The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

James Clay and John King were charged by Williams
(detective officer) as suspicious characters. The officer
stated that, in consequence of the complaints which had
been made of pockets being picked at Salisbury-street
Chapel, he attended there on Sunday evening, and saw
the prisoners is the crowd as the congregation were leaving,
and apprehended them. He did not, however, see them
do anything. Mr. Owen, who appeared for the prisoners,
contended that there was not sufficient to justify their
committal. Mr. Wybergh said they were charged with
frequenting the place as suspicious characters. Clay was
not known, but King had been in custody twenty-three
times. Mr. Owen said they had a right to go there, and
he had as much right to assume that they went there to
repent of their past conduct as for an improper purpose.
The magistrate gave them the benefit of the doubt, and
they were discharged.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—John Edwards, alias Tom-
kinson, was placed before Mr. Stewart, charged with ut-
tering forged orders for goods. It appeared that, on
Saturday evening, the prisoner went to the shop of Mr.
Tate, grocer, with an order for one cwt. of sugar, pug•
porting to be irom Mr. Allanson, tallow chandler. The
prisoner said he would take the sugar, as it was for a lady
who was going to Bootle, but, on Mr. Tate expressing
some doubt about the genuineness of the order, the prisoner
attempted to make his escape. He was, however, pur-
sued, and apprehended. It was then found that the same
evening the prisoner had presented an order to Mr. Allan-
son for six dozen candles, purporting to be signed by a
person named Prescott, for Mr. Tate, but no such per-
son being in Mr. Tate's service, the order was not ex-
ecuted. The prisoner said he was sent with the orders
by a person of the name of Jones, whom he could pro-
duce, and, to give him an opportunity of doing so, he
was remanded until the following day, and if the party
was not forthcoming he would be committed to the
assizes.

DrEn.—On the 20th instant, at Wolverhampton, MARY,
the beloved wife of the Rev. GEon GE STOKES, and daugh-
ter of the late Marley Robzon, Esq., of Rose Bank,
Edge-lane,

Funeral rites, suitable in their magnificence for
the kings of the earth, have celebrated the return to
dust of the body of him who will live henceforth in
the deathless page of history. But impressive,
noble, and appropriate as have been all these
outward manifestations of sorrow and respect,
there remains one much more noble and appropriate,
one much more valuable and permanent, though
less palpable and less striking to the sense. The
imitation of his excellencies as a Soldier, as a
Statestnan, and as a Citizen will certainly keep the
memory of WELLINGTON fresh among the sons of
Great Britain. Such a man does not live for an
age—does not merely serve the purposes of a
present national emergency,—as the political effects
of his achievements in the field, and of his wisdom
in the council, must extend far away into the
future, influencing the destinies of nations; so will
his personal example exercise a larger and lasting
influence upon the characters of his fellow-
countrymen.

The name of WELLINGTON will
serve to turn the flight, to rouse the drooping spirits
of our armies in the midst of disaster and danger,
and cheer them on to victory. It will enable the
statesman to resist the temptations of cupidity, vain
glory, and personal ambition. It will help to keep
Englishmen brave, honest, dutiful and just. In the
magnificent panegyric pronounced by Nil.. Ms-
RAELI on the Duke in the House of Commons, no
passage was more remarkable than that in which he
alluded to the public benefits to be derived from
the contemplation of the character of the illustrious
deceased :

