The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-02 00:00:00

BOROI ra 'hit RPOC OF B VINCEM JAMES F.R. Bradley, near' JOHN BI CE, D, .ous for the limits Ir. BAXTER, 0 tMercur in two m a adverti it die, of busine-3-3' v of Oc ANCI Trowb 3oroug DEAIs ENS ,fDecec to rett Bich I haN ) be gra ILTON Liverpc Triting this 1 ECH, .dshire •Potte INICLE, ,n-on-Tees, Dur ry hoi a her chair w in Mr. Bast .- LI was able to walk 0 front a c A soldier ations and thick fii niter havir lop, York, 1. too n or Dimness of Sight, witlioi Blisters, Bleeding, Seton, Issues, or at CONTR rreet. Fe TION 0 The Di AND E 'RS FO. tion of t TO F 1 GOVERNORS OF THE DIS tARY S lJ ALTERATI( NORTH JOURNAL Of SATUI bills being t Consols for I closed 881 to i NSARI z£loo,ol I' 89 to :ch, int from Lancaster, at half noon, and to reach WI that is five hours aft RPOOI offer myself as a CANDI,TE for lONORARY SURGE to the ow vacant. The facto my having lICHARD HUTCH 5. 1 R4l _ I SCH )FIELI 3IRMIN 1, or B 14SON merit t ISTRES 'CiIOOLMISTRESS r Law Ci , Bristo YORKS yEN, t Direct( Broad-street, Bristol, on 4 xrDER bl,at Tv at Br t, Bristol day of March. J. B. BADHAM, Secr EVEN Broad-street MALE INVALIDS females xpired from d zgiGene Fespectt ly consul I, but the petit 1 be for Owl, Lon ONEY MARKET s yesterday security that was marker to I, were done at ,cconnt Consols receded to Llequer : bills were finally quoted 166 to 167; India 831; 34 per Cent Reduce 1 an inactive st A; 100 ; Belgian, Spanis' ing paragraph appeared ensation has been creat- cles here by the sudden flight of a ildermen, leaving behind him defal amount 0f,.X60,0U0 . .. No reason has uetalcations to amount tc he half of that sum would bc ly after the arrival of the s same after- iitehaven at half-past seven o'clock ards),'returning from Whitehaven tablished early in the spring, and it t Furness and East Cum- ill b cede the pre ORDINARY AND MYS )US DISAPPEARANCE THE GUARD OF THE DOVER MAIL COACH.—On Wed day morning, on the arrival of the Dover mail coach at General Post-office, the guard belonging to it w as found .ved with the mail bags. From the statement n,.it is feared that some dreadful, if not fatal On . the coachman arriving about :at of the guard, but could not see him. ,t off, he waited a few minutes ; but find 1, he turned the horses round, and drove but could not discover him any- cin ? ediately pro- STRANGE BRIDEGROOM.—A couple presented theinsel fore the curate of Wrexham church on the morning _r in the holy bonds of ma vice had proceeded to that part of the cere here the minister calls upon the bridegroom to say n, "I, A. B. take thee, C. D. to be my wedded wife," when the man, instead of repeating the words, said, " I wull, I'll have her." The minister remonstrated with him, and told him to repeat the exact words after him, as above mentioned. The man, however, persisted in his man ner of reply, and said, " I well, I'll have her." The clerk, thinking he bad some impediment in his speech, whispered to him softly to repeat the words after the curate, but with out effect. The man continued . to reply as before ; and the Tuesday 1 trimony. The man i 3 ham.—Carnarvon Herald DARING OUTRAGE AT R On Sunday nizht. or rather v e family - of - Mr. as disturbed by t e from church un the Walks, Wrex- STON E NEAR BARNSLEY early on _Monday morni :entleman farmer at Royston ' a bell in the pigeon cote. or which Mr. Old'royd hearing some men breaking into his pigeon cote, which was opposite to his dwelling-house, dis charged his gun in that direction from his chamber window, and then dressing himself as speedily as possible, went out of the house with a loaded blunderbuss to search his adjoin. ing farming premises. He had not proceeded far, before three or four men either attacked him or threw a brickbat with violence at his head, which knocked him down, and he was found by hi s f amily weltering in his blood, and so far deprived of reason as to be unable to give any account of what oc iseovery of t urst o . _le parties. His blunderbuss must have been taken from him when down as it has not yet been discovered, and the parties decamped im mediately. On Thursday, Mr. Oldrovd was considered out of danger. DIS NSAR re ed for thi h oof its Pt I DIS 5 house rat lefended t ENNEN landlord would agree to pav the ra hill 'e 500 voters for £5O a year in Ts for that town at 2,31 of 2,000 electors, ircumstance and it actually vea n £5 and £lO, so that upward ty, would be swamped by be 1,000, with little or non LE supported the mea: id not agree, however, with those of his friends wlic 'ed that these party considerations would lead the Irisl ;hhold their assistance from the defence of the Queen': promisi though - he believed Lord Morpeth to t lg disciple of the movement ,ster, yet could hardly have believed thi de a proposition like this, though but vhich he proved clearly from the ev es, printed in ministerial papers motion for leave to bring in the I asure would be a viol id of the re form bill .elioration. When Mr pass th now comes forward to bring in suct ]mitred the evil of discrepal hise, but contended that t jarity of th then, that i, O'Connel the Corn L Mr. O'ConnE ign , France and th would re as Mr. Roche Ir. O'CoNN fr. Barrett, read lon T complaining of the was th registry," sai full of pitfalls understand tl quences stood the round was there ss than iges ought to have been conclusive. What, as the real inducement to this measure ? Was it not ntwere threatened With the withdrawal of Mr. tpport, and that of their radical friends? At it had been said by Mr. Barrett, one of 1,, after declining to be responsible for the 3 up by Roman Catholic clergymen Lord Stanley's bill---- ice which that bill would occasion to the claimants of the franchise. The franchise this bill. " Fight your battle at the iary of the Irish th a confidence Macaulay) had cause of t , uld ha ,een your r Cdriven frOM them b you, and insist upon their large ign clouds and warlike dangers The Surrey e vinion of the ministry sure on t appropriate to a county ri reminded the noble , ction, by proving the it have forced him to Teak, which Sir R ight, antra rating .ds the fran- .t cause of the had selected tl which afforded neasure oi real value. It was enough to warrant the second - eading: of this bill, if gentlemen were• prepared to vote for la principle; the rest was matter of detail, to be adjusted n the committee. He censured the reflections thrown out ipon the Judges, and regretted that they should be consulted it all upon any political question. If it were determined to :brow in false weights, let it not be done in the balance of returns to shoe ;ness of the landlords to He had been c led on to state t of repeal and of parliamentary reform' . On 11, he concurred in Lord Ebrington's re- But the_more he disapproved repeal, the ture should not refuse anxious he was that the b On the subject of reform 1 .. be bad expressed in hit the case or a franc Dn. so stri of any judicial s nterfei nt on the other, and s ement, he thought that his nf zld be no breach of his faith to tt] Power prevail he Actof Parli gents, Rat Bristo impala! ijartiainnit. ---.5..