The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist instant, wil
be performed the 'tragedy of
RICHARD 111.
Richard, Duke of Glu'ster
Prince of Wales, Miss Chaplin.
Earl of Richmond Mr. W. Howard.
Duke of Buckingham Mr. Chaplin.
Lord Mayor of Loudon
Queen Elizabeth Mrs. Stanley.
Duchess of York.. Mrs. Clarke l Lady Anne .... Miss Faucit
At the end of the Play, A PAS DE DEUX,
By Mr. J. Ridgway and Madlle. Marie.
To conclude with the Nautical Drama of
BLACK-EYED SUSAN;
OR, ALL VT THE DOWNS.
Captain Crosstree .... Mr. W. Howard.
Lieutenant Pike
Blue Peter (with the Ballad of "Black-eyed Susan") Mr. G

florucatitla.
William Mr. Slaitar I SIMLII Miss Faucit.

Dolly Mayflower.... Miss Chaplin.
On WEDNESDAY, BRUTUS. Lucius Junius Brutus,
Mr. Stuart; Tullia, Mrs. Stanley; Tarquinia, Miss Faucit.
After which a BALLET DANCE. To conclude with the
WRECK ASHOR E. Marinaduke Magog, Mr. Baker; Bells,
Miss Chaplin; Alice, Miss Faucit.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

I:he Verses of " J. II." shall appear on Friday.

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The object of " Gruel's" note has not been lost sight of.
The challenge of the Rev. J. B. M'Crea to Father Maguire in
our next.

The versos of " Thos. E.," though creditable to a boy of 14
will nut suit us.

We cannot answer the question of " A Constant Reader" posi-
tively—indeed it has given rise to a doubt in our minds which
we had not previously entertained. If he will have patience
until Friday we shall give him a definitive reply to his query.
The doggerel of " Tom in the Middle" must have been in-
tended for " Grand-mamma."
" Literary Notices" in our nest.

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We are obliged to defer the report of Mr. Addam's eighth
lecture until Friday.

Vbe Eiberpool gitanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1, 1836

The French papers of Wednesday and Thursday fur-
nish us with the accounts of the proceedings at the
erection of the Lsuror monument, which took plape on
Tuesday in the presence of the King, his court, and
ministers of state. This relic of Egyptian superstition,
brought from Thebes, consists of a single block of por-
phory marble, on which are deeply sculptured hierogly-
phical representations and inscriptions in honour of
I?hamses the 1., IL, and 111. (Sesostrisr,) and has been de-
posited on a spot renowned in France as the Place of the
Revolution, and precisely where stood the instrument of
death on which Philippe D'Egalite, the father of Louis
Philippe, was beheaded a very short time after he had
been the first in the National Convention to vote for the
death of Louis the XVI. We envy not the feelings of
the King of France at the painful reminiscences which
this scene must have called to mind; Whilst we think that
these things considered, as this memorial has been
brought to France, an appropriate resting-place has been
asigned it, were it not for the interruption it must give
to the fine view which previously existed of a grand and
uninterrupted vista when approached. If Louis Philippe
thinks, as a matter of policy, that such a monument is
calculated to obliterate the recollection of the days of
horror, well and good; but if the line of Shakspeare was
ever truly applicable to any monarch, "Uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown," it is particularly so to the pre-
sent French ruler. As a matter of pure taste, however,
we candidly confess that a museum or temple expressly
built for it would have been more suitable, if the Pa-
risians are to be taught to admire idolatry in exchange
for their new theories of abstract human rights and po-
pular intelligence. It appears indispensable even to the
temporary security of the present dynasty of France,
that these displays should take place to divert the atten-
tion of mischievous spirits from contemplating greater
follies, or possibly the performance of serious crimes.
As a stupendous memento of that learned superstition
which brought down the vengeance of the Deity, and
destroyed an entire people, this obelisk on "La Place
de Concorde" may have its uses; but, alas the French
are neither a religious nor a reflecting people. The
monument itself is termed by antiquaries a monolithe,
and its transportation to Europe has caused itnniase
labour and great expense.

