The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

vg,f4tgu remedy for qv poor ; only keep the Mill going, pf a large partial; pf the Irish canu.44ty. And ft I must
L• • forfeit Dower bm !looming' suck sentiMeots, if 1 Cannot retain
aufk notinn,g, ift tom 'gonception, goes wyong; but a but 'it by fostering and eneouraginr, such feelings, I say at
prnof of this sort is really quite conclysiyp pf the ! once 14 day on which I relinquish power (rather than keep
From what has been, wp justly argue to
. _ it on such condition. s,)
,) will be to say feelings ten times
what is to be. The•increase of
M prouder Man the day on which I accept it.
anufactures has not Now this is the language of the man .of integrity
added to the comforts of the poor; on the contrary, l _the man of principle—the man who will not cling to
it has created all that distress for which the millowners office for the sake of filthy lucre—the man who will
affect to feel so much sympathy. They are now cla- consult his own usually sound judgment in the regu-
mouring for new markets, and for this purpose cry out, lation of his public conduct, and will much rather re,
down with the agriculturalists—away with monopoly; linquish power than retain it upon the condition of
but if their selfish clamour—this sordid agitation for
,doing a violence to its dictates. And w 4 have here in
their own monopoly—should, in an evil hour, be corn- a good measure the secret of that ascendancy which
plied with, we might perhaps see an increased prodtic- the right honourable gentleman possesses so largely
tion and export of manufactures ; but should we see a
over the general mind; he is an honestai well as able
corresponding increase in the comfort and happiness of
the poor ? The honourable member.for Inverness-shire man. But with the most profound respect both for
the man and the minister, we say that it will be still
has supplied the data and the argument by which we the duty of the people and of parliament to sift his
are enabled satisfactorily to answer this question. After me
accord-
reciting from official tables the prodigious increase of , measures, and where they appear to be not in
ance with a sound Conservative policy, to remonstrate
the exports of manufactured cotton and linen from , against, and, if necessary, resist them. It is wrong to
1819 to 1839, he proceeded as in the extract which we place too much dependence on any man. The people
subjoin. We conclude by quoting the passage, which are not to throw down the arms of watchfulness and
we recommend to particular attention, as it is, in truth, the instruments of control, because they have restored
well entitled to it. It is rather long, but every word of the Conservative party to office. It has ever been the
it may be perpended
fault of Conservatives that they are too glad to avail
" Was there ever'a more magnificent exhibition of manu-
facturing prosperity, so far as the master manufacturers were themselves of any excuse for supineness ; but they
concerned ? (Hear, hear.) But now let them reverse the, must learn to correct it.
picture. What, during the same period, had been the condi-
tion of the labouring classes? He held in his .hand an ac- It is obvious that- Sir Robert Peel in saying that
count of the average sum a good weaver could earn per week while lie adheres to the sliding scale, he holds himself
in each of those years. In 1814, he could earn 26s ; in 1818,
regu-
he could only earn 14s. 5d ;in 1823, 9s. 4d ;in 1828, 6s. ; unfettered as to the changes he may make in its
in 1833, ss. 4d ; and this last, be believed, was the average lations, would reserve to himself a great latitude, and
at the present moment, exhibiting a reduction in wages of ,
about 79 per cent. (Hear, hear.) How was this to be ac- alight virtually make by this means as great a change
Counted for ? Was it possible to account for it by the exist- in the trade in corn as if he adopted the Bs. duty of
ence of the present corn laws ! The effect of the corn laws the Whigs itself. The landlords, therefore, should not
might rather have been to prevent this vast amount of capital
from being invested in manufactures ; hut they must look in cease to look after their own interests, nor the Con-
some other direction for the real cause of the distrtns which servatives, generally, to be on their guard against con-
prevailed amongst the labouring classes in the manufacturing
districts. And he thought they might, perhaps, find that cessions to the interested clamours of millocracy be-
the improvement in machinery, and the advantage which the
yond what, may seem to them safe or desirable. Our
master manufacturers had taken of this to substitute infant
for adult labour, would, in a great measure, account for the reliance upon the sound judgment, knowledge, ex-
extraordinary change. (Hear, hear.) Ile had been credibly perience, and purity of intention of Sir Robert Peel is
informed that no less than 50,000 _adults were every year
turned out of employment in the manufacturing districts, very great ; but with regard to Ireland also, we would
and their places supplied by children. (Hear.) He was told not have the Conservatives abandon Protestant inter-
it was the custom of the great master manufacturers to con-
tract with the great poor-law unions of the country for regu- ests in that country to the generally good intentions of
far supplies of children, in order to replace the adults who any minister, however estimable or amiable he might
were thrown out of employment. (Hear.) Thus had they
reversed the ariler of nature ; the adults in the manufactu- be. We disapprove as much as Sir Robert Peel can
ring districts were idle, and dependent for support on their possibly do, of offering gratuitous insults to the religi-
childrim. (Hear, hear.) What had been the consequence
of this system with reference to the mortality in the great ous feelings of the Romanist population ; it is foolish,
manufacturing towns? He held in his hand the bills of useless, and injurious. But neither, on the other
mortality for the greatest manufacturing town in the empire,
the city of Glasgow. In 1822 the rate of mortality was lin hand, do we like to hear of men indulging, flat-
-44 of the population, in 1837 it was lin 24A. (Hear, hear:) tering, and encouraging them, because we well know
He entreated the house to reflect what a vast amount of
human misery must have been inflicted in order to create that Popery is the great curse of Ireland, and that
such a mortality as this. (Hear, hear.) He had heard of without refreshing, modifying, or by some legiti-
slavery in the West Indies, in Brazil, in Cuba, and the
United States it had been reserved for the master mann- mate means eradicating that cruel scourge of the
facturers of England to present a still more dreadful picture land, all attempts at pacifying or civilizing it will prove
of human life expended in misery and severe labour. (Ilear, . ,
hear.) They might talk of their manufacturing prosperity ; abortive. 'There is great indignation frequently thrown
but if such were its results, he would say they might have away upon the hoisting of an orange-kerchief, and an
increased the power and wealth of the country, but without
astonishing degree of meekness evinced at the same
promoting in any way the welfare and prosperity of the com-
munity." time at some atrocious outrage in which Protestants
are the sufferers—and this we call anything but justice
to Ireland. We wish to see moderation in the admi-
nistration of the laws, and moderation in the carrying
out of just principles ; but no compounding of truth
and falsehood, no mixing'up of light and darkness, no
confounding of Protestantism and Popery. From the
administration of Sir R. Peel we apprehend no Lich-
field House compacts with the rebel party ; we only
wish that it may be equally uncontaminated by any
Popish influence whatsoever.

