The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

freely allow ; but that Liverpool has no vested interes,
in that system by which her merchants, and other in-
habitants, were induced largely to direct their capital
and devote their time to certain objects, and which,
with the abolition of that system, would in a great mea-

sure cease to exist for their benefit, is what we deny,
and what we should conceive any impartial tribunal

would rule in our favour

Our contempor,ry's allusion to the China monopoly
will not afford him the least support. That monopoly
was taken from the East India Company, not that it
might be shared merely with Liverpool, or Bristol, or

Glasgow, or any other port, but that the community at

large might obtain an important article of consumption
at a reduced price

of the monopoly was
kingdom, and if all the advan-

The removz

intended as a boon to the

tages contemplated have not fc

lowed, some unques-

tionably have. But is there any pretext—any decent
excuse of this kind set up in the case of this inland
bonding bill ? How are the people—how is the com-
munity at large to be served by depriving Liverpool of
her natural or acquired advantages, and transferring,

or attempting to transfer them to some inland town ?
Who will gain by that ? Will Manchester goods be
lowered in price to the consumer by reason of that

piece of transmutation ? No ; not one twentieth part
of a farthing in the bale. It is altogether an affair of
the factory ; the community at large has no interest in
it. The question then comes simply to this—is a posi-
tive injury to be done to one place on the very remote

chance of some contingent good being (lone to another,

or some few in it, without even the pretence of any
general result beneficial to the community being looked
for ? We submit that there is but one answer to this
question, and that any other involves palpable nnsound-
n6s in theory, and gross injustice in action. '

disgraced and discomfited ministry has resorted

) a base expedient, which has excited fur the moment
o much surprise and indignation that the settled feel-

the country has not yet had time to utter itself

They feel that their ship is sinking, and they care not
what they throw overboard in their undissernbled ter-
ror and desperate effort to lighten it. Their defeat of
Thursday exhibits their miserable weakness without

ossibility of disguise. Ther Irish Registration
)n which they have existed, or rather endeavoured

:o escape extinction, since the commencement of the
session, is now gone to the tomb of all the Capulets.
Their humiliation is as palpable as it is painfnl, and
the question in every body's mouth is, or was, what will
they do now ? Will they resign ? But no ; that, in-

deed, will be the last sign they will ever make
have the anti-corn-law sedition yet to feed. The corn
duties remain to be repealed, and why should these
faithful, fast-sticking ministers resign, whilst they have
that card to play ? This is surely an admirable sop
for Cerberus ; and if it fails, have they not annual par-
liaments and vote by ballot yet to give away, or pro-
mise ? And, failing these, they have still in reserve
universal suffrage, or some other incredible thing, no
mattter how revolutionary or abominable, so as it would

.fford them something to promise and another quarter
n office. The head of the coterie has declared, and
he declaration is on record, that to repeal the corn
luties would be madness ; nor have his party hitherto

given any intimation that they had the most distant
notion of yielding to the clamour on this head. But
necessity is a severe task-master. It did not then
"rain minorities" so thick and fast upon them, nor
was disgrace altogether so familiar with them as it is
Desperate cases require desperate remedies, and

now the malady has arrived at that stage when these
appliances must be had recourse to. But will they
effect a cure ? We are perfectly confident that they
gill not. The people are sick of the O'Connell-Whigs,
nd will not be gulled by the base and unprincipled
ch they have just put in operation.

lagem w

liggery is unpopular, and nothing can save its down-
. 'We shall take another opportunity fully to justify

;hese several allegations.
As to the budget we have only to observe, that it
affords another melancholy proof of the desperate
shifts to which these . reckless incapables are driven.
Not only are our colonies sacrificed, but religion and
morality are outraged by the ways and means to which
they have resorted, to catch at revenue and supply de-
ficiencies. Admirable moralists ! _ Excellent patrias !
Skilful managers Incomparable ministers I

LOCAL NEWS

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New STEAM COMPANY IN NEWRY.—A most influen-
tial meeting was held in the Assembly-rooms, Newry, on
Monday last, for the purpose of forming a company for the
purchase of a steam-vessel to ply between Newry and Liver-
pool. A resolution was passedin the affirmative, and another

at the of the company be £lo,oooa thousand

THE SEE OF WORCESTER.—Dr. Pepys, the Bishop of
Sodor and Man, will be translated to the see of Worcester,
vacant by the decease of. Dr. Carr ; and it is expected that
Dr. Short, rector of Bloomsbury, will be promoted to Sodor
and Man.

