The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

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WHERE IS HE?

And where is he ? not by the side
Of her whose wants he loved to tend;
Nor o'er those valleys wandering wide,
Where sweetly lost, he oft would wend!
That form belov'd be marks no more,
Those scenes admired no more shall see ;
Those scenes are lovely as before,
And she as fair, but where is he ?
No, no ; the radiance is not dim',
That used to gild his favourite hill :
The pleasures that were dear to him,
Are dear to life and nature still:
But ah! his home is not as fair ;
Neglected must his garden be ;
The lilies droop and wither there,
And seem to whisper, " where is he
His was the pomp, the crowded hall,
But where is now this proud display :
His riches, honours. pleasures, all
Desire could frame : but where are they ?
And he, as some tall rock that stands
Protected by the circling sea,
Surrounded by admiring bands,
Seem'd proudly strong, and where is he?
The churchyard hears an added stone,
The fire-side shows a vacant chair;
Here sadness dwells, and weeps alone,
And death displays his banner there.
The life has gone, the breath has fled,
And what has been, no more shall be •
The well-known form, the welcome tread,
0 where are they, and where is he?

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

RUSSIA-THE " PRO'rECTRESS" OF THE
OTTOMAN EMPIRE!

(From the Morning Herald.)
From the period of the battle of Navarino, down to
the present time, we have laboured in our observations
upon eastern affairs to awaken successive administra-
tions to a right sense of their duty as British states-
then in upholding Turkey against both the aggressive
and the circumventing policy of the court of St. Pe-
tersburg, but in vain. We blame both whig and tory
statesmen for the unimpeded progress of the march of
Russian ambition in the east, which has led to those
" complications of the Levant" that Palmerston him-
self so anxious to bring to a " solution."
And how does he set about the task of solving those
difficulties ? He, with a degree of infatuated blindness
that looks like a deliberate betrayal of his country's
interests, actually throws the power and influence of
England into the scale with the sword of Russia to dis-
sipate embarrassments which Russia herself has created !
Yes, Palmerston recognises in Russia, the ancient
rival arid indefatigable enemy of the Turkis nation, the
PROTECTRESS OF THE PORTE—the beneign GENIUS
OF PACIFICATION, which is to REGENERATE Turkey,
and restore the dying spirit of the Ottoman empire!
We have compared this new office assumed by Rus-
sia to the generous and disinterested labours of the
prowling wolf protecting the feeble flock ; or to the no
less benevolent intentions of the hungry kite in mak-
ing a descent upon the poultry yard.
Russia—the PROTECTRESS OF THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE ! It is a discovery that must immortalise the
name of Palmerston, who, some years ago, was the
passive accomplice of Russia in discharging the duties
of an equally benignant protection to Poland.
We object to the crusade in which the English Go-
vernment has been induced to join against Mehemet
Ali, because it is only the developement of a Russian
plot, to completely reduce the last remains of Moslem
power by crushing the only Mahommedan ruler ca-
pab!e of causing very material disturbance to the Rus-
sian schemes, and re-animating in the Turkish people
the ancient spirit of hostility to the Muscovite.
Russia made a merit of abandoning the treaty of
linkiar Skelessi, which was about to expire, and has
contrived to enchain the energies of England in the
cunning-woven meshes of a still more dangerous
treaty. England was not bound by that former treaty.
'between Russia and the Porte, because she was no
party to it. But by the treaty which is the fatal ema-
nation of the Anglo-Russian alliance, the navy of Eng-
land in the Levant is bound not to enter the Darda-
nelles, or make any movement for the protection of
Constantinople, except in combination with or by consent
of
_Russia, as well as of her two despotic auxiliaries.
By upholding the claims of Mehemet Ali against
the demands of a confederacy of governments, entirely
set in motion, inspired, and directed by Russia, we
support, under a nett, state of circumstances, the old
principle of policy by which in regard to eastern affairs
we have been always actuated. We resist the en-
croaching designs and insatiable ambition of Russia,
and thereby endeavour to preserve Turkey from dis-
memberment, and England from the folly and disgrace
of being the tool of her worst enemy.

