The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " Veritas " shall appear next week. A correspondent has desired us to call attention to the fact, that the mills in Bevington Bush are kept working on Sundays, at such hours as to prevent the men at tending public worship. _ - • Why did " A Poor Man " erase his name and address from the communication ? We should have been glad to have given the purport of it, had it not been for this circumstance. " A Hater of Humbug " is desirous of cautioning the public against the statements put forth in a letter signed ' Wm. Byrom," in the Albion, as expressive of the views of the Wesleyans towards the Established Church. Medicos" requests us to caution the public against several penny almanacs, which he states are a gross im position on the unwary, and are merely got up by quacks, who, to sell a box of their pills, do not mind making a present of the almanac, in which their nostrums are strongly recommended. _ _ We had not the slightest intention of giving any offence to " Veridicus." It is almost impossible, in declining a favour from a correspondent, to give a reason satis factory to him. Did he nut perceive, on perusing what we had erased from his communication, that his expres sions were not characterised by a spirit likely to render his sentiments effectual? " SOMETHING Suspicious ABOUT THE DOCKS. "— In leader under this head, our contemporary the Journal says that " an able article imputed to a worthy alder man appeared in last Monday's Albion, and a reply, evidently from another in the secret, graced the Stan dard of Tuesday." We must set our contemporary right with respect to the latter portion of his remark. We never permit any party, in the secret or out of it, to ride his hobby, or to impeach the motives and ho nesty of his opponents, from behind our editorial chair. Upon most local questions we consider ourselves fully qualified to express au opinion of our own ; and where we are at a loss, we endeavour to supply our deficiency of information by inquiry. If the gentleman recently " high in office in the Whig administration" has not been accustomed to turn his sublime contemplation to such merely mundane matters, he may be assured that, in his new avocation, he will find it desirable to make the attempt. A very little knowledge of his subject— as much as could he gathered from an intelligent dock gateman—would have kept him from the perpetration of an article, characterised by sheer ignorance, ill dis guised by impudent swagger. Ebe ?..iberpoot &tan Dan. TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 31, 1843. We embrace this, the last opportunity afforded to us, of calling the attention of the Conservative con stituencies to the struggle for municipal honours which will take place to-morrow. That, in many of the wards, the contest will be vigorously urged by our opponents, we entertain not a shadow of doubt. The Whig-Radical faction still hanker after the power and patronage which, in past years of misrule, they enjoyed,—still long to regain their lost supre macy in the administration of our local affairs,—still long to be enable I once more to level "heavy blows and great discouragement" against the Established Church of the realm, and to plant the cloven foot of popery upon its ruins. Infidelity and dissent still gloat over the prospect of clutching within their poisonous grasp the unformed minds of the children of our working poor; and revolutionary agitators are not wanting who look forward to the erection, within the Council chamber itself, of normal schools of sedition, from which to direct insult and odium against the Throne and the Constitution, and to war against the peace and laws of our country. If Conservatives would avert the fulfilment of these iniquitous and malevolent designs—if they would not once more submit to be prostrated be neath that galling tyranny, from which they so lately freed themselves ;—they must be up now, and stirring, and resolute to maintain their present proud position ; there must be no trimming, no wavering, no fainting in their ranks. Above all, there must be no unworthy jealousies;—no indulgence of merely personal animosity or spleen ; no disposition to peril THE CAUSE-a nobler than ever interested humanity —for the gratification of any merely private feeling towards the individual, who steps forward, or who has laboured, in its defence. We are led to the above remarks by intimations, which have reached us, of an intended opposition—a Conservative opposition too (o—said to be contem plated against a gentleman who, above many—many of his fellow Conservatives in the Council, has de served well of the entire Conservative constituency; and whose rejection at this crisis, we firmly believe, and are prepared to prove, would be a blow to the Conservative administration of the affairs of this bo rough, more fat:‘l and disastrous than it could sus tain by the rejection of any other member. Need we say that we refer to Mr. Sands, the present Con servative candidate and, during six years of arduous struggle within the walls of the Council chamber, the faithful Conservative member for, Exchange Ward ? Against this gentleman, menaced already by a Whig-Radical candidate, it is now fully under stood in certain quarters, to which we have no wish to point, that a Conservative opposition is already organised; which hopeless of success itself, is con tent, by dividing the Conservative force, to seat in the Council chamber, as the representative of the ward, a Whig-Radical, whose only claim to notice, as a public man, consists in the fact that he has ever been, and continues to be, the echo and the shadow of that great luminary of the Council chamber and the Dock Committee, Mr. Alderman Evans. We might perhaps reasonably indulge a hope that the fact of such a determination on the part of any body of Conservatives was a weak invention of the enemy,—that " the wish was father to the thought." But so weighty are the interests involved in this con test, that we cannot refrain from the duty of im pressing upon the Conservatives of the Ward the disastrous results of any attempt of the kind, how ever insignificant the number and the influence of those engaged in it. At the present moment, Mr. Sands, as the Chairman of the Dock Estate, is en gaged in an effort to provide, for the increasing and prospective wants of the port, an increased amount of dock accommodation; and in furtherance of this object, so loudly called for by the shipping interest, backed by the leading mercantile associations, he has acted with an energy and singleness of purpose which ought to earn for him the gratitude of all but a few crotchetty members of this great community. On the other hand, it cannot have escaped the ob servation of our fellow-townsmen that an attempt is about being made to revive once more amongst us the agitation of the dock warehouse question—to impel us once more before Parliament in pursuit of that still untried good, for which we have already bartered one of the most valuable possessions of the Dock Estate--the control over the strand