The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

JANUATIT g. 1438. alluding to electors of whom the interlocutor has tin itmid, knowledge, you •oft en hear it said, on the mere strength of po pular report, that Mr. A the banker is a tory, and, that -B-the butcher is a radical. The fact is, that, with very unequal ac quirernents, both the banker a butcher happen to possess tongues. Tongues,: it is.well known, have a strange propensity to talk—no matter whether in the clearing-house or in the slaughter:house. In short, the political sentiments of every elector are noire or less known, and therefore, the Grote-box may envelop the voter in a temporary and ostensible fog, his previously expressed predilections are so generally understood, that tinder no system of covert suffrage can he possibly obtain crelit for having voted against them. Ile may have been bribed or badgered to assist the pretencions of a peculiar can didate. He may have felt it serviceable to gise that a promise ; he nla y have been wheedled or dragooned into the nominal support of a person whose principles he is notoriously opposed to. But when the day of election arrives, it is all to no pprpose. Vote he may, under the ballot system, there can be no real secrecy, and consequehtly no effectual protection. Nay, even if the cadidatb whom he professes to back shall gain the contested seat, the elector's knoWn sentiments will be held in all cases to have deter Mined his vdte; and as nothing can rescue him from the suspiCion of hatring clung to his deliherate opinions, and sacrificed his disSembled promise, we Have heie a strong common sense presuMption whibit reduces the vaubted secrecy' of the ballot to the very shallowest of folly's delusions. '''to allege that votes polled under covert could neither afford evidence of absolute treachery, nor justly provoke retaliation, does not in our opinion • mend the matter. In the event of a candidate having gained his election, we admit, that, in the elation of victor), be might not be ditlposed to pry too curiously into the fidelity or unfaithfulness with which the inure doubtful among his pledged supporters had diScharged their ettgage.;. As we shall endeavour to procure as full a report as mews; although, even in that event, the desire of iniCeftaining possible of the special nonsense which may be uttered b y the parties on whom no could or could not rely Ima future oecw. sion might very natural!) , stimulate hint to prosecute the inqui the " lean apothecary" on the occasion, eye may perhaps orial process with a zeal and vigilance proportionate to its have it in our power to show the decided contrast afrorded difficulty and importance. Of course, if the candidate shall by a Comparison of his present opinions with his former have lost his seat, the said desire, aggravated by the tnortifica sentiments as declared in his speeches at the anniversa- lion inseparable from an expensive failure will displat itself in ties of the Bible Society. such augmented earnestness and strength as will leave nil expea Of this,, however, we feel confident, that Mr. Black- client 'tattled either to elucidate the causes of defeat or to fur burn's sentiments, if still in accordance with those of the nish facilities for avenging it. Nor are the means wholly want lug tar satisfying this desire by modes of inquiry and calculi Education quin . mittee, will tsoget -with no hearty response • lino which,4no ' t absolutely unerring, must materially dintiuish front the people of Liverpo6l-'— : of course we mean from I the citatreS of Mistake. Fur example, in prosecuting the de the protestant of this town. Should a petition in te e tion of treachery, the doped and - disappointed candidate will favour of an irreligious and unchristianising system of find that by fir the larger proportion of his pledged adherents national instruction be adopted by the Reform Associa- i cannot possibly be liable to the slightest suspicion. All who lion, surely no one will bare the hardihood to assert that are notoriously identified with himself in political opinion — all • who have expended money and zeal in his favour — all who have 'such a petition would be entitled to the designation of a spontaneously promised him that support which their independ petition from the " inhabitants of -Liverpool." Nay, i eta circumstances wield have enabled them to withhold with further, if such a petition should lie for signature in i impunity—all who have made sacrifices and encountered loss different parts of the town, and if ten or twelve. or even for his sake—all who have never been known to give a vole or twenty thousand names should be found appended to it, " utter a sentiment unfavourable to his principles and preten- We would still designate it as any thing but a petition sions—all these classesof established voters, so capable of being lly assorted, he will necessarily exclude from his from the protestant People of petpool. It would only secaituegcnv. a Down he comes, then, to his pledged fresh tnen be a petition from the Roman Catholics and infidelsor and doubtfuls. Of the spontaneous bias of those electors who the town. It should be borne in mind that the Roman , have been regiitered for the first time, he Will conceive him Catholics boast that they constitute nearly a third of the ' self entitled to judge with tolerable accuracy, partly from their Population. If - that is the• case, (which we are by no family polities, and pattly from the flippant frankness where means- prepared to allow,) what with canvassing from with they promised him their vote on congiderationa which fairly be regarded as mercenar),. Concerning others door t o d oor f or signatures, and exposing sheets at the may whose promise•may have been reluctantly obtained by the use entrances of the Popish chapels to be signed by men,' of peat influence, or who may be known as opposed to bin), women, and children, it would be no extravagant ex- in politics, or whose general character is habitually volatile, pectation to look f o r a li s t of some twenty thousand capricious, and deceptit , e, be will naturally entertain the Papists among the signatures. We mention this merely strongest • misgivings: Then comes the reit ibution :itis in to hint that the circumstance of a petition being sent front vain to deny it. if the rejected Candidate be an opulent Liverpool, with even that large number of signatures landlord, or an extensive consumer, it is but too probable, will druid no proof that any Protestant has signified his whatever be his politics, that alter nanowing his list of defaul ters to those on whom presumptions tell most heavily, he will approbation of Mr. Blackburn's scheme. The whole visit them with such a course of systematic retaliations as cir- Matter is essentially Popish, an d M r . Bl ac kburn is only cumsbinces enable him to exercise. Between squire and farmer surrendering himself us a willing tool in the hands of the there will be suspicious distrusts, sharp reckonings, petty vexations, and notices to quit. Between costumer and trades : man there will be diminished orders, false protestations, and a closing of accounts. Between superior and dependent there will be a breaking up of every kindiy reciprocity ;mind all this the moire galting on both sides, because, while wholly insepara 'tile from tiie infirmities of irritated humanity, it proceeds upon grounds which, from their very nature, are not distinct!), as ; and because, as one of its many evils, the innocent may suffer with th, guiAy. The peaceful and profitable rela tions of society would thus be quite as Much disturbed under the ballot-system as at present ; nay, our conviction is, that by the plan of voting secretly the ordinary resources of retaliation would be called forth to au extent of which the upeu poll has heretofore furnished no example." "' National Education." We - suppose_that - the addri; s • which,lie is tri deliver himself of on this occasion is in tended to produce a demonstration in favour of Lord Broughanf;; education scheMes, the design of which, no ddubt, is to exclude the principle of religious education from all our eleemosynary institutions. This design is certainly not avowed. Indeed the contrary is insidiously. professed. But we leiow too much of the tortuous course p►irstied by this hypocritical faction to suppose that their professions are to be construed literally. There is so much of Jesuitical mental reservation about their declarations, that it evinces ally common prudence to give no credit to their most solemn asseverations. Wit ness their oft refuted assertion that the Bible is not ex cluded from the Corporation Schools. But there is something very peculidr in the circum stance of Mr. Blackburn's being engaged to introduce the nostrum of an anti -scriptitial system of education to the notice of the Reform Asrociation. It is well kriown to most of our readers that Mr. Sutor Blackbu►n is a rigid Independent—" a Pharisee after tire straitest sect".