The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

CORRESPONDENCE

THE COMING MUNICIPAL STRUGGLE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

iirt,—The authentic records of it, represent this town os
Cot itaining twenty-eight houses, twelve vessels, the total toi
I-
na ge of which was two hundred and ninety-three, and on e
andred and thirty-eight inhabitants, in the year fifteen hun.
d red and fifty-five ; so that, although our great local prede-
cessor, Roger of Poictiers, laid the foundation of Liverpool
with the walls of the castle he built seven hundred and fifty
years ago, yet its modern history begins properly with the
era of the glorious reformation, inasmuch as, till then, the
sickly infant did not begin to thrive.
A municipal body has existed in the place almost from the
time of li oger of Poictiers, and exists in it at present. What
the earlier municipal bodies were, as regarded the extent of
their funds, the position they occupied compared with other
)orary municipal bodies, or to what extent they were

contem

influential in promoting a prosperous and increasing com-
merce in it, we may conjecture from the foregoing data; and
the inference such conjectures will suggest will be that, how-
ever wealthy or useful the existing municipal body may be,
its titles to such wealth and such usefulness were acquired
during the last three centuries.
Towards the close of the year 1836. the nett value of the
municipal estate was said to be three millions sterling : dur-
ing the preceding half century it had doubled itself in value.
This estate consists of landed and other property, in which
the former kind of property has,a vast preponderance. Out
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of such an estate there has sprung, from the commencement,
many reciprocal interests and relationships, which have aug-
mented froni time to time, and are now in exercise. Land-
lards and tenants, proprietors and builders, licensing magis-
trates and publicans, creditors and debtors, buyers and sell-
ers, form a few items in the catalogue of such relationships,
which exist to such a degree that the interests, the prosperity,
and, it may be added, the maintenance of thousadds of indi-

vidual inhbitants, exist with them.
Yet, on the aggregate, the prosperity in its prosperity, and
the poverty in its poverty, of the municipal estate has always
been subservient to, and influenced by, the mercantile and
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commercial transactions of the town, to which all its pros-
pects, for good or for evil, are, and have always been limited.
Had not an augmentation of such transactions taken place
on the spot, requiring, as they augmented, additional build-
ings, i n the erection of warehouses and dwelling-houses, be-
• sides other erections. landed or other property would not
have advanced in value upon it. Now, augmentation has
been the chief feature in the modern history of it—reciprocal
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augmentation. Should diminution be the Chief feature in its
1 subsequent history, can it be anything else than reciprocal

(1 iminution ?

I will endeavour to be more explicit. If twice the business
w.as done on the Exchange to-morrow than was done to-day ;
it twice the number of vessels, requiring twice the number of

clacks came to discharge and enter for loading, such increase
wo.ild cause the corporated estate to double itself in value :
from three millions would, as soon as the full effects of the
increase become known, result six :—or. to reverse the sup-
position, were there in the docks half the cargoes, bought or
sold, discharged or taken on board, half the business trans-
acted that is now transacted, then the natural consequences
would be a decrease of one-half in value of the corporate es-
tate. Land at two guineas a yard would scarcely find pur-
chasers at one-half the sum ;—from three millions would
soon result one and a half.

The interests of the body corporate are demonstrably in-
terwoven with the mercantile and commercial transactions
But is it in the power of the body corporate to

of the port

promote commercial intercourse? can they command mer-
cantile prosperity ? can they absolutely augment both ?
Doubtless it is to their own interests to promote the one,

and endeavour, as far as human nature can reach, to aug-
ment the other. This they have always done; this other
bodies corporate have always been doing. Serious as these
questions are, and deserving of the deepest consideration, a
painful negative must characterise the reply to one and all
of them from any intelligent mind.
Supposing the utmost willingness to be shewn, on the part
of the body corporate, to swell the commercial tides as far
and as high as human ability could do. Well, what do the
past histories of Bristol, or Hull, or a dozen other towns,
say of the willingness of their bodies corporate to swell them,
—of their hopes and their anxieties to make every wave of
them a billow, and every billow a sea? The maps of Great
Britain will shew us many such towns : the history of Great
Britain will inform us of many such bodies corporate. Alas !
many of them were too impotent to keep what commerce
they had, and what riches which were once in their possession.
" Trade," says a great writer (Bishop Newton), " is a
fluctuating thing. It passed from Tyre to Alexandria, from
Alexandria to Venice, from Venice to Antwerp, from Ant-
werp to Amsterdam and London, the English rivalling the
Dutch, as the French are now rivalling both. All nations
almost are wisely applying themselves to trade, and it be-
hoves those who are in possession of it to take the greatest
care they do not lose it.''
And the same writer adds, on the same subject—
" It is a plant of tender growth, and requires sun, arid
soil, and fine seasons, to make it thrive and flourish. It will
not grow like the palm tree, which with the more weight and
pressure rises the more. Liberty is a great friend to that,
as that is to liberty; but the greatest enemy to both is licen-
tiousness, which tramples upon all law and lawful authority,
encourages riots and tumults, promotes diseases and debi-
lity, sticks at nothing to supply its extravagance, practises
every act of illicit gain, ruins credit, ruins trade, and will in
the end ruin liberty itself. Neither kingdoms nor common-
wealths, neither public companies nor private persons, can
carry on a beneficial trade without virtue, and what virtue
teachedi—sobriety, industry, frugality, modesty, honesty,
punctuality, humility, charity, the love of our country, and
the fear of God."

