The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

a eztert e 4 ploperitro grA4ter titex it wattid railevo—
and that, consequently, any relief that might be de-
rived from merely lowering the price of corn, would
be of exceedingly brief duration, and followed by far
worse evils than it was designed to remedy. We know
of no terms too severe for reprobating so.complete, so
foul, and so cruelly mischievous a fraud. "The re-
sult of the adoption of free trade," says our friend
whom we have already quoted, " would destroy the
property and the influence of the owners of land, by
making their estates worthless; it would also remove
every protection from the labourers; it would drive
the families now residing in agricultural districts into
those of manufacture (the New Poor Law was adopted
for that purpose), and it would place the population,
the wealth, and the influence of the nation, in the
hands and entirely under the control of the manufac-
turers, who, Mr. Sidney Smith says, are "good and
patriotic," but whom the official, national, and authen-
tic documents prove to be cruel, covetous, and re-

morseless."

In another place, ho says, that the spirit which goads
on this agitation is " neither more nor less than Infi-
delity, which assumes every stape, and every name,
for the purpose of delusion." It is, in our opinion,
the spirit of Revolution, in which every possible va-
riety of motive combines. The voice of Infidelity,
doubtless, does tningle, and that largely, in the cry.
The followers of the divine Founder of our religion
are forbidden to labour for the " meat that perished),"

and are most solemnly assured that if they make the
divine life the first object of their care, He who feeds
the birds of the air, and clothes • the lilies of the field,
will not fail to make ample provision for them. But it
is evident that the wealthy brawlers about " cheap
bread " are acting in the very teeth of this command,
and cannot therefore be believers in Him who gave it.
The cry is not that of the hungry, but of the well-fed—
not that of the poor hand-loom weaver, or the misera-
ble factory operative, nor yet that of the forlorn pau-
per in bastile pent—no ; it is the voice of the rich
millocrat—the greedy millionaire; and therefore wants
that privilege which belongs to the urgently necessit-
The spirit of Infidelity goes with it un-
questionably, but with it the spirit of every other un-
clean thing also—of envy, sedition, malice, lust of
gain, uncharitableness, and whatever other agent from
the bottomless pit may be employed in harrassing, vex-
ing, and tormenting unhappy man in his social state.
But sonic league-man might perhaps think it worth
while to ask, if, admitting as we do the great amount
of misery which exists in the manufacturing localities,
we have any remedy to propose which would be better
than his ? and we answer, yes. Cheap corn and free
trade we know to be a humbug ; the new poor-law,
Whig bastiles, we believe to he worse ; neither of these
then are in our mind remedies at all; and though we
were unable to suggest what would be an efficacious
means of relief, these we would be fully justified in
rejecting. There is a remedy, however, and we shall

ous alone,

avail ourselves of every opportunity to commend it to
notice ; and it is, Colonisation. This is the obvious
and the true process for completely and effectually re-
medying all the evils now complained of. Do you
wish that the people may have bread ? Then remove
them to West India, Canada, o'r some other of those
colonial possessions in which our empire is so rich, and
they will be able to obtain it in abundance. Do you
want a vent for your manufactures ) Then colonise.
Do you desire that the operatives who remain at home
should be fully employed and well paid ? Then co-
lonise. Do you, in a word, wish for " ships, colonies,
and commerce ?" Then, we repeat it, colonise. This
is the proper remedy ; but it is most unaccountably
overlooked. But why do we say " unaccountably"—
so far at least as respects the present administration ?
A government of shifts and expedients will overlook
anything that does not minister to their immediate ne-
cessities. We cannot expect from such a government
any comprehensive or enlarged plan that would make
emigration or colonisation that effective relief to the
country which we allege it would be. Perpetually liar-
rassed with the difficulty of merely sticking to place,
they find much more advantage to themselves in the
agitation and humbug of free trade, than in any mea-
sure that would be essentially useful to the country.
If it were not so, we should never hear of poor-house
bastiles and Polish oats as a remedy for popular dis-

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petted at the end of September, or early in the mouth of
October.—Sunday Print.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.—Yester-
day workmen commenced the erection of a building, on the
sito.of the Old Infirmary Yt:rd, fir the purpose of the grand
dinner for the members of this society. the building will
be of a circular form and of vast dimensions.

