The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

THE STEAM-SHIP " LIVERPOOL."

The " Liverpool," which, we need scarcely say, has proved
herself to be one of the finest of the ocean steamers yet afloat,
arrived at this port at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning,
after a passage of seventeen days and four hours. The voy-
age, considering the extreme severity of the weather, and the
prevalence of easterly gales, may be considered equal to a
twelve or fourteen days' passage in the summer, when the sea
is comparatively smooth, and the winds for the most
part from the west. We refer to the subjoined extracts from
the log-book of the " Liverpool," for the particulars of the
heavy weather she encountered, both on her outward and
homeward voyage, premising, that she has a second time
brought home the first news of her arrival at New York.
The present season is not generally favourable for the transit
of passengers from the United States, and the number
brought by the " Liverpool" is consequently smaller titan
during the summer voyages. The following is a list
LIST OF-PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL.
—Mrs. De'ville and child, Miss Nuez, Mr. Goward, Mr. J.
Alexander, Mr. J. Wood, ,Mr. W. Weyman, Mr. H. J.
Caldwell, Mr. T. Gringan, Mr. H. Borrodak, Mr. A. Cap.
nand, Mr. S. Kirkpatrick, Mr. R. Keyser, Mr. A. Nummsr-
ling, Mr. T. Swr-wick, Mr. H. Brixner, Col. Clive, Mr.
Charilsworth, Mr. B. Sykes, Mr. J. Gavelle, Mr. A. Chi-
jot, Lieutenant Briddoes, Mr. J. Branbert, Mr. J. Pegg,
Mr. H- Forsans,' Rev. J. Anderson, Mr. Poole. Mr. Crist,
Mr. Ross, Mr. Nuez.
While on this subject, we may state, from the authority of
some of the parties themselves, that the passengers were not
merely satisfied, in every respect, with the cabin accommo-
dations and the abundance of viands and refreshments con-
stantly served, but highly gratified by the polite, gentlemanly,
and entertaining conduct of all the officers on board, with
whom they associated, whether on the deck, or at the " table
d' hole."

We deeply regret to state, that Captain Fayrer, the com-
mander of the ship, has, during the greater portion of the
homeward passage, undergone extreme suffering from a
rheumatic affection, the consequence of fearless and unceas-
ing exposure on the outward voyage (which was extremely
stormy), as well as on the homeward. This gallant British
seaman, however, would scarcely yield to the decrees of fats ;
in his anxiety for the safety and speedy voyage of the ship.
During even the severest days of the storm he was on deck
at day-break, and frequently exposed himself, contrary to the
intreaties of the passengers ; and on coming up the channel,
where the difficulties of the navigation continue to accumu-
late, he never left the deck. He is still confined within doors,
and some apprehensions are entertained, that he may not so
far recover previously to the re-sailing of the ship as to pro-
ceed with her,—to the infinite regret of his officers and crew.
So boisterous was the weather on the outward voyage that,
for the first nine days, notnboVe an average of three passen-
gers appeared upon deck each day, the remainder making
themselves comfortable below. During all this time the ship
behaved gallantly, never shipping a single sea, though it
rolled "mountains high." She dashing over it with the ut-
most ease. On the homeward voyage, though she had heavy
weather to overcome. she never required more than 0110 maa
at the wheel.

The cabins of the Liverpool retain all their apparent origi-
nal splendour, with the exception of a very slight tinge here
and there on the paint-work, caused by the occasional escape
of the gas from the bilge water—showing what is called. a
" tight ship." The passengers extol of the cabin fare,
as being. excellent and abundant, as well as served up in an
admirable first-rate hotel style, under the superintendance of
the steward, Mr. Amans,—of whom the passengers speak in
the highest terms.

