The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAII3

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. WOOD,
And positicoly their last appearance this season.

LAST NIGHT OF MR. BROUGH.
/11 H S present FRIDAY EVENING, the' ,tith instant, will
1. be produced, for the first time here, Barnet's Opera of

THE MOUNTAIN
The Machinery by Mr. illinore.—The Musical Arrangements
under the direction of Mr. Aldridge.
Dunald....( the Ibetrothed lover of Jessie).... Mr. Wood.
Hela..(the Wizard of the Glen)..Mr. Brough.
Christie (Donald's Mr. G. Hurncastle.
Eolitt..(the Mountain Sylp ..Mrs. Wood.
Jessie .Mrs. W. 11. Bland, (late Miss Somerville,)
(As originally performed by her in London.)
After which, the Operetta of
THE WATERMAN.

Tom Tug—Mr. Wood, in which character he will sing " Did
you not hear of a Jolly Young Waterman," " Farewell, my
trim-built Wherry," and "The Bay of Biscay, oh!"
Wilhelmina Mrs. Wood,
Who will introduce the Ballad of "Black-eyed Susan."
At the end of the Farce (by particular desire) the National
Anthem of " Gon SAVLI itik KING,"
AND MRS. WOOD WILL SING THE SOLO,

As sung by her at the LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
To-sioenow, (Saturday,) the Tragedy of THE CASTLE
SPECTRE. After which. the Petit Comedy of THE DAY
AFTER.THE WEDDING. To conclude with the Dram*
of TILE YOUTHFUL QUEEN.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28; 1836.

Tlie unmanly—the unchristian indignity recently of-
fered
to our protestant King and his amiable consort by
a few self-degraded beings in a certain provincial city,
hitherto proverbial for its propt iety and its loyalty, and
whom we can hardly honour with the name of men, and
far less gentlemen, has met its severe rebuke in the
splendid meeting at Droitwich on Friday last.
The rank and the respectability of East Worcester-
shire, under the presidency of Mr. Packington, have
visited with a signal retribution the meanly contemptible
insult which could in a public assembly receive the
toasted health of our revered monarch insilence! Proh
pudor! Where is the honour—the blood—the pride—
the English' feeling that will not rise up with becoming
indignatiOn, and brand with the finger of scorn the petty
malignity or the insatiable malevolence that could so
madly undervalue our national character? Are these
men—madmen we would rather ray—dead to the rules
of ethical decorum, or entirely lost to the influence of
shame or the dictates of common decency ? Must we,
in imitation of Diogenes, in the broad face of day, in
cultivated Britain, and in the nineteenth century of the
christian era, illuminate their faces before their fellow-
men, and seek for their honesty amidst the rabble rout of
their Bacchanalian revel ? Are they so ignorant as not
to know that a King of England, by the very pecu-
liarity of his station, is not the fair mark for their pitiful
revenge, or their still more despicable contumely ? Are
they, drunk as they are, in their radical coxcombry, vain
enough to think that they can reduce this fair—this
beautiful—this, generally speaking, intellectual country
to the barbarism of degenerate Greece in the day of her
frenzied democracy, that they may glut their depraved
appetites, and gloat upon their feast of hoped-for spolia-
tion in the issue ? Yes, it really does appear that these
bloated enthusiasts for liberality of opinion—these boast-
ing sticklers for liberty of conscience—these improved,
reformed, regenerate councillors—patrons of freedom
and paragons of justice—of " equal justice," of " cheap
law," and " good government," branded their own jaco-
binical foreheads with the indelible stigma of cowardly
treasonable disloyalty, aye, cowardly treasonable dis-
loyalty !
We are.prepared to put a justification on the record
before the supreme court of the British nation for the
terms here used, and their correct application too. It
matters not to us whether we convict them of moral or
actual treason; the one is the act of cowardice, the other
of open or even noble daring, which, right or wrong,
jtstifies the deed at the peril of consequences; the other
constitutes the deed in intention, but meanly shrinks
from the responsibility. And this is the case of the
worthies before us, ot"whose conduct a bold and just
cognizance has been taken.

