The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-18 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

The Salford Operative Conservative Association a few days
since forwarded an address, to which were appended 1200
names, to Sir Robert Peel, thanking him for his conduct in
the transactions respecting the ministry, which will never be
forgotten. During the week the following reply has been
received from the right hon. baronet :
London, June 6, 1839.
Sir,—l have this day had the honour of receiving the ad-
dress signed by betwixt 900 and 1000 members of the Salford
Operative Conservative Association, and I beg leave to as-
sure the parties to this address, that the expressions of
esteem and confidence which it contains have given me sin-
cere satisfaction.

From my early connexion with Manchester and its neigh-
bourhood, I have peculiar gratification in acknowledging a
mark of respect and good-will from those whom I cannot
consider in the light of strangers.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your faithful and obedient servant,
ROBERT PEEL,
To Wm. Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford.

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.

There is no truth in the alleged intention of Mr. Goring to
retire from the representation of Shoreham. Ministerial
paper.

REPRESENTATION OF HULL.—Mr. James. Clay, who, at
the last general election, was a candidate for Beverley, has
accepted the invitation to be the second reform candidate for
this borough.—Hull Observer.

An opposition to Lord Fitzalan at the next election for
Arundel, is confidently spoken of. So much for his Grace's
meddling with the representation of the Rape.—Brighton
Gazette.

We have already stated that a Conservative candidate.will
be brought forward at the next election in opposition to Cap-
tain Winnington, and we believe we are correct in stating
that it will be Lord William Frederick, second son of the
Marquis of Downshire.—Worcester Journal.
A requisition has been drawn up, soliciting Mr. Roy, of
the eminent firm of Roy, Blunt, and Roy, of Great George-
4, „ans. --A:an+. ur a Va-
cancy in the representation of the borough, The requisition
is confined to no political party, there being found among the
names both Whigs and Tories, and not a few of the chief sup-
porters of the present member. The requisition has already
received the signatures of upwards of 200 persons ; and about
as many more have pledged themselves to support him in the
event of his coming for vard.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—We are authorised to
state that Lord William Bentinck has made arrangements to
resign his seat for the representation of Glasgow, on account
of continued bad health. We likewise understand that Mr.
Oswald has been prevailed upon by the Liberal party to allow
himself to be put in nomination as Lord William's successor.
Mr. Roebuck, who it was thought would be brought forward
by a portion of the electors, has written to some of his friends
in town, stating that, in the event of Mr. Oswald standing
for the representation of Glasgow, he will not think of offer-
ing any opposition to him.—Glasgow Chronicle.

A requisition has been in course of signature during the
last week calling upon Col. George Wyndham to allow him-
self to be put in nomination for West Sussex.—Brighton Ga-
zette.

REPRESENTATION OF SHREWSBURY.—We learn, from a
source likely to be well informed, that Lord Dungannon will
consent to be put in nomination for Shrewsbury at the next
general election, in oppssition either to Mr. Slaney, the pre-
sent unpopular hig member, or any other Ministerialist
who may offer himself.— Ten Towns Messenger.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH DURHAM.—The only ques-
tion is, whether two staunch conservatives . shall not be at
once brought into the field. The noble beginning of the
Darlington conservatives will have a great effect on the divi-
sion. Auckland, Barnard Castle, and Weardale cannot but
follow so glorious an example. Stockton is already pre-
pared. We would only say, let no time be lost.—Durham
Advertiser.