of the river Mersey; and that the means, by which this pet object of the party is to be accomplished, is the in fliction of continued inconvenience and loss upon the commerce of the port by the refusal of any fur ther increased accommodation than that which is assumed as the result of warehouses upon the dock quays. The leader of this movement we need not say is the indefatigable alderman and journalist, Mr. Eyre Evans; and we venture to say that no one will rejoice more sincerely and obstreporously thanithat ingenious gentleman at the success of any hostile effort, which will remove Mr. Sands, not only from his sphere of usefulness in the Council, but also from his position as Chairman of the Dock Com mittee, though this, we believe, is impossible. We ask of the Conservatives 9f the ward,—are they prepared, by the injurious course which they are pursuing, to pander to the gratification of Mr. Alderman Evans,—to give cause of glee to every enemy of the Conservative cause and every oppo nent of well matured measures of local improve ment, and of bitter grief to the great mass of their own party throughout the borough? We trust they are not,—that they will yet pause in their ill-advised course,—that they will allow private grievances, whatever they may be, to be privately expiated,— and remembering the importance of the trust which the possession of the franchise confers upon them for public purposes, make use of it only to advance that great cause and those great principles of which hitherto they have been the foremost assertors. Upon the question now at issue, with respect to the necessity of providing increased dock accommo dation for the increasing shipping of the port, by the purchase of the Harrington Company's pro perty, and the strand north of the Dock Estate, we have remarked at length in another article. To one point, however, mooted at the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, we are under the neces sity, on account of its great importance, of address ing a few additional observations. We refer to the principle which ought to guide the Finance Com mittee and the Council, in fixing the price of their land, so to be disposed of to the Dock Committee. It is urged by Mr. Alderman Evans, and the fa vourers of his crotchets, that the price of the north strand should be a nominal one—at the utmost ss. per superficial yard—inasmuch as the land to be sold has been " made" for the corporation by de posits of excavations from the dock works. We cannot admit the justice of the conclusion, although we readily admit the fact upon which it is based. The land in question has been advantaged by the receipt of the waste soil from the Dock Estate ; but it has also served as a convenient deposit for that soil, and, but for its existence, a more expensive scite must have been found. It has been " made" by the Dock Committee, not as any matter of favour to the Corporation, but as a matter of favour to the Dock Committee; and the latter have just as little right to profit by its enhanced value, as they would have to profit by the enhanced value conferred upon any neighbouring land, by the construction of a new dock, or other works, which might bring it into the market by giving it a frontage for business pur poses. The fact is, the Dock Committee ought to have purchased the strand in question years ago, at the time (in 1822) when they bound the Corporation by act of Parliament, to make use, or sale, of it for no other than dock purposes ;—when, in fact, they fas tened it as a dead weight upon the Corporation. They should have bought it before they made it of this increased value; and, having neglected so to do, they have no right to any forbearance from that body, to whom has naturally and justly fallen the advantage which they themselves refused or ne glected to appropriate, when within their reach. That part of the question, then, we must treat as decided against the Dock Committee. They have no claim upon the Corporation, as, of right, to any preference over an individual purchaser. It is urged, however, that they ought to be favoured— that they ought to have handed over to them valua ble portions of the Corporation property, at a nomi nal price, as a matter of policy, the welfare of the town at large being identified with the prosperity of the Dock Estate. Again we admit the premises, but deny the conclusion. The town is undoubtedly benefitted by the extension of the shipping of the port ; but that the Corporation, who are virtually trustees of the property belonging to the burgesses, have a right to part with that property at a price be neath its fair value, to advance the interests of the dock ratepayers—a body composed, as the Chairman of the Committee observed, of the consumers of exported and imported produce throughout the world—we cannot admit, even although their own interests are thereby indirectly advanced. There is no limit to which such liberal complaisance might not be carried, if once we admit the validity of this argument; and we must remember that the Dock Estate is richer and more able to bear its own hur thens than that of the Corporation. The true principle, upon which alone the two bo dies can treat for this or any other property is, that each body should look only to the interests of the constituencl , by whom it is elected. That this will be the course of the Finance Committee of the Council we trust. They m ill insist upon, not an ex orbitant, but a fair price for the land now to be sold, in justice to the burgesses whose property it is; and in despite of the jesuitry of an anti-local faction, who would willingly squander that property for the advancement of their selfish crotchets and pet theo ries. The Corporation stand urgently in need of an increased surplus fund, to enable them to carry out the various improvements required within the borough without pressing upon the means of the inhabitant householders; and from no source can such fund be more legitimately augmented than from the sale, at an equitable price, of those portions of the Corporate Estate which, unproductive at pre sent and likely to continue so, for strictly corporate purposes, can, as in the case of the north strand, be converted to valuable use by the Dock Committee. The agitation, for Repeal still continues, despite of its abandonment by O'Connell for the modified measure of a " Federal Union," and the impending prosecutions against that incendiary and his satel lites. The "monster meetings," it is true, are for the present discontinued ; but we have, in their stead, demonstrations of the promptitude with which the peasantry can be summoned to a general rising, by signal fires lighted from hill to bill ; we have the usual weekly meetings in " Conciliation Hall," at which the usual quantity of sedition is given forth to the world ; we have daily accessions to 'the ranks of the disaffected, and vast additional sums flowing in, to swell the fund by which threatened rebellion and treason are fed by a coerced and plundered people. With these " signs and portents " before us, rendered more striking by the