The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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ation , then the Revolution, and subsequent
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folding to men their lights and diities, have imparted ti
them the spirit bravely to seek and guard the one, am
honestly to perform the other. This holds good o
literature in general, but it applies with peculiar force b
to that particular department of it which is designated
par excellence, ". The Pre

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t may be true that these do not ge

nerally, or even frequently, first promulgate great origina
ideas, but if they are not the fountain head, most assur
edly are they the channels through which the evergushini

rifying, beautifying the earth. Worthily ha
Press" been named the fourth estate of the

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against it the other three ..-
nion it generates, and fosters, and en omnipo•
tent ; and whether for good or ill—l believe for good—
sweeps all before it. Nor is its influence solely poli,
tical : it is equally at home whether occupied in hold.
ing up to popular scorn some petty local job or im.
position, or in forcing upon the attention of the legisla.
ture some great social wrong. It is useful, aye essential,
alike to the merchant, the tradesman, and the mechanic;
in fact, it is incalculably beneficialboth to the community at
large, and to each individual member of it. Every one who
pays the least attention to the signs of the times, cannot
fail to note its important bearing upon the best interests
of society at the present day, by the discussion of such
questions as the health of towns and sanatory improve-
ments, poor-laws, and the hours of labour in factories,
the condition of Ireland, and national education, What
it is doing'now, it has been doing to a greater or less de-
gree ever since it had an abiding place amongst us. If
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new, to the United' States, or the South American re-
publics, we shall find that the freedom and prosperity of
these nations correspond with the freedom and ability of
their press. So much is this is the case indeed, that given

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never know the vain

it is asserted that the journalists and literary men of this
country are not esteemed and honoured as they deserve.
True, we do not decorate them with crosses of the legion
of honour, or often make them prime ministers as in
France; and yet we have had a Canning at the head of
affairs ; and Macaulay, the most brilliant essayist of the
age, has a seat in the present cabinet. True, we don't,
like America, send our Everitts and Washington Irvings
on foreign embassies, but neither do we even occasionally
hand them over to the tender mercies of Judge Lynch, or
familiarise them with the bowie knives and rifles of the
far west. If we do not honor our Dickenses and Jerrolds,
and Fonblanques, and Carlyles, our Times and other able
editors and writers, in the same ostentatious way as do
our continental and transatlantic brethren, it may be the
shrewd practical good sense of John Bull has discovered
that such men of genius are better employed in the closet
or at the desk, than in leading parties or in dancing attend-
ance upon foreign potentates. If they are not ministers,
they are minister makers and directors, which I take to
be the nobler office ; and I believe after all, they are paid
as liberally, and esteemed as highly, and venerated as
much as the literary men of any other land. Be this as
it may, however, let it not be said that we are wanting in
our allegiance. and while we honour the grPnt of

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common country, let us not forget our local journalists.
Liverpool can boast a press which, whether taken singly
or in the mass, will bear comparision with that of any
other provincial town in the kingdom, and a portion of it
has peculiar claims upon our gratitude. If we are im-
pressed (as I venture to take for granted we are) with the
importance of a free and independent and intelligent
press, we should be desirous to diffuse its blessings over
all the land,—we should wish it to enter the cottage of the
peasant as freely as the mansion of the peer, and we ought,
therefore, to, honour those who have recently so greatly
enlarged the circle of its influence. It was fitting that
Liverpool, so celebrated for the enterprise of her mer-
chants, should have journalists animated by the same
spirit. It was fitting that she should be the first of pro-
vincialtowns to indulge the poor man in the luxury, I

!e for the transplantment of the establishment, and

which is fitted up with all possible neatness, comfort, and
convenience for the patients and their attendants, con-
sistent with due economy. From Harford-street, corner

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as having been forme/1y occupied by the late Dr. Carson.
A finer, or more accessible and airy site, could not have
been chosen within the borough, or a building in any
direction more suitable ; the original plan without and
within being such for convenience, light, and ventilation,
that, beyond the requisite new ftirnituref comparatively

main facade (wit'

almost iso-

lated, as it has three open si6s,
handsome portico) to the west ; anothCi

mtage to Ox-

-street on the south, and an open windowed side, fac-
an extensive flagged yard, on the north. The interior

divisions are such (with a fine stair-case lighted from the
roof in the centre) that ample air and light are admitted
into each room, to which easy and rapid access is obtained
without that modern defect of single or lob-sided houses,
It is, in fact, at once compact

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oppose the motion on two grounds • Ist, that he could not
see why Liverpool should pay £6OO a-year more than Mr.
Hall received at Bow-street ; and 2ndly, that if the motion
were adopted, the wants and wishes of the people of the
town would not be met.
Mr. Hum' HORNEY concurred in the motion. He felt,

nowever, severe regret that it should have been introduced
at the present time, for the way it had been introduced in
and Out of the Council could not have failed to hurt Mr.
Rusliton's feelings. The magistrates were unanimously
in favour of the increase, ant; ;1117 were a very numerous
body, composed of both noliti,n

twes. Inc mas_ had recommended It upon two
grounds; Ist, that the duties had greatly increased; and
2ndly, that they were efficiently discharged.
Mr. J. B. LLOYD alluded in eulogistic terms to the assist-
ance the stipendiary received from Mr. Ellis, one of the
magistrates clerks.

llr. BOOKER said that one universal opinion prevailed
in the town, that Mr. Rushton held the scales of justice
with an even hand. Personally he knew nothing of the
man, except that he had smarted under the severity of
his fines. He had sent a person to watch his decisions,
and found they were given irrespective of men and of
j, I party.

Mr. HIGGINS, seeinc, such an opposition to the grant.
thought that an amendmentb ought to be moved, that the
salary be raised to £l5OO, instead of £lBOO, as an ac-
knowledgment of Mr. Rushton's services.
The amendment not having been seconded fell to the
ground.

Mr. HODGSON should oppose the motion, inasmuch as
the salary was not only adequate to theduties required of
the stipendiary magistrate, but greater than was given to
any other stipendiary in the country. The unpaid came.
'ward now to load tb- ' had

To insure punctuality

,ailing, no Goods will be received

fitter the 9th of each mouth. . . .
These ships are all of. the first and largest class, built in the
city of New. York, of the best materials, and with such improve-
ments as to combine great speed with unusual comfort for pas-
sengers, and they are commanded by men of experience and
ability. The rate of Cabin Passage is fixed at TWENTY-FIVE
POUNDS, without wines or liquors, but those stores can be
obtained onboard.—Apply to BROWN, SHIPLEY, and Co.
Freight by these vessels will be collected at the rate of four
dollars eighty cents to the pound sterling. ►

41' - ,

PHILADELPHIA LINE OF PACKETS

th of every Month

600 tons.. 12th Feb.
Rea EN.IICO tons.. 12th Mar.
1000 tons.. 12th April
110 tons.. 12th Any.

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