The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The Leeds Intelligencer holds out the brightest hopes as
to the prospects of the conservatives in Leeds, Bradford,
Huddersfield, Pontefract, and other neighbouring towns,
should a general election take place shortly. Our contem-
porary also adds, " most certainly two conservatives will be
returned for the riding, if a contest be entered upon."

Mrs. Bolton, of Storr's Hall, but now of Liverpool, had
the kindness to present to the parishioners of Bowness a
new clock that cost her one hundred guineas, exclusive of
paying the carriage of it from Liverpool. After she had
made the prishioners a present of it, they had the audacity
to write to her, " to know who was to be at the expense of
putting it up !"

CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—The other day, as a
young woman was passing along Burlington-street, she
stepped upon the cellar-lid of No. 17, kept by Mrs. Roper.
The cover being loose, her foot slipped upon the hole, and
she was severely bruised. Yesterday, an information was
laid before Mr. Rushton, and Mrs. Roper was flned 108 and
costs for her neglect.

SIIIP LAUNCH.—On Friday, a schooner, of most beauti-
ful proportions, of about 200 tons burden, was launched
from the yard of Messrs. Banister and Co. in Trentham-
street. The vessel is called the Grimaldi, intended to form
one of the " pantomimic" line of Glasgow traders, belong-
ing to W. S. Dixon and Co.

THE REv. J. BA.YLEE'S SECOND LECTURE.—The second
lecture of the Rev. J. Baylee, in answer to Dr. Butler, was
delivered on Friday night in the Music-hall before a very
crowded auditory, among whom were a considerable body of
the clergy. The Rev. H. M`Neile occupied the chair. The
subject of the lecture was the sacrifice of the mass. The rev.
gentleman exposed the errors of the Romish doctrine, to the
conviction of the assembly, who testified their approbation by
repeated bursts of applause. The next lecture—owing to the
pre-engagement of the Music-hall--will be delivered in the
school-room attached to Christ Church.

DEATH BY BURNING.--Yesterday morning, Mary Healy,
wife of a labourer residing in Catherine's-place, Chartres-
street, was found dead, at the bottom of the stairs in her
husband's house. The body was nearly burnt to a cinder.
The husband was the first to discover it, and he called in
some of the neighbours. The floor near where the deceased
was lying was much burnt. An inquest will be held on view
of the body this day.

DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW.—A man named Fall, assistant
to Mr. Dodson, cowkeeper, Brougham-terrace, Derby-road,
was, about six weeks ago, injured by a gig, in King-street,
driven by a young gentleman. He was conveyed to the In-
firmary, where every attention was paid to him, but he died
of lock-jaw on Sunday last. An inquest will of course be
held on the body.
A MAN DROWNED.—Yesterday a man unknown was
taken out of the water at the Potteries, Toxteth-park. He
was conveyed to the station-house, Mr. Lawton's, Welling-
ton-road, where the usual means were applied to restore
suspended animation, but without effect. An inquest will
be held this day.
WRITING AND BOOK-KEEPING.—Ina commercial town
like Liverpool, one of the greatest recommendations of a
young man about to devote himself to mercantile pursuits is
a bold and expeditious hand-writing, and a knowledge of the
most approved system of book-keeping. These desiderata
may be readily attained under the able and rapid tuition of
Mr. Thompson, who has acquired a just celebrity as an ac-
complished penman and accountant.—See Advt.

CAUTION.—On Sunday forenoon last, a respectably-
dressed person, carrying a small travelling-bag, called at a
house, in grove-street, and asked if this was not Mr. 's
house, naming the gentleman who resides in it, and, upon
being answered in the affirmative, was about to walk in.
The servant, however, stated that the family had gone to
church, and requested him to call again. He replied he was
aware they had gone to church, for he had met his master,
who directed him to call and wait his return. The servant,
however, prudently refused to admit the stranger, and he
departed, stating that he would report her conduct to her
master. Upon the return of the family, it was found that
no such person had either been seen or expected,—so that
the nature and object of the gentleman's visit became appa-
rent enough, and, no doubt, he had intended to render the
travelling-bag very useful upon the occasion. Much praise
is due to the servant for her firmness,—and it were well if
servants were always as sharp, and as much on their guard
against the tricks of such characters. As the same worthy
may very probable make similar attempts elsewhere, the
public had better be on the alert.

