The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN.
(From the Morning Herald of Wednesday.)
A variety of reports have been circulated to-day respecting
the situation of affairs in Spain, and the declaration of the consti-
tution of 1812. It is fully believed that Bilboa, St. Sebastian.
and other places in that direction, have declared in favour of
the constitution. In the north of Spain, however, the cause
appeared to be not so much in favour as in the south. By the
" Pigeon Express," it is said that distufbances had again
broken out at Madrid. By the accounts of to-day, it appears
impossible for the Queen's government long to prevent the
people rising in favour of the constitution, at Madrid, and it is
a subject of much speculation in the city what measures may
be resorted to by the Queen in the present critical state of
affairs. A belief is entertained that the influence of France
will be used to bring about concessions to the public will, leav-
ing it to future chances to enable the government of Spain to
uphold the prerogatives of the crown. Should disturbances
take place in consequence of the resistance of the proclamation
of the constitution at Madrid, it would be difficult for the Queen
and court to escape any danger by flight except, indeed, they
proceeded to the frontiers of Portugal, which is unlikely, and
many persons believe that the Queen might seek protection of
General Evans and his troops.
The accounts received from the north of Spain to-day are not
satisfactory. The troops under General Evans are still dissa-
tisfied, through not receiving their arrears of pay; and the re-
port circulated yesterday, that a large sum of money had been
received from Bayonne, for the payment of a portion of the
arrears, is not confirmed. The men continued to desert, and it
is feared that the inactivity caused by the movements in favour
of the constitution of 1812 may tend to a still greater state of
disorganization.
The Memorial Bordelais of the 12th instant says—" It appears
that the diplomatic representatives of France and England at
Madrid addressed on the 4th an official note to the Queen's
Cabinet, announcing, that according to instructions from their
respective courts, they should immediately cease all intercourse
with Spain, and even demand their passport, if the authority of
her majesty was violated, or if any essential alterations were
made in the testamentary dispositions of the late King Ferdin-
and VII.; dispositions which they say, form, in the eyes of
Europe, the basis of the legitimate rights of Isabella IL nese
ambassadors are both at St. Ildefonso."
PORTUGAL.

The Lisbon papers cf the lOth state that the elections at Es-
tramadura have turned out favourably to the ministers. The
party struggle," says the Lisbon English Journal, "between the
ministerialists and the ultra liberals produced an unexpected
crisis at the election rooms last Monday, in the return of nearly
all the candidates in the former's interest, thus evincing by
this determination a most praiseworthy union amongst the
whole of the electors. The Dnke of Terceira acted as presi-
dent. When we consider the consequences of such a deviation
from the only principle upon which Portugal can consolidate
her government, we really must pay a high compliment to the
members of that august assembly for taking an unanimous view
of a subject which certainly required their united efforts and
united determination to be placed on a basis of solidity and
durability." On the whole, it is supposed that the ministers
have secured a majority in the Cortes of not less than ten.
The news of the movement in the Spanish capital had reached
Lisbon, but very little notice is taken of it in the Lisbon papers.

The Irish labourers have commenced coming to this country
in great numbers to assist in the labours of the harvest. They
are too early for the north, and have passed on to the southern

counties.

Acts of parliament have been obtainedthissession for near

11(X) miles of railway, requiring for rails, chairs, carriages,
and other works, at least 220,000 thousand tons of iron, inde-
pendently of that required fur roads, for which bills had been
previously obtained, and are now in active preparation ; these
will amount to about 70,(XX) tons, snaking a total of about two
hundred tons pri,bably in requisition for the next four years.—
Nesseastle Journal.

A conservative dinner on a grand scale took place at Taun-
ton, on Friday, Francis Popham, Esq., was chairman, and A.
Adair, Esq., was vice-chairman, and the company consisted of
nearly four hundred of the most influential inhabitants of the
western division of the couutv.—Dorset Chronicle.

WEST GIoCCESTER CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—The an-
nual dinner or this association took place at S dhury on Tues-
day, (Sir Bethel Cod rington, hart., in the chair) in a ,pacious
booth erected expressly for the occasion, and tastefully decor-
ated with flowers, evergreens and banners. The company
amounted to upwards of four hundred of the gentry, clergy, and
yeomanry or the county, and the greatest unanitnity prevailed
throughout the proceedings.

