The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-19 00:00:00

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1); a standing memorial to the next generation of the
cripidity;%and inconsistency of the newly .fledged
oonncillors...- The above remarks may illustrate, in a
-light,degree, the way in which the councillors have re-
their pledges,,as to their impartiality, their de-
te44.4011 at creation of places, and their abhorrence of
:',,Pqrsions.. Now let us glance at their love of the liberty
b f the.pKesg,,
We happen to'know that °fall mortals under the sun,
none are's° thin-skinned in this respect as your whigs
and radicals. A conservative laughs at the vagaries of
the public press,—a whip winces under its lash ; a-con-
servative lives down calumny,—a whip; prosecutes for
libel. Sour crout and nightshade cannot distort the
countenance of a Hindoo worse than ridicule and cas-
tigation do the visages of the liberals. They boast of
the power of the press, they fear its power, they toast its
liberty,, and. they hate it. Out. of council they raved'
about common halls ;—has one of them, since he was in,
ever broached the subject? They delight (in profession
at least) in public opinion. Installed in. office, they de-
spise it. When it was suggested that the council cham-
ber should be enlarged, that the public Might be admit-
ted, who supported it, or rather who opposed it, incon-
venience and expense were pleaded, but this was shirk-
ing the subject. The press had touched a sore place—
had shown the public what it had to expect from the
seven league speeches of Mr. Samuel Hope—the turgid
bombast of Mr. Sulor Blackburn—the senility of Mr.
Egerton Smith—the froth of Mr. Shiel, (not of Tippe-
rary)—and the unseemly scrimmages between Mr. Rath-
bone and Mr. William Earle, the latter of whom is a
gentleman notwithstanding. The public had seen that
his worship, like a schoolmaster, had to stand with his
Birch to keep order ;—they were disgusted with the ri-
baldry and nonsense, the egotism and vulgarity of the
Majority of the council, and.a general complaint. existed
that "the council proceedings were not worth reading.''
Audi being aware of this, honourable, gentlemen keep
their mouths pretty,close in council, and the proceedings
of that august body are nbw little more than a confirma-
tion of the reports of committees, the business beingdone
within those walls which have no ears, and where re-
porters mill never. be permitted to hear the squabbling.
The select ,clique who used to meet at the Angel, in Dale,

street, before they met in the council chamber, probably

draw together more harmoniously than before, and the.
Public may depend upon, it that they are for the future
to know as little as possible of what passes in the Town-
hall.

And this is the state of things in Liverpool ! Wherein
then, we ask, are we different from Leicester and other

places ? In nothing ! The same arguments which ap-
ply generally apply to us. The truth is, that men of
shallow pretensions have been elected to situations for
Which nature has not fitted them ;—they have, in a few
months, burthened us and our children with an annual
obligation, which must be met ; they have filled our pub-
lic offices with their own creatures—our police, and our
free schools with papists—and they will, if not checked,
ride rough-shod over public opinion, and smother the
liberty of which they have made so much boast. We
trust that every man who blushes for the degradation of
his country will arise, and cast off the incubus of a spu-
rious liberality, and will send, both into our Ideal and
national councils, men who are devoted to protestant
principles, (for to that we are fast hastening, whether we
will now see it or not,) and so arrest the march of ty-
ranny, abuse, and radicalism, which now pants for the
destruction of everything that stands in the way of its
own unhallowed desires.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday, Half past One.

Consols, 91f for the account. Exchequer Bills remain At
9to 11 premium, and India Bonds are 1 pm. to par. A panic
has taken place in Spanish stock, which has fallen two per
cent. in the course of the morning; the quotation is now at
29.1 1 for the active stock, at 94 for the passive, and 122. for the
deferred. In Portuguese Bonds also there is a marked depres-
sion, the quotation being now 72, a fall of 31 per cent. from the
opening of the market; the Three per Cents. are at 431. The
cape of this decline is not exactly knovin, but it is stated that
General Evans has returned to England. The Republican
Bonds are heavy at 21 for Colombian and 28 for Mexican.
Northern Stock is steady, Russian Bond's are quoted at 11i
112; ; Dutch Five per Cents. ate 1041; and the Two-and-a Half
per. Cents. 56.

In the Share Market there is little speculation. Stephenson's
Brighton Shares, from 61, have receded to 51. per share ; bu
Greenwich Shares are firm at 211 per Share. The Great
Western Shares are at 371, North Midland are 91, and Anti-
Dry Rot 91 per Share.

