The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-28 00:00:00

THE WIGAN ELECTION

Mr.' EwAna. brought forward the motion of which he had
given notice, relative to the conduct of certain parties at the
late Wigan election.
Mr. G. W. HOPE contended that the case was not one
which required the intervention of that house. In the most
important case the parties had been tried and acquitted by a
court of law. Another had not been prosecuted, which
would, and ought to have been, if the complaint were true ;
and the honourable gentleman had not attempted to prove
the complaints on the petition against his own election,
though his agent claimed to put the men on the poll. In
another case, where a voter was said to have been conveyed
away in a state of stupor and unconsciousness, the man left
the town voluntarily. In another case, where a man was
taken up in the streets at one o'clock in the morning, and
carried away in a chaise, it turned out that he had been on
the watch for voters of the other side, and was taken away
to a public-house. Another case was complained of in
which a voter was said to have been terrified by a number of
persons making a noise before his door the night before the
election took place. He admitted that cases of the kind
here complained of ought to be put an end to if possible, but
the question was, how was an end to be put to them ? They
were simple breaches of the peace—they were open to prose-
cution. They had the parties tried in one case, and, because
they were defeated in it, abandoned the others.

Mr. WARBURTON' complained of the frequency of the
practices complained of, and said it would have been folly for
the hon. gentleman to have carried on an inquiry at his own
expense, after his object was attained.
Mr. C. W. WYNN objected to the principle of passing by
the regular tribunal of the country, and appealing to an un-
sworn committee of that house.

Mr. AGLIONBY argued that there was no protection agains
such practices but the ballot. _

Lord DUNGANNON said, that by the introduction of the
ballot the very evils of which the hon. gentleman complained
would be rendered tenfold more frequent.
Lord HOWICK was of opinion that the best place for such
investigation was a court of law, and then the agents could
ascertain who were the employers.
Sir ROBERT PEEL objected to the motion, as one which
would involve a most extensive, and at the same time a most
useless inquiry. In this, as in all matters relating to con-
tested election, he believed there were exaggerations on both
sides, and he also believed that it would be impossible to in-
troduce any legislative measure to remedy the defect which
would not be productive of greater evil.
Mr. BROTHERTON thought it was the duty of the house
to adopt some measure by which to discountenance such pro-
ceedings as had taken place at Wigan. - In one instance in
which he (Mr. Brotherton) was interested, a paralytic elector,
who had intended to vote for him, was taken in a coach two
miles off, by parties who pretended to take him to the polling
place.

Mr. WILSON PATTEN hoped the hon. gentleman would
withdraw his motion. The accusation was not confined to
one side of the house.

Mr. EwituT would persist in his motion, as he thought the
house ought to take some vigorous step to put down these
practices.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion.
Against it.
Majority
_ COLONISATION EMIGRANTS

Mr. WARD then moved a series of resolutions regarding
the occupation and, cultivation of waste lands in the British
colonies, by means of emigration.
Mr. LABOUdHERE and Lord HowicK admitted that be-
nefit might result from obsetvin,g The principles recognised
by them in the future conduct regarding the appropriation of
colonial lands, and the encouragement given to emigration.
After a lengthened`debate the resolutions were withdrawn.
The house was then counted out.

The House of Lords did not meet on Wednesday night,
and the members of the house of Commons did not assemble
in sufficient number to make a House.

Mr. George Robins has had a retainer in the shape of
2,000 guineas, from New York, to go thus far to sell, and in
one day, 100,000 acres of land, with liberty to return in 48
hours after the auction; and independently of the expenses
attendant on the Great Western there and back.

SAGO BREAD.—To four pounds of pearl sago, four pints of
warm water, over night, stir together ; the following day mix
it with eight pounds of flour, and set the sponge in the usual
way. Use four pounds more flour to make the dough, which
will, when baked, produce twenty-three or twenty-four
pounds of excellent bread, superior in many respects to
bread made from flour only.

THE PRINCE'S-STREET MURDER.—This horrible tran-
saction being still shrouded in mystery, Mr. Pearce, the friend
of the unfortunate Mr: 'Westwood; has; in addition to £2OO
already offered by him, caused bills to be published, pro-
mising £lOO more; making, with the reward (and pardon)
offered to be paid by government, the large sum of £5OO. Al-
though this or any other additional amount is unnecessary to
stimulate the police, who are indefatigably on the alert to
discover the barbarous murderers, it will probably induce one
of the confidants of the wretches to do an act of justice by
delivering them into the hands of the law.—Herald.
Our mercantile accounts from Rio Janeiro to the latter
part of April state that the coffee crop presented a favourable
appearance, and promised to be a 'Very abundant one, although
it was expected to be later than usual. The favourable ac-
counts from Europe had contributed to keep up the price,
and orders to a large extent had been received from America
and the north of Europe. The exportations from the Ist of
January to the Ist of Aprilhave been 295,593 bales, of which
31,882 were for England. Little animation was in the mar-
ket for hides ; the stock was about 30,000, and the major
part of ordinary quality.—Herald.

