The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

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PERSON of active and industrious habits,
acquainted with the Mercantile Business
general Management of an Offi ustom-
nt, &c. bf a Forwarding Agen nd Broker,
Book-keeping, and ,desirou f making him-
'qui, to whom adequate r uneration would
lost satisfactory references as to character
required.
directed W 164, Postofflce, Liverpool.

CAPUCHIN CLOAKS.
THIS beautiful shaped MANTLE CRIPPS and SCUR-
FIELD have the honour of offering to publ. acceptance, the most ingenious and worthy covering at sent within
her Majesty's dominion ;it is the latest ape introduced
from the French Capital, and present,/ by a Lady now
at
resident in Liverpool.
The splendour and extent of this StOck of Cloaks, &c.
faking it as a whole, is without parallel.
It matters not whether a Cloak at one or ten guineas, it
has the best attention the talent of the Firm can bestow.
MANTLES and CLOAKS, &e., of every kind, MADE
UP in the first style of Fashion.
N.B. A large lot of Warm Cloaks, One Guinea encl.
,CRIPPS & SCURFIELD. 48, BOLD-STREET,

TWO DOORS BELOW CONCERT-STREET.

ON SALE,
SCOTCH and WELCH PIG IRON.
ANTHRACITIOUS PIG IRON.

RAILS and RAILWAY IRON of every description.
Shropshire anti Staffordshire BEST BOILER PATES.
ANGLE and RIVET IRON.
BAR, BOLT, BOLT, CABLE, SHEET. HO9P. 4.y(!):1) IRON.
LATHES.
PL kNING and SCREWING m4pcTINEs.
DRILLS, and ENGINEERS' TOOLS *every fi.P.Feription.
STEEL, FILES, Circular anclothht-SAV S,

SHEFFIELD GOODS in gvuern,

ANVILS, VICES, BELLOW
HURDLES and WROUGHT IRON I),‘
BEST BLASTING POWDER, and PAL:

FUSEE.
Apply to JOSEPH JOHNSON, Canning Chambers.
Liverpool, 14th December, 1839.

To-morrow will be published, price 4d., or on fyie paper,
with cover, Gd.,
EZEBEL, A TYPEOF POPERY. LAELLOI);
J
LYING AGAINST THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE.
HIS SPEECH IN REPLY, wixtlt 'NOTES.
Liverpool : Published by HENRY PORRIS, G, Church-
street. Sold alsorby HATCHARD and SON, and the Pro-
testant Association. London 'J. PRATT, Manchester ;
CURRY and Ttms,'Dublin : and: G. PHILLips, Belfast.

CORN LAWS.
Will be mach .:11 Mon next, the 614 of J-,nuarr,
. Price 25.,
T" ITY of ,the LANDHOLDERS NOT
DEPENDE e CORN LAWS.
By TH 1 Prit-J*WON..,

CONTENTS.
Div. 1. Object of this Work—The Means of romoting the
Prosperity of the Agricultural Interest b t e increase of
Consumption.
Div. 2. Repeal of certain Taxes that ch - Consumption.
Div. 3. The Consumption of Food by e People may be in-
creased.
Div. 4. Close Connexion between Agriculture and Manufac-
tures pointed out. •
Div. 5. The Exportation of Agricultural Products may be
extended.
Div. 6. A broader Cultivation of Hemp and Flax advanta-
geous to the Landed Interest.
Div. 7. Present Duty on Corn false in Principle and decep-
tive in Operation.
Div. 8. A Duty on Corn proposed for the purpose of Re-
venue.
Div. 9. General Result—That the Price of Corn and the
Rent of Land cannot decline.
London: LONGMAN and Co.

Now Publishing, beautifully printed, comprising 16 pages"
of Bvo., illustrated with Splendid Engravings, and a neat
wrapper, price only Two-pence, and mont ..1-parts at
Eight-pence,) to be continued every Thurst
CRUICKSHANKS' ILLUSTRATE • STANDARD
NOVELS AND ROMANCES, ling a selection of
the Works of some of our most pop • r authors. Vol. I.
will contain the celebrated Romance of the MYSTERIOUS
FREEBOOTERS; or, the Days of Queen Bess. •
London : published by CLEAVE, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street;
CRUICKSITANKS, 6, Francis-place, Westminster; and all
Booksellers.

