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LTZER WATER, in Quarts LIVERPOOL and -STREET rd. S. Bal D HAYMARKE )ON-ROAD Owen, J. Eva '-STREET ENRY-STREE Wtn. W. King ERSKINE-STREST S. Makery. tRUNEWICIC-ILOAD James Fergie VERTON Tiernan WEST DERBY-STREET Joseph Ball. .OWNLO'9-BIL: es Pendlebur C. W. Shaw -STREET RD-SYT,LEtT SEACOMB i. Dare xENHEAV I)3IPE IVATISALOC G. Wainvrri6t NTELLIGENCE e Rectory of Roach, Cornwall, e Rev. Charles Lyne; patron, ty College, Cambridge, 'onshire, vacant by the patron, Sir John Henry• Head Maste the death of the RCI. J ;e of Deeping St. n of the Rev. R. he Rectory of n, by lapse lerage ofSilendleby the Rev. J. D. Giles he Diocesan ev. Francis Riddell mbridge, to be the of Caius College, Cam , Salop ; patron, the Duke of John's College, C d, Norfolk, vacant by the patrons, the Dean and I Sloley, Norfolk ; e. -Vicar of Roudham, :bright, Bart xte amount of po males, and 18,675 vas held on Monday, at on the body of James the deceased was sent from a tub that was over: trect. This and another mber let into the wall of ned therein by wooden 3 to have contracted by pon the tuba becoming Friday night, the weight it of the wall, a casualty at the t ;the deceased was ucui irii upon him, fracturing his s wild breaking both his legs. Ide was Verdict, " Accidental death." hen tateu u THEATRE-ROVAL, LIVERPOOL ar I Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, : Sole Lessie , 71 Tun PERFORMANCES DURI AT HAI WILL COAIMENC RE UPENED AT SEVEN THE SiI.NIIIIEB -PAST SEVEN SEASON —Doous TO Under the Patronage of Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY. Fifth Night of the popular favourites MR. VANDEN HOFF and MISS VANDENHOFF, who are engaged for a limited period. THIS present FRIDAY, June 25 the favourite Play of 1841, v ,11 he repeated, THI4: HUNCHBACK Which was received on Monday last with the most enthusi- astic applause. Master Walter.. (the Hunchback).. Mr. Vandenhoff, As originally performed by him at this Theatre Lord Tinsel .. Mr. Chaplin Sir Thomas Clifford Alodus Mr. Stuart Mr. H. Holl Mr. Baker Helen.. Mrs. W. H. Blanc' Julia Miss Vandenhoff. After which, will be revived, a Farce, not acted here fo many years, called HOW TO DIE FOR LOVE On MONDAY next, June 28th, under the Patronage of Lord SANDON and CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq., a favourite Play, and Entertainments. Mr. Knowles's last new Play, called the BRIDALS OF MESSINA ; or, JOHN OF PROCIDA, is in preparation, and will shortly be produced. TO CORRESPONDENTS 'a are confidentially informed that Sir Joshua Walmsley, in a letter to a friend, informs him that " he has no chance in succeeding for the representation of this borough, but that be has now gone too far to draw back." What a pity he did not take the advice of the STANDARD some months since ; it would have spared him considerable time, trouble and expense. Will Mr. Baylee allow us to postpone the insertion of his letter until the reports and other information consequent upon a general election, and which occupy nearly all our space, are disposed of. We cannot possibly insert, or even notice at present, one half of the communications we receive.: Ebe Etimpoot `k-tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1841 .s truly and well 3, by Lord Sandon, on iday, that " our government geeins to have taken leaf out of the pop book in the management of ad, t.nd'to ti " Irel nk that the most prudent measure to secure quiet and contentment was by paying the " chief disturber." This is precisely the nature of the relation that subsists between O'Connell and her majesty's minis- ters ; and we need not say, that a more disgraceful compact never was entered into. We set little value on the quiet or contentment which such an agreement could produce, and, in point of fact, it has led to no improvement in the state of Ireland. It has not been able to restrain the hands of the murderous Ribbon man, even whilst the Dictator's power was at its greatest height; and as to any other sort of peace that it produced—what was the nature of it ?—solitudinem faciunt pacem apellant—it was just such peace as fol lows from the submission of slaves to a tyrant—the peace which is characterised by intellectual prostration and bodily fear. The administration of the Whigs has been from first to last an administration of shifts and expedients—an administration of selfishness—a wretched provision just for the day that was passing over their heads ; but in Ireland, more than any where else, their misera ble policy, with all its baseness, was made manifest. It was base to sell the people of Ireland to a detestable tyranny, just that the office-bearers of the state might sit down to their loaves and fishes in a little quiet; and then it was knavish and hypocritical to boast that this quiet was the fruit of good government, when, in truth and in fact, it was the fruit of the govern ment altogether deserting its duty, and consigning the people to the custody of their worst oppressors. If the people of England were to exercise their liberty at the coming election with a view to the good of Ireland alone, they would be found, to a man, to vote against the administration of the Whigs. We would call upon them earnestly, in the name of Ireland, to turn them out. We would beseech them, as they value true religion, freedom, and happiness themselves, to have regard to eight millions of their fellow-subjects in Ireland, and turn out the whigs—turn out a ministry that has sold Ireland to a brutal tyranny, which is grinding her inhabitants to the very earth. Will they sacrifice that splendid country for the highwayman's peace upon the bandit's conditions ? People of England, you cannot do it ; no, not though you were inclined. If you love your church and constitution, you must labour to impart the same blessings to your fellow-subjects in Ireland; and you have now no way to do that but by turning out the Whigs. It can scarcely be necessary at this time of day to offer any new proof of the execrable and insulting oppression under which the people groan from O'Connell, and the surpliced banditti in league with him ; yet the sort of canvass which the beast and his companions were carrying on last week in Carlow county—so perfectly in keeping with all their other doings—ought not to be passed over. In the first place, who is the candidate ? A Mr. Daniel O'Connell, youngest son of the old one, and, doubtless, a chip of the old block. He has about as much pretensions to Carlow as Lord Palmerston has to Liverpool—and what is more, he, too, like Lord Palmerston, is a phantom candidate. The young Cupid is in France, and has never shown his face (any more than our Foreign Secretary) to the electors ; yet the Dictator says the people must have him. Priest Mg-hie has declared, that he could make his cow boy a member of parliament, if it was his will and pleasure to do so—and why not O'Connell any one of the scions of so precious a stock as himself? His address to the electors, in the name of the phantom, i in his usual strain of insolence and bullying. Minis ters, he says, were beaten on the no-confidence motion by a single vote, and that vote was Colonel Bruen's. " Let the Catholic electors," he proceeds to say, " who voted for Bruen at the last election—let the wives, let the daughters, let the sons of the Catholic electors who voted for Bruen at the last election—let them know it was the Catholic electors of Carlow, who, by voting for Bruen, procured a triumph for the enemies of their religion, of their country, and their Queen ! " Miserable men that they are ! Let them blush for shame at the injustice and iniquity that they have committed. Let them now prepare to snake restitution. Let them now come over from the ranks of their enemies. Let them now join the ranks of their friends. They know full well that without restitution there is no pardon. Oh ! may they deserve—as they would in that case be certain to obtain—forgiveness !" Now mark the threat by which the foregoing invita tion is enforced. Read this, British freeman—English elector, and say what sort of freedom is permitted to the people of Ireland under the tyranny of O'Connell and the priests; and remember, that this is the domi nation which the Whigs have been doing their best to fasten upon that country : ' Any of you who persevere in supporting Bruen must prepared for the hatrid and execration of his neighbours and his countrymen. He will be looked on as a black sheep in the fair flock of the honest electors. The black sheep will be avoided as a pestilence by all the honest part of the commu nity. The black sheep voter for Bruen will be scorned by his neighbours and former friends. No honest young man will marry the daughter of a black sheep—no respectable girl will marry the son of a black sheep. The black sheep electors, who vote for