The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

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L of land pres, of the g of ly•Tielf 1829, tb e 7o o , me mber mein s • , me e n a -side, e!, - 0, se , betwee" tY •t o f Bolt!j o i• rip ' ion of fl liol ) °jilted titce•iro eenditioll.. g rather llP:of so st, and kcP t a, and le ad r led, the . has lost,. 1_,41 it} in theme n: 7- only tire able conseq,ll-i-the n eiglibne r L e y could r 7-40, —Preston I,:logib ar Gain s b ° tbe W e dnesd,i s ior of hotel Mabel ° P i well . tY L, as d observe 10,0 tonelf bYS . riilsf„ ors; bee shoulder itrei :orner of 4 o ro s hawl. 5 ,,, n of 7iving yr a t t, loo(le the faee• h i;fo f aga inst fotb e 5 to b e t 1 i„ es now . 4 l e-offiCe+ ussell 0 1 1, is to gr a i l SO P relationss, "Bog of th i s, Queens ut An - tile 0 01 inongst the on ull 4 Irk for ; upon thewioipf elf, he " a st be mangle Ill ° v niti c e done t sts ic its lO W ' titU" nds befi ti. d iG/ '" own Others 1;1:10,c 5o Ji etrej 1 1811 of tid .-,,ltiotof- Lg other to een ; ibil f `?to f that 8"%pOtl, ds the beautirtu rnlng dew to b ea t en4_lloo resting P u ; 0 11; that natioowc ild best " ...n THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL P OE THE BENEFIT OF MR. SLAITER. ab P I I°.M CIRROW, (Wednesday,) the 4th instant, will be Performed Morton's celebrated Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART-ACHE. T conclude with the Musical/ Drama of f THE SLAVE. tm ue had of Mr. SLAITER, 10, White Mill-street, at the Bo x -office. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Alt C HAPLIN and Mrs. TELLET beg leave to an tVattnee that their BENEFIT is fixed for FRIDAY evi, l"G next, the 6th instant, on which occasion will be 4i6lited'Snot a c t e d h ere t h ese seven t een y ears ,) and for that Wand P, the celebrated Romantic Musical Drama, with 4Ppropriate Scenery, called , - THE VAMPIRE ; The y OR, THE BRIDE OF THE ISLES. Paler ; Lynn e Ae It o am Mr W. Howard ; Robert, Mr. Barker ; Lord 1,218 S Pa nald, m r ' . • ws ill Mr Baker ; Lady Margaret, lir J n I% I l iss G w ran't. * End of the Drama, B., n ' inGwAy will Dance, for the first time, Madame .aglioni's celebrated Spanish Bohemian Dance of THE GITANA. To which will be added, the favourite Farce of SECOND THOUGHTS. 44,8.r.,,,5udden.... Mr. Baker. I Jabber.. Mr. W. Howard. 'rapper .. Mrs. Clarke. I Celestina Miss Cleaver. lq Matilda Coill'°"(1 by Mr. Henry Aldridge, for HER SCHALLEN S Ce lla a la Musard. The A Jockey Dance by Mr. J. Ridgway. Whole to conclude with , the popular Me l lo D rama of the WANDERING BOYS ; ott THE CASTLE OF OLIVAL. Cunt de Croissy!. Mr. Chaplin. I Roland Mr. Gray. Mrs. Tellet. Justi ne } The Wandering Boys { Mrs. J. Ridgway. p. el3ar "eas. •.. Mrs. Baker. I Louise at eta to b e h a d o f M r . C HAeLIN , 21, Lord Nelson efrlkett;; Mrs. TELLET, No. 8, Clare-street, Islington ; and ` l- • Wilkin son , a t th e Boa-office, where places may be from Ten till Three. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL POR TILE BENEFIT OF MR. SMART. 0 1 1,MONDAY next, the 9th instant, will be performed, 11, 1 „ o 'ne first ti me th ese t we l ve y ears , Sh a kspeare , s historical I f , KING HENRY THE FIFTH ; lie, uR, THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. ""Ythe Fifth Mr. Stuart, \i' his first appearance in that character'. Wraoreland.. Mr. Lynne. I Fluellen 11111 ........ Mr. Slaiter. I Montjoy.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Isabella of France.... Princess End of Katherine of the Play, the celebrated Scotch SONG, " The Mac gregor's are Gathering," by Miss Graut. I n „:,, ipopular , b Mr. Bker. -"mental to A the op aft a erpi SONG ec i e, " Ll y w eellyn ar and his Patience dear," by Miss Grant. To conclude with Morton's Play of TOWN AND COUNTRY ; OR, WHICH IS BEST. Reuben Glenroy Ca v his first appearance in that charsicter. ' e y• ......... Mr. Baker. I Hunchback .... Mr. Slaiter. 1, .„. Hon. M rs . Glenroy • Miss Cleaver. aunve. (with a Song) Miss Grant. Mrs. Trot Rosalie Somers Miss Faucit. tf e ets to b e h a d o f M r . S TUA RT, 32, Upper Beau-street, ~.s .7 ' o, and at the Box-office. Tiny, „ '1; CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION. XE - 1181'1'10N of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY l try of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS, at the Gal lu: Church- s t ree t, WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY, the December instant. Open from Nine in the Morning dusk. Admission. One Shilling •,*: Catalogues, Ono Go 4 c n g• Also, every Evening, Brilliantly Illuminated with ' ' r ° lll l Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, One Shilling. SAML. EGLINGTO, ee. 2, 1839 • N Secretary to the Academy. ,our of the frontier, in order to prevent any disagree- le consequences The Special Council, convoked by proclamation, met on Monday, the 11th ult., at the Government House, Montreal. The Council was composed of six teen members. His Excellency the Governor was pre sent, and laid before the Council drafts of three ordi nances of local interest. His Excellency also made a communication to the Council on the subject of the union of the Canadas, the precise import of which had not reached the newspapers. His Excellency Sir George Arthur, who had had an interview with the. Governor-general at Montreal, had returned to Toronto. The interview is said to have been highly satisfactory. The Montreal Courier says that the Governor-Gene ral would not dissolve the present Assembly of Upper Canada, but that he would proceed to Toronto on the 18th ult., and open the session in person, leaving Ge neral Jackson to administer the government in the Lower Province during his absence. - The Courier also states that the Governor is an advocate for local re sponsibility, but not to the extent proposed by Lord Durham. A serjeant in Major M‘Grath's troop of Lancers has been tried in Upper Canada, for having conspired, with other persons, to effect the assassination, of Sir George Arthur and several other public officerS, and to set fire to the public buildings of Toronto. He was found guilty, but sentence was deferred. Sir George Arthur had issued a proclamation, con voking the Provincial Legislature to meet, for the des patch of business, at Toronto, on the 30th of December. No report had as yet been published by the British Commissioners on the Boundary Question. We rejoice to find that the talismanic motto " Ships, Colonies, and Commerce," is likely, once more, to rouse the dormant energies of the people of this country, and to bring them to a proper sense of the great interests at. stake in the vital question of colonial protection, and its corollary colonial prosperity. We understand that the West India interest in this town, in co-operation with the West India Associations in London, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, &c., are determined to bring the subject of Emigration into the Colonies with which they are connected more prominently be ..ore the government and the country. Of their suc his praiseworthy enterprise we entertain the most sanguine hopes. The accounts which have been transmitted, during the last two years, from various parts of the British possessions in the West Indies, have uniformly and concurrently represented the declining state of cultiva tion generally, and have proved to demonstration that unless a system of emigration is speedily adopted, many of the estates now in cultivation must necessarily be relinquished. We have already given copious details of the alarming decrease which has taken place in the amount of the exports from the West Indies during the period which we have mentioned. The arrival o every West India mail serves but to swell the catalogue of defective crops and half-ruined estates. This is especially the case in reference to Jamaica and British Guiana, where the scanty and inadequate supply of labour has been most prejudicially experienced. The accounts which we have furnished, from time to time, have fully established the fact that the deficiency in the exports from the West Indies has not been owing to bad seasons, or to any other cause than the want of continuous labour ; many field labourers having had recourse to petty trading, others to idleness, whilst those who have remained on the estates have been ex tremely irregular and desultory in the discharge of their duties, even under the tempting inducement of extra vagant wages—wages utterly disproportionate with the means of the planters or the prices obtainable for the produce of their estates. The loss that has thus ac crued to the planters, and to all connected with the trade of the West Indies, has been incalculable. Some thing must speedily be done, or one of the most impor tant markets for British produce and manufactures must be entirely cut off. The remedy is in the hands of the people of Great Britain, and we have no doubt that it will be promptly and effectually applied. That remedy is immediate emigration on a scale correspond ing to the wants and capabilities of the British West India Colonies. W hil, imnn i sc has been given to emigration within the last few years, and that there exist many boundless fields for the employ ment of British capital and the exercise of British industry in various parts of the world, we have had to regret that the West Indies—the most promising field for British enterprise—have been comparatively ne glected. These invaluable Colonies, than which there are not any in the world capable of being rendered more productive, seem to have been latterly forgotten. At the present moment the West India colonies pos sess peculiar claims upon the attention of the British people. A grand experiment—interesting to every true philanthropist—has been recently tried in those colo nies—an experiment which, if the issue should, prove successful, may form the prelude to the universal abo lition of slavery in every clime and among every race. England has now got rid of the