qUestion

The Mercury asks, "if the result of the Conference
will promote the cause of orthodoxy and Conservatism,
with what consistency does the. STANDARD rail at such
allies ?'I We answer our pupil that our CONSISTENCY

consists not in railing at, but in simply exposing such
parties. Doubtless they obey the instincts and follow
the light that is in them ; but if their instincts be evil,
and their light be darkness, then the good which comas
to us from their purblind folly and malice arises not
from our consenting thereunto, and approving thereof,
but from our dissenting from, and raising our voices
strongly against it. Thus good comes out of evil, and
foolish men, without being our allies, do most power-
fully aid and assist our cause contrary to their own de-
signs, and in spite of their own decided inclinations.
We are not inconsistent, good Mr. Mercury, in reading
lectures on dissenting blasphemy, worldliness, and im-
piEty, and arraigning such crimes at the bar of public
opinion, while, at the same time, we take consolation
from the thought that their detection and punishment
may ultimately be serviceable to the cause of good order
I and virtue. We do not say that men are to do evil
that good may come of it, but that a profitable lesson
may be, should be, aye, and will be extracted from
such demented meanness, and frenzical partisanship as
the late Barebone's Parliament of all denominations at
Manchester exhibited ; and it is by dealing thus with
the case that our consistewey is not only established,
but rendered usvro/ to society.

