The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-16 00:00:00

WARRINGTON.

Majority

Second Day.—For the rate .
For the adjournment

Majority ,

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

A FEW WHIG EPITAPHS.
(AFTER GOLDSMITH.)

(Which may soon be wanted.)

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
Here lies my lord Johnny, whose genius was such,
To say he had any, would be rather too much :
Who once wrote a d—nable farce* in a hurry ;
But to party gave up what was meant for the Surrey ;'
Till a premier en petto he must fain strain his throat
To persuade master Wakley to give him a vote !
Too slow for the Rads, he went on' namble-pamble
And thought of a " pause," while they thought of a scramble
A sort of factotum, for all things unfit,
Neither orator, statesman, nor scholar, norlwit !
But still for a placeman he'd one good ingredient—
Though the man was mis-placed, the place was expedient !
In short 'twas his fate to bequeath us this history :
His fall was quite nat'ral, though his rise was a mystery !

MR. rouLtrr THOMPSON.
Here Thompson has time from his cams to relax
The prince of pretenders ! Quintessence of quacks !
Come ye that at quacking beat Katterfelt hollow,
And worship where slumbers your Magnus Apollo, -
While he was the centre of " Freedom of Trade,"
Ye felt ye were only for satellites made !
But now he is gone, past all doubt or conjecture,
His brother
.t may scribble, and his namesake T. may lecture
Macculloch write nonsense, and call it a " science,"
And Tooke may put Cocker and Lock at defiance.
New Seniors and Bowrings shall quickly cross over
The pons asinoruni new truths to discover;
And every bright " march of intellect" spark
Cry—" A Lucifer ! Ho ! and get out of the dark !"

SIR JOHN' CAMPBELL.
Here Campbell reclines, a most " blunt pleasant creature"—
E'en Sir Robert himself must admit his good nature !
He let out his heart, though no glutton or guzzler, II
Yet one fault he had, and that one was a puzzler.
Perhaps you may ask, was he too democratic ?
If he has a sheep's eye, it is aristocratic !If
Too conservative, perhaps, and obligingly loyal?
" Plain Johnny" was never yet put to the trial.
Or perhaps he confided in whigs as they go,
And so was too foolshly honest ? Ah ! no !
Then what was his fault? Come tell it, and burn ye—
He let the " base" whigs dub him " Mr. Attorney !"

LORD BROUGHAM.
Here lies both'ring Harry, whose fate I much doubt
Be his grave e'er so deep, I believe he'll get out ;
For such his delight with the whigs to make riot,
While there's one to be haunted, he'll never be quiet :
What comical spirits were his ! By the Lord
The whigs rarely found their " schoolmaster abroad !"
Now giving Lord Melbourne a taste of the leather,
Now tickling the drowsy Glenelg with a feather,—
Now birching the stupid but innocent Minto,
For scrapes that he'never knew how he got into,—
And now giving Durham a slap on the back,
Which he either might take for a " well done" or whack !
Ever wrangling or dangling, to keep up the ball,—
Ever teasing or pleasing, or lashing at all !
In short, sir, so rusty a grunter was Harry,
So awkward to lead, or to drive, or to carry,
That his very good friends, if he would not be civil,
Most heartily prayed he would go to the devil ;
But Harry resolved, to torment the poor elves,
First to see them well off to the devil themselves !

* The immortal tragedy of Don Carlos.
t Mr. P. Scrope.
*.t. Colonel T.
§ The Scotch delight in calling Sir John " plain Johnny
Caramel."

II At the late Mansion House fete, to wit.
¶ Sir John has secured the rank of peeress for his lady.
Morning Herald.

A young Irish member, who attained his majority not many
months ago, has squandered nearly the whole of his patrimony
to the amount of .Z 97,000, since his introduction to public
life.—Limerick Chronicle.
FEMALE RADICALS.—On Tuesday evening, a female ra-
dical association was established in the radical school-room,
Rochdale. Several of the fair politicians addressed the as-
semblage on the present political state of the country ; after
which upwards of forty women gave in their names as n2eui-
bens.

STABBING.—On Thursday Thomas Moran, an Irishman,
was brought before the magistrates, at the petty sessions, to
answer the charge of maliciously stabbing William Taker, so
far back as the 26th day of March, 1837. It appeared, by
the depositions of several witnesses, that the prosecutor, who
resides near Scotland-road, Warrington, was standing at the
bottom of Cocksedge, about half past six o'clock in the even-
ing of Easter Sunday, 1837. He had just parted with some
friends he had been conversing with, when the prisoner came
running down the hill. Some persons pushed the prosecutor
against him, and he instantly pulled out his knife, and stab-
bed the presecutor in the buttock. The wound was very
deep, and so dangerous that for a time it was feared the pro-
secutor would have bled to death. Search was made for the
prisoner, in Warrington, the same night, by Mr. Jones, the
deputy-constable, and a reward was offered for his apprehen-
sion ; but nothing was heard of him until last week, when he
was seen walking through Altrincham by Mr. Turton, the
deputy-constable. He took the prisoner into custody, and
brought him to Warrington for examination. Mr. Beau-
mont, who appeared for the prisoner, proposed calling a wit-
ness to prove that the prisoner had been knocked down and
robbed before he stabbed the prosecutor. A man named
Holland was put into the witness-box ; but it having been
proved that, on the previous day, in the course of a drunken
spree, he had boasted of having been promised £3 if he got
the prisoner clear, the magistrates refused to hear his evi-
dence. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the
assizes.

