The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-17 00:00:00

THE GLOUCESTER RADICAL PETITION

We find the following in the commons' report in the San of
Thursday :
; " Alderman Wood.presented a petition from several hundred
inerchants, bankers, and -other respectable inhabitants-of
Gloucester, in. fa.vour .of the Irish municipal bill, as it had
passed that 'house. , (Hear, hear.) . The petitioners tru:Sted.
that the house would reject, wii h.becomingindignation, any at-i
tempt to deprive the Irish ,people' of their rights, and they
further deprecated the system ot irresponsible legislation which
marked the proceedings of the upper house. (Cheers.)",
" Several hundred mbrcharits, 'bankers, and other respectable
inhabitants" 4 As some one. unacquainted with Gloucester may
be taken in with this hiunbug, notwithstanding its powerful sa-
vour of liberalism, we will just look at the facts. We are in-
formed that fiv istrates signed; some of these, of course,
were munici istrates; and, as we have heard, that
several couatr men who dined with the reform club on
Tuesday were d „ed off, when overflowing with more, wine.
than wisdom, to affix their names; me may make out the re-
mainder without much difficulty. We have heard also, buti we
cannot believe an a.ssertion'so grossly libellous, that four clergy-
men of the church of England signed the compound of revolu-
,tionary-ltalderdash,--which,- in accordance with-the-"-agitation
,system" regularly organic iwl4ondon. to " get tip the steam,"
was sent down to Glou • - and.scores of other places, "to
terrify the lords." We come to the " other respectable
persons.' It is said that six hundred signatures_wffa affixed to
the petition. This, in a city containing 15,000 inhabitants,
after a practise circulation-of handbills, and the usual." forcing"
mewl adopted on such occasions, would not be extraordinary ;
but we still possess some slight curiosity ,to know who the
" several hundred, respectable persons",-rthat
.is, whose the
several htindred signatures were. The managing parties, how-
ever, disobeyedd-orders with respect to a public meeting. That,
they 'knew, to use their own slang, would be "no go ;",and,
what is more, so successful has been the. agitation in the county
.of Gloucester, that
.we believe.this city.stands alone in itagipry.
'This fact, in a County, containing pearly 400,000 inhabitants,
is of itself the most decisive proof of the feeling which exists
relative to the sagacious and constitutional course pursued by.
the House of Lords.—Gloucestsr Chronicle.

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EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE QF PROPERTY:7,A. fevi
(lays since; the ROyal George East Indiaman arrived in the St.
Katherine bOelis with a large and valuable cargo of silk goods
and tea from,Cina, and she completed the aoliv,ery of her cargo.;
t,
ou,Wednesday evening? When 15 bales o' he.nett value'of
whichexceeds £3so'), were missing. An in 'as immediately'
instituted; ancrthe Thames police have sin , een actively em-
ployed in endeavouring to clear up the mvstery in which the
case is involyekiblit. without su6sesss.„ 411 the lightermen ent-•
pleyed in clearin,ethe vessel! have been Cinestioned,• and there
appeals no reases folicli'gYe that they were instrumental in re-
moving the stolen propeiTY: - ITirioussreports are .in circulation,
some.inferring,that the goods were c,oncealed in lighters beneath
other property,„add others thatihe vigilance of hie gatekeepers
was defeated, and the bales carried away iii carts. Mr. Evans,
an officer, however, it is said, is •of opinion that the abstrac-
tion - of. the silk must have, taken place in China.—London
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