LOCAL NEWS

Lord Denman left Liverpool for London in the course ol
Friday afternoon.

LITHOGRAPHY.—We have just seen an excellent specirn,
of the lithographic art, emanating from Messrs. Maclu
and Macdonald's establishment. The subject is " Hawking
For brilliancy and softness we have never yet seen its equl

as well as foi: chasteness of designand agility in draw-ir

This beautiful print won Messrs

Maclure the gold medal

Scotland very lately

Much affected indignation has been heaped upon the con-
servative leaders in parliament, for holding a meeting on
Sunday week, for the purpose of determining upon the steps
which ,were most prudent to pursue in the present crisis of
affairs. We have great pleasure, however, in announcing,
on the best authority, that no such meeting took place on
the day in question. The mistake arose from an error in
one of the articles in the London Times.

METALLIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.-This map,
which will be found advertised elsewhere in the Standard
of to-day, is well worth the attention of all merchants and
men of business. It also ought to be subscribed for by the
principals of schools, as it will give pupils an excellent idea
and knowledge of the United States. A very handsome
copy may be seen in our publishing office.

But we are glad to see the Mercury speering at us
for a little information ; and we would encourage him
by the meekness of our answers and the simplicity of
our lessons, by all means, to come to us again. We
have a serious notion of opening an adult school—a
sort of Politico-literary Hospital for old gentlemen
who have spent the latter part of their lives in the vain
pursuits of Liberalism, and at length, even at the
eleventh hour, begun to discover the inanity of its
occupation, and the deceitfulness and evil of its ways.
It will be pleasant to see them ranged on their different
forms with their primmers in their hands learning the
B A ba of good manners and true philosophy—verify-
ing the proverb which we intend to post, as a motto,
over the door-way, that it is " never too late to learn."
If we have had any part in overturning the " Joss-
house" of Liberalism with all its dumb idols and
trumpery, we would like to take part also in providing
an asylum for its ejected priests, and turning over its
blind and besotted worshippers to a better way. Try
us again, Mr. Mercury, and you may depend on finding
us bland, instructive, affable, willing-to-forget, mild,
patient, patronising, and charitable--as we usually are.

11,,,Eirr Haft Al ANTI-CORN LAW CONFERENCE.—
Get 150 Independent Preachers, (known better as Stigg!.
mites,) about 20 Baptists, 25 Ranters, 10 Quakers, 5 Sha -
kers, 15 Socialists, 25 Chartists, 10 Socinians, 20 Papists,
10 Muggletonians, 5 Jumpers, 15 Grunters, stew them well
together in a hot room until the scum boils off, and keep
skimming them. Let them simmer for about five or six days,
adding at one o'clock each day shins of beef, bullocks
head and liver, (calves heads will not be required) cheese,
onions, and potatoes, and a large quantity of gin and ale ;
when it comes off the boil throw in a ducie pear, and keep
the steam well up. 'Take care that there is no Peel in the
stew, for that would sadly spoil the flavour. Let all the
ingredients be of foreign production.

PROVINCIAL. SURGERY.—Four individuals, William Da-
vies, John Hindley, Mary Bennett, and Elizabeth Price, all
from the neighbourhood of Runcorn' have been lately re-
stored to sight in the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary, by
Mr. Neill's operation for cataract. Their united ages
amount to 306 years; 761- years being the average age of
each person. The last-mentioned person is 77 years of age,
and, though she was stone-blind a month ago, can now see
to thread a needle. She is now in the hospital, and may be
seen by the curious.
•
DEMISE OF GENERAL GASCOYNE.—This gallant officer
was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday last, with an inflam-
mation in the bowels, which was attended with very alarm-
ing symptoms : they proved fatal. He departed this life at
an early hour on Thursday, at his house in South Audley-
street, London.

