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TP:he LET, Tivo very desirable WAREHOUSES,
.pd.„Vernon-streef, at present occupied by Messrs. Mac&
;,_ ,fla. The Warehouses have a communication between
th
tp.i out will be Let eit r r separately.
itpr Particulars to Mr. Was. Navarr, 1, Rumford-
ei

)11° be DISPOSED OF (in consequence of Mr.
Field having entered into an arrangement to go to Man-
s'",ter), the GOOD-WILL and BUSINESS of the FISH and
SHOP now occupied by Messrs. Muirhead and
to the Hamilton street, Hamilton- re, Birkenhead. Owing
tonn„,,.°J4 Establishment i erpool, there is a first-rate
'Ope n'iOn tO the abo will be found a very advantageous
'ling- Ter er
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~. Liverpool.
e SOLD or LET, One of the best SHOPS in
in Colquitt-street, adjoining the Apothecaries'-
Z ii.t a moderate Price or Rent. Immediate possession may
are elti• The Premises contain Two large Show Rooms. There
kkotensive Workshops at the back, which may be had in
ton I°e, if necessary. If Sold, -fiiiirths of the Purchase-
-4,!Y may remain On Mor , for $A Term of Years.
Ql'so to be LET, „yle-streetrkenhead, Three excel-
Apply to if J. FORSHAW 5, Sweeting-street, Liverpool.
11,,1n , ,
Illi I,„„ORDER OF THE ASSIGNEES (and will be
Tit„.3uLD at a Sacrifice), by PRIVATE TREATY, the EQUI-
Wervy the three following Lots of PROPERTY, viz., Eight
at sellt substantial HOUSES, now in curse of completion
A4l°,th, within one minute's walk of the Railway station.
renthinkted Rental, £144 per annum. . Mortgage, which may
hOtt ' £llOO. This lot may be divided into two, of Four
(1,,_ s each, if required. 8' TTAGES at Litertand, pro-
inii7 an annual Rent £39. Mortgage, which may re-
dim,: 4'301 And ee Cottages, also at Litherland,
. pro-
Not( an arm ental of £22 2s. Mortgage, which may
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Hon. Secretaries

CHAPLAINCY.
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tie rest" Years, strengthens weak and fine hair, and gra-
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la4ti glo4e head from scurf, and imparts a bealltrful transpa-
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t h e growth of whiskers,iiet;lgows, muszachios, its
toVrPrising.—Bottles 2s. 6d., d le size 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.
four small, ;Is. to six ~ma
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telielvkaiiii.M.lnts the GREAT TOE JOINTS, which disfigure
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'Me; dispe7 I pain and uneasiness, and in a short time en-
tlt,ebees 'bed after twenty years' suffering. Unexceptionable
Iv-7 part are allowed to be iven indiidals in almost
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0"u• ; which will be sent free to any part of the United
"'Clhitllaeceipt of 14 or 34 postage stamps, by Mr. Beet-
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y
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Ititii rie 8., ittle regarded. No mistake can. be more injurious
the Iraptiu2?Dosition that neglect in this particular can continuejiat.n
heldllllre"„lntY. The seeds of strength or weakness are i I
oi r
tleed; ; and the majority of the fine flowing ringlets,.l
kel,i tt, LIG„or after years, are traceable to this early perm( ..
ths'4 lio t-. 8 BALM OF COLUMBIA, long celebrated for.its
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t; Sell,,`eader lair, is peculiarly fitted for
;nandlication dur-
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"ili 14 Show, ,ere personal advantages are held in anyestimalma
DpOst val ')e Without jt. For Cleansing the
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rail il the Jr' "n," leftliatel removes the scurf. For Embeld-
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t''Norte anY other article as a substitute.-13, Wellington-
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Olii A/rig-coo
Mond °nix, Lancaster-buiklings, Exchange-street
Itilllst two'--aYs, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at half-past one,
tqe' oran_ and three o'clock. Charge, Is. 3d. each. Tle
il. 1.414)1e5, as usual, at one, two, thr.ee, four, and five
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3 I ee awc h • bottlesl•
tilt 24)ctoes
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ata:ttiserne" °f a roan like Huguenin, who is a walking
41.xt„nt
), in his own behalf• All men cannot be
11013. -S. but all may promote heath, digestion,
I lind beauty of form. ,

Kiberpoot g?tanbarb,

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1852.

THE POLICY OF LORD DERBY.