continued pour in of troops, from every available quarter, into Ireland, we are fully justified in asking—What is the nature of the crisis towards which these demon strations are tending, and for which Government are making such energetic and vast preparations ? That the ministry of Sir Robert Peel are in earnest in their determination to put down the agitation for Repeal, and to avert the threatened dismemberment of the empire, we entertain no doubt. That the prosecution against the leading incendiaries will he firmly carried on to a convic tion, we as little doubt. But the next step—what is that to be ? O'Connell evidently—his first cowardly tremor having passed away—laughs at the personal consequences to himself, to arise from the present step. He anticipates probably a fine, which would be promptly paid from the Repeal exchequer, and the amount substituted by treble exactions from his duped followers. Such an issue, however, cannot be contemplated by Government ; or why this con tinued movement of troops to Ireland ? Something more serious than a mere pecuniary atonement must be intended, or else some ulterior and more decisive steps, to strike at the agitation itself, and not merely at the leading agitators, must be in preparation. Perhaps, jocular as O'Connell now affects to be, the issue of the approaching trials may lodge himself and a few of his myrmidons within the walls of Newgate, or some other equally secure place of confinement for would-be rebels. In this case, it is quite possi ble th .t all the force at the disposal of Government may be required to preserve thz peace of Ireland ; for it was asked, a week ago, by the arch-agitator himself, whether, upon the occurrence of such an event as his incarceration, "those outside would be 'any safer than those within." His own person se cure from injury, it is little indeed that the cowardly rebel will care for the lives of his ignorant and be trayed followers. The very event—an outbreak and attempt at rescue—which he himself thus insi diously suggested, would perhaps take place; and for such an attempt the Government are no doubt preparing. But, we ask, is it wise in Government to stand patiently waiting, although prepared, for an event so calamitous in its results as this may be ? Is it wise to permit, under their very eyes, and al most within hearing of the Castle of Dublin, the same seditious proceedings to go on day by day— the same dangerous organization to be perfected — the same illegal levying of funds to continue, and additional hundreds of hot-brained fools to be drawn, week by week, within the meshes of trea son,—when one more prompt and vigorous step in advance would suffice, either to bring rebellion to a premature head and crush it at once, or to break up the organization by which it is pushed forward ? We submit that such a waiting policy is not wise— is not just. The proceedings of O'Connell and the other traitors, now about to be put upon their trial before a jury, have been visited in their persons as illegal; and if the executive has not already power to prevent as well as to punish sedition, that power ought at once to he sought from Parliament, in justice to those who, day by day, encouraged by the tacit posture of the authorities, are bringing into jeopardy their own liberties, and the lives of thousands who look up to them for guidance. The columns of the Albion, yesterday, contained another article upon the subject of Dock Extension; which, although no doubt it expresses the views of Mr. Alderman Evans, we shall not attribute to the pen of that gentleman, but rather set it down as the clumsy and bungling performance of the editor himself, duly crammed for the occasion. The very little which the article in question contains will re quire from us a very brief reply. And first 'et us deal with the " statements of facts," which, in our notice of the Alderman's own production last week, we are accused of leaving " almost unheeded, and altogether unanswered." The Albion's echo of the Alderman states that, at the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, " the purchase not only of the Harrington and the Corporate property was again decreed, but that of a quantity of land at, it seems, the selling parties' asking price." Now we say, fearlessly, that the latter fact never seemed at all I There was nothing in the proceedings of the Dock Committee to lead to the supposition that such was the case; and the assertion, therefore, is as disingenuous as it is dis honest. So far from the price concluded upon being the "asking price," we can state on authority that it is very considerably below such price. So much, therefore, for " statement" the first. The Albion says this purchase "was thrust upon the Committee, without previous notice or inquiry" as to the traffic, &c. And, pray, how was it thrust ? It was the deliberate resolution of the majority of the Committee ; and unless Mr. Alderman Evans is himself the Committee, this statement is as wide of the truth as the first. We shall pass over the absurd statement of figures with which the Albion endeavours to frighten the community. A deficiency of £51,000 per annum, he maintains, will he the result of the carrying out of the resolutions of the Dock Committee. Our contemporary does indeed give the world credit for an amazing amount of gullibility ! But we must turn from the Alderman's—we beg pardon, the Albion's—statements, and anproach the small modicum of argument with which he fur nishes us. " As a question of dock warehouses or no dock ware houses," urges our contemporary, " it is clear, that, if warehouses cannot be had on a central dock, they should be taken on any dock. Everywhere they will he invalu able : but, if they are particularly desirable in central situations, it will he open for a compromise with our warehouse oligarchy, who may, perhaps, permit a smaller quantity in the desired situations, in lieu of the larger elsewhere. What reflections does not this state of things give rise to ? " Aye, " what reflections" indeed ! For only revert to the previous arguments of the writer, and see how astounding is the inconsistency. To effect the proposed purchases, and to furnish the increased dock accommodation required, would create a defi ciency of £51,000 per annum in the revenue of the dock estate, and double the existing dock rates; but expend another million, in erecting warehouses round a timber dock and a steam and coasting dock, and the Alderman is perfectly satisfied ! Add ware houses to your scheme, exclaim in concert Messrs. Evans and Ripley; and we will go with you in all the " extravagant purchases" which you propose ! But the warehouses in question, we are assured, are only to be warehouses upon paper—a kind of goblin to terrify the warehouse-owners withal. A most excellent device truly, and worthy the most astute disciple of Loyola! Alderman Evans will wink at the sacrifice of £51,600 per annum, if you only give him a clause in your act of Parliament to fling in the face of the" Warehouse Oligarchy." Yet this man is your paragon of dock economists ! A question