The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-28 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

xr.Ansiz sToELL
This case will be the first called on this. morning, and we
shall, if possible, give a full report of it, with the result, in
our second edition.
However much we may agree with the tenour of the letter of
" M.D.," we do not feel that we should be justified in
giving it publicity.
Several notices of new publications are unavoidably post-
poned to make room for more important matter.
We have again to request " A Town and County Freeholder"
to fulfil the assurance conveyed at the foot of his first
communication.

Ebr -I.l.ibtrpoot tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1840

Once more, and for the last time this year, we beg
to remind our conservative friends that their parish
rates must be paid on or before Monday next, the 31st
instant, in order that they may secure the privilege of
voting at The next municipal election. There is no
time to be lost. Every effort ought to be made to re-
cover the advantages of which the conservative inha-
bitants of Liverpool have been despoiled. We say
despoiled, because it is an act of robbery, of political
Spoliation, to deprive the old and respectable inhabi-
tants of the borough of that control which they have
been wont to exercise over its affairs, by the nefarious
process of placing upon the register the names of a
horde of beggarly strangers, who have never, out of
their own. resources, paid one farthing towards defray-
ing the expenses of the parish, and who will, ere long,
that is after the purposes of the Whig-radical faction
have been accomplished, become a permanent burden
upon the parishioners of Liverpool. We cannot dwell
too much or too forcibly upon this point. The money
expended upon the mushroom Popish voters who have
been this year and last year added to the lists of the
Parliamentary and municipal constituencies, has been
laid out in a manner of which the respectable house-
holders of the town have the strongest reason to corn-
Plain. Sir Joshua Walmsley and his confreres have
done all in their power to increase the amount of paro--
ehial taxation. Let this fact rouse the zeal of the
Protestant householders of Liverpool, and prompt them
to secure a majority on the approaching registry. Let
this fact be borne in mind on the first of November
next, and let there be such an overwhelming display of
conservative strength at the hustings as shall convince
the self-styled liberals of the utter hopelessness of ex-
pecting to regain their lost ascendancy.

Many reasons combine to render the approaching
municipal election an object of the greatest anxiety to
all parties. On the first of November next the radicals
have nearly all to lose, and the conservatives hardly
anything. The outgoing conservatives in the Council,
for this year, are only four in number, whilst twelve of
the radicals will have to retire.• We shall be greatly
disappointed if the conservatives do not return at least
fourteen of the sixteen members who are to be elected
this year. This would make a difference of twenty on
a division, which would effectually pave the way for a
triumphant majority in the Council at the next election,
of eight aldermen.

We are not unreasonable in our expectations, when
we say that we shall be dissatisfied if the conservatives
do not return fourteen at the next municipal election.
It can be done. It might have been done last year if
the conservative electors in some of the wards had not
displayed a culpable degree of apathy. There is not
a single ward in the town, we venture confidently to
assert, in which there is not an actual majority of con-
servative electors, or, at all events, of conservative
householders, who might be, and ought to be, placed
on the register. The conservatives of Liverpool do not
yet know their strength. We wish to inspire them
With a greater degree of confidence. Wowish to see
them going to work like men determined to obtain the
victory. They are, we grieve to say, in too many in-
stances, intimidated by the vaunts of their opponents.
Already do we hear of despondency in many quarters
as to the prospects of the next election. This is fool-
ish. Let the homely adage be borne in mind—" faint
heart never won fair lady." Conservatives of Liver-
Pool ! away with childish fears, and gird yourselves for
the battle like men. To resolve' is to conquer in your
ease. Let committees be immediately formed in each
of the wards, and an active and persevering canvass be
forthwith commenced, and then, we venture to say, a
few days will convince you of the truth of our re-
'narks, and of the propriety of our advice.
In spite of the scheming and trickery of the de-
etruetires, we may now look forward with confidence
to the downfall and humiliation of the mongrel factions
at have so long insulted the people of Liverpool by
their arbitrary and selfish proceedings in the Town
Council. Their reign is rapidly drawing to a conclu-
sion,
The day of retribution is at hand. The time is
drawing near when their jobbing and peculation will
be brought to light. We shall then understand why
the epeervative members of the Council have been so
Yltenlatically excluded from certain of the commit-

tees. We shall then see in what Way the borough
funds have been expended; and how far the handling
of them has profited certain liberals of high sounding
professions.

The ministerial journals lately informed us that " the

repeal agitation was making little progress in Ireland."
The same sage and veracious authorities as confidently
asserted that, a year or two ado, the chartist agitation
was making-no progress in England. The incendiary
riots at Birmingham—the risings in the North of
England—the disturbances in Montgomeryshire—and

the rebellion in South Wales proved how false were

the boasts of the ministerial press. Is not the repeal
agitation likely to prove of the same formidable cha-
racter, and precisely from the same cause—the tacit
encouragement afforded by a venal and reckless admi-
niitration to the disturbers of the public peace ?
" The repeal agitation is' making little progress in
Ireland." Is it not, indeed? What construction,
then, are we to put upon the great aggregate meetings
which have followed each other in such rapid succes-
sion in the sister island ? What are we to think of the
formidable array of Popish Archbishops, Bishops, and
Priests, who have openly given their sanction to the
proceedings 2t those meetings ?
O'Connell knows well that there is no foundation

