The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS•

Rianda'4
"H. S." will perceive, on referring to the clog'
Tuesday last, that we have noticed the real°
the political articles of the London Courier. ,r 0,40
The Address of " A Brother Editor" to the C_,..n°l'-
of St. Paul's Ward has been received. I'Ve ly"
ever, promise to insert it until we have made 5o
.
m rics on th..uhjoot.ong the aecturs of the rial 7,
The lines by " C. J. C." will not suit our colurow
" Midnight Reflections" shall appear in our ne,lite:b Re
We have received several works for review wm.
notice on Friday. of :h.,1
r
An extended notice of the Exhibition of the
prstion6
dern Artists, which we have been forced to

also appear in our next.
/I.lberpool i-ttai Dat'D•

I's
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER "
ob°
By the packet-ship Roscoe, Captain Gl°'er', feti
arrived here on Sunday, we have received
papers to the 7th ultimo, inclusive. The advie;ccegi,
Canada are to the 3rd ultimo. The 1010
pfished her passage in twenty days from .'cotscif
bay. The news which she has brought is
tively unimportant. •eirc „ie
The commercial intelligence, both from
the
and Philadelphia, is rather favourable no 1,0
Money matters were becoming much easier f sad °-„"
were at the latter place, and the merchants a oto
difficulty in meeting their engagement 6:4
amount of money had been brought in by •0i,,11144
merchants, many of whom were engaged 10,. ()lie
purchases for fall sales. The amount of PaPereatlY
at the banks or otherwise for discount had g,O,
creased. The transactions in Stocks at 1%00/1'
were to a moderate extent, though at Price.nsss 911°!,
showing a trifling improvement on Prey's' toe;
tions. The sales of sterling exchange, f°a
sion by the Roscoe, were to a fair extent, „, tb°`lo
effected at from 81 to 9/ per cent. premium' Apo
in a few instances a higher rate was obtailiegife,fr°,o
from Havana stated that the British Packet, 011311 A
Mexico to England, had on board 1,300,0 v“ fly
de 1,4
specie. The accounts of the state ei "Arai
Buffalo were very satisfactory. Business st,
i 11
rdise
presented a very brisk appearance. 31erell"',
pouring in, and every conveyance was 1.114,11:1th14,,,.
gers. The number of emigrants Pass,7o
chiefly from Albany, was greatly en
They were principally destined for COPnn
Louis. h °f
The stock of cotton at Mobile on the 20th
r
was 3,224 bales, against 836 bales at the
receirllo
last year, and the deficiency in this year isg 01
estimated at 56,429 bales. Sales were
oeo
to 14 cents. 60,4
The yellow fever was still prevalent in We
dilpe
states, but the number of deaths was a
The disease was assuming a milder form` autte ;01$
Advices from Vera Cruz to August 8— der jot
fresh insurrection was likely to break etl/11 ill
iyig oi
Anna's auspices. He is accused of haven that
office of President to his own advantage s°
ministry. , fel
Accounts had been received at New I°tor thesoo
paraiso to the 13th of June. According ' ee 4I
quillity prevailed there and in the adiscelispe€/101
and business had assumed a more liealth)d tbete it
Lima also all was quiet, and it was believee cot"
the Chilians would evacuate Peru in thdbere°
month. General Santa Cruz with his 01
at Guayaquil. De9V
The news from Canada is unimportas' seat' 4,04
from the British army were becoming freq ,
persons had been indicted at Montreal °r
atisoic otY
to entice the soldiery to desert.
Sir John Harvey, Governor of New ilrdttes:o,
convened the legislature to meet at Fredefi 0 006
10th ultimo, for the despatch of business '3O
quence of a recent great public calm'aitYlwas I
weighty reasons. The calamity referred /I)
cent fire at St. John's. ific'
tioo, tea
A i
The expences of the Aroostook exPe''tsrlf
those of the civil and military P°sse' of t),e,
400,600 dollars. This item creates a
ild
•
dollar upon every man, woman, and cli„)ttat
of Maine, or about eight times the a" -(
annual state tax previous to its suspeosi°,°l;at
The Boston Daily Advertiser' states .01 t
Campbell, of Nova Scotia, has given 11°% of '1:),
mation, that the government of the is's/I,h fe,
will pay 25 dollars for the passage ef ea or
ale 001
person of African descent, whether in peir4j,
from Nova Scotia or either of the the rarf;
provinces to Trinidad, and the same fni. years„,ior
two children between seven ands urteen of
or for three from one to seven y° to °er
clamation states, that according W the fa rf „i
given on the island, a labourer, whet he r sj'arld .t?
may easily earn daily wages equal to 4,
Scotia currency, together with eertsf free ft°
cottage, and half an acre of group
charge.
fo-
beeo
Since the above was written Nye have dO4 Cg,,,
•ag jem
with a copy of the Morning Corterdire: 1,7 0,
Sept. 9, which was brought by the Ad otic."oo€4i
Hackstaff. It does not, however, 3d OlO, 011j1
previous news. The commercial ne`v,, state' 9rl
vourable. A letter from New Orleaor A iffi;
ad .;
shipment of 163,000 dollars-in specie to •
by the ship Mississippi, from that Pell-00;010
Advices from Philadelphia to ,the-Bth fna aefe,elll; 4
money matters were decidedly bettert7ool3lP.',/
banks had been discounting to alter/rhea to
le
The news from Buenos .Ayres reacterecl
July. On the 27th of June a mob ell ..000
.0.00 je I,
Chamber, (it is supposed at the justiz'at to (11°,1.
whilst the House was in session, and Pa col°,/1
President in the chair—shot his se°, ,t PrAeCl
A bOL.
army—and killed several others.
had been arrested and thrown into Plibeen sso,IP
of these proceedings is said to have eseot
)6'
Dir
tprraetmioant.urely discovered, to upset the P
of r
date "
A letter from Monte Video, of the
•.e
relativ s
ti
says—" We learn nothing further .ntleao _ a
ti
ade, nor have we' any late news froM P of t 13%, 0./
The Buffalo papers give an acc°tiritt fliesturve
a f g,p
fire, of the Lake Erie steam-ship —re o
sow.. d,..,e
was valued at 100,000 dollars. f 10
gers had lost very large amounts °said °
gentlemanr.
uO7
dollaf
rr
.m New Orleans isl/
Deifv-
s had Wear:o4 oi
Accounts of short crop
per Canada, but it is said that therrae;ol. "
believe that they are greatly exagg.etie taos:ettef,,,ll/10
The news from Havana is 0:0011/0/.
recrehiaalsers' nde
the following, taken from a
Aug. 24 :—" In sugars there are Pi:ted.
too
and 8 12 rs., for fair to good ass°
London 14 and 14/ jicc,
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(Da e
to the heco°,
Inferior in importance on.Y w- orfot
r; iple" og
the present weak and unP—ric eso ° ,si
Cabinet from the places they li.avtile peccipley.
to the base purposes of party, 011.4)0
the c°
curing a strong, a vigorous, anon
word, a PROTESTANT AdallOiStr

