The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

UNITED STATES,

In the last private accounts from New York there is every
evidence of a returning confidence in the money market, and
a strong conviction too, that unless shaken by eny violent ac-
tion from flies country, no serious consequences will follow the
crisis which has been in' progress fir several months past.
Though there wmild seem to be no necessary connexion be-
tween the Presidential election and the money-market, it was
believed that the mode of Van Buren's return, of whose actual
election no doubt was entertained, might come to exercise a
material influence upon it. lf, for example, it should be deter-
mined by the majority of the votes of the college, there is some
probability then that a gradual improvement would follow; but
if the election of President should devolve upon the House of
Representatives, there would be such an electioneering excite-
ment kept up during the winter, through the agency of the
banking institutions, which would expand and contract their
issues as it might happen to afford means for annoying their po-
litical opponents, that the whole of the commercial and finan-
cial business would be disturbed by it. One important question
for this country arising out of the supposed return of the Ameri-
can money-market to a better state, is, whether we shall in
consequence of it recover some of the gold which was exported
thither, and which first brought on our own difficulties; hut it
seems likely, notwithstanding the rise in the exchange, that this
will not be' the case, as a taste for hard cash is spread all over
the Union, and both gold and silver bear a premium of I per
cent. compared. with notes. This is a circumstance which can-
.not fail to be taken into proper account by the Directors of the
-Bank of England. With respect to Van.Buren, an opinion is
expressed that his working of the hard money system will not
-be quite so rigid as that of General Jackson, which is allowed
to have produced much inconvenience, though based upon suf-
ficiently sound principles. One of the letters from which the
Preceding particulars are collected, says in conclusion," "The
high value of money in this city (New York) begins to attract
capital from different quarters, inquiry
for and there has been more inquiry
for commercial
are no longer frightetedgs in general look better, and people
Boston papers to the 19th ult, have been received. They
mention that President Burnet" Texan Republic, had re-
hlie denied that the
ped t the rotest
accommoda of Santa Attirnan;r, the
mthat aong other things
Anna's prison-
house were at all more contracted in t Sancta
.convenient, than that of his own farnityrnreeZions, or mote in-'
most emphatically denied that Santa Anna,. .iars, He further
complied with in respect to the preservation (Wuris" hit been
property belong-
to the Texans.

REGISTRATIONS

( From the Standard.)

It has been more than once said by the ministerial and radical
press, " We hear none of the exultation this year which the
conservatives showed in the autumn of 1835, on the results of
the parliamentary registrations."
- -

The remark is about as wise and as candid as most of the,
taunts proceeding from that quarter. They first of all bungle
the matter after such a fashion in parliament as to postpone the
whole business of registration a whole month in the present
year, beyond the usual time, and then they ask us, before that
month has expired, " Why are you not exulting as you were
at this time last year ?"
But there is another reason which has prevented our ap-
proaching this subject before now. The • details which we are
now about to give to our readers have been in our possession
for nearly a fortnight past; but we hoped to have considerably
increased their amount by returns from counties and boroughs
in which, after all, for some reason or other, neither radicals
nor conservatives have chosen to publish any statement. We
could name several important districts (Lancashire for one) in
which, though we have every reason to believe that the con-
servatives have obtained important successes, yet neither from
themselves nor from their opponents are•we favoured with any
return.

However, having waited with some patience for several days,
we now proceed to give a general view of the results in such
counties and boroughs as have published intelligible statements.
Sou►e others, nut intelligible, but evidently intended to deceive,
we have omitted; but neither in omission nor inset tion have we
swerved from a sincere intention to iuform our readers of the
truth of the case, so far as we ourselves could discover it.

We shall commence with those places in which the advantage
appears to rest with the ministerial party. We have only been
able to meet with seven instances of this kind, to wit—

Conservative. Radical.
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COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS. 2
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NORTH SHROPSHIRE.
Conservative objections 175 120 55
Radical objectiong'
Bit /STOi,.
Conservative objection.
Conservative claims 56 27 29
Radical objections
Radical claims • • • • .. 22 10 12
NEWCASTLE.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims • • 2
Radical objections
Radical claims
BRIGHTON.
Conservative objections (none)
Conservative claims (none)
Radical objections against con-
servatives.. •• •• 52 33 19
Radical claims .. .. .. 277 15 262
PETERBOROLGH.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims .. • • 6
Radical objections. — •• •• •• 4
Radical claims
HORSHAM.
Conservative objections 4 0 4
Conservative claims .
Radical objections. •• •• •• 7 3 4
Radical claims .. .. .. 29 21 8
HULL.
Conservative objections. .. 21
Conservative claims ... lb
Radical objections.
Radical claims

Now, what is the real value of these six cases of success ? Le t

❑s see.

