The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

E LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATISM.

THE RADICAL FEED AT HALIFAX.

By these who were there, and by those who were not,
031tourIces noble feast will n.,'re be forgot.

HALIFAX, TUESDAY.—Neither will the Abyssinian banquet
of the radicles, which was held here last night At the theatre.
It only wanted " blue fire" and " a little tail" to make it a com-
plete Pandemonium. Yet, let us " give the devil his due."—
Bad as " the boys" were, they were a shade less bad than their
brothers the Whigs. Although they were about double the
number of brawlers present, there were not many more than
half the aumber of drunkards ; but as every why has its where-
fore, in strict justice we are bound to add, it was because the
price of the ticket did not allow such a qaantity of drink per
head, or rather per stomach. Like their co•peers the whiga,
they dined at diver pot-houses in the town, and found them-
selves at are union on the boards of the playhouse. Shade of
Shakespear, what a horde of ragsramuffin murderers of language
—what a troop of clippers of the King's English ! But to begin
with the beginning. Feargns made a triumphal entry into the
town on the morning of Monday, in an open hackney, drawn
by " four-greys" (like a mail coach ) He was accompanied by
three " fools" of the town, Thousands of the unwashed and
unemployed sallied out to meet him, and it might be termed "
proud day" for Dinh and Ireland, if one half of the cmwd was
not prostitutes, and the other half thieves and idlers. When
the dhow) people had gorged themselves with carrot) (the
dinncr and Wine were only 3s. Gd. each), an adjournment tool:
place to the theatre. Michael Stocks, jun. a stun of Old Stocks,
presided, and never wits there such a wooden representative
of that appellation. He talked for a few minutes of the pros.
pects of his party, and spoke much of laying his hand upon his
heart, (los glass to his mouth,) which was a litt'o of a mis-
take. He then prattled of the House of Lords, and said it
would be all as well to " introduce democracy into its consti-
tution;'' mentioned the sympathies of the people (whereat
each fellow drank a bumper, twice filled, and- cheered to his
heart's content,) and concluded by expressing Iris satisfaction
that the radicals had determined to die hard. (Great ,uzzling
and grunting in their drink.) What is laughable young (?)
man is E Protheroe, jun , Esq He was (the fool !) content
to play second fiddle to Fergus O'Connor, an Irish adventurer.
Was that English or gentlemanly ? If the unfortunate young
;nun (we suppose we most call him so, as he patronizes the
ladies, and toasts them on all occasions,) if, we say, the unfor-
tunate yonng man had a spark of right independent feeling he
would have seen all the radicals it) Europe " ten fathoms deep"
before he degraded himself by '' breaking their breed," after
the scene at the Piece•haall on Friday night. But other things
as well as poverty—a-IL-directed ambition, for instance—makes
us acquainted with strange bedfellows—(l mean no pun)—as
it was, he as " all things to all uteri"—prornisilig everything
—Fergus was Fergus. Need I say any more ? You who re-
collect his senatorial career understand all that is meant to be
conveyed ; but others may not be so mindful of his peculiar
power and glory. If ever there was a realization of the terms
" red-hot, rainpant, absurdity,' its oratory exhibited it—pro
publico bona.

A Mr. Curdy, one of the Thomson:, one of the Hills, a Mr.
Tetley, and divers others, " honourable men"—" we all are
honourahle"—formed the 'dramatis persona. The thing went
off without any accident.

PRICES OF SHARES, LIV ER POOL, 0(;1`. 10, 1836,

'a Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Canal and Railway ,CIS paid er
77 Sho
r e.
0 Lirerpool and Manchester Railway lOO .... 222 0 0
Quarter Shares
25 .... 70 0 0
New Half Shares
.... 50 10 0
Bolton and Leigh ditto
London and Birmingham Railway AO 0 it
.... 131 0 0
Grand Junction ditto
Kenyon and Leigh Junction ditto
Wigan Branch ditto.
North Union, late Preston and Wigan Railway
... 80 0 0
St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto
Leicesterand Swannington ditto
London and Bright ti Ditto (Stephenson's) -8 .... 8 0 0
Ditto Ditto (Rennie's) 2 ...• 1 9 6
Eastern Counties
1 .. • . 1 5 0
!Midland Counties ditto
North Midland ditto
Birmingham and Gloucester ditto
Great Western ditto
Leeds and Selby Railway
Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto
London and Gravesend ditto 1 .... 0 0 0
Dublin and Drogheda
2 10g.. 210 0
Ulster
1 .... 2 0 0

BANKS.

