The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

VALUE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PRESS.

Conservatives have done nothing to counterwork the dis-
seminators of falsehood, and whatever improvement in the
public mind has taken place is due solely to the labours of
the unpaid (we exult to say unpaid) Conservative press—that
press which it is the fashion with too many Conservatives to
despise and insult. But we have our reward from those fur
whom we labour—from the people we have our reward, not
only in the adoption of our principles, but in the use of our
arguments.

I," said a Westminster elector, the other day, to a
friend whom he was canvassing for Captain Haus, " I was as
much against the corn-law as anybody could be until I saw
something in a paper which set me thinking. It was this : the
paper asks—to follow the track of a sovereign paid for foreign
corn, and try, if I could, to bring it back to Westminster,
and then to follow the track of another sovereign, paid for
home corn, and see where it would come to. Well, I did so.
I found that some of the sovereigns sent for foreign corn
came back, sure enough, to Manchester, but that they went
back again for more corn, with many more, but less always
came back than went out, while a farthing never found its
way to this city, or into the hands of any tradesmen. Then
I hunted the other sovereign through fifty hands, all, of
course, having a turn out of it, by the way—while I fairly
earthed him up at last in my own till to help me in paying
rent, rates, and taxes." We give our own old argument—
we are sure greatly improved by the version of the West-
minster elector—and we give it because we think in that
version it is irresistable. Trick the sovereign, we say ; this
is a lesson in political economy obvious to every one's under-
standing, and worth all that ever has been put into book.
Track the sovereign, and you will find that any trade which
involves the purchase of provisions abroad must be an un-
profitable trade to the mass of the nation, a losing trade in
its progress, and a ruinous trade in the end.
It is not, however, for the purpose of asserting the claims
of the press, or in order to reproach the Conservative aris-
tocracy, that we allude to these things. Our purpose is to
answer the threats of the ministerial writers, who say, that
although no doubt Sir Robert Peel will have a majority in the
next I-louse of Commons, he will not be able to carry on the
government against a minority supported by the country.
Now, we assert, that the country is with the Conservatives.
and day by day, as the truth shall become known, will more
ardently array itself with the Conservatives. It has been
charged against what is called the Tory party, that they hold
in contempt the understandings of the people ; and
as regards a few individuals, the charge may not be
altogether groundless; but as concerns the Conservative
press, that press proves its respect for the understanding
of the people by always addressing temperate argument in-
stead of unmeaning cant and boisterous ribaldry to the pub-
lic car; and whatever conservatives of higher pretensions
may do (those of the highest do not despise the people, as
Sir Robert Peel's speeches tell), the conservative press will
proceed in the course that it has hitherto pursued ; and why
not with the same happy effect? We have seen what has
been done already, but a battle is not won by a single blow.
It is enough that every blow tells, and the election will
show that the blows hitherto delivered have not been
delivered in vain. It is proof that even among the
humblest classes of this country the vapour of ignorance is
dissipating fast—that wherever the ministerial candidates
want ruffians, as they have employed them in too many
places, they are compelled to resort to the services of im-
ported savages, as at Rochdale.—Standard.

Mr. Joseph Middleton, the teacher and lecturer, we per-
ceive, intends to confine the sphere of his useful and valuable
exertions entirely to Liverpool. Ills arrangements appear
to us unexceptionable, and, to quote himself, to " be made
with a view to render the establishment effective and re-
a ,ectable."

THEATRE-ROYAL.—Miss Vandenhoff takes her benefit
to-night, when Knowles' " Love " will be performed,
ST. BARNADAS' CHURCH.—This place of worship will be
opened, as will be seen from an advertisement, on Sunday
week,when two sermons will be preached by the Rev. Thos.
Nolan, the minister of the church. To many of oar readers
the name of this gentleman is familiar, and we anticipate the
best results to the district in which Mr. Nolan is placed,
from his ministerial faithfulness and assiduity. The memory
of his name will be long and affectionately remembered by
the inhabitants of Stockport. and we are greatly mistaken if
the protestants of Liverpool do not find him their constant and
zealous advocate, his congregation their faithful and conside-
rate teacher, and the poor their sympathising and liberal
friend.

On Sunday last, the Rev. Charles Henry Burton, 8.A.,
took leave of his friends at Staly-bridge, from which curacy
he is removing to that of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Liver-
pool. After the sermon he was requested to visit the school,
where the teachers and scholars waited to present their be-
loved pastor with a testimony of their regard and esteem.
—Manchester Chronicle.

THE VERY LATEST.—" Don't you wish you may get it?"
as Chubb's lock said to the shop-boy when he wanted to
open the cash-box.