On Saturday last, a person named John Reid, formerly
cook of a vessel called " the Lorina, Thompson, of Liver-
pool," was lodged in the Gorbals police-office, under the
following circumstances :—The Lorina, it appears, was lying
in the port of Algiers on the 6th of January last, when a
quarrel took place between this man Reid, and a seaman be-
longing to the same vessel, named Elias Enough, a native of
Jersey, when it is alleged that Reid drew a large knife and
stabbed Enough in the chest, inflicting a dreadful wound,
which caused his death in a few hours afterwards. The mat-
ter was reported to the British Consul-General at Algiers,
who issned orders to the captain of the Lorina (Thompson)
to carry Reid home to England, and to have him lodged in
one of Her Majesty's gaols, at any port to which he might
direct his course in the voyage homeward. The vessel, it
appears, was bound for the Broo mielaw, and after lying for
the customary period of quarantine in the iioly Loch, came
into the harbour here on Saturday, when, in terms of his in-
structions, the captain delivered the prisoner into the hands
of Captain Richardson of the Gorbals Police, accompanied
with a certificate from a French surgeon as to the cause of
Enough's death, and also the authority under which he acted
from the Consul-General. Reid, is, in consequence, de-
tained in custody, and a communication has been made to
the Secretary of State on the subject, to know in what man-
ner he shall be disposed of.—Glasgow Chronicle.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—As Joseph Emerson, carrier between
Rothbury and Shields, was within a few yards of Mr. Da-
vidson's Inn, at Hartford Bridge, on Wednesday night, dri-
ving his cart, owing, it is supposed, to his having fallen asleep,
the cart and horse fell over the bank upon him, who, on
being missed off the road by Dixon, another carrier, search
was made for him, and he was found lying under the cart
quite dead. The deceased belonged to Snitter, near Roth-
bury, and has left a widow and five children to deplore his
fate. He had for several years travelled weckly to North
Shields.

THE TOWN COUNCIL.—The proceedings of onr immacu-
late Corporators, at their special meeting on Wednesday,
will be read with interest and instruction, and should be
well pondered by the whole constituent body. It will be
seen with what admirable facility a knot of self-styled libe-
rals can, in pursuit of party objects and with the view of
subserving the designs of an unprincipled faction, turn their
backs upon all their previously recorded professions, and
seek to convert a body, constituted for strictly local and mu-
nicipal purposes, into a political debating clnb. Most scan-
dalously have they betrayed their trust, and shewn by their
conduct that the commercial prosperity of the town and the
welfare of the inhabitants are but secondary matters in their
consideration. Let the municipal electors bear these things
in mind, and avenge their wrongs when their mis-representa-
tives apply to them for a renewal of their support in Novem-
ber.—Newcastle Journal.

STEALING WORKMEN'S TooLs.—Yesterday, at the police
court, a wretched-looking woman, named Elizabeth Thomas,
was committed to take her trial at the sessions, on a charge
of stealing a quantity of masons' tools. It appeared that
the prisoner was, on Saturday, seen going into a new build-
ing, in Beau-street, by a joiner named Beardwood, and on
being searched by him, he found in her apron fourteen ma-
son's chisels. These were identified by Isaac Pilling, a
stone-mason, as his property. He had placed them in a box
under some boards. Yesterday morning, on his return to
the premises, he found the box broken open and the tools
gone. The prisoner said that she had been drinking, and
that a man had sent her for the chisels, which be said were
his own.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.--A good-looking young man,
named James Reid, was yesterday placed at the bar of the
police court, on a charge of forging an order for money.
Mr. Dowling stated that the order was for £lO, was drawn
in the name of a person at Newry, and presented to a Mr.
Dixon, of this town, who luckily did not pay the prisoner
the full amount. There could be no doubt but it was a for-
gery; but as the person by whom it was purported to be
drawn had left the country, through embarrassments, and
could not be produced, he apprehended the magistrate could
only caution the accused on the impropriety of his conduct.
The prisoner had respectable relations in Ireland, in the
north of which his father held the commission of the peace.
Mr. Wardle said that he was instructed to state, that if the
person alluded to was produced, he could prove that the sig-
nature was his own, and that he had given the order to the
prisoner Mr. Dowling said that could not be, as the per-
son referred to was not in the country at the time it was
dated. Mr. Rushton said the charge was a most serious
one, and after admonishing the prisoner, discharged him for
want of evidence.
THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED IN WEST DERDY.—One
of the rules of a watch and clock club in West Derby, is
thus set forth in the house where it is held :—" That when
the Treseuar as received cash to the amount of XS 0. 0,
Thear Shall be A Draw By Lottery for the Chance, and the
highest shall take the Artlick, wetber Watch or Clock, witch
he may choose."

LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY. The
second annual meeting of the subscribers to the Liverpool
Shipwieck and Humane Society was held on Wednesday last,
in the Underwriters'-rooms, at which George Johnston,
Esq. presided. It appeared, from the accounts, that £lll
16s Od. had been expended in rewards, £135 2s 6d. in relief,
and £42 9s 6d. in general expenses, leaving a balance in the
Royal Bank of £576 ss. Od., and in the hands of the treasurer
of £35 45. Ild., the greater part of which will be absorbed
in the expenses of the medals which have already been voted
by the society. but, owing to various circumstances, have not
yet been struck.

RIGHT OF DEMANDING TOLL.—On Thursday last, at the
Police-office at Birkenhead, the toll-collector at the newly-
erected gate on the Chester-road, near Tranmere Pool, ap-
peared to answer a charge preferred against him by Messrs.
J. and W. Walker, builders, of Birkenhead, of having taken
illegal toll from a carter in their employ. William Gatley,
carter to Messrs. Walker, proved that he carted building ma-
terials from Birkenhead to the new church, erecting by his
masters at Rock Ferry, on the 26th of April, and two follow-
ing days : he had occasion to pass through the gate with the
same cart and team three or four times on each day, and,
every time he went through with a fresh load, the collector
insisted on his paying toll. It was contended, on behalf of
the turnpike commissioners, that Messrs. Walker, when car-
rying materials by which they made a profit, were liable as
common carriers, coming under the denomination " a stage
carriage of any description," As they wore the road in an
equal degree. The act, it appeared, provided that, except
for stage vehicles, tolls could only be demanded for three
loads in One day. The magistrates declined coming to a de-
cision upon the case till counsel's opinion had been taken.
It was agreed that the expense of this should be paid by the
parties, and that, meanwhile, all tolls paid by Messrs. Walker
should be paid under protest. The opinion is to be read in
court on Thursday week, when judgment will be given in the
case.
ANOTHER LARGE STEAMER SEEN AT SEA.—Mr. Court,
Secretary to the Underwriters, received yesterday morning,
from his correspondents at Lisbon, a letter, stating, that the
Conde de Palma arrived at that port from Rio, saw, on the
23d of April, at 6, p.m., in lat. 31 24, long. 40 23, a large
steamer, with three masts, painted a dark colour : the pad-
dles were not in action, nor did any smoke issue from the
chimney. She did not exhibit any. flags. She was under a
press of canvass and steering N.N.E. At eight o'clock on
the following morning, the steamer was still in sight, with
topsails and fore aft sails set. Some persons hope, that the
steamer seen by the Conde de Palm°, on the 23d of April,
was the President, which would then have been out thirty-
six days from New York. Others suppose, that it was the
on the 10th of April, same steamer which was seen, by the
Lord Saumarez, the particulars respecting which we pub-
lished in a former paper. In neither instance did the
steamer make any signal to the sails in sight, an act which
the President, in her peculiar circumstances, would scarcely
have omitted, and the omission of which, in both instances,
satisfies us, that, whatever steamer or steamers they were
that were seen on the 10th and the 23d of April, neither of
them was the President. Besides, if the steamer sailed so
as to keep in sight of the Conde Palma, and was bound for
England, we ought to have heard of her arrival at some port
before now. Still, as the letter received by Mr. Court
has
excited much interest, we have deemed it our duty to publish
its contents for the inforination of the public. The probabi-
' lity is, that the vessel was the steam frigate Dee, which has
arrived at Porthmouth.

MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S
ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY.

