The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this district continues
steady, and with very little alteration. Wools are in fair
demand, but as the price continues firm it has a tendency to
check any merely speculative demand.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The demand for goods was by no
means brisk, still the prices of the last few weeks were firmly
kept up. This may be attributed mainly, no doubt, to the
comparatively low stock on baud, and the persuasion that
things will certainly advance.
HDDDeRSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Trade is very brisk to-day;
every description of goods fur the cold, season are in demand
at prices which are understood to pay the manufacturer.
Doe-skins and other fancy articles in great request. The,
merchants are extremely busy.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—The trade has again been
very flat, and large holders have submitted to a ►ittle reduc-
tion, but it has not been accompanied by extensive sales. In
short wool rather more has been done than of late.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—There is no difference as com-
pared with last week in our piece market. Six•quarter me-
rinos (fizired) are still wanted in greater quantities than
they are made, and for such a little more money is paid.
Low plain qualities are also not over plentiful, and such
easily change hands. The improvement noticed in lastings
and moreens is still readily obtained.—Yarns: There is
nothing different to report as to yarns from that 'of last week.
Wool: The various wool sales now at hand evidently ope-
rates on the spinners in their purchases. This, added to the
anxiety of the staplers to sell, makes the trade dull, and no
doubt a purchaser, to any extent, might be served on easier
terms than on this day se'nnig,ht
DEWSBURY BLANKET HALL.—There was a brisk demand
for blankets here on Monday, as well as for a new descrip-
tion of coarse cloth called " Radical"; but prices were no-
minally the same as at recent markets.
BARNSLEY.—The linen-trade here, which for some time
past has been dull, owing, in a great degree to the cold
spring, is reviving, and a good winter trade is confidently
anticipated. Generally speaking, the operatives are well
' employed; and those not in the rooms, may, if they please,
get work in the fields. The grain crops in this neighbour-
hood promise well; especially barley and oats. •

IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—A farmer in Forfarshire has
it is said, completely saved his turnip crop from the beetle,
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flour of sulphur, and sowing the sulpher along with the seed.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The halt-yearly general
meeting of the proprietors in the Great Western Railway was
held on Wednesday, at the Merchants'-hall, Bristol. The
chair was taken by W. U. Sims, Esq., at one o'clock pre-
cisely. After the general and also the engineer's reports had
been read, which occupied more than two hours, it was moved
by Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, of Liverpool, and carried, that
the meeting, at its rising, do adjourn until the 10th day of
October, in order that the proprietors may have time to ex-
amine their contents. A long uiscussion ensued on a pro-
posal of Mr. Mozley, of Liverpool, fora committee to inquire
into the mode of constructing the railway, whether it is best
to carry out the present pl,aaq, or make any alteratinuitherei-nr;
but, as e-feeling of meeting was decidedly in favour of
the entire management being left with thedirectors, the pro-
posal was not persevered in. Various reasons were urged
by persons present, against the engineering department of
the undetakiug, which were answered in a very satisfactory
manner by C. B. Fripp, Esq., one of the directors; who, in
the course of hir remarks, mentioned as a proof of the de-
cid§d preference of Mr. Brunel's mode of laying the rails,
that on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway they are actually
substituting rails laid on longitudinal sleepers, as nearly as
possible similar to those on the Great Western Railway, for
the former rails laid on the old plan. The meeting, which
was very numerously attended, not fewer than 400 gentlemen
being present, broke up at half.past seven in the evening,
having lasted nearly seven hours. The account of the receipts
from passengers, &c., conveyed from London to Maidenhead,
was such as to exceed expectation; upwards of 100,000 pas-
sengers having travelled thereon since the opening, without
a single accident to any one of them. The present estimate,
as to the cost of the undertaking when finished, is for the
117/ miles, £4,560,938, exclusive of locomotive engines and
carriages.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
MONEY MARKET.

SATURDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

In the afternoon of yesterday the British market had a
heavy appearance, and Consols receded from the morning
prices, 91*, to 94 for the Account, and from 94i Money, to
93% 94 Money. This re-action in general is attributed; to
the still unsettled state of affairs between the Dutch and
Belgians, as well as the French government having given
orders to put the fortress on the side of Belgium in a warlike
attitude. _

Consols opened this morning at 94i'for Account and Mo-
ney, for the October Account 94h I. "Exchequer Bills, 72
74; India Bonds, 73 75; Bank Stock, 207 8; ladia Stock,
2641 265. In the Foreign market the prices are nominal as
yet; Spanish Active, 2li Portuguese, 361- 371;, Three
per Cents., 24M ; Brazilian, 84; Mexican, 241 4; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i i; Five per Cents., 1.028
HALF-PAST ONE.

Accounts received at Bordeaux, by the schooner l'Aigle,
of the Bth June, from Tabasco, state the above province was
on the eve of being the theatre of great disorders, the federal
party having advanced within 60 miles of Vera Cruz, and it
was expected that they would enter the town, as the inhabi-
tants were disposed to favour them, by supplying them with
a large amount of money. •
Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at
94 for the Account, have somewhat improved, and may be
quoted at 941 for the Account; Money, 941. Exchequer
Bills, 74 72 pm.; India Bonds, 74 72; Bank Stock, 208;
India Bonds, 2644 5. In the Foreign market—Spanish,
21i ; Portuguese rather better, 361 7; Three per Cents.,
24k; exican, 244 Brazilian, 841; Colombian. 261 .1;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 541 I; Five per Cents., 102% %;
Belgian, 10234. _ _

The Share market is extremely heavy. Great Western
declined to 112 pm. Brighton, 21 dis. Robinson's Asphalt;
11 dis

QUARTER BEFORE THREE.
Consols for the Account, 94i 1.

