The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY

To THE LANDOWNERS AND LABOURING PEOPLE OF
ENGLAND, AND TO ALL CLASSES OF THE OPERA-
TIVE TRADES PEOFLE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PRO-
TECTING THEIR PRESENT RATES OF WAGES, AND
DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM THE FURTHER
INVASION 01, THEIR RIGHTS AS A BODY, AS IN-

DIVIDUALS, AND AS A NATION.
11SY FRIENDS,—There is no time to be lost in coming to
a final conclusion on the great and important point now
under discussion in the Commons, and which is introduced
for the destruction of your joint and separate interests as a
people, as a class or classes, and finally as a nation ; but the
power avert to the ruin which is to attend these proceedings
lies in your own hands. We have two contending parties,
the Conservatives and the Destructives. For ths., Conserva-
tives I will say as little as I possibly can ; a comparison of
the two parties will show directly who are the protectors of
the people's rights and who are the assailants. If the O'Con-
nell party ever intended any thing for our general good, why
would they at first setting out provide, on such an extensive
scale, workhouses for the people, such a plan of relief amongst
a then independent, Protestant population ? They must have
premeditated a general ruin, which would be a cause for the
existence of such prisons ; they must have intended a certain
line of policy which would have the effect of a general de-
crease of our business and our prosperity. The falling state
of the country is a proof of it. And as for the general bene-
fits which we were promised from a Whig-Radical and
O'Connell administration, we see the nature of these benefits
clearer when we come to compare them with the Conserva-
tive administration ; we see the Conservatives have done
their duty to their country, whilst the Radicals have played
the game so well, that we find a great national deficiency
which we must all contribute to, until made good. Now, as
there are two sects of people, independent of Papists, who
have power to remedy these evils and prevent this sort of
O'Connell sport, I would request the attention of both to
those two parties, the Conservatives of England and the
Radicals. These two sorts are people who want political
qualification in a member of parliament without any refer-
ence to religious principles ; even such a man as this cannot
find any thing in the Whig-Radical to merit his support, but
directly the reverse; and the man who would require both
these virtues amongst the Whig• Radical party, they are
found to be enemies to the country and enemies to our
church ; and no one can give an instance of any thing under
colour of our good proposed by them until the end of many
years ruin on the country when they are called to resign, and
then they will give us cheap bread and cheap sugar. The
cheap bread being accompanied with the destruction of the
highest interests of Englishmen, and if this system should
operate for the reduction of rents of land and houses, and
the reduction of employment, how does Lord Melbourne
intend to meet another and a new kind of deficiency which
must take place in the financial department by means of the
said reduction of the value of property in general ? This must
be considered as another great evil arising out of the great
evil of corn-law repeal, as the poor-law dungeons are a great
evil, made necessary to remedy the evil of the ruin which
was anticipated previous to the building of the workhouses
for the people, and all these evils spring from the same
source, Whig-Radical administration. But the Radical
O'Connell party cannot be for the good of Englishmen—
quite impossible. See his words to the inhabitants of Dublin
several years ago : We will have no police here ; we will raise
the Irish volunteers, who will do the duty of the national
guards; we will have no English fellows to govern us—we
will govern our own country, and defend it against the com-
mon enemy. Will you not all be volunteers? Voices : "we
will, we will." We will drive the Sasenach (the Englishman
or Protestant) from our land ; we will not have it defiled by
such reptiles ! These are every one identical words used by
O'Connell himself to the people of Dublin. And he was
as good as his word ; be did raise an Irish volunteer move-
ment, to the amount of some hundreds of thousands, whose
operations made it dangerous to the lives of Protestants to
remain in the country, and it required no small degree of
power, on the part of the English government, to suppress
them. But does he come over to Englishmen with such
language? No; he uses very different weapons in his war-
fare from those used against us at Wexford in 1798, at Derry,
or at the Boyne. He finds it won't do here, and therefore
he comes to you with sweet words, "cheap bread and sugar."
If O'Connell thinks cheap bread a good thing, let the Irish
have cheap bread for a trial, but without any benefit from our
English markets, except as usual. Let the Irish have foreign
corn cheap until their ports are full, and see how they will
take it; and if it is not for their benefit, it cannot be for
yours. But I will advocate cheap bread if it is all English
or Irish produce, giving the reward for labour to our own
men, and keeping the workhouses empty. And any man
that wants further proof of Whig-Radical treachery, let him
look at the system of religion they advocate—popery, tran-
substantiation, purgatory, idolatry and cheap remission of
sins, paid for according to our means, their priests professing
to absolve all sinners without any ceremony but the cash.
As to transubstantiation, our Saviour has said, " Verily I
say unto you, ye shall not see me hence," &c. They say we
can see him and handle him every day. The other absurdi-
ties of their church will appear on comparison with the
Scriptures. And because we are protesters against these
innovations on God's church, we lose the name of Catholic,
which Rome retains. The name of Catholic is strong enough
to keep the unlearned man stedfast in their superstitious
belief. Look at their i istitutions, the nunneries. No man
of principle would vote for the Whigs, who extort an income
from our pocket to support such places, whose burden on
the people could not be endured in a popish country, Spain,
as appears by the revolt which scattered the popish inquisi-
tion courts. In fact, the world may laugh at Englishmen if
they reject their own friends, and vote for those who are
bound in allegiance to a foreign enemy, the Pope, whose war
is carried into our very camp. Therefore, the Whig-Radical
ministry being found to betray the interests of every man,
both as regards politics and religion, and both separately and
conjointly, and the English Conservatives found the friends
of the people, and of the nation generally ; and as regards
both politics and religion, any man who will not reject the
'ornier and support the latter, must be declared an enemy
o his country, to himself, his family, and above all, to his
Sod.—l remain, dear Sir,
A DEFENDER OF THE CHURCH AND
THRONE OF ENGLAND.
Prescot, 31st May, 1841.

