The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

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and seldom accorded to the mere possession of power.
The Emperor of FRA.NCE stands forth as the continental
defender of Europe from the despotic aggressions of Rus-

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des of fierce and lawless democracy. As the embodied
spirit of that mission, he is willingly backed by the might
of British prowess, and by the sympathy of British intel-
lect, added to the firm alliance of British honour.
While her honoured consort was absent, the QUEEN
has been engaged in the enjoyment of such health•pre•

serving pastimes as the cares of state would permit, and

she has accordingly been making short and pleasing

marine excursions, in the course of which she has among
other matters paid a complimentary visit to the yacht
belonging to the PA.CITA. or EGYPT, which is now at South-
ampton. HER MAJEsTY was accompanied by the Prince of
WALES and three others of the royal children. It is now
fixed that the royal visit to Balmoral shall take place this
week; the royal travellers, leaving Osborne on 'Wednes-
day, will pass the night in Buckingham Palace, starting
from London for the Scottish metropolis on Thursday
morning, arriving in Edinburgh between five and six in
the afternoon. Reposing for the night in the ancient
palace of Holyrood, they will on Friday morning resume
their journey, and reach Balmoral that evening. The
exact extent of the royal sojourn on the " Banks of the
Dee" has not been quite fixed, but it is said that it will not
likely stretch over a longer period than three weeks.

Apropos of HER MAJESTY S visit to Scotland; it would
seem that the ancient flame of loyalty still burns with as

animated their sires in the days of old, although

fling barbed steeds,

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

.s more grai

ul means of ebullition in the erec-
tion of elegant memorials of HER _MAJESTY'S manifest

partiality for the

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood.
Edinburgh led the way by erecting a tasteful commemo-
statue of the QUEEN, in the Palace-yard at Holy-

rood, from the classic chisel of Mr. A. H. RITCHIE ; the
example was followed by Dundee, which built a trium-

phal arch on the spot at which she. disembarked ; last

'le occasion o

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ing an equestrian statue of the QUEEN, in monumental
Baron MAEOCHETTI. By the bye, there

bronze, by ti-

appears s
by the ds

ted partiality evinced

ist, to the exclusion of indigenous Scottish or even
',h talent. With a list of able Scottish sculptors
it must appear singular that not one has received a public
commission in Glasgow. Their WELLINGTON testimonial
was entrusted to MAROCHETTI, and on him they have
likewise conferred the honour of the present trophy, which

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is hardly fair

at least so say the artistic coteries of

ST. 31 UNGO'S

Their public statues are not numerous.

although one or two of them are very fine, triumphant
over all of them being that of Sir Jorrx illooßE, by
FLAXMAN; next in order may be noted one of WATT, by
CIIANTREY, and one of KIRKMAN FINDLAY, by your
townsman GIBSON.

The weather has been fine, if not rather too warm, and,
where absolute exertion has not been indispensably neces-
sary, listlessness has been the order of the day. Ministers,
like commoner mortals, are driven to their shifts, and,
affected by the monotonous gloom of Downing-street,
seek shelter in all manner of places, try for relief in every
kind of change, and solicit comfort in all denominations
of friendship. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
disconsolate for the loss of his LAWLEY, has shrunk
within his office shell—but whether in solitude he repents
him of the wrongs inflicted on au overburdened people by
doubling the Income-tax, under pretext of carrying on a
war, begun with evident reluctance, and seemingly to end
in childishness; or whether, unwarned by past experi-
ence, he is planning a new conversion of stock, no one is
sufficiently admitted to his confidence to know. The
Wan MINISTER, unskilled in the duties of his office,
donned the habiliments and assumed the bravery of
a Militia Colonel, and went with Prince ALBERT to
Boulogne, in hope of picking up something of " the art
of war," by studying the great game of soldiers recently
played with such ecldt at St. Omer. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
has been dosing himself into a belief of duty done by a
scampering inspection of the Dock-yards, where he found
not a little both to delight and surprise him. Among the
matters with which he seemed least acquainted in those
curious realms, where it is well known the abuses of
patronage never enter, the Knight of Netherby was
greatly surprised to find most of them swarming with
land and water rats of the unmistakeable Cumberland-
gray species, and most of them sounding the Carlisle note
with a pertinacious sonorousness which quite disgusted
the First Lord ! Puzzled to account for the singular
invasion, and chagrined at its magnitude, the " bold
borderer" has betaken himself to inditing impertinent
notes in answer to intrusive correspondents, who, believing
that the Right Hon. Baronet is better acquainted with
other subjects than those which are wont to constitute
the commercial toast of this favoured land, " Ships,
Colonies, and Commerce," favour him with an intimation
as to how ship-building is carried on in Russia. In these
notes he is understood to emulate the pithy tartness of those