The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c

The largely increased and most respectable circulation
which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOI,
STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile
body in Manchester afords its proprietors the yratifY-
ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable
claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to
bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in
the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of
the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,
however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-
portant market day of the Cotton Trade, wizen its
Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu-
facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es-
tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased

and increasing interest.
Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from the mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-
tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
to do justice to the interests committed to their care.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We cannot decipher the whole of the communication of
H. H., but to the portion we understand we say "no."
A person who spells so incorrectly as to write " which,"
" concientions, ' and " Brittain," can scarcely expect us
to insert his letter. This to " E.”
We presume the report of the proceedings at Kirkdale, on
Wednesday, will gratify " A friend to the legitimate
drama," but the insertion of this letter would involve us,
in all probability, in a correspondence which we have no
wish to provoke.
The decision of the Scottish judges in the celebrated
Stewarton case does not, we believe, affect the much-
agitated question as to the right of a patron to present to a
living, an incumbent to whom a majority of the members
of a church are opposed, but it decides that the ministers
of parliamentary churches, of chapels of ease, and of other
non-parochial places of worship, have no right to sit in
the General Assembly, or to take any part in its deli-
berations.

Ebe Etbrrpool gtanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1843

The Mercury's FEELINGS (!!) have sustained s
severe shock ! Listen, reader, to the melancholy
circumstances ; and then try to estimate the amount
of anguish inflicted upon a mind so sensitive, nerves
so frail, and a frame so fragile, that it would

" Die of a rose, in aromatic pain."

The Mercury is, it would seem, a devoted supporter
of the Collegiate Institution of this town. He sub-
scribed his mite to the erection of the building ;" has
" expressed his good wishes for the prosperity of the
institution ;" and, greatest good of all, " suggested an
improvement in front of the noble erection—we can-
not see why an improvement could not be equally well
suggested behind—and an alteration in the colour of
its placards ! After this we should scarcely wonder
if some philosophic individual were to boast his love
for the Church of England, upon the ground that he
had suggested an alteration in one of the flues at St-
Peter's, or in the vane upon the spire of St. Nicholas's.
But the love of our good Mercury did not stop here.
He had absolutely in store for the new institution
benefits of which its founders, in their most sanguine
hours, never dreamt. He had absolutely on the tapir
a kind of semi-matrimonial arrangement between the
Collegiate Institution and the Mechanics' Institution
The two were to co-operate in engaging " all the talent
in the country" to deliver lectures. The " first lee")
turers in the country" were to be retained, by the joint
purses of the Collegiate and the Mechanics'; and the
opportunity thus afforded to these gentlemen, of " gir'
ing four lectures a week, and in the same town, would
be an irresistible inducement to personal effort, and to
the production of splendid illustrations."
Well may the Mercury exclaim " judge our feelings'''
when the prospect of so pleasant an arrangement Was
rudely
dissipated by a "miserable paragraph" in the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Miserable paragraph," ill-
deed, which could be the cause of misery so poignant to
a philanthropist so enlightened ! Henceforward the ill'
stitution so valued, in whose front and the colour Of
whose posters Mercury suggested an alteration, is "a
huge pyramid standing upon its apex." It is a wretched
low church affair, sectarian in its objects, narrowed in
its sphere of usefulness, and, "in a few years," will
present " the most splendid failure ever known in these
kingdoms ;" and all for what ? Because the LIVES;
POOL STANDARD, suspected of being a supporter of
its usefulness and its worth, remarked, last week, TIP"
the indecent circumstance of a Frenchman—a teacher
of the young—being permitted to sing, at a sole •
held in the Mechanics' Institution, " the revolutionary
composition called ' the Marseillaise Hymn,' in eharac"
ter ;" and to compare with that indecency, the de-
corous proceedings which distinguished the opening of
the Collegiate Institution ! Slight cause this for the
flood of bitterness with which the pseudo friend,—lhe
i.
suggester of alterations in front and in the colour 0.1.
its placards,—pours out forthwith against the devoted
institution !