(From the Times.).

F' RIDAY EVENING

Some attention has been drawn to the fact:of a trifling ad-
vance in the price of gold, and the Bank, it is understood,
now consent to purchase at the price of £3 17s. 10d. the
ounce. By giving the full legal limit, they expect to wake it
less of an object with the holders to send it abroad, for which
the state of the exchanges offers some inducement, especially
to the north of Europe, for the use of the speculators ingrain,
who seem likely, however, as they have been for two or three.
seasons.y.ast; mi. naistaken iu thcii co.kujwions. - • •
The foreign exchanges show a still further decline on the-
last post, and the proceeding of the bank above referred to
proves that a proper degree of atttention is directed to the
subject. The quotation on El amburgh was 13.111 i ; on Am-
sterdam, short, 12.24 to 3; and on Pari.s, short, 24.45 to 471-.
A correspondent of Boston (United States) paper, lately
received, gives some striking facts, showing the real cause of
the difficulties of the country, and connecting in a clear and
convincing manner the over-issues of the banks with the
disasters of the trading interest. Some of the facts, which
are derived from official documents, are exceedingly curious
and instructive as to the issue. He says—

" Of British manufactures, the leading items of which are
cotton, woollen, and linen fabrics, the importation of the
three years past have been so excessive that there can be no
question the country is over supplied, as it is also with many
other staples, the products of Asia and South America, as
Well as Europe, since our importations of foreign goods in the
years ending the 30th of September, 1835, 1836, and 1837,
were nearly equal to the aggregate of five years. The whole
amount was 480,758,757 dollars, averaging 160,252,919 dots;
per annum. The import fur 1834 was also large, having
amounted to 126,521,332 dollars. The average importations
for four years prim to 1834 (and the period was a prosperous
one) amounted to 95,803.905 dollars, against 160,252,919 dots.
the three years. 'past. The natural increase of wealth and
population, however, requires an increased supply of goods,
and perhaps an average of 105,000,000 to 110,000,000 dol-
lars would not been out of proportion to 96,000,000 dollars,
the former period; and the excess of that may be considered,
according to our view of the matter, as an over supply, and
beyond the means of nation to consume. The redundant
importation was caused mainly by excessive issues of bank
paper, bank loans, and by various other facilities for the
exaction and extension of credit.

"It was asserted in my last communication, that the im-
ports of cotton goods for 1835 and 1836 cost the importers
37,000.000 dollars to 38,000,000 dollars. It should have said,
• dyed and printed cottous,' and the fact of such an unusual
quantity of this particular species of goods will readily ac-
count for the low prices of American printed goods with which
they have come into competition. It is true they are a higher
quality of goods, but having been sold from 1-3 - to z cost of
importation, they have been brought down to the ordinary
prices of American prints. _ _

" I will now call the attention of those merchants and ma-
nufactures who are deeply interested in the important article
of cotton fabrics to the following facts, taken froth the Cus-
tom-house returns, and which I think must satisfy every one
familiar with the subject of the reasonableness of what I have
advanced—namely, that the existing low prices of cotton
goods, so much longer continued than was generally anticipa-
ted, have arisen, not so much from decreased consumption,
as from an over-supply, and mainly derived from foreign im-
portation.

" Import of cotton goods in 1833
" Do do. in 1836

Dollars.
15.367,585
17,867,087

" Total _ 33,234,672
"The imports in 1833 and 1834 amounted in the aggregate
to 16,894,041 dollars, being only one-half the two latter years.
"It may, however, be supposed that the whole amount of
foreign imports for these two years was less than Usual.; but
so far was this front being the case, that they were beyond the
average, and amounted to 117,319,821 dollars per annum.
" To aggravate the evil sowing from this superabundant
importation of cotton goods, there was an increased importa-
tion of linens, many kinds of which come closely in competi-
tion with cotton fabrics, and more extensively so since the en-
tire removal of duties on the principal part of our importations.
This alteration took place in 1834.
"The aggregate importations of linen goods in 1835 and
1836 amounted to 19,225,218 dollars, against an aggregate
;., iszaq -h.;nt; I,.s¢
than a third of the amount of the two latter years."

(From the official list, containing the business actually
transacted.) . •
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, 208 India Stock,
3 per Ct. Red., 951 India Bonds,
3 per Ct. Con., 94 South Sea Stock,
32 per Ct. Anns. 1818, _ Bank Stock for Acct.,
3 per Ct. Red., lO2i Consols for Acct, 944
New 3y, per Cents.. 1011 £lOOO Ex. Bills, 74 72 pm
Long Ans. 1860, 152 9-16 £5OO do. 71 72 pm
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, 15i Small do. 74 72 um
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, 15 3-16 Ditto Commercial, `2td., 12

(The quotations give the actual price, without reference to
premium or discount.)
Great Western, 78 761 ;Legal & General Life Assur-
London and Brighton, 8 ranee z pm.
Bitumen, Polonceau, London and Blackwall,
Bitumen, London, London and Greenwich,
Manchester and Birmingham, London & Southampton,
Galvanised Iron Company.
London Joint Stock Company

London & Birmingham,
Northern and Eastern,
South Midland,

Asphalte, British,

THE FREE-TRADE SYSTEM.

