The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS RADICAL CHARGES

We dare not trust ourselves to give expression to the feel-
ings with which we read the following atrocious charge
against the Queen's uncle and the Queen's ministers, for
being either principals or accessories in procuring the assas-
sination of her Majesty. We shall, therefore, extract it
without comment, merely stating that it is taken from the
Dublin Pilot evening paper of Wednesday :
" ArrEmrr ON. THE QUEEN'S LIFE. _

" Another attempt to assassinate our beloved Queen has
been made, and, fortunately, like the other, rendered abor-
tive by the interposition of a merciful
intimated—some
We an-
ticipated, we confess—and long since such
attempts.
" We anticipated it from the impunity to the former as-
sassin, and the calculation of :more impunity from the as-
cendancy of the Hanoverian party in our government. We
always thought that the pains taken to disengage Oxford's
affair from the character of conspiracy, and that having its
seat in Hanover, was unjust as related to the facts that ap-
peared, dangerous to the future safety of the Queen; and
calculated to make other hired assassins feel that, at the
worst, they would be treated as lunatics, and pampered as
N%, pets. e should like to know has Oxford shown, in his
confinement, those symptoms of insanity to which he owed
his life? Is he in prison still? Has he been permitted to
escape ? or is he peculiarly well treated since his Hanoverian
friends came into power ? The very effect of that party being
in power, we do say, without imputing to its members wilful
malice, compromises the life of a constitutional sovereign.
Ruffians will, in spite, perhaps, of the fact, calculate on im-
punity, pay, reward. Should our Queen cease to live, there
must be at the best a long minority—a regency ; and that,
under the present regime, be rank tory. Are there no vil-
lains who would speculate upon the rewards of such a state of
things? See, already, the secresy of the proceedings. If
high and mighty names appear connected with the crime, and
those of the ruling party, will the people ever hear of them ?
Why this secresy, if there be nothing in the case but the
isolated act of a maniac or a ruffian ? That secresy itself is
a proof there is something to conceal, and that something
forbids the secresy. Are they waiting to make up a case, or
to detect some higher culprit ? We shall see. Concealment,
even for a period, has already deprived theinvestigation of
the attributes for final Justiceor at least for puhlic confidence
in its adjudications. We have lost, on perceiving it, all con-
fidence in results ; and we call upon. the. public to exert re-
doubled spirit and vigilance, in defect of that openness which
should, from the outset, attend judicial proceedings ; for it is
applied by the Pilot to Sir R. Peel] have had
at the first blush of .such things, before wily dodgers [the
a case, that facts, incidents, expressions,
timename
ti
es ueseunael leye t
be, mind of itself to hunt out
e thet rraeya reurti hin,i
na na
lds eann adb l
thee t the pmuibnlai
lci t y

I cannot refrain from stating that it has been mentioned,
for the fast few days, that the Queen is enciente ; and if her
Majesty were not blessed with a courage, for which all her
family have ever been remarkable, these ruffianly assaults
might be att ended with the most painful, the most deplorable,
the most fatal consequences.—Dublin Monitor Correspondent.
An extraordinary bundle of asparagus was on Saturday
last exhibited in the Worcester market : it consisted of 104
heads, which weighed to, the enormous extent of 281bs. It
was sold for two guineas.