The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

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11Te go ve country tiTIWIy in the hands of thepeo-
ple. (Cheers.) That wag the great olject which be had iu
and he did not hesitate to declare that h!. would never rest sa-
tisfied until they had placed the whole of the political power of
the country in the bands of the nation. With respect to the
House of Lords, he for one believed that the existence of that
assembly, as at present constituted—namely, possessing political
power wholly independent of the people, was neither less nor
more than a DOWNRIGHT NUISANCE, which, for the
public good, it was neeessary should lie abated." !
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" He proposed that if they (the lords) should ever again treat
a bill as they had treated the municipal reform bill, all that
should be required from the House Of Commons should be to
re-pass the measure in the shape in which they had formerly
agreed to it, and then, without farther ado, IT SHOULD BE-
COME THE LAW OF THE LAND"! !!!

JOSEPH followed p.OEBUCK, but he was obviously either
mystified by the rare indulgences of the evening, or he
was alarmed at the. unexpected candour of his friends.
He deemed it prudent to reprove the impetuosity of his
protege ROEBUCK; but with all,his caution and low sub-
terfuge he did not mend the matter. ge

" He (Joseph) was not at all of Mr. Itoehitek's opinion that
it was necessary to pull down- the House of `Peen; lie owned
that be was for king, lords, and commons, each, of course, being
strictly confined within its own legitimate sphere. (What does
Joseph mean ?) The King was responsible, the House of Com-
mons was responsible, why, then, should not the Rouse of Lords be
responsible? They had been told by Lord John Russell, that
such an " organic change" of the- imposition of, responsibility
upon the peers would endanger the stability of the inonarchy.
When the noble lord made that assertion he (Mr.- Hume) main-
tained that he took a‘narrOw and mistaken view of the subject.
In the nineteenth century it was impbssible that the lords could
long remain an IRRESPONSIBLE BODY." ! !!

NoW, reader, you may choose for yourself. You may,
if you please, put NAPIER, Routucx, and HUME into the
same mortar, and bray them into consistency; and, when
the whole ingredients are properly mixed—the greater
with the lesser evil—the ranker with the less rank poi-
son—the putrid limb with the less putrescent of the
"organic" parts—toss them, bray them, and mix them as
you please, what do you find but treason, regicide,
and republicanism, smelling of blood, pervading the
whole mass ?