But let us see how our serene friend deals with the.
" miserable paragraph " which has so expeditionsl);
converted his love into frenzied hate. We erred, 1_
seems, in describing the proceedings in question n 7
having occurred upon the same day. The Marseillais'
Hymn was sung at the Mechanics' on Thursday, aria
Haydn's beautiful strain was sung at the Collegiate o_.
1:
Friday. We "blinked the truth," we are told, be,
cause we omitted to tell the world that " the meal
at the Collegiate Institution was the solemn and formal a
opening of that institution,—that at the Mechanics
merry Christmas party, a soiree, an assemblage 0
friends and neighbours to take tea together':" Most
Jesuitical commentator, we " blinked no truth." If
you will be at the pains of reading our paragraph 0
your own columns, you will find that we express
called the meeting at the Collegiate Institution o
"formal opening," and that at the Mechanics' Institol
tion " a soiree." The former was a meeting of 10 '
orderly, highminded Conservatives—a formal dress
party, if you will; the latter was an exhibition ea
Liberalism, en dishabille,—its affectation of loyalty
attachment to our constitutional monarchy tbl9lll
aside.

But the editor of the Mercury says, "he did right 1:
to sing such a song. The "Marseillaise" is a "irs;
natzonal" song ; " a production to which Vrance f
„ deeply zndebted, (!) and which is as dear to the hear'
1'
a Frenchman as Rule Britannia' is to ours." 0) 11341t3r'
the man who could have the audacity to commit to
ho
paper assertions so monstrous is scarcely one to a,
reasoned with. The Marseillaise Hymn " truly no
tonal" ! "dear to the heart of every true Frenchnlarlif,
—a production which breathes in every line the lv° e
like longing for blood and the savage thirst for revenge
which, until France in her reign of terror showed tbnees
to the world, we thought were the attributes of saefi;of
onlya production which has ever been the signah'
as
that worst of national miseries, civil war ;—which.,
maddened
been howled by the lips of intoxicated and rnadubie-r
fiends as they dragged their victims to the scaffold' it
slaughtered them in the streets, or bore away tij
trunkless heads, still shouting its wild blood-inspiring_eor
notes, as they reeled off to the commission. of
hoof
murders ! Danton, Robespierre, Marat, your lips of
sung it,—this truly national song, dear to the heart
ais 9,
every true Frenchman and to republican " Labereoi-
of the Mercury class I Who, then, can deny 't.seos
neat beauty, its nationality, the Christian efit!ra of
which it breathes, and the consummate proPri°
singing it at all Mechanics' Institution soiros hint to
Most Jesuitical brother, may we venture to her,
you, that, from the first to the last line of the lumber
ing production upon which we have remarked' Yui
°l'
have been very, very indiscreet ? You have sPit Y

venom too Openly, too soon, and upon too slight a
pretext, against the Collegiate Institution. You have
been very indiscreet, too, and calculated too .much

upon the ignorance of your readers—possibly shared
by yourself—in the matter of this Marseillaise Hymn.

There is something, to English feelings, inexpres-
sibly revolting in the crime of the miscreant M`Naghten,
by whose hand an amiable and excellent man has just
been hurried into eternit

There is, for the crime in

question—so far at least as we have been able to gather
as yet—a total absence of motive. The plea of insanity
is now entirely out of court. We have no evidence to
shew that the murderer even knew, much less that he
had been injured by, his unfortunate victim. There
is nothing in the circumstances of M‘Naghten to
induce the supposition that he was likely to be the
mere agent of a criminal in the background. There is

no poverty; there is no evidence, as yet, of

a strong

political bias on his mind; and assuredly there was
nothing in the position or the demeanour of Mr.
Drummond to point him out as a fitting mark for
political enmity to aim at. But the fact, nevertheless,
strikes home to our hearts, that in the metropolis of
Christian England—once manly England—the das-
tardly crime of assassination has been committed in
open daylight ; and there is, moreover, coupled with
the person, the place, and the circumstances, sufficient
ground for very strong suspicion that assassination was
here resorted to as the means
rooting political ends.
The assassin is proved to have been, for days before
the commission of his foul crime, lounging about,
armed no doubt, in the neighbourhood of the govern-
ment offices. "Why there particularly ? Are there in
the metropolis no other noble and valuable lives, whose

in some wa

of pro-