The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

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Liverpool.

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WANTED, a few good WATCH-FINISHERS, at
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GRAPPENHALL NATIONAL SCHOOLS.

WANTED, for the BOYS' SCHOOL, after the
Christmas Holidays, a Trained and Certificated MAS-
TER. Salary, -eat per Annum, with a House, Coals, and
Garden, for Leading the Choir in. Church, and there are at
present three Pupil Teachers.
Applications (with Testimonials) to be made to the Rev.
THOMAS GREENALL, Gpripenhall Rectory, near Warrington.

THE SECOND ROYAL LANCASHIRE

MILITIA.

WHEN the force raised in this district, ranking as the
SECOND ROYAL LANCASHIRE MILITIA, was first as-
sembled for training, and when only a few of them bad
been supplied with even clothing, many were the sneers
indulged in at what was said to be the sorry materials of
which Ministers proposed to form a force for the protec-
tion of the country. The lapse of a single week spent by
the men in training and drilling, converted sneers into
wonder that the half-ragged, slouching persons, so lately
seen going to and returning from the neighbourhood of
Everton, in ill-fitting and unaccustomed scarlet, could ro
soon have been " set up" and taught to walk with such
military precision. In another week the public were
amazed in finding them going through the evolutions of
the service with somewhat of the coolness and readiness
of old soldiers ; and surprise became admiration when,
raised to the condition of a well appointed regiment, 1,100
strong, they were seen walking in perfect order through
our streets to divine service. Their first period of training
has now expired ; and on all hands it is agreed that a
body of men more likely to be effective for the object of
their being brought together, has rarely been seen. As
a general rule, although many of them have un-
doubtedly been taken under the stature insisted upon
by the rules of the general service, they are clean
limbed, well-proportioned fellows, capable of hard service
and ready for any sort of work. Amongst the most per-
fect of these is the light company, under the command of
Captain Phibbs. It must not be supposed, however, that
there are not amongst the corps a considerable number of
men of larger build. No. 1 company of grenadiers, com-
manded by the late Mayor of Liverpool, Captain Litttle-
dale, need not fear comparison in this respect with any
grenadier company in the service, regular or otherwise,
ar.d fully maintain the ancient character for the power,
stature, and exemplary military bearing of its militia
corps possessed by Lancashire during the late war. The
greatest credit is due to Colonel Sir Thomas Hesketh and
Lieutenant-Colonel Blackburn for the excellent spiri
with which they have animated the regiment during the
entire period of their training, and for the interest which
they appear to have taken in rendering it a " crack corps
Fitting credit ought also to be awarded to the officers of
the line and pensioners, by whose aid the men have
been trained.

On Friday his Worship the Mayor entertained the whole
of the officers at the Town-hall, on which occasion they
were highly complimented by his Worship, and by the
inspecting field-officer, Col. Derinzy, who, having wit-
neised the effect of discipline in the field, is a competent
judge of the sort of men who do their duty there. On
Saturday they were reviewed by that officer in St. Do-
mingo-park ; and considering the short period of their
training, and their having been brought together from so
many uncongenial avocations, they performed their evo-
lutions in a most creditable manner. At the close of the
review the whole regiment wns formed into a hollow
square, and addressed in the most flattering terms both
by Cal. Derinzy and Col. Sir Thomas Hesketh. Hearty
cheers from the men for those officers followed the close
of their addresses. On Sunday afternoon the regiment
attended garrison service in St. Simon's Church, where
the Rev. J. R. Conor preached a most impressive sermon
to them. It is a most gratifying fact that the conduct of
the regiment, both when on duty and off, has been most
excellent during the period of their being assembled.

EGYPT AND THE NlLE.—This beautiful and highly
in structive exhibition of the ancient land of Egypt, and
the classic river Nile, continues to attract numerous
spectators to the Panorama Hall. An attractive feature
has been added to it in the delivery of lectures, showing
how the antiquities of Egypt illustrate the truths of Holy
Writ, both history and prophecy.
DEFICIENT WEIGHTS.—His Worship the Mayor,
Holmes, Esq., presided in the police-court
yesterday, when a large number of parties were Om.
plained of by the inspector of weights and measures for
having improper and deficient weights and scales. There
were no less than 69 persons fined in various sums, several
Lis Worship observing that he was

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TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 30, 1852.

THE VILLIERS' MOTION AND ITS

RESULTS.