With regard to politics, there is nothing new of strik-
ng domestic interest from the French capital. The
prosecution of the war against Constantine in Africa, and
the departure of the expedition for that purpose, accom-
panied by the Duke de Nemours, the King's second son,
had fully occupied the attention of the war department.
The suspension of intercourse with the Swiss cantons
had been relaxed, and the expulsion of the refractory re-
fugees was proceeding. The report of the committee
nominated to examine the documents relating to the dis-
pute with France had not arrived, as it was not likely it
would be tendered to the assembled Diet before yester-
day or this day. It is considered by some of the journals
that the election of M. Mounard to the station of reporter
of the committee augurs the triumph of the more violent
section of the liberal party, of that which is most opposed
to the influence or interest which France takes to herself
in the affairs of Switzerland. M. Monnard was a leading
member of the committee, the report of which on the
the conduct of the alleged spy council occasioned the
French Government to suspend its intercourse, ani to
close the frontier.
Our Spanish news, furnished by these papers, comes
down to the 17th from Madrid.
We give these despatches in another part, but there
is great secrecy observed with regard to some of the
telegraphic communications, which are dated after "night
fall." Alaix does not appear to have more than 2500
men with him ; and, from the best information we can
obtain, Gomez appeared to be moving with a view to
gain the mountains of Toledo on his return, doubtless to
preserve the immense booty he had obtained, and it ap-
pears that he had detached Carbrera, with a large body,
for the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy.
This appears the more probable, for we learn that on the
11t1A.two battalions of National Guards marched on the
iglitfrona Madrid to Toledo. We must refer our readers
sritostitleemxtap raoforioriifti.trarrtylrm, iallnuceatru:trineos. ot.lte
thi,scene oG
said
he has
x-
Ceeded his orders; but it is far more probable that he has
been,governedby circumstances; whilst his generalship
and intrepidity hitherto, it cannot be denied, have created
a roost powerful diversion in..favour of tile arms of his
r
If he succeeds in avoiding or defeating
t
rps. Said to be in quest of him, and we have
a
presentiment that he will, it will be a most ex,
ol
se
.): al
ar
ow master,..
goa suts ere.o.
tram-d nary proof of skill, courage, and devotion ; but
i
what, shall be said of his band of heroes and their Roman-
like perseverence ? We hope ere many days to have
some interesting intelligence to furnish to our readers.
The state of affairs at Madrid varies little from our last
report. The Cortes had assembled, and had elected a
speaker and secretary ; and they were proceeding to dis-
cuss the question of the regency, as the first and most
important. The ultra-liberal party appears to predomi-
nate, if we may judge from the circumstance of M. De-

caze, the private secretary to the new French ambassador,
.having been peremptorily ordered by the government to
'quit Madrid! How will the French nation brook this
insult ? General Lamour Maubourg had delivered his
credentials to the Queen Regent, at a public audience,
together with an autograph letter from his royal uncle.
She replied briefly to the address of the ambassador.
merely acknowledging the declared sympathy of Louis
Philippe.

A very numerous meeting. of Spanish creditors (bond-
holders) took place at the French Bourse on Thursday.
After a disorderly discussion they came to a resolution
not to accept the form of payment proposed by the Spa-
nish finance minister, whilst it was agreed not to press the
payment in the present embarrassed condition of the go-
vernment. A petition to the King to interest himself
with the Queen Regent, on their part, and to assist her
against Don Carlos, concluded the proceeding.. This is
all natural enough from thos:t whose patriotisM is govern-
ed purely by their pocket internsts.

