The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS,

To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the
following is the necessary qualificat:on, namely :
" The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and
during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse,

counting-house, or shop, within the borough, for which

the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon,
except those becoming due within six months before the
31st, have been paid before that date."
The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe-
riod, (say two years and nine months,) have been an in-
habitant householder within seven miles of the borough.

The day on which claimants' qualifications must be
completed, and the last day for payment of rates, is the
31st of Augu.d. The sth of September is the day on
which the overseers are required to make out the burgess
lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to
fix a copy of them on the Town-hell, during the week
Preceding the 15th of September.
A person succeeding to the occupation of a house,
by descent, marriage, demise, (5-c., is entthed to reckon
as his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or
through whom he succeeds.

Elie Zibirpool A,tanbarb,

TUESDAY MORNING,

AUGUST 18, 1840

We regret to inform our readers that the poll at the
Dock-office, for five Dock Committee-men, closed
Yesterday as follows :

POTTER 159
CROSTHWAITE . 159 RIPLEY
CHALONER 158 CHAPMAN . ,
HENDERSON.
BOLD

At four o'clock the polling was adjourned, to be re-
Slimed at ten o'clock this day.

The adjournment will be fortunate, if the conserva,
tive:,a make good use of the additional opportunity
thus afforded them : for if, in consequence of this poll,
the council should succeed in parliament, the indepen-
dent expression of the principles and opinions of the
great mass of the conservatives in Liverpool will be
overborne for several years to come. That so many
Conservative gentlemen should suffer themselves to be '
deceived—should voluntarily become the catspaw of
the radical faction—is to us unaccountable. Mean-
while, a little vigorous action, well directed, will re-
verse the adverse majority; as not one-third of the
constituency is yet polled. We can assure our readers,
upon unquestionable authority, that the great majority
of the papers now in, and unrolled, are in favour of
the true conservative candidates. It is almost needless
to -add, that the present majority is composed exclu-
sively of radicals, who have been actively canvassing
for the gentlemen whose conservative reputation they
have oppressed by their advocacy. We trust that the
conservative ratepayers will not suffer themselves any
longer to be ensnared in the trap that has been so
cunningly laid for them by Alderman Evans and his
" tail," but that they will repudiate a connection which
cannot issue but in their own detriment and humilia-
tion.

The position of the warehouse question in Liver-
pool is well known to the majority of our readers.
The extraordinary feature in the present contest con-
sists in the fact of conservative being opposed to
conservative upon a question which in reality is
PURELY POLITICAL, The gentlemen who have been
put forward by Mr. Evans and his party (of whom
we would speak with all due respect) are made the
dupes of that system of expediency which is, un-
fortunately, too prevalent in the present day. They
believe that warehouses upon the dock quays would be of
great benefit, by the facilities they would give, to the trade
of this port. Who denies that advantage would be de-
rived from them ? Who opposes the building of ware-
houses ? None ! not even the warehouse owners
themselves, who have certainly some vested rights
Which ought to be protected. The opposition is not to
the warehouses being built upon the quays, but to the
management being placed in the hands of the Dock
Committee. Unfortunately, there have been found in
Liverpool five gentlemen professing couservative prin-
ciPles who either cannot, or will not see, that the
representation of the borough depends upon the con-
test which is now going forward. TITIty the anxiety
Which has been exhibited by the Reform party in Liver..
Pool to retain the management of the warehouses ?
141 Ply because of the patronaye attached to It ! This
Patronage. would place in the hands of the Dock Conl-
int tee a political lever which no public body, as local
legislators, should be permitted to possess. It is our

duty to open the eyes of the Conservatives of Liverpool
to their present position, and doubly our duty at a time
when they are liable to be led astray by well-meaning,
but short-sighted, members of their own party. The
tactics of Mr. Alderman Evans exhibit a skill worthy
of a better cause, and the nomination of Conservatives
favourable to his views of the warehouse question is, as
we said before, a Trap set for the unwary. There is yet
time for the Conservatives to redeem the ground
which they have lost. If there be still a Conservative
spirit in Liverpool, let it be this day exhibited by the
votes to be given at the Dock-office. Conservatives,
do your duty

