The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-03 00:00:00

MARRIAGE.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Our readers have read in our columns a congratulatory
address to the throne on the marriage of the Queen with
Prince Albert, from the religious Society of Friends, com-
monly called Quakers.
That address is truly interesting for its high moral tone,
and beautiful for its earnest simplicity of language.
Take the following passages :—" The INSTITUTION OF
MARRIAGE we have ever regarded as a DIVINE ORDINANCE,
and it is our prayer to God that his blessing may richly
crown thy union, and render it conducive to thine own hap-
piness and the welfare of thy people.
" It is with heartfelt satisfaction that we anticipate thy
future happiness in this union, and earnest are our desires
for thee and for thy consort, that, WALKING IN THE FEAR
OF THE LORD, your examples may be so ordered in all things
by that wisdom which is from above, as powerfully to pro-
mote the cause of TRUE RELIGION and VIRTUE throughout
the land."
Let us not forget that at the time when the plain-spoken
descendants of George Fox and William Penn approach the
throne and remind the Queen of this mighty empire that
the institution of marriage is a Divine ordinance, opinions
are disseminated through England, subversive of popular
reverence for that holy institution—the source of all the en-
dearing relations of kindred, and all the sweet charities of
domestic life. In every country in which marriage is religi-
ously reverenced, morality flourishes—in every country in
which it is held in contempt, man is a degraded being—woman
is a slave, and rare are the flowers of moral virtue that are
gathered in the desert of a wild licentiousness.
With what exquisite beauty and truth does the greatest
poet, with one exception, that the world, ever produced,
exclaim,
" Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring—sole propriety
In paradise, of all things common else.
By thee adult'rous lust was driven from men,
Among the bestial herds to range—by thee;
Founded in reason, loyal just, and pure,
Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known."
The " bestial herds" which Milton in those splendid lines
alludes to, were the original " socialists"—the brute liber-
tines of the field and common. The only difference between
them and the modern socialists, whose avowed leader Lord
Melbourne introduced to our then maiden Queen, is, that the
"bestial herds" of the field and common act according to
tetaN,h,hbineeeoiammsrnieasnneneigaslpeitltiajuoehptrusiaseolttt—drioriothe blind unreasoning instinct of mere animal
existence, wheeinttriaohkesfaeenrwsonitortow:hi,e socialists put off the nature of man in
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was exhorted to " promote the cause of true religion and
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.ce MARRIAGE, the BIBLE, and
PROPERTY, as the three great sources of evil to society.
Without property there can certainly be no monarchy, ionarchy, nor,
ofcoursaen,eha Queen or ashtintlueldtobae crown.
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introduction to a sovereign, the very foundationit
throne he was endeavouring to remove, we cannot possiblyse
conjecture, unless his claim to such distinction was rendred
irresistible by his endeavouring to destroy at the same time
the religion and morality of her people. Without the Bible
we presume we can have no Christianity ; and without the
institution of marriage it would be quite as vain to look for
morality in the Queen's dominions.
join i n
fervent i t with
Let me leave to the Owenite plagiarists of bestial habits,
and the four-footed " philosophers," whom they imitate,
the enjoyment of a truly-radical " emancipation" from the
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decree justice, bless thee, 0 Queen,
nations, and
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SPEECH OF MR. SHERIFF ALISON.
AT THE GLASGOW MEETING FOR PRESENTING A TESTIMO-
NIAL TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

