The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

Mit Eiberpool *tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14, 1838.

' The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

HORRIBLE INSTANCE OF POPISH BIGOTRY.—There
are many persons, even in the town of Liverpool,
where we have so many opportunities of witnessing
the poisoning influence of Popery on the mind, who,
blind to the lessons of experience, and deaf to the
warning voice of history, entertain the belief that Po-
pery is materially altered in its character in the pre-
sent day. These good-natared souls have taken no
account of passing events, or they would perceive the
folly of their opinions. They seem to think that, i❑
this age of refinement, when the "march of intellect"
is so triumphant, when education has become all but
universal, and when the principles of toleration are so
generally recognised, it is impossible that Popery
should exhibit any of those revolting features by which
it was-so uniformly characterised in the dark ages of
barbarism and superstition. They believe, or would
persuade others that they believe, that Popery is now
quite another thing from what it was in former times
—that its votaries have become more liberal as they
have become more enlightened—that its priesthood
consider the baneful and persecuting tenets of Peter
Dens as obsolete absurdities—and that the spread of
this modified sort of Popery—a species of Popery ac-
commodated to the "improved spirit of the age!"—
may be contemplated without alarm. Blind, infatu-
ated, and credulous fools! Little do these simple folks
imagine that seMper eadem is the motto of the intole-
rant Church of Rome. Little do they reflect that the
exterminating character and policy of that church are
necessarily identified with its claim to infallibility.
Little do they know of the actual workings of Popery
in those countries where its accursed influence is not
neutralised by the ascendancy of Protestantism. We
would submit the following extraordinary instance of
brutal bigotry to the notice of these people, as an il-
lustration of the mingled cruelty, inhumanity, and sa-
vage barbarism, which but too plainly and too fre-
quently result from the demoralising instructions of
the Popish priests. The Carlow Sentinel relates the
particulars which we subjoin poor woman, named
Gaynor, a native of this county, was married, some
time past, by the Rev. Mr. Crotty, of Birr, to a man
who resided in that neighbourhood. After he had
lived with his lawful wife for some time, the priests of
the neighbouring parishes declared the marriage to be
null and void, and threatened to excommunicate the
husband if he did not abandon his wife ! Whether the
fellow acted through fear, or wished to take advantage
of the dispensation held out by the priests, we have
not heard, but at all events the man left Birr, aban-
doned his wife, and left the helpless creature a prey to
poverty and destitution. Last week she reached her
native county, in the last stage of pregnancy, and ob-
tained a lodging at the house of a relative at Rutland,
where she remained a few days. The moment that
they discovered by whom she had been married, and
that she was on the eve of her confinement, they placed
her on a car at twelve o'clock at night! and having re-
moved her to a considerable distance, they threw her
into a ditch, and left her there to perish ! ! The night,
that of Wednesday week, was unusually severe, the
rain pouring down in torrents without any intermission
during the night, and there the barbarians left a fe-
male relative in her condition to abide " the pelting of
the pitiless storm." She crept under a haycock for
shelter, but finding the period of her confinement ap-
proach, she left the haycock, and went into a ditch by
the road-side, in the hope that some humane indivi-
dual passing might afford her relief. Here she was
delivered of twins, one of whom perished in a few
minutes after the birth ; the other a few hours after.
In this melancholy condition, in a land calling itself
Christian, the unfortunate woman was found on the
morning following, nearly perished with the cold. She
was removed by Mr. Mosse's steward to a neighbour-
ing house, where every attention that humanity could
suggest was paid her by Mr. Mosse's family. Dr.
Porter visited her on the next day, and we are happy
to learn that she is out of danger. She was also visited
by the Rev. Mr. Tyrrell, P. P. of Tynriland, who ex-
pressed his abhorrence of the barbarous treatment this
poor woman received from those " savages" in human
form, who left her to die on the road during the storm.
Both the children were alive, but perished from the
cold shortly after their birth.