That any party or society of men in this kingdom,
proverbial for its loyalty of feeling throughout all the
nations of the earth, deeming themselves respectable,
and calling themselves .Englishmen, zould have been
found at this advanced period of our history—this age of
liberality and of improved understanding—guilty of such
ignorance of the common usages of our great society,
such indecorum of sentiment at a public dinner, is suf-
ficient to attach to each and every individual present who
could so compromise himself and his own character a
mark of indelible disgrace that will stick by him for the
remainder of his natural existence ; and as these amiable
associates of reason have placed themselves in the pillory
of public contempt, they may not feel surprise that we
feel it a part of our duty, as loyal subjects devotedly at-
tached to the person and office of our gracious sovereign,
to give them the full benefit of their own freely-sought
debasement before the general body of their countrymen.
If notoriety for their right valiant deed be the object
they sought, notoriety sufficient shall they have, and far
and wide wherever our columns circulate.

It was, and we repeat it without reserve or qualifica-
tion, an azt of moral treason against the office as well
as the person of the chief magistrate, who, by virtue of
that office should stand exempt from party feeling and
secure from the littleness of those shrug-of-the-shoulder
gentlemen, and their paltry detraction, Why had not
some one among them the moral courage, the manhood
to speak out, and in fair open argument openly state his
objections, if any, to the public course of the sovereign ;
for with his Majesty's private feelings as a man and an
English gentleman, no one can have a right to inter-
fere. and ►ouch less to attribute to him unworthy motives,
in the execution of an onerous state duty, under the
special advice of his responsible advisers ? The consti-
tutional maxim that `• the King can do no wrong," is
evidently lost upon those men of Baal, and they have
started a new principle, founded upon the theory of pre-
sumed personal responsibility, and thus ignorantly per-
verted that, which is one of the best safeguards of con-
stituted freedom under a mixed monarchy and free in-
stitutions. Pour souls, these newly- created legislators;
they have yet to go to schOol to learn the first principles
of that government under which they have the vanity—
the presumption—like our own sapient town councillors
to legislate for their fellow-citizens. It were folly in-
deed, to suffer tamely the humiliations to which persons
so palpably ignorant of the essential usages of our
hitherto well-regulated society would subject us.
The act of flagrant disloyalty towards him, who, how-
ever illustrious in station is but legally under his high
estate the chief trustee of our constitutional compact,
and always held irresponsible for his public acts, is but
the prelude to that indignity or possibly that personal
outrage which would be offered him but for the protec-
tion of the laws But we maintain that even personally
William the Fourth, is the last to be marked out for -a
public act of reprobation ; and Nat too by a set of his
disorderly pro-popish or pro-radical, or rather pro-re-
publican subjects. A more patriotic monarch never sat
upon the throne of these realms ; and did we not know
this to be an incontrovertible truth, no inducement of
favour or of patronage would allow us to compromise
our own bonott —our personal credit with those amongst
whom we have hitherto lived and moved, and been held
in esteem by declaring it. Is it because his Majesty has
shown a conscientious respect for his oath, as the oath of
a Protestant King, bound to uphold the integrity of the
reformed church in Englard—the tenure by which he
holds his crown, under what we declare to have been a
dignified manifestation of personal feeling against the
gross insult which has been offered it by a hireling men-
dicant agitator, and his yet more debased vassals, that
these tribunitial irestigatnrs of treasonable democracy—
of infidel depravity or papal bigotry, have singled out him,
as the mark of their toadlike denunciation ?

