The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

Ito be Let.

TO be LET, FURNISHED, for a term of years, ad-
joining the village of Davenham, an excellent HOUSE,
comprising Drawing-room, Dining-room and Study, Six Bed-
rooms, Three Dressing -rooms, and Three Servants'-rooms. Con-
servatory and small Forcing. Houses. Stahl ng for Six Horses.
and Two Coach-houses, either with or without Land. At present-
in the occupation of Mrs. Eccles, to whom application may be
made by letter.
Davenham is situated two miles from Northwich, the post town,
and two miles from the Hertford Station.

-Te- WEST DERBY UNION.
THE GuardiOns of the West Derby —Vziop. are
desirous of receiving TENDERS for supplying the Work..
house and Hospital with l'rovisions, Clothing, and Necessaries,
as follows, viz., from the 26th day of March instant, until the
23th day of March, 1557, with MILK, BUTTER, BUTTER-
MILK, COALS. TIMBER, WINES, SPIRITS, DRUGS,
BRUSHES, PAINTS, OILS, SODA, STARCH, and SMALL-
WARES.
From the 26th day of March instant,:until the Nth September,
with WHEAT, FLOUR, -BREAD,
C,MEAT. OAT-
MEAL, PEAS, GROCERIES, CHEESE; .SOAP, -CANDLES,
LEATHER, BEDDING. and LIN and WOOLLEN DRAPERY.
From the 2Gar-day of March iiisfknt,•until the 30th day of June
next, with POTATOES.
The above Articles are to bealelivered, free of4,expitn3e, at the
Workhouse, Mill-lane, Everton, and at the Hollpital, in .West
Derby-road, in such quantities, and lit: sucli limes, as may be
ordered by the Guardians; and no Artioleswill be received unless -
accompanied With an invoice. and in everir4p64.4lceoiding to
contract.
•
Sep :rate Tenders will also be received for supplii-pg,frout the
26th day of March instant until the 29th day of Senirtier next.
the Out-door Poor of the Union, in the several town prof West
Derby, Toxteth.park, Everton. Kirkdale.,:-Waverti i .e; ‘l/alton-on-
the-Hill, and Great Crosby; with FLOUR. TALEAD, OATMEXt.;-
BUTCHERS' MEAT, BACON, GROCERIES; and Other PRO-
VISIONS.
• The estimated quantities of the foregoing Articles, together with
the probable times of delivery, may-be ascertained4)y application
to the Masters of the Workhouse and Hospital, and itelieving
Officers respectively.
'fenders, with samples of such articles as may be practicabie,
(those of Flour containing not less than (cur pilutuls,) to' be de- _
livered at the Workhousi.,`free of exp,nse, oil Or bef:are MOND S.Y,
the 17th instant, which Tenders will be opened 'On
_ills following
WEDNES)AY. •
"Printed forms of Tenders may be liittLAWho-04640 the lerk.
and Tenders in any other form, incomplete-41441114 delivered,
will not be receive.l.
Security will be required for due perforM. rice, .e contracts.
.. - .
Payments will be made at the'end of eacinquarXelgAilino discount
will be expected from the contract price. Tite_GuaVians do not
pledge themselves to aceept the 10Y7P.it or an);Tenderc_
By order of the Board, •
WILLIAM CLEAVER, Union Clerk.
2, Elliot-street, Clayton-square, Liverpool; lit 1856..

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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Corn• ,
patty will be behl at the Easton Station, Landon. on WRDNES-
DAY, the 19th March proximo, at Twelve o'clock precisely, (or
the ELECTION of Two DIRECTORS and One AUDITOR, in the
room of those retiring by rotation, n ho are eligible for re-election -
and for the trarsaction of the ordinary business of the Company. •
S. MORTON PE[O, Chairman.
ROBERT S. MANSEL, Secretary.
Chester, Feb. 25, 1536.
N.B.—The Transfer Books of the Company viii be CLOSED on.
SATURDAY, the Atli March, until after the Meeting.

Vublic Noticts.