The Cheshire Cavalry, 600 strong, under the command of
Colonel Egerton, are expected to arrive in this town to-
morrow, for permanent duty,
GRAND WRESTLING MATCH AT TOXTETH-PARK.---WE
are obliged to postpone our account of these interesting sports
until Tuesday.

COVENT-GARDEN MA.REET, SATURDAY.—Every week
adds to the profuseness of the supply of every description of
summer fruits and vegetables, which are also much improved
in quality, from the continuance of fine and genial weather.
Trade has also been brisk during the week, and prices have
been moderate. Every description of forced fruit is of very
good quality—Providence, Ernrille, and Queen pine apples
being from 6s. to 10s. per lb ; hot-house grapes 4s. to 8. En-
glish melons ss. to 10s. each ' • and peachettes and nectarines
20s. to 30s. per dozen; strawberries continue abundant, and
there have been some in the market during the week grown
in the open air. Cherries are plentiful at ss. to 12s.
per lb., and are now to be seen in many of the shops.
Green gooseberries were in abundant supply, at 4s. per
sieve, although this fruit has been very much affected by
the blight ; green currant; were 3s. per half sieve ; and apri-
cots 6d. per quart. Peas from Kent, were plentiful and of
good quality, at 4s. to ss. per currant sieve, and shelled 3s.
per quart. The supply this season promises to be very
abundant. There was a continued good supply of asparagus
at 3s. to ss. per bundle ; and cauliflowers were very good at
2s. to 6s. per dozen. Forced French beans were 2s. per
hundred ; and new frame potatoes, 6d. to Is. per lb. ; tur-
nips were 4s. to 6s. per dozen bunches ; cos lettuces, 9d. to
ls. 6d. per score; onions, ss. per sieve; spinach, 9d per
sieve ; cabbages, 9d. to Is. per dozen ; and new carrots, Bd.
per bunch. The great variety of flowers now makes the
garden a rich and pleasing parade, and amongst the most in-
teresting new plants were some kalmais azalias, dianthuses,
acacias saponarias, &c.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
last, Charles Foster, Esq., fourth son of Baron Foster, was
to have accompanied the baron and family from their resi-
dence, Rathescar, in the county Louth, to Dublin, but as he
was to proceed on horseback, and the day being extremely
wet, he deferred his journey till the following Monday. In
the course of the morning of that day, he and Mr. Arthur
Foster, went out in a small boat, on the lake of Collon, in
the domain of Lord Ferrard. They had been but a short
time on the water when, owing, it is supposed, to some in-
advertence in rowing, the boat upset, and both parties were
precipitated in twenty feet of water. A gamekeeper of
Lord Ferrard's, with Mr. Delapp, son-in-law of that noble-
man, happened to be on the bank of the lake at the time, and
witnessed the melancholy accident. Mr. Delapp, an excel-
lent swimmer, instantly plunged inte the water, and quickly
reached the fatal spot, where he caught a glimpse of Mr.
Arthur Foster in the act of disappearing beneath the surface
after a short but severe struggle for life. He succeeded in
catching hold of him, and rescuing him, in a state of the ut-
most exhaustion, and almost total insensibility, from his
perilous situation, but his ill-fated companion had sunk
l into
a watery tomb. Mr. Delapp dived repeatedly, to try at east
to recover the body, but without success ; and although
every possible exertion was Lade for the same purpose Own
tar three eeloelc is th.e afterneent, tile zinnia's arm liet (us_
severeeb—Duitie Stoffr".•