The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The advertisement to which a correspondent kindly calls our
attention, was forwarded for insertion in the Standard
several days since, but there was too much indecency on
the face of it to admit of its appearance in our columns.
We are sorry our contemporaries are not equally careful,
especially as the character of the advertiser is sufficiently
notorious.
Favourer of anti-corn law—is a blockhead—he should go to
the corporation schools for a few weeks, to learn writing,
spelling, and—manners.
There is too much tautology in the letter of E. T.
We believe that it was the intention of one or more of the
leading conservative peers in the House of Lords, last
night, to reinforce the sentence of the lower house in con-
demnation► of the government. No formal resolution will,
in all probability, be passed, but some sufficiently indica-
tive notice will no doubt be taken of the recent unconsti-
tutional proceedings of the ministry. We shall give the
debate in an early second edition, if the evening papers
contain it.
M. A. H.—The regular banking days are the first Friday in
every month—deposits are received every Saturday from
twelve to one o'clock.

Ebt Etbrrpool otanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1841

Ministers—condemned by the House of Commons—
refuse to acquiesce in that sentence, and purpose en-
tering an appeal to the people. The question then for
the people will be, was the sentence of the House of
Commons a just, or was it an unjust one, and should

t be affirmed or reversed ?
The House of Commons has said that ministers are
inworthy of their confidence ; will the electors of the
cingdom say they are worthy of theirs? That is the
luestion to be solved' at the approaching general elec-
ion. It is a general and comprehensive one, depend-
ng upon no one isolated fact or circumstance, but
ipon that aggregate of particulars by which in general

we determine whether men are worthy of our confi-
dence or not. People may say that ministers are free-
traders, Irish-franchise-enlargers, liberals, or whatever
else, according with their Own peculiar " class" or
political feelings it may please them ; but we say that
the issue really put to the country is, whether the mi-
nisters, whom a House of Commons of their own
choosing has condemned, are, upon the whole, worthy
of the national CONFIDENCE, or otherwise?

A gentleman connected with the factories might say,
" I care not what they are, generally speaking ; all I
know is that they are pledged against the corn-laws,
and that's enough for me." We know how impracti-
cable such men are ; yet we would venture to put it
even to such an one, whether the pliability of ministers
upon a single point ought to justify him, or could do
so, in giving them his confidence ? They might he the
most sweeping reformers with regard to our commer-
cial tariff; but would they, for that reason, and upon
that account alone, be entitled to any man's CONFI-
DENCE ? Macbeth applauds one of his hired tools
when he brings him word that he had executed his
commands touching Banquo. "My lord," says the
messenger, " his throat is cut ; that I did for him."
Macbeth, delighted with his promptitude and fidelity,
exclaims, " Thou art .the best of cut-throats ;" but
should we argue from this, that the employer would
place confidence generally in such a person ? Of course
not; and therefore, upon the same principle, we would
expect that an honest but mistaken repealer of our
corn-laws, if it were put solemnly to his conscience,
whether ministers (though willing to subserve his
views on this point) were deserving or not of his " con-
fidence," would answer the question in the negative.
For our part, we cannot conceive how any man, no
matter what his creed or politics, could sincerely and
gravely declare, that the rejected and condemned of
the present House of Commons are men in whom he
could confide. We know of no one reason for confid-
ing in them ; we are familiar with a number past
counting for distrusting them. We will just briefly
advert to one—doubtless a very principal one—for the
present.

Lord Stanley, in his admirable speech of Friday
referring to the ministerial defeat on the sugar duties,

said,—

" Was it the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the
fifth, or even the sixth defeat which the Government had
sustained on most important questions? Hon. gentlemen
opposite had talked much of the tranquillity and freedom of
Jamaica. He (Lord S.) would tell them that if Jamaica was
prosperous and contented, it was because the Government
were overruled—(hear.) He would tell them that if the
church in this country, and especially in Ireland, was in the
enjoyment of legislative influence, it was because they could
not carry the measures which they desired—(continued
cheers.) He would tell them that if the national system of
education introduced into this country was not altogether
disconnected with any one form of religion, it was because
the Government could not carry the measures which they in-
troduced—(cheers.)"