—and that he has rendered himself conspicuous fur his advocacy of the Bible Society . That such a man should concentrate his energies • to further a scheme Which would render useless all tire exertions of that no• Lie institution affords a specimen of mental degradation, and of the triumph of party zeal over the monitory whis perings of conscience, which it is humiliating to con template. . . priests. We . perceive that the sithstitution of Sir John Cam Hobliouse's Vestry act for Sturges Bourne's act is like- wise to be Mooted at the meeting of the Reform Associa tion. We have already warned the rate-payers that the radicals have been long meditating a grand attack upon the present administration of our parochial afflits. We again earnestly entreat the householders of Liverpool to be prepared-of effectually resisting the threatened in terference.with the present System. if the monopolizing faction should, by successful manceuvring, carry their point, the public may rely upon it that the parish offices would very speedily be packed with the menials of the Reform AssOciation. The same jobbing and trickery that we see practised in the management of our munici-. pal affairs would be introduced into the select vestry. But there are two or three other topics to be discussed. Among these the "Ballot" and the " Extension of the Suffrage are enumerated. Respecting the _former of these questions we solicit the notice of our readers to the following admirable remarks from the Times of Saturday last "In our recent remarks on the ballaquestion we demonerat ed successively, that if the privileye.of voting secretly were allowed to those who prefer it, the right of the elector to give au open Suffrage according to his choice could not be taken from him without a tyrannical restriction of individual liberty and a total sacrifice of the moral benefit which the public example of up right men always coolers upon the community; further, that if the optional system were adopted, it would be found in practice to be completely desti4ictive of the desired secrecy; and lastly, that if, nevertheless, an oprositunity were actually afforded fur trying the experiment of the proposed gagging bill upon the liberties of the constituency, there is no conceivable device whereby its contemplated objects could be successfully realized. To say, in reply to this, that the practice of secret voting is found to work perfectly well at the East India-house and in the west-end clubs, is merely saying what is wholly beside the ques tion. Between a promiscuous political constituency and the select membership of these aristocratic associations there is a very palpible difference. While we admit that in the latter neither the electors nor candidates art subjei:ted to the formal ordeal - of a poll, we strenuously maintain that the actual method whereby their elections are determined possesses only the name of secret voting, and nothing of its substance or reality. When gentlemen become candidate s for the direction of the one, or for membership in the other, the respective constituencies ate invariably canvassed, either by themselves of by friends, some time before - vote is to lie taken. F rom the sta ii on w hi ch the parties (See y iti life, a s we ll as from the rank and zeal of ilit their supporters, a direct and definite answer to such applica tions is always asked and given, as a matter of mere civility. The votes; indeed, are so universally promised before the eleetiOti; and Ao sure of being given in faithful fulfilment of the promise, that the candidates, having in their hands a list it the proprietors or members marked as pledged, can calculate on success or rejection with such absolute certainty, as almost al ways induces them, in cages of premonislied failure, to relin quish their ptetenSions before the balloting day, j us t to save their friend , . and opponents the trouble ef a useless ceremony. Accordingly, we find that, in contests fur the East lonia Direc tion, it is the practice of candidates to put forth and withdraw their pretensions, on occasion of several successive vacan cies, until, having obtained the promised suppoir, of a ma jority o f proprietors, they at length advance to the ball o t On l y as the nominal and pro forma act of tellership which declares their previously-acqUired success. On that success, considering that they have to deal With a straightforward and honourable con- Stituency, they are accustomed to rely with the utmost confidence, whiilly irrespectkre of the ballot, and as if no such thingexisted. In stich cases; ai'all the world knows, them is no real secrecy tehaterer. In many instances letters of thanks are sent by the Successful candidates to the majority of the electOts, whom, in spite of the ballot, they know to have been their friends. In private clubs a person rarely thinks of applying for admission Who is not almost certain of carrying his election wholly irre spective of ballot chances, and therefore, how well soever the present mode of voting in these aristocratic associations may work, the ballot,eonsidered as a device for securing secrecy, can derive no recommendation at all for any such examples. "But even if the members of these institutions hail pre tented in practice that experimental proof of the ballot's powers, which we own they do possess facilities for demonstrating to a Considerable extent, were they disposed to exercise them, we should still contend that between their case and that of a pro . Miscuous political constituency there are certain differences Which, as far as concerns the Merits of secret Soling, place the latter body at a great and obvious disadvantage. What the East India Company and the clubs are chiefly called to vote . hpott are points (such as the election of office-bearers or ment. tiers) on which these respective constititences have not been previously committed by an antecedent course of opinion or o f ' action. On occasions whereon they wished to defeat particular candidates, they.might throw in their ballot-balls without hay ing been formerly known to entertain or express any such ha bitual biasses as might enable the public to predetermine with confidence the side they would prefer to support. In cases of this description, if privacy were their object, their vote could neither be anticipated nor interpreted by a tecurrtence to last sentiments; nor would they naturally be betrayed inch subse quent discloures on matters of such purely temporary interest- But the secrecy which these parties might thus maintain, with- , out much effort or management, is placed, almost necessarily, beyond the control of the county and borough constitttences. For the most part the suffrages of such constituencies must be exercised. not on matters of parsing moment, but in regard to • Certain distinctive principles of permanent po , itical policy, con eerning which, as constituting the topics of daily conversation, their sentiments cannot fail to be known throughout the entire s Ire* et their atquaintaste or neighbourhood. - Hence i when SAMUEL KNIPE'S COMPENSATION.—We most cordi ally sympathize with this unfortunate tool of the Radical faction. Our readers will remember that this silly old man, under the persuasion that the shortest road to - fame and emolument under the auspices of the Town council, was by heapitik falsehood and calumny upon tlte T TorieS, volunteered his services to Mr. Joshua Viralmsley, the chairman of the Reform Association, and was employed by him at a low figure in raising objections to some hundreds of poor freemen, who had committed the unpar donable offence of voting for the conservative candidates at the previous election. Such was the liberality of Joshua's political creed, and such the honourable mode he adopted to satisfy his revenge. In Samuel Knipe he found.a most cony enient tool. With a prospect of ulti mate benefit he engaged in the work, and esteemed no servility too abject so that he might conciliate his em ployers, and secure their suffrages for his own advance ment. The result was that several hundreds of men were - objected to without even a reason being preferred why they should not be retained on the burgess list; The scene in the Registration Court was indeed a mockery of justice, and the conduct of this Knipe and his asso ciate, Mr. Vandenhoff, then the soh6itor to the Reform Association, expouse them to some severe censures from the Revising Ilarrister. After a lapse of tithe, this Sa muel Knipe prefers a claim for compensation before the Finance Committee, Who unanimously agree that his claim cannot be allowed. The proceedings of the com mittee were afterwards confirmed by the council, and this meddling, insolent upstart is left to suffer the reproach and scorn of every honest roan, without sympathy from his en-ployers. We have searched the. columns of the Mercury, the Chronicle, the Journal, anti the Albion, but ad his radical associates are silen!, and not a single word is uttered in justification of his conduct. Poor Samuel Knipe! Well, indeed, may your woe-begone countenance lead us to "pity the sorrows of a poor old man." Abandoned by your friends, and laughed to scorn by the tories, what course will you now pursue? You are too old to be a watchman, and too lazy to be employed as a pitch boiler at the graving docks, therefore take our advice and become a public informer. It would suit your character and might become a source of considerable emolument. In addition to the frequent violation of the bye laws framed by our sapient. Town.clerk and his more enlightened . Deputy, you might make some discoveries of •a graver character. The Mayor of Liverpool might he detected in the act of threatening to " wallop" a gen tleman, or his principal legal adviser first milling a coachman and then driving his horses, and many in stances of 'a similar character. Mr. Hall will do on justice in his peculiar way. Therefote, we say again, take our advice and become a common informer: SIR J,6lgs GRAHAM.