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Ilai tan 0
'et
of the
be effected by the calm, rational con-
itifilherli be Pe°Ple, that the religion for which their
Sable lea and died is the TRUTH,—essential,
-we the ;eternal TRUTH,—elevating its lofty tones
k.„,_.tltePet-toul4 and turmoil of party strife,—declaring,-ages ngeed, their inalienable attachment to the
1 1441 the. ofr
fix Pure and unadulterated Protestantism,
d aed e determination to labour, with fervid
Mktilal °nalwearied assiduity, to achieve the noble and
triumph of annihilating a Cabinet who
4 cops: into the obsequious tools of Popery,
i. 4144 of irngrieing the reins of Government into the
llibie
thee who can recognise in the principles of
kabe f Principles on which the British policy
4k4l)4Bered, and the measures of the British Ca-
/1144 The man really actuated by the dictates
iNO4 tonle and disinterested patriotism,—intensely
tAirei LaVert the rapidly descending judgments of
kikrerttYe--animated by a quick and sensitive
kkliti), e °f the national crime of fostering Antichrist
kattetBeni of the State—of alimenting, by means of
k ' ary
grants, hotbeds of immorality and sedi-
-4 ka
(*No Ynooth—of endowing Popery extensively
itege alai possessions, and consigning State pa-
and influence systematically to the brawling
itkap:s of rebellion,—will give his cordial assent to
the ea
itlwlL
.that, in effecting the downfal of the
,akleta einet, every legitimate exertion should
1,44,,,,_, necessitate, on the part of their successors,
111,07 i 4 uncompromising rY• course of sound Protes-
klsettatecl as we are with the solemn conviction
(tiN cenlrnercial greatness, our liberties, nay our
h44ist.tabalstence itself, depend altogether upon the
tli,,ce and vindication of Protestant ascendancy,
Peculiar satisfaction the rapidly increasing
t
tlitaead importance of Protestant Associations,
Shie a gibented zeal and efficiency with which their
tak labours are conducted. Last week we had
Nettie of detailing the proceedings of a tremen-
, Itailar,ng at Manchester •; on Friday we shall have
IN. "inonstration of Protestant feeling at Liver-
k ' ether
, iike
hi_ meetings of a like description are speedily
Ith rtee at Sheffield, Norwich, Worcester, Yar-
L"ktilai Zradford, Ipswich, and other towns through-
it rahillntrY; and the Central Association of Lon-
I.Nof-ItiPYing its auxiliaries, and diffusing the
e • - sotto.)
t.4%taf ta Protestant feeling from the centre to
Nlriliertenee of the empire. We trust these ex-
LI they I.ie crowned with the success they merit ;
L,N•e,,,!i1l excite a strong degree of interest on
kl.the7neeted with Popery, interwoven as they are
kit e.:4 and highest interests of the State, and
rif th„ill.°Efeeling and a rational enthusiasm on
Ciro,l„ ' Insulted Protestantism of the country,
7t4tit,e,..1 Prove irresistible and overwhelming at the ,
hgtetral Election. Our torpor and indifference
74 kips eattered to the winds—our petty jealousies
oeiti
Lh, 4 es buried in a generous oblivion—and
Zitatiorie,4rt and hand should we strive, in every
el! 'il-aL,lllode, to rid the nation of the insup-
Og the bus of a Popish Administration, and,
oe, -ci`e Constitution from the very jaws of dis-
NveinetreY the rotten foundations of negative
rapt it eh were given it by the fatal act of '29,
ON ~?eee more upon the solid base which our
1-111, 0 Reformers cemented with their hearts'
11:fregotio great principle of Conservatism (let us
k;lelrellj is
to purge away the leaven of corrup-
iptkiki bati to conserve the essential elements of a
kiit:ie:h.:!ics'eine stamina. All that we want to
- tees fabric of our unrivalled Constitution
liN 8 exclusively Protestant character—the
4 or Popery
14411... fra:nt' eradicated from its sickly and
\IN
SO rob -e---its structure once more rendered
Mtioh fro
as of old, by the total and eternal
k,,' al Lrotri its blood of the putrescent and
te,N .1 influence of Rome. Here lies our
114110 i a Protestant policy is contained the
liekaellt:oleeaafetL of prosperity, of national splendour
IPA
' irl our present policy, the generative
It:. . our Weakn
ss,
e our distractions, and our
4ttl e/re 11 L the
sect to
what page of English history we
tt-,7i....pre'ea. truth is visible, written as with a sun-
N•
r elaelY as Popish influence dictated the po-
• ectUat
)L.. ly d ed. the government of Britain, has she
hhe!eended in the scale of nations, and reaped
satretrit7,.. 'est of misery, disaster, and disgrace, in
