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

Queen. He read an extract from the " New Moral World,"
proving that Socialiim was nothing but Atheism; also a letter
from a Socialist, containing a blasphemous comparison be-
tween " Satan" and " God—his cousin above," and repre-
senting the former as the " better man." In another of
their tracts it was said in effect, that " if Jesus Christ were
to visit this world, he would find cause to blush for his work ;
and if he had no better success in the other planets, it were
better that he had never been known." (The meeting heard
these passages read with much excitement.) Socialism, said
'the lecturer, had also a seditious and criminal tendency. It
considered that if a crime was committed, the fault was not
in the individual, who was not, being considered the creature
of circumstances, a responsible being ! The Socialists and
the Chartists were closely allied. They both wanted a com-
munity of property. It was a system that would put away
their God, uproot morality, and strike at the root of social
order : and it must be rooted out. The building which the
Socialists contemplated building in this town should never
be devoted to the intended purposes. If erected at all, it
should be taken for a Sunday school, some more of which
were wanted. (Cheers.) The plans be had in view to put
down Socialism had been taken up in the proper quarter,
and he doubted not but that next session the subject would
be brought forward by the House of Lords, and would also
find friends in the Commons. (Cheers.) After some fur-
ther observations, Mr. Brindley read the address, which will
be found in our advertising columns. A copy of the petition
would be given to every lady, and each, he trusted, would
exert themselves to obtain signatures. Mr. B. (who, in the
course of his lecture, read several extracts which, from their
gross character, we have omitted) sat down amidst vehement
and prolonged applause.
The adoption of the petition was moved by the Rev. Mr.
MAYNARD, seconded by the Rev. T. SQUANCE, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. VANNETT corroborated Mr. Brindley's statement
that the. Socialists ,and Chartists were nearly allied, and
stated a fact to prove it which he had ascertained from his
own knowledge.
After thanks bad been voted to Mr. Brindley and the rev.
chairman, the meeting separated.

STAGE COACHES.--In the Stage Carriages Bill, now be-
fore the House of Commons, a clause has been introduced
giving to stage coach proprietors the advantage of an addi-
tional passenger and the reduction of a halfpenny per mile
on the duty.

BIRTHS AT SEA.—On the 4th of July, when the ship Ro-
bert Pulsford, Captain John Prince, lately arrived at Balti-
more, from Liverpool, was in lat. 26 deg., long. 72 deg., the
wife of Mr. Lewis Lewis, one of the passengers, was safely
delivered of three fine daughters. They were severally, na-
med Columbia, Oceana, and Victoria. The mother and
children are said to be doing well.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS. —lt is
gratifying to learn that the schools recently established by
the Bishop of London and Westminster are meeting with
Ac,naost marked success. In the central school, in Rose-
street., Soho, there are nearly 100 pupils, and at the branch
school at Lambeth, upwards of 150. Schools in connection
with the institution are to be established immediately at
Clapham, Clerkenwell, Pimlico, Chelsea, Fulham, Hounslow,
and Rotherhithe.
THE MANCHESTER CHARTER.—The trial of the cause
between the coroner, appointed by the Town Council ofMan-
chester and the county coroner, the result of which will de-
cide as to the validity, of the charter of incorporation recently
granted to the town of Manchester, is fixed for Monday next.
Sir John Campbell, the Attorney-General, will conduct the
case on the part of the corporation.
Loss OF AN EMIGRANTSHIP.—The Aid -de -Camp, of and
for New Brunswick, from Londonderry, was lost on Friar
Island, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 18th June. Of
her 303 passengers, sixteen, says the St, John's Courier,
were drowned, and the rest found tempor... ; shelter in the
sugar-house of Halifax, and received humane attention from
the inhabitants.

