The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-04 00:00:00

SCOTLAND

Counties
Boroughs

IRELAND.

9
20
-29

Counties .. .. .. .. ..
Boroughs .. .. .. .. .
Total against the motion .

36
24
-GO
308

By the preceding statement it appears that England,
Wales, and Scotland give a decided majority in favour
of Sir J. Y. Buller's motion, which was only negatived,
as we predicted, by the " Irish 'rail." We shall take
the representatives of Great Britain and Ireland
separately.

ENGLISH AND WELSH MEMBERS.
For the motion
.. 243
Against the motion .. .. 219

Majority for the Motion 24
ENGLISH, WELSH, AND SCOTCH MEMBERS
For the Motion .. 258
Against the Motion 248

Majority for the Motion
IRISH MEMBERS.
Against the Motion
For the Motion ..

Majority against the Motion

In addition to this analysis we find in the Times of
of yesterday, in addition to the Conservatives who
are included in the division lists, there were L Hon.
W. B. Baring, (ill.) 2. Burr, (abroad.) 3. Coote,
(abroad.) 4. Darner, (abroad.) 5. Estcourt, (abroad.)
'G. 'Lord Lowther, (abroad.) 7. Master, (ili.) 8.
Ker, (ill.) 9. Howard, (Sutherland,) the only Conser-
vative member whose absence was intentional—for the
sake of not dividing. The Conservative account will
therefore stand thus :

Voted, (tellers included)
Pairs .: .. • • • •
Absent unavoidably ..

Absent from a peculiar cause

The actual strength of the Conservatives in the
House is, therefore, 316. Mr. Howard is the only
oae, usually numbered amongst the Conservatives,
who declined voting with his party. Let us now exa-
mine the ministerial list.
Voted, (including tellers) .. 310
Pairs .. .. 19
Absentees,. (Fitzgibbon and
Moreton unavoidable) .. 2
Speaker.. 1

There were six Liberals or Radicals who were inten-
tionally absent from the division, and whose absence
must be considered as an evidence of their want of
confidence in the Ministry. We give their names—
Mr. Benett,•Sit R. Howard, Mr. Goring, Mr. S. Jer-
vis, General Johnson, and Mr. Grote. In addition, to
these there are three vacancies,—Meath, Ludlow, and
Totness. We now proceed to strike the balance. The
respective parties consist of

Alinisterialists 332
Conservatives .. • • 316

Real majority

It should also be remembered that Ministers count
in their majority of 310, upwards of 40 placemen.
Right welcome are they to the triumph which they
have achieved. They have been acquitted by their own
votes. If they had had the modesty to leave their case
in the hands of the independent members of the House
of Commons, the majority would have been exactly
reversed.

We hope that the noble Conservative phalanx will
follow up the division of Friday night by a series of
similar attacks upon the drivelling courtiers now in
office. They must have no respite until they are
driven either to resign or to dissolve the present Par-
liament. For the latter event the people of England
must be fully prepared. The event cannot be far dis.
tant. Let the Conservatives of Liverpool be on the
watch and ready for action.

The "Big Beggarman," alias the " Greatest Liar of
the Age," alias the Torn Pepper" of the House of
Commons, has been again busy at his old avocation of
slandering and defaming his betters. Among those
who came in for a share of his abuse, on Friday even-
ing last, was our distinguished townsman, the Rev.
H. M•Neile. The bloated buffoon ventured to charge
the rev. gentleman with having proclaimed at Man-
chester, " War, war to the knife !" We defy O'Con-
nell to substantiate this charge. The garbled manner
in which O'Connell read the extracts, or professed
extracts, from Mr. M‘Neile's speeches, is quite cha-
racteristic of the shuffling Jesuit. On Friday next
we shall proceed to add to the many proofs extant of
O'Connell's flagrant disregard of the truth, by ana-
lysing his abusive, truculent, and mendacious address
on Sir J. Y. Buller's motion.