As a prist:,cript we add, from the Journal des Debats
of Thursday, that Gomez, after having evaded all pursuit
and out-generalled the forces of Quiroga, Rodil, Alain,
and Espinosa, each superior to his own corps in numbers,
and out-manoeuvred and out-marched them all, will really

have crossed the Guadiana, on his route to gruxillo, and
with the means of capturing the fortress of ruento Ove-
juna, at the western point of the Sierra Mountains !

The dinner recently given to Sir John Beckett, at
Leeds, and his speech, are as decisive on the fate of the
O'Connell Melbourne cabinet in Yorkshire, as our own
recently noble festivals have been in Lancashire, with-
out enumerating those of East Worcestershire, West
Worcestershire, and Essex. These manifestations of
sound feeling on the part of the reflecting classes, com-
posing the great social community of the English people,
are, as Lord Sandon pointedly remarked in his speech at
the dinner meeting of our own Operative Conservative
Association, " Another evidence of the expiring and mi-
serable state to which the efforts of the faction, opposed
to the constitution of the country, are now reduced."
Yes, my Lords Melbourne and Russell, they afford a
striking indication of " those agonizing throes by which
are marked their utter and final extinction :" Those
efforts of our unreforming rulers, are now chiefly limited
to a co-operative exertion with the priestly band of spo-
liators associated with the " justice-rent" conclave, and
now headed by Doctors Murray and M‘Hale. Our rea-
ders will draw their own inference from the recent com-
munication of the former " pastoral" christian, to this
upright body of Irish subjects!
We have now passed through nearly two years of un-
mitigated whig-radical and pro-popery government—
unmitigated in its principles—undefended in its morals
—standing upon a false plea, and endeavouring to jus-
tify its acts, by a system 'of pleading at utter variance
with all the accustomed usages of our mixed monarchy,
and our family customs. Happily for the' interests of
truth and experience, and the elucidation of justice in
her fairer form, but unhappily ,for every other in the
state, this downward movement of our imbecile cabinet,
having no right or influence with the real people of Bri_
tain, and no unity of design within itself, has enabled us
to discover effectually the state of parties—to sift the
moral and political work of each section—to ascertain
conclusively to what three out of four of them would, had
each the power, without opposition, turn the working
principle of the reform bill. It is an entire paradox,
that these elements have hitherto worked together even
for a common object, although that object were the ex-
tinction of our constitutional monarchy; and we are not
in the least surprised to find, that the republican section
is preparing to burst the bonds of its confederacy, and
throw overboard the Litchfield house treaty, as Louis
Phillippe has trampled upon the quadruple alliance, and
turned his back upon the all-sufficient lord of Protocols !
The real English radicals have found out there was one
party to the contract with whom they could not safely or
even possibly go on; and that although he was the su-
preme dictator of the government of England—the
" must" and the " will," and the hurdle-master over his
troop of lambs, mules, and donkeys, it were yet not en-
tirely incompatible with the dignity of his high estate,
as the King of the Beggars, to accept, as we learn, of a
second thousand pounds, and to negotiate a truce with
the factory masters, to serve his own peculiar Trish and
popish political objects by aid of the most essential arti-
cle---rnoney !

