The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-15 00:00:00

try. In the answer to that question, all is comprised that is important to know at the present crisis. Ministers dissolve the parliament for the express pur pose of ascertaining whether the people will place confi dence in them after the resolution agreed to by the present House of Commons ; and every member whom the people shell choose at the next general election must he either a confider or a non-confider in the spendthrift, profligate ministry of Melbourne, O'Con nell, and Co. Is it " manly" then, we ask, of Sir J. Walmslev, to offer himself to the electors of Liverpool, and tell us, indeed, about his opinions—for which no body cares a rush—on various subjects, and yet en deavour to shirk from this most important and vital one ? We may guess aliunde under whose banner the knight would quickly enrol himself if he got into par liament ; indeed we have no doubt at all upon the sub ject; hislinightship was formed by nature for a joint of the great tail ; hut certainly in this most " manly and straightforward" address, the point is most pro fonntily reserved. •We cannot hastily pass from the subject of this omission, because we do think that it will prove—nay, that it is already FATAL to the Wahnsley cause. It shows in the most satisfactory manner that it is a rot ten one•—a cause which no manly and independent elector in Liverpool can support. If the knight be a confider in a ministry which in the short space of ten years has added nearly £8,000,000 to the national debt, and has caused a deficiency of income in the present year of £2,421,776, why is he ashamed to say see ? And if he do not confide in them, why has he not the courage and manliness to declare it ? Will any plain-dealing, straightforward elector Note for a man who evidently tries to sneak off from this declara tion ? We think not. The ministerialists know very well—his own clique, perhaps, know well—what Sir Joshua would do, and what he would be, if they could only pitchfork him into the House of Commons; they are not deceived, and will not, we dare say, make any complaint of his evasiveness in public ; and we only beg of all independent electors not to be deceived either, but just to mark as a shabby and shuffling trick worthy of liberalism, the paltry trap laid to catch their votes by an abstinence from any clear and unequivocal declaration of ministerial adhesion, or otherwise, in the address in question. " Deals in no equivocation—avows principles which ought to command support in a commercial town." So saith the Mercury ; but we look in vain for either the explicitness or the principles in the courtly protocol. The statements are, in fact, just as ridiculous as the omission we have been speaking of is egregious. They may mean anything, everything►, or nothing. They are a perfect melange of jumble and stuff—sug gesting nothing so clearly to our mind as the idea of an addled egg. It took Sir Knight some twenty years of trading, it seems, to find out that " prohil iitory and protective duties for the benefit of particular classes are inexpe dient and unjust." Poor man ! how long has be been making the discovery ? Why we found out as much be fore we were six months in business—and we disco vered moreover that there is nothing more necessary and useful than the protection of particular classes when it is set up with a view to the general good. It is on this principle we defend our agricultural, our manufactur ing, our shipping, and all other interests, and we know that it was by acting on this principle our country arrived at the eminence she has so long enjoyed. " Free trade ;" but we need not say anything on this clap-trap affair ; we are all free-traders—when we can. " The diffusion of knowledge;" that is a part of our trade, and we only wish that Sir Joshua would deal more extensively with us ; sure we are that the gain on his side would be immeasurably the greater ; but as to the diffusion of knowledge by a system of in struction without religion, by what he would most improperly call NATIONAL EDUCATION—we are sur prised at the ignorance or stolidity which could induce any candidate for Liverpool to think that he could catch votes—out of the Romanist or Socialist, or Socinian circles, by avowing himself a favourer of such a system. And here we shall close for the present. Of course we have not dune with the subject altogether; but we have had enough for to-day. We submit that even on this showing the knight's address is anything but what the Mercury says it is, namely, manly, straightforward, unequivocal, and so on. There is only one point in which we can concur with our ministerial contempo rary, and that is, that it is in every respect in strong and, we may add, most melancholy contrast with the addresses of our Conservative favourites. There is no doubt at all on this head. There was a splendid Protestant demonstration at the Amphitheatre on Friday evening, which was par ticularly refreshing to us after the numerous cotton mill gatherings we have been lately obliged to endure, :and the quantity of fin we were at the same time obliged to swallow. The house was filled to the very top most row, and the ladies were there in great num bers ; and delighted we were to see them, applauding, smiling, and encouraging. You never find ladies at anti-corn law gatherings—not one; never. And why ? Becauso the ladies of England are LADlXS—would not be seen among such rabble—and would give no countenance to such un-English objects as the foreign grown corn brawlers seek to attain. The greatest de corum and order prevailed, as is always the case when 'Protestants meet; but the decorum or the order was very far from being that of a Quaker's meeting-house ; nothing at all like it—no such thing. It was impossi ble to be grare when Mr. M'Neile or Mr. James was making some tremendous exposure of the anti-corn law humbugs, and then, because laughter was the most decorous thing possible, the people laughed heartily and joyously. The speaking was admirable and to the purpose; there was business in it, and some people's business has been, we suspect, completely done by it. We wish Sir Joshua Walrnsley had been present; not from any ill-natured motive, we do assure him, but for his good, that he might learn with his own ears and eyes how perfectly well the intelligent classes of this town understand the foreign grain im porting question, how perfectly unscathed they are .by all the fire of Manchester eloquence, and how des perately small the chance is of a free-trade corn .dealer getting in for Liverpool on the strength of Manchester dictation. We wish Sir Joshua had :availed himself of this meeting, we say, to have learned .all this ; and the medicine, though perhaps disagree :able at the moment, would, we are sure, have done ihim good, perhaps cured him of his Quixotism ailtogt.ther. 'Tile genuine English feeling which was so often displayed in the course of the evening in bursts of en thusiasm, was really too much for our nerves; it was painfully delightful. May John Bull live for ever ! said we; he is worthy of immortality. There he is for Church and State,. and Sovereign, just as he was in his greenest days, and as to Radicals and foreigners he hates them as well as ever he did, and more power to his elbow, old boy ! By the bye, Mr. M'Neile's open ing speech ought to be circulated far and wide. It was an admirable show-up of the Cobdenites. It ought to he printed in a cheap form and distributed by tens of thousands among the working people ; it could not • fail to open their eyes to the delusions sought to be imposed upon them by the leaguers. They circulate their trash daily and in untold numbers. Let•not our Conservative friends hesitate to do the same. A few :pounds spent over such a course will be well repaid. The bill for un-Christianising the State—so far as an :arrangement for the admission of Jews into municipal , office s could effect it—was thrown out, in the House cif Lords, on Friday. Having frequently expr esse d Cur dis sent f rom t hi s measure whilst it was in progress in the House of Commons, and the grounds of it, we have now only to express the sa tisfaction we feel in noticing its rejection. It is, we think, a good omen, and we take it as a sort of prelude to that course of Conservative legislation which we shall henceforward expect u n d er the ascendancy of const i tut i o nal principle in both House s of Parliament. UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. It was at one time feared that a radical candidate might slip in for this university , f' n meeting was held in the college, on Thursday, with a view of starting Dr. Stock or some other ministerial supporter. Ni are glad, however, to perceive that there is no prospect of such a project succeedi ng , t h e on l y groun d on w hi c h it rested being a schism in the Protestant party, which is happily healed, and there is every likelihood of union, and of course success. Much disapprobation has been felt and expressed, as the public are aware, with the conduct of Mr. Shaw, but ;it is now happily allayed, And he and his present colleague, swill therefore without doubt b e th e f u t ure represen t a ti ves of this learned body. LOCAL NEWS, DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is doubtful whether this event vrill take place at the close of the present or the beginning of the next week. That it wfll be at the latter period is thought most likely. If parliament should be din- solved this week, th for this borough may take place_ at the close of the following one : if early next week. the election will not be held for afortnight. REPRESENTATION oy LivicnrooL.—Two candidates On each side are now before the public. Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell on the conservative, and Lord Palmerston and Sir Joshua Walmslev on the radical side. On Saturday a meet- ing took place to secure the return of our present admirable representatives, the eloquent addresses at which we have re ported at considerable length elsewhere. Last night a gathering of the friends of Sir Joshua Walmsley was held at the Amphitheatre, which we have noticed in another co lumn ; and on Thursday the friends of Lord Palmerston► met at the Itoval Hotel, Dale-street, where it was resolved tWnonitate - the foreign secretary when an election takes place, and a sort of manifesto has been issued from his lord ship's committee, recommending him to the notice of the electors, but strange to say no mention is made of the other radical candidate for parliamentary honours, Sir Joshua Walmsley. Poor man ! thus to be neglected and dospised by the very men ►pith ►Whom he has held s►veet converse, and with whose approbation he was wont to he greeted. This is only another proof of the schism at p resen t ex i st i ng in the enemy's camp. Nothing can exceed the unanimity and enthusiasm of the conservatives. They are ready for the fight, whilst their opponents look upon each other with distrust and suspicion—nay, with disdain and abhorrence. CENSUS OF WALLASEY. — The population of the parish of Wallasey (including the townships of Wallasey, Liscard, and Poulton-cum-Seacombe, taken on the 7th instant, was : Males, 2861 ; females, 3400 ; total, 6261. The number of males and females in 1831 was 3247—showing an increase of 3014 in the period of ten years. Thu LATE DR. WAINwniGHT.—The friends of the late Dr. Wainwright, have erected a mural monument in Ever ton Church, to his memory. The subject sculptured on it is the Good Samaritan, in alto relievo, half life size, executed by Mr. Spencer, of this town ; and the following is the in scription on it :—" This tablet, consecrated to the memory of Thomas Wiatt Wainwright, of Everton, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, who died 29th January, 1841, aged 38 years, is erected, in order, by an expression of grate. ful friendship, not inappropriate, though inadequate, to tes tify admiration of his eminent professional skill, esteem for his enlightened and ardent philanthropy, love for his un affected lowliness of heart, and reverence for that living faith whereby he walked with God, and to the end that his honoured name may be read, and his Christian virtues recorded, in this church, which he devoutly prized as the House of God, and where he worshipped as in the gate of heaven." LIVERPOOL PROTESTAYT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The annual dinner of this useful association will take place on Friday next. The objects of the society are admirabie, and we hive reason to kiiow that the distribution of its funds have been productive of the greatest advantages to many of the members. We are glad to notice from the report an . . increase in both the amount of the funds and the number of the members ; and we earnestly hope they may still receive an addition to both. A RETURNED BALL: THE NEMESIS IRON WAR-STEAM ER.