince or princess can offer no justifiable reason
for a general pronii?tion, when the exigencies of the public
service do not require such an addition to the national bur-
dens as would be entailed by such apromotion.—Government
Evening Print!, _ _

SPAWN OF TUE SALMON.-Mr. Cornelius Evans, of New-
port, the Welsh Walton, gives the following particulars of a
spawn of a salmon, taken front a fish exposed for sale in New-
port market on Saturday week. Mr. E. found by computa-
tion, that in a quarter of an ounce weight of the spawn there
were contained 73 globules ; by which it would appear that
the aggregate mass consisted of no less a number than 10,804
globules, each containing
thv, germ of a future salmon. Tak-
ing the number as 10,000, allowing the odd 804 to go for
loss, supposing each to have come to mature growth and per-
fection, and averaging J 4 pounds each, we have the astound-
ing amount of 624 tons of salmon permanently destroyed.—
Gloucester Chronicle.

Wheat contains about 24 pints of gluten, and between 40 t(
60 starch, rye 61, oats 59, so that we may calculate the quan,
tity of starch at about 60 per cent. To obtain somethit-4
near an average, I have taken the weight of wheat at 601bs
per bushel, and the quantity 20,000,000 of quarters, and thost
CONTEMPORARY PRESS. I of other grain at 30,000,000, averaging the bushel at 491bs.
Thus, then, wheat 20,000,000 quarters.