—A. public dinner was given on Thursday last, at Carlisle, to this highly gifted and pa triotic .gentleman. We are extremely. sorry that we cannot find room for any thing but a short extract or two froM the eloquent address which he delivered on the occasion, and which occupies five columns of the Carlisle Patriot. We have also to plead want of room as a reason for gi7ing no report of the very interesting Conservative meetings at Oldham, Tintwistle, 8.7 c. TAXING SMALL TENEMENTS.—We have elsewhere inserted an admirable letter on this important subject, to which we wish to direct the attention of the cottage owners of Liverpool, whose interests are most materially jeopardised by the bill recently brought before the. House of Commons. There is one point, however, to which the letter we have copied from the Times does not refer. We allude to the wholesale diSfranchising effect which the Small, Tenement Act would have througlicut the kingdom. This feature in the meas"re is perfectly characteristic of the Liberals. ;t e for ic of c-hail' most nmon arty iecre- secret W Slack- , t E:et of ffIE LIVERPOOT, stASthAtin /ST/ LLIGENCE. • EIoNEST AND DISHONET —On Friday, at the Police-office. ry•Englesa, , a, wont in fa, I hull 6 not forty, w i th a face "round as the shield of Fingal," and a nose of Afrit.an size and con y formation, was charged with having robbed a sailor of his watch: file sailor Stated, "a few days ago, so sin, I geel a sops 0' drink, and l met this gill in Garden-street, when I war gooing, along loike a lass i' her Sunday elooas walking i' a kne full o' puildte-holes. Very well, this girl and me ;yet into ctinversation,—haplV yore worship doesn't feel curious about though? Magistrate.—" Nth at all; go on and tell me wind occurred." Comolaitiant.—" By jingo! yore worship's nit at a' loike my gratin: ; fro loves to hear a'th' . ins and outs if a story, 'specialty it it be any ways comical. Noa, nita. Well, yo sin, 1 told het I was gooni,gaboard o'th vessel; and no says. Mun I you we yon ?' not i' that fashion. howsoever, for her pronancificatioies' regular Irish a' over, though her name somehow or other is English. Soo I sass too her, you Can come if you loike; glaze yourself; but if you do come, I'st gie thee a a bit o' summit! to,ait, ( Laughter.) Well oo agreed to thig, anti aboard we went, and while she were ailing her victuals, 1 Went to bed, being sleepifyish with the drink; nake; and when 1 wakkened, three or tour hours after, maybe, her and my watch had booath nuzzled Well, l leer of her accident ay Collier day, and I says to her, Dun yoo remember hiking my watch, young woman ? And if on didn't lift up het eyes like a duck i' a thunder-storin, or a ranting parson when the steam's up, apd said oci bad never seen me! Gadzaoks, says I, struck dutn with the way out braiened it out, didn't you go we tne to aur vessel, and didn't 1 gte yti a , dollop o' salt beef and— 0, ay ! 1 do recollect now,' she says, 'and yo Went to bed drunk ; so I took yore watch fir safely.' I'lien oo totid me as haw she had tekken tit' watch to a pawnbroker's, who wouldn't take it in ; but as haw he had kept it notwithstanding." This turned out to be dhe fact, the plisoner had offered the watch for pledge; but the pawnbroker, htivmg some suspicion, retained it, though o *ninn informing the police. The magistrate reintirked that she had acted dishonestly in taking the watch, hut honestly in informing him where it *as: he (complainant) would never have got it hack except for tier disclosure. Complainant— " Well, there's good o' both sides. for I don't w5ll to put her i' ony trouble, as tin says tier as a child. I'm glad I've getter it back—that's a'," In consideration of the complainant having to sail shortly, and of the subsequent partial honesty of the pri= sonet, she was dismissed. EXTRACT FROM SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S SPEECH AT CARLISLE. Sir JAstes GRAHAM rose, and was received with another burst. of ,•htteritig, wnicii, having at tetigth subsided, the right hon. baronet spoke as 11/LOA'S : — I c antiotsiithinently thank vou for the great kindness which ihni,orsportaittity. hes given Me of addressing, so large and so respeetattie a pori ion of my banter constituentS. I hive lutiged fur this opp o ttunitV, but it has been httherto d,riteil me. I sin sincerely thankful, not less for the opportnnity noat allot ded rite of eipreseitiv: my sentiments, than for the cordial manner in which yon have drank my health. My hon. friend, in proposing the toast, alluded' to my recent defeat. I will lie frank with .you: this is, a meting of friends, and there should be no concealment. That ileteat was not half so painful to me as some circuuistances attending it. 1 had hoped, after a bre of some (titration, spent in the service of the county of Cumberland, that, even if the constituency were re solved to dismiss me. they would, at least, have been pleased to listen to me; that, if they were resolved to strike, they would, at ail events, have first he ird inc. ( Loud cries of hear.) I did not suppo<e tlitt I should inVe been !rotated. almost like a mail dog, t hr,.i.,h the streets of Carlisle. and that toy unoffending son would be knocked down at my feet and almost trampled upon. (Loud expressions of indignation.) I regret, for the honour of the county, to be compelled to state, that scenes took place, on that occasion, which I think disgraceful to tliti free institutions under which we live. ( Lend CheerS.) Recol lecting, these cittninstivices, I again thank you for this oppor tunity of expressing my sentiments: I sin iiiit veil) enough to believe, that this great meeting is an empty compliment paid to me personally. I should indeed be protid if I ciiiild for one moment flatter Thyself that such was the case ; lot this meeting hits higher objects. I certainly see in this assembly proofs, gratifying proofs, Which will soon be known to all England, that I have still, in My native county of Cumberland, friends who have not discarded line; bdt what is infinitely mere grati fying tO the than any such proofs of affeCtion and regard, highly as 1 valtie them, is the demonstration thuS afforded, that the part I have taken in public affairs, under many trying circum stances, has met with the approbation of a large portion of the in telligence, respectability, and property of the county, (Cheers ) I mast admit. g,eiolemen, that I hive been greatly traduced. During the last Six mint hs the floed-gatei of Billingsgate have been opened upoa me--the vocabulary of abuSe has been ran sacked to find terms of opprobrium to apply to me. I have been called turncoat, big.it, apostate, renegade—the shout of triumph has been taised in Downing-street, and echoed in the lowest carriers occupied by the retainers of goterninent, and perhaps there is no coiner so low as the council ehairitier of this city. (Cheers and laughter.) All the pack of ministerial retainers have been hallooed noon my trace S—l. have had tri endure the deep.muultied grunts dr their quarterly, the yelp cif their monthly, the bark of their weekly, and the snarl of their daily journals. (Laughter.) And after all what hai been airhieved ? One more individual has been excluded from parliament, a single vote has been gained by ministers: Ai my lion friend the chairman truly told you I rose, by my own exertion rind your favour, front the rank of a country gentieman; I have no retainers, no folltivrers. I have fall.n back into the ranks of country gentle. men, Without any comidaint, almost without regret, certainly' With cheerfulness, and - yet our mighty government thought it necessary to make a great display of triumph because they sue ceeded in silencing the voice of one individual! (Cheers.) Allow me; gentlertien, to remind vuu what a fuss Was made about all this. We heard a great deal lately about the " Spot tiewoode c inspiraey," as it %vas called, and of the illegality of the subscriotions raised, for the purpcise of defraying the ex-. pence of the Irish petitio,ns; but what did they experience in this very county? The rebirth club in London actually silver. tised fut• subscriptions to prevent me from being elected meat her for East Cumberland. Two lotokers in LotiCloti were adver tised to receive the subscriptions, and, if I am not mistaken, a for Mer colleague or mine, once a friend—who, I might have thought froth past recollection of transactions, .would have en tertained a kind feeling towards me; haul not his more recent obligations to the government as Chief Tithe Comicissioner prevented him—sent down five hundred piano's to aid in ejecting Sir Jetties Graham. (Loud continued cheers.) Then we hail a II ix merchant, front Leeds, sending his thou • sand pounds, and a ragalitn in Shad‘longate contributing his ss. fur the same purpose. (Cheers and Laughter.. . All this i t was done to effect the mighty object of expelling to m O the re p r esentation of EaSt Cumberland. I confronted ' opposi tion, unaided and alone. Amidst all the changes and c halices of political warfare, I 'haVe fought many battles in this country, I have contributed aid to others; I have never received aid of any sort myself. I have endeavoured to advocate the princi ples I profess honestly and openly. I have fought battles on my own resources, and With some detriment to my private for tune. and here 1 now stand a plain Cumberland country gen , . tleman. I ask Yon—except having won my way; in fair fight, on the floor of the House of Commons, to the privy council ~,f inv sovereign, which conferred im me a fleeting mark of tempo -, rary distinction—what have I gained ? What additional he reditary honours have I 'sought or obtained ? What pecuniary emoluments h.