The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-16 00:00:00

strength, in health, in mind

•er over others, we can never be. God
And as to making us equal in circum.

frected in appearance

by most

griqding tyranny, and even then would be hollow and
unreal. Providence has a deep system of compensation
which invisibly affects a near approach to equality, where
men are only free. " Well, friend," I said to the driver
of a cabriolet crossing the Place de la Concorde, some
time after the republic had been established, " how do
you like the republic ?' "Ah ! Monsieur, the republic
is a very fine thing ,ss does not thrive ; I

used to earn twi

.s.e as much as I earn now : you see there
are now no rich people, they are all gone. And this is
not bad enough ;' but they now demand the republic de-
mocratic and social. I do not quite understand it, but
they say we are all to be equal. Now, Ido not like that ;
for most of the other cabmen spend their money in drink,
and it would not be just to take what I earn and give it
to them to spend so. I have always been careful. I have
one son : T have saved money to educate him ; he is now
at a college; mean him to be an advocate. And who
knows ?—my son may be a great man. Now would it be
just, in order to make us all equal, to force me to give up
my earnings to men who would drink them, instead of
keeping them to educate my son ? Why should they try
to make us equal-? God has made us five fingers on one
band, and has He made two of them equal ?" Here he
held up-the fingers spread abroad, then closed them, and
displayed them triumphantly as emblems of his social
grades. " And why has He made them unequal ? Why,
to make one good strong fist." And so saying, he
clasped his fist and held it up, and turned it round, to
show how much better it fitted than if all the fingers had
been equally long and thick. Now society is one hand,
composed of several,fingers, and institutions are but a
glove. He that made the fingers did not make them
equal, and you need never try to invent a glove that will.
You might make an iron glove, and stunt and hamper,
but though all would be distorted, they would not be
equal evert then. If you make a glove to fit their natural
inequalities, it may prove that the thumb with his large
portion is just as much straitened as the little finger with
his small. I have no faith in any attempt to make us
equal in-circumstances, no idea that our great Father ever
meant us so to be, and no relish for that style of brother-
hood which would make me hanker to have as much as
my brother and share all he earned. No : let me rejoice
in his lot, And rejoice in my own ; and if, after every
honest effort, "cannot have the satisfaction of eating my
own morsel, why then, if he is a brother, he will divido
his with me. But I would rather burden no man. One
hardly sees the wisdom of systems which are perpetually
telling society that it must take care of the individuals of
which it is composed. Who ever knew of a whole making
up its parts, not of parts making up a whole,—of a corn-
stack making the ears, not of ears making a corn-stack ?
Looking at this, one is much more inclined to tell indivi-
duals to serve society, than to tell society to serve indivi-
duals.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COU=RT,

IN RE WILKINSON AND BENTLEY.—In thiE case,
before Mr. Commissioner Perry, yesterday, was appointed
a meeting for the granting of the certificate to the bank-
rupts, formerly tailors and woollen drapers in this town.
Mr. Bentley only made application for his certificate, and
he was then examined at considerable length by Mr.
..remner, solicitor, with reference to his balance sheet and
other matters connected with the affairs of his estate.
Ultimately the Commissioner ordered the application to
be adjourned sine die, with liberty to the bankrupt to
make a special application to the court to amend his ba-
lance-sheet.

Is RE W. GH. TAUNTON.—In this matter, on Friday,
Aspinall, barrister, applied, on behalf of the peti-
tioning creditor for an order of court to restrain the mes-
senger from prosecuting legal proceedings against that
creditor for the recovery of the expenses due to the officer
of the court.—lt was mentioned that the court had per-
mitted the property of the bankrupt to be worked up in
the construction of patent windlasses, with a view to se-
cure the full benefit of the property to all parties interested.
—Mr. Ayres, in reply to the Commissioner, and as the
representative of Mr. Gaskell, the messenger, stated that
the petition was filed so long ago as May last, and that
although two letters had been written more than three
months since, ~.equesting the payment of the bill, no reply
had been deigned by the petitioning creditor. It was also
added that Mr. Gaskell adopted no proceeding until he
had satisfied himself of the improbability of any assets
being realized sufficient to meet the expenses.—The Com-
missioner considered ho had no power to make the order
required, but he would take the subject into consideration.
Is RE J. BRADSITAW TAYLOR.—The last examination
of this bankrupt took place by adjournment yesterday,
before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson. Mr. Hull, of the
firm of Fletcher and Hull, solicitors, of this town, again
attended and examined the bankrupt on behalf of the
assignee, throughout the whole of She sitting of the court.
The inquiry principally referred to the statement of
accounts, and at five o'clock the further hearing of tbe
sue was again adjoura#d tuit4 §ptvcl, March 2Q,