The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

PUBLIC NOTICE.

WP. GUNNYON, TAILOR, HOSIER, GLOVER, SITIRTMAKER, and
• GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTER,
Begs most respectfully to intimate to his Friends and the Public, that he has OPENED his New and Extensive
Premises,

No. 76, LORD-STREET (Four Doors from Paradise-street),

An entirely NEW and WELL-SELECTED STOCK of FIRST-CLASS GOODS,

Consisting of Superfine West of England
BROAD CLOTHS, BEAVERS, MELTONS, WITNEYS. VENETIANS, BLACK and COLOURED DOESKINS,
CASSINIERES, DEERSKINS, SATTARAS, and VESTINGS in great variety.
SCOTCH LAMBS' WOOL, HOSIERY, GLOVES, TIES, BANDANNAS, SHIRTS,
And every other Article suitable for Gentlemen's Wear.
W, P. G. having engaged a Cutter of first-rate ability, Gentlemen are informed they can have their Garments cut in the
most fashionable style, and a Good Fit guaranteed without the trouble and inconvenience of trying on.

PRICES STRICTLY MODERATE,

AT REDUCED PRICES. T. WALKER'S
WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY, 135, WHITE-
CHAPEL, OPPOSITE GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET.

ESTABLISHED 1813, Dr FRANCIS PINNEY.

IN STOCK, 2,000 VENETIAN SHADE BLINDS.

GAUZE WIRE AND ALL OTHER BLINDS, WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL.
LONDON CHAIR WAREHOUSE.

GREAT FIRE AT THE GUTTA
PERCHA COMPANY'S WORKS, AND DEFEATED

BURGLARIES.

THOMAS MILNER and SON have sincere pleasure in
communicating to their Friends and the Public the following
new endorsements to the claims of their HOLDFAST and
FIRE-RESISTING SAFES. The Fire at the Gutta Percha
Company's Works was of the most intense character, as may
well be conceived from the nature of its food. Gutta Percha,
Oil, Naptha. reducing the buildings to a pile of gutted red-hot
walls. The Safe has been most severely tried, as the letter
testifies, and brought its contents out of the Furnace without
a singe upon them.
" Gutta Percha Company's Works,
" City-road, London, Bth June, 1853.
" Stas,—We consider it only our duty to Inform you of the
entire preservation of all the books and papers* contained in
the large safe you recently supplied us with, although exposed
during Sunday last to a fire which destroyed the larger part of
our works. This is the more remarkable, as the intense beat
has in many pltrts melted the outside of the safe.

" We are' Of opinion that so successful a vindication of the
merits of your invention cannot, on public grounds, be too
generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liberty to use
this letter in any way you may wish.
"Vie are, Sirs, your obedient servants,
"THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY.
" HENRY FORD BARCLAY.
"To Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son,
47A, Moorgate-street, City, London."
* Including £5,000 worth of Cash and Bills.

"Scotland-road Mills, Liverpool, Bth June, 1853.
"GENTLEMEN,—Some time back I was indebted to your
strong Holdfast and Fire-resisting Safe for the protection of a
large amount of cash, against the viulent and persevering
attempts-of burglars at my steam-mills, in Woodstock-street,
and I have now the pleasure of informing you that I have
lately found the same impregnable security in the one l had
last from you for my provision warehouse in Brownlow hill.
The floor was all trodden over around the safe, as if the thieves
had been at it for many hours, after which they got it out into
the back yard, and as it could not be picked or broken open,
they then filled the key-hole with gunpowder, thinking to gain
admission by explosion but in which they were again foiled.
"I feel it due to your Invaluable safeguards to give you this
testimonial, and shall strongly recommend them to all my
friends. Please send me another of the same size for my house.
" I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully,
"THOMAS LEICESTER.
" Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son."

MILNERS' PIRENIX SAFE WORKS, WINDSOR,
AND 54. LO RD-STRE ET. LIVERPOOL.

PROTESTANT ORE
17, Upper Sackville-str
year 1828. ‘PAT
The Marquis of Downshire.
The Earl of Roden.
The Earl de Grey.
The Earl of Erne.
The Earl of Eglinton.

?HAN SOCIETY, Office,
•eet, Dublin. Instituted in the
'RONS.

The Lord Viscount Lorton.
The Lord Viscount Gough.
The Lord Bishop of Meath.
The Lord Bishopof Ossory, &c.
The Lord Bishop of Cashel, &c.
VICE-PATRONS.

The Hon. and Very Rev.the Dean of St. Patrick's and
Christ Church.
The Rev. the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
The Ven. the Archdeacon of Emly. •
The Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, D.D.
The Rev. Charles M. Fleury, A.M.
The Rev. Hamilton Verschoyle,
The Rev. John Gregg, A.B.
The Rev. John Nash Griffin, A.B.
The Right lion. Joseph Napier, M.P.

HONORARY SECRETARIES.

Rev. Thos. Kingston, A.M., Asbfield-house, Harold's-cross.
Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, A.M., 11, Pembroke-road.

SPECIAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR THE
.ENLARGE-

MENT OF THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE, PERCY:Via6i,
DUBLIN.
Much success having attended the system for many years
past in operation at the Society's House (which is used as a
Training School for the Elder Orphans, and an Apprentice
Dep(lo, the Committee (as slldded to in the Reports for the
years 1851 and 1852) determined upon enlarging the House,
so as to afford accommodation for a Considerable increase in
the number of Orphans.
To carry this into effect a new Wing is in course of erec-
tion, with other improvements ; and it is the wish of the
Committee, and of several kind friends of the institution, that
the expense shall not fall in any great degree on the regular
income of the Society (required for the support of Four Hun-
dred Orphans), but that a separate fund be raised to defray
the cost—about 4800. The public are, therefore, earnestly
requested to contribute towards the " Building Fund."
Contributions of any amount will be thankfully received by
any of the Vice-Patrons ; by Messrs. D. C. La Touche & Co.,
Castle-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Puget, Bainbridge, & Co., 12,
St. Paul's Churchyard, London; Messrs. Ransom & Co., I,
Pall-mall East, London ,• and at the Office of the Society, 17,
Upper Sackville street, Dublin.
THOMAS KINGSTON, Clerk, Hon. Secs.
BEAVER H. BLACKER, Clerk,
Amount already acknowledged 442 13s.
The ollovving additional Donations are thankfully acknow-
ledged"—Arthur Guinness, Esq., per Rev. H. V. White, 425;
the Misses Moran, Halifax, 410; the Rev. James Ware,
Suffolk, 410; Mrs. Crawford, 41.; Oliver Cramer, Esq., el ;
John Aylmer, Esq., 41; Alexander Worthington, Esq., 41;
George M. Foster, Esq., 10s.; Francis Le Hunt, Esq., ss•, •
a Young Lady, st'.
Donations will be thankThily received by any of the
-Clergy of Liverpool, and also at theOftica of the Liverpool
Standard.
December, 1853.

MARINE WATER CLOSETS.-
To the Nobility, Ship Owner:, Ship Builders, &e.
HUME'S Patent Marine Water Closet, obviating entirely
the hitherto offensive effluvia so repeatedly complained of.
is simple, and almost impossible to get out of order with
proper use; it is invaluable for Yachts, or Cabin Accom-
modation on board Sea-going Ships, being fitted up above or
below the water-level, and entirely preventing all annoyance
backing from the Sea.

Testrinonials from I'. Littledale, Esq., late Mayor of Liver-
pool, Yacht Ariel ; Capt. Parsons, African Mail Steam-Ship
Faith ; Capt. Dixon, Isle of Man Steam-Packet Manx Fairy;
and others.

Manufactory, Morpeth-dock Quay, Birkenhead.
PLUMBING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

RECENT TESTIMONIALS of the practical
worth and efficient security of
CHUBB'S LOCKS AND FIREPROOF SAFES.
CHUBB and SON beg to lay before the Public the two fol-
lowing Letters, which they have lately received, as affording
further proof of the security of their Manufactures :
Ineffectual Attempt upon the Strong Room of the London and
North-Western Railway, Liverpool.
London and North-Western Railway Company,
Liverpool, May 17, 1853.
Gentlemen,—l have much pleasure in bearing testimony to
the efficiency of the Iron Door and Locks of your make, which
secure the Strong Room at this Office. and which completely
baffled the efforts of one or more burglars to get at the money
chest on the night of Thursday last, although it is evident
that considerable force was used to break open the door.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Messrs. Chubb and Son. GEOROK PALMER.
From Mr. Otway, Superintendent of Police, C Division.
8, Great Vine-street, 3, 1853.
Gentlemen,—l have the pleasure to inform you that having
one of your Locks on the street door of my house prevented
my being robbed last night. The thief tried to open it, but
not succeeding, has so damaged it that I have sent it to you
for inspection, and shall feel obliged if you will have it re-
paired.-1 am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
C. OTWAY, Superintendent C. Division of Police.
Messrs. Chubb and Son.
CHUBB'S LOCKS, with all the recent improvements;
CASH, DEED, and PAPER BOXES, of all sizes; FIRE-
PROOF SAFES, and CHESTS; IRON DOORS and FRAMES
for strong rooms; all fitted with the detector lock.
Complete Illustrated Lists, with prices and sizes, will be
sent on application.
CHUBB and SON, 28, LORD-STREET,
sLPaLullys ERPOOL; 6
Market-street, Manchester 57,Churchyard,i,
London; and Horsleyfields, Wolverhampton.

Visrroa,
Rev. J. BAYLEE, D.D.
PRINCIPAL.
Rev. D. J. POGGI, D.D.
(Removed from Seac,nabe House, D.D.,
EXAMINERS,
Rev. R. WILSON,
Dean of the Royal College of Preceptors, and late Fellow
of St. John's, Cambridge;
J. PARKER, Esq.,
Secretary to the College of Preceptors.
This Institution provides, at a moderate expense, a com-
plete course of Education. qualifying Young Gentlemen for
the Universities, the Military or Naval Services, the Medical
and other Learned Professions, or for engaging in Commercial
Pursuits. With this view the College is divided into several
progressively ascending Departments, each conducted by its
appropriate Master. The a-hole of the system is based. on
sound Scripture principles. Pupils are admitted from the age
of Six to Sixteen. The Domestic Arrangements are under the
care of the Principal's Family, who neglect nothing to pro-
mote the well-being of the Pupils. The Building of the Insti-
tution occupies one of the most salubrious positions in Eng-
land,—a statement well attested by the extremely rare cast*
of illness among the inhabitants of New Brighton. The con-
stant superintendence of the Principal ; the arrangements of
the Institution; the advantages of Sea Bathing, combined
with the pure and bracing uir of this locality, furnish every
reasonable guarantee for tie health and literary improvement
of the Pupils, who will re-assemble (D.V.) on the 24th of
January. 1854.
For Terms, apply to the Rev. Dr. POGO!, New Brighton,
Cheshire.