Bruen at the coming election, will meet the scorn, derision, and contempt of the universal peo ple of Carlow." - • • • So much for the conciliatory and insinuating terms of the address. The mode of conducting the canvass is perfectly suitable to it. " The greater part of last week," says the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday, " has been devoted, by Mr. O'Connell, to the further ance of the agrarian conspiracy in the county of Car low. From town to town—from market to market — from fair to fair, he has been endeavouring to hunt down the landed interest, and, by the aid of deputed mobs sent to his assistance from the county of Kilkenny, he has been labouring unsuccessfully to intimidate the tenantry into a servile war against their landlords. Like the Duke of Alva, in his exterminating mission against the Protestants of the plains of Languedoc, he travels with a pair of ecclesiastical bloodhounds at his heels; and what the two jesuits were to the duke, the two priests, Maher and Tyrrell, are to the demagogue." The priests make no mystery of the. part they take in forcing their priest-ridden, superstitious, and igno rant flocks to vote for this or any other phantom which they choose to name as a candidate for parliament. They put on a bold front, and openly avow it. The following letter, which has been published in all the Irish papers, furnishes an interesting piece of evidence on the subject : LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REV. DR. KENNEDY TO THE CLERGY OF CLARE, IN THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE. " BELOVED BRETHREN,—As we are now on the eve of a general election—unquestionably the most important that has ever occurred in our times, utterly disregarding the dishonest and factitio us outcry that has been so perseveringly kept up against the Catholic clergy of Ireland, on account of their necessary interference in the political struggles of their op pressed and persecuted people—l deem it my imperative duty to request that you will have the kindness to meet me at Ennis on Wednesday, the 23d instant, that we may consider how we may best employ, in the approaching crisis, that in fitunce SO hateful to tory tyranny, which we are said to pas- seas, and protect our ever-faithful people in their conscien tious exercise of the franchise.—l remain, beloved brethren, your faithful servant, " t P. KENNEDY. i " Deerpark , June 18, 1841." If Ireland be sometimes a thorn in our side, let us no longer wonder how this happens. We hare here the true key of the mystery; it is Popery—cursed, iniquitous, foul, tyrannical, and abominable Popery. Will the electors of England vote for Popery ? If they vote for ministers, they must, for they and Popery are identified. Awake, then, Protestant electors of England! Let us have—No Popery ? nay, Down with it, or it will have you down. It is the curse of every country it nestles in. The expiring ministry, fully sensible that their hour is come, begin to dispose of their effects, and to give tokens of their affection to the few friends left them. Jack Ketch, or whoever may have the honour (and a high honour it will he in this case) to perform his office, will have the robes in which they suffer; to their successors they will leave nothing but the old red tape in which they tied their papers. Their determina tion on this last point has been made evident by the haste and sharpness with which they have been gather ing in, and disposing of, every thing disposable at their command either remotely or immediately. They stop at nothing that can avail them in this way. Knowing that it is time to set " their house in order," they seize and sell whatever they can lay their hands upon. " Let us gut the establishment," say they, "and then no body can pretend that we have left it in disorder." Pawnbrokers, auctioneers, and commission-agents of every description are hourly in attendance; and the scene going forward is extremely curious. Old Lord Plunket has been driven off the Chancery Bench in Ireland in the most savage and ignominious manner, to make way for Sir John Campbell, for whom no other berth could be found. This fact is remarkable, because it shows unequivocally, first, that ministerial- ists are acting on the sauce qui pent principle with all diligence; and, secondly, that ministers are perfectly unscrupulous as to the means they take to provide for their followers in a route so complete. The command given to the Irish Chancellor to pack up and depart was sudden, unexpected, and abiolutely insulting. He was very reluctant, poor man ! to go; and it is admitted on all hands that he is quite equal to the discharge of his functions. His lordship, in taking leave of the bar on Monday, admitted these facts him self. Here, then, is a tolerably strong proof, that whatever others may think, ministers are quite aware themselves that their doom is sealed, and that if they did not provide for Sir John Campbell just at this moment, it may very shortly be quite out of their power to do any thing for him. So Sir John is pitch forked on the Irish Chancery Bench with rude and indecent celerity. So much for ministerial consciousness : look next 1 their conscientiousness. They know well that they ire going out, and that when they go, Sir John Camp )ell will have to retire along with them; but mark, his elevation to the Irish bench will entitle him to a retiring pension of £4,000 a-year, although his judicial services should not endure more than a few weeks ! Now, is not this a job, yea, a rank job ? No wonder that new taxes are needed—that the public treasury is empty—that our debt is increased; what care hungry Whigs for national affairs when their own private con cerns require so much attention ? or what care they who suffer, so they obtain comfortable locations for themselves ? Lord Plunket is now the third Irish Ex-Chancellor on the pension list ; the other two are Sir E. Sugden and the venerable Lord Manners. Our readers would justly charge us with presump .on were we to undertake, unasked, the defence of any discourse or doctrine put forward by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile,—a task to which there is none more compe tent than he is himself. We deprecate the imputation that it is our intention to do anything of the kind; we shall leave that labour to the rev. gentleman himself, if he should think it necessary to offer any reply to the cavillers who have attacked his late speech at the Amphitheatre. But the absurdity and falsehood of some of the criticisms which that address has elicited are so glaring, and especially those which have issued from our ancient, the Mercury, that we feel ourselves not only at liberty, but in some measure called upon, to occupy the attention of our readers for a brief space with a notice of them. Mr. M`Neilc.,', having shown that the grand scriptu ral argument of the anti-corn-law men rested upon a garbled quotation which made nothing in their favour, and that a comprehensive view as well of nature as of revelation proved that the argument thence derived was utterly futile, proceeded to say that there was a passage in holy writ which, if it did not contain an express au thority against placing our country in dependence upon foreigners for food, afforded a forcible illustration of the consequences which would be likely to result from its being submitted to so unfortunate a condition. He then quoted the 20th verse of the 12th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and commented on the passage with his usual eloquence and effect. Now the passage states a fact, and the fact stated is, that the people of Tyre and Sidon were obliged to make submissions to Herod, and use stratagem to pacify him—and for this reason, because " their country was nourished by the king's country." It was in vain that Tyre was a great emporium of commerce and manufactures, and Herod but a petty prince of Palestine. The people of Tyre were dependent upon him for food, and they had no choice but to hear with the high displeasure and lofty airs of their bread-keeper. What would all their ma nufactures and trade avail them if they had no bread to eat ? With Herod therefore they must keep terms — to him they must sue in humble guise, because their country was nourished by his. The force of the argu ment would not be lost even though Tyre and Sidon were places of less importance than they actually were. The FACT stated in the passage contains a warning which this circumstance would not affect; but it cer tainly appears more striking when we consider how im portant and famous a city this Tyre was. With a view to call up a picture of its magnificence Mr. M`Neile used some of the very descriptive terms of the prophet Ezekiel. " They of the house of To garmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules." " Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants," &c. Yet