—We last week drew the attention of our readers to the exploits performed by this vessel in the attack on the Chinese forts on the Canton river. We stated, at the same time, that her guns, two thirty-two pounders, had been cast by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, of this town. Captain Hall and the officers of the Nemesis have addressed a:letter to Mr. Faw- cett. The letter was accompanied by a very singular present, namely, a ball which had been tired from the Nemesis into the Chinese admiral's junk in the affair in Anson's Bay, on the 7th of last January, and afterwards recovered on board ing the said junk after the action. This curiosity is now in the possession of Mr. Fawcett, who, we have no doubt, will show it to any person desirous of seeing it. SOUTH DURHAM.-Mr. Pease, the Quaker, retires from the representation on account of ill health. We believe Lord Dungannon, who now represents the city of Durham, will present himself as a candidate for the southern divisior of the county ADELPHI HOTEL, MANCHESTER.—Mr. H. S. Hewitt, (son-in-law of Mrs. Parry, of Seacombe.) has opened one of the most magnificent hotels out of London It - is styled the " Adelphi," = and possesses all the comforts and luxuries of the first-rate hotel at ordinary charges. We perceive by an advertisement that Mr. Hewitt intends to give his opening dinner on the 24th instant, which we do not doubt will be numerously attended. TnE WEATIIER..--A gentleman from Knowsley states, that, on Tuesday night, he saw a piece of water on which there was ice the thickness of a halfpenny. RAILWAY FROM LANCASTER TO GLASGOW —lt gives us pleasure to learn from good authority that a decisive step is likely to be taken soon for the promotion of the line re • commended by the government commissioners between Lan- caster and Glasgow.—Railway Times NEWTON RACES. —We perceive that Mr. Towers has • •_ _ taken the Grand Stand at Newton Races. The visitors may be certain that the best of everything will be prepared for them by this most able caterer. - REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—Lord John Russell issued, ou Saturday, an address to the electors of the city of London, announcing himself a candidate for their buffrages at the ensuing election. - --- - The population of Blackburn is estimated, according to the present census, at 38,000 WI:M.OIW BOROUGH.—As we stated in our last, Mr Bourne, a gentleman who has for many years had consider able dealing., with the people of 'Wexford, is the declared candidate for that town. A curious objection has been raised against his eligibility—namely, that he is an Englishman. What is Ashton Yates? what Gisborne? And though last, not least, who and what was Raphael? Mr. Bourne is.cer tain of his return. REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN —Messrs. West and Gro- gan are candidates to represent the city of Dublin at the ensuing election. The former gentleman is sufficiently well known, and Mr. Grogan has hereditary claims upon the citizens of Dublin. His father and his grandfather lived and realised large fortunes amongst them with honour, cha racter, and credit. We expect, from the tone of the Irish papers, that the big beggarman will have to resort to some priest-ridden borough to secure the election of himself as well as his friends, since there is every prospect of the suc cess of the talented and worthy gentlemen we have already named. THE CBNsus.—We believe the census, as far as regards Liverpool and the neighbourhood, has been taken in a satis factory manner, and we hope that the return of this thickly peopled district will be more fully and carefully made than on any former occasion. The schedules, &c. are placed in the hands of the district registrar of births and deaths, for the purposes of examination and verification, and by the Ist July they must be placed in the hands of the superin tendent registrar for the union, who will have tan days during which to examine them further, before they are officially returned to the registrar-general for England and Wales. Of course, it is yet too early to obtain any in formation as to the population of any township, much less district; but in a week or two we may probably be able to give the general results at least, as to this town and the adjoining townships. RIOTOUS CONDUCT AMONGST TUE IHrsH.—For several days during the last week the conduct of the Irish inhabi• tarts of this town has been most disgraceful, and has elicited the strongest marks of disgust from the peaceable members of the community. On Wednesday evening, a meeting of the anti-corn-law league took place opposite St. James's Market, and during the harangues the listening mob suddenly turned their attention to a number of boys who were amusing themselves near to the place of meeting, and cheering occa sionally when anything occurred amongst them to excite their merriment. Upon these lads an attack was made, and they tied to the school-room of St. Patrick's Chapel, where they very foolishly broke some squares of glass. It has been at tempted to show that the ship carpenters were guilty of this imprudence, but not a single member of that loyal and well disposed body of men were present. we believe, at the time. Another gathering of the corn-law repealers was held on the following evening, when a most brutal and savage assault was made upon a few of the parties present, who were beaten most unmercifully by these scoundrels—in several instances a dozen or twenty men being seen to belabour a single poor fellow almost to death. After the meeting the multitude, infuriated by an harangue from the notorious Acland, pro ceeded up Park-lane, and, in passing St. Thomas's Church, broke 14 panes of glass, but the presence of a large body of police fortunately dispersed the fellows or they would, no doubt, have proceeded to some further acts of a more despe rate character. In (Parliament-street the public-houses known as the resort of some of the ship carpenters were at tacked, and in one of them, we believe, every pane of glass in the house was broken. We state with the greatest plea sure that the ship carpenters behaved throughout with the greatsst forbearance and propriety, and on Friday morning claimed protection from the mayor, who, along with Mr. Whitty, seconded their efforts, and in consequence the de , trueliet repealer, have been quelled and put down by the superior power of the police. We hope the authorities will at once adopt some measures for the prevention in future of any such disgraceful outbreaks on the part of their own sup porters. The priests of St. Patrick's Chapel, in fear that the teaching which they and their coadjutors inculcate may lead their votaries to acts even more outrageous than what they have already committed, have issued an address full of bombast and hypocrisy, which, on the face of it, carries a supplication against any breach of the peace. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday week, dur ing the confirmation held at St. Thomas's Church, Ashton, near Wigan, a very serious event took place, and which arose from a momentary unfounded report in the west allery that it was givin g wa y. Thi s was a b out h a lf -past six o'clock, at which time the Bishop had just concluded confirming the females, when a crack was heard in the western gallery, as if from the back of one of the seats, occasioned by pressure ; this immediately cowed an impression on the minds of several persons that the gallery was giving way under them, just in front where the organ is situated. At the impulse of the moment a general alarm was created, which was con siderably heightened by one of the singers telling those staniing near him that the gallery was giving way, and re questing them to go out quietly ; which advice, unfor tunately, was not followed. A simultaneous rush instantly took place towards the gallery stairs, and in the hurry and confusion to get out numbers of female , ' fell at the bottom of the stairs, and scores following hard on in the fright, also fell over them, until the staircase was completely filled up, the females being literally piled one on the other nearly to the ceiling. The screaming at this moment was heart rending, but the police, after several ineffectual efforts, at last succeeded in extricating them from their awful predica ment. The whole of the persons remained jammed together for nearly twenty minutes, and the weight of so many from the upper part of the stairs pressing downwards rendered the situation of those underneath truly appalling. One aged female was so much injured that she died the same evening, but although a great number of others were seriously in jured, they are all at present in a fair way of recovery. GOOD NEWS FOR COFFEE DRINKERS !—BEART'S PNIEU - MAI IC POT.—We have been favoured by Messrs. Knowles and Roberts, of Church-street, with an opportunity of test ing the capabilities . of a new coffee-pot, invented by Mr. Beall. We can, without fear of contradiction, declare it to be the heat contrived, most useful, and cheap article we ever met with, adapted to the purpose. The application is easy, the result quick and certain. The coffee produced by it is as pure and fine as wine of the most brilliant colour, while the flavour of the berry is entirely retained, without the im pure and rancid taste which very often predominates when the beverage is made in the common mode by an inexperi enced hand. In fact, a child may make the best coffee by means of this new " Pneumatic Pot, so simple is it to manage. The pot in shape is columnar. Fitting tightly to the interior is a piston, the bottom of which is finely perfo rated and covered by a linen strainer. This is thrust down to the bottom of the pot, and the coffee is then put in with the boiling water. Time liquid must be stirred. The pot is next covered, and the decoction allowed to remain two or three minutes. On removing the cover a winch is fixed on the top of the pot, and, by means of an axle and handle, a strap and hook, the piston is slowly raised, the liquid of course being drawn thr oug h t h e perco l ator, l eaves the coffee-grounds totally divested o f th e i r nutr i t i ous qualities, taste, and flavour. Besides the recom men d at i on o f pro d uc i n g a pure and deli cious beverage, the good housewife, in using this invention of Mr. Beart's, will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., as one-fourth less coffee will suffice. We can safely recom mend the " Pneumatic Pot" to all who can enjoy a cup of eood coffee. The slightest attention will keep it in order, the machinery of it being so simple as to be unlikely to get out of repair. REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.-IMPORT ANT MEETING• OF CONSERVATIVES. On Saturday a numerous and influential meeting of the conservatives was held in In „ c Assembly Room of the Queen's Arms Hotel, fi to secure the return of Lord sandon and Mr . . Cresswell, as representatives of this borough, at the forthcoming general election. The room was crowded to excess by electors. The following are the names of a few of those whom we noticed near the seat of the chairman :—James Aspinall, Esq., John Shaw Leigh, Esq., John Moss, Esq., Sir Thomas Brancker, Alexander Smith, jun. Esq., Robertson Gladstone, Esq., George Grant, Esq., W. P. Bushby, Esq., Thomas 11 . lurrty, Esq., Henry Moore, Esq., J. 0. Johnson, Esq. Francis Foster, Esq., Christopher Bushell, Esq., C. T. Esq., Esq., H. C. Chapman, Esq., Charles Lawrence, Esq., John Sheppard, Esq., Samuel Holme, Esq., Robert Ledson, Esq., Thomas Bold, Esq., R. 