The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1853.

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RATE Of TARES, and DaNs Of RETURIV, see small bills, which
can be obtained upon application.
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19, LEIGHZETREET, LIVERPOOL.
I Early application is requested.

LI'VERPOOL DOCKS.
ELECTION OF AUDIT COMMISSIONERS,

. ,
t 1; pursuance elf the Acts "relating to the Docks And
Harbour of Liverpool, I, tbeundersigned GEORGE VA-
L NTI NE TANTON, Treasurer and Receiver of the Rates and
Duties by the sane Acts authorised to be raised, levied, and col-
lected, do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the usual ANNUAL
MEETING of 'the MERCHANTS inhabiting in the Town of
Liverpool, and being Owners or part Owners of Ships'belonging
to the Port of 'Liverpool, and 'of all persons inhabiting in the
said town, wnE. either as Principals or Agents, and 'Who shall
have paid the-said rates and -ditties upon goods imported or ex-
ported into.or out of the Port'cf Liverpool, within the preceding
six calendar-months, will be held, and that they are by the said
Acts required to assemble, at-and in the Town-hall of Liverpool
aforesaid, ,on SATURDAY, the 25th day of June instant, at
Twelve edkck at Noon, and then and there, byWriting under
the hands,of the major part-of them so assembled together as
aforesaid,,to Elect, Norninkte, and Appoint Eight-Persons, not
being members of the Town Council of Liverpool, to be eight of
the Comnaissioners for theparposes of inspecting, auditing,and
adjusting the Accounts -of the collections, rtceipts, and dis-
bursements of all the moneys which shall be collected,-levied,
and received by the Trifstees of the Liverpool Docks, during
the year thence next-ensuing, under and by-virtue of fhe said
Acts,-and for the ether praposes in the same Acts mentioned.
GEORGE V. TANTON, Treasurer.
Do'elt,-office, Lioerpo6l,l3th June, 1853.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD ANDCOPYHOLD 'LAND IN

BE BY BRECK.

' rile be SOLD, by PRIVATE TivEkrY, a FREE-
I 'HOLD MEF.,,SIUkGE or DWELLING-HOUSE and GAR-
.
DEN, called Willow ,Batfic, situate on the northwardly side of
Torn send-lane, Derbl.',Bneck, near Cabhagellati, in the town-
shiryof West De.tily, together with the BARN, COTTAGE and
GARDEN. And, 'also, a FREEHOLD COTTAGE, OUT-
BUILDINGS, and,GARDEN adjoining the above, and now in
the .occupatiott of Mr. Wilson Forster,- or his utrdertenants,
',containing 2 acres, I:rood, and 6 perches. statute measure or
thereabouts. And-three several Closes or Parcels of COPY-
RI.),LD LAND, held ^of the Manor of West Derby, situate on
the Northwardly ^side •of Townsend lane aforesaid, called the
`:Sand-hey, Oat-heyi- and the Pasture-hey, 'containing in the
i•whale 12 acres and 2,perches, statute measure •or thereabouts,
:and now in the .oceupation of Wilson Forster.. And three
•several other Closes or Parcels of COPYROLD.LAND, held of
:•;,:the said ,Manor orWest Derby, situate en the southwardly side
:,of Townsend-lane -aforesaid, called the Further outlet, the
Nearer-meadow.-att&tbe Further-meadow. containing in the
,!‘:;tvtioltefl.l2,3ahcnnes" sim.p62"eri roods,
and 14 perches, and no...yin the occupa-
bbage-hall,•or his under tenants.
IFor further 'particulars apply to -Mr. 401141 C. GROCOTT,
'tSolicitor, Na. 6,4Easnett-street, Liverpool.

'TO CORRESPONDENTS
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rays tbroaghdrops,of train being rettected.on opposite clouds
,For its purpose, see Genesis ix. U.
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LB. and J.D. should:first make up his mind as to the nature
of his complaint,,and•traen express it istelligibly.

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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2,11, 1853.