Mr. Sheriff Alison, in the course of a very eloquent ad-
dress, said—My lord, it is 'difficult to say anything original
On a topic on which national gratitude has long since poured
forth its encomium, and genius everywhere exhausted its
eloquence, and regarding which, so marvellous is the story it
has to recount; even the words of truth may seem to be
gilded by the colours of panegyric. (Loud cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, if I were inclined to do so, I have been anticipated
both in prose and verse, and I gladly avail myself of the words
of a noble lord, whose heart I know is with this meeting,
and which proves that he has inherited from his long line of
ancestors, not only a taste for the splendour but the real
spirit of the days of chivalry. " A Ceesar, without his am-
bition—a Pompey, without his, pride—a Marlborough, with-
out his avarice—a Frederick, without his infidelity, he ap-
proaches nearer to the model of a Christian hero than any
commander who has vet appeared among men." (Loud
Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not speak of his exploits. I
will not speak of Asia entranced by his valour, or Europe de-
livered by his arm. I will recount his career in the lines of
the poet, to which I am sure all present will listen with de-
light, if not from their concurrence in the sentiments, at least
from their admiration of the language :
" Victor on Assaye's eastern plain,
Victor on all the fields of Spain !
Welcome ! thy work of glory done,
Welcome ! from danger greatly dared,
From nations vanquish'd, nations spared,
Unconquered Wellington."
(Loud cheers.) But, my lord, it is not the military glories
of Wellington on which I wish to dwell. They have become
as household words amongst us, and will thrill the British
heart in every quarter of the globe so long as a drop of Bri-
tish blood remains in the world. It is the moral character
of the conflict which I chiefly wish to illustrate, and it is
that which I trust will secure the unanimous applause even of
this varied assembly. (Cheers.) He was assailed by nurnbers—
he met them by skill; he was assailedby rapine—he encountered
it by discipline; he was assailed by cruelty—he vanquished
it by humanity ' • he was assailed by the powers of wickedness
—he conquered them by the constancy of virtue. (Immense
applause mingled with cries of " no, no," from the chartists.)
Some of you, I perceive, deny the reality of these moral
qualities; but have you forgot the contemporaneous testi-
mony of those who had received his protection and experi-
enced his hostility ? Have you forgot that the hero who
had driven Massena, at the head of 100,000 men, with dis-
grace out of the war-wasted and desolate realm of Portugal,
was hailed as a deliverer by millions whom he protected and
saved when he led his triumphant army into the valleys of
France ? (Enthusiastic cheering.) If his career were at-
tended by bloodshed, it was only because such a calamity is
inseparable from the path alike of the patriot hero as of the
raving conqueror. The slaughter of the unresisting never
stained his triumphs; the pillage of the innocent never sul-
lied his career. Prodigal of his own labour, careless of his
•:,-. • -..,rerous only of the blood of his own
soldiers. He won the •
sword, but be retained none but what he received from the
gratitude of the King he had served, and the nation he had
saved. (Cheers.) My lord, the glory of the conqueror is
nothing new : other ages have been dazzled with the phan-
tom of military renown ; other nations have bent beneath
the yoke of foreign oppression, and other ages have seen the
energies of mankind wither before the march of victorious
power. It' has been reserved for our age alone to witness—
it has been the high prerogative of Wellington only to ex-
hibit—a more animated spectacle ;to behold power applied
only to the purposes of beneficence, victory made the means
of moral renovation, conquest become the instrument of na-
tional resurrection. (Loud cheers.) Before the march of
his victorious power we have seen the energies of the world
revive ; we have beard his triumphant voice awaken a fallen
race to nobler duties, and recal the remembrance of their
pristine glory ; we have seen his banners waving over the in-
fant armies of a renovated people, and the track of his
chariot wheels followed, not by the sighs of a captive, but the
blessings of a liberated world. (Loud cheers, mingled with
cries of "No, no," from the chartists.) My lord, we may
well say a liberated world ; for it was his firmness which first
opposed a barrier to the hitherto irresistible waves of Gallic
ambition : It was his counsel which traced out the path of
European deliverance, and his victories which reanimated the
all but extinguished spirit of European resistance. (Cheers.)
My lord, it was from the rocks of Torres Vedras that the
waves of French conquest first permanently receded. It was
from Wellington's example that Russia was taught the means
of resistance when the day of her trial arose ; it was from his
counsels there were traced out to the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burgh that design of the Moscow campaign. (Cheers.) And
my lord, it was the contemporaneous victories of the Duke
of Wellington that sustained the struggle for European in-
dependence in that awful conflict. When the French legion,
in apparently invincible strength, were preparing for the
fight of Borodino, they were startled by the salvos from the
Russian lines which announced the victory of Salamanca
Cheers); and when the Russian army were marching in

