The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, OM

The movements of the ministerial missionaries, and
the character of the missionaries themselves, are singu-
larly in keeping with the power and respectability of the
government they serve. Enough has been said of DA-
NIEL to make his merits sufficiently known, and•show the
degraded and abandoned plight to which the men who
employ him, or rattler the men over whom he tyrannises,
are reduced. It is a wretched sight to see this impostor
and mountebank enacting the part of JUPITER TONANS
to the whigs, and first champion of his Majesty's minis-
ters, calling upon the drunken swineherd of Glasgow to
give three cheers for Lord MELBOURNE and his col-
leagues, whom, but a few months ago, he loaded with
every term of baseness and infamy—the same Lord MEL-
BOURNE whom he declared to be incompetent—the same
Lord LANSDOWNE whom he said he could not trust—the
same SPRING RICE and Lord JOIIN RUSSELL whom he
said he utterly despised !
This is indeed a " sorry sight ;" but it is still more
humiliating to see Lord MULGRAVE, the King's nominal
representative in Ireland, playing second fiddle and act-
ing a subordinate part to the Irish mendicant. The noble
lord has been making the tour of Ireland in imitation
of DANIEL'S tour in England and Scotland—the object
and purpose of the lord and the mendicant being pre-
cisely the same. DANIEL has been trying the effect of
his vulgar scurrility upcm the working people of; this
island, and Lord MULGRAVE has been hob-nobbing with
the small gentry of needy protestants and a select rabble
of papists in Ireland. O'CONNELL is the bolder, and, as
far as noise goes, the more successful agitator of the two;
for the viceroy, with the best intentions possible, cannot
so well personify the blackguard. His hand has not
been into it long enough—he has not had DANIEL'S ex-
perience—he has not studied in those courts where felons
most do congregate, and therefore he does not shine ;
but perhaps he will improve. If he be not an apt scholar
he cannot complain that he has not an expert and accom-
plished teacher.
Poor Lord JOHNNY too, in the same cause, has been
traversing Devonshire in search of popularity, like a sick
rabbit seeking for provender after a fall of snow. He
has been, as LISTON says in the face, " werry unfortu-
nate." No crowd came out to meet him anywhere—no-
body condescended to know him—no pot, or pan, or grid-
iron was in request on his account; and, to tell the truth,
he might have starved2---we mean politically—had lie not
by some tangentical movement come into contact with
that leather-headed and rotten-shoe-leather Personage,
once known to fame and folly, by name SirTUOm.As LETG-
BRIDGE, in Somersetshire.

Lard Jou:sr received from Sir THOMAS the compli-
ments of the season, a brace of black game, and an—
address. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE congratulated Lord
JOHN on the passing of the municipal corporation bill—
on the atduous duties he had performed in parliament—
on the extraordinary renown he had obtained as a states-
man—and on the liberality, wisdom, and beneficence of
all his contemplated measures.
Sir THOMAS LELHBRIDGE! Oh, how that name calls
up from the lower cells of the stomach all the nausea
which has lodged there for the last twenty years ! To a
consistent tory the very sound of it must be a powerful
emetic. There is not a man in all England for whom we
entertain a more sovereign contempt. It is not the shal-
lowness of his judgment that we dislike—it is not alto-
gether the meanness of his nature that we hate—it, is
not his duplicity that we despise, or his glaring want of
principle which extorts from us every feeling of scorn—
these traits of character we leave in undisturbed colour-
ing in his own worthless bosom—but we most thoroughly'
execrate a man who has waded in all the mire and through
all the windings of faction, insolent, dogmatical, and ig-
norant, for no other than the most selfish of purposes—
who has played tory for patronage—whit for patronage
—reformer for patronage--anti- reformer for patronage
—and who now kisses the feet of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
for patronage, or in furtherance of some dirty job upper-
most in his mind.

Of course Lord JOHN knows Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE
quite as well as we do, and, apart from the game of fac-
tion, we doubt not he entertains for him an equal respect.
Lord JOHN, as an old reformer, cannot have forgotten
that it was this Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE who in the
House of Commons moved the committal of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT to the Tower, and who was once one of the
most furious and senseless of the anti-reformers—who
never was sincere but when he advocated the corn law
bill, and never had any thing at heart but the advance-
ment of the price of corn, by those very absurd fictions
in favour of knavery, and restrictions which are injuri-
ous, which have reduced the British farmer to the ut-
most distress.. In this leather-headed statesman we have.
a perfect epitome • of the corn laws—an uncontrollable
selfishneis, which.. grasping at too much, succeeded in
damaging the interests of which he was the indefatiga-
ble but ignorant advocate. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE,
finding that his own corn laws did not work fur his ad-
vantage—as we well knew they never would—finding
his rent-roll diminishing, his mortgages in shun quo, and
his farmers gradually becoming bankrupt—finding, in
short, that his feeble statesmanship did not advance his
persorial interest, Sir THOMAS became a radical reform-
er ! The county of Somerset has much to answer for ;
its late representative is not worth powder and shot. He
is an exploded machine—a compound of bad gunpowder
and asafoetida of a very disagreeable smell. Leather
breeches, as HUNT used to call him, are now out of fashion,
and we hope to hear no more of him. Faugh !
But let us see where we ate. We have booked DA-
NIEL as first missionary, Lord MULGR AVE as second mis-
sionary, Lord JOHN as third missionary, and we now
come to Sergeant WILDE as fourth missionary.

When Mr. GRIFFITH JENKINS WILDE, who cat a very
years
Jenkins
curious figure in the Court of Chancery some
re
ago, takes upon himself to censure Sir ROBERT PEEL at
Newark—Und considering who this Gr
Wilde is—we may well wonder why Sir Joitx KEY, of
stationery notoriety, and JOSEPH HUME, of Greek re-
nown, and Mr. WARLEY, of fire engine fame, and CUT-
LAR FERGUSON, of corresponding celebrity,—we may
well wonder how these worthies are not also sent forth on
a similar crusade. An exception may be taken in favour
of JOSEPH of the Greek loan. He spends n„e of his
own money, and there are many reasons why it would
be dangerous to touch Whig gold. We forgive him. Sir
JOHN KEY labours under the obloquy of serving the
twigs at a perilous period, for which he has not been
thanked, and has been turned adrift because he could not
shelter his jobs under a less transparent veil of patriot-

ism.
13ut pass we over all this. We have Mr. GRIFFITH