Last evening a meeting of the members and friends of
this society was held in the large room under All Saints,
Church, Grosvenor-street, for the purrose of forming a
branch association, the more effectually to extend and carry
out the principles adopted by the parent association. The
attendance was numerous, the room being nearly filled.
The Rev. Mr. M'Conkev occupied the chair, and opened
the proceedings by an impressive prayer. He stated the ob-
ject of the meeting, and the reasons that urged its formation.
A Young Men's Established Church Society already existed
in the town, which had two half-yearly meetings ; in differ-
ent quarters of the town ; but this was not deemed suffici-
ent, and a branch association to hold meetings at intervening
periods, was therefore highly desirable. It was proposed
that the branch should include Scotland Ward and Vauxhall
Ward, and that they should meet monthly in that room. He
would have preferred that Vauxhall Ward should have its
own place of meeting ; but there were difficulties that could
not be immediately overcome, and it was thought that
that room would in the meantime suffice for both. He then
read the declaration of the parent society, and explained the
advantages of the proposed branch. It would make the
young men better acquainted with the principles contained
in that declaration, and to them it more particularly addressed
itself, though it was accessible to the old as well as the
young. By discussing those principles, they would be ena-
bled to meet the snarls of those who cooped at them. He
rejoiced in the prospect of an efficient branch society to meet
monthly, as it would enable them to take up each question
separately, and discuss it in all its points. They would have
the map of facts before them : they would find out the weak
parts of the enemy's fortress, and be enabled to station
their defences in the most favourable position. The
reverend gentleman then entered with much eloquence into
several questions relative to the propriety of a church
established by law, and the objections made by papists and
dissenters to such an establishment. First they objected to
all connection between the church and the state. But he
would see no harm in such an establishment, seeing that it
was to provide the poor man with a church, a bill to call him
to worship, and a Bible to teach him the truth as it was in
Jesus. And what would they substitute for such a church ?
They had no right to pull down even the hovel of the poor
man without providing him with another and a better place
of abode ; and still less had they a right to pull down the
poor man's church, without substituting a better place of
worship. What they would substitute was voluntaryism for-
sooth. Yet, strange to say, the established church with all
its alleged means and wealth was unable to overtake the poor
man's wants, and voluntaryism came limping up very slowly.
(Loud cheers.) Voluntaryism included the socinian, the in-
dependent; the papist, and the infidel. The question of a
church established by law would therefore be the subject of
' the first monthly meeting of the Branch Society. The
next objection was, that they were an episcopal church :
but he saw no harm in that episcopacy was sanctioned by
the Bible. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) They read of the
angel of the seven churches presiding over the ministers of
the respective flocks ; and angel—literally translated—meant
a messenger,—the angel of the covenant. He referred to
the city of Ephesus, and thought there was no harm in fol-
lowing scriptural authority and the usages of antiquity, par-
ticularly as degrees of superiority or station were analogous
to the whole works of God. This subject might be discussed
at the second meeting. On the third night they might discuss
the thirty-nine articles of the established church, in which
its principles were gathered up in a written form, and con-
stinted the standard of faith of that church. He could see
no harm in this. Those articles were deduced from the 'Word
of God. which man from from his sinfulness was prone to
pervert ; and they were written in language which could not
be distorted or miscontrued. They formed the stakes that
merked out the pasturage upon which the flock should feed,
and prevented them from wandering over ground that might
present moue alluring verdure, but the herbage of
which was poisonous and deadly. (Hear, hear.) They also
kept the shepherd within due bounds, and if he went beyond
them he must retire from his charge. What would dissenters
give them in lieu of this excellent standard of faith ? Why,
merely the creed of " I believe," &c., a floating creed which
might become no better than a tradition of popery. The
preacher who was bound only by this might introduce So-
cinianism, Methodism, or any other ism, until himself borne
down to destruction in the stream of errot or infidelity, his
congregation were involved in the same perdition. He had
known of numerous chapels without articles of faith, swerve
from their prosperity and go down the whirlpool of Socinian-
ism or infidelity. He blessed God that they had their arti-
cles as a rule of faith. A fottrth question for discussion would
be the objections made to the form of prayer. It was stated
that the prayers of the Church of England were full of repe-
tition—the service of the lip—a dry form of worship—
in place of the outpourings of the heart. The rev. gentleman
defended the Book of Common Prayer from these aspersions,
dwelling with great vigour and eloquence upon its superiority
to all extempore invocations, the fervour of which depended
merely on the feeling and temperament of the utterer at the
moment. The Prayer Book met the wants of all, from the
cradle to the grave. It made provision for mankind, both
here and hereafter ; it furnished a• solace amid the troubles
of life : it prepared the mind for receiving the holy sacra-
ment ; it smoothed the bed of sickness, and cheered the
drooping heart by assurance of salvation by repentance,
through the merits of Jesus ; and it afforded consolation to
the afflicted, who gathered round the grave of the departed
parent, brother, or friend, and promised them immorta-
lity if they were guided by the gospel truth. Instead of
this, dissenters would give them not a printed form, which
might be read and investigated, but an extemporaneous inde-
finite thing, which had no local habitation or name. They
would give them merely the prayer of the preacher, which
could only raise his congregation to the level of his own per-
sonal devotion. On the other hand, whatever the doctrine
a minister of the Church of England might promulgate from
the pulpit, a safeguard was to be found in the pure scriptural
form of words contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
The rev. gentleman concluded a very able address (which
want of time restrains us to a hasty sketch) by expressing the
delight he should have in being with them at their future
meetings,!and rendering them any assistance within his power.
(Loud cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. HERNE then addressed the meeting in behalf
of the church, in a very argumentative and impressive man-
ner. He proposed a resolution declaratory of the established
church being the most efficacious instrument for defending
and advancing christian truth, and pledging the meeting to
use every legitimate means to promote the efficiency of our
venerable apostolic chnrch.

