The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

on Monday next

cently had a most important correspondence with the

Bishop who presides over that See, is expected to be
present. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD of the fol-
lowing day will contain a verbatim Report of the
Speeches, and a copious detail of the proceedings.
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THREATENED INCREASED RESTRICTIONS
UPON OUR TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

On Monday week Mr. T. Thornely, a gentleman who is
well known to our readers, delivered himself, in the House
of Commons, of a speech upon the subject of the corn laws;'
andos Mr. Thornely's late position, as the partner of an ex-
tensive mercantile firm in Liverpool, entitles his opinions
and facts to somewhat more consideration than we would
concede to those of the lay or clerical illuminati, who figure
upon the boards of the Manchester Corn Exchange, we feel

inclined to bestow a few remarks upon a portion of the
speech in question, and the more especially as the mercantile
experience of the speaker was largely paraded on the occasion.
The member for Wolverhampton reminded the house, that
in December in the present year the customs' tariff of the
United States would expire, and assured us that unless the

measures of the corn law repealers were adopted, and the

corn of America admitted for consumption in our markets,
the legislature of that country were prepared, in settling their
new tariff, to adopt measures of increased and discriminatory
restriction against the commerce of Great Britain. Such an
intimation from a gentleman known to have been largely en-
gaged in American commerce. and presumed to be acquainted
with the course of American opinion, is sufficiently start-
ling ; and yet we venture to say it is one which very few men,
with the exception of Mr. T. D. Thortiely, would take upon
themselves to make, and we altogether doubt that he can
warrant it by one tittle of evidence.

Has the government of the United States ever ventured to
single out Great Britain as the object against whom restric-
tion is to be directed in the way intimated by Mr. Thornely
Have we any evidence, beyond the tittle tattle of comtner_
mercial correspondence, that such a feeling towards us is en-
tertained by any large portion of the people of that country ?
Most assuredly not ; and we much question whether the ma-
nufacturing states of America themselves, the only suppor-
ters of restrictive duties, would not gladly see the renewal of
the tariff in its present form, and do not rather dread than

invite discussion upon it. By its operation their rising na-
tive manufactures are largely and efficiently protected, and
but for the embittered feeling which whig statesmanship has
allowed to grow up towards us in the minds of the American
people, we are firmly of opinio❑ that the time has arrived
when we might have looked for large concessions towards
our commerce from America, rather than for measures of
increased restriction.

On the supposition, however, that the feelings of the Ame-
rican governmentltowards us are as described by the member
for Wolverhampton—that the known hostility of the 4puthern
states towards a restrictive tariff (which in 1832 so fearfully
advanced the progress of the nullification question) can be
surmounted, and a tariff with increased restrictions carried
through the legislature—what lesson ought such an event to
read to the government of this country? Why manifestly
this—that before making such concessions as we are called

upon to make towards America, by throwing open to her our
markets for corn, it would be prudent to see that she is pre-
pared to make to our commerce similar concessions. We
have thrown open to the merchants and people of the United
States, during the present session of parliament, valuable
colonial markets. What have we got from the American

Nothing. We have thrown open
to the people of the United States a valuable lumber
trade with the West Indies, hitherto enjoyed by our own
North American colonists, besides the supply of those
40 markets with provisions, -uch as fish, beef, pork, &c.,
hitherto furnished by wn countrymen in North
America and in Irelan we have received in return
only a threat that un
is to be singled out 4: restriction. But are we told even
that in the event of our receiving the surplus corn of the
United States, their present almost prohibitory tariff will be
relaxed ? Not at all. America will receive all our conces-
sions, as instalments—as certain other gentlemen at home
receive them,—to be enabled the better to extort ultimately
the whole of her demands. She will make no concession
herself, but the utmost favour our commerce is to expect at
her bands is toleration!

government in return

Now, with all due deference to Mr. Thornely's superior
information, we much question if the United States are just
now in a position to make from us any such dictatorial de-
mand as he has placed in the mouth of their government.
Of all the people in the world the Antericans have the least
right to complain of the commercial advantages which they
enjoy, not only in their relation with Great Britain, but with
other countries, when it is borne in mind how little they
afford in return. We believe that the people of this country
generally are not aware of the actual mode in which the
American tariff presses upon the industry of Foreign states
which trade with her—that her tariff is, in fact, as against
manufacturing countries, one which ought to make herself
the object of retaliatory measures of restriction, and which
would do so, if it was not eminently tricky and deceptive in
its form. The enlightened portion of the American people
are quite aware of this fact, and will scarcely thank Mr.
Thorneley or the anti-corn-law league for bringing it too
prominently before the public, at a moment when its agita-
tion may be rather inconvenient than otherwise. We our-
selves, however, are rather obliged to those gentlemen, and
shall endeavour, on an early opportunity, to throw a little
light upon a subject which is eminently fitted fur the serious
consideration of the people on both sides of the Atlantic, at
the present moment in particular.

