The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

The advantages of such an institution, in diffusing useful

information—affording an agreeable and improving means of
spending that leisure which even the busiest individual has
sometimes at his disposal—and, above all, in inspiring cap-
tains with a spirit of inquiry and an emulation to excel,
that will not only adorn them in private life, and render
them more valuable in their profession, but will enable them
to assume that proper and dignified station in society to
which their skill as seamen, and the respect that attaches
to their perilous vocation, so eminently entitles them ;
these advantages appear to us so obvious, that it would be
superfluous to seek for arguments.
We shall from time to time notice the progress of this
laudable institution (which is by means commenced as anta-
gonist to the other newsrooms of the town); and, in conclu-
sion, supply the names of the principal officers, in proof of its
high respectability :—Patron—Lord Sandon ; Vice-Patrons
—Cresswell Cresswell, Esq. M.P., John Cropper, Esq. ;
President—Sir Joshua Wahnsley ; Vice-Presidents—Joseph
Brook Yates, Esq., William Potter, Esq., James Stitt, Esq.,
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Henry G. Chapman, Esq.,
Raymond W. Houghton, Esq., Captain Francis Beaufort,
R.N. ; Secretary—George Duncan, Esq. ; Treasurer—.
Thomas Alston, Esq.
Amongst the Committee are—W. Rowett (chairman),
Messrs. J. Engledue, R.N., Joseph Pinder, R. J. Fayrer,
R.N., John Head, Hugh Price, S. W. Oldham, R.N., Jas.
H. Christy, Wm. H. Hoore, and many others. Honorary
Secretary—Mr. John Middleton.

EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR!).

the Albion of Monday last there appeared a note
from " A Subscriber," but without giving any proof of the
authenticity of the signature, complaining of the injustice (as
he calls it) done to the subscribers to the Exchange News-
room, by its being closed daily between the hours of four and
live o'clock. How this can he an injustice, when the ar-
rangement was made at the particular request of nearly the
whole of the subscribers to that establishment, I know not.
I will now, with your permission, notice that part of his let-
ter where he says myself and partner (a very modest way of
expressing himself, I must say) pay three guineas a year each,
besides gratuities to the master and porters, (as he calls
them). Then this subscriber proves himself to be a non-sub-
scriber, for if he were, he would not be so ignorant of the
rules of the establishment as he evidently is. The committee,
feeling that the rate of subscription was too high, abolished
gratuities to the roaster and his assistants, twelve months
ago. He appears extremely jealous and complains bitterly of
the liberalities of the committee, in allowing subscribers to
introduce transient visitors to the town to read during their
stay. In my opinion they could do no other, and it is only
what is done at similar rooms in other towns. I should not
have troubled you with these few lines, had I not felt that
the letter of " A Subscriber" was calculated to mislead, and
further, that it was uncalled for, and apparently founded on
some erroneous feeling. Your insertion of this will oblige
Yours, &c.,
JAMES SMYTH.

Liverpool, Nov. 18th, 1840.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-MONDAY.
HEARSE, CLERK, V. STOWELL, CLERK.