CHANGE IN MR. STEPHENS' PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT.
—lt will be recollected that on Thursday last, Mr. Justice
Patteson sentenced Joseph Rayner Stephens to 18 months'
imprisonment in the house of correction at Knutsford. We
understand that on the following morning (Friday last) Mr.
John Law, of this town, the defendant's attorney, waited
upon the learned judge, at his lodgings, before the opening
of the court, and made an application that the place of his
confinement might be changed, it being usual in such cases
for the term of imprisonment to be undergone in the gaol for
the county. We understand that Mr. Justice Patteson said
that his reason for sentencing the defendant to imprisonment
in Knutsford gaol, was that he had supposed that it was the
ordinary place of confinement for debtors, in the county of
Chester. Mr. Law stated that that was not the case ; the
debtors being confined in the gaol of the castle of Chester.
The attorney-general on the part of the prosecution had ex-
pressed no wish to inflict on Mr. Stephens any unnecessary
inconvenience or aggravation of punishment. His lordship
said that under these circumstances he would alter the sen-
tence ; and accordingly, when he reached the court, the sen-
tence was altered, so far as regards the place of confinement,
and the defendant is now undergoing his sentence of impri-
sonment in her majesty's gaol of the castle of Chester.—
Manchester Guardian.
SIR RICHARD CROFT.—It was proved, at the inquest
held on his body, that since the death of the. Princess Char-
lotte, he had never been free from melancholy and abstrac-
tion ; and on Dr. Thackeray's asking after one of his patients,
he replied, " That he would give five hundred guineas if it
were over, rather than have to attend her." On the night
of his suicide, he exclainied to his servant, who complained
of being unwell, " What is your agitation compared to
mine ?" And a few days before, he struck his forehead with
much violence, in the presence of Mr. Hollings, and abruptly
said to him, " Good God ! what will become of me ?" His'
conduct, with reference to the Princess, was much censured
at the time ; but Dr. Baillie stated every thing was done by
Sir Richard Croft that skill and humanity could suggest. The
fatal issue of the case filled his mind with despair, and
alarmed his friends for the safety of his intellect. He was
heard frequently to ejaculate to himself, " I shall go mad—
I shall end my life in a mad-house—l am ruined—Who will
place any confidence in me ?" As he was driving in his car-
riage to the Princess, when she was taken ill, he observed to
a member of his family, " This case will either make me,
or ruin me." Poor Sir Richard! he appears to have had a
presentiment that something was about to happen which
would seriously affect his prospects in life. It is said that
a few days before he attended his illustrious patient, he fan-
cied he saw the Princess, clad in white, glide through his
bed -rnrs.., "--Phyao mod .P.A.y.Pio;ar!e_
A DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM WALLACE.—At Balti-
more I met and conversed with an elderly gentleman of the
name of Wallace. In early life he had attended the clasSes
at Edinburgh, and studied under Dr. Black and others. He
boasts of being the only lineal descendant of William Wal-
lace, and still uses the arms and motto of that hero ; he
mentioned to me that he was once in an engraver's shop in
Edinburgh, giving the requisite instructions for cutting his
seal, when the Earl of Buchan, who was accidentally pre-
sent, examined the arms and motto, and said, " Sir, there
Pis only one family remaining entitled to these, and that
family is in Virginia." The confirmation of his innocent
and praiseworthy Maims from the lips of a stranger, must
have given him great satisfaction. He is a very cheerful,
communicative old, gentleman, and I was really pleased to
interchange a friendly grasp with a hand, the veins of which
might be enriched even with a drop of the Wallace blood.
On the Ist of November I arrived at Washington, where I
found myself domesticated in the house of my friend Sir C.
Vaughan, and surrounded by every comfort that the kindest
hoot could devise, or the most luxurious traveller desire. I