North Shropshire presents an apparent gain of fifteen.
Fifteen, in a county ! That is not much, to he sure; but even
that little vanishes when we learn that of the new claims the
Conservatives have an cverwheluning majority. North Shrup•
shire, then, goes for nothing.

In Peterborough the Radical gain is five. The seat is theirs
already : whether this gain of five will enable them to hold it,
is more than we can tell. The same observation applies to
Horsham. _ _

In Brighton the Conservatives, ascertaining that the lists
were fairly and honestly made out, offered neither claims nor
objections. The Radicals tried both, and succeeded in 48 cases
out of 329. But this will not in the slightest degree endanger
the success of one, if not two Conservatives, at the next election.
In the other three cases, Bristol, Hull, and Newcastle, the
Radicals made war, as it is their custom to do, upon the free-
men, and succeeded in clearing. the lists of many deceased or
removed parties. But this is only an apparent gain; while it
increases the irritation felt by the freemen, and still leaves a
large majority of enemies. The Whig candidates in Bristol,
in 1833, were about 1,000 in the rear. Since then they have
struck off 500 of the freemen, while, 200 or 300 new freemen
have been added to the lists, to vote against them. The same
account may be given of Newcastle and of Hull. On the whole,
then, the entire value of the Whig successes on this year's re-
gistration would not repay the cost of a single week's wages of
one of their objection-servers. Turn we to the other side of the
story, and let us see whether the advantages gained by our
friends have been equally without value. 1 hose which have
come under our notice are as follow!

COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS.

MIDDLEsEX.
Conservative-objections
Conservative claims (about) .
tit IRE.
-• Conservative objections
Conservative claims.,"
Radical objections
Radical claims
YORKSHIRE (West Riding.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
YORKSHIRE (East Riding.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
HUNTINGDONSHIRE.
Conservative objectigns
Radical objections
NORFOLK (East.)
Conservative objections......
Radical objections
NORFOLK (West.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
SUFFOLK (West.)
Conservative objections
Radical ot.jections
PLOCESTER SHIRE (West.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
GLoczsTF.itsuitiE, ( East.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
NORTHUMBERLAND (South.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
NORTHUSIBERLAN D (North.) -
Conservative objections ,
Radical objections• • •••• •••••
KENT (\Vest.)
Conservative objections
Radical objections
Dunisysisitts: (South.)
Conservative objections...• • • •
Radical object
WAttw SH IRE ( South.)
Conservative objections
- Radical objections
LEICESTERSHIRE (South.)
Conservative objections
Conservative claims....., ..
Radical 0bjecti0n5...........,
Radical claims
DURHAM (North.).
Conservative objections
Radical objections
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
Conservative objections
Consei vative claims
Radical objections
Radical claims
SOUTH DEVON.
Conservative objections
Radical objections
ISLE OF WIGHT.
Conservative objections
Radical objections
LEEDS.
Conservative objections.......
Conservative claims
Radical objections
RadiCal claims
LEICESTER.
Conservative objections
Radical objections
ANDOVER.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims
Radical objections....
Radical claims
CLOCESTER.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims
Radical objections ....
Radical claims
BARNSTAPLE.
Conservative objections
Radical objections....,
WARWICK.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims
Radical ot.jections
• •
Radical claims
IrswicH.
Conservative objections
Conservative claims
Radical objections
Radical claims
Buoy ST. EDMUNDS.
Conservative ohjectiong
Conservative claims.
Radical objections •••
Radical claims
YARMOUTH.
Conservative objections..;....
Conservative claims
Radical objections
Radical claims
CANTERBURY.
Conservative objections.......
Conservative claims
Radical objections.... ••
Radical claims
DOVER.
Conservative objections • •
Conservative claims
Radical objections
Radical claims.....
SHREWSBURY.
Conservative objections
Radical objections

--Now we have no doubt that this statement will be carped at
by the ministerial journals. They will, probably, by diligent
search,- find out a few more returns in favour of their own party.
We can easily believe that this is possible, as we also believe
that we might add to the list of conservative successes, it we
could search the files of every conservative journal in England.
But this has not been in our power, and we must therefore be
content with offering to our readers as full and as accurate an
account as we have been able to prepare, and that by a very
laborious search through a large proportion of the provincial
journals.

As for satisfying the radical or ministerial papers, that, of
course, must be out the question. This was well shown in the
Middlesex case. We first published a statement of the objee.
tions taken and sustained, giving a clear majority to the con-
servatives of about '2OO on this point only, " Ay,' "but," said
the radical editors, "you tell us nothing about the claims; and
this is of Nr more importance." We then replied, that out of
6000 new claimants, in the last two years, nearly 4000 were
known to be conservatives. "But what does that matter?" said
the Spectator; "supposing that they are conservatives when you
register them, how can You answer for it that they wilt be con-
servatives when the election comes?' To such reasoning as this
we shall, of course, attempt no answer.
But we must add one word to the conservatives generally,
The foregoing list will show very clearly, that wherever any
well-directed efforts are made, their success to the conservative
cause is almost sure to follow. Why then, we ask, are there
districts of England in which the friends of- the monarchy are
still supine ? Why do we hear nothing of Sussex, South -Dur-
ham, North Wilts, North Hants, and several other counties?
Let this question be seriously taken to heart by the gentlemen
of those districts. Let England be aroused, as one man, against
the O'Connell tyranny.

