The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

THE IRISH CORMORANT.

We extract the following from an able letter which ap-
peared in the London Times of Thursday last, from the pen
of Mr. Eneas Al`Donnell. Alas, poor Ireland ! Given up
as she is to the tender mercies of so insatiable a cormorant,
need we wonder that her famishing children are ready for
every and any outrage to escape from the pestilence of famine
on the one band, and the devouring jaws of her oppressors on
the other!

" The Dublin Weekly Register of last Saturday contains
two prominently placed paragraphs, from each of which I
beg leave to insert a brief extract_ .n 1 fr, *Ann.. . t__

:raceside, without note or comment, as follows :
ce sloe by
DISTRESS IN THE THE O'CONNELL COM-
COUNTRY. PENSATI ON FUND.
' DISTRESS IN CORK.— The sum just forwarded by
The distress of the working Mr. Lyons makes the total re-
classes, arising from the al- ceipts from this great locality,
most total cessation of em- in which he acts as treasurer
ployment, and the dearness of (CORK city and county),
provisions, occasioned by the amount up to this day to
late unfavourable harvests, is upwards of two thousand
as great as we remember it pounds, and this striking pro-
to have been at any time. " ducewill bespeedilyinereased
by contributions from the pa-
rishes still outstanding.'

TO THE CONSERVATIVE MERCHANTS OF

LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,—It being now publicly notorious that,
through the combined interest of papists, radicals, quakers,
and dissenters, about 800 precursors" have had their taxes
paid, and are placed on the register as legitimate voters for
this borough, it becomes a most important question, By
whom do these said 800 individuals live ?—upon whom do
they depend for a subsistence ? I will answer the question,
and challenge proof to the contrary,—that a great majority
of them gain their livings from the employment given them
by the conservative merchants of Liverpool. And if the
men fairly paid their own taxes, in order to entitle themselves
to a vote, I would not complain, although they voted to a
man against the views entertained by their employers, being
bound to suppose that they acted conscientiously in so doing.
But the case is far different when other parties do that which
the employer himself has not thought it right to do—paid
the taxes of his men, in order that they may make those men
act directly contrary to the Arkin.:

-••••• SUCLI employer.
The case having arrived at this point, I think every con-
servative merchant or employer is fully justified—nay further,
I would say, every sound conservative is hound to take a list
of the men in the habit of being employed by him, and ascer-
taining if their taxes have thus been paid, in order to secure
radical votes, and in such case give orders that his ware-
houseman should in future select others more deserving of
his employ.

I might*be told that this would act two ways ; but I know
a little too much of radical tactics to suppose that a radical
papist would allow a man to continue in his employ whose
tales had been paid by the conservative party, and whose
vote would go to support that party. Your liberal would
not be guilty of such a truly liberal trick. It is time that
you, the conservative merchants of Liverpool, should see
that you are yourselves instrumental in swamping your own
conservative influence with a set of the lowest class of Irish
Papists, while there are hundreds, I may say thousands, of
honest English and Irish Protestants—aye, and I may say,
your own townsmen, too—who are near starvation for the
want of work. The porterage work of this town is in a very
great measure in the hands of Papists, and not content with
earning their livings out of you, the conservative merchants,
they now wish to swamp your legitimate influence. One
great evil is, in your leaving all to the discretion of ware-
housemen, without being first assured as to the soundness of
such warehousemen. Let the merchants of Liverpool lay
these hints to heart, and act upon them, ere it be too late.
I beg to remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
FAIR PLAY.