Whatever opposing arguments may be advanced against
these statements, the severe truth contained in them will be,
to every right-minded person, manifest at a glance. Com-
merce of whatever description, like the motions of states and
armies, is under the control of that Infinite Intelligence, of
whom it is truly said,
" He reigns supreme, and He directs it all."
The great Sovereign of sovereigns governs the commerce of
nations, or companies, or individuals, for their prosperity or
adversity, for their evil or for their good, according to their
inclinations and their acts. A flourishing trade is as much
a gift of his bestowing, as is a plentiful harvest. A depres-
sion of commerce is as much a punishment of his infliction,
as is a plague or a pestilence; so Scripture_ announces it,
and so the experience of every nation that sees the light
confirms the accuracy of the announcement, while they shew
us how true are the histories of such nations as those He
himself has written for our perusal.
Le.t the mind ask itself, May the people belonging to a
town reasonaby hope for a flourishing state of trade, with a
body corporate composed of liberal bones and limbs, such as
those who have appeared some time ago in our own hemi-
sphere? By liberal bones and limbs I would hieroglyphic
men of various religious opinions, acting in concert with
each other. Unitarians, Roman Catholics, and others, form
the strongest lines in the picture ; and these, with additional
others, form one painting. With those who denominate
themselves conscientious dissenters—Who fear God, love the
Bible, and honour the Queen-1 will have no quarrel as re-
gards the sincerity of their professions ; but, with motives
the sincerity of which has been demonstrated by acts, as to

But this conclusion is so repugnant to Scripture, and so

opposed to the views of those who-profess our national re-
ligion and orthodox dissenters, that any man, or any set of
men, who act in concert together with strict reference to it,
in any nation, kingdom, or city, must be considered by such
in the sincerity of their hearts, as the chief sources of troubles
to that nation, kingdom, or city. The tender plant of corn-
merce can never thrive or florist, long in the atmosphere they
breathe, for commerce is a gift of the Almighty ; it will never
bud, and blossom, and bear fruit, amidst a soil from which
arises so much contagion. The ancient and modern histories
of all nations, cities, and kingdoms, offer irrefragable testi-
mony on this subjeot. Does not the same Providence that
ruled in the times of ancient Egypt, Tyre, and Sidon, Persia,
Suria, Greece, and Rome, in all their cities and kingdoms.
rule throughout the cities and kingdom of modern England ?
Does not the modern histories of such cities as Antwerp,
and Amsterdam, and hundreds of others mourn in their de-
creased commerce, the absence of His past favours ?
Under the great christian principles of the
_reformation,
are laid the commercial foundations of Liverpool ; commerce
has flourished above those foundations in proportion as they
spread forth amongst the inhabitants for the past three cen-
turies. Under a conservative corporation, whose disposi-
tions were to give them a wide spread, fresh velocities were
added to the motion of every wheel, to one dock were in a
short period added nine; to one church were added a dozen;
Bluecoat Hospital boys became merchant princes ; mayors
rose to be knights ; how many were the schools that dissemi-
nated a Church of England education at their expense ! How
many were the spires that pointed to the skies through their
munificence! Haw many were the institutions that experi-
enced their charity ! How the magisterial bench exhibited
their merciful inclinations! How the poor experienced their
humanity ! Yet they had their frailties—frailties peculiar to
the best of human kind—still charity acted often in union
with their transgression, and their professed principles, while
they conduced to a flourishing commerce were based on
foundations, as firm as those of the everlasting hills. I do
not advocate for their faults, though no,one can brand them

