The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-14 00:00:00

SENATORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

The following letter and reply, we understand, passed the
other day between the two ex-senators undermentioned, who,
for the happiness of the nation, have been sent into their ori-
ginal and appropriate obscurity :
" Dear O'Dwyer,—
" Wid ye be afthur givin' the barer of this a frank ?—as it's a
little inconvanient for meself to do that same jist now, the blick-
gards hav'n' turned me out of the house. Yours sincerely,
"JOHN BliowN, alias Dr. BEAUVOIR.
"Nota Bane. I'm jist at prisint mighty ill, undher a bid in
a kip, but I hope soon to be able to lave the [loupe."
The reply sent by the dismissed of Drogheda was to the fol-
lowing purport :
" Dear Sir John,— Rat's Castle, Sint Giles's.
"Troth an it's I dat wud do vees the favur wid all me hart,
bud de spalpeens have sarved deself de same thrick, bad loock
to dem. Yures, waping, C. O'DWYER.
" Nota Bene. I'm going back to ins ould thrade in the gal-
lery—divil's cure to dem, dey can't kape me out o' dat. Arrah
blur and ouns! what does yees mane by bein' able to lave the
House ? Arn't yees out of it, man alive ?"
Who will deny that this correspondence ought to be bound up
with Walpole's,..Bulingbroke's, ur Cowper's ?—Age.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Sunday Afternoon, Two o'clock.

Nothing positive has transpired with respect to the
new ministry, although at the clubs it is said that Lord
Melbourne will be the premier, Mr. Spring Rice chan-
cellor of the exchequer, Lord John Russell foreign
secretary, and that Earls Grey and Spencer, as well as
the Marquis of Lansdowne, will also form part of the
cabinet. Such is the rumour here, but we understand
that obstacles of such a nature exist as tend almost to
render the formation of a whig ministry impossible, and
that, thinks to that coalition—that descent from old whig-
gery to ultra-radicalism by which Sir Robert Peel was
bullied out of office—more than one of the above list find, -
in their own recent revolutionary declarations, a stum-
bling-block to carrying on the government on any other
principle than that of subversion of the constitution,
without recanting their scarcely unechoed opinions, 'and
adopting those they have so lustily deprecated. Besides,
all these parties have already been weighed and found
wanting—have but recently mismanaged the affairs of
state, and rendered us absurd at home and contemptible
abroad; and what new light—what fresh ray of intellec-
tual power has dawned upon them since, is matter of
perfect riddle. Lord John Russell, as successor to the
Duke of Wellington, would be matter for mirth were not
the interests of the country the stake at issue. The com-
parison between the two is as the light of the sun to
that of the rushlight in Mr. Hume's save-all. We hear,
from good authority, that this feeble-minded and factious
scion of the house of Bedford had absolutely an idea that,
on the dissolution of the late administration, he would be
sent for by the King to form a cabinet. The vanity of
some individuals is truly most extraordinary ; we remem-
ber to have heard of one Phaeton, who some few years ago
overturned the sun and set the clouds on fire, but he was
a paragon of modesty when placed cheek by jowl with
Lord John Russell. We are also told that Mr. O'Con.
nell ha§ " 11.9 anxiety to take office." After this it is
impossible to say a word further on the subject.

