The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-06 00:00:00

TO'THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD,

7 nesday, Feb. 3.
Stn,—ln the Courier of yesterday evening there is insorted,
from the Gres-hock Adr'ertiser, a letter written to the editor Of
• that paper, dated Jan. 28th, by Mr. Robert Wallace, M.l'. for
Greenock, respecting the ensuing election of the Speaker.
The letter, which is a lengthy rambling epistle, is of little con-
sequence iu itself, and, in fact, unworthy of attention ; but it
suggests to me a reminiscence respecting this wonderful patriot
of Postoffice notoriety, which 1 hope you will insert in your
valuable paper, in order to show his consistency. • •
lu that letter, sir, Mr. 'Wallace does nut indeed actually say
that he will vote against Sir C. M. Sutton,- but he is to reserve
his votes (ho says he has three! of them, ride his letter) until
he sees how the house, when assembled, will treat the question.
This is cunning enough. considering that it comes. from a ma,
who is a mighty pretender to plain dealing, and makes a farce
at Greenock eller each session of meeting his mob-radical con-
stituents, and haranguing- them respecting his conduct, as he
terinsit. in parliament. Ile also farther say's, in the conclusion
of his letter, that he will use all his influence with his friends
when he arrives in London to marshal them to their post pre-
vious to their election ; in other words, he will ascertain what
the leading opposi!ionists are to do, and chime in with them.
Now, sir, this• Mr. Wallace, in a meeting of his constituents,
as he calls those who resort to his Oridiuns in Greenock, held in
the autumn, the month, I think, September, last. year, justified
the last election of Sit C. M. Sutton to the speakership, and
declaredthat, if-at another election he should be returned, he
would be.proud to vote for him. I happened to be in Greenock
at the time, and - hoard 'him justify the [louse of Commons in
their choice. The speech was hedril by many, and it went the
round of all the newspapers in the wep.t of Scotland. I forget
Whether he said he had voted for Sir C. M. Sutton, and I have
no means of-present of ascertaining; but he was asked by an
individual present his opinion of that election, and he declared
(list he thought Sir C. M. Sutton the very best choice they
4quid,have made; he went on to praise the mildness, kindness,
&c:, of die ,ight boo. gentleman ; said
that he was the only man who could have kept them in order!
admitted his profound knowledge of parliamentary business,
,apd finally said that he Ivied •vote for him on any future
iritrall not trespass farther on your valuable columns, hot
only ask you, or your readers, if they think it worth while, to
eunirast what I Have now stated with Mr. Walloaueem'sylaetatderre,sass:
inserted in the Courier, from the Greenock Advertiser.
Being a stranger to you, I beg leave to give y
while I sign myself, ANT/-1113111111G,'

Died last week, at the Bo) al encampment, Bestwood-lane,
in the' parish of Basford, near this towu, after a !Meeting
illness, Louis Boswell, King of the Gipsies, aged 42. A report,
being generally circulated that the "royal" remains were lying •
in state, and that the funeral would take puce ou Sun,lay, at
Basford, many thousands of persons visited the encampment •
that day, so that the road was literally crowded ffir manv
hours. The funeral, however, (lid not take place• as a de-
was expected. which
.
putation from the Gipsies in Leicestershire
arrived that evening, wheu it was deternii,d6,l- .1„..i.,,th.. the royalNreomtathin,sui
in-i the
orna-
mented with black furniture, and had
tto,!shirue s. ua
'I iaioz6,od.. oak,
" Man's Heath," in •
breast-plate, with a
plain inscription of the name and ale.
We, are •informed that
on Sunday night, at eleven o'clock, a procession was formed
„bk.!, set out with the royal-corpse for "No 111,an's Heath," at-
!cooed by the royal princess, and a considerable train, but that
rircrlmstanves afterwards occurred`that induced the procession
to stay at Eastwood, where the funeral took place ou Monday,
in rile presence of a vast concourse of spectators. The de-
ceased succeeded to the legal dignity on the death of his
which took plice a few years ago in Lincolnshire: and he has
left his only daughter, a k• oti personage, a quartern mea
Sure tilled with gold for her fortune.—Nottingham Journal.
EARL SPENCRR'S LIBRARY AT ALTHORP.—That magnificent
collection of books, the choice condition and splendour which,
Dr. Dibdin says, are probably unrivalled, was formed by the
late venerable earl, during a period of forty-live years. The
foundation of the block books, arid early editions of.the classics,
may be said to have been laid by the purchase of Count He-
viczky ; since which his lordship missed no opportnniry of add-
ing to his literary treasures all books printed in the bill cen-
tury, and some of the most important first editions printed in
the l(ith century. The library at Althorp occupies a suit of
apartments on the gonna floor, of which the entire length,
from the extremity of the first apart: neat, ca;led the Lone Li-
brary. to that of the fifth, or last opal,. tent, called the Gothic
Library, cannot.be less firms '22..) feet. These minus are filled
to the very ceiling, nod • cannot contain fewer lima 60,0(u v„,„
'times,- now that the books have been removed thither from St.
James's-place. They mast have cost Lord Spencir coosi-
derablv more than VW:OX). His lordship dues not even men-
ion his -library in his last will; but the • present earl, who was
deeply and tntst afnctionately attached to his lather, although
he does not appear to have devoted much time to the study of
bibliography, is determined to preserve this impel ishable mo-
nument of the fine taste and learning of his e:scellent patent
en tire.