The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

July 4, 1848,

Etteraturr.

POETRY.

lUZZA FOR THE RULE OF THE WHIGS !

." OLD ROSIN THE BEAU."

(From Blackwood's Magazine.)
All ye who are true to the altar and throne,
Come join in this ditty with me;
And you who don't like it may let it alone,
Or listen a little and see.
How quietly now we may sleep in our beds,
And waken as merry as Brigs;
Though fears of rebellion hang over our heads.
We're safe while we're ruled by the Whigs.

4ln the 'nineties we saw (I remember the day)
Revolution disguised as Reform ;
But the country was saved in a different way,
ay the Pilot that weather'd the storm.
‘Our vessel was steer'd by the bravest and best,

And, except af:ew quality sprigs,
The whole English nation had thought it a jest
To propose being ruled by the Whigs.
Batas matters now stand in this ill-fated realm,

When old comrades will give us the slip, ~_....,
We are strangely compell'd to put men at the helm
To prevent them from scuttling the ship.
Only think, for a moment, if Russell were out,
How wild he'd be running his rigs !
About popular rights he would make such a rout—
'Tis lucky we're rule_ by the Whigs.
The Church—can you doubt what her danger would be
Were Tories at present in power?
Lord Jahn, or his friends, we should certainly see
Attacking her posts every hour.
But as long as the Bishops may help out his leas&
lie won't injure a hair of their wigs ;
Nay, he even proposes the list to increase—
So huzza for the rule of the Whigs!
If Grey were at large, how he'd lay down the law

On the cures he Ku: Ireland had found;
And swear that he never would rest till he saw
Her Establishment razed to the ground.
But Grey, while in office, sits muffled and mum,
Like a small bird asleep in the twigs;
And Ward, in the Commons, is equally dumb—

So huzza for the rule of the vi higs
If any of us had made war on Repeal
_With the weapons that Clarendon tries,

At the wrongs of did Erin would rise.
By millions of noisy Milesians back'd,
From the peer to the peasant that digs—
How would Monaghan murmur that juries

So huzza for the'rule of the Whigs!
On Aliens or Chartists to hear them declaim

You'd think Castlereagh came from the dead
Though the mixture of metaphors isn't the say

And the courage and coolness are fled.
But the Whigs are becoming respectable men
As any that ever kept gics.

SO huzia fo-r-t-hebru..l7anth'e"WY

Go on, my good lads—never think of retreat,
Though annoy'd by a squib or a squirt
You're fulfilling the fate such impostors should meet,
And eating your bushel of dirt.
Then swallow it fast, for your hour may not last—
We shall soon, if it pleases the pigs,
Give your places to men of a different cast,
. _

NOTICES

Blackwood's Edinb

This magazine for the present month contai
More than the ordinary proportion of review:
however, are of works of a first-class character.
article, • esneciallv. a review of " A Trantiqo nn

cession to Property vacant by Death,
I°°ll, Esq., is very interesting, as shewing _
that very able man utterly opposed to the views of
of our modern liberals upon the subject of the la'
tail, which he maintains to be not' only esser'
Present balanced state of British society, but a"
10 an economical view. To the want of syr
gated by the first revolution, he traces, •
sure, the insecurity at tile time he wrot
of the last few months, of the thror-
as it did, deprived of an hereditay•
solitary though not unenvied
of a single eminence, ex!),
!lolls blasts thst
03g level."
nal of an Expedition into tl
0Y Lieut.-Col. Sir T. "1.
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