The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

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TUESDAY

MORNING, FEB. 15, 1853.

THE WEEK.

PERHAPS the most interesting event of the week,
of more value than even the arrival of a consign-
ment of gold from Australia, is the long-desired
change in the weather, from damp mists and rain
to a sharp dry frost, accompanied by a seasonable
fall of snow. To our agricultural friends it will
prove a great blessing, if it does not last too long,
as there is an old saying, that snow for a week does
good, but beyond that does harm. The fall of
snow seems to have been pretty general, and to a
much greater extent than in our own locality.
The Theatres still continue their attractions of the
Christmas Pantomimes, which may be said to have
had a good run this season. There is no lack of
concerts on a small scale ; but it would seem that
they require some additional incentive to public
patronage, as the device has been attempted of of-
fering a free passage to Australia as a prize to be
awarded by way of lottery. The merits of Mr.
THOMAS' monster band of instrumental performers
has not yet been sufficiently appreciated by the
Manchester public, whose thoughts have been so
full of peace agitation, that they have not been able
to attend to the harmony of sweet sounds. Its
return to Liverpool will, however, be hailed with a
welcome which will be shown in more crowded
audiences than before.

At the meeting of the Select Vestry, on Tuesday,
Mr. WYLIE was elected Parish Surveyor out of
four candidates, at a salary of £3OO a-year. A
discussion arose about some children of Romanist

parents being taken to church against their consent,
in the course of which the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL
denounced with indignation such a practice as being
highly improper, and avowed his determination to
support and defend such children in the preser-
vation of their religious liberty. We feel no such
delicacy on the subject ; for so long as we believe,
—as we have a right to believe—the practices of
the Romish Church to he the grossest superstition
and idolatry, we hold it to be the duty of every one
engaged in the bringing up of children to give
them the opportunity of learning the truths of
Christianity.
The plan for decorating the lamp-posts of Liver-
pool has been repudiated by the Guardian Society,
to whom it had been referred for the opinion of the
tradesmen ; but a proposition has been made to
make the lamp-glasses a means of giving more intel-
ligible information as to the names of the several
streets. The question, however, has not yet been
decided, but has been postponed until Monday next.

The proposition made Co the Dock Committee for
consolidating the debt of the Dock Trustees has
had a formidable list of difficulties thrown in its
way by Mr. NORTH, the dock solicitor, to whom
the question was referred for a legal opinion. He
could not see how a debt, always fluctuating in
amount, payable at various periods, and at different
rates of interest, could be consolidated, more parti-
cularly as the separate consent would be required of
every individual bondholder. The chairman, Mr.
C. TURNER, M.P., gave a far more practicable opi-
nion, when he suggested that a new loan should be
raised to pay off all the present creditors. Such a
plan would have this advantage, that it would create
an eligible means for local investment, far preferable
to the present desultory mode of dabbling in shares,
and give the property in the Docks a more tangible
value. If the whole debt were converted into stock
similar to the public funds, it would bear almost as
high a value, notwithstanding the sneers of our
liberal contemporaries about Dock management,
the motives for which can be readily traced to poli-
tical disappointment.
The public well remember the annoyance which
was occasioned some years since by the refusal to
take sovereigns under the full weight, and in nu-
merous cases making reductions in value for the
alleged deficiency. It was supposed, however, that
this annoying custom had fallen into desuetude,
until an attempt to make use of gold as a means of
payment proves the fallacy of such a conclusion. It
appears that the stringent rules against taking light
sovereigns still prevail in public offices and in most
of the banks. But there is neither reason nor
justice in such a regulation. The deficiency in
weight is occasioned by the wear and tear of ordinary
commerce, and the loss should not be borne by the
public, except in cases where it can be shown to
have been wilfully caused. As it is, the loss is
almost sure to fall upon the innocent holder. We
would remind our readers that it is illegal to make
any reduction in the value of a money coin upon the
ground of its being deficient in weight, unless by a
dealer in bullion, and then the piece so depreciated
must be permanently defaced, so as not to be re-
issued for circulation.