A R RIVED . Prince, Williams, from Dublin—lsabel, Davidson,
from Dublin—Superb. Jones, from Newport.
SAIG&D.—DaIe, Burton. for New Orleans—Dragas, Obilovich,
for Trieste—Stewarts, Fisher, for Pernambuco—Columbus, Cow-
ing, for Mobile—Eliza Sanders, Sanders, for Constantinople—Two
Sisters, --, for Port Philip—Shakspeare. Ifendersor, for Bom-
bay—Trinidad Packet, Lamb, for Demerara—Jane, Durant, for
Constantinople—Carl Christian, Birr, for Danzic—John Lilley,
Barker, for Atica—La Jeune Louisa, La Bras. for Rouen—Brilliant.
Williams, for Naples—lris, Henderson, for Rio Grande—La Jenne
Eliza Blancket, for Bordeaux—Falcon, Turner, for Africa—Juliana
Elizabeth, Larsen, for Tonsberg—Gezina. Postema, for Rotterdam
—Roscoe, Huttleston, for New York—Martha Jane, Toms, for the
Cape of Good Hope—Ludvig Holberg, Lindwed, for Bremen
Mary, Gress, for Antwerp—Anja, -, for Amsterdam—Themis,
Brown, for New Orleans—Mentor, Burnet, for Marseilles—Scipio,
Henderson. for St. Kitts—Triumfo de Inveja, Caldaz, for Lisbon—
Rochdale, Houston, for Demerara—Hindoo, Fitch, for Boston.

Elizabeth Moore. Mossop, hence at the Cape of Good Hope, for
South Australia, on the 4th of June, in lat. 53 N., long. 18 W., spoke
the Madona, hence to Bombay. _

. ,
Margaret Craig, Alexander, at Gibraltar, and sailed 14th October
for this port.

H. M. S. Britannia, 120, from Malta, off Gibraltar, and sailed for
England.
Brothers, Currie, hence at Monte Video, for Buenos Ayres.
Selmar, Dotloff, hence at Danzic.
Navigator, Scholer, hence at Swinemund.
Maria Agnetha, Townsgard ; Augusta, -; hence at Copcn•
hagen-

Aurora, Meppelder, hence at Helveot.
John Horrocks. Bleasdale, from Singapore, off Margate.
Julius Caesar, Mitchell, from Canton, at Deal.
Albion, Hicks, sailed from Milford for Havana 22d instant.
Herald, Warren, sailed from Teignmouth for Newfoundland lot
October.
Monkton, Armon, from Frederickshaven, at Goole.
Ebenezer, Adams, from Malaga, at this port.

! prepare

Stifle not

I rest from my imperfect task '.—Men and Brethren !
settle these things in your hearts and let them be remembered
in your acts in the coming and all future contests.—l re.rf aiu,
sir, yours, &c. A CONSERVATIVE.

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF SAINT

PETER'S WARD

GENTLEMEN,—The period has again arrived when you are
called upon to elect a fit and proper person to represent you
in the Town-council. It is for you to decide whether your
present representative, Mr. John Woollright, is that person
or not. The question at issue is, does he maintain and sup-
port Protestant principles ? I answer he does not, and I call
upon every Protestant, that is worthy the name, to come for-
ward and not only vote against but protest against his return.
It cannot be denied that one party must be in the ascen-
dancy. Be not decived because Mr. Woollright is a nominal
churchman. By referring to his proceedings in the council,
you will find that he has voted with him who caused the Bible
to be excluded from our schools—with him whose name is
utterly unworthy of insertion in any respectable publication,
(yea, " only fit for the Mercury itself.") Le me, then, en-
treat of you all who love and esteem your country for its in-
tegrity and honour, to profess and uphold those principles
which were handed down to you by your forefathers, and
which placed it in the position it now occupies, viz., that of
Protestant England, by sending to the council our esteemed
and very worthy townsman, Mr. Ebenezer Rae.

