The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-06-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JOHN RUSSELL. It requires no ghost to tell us that the whole time of the present session will be occupied and exhausted with the present corporation reform bill. It will be the month of August before it can pass the lords, if ever it pass their lordships, who will be blind indeed if they do not see that it is an attack upon them. Wilhite country endure this? Will the protestants of England remain silent and see the clergymen of Ireland murdered in cold blood, in open day, and not call upon parliament to put an end to the horrid scenes which distract and disgrace that mob-ridden and ill-fated island ? But another repulsive part of the fraud remains to be exposed. There is no clause in Lord JOHN'S bill which has reference to the corporation of London. The most corrupt borough in the King's dominions is passed over. Householders are not admitted to neutralize the votes of the venal and corrupt livery. The noble author of the bill tells us that the reform of the London corporation will form the subject of another. We put no confidence in his professions—we do not believe him—because London comes as much wiAbin the grasp of reform—comes more within its grasp, if justice be done—than any other borough.  Mr. Tnomas aisti, the member for, we forget where, we take to be as consummate a blockhead as ever drew a blank in the lottery of wisdom, and yet by accident he sometimes raves in the right key. The other night he brought forward a motion in favour of what might be called " flying stationer parliaments," much to the horror of Alderman WOOD and the Cockneys, by calling upon the House of Commons to vote itself an occasional sail to Dublin and a ride to Edinburgh. We are not sure that Btsn did propose the ride northwards, but the sail westwards we take leave to be positive about.  He drew—that is a professional word—the attention of the house to the policy of holding parliaments in Dublin ; the house laughed, and Brsn's ticket did not turn up a prize. But still that is no reason why it should not have done so. London is certainly most inconveniently situated, being at the extremity of the island, and not accessible without a considerable expenditure of good money. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, it is true, is relieved from the trouble of riding so far on the outside of a mail coach, after a desk passage across the channel; but there is Mister O'DWYER, and Master NIORGAN, and PADDY FINN, and JOHN BRADY, and Dr. TERENCE O'BALDWIN, of Cork, and the two O'RUTHVENS, and a pretty considerable troop of other worthy.and honourable persons who have no money to spare for such costly excursions, and not any superabundant credit at the coach offices. On them, therefore, it is a cruel hardship to he obliged to travel, even in a waggon, from .Bristol, or Liverpool, to• London. It would unquestionably be much more. pleasant and convenient for these excellent persons to have a parliament. in Dublin, the only drawback being that it would be equally and deplorably hard on the HUME tail, the BUCKINGHAMS, ROEBUCKS, HARVEYS, BULWERS, BowRINGS, WAKLEYS, DUNCOMBES, and WHALLEYS, IO be obliged to go to. Dublin. • But let us treat. the subject with strict impartiality. If  the-convenience and the pockets of the Irish joints are to be consulted, is nothing to be done for the patriots who are located on the north side of the Tweed? Will no man say a word in favour of that candle-snuffer of a statesman who is known by the title of WALLACE of Kelly ? To oblige himwhy., should not the parliament sit occasionally in Greenock? Just imagine for a moment, most jocose reader,. the British parliament sitting in Greenock ! But to be serious, thereare several of the Scotch members who can as ill afford to travel to, and live in London, cheap though lodgings now are, as many of the Irish members. The charity of Bisu, therefore, was onesided and unkind towards Scotland,• for if he imagines that a 'Scottish statesman could live at less expense in Dublin than in London, he- is mightily mistaken. Our own opinion is that the imperial parliament should. be held in the centre.of Great Britain and Ireland, and the spot we take to be Oldham, a remarkably neat place, nice people, excessively amiable and polite, where the fine arts and the higher sciences are cultivated to an immense extent. Mr. FIELDEN'S mills, we presume, are convertible, and old COMETT would be quite at home. There are few pigs and not many potatoes in the vicinity. We recommend the idea, quite an original one, ,to Mr. Btsit. •