The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

The merchants who have suffered so extensively by the great
fire have applied to the Secretary of the Treasury to renew for
the tern of three months all bonds now coming dile.
LIBERALITY.—We state, on the authority of Mr. Worth, the
cashier of the City Bank, that all rates now due, and falling due
at that institution, will be renewed on the saine„securities as
now attach to them. So praiseworthy an example ought to be
followed, and we have no doubt it will be, by all the other
banks in the city.

The east river presented a scene almost as gay and lively as
a regatta, hundreds of boats skimming over the surface for th 4
purpose of taking up such goods as were found floating. Were
not the associations connected with such a scene of a most me-
lancholy nature, the appearance of the river itself would have
been a truly pleasing one.
POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENT.—UntiI a more commodious
building can be procured, the business of the Postoflice will be
conducted at the Custom-house in Pine-street, where letters
may be mailed, and will be delivered, as usual.
A CrrizeN GUARD.—The mayor issued a proclamation yes-
terday calling upon such 'of the citizens as had leisure to form
themselves into a patrole for the protection and preservation of
the large amount of property now strewed about the streets,
and which else might be scattered to the four winds of heaven.
Public meetings have been held to devise measures for the
safety of the city, and a subscription has been set on foot to re-
lieve the immediate wants of the families who have lost their
all by this appalling fire. The Advertiser of the 21st and the
New York Times of the same date contain articles, which we
subjoin, stating that, the first alarm having subsided, the aspect
of affairs was found to be more favourable thari could have been
expected under the circumstances.
(From the New York Times.)
The public mind has experienced much relief during the last
two days. We are beginning to recover from the shock. It
came on us with such overwhelming force that we were not only
prostrated but stupified by it. We are beginning to look around
us, to examine coolly and dispassionately into the extent of the
calamity—to inquire, with cautiousness and prudence, into the
course to be pursued to relieve us from our temporary sufferings
—for temporary, we trust, they will be. The elastic spirit of
our citizens is beginning to rise from the temporary. pressure
that weighed it down. Our energies, checked for a time, have
again begun to exert themselves. Sufferers of all classes have
determined to put their own shoulders to the wheel, and then,
if necessary, to call upon Hercules:—to trust to themselves first,
before they trust to others--to ascertain first, whether, in our
city and our own state, we have not the means to repair our
losses, before we ask aid from other sources. Despondency
now is as unwise as it is unmanly. We want within, prompt,
immediate, decisive action. Our prosperity may be checked,
but it is far from being destroyed. We have that within us—
the source of our riches and prosperity—that disaster cannot
break down. We have all that has made us what we are—
energy, promptness, and enterprise. We need the exertion of
thiltee qualities now, and, unless we mistake the character of our
citizens, they will be called into prompt and vigorous exercise.
In times like these, the minor considerations which ordinarily
divide us must be discarded. In relieving each other—in re-
storing the prosperity of our citizens—there must be but one
party. We must act with entire unanimity of feeling, as if but
one "heart led, and one hand acted.
We have received a check in our prosperity, but it has been
after a business year al most unparalleled success. The cala-
mity, heavy as it is, has fallen at a time when it could be best
borne by our commercial community. The stocks of our mer-
chants are at this season of the year generally very low. Our
banks are disposed to act liberally, and relief will and must be
obtained, if not from the general, at least from the state govern-
ment. Our citizens are of good heart. They will do justice to
themselves; and we trust that within a brief period we shall be
able to state that we alt again in the full tide of successful ex-
periment, and fast recovering from our recent disasters. The
energies of the city of New York cannot be easily repressed or
destroyed. " Onward" is the word.
(From the New York Daily Advertiser.)
The aspect of affairs is decidedly more cheering. Although
about fifty-two acres of ground resemble the wins of the old
world, yet, on a close inspection of the things, it is discovered
that the losses have l‘ot been half as great as was first contem-
plated. Ten to fifteen millions will probably be the extent.
The insurance offices will pay better than was expectod; the
North River, Equitable, City, New York, Bowery, Guardian,
Fulton, Eagle, and Greenwich, all pay. The confidence that
the corporation will issue stock to enable the companies to
pay promptly, and the spirit among the banks to be liberal, and
a corresponding disposition among all classes to yield to circum-
stances, has imposed more hope in the public. Not a failure,
as we can learn, has yet taken place; no bonds are to be put
in suit. The board of brokers commence to-day, and already
business begins to assume some appearance of activity. Our
columns begin to present a fair share of goods for sale; many of
the larger houses have advertised to discount all their notes out.
All these conspire to give confidence. Let every sufferer re-
double his exertions, remembering that industry, integrity,
prudence, and economy will soon bring all right again.
(From the Morning Courier and New York Inquirer, of Decem-
ber 21, 1835.)
12.3 houses made returns to us of their losses by this unpa-
ralleled calamity, the total of which amounts to 3,3.53,000 dol.
This exceeds what we anticipated in no small a a number, and
vet we adhere to the opinion heretofore expressed, that the entire
destruction of property, including buildings does not exceed
12,000,000 dols. sthe parties immediately interested this,
when subdivided, is a trifling loss. Our merchants, generally,
sill rise above it, and under the full conviction that it is but a
loss of profits divided among many, enter upon their avocations
with more than usual diligence and with unimpaired energies.
To theist the loss consists in the derangement of their business
far more than in the amount of property; but not so the widow
and the orphan whoge all, whether more or less, was invested in
fire insurance stock. 4The high premiuins paid by our fire insur-
ance companies during 40 years of uninterrupted prosperity had
made them favourite stocks for the investment of small capitals;
and we are sorry to state that a very large portion, if not a ma-
jority, of insurance stock, was owned by persons whose little
all was thus invested where as they thought it was perfectly
secure, and yielded them a larger income than many other
securities. On them, then, falls the great loss by this calamity,
and they it is who require the sympathy of their fellow-citizens.
-It would not be prolPr lo give the names of sufferers under such
circumstances, but Ina*, very many, cases of the most heart-