It is sonic months since the Attorney-General
boasted, be:fore his constituents at Edinburgh, that
Chartism 'had been suppressed—that it was, in fact,
extinct. This vain-glorious boast was very soon fol-
lowed by the insurrection of the Chartists in South
Wales ; an event which formed a very emphatic com-
mentary on Sir John Campbell's speech. Well, the
strongarm of the law seized upon the ringleaders in
the treasonable attack upon Newport—the Attorney-
General was employed by Government to vindicate the
of the law—and three of the prisoners
t
the trial, lying under sentence of death.
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been,m as ji ens:
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It might be expected that the apparent earnestness with
which Government undertook the prosecution would
have effectually intimidated the Chartists in other parts
of the kingdom, and deterred them from attempting
any further outbreak. Such, we have no hesitation in
saying, would have been the consequence of the trials
at Monmouth, if the present degraded administration
_possessed the slightest degree of credit for honesty and
sincerity in any of their proceedings, But is Chartism

extinct ? Let the armed assemblages of these ruffians
in the MetropOlis, at Sheffield, and at Bradford, furnish
the.answer. The plain truth is that the whole of the
North of England is in a state of ferment at the present
moment, and it is impossible to conjecture what mo-
ment a rebellion may break out. The Chartists evi-
dently consider that the present Government is so
weak, timorous, and vacillating, that nothing decisive
,
or effectual is to be apprehended from it in the shape
of interference with their proceedings. Hence they
are emboldened to carrying on their agitation, and to
mature their preparations for a civil war. It is a very
easy matter to laugh at the Chartists, and to ridicule
their strength and influence, as is the wont of most of
our Whig-Radical contemporaries : but it will not be
found quite so easy a matter .to suppress Chartism. As
yet, it is true, these rebels have only ventured upon.
partial and occasional outbreaks. It should not, how-
ever, be forgot that they have distinctly and repeatedly
held out the threat of a general and simultaneous rising.
for the purposes of massacre and plunder. It will be
prudent policy to take heed to these onimous threats.
Is it not probable that the sudden and disconnected
movements, which have already excited so much alarm
in different parts of the kingdom, have partaken more
of the nature of experiments on the part of the Char-
tists, than of any serious intention to commence their
threatened revolution ?

Again and again we feel constrained to warn the pub-
lic of the dangers to be apprehended from the Char-
tists. A body of conspirators, consisting of nearly two
millions of the population, according to their own ac-
count at least, may well excite feelings of alarm in the
present state of the country. We should not feel so
much disposed to justify these apprehensions if the
country possessed afirm administration. Such, unfor-
tunately, is nut the case. We have a ministry as des-
titute. of firmness as they are of principle—a ministry
under whose sway the country has been brought to the
very verge of ruin. Such is the deplorable, almost
hopeless, condition into which the nation has been
plunged by the imbeciles in office, that it will require
no ordinary share of moral courage on the part of their
successors, to grapple with the complicated evils and
difficulties which they have created.

We have pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers to a report of the half-yearly general meeting of
the Grand Junction Railway company, at which the di-
rectors were enabled to declare a dividend of 7 per cent.
for the past half-year, leaving a considerable balance in
the hands of the treasurer. The fact of such a dividend
being made, during a period of severe pressure and
commercial embarrassment, is not only encouraging to
the shareholders, but valuable to the railway public, as
an example of the result of economy in railway un-
dertakings ; and will also serve as a check upon the
volubility of a numerous class of individuals who ex-
hibit their superior sagacity by constant endeavours to
decry the stability of that property which their more
enterprising brethren have created. It would not, by
the way, be either unamusing or uninstructive to in-
quire how many shares, in this and the London and
Birmingham Railway, are held by coach proprietors
and carriers. We believe the number would be found
to be not very inconsiderable—sufficient, at all events,
to constitute a fair set-off against the confident predic-
tions of failure with which these undertakings were
assailed in their infancy by the same gentlemen.