TALACRE COAL COMPANY.—This spirited company some
time ago purchased a tract of two thousand acres of land in
Flintshire, under which lie two seams of excellent coals, be-
side iron, which, by admeasurement, comprise 37,981,230
tons, enough at 100,000 tons a year to supply Dublin and its
vicinity for two hundred years to come. The first seam four
yards thick, lies seventy-four yards from the surface. It has
been calculated that the profit on this article alone, at about
half the actual amount will realise £6,000,000. Fortune has
already attended the efforts of the company. On Friday last
the men employed, about one hundred, struck into a large
body of coal. On the same day the workmen headed by some
of the proprietors, with flags, and a band of music, went in
procession to Talacre, the seat of Sir Edward Mostyn, Bart.
the spirited Lord of the Manor, with a load of the newly dis-
covered coal, and also with another load to John Douglas,
Esq. of Gryn, another landed proprietor of the coal field and
a load to the vicar of the parish. The coal turns out to be
of the best quality, being full of bitumen and entirely free
from sulphur.—Chester Gazette.
THE FASHIONABLES AT MANCHESTER CHEATED.—SOMC
of the higher families resident in the town of Manchester,
who are in the habit of attending the concerts there, seem to
think it exceedingly fashionable to leave the concert room
just previous to the performance of the last piece in the pro-
gramme, regardless of the annoyance which their premature
departure occasions to those who wish to hear the whole of
the music undisturbed. These parties were completely taken
in on Wednesday evening week, whether by accident or de-
sign of the direction is not known ; but the circumstance ap-
pears to have given great satisfaction to those whom they
had been accustomed to inconvenience. The last piece in the
scheme was entirely omitted without any previous notice of
the intention to make the alteration having been given, and
for once the audience'remained to the close of the concert, a
change from disorder and confusion to their opposites, which
was novel and agreeable.

FIRE IN A COAL PIT.—A remarkable circumstance has
occurred at one of the coal-works near Oswestry, by the ig-
nition or spontaneous combustion of an immense heap of lime
coal, or " slack," amounting, it is said, to between 2,000 and
3,000 tons ; and a loss, we regret to state, to the enterprising
proprietors of about £4OO. This great body had been thrown
together from time to time in a damp state, and caused the
above singular combustion. It was discovered smokaig and
burning about, a fortnight ago, and all the colliers, &c. were
immediately set to work in removing the coal in small heaps
about the grOund, !mit a great body of the interior remains
burning, and the: spot has been visited by hundreds of per-
sons.—Shreteibyry Chronicle;
POPISH
AND BLASPHEMYPERVERSION OF SCRIPTURE.
—ln the awfully blasphemous account of the Canonization of
five Saints (that is, dead men) at Rome, lately published in,
the Dublin Freeman's Journal, and to which we recently al-
luded, the following passage occurs :—" This august and
magnificent temple,' (Saint Peter's,) "to whose beauty and
splendour new lustre was thus added, ornamented as it was
with costly decorations which baffle all description, and
blazing with innumerable lights, resembled (how ?) that holy.
city, THE NE3V JERUSALEM, which the Apostle saw in the
Apocalypse ascend from earth to heaven, decorated as a bride,
who is dressed to meet the bridegroom." This is the only
passage we could find in this elaborately written piece of
abomination, in which, there is any allusion to the Holy
Scriptures. Now here is the orig
,inal to which this refers,
‘0 And I John, , saw, the Holy Spirit, new Jerusalem COiIING
DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband." Revelation xxi. 2.—Here we
have the sacred text predisely inverted, and that by persons
who set themselves forth as the only safe interpreters of it
for others. Surely these teachers have been judicially
blinded ; and that person is blind who cannot see this glaring
fact. May the Lord's people soon come out of her, that they
be not partakers of her sins, and that they receive not of the
plagues. (Rev. xviii. 2.)—Ulster Times.
ROMANTIC AFFAIR.—As a young woman, about the deli-
cate age of eighteen, named Mary Anne Conway, daughter
to a widow Conway, shopkeeper of Mary-street, in this
city, was walking on the Corbally-road, in the suburbs of
Limerick, at between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday
morning last, she was met by a young man of the name of
John- Gleeson, clerk in a pawn-office, in this city, who,
assisted by two other men, forcibly thrust her into a covered
car in which they all four. drove off at a rapid rate in the
direction of the county Clare mountains. Mr. Ralph' Wil-
son, of Patrick-street, having witnessed the scene, imme-
diately put chief constable Clements in possession of the
facts, when the latter mounted his horse, and accompanied
by a mounted constable (Lysaght), rode after the fugitives,
with whom they came up, after travelling near thirteen miles,
at a place called Tulla. The young woman then stated in
positive terms to the chief constable that she had been forci-
bly carried off as described, on which the latter dismounted,
got into the car, and, turning the horse's head in the direction
of home, had them all brought before Mr. Vokes, at the
Police office, the same evening. Here, in consequence of
the young woman alleging that she went with Gleeson vo-
luntarily, (but which Gleeson on the way back begged of her
in the chief constable's hearing to allege,) the accused was
discharged. She was married the same evening to a young
man of the name. of James Kennedy, clerk in the Dover
Castle steam-packet office, her mother thinking it the most
prudent way to get her off her hands at once. The mother
agreed to give her a fortune of £3OO, and they were spliced ;
but we are given to understand that Mary Anne held out for
several hours in favour of Gleeson, to whom she was strongly
attached, and that it was with some difficulty she was induced
to transfer her regards to Kennedy.—Limerick Standard.