EVEN the ingenuity of faction cannot, without the
most flagrant perversion of facts, deny that Lord
DERBY has declared himself with candour and
moderation. The virtue of being explicit, which
had been almost lost in public men, has been
revived in him. We have neither Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S "three courses," Lord MELBOURNE'S
gentle jokes, nor Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S petulant
desperation. Lord DERBY will adopt all the useful
social reforms now before the House. He will
proceed with the improvement of the Law ; he will
adopt that policy in relation to Education which
shall give the Church of England its proper and
legitimate weight in the teaching of the people;
and he will maintain the principle that the support
of the Church in a high position is both a duty and
a policy for every Government in England.
With respect to the necessity of just PROTECTION
to all native interests, the Earl of DERBY'S views
are sound and unchanged ; but he will not, like
the late Ministers, seek to exhibit to the eyes of
the nation the same House of Commons dragged
through the mire, by trying to make it rescind its
own vote. He will, therefore, abide the issue of
the next election. Those who see in this pro-
gramme of political conduct either selfishness or
faction, will be hard to please; but the hopeless
want of patriotic feeling in the adherents of the
late hand-to-mouth cabal is already apparent. Earl
GREY, with ultra-Whig audacity, pretended to say
that the PRIME MINISTER had proposed an
immediate duty on corn. He was corrected; but
Mr. 'VILLIERS, without reference to the QUEEN'S
service, gives notice of a motion pledging the
House to a policy of Free Trade, which Lord
DERBY has declared he will not ask the present
House to alter. The faction, however, hope to force
a dissolution, to drive the PREMIER to a course
that would not settle the question, and which
would be attended with great evils both at home
and abroad. It is not at all likely, however, that
the Ministers, even by an adverse vote, will be
driven to dissolve for some time. Lord DERBY did
not seek office. He admits that the House of Com-
mons is against him on one question, and he
therefore does not propose that question ; and if it
is factiously brought forward, an adverse division
would carry no moral weight against the Govern-
ment.

THE REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL,

WE have already intimated that the Conservatives
of Liverpool are beginning to set their house in
order, to make preparations for that appeal to the
country which we know must shortly take place.
The Constitutional Association has been occupied
for some time past with the consideration of the
subject; and the names that have been mentioned
show that they are desirous of improving the class
of men who shall represent the town. Of Sir
STRATFORD CANNING we have given the fullest
biographical account that has yet appeared ; Mr.
BERRY HORSFALL, to whom we had long looked
forward, has fixed, we believe, upon a more una-
nimous constituency; and Lord JOHN MANNERS
has written the following letter, in reply to a re-
newed application. His lordship will have to
appeal to his present constituency just now, in
consequence of having accepted office under Lord
DERBY ; and it would seem very ungracious if he
were at the same moment meditating a retreat from
them, because another borough is more important :

" Belvoir Castle, 13th January, 1852.
" MY DEAR SlR,—After the communications of last
summer, on the subject of the representation of Liver-
pool, which passed between several influential members
of the Constitutional Association and myself, I was in
hopes that, regarding me as out of the field, the attention
of the committee would be directed to procurinz two
more eligible candidates.

" I then expressed my conviction, that not only for pri-
vate and personal reasons—with which, indeed, I had no
right to trouble my correspondents, but which necessarily
helped to influence my decision—but on public grounds,
I should act rightly in declining the high honour of soli-
citine the representation of Liverpool.
" Personally flattering and grateful to my feelings, your
letter of the 10th, conveying to me the wish of the com-
mittee of the Constitutional Association that I should
become a candidate at the general election, confirms that
conviction, and increases the anxiety I then felt that a
selection should be made of two gentlemen who might
unite cordially in their favour the suffrages of all sections
of the great constitutional party in Liverpool. I must,
therefore, ask you to convey to the gentlemen in whose
name you wrote, the deep regret I feel at having to decline
an offer so honourable to a public man.
" Although, perhaps, after what I have written, it is
not necessary that I should enter at length into my views
upon the two questions on which the committee desire to
know my opinions, yet I should like in a few words frankly
to express them.

" I lay down as a general principle that no further con-
cession or encouragement, pecuniary or honorary, ought
to be made or given by the State to the Church of Rome,
and, consequently, I am hostile to any government pro-
vision for the Roman Catholic priests in Ireland ; but, in
order to act firmly and justly on that principle, 1 am of
opinion that grants, immunities, rights, or endowments,
deliberately sanctioned, for a long period of time, by the
sovereign and the legislature, must be maintained, unless
some overwhelming abuse or public evil be proved against
them. I cannot, therefore, say I am prepared to subvert
the establishment of Maynooth ; although I have voted
against, and shall continue to vote against, any additional
grant to that college that may be proposed.
" I cannot conclude this letter without giving expres-
sion, however feeble, to the sentiments of gratitude and
esteem with which I regard the gentlemen to whom I am
now virtually bidding a political farewell.
" That I possess, and in some small degree perhaps
merit, their regard and confidence, is one of the most gra-
tifying associations of my public life ; and I earnestly hope
that those personal friendships which I have been allowed
to form among them will continue undiminished.
" With my cordial and hearty thanks, and best wishes
to Mr. Molyneux and all my friends, pray believe me, my
dear Sir, very sincerely yours,
"Lawrence Peel, Esq. "JOHN MANNERS."

