The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-02 00:00:00

SELLING A DOG.

• t
Dick Lazyhones'was the owner of a large dog, which I; c,,cls
as much to keep as it would two pigs ; and the dog besides ad.
utterly useless. Nay, he was worse than useless, for, in pi
d ition to the expense of keeping, he took up house-room-
gr eatly annoyed Dicky's wife.. S
Plague take the dog," said she, "Mr. Lazybones, I &op
you would sell him or kill him, or do something with hiro...'"
more plague than his rotten- neck is worth—always iyogro
the chimney corner, and eating more than it would ra ,
maintain three children. I wonder you will keep such a
les amal."
"ni
Well, well, my dear," said Dick, " say no more abo'
I'll get rid of him one of these days." bPt
This was intended as a mere get off on the part of Dick; list
as his wife kept daily dinning in his ears about the dog, be
at length compelled to take some order on the subject. Spl
" Well, wife," said he one day, as he came in, " 1-/-
Jowler." 10. °°

Have you, indeed?" says she, brightening up at the
news, " I'm dreadful glad of it ! How much did you seli
for, my dear ?"
Fifty dollars." • 13
" Fifty dollars ! W g
hat, fifty dollars for one dog ?
I am! That'll almost buy us a good horse. But where
money, my love ?" Olt
•" Money !" said Dick, shifting a long nine lazily to
other corner of his mouth. " I didn't get any money ; ape
two puppies, at twenty-FIST dollus a-piece."—Chartestori
—, • •

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JULY 30.

INSOLVENT.
July 29.—William Horner, Stamford, Lincolnshire, innkeePwr.
• BANKRUPTS. sv
tlgtke
'Thomas Burgess Hayward, Liverpool, tailor and draper, A.,.
Sept. 10, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, ls•''''•o'"
min, Liverpool; and Messrs. Norris, Allen, and Anthony'
Ormond-street, London. • • 'I
Joseph Hickley, jun., George-street, Portman-square, t3l opf
John Edwards, Crawford-street, St. Marylebone, cheese°
Joseph Ivan Winstanley, Holborn-hill, hosier.
Alexander Denham, Chorley, Lancashire, tallow-chandler'
Robert Parsons, York, surgeon-dentist.
11 iphard Stamper, Torpenhow, Cumberland, drover.
John Thomas, Worcester, draper.
P.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. r 4. po•
H. T. Jones and S. Joscelyne, Sudbury, Suffolk, auctloneco? il•
Shaw, B. L. Shaw, and J. Beaumont, Iludderstield, woollen-1 si•.x
tnrers ;so far as regards the said J. Beaumont.—J. Lodi] s‘l,-
Sheppard. St. Swithin's-lane, smiths.—E. Stockman and 00
man, Portsea., grocers.—ll. Hawkins and G. Edwards, Strolle",,000('
eestershire, attorneys-at-law.—W. Brown and G. Brown, SPwiiP,
land, Berks, ironmongers.—J. Hollis and W. Hollis, New a 014,/
builders.—T. J. Fehr and B. W. Dudley, Birmingham, linenittleT f.,
W. Bolton and T. Humphrey, K ingston-upon-Hull, ship-b;!:Lipp
J. Heyworth, 0. Hevworth, J. Heyworth, .L. Heywort_':wit,f,
Pearce, S. Lang, and-B. Smith, Lima and Valparaiso, e0;,..--'O5:
merchants.—R. Clernebba and T. Mason, Blackliorn, groceer-sgers-,
Las'nmar and H. Vandergucht, Conduit-street, Ilanor_oo:rii
linen-drapers.—W. Holmes and J. Hobson. Leeds, cabinet ~,,iitS.„pe
J. Barker and W. Webster, Halifax, Yorkshire, Inillwrifii,ur
Clarke, J. Edwards, and T. Floyd, Birmingham, patent
facturers; so far as regards the said T. Floyd. sl,
DIVIDENDS. ft;
An_. 22, J. D. Stainbank, Honiton, Devonshire, roca.,o

J: Leech, Norton-falgate, grocer—Aug. 21, J. Mac
Tilacintyre, late of Sun-court, Cornhill, merchants--A,igwer';,Pcre
char and 3. Young, Millbrook, Southampton, iron-loujiavticly.
20, J. Clarkson, Windmill-street, Finsbury-square, Incr.- Cl'll,,l'
26, J. Whiteside, Whitehaven, merchant—Oct. 14, J. GTBdi-oriVj
ter, clothes-salesman—Aug. 29, G.-Dinsdale, Ilichmon4,liireve,
grocer—Aug. 22, 3. and G. Crosland, Huddersfield, Yors':ei-IticitO
len cloth-merchants—Nov. 1, T. Cooper, Wighton,
Aug. 22, S. Marshall, Chesterfield, scrivener—Aug. 22' to.
11. White, and T. Tindall, Chesterfield, hat-manufacture iiegte
CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 20. Cblet
J. Hawkins, Haymarket, wine-merchant—J. GraY'oltie,7
clothes-salesman--S. Stright, Great Charlotte-street' ode'
road; hat-manufacturer—W.. T. Mitchell, Woolwich+ uu dif
; 111.5;4)
. NOTHING PERSONAL.—At a recent vestry Ineet'n"_...,9o„6otri
tropolitan parish, a Mr. Bussey said to a Mr. iltit
churchwarden at the time—" Sir, I mean notWocie pato
.to my excellent friend, Mr. , but it is WY Ve 01100,
t
belief that he has plundered the parish ever since %cif 03V
and is the greatest thief in the universe. I don scol 10,Y
personal, but I must say be is a villain, an infanou'ocl 001.
and a radical. I uow speak in my vestal capacitYcoiet
every hand'. should hare a whip to lash the 1°
'through the timid."

be littnrrool Al-nbarb.

FRIDAY NORNING, AUG UST 2, 1833.

