The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-17 00:00:00

AGENTS

Liverpool ? Mr. N. D. BOLD, Exchange-street West.
S Mr. JAS. BUNNELL, Rumford-street.
Manchester and Chorlcy, Mr. Preston, Mr. J. Green.
Robt. Duck. Ulverston, Mr. John Carter.
Blackburn, Mr. T. Thrup. Douglas, Isle of Man, Mr. Jas.
Lancaster, Mr. John Black- Moore.
burne. Warrington, Mr. Jas. Davies.
Wigan and . Ormskirk, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Giles Cross.
Saml. F. Hopwood. Rochdale, Mr. G. Hayworth.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1836.

The respectable portion of our countrymen are under
many obligations to Colonel EVANS, the honourable
member for Westminister, for the convenient clearance
he has made, before the walls of St. Sebastian, of so
many patriots and warriors. The best discipline for such
troops is decimation ; and in this instance the Colonel
has improved upon the rule, for instead of killing or
wounding every tenth hero under his command, he has
slaughtered or maimed for life one in •every six. It is
also consolatory that the first serious action he has
fought has been a disastrous victory, looking very much
like a defeat. This will teach the gallant legion more
prudence in future, if it do not increase their confidence
in their leader. The men of course know that they have
hardly a chance of returning to England either dead or
alive ; but then the renown of perishing in so glorious a.
cause—that is ample compensation Fame, sound the
trumpet! " Ensign SNOOKS of the brave sth 8.A.L.,
fell in the arms of victory (in a ditch) under the ramparts
of St. Sebastian, Ist April, 1836."

Under ordinary circumstances it is not comfortable.to
be shot; but in the cause of the virtuous QUEEN REGENT
of Spain and liberty, who would not be starved first,
flogged next, and slain afterwards ? Besides, supposing
that the object sought to be obtained by British valour
were less ennobling and inspiriting than it is, the simple
fact that the member for Westminister has been unspar-
ing in the use of the lash is enough to urge men to
desperate deeds. Hunger will make a hare valiant, and
the fear of the cat-tails will reduce even a London thief
to obedience. Colonel EVANS has tried and proved the
maxim. He began by flogging his mercenaries ; he
next habituated them to an exceedingly spare diet, he
then seasoned them in the snow and rain without the use
of blankets, and finally, when theirsinews were wiry, and
their bones sharp, lie sent them forth to battle and to
glory. Of the six thousand heroes, one thousand were,
as FALSTAFF says, " peppered." They took an entrench-
ment, after several severe repulses, which, when taken,
is of no value to them whatever. Had they mutinad and
shot each other, the result would not have been more
foolish or more pitiful.

The only circumstance worth notice in this exploit of
Colonel EvANs is the curious fact that he and his legion
would have been entirely repulsed, but for the opportune,
and, we suspect, the preconcerted co-operation of Lord
JOHN HAY, and the naval force under his command.
Lord JOHN has, consequently, all the honour, if honour
it be, and the gallant Colonel all the loss. But be it
recollected that this naval co-operation was by the ships
and men in the service of the KING of England. The
conduct of Lord JOHN HAY, or that of his instructors,
exhibits the power and honour of our nation, under whip
misrule, in a very questionable shape. His MAJESTY'S
forces are here represented as slaughtering the inhabi-
tants of Spain without even the formality of a declara-
tion of war on either side ! This is both humilating and
disgraceful. England never was so low in character and
independence as a nation, as she is at this moment.

The coach is again "upset," as Lord STANLEY said,
but whether by "JoHNNY" or his master will probably
belexplained in a few days. Two remarkable coinci-
dences have occurred in one week. Lord MELBOURNE
has retired from Downing-street, and DANIEL the im-
postor has been kicked out of Dublin. The premier is
indisposed—the beggar is in trouble—all the thimble-
riggeks are in dismay !
But we must for the present concern ourselves princi;
pally with the Irish master of what we presume we may
call the late ministry. In our last we announced that.
O'CONNELL had issued his address offering himself as a
candidate for the town of Kilkenny, in Ireland, in the
room of one SULLIVAN, a creature of the agitator's, who
had retired for the purpose. This address was thefore-
runner of the defeat which awaited O'CONNELL before
the Dublin election committee. On Saturday last, after
every sort of frivolous objection had been urged, and
every questionable vote on the opposite side had been
scrutinized, the counsel for DANIEL abandoned their case,
and the committee immediately and unanimously decided
that Messrs. WEST and HAMILTON were duly returned
for the city of Dublin at the last election, in January,
1835.

