The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

BEGGARLY ECONOMY

The following letter has been addressed to the officers of
the different courts of law :
" Stationary-office, January, 1841.
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that the Lords of
the Treasury have returned to this office the entire Altnanack
frames furnished to their office at the commencement of last
year, with the Imperial Calendars, Army and Navy Lists,
Court Guides, Directories, &c., furnished to them in the
course of the last year, retaining only one or two copies of
each for further and occasional reference.
" It is their Lordships' wish that the course now adopted
by the Treasury should be followed by your office, and by
every other office in the metropolis; and I beg, therefore,
that you will give orders that I may be furnished with a list
of all the old and useless stores of every description, such as
.Almatzack frames, Calendars, Directories, Army and Navy
Lists, casks and bottles for holding ink, pens, and penknives,
&c., that you may have on hand, of the supplies made to
your office during the last and former years, after retaining
as many copies as may be required of the Calendars, Alma-
nacks, &c., for future reference and consultation. On my
being furnished with such list, I will direct a cart to call at
the office and fetch the stores away.

" It is intended, on the stores being collected here, to sell
such as cannot be again used to the highest bidder, and to
apply such of them as may be again used, as the ink-bottles,
casks, and Almanack frames, to further service.
" I beg further to state, that it is not intended to issue any
Abnanack fresh frames for some years to come, as those now
in the hands of the difrerenct offices will necessarily last for
at least five or seven years ; and it is also intended that in
future the old or used pens shall be returned to this depart-
ment ; and I have to request that you will give the necessary
directions for their being taken care of, and sent thither with
the other old stores.

" These measures being intended to obviate waste, and to
introduce due order and regularity into an important depart-
ment of the public expenditure, will, I have no doubt, meet
with your zealous co-operation.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
" J. R. M'CULLOCH, Controller."

THE GREAT WHIG-RADICAL " DEMONSTRA-
TION" AT LEEDS.

(From the Leeds Intelligences.)
The " Great Demonstration" of the whig reformers of
the reform act, in Leeds, has turned out, as we predicted is
would turn out—a decided failure. Of the announced stars,
only a few of the second magnitude were present—such as
Mr. Hume, Mr. Roebuck, Col. Thompson, Mr. Williamt
(from Coventry), Mr. Sharman Crawford, and Sir George
Strickland. Mr. O'Connell was not present ; but arrived
yesterday in time toget a bit of dinner. Sir W. Molesworth
excused himself ; he is jealous of Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Baines
refused, and left Leeds,to shew his contempt for Mr. Stans-
feld's agitation. Letters were read from various parties ;
but we did not hear any thing of one from F. H. Fawkes,
Esq., of Farnley-hall, who wrote to decline on the ground
that the only point on which he agreed with the managers
was that " Reform" was at a very low ebb. Surely it was
not quite fair to Burke the opinions of so active and 'respecta-
ble a local reformer.

The chartist " Demonstration" was a far more effective
exhibition, and shows much greater power both as to num-
bers and the feelings of the working men. They evinced a
determined and well-founded hatred of the trickster O'Con-
nell, and were successful at all points. The whigs, in fact,
made an abject submission to them ; they literally sued to
them, in bondsman's key, for forbearance ; assigned to them
equal rights on Messrs. Marshall's costly hustings ; accorded
them man for man-in the settled list of orators ; and the

working-men chartists waged the battle of argument with
the whig nobs, aye, and beat them too, inasmuch as if there
be any arguments good for Household Suffrage, the same ar-
guments must be still better for Universal Suffrage. The
solitary resolution moved was also squared to chartist tole-
ration. It simply affirms that further reform is required.
In this the chartists of course agree. So the whigs have
actually taken nothing by their movement, in all respects
playing second fiddle only. We repeat that the affair was an
utter failure, though an immense sum of money has been
lavished upon it, and the greater part of which, no doubt,
will fall to the share of the Messrs. Marshall. It is an old
maxim that foolish persons always pap for their hobby.
But although the whigs have broken down in their attempt
to enlist under their banner the great body of the working-
men of Leeds and its vicinity, they have shewn plainly enough
that they are ready to join the chartists, or any body of com-
plainants, as soon as a conservative and constitutional go-
vernment shall be formed. Were Sir Robert Peel and the
Duke of Wellington in office, these sticklers for household
suffrage would swallow any other nostrum for the sake of in-
fluence over the minds of the masses. They are men altoge-
ther devoid of honest principle. We question, however,
whether the chartists will ever again accept them as leaders.
If they enlist, they must be content to take the lowest rank.
They have persecuted their old pupils, and to trust them
again would be like making a bosom-companion of the viper.
The subsequent arrival of O'Connell, and his attendance at
last night's dinner, will not contribute to smooth the way to-
wards a reconciliation.

