The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-20 00:00:00

LONDON POLICE REPORT.

Cannon MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
charged
IrisAN " ExAmPLE."—SarahAnn Godwin, an
,esahwonian, holding a fine female child in her arms, with having
-ulted her. • •
t•lite complainant said that, a few days ago, she received a
vjloleat slap in the face from the.defendant ; but before further
':ltolence could occur she contrived to get
.out of her reach.
ortly afterwards, while standing at her. window, the defend-
came.tit by, and took up two large paving-stones, which she
tew at her, but which, fortunately, missed her, breaking the
endow-sashes only. • -
In defence, Mrs. Godwin said the child she had in her arms
tashu
mbfoot,andfingers on each hand. Whenever the complainant mplainant met her she
ld allude to this circumstance, and used to tell her that her
taild was an " example," which so enraged her that she could
nod restrain herself.
she Well," said Mr. Hosk,ins, who was on the bench, "sup Pose
did call your child an examplF,' what then?"
slI won't have my child •called an ' example,' " said Mrs.
;Main, who appeared to attach some dreadful signification to
h`liie word. "No woman shall say I'm the mother an ' exam-
;`s.' I've taken the baby to the surgeon's and I've had its fin-
se,,,ts and toes cut off."
t huPon examining the little creature's limbs,. itapptheaatrtebdetleixa_t
ttaga,:in actually undergone_ a surgical operation, and
.„e• gess and toes had been removed.
tse'n her great dismay the defendant was told that it was,,noef-
aerY, on account of her violence, to make an " example
-„r•---She was ordered to find bail.
lek:arottn. e Thompson, a stout, hearty young woman aboeufttb22e
bar4l's of age complained to dr. Dyer, that. the overseers _ _ -
411 of St' James had refused to readmit her into thheeuWse,otrbke
ptairias.e,s
aNyhenshehad applied to be taken into the
au ise officers had told her that she should not be received as
food Innate of the house, but she should be supplied daily _
epees (1, and they had then handed
.her a quantity of bread and
gothe. This relief was not sufficient, she said, as she required
m es and lodging as well as food.
ka.41.% Bryant, the overseer, who was_pr.esenexplained to the.
h: tes the reasons for the refusal give by the parish, and
ituts elatenent fully proved that the applicantli was one of those.
or teerntts examples, which every parish workhouse can furnish,
ti;:he debasi effcts which commonly_ ensue from allowing
khtioual and able bodied to depend_forsubsistence upon parish
4b048* he applicant was received into the workhouse when
-os hert seven years of ao•e in consequence of the drunken habits
lash karents, fromcontamination of hich it was hu-
es the Y (leenied advisable to remove her. Whenwabout 14 she went
tillti '''
taWn, andcommenced a course of depravity which she con-
liered for some time, and then returned again to the workhouse.
aeon vicious character continued to btebdaitstplea d on every occa-
h parishe officers had
beetl r_ was carried to such a
Ipy.ittceh
Nie h re.,(lllently obliged to app
.a Magistrate to punish her.
left •ci gone into the workhouse whenever she chose, and had
ettrl.• When tired of the confinement, pursuing her vicious
tile Rork util she thought proper submitto_ to the confinement of
Pris..house again. She committed 17 times to
being discharged from confine-
Ilielltn' and had uniformly, on
re.ad' 'made her appearance at t .
rs, and demanded
4bo tuission, Which if not immediately complied with, she set
. F an offence of this
fles,tit.hreaking the 'windows an 4
t,,, tiption she had only been liblearmaresdthantmoruing, and had
admission as her
rit,Z 9rs usual to the workhouse, demanding
'ir be it was " her parish." .
