The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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a
old feuds of Whig and Tory staunched, even
principle is neutralized by the return, by consent,
and to avoid the expense and trouble of a contest
of parties of opposite politics. By a few constitu-
encies Whigs will walk in unopposed, where Con-
servatives, before their too general apostacy, were
certain of election. In short, throughout the
country, the men hitherto the most energetic
workers in election matters, refuse to stir, disgusted
with the disappointment which has followed their
past efforts, and evidently impressed with the con-
viction that there is no faith to be placed in the
professions or the promises of statesmen.
We have to lair

:nt this feeling as existing to
>wn borough ; and it develop-

went threat

) dama

severely the character of

its constituency for` undeviating protestant and
constitutional consistency. Not later than last
week we confidently trusted, and expressed our
heartfelt gratification, that Liverpool would still be
enabled to emerge triumphantly from the efforts
which "liberalism" has for years making to
possess itself of—the representation of this loyal
borough. The unanimous resolve of the leaders of
the constitutional and Protestant party to support
their present tried and respected member, Sir
Howard Douglas, with Sir Digby Mackworth as
his colleague, afforded almost unlimited satisfaction
to the great majority of the constituency. We have
to-day, however, to record, and to lament over, a
step—the introduction of a third candidate, in the
person of Lord John Manners, who must rely upon
the church and constitutional party for support,
and hence divide and weaken that party—which
materially alters our prospects, and which, if per-
severed in, will inevitably result in defeat and
disaster, which every true friend of the good old
town must sincerely deplore.
We know not who are the moving parties in this
matter—who were the deputation to Lord John
Manners, or who are his leading supporters in the
attempt, to which he has been so injudiciously
invited, to divide and weaken the Conservative
strength of this constituency. We know as little
what are his claims upon Liverpool, in especial, be-
yond his talent, his amiability, his eloquence, and
his excellent moral character, which none deny him
to be possessed of, He is in favour of the main-
tenance of the Navigation Laws : so is our old and
tried member, Sir Howard Douglas, and so is Sir
Digby Mackworth. He is an advocate for protec-
tion to the colonies, the commerce, and the native
industry of the empire : equally so are both these
gentlemen, He is an ardent supporter of the
blished Church of England, and of the insti-
country, as by law established : so
Howard Douglas ; so is Sir 'Digby Mack-
But here we must stop. In matters con-
ith the Constitution, and the Church of
Iblished by the Reformation, the

utions of ti

is Sir

nected
England

parties are no longer on a parallel.
We ask, then, which of the candidates already
before the public is it that Lord John Manners is
brought forward to oppose, a,nd on what particular
questions ? If it is to oppose the two Conservative
candidates, it cannot be upon the question of the
Navigation Laws, or protection to the colonial, com-
mercial, or industrial interests of the empire. It is
not upon any other great question, about which
The conclusion,

