The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

RIGGING THE NORTH UNION SHARES

To the EDITOR of. the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sra.,—Observing, from the report of the proceedings at
the nomination, on Tuesday last, that a question was re-
peatedly asked of the nominator of one of the candidates,
" Who rigged the North Union Shares ?" and that it
seemed to be received with some little soreness by that
gentleman and his friends on the hastings,—may I re-
quest that you will favour me with an explanation of the
meaning of the question ? I'know that some queer trans-
actions occurred daring the period of share speculation in
1845 and 1846, during which time the North Union Rail-
way fluctuated in a singular manner, especially just pre-
lou.ly to its being leased.—l am, yours. &c.,
Liverpool, July. 10, 1852. AN ELECTOR.
[We know nothing of what was referred to. Our cor-
respondent had better enquire of some of his friends more
conversant with the railway transactions of that period.—
En. L. S.]

" THERE Is NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."—The
exception to t4i's venerable saw is Mr. Feeny's delicious
compound.Ot strawberries and port wine. They beat all
Yankee compounds hollow as refreshers during this hot
wgather. As a proof that the public approve of them, 700
dilhei were sold in one day, and 3000 during the week.

TUE ADVANTAGES OF WRITING A GOOD HAND.—
Who has not felt them as necessary to his advancement
in this commercial country ? Too many, in every sphere
of life, have unhappily felt the want of them. Mr.
Thompson, of Clayton-square, it will be seen, offers to
convert the veriest
.bungler of pothooks and hangers into
a fluent penman in a few lessons.
CHARGE AGAINST A OTER.—At the Police-court, on
Thursday, a man named Robert. Booth, a shipwright, was
charged (before Messrs. R. V. Yates and Crosthwaite)
with having given false answers to questions put to him at
one of the polling booths, when tendering his vote. The
offence was laid under the 2nd and 3rd of William IV, c.
45. It appeared that the prisoner was brought before
Mr. It. V. Yees, on Wednesday, but being in a state of
intoxication, he was remanded until Thursday. Mr.
Blair, barrister, appeared to prefer the charge, and Mr.
Peacock and Mr. Bremner, solicitors, for the prisoner.
Mr. Blair stated that he superintended the poll on behalf
of Messrs. Cardwell and Ewart, and, on Wednesday after-
noon, when he was on Exchange Booth No. 3, the prisoner
came and tendered his vote far Mackenzie and Turner.
The usual questions, as •specified by the Act of Parlia-
ment, were then put to him. He was asked by the poll-
clerk whether he was the person whose name appeared as
" Robert Booth" on theregister of voters for the borough,
and he said he was. A second question was then put to
him, whether he had already voted there or elsewhere in
that election, and he said lie had not. The question was
repeated more than once, and the prisoner returned the
same answer. His vote was, then tendered and received.
The prisoner appeared to be under the influence of liquor.
The same man had tendered his vote about half-an-hour
previously at the same compartment, and after being asked
the questions, his vote was recorded. On both occasions,
be seemed to be in liquor. After some conversation be-
tween the magistrates and the legal advocates, during
which it was stated there was no legal evidence of the pri-
soner having voted twice, the prisoner was again remanded
to allow time for further inquiry. On Friday the prisoner
was again brought up. Mr. R. V. Yates presiding in the
Magistrates'-room. Mr. Reginald Radcliffe, solicitor, was
sworn, and deposed that he was deputy returning-officer
at the past election in Booth No. 4, and remembered a
party like the prisoner ooming up to give his vote. He
was asked to put the questions to him ; and, from his an-
swers, he did not think he understood the meaning of
them. Mr. John Stewart Wood, clerk to Mr. Radcliffe,
gsve similar evidence, upon which Mr. Wybergh intimated
to the magistrate that, after that evidence, they had no
case, as the charge was for wilfully and knowingly giving
false answers, whereas it was sworn that the man was not
in a state to know what he was doing. The case, which
was a very trumpery one, was then dismissed.

Dr. Acnnu has recommenced theperformance of public
worship in the Italian language.
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SEVERAL PERSONS were in a boat on the large reser-
voir, near Bury, on Monday last, when one of them named
James Hall, aged 20 years, jumped into the water, and
ever rose again.

Mr. MlotAy's place of confinement at Ancona has
been changed for the better, at the intercession of the
British Consul, but he is not allowed to be spoken to ex-
cept in Italian, and in the presence of the gaoler. Murray
denies the charge against him, and demands an open trial.
CONSUMPTIO'N OF PAPER IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
—ln the Bank of England no fewer than sixty folio volumes
or ledgers are daily filled with writing in keeping the ac-
counts ! To produce these sixty volumes, the paper hav-
ing been previously manufactured elsewhere, eight men,
three steam-presses, and two hand-presses, are continually
kept going within the bank !

