The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

THE BLUFF OLD BRITISH YEOMAN.

When Radicals would rule the land,
To Crown and Church the foemen ;
Who 'gainst the base will boldly stand?
Why who but British Yeomen ?
'Tis they alone stand by the throne,
The altar and the laws too !
A band of truth, both sire and youth,
All in the honest cause, too.
And the sturdy British Yeomen—
The bold old British Yeomen
For England's right will dauntless fight—
The bluff, bold British Yeomen !

No rotten theories they boast
Which strength would give to foemen ;
For Britain's weal, the patriot host
Are England's honest yeomen.
Their royal pride Rads may deride,
That pride they'll ne'er forego, men;
Let rebelS meet, just feet to feet,
The sturdy British Yeomen,
Whose fearless faces show men;
Whose courage yields to no men,
And many a year they'll after fear
Old England's loyal Yeomen.
Yes ! should a base rebellious crew
To anarchy give action;
And civil strife again renew
To break the empire's paction,
Who are the men would come out then,
Each as the bold defender
Of isritain's laws, and the monarch's cause,
With the shout of " No surrender ?"
Why England's noble Yeomen;
The sturdy British Yeomen ;
Who inch by inch will fight, nor flinch—
The bold old British Yeomen.
Then may God speed the British plough !
God speed the sail and loom too !
Long may the stream of commerce flow
And never check be doom'd to !
Industry's hive, long may it thrive--
God bless the Isle of Britain !
Prosperity ! long may it be
The-lot of all who sit in
The homesteads of her Yeomen
The bold old British Yeomen
Cheers for the good ! in heart and blood
John Bull's best friends—the Yeomen.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS,

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(From the Morning Herald.)

The diplomatic information which we published on
Monday constitutes a. new phase in the Thiers-Palmer-
ston negotiations.
The two redoubtable diplomatists, who are keeping
all Europe in agitation and alarm, would, at a period
when truly great men moved on the theatre of the
world, be very insignificant personages indeed.
What a practical illustration do these two political
tricksters present, in the position which they occupy,
and the attention which they attract, of the sort of
wisdom and talent that is " competent" to obtain an
ascendancy in managing the affairs of nations in the
nineteen century—the boasted age of intellect !
It is not long since Palmerston and his colleagues,
and all the journals devoted to the service of the whig
ministry, assured the public, over and over again, that
the principle of foreign policy most conducive to the
interests of England, the peace of the world, and the
advancement of civilisation, was that of a close and in-
timate alliance with France. So far did our whig mi-
nisters go in that respect, that they took very patiently
more than one insult offered to our flag by the Govern-
ment of Louis Philip, which we thought and said
ought to have been energetically resented, or amply
atoned for. But dearer to the whig ministers is " the
preservation of the integrity" of the decrepid and pe-
rishing Ottoman empire than the vindication ot Eng-
lish honour and the protection of English interests.
But the Anglo-Gallic alliance, so skilfully manufac-
tured by whig policy, has snapped asunder like a rope
of sand. Brunow has beaten Thiers, Nicholas has su-
perseded Louis Philip, and the absolutism of Russia
has displaced the revolutionary dynasty of France in
the affections of the whig government.
Who could have supposed only a year or two since,
that England and France would be seen to-day taking
up an attitude so hostile, that the preservation of peace
cannot be positively calculated on for a single hour.
When two next-door neighbours, NIT:10 have lived for
some time in seeming peace and amity, exchange the
tones of friendly salutation for those of rancorous ani-
mosity, and not stopping at scolding bitterness of lan-
guage, prepare deadly weapons to plunge in each others
hearts, it is time for those whose duty it is to prevent
violence and bloodshed, to demand of them mutual
securities of the peace ; for when neighbours bear such
feelings towards each other, there is no saying how
soon even an accidental collision may ripen wrath into
action, and produce deplorable consequences.
But where is the preventive police that shall compel
France and England, if they be minded for war, to
keep the peace?
EnglAnd has a weight of public debt about her neck,