THE C..I.SE OF ALLEGED INCENDIARISM.—On Saturday
last Catharine Redman, who was remanded on Saturday
week on suspicion of having set fire to several parts of the
dwelling-house of the Misses Preston, with whom she lived
as servant, was placed at the bar. We stated in our last, that
the testimony delivered amounted to little more than a mi-
nute detail of the circumstances attending the discoveries of
the several fires. Nothing has since transpired calculated to
throw further light on the affair. The prisoner was dis-
charged.

The new House of Commons has proved itself Con-
servative beyond our most sanguine hopes. The
amended address, carried in the House of Lords by a '
majority of 72, has been carried in the Commons by a
majority of 9l—the numbers being 269 and 360.
Thus the Whigs at once attain their award : the cycle
of Liberalism is completed, and Conservatism reassumes
the reins of power. A great experiment has been made
with the constitution and people of this country, and re-
sults in a most signal proof of the extent, the strength,
and the durability of the Conservative principle.
Sir Robert Peel—for we presume there is no longer
any question as to who the new Premier will be—will
commence his official career with an ample working
majority in both houses of Parliament. The oppor-
tunity is a great one—the situation in which he will be
placed a most responsible one. The right honourable
baronet is fully aware, and deeply sensible of this fact ;
and it is infinitely to his credit that he looks to no re-
serve, and seeks not to provide himself with any ex-
cuse, in the event of a failure, to realise all those ex-
pectations to which the evident capabilities of his new
position might give rise. The administration of the
Whigs was not only an administration without any
fixed principles, but it was one also, as regards the men
who composed it, without a chief; the case will be
otherwise with the new government. We may collect
this not only from the striking contrast of character
existing between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Melbourne,
but from all the right honourable baronet's recent
speeches, and particularly that which he delived in his
place in Parliatnent on last Friday evening. It is true
that as to the details of his measures he maintains a
prudent reserve ; but on every occasion, and particu-
larly on the one last alluded to, he has asserted, and
continues to assert, a right of private and independent
judgment for himself with regard to the policy which he
shall adopt, which evinces an extent of self-reliance, and
a willingness to stand alone in his responsibilities, very
different from any thing ever exhibited by the first
Minister of the Whigs and Liberals. On this ground
Sir Robert must ever command respect, even from
those who dissent from his politics. He makes his
positions and measures a severe matter. of conscience,
and he will not hold office upon the condition of
having them dictated to him by others. Thus on
Friday night, with respect to the corn duties, he said :
" I speak the language I held in 1839, and it is important
that this should be remembered,—I said that while I prefer-
red a graduated to a fixed duty, I would not bind myself to
the details of the existing law, but would reserve to myself
the power to consider and amend it. Sir, I hold the same
language now. (Hear, hear.) I still prefer the principle of
a graduated duty on corn; but if you ask me whether, by
that declaration, I bind myself irrevocably to the mainte-
nance of the existing law in all its details—if that be the con-
dition on which gentlemen connected with the agricultural
interest give me their support, 1 say at once that upon that
condition I cannot accept their support (` hear, hear,' from
the ministerial benches.")

THE WEATHER.—Sinee the terrific thunderstorm of
Tuesday morning, which seems to have cleared the atmos-
phere, the weather has been extremely fine and seasonable.
The barometer has been high, and the heat intense. The
operations of the harvest have gone on uninterruptedly, and
most of the crops in this neighbourhood must, by this time,
be secured; in what state, after the unfavourable weather
which for several weeks prevailed, we have not the means of
knowing. Thanksgivings were offered up in the churches of
this town on Sunday for the seasonable change of weather.
GIRDED= CAPELLA, THE CONDEMNED MURDERER.—
The Lord Chief Justice, as will be seen by our report of the
Assize proceedings, left this man for execution. The Jury,
on his trial, recommended him to mercy, on the ground of
his good character previous to the perpetration of the crime
for which they convicted him. Several benevolent gentle-
men, satisfied that the recommendation of the Jury was judi-
cious as well as humane, and thinking that the act which
led to Toscani's death was the result of a quarrel between
the prisoner and the deceased, and not of premeditation, have,
we hear, got up a petition in his favour, in which they pray
that the sentence may be commuted from death to trans-
portation for life. Whether, upon a careful examination of
the evidence, mitigating circumstances may not be disco-
vered in the case, so as to justify the Lord Chief Justice in
recommending such commutation, we cannot undertake to
say.

