The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-06 00:00:00

lines—those who. wave a regard for character or welfa
to turn over a new leaf, and -blot out all the pages of
their folly and "experience" on which the ward " Bus-
SELL" is written.

,But in'Lord Jo;IN'S unhappy case the reasons of dis-
sent from his ranks as a political leader do not apply
more to those who stand well in public estimation than
they do to those who are dishonest and desperate. Fur
instance, the whin of the old school cannot support Lord
JOIIN, because his lordship is too revolutionary. On
the other hand DANIEL .O'CONNELL cannot place confi-
dence in the representative of the BEDFORD family, see-
ing that it owes almost all its rich possessions to that re-
formation which, while it gave a life-interest itk-alms to
the reformed church, gave a .magnificent largess in per.
petuitY to the greedy barons and the royal favourites by
whom that reformation was mainly but untruly attributed.
The honest whig hates the house of RUSSELL and the
tithe Whigs as a poor than does a thief; while, on the
other hand, the representative of the Irish priests stands
in relation to Lord JOIN what the robbed does to the
robber.. The hatred is intense but natural. Common in-
terest may induce these parties sometimes to fight under
the same banner, as the patriots of St. Giles's, Kilmain-.
ham, .and the King's Bench did in Portugal ; but the
moment this sense of common interest is absorbed by a
conviction, nbt exactly of another kind, but which makes
interest run -into divers channels, the hero of the one
gaol is at waypa-
triot with theihero of another gaol, and the
of the swell mob of London: is ready to.murder the
patriot who has escaped transportation in Dublin or Clon-
mei. The impelling cause—what is it? Pay—spoil—
the larger or lesser share forms the ground of quarrel,
of dissent, of whO shall have the honour of cutting the
other's throat or blowing away the apology fur the other's
brains. •

Oh,' Liberty !. Oh, Patriotism.! Oh, Liberality!—
How grateful ought we be to thee for sending thy imma-
culate champions forth to expose, shoot, and destroy one
another ! But we are leaving Lord JOHN immeasurably
behind us: questions, addressed 'to Sir 'ROBERT
PEEL, are like the-knot of a rope on which a patriot has
been hanget3-7-they are worthy of preservation. Let us
enumerate if we cannot immortalise them.

He asks if Sir ROBERT PEEL intends to follow up the
trumpery majorities upon the speakership and the address
by a dissolution of parliament.

He asks if Sir ROBERT PEEL, in case the commons
should refuse to .pass the mutiny bill, is resolved to go-
vern the country by a standing army, Whose pay is un-
provided for.
He asks, but only by inuendo, whether Sir ROBERT
PEEL, as premier, means to resign in consequence of the
paltry majority against him in the instance of the speak-
er's electiOn and the address. •

••• These are the questions upon the answer to which
depended, as the stock-jobbing part of the London press
made many fools believe, the existence of the present
administration. They have been wofully disappointed.
Sir ROBERT PEEL answered them in a tone which they
did not expeCt. He told them that •haVing•received no
damage from their combined opposition, or their factious
machinations, he *as resolved to persevere in the course
he had from the first adopted. He told • them • that the
majority they toasted of was no triumph—that seven.
were nOthing-.-khat the demonstrations of faction, united
for a single object, did not represent power on questions
where.no principle or public measure was involved, and
that,' having undertaken high and responsible duties at the
Command of his sovereign, without having any personal
objects to promote, he was not the man to shrink from
their performance.
As to dissolving parliament, that was a question which
Lord :TORN had.no right to ask. Lord GREY'S: rebuke
was most applicable and most severe. When Sir ROBERT
PEEL thinks fit to dissolve parliament Lord JOHN RUSSELL
is not likely to be the first man to be made acquainted
with the fact.

The second question was too absurd to merit any reply.

The third and last question was most satisfactorily
answered. MINISTERS HAVE NO INTENTION TO RESIGN !

We need not--say anti•thing more. The yarn of the
tag-rag opposition is spun. Mr. ABERCROMBY is already
sick, we are told, of the unpleasant office he fills, and no
onc,can.wondeiiit it-who i-etketson tile manner in which
he was treated and insulted by the dirty boot, and Irish
hod.coat partly;. who followed him into the King's
presence.

By the 'way our excellent member Mr. EWART ad
dressed a characteristic question to the premier on the
same night, and received an appropriate answer, the
point of which he perhaps cannot comprehend, but which
his friends will not soon forget. Mr. EwAwr asked Sir
ROBERT what was the meaning of the amendment to the.
address, just as an Irish beggar asks what is painted or
pi:lilted on a finger post. Sir ROBERT'S answer was—
read it yourself if you can! He forgot, however, Mr.
'EWART'S deficiencies.

'Under the head " Supply of Water for Liverpool" will
be found an interesting but at the same time a 'simple,
practicable, and economical plan for supplying a large
portion of Liverpool with water for tLe extinguishing of
fires, cleansing the sewers, watering the streets,
.and
promoting the health of the inhabitants generally.
The merit.of this able plan, which displays great la-
bour and research, is due to Mr. THOMAS MOORE. It
waspresented to the Mayor and Council on Wednesday
last, and referred by them to the finance committee.
The heavy rates of insurance in this town are griev-
ous, and they are made an argument in favour of depre-
ciating the value of our warehouses, by removing the
goods bonded here to. Manchester and other towns:
These heavy rates are imposed from imperious necessity
by the insurance companies; and they are caused by the
calamitous fires which so frequently occur. An attempt
has been made to form an efficient fire police, which must
be, if it be not already, a failure, considering who are
the squabbling and ignorant persons who have the ma-
nagement of it. But, 'even, if more perfectly formed,
what is the use .of a fire police without an adequate and
plentiful supply of water ? Mr. MooßE's plan abun-
dantly provides for thiS in those parts of the town most
exposed to fire.

We have read that gentleman's letter with great at-
tention, as .we are confident our readers will, and all
that we ask is ailiSpaisionate consideration of its merits.
We have every assurance that the corporation will adopt
it. In the letter several references are made to the ap-
pendix, .We ve not rum fur those. .valttable docu-
mentstO-day,. but, .as we intend printing. them when it is
'most Convenient, we' shall defer what more we have to
say till then.