The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

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, Mr. Holmes was

found at his post in defence of the go.od old town. W

warehouse question, and that of the dock dues, was under dis-
cussion he was again arrayed against them, as detrimental to
the part. He was ever, indeed, prepared to support the best
interests of the town. Notwithstanding the spurious votes
on the register, if they would exert themselves on the coming
• occasion, in unison with the conservatives in the other wards,
the abuses of which they bad to complain would no longer
exist. As there were many gentlemen present who would
address them he would not delay them longer, though he
might add much in behalf of Mr. Holmes. (Loud cheers.)
The resolution was then put and unanimously carried.
Mr. ISAAC HoLinEs was then introduced to the meeting,
and his appearance produced long and loud applause. After
expressing the satisfaction he felt at acting Mr. Houghton in
the chair, he thanked the burgesses for his election three
years ago, when he appeared among them a comparative
stranger. The alteration which had taken place in his senti-
ments had by no means taken place a few weeks before his
election ; far from it. He had for more than twelve months,
he might indeed say for more than two years, expressed his
dissatisfaction at the manner in which the individuals who
had domination in the town council conducted themselves.
He had then avowed and told them, that their only
object in displacing the former town council was to obtain
the power ; and that they were exercising that power in a
more exclusive and illiberal manner than the old corporation
had. (Cheers.) He was on that occasion returned by a very
large majority, and ever since his public conduct had been
before his constituents. They were pretty well aware that

their opponents had not very long been prepared with a can-
didate. When he went upon his canvass some of the oppo-
site party, who were extremely active, told him he might
save himself the trouble, and some tories had told him the
same ; but his reply was, " I cannot believe it ; I feel per-
fectly convinced they will never let Isaac Holmes go into the
council without opposing him to the utmost"—and the
result had proved that he was correct. (Hear, and cheers.)
He told his friends they would find the radicals like a rat—

you might tell the hole into which he went, but you could
never tell where be would appear again. (Laughter and
cheers.) After describing the hunt which the radicals of the
ward had after a candidate, and their want of success in
three or four instances, Mr. Holmes added that they had at
length found one in the person of Mr. George Quayle, who
recently retired from the council to prevent a judgment of
ouster from the Queen's Bench being put in force, upon the
plea that he was about to retire from the town. Mr. Holmes
went through the circumstances of that case, which being
perfectly new in the reader's recollection, we do not
repeat, and warmly commented upon the inconsistency of
first publicly announcing an intention to retire from the
council and the town together, and a short time afterwards
becoming a candidate for the ward. He next referred to the
proceedings at a ward meeting of the adverse party, in the

course of wl.

ich Mr. Rathbonj asserted that the lute Tow

salary from the corporation of £lO,OOO a-
- gentleman who now filled that office had
It was the fact that the late Mr. Fos-

clerk had
year, whilst th
only £2,000.

ter received £6,700 per annum upon the average, which
certainly was too much, but was there no difference between
£lO,OOO and £6,700? And with regard to the £6,700, it
was made so much by the charges consequent upon the at-
tempt of the present mayor and others to destroy the town
dues, t' 't-- disfranchise the free

..he at .npt to u and the pm
ceedings relative to the money which had been lodged wit,
the view of paying the Church of England clergy. All thesk
increased thetown-clerk's salary, but it was to be considered
that at that time he paid all his own clerks, and had no de-
puty. Now he (Mr. H.) contended that not a single penny
was saved in this department under the present system.
Having answered a statement made by Mr. Rathbone at a
meeting in the Amphitheatre relative to the wages of opera-
tives in the El Dorado of radicals, America, Mr. Holmes
entered at considerable length upon the general aspect of po-
litical affairs at the present moment, and expressed great
confidence in the present administration. He concluded by
calling upon the constituency to exert themselves, and suc-
cess would certainly attend their efforts upon the first of
November.

Mr. BIRKFTT next addressed the meeting with much ef-
fect, contending that the conduct of those who had had the
management of affairs since the passing of the municipal act,
had been destructive to the interest of the town at large.
Mr. PARKER fib 19wed in an able speech, in the course of
which he strongly insisted upon the necessity of Protestant
principles being acted upon.
Mr. COPELAND, Mr. GEORGE WRIGHT, Mr. JONES, Mr.
RIGBY, and Mr. GLEAVES, next addressed the meeting, and
elicited loud applause.
A vote of thanks was then presented to Mr. Houghton
for his conduct in the chair, and the proceedings terminated
shortly before half-past ten.

The Duke of Cleveland, according to the latest accounts
received from Newton House, Yorkshire, is daily improving
in health.