It may be necvssary to state, that the following inscription
has only just been written.]

THIS BAND-BOX
contains the ashes of old
EGERTON BOTT.
With consummate impudence for years he edited
THE MERCURY.
He possessed few abilities and transcendant egotism,
and his worth may be estimated
by experience and the evidence of facts:
That for a quarter of a century he has been the
laughing-stock and butt of the
TOWN OF LIVERPOOL.
He was the advocate of free trade and the donkeys
at Seacombe ;

Ele was the opponent of Conservatism, which has increased ;
The patron of the Swimming Bath,
which still exists a memorial of his love of cleanliness.
To the Night Asylum he was professed protector.
During his editorship the Mercury exhibited great twaddle :
The paragraphs childish and sloppy—the
articles vapourish and dull ;
The respectability of the Press was desecrated, and
the broad sheet converted to disseminate
QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS

The brass in his face was constantly reflected in his columns,
which abounded in frequent plagiarisms from himself;
He raked up the ashes of his own defunct jokes
and resuscitated worn-out pleasantries.
His knowledge was immense :
With him novelty was impossible,
as he had always at hand
PRECEDENTS.
Unhappily,

Newton, Bacon, Galileo,Aaleigh,att, and Joseph Miller,

lived before him ;
or he would have outvied them in their magnificent career !
He assisted by his deep researches in bringing into notice

TtlE KIELO

Under his personal superintendence, great improvements
were effected in
The SPINNING TOP and the KITE :

Isis huinalings like the first, and his flights like the second,

were notorious

He was the author of that excellent and popular work,
THE ELYSIUM OF ANIMALS ;
and in the pages of the immortal
KALEIDOSCOPE.,

he ofttimes lucubrated.
These imperishable records of his talents now constitute
the linings of Liverpool-manufactured Trunks.
As a friend of humanity, the
CORK JACKET
can never be forgotten.
To this lover of the canine and assinine race,
this Pseudo-Philanthropist, _ _

Erect this Memorial, indicative of Lila Folly, and of
deep-rooted gratitude for having done—
NOTHING !

STEALING DOORS.-A joiner, named John Kilshaw, was
yesterday committed for trial at the sessions, for stealing
two doors, from the premises occupied by Messrs. Anderson
and Garrow, South Castle-street, the property of Messrs.
George and Alexander Maxwell. He had sold them to two
parties, salesmen. They had been unscrewed off the door-
posts, inside the premises. He said he had bought one of
them from a man in the street (Moor Fields), and the other
from a man in Dale-street.

THE LATE MR. POWER.—The widow of the late Mr. Ty-
rone Power, whose melancholy death on board that ill-fated
vessel, the President, must still be fresh in the minds of onr
readers, has just administered to the effects of her late hus-
band, in the Prerogative Court of the Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury, in Doctors'-commons. The personal property
of the deceased is sworn under £5,000. whilst the loss of
Mr. Power will be deeply felt, both by his
family and the
public, it is gratifying to state that his widow is left in com-
paratively easy circumstances. It is usual in proving a will,
or taking out an administration, to state the precise day on
which the party died, but in this instance the words " on or
about" were inserted, alluding to the time when the Presi-
dent was supposed to be lost.—Britannia.

CURIOUS METHOD OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.—Mr. Wakley
held an inquest, on Tuesday, on Mr. William Green, a brick-
layer, who committed suicide by putting a ladder down a
well and sitting in the water till he was dead. On a juror's
observing upon the strangeness of the suicide, Mr. Wakley
remarked that there were many stranger modes of suicide.
He had lately held an inquest on a lady• who, standing up,
placed her head in a bucket of water tilL she was drowned ;
and another on a lady who attempted to cut her throat, but
not liking the first incision, she resolved to hang herself;
that, however, not suiting her taste, she repaired to Bushy
Park, and throwing herself on her face on a wet gravelly
walk was suffocated. At another case a gentleman was play-
ing nt cards, when he rose from the table, apparently in per-
fect good-humour, and without having shown the slightest
symptoms of previous insanity, and going into the cellar cut
his throat. Suicides pervaded all ranks of society, and were
greatly on the increase, but the causes for most of them were
quite inexplicable.

EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS

POSTOFFICE-PLACE ROOMS

We resume our notice of the pictures.
101. " Study of Beech Trees." J—WiLsoN, jun., Lon-
don.—This shews the artist to be a close observer of nature.
The trunk of the principal tree is cleverly painted.
102. " Ruins, with Twilight Effect." W. II AvELL.—A
good picture. The sunset golden and warm ; the scene a
calm, and not a leaf stirred by the sleepy breeze.
108. " Portrait of the late Earl of Durham." R. DALZII.,
London.—An excellent likeness of the late Pro-Grand Mas-

will greatly esteem
familiar to them,

ter of England. 0
this clever work of art
having been engraved.
111. " Mother and Sleeping Child." G.PATTEN, A.R.A.,
London.—Mr. Patten might have appended to this the su-
perstition, that when a child smiles in its sleep, the angels
are whispering to it. There is nothing new, nor anything
very clever, in this production of Prince Albert's painter in
ordinary. The idea has been done over and over again,
and immeasurably better, by the old masters. The subject
of the picture consists of a curly flaxen-headed child, with a
smile on its lips, watched over by " an anxious mother,"
possessing a very pretty fair face. The fleshing is clear, and
of a good tone.
114. " Fording a Brook." T. S. COOPER.—
again," as the cant phrase is ; and a charming picture tl
purchaser has to adorn his dwelling.
118. "An English Interior." J. F. MARSHALL, Live;
pool.—A clever picture, vigorously drawn, and well coloured
123. "City of Dijon." liEnnarAN, Liverpool.—A boldly
dashed off, bright sketch.
" Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties." R. FAR-

" Sold

BIER, Chelsea.—A humorous subject, cleverly worked out.
Two boys, one of whom we may suppose to be the post-
office carrier, are discovered prying into a letter, which has
been abstracted from the letter-bag. A dog is assisting-the
juveniles in their " pursuit of knowledge," by gnawing a
hole in the official wallet. The expression of the faces is
uncommonly good.—A picture not unlike this is familiar to
the public, under the title of the " Twopenny Pustoffice,"
wherein the fat postmistress and her servant are perceived
examining the letters very narrowly while under the sorting

operation.
142. " Landscape, with Cattle." WILSON, jun.—Ano•
ther clever picture by this artist. it is marked with the
pleasing word " sold.
147. " Dolly Varden and Miss Ilaredale." W.P.FLUTH,
London.—This picture represents Dolly Varden as so capi-
tally introduced to us by Mr. Dickens in Burnaby Rudge,
searching for Miss Haredale's letter. Mr. Frith has caught
the spirit of Mr. Dickens' charming character of Dolly
Varden most admirably. She is the plumpest, archest,
wickedest-looking little minx ever seen.
153. " Lane Scene." H. JUTSUM, London.—A pleasant
picture, with an air of warm repose about it : a farm-house,
a gate, and bank, with trees and herbage—just such as may
be seen in every English county, with a summer sun over
our heads.

" Cattle Reposing." T. S. COOPER.—A capital pic-

170. "An Irish Market Day." H. MAcmAN s, London.
—Gives us a good idea.of the subject.
177. " Blighted Love." W. S. P. HENDERSON, Henley-
on-Thames.—lt is really surprising an artist can waste time
in such lackadaisical rubbish. _

