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

THE lidUSE OF LORDS

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It is understood that this (1;t• th6..ritan of the eampaigti
against, the House of I.c,JrcE to be determined upon. We
would.sugg*t, as a good model f,o. the ministerial resolutions,
the following extract from the journals bt* the House of Com-
mons :--

" Die Jovis. 401 Jan., 1648, .. •-•
" First,—That the people are, under God, the original of all
just power.
" Second,—That the Commons of England, in parliament
assembled, being cho,en by, and representing the people, have
the supteme power of this nation.- .. •
" Third,—That whatever is enacted or, declared for law by
the House of Commons, assembled in. parliaMent, }lath the
force of law, and all the people of this nation are concluded
thereby, although the consent of the King, or House of Peers,
be not had thereunto."

Note.—ln a few days after these resolutions bad passed, the
House of Lords found themselves locked out, arid, out they re-
mained foe-twenty-two years. Within sixteen days of the re-
solutions, the King was brought to trial, and on the 26th, day
after, his Majesty's faithful commons cut off his head. Now,
after all, there is nothing in these resolutions of the asserted
supremacy of the Commons, which we have not heard again
and again, in almost the same words, from the King's ministers
and their supporters. It would, therefore, seem to be a
cowardly. abandonment of principle, if the whigs should refuse
to put the doctrine in a shape as distinct and unequivocal as
that in which it appears in the foregoing resolutions.—Standard.

THE IRISH BEGGARMAN.

A NEW SONG. BY JOHN SHAW, C.P.L.

AIR.—A famous Man was Robin Hood.

This maiden poetical effusion of our new Corporation Poet
Laureate, 'has accidentally fallen into our hinds. It was in-
tended to have been sung at the O'Connell tribute meeting;
held at the Shooting Gallery on Monday last; but looking at
the persotiage who presided, and the quality of the gentleme4
who attended the meeting, it is unnecessary to inform our
readers that it was rejected.
A hungry knave was old Guy Faux, •
To sink our Church it was his plan •
From Ireland's isle his ghost now stalks,
Disguised as an Irish Beggarman.
And like a fiend from Pinto's shore,
His wily arts are to trepan;
Whate'er you grant, he craves for more,
• No boon can appease this Beggarman.

CHok us.

A hungry knave was old Guy Faux,
To sink our Church it was his plan ;
From Ireland's isle his ghost now stalks,
Disguised as an Irish Beggarinun,.

When first emancipation's. clause
He sought to gain with cap in hand,
He swore he'd never break our laws,
• But drive all foes from Britain's strand. •
To spoil our Church he'd ne'er consent,
But let our faith and pastors thrive;
From Cath'lie tie's sack'd all the rent,
And now he'd gorge on the Churchman's tithe;
A hungry knave, &.c.

His words we never can forget:—
, " Make us once free, we'll serve your cause,
"We'll fight your battles, pav your debt,
While Irish hearts respond applause.
" We'll never crave one other grant,
" But serve yeti faithful to a man,
" Emancipation's all we want."
This, this was the prayer of the Beggarman.
A hungry knave, &c.

Ile lhughed at Ireland's lack of sense,
And gull'd her suns on patriot grounds ;
He crack'd his jokes, and fobb'd her pence,
Since that he's sack'd our English pounds.
The helpless, hotheless child of need,
I'hrow,h hitter anguish yields consent;
From hbrrors damn'd his soul's not freed,
Unless bold Dan can raise his rent.
A hungry knave, &c.

e's like the blighting child of fate,
• Or locust-desolating band ;
Where'er he moves to agitate, •
Pale want and famine stalk the land.
A sterile desert lurks behind,'
And Marks the path his foot bath trod ;
For impost stains the ruffian's mind,
And lucre reigns the traitor's God ! •
A hungry knave, &c.

Repeal of Union now be seeks,
To gain that boon cloth much implore;
Were we to grant what he intreats,
Erin would sink to rise no more.
Our cable's moored firm to the land,
Nor shall its cords untwisted be;
Yet from its strength we'll spare one strand
To havg bold Dan on the gallows-tree.
A hungry knave, &e.

In Charles's time, old Hume recorils,
Rebellious Pim disturbed the state;
And Cromwell's fiends coerced the ;orris,
And taught each knave to agitate.
Ere black-whigged Dan our pers assail,
We'll spurn him from our land so free;
Both him and his Whig, road his Trish tail
Shall agitate on the gallows-tree.
A hungry knave, &c.

SOUTH AMERICA 4 PA C KETS.--The ships recently
tablished between t s port and the West Coast of South Americi.'
are despatched with great regularity by the brokers. One of
these vessels sails for Valparaiso on the sth of every month, and
others are sent off at stated periods for the other ports in that
part of the world. The increased facilities thus afforded to our
intercourse with these placeS will have a beneficial influence on,
and must be of great importance to, the South American ttade.