A PEEP behind the scenes of the political theatre
is a matter of considerable curiosity and interest to
the uninitiated spectator.

The "vulgar" had, before last Thursday night,
but little idea of the trouble and fuss, the setting of
scenes, the fixing of traps, the learning of cues, the
consultings and schemings, incident to the "getting
up" of a great Anti-Ministerial motion. Sir
JAMES GRAHAM on that night treated the public
to a view of the preparations which had been made
before the curtain rose for the performance of that
popular actor, Mr. C. VILLIERS. Really, the
Knight of Netherby has made out a case for com-
passion towards himself. Knocking about from
BRIGHT to Lord ABERDEEN, from Lord ABER.
DEEY and his colleagues (whoever they may be) to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and from Lord JOHN to
Mr. VILLIERS, striving hard to ensure the adop-
tion of his own form of motion, for which he con-
fessed all the fondness of a parent, he was at last
obliged to agree to support through thick and through
thin the resolutions which Mr. VILLIERS submitted
to the House on last Tuesday night. The urgent
necessity which compelled the Free-trade champion
VILLIERS, his friend BRIGHT, his allies ex-
Premier RUSSELL, and ex-ex-Ministers GRAHAM
and ABERDEEN (and colleagues), to bring forward
and support the motion in question, was, forsooth,
the ambiguity of the declarations of Government
on the subject of its commercial policy, and the
necessity for the Ministry giving a guarantee to the
country that they would not attempt to overthrow
the Free-trade system, or introduce Protectionist

measures.

If the words of the QUEEN'S Speech were not
sufficiently clear to bind the Government to the
maintenance of the new commercial policy, surely
the declarations of Lord DERBY in one House, and
of Mr. DISRAELI in the other, were more than
sufficient fo; any pledge that could be reasonably
demanded of them. But if it should be urged that
Parliament, having been summoned at this time for
the express purpose of conclusively deciding upon the
question of Free-trade, was bound to make an autho-
ritative declaration of its own opinion on that ques-
tion, the resolutions which the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER moved as an amendment to Mr.
VILLIERS'S motion were surely more than suffi-
cient for the required purpose, and were the more
valuable for that purpose, as emanating from the
very Government whose adherence to the policy
which they embodied, was the subject of doubt.
Was it not enough that the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER should himself move a resolution,
acknowledging two advantages which have accrued
from recent legislation, and declaring that un-
restricted competition having been adopted after
due deliberation as the principle of our commercial
system, it is the duty of Government to adhere to
that policy in their measures ? No ! a manly
acknowledgment and a straightforward declaration,
like that, would not satisfy the opposition. Messrs.
BRIGHT and Co. would insist on the Government
saying "Peccavimus," and acknowledging the Free-
traders to be very wise men, and their policy to be
" just and wise," and so forth ; while the mortified
RUSSELL, despairing of regaining power and
place, urged on his allies to insult and try to

humiliate the possessors of the lost and much
coveted seats of office. That the intention of Mr.
VILLIERS was not' merely to insult the Govern-
ment, but to force them to resign, should chance
favour the factious movement of the Opposition,
few will doubt, notwithstanding certain flourishes
in his speech, which might have borne a contrary
meaning ; and Mr. DISRAELI was, therefore, right
in treating the motion as a vote of want of confi-
dence. Lord PALMERSTON, firmly attached as
he is to the existing commercial policy of the
country, and fully acknowledging the propriety of
an explicit declaration by the new parliament of
its opinion on the subject, exposed to the indignant
reprobation of the House of Commons and the
country the mean motives and shabby conduct
of the Opposition, in insisting upon the unne-
cessary phrases in Mr. VILLIERS'S motion, which
constituted the only substantial difference between
it and Mr. DISRAELI'S amendment. He entreated
the House of Commons to remember that they were
an assembly of gentlemen,—and speaking himself
with the right feeling ofan Englishgentleman, he said,
" I, for one, cannot reconcile it to my feelings to call
a set of English gentlemen, for any purpose or for
any view, needlessly to express opinions which they
do not entertain, or to recant opinions which may
be still lingering in their minds." The noble lord
also indicated the evil consequences which must