It Would appear by the following accounts from Oporto,
tha t Slarshal BOURMOST had made an attack upon that
'itY, and had for the present failed. The assault, how-
"er, it Will be seen, was expected to be renewed the
nest day .:

Falmouth, half-past two, a.m.,
Tuesday, July 30.
wth rhe African stetaner arrived here a very short time since,
advises from Oporto to the afternoon of the 25th instant,
Uti the morning of which day, at sun-rise, a most determined
attack Was made on that city under the direction of Marshal
Bourinont, and with such consummate skill, sustained by the
the dalost determined bravery on the part of the troops, that little
oubt *as entertained of the most complete success attending
great exertions which were made by every one engaged.
Pedroites, however, having the advantage of pretty good
cove,.
the ,oito3gether- with the intense heat of the weather, prevented
tr‘o
s of Dora Miguel from accomplishing their object, al-
though two-or three-times within an ace of a successful issue.
4arshal 13ourMont, therefore, deemed it prudent to draw off
thhisatfiohyrcees, for the purpose of giving them time to, recruit, so
might renew the attack on the following morning,
;the they
it was confidently expected that the Pedroites, what suf-
'rerl an immense loss, would be compelled to yield to the su-
perior skill of the French General
Admiral Napier was off the Bar of the Tagus with a consi-
qeahle naval force, but he did not, it seems, venture to enter
river. A. report prevailed that St. Übes had fallen into the
rands of the Pedroite party, but this seems to want confirma-
," ; and such was the faithful disposition of the city of Lis-
"; that the major part of the troops had been dispatched
against the Pedroite forces to the south of that city, who, it
I°u1(1 appear, make but small progress towards the capital,
" showitik that the inhabitants of Portugal generally are
Perfectly indifferent as regards the contest now carrying on be-
tween the brothers.
I, have omitted to state that the inhabitants of Oporto were in
a dreadful state of alarm, from a full conviction that Pedro
could not withstand the skill, bravery, and determination of
the Miguelites.

,ro (ere was sharp skirmish in the House of Lords on
of s(lay evening, in which his royal highness the Duke
Sussr.x cut a very sorry figure. It is always reluc-
talitlY that we speak disparagingly of any member of the
royal family, but, on the present occasion, when we per-
ceive the illustrious duke setting the example of bringing
she ICING's name, the royal declarations, and the profes-
°lts of poor Lord GREY into contempt, it is time to take
him, not by the nose, a-la-Jackson, but by the skirts, and
p
suilliito back into the seat of decorum. The Duke of
ehcsstx is never so much at home as when he the
air--four feet by three—at the Freemason's Tavern,—
the
decanters in his front, and the toast-master behind,—
the. Wine in and the song up,—there, we confess, the duke
th itteq• But he is out of his element in the Rouse of
te
rds, and he is quite at sea when lie assumes the gravity
afa a
statesman. Lord GREY places his royal highness in
it very irksome and unpleasant position. when he calls
13°11 him to defend the measures of his MAJESTY'S mi.
It will be recollected that when the news of Captain
41"IER's victory arrived in England, Lord GREY took
the earliest opportunity to pronounce an inflated eulo-
eli 1141 up
i on the bravery of that officer, which he concluded
expressing his regret that circumstances had compelled
e government to dismiss NAPIER from his MAJESTY'S
service. In doing this the noble premier exposed him
self -
to a charge of inconsistency, in lauding an officer who
had t
°Penlv violated the KING'S declaration of strict neu-
trality. The Duke of SussEx went still further than
Lord GREY, and actually presided at a meeting called
together for the purpose of extolling the merits of NA-
PIER, and rejoicing over the defeat which the Portuguese
( eet had sustained from British valour, called into action
by French money. Had this been done by any of the
It°elt-jobbing rogues who are interested in the contest,
We should not have expreised any surprise or taken any
notice of their conduct. But such conduct on the part of
the brother of WILLIAM the FOURTH is, to say the least of
it, indecent. His royal highness must have known that
the House of Lords had only a few Weeks previously ad-
dressed the crown on the subject, and had prayed his
MAJESTY to adopt such measures as should ensure the
/strictest neutrality on the part of his MAJESTY'S subjects
kith respect to the civil war raging in Portugal. The
/Coro, on that occasion, informed the peers that he had
determined to adopt and enforce the strict neutrality
prayed for.

deliver!
We have always argued that masters had little to do
with this affair, compared to the public at large. Why,
if these demands are not resisted to tholast, the next
thing will be, that no respectable individual will under-
take a contract, and our rail-roads, docks, and public
edifices may be let to individuals unable to give bond for
the execution of the work, and without the means of ad-
vancing a single week's wages—the idea is preposterous!
A pretty fair estimate may be formed of the intentions of
the trades' union, by the fact to which we slightly ad-
verted on Tuesday last. Mr. ORRELL, of Heaton Norris,
a highly respectable gentleman, who had engaged with
a bricklayer named BARLOW to erect him a factory, on
finding that the trades' union subjected BARLOW to an
annoyance in COns9finentze, which must have ruined him,
actually released hitn from the contract, vainly supposing
that by so doing he should satisfy the union. This con-
cession, however, emboldened them—first the brick-
layers, and next the hod carriers (who, it must be recol-
lected, are also in the union) ! turned out for an advance
of wages ; and, after obtaining • it, fifty-two bricklayers
and fifty labourers contrived to murder time by setting
in the whole week thirty-seven thousand bricks, or about
eight hundred each man, their conduct during that time
being insubordinate and insulting beyond all description.
The clerk of the works stated on oath that they had
charged seven and a half days' time, and that they ought
to have set the whole in one day. We have taken some
pains to ascertain, from an intelligent and practical sur-
veyor in this town, how many bricks a man ought to set
per diem, to earn his wages. He stated to us one thou-
sand, which he says is commonly, done, and which set
about twelve square yards of brickwork. At the highest
price given a man must set this number in a day to earn
his own and labourer's wages, and yet we find, that in lieu
of each man at Mr. ORRELLS'S factory having set seven
thousand five hundred bricks in the seven and a half days,
he had only set eight hundred, and .at advanced wages
too ! One poor fellow, more conscientious than the rest,
had got on a few courses before the others, when they
threatened to flog him; and a great deal of their work
was so bad that it has been necessary to pull it down
altogether.
We have been told since, by a gentleman from Man-
chester, that Mr. ORRELL has made another attempt to
complete his factory, with no better success; and des-
pairing of completing it during the present fever, he has
been obliged to cover it up, and there it stands half
erected ; and he has determined that in that state it shall
stand until the next winter has passed.
We are glad to find, however, that. a breach has been
made by four of Messrs. FOSTER and §TEWART'S men,
who have quitted the bondage of the union and resumed
their work. A few other cases have also occurred in this
town, and no doubt many will be 'glad to avail themselves
of the breach thus made.
If the masters acted in the same spirit as the men, they
would make theth pay by a reduction of their wages for
the loss and inconvenience they have suffered; but the
winter, which is.fast approaching, willbe the best punish-
ment. •

