The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

which affect and degrade our fellow countrymen.
Whilst we express, therefore, candidly, our dislike
of some of the principles of Lord Lincoln, who is
too much of the Peel school, for our taste, we say --
" Honor to the men of Manchester, conservative
and Whig, for the stand which they are making
against mob and republican dictation ! "

'lce must stand over until next
columns being full of local intel-

e of an important nature.
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the first week of January, the STANDARD will be
rrinted with a new and elegant type, manufactured
pecially for
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purpose by the celebrated house
f Messrs. V . and J. Fiyyins, of London.

Before proceeding to discuss further the question
mooted by us, with respect to the division of the
magisterial business of this borough, we may be
excused if we take leave very briefly of the Journal.
Our contemporary is of opinion that we have not
confuted his estimate of the additional expense of a
second police court, which he set down at .-05600
year. We can easily afford, however, to leave that
matter for the public to decide upon. It is clear
that the Journal wishes to fright our senses by a
picture of awfully-increased cost, as the result of a
change of system ; and that he has thrown over-
board, as untenable, his arguments, as to the ad-
vantages of one court over a divided jurisdicEon.
But we are most confident that he is himself per-
fectly convinced of the fact that, should it even be
the case, which it is not, that such an increased ex-
penditure will be required, the change must be made.
With the vast increase now taking place in the
I population of the borough, and in the acreage over
The announcement which we now make to our readers, which that population extends—with a mass of new
that from this day the LIVERPOOL STANDARD business crowding upon the attention of the magis-
vill be offered to the public for THREEPEACE, tracy, as the result of the additional powers given
requires from us a word or two of explanation. by our Sanatory Bill,—it is physically impossible
For some time past we have had in contemplation that one court can suffice for the administration of
this step—a serious one to ourselves, and one of justice within the borough, or that justice can be
no trifling import to the community amongst whom administered, with convenience to the public, in the
our paper circulates. lie have not been blind to present central locality, even conceding the appoint-
the fact, that newspaper literature must ultimately
meat of additional magistrates, or the possibility of
accommodate itself to the requirements of the age; effecting better arrangements of the business coming
that the great organ which aspires to direct public I before them.
opinion, and which is hourly proving itself more One portion of our contemporary's remarks rather
powerful than statesmen or parties, should be ena- excites our risible muscles. We cannot, he says,
bled to address its appeals more directly to the procure the services of a competent person for the
many—to address them in their own homes, and office of magistrate for the salary of £lOOO a year !
by their own firesides—to substitute its earnest "The acceptance of £lOOO a year by a barrister, or
teachings for the penny trash, which alone at £5OO a rear by an attorney, is a primei facie evidence of
present finds its way to the poor man's dwelling utter incompetence. The men who would abandon the
and to the perusal of his family. To effect this, prospects of their profession for these retail salaries, are
cheapness is mainly required. The hearts of our either fsoolit or conscious d
a: f inability to
fo
t o
rwin honours and
humble fellow-countrymen, we know, are not too rdeiswpaordd
to puejup with
might
stup.eidit enough those w•Iio are
se
yormediocrity, but they
enamoured of the wretched sentiment and worse are not such men as the public should entrust with the
principles—the inflammatory doctrines and false administration of public law,—with the liberty of the
philosophy—contained in the papers to which we suoject."
have referred as constituting at present their usual It is really a pity if this is the case, inasmuch as
mental food ; and we have arrived at the conclu- it proclaims to us the startling fact that we are at
sion, that we are only doing our duty as journal- this moment committing the administration of j us-
ists, conscious of the great responsibility which the tice, in very many important towns, the metropolis
march of circumstances has thrown upon us, in included, to these very " stupid" and " incompe-
submitting to a sacrifice—we trust only a tempo- tent" people. We beg, however, to doubt the fact
rary one—of our personal interests, with a view that there is anything so very inviting in the pros-
to increased usefulness and advantage to the pub- pects of many excellent lawyers, neither " stupid"
nor "incompetent," to tempt them to refuse a cer-
tainty of £lOOO a year. It is the fortune of some,
quite competent to the exercise of the magisterial
functions, not to pick up that sum in any year of
their lifetime. All the world knows that it is not
always to the best deserving, or the soundest men,
that the " honors and rewards" of the legal profes-
sion fall ; and we do not think that the slightest
difficulty would he found in inducing scores of
really able men to barter their remote chances of
judgeships, or attorney-generalships, for a position
such as that of stipendiary magistrate of this town
would be with the emolument which we propose.
We need not either come down to " the sweepings
of Westminster Hall" to find such men. The plea,
in behalf of Mr. Rushton's claims to increase of
salary, that, " as a Parliamentary lawyer, during the
last two years, he would have enriched himself to
the tune of £30,000," is quite beyond the question.
If we have bought his talents too cheap, at all events
half the bargain was of his own making.
We must leave, however, this kind of childish
paltering with an important question. It is folly to
be thus counting the cost of a measure, where that
cost, even by the most exaggerated estimate, is so
vastly below the advantages to be derived by the
community. Say that ten thousand a-year is the
expense of improved magisterial superintendence
and improvement of the morals of the community,
ought it to be begrudged by the wealthy corpora-
tion of such a ton n as Liverpool ? Mr. Rushton,
under the present system, the Journal informs us,
" sentences more criminals than a judge of assize—
ten to one—and his duties have more relation to
social good than even the high awards of the Queen's
Bench." Then we ask, on behalf of the public,
that he should have time to consider those sentences
and to perform those duties_ We demand,
on bo-
half of the public and of the stipendiary himself,
assistance for him in his arduous labours ; and the
real question—the only question upon which any
candid mind now entertains a doubt—is by what
arrangement that assistance can be best rendered.
We repeat that this is the only question now left ;
for surely the argument as to " oneness of jurisdic-
tion" must by this time be abandoned as utterly
untenable. We have no such thing in our Superior
Courts. Our Judges of Assize are not a unity.
Conflicting opinions have ever existed, and ever will
exist, upon legal and all other matters; and not un-
frequently out of those conflicting opinions strict
justice and equity are gathered. Let us come,
therefore, to the question as to the means by which
Mr. Rushton may be best assisted in the perform•
ance of his duties.
We believe that there is an impression in the
minds of some of our influential fellow-townsmen,
with whom we do not differ without very great hesi-
tation, that the end which we have in view can be
attained without removing the Court from its pre-
sent site. It is agreed that, by having the two
magistrates sitting in one building, they will be
enabled to confer together in cases of difficulty,
whilst the expenses of a largely increased staff will
be avoided. The argument ought certainly to weigh
with us if the advantages of this arrangement were
not far overbalanced by the public convenience to
be attained by a division of the business. Any such
arrangement must of necessity be merely temporary.
It cannot for a moment be supposed that a town ex-
tending itself rapidly in all directions,—north, east,
and south,—whose commerce doubles itself every
ten or twenty years, and in which we are so con-
vinced of the certainty of still further increase that
we are at this moment constructing new docks, al-
most double in extent of water space the capacity of
those which twenty years ago held the entire ship-
ping of our port : it cannot, we say, be supposed
that the people of such a town can much longer
submit to the same inconvenience, expense, and de-
lay of justice caused by the present system. A very
few years must compel a change. Toxteth park is
becoming no longer an outskirt but a large town.
The Reform Bill gave not only magistrates but
members to some metropolitan outskirts not larger
in extent and importance than the park is rapidly
becoming. Everton is fast covering its fields with
buildings and population. A new town will shortly
occupy the space between the New North Docks and
Vauxhall road ; and it is idle to tell us that this
rising population can long be provided with justice,
with one court only, and that two miles in the cen-
tre, not of the entire population of the borough, but
of business only of the borough.

'Mist making this announcement, we must assure
our readers and those friends who have, thus far,
so liberally rewarded our humble labours, that we
do not intend to attempt to compensate ourselves
by any parsimony of management, by which the
article which we furnish at a reduced price shall
le less worthy of their acceptance and approbation.
We hope even to improve upon the past. The con-
sciousness that we are addressing a more extended
circle of readers, calls upon us for increased
energy and increased watchfulness for the interests
of those readers. The task before us we fully
recognise ; and we trust that we shall not be
found unequal to perform it faithfully and bene-
fcially.

From rn one source, and from one alone, we look for
our reward, so far as mere pecuniary considera-
tions extend. We shall be able to give to the
favours of our advertising friends greatly in-
creased circulation and publicity ; and it is only
natural to anticipate that those favours will fall
upon us in an increased degree. Henceforth we
hope to be behind none of our contemporaries in
the advantages which our columns afford to the
advertising community.
rfre cannot conclude these brief remarks without re-
turning thanks to our friends and the public for
the support which has raised us to our present
position amongst our contemporaries; and we
trust that our future labours will not be less de-
serving or less rewarded.
firig Eibrrpool tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 15, 1846.

The struggle which is going on in Manchester
between the friends of Mr. John Bright and the
gentlemen who have invited Lord Lincoln to con-
test with him the Representation of the Borough,
might tempt one to indulge in a laugh. It is amus-
ing to see the belly and the limbs of a great con-
federacy, which has just succeeded in effecting a
momentous change in the policy of the country, and
-verthrowing, at the same time, one of the most
erful governments ever erected in this empire,
iarrelling with each other. It is amusing to see
e machinery of the Anti-Corn-Law League tear-
If in pieces, and damaging its founders ;

amusing to see the spouters and tools turn against
the men whose purses so lately fed them. But the

ght is no uncommon one

The student who

formed and gave life to a monster became its slave;
and the men of Manchester whose flattery erected
John Bright, in his own estimation, to the rank of
a great philosopher, and estimated the talk of George
Wilson at the value of a thousand a-year, and a
parting present of ten thousand, ought not to be
surprised if these worthies attempt towards them

the monster's part. Demagogues are rarely grateful.
But in a constitutional view it deserves a far more
serious consideration. It is no light matter which
can bring together a large body of men, differing
upon many important national questions, and with
the bickerings of past years of party contention fresh
upon their minds, to support a candidate personally
unacquainted with them. It is no mere jealousy of
44ie inflated Quaker Leaguer which has united Con-
rvative and Whig in favour of the claims of Lord
Possibly some little offence there might
be taken by some of these men at the presumption
-riend John. But the main ground of objection