On this atrocious act the Carlow Sentinel remarks :
—" Here is an illustration of the fearful operations of
Peter Dens on society—the husband separated from
the wife, and the wife thrown into a ditch by her own
friends because the marriage was not recognized by
the ' church.' Yet we hear the cry of justice to Ire-
land,' and liberty,' as if the brutes who could wreak
their vengeance on a hapless creature are capable of
appreciating the blessings of rational freedom or social
order ! We are informed that the owner of the house
in which she lodged, declares that he left her to perish
at the instigation of the female portion of the family.
If so, the crime is magnified in a tenfold degree, and
the women who instigated him to the committal of the
deed are a disgrace to human nature."
It is, indeed, melancholy to contemplate such an
utter prostration of intellect as is exhibited among the
peasantry of deluded and priest-ridden Ireland, and to
witness such callousness of feeling as is indicated by
the abominable transaction which we have just related.
What an awful system that must be which instils such
merciless principles into the minds of the populace,
and what an awful responsibility rests upon the shoul-
ders of
,those who defend, uphold, and encourage this
system ! Popery seems to root out of the heart some
of the strongest instincts of humanity, and to supply
their place with feelings and motives of the most dia-
bolical character. How different is the mild, and mer-
ciful, and peaceable influence of Protestantism. What
part of England, Scotland, or Wales can be pointed
out, where even the most abandoned female would re•
fuse aid and shelter to a fellow creature " in the hour
of her extremity ?"

It is not improbable that our radical and pro-Popish
contemporaries will endeavour to turn the painful nar-
rative, upon which we have been commenting, into
ridicule. Let them do so. The time may yet arrive
(we pray it may not) when such scenes may be enacted
in this country. The time may perhaps come, when
the liberal journalists will feel, and know by bitter
experience, the baneful, heart-searing influence of
Popery. They are doing all they can to encourage
the perpetration of such hellish deeds as are every clay
witnessed in Ireland, while they point the finger of
scorn at all who seek to emancipate the infatuated
dupes of the Romish priesthood from their galling bon-
dage.

LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.—From the report of
this society, for the past year, just published, we find
that it includes within the range of its operations in
Ireland 1,143 day schools and 1,279 Sunday and adult
day schools, which together comprise a total of 139,091
scholars receiving the benefits of religious instruction
Of these no fewer than 31,285 are stated to be Roman
Catholic children.

Under the head of the circulation of the holy scrip-
tures by this society, the report, after stating that
23,320 copies have been put into circulation during the
past year, goes on to remark—" The whole number of
Bibles and Testaments put into circulation by the in-

strumentality of the society, since the commencement
of its operations, amounts to four hundred and nine-
teen thousand six hundred and fifty-nine.
"Nearly the whole of this vast number has been
granted at various times by the British and Foreign
Bible Society, and at present it is to that noble insti
tution alone that your committee are indebted for that
munificent supply of the sacred volume which enables
them, year by year, to place the New Testament in
the hands of all those pupils in the schools capable of
reading its contents, and also to distribute a very
large number of Bibles, as well to adult applicants in
all parts of the country, as by way of reward to those
children in the schools who obtain distinction for pro-
ficiency and general good conduct."
The society comprehends in its numerous list of
vice-presidents the Archbishop of Tuam, several of
the Irish and English bishops, and a number of Irish
and English noblemen.