LIVERPOOL ;;ELECTION INQUIRY

XORTNEGIXT has,eLapsed since the Select Com-
mittee of the Houseef Commons commenced its
isokuiry into the Petition against the late Election
for Liverpool, and the question may fairlyhe asked,
whet has been done Scores of witnesses have
been examined, the•moot simple transactions have
been tortured into-bribery and corruption, and all
that has really' een pro'ed is that the`Petition is
frivolous and ceaatiQuc. In every point-have the
Petitioners failed to convince any honest ortintelli-

gent man of the truth.cf their allegations, while
they shave disgusted eventtheir own party with the
, folly of their proceedings. The experience of ,pre-
'• vious elections, when Liberal candidates were the
,primomovers, might have !left the impression that
some. portion of the Liverpool electors were .still
open to.aimilar influences, but the examination has
'tended 'to purify the constituency from traditional
shame.; -and whatever may be 'the decision of the
Committee, the electors will Al/and in the eyes •of
41e -world ,acquitted of all blame, and presenting
the gratifying spectacle of a body .of men, many of
them in lumble life, vindicating their character for
political consistency, and justifying their right to
enjoy the franchise which they so worthily exercised.
Of the thousands who came to the pcll, to vote for
the defence .of the Shipping Interests And the pre-
servation of the purity of the Protestant Faith, it
has not been .shewn that one of them gave his vote
for a meaner consideration, while it has been abun-
dantly proved that 'the basest attempts have been
made to induce these men to give evidence to the
contrary. It would be tedious to enter minutely
into any analysis of the evidence of the several
witnesses which have been examined, for nearly all
tell the same story; and when it is divested of the
colouring which legal ingenuity would throw around
it, we can only arrive at one conclusion, that the
working men were allowed a holiday according to
custom on the day of election ; and, in order that
it should be really a holiday, they were paid the
wages which they would otherwise have earned at
their several trades. It has not even been shewn
that this payment in any way influenced their votes,
or was attempted to operate so ; and yet upon this
flimsy pretext, so paltry, that every honest man in
Liverpool is thoroughly ashamed of the transaction,
Mr. RATHBONE and his co-conspirators have
endeavoured to fix a stigma upon the Borough and
render void an election which was a credit to all
who assisted in gaining it. But if in the opinion
of the Petitioners the electoral body really required
purification, what becomes of the purity of Mr.
RATHBONE, jun., when he was compelled to admit
that he made use of the petition in order to gain one
of the seats for Mr. CARDWELL by the offer of a
compromise, which was indignantly spurned. The
whole affair is so transparently infamous, 50

principles.

avowedly corrupt in object and intention, that we
have not the slightest fears for the result. If the
Committee do their duty as honest men, they will
declare the petition to be frivolous and vexatious,
and saddle those who instituted the proceedings
with all the heavy costs, which will be too light a
punishment for their turpitude ; but if, on the
other hand, party should prevail over principle, and
with that ingenious casuistry with which the new-
found zeal for political purity tortures any petty
circumstance to its own ends, the Committee should
declare Messrs. TURNER and MACKENZIE not
duly elected, the electors of Liverpool will justify
their own character for consistency, and by a far
more triumphant majority return two Conservatives
to represent them in the present Parliament.

THE COALITION MINISTRY-
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?

ALMOST six months have elapsed since Lord ABER-
DEEN composed his Coalition Ministry upon Con-
servative-Liberal principles, and the country has
now a fair right to inquire what they have done,
more particularly as the season is fast approaching
when the increase of temperature and the desire for
lure' recreation will render all legislation a mere
hurried passing of Bills through their several
stages. It is well known that in ordinary cabinet-
work the coalition of various fancy woods is
usually intended more for ornament than use, and
our present rulers seem to act upon the same
principle, though it may be difficult to discover
wherein consists the ornament. The similarity,
however, is much closer—in the absence of the
useful. Before the Easter recess nothing was done,
because the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was not ready with his Financial Statement, and
since then everything else has had to give way in order
that his various proposals to increase and diminish
taxation might receive their .due share of discus-
sion ; so that the session will be brought to a close
with the simple announcement that the Budget has
been carried. The Landed Interest have had their

