The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-16 00:00:00

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-AIRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
On iiie 44
Priday ele ANights—Tueod y, esday, Thursday, and
°'el°o:- ke Performancesa will not commence until Eight
-,oort to be opened at a Quarter past Seven.
The h 1,,, .
:1 Ab , utic is respectfully informed that
°ll 4'I4OIBEI4LE TAGLIONI,
erka' ' Icers JestY S Theatre, London, is engaged for THREE
tiVetin: and
will make her earance here To-morrow °ltio titriNt•NctEshA.Y, Julyap p
l erith, in several of h
Vs, in which she will be assisted by
°I the ~,ISS ADELAIDE O'BRYAN,
11 ion "L'e Theatre, who is expressly engaged for this
tutlior,
ttaance wILLE TAGLIONPS other nights of
Benefit
akkliist-aZ be THURSDAY, July 18th, and her
, 4 eermarance on FRIDAY, July 19th.
-Engagernent for Fohr Nights of
'fileh; AND MRS KEELEY,
of
Id of -..atres.R al -D 1 and Covent-Garden,
list,the 013,031 , Drury -Lane
llns e!iing appear
inand Adelpfhihn'h. willenaritrgeisn,dwehhonrae
Presetit ,„..„ several o t eir _ e resn.
kees will a utSDAY, July 16, 1839, the Perlorm-
-1 I,4?turnence with the Domestic Drama of
'11111), I/ r'
-e, YEMAN'S DAUGHTER.
liarittiggleby.. r Ts
Mr. Keeley.
(the ka natcatcher)
TO Itc-e Yeoman's Daughter).. Mrs. Keeley.
'"lleh will be added the new Farce called e/I.e TRE PRINTER'S DEVIL.
TPica... . • Mr. Keeley.
o ............ ...
plkih . conclude with the Farce called
vuick v MASTER'S RIVAL.
kl'4 434.111.1'' MASTERS
Tibbv Postlethwaite, Mrs. Keeley.
0, fr_ Chef Keeley.
IVladlle. Taglioni's Nights will be open
e
.
PtiNltsl;te..ll until Three, when places for either of th
qto are tai. 47 be taken. No places can be secured unless
l, 48 et,n.
41 .'
uPPer Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gal-
itkr,_
4 Zul'row E
P4men "tan'', WEDNESDAY, the Performance
',eel -ce withbthe Operetta of 'TWAS I. Marcel,
ley; ht the
Mrs.Keele
At theee d fth Operetta,
)?44 the Ballet GRANIT PAS eDE- DEUX
.4411 et 1 B
~,h„ NT. ayadere, by Madlle. TAGLIONI, and
qh;1°110 Sil ADELAIDE O'BRYAN,
'4'krs)t, ted by the fva ourite Farce of the QUEEN'S
wili.:°P Tubbs, Mr. Keeley ; Mary, Mrs. Keeley.te
p,rite,i 4 Mademoiselle TAGLIONI will Dance h
will
b
Vl.t„,bkd b Lu OHEMI AN DANCE, THE GITANA, t rmitgl, 7v!ter with brilliant success at the Theatres of S .
411coget,, e le,
Ana, and her Majesty's Theatre, London2_ .
, Peter wih the Musical Drama of the LOANOA
I‘, Nrll, PYk, Mr. Keeley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Keeley.
hln 00 ESE TAGLIONI will perform at the_
t,,)l4Nio}jii ,Alanchester on Saturday, July 20th,
onlyatrl
kr Air" Liverpool ;Ind Manchester being the
_...._
i,' 1,,q Theatres in England in which MApEmu
Ih'QLIONI has appeared, and positively her
40.
, Previous to her departure for the Conti