THE ALBlON.—According to our decree, passed on
Tuesday last, we to-day bring up this convicted cri-
minal again for punishment. In doing so, however,
let us not be misunderstood. The public, in a mis-
taken compassion, prompted by the severity of the pe-
nalty, and, perhaps, shrinking from the miserable spec-
tacle presented by the writhings and contortions of
the chastised culprit, may imagine that we are actuated
by a wanton and relentless spirit of cruelty, in the
terrible nature of the punishment which we have been
compelled to inflict. But it is no such thing. We
abhor, quite as • much as the most sensitive
amongst them, the disagreeable office which the stern-
ness of our duty imposes upon us, and feel full as
strong an unwillingness to contemplate the wrigglings
and twistings of the unhappy wretch, beneath the fear-
ful effects of our excoriating lash. But we ate forced
to it. There is a snarling insolence—a spirit of mon-
grel obstin-.cy and perverseness in the hound, which
sends him maliciously growling and yelping at our
heels, and compels us, for the sake of decency and de-
corum, to whip his mangy hide back to his kennel.
We had hoped that, at least for a season, our chas-
tisement of Friday last would have had the effect of
quelling this moral nuisance, and that we should not
have again, for some time, the disgusting task, of turn-
ing from questions of interest and import to the low
level of noticing the ,ribaldry of the Albion. But it
seems we " reckoned without our host." We were
not aware of the brazen-visaged effrontery which lite-
rary prostitution entails upon its victim, nor could we
believe that any association with even habitual infamy
and crime, could superinduce such an open, scoffing
defiance of shame, and truth, and every moral principle
which ought to influence society, as that exhibited by
this profligate print on Monday last. The farrago of
helpless absurdity which the writer put forth in his
reply to our detection and denunciation of his unprin-
cipled conduct, is one of the most pitiable compositions
that ever blotted the broad sheet of a public journal.
Deficient in argument and common-sense, he seeks in
it to conceal his poverty of mind and beggary of ideas,
by a ragged veil of sophistry and cant, and then at-
tempts to give a piquancy or effect to his vapid and
unmeaning phraseology, by a kind of Jeremy Diddler
sort of jocularity, which shews too plainly that it came
from a hungry stomach. We never had the misfortune
of perusing anything half so " stale and unprofitable."
Without the aptitude for reply, or the energy for re-
tort, the wretched author, in a desire to imitate, only
contrived to parody the example we set him, and was
so possessed of the spirit of plagiarism, that he actually
set about stealing from himself; thus repeating usque
ad nauseant, every coarse and vulgar attempt at wit-
ticism with which he has been outraging public taste
for this month Fast.

But the strangest thing of all is the bull-fror, vanity
which seems to possess the man. Why, he is a very
Bobadil in the spirit of boasting and exaggeration.
He can do anything and everything; as his proteges
in the Sister Isle would say, " nothing is too hot or
too heavy for him." He is in imagination the leader
of the Liverpool press. Psha ! if the abilities of every
writer connected with it were concentrated into one
focus, they could not outshine the imaginary brilliancy
of le conducteur de l'Albion ! No itinerant mounte-
bank upon stilts ever paraded himself
-in a rickety ele-
vation, above the gaping vulgar, with more self-satis-
fied impudence, than does this miserable pigmy affect
an ascendancy which neither God nor nature intended
he should occupy. And this has always been the case
where ignorance and egotistical assurance are com-
bined. A conceited, presumptuous fool, who is defi-
cient in natural or acquired accomplishments, is one of
the most arrogant and offensive creatures breathing;
for nu individual, no matter what his class or condition
in society may be, is safe from the scurrilous exagge-
ration of his insolent pretensions. When such is the
case, who can wonder to find a character like the writer
for the Albion, indulging in his hebdomadal tirades of
rant and bombast, and thrusting himself into situations
of notoriety and prominence, where he can earn the
commendation of swaggerers like himself, while his
empty braggadocios and quixotism render him despi-
cable and offensive in the eyes of every one who can
see through the mendacity and the shallowness of his
rabble presumption.