THE LATE SESSION is receiving its measure of
review in every paper in the kingdOrn. The obituaries
are not altogether most flattering to the memory of
the deceased. Even the pen of the ministerialist has
been fain to use violence in pressing "good
.intentions"
into the service, as substitutes for good deeds; and,
whilst unable to conceal or deny grievous ministerial
failings and failures, has endeavoured to excite pity or
extort forgiveness by throwing all blame upon incon-
venient enemies.

The two latest speakers on the subject of sessional
doings in parliament, were Hume on occasion of the
appropriation bill, and her gracious Majesty in the
royal speech. Hurne was not over complimentary to
his friends, nor indeed collaterally to himself; inasmuch
as he evilly characterised the ministry whom he delight-
eth to honour with his support, and whom he would
stand forth to assist by the rather strong measure, to
an honourable man, of voting that " white is black."
These ministers, says Hume, according to his words
as reported, "have not during the session paid any at-
tention to the wants and necessities of the people." It
is not for us to fathom the inscrutable things of the
heart, especially those of Joseph Hume's ; but specu-
lation may amuse itself in running through a long list
of motives which shall induce apatriot to support such
a ministry as, even with friendly feelings, he pro-
nounces worthless.

But, notwithstanding Mr. Hume's comptehensive
summation of the demerits of the far niente ministry,
the session has undoubtedly had its merits ; and, such
as these merits were, they have been tersely recognised
by her Majesty. " I have to thank you for the CARE
and ATTENTION with which you have discharged
your important duties," are the gracious words ad-
dressed by the Queen to the "Lords and Gentlemen."
In the loyal mind, which reposes just confidence in the
discretion and judgment of a beloved Sovereign, there
cannot rest a doubt that the LORDS have, as a majo-
rity, given " care and attention" to their duties; and
also that the same meed of praise is due to that power-
ful section of the lower house to which the term GEN-
TLEMEN, in its legitimate and, we trust, royal sense,
is limited.

The fact is that the late session, though not dazzling
to the eye of the young or over-ardent politician, has
steadily brightened upon the conservative cause—a
cause which has more than favourably maintained its
position within doors; whilst without, in the nation at,
large, the proceedings of the session have confirmed
many waverers, converted many candid opponents, and
given encouragement to the already staunch. The
spirit of conservatism has breathed its good influence
upon the debates, and has won triumph in divisions;
nor has victory the less attended the conservative
ranks, because a defeated enemy has broken the con-
vention as his sole means of escape.

In both houses "care and attention" have been well
given when needed. Neither the strength of the right
cause has failed, nor have its effects been lax. The
Duke, that modern Tribune of the People, freely exer-
cises his right of VETO, as leader of the national party, and ,
his veto at once consigns to oblivion the most studied,
the most pernicious, and therefore darling projects of
an anti-national ministry. "But the Duke has differed
from his party ! he has sown seeds of disunion and
discord where he once acted as a spell to bind in har-
znony !" Such has been the language of hope amongst
enemies, of fear amongst .timid or feverish friends.
Were it so, had "disunion" symptomatic of decay ap-
peared amongst the patriotic members of that house
which history has emphatically designated through all
ages as the guardian of the people's rights, the prospect,
before us would indeed be evil. But assertions which
spring from superficial observation or hostile motive
are generally bold in proportion as they are destitute of
fOundation; the very boldness with which they are
made serving to aid their reception by a certain claSs
of minds.- Thus because upon two questions the Con-
servative peers were not unanimous, a gaping schism
is pronounced to have rent asunder the Conservative
party; Conservatism is declared moribund, nay its
elegy has been set and sung; and the possibility of time
which " brings all things round," even being able to
bring round a Conservative administration, is placed
in the same category as the possible discovery of an
elixir of life, or a Royal Duke's recognition of the.
claims of his offspring. _ _

