The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SESSIONS.

These sessions commenced yesterday (Monday) at the New
Bailey Court-house, Salford, before James Norris, Esq. and a
flat bench of magistrates. The prisoners for trial on charges
of felony are 108 in number, and for misdemeanors 20. The
learned Chairman, in the course of his address to the gentlemen
of the grand inquest, stated that in the present session, com-
pared with the last, there was a slight difference iu crime. He
was happy to say that it was not on the increase. At the last
quarter sessions the weekly average of commitments was six-
teen; but on looking at the present calendar the average was
only thirteen, which was a satisfactory diminution ; but, not-
withstanding which, the number for trial was great; and it was
rather surprising that the punishments inflicted by that court
upon the various offences, had not been the means of deterring
in a greater degree the commission of crime; but lie hoped Fro
long that the benefits of a sound moral and religious education
of the people would accomplish that object. The recomnut-
ment of offenders, he was sorry to say, had increased one-third
upon the last session, which proved that the sentences had not
deterred offenders from following their wicked courses. In fu-
ture all sentences would be rigorously carried into effect, and
he need only repeat the statement of the learned Chief Justice
Denman, made at. the assizes at Lancaster, "that the sentences
hereafter passed will be carried into effect with that strict seve-
rity due to their climes." Therefore he hoped that the decla-
ration which he repeated, of this high and learned personage,
would have the desired effect in future. The learned Chairman
then explained to the jury the nature of their duties, and the
law on several points, for their guide and assistance, after which
they retired to the labours of the session.
Joseph Lyton, a notorious thief, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with stealing a quantity of silk dresses,
handkerchiefs, hats, and other articles of wearing apparel, the
property of Mr. John Morley, of Manchester. It appeared from
the statement of Mr. Coady, the barrister, that. on the night of
the 23d ult. the prisoner broke into the house of the prosecutor,
and stole the articles in question. He was sentenced to seven
years' transportation.

DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.

We briefly stated last week, upon the authority of a neigh-
bouring contemporary, that a large bod 7 of poi-idlers had been
attacked and captured by a party of getitlemen and yeomen, at
the moors of Northumberland, adjoining the Scotch border ;
and we have since learnt the following particulars. The licensed
sportsmen of the neighbourhood had determined to put down
the practice lof poaching and plunder which prevailed there;
and they were cheerfully joined' in that determination by seve-
ral of the farmers in the district. Early on the Tuesday morn-
ing, a party of about 40 gentlemen an 4 farmers, well-mounted,
proceeded to White Lee, near Carter Bar, on the Scotch bor-
der, where it was expected the poachers would rendezvous.
This anticipation was correct. Of the poachers there were
about 20, all armed with guns and attended by dogs. The
marauders, finding they were discovered, at the command of a
leader performed a military evolution, and presented their
guns, threatening death to the first man that should approach.
One of the gentlemen here called upon the poachers to surren-
der, but they kept their position, shouting defiance. The same
gentleman then galloped across the burn which separated the
belligerents, closely followed by the equestrians of his party.
This took the poachers by surprise; but they fought desperately.
In' the onset, the horse of the gallant gentleman already
alluded to was beat to the earth, and himself slightly wounded.
1 The poachers, however, were speedily overpowered, and
brought to Morpetol2v‘ey'heerr'e eighteen have been convicted under
the Game Act and committed to Morpeth gaol. a hat no lives
have been lost can only be attributed to the suddenness and
closeness of the assault, and the excellent address and forbear-
ance of the gentlemen and yeomen.
.We understand that the
audacity of the gang of marauders thus gallantly defeated
knew no bounds; for not only did they clear the moors of
game, but the property of the farmers was continually subject
to their depredations; and in numerous instances, we are in-
formed, they not only levied exactions upon the farmers for
" refreshment," which were acceded to through terror, but they
actually had the daring to slaughter the sheep, with the car-
cases of which they fed their dogs ! It was high time, then,
that such a lawless system should be put down; and the valiant
party who have so signally succeeded in doing so are entitled
to the warmest gratitude of the well-disposed-portion of their
countrymen. The following are the names of the poachers
who have been committed :—William 'Walton, of Fawdon,
wounded; John Walton, of Fawdon; John English, of Als-
fon, miner ' • Thomas Smith, of Bewcastle ; William Rout-
ledge, of Drumble; Francis Kennedy, of Stapleton ; Simon
Kennedy, of Stapleton; John Kennedy, of Stapleton; Wil-
liam Maxwell, of Moorwhite; Joseph Routledge, of Bewcas-
tle; George Routledge, of Drurnble; John Snowden, of Kirk-
haugh ; Robert Pearson, of Coanwood; John Hardy, of Faw-
don; Joseph Harrop, of Coxlodge ; Matthew Hunter, of
ton-moor;Als-
there were three others, but we have not learnt their
names. e understand it is the determination of the gentle-
men of Northumberland to persevere in their exertions to put
down poaching, in whatever part of the county it may be found
to prevail; and that the' farmers, their tenantry, will cordially
unite with them, being convinced from eiperience that it• is
their interest, as well as their duty to do so. It would be well,
therefore, if the misguided men who follow ouch lawless prat:-
tices would desist in time, or the most serieus consevenoest
may ensue.—Carli.te Patriot,.

