The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

Ebt iliberpooi A,tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBEI? 25, 1832, So large a proportion of the elections are now con cluded, that it is high time to look around us, and inquire' how far the working of the reform bill has, according to present appearances, been beneficial or the contrary ? He who supposes that an impartial estimate of this great measure can now, or for some considerable time, be formed, is a man more happy in his sanguine tempera ment, than accurate in his knowledge of human nature. Many have been too ready to exclaim, ." the bubble has burst." How should it ? Its frail contexture has not yet been tried. True indeed it is, that a great and manifest re-action has already taken place : this, we believe, not even the brazen audacity of the revolutionary press will now venture to deny. But we must recollect, that a measure : which promised so much—a measure whose professions, if true, were indeed precious, and if false, could not possibly be detected till after trial—a measure which gave; by way of earnest-money, the right of voting to five hundred thousand persons, previously destitute of that privilege, such a measure necessarily acted, to a very great extent, in the manner of a wholesale bribe, and en sured its own favourable reception with those, to whom it paid such flattering and substantial compliments. We cannot therefore expect that• these persons, still reeling with joy under a large accession of personal im portance, and dazzled with the fairy and fantastic pros pects which the new era professes t 6 present, should ac quiesce in those deductions, which we may be disposed to make from the merits of the bill. - But this country, thanks be to God, has a population generally sober and industrious, disposed to practice ra ther than to theory, never ling deluded by any visions however bright soever, if they be mere visions, and very apt to apply the tests of evidence to:the chinieras of en '• • " thusiasm. To the practical men of this country we address the few following remarks. The test of a good government is this:—does it so model and attenzper its representative • system, by the introduction of the largest possible portion of the prin ciple, the talent, and the property of a country, to secure the fullest possible attention to all its varied and compli cated interests? This test must be applied to the working of the re form law. And unless .it shall be found to bear it, we may rest assured, that its reign will be short indeed . Unless it does contribute to the practical ends of good government in this country—unless it does at once amal gamate and protect our agricultural and our traditt in terests—unless it does raise both the spiritual and the physical condition of the people—it will some day be execrated as it once was adored; it will be loaded with the deep hatred of its dupes, and become a by-word throughout the world—even though it may have effected the amazing good of conferring a vote for Liverpool on the editors 'of the Mercury and the Albion. Now we ask it of our sober fellow-corintrymen, whe ther the shipping interest, the East and West India in terests, the colonial interests generally, or the monied interests, will be as effectively respresented under the new system,.as they were under the old ? • Will the tone of principle in the House o f C ommons be higher? We know that there is much piety among the Christian Dissenters of this country : we know too that many of them have been active enough in election eering contests : but, we ask it in bitterness of heart— what man of Christian principle have their efforts sent to the House of Commons ? Will the, poor and Oppressed classes of this country find their interests more faithfully guarded ? Will the miserable factory children profit by the exclusion of Mr. Sadler ?• Will the peasant of this country, crushed in his soul by the degrading operation of the poor laws, forget that his unhappy case was postponed as a thing of no ac count, till the crayingsof the Birmingham ten-pounders had been satisfied? The Irish labourer knows not, is not permitted to know the truth at present; but • some day he will know how laws were proposed last year for his subsistence by an anti-reformer, arid -how the humanity of the government staved off to a future and an unknown day that beneficent relief; he knows not, but some day he will know, what sound or practical measures of humanity he-has to expectfrom a government, whose favourite or- gan (the Edinburgh Review) denies, that absenteeism is a curse to Ireland. Will the. House of Commons—and this, though secon dary, is no unimportant question—will the House of Commons, under the new system, continue to hold up a mirror to the national mind, in:which may be seen its concentrated wisdom and intelligence ? Will it be a bet- ter school of those chivalrous and lofty sentiments, under whose influence the greatestand brighest minds