(From the Morning Herald.)

The columns of the Courier are, occasionally, graced by
contributions from some of the small fry of dabblers in Whig
political economy. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the
self-sufficiency of these authorities is proportioned inversely
to their knowledge, and powers of reasoning'!
Last night, the Courier adverted to, what it was pleased to
style, the " ludicrously weak arguments," and, also, to the
" cant" employed by the Herald, on the subject of the corn
laws. Our censor proceeded, subsequently, to exhibit the
profundity of his own views, together with his own exemp-
tion from cant, in the following luminous passage :
" The merest tyro in public business knows that the hand-
loom weavers have been reduced to distress by the competi-.
tion of improved machinery, and Spitalfields has not been
beggared' by the competition of Lyons, though it has suf-
fered from the competition of Manchester. The proof that
an approximation to a liberal policy has not injured'our silk
trade is found in the fact that, whereas we formerly exported
no silk manufactures, we now have a large export trade, and
are able to compete with several descriptions of French silk
in almost every market in the world. In 1836 we exported
silk manufactures to the declared value of £917.822, and
even in 1837, a year of depression, our exports under this
head amounted to £194,569."

That the handloom weavers have been reduced to the
deepest distress by competition with machinery, is a fact,
which the _Herald has often proclaimed; but the simple repe-
tition of that fact by the Courier does not, by any means,
prove, that a system which tolerates competition of such 'a
character, is not an exceedingly had system :—nor does the
assertion (even if that assertion were absolutely true); that
the competition of Manchester—and not the competition of
Lyons—impoverishes Spitalfields, prove that the policy of
free trade !s not a policy destructive of the best interests of
England. The unconscious philosopher of the Courier ap-
pears to be ignorant of the grounds on which his favourite
flee-trade system is assailed ; but, with a simplicity which
is quite refreshing in these sophistical and calculating times,
adduces, in favour of our reigning commercial policy, cer-
tain obvious facts, which tend merely to prove that policy's
unsoundness!

We contend for the establishment of a system that shall
truly and fully protect the industrious classes of England.
We oppose the free-trade system—that system, in Mother
words, which lays all the barriers that ever have been reared
for the protection of labour, prostrate before the eecroach-
ments of capital. To the perfection of such a system as that
which we advocate, it is essential, not merely that the in.
dustrious classes of England should he protected against un-
due competition with foreign labourers, but against unnatural
competition against their fellow-subjects, and with ma-
chinery! The government which permitted eight hundred
thousand handloom weavers to be robbed by machinery, of
profitable employment—without providing for these poor men
other equally profitable employment or ample compensation
at the public expense—was party to a fraud of fearful magni-
bide ; whilst the system of commercial policy which inflicts
" beggary" on the patient and skilful artisans of Spitalfields
—whether the immediate instruments in the production of
that state of " beggary" be the workmen of Manchester or
Lyons—is a system at war with the dearest rights of huma-
nity, and, therefore, with all the enduring interests of Eng-
land. A truly protective system would save the men of
Spitalfiel Is from unnatural competition with the men of
Manchester, as certainly as from unnatural competition with
the men of Lyons. The free-trade system, on the contrary,
has doomed the Spitalfields 'Weaver to toil eighteen hours a-
day, Sundays included; and it is of the very essence of that
system that the harder its victims toil the less valuable must
their labour become. But such results are not the less
odious, whether their most efficient causes are found to
operate in Manchester or in Lyons!
In estimating' moreover, the real meaning of the Courier's
statement, that Spitalfields has suffered by competition with
Manchester, we must not permit ourselves to run away with
the notion that the weavers of Manchester gain what the
weavers of Spitalfields lose. No ; both classes of producers
—the men of Manchester as well as the men of Spitalfields—
lose, and lose equally. They are employed to beat down the
value of each other's labour to the lowest possible point, and
-the benefit accrues exclusively to the monied classes who em-
ploy them, and to the idle consumers all over the world !
Such is the inevitable result of the free-trade system; and it
is because such is its result that free trade finds favour in the
eyes of its supporters!
But, according to the Courier, free trade can have inflicted
no injury on our silk trade, because we have an export trade
in silk ! Does the Courier mean to deny, that the condition
of the Spitalfields and Coventry weavers has become worse
every year, since their protecting laws were repealed—or
that the silk-weavers of Manchester are in a condition not
sensibly better than that which is the lot of the artisans in
Coventry and Spitalfields? What, in point of fact, does the
existence of an Export trade in English silk, in such circum-
stances, denote? What, but that the misery of the English
silk-weavers—induced, as that misery has been by compe-
tition with the weavers of Lyons, and aggravated by coin-
petitition with the artisans of Spitalfields; Coventry, Mac-
clesfield, and Manchester—is more intense than the misery
of foreign producers of silk goods ;—and that in virtue of the
greater cheapness of labour, of which that misery is, at
once, tbe.canse, and the effect, an export trade in English
e silks has come practicable ? Let the hours of daily labour
. ~