Lord DENMAN gave the judgment of the court in this case,
which stood over on a motion for a rule nisi to set aside the
verdict returned for the plaintiff, on the ground of misdirec-
tion, and of the alleged libellous matter not containing any
imputation on the plaintiff. The alleged libel was read at a
public meeting at Manchester, where the defendant presided,
and stated, at least inferentially, that the plaintiff, a Roman
Catholic priest, had imposed a penance of a foolish nature
upon one of his flock before he would administer to him the
sacrament. One objection taken to the maintenance of the
action was that the communication was privileged as it was
read at a public meeting in a bond fide discussion. Mr.
Baron Rolfe, before whom the cause was tried, had, how-
ever, held that it was not privileged, and told the jury if they
entertained the same opinion as he did they would find for
the plaintiff. Bis lordship now said the court was of opi-
nion that the defendant was not authorised to read a state-
ment, even in a bond fide discussion, which reflected calum-
niously on the character of the plaintiff. The old case about
Fox's Martyrology, which had been referred to in moving
for the rule, could not be considered as law. The rule could
not, therefore, be granted on that point. In respect of the
other point, that the statement contained no imputation on
the plaintiff, the court thought there should be a rule in ar-
rest of judgment, and if it was not libellous, then the learned
judge should have left the jury to say s•hether it was a libel
or not, and not having done so, but having told them to find
for the plaintiff, it amounted to a misdirection.
Rule nisi granted in arrest of judgment.
THE QUEEN V. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM AND THIS
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES.
Sir F. PoLLocx moved the court for a rule in this case to
show cause why a mandamus should not be issued command-
ing these companies to comply with the provision of the
3d of Vic., c. 49 (Local and Personal Act), which enacted
that the charges to be made on railways for passengers,
goods, and carriages, should be at all times equal on the same
portion of the railway lines, and under all similar circum-
stances. The object of this clause was to provide against
any special charge being made against particular persons or
companies frequenting these transits. The application on
this occasion was made on the part of Messrs. Pickford and
Co., to exclude whom from the business of carriers along the
railway line would seem to have been the purpose of the par-
ties against whom this motion was made. In order to effect
this object they gave to another company advantages from
which Messrs Pickford were excluded, so that the latter
should either give up their business altogether or pursue it
on such terms as would necessarily bring it in a short time to
a suspension. The 'Messrs. Pickford had, in their long-es-
tablished and extensive business, obtained nearly three-
fourths of the carrying trade between London and Liver-
pool, and if they were now deprived of the advantages of the
railroad they might at once close their establishment. There
was a clause in the railway act alluded to which was well cal-
culated to lead the public to false conclusions. It was that
which, with a seeming fairness of arrangement, directed that
the railroads should be open to the steam carriages and trains
of other parties besides the company. Inasmuch, however,
as locomotive engines could not perform their functions with-
out making many stoppages to take in fresh supplies both of
water and coal, while the acts of parliament abstained front
ali provision enabling them to obtain these indispensible
auxiliaries, the whole enactment became a mere delusion—a
fraud.

Mr. JUSTICE. PATTESON.—It had never been attempted to
reduce this provision of the act into practice.
Sir F. POLLOCK.-It had" not. Railways were, in fact, the
strictest monopolies ; this clause was a mere waste of words.
If a party applied at the office at Enston-square to have an
engine and train of this alien kind put upon the road, con-
sent would doubtless be given with this condition annexed,
that it had both coal and water to carry it all the way it had
to go. The learned counsel proceeded to inform the court
how unfairly the companies of the Grand Junction and Bir-
mingham and London Railway had acted towards Messrs.
Pickford, by giving advantages denied to them to the goods
and packages
of Messrs. Horn and Chaplin, who were also
carriers. Thus the latter were allowed to pass on from the
one line at Birmingham to the other without charge, or ad-
ditional charge, while the packages of Messrs. Pickford were
subjected to the delay and inconvenience of being shifted from
one set of carriages to another, unless they submitted to a
new charge. An extra expense of this kind wad sufficient to
put an end to all fair competition between the two parties.
Again, on the arrival of the trains in town, Messrs. Horn &
Chaplin were allowed a deduction of 10s. out of 655. per ton,
charged for transit on their coining to Camden-town to carry
off their goods, while when Messrs. Pickford asked the same
terms, they were refused, and charged the full 655.
After some further remarks, both on the part of the learned
counsel and his lordship, a rule was granted, to show canse
why a mandamus should not be issued, commanding the com-
panies in question to charge all parties using their road
equally under like circumstances, according to the provisions
of the act of 3d Vicioria, (Local and Personal)..

Prince Lieven does not leave this country until the spring,
u. hen his highness goes to Russia for several nionths.

Vottrp.

HAPPINESS.

