The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

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We shall not stor

We have merely adverted to the -business in order to

show how utterly unfit such persons would be to u

dertake the reform of our commercial code, and to

;uggest a caution to those who may be willing, and

very properly so, to support a change in our exist

tariff, but entertain a determined hostility to all such

extreme—such revolutionary and destructive bouleverse-

ments, as these self-styled reformers seek to effect

There are some whose favourite policy seems to be
to separate the different classes of society, and to per-
suade them that they have different interests. They
cry, " Success to commerce and manufactures," but
"God speed the plough" sticks in their throat, and
they never can utter it.

With -such reformers we have no sympathy ; we pray,
rather, a good deliverance out of their hands. It
would be well if sensible and moderate men would
come forward, not for the purpose of thwarting the
movement now likely to be commenced for the revisal
of our commercial system, but for the purpose of
taking it out of the hands of these extreme gentlemen,
and giving it a safe and proper direction.

It is rarely that an increase of the estimates affords
matter of congratulation or is likely to prove agreeable
intelligence to the country ; yet we pretend to say, that
the augmentation of the navy estimates for this year by
the sum of £729,623, and th

proposal to strengthen
the service with an accession of 5,835 additional sea-
men, will be well re'eived throughout the kingdom.
Ministers have too long most shamefully neglected ,the
glorious wooden walls of Old England ; and while we
may regret that there should be a cause for this in-
creased expenditure, we must rejoice that the govern-
ment of the country has been at length roused to a
proper sense of the necessity of setting the nation's
right arm at liberty, and preserving it, in a suitable
state of health, strength, and vigour.

The committal of Lord Morpeth's registration bill
has been postponed to the,23d of April. The bubble
could keep no longer than Monday last, and then it
burst, Lord John Russell having kindly undertaken
the task of communicating to the house that the sequel
of the piece (farce we should say) was put off till after
Easter—or, perhaps, the Greek Kalends. Bravo, Lord
John ! A Capital manager, thou certainly art, of as
prime a set of jugglers as ever exhibited. But it is
their "•vocation ;" and they reckon probably with the
immortal "fat knight," that it is no dishonour to them
to " labour in their vocation." Certes, there is no
trick too mean, no strategy too contemptible for them

to resort to, if it only promise the sweets of yet another
,quarter day. What a confession have they not made,
in the entire of this business, that Lord Stanley's was
a bill which they could not resist at all by fair means.
Of this fact they learned enough last lession, and still
worse were their prospects in this, if no ingenious de-
vice could be hit upon to get rid of that measure by a
side-wind. For this purpose, and this only, Lord
Morpeth's bill was concocted, and having answered
its obstructive end, it is now thrown by " till after
Easter." Well, now, as Sam Slick would say, "aynt
they clever cbaps, these same ministers—capital hands
for doing it on the sly?" With regard to this particular

feat, it is
,remarked that they perform it in a more
finished style than others, inasmuch as they have been
practising it a good while. It was first brought out in

the affair of the Irish tithe bill, when they came in upon
a clause of "appropriation," which they newer bad the
slightest hope or expectation of carrying. So with
their £5 franchise bill. It was never meant to be
passed ; it was only designed to obstruct a good mea-
sure, and "keep out the Tories." The Irish agitator,
depend upon it, will make no complaint of this delay;
it is highly probable that the propositidn, nay the en-
tire ruse, originated with him. Ministerial patronage

the master-key to all this :worthy associate's move-

ments. Threaten him with turning out the Whigs,

and the consequent loss of ranch advantage to himself,
and you will have him singing out for more enfran-
chisement, more church property, more everything, till
he get his dear ministerial friends out of their hobble.
Secure him in that point and you will find him bearing

his disappointment as to all other objects with perfect
complacency. You might set all his cries to the one
tune of " Keep out the Tories." What an invaluable
support to the Melbourne ministry !' Surely they only
exist by his permission, and would perish in an instant
beneath his frown.

We have only time to refer our readers to the report
of the speeches delivered on Wednesday evening against
the propos€d abstraction of the ecclesiastical revenues
of North Wales. The remarks of the Rev. R. Davies
and the Rev. D. James are especially worthy of perusal
and most serious consideration. These gentlemen
prove, by the most irrefragable arguments, the impolicy
and inexpediency of reducing the number of Bishops
in the Principality, as well as the crying evil of attempt-
ing to abstract any of the revenues from a church, the
livings of which, as clearly established by the respec-
tive speakers, are already disgracefully impoverished.
But we shall have other opportunities of adverting to
this subject.