DUMFRIES BURGHS.—It is rumoured that General Sharpe
is about to retire [from the representation of the Dumfries
burghs, and a canvass has been commenced by the friends of
Sir Alexander Johnston, of Carsalloch, who is expected to
come forward on the Liberal interest. The Radicals, how-
ever, are in favour of Mr. Ewart, the present member for
Wigan. The Conservative pasty are looking towards Lord
W. Keith Douglas.—Scotsman.
REPRESENTATION OF ABERDEEN.—Mr. Bannerman ar-
rived here yesterday morning in the mail from Edinburgh.
The current rumour is that the honourable gentleman has
accepted a place under government (a life appointment, with
a large salary) as the reward of the services he has rendered
them during a seven years' apprenticeship. It is further be-
lieved that this office is one which cannot be held with a seat
in parliament, and that the immediate object of Mr. Banner-
man's visit to his constituents is to solicit their interest in
favour of Sir Michael Bruce, as the ministerial candidate.
We have to add, per contra, that in the event of a vacancy,
Mr. Ross, of Rossie, comes forward with the unanimous sup-
port of the conservative electors.—Aberdeen Constitutional.
COUNTY OF MID-LOTHIAN.—The county of Mid-Lothian
is now in a fair way of being rescued from the grasp of the
whigs, who contrived, by means which we will not stop to
characterise, to usurp the representation of it at the last
election. Our readers will see our reasons for drawing this
inference, in a requisition to Mr. Ramsay, of Barton, calling
upon him to come forward as a candidate, in the event of a
dissolution of parliament, and signed by nearly seven hundred
of the most respectable and influential electors in the county.
This splendid array of names is at once a pledge of success,
and an honourable testimony to the high esteem in which
Mr. Ramsay is held by the general constituency of the
county. They express themselves as having the fullest con-
fidence in his.political principles, as well as in his fitness and
ability to represent their opinions and watch over their inter-
ests in parliament. Another indication of his success may
be drawn from the fact, that among his requisitionists are a
good many who voted last year for the present member, but
who are now utterly disgusted with the humbug and hypocrisy
of whig pretensions. A third symptom that a triumph awaits
the conservative candidate, is the exceeding bitterness and
low scurrility with which Mr. Ramsay and his friends have
been assailed in the columns of our whig-radical contempo-
raries.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

The parties who within the last two or three days are said
to have had their bills thrown out by the Bank of England,
because the said bills bore the indorsements of certain
country joint-stock banks, have at least the comfort and
consolation of knowing that they have just now very distin. .
guished companions misfortune—namely, the ministers of
her most gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, who,
for two or three years past, have had nearly all their bills
thrown out or dishonoured. The course pursued by the
bank directors is complained of, and, perhaps, with reason,
as tending to shake public credit'and confidence ; but the
same cannot be said of those " lame ducks," the Queen's
ministers, for the simple reason that they never had any
credit to lose.—Herald.

FUNERAL OF SIR HERBERT TAYLOR.—The mortal re-
mains of Sir Herbert Taylor were landed at St. Katherine's
Docks, on Tuesday last, from a government steamer, in
which they had been brought from Italy, where, as our read-
ers are. aware, Sir Herbert breathed his last. The body was
enclosed in a coffin covered with crimson velvet, and imme-
diately qn being landed was placed in a hearse drawn by four
horses, and conveyed to St. Katherine's Church, in the Re-
gent's Park. followed by the attendants in a mourning coach
and four. It was then laid on trestles in the body of the
church, where it remained until yesterday, when the cere-
mony of interment was performed. No public announcement
of the intended funeral having transpired, the spectators were
comparatively but few. There was, however, a numerous
attendance of the personal friends of the deceased. Among
the most distinguished were his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquises of Camden
and Ely, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Byron,
Lord Francis Egerton, Sir William Clinton, and upwards of
100 noblemen and gentlemen. The body was deposited in
one of the vaults under the-church with the usual solemnities.
Sir Herbert Taylor had served in the army. and was one of
those officers who accompanied the expedition under the late
Duke of York in the early part of the French war. At a later
period he was better known as the confidential servant of the
sovereign, to whose interests he was faithfullynttached ; but
at all periods he was recognised as an honourable and bene-
volent man, and, though not exempted from the detractions
of political rancour and personal envy, few men have ever
risen so high with so unblemished a reputation.—Herald. I

MISCELLANEOUS.

One hundred and twenty-three tons of eggs were shipped
from Derry for Liverpool, on Friday week.

UNUSUAL FECUNDITY.—A few days since, a ewe, belong-
ing to Mr. William Dalrymple, of Ballastole, yeaned two
fine lambs, being four produced by the same prolific animal
within twenty-three weeks.—Manx Liberal.