rending nature have been mentioned to us-
The great question is—what is to beAone to restore confidence
and give immediate relief to the merchants ? The answer is
obvious; place the insurance offices in funds by cashing their
mortgages, in order that they may pay as far as practicable
the amount due for insurance. 'fo accomplish this, various
plans have been proposed, and all of them more or less feasible.
But in our estimation, to make this really beneficial, a new
currency or circulating, medium must be created If the go-
vernment should do it, or if it should be done by banks, it
would not, in fact, increase the amount of money in circulation '
and would only be taking from A to pay B. Not so, however,
if the corporation would adopt the following suggestion :—Let
the city of New York issue scrip to the amount of 10,000,000 dol.
under the direction of commissioners appointed for that pur-.
pose. Let this be in sums of from 500 to 5,000 dollars, and let
it be stipulated that with it shall be purchased all the mortgages
now held by the insurance offices believed to be good; next,
let them loan their full value on the lots within the district
destroyed, and let the balance, if any, be loaned on bond and
mortgage on real estate to any person or persons who may
apply for it. This scrip should be redeemable in three, four,
and five years, and bear an interest of five per cent., and would,
for all the purposes of commence, be equivalent to bank-notes
or specie.
The benefits of this plan are evident. It would be equivalent
to calling into being at once ten millions of gold ; and, con-
sequently, add that amount to the circulating medium of the
country. Being issued on good real estate security, the city
could not, or would not, lose a dollar by the operation ; while
it would afford instant and immediate relief to our commence,
and secure to us the enviable consciousness of haying re-
lieved ourselves at the very moment when our sister city and
state ere willing to come forward to our relief: It would in no
way affect our gratitude for their generous sympathy and prompt
offer of aid, at the same time that it wonld demonstrate our
ability to provide for all our calamites within ourselves. With
due deference to our associate members of the committee of
156, we must be permitted to say, that this mode of relief would
be far more acceptable to our merchants generally than any
other than can be devised; and, taken in connexion with the
extension of time on Custom-house bonds and the remission of
duties on goods destroyed, which the general government can-
not refuse, it would be all that they require.
The information of our disaster reached Philadelphia on
Friday morning, when Mr. Biddle, the President of the Bank
of the United States, who had been confined to his house foes
some weeks, promptly set off in a private conveyance, and
by means of, relays of horses reached this city on Friday night,
determined to do all that is in the power of the Bank to accom-
plish in aid of our wants- A general meeting of the com-
mittees of all the banks took place at the branch bank at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, but we believe nothing definitive has as yet been
determined upon.
(From the New York Gazette, Dec. 19.)
The most revolting circumstance attending this calamity was
the infamous extent of plunder. Nearly 100 scoundrels were
seized in the very act of stealing valuable articles, even when
the alarm and clanger were at the highest; and yesterday about
200 more were arrested for having articles in their possession,
stolen from the scene of the conflagration. Notwithstanding
the vigilance exerted to prevent these snoliations, the army of
plunderers was so numerous, and they displayed so much bold-
ness and dexterity, that a large amount of property was carried
off. The rooms of the police-office are crowded with goods of
almost every conceivable description, taken from thieves who
had been detected and brought up: probably, 10,000 dollars
worth of goods have in this way been transferred to the custody
of the police. The devastated portion of the city was the general
resort throughout the whole of yesterday for all the rogues and
abandoned characters of the metropolis; they hovered about
-like birds of prey, watching their opportunity; for plunder; and
we are ashamed to say that among them were numbers of wo-
men, not less active in this evil-doing than their competitors of
the other sex. Many of them were seized, having concealed
about their persons valuable silks, shawls, laces, and, other costly
articles of convenient bulk for hiding and carrying away.
Last night strong bodies of cavalry and vofunteer infantry
were patrolling the streets near the fire, and preserved perfect
order, and we believe, prevented any further serious depredations.
All the fire companies from Brooklyn
.came promptly over to
our asssistance, as also two engine companies from Newark—for
the active exertions of all of which the thanks of our citizens
are grate:ully rendered.
The passengers descending the Hudson saw the flames from
the Highlands, 45 miles distant, and the,light was also distinct-
ly seen in New Jersey as far as Crauberty.
Of the insurance companies, it is believed that the North
River, the Greenwich, and the Bowery will stand. The latter,
indeed, having but few risks down town, suffers, as we learn,
but about 4000 dollars. All the others, we believe, are involved
in a common bankruptcy : and even in paying their policies,
to the extent of their respective capitals, great einbarrasments,
if not positive distress, must ensue, in calling in the bonds and
mortgages upon which their funds have been loaned. Another
consequence is likely to be a depression of real estate, especially
the purchases in the recent speculations
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
( From the Daily Advertiser of 21st Dec.)
Tux LATE FIRE.—The aspect of affairs is decidedly more
cheering, although about fifty-two acres of ground resemble the
ruins of the old world. Yet on a close inspection of things it is
discovered that the losses have not been half as great as was first
contemplated. Ten to fifteen millions will probably be the ex-
tent. The insurance offices will pay better than was expected,
the North River, Equitable, City,' New York, Bowery,
Guardian, Fulton, Eagle, and Greenwich all pay. The confi-
dence that the corporation will issue stock to enable companies
to pay promptly—and the spirit among the banks to be liberal—
and a corresponding. disposition among all classes, to yield to
circumstances, has imposed more hope in the public. Not a
failure, as we can learn, has yet taken place; no bonds are to be
put in suit. The merchants meet as usual. The board of
brokers commence to-day, and already business begins to
pp
snme appearance of ctivity. Our columns begin to
present a fair share of goods fora sale; many of the larger houses
have advertised to discount all their notes out. All these con-
spire to give confidence. Let every sufferer redouble his ex-
ertions—rememberiug that industry, integrity, prudence, and
economy will soon bring all right again.
It is supposed that a thousand baskets of champagne were
broken and destroyed, the tops being unceremoniously knocked
off and the contents drank up by crowds surrounding the fire