SQUINTING.—This very gnat defect in the personal ap-
pearance is becoming rarer and rarer every day. Mr. Atkin-
son, of Leeds, has returned here for a short time ; so much
in demand has he been during his late stay. We are glad to
see that he has been thus successful.
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THE TRIAL OF THE EMU, OF STAFFORD.—We shall no-
tice this fine picture at some length in our next ; in the
mean time recommend it to notice.
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MR. CRoNIN.—This gentleman, we perceive, will be ab-
sent from Liverpool for a short time, in consequence of the
demand for his services in Manchester. He has been very
successful we understand in many cases.

TUE BRUNSWICK HOTEL.—It is with very great confidence
that we recommend the Brunswick Hotel to the notice of
families and gentlemen travelling either on business or plea-
sure. It is one of the most comfortable hotels in point of
cleanliness, attention, politeness, and excellence of fare we
ever entered. We have recommended many of our private
friends to stay at the Brunswick, and they having invariably
felt obliged to us, we can extend our recommendation to our
ronre numerous public acquaintance with considerable con-
fiance.

.—Mr. Ball, of Lancaster, the fruiterer, has had
green peas on his stall for a week, and from London, too!
So much for steam !
THE WAtt I INDIA..—A five per cent. loan has been
opened in Calcutta to cover the charges of the Affghan war,
which are understood to amount to about 12 millions of
rupees. The loss of life incurred down to the present date
is nearly 5,000 men, killed in action.

e royal mail steamer Columbia, Captain Judkins sailed
riday fur Halifax and Boston. She carried out sixty

passengers.
The new ship Cornelia, which arrived on Monday evening
from New York, is the largest merchant vessel hitherto built
in the United States. She is nearly 1200 tons burden, and is
a beautiful specimen of naval architecture. She is com-
manded by Captain French, formerly of the Great Britain,
and well known in the American trade. She may be seen in
the Waterloo Dock, and is consigned to Messrs. Wadding-
ton, Holt & Co.

FIRE IN MANESTY-LANX.—On Friday night, about eleven
o'clock, a fire was discovered by police officer 25 on the pre-
mises occupied by Messrs. Thompson Fawcett, plumbers,
glaziers, and painters, Manesty-lane.. The engines, accom-
panied by water carts, were on the ground immediately, and
before the fire could extend its ravages it was suppressed,
chiefly owing to the exertions of the indefatigable superin,
tendent of the fire police, slr. Hewitt. The damage was
trifling, but, owing to the building being surrounded by large
warehouses, it might have been considerable, had it not been
speedily got under. _

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HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.—A London contemporary
—(the Tinies)—seems disposed to grumble a little at the
mode in which invitations to her Majesty's state ball were
distributed on Thursday; and almost insinuates that the se-
lection of her Majesty's guests is occasionally directed to se-
cure political objects. Certainly the disproportion between
the members of the two parties in the House of Commons in-
vited on this occasion does look a little singular at a time
when a great constitutional question was under discussion.
It is a little surprising that hut fifteen conservative members
of that house should be present, whilst of the opposite party
no less than 167 were dancing attendance upon the royal per-
son, and basking in the royal smile, some of whom had been
previously suspected of being slightly disaffected iu their al-
legiance towards her Majesty's government.

