The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 185

*airs by Auction

SALES POSTPONED.
SALES :
advertised ior EDNESDAY, the
,ailAu instant, of several pieces 'of LAND,.64uate at
41, ;P.M in Clifton-park, are POSTPONED till a future
nth due notice will be given.
A°llll joh March, and SON.
n-street, Liverpool, 13th 1854.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
VALUABLE OAK AND OTHER TIMBER.
Ntolti,„ By Mr, JOHN WHITEHALL,
After, uw, the 15th
Inn,insant at Four o'clock in the
111 t foi?00: at the Goat Llanfair Montgomeryshire, in
I)roduc:Vng Lots, and subject to 'conditions to be then
14ti.f\ Titr. rAntsit or LLANFATR.
E Hundred and Fifty OAK TREES,
grOWill,7 in Cefngole Coppice, numbered from 1
starit
?•--94
vaat, , OAK TREES, growing in Cefngole Coppice
44 t 3.....,Z10ered from 151 to 244. .
11bered .Iz, OAK TREES, growing in Cefngole Farm,
titt•ot t ',TM 245 to 371.
4411)„--ou ASH TRF FS ;rowing on the said Cefngole
Ls'4;.ereprr}ie,re(l from I4to' 3'ol and SYCAMORE TREES,
red1y`5,.....11
1,, ()A1( TREES rowing on Hirws Issa Farm,
6 'r°Tri 1 t °
o 152.
Lnobeteco"B OAK TREES, growing in Hengae Coppice,
t, 1 to 238
tc,',l'e'---t`A OAK TREES, growing in the said Hengae
tcrol B'....pbered from 491 to 940.
t4'te ASH TREES, growing in the said Hengae
Lbe4unabereil from 1 to 29; and 3 SYCAMORE TREES,
fr°,ll 1 to 8.
t,11,,e1;i1f1,7 OAK TREES, growing on MelinygrAg Farm,
Lice tilLfoln to 147.
0111 11'12 OAK TREES, growing in Llwynybrain Cop-
numbered from 148 to 259.
LoTee TREES, growing in the said Llwynybrain
trt inngle, numbered from 1 to 65.
1,,!4;149 ASH TREES, growing on Cennant
tl3 'numbered from 66 to 114.
.4rita32...SYCA.SIORE TREES, growing on the said
F17.,,114.1'" nlelitfygrfta• Farms, numbered from 1 t 0.22.
-411 SYCAMORE TREES, growing on Melinygrtig
htnernb
&At, 15 ,red 'from 23 to 48.
Ith.s.'4 OAK TREES, growing on Gellygethin and
Farms, numbered from 1 to 15h ktitiOtuje Tiroher is of superior quality, and of
large
1% 411 d the Oak well adapted
shireldg Jewls.
ets,,,,,,lsiles from the Montgomery Canal
enat.A.
failttlXt,t,7 Miles from the shipping pott of D 1 For
kiPerllat..V'Y, of Melin ++,.. will show the Timber.
v,,ycoi„,, oculars app'yYtgor-STr. JosEPIR 'OWEN JONES, of
Cem I-
• or to Mr. EVAN OWEN, Timber
nearKaY Inn, eS

ESTER
As,,, ESTER AND LONDON LIFE
ASSURANCE AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
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,7. KING-STREET. MANCHESTER;
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L7ark; 04ND.ISH•ROW, RITTLAND,SQUA PUBLIN,
ht7an% o.:Alrvivorship Risks of eVery description.
tie:2l4l,L,.equitable terms. Life Assurance being contempo
effected, on approved personal or any other sutfi-
td salty *
•Dtt OV* •
t'llll naeiliS forchildren on ron-returnable or returnable
stattlitn. -
Fo. Dui_
Y On Policies paid by this Association.
et'e'LJcy o,ornSo percent., divided every five years amongst
ANryary,a4ancegetisttlered to proti
CHARLES HENRY MINCHIN.
a" Secretary. London— WM. JAS. STRICKLAND.

tqA
k(), hi,-srnLISIIED ISI6.—WILDLNG'S REAL
to.ter4;;;sANl (IF ANISEED, for Coughs, Colds, Asthma,
hati"te 4„t, &C.—This Balsam affords almost instant relief
(Itierino. rom the abov-natned causes. Coughs,
ases'afttendant upon the Lungs, when of long
~infilt„ire(,line very inveterate and dcult to cure, aytds
terminate in consumption. I.n cases of_tni
%re' e q,?,arri should be resorted to immediately, and re-
pp et until 'its effect in removing the Cough is
ktePat'ta Sold in 'Bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. eacp.
titre' only by W. WILDING, Chemist, &c.,
t, LiverpoA and Derby-road, Bootle.