Your obedient servant,

TO THE
ELECTORS OF GREAT GEORGE'S WARD

Twice, gentleme►►, has merit been discarded,
But now I trust by you 'twill be rewarded :
Twice trampled in the dust, unjustly too,
Electors of Great George, I turn to you,
And tho' by others shamefully neglected,
1 hope you won't reject the " twice rejected."
My views political, I'm sure are known
To every woman, man, and child in town :
All who have ever heard old It—bone named,
Must know that I'm a radical untam'd :
Such principles were mine from early youth,
And age has but convinced me of their truth.
As to religion, these are my opinions,
(Although I'm of the few who're called Socinians,)
Heaven's paths are countless, and I do suppose
He can't be lost who walks behind his nose :
But still, I think, (however you may flout it,)
A thoroughgoing Had should be without it.
Those mighty Radicals, Voltaire and Paine,
Did not of faith possess a single grain ;
Atheists they liv'd—and if not much belied.
These " Sins of Reason" Atheists also died.
Now, gentlemen, you know me—and I trAst
(Although corruption may attempt its worst
My claims on you will not he disregarded
But "public virtue" be in me rewarded
Electors, friends, adieu! my task is don
And I remain, your faithful Will It-

Roscommon-street

Earl Grosvenor arrived at Lisbon on the lith instant, in
his yacht from the Mediterranean.

BURYING Tin DEAD.—On leaving the hospital with
other convalescents, 1 was sent to the bomb-proof barracks,
where it frequently became our duty to see the dead interred.

their fitness for securing God's blessing and a city's welfare, This was a most horrible office, and obliged us to attend at
I must have a controversy. the hospital to receive the bodies, which were conveyed away
What is the question for discussion? Among our present in cartloads at a time to the ground appropriated for their
municipal statesmen are men of various religious views, act • burial. This lay outside the town beneath the ramparts. and
ing in singular concord for the public good, They agree, was so very small for the purpose required, that we were
that immorality, and vice, and theft, and murder, and crime obliged to get large oblong and deep holes excavated, in
of every sort, is obnoxious and intolerable, and must be sup- which two stout Portuguese were obliged to pack the bodies,
pressed wherever and whenever seen. To suppress it by heads and heels together, to save room. It was singularly
applying the corporate funds to the dissemination of religious revolting to witness how the pair went to work when hand-
instruction, and (subject to the will of the Almighty) to re. ing the bodies from the hospital to the cart ; each carried a
ligious influences, they can never do, inasmuch as religion is skin of vinegar, with which they first soused themselves
a thing in which they are opposed one to another. Well, over the neck and face; this done, with one jerk they jilted
what do they do ? Seventeen odd thousand pounds per an- a single corpse at a time across their shoulders, naked as it
num are paid by them for supporting numerous peripatetic was born, and bolted off to the cart, into which it was pitched
philosophers in blue uniforms, the head of whose school is a as if it had been a log of wood. The women, however, wha
stipendiary magistrate ; and every year crime is suppressed fell victims to the epidemic, were generally sewed in a
by imprisonment, transportation, and sometimes the gallows! wrapper of calico or some such thing, but they partook of
This state of things would not obtain, I venture to affirm, the same hole as the opposite sex, and otherwise were a*
under a corporate government, professing a holy, a christian, little privileged.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier.
and a national religion. Even moral men know right well,
that transportation, imprisonment, or any other kind of LORD ASHLEY'S APPOINTMENT AS AN ECCLESIASTICAL-
punishment, will not alter a wicked disposition ;nay Nailer, CONMISSIONER.—A strange idea has got abroad in many
they know from seeing old offenders repunished, that such quarters that Lord Ashley has departed from his declare-
often aggravates evil in. an unregenerate mind, till it reaches two not to join any administration which is not prepare&
the highest degree of malignity. Shall not Christian men to accept and carry out a Ten Hours Factory Bill. The
know it much more ? And if t'VO thirds of seventeen odd misunderstanding has arisen in consequence of that noble-
thousand pounds wete paid for the service of pious active marls having been gazetted as one of her Majesty's cede-
clergymen, who, would every day visit every abode of wretch- siastical commissioners. The matter can be satisfactorily
edness, teaching people to be virtuous, honest, and religious, explained in a few words. The case is this : the situation is
by infusions of Christian feeling, called down from their in no sense a political or ministerial one, and has no ernolu-
heavenly sources, it would avid to suppress every vice, every ment whatever attached to it. Its business and objects are