CLIFTON-PARK ACADEMY, BIRKEN-
HEAD, conducted by Mr. JOHN SORLEY and efficient
Masters, will be RE-OPENED on TUESDAY, the 17th January
instant.-1 rospectusea may be obtained at the Academy, or
at Mr. JOHN RosE's, 7, South Castle-street, Liverpool.

HOLLY-BANK ACADEMY, near the
WOODSIDE FERRY, BIRKENHEAD.
HOLLY-BANK ACADEMY, Conducted by Mr. WILLIAM
STEWART. with the assistance of Experienced Masters, will
be RR-OPENED after the Vacation on MONDAY, Jan. 16.
Canning-st reet , Birkenhead.

PRIVATE EDUCATION.—A LADY, residing
in the immediate Neiehbourhood of Falkner-square,
having engaged a Resident French Governess to assist in the
Education of her two chillren, is desirous to take, as DAILY
PUPILS, Toro other little GIRLS, from Eight to Ten Years of
Age, to Instruct with her own. The Lndy herself will conduct
all the Branches of English Study, and Mademoiselle under-
takes French and Music, together with Drawing and Orna-
mental Needlework.—Address A. 8., Box T 69, Post-office.

ARITHMETIC,-13001i-
KEEPING, &c.
Messrs. THOMPSON'S, No. 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE, is the
only Establishment in Liverpool where a good HANDWRIT-
ING, BOOK-KEEPING by Double Entry, ARITHMETIC,
MENTAL CALCULATIONS, &c., are taught thoroughly and
practically in a few Lessons. Classes every day. Private
Lessons at any hour. Success guaranteed to every pupil.
Persons who cannot write at all may become good writers in
a few weeks, so wonderful is the effect of the system invented
by Messrs. Thompson.
For Cards of Terms apply at 8. Clayton-square.

DEAF & DUMB PRIVATE EDUCATION,
LONDON.
Mr. JAMES RHIND, nearly 15 years late Principal of the
Liverpool Deaf and Dumb Listitution, educates PRIVATE
PUPILS at 4, AVENUE-ROAD, REGENT'S-PARK. The high-
est references given. Communications may he addressed to
the care of Mr. NEWLXNO, Publisher, Buld.street, Liverpool.

•
F 4 DUCATION, at Mr. R. SLIIPSON'S ACA-
DEMY, Ea thy- hail, near Richmond, Yorkshire. Youths
are Boarded, furnished with Books, and instructed in the
English, Latin, and Greek Languages. Terms, Twenty to
Twenty-two Guineas a-year. No bcations unless desired,
nor Extras, except for Music, French, and Dancing. The
Pupils are treated with the utmost liberality and parental
solicitude. Cards, with References, to be had from Earby.
Mr. S. will wait upon applicants in Manchester • and attend
at BAIRSTOWS, Bull Hotel, Dale-street, from Eleven to One
o'clock, on and after the 10th of January instant.

KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE,
ISLE OF MAN.

•
The Rev. GILMOUR HARVEY continues to Receive into
his House a Limited Number of YOUNG GENTLEMEN,
who have the advantage of Education at a Public School (the
pupils of which hrve highly distinguished themselves at the
Universities, and the Naval and Military Colleges), combined
with domestic comfort.

Mr. HARVEY'S Boys are under hip personal superinten-
dence; and his established character of 20 years' standing
enables him to refer, with satisfaction and confidence, to
parents of rank and high standing who hme had, or still have,
sons under his charge.
College Prospectuses may be obtained upon application to
CHARLES B. BUCHANAN, or D. C. BUCH ANA N, 2, Rumford-
place. Liverpool.

QUEENWOOD COLLEGE, near STOCK-
BRIDGE, HANTS.
PRINCIPAL GEO. EDMONDSON.
MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY—Dr. THOS.
A. HIRST, of the Universities of Marburg and Berlin.
CHEMISTRY—DP. HEINRICH DEBUS, late Assistant in the
Laboratory of Professor Bunsen, and Chemical Lecturer in
the University of Marburg.
CLASSICS AND HISTORY—Mr. JOHN S. MUMMERY, L.C.P.
MODERN LANGUAGES AND FOREIGN LITERATURE—Mr.
JOHN HAAS, from M. de Fellenberg's Institution, Hof-
wyl, Switzerland.
GEODESY—Mr. RICHARD P. WRIGHT.
PAINTING AND DRAWING—Mr. RICHARD P. WRIGHT.
ENGLISH AND JUNIOR MATHEMATICS FREDERICK
ILIFF, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge,
and M.C.P.
Dtrro—Mr. WILLIAM SINGLETON.
Musts--Mr. WILLIAM CORNWALL.
TERMS:
For Boys under 12 years of age .... 440 per Annum.
„ from 12 to 16
„ • above 16 £6o PP
For further information, see Prospectus, to be bad of the
Principal.
flt:9- The First Session of 1834 commences on the 26th of
January.

LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION,
SCHOOLS are NOW OPEN ; namely,
The HIGH SCHOOL, The GIRLS' SCHOOL,
The LOWER SHOOL, The INFANT SCHOOL,
AND
The EVENING SCHOOL.
A Prospectus, containing a fully detailed statement of
terms, Bc., may be had on application.
W. NICHOL, Secretary.
Mount-street, 9th January, 1854.