STABBING.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a man of co-
lour, named Baronda Johnson, was charged with having
stabbed another coloured man, of the name of George Wil-
hams, on Saturday night. It appeared that the prisoner and
two companions, all of whom were sailors, were playing at
cards together, at the house in which they boarded. A dis-
pute arose, out of which a fight commenced, which the coin-
plainant, who was in bed, was called down to assist iu quel-
ling. It was during his efforts to aelomplish this object that
the prisoner cut him in the hand with a knife. The magis-
trates told the prisoner he was totally unjustified in using the
knife, and they ordered him to pay a fine of 10s., and in de-
fault of which, he must be imprisoned for ten days.
TFfE NEMESIS, IRON WAR-STEAMER.—We refer our
readers to the extracts from the official despatches giving an
account of the operation's in the Canton River. In those
operations the Nemesis, iron-steamer, built at Mr. John
Laird's yard, North Birkenhead, performed a brilliant part,
penetrating, owing to her light draught of water, the inner
channel, which the Chinese had deemed impassable by
foreign vessels, and thus taking the enemy by surprise in
quarters where he thought himself altogether unassailable.
Mr. Hall, under whose superintendence the Nemesis was
equipped and armed, and who is well known in Liverpool,
highly distinguished himself in the delicate and dangerous
Operation of forcing and threading the inner passage, as well
as in all the previous operations on the coast of China ; and
Sir George Bremer has, in highly complimentary terms, no-
ticed the services which that gallant officer has rendered to
his Queen and his country in the Chinese waters. We may
add, that the engines of the Nemesis were manufactured by
Messrs. Forrester and Co. ; and that her guns, which did
striking executionon the Chinese works, were cast by Messrs.
Fawcett and Preston : all of this town. Liverpool may well
feel proud of this her first iron war-steamer.
ROBBERY IN BOLD-STREET.—We beg to refer to Mr.
Davis, the optician's advertisement, which appears elsewhere.
We trust the depredators will be brought to punishment.
We are still without any intelligence of the steam-ship
Britannia, which would leave Boston on the 16th ult., and
was due, according to the average rate of passages, on Sunday
week. Some accident, in all probability, has iappened to
her machinery, but we hope it is not of any serious nature.
Should she not arrive in time to take her place in the line on
the 19th instant, the Caledonia, which would leave Boston
on the Ist, and may be expected, barring accidents, to arrive
on or before this day week, will be despatched in her place,
so that the non-arrival of one steamer will not, in all pro-
bability, interrupt the regular communication between Li-
verpool, Halifax, and Boston.
ST. SAViouses Cauncii—On Sunday next two sermons
will be preached in this church in aid of a fund towards
liquidating the debt on the building. If our legislature were
true to the British principle and echoed British feeling, there
would be no occasion for such appeals as these. It is a
positive disgrace that collections have to be made for this
purpose, but it is a disgrace the removal of which we see no
prospect of, unless throngh the exertions and continued
liberality of the people. Our columns have lately testified
to several instances of their willingness to do so, and we
hope this opportunity of repeating their liberality will not be
lost sight of. We need only add that Mr. Ewbank preaches
in the morning, and Mr. James in the evening.
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THEATRE-ROl-AL.—There was a very full and fashionable
house last night at the Theatre-royal, to witness Macready's
fine performance of Richelieu. To-night Werner will be
repeated. We are glad to find that really good acting can be
thus appreciated in Liverpool. The late engagement of Yates
and Co. clearly proves that mountebanking has no charms to
draw the lieges frem their country walks and the enjoyment
of the fine summer air.
PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was
held last night in St. Mark's school-room, the Rev. B. A.
Marshall in the chair, and addressed by Mr. Birkett, who
showed pointedly the true intention of the present govern-
ment, which covered by the loud cry for liberality, is really
and truly to suppress protestant principle, and re-establish
popery in this land—they being but tools in the hands of the
pope of [tome, through O'Connell.—Mr. Crisp afterwards
addressed she meeting, showing that the popish doctrine that
" heretics when strong are to be committed to God, when
weak, to the executioner," has been fully carried out of late,
in England and Ireland, as in popish Ireland, where the po-
pulation is seven million popish, and one million and a half
protestant, no less than seven protestant clergymen have
been most barbarously murdered, whereas in protestant Eng-
land, where out of a population of sixteen millions, there is
not one million of papists, he would challenge any one to
point out to him the murder of a single popish priest. In
Ireland heretics are weak, and they have been committed to
the executioner ; in England they are strong, and they have
been committed to God. He strongly urged them to use their I
best exertions to promote signatures to the May nooth petition.
Mr. C. Bushell, who was received with the most enthusiastic
cheers, made some remarks upon the necessary connection
between religion and politics. He took a hasty review of the
degraded proceedings of the present imbecile ministry, and
asked what had they done for the benefit of the working
classes; why they had passed the penny postage plan. He
doubted not the blue jackets whom he saw before him would
work heart and hand in returning to parliament again, two
sound and tried representatives, Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell Cresswell, and he begged of them firmly and stea-
dily at this eventful period, perseveringly to do their duty.—
Mr. Adshead, the secretary of the branch, then addressed
the meeting in a very spirited speech—and called upon the
protestant s of Abercromby and Rodney-street Ward for their
aid by subscribing to the association, to enable the committee
to send protestant truths and the scriptures to the poor Ro-
man Catholics.—Mr. Smith addressed the meeting on the
subject of the Romish Purgatorial Society, one of the princi.
pies of which is to pray for the souls of the members into
paradise.

