The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

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The hapless company of Whig performers driven for-
ward by their merciless manager-of Derrynane, who has
added an additional thong to his .whip, have, somehOw
or other, contrived to get up two farcical displays, for the
amusement and quiet keeping of their radical .and papal
colleagues—this became vastly necessary, in consequence
of their worthy confederates of the '• whole hog" sys-
tem having began to grunt and growl vociferously at the
slow movement which their sluggish .patrOns have of
late especially evinced, and the onward stepping gentry
having resolved to cut the connexion, unless their double
quick stop movement Was occasionally used in the drill.
We have one great farce'performed in Wicklow, under.
the tutelage of the good .Lord Fitzwilliam, assisted by
his band of independent nominees, tenants, and stipen-
diary .magistrates under the command of the drum-
major for the county, Mr. Parnell, the
.brother or Sir
Henry, and who, having been routed from the Queen's
County, by the O'Connellite priestly' tribe, was too
happy to take shelter in the radical Scotch borough of
Dundee ! ! Be this as it may, the said Mr. Parnell is
now,- by some quirk of whiggery and Mulgraveism
authority, right trusty high sheriff of Wicklow. Under
him figured the justices, who came galloping to the field
at the whisle of Lord Fitzwilliam's huntsman, the more or
less absolute dependents upon his lordship, inducing Mr.
Challoner his steward, Mr. Hume, his steward's son in-
law, (no relation except politically to cackle goose the
" feelosopher") Mr. Redmond, the Roman Catholic stipen-
diary, Messrs. Byrne and Segrave also Roman Catholics,
and his lordship's apothecary ! As we propose favouring our
Radical friends with an accurate list of all the leading
grandees, with their titles and qualifications, who figured
on this occasion 'we will not inflict on our Conservative
friends to-day a lengthened statement in detail ; but
satisfy ourselves by observing, en pdssant, that nine
Peers of the county and thirty Magistrates exonerated
themselves from all participation in this performance,
and left the honours to Lord Fitzwilliam, and two other
noble colleagues! That. Lord Fitzwilliam should thus
identify himself with the destructive policy of the preSent
Cabinet, in its downward course of imfatuated misrule
for Ireland, is certainly somewhat surprising to us, who
are well acquainted with the caution with which he voted
as Lord on some of the measures of Lord Grey's
Administration, and-which brought upon himself, and his
departed sire, all the obloquy and low scurrilous vitupera-
tion which is the leading. feature in the O'Connellite vo-
cabulary ; and still more surprising, that he should
compromise the honourable reputation to which he is
fairly entitled as a private character, by identify-
ing himself with a party of destructives, for the
presumed purpose of courting a fleeting popularity.
We can attribute. his Lordship's acquiescence to the
workings of Whiggery, in this instance, to the
least noble' principle in the human character, not distin-
guished by positive corruption, from which we must
consider Lord Fitzwilliam still exempt, the principle of
fear; 'and we hope he may not have to repent, at no far
distant period, he course be has taken, despite of his
barely negative support of O'Connell by name; whilst
he has laboured to propel the engine of this mischief
against the House of Lords, in his own foolish speech,
and the others- to which he gave countenance, as the
threadbare questions' of the Irish Tithe and Municipal
Bills, for the expulsion of which, with all due deference
to the acute reflecting judgment and patriotism of the
Noble Earl of 'Wentworth, we".pronounce that high
estate, of which he is a member, exonerated before God
and their Country !