There is only one person living, since Bannister's death, who
performed on the stage of the first Drury-lane Theatre with
Garrick, and that is the once celebrated Harlequin Byrne, fa.
ther of Oscar Byrne, who is still active, and enjoys good health.

LAPORTE has just concluded, perhaps, the most profitable,
certainly the most brilliant season he has ever had. "I
iani" was succeeded by a most interesting opera, "/ Briyanti,"
by Mercadante, the music of which immediately found its way
into the concert rooms Nag the boudoirs of the nobility. By
her exquisite delinekion " Ite vani ornarnenti," the divine
Grisi has, if possible, added to her high reputation ;—her
singing in " Fin the un vesto," was the most exquisite thing
imaginable, and the composition itself must become as univer-
sally popular as Malibran's Night at,Sea. Rubini, L41;14:116,
and Tamburini to whose
.good taste the production of " I
Briganti". is owing, sustained their respective parts with all
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he bad gone to bed he was suddenly awoke by his brother, who
desired him to get up, for there was some dangerous work going
on in the next room. He bounced out of bed, and instantly
went into the next cdamber, from whence a low groaning noise
proceeded. There he found the prisoner kneeling on his wife,
who was naked in bed; he was not undressed, and had a knife
in his hand. (The knife, which was covered with dried blood,
was produced; it was one such as shoemakers use, and seemingly
very sharp) The prisoner , appeared to be cutting his Kite's
throat. Witness pulled him off, saying to him, "Are you mad?"
but he made no reply. The woman went down stair;. She was
dreadfully cut across the face on both sides of the mouth, and
her hands were severely cut. (It was supposed she received
these latter wounds iu protecting her throat.) She was so ex-
hausted from the loss of blood and her wounds, that she could
not speak. Some females took her into a neighbour's house,
and she remained there. Hughes, the constable
sent for, and saw the woman in a neighbours house; she
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he went into his father's house about half-past 11, after the dis-
turbance, and found the apartment as described by the prece-
ding witness. Some persons present said they could not find
the knife; he went into the shop, and there found it under the
window. Another of Surdefield's son stated that his father and
mother had quarelled the.previous day, and that she had ob-
tained a peace warrant. He had frequently beaten her before.
The prisoner, who did not speak a word, was remanded for fur-
ther examination this day fortpight, with an understanding that
lie should be brought up sooner if his wile should be sufficiently
recovered to give her evidence.--Walrerharrspon Chronicle.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1836.

Some subtlety is displayed in the perpetration of every
crime—some palliative circumstance, upon which the de-
linquent may fall back when pressed home with guilt—
some " contingent remainder," where the fee of honesty
is first not alienated—some "if you said so" to shelter
it—all of which add to the malignancy of offence—and
it is in this way that corporation foxes have endeavoured .
to have one hole by which they can enter the municipal
roost, and another by which they can escape. Mr. Rath-
bone says, that "they did THINK on a list." Cogitative
assembly !—would that virtue was as thoughtful! What
gratuitous labour for the benefit of Liverpool !—they
" let not the left hand know what the right hand doeth"
in municipal charities—they seek not the reward of pub-
lic honours for their " secret services"—their thoughts
are always " to us-ward." But thinking is only the first
step of which acting is the second; and, therefore, with-
out drawing breath, Mr. R. adds, " and did AGREE."
Yes, it was, you perceive, a matter of "thought," and
every thought found a tongue; but what was uttered who

of Cocker were most predominant. The conclusion,
however, of their thinking, was agreement. And will
the town of Liverpool be insulted with municipal conduct
like this ? Will they allow forty members, all steeped
in the same bath, to meet together, and not only think of
measures deeply influential over the interests of the
town, but to come to an agreement upon them ? Will
they be satisfied to rest in the wisdom, not to say the po-
litical integrity, of forty such men, and to commit the
prosperity or destruction of Liverpool to their private
conferences F Impossible ! We cannot be sunk so low
in apathy—we cannot be so fallen from prudence—poli-
tical madness cannot yet have brought us to this ! To this?
Aye, more. Let us proceed. Mr. R. says, "they did
agree, certainly, among themselves." Liberal exam-
ple of liberal principles ! "Among themselves!" Not
one dissentient was there—each had regularly passed
through the municipal sieve—the current of radicalism
ran smoothly—it met with no obstacle.