(For the Liverpool Standard)
Look at that insect floating there,

Within the sunny beam,
Upon the soft, the liquid air,
As on a peaceful stream;
How fast its silken wings it plies,

So peaceful and so free! -
As thro' the fields of space it flies,
Nor dreams of misery.
But soon its happiness is lied;

. _
The cruel spider's snare,
Hid from its victim's eye, is spread—
What insect-pangs are there !
Now, list the songstress of the grove;
How joyous is her note !
In pleasure's regions she can rove,
From want, from care remote.
But, ah ! the tyrant art of man
That transient bliss destroys :
Her happiness—how short its span !
How silent, now, her joys!
There, thro' the silv'ry waters glide
The playful, harmless throng;
They think not evil will betide—
They fear no foeman strong.
But, to deception's bait a prey,
Their hours of pleasure flee ;
Nor sport they now amid the spray

Of iivulet or sea.
See Nature in her various dress—

Above, beneath, around ;
The fairest flowers of happiness
Fall, blighted, to the ground.
Behold the happy lover stand.
Enraptur'd, byjlier side :
How fondly kisses he the hand
. .

Of his intended bride.
Ah! short-liv'd visions these, tho' bright,

For woman false can be :
The vow that once inspir'd delight

Now yields him misery.
The parent, there, looks tenderly
Upon his youthful gem ;
He would not with that treasure buy
The richest diadem.
Alas ! that treasure, priz'd so dear,
By death is torn away;
And from that parent's eye the tear
Of anguish'd love will stray.
No happiness on earth is known

That never tastes of woe :
The seeds of sorrow, widely blown,
O'er Nature's landscape grow.
But when we reach a fairer spot,
Where joys with pleasures blend—
There happiness, our envied lot,
Shall have no pain—no end.
Liverpool, Nov. 16, 1540.

J. M. L.

THE HEART THAT NEVER SIGH'D.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
The heart that never sigh'd for love,
Nor bowed at beauty's shrine.
The heart that tears could never move,
Is happier far than mine.
Such heart its feelings may reveal
When colder feelings move;
But oh ! such heart can never feel

The pain of injured love.
It once was mine to mark the gleam
That shone in beauty's eye,
lint never was it mine to dream
That such could make me sigh.

[Are the above lines original?—E. L. S.]

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

PLEASANT PROSPECTS.
(From the Morning Herald.)
When its possible consequences are regarded, the
Indian policy of Lord Auckland assumes a character
almost of criminality. He has, in a manner the most
reckless, involved the Anglo-Indian government in
disputes that may prove interminable—disputes that
may lead to the most disastrous results. No great
principle was to be vindicated by the assertion of Schah
Soojah's claims ; no great advantage was to be secured,
even by the most brilliant success in the war against
Dost Mohammed.
In extenuation of the blunders of Lord Auckland, it
may, perhaps, be urged, that he has only followed the
example of his colleagues at home. They have em-
broiled England in a dangerous war with China. He
has perilled our Indian empire in a struggle about the
throne of Cabool.
War, though always to be deprecated, may, we ad-
mit, prove, at times, the lesser of two evils. When the
national honour, or other national interests are at issue,
a warlike policy may be consistent with the most rigid
prudence ; for of all possible accidents, dishonour is
the most costly that may befal a great people. But
war is to be justified only by a necessity of the highest
order; and in the present condition of Great Britain,
the necessity must be indisputable, that shall warrant
a departure from the policy of peace. Great Britain is
not only unprovided with money, with armies, with
fleets—with all the appliances, in short, for carrying on
war successfully ; but her productive energies are crip-
pled, the principles that regulate her industrial system
are unsound ;—discord and strife divide the various
classes that compose her society ;—her manufacturers
are waging war on her agriculturists ;—her " econo-
mists" and foreign traders are busied in denouncing
her magnificent colonies as incumbrances of the most
dangerous and expensive kind. While the spirit of
dissension is thus active in the bosom of English so-
ciety, the external enemies of England are no less ac-
tive and watchful in every part of the world. Let
England be but fairly embroiled in a perplexing and
unprofitable quarrel, and too soon shall we experience
the verification of the great captain's saying, that
"England cannot have a little war." Russia, France,
the United States have all their own reasons for desir-
ing the subversion of the English empire. Russia
longs to occupy European and Asiatic Turkey, as well
as British India :—to the success of this project, the
power of England opposes the only obstacle. France
longs to revenge on England certain old and deep-
rooted hatreds : and France meditates, besides, exten-
sive schemes of territorial aggrandisement. France
still desires " ships, colonies, and commerce." She
pants to regain the settlements of which England has
stripped her :—she aspires, besides, at no remote pe-
riod, to the command of the Mediterranean. Already
she has occupied Algiers ; she meditates the occupation
of Majorcaj and Minorca. Let but these points be
carried, and Egypt will speedily be ranked amongst the
dependencies of France. To the realization of all these
schemes nothing is wanting but the overthrow of that
naval supremacy which has so long been the founda-
tion of the power of England.
The democratic party in the United States, again, is
determined, sooner or later, and at all hazards, to add
the Canadas to the federal union. A successful war
against England would not only lead to that much-
desired result, but to the confiscation of large masses
of English capital, now invested as loans, or otherwise,
in every industrial enterprise throughout the United
States.