•ve been received either by myself or my rela tions? I would ask you, gentlemen, whether alining your high flown patriots—yotir Earl of Durtmins—those questions could be answered in the sante way? I have; as I said liel.ire, fought many battles; the last I felt to lie a debt of honour. I felt it to be a debt of honour to those to whom I was formerly opposed, but with whom, then, in a great political crisis, I cordially agreed. (Cheering.) I was aware that the event was very doubtful. I entered ,in the contest perfectly aware that it was very possible my seat IvotiM lie lost. I had various offers from constituencies; it would seem like boasting, if I Were to enume rate thein. I felt honirured by those offers, but still I refused them. My reply was—`' I. hive an account open with Cum berland, and iintil that is el,iFied I will not look fri any other constituency—l will appeal to my countrymen, I will fight the battle of principle as I have fought it before; I owe a debt of honour to those whom I formerly o pposed, and I will not shrink from the result." I was defeated, butt neither I nor you, gen tlemen, can regret. that the battle was fought. (Cheers.) My honourable friend, in proposing my health, alluded to thy put,- lic services in terms much too kind, It Was told you that I gained no distinetion except of a fleeting kind; but it was my good fortune when, on principle, 1 resigned offic , .—an office im mediatelv connected with the service in which the Monarch who then ruled over us had been engaged—to hear (*ruin My royal master sentiments expressive of his confidence,,and of the ap probation with which he had viewed my official eat eer expres sions which I feel to be an ample remuneration for all my labours. I might say in the beautiful language of Burke, "'('he past is safe and beyond the reach of fortune. what is to come is in wiser hands than ours." * * * * The cry of the " bill, the whole bill, and nothing, but the bill," ,seems now to be wofutly. out of fashion, '.Mr. Jinehnek ' who. used to declaim against the aristocracy; is now very bitter against the £lO voters, whom he calls the " stionocracy:" Mr. Grote, too, with his ballot-box—l wonder whether he has yet presented one to the Comm o n Council of Carlisle—(a laugh ) declarer_ that the vote by ballot is indispensably necessary to procure an alteration in the consititution of the House of Commons. Why that comtitution was spit and span tiew no longer ago than 1831! (Loud cheers, and laughter.) Lord Jehn Russell has called the reform bill a bloodless revolu tion. it was in peed a revolution. My difference with the tory party continued up to 1832. I had contended for what I con ceived to be the rights of conscience. I supported the repeal of , the test and corporation ac's; the Dike of Wellington and Sir I Robert Peel made that concession. I yielded implicit belief to the solemn oathS; and written declarations, and the most au thentic assurances of the Roman catholic gentry and hierarchy that, if we adulitted them to equal civil tights, they would lie content and not aspire to domination, nor seek to injure, in the , sinallest degree, the rights and privileges of the protestant ' church, .either in England or, in Ireland. (Repeated cheers.) I believed these assurances, and suppaited• Roman catholic emancipation. The Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, more cautious, I believe I may say, having better learned the lessons of history, disbelieved those assurances, but, yield ing to an inevitable necessity against their judgment, (hear, hear.) and, in spite of their evil forebodings, they granted emancipation. The test and corporation acts were repealed, and Roman catholic etriencipetion gained. What remained ? I at ways strenuously oppoSed the system of tiontinatium by which one hundred and sixty individuals absolutely nominated a majority of the people's honse. I thought such a system was absolutely Untenable in the present age, while such places as M anc h e ster, Birmingham, and Ashton remained unrepre sented. It is idle to inquire whether ottr expectations were too sanguine, or the conservatives of that (lay too gloomy in their forebodings—it is needless to enquire whether we pro eeded lii hastily in 1831 or whether the e.onserratives in t h e Duke of Wellington's administration resisted all change ton long The events have not ' yet sufficiently developed the policy of that proceeding to enable us to come to a correct decision on the subject. However, the test and curs 'titration acts are repealed —Roman Catholic emancipation has been conceded —I he nomination boroughi are swept away—all the large manufacturing places are represented, not virtually, but practically; and yet the radical nostrums are pressed tin us, as if nothing had been done, and I am taunted with inconsist ency, because I will not consent to be hurried along the down ward path of revolution and republicanism! (Enthusiastic cheering for several minutes.) But. who are the men who urge on these dangeriaiiSchenies? They are the principal supporters of the Queen's governtnent.• Aye, and its ablest supporters too. I speak from experience. I have stood on the floor in the House of Commons, and I know what debating is. I know that without Mr. O'Connell, Mr.- D. \V. Harvey. and Mr. Sheil, the government could not make head against its opponents. Yci these are the men who advocate these changes Which now, at the eleventh hour Lord John Russell declai es his intention to oppose Mr. Vs akley the friend' of the ministers says he sup. ports them because they are " squeezable"—(a laugh)—whilst Mr. D. NV: Harvey says there is no straw, however paltry suit filthy,' at which they will not catch. (Cheers and laughter.) Let me illustrate this gentleman's meaning. We know how much haS been said about the SpOttiswoode gang. It was a dangerous conspiracy which was to be keptrilown by the government with a vigour beyond the kiwi Au hon. gentleman, believing that minis- ' tees meant to do what they intimated, and ite . yrould therefore oli lain their support, made a strung motion ou the subject. They advised him to Withdraw it, but a difficulty in point of form hay ing-presented itself to the adoption of this course; the House of . ~.„ .., .... CoMmons actually witnessed the'spectacie of LOrd .1. Russell, the the Secretary of State for the Home Departmenti Lord /Unpick, the Secretary at war, Lord Itlorpeth,.the Secretary for Irelan , i. endeavouring to run out of the ' hou . se to escape a division— (lang,diter.)—and positively Ries' were brought back by the Ser. jeant at Arms, and compelled by the rules of the house ftc pro flounce an opinion Ctil the subject. (Roars of laughter.) • And Ged save the mark ! they billowed Sir Robert Peel out of the [louse and voted against the tinfoitunate gentleinan, whom they hail tempted to bring forward the motion. (Cheers.) It I had not lived to see the contrary, I would have said that such Slippei y tricky conduct could not he supported for one hour by the representatives of the British people. (CheerK) There may have been more Wicket' Governments, but I defy any mic fo prodmice flora the history of our country, a more shabb y government than the present ( Entlintriastic cheering for some minutes.) I say it With regret, duplicity is its characielistie, and the historian who hands dOwn its deeds to future time, will tell posterity that it ices worthy only the contempt 61 a great people, that, Whilst ciinging to office with a tenacity unexam pled, it had neither the head, the heart, nor the courage to go vern with ptoprietv. (Prolonged them ing.) I Shall be told, birsoot h.'' Yon are denouncing your old colleagues." Oh ! I owi , these old colleagues a large debtorgratitude. (Great cheering.) It will be said "this is the government of Lord Grey, or at least it is eirriog mit the principle of Lord they's administration" — Lord OreV's a4tninisiratitin ! Where is Lord Grey ? Where is the D u k e o f Richinond? Where is Lord Durham? Where is Lord Ripon? Where is Lord Althorn? Where is Lord Brougham ? AF', echo answers " where ?" 11 is tortiship is sunk in the very dregs of democrary - , -is mingled with the lees of Whit e Conduit House. I saw Mtn once the Lind Chisncelloi of England, the keeper Of the King's conscience—the first law' adviser of the crown —I traW hint standing at the font of the throne, when hii Royal Master. by advice in which Lord Brougham participated, hurled i f e ffanCe at hint whom his lord• ship justly designated as the mendicant agitathr of Ireland. I have seen this same Lord Bro6gh am who boasted of his daily correspondence with royalty writing ri letter—a most olotequious letter—tug some chairman of a meeting at the Crown and A.iichoi tavern, apologizing for trig absence sail regretting that he was not present. when that very M r. O'Connell proporleclai that sauna meeting the establishinetit in England of an ai,iiieiation to hr formed on the model of th at Irish association which Lora Broug,hana concurred with his colleagues' in endeavouring to put down by statutory enactments lieond the teat 'n of the t mai mon !ay.