The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The letter of " Theophilus," will appear on Friday.
We are obliged to omit many local articles of interest, police,
Sze., from the great press of advertisements.

" We have received " National Lyrics," and a pamphlet by
" Mercator," which shall be noticed in our next.
The great extent of our local intelligence compels us to omit
several articles of interest which we had prepared for inser-
tion, especially an abridged report of the great Protestant
Meeting at Glasgow, and the account of the Stroud Conser-
vative Dinner.

Parties wishing their names, and the characters they assume
at the Fancy Dress Ball to appear in the STANDAIto, will
ensure correctness by forwarding them to the Office. A
correct list of all those who attended the Ball, will be pub-
lished in our next Tuesday's edition.

Paul Pry" wishes to know " how many Irish Roman Ca-
tholic superintendents and inspectors there are now in the
Liverpool police; and what number there are of the same
class in the force altogether ?" We are sorry we cannot
afford the information, but we believe there will be found a
preponderating number of Irishmen. If any corporation on
the other side of the channel acted so partially in their selec-
tion, we should be treated with plenty of eloquent declama-
tion on the appointment of aliens instead of the " genuine
natives" of the "green isle of the ocean."

Our attention has been drawn to the illiberal and unfounded
imputations which the Liverpool Times has put forth respecting
our police reports. We beg to inform our contemporary that,
in our animadversions upon the conduct of certain insolent
and ignorant members of this newly created force, we have
been actuated only by a love of truth and a desire to avert
from our fellow citizens the consequences resulting from the
arbitrary and improper exercise of that brief authority with
which these meddling upstarts are invested. We do not,
therefore, deal in indiscriminate censure; we lash only those
who have, by their own rash behaviour, rendered themselves
obnoxious to punishment. Wherever an abuse of power is
manifested, we shall continue to pursue the same undeviating
course, undeterred by the vaporing of the radical scribblers
by whom we are assailed.

Elie Eiberpool

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, I 83G.

A general impression has prevailed since Friday that
the reported defeat of Gomez by the constitutional forces
will turn out to be a fabrication, to which currency has
been given fur Stock Exchange purposes. If this should
prove to be the case, or if the particulars are unduly ex-
aggerated, it will reflect but little credit upon the mer-
cenary individuals who have been thus guilty of sacri-
ficing truth at the shrine of unhallowed speculation. A
few days, however, will put us in possession of authen-
ticated accounts from the seat of war. It is stated that,
in consequence of a general disbelief in the report which
reached Paris last week, the Spanish securities had there
suffered a considerable depreciation.

A reaction in public feeling appears to be about to take
place in Lisbon, from which city we have advices of the
25th. Strong remonstrances have been made against
the late movement by persons of weight, awl we are in-
formed that M. Van de Weyer had suggested the pro-
priety of applying to England for assistance, on the
ground that every attempt to set aside the charter of Don
Pedro should be considered as a Miguelite movement.

The recent proceedings of the Improvement Committee

in our town council, in reference to the sale of the land in
John-street, on which the Globe Chambers are erected,
carry with them strong symptoms of jobbing. It is a very
difficult matter to understand the grounds upon which it
was decided that Mr. Rotherham was the " first offerer"
for the land. From a careful examination of the several
documents on the subject, which were submitted to the
notice of the council, we are led to believe that the
Tradesmen's Bank had a prior claim upon the committee
arising from the circumstance that they had acceded to
the terms proposed by the council before Mr. Rotherham
had intimated his readiness to close with them. There
seems to be a great deal of confusion introduced into the
discussion of the question in consequence of the anoma-
lous position occupied by Mr. Franklin, the surveyor.
If he was really authorised to treat definitely for the sale,
how does it come to pass that his agreement with Mr.
Parry is set aside so unceremoniously. There is a glar-
ing discrepancy between the statements of these two
gentlemen ; one says that a bona fide sale was concluded,
subject to no contingency but the ratification cf the
council; the other as confidently affirms that no compact
was entered into for the land to the Tradesmen's Bank
directors. We think that Mr. Franklin's personal honour
is deeply involved in the matter as it has been left by the
council. But there is a further topic which requires
elucidation. it is currently reported that Mr. Rother-
ham's claim was cherished by the committee because
certain members were deeply interested in the success of
his application. How far this is true remains to be ex-
plained.

On the whole we cannot but express our belief that the
Tradesmen's Bank directors have been treated unfairly,
and that private interest has been suffered in some way
to warp the judgments of our immaculate town councillors.
A full examination of all the parties concerned in this
transaction is required, and ought to be imperatively
demanded.