all this availed nothing in the eyes of a petty prince, who happened to hold the city in his power in the important matter of nourishment. Can the foreign-corn advocates of the present mo ment evade the inference—the important lesson obvi ously deducible from this plain statement ? They can not. It should be a memorable example and warning to us not to boast too much of our riches—not to place too much dependence on our manufactures and our commerce, and, above all things, not to make our selves subject to the caprice of foreigners for our daily bread,—the very thing, by the way, which our insane anti-corn-law agitators are at this mQment ridiculously urging us to do. . . But the Mercury, who is a capital friend at a pinch, has made a discovery that Mr. M`Neile is all wrong about this passage, and that he has been guilty of a "gross and wanton perversion of scripture to serve a political purpose" This is a serious charge, and pro claimed with a flourish of trumpets that might well persuade those who did not know their man so well as we do, that there was something awful coming forth. Well, our labouring ancient, after all, produces only a ridiculous mouse. He has nothing to say to the pas sage cited, but he alleges that Mr. M‘Neile's description of Tyre was not applicable to it in the time of Herod. His words are as follows : " The description of Tyre is taken from Ezekiel, chapter xi vii., and it is quoted as applying to Tyre at the time the apostle wrote, whereas at that time Tyre had fallen from her high and palmy state, and was reduced so low as to be in fear of Judaa. The rev. gentleman puts then in th e h e i g h t o f h er power an d of it as the i fpet Tyre ty were monarch splendour , and in so doing he not only.falsifies the fact, but takes a gross and most unwarrantable liberty with Scripture. His crowning sophistry was received, we are told, with `im mense cheering, and probably the plaudits of his ignorant auditors may be sufficient consolation to him, even if those poss essed of ?viler heads and sounder he ar t s s h ou ld tremble at his audacity. ' Here the assertion is , that Tyre, in the time of He rod Agrippa, was no longer i n t h e state in whicl it was when described by Ezekiel five h un d re d years be fore; but no proof is offered of that allegation. The city had undergone several mutations before the Chris- tian era ; had been conquered and nearly destroyed by Alexander the Great; but was rebuilt, and afterwards became as great nearly as ever. From the frequent mention of it in the New Testament there can be no doubt that Tyre was still a great city in the time of our Saviour. In the second century it was a bishop's see `• and St. Jerome tells us that in his time it was the most famous and beautiful city of Phoenicia, and a mart for all the nations of the world. This ancient father al leges this circumstance as an objection to the accom plishment of Ezekiel's prophecy, c. xxvi. v. 14, and replied to it that the .prophet's declaration is to be un derstood as intimating that Tyre should no longer be the queen of the nations, and enjoy the same authority and dominion that it possessed under Iliriam and its other kings, but should be subject to the Chaldeans, Macedonians, Ptolemies, and at last to the Romans. In the twelfth century Tyre was taken by the Crusa ders, at which period, says Dr. Keith, it was " a great commercial city." Where then is the falsification, if not at the side of our railing and blundering ancient ? On the part of Mr. M`Neile there is certainly none. Tyre was a great city when Ezekiel wrote, and a great city also in the time of Herod ; so much so as to leave Ezekiel's description fairly applicable. Where then is Mr. M`Neile's fault ? We will answer that question : in the jaundiced mind of the antiquated Radical who so rashly undertakes to correct him, and nowhere else. He talks of his "wiser head and sounder heart," poor old man! We really tremble for the soundness of the one and the hopeless callosity of the other. He grasps at straws in such a way as shows fearfully that he is sinking fast. " Wiser head and sounder heart," for sooth ; poor fellow! We are really shocked at his un conscious ignorance. The simple truth is, that the argument is a powerful one, and the illustration in all its parts strong and irrefragable, and that the poor jibbeted Radicals know not what to say in their vexation. Our local contemporaries of the Whig school are full of editorial appeals. Electors of Liverpool Every other article and sentence is a stirring gee-up to the Electors of Liverpool ! They might as well sing Moore's song-- Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you? Your bed shall be roses All spangled with dew ; Will you, will you — Won't you, my dears? "There's some men," said our coachman—the last evening we were riding out of London—" as is above talking to their hosses—hut 1 always do." The fellow kept unceasingly pothering and balling at his cattle, and as they were a bad set, and much needed to be spoken to, he apologised indirectly for disturbing the passengers by the above speech—which we would re commend to the consideration of our editorial chrioteers of the Whig press, in case anybody should complain of their speaking " too often to their hosses." The conclusion we draw certainly is, that the "hosses" have no mind to go. If they had, why all this whipping and spurring—free trade here, and free trade there—Walmsley for ever ! and soforth ? Why, the pens of our Whig contemporaries will be worn to the stump inscribing Electors of Liverpool, do this and do that ! Brother Editors, we feel for you. The fault is not yours. What it is in mortal men to do, you have done, and are doing; but you cannot get on with such a cause, and such a turn-out ; and there be all the blame deponed. You are working your selves to death—but it is all in vain ; the horses won't draw; the coach won't go; and you will just have your labour for your pains. _ Now just observe us: we mount the box with a light step and degage air ; the reins are handed to us with a respectful bow by our attendant ; we take them care lessly; we nod to our friends; and smiles, congratu lations, and joyous looks meet us at all sides. Our studs !—Lord help you, gentlemen, they don't want to be spoken to at all. Thorough-bred, spanking ani mals ; they require to be held in till the proper mo ment, and then they only need to be let go. So when the time is up, we just say, Gentlemen Conservatives ! —(so we call them)—please to remember Sandon and Cresswell Queen and Constitution Church and State—Old England for ever ! and then we go a-head in such style as delights all beholders. But standing by " our order," as we ever shall do. we impute no blame to our less fortunate brethren of the editorial box. No ; it is " the cause," the cause alone that gives us this immense advantage, and we shall ever avow it. It will be perceived from our advertising columns that the Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley retires from the representation of Denbighshire. We are happy to add, however, that the services of the hon. gentleman will not be lost at the reassembling of Parliament. as he comes forward as a candidate for the representation of the Montgomeryshire boroughs with every prospect of success. He is well known as an unflinching ad vocate of church and state, and ought to receive the support of all who wish to uphold the interests of the constitution. Sir W. W. Wynn has addressed the electors of Denbighshire on the retirement of Mr. Cholmondeley, and we are glad to say will be elected without opposi tion. His amiable and charitable disposition, together with his promising talents as a rising statesman, have endeared him beyond expression to every inhabitant of the county. We revert with pride and pleasure to the speeches delivered by Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell at the great meeting of electors held at the Amphitheatre on Msnday. They were received with every token of ad miration and delight by an immense auditory at the moment of their delivery, and they have since been read far and wide by a still more numerous portion of the community, and, we make no doubt, with equal satisfaction. The noble lord drew a spirited and faithful picture of the unhappy ministerialists—spirited and faithful, but without colouring or exaggeration. They were done negatively, and, metaporically speaking, in faint lines ; but the tableau gave us the originals to the life, and was a Daguerrotype. " Gentlemen," said his lord ship, " if we are to keep our trade and commerce in a " healthy state, I think we must have a steadier go " vernment than we have had for the last ten years— " (cheers)—a government upon whose pledges and pro " raises some reliance may be placed—who will