The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

called upon Mr. Alex. Smith, jun., alone ; and
afterwards Mr. James Aikin was so good as to accompany
me, when we delivered to him the letter of which the above
is a copy, with the desire of giving Mr. A. Smith, jun., an
opportunity of withdrawing tins accusation publicly ; but he
declined doing so, and therefore nothing remains for me but
to repeat that the accusation is altogether without founda-
tion.—l am, sir, &c.,
Liverpool, 28th Jan. 1811. RICH. V. YATES.

" The Liverpool Mail of the 26th January having been
shown to us, containing the following words, purporting to
be part of a speech delivered by Mr. Alexander Smith, jun.,
to the Tradesmen's Conservative Association, on the preced-
ing day, namely,—
There was one person who kept a house at the corner of
Whitfield-street, next door to a Mr. Carter; this person's
name was William Mason, and himself and his father were
voters for the same house, so that there were two voters in
one family, and two voters in one family were of importance
in the election in which he (Mr. Smith) was engaged. A
friend of his (Mr. Smith's) being surprised that they should
have voted contrary to the way in which they had voted be-
fore, asked the younger Mr. Mason why they had voted in
this way, and he gave as his reason, that he had been pro-
mised a license if he and his father voted for Mr. William
Rathbone. (Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Smith) had taken the
words down, and Mason's statement was to the following
effect :—He said he had been waited on by Mr. Lawson and
another, who said that if he and his father voted as they
wished he should have a license next year. Mr. Mason then
said that he had had similar promises held out to him before,
and that, as they had not been fulfilled, he would require
that the assurance should be given by sonic one on whom he
could have some dependance. This, in his (Mr. Smith's)
opinion, showed that he understood his business. (Hear,
and a laugh.) The next day Mr. Richard Yates called on
him to solicit his vote, and promised him to use all his in-
fluence to secure his license, and said—" No one on the bench
has tiler,- influence than Mr. Rathbone, and if you vote for
hiai you will secure his influence also."

" We hereby declare that the representations in the above
paragraph are untrue. I, for myself, William Mason, de-
clare that I never uttered to Mr. Smith the words which he
says he had taken down.' And in justice to Mr. Richard
'Yates we both positively assert that he never called upon or
spoke one word to either of us on the subject of the last con-
test. for North Toxteth Ward, that he has not called upon or
spoken to either of us for sonic years past, and that he never
on any occasion spoke one word to either the one or the
other about a license.

" THOS. MASON.
" WILLIAM MASON

" Sefton Arms, Toxteth-park Road,
Jan. 27, 1841.'

STEALING JOINERS' TOOLS. —A yoUng man, named
Thomas Quick, was yesterday placed at the bar of the police
court, on a charge of having stolen from time to time a
quantity of joiner's tools and other articles, the property of
several individuals of the same trade. Police-officer Pear-
son; No. 5, stated that from information he had received,
he searched the premises of the prisoner, who is a marine-
store dealer, where he took out of his hand 54 pawntickets,
and through them found a number of joiner's tools, at the
respective shops of Mr. Howard, in Christian-street, and
Mr. Jones, pawnbrokers. He afterwards found some tools
in the prisoner's house. The whole were produced. John
Jones, a joiner, in Copperas-hill said, that on the 12th De-
cember, he had worked at the same new buildings in Booth-
road, Kirkdale. At dark he left his tools in the stable, and
on the morning of the 11th, when he returned, he missed a
number of them, a measuring-tape, and other articles. He
identified the tape produced, and some of the tools. His
tools were worth £3. Edward Connor, a joiner, had been
working with the prisoner at the premises in Kirkdale, and
at night put his tools into a closet, whence they were after-
wards stolen. Those produced were the same. His tools
were worth £5. James Johnson, a joiner, also lost tools
from the same building, and recognised some of those pro-
duced as his property. Henry Edwards, another joiner,
also recognised a plane, which he had lent to Johnson. The
prisoner said that lie had bought the articles, and had ex-
posed them for sale. lie was committed for trial at the
sessions, and his application to be admitted to bail was
refused by the magistrates, who remarked that such charac-
tees as he were the most troublesome subjects the police had
to deal with.—Another pristmer, an elderly man, named
Henry rairelough Page, was also committed for trial, on a
charge of stealing a quantity of joiner's tools, from the shop
of Mr. Cooper, joiner, Jordan-street.

We are happy to hear that our army is to be increased to
the extent of 10,000 men. They are much wanted. There
is also a rumour—how true we know not—that an addition
is to be made to the marines.—Brighton Gazette.