Neutrality, indeed ! There never was a poor word so
Misused; there never was a king's pledge so little re-
-BPected ; there never was a show of sincerity so beset
with idle pretension and glaring duplicity. Ships were
Etted out in the Thames—arms were supplied from Bir-
ntingrham—powder was procured from Dartford—the
I:INTG's subjects were enlisted: in all parts of. the country,
°Penly and undisguisedly, and commanded by British
officers, in the receipt of British pay, for the notorious
and avowed purpose of making war upon the de facto and
.14wful King of Portugal. A more flagrant violation of
international law never was committed. The KING'S de-
claration was treated with scorn by the KING'S of-
kers. • The armament sailed in defiance of our boasted
neutrality, and it engaged Don MIGUEL'S fleet in the pre-
3,e,nee of and actually surrounded by British ships of war.
but
these circumstances the victory was an easy one,
I:vut it was also an inglorious victory. The laurels there
on were dyed in the blood of an unoffending people. It
will for ever be signalised as a robbery and a murder
.eonunitted on the high seas by British seamen. It was a
Itillore unwarrantable outrage than that done at Navarino.
fact, Captain NAPIER was not only a mercenary, he
1:a8 also a pirate. He was receiving British pay when
e embarked, and for some time after he had embarked,
'n this piraticaf cruise. He and his crew were inspired,
not by a love of fame or renown, but by a love of money,
t do the robbery. The shirtless vagabonds who manned
118 fleet fought for money and the spoils of victory. Ho-
ilool*, bravery, patriotism, loyalty, had nothing to do with
the enterprise.
this was the victory which the Duke of SUSSEX ex-
tolled, and these the heroes whom he held up as examples
, British seamen, and the more deserving in his muddy
r7eB, perhaps, from the very fact that they had openly
sreg,arded the solemn declarations of his most gracious
il
'4•AJEsTy the King of England. It is extremely disgust-
ing to mark the pains which some men take to make
themselves ridiculous.

Many of the public works, and much that is private,
are now put a stop to for this year; and as no person
will be so foolish as to go on with new buildings now,
the union will be whipped by its own rod; and if the
parish officers should relieve any member of this union,
brought to want by his own stupidity, we trust they will
not complain if the inhabitants at large should object to
any increase of the poors' rate.
When men are unfortunate or oppressed, they are ob-
jects of commiseration; when they are fools and mad-
men, they ought to be confined ; when they are brought
to want and poverty 'by their own stupid and rebellious
conduct, they make themselves objects of universal con-
tempt, and the honest and industrious ought not to be
taxed to relieve them.

The bill is passed, and ten bishops are cut away at one
slash, and rooted out of our national church as incum-
brances, cdionsin the eyes of the college of jesuits, the
Visit hedge priests, and the honourable order of libera-
tors and repealers; This is.pretty well for a beginning.
It has followed the' emancipation bill—the first healing
measure—as rapidly as the most sanguine or sanguinary
demagogue and agitator could have expected. The
catholic hierarchy must be'delighted to. observe that the
heretics of this stupid country—this "beast of a nation,"
as the ministerial journal calls it—are hurrying back to
holy mother church with an alacrity which indicates an
intense love of mimes and munimery—of wooden'saints,
wax candles, and incense pots. The bible, as Mr. Benson
of the Temple used to say, has been lifted in the tongs
by the Irish priests and flung into. the fire. It is an
offence against modern liberality to allow the word of
GOD to be read in the public schools of Ireland. It has
therefore been interdicted .by Act of Parliament. This
is a part of thebeginning.. The.extinction of the bishops
is a step further in advance. Put out the light first, and
then smother the instructors, •is the maxim. Thelight
is outtlie bishops are swamped—the mansions of the
church will soon be' tenantless---the church itself will soon
be in ruins, and then will come the reign of darkness,
and the revival of the tyranny of the middle ages.
It is impossible that the popular appetite for innova-
tion can rest satisfied with this plunder of the church in
Ireland. Like the tiger that has once tasted blood, the
priests will not be content with a limited number of vic-
tims and sacrifices. They will continue to howl on
against all the institutions of the country ; and in this
conviction we are anxious to know what is to be the next
object of attack. The West Indies are irretrievably lost,
and therefore there is no use in talking about them.
There is nothing more in that quarter to pillage. The
East Indies remain, it is true, but they are too far off
for bombardment. It is clear that the jaws of the revo-
lutionary monster must be kept going, and we are anxious
to learn who or what is to be his next prey.