EXTRAVAGANT GLOVES.—A pair of silk gloves was lately
manufactured at the price of 15,000 francs. They were de-
signed for the Queen of Belgium, but were very properly re-
jected by her Majesty, on the ground of the enormous expense.

DURATION.—Infants count by minutes ; children by days ;
men by years ; planets by revolutions of years ; comets by
revolution of ages ; nature by revolution of systems—the
Eternal meditates in a perpetual present.
THE LATEST " JONATHANISM."-4 dandy acquaintance
of ours was refused admission to a gunpowder mag
the sentinel, on the ground that he was a spari

Mr. Macready announces that he has taken Drur

Theatre. and that he will open it for the purpose of repre-
senting the " legitimate drama" on the 27th of December
next.

Rossm.—This celebrated master, whose inactivity has
been the subject of regret to every lover of music in Europe
for years past, has at length given a sign of awaking from
the death-like repose in which he has been so long slumbering.
He lately sent a Sabbat Mater to Paris, which was executed
in private, this week, by Duprez, Madame Dorus Gras, and
other distinguished artistes, with the utmost success, and is
pronounced to be quite worthy the ancient reputation of the
great meastro.—Paris paper.
THE AFFAIR OF COLONEL GaoGAN.—The Montreal Ga-
zette says that Grogan will be given up on application of the
proper American authorities.

Letters from Genoa state that two failures, amounting to-
gether to 3,000,000 of francs, have just been declared in that
city.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.—The Rev. Professor
Whewell, 8.D., has been appointed by the Crown to the
mastership of this college, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Dr. Wordsworth. The new master was married on the
13th instant, at Halstead, Cumberland, to Miss Marshall,
sister to Lady Monteagle.
The celebrated Dr. Hunter, whom Abernethy, in one of
his arid veins, termed " the English Blood Hunter," when
starting in life gave lectures. His first lecture was attended
only by the porter. " John," said the great man, unmoved
by the circumstance, " take that skeleton down, that I may
say with propriety—Gentlemen."
When Dr. H. and Sergeant A. were walking arm-in-arm,
a wag observed to a friend—" Those two are just equal to one
highwayman." " Why so ?" was the response. " Because,
rejoined the wag, " it is a lawyer and a doctor—your numey
or your life."

The continued and heavy rains in Scotland have caused
very heavy floods, and considerable damage has been done
thereby to the crops. The Tweed and the Teviot were con-
siderably swollen, but no bridges have been swept away, or
any serious calamity taken place.

INAPPROPRIATE CONSTRUCTION.—Tbe marriage of a
military officer is thus given in the newspapers this week :
" Married Capt. , half-pay unattached to Miss M
A , of ."—Literary Gazette.
RADICAL WIT.—A gentleman in the Potteries, a veteran
elector of the borough, and a stout advocate of liberal poli-
tics ; lame of both legs, and withal, endowed with a world of
exclusive wisdom, talking to a Conservativein the tone of a
severe catechist, triumphantly asked him why he was a Tory
and at once volunteered the answer—because he had a bad
understanding. Really the gentleman should not throw
these unfriendly misiles to recoil upon his own infirmities.

KEEN SPORTING.—It has been remarked that nothin
tends so much to make a field select as a " good rasping
brook," like the Whissindine ; for if the horse falls he
generally falls backwards, with his master under him ; and
the prospect of a good ducking is enough to cool the courag,
of all but the most ardent. It is, notwithstanding,
means an uncommon occurrence for sportsmen to clear a
brook flee or six yards broad ; and Mr. Mytton, the moat
dare-devil rider of his day, once leaped one more than seven
Y, ards the space actually covered being nine yards and a
quarter. What makes this exploit more extraordinary, it
was performed in cold blood on his return from hunting. lie
afterwards backed the same horse, Baronet, to clear nine
yards over hurdles ; but he performed the task so often be-
fore the appointed time that he refused it then, and lost his
master the bet. It stands recorded amongst the annals of
Melton, that a wager of 100 guineas was made between Lord
Alvanley and Mr. Maher, that each did not leap over a brook
of six yards width without disturbing the water. Both
cleared the brook, but Lord Alvanley's horse threw back a
bit of dirt into the water, whereby he lost the bet. This is
a curious exemplification of the verbal nicety to which the
members of the Jockey Club restrict themselves. Mrs.
Like _
Battle at whist, they invariably insist on the rigour of the
game,— Quarterly Review.
PRESENCE or MIND.—During the
posed to the,
June, whilst lying in a square,
we
wereed through the ranksll
forenoonuchex o f the
French artillery. If a cannon-shot:
four, but if a shey
or
it was sure to kill or wound t
alighted and exploded, 's guns alighted in the cen-
tre was considerably.
greater. A shell from theffoe.
1 C—, although a very heavy
tre of our square. Lieut.
nimbleness sprang towards it, seizeal
man, with the greatest
placinghis thumb over the burnifug fus
it in both hands, and
r r otherwise prevent its exploding
see, so as to stifie th eni:f‘nr,
it, n
threw it over the 's heads out of the square. TI
done, of course, am h
't
m he 'risk of instant death to himself.
were canioned aftertwards, when a shell alighted near us, tc
few seconds, till the explosion took place,
lie flat down.fora
m any
lives were saved. Whether from the
by which mea"
l-a, ground, or the unskilful manufactute of the
French shells, f
s°tn ess of L I
know not, but 1 observed a number alight,
which ueve, • exploded. In this instance, fortunately, the
oflicer escaped with a slight burn of his thumb, as his servant
told me afterwards. This act of courageous devotion yrobabl,
saved many lives,