.14IVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
EVENING SCHOOL.,

DRAWING CLASSES.
desirous to
In order to afford increased facilities to Pup
"s resolved to
Open an Elementary Class for beginners in
enter upon the study of DRAWING:, it has been
exi
the first Section of the Evening School, at fees o
on MONDAY,.
connexion o6nd. withand
Is. 6d. per quarter. This Class will be Opened
An i iya,
tniAlev9,thTtrofasjna
theo n Second
the
gamSeec
days,tion
Seven till Nine o'Clock.
of the School, also meet fouritime
_asses _ruction
i given
W..° "NdE sw.' An y, continuea,d
and at the same hours. In t les
_clod, , mit
i Architectural, and
The Drawing Classes, in connexesioany,w.eiett
in Geometrical, Perspect 'Ye, M
and ornament from shaded examples,
of the Figure; Figure
r Paintino. Landscape,
Round; Colon o,Flowers,
and from the
Machine Drawing; Outlines of Ornament, and the Elements
Stainers,
T lieF e e sEinngtnrhaev
eSresc,o Second Section
thoiva p earrse, se, ancl
quarter.6a.n.d6dM.opdeeGrllli
The attention of . r ,
t tists Architects, Carvers, Decorators,
Chasers,
Model-
lers, and all others engaged I the production of articles in
which beauty, may be regarded as an important element, is
ansgs.
confidently directed to this department, as calculated at once,
from the strictly systematic and comprehensive character of
et I,r.
it, ti rprlae is) g
formee study,ri ts , an
Ido t lat ef
roabundant t s
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etdhueevaetri
oynbfeosrt
yenotf
their several purposes. W. NICHOL, Secretary.
Mount-street, 30th December, 1853.

NURSERY YACHTS, for One, Two or Three
Children. Everywhere recommended by the Medical
Faculty as the best, most healthy, and safest exercise for
Children, from 425. to 10s., at FYFIELD'S BRUSH and
Toy WARBROI3II, 16, Islington.

liberpoot tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 10, 1854.

COBDENIC POLICY, THE INTERNAL
ENEMY OP ENGLAND.

SUCH is the title of a very remarkable publication given
to the world within the last few days. The value or im-
portance of that work is not derived from any intrinsic
, excellence ; in point of fact, its moral claims are of a very
tainted character. Nor can its title to consideration be
based on any high or intellectual cogitations elaborated in
its pages ; although abounding in shrewdly drawn con-
clusions, it is too obviously founded on the disappointed
expectations of a sordid spirit to be admitted as the off-
spring of disinterested virtue ; and every page is dis-
coloured by the rankling animosity of a discarded partizan.
For what, then, is it to be chiefly prized ? Its chief, in-
deed its only, value is the light it throws upon the hidden
machinery by which Mr.COBDSIC and his coadjutors swayed
the popular mind to such an extent as led to the disrup-
tion of our social polity ; and the exposure of those secret
motives for which, after breaking down the barriers of
protection, raised in defence of our native industry by the
-wisdom of statesmen, in obedience to the experience of
centuries, the same clique still seeks so far to overthrow
our time-honoured institutions, as will render the British
people the helpless and unreasoning tool of that grasping,
selfish, and unprincipled coterie, at the head of which,
"by merit raised
To that bad eminence,"
stand RICHARD COBDEN and JOHN BRIGHT. The book
referred to is written byAtancANDEn. SomEavnax, a will-
inghelper of the tribe—an individual who, under the news-
piper soubriquet of "One who has whistled at the plough,"
was an effective instrument of evil in their hands. "Whom
the gods would destroy, they first make mad," is a proverb
of ancient application, whether it may serve in any way to
elucidate the nature of that deadly quarrel which has grown
-up and declared itself between the leaders of the anti-corn-
law conspiracy and their most gifted instrument, is not for
ES to say. When members of a certain class of the community
fall out among themselves, honest men are supposed likely
to come by their own, and symptoms of such a falling-out
among the league confederacy are becoming more and
snore rife with each succeeding day's experience. It is not
AO long as to have escaped remembrance since the notorious
"national testimonial." to COBDEN gave rise to feelings the
reverse of amicable between that astute luminary and
EnrouT, his disappointed confrere in the work of agitation.
Only last week the nnes, another of the agitating brother-
hood, admitted that the objects of the league, so far as
it professed to increase the demand for manufacturing
labour, had, de facto, proved an inoperative pretence;
and now we have Mr. SOMERVILLE whistling such

strain from his new plongh-tail, as must put even
• CoDDEN'S proverbial power of face severely to the test.
In his new ditty, regardless of that honour which is said
to be observed among even the most lawless and degraded
lshmaelites of society, Mr. SOMERVILLE "unfolds a tale,"
which even the worst enemies of the defunct League were
unprepared to credit or receive ; nay, more, he backs the
smexpected revelation with strong and damning documen-
tary evidence. Without scruple or remorse, he treats us
-with such a string of " private and confidential" commu-
nications, indited by the cunning hand of Mr. COBDEN
and a few of his select associates, as unveils a system of
hypocrisy and fraud, by which the objects of the League