Our readers ma;, probably accuse us of paying more
attention to the subject of trades' unions than they really
merit, and if it was only a local struggle now going on
between the men and their masters, we should not have
Placed it in the prominent view we have done. But
every fresh occasion of intelligence we receive, every
stranger we converse with, and almost every journal we
Peruse, convince us that these unions are as wide spread
" they are dangerous,—arbitrary as they are insolent,
and as insulting to common sense and decency as they.
are destructive of every social compact. It is scarcely
after a perusal of the infamous letters dic-
tated by the officers of these unions, and after being made
acquainted with the real facts of the case, that there are
persons found, who actually submit to the unions, succumb
lo their demands, and employ their members. Now,
coma personal knowledge of many more circumstances
bonnected with the unions than we think fit As YET to lay
efore the public, we must say that whoever employs any
an conoected with them is a traitor to his own interest,
an enemy to his own, family—to
his own friends—to the
well-being
of society to the welfare of his country! Do
ns
not-their demands destroy all good faith ?Do they not
theythem
not profess to
tae smash the man who dares to oppose
and, at this moment, are they not clinging to-
bgether with a pertinacity almost astonishing, and in num-
ers truly alarming ?
in work When it is known that every man
contributes 35., and sometimes 4s. a-week to the
rnneral food,—that other trades not connected with build-
g, such as ironfounders, sawyers, cabinet-makers, cot-
,°4-sPinners, wool-combers, &c. are all aiding them for
Po rposes best known to themselves, it must be seen that
whoever employs an unionist is adding fuel to the flames
Thof rebellion, and causing a protraction of the struggle.
, ere is one important fact which must not be overlooked
n this case, and the public, and especially the trustees of
Public bodies must take cognizance of it. for eight

Will it be the fundholder ? What a mine of plunder

>•67WA

weeki hive inany.hun&eds of been walking about is in.that, one word ! Seven hundred and ninety. millions
in a state -of idleness, and have been receiving 10s. a- of debt to pay off in a night is a task of far greater mag=
week from the club.. As they are easily known in the nitude than the cleansing of the Augean stable. Six
street, and as they are tolerably communicative to thPse years ago he would have been set down as a madman,
who are not supposed to be engaged in building, we haVe who should have foretOld that ten Protestant bishops
lately had (what any gentleman 'may have if he chooses), would be abolished in 1833. Six years ago no ministry
a good deal of conversation with them. We have been 1 would have dared to interdict the reading of the bible.
surprised at the high tone assumed. They have told us Six years ago no man could have dreamt that we should
that they get money in abundance, and that they can live have a House of Commons containing two hundred of
upon 10s. a-week till next March, and that every man at the most ignorant and inexperienced legislators that ever
work pays 3s. to 4s. to support those who are idle. Now it assembled in any convention, congress, or Parliament.
has struekusforcibly that ifthesernen and their farniliescan Seeing, then, what has occurred in the short space of
subsist upon Bs. a week, and that if men in every direction time above-mentioned, need we be surprised at the ap-
can spare 4s. a week as a subscription to the clubs, then prehensions which are entertained that innovations of a
it must follow that there is neither the scarcity of employ- still more important nature are in contemplation and
ment nor the actual misery in the country which are ge- . about to follow in the wake of that pernicious bill which
nerally supposed; that the wages of the working classes, received the sanction of the peers on Tuesday last? The
instead of being, too /ow, are positively too high. We plunderer does not now leap over the fence, or steal in
are not advocates for low wages—far from it : we like
,to at the window, under cloud of night. No ; he either
see the artizan well, and liberally, and punctually paid ; walks in boldly at the door, or lie levels our ,walls and
but as they are now showing the public upon how little fences with the ground, and commences the work of pil-
they can live, and how much.they can spare as a contri- lage in broad clay-light. The church is spoliated in this
bution to the club funds, and still keep their families re- . manner; and what security has any other kind of pro-
spectably, they may depend upon it that, combine as they perty at the present moment which the church did not
will, the public will i-risit their. present inconvenience upon also enjoy only a few years ago? The property of the
the heads of those who, by madly combining, have caused Bank of England is not more secure than the church lauds
it, and theywill visit it in the most efficacious manner,by belonging to the see of Waterford were six years ago ;
refusing to pay high wages for the future, whilst the su- and what right have we to assume that bank property
perabuudance is used against.their interests. We know will not.be confiscated in six years to come ? The inte-
well that all reasoning is vain with these club members, rest on the national debt is a heavy, and as some think a
who form what is called the committee, who sit guzzling grievous and intolerable burthen. To think so, we fear
at the Garrick's Head, or the George.ihe Fourth Tavern, f is, in these times, to will its removal and its extinction,
arrayed in turbans, and bands with their*sentry parading by fair means if possible, but by any means rather than
before the door with a drawn scimitar to keep the poor not at all. "The wish is father to the thought," as King
and honest men from corning to see what these fellows Henry is made to say. It is time, therefore, for the fund-
are doing with their money ;. but we. recommend to the holder to keep a sharp look out.
great body of thdse who are deluded to go no more near
these pestilential haunts, but to leave the noisy brutes
"alone in their glory," and we venture to predict that
they, too, will quit when the.tap is stopped. Let no man
think that by standing, of terms will ever be made with
him.' Difference of rank-in-71de is natural, consequeritly
it is providential,_ and canna be destroyed. The public
are alive to the encroachments made upon their privileges,
by being told that they are not to be allowed to lay out
their money how and where they will. There is only
another step, if this is acceded to, and that is—stand and

A meeting of the burgesses and other inhabitants of
Liverpool took place yesterday, at which resolutions were
passed expressive of the gratitude of the meeting for the.
able .and disinterested manner in which Mr. NiCuoL,•
M.P. for Cardiff; and the nominee of the House of Com-
mons, conducted the defence of the vilified freeinen before
the select committee appointed to inquire into alleged
acts of bribery and corruption. On this occasion the
large room at the Golden Lion was filled almost to.suffo-
cation, there not being present fewer than from ten to
twelve hundred persons, consisting for the most part of
tradesmen and operatives, but bringing together also, all
animated with the subject, some of the most respectable
and intelligent merchants, bankers, brokers, and private
gentlemen to be found in this great and opulent town.
A full report of the speeches and resolutions will be found
elsewhere. It was finally agreed, in the most enthusi-
astic and unanimous manner, to enter into a public sub-
scription to enable the burgesses to testify their sense of
Mr. Nicnoes services by presenting that gentleman with
some more enduring acknowledgment than a simple vote
of thanks.