and working, and who were thus enabled to obtain protectio u
against the excessive cold. An immense quantity of baskets of
champagne were seen floating in the docks, and cheese and
provisions seen scattered there and about tne ships.
Several hundred vagrants of all colours, sexes and ages, have
been brought up, and dispossessed of their booty, amounting to
many thousand dollars, and embracing every species of light
valuable articles, a considerable portion of which has been re-
claimed their owners.

The striking advantage of railroads. especially at this season
when everything is locked up in the ice, was never more em-
phatically demonstrated, than in the instance of the late tire
engines from Newark, N. J., nine miles distant, where the
same locomotive that early on Thursday morning carried out the
news of the fire, brought these engines on their platform within
an hour afterwards to the city. Their services were eminently
useful.
It is said that much valuable property may be obtained from
the cellars the stores burnt, particularly liquors. Caution is
required in exploring.
In that unusually large space called Hanover-square, where
everybody thought the goods piled there would be perfectly
safe, there was accumulated from the stock of all the French
stores a mass of silks, satins, laces, cartons of dresses, gloves,
capes, Cashmere shawls, and the richest kinds of fancy articles,
forming a pile 60 feet wide by 25 feet in height, or nearly 100
feet square. In a few minutes afterwards a gust of flame, like
a streak of lightning, came from the N.E. corner building, and
shooting across the square, blown by the strong wind, and set
fire to the entire mass, which it in a few moments consumed to.
cinders, and then communicated to the houses opposite.
The weather was so intensely cold that the firemen were
compelled to take the fine blankets saved, and cutting a hole
through them, convert them into tempOrary cloaks, in which
they were seen at day-light dragging home their engines, many
of aim so exhausted by fatigue that they were asleep as they
were walking home. One entire company, thus accoutred, bad
artificial flowers, of the richest kind, in their caps, taken from
the wreck of matter, and presenting a very singular contrast
with their begritnined faces and jaded appearance.
A large quantity of turpentine piled up in barrels caught the
flames and burnt with great fury, being, as is well known, one
attic must inflammable substances that there is. It tan down
in a stream like burning lava into the dock upon the surface,
and spread out until it had reached several hundred yards into
the river, being lighter than water, and therefore floating upon
it, giving the appearance of the river being on tire.