theft, and every murder, in its due season ; a greater propor- simply and solely ecclesiastical, relating to church lands and
;ion of happiness would flow through the town ; commerce cliiiroh revenues. The appointment, is a highly honourable
would increase a hundred fold ; peace and plenty be seen in and useful one. The commissioners have to distribute
all its borders, and in all its streets ; God would be honoured, certain surplus revenues, as they arise from time to time, and
and trade would florish. devote them to the increase of small livings. They have also
Religious influence will always avail to once every moral many other important duties to perform. To this commis-
disorder, and God has commanded religious influence to be sion the bishops, without a single exception, belong, as well
disseminated every where 1 none but religious influence will as some of the members of the late Cabinet, and other whigs.
command His blessing, the absence of them will bring His The late ministerial changes have occasioned no removals ;
curse. The highest usefulness a municipal body can ever but a vacancy by death happening to arise, the offer of a seat.
know, is the disseminating of religious influence : still no at the Ecclesiastical Board was made to Lord Ashley by the
liberal municipal body can ever disseminati tkam and act Premier in the name of his Sovereign, and on behalf of the
consistently. How, then, are we to have God's blessing with church ; and it would, under all the circumstances, have
a liberal municipal body. been a most ungracious act on the part of his lordship to have
A liberal municipal body may suppress crime, by making declined the offer, in a case where neither politics, nor ernolo-
more prominent, the badges of the world's lost innocence, ment, but gratuitous service alone, was concerned.—Oasller's
in increasing the number of hulks, or adding more frightful Fleet Papers.
escutcheons of its present disgrace to those already on the ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.—His
walls of the prisonhouse or the dungeon ; but this is all it Grace the Duke of Richmond and the Bristol committee
can do ; and this is one reason why our town can never expect having, on their recent visit to that city, selected sites for
wealth, peace, and godliness, under a liberal municipal body. the exhibitions and meetings of the society, the council have
It is impossible for any professed liberal, being a member issued their official announcement, with the list of premiums
of a body corporate, formed of such materials as those already to be competed for, and the regulations to be observed by the
named, to act in concert with his colleagues without first con- several competitors. It is intended to hold the smaller
ceding what he may not believe, namely, that all religious meetings in the Victoria Rooms, and for the accommodation
are alike, and all entitled to equal respect; as such, there of the members in general a spacious pavilion, capable of
can be no agreement between himself and the other liberal dining about 2,500 persons, will be erected on a piece of
members upon any subject associated with religion, because ground adjoining the northern side of Tyudal's Park. There
be is booed to respect all kinds of religion; this his position are several new premiums included in the list, and the total
forces upon him. Any religious system which prohibits the amount will be more considerable than that offered at the
indiscriminate use of the Bible, in the education of a child, meeting at Liverpool. Among the prizes offered for essays,
he must respect as much as any religious system which en- are £2O for the best report of experiments or, the drill bus-
forces its indiscriminate use in the education of children. bandry of turnips; £2O for the best account of the natural
Any religious system which denies the existence of a Trinity history, anatomy, habits, and economy of the wire worm,
in the Godhead, he must respect the same as any religious and the best meausof protection against its ravages; £2O for
system which affirms as much. By the same rule, any the best essay on the mechanical properties of the plough ;
rational religious system that denies the existence of a God the society's gold medal for the best account or reeord of
altogether, is as much to be respected as the one which claims the prognostics or natural signs of changes in the weather ;
Godfor its author. In fact, a carrying out of liberal prin- £lO for the best account of making cheese ; £2O each for
ciplles, so far as they are openly professed, leads to a con- ditto of the rotation of crops suited for light and heavy
elusion that there is no such thing as a false religion repugnant lands; £lO for au account of the beat mode of curing butter;
to the great Giver of Revelation, and this is a conclusion to £l5 for the best account of the varieties of wheat suited to
which all liberal professions must arrive, unless they profess different soils; and £lO for the best essay on the food of
to throw religi --erboard altogether. plants. The premiuhl! areopen to all England, and will be

