The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

" Bribery ! Bribery ! Bribery !!!

" It is true, arTd;)i'be proved, that .Z 2.5 has been offered
in favour of Lord Howick. It is equally true that this party
have offered to support Williamsi or Bums as Chartist can-
didates, on any future occasion, f the Chartists will at the
present contest give their votes to Howick. The offer to
bribe charged upun Mr. Attwood's friends, if ever offered,
has been offered by an enemy to injure Mr. Attwood, not by
a friend to serve his cause.”__ _

Lady Williamson, Lady Howick, Mrs. Bell, and others,
have distinguished themselves by their zeal in going about
the town into every hole and corner to canvass for " their
noble friend;" and some very singular and laughable inci-
dents are reported to have uccurred during their visits to
some neighbourhoods not very aristocratic nor respectable.
The influence of the Lambton family has been exercised with
more than usual perseverance, and the hon. baronet aione is
said to have ordered upwards of 200 to vote for the Yellow
candidate. Had Mr. Attwood descended to the use of some
of the means employed by the agents of his opponents there
is little doubt that he would have been in a very different
position. He has this consolation, however, that the votes
recorded in his favour are those of honest and independent
electors. The hourly accounts of the state of the poll put
forth by the committee of the respective candidates were so
contradictory, that it was difficult_to know _positively how
the election was going. It appeared, indeed, that from the
defective arrangements made by both parties at the polling-
booths, eight in number, they themselves seemed ignorant of
the exact state of affairs. _
_ _

The poll having closed at four o'clock, the Yellow com-
mittee published the following numbers:—

CLOSE OF THE POLL

Attwood
Howick
Thus giving a majority to Lord Howick of —247

COURT ANECDOTE.—It has lately been remarked that Sir
I. L. Goldsmid is the first gentleman of the Jewish persua-
sion that was ever made a baronet. Perhaps it is not gene-
rally known that an honour not much inferior had once very
nearly fallen to the lot of an ex-brother Israelite. At one of
those festive meetings at Carlton-house, in which his late
gracious Majesty George IV. sometimes allowed a tew of
his more favoured subjects to participate, Mr. Braham was
introduced to sing his then newly-composed song "A
Goblet of Burgundy," when the gratified monarch, rising
from his chair, was with difficulty restrained from conferring
immediate knighthood on the flattered musician.
The old and highly-respectable banking-house of Messrs.
Hobhouse and Co., at Bath, has stopped payment. The
total amount of the liabilities is not known, but it has been
ascertained that they were creditors of Messrs. Coopers, of
Bradford, for between £45,000 and £50,000. This latter
house, some time since, suspended payment, but has not
appeared in the Gazette, and it is the 'same concern which
materially contributed to the late failure of Messrs. Coils,
Thompson, and Co.
~,,,,. VALUABLE DISCOVERY IN THE WORKING COAL
re t. MINES.—We have been furnished by an e.teemed corre-
tee, and also still spondent with the following interesting account of a recent
1 by the noble lord for discovery, highly valuable to those engaged in mining pur-
Co now wielded the des_ S"its :—There is in Pemberton colliery a pair of wire flat
tie assas,:n. He believed rat,',Pes, the invention of Mr. Smith, of London. It exceeds
tanding v. ith France was IL
0051a5""'Vpation in the practice of winding and raising of
me change of government
and 8 strands from Onehe wires, which are in a lineal direction, (extending
6 tons. The strands
this country, and he also arue'placedaenid of the rope to the other without ever piecing)
alongside each other, 35 of which form a strand,
;anding between France and
webbing. It is as are the rope, which is estimated to carry
to the peace of Europe.
respondent
infoymet.discovered.
saap ; and promises tbotiwoven together with a hempen
Ilford to rest under the laurels
bec and wraps on the block like a
mvinced that their so doing must ~
one of the finest inventions for
!Ss of civilisation and to the wel- working deep mines ever
s the heat of late in Kentucky
s.) With respect to the United Our corrcs
state has been of so intense natureahuigh. that a young lady in
rimed our relations with that
fingersibey lgerlting mood actually
but he could not help hoping consequence becoming in a
liquidating ones
of the community would have slipped through her own
)v eminent of the state of New York. procured. In this season of bankruptceyttrly aid could be
im-
uch might be the result; but at the properly be styled a novel mode of
affairs.

matters pretty much as

ac lord then proceeded to argue for
ion of the corn-laws, which would
venue, but which would also, by

of commerce to all foreign na-
.e the peace of the world. He
being obliged to conclude that
I to reject the measures proposed
e knew they would be supported
Lse in that rejection, and it was
to propose any question which
I,order to take the sense of the
Ni by the right hon. baronet, but
the house he felt it necessary to
responsible to any extent what-

sought to commence his
a party character, but the
to invite any discussion of
him for the opportunity he

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