Why these forty members might have come to any
conclusion they pleased upon any question they chose to
entertain. They might have lighted the lamps of Liver-
pool at noon in the dog-days, or have voted the Bible a
superfluous book in moral education at the national
schools, for they were screened by walls which prying
curiosity could not penetrate ; and however adverse such
measures, or others like them, might be to the welfare of
the town—however subversive of sound principles, po-
licy, and good—if these forty men had but " agreed,"
each stood exonerated of all personal responsibility ; for
the overture would only need to be proposed at a meeting
of the Town Council, and SILENT VOTES be given, and
the act would become the act of a corporation in which
individuality is always lost.
Oh, Mr. R., you have proved a blessed traitor to the
municipal conspiracy. Surely you slept at the late meet-
ing of the Town Council, and this, which you divulged
was in a dream. But we will neither garble nor abridge
your golden sentences—they ought to be printed in let-
ters a foot high, and circulated throughout every town or
the kingdom.' Mr. R. subjoined—" if we saw nothing
better transpire for the community, we did agree to sup-
port that list." What means this macula upon the mid-
day sun of Mr. R.'s confession ?—what " better" thing was
likely to be born than that which sprung from the men-
tal loins of radicalism ?—what babe so likely to be nou-
rished as their own offspring ? Besides, the Jews and
Samaritans have no dealings with each other. " Ca❑
any thing good," say these forty—we had almost com-
mitted ourselves, though we are not now play-going
folks—councillors, " come out of conservative Naza-
reth ?" Oh no ! the most monstrous birth of radicalism
would he preferred before it. We put it to the plain
sense of Liverpool, whether there was a shade of proba-
bility that any name not found upon that " angel" list
would be approved by the Town Council ? We appeal to
the same plain sense, and ask, whether they are willing
to commit all the business of the corporation to these
forty radicals, to be conducted in the same way ? We
think not.

But Mr. R. disclaims the imputation that he came
"bound hand and foot" to the Council-chamber. Why,
so did Cassio that he was drunk ; and both have left evi-
deuce against themselves of unqualified guilt. We say,
that every one of the for•cy came bound " hand and foot"
—morally bound to a particular act in the Town Coun-
cil. How would Mr. R. have looked any one of his forty
colleagues in the face ?—how would they have stared at
each other, if such at one had offered comment upon, or
objection to, any single name on that list ?—and would not
such a colleague have felt that he was violating an en-
gagement ? We unhesitatingly affirm, that men who
could meet for so sinistrous, so dishonourable a purpose,
would bind themselves to the issue. If we are asked for
proof, we produce the. issue itself; the plan and the exe-
cution, the design and the building, exactly correspond.
Whether these forty members consider such pre-detertni •
nation of public business "dishonourable"—such shrink.
ing from public discussion "cowardice"—such private

combinations a "cabal"—or the whole transaction a most

base and " servile" of we know not ; but we perfectly
agree with Mr. James Heyworth in the appropriation of
every one of these degrading designations to them; and
are assured, that every virtuous and correct mind in the
kingdom will agree with us. It is worse than a bench of
magistrates meeting at a tavern, and apportioning the
punishment of a cm iminal before he is tried; because, in
such an instance, they might have the whole case before
them—they may know the man—they may personally

have been acquainted with the circumstances of his
crime, and thence have an exact knowledge of his delin-
quency. But these forty radicals could know nothing of

. _
the merits of those whom their brother councillors might
propose—they could not measure the objections that
might be brought against the objects of their own choice ;
and, in both eases, the public is defrauded of that expli-
cit expression of sentiment which is the only guarantee
of justice in public proceedings.

In the above remarks we wish to be considered as di-
recting our artillery against the fortress itself, not against
the individuals within. In private life they may be "all,
all honourable men." It is of a faggot of radical Town
Councillors that we have spoken, which was privately
bound up for the destruction of municipal integrity and re-
sponsibility. We say responsibility: notwithstanding the
superlative nonsense uttered by Mr. Councillor Black-
burn, whose classically-turned phrase was, " men don't
act in bodies in that way, so as to throw off all responsi-
bility at all—every man is responsible for his own acts."
ff Mr. B. have sense enough to understand the question,
we would ask him, where is the responsibility of any one
of these forty radicals whose conduct has so disgraced
the town of Liverpool ? Neither the act, nor, conse-
quently, the responsibility, can be fastened upon any one
of them ; they took care of that. Mr. Rathbone has
made then a " joint stock company," without any clause
of personal responsibility, save and except himself, by a
strong implication.
The whole affair is so irredeemably disgraceful, that we
believe there will never be heard again, as there never
has been heard of before, the caballing of forty members
of a corporation, to prejudge, and predetermine public
business, which can only, with security, be confided to an
open Council—there to be openly discussed and openly
concluded.

