The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"JUSTICE TO PUBLICANS."—Iye are asked if it can he justice
that, where an information is laid against the keeper of a beer
shop of having had in his house at a quarter to one o'clock in
the morning about forty people sonic of them in a state of
intoxication and the remainder drinking, the pun'shrnent
should be a mere admonition to the offender, when a re-
spectable. publican. for having sold a small quantity of spirit
after hours to a sick person, is fined five pounds. We should
say certainly not; but of course we speak without any fur-
ther knowledge of the circumstances of the two cases than
those given above, which, we are assured, however, are sub-
stantially correct.
We have received from John Crowther, Esq., of Birkenhead,
l for the family of the late Rev. Mr. Bush.
We are compelled reluctantly to postpone until next week the
caustic letter of " An Observer."

Ebt Lthnpool &tanDatli.

TUESDAY MORAING, APRIL 16, 1844.

The anti-Church faction of Liverpool have made
their long-threatened effort to obtrude themselves
into the management of our parish affairs; and they
have been defeated ignorriinously, as we anticipated,
and as they well merited. Despite of the energetic
earnestness with which they have worked,—despite
the long series of misrepresentations and slanderous
scurrilities with which, through the medium of their
press, they have sought to injure in the estimation
of their fellow townsmen the Conservative members
of the select vestry,—the result has proved that the
rate-payers of this parish appreciate thoroughly the
value of their pretensions to honesty, patriotism,
and superior wisdom, and have no longing for their
interference in our local affairs. The overwhelm-
ing majority, both of property and numbers, upon
the two days' poll, is quite sufficient proof of the
lamentably fallen condition of this once arrogant
and powerful faction. Alas, for Radicalism in Li-
verpool ! Its day has gone by. It is " USED UP !"
A condensed report of the proceedings at the
Vestry on Tuesday last, and of the subsequent pol-
ling, will be found in another column. If the
reader wishes for a more "full and particular" ver-
sion of the blackguardism by which the sacred edi-
fice, in which the law ordains that such meetings
shall be held, was desecrated, we must refer him to
the oracle by whom they were reported : we shall
not sully our pages by their repetition. We must,
however, offer a few words of comment upon some
circumstances connected with those proceedings,
which it is important should be brought prominently
before our readers and the public of Liverpool.
It may be said,—and no doubt will be said, that
the respectable portion of the Radicals present, in-
cluding such men as Mr. Hugh Hornby, are not to
he held responsible for the vulgarity with which
Messrs. Bigham, Urquhart, and others of the Radi-
cal and Infidel faction comported themselves towards
the respected rectors of our parish ; and to some
extent we are quite ready to admit the force of the
plea. Mr. Hugh Hornby, a gentleman by station
and in habits, could not perhaps be fairly deemed
guilty of sympathizing with the coarse tastes of the
Radical pawnbroker. To the former we may accord
the possession of some little respect for the sacred
character of a clergyman and the unimpeached
honour of a gentleman, or of reverence for the place
in which the meeting was held, whilst from the
latter we look for none of this. In his utilitarian
eye, accustomed to value objects according to the
security they afford, the mantle of the prophet
or the veil of the temple would apparently be of
no more account than a flannel petticoat or a cotton
shawl • whilst the sacred edifice of the church is only
regarded as a preferable place for the holding of a
parish meeting, because it affords an opportunity for
rabid dissent to trample upon its seats, and the
more deeply to hurt the feelings of churchmen and
of their clergy. Mr. Hornby, however, by his
proceedings on the occasion, —his moving of
one of the amendments, afforded quite sufficient
sanction to the coarsenesses of the Bigham and Ur-
quhart party to render him morally responsible for
their offensiveness and indecency. He might not
prompt the insolence used ; he did league with the
authors of that insolence.