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C.c.,S OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS
L A T,
$, ii, VICINITY.xIia, NC E HOUSE,
14;c1.1„,____ ence-street, Rodney-street.
4,e1•p041-R has the honour to inform the Ladies of
ANt;1•101, !list she is appointed to the AGENCY of
I:tori, Pattoni's,GEAßY'S celebrated ANATOMICAL
NA her Nir." by her Most Gracious Majesty Queen
I klleatoit ,a.lesrY the Dowager Queen Adelaide, and
y,'ng high) and begs leave to lay before the Public
, 4emyv Testimonials of the superiority of Mrs.
1, In ented Stays :--
ytre
N 4. G 4144 TESTIMONIALS.
loviettry ~,,„Pleasureo in stating that the stays invented
kr° obviate all the inconveniences of those
04 Yed.
isitreet,
ch o'—C. J. B. laths, M.D., Old Bur-
arch 6th, 1837. ti
Ohli:ot those e that Mrs. Geary's Stays are infinitely
I,:tth_ xa, ordinary use. Brodie.
I,l,,tiki tined the Stays invented by Mrs. Geary, and
"lo.q.ll°lltaidliraatb.l3' adapted to give salutary support to the
'4 ia`?treroel itlJurious pressure which renders ordinary
bade Y Prejudicial."—J.Conquest, M.D.
peon fulls Corset that the genius of Mrs.
izt',4,4` the fi Swing. The problem to be solved was
h:.',. tkl to nre,
't t c°llet Ithe •
t not to diminish freedom of
~,ii,,,zttaeted a size of the abdomen when too
4'l4;Nltevie , from Dr. James Johnson's " Medico-
tll,s he xatniw ' for January, 1837.
I;,tlit heilitatio,n?d .Gear's improved Stays, and I
~,4,0tP05e.14 Saying, I think them infinitely superior
Vill;yeateEt_suPport to any in use. I consider the
Illotil'oa EL,
e$ uY the same lady, for pregnant females,
Y 4,!0, ieedingly good principle."—Francis H.
',"ekt's• Gea' ,•, New Broad-street, March 2, 1837.
y,e-1,:4 the retea Corset for grown girls, the pressure on
kli,q,a ofthe , is light, and by exerting no pressure
,/4141tiZZ4), di,TP, it does not (by forcing those edges to
riti . and t,"inisb, during youth, the cavity of the
41.04, la tn ,Lue suffering which must attend that mal-
,ll4efor°,o"'e,rB-”—Extracted from Mr. Coulson's
N pii, e4,y,, ,es of the Chest and Spine," 2nd Edition.
44, ofd,clPle i Stays, of all kinds, present a new and ra-
\4tltlt;rets to construction of,
, !or• yhe
A 4,,,, %,k,en formation of the bosom, and of all parts
Ilk krYbea,,, cea, Is a matter of great ingenuity, and of
Wato,`Y•—Extracted from " Female Beauty,"
S'lliti,,, is aC, " The Exercise Corset, invented by
I't4tistleeikil'°l.lltely nesessary in all exercises of the
,i Ac:ted.,,Y in the Indian exercises, for which they
ktp alit --Extracted from " Exercises for Ladies,"
kit f!artisnet, 2d Edition.
°Preg:f the superiority of Mrs. Geary's Stays
k,, ftth ant Ladies, and I shall make a point of
kilel r,4148..13.1157L0heneve1.3 I
Brook-street,
an opportunity."—
_s t March, 22 1837.
kviolh iZeitted bywgrsr.thN. iiteraeray;from the ingenu-
1, 4411181 Z are constructed, are eminently adapted
12N4healtre and freedom of motion so essential to
91) Oho the • They appear, therefore, likely to prove
,'k .0 °,4 of „,staYa in common use, which contribute to
Nl,4lotvaos"l„..eli deformity and many serious diseases."
ivi 'qtt\ii NI.D. 21, Hill-street, Berkley-square.
<4,lttlty,, rriedical Gentlemen are of opinion, that Mrs.
~,,+' then c'2llsequence of the great improvements
qikyt rem capability of adaptation to every variety
Yr.N.,s am 'al of all unequal pressure by the re-
) ,i 1 \ rittia, gussets—and the proper employment of
tr, ~t1,1,_ are deserving of the strongest recommen-
' Pk% As.
. tl' `uder
,;11 l• )3 s°nM.D.lSir James Eyre, M.D.
'lit'.kk4tie, g Dr. G. F. D. Evans
k iillot art. Dr. Ferguson
VtPto Dr. Holland
, ,' .11 IDr. James Johnson
tc thhitohY c 114
Ntoo
IR. Keate, Esq.
1 1441 art
41 4 isle IDr. Litchfield
Oki CI ClarklDr. Locock
C(01 41c , Bt. Dr. Merriman
It'f tteth°°Per -,-, Dr. Paris
tick , Bart. Dr. Wilson Phillp
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it 'fp llett 41. Dr. F. H. Ramsbotham
1 t th ,
illi ma Dr. Hamilton Roe
'' r, ; Dr. Sigmond
&' ,fill• Sir Mathew J. Tierney, Bt.
40 ti •ler Donald Walker, Esq.
itt 411,1 kie, G. Pearson, Esq.
kr% Davies T. J. Pettigrew, Esq.
'‘),tttl'ai.s
toe'lee-at Chegwin, '
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High-street, Guernsey; Mrs.
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,-ORRESPONDENTS.
.°I.
'Y to
,‘Lloittilits h's his correspondent " Castegans" (the
~,,,_i ioliriatioa
st_iircy for misprints, and it is unlucky
j'l7;th" cea writer should stumbl in his Latin) that
4., . t OOl, sed to look at his Contemporary of the
`t,sl,tylitee he
friend grows oblivious.. It ison only N1,01q01,4 told his readers that certain recent di
°tll'44lort„i-rs uPon Education and the Ballot, " ex-
kri'ili th-.-. Patience " If he had not read them, we
pip if , Is as , . •
ktu, ha ~ sertion was particularly like a naughty
',:ettli, he ad read them, we opine he has told one in
"1„/'4.8,1,.kz, never looks at his Contemporary of the
~L'l3B„(l,9vi.s. ligno non fit Mercurius: not every
1:1rot
0-litil as the Mercury.
'Oa the Death of Lady Flora Hastings "is
k 1 -pe
,ci 8,..r,0t p„,
h acne pfY week i` s erroneously stated that
''o4,ithe ii-,f' omen fined‘fowrashaving on the Sabbath, Ytee eocThation against Wm. Blackett had been
t'le,iNts totaraeritle was not fined, and Blackett was fined.
\ tltait43sistYi rePeat our assurance that we are most
Nethern Putting down the nuisance of Sunday ,
% Ilbtriinfat tanbark.
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cif ''%4),- _____
Nth. 111°RATING, JULY 16, 1339.
,t 4,0 ,
r N tYots epealilte,rnati.ves which we mentioned on last
%N the ,I, ~ Ministers with regard to the Ad-
I:14Y, theh'ne moved by the Archbishop of
tkelt, Y have
~, ett4. achis •e chosen the latter, and have
it),lit, tiee at ed their Sovereign to disregard the
Otp,l pia the House of Lords, and persist in
eri -,:c . 11 of
L 4104 a Treasury Committee. When, on
1/4 Y /lis the Lord
1 pet..eerpo-r,,Mayor of London, accompa-
it„ ition as. ate brethren, appeared at the Palace
4: Of 1,2:1 address in behalf of the privileges of
tt ' til dd °ll, Which were by the
Otk t lin threatened o4,lent, , . Inquisitorial spirit of Whiggery,
tt ..e,. ..e ~..
"',Vest,4 rev
toe' told, was barely courteous, and
4 I •
,pe thation was laconic even to flippancy.
°f th
it,ftl)
'kt et Neil) e Duke of Wellington and Arch-
-14.,,, and
re nrY Were received with all ceremonial
o'' of th Peet, but they have good cause to
k`p 4, e answ .
It‘)1/4of „ intte,„ el which her most graciOus Ma-
it4, 4,_tuse ,on this occasion. Perhaps the only
tft`tt
1..7.1113 carried up the address, to whom
ill 'none,
\e 4 the L reply was not thoroughly dis-
,,,4l'qi,:ttae of Lerd Chancellor, whom, as Speaker
N ki, tO tenda IS, the etiquette of that assembly
10 11R
th . who must have felt, as he
ilvki ah et• 'n of
iti.l-ko.„ -•Ith• lal— a procession the object of
li es IN but complimentary to him and
614 ' veq ~._
) 1111, 4alch in the situation of the Scot-
t,
It, 1, • La, e ballad addresses in the words
Llt tl, (11,11 • %r Joh
,A 't t,ngus t, n, Ye are no blate
A, kl4l llojeet . tae news o' Your ain defate."
tto4f(4ll°Zoll,
air: ttolo serious for a jest, and indigna-
) I)t)ti 4t ea Lie feelings with which we regard
'4
lilt the ulleel under which her ;.,Majesty has
4lt ),41. preeett 0 .
,%1) doneelv Were indeed the genuine expression
'S, t 'e sh ' and such as her own convictions
r et. et nuld
rNt \‘'ts etoetnari, : as loyal subjects, refrain from
4 th, ,Ivtiki!leoeted but, as it is notorious that this
N 4,1 I_4 the, in bowning-street, by the same
INY it 1/1) e delivered itself a short time since
tlli tes 414 he l'r
_ea. , .
tl:)tii- to ''e 4-1 °lit) minute, and that her
' th the. calthpie
ktl4 fii,t
sir def ce of the Ministry, to give'
N tOtl h Yd• "lee of their own conduct, we
14.4 I, has
.18re,pe ,
hNi elt . oL, treat this composition as
it Iqi IN n 1 t te,, liD.
sii3 oof he same freedom with which,
6M, a se, •
ssoo, Royal Speeches are