not " quiet any one branch of trade one year by giving " them reason to think it will not be touched, and the " next upsetting it root and branch. (Hear, hear.) " We must have a government who know their own " thoughts, who will not make pledges and promises " and then break them. (Cheers.) You must have a " government that will watch foreign countries more " closely than the present—the late government, I was " going to say—(loud laughter)—that will not allow " British navigation to be thrown out of the trade of " Spain, Portugal, or the Havannah—that will not allow " a blockade of Mexico and Buenos Ayres to be esta " blished for two long years—(hear, hear, and cheers)— " that will not allow the north-eastern boundary of ' " North America to remain unsettled for years at the " imminent peril of our peace—that will not allow the " internal affairs of the Canadas to be untouched until " insurrection breaks out, and our finances are bur " denecl by the expense of an ultimately necessary, but " in the beginning perfectly unnecessary war. We must " have a government that will not leave the represents " tive of the Crown in China without instructions, al " though he wrote time after time for instructions on the " great question of the introduction of opium, which he saw would come on. (Hear, hear.) No ;we must " " have a government with foresight to see the cloud in " the horizon before it bursts out into a storm. (Loud " cheers.) We must have a foreign secretary who is " not engrossed by the political hobby of the day, but " who thinks it worth his while, as well as his duty, to " watch over the interests of British commerce,— " (Great cheering.)" His lordship followed them into details upon those commercial questions with which they are now seeking to divert attention from their own manifold delin quencies, and upon each and all made so complete an expose of their budget of delusions as cannot easily be forgotten. Mr. Cresswell addressed himself more par ticularly to that grand crotchet of the day, the cheap bread-cry of the manufacturers, and upon that single text delivered a discourse so replete with argument, so demonstrative, so perfectly irresistible and convincing, that we protest we should l ike to see the " Manchester Dictators" once more in Liverpool just to ascertain how they look after it ? It constituted a large draft upon the great concern of Greg, Cobden, Ashworth, and Co.; and if they cont inue to do busi n e ss thereaf ter, ter, we can only say that they must have most forbear ., ing creditors, If we had had the misfortune to have ever had any dealings with them, we should be very glad to sign on their behalf a composition of 2s. 6d. in the pound; for, in our humble opinion, they are—in the way of statesmanship and political economy of course, we mean—a bankrupt body. We will not say that Mr. Cresswell is alone the author of their mis fortune; but we do aver that a more damaging speech was never uttered against them than which he spoke at the Amphitheatre on Monday. All their stores were dragged forth, and all their sacks were carefully sifted —and the chaff—the chaff of the leaguers—bless us all ! but it did fly off at an awful rate. Mr. Cresswell is a close reasoner—his style terse, concise, and pointed. His speech of Monday was felicitous in all respects, and places him in the first rank as a popular It has given the utmost satisfaction. In point of talent there are few his superiors—and we are perfectly satisfied that he has only to exercise his rare powers and attainments more frequently in the House of Commons, in order to obtain that high reputation in the community at large which he already possesses in his profession. Liverpool has been wise in selecting him as a colleague of the noble lord, and he does infi nite honour to her choice. It will be truly gratifying to us next week to congratulate the borough and the country on his re-election. orator, We beg to draw the particular attention of our readers to an excellent letter from the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, which will be seen in another column. The reverend gentleman disposes, with his usual ability, of a claptrap argument of Lord John Russell in one of his recent addresses to the electors of the City of Lon don. Mr. M‘Neile's rallying cry of FAIR TRADE or SAFE TRADE is for many reasons worthy of adoption in opposition to the nonsensical radical cry of FREE TRADE. LOCAL NEWS, On Monday last, four warehouses were burnt down, and twentv•six houses seriously damaged by fire, in Southwark. The loss is estimated at £15,000 to £20,000. It is said that the nomination of candidates for the City of London will, in all probability, take place on Wednesday next, the 30th instant. Prince George of Hanover has, we deeply regret to say, entirely lost his sight. We are happy to be able to announce, that Mr. William Power, the eldest son of Mr. Power, the comedian, has re ceived a government appointment in the Commissariat. An extensive oil warehouse and leather factory in Maze Pond, Dublin, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday last. The loss is said to be £60,000, besides 70 men out of employment. SQUINTING AND STAMMEIZING. — Those labouring under these distressing afflictions, have How an opportunity of be ing cured by applying to Mr. R. Atkinson, surgeon, now on a second visit to Liverpool, 31, Bold-street. The numerous cures he has made render any further comment unnecessary. Mr. Atkinson's stay is limited, in consequence of his other numerous engagements. LEITH.—On Friday last, a number of conservatives held a meeting in the Exchange Hotel, Leith, and unanimously resolved to request Me. John Gladstone. of Fasque, to come forward as a candidate for the Leith district of burghs. CITY OF DUBLIN.—No candidate is yet announced to come forward in conjunction with the Big Beggarman, to contest the representation of the City of Dublin in opposition to Messrs. West and Grogan, whose canvass is proceeding most satisfactorily. PHOTOGRAPHY.—We have been much gratified by a sight of several likenesses of some of our townsmen produced by the novel and not less wonderful process of photography, now in operation at the Polytechnic Institution, London, only. The likenesses are astonishingly accurate, and bid fair to ruin the art of miniature painting. We understand, that the portraits are produced, in a sitting of only a few seconds, by the reflection of natural light. We confess that this novel process does not come exactly to our comprehension, but we wait with some anxiety to see it in operation here, as, we understand, it will very shortly be; the corporation hav ing given the site on St. James's-walk, lately occupied by the Observatory, where a building is now in the course of erection for working the invention. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a little girl, of about twelve years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a jacket from a shop. The prisoner, who had before been six times committed, and four times discharged, had, it appeared from the evidence, taken a jacket from the shop door of Mr. Aaron, tailor and draper, Park-lane, corner of Tabley-street. She was seen to take the article by a person who was passing, and information being given, she was apprehended in Dickenson-street. She was committed for trial at the sessions. ASSAULT. —Yesterday, at the Police-court, an Irishman, named James Dogherty, a . tailor, was charged with commit- ting a violent assault on Michael Mulany. - The offence was cammitted in one of those faction fights in which the Irish so frequently indulge. Mr. Rushton expressed the determi nation of the magistrates to put down such affrays, and fined the defendant £5, or to be imprisoned two months, requiring him, at the same time, to find sureties for his good beha viour. The defendant, however, finding the case going against him, slipped, unperceived, out of court. A warrant was issued for his apprehension. O'CONNELL AND THE FACTORY CHILDREN.—When I first " agitated" the north on behalf of the factory slaves, wherever I went I was sure to find a helper in a Roman Catholic priest. But soon after O'Connell received £l,OOO from Manchester, an order came from their bishops to his clergy. that " they were no longer to interfere in the factory question." That fact was communicated to me by a Roman Catholic priest, who regretted that, for that reason, he could not aid me."—Oastler's Fleet Papers, No. 26. SIR JOSIIIIA. WALMSLEY'S LIBERALITY.