Four o'clock.
Consols for Account closed at 914 Spanish Bonds, 28,3,
29. Portuguese, 721 73. Chilian, 44 to 45.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT

The usual orders were this morning issued from the Lord
Chamberlain's office for making the necessary preparations for
hii Majesty proroguing parliament in person on Saturday next,
the 29th instant: The House of Commons, at its rising to
night, will adjourn until Friday.
A. cabinet council was held at the Foreign Office this morn-
ing, at one o'clock, when it was understood the King's speech
on proroguing parliament was considered, previous to its being
submitted to his Majesty for approval at the privy council,
Which is summoned to be held at St. James's Palace on Friday
next, after the levee, and the council was attended by Lord
Melbourne, 'the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl MintO, Lord
Duncannon, Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Lord Howick,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Holland, and- Mr.
Poulett Thomson.

TEXAS.

(From the New Orleals Bee of July 2)

The steamer Caspian, Captain Read, arrived at a late hour
last evening, bearing the intelligence that 7,000 Mexican
troops, composed in part of those who were permitted to retire
from Texas after the revengeful battle of San Jacinto, and the
remainder fresh recruits from Matamoras had taken up their
line of march upon Texas about the 20th ult., and bad reached
the Guadaloupe. Brigadier General Rusk, commander-in chief
of the Texan army, having discovered their approach and fearful
numbers, had retreated, in order to select a favourable position,
in which to receive his blood-thirsty enemies in a manner
compatible with their ," honour" and " dignity."
We understand that a private letter was received in town by
the Caspian, from Natchitoches, confirming the above.
Montreal papers to the 13th ult. have arrived. They are
filled with election details, the results of which are of the same
cheering character as those previously received. '['he num-
bers returned were as follows :—Conservatives, 41; radicals,
17. The constiutionalists of Upper Canada have nobly done
their duty; and Sir F. Head deserves well for his promptitude
and determination in setting them so good an example.
The Quebec papers state that aboutsoo emigrants had landed
there since the previous arrival.

SHERIFF'S COURT.

Monday a Sheriff's Jury were empannelled at the Court-
house to assess the damages sustained by the plaintiff in the
action "Bean v. Tinley," in which the defendant had suffered
judgment to go by default. This action was brought to recover
damages for an assaat committed by the defendant upon the
Plaintiff on the 7th of May last. The plaintiff is the Editor of
the Albion newspaper, published in this town, and defendant a
g.entlernan actively engaged in the mouth of April last in the
tortnation of the Liverpool Steam 'rug Company. In conse-
quence of a letter published in the Albion on the 27th of April,
(which did tipt contain any libellous matter, nor any thing be-
yond a fair disquisition upon the probable merits of the coin pany,)
the defendant, accompanied by- Mr. Wright, the professional
adviser of the company, called on the 7th of May at the plain-
tiff's office, in Castle-street, and inquired for the plaintiff. They
both went into the office at the back of the shop, and, shutting
the door after them, Mr. Wright asked for a supplement of the
Parer of the previous Monday, and one }mine shown to him, he
valled•the plaintiff's attention to the two last paragraphs of the
letter alluded to, and inquired the name of the author. The
Plaintiff told them he did not know the author's name, but he
would show them the manuscript; the plaintiff at the same time
observing that he had exercised his own judgmeut in inserting
the letter. Mr. Tinley then said the plaintiff had got himself
into a scrape, on which the plaintiff observed "if he had got
into a scrape, he must get out of it." Mr.Tinley, the defendant,
to this rejoined, "It is bad judgment." Plaintiff, in
answer, observed," that such conduct was very ungentlemanly;
-when ie defendant drew himself up, and asked whether the
Plaintiff meant to say his conduct was ungentlemanly ? to which
the plaintiff replied, " It is more the conduct of a blackguard
than a g,entleman." Mr. Wright then interposed, and endea-
vouied to keep the defendant froth doing violence to the plaintiff's
person. However, the defendant succeeded in getting away,
and struck at the plaintiff with a stnalleane, intending to hit him
upon the shoulder, but it hit him on the "seat of honour." This
wasthe assault complained of, and for which the plaintiff sought
to recover damages. Mr. Wright afterwards put his hat on, and
said to the defendant "Let's go." They then went away, the
.plaintiff repeating the term "ungentlemanly," as they walked
out of the shop. and the defendant retaliating by calling him a
coward.--Mr. Brandt, the defendant's counsel, addressed the
Jury at some length, dwelling with much force upon the trivial
nature of the assault, and the provoking language used by the
Plaintiff. The learned counsel also contended that the account
of the affray given by the plaintiff in the next number of his
PaPec-was sufficient in compensate him, by the extra sale of
Paper Papers, for any damage he had sustained. The jury, after two
s,
deliberation, assessed the damages at one shilling.—
Plaintiff's case.
Mr u
as
-• ..ulton acted assessor, and Mr. Knowles conducted the