The cleverest, perhaps, most honest, and certainly
the least illiberal of the liberal journals, namely, the
Spectator, in reviewing, on Saturday last, the tenden-
cies of the " late session," declares that it termi-
nated in leaving all three parties—whig, radical, and
conservative--weaker than it found them at its com-
mencement. The first part of the propositian is esta-
blished with that clearness of demonstration which is
the Spectator's forte, but which brief, though total, de-
monstration is, it seems, wasted upon a fact simply
obvious. In 1833 confidence was voted to the whig-
radical ministry by a majority of 268 voteS; in 1840
the confidence of the people, as marked by their repre-
sentatives, had shaken down to a satirical majority of
21. At the commencement of the " late session," a
majority of 21 then mustered confidence to repose theo-
retical confidence in the ministry. But rapidly this
chivalrous purpose dissolved, turd in a vote of practical
confidence, namely, as to the right purposes of minis-
ters in voting away the people's money, this shadowy
faith in ministers melted, and even their speculative
supporters hastened to rival the emphatic majority
against them of 104. But to return to the Spectator.
" No ministry ever suffered such a succession of de-
feats, great and small, without resigning or dissolving,"
says that paper of a ministry which it terms " disgraced,
defeated, and despicable." The pages of liberal jour-
nals were not wont so to speak of a liberal government,
under whatever especial attribute of liberalism it de-
lighted to be recognized. So much for the late ses-
sion, as regards the whig-radicals. With respect to
radicalism, simply as such, we have the authority of
the Spectator for stating that " in parliament it is non-
existent ;" an opinion to which we have pleasure in
giving in our adhesion.
-. But another party remains of which growing weak-
ness is assumed, not proved; and here at length we
"join conclusions" with our able opponent. It is a
pretty idea, and sliews a degree of impartiality in the
origination of it, that the three antagonist parties have
equally "gained a loss" during the last session. This
view may have suggested itself in consequence of a
certain pleasant feeling attending the contemplation of
matters in equilibria ; but the assumption of conserva-
tive weakness has not been favored by the support of
argument. The only pretext for the opinion is the as-
sumed " disunion" amongst leaders ; with reference to
which, the Spectator bluntly remarks—" There is very
great probability of an open break up ; the foreshadow-
ings of which have been thrown by the Lords on the
Canada bill, and by the squabbles of the Duke and the
Bishops on the church question."
Has any such symptom of destruction to the con-
servative cause exhibited itself ? We think not. The
Duke and the Bishops have not considered the same
measure advisable, but no squabble has arisen ; con-
servative lords differed on the provisions of the Canada
bill, but broke not out into enmity. All honest and
good men, however agreeing in consequence of their
being honest and good, in general rules, must, if gifted
with reason, feel coincidence of views in every specific
case to be impossible. It is neither to be expected nor
to be desired. Conservatism does not trench upon the
just independence of individual conviction as to the
mode of its wisest deveiopement. We cannot ask and
would not wish the conservative " lords and gentle-
men" blindly to bind themselves into a technical course
of party action, to the restraint of their individual
opinions, and the destruction of their individual and
collective influence. Holding as we may, that the
Duke has not converted us to his side on one or two

points, we are by no means compelled to consider him
an enemy, a deserter from the ranks, or a pestilent
creator of schism. Conservatism is not a thing of
dogmas, but the enlightened principle of social order