for the felicitations of the ministerial press on the sub-
ject of the repeal agitation. We have only to read the
report of the proceedings at the great meeting of the
National Repeal Association, which took place on Mon-
day, at the Corn Exchange, in Dublin, for a full and
satisfactory proof of the extent of the repeal organization.
At that meeting a letter was read from Mr. Grattan,
announcing his adhesion to the Association, and en-
closing his subscription in furtherance of its objects.
On the enrollment of this gentleman as a member of

his traitorous society, O'Connell exclaimed that "the

demand for repeal was no longer an idle delusion o.
oratorical flourish, but the cry of the unit ed people o
Ireland"—meaning, of course, the Popish millions of
that country—the serfs of the priests of Rome.
The enrollment of Mr. Grattan was followed by that
of the Rev. Edward Groves, who was described by

O'Connell as a Protestant clergyman I Is it possible
that any Protestant can have so far degraded himself
and forfeited his title to the character of a loyal subject ?
We certainly live in strange timep. The poison 'of li-
beralism has insinuated itself even among those whose
principles have hitherto been least liable to suspicion.

It is a melancholy and humiliating spectacle to find
Protestants arraying themselves under the banner of
revolution.
The Freeman's Journal informs us that the enroll-
ment of members at the meeting to which we have al-
luded occupied four hours and a half. The whole
proceedings proved that repeal has got a footing in
every province, nay, in every county in Ireland. Not-
withstanding this, the government looks on with ap-
parent unconcern at the fearful progress of this trea-
sonable organisation. We can only put one construc-
tion on the conduct of the present ministers in refer-
ence to their connivance at the repeal movement. We
can only account for their conduct on the supposition
that they are willing to imperil the very existence of
the monarchy for the sake of the emoluments of office—
a supposition which the whole career of Lord Mel-
bourne's administration justifies us in entertaining.
But we have more to add. The repeal movement
has been commenced in England. O'Connell has had
the audacity to insult the loyal PrOtestant inhabitants
of Liverpool by making a demonstration among us in
favour of his traitorous projects. How will this mat.
ter end? Will the government of England submit
any longer to the menaces held forth by the mendicant
agitator ? Will they dare to prosecute him for high
treason ? They dare not. But what they dare not the
people of England will soon put into execution.

We are glad, for the sake of humanity, to have it in
our power to state, that our information respecting the
appropriation of the funds of the " Catholic Bazaar"
was incorrect. Of the amount realised, after deduct-
ing expenses, £l9O have been expended, from time to
time, in the relief of the poor; and £BOO have been
invested in a railway bond, in the names of trustees,
on behalf of the St. Patrick's Benevolent Society.
The bond has been submitted to our inspection, as
well as the banking book in which the entries of the
several payments are made. From these documents
we have no hesitation in saying that the whole of the
funds have been appropriated to charitable objects.
We say nothing about the propriety of devoting so
large a portion of the funds to the use of the society
which we have mentioned above.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH AT BIRKENHEAD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE .pIVERPOOL STANDARD.

case you may not otherwise be furnished with an
account of the proceedings at Birkenhead on Wednesday, at
the ordination of the Rev, John Gardiner to the Scotch
Church there, I take the liberty of annexing a short account
of both the ceremony in the church, and the dinner in the
Town-hall.

As regards the ceremony in the church, it was a most im-
posing sight, and those who officiated rendered it particularly
interesting. There were about 700 individuals present. The
church itself is an exceedingly neat little edifice, calculated
to contain about 800 persons.
As regards the dinner, all were highly pleased with the
plentiful and complete style in which it was served. There
were between 60 and 70 gentlemen present, and after the
cloth was removed, the following toasts were proposed :
" The Queen." " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal
Family." " The Kirk of Scotland." " Dr. Ralph," to
which toast that gentleman returned thanks in a very neat
speech. " The Synod and Mr. Munro." Thanks were re-
tut ned by that gentleman. " The Presbytery and Mr. Camp-
bell, the Moderator." Mr. Campbell returned thanks.
" The Church of England, and all Orthodox Denominations
of Christians," proposed by Mr. Campbell, and thanks re-
turned by Mr. Clarke. Much regret was here expressed at
not being honoured with the presence of any English clergy-
man, and especially Mr. M`lsleile, who, it was believed, was
out of town. However, although.he was absent, the com-
pany did not altogether forget him, especially when Mr.
Campbell classed him among those who shone as bright
lustres in the sister Church of England, and one who has
always been on the most friendly footing with every member
of the Scotch Church.

Several other toasts were proposed, and several very excel-
lent speeches delivered ; but I will only mention one at pre-
sent, namely, that when the health of the Rev. Mr. Park, of
Rodney-street, Liverpool, was drank, that gentleman return-
ed thanks in a speech characterised by his usual plainness
and becoming eloquence.
Thus, sir, I have endeavoured to give you an account of
the principal occurrences at this happy meeting of Scotch-
men, and I may only add, in conclusion, that I hope the
time is not far distant when such another meeting will take
place, and when it does take place, will not fall short of this
one, in the union of friendship and suppression of party feel-
ing. A PRESBYTERIAN.