In another part of the paper will also be found the re-
port of the select committee which has thus aroused pub-
lic indignation to a pitch which it has seldom reached in.
Liverpo6l, and gave rase to the above meeting. That
other meetings will follow we are more than confident.
Energetic means must, without a moment's unnecessary
delay, be had recourse to in order to administer an anti-
dote to that measure of injustice concocted by a faction,
and sanctioned by a parliamentary committee, partially
formed, and politically favourable to all those innova-
tions which mark the present times. The report recom-
mends, not the total 'disfranchisement of the freemen, for
that would have been too barefaced—not the robbery of

the corporation, for that would have been candid—not the
disqualification of the poor from the privilege of voting
at elections, for that would have divulged the secret ob-.
ject of those aspiring liberals who estimate a man's use-
fulness by the weight of his purse, and the value of his
brains by the amount of his Credulity :—no, the report
does not, in set terms, recommend fraud, or plunder, or
positive injustice; but it recommends the house " to in-
troduce a bill to restrict the franchises, and to alter the
whole system of elections in. the borough, as well for
members to sit in Parliament as for the municipal oh

Reader,, mark 4he. mords, ‘..restrict the franchises." ,
What do these wordi mean ? The franc:rise at present
is restricted to ten pound renters ; but do they mean to
say that the qualification should be raised? Do the re-
porters complain of the three-and-tenpenny voters; and
would they raise the franchise to £2O householders
Their language is so loose and jesuitical that we defy
any man to tell precisely what they mean. We are not
quite sure if they know their own meaning. We shall
assume, however, that they do not mean the £lO house-
holders, and, if this be the case, then it follows that they
mean the freemen. In other words, they recommend the
disfranchisement of the old constituency of Liverpool.
These enlightened members of the reformed Parliament,
—these huge sticklers for purity and liberality,—these
Solons from Manchester and Aberdeen, weavers of sys-
tems and spinners of morals,—these select particles of
the collective wisdom of the nation would restrict the
franchise to the shopocracy, to the puritans of the gin_
shop, to the new beer bill constituency, to the respectable
venders of tripe and dogs' meat, and exclude every opera-
tive mechanic, and every industrious and well-disposed
labourer in the united kingdom. Their recommendation
amounts to this, or it is a tissue of nonsense from begin-
ning to end. It proposes to deprive the mechanic and
labourer, being freemen, of their political rights, or its
language is beyond all human comprehension. These
men do not all live in houses rated at ten pounds. Some
thousands of them inhabit houses of a lower rent, and
these would be totally and for ever disfranchised if the
recommendation of the committee were carried into
effect.

Now, was this the 'intention of the reform bill ? Was
it for this that the working classes were induced to join
the " base Whigs" in their yell against the Tories ?
Was it to degrade the burgesses in towns that the brick_
bat system was devised, and a roar, like the breaking up
of a thousand icebergs, was raised from Kent to the.
Orkney isles? It' was contended that that bill of reform
would exclude the working classes. " No," said • the
simpering Lord JOHN RUSSELL, " we preserve all the
present voters—we give the freemen a life rent vote—we
only extend, we do not restrict the franchise." All this
was believed, and it would have been held sound doctrine
to the present hour had these free burgessess, these life-
rent voters, these working men, not turned their influ-
ence and their votes against the base Whigs and their
servile dependants. This is the whole secret. The
freemen had sufficient sense to perceive who were their
real and who their pretended friends. Theylsoon became_
acquainted with the selfish intrigues and the heartless
policy of the Whigs, and they voted against them ; and
for this they will never be forgiven.

But then, say our opponents, the freemen are venal
and corrupt. We 'deny it, and call for the proofs. " Oh,
look at the election for 1812," they respond, " and at
other elections down to 1830." It is in vain that we
retort that there is a difference bet Ween what Was done
previous to, and what was done after the passing, of the
reform bill. The freemen were corrupt, kind gentlemen,
if you please, but that is no proof that they are corrupt.
The same committee which recommends their disfran=
chisement have already reported that at the last election
for Liverpool bribery was neither extensive nor sys-
tema.tic,- nor general. In fact there was no bribery at
all. Those witnessess who spoke of seeing bank notes
and sOiereigns and other sums of money passing from
one unknown hand to another would not be believed in
Liverpool on any matter resting solely on their credibi
lity. The committee were so sensible of this that they
then, though never so well disposed, did not recommend
disfranchisement at all, or any alteration whatever.
This being the case, the ground of the present recom-
mendation is bribery of an old date—bribery committed
by men, many of whom are dead—bribery with which a
majority of the present burgesses are not mixed up, and
are not tainted thereby. Here then begins the iniquity'
The burgesses are to suffer for the delinquencies of :the
dead. They are to suffer for the vices and corrupt prac-
tices of the very men who have originated these disgrace-
' ful proseedings. Mr. HARVEY is one of the petitioners

and expediency substituted by the friends of that church,
to procure a temporary relief to its clergy from the pro-
longation of tlieit sufferings and vet this, and nothing
short of it, we feel convinced, can have oporated upon
the minds of many noble lords to sanction, by their votes,
the first step to the eradication of the Protestant faith
from the sister isle. God grant we may be mistaken in
our views ; but expediency, as applied. in the 'present
case, we fear menaces nothing less than such a consum-
mation.

