The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

TO THE WESLEYANS OF LIVERPOOL

DEAR BRETHREN,—I am informed that Lord Palmerston
and Sir Joshua Waltnsley are, through their agents, soliciting
your votes and interest at the next parliamentary election.
What are the politics of these men as regards religion ? Don't
forget this .—Palmerston is one of the present government,
who brought forward, and supported, that infernal national
education scheme, which called down the just indignation of
the Wesleyan conference ; Lord Palmerston is one of the
present government, who advised our blessed Queen to take
Roman Catholics as her advisers; this Lord Palmerston is
the supporter of Viscount Melbourne, the man who, by in-
troducing Robert Owen, the wicked socialist, to our blessed
Queen, caused socialism to hold up its head in triumph in
our land.—Who is this Sir Joshua Walmsley he is at the
head of the party who wish to take the Bible from all our
schools ; he is the friend and supporter of Dan O'Connell;
he is connected with the party who encourage Popery in onr
land ; the party who have promoted the inspector of police,
who on being asked why he had not reported to Mr. Whitty,
the superintendent, that a political meeting was held on the
Sabbath-day, headed by a son of Dan O'Connell, and friend
of Sir Joshua's, this Roman Catholic inspector said it was
such a trifling thing, that he thought it was not worth no-
ticing. Since, then, Sir Joshua's party have promoted him.
Wesleyans! vote for no man who is connected with and sup-
ports infidelity and idolatry. As Lord Palmerston and his
party place Roman Catholics among the councillors of our
Queen, so Walmsley and his party place Roman Catholics in
nearly every situation that becomes vacant ; this sugar, tim-
ber, and corn law question is a bait made by O'Connell, and
made use of by Walmsley, Rathbnne, and the rest of his tail
in this town to catch you. With the Rev. James Dixon, let
us be determined never to vote for a min who does directly
or indirectly encourage Popery in our land.—From an ad-
mirer of John Wesley, though

A POOR SHOEMAKER

Mr. Robert Beattie, of 43, 'Russell-street, has requested
us to state, that he is not the person who put forth last week,
in the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, an advertisement, cautioning

the public against trusting his wife—;that he is in no way
connected with the advertiser, nor does he know him per.

sonally

Nervous disease of the heart has generally been considered
as depending on some disarrangement of the stomach. That
this is generally not the fact, we have only to call attention
to the havoc this distressing affection makes on the constitu-
tion, and that in almost every instance of fresh attack, its se-
verity is increased, until it terminates in completely destroy-
ing the action of this important organ. We are gratified that
Mr. Cronin's treatment, which we have already noticed, has

been most successfully tested in five severe cases within the

last fortnight.—See Cronin on Disease of the Nervous

System

COMMITMENTS, YESTERDAY.—Margery Johnson and
Ann Hill were yesterday, at the police-office, committed' to

the sessions, to answer a charge of having, on Saturday night,
robbed a carter named Christopher Battersby of 14s. Gd. The

prisoners stopped Battersby in Church-lane, asked him to
treat them, and when he refused, Johnson put her arms
round him, and took from his pocket the money, which she
transferred to her companion. On her it was subsequently
found by an officer.—A black man, named Joseph. Cooper,

was sent to take his trial on a charge of having "stolen fr.oizi

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the person of Mr. James Bimpson,,_, publican,-of Scotland.
place, his watch. Mr. Bimpson, on Saturday night, was
making up his premises, when he fell into a fit, and the pri-
soner took advantage of the circumstance to extract from the

fob of the publican his watch. The prisoner was afterwards
apprehended by police-officer No. 113, on suspicion, and the
watch was found upon him.
LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL.--RUNCORN EXEMPTION
CL A USE.—Thursday, the 20th ult., was a merry day in Run-
corn ; the parish church bells were sending forth their plea.

sant sounds, and the venerable tower was surmounted with a

streaming banner—the quays and warehouses were decked
with flags, and the vessels lining the spacious docks testified
to the general feeling of rejoicing by displaying on their
masts and rigging their union-jacks, and pendants, and en-
signs. The cause of this public demonstration was the
coming into operation, on that day, of the Liverpool Dpck
Act, which contains a clause exempting all •essels trading to
Runcorn, and not using the Liverpool Docks, from theun-

reasonoble exactions of the Liverpool Dock Trustees. Run-
corn is now a free port, entirely independent of Liverpool ;
and the Irish, Scotch, and Welch traders to the commodious
docks of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and the Bridge-
water Trustees, at Runcorn, will now be exempt from all
dock dues whatever, which will be a consideration so im-

portant to freighters and ship-owners, that we shall expect
to hear of the Runcorn trade so rapidly and greatly increas-
ing as to make the 20th instant to be a day of long and grate-
ful remembrance in the town and port of Runcorn.—Mata-
chester Courier.