MOI.I3.—TRIUNIPHI OF THE CHUIZCZ-I.—On our visit to Mold
this last week on assize business, we found even in that respect-
able and loyal spot there were violent and discontented spirits
whose favourite avocation was agitation and turmoil. A little
knot of self important political dissenters, in the course of the
week perched themselves on their agitating stilts, and attempted
to " frighten the town from its propriety" at a general vestry
meeting, by proposing that in future the organist's salary, and
the singers' salary should not be paid out of the church rate.
By dint of manteuvring they contrived to pack the meeting
with a considerable number of their unscrupulous adherents,
whn, when a show of hands was demanded, carried the resolu-
tion against the church. The constitutional party, however,
demanded a poll, the result of which proved the scanty number
of the revolutionary knot. Upon summing up the numbers
there appeared for the motion 66. against it, 28 1 ; being a ma-
jority of 215 individual rate-payers, adverse to the proposition.
Upon a legal declaration of the poll to-day, agreeably to the
provisions of the act 58th Geo. 111., (commonly called Mr.
Sturges Bourne's act) there appears upon the poll-book :—for
the resolution propounded, 87, against it, 386; majority, 299.
Chester Courant.

CHESHIRE - CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. STOCKPORT
BRANCH—The second annual dinner of this patriotic association
will take place at the Warren-Bulkely Arms Inn, on Wednes-
day the 24th inst. From the circumsti.nce of the 'invitation nut
being confined to those who are members, and the high respect-
ability and great popularity of the president of the day, Sir
M. Mainwaring, Bart. a numerous and interesting meeting is
expected. Several of the leading gentry in the northern diem-
!lon of this county have already signified their intention of be-
ing present, and all gentlemen ;vho intend to dine should take
their tickets as early as possible, as the large room at Ihe War-
ren-B. ulkeley Arms will only accommodate a limited number,
and it may be requisite for the stewards to make other arrange-
ments for the comfort of the guests.—Chester Courant.
BUCKINGHAM'S " RINT." Among the list of subscribers
published towards the purchase of an annuity for Mr. Bucking-
ham, appears the name of Lord F. Egerton. That noble lord
has written to say that his name has been so inserted er-
roneously, and that he has no wish to take credit for an act of
liberality which he has declined the invitation to perform.

INGENIOUS WAY OP "DoiNo" ynE POST-oFFICE.—Many
are the devices made use of by friends living at a distance from
one another to communicate interesting scraps of intelligence
without increasing postage. Newspapers marked, or written
upon the covers with " invisible ink," is the general way in
which it was done ; but they are almost always detected, and
charged accordingly. A very ingenious way was devised the
other day by some person writing to a friend in Dublin ; he di-
rected the newspaper to " William Shall-safe Go:-letter Humby,
Esq., which, as it might or might not be a name, could not be
charged.
The merchants of Uull have lately complained much of the
Sound dues exacted by the Danish government at Elsinore.
Mr. Hutt, the member, has communicated with the Board of
Trade, on this subject, setting forth the hardships of this case.
The result will be collected from the following letter :—" Board
of Trade, August 5, 1836. amdirected by Mr. Poulett
Thomson, in reference to your letter upon the subject of Sound
dues levied at Elsinore, to say that the only point on which he
Could found a representation appears to be that of the Ordinary
Poor Money, and on that point he has taken steps to represent
the matter through Lord Palmerston, the Dz.nish government.
have the honour to be Sir, your obedient servant,
" William .Hutt, Esq., M.P.

" ARTHUR, SYMONDS."

Zi)r itibcrpool grtanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1836.

Letters have been received in town from St. SebaS-
tian, of date the 9th and 11th instant, but their contents
are not of any striking importance, with exception of
the perfect state of disorganization, or insubordination
in which more than half the regiments composing the
legion were in on the sailing of the packet. Upwards
of 400 of the 6th regiment were waiting to be sent
home, their year's period of service having expired ;
and they having peremptorily refused further service.
The 3d regiment had also refused duty, until their arrear
of pay was made up ; and a sharp conflict had taken
place between a detachment of the Westminster grena-
diers. on the road to Santander with some Spanish
troops. Cordova has resigned the chief command of the
Queen's Northern army, and only acted as locum tenens
for General Sarsfield, of which fact he had sent a dis-
patch to General Evans, who is only slowly recovering
from his late illness. In the midst of all this Gomez
traverses the Asturias to and fro with 5,000 men un-
molested' An attempt had been made by the exalt ad9s
to proclaim the Constitution of 1812 at Santander,
which failed ; but the movement is prograssing rapidly in
other parts of Spain, and France is about to send an
auxiliary additional corps of 10,000 men. The atten-
tion we feel it our duty to bestow to our domestic in-
terests, prevents our enlarging on these topics.