On the receipt of this letter, the following reso-
lution was adopted by the committee of the Con-
stitutional Association :

" Rosoiced unanimously—That this committee desire
to thank Lord John Manners for his courteous and frank
communication, and to express their deep regret that cir-
cumstances prevent his lordship from acceding to the
wishes of so many of his ardent friends that he would
again become a candidate for the representation of Liver.
pool in parliament at the next general election."

The great importance of union among Conser-
vatives is apparent from the results of last election :
and the necessity for it has been increased by the
past votes and known principles of our present

representatives. One of them has boasted that
the Roman Catholic electors are his principal ground

of support; and, considering their social status,

we wish him joy of the connexion. Noscitur a
sociis is a valuable proverb : the latter too seem
to acknowledge the companionship, for a placard
has been issued calling upon them not to pledge
their votes. With them there is unity, the par-
tizan of their creed being supported, whatever his
political opinions may be. Why should not good
men unite, when their opponents combine? Ex-
pediency, with principle, is an important virtue ;
expediency, without principle, is a detestable vice.
In general this distinction is not made; and the
man who speaks for expediency is at once con-
demned. The following admirable letter from the
pen of Dr. M‘Numit enters so fully into the sub-
ject, that we give it entire :
" Aigburth, 6th February, 1852.
" DIZAR Stas,—l have carefully considered the subject
which you brought before me on Wednesday, and the
arguments by which you urged me to Rive expression to
my view of it. I cannot agree with you in ascribing so
much importance as you seemed to do to my opinion, and
therefore I have the less difficulty in freely and frankly
giving it. _ _ _

" No one can deny the importance of the parliamentary
representation of our great town ; and few, I think, with
the experience of our last election before them, can be
blind to the importance of such a friendly and timely un-
derstanding as shall guard against fatal division among the
friends of good order, sound policy, and true religion. It
is peculiarly difficult to heal division, when that division is
the result of a conscientiousness which in itself commands
the admiration of all, and a deviation from which would
seem to forfeit our high standing for consistency and in-
tegrity.

" Perhaps one cause of national decay—one reason why
those parties in a state, who are most distinguished for
personal honour, have so frequently the least political
success—is, that in their sensitiveness, they invest politi-
cal questions with what rigidly belongs to moral principle;
and then, shrinking from what they consider unworthy
compromise, they incur an amount of division which
renders them politically helpless; while, on the other
side, men vastly their inferiors in all the higher qualities
of character, do, for that very reason, merge their
differences without feeling any sacrifice, and thus acquire
a unity of action which make them politically triumphant.
" If this he so, how vitally essential it becomes in
every Christian patriot to distinguish wisely between
unlawful compromise in matters of principle, and judi-
cious and even dutiful coalition in matters of politics.
" You know my sentiments on the Protestant question.
I believe the soundest and safest policy in the long runi n
every nation, is that which practically acknowledges the
supremacy of the law of God, and incurs any amount of
risk among men, rather than deliberately violate that law.
It is a wilful perversion of this remark, to extend it to all
the details of a theological system, and then resist it on
the ground that politicians cannot be expected to be theolo-
gians. The honest application of it requires no technical
theology or doubtful disputation. It shines in the light,
and sounds in the thunder of the decalogue. Romanism
is at once anti-Christian and anti-social. Every attempt
to make it work in sincere harmony with the British con-
stitution has failed, and must fail. English statesmen of
all parties have lost sight of this, while a large, and now a
largely increasing body of Englishmen out of doors feel it
strongly. To support and educate from the national
treasury a set of men, who are systematically taught, and
who systematically teach, idolatry against God, intoler-
ance among men, and hostility to the state which fosters
them, is palpably suicidal in principle, and unless coun-
teracted by circumstances happily compensating, must
prove suicidal in fact. It must cease, or England must
fall ; and deservedly.
" But to return to the matter practically before us—the
representation of Liverpool in the next parliament—TßlS
is not a question of abstract principle, whether on the
Protestant or any other subject. It is a question of the
best men to be found. It is not a question between the
men we have, and the men we would have, if we could
create men to our mind ; but between the men we have
and the best men we can get. Neither is it a question
between the men we have, and the men whom you and I
might consider the hest we can get. But the question is,
can we agree to do unitedly for the town and the country
the best thing which present circumstances admit of ? Or
must we continue each to elevate his own favourite sub-
ject into a final test, so as to render any coalition hopeless,
and thereby incur a greater evil than the one which each
separately deprecates ?