-- He wished to ask v 1 custom :t by the ly catastrophe rstanding likewise, a gumuons do believed th he Cot I SANDO ir. IJABo 1_ the per . _ s count ae cause of CONOLI HOWARD (Comb , on tt Le definition of the f f voters too to benefit andard of the v rial wit d they we forth th lotion of t 11 a rel become i a comparison betwee ring Lord Morpeth's Franchise. gh not throe h laws of c aged irel ) little had the cauldron of Irish c don to i you a was it fittiq 3 exhibit them as enemies of the people ? Your municipal bill was another insult to Ireland, also understood by the people. He denied that the 40s. freeholders had been disfranchised by reason of their independence ; it was by reason of their reli- ion, and by naking their own term lon that their enemies I been cited to d again arid again. Mr. O'Connell nto his old comparison between the then went agai Irish and the I ;h proportions of constituency to po led that only five members bad been bill to the representation of Ireland. 30 . W of koperty ; the boroughs under the reform bill your test was popula He denied that this bill would extend the franchi He would gladly give a vote to every man, and in ( too far tab too, as well as in Ireland. He entered into the question of the beneficial interest and solvent tenant tests, declaring in favour of the former. ,But whichever way the balance might incline, it was necessary now to determine the doubt. He called on the house to grant the franchise demanded by Ireland. America had been lost by the refusal of enfran chisement ; at the same time Ireland was retained by the commencement of it. As the war of the French revolution athranced, the allegiance of the Roman Catholics was pre served to England by the horror of the priests against the , infidelity of France. He would caution England now against the dangers of her armed peace, and of her discussions with America. It actual war with either state had b n, would Lord Stanley presumelto bring in such a bill as his 11 people Were go steadily on : they would never again but they would keep their rights in view. He attacked the character and temper of the inhabi tants of the north of Ireland, - accusing them of several outs rages, of which he stated the particulars, and which he said were all yet unpunished. He would never submit to the de gradation of having his country an inferior one. He would persevere. If his just claims were refused, the refusal would only increase his power. Sir R. PEEL began by chastising the feelings with which Mr. O'Connell had gloated over the old animosities between England and Ireland. It was a libel on the Irish people to say that they would not join England against a foreign ene my. He hoped that Messrs. Macaulay, Sheil, and Buller, who had held the language of menace, were prepared to take their course, when, in the next session, Mr. O'Connell should make still further demands as the price of peace. The real object of the present measure was to subvert the old and substitute a new representation. He would not suffer himself to be now diverted into a consideration of the details of Lord Stanley's bill ; the introduction of which was, however, the whole argument of the ministerialists, for not one of them said a word in favour of the government bill itself. He wished for a test which would exclude the present difficulties ; but he would not agree to continue a system of approved abuses till a new test could be agreed on. Ministers had no right to tack to the remedy .a condition which must defeat it. By that condition the country franchise was thrown open to persons possessing not an atom of property. It was a fraud on the compact made at the time of the Reform Bill—a compact which, on the ground of its continuing obli gation, Lord John Russell himself had, so lately as 1837, re fused to disturb. It was a fraud on the arrangement for Ro man Catholic emancipation, whereof one of the conditions was, the county voters should if possinte, be rendered an independent body. Without that condition, the Relief Bill undoubtedly would not have been suffered to pass. When Lord Morpeth refused to Mr. O'Connell the permission even to introduce his enlargement of the Irish franchise, it was on the twofold ground of the Reform Bill and the Relief Bill. On the other hand he himself should regret to see any dimi nution of the constituency below the intent of the Reform Act. This new leasehold contrivance would be wholly de feated, should there be a reluctance either of landlords to grant, or of tenants to take, these leases. The 40s. franchise had been abolished, not by the wishes of the government, which passed the Relief Bill, but by a testimony of the Roman Catholic witnesses before a committee of the Lords in 1825. Mr. O'Connell's evidence at that time was, that the abolition of the 40s. franchise would be a positive benefit to Ireland. The persons who really abolished that franchise were Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Slum, by the proofs they adduced of the miseries consequent upon it ; and were we now to be told that they were insulting Ireland and refusing to restore these miseries? He then read passages from the evidence of Mr. D. Brown, to show the frudulent system on which the Irish landlords concocted these small votes ; and he explained how the now proposed franchise would be liable to all the same perversions, to political jobbing, and to the subdivision of land. If this franchise were granted to Ireland, how could the noble lord deny it to England and Scotland? If you had found opposed to you a party base enough to take up the of any steamer n : . t of Admiral I for our advisable to i Ind other courts, would sever( uch as if they had trespassed up' John question so often asked of him, wl spect to England and Scotland ;d, when there apneared— ise divi For Lord Stanley's amendment.... 