Lincoln

aim appears to us to be a dislike of some -of his

ultra dem—ocratic notions, and a reluctance to see the
representation of one of the most important towns
in the empire handed up as a reward for successful
agitation. The allied parties who support Lord
Lincoln feel that they have a character to maintain
1-0 r the borough itself; that the great seat of the
c..3tton manufacture ought to return a man who pos-

sesses a voice and influence in the national councils,
and upon whom, now that the great question of free
trade in corn is set at rest, they can depend to legis-
late for the good of all and for the protection of the
institutions of the country.
The views of these gentlemen were so well put by
one of them—Mr. Alderman Neild, himself a Whig,

and, what is more, now or lately a Quaker—that
we cannot forbear extracting a portion of his re-

arks :

The candidates presented to us are Mr. Bright and
Lord Lincoln. (Cheers.) I scarcely know Lord Lincoln ;
I have seen him only once for two minutes, and should
know him if I met him in the street ; but I am not,
therefore, to dispose of my duties as an elector without

making due inquiries, which is also the duty of every man
in this room. I hive made those inquiries, and the result
is that, in my opinion, Lord Lincoln will best serve the
interests of this borough. (Loud cheers.) Recollect,
gentlemen, that your election is an important event ; it is
not a mere election of an individual, but it gives a stamp
to the constitution of the house of commons. The seat
of Manchester, or rather its representative, has been

TIIE POTATO DISEASE.—We have received a commu-
nication, (comprising a number of testimonials,) showing
the complete success that has followed the use of salt ap-
plied to land, in preventing the destructive, and, as yet,
mysterious disease in the potato crops, and we supply the
principal facts for the information of our agricultural
readers :—John Lea, market gardener, of Stoke Prior,
Worcestershire, found, in 1845, his potatoes quite
sound where salt had been used. He applied to one
portion of his land lime and soot, in the drills at
the time of planting; to another he applied salt, in
a similar manner, and left the remainder without ar-
tificial dressing. When harvested the tubers in the
last portion were much diseased ; partially so where
the soot and lime were employed ; but they were perfect-
ly clear, and free from disease whe❑ salt had been used.
He intends in future to dress his land with 10 or 12 cwt.
to the acre, sown broad-cast, next spring, some weeks be-
fore planting. Mr. Colman, a practical farmer, supplies
a statement by his friend Wm. Clarke, Esq., to the effect
that after losing all his potatoes on three acres in 1845,
he, in the spring of 1846, before ploughing, spread broad-
cast 11 cwt. of medium coarse salt per acre upon the
same land, and left it a fortnight to dissolve. After
ploughing and sowing, the same quantity of salt was put
upon the land, making 3 cwt. per acre in all. The usual
mode of culture was pursued, and a fair crop, of excellent
quality, was found. They were planted on the land
where the crop had failed in the previous year. Two
other equally successful instances are adduced by this
gentleman. He does not think that salt can yet be pro-
nounced to be a certain remedy, but recommends a trial
of it in the absence of anything that promises better. A
gentleman, in the United States, where the disease also
prevailed, was equally successful by using salt Saline
matter has the same effect, Mr. Moberley having recently
stated, at the Botanical Society of London, that he ob-
tained a healthy crop by the use of sulphate of magnesia,
while other means had failed. At the Isle of Wight, and
particularly on the sea-board, the potatoes were excellent
and abundant this year, which is attributed to the saline
particles from the sea, deposited upon the ground and the
plants.

looked upon as of great importance. He has deep in-
terests to support ; the interests of this mighty trade on
which all our existence depends, is a thing that ought not
to be slightly dealt with. (Hear.) You have important
local interests also, which require to be supported, in-
terests peculiar to the district. But you have other in-
terests in common with all your countrymen. There is a
vast amount of social legislation required ; and the grave
and important question for you to consider is, who will
give the best effect to your views as your representative,
taking all those points into consideration. (Hear, hear.)

I have given the subject a calm and dispassionate con-
sideration, and the result at which I have been able to ar-
rive has induced me to make the election, along with
yourselves, in favour of Lord Lincoln. (Loud cheers.)"
Most sincerely do we hope that such will be the
conclusion to which the respectable portion of the
constituencies throughout the country will arrive,
their selection of members at the ensuing general
. It is emphatically true that we have many
_uestions pressing urgently upon the atten-
f tne legislature—gthstions affecting, deeply,
interests, the happiness, and the morals of the
pie. For the settlement of these, we want ear-
nest-minded honest men, not violent spouters, like
Mr. John Bright. The present times are charac-
terized by all the evidences of political lull ; and if
we could rid ourselves of some of the demagogueism
which has of late occupied so much of the time of
parliament, we might hope for a little more of its
ittention to the duty of removing those social evils