We forbear, now, to introduce the subject of the Bi-
ble, at the very name of which by Mr. James Ileyworth,
the Town Council of Liverpool, like another theatre on

the night of a condemned play, or a tavern at the last
hour of a bacchanalian meeting of radical reformers—ne-
ver exhibited a scene of greater or more disgraceful dis-
order than the Council Chamber of the Municipal Cor-

poration of Liverpool at its last monthly meeting. De-
cency blushes at the remembrance of it, and England
feels shame, whilst she sees Truth recording it. in the
chronicles of her history. In the annals of debate it
stands without a precedent; and, for the honour of our
country, we hope it will never find a parallel. Never
did a guilty wretch, caught in the very act of a flagrant
crime, evince more dread of, or more violently resist be-
ing dragged before a magistrate, than did this municipal
body the exposures of one of its own Council. Never
did political iniquity, like " the galled jade," so "wince"
before—neyer did corruption, exulting in a tyrannous
majority, so impudently raise its head and voice—never,
when the charge was pressed home, did it so shrink back

abashed, and hide its face under the mantle of power.
Some observations have already appeared in our columns
upon that dark, disastrous day of Liverpool's disgrace;
but the occasion was too momentous, the incidents too
rare, the subject too memorable, to be allowed to pass
into the grave of oblivion without a more full inscription
engraved upon its tomb, for the admonition, not of Li-
verpool only—first in " bad pre-eminence"—but of Eng-
land also.

We who calmly read the proceedings of tint day, di-
vested of all personal feelings, and free from all momen-
tary excitement, intend to strip off the leaves, and lay
bare the fruit of the question. If individual character be
implicated in our conclusion, it is not because we com-
mand any one to "hold up his hand" whilst we prefer
our charge; but because individual guilt has attached it-
self to them in public judgment, before we proceed to
trial.

The facts of the case are these. Mr. Alderman Evans,

and said, that Mr. Councillor James Heyworth had, in a
speech delivered to his constituents, at a ward dinner, de-
clared that some act (Mr. Alderman Evans very adroitly
omits all mention of it, Though we know all about it) of
certain members of the Town Council displayed a "ser-
vile majority"—" deep dishonour"—" political cabal"—
and " petty cowardice." We might, as did Mr. Coun-
cillor Heyworth, deny the power of the Town Council to
sit in judgment upon the language of any one of its meth-
hers, delivered out of the Council Chamber, and we
might thus put a close to the question, by simply fasten-
ing upon Mr. Evans and his coadjutors the seal of igno—
ranee of municipal rights. But this would leave the me-
rits of the question undecided. Besides, Mr. Evans's ex-
pectation of an apology was so defeated, and the Mayor's
parallelism so completely destroyed, by the prompt ad-
dress and irresisiible reply of Mr. James Heyworth, that
what they hoped would have ended in their honour now
so threatened to overwhelm them in disgrace, that, losing
all presence of mind, they floundered till the radical as-
sembly sank down the slough of infamy beyond redemp-
tion. The first hope was, that Mr. James Heyworth
would give the bag to the reporters of oui paper, and
run off, to elude the charge preferred against him. But
this was a false estimate of his integrity, though a stand-
ard, perhaps, of their own. Then, when Mr. Hey worth
stood firm, and admitted the charge—as " they had
nothing to say against it"—they open another loop-hole
for him, glad if the lion which they had roused would
escape. '• I suppose," says the Mayor, "it is the
clothing that is objected to"—excellent wit! "I will not
call you a liar, Sir William," said Junius, " but with all
the politeness imaginable I will prove you one."--
" Well, well," says our Mayor, " you may prove us
what you please, a servile majority'—capable of deep
hishonour'—' a cabal'—or guilty of cowardice,' but
mind you do not call your proofs by these hard names—
if there be some spots upon the municipal garment we
don't like to have them pointed at—if sepulchres.'
we are full of all uncleanness,' we only desire to be
' painted.'" But, when Mr. James Heyworth scouted
all these paltry offers of escape, with indignant scorn, as
incompatible with truth—then the dogs burst from their
kennel, and disputed the prey with the lion.
This was the last, and ought to have been the first
step—if any step were proper—after Mr. James Hey-
worth acknowledged the report to be " substantively
and substantially true." Would a man charged with
stealing our watch, not immediately say, " search me,
and if you find the property upon me, hand me over to

justice, but if not you are false accusers." Did Mr. Al-
derman Evans—did the Mayor—did any of their col-

leagues, partners in crime, say "search us," and see
whether we are chargeable with the alleged offence—
"our withers are unwrung." No, a shuffling, dis-
honourable subterfuge of words, was made the matter of
discussion, in the hope that as innocence could not be
established, guilt might be overlooked. But Mr. James
Heyworth, stood like the monument, with a damning
inscription upon it, uniting another Popish, Unitarian,
municipal plot meditated against the rights of English-
men.