paid, at the option of the winner, either in plate or money

A SCENE 2.101tE THAN ANNOUNCED.—Carter is at Brus-
sels. One of his recent exhibitions was marked by an inci-
dent which produced a great sensation among the audience..
Towards the latter part of the performance Mr. Carter issues.
from the cage in which his animals are confined, and comea,
forward with the tiger. A basket of raw meat is placed in,
the middle of the stage, within a yard or two of the promp-
ter's box. Mr. Carter leads the tiger to the basket, and the'
animal naturally makes a rush at its contents ; bat Mr. Csr-
ter holds him back ; the tiger still presses forward, and Mr..
Carter gradually relaxes his hold, till at last the tiger suc-
ceeds in seizing a piece of meat, when he is immediately
lifted upon Mr. Carter's shoulders, who in this
way retires.
At the first representation this little scene went off smoothly,
but such was not the case on Wednesday. Tbis_timmeea,t whenantl
the tiger had possessed himself of the piece of
was making his escape with it, he rushed indirectionto
rinogf
the stalls ; Mr. Carter ran afterhim, and endeavoured._him .
Mr. Carter seized again,.
him back ; the tiger got away. ,•••1*-
and beast
fell on the foot-
lamps,but, missing his footing, both mi
t the orchestra ; shrieks of
tiger was now within ono
stet' of
whole audience was on the,
the glasses of which were broken into shivers. The
made their escape, when sad.
horror resounded on all sides,
alert, and several bad already
denly the tiger rose up, midst of a group of dancers,
lamps, and, diving
.intorettbuorYned on his steps away from the•
resence struck all with terror; but
passed between owlegs and disappeared at the wings,.
whore his unexpected P
whence ggliatinb.ack by Mr. Carter, who did not.
It will easily be imagined how,
and alarm caused by this little inci-
dent,great was the coat
however, did not last more than a few seconds..
allow hinhietowaessehi:eujoan
which, corps de ballet especially uttered the most
. The audience revenged themselves for
lamentable c e m
s•rnahasd been caused them by a vehement shower
the fright whic
called back M Carter, but nevertheless.L r. who re-
of hisses;.
The ladies of the
turned, with his tiger mounted on his left shoulder, to re-
ceive his tribute of applause,more or lest mingled with mur-
muriegs.—Journat des Debars..

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• 5.N...a,,4 \
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With hypocrisy among the number; but, Ido *v- opf.
return of men educated as they were, with all Wp
advantages of recent experience ; experience acqui
a time a liberal municipal body has tried and"-
trials of every panacea it offered for the medicat
rent disorders. Men who would not punish a
family because he was a drunkard,—men who would even
prefer a parish-office as an " Augean stable," to a parish-
office adorned with all the horrors of a surgery or a sham-
bles ; men who would multiply the institutions, in which the
maimed, the halt, and the blind might find the skill of sci-
ence, and the sympathies of charity exercised in their relief,—
men who would multiply schools where the Bible should be
freely taught, accompanied with all the blessings of a chris-
tian tuition,—men who would cause the chimes that would
be reverberated, on every undulation on the surface of our
local Euphrates, to carry on the wings of every receding
breeze a more melodious welcome home to the foreigner,—
men who will not tolerate any system of old-fashioned Ara-
bian justice in a police court, or dream of reforming national
evils by policemen,—men who would beautify our beloved
city with temples of the Most High, displaying what might
seem to he knit together with the fingers of angels rather
than the architecture of man,—where God might be wor-
shipped and honoured,—where the poor might come and
welcome to bear the everlasting gospel of the grace of God,—
and where the aspirations of holiness calling for peace and
plenty in our land, should bring increased commerce to our
shores, even to overflowing, with every wind and tide.
It is time I should advert to the coming municipal strugr
My fellow-townsmen ! my brother Englishmen
yourselves for it as the representatives of British an,
should prepare themselves. It is your country that ramcs
highest in the scale of nations ; It is your church whose altars
were reared by the hands of pious reformers,—whose walls
and battlements are cemented with the mingled blood and
ashes of a noble army of martyrs! s Never forget that the
corporate estate cannot flourish without commerce. Never
forget that commerce is a gift of God. Never forget that
God will not bestow his gifts without religion.
conscience for men or princes. Look upon your poor suffer-
ing brothers and sisters in adversity, suffering from an
alarming depression of trade. Reflect on the only system of
education a liberal council can consistently give their children.
Banish all the quackeries, the nostrums, the panaceas of
liberalism, and carry into the council chamber an honest,
christian, corporate body, whose chief charter shall be the
bible, and whose chief officers shall be a pious, active, and
Willing clergy.
Cairo is in ruins,—Alexandria is silent,—Venice wears the
garb of departed glory,—Tyre is a place for fishers to spread
their nets on,—Chester, which was first built in the days
when the sceptres of Israel and Judah were swayed by Ahab
and Jehoshaphat, has scarcely emerged from its ancient
walls,—and Bristol no longer rivals Liverpool! And who
divested Egypt of its commerce ? Who took away the trade
of Tyre ? Truly the same Sovereign of the world, who in
spite of men's opposition reigneth a King forever. Still, Ho
hAs promised every blessing to them who keep His covenant,
and observe His law : For brass He can still bring gold—for
iron He can still bring silver—for weod lie can yet bring
brass—and for stones iron,—officers He can still make to be
peace, and exactors He can still make to be righteousness :
Yea, He can still make of a little one a thousand, of a small
a one strong nation ; He that could divest Egypt of its com-
merce could have caused the multitude of can.els to cover her
laden with gold and incense: :le that could take away the
trade of Tyre and Sidon, could have caused the abundance
of the sea to be convegred unto them, and He who has
already invested men with energies under the discharge of
which a flourishing trade found employment for airnost ,very
man in Liverpool, can again bring them into action in the
persons of their successors, or leg them sleep with Liver-
pool's late fathers.

