The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

TOWN OF LEICESTER.

TO THE RIGHT lioN. Slit ROBERT PEEL, BART., M. P., FIRST
LOico OF THE TREASURY, AND CHANCELLOR oF HIS M&-

JRSTY'S EXCHEQUER. &C.
Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Lei-
cester and its vicinity, deeply impressed with the alarming
state of public affairs and with the immense imptirtance of your
endeavours to avert the impending danger, desire respectfully
to express to you our ardent hopes that-those endeavours mav
be crowned with success. We have observed with sorrow and
regret your best efforts assailed with the utmost bitterness of
faction.' But we humbly and earnestly entreat that, however virr
ulent• may be the opposition to which you may still be exposed,
you will not be induced to withdraw from your sovereign and your
country the benefit of those commanding talents—that high
principle and sound discretion which have never failed to dis-
tinguish your conduct since you have been placed in the honour-
ble and arduous situation which you now occupy;—such firm
and manly perseverance we regard as your first duty to your
king and country; and we feel confident that it will secure to
you lasting gratitude for your strenuous exertions in defend-
ing the protestant institutions of npy land, and in main-
taining upon a solid basis the rights, Nivileges, and property
of this great protestant community.
We are, sir, your faithful and obedient servants.

We take the following from the Times of Wednesday :
AbDIIIiSS OF TILE MERCHANTS, BANKERS, AND TRADERS OF

THE CITY OF LONDON, TO Slit R. PEEL.
Yesterday (Tuesday) there was a large meeting of the above
body at the City of Lond.in Tavern,to receive from their de-
putation the reply of Sir Robert Peel to their address; when,
after that and the ordinary business of the meeting were dis-
posed of, it was adjaurned to await the result of last night's
debate and division. At the meeting were Sir Robert Fitz-
wygram, Sir Charles Forbes, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Buckie,
Mr. Wilson, and many others equally influential of the above
wealthy body.
MmivicaoNE.-,The address from thi4 oarikb to his Majesty,
whieh has. b.oA ouly- tv.e dayx, hair last night receive a
larger uttmber of signatures than ever was known to proceed
from the same parish on any former occasion. It will be pre-
sented at the levee this day.

Addresses to the King, declaratory of confidence in Sir R.
Peel's administration, and of attachment to the church, are also
in preparation front the southern division of the county of
Wilts, and from Salisbury and the adjoining parishes.
The address of the inhabitants of Oxford to Sir Robert Peel
was signed in the c•mrse of one day only by about 800 of the
principal inhabitants, headed by the mayor, most of the alder-
men and magistrates, hankers, tradesmen, and resident gentle-
men, and was forwarded by the mail to the city members for
presentation.
The Bristol petition presented to the House of Commons on
Friday night, upon the subject of the Irish church, contained
the signatures of 8,000 persons, and nut 5,000, as erroneously
stated in smile of the papers.

A meeting was held at Leeds on „Monday, at which addresses
to the King and Sir Robert Peel were carried by acclamation.
The•foilowing is the address of the University and county of
Oxford to Sir Robert Peel:—

"We the undersigned, resident in the University and county
of Oxford, are desirous of uniting to express our unshaken con-
fidence in your ability, integrity, and patriotism; and our cor-
dial approval of those wise principles and salutary measures
which have marked the progress of your ministry.
• "These sentiments we feel ourselves especially called upon to
declare, when the permanency of your administration is endan-
gered by an opposition, the tendenty of which at this important
crisis appears to us fraught with injury to the public service.
Deprecating your retirement from office as one of the Most se-
rious. evils which could befall the nation, we most earnestly
hope, that, strong in the•resnurces of your own mind, the recti-
tude of your intentions, and the approbation of your country.
you will still continue to discharge the high duties of your
office in the manner best. catentated to proinote•the service of
his Majesty and to secure the permanent interests and welfare
of his people."•

Addresses to his Alajegy and Sir bed Peel have been
agreed to at Norwich, Brighton, Baistol, Dartford, Birminghain,
and Ipswich.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND HIS ANCESTOR.

(Extract from the Record of April 6.)