The noblemen and gentlemen of East Worcestershire,
amongst whom we have some staunch friends, have formed
a proper estimate of this pitiful affair, and it is but justly
complimentary to them that we should, in the columns of
the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, re-echo their noble senti-
ments—promulgate the moral castigation they have in-
flicted on the parties who have thus lowered themselves
in the scale of human credit. Cowards at heart, but
tyrants in principle, such creatures shrink front the re:

sponsibility of law, and avoid the penalties of preniun ire
by a dastardly subterfuge ; but they are as morally re-
sponsible to Gad and to their country as though they had, '
in the eye of the law, performed an act of veriest treason
against the majesty of the throne, always held sacred. We
will not enlarge much upon this disgusting subject ; nor
pollute our ink further with the self-degradation in which
these heroes of liberal rule—these twigs of easy virtue
have placed themselves, as the living reco►ds of their own
shame, before a loyal and offended nation. Their jaco-
binical attempt to lessen the popularity of him, who has
been the theme of our rejoicing, as identified with our
holy cause, is like the " whisper of another faction," now
pressing as an incubus on the vitals of the state, but
which we are preparing to throw off by every honourable
and ',very moral means within our power, and the thun-
dering echo of " Church and King," sent forth by twice
eight thousand voices from our constititutional borongh
will silence the croaking of these worthless frogs, who are
only fit to be devoured by the stork, or swallowed by the
kites and ravens of their own creation. To Mr. Pa-
kington and his independent band of conservative allies
in Worcestershire, every commendation is due for their
having so boldly separated themselves from the branny
offal of social disorganization—the democratical misrule
attempted to be set up so near them; and that .its advo-
cat4s, as long as they possess a local habitation or a name,
may be avoided as common pests, by the worthy and the
good; and the contamination of their disloyalty exposed
to their owtt families, neighbours, and friends. We re-
gret the impossibility of dilating upon the excellent
speeches delivered by Lord Redesdale, by Mr. Paclaivg-
ton, Major Bond, and other gentlemen belonging to the
county; but the grand march of conservatism has rushed
forward so strongly upon us, that we can now only assure
them of our warm and cordial reciprocity of interest, and
bid them God's speed !

