The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL ST.ANDAMJ.

We insert, in agether column, the quibbling note and
the inadmissible propositions of the Dutch Envoy, M.
Van Nyevelt, on the sth ult. It would be needless to
add anything to what we have previously said of the pro-
crastinating manoeuvres and ambitious objects of his
master, the King of Holland. We hope that the recall
of this minister is to be a prelude to a change of conduct,
and that his successor in London will see that "honesty
is the best policy."

(FROM THE ALBION AND EVENING STAR.)
THE ADJOURNED pERATE.
The " Reformed" House of Commons has now been
sitting for a month—what has it done ? It has chosen a
Speaker, voted an Address to the King, and some Exche-
quer-bills for Lord Althorp. And is this all ?
Yes—
this is positively all the public bwiness which, as yet,
the "Reformed" House of Commons has got through.
Have the members then made holiday all this time? Has
the Speaker's office been a sinecure during this honey-
moon of parliamentary reform and legislative duty ? No !
truly, the house has been constantly occupied with talk—
with long, loud, laborious talk, almost exclusively upon
Irish atrocities and Irish grievances, and principally by
Irish members.
How long is this to go on ? How long is the admi-
nistration of Great Britain to sit and be brow-beaten by
Irish agitators, while the business of the country stands
still ? Have the King's ministers no energy, no ability,
no strength, to put an end to this scandalous spectacle of
successfUl effrontery and official humiliation ? The de-
bate on the first reading of the bill for the suppression of
disturbances in Ireland is again adjourned—adjourned
after three nights' discussion, or declamation, or what-
ever it should be called, chiefly by persons whom we are
absolutely ashamed to instance as occupying the atten-
tion of the legislature of Great Britain m reference to
important affairs 1 Is it to be supposed that if the King's
ministers were what they ought to be, that these nits or
gnats of debate, would continue to wriggle and buz be-
fore the face of the expectant country, and make us
ashamed of our legislature ? What is Mr. Stanley about ?
for to him alone, among the ministers, can we look for
the power to do what is needful. Surely he cannot think
he does enough when he grapples with such a man as
Mr. O'Connell, and overthrows him! There needs but
a plain tale to overthrow Mr. O'Connell—he has power
in his words, but in nothing else. His character is mean
—his knowledge-confined and local—his acts grossly in-
consistent—he is unworthy of being the personal anta-
gonist of the British ministry—let Mr. Sprinc, Rice be
employed to answer him, and Mr. Whittle Harvey be
retained to worry him, and he is sufficiently disposed of;
but, in God's name, let the affairs of the British empire
be discussed in the British House of Commons, and let
this vile Irish froth be blown away.
But ministers, forsooth, would not be thought to " dic-
tate." They are not so squeamish about dictating when
any mischief is to be done. They talk, too, of -the diffi-
culties thrown in their way by the " forms of the house."
Forms of the house ! They were made for its conve-
nience, not for its obstruction. Would Mr. Pitt have
been impeded by forms of the House, wielded by bullies
or whifflers ? No, nor would Perceval, nor Castlereagh,
nor Canning, nor Sir Robert Peel. If Sir. Robert Peel
had even last night felt it his duty to guide the house to
a decision without further adjournment, or to adjourn to
this day, instead of postponing this already too much post-
poned first reading to Monday, can any one who wit-
nessed the effect of his speech last night, suppose that he
would not have effected his purpose ? Certainly not—
but this brings us to say a few words on.
SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH.
There has not been in modern parliamentary history a
more successful speech than that of the right hon. baronet
last night. Sir Robert Peel, if he do not possess the very
loftiest attributes of oratory—if he fail in the stern dig-
nity of Pitt, and the resistless energy of Brougham,
makes up for all, as a parliamentary speaker, by his in-
comparable skill. He does nut waste his strength upon
the exposure of an individual, or endeavour to'persuade
by force. He contrives to give dignity to method, per-
suasiveness to the simple suggestions of common sense,
and great power to circumstances which, in other hands,
would be common-place. Above all, he suits his argu-
ment not only to the exact matter before the house, but
to the particular stage of its discussion. His mind being
made up to the propriety of reading the bill before the
house, a first time, he endeavours to bring the house to
be of his opinion—he will not enter upon the details,
which he cannot but perceive are somewhat shocking in
the sight of those who are accustomed to pride themselves
in the enjoyment of political freedom. • This is only the
first readingthe principle of the bill is the only thing to
be established, and that, according to him, is merely that
measures must be taken in addition to the ordinary law,
for putting down the dreadful state of crime in Ireland.
Nothing could be more successful than his speech was in
the establishment of this position. Never was a more
complete or decisive impression made upon a deliberative
assembly.
If, indeed, we are asked how it happens that Sir Ro-
bert Peel, being a leader of the Conservative party, care-
fully abstained from throwing any blame upon the pre-
sent Government, through whose mismanagement the
state of Ireland had become so dreadful as the described ?
—if it be demanded of us why Sir Robert Peel, with the
exception of some strongly cautionary observations on
the subject of " confiscation," spoke more like an adhe-
rent of the Government than a leader of the opposition,
we can only answer that we suppose he deems it to be
his duty to support a Government which, bad as it is, is
less bad than the state of things which might be appre-
hended, were it broken up. This is our conjecture—if
wiser heads think they see farther into the mystery than
we do, they are welcome to their opinion.

Sir T. Tyrn•hitt, late Usher of the Black Rod to the Lords,
died on Sunday, at Calais, after a painful illness. It is be-
lieved his pecuniary embarrassments were the occasion of his
retiring from office and quitting England.—Morning Herald.
Don Pedro, it is reported, has' been detected by his
troops in an attempt to desert them and leave Oporto.
The troops generally appear to be in a state of mutiny
and insubordinatiou, and many of the English, if St.
Giless be in England, were in prison. The best thing,
for aught we know; for the troops to do is, to seize Don
Pedro, to hold him as an hostage for their pay, and if no
Jew contractor will rAdeem him, to sell him to DonMi-
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goel or any body else for the 44i4vint .of their. bill.—
G4Orcktu.
FAMILY ARRANGEMENTS.—Lord Ponsonby, brother.
in-law of Earl Grey, was lately appointed ambassador to
Naples, of course with a hantkonie allowance for outfit,
&c. His 144414 W hardly reached his cletipa.tion, and
could not have commenced housekeeping, before the xe-
ceipt of a kind mission from his ,considerate relative, ad.
vancing him to the more lucrative embassy to Constan-
tinople, with, we ptestnne, aoother.,wpie splendid outfit
than the fortopr. By the last adyices.we It that the
Hop. Captain Grey, bop of Earl Grey, had.arriwecl ip the
bay of Naples, in One of his Majesty's frigates, to convey
his uncle to dmstantinople. Happy nation ! to have its
most important concerns.converted into snug family par-
ties.— Guardian.
1).(na: MAGisrit..Krbs.--Shcridan, lashing _Cumberland,' said
the stage vas beeioning a ehapplof ease to the Old Bailey. Sir
Llauciius H.uuter and the Lord Mayor reverse the shaft of the
Attire. They ka up in opposition to Keeley anci Liiton ' • they
nia)ce minor theatres. of the Mansion-house und Qiiihlhall; and
their farces are really injurious to Ow patentees; we hope the
chowiberl,44l yvij prwegil agttiao tkivit.-414+

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