14411.1 NM WATER CLO.SETS.--
thiek4l:f ),the Nobility, Ship Owners, Ship Bi."lcfers'et.rel
is Patent Marine Water Closet, obviating_
oy
n'lriir4rto offensive effluvia so repeatedly complained
f.
Irtro-,lPerll3end almost impossible to get out of order with
Lag,boardnvb for Yacht.s, or Cabin Actom-
Lag, th. " Sel-going Ships, being fitted up above •or
k
T'inifirWater-level, and entirely preventing all annoyance
pl
t-91, from T.l ittledale, Esq., late Mayor of 'Liver-
,4ltll,`,„'ellt .1• Capt.4Parsons, African Mail Steam-Ship.
'l'lo2ll‘'.,aPt: Dixon,(' isle Tian S team-Packet Manx Fairy,
41anufactory, Morpeth-dock Quay, Birkenhead.
PLUMBING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

l'-TATG A LETTER WITH A MONEY
' 0121)ER, AND FORGERY.

-.,
4.1.57kG liVrA,
Nat: middle
LK z i/. , a ! g man err:Tier-
pecastabalaehi-loop
bkroinker in Cannirg
ItqQns • t•ili•c:g'eed describedathe Police Courtryfstettyß6 witho
'cli lis !•', letter, containing a bank
`Parker
for
714 f
e,,s' 10d., intended for Messrs.
al ris=roliants in Chester. .a
sVent
ferremanEdetsnikaught:
and by another accident the
lese"44tilsliire, and was accidentallyi‘'a made payable to
CoNtei,vvtdker and Wright,
addressed Messrs. Walker and
~ ir enclosing it was
in support of the
Pr';%)e4..9rPool. Mr. Banning
4% ''''n, and the prisonerhw. s aexu
appeared ' -'---nded by Mr. Owen.
Royal Oak Inn, -:at Beck-
si_ilaji ts ey, proprietor of t.°
'4, t,'h'talfordshire, deposed that, about the end of Jan.
of £ll 18s. 10d., in
ttni,„e, seat a bank-order for the sum
wine."-Th'L of a debt he owed to Messrs, Walker and Knight,
trjla:l--el'el'ults in Chester ; it was accompauig by a note
t1,11Q4.13N. the Object to which the money as to be ap-
ikiZ aCevlit„tilis being his first transaction wit was to be ap-
&eserjbed them as Messrs. Widker and
\eeing his first transaction withhouse,
ilk r and
'ight --''Y u-es - '1) d them as Messrs. W e
t,,,,tainitar,e, by a i.i. e
mistake, addressed the envelope.
t°l! N. egt 1,1-le IV I iliOlim, 11. Messrs. Walker nn(POo., Live.r- I
Dance ‘teeir: --' toacknowledgment of this remit;
~
beam-Rg ii any
eorr 'et in about a week wrote . to ascertain why i
the letter was
eetell ack .4d ed This time _ r
vv.., ene,,, no Ae g •
harcer, taii, and it produced a visit from Mr. Hen y
tiu last
-beo 'nester, who explained
that the -remittance
b,„; ivist p,,, ri received. He heard no more of the matter
the
`,.",50ne,.-- turday, when he came to Liverpool and saw
I,_ .-'4 a I.);,,4CIIStO(iy. On being shown an envelope, a letter
he
'441, sen-i.":1%--o,rder, he identified them all as those which
-41 Xi,' itctue first instance, intended for Messrs. Walker
IN. -ighf
;
land: Christie, l • Liverpool—On the 31st of
letter-carrier.
4hi •'' delivered business, letter in question Landes
4-44,8 Place ,of in Canning-Place, it was
Nike,„bsed to Messrs Walker and Co., asked if it was for
oit;'er, who.said he could not tell unless he read it ; on
t, i‘'' l'',/ieh be said it was all right, and witness left the
~,4- %%him. This witness also identified the envelope.
karats. 'Lein"; Walker, of Walker and Knight, wine mer-
e`, Ch • expected a remittance from Mr.
hty +,,, ester, said he
'le ),',„..._."" the amount of £ll 16s. 10d., but did not get it.
a 1 ' 'Wive," C.• hat gentleman, intimating that
ailk hader -om t
toy .11 orderbeen sent for the money, and requesting
d. He never
l'ectiocri° whVitivad not been acknowledge
0,4'1 the order • nor had he received it yet.
I,‘._' r.gternas-GoOdy ar, cashier at Messrs. Earned and
lr-,111-Q-"il--K, in L -ae t t stated that, on the 2nd <of
reh, -ry th - Lord-street, -8 ree_.! .
~, .„,ticprisoner appa_ ..... IPA illy the money. Witness
s`lere eu that-it was singular the prixoner should apply
th District
k for the money as if ed it e _ _
lila l'R' 4°-r.tliarge %von' 1(1, bemade fort it, while they would
W he ew.a:;_lisoner•replied, that he preferred coming there,.
\ 411:6 - 'town -Witness then asked if the indorsation
Vrik• h4Writing, •and If he was of the firm of Walker .and
"Irtia.-' both whichquestions he answered in the
1t,,0 ative. _ of
neWitness had previously
4:111 the fie got-the o respectable.-
thoin
.Trisoner-to be
lie Post-office, remembered
the 'ette;sos, inspector at t