Mr. COBDEN'S ambition appears to be to obtain
public notoriety without regard to the quality, and
his desire has been gratified in the ridiculous cor-
respondence with Lieut. Gen. BROTHERTON, about
his absurd offer to pay £lO,OOO, upon a French
attempt being made to invade England. We stated
last week that the latter had declined to receive the
proffered bond, as he was satisfied of the sincerity
of the offer ; but since then he has written to re-
quest Mr. COBDEN to transfer the obligation to
the Manchester Infirmary. Upon this the Peace
champion displays a most belligerent temper, writes
in a great pet to repudiate all further correspondence
with the man who had let him off so easily, and
consequently declines to perform the undertaking
into which he so rashly entered. The public must
by this time be fully aware of the utter emptiness,
not to say insanity, of their whilome idol. He has
made himself a laughing stock, even for the shal-
lowest-pated Radical ; and Punch, who once lauded
him as a demigod, has clenched the matter by pour-
traying him as an ass, braying "there is no danger"
at the mouth of a cannon, to which a Frenchman is
applying the match. The men of the West Riding
may make the most they can of their representative ;
for the rest of the world, unless we except the Man-
chester noodles, are laughing at his folly and self-
conceit.

The Court of Passage last week presented a scene,
which, it is to be hoped, for the honour of human
nature, is of so rare occurrence as not to be suffered
to pass without notice. A young female seeking re-
dress for the wrongs of her seducer, is met by a
witness of presumed respectability of character and
position, who, under the sacred obligations of an
oath, unblushingly avows an infamy of conduct and
systematic profligacy, which was incredible from
its very enormity. It surpasses all comment on its
probability; for, whether true or false; whether
debauchery or perjury, it can excite no other feeling
than indignant execration. It has been very properly
followed by a dissolution of partnership; and it is to
be hoped that a court of justice will not again be
polluted by a re-hearing of the monstrous case.

RIGHTS OF WOMEN.—While the lights of Man-
chester at a grand Reform Soiree engaged in fierce
discussion on those weighty questions which Lord
John Russell is quietly shelving for them, that emi-
nent luminary, Mr. W. J. Fox, has been more
mildly engaged in receiving from the ladies of Old-
ham a well-filled velvet purse, and returning the
compliment in a velvet wind-bag full of soft nothings,
and fine phrases about womanhood suffrage, and all
that sort of thing. Verily, the women of England
are to be envied. With Lord Shaftesbury for their
spokesman in the Upper, and Mr. W. J. Fox in the
Lower House, they cannot fail to rise to a degree
of public importance altogether unknown to their
sex in days of bygone barbarism. May we ven-
ture to suggest, that the Noble Earl and the ex-
Preacher should appear in their respective Houses
in petticoats, or at least in bloomers, to mark the
peculiarity of their social vocation ?—John Bull.

"AN ENGLISHMAN " AND FRIEND BRIGHT.—
At the recent Peace Conference in Manchester,
some of the orators assailed the famous corres-
pondent of the Thunderer, who, it may be
!membered, mercilessly lashed the peace fanatic,s,
in one of his pungent epistles. "An Englishman
has replied through the medium of the Morning
Advertiser. The passage about Bright is a " nut"
for that man of peace to crack at his leisure :—" I
turn to your coarse Lieutenant. John Bright
proclaims me from your itinerant rostrum a
petulant vain man.' Since he says so I un-
questionably am, for on both points he is a great
authority. He is hi▪
mself a specimen of truculence
in drab, of the pugnacious passions of the men of
peace, of the offensive arrogance and smug conceit
that lurk beneath a broad-brimmed hat. Thou
arguest, Friend Bright, that I am sorely vexed
with an 'unbalanced mind,' and that a fellow
who cannot controul himself is not fit to guide a
nation' It is a law of physics that extent of base
guarantees the equilibrium. I have not, nor shall
ever have, thy width of skirt. I am not one of
those peculiar Christians for whom Baxter wrote,
whose peaceful tenets and whose placid tempera-
ments assure thei▪ r perpendicular against each
moral and material 'shove' That I should rock
upon my ' balance' then, is natural, But thou!

how comes it that most think and many say, the
very same of thee ? The sentiment, however, is
more pat than new. It is a well-known verse done
into clumsy prose :

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Friend, friend, the beam is in thine own eye, pluck
it out. Thou sighest with a pacific sigh, that thou
canst not lay thy hands on me, to drag me forth,
and discover what I am. Hark ye, friend ! Thine
ear. Suppose I inform thee (in confidence) I am
a costermonger, that I cry ' cabbages,' and keep a
donkey ! What of that ? So sound a Democrat
never can despise my honest humble calling. Let
us fraternise. There is my horny hand. Yet I
cannot comprehend in what fashion my vocation
touches the merits of my writings. I compose
some letters. I sign myself 'An Englishman.'
Would that signature, or any other, make falsehood
truth, folly wit, fustian eloquence, or nonsense
reason ? Try. Thou, too, I think, has been an
author. Thou has woo'd the public. Thou hast
won—the butterman."