At a village in the wilds of Kent is written over a door,
" Burdon, surgeon, carpenter, man-midwife, and school-
master; likewise fine pens and teeth drawn by the maker.
Also a curious assortment of blacking balls."
SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERAM.—The number of passen-
gers on this short but flourishing line, during the past week,
amounted to nearly 20,000 ; and during the month of May to
upwards of 50,000 !

NOTTINGHAM AND DERBY RAILWAY.—The average
number of passengers on this railway, during the past week,
has exceeded 300 daily. This is, we believe, a larger num-
ber than was generally anticipated.—. Derby Reporter.
We are happy to announce the capture of a Russian slave-
ship by one of her Majesty's cruisers. The prize is now
safely moored in Portsmouth harbour.—Ministerial paper.
John Smith, Esq., of Almshurst Hall, has, it is said, con-
tributed £5OO towards the building of a new church at Wall,
near Lichfield, and that the Rev. Burnes Floyer, of Alder-
sham, has given a piece of land for the erection.— Worcester
Journal.

THE CARLOW ELECTION.—Taking the average of the
expense of each party at £125 a day, which is an estimate
greatly under the mark, the inquiry has already cost the
parties engaged in it about £lO,OOO ; so that contesting an
Irish borough is rather a questionable piece of financial po-
licy.—Morning Post.

FOGGY.—They have some tremendous fogs at Thibodeaux-
♦ille. The editor of the Intelligences there says, that at
certain periods they have it so thick that those who have
occasion to go out of doors after sun-down cut notches in it
to feel their way home again ! We give up.—Picayune.
HOLYHEAD.—This place has not been visited for several
years by such a terrific thunder-storm as the one that oc-
curred on Thursday last. During the whole of the forenoon
the lightning and thunder were awful, accompanied by a
stormy gale from the eastward, and heavy falls of rain ; but
fortunately no damage was done.

DEATH OF THE HON. GEORGE TALBOT.—It is with deep
regret we announce the demise of the above gentleman,
which took place on Tuesday last. The late hon. gentle-
man was heir presumptive of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and
married, in 1829, a daughter of Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart.,
by whom he leaves issue a young family.—Herald.

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GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Tuesday, as two of Mr. Hop-
wood's gamekeepers were on duty at Hopwood, in passing a
gap in a hedge, the gun of one of them, named Taylor, went
off, and lodged the shot of pellets near the groin of the
other, who was named Howarth. The wounded man was
taken care of, and is likely to be better, though the wound is
of a serious description.
DEATH OF PRINCE BORGHESE.—lntelligence has just
reached us of the death of the above distinguished Italian
nobleman, at his palace at Rome. Prince Sulmonia succeeds
his illustrious parent in his titles and riches. The present
prince, as will be recollected by a considerable portion of our
readers, married the Lady Gwendaline Catherine Talbot,
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, and
sister of the Princess Doria Pamphilli, in 1835.
Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE-ARMS.—Another example of the
improvidence of placing loaded guns within the reach of
children, has this week occurred in the neighbourhood of
Abermule, Montgomeryshire, by which a child of Richard
Gough, four or five years of age, was shot. It appears that
the gun was placed upon a kiln, when two children, who
were playing, found it, and in the course of a few seconds the
gun went off, dreadfully lacerating the arm and face of one
of them. It was thought that its life might have been saved
by amputation ; but, prior to the operation, the poor child
died.

We perceive that the Rev. T. P. Pope, the controversialist,
is about to fulfil the promise he made the public at the time
of the last discussion between Gregg and Maguire. He is
about publishing a volume containing the several misquota-
tions from the Fathers which Father Maguire adduced at
the former discussion, and by which he was enabled to make
the appearance of a stand. The work is likely to be a most
valuable one.—Limerick Standard.

•OPENING OF TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—In
the course of a week or ten days the genius of steam, with
all its attendant cogs and fly-wheels and cylinders, will be in
full operation between Romford and the metropolis, whisk-
ing the good people to and fro, and pouring the wheat and
the oxen, ay, and the calves of Essex, into the lap of Lon-
don. The line, in fact, will be opened to the public gene-
rally on the 20th instant from the temporary station in De-
vonshire-street, near the Mile-end turnpike, to Barrack-
lane. Romford ; but the formal opening will take place on
the 18th, when the directors, accompanied by many of the
nobility, and a large party of the friends of the undertaking,
will give it what we in the country call " a hansel."—Essex
Herald.