and social happiness, springing from religious dictates,
reconcilable with the results of philosophical investiga-
tion, and illustrated in every page of social history.
But, although this, like All great principles, is one
and incomplex, the detail of its application in various
cases will vary in the opinions of different good men ;
and yet the PRINCIPLE itself will not only be recog-
nised but prized. Thus, in the case before us, although
the great warrior statesman has differed in his legisla-
tive views from other eminent men of the same party,
it has been.as to the mode of carrying out a principle,
not in a renunciation of it. It is a fact, clearly esta-
blished, to all who have attentively studied the laws of
human motive and human action, that when the great-
est zeal exists to carry out great and important princi=
ples, each mind will be prone to individualize its views,
and most energetically and most boldly to pursue them,
whilst at the same time, the same grand object being
the aim of each, all will press onward to it.
But what is right is less complicated than what is
wrong; hence those who strive to carry out good prin-
ciples find fewest sources of difference or " disunion,"
although some will always exist, but none of DISCORD.
The conservative principle is not in an unhealthy pre-
dicament. When differences of opinion arise amongst
the conservative leaders, they by no means imply de-
struction to the cause; nor has any thing in the late
session happened to fade its prospects, although one
portion of the conservative friends of the constitution
may have sided with the Duke, and another have de-
nied their acquiescence in his views, on the particular
occasions adverted to.

The idea of a pestilential disunion amongst the con-
servative leaders, seized upon with triumphant joy, has
rendered the editorial pens of some of our liberal con-
temporaries vivacious to the verge of indiscretion ;
whilst we regret to have seen, where they could not
have been expected, traces of fear. Conservatism can-
not suffer because its champions bold their own con-
victions; 'nor will it expire because their convictions
are honestly stated. On the contrary; evil would befal
the cause, and deservedly, should the time arrive when
conservatives adopted the policy of " voting black to be
white" for the mere sake of apparent cohesion, the vain
boast of a transitory majority, or the prolongation of
office by a contemptible tenure. Such a union would
not be strength, unless it were the strength of baseness,
dishonesty, and political delinquency. Other parties,
who have tried their strength in this way, stand out to

us as warning

During the late session there has been 'no departure
from conservative principle. Different views have
existed, but the enemies of sound government have
not been favoured by the discovery of any " split," or
symptoms justifying the prophecy of an " open break-
up." Far from it; the Duke closes the campaign sur-
rounded by the same noble staff who aided him at first.
An unexpected sally or two he may have made, an
armistice now and then he may have allowed the
enemy, contrary to the opinion of some of his most ex-
perienced fellow-generals; but the campaign has been
so thoroughly a conservative one, that ministers are in
no small measure gratified that the time for their " re-
lease" from conservative control has arrived.

Turn we rapidly from the " lords" to the " gen-

tlemen."

Whatever meaning may have attached to the word
in the royal mind, it is our purpose to apply it " on the
present occasion" in its strict and legitimate sense—
that is to say, in the old English sense ; for a couplet
opportunely occurs to skew that the term would other-
wise be too comprehensive for our purpose--

" My father was a " jintleman,"
And lived at Bally-o-bree ;
His pratie-ground it fed us all,
Hisself, the pigs, and we."
With a necessary limit, then, to the term, the nation
may well join in the royal thanks to the gentlemen of
the Commons for their " care and attention."
Seldom has the " attention" of members to their
duty been more seriously taxed, than during the great
struggles of ministers and " jintlemen" against Lord
Stanley and the conservative gentlemen ; and never,
perhaps, have the parliamentary annals presented a se-
ries of apparently abortive victories, really so valuable.
The consecutive defeats of those who professed to hold
office only as long as they enjoyed the confidence of
parliament, were almost unparalleled in decisiveness,
in consistent repetition, in the light which they threw
upon the motives of the' ministerial minority, and in
the effective demonstration which they afforded that
ministers had abandoned their hollow plea of " confi-
dence."

