The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

worship registered for the purpose. We have reason to
believe that this is universally- the case throughout- the

country.

We are glad to find, from the last number of Black
wood's Magazine, that we are by no means singular in
our opinions on the subject, as the following corrobora-
tive remarks will. discover :---

" The Dissenters, Ranters, and other Radicals, whose
delicate aversion to a marriage ceremony clogged with
any reference to religion induced our very Liberal Cabi-
net W reduce it to the naked simplicity of a civil contract,
have begun, in some instances, to be ashamed of their
work. They now occasionally embroider it with a little
extempore ritual of their own; have a preacher standing
by to read a portion of the Scriptures, give his own no-
tions of marriagein a speech, and altogether make the
affair put on some remote resemblance to what it was,
and what, in spite of Radical reform, all honest men and
women too, know that it ought to be. On this subject
we fear that the-objects of the inventors have not been so
fully realized as their ingenuity laboured to deserve.
We are, indeed, perfectly of opinion, that the new act has
turned out but a meagre source of revenue. Our near
and dear relations and others taken under the Ministerial
wing already croak- terribly. We doubt whether that
poor and worthy novelist Mr. Lister has. been ,able to
make his sinecure prolific of shillings; and whether .the
general locust host who were to have fattened so com-
fortably on this new crop of patronage, have not been
starved out of all patience. We believe that the inverr-
Lion is an utter and ridiculous failure. But we must
take the liberty of reminding its embroiderers, that neither
priest nor harangue have any business whatever at the
perpetration of the affair, which the Jack Russell law is
pleased to call a marriage. The law says, that the regis-
trar must be present, and there it stops. It justifies no
further attendance of any one; and of course what it
does not justify, it totally disregards. The simple sta-
tute may be, consideted, it, 'is true, by having not-merely
the preacher, but all the preacher's household in attend-
ance; not merely the reading of the Scriptures, but the
reading of any thing that may amuse the fancy of the
hour. Of course the law prohibits no merriment from
the highest to the lowest order of popular gaiety; and
this freedom the Dissenters have gained. We wish them
joy of it. But they must not boast of having first strip-
ped the most sacred of all social forms of its religious de-
cencies; and, after turning it into a civil contract, dress 2
it. up again into the masquerade of a religious cere-
mony-."

NEWS FROM CAN ADA.—By the Pennsylvania, Captain
Smith, which arrived here yesterday, New York papers
to the 11th ult. have been received. These papers an-
nounce the arrival of all the packets due from England
excepting the Shakspeare. Respecting the affairs of
Canada we have the following particulars :

( From the New York Evening Star.)

"The arrivals of several generals, colonels, and officers of the
British army at this port, on their way to Canada, to be followed
with a heavy force, shoir conclusively the value and importance
which Great Britain attaches to her possessions in North Ame-
rica. We have no doubt, with a judicious change of the form
of government, a conciliatory spirit, and a correction of some
abuses, Canada will settle down with great tranquillity and simi-
lar attempts at revolution will receive no countenance or sup-
port. In the meantime the patriots so called intimidated by the
prospects of entering Canada, chilled by the inclemency of the
season, have surrendered to General Wool on the Vermont side,
and Col. Worth in the Michigan district—having given up their
arms and dispersed. Gen. Van. Rensellaer has been arrested,
and Mackenzie has wandered no one knows whither. Arrests
will continue to be made, and the per petrators of several atrocious
acts will be punished according to law. Here ends the patriot
side of the question on our frontier.
"The people may be thankful if the Canada war on our side
of the question can be compromised at the cost of threa millions
of dollars."

We have also received a file of the Hamilton Gazette
to the 27th of February, but. the news which these papers
contain has been long since anticipated.