— (Continued chessis..)' I hove adveifted to Lid parcels. Brougham's mathematical demonstration against the Put You are acquainted with his recent Cotivefrsion to it. 1 beard him with u t ilifted hands and heinfed knees implore the littuset of Lords to pass a measure to which 1 was a, party as a settle :. of the gi"e (justioii of Pmentary Iteform, and now 1 ace Mtn the.humble vender or the three Wakiey Powders, wraptied;„ 1 suppose, in bide pajier tor the benefit of the electors of cum• liertand, and labelled; Fiallot, uniteksal Suffrage, ant> Annual tiarliamentS. " Oh what a fall was theta, my countrymen." a fall like Lucifer's. never to hope again. (Cheers.), Sin the time of ken d 13at , 111 I know no example of such a ran. • I aui quite ashauned ofilavinpletained you so long, (" No, no,") but there is one point to whicti I wish ti.)..adveri ; I may be asked to what we shOuld ascribe, the stiddeb change which hai come over the dream of the governitient—how it has happened that, all at mice; the governitent hat declared against the ballot, when,. thiriog ,the elections, Lord John Russell conceab. ed his hostility to that measure; I speak advisedyi believing. that the cause which has arrested the doiviiviard progress of g overnment,lii radical change leading to re,tolution i is the firm ness, the judgment, the good sense, and the Virtuous and reli gious education of our maiden Queen. I believe she has dis tinctly told ministers that their radical experiments shall not be Tried--that the colonies shall not be surrendered—that the pro pertyand just rights of the church Shad not he invaded—that the comthaml of the army shall not be wrested fruits hei. "I have," said her Majesty; " no predelictiona for party men, but to prin ciples 1 will adhere;. and it You continue in office, it is on those priuciples you -moil administer the of the country. This, I believe, is the real situation of the conduct of the go vernment. 'This resistance on the part of her Majesty is much in confoundy with the decision, courage, and principles of the flouse of Brunswick Bu% to enable her resistance to be sue cessfully*aintained,. her IStajesty must be backed by the peo ple.. I, generally speaking, am opposed to till political asso ciations—l think they has a tendency to enibitler party animosity, and aggravate, all the worst pasiions; but in the present state of affairs there is iio alternative. The reform club is established for the purpose, of tampering with lite registryi by means subscribed wit finut the, titbits of the county-aid the father of Lord John Ilii+ll anti:tea-tbs.& to aetraV the expense of the last petition of the a ssociation in Dublin, wioch was Inrined for the expresi purpose of tampering with the registration. It is impossible to make head a4aiiist such a system. except bk fighting our enemies wi!h their own weapons. i have, there fore' ,made up my Mind to make, in my native county, a bold stand ' with those who think with me that the crows should not be " calls I in to peck the eagles," and I am pre pared, if necessary, to join %iith my bitterest personal enemy—and I hope I have few—against thy dearest per sonal friend, in order to uphold the sacred institutions my country. ( Loud cheering ) The Birmingham Politica Union have put forth a declaration of tkeirprinciplei. This de - claration is very short and expressive. Itsalt\ that the time i 4 arrived when the goYerument by-numbers in . 7ot supersede the goverum.lit by property. lam for the Government by property :igainst the o,vernment by numbers. Mr. Roebuck, adverting at a public meeting to Lord John Russell's declaration, that the object of the reform bill was togive a..prepondera,nce to the landed interest, took occasion to observe, that the t wii - member* fur East Cumberland were the only two county members re turned to Parliament who were opp,sedtb the agricultural in terests. (Hear. hear.) I am a MeMhei• of that, agricultural interest; I am for the gotternhaent hs prOperty as opposed to the government by numbers, and, therefore, I love signed the de.daration of the East Cumberiand couservalive association which con , ains this passage: "We - declare our first determin'atinn to maintain ilk ancient, principles on which the constitution is founded, and whilst we avow our readiness to promote the ,teloron of all proved ahuses o , we declare it to be our object to uphold the necessary connexiod, beta/Ten .the establiShed church and the State; the just preroga s tivei of the monarch; :he privileges of the House of Lords as an independent brahch of 'the legislature; and the deliberate powers of the Continuo§ House of Parliament unfettered; being convinced that on the united and energetic support of these au- , t honk depend the continuance of social order, the security of property, the interests of religion, and the real libertiei of the people." Away with the old distinctions of blue and yellow, Lowthet and Curwen, (Cheers.) Mr. Roebuck saVS that there are but two parties now in the country, the aristocracy and the demo• cracy. t have no personal objects in the course lam now pursuing. lam deeply dissatiStied with the representation of East Ctimberland ; lilt do not believe I Sin prepated,aftei what has taken place, to offer myself as a candidate again. Do not'be deceived upon that point. ISly advice to you is to make every, preparation ; avert' exertion for the fight, and to be prepared to contest both seats oo the first opportunity. (Applause.) My advice is also this, that you should keep the question of the two candidates in the Conservative interests open till the latest possible moment. in order to afford the best chance of nrocuring two gentlemen Who,are most likely to succeed. As to myself, I will only say, in the, memorable words which Lord Strafford, uttered almost with his dying breath, '• I thank God that by the/ bounty of former tavereigtiS, and by the providence of my pn cestms, I have an estate wiliCh giveth suth , Yn inlefesf in the ComMOrl weal! h that I do not wish to be a slave, but am ion tent to be a subject; neither do I wish the cards to be shuffled over again in the hope that I may fall on a better lot. No ! can have and shall aim at a bounded liberty, rememberqg al ways that I am a freeman, but a subject, that 1 have rig i st bdt under a monarch." The right hononrahle : Baronet resumed his seat amidstclik f r•:' kilt of the Most enthusiastic description which tinted forka con siderable time. SECOND ED IT lON. Standard Office, Three o' Clock. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. COHN MARKET-TuKsDAy, JANUARY 9. 1838. The week's it port of Wheat is small btii. liberal d data Meal and Flour;" during the same time there has been an 'Mt.: proved demand for Wheat at ld to 2d per 70lbs advance on previous rates; the Oat trade was not brisk but firm. The iald of Flour has been very good and prices fully maintained. . At this morning's market there was a moderate sale for , Wheat at the above advance, the best Irish realizing 8s per 701b1. Oats had a dull sale, and Oatmeal merely snProrteti last week's prices. - . We had a free sale for Flour at 6 , 1 to Is 2FoOlbs advance. The imports of Butter are 6,294 firkins. 0% in, to the frost 2s to 3s per cwt, advauce has been obtained for fiespi g(trod PRICES. s ifirtNs, imp. mea. a r$ 7 101_ 2 Irish 8 0 Fuirß, if' ?AO tbs. lo Flthr,.Br Irish sup. 44 0.. 46 0 8 6 Do. fins 4O 0.. 42 0 0 (1 Do, speowls .... 20 4.. 34 01 Do, thin 15...... 17 - 0 .. 23 2 11 NTRAL,24.tbi. new 23 6 .. 24 0 Do. 01,1 .. . 0.. 0 BRANT. 4,241155... 1 0.. 1 0 OF BUTTER, 8.. c. i776' 455 446 ! SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, JAN O.—Wind E. • ARRlVED.—Nightillgalo, Crookshank. from Bahia—P t. C., —. from Jersey—Mary Ann and Martha, from Newfoundlanl. SAILED.—Frank. Jones, for Jamaira—Dorothea, Fairhurst, for . Berhiee—gothsehild, Laidley ; and Denmark. Bangs, for N Orleans —Algonquin, Turnley, for Philadelphia—St. Andrew. Thompson for New York—Mastery. Blampuid, for Tampieo—Ladv of the Lake, Banks, for Nap les—ll oiifurcl, Warnock ~tcr Leghorn. Parsee, M'Kellar, from Calcutta, off Weymouth Arab, I owe, from Monte Video, off Portsmouth Pacer. Totigootl, ailed from St. Übrs for Monte Video 24th ult. Lrnal Russell, List; and Arethusa, Tur'ier, soiled from Marsei lot this port 2.rlt ult. Treasurer, Laurie, hem,. at Alexandria Tattliaferro, Fuggier°, hence, at Malta Norfolk Hero, Garwood, from Odessa at Constantinople Cacique. Irons, cleared at ditto for Leghorn, 7th Dee. Clipper, on the 9th, Lapwing, on the 12th, both for Smyrna Cottieliu , Betts, hence, at Smyrna, after being aground near St James's Palaee Lohisa. Spalding, sailed from Smyrna for this port 6th ultimo, and Funchall. Ferrot, on the 7th, both for this port Bonanza, Kerr, pence, for Gibraltar, was spoken on the Ist instant, in lat 48; long 9 Captain Ross, hence, for New York, Was spoken on the 31st tilt., in lit 49, lung 18 Cumberland, Togerille, from St Michael's for this port at Falmouth; with lass of bulwarks THE BISHOP OF NORWICH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta.—The Chronological Table, given 1111 your paper of the sth just.. ( I, o ,, tu ip s th e following statement, Aug. " Dr; Stanley is installed Bishop of Norwich." which 1 need only remind ,u is itcorreet, Mr. Stanley at the time being only A.M., and a violent Radical partizan, to which, alone, he is indebted to his promotion.