The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-06 00:00:00

+ .. `as . T a PUBLIC MEETING of the FRIENDS of LORD A SANDON, held ia.thel. 4 s.rge Room of the Golden Lipo, Ist January, 1835 : , On the motion of Avass HooosoN, Esq., seconded by Sir THOMAS BRANCK ER, CHARLES LAWRENCE, Esq., was called to the Chair. On the motion of CHARLES HORSP•LL, Esq., onded by I•yiEs llitvwolan, Esq., It was resolved, That this Meeting, highly approving of the iticalprinciples and public conduct of Lord SANDON, and ertaining a deep sense of the services rendered by hint to th Town as one of its Representatives in Parliament, now p 1 es itself to use its hest exertions and to adopt all legal means to secure his return at the ensuing Election. On the motion of Jour( Moss, Esq., seconded by JOSEPH SANDARS, Esq., It was resolved, That the Individuals now present take this public opportunity of exprest , ing their grateful Thanks to his Lordship for h i s unwearied exertions in Defending the Rights and Privileges of the Burgesses of Liverpool in the late House of Commons, and fur the zeal and ability with which he at all times stood forward to vindicate the purity of the last Election for this Borough. On the motion of GEoitos GRANT, Esq., seconded by WIL LI/II POTTER, Esq., It was resolved, That a Committee bo now appointed to make the necessary arrangements for securing the Election of his Lordship, and that it do consist of the Gentlemen now named, with power to add to their numbers. (The List of the Committee was then -read.) CHARLES LAWRENCE, Chairman. The Thanks of the Meeting were then unanimously voted to the Chairman for his able conduct in the Chair. LORD SANDON. HE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the FXIEN DS of T LORI) SANDON will Sit Daily on and a fer Tilts DAY, (Friday,) the 2d January instant, at the Got. N LloN, Dale 'treat, at Ten o'clock each day. The Sub-committee for each District _ Ulna at No. 1, Bridgewater-street for Po ' g. DISTRICT NO. 1. Polling Place the end of Great George-street, opposite the Independent Chapel. At No. 35, Great Nelson-street, Lime-street, fur Polling. DISTRICT ISO. 2. sit at the same Polling Placa Old Infirmary Ground, opposite the Hay market. At the Gulden Lion, Dale-street, for Pulling. . - -- - N - DISTRICT 03. Polling Place in front of the Town-hall. At N 0.68, Vauxhall-road, opposite the end of Canning-street ler Polling. DISTRICT NO. 4. Polling Place Vauxhall-road, adjoining Canning-street. At bliss Slaxvrell's, Stanhope-street, for Polling. DISTRICT NO. 7. _ . _ Comprising such part of the Township of Toxteth-park, as is within the limits of the Borough, as fixed by the Boundary Act; Polling Place, Park-place, near St. Patrick's Chapel. At Mr. Halliday's, Everton Coffee-house, on and after To morrow, (Saturday,) at Ten o'clock, for Polling. DISTRICT NO. 5. Comprising such parts of the Township of Everton and Kirk dale as are within the limits of the Borough, as fixed by the Boundary Act; Pulling Place Everton Village, near the Bound House. At Mr. Kay's, Edge-hill Coffee-house, on and after To-mor row, Saturday,) at Ten o'clock, for Polling. DISTRICT NO. 6, Comprising such parts of the Township of West Derby, as is within the limits of the Borough, as fixed by the Boundary Act ; Polling Place, Edge-hill, near the Church. The Electors in each District who intend to vote for Lord Sandon, and are desirous of obtaining information as to the node of Polling, are respectfully requested to apply to the Committee of the District, which, in order to facilitate the tak ing of the Poll, is instructed to furnish each Elector with a Card containing the number of his name in the Registry. And the Committee take this opportunity of requesting the Friends of Lord Sandon to attend and vote as soon as possible at the Opening of the POLL, at NINE o'clock ou TLESChIY MOU/KING. CHARLES LAWRENCE, Chairman. Conssuittee-roam, Golden Lion,} Ist January, 1835. THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION. AT s MEETING of the FREE BURGESS) ELECTORS of the Borough of Liverp9 at the King's Arms Hotel, in Castle-street, Mr. Alderman RoatssoN iu the chair, and other ~ held this day it was moved by Mr. LSYLAND, sec2xij BitANCKER, and Resolved unanimously,—" That, in th, Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., is a fit present this borough in Parliament." It was moved by Mr. Alderman WRIGHT, seconded by Mr. Wm. Lows, and Resolved,—" That the following Gentlemen form the General Committee for conducting the Election of Sir Howard Douglas, Bart." It was moved by Mr. T. B. HORSE/ALL, seconded by Mr. BITSON, and Resolved,—" That a subscription be opened to defray all ne cessary and legal expenses attendant upon the Election of Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., and that Mr. Richard Dobson be Treasurer." NICHOLAS ROBINSON, Chairman. by Sir THOMAS (pinion of this meeting, .nd proper person to re- The CHA IRMA rir having left the Chair, It was moved by Sir Tuomas Ba•xcitatt, seconded by DUNCAN GiBB, Esq., and Resolved,—" That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. Alderman RORINsON; for his impartial and valuable ser vices as Chairman of this meeting. " TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. GENTLEXINN, TN deference to a requisition which embodies the wishes of a largo and most respectable portion of the constituency of South Lancashire, I present myself to your notice as a Candi date for the honour of being chosen to represent you in the House of Commons, in the event of an early dissolution of Parliament. Circumstances, which have connected me with the trade, the manufactures, and the agriculture of this part of the kingdom, enable me to solicit your suffrages on the score of a community of interest which makes your prosperity, or its re rse, in an unusual degree, sensibly and immediately my o . That our common prosperity may best be maintained a advanced un der those institutions of church and state, be ath the influence of which it has sprung and flourished, rmly believe. If I become your representative, I shall thercjibre oppose, to the ut most of my ability, any measures of chrige which may appear to me to involve the subversion of thoso institutions, or such inroad upon them as may appear designed or calculated to pre pare the was for that subversion. Anxious, however, as I am to tphold all that is valuable in ear establishments, and considering, under the circumstances isf the time, the task of their conservation the prominent and most arduous duty of your representative, I am not the less de sirous to aid the judicious and well-considered correction of de fect or abuse; and I am careful to distinguish between the clamour for idefinite change, or for revolution clearly defined, and the general desire of the people, or the just petition of any portion of the people, for such alterations as may be justified by demonstration of existing injury, or reasonable . calculation of contingent good.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your faithful and obedient servant, Wortley, Dee. 3d, 1&34. FRANCIS EGERTON. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION - OF TAB COUNTY OF LANCASTER. UrXNTLEMEN, "IrN compliance with the urgent solicitation of a n _IL influential body of the Eiettors of the Sout r ot Lancashire, I am induced to offer myself to DIDATE for thelfepresentation of this Div' of an approaching Election. 