The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The advertisement to which a correspondent kindly calls our
attention, was forwarded for insertion in the Standard
several days since, but there was too much indecency on
the face of it to admit of its appearance in our columns.
We are sorry our contemporaries are not equally careful,
especially as the character of the advertiser is sufficiently
notorious.
Favourer of anti-corn law—is a blockhead—be should go to
the corporation schools for a few weeks, to learn writing,
spelling, and—manners.
There is too much tautology in the letter of E. T.
We believe that it was the intention of one or more of the
leading conservative peers in the House of Lords, last
night, to reinforce the sentence of the lower house in con-
demnation of the government. No formal resolution will,
in all probability, be passed, hut some sufficiently indica-
tive notice will no doubt be taken of the recent unconsti-
tutional proceedings of the ministry. We shall give the
debate in an early second edition, if the evening papers
contain it.
M. A. H.—The regular banking days are the first Friday in
every month—deposits are received every Saturday from
twelve to one o'clock.

Ebt 7Liberpool tantarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1841

Ministers—condemned by the House of Commons—
refuse to acquiesce in that sentence, and purpose en-
tering an appeal to the people. The question then for
the people will be, was the sentence of the House of
Commons a just, or was it an unjust one, and should
it be affirmed or reversed ?
The House of Commons has said that ministers are
unworthy of their confidence; will the electors of the
kingdom say they are worthy of theirs ? That is the
question to be solved at the approaching general elec-
tion. It is a general and comprehensive one, depend-
ing upon no one isolated fact or circumstance, but
upon that aggregate of particulars by which in general
we determine whether men are worthy of our confi-
dence or not. People may say that ministers are free-
traders, Irish-franchise-enlargers, liberals, or whatever
else, according with their own peculiar " class" or
political feelings it may please them ; but we say that
the issue really put to the country is„whether the mi-
nisters, whom a House of Commons of their own
choosing has condemned, are, upon the whole, worthy
of the national CONFIDENCE, or otherwise?

A gentleman connected with the factories might say, I
"1 care not what they are, generally speaking ; an I
know is that they are pledged
,against the corn-laws,
and that's enough for me." We know how impracti-
cable such men are ; yet we would venture to put it
e'ren to such an one, whether the pliability of ministers
upon a single point ought to justify him, or could do
so, in giving them his confidence ? They might he the
most sweeping reformers with regard to our comrner-
cial tariff; but would they, for that reason, and upon
that account alone, be entitled to any man's CONFI-
DENCE ? Macbeth applauds one of his hired tools
when he brings him word that he had executed his
commands touching Banquo. "My lord," says the
messenger, " his throat is cut ; that I did for him."
Macbeth, delighted with his promptitude and fidelity,
exclaims, " Thou art the best of cut-throats ;" but
should we argue from this, that the employer would
place confidence generally in such a person ? Of course
not; and therefore, upon the same principle, we would
expect that an honest but mistaken repealer of our
corn-laws, if it were put solemnly to his conscience,
whether ministers (though willing to subserve his
views on this point) were deserving or not of his " con-
fidence," would answer the question in the negative.
For our part, we cannot conceive how any man, no
matter what his creed or politics, could sincerely and
gravely declare, that the rejected and condemned of
the present House of Commons are men in whom he
could confide. We know of no one reason for confid-
ing in them ; we are familiar with a number past
counting for distrusting them. We will just briefly
advert to one—doubtless a very principal one—for the
present.

Lord Stanley, in his admirable speech of Friday,
referring to the ministerial defeat on the sugar duties,

said,—

"`Vas it the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the
fifth, or even the sixth defeat which the Government had
sustained on most important questions? Hon. gentlemen
opposite had talked much of the tranquillity and freedom of
Jamaica. He (Lord S.) would tell them that if Jamaica was
prosperous and contented, it was because the Government
were overruled—(hear.) He would tell them that if the
church in this country, and especially in Ireland, teas in the
enjoyment of legislative influence, it was because they could
not carry the measures which they desired—(continued
cheers.) He would tell them that if the national system of
education introduced into this country was not altogether
disconnected with any one form of religion, it was because
the Government could not carry the measures which they in-
troduced—(cheers.)"

It will be seen that his lordship here prefers a charge
against the government to the effect that if their power
were equal to their inclination, the established church,
and all the influences depending upon it, would be an-
nihilated. Could there lie a more serious charge in
the contemplation of any man professing conservative
principles ? Now, although a great number and va-
riety of circumstances may enter into the formation of
that complex idea which we call "confidence," it is
perfectly certain that a single one may destroy it. De-
tect an individual in whom you have been long induced
to place trust in a single act of theft, and in a moment
the confidence of years is dissipated. A single misad-
venture of this nature cancels all former reliances. So,
we say, that this charge of Lord Stanley's, susceptible
as we believe it to be of the clearest proof, is sufficient,
in itself, to deprive ministers of all confidence from the
conservative party; nay, we will add, from all that is
respectable, enlightened, and trustworthy itself in the
kingdom.