294 Majority for min T HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from places in Essex, against any further grant to the College of Maynooth. The Earl of MOUNT EDGECUMBE presented a petition from " Lisceard, against - the removal of the West India packets from Falmouth to Dartmouth. Viscount MELBOURNE said that government into a contract with a public company- est India mails neirpac a a view of expe- That company had the power vhatever port they liked, and The aovernment had deter- at Dartmouth, and he had aience of starting from two HOUSE OF COMM that the company had it in .._ Er. Fox MAULE, in answer to a question from Mr. ale, said that there was no objection whatever to the pro tion of a return of the expenses incurred by the trial of Earl of Carc Fox MAuIE, in reply to a question from Mr. Law, should, if possible, move the second reading of the r postponed, until Monday next, the second reading of the registration of voters (Ireland) bill. The house then went into committee on Lord Keane's annuity bill, and Mr. EWART moved that the pension should be limited to Lord Keane's life; which motion was sup ported by Captain Hamilton, and opposed by Sir J. C. Hob house, who enumerated the services of Lord Keane, and contended that the pension had been well earned from his country. 1 on Friday, the 12th of Loid S WALLACE supported the amendment Mr. HUME contended that many of the officers who served Under Lord Keane better deserved a national reward than the noble lord himself. He, also, was of opinion that the reward, if given, should proceed from the East India Com pany. _ _ Sir R. PEEL was not quite satisfied that this pension ight not to have been at the expense of the East India Company, but he by no means meant, in saying this, to de tract, in the slightest degree, from the merits of Lord Keane which fully entitled him to the reward. Mr. HOGG contended that the East India Company were not called upon to incur the expense of this pension, which should proceed from the nation, which had already acknow ledged the merits of the noble lord, by conferring upon him a peerage. After a short discussion, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 117 to 74. The house subsequently went into committee upon the committee . upon the East India Rum Bill, and the clause equalising the . duties on East and West India rums was sion as to the best mode of prevent mported from the East Indies under ing other spirits bei the name of rum. The other business being disposed of, the house adjourned THE EASTERN QUESTION, (From t •ning Herald of y terday.) Negotiati going on in London between the to the convention of July conclusion of a new and more comprehensive treaty, in which France is.to take a prominent part, having for its object the settlement of the Turkish dud Egyptian question on the following basis : The positions of the Sultan and Mehemet AR being de fined, _ The great powers—France included—agree to guarantee for the future the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire. The great powers—France included —agree to guarantee he hereditary pachalic of Egypt to Mehemet Ali and his The difficulties' in the way of coming to this arrangement are manifold, and it is doubtful whether Russia can or England will consent. „Aus!ritt . 19 in favour of the treaty. because France, once relieved of its isolemenl, must proceed to disarm. France is strongly pressing the negotiation, in order that she may regain her former position ; and the binding of Russia by treaty to guarantee the integrity of the Ottoman empire will. be considered a master stroke of the Guizot cabinet. Our informant is of opinion that the treaty will not arrive ,sfill conclusion FALLING OF TWO HOUSES IN FLEET-STREET LONDON. From the Times of Yesterday Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night the in habitants of Fleet-street and the numerous persons passing up and down the above street were thrown into a state of the utmost alarm and consternation by the sudden falling down of two houses adjoining the Dispatch-office, one in the occu pation of a Mr. . Dodson, and the other lately occupied by Mr. Bundy, trunk-maker. About six weeks ago the back part of the premises of Mr. Bundy was destroyed by fire, and which it is supposed, from the age of the walls, tended very much to undermine the stability of thefront wall; but as at the time the place was undergoing a thorough repair no notice was taken of the circumstance—in fact, there was not the slight est intimation of the accident until within a few minutes of its taking place. About ten o'clock Police-constable Gar 4iner and his comrade, who were on duty in Fleet-street, had —ontion drawn to the house of Mr. Bundy, when, ,ccident was likely to occur, they prevented any persons from passing on the pavement, and alarmed the inmates of the house in the occupation of Mr. Dodson, all of whom, with the exception of a young man of the name of Myson, a tailor, got out. Shortly after the front of Mr. Bundy's house fell out , with a tremendous crash, bringing with it the front of Mr. Dodson's house, followed by the in terior. As soon as the immense cloud of dust which arose from the fallen premises had cleared away, there was seen Myson in his bed-room on the second floor, with a candle in his hand, and in a state of nudity. lie was standing by the bedstead ; for the banisters and landing-place bad all given way, while his only chance of escape was by means of a ladder. Those belonging to the parish were immedi ately brought to the spot, and with some difficulty the long one was so placed as to enable the poor fellow to be rescued from his perilous situation without sustaining anyin jury beyond a severe fright. For some days past he had dis covered that his bed-room door would not shut as usual, which circumstance he mentioned to -Mrs. Dodson, and upon expressing his fears that some accident might happen, Mrs. Dodson only laughed at him. It appeared that he was `asleep when the front tell, and to that may be attributed his safety, for had he rushed to the stairs when the wall fell he must have been buried in the ruins, as "just as he got to the door the flight