The proceedings in this most nefarious transaction are
altogether unprecedented, inasmuch as they show a mass
of perjury and corruption, in connexion with one indivi-
dual, patronised by the minister, and supported in his
schemes by the House of Commons, such as, we venture
to assert, never disgraced the parliamentary history of
England in the worst of times. ft is now clearly proved
that O'CONNELL and his colleague (the latter is now in
his grave, therefore we shall not even name him) were
returned as the members for Dublin by means of perjury
and fraud. DANIEL was actually lied into the House of
Commons. Wretches were induced to vote for him who
had no right whatever to the franchise. Drunken pau-
pers and houseless mendicants were brought to the poll,
and swore themselves into purgatory and the liberator
into parliament, well knowing that they were exercising
a privilege under false pretences. By means of these
flagitious votes O'CONNELL obtained a majority consider-
ably upwards of a hundred.
The flagrant dishonesty of the transaction was too
glaring to be concealed, and Messrs. WEST and HAMIL-
TON were determined to expose it at all hazards, not.
withstanding the onerous nature of the undertaking, and;

the frightful pecuniary expenditure to which they would
necessarily have to subject themselves. They petitioned
against the return, and, as a matter of course, it was re.
ferred to a select committee of the house. The petition-
ers were prepared to prove the allegations set forth in
their petition before the committee; but here O'Cox-
NELL, well knowing the rottenness of his cause, and pre-
ferring that the public rather than hiMself,should pay the
costs of the inquiry, prayed that a commission should is-
sue to examine witnesses in Dublin. The prayer was
granted. Ministers could refuse nothing to a man in
whom alone they had a majority, in whom centred their
only hopes, and in whose hands was their life or death.
At the very outset, therefore, of the investigation,
O'CONNELL had every advantage, and he had the power
to saddle the people at large with an enormous debt, every
penny of which should have come from his own pocket.
But the stratagem was not only a convenient one in a
pecuniary sense, it was a profitable one to Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his needy friends. Had Messrs. WEST and
HAMILTON been returned in the first instance, as they
ought to have been, Lord JOHN'S first majority over Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S administration would have been reduced
from seven to three; and, in such a case as that of Mr.
POULETT THOMSON'S factory bill, the other day, the ma-
jority would have been two against, instead of two in favour
of it. In short we consider the whole.proceedings in favour
of O'CONNELL to have been nothing else than a FRAUD
UPON THE PUBLIC. He has voted•at least five hundred
times since the date of his fraudulent return, and yet his
poor dupe RAPHAEL had as good a right to vote as • him-
'self. The only consolation that remains is morally, a
painful one,'namely, that it is by such foul means that
Lord Jontsr RUSSELL has contrived for nearly two ses-
sions to keep the heads of his sinking and worthless ad-
ministration'above water. What a lesson .to the people
of England !
But DANIEL iS to be returned by the "men of Kil-

kenny" scot free. •He-is not asked to draw a single bill
upon any brewer. The priests guarantee him against
any expense. He is not to incur the trouble or the coach

hire of travelling from London to.Kilkenny. All the
honour of membership and patriotism is to:be conferred
upon him in his absence. The priests of Carlow did as
much for RAPHAEL ; and they would have done quite as
much for any calf or jackass at the bidding of the dicta-
tor; why, then, should -the father confessors of the mar-
ble-city-not be equally generous towards the leading ruf-
fian of their lay champions ?
But there is another consideration. Perhaps it would
be particularly inconvenient for O'CONNELL to visit Ire-
land at the present moment and under his peculiar Cir-
cumstances. There are some members of parliament
.who cannot be -suppcsed to be favourable to any interreg-
num of its privileges. We do not say he is, but O'CoN-
'NELL may possibly be in that situation. Money that
Comes through the fingers of popish priests seldom passes
freely or purely. It may arise from the adhesiveness of
natural and undisturbed filth ; but certain it is that a con-
siderable portion is invariably found to stick. The rent,
consequently, may not be so profitable to DANIEL as
some people imagine. That the sum said to be collected,
and something more, is collected, we believe; aye, and
quite enough too, if properly applied, to relieve the
thousands of poor creatures who in the ultra-popish dis-
tricts of Ireland are at this moment perishing for want of
food ; but as the priests first finger the cash, we have
cogent reasons for believing that the demagogue is not
overburthened
.with his share of it. It is wise, there-
fore, not to spend money in travelling to Kilkenny.
This, however, opens anew scene. Who is to pay the
terrific expenses incurred by-the proceedings in London?
Most unquestionably O'CONNELL cannot. All the pro-
perty he can honestly or otherwise call his own would not
meet the second figure of his bill. Who, then, is to pay ?•
The secret service money ? No; that would be disfi
covered. The ministers by general subscription ? No,
Lord LANsnoWNE hates the beggar; Lord HOLLAND is
poor; Lord MELBOURNE is unhappily situated; Lord
JOHN RUSSELL has a family by his wife's first husband,
besides one of-his own to maintain, and he is only a forty
shilling freeholder in Westminster; Lord PALMERSTON
belongs to the speculative society of the destitute; Lord
GLENELG is like the proud laird's daughter in the song—