We are glad to hear that the following distinguished
individuals have accepted the invitations of the Trades-
men's Conservative Association, and intend being pre-
sent at their approaching dinner:—Lord Sandon, the
1100. C. J. Canning, M.P. for Warwick, and W. E.
Gladstone, Esq. M.P. for Newark. Answers have not yet
been received from several other eminent and noble con-
servative statesmen whose company on the occasion is
anticipated. There appears very little doubt that this
glorious gathering of the Liverpool tradesmen %yin rival
if not eclipse any recent display of constitutional feeling
which has been witnessed. At the monthly meeting,
held in the large room at the King's Arms, last evening,

the number of new members enrolled amounted to 115,
making a total of 1014 in the short space of eleven
months from the origin of the society ! The great ad-
dition which took place last night must be chiefly attri-
buted to the anxiety manifested to obtain tickets for the
dinner, to which the membet!s have a prior claim in
making their applications. We are sorry that there is
not in Liverpool a room large enough to allow of a more
unlimited issue of tickets. We are positive that the
Amphitheatre will not acommodate 4 third of those who
would be glad to attend. The privilege of introducing
a lady, as spectator, renders each ticket an objectnf more
than double the value. We believe it is the intention of

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the Operative Conservative Association to have a se-
parate dinner, to obviate that disappointment which
would otherwise be inevitably felt.

Father Maguire is at length most unpleasantly fixed
between the horns of a dilemma. Between the unan-
swered challenge of Mr. M`Gliee, on one side, and the
repeated challenge of Mr. M'Neile, on the other, the
rev. gentleman must feel in a very uncomfortable posi-
tion. It is evident that it is now too late for him to at-
tempt retracing his steps—he is too fully committed by
his public appeals in this town to think of skulking from
the contest which he has himself provoked. What will
his besotted admirers say if he now grows sly, after the
braggart vaunts and magniloquent threats which he re-
cently indulged in ? If he is conscious of having a good
cause to defend, he need not make any display of his
modesty on such an emergency. We particularly re-
quest the attention of our readers to the important let-
ters which we publish in another column on this subject.

THE WATERFORD DINNER.-Mr. henry Villiers
Stuart, of Dromana, M. P. for Waterford county, the
recently slime-flattered patriot of O'Connell's worthless
muse, descending from his " Corinthian capita)," has
performed the drudgery of tolling an after dinner knell
of poetic prose malignity, abounding in fiery metaphor,
against the conservative leader of the House of Lords;
but the political funeral of John Singleton Copley, Baron
Lyndhurst, will not take place at the chaunting apse dixit
of stich short-sighted, justice•loving gentry, as the enve-
nomed choir of papists, so ably represented by the ran-
corous speech of Mr. -Villiers Stuart, although supported
by a Barron ! That life is at this moment in the zenith
of its splendour, the full v igour of its truly gigantic
power,.and fostered by the approving commendation of
all that is valuable, honourable, and independent within
the three kingdoms, (exempting of course, the rampant
bands of popish revolutionary demagogues, that infest
the soil of Ireland, and choke up, by their unhallowed
proceedings, the few remaining springs of her prosperity
and her hopes,) its possessor may look down upon them
from his lofty elevation, and proudly exclaim with
Horace—