+ office, which passed into
deli Private tilling to - the post-office,
and Parker, and was
lett:el•eci to I of Messrs. Walker
d it, they returned the
Ras r With them. Having opened
iv %eh 'au intimation that it was
, 43P, to sent round by the letter-carriers,
in the usual
ikiso - .c't an f it • and Christie too i
the
4td
.1.,
who ONVIII; or. ,
ed it .as for Walker and Wright,
Itinsrttlow. r
110 ' understood 'he said it was for him.
I.lle Th,-- etor f the detective force, apprehe
n
ded
`4atir',:soner Ones 'urodav night, and, on telling i the
-ct the b t - •d-h was sorry for it.
151, r, 43 e•Arge, he sin e.
-4. ed to ,wen, for the defence, said Mr. Walker had been
whom he
4,11.8, easiness
with a Mr. Wright, for
'l-0 1-_-'ted business ears ; and a debt of about
ht, t,•-•eirt due
mall y
named Key, whose residence,
e,,q4e Moment La traveoterknow the. prisoner naturally
tleLtild,el the' order was did n
for him,' in payment of that
Tileltn. Used it accordingly. Prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes.
r.,,
--Nr ON BOARD A LIVERPOOL
1' SHIP.
1r , -----11-----
respectively Thos.
ai AIDA. thirteen named .
Act,
x rteen seamen,
A (1, ant George Weeks, John Henley,
Michael Fitzge-
-.11 s•ia Oh •to h George Curtis, Edward Crewe,
Jane gitstos Murray, ris er James
Thomas, John Cerra l, 1 James
f re
e', a lit King, John Hayes, were brought be 9.r. 4 . q ing, and
In lith,' ,4314e.11.1, the stipendiary magistrate, . charged with
of the ship
:,4-,,,,-'34134 extorting money from the captain . ,
Vle -urn4,.on her p - from New Orleans to laverP°°t.
'l)iii-a•iiseetttin was conducted by Mr. Owen, and 01-r.
111 -.. aPPeared on behalf of the prisoners-
shii,,stating 'the case m Owen said the prisoners were
411Z(1 at New- Orleans,r• and had signed the ship's
tt,., tw;32-greeing for the voyage to Liverpool at therat
~`4Ol h.,"„`'Y dollars per month ; receiving sixteen doll
'II the- 4tivance The ship- was cleared at New Orleans
the
llth 6th of i d arrived in Liverpool on
1,.. of -,„. anuary, an
iin,„ march of -the present year. Shortly after
,Tll.ll,r„„.wle Port:th rew became troublesome, and in A
misahiL-78torm and "lent s nall the ship was partially
(ittelie‘m, losinc, Some of hercispars and sails. In cons?'
klehoe of thise'disaster, she had to Put into Apalachieoeia_
1.,,4 ttifhl,g, e, being unable to het over the bar from want t.
-441 elit depth ofwater. 6ln this predicament the eaP
eo_
qiati ,
landfor
e of superintending the
teat reotVn.ofthe the purpose of superintenthug the
th of the necessary pars
leaving the vessel in
,aPtkie„c't the mate neiSesnstah7l3th 'of January, wthhilemate
'll clft.- was absent .th p • oners refused t° °beYerequisite
titi of the decks,e -'s
performing the other
to tiei: of the shi
theype received an advance of paymate
*rot- exert of p, unless
dollarseach er mouth..
Thbesordi-
laa._ e to til
captain lifteen_n
rumP with this ex
k4,4' le-ia.ian.vii: acramti g
1‘„ elng and received an answer from the captain,.
to comply
, ith tb . demands
the circumstances of the case,
1 'etheZe ueniands of the, men. This was communicated
/ 4141 '''
andshortly ' the captain came on board,ut
" t tlesired afterwards
r f,, the „to Proceed with the necessary repairs ;
-nia vnsoners ;refused to do, except under a
stet er ad._ e aga.n
iii-t?ohed L4v!-, eof wages. There' was no B tish consul
toll;
ielitche ..'" ‘ne place, and, yielding .to the urgent neces-
0. captain a in complied with their demands,
ke t 'ern-, how vgaday of reckoning would
adtfer the ever, er, that a
they demanded an.
w,_ iota 4.___
.in this last instance
thus forcing their
tbzfe tip twenty dollars a month,
each.lnt 'Fart of
4t Monti ticixty-five dollars a month
i.,.,• Apo_ Y.aptain was „ Delled to advance to them
--ght aehicol; aft • ra-
got matters so far
re,..„ as to _ r er which, they
t„1.7. tive_P Proceed on the voyage,and, ultimately, to
13174 ias4r ''
. 'but, on the way, they
behaved with
Plab,Lttrrivio 4e•-, and displayed much insubordination.acora.
cs.Z,. to tL 111_ port, the catain madtlken into
,zt.. ~, authorities, and they were
he called
.' tamy piAlibuPPort of the statement, ,
.......,e by
ela 3 the hi'p'swho he averments
proved all t .
~,,, ;,„""-which
lob book wag also Pr°61144-'7 ..*

