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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIik

THEIR MAJESTIES AND THE " GREYS."

At three o'clock this afternoon their Majesties left the Castle in a
dose carriage; drawn by four greys, and proceeded on an airing in the
direction•of Slough.--Cot at UIRCOLAR.

This curious piece of court intelligence.
Confirms the twice ten thousand loud assertions
Of Whiggish treachery and impertinence,
Made by, the Tory dealers in aspersions.
Horrid announcement! Tidings full of meaning !
What, we much marvel, will the GREYS say now ?
Accnsed of drawing both the King and Queen hr
A Radical direction—towards Slough!

Never were King and Queen so " drawn !" I vow
That if these " Greys," instead of giving o'er,
Choose thus to draw their Majesties through Slough,
'Twere proper they should send a broom before.

Love is of the nature of a burning glass, which, kept still
in one place, tireth ; changed often, it troth nothing.—Sir John
Suckling.

LISTENERS IN THE LORDS AND CONIMONS.—The evening dis-
cussions in, the House of Lords when any take place, are al-
ways numerously attended by ladies. The Dowager Duchess
of Richmond is the most constant attendant among.those female
politicians. Mrs. Lane Fox, in all former years a regular par-
liamentary listener, has "cut" their lordships during the present
session. Lady Glengall may be seen in the front seat every
evening of tb eselashionable political musters, and the Marchio-
ness of Clanricarde autrefois la belle Canning, is also a frequent
attendant.

De. JOHNSON'S OPINION OF NEWSPAPERS.—I never derive
more benefit, or see more pleasure for the time, (says Johnson)
than reading a newspaper whiCh has lately issued from the
press. I do really believe that nothing adds so much to the
glory of my country as newspapers. Liberty is stamped legibly
upon its pages, and even the fold is marked with freedom. Do
you want to know how your country thrives, I point you to the
press ! There you shalt find a piece, perhaps, under the head
"Legislative." Are you fond of miscellany, look there ! What
book can furnish such good accounts of murder, robbery, acci-
dents, marriages, anecdotes, and many other such things—such
as good as well as bad accounts from the Russians, Turks,
Dutch, &c. Under all these considerations, who is there in
this land of freedom, who will not attend to an object so worthy
of his regard ?
Shakspeare is the poet of all ranks. The theatre has fami-
liarized us with the creatures of his fancy; we see them on can-
vas as old acquaintances, and delight to compare the ideas of
the artist with our own ;—but Milton is the poet of the scholar,
and the man of refinement; to many almost unknown—familiar
only to very few. He appeals too little to ordinary sympathies,
and confines himself too exclusively to the elevated and the ter-
rible, to be the favourite of the crowd.
HANDEL AND THE SERPENT.—The first time the serpent
was used in a concert, at which Handel was in the habit of pre-
siding, he was so disgusted with the powerful coarseness of its
tones, that he called out in a rage, " fiat de cliffil be de'?" On
being informed that it was an instrument called a serpent;
" Oh !" he replied, " de serpent—ay—but it not be de serpent
vat seduced Eve."

TRUE SPIRIT OF REFORM.—A system of fundamental reform
will scarcely be effected by massacres mechanised into revolu-
tion. We cannot therefore inculcate on the minds of each
other totrofteu or with too great earnestness; the, necessity of
cuitivating benevolent affections. We should, be cautious how
we indulge the feelings even of virtuous indignation. Indig-
nation is the handsome brother of anger and hatred. The tem-
ple of despotism, like that of Tescalipoca, the Mexican deity,
is built of human skulls and cemented with human blood; let
us beware that we be not transported into 'revenge while we
are levelling the loathsome pile, lest when we erect the edifice
of freedom we but vary the style of architecture, not change the
materials. Let us not wantonly offend even the prejudices of
our weaker brethren, nor by ill-timed and vehement declara-
tions of opirrion excite in them malignant feelings towards us.
The energies of mind are wasted in these intemperate effusions.
Those materials of projectile force, which, now carelessly scat-
tered, explode with an offensive and useless noise, directed by
wisdom and union, might heave rocks from their base, or per-
haps (dismissing the metaphor) might produce the desired effect
without the convulsion.—S. T. Coleridge.