We may differ on questions of trade and finance;
these are comparatively minor matters ; but when we
come to differ as to whether our church is to be sup-
ported—whether church influences are to be main-
tained—we are approaching the great arteries--the
vital functions—nay the very heart itself of our social
system—and the matter grows serious.

If Lord Stanley's charge be true, our Whig minis-
ters are deserving not of our confidence, but of our
utter detestation ; and they are men not to be left
where they are, but to be removed to the farthest pos-
sible point from that situation. They are men to be
driven out with every mark of disgrace—men to be
abhorred of all good subjects. Are they then, we re-
peat, what Lord Stanley says they are ?

It is an old, but a safe rule, that a man may be known
by the company he keeps. We believe in the truth of
Lord Stanley's charge for this amongst other reasons,
that we observe that the intimate associates, boon comz
panions, confidants, and champions of ministers are
notorious church-destroyers—papists, levellers, and
"pious dissenters" of the Joe Hume complexion.

These respectable parties have caught them in a noose ;
they keep the rope round their neck ; and, having
frequently ascertained that they are squeezable, and
that much may be got by squeezing them, they drive
them like a chain-gang whichever way they please, and
put them to every mean and villanous work.
Now to leave the government of the country in such
hands would be dangerous and disgraceful. We can-
not expect our affairs to prosper while they are admi-
nistered by such parties. Nothing can go well with

us under such persons. They have no views in com-
mon with those who love their country and its consti-
tution; their aim is to destroy that which is most va-,
luable in our eyes. Well, an opportunity will soon be
afforded us of removing them; and how deeply la-
mentable—how replete with evil omen—must it be, if
we fail to make use of it! The Protestantism—the
religious principle, let us say—of the nation is about
to be put to a stupendous trial ; the issue is of the
most momentous character. We are to choose be-
tween Papists, Infidels, and Church destroyers—men
in every way of damaged reputation—as imbecile and
incapable as they are mean and malicious; and men
of unsullied fame, of proved talent, of great private as
well as public woith, and men who are as desirous to
uphold all our venerated institutions as the others are
to destroy them. We contemplate the ordeal through
which the nation is about to pass with feelings of the
deepest anxiety. It is a subject replete with the most
profound and interesting speculation; we need not say
to what result our most ardent hopes are directed.

We believe that the Radicals of this town are at
present in a most delectable state of confusion and
uncertainty. It is well known that a number 'of the
more respectable portion of the party are extremely
annoyed at the aspiring notions of their quondam
friend Sir Joshua Walmsley, and we are informed that
several hole-and-corner meetings have taken place
within the last few days, when much indignation was
expressed at the worthy knight's presumption, and a
unanimous resolution was come to that he should be
requested to withdraw his claims for the representation
of the borough. Although we have not heard the
reply of Sir Joshua, we may anticipate, with some
degree of confidence, that be will disregard the inter-
ference of these meddlers with the objects of his am-
bition, and magnanimously resolve to come forward
to contest the coming election for his native.town, in
order that when he is gloriously defeated, he may then
become a joint in the O'Connell tail, as member for
some borough where the influence of that notorious
personage is omnipotent.

Just as we were going to press, we received a copy
of Sir Joshua's address, which will be found in its
proper place. It is as vague and meagre as the most
indefinite production which was ever placed in the
hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty to deliver before
her assembled Parliament, and dignified by the name
of the Queen's Speech.

The public has little notion how severe is the tax
laid upon the feelings of us editors of newspapers by
a faithful discharge of our duties. Our sensibilities
are at everybody's command, and it is not enough that
we must deeply and entirely sympathise with every
possible variety of human condition, and sound what-
ever stop the ever-varying state of man may call upon
us to do, but it is expected that we shall readily make
the most sudden and violent transitions.
Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment ? No man.

That is what Shakspeare says; but there were no
newspapers in those days, or the impossibility of such
a state of things would not by any means have been
assumed. 'We gentlemen of the press are obliged to
be all this, and more, every day in the year. At one
moment we are all happiness and smiles, diffusing
sunshine and joy with every dash of our pen ; at the
next we are depressed beyond measure, deeply afflict-
ed, and inconsolable. We are a sort of iEolian harp;
and obliged to sound as the wind plays upon us, per-
petually at the mercy of every piece of good or evil
tidings for our happiness or misery; and as the harp
literal which refused to sound would be thrown away
as worthless, so should we (who may be called the
harp literary) incur a similar fate, if we gave no re-
sponso to the- demand of the moment, .whatever it
might be.