THE FRENCH AMNESTY. - Four thousand
Frenchmen amnestied! How black and long must
have been that proscription-list which admits of
such a wholesale act of grace. Four thousand—
ani yet a large residuum is left, starving in London,
scorching in Algeria, pining in the swamps of
Cayenne. Four thousand—and not a man of note
among them ; an interminable roll of peasants,
publicans, hack scribblers, and attorney's clerks.
No Changarnier, no Bedeau, no Lamoriciere. Mo-
dern tyranny has fabricated a military machine vast
enough to crush the lowest and intimidate the most
obscure. Yet its policy is the same. Provided he
has friends in every cabaret, Louis Napoleon cares
little for having enemies in every drawing-room.
With the brute force of the many he can effectually
keep down the few. The same prompt and heavy
hand which swept off these four thousand still
. keeps its hold on Paris. Thirty or forty persons,
mostly correspondents of foreign papers, but some
of high rank and connexions, were suddenly seized
on Saturday, accused of spreading " calumnious
1 reports" against the Emperor and his young wife.
t The severity is justifiable if the charge is true; but
1 that such a complaint should be made, and made
with reason, is a fact which tells its own tale. It
is evident that the gorgeous ceremonial at Notre
Dame made no impression, or worse than none.
The young Empress rides about with her husband,
unnoticed by the crowd, who do not even lift their
hats as she passes. The universal absence of re-
spect for the man makes his marriage a theme for
broad jests, and tells against his wife. Unless the
presence of an attractive woman should make the
Court agreeable and fill it with good society—as
perhaps it may—the act, as a public act, must be
considered a failure.—London Guardian.

On this subject the Times says :—" At the very
moment when a batch of the lower order of offenders
is thus liberated from penal detention, a blow is
struck by the police at the higher ranks of society
in the capital, as if to remind those who have served
other and nobler governments that the forbearance
of the ruler is not for them. In the night of Satur-
day last, or rather early on Sunday morning, a
considerable number of arrests were made in the
best quarters of Paris. General St. Priest, Duke
of Almazan in Spain, a lieutenant-general in the
French army, formerly an ambassador, and a lead-
ing member of the Legitimist party, was appre-
hended in this manner, and thrown into a cell in
the prison of Mazas, while his papers were ran-
sacked, and even the military ornaments of his
apartments rifled. In the course of the afternoon a
message reached the General, informing him, with
M. de Maupass's excuses, that he had been mis-
taken for his son—a gentleman well known in Pa-
risian society by the name of the Duke of Almazan,
but of no political importance. M. Rene de
Rovigo, a son of Savary, M. Planiol, some corres-
pondents of Belgian and German newspapers, and
M. Tanski, a Pole, who is naturalized as a French-
man, and connected with the Journal des De'bats,
also formed a part of this razzia. No charge of
conspiracy was made against them, or, indeed, of
any serious hostility to the government; but this
act seems to have been intended as a warning from
the police to the fashionable clubs and salons of
Paris, that no rank or station renders it safe to
breathe, even in jest, words which touch the sensi-
tive vanity of despotic power. The finger on the
lips is now a common gesture among the gayest
and most talkative of nations, to denote their dread
of the übiquitous ears and arms of the police.
Even the Jockey and the Union Clubs upon the
Boulevards are menaced with the Imperial displea-
sure, because they have refused to elect the
favourites of the Court; and the tension or restraint
placed upon society is carried to the utmost
excess."

