The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-16 00:00:00

THE PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION.

The radical journals published in Liverpool were a short
time ago announcing, with a ludicrous and premature air of
triumph, that the registration lists would exhibit a great ac-
cession of ten-pound householders, to the confusion of those
who exercise the franchise by virtue of the freedom which
they have acquired in the borough. Their cause for gratu-
lation will be found displayed in the subjoined comparative
statement. Allo‘ving fur the votes lost since the revision by
removal, death, and for the deductions to be made on ac-
count of repetition, there will not be more than thirteen thou-
sand remaining on the lists for the present year.
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
REGISTUR OF PARLIAMENTARY 'VOTERS.
1837.

Housekeepers
Freemen
1838.

H oc se k eepe rs

10,591 z 13740
: 3,149 S
124 no
26

Freemen
Less Housekeepers
Ditto Freemen

SUDDEN DEATH OF A POLICE-OFFICER.—On Tuesday
afternoon, as police-officer 356, Tracey, was going to the
north station to report himself unwell and unfit for duty, be
fell down in a tit in Milton-street; he was carried home, hut
before medical assistance could be obtained, he expired.
ROBBERY FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.--On Tuesday,
silver plate to the value of £l5 was stolen from the house of

Mr. Swainson, Oxford-street. In the morning, a boy had
been there with some luggage, and was left alone in the
passage adjoining the pantry for some time, and suspicion
has fallen upon him. The police are in search of him.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Hughes has announced his
benefit for Monday evening next, the 19th inst., under the
distinguished patronage of the Mayor. The bill of fare pos-
sesses more than usual attraction' and will we hope bring to-
gether a numerous and fashionable audience, as well to do
honour to our newly-elected chief magistrate, who intends to
be present, as to reward the exertions of this distinguished
gentleman.

On Tuesday morning the sky presented the most beautiful,
appearance of the aurora borealis I ever witnessed, the whole
heaven to the north appearing at' one time as if it were co-
vered with blood. From two till three o'clock (the time the
phenomenon was most brilliant) there was no cloud to be
seen, save and except a large black and ominous looking one,
due north, just above the horizon, and stretching from east to
west, front behind which, ever and anon, shot up beautiful
narrow white streaks of light, to the highest point of the hea-
vens, now changing to very broad streaks, and then dying
away, succeeded by a large deep red cloud, gradually extend-
ing itself eastward, and eventually disappearing in that direc-
tion. At one time (half-past two o'clock) the whole sky was
covered with the red appearance, behind which could be seen
the white streaks of light in great numbers, shooting up and
appearing like so many rockets. I never witnessed so mag-
nificent a display before; it was grand in the extreme, the
morning so clear, too, adding to the beauty of the scene.
Thinking, that probably such an early appearance of the
Northern lights may denote a severe winter, or vice versa, I
have presumed to acquaint you with the circumstance. The
morning was very cold and it was freezing hard at the time.
—Correspondent (J. the Courier.
On Tuesday the anniversary dinner of the Herculaneum
Pottery Friendly Society took place at Mr. Powell's, Jack-
son-street, Toxteth-park. Dinner on the table at three
o'clock. This interesting annual fete has been celebrated

for many years, and is connected with an object deserving
successful imitation, being a sick club, supported by the work-
men at the pottery, Toxteth-park, assisted by their employ-
ers, for the relief of the sick among the operatives, and the
benefit of their survivors. The present occasion was rendered
more interesting by the presentation of a bust (designed by
Mr. Jackson, residing near the manufactory, and executed
by the workmen) of Mr. Ormandy, surgeon, Great George-
street, who has been for eight years the medical attendant
upon the members of this society. This bust is well model-
led and finished, an excellent likeness, and very appropriately
made of material such as is used in the manufacture of fine
earthenware. Several gentlemen of the neighbourhood were
present, who expressed their high approbation of the objects
and usefulness of the society, amongst whom were Messrs.
Thos. Case, Alex. Smith, T. M. Gladstone, the proprietors,
and several others.

R IVA La v.—The Liverpool radicals, it would seem, are fol-
lowing the example of the Irish Precursors in the collection
of ; but it is questionable if the movements will not
spoil the trades of both patties. We have noticed on the
walls a bill to the following effect --" English Justice Rent!
—The radical reformers of Liverpool respectfully inform the
public that a large meeting will be held at the large room, at
the bottom of Preston-street, Whitechapel, on Wednesday
evening, the 14th instant, at eight o'clock precisely, for the
purpose of making arrangements for the collection of a fund
to be placed at the disposal of National Convention,' when
every true radical is requested to attend, in order to co-
operate with their brother radicals in every part of the coun-
trv.—By order of the committee.—R. Todd, secretary."—
We believe the owner of the room refused to allow the meet-

ing to be held therein, and that it was subsequently proposed
to take place on the waste piece of ground adjo►n►ng the
French prison, Would not the prison itself suit the parties
best? There is a law against vagrancy.

