The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-29 00:00:00

Zbe Norte Corn a,

HUMAN LIFE,

Half in day and half in night,
Chiefly prized when least in sight,
With possession more desiring,
Grovelling now, and now aspiring,
Sensitive, with want of feeling,
Backward wandering, onward stealing,
Child of light in darkness lost,
Boasting then of light the most.
Little knowing, ever prying,
Always living, always dying,
Craving peace, yet loving strife—
Sum them up : the whole is Life.

THE ORPHAN'S GRIEF.
(FROM W. S. THOMPSON'S "LAYS OF A FUGITIVE.",

Spring bath buds, and birds have bowers.
Morn bath treasures for the bee,—
Valleys have their opening flowers,
But they have no smile for me.

Evening makes no song of gladness,
Dreams—no hope as they depart;
Round me swells the sigh of sadness,
Friendless is the Orphan's heart.

Born in grief and nursed in tears.
Booth'd not by a parent's side—
Blissful hopes of earlier years—
Fade like bubbles on the tide.

Weary, wayworn, pale with weeping,
Dim and languid glows the eye,
Death is o'er my bosom creeping,
Who would not desire to die?

Heaven. I wait thy welcome coming,
To bind my weary brow with flowers.
Plucked from fields, Tor ever blooming—
From elysian, changeless bowers.

Yes, methinks my mother meets me,
Angels bear my spirit home,
My redeeming Saviour greets me,
As I burst the conquer'd tomb.

Spring bath buds, and birds have bowers,
Morn bath treasures for the bee,
Valleys have their opening dowers,
I—a bright eteri•

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

The Whigs have run their course. Certain conces •
sions to the public cause have been wrung from their ti-•
midity, their avarice, their love of place :—concessions of
a higher and more enduring kind it were in vain to look
for from men of the temperament and principles of our
Whigs. : hitherto they have been instruments—un-
gainly, it is true, and not to be depended upon—but still
instruments in the hands of the Radicals. Now the
sooner they are cast aside the better. The Duke of
Wellington, at one period of the struggle between tlie
aristocratic and democratic principle, was just such an
instrument as the .Whigs have been at a latter period.
The duke—the bulwark of the aristocracy—carried Ca-
tholic emancipation, and shook the power of the aristo-.
crady to its centre. Lord Grey—the man of his order—
carried the reform bill, and paved the way fur the utter
annihilation of the old forms of aristocracy.

- The Duke of Wellington is once more the darling of
'le conservatives. We do not despair, in like manner,
of seeing Lord Grey once more a favourite with his
"order." But neither the duke nor the earl, though
they may club their forces, can undo •what they have
done—nor cause the now triumphant spirit of democracy
to retreat within the confines, in which, till recently, it
has been cooped up. No—that spirit will, in this coun-
try, " ne'er know retiring ebb, but keep due on," till
the institutions by which we are governed have totally
changed their character.—True Sun.

Mr. JUSTICE BURTOS.—It has happened to the wisest
and the greatest men who ever adorned the senate, the
pulpit, or the judgment seat, to have been from time to
time the victims of misrepresentation; and Judge BUR-
TON, possessing talents of the highest order, principles
of the soundest cast—integrity incorruptible, patience
unwearying, and impartiality unquestioned, has not es-
caped the lot which has attended men of qualities and
attainments in every age and in every country. We
know not whether it be, that there is a pride in the con-
sciousness of self rectitude—a disinclination to disabuse
public opinion, arising from a conviction of the erroneous
premises, on which it arrives at conclusions, that induces
silence upon such occasions as these to which we allude;
but the public, although it be somewhat tardy in render-
ing justice, always eventually ipetes it out with an un-
sparing hand ; and although the delay may for a season
be injurious to the sufferer—yet is he amply requited in
the end by the liberality of the return yielded.
Neither our readers or the public can have forgotten
a circumstance that occurred at a late Cavan Assizes, at
which Mr. Justice Burton was the presiding Judge. It
formed a fruitful topic for exultation in the Popish and
Radical press • and was rather severely commented upon
by journals of another stamp, who had no means of as-
certaining the true nature of the case, other than that
supplied by public report.
It was stated of Judge Burton, that finding at Cavan
that certain Roman Catholics had been convicted of
crimes approaching in similitude those for which Protest-
ants had been acquitted, he ordered the former to be dis
charged without sentence or punishment.
So fully were the party themselves impressed with the
accuracy of this report—those who knew Judge Burton,
and were acquainted with his delicate sense of justice,
never could have believed it—that Mr. Sheil relied upon
it, and quoted it as authority in a jury motion, in the
Kin's Bench, on Monday. . .
e cannot give to the public in any language of ours so
effective, because so simple, -a vindication of the charac-
ter of Mr. Justice Burton as his lordship's reply in his
own words, which, although it appears elsewhere, in the
report of the proceedings before the court, we again
transcribe :

"When you state a fact of that kind," said the learned Judge,
addressing. Mr. Shell, " I am sure you do not intentionally mis-
state the circumstances connected with it. I will tell you what
really did take pace. There were indictments found against
,ieral persons for attending processions; some for attending
what. are called Orange processions, and the others Roman
Catholic. Those who attended the Roman Catholic processions
were foimd guilty, and those who attended the other proces-
sions were acquitted. Previously to my ruling the books, I
called counsel on both sides, and told them that, before pro-
nouncing juJgment, I should receive affidavits in mitigation
and in aggravation of punishment, if such should bedeerued
necessary; and that I should permit counsel on both sides to
speak to them. I appointed a particular day to have the par-
ties brought up. Counsel for the Crown stated, that the par-
ties had been actuated by a sentiment of resentment, in conse-
quence of the other party having walked in procession;. and
therefore he did not wish, under the circumstances, that they
should receive any punishment whatever. Counsel for the
traversers acknowledged the leniency. with which the Crown
had acted. I proposed that the parties should receive some
"nominal punishment; but the counsel for the Crown proposcl
that no judgment should be pronounced at all, and even de-
clined requiring the parties to enter into recognizances. The
persons who had been convicted acknowledged the kindness
with which they had been treated by the Crown; and that is a
brief account of what real!), did take place upon the occasion
to which you have alluded.

, So the Crown, that is, the Government, were the
aggressors in this case, and Judge klurton was left no
eption as to the course for adoption.—Dublin Evening
Mail.