1 have hitherto not taken any active pa in political life, bui reonsider that the time has arrived who o man should refuse to obey a public call to express and a np to those principles which he conceives best calculated to promote the welfare and prosperity of his Country. I am firmly convinced that our Constitution is best secured to us inviolate under the Institutions of Church and State combined, beneath which o it has so long flourished; and with that view I would firmly - oppose any attempt either direct or indirect to se parate them ; nor would I consent to the Alienation of Church Property in any part of the United Kingdom from strictly Ec olesiastical purposes. • I profess myself a Conservative,and with those sentiments am determined to uphold all our valuable Institatiuns, not blinding myself to any defects or abuses which may have crept into them, but willing and anxious to improve them by judicious correc tion, at the same time carefully distinguishing . between what is sanctioned by manifest decay or existing injury, and what is demanded by clamour and party virulence, at once involving indefinite change and certain destruction. I have only to add, that should I have the honour to become one of your Representatives, it will be my earnest endeavour to fetlfil, to the utmost of my abilities, the duties of that distinguished office; and the consideration that I am employed in the service of my native County, to which I am warmly attached, will be an additional 'native for my zealous effort)] to promote its prosperity. Gentlemen, 1 have the honour to be, • Your obedient humble Servant, ,It. I3OOTLE WILBRAHAM. Settairday Bowan g , Deo. 20, 1831. ieroue and n Division Au as a CAN ton, in the even TO TH E GENTRY CLERGY, AND OTHER ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF I HE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER. GENTLEMEN. ADissolution of the late Parliament having taken place, I lose no time in respectfully announcing to yotynay inten tion of again becoming a Candidate for the ho r of repre senting the Northern Division of Lancashire i e House of Commons. In doing so, I venture to hope that my c duct in the late Parliament, both as regards the local inte is of the County, and the general duties of a representrai , has been such as ict merit a continuance of that confi cc which 301) were pleased to repose in me at the last Gen al Election. I have steadily . supported those principles which I have pro tected frown the time I first had the honour of meeting you as a Uunditate for your suffrages. My ma in o bject, as it was toy main and most important duty, has been to support our National .Institutious in their utmost integrity, to protect them from all attacks, and to strengthen them by such judicious alteratieus, and the removal of such abuses, as the process of time or the particular circumstances of the country might require. I have not been inattentive to those burdens under which this Country is now labouring, of which, since I have had the honour of a seat in Parliement, I base endeavoured to exact as great an alleviation, by the reduction of taxation and an econo my in the public expeuditure, as was consistent with public faith and national credit. I appeal with confidence to those of my Constituents who have had opportunities of jud ging, whetherl have been negli gent or otherwise of those important interests of this great County, which it is the more immediate duty of a Representa tive to take under his charge. In matters of a local nature, I have pursued a course uninfluenced by private or partial feel ings, and in these, as in my public conduct generally, have been alone guided by a desire to promote the welfare and hap piaess of all classes of the community in which I have the good fortune to live. Whether I hare succeeded in these objects it is for you to determine; but I venture to look forward to tlfe approaching Election with confidence, and shall then be ready to afford you any farther explanation of my past conduct which you may be pteased to demand from ins , and which I may have omitted withim the prescribed limits of the present address. I has. the huneur to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient humble Servant, .Bank . 17 tilt, D4B. alit, Mat 3, WILSON PATTEN. x . OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that e COMMITTEE for conducting SIR HOWARD UGLAS'S ELEC TION meet in the Great Room, in e King's Arms, every day from Twelve to Three o'clock. LORD SANDON, THE Committee of the Friends of RD SANDON sit Daily, at the GoLDEN LION, ALE-STREET, at One o'clock CHARLES LAN RENCE, Chairman. Committee-Room, Golden Lion. • Ve 't SOUTH LANCASHIRE I SION. THE COMMITTEE for CON DUC ' i'G the ELECTION of LORD FRANCIS EGERT ..' and the HONOUR ABLE R. BOOTLE . WILBRAHA 1, for this DIVISION of the COUNTY will meet Daily at Eleven o'Cluck, at No. 10, Exchange-alley, where Information respecting the Election it is requested may tie communicated. RICHARD DAWSON, Secretary. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. GENTLEMEN,— T had scarcely returned triv warmest acknowled "ent of .1 the requisition with which - I have been honou from Li verpool, expressive of the desire of upwards of 3,7 individuals to be permittedto put my name in nomination a a candidate for the representation of your important tows • the event of an early dissolution of parliament) than Ife t incumbent upon me to address you without delay. Gentlemen,— I shouldbe dead to every sense of public duty if, at a time like this, I could for one moment hesitate to accede to your wishes. With feelings of honest pride and sincere grati tude I obey the call with which you have been pleased to honour me. Gentlemen,—My political principles are known to you. You know that whilst I am a firm supporter of our ancient institu tions—institutions upon which the liberty, industry, and pros perity of the country are based,—l am at the same time sincerely desirous to correct any real abuses, or redress any real grievances that in the true signification of the term may be proved to exist. In this spirit 1 do declare that I shall endea vour to give effect to all such measures of reform as may tend to insure good government, promote the happiness, and main tain the just rights of the people. Gentlemen,—l yield to no man in earnest desire and in steady determination to advocate that steady protection to which the interests of every man and every class of ;persons iu this great community are justly entitled. I make no inconsiderate .pro mises. I give uo pledges. The duty of a representative is to reserve to himself the power of legislating freely upon all mat ters for the general good, and if it be your will to return me to parliament as your representative, I shall, in that capacity, endeavour to prove myself worthy of your confidence, by zeal ous atteutiou to your local interests, and ardent advocacy of the great commercial interests of your town, as well as those of the empire at large. Gentlemen,—l consider it to be the duty of a stateman to endeavour to promote the well-being, comfort, and happiness of the people in general, and to legislate with the view to mitigate, but not to aggravate, the ills of life. It will ho ever my con stant aim to support measures calculated to ease the springs of active industry and enterprise, and to protect the property acquired thereby; and I will always give my sincere assistance to all measures that may cause the institutions of Britain to be beloved at home, and her name respected abroad. Gentlemen,—lf placed in the high and responsible situation of Representative for Liverpool, I would legislate for the general good. All my energies should be directed to the advancement of the interests of our country, by supporting and advocating all measures tending to secure the peace, and to promote the prosperity and the power of Old Enyland. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With feelings of the deepest gratitude, Your very faithful servant, HOWARD DOUGLAS. London, 18th December, 1834. TO TILE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL. %liolution CLINTLEMEN, xT 0 doubt can any longer be entertained that a of Parliament is at hand; the time the ore is now come for making a public statement of the gr ds on which I shall solicit the high honour of being ch s a third time your Representative. In the first place I feel an honest consciousness, a conscious ness in which I am supported, as well by the cordial reception which I have met with from all classes, whenever I have come among you, as by the express testimonials of many Public Bodies, that your local interests, as well general as ind►vidual, have not suffered from any want of zeal and earnestness, how ever much they may have suffered from want of ability, on my part. Indeed in your service, laborious as it is, there is always this encouraging and elevating consideration, that from the high station which your great community holds among the Cities of the Empire, from its intimate connexion with every branch of Domestic and Colonial Industry, your Local Interests are, for the most part, the interests of the Empire at large ; and that thus, whoever has served you with any degree of efficiency may