THE. LEAGUE AND THE PAPISTS AT MANCHESTER

There were great doings last week at Manchester. The
creatures who have been goaded on by the league (a band of
snug fellows who have clubbed it for the purpose of agita-
tion), had a great meeting in the open air, to consider, as it
is ludicrously called, the question of the corn laws. The
mayor declined to call the meeting, so they assembled with-
out his worship's leave. Mr. Coden was invited to take
the chair, and accepted the invitation ; and it was expected
that Mr. Daniel O'Connell would be present, but he did not
appear. Daniel, it seems, was in Manchester the previous
day, and addressed the " pisantry," at Carpenter's-hall, in
favour of a repeal of the union ; but having told his people
how to behave at the succeeding meeting, especially towards
his friends, the chartists, he slunk from the port of danger,
and took the early train for London next morning. At the
corn meeting the most abominable rioting took place. Thir-
teen persons were conveyed to the Infirmary in the course of
the (lay, all severely wounded. The " impartial" chairman
would hear none but his own favourites, and the Irish re-
pealers bludgeoned every man that endeavoured to gain a
hearing in opposition to the views of the league. " The police
force," says the Stockport Advertiser, who had doubtless ,
received their orders as to how they should proceed at parti-
cular junctures, " attacked with their bludgeons every person
who appeared in the character of an opponent to the voice
of Mr. Cobden, and this system was carried on in such a
disgraceful and merciless manner, that the affray was in dan-
ger of terminating with frightful results. By such means
all oppotition was at length silenced, and the leaguers carried
their resolutions." " The same evening," adds our Stock-
port contemporary, " a large meeting was held in the Castle
Yard, in this town, when Mr. Bairstow and others gave a
frightful picture of the brutality which had been inflicted
upon the people at Manchester, because of their opposition
to such a repeal of the corn laws as Mr. Cobden would fain
give the electors. The language was strong and emphatic ;
and Mr. Cobden was unanimously denounced and declared
to be unworthy to represent Stockport in parliament, and
the meeting thereupon pledged themselves to use their best
exertions to prevent his return. Three of the leading mem-
bers of Mr. Cobden's committee—Sir Ralph Pendlebury,
Mr. Alderman Baker, and Mr. Charles Hudson, were pre-
sent, and appeared grievously distressed that the tide of popu-
lar favour should so soon have been turned against their pet."
MARINER'S Cutincti SCHOOLS.—If there is one thing
more than another M winch the inhabitants of Liverpool
ought to feel a peculiar interest, and for the attainment of
which every effort should be strained, it is that of a sound
scriptural education for the rising generation, and if that he
more needed in one part of the town than others, we know
of no district where it is more required than in the crowded
neighbourhoods of our docks, or for the offspring of the
mariners who frequent our port. Where there is no other
motive to induce the public to attend the sermons which
will be preached on Sunday next, at the mariner's church,
we think they ought to suffice, but when we state in addition,
that the addresses will be delivered by Dr. Scoresby, the for-
mer incumbent of the church, we conceive we have said
more than enough to secure a numerous auditory, and a
munificent collection. The character of Dr. Scoresby is
well known ; his piety and talents are highly appreciated,
and we are greatly Mistaken if the remembrance of their
does not revive the most pleasing associations in the minds
of our readers, inciting them to support liberally the usefu,
charity for which he will, no doubt, plead with his usua
ahility.