WILLIAM HULTON, ESQ. ,

,The circumstances which induced. Mr. Hulton to request that
his name might be withdrawn from the list of magistrates for
the county of Lancaster, and also to decline acting in that ca-
pacity, are too fresh in the recollection of the public to require
recapitulation from us. The neighbours of this gentleman,
justly appreciating his talents, and anxious to secure his active
services as a magistrate, have recently presented him with an
address which, together with his answer, we subjoin :
"To William Hulton, Esq., of Hutton Park.—We, the un-
dersigned gentry; merchants, tradesmen, and others, resident
in the borough of Bolton, highly approving the honourable and
independent course which has ever characterised your public
and private conduct, venture most respectfully to express our
deep and unfeigned regret at the existence of any cause which
should have occasioned a withdrawal of your valuable services
as a magistrate of the county of Lancaster.—Without further
allusion to that cause, we may be allowed to express our appro-
bation of the prompt and manly course which the conscious
rectitude of your own mind suggested, in demanding the erasure
of your name from his Majesty's commission of the peace;
and we feel the proudest satisfaction that the services of one,
whom we have the honour to rank as a neighbour and a friend,
were too highly appreciated even be the members of his Ma-
jetsy's government at that period, tole dispensed with, and that
your name remained on the commission.—Recent changes in
his Majesty's councils having taken place, we now anxiously
and most earnestly hope and entreat that your invaluable ser-
vices as a magistrate, equally honourable to yourself and bene-
ficial to the public, may be restored to the community."
[Here follow the signatures.]
Richard Daly, Esq., Borougbreevc of Great Bolton, received
a letter from William Hutton, Esq., on Friday week, of which
the following is a copy
" Hulton Park, April 3d, 1835.
My dear Sir,—When you and other gentlemen did me the
honour to deliver to me on Tuesday last a memorial from the
gentry, merchants, tradesmen, and others resident in the borough
of. Bolton and its neighbourhood, requesting me to resume the
active duties of a magistrate, you kindly permitted me to post-
pone my reply until 1 had given the subject mature considera-
tion. 1 now beg leave to repeat by letter what I endeavoured
to express in words, that I received this unexpected testimony
of affectionate regard from my neighbours and friends with
that exquisite delight which is the concomitant of pleasure after
pain. Though I have known by experience that solace with
which conscious rectitude of intention softens the stamp of un-
merited accusation, yet I will admit that there was a slight im-
pression still •remaining, which the warmth of my friends'
approval has totally obliterated. After more than twenty years
devotion of my time and zeal to the service of my native county,
in the important and often harassing office of a magistrate, I
did not retire because his Majesty's councils were conducted on
principles which I thought dangerous to the state. This would
have evinced no less presumption than that of an bumble coun-
try gentleman setting uR his own opinion against the judgment
.and prerogative of the King.• But I demanded the erasure.of
-my name from the commission of the peace on the ground of
insulted honour—a ground, on which lam gratified beyond
.measure to have the sympathy of those, whose praisur censure
is in my mind far more important, because consequent iipon
closer observation, than that of any minister of the crown.. After
this faithful delineation of my feelings, a resistance to an appli-
cation so kindly made by you and my other friends, and so
gratefully received by myself, might seem to carry with it a
spirit of contradiction. Far otherwise are the motives which
forbid toy acquiescence. The interests of this populous district
are so deeply involved in the execution of the trust, that I should
not dare to undertake the great responsibility of protecting pro-
perty and repressing crime, unless I feel that I could success-
fully bring to the task alt the willing energy of former days.
Exertions, in which I participated, saved from destruction one
emporium of commerce. I have lived to see another sacrificed
by supineness to riot and flames. Then, as to a further essen-
tial part of a magistrate's duty, the mitigation of the miseries
Of poverty and sickness. This, I believe I was enabled to ac
complished under the mild though not faultless code which was
once my guide. I should now be bound by enactments which
though compulsory by the law of man, are, in my humble
opinion, quite contrary to the, law of God. Trusting that the
legislature will correct this grievous error, it will be my en.;
deavour to prevail on my son to give up to the public service the
best years of his manhood, if life should be spared him; and
though I ain convinced he already prizes too highly the good
opinion of his neighbours to require any stimulus, yet the me-
morial which has laid his father under such deep obligation
cannot fail to excite in him an ardent desire to aid in repaying
the debt.—Pray assure the beloved ministers of our revered re-
ligion, and my other friends, by whose signatures I have been.
honoured, how indelibly their kindness is fixed in my heart. I
know not how I can render my acknowledgments more ac-
ceptable than by seeking, as a channel of communication, orie
who is now filling an important local office with honour to him-
self and satisfaction to the borough of Bolton.-1 remain, my
dear sir, your obliged and faithful servant, •
"W. Ht:l.Tors."