The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

Lows :

" I observe with satisfaction that the amendment of the lair
has continued to occupy your attention, that several important
measures have been adopted, and that the proceedings in courts,
both of law and equity, have been made more expeditious and le„
costly."

We are totally unable to conjecture what those 4, ini_
portant measures" are which have given so much ~ sa..
tisfaction." We are inclined to think that the noble and
learned Lord, whose clause the foregoing unquestion-
ably is, must have been in some oblivious paroxysm
when he penned it, and has committed the sad mistake
of drawing upon his anticipative instead of his retro-
spective measures. Lord BROUGHAM must have forgot-
ten that his " cheap" law bill," his " poor man's bill,"
and all the other fine cant phrases by which he has made
it known, has net yet become the law of the land, but
in point of fact, was thrown overboard by the upper
house, and lies like a dead letter returned to the Post_
office. The patent • offices which his Lordship has
re-
pealed, almost upon compulsion. save a few thousands
a year to the public we admit i but these changes hardly
come under the head. of " important .measures." The
money saved, when contrasted with the vast -sum annu-
ally spent upon law, is not more than a drop of rain
in the Atlantic. In short, we are pretty certain that the
paragraph in question is one of the untoward scraps
which was drawn out of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S hat at ran-
dom.

We also pass over the clause which honours with un-
measured praise the late act for the spoliation of the
church in Ireland, for it is nothing more than
meat paid by the unblushing empiric to himself, his Ma-
jesty, the King of England, being made the channel of
this ingenious piece of quackery—we pass it over, we
say, for the sake of more important matter. In the
last clause but two his Majesty is made to say that the
estimates for the service of the current year are "consi-
derably lower than those of former sessions," and that his
faithful commons, meaning his faithful ministers, have
" wisely applied the savings which have thus been ef-
fected to a diminution of the public burthens."
This paragraph is unquestionably the production of
Lord ALTLIORP. No other man on earth could have had
the candour to write it. It is not simply an act of folly
worthy of so admirable a financier; it is the coolest piece
of assurance, false and shameless, that we have ever seen
committed to paper. The meaning of it is, that the ex-
penditure of the country, in the present year, is leis than
at former periods. We assert that this is a statement
wholly devoid of truth. The very reverse is the fact.
The engagements of the Government, contracted during
the first session of the reformed Parliament, are consider..
ably greater than any entered into since the death of
Lord LIVERPOOL. It is notorious that they greatly ex-
ceed the income of the country. The sinking fund is en-
tirely annihilated. There is no surplus revenue what-
ever. Lord ALTnonP has himself admitted that the
million of money appropriated to the' liquidation of the
arrears of Irish tithes will have to be raised by means of
Exchequer bills. He has confessed that the treasury
has been emptied of its last shilling, and that he has no
available funds whatever. He has not even provided for
the twenty millions'proposed to be granted .to .the West
India proprietors. He has proposed to payoff a portion
of the debt due to the Bank, and he has not a stiver to
spare. He has guaranteed some millions to the East
India Companv,...and yet he is minus the ordinary ex-
penses of the state.
.What delusion is it, therefore, to