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Some ti►t►e after
-.8, we were disturbed from
are, ti►e ringing of bells, the whirl.
.ne general din of voices as people rushed
-cne ofdevastation. On arriviug at the Mar.
we found his worship the mayor, several aldpr.
e tradesmen and mechanics ; but at this time
rof people congregated was not great. The ne-
ens were beinz taken to get the_townengines in

and sou

as attended wit

some difficulty, owing
Illy to a deficiency of water, partly to a want of buckets,
' want of organisation on the part of those assembled. It
first contemplated to send a special train to Notting-
-'‘e engines belonging to that place ; but as it was
to obtain a sufficient supply of water for the
attendance, the intention was abandoned.
post-horses were despatched for the Darley
ain Finlayson, of the North Midland Rail-
dance with the company's engine. About
ire two o'clock, the fire was discovered by
amen, who lost no time in spreading the
►s an engine could be got into play at the
all, where the fire evidently originated, every
i-Ine it, and at first with partial suc-
have mentioned above °per-
.- zealous for the preservation of
(lie fire communicated to the roof, where
the greatest fury. Several of the engines
in front of the hall, and others at the
,ney continued to play as long and as fre-
.4 they could obtain supplies of water, but
,he slightest effect. About four o'clock, the
,gan to give way, and the flames were terrific.
,reatest fears were entertained lest the fire should
unicate to the Cross Keys and adjoining premises,
.1 every exertion was made to convey the goods and
Jrniture to places of greater security; but happily this fur.
her calamity was spared. Between four and five, the wind
•eered to the north, and a tremendous snow-storm came on.
kt this time the roof was rapidly falling in, and the body of
the hall (which had just been refitted and undergone conside-
rable alterations, at an expense of .C5OO or £6(10) was soon
enveloped in flames, which burst from the windows, both
front and back, furiously, and defied all attempts to subdue
`am. The ceiling of the lofty lonic portico gave way, and
,irning materials fell crashing upon the rusticated base.
The cry for " water" still resounded on every side ;
- -- nearly exhausted, and the fire
ahead that all attempts to stop
the hall floor broke through, and

ses which v

supplies were

)t so cc

)und floor were next iu full blaze

enting to the eye one dense E

s of name.
rr.e eiliausted : arid, as daylight
but the bare walls were to be seen.
rid to play on the smoking ruins; but all

nischief were banished by seven o'clock.
The terrific appearance of the fire, when at its height, beg-

Doric columns in the avenue
eading from the old to the new market have sustained irre-
&rabic damage—in fact, they are falling to pieces. We
that all the records have perished in the
chamberlain's account books, which were
iron safe. are preserved. The revising bar-
ts have also been destroyed. There appears
) doubt that the fire originated in the committee-
which there had been a fire on the previous even-
le building was insured to the amount of £5,000, in
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Assurance Office';

s ; but t

ut this will tall far short of the amount of the injury done,
hich we have heard computed at £lO,OOO or £17,000. We
re glad to state, that the disaster, which it hes been our un-
leasant office to record, has been unattended with loss of
fe.—Derby Reporter.

BETWE

:IC A PEDESTRIAN AND A
HUNTER.

(From the Bury Herald.

;ome time past the sporting circles of Ipswich have
a state of " pretty considerable agitation," in antici-
)f a match coming off between Cootes, the noted
pedestrian, and Towit, a hunter, the property of

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Captain Lloyd, of the 13th Light Dragoons. Cootes has
been within the last three months making exhibitions of his
extraordinary powers of walking and running against time,
and having stated in certain sporting coteries that he had
beaten some of the best horses in the north in hurdle races,
Captain Lloyd agreed to match his tine bay hunter Towit,
carrying 10 stone, against Cootes, the distance stipulated
to be run being six miles, and both making 100 leaps in the
course of the race. This was looked upon by the " knowing
ones" as tough work for both man and horse, and in order
to afford the townspeople an opportunity of witnessing the
sport, it was agreed that the match should come off in the
cricket-ground next the Royal William Gardens, on Tuesday
afternoon, at four o'elock. Captain Lloyd had no pecuniary
interest whatever in the match, he merely permitting his
horse to run from a wish to confer a benefit upon the pedes-
trian, who looked to be remunerated by the admission money
taken at the gate, and in which he was not disappoinled, for
many people were present who would not have sanctioned a
mere gambling transaction ; and all were highly gratified by