France, Russia, and the United States are all, there-
fore, subject to many influences, which impel them to
collision with England ; and these powers watch hut
the opportunity of successful aggression. That op-
portunity Lord Auckland or Lord Palmerston would
seem anxious to afford them. An unsuccessful issue
to the war in Affghanistan may shake the English em-
pire in India to the centre. An unsuccessful issue to
the crusade against China may lead to the same result.
Then will follow rebellion in Canada, and war with the
United States; then, simultaneously, will Russia march
upon Constantinople, and France proceed to take pos-
session of Majorca and Minorca. War with these great
powers will, in such circumstances, be inevitable, and
the proclamation of such a war will, in all probability,
be followed by the appearance in the Thames of a Rus-
sian or French fleet. A Popish rebellion in Ireland,
and (in Bacon's phrase) a " rebellion of the belly" in
the manufacturing districts of England, may be anti-
cipated as amongst the not remote consequences of a
general war, if such a war shall be entailed on us by
the folly of our rulers.
To the chance of all these melancholy results has
Lord Auckland exposed us by his foolish interference
in the quarrels of Schah Soojah and Dost Mohammed.

ROYAL BABE'S ESTABLISHMENT.
_ (From the Aye.) _

We some months since gave-
an account of a preli-
minary meeting that took place at the Palace, touching
the appointment of certain eminent characters to cer-
tain places. We have now the opportunity, from the
best authority, to announce the names of the indivi-
duals who are to fill the important situations—which a
Royal Babe it' entitled to. There are but few reporters
that have access to the Palace. We have the entree of
the chamber, and our readers may rely upon the accu-
racy of the list which we now submit to them. There
has been a great deal of difficulty in arranging affairs,
and it was not until late on Friday that the arrange-
ments were finally settled. Many of the disappointed
have gone over to Leopold to wait the event of another
nine months. The appointment of Sir James Clark
and Dr. Locock has already been announced. The
subjoined list is correct, and we have no doubt will
prove satisfactory to the public, and show that her
Most Gracious Majesty is well taken care' of, and in
good keeping.
- - - -

-
Head Nurse Lord Melbourne.
Deputy ditto
Caudle Man SirJohn Cam Hobhouse.
Clerk of the Pap-room
Spoon Bearer
First Napkin Man
Second ditto
Swaddling Master Lord Morpeth.
Yeoman of the Nursery Lord Palmerston.
Clerk of the Mouth Sam Crawley.
Inspector of Cradles and Cots Lord Kensington.
Inspector of Baby Linen
Keeper of the Balls and Corals Earl Cowper.
Master of the Rocking Horse Earl Albemarle.
Washerwoman
HUSH-A-BY BABY BOARD.
Senior Whistler
Second ditto Herr Von Joel. •
Chuckler
Dandeller ..
Roarer
Squeeker' Shell.
Bawler
Puff Bag Bearer
Torn Wakley.
Fire Keeper To
Sleeping Master Lord Glenelg.
Inspector of Crockery
Purveyor ofDalby's Carminative Lord Brougham.
By all the Disawointed.
Messengers, &c. &c. &c.

We observe that Mr. Mackreth has taken to himself a
wife ; and to our hearty congratulations on his late escape
from assassination, we add our cordial wishes for a long period
of uninterrupted happiness to the newly married couple.—
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