4IVE ItPOOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND MUSEUM.—TO ARCHITECTS.
The COUNCIL of the BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL are about,
to ERECT a BUILDING for the purposes of the Free Public 111
Library and the Derby Museum, and OFFER a PREMIUM of
15f1G LAN U4l4.filt.tiA,Pe44,P,WONii CO4AgAttikiekp'Z'Opli
Second. - •
The Designs are to be sent in on or before SATURDAY. May M.
Copies of the Printed Conditions and Instructions to Architects
competing, and Lithographed Plans and Sections of the Site, may
he had on application to Mr. J. STUART DALTON, Librarian, Free
Public Library, Duke-street, Liverpool. .i

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.—Whereas, JOHN
GEORGE CLAUS, late of Liverpool, in the county of Lan-
caster, Merchant, a Bankrupt, stands charged with FELONY, in
embezzling part of his estate and effects, with intent to defraud
his creditors, and also with the offence of PERJURY, in wilfully
and corruptly giving false evidence upon his eyarnination before
the Court of Bankruptcy for the Liverpool District.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Reward of .'5O will be paid to
any person or persons who shall apprehend the said Bankrupt and
lodge him in any of her Majesty's Gaols, and give due notice of
the same to Mr. WILLIAM BIRD, Official Assignee, South Castle-
street, Liverpool; or to Messrs. LOWNDSS, B.tnisorf and
LOWNDES, Solicitors, Brunswick-street, Liverpool.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ABOVE-NAMED BANKRUPT.—Height.
about 5 feet 5 incises; complexion. dark sallow; eyes, black and
deep set ; age, 45 to 50 ; dress. shabby, dark coloured ; hair, dark
brown, straight, partially bald, no whiskers; speaks good Eng-
lish, but with a strong German accent ; has all the appearance of
a foreigner.
Central Police Office, Liverpool, Feb. 21, 1850.

TUBLIC NOTICE. -TO SHIPOWNERS,
SHIPMASTERS, AND OTHERS.
It having been reported to the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, by the Local Marine Board of this Port, that
the CRIMPAGE SYSTEM prevails to a very great extent at
Liverpool, subjecting Seamen not only to a direct charge, ranging
from Half-a-crown to Ten Shillings, but also to other gross im-
positions, their Lordships have DETERMINED to adopt every
means in their power to put a stop to a system detrimental to
every interest connected with the MERCANTILE MARINE,
but especially to that of the SEAMAN.
They have therefore DETERMINED to institute LEGAL PRO
CEEDINGS against any party, whether Shipowner, Shipmaster,
or Crimp, who shall infringe either of the following provisions of
the Merchant Shipping Act.
The Sections of the Merchant Shipping Act above referred to
are the 147th and 148th, which provide as follows :
" 147. The following offences shall be, punishable as herein •
after mentioned (that is to say):
"(1) If any Person not licensed as aforesaid, other than the
Owner or Master or a Mate of the Ship, or some Person who is
bona fide the Servant, and in the constant Employ of the Owner,
or a Shipping Master duly appointed as aforesaid, engages or
supplies any Seaman or Apprentice to be entered on board any
Ship in the United Kingdom, he shall for each Seaman or Appren-
tice so engaged or supplied incur a Penalty not exceeding
TWENTY POUNDS.
"(2) If any Person employs any unlicensed Person, other than
Persons so excepted as aforesaid, for the purpose of engaging or
supplying any Seamen or Apprentice to be entered on board any
Ship in the United Kingdom, he shall for each Seaman or Appren-
tice so engaged or supplied incur a Penalty not exceeding
TWENTY POUNDS, and if licensed shall in addition forfeit his
license.
"(3) If any person knowingly receives or accepts to be entered
on board any Ship any Seaman or Apprentice who has been en-
gaged or supplied contrary to the Provisions of this Act, he shall
for every Seaman or Apprentice so engaged or supplied incur a
Penalty not exceeding TWENTY POUNDS.
"148. If any Person demands or receives, either directly or in-
directly, from any Seaman or Apprentice, or from any Person
seeking Employment as a Seaman or Apprentice, or from any
Person on his behalf, any Remuneration for
.providing him with
Employment, he shall for every such Offence incur a Penalty not
exceeding FIVE POUNDS."
Whilst every exertion will be made to put an end to the illegal
practices at present employed in engaging Seamen, every facility
will, at the same time, be afforded to Shipowners, Shipmasters,
anti Overlookers, In providing Crews. And all such parties who
may meet with any difficulties in thus engaging Crews, as well as
Seamen who may experience any obstruction in attempting to
obtain employment, are invited immediately to communicate the
grounds of their complaint to the Head Shipping Master, who
will promptly investigate the same.
By order of the Board,
JOHN THOMAS TOWSON, Secretary.
Liverpool, 23rd February, 1836.

