The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

Narita►.

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.

AMEETING of the Advocates of LOCAL IM-
PROVEMENT will be held at the CLARENDON-ROOMS,
on THURSDAY next, the sth instant, at Three o'clock, to con-
sider the propriety of calling a Towns' meeting on this subject.

"WANTED, a few good COAL PORTERS, to
t V whom constant employment will be given. Wages 3s.
per Day, or 18s. per Week.—Apply to Mr. J. NANGLE, 5,
Crown-street.

ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH,
CHAPEL STREET.
ON ASCENSION DAY (Thursday next, the
sth instant). Divine Service will commence at Half-past
Ten o'clock. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be
Administered.
The Usual Weekly Services at this Church are on Tuesday
and Thursday Mornings, at Half-past Nine o'clock.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
pHE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
I do hereby give Notice, that they are willing to receive
LOANS OF MONEY, on the Security of the Bonds of the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, at the rate of 10s. per
centum per annum interest, for periods of either Three, Five,
or Seven Years. All offers to be addressed to GEOROn V. TA/1-
'ms, Esq., Treasurer of the Liverpool Docks, Dock-office,
Liverpool.—By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-offiee, Liverpool, February 10, 1853.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
MARCUS'S ANNUAL WHITSUNTIDE EXCUR-
SION to LONDON and BACK,
ON SATURDAY, MAY 14TH,
AND ON
MONDAY, MAY 16TH.
FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY:
ENCLOSED CARRIAGES, 18s. • FIRST CLASS, 30s.
Tickets, Bills, and further informationtion may be obtained on
application at the Office. 19, LEIGH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
H. R. MARCUS, MANAGER AND CONDUCTOR.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE of the COUNCIL
are ready to receive TENDERS for the supply of
HORSES for the Carts for Watering the Streets throughout the
Borough during the Summer season of 1853: Sealed 'renders,
addressed to "The Chairman of the Health Committee," and
marked "Tender for Horsing Water Carts." to be left at the
Public Offices, Cornwallis-street, Liverpool, (Town-clerk's
Office,) on or before twelve at noon of the 9th day of May. No
Tender will be accepted unless made on a Printed Form, which
nn,y be obtained at the above Office any day between the hours
of Ten and Five.
By order WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-clerk.
Public-offices, Cornwallis-street, 29th April, 1853.

A T a Meeting of the RAMSHAY INQUIRY COM-
MITTEE, held the 27th April, 1853,
SAMUEL HOLME, Esq., in the Chair,

_
It was resolved,
That the Committee being enabled to RETURN THE SUM
OF TWELVE SHILLINGS IN THE POUND to all the Sub-
scribers, after payment of the costs incidental to the Inquiry,
they beg.to notify that the Subscribers may receive that amount
on applying to J. It. JEFFERY, Esq., Treasurer, Church-street,
on or before the Ist June next.
Any amount not claimed before that clay will be appropriated
by the Committee as they may deem best.

So tic gi:olb.

SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
THE THIRTY- NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL
COURT of 'this Society will be held within Gibbs' Royal
Hotel, Prince's,street. on FRIDAY the 27th day of May next,
at two o'clock, p.m., in terms of, and for the purposes specified
in, the Articles-cf Constitution of the Society.
Tire Bonds Additions to the existing Policies for the Fifth
Septennial period of Investigation, ending the 31st December
last, will then be declared.
JOHN MACICENZIE, Manager.
Edinburgh, April, 1853.

'SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BANKING COMPANY.
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1847.
E Court of Directors grant LETTERS of CREDIT
and BILLS, at thirty days' sight, upon the Company's
Bank, at Adelaide. The Bare:tinge On'Sams above £lO is noilt
at a Premium or Charge of 2 per Cent. Approved Drafts on
-South Australia Negotiated and Bills Collected.
Apply at the Company's Offices, No. 54, Old Broad-street,
London ; or at the LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK, the 'Com.
'pany's Agents at Liverpool.
WILLIAM PURDY, Manager.
London, 3fay 2, 1853.