THE PRESIDENT.—No intelligence of this vesiel has yet
been received, but there has not been any arrival from Ber-
muda later than the 30th ult., and we have no news from the
West Indies sufficiently late to have reached there had she
missed Bermuda, and made for that quarter. We trust

sincerely that the expectation arising from this circumstance,
and still adhered to, may yet be realised.
LORD \VALDEGRAVE AND CAPT/.IN DUFF.—On Thurs-
day last Lord Waldegrave and Captain Duff were brought up
in the Court of Queen's Bench, to receive judgment for the
assault on a policeman. As the affidavits on the part of the
prisoners were not quite ready, Sir F. Pollock requested the
court to postpone the case for a short time. Lord Denman
then said, " Let it stand peremptorily for Monday" (yester-
day.)
LARCEN Y

—Mary Ann Bowman, a respectably=dressed

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oung woman, who appeared greatly affected by the situation
n which she was placed, was brought before Mr. Rushton,
In Saturday, charged with having robbed Mr. William Davis,
aceman, of Buoy-street. Thomas Ainsworth, constable,
stated, that, on Wednesday, the 21st April last, he was called

into the shop of Mr. Clarke, Scotland road, where he found
the prisoner detained. Her box wag pointed out to him, in
a front bedroom, which, having obtained4he key from the
prisoner, he opened, and found several articles of finery,
which had been stolen. Ile took her to the Police-office;
but, as the charge was not pressed, she was not detained.
He kept the articles, and subsequently found that they be-
longed to Mr. Davis. He went to Manchester, and there
found the prisoner at a shop, in Oxford-street. He took her
into custody, and again examined her box, in which he found
several articles of jewellery, which had been since claimed.
by Mr. Davis. She confessed that she had taken the pro-
perty, and said she must have been prompted to it by the evil
spirit. Mrs. Davis said, the prisoner had worked in her ser-
vice as a milliner, and that while she was there they had
missed goods from the shop, and also the jewellery. The
prisoner appeared overcome with grief, and held her hands
imploringly to Mr. Rushton. Mr. Rushton said, " I can do
nothing for you : you have here committed several felonies."
The prisoner appealed to Mr. Davis, and begged him to have
mercy on her. Mr. Rushton': " Mr.i Davis has no power to
have mercy on her. You have stolen those articles, and you
must suffer for it. You had no excuse t many poor persons
are tried and punished for stealing who are, perhaps, urged
to it by necessity."

THE BIRKENHEAD WATER BILL.—A meeting was held
on Friday evening, at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, in con-
sequence of a placard which had appeared, summoning the
ratepayers to consider the proposed water bill, now before
parliament. J. D. Case, Esq. in the chair.—Mr. Brodribb
opposed the bill, upon the principle that the rates for water
were excessive.—Mr. Appleton defended the bill, upon the
grounds that it was a boon to the public, and a water company
being much wanted, as the supply was good and wholesome
in some parts of the township, and not in others : and there-
fore, if the ratepayers were supplied by a company, all would
benefit thereby.—Mr. Laycock contended that the ratepay-
ers had not besn fairly dealt with, and that they had not
been consulted by the promoters of the bill.—Mr. Jackson,
in replying to the observations which had been made, de-
clared that his object in promoting the bill was for the public
good as well as his own ; that a feeling had been excited
against him very unhandsomely, and that he had been un-
fairly dealt with. Mr. Jackson offered the contract to the
Birkenhead shareholders if it was wished by the ratepayers,
and that the commissioners might take the water-works off
his hands on payment of part of his expenses in going to par-
liament, and the cost of the works. Mr. Jackson concluded
an animated address in declaring that he only wanted fair
remuneration for his risk, capital, and outlay.—Mr. Mallaby
stated the part he had taken in the matter, and signified his
intention to resign his office of clerk to the commissioners,
in consequence of his not being allowed by them to give any
other than a legal opinion upon matters before them.
DEATH OF GENERAL HARRISON.—MEETING AT THE
GRECIAN HOTEL.—On Friday evening a meeting of Ameri-
can merchants, shipmasters, and others, convened by pla-
cards, was held at the Grecian Hotel, Dale-street, for the
purpose of adopting
such measures as might be deemed ap-
propriate to express their grief at the death of General Har-
rison, late president of the United States. The chair was
occupied on the occasion by Francis B. Ogden, Esq., of New
York. The chairman opened the proceedings by briefly stat-
ing the object for which the meeting had been convened.
He said there was no distinction of party on the present oc-
casion, but that they were assembled in a foreign country, as
Americans, to resolve upon the proper mode of expressing
their respect for the memory of their deceased president.
Captains Bridges, Smith, and Lowber were then appointed
a deputation to prepare suitable resolutions, and they having
retired for that purpose, Mr. John B. Murray, of New York,
the secretary, addressed the meeting. He, as an American
citizen, begged to say that they had been called to meet to-
gether that evening to express their sense of the deep regret
they felt at becoming acquainted with the melancholyintelli-
gence of the death of the president of the United. States.
They had come not to speak of General Harrison as the whig
candidate, but as their departed president, as the man whom
the majority of their fellow-citizens had called to the chief
office of the country, and whose loss they mourned. He (the
secretary) for one felt that he had lost a father because their
president had departed, and when their country lost its pre-
sident, he felt that he had lost a friend. He hoped that every,
gentleman present felt a deep sense of the loss they were suf-
fering under, and that when their proceedings should be
taken back to the department of state, it would be seen in
America that they, in Liverpool, though they resided in a fo-
reign land, did not forget their home,their president, or their
fellow-citizens. Thanks were returned to the chairman and
secretary, and the meeting separated.