The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

TO THE PROTESTANTS OF LIVERPOOL.

• Mr FRIENDS,—There is much truth in the quaint remark,
that " what is everybody's business is nobody's." If the
saying has heretofore required illustration, an apt one now
presents itself. It was " nobody's" business to inquire how
it was that the conservatives of Liverpool have been so long
content to patronise the twaddle, the abuse, the lies, the
Owenite and jesuitical doctrines, with which the town is de-
luged ad nauseam by the radical press ;—it was " nobody's"
business to attempt a change in these matters ; and it was
" nobody's" business (to use the phrase of your mercantile
correspondent of last Friday) to " throw the first stone."
Now, as your humble servant has at length become con-
vinced of the necessity of his interference, he is determined
not only to throw that stone, but, moreover, not to leave
one unturned, until he has done not only his own business,
but that of the radical party for them. Methinks I hear
you say, "My friend, how will you do it?" " Nobody"
knows ; let him alone. Nobody need inform you that there
are two great essentials for the success of a newspaper, viz.,
extent of circulation, and number of advertisements. As
well might we expect a barrister eloquently and vigorously
to plead the just cause of his client, when suffering from
asthma or loss of blood, as that a newspaper should effec-
tively defend its principles when deprived of its due propor-
tion of circulation and advertisements. The advertisements
of a journal are its lungs. When supplied with them it can
speak out both loud and long. Its circulation is its blood,
and this should be good in quantity and quality. Let the
conservatives of Liverpool but increase the one, and the
other will follow as a matter of course.
How is it that the papists of Liverpool have become such
a formidable body ? Why, through their press ; aye, their
press—the radical press—for the terms are synonymous. I
may be accused of a want of charity in calling Roman Ca-
tholics papists ; but they have earned the title. " Nobody"
has a right to use it. So long as a religious sect contents it-
self with upholding certain and peculiar doctrines, none have
a right to interfere ; but when these doctrines are used as a
bond of political union—as a cloak to conceal political de-
signs—it behoves every lover of his country and its institu-
tions to be on his guard.
I doubt if it be possible to point out a " good Catholic"
who is not a bigotted political partizan, opposed to the
Established Church in all her institutions. Is it not suffi-
cient that our parish is burdened with Irish Roman Catholic
paupers, that our charities annually relieve thousands of
them, that our own labourers are driven out of the market
or obliged to compete with the hordes of wild Irish papists
who come from their own country and swarm in the lower
parts of the town, like the vermin on their own carcases, but
that these miserables should also be put upon the register of
voters for our borough, and so nullify the voices of right-
hearted, freeborn Englishmen? Is this to be endured, con-
servatives of Liverpool? You who triumphantly, at the last
election, returned Sandon and Cresswell, will you not by
your co-operation assist the Protestant press in defending
your liberties and your rights?
Your conduct reminds me of the mode of warfare between

the various tribes of New Zealanders, who tight all day long,
but each night an amnesty is proclaimed, and the man who
was wounded in the morning may be seen purchasing from
his quondam foe perhaps the very weapon that smote him ;
and so the war continues, until one party have nightly bar-
tered so many of their arms for food or tobacco that they fall
an easy prey to the other. You in like manner, during an
election or political excitement, exact and receive from your
press all the support in their power; but no sooner has this
passed away than you furnish the enemy with ammunition,
(in the shape of patronage,) to be used against you on the
morrow.