It will be seen that his lordship here prefers a charge
against the government to the effect that if their power
were equal to their inclination, the established church,
and all the influences depending upon it, would be an-
nihilated. Could there he a more serious charge in
the contemplation of any man professing conservative
principles ? Now, although a great number and va-
riety of circumstances may enter into the formation of
that complex idea which we call "confidence," it is
perfectly certain that a single one may destroy it. De-
tect an individual in whom you have been long induced
to place trust in a single act of theft, and in a moment
the confidence of years is dissipated. A single misad-
venture of this nature cancels all former reliances. So,
we say, that this charge of Lord Stanley's, susceptible
as we believe it to be of the clearest proof, is sufficient,
in itself, to deprive ministers of all confidence from the
conservative party; nay, we will add, from all that is
respectable, enlightened, and trustworthy itself in the
kingdom.
We may differ on questions of trade and finance;
these are comparatively minor matters ; but when we
come to differ as to whether our church is to be sup-
ported—whether church influences are to be main-
tained—we are approaching the great arteries--the
vital functions—nay the very heart itself of our social
system—and the matter grows serious.
If Lord Stanley's charge be true, our Whig minis-
ters are deserving not of our confidence, but of our
utter detestation ; and they are men not to be left
where they are, but to be removed to the farthest pos-
sible point from that situation. They are men to be
driven out with every mark of disgrace—men to be
abhorred of all good subjects. Are they then, we re-
peat, what Lord Stanley says they are ?
It is an old, but a safe rule, that a man may be known
by the company he keeps. We believe in the truth of
Lord Stanley's charge for this amongst other reasons,
that we observe that the intimate associates, boon com-
panions, confidants, and champions of ministers are
notorious church-destroyers—papists, levellers, and
"pious dissenters" of the Joe Hume complexion.

Those respectable partici have caught them in a noose ;
they keep the rope round their neck ; and, having
frequently ascertained that they are squeezable, and
that much may he got by squeezing them, they drive
them like a chain-gang whichever way they please, and
put them to every mean and villanous work.
Now to leave the government of the country in such
hands would be dangerous and disgraceful. We can-
not expect our affairs to prosper while they are admi-
nister2d by such parties. Nothing can go well with
us under such persons. They have no views in com-
mon with those who love their country and its consti-
tution ; their aim is to destroy that which is most va-
luable in our eyes. Well, an opportunity will soon be
afforded us of removing them ; and how deeply la-
mentable—how replete with evil omen—must it be, if
we fail to make use of it ! The Protestantism—the
religious principle, let us say—of the nation is about
to be put to a stupendous trial ; the issue is of the
most momentous character. We are to choose be-
tween Papists, Infidels, and Church destroyers—men
in every way of damaged reputation—as imbecile and
incapable as they are mean and malicious; and men
of unsullied fame, of proved talent, of great private as
well as public worth, and men who are as desirous to
uphold all our venerated institutions as the others are
to destroy them. We contemplate the ordeal through
which the nation is about to pass with feelings of the
deepest anxiety. It is a subject replete with the most
profound and interesting speculation; we need not say
to what result our most ardent hopes are directed.

We believe that the Radicals of this town are at
present in a most delectable state of confusion and
uncertainty. It is well known that a number of the
more respectable portion of the party are extremely
annoyed at the aspiring notions of their quondam
friend Sir Joshua Walmsley, and we are informed that
several hole-and-corner meetings have taken place
within the last few days, when much indignation was
expressed at the worthy knight's presumption, and a
unanimous resolution was come to that he should be
requested to withdraw his claims for the representation
of the borough. Although we have not heard the
reply of Sir Joshua, we may anticipate, with some
degree of confidence, that he will disregard the inter-
ference of these meddlers with the objects of his am-
bition, and magnanimously resolve to come forward
to contest the coming election for his native town, in
order that when he is gloriously defeated, he may then
become a joint in the O'Connell tail, as member for
some borough where the influence of that notorious
personage is omnipotent.

Just as we were going to press, we received a copy
of Sir Joshua's address, which will be found in its
proper place. It is as vague and meagre as the most
indefinite production which was ever placed in the
hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty to deliver before
her assembled Parliament, and dignified by the name
of the Queen's Speech.

