The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-19 00:00:00

AN OFFICER AND A G'ENTLEMAN

(AS THEY ARE IN AMERICA.)

And most confidently do we hope that the day is not far dis-
tant when Britain, instead of being unfortunately ruled by a
whig-radical faction, will-be blessed with a conservative govern-
ment, which will bring forward and carry such measures, and
adopt such a line of conduct, as will make us once more assume
that proud position in the scale of nations, which was enjoyed
before we became subject to the domination under which we
now labour, and render Ireland a prosperous, contented and
happy country, instead of being a scene of misery, barbarism
and crime, occasioned, or at least, excited and promoted by the
basest demagogues that ever polluted the earth.
And we most earnestly call upon all true conservatives, and
' those who dread revolution and all its attendant horrors and
crimes, to abandon every minor point of difference which may-
subsist between them, and nobly do their duty in the great
struggle now approaching, and then the full consummation of
all our wishes will doubtless be effected; and although we are
aware that our limited efforts will avail little, yet-combined-with
others which, from onP end of the land to the other, will be
used, we doubt not of achieving a most glorious and triumphant
victory over those who are endeavouring by every. device to
work out the accomplishment of the nefarious, destructive, and
monstrous plans that ever entered into the human imagination
to conceive.

THE CHURCH BELL.

Written for the Liverpool Standard.

A gladsome sound on the summer's morn
Is the chime of the Sabbath bell
From afar on the ear, at intervals borne
• By the breeze's fitful swell!
The pleasant peal like music floats
O'er rock, and field, and wood;
But softer, sweeter still its notes
Come o'er the sunlit flood.

The quiet city hears its voice
Proclaiming a day of peace,
And its wearied multitudes rejoice
That their toils awhile may cease.

It tells'of rest, and it bids us praise
Him who that rest bath given—
It bids us haste to his house and raise
Our songs and our prayers to heaven.
Its soft, sweet tones the sick man hears,
And it soot heth his agony;
For it seems to say i❑ his chamber drear,
" They will kneel—they will pray for thee."
The widow who weeps o'er her fatherless young,
Though homeless and helpless they be,
Will wipe off her tears while its iron tongue
Calls aloud—" They will pray for ye."
Its voice is heard in the murderer's cell,
Where a doomed man lies he, •
Yet he blesseth the words of that solemn bell—
" They will pray, yea, even for thee."
0 may that bell ne'er cease to sing
Its song of.rest and peace,
Until-revolving weeks shall bring
A sabbath that shall not cease !

SONG, - ' - -
"TO THE WIVES AND THE MOTHERS OP BRITAIN."

(For. the Liverpool Standard.)
Let each fill his glass--fill it up to the brim,
For my toast Is well worthy a full one;
Nor would I give much for the feelings of him
Who should deem it a vapid or dull one.
For him not a wine-cup deservedly foams,
Whatever gay room he may sit in;
I give you—the women that brighten our homes
"The wives.and the mothers of Britain !"
'Tis a toast comprehensive—it leaves no one out
Whose smiles make an English hearth pleasant,
From the fair cottage matron that, healthy and stout,
Delights the bold heart' of the peasant.
From her to the dame of the stateliest ball
Our proudest nohilitv-eitin; ' • •
And up to the QUEBN,,Who presides over all
"The wives and the mothers of Britain!"

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Nor will we forget the sweet rose-buds that blow
Beneath the kind eve of those, mothers,
Whose hearts are their own; yet not long ►nay be so,
But devotedly, meekly, anotheet:
Let us hope that their son's will be patriots true,
Like those in the rooin that we sit in;
And still be it felt there is reverence due
"To the wives and the mothers of. Britain !"

. .
' AMaRtCAN vv:—T.he whole of the Aineri"cair squadron in
UM Mediterranean, quitted that station for America. before the
last accounts came away.—lfctnnoshire Telegraph.
•
• REDUCTION OF BUILT/LENS NO RELIEF TO THE TENANT.—It
appears from a letter addressed to .the editor of •the Bucks Ga-
zette ofSaturday last. that a person of tbe.name of Jones stated,
at the late meeting of the Bucks Agricultural Society, that, in
consequence of the reduction iu the,poor-rate, effected by the
new law, a certain
,landlord; in a certain village in that county,
had raised his rents. We comin'endahis to the notice of 'Mr.'
rte stuff."
tke,as e
If all
their
Cayley, /who' a short. time since, that, "if prices were
l'aodloVds would 'nt bers,orri.hviits kiscdp a
osp o r
a nc ,
rents."—Mark-lane Es-press.
the LUCeS'O6-1611d" weft taken off; the landlords only and not the
tenants would be benefitted. -Why should the landowners more
than the owners of houses be abused for accepting the highest
offer made to them for the rent of their property? It the rent
of land be too high, the fault rests with the tenants who enter
into engagements to pay more than its value. "A strike"
among the farmers would set this matter right. The English
firmers are not obliged; like serfs, to cultivate the soil, except
for the mutual advantage of the two contracting-parties, the
landlord and the tenant.)

We extract the, following puff superlative from a New
York paper. It comes up pretty nearly to .some of the
best performances of our Mr. Buckingham in the same
line. It will be observed that this accomplished riding-
master starts as Captain Pearce, subsides to Mister
Pearce, and sinks down to'" Mr. P." We envy the
Americans in having obtained such a treasure from Fug-
land. Five to one he is an Irishman !