—Yours, &c., A CH ESHIRE-MAN. LITTLE SNIPE AGAIN!' TO rim EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Slit t —l never was more astonished than on last Friday when I saw the STANDARD, and found that little notorious Sant Knipe had had the impudence to inetiontatise the It .dical Town Courted tot compensation, fur his zeal and activity in objecting to 1,400 of the old freemen of the tiorougli, both rich and poor,: to prevent their,being on the call book, so that they could not vote at the next election', if one should take place this year' What moat every tionest Man think of this I aclical felloW,,' Who, want! tarot) trs tut our birthright, an d teen claims to . be pi:Of out of the fitiblic purse ? No doubt but that he has been pro: untied by the captain 01 the yang, and one of the cuuncit too. If Mr. ifot4ina wilt not pay him soon he will split, and tell all he' knows about the Matter, as a tribute of respect to his Mentor)/ and the council Who ettployed bon in this iiirty affair. I thine ,hey shpuia have a full-tength portrait taken, and t o b e lung tip in the council-room along side tha t of Mr. W. W. Citrriei which vi,onlil be, as little Prituogenitnie Ewart used to say " Fraaght with interest to Liverpool, and 14,,tt itht to gytief i: tidoti yet motion ii; , oici s, Pre; i,ii. 8, 1854' /0 4 ?' Om riztj.:*NNOt window, and shouted to him and Murphy, "Don't come in here, as th•tre is a poker reads for you to split sour scull." Mr. Ball ordered looney to pay a fine of '2os. and onsis, or he imonsoned Iti da.ys, and grattie , t a warrant for the apprehension of Murphy. couia F PASSAGE. The - Pope has forbidden infant schools within the Papal States. List of cabin passengers an board the packet ship 'Oxford,' John lialltome, florin New Yolk, which arrived on Thursday, after a passage of eighteen riays Nless•s. El. 'Wit'ldey. A.N. till im. Harrison. John Budd, James Bottomly, Tlwinas Mayor, J. W. Kiniball,• Nightingale, M. Broadbent, Samuel Samuel, John Ross, Charles limn, C. T. E. Huyck, H. V. Briggs, Dr. Mackay, and Mrs. Cock-tan. DtwirsmoN OF BriNd IN Tutt, FAMtLy-WAY.—Sar ah News hatn, a respectable-looking girl was brought up at the Police office, on Friday, charged by another young woman, cousin to the prisoner, with theft, ouiler the f'ollow'ing circumstances:— The complainant, in the most indigo tut manner, and with a Modulation of tone that would have reflected high credit on an a, tress, deposed I bus —" That woman was at roc house, sir, a short time ago, and I say a to her, ' Sarah, , o up stairs- and ietch My shawl'—the shawl, you know, sir, was hanging across the rail of the bed, as I told her ; and she cornea dowry presently and Says that the shawl wasn't there! I Went tip myself soon tirter, and sure enough it was gone, sir. Now, what was Ito think. Why, •I didn't knew woat to think ; but_l did think of it o nce, sir, for it eas a vet y handsome shawl, it was, as all the neighbours owned—except them that was jealous of me, sir; tOr a black crow never owns as how a peacock's hatulsomer than himself; and grapes as gruws out of reach, von know, is always sotir, as Mr. Fox said. Well, sir, I went to her one day to borrow an iron, and (would you b e l ieve it ?) she had my own shawl on her back—and she's my own cousin, too! She wants to cousin me, but she shan't if your worship won't let her." The prisoner declared that she had not been in the house of the plaintiff. nor had she been sent up stairs for her shawl. On the evening when the Complainant came into her mother's house, she had been to Byrom-street Chapel, anil , was about to retire to ).led. She had on her own shawl—a shawl which all the family knew to be hers—When her cousin caste in and claimed it as her own. Complainant —" It is not her shawl." Prisoner —" Begging your .pardon , Mr . Hall. it is icy shawl," Complainant.—" 0 my! how can y ou say that, Sarah ? I know my shawl very well; it haS a mark upon it. A bit lead been torn off by my nail. when the balloon went up and here it is now!" she exclaimed, in a toile o f inexpressible de light. and pointing to the corner of the shawl in a triumphant manner. Prisoner.—" When she lost her shawl, sir. she weht to a fortune-teller about it, who told her that it had been stolen by a person in the family way and another tall person, and that is the only reason she has for accusalg me." "But y1)11 are not tall?" "No, sir, nor in the fatuity w a y ; but she interprets it thus—A person in the family-way is one in the way of the famlly, I belong to the family—therefore I am -in the way Of the farm!,—therefore I ant in the faintly way _ a nd then-fore stole her shawl." The mother of the prisoner. deposed that th e shaWl in dispute Was the property of her daughter, who had bought it about three weeks ago in Wintechapel. "She (com plainant) went to the fortune-teller to see what kind of a pet son it was that took it, and that's all she knows. My daughter was never here before, but she bas been here .many a time. .She was di:unk, too. sir, and had a ratite in her boas". " Magistrate. —"lf ytmr daughter bought the shawl as you say, the twiter way will be to let the man from Whilechapel come here." Mrs. Newsham.—".But he can't come sir ; he'S dead. It's a pity he didn't live a week or two longer, then my daughter could have hero .cleared. She' eomplainant) is a very malicious, false woman." Another witness deposed that the shawl had been purchased by the plaintiff. in her presence, at Poynton's, in Paradise-street. The result was that the prisoner was reinar,d cd, that the shawl might - he taken to Mr. Poynton, to see whether he could recognise it. ComFoirmet.e OItUNK. — An Irishman, who rejoiced in the so briyuet of Mulligan, was brought up recently ,it the Police office, charged with ohs:rattling with his own person toe free current of noxious waters which, having oozed from various contribuistry drains and culverts, carry themselves away by a gutter in the neighbourhood of Dale-street : he was, hit over, unconscious of the offence he was committing, for, as he rolled and changed ills position in his soft but not downy lied, fetding not quite so it arm and comfortable as in bus own chamber, which he imagined he occupied, he in half distinct, yet smothered an - The u nusual calle drep ea t edl y grouting tou p b o e n it t i u s c h k e e t d t tuck‘g`utt gutter attracted himin. the attention of .an officer, who, finding the prisoner unable to pilot himself home, locked hint ul, fur safety. Yer llama," said the prisoner, " I was'nt drunk at all, and he's a dirty spalpeen that says to the contrary. I'd bin working al. a big Aunericker ship all the blessed night, and 1 Could keep awake no longer; anti I s'pese l'm nut a ' tuttnambler,' for I couldn't walk in use sleep, or sure, yer titular, Fr: not have thiot,bled the place.man, to disturb me nramin'." Mr. Pall-1 think you have been het e before. Prisituer—But never, yer hanar, for any thing but a ditrop o' dhrink. , Mr. Ball—Well, you may go away now, but lie more sparing of your drops, or 1 shall be obliged to flue c.o. Pat promised a . tee- total abstinence, and with'evideut gratitica tiou regained his liberty. Bttarscit of 'These.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, one of the sailors in the employment of the Liverpool Fish Company, named Jelin Ball, was placed before the iitagistrates, on a chaige of defrauding the company. Mr. Archibald, the. agent for the company sand, that he haul received information of the prisoner. having sold a quantity of tish at Doug as, Isle of Man, which he had no auttiority whatever to do; and also, of his havin , (dieted one of the company's boats for sale, foi £.O, at Ulvei stone. Mr. Hall said he had tin jurisdiction at Douglas s or at Uiver stone. It ass finally determined that an officer should be sent with the prisoner, at the company's expense to Douglas, where the case of selling the fish was to be piessed against him. Ronsaity.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a female of dis• orderly 'character, named Ann Williams, was brought up, charged with having robbed a man of colour. The complainant, John Francis, deposed, that he was going to his lodgings the night before, about twelve o'clock, when he met the prisoner at the bar who claimed an acquaintande with him, and asked him many familiar questions—if he was acquainted atilt Mrs. Williams, where she formerly lived, and made herself uncom monly free with his person, as well as familiar, when, all at • once, she gave a theatrical start, as if she were frightened, and ran off, lie felt much surprised at this, and began to search Ins pockets to ascertain the cause, when lie discovered she had not gone empty handed, but that his purse, containing 22s , had disappeared with her. He immediately pursued, and overtook her, and gave her into custody. In answer to an in q uiry Ro u t Mr: Hall, he said he was a seafaring .man. The officer who took the prisoner into custody said, he found her purse concealed under her apron. The prisoner entered into a rigmarole de fence, the truth of which the complainant denied. Mr. Hall ordered the informations to be taken against her. STEALING LEAD. --Yesterday; at the Police-office, a lad named John Green was placed at the bar of the Pmice-offiee, charged by Barton, the coustaole, with having stolen a quantity f lead. Barton deposed, that that morning, between two and , three o'clock, he was out with constable Ammo' th, searching houses, when they saw the prisoner coming out of an unoccus pied cellar in Ilarrison-street. Ainsworth seized him, and Ott, taking him into custody, and searching the cellar, they found in a striare hole in it, a bich is made a del 6t for the conceal ment of stolen property, a quantity of lead piping in a wet state, as if only just laid tnere. The prisoner, in defeuc said, that feeling very dr y , got Up for it drink of water,e dud was just gone out when the officers took him into custody. Barton said, that a 'number of thieves lived in the house over the cellar. Mr. Hall (to prisonet) " What are you ?"