We might, with every possible satisfaction to our-
selves, here pause, and lay down the scourge of chas-
tisement. But we cannot do so. There is a peculia-
rity
in the criminal doings of the Albion that admit of
nn lenity. It is this. In our last article we branded
the Albion as the special-pleader, the extenuator of
the blood-guiltiness of the Monk-murderer. Did he
gainsay or refute the charge ? Did he even attempt
to palliate or soften down the weight of degradation
that we heaped thick and heavy upon his neck ? No;
he dare not ! But what did he do ? He made a joke
of the crime he before defended. He was base enough
to extenuate it on one occasion: he was heartless and
brutal enough to scoff at it on another. He laboured
first to give a garbled and lying representation of it to
the public; but when he found that we uncloaked his
perfidy and hypocrisy, he next sought to jeer, and
laugh, and bandy idle sarcasms on the matter. Thus
he was false, designing, and perfidious before he was
detected ; he was cold-blooded, reviling and a mocker
when exposed to public scrutiny and scorn. We may
sum up his estimate in this respect in a sentence, by
saying—that there is no act of human iniquity he
would net seek to extenuate, to pleass his party.
There is no human obligation he would not despise
and laugh at, to save himself. This may be under-
stood by the allusion (for in truth we cannot transfer
his gross absurdities to our columns) which he makes,
in his reply to us, about our losing the equilibrium of
our senses, and being affected by an over-wrought ap-
prehension, and such like meagre and abortive at-
tempts at satire ;—while there he stood, at the same
time, as we stamped him, with a seared back and a
burning brow, the convicted apologist for blood, and
the scofferat its effusion. We envy him not his feelings.
But we have reserved to the la'st the point to which
we would especially direct the attention of our readers.
There was one observation which we made use of in
our reply which seemed peculiarly to tickle the fancy
of our irascible contemporary. IVe accused him of
"voluntarily shaking hands with a branded felon across
the channel, and becoming, in his own proper person,
the gratuitous, unpaid, and thankless extenuator of as
dark a crime as ever outraged the laws of God or
man." The editor of the Albion sneered deridingly
at this. He talked about "a long arm" and "a long
bow," and seemed, while he contemplated the idea, to
hug some secret satisfaction to his own breast. There
was evidently something in the notion of " the brand-
ed felon" being "across the channel" and the exten-
sion of his associate's helping hand to him, at such a
distance, which seemed to please the latter mightily.
We saw 'the laughing devil in his sneer," but for the
life of us could not tell, what brought him there. But
now the mystery is unravelled. Carrick was in Liver-
pool at the time. Perhaps at the very moment when
the ingenious and honest(?) apologist was penning the
exculpatory at title, the wretched outcast was being
hunted through the streets of Liverpool to his den.
Now we can plainly see why the editor of the Albion
chuckled with such inward satisfaction at our supposi-
tion of Carrick's remote position from him, and why,
at the fancied success of the imposition, he gave such
ill-timed and unbecoming expression to his mirth. Let
a discerning public appreciate the fact : the very
morning (Monday) on which appeared the unseasona-
ble mockery of the Albion, was that on which the
monk Carrick was brought before the magistrates of
Liverpool.
" Which is the villain ? Let me see his eyes,
. . That when I note another man like him,
I may avoid him."
But we cannot pause here ; we have a more serious

question to investigate than even the implied privity
of the writer of the Albion with the biding place of
the hunted. murderer. Why came Carrick at all to
Liverpool?. Why come into this strange and suspici
ous land, -where his singular garb and demeanour were
sure to excite inquiry and distrust? Why not the ra-
ther seek, in the wild districts of Tipperary or Con-
nemara, the protection and association of spirits as
guilty and as outlawed as himself ? The answer to
these questions is at hand. With the craft and know-
ledge peculiar to his profession, Carrick must have
known the fatal and pernicious spread of Popery and
priestcraft in England. He must have been informed
how perilously—we might almost add, resistlessly—
the fatal influence of an anti-English church and
creed, religious and political, is erecting itself in the
midst of our\time-hallowed and venerable institutions,
and how arrogantly and imperiously the ascendancy
and supremacy of the Autocrat of Rome are again
establishing themselves in the core and marrow of
Protestant ascendancy. Yes, they were convictions
such as these, rest assured, men of Liverpool, which
caused the hunted monk to forsake the wilds of his own
country, and seek an asylum and a shelter in the very
centre of your wealty and populous community. But
upon whose threshold do we affix the guilt and the re-
proach of this ? Fearlessly do we assert, upon those
of the base sacrificers of this country's name and cha-
racter, like the Albion, who, for the vile purpose of
pandering to the depraved appetites of their employ-
ers, care not to what mischievous and demoralising
opinions they give both sanction and circulation—who,
for the sake of the miserable hire they earn by the
performance of the most discreditable and reprehensi-
ble offices, care not how they become aliens to their
God and renegades to their country, and who would
barter their fidelity to the one and their allegiance to
the other, for the wages of one hour's infamy. And
in this class of political apostates do we rank the edi-
tor of the Albion, and to his whole conduct in the affair
of the miserable Carmelite, as well as to the subse-
quent detection and arrest of that wretch in the midst
of this community, do we point as a fearful illustration
of the execrable results attending the spread of the
doctrines of which he and his Papal and Radical com-
peers throughout the nation are the authors and pro-
mulgators. It is as yet but an isolated case we have
recorded, but it is a fearfully prominent and startling
one!