41, • "`l°li to 4 for her apostacy ; and equally, in exact
ititielleor4B,kalle maintained inviolate her trust, and
ttstilleltek rht""el of her Protestantism towering in ma-
• 44Y far above every other ensign of national
e(1 renown, did she rise, and, with a brilli-
kit nd a
e Ter unparalleled in the annals of the
*qtderlituroned as Queen among the nations—
Qlliteroc,tile fear, the hope, and the admiration of
1107,40r0 -
England might be this again. The
he the an England
supporters of Protestant Associations
leleketit-YBtie but simple secret of her strength.
vezte, -8
of her strength are to be found alone in
kik Of tiBin• Not her abundant harvests, the
likrellager
manufacturers, the riches of her mil-
ittitleeb_ eel 41 the prosperity of her agriculturists,
°teeta°4 her commercial enterprise,—no, but in
Thoblitieni, lie the true elements of her great-
4et 4re the offspring, the branches, the fruit ;
htiett44
.1, Isni the
‘ll •11 the. parent, the trunk from whence they
iiv teen 1 their
eaP, their richness, their vitality.
t tit elude
V ph_beed f by again expressing the pleasure. we
.
ky'uitetae rein the prosperity and increased activity
titkavell oett Associations, and our fervent hope that
,let'iti/titit eriiirela in their efforts, or remit their exer-
tN powe redouble their assiduity, and, with aug-
Ilinkriab rs, bend every energy in yet more impor-
-1404.4"ant labours in defence of the Altar and
14
%el" ilave f "`............-
kt'ery arer.equently remarked in this Journal upon
cif) bedvtlfYing circumstance in English History,
ki ''''. 4Y, hay °I Men, be their political professions what
hilittrikienee ever been able to withstand the weight
1/4!elitie e °f the great religious classes. By the
likte"ste ,„118 classes we do not of course intend to
Itt4. 11041-" i! Peculiar body or bodies of men in the
tfliie
read
til'eg extreme opinions, or advocating very
Leapeetieicied measures. These, however worthy
fr are. by the necessity of the case, very far
kthe ore be,
ktreollitilu 'H. g the largest or most powerful section
0,4311 ed Ch sty' We mean the great body of the
St,iest iet„l,.hreh, united together by the simplest
Itt )of aii'dgible, as well as the highest and most
af• our ~I)°asilile bonds,—including a large num-
\' • and "en-political Dissenting brethren, who
%eiellhey al. cesoPerate with the Establishment, be-
t 4 saw and animated by a kindred spirit, and have
kill biatti‘i. sordid purposes of their own to serve.
vik Of the „ters have no more fellowship with the
kt7llle ederos
k 1'44 s-street Committee than they have
i_elsaot"lt beraelsf Mahomet. Often, indeed, they are
41.4%ot:thee the own ; and it is no unusual circum-
e e Eon of such a Dissenting father sent
bikelellit Universities, and destined for holy orders
eh.
Nik tell
• Of such Churchmen then, and such
, la e
teNtteo . einposed that great religious interest,
Pltti„‘
Ili : , gt Party has ever with impunity of-
tiksokn
lee
% like these
Not 4 of Parka,
and in the prospect of an early
tkt be t„ ment, we think that this reflection
let lilielif°,nstantly or too forcibly impressed upon
tiehlibiod
07 It cannot be too seriously present
,rotio trusteeev man whom a generous Constita-
-41 3', hwith a voice in the destinies of his
Ltlnt o 0w very Solemn a duty is imposed, upo. n him
'4 el:"ecl triiBt
, ed by „ • Many and many an Election has
Kati an • -elajority of one : the Reform Bill was
Vritatins h--dinraPnrtant stage by a majority of one : the
Of. 1„ , if
oneeatio ...1
rl4l Grant would never have been
NI 'ltt th, or
if more Member had voted for the cause
Be3,Ottith„ one more Elector in one or two close-
,. -,cne;,.._ ,
itUrth ,
,'" had remembered his duties towards
kett
iiithe4e7cricic_ountry.
dket,,nstratio "ts are nothing more, after all, than
'ly oe, 11. 8 of the effects which individual con-
ittea refleetila ItelenallY Produce. To the right-minded
ila:tetteei g - citizen the rn • / is clear enough,
l'NdlY of
an the
singularP • cIP
e
14e4ile th4t y attach importance that might
4,. bee), every „..to his own acting up to it. He
apt qt who "` etido_ Power of every kind, with which he
fetehas wed., is a trust confided to his care by
if nine aster, an itted himself to be described as an
ost per
11 re dhe is resolved
to exercise it as one
kit ebe Met u
Niti etc.tvuie jan exact reckoning. Accordingly,
",1 frartv:.' in his mind that by the exercise of tkiii iltitv it ; Fran' Sci he can give his voice for Truth,
And e can repress Falsehood, he will
these will be his first objects.