Conservatives of Liverpool! the eyes of England are upon
you ; for, fiom its vicinity to Ireland, and the facilities of
transit, it is well known that Liverpool is the stronghold of
Catholicism in England. Let your press, then, be enabled
to proclaim to the world that it is no less the stronghold of
Protestantism. Let us make a long pull, a strong pull, and
all pull together. Let the conservative merchant, the con-
servative tradesman, and the conservative professional man,
simultaneously send their advertisements to the conservative
journals. They may not perhaps at first ensure so great a
numerical circulation for their advertisements, but the sacri-
fice (if any) will be individually small, and the ultimate be-
nefit great. Should this plan be followed up with spirit, a
month will not elapse ere there will be a striking change, a
great good, and, to the other party, a galling change. You
will no longer be annoyed by seeing, in the same paper in
which your advertisement appears, scurrilous attacks upon
the character of your friends and their cause. You will be
saved the risk of leaving in the way of your children a news-
paper containing such doctrines, political and religious, as
might poison their young minds.
I must now for the present take my leave of you ; and as
" Nobody" may be blamed by some for the step lie has
taken, and applauded by others for the same, it may be ne-
cessary to state that he will be willing to bear ten times the
blame from the one party to be rewarded with a tithe of the
approbation df the other ; and it will perhaps not lessen the
pleasure of some to know, that should this agitation succeed,
as it ought, there will be " Nobody" to thank. In conclu-
sion, I beg to state, that should this epistle be the means of
inflicting a " heavy blow" upon, and a " great discourage-
ment" to, the radical party, they may have the satisfaction
of attributing their misfortune to one who is so obscure, that
he has no hesitation in saying that be is

NOBODY-
(Bur A CONSERVATIVE

INSOLVENT COURT.—The Autumn Northern Circuit for
the relief of Insolvent Debtors has been fixed as follows
Preston, Nov. 4•, Liverpool, Nov. 20th ; Lancaster, Nov.
24th • Kendal, Nov. 3rd ; Appleby, Nov. 2nd ; Carlisle,
Oct. ; Chester, Nov. Eth.
SHIP LAUNCH.—On Thursday last, Poole (Dorsetshire)
presented a scene of general festivity and rejoicing. for,
though it has long been celebrated as a ship-building port,
yet the circumstance of an " East Indiaman" launch ex-
cited great interest, and attracted thousands to the spot.
All the rank and beauty of the town and its vicinity were
present, and there was a grand display of flags and bunting ;
a good brass band was stationed on board to enliven the
scene. A small stage was erected at the bow of the vessel,
over which was suspended a bottle of wine. The ceremony
of naming the ship was admirably performed by Miss Major,
who, at a given signal, dashed the juicy nectar against her
bow, and the " Canopus" glided with majesty into the wa-
tery element, amidst the hurrahs and cheers of the delighted
spectators. An elegant d6euner was tastefully prepared in
a large shed erected for the purpose, and about 250 ladies
and gentlemen sat down to partake of all the good things,
(amply supplied by Mr. Dugdale, of the King's Arms,)
when " Success to the Canopus and health to her captain"
was the general toast, and the company separated highly
gratified with the beautiful launch, and the liberality dis-
played on the occasion. The workmen were also regaled
with an excellent dinner and plenty of good cheer, and the
festivities of the day were wound up by the builder giving a
dinner to a select party of gentlemen.—The Canopus was
built by Mr. Pinney, expressly for Capt. Titherington, and,
under the able management of Messrs. Cotesworth and
Wynne, is intended to proceed direct to Madras and Ceylon.
She is expected to be a fast sailer ; and, as this is the first
vessel built by Mr. Pinney for this port, we trust she may
induce others to give a preference to Poole, which, from its
contiguity to the forests of English oak, possesses peculiar
advantages for ship-building.
A PENNYWORTH OF PEACE I—And what that is, any
body in Lancashire can tell you ; and if you be not in Lan-
cashire, I can : it is laudanum or opium disguised in treacle,
and termed, in other places, " Godfrey's Cordial." It is in
vain to remonstrate with the poor on this practice—they
always ask you what they are to do, and think it unanswerable
to add, " A pen'oth of peace is worth a penny." Thus are
the constitutions of the poor sapped and stupefied even in the
cradle, and all the wisdom of England cannot point out any
remedy, but that of taking off the violent pressure on the
means of existence.—Howitt in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
is it possible that a man of Mr. Howitt's information can
never yet have heard of the far-famed Manchester medicine ?
" What that is, any, man in Lancashire can tell him,"—and,
indeed, we believe, in any part of the United Kingdom. For
it is an indisputable fact, that, since the commencement of
the present year, its sale (extensive as it has been for the last
half century) has increased beyond all former precedent. It
were almost superfluous to -add, that we allude to that nice
—thdeancognersotiuts constitution,"
,''
and inestimable preparation, ATKINSON'S INFANTS' PRE-
SERVATIVE, which sofarsefnrosems "lsikaepptihnogse
and " stupefying" the
com-
pounds, whose basis is laudanum or other opiates—allays
irritation, and assuages pain in the mildest and most in-
noxious manner ; thus affording real comfort, both to the
anxious mother and her suffering babe.