BENEFIT PLAY-BlLL.—Linton, a musician belonging-t; the
orchestra of Covent-Garden The6tre, was murdered by some
street robbers, who were discovered and executed. A play was
given for the benefit of his widow and children, and the day
preceding the performance, the following appeared in one,of
the public prints :
" THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—For the Benefit of
Mrs. Linton_, The widow,' said Charity, whispering in my
ear, must have your mite ; wait upon her with a guinea, and
purchase a box ticket.—' You may have one for five shillings,' ob-
served Avarice, pulling me by the elbow.—' My hand was in my
,pocket, and the guinea which was in my fingers, slipped out.'—
Yes,' said I, she shall have my five shillings.'— Good Hea-
ven!' exclaimed Justice, what are you about? Five shillings !
If you pay but five shillings for going into the theatre, then you
get value received for your money.'—'And I shall owe him no
thanks,' added Charity, laying her' hand upon my heart, and
leading me on the way to the widow's house.— Taking the
knocker in my left hand, my whole frame trembled. Looking
round, I saw Avarice turn the corner of the street, and-I found
all the money in my pocket grasped in my hand Is. Your mo-
ther at home, my dear ? said I to a-child who conducted -me into
the parlour.'—'Yes,' answered the infant, but my father- has
not been at home for a great while ; that is his harpsichord, and
that is his violin. He used to play on them for me.'—' Shall I
play you a tune, my-boy?' said No, sir,' continued the
boy, 'my mother will not let them be touched; for, since my
father wentabroad„ music makes her cry, and then we all cry.
I looked on the violin; it was unstrung. It was out of tune.
Had the lyre of Orpheus sounded in mine ear, it could not have
insinuated into my frame thrills of sensibility equal to what 1
felt.'—' I hear my mother on the stairs,' said the biiy. I shook
-him by the hand. Give her this,' said I, and left the house.—
It rained; I called a coach, drove to a coffee-house, but, not
having a farthing in my pocket, borrowed a shilling at the bar."

REMARKABLE TRADITION.—Of the " three Viscountesses"
(daughters of the Duchess of Tyrconnell), Lady Dillon appears
to have been the most remarkable, and to have inherited with
the high blood of the Harniltons, no small share of that lively
and• wilful, temper which distinguished her mother's. family.
There is a curious tradition respecting her still preserved
aniong the peasantry of the country in which she resided. It
is related that on the death of Lord Dillon she inhabited Laugh-
lin Castle, then only one of the numerous castles and palaces
-possessed by the Irish Dillons: This princely feudal edifice
covered two acres of land ; and with the estate round it, was
assigned to her as her jointure, but with the proviso that she
should reside during h-erlife in the castle; The lady, in her
widowhood, was seized with a passion for a young Englishman,
and being unable to detain him with her, or to follow him to
England as long as her castle existed, she determined on the
wildest and boldest project that ever entered the head of an im-
petuous woman borne away by the violence of passion ; she
ordered a banquet to be spread in her garden, then fired the
castle, and feasted by the light of the blazing pile. After supper,
and while. the. towers were, yet burning, she set off for England
with her lover.—Beauties of the Court of Cita! les the Second.
Sir JOhn Stanley, an eminent person in the time of Richard 11.,
was made Justice of Ireland, and by King Henry IV. was made
Lieutenant. of that realm. He was the founder of the Derby
fathily, and his direct lineal descendant was, after a lapse of
centuries, chief secretary in the same kingdom.
APOLOGY FOR THE Llol,7.—That the lion is idle, except
when he is hungry, may be admitted; but whatis•the plea for
human occupation in general, except that a man ' must live;'
that he must get his bread;' and.that if he is idle, he will
have no butcher's meat. It is astonishing with what coolness
we fish-eating, fish-hooking, stag-hunting, war-making, borough-
mongering, too-legged animals, sit in judgment upon our fellow-
creatures the quadrupeds; and abuse them for doing, out of
sheer instinct and compulsion, what we perpetrate out of a deli-
berate self-indulgence! Let those among us who have really
not been•educated for nothing, and who have a decent quantity
of humanity to go upon, do justice to the common instincts of
lion and noble lord. As to his walking off before a multitude
of men and dogs with loaded muskets, and all sorts of advan-
tages over.hirn, it,is what, in,a Xenophon or a Frederick would
have been called; a 'retreat, not a skulking away.. The lion_
refuses to risk•his life, and that of others, to .no purpose ; _and
instead of praising him for it, we call him idle and skulking.
It is surely enough that, before he makes up his.mind to decline
the battle he can look calmer upon his.eneniies ; nay, (as they
acknowledge themselves;) with the most lofty and . courageOus
aspect. If a.dog or so happens ta•come too near him on that
occasion, he makes a-movement of his paw, invisible. as one of
Belcher's pieces of by-play, and smites, ,the mongrel to death;
which is just as if he had said, Do not misinterpret me,! and
behave like a puppy. lam standing thus, not for fear of Nett,
but like a. proper general calculating.. his forces.' When
Homer speaks of a lion walking Off, it is in compliment,to his•
bravest warriors, and the reluctance•with which they retire.—
Tait's Magazine.