Now it can need no warning voice of ours to assure
every such loyal and truth-loving citizen of England
in how great peril the time-honoured institutions of
his Church and country have now been placed. It is
not only by legislative assaults in Parliament that in-
roads can successfully be made. There, it providen-
tially happens that the good cause has a powerful mi-
nority in the one House, and an overwhelming majo-
rity in the other,—backed, too, by so very greatly pre-
ponderating a balance of influence and intelligence in
the country, that the enemy can hope for no great
triumphs. But much evil is in the hands of the Exe-
cutive Government to do if they will, and this will
unhappily is seldom wanting. Every new promotion
to the Bench of Judges or the Bench of Bishops,
every Commissionership, every paltry place down to
the lowest bribe the Minister can give, is made an
engine of jesuitical subtlety. Bishops are subscribing
to Socinian Sermons, and (shame to the age in which
we live !) the insane apostle of open infidelity and un-
blushing profligacy is presented by the Prime Minister
to the notice of a maiden Queen.

The appeal, then, is now to be made to the bar of
public opinion ; and upon the result will depend the
solution of this mighty question—whether there is in
Great Britain a native force of sterling principle suffi-
cient to govern and preserve her, or whether the period
of her glory is passed away, and, like the empires that
have preceded her, she is about to sink into hopeless
and immediate destruction. For ourselves, we do not
doubt the result. Manacled as she is between Popish
Ireland and canny Whiggish Scotland, England will
assert her own preeminence, and vindicate to her own
subjects the high place she holds among the nations
of the world. Let the Whigs, then, dissolve the Par-
liament. Neither the smiles of Royal favour nor the
frowns of Ministerial authority can prevent the well-
assured return of a good working majority of sound
Conservatives.

