The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

THE MODEL REPUBLIC-AGAIN

BENCH AND BAR.—In• our 'last we stated that a number of
the citizens of New Orleans had surrounded the house of 'one
Of the learned judges 'of the land, with the; intention of lynching
him, either by rope or tar- barrel,' because he had admitted a
prisoner to bail; and that a fatal rencontre ensued between the
judge and his correctors, in which three men were killed outs
right, and the judge had two 'of his fingers chopp'd off—By sun,
sequent advises we find that this sort of citizen-surveillance
over "learned judges," is not confined to New Orleans, but' s
likely to progress through all the towns and cities of that best of
all possible republics; only the citizens • generally throughout
the 'union are not quite.so severe in punishing an erring judge
as the citizens of New Orleans are. Take the following instance
for example :
"'A. roan named Boyd was recently tried in Nicholas co. Keni
tucky, for murder, and sentenced to three years' solitary. tin-,
prisonment ; but the judge an hearing the argument of hie
Counsel, granted him a new trial and aamitted him to 'bail;
which created great sensation amongstthe people. On the last
day of the court, as the judge was returning home, he- was played,
upon by an engine and profusely covered -ti.ith sewer water. The
district attorney, who-was with 'him, 'also received a share, but;
he consoled himself by re-marking that hie Misfertune resulted.from keeping bad company !"—New. York Star. •" •
Certainly, if learned judges will set up their learning in op-
position to. the will of "the People," and ",the People" are de-
termined to punish them for their presumption, his much more,
merciful and, amusing to play upon them with cool sewer water
than to cover them with hot tar, or to hang them, or chop off,
their'fingprs. But ,what shall we say of an Attorney-General who.
could treat such an unsavoury visitation as a good juke ?—Only
imagine our very excellent and learned judge John
jogging home from court on foot tete-a-tete with -Sir john,'
Campbell finding themselves suddenly assailed with torrents of
sewer water Mad shouts of laughter; and Sir John, having shaken
himself, merely observing " Heck irran —this comes-n' keeping,
bad company." We question whether he'would even have borne_
his own proper share of the sluicing with ordinary patience--
even had the inflictors thereof been hit aim enleeten'd consti-
tuency 02 the Coogate. -•
Sraixtsw.—They have strikes of all sorts in the Republic;
male-strikes and female-strikes, operative-strikes and employ-
er-strikes, help-strikes, land-strikes, and water-strikes. In
fact the beautiful Republic is a Much more striking Country
even than old England, with all its peculiar 'propensities,
in that line. Witness the foll Owing, from a recent number bf
the NeW 3-ork Star :
" The latest strike that has shaken the trade and coinmerce
of our ever-convulsed 'metropolis, is the strike of the little
street beggars. They no longer lift up their supplicating throats
and hands with their once never varying please give rue a
penny, sir, for mother to buy a loaf of bread;' but the amount
of their demands has'risen a hundred per cent. and the tremu-
lous supplication has advanced to a sturdily uttered two-
pence, if you please, sir, mother wants some 'bread.' Expos-
tulation with them we have found quite as,unavailing as it has
proved with the strikers of other callings; and. they are ever
ready, with the never-failing plea of provisions has riz and rent
has riz, and everything has riz but us, and we have as good a
right to rise as any body else.' The penny they were wont to
chase if thrown into the middle of the street for them, they now
turn up their snubby little_ noses at, even if, in offering it, you
take off your glove in compliment to them; and cold victuals
will•no longer be received at par, if it betrays the least symptom
of having been broken. We publish these tarts to put the cha-
ritable on their guard against giving offence to the beggars 'on
strike.' '' •

DAN'S Ovvx.-Dan's own super-superfine pis'ntry are to 'be
found everywhere, neat as imported; and nowhere finer, and in
greater abundance, than in the beautiful r.:..public. The follow-
ing extract from the New _York Courier will show their "innate
love of justice," &c. &c.

" On Saturday evening last, as the steam-boat Hercules was
about to leave the wharf at the Quarantine, on her last return
trip to this city, a number of Irishmen, who had spent all their
mousy and become intoxicated, went in &tumultuous manner
and demanded to be admitted• on. board of the boat, and taken
back to the city free of charge. This being refused, they. forced
the gate, and endeavoured by viOlent efforts to enter the boat,
but by the • exertions of those within the enclosure, aided by
some on board the boat, they were driven back, outside of the'
enclosure, breathing threats of vengeance.' Retiring to the
boarding-house on the brow of, the hil4 where about 50 Irish
labourers boarded, they procured the, assistance of all these,
and with this powerful reinforcement, all armed with billets of
wood and stones, they renewed the attack with great fury, and*
were met by the officers and hands of the steam boat, aided by•
some of the villages, who hastily assembled, and who armed
themselves in like manner with' billets of wood,'to resist the-,
onset and 'punish the marauders. The Irish came on in a body,
hurled stones in great numbers among the assembled citizens,
by which a: number of them were hit and wounded, and then
with loud yells rushed to the attack of the steam-boat company,
with the mad fury of inebriate savages, and levelled their billets
of wood at the. heads of all who stood in their Way: The
steamer's men and villagers were not slow to return the corn-
Pliment, which they did with interest; and after a severe light,
during which several guns were tired, the Irish were
.driven
from the ground, leaving from 10 to 19 of their nuMber, whO
had been knocked down in the affray, in a state of insensibility
On the battle-field. They then retreated to the brow of the hill,
et the boarding-house, mustered all their countrymen they could
collect, and, re-organising, seized a waggon, loaded with boulder
stones, and with shovels. spades, and bfudgeons, menaced those
below with a renewal of the attack, but contented themselvei
with hurling stones and other missiles, which, under the cover
of ,the twilight, struck a number of persons, bruising them
severely-,-and in the course of the night they dispersed, without
doing further dartiage. No arrests were made, as there were
no police-officers present to seize and Secure the offenders."
Morning Herald.'