" I think I see an important difference between the great
principle involved in the general policy of the kingdom,
and the practical considerations involved in the selection
of the hest procurable representatives by any particular
constituency. Enactments in accordance with the highest
principle are practicable by parliament, and parliament
are responsible for such. But elections in accordance
with the highest principles are often not practicable by
constituences, because the men are not to be had, and
therefore so far constituencies are not responsible. By
losing sight of what is practicable, and aiming at what is
impracticable, though in itself preferable, we shall be de-
feating our own object ; and while we talk in the clouds, wo
shall have ourselves to blame for walking still in the mire.
" I am quite alive to the outcry which some persons of
high and sincere Christian feelings will make against all
this, as the tone and strain of an unworthy expediency. But
I must take the liberty to differ from these well-meaning
and zealous friends, and to request them to consider,
whether we may not lawfully attempt to ameliorate what
we see and confess we cannot cure ; whether we may not
do something for our country, although England is not,
and cannot be made Utopia; or, whether we must prac-
tically play the game of our opponents, because we can-
not accomplish what in every respect we would prefer
ourselves. If possessed of the elective franchise, we can-
not divest ourselves of the responsibility attending it;
neither is it possible for us to be wholly neutral. Our
franchise, as a unit in the list, must he used, either posi-
tively or negatively. If not used positively, for men who
agree with us in four questions out of five, it is used nega-
tively (we cannot escape it) for men who differ from us in
all the five questions.
" With the gentlemen you mentioned to me, Lord John
Manners and Sir Stratford Canning, I have not the
honour of any personal acquaintance ; but from what I
have recently seen in the handwriting of the noble lord,
and what we all know of the parliamentary and diplo-
matic history of the honourable baronet, I cannot hesitate
to conclude that their return would be a vast improve-
ment on our present representation. They may not be in
every respect what I would prefer, or possibly what you
would prefer ; but the question, it must be repeated, to
be determined is, not what you or I, as individuals, may
dislike or prefer. We have not the power to select after
our own choice ; and if we had, if we were the entire con-
stituency, we could not create and mould representatives
to our own especial taste, but would be obliged to take the
best we could procure.
" Considering the constitution of the House of Com-
mons, and the power possessed by an anti-British faction
to obstruct any government, should British parties con-
tinue as nearly balanced as before; considering the effect
of this in deterring any government from attempting any
great measure, domestic or foreign, (the history of last
session is a commentary upon this, for with the experience
of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill before them, what govern-
ment, with a mere measure casting majority, will attempt
any protestant reaction ?) considering also the consti-
tuency of Liverpool, so far as I am able to form a judg-
ment of its various sections, I think you would be in the
path of enlightened political duty, if you sent a nume-
rously signed requisition to the gentlemen already named.
" Some persons think that clergymen should take no
part in politics ; and if by politics they mean the personal
strife and collision inseparable from contested elections,
—if they mean the drilling and dragooning of voters at
which Romish priests have shown themselves such adepts,
I entirely agree with them. But if they mean that clergy-
men should not utter political sentiments or teach poli-
tical doctrines, I cannot agree with them, seeing that the
Bible abounds in such sentiments and doctrines. I have
at all times enunciated principles—Protestant, Protec-
tionist, Anti-slavery—which others have warmly applied,
and I hope will apply ; but at the crisis of our contested
elections, I have never done anything more than record
my own vote.

-"
I take for granted that you enter into this distinc-
tion, or you would not have come to me as a deputation
from a political body.
" I remain, dear, sirs, very faithfully yours,
" To Robt. Woodward, Esq. " HUGH M'NEILE.
Saml. Holme, Esq., and Dr. Trench."

A CANDIDATE FOR LIVERPOOL.

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At a late hour last evening we received a long letter,
which we regret we could not insert, but of which the fol.
lowing is an abstract.

After noticing the few men in which all the qualities of
a candidate concur, the writer suggests that we may be left
in a difficulty through too much caution. He objects to Sir
Stratford Canning that he is a stranger, might be long in
declaring his views, and in his diplomatic practice may
have in a great degree unlearned straightforwardness. He
also objects to the withdrawal of Conservative candidates
from other constituencies, where they might be succeeded
by Radicals, and thus the cause would be a loser and
Liverpool little of a gainer. He then enumerates the
requisites for a member, viz.—" competence, leisure,
Christian integrity, sobriety of thought and conduct,
ability to enunciate his views in a public assembly, know.
ledge of the usages in trade and commerce, courteous affa-
bility towards his fellow-men, irrespective of their prin-
ciples." These are exclusive of the two fundamental
points required by the Constitutional Association, viz.—
that he should be a sound Protestant and a Protectionist.
In all the circumstances, he proceeds to advocate the
claims of Mr. Samuel Holme, especially as connected with
" the town and trade of Liverpool," or " ships, colonies,
and commerce." He is a Protestant, a Protectionist,
possesses a talent for business and energy in the prosecu-
Sion ef any purpose. The writer signs
enailtrA, PROTESTANT AND A CONSERVATIVE.