"A pennyless lass wi' a lang pedigree;"

and as for the rest, including Lord MuLo RAVE, Sir JOHN
CAI, Mr. SPRING RICE, Mr. POULETT THOMSON, Lord
Holy-10c, Lord MINT°, the Secretary for Ireland, and the
Lord Chancellor PEPYS—put t hem all together and a Cot-
tenham cheese, a cask of tallow, and a shop full of fa-
shionable novels at the chandler's price, would be their
representatives in a difficult purchase at 10 per cent. dis-
count for ready money.

Who then is to pay O'CONNELL'S bill ? it is impos-
sible to say. Had the ministry held together for another
twelve months perhaps some means might have been de-

vised. In the present case, where the cabinet is evidently
in the jaws of death, and the meetings of to-day only
confirm the fears of yesterday and darken the hopes of
to-morrow, it would be unsafe to calculate upon any other

result than the separation of the uncongenial elements
of the cabinet, the desertion of O'CONNELL by the Whigs,
the dissolution of their unhallowed union, and the utter
ruin of the agitator's hopes. He may survive the storm
which is about to burst in awful fury against the con-
spiracy at whose head he stands, and the baneful idolatry
of which he is the advocate, and the accursed libertinism

in religion which he defends; but if he survive, it will
only be like the scathed tree of the forest, a blackened
monument of a salutary judgment, too worthless to be

rther molested by man, its roots having no vitality, and

the storms converting its ashes into manure. From this
hour, taking the present pitiable derangements of the
cabinet into consideration, we venture to pronounce that
DANIEL O'CONNELL has commenced running his race
downwards, and a precipitate one it will be. 'We defy
all the power and ingenuity of man to save him from the
scorn, the hate, the detestation that awaits him. He is
no longer member for Dublin—he sits to-night for Kil-
kenny. He skulks into a mean town, under the cover of
a meaner priesthood, as Lord PALMERSTON skulked•into
Tiverton and Lord JOHN RUSSELL into Stroud—and there
we leave biol.

But we cannot, from a sense of justice, or without corn-
' miffing an unpardonable. dereliction of duty, hesitate in
calling the attention of our readers,and wepoint more par-
ticularly to the independent, affluent, and, at the same time,
spirited merchants of Liverpool, to the wrongs, the losses,
the immense sacrifices, endured and incurred without a
murmur by Messrs. WEST and HAMILTON. They have
set an example to the tories of England which, if we re-
gard ourselves, must never be forgotten. They have,
almost single-handed, entered the arena, not of party,
but, as concerns England, of national honour, in defence
of British justice. They have gained a signal triumph.
They have, in the name of the protestants of the two
islands, dragged corruption from its hiding place, ex-
hibited Irish popery in its true colours, detected lying,
nand, and perjury as committed by the leading supporter
of his Majesty's ministers—they have, in fine, unmasked
the great impostor, the admitted lord of misrule in Ire-
land, the author of its insubordination, the agent of its
debauched priests, the idol of its demoralised peasantry,
and in doing this they have had to struggle with minis-
terial power and treasury money, to an extent which
nothing but the justice of their cause could have over-
come. The private fortunes of these courageous and
noble-spirited men have been spent in redeeming their
promises in substantiating their claims, and in expelling
a pretender from a seat he had, by dint of fraud and per-
jury, usurped. Messrs. WEST and HAMILTON have suc-
ceeded ; but dearly, in a pecuniary point of view, have
they paid for their success. If we, the protestants of
England, allow them to bear the whole brunt of an action
fought and gained for our benefit as much as theirs, we
shall write " recreant " and " apostate " upon the lettered
time-worn flags which cover our fathers' graves. If those
whose blood we circulate, whose spirit we inherit, whose
sentiments we revere, could but address us now, their ap-
peal to our sense of duty would wring from us a con-
fession of apathy, always the attribute of weakness or
stolidness, but which we should fling to the winds in the
inspiring shouts of so glorious and paternal an appeal.
Messrs. WEST and HAMILTON, we understand, have spent
a large sum of money, comparatively a handsome for-
tune, in thus doing " justice to Ireland." They have