should feel that I was trespassing upon the privacy of friend-
, ship were Ito enumerate his agreeable and amiable qualities
as a companion or his high character as a diplomatist, al-
though all who know him would bear witness to the former,
and the latter is stamped by public opinion. After spending
a pleasant fortnight in Washington, which city I intended to
revisit in the winter, I proceeded on my tour into the west
of Virginia. As I continued to travel in my waggon with
my two ponies, I proposed halting the first evening at Lees-
burgh, a village about thirty-two miles from Washington. I
had been warned that the road was undergoing a radical re-
form, and I started in a heavy constant rain, in order that I
• might the better appreciate the necessity for such a measure :
the first two miles convinced me that its adoption was never
more loudly called for by Gatton or Old Sarum, by the old
burgh corporations of Scotland, or by the late postoffice re-
gulations in America.—Murray's North America.
EARLY STRUGGLES OF DR. ELLIOTSON.—" When I
commenced," says Dr. Elliotson, " my professional career,
I determined upon trusting for success to working hard, and
to conduct myself as well as the infirmity of human nature
would allow. I determined, however long I might wait for
success, never to fawn upon and run after my superiors, nor
to stoop meanly to my inferiors ; never to intrigue for an ad-
venture, nor to employ trumpery artifices for making myself
known to the public. For many years I toiled, and saw many
of my contemporaries, many of my juniors, who worked
less, but were wiser.in'their generation, pass by me. I pub-
lished works, edition after edition, and paper after paper was
honoured with a place in the transactions of the first medical
society in Europe : I was physician to a large Metropolitan
Hospital, and bad attended there, and gratuitously out of
doors, above 20,000 patients : but in vain. In 1828, my pro-
fession was not more lucrative to me, and was as short of
my actual expenses as it had been in 1818. At that time the
" Lancet" was pleased, now and then, to publish a clinical
lecture delivered by me at St. Thotnas's, and my practice at
once doubled. The following year it published the greater
part as I delivered them, and my practice was doubled again.
Last season, the same journal published them all, and my
practice was doubled a third time. This astonished me the
more, as my clinical lectures were generally delivered with
little or no premeditation, while, all I published myself, had
cost me great labour, many a headache, and much midnight
oil. It was through the general practitioners, in the large
majority of instances—and through general practitioners, for
the most part, with whom I had not the honour of any ac-
quaintance—that the publication of these lectures accom-
plished my success. To the body of general practitioners,
therefore, I owe a debt of gratitude. They have called me
forth spontaneously, from no interested motive, and I cannot
exert myself too much in the education of their successors."
—Physic and Physicians.
GETTING UP A NEWSPAPER.—SO many articles have
been written upon the peculiar woes and troubles, cares and
anxieties of newspaper editors, that the subject has become
somewhat stale. For that reason we have always, as much
as possible, avoided any allusion to the topics upon which so
many Jeremiads have been written. This week we are
tempted to administer a little reproof to some people, who
expect that every article, in every paper, should suit every
body. What would a shoemaker, for instance, say to a cus-
tomer, who should find fault, because every pair of boots in
the store would not fit his foot, and, thereupon undertake to
tell him, that he was no workinan but a botch ? Or, if he
even were more reasonable than this, and merely denounced
all boots that did not fit him as good for nothing and useless
to every body, would he not write him down an ass ? Yet,
such is, precisely, the conduct of those who measure a news-
paper by their own standard of taste, and expect it uniformly
to conform to that. Now, be it known to such sapient
judges, that the endeavour of an experienced caterer for a
newspaper is to avoid pleasing them every week. If a shoe-
maker turned out all his work upon one last, he would find
his patrons in a minority of the boot-wearing public. The
best evidence of editorial skill is to present such a varied
melange from week to week, as shall offer to all tastes, not
too hypercritical, a chance to find something for their pecu-
liar gratification. Other critics expect uniform correctness
and infallibility in a newspaper. They would have it, that
editors should be perfect in knowledge upon all subjects, in-
capable of error, and above the failings to which poor human
nature is liable. They expect comments upon all that is pas-
sing in the world, and that rumours be published while they
are new; and there must, notwithstanding, be no mistake in
any statement. There must be no omission of any circum-
stance; no delay to procure attested accounts—and yet the
story must be such as to leave no errors to be corrected. A
very little reflection would show such critics, that they are
expecting a little more than they would like to be compelled
themselves to have to accomplish. Having had some years
experience in conducting a newspaper, we have arrived at ,
some philosophical conclusions, that enable us to keep the
even tenor of our way, without any feelings of annoyance
from impudent anonymous letters, impudent advice, impu- '
dent comments, suits at law for libels, or any of the other ,
disagreeables to which the profession is subjected. We en-
deavour to tell the truth in all matters of fact ; to do justice
to all individuals and communities ; where it is necessary, to
expose vice, without fear or favour; to defend the right in
all that pertains to our province. That we effect all this is •
not pretended—as no claims are made to perfection. One 1
word more and we are done. As among so many subscri-
bers and purchasers, it is but reasonable to expect that every
week's paper will not please every body, so if you do not like
this week's, wait for the next.—Preston Chronicle,