that have adorned the history our country were trained'and foster• ed Will it befavourable to the acquisition of extended vielis of politics; to the nurture of.self-devoting and self denying etiergy of disposition, or not rather tend" . . to waste and fret away upon - Minute olAjeCtkof - detail, pains which might have been turned to_ larger and •more profit-, able account ? Take for example the case •of .Mr. Can ning. His mind was beautiful and : but in the' midst of its beauty and-brilliancy, there was a deep and . _ acute sagacity, which Wrought sineessantly .at home and abroad both to extend the moral power of this countiy, and. to enlarge the field of its commercial-and manufacturing enterprise. British merchants well know,—how much they owe him. We ask thenlinournfally;..WhOther, what- ever number. of ordinary men it may assemble, the Re formed House of Commons will be calculated to educate amidsts it . s.vulgar and angry squabblin gs , minds- of ele- vation and expansion' such as his ? or iliether the efforts of ten thousand ordinary minds would have procured 'us the advantages which were the, fruits of his single exertions ? WE refer our readers, with muchisatisfaction, to the ad dress of Sir Thomas Hesketh, which will be found in a. preceding page.. It.contain.s at . once, :the breathings of a man devoted tC) the be§t- interests of .his country, and who in the moment of defeat, exhibits a magnanimity of character, worthy of the principles which he professes. We grieve to think, that for the present, we have lost the services of such a man :—we say, for the present, be cause we know that a spirit is roused in this county, which will never again submit to the trick and dictation which have been the means of returning Lord Molyneux and Mr. Wood asnur representatives. We are not surprised at the disgraceful coalition which took place between a whig and a radical candidate; but we are surprised, that a respectable individual would lend himself as the instrument of deceit, in order to aid the accomplishment of such a purpose. We repeat that a trick the most disgraceful that could well be perpetrated, has been practised upon the committee for conducting the election of Sir Thomas Hesketh. .A gentleman (whose name we forbear to mention, as we hope shortly to have some authentic documents to lay.. before the public,) called upon a member of Sir Thomas Hesketh's commit tee, before the commencement of the election, for the express purpose of disavowing, on the part of Lord Mo lyneux, any coalition with Mr. Wood. On this assurance, only one candidate was brought for ward on the conservative interest, and the result has been that Sir Thomas Hesketh is defeated. A coalition the most determined and the most unequivocal, did, how ever, take place, notwithstanding the denial which was given to it. We need no further proof of this than a re ference to the votes which the respective candidates re ceived, as given in another column. There are some curious facts which have come to our knowledge, relative to the tenantry of a certain noble lord, who after they had promised their vote's to Sir Tho mas Hesketh, felt compelled to vote for Lord Molyneux and Mr. Wood. There are also some curious facts rela tive to certain tickets, which were given at the liustings to voters who had polled for Lord Molyneux, but, as we hope shortly to be enabled to lay a few interesting and authenticated details before our readers, we forbear for the present entering further into this subject. IN another portion of our publication of to-day, we have inserted the speech delivered. by Mr. .Stanley, at Lancaster, on the day of his nomination as one of the candidates for the representation of the northern division of this county. To our readers, generally, we would venture to recommend a minute and careful perusal of this speech. It is well known that Mr. Stanley holds an important office under government ; that • he is not sur passed, in point of talent and abilities, by any one of his colleagues; and that, with such qualifications and charac teristics, independent of that influence which his rank naturally affords him, we can only look upon his senti ments on the various political questions to which, on this occasion, he has alluded, as the opinions and inten tions of his Majesty's Government. It is in this accepta-• tion only that we receive them as the " Book and Vo lume" of their future political career, reserving to our selves the opportunity, as occasion may require, of re ferring to these sentiments as the great fountain from whence are to spring the actions and events of their course of government; and, with this view, we have presented to our readers the whole of what fell from . Mr. Stanley in an abridged form. Our columns, to-day, are too crowded to enable us to enter into any very close analysis of the views thus en tertained by ministers. It is not, however, matter of very great intricacy to discern, on a careful, examination of this