The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

DEFINITIONS OF WHIG PHILOSOPHERS.

"POLITICAL CABAL."-The liberal majority of the town
council is a political cabal. Vile Alderman Evans's Speech at
the late Council Meeting—.. NA re (the whigs) did meet (exclu-
sively) to elect thirteen men that we could depend upon."
A LOGICAL CONCLUSION.—" We have beard complaints of
speeches being misreported; therefore the report of Mr. James
Heyworth's speech, wherein he accuses the council of `deep
dishonour, must be a perversion. —Speech of Alderman Evans.
THE LAW OF HONOUR.—" The line of policy."—Speech of
Mr. Councillor Coglan.
" PacnecisioN."—" We came with the determination to
support measures in the council that were previously brought
fqrwards at a meeting of a majority of the councillors."—
Speech of Mr. Councillor Coglan. " I give in the list of names
selected to go down as dock committee men."—Speech of Mr.
Councillor Rathbone.
" REPUDIATION OF PRE-ARRANGEMENT."—." I for one repu-
diate the sentiment that any pre-arrangement was ever entered
into at the Angel Inn or any other place."—Speeell of Mr.
Councillor Coglan. Vide "Predecision."
"AN ACT OF PRUDENCE."—KForty men meeting together
lest they should he beatea by the dignity, the force, and the
genius of ten."—Speech of Mr. Councillor Ceylon.
LOG ic.—Example : "It is essentially necessary that it should
go abroad that the Bible is communicated whole and entire to
the protestant children i • therefore those who say that the Bible
is sacrificed have staled what is not true."—Speech cf Mr. Coun-
cillor Coglan.
"LIBERALITY."—Accusing a man of libel, and refusing to
hear his defence.—Proceedings of the Reform Council.
" DIMINUTION OF CHINE. —"Owing to the exertions of the
watch committee, a considerable diminution of crime has been
the consequence."—Speech of Aldermen Robinson. " Tlie state
of crime in Liverpool absolutely calls.for the sessions which are
now convened. In six weeks the calendar presents 70 cases for
your consideration. It 'is quite alarming to think that such a
mass of crime exists."—Recorder's Speech at• last. Week's Sessions.
"13torr POSSIBLE-PROTESTANT Eou6ATroN."—An Unitarian
layman hearing children repeat the Protestant Catechism. " I
am prepared to state that the Proivstant children in these
schools will be made as good churchiNen es in any school in
, Liverpool."—Speech of Mr. Councillor liathbone. " 'Where he
(Mr. Rathbone) understood it, he had endeavoured to explain
the Catechism and the Bible to the children in the sense of the
clergy."—Speech of Mr. Councillor Rathlume.
"CoNstsTaricY.•'—lntroducing the Irish system of education
into the corporation schools because they were exclusive, • and
continuing the system because it made them mo're
Proceeding!. pftirccier.c."—"
"THE VOLUNTARY' .That which has been
taught by the Deity himself under the Mosaic dispensation."—
Speech of Mr. Councillor Lawrence Hextvorth.
"THE LIGHT" OF ELOQUENCE.—EXRTEpIe : "I look on it
that in this circumstance. of the Angel Inn, and this sort of
work, we are going from the charge of those words that were so
offensive to the council."—Speech of the Mayor.
ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION.—ExampIe: "Let a man have
any religion or no religion, he was at perfect liberty, to have
his children educated ih these seminaries (the corporation
schools) without departing in the slightest degree from the
principles he entertained.', —Speech' of Mr. Councillor Blackburn.
THIS CLERGY TAUGHT INSANITY.—The clergy are edncated
at the universities, where "the light of reason is scarcely ever
allowed to enter."—Spieek of the Mayor.
Vices of TIME.—" Time is valuable by man because man
is man."—Speech of Mr. Councillor Lawrence Heywerth.-

'the
Stainford Mercury of last week complains that the sexton
of. St.. Michael's Church, in that town,tolling in the bell for a
funeral, pulled it so irregularly as to show he was in an angry
temper.—Lineoln Gazette.
How DOES A SIIIP Ristoint.it A WONAN?--Decause man
knows not the expinse till he has got one; because they look
best when well rigged ; becansetheir value depends on iheir age;
because they are upright., when in stays; because they bring
nevi's from abroad; because they wear caps and bonnets; because
they are often abandoned; because they are often painted.
BBDOUIN ARABS.—If the Bedouini be an evil, they are, I
think, a most riecessary one; the desert can never be peopled
but by, rii.ving tribes, and without them the most useful animals
in fhis part of the world would be lost ; for men brought up in
toiOni could never attend to the breed of cainels or the trans-
port of goods from the richest quarters of the globe. As it is
not fair to judge of the Arabs by the rules of civilized tile, they
should not be so generally condemned for their maraudingyr%
pensities as they sometimes are:. they possess many amiable
qualities—hospitality in the highest degree, and.geneT.
a sense of honour that is rarely to be met with in en isgihYte'ned
countries: It seems a sort of :right in them to levy taxes upon
all that pass through their territories ; and I would as soon
think of refusing the dues. at a custom-house as of resisting the
payment of a reasonable &viand' from them..—Skinner's Over-
t/rid Journey to India.' .