The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-21 00:00:00

THE LIBERALITY OF THE LIBERALS.

We have often had occasion to comment on the paltry, vin-
dictive, and narrow-minded spirit of the small creatures who
lead what is called the liberal party in this town. The treat-
ment we experienced from them yesterday will be best ex-
plained by the following note
"Standard-office, Liverpool, Monday, July 20, 1835.
" Half-past twelve o'clock.
" The editor of the Liverpool Standard takes leave to call
Lord Brougham's attention to the following circumstance:—
"Anxious to give a full and accurate report in his paper of
to-morrow of any speeches that may be delivered at the dinner
to be given to his lordship at the Amphitheatre this day, the
editor caused application to be made to Mr. Brancker, the gen-
tleman who, he understands, will fill the office of chairman, for
a ticket of admission for one, or, if convenient, two of his re-
porters. . . .
"The answer returned to the editor was to the effect, 'that
tickets had been sent to all the other Liverpool orwspapers,
but that the committee had decided that none should be sent
to the Liverpool Standard.'
"'lle editor respectfully requests to he. informed whether
this very unusual course of proceeding is sanctioned by Lord
Brougham, or is in accordance with his wishes?"
To this note no -answer was vouchsafed by Lord Brougham.
Perhaps the noble lord:may have written to the Kiug aboul it.

TOMB EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sta,-;---Theldllo#ins anecdote, on the veracity of which you
may fully rely, affords a beautiful illustration of thellifference
hetween profession aria practice, on the part of the self-styed

A gentleman who, in the absence of professiona/employment,
has for some time occupied him Self as a canvasser for the reform
association, was this day boasting to the writer of the brilliant
success anticipated
.from the exertions of his party, and, as a
proof of the increasing zeal of the champions of liberty, said,
"There, now, there are in and - ' 's establishment,
in the neighbourhood of street; a number of workmen
who are £lO householders, and the principals assured me this
morning that all who did. not pay up tkeir taxes and enter themselves
on the register before the end of the time liMited by Me'act should
be discharged from their employment!'
If this be liberality, what is tyranny but: another name for the,
same thing ?—Yours, &c. ARGUS.
July 18th, 1835.

THE PUPPET-STRINGS OUT OF ORDER.—" We hear that the
Duke of Wellington left town Yesterday for Windsor. We will
offer no conjecture as to the object of his Journey."—Ministe-
lin/ 'MORNING Print of Friday. " There is no truth whatever
in the report that appears in a morning cotemporary respecting
the Duke of Wellington's visit to Windsor. The duke was at
the House of Lords at five o'clock, at dinner in town afterwards,
and never left London the whole day."—Ministerial EvENIN6
Print of Friday, Thus the Punch and Judy of the Cabinet have
been playing at cross-purposes every day for the last week,—
Punch asserting as truths, in the morning, occurrences which he
conceives threaten the very existeOce of ministers ; and Judy,
in the evening; declaring that Punch has lost his head, that•no
• such occurrences ever took place, and that her masters had never
a better prospect of a " long reign and a merry one."-Times.
CLERICAL INTERFERENCE EXTRAORDINARY.—So much IS
said if a single church of England clergyman even exercises his
personal vote at an election, and so much praise is bestowed
upon Popish priests, who threaten destruction both in this world
and the next against all who are not slaves to their orders, that
it is worth while to illustrate the conduct of the former—that of
the latter illustrates itself. There are ninety-se'c't beneficed
clergy in the city of London entitled to the electoral franchise,
of whom there are only serentcen upon the register. They
whose names are not entered are perfectly indifferent about it.
Wherels clerical interference here, Messrs. Grote, Galloway,
and Co. ?---Age.
Mr, J. hitching, of Back Queen Anne-street, carpenter end
joiner, died lately of the small-pox, and, we regret to add, left a
widow and four children in a state of utter destitution. On the
particulars of this distressing case being made known to Lord
Bandon, his lordship made the family a present of five pounds,

LORD BROUGHAM'S VISIT TO

LIYERPOOL.