This was
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:hese remarks, scattered over the kingdom, will be apt
se unfavourable impressions against the society, and,
ne do not scruple to say, make it appear to be not eal-
for the general advancement of agriculture. We
lowever, that this impression will not be suffered to
ound, as the stability of the society might be most
affected by it. Doubtless,- however, the council
uture make such arrangements as will give satisfac-
h to the press and the public, and take measures to
whatever may endanger the welfare of the society."
the prizes is given which were awarded on the
The Observations made during a Tour from Nor-

Ik to Liverpool and back, is an amusing as well as instruc-
ve article. This magazine is well worth the attention of
,ery farmer. Agriculturists of all denominations should
ipport such productions, not only by subscribing for, but

mtributing to, them. Every man possesses some little
isdom which another knoweth not, but which might be im-
arted. Taken altogether, we consider the British Farmers'

g of support

t the other contents are—Farmers' Clubs, Mr. C.
W. Johnson on the Rotation of Crops, Improvements in
ohs, Formation of Water Meadows, Second Annual Re •
of the Beccles Farmers' Club, New Distemper in Cattle,
g of the Royal Agricultural Society of England at
Doh Spade Labour, Destruction of the Turnip Fly,
cultural Society, Warminster and South
Wilts Farmers' Club, the Harvest, West Sussex Agricultural
ssociation, Interesting Letter on Guano Manure (well
Joint Stock Farming, Calder Vale Agricultu-

ral Society's Show, Foreign Grain Imported into Great Bri-
tain during the last Forty Years, Chipping-Norton Agricul-
Blight and Mildew in Wheat, Warwick An-
Cattle Show, Agriculture in the Weed Prairies of

Societ

Texas, &c. &

We recommend t 1

ay of postscript, each quarter, an ac-
count of the state of the country and its agricultural pros-
pects. If well done, it would be much looked at and re-

e conductors of the British Farmers'

Magazine to give, by

It ought to bring the farming operations and har-

to the date of publication

AMOUNT OF POPULATION REPRESENTED BY
THE LATI: AND PRESENT GOVERNMENTS.

WHIGS

Sir W. Clay and Col. Fox, Tower Hamlets
T. B. 'Macaulay, Edinburgh .. ..
Lord J. Russell, London .. ..

O'Ferrall, Kildare County
el', Sheffield ..

Ban
G. Ga

Lord D

)use, tiottingham

sniouth

na
3, Leit

H. Tufnell, Devonport

ale, Perth

Population
359,864
162,165
122,799
108,494
91,692

65,917
50,680

1. S. Byng, Chatham

50,389
44,434
38,068

V. Smith

iorthampton
1 ..

37,769
27,313
20,016
19,000

D. R. Pigot, Clon

15,351
15,134
12,183
12,148
11,805
9,766
6,519
6,022
4,042
3,442

I'. Troubrid

ge, Sandwich

H. Labouchere, Taunton

idge, Falmouth
'stow, Tiverton

R. L. Sheil, Dun_arvon
E. Horsman, Cockermouth
C. Buller, Liskeard

I Seymour, Totness

1,295,032

CONSERVATIVES

. L. Corry, Tyrone
Stanley, North Lancashire

300,953
258,190
227,933
186,834

J. Young, Cavan

Sir E. Inatchbull, East Kent
Hon. W. Gordon, Aberdeenshire .
Lord Eliot, East Cornwall .. .
Lord G. C. Somerset, Monmouthshire
Hon. S. Herbert, Wiltshire South
Lord Lincoln, Nottinghamshire South
J. E. Tennent, Belfast ..

177,657
146,275
98,130

75,175
72,096
49,398
28,021
20,917
14,151
14,034
12,617
11,436
9,559
8,095