The public has little notion how severe is the tax
laid upon the feelings of us editors of newspapers by
a faithful discharge of our duties. Our sensibilities
are at everybody's command, and it is not enough that
we must deeply and entirely sympathise with every
possible variety of human condition, and sound what-
ever stop the ever-varying state of man may call upon
us to do, but it is expected that we shall readily make
the most sudden and violent transitions.
Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,

Loyal and neutral, in a moment ? No man.
That is what Shakspeare says; but there were no
newspapers in those days, or the impossibility of such
a state of things would not by any means have been
assumed. We gentlemen of the press are obliged to
be all this, and more, every day in the year. At one
moment we are all happiness and smiles, diffusing
sunshine and joy with every dash of our pen ; at the
next we are depressed beyond measure, deeply afflict-
ed, and inconsolable. We are a sort of Allolian harp,
and obliged to sound as the wind plays upon us, per-
petually at the mercy of every piece of good or evil
tidings for our happiness or misery; and as the harp

literal which refused to sound would be thrown away
as worthless, so should we (who may be called the
harp literary) incur a similar fate, if we gave no re-
sponse to the demand of the moment, whatever it

might be.

It is not much for us to admit that we felt ourselves
;lied in this way yesterday, when, on walking through
he town, we observed a placard on the walls, corn-

mencing thus :
"Another Liberal candidate! Electors of Liverpool,
do not pledge yourselves."
Had the announcement stopped there, the intelli.
Bence would have been rather of a pleasing kind

" Another" Liberal candidate ! Well, we should have
said, that is good news for the Liberals ; their cause,
it seems, is not at such a discount ; they can get can-
didates, after all. Poor devils ! we really are glad that
there is a bidding for them. But the opening of the
next sentence dashed all our hopes, and cast us down

:0 zero

" Lord Palmerston having declined" ! ! !-

Ah ! said we, there is " want of confidence" indeed !
This is just Sir Robert Peel's doing. That untoward
motion of his has spoiled all our sport. Not one of
them will have " confidence" now to face the electors
of Liverpool, and Sir Joshua Walmsley will be left
alone in his glory ! Sad, sad is the state of the Libe-
ral cause in this borough !

Here were we, then, it will be allowed, fully in our
state of professional exercise under the operation of
contrary emotions—glad at one moment because the
Liberals had got " another" Liberal candidate, and
sorry the next because they had lost so staunch an one
as Lord Palmerston. The melancholy intelligence of
his lordship's declinature affected us so much that we
were some time before we could read further. At
length, on regaining our composure, we read the re-
mainder. It stood thus :

" Lord Palmerston having declined offering himself
for the representation of the town of Liverpool, a re-
quisition is about to be got up requesting our high-
talented townsman, Thomas Smith, Esq., to consent to
be put in nomination in connection with the people's
friend, Sir Joshua Wahnsley.
" Committee-room, June 8."

Well, here again was something to revive us. Lord
Palmerston declines ; true, but Tom Smith does not !
Lord Palmerston is our Foreign Secretary ; true, but
Tom Smith is our " high-talented townsman" ! The
foreign lord is an alien to our habits and feelings;
nought does he know of our aristocracy either of the
counting-house or the counter. The real lord will not
come ; then said we, " Go," thou " tenth transmitter
of a foolish- fae "

Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood
Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood,

Go ! and make way for a better man ! Tom Smith,
come forth ! Here is a man that we all know—a
" lord" such as nature made,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran,
with a name at once familiar and monosyllabic. We
will not anticipate the possibility of " Tom Smith" re-
fusing the application that will be made to him to
stand for the representation of Liverpool. We will
not allow ourselves even to imagine such a contin-
gency, but shall rather look shortly for the insertion
of his address in our incomparable journal.

Amongst other- reasons for congratulation on the
prospect of a change of Ministry, not the least is, that
our excellent representative, Cresswell Cresswell, Esq.,
will, in a short time, come into that office for which his
talents so well qualify him, viz., Solicitor-General. The
appointment will materially increase his influence
with Government, and also enable him to fulfil his
duties to his constituents, if possible, even better than
at present, as that office obliges him to be always in his
place in Parliament. This intelligence is furnished to
us by a gentleman on whose information we can rely,
and we put it forward with the greatest confidence.

