The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES.

Sir,—The approaching dissolution of parliament, remind-
ing electors, as it does, of their privilege in possessing the
franchise, calls on them also to exercise it conscientiously.
To those who acknowledge it a duty to do so I address
myself, in the hope of inducing them to agree on some terms
of union among themselves, and on some stipulations with
candidates for their votes which shall regard the good of their
country rather than the support of party.
It is, I assume, a point on which, in the abstract, there
will be no difference of opinion among us, that what the
Holy Spirit spake to David is applicable now as formerly—
namely, that he who ruled' over men must be just, ruling
in the fear of God ;" and that the rule by which Jethro
advised Moses to be guided in his selection of members of
a legislative body is that by which every sensible man should,
as far as possible, be actuated at the present day—that is to
say, he should " provide out of all the people able men, such
as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness."
Do you think that the members of the present House of
Commons would ever have obtained a seat there if their con-
stituents generally had regarded this rule ? Do you not
think that if you had done so, many worthier men would
have been found in it ? Are you everywhere so few as to
have no influence ? Have you ever really tried to exercise
it ? Is it an obsolete or an unchangeable truth, "Them that
honour me I will honour? and they that despise me shall be
lightly esteemed?" Or is it inapplicable to politics? What
are politics but the application of moral principles to ques-
tions affecting large sections of mankind? And if so, when
the moral system of legislators is unsound, their measures
must be unwise, and their country, to a great extent, un-
happy. Now, though this unhappiness may be traceable
immediately to their misgovernment, is it not ultimately to
your unfaithfulness in choosing them to govern? God's
glory having been disregarded in your choice of legislators,
God's blessing has been withheld from the policy of the un-
godly objects of your choice. You may say you have peti-
tioned from time to time for what is right, but have seen
your petitions as so much waste paper, and deservedly.
Your representatives may read your wishes in your petitions,
but they learn your resolutions from your votes. Comparing
them together, they justly infer, that measures are less im-
portant to you than men, and act accordingly.
You assume that you cannot find such men as you would
wish to see in parliament ; or that it would be hopeless to
bring them forward as candidates if you could find them.
Without stopping to inquire bow far your assumption is
correct, you cannot deny that you may, if you please, annex
conditions to your votes, and agree among yourselves what
those conditions shall be. Let me not hear in reply that the
system of pledges is bad, and that our reprenstatives ought
to be perfectly free,to exercise their judgment as they think
fit. I rejoin, that a pledge to follow a certain leader (which
is freely asked, and freely given) or to vote according to
instructions from constituents, from time to time, is bad :
but a pledge that not merely principles, but measures which
you clearly see to be required by the state of society, shall be
advocated by those who are to represent you, is reasonable
and constitutional. To make a man pledge himself to the
maintenance of your unexpressed opinions, or to the advocacy
of undefined measures, is indeed to make him a delegate ;
but to require his support of those which are avowed is in-
volved in the very idea of a representative. And not to do
so, is to violate a trust to please an individual or support a
party.
I ask, then, for a union which " glory to God, and good-
will to men," shall be the basis ; anti certain measures (to be
agreed on) the immediate object. Neither principles nor
propositions separately will do. Principles alone will be too
abstract, propositions too unconnected, to ensure extensive
co-operation or practical good. We have the former already
in the Christian Influence Society ; the latter in detached
portions in various associations of men. But these, from
their disjunction, are feebly supported ; and those, from their
apparent vagueness, unpopular ; and so, little is done for
either. Their respective supporters are beaten in detail by
the common antagonists of all. But if they who profess to
be actuated by the principles above mentioned would cordially
support every measure fairly deducible from either, while
some might lead in one thing, others in another, the success
of this unity of purpose and effort might be as striking as
the failure of insulated efforts now is.

Inferring present duty from the application of principles to
circumstances, I should say that religion requires the recog-
nition of God's will by the state, and, therefore requires also
church extension, and church efficiency too ; scriptural edu-
cation, the honour of the Lord's day, and the abandonment
of all legislative connexion with idolatry, both at home and
abroad.