Unbind the Albion! Let the wretch to his ken-
nel! I

THE CORN AVERAGES.—This day, and during the
following week till Friday next, nearly a million of
quarters of foreign corn will be released out of bond,
of which a great proportion will issue from the gra-
naries of this port. We have no doubt that the rise
of the averages will bring the rate of duty on wheat
to-day, at 12 o'clock, to one shilling per quarter only;
and the officers and clerks at the Custom-house will
have a busy time of it for several days to come; and
much anxiety will be felt by those merchants who have
vessels at sea, and who expect to receivetheir cargoes
before the duty rises again. We shall have some ob-
servations to offer on Tuesday on the subject of the
recent rise in the averages.

THE TOWN COUNCIL—THE FREEMEN—AND THE
FRANCHISE.—In our last we indulged in some animad-
versions on the speech of Alderman Evans on the
question of the freemen's admission. We now pro-
ceed to examine the remaining orations, made at the
same meeting of the Town Council.

The worthy that next got up to illuminate his fellow-
councillors with the brilliant corruscations of his wit,
was the redoubtable Mr. Bolton—the personage who
has so little music in his soul, albeit an orator of the
first water, as to wish to dispose of the organs in our
churches. This gentleman informed the council that
he was " opposed to exclusive privileges, whether in
matters of opinion as to religion or politics;" and yet
he would, if he could, prevent a single conservative
from sitting at the council board, and would wish to
see the great mass of the property and intelligence of
the country unrepresented in the House of Commons.
He could not see " why one party in the country
should be prejudiced, to the benefit of another ;" and
yet, with true radical consistency, he would have the
householders benefitted, to the prejudice of the free-
men. It was reserved to this great genius to discover
that the inchoate freemen were the " accidental sons
and apprentices of freemen"—a discovery which merits
introduction at one of the sectional lucubrations of the
peripatetic philosophers of the British Association,
when next they meet together for the amicable inter-
change of their absurdities. How conferring the fran-
chise upon the " accidental sons and apprentices of
freemen" would " lead to universal suffrage," it is
somewhat difficult to comprehend, unless this profound
philosopher has made the still further discovery that
all men are accidentally born—a theory scarcely re-
concileable with the experience of mankind for nearly
six thousand years.
Mr. Bolton says, that those who " advocate the ex-
clusive privileges" of the freemen, (how can they be
exclusive when shared by the householders ?) would
" sell the electors like cattle in the market." This is
something new. We have before heard of bribing the
electors, but we never knew of an instance in which
they " were sold like cattle" by a third party. On
what grounds does Mr. Bolton hazard the assertion
that the freemen unjustly possess their privileges?
Have they not been in possession of those privileges
for centuries before the householders were admitted
to participate in them ? Have not the same privileges
—chartered to them from time immemorial—been so-
lemnly ratified by the reform bill, for which Mr. Bol-
ton and his compeers clamoured so long and so voci-
ferously ? Where, then, is the injustice of the case?
" The sting of the scorpion is in its tail," or rather,
we should say, the sting of the wasp, which insect
affords a better comparison, on account of its insigni-
ficance; so the sting of Mr. Bolton's speech makes its
appearance at the caudal extremity. He said that
" he was a householder," and that " he would stick to
his order, conceiving it to be the order which ought to
have all the privileges !" Yes, all the privileges.
And yet this ingenuous advocate for the superiority
of his order set out with the declaration, that " he was
opposed to exclusive privileges." Here is consistency
with a vengeance. By which of these declarations
does Mr. Bolton mean to abide ? Were. they both de-
liberately and consciously uttered, or did they drop
" accidentally" from his lips?
The next speaker who followed in the same track
as Mr. Bolton and Mr. Evans had traversed, was the
classical Mr. Coglan, who resisted the measure, " on
the broad and extended basisr and on the principle of
of correct reform." What this "broad and extended
basis," and this " correct reform" were, we are not
informed ; neither are we told what they had to do
With the matter under discussion. It is a favourite
practice with the liberals to deal in grandiloquent
terms, to which they cannot attach any definite mean-
ing, for the purpose of concealing the barrenness of
their intellects, and deluding " the people" into the
belief that they are wonderfully clever fellows. The
vulgar and uneducated are apt to be easily led astray
by high-sounding language, of which they cannot fa-
thom the meaning; and the reforming agitators have
largely resorted to this sort of trickery with their gap-
ing audiences. We detest this practice, and should
have preferred hearing in plain English what Mr.
Coglan meant by his " extended basis," and his "cor-
rect principle of reform,"
Mr. Coglan remarked that " lie could not for a mo-
ment recognise the claims of a body of men, who had
been absolutely foisted on the reformers of this coun-
try, as the price paid for the reform bill." From this
language it might be inferred that " the reformers"
were originally in exclusive possession of the fran-
chise, and that the new-fledged freemen were a species
of intruders, who had no business to interfere with
the single-minded liberal gentry, and no claim to
exercise the electoral franchise. Whatever Mr. Cog-
lan may choose to " recognise" or to repudiate, the
freemen's rights have, as we have before said, been
recognised long before his great.grandfather ran
breechless and barefooted over the bogs of Ireland.
We have rarely met with a more splendid specimen
of blundering (excepting in some of Mr. Spring Rice's
notable attempts at legislation) than we find exhibited
in the argument by which Mr. Coglan seeks to prove
that the freemen " have no just claim to the rights
and privileges they now enjoy," and to justify his
avowed intention of depriving them of those privi-
leges, should he ever have the opportunity. He first
states that the retention of the freemen on. the elec-
toral roll was insisted upon as a condition in the com-
promise which took place on the reform bill. He then
states that, unless the reformers had agreed to that,
the bill would never have passed. And then he brings
in his ergo—because the reformers paid this price for
the reform bill, the price is now to be returned to them