The House of Lords on Tuesday evening were occu-
pied in discussing various bills before them, and from
the great attention shown to these matters, it is evident
that their lordships are not inclined to spare their labour
when the interests of their fellow-subjects require either
their scrutiny or their application. The two measures
which took up the greater part of their lordships' atten-
tion, after the passing of the Greek loan bill in commit-
tee, on which Lord Melbourne delivered himself of rather
a prosy speech on the foreign policy of this country with
regard to Greece, and to which the Duke of Wellington
replied in his usual straightforward manner, were the
"civil offices declaration bill" and the "prisoners counsel
bill. The first was freely debated, Viscount Duncannon
having moved the second reading. The Duke of Wel-
lington moved "that the bill be read a second time this
day three months," and objected to a bill of so much im-
portance having been hastily passed the Commons, and
especially to its having been sent up to their lordships at
so late a period of the session. Lord Wynford and the
Archbishop of Canterbury spoke to the same effect; the
former against the principle of the bill, as opposed to that
on which the test and corporation act was founded. The
Marquis of Bute, whilst admitting the principle M the
bill, objected also to the lateness of its coming before
their lordships, and concluded by saying "such a system
would, he had no doubt, effect its own cure." The house
divided, and the bill was lost by a majority of 16 ;—ayes
27, noes 43. The house then agreed to the " corporate
property (Ireland) bill" after a slight verbal amendment,
proposed by Lord Lyndhurst, and the report ordered for
the following day (Wednesday.)
The " prisoners' counsel bill," with the amendments
of the commons, annulling the lords' amendments, was
then discussed. Lord Lyndhurst illustrated the two se-
veral anomalies introduced into this bill by the com-
mons, the accused party in cases of treason, or misprison
of treason, being deprived of the benefit of the last word,
whilst in all other cases that advantage would be given.
The second, (as in the case of an assault,) a man might
proceed by indictment, or by civil action. In the former,
the defendant's counsel would have the laSt word to the
jury, whereas in the latter, arising out of the same case,
the last word would be for the plaintiff ! Lord Lynd-
hurst, therefore, urged their lordships to maintain their
amendments. The Lord Chancellor objected in rather
an irregular form, and Lord Holland made an attempt to
be jocular, by accusing the former noble and learned
lord, " first, of throwing out the bills of others, whilst lie
now was ending by throwing out his own," to which
Lord Lyndhurst replied, that he only wished to get rid
of the "incrustation," the bill had got " elsewhere."
We would, however, here ask, what are the attorney and
solicitor-general engaged about in the lower house to
permit these anomalies? The motion for considering
the amendments was assented to.'

The great beggarman again ! This worthy has, in a
strain of morbid rabidity, delivered himself •of his fare-
well journeying speech to the "Justice Rent Associa-
tion," but, we regret to add, not his " last.dying speech,"
although the confession relating to his evil doings and
designs may be turned to great advantage by our con-
servative brethren in Ireland, and on this side of the
water especially, who must "be up and doing" after the
warning now given them.

This last display of Ireland's curse was nothing short
of a hydrophobia paroxysm against toryzsm, or conserva-
tism, the former terrn'being merely used as a watchword
to halloo on the pack of priestly and political revolution-
ists, and to entrap the unwary who may happen to re-
tain any feeling of latent prejudice against a party the
most powerful, the most staunch, the most intelligent, the
most protestant,arl the most successful that ever led the
destinies of our proud empire in her historical or political
career of varied interest from the time of the conquest
downwards. Well, indeed, may this arch political ad-
venturer still dread the influence and power of such a
party, the devotion and wisdom of which paralyzed even
the genius of the conqueror of continental Europe, and
tore asunder that colossal strength he had acquired by
combined skill and human bravery in the field, and by suc-
cessful diplomatic policy in the cabinet during more than
twenty years of inflexible ability and arduous exertion.
Is the united remnant of this proud, this intelligent, this
staple party living in Ireland's bosom, combining the
property and intellect of the country, and marshalled not
only for its own personal defence, but for the sacred
cause of protestant freedom itself, to be triumphed over,
nay, trampled down, by a mercenary wolf like this,
clothed in t! false dress of liberality, acting the pert of
hypocrisy with the most barefaced falsehood• and insc-