stigma of slavery throughout all her vast dominions, and it has now be come the duty of every lover of his country, every true Christian, and every friend of humanity, to join hand in hand in working out successfully and propitiously the great work of emancipation. This is a duty in cumbent upon all who are the friends of liberty, and upon none more imperatively than upon those who have been so actively engaged - during the last twenty or thirty years in endeavouring to procure the entire suppression of slavery in the British colonies. To them we may with confidence make our strongest ap peals. We call upon all our countrymen, of every class, and of every shade of politics, to unite in one grand effort for the supply of our West India colonies with free labour ; so that we may not be under the necessity of having any of our wants supplied by those countries in which slavery or the slave trade is still tolerated. England has now an opportunity of setting a noble example to the whole world. Let her discountenance slavery in other countries by rendering herself inde pendent of supplies of slave produce. Let her prove to other nations that she can have all her wants sup plied without consuming any thing produced under the terror of the lash, the manacle, or the dungeon. She has vast, important, and prolific colonies in the West Indies, that will soon, by the improvement of steam navigation, be brought within three weeks' journey of her shores, capable of supplying almost every article which she requires. Let her people these magnificent colonies, now pointed out, as by the finger of Provi dence, as the schools of civilization for the benighted sons of Africa, and as asylums for the suffering and pining outcasts of India. These rich and magnificent colonies, whose value is not yet known, for want of a numerous and industrious population, are capable of being rendered subservient, to a degree unparalleled in the history of the world, to the increase of our national wealth and prosperity. There is " ample scope and verge enough" for the employment of hundreds of thousands of Africans and Indians, now in a state of barbarism and destitution, but who would, on their in. troduction into our colonies, be under the protection of British laws, and in the enjoyment of the inestimable boon of liberty in its mest generous and elevated sense. Located in British Guiana, Trinidad, or Ja maica, they would be as accessible to the visits of those who might feel anxious for their welfare as were for merly the inhabitants of the south of Ireland. The people of Great Britain are under the greatest obligations to those spirited and enterprising gentle men who have lately got up the West India Steam Na vigation Company, and who have realised a capital 01 £1,500,000 for the purpose of opening a rapid, com• modious, and regular communication with the richest of our colonial possessions. We must also concede to the present Government the credit of having so libe herally contributed to the support and encouragement of that company—the only good thing that the Govern ment has done for the colonies during many years. The introduction of steam navigation into our inter course with the Wrest Indies will be the means of bring ing about a new era in the history of our colonial pros perity. It will make this nation more sensible of the value and importance of our 'West Indian colonies. Unfortunately for this country and for those colonies, the bulk of the nation have been hitherto grossly and fraudulently imposed upon by the misrepresentations of certain parties, who have driven a profitable trade with no better capital than an assumed philantrophy : while the Government has done every thing to blast the prosperity, and to keep down the rising commer- cial greatuess of our colonies. It is time that we should be no longer, as a nation, blind to the value of our colonies, or indifferent to the means within our power of conferring happiness upon millions of our fellow creatures, who are now in the most abject state of degradation to which humanity can be reduced. We have it in our power to give these suffering mil lions access to the finest and richest countries in the where profitable and congenial employment awaits them, and where they would, on bended knee, return thanks to their benefactors for enabling them to aspire to the true dignity of human beings, and for placing them on a soil which almost spontaneously pro duces every thing to supply their necessities. We cannot avoid again expressing our unfeigned satisfaction that means are now being resorted to for making each of our West Indian colonies an El Do rado. In prosecuting these means the friends of those colonies have our best wishes for their success. It will always of brd us the highest gratification to use our humble endeavours in promoting the great objects which they have in view. A controversy, which will gratify the enemies much more than the friends of the British aristocracy, has been carried on for some time by the London press respecting the morality of the individuals in attendance upon the two Courts of George IV. and Queen Vic toria. It is in every way painful to approach such a sub ject, but it is beyond measure disgusting to see the line of defence adopted by the Ministerialists on this occasion. They seem to think that two blacks will make a white, and that if they succeed in establishing the profligacy of many of the high officers of state and courtiers in the times of the Regency and reign of George IV., they do all that is requisite in refuting the charge brought against Lord Melbourne of having placed in close proximity and relation to the Queen, persons whose moral characters have been blighted by recorded judgments and notorious liaisons. But what do the people of England care if it can be shewn, with as much truth as it is with violence asserted, that the annals of the British Court during a preceding reign were too frequently disgraced by fla grant acts of immorality ? Mark the logic of Liberals. Because a gay and youthful Prince chose to associate with men whose character, to say the least of it, was very equivocal, and plunge into a career of unjustifia ble dissipation ; and because, when that Prince became a ruling Sovereign, there were to be found about his Court many whose private lives would hardly bear the light of day.—Lord Melbourne thinks that this is pre cedent sufficient to exculpate him from the charge of bringing near the person, and placing in offices of dig nity and trust under the eye of a Princess—a youthful maiden, about whom everything ought to be " pure as unsunned snow"—grey-headed roues and profligates, whose character, on that point about which the female mind is and ought to be most sensitive, rests not on vague rumour and ill-natured scandal, but stands forth branded by the verdict given by a British jury against the titled adulterer. We are not going to defend the private life, or stickle for the purity of the Court, of George IV. ; but, when we hear so much of the immorality of the Tory King and turpitude of the Tory aristocracy, we would just ask who were the associates of George IV. in his early days, and who were the men who, by their influence and example, gave the first bias to his tastes and in clinations ? They were all exclusively Whigs : two of his most intimate friends were Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the former of whom pa raded a woman who was not his wife (nay, we believe, at the time the wife of another man) through half the towns of Europe, and of the latter we will only say that he never was considered by his friends entitled to lay claim to the character of a Joseph. But were the case worse than it really is, and were the precedent (?) still more unfavourable to the fair fame of our aristocracy, we ask, in the name of de cency and common sense, what justification this affords for the course which Ministers have pursued in the arrangement of the Court of her present Majesty ? It is something in this world—nay, it is a matter of pa ramount importance—to keep up appearances; and surely this prudent' maxim is set at nought, when a man, whose criminality is as notorious and certain as a recorded the Courts at West minster can make it, is selected as one ot the Lor s of the Bedchamber in the service of a virgin Queen. But mutual recriminations and comparisons of ini quity do no good. Wherever the Ministerial journals can detect and prove guilt in the Tory aristocracy, we will condemn it as heartily as they can desire, without reference to party. We never wished to throw the mantle of impunity over the sins of Conservative no blemen, and we shall therefore never be deterred from the discharge of our duty in marking our just sense of the delinquencies of Whig-Radical courtiers and offi cers of the Household. A correspondence has taken place between the Ad jutant-General and Colonel Thomas, in which we think the latter has been harshly and unfairly dealt with by the Commander-in-Chief. It will be recollected by our readers that Col. Thomas was present at a Con servative dinner given at Ashton-under-Lyne, where Mr. Roby made use of very strong language about the court of Queen Victoria. Some time after this event occurred, and after the Whig-Radical papers had been labouring to attach a ridiculous degree of importance to the hasty language of an after-dinner speech, Lord Hill directs his official to write to Colonel Thomas, and ask him the simple question whether he was present on that occasion, and heard certain expressions made use of by Mr. Roby which were attributed to that gentle man, in the newspapers; adding, that Lord Hill was much pained to see his name and the names of other officers in the list of those who attended the dinner. Colonel Thomas wrote back in answer that the whole tenour of Mr.