result from turning into an ordinary party struggle
any motion tending to elicit from the House the
affirmation of a great principle of domestic policy.
The amendment first suggested, and then proposed
by Lord PALMERSTON, amply providing for the
affirmation of that policy, and avoiding all expres-
sions which the Government could not, with a due
regard to their honour and self-respect, make use
of, was so thoroughly consistent with the views of
the Government and the amendment of the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, that the right hon.
gentleman did not hesitate to withdraw his resolu-
tions in favour of those of Lord PALNIERSTON.
The very significant result is, that while the original
motion of Mr. VILLIERS was lost by a majority of
80 (336 to 256), Lord PALMERSTON'S amendment,
adopted by the Government, was carried by a ma-
jority of 415 (468 to 53).
Thus triumphantly has the Government overcome
the first obstacle which the cunning, the meanness,
the intriguing, and malicious hatred of the
CHESHAM-PLACE conspirators have thrown in
their way in the new parliament. It might be
hoped that the Opposition would now permit
parliament to proceed to substantial legislation
without any further attempts at obstruction, as
impotent as they are unworthy. Bat the ministerial
party will be on their guard against ambuscades
and traps of every sort, and will amply profit by
the experience of their adversaries which they have
already gained.
One happy result which we may anticipate from
the recent debate and division, is that some of the
moderate Peelites, believingthere to be no longer any
substantial difference between them and the main
body of national Conservatives, will now cheerfully
enrol themselves under the banners of Her Majesty's
Government.

Should this consummation be realised, Mr.
VILLIERS' motion and the pertinacity of its
supporters:will not have been in vain.

"EMPEROR" AT LAST.

THE Empire in France is a fait accompli. Louis

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is the Emperor of
France, and is acknowledged by the French people
as the reviver or founder of a dytylsty. The "spe-
cial constable" of Regent-street of the 10th April,
1848, is now, on the 30th November, 1852, the
almost irresponsible monarch of the great country
from which he was then an outcast. His title, for
all we know, is as good as that of many emperors
who have made great figtires in the pages of his-
tory. The second NAPOLEON enjoys a noble
opportunity for achieving true greatness and glory.
Let us rather trust that he will use the occasion
nobly than anticipate that his unexpected and rapid

rise will be followed by a speedy downfa

apt to judge of the French people and their pro-
ceedings by the principles generally accepted among
and applicable to Englishmen, it needs an effort
for us to place ourselves in the proper position from
which to judge of the justifiability, expediency, or
necessity of the recent acts of Louis NAPOLEON,
and of the prudence and sagacity which they have
displayed. The rational and wholesome manner in
which the democratic element of government has—
thanks to the influence of Conservatism—been
developed in this country, saved us from the expe-
rience of all those vicissitudes and horrors to which
the violent and ill-regulated aspirations of the
French people after free and permanent political
institutions, have for two generations condemned
them. The sobriety of feeling and of judgment
which characterizes our own countrymen has pre-
vented the progress of democracy among us from
proceeding to that point at which it becomes anar-
chy, necessarily resulting in despotism. We must
not, therefore, hastily conclude that despotism is,
in France, under the existing circumstances, anta-
gonistic to rational liberty. The French people
have discovered by repeated experiments that they
are not fit for a republican form of government,
nor a republican government for them. They have
experienced all the mischiefs incident to that system.
The imperial form seems to be the only alternative
at the present moment, and they have chosen it;
and if Emperor and people but work together for
the common weal, they have yet a great and glori-
ous career before them. Let the Emperor by his
acts verify his declaration, " L'Empire c'est la
Paix ;" let him devote his energies towards the
development of the great internal resources of his
country, and of its commercial relations with other
countries ; let him wisely use the mighty engine
entrusted to his care for the material and moral
improvement of his people ; let him preserve to them
the utmost liberty of person and opinion consistent

with the general welfare ; let him think a little
more of the future and a little less of the present ;
and he may leave behind him a name which will as
much excite the respect of future ages as that of his
great kinsman will excite their wonder.