of stairs and landing place fell in. So tre mendous was the shock that many of the inhabitants thought that the shaking of their houses was caused by an earthquake, and several of them rushed into the street, when they be came acquainted with the cause of their alarm. Mr. Vizi telly, the printer, of Peterborough-court, who was one of the first that rushed into the street, i m mediately offered the use of his premises to M essrs. T roug hton and Simms, the opti cians, whose house stood next to Mi. Dodson's, to remove their property to, and a large quantity was speedily con. veyed out of the lower part of the house; fortunately, how ever, only a portion of the coping fell. A short time afte fearing that some the accident a strong party of the city police, under the command of Inspector Fosbury, arrived and rendered every assistance in their power to the inhabitants, and they were immediately followed by Mr. Arding, the builder, and a strong party of workmen, who directly commenced shoring up the premises of the Dispatch office, and Mr. Trough. ton's. Mr. Elmes, the city surveyor, was in attendance, and aided the men with his professional kno w l e d ge. Like all calamit ous events, it was quickly circul a t e d that several persons w ere un d er the ruins, some declaring that at the time the walls fell there were two females standing on the pavement. As soon as the adjoining houses were ren dered safe, a number of labourers were set to work to exa mine the ruins for the purpose of ascertaining whether there w a s any truth in ' , at workir -a .ne rumour ; they sig without the slightest intermission until one o'clock yesterday, but fortu nately the rumour proved incorrect ; the only time it 'ob tained any crede nce b e i ng a b out 11 o clock, whe n a patters of a female was found. Since then it has been ascertained that no life was lost, nor as even an accident of the slightest nature occurred. By two o'clock the whole of the rubbish was cleared out of the street, and a boarding put up, thus restoring the thoroughfare to its former state. So dense was the dust which the falling premises occasioned, that it was at first supposed a fire had broken out in the ruins, upon which Colf, the foreman of the Farringdon-street station, came with one of the engine s , and was spee dily followed by M r . Braid wood, with one of the engines from Watling-street. Fortu nately their assistance was not required. Although the prac tical gentlemen whose names are already mentioned were asked by our informant their opinion as to the cause"of the accident, no satisfactory information could be obtained. It is, however, generally supposed that the walls, which were extremely old, were not sufficiently strong to bear the new work which had been placed on the roof of the house of Mi. Bundy. The internal parts of the buildings appeared to have been in a m os t dilapidated state. Thousands of persons con gregated at the time of the accident, and it was with great difficulty that the police could effect a passage. The house of Mr. Bundy was parish property, and that occupied by Mr. Dodson belonged to the Bishop of Peterborough. The da mage done is estimated at £2OOO. Under the market, is e his Second . Ga make his S 3, who i THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee. Drury-lane and Hay ged for a LIMITED PERIOD, and will make leatres-Roya !cl for a LIMITED PERIOD, will To-morrow Evening THIRD. WEE IGHT BUT THREE OF MR. VAN AMBURGH, Ice excited 'the most intense interest fot ights, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, lid which was several times honoured by the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Nobility of. London. He will make his appearance this Evening, in an original drama, in three acts, in which he will sustain a Dramatic Character, introducing in scenes connected with the inte rest of the piece, the whole of his matchless collection of THE LAST IN OF MR. j BALLS whose performan 125 succt sive N LIONS , LEOPARDS, and TIGERS T HIS present TUESDAY, the formed Shakspeare's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Shylock .. Mr. Elton. Gratiano.. Mr. J. S. Balls Bassanio Mr. H. Holl, Principal Light Comedian from the Theatre -Royal, Bath, (who . _ 2d instant, will be pe ason,) his second appearance here Mr. G. Horncastle, Is engagec Lorenzo His first appearance this season Mrs. W. H. Bland Nerissa.... Miss Chaplin. Jessica.. Mrs. P,Crowe Portia To conclude with, for the last time but three 'e New and Original Drama, in Three Acts, written ex essly to intro duce Mr. Van Amburgh's Collectionpf rained Animals, called MUNGO P OR, TEE ARAB OF THE NIGER. Karfa, the Arab of the Niger Mr. Van Amburgh. Mungo Mr. Gray. Laidly.. Mr. Chaplin Toby Gande Mr. Balker, - On WEDNESDAY, the Tragedy of VENICE PRE SERVED. Jaffier, Mr. Elton ; Pierre (first time here), Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Belvidera, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which, the favourite Drama of the THREE AND THE DEUCE. The Three Singles, Mr. J. S. Balls.—To con chide with MUNGO PARK. Prices of Admission Upper Boxes Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. • • Doors to be opened at klalf-pitst Six, and the Performance to commence at Seven The Box- Boxes ma-- flee will be opened daily, when Places in the taken of Mr. MINSTER, from Ten until Three. amber of Season Tickets to be disposed of.— A. limited Application to be made at the Box-office LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET The Public are most respectfully informed, that the PETI TION to her MAJESTY, to grant a SECOND PATENT THEATRE for Liverpool, has now received upwards of NINE THOUSAND SIGNATURES. Last Four Nights of Mrs. WAYLETT and Mr. A. LEE, who will appear To-morrow (Wednesday), Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday next, for the last time this season. THIS present TUESDAY, M arc h 2d, th e E n te r tainments will commence with the Legendary Drama, called • THE RUBY RING; fi e Or, The Fatal Treasure. To which will be added a new l aug h a bl e e r lude, called THE WIDOWED W E; Or, Woman's Love. Amelia . ' Mrs. Raymond. To be followed by the laughable Interlude, called BAILIFFS AND BLUNDERS ; Or, The Fancy Ball. Captain O'Dedimus Mr. Raymond. To conclude with the celebrated Eastern Spectacle, called ALADDIN ; Or, The Wonderful Lamp 1 Aladdin Mrs. Raymond. 'Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had each day of Mr. J. Fono, at the Box Office, from 11 to 3. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d.—Second Price, Half past 8, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; No Second Price to the Gal lery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Performanee to commence at Scven precisely. Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be had on application at the Theatre, Price £1 Is. WATERLOO COURSING MEETING NOW ON VIEW, FOR A FEW DAY , IN THE COMMITTEE-ROOM OF THE LYCEUM, BOLD-STRE,,BT THE PICTURE of the WATERLOO RSING MEETING, painted by Mr. ANSDE , containing Portraits of the Earl of Sefton, Earl Talbo mes Aspinall, Esq., Wm. Blundell, Esq., Daniel Nei , Esq., James Rigby, Esq., Benjamin Jones, Esq., Ja es Bourne, Esq., James Ball, Esq., Jonathan Williamson, Esq., T. Reddish, Esq., &c., with upwards of Sixty Portraits of other distin guished individuals. OPEN FROM TEN TO FOUR O'CLOCK. THE EXHIBITION OF PICTURES BY THE OLD MASTERS POSTOFFICE• PL A CE. 'THE GRAND PICTURE of the MAD O NA of LORETTO, by DOMENICHINO, from t. Gallery of His Rqyal Highness the DUKE of LUCCA, wit, everal other Fine Pictures belonging to the Proprie r .f the THREE CARACCI, have been added to this inte tt ing Collection, which is NOW ON VIEW for SALE b rivate Contellet. Admittance, is ; Season tickets, ss. Open from ten till five ; and in tb nine. Brilliantly illuminated by Gas evening from six to JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper jB. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL • REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Partieslinterested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERRA.TIIVI REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the Visuing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. References permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re .... ddressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, rill receive immediate attention e ._ TO CORRESPONDENTS We have been at considerable trouble to procure two copies of the STANDARD of Tuesday last, in compliance with the wish of our correspondent at Glasgow, but have not been able to obtain them. . It affords us much gratification to make public the concluding portion of the communication referring to our efforts in collating all the particulars of the late melincholy catastrophe. It is as follows :—" But for the list you furnished of those who were lost, I probably never should have heard of what had become of a near re lative, (a brother,) and you are entitled to the warmest gratitude of myself as well as of other relatives wbo may be similarly circumstanced, for the exertions you seem to have made to get such list published." In the letter of Mr. Edwards, inserted in the STANDARD of Friday last, the following sentence, at the close of the reply to the second objection to the Pastoral Aid Society, should have stood thus—" to pay and support such persons as 'Would cause no damage to the church by withdrawing from its ministry." The average income of the incumbents assisted by the society should have been '` £163 a-year." EN) Rthrrpool ktanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1841 ' It is one of the few sayings of the Colonial Secre tary which we quote with pleasure, that " we cannot afford in this country to have revolutions every year." We English are essentially a domestic people, and well know what an uncomfortable thing it is to live perpe tually in. the midst of brick and mortar. We love or der and neatness in our dwellings, and do not object to all such trifling removals as may conduce to these ends; but to meddling with foundations—to the un fixing of main supports—or to frequent alterations in the principal arrangements of their domiciles—the people generally entertain a rooted aversion—calculat ing, perhaps, that a remote and doubtful good to be attained at such risk and such a sacrifice of immediate comfort, may not be worth the cost. Much on the same principle, and for the same reason, they dislike yearly revolutions in government. Our more mercurial French neighbours assign to us as a reason for this a certain merely physical vis iner tice of constitution which they suppose we owe to cli mate or some other, natural cause, and give us no cre dit for it as a virtue; a virtue, however, it certainly is, by whatever means it may be attained. Let us obsefie those Whose - thoughts are ever con stantly occupied with great political changes—men whom the Scripture decides as emphatically "given to change," and we perceive that, finding their whole happiness and pleasure in mere excitement, they are thus deprived of a most important element of national prosperity—namely, a state of mind fitted for attending to the sober and ordinary affairs of industrial occupa tion. Such men miss the end by taking excessive care about the means. This theory is so true, and indeed so , obvious, that it scarce stands in need of any experi ence or any illustrations to confirm it. We can appeal to our own example ; for if we are a people indicated as averse to revolutions, so we can boast of being a people enjoying unexampled national prosperity. What revolutionising nation has ever been a happy one ? What have our neighbours to boast of as the result of all the revolutions they have gone through within the last fifty years ? Would not a little English phlegm, a little of our national ponderosity added to their own extreme levity, have been useful—would it only have saved them from a few of those horrors which they have endured during the above period ? National prosperity is indeed viewed by us as quite inconsistent with perpetual gadding after change; and so deeply rooted is this idea in the mind of the people, that the very name of a professing patriot, political agitator, or trading politician whose staple merchandise neces sarily consist§ in " change," is synonymous in their conception with whatever is odious and disreputable. Now what should we think of the minister or emi nent statesmen who would desire to change the na tional character in this respect ? Should we not say, that he was the greatest possible enemy to his country and the happiness of his fellow-men ? National.cha racter, we grant, is not easily altered ; yet it will yield at length, like that of an individual to ordinary