" Falsus honor juvat et mendax into-Dia tercet,
Quern nisi ineadosuin et mendacein!"
Yes, indeed, the Corinthian patriotic worthies, who
vociferate " justice," and shout " liberty," and who, at
the same instant, with their poisonous breath, condemn,
and would with callous effrontery, and the bigotted zeal
of depraved principle, trample under foot that sacred
Institution from which all liberty has arisen, are the na-
tural and moral "Aliens" to the soil of their birth—
" Aliens" to the true interests of their fellow-men—
" Aliens" to RELIGION, and " Aliens" to themselves,
worthy alike the satire of the classic poet, and the fitting
denunciation of him, who has had the virtue and the
manhood to stand forth and brand them—false mock-pa-
triots as they are, the imbecile tools of a knavish adven-
turer,—Aliens by becoming the obsequious slaves of a
designing tyrannous priesthood, on the one hand, and
the clinging fawning parasites on the other, of one who
has polluted the very name of freedom, by associating it
with the pestiferons exhalation, which exudes in all his
movements from his contaminating lungs, breathing a
moral pestilence around,—the arrogant pretender, who
presumes to lead the destinies of Ireland,—the rankest
ALIEN that ever infested a society of intelligent beings ;
but the theme of Mr. Stuart's muse ! From the acrid
genius of this modern Pittacus, (what an insult to the
Lybian patriot is the association !) and his dangerous
doctrines, have alone arisen that mental and moral alie-
nation—that separation of soul, character, sentiment, and
interest, which has placed unhappy Ireland in her pre-
sent degraded position. Yes, Mr. Villiers Stuart, giving
you the credit for a misled head rather than a corrupted
heart, we boldly repel your charge, and dispute your pre-
mises. Under the scourge of your favourite leader,
whose patriotism we have had a fair opportunity of put-
ting to the test—by means of his restless agitation has
Ireland become depraved in political principle—conta-,
minated in morals—and corrupted in religion—this we
undertake to prove, if not to your satisfaction, at least to
the satisfaction of those around yon,,and,,we trust, the
benefit of the English people, whose judgment you would
vainly endeavour to pervert and to confound, in the maze
of your own frenzied idolatry—your grasping of Utopian
perfection in government, under the gentle sway of your
Milesian chief ! We will cheerfully compare notes for
Lord Lyndhurst, with Mr. Villiers Stuart; and leave to
his Irish auditory, and to Sir Richard Keane, the patron
saint of the Waterford liberal dinner, the full benefit of
the polished sentences and flowery rhetoric sent forth, in
support of the great Pittacus of Derrynane ; and con-
tent ourselves with balancing the account in argument,
by iterating the just pretensions of that misnamed
Lybian prototype, as set forth by the Knight of
Dromana, in his woeful assault on the House of
Lords—his foil against the falsely-declared enemy of
Ireland. And now, Englishmen, hereditary freemen,
let us biographise the " modern Pittacus," that, whilst
yet he lives, he may enable us to do further justice to
his virtues and his expiring fame, should we lack of duty
in our present representation.
We will begin with his career of manhood. Here is
a trading lawyer (without desiring to disparage the
honour of the profession at large) who pretends that,
being imbued with notions of freedom greatly above the
usual comprehension of his fellow men, he sacrifices the
honourable rewards of his vocation at its shrine, and
makes himself a voluntary martyr at the altar of his
" much-injured country ;" by very cheerfully relinquish-
ing a profession, yielding almost some four or five
thousand pounds a-year, he sets up for a flaming agita-
tor, being previously deeply impressed with original
prejudices against a protestant institution, long establish-
ed in Ireland, he scours the Roman catholic provinces of
that ill-fated country whose already ignorant priest-
ridden population already pre se nts the very materials for
his refractory lever to work upon—the very means for
creating a momentum of political strife, and, by abuse
of language and misrepresentation of facts, tortured to
answer his design, he turns this deluded and warm-
hearted, but. credulous, population to his own crafty pur-
poses of deep-laid mercenary ambition ; he tells this ex-
pectant population that the nation which has over and
over again, by its freely•bestowed—its voluntary bounty,
relieved it from positive starvation, is a nation of
foreigners—aliens in country, in religion, and in blood
—a nation of sassenaghs and tyrants, whose impious
sons, trampling on Ireland's soil.-.have " polluted. her
hearths," robbed her people of their lives, of their in-
heritance—their civil rights, and introduced an alien'
creed of religion, with an illegal impost for its mainten-
ance, for which they are unjustly called upon to pay--
that their landlords are their greatest tyrants, and that
the legislative union with England was a robbery of their
independence, and is an unnatural curse upon them—a
yoke they are bound to shake ofT, and a protestant estab-
lishment, for the support of which nineteen-twentieths
of them pay nothing, is the sole source of their poverty
and misery ; and that, until that church is entirely up-
rooted, or its ascendancy put down, and the corporate
interests and tithes which support it abolished, their con-
dition cannot be bettered ! For all this mock display 01
patriotism its flaming propounder obtains credit at the
hands of his deluded votaries; and, although his false-
hoods are open to the most irrefragable refutation, he
obtains a real compensation of some eighteen thousand
pounds per annum, wrung—extorted by all this despica-
ble artifice; he is foisted into parliament, and,
by the
aid of his biggoted priestly associates, he sells the Irish
boroughs to the highest bidders, obtains an unconstitu-
tional ascendancy in the government and over the con'
mons of the otherwise independent English nation--in-
solently abuses every one who has sagacity to discover
his spoliation league—insults the peerage with treason
able scurillity, and charges it with dishonourable and
irresponsible despotism, when, in the due execution of.

its high constitutional office, it resists the march of his
combined infamy and revolutionary designs !
Englishmen and emancipated Irishmen,
is the modern
Are
Pittacus for whom Mr. Villiers Stuart weaves garlands'
of adulation, and sings songs of praise—for whom he de-
nouncos Lyndhurst and attempts to depreciate the honor
and the utility of the British hereditary peerage!

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