The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-29 00:00:00

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THE TIVERTON TRICK.—(From a Correspondent of
the Times.—"To a paragraph inserted yesterday a query
was appended—what Mr. Kennedy was to obtain for-re-
signing, Tiverton in favour of Lord Palmerston, besides
the unprofitable Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds?
A city correspondent enables us to throw some light on,
this subject by adverting to a rumour current 'yesterday
at the India-house and on the Exchange, that the learned'
'gentleman has received, or is. about- to receive, the va-
luable appointment of Chief Justice at Madras, in the
TOOlll of Sir Ralph Palmer. - Now the period of service
of this latter gentleman which entitles him to his retiring
pentiiin is ten years, and that time will expire next month.
Jr is at jiis iiption, however, to remain, if he prefers it,
instead of atiming his pension. Sir Ralph Palmer has,
we believe, written home to state his intention to return
to En,,land in January next, but without any format re-
signation of his office, or application : for his retiring
allowancil. It suited the purpose, .however, of certain
official persons to give such aninterpretation to his letter,
nand accordingly; without loss of time, an order is signed,
qconferring% on Sir Ralph Palmer his retiring .pension.—
This fixes his resianation, and the post being. with equal
celerity (as the report goes) conferred on Mr. Kennedy,
the borough of Tiverton: is open . to Lord Palmerston,
who will no doubt be. most warmly welcomed by the
electors. It is right, however, they should know all the
circumstances which have preceded the honour. about to
be conferred upon them." [We can scarcely believe this
..statement. What I a barrister totally unknown in his
profession to be made Chief Justice of the second preSi-
. dency of the Indian empire ? This surely is, beyond
even Whig jobbery'.]

• COLONEL Fox.—The attacks upon us in some of the
radical papers, relating to Lord John Russell, forced upon
our recollection yesterday the letter of a correspondent
signing himself '4 Veritas," who had communicated a ra-
ther ridiculous story about the noble lord being mis-taken
for a damsel, under process of elopement. Connected
with his lordship's proceedings on that. occasion was the
gallant Col. Fox, then and at present ex-member for.
Stroud, who had evacuated the spick-ond-span new bo-
rough, that my Lord John might get possession of it; all
which accordingly took place. However, it was put in
our hearts by some sly observer, to ask what "considera-
tion" the honourable and gallant officer was to receive
for what must otherwise have seemed an act of selfdevo-
tion, somewhat beyond the utmost limit of that heroism
which the fashions of modern times hold up.to a patriot's
admiration. Colonel Fox accepted the chiltern hun-
dreds—one certainly among the least lucrative offices un-
der the crown—but one which being now and then occu-
pied by gentlemen in a state of transition to something
better, served, we presume, as the groundwork of a be-
lief the gallant Pylades of Stroud would not long be suf-
fered by Iris grateful Orestes to languish unreosmpenced
for the sacrifice he had made to disinterested friendship.
We therefore were advised to.put the interrogatory whe-
ther Colonel Fox was or was not, in the above instance,
one of two parties to an arrangement whereby Stroud
was surrendered, and something else was to be acquired
in lieu of it ? We shaped our question so as literally
to aim at Canada, whither it had been made public that
a commission was about to be sent, of which commission
we also learned that the gallant colonel was to he a mem-
ber, but substantially the purpose was to ascertain wire-
Cher Colonel Fox was to get any, and if anv, what corn,:
pensation for the loss of Stroud'? The answer, as might
have been guessed by any shrewd observer of whig tac-
tics, was a prompt ,and indignant negative. " What!
office for any man of the name of Fox ? Compensation !
for yielding up a seat in Parliament to the leader of the
Fox-O'Connell party ? Lord ! how this world is given
to lying! Why, we are authorized' to state.that there
is not the smallest intention of sending Colonel Fox to
Canada, and strange to say, it was quite " authentic."
So far from- Colonel Fox going all the way to Canada,
be spurned at the notion. The gallant and amiable gen-
tleman (for, spe.aking seriously, be is both) had no idea
of budging a foot beyond Pall Mall, and thence he sends
despatches to Canada instead of being despatched thither
himself, for he is made Secretary to the Master-General
of the Ordnance. It is indeed a masterly retreat, albeit
not entirely unmolested.—Times.