• Roby's speech " breathed a high spirit of loyalty to the monarchy," and that he heard nothing which justified his interference either as a soldier or a gentleman. This from an officer like the gallant Co lonel of the 20th ought to have satisfied Lord Hill— but it did not. Another letter was sent, reiterating the specific `question as to Colonel Thomas having been present when the particular expressions objected to were used, and couched in a language anything but satisfactory to the nice feelings of a British soldier. Colonel Thomas wrote a spirited reply, in which he de clared that, as he had before denied having heard the expressions complained of, he had nothing further to say ; and, in contradiction to Lord Hill's doctrine that military men are not to attend political dinners, boldly asserted his privilege and right to do so. And Colonel Thomas is right. Our gallant officers are not to be deprived of the birthright of Englishmen publicly to avow their political predilections ; and it is too much to assert that they are to be held responsible for every idle word which escapes the lips of an impetuous speaker, who rises to deliver an after-dinner oration at which they happen to be present : and the real fact is, that the scope and tendency of Mr. Roby's speech was anything but disloyal. He was attacking the Minis try, who placed their satellites about the Court, but did not breathe a word against her Majesty herself. The expressions selected by Lord Hill have been animad verted upon by us in a former article, and disapproved of ; but Colonel Thomas distinctly states that he did not hear them made use of ; and, therefore, all shadow of a justification for eensuring him on that ground is removed. If Lord Hill means to lay down the rule that a British officer is not to attend a public dinner in which the conduct of the Government is violently attacked, we venture to say that he will only make him self ridiculous by an impossible attempt, and needlessly provoke the indignation of the British army. We commented a few days ago upon certain pro ceedings in the Town Council of Congleton, which reflected but little credit upon that august body. We have, however, reason to think that we were a indiscriMinate in our censure. This arose from our ignorance of the circumstances which preceded the scene so graphically described by our contemporary of the Macclesfield Courier. We have since ascertained, on authority upon which we can implicitly rely, that the late Mayor, J. F. Reade, Esq. (who is a Conser vative, and who was a member of the old Town Coun:- cil), had determined upon taking upon himself the odium of proposing, before he retired from the mayor alty, that a borough rate should be levied, for the purpose of raising a sum of six hundred pounds, which was absolutely necessary, in order to pro vide for the good government of the borough. The TO CORRESPONDENTS. w• Idow's Lament" shall appear on Friday. uze r ,- make " has been received. We find it necessary to " c a few inquiries on the subject before we can insert it. rather " has replied at great length, and with some as oPtottY, to the remarks which we felt called upon to offer to his previous communication. We have not yet had time P e ruse his last letter. On Friday we shall insert it, o 3 ace c , . Pamed Ly such observations as-we may deem neces ‘4.79 and with those the controversy must end, as far as are concerned. Ebe tiberpoot &tanbarb. -___- ESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1839 u Y the G rea t W estern , w hi c h arr ived at Kingroad tt rist ° l , on Saturday morning last, we have receive( Ne w Yo r k papers to t h e 1 6 t h u l t i mo , i nc l us i v e. The feat Western accomplished the voyage in thirteen d ays eight hours. She has only brought thirty-three lSt6sti ngers. l'i'e proceed to give a summary of the sews which sbe has brought. 48 Monetary affairs still occupy the principal atten et", ju the U n i te d S ta t es , we s h a ll take a brief review the state of the mariteis th. <l.t. 1. at 441 , " I C". We learn from the Daily Express of No "ten)her . 12 that the Saturday preceding was a very t l : l ,.; t _ day, and that many failures had occurred. Owing te state of Exchange on France and England, and u , -11 co nsequence of a falling off in specie, the banks t - L er e enabled to discount with a little more freedom ; 4° Previously. The class of merchants most needy setting "t, however, relieved. Exchange on France was °r her better than on England. With respect to place s in the Union the same paper observes that at P hiladelphi a , f or th e wee k ending Nov. 9, the fall trade Was nearly over, and business was in the sa me Inactive state as before ; at Boston, during the same we ek, trad e was very d u ll ; and at New Orleans, for th e Week ending the 2d ult., business generally had im ii:froved but littl e , th oug h the arrival of a great number strangers gave an appearance of animation to the str eets. The r ece ipt s of cotton were large, and the sale s amount e d t o a b ou t 9,000 bales. At Baltimore, for the week ending on the 9th ult., there was no im provement in business generally. At Cincinnati , for th e week ending N o v. 5, business generally was with out animation. On Tuesday, the 12th ultimo, money was more easi ly ° btained th an prev i ous ly at New York. The banks ,_ ere discou n ti ng w ith so me liberality. There was no m'overnent in foreign exchange. Stocks were decidedly ttt°re favourable this day. United States Bank shares w ere sellin g at 73. °II Wednesday, the 13th ult., the money market . 86 , 1 114te d a more cheerful appearance. Stocks a d van _ C " considerably in some instances. North American ' 1 , 1 1 114 went up to 43—a rise of 10 per cent. in one week. •L 'e accounts of the cotton crop from Mobile were r e t cheering. The amount of the crop this year, it t hought, would exceed that of the last by at least 0 to 10 0,000 b a l es, i n t h e ex ports from Mobile. letter from Tuscaloosa states that the quality of the :t this staple season will more than compensate the anti ,lPated defici ency i n quan tity. The plantations on th.g ever "ver Were literally crammed with cotton. °n the 15th ult. things were becoming more settled : 4 quiet. the mselves The Daily Express states that the banks past all f ear o f sus p e nsion. They had shewn t o b e fully adequate to the emergency, and the Public mind was entirely set at rest on the subject °l* continuing specie payments. Confidence was gra dually increasing; and, as exchanges were below par , ther e was no demand for specie : they were, therefore, t : b le d to discount more freely. The business opera bens of the city had been so limited of late, that there gan to be a want of such paper as was deemed t_un exceptionable. The season was rapidly advancing, and ihne fall trade, excepting for New York and the adjoin -14 st ates, was nearly closed. The currency, in all little" to the south, was as bad as ever, and with very god been of an amendment. The New York trade _Z I been very limited this fall, and the debt from the ;_ th to the north was gradually decreasing. It is al leged that the crop of cotton ought to produce a much re favourable state of things, and there was no after to e_ doubt that it would in a very short time. With re money matters, the Daily Express says that, yos, r , several months of constant strain on the New the 7 banks, a steady curtailment and drawing in, exeh e w as , at length, an appearance of a change. The iPoul"ge being in favour of the United States, there d be T hey W no longer any drain of specie from the banks. grew w ere, consequently, enabled to discount with _ as ter. freedom. The greatest difficulty experienced e w rn with domestic exchanges—persons having south yo_iand western funds could not get them at New 4 4 without immense sacrifices. lar 'he Great Western did not bring home a single dol hith'ertt speci e . T his is an extraordinary change; f or Ne.. _ 0 , for th e l ast eight months, the export f rom , Th w York h as lucre • been constant and to a great extent. sore 1s 1 8 very little general news in the papers be thro • The fever was gradually on the decline seasoghout the south, and would die away as the cold fireB ° . ll approached. There had been several additional y o.. ,' n various parts of the union, especially at New "( wher e five had occurred in the short space of 'our days. Fro m The Canada the news extends to the 12th ultimo. oRochester Democrat states that the patriots on o th side s t h e lines were again preparing for winter Peritti lms, and recommends General Scott to make a Radical faction in the Council strenuously opposed this proposition, and insisted upon -a rate which would only produce three burtdred pounds. Prior to the last Municipal Election, they commenced an active canvass for a three-hundred-pound rate, to which the outgoing Conservatives were opposed, they agreeing with the Mayor that the larger sum was necessary. In consequence of this appeal to the pockets of the electors, none but Radicals were returned to the Coun cil at the last election. Among these Radicals there were few, if any, respectable men. The turbulent faction in the Council, thus reinforced by a body of noisy brawlers of the same kidney, determined upon making " a dead set" at the late Mayor on the 9th of November, when the annual meeting of the Council was held. This purpose they carried into execution. They assailed Mr. Reade with every species of low and vulgar abuse and scurrility. Mr. Reade and his friends were no otherwise implicated in the discreditable scene which we described, than as standing on their defence against the rude and unmannerly assaults of their Radical opponents. The latter were alone responsible for the odium which attached to the proceedings on which we commented. So disgusted was Mr. Reade with the conduct of the faction who had resolved upon insulting him, that be came to the resolution to have nothing further to do with a set of men so undeserving of the character of gentlemen. For this resolution we cannot but commend him. The Radicals will now have it all their own way, until they disgust the whole