claims for relief met with additional burdens.
Ireland, after her suffering from the famine, the
pestilence, and the desertion of her population, is

saddled with the Income Tax ; the clamourers for
cheap Tea have to pay in the price of the article
the small saving in the duty ; and all the boon of the
fiscal alterations is comprised in cheap Soap. This,
then, is the solitary sheaf of the Sessional harvest,
and all the noted tact of Lord JOHN RUSSELL is
brought into play, in order to spin out the time
until the prorogation, and for this simple reason,
that there is no one principle of Legislation upon
which this united Cabinet can agree. The Radicals
were promised a measure of Parliamentary Reform,
but they will look in vain for any proposal which
shall satisfy the Conservatism of the Peelites, the
moderate views of the Whig section, or the extreme
notions of the ultra Liberals. In opinions and desires
they are as wide as the poles asunder ; any tangible
proposition would split the Ministry into fragments ;
and their real strength consists in doing nothing.
This is the Conservative progress upon which the
Premier dilated with such unmeaning declamation
at the commencement of his career, and the inter-
pretation of the strange phrase is now becoming
evident even to the warmest of his supporters.
The task of inventing something to talk about was
thrown upon their financial oracle, Mr. GLAD-
ingenious legerdemain, of putting on here and
STONE ; and he has wonderfully succeeded, by an
taking off there, to find employment for the House
of Commons without provoking discussions which
might prove inconvenient. The main object was
retention of place, which was only to be secured
by an indefinite postponement of every question
which was likely to create a difference of opinion ;
and this description applies to almost every subject
which has agitated the public mind out of doors.
A short time-since a bill was introduced for the ex-
tension of 'National Education, and Lord JOHN
RUSSELL took great credit to himself for his zeal
ia behalf of religious instruction. The Dissenters,
however, have discovered that scholars are more
wanted than schools ; that a compulsory rate would
supersede voluntary aid, and that the Church might
he more benefited than the sectaries. They have,
therefore, petitioned against the bill, and the cun-
ning Minister has quietly shelved it until a more
convenient season. On the question of the reve-
nues of the Irish Church, the novel zeal of Lord
JOHN RUSSeLL against the Romish priests, of
whom he has been the chief supporter, produced a
Ministerial rupture ; hut the prudent Lord ABER-
DEEN lured back the deserters by repudiating the
-sentiments of his principal colleague, so that we
have the leaders of each House of Parliament
avowing a difference of opinion on a vital question,
.and yet remaining together in office, because a split
would be fatal to both of them. It would be im-
possible to point to any one advantage which the
country has derived from the accession of the pre-
sent Ministry, and it would be equally as difficult
to point to one which there is the slightest reason
to expect ; and yet, for this mongrel compound
of opposite opinions and antagonistic principles,
the .country has lost the services of the able Lord
DERBY, and the influence of the great Conservative
party, for which such exertions were made at the last
election, is being frittered away in listless inactivity.
Legislation, indeed, for any beneficial purpose, has
become impracticable; the real business of the
country has been brought to a dead lock, with no
apparent prospect of any relief; political principles
have become, as far as concerns public men, of
doubtful meaning ; and all this has been brought
about because a few professing Conservatives, closely
imitating their late leader in his political treachery,
have belied all their previous professions and joined
their opponents, in order to mortify their friends
There was something very plausible in the avowal
lolcefoamtgh uep eols ;is te di be t irotef, when
everyhd fn-
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Ministryhm i asdcieos
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phase of extreme opinions, the Presbyterian Pre-
mier, 7the Tractarian and Conservative Mr. GLAD.
STO:Nt, the Protestant and Whig Lord JOHN
RUSSEMi, the Romanist Mr. KEOGH, and the
Radical Sir W1t.,14A34 MOLESWORTH, we can
readily ,understand that no measure of any impor-
tance can possibly emanate from such discordant
elements, and we maysafely predict that the session
will be brought to a close with cheap Soap, and a
permanent income Tax, as the only fruits of it. We
must therefore be content to bide our time, until
the electors will open their eyes to the vital impor-
tance of returning Conservative Representatives,
and the Government of the country be at least
placed in the position of being guided by intelligible

THE MINISTERIAL INDIA BILL.