Mr. JAMES MATTnEws seconded the resolution in a very
eloquent manner. It was unanimously carried.
Mr. GRIFFITHS proposed a resolution to the effect that
the proposed Branch Society should be established.
This was seconded by Mr. JONES. This too was carried.

A number of young men and others then enrolled them-
selves in the new society, and the meeting dispersed after a
vote of thanks to the Chairman.

IRRUPTION OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE
INTO LIVERPOOL.

Several gentlemen from Manchester, one of whose amuse-
ments is to go from town to town, practising the art of elo-
quence upon the corn laws, called a meeting last night of the
electors of this borough, for the purpose of presenting cer-
tain well-known ministerial objects, which, as an election is
impending, it is felt desirable should be accomplished. The
place was crowded.
On the motion of Col. WILLIAMS, Sir JOSHUA WALM-
SLEY was called to the chair.

The CHAIRMAM, in opening the business, denied the as-
sertion that the Anti-Corn-law League bad visited Liver-
pool in a spirit of dictation as had been represented. They
were men of all parties, whigs, tories, and radicals, and came
here to shew their distress, to appeal for assistance, and to
explain to them their wants and wishes. They came here to
shew us that the corn laws were unjust and iniquitous, and they
wanted the co-operation of the electors of Liverpool in their
abolition. The chairman then made sundry professions as
to his desire to have a fair discussion of this question, and
trusted, that a tory placard, which he said had been issued
for the purpose of creating confusion, would have no such
effect.

Mr. ASHWORTH, a quaker, from Bolton, complained
bitterly that the manufacturing and commercial interest had
never been fairly and properly represented in the House of
Commons. This was the reason that it had to contend with
various giant monopolies, one of which was that of the
West India interest, but the greatest and most danger-
ous of all was that fo the agricultural interest. The
West Indies took goods from us only to the amount
of four millions annually the profit of which was ten per
cent, or £400,000. In return for this every man before him
paid to the planter 4d. a pound for every pound of sugar he
consumed, so that we paid £3,000,000 for this monopoly.
He next referred to what he called the monopoly of the agri-
cultural interest, and so they had never yet made out a case
shewing that they paid their own share of taxation.

. .
Mr. JOHN BROOKS made rather a humourous speech
against the corn laws, He told the same history about his
losses, and his origin at Blackburn, from frequent repetion,
whith is familiar to his own townsmen. Some hits at Sir
Robert Peel—especially his challenge to a public discussion
—were sufficiently absurd even for Mr. Brooks.
Mr. GARNETT, a cotton-spinner, from Clitheroe, said
that he commenced business in 1799, consequently he had
been in business 42 years. Every year profits had been de-
clining, and he had never known trade so paralysed as it was
at the present moment.

----
Mr.• COBDEN then addressed the meeting for upwards of
an hour.

The CHAIRMAN said, if there was any one who took a
different view of the question from the preceding speakers,
he should be glad to hear him.
Mr. HARDY here stepped forward. After he had held
some conversations with the chairman,
The CHAIRMAN said he could not hear Mr. Hardy, as he
had discovered that he went further even than the Manches-
ter deputation.

Mr: Dix here presented himself and claimed a hearing,
but the uproar prevented him.
The CHAIRMAN endeavoured to calm the meeting, ap-
pealing to them on the ground that the gentlemen from Man-
chester invited discussion.

Mr. HARDY—You refused it to roe ; that is not a fair dis
cussion.

The CHAIRMAN said he should order Mr. Hardy to be
turned out. The deputation had invited discussion, and it
was their wish that all should have a hearing. He therefore
wished the meeting to hear Mr. Dix, and Mr. Cobden would
reply to him.

Mr. Dix then said he should like to ask Mr. Cobden what
was the actual rental paid to the landlord by the tenant for a
quarter of corn.