Ilrot,r: Bryant asked the Magistrate if the parish could, with
111;leistY, make the workhouse a receptacbleerfoerxseulachsicehaawraacateprrsa!
list. "yer agreed in considering that e she .r, ana told the applicant that she svis v ry.youncr and strong,
atiee"ght to endeavour to do something toward her mainten-
...._
laic:A! tot
can I do, and where can I
get
I've got a right to go
ittillot, saucily. " I've got a parish, an work ?" said the ap-
Woritte Y ow,li workhouse. I won't be turned out of my own
'Mr "se'
but • Bryant said that the girl should have food every day,
t)f tertaiuly he should recommend e the Board• to keep her out
xi_Workhouse.
asT• Dyer considered that the case was in very good hands,
a therefore dismissed the applicant.
ST,
ioh,:;11e OP TRADE.—Tbere has not been any material ailstedrias:
triet.l,le Our last notice, in the woollen cloth trasle of h
Thtile% tsi he demand continues fair, and the stock. in the Leeds
ee ..1"lalls is low. The merchants are still reluctant to give
the nvarice required by the increase in the price of.wool and
ttoth'e'avanced rate of wages and the consequence is that. in
Positi Places the manufacture' is nearly at a stand, from an ind.is-
I'sss "'Jill the part of the manufacturers to continue the pio-
Nehilst vvool is at its present prices and the wor.km9
taree
iituff4F higher wages. There is not much business doing h
I)ate.i`r.ade at present, which may be in a great measurenla.tstels-
slid ea .a
misunderstanding between the dyers and pres
a.
N 'neir enaployers We understand that the quantity of u
bald stuffs exported has recently increased, some English firms
ii,,,_",t, established dye-houses on the Continent.—Leeds Intel-
vit,
ei:
i‘ki,l4,_
ne shall we find greater adepts in the art ise-
npvnin
to roil g than his Majesty's Whig ministers ?
sc),
;PLY—nowhere.
We
venturehave
Had we leisure—which at present we
be
khlie•
.oors;pace--7which just now we cannot spare; wels shouldg allu-
lees' to tic"' th" most indisputably by but a
:14 the times and circumstances now by-gofneew. passing
as wt ell
lite evidence of the past, we have also that of the presetlrL—re
, sent th tis for the promise—for the performance, alas!
'3,s till 'lb a
i-811eitil e distant, the uncertain future. One ot the L boasted
,ag... ea upon which, they assured us, they entered into office,_
s.,notrsduction of taxation; and that, not_grudgingly!nit.larg_ely
tieee set at
name only, but in deed also. That this principle has
,ks glai;`„at nought, it were needless to insist upon, the fact being
areitio"g as the noonday sun.
Yet, nothing daunted,. or as-
•-ars, -is confidence from the circumstance of a long parliamen-
v,!.olstve4icat.ion being at hand, broken vows are being. renewed.. ,
'lied „pledges tesumed and disappointed hopes being rekin-
e,N •„1 ne Assessed Ta; s is.ch ycould not abolish this
wisaa, are promised to ebe ."givien upe-nceo.rut Clever, cunning
"tor)( 81 to-day we can do nothing for -e • say they;' but to-
tie 1° ------- Aye' to-morrow !The y 3ar'e most obnoxious,
t'ther°P.Pressive taxs, says my Lord
,Althorp, !vhen pressed the.
th night b •sr Y are .• Y a motion of Mr. T-Aume sto consider repeal,
e r4a.... uumus—unjust—indefen but next session—(when
•,,lAie shave become once more Bible; his Majesty's opposition !")
a,, endeavour to take them off. Clever, cunning Whigs,
a''/• again ! 0 what a weight of popularity would this assur-
111 - rocure s ' were itnot that the of
,latt.it• ,
so
Wid olr ye,
Is deutetedeil: anFletreditetastrtuheesstoe ;iietou isaani cdhseyeonu
to be
f7ilerCen,
::--7-• A sharper who takes penury
lagt,nnst our plenty—who takes our ready cash, .
T} id pays us nought but wisilt9, hopes, and promises,
&He eurreney of idiots!"
him._ Carlisle Patriot,