We experience much gratification in directing the
attention of our readers to the several addresses of
Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, which appear in our
advertising columns. The electors of Liverpool have
every reason to be well pleased with their representa-
tives, and we believe that in point of fact they are per-
fectly so. They pave had ample means of judging of
their character and efficiency, and a single complaint,
so far as we are aware, has never been uttered against
either, except by those who differ from them in poli-
tics, and from whom, therefore, any exception, being

confined merely to political groin de, cannot be ra•

garded ac detraction.
The declaration of opinions now made by both, will,
we think, fully meet the witlhes of the great body of the
electors. It is such as we should expect from them.
Their opinions are identical, and they are the opinions, '
or at least they ought to be, of every English senator,
and gentleman, and under the latter term, we of course
include every elector of right principles. On the sub-
ject of the corn laws and free trade, their avowals will
not be displeasing to any but those who have a selfish
motive in agitation, and who conceive they have an end
to gain incompatible with the good of the community
at large. That there are such persons in Liverpool as
well as in other places, we cannot of course deny ;
their chirping has too frequently sung in our ears to
leave us doubtful on that point; but we do believe they
are not many here, and that they are noisy, like the big
drum of our gallant Cheshire yeomen, only because
they are empty—in the head, we mean ;in other re-
spects they seem to be well enough cared for, many,
if not most of them being apparently much better fed

than taught.
This small but noisy party being duly impressed
by the powerful eloquence of the Manchester lecturers,
and excited to action by a trifling modicum of the
great propeller (of which the league is reputed to pos-
sess so ample a supply) do, it seems, contemplate pro-
curing candidates to start for Liverpool on anti-corn-
law principles ; but we expect that our esteemed re-
presentatives need not make themselves very uneasy

on this score.
Mr. Cresswell, in his address, alluding to the im-
possibility of any adjustment being produced by the
" violent and unreasoning hostility which it is sought
to raise in one class against another," makes the fol-

lowing just observation
" Some persons," he says, " may suppose that theprotec-
tion given to agriculture is for the benefit of landowners
alone ; but nothing can be more erroneous. How many in-
terests are bound up and inseparably united with those of the
landowner, the farmer, and the agricultural labourer? How
many heavy burdens are at present borne by the landowners,
which are essential to the welfare of our complicated state of
society, and which cannot be removed from him and imposed
upon the owners of any other description of property ? I can
hardly imagine any thing more important to the well-being of
the nation, than that it should be independent of all fo-
reigners for the necessaries of life ; and if that he so, is not
the encouragement of agriculture by an adequate protection,
equally a benefit to all classes of the community ?"
This is the proper language of an Englishman and
a true patriot, and a complete answer to those who
raise the stupid cry of " monopoly" against the sup-
porters of the existing laws. We doubt sometimes if
these cheap-bread brawlers be Englishmen at all, or
anything better, at all events, than bribed agents of
some foreign power. We will, however, be so far
charitable as to suppose that they have no correct no-
tion of the consequences that would result from that
free trade which they are most strenuous for. They
may be aware that free trade in Brazilian sugar would
be a direct bounty upon negro slavery, but do they
know that a similar operation in Russian corn would
he productive of a similar effect on white slavery ? We
extract the following from a pamphlet addressed to
the " Farmers of England, by a Merchant," which
may be useful to some of this party :
"Throughout that immense empire (Russia)," says the
author, " land has no value of itself; it is the cattle which are
upon it that constitute and regulate its value, and that cattle
are our fellow-creatures / When an estate is to be sold, the
first question is, how many souls does it hold ? and the an-
swer includes every male, whatever his age ; the value, fer-
tility, and situation of the land reguhrting the price per head,
the land itself being a necessary appendage of the bargain,
without any stipulated value, or indeed even a formal con-
veyance by the deed of sale.
" When an estate is let to a farmer, the number of days
that each peasant is obliged to work is duly entered in a book
signed by the landlord and tenant, who then pays the rent,
or, in other words, the value of the slaves' labour to their
owner ; the slaves being obliged to work two, sometimes
three days of the week for nothing, and maintain themselves
by using the remainder of the week in cultivating the scanty
plot of ground allotted to their use.
" The oppression and infamy of such a system of agricul-
ture, the cruelty of the master, and the sufferings of the slave,
is a subject foreign to our present purpose, and would require,
to do it justice, the pen of Gibbon or of Raynal ; suffice you
should know that predial slavery exists throughout the vast
extent of the Russian empire, that there is no other mode of
cultivation, and that every bushel of corn imported into this
country, in times of scarcity, from any part of the Russian
dominions, is fully as much the labour of slaves as oppressed,
though worthy of a better fate, as the blacks who raise the
sugar with which Lord John wished to sweeten your lea by
importing the same frorn Brazil.
" The immediate and inevitable consequence of a fixed duty
of Bs. per quarter upon wheat would be, if possible to aggra-
vate the lot of twenty millions of white slaves, who will be
made to work double tides by dint of the cat-o-nine-tails,
now liberally used. Think also that Russia contains tracts
of uncultivated land vast enough to cover the surface of the
rest of Europe ; and that within a radius of four or five hun-
dred miles round the shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of
Asoph, not a twentieth part of the land-4ertile as it is be-
yond any land that you have ever seen=is in cultivation,
from want of hands. Lord John's law would, therefore, be-
come the strongest stimulus to the population of Russia
which she ever had ; and let it not be said that increase of
predial slavery will enlarge the market for our manufactures.
Not one of one thousand Russian peasants ever wore a patch
of British goods : their dress in winter consists of sheep's-
;king; in the summer of coarse sail cloth, manufactured by
hemselves. You may lose India by encouraging the pros-
)erity of Russia ; but as long as predial slavery shall exist in
.hat country, you cannot increase the demand for your
mods."