THE OLD TRICK BECOME QUITE STALE.—A few days ago
a young gentleman, son of Mr. Goodhind, supervisor, of Bol-
ton, was in Liverpool, for the purpose of seeing a young lady,
a relative, embark for America. While in the dock-yard, a
man of good address and respectable exterior entered into
conversation with them, giving them the best of advice, and
seemingly interesting himself very greatly in their welfare.
The young lady having got on board, the accommodating
gentleman would stand cigars and a glass of brandy, and
forthwith they adjourned to a neighbouring hotel. After
some conversation, the stranger began to talk aboat the great
number of pickpockets that infested the borough, and related
several instances of their dexterity, concluding with an appeal
to Mr. Goodhind to allow him to fold up his money, and
place it so that it could not be stolen. Mr. Goodhind, who
had suspected the man for some time, at once discovered his
intentions, and happening to have four or five papers in his
pocket which he could dispense with, resembling bank notes,
at once took them out, and handed them over to the man,
who folded them carefully up, and thrust them jilt° his
clothes. Both, as may be expected, were anxious to depart,
and little ceremony was required. Mr. Goodhind examined
his papers on leaving the hotel, and found that his friend had
actually left him twopence in exchange ; so that he was bran-
dy, cigars, and twopence gainer by the exchange.
RIVAL DOCTORS.—At the Police-court, on Friday, a man
named Michael Sweeny, in the employ of " Doctor" Taylor,
of Marybone, whose liberality in supplying the town gratui-
tously with accounts of the many surprising cures he has
accomplished on the afflicted lieges, is notorious, was placed
before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having " wilfully and
with malice aforethought,' defaced and disfigured the signs
fixed at street and entry corners, of a brother " son of
Esculapeus," " Doctor" Higgins, of Mersey-street, of simi-
lar celebrity, and one of which decorated the back entrance
to the complainants " medical institution." It appeared
from the evidence, that the defendant, with a certain instru-
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went, to wit, a white-wash brush, dipped in black coal tar,
had daubed and obliterated the letters on the aforesaid tin
sign-board, inviting all who were ill, or fancied themselves
to be so, to lose no time in calling on the doctor, who, with
disinterested philanthrophy, and within the short space of an
hour, would " take away all the real (or imaginary) ailments,
and restore them not only to health, but to juvenility." The
defence was as modest as it was cogent. It was gravely