(From the New York Daily Advertiser, December 23.)
The flames have now entirely subsided, and a -large amount
of goods will be saved from the ruins in a damaged state.
Messrs. Smith and Town had about 4000 bags of coffee in
their store—nearly the whole of it will be got out of the
ruins, burnt more or less—a sale was made of this description
of coffee by auction yesterday, which brought half price. The
saving in goods got in this way will be very considerable. The
losses, it is now admitted, are by no ineanta so large as was cal-
culated. Already the workmen have begun and are clearing
away the rubbish to lay the foundation walls of a new building.
Much excitement has prevailed to-day in relation to the re-
moval of the Postollice. The merchants met and unanimously
opposed the measure. The course the common council have
adopted in relation to the six million bonds ishighlyaproved of.
The investigation made yesterday at the police established
the fact that the fire took place at the stores of Messrs. Comstock
and Andrews. We regret we were not there to have given our
testimony. - We were first on the spot, and assisted in breaking
in the doors, when the whole interior presented the appearance
of a furnace. The second story floor was no doubt burnt
through, as the fire was above and below. Whether the tire took
place on the first or second story we do not pretend to say, but
that it was the first and only store on fire when we reached
there is most certain. There is no doubt the fire occurred
from accident.
We say, unhesitatingly. that the great cause, and in our
judgment the only cause, of this great conflagration, has been
owing to wooden cornices and gutters, and the want of iron
shutters. When the flames first broke out, it burst forth on
Merchant-street and Pearl-street almost simultaneously. The
fire immediately took the wooden gutters and cornices on the
south side of Pearle-street., afier which it could not be arrested.

(From the New York Daily Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, DEC.2l.—The present has been an interest-
ing day in both branches of our National Congress—peculiarly
interesting to your city, from the circumstances of your suffer-
ings at the late conflagration. This morning, in the senate, as
soon as the journal of the last day's proceedings had been read,
Mr. Webster motioned that the committee on finance be re-
quested to report immediately what measures congress ought to
pursue in regard to the late fire in New York, which motion
was carried unanimously. The committee will report as soon
as possible, and every thing will be done that can be done to
render relief to the sufferers.
In the house, Mr. Cambrefeng presented a bill, which was re-
ferred to a select committee, that all monies due the United
States, by the sufferers, for duties, &c., prior to the 17th inst.,
be cancelled by the debtors giving a note with citify for the
sum payable in three, four, or five years, as the Custom-house
officers at New York may think expedient.. Another section of
the bill provides that the Secretary of the Treasury be instruct-
ed to loan to the New York banks any amount of money now in
the public treasury, which is not wanted for the immediate use
of the government. Both resolutions receive a second reading,
and were ordered to be printed. As soon as may be, they are
to receive the further attention of the house. You may rely
from what has thus far been done by Congress, that there is a
disposition to do anything that wisdom will dictate. If sympa-
thy could avail anything, not only Congress, but every citizen
in the district would give it. There are many doubts concern-
ing the power of Congress in this matter So far as cancelling
the bonds of mercantile or any class of men, there can be no
doubt of her ability to render assistance. Beyond that, how-
ever, there are doubts in the minds of many. The precedents to
the contrary, are the appropriations made. by Congress for the
sufferers by fire in Alexandria, money expended for the relief
of the Poles, and also at Venezuela.

ERARD'S GRAND PIANO-FORTES-NEW PATENT.

•Proceedingi on the petition of. Pierre Erard, piano-forte
maker, under the recent act for extending patents, before the
judicial committee of the privy COUTICI4 on Tuesday, the 15th
of December, 18.3.5.—Present, the Right Honourable Lords
Lyndhurst and Brougham, Baron Parke, and Sir Thomas
Erskine.
Mr. Cresswell, with whom was Mr. Jonathan Peel, opened
the petitioner's case, and stated that this was a petition pre-
sented by Mr. Pierre Erard, of Great Marlborough-street, harp
and piano-fortepanufacturer, for an extension of a patent ob-
tained by him for improvements on the piano-forte.
The learned gentleman referred to the patents obtained by
Mr. Sebastian Erard for the invention of the double-actioned
harp, which has since entirely superseded the harp of ancient
construction; and then stated that the petitioner and his uncle
bad also devoted great attention to the piano-forte, and has suc-
ceeded in inventing an improvement in the action of that in-
strument, of no- less importance in itself than the improvement
in the construction of the harp. The learned gentleman exhi-
bited the specification and drawings of the patentee; and pro-
duced models of the action. It appeared that the improvement
consisted mainly in a new and Ingenious piece of mechanism
for communicating the touch of the linger of player, through
the agency of the key and the hammer to the string, by which
great lightness of touch was given to the instrument, and a
power of modulating and repeating the note entirely unknown
to the piano-fortes of ancient construction, and which rendered
the new instrument far superior in brilliancy and effect, parti•
cularly in the rapid modern music. He stated that Mr. Erard
had been at great pains and expense in inventing and applying
his patent, and had actually expended on it upwards of £15,000.
That, although his instrument was preferred and universally
played upon by all the composers and performers of celebrity,
among whom Moscheles, 'Hummel, Herz, Madame Dulcken,
LizscMendelssohn, Pixie, &c., were named, its qualities had,
from various circumstances, not become sufficiently known to
the public. That report had gone abroad, that the cost of the
instrument was greater than that of the old makers, which was
not the fact, as Mr. Erard, though at a greater expense in the
manufacture of them, sold his instrument at the same price as
those of the ancient construction. That a tumour had also
gone abroad against the durability of the instrument, but which
was entirely unfounded, inasmuch as he (the learned gentle-
man) was prepared to show that the instruments on the new
construction were more durable and less easily put out of order
than any other instrument. The learned council then pro-
ceeded to call witnesses in support of the petition as follows:—
Madame Dulcken stated that she had used one of the new
insrtuments for seven years—that she greatly preferred it to
any other she ever used for lightness of touch, power, and ex-
pression; and stated that she considered it now in as fine order
as when she first had it—that it required very little tuning, and
had never broken a string. That she had tauten an instrument
to St. Petersburgh, which sustained no injury, though two of
the common construction were rendered useless by the effect of
cold.
This lady's instrument was produced and played upon before
their lordship's by Madame Dulcken. Mr. Latour, one of the
directors of the Philhariiionic Society, Signor Scappa, from
the Opera, Mr. Kiallinark, and numerous other witnesses were
called to give their opinion of the superiority of the instrument,
and stated that it was used by Moscheles, Hummel, Herz, &c.
Mr. John Farey, the well-known engineer, was then called,
and spoke in the highest terms of the invention. The celebrated
Mr. Brunell was also in attendance, but was not called, in con-
sequence of their ,lordships. being satisfied with the evidence
already given.,
Lord Lyndhurst, in giving the judgment of the court, said
that in their lordships opinion a sufficient case had been made
out to induce their lordships to report .to his majesty in favour
of the extension of seven.years of the patent, on the ground of
the hardship of the case and the merits of the invention. His
lordship-added that a•strong case would always be required to
induce their lordships to extend patents beyond the original
term of 14 years.