assailin2; c!laracter, privilezes., and pos.--

sessions with fiendishmaiignity, without making seine
united effort for one holy and just purpose—one moral
display of Roman virtue—one devoted stand in the sacred
cause of religion and of truth ? Forbid it heaven !
Infatuated Roman Catholic Irishmen may be deceived
and hoodwinked, but Protestant Irishmen and Protestant
Englishmen will not surely prostrate themselves igno-
miniously under the ponderous wheels of this paid
Juggernaut of popery, rolling over the millions of de-
luded, sanguine, untaught peasantry of the sister king-
dom, as the political idol upheld alone by their sweat and
toil—an impost extorted from them under the falacious
and delusive pretext of extending their civil liberties,
and of improving their moral condition with increased
papal dominion and the pressure of priestly tyranny.
What can he thought of this pretended foe to civil
disturbance, who vomits forth the very vapour of sedition,
and breathes the pestiferous breath of bigotry and re-
venge, whilst his serpent-forked tongue lisps the accents
of forbearing policy to his open-mouthed hearers as re-
gards social outrage ? Will any man of plain sense value
such protestations? In what estimation can any upright
Englishman, having the uncontaminated blood of his
forefathers flowing in his veins, hold this sycophantic
pander to popular passion, who has the daring, uncon-
scious impudence, and the mean artifice to toast "the
freedom of the prose," and in succeeding accents justify,
or attempt to justify a restrictive registrative principle
which would have laid all that is worth preserving of
that freedom prostrate at the feet of his pitiful dependant
hand of whig oligarchs, miscalled a government ? The as-
sumption of such arrogance can only be surpassed by the
rank falsehood of his sustaining premises, the utter de-
pravity of his own ideas, and the contempt in which he '
must necessarily hold the judgment of his hearers.
And what are the genuine pretensions of this great
actor in the political drama of our social being ? Yet a
little time, and we will measure his very inches. True
it is, we take not the sock or buskin, nor wear the mask
of arrant hypocrisy—the visor of dissimulation and je-
suitical dogma in our part, but we use a weapon which is
capable, under judicious management, of restraining his
course of downward evil more effectually than all the
authority of that vacillating government which has
crouched before the spectral illusien of his imagined
power. Not so with us—no compromise with falsehood
—"no surrender" to treacherous deceit ; we have buck-
led on our armour for the conflict, and will let both him
and his priestly crew know and feel that we well under-
stand what is meant by the freedom of the press, and that
before many days.
If we may form our judgment from the tone, matter,
and spirit of his lunatic address, we should say freely at
once, that the man's case is truly desperate ; the cause
itself must be worse than bad which can call for such a
display of rabid passion, devoid alike of soul and senti-
ment, and destitute of all argument, nor can the sense-
less beings who cheer his exacerbations of envenomed
feeling—his tropes of deceptive imagery—be entirely un-
worthy of our pity ; they form, it is true, a portion of
that deluded, unreflecting multitude, who leave to others
to think for them, and form no rational conception of the
evil they entail on themselves or their posterity, by being
the tacit dupes of a mere jesuitical pleader, a trafficker in
social disturbance, and the arch calculator of self-interest,
regulated solely by the moving spring of political disor.
ganization. Oh, Irishmen, beware ! You stand, in-
deed, on the summit of a volcano of your own creation,
the dark and dreary crater of which yawns beneath your,
feet! How long will you allow your fair and beautifu
land to be thus polluted ? Is the impassioned struggle
of poverty against property, crowned with crime, the just
medium for improving your social condition ? Let us
appeal to your better judgment—to your national sense
of chivalrous honour—to your moral courage—to your
hearts, and we dread not the response ! We shall
not attempt a thorough analysis at present of the
speech of the " ousted of Dublin" to his deluded fol-
lowers, but merely content ourselves with giving an
outline of the most striking points we deem suitable for
our essential purpose—the application of the Antidote
He commenced with a furious assault on Toryism, pre
facing his attack by moving the appointment of a '
" Reporter of registry for each county and borough of
Ireland." "We have arrived" said the wiley Jesuit,
" at the most important crisis the country ever knew.
If the popular party only succeed at one election more,
the tories are gone for ever. If a parliament be formed
composed of a majority of popular members, there is an
end of Toryism." (Hear!) "It is for this reason that I
would call this an awful and important crisis. One
struggle now and Toryism is at an end for ever ! ! "
This, then, is the expiring agitator's appeal; it forms the
gist of all his bespattering of Grey, Anglesey, and Wel-
lington, his scarcasm against Stanley, and his ridicule
of Plunkett, wound up into the narrow compass of a
maddened expiring assault against Toryism !
He then recapitulated the rise upon the famous ma-
jority of ten which placed the Derrynane bull dog, and
the whig Abercrombie terrier " cheek by jowl" in a
certain unreformed assembly, (at all events in manners)
up to eighty-six, on the Irish corporate reform question.
" This, therefore," said he again, " is the struggle"—
but he supported his illustration by advancing a glaring
falsehood—a positive, palpable, falsehood—for, said he,
" the tories have since, in every instance, been defeated
in parliament"—defeated ! " False honour," says Horace,
" assists, and lying slanders alarm none, save the re-
probate and the liar." And this is our answer to this
barefaced assertion—this outrage on common decency—
a mere rhetorical artifice, presumptuous in conception,
and daring in execution—mais, nous verrous la suite, as
the French pithily express it. Again, " if, upon the
next election, they, the tories, are defeated, what pros-
pect have they of ever ralying ? never in the world.
If they succeed, then a new contest begins, for we will
never submit."—Amiable herald of Christian peace !
Now, we give you credit for sincerity in this last pledge,
Mistlier O'Connell. Sed extremis malls, extrema reme-
dia, and that remedy we have for your evil designs—
" fore-warned is half armed," saith the proverb, and we
should he fools indeed, not to profit by your warning,
although von may " faire le diable d quatre" by your
grimaces in the interim !

