The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-19 00:00:00

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moorings thqti floating tub which for whole summers
past has fuirnished thy weekly fund of amusement;
and we trust that it will continue to afford a subject
for thy pen, and a relief to a mind distracted with the
turmoils of party, and unfit for the strife of faction.
" Dulce est desipere in loco." Unbend—good Mer-
cury—unbend!

A correspondent of the Liverpool Chronicle has called
our attention to the circumstance, that the language
.used by Mr. James Mulleneux at the Clayton-square
meeting, when he termed the illustrious hell' of the
house of Derby " the accident of an accident," was not
an original thought of that worthy individual. We
never supposed for a moment that the expression was
originally that of Mr. James Mulleneux, or of Mr.
O'Connell, who had previously made use of it, in one
of the vulgar tirades in which he usually indulges when
upon his dunghill. This want of originality, however,
is no palliative of its vulgarity and insolence, when ap-
plied to a nobleman of Lord Stanley's admitted worth
and talent, by a gentleman whose claim to indulge in
a sneer at rank and birth is so slender as that of Mr..
Mulleneux.

We might he disposed to concede to a man like Lord
Thurlow, whose talent and learning had elevated him
to the summit of his profession and to a peerage, the-
right to use such an expression towards a mere popin-
jay, whose taunts had stung him. But we are by
no means ready to concede the same license to one
who, whatever may be his own opinion of himself, will
certainly never, in the opinion of the world, be ranked
amongst those who, like Lord Thurlow, have " achieved
greatness," and may therefore fairly claim an equality
with others who, on the contrary, " have had greatness
thrust upon them." The small wit of the Chronicle is
no friend of Mr. James Mulleneux, or he would have
allowed this unlucky expression to go quietly to oblivion.

'The .petitton in. favour 70V Lord Stant eyse • itirszatt
tion Bill, agreed to at the meeting held on Wednesday
last at the Amphitheatre, was forwarded to London on
Saturday- evening for presentation ; and we are glad to
be able to announce to our readers that the number of
signatures affixed to it amounted to 23,128. We do
not affect to consider this number of signatures as re-
presenting fairly and fully the Protestant feeling of Li-
verpool. But when the short period allowed for sign-
ing the petition is taken into consideration ; when the
respectability of the names attached to that petition is
taken into consideration ; when the absence of all un-
worthy and dishonest claptraps to procure signatures is
taken into consideration; then we say that the Protes-
tant Conservatives of Liverpool have abundant reasons
to congratulate themselves, and to congratulate Eng-
land, upon the sound and healthy feeling which that
petition vouches for, as existing amongst the inhabi-
tants of this great and influential community.
It is too late now for the degraded faction, which for
the last ten years has rough ridden the people of Eng-
land, to attempt to revive an expiring domination. It
was madness for the paltry tools of a paltry corporation
to attempt to prostrate, at the. feet of a beggarly impos-
tor, and at the sound of a treasonable outcry, the loyal
and high-spirited inhabitants of Liverpool. They have
made the attempt, however ; they have set the wheel in
motion. Let them cringe beneath its recoil.

The petition which would be presented last night—
a petition of 23,128 inhabitants of Liverpool, eack- of
whom has a trade or a profession and a place of abode,
will seasonably strengthen the hands of Lord Stanley
and the supporters of that talented nobleman and loyal
English gentleman, in their endeavour to deliver this
Protestant land from the thrall of an Irish Popish
faction. Would to God that every town in England_
had followed so noble an example !'