So much, then, for the manner and tone of this
assault of Dissent, infidelity, and vulgarity upon the
rectors and the Church of which they are the repre-
sentatives; and now a few words with respect to
the alleged necessity of infusing Radical leaven into
the present vestry. We are informed by Mr. John
Smith that the members of that body are behind the
present age in intelligence; and that some of them
are "utterly incompetent to the discharge of their
important duties ;" and that gentleman insists that
they should be removed, on the grounds of " their
neglect of the education of the poor, their neglect of
the means of depauperizing the poor, and their neg-
lect of the workhouse, which was a scandal to the
town." Now we really do not know in what respect
the majority of the gentlemen now on the select ves-
try are so far behind Mr. Smith himself in intelli-
gence; and we utterly deny the assertion that they
have shewn any want of attention to the proper edu-
cation of the poor children under their care. They
may not, however, possess so many new lights upon
the subject of education as some of our modern phi-
losophers. They may never have discerned the ad-
vantages to be derived from converting pauper chil-
dren into parrots of the penny knowledge school.
They have never attempted to cram such children
with political economy, mathematics, or classics ;
but have confined themselves to the plain and com-
mon-sense duty of teaching them to read and write
their mother tongue, and to perform their duty to
God and to their neighbour. Such an education is
surely all that is required, if it is not also the best
that can be given.
But, the vestry neglect the means of "depau-
perizing the poor ; ' and, with every respect for Mr.
Smith's sagacity, and confident that he is not likely
to be guilty of the folly of using claptrap phrases,
which have no meaning, may we ask, what are those
means by which the poor are to be made to " cease
in the land ?" By what magic would he convert
paupers,—decrepit old men and women and helpless
children, into self-supporting English men and wo-
men ? Would he screw tighter the heartless severity
-of the new poor law system ? Would he depopulate
our workhouse by driving its wretched and tortured
inmates to the highways and the ditches, and even to
death itself, as preferable to life in a Whig-adminis-
tered pauper's prison ? Or what else would he do ?
for to plain men, like ourselves, it appears a matter
very difficult of accomplishment by any body of se-
lect vestrymen, or any board of guardians, who, of
course, cannot legislate beyond their very confined
sphere of action, to depauperize their poor by any
other method than that now pursued, of giving to
the young a useful, a practical, and a Christian edu-
cation, unless they resort to the very hopeful project
of compelling those poor to starve out of doors or
become felons !

We might, were the subject more worthy of no-
tice, bestow a few words upon the long tirade of
senseless and rabid abuse directed by Mr. Urquhart
against the present management of the affairs of the
parish, and especially against the •rev. chairman of
the meeting,—the senior rector. The character of
Mr. Brooks, however, requires no vindication of
ours against such an assailant. A long life of virtue
and of usefulness devoted to the service of the peo-
ple of Liverpool, ought surely to protect that reve-
rend gentleman from the aspersions of an individual,
of whose mind it can scarcely be determined whether
ignorance or spiteful impudence is the prevailing
characteristic ; and it only appears therefore surpris-
ing that his insulting remarks could be uttered with-
out rebuke in the presence of any respectable portion
of the parishioners of Liverpool, whatever their poli-
tics or their sectarian leanings.
They hare, however, been so uttered. The re-
volting scene of Tuesday was enacted in the presence
of respectable members of the Whig-radical party,
and the very calumnies and coarsenesses of the
speakers cheered by them ' • and we are scarcely
sorry that the exhibition has been made. It is good
that the world should see Whiggery in its true co-
lours,—how it can bring itself to consort with any
instrument, however contaminating, for the gratifi-
cation of its malignant hostility to the noblest insti-
tutions and the best interests of the country ; and
as the result of Tuesday's proceedings, we do confi-
dently hope that it will be long,—very long,—before
an Urquhart, or any other prating utilitarian of his
class, will be permitted by the parishioners of Liver-
pool to foist himself upon the public service.

The " Great Free Trade Banquet," of which we
have had such puffiing anticipations for the last few
weeks, took place on Friday last; and has fallen as
flatly upon the public as any effort of Whiggery we
s
ever remember in this town. Where were the
great men who were to have graced the boards upon
this occasion ? They were absent ; and with the
exception of the Right Hon. Fox Alaule,—if by any
stretch of courtesy he can be called a"greatman,"—
the speakers were the old and stale performers,—the
Vobdens and the Brights, the men of calico and

twist, and the little lights of our own Anti-Monopoly
Association. Nye ought to beg pardon, by the bye,
for an uninteqtional slight which we might be
imagined to cofivey here to a distinguished fellow-
Ewart, the present M.P. for
the enlightened borough of Dumfries,—our own
William Ewart,—the rejected of Liverpool, Wigan,
Marylebone, and EVERY other constituency which
has twice had the task of pronouncing judgment
upon his merits, was present; and made one of
those wishy-washy orations which only such a man
can make, and an assembly of Liverpool Radicals
can listen to.