. _
LAYING
~T HE FOUNDATION STONE' OP THE
• MECHANICS'. INSTITUTE.- •• ‘ •
Yesterday public curiosity was wound up to a high
degree of excitement by the expected arrival of Lord
Brougham and Vaux, for the purpose of laying the foun-
dation-stone of the new Mechanics'.lnstitute, about to be
erected in Mount-street. Eleven o'clock was the liour'at
which his lordship wad expected to arrive at the railway.
station, Edge-hill. Long before that time all the streets
leading to this point were crowded with passengers,
anxious to catch even a passing glimpse of the'lion of the
day. A posse of constables were stationed in the railway
yard to preserve order, where the following gentlernen
were in attendanep to receive and welcpme Lord
Brougham on his arrival in the good old town,—viz.;
Messrs. Alderine Lawrence and Case; Doctors Raffles,-
Winstanley, Reynolds, and Mackenzie; L.L.D; Messrs.
Hall, Heyworth, Mulleneux, Ratcliffe, Thornhill,- J.
Brown, John :Ewart, Bracken, Wybergh, G. W. Wood,
(the ex-M.P.. for South Lancashire,) Coglan, Egerton
Smith, James Beacker, and others, whose names it is
,not necessary to particularise.
..§.eYeral carriages filled with ladies drew up near the
gat of -the -station ; this, we should observe, was the
only relief to the dtherwise dense and not very agreeable'
crowd which had congregated in that neighbourhood.
A few Minutes before eleven Mr. W. Brown a:'peared
on the ground, drawn in an open carriage by four "spank-
ing greys,". driven by two postillions, and entered the
yard. Bhortly afterwards a cannon announced that Lord
Brougham' bad arrived at the mouth of the tunnel, who,
in a few minutes subsequent to this report, made his ap-
pearance, and was welcomed on his arrival by his friends.
His lordship immediately left the railway carriage, and
mounted that of Mr. Brown. Mr. Brancker took his seat
on the dickey. The committee were then marshalled to
follow the carriage, and the gates were opened. A few,
boys, as the procession moved from the yard, set up
something like a shout, but in this the crowd did not ap-
pear to join,for.there was nothing like a general or si-
,multaneous burst of applause, which, considering the
celebrity of Lord, Brougham, and. the supposed popular
object of his visit,- might, have been expected, To see-
Loid Brougham, the wondrous man of whom so much,

Itibetin-sad and sung, a.ppoared to be the only object
of the thousands who asserribled on .thiS occasion.
• There Were some bands of music in attendance, bathe
only one that attracted any notice was that' of the Cale-
donians, clad in their ancient costume; these, with their
bag-pipes, a vile apology fol. music, contrived to main-
tain their ground in the procession, which, passing
through Oxford-street, proceeded to MoUnt:street, wWcil
place it reached about twelve o'clock. itere the cro%'d
was so dense, that it was with great difficulty those who
had tickets of admission to the temporary gallery erected.
for the accommodation of the " higher orders," could
make good an entrance, in order to reach 'that desired.

yen.
Lord Brougham having been fairly lodged on the site
of the intended pile, and the necessary preparations for;
lowering the foundation-stone having been made,
Mr. James Mulleneux advanced, and addressing his
lordship, said that, in the absence of the president of the
building committee, the pleasing and honourable duty
devolved upon him, as the vice-president of that com-
mittee, of presenting to his lordship a trowel for the pur-
pose of laying the first stone of a building which was in-
tended to he the Mechanics' Institute' of Liverpool; an
institution called into existence, he might say, by his
lordship's eloquence and philanthropy. He hoped that
the undertaking would prove successful ; and that it
might confer a lasting benefit on the country, and on the
community at large, was the earnest prayer of those who
supported the good cause of universal education. The
trowel, formed of the new' or German silver, , bore the
following inscription
• "Presented by the directors to the Right HOn. Henry Lord
Titougham and Vaux, on laying the first stone of the Liver-
pool Alechanics' Institution, on the 20th day of July, 1835."
Lord Brougham then went through the ceremony of
laying the stone. with the usnal formalities. A glass
bottle, containing a num-64 of clocurnents, was depo-
sited in the centre of the stone, and covered with, a brass
plate, bearing- an inscription which iive copy verbatim et
literatim
LIVERPOOL MECH4NICS' INSTITUTION,'

ESTABLISHED JUNE VIII. MDCCCXXV.
.THIS FIRST STONE
of an EDIFICE to be
ERECTED.FOR A
BIECHANICS' INSTITUTION,
was laid on the 20th day of JUly,
. MDCCCXXXV.,•
In the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty William IVth.,
BY
The Right Hon.. HENRY LORD BROUGHAM & VAUX.
The Subscription for its Erection was opeued on the
• • 15TH DAY. OF OCTOBER, 1832.
The following Gentlemen, Directors of the Institution,
JAMES MULLENEUX & RICHD. VAUGHAN YATES. Esous.,
Subscribed the Munificie4 Sums of £5OO each.
• BUILDING COMMITTEE.
CHARLES' HORSEALL, Esq., President.
'jarries'Mulleniirx, Esq. -lAfrr,--Wittiarn-rovvin—Brivrv,p,
Lawrence Hevworth. V.P., W. W. Currie, Esq., V. p..
Theo. W. Rathbone, Esq., V. P.
•
Ssmunt, HOPE and Co., Esqrs., Treasurers.
JOHN S. RA DCI. IFF, Secretary.
Lord Viscount Sandoz.), M.P. J. T. Alston, Esq.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P. John Leyland, Esq.
Richard V. Yates, Esq. John Crosfield, Esq.
Hugh Mulleneux, Esq. G. W. Crooke, Esq.
C. Hird Jones, Esq. D. Gladstone, Esq.
William Reynolds, Esq., M.D. Charles Lawrence, Esq.
Samuel Hope, Esq. Edward Roscoe, Esq.
James Brancker, Esq. ['homes Thornely, Esq.
Thomas Case, Esq. Joshua Walmsley, Esq.
William Fawcett, Esq. John S. Radcliff
Enoch Harvey, Esc!: Thomas Bolton, Esq.
John Field, Esq. - James Aiken. Esq.
Arthur Heywood, Esq. John Jones, sen.
W. P. Freme, Esq. Joseph Haves Lyon, Esq. •
John Ewart, Esq. William Hobert Preston, Esq.
Samuel S. Berend, Esq. William RidYafd, Esq.
Charles Tavleur, Esq. Henry Hoinaly, Esq.
Ambrose Lace, gsq. William Barton, jun., Esq.
Henry. Booth, Esti. John Cropper, Esq.
Francis Jordan, Esq. DaviA
James Ryley, jun., Esq. • John Owen.
The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Four Members
of the'l3oard of the Directors of the Mechanics' Institution,
viz.