ap pliances. It is the unfortunate position of our present minis ters, who have come into power under the impulse of a popular movement, and constitute therefore what Is called a movement ministry, that they are under a stern necessity of resorting to that species of instrumenta lity, to keep themselves in power, Which most injuriously disturbs the public mind, and tends to deteriorate the national character in the respect of which we have-been speaking. Could they sustain themselves without re- sorting to revolutions, or revolutionising, we believe there is so much conscience left in them that theN would gladly do so; but though they se( ompelled by the what is right, they are force of cir- cumstances to pursue what their judgment condemn They hare come in on the moverment principle, and they cannot retreat from it We have their pledges and promises in abundance that the Reform Bill was to be a final measure ; and feeling the magnitude of the change they were then about to effect, they were perhaps, some of them at least, sincere at the moment in giving these assurances. But titne rolls on; new wants arise; there are men in the outermost 'circle who have made no compact with finality; new demands are made, and the abandon-. went of " finality" becomes eventually as inevitable by the movement minister, as the adoption was once use ful, when moderate men who could not otherwise be got to move were to be gained over. The Irish Registration Bill of ministers is allowed on all hands to be an abandonment of finality, and the final doctrine of the Reform Bill. It is a breach of faith on the part of Lord John Russell and the Grey party; for, however the matter may be sought to be concealed, or to be smuggled through under false co lours, the violation of the Reform Bill which it would effect is evident to all. The wound is attempted to be made where one might have expected that it would— through the weak side—the diseased member of the kingdom ; but all perceive that if the inoculation be wrought' there, the consequences 'muSt he felt else- where—the virus must spread throughout the w body. And thus it is that we are met by the compact entered into by - ministers and the Popish-rebel party in Ireland. The priesthood and their lieutenant well know the power they have gained, and the proper way as well as manner to use it. Will England suffer her self to be dictated to and domineered over by such a power? That is now the simple question. To this it has plainly come, and England must either submit to the domestic tyranny of Popish priestcraft, or rise, in her strength and crush it altogether : one or the The debate on the Irish Registration Bill came at length to a close last Friday morning, when minis ters found themselves in a notable majority of 5. On an analysis of the division, it appears that the thing has been carried, as is usual of late, against the majority of British members by the O'Connell tail, and by that instrumentality alone. The entire number that voted was—for the hill, 299 ; against, 294—majority, 5. But of these 265 British members voted against the bill, and but 240 for, leaving a majority of British mem bers aga . inst it of 25 ; thus showing conclusively by what power it is that this country is now ruled. Such a victory as this would be the undoing of any other ministry; but in the eyes of the Melbournites it is, doubtless, a happy escape, and a " glorious" majo rity. Had they been beaten on this division they must have turned out. No love of place, no court favour, no hardihood of face could, on such an event, have kept them in. Their doom would have been sealed. How great then must have been their joy when the tellers announced a result that saved them from a fate so shocking ! What is to become of the bill is a question that gives them no concern whatever. The bill was never set up except on the principle well understood in the Irish quarter sessions courts, and elsewhere, and re duced to vulgar practice in the form of cause and cross cause—a mode of defence suggested by the skillful attorney when he finds his client hard run. In such case he advises turning ronnd and assailing the enemy as plaintiff, and the feint not unfrequently secures a good retreat. The Morpeth bill was in its origin a mere measure of obstruction, and if it effect dip ob ject it will have done its master good service, though it should never pass itself. If it only muddy the stream and spoil the fishing of a rival it will have proved a capital invention, however worthless for every other purpose, We shall enter into no over-curious speculation as to how both or either of the bills may ultimately be disposed of ; it is something too distant for immediate consideration; but this we will say, that nothing has transpired in the course of this long and tedious four nights' debate that should cause the noble member for North Lancashire to withdraw the measure introduced by him, or to regret the circumstance of his having introduced it. All manner of abuse has been cast upon him ; hut the case that he has established and the necessity for perseverance have not been shaken by anything elicited through the whole discussion. O'Connell threatened to enrol him as a member of the "loyal" repeal association—a most biting piece of irony, to be sure—just as if repeal would not have been as rife and disaffection as redundant in the O'Con nell market, had Lord Stanley never made any attempt to check the abuses and remedy the evils of the exist ing registration system ; nay, we believe, he is to be held responsible for the breaking out of a rebellion in Ireland, should a favourable opportunity offer (through a war with France, or America, or both) for the O'Con nellites to exhibit their love, loyalty, and gratitude to England in that shape. Strange that so mighty an effect should spring from so slight a provocation ! Lord John Russell too declares that Lord Stanley's attempt to restrict the franchise in Ireland had some thing to do with that renunciation of finality to which he was driven on this occasion. Well, we believe there is a certain amount of truth in both these statements, and that thus the matter stands : terror at the restrictions which his lordship's bill would impose, goaded the repealer to madness; and the necessity of the case forced the noble lord, the member for Stroud, to a closer embrace with the mon ster, who