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mournful silence round their burning capital, and the mid-
night sky was illuminated by the flames of Moscow, a breath-
less messenger brought the news of the fall of Madrid—
(cheers)—and the revived multitude beheld in the triumph of
Wellington and the capture of the Spanish capital, an omen
of their deliverance and the rescue of their own metropolis.
(Enthusiastic cheers.) Nor were the services of the Duke of
Wellington of less vital consequence in later times. When
the tide of victory had ebbed on the plains of Saxony, and
European freedom quivered in the balance of the congress
of Prague, it was Wellington that threw his sword into the
beam by the victory of Vittoria. It was the shout of the
world at the delivered Peninsula which terminated the inde-
cision of the cabinet Vienna. (great applause.) Vain would
have been all the subsequent triumphs of the allies, vain
the thunder of Leipsic and the capture of Paris, if Wellington
had not opposed an impassable barrier to the revived power of
France on the'plains of Flanders. What said Napoleon, when
revolving his eventful career in the solitude of St. Helena ?
” If Wellington and the English army had been defeated at
Waterloo, what would have availed all the myriads of Rus-
sians, Austrians, Germans, and Spaniards, who were crowd-
ing to the Rhine, the Alps, and the Pyrenees." (Enthusias-
tic cheers.) My lord, I have spoken now only of the moral
effects of the military career of Wellington. I will not speak
of his political career. A quarter of a century has elapsed
since his warlike career terminated, and we only now feel its
benefits—(loud groans from the chartists) ;—a quarter of a
century hence it will he time enough for the world to decide
on his civil career. (cheers, intermixed with loud groans,
from the chartists.) Gentlemen (turning to the chartists),
I well know what those marks of disapprobation mean ;
you mean that we feel the effects of Wellington's career in
the weight of the public debt. (" Yes, yes," and cheers
from the chartists.) What ! did the duke create the national
debt? Was there none of it in existence when he began his
career? It was made to his hand—it was fixed upon us by
Napoleon's power ; and in what state would you now have
been if, when you had the national debt on your backs, you
had had the chains of France about your necks ? (Rapturous
applause, and the whole meeting standing up, vociferously
cheering, with the exception of the Chartists.) Gentlemen,
I have seen what a commercial city suffers from the ambition
of Napoleon—l have seen a city once greater and richer than
Glasgow, when it had emerged from 20 years of republican
conquest. I saw Venice in 1815, and I saw 100,000 artisans
begging their bread in the streets. (Renewed and long con-
tinued cheering.) Gentlemen, there is not a hammer that
now falls, nor a wheel revolves, nor a shuttle that is put in
motion, in Glasgow, that its power of doing so is not owing
to the Duke of Wellington ; and you who now strive to stifle
the voice of national gratitude, owe to him the bread of your-
selves and your children. (Enthusiastic cheering) And I
tell you that, whatever you may now think, so your own chil-
dren and your children's children will declare. (Immense
applause.) I have the honour to move, " That a committee
be now appointed for the purpose of procuring subscriptions,
with full power to name sub-committees, and take all other
measures necessary for carrying into effect these resolutions."

&bipping

FRIDAY, FEB. 28.—Wind S.E.
SAILED—RiaIto, Holmes, from New Orleans

Lancashire Lass, Norman, hence at Alexandria

Gazelle, Lecky, from St. Michael's for this port, at Cove in nine
days. The Mary and Eliza sailed for this port 12th instant
Trinity Yacht. Clements, hence at St. Michael's, lost jibboom,
mainsail split, &c.
Boreas, Ball, hence at St. Michael's

Fanny Palmer, Easter. sailed from Smyrna 30 Jan. Vesta, Orfeur,
2nd Feb. Young Queen, Turpie, 6th Feb. Royal William, Miller, arid
Effort, Orfeur, Bth Feb. all for this port
Charles Carter, Broad, hence at Constantinople
Newtrm, hence at Syra
Shannon, Carpenter, from Zante at Patras
Carina, Willnett, from Smyrna at Gibraltar, and sailed 14th Feb.
for this port
Emily, Wardle, from London at Deal, and sailed 26th Feb. for
Pernambuco _ . . . _ _

WEXFORD, 26th Feb.—A boat, about 15 feet long, came on shore
at Ballyhealy, near this place, yesterday, painted on her stern
" Jane and Ellen, of Beaumaris."

