The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

THE LIVIRPOOL STANDARD, TTThSDAY, MAY 24, 1853.

DUBLIN EXHIBITION. MR. GLADSTONE'S FINANCIAL POLICY.
Tthe new stocks devised b
ADIES' & GENTLEMEN'S SEASON TICKETS THE consents to accet
-4-1 are ON SALE at the following places :
py
Messrs. MILNER and SON, Lord-street. the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER for the
Messrs. JONES and Sox. Castle-street. reduction of the interest on the National Debt,
Mr. DismoßE Bold-street.
Gentlemen, Two Guitleaa; Ladies, One Guinea. have come in day by day in such infinitesimal doses,
—in such ridiculous disproportion to the magni-
tude of the sum proposed to be dealt with,—that

LOCAL SECRETARIES.
Mr...TNO. GRANTHAM, 9, Orange-court.
W. T. C. ARCHER, 54, Lord-street.

even the partisans of the patchwork Cabinet cannot
TO CORRESPONDENTS. help pronouncing the scheme a decided failure.
tt3' Re shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends otwithstanding the immense advantage which was
Will be good enough to authenticate the same by their sigma- anticipated from the adhesion of the PEELITE sec-
tares. for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged. tion to the used-up Russata, faction, finance seems
THE MEETING IN CIRCUS-STREET.--We have received nu- likely to prove as dangerous a stumbling-block as
raerous letters on this subject. Those which we have selected Will be found In another column, and are, we think, quite ever. This first essay of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
..%nfficient for every purpose. financial skill ought not, however, to be without its
4i)n
• nihas no ground of complaint against us for his name not uses. It should make men more cautious how
e
g mentioned among the Liverpool exhibitors in our re- they accept that ingenious scheme known as the
Port of the Great Industrial Exhibition at Dublin. No catalogue has yet bean published to form a guide, and those Budget, and cause them to hesitate before they
who
ihodesired to be specially alluded to, should have furnished adopt statements on the mere faith of a reputa-
ath the particulars of their respective contributions. tion which nothing has yet occurred to justify.
One of the vaunted items of the conversion scheme
was the proposed Exchequer Bonds, which were to
form such eligible securities for investment ; but
the returns of acceptance on several days have been
entered " nil," and the whole amount agreed to be
taken is no more than many a Liverpool merchant
could conveniently do with his spare cash. But
the failure has not been for want of advocacy, for
the Times has studiously endeavoured to earn its
bribe of £26,000 a year by recommending the ac-
ceptance of these Exchequer Bonds in every pos-
sible variety of seductive recommendation, though
all apparently without effect. The total amount of
stock for compulsory conversion is about ten mil-
lions ; and, as the whole of the assents at the
South Sea House, up to the close of last week,
realised only £125,815 Bs. lid., there is a heavy de-
ficit of dissentients to be paid off. No provision has
been made for the creation of new stock to provide
for the deficit ; and, as the CHANCELLOR of the

Xiberpoot *tanbarri,

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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1653.

THE VOTE FOR MAYNOOTH COLLEGE :
DEFEAT OF THE MINISTRY.
WE begin to have some hopes of the present
I:louse of Commons, despite the erroneous conclu-
sions to
.which they
not sometimes come, when party,
last r
pinciple, is the prevailing motive. On Thursday
the, in the ordinary Sessional business of voting
Suppl*e: s, an operation so much a matter of
course, that it rarely commands more than a small
littendance, a vote of -P45,000 for public buildings
In Irelatd was opposed by Mr. SPOONER, on the
ground that it contained an item of £1,235 13s.
for repairing and maintaining the Romish College
Of Maynooth, and he moved that the vote should
be reduced by that sum. In vain did Lord JOHN
11SSELL utter some of his absurdities in defence
of the grant,—for he has a mania on this subject,
trviloitio
i:iheussperienced such a violent re-action in the
Durham letter, that he has ever since
been more ardent in his Romanist tendencies than
be
Was before, In rain did the firebrand Lucas,
HWith Sir JAMES ...nr GRAHAM and Mr. SIDNEY
Itl3"T, Come to the rescue : the Dissenters.
tn ed with 'the Conservatives, and the vote for
Ynooth was refused by a majority of 76 to 56.
landthough but an instalment of justice to Eng-
tc:lB a step in the right direction, and shows
ior'mthe voice of the people, which has been so
tau"'
of Pressed in condemnation of the mainte-
t nee this hotbed of superstition, is beginning
to be 'heard through their representatives. The
tleas
must be to repeal the Endowment which
the House of Commons was induced to grant
p nragh the plausibility of the late Sir ROBERT
Pro
; and we shall then only have made small
press towards rescuing our unhappy Irish fellow-
ritnetspjeoctties from that spiritual thraldom and priestly
ea which keeps them in ignorance of the
blessed truths of Christianity, in social misery, and
lo political insubordination.