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INFIDELITY INEXCUSABLE. ONE GOD :
Infinite in Power, Wisdom, and Goodness. Proved by Hia
Works and by His Word, with the necessary inferences there-
from: By BARNETT BLAKE. _ _

"'This is a very well-written, closely-reasoned, and able argu-
ment. It is altogether highly creditable to the piety and ability
of the writer, and will well repay an attentive perusal."—Morning
Port.

its rapid survey of the wonders of Nature, it gives evidence
of a well-stored mind, whilst the inferences which the author
deduces, both from the marvels of the universe and the doctrines
of Revelation, are expressed in terms which leave no doubt of the
purity of his intentions and the sincerity of his advocacy."—
Alhenccum.

" It establishes the existence of the Deity in the first instance
by proofs independent of Revelation, and subsequently by evidence
derived from Holy Writ, and thus demonstrates what its title im-
plies, that the infidel is without excuse."'—John Bull.
"A body of evidence so convincing. and complete that it may
truly be said to leave infidelity inexcusable.' "—Liverpool
Courier.
London: W, SKEFFINOTON. Liverpool: E. iTuris.m, 73,
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THE

tibtrpoot taittarb,

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1856.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.

HER MAJESTY and the Court continue to reside at Buck-
ingham Palace, devoting such brief spaces of time as the
public affairs leave at the QUEEN'S disposal, to a discharge of
those domestic and maternal duties which it is her happiness
to attend to, and in the fulfilment of which she sets so com-
mendable an example to even the humblest as well as the most
exalted of her subjects. On Wednesday, a levee, the second
of the season, was held by HER MAJESTY at St. James's
Palace. The presentations were numerous, those of military
and naval officers predominating. In the evening of the
same day, HER MAJESTY entertained a select party at dinner,
among whom were Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS
ROYAL, Mr. Bucmuctx, Minister to the Court of St. James's
from the United States, the Earl of EGLIETON, and the
Right Hon. B. and Mrs. DrsaA.eu. On Thursday, the
QUEEN and Prince ALEBET, together with the PRINCESS
ROYAL, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence;
and on Saturday HER MAJESTY graced the performance at
the Lyceum Theatre by attending. The performances on this
last occasion were for the benefit of the Pavilion company of
actors, who have suffered so severely in the loss of their pro-
perty by the recent fire at their theatre: Preparations are
already on foot, on an extensive scale, for the reception of the
KING of the BELGIANS, who is shortly expected on a visit to
the QUEEN, and whose sojourn in this country will, it is
understood, extend to about a week.

How important soever the routine of our domestic public
affairs may at this time appear, and doubtless are, all eyes are
at present fixed on Paris. The transactions there being car-
ried on arrest not merely the attention of Great Britain and
her august Allies, but rivet the observation of all Europe and
engage the sympathies of the civilized world. In that capital
a small council of men are assembled, delegated to discuss and
arrange the conflicting interests, and to represent while they
amalgamate and modify the opinions of the independent Mo-
narchies of Europe—it may indeed be said, of the world at
large. Considering the importance of the subjects submitted
to their arbitrement, it is not to be wondered at, that every
motion, whisper, or expression which may emanate from them
is. watched with the most intense anxiety. In vain, however,
are all eyes and ears upon the stretch. The avenues to the
meeting ehamber are barred against intrusion by means so
strict that

" Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds"
on which to rest conjecture., In the absence of information
the fancy has been busy, and rumours the most fantastical
have been freely circulated with respect to the negotiations
and the resolutions of the conclave. The first great act of the
Plenipotentiaries has been ratified and promulgated. An
armistice has been concluded, and proclaimed, the armistice
being of course a useless affair unless proclaimed and
publicly acted on. It includes more than the mere
formalities implied in the temporary cessation of hos-
tilities. It was authoritatively stated that no armis-
tice would be agreed to by the Allies, until a formal
recognition of the principles on which the negotiation
should proceed were definitely fixed. The proclamation of
the armistice is therefore looked on as a proof that some sin-
cerity is evinced on the part of Russia, and that there is at
least a probability of peace. Having divulged so much
of their proceedings, the members of the Conference have once
more drawn around them the curtain of obscurity, and all
concerning them and their deliberations is again involved
in that mystery which forms so fertile a source of conjec-
ture. The suspense thus occasioned is painful, and some
maintain disadvantageous; but a moment's reflection must
convince even the most anxiously curious that affairs so mo-
mentous as those concerning which the assembled Plenipoten-
tiaries are deliberating must be carefully secluded from general
discussion, at all events until they have assumed a practical
and definite form. Those whose monetary and mercantile
interests are deeply involved in the issue, will no doubt long
eagerly for such intelligence as may guide them in their future
proceedings, but in the meantime prudence dictates to them
and others to "wait a little longer ;" to refrain, in fact, from
speculations and conjectures which must prove vain and
fanciful, and may occasion themselves much risk and
detriment.

While anxiety connected with foreign matters occupies so
large a share of general attention, and while on the subject
of our external policy ministers are in the enjoyment of what
may prove a portentous and treacherous repose, they have
during its continuance been tossed upon a sea of domestic
troubles. In the House of Lords they have been beaten
and baffled on a question of vital interest to the state—
in the same place they have been constrained to grant
a commission of inquiry into the report issued by them-
selves, although prepared by their commissioners to in-
quire into the state of matters in the Crimea, which had
produced such disastrous effects upon our army and had so
tarnished the glory of our arms. In reference to this report
two ministerial blunders already stand prominently revealed.
The commission issued was not sufficiently extensive. It em-
powered the commissioners to inquire into the state of affairs
which had produced the evil complained of, but it conferred
on them no power to ascertain who were the parties immedi-
ately to blame for that -state of matters. For example, it
enabled them to ascertain that the great mortality among the
cavalry horses was occasioned by want of food, which was
plentiful at a few miles' distance from them, and that Lord
CARDIGAN refused to allow the cavalry horses to go for forage.
It also enabled them to ascertain with precision the melan.
choly fact that the mortality occasioned by this want of forage
Was not confined to the hersek but extended its ravages with
frightfully fatal effect among the men. Here, however, it
stopped. They were not entitled to inquire into the reasons
which induced the Earl of CARDIGAN to refuse, even in the
trying emergency referred to, to convert his cavalry chargers
into beasts of burden for the:conveyance of commissariat stores.
Sir Jorm MgNerr, and Colonel TULLOCH inquired with search-
ing and impartial scrutiny, and reported with responsible
though fearless fidelity, so far as they were entitled to go; but
here, like provident men, they m de a virtue of necessity and
proceeded uo further than their commission gave them
warrant for. In these circumstances, parties, who like
Lord. CARDIGAN imagine they have been presented to the
public in an unfair and invidious light, demand to have the
supplementary portion of the inquiry gone into. It is per-
fectly obvious that various and conclusive reasons may have
operated on Lord CARDIGAN'S mind, and may have fully jus-
tified him in acting as he did in the peculiar circumstances
referred to ; and so of other officers, whose conduct is im-
pugned by implication. The demand made in reference to
further investigation has wrung from Ministers a military
commission for further inquiry ; and thus, as is the case with
most half-measures, the piecemeal style of the examination
gives rise to endless misrepresentation out of doors, and varied
castigations in Parliament. By one set of opponents, Minis-
ters are accused of issuing an imperfect commission for the
purpose of screening the great offenders, while those who are
so designated by an imperfectly-informed public complain
loudly that they have been denied the opportunity of stating
their own case, and vehemently affirm that their reputation is
undermined by insinuation and tarnished by inference, which
they could have disproved if permitted the opportunity to do
,ao. A third class maintain, that, in appointing the military
commission to prosecute the inquiry further, Ministers are, in
effect,invalidating the report, censuring the investigation, and
sending their own commissioners for trial before a newly-con.
stituted and anomalous military tribunal. In point of fact,
.= the whole of the ministerial procedure, in respect to this Cri-
mean inquiry, has been of so extraordinary and nnbusinesslike
a character, as to provoke, if not to justify, the most sweeping
suspicions. Every one has long since agreed that the
parliamentary investigation was so adroitly manipulated by
the artistes who preside over the politico-culinary arrange-
ments of the cabinet cookery work, that its conclusion was a
farce, sorry enough, no doubt, in the enactment and result,
but still a farce. Here the second branch of the inquiry seems
to have been so " cribbed, cabined, and confined," that even
• .-•the unwearied assiduity and dauntless courage of the commis-
sioners have been circumvented, and a third commission must
now sit upon the cruelly-mutilated subject of inquiry, to com-
plete a work which the two gentlemen sent to the East have,
by their report, proved themselves so fully competent to