We shall not trouble our readers with any re-
marks upon the sayings of these sages. They will,
of course, take the wings of the Radical press, and,
as quickly as their crippled condition will allow them,
go forth to the east and the west, the north and the
south, wherever soporifics are in demand. Tea-in-
,spired dowagers will doze over them : mothers will
use them to still their restless offspring, fretful from
the pains of teething or the cholic. The only curi-
osity which we ourselves feel is with respect to the
amount of the moneys which the exhibition has
brought in to our anti-monopoly "young men."
Our worthy townsman, Mr. Lynn, we imagine,
would furnish the half-guinea feed so as to leave

the projectors a fair margin of profit, as we learn was
fully calculated upon and provided for ; and the five
shilling tickets for the ladies,—ungallant "young
men," to charge ladies a farthing for such patient
endurance of the infliction of their speeches !—must
have left at least 4s. 9d. per head, reckoning the
cost of the edibles provided at the rates in the latest
price current from St. John's market.
On Saturday evening the same performers held
what they facetiously termed, an " Operative Free
Trade Party," at the same place—theAmphitheatre—
to which the working classes were invited to eat up
the scraps which had been left from the " Banquet,"
or the cold feed, which, upon the principle of lucus
a non lucendo, was styled by that magnificent name.
To the credit of the working men of Liverpool, how-
ever, and as a proof that they possess discernment
enough to know that little that was worth picking
up, at the low price of Is. 6d, would be left, after
Radical appetites had been satisfied and pockets filled,
the attendance at this tea party was scarcely one man
to each teapot and plate of bunloaf, the number pre-
sent being about seventy, including the "young
men" of the Anti-Monopoly Association on the
platform, and fourteen ladies in the boxes ! This
little lot, accordingly, huddled themselves together,
and listened, mos,t„patiently, to an oration from John
Bright, Esq.,—another example of the lucus a non
lucendo style of nomenclature,—which lasted, or
rather, was endured, for two mortal hours, in which
the honourable representative of the beer barrels of
the city of Durham discovered that he had said so
little that he could scarcely be persuaded that he had
held forth for more than half an hour !

The sapient quaker was followed by Mt. R. R. R.,
—we forget how many more Rs,—Moore, who in-
formed the meeting that it was through the work-
ing classes that the league expected to carry the
representation of Liverpool ;—the slender attendance
of those classes must have shewn him how hopeful
an expectation this wasp—and entreated the opera-
tive anti-monopolists not to be cast down by the
many defeats they had sustained, as he had attended
many meetings where tables and chairs had been

throWn at the- speakers upon the platform, whose
hard heads had stood the encounter. Mr. Black-
burne followed Mr. Moore ; and the speakers hav-
ing failed to produce much light, the farce concluded
with,—what does the reader imagine? Why, a
discharge of fireworks ! Ex fumo dare lucem !

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The market for
English stocks to-day was steady, without particular
feature, and prices left off tolerably well supported, not-
withstanding the house closed early. Bank Stock was
last quoted 200 to 201 ; Consols for money and the ac-
count, 1001 to 1; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9911 to 4 ex
div. ; Three-and-a-Haff per Cents. Reduced, 1031 to ;
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, 104 to *; Long An-
nuities, 12, 7-16 ; and India Stock, 294 to 295.

A MALAPROPOS CRITIQUE.—Our contemporary, the
Albion, gave yesterday a notice of a musical entertain-
ment given by H. Phillips, the celebrated vocalist, in the
large room of the Adelphi Hotel, on Saturday last, and
which the writer of course must be supposed to have at-
tended. Unfortunately, bowever, for his correctness,
although he might be present, the entertainment did not
take place, having been postponed until last evening.
People who are so amazingly clever as to write critiques
by anticipation, should take care that the performances
eulogised have not dropped through.
AMAZING INFLUENCE OF THE LIVERPOOLMERCURY.
—Our contemporary of Friday, in an article upon the
subject of the Easter Elections, which, as being, in his
opinion, very wise, he headed " IMPORTANT," remarked
that if " two hundred of his readers " would come up to
the poll at once, they would be sufficient to neutralise the
majority which the conservatives had gained up to Thurs-
day afternoon. But alas for the influence of the " tiny
Mercury" ! Notwithstanding the fact that the polling
in question had been mainly caused by " Jo* Smith,
Esq., of the Liverpool Mercury," as he pompously styles
himself in his own paper, how many of the" two hundred
of our readers " obeyed the summons of. our magnificent
contemporary before the closing of the poll on the _
follow-
ing day ? Just ONE!! Yes—and it is creditable to the

intellect of his fellow-townsmen—one individual only was
found within the borough of Liverpool stupid enough to
follow the blind leading of this pothouse oracle, whose
ravings upon any subject are as far beneath contempt as
any modern impersonation of a Roman senator is inferior
to the genuine ancient character, or the dressed-up goose
of a pantomime is beneath the meanest of the geese of the
Capitoline Hill, whose fortuitous cackling saved Rome
from the invader.