unconditionally. A very honest mode of reasoning
truly ! We should like to know whether Mr. Coglan
would admit its validity in any transaction in which
he might have a personal interest. Let us suppose
that a person is found who is so bereft of reason as to
venture on the purchase of the Floating Bath—that he
concludes the purchase for a certain solid consideration
—that he pays down the cash, and takes possession
of that unshapely washing-tub. What would Mr.
Coglan say if that person afterwards came to him on
'Change, and accosted him in some such terms as the
following:—" I have got possession of your washing.
tub, and, though I am not satisfied with my purchase,
I mean to retain it; but I beg leave to inform you,
sir, that I do not recognise your right to keep the
money which I have paid you as the price of the said
tub, and I warn you that I shall seize the first oppor-
tunity that occurs for dispossessing you of the mo-
ney ?" What would be Mr. Coglan's answer? Would
he not at once pronounce the man dishonest ? De to
fabula narrator.
Mr. Coglan seems to have imbibed Mr. Bolton's
theory respecting the "accidental" origin of the free-
men. We should like to know whether some men are
"by accident" born to make fools of themselves : for
the following remark indicates a degree of stolidity
which it would be difficult to acquire by study. "He
could not consider them but as a portion of the corn-
munity that had the dangerous privileges of universal
sofil•age, with its worst consequences connected with
it." How is it possible for a portion of the commu-
nity, and that confessedly a very small fractional por-
tion, to enjoy the privilege of universal suffrage ?
As a delectable specimen of the significant redupli-
cation of a favourite term we think the following sen-
tence in Mr. Coglan's speech is unrivalled :—" If
universal suffrage were conceded to the great mass of
the community, it would have this good, that the great
mass of persons entrusted with the right of voting
would be so great that no purse could reach them, so
that they might to a great extent cease to be corrupt.
But the class of freemen was to a great extent ex-
posed to much greater temptations." This reasoning
is as fallacious as the other arguments of this liberal
spouter. Mr. Coglan maintains that the freemen of
Liverpool, three thousand in number, are corrupt,
venal, and dissolute. Without acknowledging the
truth of this' accusation, we would seriously ask whe-
ther universal suffrage, in its proper sense, would ren-
der corruption and venality less probable in the hun-
dred small boroughs which have now the privilege of
sending members to parliament than they are at pre-
sent in the town of Liverpool ? Would it not be just
as easy and just as likely for a thousand universal
suffrage voters to be bOught up in the village of Mar-
petit, as for the three thousand freemen of Liverpool
to be so purchased ? Yes, and we are confident that
universal suffrage, even in Liverpool, would render
the constituency ten times more corrupt than it is.
We should like to be informed by Mr. Coglan of
the reasons why he says that he cannot recognise the
freemen of Liverpool "in the state," and how and
when he made the notable discovery that "they have
no interest in the state." Do they not pay taxes as
well as the householders? Have they not "houses
over their heads" as well as Mr. Coglan and his clique ?
Mr. Coglan concluded his speech as he began it, by
asserting that " he would not recognise that body of
men." Mark how contemptuously he designates
them—that body—as if beneath his notice and unwor-
thy to breath the same atmosphere with the "Knight
of the Washing-Tub." But Mr. Coglan will be forced
ere long to recognise "that body" of men—every one
of whom, even the meanest, is in every respect his
equal—except, indeed, in vulgarity and stupidity. If
we mistake not, Mr. Coglan will vacate his seat for
St. Ann's Ward this year. Will he not be glad to
"recognise" the despised freemen at the polling booth
—if they vote for him ? We say if, because we deem
it next to impossible that any freeman should so far
degrade himself and " his order" as to vote for a
scurvy radical in any ward in the town. The proba-
bility is that the freemen will refuse " to recognise"
Mr. Coglan !
We must again break off. We shall return to this
subject on Tuesday next. We like to dwell upon it.
Let the freemen and the conservatives generally harp
upon it from this till November. It will, indeed, prove
a formidable " bugbear" to the trembling radicals in
the Town Council. Let them meet the "bugbear"
in every society, and at every corner of the street.