STOPPAGE OP THE COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK
' BANK, MANCHESTER.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

MANCHESTER, MONDAY, ONE O'CLOCK.—For two or
three weeks past rumours have been circulated, that some-
thing was out of joint with one of our Joint Stock Banks ;
which rumours, however, at last settled down as having re-
ference to the above concern. The Manchester public, so
far as the writer's knowledge extends, had ceased, or nearly
so, in the being alarmed by the reports in question ; the more
so, as all demands were promptly met, the customary in-
quiry on the presentation of a cheque being gold or notes. On
Friday the directors met, (after the bank had closed for that
day, which all the banks do at one o'clock ou Fridays) and
continued in deliberation for a long time, and who then
came to the resolution to cease paying, should the London
accounts expected on thO following morning be unfavourable.
By some means or other, the London letters were not deli-
uered so early as usual; and, as the hour of commencing
business is nine o'clock, in the interim, 1. e. betwixt the
hour of opening and the delivery of the letters, about a quar-
ter past nine, some cheques were paid, and before half-
past the bank ceased to pay. The paid up capital of
the bank is £260,000, raised in shares of £5 each. There
are twenty-three branches to this establishment, which
gives a very small capital indeed to each, say £Booo—allow-
ing the very moderate sum of £76,000 for the head office in
Manchester. As there are many very wealthy proprietors in
this bank, not only in Manchester and in other towns where
branches exist, any ultimate loss therefore is quite out of
the question. That there is, however, a numerous body who
kept their accounts at the bank, and in the habit of receiving
accommodation, who will be put to great inconvenience is
certain; nor is it less certain that many others will, in con-
sequence be compelled to stop altogether. One of our
wealthiest merchants purchased, on Wednesday last, 4 or 500
shares of this bank at £2 8s 6d, and as the party in question
was not only previously a shareholder, but supposed to be
intimately acquainted with the affairs of the bank, the cir-
cumstance is a favourable omen that all will end well. The
Commercial Bank is, indeed, a vastly different one from that
of the imperial ; the latter of which had neither capital nor
character to lose. That the shareholders will, without delay,
make arrangements for the payment of their notes (it was a
bank of Issue) is confidently stated ; and why the Bank of
England should not afford the necessary aid, on undoubted
security, which could readily be found, as in the case of the
Northern and Central, it would be difficult to conjecture ;.
the engagements of the bank are said to be considerable—
probably they will exceed £1,000,000.
This occurrence will, there is no doubt, have a very serious
effect on our market for at least five weeks to come; indeed
it has already been felt. Many spinners and manufacturers
—some directly and others indirectly interested, will be, it is
certain, compelled to raise the ways and the means at any
sacrifice. •

The bank has been brought into this dilemma by excessive
advances to parties keeping their accounts with the establish-
ment at its Various-branches.

MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK.

No additional facts have transpired respecting the Com—
mercial Bank, since noon ; except that a deputation of nine
gentlemen left Manchester last night, for London, with the
object to lay before the Bank of England the state of its
affairs, and of course to solicit its aid on this emergency.
That it will succeed is thought highly probable ; and that it
may soon do so, is most devoutly to be wished. The names
composing the deputation have not vet transpired, but those
of Mr. Sewell, the chief officer of the bank, Mr. A. Bowers,
chairman of the board, and Mr. Ralph Turner, are known to
form part of the deputation. There are also other gentlemen
from the several towns at which branches of the bank exist,
who will meet the deputation in London.

SOCIALISM UNMASKED.-DISBELIEF IN
A FUTURE STATE OPENLY AVOWED.