SATURDAY, Fxn RUA Y _g.—Wind E.S.E. fresh

ARRlVHD.—Governor Baron von Zeylden von Mifeldt, Wyk,
from Harlingen—Turgend, Fretwurst, and Elise, Nieman, from
Rostock—Constant, Van Schie, from Antwerp—and Ceres, Noordt,
from Dordt. _ . . _ _ _

SAILED.—IN arree, Smith, for Africa—Uniao, Pamplona, for Lis-
bon—Columbus, Pentreath, for St. John, N.B.—Silas Richards,
Dickinson, for New York—Conradine Ulrick, Nuscke, for Pillau—
Harmony, Fluckhart, for Genoa—and Don Juan, , for New-
foundland.

Laurina, -, hence at Vera Cruz
Harmony, Foody, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool 20th Feb.
Abercromby, Ure, for Mobile; Margaret, Blythe, for Mexico,
and Mary Caroline, Lawson, for Savannah, sailed from Cove 27th
Feb. _ _ _

George IV. -, hence for New Zealand, off Tuskar 28th Feb
Industrie, Zellein, hence for Ostend, at Falmouth
Scotch Lass, Kearney, hence for Hamburg, at Falmouth

SUNDAY, MARCH I.—Wind E. moderate

ARRlVED,—Snowdrop, --, front Messina—Mary, —,
from Smyrna—Twee Gebroeders, --, from Amsterdam—and
Fortuna, , from•Dordt.
SAILED.—Avou, Robinson, for Trinidad—Michigan. Sturgess, for
New Orleans—Europe, Batcheldor, for New York—Blakely, Snipe,
for China, &c.—Ashburton, Bulkeley, for Azores—Marion, Parsons,
for Apalachicola—Argyle, (steamer) Williams, for Madeira, &c.—
Atlas, Smirk, for Constantinople, &c.—Shakespeare, Henderson,
for Charleston—Wanstead, Agnew, for St. Thomas, &c.—Patriot,
Nicholas, for Malta—Endracht, •Van Limmen, for Itotterdam—
Hoffnung, Bauman, for Pillau—Elizabeth, Midwinter, for Grenada
—Edward, Zei;eke, for Danzic—and Navarin, Daletz, for Elsinore.

Sophia, Lagana, sailed from Messina 4th Feb. and Jeremiah,
M'Laren, sth Feb. both for Liverpool
Ann, Williamson, hence for Monte Video, was spoken 17th Feb.
in lat. 40, long. 12
Olinda, Scott; Pactolus, Watson' Amphitrite, M'Neile, and
Mary, Law, from Odessa, and Lady Bassett, Carthew, from Mar-
seilles, at the Cove
Courier, Black, from Odessa, at the Cove. On 29th Jan. off
Malaga, spoke the Jordeson, from Leghorn for Liverpool. On 2nd
Feb. spoke the Hector, from Alicati for Liverpool
ligiesliVA‘lfeWsm, 31.611fteDiraliiii15.; ate liaimOuth
Jan. On 29th Jan. off Cape Passaro, spoke the Champion, from
Zante for I.iverpool, and the Isis, from Ancona for Liverpool. On
7th Feb. off Sardinia, spoke the Gertrude, from Leghorn for Liver-
pool. On 19th Feb. off Cape St. Vincent, spoke the Nora Creina,
from Liverpool for Malta.

MONDAY, MARCH 2.—. Wind East.
ARRIVED.—Thomas, Duncan, from Dublin—William, Hagan,
from Stranraer—Jem Crow, Dorgan, from YarmouthGlY, Wells,
from Blackney—aud Thetis, Collins, from London.
OFF TILE PORT.—Amelia, White, from Leghorn.
SAii.En.—Formosa, Reich, and Farewell, Korsch, for Pillau—

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Elizabeth, Branewer, for Rotterdam—Stephen Whitney,Thompson,
for New York—Governor, James, for Jamaica--Maria, Sewerts, for
Pillau—Sorceress, Bryce, for Trinidad—Dromo, Tollman, for Naples
—Harriet, Duthrie, for Pernambuco—Highland Lad, Sims, for
Corfu and Patras—Tamerlane, M' Kende, for Calcutta—Majestic,
Coruforth, for Bombay—and Marwood, Stott, for Trieste.

Holyhead, March I.—Sailed: Emerald. Menai, Mary Ann, Wm.
& Jane, and Velocity, (coasters) to Liverpool.—At y a.m. schooner
No. 1085, off, inward bound.-4 p.m. wind E.S.E. strong breeze.

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