We have another instance of pitiful Whig trickery
to lay before our readers. It will be remembered that
. a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, ema-
nating from the electors of the Southern Division of
Cheshire, was presented to Mr. Tollemache, inviting
him to become a candidate on the Conservative interest,
in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. To this
requisition Mr. Tollemache returned a favourable reply.
He promptly responded to the invitation, and issued a
spirited address to the electors. After thus accepting
the invitation, Mr. Tollemache, seeing his name on the
Sheriff's' Lists for the County of Cheshire, addressed a
letter to the Marquess of Normanby, expressing a hope,
that her Majesty's Ministers would not appoint him
Sheriff, and thus disappoint a large body of the electors
of South Cheshire of the power of bringing forward,
at the next election, a candidate whom they wished to
represent them in Parliament. This latter was dated
on the 19th of November last. On the 21st of Novem-
ber the Under. Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment addressed a. letter to Mr. Tollemache in reply,
stating that the application to be exempted from dis 7
charging the duties of Sheriff was laid before the Lord
President of the Council. Here the matter rested
until the 31st of January, when Mr. Tollemache received
an intimation that he had, in spite of his timely re-
monstrance, been actually appointed to the office of
High Sheriff for the county ! Of course, Mr. Tolle-
mache is thus incapacitated from coming forward as a
candidate for the representation of the Southern Divi-
sion, in the event of an election taking place during
the present year. This, .we have no doubt, is a trick
to secure the return of Mr. G. Wilbraham, if possible.
But it must be frustrated. Another Conservative can-
didate must be immediately found. The friends of the
constitution in South Cheshire must bestir themselves
to defeat the disgraceful manoeuvre which has been at-
tempted by. the ministry. We expect to hear of a deci-
sive movement for this purpose in a few days—a move-
ment.which will result in the utter discomfiture of the
Whig-Radical faction.

We rejoice to find that the Conservative press,
throughout the country, and, in some instances, such
as that of the Preston Chronicle, the Liberal press, have
united to agitate the question of Socialism, with a view
to the extirpation of this moral, social, and political
nuisance. The time has come when the most strenuous
exertions should be made to stay the spread of this pes-
tilence among the population. The bold and uncom-
promising manner in which the subject has been taken
in hand by the Bishop of Exeter, ought to entitle that
eminent prelate to the thanks of his countrymen of all
grades and opinions. The triumphant exposure which
he has made of the enormities and abominations incul-
cated by Owen and his disciples has already been pro-
ductive of extensive good. Since the debate took place
in the House of Lords, in which the Bishop of Exeter,
Lord Brougham, Lord Melbourne, and, the Marquess
of Normanby took part, we have remarked a studious
avoidance of the subject on the part of the Radical
press. This is a favourable omen. It shows that they
are utterly ashamed of their former advocacy of Owen
and his nostrums. It is to be hoped that the former
favour shown to this "filthy dreamer" was the result of
sheer ignorance of his atrocious doctrines. Those doc-
trines having been brought before the public, in all
their naked deformity, by the Bishop of Exeter, our
Whig-Radical contemporaries are now left without the
shadow of an excuse for attempting either to palliate or
to recommend them. So vile and beastly must they
now appear, that we venture to say that no public jour-
nalist, who possesses the slightest regard for public
decency, will venture to offer any apology on the behalf
of those who assist in their propagation. We are not
indulging in stronger language than the occasion war-
rants when we say that every journal in which the de-
fence of Socialism is attempted ought to be burnt by
the hands of the common hangman. Nor have we less
hesitation in saying that every man who professes to
espouse the principles developed in the execrable pub-
lications of Robert Owen, his son, or his followers,
ought to be scouted from society .as a public pest.
Every styli man ought to be shunned as we should
shun the most loathsome and disgusting reptile that
crawls .upon the face, of the earth. He ought to be
avoided as one that has the plague-spot upon him.
If the blasphemous and bestial doctrines of Socialism
are allowed to spread much further in this country, we
shall soon witness a revolution in our national habits to
which history can furnish no parallel. Under the in-
fluence of the hellish tenets propounded in the • New
illoral World, and similar publications, the people of
this country would soon merit the slanderous charges
in which O'Connell's imagination has delighted to
revel. If we wish to avert the curses which Socialism
would infallibly entail upon our nation, we must strive
with heart and hand to crush this "abominable thing"
in the infancy of its growth. If we neglect to do so,
from a mawkish dread of being stigmatized as perse-
cutors and bigots, we shall soon see the fruits of our
misplaced forbearance ih the general spread of atheism,
the rapid increase of every species of immorality, and
the disruptive of the very bonds of society.