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1833.

We have received by the packet-ship, the Pocahontas,
which arrived here yesterday, a file of Philadelphia pa-
pers to the 20th July. They contain no political news of
any interest. The following, which is taken from a New
York paper, is valuable as showing the character of the
population which is to form the next and succeeding ge-
nerations of enlightened republicans :

" There are in the United States 1,000,000 of children and
youth between the years of five and fifteen who are not in any
school, and who have not any means of instruction. There are
in the state of New York 80,000 young' men' who are unable to
read, and yearly adding to the number of voters who go to the
polls. One-third of the inmates of our juvenile prisons and of
our penitentiaries are, when committed, ignorant of their let-
ters, and one-half of them are not able to read."

After detailing these facts, the writer of the article ex-
claims, "Friends of Liberty! are not our free institu-
tions in danger ?" We think they are.

We have been favoured with the following extract of a
letter dated Pernambuco, 11th June, 1833. It is not at
home only that Englishmen are robbed with impunity
for every dirty state is now permitted to prey upon thenr:—

"The Clyde, bound from Liverpool to:Pahia, was. wrecked a
few days ago about fifteen leagues from Goiana ; accounts of
the disaster were sent here to the Consul requesting assistance.
"The Consul sent his. son,llr. Gunston, and six custom-house
officers to take charge of the wreck, with authority from the
President to call in the' Juiz de Paz, or any other constituted
authority they might find in the place, in case of need.
"A smack was also -chartered and sent off immediately to
bring the goods to this Custom-house; the smack was loaded,
and brought a full cargo free from damage, discharged, and de-
spatched off for the rest. In the mean time, the goods were
discharged from the wreck, and deposited by the Custom-house
officers in a church hard by. On the arrival of the smack, she
was again loaded with the goods from the church, and when
ready for sailing, there appeared a body. of about 300 men
armed, who took possession of the church and the rest of the
goods, which they divided amongst themselves, and then
formed a determination of murdering the Custom-house officers
and the two Englishmen, who, however, were fortunate enough
to escape to Jangadas.
"The loaded smack it was supposed would be able to get
away, Without being boarded by the ruffians; but her non-ap-
pearance here up to the piesent time leaves but little hopes that
she escaped.

"The amount of goods thus plundered is estimated at
£12,000 sterling.
.We should be glad to know how the English
Government brooks such plunder of British property in this
lawless country. The French and American governments we
are certain would demand and obtain immediate satisfac-
tion. The Consul has protested against the government for
the loss, but judging from similar protests, we do not think any
satisfaction will be derived from it by the English Under-
writers."

We observe by the Parliamentary proceedings that
the House of Commons have voted £lO,OOO of the pub-
lic money for the support of the Metropolitan Police.
This, to say the least of it, is taking a strange liberty
with the people and the taxes, and one which savours
more of bribery and corruption than any thing we ever
beheld during the long period of the unreformed Parlia-
ments.

Are the people of London so reduced already, that
they are unable to maintain a sufficient constabulary
force to protect their persons and property ? It must be
so, otherwise the noble CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
never would sanction a grant which is in every point of
view objectionable and unjust. The police establish-
ment is expensive we admit, and it is as efficient as it is
costly, and it is a useful body into the bargain. But
these are no reasons why the whole people of England,
who have police of their own to pay, should be called
upon to contribute to the support of the police of Lon-
don. There is something, therefore, in this job, which
requires explanation. We could understand the WOOD
job, and the KEY job, and many other Whig jobs, but
this police job is beyond our comprehension. Will Mr.
EWART do us the favour to ask his friend Mr. SPRING
RICE the meaning of it ? Did any of the parishes
threaten to join the political unions if their police and
poor rates were not reduced ?

The Radicals of Edinburgh, with a quacking book-
seller of the name of TAIT at their head, have commenced
a crusade against the religion and the venerable kirk of
Scotland. The object of TAIT is solely to acquire some
mob popularity, and a leetle money by the sale of his
magazine. He was very properly sent to gaol for refus-
ing to pay the annuity tax, which is levied chiefly upon
the wealthier classes for the support of the established
clergymen of Edinburgh, where he had the felicity of
sleeping for a night, and paying the money next morning.

This is the first time that we ever heard of the main-
tenance of the Scottish clergy being a burthen upon that
country. It is true that the mode of raising the stipend
in Edinburgh is in many respects objectionable, and it is
to be regretted that some plan was not devised long ago
for providing the means in another way, rather than by a
house tax. But this is not now the question. The an-
nuity is sanctioned by long‘nage and an act of parlia-
ment; and if it were deemed a grievance, parliament had
the power of redressing it, and supplying the necessary
funds.