It is apparent, from the eloquent addresses of both
our esteemed members, that they feel a deep convic-
tion of the importance of the great struggle now about
to be brought to an issue throughout the kingdom,
and pleasing to find them gratuitously renewing those
pledges of unalterable attachment to our constitution
in Church and State, which first recommended them
to the Electors of Liverpool. On this head the lan-
guage of both is " express and admirable," and we feel
particular pleasure in referriti'g our readers thereto.
Liverpool will do itself much honour by again adding
to the Conservative majority in Parliament two such
able, honourable, and talented men. 'Whether, when
the time comes, there will really be any opposition or
not, it is of couse impossible for us to say; but it can
be no harm for the Conservative Electors to be on
their guard. We have had enough of the pretended
" Reformers"; the next must be a Conservative—a
Peel House of Commons. Remember, then, that it
will not be enough for the Conservative Electors of the
kingdom merely to do what they have done before ;
that won't do now. We must now give Sir R. Peel
and Lord Stanley and their friends a " good working
majority." Should there be a ministerialist opposition
then in Liverpool, let the Electors bear in mind that it
must be served out in very prime style and nothing
less. The Whig-O'Connell Ministers must learn what
confidence the people of Liverpool place in them.

The notorious Dr. Webster, of St. Alban's, is to be
prosecuted after all. Mr. Wynn moved to this effect
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, and the minis-
terialists, although they shewed their teeth, were yet
afraid to divide the house ; consequently their friend
the doctor is sacrificed. The bribery used at that
eleetion,,by which Lord Listowel obtained the vacant
seat of St. Alban's, was a matter of perfect notoriety ;
and it may be recollected that the only reason assigned
by the committee who investigated the case, for not
setting the election aside, was a pretended failure of
proof as to " agency." Thus the seat was secured to
the bed-chamber lord, and a vote preserved to minis-
ters; .but now that the tide has turned against them,
misfortunes pour in, and overtake even the meanest of
their followers. The prosecution against Webster will
be carried on by the Attorney-General, at the instance
of the house; and let it operate as a caveat to all whig
agents at the forthcoming general election.

Disaster after disaster pours in upon the ministers—
once more they have been signally defeated. On
Wednesday evening, during the progress of the " ad-
ministration of justice bill" through the House of
Commons, a question arose whether "a ministry in
abeyance," (as designated by Lord Stanley,) sho, Id ap-
point the officers under the bill, as it does not come
into operation until November next. Sir Edward
Sugden moved " that the appointment of the judges
under this bill should be postponed until October,
when the ministry,' (then in office,) should be em-
powered to appoint them." This motion was carried
on a division by a majority of 18 against ministers,
when Lord John Russell postponed the further pro-
ceeding of the bill till that day three weeks, which, of
course, amounts to an abandonment of it. Poor crea-
tures ! they seem to have no comfort in the agonies of
dissolution, but to be liable to the kicks and bites of
every cur that passes by.