The eaves-droppers of the peddling Cabinet, whose
slavish occupation is to circulate Whig falsehoods
when invented by their masters, and to invent them
when their masters' imaginations are at fault, would
have the country believe that the patched-up concern
is about to make a new start in a yet wilder career of
Liberalism. That principle should have the smallest
influence in restraining them from so very preposter-
ous a course, we do not for one moment imagine : but
we should suppose these crafty and unscrupulous tac-
ticians are not quite so blind to the state of feeling in
the country as these idle rumours would imply. One
used to read in the nursery how

There lived a man in Thessaly, and he was wondrous wise ;
He jumped into a quickset hedge, and scratched out both

his eyes :
And then, when he was frantic quite with blindness and with

pain,
He jumped into another hedge, and scratched them in again.
Everybody knows that the Whigs ceased to be popu-
lar, because they became Radical: that every fresh
reef shaken out in the canvas of Liberalism was so
much increase to the danger of the storm that raged
around them. To use the language of one of their
own supporters, as fast as they gained friends at the
bottom of their mrty, they lost them from the top.
Lord Melbourne lo'ig ago acknowledged that all the
higher classes in the community were against him.
And why ? Not assuredly for being too Conservative.
How, then, can it be imagined that his party will gain
anything by becoming yet more desperately and reck-
lessly democratic ?
The plain truth is—Lord Melbourne, with a saga-
city worthy of a better cause, is playing a little more
boldly than before the very transparent trick which he
has practised from the first upon the philosophic Li-
berals. These egregious dupes are the veriest simple-
tons of this gullible generation. Every other section
of the united Reformers gets something from the Mi-
nister. The Papists have Ireland and a slice of the
Colonies : the lower Radicals have snug places and
well-paid Commissionerships : the old Whigs (rani
nantes) who yet adhere to them have invitations to
Buckingham Palace, with dim visions of Peerage and
Baronetage in the distance :—but the philosophic Li-
beral is satisfied with a vague rumour in the Recess,
and a point-blank disappointment in the Session of
Parliament. He is flattered—trifled with—permitted
to deliver to empty benches an annual oration on his
favourite crotchet—thrown overboard to appease Sir
Robert Peel—and broadly laughed at behind his back.
So much for the Philosopher. But his turn is just
now come, and hence the rumours of more liberal
policy. In the teeth of the present opposition, a
deeper plunge into democracy would be sheer mad-
ness.