We say, it is most truly unfortunate for the ministry,
but useful to the country, that a Bell has been rang, and
is still ringing, the clapper of which neither the chief of
the Melbourne cabinet, nor his deputy can muffle, for
the bell, aided by the pulling of the ostler, (Oastler,) who
has been called to its aid, has given double tongue to
unharmonious sound, and alarmed the prime minister
himself in his slumbers at Brocket We envy not the
consternation amongst the noble and mighty of the
whigs—they richly deserve all the contempt and disgrace
which will inevitably accrue to them from their unhal•
lowed connexion; nor is it any part of our province to
cleanse them from the mire of their own freely purchased
political iniquity. Pretending to know nothing of the
merits of the transaction to which we allude, beyond
what is put before us in print, we leave Mr. Bell, Mr.
Condy, and Mr. Potter to adjust its truth amongst them-
selves; but we have a right to draw our own inferences
from the vote given, and apply its consequences to the
advantage of the parties interested, in our own way, as
politically opposed to them all.
And now, as we are enabled to arraign the worthy
confederates on far more serious grounds, let us cull a
page from a powerful contemporary, who adduces a yet
stronger ground of argument, than all that the exposure
of the factory peccadilloes can effect. What says the
London Times in its Friday's leading article ?
" If the history of England were now to be written, materi-
als for it, at once authentic and invaluable, would be found in
the vast conservative meetings by which every great town and
district throughout England have of late been animated, and
continue to be so, in the various classes and comprehensive
numbers of those who attend them, the perfect unanimity of
sentiment which they exhibit with regard to the one great evil,
which now oppresses the British empire, and the one grand re-
medy by which alone it can be cured."
Shall we extend a little further :
" The evil to be guarded against, as is felt and declared by
all conservative Englishmen, high and low, rich and poor, tem-
perate and zealous, is the danger of inordinate and wanton
change, the sacrifice of the tried for the untried ; and the nature
of the remedy is pointed out by that of the evil. It consists in a
general and strenuous co-operation of those who love their
country, for the persecution of all change not proved by satis-
factory evidence or reason to be indispensable to the public
good, and for the overthrow of that weak and unprincipled Mi-
nistry, whose accession to office was the signal for such calami.
tons experiments on the safety of the nation, while its continu-
ance in office is announced by its own members and their parti-
zans, to depend on, and be inseparable from, the unmeasured
progress of revolution."

Here is another full, and, we consider, an unanswer-
able justification for what we have recently written on
the course and policy of the Melbourne administration ;
and the talented writer's premises, as the grounds of that
justification, are borne out by the declaration of him who,
at the Edinburgh dinner, and when denouncing the
House of Lords, declared himself its "organ-blotter."
The meetings of Liverpool, of North Lancashire, and
of Leeds, have furnished one page in the historical ca-

reer of conservative England, sufficient in itself to dis-

pute the entire authority of the Whigs, and to disturb the
repose of Brocket-hall, had there been no disunion in

the camp. And whether the mighty lord "do little"
and " do less" has appeased the fears of the trembling
Lamb, in his recent visit or not, the day of reckoning
assuredly approaches; and the consolation of Francis the

First awaits no one member of that piratical crew, who
have been cruizing under false colours againSt the birth
right liberties—the most choice inheritances of Eng-
lishmen. No, not even the belted knight of Spanish
diplomacy will be enabled to exclaim "tout est perdu sur
thoneur"—the case is hopeless, and the disgrace inevita-
ble. Well, a moral crisis then approaches, and how will
the government meet it? Within the last fifty years

three great principles have been started for the govern-
ment of her European family, of which Great. Britain is a
leading member. We had, first, the age or march of rea-

son commenced ; in France it performed prodigies of va-

lour at a celebrated spot, now covered with an Egyptian

pillar, and successively known as "La place de eoncorde"
—"La place de la Revolution," and a variety of other
names. Here, under the vision of the blood red cap of
liberty, and aided by the presidency of Doctor Guillotin,
it despatched in mock legality its thousands by day, whilst
another tribunal acting as its confederate assisted it at
night, d /a lanterne !

This principle was put down in France by Buonaparte
at the battle of the sections—in England by the firmness

of William Pitt. Since the peace of 1814, we have been

assisted with a new principle in name, but, in reality,

only a modification of the other, this has been denomi-

noted the march of intellect, carrying in its right hand a
crooked wand, a sort of accommodating hand maiden
named reform,—this principle has been proved to be
retrograde in its character, and its companion not only a

base coquet in design, but an arrant jilt :in practice!