-Let us look at Lord John Russell standing up in the House
of Commons as the champion of the popish party in Ireland;
see him. along with Lord alorpetle doing honour to O'Connell
at the dinner on Saturday week; and then let us turn to the
dying declaration of that great man whose name he bears, and
in the inheritance of whose honours he shares. 'When Lord
Russell stood upon the scaffold, ready to lay his head upon the
block, be delivered a paper, " the substance of which," says
Bishop Burnett, who attended his lordship on the occasion,
" was first a profession of his religion and of his sincerity in it;
teat he was of the church of England, but wished all (meaning
both protestant dissenters and churchmen) would unite together
against the common enemy; that churchmen would be less
severe, and dissenters less scrupuleus. He owned he had a
great zeal against popery, which he looked on as an idolatrous
and bloody religion, &c.' He owned he had been earnest in the
matter of the exclusion (i.e. of the popish Duke of York, titter-
wards James II.) aa the best way, in his opinion, to secure
both the king's life and the protestant religion, &e." "After
he had delivered this paper," says Burnett, " he prayed by
.himself; then Tillotson prayed with him. After that he prayed
again by himself, and then undressed himself, and laid his h.cal
on the block without the least change of ceuntenatice."
Such were the sentiments of a true whig of the old school,
and it would be an insult to the undertatelhig of the feeblest
capacity, even to inquire whether there is •auv' similarity be-
tween the sentiments of Lord Russell and those of his de-
generate
descendant. In Lord Russell we find the welfare
:of the protestant religion occupying his last dying thoughts,
because in that was comprised the glory of God and the best in-
terests of his country. We now see Lord John Russell head-
Mg an attempt to strip the protestant church of i:s property,
and not only to rob it of its external support, but to apply the
booty in aid of that "common enemy" against which his ances-
tor declared with his dying breath that be had "a great zeal,"
because " he looked on it as an idolatrous and bloody religion."
- That popery continues to this hour to be an idolatrous and bloody
religion may be proved by the superstition and the atrocities
which are now practised in Spain, under the eyes of the priests,
who are themselves leaders in the civil war, as well as by the
assassinations and murders which are perpetrated in Ireland,
and the denunciations of the agitators. It was by the sound of
the chapel bells that the murderers of the police at Carrick-
shaugh were assembled together and with almost every titne
affray it has been proved that priests have been directly or in-
directly connecte I.
These are considerations which are worthy of the attention of
all who have not forsworn the name of protestant—mho have
not renounced all regard for the religion of their ancestors—who
have not sold themselves to a party—and who are not prepned
to provoke the righteous judgment of Heaven by making com-
mon, cause with that Babylon. from which we are commanded
to come out, lest we be " partakers of her sins," and receivers
" of het plagues."

ETON, Monday, April 6 —On Saturday last the examination
for the Newcastle Scho'kuship terminated, when Mr. C. J. Hav-
ley was declared the Scholar and Mr. 11. Williams, King's
Scholar, the Medallist.. The following gentlemen also passed
a very good examination :—Messrs. Simo.omis, Thring, and
Mills. The examiners were the Hey. J. Lonsdale, Prebendary
of St. Paui's, and Lewis, Esq., from Oxford.

CttowN PitoeEttry N WALES.—We understand that it is
the intention of Col.. Parry, M. I'. to move in the House of
Commons at an early day, and with the concurrence of the hods
commissioners of woods and 'tests, for several returns connec-
ted with the state of the crown property in Wales. with the
view of taking ultei lot. steps, for the purpose of obtaining the Ap-
r royriat ion of such harts of their revenues as may be ova ilable fur
their purpose.to the improvement of the harbours and navigation,
or the northern part of the principality. 'I he gailant member
has the co-opt.?rat ion of the liberal portion or the Welsh members,
and of Mr. Ewart and Lord Bandon, the members 01 Liverpool
He has received also the assurances of the members of govern-
ment, who preside at the admiralitv and at the hoard of trade,
and every facility will be afforded hint.—Caritarron Herald.