for disfranchisement, and he is proved to have been a
wholesale agent of bribery. Eighteen hundred pounds,
are admitted to have passed through his hands. Mr.
EWART was guilty of bribery, and he is permitted to go
unpunished. In fact, these men, after having encou-
raged bribery for years—after having made a trade of it
—after being the shameless and unprincipled seducers—
after playing the part of the fiend in the political Eden,
they turn round as accusers, to betray those whom they
Seduced, to expose those whom they tempted, to convict
and condemn those whom they first corrupted and polluted.
With respect to the invidious partiality of the select
Committee, Mr. T.B. HORSFALL, at the meeting of yester-
day, remarked that the committee state in their report
that bribery and corruption on the part of the freemen
had been presented by the Grand Jury in 1827 as a nui-
sance, but they altogether, and most unpardonably, omit
to state, continues Mr. HORSFALL, that the Grand Jury
in 1833 presented the proceedings against the freemen,
and the petitioners themselves, including RATHBONE,
THORNELY, HARVEY, and Co., as a nuisance also! Of
ha two, • the last nuisance was the worst. The same
gentleman made some observations upon the conduct of
Mr. EWART in this business, in which we entirely concur.
Mr. EWART was guilty of bribery. There is not a
shadow of a doubt upon this head. The recommendation
of disfranchisement rests in a great measure upon Mr.
EWART'S misdeameanours and political delinquencies.
This being the case, any man of generous feelhigs, or
unvitiated principles, or correct notions of honour or pro-
priety, would have clashed fearlessly into the midst of this
factious combination and come to the rescue of the bur-
gessess whom he had assisted to corrupt and degrade.
But Mr. EWART had not a soul for any thing so noble or
generous. He stood by, a silent abettor of the prosecution.
We do not accuse him of positive injustice, but we accuse
him of negative cruelty. We do not affirm that he
had a vote to condemn, we only assert that he had a vote
to save. His conduct was not openly vindictive, it was
only hypocritically mean and dastardly. What ! bribe ?
bribe poor-men, and yet stand by and see them punished
and degraded for accepting it ? Oh, -Mr Evart !
13ut Mr. EWART is not the only hondurable member
who has taken part in this conspiracy against the bur-
gesses of Liverpool with unclean hands'. There is Mr.
BENETT himself, the patron saint of this inquiry—the
foster parent of several committees—the ministering
angel of political purity and integrity. What of Mr.
BENETT, think you, curious reader? Read the speech
of Mr. YATES, himself a sort of Whig, or what is more
respectable, a sort of Radical, delivered at yesterday's
meeting. Mr. YATES accuses Mr. BENETT of spending
sixty thousand pounds in corrupting the electors of
Wiltshire ; and yet Mr. BENETT is an honourable man,
and pure as unsunned snow. If therefore the freemen
of Liverpool be guilty, the electors of 'Wiltshire
are equally guilty of bribery ; if the former are
to be disfranchised, so must the latter. But these
exceedingly pure gentlemen are all alike. There is one
JOHN, WALTER, who spent forty thousand pounds in
buying the suffrages of the electors of Berkshire. Is
this to. be allowed to pass? Is it a crime no where but
in Liverpool to give bribes? Mr. HUME, not many
weeks ago, and in the House of Commons too, accused
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and his committee of having
carried on a system of bribery in Westminster for' nearly
twenty years. Are the electors of old Westminster to
be spared ? When Sir J. KEY contested the Mayoralty of
London with Sir P. LAURIE, the most open treating and
bribery was carried on by the former; and are the li very
of that den of corruption, London, to go scot free? In
short, if past offences are to be raked up to substantiate
a charge against any body of electors, there is not a
borough nor a county in the whole kingdom which
might not be convicted and disfranchised. This shows
the folly of the present proceeding. The absurdity of
it is laughable enough; but the animus of the men
entrusted with the inquiry evinces something beyond
either ignorance or folly ; it is downright tyranny,
setting at defiance all the rules of law, and all the
maxims of the constitution. They recommend-that the
innocent should be puniihed for the sins of the guilty.
After this it would not surprise us if a committee of re-
formers, with MARK PHILIPS, the Manchester statesman,
at its Mead, were to recommend that all the descendants
of the who witnessed the execution of StRAFPORD
or Lord RUSSELL should be hanged at the Old Bailey.
This article however is already too long, and we stop for
the present. •

Months ago we recorded our opinion, that the ques-
tions then at issue placed the union between Great
Britain and Ireland in a situation of great. jeopardy..
Mr. O'CONNELL had given notice of motion di
rectly to repeal. the union. His MAJESTY'S ministers
had brought into Parliament the Irish Church Spoliation
Bill. The question with us, then, was " whether we
were to have the repeal of O'CONNELL Or of
ministers." The wily representative of alt Ire'land soon
found that, without the odium of the act, the game was
playing most effectually into his hands, by those of the
alternative. So it has proved in the result ; and once
again we say, that, if the present bill, divested though
it be of its worst features, become the law of 'the land,
it can only become so by the violation of the KING'S oath;

that violation 'being coincident with the rupture of the
fourth and fifth articles, and the two supplementary arti-
cles of the 40th Geo. 111., c. 67, commonly called the
"ACT of UNION;" which rupture of the leading articles
of the union will, to all intents and purposes, whenever
it may suit the purposes of faction so to construe it, be
argued upon as tantamount to its repeal.
Here we will leave the question. The bill must go
back to the Commons for their acquiescence in the
amendments made by the Lords. Should it happen that
the lower house coincides in those amendments, the last
stage in the upper house, the final words "That this bill
do pass," Will place the whole issue on the oath of the
KING. Upon this most delicate and solemn point we
will make but one observation, and that shall be a repe-
tition of our words five months ago :

"Whether the ministers of the crown sire or ale not pre-
pared to violate their own oaths, the future alone can tell us;
we sincerely hope for the negative of this position. But we
would intreat them, by all that is slue to their fellow-subjects
and to the crown, to pause before they incur the awful respon-
sibility of placing their Sovereign in a situation, with the sole
alternative before him of violating his oath—that solemn com-
pact between his God, himself, and his people—or of being
again subjected to the revolutionary assaults of Political
Union' rabbles." •