RECIPROCAL LIBERALITY.—On Sunday week two sermons
were preached at the new church, Rawtenstall, near Bury,
in support of the Sunday schools recently established there.
The Rev. Hugh Allen, of St. John's, Bury, made an eloquent
appeal for support of the children of the poor, and £5O were
collected, being £l5 more than was obtained at the opening
of the schools last year. The old connexion of the Wesleyan
Methodists showed their sympathy on this occasion, by
closing their place of worship, that the congregation might
give their aid to so laudable an object; and, in return, the
Rev. Mr. Whitworth, the worthy pastor of Rawtenstall, sus-
pended the service at the new church, on Sunday last,
to give his flock an opportunity to attend the sermon
preached for the benefit of the schools founded by the Wes-
leyan Methodists. " Righteousness and peace kiss each
other."

SWISS PRINTED CALICOES. But few persons, except
those immediately concerned in the transactions. can form
any idea of the extent to which this business is conducted
even in Manchester. The goods, however, are mainly, if
not entirely for export. By the warehousing act, it is well-
known that any foreign produce or manufacture may be
warehoused in London, &c., without paying duty, if again
reshipped. The Swiss are now thus warehousing their prints.
A short time ago an agent offered, by pattern of course,
some thousand pieces to one of the Manchester export firms,
and who took every piece offered to them. Great indeed
1.. 41.. ...,.nuence in thot,o cor,iguers, when such heavy
transactions can be thus silently, satisfactorily, and efficiently
conducted, without the goods ever seeing the light.
DANGEROUS FAMILIARITY.—OR Tuesday afternoon, an
accident occurred in the Surry Zoological Gardens. A
policeman, named Michael Maddigan, of the P division, who
was on duty in the gardens, approached the den in which a
large polar bear is kept, and, placing one of his arms within
the iron bars, began to stroke down the animal's head.
Bruin, however, not relishing such a degree of intimacy,
seized the policeman's hand between his paws, and gave him
such a squeeze as to make him cry aloud for help. Mr.
Cross ran to the spot, and, finding that the bear still firm
kept hold of Maddigan's hand, instantly threw a large bone
into the cage, and the bear relinquished his grasp, and seized
upon the bone. The policeman's hand was found to be
dreadfully lacerated, and he was sent to the hospital.
THE DUBLIN REGISTRATION.—The Central Conservative
Registration Committee have furnished a tabular statement
for the information of Conservative friends, showing the ex-
act position of each party up to the evening of Saturday,
the Bth inst., at the city registry now going on. From this
table it appears that 547 Conservative voters were brought
up from the 6th of May to the Bth of June-9 were rejected-
-367 re-registered-6 stand for decision-160 registered under
the new, and 367 under the old registry. It also appears that
446 Radicals were brought up from the same period-25 re-
jected-199 re-registered-23 stand-205 registered under the
old—and 199 under the new. Conservatives have a majority
this sessions on the re-registry of the original constituency,
created under the Reform Bill in 1832, of 168. The great
struggle now between the two parties is to re-establish its
original constituency, now near expiring, created under the
Reform Bill in 1832, and it has become a striking exempli-
fication of the soundness and stability of honest Conservative
legislation, as compared with a constituency mainly created
by fraud and perjury in 1832. The true position of Mr.
O'Connell, who lately declared to his committee, in West-
moreland-street, " that he would return to Kilkenny, stick
to Kilkenny, and not again stand for Dublin," may be read
in the following statement :—At the general election in 1832,
when the constituency of Dublin amounted to 6908, he had
a majority of 1574 over the conservative candidate. In 1835
with a constituency of 7114, he had a majority of 223 only.
In 1837, with a constituency of 11,406, a nominal and fictiti-
ous majority of 95. The defeat of the honorable gentleman,
if he again tries his hand in Dublin, will be certain. It would
be worth a dissolution to send him to the " smart roving
blades of Kilkenny."
A NICE JOB FOR LORD NUGENT.—We hope that some
individual, of genius equal to the task, will ofccupy the va-
cation with writing the history of the cabinet achievements
during the session. Without any desire to prejudice the
question, and with quite as little to prejudice the claims of
other aspirants, we think that Lord Nugent should be the
man. His lordship has so long retired from the tumults of
public life, that his name would start upon the world with
some freshness. His style, ponderous as himself, would add
weight to any subject ; and his feelings, capable of being ut-
tered in no language but his own, alternately maudlin and
mistified, would mingle the due degree of solemnity with the
rather too exuberant gaieties of the bedchamber ministry.—
His lordship's whiggism might flame out in panegyric on the
Roman fortitude with which the premier clings to his place,
and the romantic self-denial with which his subordinate lord-
lings forego their own principles, and declare themselves
ready to steer to any point of the compass in submission to
his lordship, and their hope of salary. The more than French
facility with which Lord Normanby smiles in Mr. O'Connell's
face in Ireland, and sneers at him when the breadth of Eng-
land lies between, would make a capital chapter ; and the
mixture of the Jesuit and the Jew, the happy melange of craft
and covetousness, which makes Spring Rice fit for a trea-
surer in any land, from Algiers to Japan, under the govern-
ment of any pacha or Tartar alive, would furnish a subject
which Lord Nugent's well known skill in sketching could not
suffer to escape. We feel that his lordship will thank us for
providing for the leisure hours of a whig out of place. The
ex-Governor of Zante certainly ought to have some " plums
to pick ;" and if he cannot gather grapes from the treasury
thistles, we wish him to prosper in attacks and albums.—
The Britannia.