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"RIDING Scnoot..—Captain Pearce,. riding-master, (late
14th King's Light Dragoons,) begs to acquaint the ladies and
gentlemen ,of New York, that he purposes establishing a riding-
house in this city, on. the most reeentlyipproved plan of the
London schools.. Having served in the light .cavalry from, an
early period:of:his life, and on retiring from the:service, at the
termination of.theyeninsular canipaign,Pas devoted his undi-
vided atteptioni to the-duties of the riding-house, both in. Lon-
don, and all the most fashionable watering-placeS' in England,,
where he has had the honour of -forming, -under • his imitiediiite;
direction, some of the most :grace4il, elegant, .and easy ectiies,
trians of ()Oh sexes, in the most modern- system of Monnting
and dismounting, as practised at the riding7houSes,
Wood and Albany, Regents'-park,sLondon, where 'an hundred
ladies of the highest rank daily advantage- themselves cif this
elegant and healthy accompliihment,: su. highly recommended
by the faculty of London, &c., 'for females particularly: The
Most delicate attention, as-an.qfficer and gentleman, will forth a
prominent part of the. riding-master's unremitting solicitude,.
bo' h in school, and his escorting ladies in country.exercises, and
having an accomplished son, educated under his immediate: in-
struction, in the direction of the riding-house, who will con-
duct the junior classes of young-gentlemen. The riding-master
will not permit any gentleman, unless a parent, to be present
at the operation of the ladies' riding. One hour will occupy
each class. The classes will be formed according_ to progress,
or to suit the convenience of families. Exercises may be taken
privately, if so desired, or in class. Mr. Pearce has erected
and conductgd.forthree years a most splendid riding-house. at
Montreal, Lower Canada, where he has had the honour to make
efficient in this delightful and healthy accomplishment all the
juvenile branches of respectability in that city, from
:whose pa-
rents Mr. P. is proffered, if required, the most honotirable testi-
monials—as a gentleman and practical professor. .111i:-P. pro-
poses during the winter months to give lessons in the Much ap-
proved arid healthy, elegant and graceful exercises in the Cal-
listhenies, so highly appreciated and _recommended in--London
by the faculty to the highest families and seminaries, where the
balance pole club and balance reels cannot fail to accomplish in
young ladies, whose sedentary education require the most un-
remitting attention to obtain that expansive elasticity and flexi-
bility of deportment so indispensibly requisite to health and gen-
tlemanly deportment. Should Mr. P. be able to procure a.suit-
able place for riding exercises to prepare for spring riding, he
will commence immediately, the bracing weather being the
most adapted for equestrian tuition. -Young gentlemen's esta-
blishments attended.-in the instruction of the various -military
drills so highly appreciated and carried into operation in all the
high houses of classical education in the vicinity of London,
where Mr. P. has had the honiur of directing the sword, lance,
club, carribine, and musket exercises—expansice and extensive
motions will form the leading parts of the drills. Cards of ad-
dress may be had,"

ASIITON-UNDER-LYNE OPERATIVE CONSERVA-
TIVE-SOCIETY.

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A general meeting of.this society was held 'on Monday week,
when the following spirited declaration was unanimously adop-
ted :

We, the operative conservatives of Ashton•under-Lyre and
.ts vicinity, regarding the present-period as one of great im-
portance, and the measures about to be introduced•into parlia-
men relative to the church establishment and tithes, as tending
to the serious danger, if not ultimate total destruction 'of the
paramount superiority of the. protestant religion, deem it im-
perative upon us to declare our fixed and deter Mined resolution
to use our best endeavours* in conjunction with every other
loyal and well disposed subject of these realms, to oppose every
measure which shall have for its object the infringement or ab-
breviation of the privileges of the church, or the application
of its revenues to any other purpose than the promotion of the
geueral ; welfare and the support and protection of the church
itself. '
And we further declare our firm conviction to be, that on the
defence and prosperity of our church, and the preservation of
its privileges inviolate, depend the' institutions of the country
and the safety of the monarchy—being perfectly satisfied that
the altar and the throne are interwoven with each other, that
the destruction of the one must inevitably lead to the annihila-
tion of the other. But we at the same time admit our readi-
ness to aid in the reformation of every proved abuse, and the
improvement of every acknowledged imperfection, so that our
glorious and tolerant religion may, if possible, become more
.pure and perfect, and form a more brilliantalid leading star to
guide and encourage us in our exertions and endeavours to pro-
mote the prosperity of our country than it already is.
We also declare that we view with feelings of disgust and ap-
prehension, the base, unprincipled, and 'unprecedented' coali-
tion which has been formed between our rulers and certain
members of the lower house, and also between various secta-
rians and papists, deists, and infidels, having for its ultimate
object the total subversion of the protestant church and the pro-
testant religion. And we earnestly call upoir all those noble
defenders of our religion, our country, and our law; who are in
both bouSes of parliament, to remain firm in their unflinching
opposition to the nefarious measures which are,intended to be
brought before them; and to defeat the machinations of the un-
natural combination now existing against them, and to conti-
nue a close and courageous band, which all the united. powers
of our unprincipled and revolutionary enemies can never con-
quer or break. And we also call upon all electors to watch
well the proceedings of their representatives, and when another
election arrives, to distinguish the friends from the foes of their
country, and to return to parliament such men only as will sup-
port the constitution as by law established, prevent the danger-
ous inroads of agitation and uncalled for change, and extend
and improve the agricultural, manufacturing and commercial
interests, and promote the general welfare and prosperity of the
nation.