The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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they would to the retention, by compulsion, of favourite Minis-
ters. If the Whig Ministers should,- for the purpose of main--
taining themselves in office, allow these two measures—vote by
ballot and triennial parliaments—to be prematurely passed into
a law, the idea which is now merely suggested would be adopted,
and the necessity of the establishment of a senate would be en-
forced, es it would be considered that the House of Lords would
act in opposition to a House of Commons, the mere delegates
of, the people's will; in which case, the affairs or business of
the nation, through the obstinacy of the Commons, might be
brought to a stand, and its peace endangered; whereas a senate,
from its very construction, would act in concert; but how' long
such a senate, and such a House of Commons, would sanction
the presence of a King, it requires no great gift of foresight to
predict. The rapidity of late events must have convinced every
one that the well-wishers to the constitution of the country
must be on their guard, and must be prepared to adopt, or to do
their utmost to have rejected, measures which will follow one
another in as quick succession almost as the waves of the sea.
That constitution which has existed upwards of 600 years, and
which it will be no trifle to lose, under which we have enjoyed
such a share of liberty, happiness, and glory, is, I fear, about
to expire, as presaged by the President Montesquieu ; that as
Rome, Sparta, and Carthage have lost their liberty and pe-
rished, so the constitution of England will in time lose its liberty
and perish: it will perish whenever the legislative power shall
become more corrupt than the executive. But of our Ministers
and their supporters, we may say, what Anthony said, in the
words of Shakspeare, of the Murderers of Cwsar, " that they
are all; all honourable men."—Yours, &c.
Jan.. 2.1, 1833. J. M.

, MR. E WART.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Our worthy representative, Mr. Ewart, has already
shown his consistency and independence by voting in the small
but most respectable minority, composed of Messrs. Cobbett,
O'Connell, and his tail, against the appointment of the Right
Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, to the office of Speaker of the
House of Commons. It is true that all parties in the House,
have again and again lauded in the highest terms the character
and the unrivalled qualifications of the right hon. gentleman :
it is also true, that by his appointment to the office a saving is
made to the country of I.:4,000 a year: but Messrs. Cobbett
O'Connell, and Ewart, will have no tory in office, however ad-
vantagious to the country his appointment may be. This, no
doubt, is a specimen of pure patriotism, for these men are pre-
eminently liberals; but in my simplicity I confess I should have
pointed to this very act of theirs as admirably fitted to illustrate
the natnre of pure partisanship.
In saber earnest 1 do not think the town of Liverpool has
much reason to boast of the part which her representative has
perfonned in the opening act of the reformed parliament.

NEMO.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Tuesday last, Sarah Sheal, alias Ellen Pye,. alias Ann Hoy,
au impostor, was committed to the House of Correction for one
calendar month, for receiving, under false pretences, at seven
different times, relief from the Provident District Society.
The following cases were also disposed of during the week:—
Mary Speedy was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing
a pair of shoes, in the shop of Mr. Richard Bouchier, White-
chapel: The prisoner went with another woman into the pro-
secutoes shop, about six o'clock on Saturday evening,y when
they asked for a pair of shoes to fit the prisoner. Three pairs
of shoes were handed to them, one of winch the prisoner tried
on ; and, finding them to fit, inquired the price, which the pro-
secutottold her was ss. She then returned that pair of shoes,
saying phe had not so much money and was about to leave the
shop, Nitin.the prosecutor' stoppect her, and in her apron found
anothot pair. of shoes, which he had seen her conceal.there ;
and, in consequence, he sent for a constable and gave her into
custody. Her companion in the meantime had walked off. On
searching her in Bridewell, it appeared that she had no money
about her. She said, before the Magistrate, that she was "in-
toxicated with drink" at the time, and did not know what she
was abhut.

