The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

GRAND CONCERT.

it/lONS. DOHLii. has the honour to announce a Grand
IV" CONCERT of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC, which will take place on TUESDAY Evening, the
26th instant, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Liverpool.
HERR MOLIQUE, the . celebrated Violinist, whose
performances at the Philharmonicl Concerts, London, have
created such an extraordinary sensitgon, will make his first
and only appearance in Liverpool on this occasion.
Vocalists, Miss BIRCH, Miss DOLBY, and Signor
ZUCCHELLI.
VIOLINIST HERR MOLIQUE.
PIANIST Mons. DOHLER.
Mr. GEORGE EYTON will accompany the Vocal
Pieces.
Full Particulars will be shortly 'iumounced.
Box places may be secured on applicatiorl to Mr. 'WEISS,
Church-street.
Tickets for Centre Boxes, ss. •, Side Boxes. 4s. ' • Pit, 3s. ;
and Gallery, 2s. each; may be had at the Music Shops and
usual places,
The Concert will commence at Eight o'clock.

Ebt Zibtrpool &tantian.

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1840.

The packet-ship Siddons, which sailed from New
York on the 27th ultimo, was signalled as being off
Point Lynas early yesterday afternoon, and notwith-
standing an adverse tide, reached this port about seven
in the evening. She sailed on the 27th ult. and conse-
quently had a passage of 25 days—having encountered
a succession of east winds. She nevertheless brings the
latest intelligence from New York, and we have to ex-
press our acknowledgments to Capt. Palmer for his
kindness in forwarding us a morning paper of the 27th,
and another of the 25th ult. They contain very little
intelligence of importance.

The packet-ship United States had arrived, bringing
dates from England to the Ist April, seven days later
than the previous arrival..

In the Senate, at Washington, on the 24th April, a
memorial was presented by Mr. Buchanan, from silk
manufacturers of -Dedham and Needham, (Mass.)
asking that a duty might be imposed on foreign silk.
Mr. B. said, that experience had demonstrated that
your soil, climate, and dry atmosphere, were peculiarly
suited for the production of silk; and yet strange as
all that "might seem, silk was not only admitted duty-
free, but that, too, at a time when we were absolutely
obliged to borrow money for the wants of the govern-
ment. He stated that he would Icing since have origi-
nated a bill on the subject in the Senate, had such a
measure affecting the revenue been constitutional. The
memorial was referred to a committee of finance.
(From Me New York Journal of Commerce, April 27.)
Business generally is going on very fairly in all lines. It
is however largest in foreign shipments and in groceries.
MONEY AND EXCHANGES.--The transactions at the
Stock Board have been on a very moderate scale, and chiefly
in fancy stocks, not indicating actual investment to any
great extent. Large amounts of money are lying idle in the
banks, and they are abundantly supplied with coin.
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Richmond
Charleston
Savannah
Augusta
Macon ll+ a 12
Mobile GI a 10
N. Orleans 7l a 1+
Nashville
London
rims— .

▪ .. . -7 a 8
▪ Ot 271 a 0 30

Extract of a letter, dated Mobile, April 16.
Exchange on the north is very scarce, and we fear the
rates will further advance. The same is the case in New
Orleans, notwithstanding the large amounts of produce they
have to forward. Sterling has been sold at 14 prem. here,
and 15 per cent. We understand that the banks in New
Orleans intend to increase their issues pretty largely, for the
sake of propping up the banks' f Mississippi, and this will
certainly not help the exchange. Several of the New Orleans
banks have been dealing largely in cotton this season. 60
day bills on New York, are 514; some have been sold at 6;
30 days, 7 per cent ; 1 day, 8 per cent.

Extract of a letter from Galveston, Texas, dated April 11.
" Loss OF THE SHIP VIRGINIA, OF NEW YORK.—Capt.
Hamilton, of the ship Virginia, is now here, and that fine
vessel is a wreck on the bar at the entrance of this harbour.
She struck while in charge of the pilot, attempting to enter
the harbour. No blame can be attached to any one connected
with the vessel. It seems to be one of those unavoidable
accidents which sometimes attend the navigator. Capt. Ha-
milton is actively and industriouSly engaged in saving every-
thing that can be saved for the benefit of the underwriters."
The Virginia was owned by Messrs. Rogers and Co. of
this city.

principle—your thorough Whig always has "principle"
upon his lips, but jobbery in his heart—after all the
Mawworm cant of voluntaryism, the real, substantial
objection to this application of the River Weaver fund
is, that it touches the pockets of these saints, the funds
being now applied in aid of the county rates of Che-
shire, thus saving to the Cheshire landowner a feiv
paltry pence per annum, which he may possibly be
called upon in future to contribute.
Of course the second reading of the bill was strongly
opposed in the house, and, in particular, by that
shining luminary, Mr. George Wilbraham, whom we

hope our Conservative friends of South Cheshire will
get rid of with all convenient speed. His exhibition
on Tuesday evening will probably afford as poor a
recommendation to the favour of the yeomanry of
Cheshire as his Jim Crow performance upon the Corn
Laws.

Well, the Ministry of Lord Melbourne is again
beaten, and upon a vital question. After three nights
of debate, after exhausting every effort which baffled
fraud could suggest, after appealing in vain to the in-
terests and the fears of the House for support, Lord
Melbourne's Administration is in A MINORITY OF
THREE in a division upon the Registration Bill of
Lord Stanley—a bill the passing of which is acknow-
ledged to carry with it the certain destruction of the
Whig faction, and the loss to those pure and patriotic
gentlemen of all the snug pickings and the pet places
to which they have clung with such devotion for the
last ten years !

We certainly cannot pretend to guess at the course
which Lord Melbourne's incapables will take upon the
occasion. An honourable party would at once resign
office; but that the despicable faction which now mis-
governs England will take such a step is more than we
dare predict. It is hard, very hard, to drag a Whig
from his plunder, and harder still when he happens to
be a degraded and a hungry one. Shame has no
blush for a 'Whig cheek. Scorn and derision recoil
from the impenetrzbility of a Whig breast. One only
method there is by which he can be driven to disgorge,
and that method—the application of the foot to his
dorsal extremity—we have little expectation of seeing
' adopted so speedily as the people of Great Britain de-
sire and fervently pray for. •
We do not then expect that Lord Melbourne will be
guilty of any such madness as a resignation of office
would be in the eyes of his coadjutors. There are still
devices to be tried, appeals to be made, trickery to be
attempted, in the hope of staving off the day of reckon-
ing. A majority of three, in a house of 599 members,
is no mighty affair for Whig ingenuity to surmount;
and we have no doubt that every means which faction
can suggest will be adopted to defeat the measure
which that majority has declared its intention to carry
into a law. We have no doubt that by the present re-
formed House of Commons the attempt will be made,
and as little doubt that the attempt will be made in

yam.

The debate upon this bill, prolonged to three nights
for a factious and dishonest purpose, has not been

without its effects throughout the country. The minds
of the public have been disabused of those gross delu-
sions which it has been the unceasing effort of its
opponents to throw over it. The MONSTER EVIL by
which Ireland is degraded and enslaved, is now un-
masked ; the veil is torn from before the face of Ro-
mish corruption, and its hideous features presented
naked to the world, glaring in all their horrible defor-

mity. No Ministerial trickery will now be permitted

replace that covering which the hand of Truth has
irawn aside. No ruffianism of the mendicant impos-

tor who has fed from its pollution, will succeed in sti-

fling the indignant feeling with which the people of
England have regarded the disclosure of its demo-
ralising and soul-destroying tendencies.
But it is not alone the progress which sound prin-
ciples of legislation appear to have made in the estima-
tion of the public and of parliament during the discus-
sion of this measure, upon Which we are disposed to
congratulate the country. We have never feared that
such a measure would not eventually be passed, al-
though we may have doubted whether in the present
House of Commons, or during the present session,
such a consummation could be • realised. The princi-
pal gratification which we derive from the debate, is
caused by the admirable illustration which it affords
of the unutterable meanness by which the proceedings
of the present Whiff faction are characterised_ With
what loathing—with what ineffable disgust—would a
Whig of the school of Fox and Burke turn away from
contamination such as that which the Whigs of the
present day submit to and court ! How such men
would scorn to herd with the O'Connells and Humes
of the Reformed House of Commons !—to hold office

by the kind permission of those vulgar demagOgues,
and at the price which they choose to exact as a re-
muneration for their venal votes ! Yet such is the

position of the present Whig Administration. They
dare not walk " cleanly"; they dare not turn aside
from pollution ; they must swallow the potion, nasty
though it be, which is held to their craven lips, and
are not even allowed the privilege of making faces !
The debate on Lord Stanley's bill has displayed
fully to the public this disgraceful bondage, and the
ready zeal with which the supporters' and members of
the Government enter into the factious views of the
beggarly impostor who dictates the terms of their ex-
istence. How otherwise could the discussion of a
question, already worn bare, be prolonged for three
nights against the recorded wishes of the majority of
the House ? How otherwise could Lord Stanley be
refused permission to proceed at once to forward his
bill one stage in committee ? How otherwise, we ask,
than by a disgraceful collusion between a contemptible
Administration and an equally contemptible faction of
traitors and bullies ?
It is no doubt true that Lord John Russell attempted,
at the last moment, to disclaim any connexion with the
disgraceful attempts made by Hume and O'Connell, as
recommended by our Clayton-square orators, to impede
the progress of the bill by repeated motions of adjourn-
ment. " I have no power," lisped Lord John, "to
control the party from whom these motions proceed."
We are well aware that Lord John Russell has no con-
trol over the sayings and doings of Daniel O'Connell,
and for the simple reason that Lord John and the
members of the administration are the • slaves, and
O'Connell the tyrant. Lord John control him ! Fudge.
But one thing we predict Lord John will find that
he can do, and that, if he hopes to receive the con-
tinued support of the Agitator, he must do. He will
be requ;red to oppose, by every factious manoeuvre in
his power, the progress of Lord Stanley's Bill in com-
mittee. We can assure him, however, that in doing so
he will only be sinizing himself and his party more,
deeply in the estimation of the people of England..
The bond fide constituencies of this protestant country
will not any longer endure that their franchises shall
be swamped by the perjured -and fictitious consti-
tuencies of popish Ireland. The corruption of the
system of registration in that country must be rooted
out, not glossed over. The measure of Lord Stanley
-will effect that object, and it must be passed, un-
weakened in its provisions, and undiluted with any of.
the fraudulent and spurious patchwork which Lord
John and his Radical allies would gladly be allowed to
be mingled with it !

In our remarks on Tuesday, upon the Liverpool'
.Mercury's misrepresentations of Lord Stanley's Bill,
we promised to return to the subject and to expose
the calumnious spirit displayed by our contemporary
towards one of the speakers at the Amphitheatre meet-
ing—the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. We are sorry that we
made the promise. The task of exposing falsehood is
not to our taste., although his a part of our duty to the
public ; and we enter upon it on the present occasion
with the greater reluctance from knowing that our or
ponent is unworthy of the notice we have alreadY
bestowed upon him, or he would probably have re-
ceived before now a castigation from a hand which i 9
well able to inflict it, upon a " roman worthy of hie
steel."

The Mercury accuses Mr. M'Neile of suggesting
falsehood, by quoting from the speech of Mr. Emerson
Tennent, at the Belfast meeting, a passage which asserts
that by Lord Stanley's bill the claimant to register 109
"the registry brought to his own parish and his own
door, for the first time, instead of being dragged froth
the farm to the quarter sessions' town." Now, we da
not pretend to say, and neither Mr. M‘Neile nor Mr.
Emerson Tennent meant it to be understood, that lite-
rally and strictly the bill enabled the claimant to com-
plete his registration at so cheap a rate and with so little

trouble. The object of these• gentlemen was to show
that it increased, instead of limiting, the existing fa-
cilities of registration. But, in point of fact, the bill
of Lord Stanley does, for the first time, bring the re-
gistry to the claimant's own door, when it enacts that
the clerk of the peace shall make out yearly an alpha-
betical parochial list of all persons entitled to be placed
upon the register of voters ; shall post such list upon
or near the doors of all the churches or chapels within
the respective parishes in the county or town to which
such lists shall respectively relate ;" and further, " shall
annex to every such list at the foot thereof a notice re-
quiring all persons who may claim to have their names
inserted in the register of voters for such county. or
town respectively then next to be completed to send in
their claims to be inserted within the time.limited by
the act." It gives these increased facilities to voters and
claimants, and it also provides that similar lists shall
be made out, and posted in the same manner, of all
parties objected to, and that the onus of proving the
objection shall he imposed upon the party objecting.
But the Mercury, quoting Mr. Sharman Crawford's
letter, considers it a hardship upon the claimant to
have to appear before the assistant barrister and make
good his claim, and would have us to understand that
this hardship is for the first time created by Lord Stan-
ley's bill. We showed, in our remarks of Tuesday,
that the necessity of appearing existed under the reform
bill of 1832, and that the raising of an objection to
Lord Stanley's bill on this score is a suggestio falsi on
the part of the Mercury himself. But have we no
suppressio yeti also ? Is there in that bill no endea-
vour to bring not only the registry but the registering
court nearer to the claimant's own door ? We turn from
the Mercury's pitiful misrepresentations to the bill it-
self, and find in the 18th section a power given to the
Lord Lieutenant to appoint additional places for hold-
ing the registry sessions, thereby doing away with
the necessity, existing under the present law, of the
claimant having in every case to support his claim at
the county or sessions town. It would, of course, not
suit the purpose of the Mercury to notice this feature*
of the bill.

But let us look to one or two other serious charges
which the Mercury brings against Mr. M'Neile. That
gentleman, gravely observes our contemporary, has
throughout his speech " blinked a fact !" " suppressed
the truth !" " suggested falsehood ! " " Blinked "
what fact ? our readers will ask. Why, the fact that
Mr. William Wallace Currie, in his never-to-be-too-
much-lauded speech in Clayton-square, " begged to
nay, on behalf of the whole Liberal party, that it was
their disposition to protect the franchise, and to re-
move acknowledged abuses,—if abuses did exist in the
registration of Ireland, as they knew that abuses did
exist in England; but because they wanted to purify
the register, they did not want to destroy the fran-
chise." The important fact that Mr. William Wallace
Currie delivered himself of this piece of bombast—and
a painful accouchment it was, as we can testify—is
BuPpressed, " blinked," burked, by that shocking
strangler of Whig pretensions—Mr. M'Neile, who
has the hardihood to insist, in the teeth of Mr. Cur-
rie's declaration, made "on behalf of the whole Liberal
Party," that the opponents of the hill are "encouragers
of perjury, fosterers of corruption." Now, we are
willing to admit that the gentleman in question, who
i 8 an alderman or a councillor—we don't care which—
did make a speech; we were painfully convinced of
that fact at the time. But how the fact of his having
Made a speech " on behalf of the whole Liberal party"
rendered it compulsory upon Mr. M'Neile to quote the
whole, of it, or upon us to believe the whole of it, we
are not so well convinced. " Not one word," says
the Mercury, " has been said against the amendment
of the system, the only difference being, whether it
shall be effected by the friends or the enemies of po-
pular rights." Our contemporary will pardon us for
saying, that the difference between Mr. M'Neile and
himself is, in reality; upon the question whether or not
the system is to be amended at all !
"Again," says the Mercury, " we find him quoting
notice, filled up by his friend Mr. 'ferment, the re-
publican, repealer, Radical, Whig, Tory, and Orange-
man, for Mr. Crawford, and representing this as all
that would be required under the form of notice in
Lord Stanley's bill, and as what is practically done in
England." Admitted. Mr. M‘Neile did quote a form
of notice, filled up by Mr. 'Penitent, to skew that the
immense difficulty complained of in the notice is no
difficulty at.all. That notice was filled up in the name,
and stated the qualification, of Mr. Sharman Crawford,
Which happens to be a freehold. What, then, does
our contemporary mean by Mr. M`Neile's " represent-
ing this as all that would be required" by Lord Stan-
ley's bill ? Would more be required ? Oh, no ; but
Mr. Crawford is a freeholder—a fifty-pound freeholder.
Would any more, then, we ask, be required from any
Other freeholder ? Reader, mark well the gross dis-
honesty of which we are about to convict our contem-
porary " This form, so quoted," says our contem-
Porary, " is that for I'so freeholders, who, with clergy-
Men of the Established Church, are specially exempted
from the minute provisions enacted for other classes;
and yet Mr. M‘Neile quotes this as applicable to all."
Now, in the first place, Mr. M‘Neile never represented
this form as applicable to any other case than that of
a freeholder like Mr. Crawford ; and, in the next place,
£5O freeholders are not exempted from the minute pro-
visions enacted for other classes—that is, from being
required to state in their claim the precise particulars
which any other freeholder would have to state. Our
Contemporary evidently wants us to believe that there
is one form of notice for the £5O freeholder, and ano-
ther, more minutely particular, for the £lO freeholder;
when the fact is, that there is only one form qf notice
for both claimants ! Can impudence and fraud, we
ask, go further than this bold attempt to mislead the
Public mind, and to calumniate private character ?
But we must leave the Mercury and his misrepre-
sentations. The supporters of Lord Stanley's bill can
very well afford to despise so trashy an opponent as
the Liverpool Mercury ; and that party which has the
honour of receiving his countenance will not, we dare
say, object to the weapons with which he fights in their
behalf. Farewell, good Mercury ! Most fitly art thou
named after the patron deity of fraud and falsehood !
•Euye—Vale !

TILE GREAT MEETING AT THE AmpRITHEATRE.—We
rejoice to find that theAlemand for Mr. M`Neile's speech at
the great meeting of the conservatives in favour of Lord
tanley's registration bill, has been such as to induce the
Publishers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD to issue it in the
-ehape of a pamphlet. We have no doubt that it will obtain
an extensive circulation. Its intrinsic merits will constitute
its most powerful recommendation. It is right to add that
Parties who may wish to purchase a number of copies for
distribution will be most liberally treated with. We know
of no publication which has emanated from the conservative
press within the last few years which is calculated to produce
more powerful effect than the admirable speech under no-
tice. It is a complete and masterly review of the whole
subject ; and we have no doubt that it has contributed most
materially to the recent triumph in the House of Commons.
AN ACCESSION TO TEE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--On
Tuesday last Mr. Joseph of this establishment, purchased,
on board the .Robert Finnie, Captain Beverley, from the
western coast of South America, a fine specimen of that
gigantic bird the condor, or Vulture Gryphus, a native of
dm Andes mountains, the only one that has been imported
tor many years. This noble bird measures from 12 to 14
Feet from tip to tip of the wings. He also purchased from
captain Crosby, of the William Jardine, from Calcutta, a
hue tiger, of extraordinary tameness and docility. This
*creature, generally so ferocious, played with the seamen like
a cat, and was, when purchased, amusing himself in rolling
Over an empty cask on the deck, by treading on it. He also
',vas successful in purchasing from the same vessel a Brahmin
*cow, a great acquisition, there being a fine bull of the same
*species before in the gardens. The latter is a fine animal,
and is the more interesting from the bull being an object of
'worship amongst the ignorant Hindoos.

•
The Earl of Derby continues in pretty m the same
ttate of health. He rides about constant' n a pony-car-
e, and still takes an interest in his delightful aviary, the
largest and most varied in England, and probably in the
world. Owing to the noble earl's feeble health, the aviary
is no longer as accessible to the p bli 'as it used to be.
Messrs. Thomas Turner and S of South Castle-street,
Liverpool, have been appointed ot-inakers to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.
EXPORT OF IRON BOATS.—The ship Canton, belonging
to Mr. Lairdman, which sailed on Tuesday last from the
Yietoria Dock, for Demerara, took on her deck a number of
srou flat-bottomed boats or punts, to be used for the con-
veyance of sugars and other commodities in the rivers and
tballow waters of that colony. Each of these boats is in two
pieces, for the convenience of carriage. The pieces are made
o fit amid-ships, and have but to be rivetted together to be
tit for use. There are iron sockets at the sides interiorly for
the insertion of stancheons, either to raise a wooden bulwark
round them, to give them greater depth, if required, or, for
the spreading of an awning or tarpaulin for the protection of
the goods from rain, or the excessive heat of the sun.
Counr OF PASSAGE.—This court was held yesterday
before Charles Crompton, Esq., assessor, but all the cases
Were totally uninteresting.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSURANCE AND TRUST INSTI-
UTION.-it must greatly gratify the friends of the Church,
dad that such has been the distinguished success of this
"Y valuable Institution, that the shares are to be allotted on
'°tlday, the Ist of June next, after which, the business will
'3("lneoce in all its branches. There is little doubt that this
nstitution, while it will be the most benevolent of the Insur.
rule Offices, will also be the most profitable to its share-
der.s.—see advt.