180. " Earl of Sefton and Party returning from• Grouse
Shooting." R. ANSDELL, Liverpool.—Mr. Ansdell is an

a vigour in drawing, and a clearness in tone, that render
whatever pictures come from his easel popular and pleasing.
His likenesses are inimitable. In the present instance he has
most happily hit off the countenances of the noble family the
subjects of his handy work. There is truth, nature, and
reality in all Mr. Ansdell's paintings.
" Portrait of H. R. H. the Prince Albert." G. PATTEN,
A.R.A.—Here he is, ladies, the luckiest of a lucky race—the
real fortunate youth. If this be a true portrait, English air
and English diet appear to have agreed with his royal high-

ness uncommonly

184. " Going Out with the Keeper." C. BARBER, Li-
verpool."—This work is by the President of the Liverpool
Academy. It certainly stands per se, as it is without doubt
the worst painting in the exhibition. The bow-wows are
portraits of some in the possession of Mr. Eastee, our next
door neighbour, only his animals look the most natural.
185. " Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and the Clown
carousing in the house of Olivia." F. P. STEPHANOFF Lon-
don.—A capital picture ; full of jollity and mirth, and cleverly
worked up ; the expression of the faces and figures excellent.
Maria is charmingly painted.
191 " Poor Law Guardians. Board Day. Application for
Bread."—C. W. COPE. Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore.

--We give the artist's name and address of this Capital pic-
ture at length, in the hope that he may meet with encourage-
ment, for he possesses undoubted talent, and a "grace be-
yond the reach of art." The scene represents a board day
at a union workhouse. The guardians are assembled, and a
poor widow and her children are applying for relief. Every
one of the characters in the scene are admirably brought out,
and expressed with a vigour, breadth, and truth that must
make an impression on the mind of the most callous. At
the head of the table is the mild, gentlemanly-looking chair-
man ; near him a pursy tradesman, inspecting a basin of soup,
brought by the officious " master ;" there the clergyman
asking questions of the applicant; close to him sits a hard-
hearted, grasping, tyrannical, brutish-looking fellow,—a
thorough-going radical we will be bound—who would give
stones instead of bread. In the foreground, a benevolent old
gentleman, with his hand in his purse, melting with charity—
touched with sympathy at the tale of distress. Beside the
fire, sits indolently and apathetically, paring his nails, the
idler of the village, termed " a gentleman." from having " no
useful calling. Before the tire. with outspread tails, in a
shooting coat, stands the squire, his countenance ruddy with
good living and plenty of exercise. On the other side of the
table is a deaf, farmer-looking person, to whom the matter
going forward is commuicated by a friend through an ear-
tube. The beadle stands looking very fierce by the door..
The poor widow, and her pretty, forlorn-looking children,
occupy the foreground. A dog, issuing from under the table,
is inspecting them with no kind interest. There are other
matters, which make this clever picture complete. The ex-
pression of the faces is inimitably rendered, the colouring ex-
cellent, and the moral unquestionable, while the subject is
interesting and full of pathos. It is as well worth the atten-
tion of the visitor as any picture in the room. _

195. " Indianian Riding Out a Gale." S. WALTERS, Li-
vcrpool.—A good little picture ; very spiritedly painted. .
198. " Poor Nell." P. WESTCOTT, Liverpool.—The tone
of colour good, but the true expression of the text given has
not been caught by the artist.

CORRESPONDFiNC

SHORT WEIGHTS AND MEASURE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,--1 beg leave to inquire if the weights and measures
in St. John's Market are frequently examined. I have found
articles purchased there, of late, shamefully deficient in
quantity.
Saturday

A PURCHASER

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—The Editor of the Mercury is very much surprised
that Sir Robert Peel will not inform him what his intentions
relative to a future goverment are.
Do, Sir Robert, by all means afford him the required in-
formation. as to the future intentions of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Rev. Sir
11. Lees, calling the attention of their lordships to the mis-
chief likely to arise to the country from the order of Jesuits,
and praying for their expulsion from the empire.
Lord CLIFFORD moved for certain correspondence between
the Governor of Hindostan and the Governor of Goa, rela-
tive to the authorising of any British Catholic missionaries
in Hindostan. The noble lord disclaimed for himself and
the Catholic peers on his side of the house any intention to
embarrass the present ministry, but he thought the subject to
be of sufficient importance to bring under the consideration
of the house. It was thought that the Irish regiments, and
other Catholics in India. should have the benefit of Catholic
countrymen from this country instead of Portuguese clergy-
men from Goa, whose language they did not understand,
and who were inferior in talent and ability to British Catho-
lic clergymen. Yet, notwithstanding this, the British
Catholic clergymen were actually reported to have been tor-
tured because they refused to give up the keys of their
churches to the priests sent from Goa.
Lord ELLENBOROTJGR demanded upon what authority the
noble lord made such an accusation against any British au-
thorities in India as that they had administered torture in
India.

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