With the first part of the answer we have little fault
to find, except that "readiness to receive advice and
assistance" is rather oddly evinced by immediate re-
jection of the same. That the Sovereign should regret
the necessity there was that the Peers of Parliament
should take such a step, we can well believe. Her
sorrow can hardly be greater than their own, and that
of every one of her subjects, that such a necessity
should have existed at all. But whose fault has it
been ? Had her Majesty not clung with such pertina-
cious attachment to the Melbourne Ministry, and re-
instated them in office by the help of the ladies of the
bedchamber, there would have been no attempt made
to propagate irreligion with the resources of Govern-
ment,—no trick resorted to, to oust the jurisdiction of
the House of Lords over one of the most important
concerns of a legislative body,—and, consequently, no
necessity for the grave and solemn remonstrance which
an imperious sense of duty has compelled their Lord-
ships to convey to the Throne. The necessity for the
Address must be looked for in the fact of the existence
of such an Administration as is now in power—an
Administration more hostile to the Established Church,
and more dangerous to the stability of the Constitution,
than any which England has yet seen.
We are told that it is with a deep sense of the duty
which binds her Majesty to the Established Church,
that she has " thought it right to appoint a Committee
of her Privy Council to superintend the distribution of
the grants voted by the House of Commons for public
education." A deep sense of duty towards the Esta-
blished Church ! Can mockery go beyond this ?
How is it, then, that the Church stands in such firm
and united opposition, and that the heads of the
Church lead on the laity to the attack upon this very
Treasury Committee ? If the feeling which prompted
its creation had been a sense of duty towards the
Church, the authorities of that Church would at least
have been consulted previous to its appointment ; and
when it was discovered that the project was considered
mischievous, and such as rendered the co-operation of
the Ecclesiastical body impossible, it would have been
withdrawn. Very different conduct must be displayed
before we can give credence to professions of a sense
of duty towards the Establishment. No measure can
spring from such a source which gives pain and sor-
row to every Churchman, and is hailed with acclama-
tion by the rabble crowds that range themselves be-
neath the banners of Popery and Dissent. When
Ministers show deference to the wishes of the Church,
as made known through the medium of her accredited
organs,—when they seek to enlarge the sphere of her
usefulness by grants of money for building churches
throughout the land, in order that perishing multitudes
may have the Gospel preached to them,—when they
steadily resist and present an unwavering front against
the attacks which are every day being made against
the walls of her venerable edifice,—then, and not till
then, shall we believe that there is some truth in the
words which they venture to place in the mouth of
their Sovereign.
It is however now clear that the Government plan is
to come into operation ; and, as we have steadily op-
posed it as fraught with evil, in futuro, we would re-
double our watchfulness against it while the attempt
is made to introduce it amongst us. As, upon princi-
ple, the appointment of a committee of the Privy
Council has been condemned by the Church, she ought
not in any way to sanction its operation. The most
straightforward and high-minded course would be for
her to refuse all Government grants, which are accom-
panied with a claim of superintendence on the part of
the committee—to withdraw herself wholly from any
contest or intercourse with them, and preserve inviolate
the purity of the faith and instruction contained in her
own authorised version of the Bible and Prayer-book.
The National School Society will suffer from the want
of funds, but they must be supplied by the friends of
the Church of England, whose interests, since the
time of the Commonwealth, have never been more se-
riously compromised than now. These are times in
which sincerity must be tested by acts done, and not
merely, as in the case of the answer from the Throne,
by words spoken. Funds must be liberally supplied,
and, we doubt not, they will be forthcoming. A noble
example was recently set in this town, when £lO,OOO
was subscribed in one morning for the erection of
schools to rescue our youthful population from the in-
fidelity-shops of the Town Council; and this ought to
be imitated in the present emergency throughout the
whole. of England.