HORRIBLE AND ATIOCIOUS.BARBARITY-A
MAN BURIEDALIVE !

The Clare Journal, received this morning, gives the follow-
ing, being the result of the inquest in this appall g
in
transaction—the first notice of which appeared in the Mail of
Monday, under the head of " Mysterious Occurrence," copied
from the Limerick Star : coroner's,
" An inquisition was taken before Thomas Whitestoue Esq.,
coroner, and a jut), of very respectable gentlemen, at Broad-
ford, on New Year's Day, on view of the skeleton of a man na-
med Patrick Barry, who was buried alive about thirteen months
since. The circumstances attending this appalling transaction
are nearly as follow, and which have been given in evidence by
one of the. persons who assisted at the time. The deceased bait
been a millwright, for some time in the employment of a man
of the name of David Burns, near, BrOadford ; he was old and
in a very delicate state of health, and being no longer able to
work at his trade, Burns sent him on a car to some friends of
his residing in the county of Tipperary, with one of his sons and
the informer, who had also been in his service. On their arriv-
ing there they were refUsed•admittance at two houses, and were
obliged to return back; on their returning they communicated
the circumstances to old Burns, who asked them why they did not
put. him into a hole and throw a ditch on him, and immediately
ordered another servant of his to go and make a grave in a small
burial place convenient to the house, which he did, and then the
younger son and the informer brought him there, having previ-
ously taken off part of his clothes; they then thrust him into the
hole, and when covering him with earth, it is alleged he groaned
twice, and stirred one of his arms, upon observing which, the
informer called and said, they would all be hanged, that the man
tea.' alive. This however, did not prevent them from pursuing
their inhuman work, and the unfortunate man was covered in.
Previous to the discovery of the body, which had on it at the
time some portion of decayed articles of clothing, the infornier
described the place where it. was interred, and most accurately
the position in which the body was found ; the head raised. the
body inclining to the right side, and one leg also raised, as indi-
cating an effort to rescue himself, or of great suffering when
they were, throwing the earth upon him. it is a' remarkable
circumstance that over the body a child's coffin was found, of
which the informer denies all knowledge. The jury came to the
following decision, • that the deceased was buried alive, by James
Burns, Michael Burns, and John Connellan, and with the con-
currence and knowledge of David Burns, the father, all of whom
have been committed."

JANUARY 12. I 6

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVE:RPOOL.