(From our own Correspondent.)
MANCHESTER, JUNE 27.—A most singular proceeding
with respect to the socialist lecturers in this town took place
before the magistrates at the Borough Court this day. To
render the merits of the case properly understood, it is ne-
cessary to state, that about a fortnight since informations
were preferred against Robert Owen and some other of the
socialist leaders, for delivering lectures or discourses in a
building, called " the Hall of Science," at the doors of which
money was taken for admittance, the said building not being
duly licensed under the 57 Geo. 111. cap. 74. To meet this
charge, the defendants gave evidence of " the Hall of Science"
having been duly registered by the Bishop of the diocese,
under the act 52 Geo. 111., cap. 155, as " a place of worship
for a body of protestant dissenters, calling themselves Ra-
tional Religionists.' " Notwithstanding this, conviction was
obtained, in one case, the remainder being withdrawn. The
socialists having thus taken upon themselves the guise of
protestant dissenters, while their proceedings were such as
were calculated to bring the name itself into reproach. The
Rex. Mr. Kidd, the incumbent of the district in which the
" Hall" is situate, (which stands within 100 yards of St.
Mathew's church) felt it his duty to institute a further pro-
ceeding against these individuals, in order that they might
not ingratiate themselves with the unwary, under the cloak
of " protestant dissenters." Accordingly, a complaint was
lodged with the magistrates, setting forth the facts above
stated, also, that the doctrines taught at " the Hall of
Science" wery contrary to those of the christian religion,
one of their principles being that man was not responsible
for his actions : and praying that Robert Owen and two
others might be summoned and required to take and sub-
scribe the oaths and declarations contained in the act, 19
Geo. 111., entitled " an act for the further relief of prote,g-
taut dissenting ministers and schoolmasters." The magTh-
trates having ascertained that Mr. Kidd had just cause of
complaint, owing to the frequent distribution of socialist
tracts at the door of his church, granted summonses upon
this complaint, requiring Owen and his coadjutors to appear
and take the prescribed oaths, and make the declarations as
" protestant dissenter," the character they had taken upon
themselves.

The summonses were made returnable to-day, but only
one of the defendants appeared to support their newly-as-
sumed character. His name is Robert Buchanan; he has
delivered several lectures in the new " Hall" since its open-
ing on Whit-Sunday. The magistrates on the bench were
Mr. Maude and Mr. C. J. S. Walker. Mr. Bunting, soli-
citor, appeared in support of the information ; the defendant
was represented by Mr. Cobhett, solicitor. After the latter
gentleman had. shewn cause why the oaths should not be ten-
dered to the defendant, Mr. Maude overruled his objections,
and a Icing conversation then took place in consequence of
the defendant wishing to have some explanation of the mean-
in., attached to the words of the declaration, which the ma-
gistrates did not conceive it their duty to give. The defend-
ant at last said—l beg to say that I am willing to take any
oath to the civil power of the country, but as this is a ques-
tion of opinion which is sacred to every man, 1 must post-
pone making the declaration until further proceedings are
entered into.

Mr. MAUDE.—Then there are the oaths of supremacy and
abjuration ; but I don't know that there is any occasion to
tender them as you refuse the other.
Defendant.—l have no objection at all to take those oaths;
I do not wish to appear opposed to the constituted authori-
ties of the country.
The Clerk was about to administer these oaths, when
Mr. BUNTING appealed to the magistrate, whether they
would, in the exercise of their discretion, tender these oaths
to a party who was the minister of a sect which did not be-
lieve in the sanctity of an oath.
Mr. MAUDE.—I can only just ask Mr. Buchanan this
question—whether he believes in a future state of rewards
and punishments. Of course I cannot ask any more.
Defendant.—l do not believe in it in the common interpre-
tation that is given to it. I have my own interpretation,
which it would take some time to give; end, as this is not a
place for theological discussion—
Mr. MAUDE.—No, it is not. I can only ask you, do you
believe in it or not?
Defendant.—l have no objection to take the oaths ; but
there are so many different opinions about a future state—
Mr. MAUDE.—We cannot go any further into theological
discussion. lam bound to give you the book, to tender a
certain declaration to you, and to ask whether you believe in
an Almighty power, and whether you believe ins future state
of rewards and punishments ?
Defendant.—With respect to the first, I do believe in an
Almighty power; but with respect to the second, I do not
believe in the doctrine of hell, as it is commonly taught by
the public.
Mr. MAUDE.—You need not go into that. Do you be-
lieve that persons are punishable hereafter for what they have
committed contrary to the divine law?
Defendant.—l have reason to believe that virtue and bene-
volence will be rewarded ; but I do not believe in future
punishments, as—
Mr. MAUDE.—Then I cannot tender you the oath.—A
memorandum must be made of all this.
Defendant.—l do not refuse to take the oath ; and I con-
ceive that the oath is as binding upon me as upon any man
or woman in court.
Mr. MAUDE.-1 can only state to you what is the decision
on the subject of taking oaths. It has been declared again
and again, by the highest seat of judicature in this country,
that no oath shall be administered to a person who does not
believe in a future state of rewards and punishments. There-
fore, I cannot administer it to you.
The defendant was about to make another speech, but he
was stopped by Mr. Maude, who, after observing that he
should not have issued a requisition of this kind to the de-
fendant at the instance of a private individual, had not a case
of grievance against that individual been alleged, asked the
defendant if his refusal as to the declaration was positive.
The defendant said it was ; and that if brought there again,
he hoped to have an opportunity of vindicating his character.
The parties then left the court, which had been crowded