CORRESPONDENCE'.

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—The following letter was sent to the Editor of the
Railway Timea, who has not thought fit to publish it, because
it contains a just censure of his dishonest remarks upon the
Great Western Railway. You are no doubt aware, Sir, that
a very large stake is held in this undertaking by our towns-
men, and it has been most unfairly cried down by interested
parties, who have been sellers for time delivery, and who
are endeavouring to realise a profit at the expense of the
timid. The known fact of the Editor of the Railway Times
having been a large jobber in other railways, in which he has
used similar means to serve his purpose, fairly leads to the
inference that he has also been speculating in the Great
Western shares, and that the whole tendency of his remarks
have been made either to serve himself or a party by whom
he is paid.—By your insertion of the letter, you will serve
the public, and oblige yours, &c. A HEADER.
September 12th, 1838.

" GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
" TO TIIL•' EDITOR OF THE R.,111,1V.11- TIMES'.

" have beets a constant reader and subscriber to
the Railway Times since its first introduction. I highly
approved of the principles upon which you set out of making
it the legitimate medium of information and of support to
the railway system. and strictly an impartial chronicle and
guide for that portion of the public who are interested in the
progress of railroads; and whilst I am willing to give you
credit for the exertions you use, and the ability with which
your journal is conducted, I have to charge you with a most
grave and important dereliction of those principles upon
which you courted public favour.
" I allude more particularly to the bias which you have
evidently taken against the Great Western Railway, and its
engineer, Mr. Brunel. Now, Sir, it is a known fact that
there are journals who front private design signal out popular
persons and objects, and endeavour to create for themselves
a very unenviable degree of popularity, by directing their
remarks undeviatingly to their prejudice, or, in other words,
making a settled system of victimising. Such, I regret to
think, is the spirit you display in your remarks on the Great
Western Railway, and its engineer, Mr. Brunel; as I be-
lieve, in every number of the Railway Times since its first
publication, the Great Western is abused. I take up the
paper every week prepared to find Mr. Brunel and his prin-
ciples decried, and lam never disappointed. It is quite a
common question among the railway world, with whom I am
in daily contact, to ask on the Monday morning following
your publication, Have you seen the Railway Times? What
does he say this week against the Great Western ?' Thus,
Sir, have you fallen into an error, which, if my surmise of
the editorship of your paper be correct, you of all others
should have avoided; for I confess that the impression con-
veyed to my mind is, that your remarks on the Great Wes-
tern have become as disingenuous, and 1 was going to add
unprincipled, as the attacks of the Railway Magazine are
upon the Eastern Counties. lam sure you will not consider
this desirable popularity, and if you wish to lie freed from
the imputation, I hope you will in future adopt the tone of
an impartial chronicler, and not of one who, it would appear,
has.'preconceived notions, or, more probably, private fetlin gs
to gratify.
" I have been led more immediately to these remarks by-
perusing the manner in which you have reported the pro-
ceedings of the Great Western Railway proprietors, and the
tone of your leading article, in which, instead of answering
the statements of Mr. Brunel regarding that portion of his
system to which he pledges his reputation, and which you
have always opposed, you dismiss the subject with some
strong remarks upon the excessive cost, which, however un-
favourable, every body was prepared for,--and a gratuitous
assumption that it will even exceed two or three millions
over this estimate. I have no personal acquaintance with
Mr. Brunel, and although I think much may be said in
favour of his system, I am not now prepared to defend it ;
but admitting his premises to be correct. I will say that I
consider his report a very able one; and all that I. should
ask of you is to give him credit for his merits (which if you
do not the public will), and argue against his errors in a
spirit of honest impartiality.