Notwithstanding the pruning which it has undergone
in committee, we still attach the title of Irish Church
Spoliation to that Bill which was on Tuesday night read
a third time in the House of Lords. How and why it
has been permitted to go tliough the final stage in that
much calumniated branch of the legislature will, perhaps,
be best understood by a reference to the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON'S remarks on the subject. After protesting
against the repeal of the assessment for church pur-
poses,—declaring his belief that the conspiracy against
the church and its property, although not now manifested
in overt acts of disturbance, by reason of the check im-
posed Upon the people in the provisions of the. Coercion
Bill, still existed unsubdued,—and urging that many
other objections of a serious character remained upon
his mind, his Grace thus concluded his observations :

That the latter would bestir themselves for the salvation
of ministers from utter destruction we can no longer
imagine; but not an iota of the responsibility of minis-
ters on the main question is thereby removed. On their
heads be it—We wash our hands of every thing short of
unqualified opposition to the course they have thought
proper to pursue on this and many other questions. The
Commons may give us the opportunity of rediscussing
the question. From such a course, come how or when
it may, we shall not shrink.

GREAT MEETING OF THE LIIERPOOL

FREEMEN.

•
Pursuant to a notice, placarde,l through th'e town of Liverpool,
calling upon the Burgesses to hold a meeting for the purpose of
expressing their gratitude to John Nichol, ESti4" Mal. for Car-
diff, for the great services he has rendered them 'in defending
their rights and privileges before a Select: Committee of the
House of Commons, a meeting was held yesterday' at the Golden
Lion Inn, Dale-street. Immediately on the doors being opened,
the room was filled to repletion, principally by the tradesmen,
operatives, and poorer freemen, who evinced great anxiety to
further, as far as their most cordial assent could do it; the object
of the meeting. There were in the room a considerable number
of the leading.merchants, bankers, and gentlethen connected
with Liverpool, who attended to support the resolutions ,and
express their sentiments, without any reference to party or
politics.
On the motion of C. S. PARKER, Esq., seconded by JOHN
FOSTER, Esq.,
JOHN Moss, Esq. was called on to preside over the meeting,
and on his taking the chair, this gentleman was greeted with a
long and loud cheer. In opening the business of the day, the
chairman briefly informed the meeting that they were assembled
to take into consideration the great services rendered to them
by their intrepid advocate, Mr. Nichol, and on this subject,
whatever difference of opinion might exist on the subject of
politics, there could be no conflicting opinions; all who had seen
the unwearied industry of the honourable and learned gentleman
bore ample testimony to the value of his services, and to the
~reat debt of gratitude that was due to him from the freemen of
Liverpool. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. THOMAS TOBIN then stepped forward, and proposed the
first resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting, John
Nichol, Esq., M. P. by his manly and generous conduct in
coming forward to d;fend the Itkrgesses of Liverpool,_..on, the
recentinquiry before a -Committee of the Hotise of COMniens;
and by the persevering zeal and ability which he has displayed
in their behalf, has justly merited the gratitude and admiration,
not only.of those whose cause he so promptly espoused, but of
the other inhabitants of this borough who are desirous of pre-
serving the ancient and important constituency." As soon as
he had concluded reading the resolution, the meeting gave
three rounds of applause.
Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH, in seconding this resolution, said
that be was oue.of those who had attended the committee of the

" He could not but feel that this measure, in the variety of
its details, was exceedingly injurious to the church, and he had
,p.o doubt whatever, that sooner or later some measure' must be
proposed in order to relieve the church from some of the bur 7
dens imposed on it; but, notwithstanding that he highly disap-
.proved of these provisions, it was impossible for him, with the
gpinion he entertained of the necessity of some measure of this
description, to concur in any vote against the third reading of
this bill. He could not avoid seeing the difficulty in which
the church of Ireland was placed, and the more he considered
it, the more he was convinced of the necessity of agreeing to
this measure. It was quite clear that for some years the church
of Ireland hail received no tithe. At this moment it depended
on the government whether they were to receive any subsist-
ence or not. On the other hand, the Bishops had not received
their fines, which formed two-thirds of the amount of their in-
come.. No church assessments were paid—none could he col-
lected; and, in fact, if something of this description was not
done to relieve the church of Ireland from the difficulty in which
it was placed, no church of Ireland would exist. With this
prospect before his eyes,
.and being thoroughly convinced of the
facts, he did not think it his duty, as a member of the house, to
object to the third reading of this bill. Their lordships would
ask whether this measure was likely to give security and tran-
quillity to the church ? He did not take upon himself to an-
swer that question—it was impossible to say whether it would
give security and tranquillity to the church. Of this he was cer-
tain, that, sooner or later, this measure must he altered for the
benefit of the church. In the mean time, it would give the
church a certain breathing time, and enable its ministers to
continue their labours some time longer for the benefit and ad-
vantage of the country. Many noble lords contended that if
this measure did not produce all the benefit contemplated from
it, they ought to oppose it : his opinion was, that he ought to
do that which would keep the church in existence."

House of—Commons to disprove the infamous charges brought
against the freemen of Liverpoal, and,could from personal ob-
servation bear ample testimony to Mr. Nichol's great and in-
defatigable services in their cause. (Cheers)
On the resolution being read by the chairman,
Mr. J. B. YATES addressed the meeting. He had only just
heard of the placard that announced this meeting to thank Mr.
Nichol for his able and disinterested services. Simply to do
this was not doing all that they ought to do; for if they would
preserve their birthright he would tell them that they must do
a great deal more. (Cheers.) If a city were about to be stormed
and ransacked, what Would be said of. the inhabitants, if,
instead of resisting the enemy, and defending its towers and
bulwarks as men, they basely and cowardly consented to
open its gates? What would be said of them, (the freemen
of Liverpool) if, in a crisis like the present, they quietly retired
to their parlours, and supinely, ingloriouslyk, awaited the result ?
(Loud and general cheering.) 'they were now called together
to express their sense of the services .rendered them by Mr.
Nichol—this meeting was called specifically for this object, but
he would tell them that this was not the 151gEruNG that they
ought to hold, for they ought to have'orie Vake measures in
the general defence of their rights and privileges, and if such a
meeting were not called, if they did not unite for that object,
they would be like the son of trieliatriarch of old, who sold his
birthright for a mess of pottage. (Cheers.) They had heard
much of the corruption of Liverpool, 134 he, would ask their
accusers, was this crime confined to Liverpootalone? Corrup-
tion no doubt had taken place here and elsewhere:. (A mecha-
nic at the lower end of the room exclaimed, " in Wiltshire for
instance.".) Yes, (continued Mr. Yates,) in Wiltshire, where
Mr. Benett„ their accuser, spent sixty, thousand pounds in one
single contest for that county, and yet. Mr. Benett, the man who
had thus corrupted electors in another place, was the man who
still intended to bring forward a motion in the next session of
Parliament for the disfranchisement- of his (Mr. Yates's) fel-
low-townsmen. 'There was no-one but must tea a deep sense