The triumphant exposition of popery which has taken
place at Hereford, before an orthodox and learned body,
and before an assembly of educated and intelligent
minds, competent to form a correct estimate of its ini-
quity, is conclusive. All the refined sophistry—all the
deep-toned jesuitry—all the crafty subterfuge .of Dr.
Dens Murray, improved upon as they have been by the
finishing counsel of the holy Father himself, in his pa-
ternal love for his Irish subjects, have crumbled into
dust 1 Let the speeches delivered at Hereford be placed
in juxta-position with Dr. Murray's recently published
pastoral letter, and let every man capable of exercising
the powers of ratiocination—of thought—of reflection,
and divested as much as possible of religious prejudice,
on the score of religious feeling, form his own judgment
of the religion of Dr. Murray, supported by his admitted
protege, Peter Dens, compared with the religion of the
reformed Protestant Church of England, built upon the
unmutilated gospels of our blessed Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, and we dread not the result. Popery has
its fair as well as its dark side, a fact which is known to
every man who has properly become acquainted with its
system of refined mystification. A more richly illustra-
tive specimen of lie truth and justice of this assertion
could not well be adduced, than that furnished by Dr.
Murray, in his pastoral letter; it is altogether one of
the most plausible and artfully written compositions we
have have read, well calculated to disarm the prejudices
of superficial thinkers or readers, and like Challmer's
" Garden of the Lord," to make Romanism appear mild,
meek, tolerant, and fair to the eye—in fact the persecuted
instead of the persecuting church; but the veil is too
flimsy, and ere long we purpose tearing it to pieces.
With regard to Protestantism, and its happy progress
amongst ourselves, our columns bear sufficient witness,
that the assaults of its enemies have but redoubled the
exertions—aroused the honest zeal of its friends; and it
were easy for us to dilate upon the last week's scene,
and fill the whole of our space with a commentary upon
the two events which have drawn the attention of the
whole kingdom to our patriotic town, and which will
henceforth, and without any reservation, stand forward as
CONSTITUTIONAL LIVERPOOL; but we must claim the
indulgence of our readers, and wait for time and space,
to do further justice to the late splendid gatherings;
whilst we will not entirely neglect the interesting mat-
ters pressed on our attention, by our distant friends, for
whose warm interest and accumulating correspondence
we feel particularly grateful.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.--On Tuesday next the
different wards will be called upon to fill up the vacancies
occasioned by the retirement of sixteen of the town-
councillors and the death of another. We need not
urge upon our readers the notorious fact that the tyrant
majority, which has introduced such fearful changes into
our system of municipal government, is no cred►t to the
town. Every one, possessed of a grain of common sense,
considers our town council, as at present constituted, to
be a stigma upon the name of Liverpool—a nuisance of
a more disgusting nature, and of a more formidable cha-
racter, than any about which they have been recently
legislating at the council-board. We repeat, it is
is a nuisance which must positively be abated. The
people of Liverpool must not rest satisfied until they
have completely purged the Town-hall of all the radical
leaven which is now deposited there. This, however,
will be no very easy task. These radical locusts will
cling with the utmost tenacity of grasp to the sweets of
office. They will never yield until compelled to do so
by an irresistible popular movement. But they must
give way before the spirit which they have themselves
aroused in Liverpool by their unreasonable proceedings.
Out they must go—we must give them no quarter—we
must allow them no further opportunities for working
mischief—they must no longer be permitted to outrage
the feelings of this protestant community.
Protestants of Liverpool ! be careful in withholding
your votes from men who are prepared to convert your
scriptural schools into nurseries of popery. Whether
episcopalians or dissenters, if you value the word of God
as the securest basis on which a system of education for
the poor can be built, we fervently urge you to require a
pledge from the candidate that claims your suffrages, that
lie will strenuously exert himself to accomplish the re-in-
troduction of the Bible into the corporation schools. Be
contented with nothing short of this. Our radical con-
temporaries complain that we are not sufficiently explicit
in specifying what alterations we wish is) be made in the
policy of the town-council. Let us be understood, then,
when we say that the corporation schools must be rescued
from their present management. They must not be given
up to the control of the popish priests. The great charter
of our salvation must be opened before the pupils, with-
out reserve—without mutilatii n. The poor infants who
are provided, by the munificent bounty of this opulent
town, with gratuitous instruction in these schools, must
be permitted to raise their voices in the accents of prayer
and praise to their Maker at the commencement and the
close of their daily avocations. Habits of early piety must
be inculcated, and correct views of the sublime verities
of the christian religion must be imparted. Public mo-
rality—reverence for truth—and an absorbing anxiety
for the welfare of immortal souls, imperatively demand
that the schools should be once more placed under the
unfettered control of orthodox ministers of the gospel.
We call upon our townsmen to unite for the cosournme.-
tion of this object—so praiseworthy in itself—so honour-
able to the christian feeling of the people of Liverpool—
and so materially affecting the eternal destinies of thou-
sands of our population. Three years will suffice for in-
fusing patriotism enough into the council to overrule
the nefarious projects of its destructive majority. Let
the conservatives of Liverpool bear this in mind—three
years from the date of the last election will enable them
to obtain a practicable majority in the town council. We
may, in the natural course of things, anticipate eighteen
or twenty vaeancies annually, and at the expiration of
the third year eight of the aldermen will have to resign
those honours to which they have so few pretensions.
Thus a number of vacancies equal to the whole batch of
radicals who were promoted last December will occur in
the course of three years ; and will not our conservative
friends endeavour to profit by this circumstance ? Will
not the reaction, now so undeniably in progress, cause a
decided preponderance of conservative candidates to be
elected each successive year—suffiriett, in the aggre-