in Spitalfields be increased—let the wages of industry in
that unfortunate region, be still farther depressed ;—and we
will venture to prophesy, that the export trade in silk, to
which the Courier points with so much pride, will be very
considerably increased.
Having disposed of our silk trade, according to the ap-
proved " philosophical" principles, the Courier comes, at
length, to the corn laws. The following is a cogent question :
" Does our contemporary suppose that if foreign wheat
were introduced at a moderate fixed duty of Ws or 12s a
quarter, our landlords would be so very anxious to promote
the interests of the corn growing serfs' beyond seas, as to
turn all their own corngrowing serfs adrift, and throw their
estates out of cultivation ?"

The anxiety of " our landlords," in the circumstances sup-
posed, would, we fancy, import very little ! If there existed
only a fixed duty of twelve shillings a quarter on foreign
wheat, not an ear of wheat could be grown in England, and
not a " corngrowing " estate in England would be worth a
year's purchase. The rents of the landowners would pass into
the pockets of the moneyed classes • and, at the same time,
one-half of the wages now paid to the labourers of, England
would find their way, permanently, to the sgme destination.
Cheap corn would make land cheap to the moneyed classes;
—whilst cheap corn would be the prelude to cheap labour—
that great object, on which the desires of the buyers of labour
are fixed. Free trade in corn would produce results similar
to those produced by free trade in silk. The idle consumers,
and the moneyed schemers would gain all that other classes
would be sure to lose?

Such, however, undoubtedly, is not the view, which greets
the prophetic eye of the Courier:—
"With a moderate fixed duty on foreign corn there would
be nearly as much corn grown in England as at present ; but
the rents of the landlords would have to be reduced, though
to a smaller extent than they themselves apprehend. Mean-
while the increased prosperity of all classes depending on
their own industry, would infallibly react upon the value of
the land, and in the course of a few years, perhaps even the
owners, as well as the occupiers, of land, might find themselves
benefited rather than injured by the change."
"A moderate fixed duty on corn "—even although rents
were annihilated—would render the cultivation of the Eng-
lish soil impossible! Half our popUlation would be thrown
out of employment ; —Wages would sink universally to the
starvation point;—our home-trade would utterly cease;—
farmers and landowners would be reduced to beggary;—
whilst the discharge of public and of private Obligations would
become absolutely impossible! As to the Courier's pleasing
anticipation, that "the increased prosperity of all classes.
would depend on their own industry "—let us only bear in
mind, how far the prosperity of all classes stow—under the
partial operation of free trade--depends on their own in-
dustry ;—and from known facts, let us attempt to estimate
the results, to which unrestricted free trade would probabit,

lead ! Now, we repeat, a Spitalfield weaver works eighteeii
hours a day, Sundays included; and earns not one-third part
of the sum, which he was able to earn, when twelve hours
measured the period of his daily toil! In what sense, or to
what extent, would the " prosperity" of a Spitalfield weaver,
or of any other artisan depend "on his own industry," after
the introduction of a change, which by cheapening bread,
would not only directly cheapen labour in the same propor-
tion—but increase competition to an incalculable extent ?
Perhaps, the Courier's philosophy may enable it to answer
the question !

TO THE ELECTORAL BODY OF THE CITY OF

DUBLIN.

Many of you will have seen' the covert personal attack
which was made upon me in the House of Commons on
Monday last, by one of the sitting members for your city,
Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The parliamentary reports in the
newspapers contain it. If I spew you, and 1 think I can
do it in a short space, that he has used his privilege of a seat
for the city, in this instance, where no public end was to be
answered, for the purpose of making a wanton and unmanly
attack upon me, I conceive he has by this act, if he had by
nothing else, disentitled himself to expect the support of any
man of common honesty, or indeed, endued with the
ordinary feelings of humanity; but the outrage is even ag-
gravated by an assumed pretext of jealousy for the public
money, which makes it the more detestable. I shall first
observe that it appears his speech did not procure the support
of any member, English, Scotch, or Irish. The motion
was made to postpone the third reading of the pension,' bill
to Tuesday, that the mover might, in the meantime, prepare
a clause to place the Marchioness of Westineath's pension
in abeyance until my death. He, confessedly the most ex-.
pert lawyer of the day, demanded, in form, twenty-four
hours' delay to prepare a clause, which the most inexperien-
ced M.P. could have composed on the moment—five short
lines would have sufficed.