Then the present Mayor of Northampton had a cut
for his opposition to the Dissenters—yes the Dis-
senters—oh ! what a holy league, political popery united
with radical dissent ! What say the conscientious de-
scendants and admirers of the pious Baxter, and the in-
flexible Bunyan to thiS appeal ? But poor lost Feargus
O'Connor, thou prince of Irish Rads, after the slap in
the face here given you, will you turn the other cheek,
or will you not obediently crouch before Whig domi-
nion ? or shall we have to secure you a safe retreat in
the " Circus" of Savage Gardens, over the door of
which it is possible the " the death's head and cross-
bones" executioner may not dare the exhibition of hiS
prowess ? Poor Mr. Feargus O'Connor,'We would ad-
vise you to take care of your natural living devoted
head; and we would also advise Messrs. Savage,
M'Connell and Co. to look to their avocation of a " new
religion," for the brand is upon them, and their marrow-
bones may be in request ! Thus, what with be-slaver-
ing Lord Mulgrave with fulsome molasses, and ridi-
culing poor Lord Plunkett, the ever memorable " old
almanac" man, admirer of " ancient history," and, in
O'Connell phrase, incubus of the " present administra-
tion," for whom he, O'Connell, prescribed the use of a
gossamer saddle and bridle," a freSh paroxysm arose,
and displayed itself in one direful plunge of foaming
ffi
wrath at 7'he Times, the " organ of the Tories," for
having impiously styled the political priestly supporters
of his own worthy immaculate self " surpliced ruans,"
and then this great Necromancer of the papacy wound
up his performance with a detail of the strength and
workings of the Catholic rint as the momentum of his
power, and which certainly merits our serious reflection.
Assuredly the national "Justice Rent" Association in
Dublin is presenting a formidable front—it is levying a

heavy pecuniary contribution and raising large sums for
an avowed object of evil design against the entire pro•
testant interest and Church of Ireland. These once mo-
dest and moderate petitioners have fairly thrown off their
mask—they think no longor of at. from Parlilment,

awl the justice of the British nation, what they once

termed a boon, but demanding as a rig,fht, they talk as
arrogantly as if we would permit them to carry the re-
maining citadel of our constitution by storm ! Truly,
have we to lament, the infatuation under which some of
our best leading men lent themselves to measures whir;.
have alone produced this papal boldness. True it is, we
have lived to see a papist Earl Marshal attendant on our
Protestant King—an anomaly in principle and in prac •
tice ! We have seen Roman Catholic members admitted
to decide, as it were, the fate of our Protestant Church
in the British House of Commons—admitted to minor
offices of state. But do they, or these their associated
leaders, imagine that, led on by their champion, they
have only to bluster and to demand, till at length they
seat, at will, a Papist on the Woolsack in their reformed
House of Lords, and place the scales of justice in the
hands of some others of the Holy Father's tools ?
li Money, these liberal worthies well know, will perform
wonders, especially in unhappy Ireland, where it is
wrung, by O'Connell's own showing, in fractions from
the almost famished peasant, under the priestly threat
and penalty of eternal punishment, if he refuse his aid
to what he is taught to believe is the cause of his reli-
gion; but in reality solely calculated upon by the de-
signing political knaves, as the means of augmenting in-
directly the number of ayes in that house which is to
control the destinies of this united kingdom. We have
then much to fear and much to contend against; but still
have we the power of safety if we will be true to our-
selves—true to our principles, that we may redeem in
part the error of past legislation, and false doctrines of
expediency, the fallacies of which shine forth as the sun
at noon-day. Ireland, after all, is but a part of the em-
pire—a portion of the united kingdom—a subdivision of
one great social family; as such, she has an equitable
right to the privileges of its laws, but as such she is only
a comparative small minority of the whole, neither do
the particular circumstances of her condition, nationally
or morally, admit of a perfect assimilation ; and hence,
she has no valid, no reasonable-pretext to injure the in-
terests of the many for the sake of gratifying the ambi-
tion of the few. This is our argument. "No POPERY"
is our rallying shout, our answer to the papal manifesto
of the "justice association;" may every wall resound
With the cry at the approaching contest, come when it
may, and then shall we either convert the Roman Catho-
lic spell-bound or admiring whig, and the palavering,
wavering, half•bred protestant, or rid the senate of their
apostacy to the constitution in church and state; and, if •
needs be, expunge from the statute book itself that act,
which has enabled our avowed enemies to preach treason,
and to proclaim sedition with impunity. Our conserva-
tive brethren have the field before them ; we have hum-
bly beat the cover !