MUNICIPAL" Itaportsi.—ln a rref,nt ,-number of -our Journal
we copied from a contemporary (Th.e Worcestershire Guardian)
an account of the extraordinary scene between members of the
new town council and the charity trustees of Ludlow, and the
details of proceedings which led to the conflict. As the cir-
cumstances must he fresh in the recollection of our readeri, it
is unnecessary to make any further allusions to them. A few
(la's after the occurrence, the persons who Were put in posses-
sion of the,. Guildhall by, the town council; having felt a
disposition to relieve themselves from the tedium of such an
employment, gratified this inclination by a visit to the May
fair, during a sitting of the county magistrates; but having.
made a wiong calculation as to the time their worships would
require the room, the men found, on their return, that advantage
had been taken of their absence, the doors being safely locked
and barred against them. They were, however, admitted on
the following morning into the large hall, the use of which had
been previously allowed to. the borough magistrateS by the
trustees It was supposed that a " second scene" in this curious
drama would be enacted, in consequence of a threat by the
town clerk to force an entrance to the upper offices; }Jut this
threat not having been carried into execution, eight men are
now in the lower or large kistice hall, keeping watch alternately,
day and night, at a very considerable useless expense, which is
likely to continue until our next assizes, when, in all probability,
the disputed right to the Guildhall will be decided ;by a jury,
and thus put down an exhibition which all who respect order
and decorum must consier as essentially opposed to the proper,
dignity of municipal authority, or even the respectability of the
town itself.—Salopian Journal.

A court martial was held at Malta on the 19th of April, to try
Lieut. Puddicombe, R.M., and Mr. T. Hancock. Midshipman
of his Majesty's ship Portland, for conduct unbecoming the
character of an officer and a gentleman. The Court sat five
hours, and the charges being proved, Lieutenant Puddicombe
was sentenced to lose one year's time in the service, and Mr.
Hancock two.—Plymouth Journal.
The Earl of Erroll is to be Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen-
shire in the place of the late Duke of Gordon.—Obszrcer.
We regret to observe that the
.alleged conversion to the
catholic faith of a noble lord, lately holding a prominent office
in the administration, has not been ,contradicted.—Maning
Herald.
Lord LoftuS, and his relation, Mr. FitzWsgram, are an-
nounced in the Wexford Journal, as candidates for the county.
The disease of which the Duke of Gordon died was found,
on the post rnortem examination, to be cancer in the stomach.
.The Duke of Richmond, as chief mourner, accompanies the
remains to the family burial-place. His late Grace, among
other liberal bequests, has left £2do a-year to his private ser-
vant, and lesser sums to others of •his domestics.

The increase in the income of the Duke of Richmond, con-
sequent upon the Duke of Gorden's death has been erroneously.
stated to be £40,000 a-year. The true amount is £14,000 in
addition to Gordon Castle, and 21000 to the Dirvs:iprer Duchess,
of Richmond, who is left the power of appointment of the
principal to her Children by will.
STEAM NAVIGATION ,TO INDaA.—An experiment in steam
navigation on a grand scale.is about to he made under the di-
rection and at the expense of the East India .CoMpany. TWO
vessels of the largest class are nearly completed, with which it
is intended, at intervals of about a month qsach, that the voyage
to Bengal shall be made by
the Cape. The steam engines of
each vessel will he of 200 horse power. Arrangements have
been made for a supply of coals at stated places, for which 3,000
tons haYe been ordered, and they are said to be so well chosen
as to allow the power of steam to be kept up with little inter-
mission during the whole distance. . . .
Cuttrous CraetimsTANcE.—Mr. Henry Rigby, of, the Queen's
Head, Chowbent, near Bolton, lust a lien on the Ilth••uf April
last, which was again found under several cwt. of straw on the
13th ult. still alive, and having existed four weeks without any
food. Her weight when lost was supposed to be six pounds,
but when found she weighed only fourteen ounces. There is
every appearance of her recovering her former weight. . •
'the number of metlMdists in,the United States have-declined
during the past year.
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M. de Tallevrand's health Ccntinues to give the most serious
alarm to his family.
An oxhydrogen microscope is now exhibiting at Chichester
which ina.,nises 3.000,000 times!
The line of battle ships at Plymouth are nearly manned.
The Minden, the Cornwallis,•and the 'ralavera are expected to
proceed from Ply Mouth to join tote vanguard and Bellerophon
at their rendezvous at Spithead.
About ten acres of land have been purchased for Zoological
Gardens at Manchester.
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' SUICIDE FROM DEF.AD Or HYDROPHODI 1.-011 Sunday
morning, the family of Air. Cleave, a respectable stonemason,
residing near the Creek Bridge, Deptford, were plunged into
the deepest affliction in consequence of discovering
.that
beam in a shed adjoining th&
sitxakuseennt:ereasttsoroef animation, a ') el
himselfsEodspweaordded Cleave, a fine
frmn hid,
a about
111elattidiol dwel-
ling-house. 'rule alarm being given his father inimediatel 't
rabid Slate, and,
him down, and every were
but life was extinct. Ihe cause of this
accounted for as folloWs :—About six weeks sine. Y, event i. 6
y a skilful surzeon in
was bitten by a dog, said to be in a the deceased
preyed upon the mind
although
the wound was at the time cauterised b
the neighbourhood, the circumstance so preyed
e felt
On the morning above-mentioned heuaarotteprae
tssisoenvetni 1
o'clock,
of the deceased as to cause an nuns
and observed' to his sisters that h
alive by ally of.the family
sieepy.and unwell. This
of the situation in which he was found.
was the last time he was seen previous
to the discovery

ADVANCE OF RESPECTABILITY.—The lower ordersi- as the,
-labouring classes are denominated, are fast rising in the scale of
respectability. We find an adveitisemeni !Or "a respectable
youth to clean pots, and make himself generally useful." If a
pot-boy must be a youth of respectability, what must the bar-
maid be? Nothing lesa than " a lady of fashionable exterior."
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Sam Rogers hearing" the other day at Lord Holland's that
"a salad, consisting of mustard and cress, may be produced in
a few minutes by an electrical experiment," observed that even
the best must be a bad salad. "Aye, (added the jocose banker 4)"
a shockiny bad one."