Abe Vort'o corner.

rNA'S WEDDING DAY.

Ey H. F. Charley.

Hark ! the chime of merry hells
See the ways with flowers bestrewn—
Every peal and garland tells
Of weeping eyes and sad farewells.
Fos the Bride is gone !

Gone !—to us no comiag day
Shall her gentle smile restore—
What availeth white array,
Floating veil or chaplet gay
She is ours no more !

She was fair, and soft, and kind ;
Care in vain her sweetness tried ;
0 ! of all she leaves behind,
None have such a heart resigned,
Should mischance betide.

We're a prqud and silent race.
But with all her love forbore ;
Now her bright and beaming Paco
In her father's dwelling place
Shines, alas I no more !
He is young. and fond, and bold,
Who hath ta'en her hence to-day ;
Nought by proud ambition told,
Nought of flattery,'nought of gold.
Lured our bird away ;
With her soldier at her side,
What's to her the ocean's roar,
Foreign climes, and skies untried ?
Joy attend the happy bride.
Ours—no more I no more

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

The September namber of this work commences with
the " Bridgewater Treatises, No. 2," an able examination
of Dr. Chalmers's treatise "On the Power, Wisdom, and
Goodness of God," and Sir Charles Bell's on "The
Hand : its Mechanism and Vital Endowments, as evin-
cing Design." In " The Gallery of Literary Charac.
tens" there is an etching of Dr. David Moir, the northern
Delta, and the author of that humorous piece of auto-bio-

graphy Mamie Waxgh. " Touching Things Theatrical"
is one of the best things in this number, but at the pre-
sent. moment we prefer giving an extract from "The
Press and the Tories," with the hope that it may tend'to
rouse the dormant spirit of the conservatives to a proper
support of the King and the Constitution, to sustain which
a clOser bond of union must be exhibited to the world, re-
gardless alike of petty interests, petty distinctions, or
petty' differences of opinion. We shall probably take an
early opportunity of introducing, to such of our readers
as may not have read this number, and we presume there
are not many who will omit to do this, "The Joke," by
Galt, the " Philosophy
,of Sneering," and "Military
Promotion."

The Editor sums up his labours by treating us with
" a dish of peas," thus served up as a bonne bouche:—

So we conclude the weary but agreeable labours of the
month. 'We flatter ourselves we have not done badly. Sir
Egerton Brydges, Sir Morgan O'Doherty, John Gait, and
Robert Macnish,—Dr. Chalmers and Sir Charles Bell (by
proxy), and David Moir (by portrait),—Bombardinio and
Morgan Rattler (in masquerade),—a decade of unhappy poets
of the peine forte et dure,—a host of wondrous persons, in our
Fraser Papers, the least of whom would sustain the falling
fortnnes of the New Monthly, all contribute to our columns.
Politics, polemics, pastime, poetry, philosophy, promotion, pug-
nacity, pi essography, persondrarnatam, personality, persiflage,
perambulate our pages, and perpetuate them to posterity.—
['here's a dish of p's, good reader, that will never be out of
season.
And so farewell; gird up your loins, and prepare yourself for
a vigorous brewing in October. O. v.
From this digression we return to " The Press and the
Tories :"