The Penny-postage scheme has no warmer friends
than ourselves. It is a question which, in itself, ought
to be discussed without any reference to party; and if
the mode in which it is introduced by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer has compelled an opposition on the
part of the Conservatives, it is not that they have the
slightest wish to make it a party question, but because
they would fail in discharging their duty as vigilant
controllers of a reckless Government if they suffered
the House of Commons to adopt the vague and imbe-
cile resolution which Mr. Spring Rice would add as a
rider to the boon he so ungraciously bestows upon the
country. It is quite idle to talk as some of our con-
temporaries are doing of annihilating the Post-office as
a source of revenue, when the ministerial budget shews
that the finances of Government are in anything but a
prosperous state. Our annual income may have in-
creased as compared with the preceding year, but our
expenditure has increased in a greater ratio. Whig
commissionerships and Canada jobs run away with a
great deal of money ; and, when we balance the debtor
against the creditor side of the account, we find that
we must borrow for the future one million sterling by
a vote of credit. The immediate relief which a Penny
Postage bill would bring to every man's pocket causes
a wonderful unanimity amongst all classes in its fa-
vour; and, were we to consult our own interests merely,
we should clamour for it as loudly as any. But in a
country like this, financial embarrassment is the most
dangerous circumstance that can happen. Nothing
shakes public confidence more thoroughly; and, like an
electric shock, it darts through the whole of the rami-
fications of our gigantic commerce, causing irremedi-
able mischief to trade. We must know what the equi-
valent for the deficit is to be before we insist upon giv-
ing up the Post-office tax. If the Chancellor of the
Exchequer possesses one, why does he not announce
it ? If not, it is pretty obvious that it is not so easy to
find one as those people imagine who cry out most lus-
tily for an adoption of the plan. Mr. Samuel Holme
suggests that Government should eke out the defi-
ciency by an increased duty on gin. But it is by no
means &ear that this measure would not defeat itself,
and render the use of that deleterious liquid so much
less frequent as to produce a less revenue than is de-
rived from it at present. We have often heard an in-
creased duty on gin proposed as a means of diminish-
ing the consumption of this liquid poison. However,
we do not quarrel with any proposition that seems fea-
sible for attaining the object in view—namely, an equi-
valent for the financial loss. We do protest against the
unthrifty mode in which Government brings forth this
measure.