esteem himself to have rendered some service to his country. Thus, whether engaged in securing to your Town the benefit of an improved Local Court, or in resisting the attempt to ex tend the privilege of Warehousing to Inland Towns, a privilege which, by the consent of the best authorities, can only, with security to the Revenue and the Merchant, be conceded to the Ports whether in endeavouring to convince the Government and the House of Commons of the error into which they had Nike in attempting to levy a discriminating Duty on Tea, there by giving a premium on the introductiou of the inferior qualities, and introducing confusion and uncertainty into the trane; or in persuadiug them to reduce the Duties on Articles of Foreign Commerce • whether engaged in adjusting the terms on which the vast and ' incalculable resources of the Trade with China should be thrown open to the enterprise of the British Mer chant; or, above all, in neeociating that arrangement, combin ing justice with humanity, - by which the great and generous, though unexampled and perilous experiment of emancipating, at once, eight hundred thousand slaves has been stripped of much,of its peril, and enjoys the best chances of success of which it is in its nature capable; in short, it whatever instances I have been called upon to maintain or promote your Local Interests, I have felt myself engaged more or less directly iu promoting the general good. FREEMEN,-111 upholding, as by . every tie of gratitude and justice I was bound tb do, your rights and privileges against those who have never ceased to revile and persecute you since you have refused to become the tools of their ambition, I felt that I was fighting the battle of the poorer classes of Electors throughout the country, whose rights are an object of peculiar hostility to those who claim to themselves exclusively the- title of the " PEOPLE'S FRIENDS." But, GENTLEMEN, I feel that higher interests now occupy the minds of men. The great, the main principles of our Con stitution are assailed. The free exercise of the undoubted pre rogative of our King is questioned—if not in words, certainly in deeds; the independence, nay the very existence of the hereditary branch of our Legislature is attacked and derided; every check and balance is to he swept away for the purpose of substituting in the place of our free mixed monarchy the unmiti gated tyranny of one elective body. The Reform Act itself, no longer held up to our veneration, as it was during the discussion of the measure by its proposers and supporters, as a second Charter of our Rights, as a final and satisfactory adjustment of the Constitution of Parliament, is now treated as a mere step ping-stone to farther change ; as, indeed, of no other value than as containing within itself the seeds of future and constant change. It was not for such results that, in all its main provi sions, I supported the Reform Bill. I supported it as a measure of peace, as a measure calculated, by removing not unreason able objections to the Constitution of the House of Commons, to unite and knit together the hearts of all good men in defence of our Institutions, not to encourage or enable bad men to de stroy them. In this hope I supported it, in this hope I will maintain it; nor will I lend a hand to Radical Reformers to un settle its provisions, or pervert it from its original purpose. Not only is our Civil Constitution attacked, but our Na tional Church is assailed with, if possible, still greater bitter ness and animosity. Her opponents have spoken out at last; they no longer disguise that their ultimate end is her destruc tion as an establishment, and that their efforts for what they now call Religious Liberty will never cease till that object is attained. Of Religious Liberty I used to think I knew some thing,- having uniformly supported the removal of every civil disability on account of difference in religious creed, and having done so against my own interest, and in spite of party connexion, and when it was less than now the fashion of the day; but by that term I find that I must now understand the spoliation of Church Property, and the disavowal of all Reli gion by the State. To such an object, as involving, in my opinion, - the greatest of all calamities that could betel a nation; as shaking the foundation of all property by the too easily imi tated precedent for other spoliation which it would afford, and of all order by the destruction of au institution which diffuses respect for the laws of God and man to the remotest cor ners of the land ; as withdrawing from the poor and from the rich the only permanent provision for their instruction in Eternal Truth, the benefit of which is extended to all, and even acknowledged by many of those who dissent from her Com munion; to such an object, or to any steps that lead to it, I shall always offer the most zealous and unvarying opposition. These feelings, however, will not prevent me from continuing to lend a most favourable attention to every measure for the removal of real grievances, for putting the Marriages of Dis senters on a footing not offensive to their religious principles, for the establishment of a good system for the Registiation of Births, es far au alteration of the system of Church Rates on a principle similar to that proposed by the Government of Lord Grey; and I foresee no real difficulty iu the way of au arrange ment of these points which shall be satisfactory to all who are willing to be satisfied and who have no ulterior views. I shall also be olad to see some arrangement made by which the benefits of an ° University Education may be opened to the Dissenters without a Parliamentary interference with our ancient Uni versities, to which I cannot consent, and without a sacrifice of that religious discipline and instruction which I feel to be a distinguishing excellence of their present system, and which, even by the avowal of those who are most anxious for the change, would be incompatible with the free admission of per sons of different creeds to a common Education. On the subject of Church Reform, in which the Curates' Bill of my revered father gives me an hereditary interest, I need only say, that I have long looked with anxiety for some well-consi dered measures which shall , provide for the less inconvenient collection of the Revenues of the Church, and the more useful distribution of them within her own pale, for the regulation and diminution of pluralities and non-residence, for strengthening her discipline, and enabling her better to adapt herself to the wants of a growing population. • - - - These, then, are the principles on which I ask for your sup port. 1 will resist all' farther change in our parliamentary system; Twill sispport the reform of all that is !Tally abuse in Political, Ecclesiastical, or Municipal bodies; but! shall require stronger evidence of the abuse, and look to safer counsel for the remedy, than that of men who are hostile to the very objects for which these bodies have been created. If, by your kindness, I have again the honour of a seat in Parliament, these are the principles on which I hope to be able to support Lis Majesty's present government. I confess I feel it to be of infinite importance, if they carry these principles fully and fairly into effect, that they should receive from all real friends of their country a most zealous and energetic support. If they fail, what is our alternative ? A government willing to "merge all minor differences" with Republicanism and Repeal, replaced in power by the Radicals of England and the Agita tors of Ireland, and compelled, as a necessary consequence, to 'pay for that assistance, whether they wish it or not., a price too costly for the British Constitutim to survive. Such, in my opinion, is the option whiCh is, practically, now before us: For my own part I cannot hesitate as to the choice. I trust I am not presumptuous iu saying, that in these principles I sanguinely hope to te.-.iut with your concurrence. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient and fiutlaful Servaut i S...CNDON. Sandi:in Hail, 22d December. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN IMVISION OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER. GENTLBNIEN, MILE expected Dissolution of Parliament being this day an nounced, I hasten again to offer myself as a CANDI DATE for the honour of representing the NORTHERN DIVISION of this COUNTY. My public conduct, in 0{1163 and out of office, is before you ; my political principles are well known to you; and my conscience tells me that I have taken no step since I last was honoured with your confidence by which I should deserve to forfeit it. I am, as I ever have been, a Zealous and earnest advocate for such reforms in our institutions, ecclesiastical as well as civil, as may remove just causes of complaint, may extendetteir use : , fulness, and increase their efficiency; 1 am, asi ever have been, anxious to protect those institutions agai such innova tions as may endanger their safety or their e • tence. 1 ceased to belong to the late administration becaus aving cordially co operated in the various measures of re which they had in troduced, I feared the destructive tend .y of an important step to which they had been led to give th r assent; I declined to join that which is now formed, because I had no public grounds for confidence that they would boldly aui strenuously act upon those principles of reform which I believe to be essential to the national welfare. I come before you, therefore, unfettered by any tie of party, bound only by those principles which I have unvaryingly professed, on which I have constantly acted, and, professiug which, I have already been twice honoured with your support. Should you again return me to Parliament, I go thither pledged neither to support nor to oppose the present nor any other set of ministers. Should I find that the King's government. however composed, gives full and free scope to the principles to which every day's reflection serves but to confirm my attach ment, I shall give them my humble but cordial aid towards carrying them into effect; should 1 find them rashly endanger ing the institutions of the country, I shall labour earnestly to protect those institutions ; should . I find them slow to remedy acknowledged grievances, or madly resisting the rational desire of teuiporate improvement, my voice will be but one.among the vast majority of ray countrymen, who will compel them to ad vance in the steady progress of unflinching but constitutional reform. _ . Resolved to act on these principles, having no object in view but the welfare of our common country, and ready to offer the fullest explanation upon any part of my past condirct or future intentions which you may deem to require it, I respectfully so licit at your hands the renewal of the high trust which you have already twice confided to me. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obliged and faithful servant, Knowsley, Dec. 31st, 1831. SANLEY. pu i 7 CANARY WINE. THIS esteemed and excellent WI is still to be had upon application to James RE icx and Co., Crown Chambers, Redcross-street. Price 21 . per dozen, Bottles in cluded. Orders from the country, including a remittance, wilt be promptly executed. TO THE LADIES OF LIVERPOOL A. D ITS VICINITY. iurRS. KEET, having for fifteen years co cted a STAY IVL and CORSET Business with ad - n s e to herself and satisfAction to her employers, takes this o tunity respectfully to recommend the ELASTIC FRENCH ST S, so well adapted, by their easy shape and slightness of pressure, for young Ladies at school, or those engaged in sedentary pursuits. Mrs. KEET has invented a CORSET peculiarly adapted to prevent the further progress of incipient defotmity ; the appro bation of the most eminent medical men can be refrred to in testimony of its utility, as well as to corroborate the extreme comfort of the ELASTIC SUPPORTING BELTS, worn by corpulent persons, and Ladies subsequently to their accouchment. All orders will have the immediate attention of Mrs. KEE; Canning-house, Church-street, Liverpool. TEE Li viliti4VOL STANDARD. O'CONNELL'S BANK BUBBLE. One of the most gratifying circumstances we have ever known is the direful consternation into which we have plunged the Big Beggarman and his whole gang. Alone —aye, "alone we did it." And our readers in general, who take an interest in all we do to expose and destroy whatever humbug we lay our hands on, will be delighibil to hear that the Age has been burnt at Limerick mid other places by the scamps whose schemes we have scat tered to the winds. Seven members of parliament, whose names had been surreptitiously employed as decoy-ducks by the O'Connellite gang, have indignantly scouted the vile pretenders; and the consequence is, that O'Connell and his family, anti their family.baker, one David Roche, are left alone in their glory ! This is as it should be. Never was there a scheme, at once audacious and atro cious, so signally defeated. Only think of this penniless pauperising crew having the audacity to pass the follow• ing resolution : " That we (we ! O'Connell's tail) consider a bank established on the principles recommended by Mr. O'Connell entitled to support, as a measure calculated to benefit trade and agricul ture, and further the free avowal of political sentiments ! " Is there not some thutder made •hot with uncommon wrath to hurl at those who owe their greatness to their country's ruin ! A bank on Mr. O'Connell's principles ! Gracious God! Twelve months have not elapsed since he had the audacity to talk in parliament, among'the assembled Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, about the "CANT of national faith." Now let us see what are the "principles" of his private peculation under the "cant" of national benefit. He proposed—. " To establish a Joint Stock Bank, of which he and his Tail, aided by some of his needy adventurers here, were to be the directors; each of them was to have a salary, and each of them was to be vested with the power of discounting his own accom modation bills, to be passed to manufacturers for valuable consideration, and also to discount the accommodation bills of all those who would further the avowal of his political sentiments." And . in what way was this machinery to be set in mom tion ? Why, by abstracting a million of pounds sterling from the shareholders of five pounds each, and by issuing, instead of the King's coin, as many millions as he choose of promises to pay ! In the Age, a few months since, we published a list of 158 banks in the United States, all of which had broke simultaneously ; all of which had been established by swindlers absconded from Ireland ; all of which were founded on O'Connell's principles, under his avowed auspices, and purposely to "further the free avowal of his political sentiments." Next week, when we shall have received copies of the schedules filed in the Insolvent Court inDublin, and of the judgment creditors of all this gang of adventurers, we will exhibit them in historical and alphabetical order, fOr public observation. —Aga. THEATRE-ROYAL, AND OLYMPIC ARENA, LIVERPOOL, LIST NH. lIT BUT FOUR. Under the Patrongeoyi,i; ,tit. -Yon anit .Nobility of Liver pool.arl its Vieinitfl. THIS present TUESDAY, the 6th Instant, the performan ces will commence with (6y desire) THE 'ARTIST'S STUDY; . - OR. THE IDOL AND LIVING The whole invented, produced, and performed by Mr. Ducrow. The celebrated Italian Paintereir. Cartlitch. Belleimo (with a favourite nielod Mrs. J. Ducrow. The GRAND SCENES in the CIRCLE, in which Mr. Ducrow and the whole of the Mule and Female Equestrians, '['rained Horses, and Stu i will appear. • To conclude with the popular Spectacle of TIMOUR THE TARTAR. With all its origival splendour and effect. Any Person having claims ou Mr. Ducrow arc re quested to send them in immediately. WEST INDIES. A want of room prevented the insertion of the follow ing interesting letter from Jamaica in our paper of Fri day last JAMAICA, NOVEMBER 7, 1834.—The following is from a private letter :—Since my last I have but little to communicate, and that little of an unfavourable character. The whole frame of our society seems to have received an irretrievable shock; masters and apprentices look with a suspicious and jealous eye upon each other—the former finding himself without the slight est control over his miscalled apprentices—the latter aiming at every possible mode of evading labour. The generally incapa ble and partial stipendiary magistrates are worse than useless; they are, in many instances, the cause of greater indisposition on the part of the negroes to enter properly upon the new sys tem ; this new system, in fact, never will answer the expecta tions of either party. It is both morally and physically im possible, and those who tell you to the contrary either know nothing of the matter or are interested in deceiving you , . 