The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

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ions of

the STANDARD in its

we may notc

circulation ; and we have

ilst thanking those friends who have so
2-ted us, in informing them and the public
—especially the advertising public—of Liverpool
and the neighbouring towns and district, that our

sale is already closely approaching

2000 copies of

) Lica tior

is STEADILY INCREASING,

We have also to thank a now numerous and growing
connexion in MANCHESTER. who have kindly handed

its their names as subscribers

So unexpectedly large a measure of support, con-

,d upon us almost u

thout solicitation, is the

strongest proof which we can receive of the public
approval of our labours; and our friends may rest
assured that no effort, on our part, shall be spared

lo increase our usefulness, and to present to them an

organ which shall even more fully deserve their con-

end kind support

TO CORRESPONDENTS

—lf the correspon-
,omplains that, " in every print that he has
name of Mr. Guppy appears as the modeller

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP
ho

dent w

of the steam-ship Great had referred to the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD, he would have found that we.

at least, coca

ted no such error.

A SUBSCRIBER.—Medicus feels a difficulty in recom-
mending a plan for restoring the natural strength,
without knowing further particulars. There may be
causes out of reach ; but the use of the cold bath, with
or without salt, followed up with the daily use of
Dinneford's horse-hair gloves or belt, would be most
likely to prove of service, along with constant exercise
according to ability, increased gradually.

The Corporation have certainly " fallen upon evil days,"
when they permit such a property as the Queen's Arms
Hotel, in the centre of Castle-street, to be let for " a
show." At the time at which we write, one of its win-

glyphics of three-
-I"—as a Hibernian

egged boys and idle
g the pathway, whilst a
ne out at the top of his
in, ladies and gintlemin, and see the
curious prodigies, &c—to he seen all for the
&c. ! When the Leigh-street nuisance
1, we little thought the Council were about
to commence showmen on their own account.

a mob of some fifty

men andwomen are ob,truct

.entorian voiced fellow is roar

wonderful

was put down

Eire Eiberpool &tanarla,

TUESDAI

MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1843

e attempt of a forward child to strut in his

papa's hunting boots; the effort of a carrion crow
Joseph Hume
z la Fanny Eyler, or Lord Brougham

g to compose his moveable features into

placidity of one of the master-pieces of Canova

or Chantrey, would be objects sufficiently provoca-
tive of the merriment of all mankind : but the recent
effort of the pigmy scion of the house of Russell to
the position which Lord Lyndhurst was
wont, at the close of each sesssion, to assume ;—th
effort to level against Sir Robert Peel's administra-
iant and withering exposures, with
which that learned Lord was in the habit of over-

occup

tion those tre

ggery, and holding it up as in
the pillory, for mankind to gaze and laugh at,—is
one, the most superlatively ridiculous, which can well

whelm

g feeble Wh

be conceived

We marvel as we wade through the

••
Russell explosion of vanity, not more at the sheer
impudence of the small performer, as at the fact that
300 English gentlemen could listen, with anything
at all approaching to gravity and decorum, to an
exhibition so absurd in its pomposity, and so mani-
festly impertinent, when we consider the small pre-
tensions to infallibilityof the exhibitor, and the infinite
superiority of the statesman against whom the whip-
ped syllabubs of his Lordship were spluttered forth.

Lord John complains of the small amount of legis-
lative achievement which has marked the present
session of parliament. So complain we, and so com-
plain all men. But to what is this barrenness of
the session to be attributed so greatly as to whip
factiousness ? Sir Robert Peel has effected little,
because whiggery has prated, in season and out of
season. He has effected little because, against every
measure proposed by him, Whiggery leaguing itsell
with dissent, with popery, with infidelity even, has
agitated the masses out of doors, and loaded the table
House of Commons with its fabricated peti-
The most ordinary business of Parliament
bas been obstructed with ad captnadum motions and
['he House of Commons has
met night atter night

factious divisions

rather to listen to defences of
the policy of the late administration and professions
of the future policy of its members—rather to see
• • • gland coaxed, and rebellion in Ireland

tted upon the bad

—than to carry on the sub-

stantial government of the country. What was
Lord Palmerston's abortive motion upon Indian
affairs, the discussion of which occupied three nights.
but an obstructive effort? What was Smith O'Brien's
Irish motion, which occupied five nights? What
was the Canadian discussion, in which Whiggery
sought to aggravate to the utmost the unfounded
jealousies of the Conservative party ? What has
been the aggravating cause of the factious discus-
sions upon the Arms Bill, but the willingness of
Lord John Russell to promote obstruction td the
progress of legislation ? What is this very motion
before us but an obstructive motion ? In every way
the efforts of Whiggery have been the fertile sources
of the stoppage of legislation for the people; and it
is surely impudence the most gross and shameless
for the leader of Whiggery now to twit Sir Robert
Peel with that effect, of which the conduct of him-
self and his supporters has been the main inducing

cause !

We are certainly not ourselves satisfied that a firm
and determined effort, by Sir Robert Peel and the
Consul alive party, might not have tended to miti-
gate the evil, of which the country has too great
reason to con-plain. Upon this head we have ex-
pressed our opinitn elsewhere. It is not competent,
however—it is scarcely decent—for Lord John Rus-

sell to allege, as a fault in his opponents, circum-
cumstances which his own factiousness has most
materially contributed to bring about !

His Lord hip proceeds to remark upon the as-
sumed decline in the commerce and the finances of
the country ; and here too his hardihood of assump-
tion and argument is as ridiculous as it is impudent.
" You have adopted no decided measures to renovate
trade"—" You have done nothing to revive foreign
demand."—" You have done nothing to repair the
deficient revenue of the country." Indeed, my Lord!
And what does your Lordship submit, as the mea-
sures by which all these advantages might have been
A fixed duty on foreign corn ; an equal-
ization of the sugar duties ! By these magical mea-
sures—determined upon at the end of ten years of
office—the last expiring effort—the last discovery of
a ministry in extremis, when ready to clutch at straws
to keep their heads above water and protect them
from the engulfing weight of a nation's scorn and
execration—England is to be placed in a position of
security, and her commerce and finances restored to
a state of health and prosperity ! Had these mea=
sures been adopted two years ago we should have

secured

had no deficiency in the national revenue to regret—
no decline in the commerce of the country, and no

ion of a tax upon property