ITALIAN OPERA;S,

•
Under the Management of Sign.or DE BEGNIS,

Prime Donne, Signora Coutessa.DEGLl ANTONJ.
Miss WATERS.—Mademoiselle DE ANGIOLI.
Signora OLDERICCI.--S;.gnora MARIAN'. .
Signor BERRETTONI, from the Theatre 'Wien, Paris.
Signor CURIONI, from the King's Theatre.
Mr. BENN ETT, from Cment-garden Theatre.
Sig. DE ANGIULL—Sig. GALLE—Sig, PLATONI.
AN 0
Signor DE ZEGNIS. ,
Signor RAVAGLIA, first tenor of the Theatre Italien, ew
York, is a'.eo expected.
Leader—Mr. J. Z. HERRMANN.
Conductor—ll Cellehre Maestro Cavalier GA SSI.
MO-MORROW, ( Wedneaday,) the 13th instant, will be per-
formed the Grand Opera of
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LA SONNAMBULA.
Count Rodolph..(6 rich proprietor . ig. Berrettoni.
Terese..(mistress Of a mill).. fora Mariani.
Anaina..(an orphan, adopted by Tei se, and betrothed to
Elvino) —Mademoiselle De Angioli.
Elvino..(a youug,wealthy farmer)..Mr. Bennett.
Lisa.. ( landlady of au inn, in love with Eiviuo)..Sig. Uldericci.
Alessio..(a peasant,:in love with Lisa)..Sig. De Angioli.
A Peasant....Signoi Galli.
Chorus of peasants and followers of Rodolph.
On FRIDAY next, a favourite OPERA.
On MONDAY next, the Grand Opera LA DONNA DEL
LAGO.
The Band arid Chorus will be numerous and complete.
The Dresses for. the Operas, on a magnificent scale, are the:
property of Signor De Begnis.
Notwithstanding the great expense attending this under-
taking, the Prices of Admission will remain as usual, viz.:—
Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. 6d.Gallery, ls.
Doors to he opened at Seven, and the Performance to com-
mence at Eight o'clock.

JANUARY 12, '18:36.

to Mr. Hume rather than to Mr. Buxton ? Why, just for the MELBOURNE—Of "JOHN DEAKIN, Esquire f" We have
same reason for which we would not transmit them to Mr. Bul-
made inquiry, and we learn that his lordship's friend, who
wer—just because in so doing we should be making the ques-
linn-of a. House of Assembly for this.colony a radical question, has " gratified" and "encouraged" his Majesty's minis•
which it decidedly is not, arid because we Should thus be excit- tern in so extraordinary a manner, is a clerk or agent in
ing a prejudice against ourselves, on the part of the whit; and
tory majority of the House of Commons. For he who it-ea- the carrier concern of Messrs. KENWORTHY net Co.,' lo-
glues that such prejudices can have- no place since the passing cated somewhere about the Duke's Dock—hisployers
of the reform bill is a novice in politics, and has no experience
of human nature." being respectable persons who carry goods, by canal and
As Mr. BUXTON has declined the advocacy on account otherwise, to and from the merchants and tradesmen
000 f
of having, as he appears to have informed them, his
Liverpool. It is proper that the pl
hands full of other colonial business—as Mr. HUDIE'S should know this. Are the Messrs. KENWORTHY aware
politics are so ultra-radical .as to lessen his value in the that their clerk or agent in Liverpool is the chairman of
estimation of his Old Bailey friends, and as Mr. BULWER , a set of people who meet, tipple,
his and spout
's inMin he Vii tns,
e
is about to vacate his seat in
.parliament in consequence Tavern—that he is a supporter of Majster
of having accepted a diplomatic appointment—we forget whom he encourages—and tha he is,
uire,t undthe er the digpond-
nified
where—we would recommend our expatriated country- cognomen of "JOHN DEAKIN, Esq" corres
men of New South Wales to turn their attention to Mr. ent of Lord MELBOURNE ? If they be t aware
to us of thi
for
s,
WILLIAM EWART or Lord EBRINGTON, both of whom, we perhaps they will feel under some obligations
must say, have been scandalously neglected by the Whig making them acquainted with so important a fact. It is
premiers of the last four or five years. not every KENWORTHY who has- such a DEAKIN—JOHN
DEAKIN, Esquire, the " fellow-citizen" of the prime
minister of England
Before we take our leave of this very silly ebullition
of vanity on the one hand, and misplaced confidence and
condescention on the other, we beg to ask what Mr,
Councillor WILLIAM RATHBONE had to do with forward-
ing such resolutions to the government ? Perhaps he
will tell us also what Mr. RusuroN had to perform in
recommending it, and iii certifying as to the respectability
of RATHBONE and DEAKIN. We do not ask for an imme-
diate explanation if it be unpleasant. Perhaps RATH-
BONE did not expectorate in the matter I—perhaps Mt.
RusnToN is wholly unmixed up in it. But this we will
say, that whoever did forward the resolutions to Lord
MELBOURNE did an act which the noble lord will se-
verely censure as soon as he reads the —LIVERPOOL
STANDARD.

Some time ago an attempt was made to revive Oa
" Brummagem Union"—but it failed, because Mr. THO-
MAS ATTWOOD intimated that the concern was deeply in
debt, and that there was no chance of its ever effecting
an "equitable adjustment" with its creditors. In point
of fact the union owed money in all directions—for flags,
for ribbons, for beer, for dinner bills, and for long scores
in various taverns—hatefully and oppressively•looking
liabilities which they either had not the means or the ho-
nesty to liquidate. From this cause the incorporated
troop of tinkers, who threatened to march to Hampstead
Heath during the passing of the reform bill, was dis-
solved, and expired in the agonies of insolvency pro-