THE JEws.—A statistical account of the Jews in Russia
has lately been published at St. Petersburgh by the Acade-
mician Kopper. It appears from it, that the number resi-
ding by permission in the 17 governments is 1,054,319,
including both sexes. In Volhynia they are most numerous,
constituting a 15th part of the whole population. In Poland
the greater number is in Warsaw, of which the Jews form
one-fourth of the inhabitants; and, indeed, in-both Russia
and Poland, they are greatly more numerous in the towns
ithan in the country places. In 1837 the total number of
Israelites in Poland was 411,307, of whom 338,667 lived in
the towns, and 72,630 in the country.

LOCAL NEWS

THE BRITISH QUCEN.—This beautiful vessel still con.
inues on view. The proceeds arising from the number of
,ersons who have visited her, has been of great service to the

amilies of the missing President

MR. DANIEL'S PORTRAITS.—We have been favoured with

► private view of the portrait of a gentleman in this town,
minted by Mr. Daniel's, a native artist of distinguished
:alert. The painting we speak of has excited the admiration
)f some of the most competent judges ; and the same may be
;aid of Mr. Daniel's portrait of the late mayor of this borough.

There is a feeling about his works which denotes greatgenius.
We understand that some of them may be seen in the ap-

proaching exhibition

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—On Monday, the 7th inst.,
a deputation from the congregation of St. John's school and
Newbury chapel, Farnworth, waited upon the Rev. John
M`Lindon at his residence, and presented him with a splen-
did gown and cassock, together with a beautiful Bible, from
the teachers of Newbury Sunday school as a token of their
esteem and respect, on his leaving the district. The rev.
gentleman returned thanks in a most affectionate and feeling
manner. He was lately curate of All Saints' church in this
town.

OPERATIVE PROTESTANT AssoclATloN.—We perceive,
from placards on the walls, that the half•yearly meeting of
this excellent society takes place this evening, at the Amphi-
theatre. The speakers who have promised to attend will,
no doubt, secure a numerous auditory ; but, at the present
moment, there are many subjects of peculiar interest to all
lovers of our country and her glorious institutions, which
will, no doubt, be brought forward to-night, by one or more
of the speakers, and pressed upon their hearers with their
usual force. Protestants of Liverpool! now is the time—
your enemies are active—follow their example, and redouble
your ardour.

MEETING OF CONSERVATIVES.—We are glad to perceive
that a meeting of all friends of the canstitution will be held
to-morrow, in the large room of the Queen's Arms Hotel,
when measures will be taken to secure the return of our
present excellent representatives. Every person should at-
tend ; for though we are well aware what the result of the
election will be, yet the majority for the conservatives should
be made so triumphant and overwhelming as not only to
prevent our enemies offering any opposition at a future
period, but to present an example to the other constituencies
of the kingdom, who always look to Liverpool for an exam-
ple and encouragement.
BLUE COAT SCHOOL.—On Sunday morning next, as will
be seen from an advertisement, the claims of this excellent
institution will he brought before the congregation of St.
Jude's Church, when we have no doubt, from the powers of
advocate, and the utility of the school, a most liberal contri-
bution will be gathered.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—An excellent sermon was

preached before a crowded congregation in St. Michael's
Church, on Tuesday evening, by the Rev. Hugh 11/I`Neile, in
aid of the funds of this association. The text was taken
from the second chapter of St. Paut's Epistle to the Colos-
sians, and the 20th and three following verses :—" Where-
fore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all
are to perish with the using) after the commandments and
doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a show of
wisdom in will, worship, and humility, and neglecting of the
body ; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."

