The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

and doing. !'ow is the time to put down this Popish
—O'Connell tyranny, and Whig treachery together.
Let us not be humbugged with the delusive cry of
free trade. We can meet that cry too on its own
ground; but in this case it is only used to draw away
our attention from what is really dangerous and alarm-
ing. Liberalism and Popery have joined their hands
against the Protestant Established Church and admi-
rable constitution of this realm ; and the question
simply is, shall we surrender both into their hands, or
will we not defend them resolutely, and drive back into
kindred shade the unholy league that has assailed
them ? We anticipate the answer which this question
will receive.

The present aspect of affairs has thrown the W higs
of this town into an awful state of ferment. The disso-
lution, which they longed for, is about to come to
them, and now they find themselves wholly unpre-
pared to meet it. They want candidates—want steam
—and above all, want coal to get the steam up. The
doctors disagree upon the case. One advises Sir Joshua
\Valmsley and Mr. Labouchere to be called in ; ano-
ther, Mr. Baring Wall and Lord Palmerston—the latter
of whom, by the by, is about to be called to a seat in
another assembly ; and, in short, distracted and di-
vided in their councils, they have the dolce concento
in nothing but that their affairs look blue as possible.
For this emergency we suppose it was that the Coun-
cil of the Manchester Anti Corn-la'w League vouch-
safed to come over and help them. Knowing well the
overwhelming strength of Conservatism in this bo-
rough, the poor loco-focoos could not muster up face
enough to look at the electors and talk about " Sir
Joshua Wahnsley and free trade "—" sugar and spice,
and all that 's nice "—so they left the job to he done—
or rather begun—by strangers, by a deputation from
the millocrats of a neighbouring town. These "millo-
crats ", it seems, have quite impudence enough for
themselves, and their neighbours too—end in the cool-
est way possible, they actually sent round to all the
electors of the borough, an invitation to meet them in
the Amphitheatre, and receive their " thunder and
lightning " upon slave sugar, agricultural expatria-
tion, colonial taxation, &c.—together with " parti-
cular advice and directions " how to conduct them-
selves at the approaching election ! Well ! we defy
millocratical, or any other sort of assurance, to go be-
yond this. But it received a very proper answer—in
the first instance by the following resolution agreed to
at a meeting of gentlemen, who lost no time in assem-
bling to consider the matter. It was in these words :

" Resolved unanimously,—That this meeting will not
sanction or countenance the dictation of men totally uncon
nected with this town ; nor will they consent to be made the
tools of a party which is traversing the country for the pur-
pose of propping up a weak and tottering administration, at
this peculiar crisis, and for obvious purposes, to excite,
mislead, and deceive, the electors of this borough, as they
have lately attempted to do those of other places.
" James Aspinall, Chairman,
" Alex. Smith, Chairman of the

Tradesmen's ConserTativo Association
" Daniel Ledson, Chairman of the
Operative Conservative Association
" Conservative Association Office,
" May 22, 1841."

We thank these gentlemen for their promptness on this
occasion, and the perfect fidelity with which they have
expressed the sentiments of at least two-thirds of the

electors

The free-trade crimps must stick theirloaf on a pole,
and beat up for recruits in some other quarter : here
it will never do.

By the way, some of the liberal journals talk as if
the Conservative party had not reason to rejoice at the
prospect of a dissolution of parliament—as if they had
some fear of it—as if they did not wish for it ; but
they are most egregiously mistaken. We say that it
is downright scandalous for the dirty Whigs not to re-
sign ; we say they ought to resign now—that they
ought to have done so long ago; but since they basely
and meanly " adhere " still, why we shall thank them
a thousand times over for dissolving. Their resigna-
tion would be more acceptable; but dissolution is good,
and will answer all our purposes.
There is no affection in the people for these cring-
ing Whigs ; why should there be ? They deserve
nothing but contempt. The proffered bribe of bread
and sugar will not shame the people into liking them.
They know it is a cheat. Wherefore we are not afraid
to appeal to them, even upon the issues which the In-
capables themselves have selected. The people justly
dislike monopolists; but there never were such mono-
polists of place and its perquisites as these Whig mi-
nisters ; and we are confident, therefore, that the people
will send them to the right-about. The rogues in
grain must be dismissed, and when the parliament
comes to its dissolution, we predict that their dissolu-
tion will very soon follow. As to Liverpool, its Con-
servative representation is perfectly secure.
_ _ _

With regard to the "great demonstration" Of last
night, we must, for the present, suffer our reporter t o
speak on that subject. All we have to say of our own
knowledge is, that we were very glad to depute to
others the perilous task of effecting an entrance on the
opening of the doors. This, it will be said, bespeaks a
full house—a well-packed meeting ; and we dispute not
the inference. The crowd was certainly "prodigious";
we grant that ; but of what sort of persons was it com-
posed ? How many in the assembly were electors, and
of those who were electors, how many will give any real
support to the schemes of the millocrats, or join any
further in their self-seeking, self-interested, and selfish
agitations ? That remains to be seen hereafter. As to
the mere heterogeneous gathering collected last night,
it does not afford the smallest proof that Manchester
dictation is popular in Liverpool, or that the tottering
regime of whiggery will be supported here ; not the
least. We are only astonished that the excitement of
the moment did not draw a much greater number of
the unwashed, and the curious.
Sir Joshua Walmsley, our would-be representative;
[how sadly Liverpool must be at a loss when she
chooses the chairman-knight .P] was quite astonished
that the conservatives, instead of issuing the resolution
which we have inserted above, did not attend at the
meeting and discuss the corn-laws, &c., there along
with the learned Manchesterian missionaries. What a
pretty place for a discussion ! Attend there, indeed, to
re-debate the eight nights' discussion in the Commons,
and further, to anticipate another eight nights' discus-
sion on the corn duties ! What a humbug. No; the
conservatives will take their own course, and meet, and
discuss, when it suits them, without any dictation ; but
we must defer any further remarks to our next.

Mr. John Gladstone has published another letter, in
which that eminent merchant completely prostrates the
fallacies propounded by the ministerialists on the sub-
ject of slave-grown sugar. Most earnestly do we direct
attention to Mr. Gladstone's remarks; they abound
with practical knowledge, and are supported by incon-
trovertible reasoning. The letter will be found in
another column.

LONDON MONEY MARKET,

EVENING.—The Stock Market remains
almost precisely as before in spite of the glorious victory of
the people over the " monopolists," which should have sent
Consols up by some half-dozen per-centages at least. They
closed however very quiescently at 89-i to 90 both for money
and time. Bank Stock 168. India Stock 250 to 2. Ex-
chequer Bills Bs. to 10s. premium.
In Foreign Securities the same quietness may be observed.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 521 to the Five
per Cents 991 to 100. Belgian 100 to 1. Spanish Active
with the Coupons 234 to 1. Portuguese Five per Cents 33i
to 4, the Three per Cents 20 to A. Brazilian 67i to 84.
Mexican 284- to I. Colombian 224. to -4.

SATURDAY