to Mr. Evans in conclusion—for we must really be excused the task of noticing the re mainder of this twaddling production. If we re member right, the original proposition to purchase land from the Harrington Dock Company emanated from a gentleman, supposed on most occasions to be tolerably well agreed in opinion with Mr. Evans —viz., Mr. James Aikin ; and, on his motion, Mr Sands was requested to treat for such land, to the amount of 50,000 to 60,000 yards. The whole quantity of land at the disposal of the Harrington Dock Company was found by that gentleman to be only 120,000 yards ; and very wisely he decided that to purchase only half—even had the company been disposed to sell it, which they were not—would be perfectly suicidal on the part of the committee, as adding at least 50 per cent. to the value of the remainder, which would at some future day be wanted ; and he, therefore, treated for the whole. Now, let us enquire of Mr. Evans what will be the difference, as respects the interests of the Dock Estate, of the two courses—viz., that sanctioned by Mr. Aikin's original motion, and that pursued by the chairman of the committee. It will require, say the 50,0000 or 60,000 yards, first directed to be purchased, for the formation of the proposed new timber dock ; and, had only that quantity been pur chased, the Harrington Company would have had the remainder of their land, as we have already stated, enormously increased in value, and been en abled, should any further purchase have been found necessary, to exact a proportional large price from the Dock Committee. But the whole of the land being purchased, the advantage arising from the proximity of the dock to be built accrues to the Dock Estate, and we firmly believe will be almost sufficient to make up the cost of the quantity originally sought to be purchased. Will the alderman inform us how he reconciles his support of Mr. Aikin's first crude proposition with his present virulent opposition to the judicious and economical course adopted by the Chairman of the Dock Committee ? THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD DISASTROUS RESULTS TO IRELAND OF AN ATTEMPT TO CARRY THE REPEAL BY VIOLENCE. The lavish abuse which has been heaped by Mr. Daniel O'Connell upon the writer of the letters on the condition Ireland, from which we extracted largely in our last publication, has very naturally stamped them, in the esti mation of the public, with an authenticity of character, of which otherwise they might have been deemed unworthy. We therefore make no apology to our readers for present ing to their notice a few further extracts, which vre recom mend in particular to the serious consideration of the duped followers of O'Connell in this locality. Referring to the delusion of the Irish people, with respect to their numerical superiority, the writer remarks : • " The poor people forget, or they have never heard, that although positively many, they are comparatively few. The Roman Catholic peasantry of the south of Ireland are greatly outnumbered by the rest of their countrymen, in cluding the loyal and well-affected Catholics and Protes tants of Ireland, and the great body of the English and Scotch people. " But mere numbers form only one, and by no means the most important, element in a military question: ",The sea is entirely at the command of the British go vernment. No part of Ireland is much more than fifty miles from the sea. Our ships of war and steamers would command the maritime towns and coast, and convey troops to the flank or rere of any rebel force that might be assembled in any part of the country. There is no part of Ireland in which an insurrectionary force could take up its position, and say, " We are safe here." " The country is also, for the most part, very open and weak, in a military point of view ; there are no fences which could oppose any serious obstacles to the manoeu vres of regular infantry, and in most parts of the country cavalry might act in numbers sufficient for a contest of this description. The island is also now perforated in every direction by good roads ; it is true that there are some mountainous districts in the west which would afford strong positions ; but the question would not be decided in the mountains. As far as that district is concerned, it would be sufficient to watch any rebel force that might as semble there, and it must soon melt away of itself for want of provisions. All the strongholds of the country are in the hands of the government, and its officers and troops are fully pre pared." With similar ability the writer combats the assumption that the Protestants of the North of Ireland would hold back in the event of a struggle. In such a crisis, he re marks,— " All minor differences will be absorbed by the porten tous consideration of the maintenance of their relizion and liberties. The northerns are quite as ready to fall on as the Roman Catholic peasantry of the sou►h ; and it will be seen that such is the case the moment the restraint which is at present imposed upon them by the government is removed." The following observations as to the disastrous conse quences of a prolonged contest are fearfully impressive and true : " The actual loss rf life is the least of the evils which is entailed by a popular war ; when the contest is merely be tween the governments, the people look on while the re gular armies fight it out ; and, after a campaign or two, the matter is decided, without much injury to either party. Even in our own civil wars, although infinite evils were entailed upon England, the contest was in the main be tween the regular armies on each side. But if an insur rection breaks out in Ireland, the struggle will be between the people and with the people. Every town, every vil lage, every farm-house will be a scene of conflict; the in dustry of the country will be suspended, the stock of food and the means of future production will be destroyed— within six months there will be a famine, and within six montl.s more there will be a pestilence, to say nothing of the widows and orphans. There is no European country which would suffer so severely from the effects of a popu lar war as Ireland, because none is more populous and none less provided with varied resources. In order to find a parallel to the effects of such a warfare in Ireland, it would be necessary to go to those districts of India which have been the scene of murderous and long-continued con tests. In the struggle carried on in the south of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth, which is known by the name of the Desmond war, the people died by hundreds in the ditches, with grass in their mouths, with which they vainly endeavoured to satisfy the cravings of hunger. This has been repeatedly referred to by O'Connell, as a proof of the atrocious cruelty of the English. It was no such thing. The Desmond war was a strictly popular war, such as we are now threatened with; and the necessary consequence of such a war, in a country circumstanced as Ireland, is, that the sources whence life is sustained are dried up. In such a