PROSPECTS OF CONSERVATISM.
(From the Staffordahire Gazette.)
Conservative prospects are brightening ! Daily and
hourly are we supplied with fresh indications of the
returning good sense of the people, and of their re-
newed attachment to those old institutions, and old
principtes, that was wont to distinguish our country-
men, ere whig misrule began. A few years' experience
have sufficed to convince those, who once thought the
whigs honest, of the necessity of withdrawing their
confidence from them, and of ranging themselves un-
der the unsullied banner of conservatism—" The flag
that's braved a thousand years the battle and the
breeze." The conservative phalanx is thus mightily
increasing in strength; and every fresh appeal to the
people—the quondam pets of a ministry that owes its
existence to them—is now responded to in such a man-
ner as to convince the unprincipled whigs, that their
day of popularity has passed by, and for ever. And
why is this ?—how is it that men who rode into power
so triumphantly on the shoulders of the people, and
obtained, for a time, an accession of popular enthusi-
asm unexampled in our history, are now regarded as
mere political empires and unprincipled"knaves ? Sim-
ply because they have betrayed and deceived those who
relied upon their promises and pledges, and have, by
their innate incapacity, rendered whig legislation the
bane of their own country, and the laughing-stock of
civilised Europe. They promised reform; they carried
their much-vaunted second Magna Charta; and the
result of their infusion of too much democracy into
the constitution has endangered its very existence ; they
pledged themselves to effect retrenchment, and yet they
have created more places in ten years than their prede-
cessors did in fifty ; and in addition to this enormous
abuse of power, we find that in the year 1840, solely
from their mismanagement, the necessity has arisen
for seriously increasing the burthens of the people ;
and, instead of promoting peace, they have lavished
our blood and treasure to foster the spirit of revolution
amongst our most ancient allies,—the thunder-bolt of
war seems to be hurled upon us, and even should a
kind Providence arrest for a time so fearful a cala-
mity, the present aspect of affairs, entangled as they
are by whig incapacity, portends anything rather than
peaceful or palmy days for England. The whigs have
done all the mischief, and at length the people know
it. Hence it is that we are so often gratified by fresh
accessions to our ranks, and that numbers, who are
honest enough, and hold enough to avow that they
once ranged themselves under the banners of reform,
because they thought the whigs honest in their in-
tentions, have now returned to the good old way, and
are, as energetic as we have ever been in their de-
devotion to, and maintenance of the constitutional
cause. We cannot attend a conservative meeting, how-
ever limited in numbers, but individuals of this class
are to be found; and in no order of the community is
this more evident than amongst the vast body of opera-
tives; and, when we consider that the middle classes, who
are now so seriously suffering for their mis-placed con-
fidence in whig rectitude, are repudiating all connection
with the party that have enhanced their burthens ; and
further, that many of the brightest ornaments of our
senate—the Stanleys, the Grahams, and the Burdetts,
who are a tower of strength to our cause—were them-
selves once the dupes of whig-radical professions; we
may safely arrive at the conclusion, that the reaction
now so extensive amongst all classes, must shortly end
in an utter routing of the whigs. Every where, too,
conservative meetings are fully attended ; conservative
societies are flourishing ; and whig demonstrations are
unheard of. We cannot, indeed, after the strictest
scrutiny,. discover what class of the community are in
favour of the present ministry. The operative classes
certainly are not ; for throughout the country, and in
no district more extensively than in South Stafford-
shire, they have formed themselves into societies for
the especial purpose of compassing their downfal!; and
the ministerial organ, the Morning Chronicle, has most
pathetically deplored their defection from the whig
ranks. The vast agricultural body who are not en-
slaved by whig landlords; the tradesmen who are not
dependent upon whig customers ; the clergy, •who
bribes, and shewn themselves
have ever despised whig
honest in the worst of times; the gentry who are not
seeking whig commissions fur their sons, or snug
berths for themselves; and the brave barons of Eng-
land, the descendants of those worthies who have ob-
tained from a weak and tyrannical monarch the real
Magna Charta, have, almost to a man, declared their
deterrained opposition to a set of men who have alike
degraded their country and dishonoured themselves.
Therefore, we say conservative prospects are brighten-
ing; and sure we are, that if only the conservative
body continue to exert themselves as they are now do-
ing, we shall ere long witness the return to power of
men who will abolish useless places and sinecures, and
effect every necessary and useful reform that the pre-
sent bungling incapables have rendered necessary—
who will economise our resources, maintain the na-
tional honour and dignity, uphold our Protestant in-
stitutions—and who, in a word, will hold the reins of
government, not for themselves but their country.—
May the day speedily arrive, say we, to which we are
sure every loyal Briton, every real patriot, every sin.
cere Christian, and every honest man in the empire
will most heartily respond.

LATEST. ABSENCE OF MISD.—We hear that after the
wedding celebration between Mr. Gage and the lovely Miss
Knightley, at Fide, a gentleman of Lewes rode homa a strange
nag instead of his own, and never found out his mistake at
all. It is thought he had no time to look at the horse from
being tco much taken up with the bridal.—New Court Ga.
zette.