speech, that, whatever the views of government may have been, when they took up the reins of -uhnini stration and pronounced the reform bill as the panacea of past evils and the guarantee for future progperity, they now feel satisfied, at least, of the position they are placed in, and the consequence of that " breathless haste" with which they have proceeded in their measures: most as suredly, they so far have been fortunate in•possessing, in Mr. Stanley, an apt and ingenious aisistant, who, sud denly -throwing off the mantle' of what has lately been termed reform, avails himself of the- occasion Mr. Wilson Patten's presence afforded, in Making him the stepping stone, in order to' extricate himself and his colleagues from the perilous:dilemma' in which they now find them selves situated. Before we proceed further, let us, for one moment, con sider the character and the grounds on which 'Mr. Wil son Patten presented himself to 'the notice of the electors. Is not the fact still fresh in our memories, that, at the pe riod of the former * election, Mr. Wilson Patten honour ably sacrificed his own personal feelings and ambition on the altar of political consistency ? With a degree of can dour and manliness creditable to himself and to the prin ciples he had ever avowed, he did not shrink, ev en on that occasion, from the sentiments which he had pre viously considered to be right and just in theniselves, but boldly and openly asserted that, whilst he was ready to admit, nay willing to contend for the enfranchisement of the large towns, and a fair rate of qualification, in or der to preserve strength and' security to property, where security manifestly was required, he could not, in his conscience, recognise or admit the sweeping extent of the proposed reform bill, and that, as the measure itself was made a condition for bedoming their representative, he• declined, without further hesitation, the honour and distinction he had justly• aspired to. We speak only in allusion to the conduct of Mr. Wilson Patten; for, though we cannot, at this moment, charge our memories with the precise expressions he made use of at the former elec .. •. Lion, his motives and his conduct never can be obliterated from our *recollection, and in his speech, lately, at Lan caster, he has very slightly alluded . to them; Mr. Stan ley, as it appears, on that occasion, having nearly mono polized the time and attention of the electors. It is well known that Mr. Wilion Patten, not being eleCted for the county, awaited the coming of the,next election to offer himself, and we rejaice to see one, possessing both talent and honesty of principle•in such an eminent degree, hold ing the high - responsibility with which he Is now- en trusted. . .•.. So far we have diverged from our more immediate ob ject, in order to place before our readers the precise po sition in which Mr. Wilson Patten, as a political charac4 ter, - really stands. It will, therefore, at once appear con elusive in the minds of our readers, that the attempt, on the part of Mr. Stanley, to substantiate anything like a charge of inconsistency on the part of Mr. Wilson Pat ten, though ingeniously contrived, has no solid basis to rest upon, and must, of necessity, fall to the ground. That the sentiments expressed by Mr. Stanley are, certainly, not calculated to find favour in the eyes of the radicals, or to be prized as a boon "of good things to *me," the editor of the Albion has ventured most un- hesitatingly to avow. FOr the public and domestic com fort of Mr. Stanley and his colleagues we introduce a specimen, of the gratitude and good-will, of one of their once-devoted admirers, taken from the Liverpool Albion of yesterday : " When, therefore, the Right Honourable gentleman tells the world that he and his colleagues are determined'not to . rerreal the corn laws,—not to shorten the duration of Parliament,—not t 6 make the reform bill more efficient,—not to give the electors the protec tion of the vote by ballot,—nor, above all, to attempt the abolition of colonial slavery, we would respectfully re mind him, that the Duke of Wellington, in the plenitude of power, and with the insolence of a dictator, declared, two short years ago, that so long as he held office no reform should the people have.' The duke was instantly hurled from the summit of power, and reform was con ceded to the demands of the people. So Mr. Stanley, in the height of popularity, and with the arrogance of an aristocrat, may dream that he and his colleagues can ar rest the march of improvement and intercept the bles sings which the people expect, as the natural and ne cessary concomitants of reform ; but let him beware." This pleasing tirade proceeds in a similar strain, but we think the foregoing is quite sufficient to impress upon the minds of ministers what they are yet to expect from the radicals! That the real construction of Mr. Stanley's speech on those particular subjects to which the Albion has alluded, is such in its bearings and