The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

EXPERIMENTAL OPENING OF THE CHESTER AND BIR-
KENHEAD RAILWAY—We had prepared an account of the
trial trips which took place on this line on Thursday and
Saturday last, but are compelled to postpone it in conse-
quence of the length of the report of the interesting pro-
ceedings at the Amphitheatre last night.

elit Etbrrpoot &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1840

On Wednesday evening last the Papist Alderman
Sheil presided over the annual meeting of the Liver-
pool Tradesmen's Reform Association. The report of
the Mercury states that he was called to the chair with
acclamation. We find in this circumstance, trifling as
it is in itself, a fresh evidence of the strong compact
which exists between the liberals and the Papists. The
nondescript association to which we allude is chiefly
composed of political Dissenttrs, Socialists, Infidels,
and Papists, together with a sprinkling of renegade
churchmen. What the feelings of the latter must have
been when Mr. Sheil was called to the chair we cannot
divine. All we can say is, that they richly deserved
the deliberate insult offered to their church by such a
proceeding.
After Alderman Sheil had been duly installed in the
chair, he proceeded, in his usual magniloquent style,
to deliver himself of the absurdities which he had
conned for the occasion. Among these absurdities one
of the most laughable was the assertion that the whig.
radical faction " professed principles which tended to
promote and extend the interests of the great mass of
the community to the exclusion of none." The whole
career of the whig party, since their accession to office,
has afforded a beautiful and instructive commentary on
this boast. Whose interests have these hypocrites
promoted ? They have certainly taken care of . their
own ; but we venture to say that there is no great class
in the community, agricultural, commercial, or manu-
facturing, whose interests they have not basely and
scandalously sacrificed.

After Mr. Sheil had sufficiently amused the meeting
by his rant and fustian, Mr. Councillor Gravestone
Bolton got up to express a hope that the electors of
Lime-street Ward would again return Mr. Blackburn
as their representative to the Town Council. Of Mr.
Blackburn personally we have at present no wish to
say anything, labouring as he is under a domestic ca-
lamity which has naturally called forth the universal
sympathy of all parties : but this we feel confident of—
that a staunch conservative will be chosen at the next
municipal election, to represent the ward in question.
" John Rosson, Esq.," the Popish barrister, (how
prominent these Papists are at all the reform gather-
ings !) next addressed the meeting. This gentleman
'indulged in his usual style of abuse towards the Pro-
testant clergy of the town, and insinuated that the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile uttered an untruth when he said
that " the Saviour came to spread, not peace, but war
upon the earth !" If Mr. Rosson had as much know-
ledge of Scripture as an ordinary charity school boy,
he would have known that the language which he de-
signated as "an abominable tirade" proceeded out of
the lips of the Divine Redeemer. His allusion to the
late trial of Hearne v. Stowell was equally unfortunate.
He charged our contemporary the Courier (who will,
no doubt, answer for himself) with " uttering a string
of the most detestable libels that any Christian—he
might almost say any anti-Christian had ever uttered
against his fellow-man." In one sense the comments
of the 'Courier were certainly libellous—they were dis-
agreeable and damning truths, calculated to bring the
character of the Romish priesthood into merited dis-
repute. The more generally such unpalatable truths
are brought before the public the better. The de-
grading practises of Popery cannot be too frequently
or too forcibly exposed.
The next important proceeding at the congress of
the Liverpool loco focos was, the election of a presit
dent for the ensuing year. This important trust has
been delegated to Mr. James Brancker, whose chief
qualification for the office is, that he has bled freely on
many former occasions.

We do not know what to think of the declaration of
Mr. Rathbone that he had " grown both blind and
gray in the service of the reformers." We can better
understand his boast that he did not belong to the
aristocracy of the reform party, as " his father was a
man that worked in his own sawpit." Mr. Rathbone
has no ambition to be thought one of the elite of his
party : he is simply content with the distinction of
being top-sawyer among them.

If there had been any previous doubt on the subject
of the recent accessions to the registry for this borough,
Mr. Rathbone has completely removed it, by declaring►
most unequivocally that the " aristocratic" reformers
had done their duty by " coming forward to assist
those who could not pay their taxes." We now know
positively whom to thank for the future additions which
will be made to the burden of our local taxation.
However, the game which the reformers have been
playing through the agency of the Protector Associa-
tion has only served to stimulate the Conservatives to
increased zeal and more strenuous exertions, the effect
of which has been signally successful. Mr. Rathbone
acknowledges that the Conservatives have " stolen a
march" upon the reformers " which it would require

their greatest discretion and their greatest energy to
counteract." After all, it is not unlikely that the
money expended upon this Protector Society has been
so much money thrown away. Sir Joshua is not one
whit nearer the object of his ambition than he was
twelve months ago.
Mr. Rathbone's furious charge against the parish
officers, like other charges in which the Radicals are
so prone to indulge, is entirely groundless. His threat-
ened vengeance will turn out to be nothing more than
the angry ebullition of a weak-minded and disap-
pointed man. Mr. Rathhone will have no chance at
the next municipal election. His seat for Pitt-street
ward is in imminent danger. Hinc We lachrynue !
Hence his grievous lamentations over the state of the
registration lists.