TAIT, however, and his sans culottes, do not content
themselves with objecting to, or petitioning parliament
against, the tax; they refuse to pay it ; and he, the fool,
rather than pay it, enacts the part of a martyr, and
marches to prison, followed by a rabble of chimney
sweeps, scavengers, fish-women, and other members of
the unwashed brigade, who, perhaps, never heard of the
annuity, and who, certainly, never contributed a single
dolt to it in the course of their lives.
Worthy bookseller ! We should like to know how

many copies of. the odious head which decorates the cover
of his magazine he calculates upon selling in consequence
of this filthy exhibition. It may bring him a few dozen
half crowns in September next, but if there be any sense
extant in the modern Athens, it ought to sink him a few

pounds in public estimation. Cannot Mr. TAIT see that
his conduct is illegal, and, moreover, is quite as dishonest
as if we were to break the panes in his shop window and
refuse to pay for them ? It is, we admit, within the limits
of possibility that Mr. TAIT does not see the transaction
in this light, but what then ? Why, the poor man is daft
—the magazine and Brougham's head have rendered him
fatuous !

The whole affair would not be entitled to any notice if
it did not show the animus by which such men as TAIT
are impelled. This is an attack upon religion itself, and
in these assaults the revolutionists take great delight.
The tax is made the handle with which to bring the mi-

nisters of the church into contempt. But it cannot surely
succeed. The people of Scotland cannot be so degraded
as to join in any conspiracy the object of which is to
overturn their national establishments, shut the door of
the House of Prayer, banish their exemplary pastors from
the parish church and the parish school, convert the pul-
pit into a rostrum for inspired tinkers, and the church
itself into a spouting-room for pragmatical Unitarians,
or fashionable deists. No, no; they have, like their
English neighbours, drank deep of the poisonous cup,
drugged by the philosopher, and heated by the atheist;
but they are not so far gone as to countenance the
gambollings of a puffing bookseller who, after all, is
only "looking after the Biller."

Of the many changes produced by the revolutionary
mania of the present times, there is one which is seldom
adverted to, but it is a change nevertheless of incalcu-
lable importance, and likely to lead to serious conse-
quences. • We allude to the progressive and unexampled
decay in every branch of the trade and commerce of the
metropolis. London, for a long series of years, has en-
joyed commercial and manufacturing advantages in which
no other town in the KING'S dominions has been permit-
ted to share. The general welfare of the nation has
been sacrificed in order to secure extensive monopolies
to the discontented and capricious citiiens of London.
Never satisfied, never thankful, ever fidgetty and mur-
mering, these people have been protected, fostered and
encouraged, by virtue of exclusive privileges which it is
impossible to defend on the ground of justice or sound
policy. In the India and China trade they had, until
lately, the whole of it to themselves. In the same way
they once monopolised the Levant trade. They still
enjoy a monopoly in banking. Upon them nearly the
whole revenues of the court and the aristocracy are ex-
pended. Four. fifths of the whole interest of the national
debt is spent in London. An innumerable host of law-
yers, drawing wealth from the remotest corners of the
empire, live there in luxury, exchanging their fees and
costs for beef, pudding, port wine, cabbages, wigs, fil-
berts, Wellington boots, cheese, black cloth, green peas,
Kensington candles, sausages, and Hunt's patent black-
ing. There also are the head quarters of the ministers,
the pensioners, the dignitaries of the church, the supreme
judges, the foreign ambassadors, and various other per-
sons who derive their revenues either from the taxes or
from foreign countries, and which revenues are almost
wholly and exclusively spent in the metropolis.
But notwithstanding these advantages, London is fast
falling into decay, and the withering blast of revolution
has struck the most splendid capital in the whole world.
Its inhabitants have long lived upon the spoils of the
country, without being conscious that they were the most
helpless and dependant of his MAJESTY'S subjects. In
their pride and ignorance they have assumed the air and
tone of dictators, prescribing the customs, forming the
manners, altering the laws, undermining the institutions,
despoiling the church, decrying, impugning, and striving
to bring into contempt all that is venerable, sacred, or
praiseworthy in the land. But with all this insolence
and love of violence, these worthy patriots did not
see that they were scuttling their own ships, tearing
up by the roots the bread trees which their ancestors
had planted, driving away from their shop doors the
customers upon whom they battened, writing beggary in
one street, and insolvency in another, and hastening the
downfall of the system which raised them to that pinnacle
of greatness where• they have become giddy, and the
value and resources of which they are unable to appreci-
ate or comprehend.
The merchants of Liverpool have no reason to com-
plain of the fatality which has long prevailed among the
London philosophers, for it is hastening the crisis which
they have long foreseen, and bringing to the shores of
the Mersey that trade which has already to a considera-
ble extent deserted the banks of the Thames. We defy
the wit or power of man to prevent the transfer of the
greater portion of the India and China trade from London
to Liverpool. It must eventually come here. Wapping,
Stepney, Blackwall, and all the commercial suburbs of the
metropolis will in a few years be deserted outposts, where
the owl will cry and the bat flicker in the twilight.—
The present abodes of the discontented will then be
fireless and tenantless. The howl of the' revolutionist
will then be, not for reform, but for bread. The inno-
cent may suffer, but the guilty majority will be justly
punished.