A special meeting of the Town Council was held on
Saturday last, for the purpose of taking into considera-

Lion a Bill on the subject of the erection of Warehouses
on the Dock Quays, pursuant to certain resolutions
which were passed by the Committee for the affairs o
the Dock Estate, and adopted by the. Council at their
meeting on the 2d of October last. Mr. Alderman
Evans, as most of our readers must be aware, has made
himself extremely active in furthering the scheme to
which the meeting of Saturday had reference. After
some preliminary information had been given, for which
we must refer to the report, Mr. Evans again moved
the confirmation of the Dock Committee proceedings,
relative to the Bill in question. His speech in support
of the motion was a tissue of assumptions from begin-
fling to end—assumptions which we have on several
occasions, felt it to be our duty to expose. Many of
the " arguments " which he brought forward were
extremely childish and irrevelant. He remarked that
" the union of warehouses with docks and ships must
be extremely beneficial." So we should imagine. This
" union " has existed in this port from time immemo-
rial and it. seems to have answered remarkably well :
but we should certainly not think of grounding an ar-
gument for an alteration in the system upon the utility
of the present plan. The greater proportion of the
warehouses in Liverpool are contiguous to the Docks,
and have been found fully to answer every purpose con-
templated in the proposed scheme of Warehouses on
the Dock Quays.
Mr. Evans's calculations respecting the value of the
warehouse property in Liverpool are extremely curious
and original. Why not endeavour to ascertain the
value of this kind of property from the criterion of
rent? If the calculation were. made on the Hudibrastic
maxim, that the true value of a thing is just what it will
produce in the market, he would soon find that his es-
timate is egregiously wrong—wrong to• the tune of a
couple of millions, at the least.
Mr. Bolton maintains that " an increase of dock ac-
commodation is wanted." By all means, if more
docks are wanted, let more docks be constructed ; but
do not confound the increase of dock accommodation
with that of warehouse accommodation. It does not
follow that, because our docks are full, our warehouses
must he full also. Look at the number of warehouses
unoccupied in the town. Is not this a proof that the
supply of warehouse room is more than adequate to the
demand ?

From the division which took place on Saturday last,
on the subject under notice, we have strong hopes that
the pet bantling of Alderman Evans will be turned out
of doors. The last municipal election has had the effect
we trust, of teaching the members of the Town Coun-
cil the folly of persisting in a scheme which has been
proved to be as unjust as it is unpopular. We hope that
this Dock Warehouse Bill will receive its quietus to-
morrow, or at all events, that the objectionable clauses
will be expunged.