The Ministerial policy is shaped confessedly after
" that good and ancient plan,
That they shall take who have the power,
And they should keep who can,"—

and however contemptible may be a majority of TWO
on the most vital of all vital questions, yet those who
know the country best, and are, therefore, well assured
that an appeal to.the constituencies must strip them at
once .of this paltry subterfuge of a majority, and leave
them in a clear and hopeless minority, seem to have
made up their minds that the appeal will not be tried.
Accordingly, the rumour of a Dissolution has blown
away. But we confess that our anxieties do not slum-
ber, and as Watchmen of the glorious cause we feel it
an imperative duty to keep a most vigilant look out.
We are unwilling needlessly to raise the cry of "Wolf,"
but it is better to sound the alarm in the absence of
danger, than to be found sleeping when the enemy
appears. One or two indications in our own neigh-
bourhood have excited our notice and stimulated our
apprehensions. For the first time for some years past
the Radicals are really on the alert in the Northern
Division of this County, and in Liverpool itself they
are straining 'every nerve with all the energy of morti-
fied ambition and pride, and with all those intriguing
arts for which the Liberal faction has been notorious
since the memorable Election of 1830. The faction
can scarcely be worse as a Government, in a new House
of Commons than their pitiful victory of Two has left
them in the present. Desperate men will seek safety
in desperate resources, Let our readers remember the

twentieth day of the present month. Let the taxes be
carefully paid up, and every preparation for the coming
Registry be duly made. We expect that the returns
will be forwarded duly to the Reform Club :•—their pre-
parations will be duly made. The workers of evil never
sleep. Their Candidates will be assigned every man to
his post,—their muster-rolls will be made up,—their
artillery will be upon the ground. THE BLOW WILL
BE STRUCK IN THE DARK. Let every lover of his
Church and country be wakeful and found at his post.
The issue is in our own hands. If we will, we shall
trample them in the dust for ever. They will fight like
desperadoes, in an enemy's country, whose retreat is
cut off,—whose only safety is in the daring of despair.
REMEMBER THE TWENTIETH OF JULY !