EXCHEQUER, when questioned on this subject,

alluded with seeming confidence in their not being
wanted to the balances in the Treasury, we pre-
sume that they will have to be devoted to this ob-
ject, or an application made to Parliament for
powers to amend the defects of the previous ar-
rangement. Some Conservatives lamented the de-
fection of the PEELITES, but in Mr. GLADSTONE

we have lost no great amount of financial ability.
The following is the return of the total amount
accepted up to Saturday night at the Bank of Eng-
land, and at the South Sea House, distinguishing
the several kinds of new stock :

S AMONG THE LABOURING
CLASSES.

TI-IPatt seems to be an insuperable obstacle to
successful legislation for the great mass of the
Population, however skilful the design or philan-
A
nti-Corn Law League
wtrophic the intention. When the hirelings of the
ere agitating the country
for the repeal of the Corn-
the most magniloq laws, they indulged in
ings which uent promises of the great bless-
were to be enjoyed under a system of
Free-trade policy. Food was to be cheap, employ-
tilent was to be universal, and wages were to be
tnnple; so that every working man and his family
might enjoy the comforts which were previously
confined to the classes above them. England would
know' no want, the prisons were to be empty, and
14e workhouses useless. Such was the day-dream
pictured in glowing colours before the unreflecting
mTsses, and the treachery of a Conservative Minis-
assisted to put the realisation to the test.
"even years have -since rolled by, and though the
tiexiitsrtarotaidia,inary discoveries of gold in California and
with the mania for emigration to which
tbileY, have given rise, have filled up the outlines so
nIY drawn by the Free-trade enthusiasts, the
latter
r a claim all the results as the fulfilment of their
tialP-SetuaiteetionL The last year-and-a-half has witnessed
of commercial activity and prosperity almost
azindParalleled, food has been comparatively abundant,
tunernPloYment has been at the command of every
the ~° was willing to labour. But where are
tu,ru°'`a that such a coveted state of things are
of the blessings which were anticipated ?
t‘lat:.:4l.gtircattiivoen has taken off the portion of the popu-
ki which was said to be redundant, and added
to t
em
be d
...
heo • ands upon industry, but the truth is
nn ng strikingly apparent that the happiness of
Is beyond the control of legislation, and