' MosictrAL CORPORATIONS.—Once .again
,we advise
seperusal and a re-perusal of Sir R. Peel's speech,' to all
Who can relish the playful chastisement of pretension and
coxcornbrv. One word as to the municipal corporation
reform. *We observe the whig-radical press preparing
to crow exultingly over thiS reform, as if it were a vic-
tory to be obtained over conservatives. Now, we de-
clare at once, it is nothing less. In polities more than
half the corporations in the kingdom have ever been the
reverse of conservative, and the dastardly manner in
which the immense majority of the corporations submit-
ted to the. illegal commission of last year shows how
little they were to be relied upon as supporters of the
constitutional conservative principle. We may lament
over the threatened fate of Leicester and Norwich, and
perhaps one or two more, that :gallantly asserted the
principles of the British constitution. But in this, as in
every other case of general change, the honourable and
virtuous few must abide the destiny of the worthless mass.
In other respects, we see great benefit likely to result
from almost any change in the corporation system. Be-
sides that scarcely any change can be made which will
not remove sonic of those causes of local irritation that,
are ever the seeds of political dis Content, whatever shall
expand corporate constituencies will remove from the
aristocracy a motive for that sygtem of dealing with
their fellow-subjects by delegation, and, as it were by,
contract, fur which close corporations formed a conve-
nient instrument; and by which the aristocracy have, in
many cases, lost their bold upon the affections of the
pktople.—Standard.•

LORD MULGRAVE.—That dignity, of character is not
always associated with rank, is a truth which, however
the whip noblemen of this present day may forget it,
Lord Mulgrave seems anxious that we should remember.
We have no justification for this nobleman's weakness
but his vanity; or, if our readers think that he is more
vain than weak, let them invert the terms, and carry the
coinpliment to his lordship. It is a better apology for
his conduct than his friends have made for him, but we
trust a worse one than he will be able to make for him.
self. It is painful to see the shifts to which the whigs
are brought—not only by their position, but their prim.
ciples. If Lord Melbourne remain six months in office,
he will find himself as O'Connell is now—such an enemy •
to truth, that he will not be able to speak it except for the
purposes of falsehood. This certainly must be the case,
if he undertake, as in Lord Mulgrave's business, to
palliate the errors of those who hold office under him.
In making this assertion, we forget not the relation in
Which he stands to a man who will furnish him with the!
apology, but not with the means of .escaping from the
dishonour it will bring upon him. O'Connell will at
once suggest the falsehood, and leaYe him to its punish-
ment; the talent of the lie will ascribed to the one,
the disgrace of haying used it to the other. At present,
however, Lord Melbourne defends his friends upon his
own strength, and may set off the ability with which he'
does it against the odium attending it. If this satisfies
himself, we have no reason to quarrel with his delicacy.
Still it must be a foul coalition which gives such ascend-
ancy to the knave over the gentleman, for we never
doubted that Lord Melbourne was a man of honour and
integrityi and, notwithstanding Iris imperfections as a
statesman, i'we- i'an. scarcely doubt it yet., As to Lord
Mulgra%.e and him, we know not on which side the ob-
ligation between them lies, nor which of the two has the
strongest claim on our respect—Lord Mulgrave for
-having, by an unjustifiable violation of the 'law,. identified
hithself with a seditious .and treasonable procession; or
Lord Melbourne, for having attempted, as first minister
of the crown, to advocate the king's deputy and the cap
of liberty in the same breath, and to put legality and
sedition on the same footing. The truth of it is, that
Lord Mulgrave is more ambitious than prudent ;. and, in
gratifying ambition, what great mind regards the penalty
paid for its attainment ? His lordship imagines himself
on the high road to glory, and conceives that he is suc-
cessfully labouring. in the attainment of immortal fame,
as will appear by -his answer to the College address; but
he should recollect, that
" Glory is like -a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought."
.It matters little how Lord Melbourne may suffer—
Lord Mulgrave has been introduced to Messrs. Costello,
Reynolds, and the other leaders of the metropolitan mob.
This is no common feat for an English nobletnaw to
achieve, and a still more signal exploit for the represen-
tative of a constitutional King.
Lord Mulgrave's conduct is, on.every view of it, inde-
fensible. He commenced his official Career by figuring
as the tool of one party, and insulting the principles of
another. Phis has been the theory of Whig legislation
for some time past; but if we are ever forced to realize
it. they may rest assured it will be on other groun6 titan
a wish to justify the policy of our enemies. Lord Mul-
grave't wisdom in this matter will be—silence. If he
bow with as Much complacency to the degradation he has
already earned as he did to the symbols of sedition
which surrounded him on his entrance to office, it will be
a creditable specimen of Whig repentance. This is
his only course—he may thus escape from the utter con-
tempt of those whom he has so deliberately insulted, and,
what will be better for himself, from the further defence
of Mr. O'Connell' and his friends.—Dublin Evening
Mail.

Batrisn MusEol.—Froll a statement made by Sir R. Peel
in the 1-louse of Commons it -would appear that this institution
is coming into more general utility, In 1833 there were 210,000.
general visitors; in 1,c.431 the number was 237,1100. The readers
in the libiary-iii`lS33 were 58j0.;sin.I834they were 7276; and
the number of stwtents in pminting and sculpture have a!s in-
creased. .A sum of £17,796 has been voted for the enwnses
•of the establishment for the rehr 1836. 'The expenditure of ibis
Amu is .contiolled by a select committee.