It is not much for us to admit that we felt ourselves
tried in this way yesterday, when, on walking through
the town, we observed a placard on the walls, corn-

confined merely to. political

:rounds, cannot be re-

garded as detraction.
The declaration of opinions now made by both, will,
we think, fully meet the wishes of the great body of the

electors. It is such as we should expect from them.
Their opinions are identical, and they are the opinions,

or at least they ought to be, of every English senator,
and gentleman, and under the latter term, we of course
include every elector of right principles. On the sub-
ject of the corn laws and free trade, their avowals will
not be displeasing to any but those who have a selfish
motive in agitation, and who conceive they have an end
to gain incompatible with the good of the community
at large. That there are such persons in Liverpool as
well as in other places, we cannot of course deny ;
their chirping has too frequently sung in our ears to
leave us doubtful on that point; but we do believe they
are not many here, and that they are noisy, like the big
drum of our gallant Cheshire yeomen, only because

they are empty—in the head, we mean ; in other re-
spects they seem to be well enough cared for, many,
if not most of them being apparently much better fed

LOCAL

NEW

THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This beautiful vessel stilt eon-
inues on view. The proceeds arising from the number of
)ersons who have visited her, has been of great service to the
'amilies of the missing President.

MR. DANIEL'S PORTRAITS.—We have been favoured with
a private view of the portrait of a gentleman in this town,
painted by Mr. Daniel's, a native artist of distinguished
talent. The painting we speak of has excited the admiration
of some of the most competent judges ; and the same may be
,aid of Mr. Daniel's portrait of the late mayor of this borough.
There is a feeling abouthis works which denotes great genius.
We understand that some of them may be seen in the ap-
proaching exhibition.

TESTIMONIAL or RESPECT.—On Monday, the 7th inst.,

a deputation from the congregation of St. John's school and
Newbury chapel, Farnworth, waited upon the Rev. John
Al`Lindon at his residence, and presented him with a splen-
did gown and cassock, together with a beautiful Bible, from
the teachers of Newbury Sunday school as a token of their
esteem and respect, on his leaving the district. The rev.
gentleman returned thanks in a most affectionate and feeling
manner. He was lately curate of All Saints' church in this
town.

OPERATIVE' PROTESTANT ASEOCIATION.—We perceive

'rcm placards on the walls, that the half-yearly meeting of
:his excellent society takes place this evening, at the Amplii-
Icatre. The speakers who have promised to attend will,
AO doubt, secure a numerous auditory ; but, at the present
moment, there are many subjects of peculiar interest to all
lovers of our country and her glorious institutions, which
cvid, no doubt, be brought forward to-night, by one or more
of the speakers, and pressed upon their hearers with their
usual force. Protestants of Liverpool! now is the time—
your enemies are active—follow their example, and redouble
your ardour.

MEETING or CONSEIWATIVES.—We are glad to perceive
hat a meeting of all friends of the constitution will be held
.o-morrow, in the large Loom of the Queen's Arms Hotel,
Olen measures will be taken to secure the return of our
)resent excellent representatives. EVery person should at-
Lend ; for though we are well aware what the result of the
!lection will be, yet the majority for the conservatives should
be made so triumphant and overwhelming as not only to
prevent our enemies offering any opposition at a fature
period, but to present an example to the other constituencies
of the kingdom, who always look to Liverpool for an exam-

plc and encouragement.
BLUE COAT Scnoca--On Sunday morning next, as will
be seen from an advertisement, the claims of this excellent

institution will be brought before the congregation of St.
Jude's Church, when we have no doubt, from the powers of
advocate, and the utility of the school, a most liberal contri-
bution will be gathered.

PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—An excellent sermon was

preached before a crowded congregation in St. Michael's
Church, on Tuesday evening, by the Rev. Hugh M' Neile, in
aid of the funds of this association. The text was taken
from the second chapter of St. Paut's Epistle to the Colos-
sians, and the 20th and three following verses :—" Where-
fore, if ye he dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances (touch not; taste not ; handle not ; which all
are to perish with the using) after the commandments and
doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a show of
wisdom in will, worship, and humility and neglecting of the
body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."