PARISH APPRENTICES.—On Thursday last applisstion was
made to the magistrates at the New Bailey to give their sanc-
tion to the indentures of a number of girls, (eight, we believe,)
whom the overseers of Manclwster were desirous of binding ap-
prentices from the workhouse, to Messrs. Walkers and M'Clure,
silk throwsters. of Patricroft, in the township of Barton-upons
Irwell. Mr. Cheadle, the overseer of Barton, with a very proper
regard for tile welfare of the girls, opposed the application, on
the ground that Messrs. Walkers and Co: had no place of resi-
dence fur them in which they could be properly taken care of,
but had contracted with poor pet sous in the township, some of
them -not of the best character, to maintain the children for
three shillings per week each. He admitted to the fullest
extent that Messrs. Walkers end Co. were highly respectable,
but he was of opinion that girls like these ought to be snore
carefully attended to than could be done under the system of
farming them out, which was proposed to be adopted. Mr.
Foster inquired whether any children had been bound by the
township of Manchester under similar circunisianees, to which
Mr. Lipp, the assistant-overseer, replied that he had nu recols
lection of any; Mr. Andrews, of •H arpurhey, had had children
from she workhouse some years ago, but he thought that they
were lodged in a regular apprentice house provided for them,
and he believed it was the same at Mr. Gregg, at Quarry Bank,
where a number of apprentices were kept. One of the partners
iu the firm of Messrs. Walkers and Co., in answer to questions
put to him by Mr. Foster, said that they should not be prepared
to take the children into their own house for sonre weeks to come,
but as it appeared to be the wish of the magistrates that the
system of farming theta should be discontinued, he would un-
dertake to place them in a Cottage belonging to the firm, with a
respectable woman to take care of them. They were now work-
ing at the mill, and in compliance with an express stipulation
of the Manchester overseers, they received regular instructions
in a Sunday school. Mr. Cheadle said that the houses at which
the children now lived were not proper places for them, and at
one place four of them had to sleep in one bed. Mr. Foster
said that the magistrates had every rerrann to believe that the
treatment of the children would be perfectly correct, and no im-
putation whatever was attempted to be cast upon Messrs.
Walkers and Co., who were admitted to be highly respectable,
and anxious to do their best for the children; but the magis-
trates could not sanction the binding of girls in this way, unless
they had an assurance that their moral cauduct would be looked
after, and they woula be welt cared for. However, as it was
iuteuded to get them a separate residence, with a respectable
person to take care of them, and to give them the means of in,
struetion, the matter - might be postponed, and when it was
shown that this had been done,the magistrates would be satisfied
to bind them.—Manchester Herald.
BerucTs OF THR POOR Law AMENDMENT BILL.—An in-
Lqiiest was _held on Thursday, the 2d instant, at the Union Arnie,
Little Bolton, before Mr. flutter, coroner, on the. body of Grace
Itok;inson, tin illegitithate 'child' about six months old, found
dead in.bed on the previous morning. The unfortunate mother
of the child was delivered after the passing of the new bill, awl
after having been obliged to sell her clothes to snpport herself,
she afterwards obtained employment and wes•enabled to earn
ss. per week, three-fourths of which had to he paid for lodging
and the nursing of the child, leaving Is. Bd. for the necessaries
of life f.r mother and child( being a considerable distance front
her own parish). She was frequently so wore down by suffet-
ing and want, that she was scarcely able to stand ou her feet,
whilst the heartless father of the child. would not give her a
farthing.
ExtsentrloN THROUGH AFRICA. FROM THE SOUTII•—It is in
contemplation to fit our by subscription an expedition to explore
the unknown parts of Southern and Central Africa, extending
between Lattakoo (Litakun) and the (so called) Mountains of
the Moon; including in its intended route souse of the conflu-
ences. if not the actual source and course of the Congo or Zaire.
It is proposed that this expedition shall proceed from the Cape
of Good Hope in the south, and attempt to egress by way of the
great Lake fchad, at some part on the shores of the Mediter-
ranean in the north. From the intended sphere of operation
this undertaking is obviously one of preeminent importance;
for there is no part of the globe which presents a grander field
for enterprise and investigation than Southern and Central
Africa.