duced by knavery.
Within the last few days, however, another attempt
has been made to resuscitate the Brumtnagem Union ;,
,but, going upon the authority of Mr. ATTWOOD,
take' for granted that it can only be reanimated by the
previous laytnelit.of its debts. But who has-agreed, to-
pay ? Certainly not the members themselves ; certainly
'not Mi.. THOMAS ATTWOOD, and most unquestionably
not Mr. JOSEPH PARKES. Neither the banker nor the
unitarian attorney veil contribute a single farthing; and
there is not a radical in England who is liberal enough
'to be so immensely foolish. But it -has been whispered
to us that honest JOSEPH PARKES may have whispered to
`Lord JOHN' RUSSELL the expediency of relieving his
most respectable and dutiful allies out of the treasury.
Mind, most critical reader,.we do not say that this has
been done, or is to be done, or is even contemplated by
'Lord JOHN RUSSELL. All we mean to say is that such a
sacrifice to faction and expediency might be done, with-
oitt compromising the character or staining more deeply
the official robes of any member of the present govern-
ment. Honest Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY received on a late
election £5OO from the then secretary of the treasury ;
the commissioners appointed toinquire into O'CONNELL's
corrupt and disgraceful conduct in Dublin will have to
be paid out of- the public money ; and it is therefore hard
that the pothouse scores of the Brummagem tinkers
should not be discharged in the same liberal and bounti-
ful manner.
That the revival of the union is worth the purchase is
quite another thing, upon which we shall not presume to
offer any opinion ; but we -bee enough to convince us
that desperate men are prone to have recourse to despe-
rate measures. That the MELBOURNE administration
are helpless is too obvious to admit of any manner of
doubt, and that they are seeking' support in quarters .the
most despicable, and in terms the most humiliating, we
Can prove flom a document emanating from no less a
personage than the prime minister himself.
In the Liverpool Mercury of Friday last, in an ob-
scure corner, and printed in the very smallest types, we
find the following :
" PITT-STREET WA R n.—On :Tuesday evening last the com-
mittee of reformers for Pitt-street ward dined at the Vine
Tavern, Pitt-street, Mr. Deakin in the chair, when they were
honoured with the company of their representatives and several
of their friends. During the evening Mr. Blackwell, a member
of the committee, presented the chairman with an elegant silver
Snuff-box, bearing an appropriate inscription. During the
evening the following letter from Viscount Melbourne, in refer-
ence to an address of thanks and confidence sent up from a
previous meeting in the ward, was read by Mr. ltathbone, and
received with great applause:—
" • S have received with the most lively satisfaction the
cepy.of the resondious which you have transmitted to me, and I
beg that you will, on the part of my colleagues and myself; assure
those who composed that meeting at which they were agreed to,
that we -feel ourselves much gratified and encott; jPd by the
expression of the continued confidence of our Fllow-citizens. -
" I remain, sir,
" Your faithful obedient servant,
" ' MELBOURNE.

We have again in the discharge of an important, and
however amusing, .atthe same time a disagreeable duty,
to present to our readers a full and accurate retort of the
proceedings in the Common. Council on Friday last. We
beg them to favour it with their earnest attention.
From trifles sometimes spring important considerations,
and that which may be at first sight only ludicrous, if
not contemptible, often teaches lessons of far more value
than any which can be purchased in the schools of science
•

•
or the halls of philosophy.
It is true that'what is called debating in the reformed
town council is nothing better than squabbling, and
would end in vile epithets and fisticuffs but for the mild
demeanour, the excellent temper, and the commanding
attitude of the gentleman who has the misfortune to pre-
side as chief magistrate. But as even in a dog-fight we
might learn the art of war, and see proofs of courage and
ferocity, both instructive enough in their way ; so in the
reformed council we see in vulgar contention, coarse in-
vective, and inveterate jealousy, those elements of per-
petual warfare which render thelnen who are under their
influence totally unfit to protect the interests of the com-
monalty, and execute the important trusts confided to

" ' John Deakin, Esq., Liverpool.' "
What was the nature of the resolutions which were
transmitted to the noble premier from this precious corn-
rnunity of obscure radicals who meet at the Vine Tavern,
in one of the lowest localities of this town, we have no
means of knowing ; but that they were expressive of the
unbounded confidence of the frequenters of the Vine Ta•
vern in his Majesty's tninisters, and redolent of their
fixed determination to support them=—and particularly
Friar Tuck and Little John—will hardly admit of any
disputation. They must indeed have been ususually sa-
voury:and adulatory to have given the most lively satis-
faction to his lordship, and amazingly rich in promise tc
have wrung from him the pitiable confession that they

4.‘ ENCOURAGED" the servants of the crown to retain

oftee,,and persevere in their unacknowledged but well•
understood alliance with DANIEL the beggar and the po.

