The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

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trouble. The object of these gentlemen was to -show
that it increased, instead of limiting, the existing fa-
cilities'of registration. But, in point of fact, the bill
of Lord Stanley does, for the first time, bring the re-
gistr'y to the clainiant's own door, when it enacts that
the Clerk of the peace shall make out yearly an alpha-
betical parochial list of all persons entitled to be placed
upon the register of voters ; shall post such list upon
or near the doors of all the churches or chapels within
the reSpective parishes in the county or town to which
such lists shall respectively relate ;" and further, "shall
annex to every such list at the foot thereof a notice re-
quiring all Persons who may claim to have their names
inserted in the regiSter of voters for such county or
town respectively then next to be completed to send in
their claiMs to be inserted within the time limited by
the act." It gives these increased facilities to voters and
claimants, and it also provides that similar lists shall
be made out, and posted in the same manner, of all
parties objected to, and that the onus of proving the
objection shall be imposed upon the party objecting.
But the Mercury, quoting Mr. Sharman Crawford's
letter, considers it a hardship upon the claimant to
have to appear before the assistant barrister and make
good his claim, and would have us to understand that
this hardship is for the first time created by Lord Stan-
ley's bill. We showed, in our remarks of Tuesday,
that the necessity of appearing existed under the reform
bill of 1832, and that the raising of an objection to
Lord Stanley's bill on this score is a suggestio falsi on
the part of the 11Iercurg himself. But have we no
suppressio reri also ? Is there in that bill no endea-
vour to bring not only the registry but the registering
court nearer to the claimant's own door ? We turn from
the Mercury's pitiful misrepresentations to the hill it-
self, and find in the 18th section -a power given to the
Lord Lieutenant to appoint 4 additional places for hold-
ing the registry sessions, thereby doing away with
the necessity, existing under the present law, of the
claimant having in every case to support his claim at
the county or sessions town. It would, of course, not
suit the purpose of the Mercury to notice this feature
of the bill.

But let us look to one or two other serious charges
which the Mercury brings against Mr. M`Neile. That
gentleman, gravely observes our contemporary, has
throughout his speech " blinked a fact !" " suppressed
the truth " " suggested falsehood ! " " Blinked "
what fact ? our readers will ask. Why, the fact that
Mr. William Wallace Currie, in his never-to-be-too-
much-lauded speech in Clayton-square, " begged to
say, on behalf of the whole Liberal party, that it was
their disposition to protect the franchise; and to re-
move acknowledged abuses,—if abuses did exist in the
registration of Ireland, as they knew that abuses did
exist in England; but because they wanted to purify
the register, they did not want to destroy the fran-
chise." The important fact that Mr. William Wallace
Currie delivered himself of this piece of bombast—and
a painful accouchment it was, as we can testify—is
suppressed, " blinked," burked, by that shocking
strangler of Whig pretensions—Mr. "M'Neile, who
has the hardihood to insist, in the teeth of Mr. Cur-
rie's declaration, made "on behalf of the whole Liberal
party," that the opponents of the bill are " encouragers
of perjury, fosterets of corruption." Now, we are
willing to admit that the gentleman in question, who
is an alderman or a councillor—we don't care which—
did make a speech ; we were paiVully convinced of
that fact at the time. But how the fact of his having
made a speech " on behalf of the Whole Liberal party"
rendered it compulsory upon Mr. M'Neile to quote the
whole of it, or upon us to believe the whole of, it, we
are not so well convinced. " Not one word," says
the Mercury, " has been said against the amendment
of the System, the Only difference being, whether it
shall be effected by the friends or the enemies of po-
pular rights." Our contemporary will pardon us for
saying, that the difference between Mr. M‘Neile and
himself is, in reality, upon the question whether or not
the system is to be amended at all
"Again," says the Mercury, " we find him quoting
a notice, filled up by his friend Mr. Tennent, the re-
publican, repealer, Radicals Whig, Tory, and Orange-
man, for Mr.' Crawford, Ind representing this as all
that would be required under the form of notice in
Lord Stanley's bill, and as what is practically done in
England." Admitted. Mr. M‘Neile. did quote a form
of notice, filled up by Mr. Tennent, to chew that the
immense difficulty complained of: iri the notice is no
difficulty at all. That notice was filled up in the name,
and stated the qualification, of Mr. Sharman Crawford,
which happens to be a freehold. What, then, does
our contemporary mean by Mr. " represent-
ing this as all that would be required" by Lord Stan-
ley's bill ? Would more be required? Oh, no ; but
Mr. Crawford is a freeholder—a fifty-pound freeholder.
Would any more, then, we ask, be required from any
other freeholder ? Reader, mark well the grOss dis-
honesty of which we are about to convict our contem-
porary " This form, so quoted," says our contem-
porary, "is that for £5O freeholders, who, with clergy-
men of the Established Church, are specially exempted
. from the minute provisions enacted for other classes ;
and yet Mr. MeNeile quotes this as applicable to all."
Now, in the first place, Mr. M4Neile never represented
this form as applicable to any other case than that of
a freeholder like Mr. Crawford ; and, in the next place,
£5O freeholders are not exempted from the minute pro-
visions enacted for other classes—that is, from being
required to state in their claim the Precise particulars
which any other freeholder would have to state. Our
contemporary evidently wants us tubelieve that there
is one form of notice for the £5O freeholder, and ano-