We perfectly agree with Mr. Rathbone that we are
" upon the eve of one of the most important struggles
in which this town was ever engaged—a struggle not
merely affecting our municipal relations, but the Par-
liaMentary election also." This language is but an
echo of what we have insisted upon for many weeks
past. Upon the issue of the approaching municipal
election will most materially depend the-result of the
next parliamentary struggle. Let our conservative
friends bear this important fact in mind, and let it
operate as a fresh stimulus to their zeal and activity.
Mr. Sawpit Rathbone's sneers at Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell are only calculated to provoke our
mirth. It is truly laughable to witness an individual
of such very small pretensions as Mr. Rathbone ven-
turing to criticise the abilities of such a man as Mr.
Cresswell.

It would he a matter of surprise, indeed, if a reform
gathering were to pass over without afibrding an op-
portunity for the Mayor's " man Friday" to make a fool
of himself. This he did on Wednesday last, when he
said that "mushroom voters had been created with a
rapidity unparalleled in the history of party," within
the last few weeks ! We thank thee, Jew, for teaching
us that word " mushroom,"' as applicable to the rabble
put on the register by the protector Society. We join
with Mr. Atkinson in the hope that these "funguses
(query fungi?) may be cut do,vn in the registration
courts." We trust that measures are in progress
which will afford ample gratification on this score to
the ex-secretary of the Reform Association. Nothing
could better please us than to see so patriotic a wish
carried into execution.

After Mr. Tinpot Atkinson had blustered his short
and fretful hour on the platform, we are informed by
the report of the Mercury that there were " loud calls
for Mr. Spence," which Mr. Spence responded to by
declaring that he had " renounced and relinquished
everything appertaining to political interference"—that
" his political career was closed"—and that he had
" come to the determination of abandoning everything
connected with politics." We know nothing about
Mr. Spence's motives for taking a step which occa-
sioned so much surprise in the meeting; but we pre-
sume that his secession from the ranks of his reform-
ing friends was occasioned by sheer disgust at their
outrageous proceedings. We know that this feeling
has led hundreds to desert the banner of reform—
stained, begrimed, and disfigured as tharbanner has
been by the most profligate bribery and corruption.
We hope that they will soon enrol themselves under
the standard—the pure and spotless standard, of Con-
servatism.

We cannot conclude these cursory remarks without
observing, that the Radicals seem now to be heartily
ashamed of their reckless tampering with the registry,
and that they have now no resource left to cover their
disgrace than that of abusing the Tories for out-ma-
nceuvering them. We are not sorry to see them writh-
ing under the agonies of disappointment and vexation.
They have brought their troubles on their own heads.

The Morning Herald of yesterday furnishes us with
an authentic copy of the Quadruple Treaty of the 15th
of July, and of the additional articles connected with
that convention. We are sorry that we cannot find
room for the whole of these important documents.
The following is a summary of their contents :
The first article of the convention states that, in con-
sequence of the agreement of the Sultan with the four
powers of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
on the conditions of the arrangement with reference
to Mehemet Ali, the four contracting powers "engage
themselves to act with perfect accord, and to unite
their efforts to determine Mehemet Ali to conform to
this arrangement, each of the high contracting parties
reserving to itself to co-operate to this end with the
means of action which each of them can dispose of."

The second article stipulates that in case of the re-
fusal of the Pacha of Egypt to adhere to the said ar-
rangement, the four powers engage to take, at the re-
quisition of the Sultan, the measures concerted and
agreed on by them, for the end of putting the arrange-
ment into execution. In the meantime the Sultan having
invited his allies "to join him to assist in interrupting
the communication by sea between Egypt and Syria,
and to prevent the expedition of troops, horses, arms,
&c.," from one part of these provinces to another, the
allied powers pledge themselves to give immediately to
this effect the necessary orders to the commanders of
the naval forces in the Mediterranean.
The third article stipulates that if Mehemet Ali, after
such refusal, should direct his forces either by land or
sea towards Constantinople, the high contracting parties,
on the requisition of the Sultan, " agree to answer the
invitation of that Sovereign, and to provide for the
defence of his throne, by means of a co-operation con-
certed in common, for the purpose of putting the two
straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, as well as
the capital of the Ottoman Empire, secure against all
aggression." The forces requisite for this purpose are
to remain at the disposal of the Sultan, as long as their
presence shall be required, after which they are to re-
tire simultaneously, and enter into the Black Sea and
the Mediterranean.