The Liverpool has now accomplished six voyages across the
Atlantic. The average run in each may be about 7,500 to
7,800 miles,—so that she has run, without once being in
dock,—or in other words being constantly afloat, a distance
of little short of 50,000 miles. Her engines are—still equal,
if not superior, to new, and work to admiration. She was
Yesterday brought upon what is called " the grid-iron" in the
Prince's Dock basin, where she was left by the retiring tide,
high and dry, for the purpose of inspecting her lower works.
Her bottom was found to be as sound and perfect as on the day
on which she was launched; and after being scrubbed, and some
few sheets ofcopper being replaced,where her sheathing bad be-
come chaffed above, by contact with fiats and other vessels, in
loading and discharging, she was hauled out into the river with
the following (last night's) tide, as fresh and perfect as on
the day she first sailed. The concourse of persons who as-
sembled on the quay during the short time the " Liverpool"
was " a grilling," was immense ; and as many persons
were admitted to inspect her cabins as could, consistently
with the mechanical operations going on, be permitted to
come on board. Her imposing length (235 feet) and her ge-
neral equipments were matter of astoni.shment.
It is highly creditable to the owners and the officers, of
this fine and deservedly favourite ship, that she has main-
tained her " integrity" throughout. With one or two ex-
ceptions only, (accessions of strength) she has retained her
original officers, and they " pull" so well " together," in
every respect, that she has established a degree of confidence
in the public mind, which cannot be shaken even by the
the great, and, we admit, the noble competition of other
ports sending out transatlantic steam-ships ; and this confi-
dence will, we doubt not,,be amply confirmed •by the acces- -
sion to the I,`force" of the, same company of the beautiful and
admirably constructed ship the " New York," which we
have already briefly described, and which will, ere long, be
placed on the same line.
We understand that the berths of the Liverpool are already
nearly all engaged. She will sail on the 16th instant, and
will carry with her the good wishes of the seaport from which
she derives her name. •

RADICAL DOINGS AT KIRKDALE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—The temporary triumph of the radical candidate In
this ward, may be attributed, in a great measure, to the un-
sparing use of money in paying the taxes of the lower order
of electors, and in the extensive bribery and treating which
was made use of. For some weeks previous to the election,
there were suppers given every night at some one or other of
the numerous public-houses in this place. Where the money
came from is a question every one asks, as it is quite certain
the simple young man for whose benefit these things were
done, is not in circumstances to afford it. It has been
suggested, and I fear there is some truth in it, that the
money came from a wealthy gentleman in the neighbourhood,
and who he is there cannot be much doubt, as there are
very few of that class to be found amongst the party.
On the day of election.drunkenness prevailed to a frightful
extent : hordes of fellows were to be seen issuing from the
radical committee-room, in a most beastly state ; I saw one
old man coming out of the house drunk—it is to be hoped
insensibly so—and expose his person in the open street.
" Spare no money," seems to have been the order given.
A note was sent, on the evening preceding the election, by
a magistrate, to a publican, commanding him " to take care
of" three voters, whose names I have now in my possession;
now, as these men are all conservatives, there was only one
way of " taking care of them," in order to get them to vote
for the radicals, that was, by making- them insensible by
drink. However, lam happy to say, the kind intentions of
this worthy magistrate were frustrated.
One publican was offered, if he would but vote for them,
to have a bowling-green made for him. Another was threatened
to have his license taken from him if he did not vote. One
man who hesitated about voting, was made drunk, and
literally carried to the polling booth to vote for them, who
would not have done so had he been sober.
It is a constant practice with writers in the radical papers,
to expatiate upon the " bribery of the tories," but if they
will take a walk out to this village, at the next election, they
will see that others can play at the same game.
The propriety of making a protest against a general
scrutiny, on the part of the conservatives, independent of its
illegality, will be apparent when it is known the steps taken
by the radicals to get up a case. Amongst others, perhaps,
one of the most barefaced, was one of a man who was called
up by a policeman, early on Sunday morning, and taken to a
house in F street, who, upon his arrival there, was
treated with a glass of spirits, and was asked to attend at the
Town-hall on the following day, and was promised, if he
would but say that he was bribed or was drunk when he
voted, any sum of money he wished, or that he would be
found a place in the police. This matter being about to be
brought before a court of justice, prevents me giving names.
In this place there are now upwards of thirteen public-
houses ; fear years ego there were only three : nine out of
the ten were pandered for votes. It surprises me that amongst
the magistrates there are not some who will investigate these
matters : these things are notorious here, and are sinking
the character of the bench ; if I were one of that body, I
should not rest content one moment until an inquiry was set
on foot, and if I could not obtain the expulsion of the men
who act this disgraceful part, I would not consent to remain
amongst them. A KIRKDALE MANN.

EXCHANGE WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR;—An instance of the meanness by which the radicals
have endeavoured to attain for themselves a hold of the pub-
lic.purse, if only a year longer, has occurred in this ward.
It appears that Mr. Richard Rawson, the Agent for the
Ocean Assurance Company, was upon the register, as rated
for an office in the Exchange Buildings, for which he neither
pays the rent nor taxes, and from a seat behind the counter
in which he could be dismissed by the Directors at a moment's
warning.
It can scarcely be believed that the said Mr. Rawson did,
ia rightof this false qualification, and notwithstanding a
positive Fromise to one of the Directors of the Ocean Com-
pany to the 'contrary, vote for Mr. Mellor. Thut such a
course was net followed by gentlemen of the conservative
party is easily proved. Mr. Headlam, Mr. Bell, and Mr.
Thomas Brown, who were all upon the register, declined
voting on the ground of non-qualification ; and Mr. Mellor
and Mr. Rawson may, and have, between them, the honour
of the transaction I have now recorded, as the former gentle-
man was by this single vote disqualified for being made au
alderman. CON SE RVAXIATZ.