But though he had time to turn in his mind the materials
to blacken me in a well-considered speech, and to make re-
ferences, he would have the house to believe it was not to
make the speech he had risen, so much as to obtain 54 hours'
postponement to do that, which even a schoolboy could per-
form in five minutes. Well, he knew that his clause would
not be entertained, even if prepared and proposed; and he
was just as well aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would not stop the progress of the pensions' bill for such a
purpose. The debate shews it. But farther—the proposition
that Mr. O'Connell had sketched was to abate the pension du-
ring my life, and that it should be revived if Lady Westmeath
should survive me. Now, if it had been a wish to effect a sa-
ving of the public money that actuated him, Mr. O'Connell
(having had a knowledge of the pension ever since the papers
were first printed in the early part of the session,) had seve-
ral months to ascertain the public grounds on which he should
have moved in the matter. The slightest disposition to in-
quire would have enablecLhim to know, that in the event of
my death, Lady Westmeath has a jointure of £3,000 a-year,
Irish currency, secured to her; and it is upon such a contin-
gency that he proposes a pension should revive, which, until
then, was to be abated—that is, now, while he states she is in
comparative poverty, it was to be taken back from her, and
(in the interest of the public,) to be given back in an event
when she could not possibly want it. The hypocrite!. and he
could not be ignorant of the fact of the existence of that join-
ture, for my title has been before him with a statement of in-
sumbraneas. and it is not in human nature that, meditating
such a speech, the facts should not have recurred to his•vigor-
ous memory. But finally, after having emitted his venom, he
withdrew his motion. froliiever, this is not the worst. Of all
men existing, Mr. O'Connell is the very last who should have
made a personal attack on me, as you will presently set.. .4
is true 1 have with
_perseverance, to the utmost el
,ruy power,
-exposeu in parwatnerit fife pernicious effects 00 society of this
Lad man's influence upon the government of the country. In
his tour of mischief through the. north of Enitand and Scot-
land, I was subjected by name, as a member of the House of
Lords, to the compliment of his low lived, vulgar abuse—
since, then, also, in some of his speeches to the same distinc-
tion, and in such terms as no one who had been born and bred
a gentleman could have stooped to use. I have had, there-
fore, the right and the leisure to analyse the vow in heaven
from which the foul-mouthed hypoCrite obtains his-impunity;
and I ask you, fellow-countrymen, whatever may be your po-
litical opinions, whether it is humanly possible that a man can
have registered a vow with the God of peace, of justice, and
of mercy, who knows no measure in the indulgence of private
malignity, when provoked by the offence of merely political
opposition—who stops at nothing as far as his great talents,
so hellishly. perverted, can enable him to go, indulge in at-
tacks on the private character of political opponents? If not,
then, you have a well:defined coward for your' member, and
I do not see how any other conclusion can be arrived at. The
miscreant has stepped beyond the sphere of ordinary men,
merely by the force of his talents;it has not been by their le-

;itimate use.
He has by fraud, perjury, and impudence, embodied a sys-
tem to deprive property of its due share of representation for
treland in the House of Commons, and to substitute his own

nominees (most of them not even qualified), all for the avowed
purpose of ulterior and endless aggresion against the Protes-
tant institutions of the country. Does it not behove every
Protestant who is not a fool or a knave to resist him? Inas-
much as 1, then, for one, have put my shoulder to the collar to
do so, I am become a peculiar object of his vindictive hate,
and what is more, of the never-Sleeping malice of those minis-
ters of peace, his fellow labourers, the Roman Catholic priests ;
for in every parish where I have property, they never suffer
any, the slightest occasion to pass, which is afforded them, of
promoting dissension between me and my tenants; while
their altars are profaned by coaxing and threats to extract
the money of my tenants, and the tenants of others, to put it
into the pockets of this demoniac, that he may, vulture-like,
live iu affluence, without industry, and continue to disturb the
peace of society here, and proclaim to foreign nations the
shame-of• Great Britain and of its administration, which per-
mits such a nuisance to exist in its bosom, not only unabated,
but nourished, for those purposes which no individual of the
government collectively cannot deny, and of which i,t is con-
victed daily from sunrise to sunset. I come now to the next
cause of Mr. O'Connell's everlasting shame, as connected
with/this transaction, if anything could shame so abandoned
a viilain. -Be has in his speech referred to certain suits
and decisions in the ecclesiastical courts in England, between
me and ihe- Marchioness of Westmeath, thus wantonly re-
viving before the public, matters into which the public never
inquire, except when before the tribunals of the country, and
which, of all men, he should have abstained from alluding to,
.because his own treachery, when my paid advocate, mainly
led to the result it now suits him to exult in. In the progress
of these suitsuand in January, 1825;1 found it necessary to
institute criminal proceedings for 'conspiracy against several
of the witnesses sent from this country to sustain some of the
-allegations preferred against me.
'There were five persons of them indicted at the sessions of
Green-street, fur conspiring by false evidence to sustain those
imputations, and the attorney of Lady 'Westmeath was in-
dicted for the same offence along with them.
Mr. O'Connell was one of my council. The trial lasted
two days. When near its conclusion, all my counsel (they
were five) were invited to leave the court, and to confer in an
adjoining room, and 1 was requested to attend them. '1 he
case was nearly ready to go to the jury, and Mr. O'Connell
then made the unprecedented Proposal to me, when in the
agony of suspense, as to a result which I considered of more
importance than my life, to allow Lady Westmeath's attor-
ney to he acquitted, by way of ensuring the conviction of the
rest. This proposal came from himself. It was not made in
concert with any other of my counsel, who are all now liv-
ing,- and can now contradict me if I mistake it. One of
theca, the present Master of the Rolls, who, although it has
been my lot to differ with him in politics, I owe it to truth to
say, is an ornament to his country as a lawyer and a judge,
openly opposed the proposal. His words to me, said in the
hearing of those present, were: " Hold him on, Lord West-
meath." However, Mr. O'Connell blustered, and his recom-
mendation prevailed. The agent was enlarged, under these
suspicious circumstances, by -111 r. O'Connell's own act. I
might, to be sure, have resisted it; but I could hardly have
been expected to take so decided a line against the urgent
recommendations of the counsel whose share it was to speak
to the evidence and to the jury. Judge Vandeleur, however,
who was trying the case, expressed his opinion Of the pro-
ceedings so as no legal man could mistake it, by saying
"it should have been allowed to go to the jury." And what
ensued ? I merely obtained by all the trouble, anxiety, and
expense, the conviction of three perjured wretches from the
dregs of society (for two were acquitted)—who were mere
tools in that infamous business; and when the result of that
trial was to be transferred and criticised by the Ecclesiastical
Court in England, the moral effect of the acquittal of the
agent was the white washing of the principal—and thus Mr.
O'Connell, against the conviction of every one who heard
the trial, and who knew of the affair at the time, is now, in
consequence of his own act, enabled to volunteer to resuscitate
this shocking affair, and to say in the House of Commons,
that he may blacken me, " the lady is blameless." I never
could have conceived the disastrous effect which the step be
had advised would have had upon me. Had he but permitted
the effect of what was actually performed and done to take
place, the whole fabric of the matter which now gives Mr.
C'Connell his exultation would have been cast the other way.
The charges of cruelty (which could never stand the test of
a trial at common law, when the witnesses were examined
viva voce, and their faces seen in the day light), when put to
that ordeal would have been scouted out of court, as they
have been laughed at by almost every one whom the process
of time and other events have undeceived upon the subject.
That this must have been the result could not have been hid
from one of Mr. O'Connell's legal acumen ; but I, little
thinking that following his treacherous advice was to fasten
nearly ten years' more litigation upon me, wrote him a letter
, of thanks for doing merely his duty as to the conviction of
the rest.