STOLEN GAME.—Elizabeth Appleton was committed for trial,
on a charge of stealing two woodcocks, two partridges, and two
wild ducks, the property of Thoinas Skelton. The prosecutor
is a defiler in game, residing in Hart-street, and on Monday
morning last he found that his cellar window had been broken
open, and two hares, three wild ducks, three woodcocks, and
fuur partridges, which he had left there when he locked up the
cellar at eight o'clock on Sunday night, were stolen. He gave
notice of the theft to the several dealers in game, and, between
seven and eight o'clock on Monday evening, the prisoner of-
fered to sell the six birds above-mentioned to Mrs. Mary
M'Keown, in St. John's Market, who called one of the market-
lookers, named Best. The prisoner thereupon ran off, leaving
the birds behind, but Best followed, and overtook her. She
told him a lad, who lived in a cellar in St. Andrew-street, had
given her the birds to sell, and that she was to have a shilling
tor her trouble. Upon inquiry, however, he was unable to dis-
cover any such person as she described. Before the magistrate
she said—" if they will look for the boy, they will find him."
LONG-LOOKED-EOR CAUGHT AT LAST.—A young fellow call-
ing himself Charles Kiny was committed for trial, on a charge
of stealing a pair of silver sugar tongs, the property of Mr.
John Walker, of the Bull Hotel, in I'rueman-street. It ap-
peared that about seven o'clock on last Thursday evening, a
man went into the prosecutor's house and sat in the commer-
cial room up stairs for about a quarter of an hour, and then he
went away without having taken any refreshment. As soon as
he was gone a pair of silver sugar tongs was missed out of the
room in which he had been sitting. The same sugar tongs were
pawned at Messrs. Moyle's shop, in Whitechapel, about eight
o'clock on the same evening, by a woman calling herself Susan
Green, who, on Saturday evening, went again to the same shop
and offered a coat in pledge. The shopman, having in the
meantime learned that toe sugar tongs were stolen, asked her
where he got them, and she answered that she had been sent
to ple e them by a young man. Halsall, the constable, was
then s t for and took her into custody, and she told him that
the young man in question went by the name of James Jack-
son, and was then waiting for her at a public-house in Charles-
street, having sent her to pawn the coat, Halsall accordingly
proceeded to that house and there found the prisoner, whom
the woman states she has known about twelve months, but had
not seep him for about four months until last Thursday even-
ing, wen she met him, and he sent her to pawn the sugar
tongs. His four months' absence was probably caused by his
being concerned in another felony—the stealing a surtout coat
belonging to Mr. Eadie, of the Throstle-nest Tavern, in Scot-
land-road, which occurred so far back as the 2d of October last.
On that day, about six o'clock in the evening, the prisoner, in
company with three other men, called at the-Throstle-nest, and
sat iu a room up stairs, where they remained about twenty mi-
nutes. Shortly after they had left the house, Mr. Eadie missed
his surtout coat from a room adjoining that in which they had
been sitting; and he immediately gave information of the rob-
bery to the police. The next day, Thursby, one of the con-
stables, went round to the pawnbroker's shops, and found that
the coat had been pledged at Mr. O'Donnell's, in Scotland-
road, for 275. 6d., a little before seven in the evening preceding.
He had since been on the look-out for the prisoner, but had
never been able to fall in with him. He was now, however,
fully identified by Mr. Eadie as one of the party who were in
his house, as before stated, on the evening when the coat was
stolen, and, by Mr. O'Donnell's shopman, as the individual by
whom the coat was pledged on the same evening. A young
woman in the service of Mr. Alexander MlCenzie, who keeps
a public-house in College-lane, also identified the prisoner as
the individual who called at Mr. M'Kenzie's, on Friday even-
ing last, and was served with a glass of brandy,. with warm
water and sugar, and left the house in about five minutes after-
wards, when it was discovered that the sugar-tongs, which she
had left in the sugar-basin placed before him, were missing:
they have not yet been discovered.—The prisoner was commit-
ted on.the two separate charges of stealing,—the sugar-tongs
from Mr. 'Walker's, and the surtout coat from Mr. Eadie s.
He denied stealing the sugar-tongs, and, with respect to the
coat, he acknowledged that he pawned it, but denied that he
stole it.
Thomas Parry, a shop-boy, in the service of Messrs. Robert
and John Bridson, ironmongers, in Berry-street, was committed
for trial, charged with robbing his employers.—He had been
about three months in the servive of the prosecutors; and dur-
ing that time they were constantly missing small parcels of
knit es. On Saturday last they caused him to be apprehended,
and three knives, which they identified as being their property,