-were carried into effect, as we believe to be without a pa-
. zallel in the annals of political rascality. Lest the letters
*hemselves should fail in fully displaying the nefarious
schemes inculcated in their contents, Mr. So3tEuvILLE
obligingly accompanies them with such an amount and
hind of running commentary, as cannot fail to bring their
meaning fully and readily within reach of even the " mean-
est capacity," and this he does with all the alacrity and
zeal distinctive of recent apostacy. It is, however, only
justice to say, that he justifies the unmasking of his quon-
dam patrons as some restitution for the evils he was in-

strnmental in inflicting on society. We readily admit the

Tuesday, and will spell( to the Council of the Le Due'
about the arrangement. [The terms of payment . .
. . . All are fully sensible of the value of your novel`
labours in the cause. One word of advice —do not let any:
animus in favour of the League or manufacturers appear
in your writings—[secretiveness again]—especially the
letters in the Chronicle, which I know, attract a good
deal of notice. . . .
"' In the last Number One there is a letter from a
farmer, going for total repeal on the ground that he can-
not fatten cattle to compete with foreigners, unless he
gets the raw material cheap. Can't you insinuate a short
letter into Number One, which is read by the farmers ?
But you must not let your signature identify you—[se?re-
tiveness again] ;—"Peter Robins" and "Reuben" are
both palpable noms de guerre. Sign, a Westmoreland
or Leicester Farmer. I shall want you to write a good
address from the League to the farmers of the kingdom.
It_ must be well done. I have some suggestions to
make which I will send to you when I have been able to
refer to some facts.--I remain yours truly,
"`A. Somerville, Esq.' "`lttcnD. COBDEN.'
" I did not write as a Westmoreland 'or ' Leicester
Farmer.' In at first calling myself 'One who has
whistled at the Plough,' I was described truly. Other
signatures used by me were only for private identification,
not to misrepresent myself as a farmer, which I was not.
" Mr. Bright bad the same degrading opinion of the
press as Mr. Cobden. He it was, if the rumours in League
I circles did not belie him, that so fatally operated on the
Warwickshire paper, as to extinguish it in a fortnight.
Indeed, one of his brothers, in giving me particulars of
his career in 1846, confirmed this delicate liitle rumour.
Subsequently, in a conversation with Mr. Bright himself,
it was alluded to, when he observed that the less I said
about it the better. He applied to me, 1843-'4, as Mr.
, Cobden did, to write letters as a farmer of a certain loca-
lity. He hinted at having operated on one or more agri-
cultural papers circulating in Durham, North Yorkshire,
and Northumberland. I adhered to my role not to write
as that which I was not ; and not, by professing to be
Tory and half-and-half Protectionist, to " insinuate," as
Mr. Cobden phrased it, letters into Protectionist journals.
Mr. Bright said, if I wrote certain articles and gave them
to him, I need not know nor care what became of them.
He got them in private from my own hand. I knew no
more until I saw them in North country papers, signed,
A Farmer who Sells his Corn at Newcastle. From
these agricultural papers they were reprinted by the
League as genuine farmer's letters, and circulated uni-
versally as such 1"
Much additional evidence of a similar kind, and refer-
ring to similar transactions, is to be met with in different
portions of the book ; but enough, we think, will be found
in, the two instances quoted, to warrant the charge of dis-
honesty brought against the men, and the means through
whose agency the abolition of the corn-laws was brought
about.

In this racy pamphlet the curious reader will likewise
find much interesting matter, relative to the organisation
and working of another league,—we mean the Peace So-
ciety, with the sayings and doings of which, it appears,
poor SOMERVILLE has also been made acquainted, in a
spirit the reverse of dove-like. To many the publication
will afford another source of interest in the enlightenment
it sheds around the means by which the unadorned elo-
quence of Mr. COBDEN is prepared and manufactured, we
pretend not to say at whose expense. If Mr. SOMERVILLE,
however, is to be credited, the expenditure of either time
or pelf pertaining to theThonourable member for the West
Riding is neither extensive nor oppressive; particularly if
private individuals or quasi public institutions can be
made to furnish the particulars. We had, indeed,
some intention of going more into detail on this branch
of the subject, as that is illustrated in the book before us;
but the much more important matter of public demorali-
' sation, as that has been deliberately charged by the open
accusation referred to, has so completely occupied our
space as to prevent it.
In that agitation which ended in the abrogation of the
corn laws, and which, managed through the instrumen-
tality we here see exposed, became a species of urban
delirium, many an individual was induced to contribute
largely of his means in support of what he was taught to
look on as a great national benefit. How few of all those
honest dupes were aware of the base and hypocritical
uses to which their contributions were applied ! How
much more narrowed still would have been the circle of
contributors to that ill-gotten fund, if wilful and malig-
nant falsehood, gross dissimulation, concocted cheating,
and planned deceit had been among its avowed instru-
ments of success ! We can well remember the yell of
triumph with which the existence of the league was de-
clared to be" a great fact ;" sincerely do we hope the period
will never arrive when the organ of that note of exultation
shall be proved to have been cognizant of the existence of
so unprincipled a 'system of political seduction as that
proclaimed and all but demonstrated in the " Cobdenic
policy." Up to the period of that inglorious strife of
cunning and duplicity against honest conviction —preju-
dice if you will—the agitation of British politics had
been a manly, an open, an ingentions contest. The field of
its engagement had been an arena in which—
" Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled,?;