constitutionalists are anxious. __ , of the constituencies of the empire, to provide for I Sunday morning next, in behalf of this favourite institu-
then, must be that it is upon some question con- themselves. We want no mere philosophers in the tion. There is no doubt that our various local charities
netted with the established religion of the country, next House of Commons ; we want no mere have of late years been too much neglected by the clergy
with respect to which, more than any other ques- motion makers ; no men with but one idea in their ofi our. town, and we therefore hope that the example. se
tion, Lord John Manners has made himself promi- heads, and hopelessly ignorant of, or indifferent to, gitnisietannucemewill b
rous familiese their I\reesideint ce-
generatlelLefoglluopwed. tw
setantdins
nent in parliament, and before the country. Is it the practical concerns of the nation. Get rid of amongst us, this and other institutions do not exhibit in
his peculiar opinions with respect to the law of the Bowrings, Ewarts, et hoc genus omne, and their subscription lists that amount of increase to their
mortmain which constitute his superior fitness to supply their places with practical men of business. funds which is naturally expected, but, on the contrary,
from deaths and other causes, the funds are languishing.
represent the greatest commercial port of the em- It is only, therefore, by the clergy bringing forward the
pire ? We should imagine that in this age of pro- claims of our institutions annually before their respective
gress, and by the merchants of Liverpool, the idea We have given at a somewhat unusual length a congregations that a proper result will follow, and in ex-
of any portion of the youth and manhood of the debate in the House of Commons, which took pressing our best wishes that the response to the appeal
kingdom moping in monasteries, when so vast a place on Saturday night, in which Lord Clements— in the present instance will be one worthy of the cause,
field for the employment of their energies in the one of the extraordinary specimens of Irish repre- we at the same time say to each of the clergy "go and do
thou likewise."
improvement of the condition of their fellow human sentatives—rather ruffled the feelings of the house MARKET CIRCULAR LITERATURE.—The purveyors of
beings was offered them out of doors, would receive, by asserting that, in snatching, his fellow-country- commercial information, in their anxiety to be brief,
from such a constituency as this, little sympathy. men from starvation, we had been doing no great sometimes perpetrate very funny things. Indeed, they
We fear greatly that Lord John Manners, or things. Had we been snatching his lordship from Prove that not only is " brevity the soul of wit," but of
some of the parties said to be his supporters here— starvation, or any other matter which would rid us fun as well. We give a few specimens from last Wed-
we repeat that we know not either who or how of such patriots, we should admit that we had not np
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many they are—have been misled as to his chances been doing much to raise the average value of the This is certainly a very
to notice in the rum market."
of success in this borough ; and we are certain, human race. But Lord Clements seemed to think queer name for a market. We should like to know where
from the character of his lordship, that, if he could —and, in expressing his thoughts, he was rather it is, and who is the superintendent. Again : " Nothing
suppose that, by pressing his pretensions, he was wrathful—that this poor unfortunate town of ours of the least importance has occurred in coffee." - This is
ter
vt rue d
e
in the least placing our town in danger of being ought to be obliged to Ireland, and to bear its have goi t it cPurardiciesofwitoe.uskerr p
heaams, twtheevierr coitffeies
subjected to Whig-Radical and anti-Church dome- burdens with equanimity, on account of the im- intended to inform us that the chiccory usually in coffee
nation, he would at once withdraw from a position mense benefits which we have derived from our has not been misbehaving itself. " The tea market,"
so unseemly and injurious to interests which, proximity to that country. This has been the port we are told, "is rather improving. The greater part,
although in some points eccentric in his views, we which Ireland has enriched by making it the port however, of 4,000 packages offered by auction awn
believe he has at heart, Lord John Manners is, of transmission of her exports to England. Alas ! chiefly greens of last year's import) were withdrawn. '
we should imagine, too chivalrous in his character we have had a sad drawback in being the port
"greens Very pr o u r
whether
so
wntea,:tily.
to submit to the indignity which some of the party which has had either to keep or to transmit home though at tea a nice fresh lettuce is very das to buy
we just
who have brought him forward have prepared for her pauperism. We shall make no further corn- now. Again :we hear of the business done "in rice"—
him—the indignity of being placed in a respectable ment, however, upon a speech in every respect so in pot and pearl ashes," &c. 4, A small quantityt oef
position on the poll, only by the votes of parties absurd. It is best answered by the following cas- bnreixmtstone,':eit_ iseseaid,
4, we tutove.lttle' itno
report."saletre ," h
The
hostile to the church, of which he professes to be ' tigation, administered by Mr. Brown, M.P. for the two,
ppeatratg ph
together, says, '°
have "gone off," and made a
so ardent a supporter—for we have heard it stated southern division of the county, wnom we heartily " report " for themselves. Some nitrate of soda, we are
also told, " went off." More shame for the saltpetre,
that some of the party in question meditate thank for his spirit on the occasion.
which was so much more calculated to go off. Some
coalescing with the friends of Sir Thomas Birch ! "I am extremely happy to find that the noble lordd " d buyers." Very clever
found
We should think little, indeed, of the scion of the (Clements) stands alone in his undivided glory in arraign- parcels of dyewoo s
woods they must have been. We would recommend
house of Rutland if he could descend to this. ing the conduct of her Majesty's ministers for want of them to the notice of the Woods and Forests. They
Since writing the above, we have been confi- j ehearity ,
lthaat tolul e Ennngolti s h peoefelet,hefomr they
and feapinresrtl might, perhaps, be able to find buyers for the Birkenhead
dently assured that Sir Howard Douglas declines ? the people,
see that eed
veryy Ireisah memberar present r'epudiates whatga Docks, or money to finish them. Seriously, we cannot
to come forward again for Liverpool ; and we have the noble lord has said. He alleges that Liverpool has see why mercantile houses should make use of so much
slang, and so grievously outrage grammar, in their com-
received, at a late hour, a copy of an address from , derived so much benefit from Ireland, that it is their duty munications to the world. They should reform it alto-
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us intent