of the electors in like manner, which, if they go on as they have begun, they will not be long in accomplishing. We think that there are several in the Town Council of Congleton who possess far more appropriate qualifi cations for presiding at " a Billingsgate meeting" than Mr. Reade or any of his friends. Can any one of our friends in Liverpool give us any information respecting Mr. Johnson or Mr. Insisting Pickford ? We trust that Mr. Reade will not so far forget himself as to have any thing more to do with any of the set. We do not see how he can consistently co-operate with such men as Mr. Johnson, who avowed his opposition to the pay ments in support of the Church. We have thought it necessary to say thus much, in order to remove any odium which our remarks might be thought to cast on the Conservative minority in the Corporation of Con gleton. The editor of the Journal seems to have misappre hended the purport of a remark which we introduced into our summary of American news on Tuesday last. In our former controversy with him on the subject of the ballot we asserted that secret voting would afford no valid protection against bribery and intimidation — the two great evils against which the ballot-mongers are constantly declaiming. We further stated that the elections in the United States fully corroborated our assertion, if the accounts published in the American papers were to be relied on. To this the Journal de murred, the editor stating that he had no recollection of having ever read in those papers any accounts con firmatory of our assertion. On Tuesday last we gave an extract from the United States Gazette proving the correctness of our previous allegation, at least as far intimidation—the worst of all the evils which can at tend a popular election—was concerned. To this point alone was our observation directed, and we think that the Journal will acknowledge that the ballot is in America an inefficient protection to the voter. If evidence were required in confirmation of the soundness of the views of the Clergy with regard to the Collegiate Institution, it would be amply supplied in the vulgar abuse and reiterated vituperation with which they are so lavishly assailed by the Radical press. If their conduct had received the praise of this faction, I would then indeed, as Mr. Doherty said with respect to Mr. O'Connell, have behoved the Clergy to give the whole matter their gravest reconsideration. It needs very little penetration to discern the object of our Whig contemporaries in this affair. " Divide et im pera" has ever been their favourite motto, and they are now acting upon it to the fullest extent, whilst they chuckle in their sleeves at the much-to-be-deplored opportunity which has been thus inconsiderately af forded to them. We do not wish to quarrel with the dissentient Clergy for the opinions which they enter tain, believing as wo do that they are the result of conscientious conviction ; but we respectfully submit vxlay LLICII COLILInuen opposition LU an .I.llJULti _ tion, the principles of which are now decided upon, can be productive of no real benefit, but, on the con trary, tend to weaken the influence of that Church to which they are attached. Their sentiments are well known, and whilst, on the one hand, should the Insti tution (as there is every reason to hope) prove a bless ing to the town, they will not be entitled to share in the honour of having assisted in its foundation ; nei ther will they, on the other, in the event of a failure, be called upon to hear any portion of the blame. We can scarcely suppose that they feel any sensations of pleasure in the adulatory laudations which they are receiving from the same sources which abuse their brethren, or that they believe that such praise is in tended as anything more than the keenest irony. At a period when the closest bonds of union are required between the Clergy and their flocks, and when the assistance of all who are friendly to our Constitution in Church and State should be, so far as may be pos sible without compromise, secured, it is really distress ing to every man of sense and feeling to perceive dis sensions existing where there is the strongest necessity for union and co-operation. When the matter was referred to the Clergy for their consideration, it was well known that differences of opinion existed; and, under such circumstances, no decision could be arrived at unless the minority bowed to the majority. The lesser minority has done so, and its members are amongst the warmest and most active supporters of the Institution. If the greater minority cannot con scientiously follow their example, let them, at all events, throw no further obstacles in the path of those amongst their lay and clerical brethren who are friendly to the scheme as it now exists, but let each conscientiously pursue his way in peace. A Radical contemporary of yesterday, galled by the contempt which is poured upon his abuse of the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, has suffered to disgrace his pages about half-a-dozen columns of a similar commodity, which will no doubt, coming from such a quarter, be considered a high commendation. Ridicule and sar casm are lawful weapons when properly made use of, and there is sufficient evidence, from the effusions of the Radical press, to shew that the scribes of that party know well how to apply them ; but why does not our contemporary sometimes indulge his readers with a reply to the arguments which the reverend gen- • - tleman to whom we have alluded advances and reite, rates against the sophisms which our contemporary professes so much to admire ? Let him attempt to refute the statements which are urged upon his atten tion ;—let him try his hand at the authorities upon which the thrilling appeals are made to the people of _ this country, through the letters and speeches of that reverend gentleman and those with whom be is asso ciated. Let us direct his attention to this, and more notice will be devoted to what he may say. Let his abuse of the speaker terminate, and let his answer to the speech itself begin : then, but not till then, can he expect any sensible person to give credence to the nonsensical fooleries in which he so frequently indulges. Surely some friend has directed the attention of our contemporary to this long since, but probably he does not understand the meaning of it; for " Bray a fool in a mortar, and"-the Albion knows the rest, and can adopt it for himself. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH CHESHIRE.—We are happy to see that the conservatives of South Cheshire are taking the most active and determinedmeasures to insure the return of Mr. Tollemache in the place of Mr. George Wilbraham at the next election. A requisition, most numerously and re spectably signed by the gentry, freeholders, and electors of South Cheshire, has been presented to Mr. Tollemache, to which he has returned an answer every way satisfactory to his future constituents. Mr. Tollemache seems to be the very man that the conservatives of South Cheshire were in want of. His private character is unexceptionable—his prin ciples moderate and decided—and his attachment to the con stitution and institutions of his country so enlightened and discriminating, that whilst he is determined to maintain them in all essential points, he is friendly to all "judicious altera tions" which the lapse of time or an alteration in circum stances has rendered necessary or desirable. We cannot imagine how Mr. George Wilbraham can flatter himself that he will be enabled to maintain his seat in the face of such a competitor, when almost every vote he has given since he en tered the House of Commons has been of the most revolu tionary character. Ministers have not had a more thick-and thin supporter than Mr. George 'Wilbraham, and, if they are in office when he is thrown out of South Cheshire, we have no doubt they will show their gratitude by pitchforking him into the House of Lords, were he will sit and vote side by side with the Lord of Alderley and other such ornaments of the peerage.—Stockport Advertiser. CORRESPONDENCE. DOCKS ON THE CHESHIRE SIDE OP THE MERSEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stir,—As intimated in my last letter, I had purposed to leave this subject in the hands of an intelligent commercial community, but the great importance of the subject induces me further to trespass briefly on your columns, in order, in the first place, to notice another letter by " Vindex" in this day's Albion ; and secondly, to submit by way of addenda, a few more ideas that have, since I last addressed you, arisen in my mind, and which have strengthened my own previous opinions in the propriety of the Corporation at least looking out for ample dock-room on the other side of the water, available when that on this is occupied, even though they may not for some time to come construct docks in that quar ter. I approach the letter of " Vindex" in no spirit of hostility, for he has argued the question fairly and candidly, and though I differ from him in some points, I concur with him in others. He states that the Corporation have land on the west side of Canning Dock, west side of Salthouse Dock, west side of Baffin-street, and north side of Clarence Dock,—making in all 123 acres. But admitting that this is so, has "Vindex" calculated the enormous cost of the construction of sea-walls and docks, thus disjointed from:each other ; the loss that would accrue from the destruction of the present central graving docks, and the construction of others, in less con venient and more distant positions ? As to the " proximity to the scat of business" of these sites, the only one of them possessing that advantage is the ground west of the Salthouse and Canning Docks. The land northward of the Clarence Dock possesses no advantage of proximity. It is completely out of the town, on the shore forming the south portion of Bootle Bay, and is so very bleak awl exposed that I shall be