The tesselating and dovetailing of the Cabinet still
goes on. The last hit of Mosaic-work inserted is Mr.
Thomas Babington Macaulay—by way, we suppose, of
wiping off the reproach cast upon it by Lord Brougham
and echoed by the voice of the whole country, that it
was an experiment of what a ministry could do which
did not possess a single man of talent amongst its
members. They have now got their man of talent in
the person of the new. Secretary at War ; and, if ever
they are taunted with the same reproach again, they
will point to the pages of the Blue and Yellow, and,
from the most florid and rhetorical pages of that repo-
sitory of "leaden quills," adduce triumphant proofs
of the intellectual prowess they have at their command.
And yet the circumstances attending the elevation of
this clever Edinburgh Reviewer to his present position
are by no means flattering to the Whigs. The place
was offered to him some weeks ago without a seat in
the Cabinet, but this mutilated honour was refused by
the man who had been pocketing some £lO,OOO a year
of public money in India as the perquisites of an office
which he had the address to create for his own peculiar
benefit, and which is utterly useless for any purpose
but that of rewarding, from time to time, some needy
Whig-Radical dependant, whose claims and importu-
nity in this country are somewhat inconvenient. He
knew the creatures he had to deal with. He knew
that they are a party bankrupt in talent as well as cha-
racter; and that, however they may coquet and give
themselves airs at first, they must u!timately consent to
take him on his own terms. They offer him a place
and refuse him a seat in the Cabinet. This is in effect
saying, we can trust you to a certain point, but no
farther—we are anxious to have at our disposal your
sophistical rhetoric and verbose declamation, for we
have not a single man amongst us whose attempts at
oratory would not disgrace a schoolboy ; but we don't
fancy you at the Council-board, where your volubility
of tongue and your vivacity of intellect will greatly em-
barrass our sleepy consultations. So said or thought my
Lord Melbourne, and, we doubt not, sincerely; but after
hawking about the office for some time, and finding
no other man willing to take it who was competent,
and no man competent who was willing, he closed with
the terms of the member for Edinburgh, and admitted
him, sorely against his own inclinations, to a seat in
the Cabinet.

The next piece to be hammered in by the ministerial
lapidary is, as we are informed by the Government prints,
Lord Clarendon. We are told, with mysterious ambi-
guity, that his lordship is to occupy " an important
post," but of its nature and name we are left as igno-
rant as perhaps the writers are themselves. Judging
by the rule of Contraries, on which the principle of
selection in Lord Melbourne's Cabinet seems to pro-
ceed, we should guess that, as Lord Clarendon owes
the whole of his little reputation to his acquaintance

with Spanish affairs, of which he made himself last
Session the " single-speech" hero, he will be chosen to
displace Lord Minto at the head of the Admiralty, or,
perhaps, ease Lord Cottenham by participating with him
in the labours of the Woolsack, as the long-talked of
new Equity Judge. This would no doubt be very ab-
surd ; but what of that ? Can anything be more ab-
surd than some of the late ministerial changes, and
would not results equally satisfactory to the country
have been gained if the members of the Government
had drawn in a lottery or played at puss-in-the-corner
for their places ?
But, seriously, we would ask what party or section of
a party in the nation can be at all propitiated by the
thimble-rig shifting of ministerial peas which has taken
place since the prorogation of Parliament ? True, in-
deed, Sheil and Wyse have been taken into partnership,
in order that they may do more effectually the work of
the Taskmaster, who, at no very distant period, cha-
racterised the other members of the concern as " base,
bloody, and brutal ;" and, so far as the religious viru-
lence of the Roman Catholics extends, we suppose
they do feel some satisfaction at seeing these represen-
tatives of the Papists hoisted into power. But what

sacrifice has been made to the Moloch of Non-finality ?

what accession of strength has the democratic por-

tion of the 'Cabinet obtained wherewith to claim the
suffrages of the grumbling " Reformers" at the next
election ? Is it in the substitution of Mr. Babington
Macaulay for Viscount Howick, whose vaulting ambi••
tion has so far o'erleaped itself as to cause his petulent
Lordship to turn a somerset out of the Cabinet ? We
advise your thorough-going Liberals to peruse care-
fully the article in the Edinburgh Review on the His-
tory of the Revolution of 1689, by Sir James Macin-
tosh, which was sent home all the way from India in
1836, by the said Mr. Babington Macaulay, at a time
when, being but scantily informed of the rate at which
matters were " progressing" in England, he fancied
that the Whig-Radical vessel was sailing on a Conser-
vative tack. They will there find some wholesome doc-
trine, which, though somewhat unpalatable to their
taste, we strongly recommend them to read, mark,
learn, and inwardly digest.
We advise them also to contrast the furious ha-
rangues of the Richard Lalor Sheil who declared,
so help him God ! that he would pay neither Tithe nor
Taxes if within two years from the period at which he
was then speaking a Parliament were not assembled in
College Green, with the late mincing and strait-waist-
coat oratory of the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, which was full of abuse and calumnious false-
hood against the Conservatives ; but in all that regard-
ed measures, for which he was once the loudest yelper
in the pack, like Bottom, he " aggravated his voice so
that he roared them as gently as any sucking dove."
Do the Liberal party congratulate themselves in the
exchange of Lord Monteagle for Mr. Francis Baring ?
We hardly know upon what grounds they can do so,
for we believe there is little doubt that he adheres to