- Pri soner.—" I work fur my fat " What is your father? " Ile is dead about three weeks since." (A laughs.) Parkin soil said, that the ptisoner had only come out ot slatßritlewel a fortnight before. Mr. full said, he would give the officers next ino-ning to make inquiries about the lead, and lemanded the prisoner. IRISH SisTant.e AFFEcrum—Yesterdac. at the Police -offic, two young Irishwomen, funned Eliza and - Jane l'Court, were brought up at the bar charged with being drunk and kicking un-a.disturbance iu l'arailise•sti eel, on Saturday night. Officer No. 294 deposed that the two prisoners were fighting together on Saturday night. about twelve o'clock, in Paradise-street; arid' creating such a disturbance that a great crowd collected ai mind them. Mr. flail asked them what they had to say in defence; when. Eliza.M`Court, the elder of the twain, said, in a strong I rish• brogue, " Plase- yer banner, we're shisters, au' we :live at Preacot, an' make caps to sell at the markets. An' in di 11 w: hate ire' niejOy at selling all dhe caps I got Just lit(le drop whiskey, an' gee a little o' the same to my soister, ail', it took a hall of us. We were a goin' to get hack to Prescot,,by' the' coal carts, which takes us for sixpence—treepence a piece, when in dhe hate ov dhe whiskey I get; her a slap, just a gentle tip i yen banner, an' I b'lieve she fell agin a gas post an' rut Ire r face a little Well, yer haunter, she didn't lik e id, an taiil ane of wid thange tiv dhe same, but she's inc to blame for it all, as she's a voungerer shister. lint taase yen banner, it is two years since I was drunk before, 1111 ' yen presence, l'lt 'drunk agin, an' she, yer hauler, was Inver drunk afore; au' as to creating a disturbance. phase yer haulier, I don't rent 11 anct hits' at all about it, an' I promis e to Grod an yer harmer (liver get dinnk ;Iglu." Mr. hall discharged them on their promise never to do the like again. • ASSAULT. — Yesterday, at the Police-o ffi ce, an emaciated lotling man, 'tattled Carr, au Irishman, a coach-builder by trade, appeared to complain againSt a prisoner named Rooney, au apprentice to a wheelwright, (ter violently assaulting hint self and his wife. The cumplainant, who appeared to be completely under the mastership nil' his tongue, atid not to be the master over it, in very pitoix •brogue proceeded to state his grievances. He said, "Yer wiirship'S reverence, on Satur day night. I stint out at seven o'clock, whin I beer(' my wile:a screeelon' in the ket chin, and I went from toy own apartment to see what was the %Haulier, whin I see'd a man stirrikiog bur dims way, (suiting the action to the word,) an'd dhat man v+as• named Pat Murphy, a pig-jobber he is by trade. So I Hint its order to eradicate me wile, an he cut up stairs: Sts I, " you must answer for dhal," sis I. "oil Monday, before an Aldema6," sis I, "to satisfy n 0.." In dhe coorse of half an hour he goes out thiougl% dhe hall. Mr. 11.111—" This is all about another man ; come to the charge against the prisoner Rooney." Ctint plainant —" Well, he wilt out. dheo, and stopped out till eleven o'clock, an' mode use ov desperate expressions as he was a goin,' At eleven he comes in wid this man Rooney, an', 515 he, " qwhare is dhe peeple dhat (litre tight us, an behaved in a bravo brutal manner?" and wid that, Murphy rushes past use, and sthrikes mite wife agin. I made a rush to assist me wiW, an' this fellow Rooney runs behind me, an' takes dhe poker Ikon dhe fire. I stoops down, and dhe blow fell on me wite, an' they beat me wife to such a degree dhat she is quite black." The poor wife, who appeared to have come in fur all the heat I lig, here exhibited her arms, which were black and bine, Ihullgh sbe herself was white enough. It appeared that there itail'aieen 'some quarrel between the parties, and that Murphy lodged op stuns in the sante house, and that this pokering business was time settling of the dispute after the Irish fashion, Rooney say ing, in defence, that Mrs: Cart hail pet her head ont of the Yeiterday, the Court of Passage for the trial of civil causes, was held iri the Court-ro-it., Session's-lionse, before WILL IA NI RATUBONK, Esq., tiw INIO•or, and CH A RI.E!i COMPTON, he Assessor of the Court. There were 6i cases fur trim; the inajo,ity of thew, however; were cases of the most nisig,nifivant d escr iption. I. is pitiable to see then of cOniinori sense wasting taeir means ton n4 - st attain ies over such trifi-s •or that they cannot find some inottial friend to Settle their differences. Dolt AN V. LA NG A N.—A SSAI I.T. Mr. VEN AISLES appeared dui' the piaintiff, and Mr. MURPHY for the deletidato. The plaintiff in this case is a tailor, and the defendant a keeper of a public-house, and rather notorious .111. certain pugilistic e n e auuteis. in which suite years ago he wit ngaged Th e plaintiff r haraeil the defendant, with having assaulted hint on the 10th of November last, to which 01(4 detendant pleaded that he had oat assaulted the plaintiff; and second, that the plaintiff was making a noise in his house, and he (deleudant) cammitted the assault in turning him out. Mr. VEN A Bt. Is:, oil opening the ease said, that on the 10th iif November last, the piaintiff Wits in Mr. Lanaates public-house; and for some reason or other a person left the loom, and Mr. Langan went. tip stairs and asked the plaintiff how he dared to assault the peison who had just left the room, when the plaintiff said he had not assaulted him, when Mr. Langan called him a liar, and iminediately struck him a blow on the face. Ile could nal find anything in his instructions that there was a noise in the house. This could not ,be treated as a light matter of ass ault. which the parties had no interest His client was a respectable person, and Mr. Langan was amen of very superior powers; he did not thick that any person would have the power of intlictiuga blow so heavy as Mr. Langan.. He was a pro fessed pugilist; he did not say that Mr. Langan did not con duct himself respectably , but he must not exercise his pugilistic wve,' , ••• on men like his client. He did ant ask for vindictive damages, but he dial ask for sufficient to compensate for the assault which his client had sustained. He called - Martin Daly, who deposed that he was in company with Mr. Daiwa at LttW,all'S public-houSe, on the 10th of November last, at about Mae o'clock in the evening. He recollected a person in the loom going downstairs ; Langan came up very soon afteraand said—" How dare you strike this young man, and make uae of such language to biro; vou are always kicking up a row?' The plaintiff replied that he did not strike hm. " It's a lie!" said Langan ;" it 'is a d—d he!" aind appealed to the company. Langan then just rose his hand and hit him on the eye, and that was his appeal to the c om p an y . Doran said—" You might as Well have given me a d—il good hiding, Jack, for it will cost you just the same." (LUughter.) Mr. VEN A BLEs.—Was it a heavy blow? • Witness. -13y Geore it was; I should not like such a one; - It gave him a vela bad black ere. Cross-examined.—'!`here had been afew words between the young man who left the room and Mr. Dolan respecting the sale of some ale. There was lots of singing going nn in an ad joining room. Mr. Doran might have said to the young man that the song which had just been sung was well snug, and, the young man might have said something too, he supposed he vvund not have kept his mouth shut. He did flit recollect hearing Mr. Doran say to the young man he would "give him a dig iu the lua." He believed the young man, who afterwards left the room, came up stairs again with Mr. Langan. Langan struck him with the back of his hand on the eye; he only struck him one blow. Ile was a very unwilling witness. They all went away after that. He would swear it was no push that be gave him. but a right good blow which blackened his eye. Mr. Muurity.—" What is Mr. Doran?" Witness.—" He is a tailor." Mr. MCHPBY. —"Oh a fraction of a man ; that is fearful odds." (Laughter.) Witness.—" yes." Mr. Muireuy.—" It was 18 id one against him.—Witness "Y..!—(Laughter.) This was the case for the prosecutor. 