were details of the various circumstances and acts of in-
subordination and terms of exaction. The captain also
proved that each of the prisoners was indebted to the
ship about sixty dollars.
The mate was also called, and he corroborated the tes-
timony of the captain ; and also verified the correctness of
the entries in the log-book-
Both the captain and the mate were subjected to long
cross-examination by Mr. Aspinall, in which he elicited
that tlit captain was of an irascible temper when thwarted ;
but an attempt to establish that he was of dissipated
habits entirely failed, as did also an endeavour to fix a
charge of general harshness against him.
Mr. Aspinall, for the defence, remarked on the excess
of caution which he said was evinced on the part of the
prosecution, in including all the prisoners in the charge,
which prevented him from obtainmg the evidence of even
a single one in justification of the men, who, he contended,
were ill-used, and insufficiently:provisioned on the voyage.
His Honour, in conclusion, animadverted, in severe
terms, on the altogether indefensible line of conduct
pursued by the prisoners, who engaged, in a foreign port,
to bring the ship home ; and on the faith of which en-
gagement the captain had proceeded to sea. While there,
and taking advantage of a disaster, they extorted money
from him under circumstances in which he had no alter-
native but to comply with their demands. In doing so,
no doubt the captain had exercised a wise discretion, but
the conduct of the prisoners could not be looked on as
better than that of parties who put their hands in other
men's pockets and took out their money. The owners
had been put to great loss in the case, and the conduct of
the prisoners was without any justification. The Act of
Parliament awarded in such cases, as an extreme penalty,
the punishment of twelve weeks' imprisonment with hard
labour, and he could not in this case see any circumstances
calling for a mitigation of that extreme punishment ; he
therefore sentenced each of them to be imprisoned for
twelve weeks, with hard labour.

tiberpool

tanbat

'UE SDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1854.