suspicion naturally attached to the testimony of a sociis
sriminit, and acknowledging that of Mr. SOMERVILLE to
13e so tainted, we beg our readers to remember that, in
any subsequent remarks upon his version of the story, we
adduce his evidence to be received valeat quantum ralere
lookst, premising simply that, in criminal inquiries, such
evidence is chiefly valued in corroboration or explanation
-iof facts otherwise but imperfectly substantiated ; while, in
morals, the mere association of the parties is held as in a
vousiderable degree explanatory of their mutual tastes and
.13abits. Having got so far in our preliminary remarks
-respecting the publication and. its author, let us next in-
-.quire what are the charges brought by him against his
recent employers, and see by what evidence he supports
those charges. It is true, that he complains his task-
masters have underpaid and overworked him—broadly
asserts great benefits conferred, and more than merely
insinuates palpable and base ingratitude as their chief
reward. These, however, being personal matters, we do
mot feel called on to examine deeply into their nature, and
=ay be more readily excused for the omission by the con-
viction that Mr. SOMERVILLE is no silk-gloved champion
ef his own cause, but is potent as well as deft in the use
'of a very damaging weapon.
The first grave charge brought against Mr. Cosnrs,
and by implication against his brother leaguers, is that,
by dishonest means, they endeavoured to effect the abro-
gation of the Corn-laws ; one of these dishonesties was by
insinuating anti-corn-law articles into pro-corn-law news-
Tapers, so disguised as to deceive and mislead protection-
ists by an insidious inoculation of free trade doctrines.
Bow does Mr. SOMERVILLE state this charge ?

and it has been reserved for our own day, and for those
who, in the affected purity of their religious zeal, would
overthrow our altars ; who, in the fervour of their political
liberalism, would annihilate our constitution and degrade
our monarchy, to achieve one object of their ambition
through means at the use of which a felon would blush—
to secure a chance of selfish aggrandisement, by pursuing
a course which bold ruffianism would feel ashamed to own.

So early," says he, p. 17, "in my acquaintance with
those people as 1842, I declined a share of the proprietor-
ship and editorial pay in a first-class pro-corn-law news-
paper, proposed to me by Mr. Cobden, on behalf of the
anti-corn-law league, rather than be a hypocrite as he
designed."
Thus far the charge ; 1107 the support of it. At page
.37 we find the following-
-'"The first letter quoted refers to a London newspaper
d high reputation, of Conservative politics, an able advo-
+pith: of protection to agriculture ; in short, a landlord's
and farmer's newspaper. To distinguish it from others
written of in succeeding letters, I call it Number One.
its name is withheld, as its present proprietors may not
Le, though for aught I know they are, the same as in 1842.
"' November, 1852.

"`Dmin SlB,—Could not Number One be got right ?
It appears to be taking the side of the farmers. It would
be a great move if we could purchase a share and put you
on it. Make some inquiries quietly as to what it is
Aloft, and as to the persons connected with it. —Yours
truly, RICHARD COBDEN.'"
"In this short letter Mr. Cobden's mind bad four dis-
tinct secrets and processes of deception operating at once.
1. " It appears to be taking the side of the farmers.'
This was the smallest and least important. He meant to
intimate that something in the editorial department
showed that it was abandoning the cause of the land-
owners, and addressing itself to the farmers, as having
interests apart from those of landlords ; the truth being
that, editorially, the paper had taken no such view of the
Corn Law question. It would have at once lost its influ-
ence and circulation if it had. But, on behalf of the
. _

league, a letter had been inserted, which, treating of
other matter, introduced that view of the subject ; and, by

private arrangements made, the League had reason to sup-
pose that such letters might be again inserted. This they
told me subsequently.
2. " Make some inquiries quietly as to what it is doing,
2nd as to the persons connected with it.' By subsequent
conversation, I ascertained that at this time the League
knew all which Mr. Cobden desired me to ascertain, and
much more. They knew that the whole concern could be
purchased for certain thousands of pounds. Mr. Cobden,
in desiring me to sound the proprietary of the paper, was
secretively sounding me.
3. "It would be a great move if we could purchase a
share, and put you in it.' Mr. Cobden's estimate of literary
men contemplated me, not as nibbling at this bait of
property and editorial power in a first-class newspaper,
but as swallowing it at a gulp ! He who had formed
such an opinion of writers and speakers' [I was no
speaker], 'journalists' and 'reviewers,' that he invoked
punishment on them when, six years previously, he ar-
rived home from Russia, did not dream that there could
be one of the literary brotherhood who would scorn to be
concerned in such Jesuitical deception of political oppo-
nents, particularly if that more than the Bible principle
of a certain sect in Manchester [God grant them fewness
of number, and shortness of political life}-pecuniary
profit and personal advantage—were involved.
4 " The words of this third process of secretiveness
are the test of the fourth. The paper was Conservative in
general politics, rather Tory than Moderate, and a decided
Pro-Corn Law journal. It opposed the Anti-Corn Law
league, and it was intended to be so conducted. On
League capital it was to be Tory in politics, to advocate
the Corn Law so far as to retain its agricultural readers,
but to admit occasional articles of treachery.
" Am I in error in putting this construction on Mr.
Cobden's proposal ? In the first place, subsequent conver-
sation with him and others, chiefly about other newspapers,
but incidentally touching Number One, confirmed this
interpretation. Secondly. It would not have served their
purpose ; it would not have been,c as Mr.anCeden phrased
it, ' a great move,' to have par converted it
F.. to a Free-trade newspaper, because its Protectionist
readers would have spurned it. Mr. Cobden's design was
to instil homoeopathic morsels of anti-protectionism into
the houses of Protectionists unawares, while, innocent
dupes, they paid for it as a Pro-Corn Law journal."
Farther on, at page 41, we have the commencement of
anotner evidence how far these anti-corn-law advocates
of the freedom of the press may be carried, if in conso-
nance with their own views. The following letter, Mr.
SoiszaviLLE assures us, also has reference to the same
mewspaper—