Bank of Manchester —.. .£25 .... 43 15 0
Bank of Liverpool
10 .... 24 10 0
Liverpool Union Bank lO .... 16 10 0
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.,, l5 .... 23 2 6
Commercial Bank of Liverpool....
Commercial Bank of England ....3
. .... ...
14 6 12 6
Northern and Central Ban ko f England
Borough _
£5 .. .. 10 13 0
South Lancashire £s Os.. 5 2 6
North and South Wales Bank
Ulster...
United Trades' Bank . .............. .£6 10s.. 8 5 0
Tradesmen' Bank
.......... £5 Os.. 512 6
, • GAS AND WATER WORKS.
Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks , ' £lO .. ,00 0 0
St. Helen's Gas Works
10 ••• „ •
00 Q 0
Liverpool Coal Gas .., ' £385 0 0
.. ....
Liverpool New Gas and ... ,Coke Company £lls)
New Shares, premium £7O
Liverpool and Harrington Water Works 475 0 2
Bootle ditto ......... .......,
...
Exchange Buildings
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Liverpool Marin.), Assurance Company £2O. .... 13 5 0
Ocean Assurance Company

FERRIES.
Woodside, Birkenhead, and Liverpool' Steam
Ferry Company , £l3 15g.. 33 15 0
Royal lloek Ferry lO 0 11 2 6
Monk's (Woodside) Perry 5 0.. 6 2 6
Egremont
•• • • 10 0 .. 13 0 0
MINES.
Kellewerris Consolidated Mines £l ..• . 110 0
West Tresavean Tin and Copper ditto
British Silver, Lead, and Copper ditto .....
... • ... • 110 0
Liverpool and Manchester Coal
.... 1 0 0
NEW COMPANIES.
Liverpool Steam Towing ..
Liverpool Fah
Liverpool Timber..

t 3 .... 215 0
1 .... 0 7 6
1 ... nominal

The race ball at Lincoln, on Friday night (which formerly
was pretty well attended,) was not honoured with the presence
of a single individual, except the door-keepers, &c.—Boston
d.

SHAKSPEARE.—It is remarkable that Sl.akspeare is the only
poet whose works have been illustrated by poetry; Homer,
Horace, are explained and paraphrased; Chaucer and
Virgil,the older
poets, translated; Milton, criticised; but none other
than Shakespeare have been illustrated by poetry. All the
criticisms on Shakspeare are poetical. He is not only poetry
himself, but he begets it in others; he communicates the facul-
ty as the flower its perfume; at once surprises the heart and
undawaerstantkens he affections; and he who Possesses them most must
d him best.--The Analyst.
SHIPWRECKS.—Extrdet of a letter from a passenger by the
Calypso of Carlisle, Captain Mason from Liverpool to Consta!, tinople, to a gentleman in Glasgow, dated Constantinople, 6tii
Sept. 1836:—" We arrived here on the 27th ult. after a passage
of days; we had very bad weather, only seven days of a fair
wind, all the rest of the passage either a dead calm, or the wind
right a-head, and sometimes blowing a gale. In passing the
Bay of Biscay on the 3d June, we fell in with the Hebe of
Gloucester, dismasted, and carrying a signal of distress. We
ran close up to her, but the heavy sea prevented us from ren-
dering then- any assistance. We saw another wreck with very
litte above water.
run the
night of the 7th July we very nar-
rowly escaped being run down by a large brig. Being on op-
posite tacks, site was not observed till close upon us, and with
every exertion to clean each other, her jib boom ran right
through our fore and aft mainsail. On the I2th of August,
when beating against the current towards the Dardanelles, we
experienced a severe squall, which split a number of our sails.
During the squall, we saw the Minerva of Stranraer go ashore.
The Hannibal of Dundee went down near the same place, and
only the cook and cabin boy were saved by clinging to a plank
of wood, We landed here on the 27th, all in good health."