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER FOR APRIL.

In our last we noticed the remarkable admissions of Cie
Encyclical Letter of the present Pope, respecting the Church
of Rome. The following extract, from a part of the Christian
Examiner, goes strongly to justify the querulous tone of the
Papal Charlatan:—
ON PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION:—In the- vision of the four
beasts, which, with its interpretation, is- related in the 7th. chap.
'of. Daniel, we have, I believe, the first mention of the above
quoted period [`times, times, and a half]; and its position in
this place appears to me almost to decide its meaning: All
commentators are, I believe, agreed with respect to the four
great worldly kingdoms, symbolized first in the great image,
and again in the-four beasts; and I believe that the best, and,
perhaps, only interpreter-of prophecy, the voice of history, has
decided that the fourth great kingdom. was- the Roman empire.
The same testimony has, I conceive, put it beyond controversy,
that the 'ten horns,' which were 'the ten kings-that shall arise,'
predicted the divisions of the Roman empire, in all its decline,
into ten kingdoms; and, to my mind, it is conclusive that the
little-horn, which came up among the ten horns, which had the
eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things, and before
which three horns were plucked up, was a symbol of the
Papacy. I cannot but consider the description of that little
horn, both in the time of its rising, the extent of its-temporal
dominion; and its - spiritual character, as marked in the 2:ith
verse, as a complete and accurately fulfilled. prophecy of the
Papal apostacy. Now, if it be true that 'the little horn' is the
Papacy, I conceive that the duration of 'the times' is fixed by
it, inasmuch as, during those times, the saints of the- Most
High were to be-given into his hand, and he was to wear them
out; and I think a- historian, even if quite ignorant of Popery,
would most naturally and justly use such terms as descriptive
of the general treatment of the saints of God, during the long
night of the Papal reign, well termed.'the dark ages.' When,
therefore, I find that, irrespective of- prophecy altogether, it
may be shown, that the dominant and dark inf Thence of Popery
(though not at all times equally or visibly persecuting the saints
of the Most High; yet always have the same character) has
actually existed for nearly, if not entirely, 1260 years. I can-
not refuse- the conviction that such a period is the fulfilment of
the 1260 prophetic days during which .the little horn, confessed-
to represent the Papacy, was to reign. It seems to me, that
these observations must lead us to choose between the three
following conclusions :—First, that. Daniel's- prediction of the
little horn, with all its marks and- circumstances, had no ful-
filment whatever in the Papacy, and then I cannot but con-
sider that all the foundations of the prophetic interpretation are
out of course ; or, secondly, that the church of God is yet to be
given into the hands of the Papal power—that identical Papal
power which- arose among the ten divided Roman kingdoms,
and no other—for 1260 literal days; or, in the last place, that
the old landmarks set on this subject are the true ones."

We .conclude that the last is the real prophetic interpretation,
and should encourage and' strengthen every Bible Christian to
his militant faith—to put on the whole armour of righteousness,
and to "fight the good fight to the end,'' with the assurance of
that victory which God ever gives to truth.