The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STA:A.R.D.

as the sole recognised language of all official proceedings within
these states anti that of the protecting power, as the only lan-
guage to be used as the medium of translation whenever the
national tongue shall become by law the official language. You
have sanctioned unanimously the adoption of a measure for
making current here the coin of a nation with some of the do-
minions of which these states carry on a considerable traffic,
and you have thereby provided for an extension of commerce,
for which the geographical position of these states is so favour-
able, and to increase which in every way my best efforts will
ever be directed, in co-operation with the most excellent the
Senatethe supreme executive power of the state, whose study,
amongst the other occupations of that enlightened body, is di-
rected to secure to the people all the advantages which a sound
commercial system is calculated to ensure.

"In releasing you from your labours, which have been
brought to this happy and harmonious conclusion, I expreSs
with the greatest satisfaction my entire approbation of the very
enlightened and efficient manner in which you have discharged
your parliamentary labours,
" With a retrospect I shall look forward with confidence and
plea Sure to a continuation of that spirit of harmony for which
ymirdeliberations have been so distinguished. You will retur❑
to your homes, and re-enter your local societies, taking with
You tlie consciousness of having well done your duties to your
country in this short but useful abscence. Under these influ-
ences you will enjoy, and, by your example, promote, union
and harmony in your respective islands, and throughout these
states generally; and when we meet again in this place the
same spirit and desire will, I doubt not, prevail to advance the
interests of these islands severally, to consolidate their union,
and to cement the connection which so happily subsists between
the lonian States and that great nation under whose wings you
are placed, and which connection it will be my consiant desire
to make in the highest degree advantageous to you, and honour-
able to my gracious. King, your Sovereign Protector.

"By command of his Excellency,
(Signed) • "J. FEAsErt,
"Secretary to the Lord nigh Commissioner."

The lord of the Carlow swineherd—the driver of the
Carlow priests—who deals in the one on the account of
the other—that is to • say the friend of RAPHAEL, who
offered a baronetcy to the " most incomprehensible of all
imaginable vagabonds," is as near as possible upon the
brink of being kicked.out of the House of Commons by
the committee on the Dublin election. We at least in-
fer as much from the explicit nature of the resolutions.
All the objections urged by his counsel have been over-
ruled, as far as they have gone, and these are of vital
importance. The paving rate has been declared a mu-
nicipal rate. The necessity of paying, in order to qua-
lify as an elector of Dublin, has been affirmed ; and no-
thing now remains'but to strike off such votes as by the
decision of the committee have been found to be inadinis-
sible, in order to pass DANIEL over to Ireland as an im-
postor, there to find a new constituency in the best way
he can, for never again, while he lives, will he or Rum-
VEN be the representatives of Dublin.
The pretexts under which O'CoNNELL has managed to
sit for more than twelve months, as the member for that
city, are only worthy of himself, and -they are conse-
quently exceedingly disgraceful; but they also reflect small -
credit on the House of Commons.. This impudent person
was indulged as no man ever was before indulged by the
Commons of England. His return was petitioned against
in due form. its allegations were succinct and relevant.
It charged the sitting member with procuring persons to
vote who had no right to vote at all, just as if our Mr.
WILLIAM EWART had searched all the lanes and the
back slums of Liverpool to procure cellarmen paupers,
not burgesses, nor ten-pound householders, to force their
way to the hustings and swear to a qualification which
they did not possess. O'CONNELL or his agents did all
this, and " something more." But when challenged as
to the fact, he whimpered before the: committee—talked
of persecution and the hardship of his case—complained
that it was an attempt to ruin him by exposing him to
extraordinary and unnecessary expense—and instead of
bringing his witnesses to England he prayed for a com-
mission to examine witnesses in Dublin.

