The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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reward foribls consistency. Surely Lord Cranworth is
great logician, and a very wonderful judge.

‘lajesty's Government have determined, in New-
-- They say they will not

'ornament is only four years
9" are crying for a dissolu-
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ton said, " all for quarter-day ! " they
If what that organ of intelligence and
Observer, says yesterday be attempted
they will be driven out with even
possible, than they have at
.or Reform Bill can never pass
The country is sick of desPerate
Jongly disposed to see what remedy
,wer of the Darby ministry to apply to
its ()Nur. Encilish society ; and these are not few.
indon so bad a season for the shop-
Teek a bootmaker in Bond-street
t. he bad made it his business to inquire,
--_-ade the same complaint—that the
regular customers had left town, and the visitors bought
nothing—that,
,in fact, not only this year, but yearly,
business has•heen getting worse and worse, and that shop-
keepers weri, very ready to see whether or not " the
Tories" could assist them. There is very little doubt that
the career of trade has been a great deal shorter than
any of the quacks who began it could have anticipated.
It is said, and on excellent authority, that the Papists
are as unfortunate-in the temper of their Irish as their
English " Pyimate," and that that peculiar kind of inci-
dent, called: vulgarly a " shindy." took place after the
.6 aggregate Meeting" in Dublin. Mr. Moore, of Mayo,
—a man of rathet, a fiery disposition—was not disposed to
stand Cullertis repeated' quips and " pull-ups," and es-
pecially his fprcing_him to declare that Popery and civil-
liberty went alWays band in hand. Cullen accused Moore
of talking sedition', and compromising the priests, who,
whatever rebuff* they meant, professed not to talk of
any ; and Culren 'denied that there is any oppression in
Naples, or itainnbardy. Common-sense, you see, is not
allowed in Wilt a game as this.
I have troubled' you but little About the Crystal Palace.
Like many other great undertakings, however,the arrange-
ment of the ehd is likely to be much more difficult than
that of the besinping, and the consequences of the Exhi-
bition are beginning already' to appear. The rumour-is
too strong not to have somerfoundation,-that it is deter-
mined by the greattnajority of exhibitors to pay the duty
upon their_,l odt and have.ttlem sold in London by public
auction. TI p .IT a cou'r§e'i far more disastrous to native
trade than tl most determiped opponentif the Exhibi-
tion could pcgisibly,bave anticipated. It is the foundation

mine on, as

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greater ignominy, if that we
present suffe,ced. Tin
Common

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expedients,

There never

and every

tradesman

fairly laid of a long. period of sad depression amo••gs` the
professors and artiz ins of all the ornamental arts—arts
already more than sufficiently depressed, for free trade has
brought the classes who once patronised art to consider
much more about paying the butcher than the painter,

and the baker than .the je-weller

t our late policy

has so far approximated us to the state of France as to
bring into vogue casts of statuary and mock bijouterie,
while we have no "perfidious Albion" at hand to which
to send the works of nur artists, and bring back their
value in gold. Whatever may be thought of its effect, it
is positively asserted that the French exhibitors have de-
cided upon an auction, and that Alderman Musgrove, the
Lord Mayor, who is an auctioneer, has actually been en-
gaged to sell to the highest bidder, the French collection.
It appears that his lordship mixed the useful with the
pleasant in the late visit to Paris, and was not only ho-
noured with a fete, hut " honoured with instructions to
sell." Of course, those classes for whom the Times
,zravely admits that free-trade was designed; " those who

have money to spend," will be happy of the opportunity of
so general and interesting an auction; and as to the English
workmen and shopkeepers, who make a living by making
or selling the commodities thus imported, why, they are

lac© they. not model I

But now comes the question about dividing the spoil.
There will be a profit of about £200,000, after payment
of all expenses, and the commissioners are in a complete
embarrass des richesses. What is to be done with all
this money ? Every man has his own plan, and Mr. Pax-
ton's horticultural imagination insists on a " winter-gar-
den" for the more ready k

lling-off of consumptive pa-
tients, who are to step out of his Mediterranean tempera-
ture into a London fog, or sit from November to April on
a camp stool under the glass. Others have their projects,
but a most excellent example of what the public think the
Whigs capable of doing is the rumour that they
are about to seize on the supplies. They assert that
they had a certain amount of responsibility, and they will
take care to reimburse themselves. Precedents, too, are
talked of, as. for instance, Pitt's expedients during the
war. I could give them another,—the shutting up of the

Exchequer and the robbing of the goldsmiths in the time
of Charles 11. If it is true that the Attorney and Solici-
tor-General have given their opinion that ministers are
entitled to confiscate the profits. this case in point was
doubtless submitted to them. In the meantime, if the
rumour is false, it !s at least complimentary to the minis.
üblic think such conduct natural

Dwing that the

that buttoni

g one's pockets does to a suspicious-looking