borne out in the assertion, that, the shipwrights employed on the new steam-ship " United States,' now in course of completion, are frequently obliged to leave off work from their exposure to the elements. Shipping would be there more exposed in prevailing gales than at any point to toe southward, and its distance is so great from the seat of business that no ships would resort to it if they could avoid it. Witness the Trafalgar and Waterloo Docks, not so far distant as the Clarence, which are almost deserted, while the central docks are crowded. The same argument, to a great extent, will apply to docks west of Baffin-street. .A space of 123 acres sounds very large, but nothing like this could be appropriated for dockage. The present quay room and ware house room proximate to the docks is, "Vindex" is well aware, altogether inadequate to the exigencies of the port. Much of the land alluded to would, even if docks were erected upon it, be appropriated to these increased accommodations. The streets and lanes too, leading from the present docks to the seat of business, are already so much crowded with carts, horses, &c., engaged in the loading and discharging of vessels, that the confusion and delay to passengers thereby occasioned is an absolute hindrance to business. Were air the land alluded to by " Vindex" converted into dock room, without warehouses, suitable sheds, &c., we should have " confusion worse confounded." Many of the streets would be impassable without imminent danger of life and limb. And where, I would ask, could new and costly graving docks be constructed ? Whither would he drive our shipbuilders, already (many of them) much incommoded ? In fine, if 'all the land " proximate to the seat of business" were appro priated to dock room, we should, I repeat, add but a per centage to our present amount of accommodations, and should, in a few years, have to look to Cheshire. There is another argument against the extension of dock room north or south of the town, as proposed, besides its be ing distant from the centre ; and that is, that were we to build more docks on this side, the character of the streets near them must to a great extent become altered or remo delled. We must have increased warehouse room, counting houses, &c., and the inhabitants engaged in commercial pur suits must be driven still further from their places of business and labour, though even now great inconvenience, loss of time, and expense to industrious parties, is occasioned by the want of house-room, lodgings, &c., in central situations. On the question of the purchase of Wallasey Pool by the Corporation, I concur with " Vindex." He says :—" So far from the orporation incurring blame for purchasing the Pool, I commend them for it; and, if they are to blame at all, it is because they did not purchase the whole of Mr. Price's estate when it was offered for less than £105,000, only twenty-five years ago. And the fact, that this estate is now worth above £700,000, independent of the buildings upon it, is a striking commentary on the very judicious remarks made by Mr. Thomas Bolton, in his place in Council, a week or two ago, on the subject of former purchases, when he clearly showed the necessity of exercising forethought, so that land likely to be valuable for public purposes should be purchased at a time when it could be had for a reasonable price." The same writer then notices the statement of " * 4 , 4 ' in the Albion, relative to the cost of enclosing Wallasey Pool, who makes it to be very moderate, on the authority of Messrs. Telford, Nimmo and Co. " Vindez" shows, from the evidence adduced before the Commissioners of In quiry into the subject, that Mr. Telford never himself in spected the Pool ; that he relied in his report upon others, whom he had " sent down to see the place," and that Mr. Nimmo made his calculations for a special purpose. Vindex puts no reliance on such reports, and adds that " it is one thing to make an estimate on paper, and another to pay for work when it is executed." Here again I concur with " Vindex ; " I have seldom known that an estimate for a public work was not from one-half to at least one-third below the actual cost; and all that I would adduce from this fact is, the due consideration of the comparative cost in the construction of the first docks in Cheshire being in Walla sey Pool or in Tranmere Pool, on the supposition that the Corporation, who are in possession of the one site, should deem it expedient to make themselves masters of the other. " Vindex' calculates the cost of a sea-wall at Wallasey, upon very reasonable data, at £BO per lineal yard. I had conjectured that £5O would have been nearer the mark ; but as he derives his calculation from similar work on this side, executed by Mr. Hartley, it would be futile in me to dispute it. Even taken at the lowest amount stated, it will be found that a sea-wall at Tranmere Pool could be constructed (there being a good foundation) at probably half the amount. " Vindex" further says,— ' I fervently hope the time will arrive when docks on both sides will be necessary. The trade of Liverpool is increasing at a rapid rate, and our pub lic trusts will do well to look before them." This is precisely my opinion, and, I repeat, that it is the duty of the corporation to obtain possession of as much land bor- L r_ f at. in erce, oppaite . t the e.ite i _ ont 'The rotes; rat "tent r; and that, too, before, like Mr. Price's estate, it become doubled or trebled in value. I do not entirely agree with " Vindex" in his proposition that the corporation should sell their property in Wallasey Pool, should a joint stock company wish to purchase it for the building of docks. He even hints that he should not ob ject to the sale of the docks here to companies of merchants, " so that we may have that great stimulus to exertion—com petition." Here we are quite at variance. Competition is all very well in private companies ; bit I much fear that if each separate dock were in the hands of private companies or individuals, we should be worse served than ever. Private companies are not responsible; the corporation is. The former would unite for their own profitand interests, and (suchishu man nature !) agree to be exorbitant. The latter are accountable to their constituents, have the eyes of the public upon them, and can make no pecuniary gains. In the one case indivi duals become enriched at the cost of the public : in the other, the gains, after the necessary expenditure for dock improve ments, goes to the public in reduced charges. I could add much more, but must conclude by merely re iterating my opinion, that more land is wanted for docks than can be found on this side : that docks must in the pro gress of time be constructed on the other side ; that the Cor poration, being conservators of the river, and a responsible body, are fittest to build and manage them ; and that for the sake of posterity, they ought to purchase as much land op posite the town as they can, while it is cheap, and they need then fear no "rival port."—l am, Sir, yours, &c., MERCATOR. Liverpool, Dec. 2, 1839. As the matter referred to by our correspondent has now been brought forward with sufficient prominence, we must decline inserting any more letters on the subject. If the Corporation are not alive to the interests of the port, they will only have themselves to blame.—ED. STANDARD.] CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—In answer to the inquiry of " A Friend to the Church Missionary Society," as to what has been done by Liverpool towards the Special Fund for making up the de ficiency, I fear a very satisfactory answer cannot yet be given. Upon the receipt of the Bishop of Calcutta's letter, calling so urgently upon England for more help, an appeal was made to the congregation of St. Jude's, who nobly responded, by raising above £l2O for this special object. I trust I shall be excused for again stating one or two of the passages of the Bishop's letter. His lordship says—" From 50 to 60 villages, with a popu lation of about 3,500 souls, have renounced heathenism, and are crying aloud for the bread and waters of life. At the time of writing, about 1000 have been baptized." He also says—" I stand before the table of the Church Missionary Committee as the advocate of 3,000 inquirers who cannot plead for themselves." In this emergency what is to be done? During the past year, amid many a call from heathen lands, " Come over and help us," the funds have fallen short of the preceding year by the sum of £11,332, while the necessary expenditure exceeded even the estimated income, making a deficiency in the income below the expenditure of £20,146. Several friends in different parts of the country have come boldly forward with their money and with their influence at this critical juncture. I fully agree with your correspondent that £lOOO might be raised in a week, without a single individual making an iota of sacrifice. And to show how this may be made practicable, I will have a subscription list, and a collecting box, for the Special Fund, on the table at my office, 38, Church-street, and would earnestly invite every individual favourable to missionary exertions to step up and drop in his mite, he it a sovereign or a sixpence, and the £lOOO would be raised. It merely requires 8000 half-crowns or 20,000 shillings. By this plan, Sir, your correspondent's view would be carried out, and I shall be most happy to lend my humble aid in effecting so desirable an object.