Patriotism requires that men should be ipso facto disqua-
lified for a seat in the legislature, who will not deny the vali-
dity of declarations and decrees which authorise the persecu-
tion of heretics, and mental reservation in taking an oath.
It is not enough that they profess their abjuration of such
doctrines; they must formally deny the authority of official
documents which propound them. The insufficiency of the
general disclaimer, and the necessity of a formal denial of
authoritative decrees are unanswerably proved by O'Connell's
declaration on Mr. Colqulionn motion. I abhor the in-
tolerant and perfidious maxims_
imputedtous. I believe all
that is taught at Maynooth." Now, it is well known that
the persecution of heretics, and the invalidity of oaths con-
trary to the interest of the IZomish church, are taught there.
i Humanity requires that, n legislating for the poor, they
should be cherished as brethren, not cast off as an incum-
brance ; and therefore that they should not be allowed to be
immolated to avarice, as they now are under our workhouse
and factory systems ; that oppression should be prevented or
energeticallypunishein our colonies ; and that worst form of it slavery,
thwarted wherever our influence can be exerted
for its depression.
Though, for distinctness sake, I have placed these mea-
sures under different heads, it is plain that the "glory of
God and good will to men" concur in requiring them all.
What, then, can be more unseemly than the union of corn-
passiion for children in factories with oppression of the poor
in
workhouses; or, conversely, ardour in behalf of the poor,
with insensibility to the misery inflicted by the avaricious
head of a factory or tyrannical possessor of slaves ?
&O
what more offensive to the Most High than Founteptp Ing
to
idolatry to propitiate idolatore, discountenancing religion

please the covetous, or voting the public funds indifferently
for the propagation of truth and error? The result of this
preference of policy to pfinciNe is, first, a blight on it from
God, and then disappointment and discredit before men,
disunion in council, and irresolution in action ; place eluding
one's grasp, near in prospect, but far from possession.
I would just remark, that if some of us are right in infer-
ring from certain "obscure passages in Revelation" (as they
are called by Mr. Ward, M.P., who deprecates in applica-
tion to " our miserable politics," intimations which he would
indeed prize if they did but originate in human sagacity in-
stead of Divine foresight), that lawlessness, with all its at-
tendant evils, is lowering over Christendom, it is peculiarly
the duty of a Christian patriot to bring his religion to bear
on his politics ; that, whatever may befall socie:y, he may at
least have the consolation of reflecting that he has neither
given just cause of discontent to his fellow-men, nor pro-
voked God to leave him undirected or unsupported in the
time of trial. If, then, principle be any thing more than a
mere term with you, do refuse your suffrages to the as-
serters of privilege above law, to the advocates of the inter-
ests of the sick before the rights of the poor, and to those
who, excluding religion from politics, are careless whether
they honour God or not, provided they strengthen their
party. And do unite in each constituency, and agree on cer-
tain measures—measures as well as principles—the advocacy
of which shall be indispensable conditions of electoral sup-
port. If you cannot get all you would, you will get a good
deal if you speak clearly and stand firm. Candidates may
affect the magnanimous, and eschew pledges. I suspect,
however, that they will descend from their loftiness, and give
a few, if they can obtain a considerable increase of votes by
doing so. And then we may have tke happiness of better
legislation than we have had lately, if not of better legisla-
tors.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
Portsea, June 3. EDMUND DEWDNEY.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—Last night the performances were
under the patronage of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell. The
house was brilliantly and fashionably attended—a strong
contrast with the bare benches of Friday night, under the
distinguished countenance of Sir Joshua Walmsley. The
members were loudly cheered on entering and leaving the
house. In "As You Like It," Mr. George Vandenhoff
played Orlando very cleverly ; Mr. Vandenhoff Jacques, and
Miss Vandenhoff Rosalind. The performances went off ex-
tremely well.
Nxws FROM AMERICA.—The packet-ship George Wash-
ington, which left New York on the 7th inst., arrived here
on Sunday evening. A correspondence had taken place be-
tween the British minister and the secretary of state for the
United States. The former gentleman demands the imme-
diate liberation of M`Leod, but the secretary proceeds in
reply to state at great length the seasons which bad influ-
enced the President in refusing to comply with it. The news
from England, taken out by the Acadia, which arrived at
Boston on the 3d inst., produced an unfavourable effect on
the New York market.

ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION OF LORD SANDON AND
MR. CRESSWELL ON THE CORN EXCHANGE.-OTI Friday
our excellent and distinguished candidates proceeded to the
Corn Exchange, accompanied by Sir Thomas Brancker,
where they were greeted with the enthusiastic applause of the
assembled body of the merchants of the port, in a manner
so hearty as to prove to the most fastidious observer that
their late votes and proceedings in the House of Commons
had met with the warmest approbation of their enlightened
constituency. His lordship and Mr. Cresswell acknowledged
the compliment paid them in the most respectful and heart.
felt manner. The cheering continued during the whole time
that they remained in the Exchange conversing with their
friends and acquaintances, and was redoubled with energy
and animation as they proceeded through the spacious struc-
ture.