This was granted him, and, as we think, without any
shadow of proof that the merits of his' case depended
upon witnesses. DANIEL'S pocket, however, was on this
occasion \respected, 'the Only part or him the string of
which are connected with his nervous sensibility. The
commission Was appointed ; but it turned out that the
question did not hinge upon evidence 'at all. but Upon a
point of law. The beggar tried hard to swear out the
case—to witness away the time—to browbeat the com-
missioners into irrelevant examinations; but they wail-
fully and honestly resisted, and he failed. The point of
law was, as we have before stated—Had certain non-rate-
payers a right to vote at the Dublin elcCtisnt ? The
commissioners, in revising the,lists, found thatiAtear three
hundred persons had voted who had ing,akd certain
'after all, could as easily have been
and consequently theirs was an easfltask, which,
rates;
xeeedrill London as
in Dublin':-) 10 liga 19'1" f't
All this was pl:tin sailing. But itiV:ltileommissioners,
having their reputation as professional goitlemen at
stake, did not choose to enter into the ahstnird and
views .of O'CoNNELL, only assumed to gain itne
and procrastinate defeat, they were arrogantly
lard
dently censured and denounced by the demagq'tie' and
his factious allies. There was no justice done to Ireland !
The meaning of this is, DANIEL had justice adijill'inistered
to himself; the fraud he had contemplated reedited upon-
the cheat. The widows and orphans were,turnpd.adrift
in the cold and the snow ! That is, the beggar could not
bully honourable men to do wrong, and pollute them-
selves by being the accessories of his guilt. He accor-
dingly contested the decision of the counnissioners, and,
went. so far, in downright insolence, as to question the
legality of the commission which had been appointed at
his own earnest and suppliant request.

The committee, radical though it be, is composed of
gentlemen, and however favourable they may be to
O'CoNNELL's views in other respects, they appear to be
actuated by a sense of justice and self-respect, and, in-
deed, by principles which a low Irk!' papist never acts
upon and cannot understand. They have therefore come
to such decisions as must unseat O'CoN NELL and his col-
league RUTLIVEN. The fact is, RUTH EN does not even
defend himself. He has no counsel before the collimit-
tee—he has virtually abandonedulm a row days
we shall expect to find that plitcltit O'CoNNEt.t. is no
longer the member for'DUblitr2'llAas, by his base and
mean subterfuges;'qaPed eribilAmik)Apenses upon the
country. The cost of the„99lP.4llWiplm'Ust upon the
public. He has been qererdity.r, his dis4nestconduct,
and his corrupt voters, ailler3atiOnal exPri.44,:and we
hope some member will have the courage to wove for a
returp of the money paid out. of the public treasury in'
defending O'CONNELL'S election. It will be a black item
in the books of ivhig-gery. It will look suspicious when
bound up with the self-denying declarations of Lord MEL-
BOURNE ; and, when all the facts are fairly considered, it
will become a poptitar question—what is the word of a
whig minister worth ?
But, the Carlow affair—the baronetcy business—the
two thousand pound job—the long bills drawn upon a
brewery—what of these ? We must not say a word.
The Cottenham cheeSe is not yet ripe. To quote the
words of Lord BYRON-- f.

" Decay's effacing fingers"
are doing the rotten work well ; the offer of the baronetcy
is proved ; and that some one or other of his Majesty's
ministers is implicated is as clear as were the marks upon
FrEscries face both before as well as after he was execu-
ted. in a few days, we trust, we shall be enabled to pre •
sent the evidence to our readers.

The Newcastle Journal of Saturday contains the fol-
lowing paragraph :
" It appears that, though the commission of the peace for the
borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne was received in this town nearly
a fortnight ago, the individuals named in it have not the power
to act as magistrates, what is technically termed the deditnur not
having yet been issued by the proper authorities. Mr. Joseph
Parkes, of Birmingham Political Union notoriety, and who still
fills the office of Secretary of the Municipal Reform Commisson
upon the comfortable salary of fifteen hundred a year; has signi-
fied that, on the transmission to him of five pounds in respect to
each magistrate, the requisite power will be sent down; and thus
does he, like a true Whig of the liberty-and-popular-rights schoid,
aim to turn every branch of his calling to a profitable account.
We trust there are individuals both here and elsewhere who will
have spirit enough to resist this scandalous attempt at extortion.
There is. no law to enforce this demand, and let Mr. Joseph
Parkes be informed that, if he deems the regular emoluments
of his-office an insufficient return for his services, it would be
far more becoming to ply his patrons for an increase of salary