the anti-hog or Russell section of the Cabinet, and will
therefore by no means be taken by the Radicals when
the Ministry put themselves upon the country for their
deliverance as a pledge that they intend to plunge still
deeper into the filthy mine of Liberalism. That he is a
better financier than his predecessor we will charitably
admit, and for this simple reason, that it was confes-
sedly impossible to find a worse.
But the important act remains. Not a single
doubtful supporter of the Ministry can be secured by
the changes that have taken place. Lord Melbourne
has given no indication thereby that he intends to pur-
sue a different line of policy than he has done hitherto ;
for we presume that Lord Normanby will hardly dare
to repeat the experiment of wholesale gaol deliveries on
this side the channel : indeed, from his refusal to in-
terfere in behalf of the boy Coker, we augur that his
Lordship will act upon the proverb, that " the scalded
dog fears cola water"—and therefore disgust instead
of satisfaction will be the result in the case of those
growling patrons of the administration, who, despising
it for its weakness, have lent their support not because
they coincided with its policy, but because they hated
that of the Conservatives. And more than this. The
desperate state of the Whig-Radical craft has been laid
hare. There is not a sound plank in the ship, and the
crew have been obliged to stop her gaping leaks with
old rags and gimcrack lathes, which will not help her
to weather a single storm. The sooner she goes down
head foremost the better.

We had read, withont believing it, the account which
has been going the round of the papers, that a Bench
of Magistrates in Leicestershire last week fined a do-
mestic servant of the name of Pick forty shillings for
having cleaned his lace boots upon a Sunday morn-
ing ! We treated the story as an impudent falsehood,
concocted perhaps in the pages of the Examiner, or
some other similar paper, whose honourable office it is
to coin and circulate calumnies against the Church.
We could not credit such a piece of fanatical tyranny
in the nineteenth century. But when we find that the
statement remains uncontradicted, and that it has been
noticed in a leading article of the London Times, we
must suppose that it is true, and that Mr. Barnes, of
Sixhills, did actually summon his unhappy servant,
and that the bigots on the Bench did actually fine him
in the sum of two pounds, for putting a little of War-
ren's blacking upon his boots on Sunday morning.
Are the,=e sapient Dogberries aware that they have
acted illegally in this matter, and that they have no
power whatever to inflict this fine ? Setting aside the
wretched superstition which would convert an act of
cleanliness into an act of sin, and deserve to be ranked
with the worst Rabbinical corruptions of the law of
the Sabbath, we wish to know what authority these
Magistrates had to interfere with the toilet of a foot-
man ? We presume that they derive their jurisdiction
from the Statute of Charles 11., " for the better ob-
servance of the Sabbath" ; but this embraces only
such offenders as violate the law by pursuing their
ordinary calling for gain (such as buying and selling,
&c.) on the Sunday. If it were otherwise, how in the
name of decency could any ordinary matter of house-
hold and domestic economy be performed on that
day ? We should like to be informed whether this
Bench of Boobies dines on the Sabbath, and exacts
from its menials services of any kind on that day. If
so, we trust some informer will summon every house-
hold of them before some equally wise and religious
body, who, by repeated fines, will mete out an equal
measure of justice to that dealt to the poor boy Pick,
and thus bring them to their senses. We advise the
former to appeal against the conviction at the Quarter
Sessions, and have it quashed.