THE ELECTIONS FOR LANCASHIRE.—The writ arrived in
this town on Friday night, and was immediately read, and
the nomination fixed for this morning, and the polling for
to-morrow. The elections for the various boroughs in this
county would, in all probability. bare taken place a day ear-
lier, but Sir George Grey having, early last week, been ap-
pointed to the Chancellorship of the Duchy, in the place of
the Earl of Clarendon, appointed Lord Privy Seal, the seal
of the office, which is deposited with the clerks of the crown,
in Preston, bad to be sent to London, for the formal confer-
ment of the office on the new Chancellor. When, therefore,
the writs reached Preston, on Thursday morning, the seal
was not at hand ; and it was only returned on Friday morn-
ing, about eleven o(clock. No time was, of course, lost in
affixing the seal, and issuing the writs immediately.
TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM.—On Tuesday last, about 30
g9tlemen sat down to a sumptuous and elegant dinner,
given by Mr. Singleton Cooper, on his taking leave of his
friends previously to his retirement from business, on which
occasion a handsome service of plate, consisting of tea-pot,
sugar-basin, and cream-jug, was presented to him, as a tes-
timonial of respect and esteem for the manner in which be
has conducted himself as a gentleman and as an Honest and
straightforward man of business ; alse, a handsome bible
and prayer-book, as a further testimony of his painstaking
advocacy for the spread of sound and genuine Protestant
principles. Many neat and appropriate speeches were de-
livered in the course of the evening ; and se earnest and co.
gent was the reasoning of most of them, that one gentleman,
who had hitherto been in the ranks of the radical party,
manfully avowed the recantation of his principles, and stated
that he would henceforward become a conservative of a de-
cided character.

LAST GLIMPSE OF TUE PRESIDENT.--The packet-ship
Orpheus, Captain Cole, which sailed hence on the 11th of
March, in company with the ill-fated President, arrived yes-
terday from Liverpool. Captain Cole had the last glimpse of
the steamer on the morning of the 12th of March, the day
before the most terrific gale that ever blew on our coast.
Nothing has been heard or seen of her since that morning,
unless the wreck seen by Captain Bowman was her. Many
and many a person will remember that dreadful gale which
raged for two days, the 13th and 14th of March, strewing the
broad Atlantic for miles with spars, masts, hulls, and wrecks,
of all kinds. Captain Cole said he never experienced such
another. So strong did the wind blow that it took the sails
furled tightly on the yards of the Oxford completely off, and
tore them into rags. And Captain Comstock, of the steamer
Massachusetts, who was in Long Island Sound on the first
night, reports that he never passed through such a night.
That he and all his passengers were saved was a miracle.
Several of the passengers say that they are indebted to the
skill and coolness of the captain for their lives. We give
these facts to show the severity of the gale the President, with
her heavy, bulky machinery, had to encounter when only two
days out.—. New York Paper, June 1.
The population of Preston is now 51,000.
PATAtITY OF THEATRIS.—Drury-lane was built in 1662,
destroyed by fire in 1672, rebuilt in 1674. and burned down
three years after. It was again burned down in 1809. Co.
rent-Garden Theatre was built in 1783, and destroyed by
fire in 1808. Her Majesty's Theatre opened in 1704, and
was burned down in 1789. Pantheon, Oxford-street, built
in 1772, burned down in 1784, and eight years afterwards
was again destroyed by fire. Surrey Theatre destroyed in
1805. Royalty Theatre burned down in 1819. English
Opera-house destroyed by fire in 1830.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISII. &.—The power of the journalist
is immense. Experience enables us to assert confidently,
that twenty thousand addresses, printed separately, and cir-
culated with the utmost energetic diligence, would not pro-
duce the effect of one advertisement.—New Monthly Ma-
gazine.
A magnificent building has recently been erected at South
Shields, which is to be consecrated for the performance of
religious service, according to the rites of the Roman Catho.
lie church. Three hundred years have elapsed since the abo-
minable delusions of Popery were advocated in this town ;
and the attempt to erect a Catholic church would have sig-
nally failed in this instance, had not the subscriptions been
vastlyhacreased by the misplaced liberality of several wealthy
Protestant gentlemen.
Paris, it is hinted in high quarters, is soon again to become
the scene of festivity, in consequence of the marriage of a
member of the royal family. The exalted personage alluded
to is not the Prince de Joinville with a Princess of Holland,
but the Princess Clementine with the brother of Prince
Albert, consort of the Queen of England. The King and
Queen of the Belgians are to grace the nuptials with their
presence. Their Majesties are expected in Paris in about it
month hence, and preparations are already commenced for
their reception at the Tuileries.