which particularly unfits her for the active and costly
exertions of war. We recollect when Lord Brougham
said that " the national debt bound Great Britain in a
security of f 800,000,000 to keep the peace with all the
world." He said that in allusion to a mere defensive
war. But who could have supposed that there could
exist such folly, such madness, even in a whig admi-
nistration, as to put this country in a position to en-
counter the risk of a European war, on the pretext of
protecting the independence of the Ottoman empire
against the ambition of one of its own vassals ?
If a war should unhappily result from the interfer-
ence of our government in the disputes between the
Pacha of Egypt and the Turkish Divan, it will in truth
be the consequence of the most monstrous fatuity that
ever aspired to the government of mankind. In such
a war Great Britain would be inevitably dragged into
the abyss which the insidious `• friendship" of Russia
has prepared for her,—France would be so crippled as
not to be able to offer any resistance to the insatiable
ambition of the north for a long time to come—and
the Ottoman power would be enchained for ever in
the iron bonds of Russian protection.
Let the common sense of the British public, with-
drawing itself from the maze of verbose and shuffling
diplomacy by which it is bewildered, look at the ORIGIN
of all the diplomatic jargon, hostile threatening, and
warlike preparations which keep the mind of Europe
on the stretch of an alarming excitement. What was
it ? A question whether Mehemet Ali was to be al-
lowed or not to govern a portion of Syria, with " the
holy cities of Arabia, which the Porte was and is
wholly unable to govern."
Such is the question which constitutes the cause of
European excitement, and possibly of European war.
It is only another exemplification of the cutting truth
of the sarcastic observation of the Chancellor of Swe-
den, " Go forth, my son, and see with how little wis-
dom the world is governed." We should think that
in this the fortieth year of the nineteenth century,
the " little wisdom" to which Count Oxensteirn al-
luded, has pretty nearly decreased to its minimum.
If it were not so, it would be utterly impossible for
such political pretenders as Lord Palmerston and
Thiers to kindle the flames of war with volumes of dull
diplomacy, and to make England and France gird on
the armour of battle to determine whether the Pacha of
Egypt, or the Russianized Divan of Turkey, is to rule
the Syrian desert or regulate the pilgrimages of Arabia!

ROlikAL EXPENSES

(From Frazer's Magazine.)
If any one fault has been in a thousand sha

pes re

peated and reiterated in the teeth of us tories, it has
been a disposition to uphold the dignity and munifi-
cence of the crown. But, notwithstanding the ardent
economy of the whigs when out of office, their declared
hostility to squandering the resources of the nation on
royal personaws, they no sooner breathe the air and
eat the dinners of a palace, than " a change comes o'er
the spirit of their dream," and the immolation of the
sinews and muscles of all BritaiN, as a holocaust to the
queen, is neither inconsistent with former profession,
nor a severe tax on national industry and forbearance.
It has invariably been the practice of conservatives to
ask handsome competency for royal masters and mis-
tresses, but never to heap wealth upon them. We
know not how it is that royalty in all ages seems an in-
satiable absorbent of money. Hundreds of thousands
evanish at the touch of royal digitals, like morning
mists at sunrise. The Duke of Sussex is almost star-
ving on £21,000 per annum. Queen Victoria has for
herself £lO,OOO a-year more than King William and
Adelaide together; and since her marriage, her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have to-
gether £40,000 per annum more than their predeces-
sors in the same castle. Really, we humbly submit the
necessity of severe economy, rather than unmerciful
lavishness, in a day when our discontent leaps from
hut to hovel with electric speed, when our navy rots
for want of repair, our army barely serves to keep down
intestine war. If ever a ministry rendered a throne
unpopular, it is the men now in office. They look like
traitors in the garb of patriots. Under the pretext of
supporting and repairing the constitution, they deal it
successive stabs, and provoke against it the fury of the
populace. We do not desire republican penuriousness;
the history of our party shows this. But in times too
much akin to those that preceded 1688—in times of
depression and dissatisfaction, of poverty and reckless
crime, nothing is so much to be deprecated as needless
waste of national resources—as the expending on din-
ners for Lord Melbourne as much as would feed thou-
sands of a starving population. We are sure the queen
is not the original source of the extravagant demands
recently made by her ministry; and on them, there-
fore, will lie the guilt of all the unpopularity which now
reigns and festers where loyal love and reverence flou-
rished before.