ECCE ITERUM—LORD FITZWILLIAM AND THE CORN
LAWS.—It is a pity that Lord Fitzwilliam will not give him-
self a little repose on the corn laws, during the brief time
that parliament is not sitting ; but that, it seems, is impos-
sible. He is as full of them as Claude Halcro of the im-
mortal John Dryden, and when he can no longer bore the
peers with his wisdom, fastens himself on the button of some
unfortunate editor of a country journal, to give the "natives"
the benefit of his leisure. His lordship has been addressing
a letter to a Yorkshire paper, by way of explanation of the
hundred and one lectures he read the House of Lords during
the last session, about the effect of the ministerial proposi-
tion on prices and rents. It is not a particularly stirring
composition, but we give the gist of it, because it may serve
to show the farmers of the west riding of Yorkshire what
they have to expect from sending Lord Milton—if lie is heir
to his sire's opinions as well as his estates—to parliament.
Lord Fitzwilliam says that the average price of wheat for the
last 18 years has been 585., and that a fixed duty of Bs. would
reduce it to 535., but that, nevertheless, " land would yield,
in the first instance, nearly as high a rent, and ultimately
perhaps a higher, under the ministerial system, than it has
under the present corn laws !" Farmers must be extremely
delighted with this liberal view of the question; not but that
if Lord Fitzwilliam really imagines that if the price of wheat
could be reduced ss. a quarter, he should be able to get a
higher price for his land, his conduct is perfectly consistent ;
but farmers are not likely to relish such an odd process for
increasing their landlords rent-rolls. His lordship may have
made it out satisfactorily to himself that the less a farmer
has to receive the more he will be able to pay ; but he will
find it very hard to persuade any farmer with his own free
will, to submit to the experiment.
DEATH OF MADAME CATALANI.—Letters received in
town from Milan announce the death of this great mistress
of song. She expired at her casino, on the banks of Lake
Como, on Sunday, the 20th ult., in the 61st year of her age.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday, the 26th
ult., Lord Worsley and party arrived at Caistor. His lord-
ship immediately addressed the freeholders and electors in
the Market-place, and was followed by Philip Skipworth,
Esq. , of Laceby, who, while in the act of speaking, suddenly
complained of dizziness in the head, and in five minutes was
a corpse. This awfully sudden event completely put a stop
to electioneering business, and
the crowd dispersed immedi-
ately. ' His lordship left for Kelsey about four o'clock, and
was greatly affected by the death of his friend Mr. Skip-
worth.—Hull Packet.
Lieut. Winniett, of the 83d, was drowned in the Thames,
Upper Canada, on the 14th of April. It is supposed that he
was attempting to ford the river.

SIDMOUTII.--EXTR.AORDINARY AND INTERESTING PHE-
NOMENON.—This delightful and fashionable watering-place
was visited by a curious convulsion of nature on Friday,
the 11th ultimo, about seven in the evening, resembling
much the far-famed landslip of t!ixmouth. It first commenced
about half-past six by a rumbling noise, resembling a dis-
tant peal of thunder, and at seven o'clock part of the Peak
Hill was observed to glide majestically towards the ocean,
carrying everything before it, anti forming a rock or pillar
out of the sea (70 feet high and 175 in circumference,) oppo-
site to the town, and a quarter of a mile from the shore.
Our Sidmonth correspondent finds that it is covered with
fossils, and is of a hard iron-like substance. So singular an
occurrence has attracted the attention of every one in the
town, and hundreds are flocking from the immediate neigh-
bourhood to gain a sight of its results.—Dorset Chronicle.
CURIOUS OCCURRENCE:—During the time of sermon on
Sunday last, a servant maid, who had gone out without her
check key, and not wishing to let her master know that she
had left the house at all, made application at the Police-office
to get a sweep or some individual to go down the chimney,
and open the door inside. A little sweep was readily pro-
cured, and he soon got to the chimney ; but in descending he
took the wrong one ;
and the astonishment of a lady who was
poorly, and the doctor who was in attendance, may be easier
imagined than described, when little sooty tumbled out of the
fire-place on to the bed-room carpet—a very unexpected
visitor indeed.—Glasgow Courier.

FALL OF A HOUSE IN DEANSGATE.—Great alarm and
excitement was caused on Monday afternoon in the neigh-
bourhood of Deansgate and King-street, by the fall of a
house which a number of labourers were engaged in taking
down, at the corner of the Star Yard in Deansgate. The
building fell about half-past two o'clock, and fortunately
there was no vehicle passing at the time .b y
the Deansgate
front. Eleven men were in the building at the time, of
whom eight were conveyed to the Infirmary, several of them
very severely injured ; and one, who was more slightly hurt,
had his wounds dressed at a neighbouring druggist's. It
was at first reported that some children were beneath the
ruins; but the men, after clearing away the rubbish outside
the line of the hord or fence, appear to have no reason to
apprehend that any child had been caught by the falling
bricks.—Manchester Courier.