Mr. George Stone, of Taunton, solicitor, retired to rest a
few nights ago, but could not sleep, through indisposition.
Ile therefore occupied himself in reading a newspaper until
two in the morning, when he extinguished his light, and
soon heard a cough in his room. This alarmed him, and he
continued to lie awake for some time. At length, however,
he fell asleep, but was roused in about ten minutes after, by
hearing the newspaper rustle. He sprang up, and perceived
a man creeping from under the bed, who eluded his grasp,
and succeeded in getting clear off. It would seem that the
fellow had secreted himself for some villanous purpose, and
when he found the day breaking, thought it necessary to
make a bold escape.
EXTRAORDINARY INGENUITY.—We noticed in a para-
graph under this head, a short time since, a very clever little
piece of mechanism—a model steam-engine, then to be seen
in a shopwindow opposite the Eastern Institution, Commer-
cial-road East. Stimulated by the approbation bestowed on
him by several eminent practical engineers, who examined
his first model, the inventor (a watch-maker) has attempted,
and indeed succeeded in producing an engine of much smaller
dimensions than the one previously noticed : and in the same
windowdu c
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mafymnoowdernbe steimeneso,nevioxf., thae mwoosrtkeinxgtramoorddienlarsytelawmo:
engine, the weight of which, including engine, boiler, safety-
valves, fly-wheel, stop-cocks, feed-pipes, and all the other
et ceteras, does not exceed three pennyweights. The cylinder
is less than the 16th of an inch in diameter, and it has been
calculated that the fly wheel makes upwards of 500 revolutions
in a minute.
MURDER AND RETRIBUTION.—A soldier of the army in
Algiers, named Jugla, having in one of last year's expedi-
tions received a wound which rendered amputation of his left
arm unavoidable, was when recovered discharged from ser-
vice with a pension of 360 francs. He returned to Paris, his
native city, and was received by a maiden aunt, named Guery,
living on the Quai de Bethune, who, though her earnings
were not more than enough for her subsistence, gave him
board and lodging. Jugla, instead of endeavouring to con-
tribute towards their joint support, became dissolute, and
gave his hostess repeated cause of complaint by coming home
intoxicated. On Monday night he was in a worse state than
ever, and used coarse language towards his benefactress, who,
though late, was still working for his maintenance. She re-
commended him to go to bed, but as he persevered in his un-
grateful conduct she was provoked to say she would no longer
converse with a drunkard. This reproach so exasperated
Jugla that he drew a knife, stabbed her in the side, and was
preparing to repeat the stroke, when she escaped, ran down
into the porter's lodge,.and there fainted. A surgeon was
called, who dressed her wound, and she is likely to recover.
The nephew, brought partially to his senses by the struggle
and the ontcry raised against him, and struck with remorse.
threw himself from the window in the fourth story, and would
have come headlong to the pavement, had not his fall been
shortened by a balcony on the first floor, the rails of which
he broke, but as he rolled inwards he lay between them and
the window. The inhabitants of the apartment were out of
town, and had not left the key. Jugla, therefore, remained
on the balcony till a ladder was brought, when he was taken
down and carried to the Hotel Dieu, where he expired in a
few minutes.—Galignani's Messenger.

TRH-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL,

.IANCES

'ment of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee

)MDIENC

DUBIN(

SUMMER SEASON

HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO

Night

Et. VANDENH OFF and MISS VAN-
io are engaged for a Halite(' period.
lovelty and attraction to the Plays in

Miss Vandenhoff will appear, an arrange-
made with Mr. GEO. VANDENHOFF
mtine of leading Juvenile Characters du-
ng nights of the engagement of Mr. and

combined attraction of MR. and MISS
and Mr. GEORGE VANDENHOFF.
it TUESDAY, June 29, 1841, will be per-
med Tragedy of
R iMEO AND JULIET.
irst time).... Mr. George Vandenhoff.
Mr. Vandenhoff.
.... Miss Vandenhoff.
Mrs. Clarke.
To conclude with the revived Farce of
MODERN ANTIQUES;
Or, The Merry Mourners.
L'ockletop, Mr. Baker. I Mrs. Cockletop, Mrs. Clarke.

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lercuti)

,n WEDNESDAY—Mr. Sheridan Knowles' Play of
E WIFE. Julian St. Pierre, Mr. Vandenboff; Leonardo
r. G. Vandenhoff; Mariana, Miss Vandenhoff.
with the Farce of THE HAPPIEST DAY OF
Mr. Gilman, Mr. Baker ; Mrs. Dudley, Mrs.

'o conclut
1Y LIFE

On THURSDAY—KING JOHN

and SIMPSON

On FRIDAY—For the BENEFIT of Mr. VANDEN-
HOFF, will be produced, for the first time here, Mr.
Knowles' last new Play of the BRIDALS OF MESSINA,
or JOHN OF PROCIDA, with other Entertainments.

HE ELECTION FOR LIVERPOOL,