to excess during the hearing, when the defendant avowed his
disbelief in a future state of punishment, a general murmur
of disapprobation was excited, but no other interruption took
place.

MIDLETON SCHOOLS.

Mr. Jellet, the successful candidate at the late Fellowship
Examinations, and Messrs. Michael and William Roberts,
who held so high a place in the distribution of premiums on
the same occasion, received their education at this establish-
ment. These gentlemen were most distinguished Under-
graduates, Scholars, and first-rank Medalists.
Mr. Woodroffe, who, as a Senior Freshman, and con-
sequently a year before the ordinary time, obtained a scholar-
ship on the 15th ; and Mr. Frizelle, who was equally
successful at the examination of Sizarships on the 17th, were
also pupils at Midleton School:—
As were the following gentlemen, to whom at the last
Term Examinations the honors respectively annexed to
their names had been adjudged :
Mr. Levis, a first-rank Honour in Science.
Mr. Sullivan, Do. Do.
Mr. J. Reeves, an Honour in Classics.
Mr. Sullivan, Do. Do.
Mr. T. Talbot, Do. Do.
Mr. P. Talbot, Do. Do.
The two latter gentlemen are sons of Mr. Talbot, ship-
builder of this town.

DEAFNESS CURED.—Our readers have no doubt observed
several notices of cures performed by Mr. Swift, aurist and
surgeon ' • one has been communicated to us, which having
occurred in York, gives it a greater degree of interest. Mr.
Ward, of the Turk's Head, in the Shambles, havinz long
laboured under that unpleasant malady, a confirmed deafness,
for which he had tried the best advice but in vain, at length
put himself under the care of Mr. Swift, who, in the course
of five weeks, restored him to the full enjoyment of the sense
of hearing, and he is now capable of answering the slightest
whisper.—See2 adv.
AN EXTRAORDINARY EGG.—A black Polish hen, the
property of John Jackson, Esq., of Oldham, has lately pro-
duced an egg of the remarkable weight of four ounces.
EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—MIS. Whittle, of the
Red Lion public-house, Longton, has a duck which on the
Ist of May hatched, bringing forth eleven ducklings, which
she tended for a short time, and then, like a harsh mother
turned adrift her young brood to provide for themselves.
After laying sixteen eggs more, she again began her tedious
task of incubation, and on the 20th of the present month she
produced sixteen young ones. In eleven weeks she has per-
formed a feat unequalled in the annals of the poultry yard
having in that time brought forth 27 young ducks.—Preston
Chronicle.

The conservatives of Ludlow intend giving a public dinner
in the course of the ensuing month to Viscount Clive and
their new member, Mr. Botfield-

The Pope is said—the fact is hardly credible—to have sold
the Laocoon and Apollo Belvidere to the Emperor of Russia
for nine millions of francs.

COURVOISIER-THE PRESS-THE EA.R AND

THE PUBLIC.