—l beg to remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant, JOSEPH CRISP, Agent to the Church Missionary Society 38, Church-street, Liverpool, 2d December, 1839. TRADE WITH CHINA. The following is a copy of a communication from the Fo reign Office, in reply to an application from the Committee of the East India and China Association. The information was considered of the utmost importance, as it appeared, from the last accounts from China, that the vessels and their cargoes, which had arrived, and were daily expected, in the Canton river, from this country or British India, were of the value of between two and three millions sterling. Foreign Office, Nov. 28. " SIR,—I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst., in which you submit, on behalf of the East India and China Association of London, that if it be not altogether incon sistent with the views of her Majesty's Government, and in jurious to the public service, such a declaration of their in tentions as to the blockade or otherwise of the Chinese ports may be notified before the 4th proximo, as may regulate the communications which the merchants connected with China may deem it expedient to make by the next overland mail;' and in reply I have to request that you will state to the par ties interested that Lord Palmerston cannot make any de claration of the nature of that alluded to in your letter. and that the merchants must judge for themselves as to the orders which they may think it expedient to send to their corre spondents in China. " I am, Sir, your most humble servant, (Signed) " W. Fox STR4NGEW " G. G. de H. Larpent, Esq. Chairman, &c. THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY QUADRILI.ES.—These qua drilles, composed by our young townsman, Mr. John Davies, are really a very beautiful set, possessing a variety of original ideas, so difficult in these days to he met with in the works of most composers. The arrangement of the ballad, "The Merry Spring," as a waltz, does Mr. Davies infinite credit. This young man possesses considerable talent, not only as a composer, but also as a performer on the organ and piano forte ; and, by perseverance and study on his part, we should not be surprised to find him in a few years ranked amongst the first musicians of the day, REPRESENTATION OF RODNEY-STREET WARD , Last evening a public meeting of the burgesses of Rodney street Ward was held at the Roscoe Arms Inn, Roscoe- street, for the purpose of selecting a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the Town Council. JOHN NELSON WooD, Esq., one of the councillors for the ward, took the chair, and at his right hand sat Mr. Henry Lawrence. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, mentioned that a new election for the ward would take place probably in a fortnight, or certainly within a month, and he had great pleasure in stating that Mr. Henry Lawrence, who had already represented the burgesses for three years, was one of the candidates. He hoped the conservative burgesses would return that gentleman. (Cheers.) The result of their efforts at the last election was well known ;—they had re turned him (the chairman) by a majority of 49 ;—but he trusted they would obtain a majority over their adversaries, in favour of Mr. Lawrence, of at least sixty-nine. (Loud cheers.) Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, as a burgess of Rodney-street ward, had great pleasure in standing before the meeting for the pur pose of proposing a candidate for their acceptance. (Hear.) He did so for two reasons : first, because he was satisfied of the fitness of the gentleman whom he should have the honour to propose ; and, secondly, because of the forlorn condition of Rodney-street ward at this moment. One of the repre sentatives of the ward was absent upon the Continent, another had been pronounced unfit for his situation by the Court of Queen's Bench ; and if he might use a witticism which he had heard in another ward, their excellent chairman, like the last rose of summer, was left blooming alone—all his lovely companions were faded and gone. (Hear, and laughter.) We had heard much from our antagonists as to supporting measures and not men ; and where he (Mr. Holme) found a good man, who had always supported good measures, he conceived he was doing right in recommending the burgesses to support that man. (Hear, hear.) The measures sup ported by Mr. Harvey were such as no man possessing con servative principles could commend; and when he (Mr. Holme) bore in mind that Mr. Harvey, in his first address, soliciting the representation of this ward, spoke of being friendly to the power of democracy, he came to the conclu sion that that gentleman was unfit to represent the ward. He conceived that danger to the liberties of England pro ceeded not from the throne or the aristocracy, but from the undue power of the democracy, which in a great degree overbalanced the other branches of the constitution. (Hear.) He had ever regretted that political opinion should be a test for the fitness of a seat in the Town-council—(hear)--but as it had been made the test by our antagonists, we had no re source but to fight them upon their own ground—(cheers) — and be determined that none but men of conservative princi ples should be sent there until there was a sufficient number of them to give us good government. (Applause.) At pre sent, he might say, there were notsufficient to give us good government ; and every person who heard him would agree with him, that the best means of giving us good government was to increase the numbers of the opposition in the Town Council (hear) ; and he trusted we should go on increasing them until the tables were turned, and we had a majority (cheers). He for one had ever been opposed to the system of centralization, because he believed it would prove the grave of our civil liberties (hear, hear) ; and when we saw our Town Council acting upon that principle, it was, he thought, high time that we should send men there to put an end to it (hear, hear.) He believed that Mr. Lawrence, who had al ready served them faithfully, would serve them. faithfully again • he believed Mr. Lawrence, from his talent, character , and family, to be a fit and proper person to represent them in the council ; and therefore he should conclude by moving the first resolution (cheers). Mr. Holme then read the re solution, for which see advertisement. E. G. DEANE, Esq., briefly seconded the resolution. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, although not aliiirgess of this ward, participated in the general interest felt through the town upon the election which was about to take place, and had come here to express his hearty concurrence in the wish already expressed that Mr. Henry Lawrence should be the representative of the ward. The burgesses, he was sure, might safely confide their interests to that gentleman, for, during the period he had already been in the council, he had most assiduously devoted himself to those duties which fell to the lot of their representative. ("Hear,,hear," and cheers.) His long standing in the town, his welrknown respectability, his acknowledged talent and capability to fulfil the duties of their representative in the council were so well known that they required no eulogium. He had perused Mr. Lawrence's address, and found that it observed a gentle manly and honourable spirit throughout, which did credit to his good feelings, as opposed to a gentleman who was placed in a somewhat awkward position. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gladstone) confessed that the line of conduct pursued by Mr. Lawrence's opponent was one which individually, he was not prepared to approve. The course Mr. Harvey ought to have pursued, would have been, upon receiving the inti mation which lately reached him, to abandon at once the re presentation of the ward. (Hear, hear.) He himself should have cared not what the consequences of such a line of con duct might have been ; but he must say that this hanging as it were between wind and water ought to have been avoided, whatever the sacrifice might have been. It was a state of things that every one must deprecate. The ward must either be represented or it must not. There was no half-way house ; as the municipal reform act ~prescribed no re medy, and afforded no shadow for a man so to shelter himself as to prolong himself in the representation of a ward which he must feel he had no longer a right to claim. (Hear.) But they would agree with him in opinion, that it was to such men as Mr. Henry Lawrence—men known and respect ed in the town—who, from their character, commanded our respect—we should look to represent the burgesses in such meetings as took place in the Town-hall. It was true that the nature of the subjects discussed within that building had very much altered within the last two years. Formerly the duties of a councillor were such as related alone to the im mediate wants of the town ; but now we had a sort of demi house of commons. We heard subjects discussed there that al most rivalled in importance those debated in the House of Com mons, and orators stood forward there from the north and the south, from the east and from the west. If such were the topics now introduced into the Town Council, it was highly desirable the burgesses of the ward should have a gentleman there in all respects qualified to defend, not only himself, but them from such measures as had lately been attempted to be thrust upon the town. (Hear, hear.) In his worthy friend, Mr. Lawrence, they would find an able defender of what they most valued—(hear) ;—one even whose political enemies ad mitted to be a gentleman—and also had even expressed their regret that he should have ceased to represent the ward. The nein trtiOtOttie"Emirre by our Opponents, and still adhered to ; the fact was, it was a part of their mecha nical system to say one thing and do another. (Hear, and cheers.) In conclusion, he would congratulate them upon the success of their late exertions, in sending to the town council a gentleman whose very name was sufficient to com mand respect to the minds of all. (Hear, hear.) He only wished that the town council were filled with such men as Mr. Wood (Loud cheers.) It was lamentable that it should be otherwise. But there were trials which every man must endure and fight against : and the fact that the Town Council was composed of men opposed to the best in terests of the country, particularly to the interests