CHRIST CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.—On Friday evening
last, the members of this congregation met together at a
tea-party in the school-rooms, Christian-street. Not-
withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, there
was a numerous and highly-respectable attendance, and
the arrangements made by the managing committee of
ladies, assisted by the master of the boys' school, were
the theme of general admiration. The fine upper school-
room glittered with flags, and garlands of rich evergreens,
and baskets of fruits and flowers ; appropriate mottoes
adorned the walls, and two small tables of fancy7work,
contributed by ladies for the benefit of the schools, drew
around them a throng of willing purchasers. The Rev.
Fielding Ould being unavoidably absent from Liverpool,
a large portrait of him (recently presented by the congre-
gation) was placed over the fire-place; while on one of
the side tables stood a beautiful time-piece, a memorial
from the teachers of the girls' school to their valued minis-
ter. Soon after six o'clock grace was sung by the whole
party, and the social meal went on, enlivened by the sound
of music, and the busy hum of animated voices. After
singing a concluding grace, the Rev. E. Wolfenden read
a report upon the large adult school under his care, and
drew attention to the wants of the fund connected with it,
for the relief of sick members. Reports were also made
by the Rev. T. C. Cowan on the state of the Christ
Church tract society, district visiting, daily and Sunday
schools, clothing society, district and school libraries,
and branch associations for the church missionary, Jews,
Protestant orphans, and Sunday school society for Ireland.
On these various subjects suitable and effective addresses
were delivered in the course of the evening by the Revds.
W. Butler, A. Hume, and G. Gibbon. At half-past nine
the doxology was sung, and the meeting separated highly
gratified with all that had passed, with increased cordiality '
of feeling among themselves, and renewed interest in all
the efforts to do good connected with their church and
minister. The tea-tables were supplied by Mrs. Harris,
confectioner, Clarence-street, to the entire satisfaction of
the whole party.
THE WORKING OF WOMEN IN FACTORIES VINDI-
CATED ON SCRIPTURAL GROUNDS !—The public may
remember the perversions of Scripture, amounting almost
to blasphemies, with which the " ministers of all deno-
minations," at their celebrated gathering in Manchester,
attempted to overwhelm the advoc-tes of protection, and
to prove that free trade in corn was expressly ordained for
every country ; but they would scarcely have expected to
find the slavish toil of English females in factories vindi-
cated from the sacred writings. Yet such is the Case. A
memorial, bearing the signature of 200 manufacturing
firms, was presented to the House of Commons during the
debate upon the Factory Bill, by a Conservative minis-
ter (I) Sir James Graham, deprecating all interference
with infant and female labour in factories, and endea-
vouring to show, with respect to females, that the drud-
gery of the spindle and the power-loom—the unwholesome
atmosphere and the vicious contact of the cotton mill—
were ordained for them from the beginning! Here is the
precious morsel, which contains a perversion so detestable
of Scripture, and an aspersion so daring and impious
against the beneficence of its author, that we cannot but
wonder that respectable men could sign it, or a minister of
the British Sovereign present it to Parliament:—" We can-
not see why there should be a greaterobjection to the employ_
ment of women in spinning and weaving than in knitting and
sewing. The Scriptures inform us, and their authority is
confirmed by the Homeric Poems (I) that spinning and
weaving have been female employments from the earliest
ages. Female organization gives a delicacy of touch which
enables women to piece a broken yarn, to tie a weaver's
knot, or thread a kneedle, with much greater facility than
men :" ergo, women should be compelled to endure twelve
hours of dreary toil per day in the factory—for that is the
only intelligible conclusion of the argument. Can
any-
thing be more disgusting than this ? Are they christian
men who thus rea the sacred volume, to cull from its
pages apologies for their own cold-blooded avarice, whilst
they close their eyes to the teaching therein, that woman
was made "as a helpmate for man"—for the duties of
companion, wife, nurse, and mother? She has" a delicacy of
touch" forsooth ! She spun and wove by her own fireside
in the patriarchal times. And because of this " delicacy"
and the domestic pursuits practised of old, she is to cease
to be what God created her for, and to become the slave
of any grasping miser who has gold to lure her, or power
to coerce her, within the walls of his unwholesome and
contaminating factories or loom shops"! These be your
philosophers ! These your reformers of the human
race !