THE CHARTISTS.—The first number of a periodical paper
was issued at Heywood, on Thursday, the 6th instant, con-
taining two articles, the one entitled "An address to the
friends of liberty," and signed Thomas Grimshaw •, the other,
" The Convention," and signed Job Plant. Both these in-
dividuals have become conspicuous in that neighbourhood as
chartist agitators ; but it appears they have now found out
their mistake. Grimshaw complains that the " money-
hunting radicals at Bury wish to crush him as an individual,
because he will not acquiesce in the corrupt and sinister mo-
tives of professing friends to liberty, or the procrastinating,
tergiversating, and pusillanimous proceedings of the national
convention.' Job Plant is still more angry at his former as-
sociates, and calls them " knaves who are seeking their indi-
vidual advantage, and unworthy of the people's confidence."
He divides his subject into three heads—" the character of
the delegates—the trust reposed in them—and lastly, their
conduct and measures." He says, " When the delegates first
met in London, they had a public dinner ; they broke up at
eleven o'clock at night ; and after that, there was drinking
and dancing till a late hour in the morning, whilst those who
sent them were literally starving. Such conduct developes
the dissolute and reckless character of men who could thus
wanton in the life's blood of the people. It is manifest that
the selfish part of the convention were numerous, hence their
horse-leach cry ' Give, give ! ' to the national rent. Who
but greedy men could waste the people's money by riding in
cabs through London streets to public meetings, and call for
liberal supplies in addition to liberal pay when agitating ? The
cockney squad would have wasted the funds of the convention
in one month, and the Birmingham men, and some Ira' be-
yond the Tweed, were no better." Such is the language,
word for word, of the Heywood chartist. Good `Job' concludes
his observations on the convention in the following manner :
—" When we consider," says he, that they have been fifteen
weeks in London, receiving from the public from lOs to 21s
per day, for doing nothing at all but taking down the petition
to the Birmingham moneyerat' s lobby, I challenge any one to
say they have not been acting a mean and base part. Some of
the most noted among them have assumed a more despostic
tone than either whig or tory lord. They say, if any man
condemns the convention, turn him out of your society, and
denounce him for a traitor ! Is not this despotism in its
worst form ? Is it not the spell of priestcraft ? and no doubt
of a vile priesthood have they learned it ; the convention be-
gan ill, it has carried on ill, and it will die of a putrid disease
—its own consumption."—Mancheoter Guardian.