We promised to strip ofT the leaves, and lay bare the
fruit of this question ; and to that task we reluctantly
proceed, though with something less of fear, since we
purpose out of their " own mouths to condemn them.•'

Mr. Raihbone admitted, when it was hopeless to con-
ceal it, and after every attempt at evasion had com-
pletely failed, that " they (meaning about forty members
of the Town Council who privately met at the Angel
Inn, prior to the appointment of the Dock trustees,) did
THINK on a list, and DID AGREE, certainly among THEM-
SELVES, and if they saw nothing better transpire for the
community !! ! they did agree to that list. Let infamy
be written under this picture—a libel upon municipal
corporations. If Mr. James Heyworth's exposure had
effected no other good beyond this extraordinary confes-
sion, he would he entitled to the grateful thanks of his
fellow townsmen. \lie Ind b,!fore tracked the crafty fox

Dix. 16, 1436.

to its kennel, but it wtis whilst Mr. Hey worth was.
digging him out, that he bolted.
Let it be told to all England, tlhit forty members of
our corporation, and every one of them radicals,
assembled, by stealth, at an Inn in Liverpool, and dis-
cussed, and determined upon a municipal question, of
the highest importance to the town, and which they
afterwards formally carried, at a meeting of the Town
Council !—unexampled turpitude l Who, we ask, are
the Town Council of Liverpool ?—TheSe forty radical
members?—and where is public business transacted
At the Angel ? Is this not " deep dishonOur," to the
town of Liverpool ?—is this not defeating the..very end
of " Council !"—making a mockery or deliWatzore.•
converting public business into a private affair, like the
purchase of a bale of cotton !—taking away all personal
responsibility ! for in these secret cabals, fraternal
spirits may open their minds freely, for each casts over
the other an impenetrable veil to hide their proceedings,
from the public eyes. We shall soon have silent Tow'
Councils, if these preliminary meetings, with closed
doors, are to despatch business. We shall never hear a
word about the reasons or the eligibility of corporation
measures—:there will ...lie but a stride between the
proposition and the- resolution. But there is always
council of old; of kindred spirit, " stopped their ears'
and would gladly have run upon him, and stoned him" too
if they had not dreaded the retribution of law. And
could we have " a swallow taught to speak nothing
but Bible—Protestant Bible—and give it to the men'
hers of the School Committee, it would so harrass their
{ innocent souls that they would die of vexation.
•

We have one question to put to every dispassionate.
man in Liverpool. Did the old corporation, whatever
imperfections there might be in their structure, or what'
ever corruption had grown up in them in the flux of time,
ever present such an example as this of political turPi-
tude ? If you anticipated the subversion of all soon'',
principles in the operation of the municipal corporation
reform bill, has not the reality exceeded all your fears
If this be reform, and England be cursed with a further
extension Of*, she will only be fit to be " peopled Witb
wolves, its old inhabitants."