The history of the last session is a political lesson.
" We have lost all, but saved ou honour," was the
exclamation of a king. "We have lost all honour,
but saved our places," may hereafter become an apoph-
thegm for statesmen.
We are not hastily impatient for a conservative ad-
ministration, although hopeful that the times may soon
render acceptance of office by conservatives desirable.
It is not the name of office, but the power, which is
worth acceptance. The bed-chamber conundrum,
which retarded the return of conservatives to office,
could not deprive them of the wholesome influence
with which unofficially they direct the government;
and the events of the late session forcibly show the be-
nefit which the ladies of the bed-chamber unwittingly
stored up for the country.
Had a conservative cabinet been formed last year,
the nation would not have lost valuable experience. It
would not have witnessed the coarse abandonment of
principle in favour of continuance in office, nor the
means to which a faction can stoop in order to obstruct,
thwart, and set aside the opinion of the people's repre-
sentatives, when unequivocally and repeatedly expressed.
The nation would not have witnessed a ministry, whose
profession is economy and sympathy with the people,
burdening the people with new taxes on every article
of consumption, and reviving the worst features of the
most inquisitorial and most odious, because most un-
fairly propOrtioned tax—that on windows—and this
after twenty-five years of peace.
We cordially unite in " thanks" to the " lords and
gentlemen" for their efforts during the session. If
they have not much to show of their own, they have
laid in cold obstruction much of other evila, and, more-
over, unmasked what was worth seeing. Nor will we
withhold our meed of gratitude from the " jintlemen"
also, for the exposure which they have made of their
real principles and motives.

One of the claimants to the title of " the largest
Saturday paper in Liverpool " furnishes its readers
every week with a catalogue of the virtues of Sir Jo-
shua Walmsley, the would-be M.P. for Liverpool. We
are willing to admit that the knight may be an amiable
and exemplary man• in piivate life, but this is no rea-
son why he should receive our support as a public cha-
racter. We believe that had Sir Joshua confined him-
self to the duties of the civic chair during his mayor-
alty, and retired again into priva'e life, he would have
been handed down to posterity as a benefactor to this
town ; but, having pushed himself into public life, his
conduct must be examined by an independent press.
It is said he ought to be supported because of his li-
berality to every work of charity in the town ; but a
man's liberality should be traced to the motives from
which it flows, and though we find Sir Joshua sup-
porting and patronising many institutions and societies
in our town, from a Popish bazaar to a "friendly bu-
rial society," let us ask why is that support extended ?
His own party have supplied our answer. " Votes,
votes, votes !" is his motive and spring of action in
everything. He does not attend a meeting at Clayton-
square ; he degrades himself by connection with a Po-
pish protector society; he attends meetings in Popish
schoolrooms ; he asks Mr. M`Neile to move or second
resolutions at the sessions ; he gives good dinners and
fancy balls ; he votes with a " miserable minority" of
five in the Town Council to desecrate the Sabbath,
&c., and all to gain votes ; therefore his libe-
rality is no longer such, but selfishness. We need not
say more ; but we believe that, notwithstanding all
these things, Sir Joshua will never be member for Li-
verpool. We feel confident that the conservatives will
never send as their representative one who holds the
political Popery-supporting principles of Sir Joshua
Walmsley. We feel assured that the Protestants of
Liverpool will never support one who would divide our
glorious constitution in church and state under the
colour of liberality ; that the merchants will never en-
courage one who would support ministers who have
ruined our commerce in every quarter of the globe—or
one who would repeal the corn laws, the protection of
British agriculture and landed property. No ! Electors,
be not deceived by this skew of liberality. A radical

is only liberal as long as it serves his own ends
WHEN the member is returned the good dinners will
cease : the amiable, good-natured man will then have
attained the summit of his ambition, and will

" All of a sudden in high disdain,
Fall haughtily back in his order again,
Scornfully holding his nose on high,
As Keinble used at Corioli."

• To-morrow, that bold and uncompromising cham-
pion of the Protestant faith, the Rev. T. D. Gregg, will,
at the request of the Liverpool Protestant Association,
deliver an address, at the Amphitheatre, on the
momentous questions of "National Religion and
Christian Legislation, as the means, under God, of
eradicating Popery, and every other anti-Christian
system, and promoting to the utmost the virtue, hap-
piness, and prosperity of all classes." We have no
doubt that ample justice will be done to these important
topics. Mr. Gregg has been, for many years, indefati-
gable in his exertions on behalf of the Protestant
cause, and eminently successful in his exposures of the
delusions and abominations of Popery. His protracted
controversy with Father Tom Maguire, who retired
discomofited from the contest, will not speedily be for-
gotten. We perceive from the Norwich papers that
Mr. Gregg lately addressed an audience of between
3000 and 4000 persons in that city, on the errors of
Popery. We trust that his labours in England will be
attended with lasting benefit.