STRANGE DOINGS AT THE TOWN-HALL

'0 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sfu,--,Having occasion to go to the ToWn-hall this day,
to identify an apprentice who, by appointment, bad to attend
for the purpose of being enrolled a freeman of the borough,
judge of my surprise at having to wait until a quarter before
three o'clock before a single name was called over, and then
so slowly, that at least one-half of the number assembled
(chiefly working-men, some of whom with their friends had
been wailing from ten a.m.) were not examined as to their
eligibility before four o'clock, at which hour the remainder
were ordered to " call again to-morrow." Is not this " too
bad ?" " Can such things be without our special wonder ?"
Had they been a band of " precursors" or " protectors," led
on by Langan's fugleman Atkinson, would they have been
so treated ? Of course his worship " Sir Joshua" knows
nothing of these doings and delays. Yet, as the term is
approaching which will preclude another opportunity this
year, I hope the young freemen will persevere in their at-
tendance to claim their rights and privileges.
Waiting your attention, I am, sir, yours truly,
A BURGESS, ALSO AN EYE-WITNESS.
Thursday, July 23, 1840, 5 p.m.

Is British Guiana, with millions of acres of
themost fertile alluvial soil, into which a hoe was never
thrust, and with unrivalled facilities of water commu-
cation, an exhausted colony ? This future El Dorado
of Great Britain's western possessions an exhausted
colony ! Is the Mauritius, in which, within the last
four years only, thousands of acres of virgin soil have
been brought into successful cultivation, and in which
a larger proportion still lies uncultivated, an exhausted
colony ? These four colonies, if immigration into them
were properly encouraged, could alone supply 'all
Europe with sugar; and yet Mr. Ewart talks about
fostering "our exhausted colonies !"

A considerable part of the morning was devoted to settling
on the Liverpool events. The books were heavy, and we
imagine the " Sleight-of-Hand trick" did not suit some of
our capitalists. Several parties win long odds rather unex-
pectedly.
Touching the Goodwood Stakes and Cup, we may observe,
that 7to 1 was offered on the field for the former. At one
period it was taken about Orelia, but a point more was laid
before the close. Clarion is about an equal favourite, 7to 1
being accepted in ponies yesterday ; 8 to 1 was offered v.
Hetman for the Stakes, and 5 to 1 for the Cup. There
were takers at 3 to 1 that either Platoff or Lanercost win the
latter event ; and we saw no one disposed to adventure 3 to 1
against Charles the Twelfth, 50 to 20 was the extreme of the
market. Romulus, owing to the London quotations, and
also Bloomsbury, were both sans friends, the one at 60 to 5,
offered repeatedly, the latter at 100 to 5, which price was of-
fered against the Dey of Algiers, about whom there was a
good deal of chat, but no business. Some cross bets were
certainly proposed, but did not take effect. A desire was
shown in a good quarter to back Mr. Ridsdale's Tag-rag ;
and, after a good deal of sparring, a few hundreds were " put
on," at 25 to 1. Drayton's price, for the St. Leger, may be
considered 100 to 6 (freely off). Gibraltar was proposed
against at 12 to 1. The Shah was backed at 300 to 6.
Nothing was done on Crucifix or Launcelot, we think. 3to
I would have been laid against either; certainly it was
offered at noon, bar one. 25 to 1 was offered against Dr.
Caius. Galen would have been backed, if the fieldsmen
would have " come out."

THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE STASES

There were offers to take 2 to 1 on the Dean. 4to 1
offered, bar one. --
TATTERSALL' S.—MONDAY.

Some important alterations will be found in the events now
in the market for 1840. The Goodwood Cup, if we may
judge from the betting, is reduced to a match between
Charles the Twelfth and Hetman Plate, Lanercost having
declined to 8 to 1, with the loss of nearly all his friends ;
Bloomsbury to 14 to 1, in consequence of a statement that
he had met with an accident on his road to Goodwood ; and
Romulus to 10 and 11 to 1, taken two or three times ; it
must be added, .however, that 18 and 25 to 1 were laid against
him after the room closed. The Goodwood Stakes betting
was flat, and remarkable. only for as improvement in Orelia.
For the St. Leger, Launcelot and Crucifix were at 7 to 2 each,
or takers of 4 to 1; 10 to 1 laid once against Gibraltar, and
only 15 to 1 against Galen, who was in immense favour. The
betting, which on the whale was languid, closed as follows :