perform.
Bad as it is, however, this is not all with which Lord
PALMERSTON and his colleagues stand fairly chargeable
in
respect to the report of Sir Joni.; M`lcurt and his coadjutor.
On receiving the report, Ministers did not communicate it to
the Horse Guards; and, in ignorance of its contents, the
Commander-in-Chief conferred promotion, and bestowed
places of emolument, trust, and high responsibility, on officers
tuiderlying suspicion, if not deserving of severe censure, in
accordance with the terms of that report. In withholding
the report from the head of the military department, Minis-
ters Inflicted manifold wrong. In permitting the ignorant
act of patronage, they exposed the public service to detriment ;
they placed the Commander-in-Chief in a false position with
Parliament and the country; and they set the recipients of
the patronage in the invidious light of being rewarded first,
and punished or acquitted afterwards, while, at the same
moment, they lay the conduct, motives, and judgment of
their own commissioners open to misconstruction, and expose
them to undeserved suspicion. The matter was gravely de-
bated in the House of Lords ; and, on Friday last, it was dis-
•!ussed with much acrimony in the House of Commons, the

latter discussion ending in the withdrawal of a resolution
brought forward by Mr. ROEBUCK, severely condemnatory of
Ministers, in relation to the newly-appointed Board of Gene-
rals to further prosecute the inquiry into the Crimean

mismanagement.
The discussions in Parliament for the last two years have
turned so much upon " War's vast art," that matters
affecting merely civil rights have received but little attention ;
though in not a few instances these have been threatened
with serious injustice. One of these occupied the attention of the
House of Commons, almost exclusively, for the two first nights
of last week ending in a total and ignominious defeat of the
Government,on a measure, on which, judging by the parade and
ostentation with which it was introduced, and advocated, they
had obviously set their hearts. The measure in question was
the " Local Dues on Shipping Bill" introduced by the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, in a speech full of false facts,
supported by illogical deductions, and entirely based upon the
" appropriation principles" which form so distinguishing a
characteristic of the Manchester school of political ethics.
This Bill had been foreshadowed in the address from the
throne at the opening of Parliament—was introduced early in
the Session, and with hot-haste pushed its second reading
on Monday last. Alarmed by the revolutionary opinions pro-
mulgated at the introduction of the Bill, in his declaration
that " Corporation property" was a thing which the legisla-
ture could appropriate to the general good, without offering
any compensation to the party denuded, the Conservative
party stood manfully forward in opposition to the measure,
which was also warmly opposed by all who object to so
sweeping a mode of dealing with property ; and on the
second reading, Sir FREDERIC Tussiazu, in a calm and
temperate but convincing speech, pointed out the dangers to be
apprehended from a measure which proposed to effect such un-
disguised spoliation. At the conclusion of his address, Sir
FREDERICK moved that "the bill be read a second time this
day six months." This was seconded by Sir F. BA.RINO.
Mr. LOWE defended his bill, but did so in a style which, by
bringing prominently forward its very worst features, raised
up enemies where he meant to secure friendship. In-the words
of a contemporary, " he was by far too enthusiastic a parent,
and thought too highly of his child." Many members, whose
love of ease might have induced them to remain absent from
a division on the subject, and whose apathy or dullness might
have secured their acquiescence in a more plausibly put for-
ward tale, had their apprehensions excited and their fears
roused by such assertions as those with which he backed up
his arguments. " Whatever may be your charter," said Mr;
Lows; " and whatever may be your legal rights, your charters
are iniquity, and your rights injustice, and we will sweep you,
away, your self-elected system, and your property." Even
the dullest could perceive that a slight extension of this
dogma, which was now only levelled at a corporation, would
snap asunder the bonds of every species of property—would
snatch the coronet from the ducal head—wrench open the
treasures of the Church—pervert and sully the direct and pure
stream of justice—filch the diadem of the Sovereign, and in