" I will not say of England that he has revived
here the sense of duty—that, I trust, was never
lost—but that he has made the sense of public life
more masculine; that he has rebuked by his career
restless vanity, and regulated the morbid suscepti-
bility of irregular egotism, is, I think, no
exaggerated praise. Ido not believe," continued
the gifted orator, " that from the highest to the
lowest, that from those who are called on to incur
the most serious responsibilities of state, to those
who exercise the humblest duties of our society,—l
do not believe there is one among us, who may not
experience moments of doubt and depression, when
the image of WELLINGTON will occur to his
memory, and the sense of duty will sustain and
support him."
To say, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said
of the Duke with unquestionable truth, that he was
"the greatest man of a great age," does not, of
necessity, imply all the characteristics of him who
is gone from among us. Great Captains, great
Conquerors, great Statesmen there have been before,
and in great ages too,—(for great men make great
ages)—but never—as far as we know of the world's
history—has one man combined so many great
qualities in himself as our own Duke. But his
greatness did not elevate him above the sympathies
of his contemporaries. It is now only when he is
dead, now when we miss him from his old familiar
haunts, now when he is no longer one of us, we
begin to feel all that he was to us. How truly did
Mr. DISRAELI say :

"Although the Duke of WELLINGTON lives so
much in the minds and hearts of the people of
England, although at the end of his long career he
occupied the most prominent position, filled the
most august offices, no one seemed to be conscious
of what a space he occupied in the thoughts and
feelings of his countrymen till he died."
Those who agree with us in political opinions,
more than by any other section of the community,
must the Duke's lost be deplored; for in him we
must recognise the very type of NATIONAL
CONSERVATISM.

We are not presumptuous enough to attempt to
deduce for our readers the lessens which the life
and death of WELLINGTON should teach. In
future times, when the Genius of History would
inform mankind where the best examples of true
heroism and patriotism are to be found, she will
not fail to point to the venerable dome where, by
the side of HORATIO NELSON, a sorrowing and a
grateful country have deposited the mortal remains
of the immortal ARTHUR WELLESLEY.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS
SPECULATION IN FOREIGN CORN.

THE Economist, as the especial organ of the free
traders in corn, has been amusing its readers with
a long story about an extraordinary and mysterious
speculation in foreign corn, upon which it feels
puzzled to find any satisfactory explanation. It
states that from last February, about the time when
the present Ministry came into office, extensive
operations have been carried on, by which numerous
cargoes of grain from Northern Europe, and flour
from the United States, have been imported into
London, and there sold at prices below the cost.
These transactions continued down to September,
at the sacrifice of a considerable sum of money ;
and the writer hazards the conjecture that they
were undertaken at the instance of the Ministry, in
order, by depressing the English markets, to serve
a Protectionist purpose. He, however, states fur-
ther, that the operations were resumed a month or
two since, and he then changes his tone and suggests
that they may have been carried on at the instance
of the French Ministry, in order that by keeping
down the London market, there might be no dis-
content arising from the high prices in the South of
France. We need not stop to inquire how low
prices of grain in the English markets could be ex-
pected to advance the interests of the DERBY
Administration, but we would ask if the design was
really to influence the elections, what end would be
answered by extending such expensive operations
into September, when the month of July had decided
the complexion of the new Parliament. The writer
was evidently at a loss for an idea, and thought to
serve his party by throwing dirt at the Conservative
Government. He is, however, more puzzled by the
alleged resumption of the losing speculation in
October, and, in despair of finding any other solu-
tion for the alleged mystery, he turns from England
to France, and attributes to M. FouLD what he is

obliged to admit he cannot reasonably fix on the
Earl of DERBY, But will any of our readers, con-

of speculation, without the necessity of any reference
to political designs, except in the wish of the writer
to damage the Governments, whose policy is above
his comprehension. lf, however, his argument is
worth anything, it serves to show the utter inutility
of mis-called free trade to preserve the chief neces-
sary of life at a low equable price, when the markets

of England and the Continent can be at the mercy
of any designing Minister who wishes to operate
upon them for a political purpose. The Manchester
Guardian, in its zeal for its League patrons—now on
the eve of being buried in their original obscurity—
has given further currency to the Economist's
invention, with a comment upon its probability ;
but the conclusion to be drawn is too absurd for
serious refutation ; and we have called attention to
the circumstance as an instance of the desperate
shifts to which the party must be reduced to resort
to such an expedient.