CLOSING OF PAWNBROKERS ESTABLISHMENTS.—A few

days ago a number of pawnbrokers of this town met together
for the purpose of suggesting some plan for the suppression
of thieving and pawning at improper hours. There are
about 100 pawnbrokers in Liverpool, out of whom 70 of the
most respectable have agreed to shut up their shops at seven
o'clock in Winter, and eight in Summer, and not later than
eleven o'clock on Saturday nights. A deputation was then
agreed upon, and Mr. Critchley was appointed, out of their
body, to communicate with Mr. Hall on the subject; and
he, a few days ago, said he would communicate with the
Mayor on the matter, and give his opinion in open court.
Yesterday, Mr. Critchley attended at the Police-court, and
Mr Hall said be had communicated with the Mayor on the
subject, and they felt gratified that the Pawnbrokers had
come forward to 'rake the proposition. He hoped those who
had not assented to the rule of the majority, would do so.
The magistrates had no hesitation in sanctioning and approv-
ing of the arrangements the majority of the pawnbrokers
were about to make. The only thing to be careful of, was
not to incommode the poorer classes; but that, he thought,
would not be the case with the hours determined upon. He
trusted that every respectable man in the trade would see the
propriety of acquiescing in the rule. There was another
proposition, sot to take in property from any very young
person. On the whole, the magistrates felt exceedingly glad
that the pawnbrokers should have come forward with the pro-
posal. Mr. Critchley said be had no doubt the pawnbrokers
would be unanimous. The arrangement would not com-
mence until the Ist of December. The police will, in all
probability, keep a sharp look-out after the non-conforming
pawnbrokers.
ACCID-UNT AT A COAL PIT.-011 Monday last, Abraham
Bothwell, a coal-miner, of Shaw Crompton, aged 53 years,
was accidentally killed in the coal-pit of Messrs. Milne, Tra.
via, and Co., at Broadbent Moss, Oldham, by a fall from
waggon ascending the main si9.ft, The unreortututto ffwi
hal left a family. .

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o Clock.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, -FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16.

Of Wheat, Oats, Flour and Oatmeal, a moderate supply
only, with a few small parcels of Barley, have been received
into this port from Ireland since Tuesday last, but none
worth naming coastwise, and no further arrivals whatever of
foreign Grain or Flour : notwithstanding which, the Corn
trade here, from the close of Tuesday's market until to-day,
was on the whole quiescent, showing, for most leading
iilticies, a little tendency

Having very few either town or country buyers in attend-
ance this morning, and the millers anticipating better sup-
plies ere long from the growers, who have hitherto brought
very little new grain forward, free Wheats of all descriptions
experienced a very dull sale, and though English and Foreign
were not generally offered on lower terms, a decline of Id.
to 2d. was, in partiafinstances, submitted to, from the dimi-
nished rates of Tuesday, and Irish New Wheat was dec d-
edly 3d. per 70 lb. cheaper.
Flour also, in consequenee of its being held at prices
relatively higher than Wheat, was extremely difficult of sale
at an abatement of Is. per sack.
Barley remaining scarce, fully maintained our previous
quotations. Malt, Beans, and Peas continued to rule in all
respects the same as last noted.
On the absence of country demand to-day, Oats and Oat-
meal were very unsaleable, and the dealers calculating upon
lower prices, the former may be considered Md. to Id. per
45 lb., and the latter the turn cheaper.

In bonded Grain and Flour, the transactions have been
♦ery unimportant, and without any material change in

prices.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16.—Wind S

AltßlVED.—Susquehannah, Miercken, from Philadelphia, sailed
30th October—Charles liumberston. from St. Andrew's—Lock-
woods, Sproule, from St. John, N.B.—Ellen, from Trieste—Emma.
Irving. from Lisbon—Lamena. Ugarte. from Santander—Richard.
Anderson, Lucas, from London—Six Brothers, Roberts, from New-
port—Lady Florence, from Drogheda

Ironside. Mitchell. hence for Pernambuco, was spoken about 20
miles to the eastward of the Kish Light, at 8 30 last evening
Resolution, Forrest, hence, at Miramichi
Maria, Bremer, hence for Amsterdam, at Falmoutfi
Three vessels were seen on shore in the White Sea, by the Alex.
Brandt. arrived at London
ANTWERP, Nov. 13.—The Gardiner, Jackson. from hence, was
on shore off Flushing, but got off without material damage

Vottrp.