its explosion burst asunder the fabric of the throne. Men
wondered to hear such doctrines avowed in as assembly of
constitutional legislators ; and stood aghast when reflection
restored to them the consciousness that these were the senti-
ments entertained and expressed by a member of the govern-
ment.

If the matter of Mr. LOWE'S MU and his speeches were
bad, the manner in which he delivered the one and advocated
the other was by no means such as to inspire confidence in
the measure or to extort approbation for the man. His-manner
is repulsive -his assumption intolerable. He reasons with
the arbitrary harshness of a despot—assumes the stiff' for-
mality of definition while manufacturing a string of what he
calls abstract truths—moves his intellectual man in a region
peculiarly his own, in which he deals• exclusively with those
same " truths." These he pours upon the ear with a
rapidity of utterance never equalled, and a cold unimpas.
sioned yet vehement monotony as irksome as his self-applaud-
ing temerity is offensive and repellant. How any Ministry,.
more especially a Ministry presided over by a man of such
consummate " tact," finesse, indeed, as Lord PA.LMERSTON).
should have confided the management of a bill so deeply
involving their own character as politicians and their credit,
as statesmen, to such a man as Mr. Laws, is a matter which
evades solution, and can only be accounted for by. the entire
absence of legislative skill and debating talent in their second
range of officials. Mr. HORSFALL, with telling suavity of
manner, followed the Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
and with a well aranged phalanx of facts and figures
vanquished the abstract propositions- laid down by the
framers of the bill. In persuasive accents, which told
well, in contrast with the dictatorial impetuosity of
his opponent, the Honourable Member for Liverpool
laid before the House a succinct but glowing narrative of the •
valuable purposes to which the denounced Town Dues had
been applied, and successfully applied in -such a way as to con-
tribute not merely to the maritime benefit of that town, but
to the general benefit of the country. Mr. EWART also did
something to expose the hollow reasoning.and dangerous prin-
ciples upon which the bill was founded. and by which it was
supported. On Monday night the debate was formally ad--
journed till the following day, but every one felt assured that
the fate of the measure was sealed. The property doctrines
of Mr. Lows, probably derived from his experience in the
Australian bush, where the definitions of tnewn and tuum are
said not to very strict, had too effectually_ damaged it to admit
of its possible resuscitation. On it, as on the murdered.
DuscAic, "treason had done its worst." Even so adroit a
"leech" as PALMERSTON could effect no present cure, and ac-
cordingly on Tuesday night he dexterously threw his mantle
over the abortion and withdrew it from further observation.
One singular, and by many it was considered shabby obser-
vation, as it reflected on his subordinate, escaped from his-
Lordship in his withdrawing address; it was to the effect
that Government did not fully understand the peculiari-
ties of the case till these were brought out in course of
the debate. On this latter point, that of attempting to
legislate for cases they did not understand, Mr. DISRAML,
hit the PREMIER hard. Every indulgence, he said, bad..
been accorded to Ministers by the Opposition, yet within
the six weeks during which Parliament had been sitting,.
through their rash and ill-considered attempts at legislation,.
they had manifested the utmost feebleness and been exposed I
to numerous defeats. They were defeated not by their oppo-
nents, not even by their supporters, but by themselves. Not
even the balanced sarcasm and well-weighed invective of the
Right Honourable Member far Buckinghamshire coual add.
much to the damage the Government bad already sustained;.
and the Australian proposition of Mr. Lows was bur,xd.,for
the time being, if not consignedto lasting oblivion.
It is now clear, that in reference to this measure Ministers
reckoned without their host. Relying on the comparative
feebleness of opposition whieh the Manchester petitioners had
led them to expect, and in reality, as Lord Para&susvors ad-
mitted, ignorant of the true nature ©f the case, in tholope of
conciliating that rapacious clique, they► made a swoop- at the
Liverpool Town Dues. As, in cases frequently recorded in