MAY 17. 18:36

done more than this. They have vindicated the cause of
British justice ; and shall we leave them to sustain the
whole loss, without any other compensation than that
which arises from the convictioh that they have dond
their duty ? We trust not.

TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE LIVERPOOL ST.4NDARD.
St lt,—lt is the fashion just now with stone journalists to sweet'
at joint stock companies —tolie "excessively afraid of bubbles,
—" anxious to warn the community against the dire results of
overtrading," and of speculation arising from a redundancy
of capital." Such a course is, no doubt, rers praiseworthy; but
unfortunately the wisdom of these cautions is not so very clear;
at all events not so discriminating, as • could be wished; and
when we see connected with some of these unfortunate torn=
panics, whose existence is said to be so ruinous, the first com-
mercial names of the country ;—when we see, too, Othef
companies of the seine description having encountered the seine
opposition, and whose good effects and profitable operation are
acknowledged, we cannot but feel that the alarm of your con
ternpories is a little exaggerated, if not altogether groundless.
It may be admitted that many schemes which have been laid
before the public were wild, some of them almost absurd. But
what then? Such schemes have been strangled with their own
weight, have blown up, or died a slow death, injuring. none but
their stupid projectors or the mere speculator, who, calculating
upon the stupidity of the public, has been only labouring in his
vocation. Others, however, have passed the ordeal of examine=
tion, have received the sanction of the intelligent capitalist, and'
are. in full progress towards mature formation. Surely it is a:
little unjust that these undertakings should be included in the
universal anathema. Our " enlighteners" should, to merit the.
title, be, a little less general in their denunciations, and, before
entering into such an alarming array of figures—Of tens and
hundreds of millions' to be raised—should reflect that after all,
whatever capital may be wanted by joint stock companies,
banks, or railways, it will still remain part of the circulating
medium of .the country, and that their neighbours are not alto-
, gether such idiots as to barter their hard-won earnings fOr moon-
beams or even South Sea Stock.
I am not going to enter at length into the merits of` the gene-
ral question, which, however, I could not help glancing at. My
object was to point your attention and that Of your readers to.
an undertaking now in progress, which 1 am confident will sup=
.
ply a long-wanted and valuable. auxiliary• to the 'foreign com-
merce of the country. 1 allude to the " Liverpool and Manches-
ter .Foreign Bankiny Company," whose circular is at present
being issued privately amongst our leading merchants and
'manufacturers.