" SWEET are the uses of adversity," said old
WILL SIIIIISPERE; and it may be fortunate for
us if the war, which now seems inevitable, should
afford us at least the advantage of testing modern
theories of financial policy, which have, as yet, had
simply to encounter sunshine and fair weather.
When the late Sir ROBERT PEEL was called in to
prescribe for the monetary prostration to which
the country had been reduced by Whig imbecility,
he resorted to the Income-tax as the most avail-
able resource in an emergency ; but palliated the
enormity of a war-tax being levied in time of peace
by TCstrieting its duration to a short term of years.
The necessity was admitted, and, in the full hope
that in a few years it would no longer exist, the
tax was granted, and served effectually to restore
the exhauSted exchequer. Upon no other consi-
deration .but the stern necesSit-y• of the case, and
upon no ether conditions than its temporary dura-
tion, could the imposition of such a tax have been
justified; but both these were elements of the
question, and opposition was Unarmed. The use
that has been made of this confidence in minis-
terial honesty should be a lesson to the country..
The'-receipt of such a fruitfil source of revenue was
made the means of tampering with the whole
system of financial policy, as based upon indirect
`taxation; it was the treacherous preparation for the
subsequent adoption of the Free-trade theory; and
;as, one by one, the sources of national income were
Alinainished in order to ecarry out the experiment,
'the Income-tax was rendered permanent, uponthe
same necessitous plea-which had induced the 'first
consent to it. The evil consequences of this course
are now beginning's be apparent, and, should the
war continue any length of time, not only Will they
be more prominent, but the necessity must arise
for ministers to retrace their steps. If, instead of
paltry reductions on sugar, tea, and other articles
of foreign production, the increase in the-revenue
from the revival Of 'trade had been applied to the
extinction of the Income-tax, a fruitful source of
income might :now have been available for the
expenses of this unforeseen and unprovided-for war.
It would have' been readily granted, 'because the
necessity would have been admitted ; but having
been forestalled, the only alternative is its increase
to an oppressive extent, or a reversal of that vaunted
system of commercial policy which Sir ROBERT
PEEL sacrificed himself and his party and sold the
country to promote. This was the difficulty with
which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had to
contenid, when last week he made his financial
statement, and found no other resource than to
double the Income-tax. It is true that he con-
fined his proposal to the modest limit ofkx months,
but this was merely an imitation of the false
pretence under which it was first levied. It was a
mere tinkering expedient, characteristic of the
Coalition Cabinet, the double-dealing of-the Peelites,
and the shuffling trickery of the Whig-Radicals.
If the charge for the war should happily be con-
fined to the cost of fitting out the expedition which
has already left our shores, it is possible that the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may get over the
financial year without making any further demand.
But does any intelligent Englishman seriously
expect that a collision with the gigantic :Empire of
Russia will 'be so easily settled ? We may, there-
fore, anticipate not only a double Income Tax for
the next half-year, but the prospect of a-still fur-
ther augmentation, with hardly the hope, of relief
unless, indeed, the Hofise of Commons Should as-
sert its independence of Ministerial dictation, and
• return to the old paths which have been so :wilfully
and recklessly forsaken. Mr. GLADSTONE, 'in his
fessed his great reluctance
'introductory speech, pro
-to reimpose duties. which had been so recently re-
mitted, and to abandon that newly-adopted -system
of policy which he and his party had spent ,their
previous lives :iu opposing. It was a mockery of
political principle, of which none but a PEEWIT
-could be guilty. He had far better have assumed
a show of honesty to which he has so long
been a
stranger, confessed his financial errors, which .are
of•the-gravest character, and, placing the difficulty
fairly before the Rouse, have manfully proposed to
recur to the legitimate sources of revenue derived
from -the Customs' duties. It is true that pr
sions have lately been At much higher prices than
were promised by the advocates of Free Trade ;
but if the burden of additional taxation should be
borne equally, there is no reason why the duty on
the importation of foreign wheat should not be
raised from one shilling to five shillings per quar-
ter. Such an increase would make no appreciable
difference in the price to consumers, while it might
sensibly augment the national income. It is a popu-
lar argument with many persons, that duties for the
purpose of revenue should be levied on articles of
luxury rather than on the common necessaries of
life. The fallacy of this reasoning must be evident on
reflection, and a striking instance of it was afforded
when the great WILLIAM PITT levied a tax on the
wearing of hair-powder, erroneously supposing
that a fashion, which was then so general, would
of necessity continue, and prove highly productive
to the treasury. A tax to be really productive
be imposed on an article which is not only in
must
general consumption, but which the people cannot
nor find a ready substitute for.
easily dispense with,
If war be inevitable,—and none can deny that it is
entered upon with popular feeling in its favour,—
then it is absolutely necessary that the public
should be fully aware of th Tendersih it entails,
and the sacrifices which it ndispensable,
All have, in some degree, an equality of interest,
and all are entitled to bear, in fair proportion, a
share of the pecuniary burden entailed upon the