CORNWALL COUNTY RAILWAY.MEETING.—We perceive,
from an advertisement which appears in another .column,
that a public meeting was held at. Bodmin, on the 29th ult.,
for the purpose of constructing a railway communication be-
tween London and the West of Cornwall. • It was strongly
insisted at the meeting (which was most numerously and re-
spectably attended), that Falmouth ,is the most eligible packet
station that can be fixed upon. The proposed railway is to
communicate with Exeter, from which a line will extend to
the Great Western Railway. The plan appears both feasible
and advantageous, and we have no doubt of its ultimate suc-
cess.—See Advt.

WARRINGTON OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
—The annual dinner of this excellent association is to be held
on Monday next, when John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., M.P.
for the borough ; John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P. for the
northern division of the county; George Cornwall Legh,
Esq„ of Legh, the intended conservative candidate for North
Cheshire ; Charles Wilkins, Esq., of Manchester, and other
distinguished personages, will attend ; and that true-hearted
and genuine Briton of the old school, John Clare, Esq., of
Fairfield-house, will preside, at the request of the grateful
members of tae association.

MUSEUM OF THE LITERARY INSTITUTION, ST. ANNE.
STREET.—A most valuable and interesting addition has been
made to the stores of this museum by John Tomkinson,
Esq., who has obligingly contributed two very curious spe-
cimens of the stones from Stourton Quarry, Cheshire. They
present in marked relief, impressions of the feet-marks of
the cheirotherium. Dr. Grant considers them as traces of
some extinct species of crocodile, or similar reptile ; this
conjecture appears to be correct, and these slabs will be fur-
ther interesting to the curious, inasmuch as one of them
seems to present a sweep of the animal's tail made in trailing
along, and which has made a deep impression on the thin,
clayey bed, covering what must have been, at that immensely
remote period of the world, the earth's surface, but which,
it must be recollected, now lies buried below freestone rock
thirty feet deep.

ACCIDENT IN SOUTH CASTLE-STREET.—On Tuesday
evening, between seven and eight o'clock, an aged female,
who was passing along South Castle-street, unaware of the
deep excavations which have been made for the purpose of
laying the new sewers, wandered off the.foot-walk, and was
precipitated to a considerable depth amongst the brickwork.
She was taken out after a-short delay' when it was found
that she had been considerably injured, her leg having been
fractured near the knee, and her body much bruised. She
was placed as comfortably as possible on a shutter, and con-
veyed to one of the hospitals. We are informed that, though
it had been for some time dark, the usual cautionary lights
had not been lighted, neither was there any watch for the
purpose of warning pedestrians of the dangerous vicinity.

It is said
railway station to Hull, through Nottingham, Newark, Lin-
coln, and_Barton. .

43ottrp.

THE PALM-TREE.

BY MRS. HEMANS.

It waved not through an eastern sky,
Beside a fount of Araby ;
It was not fann'd by southern breeze
In some green isle of Indian seas ;
Nor did its graceful shadow sleep
O'r stream of Atric, lone and deep.
But fair the exiled palm-tree grew
'Midst foliage of no kindred hue;
Through the laburnum's dropping gold
Rose the light shaft of orient mould,
And Europe's violets, faintly sweet,
Purpled the moss-beds at its feet.
Strange look'd it there !—the willow stream'd
Where silvery waters near it gleam'd ;
The lime bough lured the honey-bee
To murmour by the desert's tree,
And showers of snowy roses made
A lustre in its fan-like shade.
There came an eve of festal hours—
Rich music fill'd that garden's bowers :
Lamps, that from flowering branches hung,
On sparks of dew soft colour flung,
And bright forms glanced—a fairy show—
Under the blossoms to and fro.
But one, a lone one, 'midst the throng,
Seem'd reckless all of dance or song ;
He was a youth of dusky mien,
Whereon the Indian sun had been,
Of crested brow and long black hair—
A stranger, like the palm-tree, there.
And slowly, sadly, moved his plumes,
Glittering athwart the leafy glooms :
He pass'd the pale green olives by,
Nor won the cheasut flowers his eye ;
But when to that sole palm he came,
Then shot a rapture through his frame !
To him, to him its rustling spoke,
The silence of his soul it broke !
It whispeed of his own bright isle,
That lit the ocean with a smile ;
Aye to his ear that native tone
Had something of the sea wave's moan!
His mother's cabin home, that lay
Where feathery cocoas fringed the bay;
The dashing of his brethren's oar—
The conch-note heard along the shore ;
All through his wakening bosom swept—
He clasp'd his country's tree and wept !
Oh, scorn him not !—the strength whereby
The patriot girds himself to die,
Th' unconquerable power which fills
The freeman battling on his hills—
These have one fountain deep and clear—
The same whence gush'd that childlike tear !