Mr. COBDEN said he could not profess to answer that ques-
tion ; and that if he could, it would not help Mr. Dix's ar-
gument.

- Mr. Dix again attempted to address the meeting, and for
some moments he succeeded, during which he sheaved several
misstatements on the part of the league.
Mr. COBDEN having replied with some humour to these
statements, called upon the elctors to vote against all mo-
nopolists.

Mr. RAWSON, a most tedious member of the league, next
addressed the meeting, and, like his predecessors, did not
forget to impress upon the eectors the necessity of turning
out Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell.
Mr. RATHBONE followed rather briefly, and called upon
the electors to return none but free traders.
Some others of less note followed—none of them forget-
ting the main point—as to voting at the election, and at the
end the meeting was adjourned to Wednesday.

GIRAFFES.—M. Riboulet arrived here on Saturday last,
with five giraffes, which he caught himself young in Abyssi-
nia, and which have been exhibited here during the past
week. This enterprising traveller had captured six of these
beautiful creatures, but in hoisting one of them on board the
Great Liverpool it struggled so that the crate gave way,
and he so injured himself that it was found necessary to
destroy him.—Portsmouth paper.
CITY OF LONDON REPRESENTATION.—On Saturday, the
gentlemen who presented the requisition to the Lord Mayor
to call a meeting regarding the corn laws, having learned that
Mr. Grote would not again present himself, adopted and
signed a requisition to Lord John Russell, soliciting his
lordship to allow himself to be put in nomination at the next
general election as a fit and proper candidate to represent the
city of London. It will be circulated to-day for further sig-
natures. His lordship had previously been spoken of for the
Tower Hamletsoin lieu of Dr. Lushington, who is disquali-
fied by act of parliament, he being a judge, again to become
a candidate ; so that, what with actual gratitude to Stroud,
and prospective gratitude to the Tower Hamlets, his lordship,
if he comply with the requisition for the city, will be placed
in no enviable position, especially should he lose London !
Beware, Lord John !

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CORN-LAWS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

- ---•
Sia,—The time is come when every man is called upon to
do his duty, and lend a hand to free his country from hypo-
critical friends, more dangerous than declared enemies. The
whigs now, for their party purpose, drag into debate the very
laws which were passed by conservatives for the security of
the interests of British subjects—the corn-laws. If there is
not a general opposition to the scheme, the people are blind.
From one end of Ireland to the other, you can behold in
harvest-time the millions of small farms under corn crops,
which are all intended for market with a quantity of pota-
toes, which is their chief support ; but I hardly think that
O'Connell will make such long speeches for the reduction of
the price of their grain. He knows Ireland too well to do
so, and appear afterwards at the hustings there. I expect
he will leave that argument to the other members present.
The country people want many things besides bread, which
they will be deprived of, if their bank, the corn-market,
should fail ' • and O'Connell has always relied upon mob po-
pularity in Ireland. What will the English labouring classes
think, if they are deprived of their present scanty wages, and
obliged to accept what Lord Melbourne, by and with the
advice of O'Connell, sends them in its stead—the parish
workhouse; whilst our enemies may be employed in other
countries growing corn for the English market, and receiving
the wages which our English and Irish labourers ought to
receive'? I proclaim them open enemies to Englishmen and
Irishmen, who dare propose such a change; and I fear the
O'Connell " rint" would not be paid without any deduction
if the price of corn is reduced. Ministers, 1 suppose, ex-
pected on the sugar debate to have the support of the Eng-
lish gentlemen who are interested in plantations ; careless of
how it might lead to the renewal of the slave trade, if it
added one shadow of popularity to them for their party pur-
poses ; as in the case of the corn-laws they are careless as
to, or else they aim at, the fate of the farmers, corn-growers,
and labouring classes of Great Britain and Ireland. People
will argue both for and against these schemes without coming
to any reasonable conclusion, whereas common sense shews,
that if we lose our agricultural employment, and it be trans-
ferred to other countries, giving increased employment to
foreigners, it must diminish the employment of British peo-
ple ; and if it becomes at all general, which it must, it will
be found a national calamity.

