The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-30 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENT'S.

Several communications, acknowledged in our preceding pub-
lications and received since, are already in type, hot are un-
avoidably postponed, owing to the great length of our local
lepoi ts.
We have received several works for review, which we shall
uotice,-if practicable, or Tuesday.
The length of our reports has compelled us to withdraw several
original articles.

Ebe tiberpool "*.tanbarb.

FRIDAY ..1110R AT I NG. MAIiCH 30, 1838.

The Publication of the STA NDA It D commenced this morn-
ing at 5 o'vlock.

THE RECENT ELECTIONS.—There elections have taken
place within the lost week, of which the conservaii7es
have gained two. In the other case the radicals have
obtained alentporaiw victory.
The election for -Devizes took place on Monday, when
two candidates went to' the poll. At the close the num-
bers appeared att follows :

Polled Tendered
Dundas (Radical)
Heneage (Conservative
Majorily of polled votes for Dundas .... 7
Majority Of polled and tendered votes for
11
Heneage
Mr. Heneage announced his inanition of petitioning
against the return. There can be little doubt of the
,
success of his appeal to a fairly constituted committee
of the House of Commons. If he succeeds in dis-
Plicing the member returned, another vote will be
gained by the conservatives.
The •
election for Maidstone terminated :on Tuesday
evening,in the triumphant return of Mr. Fedor. At
the final close of the poll the numbers were as follows:
Mr. Fedor (Conservative)
Mr. Rubarts (Radical) • 5Bl

Majority
The contest was relinquished. by Mr. Gurney, on the
part of Mr. Robarts, at twelve O'clock.. Had it conti-
nued until the usual hour the majority would have. been
,considerably greater.
At Sudbury also the consetvatives have been vietori-
cms• At the close of the poll on Tuesday night the
numbers were—

Sir John Walsh (Conservative)
Bagshaw (Radical) ..

Majority • 26
We are glad to perceive that these elections afford ad-
ditional proofs, of the steady growth of conservative
Principles in the country. Mr. Hume remarked, with a
degree of candour which we could hardly have expected
from him, in his recent letter to the electors of Kilkenny,
that "-another general election would bring Sir Robert
Peel and the conservatives into office." We confidently
anticipate
that this propitious event will take place with-
out the intervention of a general election. Our leatieus
are aware that the liberal papers in the ministerial
rest have announced the intention of Lord Melbourne to
create about fifty -new peers at the approaching corona-,
tion. This will involve ministers in a dilemma from the
horns of IA hich they will find it hopeless to seek an es-
cape. Who are the individuals to be selected for this
honour ? If the minister should se( k to strengthen his
interest in the House of Lords by choosing persons who
are not members of the House of Commons, for eleva.
tion to the peerage, he will inevitably give offence to
those of his supporters in the house who have been long
expecting some return for -their adherence to his party.
If be makes his selection from. the ministerial benches

in the house, he will find that the electors of Great Bri-
tain will be loath to replace the.members transplanted to
the upper house by others of the same principles. He
' is, in short, by no means in a position to risk forty or
fifty fresh elections.
The only alternative that we can imagine to be left
for adoption is, that of creating fifty of Dan's nominees
in Ireland as peers of the realm. This course would
perfectly safe, inasmuch as Dan and the- priestseould easily
manage to send as many fresh members into the House
of Com Mons. Besides, it would be in perfect keeping
with all the proceedings of the present obsequious nd-
nistry, and would give them an opportunity of rewarding
every member of the tail for the faithful services Which
they have rendered. We need scarcely add that it would
be the best plan in the world for investing the court
of Queen Victoria with a dignity which nothing could
eclipse.

THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—This act was passed in
compliance with the clamour of a knot of political dis-
senters, who pretended that they represented. the feelings
of their fellow subjects of like profession, and to ea,e
whose consciences our xhig rulers consented to take
away from the celebration of marriage the solemnity of
a religious sanciion. The act has now been operation
for a term sufficiently long to judge of the estimate
which the public have formed of its utility. What, then,
is the deliberate opinion which the people of England
have pronounced respecting this act for secularising the
ceremony of marriage ? We are indebted to the Man-
chester Guardian for our, reply. From a return of the
number of marriages celebrated within the Manchester
Superintendent Registrar's District, during the half
year ending December 31, 1837, we deduce the follow-
ing particulars:—,
• Marriages by Banns
et License
" Sup. Registrar's Certificate -

The number of marriages celebrated in the Church.of
Englankl,•by banns and by licenses, was, for the above
period, 1908; whilst the martiages which were solem-
nised under the act only amounted to 87!
From the report of the latter quarter in the half year
we find that the marriages which were celebrated were
as follows :

In the Church of England 1053
In the Catholic Chapels . 45
In the Register Office - 7
In the Scotch Kirk
In the Dissenting Chapels

Total

1113

Thus it would appear that only seven marriages took
place, under the new marriage act, in the dissenting
town of Manchester, in all the dissenting chapels in the
district, and that only fourteen marriages out of eleven
hundred were celebrated without the sanction of a reli-
gious service! Does not this afford a triumphant proof
of the folly of saddling the country %NW) all the expen-
sive machinery of this preposterous enactment? Dues
it not show that the act is an insult to the religious feel-
ings of the community ?
We know that this act has been attended by the same
result in Liverpool. It haq been a dead failure, and the
sooner it is repealed the better. None but Sucinians
can app-ove of its principle.