than to levy contributionS on a borly of individuals, to some of
whom we verily believe the jive pound: are an object,"
This is far from being civil, if it be not absolutely
cruel, on the part. of Mr. Josr.Pit PitixEs. Five pounds
is a large sum to pay for any honour or office in a re-
formed corporation, and whether the worthy persons " of
the new commission" can affbrd to pay it or not, we con-
tend it is an infringement upon the liberty of the sub-
ject and a grievous tax upon the pocket, which cannot be
too soon redressed awl repealed. _
But is it true that JosEPti PARKEs is thus permitted to
play JOSEPH Ao with the legion of magistrates created
under the municipal bill ? With all due respect to our
Newcastle contemporary the story is hardly credible.
Et may be, and we believe is, true, that five pounds are
charged for each Dedimus, but what can the one Jositpn
any more than the other JOSEPH have to du with these
warrants ? When the magistrates of this borough were
appointed the present town-derk informed them, by a
circular, that, on being sworn in, the usual fees would
not be exacted from them personally, inasmuch as the
costs of the warrants would be paid out of the borough
funds. This generous intimation was felt to be an insult
by some of them, for in Liverpool several if not all of
our justices could sport their five sovereigns without be-
ing damaged or inconvenienced by the sacrifice; but if
borough funds can be applied in this way, in order to
make honour more acceptable on the score of cheapness,
why did not the corporation. of Newcastle advance the
cash toits liberal justices, at least to such of them to
whom the sum of five pounds is " an object ?"
Perhaps the councillors upon the Tvne were advised of
the illegality of such an appropriation. Be it so; but if
illegal there it must be equally so on the banks of the
Mersey. The magistrates of boroughs form no Consti-
tuent part of any corporation. They are justices for life
or during the plea Sure of the crown; and surely when
the King appointed them, or sanctioned their appoint-
ment, his Majesty did not contemplate that by so doing
he was imposing a tax upon the burgesses. We know
not hoW many, if any, availed themselves of the borough
fund here for so mean a purpose ; but this we hesitate
not to say, that if any Magistrate has had the fees of his
warrant paid out of the town chest, simply because he
would or could not pay the fees himself, such a man is
not fit to be a magistrate, and ought nut to be a magis-
trate. If on-the other hand the 'payment of these fees
was a voluntary,One onthe part of the council, then we
charge thetnitaitiva-tvilfhl- and unjustifiable misappropri-
ation of (helikiiiM44., 'fhey mak toast either side
of this cake as they please. There is nothing in the
bill ‘VrtAlf;,ptvides for the initiatory cost of
justices. They are ikt presumed to be in any way con
nected with or deppMent upon the corporation. They
had as much clainimpon the Blue Coat Hospital as upon
the borough fund. The overseers of the poor were as much
warranted in paying their shabby fees out-of the poor
box, as the council wet e in extraeting them front the
town treasury. .11Lthe one, case the poor would have
been robbed ; iriflie'other die•burgessesWortld have been
plundered ; in both cases the public would have been
defrauded.

But we confess we are greatly in the dark on this sub-
ject. The small jobbing transactions of these reformed
councils are as carefully concealed from the vision of the
public as Were those of the most corrupt of the old cor-
porations,---even of the old Whig corporations. We shall
therefore feel obliged if some gentleman in the secret
will favour us with a clue to the facts. What we wish to
know is—Did the town clerk perform. his promise, and
pay the fees of the new magistrates out Of the borough,
fund Our honourable and learned contemporary, Mr.
Councillor of the MercUry, some time ago moved
that a grint of motley should be voted out of the corpo-
ration chest for the relief of the IA halemen supposed to be
frozen up somewhere near the north pole, but that be-
neyOlent motion was hooted and cried down as illegal by
his colleagues, on the gibund, we suppose, as in this case of
the magistrates, that charity begins at home. The tran-
saction in the best light (ies not Wok sweet; but if it
should appear that the fees have been paid by,the corpo-
ration—that JOSEPH PARKES is the receiver—that he, .Jo-
SEMI, has received, or is to receive, three, four, or iive
pounds for every borough justice made in England,—
all we shall say is, JOSEPH PARKES is a fortunate, and Jo-
SEPH Anr-an unfortunate and ill-used man!