The fourth article states, that the co-operation of the
allied powers shall not be considered but as a measure
"exceptional," adopted "at the express desire of the
Sultan, and solely for his defence." This article then
proceeds to state, that " it is agreed that this measure
will derogate in nothing to the ancient law of the Otto-
man Empire, in virtue of which it has been in all times
prohibited to vessels of war of foreign powers to enter
into the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus ;
and the Sultan, on his part, declares by the present
act, that, with the exception of the eventuality above-
mentioned, he has the firm resolve to maintain, for the
future, the principle invariably established as the ancient
regulation of his empire, and as long as the Porte is at
peace, not to admit any foreign vessel of war into the
straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles." The con-
tracting parties engage to respect this determination of
the Sultan.
An Additional Act annexed to the Convention em-
bodies the conditions of the.arrangement with reference
to Mehemet Ali. According to the first article of this

" His Highness (the Sultan) promises to accord to Me-
hemet Ali. for him and for his descendants in line direct, the
administration of the Pachalic of Egypt; and his Highness
promises, moreover, to accord to Mehemet Ali during his
life, with the title of Pacha of Acre and the command of the
fortress of St. Jean d'Acre, the administration of the southern
part of Syria, of which the limits are designed by the follow-
ing line of demarcation :
" This line drawn from the Cape Ras-el-Nakhora' on the
shores of the Mediterranean, extending from thence directly
to the mouth of the river Seisaban, northern extremity of the
Tiberias, along the western coast of the said lake, following
the right bank of the river Jordan and the western coast of
the Dead Sea, extending from thence in a right line as far as
the Red Sea, and resting on the northern point of the Gulf
d'Akaber, and following the western coast of the Gulf
d'Akaber and the eastern coast of the Gulf of Suez, as far as
Snez."

The article then states that the Sultan attaches to
these offers the condition that Mehemet Ali accepts
them within the space of ten days after they are com-
municated to' him, and that at the same time he de-
posits in the hands of the Sultan's agent the necessary
orders to the commanders of his forces to retire from
Arabia, from Candia, the district of Adana, and all
other parts of the Ottoman empire not comprised in the
limits of Egypt and the pachalic of Acre.
According to the second article of the Additional
Act, if the ten days should pass without the compliance
of Mehemet Ali, the offer of the pachalic of Acre is to
be withdrawn.

The third and fourth articles relate to the payment
of tribute on the part of Mehemet Ali. Toe remaining
articles describe the future relations in which he is to
stand with reference to the Ottoman empire.

We have no space left for an analysis of the remain-
der of these documents. These, with our own com-
ments thereupon, we must defer until Friday.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY

AMONG THE JEWS

The celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Li-
verpool Auxiliary Society for Promoting Christianity among
the Jews commenced on Sunday last, and will terminate to-
morrow evening. On Sunday sermons were preached ap-
propriate to the occasion, and collections made, in St. An-
drew's, by the Rev. W. Pytn, M.A., rector of Welwyn ; in
St. Augustine's, by the Rev. T. S. Grimshaw, M.A., vicar
of Biddenham ; in St. Bride's, by the Rev. H. Raikes, M.A.,
Chancellor of the diocese ; in St. Mark's, by the Rev. D.
James. incumbent of St. Mary's, Kirkdale ; in All Saints',
by the Rev. J. H. Stewart, M.A., incumbent of St. Bride's ;
in St. Luke's, by the Rev. T. Byrth, D.D., F.A.S., rector
of Wallasey ; in St. Simon's, by the Rev. J. Newton Peill,
M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge; in Christ
Church, by the Rev. F. Ould, A. 8., incumbent; in the
Mariners' Church, by the Rev. B. A. Marshall, A. 8., curate
of St. Mark's ; in St. Bride's, by the Rev. T. S. Grimshaw,
M.A. ;in All Saints', by the Rev.-W. Pym, M.A. ;in St.
David's, by the Rev. A. M'Conkey, M.A., minister of All
Saints' ; in St. Jude's, by the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, M.A.,
incumbent; in St. Simon's, by the Rev. J. R. Connor,
M.A., minister; in West Derby Chapel, by the Rev. R.
Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. David's ; at Edge-hill, by
the Rev. W. Pym, M.A. ; at Seaforth, by the Rev. W.
Rawson, M.A., incumbent ; at Prescot, by the Rev. T.
Tattershall, D.D., incumbent of St. Augustine's; and at
Runcorn, by the Rev. H. S. Joseph, chaplain to the Liver-
pool Workhouse.