Fears were entertained, at one time, that Thursday would
not pass over in peace. The mayor was alarmed, and adopt-
ed precautions. Besides having in readiness a strong police
force, be requested the military at the barracks to be kept in
a state of readiness for immediate action, should necessity
His worship was right. He ought to be well ac-
quainted with the taste of his own particular friends. They,
perhaps, will snarl at him ; but he did no more than his duty
in guarding against the possible consequence of whig love of
mischief.

Our report of the proceedings embraces all the leading
points of the slightest importance or interest. The speaking
was below mediocrity. Mr. Hume rambles from subject to
subject, and scarcely ever finishes a sentence. Mr. Roebuck
is tiresome ; Colonel Thompson prosy ; and Mr. Williams a
mere chatterer. Mr. Sharman Crawford appears to be a
clever man ; but the men evinced a . strong indisposition to
listen to him, and many persons left the Mill as soon as he
began to speak. The greater portion went to see O'Connell,
and were disappointed. Sir George Strickland put himself
on his defence as to his conduct as chairman of the Hull elec-
tion committee. It would have been better for him had ha
kept silence, for his explanation only makes the black still
blacker.

We shall have to return to this and other parts of the day's
exhibition when time and space are more at disposal. We
have said enough, however, to show that this " demonstra-
tion" was merely an affair of smoke. The mountain labour-
ed, and brought forth a very tiny mouse indeed.

The Earl of Vernlam is about to erect a chapel of ease to St.
Michael's Church, St. Alban's ; a place of worship at the
extremity of that parish being much wanted. The lion. Miss
Grimston has liberally contributed £5OO towards the endow-
ment of it, and the vicar, Lord Frederic Bentinck, D.D., at
the head of a committee, is actively engaged hi promoting
this laudable object.
We feel much pleasure in laying before our readers some
particulars of an experiment recently made by Mr. Bad-
cock, chemist, of St. James's-street. Mr. B. has inocula-
ted a fine young cow of his own with small-pox ; with the
lymph from the animal he has vaccinated his own child, and
from that child he is now supplying the medical men of
Brighton with pure fresh lymph, such as was used formerly
by the justly celebrated Dr. Jenner.—Brighton Gazette.
ROYAL MARINES.—We regret to state that Lieut. Craig,
of this division, was on board the Thames steamer when that
unfortunate vessel was wrecked at Scilly, on Monday last,
and perished on the vessel going to pieces.—Devonport Tele-
graph.

HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—On Monday, owing to
the frost, the train on this railway was two hours in running
two miles !—Sheffield Patriot.
During the last ten days two or three whales have been seen
in the Bristol Channel, one of which, described as being sixty
feet in length, was so near Plymouth, that a trawler was in
great danger of losing her nets by the huge mass becoming
entangled in them.—Western Luminary.
PROPOSED BRIDGE, OR TUNNEL FROM DOVER TO CA-
LAIS.—A Havre journal gives the following account of a
project announced in that town. An Englishman, describing
himself to be an engineer, recently arrived at Havre, who
has been to Paris to propose the plan of a passage by land
from Dover to Calais. The inventor has given the following
account of his gigantic plan to many of the inhabitants of
Havre. M. W. Coppitt (the inventor) proposes to place
twenty thousand piers of stone across the straits, which are to
be laid at the bottom of the sea. These are intended to
form the foundations of a monstrous bridge, seven leagues
in length. A plan of this has been engraved in London, and
will be publicly exhibited in Paris. According to the in-
ventor's account_ he

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great exactness, and the various depths of thetile
seaSU along this
extensive line. The estimated expense of this bridge is not
to exceed 1800 millions of francs. Though the plan of cones
or piers in imitation of the dyke at Cherbourg may appear
ridiculous, M. W. C3ppitt is an ingenious man ; and his de-
termination being that England shall be united with the con-

nas another project to effect it. His plan, No. 2,
is this :—lt is not to travel above the surface of the water,
but underneath it; nevertheless on dry and firm ground. In
order to accomplish this, M. W. Coppitt proposes to fix a
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tanneis m. cast iron, three feet in thickness,
and eighteqn feet diameter inside. The first of these tun-
nels, which is to serve as its entrance, is to be placed at
Dover, and the last to terminate at Calais, after following the
undulations of the submarine ground. " This plan is sim-
ple," modestly says the inventor;" and the execution •of it
is so easy, that I dare not claim any merit for the discovery.
You will understand," he adds, " that if your countryman,
Mr. Brunel, had thought of this plan, instead of excavating
with so much difficulty through a soil of sand at the risk of a
thousand accidents, he would have laid long iron pi tes from
one bank of the Thames to the other, by the adoptiou of this
method, with a saving of twenty millions of francs-in money
and ten years of labour." M. W. Coppitt thinks •that
his
metal tunnel from Dover to Calais would not cost more than
1000 millions of francs ; half of which he proposes should be
contributed by France, and the other half by England.