THE MEETING.

Yet once again we met !
And thou wert still unaltered—and my heart
Forgave the world its fickleness, in which
Thou hadst no part ;
And I forgot that thou couldst never be
More than a thought—a memory to me !
It matter'd not, life's joys
Are half of hope and half of memory made ;
And both are dreams—and happiness itself

Is but a shade—
Before us ever in the distar.t view—
We grafi) it not, however we pursue.
And yet to meet thee thus,
After long months of absence, and to'see
Thy smile the same, and feel that time had wrought

No change in thee,
Were something more than those unreal things,
Which hope oft promises, and memory brings.
Thy voice fell on my heart,
With its first charm unbroken by the years,
Whose course have link'd a few brief scatter'd smiles

With many tears !
Smiles which have shown on thee—and tears that fell
Full often after bidding thee farewell !
And we have parted now !
Though to sail lightly on with fortune's tide,
With hope's bright colours spread before thy view—

Acd I to chide
The lingering moments, with but memory's power
To cheer the gloom of each succwding hour.

Such—such is destiny !
The star is changed beneath whose light we met,
Or 'twas thy star. not mine—and it were well

Could I forget,
For all things bright and happy cling to thee,
And thus divide thee farther yet from me !

And though we meet again,
And though thy smile be sweet, thy voice be kind,
The distance will between us still remain,

Which fate designed,—
And thou and I a separate path must tread,
Thy way thro' sunbeams—mine with clouds o'erspread

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE QUEEN-THE HEIR APPARENT-AND

THE FAVOURITE.
(From the Dublin Eveniity
*Whilst Mr. O'Connell, with a license truly Hiber-
nian, is looking up to the Queen, as his mother, with
fall the obedience of a dutiful heir apparent—and pro-
claiming that "though the crathur is young enough
to be his grandaughter, he feels a filial affection for
her"—[see his speech at Kanturk]—Lord Melbourne,
with the license of a courtier, is taking advantage of
the Queen's mother's facility, and enjoying the envi•
able advantages of a FAVOURITE and a favoured
minister.

Court favourites were never much in favour with
the people of England, from the days of Hugo Le De-
spenser to the present ; and the character of the reign-
iag "Pet of the Petticoats" is not calculated to re-
move a grudge of so long standing. We are as unapt
as any body to interfere with the private arrangements
or canvass the domestic affairs of the great, but we
cannot, without a breach of public duty, pass over in
silence the very unseemly intimacy which has domes-
ticated a nobleman not undistinguished in the courts
of law for his exploits in the courts of gallantry, in
the residence and constant society of the young and
inexperienced Princess who sways the British septre.
In truth there is in private life no matron of character
—no mother holding a position in cot rect society, who
would subject her daughters to such continual inter-
course with such a man, as that which the Viscount
Melbourne enjoys with a Princess who has not yet at-
tained her twentieth birth-day. The following pointed
and excellent observations on this subject, which we
extract from the Spectator of Saturday, is but the ent.
bodiment, in language of polished wit and refined sar-
casm, of the sentiments prevalent in all circles re-
specting this disproportioned and reprehensible fami-
liarity:—