"` Waterloo, near Liverpool, Saturday.
"'DEAR SlE,—Your letter followed me here, where I
am getting some sea air. I will be at Manchester on

'THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

culty he, got all the passengers out of the two trains, and
putting as many of them as was possible upon the en-
gines, conveyed them to Manchester, leaving the car-
riages as thew stood, the snow rapidly accumulating upon
and around them. At this time the wind was blowing a
perfect gale, and the snow was drifting about so fiercely
that it was impossible to see for more than a few yards.
After landing the passengers from the two trains, Mr.
Blackmore returned to the Newton cutting with a large
number of men, who were set to work to clear the lines.
The two powerful goods engines were repeatedly taken
back some distance, and then run into the snow at full
speed ; but so great was the resistance offered by the mass,
now more than five feet deep, that sometimes only a yard
or two was cleared. When one line bad been opened
through this drift, Mr. Blackmore proceeded to the drift
on the Oldham branch, a little beyond Middleton, and
there the same kind of operation was resumed; in one
run the engines were almost brought to a dead stand as
soon as they struck the snow, which was nearly seven feet
deep. On the Bury, Bolton, and Liverpool branch, (which
runs out of the main line at Blue Pits,) a train from
Liverpool got fast on Wednesday evening, about 400 yards
from the Heywood station. The passengers remained in
the carriages for some time : but then most of them
scrambled out and sought lodgings at inns, at the station,
or private houses, while others made themselves as com-
fortable as they could in the carriages. Between Hey-
wood and Blue Pits the snow (according to the report of
the Heywood station master) was from 15 feet to 20 feet
deep on Wednesday evening. The passengers by one of
the Yorkshire trains, from Manchester, remained in the
carriages for about three hours after they got embedded, a
short distance from Middleton. Then they got out and
made their way to some cottages, where they were most
kindly treated, good fires being made, the cottagers renaily
producing everything they could in the way of food.
In the Macclesfield and Bolton division, the deepest drift
was between Moses Gate and Bolton. The snow accumu-
lated to a depth of nearly five feet for several hundred
yards, and there was a complete stoppage of the traffic
from Wednesday evening until about half-past one on
Thursday afternoon. The passengers by the north express,
includingseveral magistrateswho had attended the County
Sessions at Preston, were, like many others, compelled to
spend the night on chairs, sofas, tables, and even on the
floor, at the principal inns, or at the station. There was
a deep drift near Chapletown, on the Bolton and Black-
burn line, into which a train ran and got almost buried,
as soon as it emerged from a tunnel, and it was with diffi-
culty extricated. The line was cleared for traffic by half-
past seven on Thursday evening. On the Liverpool
branch of this company's lines there was a stoppage from
Wednesday night to Thursday forenoon ; but on Friday
afternoon all the drifts had been sufficiently cleared to
allow a resumption of the traffic. On the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, the traffic, though im-
peded, was kept open ; but not without very great exer-
tions. The traffic has also been maintained with compa-
ratively only slight deviations from regularity on the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction line.
If railway traffic has been beset with such difficulties in
this district, and on the main lines communicating with it
in different directions, we receive such negative consolation
as that consideration can afford, in learning that we have
not been alone in our difficulties and privations, but have
had numerous participators in the widely extended com-
munity of such sorrow. The metropolis has also expe-
rienced the inconvenience of a suspended traffic, and we
now learn, through the resumed intercourse, that the great
trunk-lines, terminating in London, have all been, less or
more, blocked up. On the Eastern Counties line, it was
intimated by telegraph, on Thursday night, in London, that
this line, with the exception of its loops, was entirely
cleared for traffic, and on Friday morning the mail train
from Norwich and Cambridge, due at 4.15 a.m., arrived
about an hour and-a-half behind its time. The mail train
referred to passed through a cutting about five miles in
length, extending from Thetford to Harling, at 12 o'clock
on Thursday night, leaving all clear behind it ; but shortly
after its passage another storm of snow came on, falling
to an average depth of four or five inches—the wind drift-
ing it rapidly into this cutting so as once more completely
to block it. Up to Friday night the most strenuous exer-
tions were made to remove this new obstruction, but it
was found necessary altogether to suspend the traffic on
that portion of the Norfolk line, and the trains went no