That gallant soldier, amiable gentleman, and intelli-
gent senator, General Sir George Murray, has accepted
the invitation of 700 householders of the city of West-
minster to stand for that borough, in the event of any
early vacancy, conditionally, should no vacancy in the
interim arise in the counts- of Perth, to the constituency
of which Sir George considers himself bound by strong
ties of gratitude and local interest. We hail the opulent
borough of Westminster in the prospect thus offered, of
its becoming emancipated from that condition of political
degradation to which it has so long been subservient.
From what we personally know of Sir George Murray,
we are assured that a more competent and thoroughly
honourable man to fill the important trust of represent-
ing the first borough in the empire, could not possibly
have been selected; and the retirement of Sir Thomas
Cochrane from the field in his favour displays a high
sense of gentlemanly bearing and independent patriot-
ism. Let the Whigs look to it—their days are assuredly
numbered.

By a reference to the account of the proceedings at
the Crown and Anchor, at Westminister, on Monday, it
will be seen, that the English republicans have hoisted
their standard, against " the powers that be," even the
" juste millieu" whigs—have promulgated their consti-
tution, and issued their manifesto, or proclamation in a
string of five resolutions, the fourth of which is only
worthy of a place in our leading article. Namely,
" That the principal defect alleged against the constitu-
tion (Spanish) of 1812—' that it is without a House of
Peers'—is not one on which the people of England are,
at this moment, DISPOSED PREREMPTORILY TO INSIST ! ! !"

0, unhappy whigs ! This is another sorry manifes-
tation of the dispensation from above, which hovers over
the " destinies" of the Spanish people; whilst it places
you, and your foreign sect etary, in a position so truly
pitiable, that you run the imminent risque of becoming
in a very few days the laughing stock of the cabinets of
Europe, for your imbecile policy, it also places you once
more before the world of Englishmen—free-born up.
right, independent, reflecting Englishmen, in the humi-
liating position of being solely dependent for place and
power on the sweet voice of Radicalism, and

" That a breath can mar ye as a breath has made,"
the worthies of the Crown and Anchor—the marrow-
bone legislators.
Messrs. Murphy, Prentice, and Co. dispensing then
with the "dispensation from above," have proclaimed, in
the name (but not with the authority) of the British na-
tion, that the question of a House of Peers, for Spain,
is not one on which " the people of England" are, at
this moment, disposed peremptorily to insist. Well
done, Murphy ! This is as it should be; nothing like
taking the "bull by the horns." Now is the time to
make the recreant whigs feel the weight of your impor•
tance in the state, as the great Roman Catholic potatoe
dealer, and " black diamond merchant," leader of the
vestry of Saint Pancras, and active guardian of the move-
ment in the parish of Saint Marylebone ! Certes, after
this solemn, dignified installation of your junta, it will
be morally impossible for Lord Johnny, Lord Lambikin,
or even " red herring" Rice, to move one peg without
your counsel and consent, and that of your confederated
band of jacobinical adventurers. Bravo for the radicals !
But, still a louder bravo for conservatism, for the enemy
have unfurled their colours—have shown aloft the
diabolical nature of their wishes and intentions; and the
natural result will be, increasing union, energy of ac-
tion, and promptitude of purpose, with the loyal and the
gOod throughout the land.