tendency, as he has stated it to be, we cannot hesitate in believing,—" That the go vernment," he tells us, will strenuously and decidedly re sist every attempt to carry the extension of the franchise further; that if Parliament attempt to bring forward any of those sweeping motions for shortening the dura tion of. Parliaments, introducing that which he believed to be falsely styled the protection' of the ballot, he an nounced openly at once their determination to give a de cided opposition; that, with regard to the repeal of the corn laws, he spoke the opinion of every one of his col leagues, that they will oppose, and determinedly oppose themselves to it I" But we would say to ,Mr. Stanley, and through him to the government, that if they are either blind enough, or weak enough to suppose, that after allowing the citadel, wherein was stationed the strong hold of our constitution to be besieged, and the portals forced open, they consider themselves to be still in possession of that intrinsic power which alone is requisite to close the breach, we feel honestly assured that they will, ere long, have occasion to lament the grossness of their error, and the total obscurity of -their infatuation. How that power is hereafter to be attained, it is not now necessary for us to state ; but we would say, that to gain the strength and good-will of the tories, he must not in dulge in unjustly vilifying their character ; for, how ever much their numbers may, by circumstances, be di- minished, as the ore is purified of its dross, they st exist a formidable body. It is equally true, also, that it is at all times matter of minor importance by whom, or from what quarter they are assailed ;—their principles remain unchanged !—prin .ciples which, unlike the new-born baubles of the day, have stood the test of time and experience, —have wea thered, the storm, and ridden in the tempest of past poll ticalyears with triumphant security and surpassing ef fect•—principles, the very remembrance of which, even, make us tremble for the future, whilst we glory in the events of the past! We would, therefore, candidly re commend to Mr. Stanley, who, with his colleagues, since the publication of these sentiments, in the opinion of the country, stands in a very doubtful. position to pause, ere he pronounces the " blessings" of the reform bill; for though, as he stated, " we see ample cause to congratu late ourselves and the country upon the extension which has been given to the elective franchise," we are yet of opinion that a change will take place in • his sentiments, and those of his colleagues. ' To those anxious to visit the south of England, and the noted • watering-places contiguous to the county of Devon, in particu lar, the departure of that splendid and fast-going steam-packet, Zephyr, affords peculiar inducements. It will be seen, on refe rence to our advertising columns, that the Zephyr is to sail for Topsam and Exeter on the 9th January next. List of cabin passengers per ship Poland, Capt. Richardson, for New' York; which vessel sailed yesterd4y, (Monda— Messrs. Balley and Rigby, o f Li verpoo l ; H atel i e, of Scotlany.)d; Ingersall, of' Boston ; Eccles, of London; Galloway, of Man chester; Salzman, of Germany; Wright and• Lady, of Eng land ; Vasques, of Portugal ; Ellis and Higgins, of Ire land; the Honourable and Rev. Mr. Fraser an d Son, of New York; Messrs. - Williams, of Sheffield; Brown, of Cheshire; and Captain Seaman, of New York. THERE have died, in the village of Wavertree, within the last three weeks, three persons of the following ages :—Ellen Dumbabin, 82; Robert Wyke, 84; and John Turner, 87. Amounting to 253 years. RETURN OF EMIGRANTS.—New York, Nov. 28.—The ship Dalmatia, which sailed yesterday for Liverpool, was so crowded with passengers, that the captain was under the necessity of putting out ' two of theM at the Hook, and sent them back to the city. She had on board about 160 returning to England, not being able to find employment. SECTARIANS IN LANCASIIIRE.—From official returns laid be fore Parliament, it appears that in 1830 the number of parish churches in Lancashire was 65; parochial chapels, 157; and chapels of ease, 50; total number of churches and chapels of the establishment, 281; while the total number of dissenting places of worship in the same county was 590, and of sectari ans, 255,411 ;—so.that one fourth of . the population of Lanca shire are open and professing non-conformists. • REPEAL OF THE UNioN.