The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

Ebr Ether Pool &taielarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1840.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a file of the

Sydney Gazette and also of the Sydney Commercial
Journal, to the 28th of May. Their contents have
been anticipated by previous arrivals.

We are proud of our town. At the elections of yes-
terday the conservatives of Liverpool have done their
duty nobly, fearlessly, and well ; and we repeat, we are
proud of them and of our good old town. We had,
indeed, hoped that a larger majority of members would
have rewarded their exertions. We did hope, that, at
least twelve good conservative members would have
been returned to the council at the present elections;
but we little dreamt, whilst forming this hope, of the
almost superhuman exertions, of the tricks, the subtle-
ties, and the frauds which the Whig-radical party were
prepared to resort to, in order to secure a different re-
sult. Taking these into consideration, we are satisfied
with our victory, and proud that the conservative cha-
racter of Liverpool has been so fully vindicated in the
eyes of our fellow-countrymen. Another such struggle
next year, attended by a similar result, will secure to
the town the advantage of a thoroughly conservative ad-
ministration of its municipal affairs.
But let us look at our victory calmly and coolly. Let
us examine the respective advantages possessed by each
party. On the side of Whig-radicalism was arranged
the extensive patronage of one of the wealthiest corpo-
rations in the empire. On the side of conservatism
was arrayed only the love of our country—of its church.
its throne, and its Protestant constitution. Whig-
radicalism had its own supporters in every polling
booth—its liveried menials in every street—its gaping
expectants everywhere seeking eagerly to curry favour
by the zeal and the fervour with which they performed
its behests. Conservatism had only—but in that it
possessed a host—the prayers and the blessings of thou-
sands of our right-hearted population, who are sick to
loathing of the empty promises and the heartless boast-
ings of their local oppressors. Under such disadvan-
tages our wonder is, not that we have only won eleven
out of sixteen wards—not that we have supplied the
place of seven Whig-radical members of the corporation
by an equal number of honest and sound conservatives,
—but that we have not been soundly beaten in every
ward throughout the borough.

Our readers, we have no doubt, have occasionally
witnessed the operation of galvanism, performed by
some philosopher of the Blackburn species, upon an
unfortunate goose or an equally unfortunate rabbit.
The poor fowl may by such a process be made. to dis-
play symptoms of returning vigour—to flap its wings—
to gabble an unconscionable quantity of soundless non-
sense—to erect itself by a convulsive effort, and to as-
sume for a moment the living semblance of that sage
bird whose warning voice of old saved from destruction
the Roman capitol. But alas ! how soon we are re-
minded of the exclamation of the poet. How soon do
we find that "'Tis grease, but living grease no more !"
The fowl is defunct. The body is there, but the spirit
has departed. Such an experiment it has been which
has produced a temporary return of the suspended
animation of Whig-radicalism in Liverpool. The body
has been duly galvanized, and its contortions, frightful
and violent enough, are now, we trust, at an end for
ever. Here and there a limb, retaining its impulse,
may shew the symptoms of returning vigour ; a faint
and feeble effort may raise for a moment hopes of re-
turning life ; but the symptoms are gone when their
inducing cause is removed, and the efforts are but a
mockery. The heart is still, and the principle of
vitality is extinguished for ever.
Upon one or two features, however, of the present
elections we may congratulate our readers. The most
virulent and subtle enemies of conservatism in our
council—the unitarian member for Pitt-street and the
member for Lime-street wards---are no longer in a
position to outrage the feelings of our Protestant fellow-
townsmen by the vulgar and hitter denunciations with
which they have been accustomed to assail our Pro-
testant church and our Protestant institutions. Doctor
Blackburn has, we believe, been relieved from the ar-
duous duty of infidelizing the children of our corpora-
tion schools ; and Mr. William Rathbone may hereafter
return to the practice, in private, of that filthy mode of
projecting his spleen, for which on one memorable oc-
casion he has been celebrated. From both these illus-
trious liberals we have been relieved by their respective
constituencies; and unless some subservient tools can
be found amongst the body of aldermen to vacate in
their favour, we trust that the corporation of Liverpool
is rid of them for ever.

In Scotland ward, unfortunately, an individual of
the same class has succeeded in obtaining a temporary
majority of one; but we trust the time is not long in
which this instrument will be allowed to do the work
of his party. A scrutiny will, we have no doubt, be
made into the doings of the faction in Scotland ward.
We do know that a voter was personated in the fore-
noon, and that the real party, on afterwards presenting
himself to vote for Mr. Gladstone, was refused the right
to record his vote by the presiding assessor. A protest
has been made on the part of Mr.- Gladstone, and, if
justice be done, that gentleman will yet occupy a posi-
tion in the council which be is well qualified to adorn.
Should this not be the case, our friends in Scotland
ward will have something to reproach themselves upon.

Mr. Swift, aurist, whose certificates of cures has so often
appeared in our columns, will attend in Liverpool this week.
—See advt.

It will be seen, by the advertisement, that. the Columbia
not being quite ready for sea, the Caledonia will sail again,
on Wednesday next, for Halifax and Boston.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA, FROM BOSTON AND
lIALIFAX.—The royal mail steamer Caledonia, Capt. Cle-
land, arrived in the Mersey at two o'clock on Friday after-
noon. She left Boston on the afternoon of the 16th and
Halifax on the night of the 19th ult. : so that, including the
stoppage at the latter port, the passage from Boston to Liver-
pool was performed in 13 days 12 hours. It must be added.
that, during the last three days of her voyage, the Caledonia
had to encounter a severe gale of wind from the northward
and eastward, which greatly retarded her progress. On Fri-
day, shortly before the arrival of the vessel, the passengers,
after partaking of a sumptuous dinner, passed a high compli-
ment on the captain and officers of the vessel in their united
capacity of " gentlemen at table, and sailors in a gale." The
captain, in a neat, brief, and appropriate reply, returned
thanks, concluding with the remark, that a passage across
the Atlantic Ocean and the speech of a captain was " the
shorter the better." The Caledonia went up close to the
entrance of the Coburg Dock, but, being about half an hour
too late, grounded alongside the quay on the north side of
the entrance. She, however, took no damage, and got into
dock on Saturday morning. Fifty-two passengers came by
this fine steamer, of whom the following is a list :
From Boston.—B. G. Wainwright, Mrs. Wainwright, Miss
M. N. Cooledge, two children, and servant, E. H. R. Lv.
nam, B. T. Homer, Mrs. Homer, H. Grew, Miss Grew, T.
W. Storrow, jun., W. B. Draper, F. Berley, James Martin,
C. Morland, J. C. Johnston, E. E. Dunbar, C. Hubbard,
W. Blake, Deed, Major Deed, Finley, N. G. Parker,
Dr. F. Gray, Wilbraham, M. Wahlgren, J. Biddle. J. T.
Logan, A. Pilling, C, F. Kenworthy, F. M. Garrow, John
M*Geer, Livingstone, C. Dresler, C. J. Laplasten, and
Miss C. Lewint.

From Halifax.--Mrs. Baker, Captain Blackburn, Lock-
wood, Hon. Mr. Neville, and servant, Major Hall, Cuth-
bertson, J. Smith, Mrs. Smith, Miss Blair, two children,
and Hon. S. Cunard.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.