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We now comeio tne second act in the drama, or rather
the afterpieee performed at Taunton Dean, in West
Somerset, where the worthy baronet, better known as

the consistent knight of the " leather breeches," the ad-
mired of the departed Hunt, and the hero who moved for
the committal of the all-liberal Sir Francis. Burdett to the
Tower of London, led the onslaught against the lords
and toryism.'" But, oh ! gentle readers, steady whilst we
inform you of the woeful kick-up—the rumpus which
here took place between the heroic orators of the poli-
tical. pock and buskin;- for the whip members having
declined performing their part against her hereditary

peerage, a leader was found for the radical section,

and Messieurs Ayshford Sandford and Colonel Tynte,

both of whom have large landed possessions therein,
were knocked down by the man of Bridgewater,
who has no possessions in Somerset that we can as-

certain beyond his seat for the borough. Well,
one important discovery results from this fracas, this

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bear-garden exhibition of West Somerset—the. wliigs

and radicals cannot possibly hold together much longer.
Nor are the speeches which were delivered on this

occasion worthy of our notice, did our time and spacef

permit. We leave to our radical contemporaries and
our Whig palliators the rich treat of making the most o
their West Somerset raree show, reserving to ourselves
the benefit of a reply, if needful.

It is with no inconsiderable share of satisfaction, that, in ad-
dition to the Other splendid efforts now making for the spread
of religion and morals in our opulent and populous town, we
have to note the establishment of a society, which will un
quesjiOnably pr ore a 'powerful auxiliary to the objects contern
Plated in the foundaii66 of our nevi Protestant schools.—

posture of the ministry on this breakuj; in Spain, so
smhlenly after the 'splafli tisplaYS mule by Our noble
foreign secretary in parliament, although we might as-
suredly have found a More correct index thereto in the
truly effeminate display which our •goordy and manly
King was called ',upon to make in his sneech-fronn the
throne, and Which,showed that his lordship
~was already
tossed on an unknown and an unfathomable ocean, with
regard to " the restoration of that internal peace in
Spain which was one of the main objects of the quadru-
ple treaty, and which is so essential to the interests of all
Europe" ! , These are not our words, let it be borne in
mind; and we feel it our duty to show that Lord Palther-
s'on has not redeemed the important principle, the objects
declared, and that he has placed himself and the country
in a situation under which there is no visible prospect
of redemption; and, moreover, one in which, with all
the inflated confidence of Lord Melbourne, the govern-
ment would not dare to meet, even the all-liberal
House of Commons, were-it now sitting?
The prospect of a peninsular republic now stares us in
the face. Does the quadruple treaty provide the Lord of
Protocols with any powers to meet such a contingency ?
Is the legion and " the co-operative naval force" of
England to fight for all .and every change of govern-
ment-or principle which the political anarchists of Spain
may choose to set up ? Will Lord Palmerston, throw
himself, as a dernier resort, into the arms of Don
Carlos, indebted to his lordship's:versatile and glaring
hostility for his rising prospects ? or, will he hazard,
single handed, a general war for the restoration of the
questionable authority of Christina and her daughter,
which it is now fully evident can never be secured ?
We say, then, here is but one course which Lord Palmer-
ston and his colleagues can adopt with honour to them-
selves, with justice to Spain, and with safety to England.
We shall see what their election will be—the gulph is
before them, and they will not plunge headlong therein
without doe notice; nor -will they have any grounds
to _ expect forbearance at our hand's fur the awful
responsibility they already have incurred, and to.which
they weuld do well to make no further addition.
What we have advanced with regard to our general and
particular motives for opposition. to Loud Palmerston
is strictly applicable and analogous to the opposition we
feel it our conscientious duty to make to, the destructive
proceedings in our Town Council. We- have no desire
to sow the seeds of discord arnids:. a body of intelligent
and wealthy gentlemen, forming within themselves .a
leading element of society within our town of Liverpool,
which has, by the general assertion of sound principles,
raised it to a pitch of the highest importance, as an inte-
gral and component part of the state; but, if in the as-
sertion of that we deem to be essential to its continued
prosperity, we should be accused of unworthy motives,
we know how to defend ourselves, and to sustain our
premises; and not all the gall and scurrility, which Lord
Mansfield appropriately termed the " Mendax inflamia,"
that a disconceked whig-radical press may vomit forth
will drive us from our self-possession; nor divert us from
our loftier purpose, the exposition of error and the advo-
cacy of truth!