pish priests of Ireland.
• Lord MELBOURNE has condescended to call the folks
Who meet at the Vine Tavern, in the curious neighbour-
hood to which we have alluded„ his "fellow citizens."
The phrase snacks of the days of DANTON and the
French revolution, when every illiterate scavenger, un-
der that title, considered himself equal to the most vir-
tuous and distinguished of the nobility of France—equal
to them not only in eligibility to power, but also in the
possession of that intelligence and those accomplish-
!Bents which qualify the learned, the well-educated, and
the independent inhabitantS of a country to legislate for
those whom PROVIDENCE never intended should do aught
else than cobble the shoes, scour the gaiters, .or sweep
the chimneys of persons in the same grade with them-
selves or the grades above them. GOD forbid that we
should ever impose chains upon the intuitive genius or

the native merit, expanded by a laudable ambition, o
humblest of the human race ! We would libel our
country, libel all the institutions of our country, and do
outrage to our own feelings, if we were for a moment
to espouse the idea that the genius of man, like the spi-
rit of life, did not come .ciiectly from the hands of a be-
neficent CREATOR, or that HE cannot raise the meanest
to the station of the greatest and the noblest of man-
kind. This truth is written in all our records—it
.is
proved by the events of all time—ioms spoken from
the judgment seat—it is demonstrated in our halls of
science—it stands, in unchallenged immortality and in
bold relief, upon the pedestals of our most cherished and
venerated monuments. No, the poor man is not shut
out from the path which leads to fame. England, we are
proud to say, invites, nourishes, and encourages talent,
no matter under what garb it appears. All we contend
for is, that humble poverty is incompatible with the dis-
charge of the duties of a magistrate—that all men are
not born equal—that the doctrine of equality is a fraud—
that NAPOLEON was
,not the equal of the man who cleaned
his-boots—that EGERTON SMITH isnot equal to Professor
WHEWEL—that Colonel WILLIAMS, even in his winter
ducks, is not on a par with the Duke of WELLINGTON—
and that Mr. WILLIAM EWART has no pretensions to the
oratorical talents of GEORGE CANNING. The language
therefore of Lord MELBOURNE is not that which should
proceed from the prime minister of the King of England.
It is not the language of an English patriot—it is tho-
roughly French, fulsome, nauseous, and repulsive.
The noble lord is not a burgess of Liverpool—the man
he addressed is not a citizen of Liverpool—the absurdity
and ignorance of the one are only rendered more ludi-
crous by the obscurity of the other. The anomaly would
not have been more pitiable and contemptible if this man
DEAKIN had called the noble lord " Mr. LAMB, Prime
Minister of England," and Lord MELBOURNE had ad-
dressed the other as the " Right. Honourable JOHN DEA-
ICIN, carrier, Liverpool.!" How foolish is all this
But who is the correspondent of the Lord Viscount

their care.
'Already the town council is torn by dissentions from
"within." They cannot say that the burgesses annoy
them by the pressure from " without," for our " fellow
citizens" are not allowed to be the witnesses of their
proceedings, or feast their ears upon the eloquence of the
numerous orators. They are not only excluded, but the
radical members have taken care that no reporter shall
be admitted to their preliminary discussions.
The word preliminary may not be generally under-
stood, and therefore we beg to explain that the reported
proceedings of these immaculate and liberty-loving ra-
dicals are only the formal representations of what has
previously been rehearsed. They have, an imperium in
imperio at the Angel Inn or some other snug hole and
corner, where the majority of the council meet and there
deliberate and concoct 411 the measures whieh they
propose to introduce and discuss in the council chamber.
They have a penny-reel parliament of their own, where
noses are counted, friends are consulted, and where the
patronage of the corporation is voted away long before
the other members can be aware of their movements or
intentions. This is their respect for public opinion! The
public know nothing of their real reasons for the de-
cisions they come to in this petty star chamber at the
Angel Inn. They who profess to. love free discupion.
exclude every ray of popular sunshine from their preli-
minary proceedings; and who is the originator of any
given tnotien, the opposer of that motion, or the motives
which are alleged for supporting or opposing it, are care-
fully concealed from the great body of electors. In point
of fact this coterie of blazing radicals, have, by their se-
cret and sinister proceedings, already reduced the re-
formed corporation to as close and corrupt a borough, ir-
responsible to the burgesses, as any that ever existed in
England in the worst of times.
Their conduct, indeed, in this respect, is so disgrace-
ful,that we cannot find words sufficiently strong to, con-
vey the disgust which it has excited in every part of Li-
verpool. On Friday these worthies, at an early hour in
the morning, met in their hiding-placerand decided upon
twenty ,four of their friends whom they resolVed to re-
commend as justices for the town. They agreed to cram
them down the tbrOats of their colleagues at one-gulp;
and down the whole twenty-four would have gone, had
not the Mayor, Mr. War. EARLE, Mr. LEATROM, and
others declared, with considerable earnestness, that such
was not ,the way they were accustomed to take physic.
Who the twenty-four were we would give something to
know, but as they will, no doubt, be proposed to-day we
shall perhaps be enabled to guess.
By the way there was some notice taken of certain re-
marks which appeared in this journal of Friday last, but
as Alderman ROBINSON, who
.commenced them, did not
know what he was talking about we pass them over for
the present. We thank the Mayor for very promptly
and very successfully putting a stop to so absurd a scene.