LEAP YEAR.—The following is extracted from an old vo-
lume, printed in 1606, entitled, " Courtship, Love, and Ma-
trimonie :"—" Albeit it is nowe become a part of the com-
mun lave, in regard to social relations of life, that, as often
as every bissextile year doth return, the ladyes have the sole
privilege, during the time it continueth, of making love unto
the men, which they doe either by wordes or lookes, as unto
them it seemeth proper ; and, moreover, no man will be en-
titled to the benetite of clergy who clothe refuse to accept the
offeres of a ladye, or who clothe in any wise treate her pro-
posal withe slight or contumely."

THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.—The prevailing topic of the
day is the period fixed upon for the celebration of her Ma-
jesty's marriage. Many different days have been already
named, bot we believe there is now little doubt on the sub-
ject, her Majesty having herself decided that the ceremony
shall take place on the 4th of February. We are informed
that the wedding will be strictly private, and that it will be
solemnized in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, those only be-
ing present whose official rank enables them to enjoy the
privilege. After the performance of the ceremony her Ma-
jesty and her august husband will, it is affirmed, retire to
Windsor during the royal honeymoon.—Morning Herald.

MASONIC FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN.—As we anticipated, a
large number of the craft assembled at the Cestrian Lodge,
held at the Royal Hotel, in this city, on Friday last. Among
the distinguished personages present were the Rt. Hon. Lord

Viscount Combel:mere, of this province; J.
F. Maddock, Esq., ; Br. Sir Robt.
life, Bart., of Acton ; and B. Cunliffe; together witha num-
_ _ . _

ber of Provincial Griind Officers for the Eastern Division of

Lancashire; and other brethren of this city and neighbour-
ing Provinces. The Masonic business being concluded, up-
wards of sixtyof the brotherhood sat down to a sumptuous

banquet, provided for them by Brother Willoughby, which
was served up in his usual style of elegance and taste. The
evening, as usual, was spent with hit that order, conviviality,
and good fellowship, which invariably distinguishes tic fes-
tive meetings of the craft.—The friends of the "mystic tie"
will perceive, by an advertisement in another part of our
paper, that Wednesday, the Sth of January, is fixed for re-
ceiving the Hon. 'Wellington Cotton, into the Cestrian
Lodge ; on which occasion a large attendance of the Masonic
Brethren is expected.—Chester Courant.