We close these phenomena, to pursue them in the
course of the " forties." When we do so, we hope to
be able to announce to our delighted fellow-subjects
those two noble and national phenomena,

A TORY MINISTRY

A PRINCE OF WALES !

INSTABILITY OF DISSENT-CHURCH
EXTENSION.
_ _ (From the Kentish Gazette.)

Mr. G. C. Smith, minister of a dissenting chapel at
Hackney, well known as " Boatswain Smith, " has
published in the Sailor's Magazine, of which he is the
editor, some remarks on the subject of Church and
Dissent, from which we make the following extracts :
—" In travelling last spring, I was very sorry to see
a youth at the door of a dissenting chapel, with a peti-
tion, and pen and ink and table, for any one to sign
against church extension. This is an awful specimen
of the warfare carried on. There are evils in the
church, and there are also ten thousand evils amongst
dissenters. Worldly-mindedness, pride, self-interest,
and party feeling, seem to reign among a vast mass of
ministers and people. The aristocracy of dissent look
with scorn upon their less wealthy, less elevated, and
less influential brethren ; so that a plain, humble, bap-
tist minister, who is not one of the great and rich of
his denomination, but a hard-working, pains-taking,
useful man, called yesterday, and said he thought we
ought to have a Dissenting Ministers' Protection So-
ciety, to defend the humble working class of ministers
from the persecutions and prejudices of persons of all
descriptions amongst Dissenters who are so exalted
and imperious. I should be most happy to form such
a society; it would he a severe check, especially upon
all who made a trade of religion, as many thousands
now do. In conversation with this minister we exa-
mined Lambeth and the borough of Southwark, in
order to see what were the scenes exhibited of the
blessing of God upon the violent proceedings of Dis-
senters. First, Holland Chapel, Brixton ; here Dr.
Styles preached. Dr. S. had been removed from this
to a small chapel, and the chapel is now taken and oc-
cupied by the Church of England. Second, Vauxhall
chapel—Rev. Mr. Moor. Alas, this has also been de-
serted, and is now advertised as St. Paul's Episcopal
Chapel." Third, Kennington Chapel,--Rev. Mr.
Hunt. This is also given up by Dissenters, and has
now exhibited on its front, as you come from Ken-
nington Common, Episcopal Chapel.' Fourth, Lon-
don-road Chapel—Rev. Mr. Harper. This now be-
longs to the Church of England, and I rejoice to know
that it is well supplied by that pious and zealous tee-
totaller, the Rev. J. F. Witty. Fifth, Verulam Cha-
pel, near Bethlehem Hospital, Kennington-road : this
was built by the Rev. Mr. Lacey. it has long since
been given up, and has, I understand, been set apart
for the church by the Bishop of Winchester. Besides
this, the Temperance Hall, near the Elephant and
Castle, was a Dissenting chapel; but, being relin-
quished, it is now taken as a hall. And sixth, Lant-
street chapel, Borough, where the Rev. Mr. Cartwright
used to preach, has long since been converted into a
broker's warehouse and shop, for furniture. Really
these are alarming symptoms. But what I most la-
ment is, that Dr. Rippon's large chapel, of Carter-lane,
Tooley-street, and Dean-street Chapel, Tooley-street,
are both pulled down for the railway; and, from Lon-
don-bridge to Dockhead, alongshore, with all the tiers
of shipping, I have seen no substitute in that most
dense and important sea-faring locality. Of this lam
confident, that unless Dissenters have some more hum-
ble, pious, conscientious, working, kind-hearted, con-
descending men at the head of their affairs in London,
they will have to write Ichabod, or glory departed,
upon themselves.;