further than Ely ; access to Norwich and Yarmouth
throughout the day from the metropolis being obtained by
the Eastern Union line, vid Ipswich. The Newmarket
branch was still closed, although hopes were entertained
of reopening it on Saturday morning; and the same was
the case with regard to the St. Ives and Huntingdon
branch lines, the traffic to and from Wisbeach being
carried on through March. On the East Anglian Branch
traffic was unimpeded between Ely and Lynn and Lynn
and Wisbeach, there being no cuttings in that direction ;
but between Lynn and Dereham, where deep cuttings
exist, the traffic up to Friday night was entirely suspended.
The Peterborough line remained perfectly free. Guards
arriving at Shoreditch during the course of the day re-
ported frost, but no snow as far as Cambridge. At and
below Ely, however, snow was falling fast. The number
I of men employed in clearing out the various snow drifts
on this line on Tuesday has amounted to about 1,000, paid
lat the rate of 3s. per day. The through traffic on the
Great Northern remained impracticable on the main line
up to Friday night, although great progress had been made
in clearing the block to admit the passage of trains be-
I tween Peterborough and Grantham on Friday after-
noon. At the same time operations were advancing between
Grantham and Newark so as to encourage a hope that the
through traffic upon the main line might be resumed on
Saturday morning. About seven hundred men had been
employed day and night in removing the snow. The
through traffic to York was on Thursday and Friday car-
ried on by means of the Lincolnshire loop line, the Edin-
burgh fast train, due at King's-cross at 9.30 a.m., arriving
three hours behiud its time. The other up-trains were
pretty punctual, and the down trains started as usual, but
carrying much fewer passengers than ordinarily. The
guards of trains arriving in the earlier part of the day
reported thaw and sloppiness along the line, but after
twelve o'clock they brought in accounts of frost. It was
also snowing fast within a few miles of London to and
beyond Peterborough. The entire coal traffic of the line
has been suspended, but the -company hope shortly to
resume it. On Friday, shortly after twelve, the north
mail train via the London and North-western arrived in
London, having been detained two nights at Lancaster,
where the post-office clerks had to sleep in the mail tender,
suffering acutely from cold. After leaving Lancaster, the
greatest difficulty was experienced in forcing a passage
along the line to the junction at Warrington. The
Holyhead line was made so far clear as to admit of the
passage of trains. On the Midland line traffic also pro-
ceeded both ways, but tickets for this line were only issued
at Euston-square conditionally. The same precaution
was also taken with the Northern traffic, passengers for
Carlisle and Scotland being only booked to the Warring-
ton Junction. Guards on arrival reported no snow, but
frost prevailing down the line. The number of men em-
ployed in clearing the various snow drifts, under the super-
intendence of Captain Huish and other officials of the line
is said to have amounted to upwards of 1,500, entailing,
of course, a serious expenditure on the part of the company.
The traffic operations of the Great Western remain but
very little impeded, the trains on Friday arriving and
departing without any material deviation from the time-
table. No snow was reported down the line during the
day, and the quantity which has fallen during the week
appears much less than in the northern and eastern dis-
tricts of the kingdom. Thaw was reported along the line
in the early part of the day, but as evening drew on the
engines and tenders came in with icicles attached. By
the employment of several hundreds of labourers, and
other exertions, the Southeastern line has been kept free
from material Obstruction ; but this has been effected at a
heavy cost, the labourers being paid 3s. each per day, with
an allowance of bread and cheese and beer. The London,
Brighton, and South Coast, and the Southwestern lines,
have been enabled to maintain their traffic with consider-
able regularity.
In the far north the weather has likewise been of a very
stormy and wild kind. In the North Highlands the snow
commenced early in the week before we were visited by it.
The Inverness Courier of the 29th ult., informs us that,
even then," on the Aberdeen-road, the storm had been seri-
ously felt. Yesterday, the mail due at five a.m. did not
arrive till more than twelve hours after the time, and then
the bags were carrid on horseback from Forres. All the
coaches plying on this road have been stopped. The mail
going to Aberdeen yesterday could get no further than
Nairn; the Star coach stuck in the snow at Auldearn ;
and the Defiance, which left here as usual this morning,
turned back after going three miles. From Aberdeen the
mail passed freely through the Foundland Hills, and got
as far as Newmills, near Forres. Here the guard was
obliged to leave it. All trace of the road was in many
places lost, and it was everywhere impassable for ayehicle.
He succeeded, by dint of perseverance and good manage-
ment, in carrying the mails safely on horseback to Inver-
ness. The wind was northerly, and blew strong, and the
snow consequently drifted about very much. About 100
men are engaged at various points clearing the road, and
it is hoped, if the storm does not increase, that the coaches
may be able to resume the communication in a short time.
The north mail came in last night very little behind the
usual hour, but it brought only the bags from Tain, from
which we may infer that the Ord of Caithness and other
points on the North-road are impassable. The steamers
arrived about the usual time."

While it would thus appear that the storm, which
has been one of unusual severity, has extended from
the extreme north, almost to the southern limits of our
island ; it has also included its breadth from shore to
shore, and we also learn that our continental neighbours
have not been exempted from its ravages. In France,
we are informed, the frost has been of great intensity—
sufficient, it is said, in some instances, to snap the tele-
graphic wires, and interrupt communication. The De-
bats records a very singular impediment to the transmis-
sion of messages on some of the lines :—" The snow
accumulates on the wires, and, when slowly melted by
the sun, forms icicles which connect one wire with ano-
ther. These icicles serve as conductors, and blend
separate despatches in inextricable confusion." Such
impediments to telegraphic communication have, fortu-
nately, not been experienced on any of our lines ; and we
have reason to believe that, throughout the telegraphic
system of Great Britain, communications once entrusted
to the wires have been transmitted with the usual fidelity
and celerity along all the lines—an advantage of inestimable
magnitude in a country whose commercial and pecuniary
transactions are of so intricate, so delicate, and so gi-
gantic a nature.
Severely as the storm and its concomitants have been
felt on land, we regret to add that its effects have been
still more disastrously experienced at sea. Accounts of
numerous fatalities will, no doubt, yet be received to aug-
ment the number of the following