Our readers are aware that when some new proof of
Ministerial profligacy is obtruded upon the notice of
an indignant nation, we have long ceased to expatiate
upon it in the language of reprobation and surprise.
We never raise our hands in holy horror, or speak of
violences done to our nerves, or the suddenness of
astonishment taking away our breath, and depriving
us of our senses. The profligacy of Ministers is with
us a foregone_ conclusion. We know them too well to
be surprised at anything they do. The men of Lich-
field House, the men of the Appropriation Clause, the
men of the Pension List, the men of the Church rates
Bill, and the men of "open questions,"—have left no
room for further indignation or contempt. But above
all the men who to prop up a falling faction have basely
betrayed the unrivalled popularity of a youthful Queen,
who have bound up her personal character in the policy
of Lord Normanby in Ireland, and Lord John Russell
in England,—who have made every quarrel her quarrel
and fastened upon her all the obloquy of their dupli-
city and wickedness, these men are unworthy of
any reprobation which should imply that we measured
them at all after the Standards of Virtue and Honour.
Yes ! happy is Lord Melbourne in the shamelessness of
his public profligacy. He who in 1825 voted against
the transfer of the franchise from Retford to Birming-
ham, is now Premier of the Reform Ministry, "by
merit raised to that bad eminence," and armed in all
the panoply of his own reputation, he may defy the
barbed arrows of criticism, and despise the voice of
public justice. It was an anecdote of Col. Charteris
(the well-known reprobate of Hogarth) that he would
have given £l,OOO to any one who would furnish him
with a character. To which some wag replied with
truth, he would have been a great fool to give so much
for what he would lose in a week. In these enlightened
days the answer would with equal truth have been, "What I
give £l,OOO for that which will shelf you at once ?"
If Lord Melbourne had had a character, he would
never have been O'Connell's Minister. If Lord Mul-
grave had had a character, he would never have
governed Jamaica, nor gone to Ireland as O'Connell's
Viceroy, nor sat in the Cabinet as Promoter of Popery
for the Colonies. If Palmerston had had a character,
would the men who have humbled Great Britain be-
fore the face of the world have appointed him to be
their Foreign Secretary ?

But in spite of all this,—case-hardened as assuredly
we are to all the abominable devices of Whiggery,—we
do give them credit for wisdom in their own genera-
tion, and we confess we are astonished and surprised
when they commit " worse than a crime, an error!"
Is it possible that these infatuated men can seriously
suppose they may insult the Peerage with impunity,
and desecrate the church ? Do they fancy that on the
strength of a majority of TWO, which majority they
well know is 'composed of banded enemies from Popish
Ireland, and which majority an appeal to the Electoral
bodies, fairly made, would reduce to a wretched minority
(Mr.Warburton says 60 or 70), they can dare to set at
defiance the wealth, the intelligence, the respectability,
of Christian, of Protestant England ? Mark the op-
posing armies. On one side are petitions, as the sand
on the sea-shore innumerable, from every class of
Churchmen, and from bodies of right-minded Dissen-
ters without number: there is, we will fearlessly assert,
an incalculable majority of the whole Englishspeople :
there is a very decided majority of the English mem-
bers in the House of Commons : there is an over-
whelming majority of the British Peers, a majority
which (but for their own profligate exertions) would
leave the minority an absolute and ludicrous non-entity;
in a word, England, religious and political, is rallied
round the Peerage and the Church. In the opposing
ranks are the Popish majority, the Order in Council,
Lord Brougham, and the Radical philosophers. Baal
is their God, and they follow him.
What must be the issue of the struggle when these
are the conflicting parties, no sane man can doubt.
That the Whigs have added insult to injury, and have
prompted the youthful Queen to address the nobility
of the realm with Sardonic and contemptuous indiffer-
ence, (the dirty Chronicle basely suggests that the
Queen is declaring her own personal opinions : but•
the wording of the Address itself refutes this mean
and unconstitutional inuendo it is Melbourne's—the
language betrays him,) will be material in the day of
reckoning. Let them try an appeal to the People.
Short as this Parliament has been, there are already
long scores which the electors of Great Britain can
alone wipe off. Let us in Liverpool be ready.

So Lord John Russell thinks he may sit in Parlia-
ment-street and govern Great Britain by the check-
strings of a central and transferable Police ! ! Has
Whiggery arrived at this ? The army is reduced, the
militia is disbanded (the soldiery and the militia are
not Radical), to make way for Lord J. Russell and his
Central Police. This Bens d'armerie may be all very
well for the King of the Barricades, but it won't do in
Saxon England. We shall recur to this subject at an
early opportunity, and try to show it up as it deserves.
When they want to establish Popish Corporations, we
hear infinite eloquence about local organization and
self-government. When Tory militias are to be put
down, nothing will serve them but a Central Police.
This blowing hot and cold in the same breath, will not
go down with the British nation. The Whigs are
over-shooting the mark.

We have just received a copy of a pamphlet entitled
"A Memorial to the Dock Committee, on the subjects of
deficient Accommodation for Shipping, Fines, (5-c., and
the Proceedings of the Committee of Merchants thereon;
with an Appendix, containing a Copy of a recent Report
on some of these Matters of a Sub-Committee of the
Dock Committee." The subjects treated of in this
pamphlet are of the highest possible importance to
the commercial interests of this town, and we are
glad to find that they are discussed in a temperate
and dispassionate manner. The Committee of Mer-
chants, by whom the documents thus put forth have
been compiled, state that they are at least entitled to
"take credit for zeakus intention, and considerable in-
quiry and labour devoted to their task, without any
other object than the public good, and scrupulously
divested of every consideration of personal or party
feeling;" and they add that "they cannot but persuade
themselves that such a demonstration on the part of the
merchants and rate-payers must sooner or later accom-
plish their objects; for whatever difference of opinion
may fairly arise as to the improvements suggested,
there can be none either as to the number and respect-
ability of the memorialists, or the reasonableness of
their complaints."