A RAILROAD ADVENTURE.—On Wednesday Joseph Mad-
dock, a journeyman joiner, appeared before the magistrates,
to answer a charge brought against him by the Grand Junc-
tion Railway Company. It appears that the prisoner pre-
sented himself at the Acton Station in a state of intoxication.
He expressed a wish to be conveyed to Moor, but the clerk
refused to book him, owing to his being drunk. When the
train was about to start, the prisoner, at the imminent peril
of his neck, jumped into one of the carriages. At Moor he
was taken into. custody by the guard, and brought to War-
rington. He was convicted in the penalty of ten shillings
and costs.

AN HONEST WITNESS.-011 Wednesday, Holland, the
man brought forward as a witness in the stabbing case, was
committed for trial on the charge of stealing some lead from
Mr. Walsh's premises, in Bridge-street. He was clearly
proved to be the party who disposed of the stolen property
to a person named Wilkinson, in Haddyek-ctreet.

GRAPPENHALL.—DEFEAT OF THE RADICALS.—On
Easter Monday last, the 2d of April, the proceedings of the
vestry-meeting 'of this hitherto peaceful village were dis-
turbed, and the levying of the church rate attempted to be
prevented by surprise. The accounts have usually' been
passed, and the necessary levies ordered, at the accustomed
vestry-meeting on Easter Tuesday. Mr. Eskrigge, a noto-
rious leader of the radical party in the borough of Warring-
ton, and who was defeated in an endeavour to adjourn the
laying of a church rate for the borough of Warrington, in
which he resides, in 1837, by a majority of more than two
to one, seems to have determined to try his hand at agitation
in this parish. He is the occupier of a small cotton mill in
Latchford, which is the parish of Grappenhall. On Easter
Tuesday, he attempted to spring a mine upon the authorities
of the parish. To conceal his plan from the rate-payers,
his supporters resorted to the village in small knots of two
or three, and remained in the vicinity of the church, in the
yards of the cottages, under the canal bridge, and other
places, to avoid their being observed. On a given signal of
a shrill whistle, all appeared, and the force being thus con-
centrated, rushed into the school-room, to which, by the
prudence and foresight of the churchwardens the meeting
was adjourned, and any unseemly conduct in the church pre-
vented. The accounts of the late churchwardeni, and the
appointment of their successors, were carried after many
objections ; but when the imposition of the rate required for
the repairs of the church for the ensuing year was proposed
to the meeting, the real object of the attempted surprise be-
came apparent. A rate having been proposed of twopence
halfpenny in the pound for Grappenhall, and three-halfpence
for Latchford, for the ensuing year, Mr. Estrigge proposed
as an amendment,—That the question should be postponed
to that day twelve months. The amendment, on a show of
the hands of the persons present, was carried of course,
although the result has shown that many of them had no
right to be present at or to vote in the meeting then assem-
bled. Some attempt at a scrutiny was made, but the leader
of this agitation having repeatedly told his worthy followers
not to say who they were, where they came from, nor whether
they had paid their rates, no other means of ascertaining
the sense of the ratepayers were left but to resort to a poll,
and one was accordingly demanded, which it was arranged
should take place at the Black Bear Inn, in Latchford, on
Wednesday and Thursday, the 10th and 11th instant, and
Arthur Minton, Esq., was appointed the chairman, to take
the poll. The result is as follows :
First Day.—For the rate
For the adjournment

A meeting of the local council of this body was held in
the lecture-room of the Philosophical Institution yesterday,
to appoint sub-committees, and make other arrangements for
the ensuing meeting of the British Association in Birming-
ham. The Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth, -one of the
vice-presidents of the Association and chairman of the local
council, was called to the chair. There was a numerous and
highly respectable attendance, including the principal mer-
chants and manufacturers of the town, a large number of
gentlemen belonging to the learned professions, and several
members and friends of, the association from a distance. The
noble chairman, in opening the business of the meeting, ex-
pressed a hope that country gentlemen, residing, like himself,
in the neighbourhood, would co-operate in giving the associ-
ation a reception worthy of that distinguished body and of
the town of Birmingham. He concluded by reading letters
of apology from Sir Edward Scott, Bart., and other gentle-
Bonen who had been invited to attend the meeting.—The
li 5t of the local council having been read over by Dr. Blakiston,
John Corrie, Esq., said that every gentlemen British
more or less, acquaintea with the history of the Asso-
ciation for the advancement of science, and he was sure that
they fully appreciated the noble object for which it was
established. There were some, however; who could not see
any benefit which arose from the annual meetings of the
institution ; but if they gave few additional discoveries to the
world of science during the period of their sittings, no one
could deny that they operated as a powerful stimulus to pri-
vate exertion and research ; and if the objects for which it
was established were not worthy of all support and encou-
ragement, and its means and proceedings worthy of the end
in view, it would never have received the sanction and ap-
proval of their great universities and of the distinguished
names which it 'comprised. The annual transactions of the
association were, in-themselves, invaluable records; for by
referring to them they were enabled at once to ascertain the
present state of particular branches of science, and to point
out those desiderata which they presented. He trusted,
while they avoided those costly displays and unnecessary
expenses Which had occurred in their visits to richer corpo-
rate, towns, that gentlemen of all shades of opinion in politics
and religion, would co-operate heartily in giving the associ-
ation such a reception as would prove worthy of this distin-
guished body, and, he would add, of the great town which
they were about to honour with their presence. Mr. Corrie
concluded by moving the first resolution, inviting the friends
and patrons of science throughout the adjoining district, to
take part in the proceedings of the council. A series of
resolutions for the' appointment of committees, &c. (which
appear in another column) were then adopted, and a vote of
thanks having been passed to the noble chairman, the' council
adjourned. The best possible spirit
pervaded the assembly,
amongst whom there seemed to be but one feeling—that of
uniting in a zealous and harmonious effort to give the mem-
bers of the association, if not a splendid, at least a cordial
and hearty reception.—Midland Counties' Herald.