The excitement and curiosity of which the contemptible
wretch found guilty—irrespective of his " Confessions !"
of the murder of Lord W. Russell, is at this moment the
centre and prime minister, present features for comment as
anomalous as provoking. The PRESS, in a great measure,
have reserved their fire. The camas, however, have been
engaged—Juniors and Seniors, the United and the Conser-
vative, the Oddfellows and the Bachelors of Arts, Laws,
and Sciences—the BENCH and the BAR—one and all have
been engaged in discussing Courvoisier as a piquant dessert
after an ordinary dinner. Between the acts at the Haymar-
ket and Her Majesty's Theatre over the way, " Courvoi-
sier" and the insinuations against the " police" are the
popular interludes which are having a run, by snatches, be-
tween the pieces. Because of the untoward, if not unenvia-
ble, connexion of the name of a clever but flowery-spoken
barrister—who, in the estimate of those whose impressions
are likely to adhere, did greatly and inconsiderately exceed
his commission—the duties of the BAR are tapped and
brought up for judgment in alehouses ; and mis-leading arti-
cles, in an apologetic spirit, are tendered in Irish PRINTS,
the reverse of friendly to his real interests as a professional
man, and adverse to his chances of the bench, however they
may be in favour of the sack.
The PUBLIC have been placed, as usual, between two fires ;
and Courvoisier has not met " their kind interest" in that
spirit of frankness which was confidently looked for. The
convict, like a jerry architect, has built two stories, which
the courtesy of polite usage has designated " Confessions ;"
and which confessions, in the essentials of their construction,
are so diametrically opposed to each other, that plain people
must be guilty of fabrication who pretend that they believe
either one or both, as far at least as Courvoisier himself has
had anything to say or unsay in the matter.
The situation of part of the press and the Conjecturalista
would be amusing, but that facetiousness itself cannot forget
or forgive that human blood has been shed by a gratuitously
vile wretch, with the irremoveable brand of Cain upon his
forehead. The murderer's contradictory confessions have so
far divided public opinion, that, as a Yankee Judge, in a
cause powerfully argued pro and con, admitted, so the press
and the quidnuncs, like his Worship aforesaid, are prepared
to fall in two.
Beset as the case is with mystery, horrible shuffling and
prevarication, there can be but one opinion meanwhile enter-
tained by the reflecting. But for a jury unanimously finding
this pilfering thief guilty of " wilful murder," charitable
doubts might have been entertained of his guilt—because
confessed by Courvoisier. A wretch with such perverted
feelings is not to be believed under present—perhaps not un-
der any circumstances whatever—as affects his deportment
on this side of eternity. To use the strong language of Scrip-
ture, the truth is not in him. By his own " confessions"
he is equivocating and lying still, and may, as other wretches
have done, equivocate and lie with his head in a halter, and
while the hangman's chilling fingers are running the knot of
death under his ear. We are justified in recording this, irre-
spective of what the ministerial papers, and the great Globe
itself, may affect in the shape of their being privy to the mur-
derer's variously unburthened conscience. What reflecting
person can believe such a fellow's unsupported statements ?
Even if a hopeful sense of his all but God-forsaken situation
dawn upon him at the eleventh hour, and a -repentance not
to be repented of, there and then befriend him, the self-in-
vited evil is, that he has put it out of thinking people's power
to believe him : nay, in tardy truth; he may lie like truth,
and seem a greater fabulist than ever.
We are of a large majority who discredit the whole ten-
dency of everything that Courvoisier has " confessed"—ex-
cept that he, and he only, is the murderer ; and that he did
the deed, of which evidence imperfect as it was, perfectly
convicted him, needed not such a one's suppressed admis-
sion to give it weight with the discerning. No ; that was
not what was wanted. Bad as he is, it was in his power to
show contrition for his crimes, and to evince a poor, uncostly
respect for the outraged feelings of society, by telling not a
part, but the whole of the truth, and nothing but truth.
That he has vet to do this is on the face of what he has twice
" confessed 1"
With some corrupt and depraved hearts, the fear of man
is greater than awe towards God. Yes : the dread of the
temporary execration of such poor creatures as the best of
us at best are, is more dreaded, and tends to engender and
keep up a catalogue of lying and acted misrepresentation, to