The question of the erection of warehouses on the
dock quays will again " come on" for discussion in the
Council Chamber to-morrow, when we sincerely. trust
it will meet with the fate which it merits—that of being
decided in the negative. We are by no means sorry
to find that the meddling individuals who have endea-
voured to wriggle themselves into notoriety by urging
the necessity of the proposed erections, have decided
upon bringing the matter to an issue before the first
of November. The great mass of land and warehouse
owners in this town, as well as those who have a con-
tingent interest in the perpetuation of the present sys-
tem, will thus have an opportunity of forming an opi-
nion of the merits of their representatives in the Town
Council. We feel convinced that the division which
may take place to-morrow will not be without a bene-
ficial influence on the result of the approaching election.
It is impossible to peruse either the pompous pam-
phlet recently put forth by a certain vainglorious Al-
derman, or the inflated articles with which the radical
press has been teeming for the last few days, without
indulging in a hearty fit of laughter at both the Alder-
man and his servile adulators. With our radical con-
temporaries, Alderman Evans is the very facile pin-
ceps of mercantile men. He and the sapient editors of
the Albion, Times, Mercury, Chronicle, and Journal,
while professing inextinguishable hatred of every spe-
cies of monopoly, have not hesitated to lay claim to a
perfect monopoly of all the good sense, rational views,
and mercantile prudence in the town. When the Sir
Oracle of the Council Chamber chooses to perpetrate a
sixpenny pamphlet, embodying the results of his sage
experience, no man in Liverpool is fit to give him an
answer. The merchants of Liverpool are bound to pay
implicit deference to his opinions. They are no judges
of what is fit and expedient for promoting the commer-
cial interests of the town. Silence is also prescribed to
the warehouse owners themselves, who, it appears, have
no right to form an opinion on a subject so deeply af-
fecting their interests. Our liberal antagonists are the
only men that know, or can know any thing about
warehouses, shipping, and commerce. Every thing
must bow to their infallible dictum. Even facts—stub-
born as they are acknowledged to be—must bend them-
selves to their theories. Statistical details they laugh
to scorn, and the evidence of the senses they treat as
utterly worthless.

It is in this spirit that the Albion of yesterday speaks
of the " already-abandoned and oft-refuted allega-
tions" of the opponents of the dock-warehouse scheme,
as if all the arguments brought forward within the last
week against that iniquitous measure were utterly be-
neath notice. The fact is, however, that neither the
Albion nor Alderman Evans has ever attempted to reply
to one of those arguments. Indeed, we have repeatedly
noticed that the Albion shrinks with instinctive horror
from grappling with an argument. The editor seems
to dread a syllogism as much as he would a boa con-
strictor.

We are not surprised to find that the Albion de-
signates as " trumpery" all that we have said respect-
ing " irreparable injury to thousands," " wholesale
robbery," &c. It is in perfect consonance with genuine
liberalism to make light of such matters, excepting
when the injury happens to fall on the shoulders of a

soi disant " liberal" himself. We fancy that the editor
of the Albion himself would assume a different tone if
the Corporation or the Dock Trustees were to start a
Monday newspaper, supported out of the public funds.
Alderman Evans seems to consider the amount of
property invested in the present warehouses in the town
as quite a " trumpery" Matter, for he did not hesitate,
with one stroke of his pen, to reduce its estimated
value from £4,000,000 to £2,500,000, adding, that its
value " bears a small proportion to that of the other
fixed property in and about the town." A stranger
may be deceived by such a statement, but we feel as-
sured that no one who is at all acquainted with the
value of property in Liverpool, can be misled by such
an outrageously fallacious statement, especially when
the relative value of land in different parts of the town
is taken into consideration.
Before the question of dock warehouses comes
before the Town Council for formal discussion, we
recommend the members of that body to peruse a
pamphlet which has just been published, in reply to
the dogmatical nonsense of Alderman Ivans. In
that pamphlet they will find every position- assumed
by the Alderman demolished seriatim—if, indeed, any-
thing can be said to be demolished, which never had
any better foundation than " the baseless fabric of a
vision."

The whole substance of Alderman Evans's pamphlet,
as proved in the " Remarks in Reply" to which we
have alluded, proceeds on the gratuitous assumption
that the erection of warehouses on the dock quays, is
indispensably necessary, in order to multiply the faci-
lities for carrying on the commerce of the port, and
that the objects contemplated in the erection of such
warehouses cannot be accomplished in any other way,
nor at a much smaller cost. The " Statement of the
Committee of Merchants" suggests a variety-of expe-
dients which may be resorted to without incurring the
expense of warehouses, or inflicting any injury on
private individuals. Among these we may briefly
enumerate an improvement in the practical manage-
ment of the dock estate—a better system of working
the docks—more stringent regulations regarding the
discharging of vessels—the deepening of some of the
docks, and the conversion of some of the basins into
wet docks—the provision of additional cranes—the
construction of more convenient sheds—the laying
down of a railway around each dock, for moveable
stages, &c. &c. To each of these points we trust the
attention of the Council will be directed in the course
of to-morrow.