Mr. Edward Cardwell, announcing Lon or
soliciting the votes of the constituency, which will

isk the noble lord, has Ireland received no benefits in re-
turn ? Is it nothing that Liverpool, ever since it became D
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commercial town, has relieved Ireland of some of its
, steamers

FURTHER PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE IRISH
—About 300 of the poor Irish were sent home by
They nearly all left reluctantly. Twenty of
AIM, by giving them prontame eii,r_ them resolutely refused, and had to be taken before Mr.
t nothing that Lancashire furnishes the Rushton. (The process of compelling them to leave is
,us produceeasy and expeditious.) They all offered various reasons
in distress we r ... why they ought to be permitted to remain, but none of
the horde of poor people that are thrown in upon us, and these arguments had any effect, as they had, up to that
feed them, although they bring a dreadful disease amongst time, received parish relief. Mr. Rushton told the whole
us, there being at this moment from 7000 to 8000 of them, what they appeared to be ignorant of, that the
people in Liverpool ill of typhus fever. The cost of main- system of giving out-door relief, as in England,- was now
taming these paupers is the least of the evil. Such re- in full operation in their own country ; that they had long
marks, were they the sentiments of the Irish people, would enough been a burden upon the industrious shop-keepers
harden even a heart already petrified, and prevent on any of Liverpool ; and that they must go back that night and
future occasion your being entitled to any aid from those be supported in future by the Irish landlords. And, ac-
you so unjustly abuse. It is questionable, even now, cordingly, that very night, they were sent by steamers to
whether the hard-working beonle of England will not Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Louth, Dundalk, and Drog-
.„,,, much for you in place heda. The act has already bad the effect of diminishing
the number of applicants for parish relief, and the ex-
penditure has been materially lessened, and will, no doubt,
THE DISSOLUTION.—The mere routine business of continue to decrease. The act has also greatly checked,
winding up the session will occupy the coming week—after if not cut off, the influx of paupers from Ireland, though
which the prorogation, followed by an immediate dissolu- the numbers that have come in search of harvest work has
tion, may be confidently looked for. The ministerial been considerable, being on Friday 1,014. Another cir-
white-bait dinner, at Greenwich, which immediately pre- cumstance is gratifying. The fever is in the decline, as
cedes the prorogation of Parliament, is fixed for Wednes- shown by Dr. Duncan s report, yesterday, to the Health
day, the 21st instant.—Observer. Committee. The Irish are now leaving Liverpool in
-__ . --The following is the official return shoals, not, however, for their own country, but for the
Navy of Great Britain, on the Ist instant : interior, in expectation of obtaining workat
the harvest,
_4...1.-- „...Af fm. the exertion. The great influx

be found in our adve

Mr. Cardwell's address

observe

faction, that he

however

is op-

best market in the work( tor your surpL,.- _
it nothing that when you are in distress we receive

posea
clergy

and to any undue infringement of the ex-
isting Navigation Laws. Upon commercial and
local questions, too, we are aware that he is well
informed—infinitely better than the Whig candi-
date, Sir Thomas Birch, can be supposed to be.
In addition to these qualifications, he is a rising
man, whose influence, upon any question which
~nrerns his native town, will be felt in the proper

quarte.,
head of affau.
Mr. Cardwei

of too little

Al, we understand, will address the
I the electors on 'Change at half-past

merchants an

three to-,

E v ERY past Whig ministz

tinguished by the magnificence of its promise and
the comparative paucity of its performance ; and
the ministry of Lord Joh- - -11 has not contra-

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laracteristic of his party

Admirals of the fleet

.dmirals of the red, 10 ; white, 1 many o:

the commencement of the session

the object in view, even
wing wages to the detri-
At
irevalent than here—the

ORDINATION BY THE BISHOP OF CHESTE

On Sunday last, the following gentlemen were admitted
to holy orders by the Lord Bishop of Chester, in the
Cathedral, Durham, in which his Lordship holds a pre-
bendal stall :