The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-23 00:00:00

MEDICAL.

WANTED, a SITUATION as ASSISTANT, in Toi►ts
or Country, by a Member of the College of Surgeons.
Salary a less consideration -than a comfortable home and
opportunities of seeing practice.
Address by letter, (post-paid,) to J. 8., care of Mr.
Dearden, Bookseller, Nottingham.
The Advertiser, who is 25 years of age, would not object
to a Ship going to the East Indies or to China.

LECTURE ON SOCIALISM.
AT a numerous and respectable MEETING of the IN-
HABITANTS of LIVERPOOL, calledfor the purpose
of hearing Mr. Brindley's statements respecting the iniquitous
system misnamed Socialism, held at the Music HALL,
Bold-street, on TUESDAY EVENING, the 20th August inst.,
The Rev. FIELDING OULD in the Chair;
On the motion of the Rev. WM. MAYNARD, seconded by
the Rev. THOMAS SCLUANCE, it was unanimously resolved,—
That the following address be adopted, for the signature of
the Ladies of Liverpool, and that the same be presented to
Her Majesty :
" THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE WOMEN OF LIVERPOOL
TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, &C. &C. &C.
" May it please your Majesty,
"We, your Majesty s dutiful and loyal subjects, the women
of Liverpool, desire to approach your Majesty, humbly to
express the deep and poignant sorrow and regret, with which
we have learned that Mr. Robert Owen, the head and founder
of a sect known by the name of Socialists, has been intro-
duced into your Royal Presence.
" The regret which we thus express to your Majesty is
founded on the conviction which we feel that the pestilential
doctrines held and propagated by the above sect, in which
they denounce " marriage and parental affection, declare
revelation to be a series of diabolical falsehoods invented by
the priests," are calculated to degrade our sex, to dissolve
the social union, to shake the stability of your Majesty's
throne and, in short, by the overthrow of all order, virtue,'
and religion, to introduce universal anarchy, and establish a
most revolting system of infidelity and atheism.
" Your Majesty, we humbly presume to hope, will most
graciously condescend to receive this address with the cle-
mency which has always distinguished your illustrious House.
We have waited for some time in anxious expectation that
some more honourable and influential persons would have
directed the attention of your Majesty to a presentation which
was calculated t 6 countenance a system of error, the charac-
ter and tendency of which we are confident must have been
unknown to your Majesty. If an apology be deemed neces-
sary for so unusual a step as this we now take, it is found in
our zeal and jealousy for the untarnished lustre of your
Majesty's crown, the safety and honour of your sacred per-
son, and the happiness and prosperity of your dominions.
" As we are assured that these high objects can only be
secured on the basis of national virtue and piety, and by the
blessing of the Most High, we earnestly pray that Almighty
God may evermore inspire your Majesty's councils with
wisdom, and surround your throne with righteousness, purity,
and truth.

" With sentiments of the most profound respect, and loyal
attachment, we subscribe ourselves,

" Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,"
The Thanks of the Meeting were then voted to Mr. Brind-
ley, for his clear exposition and triumphant refutation of the.
principles of Owenism ; and to the Chairman, for his impar•
tial conduct in the Chair, which were severally acknowledged. ~t,

COPIES OF THE ABOVE ADDRESS,
And SHEETS FOR SIGNATURES, may be obtained at the
Office of MR. CRISP, 38, CHURCH-STREET.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
The BISHOP of LONDON moved an address (which was
adopted) to her Majesty, " That her Majesty would be gra-
ciously pleased to direct an inquiry to be made with reference
to two statements in the report of the poor-law commis-
sioners as to the disease and destitution that prevailed among
the labouring classes in certain districts of the metropolis."
Also, " How far the same prevailed in other populous parte
of England and Wales, and what measures would be neces-
sary for the removal of those evils."
Earl STANHOPE presented petitions from the Rev. Mr.
Maberly, of Cambridge, praying that half the guardians of
the poor might be elected from the labouring classes ; and
that the number .of the House of Commons be increased
one-fourth, the new members to be elected by the labouring
classes.
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a very numerously-
geed petition against the Manchester police bill.
Lord BROUGHAM put his promised question regarding the
" Auchterarder case' (Scotland), in answer to which