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE BEAUTIES OF LIBERALISM.
(Prom the Morning Herald.)
The communication of our correspondent at Athens
in reference to the " definitive refusal" of the Greek
government to comply with the requisition of England
as to payment of
.the interest due on the Greek Loan,
is deserving of serious attention.
The contemptible government of Greece, in short,
treats the representations of England with scorn ; and
the rulers of England dare not resent the outrage.
The false principles which have, during the last 20
years, regulated our foreign and domestic policy, are
aow beginning to produce their appropriate and bitter
fruit. Our foreign policy has made us the scoff of the
feeblest state in Europe ! Our domestic policy is ad-
justed in conformity with the pleasure of Daniel
O'Connell, and of the deadliest enemies of the protes-
tant institutions of England !
In this little episode in. the recent history of Greece
we may discover the operation of retributive justice.
England sanctioned the treacherous policy which dic-
tated the severance of Greece from the Ottoman em-
pire ; and, verily, England has her reward in the fraud
which "regenerated Greece" is now perpetrating upon
English interests. We aided in the infliction of a
deadly wound upon " our ancient ally"—Turkey ; and
our ancient enemy, Russia, forthwith "betters the in-
structions" which we had given to Greece. We be-
trayed Turkey; and Russia has taught Greece to cheat
and laugh at England.
We fear, moreover, to resent this dishonesty and in-
solence—even more than we feared fifteen years ago, to
assert the principles of international justice, when the
interests of Turkey, chiefly, were at issue. But will
the exhibition of fear is assert the honour of England
tend to regain for us the respect of Europe ? Let our
history for twelve years past supply the answer. We
have submitted, tamely, during that time, to insult af-
ter insult, from nearly all the powers of the continent.
Rdssia has treated the flag of England with contempt.
France, "through mistake," has treated an English
ship of war as a pirate vessel is wont to be treated.
" Liberal" Spain has cheated out of their pay the mer-
cenaries supplied by England to fight the battle of
Spanish " liberalism." Portugal has swindled Eng-
land out of the compensation money for supressing the
Portuguese traffic in slaves. Greece has " borrowed"
sundry milliorts of English gold ; and when requested
to recognise the debt, in the customary method, has
returned a "definitive refusal."

To all these outrages the English government has
submitted to a degree of humility that is absolutely
edifying. The tameness of the submission, however,
is not found to lessen the frequency of the disgraces to
which England is doomed to submit.
How comes it that England dares not now to assert
her dignity amongst the nations, as she was wont to
do, before " liberal" principles of government came
into fashion ? Has, moreover, the operation of "libe-
ralism" in our domestic policy atoned for its melan-
choly influence on our political relations with foreign
countries ? _

Has " liberalism" knit together more closely the
various orders of English society ? Is the monarchy
more secure than it was five-and-twenty years ago ? Is
the legislative authority held in higher reverence ? Are
the labouring classes more deeply attached to their em-
ployers ? Is the institution of property less exposed to
attack ? Is Ireland more firmly united to England ?
Does popery plot less actively against all our establish-
ments in church and state ?

In adopting the philosophy of "liberalism," the
rulers of England adopted the doctrine, that national
honour is an illusion—an illusion, moreover, of an ex-
ceedingly expensive kind ; and as the philosophy of
"liberalism" is the philosophy of " cheapness,' the
business of upholding and vindicating national honour
was, forthwith, declared to be no longer imperative on
English statesmen. " Liberalism" requires a " cheap"
monarchy, so long as " liberalism" shall tolerate a mo-
narchy. " Liberalism" requires a " cheap" church—
" cheap" law—" cheap" labour. But to the champions
of " liberalism," as we have observed, the maintenance
of national honour does not appear to rank among
"cheap" things—and, therefor*, the national honour
has been left to shift for itself.

England, however, begins to discover, that "libe-
ralism" is the most expensive principle that ever ex-
srted its influence on the national councils. " Libe-
ralism" as arrayed class against class at home—while
it has arrayed against the name and interests of Eng-
land. all the great nations of Europe. If England is
destined ever to escape from the meshes of her " libe-
ral" policy, she will only escape after a tenfold greater
cost in money than would have sufficed to maintain her
honour, after the fashion in which the honour of Eng-
land was wont to be maintained.