alleged by the defendant, that his own feelings, as well as
those of his master, were exceedingly shocked by the lan-
guage of the complainant's signs and advertisements, which
they considered (seeing that they called things by their right
names,) wholly unfit for publication, and moreover, deroga-
tory from the dignity and decorum of the profession. The
signs, some of which were exhibited in court amidst mush
laughter, were, it was added, much damaged and deteriora-
ted. Mr. Rushton inquired if any one were present who
could speak to the amount of the damages sustained ? The
reply being in the negative, the aggrieved doctor himself
assessed it in evidence at the suns of fifteen shillings. The
magistrate stated that in law the testimony of the sufferer as
to damage precluded him from recovering the amount—an
intimation which was a bitterer " pill" to the doctor, than
any of his own to his patients. His rival practitioner's man
Friday was then fined 15s and costa for his delinquency, and
the parties left the court with as much mutual acid in their
visages as would stock the Apothecaries' Hall for a month.
Jesse Watts Russell, Esq., of Ilam-hall, has lately in-
vested £1,300 in the names of the Trustees of the Charity
at Ashbourn, for the widows of poor clergymen of the Church
of England, for the purpose of producing an increase of ten
pounds per annum to the income of the inhabitants of each
house on the foundation.
The numerous friends of Captain Fayrer will be rejoiced
to learn, that, on Friday, he received official notice of his
appointment to the command of the steam-frigate Forth, one
of the splendid ships belonging to the West India Steam
Navigation Company.
Tit uwneasroam.—A thunderstorm visited the metropolis
on Thursday evening, extended over a large space in the sur-
rounding country, and was even more violent at a distance.
In the forest of Berkshire, huge jiailstones fell amidst terrific
thunder and lightning, and injured several mansions. Ac-
counts of the storm have been received aiso from Porstmouth
and Brighton. In the metropolis, William Taylor, a hair-
dresser, was struck speechless by a flash of lightning,. while
sitting at his shop-door.
SANDHURST.—The thunder-storm of Thursday was ac-
companied, in the vicinity of the Royal Military Oollege at
Sandhurst, by a violent fall of hail, which in a few minutes
completely destroyed almost every pain of glass in the ex-
tensive front of the public buildings of the college, along the
whole fine facade of above 900 feet, as well as the front of
the professors houses, 26 in number, and the south face of
the governor's house. We are sorry to hear that the da-
mage thus sustained by the buildings of this national institu-
tion is estimated at above £BOO.
" THERE'S AN ESPECIAL PROVIDENCE FOR LITTLE
CHILDREN."—One of the miraculous escapes from death by
accident, which, good folks say, children and drunken men
alone are favoured with, took place on Sunday week, at the
White Hart, Clement's-lane, Strand, London. The wife of
the landlord of the above house was, on Sunday afternoon,
visited by a female friend, who brought with her a little son,
aged three years. 'Whilst the friends were chattering in the
front room of the second floor, one of the windows of which
was open, the restless urchin climbed unperceived upon a
chair placed immediately inside the open window, and fell
through it a height of thirty-five feet. A woman passing on
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When we have been nauseating over the sickly sentimen-
talism of a French romance,—wearied with the frivolity and
frippery of " Yes and No," or " Matilda, a Tale of the Day,"
by Lord Normanby,—disgusted with the stifled bombast of
one of Lord John Russell's parliainentaty harangues, or Btu-
pitied with the mouthing rant of one of Cobden's anti-corn-
law philippics,—what a luxury it is to turn to " the pure well
of English undefiled" of old Chaucer, or " Glorious John"
Dryden, of Milton, or of Shakspeare, or to the life-like and
stirring scenes pourtrayed by the magic pen of Sir Walter
Scott! When we have been dieted upon slops or spoon-meat
for a month, or given our teeth a long vacation upon fricassees,
with what an overpowering relish we welcome a chine or a
smoking buttock of good old English beef ! With somewhat
similar feelings our readers will turn from the contemplation
of the hard-lined, angular, parchment anatomies, which it
has hitherto been our fortune to hang up in our gallery, to
the jolly, manly, and good-humoured features, and the sub-
stantial and capacious form of the subject of our present
sketch. We have supped full within the past month of phi-
losophers and philosophy—of Radicalism and Bobadilism—
of millocracy and democracy ; our eyes have been offended
with sour vinegar faces, whining—the innocent babes !—of
their doleful sufferings ; our noses have been offended with
the smell of mill-dust and the steam of overworked factory
children; oar ears have been offended with pockets chinked
at us, filled with gold, "ground from the faces of the people,"
whilst canting, plausible tongues "babbled of green fields,"
and complained, with all the unction of Jack Ketch out of work,
of desperate and despairing destitution ; and it is a perfect
feast to gaze upon—to listen to—to hug—(if we could clasp
so vast a form)—the " good Old English gentleman" who is
now before us. There is no sinister look in that face. There is
noaccumulation of vicious humours in those clear honest eyes.
There is no symptom of pinching or griping propensities
about that rounded and robust frame. The very garments
in which it is enfolded are in keeping alike with the mind and
the body within. That coat has a collar to it, which a tailor
might work three days upon. It has nothing of the puri-
tanical cat about it. It has buttons, too, and skirts which
would wrap round a dozen such witherel, skin and grief,
mortals as you will meet with on an anti-corn-law platform,
or two dozen of the wretched semi-animate beings to which
millocracy and philosophy—which is avarice and cruelty com-
bined—are fast reducing the working population of this
country, who groan and toil to swell their unholy gain.
Yes, reader—the veritable form of John Bull—honest and
downright conservative John Bull—is before you. Look
upon him and prize him. He is a large specimen—a folio,
with good bold type and plentiful margin. There is no need
of spectacles to read him. But do not think that it is either
the size, the binding, or the type, which constitutes his value.
No, no. It is the sterling English sense, and the sound
English principle, which is within. That form enshrines,
what is a rare article in these days—a heart—a manly British
heart—and, above all, a fearless and a loyal heart! Would
that Great Britain contained twenty million such ! We
should hear less then of poor law bastiles, less of pork broth
and water gruel dietaries—(all Somerset-house couldn't force
one meal of such a diet upon a people such as we should then
be) ;—we should have less of whining and hypocrisy in the
world, and more—a thousand times more—sterling and ge-
nuine philanthropy ;—we should exchange the age of iron, in
which we now live, for the age of gold ;—we should exchange
this ceaseless ferment of selfish, civil strife for a quiet and
contented state, in which men might reasonably hope to

" laugh and grow fat."
We do trust—now that that Augean stable has been some-
what cleansed, although not by any means sufficiently so—
to see this gentleman once more resume his seat in the Coun-
cil chamber, and that the chief seat. That he is at present
usefully and honourably occupied, we and the people of Li-
verpool know. We forget not, and they forget not—(his
poorer fellow-townsmen, we trust, never will forget)—that
to his exertions we owe it that the grinding despotism of the
new poor law has been made to tall with mitigated severity
upon the people of " the good old town." We forget not his
exertions in the cause of our Protestant church ;—we forget
not his unceasing exertions, upon every occasion, in behalf
of the constitutional cause in Liverpool;—we forget not either
his last manly and spirited defence of his fellow-townsmen
from being overridden and insulted by the irruption of a
horde of paid agitators, and grasping and selfish theorists,
who, but a few days before, were " moving heaven and earth"
to strike a blow against the prosperity of Liverpool, by their
" inland bonding" swindle. We forget not these things ;
nor do his fellow-townsmen forget them ; and before another
year passes over us, we do trust that they will. bear him upon
their shoulders—however heavy he may be—to a seat in the
Council Chamber.

Our readers will perceive that we have not occupied a large
space, although we had in our hands a large subject. The
real fact is that our canvas was intended for more diminutive
%nen, and our frame would not bear the weight of colour
which would be required to paint to the life the colossal figure
before us. To the admirers of Mr. Aspinall—and they are
many—this must he our apology, if it is thought that our
work is too sketchy and meagre; and, at all events, if this
Ie a fault in our portrait, they possess Me original, which is
sufficiently substantial.