gatt, to outnumber their opponents ? Tuesday next will
furnish an answer to this question. We hear the most
favourable accounts from all the wards ; but lot not our
friends be over confident of success—let them not rest
upon their oars—let them continue with unabated zeal
and energy. in the prosecution of their plans.
We have hitherto abstained from publishing any list
of the candidates for the respective wards; but now that
the lists have been filled up on both sides, we are the
better prepared to enter upon their examination. We
candidly acknowledge that it would have been far more
consonant to our feelings to have abstained from any
animadversion upon the pretensions of some of the radi-
cal candidates. There are among them many respectable
individuals—several churchmen—and a few of whom we
had fondly hoped better things. But while they consent
to have their names linked with papists and unitarians—
while they consent to act in concert with avowed repub-
licans in politics and sceptics in religion—while they
condescend to pledge themselves to a line of policy which
we are compelled to condemn as destructive to all the
venerated institutions of our native land, as well as ma-
nifestly injurious to our local interests—while they time
degrade themselves, they must not expect any exemption
from our criticism. Oar opposition to the present town
council and their proceedings is one of principle. Per.
sonally we respect many of their number who are opposed
to us in politics; but there are many of them who have
rendered themselves extremely disagreeable by their ha-
bitual petulance; whilst there are others whom we value
just as highly as we would Daniel O'Connell.
The following are the candidates, whom we shall de-
scribe currente calamo ale we go through the different
wards in rotation :-
1. Everton and Kirkdale Ward. Mr. Chas. Hot sfall
goes out, and declines standing again. The present can-
didates are Mr. James Heywortt, on the conservative
interest, and Mr. George Quayle, on the radical. The
former we know to be a gentleman of great abilities—
possessed of every qualification for the office—and a
sound protestant. But who is Mr. George'Quayle ? If
we may be excused a pun, we sincerely hope he will
quail before his antagonist.
2. Scotland Ward. Mr. Richard Shiel retires, and
stands again on the radical side. Opposed to him we
have Mr. Richard Houghton, a gentleman sprung from
one of the oldest and most respectable families in Liver-
pool—a kind landlord—a most benevolent neighbour, to
whom the poor in the district are under numberless obli-
gations—a resident in the ward on his own property,
which is very considerable—and also a true churchman.
And who is Mr. Shiel ?—an Irish importation of conceit,
arrogance, and mock patriotism. Eleotors of Scotland
ward ! do, by all means, choose your estimable neigh-
bour, and place *r. Mahogany Shiel upon the shelf.
3. Vauxhall Ward. Mr. J. D. Thornley retires; and
Mr. William Shand, a good pi otestant, is proposed by
the conservatives, and Mr. James Muspratt, the owner
of one of the greatest nuisances in town, stands on the
radical side. We greatly admire this gentleman's
modesty in aspiring for the office of a local legislator, in
which capacity he would be called upon to give his sanc-
tion to laws which are expressly framed for abating and
abolishing nuisances. We hope this pragmatical re-
former's blustering pretensions will end like his long
chimney—in smoke.
4. St. Paul's. Mr. John Barton stands again on the
conservative interest, and there is very little doubt of his
return. He has always voted consistently since his in-
troduction to the council-chamber, and merits a conti-
nued expression of confidence" from the electors of the
ward. He is opposed by Mr. Stitt, of the firm of Acre-
man and Stitt, of whom we know—nothing. He is, of
course, an untried man—Mr. Barton has been tried, and
has not been found wanting.
5. Exchange Ward. Mr. Thomas Sands is brought.
forward in this ward on the conservative interest. He
is well known in town as a respectable merchant, and a
leading member of that loyal body—the Wesleyan
methodists. We are sure that every true churchman
and every consistent dissenter in the ward will give him
a vote, if he happens to be an elector. His known libe-
rality of sentiment must necessarily render him popular.
His principles are strictly conservative, which those of
his opponent, Mr. James Mellor, are not. He has
uniformly voted on the radical side while in council—
that is his condemnation.
6. Castle•street Ward. Mr. Thomas Grindstone
Bolton stands again on the radical interest. We must
by all means get rid of this gentleman, who has rendered
himself so very conspicuous as the enemy of the esta-
blished church. So inveterate has been his spleen
against the church, that he has, Quixote-like, proclaimed
war against the organ-blowers, sextons, and music-
books. He cannot be better superseded than by Mr.
John Wilkinson, the vice-president of the tradesmen's
conservative association, who sustains one of the most
honourable characters which can grace an Englishman—
that of an honest, straightforward, loyal tradesman. The
electors of this ward can have no hesitation in making
their choice.