MANSLAUGATER : FATAL RESULT OF A FIGHT.—An in-
quest was held on Tuesday before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner,
on view of the body of John Williams, with whose murder
two men, named Alexander Macauley and Michael O'Mealey,
were charged. It appeared, that on Saturday night last, a
few minutes before twelve o'clock, the deceased and the
accused were together in Ormond-street. The former was
intoxicated, and a dispute took place between him and
Macauley, which ended in a scuffle. In the course of the
disturbance, a man who was present saw Macauley strike the
deceased with his hand a blow which knocked him down. A
shout was then raised, and several persons collected. A
police-officer, hearing that there was a disturbance, ran to
the spot, and knocked for assistance. He was presently
joined by an acting inspector, who, on having ascertained
what had transpired, arrested Macauley, and kept him in
custody until the prostrate man was carried into his father's
house, which was about a dozen yards off. When this had
been done a light was obtained, and it was then found that
Williams was dead. Two surgeons, however, were sent for ;
but, on the arrival of the first, he stated that his services
were not required, as life was extinct. The jury acquitted
O'Mealey, and returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Macauley, who was committed to Kirkdale for trial at the
next assizes.

EXTENSIVE ROBITERY—CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.—
At the police-court on Wednesday two prostitutes named
Sarah Guy and Catharine Johnson, were charged with hav-
ing robbed a young man of the name of Edward Knott, of
the sum of £BO and upwards. The complainant deposed
that he was a weaver, that he lodged with Mr. John Picker-
ing, at No. 3, Wapping, and that he was about to emigrate
to America. On Saturday night last, he had a few glasses
of ale with some friends at a house in Park-lane, and about
ten o'clock he left them to go. home. Being a stranger in
the town, he lost his way, and about eleven o'clock he met
the prisoner, Catharine Johnson, and another woman, not
in custody, stopped him in the street, and asked hint if he
wanted lodgings. He replied in the affirmative. They said
they would take him to respectable lodgings, and he told
them lie should give them a glass eaeh if they would. He
then went with them into a public house close by, where they
had a glass of rum each. which he paid for. Then then took
him to the house of Sarah Guy in Simpson-street. Johnson
and the other woman went in with him, and said, " '1 his is
the house." The prisoner Guy lighted a candle, and showed
him up stairs. The two other women remained below.
The prisoner Guy remained in the bed-room while he un-
dressed. He asked her what he had to pay for the night's
lodging, she said eighteen pence. He gave her that sum
from some loose silver he had in his pocket. He had in his
trousers pocket a bag containing seventy-six sovereigns and
nine half-sovereigns. There was a spade-ace guinea among
the gold which he counted as a sovereign, and he heard the
gold jink as he pulled of his trousers. He took the hag out
of his pocket, and felt that the money was safe. He then
tied the bag up tight, and put a knot upon it, and replaced in
his trousers, which lie put under his pillow. The prisoner
Guy ES topti elude to him' and uuuhl BCC. nun securing inn ban.
He got into hed, and Guy took the candle away. He fell
asleep immediately after, and did not wake until six o'clock
the following morning. He then missed his trousers, money,
and all his clothes. He went down stairs, and found no one
in the place but a boy. He asked him where the mistress
was, to which he replied he did not know. He asked him if
she was his mother, and he said " Yes." He then went up
stairs and searched the rooms. He found his trousers in a
room adjoining that in which he had slept, but the bag and
the gold was gone, besides about four shillings of loose silver
which he had in the other pocket. He then went into his
bed-room and searched it, but found nothing except his
watch, which he had placed ander the pillow ; it was lying
upon the floor, near the head of the bed. After remaining
in the house about an hour, he went home, and gave infor-
mation to the officer on the beat. Constable 47 deposed,
that on Sunday morning last he saw the prisoner Guy in a
public-house in Fontenoy-street, and that she had a quantity
of gold and silver in her hand, which she said she had taken
out of the bank the day before. On the way to bridewell she
put a sovereign into his Maud, and said, " 1 'll give ten pounds
more if you 'll let me go." She was then searched, and in
her pocket was found £3O 10s. in gold, £-17s. 6d. in silver,
and 4d. in copper. The prisoners were committed for trial
at the sessions.

STOKE-UPON-TRENT.--The Hon. F. D. Ryder (brother
of Lord Sandon) and Alderman Copeland met the electors
of this borough yesterday. The hon. gentlemen will be tri-
umphantly returned. Lord Sandon was expected at the
meeting.

WALSALL.—As to the miserable faction at Walsall, they
were so recently and thoroughly beaten both on the poll and
the petition, that it is generally believed they will die and
make no sign. Success to Gladstone, is on every one's lips.
Good !