MANSLAUGATER : FATAL RESULT OF AFIGHT.—An in-
quest was held on Tuesday before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner,
on ♦iew of the body of John Williams, with whose murder
two men, named. Alexander Macauley and Michael 0' Mealey,
were charged. It appeared, that on Saturday night last, a
few minutes before twelve o'clock, the deceased and the

accused were together in Ormond-street. The former was
intoxicated, and a dispute took place between him and
Macauley, which ended in a scuffle. In the course of the
disturbance, a man who was present saw Macauley strike tho
deceased with his hand a blow which knocked him down. A
shout was then raised, and several persons collected. A
police-officer, hearing that there was a disturbance, ran to
the spot, and knocked for assistance. He was presently
joined by an acting inspector, who, on having ascertained
what had transpired, arrested Macauley, and kept him in
custody until the prostrate man was carried into his father's
house, which was about a dozen yards off. When this had
been done a light was obtained, and it was then found that
Williams was dead. Two surgeons, however, were sent for ;

but, on the arrival of the first, he stated that his services
were not required, as life was extinct. The jury acquitted
O'Mealey, and returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Alacauley, who was committed to Kirkdale for trial at the
next assizes.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY—CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.—
At the police-court on Wednesday two prostitutes named
Sarah Guy and Catharine Johnson, were charged with hav-
ing robbed a young man of the name of Edward Knott, of
the sum of £BO and upwardi. The complainant deposed
that he was a weaver, that he lodged with Mr. John Picker-
ing, at No. 3, Wapping, and that he was about to emigrate
to America. On Saturday night last, lie had a few glasses
of ale with some friends at a house in Park-lane, and about
ten o'clock he left them to go home. Being a stranger in
the town, he lost his way, and about eleven o'clock he met
the prisoner, Catharine Johnson, and another woman, not
in custody, stopped him in the Street, and asked hini if he
wanted lodgings. He replied in the atsrmative. They said
they would take him to respectable lodgings, and be told
them he should give them a glass each if they would. Ho
then went with them into a public house close by, where they
had a glass of rum each, which he paid for. Then then took
him to the house of Sarah Guy in Simpson-street. Johnson
and the other woman went in with him, and said, " 7 his is
the house." The priioner Guy lighted a candle, and showed
him up stairs. The two other women remained below.

The prisoner Guy remained in the bed-room while he un-
dressed. He asked her what he had to pay for the night's
lodging, she said eighteen pence. He gave her that snm
from some loose silver he had in his pocket. He had in his
trousers pocket a bag coataining seventy-six sovereigns and
nine half,sovereigns. There was a spade-ace guinea among
the gold which he counted as a sovereign, and he heard the
gold jink as he pulled of his trousers. He took the bag out
of his pocket, and felt that the money was safe. He then
tied the bag up tight, and put a knot upon it, and replaced in
his trousers, which he put under his pillow. The prisoner
Guy stood close to him, and could see him securing the bag.
He got into bed, and Guy took the candle away. He fell
asleep inithediately after,-and `did- riot' wake-until- shi'o-ctoor
the following morning. He then missed his trousers, money,
and all his clothes. lie went down stairs, and found no one
in the place but a boy. He asked him where the mistress
was, to which he replied he did not know. He asked him if
she was his mother, and he said " Yes." He then went up
stairs and searched the rooms. He found his trousers in
room adjoining that in which he had slept, but the bag and
the gold was gone, besides about four shillings of loose silver
which he had in the other pocket. He then went into his
bed-room and searched it, but found nothing except his
watch, which he had placed ander the pillow ; it was lying
upon the floor, near the head of the bed. After remaining
in the house about an hour, he went home, and gave infor,
;nation to the officer on the beat. Constable 47 deposed,
that on Sunday morning last he saw the prisoner Guy in a
public-house in Fontenoy-street, and that she had a quantity
of gold and silver in her hand, which she said she had taken
out of the bank the day before. On the way to bridewell she
put a sovereign into his baud, and said," I 'll give ten pounds
more if you 'll let me ga." She was then searched, and in
her pocket was found £3O 10s. in gold, .£4 7s. 6d. in silver.
and 4d. in copper. The prisoners were. committed for trial
at the sessions.

STOKn-lIPON-TRENT.—The Hon. F. D. Ryder (brother
of Lord Sandon) and Alderman Copeland met the electors
of this borough yesterday. The hon. gentlemen will be tri-
umphantly returned. Lord Sandon was expected at the

meeting

WALSALL.—As to the miserable faction at \Val/all, thpy
were so recently and thoroughly beaten both on the poll and
the petition, that it is generally believed they will die and
make no sign. Success to Gladstone, is on every one's lips.
Good !