7. St. Peter's. Mr. Nathan Litherland, of the old and
respectable firm of Heyes and Litherland, stands on the
conservative interest. Those who know Mr. Litherland
appreciate the happy union in his person of the perfect
gentleman—the kind friend—the true patriot—and the
strict rectitude of the British merchant. He is opposed
by Mr. Bright, who stands again. Mr. Bright has voted
with the radical tail—his further services must therefore
be declined.

8. Pitt-street Ward. Mr. R. W. Preston, another of
the radical tail, claims a renewal of their suffrages from
the electors of this ward. We are happy to hear, how-
ever, that Mr. John Bibby is to displace him. Mt. Bibby
is too well known as a respectable merchant and a strenu-
ous supporter of the constitution to need any further
remark.

9. Great George's Ward. Our highly-esteemed
townsman Mr. Charles Lawrence stands for this ward,
with every prospect of success. He is opposed by Mr.
Henry Ripley.
10. Rodney-street Ward. Mr. John Nelson Wood,
one of the present auditors of the borough, and an un-
flinching conservative, is opposed by Mr. Thomas Holt,
the radical representative. The latter gentleman must
be laid aside—like a broken teapot.

11. Abercrotnby Ward. This ward will be contested
by Mr. Thomas Brocklebank, who has condemned him-
self by his votes in the council, and Mr. Thomas Kaye, of
the Liverpool Courier, an old and truly respectable
tradesman. We hear that his canvass has been very
successful. If elected, the choice will reflect honour upon
the ward.

12. Lime-street Ward. Mr. Ambrose Lace, a gentle-
man universally known, and respected by all parties,
stands on the conservative interest, and is opposed by a
Mr. Vincent Scroggius, Muggins, Higgins, or some such
outlandish name, of whom we have never heard before.
13. St. Ann's Ward. Mr. John Naylor Wright—than
whom no man in Liverpool is more entitled to a seat in
the town council—is here opposed by a Mr. Mason.
Who is he ? and what are his pretensions ?

14. West Derby Ward. Mr. John Smith, conserva-
tive, is here opposed by Mr. R. W. Wood, radical.

15. South Torteth Ward. There are two vacancies
here—one occasioned by the death of Mr. Sharpies. The
conservative candidates are Mr. Thomas Murray Glad-
stone, and Mr. Alexander Smith, son of Mr. Smith, of
Fulwood. The radical candidates are Mr. Francis Jor-
dan, and Mr. Jonathan Platt.

16. North Toxteth Ward. Mr. John Sheppard is sup-
ported by the conservatives. His address proves him to
be a man of correct political principles, and of cultivated
mind,. His opponent is Mr. George Ramsden.
Now, let us again urge the merchants, the'iradesmen,
the publicans—and, in short, every class of our towns-
men, to unite in one strong and vigorous effort for the
expulsion of the radical faction from the town council.
Up, and at them, like men 1..

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Wednesday,
before I'. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, touching the death of Wm.
Mills, a young man who, in crossing the Haymarket ou the 9th
instant, was knocked down by a horse and cart, and received
thereby a .evere injury on the head, from the effects of which
he died i❑ theslotirtuary, on the 17th instant. Verdict—" Ac-
cidental death."

OCT. 28

LIVERPOOL MICH_4EL,IIAS SESSIONS.

CROWN COURT-TUESGA Y
UTTERING RASE COIN.

John Thickerty, an old offender, pleaded guilty to an indict.'
ment charging hini with having feloniously put off to one Ann '
Howard a counterfeit shilling. It was stated that the prisonir
had been frequently in custody, and convicted on similar
charges. The court sentenced hint to seven yeaos' transpor-
tation.