ALL Persons Invinz CLAIMS or DEM'AN'DS
upon the Estate of Mr.•;,..,0HN ASTLEY MARSDEN,
late of Duke-street, Liverpool, and Liscard, Cheshire, are
requested to .sen 4 particulars thereof to Mr. WV:A.IAM
GA RDNE u, North-John,street,liverpool, one of the Executors,
that they may be examiced.'und, if correct, discharged; and
all persons INDEBTED- to the same Estate are requested to
pay the amount of their respective Debts forthwith to the said
Mr. WILLIAM 'GARDN ER. By order of the Executers,
ALFRED CARTER,-•Solicitor.
Coventry, -23 d 'April, lkok.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853.

country, if her resources were properly developed
under Imperial Government. Experience has
proved that her industry has been fettered and her
revenue swallowed up in enormous expenditure
under the present system ; and yet, in the teeth of
such glaring facts, and that India has been used
merely as the milch cow for the East India Com-
pany, and the innumerable nominees of the twenty-
four Directors, the Government have coolly pro-
posed to renew the present system for another
period of twenty years, with some partial modifica-
tions, just to appease the most forward clamourers
for redress. It is time to awaken to a sense of the
injustice committed, and the advantages from
which the commerce of England is debarred.
Manchester sees looming in the distance a source
of supply for raw Cotton which may render her
more independent of the slave-produced Cotton of
the United States. Liverpool may also see a
demand for her Shipping trade, which will render
even the acquisition of the Birkenhead Docks in-
sufficient for her requirements; and England may
look forward to a source of revenue which may
make the task of a future CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER one in which there will be all sun-
shine. The amount at stake is too important to be
left to Ministerial capacity or integrity, and an
India Reform Society has been established with a
view of bringing public opinion to bear on the Im-
perial Parliament, so as to obtain due attention to
the complaints and claims of the inhabitants of that
vast empire. The Society has not been slothful.
They have already published a pamphlet on "The
Government of India since 1834," another has just
appeared on "The Finances of India," and third
entitled " India, by Dr. BrisT," while a fourth is
announced on " The Native States of India ;" so
that want of information cannot be pleaded as an
excuse for supporting the Ministerial measure.
The East India `Company has performed its task—
it has reaped a richlarvest, and provided for all its
kith and kin ; and it is now time that the country
at large shared in the advantages of the acquisition.

WHO ARE THE CONSERVATIVES!?
• .
THERE was a tirrie';rnd that not long sinee,‘when
the assembly of constitutional Representatives of
the public voice -presented a tangible distinction
between those viho would preserve the principles of
Our time-honoured institutions in Church and State,
and the party whose sole object was -change, no
matter at what hazard. It was said, and truly so,
'that the battle of the Constitution was to be fought
'in the Registration Courts; and when we call to
-mind the exertions which have been used, and the
sacrifices Which have been made, we may fairly ask
for the. fruits of the hard-fought -contest. When
the Earl -of DERBY was 'called .uponto rescue the
country from the slifficulties into which it had been
plunged through Whig-Radical incapacity, he made
an appeal to the country, and the response left no
doubt as to the result, if the professions of public
- men-were-to be trusted. Alai -.for faith in politi-
cians. The PEELrrE section, 'who had avowed
their Conservatism in everything -but free trade in
corn, were ungratified in their ~personal ambition,
and, deeming it "better terreignin Hell than-serve
id Heaven," revenged their mortification by going
over to their hereditary foes, and throwing all their
weight into the scale against:a really able and con-
stitutional Ministry. Even then 'the Conservatives
presented a powerful minority; superior to any other
party in the House, and all ,but equal to the whole
of the factions combined. But-where are they now,
that Lord Jour RUSSELL should be able to com-
mand majorities even when:- the Romish Brigade,
who, like the Ishmaelites of old, have their hand
against every man, are no longer in league with
them ? There are too many who love to bask in
the sunshine of the powers that be, and salve their
consciences with looking only atilord ABERDEEWS
Conservative professions, while they blind them-
selves to::his Radical acts. His policy has been
essentially one of Liberalism,:and yet the plausible
Budget of his CHANCELLOR.Zf the Excunouna
receives the support of some pretended Conser-
vatives, as -though they believed that the Cabinet
really contained "all the talents'," and that the
Government of the country was impossible without
their continuance in office. is this halting
between two opinions which constitutes the real
danger of the Empire, and its !best and dearest
interests will be frittered away, because some few,
I who owe their seats in Parliament to the votes of
Conservative electors, carry out their mere private
opinions on particular questions, instead of firmly
uniting with the party which they were sent into
the Legislature •expressly to support. The great
object to be gained is not the success of this or that
particular measure, but the ascendancy of Conser-
vative principles,:and success will not be achieved
unless those who profess these principles combine
as resolutely for a_good cause as their opponents do
for a bad one. They might take a useful lesson
from the Radicals; who surrender ;individual
crotchets for the general advantage of their party;
but there are too many on the Conservative side
who seem as ready to vote for their foes as for their
friends. Much of this has, no doubt, been induced
by the political treachery of the late Sir ROBERT
PEEL, which weakened confidence in public men ;
but it is time that the Conservatives were aroused
to a sense of the danger, or they may find, when
too late, that the whole ,political power has been
surrendered into the hands of those who will use it
for the subversion of all our constitutional safe-
„guards against Democratic innovations, and for the
gratification of their own personal ambition.