the utter exclusion of penitential reverence and awe for the
atoning sacrifice of the Redeemer OF ALL, on which, and
through a prayerful sense of which, alone, can the chief of
sinners, with the brand of Cain on his brow and the lie of
Judas on his tongue, either hope for or mercifully have
mercy.
It may he miserable vanity, or it may be through being
actuated by some other characteristic of " fallen nature,"
that Courvoisier has appended a tale of lies to the admission
of the head and front of his offending. He admits the fact
that he murdered ' • but has he told the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, as to how the murder was
thought of and done ? That he has not, is our considerate
and only belief. He sets out with a truth on the threshold,
and, under the specious medium and cover of a supposed
" confession," forthwith shuttles and lies the reader into the
inner temple of a combination of falsehoods.
We disbelieve what he has caught at, namely, the over-
zealous insinuation of his ingenious but misled counsel, and
to which he appears to adhere as if to " get up" some shred
of " sympathy," perhaps of " pity" for his compromised life,
and so qualify the utter execration of his species. We disbe-
lieve what he would now assert—that the police, or the bands
of any perjurers, to swear away his life, placed the gloves
and handkerchief one of his shirts.
It appears strange how these articles came to be there;,
but it may be easily and sufficiently explained. We believe
that the murderer alone placed the gloves, where they were
found after he was committed. Why he subsequently put
them where discovered is another question. He did so, let
us assume, for one or other of two purposes. He knew his
trunk had been searched. Well, it probably occurred to him
that it was less likely (and so it was) that such articles could
he found if secreted subsequently where search had been
made, than if allowed to remain elsewhere, to be ferreted out
by eyes and hands eagerly and systematically devoted to a
prosecution of the search.
Or again :
A fellow who has evinced considerable powers of con-
trivance, and a skill in plausible combination, which, if laud-
ably directed, might have gained him fame and fortune in
making Geneva watches, toys, and machines, for old and
youne— such a machinist, aware of what police and others
have been charged with, and aware of his all but certain com-
mittal; before being removed from the house, he may have
put the articles where they were found for the deliberate pur-
pose which he and his counsel tried to make of their sus-
picious discovery, namely, to create doubts in the breasts of
an English jury, of which he would have the benefit when on
trial. Be it remembered, the articles were not discovered
until, in obedience to his own request, a change of linen was
sent for, when he had been committed and was engaged in
concocting his defence.
It is most improbable that he has told the truth as to his
not washing his hands—but merely wiping them on the
towel, that in the same breath he says, he stuck into the
gash on his victim's throat. As every surgeon and old leech-
woman knows, of all blood human blood from its sizy or
" sticky" nature is peculiarly difficult of removal, and that
'a disagreeable and peculiar smell remains for some time
after all traces to the eye have been effaced by industrous
ablution.
He may have worn gloves while doing the deed, and
have subsequently cleaned or washed them. As to his story
of having given all his gloves away previously to entering on
his victim's service, is ridiculous in its tendency even if so
far true. Does he mean to say, he wore no gloves as Lord
William's servant ? or if of a different sort, he could have re-
tained or otherwise obtained one or more pairs—or the very
pair found under circumstances, and used in a way respect-
ing which he has yet to tell the truth.
As drowning men clutch at straws, rogues condemned to be
hung catch at incidents. To aid his cause as an injured
piece of excellence, it is said, but needs corroboration, that
he pretended to one of the sheriffs, that reading the novel of
Jack Sheppard put the idea of robbing and muidering, his
master into his head ! What next! ! ! But Courvoisier, for
those credulous enough to believe it, may say anything;
nothing can be too mendacious or incredible. But is it not
sickening rubbish and loathsome CANT for journalists to feign
credence to andfor the public to believe such a "representatioa"
of the educational power of the drama; which, if we are to
credit what that impudent blustering stroller Yates said,
dialectically, when his -piece was nearly damned the first
night, by the Hen-pens of Liverpool, although cheered by
the Cockneys of London—that it had been patronised by