Though we drank none of the wine and ate none of
the good things provided at the late dinners of the Scot-
land ward, we have still much for which to thank them
many fine moral lessons have we learnt, and much mirth
have they afforded us. More modest and more plain',
speaking gentlefolks could not be culled out of all Eng-
land; and if they had not wit themselves, that might be
the effect of climate ; for we much question, matigre.
the poetical authority, whether intellect, any more than,
grapes, will ripen so far north. Still they will be the
occasion of many hearty sallies to their brethren in the
south ; and so abundant was this negative quality 011
these occasions that out of the mere fragments afforded
by a newspaper report we " can gather up twelve baskets
full," out of which we purpose to provide a kind of sup-
plemental feast that we think will not be much 1e55
entertaining than the original.
After Mr. Jones, the vice-president, had "proposed
the healths of the Mayor, aldermen, and reform members
of the Town Council," Mr. Wahnsley rose and said, "t
had been the determination of himself and the refortil
members of the Town Council" to do—something. We
care not what—we only notice how radicalism overturr
the courtesies of life as well as overthrows the bulwarl
of the state. Mr. W. most unceremoniously thrust "
the
Mayor and aldermen" of Liverpool out of the picture
presented to the company by Mr. Jones, and could alb;
see himself in the mirror of his mind—not even "ego,
minus rex," though this. cardinal virtue may be traced In
every act of a reformer. We would undertake to tell
whether a man were a radical or not, if we only met h'°
casually at an inn, and heard him order the waiter t°
send in a pair of slippers, or the chambermaid to bring a
pan of coals, so much of sell-importance is there in him.
Mr. W. added, " If the present councillors placed in
lucrative offices, not merely their friends and supporters,
but their dependents, they (the community) have nu'
the power and facilities for calling upon them to give an
account of tiNir stewardship." Does Mr. W. believe one
word of this ? Suppose some of the " friends, supporters,
and dependents" of the Town Council should deport
themselves with a little peccant infidelity of office,
•• •Jr thornoCAVCS abould be
guilty of a little malversation of the corporation funds-:d
as, for example, for questionable law purposes—Would
they not all find ample protection under the vgis armour,
of a Town Council vote ?? Who could successfully assail
them there ? Exposed, perhaps, they might be ; but
men guilty of crime are little sensible of shame, especially
if secure from punishment. We apprehend that the Cow-
munity have no other means of redress now than the
old corporation remedy—a mandamus from the sing:s
Bench.
sarcasm
upon are doubtful whether there is not' some
upon monarchy intended in Mr. W.'s declaration, that
he would not be lowered in their estimation to become
.the highest prince in Europe." A republican Roman
could not more studiously have avoided the name 0f
king—no, not Collatinus himself. It might be that 10
W.'s mind was stretched almost to bursting to compass
the two extremes—royalty and radicalism. It certain '
is no ordinary grasp.
But Mr. W. has many other " graces, snatch'd beyond
the reach of art," to which we would earnestly direct the
student of eloquence. He may throw away his Vossius;
Quintillion, and Cicero wherever Air. W. stands a model
before him. Mark the following exquisite simile-4w°'
pictorial! how unutterably beautiful ! "Let each meinhet
of the Radical Association," says Mr. W. "consider 10'
self as a pivot, round which a large number (querY".l
pivots?) should revolve." We tried to paint it, °-
made, in the centre of a large
.sheet of paper, a hug`"pivot, intending it to represent Mr. W.; we then painted
the
Mayor small pivots round it, intended to represent We
Mayor and aldermen, all at respectful distances from the
centre of attraction but we could raise no othei idea it/
our minds than that of so many tops spinning together'
Well thought we, if Mr. W. is too deep for us, he has 0t
least carried us back to the days of childhood ; and we
called Mr. W. a great hummer, and his satellites regular
Boxers. But we can " take a hint." We have a shrew"
guess what all this elaborate oratory means—" the ruling
principle will out"—men do not cultivate the flowers °f
eloquence to strew them over a study in dull solilogni'
or to adorn a table of after dinner talk. Mr. W.,
Fvith-
out being put to the torture, confessed all. "If he ap-
prehended rightly, it was quite as difficult to manage
the local as the general governMent." Bravo !—well
spoken, Mr. W.! Why not step through the cony',
chamber, where you stand for one, into parliament'
where you will stand for— ? 4. Why look abroad for a
representative ?" adds Mr. W. Better spoken still
i;
Here I am, might Mr. W. say, carved and gilded, an
ready to be set up in the Liverpool niche of the 11°Ilse
of Commons at a moment's notice.

Of Mr. W.'s qualification for the distinguished honour
to which he aspires, we have but one more observati°"„
to make. Mr. W. is always a scholar. We do not Meal:
this sarcastically, as of one " who is ever learning, bti
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 71
we fancy we can trace in his most obscure exPress,i,°h-e
great and various reading. "It was not," he said,
first, second, or third time"—" iterum, iterwnque" „
always classical !—" that the ward had so honoured
How pure !—what pathos or bathos ! It was more than
he could bear—nature could not endure it ! Their meci,
ing, he said, was "social"—he must seek repose, afl9
therefore, " be would sit down"—quite done up'
,173,
dry as the last biscuit after a voyage"—pumped to
very dregs, dregs and all—the oil of his eloquence 3
ll
burnt out. He left us, as the sun himself would do i/
extinguished, in original darkness.
Passing by Mr. W., which we may do without dis-
cout test' since he has "sate himself down," we
must
have a
glance at another curious figure in this group. The health
of Mr. Jones, the vice president, "was drunk with musica.l.
honours. We, who are very plain men, and, not we::
read in the "variorum" of drinking healths, have been
much perplexed to understand how this com
ceremony was performed; for, according to the best in-
formation we can get among our very limited drinking
it was intended
acquaintance, we are confidently assured plimenta!),

DEC. 16, 1536,

As a compliment—no burlesquing. But whether the
chairman sang the health of Mr. Jones, and, if sr.', we
should be delighted to know to what tune, and whether
the company received it in full chorus, and " roared.upon
him like fat bulls of ,Basan," and whether Mr. Jones
acknowledged the toast singing, and to the same tune,
or with variations—all these are still with us irresoluble
difficulties. We have heard of worthless fellows drum-
med out of regiments; but we never called such cere-
mony musical honours. It even gave rise to a doubt in
our minds whether Mr. Vice-president Jones had not
been grievously ill-used ; and w e on this occasion should
have thought so, if we had not read some words in reply,
in which, though we could discover little sense, there
was no anger, but which we are.surprised to find are not
put into metre. We think they would equal some of the
happiest bursts of the improvisatore of Italy or Spain.
We have heard of a military-stricken clown, who "sowed
wheat to the tune of the Belleisle march," and also of
Horne Tooke's offering to sing or whistle a tune, we
really forget which, before a court of justice, in order
that the judge and jury might determine whether there
was treason in it ; but we have never yet had the
" felicitas curiosa" of witnessing a health drunk with
" musical honours." It must be a fine thing. A shrewd
friend, to whom we showed the report, says confidently
that it was nothing but a company of butchers, that had
taken with them the emblems of their trade—" marrow
bones and cleavers"—which, so far north as Liverpool,
may very properly be called musical instruments; but,
as he is something of a wag, we distrust his opinion, and
think he only meant they were constitution butchers.
But the subject has taken full possession of us, and we
have framed to our mind how graceful and spirited it
will sound in a report of a public dinner, that Mr. Uni-
tarian Councillor A. proposed the health of Mr. Roman
CatholiC Councillor B. to the tune of "Mary in Heaven,"
(of Burns,) which Mr. Roman Catholic Councillor B.
handsomely acknowledged, like a dying swan, and, in
return, begged to propose the health of Mr. Unitarian
Councillor A. to the tune of "There is but one, and a
fig for him!"