'lime, and a very short time, will bear me out in this opinion, which is, indeed, the conviction of ninety-nine out of every hundred persons here—a conviction which has been forced upon them by circu.ustances of a nature not to be mistaken. It is highly to be regretted that persons, whatever may be their motives, should misrepresent the present position of affairs in Jamaica and thus cause our transatlantic friends and enemies to imagine that we are in a state of comparative perplexity, when the de plorable fact is, that it is snore than probable that (under our best circumstances now ! ) not more than one-third of the quan tity of produce that was shipped from Jamaica last year will be obtained in the present ! The negroes will never again work as they did when slaves, nor will they ever work (eren for hire) as white men, now they are free ! The plan has been tried, and is proved a complete failure. There are certainly exceptions, but in the proportion of one industrious black to five thousand lazy ones ! In a very short time it is snore than probable that this flue but distracted country may be what St. Domingo has been. " It would be.sufficiently, ruinous and dreadful were gun shee to confine himself to what is termed " passive resistance," but you will perceive by our papers that several instances of arson and rebellion have occurred since my last account, iu open day; among them one in the very face of the special magistrate, .who was at Belvidere (the scene of their activity) at the time, and during the absence of the GOVERNOR on a trip to the CAI UAy.O,I "The crops are looking well, and the seasons hive continued favourable ; but, alas ! all bountiful nature in vain pours out the contents of her cornucopia upon us; the labourers are reck less, indolent, and rebellious; the crops can scarcely be got in. One hogshead of sugar in lieu of five, one bag dpimento in place of six, and one cwt. of coffee instead of four, must ruin us, despite of the prodigal hand of nature and the advancing prices of West Indian produce. " By the papers you will learn that although the Governor is highly respected in his private capacity, and considered as meaning well to Jamaica, vet be is considered incompetent to govern this country, midis becoming very unpopular in his vice-royaltyship. There was a serious sniff between his excel lency and the House of Assembly (which met for business on the Ist October,) respecting the right of the latter to examine into the proceedings of the deputy-commissioners of compensa tion. However, the Marquis, like a crafty statesman, wade a' show of apology which the house were willing to consider as sin cere, and the affair blew quietly over. Thus, Fabius-like, his lordship partially succeeded by a species of seeming retreat. The house have now been a month in session, and, hitherto, but little is done. The Governor has given his assent to two or three bills respecting tonnage duty, receiver-generals', and se cretaries' fees. &c., &c., commissioners of accounts, law, &c. A bill by Mr. 'Walkie to render illegitimate children legitimate, on the subsequent marriage of their parents , was lost on a divi sion in the house. A bill for appointing a certain additional number of special magistrates, from among the island's magis tracy, and giving them a /owl and concurrent and equal juris diction with the stipes has been registered in council ! "`!'here have been several shocks of earthquake lately, far more awful and appalling than have been felt here for many years, but no serious mischief resulted from them. "We are in hourly dread of being visited by that dreadful scourge, cholera; it is now raging terribly at Trinidad de Cuba and at Carthagena, on both sides of us." . CHARACTER OF A RADICAL. A radical's character is easy to draw, Ile hates to obey, but would govern the law; In manners unsocial, in temper unkind, A rebel in conduct, a tyrant in mind. Malignant, implacable, enviously sour, He envies all those who have riches or power; So enipoisoned himself. he would gladly destroy Tls• comforts and blessings that others enjoy. - JOSEPH WICKSTUAD. trije iLiberpool *tanbarti, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1835. We are resolved that no abstract questions, or gene ral subjects, shall be allowed to divert our attention, or that of our readers, from the all-important and most mo mentous trial which takes place to-day and must be de cided to-morrow. We have no fear as to the issue ; but we conceive it would be doing injustice to the cause we espouse, and the very numerous subscribers by whom we are supported, if we were to devote any space to matter in which they cannot possibly take any interest, whilst they are engaged in a local contest involving their own honour, their future prosperity, and the maintenance of those principles upon which the welfare of the country and the preservation of all our institutions in church and state so essentially depend. To-morrow it is to be decided whether the enlight ened electors of the second town in the empire are loyal and conservative, or revolutionary and destructive— rhe.ther a community whose very existence depends upon security 'at home and influence abroad, are reckless of the blessings they have hitherto enjoyed, ungrateful to PROVIDENCE for past bounties, and are the insidious foes of a happy constitution and an ancient monarchy ; or whether, seeing the dangers that threaten them, they are sensible of the protection they receive and the liberty they enjoy, and are, besides, conscious of the ruin that would inevitably be the consequence of anarchy, revolu tion,and civil war. These awful questions, we say, are to be decided to morrow, and it would be paltry affectation on our part to say that we do not look forward to the result with the deepest cOneern. Even if we were ten times more con fident than we are we should say the same: , No victory was ever achieved without much anxiety on the part of the conqueror ; and no true general should ever trent his enemy lightly. We have the most perfect persuasion that the noble cause, the holy cause, of which we are the humble advocates, will triumph; yet no true man must relax, no sincere friend faulter, no soldier in the van stand still, no soldier in the rear hold baek,!until the co lours of our adversaries are hauled down and the victory complete. As the Duke of WELLINGTON said to the Guards at Waterloo we say to the electors of Liverpool, "lip, lads, and at them I" We confess we care less for the defeat of the men who are opposed to us than we do for the success of our prin ciples. If the KING is to be deserted and defied—if the most innocent and exemplary of women is to be slan dered—if the church is to be spoliated, and the cure of souls given to the socinians in England and the papists in.,lreland—it matters not " who are the traitors," or whether Liverpool and Manchester are to be represent ed, the former by a fool and the latter by a quack. If the march of infidelity is not to be stayed—if England is to play the part of handmaid to France—if Liverpool is to be ridden by certain agents from New York—it can be of no earthly importance to us whether Mr. EWART, a man totally destitute of intellect, or Mr. MORRIS, noto riously ignorant of our local concerns, or Mr. HUNT, or Mr. GULLY, or Mr. any body else is returned for Liver pool. Heartily as we despise the present whig candi dates, we do not oppose them on personal grounds, but on those which involve principles as dear to us as our lives. The stranger, Mr. MORRIS, tells us that he has no confidence in a ministry professing liberal sentiments who have hitherto been the enemies of reform. We take Mr. MORRIS upon his own assumption. How can the electors of Liverpool support Mr. EWART as a re former who started as a tory, whose father was a tory, all his first and best friends tories, and who formerly pro fessed the most ardent attachment to those principles which latterly he has found it convenient to repudiate ? Sir ROBERT PEEL never was at any period of his life a more strenuous anti