—If there is one recommendation which the supporters of Sir Joshua Walms ley are able to advance in his favour, they never lose sight of it, but urge it upon the consideration of the electors with ridiculous perseverance. His alleged sympathy and consi deration for the poor are paraded before the public with dis gusting ostentation, and we are now about to give an illus tration of their truth. Some short time since an application was made by the corn-porters to their employers for an ad vance of wages to 3s. 6d. per day, which, we believe, was complied with by all except Sir Joshua, who insisted upon his men continuing at work on the former understanding. This was resisted, and the men have never to this day, we arc informed, been suffered to go back to their employment, though suffering much from need, being able to obtain only occasional work. The proposition was considered reasona ble by the majority of the corn-merchants, and ought to have been acceded to by our illustrious knight, if he be, as repre sented, anxious to relieve the miseries and enhance the com forts of the poor ; but liberality and radicalism are never found reigning in the same bosom. PORTRAIT OF JAMES ASPINALL, ESQ.—Mr. Illidge has just finished a large-sized portrait of the above well-known and justly-esteemed individual. It is one of his happiest efforts, strikingly characteristic, without any one part or feature being overdrawn. It would be but small praise to say, that no one who has ever seen Mr. Aspinall, though but once, could fail immediately to recognise the lineaments. The picture contains something more than a mere likeness. It has all that constitutes the difference between correctness of outlihe and what may peculiarly be termed expression, or character. The full, manly, benevolent countenance beams with the unsophisticated kindness and candour that belong to an honest, generous nature. We see there the plain, un pretending simplicity that prefers the sterling to the showy qualities, and studies rather to be, than to seem to be, what it approves. And all who are acquainted with Mr. Aspinall can testify, that he is far more known by what he does than by what he professes. In the other parts of his subject Mr. Illidge has shown equal skill. The position exhibits great freedom ; the figure stands well out, without interfering with the prominence due to the head ; the colours are judiciously harmonised, and the handling throughout distinguished at once by boldness and exactitude. The background is well chosen, and equally well executed. The portrait has been taken by Mr. Illidge, we believe, on his own account ; it will not, however, we think, be suffered to remain long on his hands, when there are so many public institutions number ing Mr. Aspinall among their warmest patrons, and to whose walls it would be so appropriate an ornament. OBTAINING MONEY ON FALSE PRETENCES.--JaMeS Davison, late a constable, was placed at the bar of the Police court, yesterday, charged with having obtained money from a poor woman on false pretences. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. John Howard, that in the course of last week ke gave Davison a warrant for distress on the woman in question, for an arrear of rent amounting to 12s Id. The war rant was to have been executed on the morning of Friday last, but Davison neglected to compiy with his instructions. On the afternoon of Friday Mr. Howard met the prisoner, hav ing learnt that the warrant had not been executed, he asked that it might be returned to him, statiag that he expected to obtain a portion of the arrears on the following Monday. Davison did not give up the warrant, not having it with him, but received instructions not to proceed further with it. On the Monday, Mr. Howard received from his tenant 3s in part payment of the arrears. Notwithstanding this, Davison went to the woman's house on Tuesday, and demanded from her 5s 6d as his expenses. The terrified woman paid the demand. Mr. Rushton said the offence was not one of false pretence, but that an information under the statute might be laid against the prisoner, who was then discharged. The magistrate, however, cautioned him as to his future conduct, and said that if he hereafter found him (Davison) frequenting the court, and taking advantage of his former position, and knowledge of forms, to intermeddle with persons coming there to seek justice, he would have him indicted. THE LARGE FAILURE AT WIGAN.—The firm of Messrs. Heron and Co., whose stoppage was announced first of all in this journal some days ago, have been unable to come to terms with their creditors, and the consequence is, a fiat has been issued against them. Their liabilities are upwards of £150,000, and the Bank of Manchester is said to be a suffer er, to the amount of .E.-10,000. Several large cotton dealers are creditors to a large amount—one firm upwards of £20,000. —Morning Post. ___...._ ~. THE CENSUS.—We have been favoured with the following account of the population of the parish of Liverpool, accord ing to the late census. We hope to be enabled to furnish further particulars in the course of a fsw days : St. Martin's district Great Howard-street district 27,019 Dale-street district St. Thomas's district Mount-pleasant district 32,856 Islington district . 37,684 222,954 Population in 1831 57,779 Increase TOWNSIIIP OF WEST DERBY According to the e numeration taken on the 7th i ns t an t, th e population of Wcst Derby (which forms a part of the borough of Liverpool) amounted to 16,913 persons, of whom nearly 10,000 were residing within the municipal division. The po pulation in 1831 was 9631, so that the increase in the last ten years has been 7282 persons, or 751 per cent. PARISI/ OF WALLASEY. Liscard Wallasey Poulton-cum-Seacombe 6261 Population in 1831 3247 Increase REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN PARLIAMENT. —The medical profession in Dublin held a meeting on Saturday week at which it was resolved to use every exertion to secure the return of a member to parliament to represent the interests of the profession, irrespective of party politics. LORD PALMERSTON'S COLOURS.—The colours chosen by the friends of Lord Palmerston are pink and white—the same as those worn by her Majesty at Ascot. A proclamation appeared in the London Gazette of Tues day, dissolving parliament. The writs are made returnable on Thursday, the 19th of August, for which day the new parliament will probably be summoned. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—It may be well to remind our readers, and all persons who purpose attending the Liverpool meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, that in order to dine at the grand dinner in the pavilion, on the 22nd July, they must be members of the society, and be proposed as such, on or before Monday next. THEATRE-ROYAL, MANCHESTER.—By the Manchester papers we perceive that Mr. Macready will appear there to-morrow evening, in the character of Richelieu, in Sir E. L:Bulwer's play of that name. LANCASHIRE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS.—The general —...---...- quarter sessions of the peace, for the county palatine of Lan caster, will be holden at the Castle of Lancaster, on Tuesday the 29th instant; at the Court House, in Preston, on Thurs day the Ist of July ; at the - New Bailey Court House, in Salford, on Monday the sth of July ; and at the Court House, in Kirkdale, on Thursday the 15th of July. On Saturday last, our respected members, Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, visited the iron ship-building yard of Messrs. Thos. Vernon and Co., where they were very cor dially received, and were much gratified in inspecting a large iron steam-vessel now building, and nearly ready to , be launched ; they were also somewhat surprised at the perfec tion and extent of the adoption of iron instead of wood in the construction of sea-going vessels. Sir Edward Parry, the government surveyor, recently paid a visit to the same establishment, and was pleased to express his approval of the model and workmanship of the before-mentioned vessel. It is our firm belief that another triumph for the principles of free trade, only second to the return of Lord John Russel for the city of London, may be achieved in Liverpool if Lord Palmerston will come forward, and give his sanction to the exertions which are making here to secure his return. — Liverpool Times.—[How very encouraging !] CoLustoN AT SEA.—A. most alarming collision took place yesterday morning shortly after midnight, between her Majesty's mail contract steam-packet Princess, Captain Sarsfield, R.N., and a large brig, off the Island of Anglesey. The steamer, as we are informed, was struck on the larboard side and part of her bulwarks seriously damaged. The brig had her jibboom and bowsprit disabled. When Captain Sarsfield found that his vessel escaped without being seriously injured, he put about, with the characteristic humanity of a British seaman, to ascertain the state of the brig, and on learning that she was perfectly able to make her port, Liver pool, as the wind then was, he resumed his course for Dub lin and arrived, we are happy to state, in perfect safety. An ample investigation will take place into the circumstances connected with this alarming occurrence, to satisfy the pas sengers as well as the (public.