The Tory leaders are vastly mistaken, if they suppose that
they can ever influence public opinion but through the medium
of the press ; they are vastly mistaken, if they think that it is
sufficient to satisfy their own clique, or to convince the people
of the court and the drawing-rooms and the clubs, that their
intentions are, honourable and their actions praiseworthy. It
is to the nation at large they are amenable; and the best inten-
tions and most honourable actions are nothing worth, unless
they can be made to appear so to their appointed judges. A
goo'd conscience may suffice for an individual; but for a mi-
nister or a Party to *he useful, it is necessary that their ,crood
qualities should, be known, and their intentions vindicated, to
those who are interested in them; and yet, how is it possible
that this can be done, while the most influential part of the
press is in the hands of adversaries, ever watchful to fritter
away what they cannot condemn, to magnify trifling mistakes
into. important errors, to give an unfavourable view of all that
is done, and to insinuate doubts and suspicions of all that is in-
tended?. The principles of the Tories, though best calculated
for the repose and security of society, for the prosperity and
happiness of individuals, are far lass dazzling to the imagina-
tion, less flattering to the passions of the multitude, than those
of their opponents, and therefore require fuller explanation and
more constant enforcement to secure their adoption; and yet
at this moment, when erroneous doctrines are making frightful
way in society, and opinions tending to the overthrow of all
existing institutions, and the introduction of extended blood-
shed al universal anarchy, are everywhere propagated, scarcely
is an effort made by the lory party to strip those doctrines of
their delusive charms, to expose those opinions, or to bring
back the public mind to the contemplation of truth, and a due
appreciation of sound principles.
How many fatal errors have prevailel during the last few
years, merely from the want of an honest press to counteract
the efforts of interested adventurers and dishonest statesmen.