There have been certain occurrences in the tran-
sition of Louis NAPOLEON from the president's
chair to the imperial throne, which have necessa-
rily excited prejudices against him in the minds of
a people so jealous of liberty in all its shapes as we
are. His conduct towards the Press, in particular,
has been very generally reprobated in this country,
and has been made the thetne for unmeasured vitu-
peration by portions of our own Press, which do

not always use their liberty and power with discre-
tion and generosity. For ourselves, we can con-
ceive that it might have been next to impossible,
under the existing circumstances of France, to esta-
blish any form of government with a chance of suc-
cess and permanency, without some restrictions
upon the Press. The pains which some of our own
journals have taken to provoke the President, and
to make him abandon his pacific intentions, may
give us some notion of the difficulties he might
have had to contend with, had the organs of the
enemies of order in France been permitted to run
The " leading journal" of England, as it
superciliously calls itself, which snubs foreign poten-
tates, and dictates to foreign nations with the most
complacent self-sufficiency, although it does not
cry Peccavi—(when, indeed, was it ingenuous
enough to do so?) already begins to acknowledge
that, after all, the empire is "the best expedient in a
bad crisis," and that the Emperor seems really to
have come to the conclusion that peace is his best
policy. The opinions of the " leading journal"
have a very curious connection with the state of the
Funds. That pulse of public opinion indicates no
fear of convulsions in France /or elsewhere. The
empire established in peace, threatens no infringe-
ment of the peace of the world. The Emperor
may, if he will, soon efface, by good and patriotic
deeds--by substantial contributions to the progress
and improvement of his subjects, and of the whole
human race—all recollections of these passages in
his transitional career which might otherwise tend
to sully his fair fame ; and his name may yet be
recorded in the annals of France as that of a good
sovereign and a real benefactor of his country.

DEFEAT OF THE MANCHESTER CLIQUE

THE time of the House of Commons and much
virtuous indignation seem to have been literally
wasted in the late discussion, the whole object of
which was to gratify the restless activity of the
faction who choose to consider themselves specially
identified with the present system of commercial
policy. It is, however, gratifying to think that the
Manchester School is virtually defeated, and that
the direct biddings of Mr. COBDEN and his col-
leagues for office have not been responded to. The
present Government have done all that could have
been expected of them. The result of the last
election, as a verdict unfavourable to their own
convictions, was most frankly declared in the speech
from the Throne ; and the CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER took the first opportunity of an-
nouncing that he would, on an early day, make
his financial statement, which comprised the whole
system of financial and commercial policy which
the Government proposed to pursue. Nothing,
therefore, but the worst spirit of faction could have
dictated the resolutions moved by Mr. VILLIERS,
which were artfully contrived to anticipate the mi-
nisterial statement. The pretence of requiring a
definite pledge from the House of Commons of
the wisdom, justice, and beneficence of the repeal
of the Corn Laws, is mere moonshine, nor could it
have any other effect than would be accomplished
by the declaration of the Minister. It offers no
guarantee for the future, nor can it influence the
electoral body, should they, on any future occasion,
see fit to change their minds and return a majority
in favour of a return to a Protective system. It
may be relied upon, that no measure can be success-
ful by which any important interest is suffering, for
so long will it afford a pretext and a justification for
a continuous struggle ; and therefore, in even
suggesting a remedy, the Ministry were far
better friends of Free-trade than the braggarts who
compensate for their want of experience by their
audacity. The debate of Thursday last was some-
what significant of the expectations of parties. The
alliancf!, which was so precipitately formed in
Chesham-place, was held but by a rope of sand, for
the first real difficulty scattered it in fragments.
Lord PALMERSTON, anxious to get back into
respectable company, assumed the part of a peace-
maker. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, still undecided as
o the next character in which he shall appear, tried
to get a step further and found himself nowhere
notwithstanding his pathetic allusion to his friend-
ship for the late Sir ROBERT PEEL. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, doubtful of his new associates, quietly
cut the connection, and, true to his antecedents, left
the issue to Providence; while Messrs. COBDEN and
VILLIERS, grown desperate by the desertion,
turned like stags at bay and doggedly resolved to
give up nothing but stick to their original resolu-
tion. Incapable of reasoning, impenetrable to
common sense, totally unsusceptible of any ap-
proach to gentlemanly feeling, they blindly rushed
on their fate in the forlorn hope of exciting a
popular feeling in their favour which they will never
live to experience ; and no better proof could he
afforded than the simple fact, that before a syllable
was known of the ministerial intentions, the funds

showed a sensible improvement. The debate had

s of the fac

hich assumes

.0 be the popular party. It has

proved the impossibility of any practical alliance
between the fragments of the defunct Whig party
and the revolutionists who claim Messrs. CORDE7q,
BRIGHT, and Co., as their leaders ; and we may
even feel grateful to the latter, for having thus de-
monstrated the weakness of the Opposition to
Her Majesty's Government.