of the Protestant religion—(loud cheers) —must be considered a misfortune, and a misfortune of the deepest die it was to the town. (Hear.) But still he was not without a hope that the day was not far distant when we should rouse from our slumbers, and throwing off the insidious charms which had so long bound us, should return to the council men who would represent our feelings as we should wish them to be represented, and who when occasion needed, would stand forward in opposition to those insidious measures which were attempted to be thrust upon us. (Cheers.) He felt confi dent that the late majority exhibited in the case of Mr. Wood would be again shewn in the case of Mr. Lawrence. (Hear.) Exertion only was required. (Hear, hear.) And it was with great satisfaction he had heard of the well-regulated sys stem, and the good order which prevailed in the ward, for it was utterly impossible for us, as Conservatives, to defeat the tactics of our enemies unless we studied before hand, and made arrangements for bringing our voters to the poll (hear). Our opponents were tricky at the very bottom ; tricky they would be to the very last ; and by trickery they would defeat us if it were possible (hear). That they were not par ticular in every instance about the means they pursued, was a point that would be readily admitted (hear, hear) ; but let us use fair and honourable means to beat them ; do not let us descend to the vile tricks of our opponents ; but by fair and honourable means let us beat them, and beat them hol low (cheers). After a further eulogium upon the character and principles of Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Gladstone retired amidst loud cheers. The CRAtEstAN then put the resolution, and it was unani mously carried. Mr. LAWRENCE then rose, and was received with great applause. He said that, after the kindness with which he had been received, and the high eulogiums passed upon him— eulogiums which he so little deserved, he felt that he could say but little. Much had been said in his favour which he did not merit, but at the same time he could not remain silent. However he might have wished a more eligible person had been chosen as a candidate—a task not very difficult, for their choice might have fallen upon a younger person—still, as it was their wish, he had no hesitation in coming forward. (Hear.) Upon the former occasion he thought they might have done better, and he still thought so, but after his friends had so generously supported him when he was rejected, (un justly he might say,) he should have been very ungrateful if he had hesitated a moment in coming forward. (Hear.) He was known to most of them, having resided in this town above thirty years, and, whatever his character had been, it was open to all. He would say, however, that in such posi tions as he had been placed, he had endeavoured to conduct himself in such a manner as became his station among them. (Cheers.) He had been already returned to the town-council ; for three years he had the honour to represent them, during which time he had discharged his duty to them to the best of his ability, and had been most assiduous in his attendance at the different committees. (Hear.) In all measures to which he had an opportunity of making a suc cessful resistance he had done so, but at the same time he had urged no unnecessary objection to those matters which he could not support. (Hear.) At that time there were very few conservatives in the council—a circumstance that made his position snore arduous, but he endeavoured in all cases to defend our interests to the best of his judgment. — (Hear.) His politics were well known. He was an advo cate of reform, but he was one of those people who were al ways in the opposition. He opposed the administration at present in power. (Hear.), When the reform ministers first came forward he, relying upon all their promises and assertions, was a warm supporter of them; and so long as Lord Grey continued in the administation, he continuedlone of their partizans, but the time came when Lord Grey could go no further—when the people endeavoured to force him into measures he could not approve of. (Hear.) Upon that occasion he and many persons, equally honest with himself, took another side. (Hear.) He was not single in the posi tion he had taken ; but he had been taunted, and in some measure laughed at, for having changed his position. He said, he had not changed it ; he had continued to advocate all those measures which he conceived would be conducive to the country, but as soon as he saw the ministers going down a precipice, he was not one of those who wished to go down with them. (Cheers.) There were many of them of the same way of thinking; they and he thought that measures not men were to be supported ; and as soon as they found that measures were proposed which they could not approve of—from that moment he felt it necessary, either to go head long with them or to make a resistance. (Hear, hear.) He had, consequently, taken the latter course, and he hoped it had met with their approval. (Cheers) If there was any thing in the council he disapproved of, it was that there were many honourable gentlemen there who were fettered with pledges, which he thought was perfectly inconsistent with the representative duty. (Cheers.) If their representatives were to go there pledged, they might just as well send a penny post letter for that purpose. (Hear.) A representative ought to - exercise his own discretion—and he was sure that many of those gentlemen in the council who were pledged, if they had the chance, would not give them again. He quite agreed with Mr. Holme, that the members of the town council were not members of parliament, which too many of the town council seemed to think they were. They had nothing to do but with measures conducive to the welfare of the town. He had always endeavoured to confine them to that, and he had deprecated the discussion of subjects with which they had nothing to do. (Hear.) At the time the council were sending addresses to parliament for particular measures, he told them they were not within their. province, and he en deavoured to resist the practice. (Hear.) The present mi nistry, he thought, could not stand. (Cheers.) We must hope that those measures which had given so much dissatis faction to the country would no longer be persisted in ; we must hope that when her Majesty was united to a prince of whom he heard nothing but what was amiable and good, that we should be relieved from a government which could not be considered as an honour to the country ; we must hope that when her Majesty was removed from the undue influence which now surrounded her, this country would be restoredto that prosperity which we all hoped she would long enjoy. (Cheers.) He had little►. more to add. This was not a political question; but if they did him the honour to elect him he would confess he would look to the interests of the country at large, and to those of this town, rather than make it an individual question. The hon. and learned gen tleman concluded his address by stating, that he should be most happy to give any burgess of the ward any further ex planation of his sentiments. Mr. E. B. LYON then moved, and Mr. CARSON seconded a resolution, pledging the meeting to support Mr. Lawrence. Mr. BUSHELL, of Abercromby Ward, having supported the resolution, it was carried unanimously. Mr. BROOK proposed the next resolution, which was se conded by Mr. PAYNE, and supported by Mr. BANBOW and Mr. ISAAC HOLMES. It was carried unanimously. Mr. BoLe then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chair man, which, having been carried, was duly acknowledged by Mr. Woon. .After a — few parting words from Mr. LAWRENCE, three cheers each were given for Church and Queen, for the Duke of Wellington, for Sir Robert Peel and Prince Albert, and the nvetilig separated. GRAND NATIONAL TROTTING MATCH, FOR FIFTEEN HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS, AT AINTREE, ON FRIDAY. (From the Third Edition of the Standard of Friday) The morning was exceedingly unfavourable for the race, and apprehensions were entertained that the match *Quid not come off. About one o'clock, however, a brisk wind from the north-east sprung up, and the rain abated.: Num bers then began to flock to the racecourse, and, considering the state of the weather, the attendance was moderately good. Shortly after two o'clock, the jockeys weighed, and the rival steeds came on the course. The weight carried by each was 12 stone. Bob Logic was ridden by a Mr. Smith, who dressed in blue ; the Birmingham mare by - 7 - Watson ; and. the Glasgow mare by Kirkwood. The American was the favourite before starting, but the betting was by no means brisk. The starting-post was at the Half-mile post, and seven times round the course, in addition, would make the ten miles. After three false starts the nags got off nearly all together, and they'arrived at, the winning post in the following circler : the Birmingham inare'first, Bob Logic second, and the Glas. gow mare last. The:betting was even on the two first, three to one ; the Scotch mare nowhere. The distance was ac complished in 3 min. 30 seconds. After leaving the coming-in chair, Bob made play, and got ahead, followed by Birmingham and Glasgow—the latter at some distance. No betting. Bob maintained his lead without difficulty ; but on arriving at the coining-in chair, both his competitors were close up. Eight minutes and.. 55 seconds had now elapsed. Bob still the favourite. The pace raidly improved, and on rising the bill the nags were in a clutter; but on nearing the chair, Logic again took the lead. His friends now became confident, and certainly there seemed to be reason for it. The time . now occupied was 14 minutes and 40 seconds. From this period it would be useless to detail the circum stances of the contest, as it was evident the English and Scotch mares had little or no chance. In justice, however, to them, we should, state, that they were true game,"particu larly the Southern. On passing the chair the fourth time 20 min. 10 sec. had elapsed; the fifth, 251 min, (this time the Glasgow mare was second); • the sixth, 30 min. 4 sec. The ten miles was run in 40 min.. 6 sec., the coming-in being as follows : The American horse .. . Bob Logic. The Birmingham mare The Glasgow mare Logic won by at-least - 150 yards. The Glasgow mare was far behind. The last time round. Logic bounded past his oppo nents in most admirable style, and from that time the laurel of victory was accorded to him. The Hurdle entry did not fill. .... I. INDIAN MAILS.