case the miserable people have no choice given them between famine, pestilence, and the sword. They fall under all three. Will it now be said that the loss of a million or two of lives would be the only sacrifice which the people would have to make, and that the survivors would be benefitted by the change ?" The improbability of any successful foreign intervention is shewn with equal force. But the most important por tion of these letters is the following concluding passage : " And let not these poor deluded people count on the British soldier abandoning his colours. Some drunken men, who have had liquor given them by the repealers, may roll down the street, shouting nut, in the frolicsome thoughtless style of such people, Hurrah for repeal'.' but if it came to be a question whether they would be true to their sovereign and to their own pledged faith, even these persons would do their duty perhaps as effectually as their more steady comrades; and as soon as the first blood is spilt, see who will be the greater tiger of the two. " And will there be no defection in the rebel camp? They are now all apparently united, because the popular current runs so strongly in one direction, that all are obliged to yield at least an outward conformity to the pre vailing idea. But wait, I say again, till the time comes for showing colours, and see how many of the gentlemen who now cheer you on to the brink of the precipice will jump down with you. Are you so mad as to imagine that several persons whose names will at once occur to you, will ever dream of hoisting the white cockade ? Even among those who will break out with you, is it to be ex pected that all will remain true ? There is an old Irish adage, Roast an Irishman on the spit, and you will be sure to get another to turn him.' Many will soon weary of the contest. Others will begin to doubt whether it be eventually attended with sucress ; and there will be no want of persons who will gladly avail themselves of any opportunity that may offer of making their peace with the government at the expense of their former associates." THEFT FROM A BUTCHER'S SHOP.-At the Police Court, yesterday, a boy named Joseph Bennett, was charged with stealing 51b. of beef, from the shop of Mr. Hughes, Heath-street, Toxteth-park. He had gone in with two other boys to ask for a light, and while it was being procured by one of the others, he ran off with the meat, but was pursued and captured. Being an old offender he was sent for trial. A " PETTY" ROBBERY.—At the Police-court. yester day, a man named Thos. Mc Rema, was charged with robbing Michael Caine of the sum of £3. 12s. 6d, in cash. It appe'ared that they both lodged at the house of a man named M'Dermot, in a court in Stockdale-street. and both rose about the same hour yesterday morning, the complainant to go to his work, and the prisoner to go, as he said, to the back yard. The former soon afterwards missed his money, and suspicion fell upon the prisoner as the only one who had gone out. The money was after wards found concealed under a slate in the roof of the "petty," to which he had gone. He was committed for trial. THE WEATHER.—Since the gale of Friday night and Saturday the weather has been extremely changeable. Sunday was fine and sunny, though coldish, with a wes terly wind, and the number of parties who visited the Cheshire side of the river in the afternoon, by the steam boats, was great for the season. The evening was clear, with a bright moon, and towards the close inclined to frost. Yesterday morning, however, the sky again broke with occasional showers, and towards day-light rain set in, which became heavier, and continued almost inces santly throughout the day, and last night until the time of our going to press. The potatoes yet ungathered, and some patches of corn in various parts of our county which had not fully ripened, may suffer some injury from the excessive wet in low grounds ; but we do not anticipate any serious or extensive damage. The Church of England School Society, which has now for seven years pursued its most useful course, is about to hold its annual meeting in the Lecture-hall of the Colle giate Institution, the Bishop of the Diocese taking the chair. It is extremely gratifying to witness the progress and success which educational efforts have made in Liver pool since the formation of this society. Not only are there twelve schools in connection with it for the educa tion of the labouring poor, but the Collegiate Institution supplying the demand for sound and scriptural education in all classes of society, and the Female Orphan Asylnin providing for the wants of the most destitute, testify that neither the zeal nor the benevolence of the friends of edu cation in Liverpool is exhausted. The meeting, we doubt not, will be very interesting, and acquires fresh importance from the effort which the Church of England is now making to place a religious education within the reach of all her members. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE AT HALE.—A meeting of the Floral and Agricultural Society of Hale and Halewood lately took place. When the business of the meeting was over, the following extraordinary scene occurred :—Our patriotic Col. Williams, in his " Russia ducks," mounted the platform, and expressed his wish to address the people on the subject of the corn laws, and bad assembled not a few persons to hear his rhapsodies, when suddenly he was interrupted by the appearance of a gentleman in authority, who inquired the object of the meeting, and by whose permission he thus intruded upon the business of the day. Col. Williams indignantly replied, " that be was a magis trate, and that he did not know of any authority to pre vent him acting as he thought proper." The gentleman replied, "no man has authority to act in this ancient and " t w he ho ge h n a t s le m re , m o an loyal borough without permission of the chief magistrate. th e And, authority t p y , r thanay, m " e ? said That,ol. Williams,rpl d " I will shortly shew you — l am the Mayor of Hale ; and I will not allow any demagogues to disseminate false doc trines or mischief within my prov ince;" on which the mayor ordered the platform to be cleared, and the gallant colonel and his squad were compelled to fly and take served, yro venture, this utiorl county. what Thus may refuge in a public-house in the immediate neighbo ur h oo d : and thus was this fanatic p reven t e d di s t ur bi ng th e peace very la taf ea a guebe and whenever loyal po theytin o h . should your Cobdens, y our B r i g h ts , an d ot h ers of the be termed sacred ground, PROSPECTS or THE APPROACHING ELECTION. We propose, on the eve of our Municipal struggle, to enter upon a brief and candid examination of the merits of the various candidates, and to speculate, as correctly as the data in our possession enables us to do, upon their relative chances of success. In doing this we shall take the different wards seriatim, as they stand numbered in the Municipal Register ; and that we may not mislead any of our readers into the indulgence of over-sanguine hopes, or, on the other hand, unduly excite their fears, we must in setting out distinctly state, that our judgment will be formed not from any acquaintance with the state of the canvas in the various wards, but from a conviction, formed by a consideration of the result of past elections, of what may be achieved by exertion and energy on the part of the various committees. We commence then with EVERTON WARD.