Mr. Wrightson, 51. P. for Northallertou, was, on Monday
week, white on his way to the house of Commons, robbed of
the petition from the innkeepers and licensed victuallers of
Northallerton and its neighbourhood.
EFFECTS OF SABBATH DAY LABOUR.—Our experience may
be taken for somethiug—for a newspaper editor's life is no lite
of idleness; and we hold it to he an incontrovertible fact, that
no man ever suffered in his health by the hardest conecieutious
labour during six days of the week. - But, we will add, for the
instruction of the young and studious, to whom we particularly
address this reitiatie that during many years' observation of in-
tellectual labourers, we never knew a man to work seven days in
the week, whitehd not kill himself, or killhis mind.—Statulard.
[\Ve remember a similar remark from the late Mr. Wilberforce,]
lieacrittoury.—The electric fluid seems to have been of late
wonderfutly superabundant and active in Germany ; as one of
the journals states, that withiu a month forty steepies have been
struck, and almost all accompanied by the same phenomena—
first, lightning attracted by and playing about the steeple, then
violent thunder, with snow, and soon after the appearance of
guition.
COBBETT'S ACCOUNT OF SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH ON THE
IRISH CHURCH QLESTION.—At last came he, with those ta-
lents of which a nation might be proud ; and, in the course of
two hours, did everything which it appeared possible for man to
do to resist the reg.:Neon. He felt that be was defeated; and
that feeling was manifest throughout the whole of his long, most
ingenious, and most eloquent speech. There was iu himself
everything which could merit success; but the circumstances
were too hostilely .powerful for him to control. Like the Rho-
dian sailors iu the storm, so beautifully described by Dryden,
" Front the first he laboured in despair." Under such circum-
stances it is beyond the power of mortal man to retain the fair
use of all his talents; but he did retain theta to a- very ex-
traordinary degree, even to the end. When he concluded his
speech, by telling us explicitly, " If you carry y our resolution,
I will oppose you in going into a committee: if you go into a
committee I will oppose you there: if you persevere in propos-
ing your address to the King. I will oppose you there: I will
eileese you at every stage in this proceeding; and if my oepo-
moon be unavailing, I will quit the situation in which his Ma-
jesty has done me the honour to place roe; for I will not be the
iustrument for the carrying the principle of.your resolution into
effect ;"—for my own part, while it was impossible foe me not
to hear this with great approbatione—not to admire this part of
the conduct of the minister,-1 cannot say that I did not hear
these words with pleasure, as the announcement of the ap-
proaching end of his power.—Coua sere's It ceISTER.
ELECTION FOR DROGHEDA.—Mr. Carew O'Dwyer is no
longer member for Drogheda, and two candidates are already
spoken of—.the lion. Iteutial Pluukett, and Mr. Wallace, the
late member for Carlow. We sincerely hope that as far as re-
gards the first named geutletuan, the report may be found to he
correct. Mr. Plunkett ptrssesses talents, station, and character,
that would render hint a tit representative for any constituency
in the empire; and instances of his zeal, integrity, and princi-
ples, have been given, sufficient to entitle him to the support of
every honest and honourable man, nut only upon political
grounds, but upon sentiments of pure pattiotism and love of
Ireland. We have no authority l'r absolutely stating that Mr.
Pluukett will be a candidate; but we think such an event ex-
ceedingly probable, and we would, therefore, caution the
electors to hold themselves disengaged—at It ast, until the formal
pecisien of the cenonittee in respect to Mr. O'Dwyer ehall have
been officiailv announced.—Dublin livening Mail.
erINVALID AEDSTEAD.—An invalid bedstead of most ingeni-
ous construction las been exhibited during the last week at St.
George's Hospital, to the medical geritleinen. It affords ex-
traordinary ease and comfort to the sick—changes the position
of the patient, however helpless he may be, to whatever is le-
Ruired, whether for comfort or surgical purposes—effects an en-
tire change of bed and bedding in two minutes, and is con-
verted into an easy chair. All its operations are condticted by
a single attendant, with very little exertion, and without the
least inconvenience to the sufferer, or once touching or exposiug
him. • The machinery, which is concealed, is of very simple con-
struction, and admirably constructed for the purpose, being di-
seated of all noise or jarring.—True Sun. -
'The French adopt an ineentous and simple method to increase
the quantity of blood abstracted by a leech ; they nip of a small
piece of his tail, alter the leech has fixed itself, by which means
the flood flows off the wound as fast as it is sucked in by the