AFTER two adjournments, and a discussion in
which nearly all the argument has been against the
proposition, the Government have been allowed,
without a division, to bring in their bill for per-
petuating the abuses of the East India Company.
This is by no means a question in which the in-
terests of the proprietors of East India Stock are
solely concerned, but one upon which depends a
very large portion of the future commerce of the
country, from which it has long been debarred by
a system of exclusiveness directly at variance with
modern policy. All inquiry has tended to elicit the
fact that our vast possessions in the East, with their
enormous population, productive soil, and favour-
able climate, would prove a field for mercantile
enterprise such as the world has never vet witnessed,
if their resources were duly developed ; and the sole
obstacle hitherto has been that peculiar policy which,

AFFAIRS IN THE EAST.

WAR WITH RUSSIA,

strangely enough, finds its advocates in a professing
Free-trade Ministry. After years of almost uncon-
trolled dominion by the nominees of a company,
the revenue of this immense empire is barely suffi-
cient to meet the increasing expenditure, although,
under judicious management, it might have proved
a mine of wealth to our national Exchequer; while
the trade, which, keeping pace with improvements,
might have quadrupled our exports, has been al-
most stationary. In the application of scientific
aid to the means of internal communication, in the
encouragement of cultivation, in the promotion of
commerce, and the extension of civilization, where
the field for operation was almost inexhaustible, the
company may be said to have done literally nothing.
So long as India yielded enormous salaries for the
proteggs of the directors, and dividends for the
holders of stock, the interests of the mother country
were of no concern ; and now, after the lapse of
many years, it is as much a care and as little a profit
as it was before all these opportunities of advance-
ment had been neglected. Let us hope, however, that
the Legislature will not let the present opportunity
be thrown away, but insist either upon a measure
which shall place the affairs of India directly under
imperial control, or, by postponing the question
until next session, afford time for maturing an
efficient system for the future. The discussion
which has already taken place has shown that the.
Government will meet with a vigorous opposition if
they attempt to pass the bill in its present shape ;
and, as it is a question in which parties on both
sides of the house may agree, there is a favourable
prospect of a more satisfactory decision being come
to. It is one in which Liverpool has an interest,
because an extension of our commercial relations
with the East would add materially to the trade of
the port ; and if there are really any grounds for
apprehending danger from the recent belligerent
manifestations between Russia and Turkey, it is
more than ever necessary that India should be
placed more directly under the management of our
own Government.

THE recent proceedings in Constantinople, and the
reports of movements of troops and preparations
for belligerent manifestations, have set all Europe in
a fever of apprehension that the flame of war is
about to be re-lighted ; that the land having had
rest for nearly forty years, it is now about
to be broken. The alarm, however, is not directly
the effect of the proceedings between Russia and
Turkey; for, during all the negotiations in Con-
stantinople, little faith was placed in their leading to
any serious rupture ; but since then reports have
been received of English and French fleets moving
towards the Bosphorus, and the sensitive pulse of the
monetary interest is throbbing in exciting response.
From all quarters, the Paris Bourse, the London
Stock Exchange, the Share markets, the Manufac-
turing districts and the Commercial ports, we hear
of the rumours of war operating to produce a stag-
nation in business, and a fall in the value of Secu-
rities, while the tenour of the various telegraphic
dispatches received through Paris and Vienna serve
to fan the flame and keep alive the feeling of alarm.
In this state of things it becomes the more neces-
sary to survey calmly the position of affairs, in
order, if possible, to arrive at a correct appre-
ciation of the alleged casus belli, and the proba-
bilities of its being acted upon. It has been confi-
dently assumed that the real design of the EMPEROR
of RUSSIA is to find a cause of quarrel with the
SULTAN of TURKEY, in order to avail himself of the
opportunity to seize on some of the Turkish provinces,
which lie in convenient proximity to his own Em-
pire, with the ultimate object of appropriating the
whole, and thereby possessing himself of the key to
the Black Sea and a highway to the East. To this,
however, it may be replied, that had such been his
desire, he has had ample opportunity to gratify it,
without prolonging negotiations which have not
yet been brought to a close ; and though the
drawing near of English and French fleets may have
induced a prudent reserve, it should be remembered
that such a movement is simply a pia caution against
possible contingency. The members of the Greek
Church in the vicinity of the Holy Sepulchre have
long enjoyed immunity from the Turkish Govern-
ment, and been allowed the first place among the
various sects of professing Christians who claim an
nterest in the Holy Places. This right of priority
was however interfered with by a firman, which
the French Minister artfully obtained from the
PORTE, in favour of the Latin monks, and Lours
NAPOLEON vauntingly claimed the title of Pro-
tector of the Holy Places. This roused the ire of
the Greek patriarchs, and upon an appeal to the
RUSSIAN EMPEROR, who assumes to be the Head
and Protector of the GreekiChurch, a remonstrance
was made, and the obnoxious firman was rendered
virtually of none. effect. But this was not deemed
sufficient ; and by way of a guarantee against any
future interference, Prince MENSCHIKOFF was
despatched to Constantinople with a demand for a
Convention, by which the Protectorate of the EM-
PEROR OF RUSSIA over all members of the Greek
Church in the Ottoman Empire was specially recog-
nised. As this was virtually a claim of sovereignty
over a large portion of the Turkish population, it
formed a subject of anxious deliberation in the
Turkish Divan, and, backed by the diplomatic as-
sistance of the English and French Ministers, a
positive refusal was given to the demand, and Prince
MENSCHIKOFF took his departure. But so far
from his leave-taking being considered a declaration
of hostilities, such a construction of it was positively
disavowed, and since then the RUSSIAN EMPEROR
has renewed his demand by a courier from St. Pe-
tersburg, giving further time for consideration, whi's
Count NESSELRODE has been despatched to Lon-
don to explain the intentions of the EMPEROR to
the British Cabinet. The attitude assumed by
Russia has, however, led to declarations from other
powers, and the co-operation of Austria and Prussia
with England and France is confidently reckoned
upon in favour of friendly mediation to secure the
SULTAN of Turkey against hostile demonstrations.
But the question has also led to dissensions in our
own Cabinet, for while Lord PALMERSTON, it is
said, would willingly have co-operated with France
in opposition to the Russian demands, both the Earl
Of ABERDEEN and Lord JOHN RUSSELL held
aloof, and only consented to naval re-inforcements
when they saw that public feeling in England was-
against them, and that active interference could no
longer be delayed.
The irnportnnt question, however, of the proba-
bility
and,
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opponents.i
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powers of Europe are disposed ta og
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from aggression, and we
.cannot believe that the
EMPEROR OF RUSSIA will wilfully
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preserving her own mighty empire
from without, she has never yet shown a capability
for carrying the war into an enemy's country.
England, on the contrary, has arms long and strong,
which compass the globe, and are as much to he
dreaded at the antipodes as at home ; and though
we may talk of the vast armies of Russia and her
myriads of hardy subjects, their great strength lies
in defending their own territories, and not in in-
truding upon ours.
For years has thi,
Empire been baffled in its attempte • AW.,
handful of hardy mountaineers don*
and though the Turkish provinces on, -hrZtt.
may present an easier field 0fC*4414: ,
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Russia must be to preserve aVtaillikaSi.'*_ 30-41)
mighty a state as Great BritainP-k::\