reformer than Mr. EWART was. - We know the comparison is odious ; for the name EWART contrasted with that of PEEL is like holding up a farthing candle to the sun. We therefore beg the right honour able baronet's pardon for the liberty we have taken in the comparison ; but still if, according to this Mr. MOR RIS, Sir Itonmur's present professions are to be rejected on the ground of his_ former _professions, why should those of Mr. Ewaor be received while we all know that they are diametrically opposed to the sentiments he en tertained in earlier days, when he moved in much more respectable society, and before be had flung himself into the arms of socinians and radical reformers ? Oh, fatal mistake ! Mr. Moak's has touched upon a sore subject. He has, in pure innocence, inflicted a mortal blow upon his friend. Perhaps it was not intended, and we say this in charity ; but still we have grounds for a strong suspi• cien that this Mr. MORRIS has been brought here to swamp Mr. EWART. It is well known that the party are sick of him ; that.they feel lie has no talents either of the useful or ornamental kind; that they cannot play him off as a trump on any occasion; and that his public ex hibitions are far from being flattering to their pride or their ambition. There was a time when Liverpool held a proud, a dig nified, an envious station in the power, the fame, and the talents of her representatives. There was a time when the most splendid orators of England wrestled for the prize of her patronage—when GEORGE CANNING bore the bell—when BROUOIIAM in vain sought her favour— when HUSKISSON fought, conquered, and died in her cause—when old General GASCOYNE, her best friend— the poor man's friend—the merchant's consul in London - ---the freeman's defender—was the very personification of Liverpool in parliament ; but that. time, alas, 'has passed away 1 We were once worthy of the name given to us . by old Sir John O'GAIINT. We prized the honours our local interests conferred. We stood the highest as iLe constituents of the most brilliant of O'llr statesmen. But what are we now ? In the place of CANNING .W 0 have Mr. WILLIAM NwAcT 7 --in (Ate place of id V-SKISSON we have a silly intruder of the name of Monniz, seat down by Mr. POULETT THOMSON, and who, as a tool, is employed to make Liverpool subservient to the selfish designs of certain speculators in Manchester. In place of talent we have imbecility—in place of honesty we have quackery—in place of sterling worth and sincerity we have Mr. JANES MORRIs Electors of Liverpool ! are we to submit to this? The late Mr. EWART was a most deserving man, and his me mory «ill be held in regard ; but is his son the repre sentative of that man ? Read his address. Is it writ ten by a man who has even a moderate pretension to ta lent ? Does it convey even a ray of intellect ? Is it in telligible ? Would it be tolerated as an exposition of a mechanical theorem at the Institute to which no me chanics are admitted ? Is it grammatically correct in construction ? Is it conveyed in language which is open to the grasp of common sense ? We say IT IS NOT ; and we here bid defiance to Mr. EWA/IT to pro duce to us any admissible proof that he is capable of writing or understanding the English language. If on no other ground, we contend that Mr. EwAaT should be spurned by the electors of Liverpool. We are ready to prove that he is incompetent to do senatorial jus tice to the very absurd principles he professes. CAN NING and HusKissos could defend us—General GAS COYNE was favourably received by the House— and while he represented us we stood above reproach, for our esteemed member never was mentioned but in terms of honour. But is Mr. EWAnT listened to in the House of Commons ? No. Is lie respected ? No. Has he any weight? No. Is lie not laughed at and despised by every member?—is he not made sport of in St. Ste phen's ?—is he not treated as a very feeble person, ex tremely ignorant, and presuming in the ratio of his ig norance, by every member of the House of Commons ? Yes. He was the tom-fool of the house, and in that character has brought deep disgrace upon Liverpool. Electors ! EW ART must be thrown out. Poor Mr. Moßnis knnws that ha has not a chance but he thinks that his contest in Liverpool will give him credentials to some other less respectable borough, and that he will have the privilege of trading upon this presumption for some considerable time. We have, however, our eye upon him, and we shall spoil his sport wherever he may appear, whether under the protection of Mr POULETT THOMSON, or otherwise. But the time is come when our acts must give force to our professions. We must now, the day of trial being come, give proof that w can gain the vantage ground to which all our energies have been directed. We have the most confident hope that all the free burgesses will rush to the poll today. If they do not, they will pro claim to the world that they are utterly destitute of gra titude, and they will testify that the LIVERPOOL STAND ARD has defended them successfully but thanklessly. This we know is not their feeling. We have watched over their interests, and we are prepared to abide by the results. If they deceive us, we know and shall bitterly lament the consequences. If they allow themselves to be dictated to by men who support Mr. Ewart, they will demonstrate that they are men totally destitute of principle, and unworthy of the sacred trust repostil in them; and that instead of being freemen they are slaves. Far better leave the establishment where me naces are held ottt and dictation resorted to, than become the most despised of all serviles. Their brethren, in this case, mould do them justice—their friends find them better employment, and provide for their families. There is another class of electors to whom we are anxious to address a few words. We point to those who constitute the middle order of society—who are alike removed from its apex and its base—those who have acquired property by their industry, have to a certain ex tent retired from business, and are living in what they deem perfect security. It is not our aim or desire to alarm these persons needlessly. They have invested their com petent fortunes in the funds, perhaps in public buildings, in railways and canals, and in various undertakings or speculations, all of which are more or less dependent upon peace, security, and good government. They are therefore deeply interested in the return of conservative candidates, for unless we have a conservative parliament it is in vain to hope that our national institutions will have any indurance, or that the rights of property will be respected. Look at the national securities ! A breath has made them, and a breath can destroy them. Their basis is peace, tranquillity, and the laws. Once disturb the foundation, and the whole fabric of public credit tum bles to the ground. If the leveller's, as some silly per sons who exhibited at the hustings yesterday declared themselves to be, are permitted to touch any one of our establishments, the church, the peerage, or the corpora tions, for instance, the funds must be touched also, and all must perish together. What would a bond of the corporation of Liverpool be worth if such men as EWART, RATIII3OIIE, WYBERG, Dr. COLLINS, and the brainless and beggarly party who have lately figured at hole and corner meetings in the Clarendon-rooms, had the management of the borough funds? Why, a thousand-pound bond would not be worth as many shillings. These men are bound by their principles to destroy the very revenues out of which the interest of the lenders is secured. They would deal with borough property and borough engage ments as they would deal with national property, namely, they would destroy it. By unsettling the monarchy they would disturb all the relations of the monarchy, and in validate all the claims of those who have invested money under the sanction of the existing laws. They might not do this intentionally or wilfully, but their principles point to the unhappy result, and would inevitably pro duce it. Now, these worthy men, living partly out of the world, and rarely mixing in the scenes of public life, may not be aware that their peace, or their property, or their in vestments are in danger. We tell them, THEY ARE ! Their security entirely depends upon the character