The danger attendant on their united progress having
been rerdered doubly apparent, from their becoming
linked with an old associate of evil, and a common enemy
to the welfare of mankind, as an engine of spiritual tvr-
ranv, the old English principle or preservation has been

aroused from its slumber, and as that principle is based

on the authority of scripture—on the code of morals—

Nov. 1, 1.836.

on the love of order, law, peace, and integrity, it is en-
tirely contradistinguished from the others, and having
truth for its guide and rational freedom for its object, it
acts with union and with concord, and will assuredly tri-
umph.
We have strong reasons for believing that the Whig
Cabinet is sadly disturbed—that its most valiant mem-
bers are suffering gYeat mental indisposition, arising from
this manifestation of the preservative principle,—the
cholera of unpopularity which sternly follows in its train,
is a sad competitor for weak governors, and neither the
fumigations of the Attorney-General nor the camphor
bags of Mr. Rice, will prevent the convulsions that are
threatening their ill-conditioned limbs, and now freely
indicated by the pulse of their own paid organs of the
press, one of which in terms of despair laments their ap-
proaching disorganization. Knowing as we do the game
of O'Connell and his priestly supporters, armed with the
spiritual authority of Pope Gregory, and proclaimed by
his Nuncio, Dr. Murray, we confess we pretend not to
"charity" sufficient (although appealed to by the learn-
ed Jesuit) as to be very sad fur the additional confusion
and embarrassment which is given by its recent associ-
ates to a Cabinet already involved by its own dishonour-
able intrigues beyond the rational hope of extrication.
Doctor Murray has had the presumption to appeal to the
justice and generosity of a Protestant King of England
for support of the men, who have dishonoured his crown,
and who are prepared to advise that King to break his
trust with the Church ; but the assumed moderation of
this leader of Irish popery will avail little against the
firmness of the Sovereign in this respect, backed as he is
by the House uf Lords, and by the voice of the intelligent
classes of a loyal and affectionate people.
If those who are nominally his Majesty's Ministers,
are at all capable of exercising reflection on the past or
foresight for the future, they must be heartily tired of
that condition of uncertainty to which they have reduced
themselves and the power of their government,—they
must see that they have prepared a crisis for themselves
rather than for the English nation, by their jugglery in
Irish policy. The feeble replies of Lord Melbourne and
Lord Holland to Lord Lyndhurst's noble exposition in
his remarks upon the Lord's proceedings with regard to
the Municipal Bill and its rejection by the Ministry,
would lead one to infer, that they must have bad great
lack of information with regard to the probable disturb-
ance of the public peace in Ireland, or the display of
popular commotion likely to be got up in favour of their
violent course,—here, their expectations have been foiled,
and the hopes of their guardian angel frustrated—the
blustering agitator has been nearly as much disappointed
in Ireland as he was last year in England ; for after all
he has made but little progress, compared with the means
taken, and the government patronage of the Lord Lieu-
tenant placed at his hands, independently of the indi-
vidual exertions made by the ministerial representatives
in their various circles.
Falsely insincere as the Melbourne Cabinet has in-
controvertibly proved itself to the icterests of the Irish
branch of our Protestant establishment, it has dug a pit
for others into which it has deservedly fallen itself—de-
feat and despair now stare it in the face—its prop has
proved in reality a broken reed, and the inflated vanity
which led O'Connell to rely on the impression, that his
tour to our manufacturing districts would have produced
a popular demonstration against the House of Lords

