The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

THE

bl) ,tllftiolt.

On FRIDAY next, the By BROWN,
sthMr. instant. at Eleven o'clock, at his

Rooms, 101, Park-lane,
1-1
A QUANTITY of FORFEITED PLEDGES, being
Property pledged in the respective months prior to the
sth August, 1852, with the following Pawnbrokers, viz. :—Asher
Cohan, South Castle-street ; Edward Byford, Dale-street; John
Woodruff, Scotland-road and Pembroke-place; James Heald,
Scotland-road; James L. Hutchinson, Copperas-hill; John J.
Spencer Richmond-row; A Ifred Tunstall, London-road; Eugene
Gregson, Copperas-hill ; Messrs. Smith and Hammond, Soho-
street; Robt. Hayes, Kent-square; Escott Richards, Parliament-
street ; Richard Washington, Oldhall-street ; Robert Roberts,
Hightield-street ; John Bolton, Bridgewater-street ; Bridson and
Armor, Regent-street; James
_Fairhurst, St. Anne-street;
Lewis Heyman, Whitechapel-f Robert Marrs, St. James'-
street ; Joshua Powell,,-EtCotland -road ; Thomas Roberton,
Great Howard-street ;Henry G. Syred, Park-lane ; William
A. Alacferson, Tithe*n-street ; James Webb, Mount-pleasant ;
Escott Richards, Mill-,,treet ; Robert Gosson, Jamaica-street ;
Anne Hiams, Dickinson-street; John Benussi, 65, Paradise-
street.

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FIFTY-SIX COLUMNS

NEXT, AUGUST Orn

AtGEST

Bill, a promise which he attempted to realise by
proposing a reduction of the qualification, and
grouping small towns into Parliamentary Boroughs.

He encouraged the aggressions of Rome as
far as he dared, and then had the audacity
to avow his Protestant zeal, the sincerity of which
was shewn by his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which
was asserted and has been proved to be utterly

useless. In the commencement of 1852 he sur-
rendered office from acknowledged inability to hold
it any longer, and then directly entered into a
factious combination with men of extreme Radical
opinions, whom he had formerly repudiated, in
order to render office impracticable to his successor.
And subsequently, when the Financial Statement of
the Conservative CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
hung in the balance, and success or defeat were alike
possible, he held out false hopes to the Irish mem-

bers to secure their opposition to it. There is no one
act of his political life, whether in or out of office,
which can be referred to with satisfaction ; and
yet, 'so plausible have been his professions, and so
credulous his hearers, that this man still occupies
a leading place in the councils of our SOVEREIGN,
and too many indulge in the egregious error of
believing him to be an able statesman. There is not
an institution in the country which he has not as-
sailed, not a cause which he has not betrayed, not a
party which he has not deceived, not a form of
patriotism which he has not assumed to serve the
purpose of the hour, and yet, to the shame and dis-
grace of modern intelligence, his political chicanery
has been allowed to triumph, as though there
really were as great a pleasure in being cheated as
to cheat.

When the Earl of DERBY was compelled to
surrender to faction, because, unlike his predecessor,
he would not sacrifice principle to place and power,
the politicial cards were shuffled anew, and the

country promised unheard-of blessings from the
coalition of Whigs, Radicals, and renegade Con-
servatives. We shall not readily forget the pro-
found bathos with which the Earl of ABERDEEN
talked of the union of parties, and declared that the
combination would have the effect of rendering its
Radical elements Conservative. The experience of
the Session has shown the delusion of such promises,
and it is now nearly brought to a close with a cata-
logue of acts in which the evil fearfully predominates
over the good. Dismayed with their first defeat, many
of the Conservatives seemed to have deserted the
post of honour, and allowed their opponents to
obtain victories which could never have been antici-
pated as the results of the last general election, Vain
was it that Liverpool led the van, and showed, by an
overwhelming majority in a large popular constitu-
ency, that the people of England were still alive to the
importance of maintaining Conservative principles ;
vain was it that other constituencies followed so
glorious an example. There were traitors in the
camp, the Peelites belied all their former profes-
sions; and deeming it "better to reign in Hell
than serve in Heaven," accepted office with their
bitterest foes, and set an examble which, to
their shame, too many have followed. In
spite of the remonstrances of the most experienced
men, the Ministers have been allowed to carry their
India Bill, in which they perpetuate the acknow-
ledged abuses of the present system of Govern-
ment, and virtually shut up the vast resources of
that magnificent possession from the commercial
enterprise of England. In vain did the few Con-
servatives, who still remain true to their colours,
divide 'the House of Commons again and again
upon the several 'details of the Bill ; every at-
tempt,at delay or improvement were unsuccessful,
with the solitary exception of the destruction of
'the Salt monopoly, upon which Ministers were
defeated on Thursday by a majority of 11'9 to no.
The 'Succession Duty which has just been
allowed to pass the 'House of Lords, is another of
'the Ministerial measures from which is expected
abundance of injustice, 'oppression, and litigation,
while, in common with almost all Mr. CLAD-
.sTaNt's financial -schemes, ib is likely to prove a
failure as a source of revenue. Indeed, the Bill
has been passed with-the confident prediction that
in a very short time its repeal will -be loudly
demanded. -But true to the Whig creed that "man
neveris, but always to'be blessed;" the majority of
the promises with which the Coalition-set out as a
political stock in trade have yet-to be realised ; and
should they remain in office another session—which
Heaven forbid—we may expect a repetition of
similar fruitless discussions, with this difference,
that ,whereas the past have been of -no good the
future may be pregnant with the most -serous con-
sequences to the pewee of the country. The
Radicals, who, next to the Conservatives, form
the largest party in the House of• Commons, are
by no-means satisfied With their position, and feel
themselves neglected in the distribution of patronage.
They are, therefore, to -be propitiated 'by a new
Reform Bill, which-is to,atrengthen their hands by
extending the franchise' in-the borough constituen-
cies, and throwing open • the counties to the same
baleful influence. The country is again° to be dis-
turbed from its propriety-.by exciting hopes which
can • never be realised without endangering the
safety of-the state, and we:ciay once more have to
witness -a struggle for political power, in which
another approach may be made ,to the sacrifice of
the British Constitution upon the altar of demo-
cracy. Men have been elenated into power who
are destitute of principle; the Peelites have 'been
the real traitors, for without their aid the attempt
-would -have' teen hopeless; and now, having adopted
itthe dangerous doctrine which,is characterised 'by
'ethe name of " progress," 'they can only pre-
-serve their•peCtion by further concessions, which
•ivin, render future attempts to stem-the torrent more
difficult. 'For ,the present our only resource is in
careful attentionito the Registrationceourts, where
the battle of -the Constitution is -to be fought.
Those who now Epossess the franchise•should value
it as a privilege mot to be lightly thrown away.
Every man who is ,entitled to it should-see that his
name tis properly oregistered, and -their influence
should the brought-to bear upon the Representatives
to resist.any attempt which may be made-tc swamp
the present .electors ,Ey throwing open -the fran-
chise to a lower class,of the community.