ther, more minutely particular, for the £lO freeholder;

when the fact is, that there is only one form of notice
for both claimants ! Can impudence and fraud, we
ask, go further than this bold attempt to mislead the
public mind, and to calumniate private character ?
But we must leave the Mercury and his misrepre-
sentations. The supporters of Lord Stanley's bill can
very well afford to despis.e so trashy an opponent as
the Liverpool Mercury ; and that party which has the
honour of receiving his countenance will not, we dare
say, object to the weapons with which he fights in their
behalf. Farewell, good Mercury ! Most fitly art thou
named after the patron deity of fraud and falsehood !
Etlye—Vale !

THE GREAT MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—We
rejoice to find that the demand for Mr. M'Neile's speech at
the great meeting of the conservatives in favour of Lord
Stanley's registration bill, has been such as to induce the
publishers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD to issue it in the
shape of a pamphlet. We have no doubt that it will obtain
an extensive circulation. Its intrinsic merits will constitute
its most powerful recommendation. It is right to add that
parties who may wish to purchase a number of copies for
distribution will be most liberally treated with. We know
of no publication which has emanated from the conservative
press within the last few years which is calculated to praduce
more powerful effect than the admirable speech under no-
tice. It
.is'a complete and masterly review of the whole
subject and we have no doubt that it has contributed most
materially to the recent triumph in the House of-Commons.

AN ACCESSION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--011
Tuesday last Mr. Joseph, of this establishment, purchased,
on board the Robert Finnie, Captain Beverley, from the
western coast of South America, a fine specimen of that
gigantic bird the condor, or Vulture Gryphus, a native of
the Andes mountains, the only one that has been imported
for many years. This noble bird measures from 12 to 14
feet from tip to tip of the wings. He also purchased from
Captain Crosby, of the William Jardine, from Calcutta, a
fine tiger, of extraordinary tameness and docility. This
creature, generally so ferocious, played with the seamen like
a cat, and was, when purchased, amusing himself in rolling
over an empty cask on the deck, by treading on it. He also
was successful in purchasing from the same vessel a Brahmin
cow, a great acquisition, there being a fine bull of the same
species before in the gardens. The latter is a fine animal,
and is the more interesting from the bull being an object of
worship amongst the ignorant Hindoos.

The Earl of Derby continues in pretty much the same
state of health. He rides about constantly in a pony-car-
riage, and still takes an interest in his delightful aviary, the
largest and most varied in England, and probably in the
world. Owing to the noble earl's feeble health, the aviary
is no longer as accessible to the public as it used to be.

Messrs. Thomas Turner and Son, of South Castle-street.
Liverpool, have been appointed boot-makers to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.
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EXPORT OF IRON BOATS.—The ship Canton, belonging
to Mr. Lairdman, which sailed on Tuesday last from the
Victoria Dock, for Demerara, took on her deck a number of
iron flat-bottomed boats or punts, to be used for the con-
veyance of sugars and other commodities in the rivers and
sh-allow waters of that colony. Each of these boats is in two
pieces, for the convenience of carriage. The pieces are made
to tit amid-ships, and have but to be rivetted together to be
tit for use. There are iron sockets at the sides interiorly for
the insertion of stancheons, either to raise a wooden bulwark
round them, to give them greater depth, if required, or, for
the spreading of an awning or tarpaulin for the protection of
the goods from rain, or the excessive heat of the sun.
Covar OF PASSAGE.—This court was held yesterday
before Charles Crompton, Esq., assessor, but all the cases
sii, were totally uninteresting.

.C){I.IIICR OF ENGLAND ASSURANCE AND TRUST INSTI-
- TUTION.-It must greatly gratify the friends of the Church,
" to -find that such has been the distinguished success of this
ldfl very 'valuable Institution, that the shares are to be allotted on
• . • Monday, the Ist of June next, after which, the business will
commence in all its branches. There is little doubt that this
Institution, while it will be the most benevolent of the Insur-
ance Offices, will also be the most profitable to its share-
holders,—,Yee advt.