SOUTH lISHIRE.-Mr. G. Wilbraham, one of the pre-
sent members for South Cheshire, has issued his address to
the constituency, and a more extraordinary production it has
not been our lot to witness for sonic time past : it bears the
stamp of the whig-radical character of dubious construction ;
and it would not in the least surprise us if some pseudo-
eausist was the concoctor of this proteus-like composition.
He says to the men of South Cheshire, that " I shall vote
for the proposition of the government, which does no more
than affirm the general principle of a fixed duty, but I shall
do so with an express understanding that I do not thereby
assent to the rate of duty proposed by government, and that
I shall not he satisfied without a full protection to the
farmer." Mr. Wilbraham here very distinctly contradicts
himself : for if he vote " for the proposition of the vvern-
ment" Ss. per quarter for wheat, and if that proposition
should be carried in the Commons, what becomes of the
" full protection to the farmers" which he so boastingly puts
forth ? Has he not cut it off by his own hand ? But Mr.
Wilbraham in one breath tells us he will vote for the Bs. per
quarter duty on wheat, and in the next declares, " he does
not assent to the duty proposed by the government." Was
there ever such a contradiction in terms, or a greater per-
version of truth and reason ? If the constituency of South
Cheshire can be blinded by this open departure from fair
dealing with their best interests, we are much deceived in
our estimate of their judgment and discretion ; and sure we
are that they will at once reject such propositions, and like-
wise the author of them, and prevent him from ever again
sharing their sudport and patronage. Mr. Wilbraham ad-
mits that the protecting duty must exceed Bs. per quarter :
and yet he will vote for this SUM with the ministers; but as
the minor cannot include the major, he wars again with
common sense, and seeks merrly to delude by a surplusage
of words which the worthy member probably hugs himself in
supposing that his constituents would not attempt to unravel.
—Chester Courant.

WEXFORD TOWN.—Already has a Liverpool merchant, of
high standing and character, and of the " right sort." can-
vassedithe electors with success, and made all the preliminary
arrangements for carrying on a contest, should he be opposed,
with vigour.—Dublin Evening Mail.—LThe gentleman al-
luded to is, we believe, James Bourne, Lsq., of this town—
and we have no occasion to say he will make a most. excellent
representative. We are glad to hear there is every prospect
of his success.]

REPRESENTATION OF BRISTOL.—The Liverpool Times
of Tuesday last contained a foolish article, with reference to
a letter from Mr. Fripp, who declined to come forward as a
candidate for the representation of Bristol at the ensuing elec-
tion. Our contemporary will, no doubt, be grieved to learn
that, on re-considering the matter, Mr. Fripp has been in-
duced to abandon his first resolution, and is now in the hands
of the electors. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with
which this proposition was received by a crowded meeting.
A committee has been formed for securing the return of Mr.
Fripp, along with Mr. Miles the present conservative mem-
ber, and there is not the slightest fear of the interests of
Bristol being any longer neglected, or the wishes of the ma-
jority of the electors neutralized.

DEATH OF Sin DAVID WiLicir.—We announce, with
great regret, the death of this celebrated painter, which took
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great favourite, and had taken one of the best likenesses of his
ighness, with a view of having it engraved in England. We
trust the painting was in such a state of forwardness as will
enable an engraver to carry the original design into effect.
The loss of Sir David Wilkie will be felt, not only in this
country, but throughout Europe and America. His " Rent
Blind Man's Buff," "permy Wedding," " Chelsea
Day,'' ``
pensioners," and many other now standard works of art, are
as well known and as much admired in foreign countries as
in his native land, and will render his name immortal. He
came to London when he was about twenty years of age, and
exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1806.
One great painting followed another in rapid succession, and
in afew years he reached the height of his fame. Latterly
his productions have been far inferior to those which brought
him so justly into notice. Sir David was fifty-six years of
age at his death. He was the son of the Rev. -Wilkie,
minister of the parish of Oults, in Fifeshire, and was born
in 1785. He was knighted in 1836; elected an associate of
the Royal Academy in 1810, and a Royal Academician in
1813. He was lately appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary
to her Majesty.—Morning Chronicle.