THE LIVERPOOL FISII COMPANY.—A special general
meeting of this company was held at the Clarendon-rooms,
on Tuesday last. After a long desultory conversation, a
resolution was passed dissolving the company, and the boats
and other property are now advertised for sale by auction.
THEFT BY BREAKING A SHOP WINDOW.—On Saturday
William Brooks and Michael Gallagher were committed for
trial by Mr. Rushton for stealing several articles of jewellery
from the shop of Mr. M`Lintock, Dale-street. Both pri-
soners were observed to loiter about the shop, and they
effected their purpose by breaking one of the shop windows,
and extracting the articles stolen. They were apprehended
through the vigilance of the pawnbrokers.
THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This fine vessel, which, as our
readers know, has been purchased by the Belgian Govern-
ment, is so nearly ready for sea that she will, it is expected,
sail for Antwerp to-day. She is intended to ply between
Antwerp and New York, calling off Cowes or Southampton
going and returning. By this means she will, it is antici-
pated, carry not only passengers to and from the Continent,
but English passengers also. She is under the command of
Mr. Keane, who has received a commission in the Belgian
service.

We are led to understand that Douglas is about to have
the privilege conferred upon it of being a port for bonding
goods, and that an assimilation will take place very soon be-
tween the fiscal duties of England and the Isle of Man. The
licence system, we are informed, will be abolished. It is not
improbable but that the Isle of Man will. at no distant
period, form as a county an adjunct of England, which has
long since been a favourite measure of Sir Robert Peel.—
Correspondent of the Manx Liberal.

DAINTRY, RYLE, AND CO.'s BANKRUPTCY.—The se-
cond meeting of creditors for proof of debts under this
bankruptcy, took place in the Wellington Rooms, Peter-
street, Manchester, on Tuesday. The commissioners were
J. G. Duck. Esq., barrister, and John Taylor and J. B.
Brackenbury, Esqrs., attorneys. Messrs. Atkinson and
Saunders were the solicitors under the fiat, and Messrs. Peet
and Hobson the accountants. The total debts proved at this
meeting were about £72,694 ; debts proved at the former
meeting £165,800 ; total, £215,800. This amount does not
include the debt of Whitmore, Wells, and Co., who claim
for .±:28,500, and which has not been admitted. It will be
recollected that Messrs. Whitmore, 11:ells, and Co., made
their claim to prove at the former meeting, but the court de-
cided that as their claim was against the separate estate of
Daintry and Ryle, it could not be admitted under the joint
fiat, against Daintry, Ryle, and Ravenscroft. Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co. were also shut out from the
choice of assignees on the same ground. The Court of
Review have determined that the union of the fiats had not
taken effect at the time, and consequently there will have to
he a new choice of assignees. The validity of Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co. s claim, however, is yet in dis-
pute, the principal objections alleged against• it being, that
for a long course of years the accounts between them and
Messrs. Daintry, Ryle, and Co. have been balanced monthly;
that compound interest was charged at such balancing, and
that such monthly balances have included compound interest
for £5OOO more than was advanced in each month.

And again, with reference to the government of Ire-
land, he said :
" I am told that I must be the instrument of effecting ob-
jects in Ireland which I repudiate. lam asked whether I
will support the proceedings of my partisan, who is said to
have offered a religious affront to the majority of the people
of Ireland. Sir, lum not afraid to express toy opinion with
respect to acts like these. I say there is not a man in this
house, there is no Roman Catholic gentleman living, who
could have heard with greater pain than I did, the recital of
gratuitous, unprovoked insult offered to the religious feelings