111 x. M 1;1{PB Y, for the defendant contended, that his friend on iv having nut one witness in the box when several had been spoken tit, left a fair inference that his witness bad perhaps spoken the trath, but not the whole truth. Ile contended that Mr. Langan ,was but keeping quiet in his public-house. Mr. Langan had ceased to be a pugilist, and kept a very respectable public-house, and was prospering., and was singularly free from all charges of disturbances having taken place in his house: lie contended that Mr. Langan had a pin feet right by law, when a person was Inakiimg his comp-, ay imiderable, to re quest him to retire, anti if he iefused then to use the necessary violence far ejecting ti n. Hit contended that he brut used uit more violence than was necessary for ejecting hint, add in doing so had undoubtedly committed what was an assault iii law. He called Mr. McCauley, whoaleposed that he was a teacher, and recol lected going to the house of the defendant on the 10th of Nov. last ; lie aims in company with a person minted Smith. They went tip stairs and there was a person there named Doran, with three others with him. They called for some ale, .and scene one was singing, a song, and Doran said '' it was a good sang," and he (witness) said "he had heard it sung better." Doran said " w tat dtm you know about it; and if you don't hold your noise, I will give you a dig under your hoga" He should say that he was 3 parts drunk. Ile (witnesss) then drank up his ale and left the room. As he was going down stairs he suit "g o od night Mr. Langan, I should have like) to have stopped and heard another song, but a per sett alp stairs was guing, to give ins a b- —y dig under the lug." Mr. Lauganaasker! him to go up stalls with hint and point the person out who had insulted him. He (witness). went up stairs with him, and Mr. Langan asked Doran what business he had to insult any person that came to his house. Doran said he hail not Mine so, when Mi. Langan appealed to the company whether he-had or not, antl they told Mr. Langan Ilia he (Doran) had insulted him (witness.) and that he had not spoken to him in return. Doran said "Jar k. you are a liar, and you and the company are all d—d liars." Mr. Langan then pushed him, just as much as to tell him to hold his noise. He dal toil shake him. Ile catight hold of the collar of his coat and pushed hi;, he could not call it a blow; he did net give him a black eye. Mr. Lanean told him to hold his noise and not kick up a disturbance there. Duran said, " Langan, I tail make vim pay for that blow." Langan said, " Yon don't call that a bloat., do you? I only just inll.loled you. " Damn said, " I will make it cost you as touch as if you had struck toe though." Doran went:out then. Cross-examined.—lle was net in the habit of frequenting Langan's. He was quite tarer. Thome.a Sinith was called, but merely corroborated the state ments of the last Witness. Mr. VEN A BLES, in reply, contended that, on the evidence of the defentlato's witnesses, he was entitled to a verdict. Th e A ss asson, in summing up, said the jury would consider whether an assault had been committed, and, second, whether, if committed, it was only in putting hint out of the house. There was no evidence of defendant's having made a request that plaintiff s hould leave his lionSe, which was necessary be fore resorting to violet-re to put him out. lie thought that they mnst find for the plaintiff on the first plea, and that the plain tiff had not made out his plea on the secund plea, which utmost therefore go fur the plaintiff. The Jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff, damages 40s. THE Pot.KE-oFFicE.—'testerdav, at the Police-office, there were 96 prisoners to be brought up, 37 of whom were charged with felony! BEEF STEAK Cixa,—This society have awarded the third prize to Mr.. George Hargreaves, of this town, for his glee ..'the Poet lov es the g enerous wine." The saute gentleman also received the first prize at the recent contest. - THE LIVER THEATRE.—SeveraI lively nautical representa liens In Whieh Mr. T. I'. Cooke, takes the principal part, con tinue to he bronaht out at this little theatre, which stilt tills well. Mr. Hoskins, the comedian of Manehoster has been entcaged and commences his engagement. during the present week. THE Rovit AuFHITHEATI:E.—The splendid spectacle of St. George and the Drip.:n, continue's to form a prominent Feature of attraction at this place of amusement. There is little fear of the splendid equestrian feats, and the almost human intelli gence of the highly trained stud of Mr. Ryan, attracting good houses. c. Mr. STUBB'S ANNUAL BALL—The annual ball given by Mr. St u bbs, the master of the Liverpool Harm o nic Band. was held on Fri lay evening at the TeMplar's Hall. The attendance :was very good, and respectable, and rdancing was kept op to a late, or rattier early hour. A number of beautiful quadrilles and waltzes were played during the evening. SINGULAR AcclDlE.qT.—Eitriy on Saturday morning a la bourer on board the Cambridge, was serioivly itijurl4l by the falling of an iron rod on his foot, which was completely trans fixed. a portion of the boot and stocking being rall ied into the wound. He was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, Leeds street, where he is likely to do well. - - RF.v. H. M`NEKE.—A handsome piece of plate was. on l‘londay last, pi esented to the respected minister of St. Jude's Church, as a tiibute or atioction and gratitude from the younger members of his convegation. It consisted or a silver salver, richly chased, on which the following was inscribed :—" Pre sented to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, by some of the younger members of his congregation, as a token of theirsincere affection. Ist January; 18:38."—Cduriet. RF.v. J. !AnNs.—On New Year's-dav was presented to the Rev. John Lyons, M.A., of All Saints' 'Church, in this town, by the female members of his congregation, a handsome silver tea and entice service. as a great ful acknowledgment of the Chrktian zeal, perseverance, and anxiety he has ever displayed to all those who enjoy the privilege of his ministry. Few gifts have been tendered with greater sincerity, as evinced by the cheerful eagerness with which all, even to the humblest, ex pressed their desire to contribute.—Courier, LlNTEnema. lt:lsTs;DpEnn.—We„perceive that our Cambrian friends have anni timed that the approaching Mimic meeting will be held at the Templar's Hall, instead of the Welsh Charity School, as originally intended. We believe that the alteration has taken place in c‘insequence . of the former being deemed a more suitable plan fir this national celebration, as well as iivrtng to the increased demand for tickets, whiCh rendered it requisite to provide more ample ac,commodationS. This will be the first meeting of the kind in Liverpool, on which account we particu larly exhort the Cyrus y or this neighbotirlinod to afford it that support which will secure the recurrene# of such meetings on 1111111 e anniversaries of St. David's Day. We believe that the committee of the Ancient Briton's Society contemplate making arrangements for holding a grand Eistthldrod next year, after the plan of the north and south Wales P.i,teddileiciu. We are sure that such a festival would pass of with ecrat ill this torch, especially with its usual adjuncts of an oratorio, concerts, kilAi a hon. As the annmtnitement of such a 'meeting will probably depend upon the successor the present experiment, we hope the Welshmen of Liverpool will not permit the approaching 'fleeting to be anything but successful. EXTENSIVE, ltoursunv. — We have to record, this week, air extensive robbery committed, under singular (tit cit msl a de"; on the premises at floolon, the residence of Sir Thitmas N. Stanley, Bart., involving a loss of £1,200, in cash. The how baronet, on Satur.iay, on returning from hunting, had deposited a silver flask be usually carried with him tin such oci'assions, and a large runt of money, in bank notes, in draweis in the scrtitoire in his rooms; and, on Monday, he disetiveied he had been robbed to a large amount. upwards of £lOO, in - mites, having been taken ftidn one sitrutotte, and a similar sum tlitm another, besid( s gold and Silver to a large amount. Ott an nouncing that be had been robbed, Lady Stainer. discoverer; that her desk hail been broken open, anti about £l5O stolen. The keys of Sir Thomas Stanley's smutoire had been taken out o f his drawer, and were left on a chimney-pier e. There are circumstances which induce the belief, that the robbery was committed on the Saturday night or Sunda morning, We forbear, for obv ions reascitis, elitist in. - mitre fully into particulars, except to state that the only article stolen, except the cash, is the silver flask, of which the following is a description; -- The top forms a (up ; there is a et est, a stag's head, on the side ; anti the name on the bottom thus—Sir Thidnits M. Stanley, Bart. On Wetlnes lirv, Mr. Hill, of ;he Chester police, visited Iltioton, and took ittto custody a female who hail been it) the service of the family for about five weeks. Suspicions attach to other parties, but °it what ground. we do not think it prudent lit mention.—Chestet Paper: • AN ERAG WHEAT. 'Tr 7n tbs. s Irish deed red 6 6 e Do. dried white, 7 4 .. Do.nndried new 6 6 English Canada ..... 0 0.. Osrs. V' 45 Ms Irish 2 7 lissT.F.Y. 4 60 Ths. , • Irish grinding 3 3.. 3 6 AVERAGE PRICE ---- SD SD s n .4, Rayon, 4f.' cwt.... 57 oq6B 0 BanbriiNe .. 78 0 e 440 Hams, dry 6O 0 .. 68 0 Waterford, Do. wet — 0 .. 0 C01eraine......... 9J 0 .. 94 0. Firkin Lard, Bladdered do 7O 0 .. 74 0 Limerick ...... ..• • 0 .. —0, Grease Butter Prime Ness Beef, Derry r tierce, 98 0 ~110 Cork, 215,... —o.. 0 Prime Ness Pork, Newry. V barrel. 78 0.. 80 0 Pundalk Sligo 0 .• 9 ..; 0111 the MI la. OF COI the Bth J, ranuary inclusivr. DESCRIPTION. COAST WISE. TOTAL. -,----- Wheat Q r. ,. Barley.. WA . Oats Ctrs Flour. Sacks Ditto Barrels \lalt Cwt Oatmeal Loads Bran Beans Qrs Peas QrA Rye Qr 4 Shelled Parley— Cut Radeseed Barrels Indian Corn Qrs ItIVAU iiiary to c ref et t in-- the ra Key, Bill, on of upon- of it tinif.; pub-