—On Wednesday evening last, at half past'six o'clock, a public meeting was held at the rooms of the Institution of the Industrioui Classes, Bold-street, for the purpose of debating the lineation whether the repeal of the le gislative union between England and Ireland would not be the measure best calculated to promote the best interests of both countries. The large room was crowded to excess, and we un derstand that from two to three thousand persons were present. Mr. Edgar was called to the ch a i r . Th e meet i ng was a dd ressed by Mr. Falvey and other gentlemen in the affirmative of the proposition, but our limits will not allow us to enter into the ar guments adduced. Mr. Fitzsimmons opposed the repeal, on the ground that the members of the Irish legislature had for merly sold their independence, and would be likely to do so again. Mr. Atkinson suggested that 'the appointment of a standing committee for Ireland would be preferable to r e p ea l . , After a long debate, a resolution for the appointment of an Hi bernian Political Union in Liverpool, for promoting the repeal of the union and procuring the abolition of tithes, was proposed and carried with one dissentient voice, and the meeting sepa k•ated at eleven o'clock. • LONDON LATEST . NEWS. (From our Correspondent.) LONDON, Saturday Evening, half -past 7 o'clock. We have had a great degree of activity on the Consol Market to day, and the quotation for the account has been as high as 8 5 • The closing quotation was 844. The Foreign Market within the last day or two has been very firm for the Northern Secu rities. Russian Bonds are 981 to 99, and Dutch are 414 42 ' Belgian Bonds are very firm, as 73.1 to 741. In Spanish Steel' —there is great heaviness, 15 4 16 being the price. The gen eral impression appears to be that M. Zea Birmudez will put a stop to the " liberal" measures of the Queen, and that consequently the chances of liquidation of the Cortes Bonds are distant. We have had no arrivals from Foreign parts of a ny great moment to day, the Wellington, Fowler, the Caledonia, M e Lay, and the Zephyr, Eva ns, are posted ou Lloyd's Books this afternoon, as having arrived at St. John's, N. B. from Li ver pool. The Sardinian Government has issued an official notice, tha t the precautions adopted with respect to the Cholera Morbus in France, have ceased. to be in force, and that free entrance i 5 now allowed into Piedmont and Savoy, of travellers and no r ' chandize from that country. Accounts from Senegal, to the 9th Nov. state that gum w as very scarce, and the price was 50 cents. We find by the latest accounts from Bourbon, th a t se veral of the Negroes implicated in the plot of St. Benoit had been tried, and two of the most guilty executed. Two others ha d been sentenced to capital punishment, but this was commuted• It was intended to send the other criminals to Madagascar. It is stated in the accounts from the United States, that the Cholera was raging among the Indians of the Sacs and Fox tribe. We learn by advices from Rio Janeiro, that the paymen t of the 6 per ct. inscriptions by the Brazilian Government, for the French vessels, La Jernon, La Jenny, and La Belle Gabriell e taken in the Rio de la Plato, had been received by the Frenc h legation, and distributed to the parties having claims. T he liquidation of'the vessels L' Augusti, and La Genevieve had also been arranged, and the amount would speedily be paid. We have seen private accounts from Antwerp to day, but not of later date than those inserted in the different Journals. They all speak of the great suffering experienced by the French troops from the weather, as well as from the determined fire of the Dutch. It appears that great discontent existed among the troops quartered at Brussels, and that daily contests took place. We have nothing further of the slightest interest here. POSTSCRIPT, Sunday Afternoon. We have an Express from Antwerp with dates to Friday afternoon' The breach batteries had commenced their fire upon the Citadel, at about half-past 12 o'clock on that.day, but the large mortar had ne t commenced its fire. It is said that the walls of the citadel had already begun to shew the effect of the tremendous battery brought to hea r againgt them, but that the loss of men to the Dutch was not twit while the French were suffering severely from the continued firing °` their opponents. The guns of the Citadel also swept completely the Berchem road, and several persons had been killed, so that the au thorities had closed it u p . Ki ng Leopold was expected to return to Brussels in the course of Friday night, or early the following morn ing. It was reported that an atte m pt t o arm the cross battery ha d failed from the determined oppoktion of Chasse, but that it would be again attempted in the course of Friday night. The crisis was evideall at hand, and it was thought such a breach would be effected as 106 . 