—Dublin Evening Mail, Monday, THE ELECTION.—The day of election for this town is not yet fixed upon. The writ had not arrived last night, though the mayor remained at the Town-hall until six o'clock, in expectation of receiving it. The polling will in all probabi lity take place on Thursday or Friday next. Workmen were yesterday busily occupied in the erection of hustings in front of the Town-hall, and other places. THE CORN LAws.—The speech of the eloquent Rev Hugh M'Neile on the subject of the corn laws principally, which was delivered to the Liverpool operatives last week, has excited an immense sensation throughout the country. It has been reprinted in pamphlet form and widely dissemi nated, and we have no doubt will effect much good to the cause every good man has at heart, that of calling forth a spirit of sound English patriotism among the masses who have been the dupes of modern " liberalism." As a speci men of oratory, Mr. M`Neile's speech is unsurpassed, and, better still, his arguments are incontrovertible. We trust that every conservative will aid in making his friends and neighbours acquainted with Mr. M`Neile's talented advo cacy of the interests of " old home-fed England. It will be seen by the following extracts, that the rev. gentleman has completely demolished the arguments the corn-law re pealers have attempted to draw from the sacred scriptures, and at the same time completely turned the tables npon them.—Sta f fordshire Gazette. LORD SANDON AND MR. CRESSWELL'S CANVASS. — GRATIFYING FACT.—About two o'clock on Wednesday, Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, accompanied by Sir Thos. Brancker, repaired to the extensive establishment of Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., founders, York-street, for the purpose of laying their opinions on the various subjects agi tated at the present moment, before those employed, who amount to upwards of 600 in. number, and of whom about 150 are registered voters for the borough. Heretofore this large body of electors voted to a man almost with their em ployers, who are reformers in principle ; but upon the pre sent occasion, this very respectable firm gave them to under stand that they desired not to influence them in any respect, but that they might exercise their franchises according as their conscientious feelings dictated. This circumstance, we need scarcely observe, redounds greatly to the credit of Messrs. Fawcett and Co., and we hope may have a beneficial effect upon other proprietors of large establishments holding similar political views. Our excellent candidates addressed the men at some length upon the several topics, fully expos ing, as they' proceeded, the fallacies of cheap bread, corn, &c. Their speeches were received throughout with the most unbounded and heartfelt applause, and at the close, numerous promises of support were tendered to them. The eloquent and argumentative manner in which both Lord San don and Mr. Cresswell treated the subjects, seemed to carry conviction home to the minds of the whole body ; and from what we have since learned, we believe that the vast majo rity of the voters in the establishment will record their votes upon the conservative side on the day of election. A LIBERAL HA RANGUE TO THE ELECTORS.—Gentlemen, You know my sentiments. Largest amount of happiness to greatest number of people—(eheers)—cheap bread—(cheers) —no church rates—(cheers) —large loaf—(cheers)—no taxes —(cheers)—work six hours a day—(tremendous cheers)—all on a level—(cheers) —everybody vote---(cheers)—every body plenty to eat—(cheers)—no transportation—(cheers)—no treadmill—(cheers) —everybody do as they please—(astound ing cheers.) (At this moment a regular adept at the art had approached closely to the member, and was in the act of withdrawing his watch from his pocket beneath the hustings' rail, when he was detected and immediately handed over to the police.) No rich landlords to tell you how to vote — (cheers) —every body work when he pleases, play when he pleases, and walk where he pleases—every body do every thing every body likes. (Uprorious cheers.) These, gentle men, are my sentiments, and, I doubt not, they are yours. THEATRE ROYAL.—Press of matter compels us to be brief. Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff have been playing their favourite characters during the week ; Miss Vandenhoff is greatly improved since she first appeared. Mr. Vandenhoff is as excellent as ever. On Monday Mr. George Vanden hoff will appear. It will be a curious as well as interesting sight to witness this talented family playing in the same drama. It will remind us of the days of the Kembles— when John, Charles, and Mrs. Siddons appeared in "Pizarro,'.' in.which they were the original characters. FINE ARTS.—We copy the following notice of a very fine picture now on sale at Mr. Hodgson's rooms, from the Edinburgh Evening Courant REMBRANDT—A splendid Landscape by this celebrated master, is now exhibiting ; it was painted for a monastery in Belgium, upwards of two centuries ago, (probably from an Italian drawing, of which it is well known Rembrandt was a great collector,) and is still in the most perfect state of preservation. The scene is laid in the immediate environs of an Egyptian sea-port ' • and partaking both of the character of a Landscape and Sea Piece, has enabled the artist to exhibit his diversified talent by the representation of a great variety of objects. Nothing can be more splendid than, the execution of this picture, whether the grand effect of the chiaroscuro, brilliant yet chaste colouring, or powerful handling, is taken into consi deration ; the aeriel gradations are beautifully preserved, and there is none of the rawness or crudeness so observable in some paintings where effect is aimed at. This picture is a chef d' ouvre, and worthy the study of the artist or the view of the amateur." Besides this work are several others of great merit. One by Moucheron is a rare picture. There is a fine specimen by Hughtenburgh, and a very good Hobbirna, both of which would enrich a collection. A NEW SIGN OF THE TIMES.—On Friday last a most extraordinary occurrence took place at Worcester. Dr. Pepys, the new bishop, having repaired to the see-house, for the purpose of taking possession, found the gates of the palace closed against him, and on presenting himself at the grand entrance, and demanding admission, was told that the palace was in possession of another party, and that • his lordship would not be permitted to enter ! A crowd of persons, attracted by these novel and most unusual proceedings, wit nessed the fact of his lordships application and denial, and awaited with great apparent interest the result. The bishop peristed in his claim. The party in possession was deaf to all remonstrance or entreaty, and the bishop's family was obliged to seek an asylum elsewhere. His luggage remained in the street some time, and his lordship eventually slept at the house of Mr. Foley, a solicitor. This painful spectacle is understood to have arisen from a claim made by a creditor of the late bishop upon certain property within the palace. Bishop P e pys returned to London on Saturday, but his family remained at Worcester. On Sunday they attended the Cathedral; and this morning (Monday) we are told that a sum of money having passed, and a compromise having been effected, Mrs. Pepys and the Prelate's family have been permitted to enter the palace. The terms of the compro mise have not transpired, but the feelings of those in Wor cester who are attached to the church and her interests is this—that so distressing a spectacle, and one which drew forth so many gibes and jests from her enemies, ought never to have been permitted to take place.—Standard. — [A letter has been addressed to the Standard denying some of the particulars of this transaction, but it is substantially correct.] HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A journeyman named Pilon, em ployed at a colour-maker's, in the Rue St. Martin, was making some varnish the day before yesterday, when the pot boiled over. Instead of using a wet cloth, as be ought to have done, he attempted to take the pot off the fire. The liquid became inflamed, and, catching his clothes, burnt with such violence that although almost immediately carried to the Hotel Dieu, his body was half consumed, and he ex pired a few minutes after his arrival in dreadful agonies. The premises caught fire, and were not saved without the greatest exertions.