'l'. Woodward, Esq., William Shand, Esq., Captain Taylor, William Potter, Esq., Ed mund Lyon, Esq., Peter Leather, Esq., Ebenezer Rae, Esq., C. S. Parker, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq., S. Sand bach, Esq., Joseph Ackers, Esq., Thomas Porter, Esq., George Greene, Esq., Daniel Ledson, Esq., James Irving, Esq., John Nelson Wood, Esq., John Parker, Esq., R. Dawson, Esq., I. 0. Bold, Esq., J ames Bold, Esq., R. Wood ward, Esq., W. Troutheck, Esq., Richard Dawson, Esq., J. Pownall, Esq., W. Wellstood, Esq., R. Houghton, Esq., Thomas Brassey, Esq., W. Robinson, Esq., Geo. Lawrence, Esq., J. A. Thine, Esq., E. P. Parry, Esq., J. Formby, Esq., Cottingham Moss, Esq., Thomas Carson, Esq., Alexander Currie, Esq., G. A. Arbuthnot, Esq., James Gillanders, Esq., Warner Shand, Esq., Alexander Shand, Esq., John. Walker, Esq., Nathan Cairns, Esq., R. Rankin, Esq., R. Higgin, Esq., Peter Wright, Esq., Thomas Dover, Esq., William Birkett, Esq., Isaac Hutchinson, Esq., Raymond Houghton, Esq., Isaac Holmes, Esq., Christopher Rawson, Esq., John Wilkinson, Esq., J. 11. Heyman, Esq., James Robertson, Esq., Dr. Goulth waite, William Peakett, Esq., Richard Jones, Esq., Joseph Thompson, Esq. _Mr•. CHARLES LAWRENCE, amidst much cheering, rose .... , to propose a fit and proper person to officiate as chairman. He said, the first duty of the meeting was that of electing a chairman. He regretted exceedingly that their old and valued friend, Mr. 'tobinson, felt hitriself unable to accept that office. As the chairman from the first of Lord San don's committee, he himself might have been justified in .. . .. aEpiring to that honour, but he did not consider himself equal to the duties which would be required of him. On consulting with his friends, they agreed with him that they could do much better, and therefore he should retire on half-pay. (Laughter, and cries of " No, no.") Though the emoluments of the office were not very great (hear, hear, and loud laughter,) he considered that some honour had been brought to it by the 'electors having Lord Sandon for their representative. (Great cheering.) He would not shrink from the battle in any other position, and he now begged to propose as their chairman a gentleman who would be:ln - ost efficient, and who, he was qiiite_sure, would give • unbounded satisfaction to every elector. He begged to pro pose that Sir Thomas Brancker be the chairman of that _ _ meeting and of the united committee of Sandon and Cress well. (Three times three cheers were heartily give❑ for Si: Thomas Brancker.) Mr. THOMAS Moss seconded the proposition. He had long known Sir Thomas Brancker, and admired his princi ples and activity, and was quite certain that they could not . _ . . make a better choice. (Cheers.) Sir THOMAS BRANCKER then took the chair amidst tre mendous cheering and cries of" success to the cause " `remember old times, " &c. He said that he had rather that Mr. Lawrence had remained on full pay than that he should have been appointed his successor. The approaching dissolution would afford the meeting and the constituency of Liverpool an opportunity of testifying their gratitude to their excelleat representatives and of using their best exertions to return Them as triumphantly as they did at the former elec- This was a meeting for business rather than for talk- ing : they would have plenty of time to talk hereafter, when they had gained the victory, but this was the time for work. He would, therefore, at once call upon Mr. Adam Hodgson to propose the first resolution. (Great cheering.) Mr. ADAM HODGSON rose to move the first resolution (for which and the others see the advertisement). He need not say that he had great pleasure in moving this reso lutiorf, connected, as it was, with so much that was gratify ing in the past, and so much that was encouraging for the future. He remembered that about ten years ago, in that room, he had the honour of seconding the nomination of Lord Sandon as the representative of this great town. He remembered having been called upon, as was fit and proper, Lord Sandon being at that time a stranger, to state the grounds upon which the expectation had been formed that the noble lord would prove an efficient representative for the great mercantile town of Liverpool. He remembered it being said by their opponents . why bring a young lord into a mercantile town—what can Lord Sandon know of the com merce or of the mercantile interests of Liverpool ?" The answer was, that Lord Sandon was an apt pupil, and what he did not know, he would soon learn ! (Cheers.) He would now appeal to that great meeting and the town at large, and ask whether there was any man—whatever might be the extent of his intelligence, whatever might be the ex tent of his mercantile experience, whatever might be the ex tent of his commercial operations in his own particular line of business—where would he find any man so conversant with the various interests of this important borough ? Where would he find any person so capable of bringing on all occa sions so great knowledge to bear with effect on the different interests which he had to consider ? and whether the noble lord had not exercised an assiduity, a zeal, and an ability, as the representative of Liverpool, which could not have been surpassed, and could have been equalled onlyby few. The electors were, therefore, not solely to rest their confidence in Lord Sandon on the expectation of what services he might in future perform for their benefit, but might look back with perfect confidence and satisfaction to ten years tried fidelity and services. (Loud cheers.) They now brought forward a man with the same principles as themselves ; and if ever a representative demanded the gratitude of his constituents for the untiring assiduity and devoted zeal with which he watched over their interests, it was Lord Sandon—(cheers) ; and if ever a representative whose high character and inde pendence of mind conferred, as well as received, honour from a town, it was their noble representative, Lord Sandon. Therefore, if he came here again, merely with the recom mendation of having been the representative of a great com mercial town, they could not have a better. But it would be taking a very narrow view of the duties which devolved upon them—of the duties which they owed to the country at large in the example they set and the principles they main tained, (hear, hear, and loud cheers,)—if they limited their view to a mere commercial representative at the pre sent crisis. (Hear.) They were living in a crisis—that was a hackneyed expression, but it was true, and roust be re peated—they were living in a crisis of no ordinary magni tude—in the most eventful crisis that ever happened to any man in this country. They were assembled under circum stances more serious and responsible than this or any other constituency had ever been called together to witness. They were called upon now to elect a representative to sustain and defend the institutions of the country. (Cheers.) It was no longer a question of free trade. (Cheers.) In this com mercial country we were all anxious for free trade; he him self had long been an advocate for free trade, and whatever party was in power they would be anxious to remove all un necessary restrictions upon commerce. But, as an advocate for free trade, he felt confident that all the necessary arrange ments for it would be made with far more wisdom and safety, and he doubted not with far more efficiency, by Sir Robert Peel's administration than by the administration of Lord Melbourne. (Cheers.) The real question, however, to be decided at this election was not that of free trade. We were called upon to send representatives who should shew to the country at large what were the feelings of this great town with regard to the course which Lord Melbourne's adminis tration had adopted; $e were called upon to shew what confidence we had in an administration which, whatever might be the respectability of the private characters of many of its members—and he would be the last man to deny the great respectability privately of many composing that administration—had unequivocally chewed themselves to be the ready tools of designing demagogues who had not even concealed their ulterior designs, who had openly avowed that they were making use of the ministry as tools to carry out their ulterior designs, and who had said that as soon as the ministry had given them power to carry these designs, they would dismiss that ministry and get one still more disposed to concede—still more democratic, still more revolutionary. (Loud cheers.) He hoped that he was not using stronger terms than the occasion warranted. (" No, no.") He firmly believed that their measures were revolu tionary—not in intention, probably, but in their tendency. They had been proved to be so. (Cheers.) The electors of Liver pool were called upon at this important crisis to shew whe ther they felt confidence in a government which changed like the weathercock at every shifting of the popular gale, and who had shewn themselves ready, when the storm cams and the breakers appeared, to barter the constitution bit by bit for the sake of place and popularity. (Hear, hear.) He could not place confidence in such an administration ; and the question which the whole country was now called upon to decide was, whether what had been done had their approval or condemnation ; whether, having seen how ministers had allowed themselves to be subservient to the revolutionary designs of others, and allowed a democratic current to un dermine those institutions which we all venerated, they could place confidence in such men, and send men to re present them who would support the measures of that administration. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that meeting would say, " we will not send such men to represent us, but we will send men who will oppose such an administration, who will thwart and obstruct and displace such an adminis tration, and who will support an administration in which we can safely confide the government of the country, who will not allow any demagouge to sap the foundations of the constitution, and endanger the liberties of the subjects by an undue use of the prerogatives of the crown." (Tremendous applause.) It was a very happy circumstance that Lord Sandon, whom the electors had known so long was sus tained and supported in his efforts by their other highly esteemed representative, Mr. Cresswell—(renewed cheers) — who, though not so long known as the noble lord, had shown himself the uncompromising supporter of the civil and reli gious institutions of the country, and who carried into the House of Commons a constitutional knowledge that enabled him to offer a vigorous opposition to ministers who were threatening that constitution, and lend a powerful support to ministers who were supporting it. (Cheers.) Looking at the position in which the electors of Liverpool stood, having two such gentlemen asking for their suffrages, he felt they would be but discharging the duties of Englishmen at one of the most important periods in our history, by sending Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell to represent them, and to uphold an administration which would support the institutions of the country. (Cheers.) It was not a ministry which designed to subvert the institutions of the country, which was the most dangerous government the country could have ; but it was a ministry with responsibility, and with a certain share of good intentions, but supported and sustained by men who had ulterior designs, and were too weak to prevent those ulterior designs being carried into effect. (Loud cheers.) It was not by a single blow that the liberties or the insti tutions of a country were subverted, rapid as were the mo tions of the movement party in this respect, when men's minds were once brought into a state of activity. It was well that we had time and opportunity of reviewing the history of the country for the last two years ; and the country had condemned the ministers under whose government the liberties of the people were not safe, and under whom our institutions would be subverted, because they had not shown any inclination to throw around them those guards by which alone the institutions of the land could be shielded. He begged most cordially to move the resolution which he had just had the honour of moving. (Loud. cheers.) Mr. JOHN Moss seconded the resolution. He said lie had great pleasure in doing so, and that he fully concurred with every word which had fallen from the preceding speaker. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried by acclamation. Mr. WILLIAM SIIAND proposed the second resolution. It always, he said, afforded him extreme pleasure to meet the electors on occasions of the present kind. He was not disappointed in seeing the room so fully and respectably crowded. He trusted, from the meeting of that day, that the samefi rinness would animate them now which had returned their excellent representatives heretofore. (Cries of " Hear, hear," and loud cheering.) Not content with opposing the conservatives on their own ground, certain orators had re cently taken it into their heads that the people of Liverpool were not sufficiently alive to their own interests, and there fore they would attend to them for us. The resolution he bad the honour to propose was condemnatory of such an in cursion, it being an indignity offered to Liverpool which had never been attempted before. The orators in question had limited their invitations to the meeting to their electors of the town ; but it was gratifying to find that two-thirds of that class never attended, and that they were left to adopt their proceedings without the countenance of the conservative party. In keeping aloof from them, the conservatives had adopted the most judicious plan; they had felt the mortifi cation of the disappointment, and Liverpool, he trusted, • would never be troubled with them again. (Cheers.) Mr. CHRISTOPHER I'OSC to second the resolu tion which had been proposed by Mr. Shand. He felt with Mr. Hodgson that they had arrived at a most important cri- sis, such a crisis as per'hars had never been remembered by the oldest elector present. They bad upon that occasion to determine whether the clap-trap proceedings of the govern ment lately thrown before the public in the shape of anti corn-law and sugar duties agitation —were or were not to carry the conservative electors'away from their path of duty, and to prevent them from giving, as heretofore, their warm and unyielding support to those glorious protestant institu tions of the land which were the solid foundations of their happiness and prosperity. (Cheers.) The present ministers, with more tact than honesty, had doubtless calculated that an appeal to the passions, and not the judgment, of the peo ple, that by taking the nation by surprise, by witholding time for reflection on the great social questions which have been rashly and recklessly put forward with the sole view to the maintenance of the present ministry in power and place, that by these time-serving and unconstitutional means, the electors would be ensnared into the sacrifice of those conser vative principles which have during - the reign of radical mis nile, been the only true support of the altar and the throne. (Loud cheers.) But he trusted the conservative electors of Liverpool were too well known for him to suspect for a single instant that such plans as those would succeed. (Hear, hear.) Was it to be supposed that although the electors differed on subjects of commercial policy, they were to forget their instituti ons ? 1n bringing Lord Palmerston down from London, and in nominating with him Sir Joshua Walmsley, it was intended to throw division and dissent among the conservative party ; but he would ask the meet ing to show him that man, whether he were a merchant, a labourer, or a mechanic, who would say that for the sake of any personal interest he might possess in the carrying of the corn-law or sugar questions, he would vote againt his prin ciples? (Hear, hear.) Where was the man who would dare to stand up and show his face at the hustings, and delare that although he was the avowed supporter of the protestant church and the protestant throne, yet for the sake of his in terest in his business, or rather the supposed interest—he would sacrifice the church and the constitution. He thought that although taunts had been thrown in the faces of the con servatives about the number of conservative signatures which had been obtained to thet t eqZitiontothe radical candidates, and although Sir Joshua Walinsley, in his address, calculated that from the number of the signatures to the requisition presented to him, his return was secured, they would find _ . themselves mistaken ; for he (Mr. Bushell) was satisfied that certainly not two-thirds of those who had signed the requi sition were electors at all. (Hear, hear, hear, and continued cheers.) As his time was short, he would proceed to offer one or two remarks with respect to the gentlemen who had been offered to the notice of the electors on the opposite side ; and first, he would ask, who was Lord Palmerston? Who, but a member of that administration which had:done all in its power to sacrifice the interests of the country ? (Loud cheers.) Was his lordship coming to Liverpool calculating on support from the acts of that ministry? 'lf so, he would discover that those acts would meet with their reward. (Re- newed cheers.) He was satisfied that he would not meet with any support from the conservative electors from any .. acts which the ministry had performed in their attempts to degrade the constitution. If he calculated that he should meet with their support upon the ground that the ministry bad advocated the principles of free trade, he would be also mistaken. (Loud cheers.) What was free trade? For free trade so far as it could be carried with safety to the country he (Mr. Bushell) was the decided advocate; he knew that we must have an alteration in the tariff ; and, from the enor mous increase of our population, as well as from other causes, it was by no means improbable that some modification of the corn laws might be necessary ; but these were gigantic subjects, and not to be lightly. dealt with—not to be used as firebrands to excite and inflame the passions of the people , , nor to be used as the means of keeping any particular set or party of men in power, but for a far more holy purpose, namely, the increased comfort, happiness, and prosperity of the vast population of this great empire. (Cheers.) Enter taining as he did the most supreme contempt not only for the politic s- al character but the business ability of our present mi nistry, he could not consent to trust the settlement of such important questions_to such men, lacking, as they do, in every sense, the confidence of the country. — This trust must be reposed in abler hands. If free-trade principles were to be carried to the extent demanded by the already too wealthy manufacturer, from what source was our revenue to be derived? If during the present period, when they were oppressed be yond measure with taxes, they had government labouring under a deficiency of seven millions, what would be the case were the principles of free trade adopted? (Hear, hear.) Why, then it would be all deficiency. (Hear, hear and a laugh.) After observing that it was the intention of the go vernment to deprive the public of the protection they already possessed, Mr. Bushell proceeded to make a few remarks with reference to the address of Sir Joshua Walmsley, with the view of showing how jesuitical it was. That Sir Joshua must have been taking some lessons from O'Connell, he was quite prepared to believe. (Hear.) Sir Joshua had com menced by telling the public in jesuitical language that he thought enfranchisement should keep pace with intelligence. If he had asid he was an advocate fOruniversal suffrage, the electors would be better able to understand him; but he thought he should be able to catch a few votes by expressing himself in less direct terms. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Bushell next adverted to another passage in Sir Joshua's address, with respect to the securing of the independence of the voter, argued that if the worthy knight had plainly stated that he was an advocate for vote by ballot he would also be better understood. (Hear, hear.) Ile (Mr. B.) wished to know whether the conservative electors of Liverpool would support a man who was an advocate for universal suffrage and vote by ballot? (Loud cries of " No, no," and cheers.) In reference to the corn-laws, the people had been induced to believe, that if they could have cheap bread they would be perfectly happy, and that it would bring about the mille nium ; but what, he asked, would be the effect if the object of the present ministers were carried, and that the agricultu rist and the manufacturer were brought into collision ; Could the manufacturer flourish if the agriculturist were depressed ? (Hear, hear,) And if the agriculturist were depressed, how could he find money to pay his labourers? And if the labourer received only half his present wages Cr' pay for the loaf, it was manifest that his position would not be improved. (Hear. hear.) With those few observations, and addressing himself as he was to those who, he was sure, would stand the test, he had only to entreat of them not be carried away by any of the clap-traps of the present base and profligate ad ministration, who, if they had been sincere in their profes sions on the question of free trade, had the opportunity long since to have carried such professions into practical effect. After the carrying of the reform bill, why was it that they had not introduced those changes? (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. B.) would tell them why. It was because they were not sincere. (Great cheers.) When they had the power they lacked the desire, but now that they bad ceased to have the power they professed to have the desire. (Renewed cheers.) Would the public believe them to be sincere under such circumstances, seeing that they would not serve them when they could, and that they professed themselves willing to serve them when they could uot. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that every voter would feel as if the coming contest rested on himself, and that his vote, however humble, was just as valuable as that of the highest merchant ; a vote was but a vote, wheth er i t came f rom a bl ue j ac k e t o r f rom broad cloth, and would tell its tale upon the poll. Mr. Bushell resumed his seat amid loud cheers. The resolution was then carried, amidst enthusiastic ap plause. Mr. CHARLES LAWRENCE moved the third resolution_ He said, that after the able speech of Mr. Hodgson, he should be ashamed to enter into further observations. He was satisfied that there was no individual who bad had any business to entrust to either Lord Sandon or Mr. Cresswell, who had not had the greatest attention paid to him. The efforts of the hon. gentlemen had given satisfaction to the community to an extent which, be believed, few other towns could boast. (Cheers.) Mr. Joni , ' SHAW LEIGH said he had great diffidence in addressing so large an assembly, but he felt some confidence in perceiving that all present concurred with him. After the well-deserved eulogies paid to the present representatives, he should content himself with seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was carried. Mr. SAMUEL HOLUB was next called on by the chairman, and rose amidst loud cheering. He said—lt was indeed pleasant to reflect, that in the midst of our political differ ences there were, like the oasis in the desert, occasionally bright and sunny spots, on which both parties might bask, and there were sentiments in which all might concur. There was one sentiment which had been often expressed to him, and which he had seen in the whig press, and it was this : " The crisis is arrived." In that he cordially concurred; and he believed that it now lay with the electors of this great empire to resolve the problem—whether is England to have an established, a Protestant established