The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

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So that, according to this view, the " independent portion
of the constituency" favoured the man who stood upon his
acres : while the slaves of the landlords gave the preference
to him who retied upon his public character. The truth is,
that these good people are deluding themselves—willingly
deluding themselves, rather than look their defeat in the face,
and trace it to its real causes. Was it the Chandos clause
that lost them their majority of 1,500 in the city of London,
or that placed them in a like minority in the borough of Li-
verpool ? Was it the Chandos clause that defeated them in
Westminster, or that almost equally divided the whole bo-
rough representation of England ? If they will not open
their eyes to the real causes of their defeat, how should they
ever repair their loss ? Indeed, truth to tell, they are far
enough astray at present. The Chronicle winds up its article
as follows :

" The Leeds Mercury closes its notice by observing, We
have made it the matter of close enquiry, and we are assured
that, beyond all possible doubt, the extension of The county
franchise to the £lO occupiers, and still more to the house-
holders, would immensely, and almost incredibly, augment
the aristocratical influence, and would make the independent
electors a small and helpless minority." When the mass of
a nation is poor and dependent, it is a difficult problem to
obtain out of it an independent constituency. And this
difficulty meets us in England in whatever direction we turn.

" The effect of the Chandos clause, carried against minis-
ters by the aid of the radicals, ought to render reformers
somewhat cautious with respect to the nature of the exten-
sions they propose. The first great improvement would be
in another direction—disfranchising the freemen, and dis-
franchising the £5O occupiers."
" Disfranchisement,"—double disfranchisement ! How
truly did Sir Robert Peel predict, that the day would soon
arrive, when it would be his duty to defend the Reform Bill
from the attacks of its own parents and quondam supporters !
Too much franchise is now the complaint. "Be cautious as
to extension ;" " Begin in an opposite direction ;" disfran-
chise the £5O occupiers ; strike out the GOO householders of
Chelsea, and the 700 of Kensington, who now vote for Mid-
dlesex, and return back to the old 40s freehold. Disfranchise,
too, the livery of London, as well as half the constituency of
Nottingham and of Leicester. Cut down, strike out, dis-
franchise all constituencies that return tories !

When Lucien visited his brother, on his return to Paris
from 'Waterloo, the beaten tyrant talked much after this
fashion. Lucien left him, exclaiming, " The smoke of
Mont St. Jean has turned his head." As truly may we aver
of the Whigs in general, " the majority of 91 has turned
their heads."

CAUTION TO UNENROLLED SICK CLUBS.—The presi-
dent, secretary, and treasurer of the Brickmakers' Society,
in Manchester, have all of them absconded, taking with
them the entire of the funds of the society, amounting to
£l6O.

FALLING OF Two HOUSES.—On Tuesday afternoon,
about five o'clock, much excitement was occasioned in Nel-
son-place, Circus street, Marylebone, in consequence of the
falling of two houses therein. Nos. 20 and 21, and it being
reported that two children had been killed, which report,
however, happily proved to be untrue. A lad, named
Kinlev, was struck down by some bricks; he was carried to
the Marylebone Infirmary, where it was found that his skull
was fractured, and that he was otherwise severely injured.

A GOOD STORY.—One day a sturdy peasant, in the en-
virons of Evreux, was at work in the fields amidst storm and
rain, and went home in the evening, thoroughly tired, and
drenched to the skin. He was met at the house-door by his
loving wife, who had been .at home all day. "My dear,"
said she, " it has been raining so hard that I could not fetch
water, and so I have not been able to make you any soup.
As you are wet through 1 shall he obliged to you to fetch me
a couple buckets of water—you will not get any wetter."
The argument was striking ; so the man took the buckets
and fetched some water from the well, which was at a consi-
derable distance. On reaching the house he found his wife
comfortably seated by the fire ; there, lifting one bucket
over the other, he poured both over his kind and consider-
ate partner. " Now, wife," said he, " you are quite as wet
as I am, so you may as well fetch water for yourself; you
can't get any wetter."—Excursions in Normandy,
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday •• 0. morning,be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, a fine young man, named James
Caird, aged 27, belonging to Fisherrow, and engaged in the
herring fishing, lost his life at Spittal Point, under circum-
stances which had well nigh been attended with the death of
his brother also. Deceased belonged to a boat named the
Robert, of Fisherrow. They had just sold the produce of
the night's fishing to a French boat which lay nigh, and
were on their way up the river, for the purpose of laying out
their nets to dry. On reaching Standstell fishery, finding
their progress retarded by a strong fresh in the river, they
resolved to " track" or drag the boat ; and with this view
Andrew Caird leaped into the water to go on shore with the
rope, and was followed by the deceased, who also had hold
of the rope. Andrew Caird got ashore with some difficulty,
but the deceased was unable to gain a footing, owing to the
force of the current, and, quitting his hold of the rope, he
was immediately carried down the stream. His brother in-
stantly rushed into the water to get hold of him, but he also
was quickly overpowered ; and having fallen, would in all
probability have been drowned too, had not a person of the
name of Trotter caught hold of his hand, and enabled him to
regain the shore. At the same time,_ the men in the coble
employed at the fishing struck towards deceased, who strug-
gled in the water calling loudly for help, but before they could
reach him, he had disappeared below the surface. Andrew
Caird was conveyed in an almost insensible state to a house,
where he received the treatment proper to his condition; and
in the meanwhile the water was dragged with lines and hooks
for the body of deceased, which was recovered about an hour
and a half after the accident.—Scottish Standard.
A CHARACTER.—His gait would make a dancing master
shudder. He wears a coat of square cut, never uses straps
to Lis trousers, and displaya a large bunch of seals. He has
a country house at Clapham, but attends his counting-house
without fail every morning, and always alights from the stage
coach as the clock is striking nine. He is very unlearned
himself, but is at great pains to have his sons taught Latin
and French, and his daughters music, which he has some
dim notion it is genteel they should know. He scorns pre-
judice, and says he highly esteems the French nation, for the
house of Dubois and Co. is one of the finest in Europe. He
has heard something of the gaiety of Hyde Park, and goes
there for the first time on a beautiful Monday in September,
but is astonished there are so few carriages. He opens the
conversation:with a stranger by saying that to-day is not so
fine as yesterday, and that in the morning it looked like rain.
He is very inveterate against paupers, and if one quite blind
or hardly able to move solicits charity, he asks him in an im-
perative tone why he does not work? He subscribes to the
Asylum for Female Orphans, and turns his daughter out of
doors for marrying without his consent. He is a great ad-
vocate for slave emancipation, and discharges a clerk for re-
fusing to sit twelve hours at the desk—" Young men must
not be idle." He is very punctual in business transactions,
and if a man owes him anything and cannot pay, lie sends
him to prison in a very business-like manner.- He attends
church regularly, and says nobody can have any religion who
does not. Ile injures his health beyond recovery by exces-
sive application to money-making, but gives up at 63, and
retires to enjoy himself.—Jest and Earnest.