is equally the tyrant, the terror, and the guardian sentinel of the ministry. Lord Stanley may have thus much to answer for ; but to cast blame upon him for such a reason would be much like condemning the skillfutthysician for de tecting and bringing to light a latent disease that, lurking in the constitution, would ultimately destroy life, and of which no cure could be made while it re mained concealed in its source, and known only by its deplorable and devastating effects. Permit the existing registration system of Ireland to go on, and Popish priests to wield the representation of that country at tl4eir pleasure, and a short-lived truce, a little temporary peace may perhaps be pur chased ; but the monster evil of Popish domination will be every day getting stronger, and more difficult at some future day to be combated. The battle of the constitution can be as well fought in the name of these two conflicting registration bills as in any other what ever. There is on the one side democracy, revolution, popery ; and on the other Old England, the Church, and Conservatism as easily found as if they were dis tinctly set forth by name. Lord John Russell wound up his speech on Friday morning, with the addition of one or two words that we need not quote, in which he protested that he was not frighted by the threats of rebellion, and now acted under no cowardly motive, in the following terms : " Prejudices might have in olden times prevailed in this country against the people of Ireland, but these prejudices are rapidly dying away ; and he had no doubt that the people of England were most anxious, willing, and ready to do any thing which they might conceive of benefit to the people of Ireland. The latter had suffered much on account of their religion—exclusive corporation monopolies had been granted against them,—but these sufferings and the monopolies were now at an end, and he was confident that by the fair working of our free constitution, the people of Ireland would gradu ally obtain a further increase of their rights, and secure the permanence of our institutions." • Now this is a sort of language very apt to take with of England. It s oun d s well, and the good people seems vastly generous and liberal ; but it is grossly deceptions, because it shuts out the proper question at issue. " Prejudices have prevailed. against the people of Ireland ;" but what is meant here by " prejudices," we beg to ask ? What is here called " prejudices" we conceive to have been a very just dislike to barbarous habits, and an abject superstition ; and such prejudices, we trust, have not passed, and never will pass away from the people of this country. We grant that they may not have always exhibited themselves in the best mode; but their existence, in the abstract, is a circum stance to be rejoiced at, not deplored. But the people of Ireland hal Lceount of their religic fiat this was no lly forget that with Protest You may make Pay end th on the one' hand ; but so long as they contint mentally slay exclusu eir destruct 'ou have bestowed noble lord trusted )1e would words if we could mate with coalesce in any de- 1, by g politically, and free Papists they are lonopolies you have r nify nothing while .a the permanence of our insti- ,o Papists ! Ensure Ire said. O'Con- iell demands the abolition of the Established Church in Ireland. You have given him one-fourth of its in- come, but he tells you that this is nothing while three fourths yet remain to be surrendered. He demands more representatives for Ireland well as. a; larger constituency, and he demands, in default of all these, or rather along with them, a repeal of the union, that is to say, a total separation of Ireland from the British Now, will Lord John Russell be pleased to sceptre tell us how far he means to go in satisfying these re- Do any, or all of them, form part of `rights" which the Irish are " gradually to ob and by the concession of which the quirements permanence of our institution" is to secured What monstrous absurdities are men, in his lordship's false position and most unhappy predicament, forced to u It must be highly consolatory to ministers while suf- teeing under their present triumphant majority of 5, to 'ma Wahnsley and the Tradesmen's fin that Sir Jo: Reform Assoc ion at Liverpo . . . with them, and have resolved to support all their en- terprises in general, but particularly such as may have for their object the reduction of duties on imports Now, Conservatives do not run quite so fast, and in general like to know what a ministry may intend to do before they give pledges one way or another. But your reformers invariably talk as if they alone were the friends of free trade,—a piece of presumption in which they would by no means indulge if they were a little ,esu ignorant or conceited than they are. Free trade ! why we are all for free trade—whips, tories, and radi- cals—alike, with one small proviso, however namely ,hat this free trade does no harm to our own particular interest. Protect that inte ad we shall none of us .f trade, in general, were free as the air we breathe. We really cannGt allow the radicals that exclusive title ) the patronization of this great commercial privilege . . which they arrogate to themse dispute it with ti is conservatives, We have no objection to going into committee on the subject at any time, and we venture to say, that we shall not be found intract- able upon any point except that of throwing open our . . trade in such a manner as to be injurious to British nterests, or to do serious damage to some one of our numerous industrial classes, in whose protection the community at large is deeply concerned. Thus free trade reduces itself practically to a question of regula- tion. To talk of it in the abstract, as our "reformers do, is a piece of fudge,—just an easy garnet for liberal gentry of the school of Sir Joshua Walmsley—men gerly courting the f avour of the "unwashed" for their own purposes, to run over and cut a flourish The party foiled in their attempt to effect a repeal of the corn-laws, taken as a substantive measure, have just conceived the plan of warring against all import duties in the mass—sagaciously calculating, that as the whole includes the parts, so, if all import duties be reduced, th e corn duties must be included in the num- her. The resolution promulged by Messr Co. have given the cue on this