MR. GLADSTONE AND TUE PRESS.
ME more consideration is given to the proposal of
the .CIZANCELLOR of the EXCEIEQUES to make but
a partial reduction of the Advertisement Duty, and
abolish the Stamp on Newspaper Supplements con-
taining only advertisements, the more glaring
appears its enormity. Whatever may be said about
Ministerial honour and the independence of the
Times, the transaction is clearly and unmistakeably
a purchase of the support of the latter to the pre-
sent mongrel Cabinet, and the bribe is earned in
the unblushing advocacy of Ministerial measures. It
is well known that the Times is the only paper which
publishes supplements containing only advertise-
ments, and for the simple reason that advertisers, who
have a keen eye to their own interests, will not pay for
the insertion of their announcements in sheets which
would seldom be read ; so that the Press generally
will be debarred from an advantage to be enjoyed
by the paper which already possesses the largest
amount. It has been computed that the pecuniary
benefits to the leading journal will amount to at
least £40,000 a-year, at a loss to the Revenue of
fully half that amount, after deducting the Adver-
tisement Duty retained. On the other hand, the
saving to the Revenue, by not repealing the whole
of the Advertisement Duty, will be £60,000 a-year ;
so that this latter sum is to remain as a charge upon
the whole Press of England, in order that one paper,
for its unscrupulous advocacy of the Government,
may receive to the extent of two-thirds of the
amount. This is not a question of individual
rivalry, but one in which the whole community
have an interest. It is practically the legalization of
a monopoly by those who are professing Free-trade,
and an alteration of this portion of the Budget
should be firmly insisted upon. The House of
Commons has already voted by a majority for the
repeal of the whole duty, and nothing less will
satisfy the justice of the case. The difference in
loss to the Revenue will be but £6o,ooo—a sum
too §mall tQ demand the continuance of a

restriction which destroys all the grace of
the boon, and renders still necessary the
interference of the tax-gatherer. The repeal
of the stamp duty on advertisement supplements
must also be withdrawn, as it is a boon of which, at
present, only one newspaper can take advantage,
and which, as a partial boon, is unjust to all others.
Besides, if the increase of advertisements requires
the printing of a supplement, it also provides a
fund out of which to bear the cost ; but by retaining
the sixpence on advertisements, all papers have to
pay, and those who can best afford it have the
saving. The advertisement which represents the
public must, therefore, be free, and the supplement
which represents the wealthy proprietor must con-
tinue to bear the stamp. This is simply a demand
for justice, and of so obvious a character that our
Representatives will not be doing their duty unless
they insist on its being conceded. We can imagine
the semblance of an excuse for such a preference,
had the Times been really what it professes,—the
unflinching advocate of English interests ; but, true
to its title, its politics and its principles have been
as versatile as the fickle breath of popular favour.
It hunted the late KING of HANOVER with reitera-
tion of the foulest slanders ; it libelled the late
QUEEN ADELAIDE with the well-remembered
slander, " The Queen has done it all ;" it was
Conservative when the late Sir ROBERT PEEL was
in the ascendant; it became Liberal when Lord
JOHN RUSSELL succeeded him; it truckled to the
DERBY Cabinet for a preference, which, being
refused, provoked its enmity ; it laboured unceas-
ingly to provoke a war with France by repeated
attacks upon Louis NAPOLEON ; and its changes
of opinion are so notorious that its large circulation
is chiefly owing to so many persons liking to read
both sides of a question. It has been by turns the
champion of high Toryism and ultra Radicalism,
and, always desirous to court Ministerial favour, has
at length found the highest bidder in the immacu-
late Mr...GLADSTONE, at a price which is patent to
all the world,. The public should be able now to
appreciate its advocacy of the Budget at its full
worth, but Parliament will be oblivious of its mani-
fest duty if it allows the price to be paid.