We do not presume to question the sincerity of his
Grace's attachment to the united church of England and
Ireland—we know that he has fought earnestly for the
protection and preservation of her rights—we concur in
that part of his address which declares his conviction
"that, sooner or later, this measure must be altered for
the benefit of the church"—but .we must confess that,
with these admissions, our opinions do not go the length
of those which hedeelares influenced his vote for the third
reading of the bill. It is doubtless a cruel case that the
clergy of a branch of our national church should be re-
duced, by the criminal conduct of his Majesty's ministers
and .others to a state of great Privation, and be-
dome dependent, for their actual soppoi t, in no
small degree, on the contributiois which public in-
dignation against their oppressors has drawn from the
purses of their friends as a general fund, or the more
private but not less extensive aid of those whose
neighbourhood brought under closer observation the suf-
ferings of that injured body. That sacrifices would gladly
be made by every friend of the establishment to limit the
extent and abridge the duration of those sufferings, is
not questioned. But of what a disgraceful kind is that
reproach upon the rulers of the country, which is justly
brought down upon them by the conviction that they
have tolerated, for so long a period of time, the most
scandalous frauds and robberies of the property of the
church, as to make it a matter of question, on the score
of humanity, whether principle should not be sacrificed,

of shame and humiliation at the recollection of the acts of bri•
•-

bery and corruption that had been practised here, but from whom
did these practices emanate? Did they emanate from the freemen?
(Cries of No !) In every instance it was the wealthier classes who
had corrupted the poorer, whose poverty had been taken advantage
of in the purchase of their votes. - Was there to be no forgive-
ness ? They read in scripture of the joy that pervaded Heaven
over the repentant sinner as being greater than over ninety and
nine just persons who needed no repentance. Since the elec-
tion of 1830, against which he had uniformly lifted up his voice
and condemned both before Parliament and the court of Mayor
and Bailiffs, since that period, he repeated, there had been no
corruption.. He was a reformer, and-would yield to none in his
wish for reform, both in Parliament and Corporations ; he there-
fore had a right to acknowledge, that since the passing of the
reform bill the freemen of Liverpool had given evidence of their
sincere determination to resist the a llurements of the wealthy,
and he thought that they 'ought •to be left to Heaven and to
those thorns which in their bosoms lodge to• prick and sting
them. He had formerly given his opinion upon municipal
matters at the Music 'Hall, and he thought that reforms
were wanted in corporations (here he was interrupted by the
Chairman, Mr. Thomas Tobin, and others, Who thought him
out of order). The Chairman considered that he (Mr. Yates).
was not in order, in adverting to the state of the corporation of
Liverpool, (great confusion) but he considered himself perfectly
so, as the investigation had, diverged into Municipal matters..
He thought the two questions should not he mixed together;
and at a meeting at the Music-hall had expressed himself to
that effect, and if his advice had been followed none of this
would have happened. Corporations must be reformed altoge-
ther, and. although their corporation was the best, (laughter and
cheers,) an investigation was then taking place before Parlia-
ment into all corporations, and it was nOt likely that a town of
such importance as Liverpool would be left out ; then what was
the use of their agitating the question when it would be taken
up by the House of Commons? As to the borough it had al-
ready suffered sufficient punishment in the suspension of the
writ. He wished here to observe the effect of the present state
of things.
The CHAIRMAN again reminded Mr. Yates that this meeting
was held for a specific' purpose, and that ha was, in going into
the general question, out of outer. A short conversation en-
sued, after which Mr. Yates resumed. If the object of the pe-
titioners, the disfranchisement of the freemen• of Liverpool, be
carried into effect (a cry of "Do you'lltink(it " ) it would
be if the hurgesSes did not exert theiriselVeS and shew, that
now, no bribery would be tolerated. The-effect of their dis-
franchisement would be to deprive the poor man of his all;
silver and gold he could not be robbed of, because of these things
he had none. Those who were the petitioners, and sought to de-
stroy them, were the householders,'Whb hadlirst corrupted and
now sought to destroy them: and if • they Attained their object
the guilty would be rewarded by an extension of the franchise
taken from the poor but deluded freembn. Perhaps in the
course he was pursuing he was giving satisfaction to no one (a
laugh.) • He (Mr. Yates) had friends whom he highly valued
that belonged to all parties, but he would use every effort in his
power to support the burgesses in the maintenance of their just
rights. The chairman had inform4d him that the disfranchis-
ing bill was put off till the next session. In the interim he
would give his best services indefence of the burgesses, and,
in conclusion, advised them to be nu the alert, and, in the
language of Milton, told them that they must "Awake, arise,
or be fir ever fallen." (Loud cheering.)
Mr. T. B, HORSFALL said he had been called upon to move
the next resolution, and he did so with tha most sincere plea-
sure, because he cordially participated in the feelings which
animated this great community in testifying their grateful sense
of the disinterested conduct of Mr. Nichol, who had come for-
ward as the nominee of our noble representative (Lord San-