The memorial, after dilating on the inadequacy of
the existing accommodations for the loading and dis-
charging of ships,—an evil which, though of long du-
ration, and increasing daily with the increasing trade
of the to Am, has lately been much aggravated by the
multiplication of prosecutions for the involuntary
breach of the Dock Laws,—proceeds to suggest a
variety of alterations and improvements calculated to
obviate the difficulties which are at present experienced,
and to avert the unpleasant consequences entailed upon
the merchants by the operation of the present laws.
By these laws a heavy penalty is imposed on the
owners of goods in process of being shipped or dis-
charged, if such goods be allowed to remain on the
dock quays more than forty-eight hours. It is stated
that, in a large proportion of the cases alluded to, pro-
bably not less than nine in ten, the infringement of the
law is absolutely unavoidable, arising from the vast
increase of trade, and new Custom-house regulations
having rendered the forty-eight hours quite insufficient
—the prohibition of the removal of goods in many
cases by the laws of the customs—the state of the
weather—the want of quay berths, stages, and proper
cranes—and a variety of other circumstances over
which shipere and consignee have no controul, The

pecuniary loss caused by the necessary infraction of
the existing laws is enormous, especially in the timber
trade, which is taxed to an immense extent. For the
remedy of this increasing evil, the Committee of Mer-
chants suggest the propriety of a mitigated adminis-
tration of the present law, and the necessity of provi-
ding greater facilities for the loading and discharge of
vessels. Among these facilities we find enumerated
the construction of commodious closed sheds on all the
quays (except those appropriated for timber), having
numerous sliding doors, into which carts should not
be admitted, the water from the roofs being carried
down into the dock, and not through the sheds as now,
and thereby often overflowing and causing the destruc-
tion of goods—the floors to be flagged, elevated, and
kept clean the providing proper moveable stages
and cranes, traversing on a railway round the dock
—and the adoption of regulations to prevent the undue
crowding of particular docks, and the improper occu-
pation of quay berths. The memorial in which these
important suggestions are embodied has attached to it
the signatures of 280 of the most respectable mercantile
firms in the town, including men of all shades of political
opinions. A document so signed cannot fail, we feel
convinced, to command the respectful attention of the
Dock Committee, and must ultimately lead to some
practical remedy of the evils under which the shipping
interests are now labouring. That it may lead to such
a desirable result is our earnest wish, and we shall not
let escape any opportunity for contributing, to the
best of our ability, to the removal of grievances bear-
ing so oppressively upon individuals, and operating so
detrimentally to the mercantile prosperity of Liverpool.
It is our firm conviction that all the evils complained of
in the memorial before us may be effectually remedied
without imposing still heavier grievances upon the own-
ers of land and warehouses. The adoption of the
suggested improvements would contribute materially
to the benefit of the shipping interests; and if the
Dock Committee should manifest any degree of alacri-
ty in acting upon these suggestions, we have no doubt
that numerous other plans will be laid before them for
the accomplishment of the same object.
In a statement drawn up subsequently to the presen-
tation of the memorial to which we have alluded, the
Committee of Merchants, in answer to the question
" to what are we to attribute the loud and universal
complaint that we are retrograding rather than impro-
ving in the facilities afforded to commerce ; and that,
with a trade rapidly increasing, the inconveniences
and undue expense always imputed to us as special
disadvantages to the port, are also increasing propor-
tionably ?" furnish the following reply :—that " the
practical management of so vast an estate as the docks
have now become, is far too onerous a duty to be im-
posed upon any class or number of individuals, how-
ever zealous or intelligent, acting only as an honorary
body." 0 Proceeding on the principle that it is unrea-
sonable to expect that any man should give unrewarded
to the public such a share of his time as must derange
his other pursuits, the Committee suggest that the
docks should be managed by a system of competition ;
that is, that each dock should be let for a term of years,
at a fair rent, to a partnership or public company.
The adoption of this plan, it is stated, " would in a
very short time work• out every improvement of which
the dock system is capable."
If the letting of the docks, on the above principle,
should be considered too liberal a measure of reform,
the Committee of Merchants suggest the modified
alternative of placing the docks under the controul 'of
an efficient and well-paid Board of Directors, whose
sole business it should be to work the docks to the
greatest possible advantage to the public, adding, from
time to time, every improvement that experience might
dictate.

