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

ATTEMPT ON THE QUEEN'S LIFE

" Another attempt to assassinate our beloved Queen bas
been made, and, fortunately, like the- other,
i , rendered abor-
tive by the interposition of a merciful Providence. We an-
ticipated, we confess—and long since intimated—some such
attempts.
" We anticipated it from the impunity to. the former as-
sassin, and the calculation of ;or 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
pets. We 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
es cape ? or is he peculiarly well treated since his Hanoverian
friends cameinto 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 the investigation of
the attributes for final justice, or at least for public confidence
in its adjudications. We have lost, on perceivingit,allle
con-
fidence in results ; and we call upon the public to exert
doubled spirit and vigilance, in defect of that op.enngehses:;swehhiae.dh
should, from the outset, attend judicial proceedings ; for it is
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name is usually app
time to concoct a case, that facts, incidepts, expressions,
betray truth, and enable the public mindl of itself to hunt out
the real criminals and the criminality.

I cannot refrain from stating that it has been mentioned,
for the last few days, that the Queen is eneiente ; and if her
Majesty were not blessed with a courage, for which all her
family have ever been remarkable, these ruffianly assaults
might be attended 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 100
heads, which weighed to the enormous extent of 281bs. Its
was sold for two guineas.