STATE OF THE COTTON MARKET.

By the kindness of Messrs. Stewart and Wright, of
New York, we have been favored, per steamer Caledonia,
with a copy of their usual packet circular, together with
an account of the state of the American market, a day
later than is brought by the ordinary channels. The most
important feature of this communication is the increased
estimate now formed of the amount of the crop, arising
from its being ascertained that much cotton has been
saved, which had been previously reported as destroyed
by the rains in December last. 11.1essrs. Stewart and
Wright, after a full inquiry and consideration, give it as
the most prevalent opinion that the crop will be between
1,800,000 and 1,850,000 bales. The receipts, in Ameri-
can ports, to the latest dates this year, amount to 1,503,345
against 1,880,538 to the same period last year, showing a
deficit this year of 377.193 bales. The number of bales
received subsequent to this period last year was 498,357,
which, if equalled this year would make, with the quantity
previously arrived, 2,001,682 bales as the amount of this
year's crop. It is not believed, however, that there can
be so large a quantity to arrive this year, owing to the in-
ducements which have existed this season for planters to
urge their stocks forward to a speculative market. Two-
thirds is calculated upon, which will make, with present
receipts, 1,831,936 bales as the crop of 1833 to 1844. In
some of the ports, especially Mobile and New Orleans,
the receipts were at the last dates already beginning to
fall off ; and it was confidently anticipated that a material
decrease would soon be observable ; at the present moment
there is much more cotton in course of shipment than at
any period since the commencement of the season; and a
steady shipping business was looked forward to.
The market had been heavy up to the arrival of the
Caledonia, with Liverpool dates to the sth inst., specula-
tion having entirely ceased, and prices declining, to the
extent for " fair' of about one cent below the com-
mencement of the month. In the latter part of the month,
however, a fair business had been doing at the reduced
rates for export and American consumption. 'The news
by the Caledonia reduced prices another half cent, which
brought buyers on English account freely into market.
The following is the letter of Messrs. Stewart and
Wright, containing the latest intelligence :
" New York, 3 p.m., March 30.
" A large number of buyers made their appearance yes-
terday. Sales amounted to about 7,000 bales, so near our
extreme quotations as to amount to an advance of kof a
cent on nearly the total sales, which were entirely for the
execution of orders for European account. The Conti-
nental buyers took several large lists to-day ; the market
has a firmer tone, and the bidding has been general, but
for small lots only : sales amount to 1,000 bales ; pur-
chasers are supplied with difficulty now, as nearly all the
lots, which were ordered to be sold on the arrival of the
steamer from Liverpool of sth March, have been closed,
and holders generally ask an advance or withdraw from
the market. Freights are dull at 7-lfiths of a penny for
square cotton to Liverpool, and 1 cent to Havre. Exchange
closes stiff at 81 per cent. premium."
The effect of the news by the Caledonia has been to in-
duce holders of cotton in Liverpool to sell at a decline of
ith of a penny upon Friday's prices, on account mainly of
the large quantity now on the passage, or in course of
shipment to this port, and the great increase of the ar-
rivals
of stock in American ports. The amount of busi-
ness done to day at this reduction bile been small, not j
reaching more than about 2,500 bales, with a dull heavy
feeling pervading the market.

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW HEAD CONSTABLE.—Mr.
Miller, the successor of Mr. Whitty, arrived here on Sa-
turday. By his own suggestion, however, we understand
that he will not formally enter upon his office until next
week, intending to devote the present to the attainment
of a knowledge of the localities, &c., of the town. From
all that we have head of Mr. Miller's past management
of a similar post—and those testimonials are highly flat-
tering—we have no doubt that he will discharge most ef-
ficiently his very important and responsible duties. There
is a suggestion, by-the-bye, which we may here take the
opportunity of making to him, and which has repeatedly
been conveyed to us by various correspondents. It is
that those members of the police force who are off duty
on the Sunday should be assembled by their inspectors at
the various stations, and taken by them to some place of
public worship. This practice is, we believe, followed in
most other towns ; and it is one, upon the propriety of
which we need not remark.