The third alternative submitted to the Dock Com-
mittee is, that of making the most of the present sys-
tem of management, imperfect as it is, while it lasts.
Among the means pointed out for effecting this object,
the appointment of a superintendent of respectability
and talent, with a salary adequate to an office of such
trust and importance, and having a sufficient number
of assistants, is strongly recommended. This super-
intendent should have the entire management and
working of the docks and basins, and all the shipping
therein; with power to regulate the possession of
berths entirely at his option, and a discretion as to
employing, at the expense of the Dock Trust, riggers
and others in the docking, undocking, berthing, and
removing ships, in cases of emergency. A variety of
other important suggestions are offered in the state-
ment before us, to which we may have occasion here-
after to recur.

The conservative candidate, Sir Thomas Cochrane,
has been returned for Ipswich The " respectable
and honourable convert" to Whiggery has met with
the reward due to tergiversation and abandonment of
principle. In spite of the strenuous exertions made
for the return of Mr. Gibson, conservative principles
have once more been proved to be in the ascendant at
Ipswich. The numbers at the close of the poll are
variously stated, but we believe the following to be

correct :
For Sir Thomas Cochrane.
For Mr. Gibson.

Majority

Of course, the cuckoo-cry of "bribery and corruption"
will be raised by the radical press on the present oc-
casion. This is always the case when a liberal happens
to prove unsuccessful. If Mr. Gibson had been re-
turned, the fact would have been attributed to the
predomi2ance of " liberal principles" at Ipswich.
The case being otherwise, of course, the radicals will
bring forward their usual preposterous charges. We
should say, and we have the strongest reason for say-
ing it, that the return of Sir Thomas Cochrane has
been owing to the prevalence of conservative feeling
among the electors of Ipswich—a feeling which we
believe to be equally prevalent throughout the king-
dom, as a general election would amply demonstrate.
The auspicious result of the Ipswich election will infuse
fresh courage among the ranks of conservatives, while
it will carry terror and dismay into those of their
adversaries. We heartily wish the " Shabbies" would
give the people of England another opportunity, and
that shortly, of putting their popularity among the
electors to the test. There can be no doubt any longer
of the glorious issue of the next election. It would
result in the downfall of Whiggery and liberalism.

A correspondent of the Times states that Lady Bread-
albane has resigned the office of Lady of the Bed-
chamber, and that Lady Sandwich has been appointed
in her place. The latter is a Whig by birth, but is
the wife of a high Tory peer. This certainly looks
like turning over a new leaf. It is said that this is the
Queen's own appointment, and that it did not go
through the hands of Lord Melbourne. It is stated
that the Duchess of Kent has likewise appointed four
ladies, the sisters of Lord Burlington and Lord Zet-
land, and the daughters of Lord Suffolk and Lord
Queensbury.

Once more we would urge, nay implore, our conser-
vative friends to be prompt in their attention to the
approaching registration. Full directions OR this sub-
ject will be found in another part of our paper. There
is no time to be lost. The salvation of the country
from the degrading and ruinous sway of the liberal
faction, will probably depend upon the result of the
next registration. We are therefore justified in calling
upon the friends of the constitution to discharge their
duty. We have done ours by calling upon them to
fight the battle of the country in the registration
court.

ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—On Thursday and Friday, the ex-
hibition-rooms in :Postoffice-place were opened to the sub-
scribers to St. George's Hall, and their friends, for the pur-
pose of [inspecting the numerous designs sent iu by the dif-
ferent architects competing for the erection of that building.
The elevations and interior views were hung round the walls,
and produced a very striking effect. The successful design
is, we believe, the production of Mr. Ellman, of London.
It is of very pure Greek architecture, the principal front be-
ing a portico of grand proportions and enriched with bas-
reliefs, on the execution of which, however, much of the ef-
fect will depend. Perhaps within the limits of their resources
the committee could not have made a more judicious selection ;
the insuperable objection to many desig9s, from their extent
and elaborate detail much more captivating to the eye, being
that the expense of executing them would far exceed the funds
at the disposal of the committee.

COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.—
The only way we have of forming accurate notions of magni-
tute is by comparison : thus, the length of the British Queen,
steam ship, 272 feet, is just the length of the Goree-piazzas
from Water-street to Brunswick-street ; 6 yards longer than
Commutation-row ; 2 yards longer than Chesterfield-street,
that is, from Upper Parliament-street to Stanhope-street ; 2
Jyards longer than the whole length of Liver.street, from St.
homuep Church to 34gooyrstrect,