The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

WHIG-RADICAL LOYALTY.

(From the Staffordshire Gazette)
In common with all her loyal subjects, we sincerely
rejoice on the occasion of the marriage of our youth-
ful Queen. Happy in being united to the object of
her affections, but happier still in the kit id disposition
and spotless character of the husband of her choice,
we trust that under Providence she is destined to en-
joy a full measure of conjugal bliss ;—we trust too,
that in her illustrious consort she will find a bosom
counsellor, not less able than anxious to protect her in
all the difficulties, and advise her in all the perplexities
inseparable from her exalted station.
But still we are disposed to congratulate the country
on the great event of the week, it were idle to deny
that our satisfaction is not wholly without alloy. We
had hoped that in the conduct of a great national so-
lemnity, all political feuds would have been forgotten,
all party jealousies laid aside, and the honour of the
Sovereign alone regarded ; but no : the same worth-
less crew that in furtherance of their selfish and sor-
did ends have gone nigh to compromise the character
of their maiden Queen, have now done all that in them
lay to prejudice her prospects while entering into the
holy estate of wedlock. Instead of following the
wholesome precedents of former reigns, and inviting
the flower of the British peerage without distinction of
party to assist at the royal nuptials, or to partake of
the royal hospitality, we find that with but two excep-
tions, none of the conservative nobility, were permitted
to bear a part in the rejoicings of the day ! Of these
two exceptions the Earl of Liverpool, an old personal
friend of the Queen, was the one—the Duke of Wel-
lington, invited only three days before the wedding, was
the other. Such exceptions serve only to heighten the
marked affront which was thus put upon the rest of
the conservative peers, whose loyalty, had it not been
of that sterling kind which forgives while it grieves for
the acts of a young and ill-advised monarch, would
have resented such a cruel—such a deliberate insult.
Happily, however, for the Queen, the acts of her mi-
nisters are not confounded with her own ; would that
bhe were well assured that they whose devotion she has
been taught to question are the most zealous guardians
of her injured nignity ;---yes, and it is only among the
Opposites of her present ministers, that honour, fidelity,
and loyalty are to be timed !
Loyalty indeed ;—the word jars on the ear when ut-
tered by have
whiff;-radical lips,—and yet they would
the country to believe that all its loyalty is confined to
them. Granted that we find them on all public occa-
sions boasting of the devotedness of their affection to
the royal person--of their anxiety for her happiness,
and their zeal for her service; granted too, that we
find them whenever a hasty word escapes the most
humble of their opponents, eager to make it a pretext
tor impeaching the honesty of the party and lowering
them in the eyes of their mistress;--we however can
discern no loyalty in all this, we see nothing on the
c,
trary but selfishness and shamelessness.—When
the t
comes, and come it must, of conservative as-
Ce cY, we shall then see whether the ex-ministers
\i‘ainil4uae that n
maintain: thel same principles, and speak the same
ed their official career,;—we shall
then see whetherni the
chey will retain the same respect for
their Sovereign, aa
tor;:iewthniiiir_lisotyraiy
toy her ,
i. constitutional reverence
Some sameoice
herere,markable instances are on
a"m lu not
..ecetere will reinemothir
howre ouFtoxof(inploalc)ep.osilttiloan) yaosf
,he character good King George the Third,
,se head he more than
ot del fate, and wilt= once demanded in the ar--
tll death he declared would be
iee. a teem!! expiation of
Descending to
he had brought
t; pun the coon; ry
to more recent times,
he lmal.nnhgegnuale in which the who can have forgotten t
en-
tire whip party indulged
William the
Fourth paused for one week in his career of reform,
relinquishednbthe)ost
and placed the Duke of Wellingtons •
Lordi Grey.
had been so insolently which
The foul-mouthed threats and treasonayble harangues
may expect
of that brief period almost transcend belief, leave
us in no doubt as to what Queen Victoria
whenever she shall see fit to dismiss the destructives
from power. It is when exposed to slander and per-
secution that true loyalty is displayed, and not when
basking in the sunshine of court favour ; and, tried
by this standard, the contrast between Conservatism
and Whiggery, is complete.
It may be said that in our own county, for example,
the rejoicings on the occasion of the Queen's marriage
have been principally confined to the side of our Op-
ponents ; they have, and properly so ; for while it is
one thing to offer public insults to a reigning sove-
reign, it is another to convey to her the marks of pub-
lic approbation. To the former we should never stoop;
the latter, for the present at least, perhaps, comes best
from our
In opponents.
conclusion we shall only
observe,that if the
whig-radicals had be
of their party to been in opposition when the return
peo-
ple, was prevented by
power, though called for by the a
knot. of bedchamber women,
this country, in all probability, would have been ex-
posed to the horrors of civil
wa
calamity did not then hefal it ."That such a dire
le:re to the forbear-
ance of the conservative party:
should not again threaten it, we trustatto a .like hazard
to prevent.

The " great anti-corn law meeting," ',chic, was held in
the city the other day, would appear to be a fatill
anxiety now shown to Jr.ain signatures to the petitions which
, from the
P
were then agreed to. I the lobbies of the courtso
Guildhall, this morning, two men were in attendance, law, at
The to
solicit signatures to the anti-corn law petitions.
city of the persons who attached their names to these inaj().
re
on, documents were attorneys' clerks, many of them mere
How, then, these petitions can be represented as c ere
ing from " the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city
of London," we are at a loss to say.—Courier.
THE QUEEN'S GIANT CHEESE.—The Pennard cheese was
made
CO
w 3,
the morning of the 20th June last with the milk of
78, fifty dairy maids officiating at the ceremony. The
shape 7
is an octagon, the lineal edge 11 inches, depth 22 ;
me asures, from angle to angle, 36 inches, containing 20,820
cubicinches; weight
10 cwt. A powerful press was made for
the occasion, capable
giving a pressure of 40 tons. " The
follower" is fat uo edor a. block of mahogany five inchesthick,
with the royal armsk
the top of the cheesegunin it, which appears in bas relief on
&c., a
prison
of
beautiful
preserve it effectnally from vermin,
with an octagonal pyramid
fdlwire-Nvark surrounds it, covered
Queen's
the same, surmounted by the
royal crown. On the
Messrs;. Norris
a party from 11.
minster was received by and Dimkerton, the
projectors, and entertained in th Iriost hospitable manner,
to the room where the cheese stands,e.when a song written
expressly for the occasion by -:.,i,.
music by T. Williams, was sung to the Dibdiu, and set to
delight of a nu-
merous company who had assembled on this
s
The following is one of the verses : joyous occasion.
" The Pennard men then built a cheese
The like was never seen !
'Twas made, and press'd, and fit to please
• -...:
Our gracious lady Queen !
. .
And wedded to her royal love, .
May blessings on her fall,
And Pennard cheese at dinner' Prove
The best thing-oer all?"