.
" I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
" FAIR PLAY."

TEE-TOTALISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST✓III).4RD.

SlR,—Your correspondent, Moderation, does not seem to
understand the cause of tee-totalism, inasmuch as he has ad-
dressed a note to Lawrence Hepworth, Esq., requesting hint
to reconcile certain texts of scripture with the objects con-
templated by the Tee-totallers.
It is not, so far as I have been able to discover, that tee-
totalism is founded upon the word of God, but that it is
founded upon the proverb " Example is better than precept."
We are nowhere in scripture commanded to take wine, but
we are advised, and this, as the author of the whole duly of
man observes, when we find our spirits wasting with thought
or labour; but when men see that it is an act of Christian
philanthrophy to abstain from this, and find themselves none
the worse, they sacrifice the pleasure in order to set an ex-
ample to their fellow-mortals who are in a state of wretch-
edness.

Drunkenness is strongly condemned in scripture, but mo-
deration, rightly exercised, is encouraged.—Yours, &c.,
12th September, 1838. J. NV.

SMOKE-CONSUMING FURNACE.--We beg to draw the
attention of the public to an advertisement which appears in
our columns of to-day, respecting an Unproved smoke-con-
suming furnace, applied to a steam boiler in the yard of
Messrs. Page and Grantham, Williams-street, which will be
open for inspection on Monday and Tuesday next. We con-
sider this improvement of very great public importance, as
tending to do away with one of the most serious nuisances
now existing in this rising port. —From a correspondent.
THE GREAT MAGICIAN.—We have formerly noticed the
superiority of Mr. Anderson's feats in the " magic art;"—
to form, however, a proper conception of the skill, ingenuity,
and incomprehensible nature of his deceptions, our readers
must go and judge for themselves. With a frankness that
never fails to please, the conjuror calls upon the spectators
to watch his motions sharply, at the very moment a decep-
tion is about to practised; every eye is eager to detect the
trick; every neck is stretched; and yet, staring you in the
face, be will command things the most distant to change
places—separate substances apparently chemically com-
bined—convert an orange into a young lady, and perform
fifty other feats equally wonderful, in al! of them setting the
most lynx-eyed of his lookers at defiance for a solution of the
ways and means by which they were accomplished. .But
the most perfect of all is "the gun trick." You see the ball
marked with a knife, and ascertained to be bona fide cold
lead—you see the ball coolly and deliberately dropped into
the muzzle of the piece—you hear it fall plump and solid to
to the bottom—you could almost swear to the fact, even
though your judgement may tell you the whole is a trick ;
the gun is fired, and the apparently invulnerable Magician
seems to receive it harmlessly between his teeth, or in the
palm of his hand. It is altogether admirably accomplished,
and so deeply conviced bare we seen hundreds, as to the
bullet being. actually in the gun, that they would not have
discharged it for any remuneration in money. In addition
to his magical performances, the demeanour of Mr. Anderson
is that of gentleman—polite, courteous, and affable. Again
we say to all—go and see the great Magician."—Glasgow
July 5, 1838.