church, with its chaste and beautiful, and tolerant worship,. with a national r ecognition of reli g i on, such as becomes a christian land ; or must we, amidst the specious theories of the day, have, amongst other things, a free trade in religion - (Hear, hear.) mighty Was the constitutio n o f this empire to be preserved_ P as a monarchy, or were the rinePe 1 sof democracy to predo minate in the land ? (Cheers )Was the tree . of British liberty, which had st ruc k its ronts deep in the favoured soil of British affections, to be rudely torn up • and were Popish and Protestant p r i nc i p l es to predominate 'in the councils of our beloved country? (Hear, hear, and cheering.) Was the prophecy of N a p o l eon a b out to be fulfilled, that England would never be r u i ne d except by her own parliament? (Hear.) He admitted the i mportance of the corn-law poor-bill, of th e t i m b er and sugar duties alterations and no one wished more fervently than he did that these im portant questions were settled on a safe and sure basis. But these were after all only questions of detail, the vital ques tions were monarchy or democracy ? An established church or none ? Protestantisin or Popery? (Cheers.) These were the vital questions—these were the life-blood of the British constitution. The present ministry were a degraded, un principled ministry. (Flear.) They reminded him of so many eels—(laughter) ;—cut off their heads, dock them of their tails—(continued laughter), throw them into a frying pan, such as they have been in during the last week or two in the House of Commons, and yet they exhibit tenacity without motion, and existence without vitality. (Loud laughter and cheers.) Whilst we possess such men as Wel lington and Peel—(cheers),—Stanley and Graham, Ashley and Sandon, Follett and Cresswell—(loud cheering)—surely we may take the reins of government from such imbeciles, and give them to abler and to better men. (Hear.) He said, therefore, to the electors : if you wish to see our mari time supremacy destroyed, and our colonies, which are the lungs of England, ruined, then send to parliament Lord Palmerston and Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Hisses.) The acts of the latter being in some measure public acts, as he had chosen to become a public character, he had no other course than to take them as such, and which he did with regret, for he had been personally acquainted with him from his boyhood, and was sorry to see him the mere dupe and tool of the p opish faction. (Loud cheers.) As to Lord Palmerston, he was at a loss to know how to designate him. He could only liken him to an old wife's counterpane — (convulsions of laughter)—for his political opinions were like a piece of patchwork, of every colour and of every hue. (Applause.) But if they, the electors, desired to preserve the balance of the British constitution—to give each estate its own just rights, and no more—(hear, hear)—to preserve integrity, secure fro m th e o pp ress i ve en each estate in its croachments and preponderating power of the other two—if they were anxious to preserve the glorious institutions of England, hallowed by the growth and t es t e d by th e experi ence of centur i es —then they - . - aust return Lord Sandon and. Mr. Cresswell, who were friendly to those i ns tit u ti ons, w h o had served them diligently and faithfully, and in whose vigilant hands they might with security co mm it suc h m i g h ty i nterests. ( Great cheering.) Much h a d b een sa id , b ot h b y man y persons and by one portion of the public press, about a commercial town represente d b y a lord the folly of havi n g and a lawyer. (Hear.) He hesitated no t t o meet t h e ques tion. (Cheers.) He . said there op en ly, t h at h e had no r e s pect for individuals bearing titles, unless the individuals. so honoured w ere of spotless reput a ti on an d of virtuous character. (Cheers.) But in the case of the excellent noble man to whom he alluded, and to w h om t hi s town was so, de e ply indebted, whether he vie we d hi m i n his public or his private character —in reference to his commerciul know ledge or his business habits—he did not hesitate to say, that he shed a greater lustre on the title he b ore , th an t h e mere title did on h i m . (Great cheering.) But w h a t were t h e acts of the objectors? Did not they, some years ago, bring for ward the late Lord Sefton, and which th e y were qu i te r i g ht i n. doing, and wa s not he a lord? Did they not p ro p ose t o g i ve us Lord Nugent, and was not he a lord? And are they not now proposing to cram Lord Palmerston down our throats, and is not he a lord ? (Laughte r an d c h eers.) In reference to Lord Sandon, he declared that Liverpool never had a bet ter man of business; and when Sir R. Peel came into office —as co me he assuredly would—(hear)—there was not a fitter man in the k i ng d o m to fill the office of president of the board of trade than our noble representative. (Cheers.) Oh, but, ! House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) We all know when said our antagonists, it is quite shocking that we should be they got into the House of Commons ; they congregated represented by a lawer ! (Laughter.) How inconsistent ! themselves into small knots in opposition to the principles of Here also he scrupled not to join issue. He was old enough ; the Briti s h co►istitution. (Bear.) Under these circum to recollect their opponents bringing f R , ►scoe, a name which, notwithstandin on and Mr: Cresswell, and let nions, he (Mr. Holme) 'held in the greatest reverence. Al- the whiu,s see that they must be sunk, by the united voice of though some might not feel as strongly as he did on this sub- this empire, once again into insignificance—(hear)—which ject, he hesitated not to declare that he admired the eleganco their conduct upon all great state questions so justly merited. of mind, and the benevolence of character of Mr. Roscoe. He had_great pleasure in proposing the motion. . • • He had found hi s name a passport in other countries, and Mr. JOSHUA EDWARDS seconded the motion. just as Washington Irving thought it was something for an Sir THOMAS BRANCKER briefly returned thanks, and the old Sexton to have seen the dust of Shaksueare, so did be meeting separated, having first given three hearty cheers for (Mr. Holme) deem it something to be a fellow townsman of the cause of " Sandon and Cresswell." the accomplished and benevolent Roscoe. (Hear.) But Mr. • • - • 'l. Roscoe in early life had been a lawyer, and he never heard that that circumstance had been deemed a bar to his fitness MEETING OF THE TO XTE T H-P ARK for representing a commercial community. (Cheers.) But CONSERVATIVES. who brought Mr. Brougham to Liverpo j ol? ‘ - ii. ; l;The very party who now taunt us with having elected Mr. Cresswell, Last evening, the spirited conservatives of Toxteth-park and for ought he knew, more so (hear), and added to his held a meeting in the Toxteth-hall, Mill-street, for the pur rxmltifarious engagements ajoint editorship of the Edinburgh pose of adoptiAg measures to secure the return of Lord San- Review. Yet this busy lawyer was deemed a fit and proper don and Mr. Cresswell. The hall was crowded to excess by man to represent the mercantile interests of Liverpool. electors. (Loud applause) And he had not yet done. Another In the absence of Mr. Duncan Gibb, chairman of the Tot learned and distinguished lawyer had been actually foisted on teth Conservative Association, Mr. THOMAS CHILTON, the the town. Need he allude to that profound and learned gen- deputy chairman, was unanimously invited to preside. tleman. the lofty flights of whose eloquence charms and de- Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH, jun., in moving the first resolu lights the senate?—(roars of laughter) —one who never lion, said, the occasion of the meeting was probably one of speaks to empty benches, but at whose feet, a s a Gamaliel, the most important which had ever occurred within the me ttle highest intellects are contented to sit to learn lessons of 'wiry of any man living. A general election was about to political wisdom. (Continued laughter.) Why did they take place, upon the result of which would depend either the laugh? Was not their late representative a barrister? Oh, ..-tenance of the constitution of this country or its entire de yes ! said their antagonists, but he never heiri • - he could only reply:if such was the case, he was unfit to be i aaidaeireiration of , the world, and it had only been upheld by our representative; for if he had possessed the ability to the veneration in which it was held by the people at large. elevate him in his profession, some shrewd and sagacious Unhappily during the last few years we had had an adusinis luwer would have discovered his talent. (Applause.) Let tration which had frittered away to a certain extent that glo those then taunt us with inconsistency who are consistent rious constitution, and who now, for the sole purpose of themselves. Experience of the world shows us that those maintaining themselves in power, and receiving their guar who are the readiest to ta un t othe r s with their want of terly allowances, were bartering in and parting with it in tole. consistency, are generally themselves deficient of that very (Hear, hear.) And if the electors allowed them to proceed virtue. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He wished not to in the course they seemed to have entered upon, goodness say anything hard of Sir J. Walmsley; but that gentleman only knew where we should be in a few years ;—(hear,)—his had issued an address in which he declared his attachment own opinion was, that in place of the ancient constitution of of the Established Church, and he put it to any man to say queen, lords and commons,weshould have anarchy.confusion, how much he would give for the real attachment of any gen- and republicanism. (Hear.) Now, then, came the question tlemen, or for his consistency, who was found at church on who the electors would support as candidates for the repre the Sunday, and on the Monday was organising a Protector sentation of Liverpool at the ensuing election. They had Society for the purpose of swamping the votes of the consti- before them Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, Lord Palmer tuency, that society being composed of men who were de- stem and Sir Joshua Walmsley. They knew Lord Sandon termined, if possible, to destroy the very church of which Sir well ; his lordship had been tried, and had been found a Joshua professed himself a member. (Loud cheering.) Re- steady supporter of the constitution, and a most excellent membering the admonition of the chairman, lie would soon friend to the entire community of Liverpool. He (Mr. conclude. But he begged to say one word on the corn ques- Smith) defied any man in the town, whatever his politics time (Hear.) He had had a ponderous tome lent him on might be, to say otherwise than that Lord Sandon had made the subject of its repeal. and he had waded through it, to- a most admirable representative. As that was the case why gether with various works on the other side He declared should they desire to change? Let well alone. What more that after dewing so he was almost where he commenced. It could be required? Why bring down Lord Palmerston, for was a grave and important question, one involving too many what more could he do than Lord Sandon ? It was, how complicated interests to be understood, without much coils- ever unnecessary for him to enlarge upon Lord Sandon's teral information, takinginto consideration the nature of our merits, for they were well known, and he must not omit to various commercial treaties, and our present state of society. say that the freemen knew him to be their friend. (Loud (Hear, hear.) But this much we had no difficulty in under- cheers.) Mr. Cresswell had served the borough of Liver standing, that cheap bread meant low wages—(loud and long- pool for several years ;he was a man of a most liberal educe continued cheering); and that if the corn laws were repealed tion ; he stood exceedingly high in his profession, and if we ' to-morrow, unless the raw material, such