(Penal THE SPECTATOR.)
As it is a part of the philosophy of this age to allow that
kings are men, so some may think perhaps they do not ha-
zard overmuch in submitting that queens may be women.
Such sophists would probably go on to persuade you that
there is a stricter tie of regard between man and woman than
between man and man; end that if a queen (feminine gen-
der) takes into her peculiar good graces a minister (mascu-
line), and walks, and talks, and rides, and dines with him for
months together, by confession of the Gazette, having no other
man-minister in the meantime to divide her attention or share
her regard—this may be neither very correct in her majesty
quoad queen, nor altogether prudent quoad woman; and that,
by the same rule, if the said man-minister accepts and profits
of such monopoly of the said walks, talks, &c., such conduct
may neither be quite proper in him quoad minister, nor quite
quite fair quoad man. But it is enough to reply to such
stuff, that the Queen, being young, stands in need of instruc-
tion and protection ; and that the long vacation enables the
favourite to impart lessons in political economy and the other
branches of female education, with singular effect, and with
a degree of benefit to the royal recipient, surely far above the
price of the dinners, or any other favours—mentioned at least
in the Gazette.
History was certainly wrong in attributing any inconve-
niences, moral or political, to the old system of royal favour-
ites—now happily restored; and moral philosophy has always
been both wrong and rude, in ascribing to women any natu-
ral weaknesses—such as a fondness for flattery, and the like.
We have, therefore, merely to " declare against" both, in
order to feel perfectly satisfied with the present order of
things.
Perfect satisfaction being restored, it only remains to clas-
sify this new and welcome specimen of a race thought to he
extinct. Shall we link his name with the "gentle Mortimer"
of Queen Isabella, or compare him with the unfortunate
Troubadour of Scottish celebrity? In these unromantic
times, we suspect, whatever other points of resemblance might
he found, that the career of the modern favourite will be
marked by no such interesting vicissitudes as rendered the
fortunes of the former ill-fated couple matters for the ballad-
monger. We have no idea, in these days of gas lamps and
railroads, that it will ever be "our painful duty to announce"
such a disaster as that—
" The treacherous governor of Windsor Castle having, at
the dead of night, admitted Lyndhurst and Wellington through
a subterranean passage into the castle, 'the gentle M—'
was dragged from the royal presence, which he was adorning,
and amidst the heart-rending cries of his distracted mistress,
hurried away by his tory foes to certain death."
Or— _ _

;Sire regret to pay, that yesterday evening, while ber Ma-
jesty was supping with the Duchess of Kent, and listening, as
usual, to the seraphics trains of The Favourite, Lord Broug-
ham, leading the way up a private staircase at the head of a
small body of radical reformers, suddenly entered the Queen's
apartments, and approaching the unhappy nobleman, glared
on him for some time with looks indicative of the worst in-
tentions. His unexpected appearance and the constant
twitching of his nose inspired the greatest alarm in the mind
of the Queen; who, however, was too much terrified to call
out, until Roebuck and other asssassins stepping forward, her
Majesty, in a trembling voice, demanded the object of their
proceeding. Roebuck made no reply, but ordered The Fa-
vourite `to quit a place of which be was unworthy.' The
Favourite readily perceived the dreadful nature of his situa-
tion, and tremblingly clasped the robes of the Queen ; who
at the same time endeavoured to screen him from his pursuers.
But Brougham, at that instant drawing a dagger from the
pocket of his plaid trousers, and rushingon the wretched man,
plunged it into his bosom, shivering his lute to atoms by the
force of the blow, while the Queen filled the room with her
cries. The other radical reformers then setting on him, tore
him from his royal protectress, and, dragging him into
the ante-chamber, there with the assistance of the learned
sod inhuman noblemen, despatched him with six-and-fifty
wounds."
But we may compare him, then, with the young and hand-
some Essex, the brave and accomplished Essex ? No doubt,
with much propriety. And the two royal mistresses, one
with the other? The only exception to the parallel
seems to be, that in the former instance the Queen was old,
the favourite young : with us the Queen is young, the favourite
"id- Again, Elizabeth, it may be urged, was not only old
but ugly, and not only ugly but masculine and a shrew; our
well-beloved Queen, on the contrary, is not only young but
pretty, and not only pretty but feminine and good-natured.
For the last ieason, it may be doubted also, whether her Ma-
jesty ever boxes Lord M 's ears; and even supposing
she mere to do so' on some sufficient provocation, it may be
doubted whether Lord M would clap his hand to his
sword and Swear "he would not take it from her father."
tme be considered more probable that the Lamb-like Lord
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Lastly, can we liken the modern favourite to the famous
Earl of Leicester—Oh ! fie, no. What ? Leicester—de-
scribed as " possessed of neither virtue nor abilities !" But
perhaps one happier point of resemblance between the cir-
cumstances of the two noblemen may induce you to tolerate
the comparison.
It is remarked, we think by Hume, that if the paramount
influence in the state enjoyed by Leicester was an evil for
the country, it was in a great measure counterbalanced by
the extraordinary merits of his contemporaries and official
colleagues—the gifted Burleigh and the celebrated Chancellor
Bacon. So if any one should be of opinion that the glorious
life and slippered ease—the " otiumlcum (sine ?) dignitate"
of the major domo of Windsor Castle, are at all at variance
with the arduous duties of a prime minister of England, such
person, we conceive, must derive comfort the moment he re-
flects, that his lordship is associated in office with the great
Glenelg and the immortal Cottenham.