country.
The proposition, however, for increasing the
Income-tax, is not only unjust, inasmuch as the
burden of the war is confined to a class of the
population already taxed beyond all others, upon
the pretence of their greater ability to contribute ;
but, emanating as it does from the present Minis-
try, it is open to the gravest charge of political
perfidy. These men, who prate as glibly of honour
and honesty as if they possessed a spark of either,
have the daring effrontery to propose a Reform
Bill, which they would virtually disfranchise

every man of property throughout' the country,
and throw the whole representation into the hands
of the humbler classes ; and then, almost with the
next breath, the House of Commons is asked to
tax the very persons who are to be deprived of
their influence in choosing the representatives.
If taxation and representation are to be co-equal,
and the possession of property be made the basis
of taxation, then it ought also to be made the
basis of representation, and a man be qualified with
votes according to the amount of property for
which he pays. But to endow a man with the
franchise for the paltry considerations which form
the groundwork of Lord Jonsr RUSSELL'S. Bill,
and then to throw all the burden of the war upon
the minority, is not only a direct blow at the whole
fabric of the constitution, but a deliberate act of
political iniquity. It is, indeed, the first step to a
system of Socialism, by the virtual confiscation of
property to gratify a numerical majority. We do
not attempt to dispute the position that property
has its duties as well as its rights, and that those
who possess the means should contribute to the
necessities of the State ; but by any system of
direct taxation the line of distinction is necessarily
unequal, and therefore unjust in its operation. By
no process of reasoning can it be shown that a man
with an income of £lOO should pay £2 ls. Bd. a
year, while he who has only i'99 19s. should pay
nothing ; and yet such is, and must be, the effect
of any system of direct taxation. On the other
hand, there are thousands of men earning weekly
wages who are exempt from this tax, and yet are
far better able to contribute to the revenue than
the man of £lOO or £l5O a year, who, to obtain it,
must keep up a respectable exterior, and has a
wife and family to maintain. The cry of the Pree-
traders has been for direct taxation, because it ab
solves the labouring classes, who spend more in
luxuries than the class immediately above them ;
while Lord aOHN RUSSELL, by his proposed ex-
tension of the franchise, would assist to perpetuate
the injustice, and even to make it more galling.
The Income-tax has been endured because it was
deemed 'to be an inevitable necessity, but the
attempt 'to increase it ought to be resisted, and
the Ministers be compelled to raise the required
addition to the revenue from those duties the re-
duction of which has proved beneficial to no one.
The financial difficulty which has caused this
demand for an increase of `the income Tax has not
only been considerably •aggravated, but actually
created, by the complicated experiments in finance
with which Mr. GLIDSTOgE commenced his career
us a Chancellor of the Exchequer. His pet scheme
for the conversion of Stocks, which was to make a
vermanent saving in the National Debt, has resulted
in severe loss to the few who were deluded by
ministerial statements -into an acceptance of the
new Stocks, and in the absorption of the balances
in the Exchequer 'to 'pay off the discontented, by
which above six millions have been needlessly paid
away, which mightlave been devoted 'to the first
exigencies caused by fitting out the expedition.
All this advantage has been needlessly frittered
away, because Mr. GLADSTONE has an intuitive
genius, which, having blossomed in.the parterre of
Conservative principle, has been matured in the
hotbed of rank Radicalism. It is true that, when
the conversion was proposed, war was not then
anticipated; but whether we had now been in
state of peace or war, the utter inutility of the
project, and its loss to the country, would have
been equally apparent. We may, however,' indulge
the hope that'the Coalition is on the point of disso-
lution, and we hail the prospect the more willingly
from the confliction t)iat the condition in which
the country is at present requires that the helm
of state should be in the hands of men possessing
more ability and more honesty than the present
Ministry.