The National Debt has been increased about Seven Mil-
lions since the accession of the Whigs to office, and this with-
out taking into account the West India loan of Twenty Mil-
lions, or the war expenses in China, Atrghanistan, and Syria,
which must amount to several millions more.
DEATH Or THE DOWAGER COUNTESS BATHURST.—The
above estimable Countess died at her residence in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square, on Wednesday, after a short illness.
Her Ladyship. who was youngest daughter of Lord George
Lennox, and aunt of the present Duke of Richmond, was
Henry, Earl Bathurst, by whom her Lady-
shipreksetnottlEicarprivy
born on the 6th of December, 1765, and married on the' Ist
of seven children, five of
whom
ho suryi
ve
it hf
~Ainr P.
haalrrnild:
ii,
laailbi
af7l3eB:9l;ii family'
Lennoxher, namely,Bathurst, the
present
Bathurst,the
Council;
Lady Louisa Georgians Bathurst, Lady of the Bedchamber
to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester •, Lady
Emily Charlotte Ponsonby, and -
Bathurst, married to Lad
Emily the Hon. and Rev. Charles
Y
of the Earl of Abingdon. Thi, Berrie, youngest daughter
deceased Countess had only
'Tim ay from returned to town a few d.
Brighten.

Who are they who are now calling for ssential
iges in the Reform Act ?—who are they who have
• schemes of agitation to get rid of that
-gen of Whig patriotism, purity, and
__at was said by its panegyrists to
oe a greater and nobler work of legislation than Magna
Charta, the Bill of Rights, and the Habeas Corpus
ket, all put together, Are the persons who would
—^tially alter the provisions of that act
No : they are all liberals; and a great
-em'men who are the-most servile sup-
of the Melbourne administration on all vital

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Reform Act has not finished ten years of its
'ien fierce and extensive agitation has been
gainst it—organised by the whigs and
hemselves—organised by such men as Mr.
nell, Mr. Joseph Hume—the whip-radical
mill-
, who want low wages under the name of "cheap
' for their workmen—and the chartists, whose
)n was first set on foot by the Irish would-be
nberer of her Majesty's empire, and who after-
Offered to the Queen'l3 minister five hundred
nd fighting men, to put down the chartist agita-
f the north; and threatenedto have some
t missionaries, who " poached upon hinnanor"
and, thrown into the river Liffey.
conservatives are now the only supporters of
ntegrity" of the Whig Reform Act, to repeal or
hich various sections of liberals and whig-
are now engaged in the work of an
i quite as earnest, and which, but for comer-
would be quite as successful as the agitation
years ago in favour of " the Bill—the whole
nothing but the Bill." In truth, if those
ections of liberal agitators were to have their
a rag of the " great Reform Act" would be

explain to the nest generation what that mighty
f legislation was, to carry which England was
plunged into the frightful miseries of a bloody

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ing" ar
mill at

•as amusing enough at the "great reform meet-
pinst the reform act, in the whig Mr. Marshall's
Leeds, to hear Mr. Roebuck tell Mr. Joseph
that the pelting of the " pitiless storm" of un-
rity which he had to bear, while vainly attempt-
obtain a hearing, arose from his being mistaken
;onnell. If O'Connell had had "pluck" enough
ce his appearance there, the' compliment might
)een returned, and he might have been told by
his " tailsmen" that the reason of the groaning

Hume

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ioting, so liberally showered on him, arose from-
ng mistaken for Mr. Hume! It is quite certain,
events, that the chartists made " no mistake"
either. They esteemed the patriotic liberality of

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intense admirer of the whip bastile law, and

yer of the factory children, at just what it was
nd bestowed their execration accordingly—on
on the other by proxy.

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tEPEAL OF THE UNION.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
article on this topic, which appeared in a recent
er of the Dublin Evening Mail, appears to have
d a

sensation in the sister country no less
im-
than it produced at home. Ever since its ap-
, the London press, of every shade of politics,
the candour of naming their authority, or the

of quoting its paragraphs, have availed them-
f the facts laid down, and the arguments de-

duced

; and whilst we
Ily admit the good use made, upon the one side,
materials of discussion thus provided, and wit-
th pride the frustrate attempts, on the other, to
r position, we feel a secret gratification that our
though unacknowledged, have not been with-
it the attention of all parties has
subject which must occupy the
ion of parliament at the earliest

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not improbable that in that article we have
neither host in the political conflict.
as not our care to do so. It was our object nei-
arraign the one, nor to fawn upon the other,
point out to both the rigid path of If we
[aced the Whigs in general in a dilemma—if we
stened the ex-official Whigs, backed by the Li-
in the cleft stick, and driven the official Whigs
eir confederates, the Radicals and Repealers,
e corner, we have not bound the Conservative,

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sition less stringently to the necessity of ~action—,
Ise it appears to us that the ..obligation of main-
integrity of the empire, as British states-