EXTRAORDINARY STRENGTH OF A FRENCH ROBBER.—
The court of assize of Marseilles has been engaged for five
days on the trial of seven robbers, who last spring, repeatedly
stopped the dilligences in the neighbourhood of that city and
Toulon, of which we gave accounts at the time. The facts
were clearly proved ; one only was acquitted from some de-
fect in the evidence; five were sentenced to hard labour at the
hulks for life, and the last to the same punishment for five
years. When the criminals were brought into court to hear
judgment, some acts of violence being apprehended from them,
they were all manacled, and attended by 18 gendarmes ; while
a guard of 36 men was stationed at the court outside. On the
verdict being announced to them, Dor, one of the five con-
demned for life, rose, and with a stentorian voice exclaimed,
that it was an act of injustice, adding, " Coquins de jur6 .•
Coquins de jures I" Striking the bar in front of the dock
with his irons on his hands, he broke it down at a single blow.
Eight gendarmes attempted to secure him ; but he overthrew
them all, and seising the sword of one, drew it half out of its
scabbard before it could be wrested from him. A long and
desperate struggle ensued to remove the violent man from the
court. This, however, could not be accomplished without the
united strength of 12 gendarmes, who at last got him back
into prison, where it was found impossible to put additional
chains on his limbs until the keeper threatened to let loose a
savage dog at him. Upon this Dor submitted.
ATTACHMENT TO THE CHURCH.—Perhaps nothing could
exhibit in a stronger point of view the liberal disposition of
the farmers of Furness, and, at the same time, their firm and
ardent attachment to the Established Church, and the reli-
gion of their forefathers, than the circumstance of their
sending, gratuitously, on Tuesday last, 103 horses and carts,
in order to lay down stones for the rebuilding and enlarge-
ment of Rampside Chapel, on which occasion upwards of
100 loads of most excellent stone were laid down. What
makes this circumstance more creditable to the farmers in
question is, that all the above teams were furnished by an
individual who neither resides in the chapelry, nor have any
property in it, not in immediate connexion therewith. This
was a pure emanation of good will, and is only one of the
many characteristics of liberality and good feeling in which
the farmers of Furness are seldom equalled, and perhaps
never surpassed. The farmers within the chapelry have a
separate day, or rather days, for the performance of a similar
praiseworthy deed, but were kept back on this occasion, on
account of the great numbers so liberally coming forward
from the adjoining neighbourhood.—Camberland •Pacquet.
" THE DUKE."—We have repeatedly expressed our belief
that one of the healthiest indications of the times is the uni-
versal veneration in which the character of the Duke of Wel-
lington appears to beheld throughout the country by persons
of all denominations, and of all parties in polities. A meet-
ing of the principal noblemen and gentlemen of Mid Lothian
etnainsgutebnsc;ritpetiohrer
and its vicinity, was, it appears, held on Tuesday last, at
Edinburgh, for the purpose of setting on foot
the Scottish metro-
polis.toelt:oaft every considerable
eforercatemdeminorsicalmien hcocniiosionrcuoofutshepaDrst:k
city throughout Great . Britai s
We are naontdwwithilojtiNtiehoPweith
will have similar com-
memorations of the services rendered to the country by the
illustrious
Manchester, Birmingham,
pPrigatkeel:ess of their respecteivacch other in the value
e
Leemdsemopa s. y
importance, have their ei r Liverpool,w re l
lin andgt
ei
Edinburgh Surely the hint is wor-
LsUnited Service? Gazette.
loteits7!ii
uctiooainvasii towns
enorsfa
lt similaroena.
AN EmxorrLnAinNgAHTleroNalFdooaf THE " f4E A GUE."—A paragraph
seems to haveMproilelkdearYl ltahset ,
anti-cornheated leaguers
ipnutrhiteanism,,,
of Manchester a little more than skin deep. Their organ,
the Manchester G " did not think the Herald so
lost to all sense of Guardian,
as to give insertion to the sen-
timent, " that it is really decency"
disgusting, to say the least, to
hear men who think no more of the waste of humanlife in
their service, than they do of the wear and tear Of a machine,
(and not so much for the wear and tear of a machine costs
them something), plead for filthy lucre under the mask of a
concern for religion, and presumptuously enrol the Creatt r
himself on their side in at least a questionable attempt to
enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbours."
These are the offensive words quoted, and the Manchester
Guardian " would demand to know who are the men against
whom the slanderous charge is made." The slander oftthhee
charge—the hit that told home—was the utter heartlessness
of the manufacturing capitalists towards the operative classes;
and to the question, who are the men against whom
charge is made? the answer is, against ALL. The charge
was not grounded upon the selfishness of an individual
here or there,
but upon the sjstih)iiralitittp Irwhichviolfiieth by o IpeEtades the whole
that
it
cannot calculating m
ake
s for a certain
porodfiyt ,
and if if
prices, will screw
it out of human labour by a dimm •
body
of wages. It
matters not whether the
object
cf
tasking human labour for
this object is achieved by overworking
of infancy, or dispensing with th the cheap daily labour
piece-
work of manhood ; but unif( 1 e comparatively dear
labour of the operative is ei)trhme y, and without remorse, the
cast off as an incumbran ... r used by them as a slave, or
what they consider i•,., and all with reference merely to
of the ought to he their profits of capital.—
Talkmanufacturing capitalist
artisan, indeed! II sympathising with the
capital knows
no o often have they told us that their
distinction of country or climate? Did
not even Mark Philip,
many of his fellows) he tell
the
Manchester meeting that (like
re shoul4 probably take his capital to
Germany, to promote (for his own greater profit) the compes
tition against his countrymen and constituents And is it
too much to say, when such men cant for chest') wa - •
the shape of cheap b 1 • U.''
14
read, under the mask
of relinon and
morality, and insist upon a free in '
trade corn as s •
a revelation
of the Creator himself in their favour—is it too r v.
nue. to say
that affectation of a far-fetched piety, which is to till their
pockets, and such pretensions to a charity wl •
Itch is to repay
i them a hundred-fold, and perhaps at the expense of the
. objects of their interested compassion, are " disgusting !'
The word may not be appropriate, because too mild for the
gecasion, but that is the only faith which
it. —3.forninsi herald. can be found with

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