In days gone by, when whigs and radicals were out-
side the Treasury walls, and their mouths were watering
for those good things called place and pay—things which
the aforesaid worthies stand generally in need of—we
heard huge clamours against these abominations, and
the public press of that patty were very vehement in de-
nouncing pensioners, placemen, &c. Now, however,
that a considerable number of these gentry are ensconced
in the places once occupied by better men, they have
proved that a more corrupt, jobbing, and place-bunting
set does not breathe the pure air of heaven. Witness
their toasts too on the liberty of the press, and the ma-
jesty of the people.

The whig prosecutions of the public press, during
the last thirty years, and the poor law bill, are
striking illustrations of the inconsistency of these
malcontents. Degenerated in breed, and debased in
character, the whigs of the present day are a mongrel
pack, no more to be compared to the Chathams and
Sheridans of a former period than the fetid water o
a ditch to the blue and sparkling wave of the Atlantic.
We now look in vain for the high and lofty bearing of
the statesman and the gentleman, whose manly English
feeling would have spurned contamination with the beg-
garly pack " whose howlings are heard upon the western
breeze, and whose cry alone denotes plunder." The
wheels of the government of England are put in motion
by men devoid of principle, aliens in respect to our insti-
tutions, the subjects of a foreign yoke, which arrogates
to itself the right of absolving its votaries from all alle-
giance to monarchs who are styled heretical, and which
has been, and ever will be, the deadliest foe to liberty
that the world has witnessed. Yes, it is a humiliating
fact, but it is true, that Great Britain is at this moment
lying prostrate before papal domination, and that wither-
ing power, like the upas tree, is fast spreading its deadly
influences around us. And are the descendants of the
whip of 1796 found, as one man, opposing the system

A tc;t:rr 19, 1536,

which, with specionis k entwining itself
round the institutions of the land ? No ! the future his-
torian will have to record the disgraceful coalition which
is now existing between the paid agent of the popish
priesthood and the degenerate whip, under the imms,
diate leadership of the more degenerate descendant of
Lord William Russell ! And he will have to record the
fact, that for some years the government of Britain was
conducted by a race of men devoid of talent—many of
them bankrupt in principle—opposed by nine-tenths of
the landed and commercial property of the country, and
under whose baneful sway " the meteor flag of England"
has been insulted and disgraced. And as it is in her
parliament, which presents to view an O'Connell, a
Waklev, a buncombe, a Gully, and a Ewart, (and it
would be impossible for us to descend much lower,) so it
is in her municipal councils, where men of no pretensions
but to impudence—no creed but expediency—no politics
but democracy, no principle but the love of place and
power—no ability but that of making themselves con-
temptible—are now to be found scattered throughout the
land, an infliction upon the country for its disloyalty,
and a just punishment for its rejection of respectability.
And is Liverpool an exemption from the general rule?
Let us see whether the virus of reform has not ino-
culated Liverpool, and whether we are much healthier
than any of our municipal neighbours. The liberals Of
this town, in common with those of the empire, have al-
ways advocated

ECONOMY, IMPARTIALITY, DETESTATION AT A MUL-
TIPLICATION OR CREATION OF PEERS, AN ABHORRB NOE
OF PENSIONS, THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.

As the occupants of those magnificent chairs in our
council chamber, the very cost of which diove that poor
scribbling Wootton magistrate, of the Russia ducks, half
wild, have for years been screaming at the want of eco-
nomy in public men, let us take a retrospective view of
some of their proceedings since they were installed in
those chairs—so much superior to those in which many
of them sit at home. It is amusing to look at the files of
the Liverpool papers for the few weeks preceding the
municipal election, in December last. We really re-
commend our readers to look over the splendid promise!
of the liberal Munchausens, many of whom were after-
wards elected. Economy ! economy ! ran through every
line of every address—the people swallowed the bait, and
soon, very soon they will be made to feel the hook-
Well, some sixty of these promissory notes were sent for
presentation, in the expectation that they would be as
good as cash. Were they fictitious ? The first of No-
vember next must answer the question.
The popular gale having whisked them into the Town'• •
hall, they began the work of economy. We had a most
expensive establishment, they said, a long tail that re-
quired shortening. The Town-clerk, Mr. Foster, was a
man of talent, well versed in the knowledge of the extent,
and resources, and management of the corporate estate-
No flaw could be found in his character, no ignorance of
law, no good ground for his rejection. But he was a
conservative, independent in spirit, and disdained to
crouch. He carried no plush cloth to lay with unseemly
humility beneath the feet of the council, to help them
over the dirty places. So, as it is a fundamental princi-
ple of radicalism, that no man shall be permitted to think
or act with independence who fills any official situation,
Mr. Foster was discharged, and, in the true spirit of
economy, the town has to pay him £2,500 per annum for
his life, as a compensation for the loss of his official
emoluments.