As we have not space to give a full report of the high-
ly interesting proceedings of the great constitutional
meeting recently held at Birmingham, we deem it our
duty to subjoin the following important resolutions,
passed on that occasion. The Earl of Dartmouth in the
chair:—
"Ist. That this meeting, firmly and unalterably persuaded
that christianity is the only true bond of political society, and
convinced from all experience that the church of England em-
bodies the living principle of the religion of the bible, and is
the sole unfailing. guarantee of just and rational freedom in
matters of conscience and in secular affairs, have seen with the
utmost apprehension and dread a system of hostile aggression
on this the only enduring safeguard of national peace, prosperity,
and happiness, by persons openly professing the principles of
popery on the one hand, and of republicanism on the other,
aided by the ministerial party, who, for the avowed purpose of
retaining power in their own hands, have deserted their former
constitutional principles, and counteracted their own political
professions, and do therefore declare their utter detestation of
such conduct, and avow their constant and unchangeable reso-
lution to maintain the efficiency and usefulness of the protestant
church now established in these kingdoms; to preserve the con-
nexion which subsists between the church and the state, by
which the best security is offered that the government will be
conducted according to the equity of christian principle; and
to oppose, by every lawful and constitutional means, the inva-
sion of the civil and religious liberties of their fellow country-
men, by persons who seek to compass their destructive purposes
either by a direct assault upon the integrity of the constitution,
in an attempt to overthrow the House of Lords; or by daring
and atrocious endeavours to destroy the present established pro-
testant church of England and Ireland."
"That this meeting, regarding the general aspect of public
affairs at the close of the last session of Parliament, see great
cause of satisfaction in the manifold proofs thatexist of a strong '
and decided change in the public mind in favour of the tried and
ancient institutions of this country, as evinced more particular-
ly in the recent instances of populous and important consti-
tuencies sending as their representatives to Parliament persons
distinguished for their attachment to the limited monarchy of
Great Britain, and their devoted zeal in support of the princi-
ples of the Protestant religion, and its connexion with the state ;
and this meeting, being also of opinion that these happy results
have been greatly promoted and expedited by the establish-
ment of associations for loyal and constitutional purposes, and
are attributable in a more especial manner to the diffusion of
sound constitutional knowledge through the medium of the
public press, hereby express their entire approbation of the
establishment of news and reading-rooms, for the gratuitous use
of the general body of Conservatives of all ranks, and desire
emphatically to impress on the minds of their friends the para-
mount necessity for more strenuous and unwearied exertions,
and more liberal support, than has, they regret to say, been hi-
therto accorded to those associations through means of which
the present political struggle in favour of the British constitu-
tion can alone be maintained."
"That this meeting, fully convinced that the maintenance of
the privileges of the House of Lords, as an independent branch
of the legislature of these kingdoms, is indispensable to the con-
tinuance of the happiness and liberties of the people, regard
with the highest admiration and respect the dignity and firmness
with which the peers have resisted all attempts, by threats of
intimidation or clamour, to influence the wisdom and justice of
their decisions: and, reverting to the business of the last session,
they see especial reason for thankfulness in the manifestation
of those liberal, enlightened, and conciliatory principles of go-
vernment which guided their deliberations in regard to the pro-
posed measure for reforming the municipal corporations in
Ireland ; in their firm and decided opposition to that democratic
party in the state who have lately evinced such implacable
hatred to the protestant religion and the general interests of the
United Kingdom; and in the anxiety and willingness they have
ever shown to adopt every sound and practical measure presented
to their consideration for the correction of any proved abuses,
and for the real improvement of our ancient and venerable in-
stitutions."