THE DOCK TRUSTEES AND THE WAREHOUSE OWN-
ERS.—On .Wednesday last a numerously attended meet-
ing of the owners of land and warehouses was held at
the Clarendon rooms, for the purpose of resisting the
proposed scheme of the Dock Trustees to erect ware_
houses on the west side of the Prince's Dock. This
meeting was convened in consequence of appearance
of a paragraph in the Albion, announcing that such a
scheme was in contemplation. The gentlemen who were
present complained that the Dock Trustees had not given
any authentic information on a subject of such great
importance to the mercantile interest of the town, and
that an application, on the part of the warehouse.own-
ers, for such information, was left 'unanswered. Consi-
dering the immense amount of wealth at slake,•and the
manner in which it would be affected by the proposed
plan, the silence of the Dock Trustees could not be
signated otherwise titan inexcusable.
One of the strongest reasons urged in opposition to
the scheme was based upon the circumstance that a very
large proportion of the land upou which the existing
warehouses are erected will, by the falling in of leases,
revert to the Corporation, and that the value of this land
would suffer a most material depreciation in consequence
of the erection of warehouses by the Dock Trustees..
This consideration, it was hoped, would influence the
corporation in favour of the resolutions passed at the
meeting.

Among the other reasons urged ih opposition to the
plan the following may be enumerated:—That it was a
misappropriation of the powers of the Dock Trustees to
erect warehouses out of the public money—that the
warehouses alt early in existence were found quite suffi-
cient for every purpose connected with the increasing
commerce of the tow n.--,that the charges upon produce
wete as low in Live, pool as in any other place—that the
fears of the Dock Trustees as to the competition among
warehouse-owners were perfectly groundless—that, on
the other hand, serious apprehensions might be enter-
tained in reference to the competition between a body
having at their disposal the public money and the owners
of private property—that the Dock Trustees had little
stake in the immovable property of the town—and that
the Town Council could not, consistently with their ho•
nOur, sanction such a proceeding.
We are, of course, unprepared to say What reply the
Dock Trustees may give to the preceding reasons. The
subject is one which demands an early explariation,
which, we have ne doubt, the Dock Trustees will consi-
derit to be their duty to afford.

We append the reasons of objection which were sub-
mitted to the meeting of the watehouse owners. They
appear to us to be unanswerable.

" OBJECI lONS TO THE BUILDING OF WARE-
HOUSES ON Til E VERGE OF THE DOCKS IN THE
PORT OF LIVERPOOL BY THE TOWN-COUNCIL
-OR DOCK,. TRUSTEES.
" Ist--Because the erection of such warehouses would not
benefit the corporate estate.

"2,f.—Because the corporation have sold land contig,uous to the
docks with the restriction that warehouses only should be erected
thereon, in which land the corporate estate has a reversidnary
interest to the amount of nearly two millions sterlin, '•
"3d—Because that-reversionary interest would be Materially
decreased, which fact could be proved by ascertaining the sett- '
timents of those who have been purchasers of such land, and who
have not built thereon; and future no person would purchase
corporation land with that restriction, nor at the former prices,
if the Duck Trustees be possessed of the power to build ware-
houses.
,',lth.—Because it would be a violation of the trust, acts of par-
liament having been obtained expressly to prevent such erections;
consequently land has been purchased hitherto on the faith of
the stability of those laws, which have been considered a suf-
ficient guarantee for such investments.
"501.—Because the crown some years since endeavoured to
compel the authorities to have enclosed warehouses for the docks,
which was most strenuously opposed by the corporation and the
inhabitants of this port.
"fith.—Because the corporation have opposed attempts of the
inland towns having warehouses for the reception of bonded
goods, on the plea that it would tend to injure the cOrporate
estate, of which a great Portion is at present vested in warehouse
' property by the respective lessees.
" 7th.—Because it would involve property to the amount of
nearly four millions sterling, a great part of which is the only
' source of existence fur widows, orphans, and large
" Bth.—Because the warehouses now erected are more than suf-
ficient for the trade of the port, and are equal in capacity and
quality to those of London.
"9th.—Because merchandise is deposited at this port con-
siderably under the London charges.

" lOth.—Because tile discharge of ships is not retarded by the
present situation of the warehouses of this put, but is solely
caused by the want of organization in the
porterage and dock
accommodation. Should these be afforded, the same facility
would be given with the present warehouses as with those in
London. Yet notwithstanding the impediments now existing
goods are ready for sale and freights can be settled much earlier
at this port-than in London, the former taking ten days, and
the latter three weeks, before the landing process is finally
completed.

"llth.—Becanse plunder would not be checked by the mere
erection of warehouses within the dock walls, it being well
known that petty thefts are as frequent within the mails of the
docks as in the present warehouses. The reason wby pilferage