We request the attention of our municipal authorities,
and consistent politicians of all grades, to a modest
metaphor, which our excellent friend Colonel WILLIAMS
will explain if need be. When men who wear Russia
indefinites in cold weather, as a satire upon degenerate
woollens,suddenly cut the ducks and wear the cloth which
they formerly affected to despise—when such men adopt
the fashion or the principles which they have long con-
deinned—have we-not a right to pity or laugh at them
just as the morality or the charity of the occasion may
dictate t,,n so,:

The affirmative of this we suppose will at onte-be
cAiceded by all professors of 'common sense, 'Ail all
admirers of enlightened liberality. But we ask no man
to recognise its fairness with more coo Pence than we
do. Mr. Counciller JAMES Anus !of LiVerpool. This
gentleman, we understand, voted on 'Wedriesdav last',
with the majority of the Common Council
,in rejecting,
the terms oifered them by the rate payerS of the Dock
Estate. He is consequently one of those who have un—
dertaken the responsibility "of contesting the right of the
rate payers to elect-their own managers, and he is also
an assenting party to the monstrous proposition of ex-
pending, not his own, but the funds of the borough, in
this wasteful and useless contest before a committee of
the House of Commons.

If the inhabitants of Liverpool would for a moment
glance back to the month of November, 1832, when Mr.
-JAMES AIKIN at a public meeting of the rate payers
advocated the broad and liberal principle that the con-
tributors to a public fund, or the rate payers to a public
trust, should have the first voice in the choice of its
governors or guardians, they will find arguments enough
to satisfy them that what Mr. AIKIN held to be reason-
able in 1832 ought to be quite as reasonable in 183 G.
What is the question at issue? The Trustees of the
Dock Estate, during the existence of the old corporation,
were elected as follows :-13 by the council, and S by the
rate payers. The old corporation, however, is defunct.
A brighter race of Salons has been called into office by
means of popular election. The nation, by its represen-
tatives, has decided that the source of power is in the in-
terested and responsible portion of the people—that
those who pay taxes shall elect those who impose taxes—
that governors shall be elected by the governed, and
trustees by those who have a direct interest in the mode
of management and the appropriation of trust estates.
That principle, so long contended for by Mr. Jets. ALKIN,
.and the ambitious party to which he belongs, is now re-
cognised as the pervading principle of political and mu-
nicipal legislation, and we have a right to call upon Mr.
AIKIN to respect the' dogmas and the utifitarian notions
of friends, for the sake of policy and consistency.

But what does be seek ? We are almost ashamed to
write it, for it converts into burlesque all the liberal pre-
tensions of his lifetime. He claims for himself and the
reformed corporation the right of self election, in as far
as the managers of the Dock Estate are concerned! It
is hardly credible, but still it is a fact, that the new mu-
nicipal authorities, reckless of the principles they have
profeSsed, and the pledges they made to their constitu-
ents, arrogate to themselves the right of self election, by
nominating to the trusteeship of the Dock Estate a cer-
tain number, and an overwhelming number too, of the
members of their own town council

Was it for this that reform was advocated by the great
mass of the people? Was it to make popular election
the stepping-stone to self election, to quiet jobbing, and
irresponsible power that the corporations of England
were thrown open to the public ? Mr. JAMES AIKIN
must think so, because he contends for the exercise of it
in his own person, and in that_of his own municipal col-
leagues. He forgets, or appears to forget, that when he
was elected a councillor • he was not elected a trustee of
the Dock Estate. The burgesses who favoured hint with
their votes never dreamt, and never could have dreamt,
that they were concerting power upon hint to violate the
fundamental principles of the reform bill—to make po-
pular representation a farce—to enable him to do violence