MAT the prerogative of mercy is the highest
jewel in the -Crown, few who have any Christian
obligation will be inclined to dispute, but mercy
when ill directed is often bitter injustice. -Witen
the Marquis of NORMINBY was Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, his policy was that of a general gaol
delivery. He- opened the prison doors to the worst
offenders, because their offence was rebellion to the
Government, and the consequence was monster
meetings, mid-day murders, and a general insur-
rection requiring a strong military force forits
suppression. The chief offender, DANIEL O'CON-
3TELL, saved himself by a flight 'to the continent ;
but his less cunning, though more-honest coadjutor,
SMITH O'BRIEN, with Quixotic chivalry, backed
his words by deeds, and ignominiously terminated
his rebellion in a cabbage garden. His position
would have been too contemptible for serious anger,
but human life was at stake, and however inade-
quate the means, the animus to overthrow the
Government and involve a kingdom in bloodshed
and desolation was equally the same. For the
single crime of murder he would have expiated his
offence on the scaffold ; but as wholesile swindling
i leads to the Bankruptcy Court, and a small theft
to the felon's gaol, ,so in the eyes of Whiggery
rebellion demands only a milder punishment ; and
SMITH O'BRIEN, taken in flagrante delicto, with
arms in his hands, wasiet off with transportation.
This, however,was not sufficiently mild for Whig no-
tions, and he has received the Royal pardon,upon the
absurd plea that his companions in iniquitf have
fled from justice to the congenial soil of America.
Had he simply committed forgery, or, driven by
distress, had sought relief onthe highway, he must
;have served the full term of his sentence; but
treason is in Whig eyes so little removed from their
own policy, that the traitor is an olEgect of sympathy,
and excuse is, therefore, easily found for an Irish
gentleman and a Member of Parliament, which
would be pleaded in vain for the wretch who sinned
through ignorance and was tempted by want. This
act of ill-judged clemency was not, -however, to
stand alone, and the Newport rioters, who escaped
the gallows through the clumsiness of a Whig
Attorney-General, and two more of the Irish
patriots are included in another amnesty to suffer.-
ing rebels. This exercise of the prerogative of
mercy should not, however, stop here, for it will
be gross injustice if it be not extended to all who
were transported previously, and are still lingering
in our penal colonies, inasmuch as, whatever were
their offences, they were of less moral turpitude
than those for which these pardoned felons were
first allowed to escape the gallows, and now the
milder punishment.

tributions in aid of suffering humanity, which were known
to be frequent and large, were distributed with that unos-
tentatious liberality, that instinctive delicacy, which is
at all times characteristic of a good and generous disposi-
tion. Of him, in reference to such deeds of kindness,
such missions of mercy, it might truly be said that his
right hand knew not what his left hand did.
From early youth associated with Liverpool, and by the
prestige of his family name connected with the germina-
tion and growth of its commercial prosperity and municipal
importance, the late Mr. MommEux:was deeply and affec-
tionately interested in the welfare and progress of this his
native town ; and the growing development of its public in-
stitutions found in him a gratified assistant and a powerful
friend. Eminently disinterested in his acts and aspirations,
his public services had but one object in view—the general
good,— and that he laboured zealously, to secure and
enhance, while he was not less careful of the public honour;
thus he was at all times tenacious of his personal reputa-
tion. In conferring on such a man municipal rank, as a
reward for valued services, the community evinced its
gratitude in a manner which reflected honour on itself, in
a degree as obvious and creditable as it lent dignity to
the recipient. The personal worth, the urbanity, and the
integrity of Mr. MoLyNEux secured for him the warm
and lasting regards of an extensive circle of personal
friends. His attachments were as sincere as his manners
were blameless and inoffensive.

Deeply attached to the cause of constitutional govern-
ment, and warmly espousing the advocacy of those mea-
sures, through the administration of which this country
has attained so high a degree of prosperity—so honourable
a position among the nations of the earth,—Mr. MOLY-
NEtt, at an early period of his life, enrolled himself among
the ranks of the Liverpool Conservatives, and was by them
justly esteemed for the consistency and ardour of his
patriotism ; while his conciliatory spirit rendered him a
favourite with even his political ispponents. The union of
these qualities, added to his great and deserved personal
influence, pointed him out asthe local leader under whose
guidance the Conservative party could sustain an honour-
able and uncompromising, though not vindictive, warfare
against those aggressive principles of democratic innovation
which threaten the subversion of our dearest and most
valuable ingtitntions. In this belief he was selected as
chairman of the Liverpool Constitutional Association, an
office which, since the Association was instituted, he has
held ; and 'the dnties,of which he has discharged in such a
manner as to give vonfidence and courage to his friends,
without affording the slightest pretence for arcerbity of
feeling among those to whom he was opposed. Sincere in
his own honest convictions, and hononraltle in their mani-
festation, his .magnanimity enabled him to exercise a
liberality of sentiment in estimating the proceedings of
his opponents. Of such a man, and-so worthy a citizen,
let all join, asull can join, heartily in saying,
BEQUIESCAT IN PACS.

BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL.