The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

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We have received a copy of the Halif fax (N.S.,'
Journal of the 22d of June. The news which it con•
tains has been anticipated by the arrival of the Great
Western. Very genial weather, had been experiencec
throughout the province. The crops were looking re•
markably well.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. 8.)
Weekly Chronicle of the 19th of June. It contains no
news of importance. The province had been for some
weeks favoured with the most propitious weather that
the farmer could desire. There was every prospect of
an early and abundant harvest.

Our files of the Sydney papers reach to the 28th of
March. They contain an account of a destructive fire
which occurred there on the 18th of March, and which
destroyed property to the amount of £20,000. It broke
out on the premises of Mr. Blanch, an iron-founder,
and afterwards extended to the Royal Hotel, the Old
Theatre, and several other buildings.
The United States ships Vincennes and Peacock had
arrived at Sydney after a successful voyage of discovery
in the southern seas. The Peacock obtained soundings
in a high southern latitude, but the Vincennes• ran
down the coast of the southern continent from 154
deg. 18 min. to 97 deg. 45 min. of east longitude, about
1700 miles, within a short distance of the land, often so
near as to obtain soundings with a few fathoms of line.

Since our last another West India mail has arrived,
bringing papers of a few days later date than the last.
In another column we have given a summary of the
news. We learn from the Demerara papers that the
first instalment of immigrants had arrived at George-
town from Baltimore, through the instrumentality of
Mr. Carbery.

We addressed a few words in our last publication to
the moderate or constitutional reformers of Liverpool,
urging them to pause and reflect before they embarked
in a new course of agitation. Our immediate object,
we need scarcely remark, was to prepare them for an
approaching election ; to prevail upon them to look, at
such a crisis as the present, not to the mere watch-
words of party--not to professions, however plausi-
ble—but to the measures placed before them for their
approval, the means by which those measures are pro-
posed to be carried out, and THE MEN with whom they

are to be associated in securing them.
It will be admitted, we think, that there never was a
period in the history of our country which more im-
peratively called for the formation of an able, an honest,
and a strong government, than at the present crisis.
Abroad and at home we are alike beset with difficulties
which require such a government ; and the question
which the moderate reformer will have to decide at the
approaching election is, whether that government shall
be one of an ultra democratic character, or conserva-
tive of the entireness of the empire and its institu-
tions ; whether we are to push forward the progress of
the movement beyond the pale of our Protestant con-
stitution, or TO MAKE OUR STAND NOW, AND TO

STAND FAST UPON THE ROCK OF THAT CONSTITU-

TION WHICH lIAS BORNE US HITHERTO SAFE AND

UNSCATHED, AND FROM WHICH, BY THE BLESSING
OF GOD, WE HAVE BEEN ENABLED TO DICTATE
PEACE TO EUROPE AND TO THE WORLD !

This is, we maintain, the question which the mode-
rate reformer will be called upon shortly to decide. It
is no longer one of mere party interest—whether the
existing constitution shall be administered by Sir Ro-
bert Peel or by Loixl Melbourne—but whether, for the
purpose of perpetuating Whig rule, that constitution
shall be broken in upon—whether the government shall
he allowed. to ally itself with those who are actually
seeking a dismemberment of the empire and its power
to be wielded by a traitor, the foul libeller of this coun-
try and the tyrant of his own. This question, then, we
call upon our fellow-townsmen calmly and dispassion-
ately to weigh and to decide upon ; and if there be still
that high-toned moral feeling in the British character
which was handed down to us from the better days of
the constitution, we have no fear that the result will
not be one of triumph to every true lover of his father-
land.

We have in another article laid before our readers

the insidious movement by which the ministerial and
anti-English party are endeavouring to swamp the
sound constituency of Liverpool and to convert this
loyal town into a nomination borough in the gift of the

profligate Irish demagogue who sways the government
of fallen England. Good God !—the commerce, the
wealth, the enterprise of this great community repre-
sented by the elected of the brogueless and tattered oc-
cupants of cellars, courts, and alleys from Alarybone

;o Clarence Dock—from Brick-street to the Potteries
"Lan such utter contamination be .allowed ? Can men
vho have boasted of such names as those of Brougham,

Canning, Huskisson, and Sandon as their candidates
or their representatives, submit to crawl through the
degradation of a base subserviency to a mendicant im-
postor, or mingle their breath with those " most sweet

voices" which, from lips reeking with the fumes of
whisky„ will rise to hail the triumph of Popery and
O'Connell over Protestantism and the loyal British
feelings of their fellow-townsmen ? We trust not.

For the honour and credit of Liverpool we trust not !
The merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool have
great and important interests at stake—interests which
demand the prompt and undivided attention of the le-
gislature. Their object should be to obtain a vigorous
and, above all, a working, practical government—one
composed of business men and disposed to enter upon
business questions. That the present is not such a go-

vernment we need scarcely waste words to prove ; and
that a further infusion of Popish and democratic ma-
terials will not make it such a government we need as
little endeavour to demonstrate. The modern liberals,
as a party, have shown themselves utterly incapable, if
they had not also been indisposed, to legislate upon
commercial and financial questions; and any addition
of strength which they may acquire from an election
will be exercised to press forward innovation and theo-
retical change, rather than to disentangle the intricate
and, to a Whig-radical patriot, the dry and uninterest-
ing details of business questions:
It may indeed be argued that such a man as Sir
Joshua Walmsley—the candidate, in whose hehalf
popery and Whig-radicalism are making such strenuous
exertions in Liverpool—is a man of business, tho-
roughly versed in our commerce and in the local
matters of our town. This may to some extent be
true—although it is wonderful under what a small

bushel the worthy knight has hitherto contrived ti
hide the lustre of his shining abilities, even as a corn

mercial man ; but in the House of Commons, how-
ever useful such a man might be, the individual would
be at once sunk in the mass, and, hound up amongst
the thick and thin supporters of a government, which
is not a business government, Sir Joshua Walmsley,
even as the representative of Liverpool, would be only
a prominent joint of the Tail which ornaments the per-
son of the member for all Ireland—a unit of the majo-
rity which on every occasion will be found arrayed
against the constitution and the liberties of English-
men.

We call, then, upon the friends of the constitution ;
we call upon every true reformer to vote and use his
influence at the approaching election, not upon per-
sonal, but upon public and national grounds ;—to sup-
port not the individual but the cause. It is time—full
time—that we possessed a government able and willing
to attend to the internal state of the country; to adjust
and correct the evils which afflict our commerce and
our manufactures. The blood-thirsty " Nero fiddled
whilst Rome was burning." Our present government,
and the party which supports them, dangle in the
saloons of Buckingham Palace, and court the favour
of grooms and bedchamber women, whilst commer-
cial stagnation and wide-spread ruin are sapping the
foundations of their country's prosperity ; the present
parliament of Great Britain agitates paltry theories—
spending night after night in debating upon the case
of a church-rate martyr or a detected demagogue—a
Thorogood or an O'Connor—whilst the insidious
enemies of Great Britain are hourly cutting off the
sources of her strength, casting dishonour upon her
hitherto stainless banner, and bringing down upon the
very name of " Englishman" the contempt and ex-

ecration of mankind !
We would also respectfully, but strongly, warn our
fellow townsmen, of the dangerous consequences to
them and to their country, of a victory gained in Li-
verpool, by popish aid, over the protestant feeling of
is not merely one of party—of whig or conservative
politics—but a contest of antagonist principles ; a con-
test, which is to decide whether the British co \nstitu-

tion is to he perpetuated as a protestant constitution,
or weakened and betrayed into the longing grasp of
mingled popery and infidelity. A victory of repeal and
O'Connell principles in Liverpool would be hailed in
every popish court in Europe—would resound through
every den of Rornish France, from Maynooth to the
Vatican—as the avant-courier of the universal domi-
nion of superstition, and a notice to whet the dagger
and sharpen the sword of persecution. The fangs of
the Romish wolf have If late been displayed too openly
in this protestant state. Take care, protestants of Li-
verpool, that the truculent and savage monster is not
blooded and let loose upon society by your own blind
and wilful infatuation !

It is abundantly disgusting to observe the alacrity
with which the arch-hypocrite O'Connell denounces
the ribbon conspiracy, now that its objects and work-
ing appear likely to be betrayed to public execration—
now that it has served his unholy purposes, and when
his continued countenance might endanger the impu-
nity which has hitherto attended his own treasonable
machinations. Cowardly by nature as he is unprinci-
pled, the impostor is as ready to consign to the gallows
his ignorant dupes, as the most depraved burglar to
turn king's evidence for the purpose of saving his con-
temptible life, or the baffled gamester to drop a card
from his hand for the purpose of saving, by a wrangle,
his paltry stake.

In the midst of the condemnation however, which,
with a view to effect, he took an opportunity on Friday
last at the Corn Exchange, to deal out upon the mem-
bers of the Ribbon Society, it is impossible not to no-
tice that a feeling of disappointment in the subject is
the all pervading sentiment of his mind. It is not the
existence of ribbonism which O'Connell deprecates,
but discovery .1 And as a proof of this, he breaks out
into a frenzied attack upon the press—for what—do
you suppose reader ? Why for reporting the proceed-
ings and especially the speeches of the counsel, Mr.
Brewster, and Mr. M‘Donough, at the trial of Jones,
the ribbon secretary. " I found"--he says—" that on
the trial of Jones, Mr. Brewster was first counsel for
the defendant, and Mr. M`Donough, an able man, was
second counsel. They ought to bring an action—l do
not often advise the bringing of actions—but they
ought to bring an action against the papers for misre-
presentation of their conduct, for Mr. Brewster, as the
senior counsel, is responsible for the acts of his juniors,
and the representations of the newspapers must be un-
true. Mr..M`Donough is represented to have examined
a witness so as to bring home the guilt to his own cli-
ent. That was answering a political purpose to shoW
that ribbonmen were murderers. 'What counsel would
sacrifice his client to a political purpose ? The repre-
sentation must be untrue. At the Irish bar an occur-
rence of the same kind never took place before. Coun-
sel cross-examined witness to show that his client was
involved in the guilt of the murder of Ganley. Ido not
hesitate to say that every one of the counsel who are
represented in the newspapers as acting in this way to
their own clients, have but one remedy to clear them-
selves of the imputation, and that is to bring an action
against the newspapers." We are really not aware
what are the Political opinions of the gentlemen thus
denounced for the strict and bold performance of their
duty as advocates ; but we perfectly understand the
motive which prompted this attack upon their honour.
Our readers, we dare say, will remember that upon the
trial in question a miscreant named Kennedy—a rib-
bonman—was cross-examined by the counsel for the
prisoner, and admitted that he had been implicated in,
and an eye-witness to many- " slatings " committed by
the orders of the Ribbon Society; and that, in partic-
ular, he was a party to the murder of a man named
Ganley who was beaten to death by a ribbon-gang, in
the egg-market, in Dublin—the guilt of which offence
was foully charged by O'Connell himself upon the
trades' unions of Dublin.

The object of the learned counsel in cross-examining
this wretch, was doubtless to save their client by show-
ing how immeasurably infamous was the character of
the government witness ; but not to save life—not even
in the performance of their duty to their client should

counsel, in the opinion of Mr. O'Connell, examine a
witness whose testimony might let out the awkward
fact " that the ribbonmen were murderers." No, no !
Let the detected criminal pay the full penalty of his
incaution. Let him hang or be transported ; but let
not the hidden mysteries of ribbonism be laid bare to
the public gaze ! Let no irreverent eye be permitted
to intrude into the inner chambers, from whence her
blood-stained agents send forth their death-dealing
warrants, and direct the sharpened dagger to the heart
of their unsuspecting and unoffending victims !
We cannot conclude without noticing the following

" rich " passage in the address of this double-dyed
scoundrel—O'Connell, not the murderer Kennedy—to
his Corn Exchange auditory. " How often "—he ex
claims, the innocent lamb !—" How often and often
have I cautioned those who belonged to associations of
ribbonmen that the time would come when their fellows
would betray them, and the arm of the law would reach
them ? " The fear of being betrayed—the fear of the
arm of the law, and not that of God, was the fear held
out by the hypocrite to the poor ignorant beings who
were risking life and soul for the furtherance of his
villanous schemes—" more than twenty-five years ago
I denounced the system to Saurin, and put him in pos-
session of the means of prosecuting the system with
success ! " Where, we ask, did he get the means—
where and how did he gain admission into the myste-
rious secrets of this dark and hellish conspiracy ? And
why has that knowledge dept for twenty-five long years,
and only oozes out at this time, when it is convenient
to disavow sympathy with those traitors whose bungling
has rendered further concealment next to impossible ?
It is a mockery to ask the cause of all these things.
That cause is too evident and too palpable. A few
months ago, who so ready to deny the very existence of
ribbonism as O'Connell and his press ?—his press, for
that is his which does his work. Yet for twenty-five
years this traitor and hypocrite has posiessed a full
knowledge of the secret workings of ribbon treason,
outrage, and murder ; and that knowledge has been
allowed to sleep undisturbed in the darkest and most
polluted depths of his malignant mind !
Protestants of Liverpool ! This is the man with whom
you are called to ally yourselves at the approaching
election. Oh ! if you love your own peace of mind—
your own self respect ; if you love quiet dreams and
an undisturbed conscience, spurn the contamination
which such unheard-of infamy is calculated to bring upon
your names and the character of your fellow-townsmen !

Well ! after all the pamphleteering of Alderman
Evans—after all the speechifying in the Council
Room—the Dock Warehouse Bill has been withdrawn.
The lateness of the session is the ostensible reason for
this procedure ; but we apprehend that the powerful
opposition which was anticipated in the House of
Lords was the strongest argument in favour of the
so-called " suspension" of the bill. We heartily con-
gratulate the warehouse-owners and the mercantile
interests of the town generally upon the defeat of this
measure. We have little fear of its re-introduction
next session into Parliament. If the promoters of the
bill should have the temerity to snake a second attempt
we confidently venture to prophesy for it the same fate
as that which the late bill has experienced. It is pro-
bable that the expences attendant upon the futile en-
deavour of the majority of the Town Council and the
Dock Committee will amount to considerably more
than ten thousand pounds. What will the public say
to this lavish waste ? The money might as well have
been thrown into the Mersey.

Freemen of Liverpool ! Once more we call upon
you to see that your names are upon the register ; and
once more we call upon the influential conservatives of
Liverpool to strain every nerve for increasing the roll
of freemen. There is no time to be lost. Surely, the
wealthy and . powerful phalanx of conservative mer-
chants and tradesmen are not prepared to hand over
the representation of Liverpool to the treasonable rib-
bonites of the Protector Association. It is not yet too
late to rescue the town from this degradation. If pro-
per exertions are used much may be accomplished,
during this and the following days, in neutralising the
efforts of your opponents. See that every reasonable
facility is offered for the registration of the freemen.
Their rights must not suffer from any trickery on the
part of the functionaries at the Town-hall. Again we say
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NEW MAP OF LIVERPOOL—We have received a copy of
Mr. Wyld's beautiful map of Liverpool and its environs. It
is most beautiful, correct, and minute ; but we have not
room to notice it at length until Tuesday. .

NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIPS.—The
second of these fine vessels, named the Acadia, arrived here
yesterday, having made, we understand, a very rapid passage
from the Clyde. She starts on the 4th August, with the
mails and passengers, for Halifax and Boston.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieut.-Gen. Sir E.
Kerrison, Bart., and Lieut.-Gen. Sir. H. Douglas, 4art.,
companions of the most honourable military order of the
Bath, to be knights commanders of the said order.
NORTHERN DIVISION.—We have heard that the radicals
intend to start one of the Burlington family for the northern
division, and that the person selected holds a place at court.
This must be the Hon. Col. Cavendish, clerk marshal to her
majesty.—Lancaster Gazette.

COURT OF PASSAGE.—The court of passage for the trial
of causes in the borough of Liverpool was held yesterday in
the sessions house, before Charles Crompton, Esq., assessor.
The cause list contained 25 issues and two writs of trial, but
none of the cases possessed the slightest public interest.

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We perceive that a reward of thirty pounds has been offered
to any person who will produce the watch worn by the late
Mr. John Bibby on Friday last. It is described as a double-
bottomed silver lever hunting watch, with engine-turned
cases, and engraved on the outside with the initials "J. J.
B." It is jewelled, has a hard enamelled dial, and bears the
maker's name—" R. Roskell. No. 41,668."

THE PRESIDENT STEAM-CHIP.--This fine vessel has
been visited since her arrival from Ireland on her trial-trip
by many persons, who have expressed their high admiration
of her great size, beautiful sea-going model, and splendid
accommodations. We are informed that the vessel, before
her departure to America, will be shewn to the public, at a
small admission sum,—the proceeds to be given to the prin-
cipal public charities,—an object highly creditable to the pro-
prietary, and which will, at the same time, give great
gratification to the public. [Several typographical errors
appeared in our account of the trial-trip of the President,
arising from the hurry of the occasion, but they are such as
do not require a list of errata.]

THEATRE-ROYAL. Last evening the comedy of the
" Merry Wives of Windsor" was revived at the Theatre-
Royal, and received by the audience with hearty welcomes.
Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Anderson, and
Miss Grant, were loudly applauded in their several parts.
Mr. Baker played Sir John Falstaff ; and we must say that
much was wanting in his execution of the character, although
his conception of it was good. Mr. George Horncastle's
Pistol was excellent. Taken altogether, the stock company
acquitted themselves with credit. Next Monday. Mr. Van-
denhoff makes his first appearance this season in the charac-
ter of Hamlet.

THE LATE MR. Banal .—There being some inaccuracy in
our report of the evidence given by Mr. Wainwright, the
surgeon, who examined the body of the late Mr. Bibby, we
have been requested to insert the following, which has been
revised :—Mr. Thomas Wainwright, surgeon, stated that he
had made a complete examination of the body of the de-
ceased. There were several round ecchymosed spots on the
inner side of the right arm, and a similar but larger spot on
the outside of the forearm, and at the back of the same
wrist. The colour of the surface of the body was pale, ex-
cept of the face, which was rather livid. The eyes and
mouth closed ; pupils slightly dilated ; countenance placid ;
no froth about nostrils or mouth. The ventricles of the
brain contained a considerable quanttr of clear serum,-
and some was found also at the base of the brain. The
vessels of the brain not distended. Diaphragm in its na-
tural position. Liver indurated and of a redder colour
than natural. The bag of the pharynx contained a quan-
tity of fluid mixed with mucus. The trache was ea.
arnined to its bifurcation, and contained a large quantity,
of a similar fluid, which was slightly frothy near its divi-
sion. The lungs were distended, filled the chest, and were
of a dark colour. A considerable quantity of bloody serum
on both sides of the chest and in the pericardium. The right
side of the heart, and the large vessels connected with this
side greatiy distended, with black blood in a perfectly fluid
state. The stomach contained at least a pint of thin fluid,
mixed with some undigested food. From all the facts, he
should infer that the deceased was alive when he fell into
the water, and that death was instantaneous. If he had been
thrown in when in a state of deep sleep, he might have died
quietly. He (witness) felt some difficulty in accounting for
the marks of violence. [The persons who had taken the de-
ceased out of the water suggested that the spots might have
been caused by the pitchfork, because they caught hold of
the body by the arm.] The witness thought that the marks
could not have been produced after death. He thought they
were just such spots as would have been made by the pressure
of fingers. lie (lid not think the deceased had been suffo-
cated before being thrown in the water. If such had been
the case, he would expect to find some marks about the
mouth and nose. He was decidedly of opinion that the cause
of death was drowning, and that the deceased was not thrown
into the water after death.

LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.—The next assizes will commence
at Lancaster on Tuesday the 11th August, and at Liverpool,
on Monday the 17th August. The records in causes to be
tried at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Monday, the
27th of July should be ordered on that day. The last days
for making up issues in time for trial at the next assizes, will
be in causes to be tried at Lancaster, Saturday, the Ist of
August. In causes to be tried at Liverpool, Saturday, the
Sth of August, on which day the records must be ordered.
Eight exclusive days' notice of trial in all personal actions
must be given for the next assizes in causes at issue in time
for trial at the last assizes. The jury process for the trial of
causes at Lancaster, will be issued at Preston, on Tuesday
morning, the 11th of August; and for the, trial of causes at
Liverpool, on Monday morning, the 17th of August. Rule
day before the assizes, Thursday, the 16th of July instant.—
Rule day after the assizes, Thursday, the 17th of. September
next. Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of
capias, must be filed on or before Thursday, the 13th of
August next. In pursuance of the general rule of court of
September assizes, 1824, the causes intended to be tried at
Liverpool, will be entered in the following order .-Ist list,
West Derby Hundred ; 2nd list, Salford Hundred. The
business of the public offices will be transacted at Preston
during the assizes.