—In this, one of the strongest con servative wards of the town, the candidates opposed are Mr. David Hodgson, the retiring conservative member, and Mr. Christopher Rawdon, on the Whig-radical interest. At the last election Mr. Francis Shand walked over the course without opposition. In the previous year, how ever, the ward was contested and won by Mr. Thomas Shaw, conservative, one of the present sitting n:;-,,ihr•rs, beating Mr. M. Ashcroft, radical, by a majority of 127, which we may assume to be the present conservative ma jority of the ward. The gentleman who now again seeks the suffrages of the conservative electors has, during his period of office, fully redeemed every promise made at the time of his first election; and without entering at all into the merits of the rival candidate, Mr. C. Rawdon, the rejected of St. Paul's Ward at the last election, we shall only say that he is not the man, if there be such a one, who can shake Mr. Hodgson from the position which he deservedly occupies in the esteem and affection of his con=tituents. SCOTLAND WARD has on most former vacancies been strongly contested, and with varied success. Last year Mr. Richard Houghton, a gentleman possessed of great local interest, was elected without opposition. In the year preceding, Mr. Isaac Holmes, after a hard fight, was returned by a majority of ten votes. The present re tiring member, Mr. Thornhill, if we recollect right, only won his seat within the last few minutes of polling, by a majority of two ! In this ward, therefore, we look for ward to a neck and neck race, the result of which we can not foresee. Mr. Thornhill possesses great interest amongst the Radicals of the ward, the result of his doings in the Market and Watch Committees, and has also, from his subserviency to their dictates secured the coon ttmance of some of the leaders of his party. We may therefore expect to see every exertion and even trickery put in requisition to secure his return. He is opposed on this occasion by Mr. Thomas Vernon, a sound and able Conservative, although newly embarked upon the arena of local politics; and if his Conservative friends work hard, and those gentlemen who have influence in the ward can be induced to lay aside the apathetic indifference with which, it is said, they have hitherto regarded the coming contest, there is Conservative strength sufficient in the locality to place a good Conservative at the head of the poll, and Mr. Thornhill where he ought to be at the bottom. The contest, however, we repeat, will be se vere, and to win it will require all the energy of the Con servative party. VAUXHALL WARD.—In this ward Mr. Case was beaten at the last election by Dr. Blackburn, by a majority of 34. The Radical candidate this year is Mr. Thomas Chalmer, the defeated candidate for St. Anne's; opposed to him is Mr. Thomas Case, who at the last hour has been induced to come forward. Let the electors of Vauxhall do their duty, and Mr. Chalmer will be once more de feated. ST. PAUL'S WARD is contested by Mr. Blundell, the retiring Conservative member, and Mr. Thomas Deakin, who was beaten by a majority of 21, at the last election, by Mr. J. C. Thomson. The partisans of Mr. Deakin on the present occasion are seeking to strengthen his local influence by an alliance with the body called " Badgers ;" but the ruse, we are inclined to think, will not succeed against a candidate so well known and so highly esteemed in the ward as Mr. Blundell. EXCHANGE WARD was yielded to a conservative last year without a struggle; was won by the conservatives in the previous year by a majority of 29 ; and in 1840 was carried by the present member, Mr. Sands, by a majority of 44. We have referred to the prospect of the present contest elsewhere ; and can only say here that if the strength of the two parties is to decide the contest, Mr. Sands will beat the radical, Mr. Holt, with scarcely an effort. If the conservative interest is divined, however, the radical will be elected and the Conservative character of the ward sullied for ever. We hope such a consum mation will be averted ; but time alone will show. CASTLE-STREET is in the hands apparently of Mr. James Aikin, who will probably not be opposed, although we know not why. Mr. Aikin is no doubt a respectable man ; but a more bitter politician does not sit in the Council chamber. We believe that, with exertion, this ward might have been carried, and even yet the chances of success are not hopeless. The Radical majority, last year, was only 35 ; and with the double votes, which might this year be brought without danger from many of the other wards, and the known improvement in the regis ter, Mr. Aikin might very possibly be sent to superintend his ship buiding in the Isle of Man, instead of favouring the world with his unitarian sentiments, on education and other matters in the Town Council. ST. PETER'S renowned in story as the Gibraltar of Mr. Bright, is contested by Mr. Tinne on the Conservative side, and by the great gun of Radicalism, Thomas Bolton on the part of the almost defunct faction. The strength of this ward is now undeniably Conservative. Last year it was won by Mr. Samuel Holme, by a majority of 115 •, in the preceding year it was won by a majority of 25 ; and on the retirement of Mr. S. Holme this year not a Whig could be found bold enough to contest it. On the present occasion, to secure the return of the sworn enemy of Town dues (the mainstay of the wealth of our Corporate estate) and of the Freemen (to whose tried Conservatism is to be attributed many and many a Radical defeat,) the faction will move heaven and earth, no doubt, hut against a candidate whose name is so intimately connected with the trade of the port as is that of Mr. Tinne, and who is moreover so eminently qualified in himself to represent the interest of the ward, we do not anticipate for Mr. Bolton anything less than a sound thrashing. Gibraltar is ours now.and we intend to keep it so ! PITT-STREET WARD.