We are sorry that we have been obliged to condense
the report of the very interesting meeting of the Literary
and Scientific Institution. We are happy to find that
this truly valuable society continues to rise in importance.
Its excellent constitution, and the zeal, prudence, and
consistency manifested in the conduct of its affairs, enti-
iie it to our warmest approbation and our most energetic
support.

RODNEY-STREET WARD CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
We are glad to perceive that the members of this asso-
ciation have passed a resolution expressive of their un-
qualified approbation of the straightforward and uncom-
promising conduct of James Heyworth, Esq., in his
conflict with the servile majority in the Town Council.
We trust that other wards will follow the example.

The extended space allotted to our remarks on other
And most important topics, precludes the possibility of our
reviewing at length the subject so ably and conclusively
handled in the letter of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, which
appears in our columns to-day. However, the discussion
Of this subject could not be left in better hands; and we
bust that the cogency of the rev. gentleman's reasonings,
and the force of his illustrations, will carry conviction
into the mind of every sincere and unprejudiced inquirer
after truth, and dissipate those lingering doubts which
the confident assertions of certain of our liberal Town
Councillors were calculated to excite.

THE THEATRE.

, A rather novel entertainment has, during the last week, been
drawing good houses—the engagement of a company of Bedouin
Arab tumblers. This entertainment consists of a number of
extraordinary tumbling feats. We cannot admire (and have
before expressed the same opinion) that policy which goes to
the lowering of intellectual attainments to the level of mere
physical feats, and which is, consequently, degrading to the ge-
neral character and acceptation of the stage, however much
such a proceeding may make heavy the treasury-box, The no-
velty of the Arab tumblers has succeeded in attracting good
houses, and, as tumblers, their feats are certainly extraordinary.
There is a degree of activity and strength combined in their
performances which we have never seen equalled. We have
seen much stronger men, and men as active, but never such a
Combination of strength and activity. Their performance,
however extraordinary, is still but the entertainment of the
Circus, and not that "feast of reason and flow of soul" which
ought to be the main attraction at the Theatre-royal. The " le-
- -ttitimAte. drama— 4nts not, howpower, been entirely u...luuked.
A number of standard plays have, during the week, been re-
presented.
. On 'Monday night Tobin's comedy of the " Honey Moon"
was. played, and on Tuesday Shakspeare's tragedy " Macbeth."
Mr. Stuart playing as Macbeth, and Mrs. Stanley as Lady
Macbeth. • Stuart this evening did not perform with his usual
energy, and the play appeard to go off tamely. Mrs. Stanley
played better than usual. On Wednesday night Sheridan
Knowles's fine 04- of " William Tell," was performed to a
very good house, and last night Shakspeare's tragedy of
" C.oriolanus." Mr. Stuart took the character of Caius Marcius
Coriolattus," Mrs. Stanley Volumnia, Miss Faucit Virgilia, and
Mr. Howard Tubas Aufidius. The proud and intemperate cha-
racter of Guilts Marcius Coreolanus, was most ably sustained by
Stuart; his elocution of some passages was all we could wish.
His deliveiy of the passage descriptive of the fickleness of the
multitude— the people," was in a style which did justice to
the truth of the sentiment.
" With every minute yOu do change a mind ;
.And call him noble that was now your hate,
Him vile that was your garland."

and again—
" Are these your herd ?
Must these have voices that can yield them now,
'And straight disclaim their tongues ?"
Mrs. Stanley acted the majority of her part, some of it
was a representation. Unless an actor can work himself
into the state of minds or near it, which he would represent,
vain is the attempt to act it. It is like a daubed sign-pOst of
the " King's-head ;" it is a bead to be sure, but not such a
one as nature ever made : it wants proportion, and light, and
shade, and truth of colour. Mr. Howard played tolerably.
Miss Faucit's was almost a► walking part : but she played that
which she had to do judiciously. Mr. Baker, the head of the
citizens, also played well. The house was a very fair one.