MR. NEILL'S REPORT UPON DEAFNESS. —We have
received a copy of this work, which we shall notice in our
next.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.-1R our last
number we copied a paragraph from a contemporary, in
which it was stated that several of the congregation of St.
Luke's had refused to contribute to a subscription for a piece
of plate for their late minister, the Rev. J. Aspinall, said to
have been set on foot by the Reform Association. We have
since been informed that the members of the congregation,
of all political opinions, have themselves, and in connexion
with no party, subscribed for such a tribute of respect to that
gentleman. They had a meeting for such an object some
weeks since, 'at St. Luke's School, in Cropper-street, and,
all parties, who attended it, were unanimous.
WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.—We strongly recommend
the admirers of animated nature to pay an early visit to this
extensive establishment in the Haymarket. They cannot
fail of being much gratified.
LIVER THEATRE.—Last evening Mr. T. D. Rice, the
popular American comedian, commenced an engagement at
the Liver Theatre, which was crowded to excess. He ap-
peared in " The Flight to America," and " Jumbo JIIIIZ,
and was loudly applauded. His songs were received with
unbounded cheers. He will perform every evening this
week. A very laughable interlude was added, called " The
Christening,' in which Mrs. Raymond and Mr. Tilbury
performed with their customary talent. The singing and
dancing continues remarkably good ; and altogether it is but
just to say that there are few, if any, provincial establish-
ments conducted with more care and enterprise than the
Liverpool Liver Theatre.

EPITAPFIS.—Perhaps no country abounds in beautiful,
pithy, or strange epitaphs, so much as our own ; some quite
in keeping with the gravity of the tomb, and others indica-
tive of no Very becoming levity. The old woman of llunkeld,
who survived some three or ?our reigns, and who concocted
her own posthumous eulogy, tells us, among other things,—
" An end of all perfection 1 have seen,"
little deeming then of " the march," and of that annihilator
of time and space, the railway. As regards the infantile por-
tion of our species, decidedly the most beautiful lines for a
monument are those of the elegant Young—
" Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven."
But as regards the death of this most interesting portion of
creation,those mothers who negleet to try that national
medicine, Atkinson's INFANT'S PRESERVATIVE, will best
know who they have to reproach !—[See Advertisement.]
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS : LIST OF PRESENTS SINCE
OUR LAST PUBLICATION.—Robert Arnett, Esq., presented
two crocodiles : Captain Adair, brig Dove, a spider monkey ;
Captain Calvan, brig Rocket, a mandrille satyre ; Captain
Callan, ship Bland, fine male leopard ; Demon, Esq.,
West-farm, Allerton, a grey squirrel; W. Duncan, Esq.,
Dublin, a peccary and monkey; Captain Crosbie, brig
Elizabeth, a maccaw ; Captain Grayson, Lancashire Witch,
coatimondi ; Captain Gow, ship Orwell, a rattle snake ;
Captain Houghton, ship Ilino, pair of cora doves; Captain
Harrison, barque Wilberforce, pair of currasows ; Captain
Hamblen, ship Williamson, „ Entelles monkey : Edward
Healey, Esq., Seymour-street, an East Indian monkey ;
Captain Lovell, barque Monarch, sooty monkey ; Captain
Nicol, brig John Brook, pair of guans ; Mrs.. Palmer,
Everton, New South Wales dog; Air. Richardson, Frazer-
street, a ringtailed monkey ; Captain Rattery, barque Anne,
a cootimonde ; Rowlinson, Esq., High Park-street, pair of
currasows ; Chas. Saunders, Esq., Bedford-street, an
ostrich, a pair of spotted covies ; and peccary ; Mr.
Southern, barque Hydo, three doves ; Captain Treadgold,
ship Sir John Beresford, marmosite monkey ; P. Watson,
Esq., of Demerara, a white falcon; Pope, Esq., Upper
Stanhope-street, a Bengal sheep ; Captain Gibson, of the
Jamaica, two American ditto.
STEAM-POWER APPLIED AS AN AUXILIARY AID TO
SHIPPING, DURING CALM, LIGHT WEATHER.—The ship
Maria, 460 tons burden, James Black commander, and
Messrs. Gardner, Urquhart, and Co. owners, laden with a
general cargo, and drawing 16 feet 6 inches water, sailed
from London for Bombay on the 13th of December, 1838.
This was the first sailing vessel fitted with steam-power for
occasional aid during calms or light winds. She had two
engines, of ten-horse power each, made by J. T. Beale, of
East Greenwich, with Melville's patent propellers. From a
careful inspection of the Maria's log-book and Captain
Black's memoranda, it appears, that the engines propelled
her, in a calm, at the rate of three miles per hour. The
steam-power was used on forty-five different occasions, and
during a period of 511 hours equal to 21 days, 7 hours.
When the ship's draught of water and the smallness of power
employed are considered, this result of a first experiment
must be deemed, by nautical men, as very satisfactory. The
owners of the Maria expressed their undiminished confidence
in Mr. •Melville's invention, and hope it may be generally
adopted for the advancement of the naval and commercial
interests of the country.
THE LATE STORMS.—Whilst the violence of the recent
gales compelled many vessels to return to Liverpool, after
having been at sea, some a fortnight and others three weeks,
several ships continued to keep out at sea, and hopes are
entertained, that by having taken advantage of a slight slant
of favourable wind, they had, at least, got out of the
channel. It now appears, however, that not one of the
outward-bound has been so fortunate, all the vessels that
sailed before the storms having been accounted for, except
the Tigris, for Calcutta. The packet-ship New York, which
sailed hence on the 7th, for New York, put into Cove on
Monday, the 27th ult., after having been 20 days out ; and,
on Thursday, the 30th ult., the racket-ship Europe, which
sailed hence on the 15th ult., in company with the packet-
ship Roscius, put into the same harbour, having been 15
days out. The Europe saw the Roscius on the 27th ult.
The packet-ship Algonquin, which sailed hence on the Bth,
for Philadelphia, was off Dungarvon on the 29th, after having
been 21 days out. These facts show, that the weather must
have been unprecedently severe in the Channel. Seldom,
indeed has it been known, that a first-rate ship has, for three
weeks, been knocking about between Liverpool and Dun-
garvon, the distance between the two ports not being more
than 24 hours' sail with a moderately fair wind.