The ravings of the despicable idiot called ROEBUCK,
would not claim our notice for a single moment if not
hashed up with the more cautious prescriptions of his
master, JOSEPH, and the pernicious and blasting drugs
flung into the cauldron by Colonel NAPIER. This NA-
PIER prates of a time when we had "no house of Lords,"
and he hints that such a time may come again ! To
what period does he allude ? Unquestionably to that of
OLIVER CROMWELL and the Commonwealth, when Eng-
land, reeking with the blood of her King and steeped in
crime and misery to the very lips, had "no -House of
Lords. !" Would the colonel like to re-enact the part of
a murderer ? Can lie be anxious to commence a new
civil war, as HUME has it, in the "nineteenth century ?"
If, under any malign influence or popular seduction, be
is weak enough to dream with his eyes open of any such
convulsion, he is a far greater blockhead than any who
has " fought in the wars," or has addressed himself to the.
sickly mass of cheats and quacks who live upon dead
men's fragments in the nasty place where he dined on
Wednesday last. No, Colonel NAPIER, you have only
disgraced yourself, and you will feel the effects of it while
you live. Do not imagine you can be a second OLIVER
CROMWELL. lf it is to come to the last resource, depend
upon it you will die in the first ditch, the victim of more'
ferocious and more ambitious compatriots. You owe all
that you can boast of in name and fame to the King and
the Duke of WELLINGTON. In praising the one in con-
nexion with the expression of your un-English princi-
ples, you insult the other, and offend both. The Duke
of WELLINGTON will not thank you for your laudation;
the army will never forget, or forgive you ; the people
will appreciate your motives and despise you! Bath,
Sir Colonel, is your grave.' We defy all its physic to'
restore you to a state of envious existence. You would.
" pull down the peers," as your honest Greek friend, the
worst friend you ever associated with, is pleased to ex-.
press himself; bit you only pull down yourself. The
sexton, as be flings his mother earth upon your remains,
will deem it desecrated; and we pray GOD that the penny
loaf you .purchase, put., of, th.a.roceeds of .your half.pay
as a British officer, once of no mean repute, may not,
from strong feelings of i emorse, facilitate the catastrophe
which we have no desire to hasten. Go down, Colonel
NAPIER! You have committed a fatal mistake. Remain
where you are in Bath. There are patriots in that city
who vend articles to sell which was death in Mantua!
But remain !—fit place for such a hero !
We beg pardon for dwelling so long on a subject so
little. entitled to our consideration. In that spirit we
have, we hope kindly enough, left Colonel NAPIER
where we found him. We shall not, therefore, trouble
our readers with any observations upon the choice ex-
pletives and mad politics of the poor drudge ROEBUCK,
of whom even JOSEPH HUME was ashamed, because the
reader, without our aid can judge for himself.
But these foolish emanations of candour, republican-
ism, and excessive Vanity tell a tale. It is gratifying to
observe that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S "organic changes"
are considered to be positive infractions of the treaty
which bound the English radicals to the skirts of the
O'Cosslrm. administration. Lord JOHN has lost his best
" black and white" supporters. DANIEL is divested of
the English joints of his tail. 'The whigs,,are now at
open war with the radicals. Lord Joni's. can no longer
command their servility. He must either accept their
conditions or resign. He is bound by declarations which
they openly aver they will not recognize. He dares not
attack the peerage—they insist upOn its annihilatidn.
He holds by the House of Bedford—they proclaim a re-
public. The whits know that without their hereditary
nobles in the upper house they would have no voice in
any aristocratic assembly ; but the -HUME faction are for
rooting it out stump and branch. The words are spoken,
and we wait the issue.- Lord JOHN is assailed, and his
principles repudiated and denounced, by his own friends.
What is then to be done ?
We abide the result of the cabinet meeting advertised
to be held this very day in,Downing-street.

The approaching municipal election seems to engross
the undivided attention of our local readers, and we can-
not wonder at this, seeing the desperate efforts which
have been put forth by the levelling and destructive fac
tion to obtain a monopoly of power in the new Town
Council. Long before the bill was introduced to the
lower horse of parliament, The Whig and radiCal party,
through their ministerial friends, and the professional
compounders of the measure, were made well acquainted
with its various provisions ; and in the same degree be-
fore it became the law of the land, they were intimately
conversant with its altered details, and carefully— we
use this word advisedly—carefully instructed hew to
turn the knowledge thus confided 'to them to the best
advantage.

Inflated beyond measure with hopes, the realization of
which they never for a single moment questioned, and
looking forward only to the possession of uncontrolled
power, they flattered themselves with the certainty of ob-
taining a sure and easy victory. It is now nearly three
years since the radical press of Liverpool told us, with all
the pomposity of so many aristocratical , sextons, that
toryism was dead and buried—that the conservatives
were extinct—that the march of intellect had passed over
them, and that they were• actually scared into oblivion.
Silly twaddlers, themselves with one foot in the grave,
sung this song over their cups. The small chapmen of
literature joined rapturously in the Chorus. The turn-
coats and turnspits of every shade and colour harked joy-
ously in honour of the. event. The.mere pelf calculators
of the press imagined they,saw in it a more abundant and
profitable harvest; and from the papist to the unitarian,
from the quaker to the thrice•dipped anabaptist, and from
the jumper to the philosopher, we heardnoother elcla-
mation than—" THE TORIES ARE DEFUNCT!"

In this feeling of frantic triumph, where madness and
silliness were blended together,, the radical factions
rushed in to decide the municipal election. They did
not look round for honest and independent men, not par-
ticularly warped by party POW* to discharge impar
tially the duties of ConiniVfl tletifibilmen. Without the
slightest consideratiOn; dig; thii€tinined at once that no
man was a proper cdritlldaid *as not also a furious
and Alestructive OpulenCej integrity,