The reform-bill was carried by the force of the newspapers con-
stantly falsifying facts, misrepresenting the views of the conser-
vatives, and blinding the people to the principles of the measure
and the intentions of its authors, until the voice of reason was
oppressed from one end of the land to the other, and all that
was honourable and generous, all that was high and praise-
worthy, was trodden under foot, in the vain and mad pursuit of
unattainable objects and imagined good; and while all this was'
doing, the Tories stood by in silent apathy, and, with but few
exceptions, made no effort to rescue the understandings and the
feelings of the multitude from the strong delusions and the
morbid excitement under which they laboured.
Again, the official career of the present administration has
been marked by a series of blunders so serious and so glaring,
that any one of them would have been sufficient for the over-
throw of a Tory minister ; and yet, by the devotion of the press,
they have been enabled to weather every storm, and still to
maintain their places, notwithstanding their palpable inefficiency.
It is true that a knowledge of the truth does, notwithstanding
all the efforts of the newspapers to conceal it, silently win its
way; and that, in the long.run, the great majority of the peo-
ple awake from their dream of error, and endeavour to retrace
their steps, as is actually the case at the
:present moment : and
for this fact we need only appeal to the' speeches and positive
declarations of the radical party in the House of Commons.
The tide of popular phrenzy has actually turned; and were the
Tories to be installed into office to-morrow, they would be
hailed by a tumult of popular applause. Still, the reaction might
have been expedited, if the Tories had properly handled the
press.
The vast expense and the immense risk attending the esta-
blishment of a newspaper on an efficient scale, renders it difficult
and dangerous foran individual, or even for an association, unless
endowed' with great, wealth and extensive connexions, to embark
in such a scheme; and the facilities of information, and the ad-
-vantages of extended circulation and large establishments, give
,the London papers an advantage, against which it is very diffi-
cult for their country contemporaries to contend, when the high
duties incident to both, and the absence of all postage on the
ttinsit of papers, render it impossible for them to offer any pe-
cuniary advantage to their subscribers. On this account it is
necessary, in order to diffuse an efficient Tory press through
the country, that the wealthy Tories—and they are still greatly
numerous—should combine to take upon themselves the first
expense and the risk of establishing papers, and, by assistance
of every kind, support them through the first difficult stages of
their career. The ,ereat profit of a newspaper is derived from its
advertisements, and these are generally supplied in proportion
to its supposed circulation; so that an extended circulation must
be obtained before advertisements to any large amount, and,
consequently, before any considerable profit, can be expected.
But, on the other hand, when a paper has once established a
large advertising connexion,- this very circumstance tends in its
turn to sustain the circulation ; and thus, the one keeping up
the other, it is manifest that the paper already established has an
immense advantage over any new enterprise, however inferior
in point of ability, or in point of moral tendency, its matter may
be. The trader, whose object is to advertise his goods as exten-
sively. as possible, must look, not to the opinions, but to the cir-
culation of the paper; and he who requires the information com-
municated through advertisements, must refer to that paper
which generally contains the greatest number. Again, a paper
long established, and having a wide circulation, has many ad-
vantages in the knowledge of details, and in various sources of
information, which no previous arrangement can secure, but
which materially increase as it goes on and becomes better
known. These several considerations shew that the establish-
ment of a new pa-tier is one of the most serious and dangerous
speculations in which time, talent, and capital can be embark-
ed; and that therefore, however wide the field, end however
urgent the necessity fur them may be, it is not to be expected
that such will, in any considerable number, spontaneously spring
up, particularly at a time when there are already, perhaps, a
number existing sufficient for the ordinary information required
from a newspaper.
If, therefore, the Tories wish to see an efficient Tory press
established, they must put their own shoulders to the work, and,
by a liberal contribution of means, obviate the difficulties of es-
tablishing and carrying new papers through the first period of
their existence, when it is necessary to spare no expense to merit
and obtain a wide circulation, without the aid to be derived from
the profits of advertisements; and afterwards, by a steady and
marked encouragement through their own influence and that of
their friends. Let this be done but for a short time, and we shall
soon see a Tory press conducted with superior talent, supporting
itself by its own resources, and vigorously. pushing its way into
every corner of the country, and establishing its doctrines in the
hearts and understandings of all the wholsome portion of the
community. The probable increase of Tory papers to be ex-
pected from such a course, is not to be computed at those which
should be actually established, but many of those already paid,
ing, who were led to the ranks of our opponents by their en-
couragement and our own apathy, would, when they found that we
were able and willing to support a paper in their district, either
through preference of our cause or through fear of a vigorous
rivalry, return to their forsaken standards, and exert their in-
fluence in behalf of their old retainers.
But it is not the Tories alone who have an interest in the es-
tablishment of a Conservative press. Every man of property—
every man of established trade—every man, in fact, who has any
thine' to lose by social disorder, is now called upon to contribute
his utmost exertions to counteract the awful tendency to revo-
lutionary measures which is every day acquiring new force and
assuming a more alarming aspect. The prospects held out to
the multitude by the advocates of change are so fascinating to
the vulgar mind, that. it is not to be wondered atthatrevolution-
ery doctrines should always find favour among the lower classes
sf the comniunity; and, indeed, with those who are incapable of
"pourable exertion, who are sunk in idleness, reduced by ex-