—Galignani's Messenger. RECEPTION ALIAS REJECTION OF CHARLES TOWNLEY, ESQ., ON THE EXCHANGE YES TERDAY. Had we ever entertained the slightest doubt as to the pos sibility of the success of Charles Townley, Esq., in his can vass for the representation of South Lancashire, the freezing reception given to him on the Exchange yesterday, would have dissipated all our hopes, or rather fears, on the subject. About a quarter to four, (full 'Change) a party of gentlemen made their sppearance in High-street, and had it not been for the presence of W. Rathbone, and W. Brown, Esqrs., would have passed by unheeded. It was soon buzzed about, however, that no less a personage than Charles Townley, Esq., accompanied them, and still no notice was taken, and no manifestation of feeling exhibited, and they passed through the crowd into the News-room, where they paused till some few rads, Freme, Priestly, and Co., urged each other to get up a cheer, by way of stimulating the conserva tives to cover their weakness, gave out " three cheers for the queen," which was heartly responded to ; next came " Free Trade and Charles Townley, Esq.," and had it not been that the few gentlemen above named almost cracked their voices with shouting, all would have been dead silence. Mr. W. Rathbone then announced, that Mr. Townley would address the electors from Messrs. J. Cooke and Son's window in the Area, and thither the crowd immediately proceeded, and we can say, with confidence, that not less than 2,000 were as sembled. Mr. Townley was introduced by Mr. Rathbone, and with difficulty gave utterance to his sentiments on the present cricis in the hackneyed terms of anti-monopolisin. free trade, oppressing the poor, over-taxation, &c. &c. ; and Romanist as he is, had the audacity to say, his motto was , " Civil and religious liberty." But. Oh, shame upon you liberals ! "tell it not in Gath," publish it not to the disgrace of the fallen cause of radicalism ! Not a cheer was heard ; not even a semblance of one ; and those who introduced the ca ndidate, slunk back, ashamed of the apathy of their heartless supporters. Mr. Townley afterwards crossed the Exchange, but met once more with the most disheartening reception. So much for the cause of C. Townley, Esq. We are curious to know, and shall wait with some anxiety, to see how our liberal contemporaries will blazo n fortht h tois rejection of their pet candidate. We have be en carefull give the real facts of the case ' and challenge contradiction. His warmest supporters were horror-s t r i c ken; and we shall be much mistaken if what Mr. Townley witnessed yesterday be not the means of inducing him to abandon the canvass in disgust. WARD MEETINGS. SANDON AND CRESSWELL FOR EVER! EVERTON AND KIRKDALE WARD. Shortly after eight o'clock on Tuesday evening last, a meeting of the electors resident in Everton and Kirkdale was held on the bowling-green attached to the Liver Inn, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the re-election of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell as representatives for the borough. It had been advertised that the meeting would be held in the large room of the Liver Inn, but the numbers that pressed for admittance about the time of commencing the proceedings were so overwhelming, that an adjournment to the green bad to be made, in order to afford all those in attendance an opportunity of hearing our excellent candi dates. The chair wal occupied on the occasion by JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq., who briefly stated the nature and objects of the meeting, and eulogised the character and conduct of the conservative candidates. Lord SANDON then presented himself to the electors, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. When silence was restored, he proceeded to say that he should in deed be sorry if he thought that much of the feeling they had just displayed could be attributed merely to the kind sentiments they entertained for an old servant. He knew that there was something of peculiar kindness felt towards . CP one who, for ten long years, had been engaged in their ser vice, who had fought through four contests for the interests of Liverpool, and who upon every occasion had been borne aloft by the popular feeling, and had been literally carried to the hustings upon the shoulders of the people. (Cheers.) He knew that there must be something of a peculiar feeling attached to his appearance among them, but lie should much regret if that feeling could in any material degree be confined to that peculiar circumstance. He had rather, much rather, it were attributable, as it ought to be, to a feeling that him self and his excellent colleague, who represented the conser vative feelings of this great borough, represented also the wishes of the great majority of the constituency. (Hear, hear.) He believed that no circumstance of temporary im portance or delusion could efface from the hearts of the con servative electors those deep-rooted feelings which had been growing firmer year after year within the walls of Liverpool. He was aware of the deep feeling of attachment to the throne, attachment to the church, and attachment to all that was protestant, and to all that was English, which pervaded the minds of the electors generally, and he also knew that feelings such as these were not to be upset by a gale which had been blown for a temporary object by those who were the ministers of the crown, but who could not properly re- present its dignity. (Loud cheers.) He was sure the elect ors would feel with him, that the measures which had been lately proposed under very extraordinary circumstances in parliament, and after every other measure had been at tempted and had failed in securing the affections of the people, would be mistrusted as having been put for the main purpose of creating a temporary delusion. (Hear, hear.) The electors would estimate the degree of feeling which her Majesty's ministers possessed for the people of England, by the hard and unrelenting manner in which they had pursued their theories with respect to the execution of the poor-law ; that those who had carried out their abstract principles on that subject were not those who had a right to claim any peculiar tenderness for the feelings of the people. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Upon this question he wished not to ex cite their feelings. It was a subject upon which the passions might easily be excited, but he was not anxious to agitate the public mind in relation to it. The question, however, was not an abstract one with the conservatives. There had been an engagement entered into on the part of the govern- ment, thatllie new poor-law should not be extended to the north of England, where there existed many who would carry the old law into effect without its abuses. That pledge bad not been maintained. (Hear.) Liverpool had also been subjected to its operations, and the inhabitants had found that their burthens had thereby been increased. (Hear.) He would always be anxious to give to the local authorities of every place that control over the administration of their affairs which it was the practice of the whigs to destroy, by placing all such authority in a central position in the metro polis. He believed there was no greater security for liberty than to leave to the vafious constituencies the management of their own local institutions, and to confer on them a power of governing themselves, and administering their own affairs. (Cheers.) It had been attempted to delude the electors by the cry of " cheap corn" and " free trade " words very seducing in their sound, but sound was not the only thing to be listened to ; the sense should also be exa mined. (Hear, hear.) But what was cheap corn and cheap bread ? The question was not whether the loaf cost 4d. or 6d., but the proportion the price of that loaf bore to the means every person possessed. (Hear, and cheers.) He be lieved that by fostering the domestic industry of the country —he did not say to an aggravated degree, so as to raise bread to a famine price, but by fostering the domestic industry of the people—the best security was afforded for the employ ment of the great body of the people, and the prevention of famine prices on particular occasions. He believed it was the best policy that all countries should to some degree ex tend and encourage, even artificially, the growth of corn at home. What would be the effect in case every country were to proclaim a free trade in corn ? If every country were to say that it was indifferent as to whether it had agricultural produce or not, the result would be that land would. be thrown out of cultivation, and we might be dependent for corn on countries the least fitted for the growth of it, and we should also be dependent on chance seasons. (Hear, hear.) He did not say that every particular provision of the existing corn-law was the best that could be imagined. He believed that it had puzzled the wisdom of statesmen, and that it was capable of being improved by the wisdom of