LOCAL NEWS.

PORTRAIT OF THE Rv.v. HUGH IVPNEILE.—A very ad-
mirable portrait, in water colours, of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile;
is now on view at Mr. Crisp's office in Church-street. It is
by Mr. A. Robertson. The reverend gentleman is repre-
sented standing at the altar, in the act of reading the Com-
munion Service. The artist has most appropriately appended
a portion of the second commandment as his inscription,
" Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them."
Those who have heard the reverend gentleman utter the
words in the attitude in which he is represented, will be at once
struck with the success of the artist in his attempt to delineate
the features of Mr. M'lsieile at the period when he is called
upon to read this portion of the communion. The like-
ness amounts to identity, and is decidedly the best that has
been yet taken, as it conveys at once an impression of the
reverend gentleman's commanding figure and very intellec-
tual countenance. The robes are most tastefully and grace-
fully put on. Taken altogether, it is a very pleasing, clever,
and excellent likeness. As an engraving will be executed
from this drawing, the rev. gentleman's friends and admirers
may have an opportunity of becoming possessors of a fac-
simile of it. If the engraver does his work well, he will pro-
duce an invaluable work of art.
REV. HUGU STOWELL.—This able and intrepid divine
preached two sermons on Sunday last, in St. Andrew's
Church, on behalf of the day and Sunday schools connected
with the church. His evening's sermon was replete with
wisdom, and considered by those who heard it to be a mas-
ter-piece of eloquence. The Church was densely crowded,
and a great number of dissenters were present. The collec-
tions amounted to the handsome sum of £l2O.

LECTURE TO THE JEWS.—We understand that a sermon
will be preached this evening, in St. Simon's Church, Sir
Thomas-buildings, by the Rev. H. S. Joseph, when two
members of the house of Israel will be baptised.
NEW Music.—Mr. J. Davies, whose performances on the
Rock Harmonicmi have delighted and pleased every body,
has just published a set of very capital quadrilles, and a fine
march.. The former he has dedicated to Mrs. Robertson
Gladstone, the latter to Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M: P.
As Mr. Davies has frequently performed the march on the
Harmonicon, in conjunction with Mr. Richardson's sons, it
must be familiar to all. We know it has been much admired.
Both compositions do Mr. J. Davies very great credit, and
we warmly recommend them to notice.

MRS. WAYLETT'S BENEFIT, LIVER THEATRE.—The
Earl of Sefton is a true patron of the drama : he always
comes forward to support talent and ability. We perceive
he has been kind enough to patronise Mrs. Waylett's benefit,
to-night, at the Liver. A very full and fashionable house
may be anticipated, as his lordship brings a large party with
him.

To THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.---We are sorry to find
so many members of the medical profession object to our
noticing Mr. Cronin's successful treatment for deafness.
This gentleman has done many of our friends so much be-
nefit; that we feel assured when his practice is well known, it
will be the only one practised in this country. Mr. C.'s ad-
vertisement is liberal, and well deserves attention.
THE Sour KITCHENS.--It will be a source of satisfaction
to the public, as indicating a diminution of the privation and
suffering lately so plevalent in the town, to know, that the
operations of the soup establishments will shortly be brought
to a close. We congratulate the gentlemen who have had

the management of these

ablishments upon the appro

ing termination of their labours, and upon the large amount
of seasonable relief which they have been instrumental in ad-
ministering to the poorer classes of our fellow_townsmen
during the late severe winter. By the laudable generosity
with which the public responded to the call upon their hu-
man:: and charitable sympathies, the amount of soup supplied
has not only been fully adequate to the demand, but a balance
of the subscription remains in hand, sufficient, it is believed,
to meet the necessities of the two next seasons, should no
extraordinary or protracted rigidness of the weather re-
quire an unusual amount of this description of aid. The
account of soup delivered at the several shdps, from their
commencement up to Saturday last, is as follows :

GALLS.
Gill-street, opened on the 30th of December last . 21,983
Flint-street

Pickop-street

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4th of January last ..38,528

Total 22,631