People
east' despite the most favourable circumstances, men
ilrte endowed with human passions and impulses
tdeb set at nought all the calculations of political
e°rists-
urne The working man complains of hard
t1,7,e of dear food, and of ruinous competition
lii;singlow wages and uncertain employment. All
camp paints are redressed. Free-trade has given
thidi abundance of cheap food, emigration has
ac nned the 'ranks of his competitors, commercial
vity has found him full employment ; and how
toi.es he receive the boon ? From manufacturing
4123 from busy seaports, and even from rural dis-
'l,s the reports are multiplied of workmen of all
tieecriptions joining in strikes and turn outs for
_
creased wages, or for reduced hours of labour,
for additional advantages ; and in some places it 15
said that, owing to the present high rate of wages,
twlle men refuse to work for more than three days a
:etilt,content to remain in their present state, or
co th:t4etZeencl lower in the scale of social position,
This is a eY may enjoy the luxury of idleness.
promised melancholy
otlfight bar:°b reverse of a picture which
whmdustr fair; but, after all, it is no more than
y,
as
sen expected. Necessity is the parent
the latter is the parent of wealth,
1:10111 in its turn
produces indolence, which leads to
IlertY and it was only the constant demand
01;011 the energies of Englishmen, the fertile source
its many complaints, which raised this country to
tooP1,:dell of national greatness. Circumstances have
doted mitigate much of the grievances
to ed bY our industrious classes—we have laboured
4ticialigment their means of physical enjoyment—
directi Modern legislation has been all in the same
Don theby removing the burden of taxation from
e greatn.
mass of tilt consumers, and throwing it
But, in eland and the possessors of realised property.
realg this, we have also removed the only
ali stimulus to industry, and the fruits are begin-
4cig to be apparent in the general tendency to take
It /.,arltage of the increased demand for its exercise.
04 la the commencement of a struggle between
interest
and labour, in which, though the former
b"ir`erest may I,
ue the first sufferers, the latter must be
1,4.41:1ate1y the worst; and though it may be in
la to raise a warning voice where duty has to
our
with inclination, we shall at least have done
evil!' Part in calling attention to the subject. The
may for a time be stayed by the concessions to
e demands for higher wages, which seems pretty
eivetierallY to have been adopted, but the ultimate
it'ect Must be to increase the mischief; and though
diffiCUlt to suggest a remedy where the only
i:°Pe of its realisation is the good sense of unthink-
g .n
be 414, we must not forget that to be forewarned
` forearmed,

MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITH FHE KNIFE
IN LIVERPOOL.-COMMITTAL OF THE

PRISONER.

At the police office, yesterday, (Monday,) a black sea-
man, of most repulsive aspect, was placed in the dock, on
a charge of a very heinous character, and which of late has
been of frequent occurrence at this port. The name of the
prisoner was John Dowden, and the circumstances of the
case, as brought out on examination, were briefly these.
On the 11th of April last, Dowden entered the boarding-
'oose kept by Mrs. Thompson, at No. 19, Queen-street,
and demanded some supper. Thomas Lloyd, a man of
colour, who was cook at the house in question, (which is
chiefly frequented by coloured seamen,) told Dowden that
he could not have any supper there, and demanded of
him why he came there so often for the purpose of raising
a row. Dowden replied insultingly, that it was not to
him (the cook) that he had addressed himself, but to the
girl, Mary Kilhooley, who was close by at the time. He
added, with evident anger, that he (Lloyd) appeared to be
possessed of the notion that he was master of the house,
and then sprang upon the poor fellow, who was lying upon
a bench in the kitchen. Before the unfortunate cook
knew what the wretched Dowden was doing, he felt the
warm blood flowing from his side. The girl distinctly
saw D )welen take an immense clasp knife from his pocket,
deliberately open it, and then plunge it in the side of the
cook. A copious stream of blood and air rushed from the
wound, and it was afterwards discovered, that in addi-
tion to other severe injuries, one of the poor fellow's ribs
had been cut in two. Lloyd was soon conveyed to the
Northern Hospital, where he lay till yesterday, down to
which time he was unable to appear; and, so far was he re-
moved from a state of safety, it appeared that he was at the
close of the investigation conveyed again to the hospital.
The medical evidence was to the effect that the wounds
are of such a nature as may even yet cause death ; and
it is not likely, if Lloyd survives, that he will ever enjoy
his former state of health. It further came out in the
evidence against the prisoner, that when police-officer
640 was called into Thompson's boarding-house at the
time of the assault, he found Dowden brandishing his
huge knife, which he held in his left hand, and threaten-
ing to plunge it into any one who offered to interfere with
him. When called upon to make his statement, the
prisoner said he had nothing to say in palliation of the
offence save this, that at the time he committed it he was
in a state of intoxication. The magistrates committed
the prisoner to take his trial at the next ensuing assizes,
when be will probably be brought up charged with intent
to commit the capital offence.