ARRIVED.—Sophia, and Gezina, from Embden —Earl of Zetland,
Ormond, from Stettin—Mentor, Burnett, from St. Petersburg—
igilant, from Ostend—Centenary, Foster, from Quebec—and
Charles, from Leghorn.
SA ILE .—Magnet, Kenny, for Halifax—North America, Lowber,
for New York—Shenandoah, West, for Philadelphia—Albania,
Crowell, for New Orleans—Eagle, Lang, for St. Petersburg —Robt.
Whiteway, Bartlett, for China—Sarah, Daniell, for Faro—Mar-
wood, Rose, for Narva—Nabob, —, for Sydney—Andover,
Buckley, for St. John, N.B.—lsabella, Herbert, for Buenos Ayres
—Henry, Ross, for St. Petersburg—John Souchay, Williams, for
Naples—and Bengal, Baker, for Boston.

Paragon, Coleman, frokri Calcutta, at Mauritius

Samuel Baker, Wild, sailed from Mauritius for Liverpool 20th
June

Boykett, Braddon, and Gipsey, Dempsey, sailed from Bourdeaux
for Liverpool 4th September
Collector, 0 Pearce from Palermo for Liverpool, at M ilford

Eliza Sanders, Sanders, from Smyrna, at the Cove. Spoke off
Cape St. Vimeent, the Fairy Queen, hence to Corfu, and Zt.leika,
from Smyrna to Cork

Swiftsu-re, hence to Malta, was spoken 4th August, off Cape St
Vincent

Renown, from Hamburg for Liverpool, at Deal
Highlander, Silles, hence off Dover 7th instant. for Rotterdam
Speed, Ellis, hence to Quebec, was spoken lgth August, in lat
45, long. 43

Dartmouth, —, from China, of the Isle of Wight Bth Sept.
lelt St. Helena 22nd July. The Jumna was to sail 23rd; lett China
27th April. Spoke the Mellish about three weeks ago.
MONTROSE, Sept. 6.—The Mary Ann, Watt, from St. Petersburg
to Liverpool, has put in here, with loss of jibboom, fore topmast,
and main topgallant mast, which were carried away in a squall of
Peterhead, two days ago. _

STRANRAER. Aug. sh—The Traveller, Sutherland, from Liver-
poollo Kiel, was lost near Eagersound 26th instant

Spring Corn is offering very sparingly, and no alteration in value
can be noted. But little passing in Rapeseed or Linseed, and
prices unaltered. Rape and Linseed Cake continue in good demand,
and fully support prices. For to-days market there is a very limited
show of new Wheat, farmers being busily employed with harvest,
all more or less wanting condition, the best of which brings 6os
and 64s per qr., while those of middling conditions do not meet
buyers. Our millers have still to purchase south Wheat and at
high prices, the stock being exhausted of this neighbourhood's
growth. Bonded Wheat is held to-day at )s to 2s per quarter
higher prices than last Tuesday, but there is not much business
doing. Beans and Peas fully support prices. Oats are dull, and
when sales are made less money is submitted to. In Barley
nothing doing. The weath.pr to-day is unfavourale for harvest
work.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 7

An exceedingly dull, tame, insipid, lifeless, good-for-no-
thing market to-day : very little demand, and business done
only to the extent of 1500 bales ; nevertheless, we cannot
quote a decided change for the worse, only the market is as
fiat as it well can be.