And to speak of the ultimate end which whigs seek to ac-
complish—Popish government. If it is to be accompanied
by these distressing evils, its approach is the more to be
feared ' • for the destruction of our religion, and the persecu-
tion which we must expect under papal authority, is severe
enough in itself without this spoliation of English interests.
Another reason for opposition to Popish government:—
O'Connell himself, and some whiggish noble lords, have
boasted of the general virtues of the Irish females ; I'll not
dispute that; but they will allow, as in all general rules, the
right of some saving and excepting, which leaves some ground
for English females to make a similar claim ; whilst on the
part of the English people there is this advantage—that the
English are not such advocates for those abominable Popish
prisons called nunneries, which few will deny ought to be
pulled down : but their governors are the guilty parties—the
priests exercise power over the nuns, who must submit to
the priests as to God !!! and they forgive or condemn, as
the nature of the case may require. It is a glorious thing to
see that the warning voices of our clergy are sent forth to
preserve our country from such dominion ; but I fear they
are but poorly aided by gentlemen of property and influence.
All classes, from the king to the peasant, ought to exert
themselves to root Popery out of the land. Its dominion on
the mind urges opposition to religion, and God's holy ordi-
nances generally. In Ireland, lords and gentlemen are daily
threatened by the O'Connell mob that their estates must
shortly revert to the descendants of the men who fought
against William the Third, and they go so far as to preserve
the right line of heirship in their families. If people of in-
fluence don't exert themselves, the following evils will be
brought on us by the whigs :—Popish government—transfer
of our church property to Popish churches—onr bishops and
clergy's livings and the tithes to Papists—a confiscation of
estated gentlemen's properties to Papists—persecution of
Protestants, and no redress—and whatsoever else his holi-
ness's and the priests' pleasure may be.
Whilst we have the power and the means, is the time to
prevent such a curse from visiting our land (and they are
now members of her Majesty's government who seek this
state of things), and finally protect our own people, keep
employment for our own labouring classes, and we should
do everything to forward the dismissal of the whigs. We
should not have them any longer at any price. We want
such men as Wellington, who will not make a dirty retreat,
rind conclude a peace before the interests of England are
established—who would carry on either war or some other
employment instead of parish warkhouses for the people,
whilst they (the whigs) are nothing but feather-bed cham-
pions. We want men who will promote the general interests
of the country, and encourage English employment. This
also will be found the principle upon which O'Connell acted
in his last struggle in Ireland, when lie commanded the Irish
to take nothing which could be called foreign manufacture,
and attempted to keep everything which was English out of
Ireland. Dan must call us blind if we cannot see how to
benefit ourselves by his orders to the Irish. And is it not
plain to every one that the present ministry are actuated all
through by his advice ? And what is his advice ? To over-
run England every year with foreign produce, to our preju-
dice, and for the benefit of foreigners. Then down with the
whigs, and support the friends of Old England—the conser-
vatives, who stand up for the protection of English, wages
and English employment !—I remain,

A LABOURERS' FRIEND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sra,—A portion of the retail grocers appear to have fallen
into the whig-radical trap, and have been petitioning for the
anti-British slave-holding system of Lord John Russell.
Have these gentlemen considered the effect of the measure
they support? The trade to our colonies employs and sup-
ports British merchants, British vessels, British seamen,
British manufacturers, British mechanics, artisans, and co-
lonists. The colonists are large customers for goods the
Brazilians would not require ; and, being British sabjects,
are always good payers, our laws being binding upon them,
and payment easily enforced in case of refusal. Not so in
the Brazils ; enormous sums are lost in bad debts even in the
limited trade we now carry on ; and the delay and difficulty
of foreign courts of law prevents appeal.
The British merchant has no interest in influencing ex-
changes against this country, or draining it of its bullion,
and thus takes goods when foreigners would have gold. Will
the retail grocers oppose themselves, therefore, to the interest
of our merchants, shipwrights, sailmakers, and, in fact, the
British artisan and shopkeeper generally; and is the paltry
reduction on sugar to be a set-off against stopping one of the
surest and most open outlets for British capital and enter-
prise.

I presume it is not attempted to poison us with the rubbish
imported from the East at present.
The respectable chairman of the grocers is a gentleman of
known principles and unquestionable philanthrophy, and I
own it was with sorrow I saw his name appended to a docu-
ment which, indirectly, will be of the greatest encouragement
to the most brutal and inhuman slave system ever practised.
The impetus given to slavery in Cuba and the Brazils, by
our rashness, would, indeed, have been truly alarming had
the abominable bill of Lord John Russell been carried; and
it appears almost insanity to encourage slave produce after
paying millions of money to enjoy sugar manufactured by
freemen. A friend of mine, practically acquainted with the
sugar trade and Africa, assures me that, if the whig bill had
passed, he would have been on the Coast, and make a fortune
in three years. He is not a solitary individual holding this
opinion, for the temptation to deal in slaves, when such a
demand would ensue, high prices would tempt numbers of
masters of vessels and small capitalists to run the risk, and
the British navy would almost be unable to put an end to the
abuse.