The object of the proposed " Foiregn Banking Company" is
to place itselfas a channel of remittance and exchange between
the great producing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire and
the different foreign:markets in which we carry on our immense
traffic of export and import;—to become the instrument, by let-
ters of credit granted on sufficient guarantee, andliberal
discounts made here with collateral security, of facilitating bona
fide operations in the distant markets, to carry on .whieb )the
unassisted capital of the private merchant is often unequal. A
leading and most important feature.of -the company is its pro-
fessing—what no other-foreign bankers do profess—to be un-
connected with any commercial pursuit, and to have no object
except the employment of its capital in transitu, and no further
interest in any investment -than as security for repayment of
capital advanjed to the enterprising trader.
rhese are the leading objects of the .Foreign Banking
Company ;" and how immense the field'for its usefulness those
who consider the extent of our export and import trade can
easily estimate. But a still greater good such a company, if
properly directed, may have within its power to accomplish.
By our present systern—a system which at some past:period may
have had scope sufficient, but which the gigantic increase of our
commerce has long outgrown—the entire business of exchange
with foreign markets is confined to a few large houses,"them-
selves extensive speculators, and grasping eagerly at -every
source of mercantile emolument. On 'such houses---,as.tmer‘
chants our rivals—we must still in their capacity of bankers
negociate our credits; and how natural that we should 'feel a
disinclination to avail ourselves of facilities coming from so ob-
jectionable a quarter! The consequence is the issue in all our
foreign markets of an immense amount of private paper, often
of very second rate character, which produces a constant varia-
bleness in the rate of exchange, besides the regular fluctuation
by the adaptation of supply to demand. I have in my own ex-
perience frequently seen the most profitable operation converted
into a losing one by a sudden influx of this dangerous, if not
fictitious paper into the money market; and it has been a constant
source of complaint to the regular trader, that his transactions
abroad, however well conducted, were always liable to be divested
of their profit by a capricious turn of the exchange. It is well
known, indeed, that combinations to effect a rise or fall are as
common as the gambling in our Stock Exchange; anddhe fluc-
tuation so produced, whilst it fills the pockets of the' monied
speculator, is a constant source of embarrassment and ruin to
the bona fide merchant. The " Foreigh-Banking Company,"
by the prudent and well-regulated exercise of its powers .through
its various agencies inthe principal markets, will be enabled to
protect the trading community from such a dangerous position.
Affording a ready access for the negociation of remittances for
bona fide transactions, it will naturally keep out of the market a
great amount of second-rate paper, created only to supply the
casual wants of trade, often for the mere purpose of warkingnpon
the course of exchange, circulating at a varying premium accord-
' ing to the known respectability or otherwise of its drawers and
their principals; and whilst effecting this object, and confining
within some reasonable limits the fluctuation of the value _of
money consequent upon the increased •nd decreased demand,
it will enable the merchant to fix an ascertained margin Of,pro-
fit, beyond which no change in the circulation can affect his
speculations.
To carry into effect these severitrubjkfltrhe company pro-
poses to establish agencies in the'cliffsren -extensive. markets,
directing its attention in the chief instance to the east, where,
more than in any of the nearer markets the circulation is im-
perfect and liable to be tampered with. Its iftknagement inthis
country will be confided to a-chairman and boatd-wfAlirectorS;
and it proposes to receive within its body the united Interests Of
Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the commercial districts of Scotland.
I have reason to know that the benefits which iewholds cut-to the
trading community have already been embraced by pa-rtierwell
able to appreciate the value of the objects for which it' is -esta-
blished; and, in inviting for it the attentive consideration of
the public, can do little further (for it needs little futther) to
ensure its success.—l am, sir, with the greatest respect, your
obliged servant, A MERCHANT.

ropool, 16t11 May, 1836.

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(ADVERTISEMENT.
NEW INSURANCE O'FICE. i
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL SZINDARD.
Su;,---1 am desirous of ascertaining, in stwfi a way as will
leave no doubt on my mind, whether the I. 'Nifty of the share-
holders/ in the new Fire Insurance Coin ny will be confined
to the amount of their respective subsc ptions, or whether, in
the event of an extensive fire, suet s occurred in Lancelets-
hey, for instance, should the total ount of their subscribed
capital not be sufficient to meet the loss, the shareholders will
then be liable for any unlimited amount that may be rerptired
beyond their subscriptions. ~.
This information I consider of the utmost importance before
I am called upon to sign the deed which is to incorporate the
shareholders.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant.
A SHAREHOLDER.

NEW FISH AUCTION INIART.—In noticing in the STANDARD
of Tuesday last, the intended conversion of Zion Chapel into
a Fish Market, we erroneously stated that the building had
been purchased by the Liverpool and Manchester Fish Com-
pany, instead of the Liverpool Fish Company.
UNPRECEDENTED DISPATC/1.-011 Friday last, the fine ship
Gipsey arrived from Canton with a full cargo, consisting of ti 6.50
chests of tea and 130 bales of silk, the property, of Sir John
Tobin, which was discharged and warehoused in the short space
of thirty working hours, and without a blemish from the voyage.
LAUNCH.—A beautiful iron steam-vessel, intended for the
Woodside Ferry Company, was launched on Saturday, by
Messrs. Page and Granthain from the corporation ground at the
north end of the town. She was afterwards towed into the
Clarence Basin to receive her machinery, making by Messrs.
Mather, Dixon, and Co. The greatest exertions are being made
by the builders to complete her as soon as possible.