the annals of sporting, the falcon has been impaled upon the
heron's bill, Ministers have run a-tilt against Mtzuicipal pro-
perty, and they have been fatally wounded by their ow.n.shirered
lance.

VALIIISLEY'S SABBATH DE&TV RATION

MOTION!

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlB,—What has become of our representative, Mr. J. C.
Ewart, and where did he hide himself on the all-important
" Sabbath Recreation" question, brought before the Commons.
by Sir Joshua ? I look in vain for h.-name in that tell-tale-
list of ayes and noes in the division of.the.House—on neither
side is it to be found. The inference, I fear, is inevitable.
Fearing on the one hand to do justice. to his own feelings by
opposing, and still more greatly fearing on the other to offend
even a few of his unwashed supporters at the hustings, a
studied balance of the difficulty probably coerced the adoption
of Falstaff's defence of the better part of valour, and he
shirked that which he could not face. This is sorry trim-
ming.. The great community of Liverpool had a right to look
for a deeper interest and a balder and more independent
front in its representative,. on one of the greatest questions.
that could by any possibility agitate the legislature of the,
country.
As for our Walmsleys„ our Heywoods, and Shelleys, we may
look in vain for anything better from them. For the talented
young Lord Stanley's support of the infidel measure, how-
ever, the country has much cause to feel deeply grieved at the
prostitution of hit highly-gifted mind, in furtherance of an
attempt to lift the very foundations of moral society, (to say
nothing of the higher principle involved,) that of legalising
the infraction of the Decalogue,—an acquisition long aimed
at by the Whigs, Radicals, and revolutionary infidels, both
in and out of the House. I am not sorry the question has
been mooted, for while its discussion has been adorned with
as splendid a display of parliamentary eloquence as ever graced
the Commons House of parliament in its best days, the divi-
sion exhibits a majority s,„ overwhelming as to lead to the
hope that any future attempt to renew the motion "looms"
(if it loom at all) in a very remote distance indeed.
But where, I again ask, was the radical representative of
our borough?—where could he be borrowt»g on such a divi-
sion as that which called for practical proof of the divinity
that stirred within him ? It is a pertinent question, and one
which I, a voter but not a supporter of the " honourable
member," hold a right to put. If timidity on a great not
only moral but religious question frights Mr. Ewart from
the post of honour and responsibility, what guarantee have we
that a great damaging constitutional question may not meet,
under similar fears and pressure, with the same fate? But

then this was only a moral, based on a ttei'e religious ques-
tion, and consequently of secondary importance only. Sir, I
do not hesitate to say that the principle mooted was of a
magnitude stretching to eternity itself, and that it was so fat
is evident in the number of petitions against it. It is truly
gratifying to see no fewer than three—yes, absolutely three
mortal columns of the Times occupied in close array with the
names of places from which those petitions have emanated,
proving the existence of a sounder judgment, a better feeling,
and a more elevated and righteous principle pervading the
country at large, with its humble inhabitants, than the mise-
rable, the contemptible minority of 48 out of the 424 members
who voted on the occasion had dreamt of. I congratulate my
townsmen on the result. BROOKVALE.

SIR E. L. BULTVER and THE CLASSICS.