The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

SCOTLAND WARD.

On Thursday evening, a second influential and crowded
meeting of the Conservative electors of Scotland Ward
was held at the house of Mr. Westhead, Dublin-street,
Great Howard-street. Mr. B. C. RowLAND occupied
the chair, supported by Messrs. Healing, Fisher, Clark,
T. Watson, R. Blundell, Kirby, Burroughs, Nicholson,
Wells, and Taylor.

Mr. HEALING proposed the first resolution, calling
upon the electors to support the administration of Lord
Derby, by returning the two Conservative candidates at
the forthcoming general election.
Mr. CLARK seconded the resolution.

Mr. W. FISHER supported it in an eloquent speech, in
which he exposed most admirably the unfairness of, the
so-called free-trade system, and dissected Mr. Card-
well's laboured address to the electors in a style which
made the fallacy of that gentlemen's statements palpable
to every listener.

On the motion of Mr. WATSON, seconded by Mr.
BURROUGHS, the following gentlemen were appointed a
committee, with power to add to their number:--Thos.
Dover, Esq., chairman ; and Messrs. R. W. Houghton,
G. H. Horsfall, T. Wilson, J. W. Green, H. Ashcroft,
J. Nicholson, P. Rowson, Jas. Heald, R. Blundell, Ed.
Sephton, sen., Ed. Sephton, jun., R. Briscall, Roberts,
Garnett, H. Taylor, T. Robertson, R. Roscow, R. Clegg,
J. H. Rowland, T. Rowland, B.C. Rowland, J. Healing,
J. L. Reynolds, R. Battersby, T. Green. L. Woodward,
T. Tremble, J. Burroughs, J. Atkins, R. Ashcroft, R.
Wells, J. Hartley, J. Johnston, T. Fell, M.D., G. Bark,
W. Lund, W. Clark, H. Smith, G. Bowers, E. Place, J.
Roberts, J. Duckworth, R. Duckworth. M. Walker, J.
Fogg, J. Butler, J. Smith, C. Garrett, J. Bathgate, and
G. Kewley.

Several other speakers addressed the meeting, and a
vote of thanks to the chairman, three cheers for Lord
Derby, Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, and Mr. C. Turner, were
given with enthusiasm, all present expressing their deter-
mination to place the Conservative candidates at the head
of the poll on the day of election.

MR. LOCKE KING'S MOTlON.—Government has
achieved another triumph. The formidable Mr. Lock
King, who beat Lord John Russell last year by two to one,
and drove him thereby several days from power, has this
year been beaten by Lord John Manners and Mr. Disraeli
in a divison of 202 to 149. The majority last year was 48
against the Ministers ; It is this year 53 against. Mr.
Locke King. Can it be denied any longer that the Con-
stitution is safer from rash changes in the hands of a
Derby than of a Russell ? Times.

SHOPLIFTING BY YOUNG LADIES.—At the Thames
Police-court, London, on Wednesday, two young ladies,
named Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, and Agnes Smith, 17,
sisters, were brought up, charged with stealing from a
shop, where they had gone to make purchases, two pairs
of gloves, a straw ornament, and fourteen yards of ribbon.
Whilst the shopman's back was turned, they secreted the
gloves. He thought he had missed some. and got another
person to count the ribbons in a box before exhibiting it
to them. One roll was missed after the'r inspection, and
he sent for a detective officer. Mr. Yardley, expressing-
his intention to commit them for trial, the prisoners
wildly exclaimed, " Oh, do let us pay for the things, sir;
pray do. It will break our parents' heart, if they hear we
are in a prison." An officer was sent to the address which
the young ladies had given, and brought back word that
their father was a highly-respectable tradesman, and his
wife and family, who were Wesleyan Methodists, had the
reputation of being very religious people. On he inter. '
position of the prisoners' mother, the shopman who had
lost the goods refused to prosecute, and they were con-
sequently discharged.
GENERAL ROSAS, who has o

?pressed the Argentine
public after a savage fashion that would have made
' Pedro the Cruet burst with envy, is
He who opposed English interests
to the very utmost of his power—who insulted our flag,
heaped abuses on our national name, and even did not
Ipare the lives of Englishmen who• fell into his merciless
ower, is now among us, a proscribed refugee. We trust
—Ol not be allowed to remain until solemn inquest
with regard to the alleged share which he
ro have bad in the cold-blooded slauehter of one of
sjesty's officers, the gallant Lieut. Wardlow. The
correspondent states two facts concerning this un-
,d monster which are striking and characteristic.
as of his guinta at Palermo, near Buenos Ayres,
" so carefully attended to, that men
~.dyed to cleanse every leaf of the orange
...List with a tooth-brush." This was a very nice
• but he had other characteristics : on overhauling
n'ta the searchers found " a number of human
3 'Labelled I" This would be a proper man to be pre-
,c t the public breakfasts given by faslurable coun-
,!sse ain our London season(?) But society is not so cor.
run'
among us as that would, in snch case,. tao dourly
illeAicate.—Church, and State Gazette.,

us jealous and

now upon our shores,

.e, in his, time