rt made on the part of the gallant captain to exhibit
7aordinary powers of Cootes, by matching against the
pedestrian this very extraordinary horse. Cootes put himself

in coarse of training, stating that he would " do.the thing"
in 46 minutes, and, from his well-known prowess in running
ad besides having that very essential qualifica-
rind," he had many hackers. The horse, in
e, was well . trained in the riding-school at
from the fact that, on Monday, he
fty hurdles in twelve minutes, he was
some parties as the favourite, though
re of opinion that it was doubtful whether he
the hurdles amidst so large a concourse of

rly leaped fit
!d upon by

tors as were expected to assemble when the match
should be run. The weather on Tuesday afternoon could not
have been more unfavourable, the rain falling in torrents,
which rendered the ground exceedingly heavy ; but the eager
cro

were determined not to be disappointed. The course
was defined by blue flags forming a circle, Cootes and the
horse to go 23 times round, making a distance of rather
more than six miles, whilst four hurdles, nearly four feet in
height, and well 4^ -"ith furze, placed at equi-
distant•Pn

unshed
Is, !ooked ruts

saucily," and ap-
riers. Shortly before four

peared to be

awkward

o'clock, notwithstanding the pitiless pelting of the elements,
Cootes and his horse were upon the ground, both appearing
in capital condition. They were accompanied by their re-
.
and a large concourse of people. Cootes
e regular pedestrian apparel, consisting of
cket and drawers, prepared to do his work in first-

was dressed in t
A

. _
yle. On the other hand every means had been em-
ie Towitt fair play, and Vincent, a Newmarket
ockey, who wore blue and white jacket and can, was retained
1:)y Captain Lloyd to ride the match. Lieutenant Dixon

ed to gig

umpire for Towit, and Mr. H. Lamb fur Cootes,
John Head consenting to act as referee. The usual
preliminaries having been settled, Cootes and Towit ap-
peared at the post, and the word having been given, the for-
mer set off at a moderate pace, whilst Towit, after making a

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‘ detour, followed at a gentle gallop, but made a slight
Ault by touching the first hurdle. Both kept up for several
rounds in capital style, gallantly clearing the hurdles, Towitt
taking many first-rate flying leaps, and, although Cootes ap-
peared to be gaining ground, Towit, in the opinion of some
people, from his mettle, began to be regarded as the fa-
vourite, but the betting was, nevertheless, very slack. 2to 1
was offered upon Cootes, but there was no one to " take," all
apparently being deterred by the fear that Towit would
" shy" at the hurdles, and the opinion that the work would
be too much for the horse was strengthed by the soddened
and heavy appearance of the ground. Towit, about the sixth
round, made another slight fault, but he cleverly kept his
legs, and Cootes, who appeared not at all distressed, inquired,
as he passed the starting-post, whether Towitt " took to the
hurdles," in the expectation of it being not at all improba-
ble that the game would soon be up with the horse. Cootes
never made one stoppage throughout, and only once rinsed
his mouth in passing, whilst Towitt was pulled up twice or
-ice to enable him to regain his wind, appearing to be
-r distressed. In the comae of the 13th round Towitt,
ing the third hurdle, fell, making a complete summer-
throwing his jockey over his head. Fortunately no ac-
,t occurred, though the horse rolled upon his rider.
_..ap, as a matter of course, gave Cootes great ad-
vantage, who gained ground considerably before Towitt
make another start, and it then became evident that it
was all up with the latter, though he kept well to his work,
and was ridden in first-rate style by Vincent, whose jockey-
ship was greatly admired. The result of the whole was,
that Towitt had enough of it by the time he made his 17th
round,? and he was accordingly pulled up, leaving Cootes the
—.tor, who completed 25 rounds (a distance of six miles and
quarter), in 41 minutes and 57 seconds, having made
JO leaps, in no bungling manner, but clean over the hur.
alighting on his feet lik a cat—a feat, upon the whole,
stands almost unparalleled in the sporting world. He
came in amidst the loud shouts of the spectators, apparently
but little distressed, and just as he passed the winning-post
threw a summerset cleverly, which excited hearty and pro-
longed laughter. We understand that Cootes has offered to
go over the same, or any other similar ground again, with
any horse in the kingdom, for £lOO.

This mis

CORN-LAWS