CURIOUS CASUALTY.—Out of three truck-loads of
cattle on the Great Western Railway two of the animals
were struck dead by the lightning on Monday afternoon,
not very far from Swindon. What renders it remarkable
is, that one animal only in each of two trucks was struck,
and five or six. other animals in each escaped aminjured.
The animal killed in one of the trucks was a bull, the
cows escaping injury, and in the other truck it was a bull
or an ox that was killed.

MADEMOISELLE GEORGE, the celebrated French
tragic actress, having been in her old age reduced to ex-
treme misery, has written a letter to the French Pre-
sident, requesting assistance, and reminding the prince
of the Emperor's favours towards her, meaning perhaps
that the latter phrase should be interpreted inversely.
Louis Napoleon has answered this petition with a
promise to give the poor broken-down Melpomene of
the empire a pension of some £5O a-year. In the mean-
time Miss Howard has gracefully sent her three thou•
sand francs.

OFFICIAL EMOLUMENTS.—It being considered expe-
dient that a record should be kept of the emoluments
derived by the collectors and controllers and other officers
of Customs from the collection of light dues, harbour
dues, town dues, &c., the several officers have been called
upon to render a return showing the names of the officers
receiving it, and the amount derived under each head for
the yetr ending the sth of April last, specifying also atthe
foot of each return the remuneration recently allowed by
the board of trade for services rendered under the Mer-
cantile Marine Act.

POPISH OPPOSITION TO THE REFORMATION MOVE-
mENT.—Mr. Kavanagh; P.P., of Oughterard, has ad-
dressed a letter to his flock on the snbject of the recent
secessions, in which he says :—Brethren, how are ye to
deal with these seducers ? The sheep of the fold hear the
voice of their pastor, and you will listen to my voice, and
observe my words in reference to these men: —l. As you
meet them on the highways you will avoid all conversation
with them—and even to mark your horror of their pur-
poses, you will pass to the other side of the road. 2. As
you see them enter your villages you will call your
children to you out of their way, and close your doors
against their entrance. 3. Should they effect an entrance
into your houses, you will use your legal right to put them
out—ordering them out in the first instance, and if they
refuse,i then using the necessary force to get them out.
4. Not to take up any book or pamphlet found on the
roads or bye-ways through the parish, and to put out of
hands immediately any book of heresy that you may ac-
cidentally come by as soon as you notice its character.
5. You will regard these unhappy men in every respect as
ravening wolves in the clothing of sheep," and you will
use all the measures that your concern for your own sal-
vation will suggest to save and protect yourselves. I re.
gret, in the bitterness of my soul, to he obliged to prescribe
to you the same rules of conduct in reference to the un-
fortunate individuals amongst you, who have miserably
become the victims of perversion. The Devil is never
satisfied with securing to himself the victim of his tempta-
wishes to use him as his agent in tempting
Thus it is, that those who have fallen must be
voided as the agents of the great enemy of your salvation.

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1852.

GLORIOUS CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH IN
LIVERPOOL.

THE triumphant return of two Conservative
Members for the Borough of Liverpool is an event
which will be prominently recorded in the history
of the present crisis. It is not a battle fought upon
the grounds of mere party politics which we have
won. It is not the victory of the principle of
Protection. The great questions at issue, and
which have been uppermost in the minds and
hearts of the electors, have been—Are the Pro-
testant institutions of this country to be main-
tained ? Is the QUEEN to reign supreme, or to
become a puppet, sitting powerless under the
shadow of usurping Papacy ? Is Great Britain to
be upheld in her present glorious position,—in the
enjoyment of that rational liberty, which has
secured for her the blessings of peace and order,
whilst other less favoured nations have been
convulsed by social discord ?—or are we to be
hurried forward by reckless hands to democratic
change, the result of which no man can foretel
accurately, although all can see enough of danger
to make them shudder at its contemplation ?
This is the victory which Liverpool has won,
and the principle in favour of which she has
pronounced. We are determined to remain a
Protestant people ; to cling fast to a Constitution
of which the world has as yet seen no parallel ;
and to resist alike aggression from without, and
the assaults of democracy within this empire.