THE CONDEMNED CHARTISTS.--We announce with un-
feigned pleasure that the lives of Frost and his wretched
associates in crime, and in the sufferings it has produced,
will be spared. What the commuted punishment will be has
not yet been determined on : it is enough at present to know
that the scaffold is not deemed essential to .vindicate the
authority of law and order; but that the mercy is allowed to
triumph over the stern claims of retributive justice.—
Ministerial paper.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The Tournament will be with-
drawn at the close of the week. It continues to be as
attractive as at the first, but it must be superseded by other
novelties in Mr. Ducrow's splendid style. Of the horseman-
ship we have the same favourable report to make as usual—
we do not believe it possible to be surpassed.

NEW Accass TO THE RIVER MERSEY.—The following
is an extract, of general interest and importance, from a
most elaborate and scientific paper read last month, Decem-
ber, 1839, to the Literary and Philosophical Society at Liver-
pool, by Joseph Brookes Yates, ESq., F.A.S., M.R.G.S.,
many years president of that society, and late chairman of
the Shipping Association, an extensive West India merchant
and shipowner, and a member of the Duck Trust Committee,
Liverpool, on the rapid and extensive changes which have
taken place at the entrance to the river Mersey, and the
means now adopted for establishing an easy and direct access
thereto. After adverting to the frequent representations of
Captain Henry Mangles Denham, R.N„ F.R.S., marine
surveyor, and the results emanating from his surveys of Li-
verpool, the author proceeded, in detail, to state, "That
Captain Denham had been indefatigable in watching the
shifting of the sands, and at length announced, as his opinion,
that a diagonal channel might be forced in aid of the ebb
current, direct to the sea; this, he added, would afford a bet-
ter channel than heretofore. This proposition was much op-
posed and jeered at as a vain attempt to oppose, in an open
sea, the powers of the elements eight miles seaward of the
river's mouth ; but at length he was enabled to conimtennz
operations at the close of last year over an area of three
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