SOUTH CHIISHIRE.—Mr. G. Wilbraham, one of the pre-
sent members for South Cheshire, has issued his address to
the constituency, and a more extraordinary production it has
not been our lot to witness for some time past : it bears the
stamp of the whig-radical character of dubious construction ;
and it would not in the least surprise us if some pseudo-
causist was the concoctor of this proteus-like composition.
He says to the men of South Cheshire, that " I shall vote
for the proposition of the government, which does no more
than affirm the general principle of a fixed duty, but I shall
do so with an express understanding that I do not thereby
assent to the rate of duty proposed by government, anal that
I shall not be satisfied without a Attl protection 14
farmer." Mr. Wilbraham here very distinctly contradicts
himself: for if he vote " for the proposition of the guvern.
'Dent" Bs. per quarter for wheat, and if that proposition
should be carried in the Commons, what becomes of the
" full protection to the farmers" which he so boaatingly puts
forth ? Has he not cut it off by his own hand ? But Mr.
Wilbraham in one breath tells us he will vote for the Bs. per
quarter duty on wheat, and in the next declares, " he does
not assent to the duty proposed by the government." Was
there ever such a contra:lit:don in terms, or a greater per-
version of truth and reason? If the constituency of South
Cheshire can be blinded by this open departure from fair
dealing with their best interests, we are much deceived in
our estimate of their judgment and discretion; and sure we
are that they will at once reject such propositions, and like-
wise the author of them, and prevent him from ever again
sharing their sudport and patronage. Mr. Wilbraham ad-
mits that the protecting duty must exceed Bs. per quarter :
and yet he will vote for this sum with the ministers; but
include aq
the minor cannot the major, be ware again
common sense, and seeks merrly to- delude by a stirplusagn
of words which the worthy member probably bugs himself in
supposing that his constituents would not attempt to unravel.
—Chester Courant.

WEXFORD TowN.—Already has a Liverpool merchant, of
high standing and character, and of the " right sort," can.
vassed?the electors with success, and made all the preliminary
arrangements for carrying cn a contest, should he be opposed,
with vigour.—Dublin Evening Mail.—l The gentleman al-
luded to is, we believe, James Bourne, Esq., of this town--
and we have no occasion to say he will make a most excellent
representative. We'are glad to hear there is every Prospect
of his success.]

REPRESENTATION 07 BRISTOL.—The Liverpool Time,
of Tuesday last contained a foolish article, with reference to
a letter from Mr. Fripp, who declined to come forward as a
candidate for the representation of Bristol at the ensuing
tion. Our contemporary will, no doubt, be. grieved.to
that, on re-considering the matter, Mr. Fripp IFis been in.
i
duced to abandon his first resolution, and s now in the hands
of the electors. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with
which this proposition was received by a crowded meeting.
A committee has been formed for securing the return of Mr.
Fripp, along with Mr. Miles, the present conservative mem-
ber, and there is not the slightest tear of the interests of
Bristol being any longer neglected, or the wishes of the ma-
jority of the electors neutralized.

DEATH OF Sin DAVID WILY:IE.—We announce, with
great regret, the death of this celebrated painter,which took
place at Gibraltar, on the Ist of the present month, It would
appear that his death was sudden, as no accounthi had been
in examining the
received of his previous illness. He was on return from
passed
csoomunetratiy
vEegnYePrta'blwe ruinshere h:f country--not only with a view
to gratify a laudable curiosity, but :also to
enable him, at
some future period, to lay the result of hie
tiradt ancient
labours before the
public ; but they have beex unexpected]
hand of death. During his visit he had cut short by the
frequent interviews
with Mehemet All, with whom it is said he had been a
great favourite, and had taken one of the
best likenesses of his
richness, with a view of having it
engraved
trust the painting was in such a statein England. We
of forwardness as will
enable an engraver to carry the
The loss of Sir David Wilkie will
iginal design into effect.
country, but throughout Europe be felt, not only in this
Day," " Blind Man's Buff,"
Penny Wedding," " Chelsea
Pensioners," and many other
now standard works of art, are
as well known and as much
in his native land, and will admired in foreign countries as
came to London when he render his name immortal. Ho
One.for the first lse-as abonttwenty years of age, and
One.Freat painting followedt-Il at the Royal Academy in 1806.
in a fer. years he reached another in rapid succession, and
his productions hare been the height of his fame. Latterly
him so justly into not' far inferior to those which brought
age at his death. ice. Sir David was fifty-six_ years of
minister of the Paris He was the son of the Rev. Wilkie,
the 7 He
was k h of Oults, in Fifeshire, and was born
Royal Academnighted in 1836 ; elected ap. associate of
1813. He was latel ylnlBlo'
and
a Royal Academician in
it, ha me...,.. ..,y appointed.
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"--.4lll"iNi Chresieic