The mob of London cry " down with the church !"
and the ministerial journal, the Times, had an article on
Friday last recommending the unhousing of the reduced
ladies of rank and biith who inhabit some of the royal
palaces, and also the entire dismantling 'of these ancient
buildings. Pillage is the word, and the Times leads the
van. If the palaces of Kensington and Hampton Court
be considered useless appendages of the crown, how
long will it be before Windsor Castle and Buckingham
House are held to be public nuisances ? But why select
these mansions ? Why spare St. Stephen's Chapel ?
That is already a nuisance in more respects than one.
In the first place it is two hundred miles from the cen-
tre of the United Kingdoms, where it ought to be,
according to all republican calculations. In the second
place, it is by its situation overawed, and, in some de-
gree, at the mercy of the London rabble. These are
sufficient reasons for dismantling the old, and building a
new House of Commons in the midlaad districts, at some
spot equi-distant from the capitals of England, Scotland,
and Ireland. Why should every representative of the
people be compelled to travel to the extremity of the
empire in order to legislate for the whole empire.
We are, besides, of opinion that the court, the no-
bility, and the aristocracy of these realms would better
consult their own dignity and interest by leaving London
to take care of itself, and to consume its own ashes. If the
noble and the wealthy be now the sport of every worthless
demagogue, and every tipsey orator, and every arrogant
and unpx incipled blockhead; it is for them to consider how
far they have conduced to this enmity and obloquy by
mingling so long and so freely with the most heartless and
demor'alised population in Great Britain. The savage yell
that has of late years been directed against the KING, the
QUEEN, the Royal Family, and the whole of the nobility,
has had its origin in London. There the utmost licence
of scurrility and invective, of misrepresentation and slan-
der prevails, and low-bred malice breathes in its cellar or
its attic the pestilential atmosphere of treason and se-
dition. The dishonest there revel in the spoils of their
victims. The beggar there makes war upon the affluent,
and the outcasts of society and the scum of the earth
pass for gentlemen and patriots. And by whom, after
all, is the great mass of the London population supported?
By this insulted nobility—by this reviled aristocracy -- by
the wealthy and the great--by the land-owner, the fund-
owner, the colonial proprietor, the annuitant of every class,
and by the whole fraternity of placem en and public servants
Deprive London of only one-half of the income spent
in it by these persons, and nine-tenths of its tradesmen
would be bankrupts before the next quarter day. The
day, however, we suspect, is not far distant when the
nobility and gentry of England will be compelled to leave
London in their own defence; and when that day comes,
and we care not though it were to-morrow, then will be
raised a wail more loud than when Carthage fell, or when
the vengeance of Heaven was poured out on the cities of
the plain.