Lord MELBOURNE said that all that had been done was to
direct the lord advocate to confer with the procurator-ge-
neral of the church, to see whether the matter could not be
settled, not with the intention of framing a bill immediately,
but that the subject might be soon and carefully considered.
As to the crown patronage everything that was stated was
that it would be administered, as it had hitherto been, in con-
formity with the provisions of the " Veto Act" of 1834.
The Earl of GALLOWAY observed that nothing could be
worse than the way in which the crown patronage (as re-
garded the:Church of Scotland) was exercised.
On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the " Poor Law
Commissioners' Continuance" bill was read the third time
and passed, a provision having been introduced, on the sug-
gestion of Lord Lyndhurst, making assistant commissions
removable by competent authority, as, by an omission in the
bill they would otherwise have been " irremovable."
The third reading of the " Poor Rates Collection" bill
was deferred till Tuesday, in order to make some amendment
for the purpose of meeting a complaint of Lord Lyndiitiil4,
that it was unfair to make churchwardens, &c., 'responsible
for the acts or neglect of collectors whom they did not ap-
point. He wished to have the second clause omitted.

MANCHESTER POLICE BILL.
Viscount DUNCANNON, in moving the second reading of
this bill, said, that the case of. Manchester was, in some re-
speots, similar to that of Birmingham, a charter having been
granted, the validity of which was questioned ; and, until
that question was settled, there was no power of levying a
rate for the support of the police. After some further ob-
servations, which were inaudible in the gallery, the' noble
viscount moved the second reading of the bill.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, he was sorry to be
obliged to differ with the noble viscount, with respect to his
comparison between the towns of Birmingham and Man-
chester. He believed that the cases of those two towns were
similar only in one circumstance—namely, that her Majesty
had thought proper to grant each a charter of incorporation
under the corporation reform act, and that in both these
places the legality of that charter had been disputed. In
Birmingham, although it could not be said that there was no
local police, yet the local force was very insufficient ; ingot-
much that, notwithstanding it had been found necessary to
send down a large police force from' the metropolis, and. a
considerable body of troops, the peace of the town had not "'-‘l,l
been preserved. In Manchester, it was very true, that a
corporation had been granted, the legality of which had been
questioned, and still was undecided in the Court of Queen's
Bench; but, at the same time, there existed in Manchester „'".
a very large and efficient police, a police entirely independent
of that police force which had been attempted to be raised .
by the corporation, whose existence had been disputed.— 34
There was a very efficient police at present, raise&by virtue et
of an act of parliament, for the maintenance of the police in
Manchester and the neighbouring districts, which bad
proved itself, in various instances, to be a most effective
body of men, in preserving the peace, and repressing riots „,,`t.'3
which had been attempted in this town. Looking at the
present state of the country, and seeing that there were large
bodies of men moving about the country, using threats of
disturbing the working classes in their daily occupation with
violence and destruction of that machinery which enabled .y
them to perform their labour with ease, satisfaction, and
advantage to themselves and to their employers, and thus , ,
destroying the capital of the country, and so cutting up by
the roots the means of its prosperity,—looking at all these
circumstances, he did think that questions of police were, at at z'
the present moment, very important, seeing that they had
nothing but the prevention of mischief to depend upon, and
therefore he thought that these questions ought to be ex-
amined in detail before they were decided npon.. He there-
fore entreated their lordships to pause before they passed
this bill.

After some desultory discussion, in the course of which
there were expressed conflicting opinions by the Lord Chan-
cellor and by the ex-Lord Chancellor Brougham, as to the
powers of charters granted by virtue of the Municipal Cot.
Corporations Act, his grace withdrew his amendment for
the purpose of affording opportunity for further inqui.g On
the point, stating, however, that he should repeat it on Tues-
day on the question of going into committee. The bill was
then read a second time, and ordered to be comnaittecl to-
morrow (Tuesday.)