1 d, enable the Fren c h t o ma k e an assault this day. General Seba stisin'' corps continued to observe with vigilance the Dutch flotilla, and i° the skirmishes many men had fallen on both sides. The weather oon tinued much to affect the French troops, and the labour of the sere was most fatiguing from the nature of the ground. Nothing is said in this account respecting any movements of the Dutch army. but en trenched camps continued to be formed at various accessible po ints. There seems but little doubt that unaided, the gallant defenders Of t he Citadel must fall before the great superiority of the assailingiOr ee ' although the loss to the French already it is said is treble that mien lated upon. We have a file•of papers from St. Vincent this morning. The meet ing of the General Assembly had taken place. ,In the, speech of th e , Governor he announc e s th e rece i pt of a dispatch from the Colon i al Office, whereby a tonnage duty is prop ose d to b e levied on terns ap parently very advanta geous to the Colony. llis Excellency sPea hs in terms of approval of the new slave code constructed by, the Com mittee appointed by the House of Assembly, and directs the attestio n of the House to that measure. The House of Assembly in its reply to the Governorstates, that notice had already b een g i ven of a new Slave Bill, Tonnage Bill, d Rice Bill, and adds that the extension of the privileges granted t ° the coloured popul a ti on o f the island had answered every iP 9a Krrpose. BH. On Sunday, the 16th instant, I at R W T ooltoia Parsonage, the ,„1v of th e Rev, Robert Leicester, AL A., of a daughter. MAE. On Wednesday the 12th in stant, at RRI St. L D uke's Church, Mr. I. per „f rin, of Dublin, to E. R. Brabazon, daughter of Mr. E. Brabazo°, Middleton, county of Cork. On the 15th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the -Fields, Mr. W. Gibbs, o f th On Tuesday shi London E. L. M`Ewan, reet p last , , to at St. Jude's Church, the Cornwallis-s Rev. t J. Lister, of Soho street, to Miss A. Hodgson, of Bedford-street, Abercrornhuare. On the 15th instant, a t St . Ni cholas's Church, Mr. Edward - Mo' s ; woollen-draper, Byrom-street, to Ifarriet Maria, eldest daughter 0 , Mr. P. A. Spence, of London. On Sunday the 9th instant, a t S t. Michael ' s Church, Mr. W. W. Pearson, eldest son of W. W. Pearson, Esq. Bideford, to Catherine. the third daught er o f th e l a t e L ient. 11. G. Miller, R. N. • On Wednesday, the Lttli instant, John, eldest son of Mr. William Wood, Seymour-street, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late 'lr. John Egan, of Dublin. On Thursday, the 13th instant, at St. Nicholai's Church, Mr. Mil ner to Miss Ann Wynne. On Monday last, at Belfast, George, son of R. D. Chevely, Bocll- L, late of Mess ing, i n the county of Essex, to Harriet, third daughter the late T. Welsh, Esq. of the forme r pl ace. On Sunday l as t , at St. , Philips's Church, 111r.-John Simpson to 311 ' 3 Jane Rissel, both of this town. On Saturday last, at St. John the Baptist, Toxteth-park, i%lr. R. C . Scott, of this town, to Miss Squire, of Kendal. DIED. On Wednesday, the 12th i ns t ant, at Gillingham, Kent, , aged 47,, years, greatly lam en t e d, M r. Robert Redman, late of the r0ya1,,i 9 1.2,.. On Tuesday l as t, a ft er a li ngering illness, aged 41 years, -Mrs '",;(1- beth Mhertens, wife of Mr. J o h n H enry Mhertens, cooper, Onn°- street. On Saturday last, Mr. George Cruikshank, Castle-street. . Same day, after a protracted illness, which he bore with pattene , , e e and fortitude, aged 32, Benjamin, fourth son of the late Mr Lawre n- Tyrer, cooper. Same day, aged 41 years, Mr. John Kent, London-road. On Wednesday, the 12th instant, aged 75, Mr. J ames Reed, The— • On Wednesday last, aged 74, Mrs Jane Davis, late of Macelesfleh greatly regretted by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. On Thursday last, aft er a s h or t an d severe illness, aged 14 months, William Samuel, the infant son of Mr. J. Edgley, Colquitt-street. On the 19th of April l as t , age d 31, Mr. H. Roberts, post-master, at Cochin, Malabar Coast, son of Mr. H. Roberts, of Whitehaven: On the 6th of June l as t, a t hi s house, in Launceston, Van Dieman , 5 Land, aged 55, Capt. J. Welsh, son of the late D. Welsh, of White' haven. On the 22d of July lasr, Gilbert Coventry Masier, Esq., nut Judge of the Calc u tt a Provisional Courts, and youngest son of t'- late Rev. Robert Maste r , D. D ., R ector of Croston, in this County- Lately, at the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. J. Slater, son of Mr. Slater , of Kirkland Guards, Cumberland, aged 28. On Saturday, the I s t i ns t ant, at Ravensworth Castle, aged 18, the Hon. C. Liddell. On Monday, the 10th instant, at Maryport, after a tedious illness, Mr. Gardiner, for many years a respectable surgeon of that place. On Friday, the 14th ins t an t , M ary, wife of Dr. Krebhs, a nit' town, aged 55. On the 16th inst., aged 24, Mary Ann, daughter of S. and J. Thomr son, Stanhope -street. On Monday last, at his house, in Vine-street, Mr. T. Buckley' aged 64. - On the 12th instant, universally regretted, Alice, wife of .Williams Marshall, Esq., Bloomsbury, Manchester. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We thank POOR FELLOW, and will benefit by his advice. AN OLD BURGESS has our thanks for his communication. FREE TRADE, and THE CORN LAWS.—The observations supplie d by a correspondent on these matters would not, we fear, be ye nerally interesting to our readers. 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