The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

LORD LYNDHURST'S POLICY.

(From the Church and State Gazelle.)
What we have long asserted as being the case is making
itself manifest and appearing before the public in its
proper form. If the eyes of the country be not now
opened to the danger which threatens its institutions,
through the political depravity and treachery of their
rulers, our destruction as a great and mighty nation is
sealed. For ourselves we cannot find words to express
our indignation at their dissimulation and hypocrisy.
Lord Lyndhurst, once an honoured name, after assisting
the late administration to carry every measure abhorrent
to the spirit of Conservatism, having discovered, by their
last act, the spirit of the Conservative body roust d to a
determined opposition, and "the party," as he says, split
to pieces, with honied lips sues to Lord George Bentinck
for his assistance in reconstructing it. What party is
that ? The party which undertook to " walk in the light
of the constitution"—to conserve our institutions in
"Church and State," and to act upon the principle of
national protection; the professed leaders of which have
in every point deceived and deserted the nation. 0 God t
if Thou abhorrent perjury and treachery, pity a wronged
insulted, and oppressed nation, and raise up one honest
nian,faithful and true to the interests of his country.
Such we are persuaded is the prayer, if we may judge
from our own hearts, offered up by hundreds and thou-
sands of cur fellow-countrymen at this distressing junc-
ture ; and we trust the prayer wiil prevail.
Reconstruct the Conservative party ! With what de-
sign does Lord Lyndhurst sue for its reconstruction ?
For the purpose of retracing his steps, and carrying out
those great principles to which he and his associates
pledged themselves when they accepted office ? Does he
imagine that be can induce the public to believe such to
be his motives ? Certainly not : we hate the very name
of Conservatism ; and it will be a bye-word and a re-
proach to them upon whom the title was conferred to the
latest generation.

We tell Lord Lyndhurst his stratagem will not take.
He has exposed his own treachery and that of all who have
acted with him. He has supported a measure of which
he did not approve, for the purpose, we suppose, of keep-
ing together his party; and now, when that measure has
broken down, he wishes to reconstruct his party—not for
the purpose of preserving the institutions of his country—
but for supporting his party. Surely, we shall not suffer
ourselves to be again deluded by a name : we have already
suffered too much, and shall not permit ourselves to be
ruled a second time by men who can play a double game,
like Lord Lyndhurst. They have now been fairly de-
tected. We reject the name of Conservatism and cast it
from us, as we would the mask we had torn from the face
of an intimate friend in his attempt to violate the sacred-
ness of our houseliclo.

We again tt it Lord Lyndhurst it will not do. The eyes
of the people of this country are wife open. if Lord
Lynyhurst did not approve of the projects of Sir Robert
Peel,.why did he assist him in carrying his measures ?
and, if he did approve of them, why does he attempt by
a wily manceuure, to circumvent the honest remnant who
now indignantly denounce the treachery of the leaders
whom they so lately supported.

AN OLD HAT.—John Smith, of Heywood Newroad,
Heap, near Bury, is wearing a hat which he purchased
for half-a-crown, in Rochdale, in 1799, and has had it in
regular wear ever since, a period of forty-seven years.—
Cambridge Advertiser..
A VALUABLE MONKEY.—Some time ago, a monkey
kept in the stable-yard of the hotel at Launceston, was
observed to be scrutinising the inside of an old glove, with
an air of unusual mystery and importance. Upon ex-
amining the glove it was found to contain a £lO note, and
the pieces of about five £1 notes of the old Tamar Bank,
dated ten years since. This became the property of
" boots," who sold his bargain for £3 10s., and the pieces
were secured by the ostler. The monkey must have se-
lected the glove from a quantity of rubbish which had
been lying in the yard for seven or eight years. The
Tamar Bank had merged into the Union, which latter
gave £l2 for the notes.
GUN AND PISTOL STOCKS.—We have on a former
occasion noticed the extensive arrivals, at times, of stocks
for guns and pistols from Belgium, made of the wood of
the walnut tree, and we recently mentioned that the some
description of article had latterly been brought. to a lesser
extent, from Holland, which was not formerly the case.
Au arrival of the kiod has just taken place from the latter
mentioned state, to an extent which has not before come
under our observation, by a vessel named the Alkmaar,
which has arrived at one of the quays near London-bridge
from Rotterdam, having on board, in addition to a variety
of other articles of Dutch produce, the large number of
12,281 of these gun and 499 pistol stocks, consigned to
the British government.
DISTRESS IN CORK.—" We," saysthe Cork Examiner
of Friday, " devote about eleven columns to reports of
public meetings held in Fermoy, Middleton, Mallow,
Kinsale, Bantry, and in other parts of this county, all con-
vened for the purpose of taking into consideration the
failure of the potato crop, and the consequences which
that failure is certain to entail on all classes in the country.
There is no attempt to make the blight less destructive
than it really is, nor to exaggerate the distress and misery
which are certain to flow from a calamity so dreadful and
so universal. All is alarm and apprehension. The land-
lord trembles for the consequences; so does the middle.
man; so does the tenant-farmer. And well they may if
some decisive step be not taken by the government, and
prompt exertion be made by individuals. It is time for
each man to set his own house in order."
AMUSING CORRESPONDENCE.—There is a curious COY-
respondence in the Dublin Nation, of Saturday, which
holds out some hope that the dull monotony of .the dog
days may be broken by an action at law, between the re-
doubtable Fathec Kenyon, of Limerick, and the magnates
of Conciliation Hall. We may remind our readers that
his reverence is the writer of the warlike letter which ap-
peared in the Herald, about a month ago—in which he
said he would rather be shot than starved to death—
and the whole policy of Young Ireland upheld as the
acme of Irish policy. This correspondence may be briefly
described thus—" As you have stopped the Nation, give
me back my subscription." To which Tom Ray replies—
" Rev. sir, according to our rules, no money is ever re-
turned. His reverence rejoins—" I don't care ~a
pin
about your rules, the money I must have." Another and
another letter follows, but the gist of the whole is to be
found in the postcript to Father Kenyon's laJt. " P.S.-1
think it as well to state if you refuse to return the money,
it is my intentibn to hand over my claim to a solicitor."
Bravo ! Father Kenyon, and should your solicitor ex-
press any doubt of your being able to succeed at law,
why not try a prosecution of Mr. O'Connell himself, for
obtaining money under false pretences, and retaining it
I after he was "found out ? '