The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Our correspondent who sends us a communication with re-
ference to Lord Morpeth's registration bill, must not infer,
from the non-appearance of the article he has forwarded,
that we do not appreciate his kind intentions. We shall
be glad to hear from him at any time; but his letter was
received too late to be of service for our present publica-

In our report, on Friday last, of the election for a surgeon
for the Northern Hospital, we described the successful
candidate as " house surgeon" instead of " honorary sur-
geon."
The letter of " A Member of the Young Men's Established
Church Society" has been received, and if it will suit our
columns, shall appear on Friday.

THE " LIVERPOOL STANDARD."

We beg to remind our Subscribers and Readers who, we
flatter ourselves, are somewhat interested in our wel-
fare, that with our publication this day we enter upon
the third year of our Proprietorship in the LIVER
POOL STANDARD.
We can fearlessly refer to our columns, and challenge
any of our Conservative brethren to show a more ar-
dent advocacy of those excellent and constitutional
principles which it is both our pride and pleasure to
disseminate ; and we cannot but look at the increasing
influence of the STANDARD—its improving circula-
tion—and its very numerous advertisements—without
feeling that our humble efforts are appreciated.
It will be our constant endeavour and aim to continue
as we have begun, and deserve the kindnesses which
are so repeatedly bestowed upon us.

LORD NIORPETH'S IRISH REGISTRATION

BILL.

The second reading of this bill was to be proposed
to the House of Commons last night, and in all proba-
bility the debate will be adjourned for several evenings;
but if the London papers of this morning contain the
division, we shall announce such an important event in a
second edition as early as possible.

efir Zifurrpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1841

The organs of American opinion in the States assure
us, without circumlocution, that neither the Caroline,
nor the boundary, nor any other question in which we
happen to be involved with them at present, is likely
to be settled soon, or settled at all, without an arbitra-
ment of the last resort. Now, though we are bound
to make great allowance for the thrasonic style of men
—no great well-wishers of ours at any time—writing
at the moment under the supposition that they had
caught us at a disadvantage, and high in hope of being
able to turn our embarrassments to their own profit—
here every "free and enlightened
supposes himself as good a statesman as the

yet, in a country

citizen"

President, and the aggregate mass as omnipotent, these
scintillations of the general mind are not undeserving
of notice.

It has not escaped observation that Mr. -M'Cleod
was arrested on the 12th of November, just when the
last intelligence must have been received that M. Thiers
was in full power, and driving on the Ivar system to
the last extremity; and it is a matter of fair speculation
whether that unprecedented and treacherous capture
would ever have been made or thought of, but for the
conjectures to. which the then latest news from Europe
gave rise. But when, we may add, have the States
lost an opportunity of endeavouring to improve their
affair's at our expense, when fortune seemed to throw
facilities in their way ? The traitor party within our
Canadian territory have long enjoyed their kindest and
most encouraging regards; and, under the name of

" sympathisers," we know to what lengths they hay(
gone in imparting an impression of the tenderness o
their fraternisation. With our difficulties the thereto•
meter of American anti-Anglicanism invariably rises.

and it is easy to suppose how the mercury must have

got up with the news of our Indian, Chinese, Eastern,
and, consequent, Gallican complications. These were
intelligence that seemed to whisper in the ear of the
"citizens" that now was the. time.to.add new border
and boundary questions to the old, to aggravate their
voice, and press onward with demands that had here-
tofore hem scarcely mentionable. Such are the neigh-
bours that we possess on the frontier of our colonies
in North America—neighbours whom we can reckon
upon as friends only so long as they are compelled, by
a proper respect for the power of others to restrain
their un-neighbourly propensities, and neighbours with
whom it is evidently desirable to have as few pending
negotiations or controversies as possible. From our
recent experience of their willingness to wound—their
perfect alacrity to take us in the rear when it is their
calculation that we are fully engaged in front—it has
come in a practical and impressive shape to us, that
now would just be the time to insist on a complete and
final settlement of whatever questions we may have
with them. If the boundary question is ever to be
settled—settled in any way—by negotiation, or by the
last alternative—this is just the time for bringing it to
a conclusion. This is really the practical, common-
sense lesson that our late instruction in Americanisms
should have taught us. Whatever rights we have to
claim, or maintain, we repeat, that we may as well
make good their establishment and possession at this
very time. Delays are, proverbially, dangerous, and
may meet us again, in this case as well as others, only
in a worse condition for resisting presumptuous de-
mands, or the maintenance of rightful acquisitions.
To pass, however, from these broad and observable
eventuations of fact, to speculations less potent, but
scarcely less interesting—let us in
quire upon what
principle we are to account for that rancorous animo-
sity so manifest in the spirit of our kinsmen of the
states—an unhappy and, we must add, unnatural dis-
position towards this country, which seems only li-
mited by its capacity, and not by its inclination, to do

To Avower thi

tion satientorily, w

now we account for unsatisfied deairee and
restless ambition in individuals, who, if regarded in
connection with outward ziyeumstances, seem to have
no sort of justification for tormenting either themselves

or others with wants which spring only from an un

restrained imagination, or the wanderings of a lawless
A nation is but a multitude of individuals,