The steam-ship Britannia, Lieut. R. Woodruff,
commander, arrived in this port on Friday evening last,
bringing letters and papers from Halifax to the 4th
instant, from Boston to the Ist instant, and from New
York to the 31st ultimo, all dates inclusive. The Bri-
tannia thus accomplished the shortest voyage on record
across the Atlantic. She brought home upwards of
seventy passengers, all of whom were highly delighted
with the arrangements on hoard this splendid vessel.
The arrival of the Britannia at Boston was hailed with
iv:eat acclamation, and a magnificent entertainment
was given to Mr. Cunard, the spirited projector of
the line of communication between this port and Ha-
lifax.

The news brought by the Britannia is comparatively
destitute of political importance. The most interesting
extracts will be found in another column. The Gover-
nor-General of the Canadas, Lord Sydenham, (lately
the Hon. C. P. Thomson,) had visited Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick. He was exceedingly well re-
ceived in both provinces.
It appears that the British commissioners for the
survey of the north-eastern boundary had gone out in
the Britannia, with a view to the resumption of their
labours. The President of the United States had also.
appointed three surveyors, in accordance with a vote
of Congress.

The session of Congress had closed. The proceed-
ings, for some time prior to the adjournment, were
entirely destitute of interest to the English reader.

The arrival of the British Queen at Portsmouth on
Saturday morning, has put us in possession of New
York papers to the Ist instant, inclusive. The British
Queen accomplished the voyage home in thirteen days
and a half. She has brought 133 passengers.
The news by the British Queen is of a very gloomy
and unsatisfactory character. Trade was in the great-
est degree of depression. United States Bank shares
were selling at 64k. Other banks and stocks exhi-
bited, a similar reduction in the value of their securities
and shares. A ciimmercial gentleman who went out
to New York on the previous voyage of the Great
Western, has written home a very deplorable account
of the state of trade and monetary affairs in that city.
He says that they were in a much worse condition than
he had anticipated ; and in regard to the banks his
opinions are of the most unfavourable description.
The accounts of the cotton crops, from all parts of
the Union, were of the most flattering character. The
unfavourable news taken out by the British Queen had
nearly suspended all operations in the cotton-market
at New York. It was anticipated that a 'very large
stock would be left on hand at the close of the season,
in addition to an increase of crop to the extent proba-
bly of 1,500,000 bales.

The contest for the Presidency, between Mr. Van
Buren and General Harrison, appears to present the
usual characteristics of election contests in America—
bribery, corrupt influence, and intimidation. The vote
by ballot, respecting which so much clamour was made
some time ago by the radical press of this country, is
laughed at in the United States as a farcical piece of
humbug.

We learn from the correspondence of the London
Standard, that great excitement prevailed in Canada
relative to the incorporation of the Roman Catholic
seminary of St. Sulpice. The following are the re-
marks in the Standard :—" The Protestants confi-
dently expected the home government would reject the
ordinance, which is opposed by all the Protestants of
the province. All classes of dissenters have united in
the strongest feeling of opposition relative to the ini-
quitous nature of this ordinance, and they do not ex-
press any knowledge of the trick practised by the
O'Connell government, much less the callous manner
in which they have-been abandoned by the conserva-
tive party ; indeed, it can scarcely be expected that
they should even dream of such treatment from any
government, much less to be left unaided by the con-
servative party."

For the state of the money-market, and other intel-
ligence brought by the British Queen, we must refer
'our readers to the summary which we nave given in
another column.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ELECTION OF DOCK TRUSTEES