President, SAIIITEI, HOPE, Esq.
v PRESIDENTS.
Wjlliam Rathbone, Esq., Thomas Ste Wart Trail!, Esq., M.D.,
F.R.S.F., &c., William Wallace Carrie, Esq., Mr. W, j,
Roberts, Mr. Richard Sheil, Mr. Isaac Fletcher,
Mr. Thomas Urquhart.
JOHN LEYLAND and JOHN S. RA ricueF, Secretaries.
J. A. PleTos, Architect.
The Elevation from a Design by ARTHUR HILL HoSIE, Arct.
[The plate was engraved by Mr. Leatherbarrow, and
is highly creditable to his talents as an artist. The
word munificient was objected to by the engraver, but
the committee, we understand, deemed it the most
efficient word to show how much a Mechanics' Insti-
tute is wanted in Liverpool.]
While Lord Brougham was in the act of spreading the
mortar on the foUndation-stone, one of the bystanders,
an American we guess, familiarly addressing the noble
and learned lord, said, "Brougham, you know you're
a master mason ;" to this witticism his lordship replied,
"My dear friend, don't mention it."
The ceremony being ended, Lord Brougham ascended
the gallery - at this moment there was some cheering,
but it was not of a general or of an enthusiastic cha-
racter. Silence having been procured, his lordship ad-.
dressed the assemblage as follows
' Gentlemen, often as I have been in Liverpool, and delighted
as I have always been to meet my fellow-citizens in this place,
I confess that there are some circumstances which make my
present meeting with you much more gratifying than upon any
former occasion. I do not mean to. say that I at all undervalue'
the- extreme importance of the occasions upon ' Which I had`
formerly met you.. I. consider, and I don't disguise, upon any
occasion, my iixed opinion, that political meetings are the
and the privilege, and the duty of Englishmen. (Cheers.).
Nevertheless, as long, as men are men, they wilt take different
views'of the same subject, and in proportion as the subject in-
terests them, they will be apt to differ warmly and strongly in
their opinions. The consequence is, that upon political sub-
jects men have great differences, and they are split into parties
and shades of opinion, which the more intensely and the more
conscientiously they are held, the more difficult it will be either
to compronise,or surrender them. I have my own opinions,
and many others, for whom I have the most sincere respect,
having their opinions, we differ from.oue another, and as I do.
not expect them to give up their epinions, they cannot expect
me to abandon mine. (Cheers.) The consequence of all which
is, that when I have.met my fellow-citizens of Liverpool, on
former occasions, I met only a partVf the community, and only
that part of it which agreed with me in their political senti-
ments. But, gentlemen, happily the present occasion is one
which allows of no difference of opinion at all—(cheers)—and
whip and tory, churchman and dissenter, priest and layman,
catholic and protestant; English, Scotch, and Irish, radical and
constitutional, men moderate and violent, (a laugh,) all agree
in favour of popular education. (Cheers.) This it is which
gives me most sincere satisfaction in seeing you here assembled
on the present occasion. I meet you upon neutral ground;
upon ground which knows no difference of opinion; and I meet
iill my fellow-citizens without any diltinc.lion of party,• or
any jealousies or animosities whatever. (Loud cheering.)
Nothing, gentlemen, can exceed the importance of the puisuit
in which we are now engaged. It is to diffuse the blessings-of
kmiwledge, and to extend the means of instruction in the most
useful arts to by far the most useful members of this great com-
munity. (Cheers.) The establishment of a Mechanics' Insti-
tution in Liverpool, as elsewhere, is one of the most important
eras in the history of this place;—to lay that foundation from
which may be expected the greatest improvements in the arts
and the sciences themselves, and the happiest results from the
diffusion of the most important knowledge among the people.
(Cheers.) One thing only need be remarked to illustrate the
truth of what I have said, and it is this. During the last hour
and a half I have travelled from Manchester to Liverpool; the
only thought that presented itself at every step of the war,
and, indeed, the only subject which the immense velocity of
our motion left one time to think about, was to whom and to
what do we owe that extraoidinary power, that mighty revolu-
tion of man's position on the globe, in their distances from and
vet their intercourse with each other, so that Manchester is, as
if by magic, brought within one-fifth of the distance it was ten
years ago, and within one-tenth part of what it was a century
before.' (Loud cheers.) What was it that has made this extra-
ordinary revolution, which has given to man the wings of the
dove, and which enables him to perform his various public and
private ditties, and to participate in the pleasures, the amuse-
ments, and the enjoyments of life, a dozen times in the course
of-a single day, andat a distance so far asunder as would have