subject, and substance is contained in a single sentence, in which the resolutionists declare it as their decided Hume and Their sum opinion, " that the financial difficulties of this country and the wants of the consumer will best be met by a general revision and reduction of the duties on imports." This is a matter which ought not to be treated as one of party, and it is a misfortune when it gets into the lands of men who cannot help Ide vocates of free t s Sir Jos uch ad- Mr tralmslm Charles Holland, Mr. Alderman Sheil, and other mem- )ers of the Liverpool Tradesmen's Reform Association, ge to any cause. Dealing in extremes and absurdities by wholesale, they would deter all moderate men from embarking in a cause which seemed would do dama to involve such mischievous, nay, iniquitous opera tions. They are the real enemies of the consumer, of the trader, and of the country, who sport such per nicious trash ; and any man really desirous of seeing reductions safely effected in the duties of coffee, sugar, and other articles, must most devoutly wish to be saved from such dangerous friendship as theirs. We have before us the Journal's report of speeches delivered by the above-named gentlemen, at the annual meeting of the Tradesmen's Reform Association, held on last Friday evening, and we take this opportunity to intimate that we think they might find some better occupation than disseminating such wild, revolutionary, ill-considered, and pernicious doctrines among the Such pestilent stuff might be tolerated, or, at shoeless and shirtless—for it is peopl least, pardoned, in the just the creed of the needy, or the have-nothings against all the more comfortable orders of society; but for your " gentlemen in g ood circumstances" to take up these anarchial monstrosities, and dole them out as wholesome food among the humbler classes of society, is a species of " free trade worthy of nothing but the severest restrictions and abomination LOCAL NEWS, CASE FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—On Saturday last, a match to gallop twenty miles, came off in Cheshire. After having performed seventeen miles, the party who rode the horse, finding he could not perform the remaining three miles within the given time, pulled up. THE LATE MR. WAINWRIGHT.—We are glad to hear that the friends of the late Dr. Wainwright have commenced a subscription for the purpose of erecting a tablet to his me mory in St. George's Church, Everton. MR. WEBBE'S CONCERT.—The proceeds of the testimo nial concert to Mr. Webbe amounted to £73 3s. 11d. Mr. Henry Dodd deserves great credit for his excellent manage ment of this affair, SOUTHERN AND TOXTETII HOSPITAL. —The foundation stone of this institution will be laid, by the Mayor of Liver pool, this day, at twelve o'clock precisely, on the ground between Greenland -street and Parlirment-street. CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—At our fair on Wednesday, not more than about 120 tons were piled for sale, being only half the usual quantity. From this cause, arising from the very considerable deficiency in last year's make, there was an advance of fall four shillings per cwt. on common descrip tions of dairies. Fine qualities were about the same in price as last fair. The general prices were 555. to Ms: for Welsh 635. to 735. for Cheshire ; and two or three dairies of really fine flavoured Cheshire, of full size, brought 765. to 775. These quotations are for the long cwt. CHESTER HORN AND HooF FAIR—THURSDAY.—There was a good supply of every thing. Fat cattle were worth 6d. per lb. ; barrens from £8 to £l2 each ; and milchers were in good demand at fair prices. There were a few ewes and lambs, which were worth from £1 to £1 10s. The horse fair was not so good as in former years : good horses were in demand, and realized high prices. - - Some of the newspapers ere giving currency toe rumour that Cresswell Creswell, Esq., Ate for Liverpool, intends to oppose Sir Charles Grey, at the next election for the bo rough of Tynemouth. We believe there is no foundation whatever for the report, as it is fully understood that Mr. Cresswell will again offer himself for Liverpool, and there is no doubt of his return. REPRESENTATION OF CLITnEn.o. — A correspondent men tions that it was very currently reported at Clithero and the vicinity, that Mr. Fort, the whig member for that borough, has accepted or is about to accept the stewardship of the chiltern hundreds, in order to vacate his seat for the borough. Should that event occur, Mr. Cardwell will offer himself to the notice of the electors on the conservative interest, and Mr. Matthew Wilson, jun. of Eshton Hall, near Gargrave, on the whig. interest. Mr. Cardwell has already been fa vourably,received, and there is little doubt of his being the successful candidate. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING.—This meeting, which causes so much interest and attention in the sp or ti ng wor ld, comes off to-day. The r esult s of it will be given in our next paper, as well as the ste e pl e chase p 3 -morrow s ports. We perceive that Mr. Towers, the and the result pro prietor of the A nge l H otel, will be upon the v o e f ry Tl s i p u i r r s i d te a d y ground to furnish sportsmen and visitors with the good things of this life. Mr. 'Powers, as a caterer, to use a well-known Phrase, stands A 1. A r rnEIIF*NSION OF A DESERTER.—A short ti me ago a e g eant of the Dragoon Guards, now l y i ng i n Dublin, ab scondedsr from his regiment, taking with him some money with which he had been entrusted to pay some of his com panions. Intelligence having reached the regiment that the runaway was in Liverpool, the sergeant-major was despatched to capture him, and, on arriving at Liverpool, he gave in formation to the police, who succeeded in taking the deserter on Tuesday last, not, however, before he had taken and paid for his own and his wife's passage to America. On Wed nesday the prisoner was brought before Mr. Rushton, and, having nothing to say, was committed as a deserter. The sergeant-major made an application to Mr. Rushton to cause the passage-money to be refunded, but he was told by the magistrate that he had no power to interfere. Application was made, however, to the shipping agents, Messrs. Fitz hugh and Grimshaw, who readily consented to give up the money, finding that it was doubtless part of what was stolen.