- Then I shall he asked with what motive do I now charge
Mr. O'Uonnell for taking the step he did. I am now con-
vinced he was highly bribed to do it. It was, towards me, an
act of treachery, of which, at the time it was committed. I
could not have supposed any human being capable; but the
pressure which I have endured in consequence of it, and the
development of his character for scoundrelism in the turpi-
tude of his political life since, has convinced me be was not
only capable of it, but that it is eminently in consonance
with the nature of the man. Did he nut receive 'money for
supporting the factory bill, and did be or did he not acquit
himself for his wages ? Did he not solemnly go up to the
table from his place in the house, and adjure his God to the
denial of a fact which every dispassionate person in the
house and all Ireland knows to be true ? Did he not, in

the bearing of Captain Vignoles and of two officers of the
71st refit., now ready to substantiate the fact, in a speech
at Carlow thus deliver himself—

"Men of Carlow, are you ready? (Aye, aye,) lam the
last man to recommend the shedding of one drop of blood;
but we lhave tried every means of attaining our just rights;
and they have failed. We have no course left now but that
which I have hitherto deprecated—the shedding of blood;
blood must be shed."

And he has had the impudence since to try and extricate
himself by a brazen denial, and nothing else.
These three matters, selected from the annals of the infa-
mous political life of the national incendiary, are my proofs
of what the man is capable of.
The facts of my own case, which I have referred to, bad
as they are, never should have been mentioned by me, but for
the gratuitous attack lately made in the house of commons.
They refer to other parties, and, all considered, it must
have been my natural wish to let the matter sleep. No other
consideration should have led me thus far to rev►ve them.
Good-feeling commanded that I should not do so, but! am
not permitted so to act.
The public have heard that Mr. O'Connell has lately bad
the option of stepping in upon the judicial bench. I cannot
credit it to be possible, that any British minister would be so
hold as to recommend to his Sovereign that a man implicated
as Mr. O'Connell is, should be raised; above all, I will not
believe Lord Melbourne would think of such a thing.