of the next parliament, for if that be composed of men similar to those Nspo composed the last, nothing on earth can save the church, the monarchy, the funds, the credit, or any of the valuable institutions of the empire. What say the confederated rebels of Ireland ? A popish bi shop, who owes his elevation to the influence of O'CON NELL, tells his countrymen that he will not, under any circumstances, pay tithes or taxes. He counsels his slaves to murder every man who obeys the laws. He breathes sacerdotal curses against all those of his de graded flock who do not follow his example. His pa. iron, O'CONNELL, uses the same language, the conse quence of which is, that at least four millions of the in habitants of the sister island are in open insurrection against the sovereignty of England and the laws passed ty-the imperial parliament. How ara these menaces to be met and silenced ? There are two ways. We must either surrender Ireland into the hands of popish trait ors, and thereby place the life of every protestant in peril, or we must arm the English yeomanry and accom plish the second and final conquest of Ireland. The al ternative involves blood. We have no remedy but in an appeal to arms. If we tamely yield we encourage wanton and Bold-blooded assasination; if we use com pulsory measures there must be a waste of human life. But what is the moral from this unfortunate and calamitous state of affairs ? Simply this, that what is now at maturity in Ireland would be forced into fatal maturity in England if the principles which disgraced the late parliament are suffered to expand in that which is now in the choice of the electors. There is no me dium. It is conservatism on the one hand, and destruc tion on the other. We must either defend the monarchy or plunge into the Reign of Terror. We must either support the church or worship the GoddPss of Reason. We must either adhere to the laws or sink into anarchy. We must either fight in defence of our national in stitutions, or make shipwreck of our faith and dissolve those vital bonds which connect property with national security. To the burgesses our sentiments are %veil known, and, we say again, if they deceive us now, this shall be our last appeal to them. We have a'tied in saving then) from disgrace and disfranchisement, it is now their duty to assist in saving their country, their church,. and their King. If there be among them one make -so heartless, so besotted, and s,o enslaved, as to vote for Mr. EWART, he must be the meanest and most worthless wretch cot the A rl5 r 6, if face of the earth. What, vote for the man nor . as. sociated with his betrayers, his slanderers, his malignant enemies ? We trust there is no such burgess. To the other householders and electors we have sai4 enough to point out the path of duty. We have said enough to show how an independent tradesman can best serve his country and promote his own welfare and hap piness. To the third—the last and the lowest class, we do not condescend to appeal. We do not traffic in the haunts of vice and infamy. There are men who have no hope of acquiring distinction but by robbery, revolution, and spoliation. These have, in all ages, been the loudest declaimers; fur the patriotism they seek is what Dr. JOHNSON truly characterised as the last re- fuge of a scoundrel. We have many such patriots in Liverpool. They are well convinced that no change, be it ever so disastrous, can render their situation more abject or worthless, and they are consequently in the van of the destructiv es—the noisiest spouters in the taverns — the most reckless hacks of the wildest radicals—the meanest slaves of the discomfited whigs. We seek no aid, no vote, no succour from them. They are the ver min of the state—the iteh of the commonwealth—dm incurable part of the body politic ; and it is the duty of every respectable man to keep as great a distance from them as possible. ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL, DO YOUR DUTY, AND enruaN AS TOUR REPRESENTATIVES, LORD SANDON AND SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. We are in a state of great excitement here, and the destrme- tire party are raking hole and corner for the "sweet voices" of those who, under that precious production, the reform bill, have been admitted to an equal weight in the franchise with those who have, hundreds of thousands at stake, and, of course, are anxious to have those represent them who are likely te. pass such.ai,easures as will lead to a, scramble for these hasp._ dreds of thousands. In consequence of reports that the destruc fives, upon yesterday's canvass, had been more successful than during the preceding days, our money market experienced a decline, and consols touched upon 911 ;, a pretty evidence of the opinion entertained of the party by the monetary interests here. To-day, however, 'the consols have rallied to as people appear unwilling to credit that, at a crisis like this, London will stoop to be a rotten borough in the hands of a political club. Money has certainly been easier here within the last day is two, and the prem. on exchequer bills has been at 39 to 40, sad that on India bonds has advanced to 21 to 23. Our foreign securities remain with little variation from sor former report. Brazilian bonds are at 781 79k, Chilian bonds are 31 to 33, Colombian 32} 1, and Dutch 5 per cents. 991 t The dividends on Dutch 24 percents. are now in course of pay ment, and the quotation, with dividend deducted, is 531 Russian bonds are 107 i. Little variation has taken place se the Spanish or Portuguese bonds, the former being 541 aid the latter 861 The contrary winds have prevented us receiving any arrivals of material importance since our last. Lisbon letters have - been received to the 29th ult. The average number of mur ders had been committed of the unfortunate Iliguelites, who had ventured to reside in the Portuguese capital under the government of the laws of the "young Queen.' Commercial affairs are said, however, to be improving; and, from the state in which they previously were, we can well believe if they alter at all it must be for the better. We continue to receive very cheerful accounts from the country of the progress of the conservative cause. At Norwich it bids fair to be a complete triumph; and at Hull, Mr. ("who is the traitor") Hill seems likely to have a very brief career. This learned personage possesses an armour of proof, fashioned after the celebrated "good-intentioned" one of Lord Althorp. When the learned gentleman is twitted for any of the numer ous absences for which his lilliputian career as a senator was so noted, his constant reply is, "the engagements of my pro. fessiou" caused it. Truly the constituency of Hall must be careless, incited, of the value of their franchise, if they bestow it upon an individual who regards them in oo secondary a point of !view as to merge their interests in the more seducing one of self-advantage. No further accounts have been received of the long looked. for packet from Mexico ' nor is it known • whether she ha. reached Havana or not. Much anxiety is naturally felt for the next advice' from this latter place. Two mails ars now ail from Mexico. . _ That appropriately named troop, the lumber troop, is making itself conspicuously busy as regards the approaching contest here, and, under cover of the smoke of their tobacco pipes, its members have been making some desperate charges upon their pots of heavy wet, at the cost, and in the company, of the roar reform candidates. Fancy, for an instant, the governor of the Bank of England, at the Goat and Compases, the Hog in Armour, the Cat and Cauliflower, and the other head-quarters of this distinguished corps, currying sweet favour, and being enrolled a "comrade" of the lumbering body, a modern Falstaff • at the head of a regiment of scarecrows. Here is a prostits• tiou of political and commercial character with a vengeance, • and it makes us incline to think that, setting aside the rabble, there are some men of substance who, like Samson in his blindness, are disposed to raise the strength they possess, to pall down the temple, and bury themselves in its ruins. A fearful crisis is evidently at hand—the altar, the tkres• and the constitution are now staked in the fearful contest—the chars., ;n .iie;e n t times by the noblest btond of Pars land must not be destroyed by the scum of modern rattan. tionaires—the throne which foreign despotism has in vein sought to prostrate must not be demolished by domestic treason—tist altar round which has rallied in times of peril the protestant faith from all quarters of the world must not . be swept away by the force of atheistical democracy, which seeks to build on its ruins, earthly, anarchy and eternal perdition. THE LEVELLERS.