man, but he be lieved also that the system which would protect agriculture was all-important for the people of England. (Hear, hear, hear.) He might be in error with respect to corn, but he could not be wrong about the constitution. (Cheers.) The one was a much clearer question than the other ; and they might rely upon it that if they were to tie themselves to the wheels of the republican and radical party in this country, because the latter happened to be in favour of free trade in corn, they would have to rue the day that their interests had been sacrificed. (Hear, and cheers.) The next was the cry of " cheap sugar." This was the most absurd of all cries. Was the meeting aware of the extent of the cheapness which Lord John Rnssell promised, provided slave-grown sugar were admittedinto England. (Avoice—lt wasabout a penny.) No ; not so much. (A laugh.) That was too high a bid (great laughter): it was the one hundred and twelfth part of eighteenpence. (Hear, hear, and continued laughter.) If any gentleman present had mental arithmetic enough in his head to calculate exactly how much that would come to, he would be able to do more than he (Lord Sandon) could pre tend to do. (Hear, hear.) He believed it would be found that the differenceof small variations of this kind in the price of the article would not go into the pocket of the consumer ; and he believed that even the board of trade would agree that unless the reduction in price amounted to a penny per pound the consumer would not be benefited—(hear, hear)—there fore,, the public had no right to expect that the proposed cheapness in sugar, as it was called, would be, sensibly felt. (Cheers.) And the public should also recollect, that what ever advantage might be felt from the lowering of the price of corn, would be counterbalenced on the other side by a lowering of wages. (Renewed cheers.) He hoped, therefore, that the electors would join heart and hand on the present occasion, recollecting that their representatives in the House of Commons had been fighting a long up-hill battle for the last ten years. (Hear, hear.) A change of opinion from the radical to the conservative side had taken place not only in Liverpool but all over the country. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The people of Liverpool had manifested this change not only at their general but also at their municipal election. (Great cheers.) They had manifested a distrust in the present government on the subject of their comforts, their religion, and the education of their children ; and would they give up and abandon all these feelings, of which they heretofore boasted, to support a government which had ne glected their local interests, and because they saw the walls placarded with the words " cheap bread," " cheap corn," and "cheap sugar?" (Renewed cheers and cries of "Never.") He trusted that those good feelings which had been showing themselves, and increasing from year to year in Liverpool, would lead the electors to place confidence in an administra tion which should be constructed on conservative and firm principles, and which would include the honoured names of Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley. (Great cheers.) He trusted they would rather put confidence in the tried, fixed principles and high integrity of these men, than in the waver ing, unsettled, and unprincipled administration—(hear, hear)—which from year to year, had abandoned one princi ple after another, and which seemed to care for no other principle but the maintenance of itself, not in power but in place. (Vehement applause.) They would not uphold an administration of which inquiry had to be made, year after year, as to what their policy was to be on every question, re ligious, political, and commercial, their assurances op those several subjects in the one year being no security as to the course they might think proper to pursue in the next. (Hear, hear.) Disgraced, degraded, and dragged through the mire, the ministry were clinging to office with a tenacity un paralleled, and appealing to the people when even their own supporters were openly stating that they had no confidence in the result. (Hear, and cheers.) It was a disgrace to the country, and a crying evil, to have an administration cling ing to place, encumbering the energies of the nation, ensuring no respect either abroad or at home, and which had been tossed about from one faction to another as the necessities of the day prescribed. (Most rapturous applause.) He hoped the electors would cordially unite, and carry the present great conservative struggle to a successful issue—that they would come forward early on Tuesday morning, and, defeat ing their opponents by a bold, a manly, but an orderly de meanour, place the conservative candidates at the head of the poll—cry as successfully as ever they had done before, " Sandon and Cresswell for ever !" and that those names would be their watchwords and their battle-cry at the great est victory which the constitution would ever have achieved. Lord Sandon concluded an able speech amidst the most en thusiastic cheers. Mr. CRESSWELL next presented himself, and the cheering was renewed and continued for several minutes. He said it was just four years since he first had the honour of address ing, from the window of that house, a large assembly of the constituency of this important borough. He then stated to them plainly, explicitly, as clearly as he could, and without any circumlocution, the principles upon which he asked for their support. He believed they all understood him ; at least, he could not suppose that he had received their votes under any mistake. (Cheers, and cries of "No mistake.") He hoped they had changed none of the good principles by which they were then actuated. (Cries of "We have not.") Had they any reason to suppose he had? (Vehement cries of " No, no.") Then he hoped they would support him again. (Cheers.) It was at all times extremely agreeable to him to meet his constituents ; he should be most ungrate ful if it were otherwise; for on thos e occasion s when he had betr exposed at pre sentble and incon venience, of a general election . . trouble met them, they had honoured him with the ir approbation. But h to e t r h eg e r e e x tt e e i d te t in h e a n t t th an e d co a u g n it t u r , ag itation , onL h should t ear s ) F or why was it _e that they had this general election ' What was the phrase that her Majesty's ministers tie.dwhp speaking of it, and when avowing that they had advisedt her Majesty to dissolve parliament ? Why, they said what. y ha w t rted to appeal to the people. (Hear.) Appealfr • From the judgment of the representatives of thepeople. (Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) Now he, as a lawyer, could not de n y th e propr i e ty of there being a cour t of appeal._ (Hear, and a l aug h.) It was right that when one judgment was agai ns t a man , h e should have a power ofapp_ealing to an o th er t r ib una l ; an d it was right that whenth e judgment of parli amen t was aga i nst a ministry, ther e should ld be a power of appealing to the peo ple. But t h e n that power should b e accompanied with this, —that where it was quite clear that the j u d gmen t o f th e fi rs t tribunal was right, and that there was no reason to b elieve it would be reversed on appeal, an appeal could only be for the Purpose of vexation towards the Co (Great cheers.) When . the judgment of the House of Commons was against the ministry, what reason had they to suppose that it would be reversed by an appeal to:the people ? None ; and t h e y had proved it; for they kept the parliament together, instead of immediately appealing, in order that they might raise an excitement in favour of doubts which did not at first exist. (Hear, hear. \ 1 He took it that all the old principles of the electors were the same as ever—attachment to the throne, the constitution, the privileges of the people, and their protestant church. (Loud cheers.) He argued not in favour of those principles on the present occasion. He offered not to convince them th at it • was rig • h t to maintain them, for they had proved that they thought itr ig ht returning him as their representative. (Long continued cheers.) Assuming, therefore, that their opinions with re, spect to the old principles were the same as heretofore, he came to the new ones which had been propounded; and hero he begged to remind them that the new ones were only of tem• porary interest, while the others were of permanent impors tance ; and therefore, if there existed a choice between the new and the old, he was sure they would support the old at the expense of the new. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But he was anxious that they should sea how the ministry had acted • in bringing forward the new ones. They had heard that two