—The next overland mail for India will be made up in Liverpool this day (Tuesday) the 3d inst. CHESTER DIOCESAN TRAINS-1%74 -COLLEGL—We perceive that this institution, for the training of masters for national and commercial schools, will be .opened about the 13th of January next. We have uo doubt, from the distinguished auspices under which it has .been established, and the high reputation of the rev. gentleman who has been appointed to preside over it, that this excellent institution will become eminently useful and popular. The advertisement (to which we beg to direct the attention of our readers) will fully ex plain the terms and mode of admission, &e. REPRESENTATION OF NEWARK.—Mr. Tbesiger's recep tion during his canvass last week at Newark has been flatter ing in the extreme, and there can be no doubt of his ultimate success. We regret that we canna find room for his elo quent and spirit-stirring address to the electors. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.-.-The vn gan Gazette, the Preston Pilot, and the Manchester Cou rier have severally given the•most unqualified contradiction to the " enormous lying" in which the radical papers of this county have lately indulged in reference to the alleged se cession of Sir John Gerrard; Mr. Scarisbrick, and Mr. Traf ford from the ranks of the conservatives. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.—A very chaste and beautiful little marble monument, in the Gothic style, has just been erected in Upholia:nd church, to the memory of the Rev.• John 13raitlivSaite, of Crostliwaite, Cumberland, who conducted a seminary in the first-named village for a period of thirty years,, by a few of the 'More wealthy mer chants of.Livdrpeol, who were his pupils, as a mark of their esteem for the piety and learning of him who, with such pious and paternal care, had framed their minds for future greatness. Messrs. Moffat and Co., of Liverpool, were the artists ; and both the exeetstion'and design of this tablet are alike highly creditable to them. • . THEATRE ROYAL.--34 benefits..ef Mr. Slaiter and of Mr. Chaplin, and his accomplished daughter Mrs. Tellet, are announced in cur advertising columns. They are all established favourites with the public, a position they have attained by genuine talent, - and consistently supported. We trust they will find real benefit arising from their appeal. We perceive that the leading tragedian of the company, Mr. Stuart, has fixed his benefit for Monday next, when he ap pears in the principal character in Henry the Fifth, and TOW 92 and Country. This gentleman's powert have often been the theme of our praise, but on this occasion we shall let his professional r eL,, , areeter speak for itself, which it is A l last were was - Mune..., i.e.o the building-yard of Mr. Jelin : Wood, of Port Glasgow, a steamer of the largest class, the Admiral, intended for the Glasgow awl Liverpool trade. She is built on the model of the Commodore, but of much larger size. Her draught of water is found not to' exceed what the Commodore was at launching. Her power - will be considerably greater. Emily in the year this splendid Vessel will start. POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK —This being positively the last week of Mr. Colles's stay in Liverpool, we cannot allow him to depart without once more bearing testimony to his talents. When we reflect upon the ease with whit h public performers may deceive their auditors, from the dis tance at which they are necessarily placed, as well as being assisted by confederates—the principal thing which astonishes us, is the astonishment of other people :—What then must those who are so highly amused at public exhibitions of this kind think, when they see deceptions equally wonderful — although very different—performed at Mr. Collea's apart ments in broad day-light, and under their very eyes? in addition to this, Mr. C. can enable, in a veil/ few minutes, any of his purchasers to perform the same tricks equally as well as himself, thus affording them an opportunity of amus ing their frieuds during the Christmas holidays. We advise all who have not yet visited him, to make a point of doing so this week, recollecting that he has removed to 126, Bold street, three doors from Berry-street. LOG OF THE GREAT WESTERN.—The following is an at• street of the log of the Great Western, on her passage from New York to Bristol _ Date. Latitude. Longitude. Miles. Nov. 17. 40 12 69 50 192 18. 40 44 - 65 18 209 19. 41 50 60 . 20 230 20. 43 20 55 40 212 21. 44 50 51 30 200 22. 46 10 47 25 192 23. 47 50 42 20 232 24. 49 20 36 50 240 23. 50 58 30 54 240 26. 51 10 • 24 4 260 27. 50 48 18 4 228 28. 50 30 - 12 20 219 29. 51 2 • • '6 25 230 FIRE IN A DISTILLERY. X few minutes before Me o'clock on Sunday morning, Mrs. Barka, of the Wellington Hotel, was awakened by a strong :midi of fire. At first, she thought that it proceeiled from some part of her own pre mises ; but, on looking through the window, she saw that the yard of Mr. Mulleneux's distillery was filled with smoke. She instantly gave the alarm. In a few minutes, the flames burst through the tool of the distillery. The building being full of spirits, the greatest apprehension was excited, but, se veral powerfitl engines and a strong body of firemen being promptly on the spot, and there fieing an abundant supply . of water from the police cisterns and mains, the fire, contrary to every body's weetation, was got under in about three quarters of an haw, without having extended beyond the floor and roof where it originated. The caus e of the fire is not known. The damage is comparatively trifling, not ex.. ceeding £5OO. His Worship the Mayor and the Town-clerk arrived soon after the alarm, aticrremained on the spot until all danger had ceased. • Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt were, of course, there, and Mr. Backe, of the Wellington, and Mr. Lyons, of Castle-street, rendered essential service. Mr. Mulleneux was early in attendance, and Mr. Stewart and his men exerted themselves most resolutely. The books, at one time on fire, were saved without any serious damage. BENTLEY'S' "' .PLUS ULTRA' I GUN.—We have seen one of these admirable guns at Mr..Blissett's establishment, 38, South Castle-street. . It is beautifully manufactured, the novelty, however, being' in the superiority of the lock, which is enclosed within the upper part of the stock. There ie.no anti-chamber to the breach, which it has, long been a desi deratum with the trade to dispense with. The nipple is im mediately behind the breeeh, and the lock being entirely in the interior, without any increase. in the bulk of the stock, is not liable to go off when the sportsman passes through a hedge or thicket. A steel lid corresponding. with the breath of the gun covers a chamber; in which appears the steel wire, which, projected by the lock in a line with the barrel, strikes the cap directly in the centre and ,end of the breach, thus causing a central fire in place of. the usual side ignition. The lock is exceedingly simple, yet effective ; and the caps cannot fly in the eye. The gun is truly.a great improvement, and is well worthy the inspection of sportsmen and others. — See Adv. It is a remarkable fact, that in the town of Bury, which contains upwards of twenty thousand inhabitants, there is only one public clock, and that has been stopped for two months for want of repairs; and the spire and church-steepi• which were part blown down last January, have not been re paired up to this day. •' Feargus O'Connor-paid a visit to Netveastle on Saturday week, and addressed nimister of the chartists and radicals, his object•being to get up a subscription to defend his fellow patriot Frost, when brought to trial for his late efforts in the cause of liberty at Newport ! Juniper, when burned, diffuses a fragrant smell, and is supposed to be the incense which was used by the ancients in their religious ceremonies, though not the same as frank incense. It is much used by the Roman Catholics in their churches for similar purposes. A citizen of Boston being on his return home after a long absence, his faithful dog was fearful that he would not give a sufficient expression of his joy alone ; and be therefore ac tually divided his dinner between two other dogs of his ac quaintance, to come and . help, him to wag his tail. A celebrated engineer being examined at a trial, where both the judge and coreisel tried in vain to browbeat him, made use in his evidence of the expression, " the creative powers of a mechanic ;" on which the judge rather tartly asked him what he meant by the creative power of a mecha nic ? " Why, my lord," said the engineer, " I mean that power which enables a man to convert a goat's tail into a judge's wig." When Cupid is on stilts he seldom condescends to be grammatical. In allusion to Sergeant. Wilde's canvass for Newark (a very wild undertaking, by the way), he observed that " the tories ride their hobbies too hardly." The plain English phrase is, that the tories, if they have hobbies, s carcely (" hardly") make use of them. It is " hardly" a in Cupid to manufacture hobbies for the tories, and then net allow of their riding them. But the tories are not vindictive, and though Lord Palmerston has been in office upwards of 30 years, they will never say that he has ridden, his official nag too " hardly."-21forning Herald.