mouth; and the same effect is obtained by puncturing the tail
with the point of a lancet.—Weatlierhead on Headaches.
An ancient, and, in these peaceful times, a very singular
custom still prevails at Newcasitle-on-Tvne, in connection with
! the assizes for the Northern Ciicuit. "Before the Judges set .
out on their journey from Newcastle to Carlisle the Mayor has
to present their Lordships with a certain piece of money for the
purchase of daggers to defend themselves with on the road.—
Carlisle Patriot.
In some parts of Bokhara the people shoe their horses with
the antlers of the mountaindeer. They form the horn into a
suitable shape. and fix it on the hoof with iron pins, never re-
newing it till fairly worn out.
Advices from Rouse state that the members of some of 'the
most illustrious Itaiien families have recently had themselves
admitted knights of Malta.
An eruption of Mount Vesuvius took place on the 13th': tilt.
accompanied by remarkable phenomena. A new crater sud-
denly opened and vomited smoke and a quantity of stones.
On :lie elth the bottom of that opening appeared illuminated,
with flames of different -colours, and a fright ful .noise was heard
underneath. Smoke and flames also issued from two fissures of
the oft crater. The pheuontena are considered as the forerun-
ners of a'graud eruption.
Tue. DURHAM CONSERVATIVES.—We are glad to perceive
that te.e conservative interest of this important county are at
length fairly aroused. A short time ago we announced the
formation of a " Loyal and Constitutional Society" at Suudet-
laud, and we have this week the pleasure of reeerding that the
example hits been followed by the searrety less irepoitant town
of South Shields. In the mean time we shall .only once more
exhort all conservatives to energy, and we trust thltr ere long
we shall be abie to record the complete organization of the
conservative body of this county. It is erne that the present
imbecile—we use a gentle phrase—nnentiers for the northern
division were " ielieved" from the trouble of attending the
House of Commons.—Put ham Adverti'er.
Mt eicteee Coeimatrioes.—Sir Francis Paigrave, one of
the commissioners for inquiring into municipal corporations in
Englatel and Wales, has entered a protest respectieg the mat-
ter contained in the report of the coretnissiotiers presented to
parliament a few days ago. On the motion of Mr. Secretary
-Goulburn on Saturday morning, the said protest has been
ordered to be laid before
pailiatrient.
THE IIiISH COURT.--Years have rolled away since the festi-
vities of the Viceregal ciiiirt have been conducted with that ele-
gance and deenrum which dignify hospitality and grace wen-
t:ow. The parties now are -frequent—almost daily ; and the
company invited surh only as from their station or rank ate cal-
culated to give eclat to the seriee•nf splendid entertainments
at
present in progress. Time was that the introduction to the
Castle circle was the passport to good society heyuud its pee..
chiefs ; but of late years, the fact of being a guest at the Vicere-
gal table was in itself an exclusion from the higher orders. We
hope and trust to see matters once more set upon a proper foot-
ing; and eritainly the Earl and Countess of Hadoington are
taking the beg pessible means of eirreting that most desirable
etaeet. This is not as question op parte or of plates. It is one
ill "filch the character of the nation is concerned—which deeply
t
Iy in Ireland, and in which the interests
ni estintry—of the artitatt and nterhanee
a.fitT,ets
r stale o f
os f otihiee
t
the trader and the artist, the manufacturer and the shopkeeper
ace deeply and vitally involved. Were we dispeetd to pay per-
sima I coniplimeuts—eve understand that the kinulv urbanity of
the Lord Lieutenant, and the condescending blentlness of his
amiable Countess, aided by the cousioerate attentions of every
member of their household, would attire ample tc .pe for praise
and panegyric. But we really take this up upon public go quids
and, so long, as we are to have a court in helmt, all must cone
cur with us in wishing to see it conducted as becomes an esteb-
lishme tit presided over by the representatiyeeof majesty. 'e he
exainple set by their excellencies ire being.fsibovred by all the
fashietiable ; and a great number of nodality and cannily rest-
dents haying come to Dublin; the season moralises to be oue
of
the gayest that has occurred for malty veers.
'Fee Livi Rporpl Anneees.—An error creet inte the estimate
given of the nemeer of signatures attached to the address to Sir
Robert Peel, in •I'LleS(l4l;'S STANDARD. The signeure sheets
contained, in a separate column, the iesidence of each 'terve).
who signed the addrese. These the vonne man sent to snake
the inquire. at a late hour on Monday eventne, mistook fi'r
names. hence the mistake. the total number of signatures
affixed to the adores was 6.659. These were taken between
four o'clock ou Saturday and eight o'clock on Tuesday
evening,

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