LITTLE JOHN.—The fact is, that Lord John is
Lord John still; or rather, that he grows smaller
and smaller as he grows older. He is the same
man still in his vehement craving for place and
power, and his readiness to intrigue, either with an
O'Connell or a Gladstone, to get ir.to office. But
in real usefulness as a statesman he seems to
dwindle and grow stunted ; and those who have
watched his snail-like movements for the last five
or six years, will naturally ask to what an extraor-
dinary littleness may he not grow ? A leader !
save the mark ! and a leader, too, of the " party of
progress !" How can the spectator help thinking
of the wretched broken-down cab, the tenant of
which having lost all patience, thrust his head out
of the window, and demanded, " Driver, do you
call this going ?" To which the driver surlily re-
sponded, " I don't know ; do you call it standing
still ?"—Morning Herald.

THE DUBLIN CASTLE LEVEE.—SO, after all,
not a Romish bishop, priest, or deacon honoured
Lord St. Germans' levee with his presence ! The
meaning of this is plain. Lord Clarendon gave
them precedence. Lord St. Germans withholds
it. So they " levee'd" the one, and turned their
backs on the other. Thus, therefore, the boasted
purchase of the Brigade now stands. Eight votes
secured ; the rest lost. And the priesthood holding
aloof. A pleasant prospect for Lord Aberdeen in
the coming session ! But what is of real import
to us is the speculation, what further amount of
concession will be granted by an unprincipled and
desperate government to regain the support they
had originally counted upon. This it is our busi-
ness to watch. The frightful delusion that to yield
ground in the hour of danger is to disarm an ad-
versary, seems to hang over the councils of the
Ministry, and to inspire its organs. The whole
force of a nation's indignation must be brought into
play to arrest the progress of such fatal, such dis-
astrous blunders."—Morning Herald.

THE TRAITOR COBDEN.—We briefly notice a
triad of letters written by Mr. Richard Cobden, in
order to show the consequences of those mischiev-
ous epistles having been written. In them, the
author betrayed two sentiments. First, he wishes,
all democrat though he be, to gag the English
press. He would destroy public liberty of expres•
sion in the newspapers, reserving that freedom, of
course, only for his own party and organs. Se-
condly, he is the advocate of France against Eng-
land. He labours with truly a patriotic zeal to
show that, in all our quarrels and wars with France,
we have been the guilty and unprovoked aggressors.
He argues that we were over eager, regardless of
1 right or wrong, to subject that country to humi-
liation ; and he toils loyally to show that, if France
now hasten to annihilate us, we shall only deservedly
reap the inevitable harvest of a culpable sowing.
Had letters similar to those to which we now allude
been written some fifty years and upwards ago, the
whole kingdom would have branded the writer as
an infamous paid agent of our restless, insatiable,
and hereditary enemies. Such an accusation would
not, we believe, be applicable to Mr. Cobden, He
is simply insane, and in his terrible insanity he is
doing for France what France would richly reward
him for, were he of the old order of popular agi-
tators who were to be hired at full noon-day in the
public market places. As it is, Mr. Cobden gives
of his free will what gold would never buy. The
results will be none the less deplorable.—Church
and State Gazette.

THE LATE RAILWAY KING One effective 1
blow has been dealt at a fortune which was the
opprobrium of this country. That prosperity
gained could be endowed with stability was so
per-
manent incentive to fiscal trickery of the
na-
ture. Pyulus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo, must have
been the constant thought of a man Rho had
gained fair estates and mansions at the expense of
his countrymen, The world was a gaming-table--
life a game of rouge et noir. Rattle the dice and
call the main—to-day the loser may die—to-morrow
the winner ?
must take the same dark leap. Who
talks of conscience, of morality, and such old world
We are rogues all; the cleverest wins—
the dupes
unfortunately,
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ounder . What is mine is my own—
what is yours
s mine, if I can get it. Such was
the philosophy
of the time and of the trade. It
cannot, be denied that George
Hudson had ample cause for regarding human life
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with a mocking ye. No man can know better

than the fallen Railway King the depths of vileness
to which human nature—when decked out with
diamonds and titles—will sink for the sake of gain.
He has lived to see the highest personages in the
land fawn upon him and lick his shoes for gold.
He has known the lengths to which moral degrada-
tion is carried by those who are in the enjoyment of
fair repute, when no one is by and the reward of
turpitude is gold. He has spurned his titled soli-
citors from his hall, cajoled them with promises,
and laughed at them with brutal insolence—they
have returned to him for more contumely and more
gold. The epoch over which he presided is hap-
pily at an end. Let us hope never to see such an-
other period and such another man.—Times.