LORD DURHAM'S MJSSION:—A most important discus-
sion took place in the House of Commons, on Tuesday
evening, on the subject of the appointments of our new
Viceroy of our North American Colonies. The Mare
Buis of Chandos commenced the debate by moving the
following resolutions :
" Lord Durham's Mission,—Motion made and question pro-
posed,—"Chat it is the opinion of this house, that, the duties of
the High Commissioner and Governor General of her Majesty's
North American Provinces should be conducted with the ut-
most possible degree of economy consistent with the just and
and ample remuneration of the several persons necessarily em-
ployed in the discharge of them :'—(Marquis of Chandos.)—
Previous question put. "Chat that question be now put :'—

" The house divided—Ayes 156, Noes 160."
" Motion made and question proposed,—' that it appears,
from an account laid before the house, that the total expendi-
ture of the office and establishment of the Earl of Gosford, as
Governor General and Commissioner in Canada, distinguishing
the salary and emolument accruing to each individual, for one
year, amounting to the sum of £12,678. 13s. 6d. :'—previous
question, that that question be now put,' put, and negatived.

" Motion made, and question proposed,—' That it appears to
this house, that such establishment was formed upon a just, and
liberal scale, and therefore appears to constitute a proper pre-
cedent to be observed in determining the establishment of the
Earl of Durham .'—(Marquis of Chandos)—Previous question,
' That that question be now nut,' put and negatived."
The noble mover of these resolutions expatiated on
the danger of leaving to the discretion of any individual
an unlimited expenditure of the public money.
Mr. Praed seconded the motion in a very effective
speech. He predicted that Lord Durham's mission
would issue in failure and disappointment, as

" St. Paul's great cupola brought to bed,
After large labour, of a small pin's bead."

Lord John Russell followed. The burden of his
speech consisted in a complaint that the resolutions had
not been properly introduced—that the conduct of the
noble marquis was not fair —and that the government
were taken by surprise. This is the uniform plea
brought forwards by the present imbecile ministry,
whenever their policy is attacked under circumstanced
which preclude them from the possibility of answering
satisfactorily the charges made against them. Such was
the dilemma in which they were placed on Tuesday
evening. Professing to act upon economical principles,
they had to stand up in justification of a lavish expendt-
ture of the public money ! This'was certainly forcing
them into a very awkward position, against being driven
into which they complain as an act of unfairness!
Our readers will scarcely credit us when we inform
them that the sturdy economist Joseph Hume spoke and
voted with the ministry, in opposition to the Marquis of
Chandos!

On tile division there appeared—
For tile motion l5B
For the previous question

Majority

Thus it appears that the ministers had a very narrow
escape from defeat. But for the delicacy of the gentle-
men mentioned in the following paragraph from the
Standard the cabinet would have been beaten :
" Lord Villiers, who otherwise would have voted with the
Marquis of Chandos, and was in town, declined voting, as his
brother is going out with Lord Durham.
Lord Castlereagh, also in town, declined voting, probably
from a delicate feeling, arising out of the Sheil motion of 1835.
" Colonel Hope declined voting with Lord Chandos, though
agreeing with his lordship, as he was going out to Canada. Mr.
Dawson Darner declined voting from considerations of private
friendship. Mr. Charles Buller, who is going out to Canada,
voted notwithstanding, as did Mr. Hedworth Lambtou, Lord
Durham's brother. Had the conservatives observed no more
delicacy than the ministerialists, the majority would have been
exactly reversed. Had Messrs. Buller and Lambton paid any
respect to delicacy, there would have been no majority."

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART., M.P., AND THE CON-
SERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL.—The Conservative Trades-
men's Association have resolved upon giving this pa-
triotic Baronet a Public Dinner, on Monday, the 23d
instant, (St. George's Day.) Several other distinguished
individuals will be invited, including the borough and
county members. We regret that the shortness of the
tone will prevent their erection of a pavilion for the oc-
occasion, feeling confident that no place hitherto used
upon such occasions will hold half the admirers of the
noble stand Sir Francis has made in support of Church
and Queen.

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