travagance, or depraved by vice, such doctrines must always
find tavour, in spite of every exertion to strip them of their false
attractions. But the danger is that their influence should ex-
tend ; and, indeed, it cannot be denied, that it is now rapidly
extending to those who, notwithstanding honourable industry
and unblainable conduct, are doomed, by the inevitable laws of
society, to occupy a low and laborious rank of life, and making
them dissatisfied with that station in which fortune has placed
them. To check the growth of such dangerous opinions amongst
this class is of the utmost impossible importance, because upon
their attachment to security and order the existence of security
and order depends; and it is utterly impossible to check it, un-
less the exertions of a Conservative press are resorted to, to
counteract the efforts of one pledged, as far as its venality and
inconsistency admit, to the cause of revolution, and the triumph
of.levelling opinions.
In large towns, and particularly in a metropolis like London,
democratical opinions are always most likely to prevail; and
public meetings, and pot-house discussions, and all the other
opportunities for petty display which London affords, holdout so
many allurements to vanity and the love of influence, that
thousands are induced by these consideratiOns alone to adopt
sentiments, of the meaning even of which they are ignorant, and
to the consequences of which they are completely blind.- 'tie a
glorious thing for the unwashed artisan or the begrimed coal-
heaver to think that he is influencing the destinies of the world,
,to hear himself appealed to as the source 'of all power and 'to
:believe that the man of wealth and the man of rank alike hold
their honours and their riches by his sufferance alone. It is .a
fine thing to issue orders to a member of parliament, to crosss
examine a sneaking candidate, to dictate laws to the legislature,
and even to threaten a king; and it is a glorious consideration,
that even he is adding a sensible impulse to the advance which
the world is making towards equality and liberty, towards. rest
from labour, relief from the irksomeness of inferiority, and a full
participation in the blessings of wealth _without the trouble of
acquiring it;—and therefore it is no %vender, that, with a good
supply of leaders to din these things into his ears, and with con-
tinual opportunities of exerting his imagined power, and expa-
tiating in his newly-acquired importance, he should become a
zealous unionist and a staunch republican.
.Now we have already referred to a former paper in this Ma-
.gaziLe, in which it was shown that the opinions of the London
rabble are those which prevail in the London papers; and
these are disseminated over the country as the opinions of the
writers, and enforced by all the arguments,!and supported by all:
the sophism and falsehood that, the ability of the editor can sup-
ply, or his earnestness venture on. The Times enjoys the
greatest circulation of any paper in the country; it not only
follows with the most instinctive fidelity the opinions of the me-
tropolitan rabble, but its own bias is rddical and revolutionary;
and by its influence and agency, doctrines the most headstrong,
principles the most dangerpus, and conduct the most outrageous,
have been promoted and encouraged. Not, however, content
with adopting the opinions of the mob, it. always pushes them a
step or two farther, in order to assume the appearance of lead-
ing.; and thus becomes the means of quickening the career of
mischief, and encouraging more violent. views. So much for
this paper. The othei London papers who are in a situation to
contend with it for superiority are generally too far pledged to,
the same London mob, though they do nut display the same
eagerness in following it, and have too much to lose to risk ,
a.change or to trust to the support of a class who have hitherto
shown so much apathy towards the press; and the only proba-
ble prospect, Therefore, of successfully combating it is in estab-
•lishing a conservative-paper, backed by sueh talent and capital
as will ensure it success, and encouraging it by then:Lost zealous
support. The cost of such an undertaking would undoubtedly
be great, too great, indeed, for any individual, or.small betty of
individuals, particularly' when combined . with the -establish-
ment of conservative provincial papers; but it, ould be nothing
when distributed amongst the wealthy leaders of a powerful party,
counting among its members a vast majorityof the landed,
funded, and commercial, wealth of the nation. Added to. this,
ifithe higher members of this party will only show-the example,
many:men in subordinate situations, but holding the sainebpi-
aliens, would be too happy to volunteer their services.
But how can we expect from the tories the establishment of
an expensive and efficient morning paper, when the evening
paper which displays in their service more talent than perhaps
any other concern of the same kind has ever been able to com-
mand, and which, by its respectability and singular power, ex-
torts the admiration of its bitterest 'opponents, and forces its
way even into the strongholds of the enemy—when the firm,
consistent, and able Standard (edited by the Drs. Giffard and
Maginn, two as 'profound scholars, on every subject, as are to
be found in any country in Europe,) established without their
aid, and depending on its own resources, does not meet with
even common sympathy from those who are. so much indebted
to its support? Is it that the tory leaders cannot brook its inde-
pendence; or that they shrink from its uncompromising
honesty ? Are its arguments in support of one line of conduct
too powerful for those who meditate another? Or is the strict
-adherence to principle which it demands deemed inconsistent
`with a desire for a speedy return to office?