Mr. Foster's salary, paid by the corporation, was £5OO
per annum, the rest was paid by fees of office and law
business; but a Mr. Chameleon Radcliffe was found, who
had been, like the Hampshire Cupid, all things to all
men, but who happened just at that time to be a whig or
something more, and who had been very serviceable to"
the knot of socinians in their opposition to church and
state, during the few months preceding, and forthwith,
at the dictum of that ill-favoured genius, the vinegar'
cruet of the council, who, in lieu of his equivocal broad'
brim, ought to have his head decorated with cap and
bells,—was foisted into the vacant office, and the im-
posing name of " Radcliffe, Town-clerk " has since, in
snow white placards, dazzled the visual organs of the in-
habitants, in every street.
£2,500 a-year, "neither less nor more," is the reward
of Mr. Radcliffe's attachment to radicalism—of course
the frequent journeys to London will be at his own ex-
pense. We shall, however, be curious and, perhaps,
cruel enough to remark upon the nice items of travelling
expenses, &c., which will, undoubtedly, occupy more
units than one in this year's expenses.
Now, as whigs are proverbially aristocratic, and in
office, usually indolent, (with the glorious exceptions of
Lords Melbourne and Glenelg, whose prodigious exer-
tions are duly appreciated,) and as the Town-clerk's
office was one of dignity, and its very sign manual was
lordly—it was deemed right that Mr. Radcliffe should
Have a. footman as well as his worship ; and a smart,
active fellow having presented himself, who had proved
that he could sign objections, give people unnecessary
trouble, and write grammatically, and who was also a
friend of the cruet, it was almost unanimously resolved,
that this young whig would be a most economical pur-
chase, and, for the good of the town, he was accordingly
phylacterized and stitched to the hem of Mr. TOO-
clerk's garment, at the moderate price of £7OO a-year'

One reservation was made—that it was not necessary
for him to wear the scarlet plush unmentionables nor the
gold hat-bands which denote the other footmen, and r°
doubt was entertained of his docility and obedience.
Then came the Treasurer. No man could surely ob-
ject to Mr. John Deane Case. No man ever waited upon
him, either in his official or private capacity, who did not
find in him the courteousness of the gentleman, and the
aptitude of a man of business. But the leprosy of eon"
servatism clung to him, and it mattered not to the coun-
cil that the public had a right to look to it for the most
efficient servants, without reference to their private feel-
ings on political questions. A Mr. Wybergh, who had
been a busy fellow at the Reform Association, required
providing for, and Mr. Case was pensioned ofrat 1:501
per annum, to make room for Mr. Wybergh, whom nobody
in the town knew, and whose pretensions to the offir
were founded only on his gratuitous services to the 111"
dical body. How long Mr. Wybergh is to do his duty
at his present salary, will, in a great measure depend
npon the next election. The magisterial office had beet:
filled gratuitously, and who will say that justice had u°'
been for years dispensed with impartiality and ability ?.
But in the true spirit of econonu/—a radical barristecit
was elevated to the bench at £l,OOO per annum, all
almost immediately afterwards, in the true thimble-rig
fashion, this was raised to £1,300 per annum ! ! the
old surveyor was pensioned off at £soo—and a new °II.
elected, a whig of course, at £7OO per year, with a Pro'.
pect of increase. Of this functionary we know
but if common report be correct, the coruscations of ffit
genius, are never likely to set the Mersey on fire-
would detain us too long to dwell on minor appointmerlts;
such as coroner, &c., but it is only justice to the couiri,
to state one fact, in which their pledges were fullY re-

deemed.
Mr. John Sudlow was treasurer's clerk ;—'tis true hed
was a faithful servant, an admirable accountant, and ha.,
been about twenty years in the corporate service. d
father, too, had spent his whole life in their service, an
when he died universally regretted and beloved for hid'
integrity and virtues, he died a poor man, for he has
lived an honest and blameless life. But his son had
most extravagant salary—no less than 250 guine3,s6e
year! and some £5O additional for the charge o' "
wine cellar. This, the public will believe, was too muck
the council thought so too, and Mr. John Sudlovv's salary
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was forthwith recommended to be reduced fora
to
guineas to 250 sovereigns a-vear, by which there vi'ten
have been a clear gain to the public of twelve pounds f
shillings per annum! !! enough to have driven J'se`ib
Hume wild with delight.
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