The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1835.

The petition against the return of Messrs. O'CONNELL
and RUTHVEN was to have been lodged in the hands of
the clerks of the House of Commons at an early hour
yesterday morning. There is more importance attached
to this than the general reader is probably acquainted
with. If O'CONNELL and his colleague should vote in
the house, or take their seats therein, after the presenta-
tion of the petition, and should afterwards be unseated,
they will both be liable to very heavy penalties. We
understand that-there is no doubt whatever of their.being
ejected, and the conservative candidates declared the
sitting members. In this case we are curious to learn
whether the great beggar will run the risk of the fines.
Money is an article which DANIEL is not fond of parting
with, and it would not surprise us it' he were to sham
illness, and absent bin-pelf altogether from the house on
the present occasion. It would be funny enough to see
brotl.er RUTUVEN sick at the same time.

Our singularly-gifted representative has been quite at
home within the last few days. .He has been "sawing
the air" in Billingsgate, and exhibiting his patterns as
an orator in Wapping-highway, before the constituents
of that very modest civilian,. Dr. LUSHINGTON. We
confess we have had some difficulty in procuring a report
of his speech, for none of the morning papers seem to
know or take any notice of Mr. EWART. They pass him
over as a guest, and have been wilful enough to sup-
press his oration. This is cruel in such kind frierlds.
After some considerable search, we at length lighted
upon it in the Sun, where it is evidently reported by the
honourable member himself, and on this principle, per-
haps, that the Sun alone could do justice to the brilliancy
of the speaker. We give a portion of it, which, by the
way, happens to be full one half of it, in order to show
the learning and classic elegance of the member for
Liverpool—the rival of CANNING. He says:—
"The visit of the present premier to Rome recalled some of
his (Mr. Ewart's) recollections of thatancient city, particularly
the forum, where there was a temple of Janus—a divinity cele•
brated for two faces—there was no place more suited to the
right hon. gentleman to inhale the spirit of that city than that
of the double-faced god. The temptation of office had drawn
the right hon. gentleman back, and had overcome his scruples,
and was a sort of enlarged imitation of turn again, Whittington.
(Cheers.)"

We appeal to our readers whether we are not war-
ranted in ascribing the report of this elegant speech to
the felicitous pen of Mr. EWART. It bears internal proof
of it. No reporter would ever-encumber his note-book
with such downright nonsense—such mawkish puffery of
his own emptiness.

No doubt it is of great importance that the world
should know that Mr. EWART has been at Rome, and
questionless the codgers of Billingsgate were quite de-
lighted at seeing a person who bad travelled so far, and
whose learning was so transcendent. And to be told
that the god JANUS had two faces—oh Jethini !as the
cockneys say, that was a plumper! Had-Mr. EWART
told them that JANUS was a fishmonger at Naples; and
had two heads, one shaped like that of a cod, and the
other like a herring, they would have believed the one
story as 80012 as the other.

However, Mr. EWART has been at Rome—at least he
says so—and that is something worth relating. He has
been at Billingsgate also, and that is equally important.
Remember, reader, that there is a place in Rome called
the forum—that in the forum is a temple dedicated to
a divinity called JANUS, and that the said JAxus has, or
had, two faces! Think of that, Master BaoosE!

There was a Bow-street scene in the Chamber of De •
puties of France on Saturday last, which, had it hap-
pened in London, would have been nuts, ale, and but-
tered parsnips to many a man of genius whom the pro-
fane world sneers at under the sobriquet of " penny-a-
liner." • It is but rare that such illustrations of truly
na-
ti,onal character are to be found in the French parlia-
ment, and they must not therefore be allowed to slip. In
our own darl'ng house, lately defunct, we had frequently
exhibitions quite as racy as the Parisian one to which we
allude. The honourable •cock-crower of the reformed
house—the honourable imitator of a near relation, who
snuff's the east wind and brays before it rains—the ho-
nourable phalanx cf roarers, snorters, and coughers—and
the two hundred honourable geese, who could hiss, and,
did nothing but hiss, in honour of reform and in favour
of jobbing during the existence of the LUMBER-TROOP
PARLIAMENT, " now no more"—these people, we say,
did furnish us with touches of low humour and materials
,for mirth which we were enabled• to turn to some ac-
count. But as the present parliament is weeded of a
large number of the buffoons, rope-dancers, jugglers,
and artists of the thimble-rig who figured in the former
one, we cannot reasonably expect so many rich treats or
laughing choruses as, we have been indulged with for
the last two "eventful" years. We consequently are
glad to perceive that, as our own stock of parliamentary
fun is diminishing, we shall be enabled to import a con-
siderable supply from the "best of all republics." If