The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

with the

creasing prosperity of the t
as chairman of the Liv

Railway Company

the first and m

undertiiking Of the kind, up to the time of its

amalgamation with the London and North-Western
Company. He served the office of Mai
pool in 1823, and he was also a magistrate and
deputy-lieutenant of the county of LancastE
Though he had reached the venerable age of 7
and his gradually declining health had 1

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ed to an

anticipation of the melancholy event, his loss will
not be the less felt as one of the worthies of Liver-
pool. The funeral, we understand, is appointed for
to-morrow (Wednesday), at St. James's Cemetery.
At the meeting of the Dock Committee on
fhursday, the vexed question of the rejected tender
_ _
ion of the proposed docks at

le constru

upping was again brought undei discussion, but
ithout any approach to a satisfactory conclusion.
o pay the expenses incurred by
d SON was rejected by those

The p:
Messrs

gentlemen, as bei

an admiss

on of the justice of

their claim without being a satisfaction cf it, while
their offer to refer the question to the decision of
at the choice of the Dock
ted by the latter body, and
consequently nothing was done.

.n eminent engineer

Committee, NI

on of prizes by the Liverpool Art

Union took place on Thursdi
hich we have ail

by the list

n anott

art of them were to subscribers in our

own localit

aried in value from £5 to £5O,

and though neither sum may be considered equi-
valent to the amount or patronage which artists of
a high order expect to receive, something will have
been done to stimulate increased exertions.

The arranger
feral circuits

nt of the learned judges for the
^-,t Assize 'll bring Mr.

Ong his former const
by Baron MARTIN

overs of really

of concer

are given every

at the Philh

periment whether Liverpool can support first-class
concerts at a low price of admission, and it may be
asserted that the character of the entertainment is
far superior to anything that has been previously
attempted. If the success should be commensurate
with the return to which the projector is entitled,
Liverpool will take the first rank in the kingdom
for her patronage of this divine art.

INCRI

ED RATE OF FREIGHTS.—At
the banquet given at Southampton to the directors
of the General Screw Steam Navigation Company,
Mr. W. S. Lindsay is reported to have stated, that,

the rate of freights out-

la hail

e Times adds, by way of

So much for the injury which has

been inflicted upon British shipping by recent legis-
lation." No doubt our contemporary would wish
it to be inferred that it is our recent legislation—
referring of course to the repeal of the navigation
laws—which has given this great stimulus to the
shipping trade of the country. We certainly can-
not endorse Mr. Lindsay's statement, to the extent
of 100 per cent ; we fear he draws a little on the
imagination. We fully admit, however, that for
some months past, the merchant navy has been
recovering from the extreme prostration to which it
was reduced by the act of 1849. This we said in
an article on the subject in our paper of the 6th
instant; at the same time we showed what had
brought about the beneficial relief to the shipping
interest, namely, the great emigration to Australia,
consequent on the discovery of gold in these colo-
nies. Now, unless it can be shown that it was our
recent legislation that called this golden region into
existence, we can see no connection between that
legislation and the improvement in the prospects of
the shipping interest of the country.—Shipping
Gazette.

Mn. JOHN BRIGHT'S ESCAPADE.—In reference
to Mr. Bright's libel on the Constitution, at the In-
gersoll banquet, the Manchester Courier of Satur-
day says :—" We must, for the honour of Manches-
ter, repudiate the reflections that are made upon the
'manners' of Manchester's sons. Mr. John Bright
is not a Manchester man.' He was not born here.
He has no connexion whatever with the place be-
yond being elected her representative by those
whom Manchester would be ashamed to own as
exponents of either her principles or her manners.'
He is essentially a vulgar fellow.' The real repre-
sentatives of Manchester are not vulgar fellows,'
although it must be owned that the politics of the
majority of the electors are low enough to encourage
such a supposition. That Mr. Bright possesses a
large share of rough, uncultivated cleverness is per-
fectly true, but there are among the constituency of
Manchester hundreds of men who are equally clever,
far more refined, and infinitely better educated."
Of Mr. Bright's unhappy speech the Cowie/
cc r‘

surprised the American Minister, and disgusted
those who surrounded him. It was quite as mal-
apropos as the speech delivered by the same blun-
dering vulgarian at the opening of the Free Library.
Worst of all, it required a sound-hearted, clear-
headed ' gentleman' from Liverpool to correct it,—
for no ' Manchester man' rose to perform that
office,—possibly, because what Mr. Bright says is
never regarded by the intelligent members of the
community which he, so oddly, represents in the
House of Commons."

CTION.—The importance of
ory can scarcely be over-rated; but its
requires to be expounded for the benefit
of the English press, which will, in all likelihood,
misunderstand or misinterpret indications clear to
every Irish mind. The triumph of Mr. Alexander
was attributable to his own popularity as a resident
gentleman and extensive employer, and to the tem-
porary awakening of the people to the hollowness
and insincerity of the priests and demagogues. He
was, in fact, consideredb. as, to use his own words—
"he considered
Classes in the borough,
the representative of all
men of allu classes, and of
call.for he found among his sup-
portersdenomination ; and every religious
town, he had them all with the tradesmen of the
down to the nailors." A. hiredhim from the millers
thcandidate, and
was, indeed,
in the employment of the treasuryr"b
did somewhat for its PaY ; but
Carlow were on the side of Mr. Alexander, and
of
spite of priests and agitators they kept the, and in
the town, and prevented the coercion andPeiantetniof
dation that carried the former election. Let this
clearly understood, that the priests of all classes,
from Bishop Haly to Father Maher, used their most
strenuous exertions in favour of Mr. Sadleir ; and
furthermore that the discontented brigadiers had
neither act nor part in the matter. Those move-
able by treasury or religious motives were moved
to vote for the Aberdeen and Roman candidate—
and they did so vote. No stone was left unturned
to secure their support, and it was secured to the
extent of 91 votes. The brigadiers were not in the
field at all, and they most assuredly did not move a
single man to poll for the successful candidate, nor
did they withhold from him that was
unsuccessful a
eill
We vote.—Dublin Eveniny Mail,

THE CARLOW ELI