—The candidates here are Mr. Thomas Toulmin, the retiring conservative, and Mr. Benn, formerly a radical alderman and deputy-chairman of the Dock Committee. The former, although during his three years of office he has not prated incessantly like some of the members of our municipal body, has stuck manfully to his duty and his principles; and on all occa sions has been found supporting the good old cause. Mr. Benn we can only describe as one of the Evans clique—a thorough-going whig partizan. With two such candi dates, the ward ought to be won, and, we trust, will be won for the conservative. Notwithstanding the fact that, mainly owing to the unscrupulous efforts and misrepre sentations of a certain bustling vendor of slops, it returned a radical last year (who, by the bye, has never, that we know of, opened his mouth, and rarely been present even) by a majority of 19, the ward, as was shown by Mr. Aspi. nail's majority of 42 the year preceding, is thoroughly conservative; and, if due energy be used, we fully expect a victory on this occasion for the conservative candidate. GREAT GEORGE'S WARD was vacant, and a conserva tive elected, last Wednesday, without opposition. Mr. John Sothern is the conservative candidate, and is op posed by Mr. Thos. Taylor, the bookseller. The electors must be on their guard, and " ware tricks." Mr. Chal linor, it may be remembered, was last year nominated at the last hour; and the serpent—whiggery—has not lost his cunning. RODNEY-STREET.—In this ward—a known conserva tive stronghold—Mr. Birkett is opposed, from sheer ra dical spite, by Mr. William Lassell. The claims of the former are sufficiently known to every true conservative ; those of the latter we never heard of, and we much ques tion whether he could discover them himself. Of course Mr. Birkett will be plentifully bespattered with whig-radi cal abuse, and will win triumphantly in spite of his oppo nents. ABERCROMBY WARD.-Mr. BoutfloNver, opposed or not opposed, will win in a trot. LIME-STREET.—In this ward Mr. Kilshaw, the present Conservative member, is opposed by Mr. Thomas More croft, the beaten candidate at the last two elections, and formerly member for the ward ; and we fully anticipate that the contest will be severe, although we are quite as certain that it ought to result in a Conservative victory. Mr. Kilshaw has deserved well of his constituents. As a worker upon committees (the Markets, the Watch, and the Health of the Town) he has been indefatigable; and if the constituency do their duty, as they ought, the Whig radical lawyer will have another X added to the already abundant tokens of rejection which he bears about with him. In the last contest the Conservative candidate, against the same Mr. Morecroft, had a majority of 77. In the contest preceding, with a constituency prepared by " precursor" and other similar efforts of Whig-radicalism, the same Mr. Morecroft (who has an appetite for a licking like that of the twin sister of the horseleach) was defeated by a majority of 8, after a life and death struggle. On this occasion we hope to see a result more like the former than tLe latter; and that the lawyer's craving cry of " Give ! Give !" may be responded to, by the honest electors of the ward, by an unmistakeable trouncing, sufficient even to satiate the leachlike longing of a Whig radical attorney. ST. ANNE'S WARD.—Thanks to the revived spirits of the Conservatives of the ward, St. Anne's is not without a struggle to be handed over to the keeping of the Whig faction, represented by Mr. Joseph Hornby—in office a hack member of the dominant clique which a few years ago rode roughshod over the town, and now the plausible professor of moderate views and middle course measures. At the last hour a good Conservative, Mr. H. G. Harbord, has come forward to rescue the ward from impending de gredation ; and we trust that victory will crown his chi valrous efforts. At the same time we feel that the contest will be a severe one, and the slender majority of the last two years-8 and 10—ought to be a warning to the com mofit,t,exe o to s p u u r t re f n or d t e h r eliypearnydeniferbgeyatinwtihiledcie i n on test. We attempt to predict the result ; but M r . H ar b ord has some tried and trusty friends in th e ward who will thi n k their h arness . Ne shall Let them go on and prosper. WEST DERBY will be won, opposed or unopposed, by Mr. G. H. Lawrence. SOUTH TOXTETH.—Mr. Glazebrook (the gentleman who last year fought such a gallant fight for Castle-street Ward against the picked man of the Whig party, Mr. Hugh Hornby) opposes the present Whig member, Mr. Platt. If the good Protestant Conservatives of the ward allow m h i i o ni a t i t o o be nao d defeated,indusweindu s try. They shall . They had h a i d n k a l m i t t a l j e o r o i t f y t hei r last year of 78, and the year preceding of 44 and surely such an overpowering numerical superiority hits not been swal lowed up by earthquake or any other convulsion. t v u a r t inveed candidates as h e d e s o r n v l e y s NORTH TOXTETH —Mr R. Harbord 1181110 P Lockerby ! The former . gentlman of c° ; ot 04 And now we have fulfilled our task. the 1, V listed the chances , and let the committees of _ L A 0 1 4 do be. , their duty, and 0 0 s :; - $0 found very wide of the mark. ENERGY. pgSs TO THE END ! must be THEIR WATCLIVM46 ......'"="•.____-1---'' ---'."...." Rfv ,.olo LATEST BETTING AT LIN T Y. ~// YrTil oc ) --- M000400,.011 Although we head our notice in the usu e lo th e . no change to notice. During the fast few ed bits. i tion of our sporting men has been engr° ss ,, ar e ~, into one of those scandalous frauds ohl e `; lsl ,iter r , practised upon the unwary. On Toe s ~Iferet i o , number of parties, whose names we do °*" the reasons, succeeded in betting largely lI PItI 4 e / .4 the Cambridgeshire Stakes, run on MondaYei, o f i which was not known by the usual cbann 0 0 0;; 1 0 tion until the arrival of the London PeP e x , c ited afternoon. Suspicions, however, oee e „ r oiOg' ,d result had transpired, early on Tuesday D''', lls p of other channel ; and upon an inquiry bell t i ter , 0 0 0 appears to have been the case. By a h e es tenil o i us, from a respectable party in Man e ", b s lf.. formed an express arrived in that town 11 .. ." t he I: i j on Monday night, bringing the result , ~ o f 1 , 1:11 miles having been performed by the s o l u e lltO l A in the short space of five hours. 11 . 11 5 ,40t - f el r s after its arrival, during the whole nigh:Lido',.ll made in Manchester ; and the news L' l ie 0, 4 1 early on Tuesday morning, the same g e ode , r6 in Liverpool. Of course no bets, thln,, s OVA paid ; and the fittest reward for the 0 1 %W b „ f e . - Or having betted, knowing the result, o. ,°", o si•ro' from the society of all honorable and fal r " .0 1 alps Is'l THE CHASE.—The Cheshire Frain: 4 lor (Tuesday), at Oxhays Farm ; on The r „se , Heath ; and on Friday, at Highway Side , a lr A at half-past ten. , „, . S i ne 0 THE COTTON BROKERS.—The Co 01 , 0 ciation have expelled from their list of B e ; ,fl who adopted the unauthorised use of 0 4 04 the purchase of cotton. . 2 , ' tit),e, ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S NAT1,401,...9 On Sunday last, after two sermons P _3 oo oo l ' the Baptist's Church, by the Rev. Ja me s _, A I Rev. Dr. Tattershall, the sum of £4O 0 .. . of the funds of the above schools. 01 0 1 1 .0 # EXTRAORDINARY QUICK PASSAGO'.IOI4 belonging to this port, sailed on the 9th 'Orly Mauritius, and arrived at St. Helena eli „ r g se, ber, after being detained twenty-four b e Los '1 This we believe to be the shortest pos,,,stCA, d i f PROMOTION IN THE CUSTOMS..n-stso",kyr of Customs, by their minute of the 21st I:Wiry/ 0 / J. Beynon, Esq., of the Customs, f a : n os: A i jlO, office of searcher, &c. in the port of 1 '"'"0 1. 