as the wool, the looked over the division lists of the House of Commons it cotton, and the silk, could be cheapened—the only mode in would be found that he had always been at his post. Charges which we must compete with other nations must be by re- had been urged against him of not attending to his clueing the wages of the artisan, and so injuring our home duties, but they were utterly false and had only been market. He could speak on this subject without prejudice, brought forward by men who had sinister objects in for he did not possess one inch of agricultural land, and pro- view. There was not one single individual in Liverpool bably never should ; but he warner l the working classes not who having occasion for them had not promptly to be led away by hired and itinerating agitators, for a ques- received them, whether in the House of Commons, the tion so complicated as this, could not be fully comprehended Treasury, the Board of Trade, or wherever they were by listening to the orators of Clayton-square (hear), who ap- wanted ; and certainly the hon. and learned gentleman was pealed only to the passions of the people. He cautioned as able and as willing to defend the cause of the interests of them against the political demagogues who were spreading Liverpool as Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Cries of "He is and dissatisfaction throughout the country, and, like Jack Cade more," with loud cheers.) Mr. Cresswell moreover was a of old, were promising them seven halfpenny loaves for a man who loved justice. (Hear, hear.) He brought forward penny (laughter), who declared that the three-hooped pot a motion touchi ng th e D an i s h c l a i ms — c l a i ms w hi c h govern should have ten hoops, that it should be felony to drink small ment tried to keep quietly hung up or smoothed down beer, that all should be in common, and all wear one livery, during the session, but Mr. Cresswell would not allow which he presumed was to be theliveryofvvhiggism. (Cheers.) them ; he fought the battle of the unfortunate individuals, Mr. Holme then proceeded to eulogise Mr. Cresswell for his sufferers in the cause, and he had succeeded. (Cheers.) A ability, mentioning the high opinion formed of him in Lon- committee was appointed which decided in his favour, that don and elsewhere, and added that he had that day seen a government was bound to pay £250,000 to our unfortunate placard on the walls, containing the startling words, " San- countrymen, who otherwise would have been defrauded of don and Cresswell must walk !"They would walk, he had that amount. Ile first defeat sustained by the government no doubt ; but it would be by the free and spontaneous voices in the present session was upon this very motion of Mr. of the electors of Liverpool, and it would be victorious, into Cresswell for the appointment of a committee ; and the last the House of Commons as the members for Liverpool; and defeat too, by the bye, for they opposed the report of Lord Palmerston, if he showed face, might walk to the place the committee, but were beaten again. (Hear, hear.) The from which he came (Cheers.) He trusted also that there next candidate before the electors was Lord Palmerston, who was loyalty enough in this town, and sufficient attachment to had been in every administration for the last 20 or 23 years. the blessings and principles of the British constitution, to He (Mr. Smith) should have thought that a quarter of a cen send Sir Joshua Walmsley into private life, which he had tury s official service, under five or six different political par pleasure in adding, he adorned; and he said, he hoped in a ties, enough for any man ; but it so happened that his lord kindly spirit, that it would have bee n better for the peace ship's conscience and his politics had both been exceedingly and comfort of that gentleman, and he might add for the pliant. (Hear and cheers.) He had been trying to ascertain peace of his native town, if he had never emerged from it to why the liberals should have hit upon the expedient of pro offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Liver- posing Lord Palmerston, and he could account for it only by pool. Mr. Holme concluded by proposing the fourth reso- supposing that they had applied to a variety of individuals, lution, and sat down amidst protracted cheering. not one of whom was willing to come to Liverpool to be JAMES ASPINALL, Esq., briefly seconded the resolution, I thrashed; and therefore they, shooting at a high mark, went but in consequence of severe cold and hoarseness we were to the foreign secretary. They knew very well that it would unable to collect the few observations which fell from him. not be considered derogatory to the character of Lnrd Pal- Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE said he felt confident that, merston if he would not issue an address, and refuse to solicit in proposing the next resolution, the nomination of the com- the electors' votes ; therefore they said. "we will put him mittee, a few remarks only would be expected from him. up, and that will, at any rate, have one good effect. There He might, however, be permitted to st a t e , th a t th e result of were an immense number of leading whigs, in the town, de the election—the return of both our esteemed and highly- cidedly opposed to Sir Joshua Walmsley, and who would not talented representatives—deeply important as that object move one peg to further his cause. But, then, money was was in itself—must also be viewed in th e s till more im- necessary. Sir Joshua Walmsley's friends felt that this could portant light of tending to depose from the situations they only be got by placing Lord Palmerston, though a phantom held, a ministry, who had proved by their conduct that they and a shadow, before the public, by which means many would were as incapable to carry on the government of the coon- be deluded into paying their subscriptions of £5O or £lOO, try, as they were reckless and unprincipled in the defence of in the vain hope of returning him. " And," thought Sir its interests. Though defeat met them in every direction, Joshua Walmsley, " this will save my pocket." (Hear, both within the House of Commons and without, yet, in the hear.) The next candidate was our townsman—upon which face of the country having declared by its representatives he presumed a great deal—Sir Joshua Walmsley • and the that they did net possess its confidence, and were unable to e l ectors h a d to cons id er w h at Si r J os h ua Walmsley's pre conduct the management of its affairs, they have retained tensions were to the representation of the borough of Liver offiee, and venture to appeal to the country, in the belief pool. All knew him. As a private individual he was a that their conduct will have its approval. It is for us, gen- respectable, and, to a certain extent, an esteemed man ; but tlemen, to show how far we value or condemn their conduct, it was one thing to respect a man as a private individual, which, whether viewed in its religious, political, or social and another to support him as a candidate for the represen character, can only meet from the sincere well-wisher to his tation of such a borough as this in parliament. (Hear.) He country with an open and unqualified condemnation. (Loud was all very well in his place at the watch committee, in cheers.) Mr. Gladstone then read the list of the committee, the town council, and upon other hoards at which ke chose consisting of about 150 names of the most influential and to serve, and he was considered rather an efficient member respectable inhabitants of the town, and said that, large as of the Corn Exchange. He had been a good broker, he had that list was, many names no doubt were not included, of done business very well, and had feathered his nest pretty equal respectability, for which the committee had power to well under the existing corn-laws. Mr. Smith then pro add to their numbers. ceeded to comment upon the knight's address, and to expose Mr. W. P. BUSIIDT seconded the motion, and it was car- the manner in which the signatures to the requisition therein rigid amidst loud cheers. alluded to had been obtained. Sir Joshua Walmsley was a Mr. SHEPPARD moved a vote of thanks to Sir T. Brancker very ambitious man ' • and was anxious for the situation of a for his conduct in the chair. Here the meeting had a good .• w hi pper -i n " of his party in the house —an office for old conservative knight opposed in a certain degree to a whig- which he was probably well qualified, seeing that he radical knight among us, in endeavouring to secure the re- had been brought up an usher in a school. (Hear, bear.) turn of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell. (Cheers.) It He professed himself a supporter of the church, and a great might be necessary to call attention, as an Irishman, to the friend of the poor man ; but how could that profession be whig mis-rule of Ireland. They said that their conduct was reconciled with the fact of his having been the main instru beyond all praise, and they took great credit to themselves ment of establishing in Liverpool the " Precursor Society," for the impartial line of conduct they had pursued from the for the express purpose of opposing everything connected year 1830 to 1841, now h e (Mr. Sheppard) wished to remind with the church. The sooner the church got rid of such the meeting of the state of the county of Kilkenny two years supporters the better. (Cheers.) Let her have an out after they came into p,Aver—it never was in such a disturbed and-out opponent rather than a fellow who professed himself state—and who was the man he would ask that had brought her friend, yet by every act proved himself her enemy. it into such a state of quietness? (Hear, hear.) It was a Sir Joshua Walmsley calculated upon getting a great number late chief secretary for Ireland ;it was Lord Stanley. (Loud of votes Irons the circumstance of his having joined various cheers.) Was the conduct o f th e w hi gs th en f a ir or right ? clubs. This was a fact which his friends confidently asserted. (Hear.) Look at the treatment which the Irish landlords For this purpose it was that he had become a Forester, a had received under their misrule. They were falling every Freemason, and an Oddfellow. (Hear.) An odd fellow he day, and still they were told that Ireland was peaceable and undoubtedly was. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Smith) had stated quiet, for the county of Tipperary never was in such a dis- that Sir Joshua Walmsley professed himself a friend to the turbed state as it was now. The whigs then said, " But you poor man. Now he (Mr. Smith) had in his possession a letter will not support the men who have said that your country- from one of those unfortunate sufferers, a few years ago, by men were a set of savages ?" All he (Mr. Sheppard) could the attempt successfully made to reduce the wages of the say was, that this expression had been often remarked upon ; corn porters. Their wages were reduced somewhat consider but he wished to call the attention of the meeting to the fact ably. The corn porters wished to be put upon the same that a late Roman catholic bishop, Dr. Doyle, in speaking footing, : with regard to wages, as other porters, but this was with regard to the conduct of the Irish about the time to opposed by some, and by none in the trade more strenuously which he had alluded, stated the following facts before ever than Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Hear.) The argument he a single expression of the sort had escaped from lips of the used in support of the reduction was this—that he could send members of the conservative party. Mr. Sheppard then read over to Ireland and get men to work for him from there at the late Roman catholic bishop Doyle's character of the is 6d or 2s a day. (Hear, hear.) Let the meeting mark Irish, addressed to the whitefeet, in a pastoral letter, dated that. The wages of agricultural labourers in Ireland did December 3d, 1831, as follows : not on the average exceed 10d a day ; Sir Joshua knew this, " Cowardly, base, wicked, ungrateful men, what have you and no doubt thought that earning only 10d a day in their done ? You have commenced by an unlawful and impious own country, they would be willing to come to him for is 6d oath, in which you called the God of Holiness to witness or 2s a day. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. Smith your crime. You enlarged your combination by force and then commented on the fact of Sir Joshua Walmsley violence. You confirmed it by drunkenness and violence on having been the principal means of introducing the new poor the Lord's day. As you advanced, you made war like the law here, and at considerable length explained how a repeal savage of the desert upon your next neighbour, if not of your of the corn laws would lower the price of labour. He con own tribe. You polluted the fair and market-place by savage eluded a most effective speech by expressing a hope that the warfare; or, like Cain, `you went into the field to spill the f ee li ng exhibited in the meeting wou ld an i mate t h e constitu blood of your defenceless and unsuspecting brother. You ency on the day of trial, and that all electors would join heart plundered the houses where you could meet with no resist- and hand in returning by a triumphant majority Lord San ance—you fled from him you most feared and hatred—you don and Mr. Cresswell. wreaked your vengeance on the industrious man who sup- r. TIDM AN, in seconding the motion, exposed the reek plied you with bread, and fed the poor out of his substance. less extravagance of the present administration in the nma- If you found a man straying in the fields or travelling on the nagement of the finances of the country.—Time resolution was highroad unarmed and defenceless, him did you murder or then carried. assassinate. These are your deeds--this is the reward of Mr. SHEPPARD moved the second resolution itt r an able your crimes, which will one day be tried by the Judge of address. It was seconded by Mr. HALL, and unanimously earth and heaven." carried. Now, he would ask, had any expressions ever emanated from Mr. HORSFALL, in proposing the third resolution, con the conservatives half so strong as these ? (Hear, hear.) tended that Lord Sandon had been a better representative of He asked Lord Morpeth, as chief secretary for Ireland, and Liverpool than either Mr. Canning or Mr. Huskisson. Al- Lord Melbourne, at the head of her Majesty's government, luding to the corn laws he shewed by a reference to the fixed to read the letter of the lord lieutenant of the county of prices of cotton wool, that manufactured goods could not be Tipperary, published only the other day, in which he de- produced cheaper than they were at present, unless a reduc scribed life rued property to be absolutely insecure in that tion took place in the price of labour ; and that a repeal of county. ' (Hear.) Why ? From whig-radical misrule and those laws would, by throwing an immense extent of land mismanagement, and from Mr. Daniel O'Connell being al-, out of cultivation, deprive two millions of agricultural la lowed to agitate for a repeal of the union. (G rea t applause.) bourers of employment, whose competition would also fur- Nay, he (Mr. O'Connell) had turned the other day in the ther decrease wages in the manufacturing districts: House of Commons and taunted Sir R. Peel with, " Oh, The resolution was then carried. you support the orangemen." He would a s k i n re ply, was The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. HArtnonn, Mr. O'Connell never called before the House of Commons, Mr. o .....11ARLES SMITH, and Dr. HARDORD ; and all the and did not the House of Commons, upon the motion of resolutions having been adopted, it separated amongst enthu- Lord Maidstone, pass a resolution condemning his conduct siastic cheers at the prospects of conservative success at the as most improper ?" (Cheers.) He asked time meeting not forthcoming election to believe Mr. O'Connell's representations, for there were hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who would support the institutions of the country, who would risk their fortunes for them, and who, though he hoped the time would never ar rive when they must stand upon the treshold of the institu tion, rather than snbmit to innovations upon it, would sacri fice their very existence to the good of their Queen and country. (Great cheering.) There had been a great deal of discussion upon the question of the corn laws, (hear, hear), and the meeting had had his opinions upon that subject in the papers of to-day. He could not do better, therefore, than quote the language of Sir Robert Peel, in answer to one of the members for Manchester, he believed, last year. Sir Robert Peel said— FlRE.—Friday morning, between one and two o'clock, a fire was discovered in one of the sheds on the Duke of Bridge water's wharf, Wapping, occupied as a ship-store and sail maker's work-shop by Mr. Southern. Four engines, accom panied by water-carts and a strong body of the tire brigade, under the active superintendence of Mr. Hewitt, were speed ily on the spot, and having a good supply of water, the fire was soon got under. At one time it had an alarming appear ance, owing to the goods being of a combustible nature. Neither the stock nor premises were insured. THE STEAMER SEEN AT SEA.—In our last we felt it our duty to give publicity to a communication from Bristol, an " That manufacture is on the brink of ruin ; anc fessed that the statement was important, for so convinced was he of the natural unio n b e t ween th e prosperity of trade and agriculture, and of the strength of the reaction which would take place o n t h e one if t h e ot h er were injured, that if he would believe the correctness of those statements, they would form in his mind a most powerful argument for a change of the law. But with all his respect for the know ledge of the hon. gentleman, he would wish that his state ments had been fo r tifi e d by proof. What faith could he at tach to the hon. gentleman's predictions as a prophet, when he had befo r e hi m th e most aut h en ti c statements on the subject? He would read an extract from those papers. From them he found that in the year 1837, when the price of corn was low in this country, the amount of British com merce manufactured here . and sent abroad was £36,280,000, In the year 1838, when the price of corn had risen, and when, according to the arguments of lion. gent lemen on the opposite side, the dearness of corn ought to have depressed our manufactures, the quantity of manufactured articles ex ported £43,000,000. No doubt it would be said that these exports consisted chiefly of cotton yarn, or such articles which would only prove the manufacturing prosperity of foreign nations, but such was not the case, as would be found by a more minute detail of them. In 1837, the export of our woollen manufactures had amounted to £4.660,000 ; in 1838, it amounted to £5,799,000. Ou r ex p ort of silk manu facture in 1837, £303,000 ; in 1838, £713,000. The e . port of our hardware and cutlery, had amounted in 183/, to £1,460,000; in 1838. to .£1,597,009- Dar exports ... ofcotton in 1837, had amounted to 05,925.0 W; 1838, to 44,493,000. Of cotton manufacture, exclusive of yarn, into which, of course, manual labour entered, there had been exported, in 1837, to the amount of £1,304,000; in 1838, to £1,617,000. i Of linen manufacture there h ad been exported, n 1837, £2,919,000. As Englishmen , he (Mr. Sheppard) called the serious attention of the meeting to these facts, and to the facts published in the pape rs by the conservative party. De pend upon it that the cry on this question was got up for the purpose of claptrap — (hea r. hear) —with the view of advanc ing the interest of Whig -radicals, and seating them in the be con- pouncing that on Tuesday last, Captain Bnrgess, of the Osprey steamer, from Waterford to Bristol, perceived at a distance of four-and-a-half miles, a large crippled steamer, which he took from her appearance to be the President, and so reported, in a letter addressed by him to the owners of that vessel. The intelligence caused considerable sensation in Bristol, and expresses were instantly sent to London, and accounts published in the morning papers which raised a hope there that the vessel seen mightfbe the ill-fated Presi dent. On Thursday evening, the subject was mentioned in the house of Lords, when Lord Minto, first lord of the ad miralty, though he did not believe the strange sail was the President, yet said orders should be transmitted forthwith to the admiral commanding at Plymouth, to dispatch a steam ship in search of the " immense crippled steamer" seen by the Osprey. In Liverpool, after the painful disappoint ments which previous reports of the safety of the Presi dent had caused, no reliance was placed on the supposition that the vessel seen in the channel might be her ; though it was admitted the description came nearer the appearance of the President than any previously given of vessels seen at sea and supposed to have been her. Ail uncertainty was ,-ever, removed on Saturda ,h, y morning, by the arrival pert of the Birmingham, Captain Church, from Dublin. On the previous night, shortly after ten o'clock, when off the Sker ries, Captain Church caught sight of the Manchester, (one of the two steamers built at Hamburgh, and as we stated on Friday, on her way, to this port to receive her engines,) the appearance of which being rather singular, he steered toe :ids and spoke her, when he ascertained what she was, and where from. By the delay caused by this deviation out of the direct path, he lost his tide into Liverpool ; but he deserves great praise for having approached a strange and singular-looking sail, which he supposed, no doubt, if not the President, WAS some steamer-looking vessel in distress. The Manchester now lies in the Trafalgar Dock. She is a handsome vessel, but is not larger than the largest sized channel steamers, and how an experienced eye, at a distance of four or fi ve m il es only, could take her for a steams of " inlmense size is really surprising. M EETING - rRIENDs M* .TOS4it: SL EY . Last niglit a meeting of the friends of Si: J. Nra ok place at the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of adopting easures, in a vain endeavour, to secure his olsotion as a -- member for this borough in the approaching contest. The house, notwithstanding the vaunting announcements on the walls, and the sanguine expectations of his patrons, wan by no means crowded. On the contrary, there were more than ample verge and elbow-room enough for an audience in every part, of at least one-fourth more. The paucity and luke warmness, indeed, of the assemblage, considering the " im. portance" of the occasion, formed a striking contrast to the density and enthusiasm of the half-yearly inciting of the Operative Protestant Association, on Friday last,—albeit they had not one of their candidates at their back. W. leans fu ow this how the wind blows, and what, in tine, will be the final result, stormy though it usay be, of the approaehing contest. Colonel WILLIAMS took the chair, and, as is his welt, opened the business of the evening in e short address, mere remarkable for vociferation than argument. Mr. RATunosr. followed, in his bawling tone, " a little louder, hut as empty quite," almost " splitting the ears of the groundhogs," who, in gratitude for his tickling of these auricular appeneiages amongst them, that in longitude ware by no means scanty, humoured his bent to the top of their own " sweet voices." He proposed a resolution, nomi nating Mr. Wulnp.,ley as their candidate at the ensnisig election. Mr. JOSEPH EWART seconded the nomination, and peiat ed out Wahusley and Pahnerston as the men on whoa the electors could alone depend. The chairman put the resolution, and it was carried. Sir J. WALstsLET came forward amidst prolonged ap plause. He expressed his satisfaction and gratitude at tko manner in which his name had been received ; that, indeed' he carried with him the friendship and affections of a largo body of the liberals of the town. He wished he mould say of a larger portion of those whom he knew to be as 'salons as his friends or himself in the cause of reform ; but Le regretted to