No doubt it will be said that this was not the
issue to be tried. We shall be told that Mr.
CARDWELL and Mr. EWART are not levellers in
politics ; and that amongst their friends they num-
ber many good Protestants, and estimable men.
We admit that it was a huge caricature of the cheap
loaf around which their hustings mob shouted in,
frantic glee, and not an image or a tiara. But we
ask of these gentlemen—of the right-mindnd mem-
bers of the party—what would have been the con-
clusion drawn, and what the burden of the song of
triumph raised, had they placed their candidates at
the head of the poll ? Why, that Protestant influ-
ence in Liverpool had been compelled to succumb
to the numerical force of Irish Romanists and
political Dissenters. Mr. CARDWELL'S friends
committed a fatal mistake when they submitted to
this unnatural alliance; and we believe they know.
it now, and deplore it deeply. NO professions of
attachment to Protestant institutions, or to consti-
tutional legislation, could avail men who had openly

fraternized with rampant Rornanists and levellers.
Under the ad captandum watchwords of " Civil and
Religious Liberty" it was popish aggrandizement, or
infidel republicanism, for which a large portion of
their supporters battled ; and, had the victory been
theirs, great would have been the glory of the
CULLENS and the CAHILLS, and loud the re-
jocings in the Vatican itself.
We can allow in our opponents,—heartily beaten
as they are,—a little display of temper on this
occasion. A constituency is sure to be called bad
names, when it refuses to be gulled by the clap-
traps of liberalism; and Mr. ROBERTSON GLAD-
STONE, we observe, threatens us with Universal
Suffrage as the cure for our naughtiness. In lirs
cooler moments, however, he will perhaps arrive at
the conviction that Universal Suffrage is not the
means by which Liberalism could hope to achieve a
victory in Liverpool. Let Mr. GLADSTONE look
hack upon the history of the past six or eight
weeks' canvass, and ask himself the questions,—
Which were the popular candidates ? Whose
meetings were open meetings? and who had to creep
into holes and corners, packed safely by tickets of
admission ? Whose was the majority in the mag-
nificent demonstration of Tuesday last ? Unmis-
takeably it belonged to the Conservatives. If Mr.
GLADSTONE and his party could disfranchise the
Protestant operatives of Liverpool—and how
gladly would they do it they could rob of
their well-deserved influence the merchant princes
of Liverpool, and confer the power of influencing
the return of its members upon the shopkeeping
—that might possibly effect their object, and
we might even see Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE

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one of those members, with Mr. JEFFREY as a
most suitable colleague.
These querulous complainings are ridiculous,
and the absurd stories which the Radical party are
telling about bribery and other improper practices,
are only calculated to make the public smile. The

election was well and fairly won ; and, if the Radi-
cal party have allowed themselves to be mystified
for the last few weeks as to its result, they have
only their own credulity to blame. They began by
placing on their committees the names of gentle-
men who were actively engaged against them ; and
it need not be wondered at, if their paid canvassers
have taken the similar liberty of putting down
persons as voters for them who had never pledged
at all. As to bribery, the idea is preposterous.
Few parties ever thought, in the worst days of
electioneering corruption, of paying money whilst
an hourly increasing majority on the poll assured
them of easy victory. Messrs. CARDWELL and
EWART'S friends were all along much too sanguine

as to the effect of their laboured statistics. Trades-
men and working men who have been for months,
aye, years, complaining of diminished profits, and
want of employment, are apt to regard their own
experience as more to be depended upon than
figures of arithmetic ; which, whether correct or
incorrect, prove nothing as to the amount of indi-
vidual advantage derived from commercial or in-
dustrial pursuits.

One most important lesson has been taught by
the issue of this election, which we commend to
the careful study of all aspirants to parliamentary
honours, and especially to those who, like Mr.
CARDWELL, hope to reap any of the great rewards
of political life. It is an admitted fact that a por-
tion of the strong feeling existing against that
gentleman, in this town, was caused by the insin-
cerity of his professions when he was first returned
as our member. It is useless now to revive an old
quarrel, or to enquire to what extent Mr. CARD-
WELL wilfully misled his friends upon the question
of the Navigation Laws. This much, however, is
certain, that the man who seeks to advance his
personal ambition by becoming the representative
of a large constituency, must tread a straightfor-
'card path, and entertain decided opinions. A
small and manageable constituency is much the
safest for a gentleman who wishes to wind his way
to political prominence.

CONSEQUENCES OF FREE TRADE.--The Times, a
strange organ for the publication of such a statement (?)
contains the following in reference to the prospects of the
Island of Jamaica. We need only observe that they are
the results of the late free trade policy, adopted by the
government of Lord Joi-iN RussELL :—" The greatest
distress prevails in all districts, and the abandonment of
properties are going on daily. The natural results of a
partial stoppage to agricultural pursuits were presenting
themselves every-7here. Parties who can manage to
accumulate sufficient means, were leaving the island for

Chagres, Navy Bay, and Panama. Attention had also
been directed to Australia, and our correspondent informs
us of one or two expeditions positively on foot for that
country. - o,om are of high res-
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