Our illustrious Sovereign must be first studiously blinded
as to the past history of the man, or such an appointment
could never happen. Lord Melbourne is not, in my opinion,
a man to go that length, or, on the other hand, to admit that
any mere expediency could justify such an experiment on the
public endurance.
I have learnt by report (for I was not in London) that the
'ruffian ventured to present himself at court. I learnt also
that a Prince of the Blood, in the presence of the Sovereign,
forgot himself so far as to shake hands with this common
blackguard. I 'cannot believe it. But if it be really fact,
and that it was done for the assertion of a principle, methinks
it would have been more consistent and generous in his Royal
Highness tO have taken sothe practicable mode of showing
his countenance to the object of it during one of the late
reigns, because then Mr. Daniel o'Connell was struggling
against the presumption of success in his project of dis-
membering and revolutionizing these dominions. The dung-
h4l demagogue had not assuined the garb of a courtier in the
times of George IV. or of the late King : and, although he
"Gud-lessed" his late Majesty to satiety while the reform
bill' was in progress, yet he did not make up his mind that
matters were ripe for his appearance at court in the late
reign; therefore, the salutation by band could not well have
happened its the Royal presence then; but, for consistency
sake, this distinguished privilege might have been accorded
',o.ewhere, though it certainly was not. But now, when the
"reviler of the Saxons for a quarter of a century, and of their
women especially, produces his potato-plebian-face at the
court of the Queen of the Saxons—at the court of our most
gracious Queen, a Prince of the Blood steps out to offer an
insult, in the presence of the Sovereign, to every lady in
England and every gentleman in Ireland, by forcing the dis-
tinction of familiarity upon this vagabond—upon the great-
est trading liar that was ever trained by the Jesnists or
cursed the earth—aye, upon the very pivot of treason
and disaffection—upon the fostering parent of perjury
and demoralization. I treat it as a fable. It could not
have passed. But again, I say if it did, inasmuch as
1 know that that illustrious Prince has, out of an
enlarged benevolence, bequeathed his royal body for
dissection after death, I recommend that he should antici-
pate the entire gift so humanely intended, and cut off the
hand which was so defiled, that he may entitle himself to ap-
pear again in the presence of his abused sovereign and niece,
and also learn from the surgeons who have to analyse that
dishonoured limb, the amount of the defilement incurred, that
his royal highness may repent in proportion, before increased
mischief is generated from so foul an example. The fate of
Egalite is pregnant with counsel against such like associa-
tions.

Fellow countrymen, electors, repudiate the monster; if
you be Roman catholic:, be cannot be a friend to your reli-
gion if he dishonours your country; if you be protestant, he
has planned your destruction. Send him hack to Kerry—
the Kerry men have guaged him, and let these send the petti-
fogger to parliament if they will.
Mr. O'Connell will possibly, however, inquire again after
your suffrages. If so, pause, and at least reflect that if he has
not long -since been on the felon scaffold, it is only because
be. lacked the courage • but remember, he has sent hundreds
of others to an untimely end since his career began, and re-
flect also that his black brooding heart inevitably will deluge
this island in blood, by setting man against man within it,
unless it pleases Providence to open the eyes of our sovereign
to the mischief which is hatching by his contrivance, and to
awaken you also to your confidence abused by this thoroughly
profligate adventurer. If this happens, we may yet hope to see
" In every honest hand a whip,
. .

To lash the rascal naked through the world."

I have the honour to be, fellow countrymen, respectfully
your well wisher and obedient servant,

WESTMEATH.

Clonyn, Castledowndelvin, August 11, 1838.

The old-established hank of Messrs. Wood and Holden, at
Burslem, is about to be incorporated with the Imperial Bank
of England Joint-stock Company.

PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND.—At the Wesleyan Con-
ference lately held, the president asked Mr. Waugh, one of
the Irish representatives, if he could give them. a general
notion of the amount_ of emigrations from the Wesleyan
societies in Ireland during the last fifteen years? Mr. Waugh
said that he did not think the number would be less than ten
thousand; that they might almost be called (together with
their families) the very cream of the society, as they mostly
had a little independence, and bad thus been enabled to
remove from a country in which Protestants deeply felt that
they were positively discountenanced. He added that many
of the more respectable Roman Catholics, who did not like
to join in plans of revolt, and even blood, likewise, were
glad to emigrate.
HONESTY IN A SERVANT.—The following singular circum-
'stance is said to .have lately occurred at Baden-Baden :—A
yOung Austrian count having had uncommon good luck at
roulette, brought home and carefully locked up 30,000 florins
(about 65„000, francs.) When he arose in the morning not
only his gold was gone, but, to his astonishment, his old faith-
ful ScrVant Fritz was missing also.. In about a week's time,
to. his surprise, Fritz made his appearance. " And where do
yOu conie from 2" said the count--" From Vienna." "What
have you been there for, and what's become of my money?"—
"Why, sir, I thought you Would play again, and- lose your
money, so I took it home, and here's your fathei's receipt for
it."—Are there any but German valets that would take such
precaution ?
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF COINERS.—On Thursday 111Orn•
ing last, Phcenix, keeper, of the New Islington lock-ups,
while on his way to the New Bailey, saw two men sitting upon
a stone in a yard by Ladyman's Hotel, in the act of rubbing
something. He went up, to them; and, as soon as they saw
him, they ran and dropped a paper, which, on examination,
appeared to be composition used to.make zinc look like cop-
per. 'Williainsou, another officer, who was going by, ob-
serving a crowd, went to see what was the matter; and, by
his aid, both the men were secured. On searching them,
several counterfeit pennies were found upon them.—The pri-
soners, whose names are Enoch Taylor and James Jones,
were brought up at the New Bailey the same day; and, having
nothing to say in their defence, were committed for trial.—
Manchester Courier.