find, that some kept aloof from the eiream stance that he had himself sprung from the bumbler elegem. He, however, respected their scruples, in consideration of their zeal in the cause, and trusted that they would yet caorge all minor difference, in support of the common objects they bad in view. After alluding to his personal character which was well known tc, them all ; to the flattering and pressing circum stances under which he hail acceded to the wishes of the requisionists that he should become a candidate ; to his commercial education, his habits of business, and Isis 4.. quaintance with the town, its institutions anti affairs,—lie stated that he was bound to them by interest and affection, and would, if elected, devote his hest exertions to promote their welfare. His opinions were already known, brat lots should briefly advert to the political tenets whicla be eetsr taMed from conviction. He should endeavour to carry ant the broad principles he entertained, and which asketil fel. nothing for them which he would not coneede to others. Those principles struck at the root of monopoly ; and he should always advocate free trade, so far as it could consistently be carried out, without favouring selfish ends. Those principles were not new or theoretical, but bad beset advocated by the late lamented Mr. Huskisson, who had be. gun at the close of his career to promulgate them, so far as he then could, and had he lived, would have carried then out against the greater monopolies of which they bad now se much to complain. Under the reciprocity system of that distinguished legislator, the country had flourished at home and abroad. An outcry had been raised against Mr. H. at the time : but he soon saw his anticipations of national bene fit begin to be realized. Sir Joshua here related an anecdote on the subject. The manufacturing population of H udders field were so adverse to free trade, that they burned Mr. Huskisson in effigy. Shortly atterwards he (sir Joshua) happened to be passing through that town, and found the operatives very busy in manufacturing the three. coloured silk handkerchiefs, and earning good wages. Oa enquiry, he found that they were for the metropolis of France, and that the workpeople were blessing the mac who . . had found them such employtnent. The woollen trada hut also flourished the moment the duty was reduced—another proof of the benefits of a removal of commercial restrictions. The duty laid upon food was the most wicked and heinous of all; and the sliding scale was, as truly said, an infernal ma chine. What they sought for was simple justice—nething more and nothing less—and they set out upon the principle of total repeal. The present duties on food strack at the root of our national prosperity in every point. (Lend cries of " hear.") Tne tories would not permit the question. to be even discussed. Their watchword might to be " free trade against monopoly," if they wished that their eaemiee should have full play. He had just been asked a question re lative to the Irish, and he would say in reply, that he saw nothing in the character of the Irish, in their parsuits, is their condition, and in their wants and their kindly feeling*, to consider them different from ourselves or less entitled to partake of the benefits lie desired to obtain for his own coun trymen. He then alluded to the great success of his canvass so far through the town, adding that he hoped to be excused if he could not see every elector, as he himself wished, as that, he found, would occupy twelve months. His inter course had more than ever confirmed his opinions in favour of the ballot, for many would, but dare not, give him their votes. He concluded by saying that his heart and soul was with them all ; that he sought to be their representative sot for his own sake, but for theirs, but that if they desired to secure his humble services in their behalf, they mast be up and stirring. He sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. ALLISON moved a resolution, appointing a committee, of about 300, to conduct Sir J. Vi almsley's election. This was Seconded by Mr. Wm. BROWN, and was tarried unanimously. Mr. JoitN TAYLOR moved a resolution, complimenting Mr. Hume, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. Thornely, for their vela able report on free trade, which had induced ministers to brinr , forward their recent measures. Mr. Slim. seconded the motion in a speech in behalf of the St. Domingo coffee he had on rale, and it was tarried. Several other speakers followed, and thanks being voted to the chairman, the meeting dispersed. SINGULAR MATRIMONIAL CLlLEMONT.—Yesterday,lt the Police-court, two men, Isaac M'Neille and John Plea derson, were placed at the bar before Mr. Rushton ; the latter, a young man, on a charge of falsely personating him self as a clergyman, and marrying a couple in a privets house ; and the other, his senior, with aiding and abetting la the deception. Mr. Dowling stated the case briefly to the court, as one of an extraordinary nature, adding, that under the pretence set up, money to the amount of six shillings had been received for the solaninixation of the ceremony. The newly but falsely wedded couple appeared together in the witness-box. The bridegroom, a decent looking and rather well dressed country-looking man of apparently about 45 years of age, said, that he had come from Ireland the day before, in company with his female partner, who appeared to he somewhat under thirty. He was on his way to Manchester in search of work, and being desirous of getting married to the young woman, who would proceed no further with hies unless the nuptial knot were tied, he (simple man !) aseoeted the elder prisoner in the street, and asked him the way to a church, stating, as he did not like to disclose his own affairs to a stranger, that a friend of his wished to be married withoat loss of time. The prisoner pointed to the church ; but immediately afterwards told complainant that he could *et be married there without the banns being put up for two sae cessive Sundays; but that he knew a man who was quali fied to do so for a very moderate sum without that preliminary, and who had solemnised the marriage of his own sister, who had since lived in great comfort and happiness with her husband in Cheshire. This persuaded, the loving pair accompanied him to a house, he knew not in what street, where it appeared preparations were soon made to inveigle them. They found soma me n and two women there, and were ushered into a room n stairs, which the female (an equally simple country woman described as being very finely furnished. Books were place on the table, and the younger prisoner proceeded to perform the ceremony. Books were placed on the table to give the matter a show of publicity. The assumed divine joined the hands of the couple, placed the ring on her finger, and went through the ceremony with a gravity that lulled their suspi cions at the time, concluding by making them both kneel. The charge for the service performed was stated at first to be 10s. ; but as the bridegroom had not so much, it was agreed to take 65., which was handed to " the clergyman," and by him to his accomplices. Marriage lines (produced) were afterwards given to the parties. Some suspicion of foul play afterwards darted across the mind of the female, and her "intended," as she termed him ; and informatics was given to the police, who apprehended the of/lc:later and his companion. The case excited considerable interest and amusement in the court, and no little sympathy for the agrieved couple, who gave thier testimony veryelearly. Mr. Oweu cross-questioned both at some length, and took the ground that the offence was merely oie of obtaining money under false pretences, and wished to shew that the male complainant had expressed a wish to be married in any manner, so as to secure his " intended." But in this he entirely failed. The magistrate read abstracts from two distinct marriage acts, showing that to personate a .clergy man and marry a couple, not in a church, or he/nisei place, without a special license so to do, was to all intents and purposes a libel, and even subjected the party or parties to 14 years' transportation. He strongly reprehandeel the conduct of the offenders, the younger of whom said he was drawn into the act in mere joke, and committed them both for trial, expressing a wish, that in so heartless a ease, the penalty, severe as it was, would be carried into efect. THE IMPOSTER CAVANAGII.—WE are surprised& t the Mercury turning tail upon his friends the Papists, and •e -tualle sneering at that genuine popish miracle-worker, Barn . v Cavanagh. This is the unkindest cut of all ; b ut we suspect the Mercury is not entirely in the secret, and is sot aware that Cavanagh was first introduced to public notice by the Homan Catholic Curate of Clanmorris, in the enmity Mayo, one Father M'Hale, a near relative, by the way, of the celebrated archbishop of that ilk. This is the first import of the kind we have had from the sister isle, and the experiment, we understand, has been wonderfully successful. Let popery, however, only get a little more encouragement, and we shall have plenty of them. The • 4 beast" has over bun prolific in this way. HODGE PonGE.—The Whigs are likely to make a sem plete Hodge Podqe of their electioneering proceedings at the approaching contest. What with Palmerston, and Walmsley, and their excellent supporters, the Protectors' Society, a nice dish is stewing. It was reported yesterday that the friends of Sir Joshua are contemplating putting Mr. 11. F. Atkinson up as a candidate. A whimsical publi cation, y'clept the lodge Podge, we pereeiye is announced to make its appearance on Wednesday. A similar periodical made its appearance at Nottingham during the late election, and caused no little excitement the whole time. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A CHlLD.—Yesterday, en inquest was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., tonehing tke death of Timothy Kshoe. The deceased, who was a year and four months old, lived with his parents in Arley-street. On Saturday evening last, about seven o'clock, he was left with his sister, who is three years old, in a room, by his mother who had occasion to go out. There was a panmug full of dirty water lying behind the room door, and on bar return, in about ten minutes, she found her daughter sitting on a chest, clo se b y t h e w i ndow, screaminii. She turmoil round and saw the deceased, with his head and kends in the mug of water, and with his feet up. He was apparently dead. A surgeon was brought directly, but the vital spark was extinct. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deeeased was found drowned, but hew he got into the water there was no evidence. Another inquest was held on view of the bedy of William Cattrall, who was about 40 Farrier's Friendly Society. On Sunday merniinng, Renshaw years of age, and a me at m a beL ry of early hour, the deceased was found in an entry, in several Femme street, in a state of insensibility, and though g ealled in, h. R osa Went to his assistance, and a doctor ailing for some months ; and had been a continued pain it tke afterwards expired. It appeared that h w e t e h a n e deceased d had b:, b iw isea r . Dodd, surgeon. He complained of him, ghLie overeibue. joak P" . and cautioned hint but kir.D. , a c g h a e i sL t ai dr l in N k tr in . g llf p d ir d it p s r , eseribed eadconuol doubt n o td bat death Is o ut a little now and then. p u H o e f ( a vessel raid in h the cheat, prochaesaii was caused by 1 or and Y i . isistat." G eopyp bii:hieladt,usraayls(,lis,e,:tiser.n ks in his firs Cruikshan , I never quarrel with names, hut wick things • t i T - e r ut e r E d n i u e um t a_ bo c e e ttr o po rd r i , n ; D E FINITION such opposite interpretations of tit; yet, as so rnan: afloat, and as some of them are act very r eading terms quotedare intelligible, I rish explicitly to enter my protest agaiast of the word liberal, ' as applicable tr sae, every sa ve th at ‘s IC . h . h I AO attrilmibad to it ia as vii aid . ingly forgotten clFHonary:--' Bte em i Ng a rwitievran, parr. ous. not mean.