—Mr. William Earle, junior, resterday,, avowed himself on the hustings to be a leveller. We always, in common with those who knew him, took Mr. Earle to be as aristocrat, but it appears we have been Mistaken. But we all know that it is not inconsistent with the character of a leveller to be a petty despot. There can be no mistake about this ! Bat if the aristocracy are to be levelled, we should like to know what is to become of the Ear/es/ We regret to hear that the return of Mr. Hume for the cone of Middlesex is ,by no meant certain. Yesterday he canvassed a very large portion of the elector; and found matters generally in a different state to what he expected, or could have wished. . In some quarters he found things, to use his own words, alt wrong together. Still he does not despair. The Tories have been most actively at work in secret, and wits a degree of sue, cess, by influence, intimidation, promises, and other unfair means, which Mr. Flume had thought impossible. The friends of Mr. Wood are not, we understand, sparing of any expense. If the expenditure of money, or the zeal of his tory friends, ea* • secure his election, he may consider himself safe. It is under stood that another tory candidate, though not vet declared, is in the field. The result of this contest is looked to with the interest.----Observer. SHROPSICRE.—We have great pleasure in amseuncing that the return of Sir Rowland Hill, Bad., and Wm. Ormsby Gere, Esq., whose names are so intimately connected with die con servative cause, is certain for the northern division of the county of Salop—Mr. Cotes, the late member in the whig inte rest, having announced his resignation. The late members for the southern division, Lord Darlington, and the Hon. R. H, Clive, will be elected without opposition—Sir Edward Smyth, Bart., a catholic and whig candidate, who had commenced n canvass, having met with such discouragement that he has at once withdrawn from tl.e field. WIGAN ELronoiv.—This election is fixed to take place to morrow. The candidates are, as our readers are aware. John Hodson Kearslev, Esq., a conservative, and Richard Potter and Charles Standish, Esqs., two destructive'. The former no doubt will be returned by a very large majority, bet some doubt exists as to which of the other two will accompany, him. The friends of Mr. Potter, however, seem most certain. The system of exclusive dealing alluded to in a recent number of the STANDARD, as being adopted to intimidate the eleetest, has had the effect of diminishing the number of Mr. Standisles votes, and we hope it will be put an end to by the indictment of the principals who have brought it into operation,as there can he no doubt it is a heinous offence in the eyes of the law. PRIZE-FIGHT AT 131:0 , 413R0'.—John Fea, who fought with Robinson at Brombro' Pool, on Monday, the lith November last, and hia second, John M`Vay, were apprehended at Man chester on Wednesday, the Sith ult., under a warrant issued by , Thomas Forsyth, Esq., magistrate' for the county of Chester, and brought up before him, at Birkenhead, on Friday last, ter examination, when Mr. Forsyth committed them to Chester Castle, to take their trial at the ensuing quarter sessions. We understand that sixteen of the principals engaged in this riot have been committed, by Mr. Forsyth, to stand their trial it Chester. ASTRANef It ICA L LfCTURLA.—Iti a lt understand that the Astro , nomical Lectures at Vernon-house will be commenced on Wed nesday, the Bth instant. MR. EWART ON THAN:GR.—At a quarter to three o'eleek,, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Ewart, the " late member," as he is called, came on 'Change, and, strange to tell,'he was totally nit attended. He walked about for a short time evidently for the purpose of lttrarting attention, but without effect, as no gentle. man took the slightest notice of him. He NV RS only addresee4 by a person more than "half seas over," with whom he shook hands, after which he walked off in the same solitary manner as he came on. Masses. VOLLAN'S BANRUPTCY.—We are informed that David Vollans, the second partner in this firm, who is sow under arrest in York Castle, has sent a blank form for the sign nature of the Vicar or Churchwardens of Leeds, to authorise him to receive a weekly allowance of bread, at the expence the county, commonly known as a " bread paper," which is a certificate that he is not worth £5. We learn that the func tionaries above named had declined. to sign the certificate, having understonod that the bankrupt, when searched on be half of his creditors, had money in his possession to more than that amount, besides other pro_p_erty. Joshua Vollans still res. mains in custody in France. We stated that the charge fa which he was detained by the French police was that of having assumed the name of " Alexander Beaumont," his real name being Joshua Vollans. At first he maintained that his name was. Alexander Beaumont Vollans," hut now he says that it is " Joshua Beaumont Vollans." On searching, however, - -kt his baptismal register, it turns out to he simply " Joshua 'Vel a lane," and a certificate to that effect, signed by the vicar, anti by Mr. Garland and Mr. Marsh, churchwardens, has been transs• nutted to the French authorities. Our advice, from Lyons state, that the severity of Joshua Vollans's imprisonment has been in some degree mitigated, and in the hope to obtain eir further relief he has secured the services of a Counsellai Augior. His affected readiness to disclose all his transactiesS turns out to have been a mere trick to deceive, and, accordin,g to our informant, his subsequent proceedings are such as sink him still lower than he has hitherto fallen in the eettnits lion of the public. It now appears that the Immediate cause of his flight was the loss of a considerable cam which ha staled up en the result of a throw at. the gaming table in f: hope of retrieving tho fallen furtimus of the firm, .Up to a recent period the house with which he was con4ected had heen gaining omen the confidence of their to_acrisnti ti, ati therefost it is not sarptisiug that ye _stkrany :. aen e e redfliits to a very oils - ittica4bto aaletittft-- tie 4 ,Ain,en LIVER THEATRE, CHURCII-STREET. By Desire and under the Patronage of JAMES MORRIS, Esq. rriins present TUESDAY, the 6th instant, will be pro duced an entirely new Musical Burletta, written expressly for this Theatre, by RCE EGAN, under the denomination of LIFE IN LIVERPOOL. OR, TCM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, IN SVII OF FIN, FROLIC, D MIRTII, WHIM, AN AD NTURES. Among the beautiful Seenety will be found—Exterior of Wool field's Bazaar and Postoffice-place, with a view of St. Peter's Church—Clown-street Station and • Railway—The Adelphi and view of Copperas-hill—St. John's Market—Zoological Gardens —Aintree Race Course—Jena Ward's Parlour—St. Nicholas' Church and Illuminated Clock, &c.—Corinthian Hall, iu which will be a Grand Masquerade and Fancy Ball. To which will be added a new Burletta, called THE WIDOWED WIFE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, HIS present TUESDAY, the 6th, and TO-MORROW, T (Wednesday,) the 7th instant, will be produced the splendid Spectacle of THE MAGIC WELL;,., OR, TUB THREE BLACK BOMBS. To which will be added the Grand SCEIVS in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a new Fake, called THE LIVERY COAT. On THURSDAY next will be produced a nest splendid Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDDRFCL LAMP. In which two Clowns will appear. HOLLOWAY'S SANS PAREIL. i HIS present TUESDAY, the Gth, and TO-MO AOW, (Weduesdav,) the ith, will be performed TILE DOOMED FISHERMAN OR, A TALE OF LIVERPOOL IN THE OLD TIME. After which, t el I WILL FIGHT A DU To conclude with TOM CRINGLE. Oa TIIIIRSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY anew Scotch Drama, called THE CATERAN'S SON. To conclude with other Entertainments.