The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

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sents—to the neighbouring Republic of France. .leer infatuation In that country a President has just been making can prevent this object being accomplished. The
a tour amongst the people over whom he rules, and
great drawback against the introduction of the ex-
of whom he was, a few months ago, the deliberate cellent coal of this district into foreign ports is its
choice. Louis Napoleon, lately a proscribed adven- small size, occasioned by the improper mode of its
turer, now wields the powers and apes the magni- shipment. Frequently we observe advertisements
ficence of a long line of kings. Louis Philippe, his in the New York papers of cargoes of "Liverpool
• . —.„;.-,vmpnt of pre-eminent station, Orrel coal afloat" to be sold, in which it is expressly
ears stated that the article is imported of large size„'"for
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n his old age once more family use." This is a hint which we ought not to
-orpse within a British neglect. It shows us plainly that the leading ob-
bted to England for jection to the coal of this district is its being broken

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by frequent transhipment.
_,,,tity of human— affairs !
...ild insane people ! What are We are glad to hear that the committee have
—,umstances which have marked the progress chosen Mr. 'William Laird as their secretary, for
of Louis Napoleon amongst his subjects,—for succarrying out the objects which they propose. A
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we call them ? The pompous pageantry of royalty more proper selection they could not have made.
attend his every step. Triumphal arches, reviews,
demonstrations of military power, and the slavish THE proceedings at the Peace Congress just
adulation of a people, crouching down apparently held at Frankfort, and which have excited the
merited ridicule of nine out of ten of the sensible
for the chains of absolute power to be riveted on
their necks, meet him as he nroceeds in his ovation. and practical portion of mankind, have, at the
Here and there may he beard, indeed, the murmur same time, contributed to develops fully the
of diseon+—' is of a few gentlemen, whom a career
,6sful agitation bad raised to occupy a
however, apparent Prominent position in the world's eye. That
In to a yoke which half a dozen crotchetty "Friends" should have
those republican made themselves ridiculous by attempting to
'lishment of which they persuade us that the millenium had arrived, and
- , that nations were about to get rid of their passions,
although those passions in individuals remain
unsubdued as ever, might have been passed over
It has seen as characteristic. That a few enthusiasts of the
nto be voted to their Socialist school should fancy, that by casting away
.travagant than was the sword and the bayonet, turning their navies
into freight-bearing vessels, and dismissing their
soldiery to their original avocations of tailors and
expression shoemakers, weavers and tillers of the soil, mankind
...gonism with that should be converted at once into a happy family,
id which promise ulti- was equally possible. But that men practically
t their mercy. acquainted with the world, and, what is more,
' -,t in France entrusted with a share in the government of this
; whether it great country, should entertain so wild a notion,
,e power upon Louis was scarcely to be believed. The man who,
French; the accession half a dozen years ago, would have ventured to
Jranch of the Bourbon predict the presence of the violent demagogue,
iment of a republic, to be Richard Cobden, at such a trumpery farce as this
-shy and confusion. Frankfort affair, would have been laughed at as
fit only for a lunatic asylum.
For some time past, the public have been
opening their eyes to the feebleness of character
and incapability as legislators of a number of
gentlemen of this class—of the Walmsleys, the
Kershaws, et id genus mime. Not one of them,
with the exception of their leader, Mr. Cobden, has
ever succeeded in making even a respectable figure
in parliament ; not one of them has originated any
measure, chalked out any new line of policy, or
played any more important part than that of the
humblest hanger-on of the Ministry. Out of the
house, a few have occasionally loomed large at
obscure gatherings of crack-brained Radicals,
promised largely of intended efforts at retrench-
ment, of new reform bills, and the like; but in
the house we have always observed them mum as
mice, eating their words with exemplary meekness,
and obeying the beck of the whipper-in impassively.
With the exception of one or two shams of refrac-
tory conduct on the part of Mr. Cobden, no master
could have a set of better trained and properly
subdued animals than Lord John Russell has pos-
sessed in the nominees of the Anti-corn-law League
"Tie National Confede-

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univers

subject at all, was

_ _r. Cobden. His has
been a fall indeed; for something was expected
from the man whose energetic efforts converted
the great Conservative leader, and carried the
repeal of the corn laws. We anticipated for him
at least an under-secretaryship, a stool in the Board
of Trade, or something of the kind ; but what
Ministry could be connected with him after his
Frankfort exhibition ? For the rest, however—
the small fry, the Kershaws, Heyworths, Duncufts,
and others--we feel no such pity. Like the frog
in the fable, they have simply blown themselves up
in a vain endeavour to be great. The sooner they
return to their original avocations, and become
content to shine only before astonished tea parties
and soirees in the provinces, the better for their
own peace of mind.

are hea

y sorry for

The Rev. George Dover, incumbent of St. Barnabas,
has been oppointed a surrogate for granting probates, &c.,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late
Rev. Robert :Davies.

The Jouriial announces that Messrs. Gage and Gream
were released from Newgate without paying the fees which
amounted to £4B. They declined to pay, and Mr. Cope
declining to detain them, they stepped out into liberty—
sadder and wiser men.
The fr ends of the Rev. D. James, F.S.A., Incumbent
of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, Lancashire, have presented him
with a purse of fifty guineas, as the best mode of offer-
ing their congratulations on the occasion of his receiving
from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the degree of
" Master of Arts," a mark of literary distinction which
the land of his birth and education had not the power to
confer.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The usual monthly meeting
of the council was held yesterday, when a resolution of
the committee on customs' regulations, &c., on the dif-
ferent modes of measuring vessels for light and tonnage
dues, was confirmed. The communications comprised
letters from the Colonial-office on steam to Australia, the
Treasury on goods in transit, and the site of the Post-
office, and Mr. Leone Levi on an international commer-
cial code, with several others not of particular interest.
Mr. Macfie's motion on the subject of the coal trade
was postponed.