I hope our grocers will take a more national and christian
view of the subject, and that we may all be found combining
to support " SHIPS, COLONIES, AND COMMERCE."
I am, sir, yours, &c., R. G. J.
Liverpool, 23d May, 1841.

THE " PROTECTORS" AGAIN

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-At the present time, when apparently we are upon
the eve of a parliamentary contest, it cannot be thought out
of place to send all the intelligence we can obtain of the
enemy's movements in this town to the conservative press;
so that by these means the friends of the conservative cause
may be stimulated to greater exertions, in order to counter-
act as much as possible the efforts of their opponents. The
other day a circular was placed in my hands by a friend,
who had received it in mistake, he being of the same name,
and living in the same neighbourhood, as the person to whom
it was directed. I give you for insertion a true copy.
May 24th, 1841. R. M , Jun.

" 6, Barned's-buildings, Sweeting-street,
May 20, 1841.
" SlR,—The central committee of the Protector Society
respectfully beg to apprise you, that your acknowledgmeot
for £2 2s. 5d., advanced in 1840, remains in their hands yet
unredeemed.

" To counteract the ceaseless activity of our opponents,
the immediate efforts of every friend to civil and religious
freedom are required. To meet the expenses of the forth-
coming registration, money, the sinews of war,' will be re.
quisite. To all who are in arrear on our books, the commit-
tee therefore confidently look for cheerful repayment of the
sums against them. As private and public principle concur
in aiding the present appeal, the committee feel assured that
with the honourable and patriotic it cannot fail of being
successful.

(Signed) " JOHN RossoN, President.
" THOS. APENTEER, Secretary.
" To Mr. Tlios. S , -street."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sir,—As the trusty guardian of our general interests, let
me class those relating to religion at head of all others. I
beg to intrude for a few moments on your valuable time. I
may be mistaken in suggesting a movement which is to have
for its object the prevention of the general agitation which
may be expected through the empire, from a dissolution of
parliament. One circumstance which the whigs manage to
raise a point from, for the purpose of their faction, I believe
is, that they constantly persuade our Queen to be aware of
that party who were heretofore the friends of old England
and British liberty : and it clearly appears that many a
threatening lesson the Queen has received to deter her Ma-
jesty from choosing proper ministers to protect the national
interests to this effect, that it would be dangerous to her
Majesty's person, if she should have such ministers. This
damnable whiggish doctrine, and the effect created thereby
on her Majesty's mind, might be at once removed with the
persons from whom it sprung ; by petitions from all parts of
the empire, expressing our sincere loyalty and our fears ; and
praying for a dismissal of the present ministers, &c. &c.,
which could be done with less public agitation and danger to
the peace, and as beneficial results, perhaps, as the danger-
ous agitation consequent on a dissolution of parliament.—l
beg to remain, Sir,

A FRIEND TO ORDER AND GOOD OLD
ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.

MORE HOLE-AND-CORNER WORK.—The Globe, in a
leading article, writes as follows :—" The men of Sheffield
are at their post. As soon as the intelligence had arrived
that the division had gone against ministers, a public meeting
was immediately convened, and in spite of some interruption
by a small section of tory chartists, the following address to
her majesty was agreed to by an immense majority." Now,
perhaps the Globe will tell us how and by whom this meeting
was convened—by the Parker and Ward party. Perhaps it
will tell us how many hours' notice was given of it ? Was
there so much as four hours' notice given ? Why, if the
Parkers and Wards really want a fair expression of public
opinion, do they not give a fair public notice one day, and
have the meeting the next? In a town like Sheffield, con-
taining more than 100,000 inhabitants, nothing is so easy as
for a few large master manufacturers to box a couple of thou-
sand. But we repeat these are not Public meetings. Hud-
dling together a section of partizans between post time, and,
as they call it at Sheffield, one o'clock half struck, is not
taking the sense of the people. It is positively shying it.
And then, not a petition to parliament, but an address to her
majesty ! Nothing shows the weakness of the whig-radical
party so much as this. Her majesty is to be imposed upon
by Lord Melbourne faking these addresses to the palace in
his pocket, and giving his own account of them. Her ma-
jesty's ear is not to be reached constitutionally, through the
House of Commons, but through the courtier premier.
What shall we have next ?