0, motion has arisen out of the determin, st .a,.." 5 0 effect an interchange between him ono 7 5 0 0 4 London establishment, who takes th e P" - off by Mr. Beynon, at Liverpool. vbert r te de fe SELLING COALS BY MEASURE.'" AB .. if i. persons summoned before Mr. Rushtoncostort having been detected in the act of sellillgdorrt9' sure, instead of weight, contrary to the 100 . 0 00 ie Act of Parliament which came into o pero .a is, or of January, 1836. Five of them were 6Tlvibre. ing from 3s. to 6s. 6d., and the reniaining 0 quitted. ; 5 Sil ho A 5 MISS SKINNER'S CONCERT.--M - I', r cipal singer at the Blind School Churehipti concert on Thursday last, at tare Ad e 0 , irA room was tolerably well filled. The e ' entirely local, consisting of Miss St°! t ' f ill ,/rl Mr. J. Stott, Mr. Rvall, and Mr. Dorletd;01151, core was Mr. Ryall's song—" My rt o gr i v i programme was anything but a proan'' eel pieces went off respectably. E ste MR. WIGHTMAN'S DERBY SWEE PS n ISIIIV sure in calling the attention of our sPeteeprrli the advertisement of Mr. M ightman's s:litl i se7 in our columns this day. The We t ter 0 ness with which these lotteries bavell.-1,,10014 nailed by the worthy host of the Brunsvi.l e Or / which he has recently taken to render hi5.:061.0 of the respectable company which patron ° I •," have no doubt, ensure the rapid fillig r otry4 opened lists. 14 abe ii RADICAL SPITE.—On Saturday nigi oirS,oo°l l , o some miscreants broke several apes b oo!, L light of Dr. Gouthwaite's house, in ru c s dl ol o r, as the doctor was out at the time, ola ti nan t r/1" lady and the other inmates. No coll e 'f su e ser t 0 0 14 for this wanton mischief, beyond the I seconded one of the resolutions at Wr a p le! ing the previous night, and that the rou 0 00 A O ii at the formidable opposition alreadqbe 0 0 7 s i lo i candidate for municipal honours. 3. me , only have been perpetrated by radicals. ft , VAUXHALL WARD.—Last nights 1/ . tbs ; 01/ 0$ 1 ; friends and supporters of Mr. T. Ce.,,lsr4,ll o fr candidate for the representation of thP„, f ,.. Pe / Council, took place at the house of °joie/ hall-road. It was determined to us e e sotk i s secure Mr. Case's return ; and from tbeetr j , • e 1 played now in the ward amongst the 0°, ° ,,„ 1 b/ 0 1,j, we have no doubt Mr. Case will be trlt e ssafa His opponent has already been several tim - re r 7 1 constituencies, and has been as ofte°, Wer t ' fpc anticipate for him once more a signs', the da t r, take good advice in time, and retire from p p ay f IRELAND.—Our last advices from t ` h i S ro u u n g d h ay t n h i e gh w t e , e ' k ' s.tatTe The e ha E t ve a n ll in h o ad i r i g:o be r . 4) 00 0 nounced that the annual collection 0_11,06, TRIBUTE is to take place throughout li.` e ly ,l o r o jr November 19th. Both parties are al e (I_ov the struggle which is to cemmence in "AO"' ' 3 4 on Thursday. The counsel for the COu'r e tiO fig% t t o be c i o r n b s r i i d e e f r s t d h e e liv li e n r e ed oi adnedfehnacvee. aTlihTeglalpiticsityrol ponement of the trials will be streno°„r A , f law officers of the crown ; and nu! h `c io doP: oo l,4 there isnot the slightest intention of n"" -ff secutions. A l ° ii 4 1 THE FUNDS—SATURDAY EYEral la bliel l y curities have again improved a shade, ,rbe ts pol , r it and the account leaving off 351 to 1' .0 0 06 1 business was not extensive; but, ne itb o 0 0r* whole, it was of a character to suPP O ,,, r ;AeLyl Bank Stock left off 1794 to 1804)71 - 0 gd i Viti, 4 to 645. premium • India Stock. ri u sd.a•P_A AM Cents. Reduced , to 95 ; Three- e .e - 041 ir Reduced, 1011 to 102 ; New 1 0 ,13 1 1 10 Cents., 1021 to I; Long Annuities, i RV .. . India Bonds, 735. to 755. pretainni; o ar e tuated a little, but no permanent W ee pef i Actives closed 201 to 51; and the IV te sdA fr , 4. The other foreign securities were t o I 0 , a f terial alteration in quotations. Bele7 )0 to ' 7 106 ; Brazilian, 721 to 734: Chilian, •Ip o trp A ii r bian, 114 to i; Danish, 851 to SO; r CPI . ; Half per Cents., 534 to 44 • the Five I : 9 1 to ' J r Mexican, 331 to -I; the 'Deferred, 221 to 23 ; and Portuguese, 431 to 43. a~N p ort' ° tbo /. SHIPPING INTELL I Homburg, -, from Valparaiso, 61 July. _____--_---,----- MRN. I EVN, }lsla° , 11 11 11 9 11 11 12 0 IS 7 14 5 5 -,...- Tuesday 31 Wednes. 1 Thurs ... 2 Friday.. 3 Saturday 4 Sunday a Monday 6 S 11 5 50 6 28 7 7 7 42 8 12 8 40 9 3 9 24 8 44 10 2 10 20 10 37 10 54 0 41 ; 114 g gf ig ' LIVERPOOL PROVISION DMA Peic);;;Ile:0 Supplies of Butter are rather abott t ,; s ; 100 rie wholesome consumptive demand esl'hostoder,too4o/ the occasional nibbling of speculatOrs;l9 of P., . l e tj prices fully 2s per cwt. The flnerktidge , "kicli oe fijt, lower than 76s to 78s ; NewrY, j leymoneys and similar sorts 73s to e frollot l ey f tinues at 68s to 7 s, but inquiries e 0 T.,0 in Os: 0 r, ill think must ere long cause some Wove, in fie of the trade. There seems to be ' la ce 1°5,1 00 / ties, (politically speaking,) taking p,,,, 0 17 , that, as traders, we must hope the?: We e and enable merchants reciprocally tu lfcgrihw::l.atodhste,a LIVERPOOL HAY 11 : 1 A:, 0 1, 0 1 0 1/ .. :4 " There have t b o ee l n B aufepwestro7oallbe - A t oei; d aaf tr ot ri emr n t g r t e h 4 e d past few days, both tile I a: : ff rro: ::: th iC eoo 6l : :_f : °C1 , 0 : 3 1 , 11 ( swinhiacdhehsaovfearmtehtiswseithassolnoWaresalco,ef! fe: : I r ei / j etdivnueencrirsyego:ho neighbouring o f u o r r i shipment rig farmers e t b free as7 i iiiito t dio o o7, i 0: 10/0 ir; , ei , a i ° ' of t , i were sold for Is 3d and Is 4d of f o p u ro r Carrots Turni ps, * at a or n nri d o. t l.o h: w. l l o h9 c i oahlom:a r;:erts6pare:oo:oo:o:s6,:roilbi iliel I , s ail Potatoes, 70. gOlb a. d. s. il• `"""„' e er •••• • ' /II Pink-eyes - 2 0 - riove t ' 4. • a 4 0/1 Cups - 1 7 7-4,155.,,t.; / Short-tops 1 4 - 1 54 -",,,, Ow . , • I Cattle - 1 5 Stra 4 ... , 30 o --35 0 -a , • • 1 03. 6' Irv:goy • 1 . BO 3 ;.1 ) 4i i. JOSHUATUFLEEST:HAEI, : Aar :: I so di PRINTED AND 11131"g0 r# EVERY TUESD AI sr , Drafer-4709 LEONARD rsandA .d4A;eDsrDtiTsl.eSGmOseNona,tososf ,104,0,6014seeasegfb,1;:iporli Od :e l c 51.. / 1 r ° 1: 1 ,:;: and Co., Warwick -square; Dar.ker,;. 1.071,, ~ Walbrook; Reynell, ChancerPlani: Fit si ..1 Birchin-lare ; Joseph Thoillan,,, d gyeet i el tr Munden Hammond. ri Lornbi" -god Poi Lion-conrt, fleet- et ; Clarke avolloi court, Threadneedle-street; G1a1.,100,400e/ 4 Commercial Co ff ee-house, Mici•offet,,•"eil / Coffee-house, Cornhill; chapter - car tgi tpl i to row; North , and South American fr e .. . 6 needle-street; and Messrs. IV/W O :. 1 .. . 0P ;Ci Co., Sise-lane, London; by Ideln-t V. t o , their Newspaper and AdVertian,f:;oo.oo6o Quay, Dublin; Mr.M`Pliun • aifirodsr If' ohangc-street, and Mr. C. ' I'l• '..; .aillice• _ ~• chester • Mr. Haddock, and Mesal'ot-0 CI? sellers, Wan-ineton ; Mr. C1ar., k ..... e ' inSD P44. , "if Mr.Coope, 39. TJnion.ctreet, D.- • IS V6P PI, Terms of Suhgcription for th i s i f % sr. 1 , 1 , ',,e,ar' one year, £1 33.; ba'''' ,-6 billi• 4 i Edvence—one year 41 Is.; Oct. 31, 105; N to ( t Of Of tot tol ,