here, of which there now exists no hope of his being en-
abled to accomplish, has also led him widely astray with
regard to Ireland. The difference between him and Mr.
Sharman Crawford, has proved as fatal to his promise of
obtaining for his proteges the exclusive and unanimous
support of the Irish radical interest, as his expectations
' with regard to England were chiefly and deservedly •
frustrated by his own violent letter against that illustri-
ous assembly, which aroused the first feeling of indigna-
tion against the government, which could afterwards
give him countenance, whether previously, or not, im-
plicated in that discreditable procedure. There was,
therefore, abundant reason for the ministers having lost
ground with the reflecting classes in this country, and in
Ireland with the Protestants, en masse, even before the
termination of the last session ; for their lame defence
in no way exonerated them from a connivance with, if
not a direct participation in, that hostile declaration and
its ruffianly abuse of the hereditary Peerage, replete with.
sentiments wholly unsupported by the English nation,
and decidedly objectionable, however presumptuously '
they may deny it, to the personal feelings of the King.
Who then can wonder at the position into which Lord
Melbourne and Lord Jokn Russell have brought them-
selves ? Will their parasitical apologists of the Strand,
with all their brassy effrontery, tell us, that the King of
England grieves, because " a heavy blow to, and a
severe discouragement of, Protestantism" has beenfirBt
averted by his faithful peers, and their decision now
freely responed to by his loyal subjects ? In the language
of our powerful contemporary the London Standard,
more than a match for the very best of them :
" We take this defeated measure as the key of all the rest
and such as it is, whether considered as the essential article of
that treaty which keeps Lord Melbourne in power, or as the
public act of homage, by which Lord Melbourne's cabinet ac-
knowledges its master!"

It cannot be too often impressed upon the attention of
the people of England, that the corruption of popular
representation in the reformed parliament of the House
of Commons, is already rendered by the confederated
factions more prejudicial to the consistency and security
of the state itself than all the alleged corruption of the
old borough system—the Carlow and Manchester
jobbery to witness.

This evil can only be removed by the people them-
selves, and by what means we have freely pointed out to

As a people, dead indeed should we be to the evidence
of our common understanding, were we not fully alive
to the advantages of a rationally reforming administra-
tion ; and having seen both sides of the question, the•
conviction flashes on the mind, that from Sir Robert
Peel's admini%tration we had everything to hope—from

the present everything to fear! We make no reserve
on this point—we owe it as a duty to our fellow-citizens

—we owe it a matter of loyalty to our King, and of
common respect to our own judgment, to declare that

the ruin of this country is consequent upon the stay in
office of the present Cabinet. ‘Ve use no improper

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terms—we start no improbable hypothesis; but we build
on matter of fact data, furnished by those we condemn,.
and let their time-serving supporters refute it if they
can. 'We are willing to take issue with the entire Ca-
binet upon three speeches last delivered in this town, by
Lord Sandon, Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, and Mr. W. E.
Gladstone, and though we cannot possibly go into that
discussion to-day, for our municipal election merits some-
share of our attention, deeply connected as that election
is with the prosperity and comfort of its inliabi:ants, by
the return of men attached to sound principles in re-
ligion and government, we unreservedly assert, after an
attentive perusal and consideration, that the address of
the latter gentleman was altogether so explanatory and
conclusive, as not to leave our opponents a leg to stand
upon, nor the opportunity to gainsay the keenly illus-
trated political declension of Mr. William Evrart. The
independent men of Liverpool are now too much alive to
what is due to themselves, and due to their common
country, to be any longer gulled by vain sophistries, or
deceived by idle and unmeaning promises. We must
have honest men in the Cabinet—hone, t men
in the
House of Commons, and, as a necessary adjuvant,
honest men in the Town Council, and not allow reform-
ed acts of parliament, if reformed they be, to be per-
verted
to the purpose of infringing on our religion
.?ILJ tni!
our domestic liberties.

Although we may happen to differ with his Worship the:,
Mayor on political matters, we make no scruple of expressing
our conviction, now that his term of office has drawn to a Close,
that, under the present constitution of the council, their selec-
tion of Mr. Currie was the best that could have been wade.
Mr. Currie has for a long series of years advocated popular
principles—has more than once figured on the balcony of-the
Bull Inn, Clayton-square, and has furnished no small quota of
respectability to the party with whom he has long been identi-
fied. By his speeches and writings (for the Mayor is a literary
character) he has helped forwards the movement in this town,
and radicalism owes much of its triumph here to bis powerful

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