AN INDOLENT HUSBAND.—"To this complexion have we
come at last."—lt has been the luck of one of our body cor-
porate to have amassed as much of this world's gains as to
leave him in reputed possession of what enabled him to
affirm that he is worth £l,OOO when all his just debts are
paid; yet he suffers his care sposa to drudge in the capacity
of charwoman for eighteen pence a day, in order, it is said.
to repair the loss which the husband sustains on a too con-
stant attendance to the best interests of the borough, on com-
mittees and at public meetings of the body corporate of
Stockport, as one of the radical members of " our little
parliament." We shall furnish this interesting fact to my
Lord John Russell, in order that he may be made aware of
the extent of the usefulness of his household suffrage repre-
sentation, with an invitation, too, that he will, during the re-
cess, pay this town a visit, and witness, with his own eyes,
paraded in the council chamber, a dozen others of the et hoc
genus omne. If he could hut once witness " old Sally"
scrubbing the stone window sills and stone steps of the
houses of " her betters," or at the wash-tub of some neigh-
bour, he would be delighted at the thought that the munici-
pal reform act had conferred so great an htinour on any man
who was worthy of so industrious and so useful a woman to
her neighbours as " OLD SALLY."—Stockport Advertiser.
EXTRAORDINARY LUNACY.—On Monday last a commis-
sion of lunacy was opened at Ipswich, to inquire into the state
of mind of l'obias Rivett, Esq., of Brockford, an old gentle-
man of 70 years of age, the last survivor of a very ancient
family in the county of Suffolk, Mr. Rivett had been mad
for more than forty years. At a very early period of life he
showed a most revengeful spirit, acting with great malignity,
to those offending him. About thirty-five years since, he at-
tacked a toll-gate keeper, who had given him offence, and
most seriously injured him. In consequence of this and other
similar conduct, he was put under restraint ; and, when being
conveyed to the asylum, he refused to pay for his own and
the constable's breakfast, alleging that he had not a penny in
the world, whilst he had in his pocket at the time more than
£14.000 in notes and gold. After his release from the asylum,
he gave up living in the mansion house of the family, and
took a labourer's cottage, in which be has since resided; has-
- ing dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals, as his companions.
All his money has been hoarded, and he has refused to draw
the interest accruing from a large sum in the funds, giving as
a reason for so acting, his not having received a certificate
of his release from the madhouse. He fancies himself to be
the rector of the parish, has demanded tithes as such, and of-
-fetid to appoint curates to do the duty. A few years since,
his brother, a gentleman of large fortune, died suddenly,
leaving him heir to the estates; but the unfortunate gentle-
man refused to administer, and has never called for any rent,
The tenants have cut down the timber to a most ruinous ex-
tent, and sold several thousand pounds worth ; but he refused
either to prosecute them for the offence, or to prohibit their
committing further waste. Shortly before -the last assizes,
some thieves broke into Mr. Rivett's cottage, and stole seve-
ral bags of gold and r.,11s of notes, containing £5O each; but,
on the trial of the offenders, he would not give evidence against
them, and they were necessarily acquitted. Amongst other
extraordinary conduct of this-gentleman, was his knocking
down the side of his house, removing the staircase, and get-
ting into his room by means of a ladder, which he afterwards
drew up into the apartment. He kept a colt, dogs, cats, and
other animals, tied up in the chamber in which he slept, and
refused to permit the filth to be cleared out of the place. He
was once conveyed- to prison for refusing to give sureties to
keep the peace towards a toll-gate keeper, at whom, he dis-
charged a gun. Mr. J. Beck, of Brockford, said that Mr.
Rivett, some years since, claimed witness's estate; and on his
refusing to admit the claim, he attempted to shoot him. Mr.
J. Beck, jun. also deposed to having been shot at by him.
Mr. Rivett was himself introduced to the jury, and during
his examination the public were excluded from the court. The
unfortunate gentleman possesses great beauty of features, and
a fine majestic form ; his beard hung down low on his breast,
and was as white as snow. The jury found that be had been
insane and of unsound mind since the year 1806:
- TROUBLES OF Tllfi STOCKPORT CORPORATION.—There is
a musty, but nevertheless useful, old proverb which informs
us that when people of a certain character fall out certain
other people come by their own. In all but the alternative,
this ancient saying has well nigh been accomplished in the
neighbouring borough of Stockport, within the last week.
It would appear that sometime in the course of last year the
corporation of Stockport obtained an act of parliament for
the improvement of the borough, at a cost to the inhabitants
of something like £1,700. No improvements have as yet been
made, or even attempted, notwithstanding the fact that the
act is limited in its operation to five years from the time of
its passing, and on Wednesday the town council assembled a
meeting of the inhabitants for the purpose of " ordering and
directing certain improvements named in the schedule of the
improvement act, to be carried into effect by the council of
the borough." Well, the inhabitants—at least the "liberal"
portion of them—did meet, but they met only to squabble with
and upbraid their governors for having " humbugged" them
in " the gas question," which one of the speakers contended
" they had yet to dispose of before they meddled with other
schemes." The same person also squabbled with them for
convening the meeting at a " tory" hour, and declared that
by such tricks " they were compelling the real reformers to
turn tories." The upshot of the whole affair was, that the
motion for the improvement was lost by a large majority, and
the adjournment of the meeting for twelve months carried by
a large majority. Truly, the worthies of the Stockport de-
bating society—for the town couucil is nothing better—are
dancing to a melancholy tune; but, as the parody says, when
scavenger meets scavenger, then comes a horrid clatter of
scoops and besoms. But even if they smash each other's
heads in the rencontre there is not much danger of many
braini being lost to the borough. Their squabbles, we con-
fess, are somewhat interesting; but to be picquant they should
age a little more furiously.—Manchester Courier.