" thee Dook an' Dechess of Cambridge and thee Princiss
Augustar, without a blesh! !" Part of the press has min-
gled its crocodile tears of hypocrisy and immoral cant, how-
ever, with Courvoisier's pretence ; though, by his own show-
ing, he is a thief, a murderer, and a perseveringly inventive
liar. No one can deny the evil tendency of Yates's version
of Jack Sheppard ; or of the piece as a novel for the draw-
ing-room or the hack kitchen, or as a drama of gallery gut- •
ter-bred predilections, whether seated as paying supporters
of their own exposure in pit or boxes ! In trumping up this •
fetch, Courvoisier is appealing to SOCIALISTS and fellow-in-
fidels whose easy apologies for indulging incrime and vice, and
swearing to the law of their members hi justification of their
atrocities, Shakspere and other moralists have exposed un-
answerably and religiously in several passages of his plays.
Socialists, Courvoisierists, and Jack Sheppardists, may ga-
ther and surmise. Against such self-hypocrites and pre-
tenders, Shakspere says—" 'Tis in ourselves that we are
thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our
wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles and weed
up thyme, &c. &c., the power and corrigible authority of this
lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and
baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposte-
rous conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging mo-
tions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts ; whereof 1 take
this (pretence) to be a graft or scion. It is merely a lust of
the blood, and a permission of the will." Courvoisier may
or may not have read, or dipped—as reviewers do—into the
pages of the novel ; but lie stole before the book was writ-
ten, or the incidents dramatised. Nemo fait repente turpis-
simus : no man is all of a sudden wicked. As Mr. Adolphus
well said, when foreigners rob they generally murder. We
charitably, in true charity, refuse to give Courvoisier the be-
nefit of his pretence and pretext. The truth is not in him.
Shakspere had Socialists in his time, the days of Essex
and Queen Elizabeth, as we have in ours, of Melbourne and
Queen Victoria. In contrasting the hypocrisy of Reg,3,11
and Goneril, with the candid villainy of the basely born
Shakspere points a moral and adorns a tale. Edmund
is no self-hypocrite. His irreligion is without CANT. H.° •
was a villain and knew it—confessed it to himseff.
is the beauty and truth of dramatic soliloquy. Afterliinr
deluding his father against Edgar, and persuading to
the depravities of the times, and trying (like a sociali
account for them (falsely) by references to extraneous i dupe
ence ; (his Jack-Sheppardisin !) when alone and hi ,his
gone, he " confesses" the truth (to:hinise/f) thus. 1-.",7:n
the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sicsaitx
fortune—often the surfeits of our own behaviour—we °sere
guilty of our disasters the sun and stars, as if we;
villains on necessity—fools by heavenly compulsion-04e...
THIEVES, and treacherous by spherical predominance-ea:au::
kards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience
;rabic!!
all we are evil in, by a DIVINE thrusting-on. on
evasion of whoremaster man to lay his goatish dAisnpoallimi,t
the charge of a star lee-Tut ! I'd have been what
the maidlenist star in the firmament twiukled on reci.:),"
ti were
We live in appalling times. Lisbon and whole r,
swallowed up by earthquakes; Sodom and Gotneirs
destroyed by wrathful visitations of fire.
Thisagainst the
rately wicked age ; and, in some awful lesson
e instead of
devil's flattery implied in our National Boasting
we too
national watchfulness and God-fearing h"tropliie speak-
,:speere.
mav be on the eve of some shrieking catas
the hand-
ing trumpet - tongued, or as intelligibljh
c_
i h elicited this
writing on the wall. But, as the subject
article is Courvoisier in connexion with the ettEsst
and THE PUBLIC, we may conclude thus
respective strops
Gould, (Arcades ambo !) when taking their d,
may exclaim,
in front of Newgate and at Norfolk
with Jager and Pierre, in " Vice pres,erNcts
" We have deceived the Sheriff !
Courvoisier.—Bravely ! CourvotishieerßAangd'
Gould.—Hh! ha, (dying " game"
called.) c landestine IVlarri •age''
Wherever the old piece of the
d t be meant for Lord
is played, Lord Ogleby will be suppose
h sceneo were he po-
William Russell—Scrub for Ellis in the _
as it is blasphemously
d to his privacy"—
tests against " foreigners being admi
Courvoiser the Swiss Valet.
Mrs. Heidelberg for Madame Piolane—and Canton for

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We have heard that Mr. Charles Kean is in treaty for
Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Butler, it is Said, is also a ?andi.
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