EXTRAORDINARY EXHUMATION ON THE COAST OF
AFRICA.—Tbe ship "Britannia," Capt. E. Wylie, left
Ichaboe, on the west coast of Africa, whither she had
been for guano, on the 7th February, and arrived at this
port on Sunday last with a cargo of that article. The
captain reports that on the 15th of January a " mummy"
was dug out of the guano. and close upon it there was a
common oak stave with the inscription " Columbus
Delano, 1791," cut apparently with an ordinary scribe
for marking wood. It was found only four feet below
the surface, and no idea could be formed of the depth at
which it had originally been buried ; so that supposing it
to have been merely covered under the then level, the
accumulation of the guano over the long intermediate
period of 53 years, could not have much exceeded 24 to 3
feet. It is remarkable that the body was in a state of
perfect preservation, and equally so was the canvas in
which it was enclosed, being perfectly fresh and strong.
The fact will furnish materials for conjecture to chemists
and druggists. _

THE SHABBY RADICALS.—One of the shabby ruses of
the Radical faction, at the recent Easter Vestry, was the
attempt made to throw dust in the eyes of the public by
proposing, along with the list put forward by their own
tools, the names of respectable Conservatives. Of these
two or three were put forward without their consent, or
even their knowledge of the doubtful honour about to be
conferred upon them. Mr. Schofield, a conservative,
who was proposed as churchwarden, in opposition to Mr.
John Wilkinson, was thus proposed against his will, and
gave bis own vote for his opponent. Mr. Thomas Tay-
lor, and, we believe, Mr. Mould, were both out of town,
and were not consulted upon the subject of their nomina-
tion. Another candidate, who was present at the vestry,
and thus sanctioned his nomination, had not, we are in-
formed, paid his rates at the time, and therefore was not
entitled even to hold up his hand at the meeting, much
less to go to the poll. What is more conclusive still of
the factiousness of the whole proceedings; the name of
one gentleman—a conservative—was refused to be with-
drawn by his radical proposer, Mr. John Smith, although
it was intimated to him that that gentleman had by letter
expressed his disinclination to contest the honor, or even
to serve if elected.

A FORGED BEGGING CERTIFICATE.—Yesterday, St
the police-court, a man, who gave his name as Alex-
ander, was placed at the bar, on a charge of obtaining
money by means of a false certificate, which was produced.
It was written in a good hand, was dated the 4th instant,
and purported to be signed by "John Tomkinson, mason
and builder." It stated in effect that John Atkinson had
been fifteen months in Mr. Tomkinson's employ ; that in
October last he fell from a building ; that he had until
lately been in the infirmary, but was now convalescent;
that his goods had been sold up for rent; and that the
undersigned recommended him to the notice of the bene-
volent—so that he might raise £7 9s. "to save himself
and family from the unhappy situation into which he was
plunged." Appended were the signatures, or pretended
signatures, of a number of respectable parties, with sums
affixed opposite to their names of from 2s. 6d. to £l.
Amongst the names were those of Messrs. Tomkinson,
Samuel Holme, W. Fawcett, Joshua Edwards, R. Bicker-
steth, (Rev.) 'l'. Tattershall, Edward Cropper, (Rev.)
Hugh M'Neile, &c. Mr. Tomkinson was in attendance,
and stated that the certificate was altogether false, and his
name to it was a forgery. The Rev. Mr. Ewbank also
said that Ile had been called upon by the prisoner, and
seeing the names of Mr. M'Neile and others, he had given
the prisoner is., without signing his name. The prisoner
was apprehended on leaving the house. Some of the sig-
natures were real. Mr. Rushton commented on the
heartless conduct of the prisoner, who, like many others,
had ingeniously taken advantage of the charitable feelings
of the humane, and ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned
for three months.

RATHBONE THE ILL-TEMPERED.—If, in the proceed-
ings of any meeting in Liverpool, assembled to discuss
questions of a local or a public nature, you meet with any
language peculiarly offensive, or marked by a more than
ordinary amount of venom and spitefulness, depend upon
it, in nine cases out of ten, you will find that its utterer
was William Rathbone. Other gentlemen can pursue
public and even party objects, without violating the
courtesies of life and levelling studied insults against those
who differ from them. Other gentlemen meet their poli-
tical opponents on 'Change, on the magisterial bench, or
in the private circle, without forgetting that, although of
different opinions, they are still fellow citizens. But it is
not thus with William Rathbone. Once start this unhappy
old man upon any political scent, and away he goes, with a
viciousness perfectly unaccountable. Place him upon a
platform, with permission to open his mouth, and although
other gentlemen can keep in view the object of which they
are inpursuit, and that alone, William Rathbone can scarcely
utter ten consecutive words which do not convey insult to
some one, and proclaim to the world that, beneath the
puritanical garb which he wears, a mass of bitter and ran-
corous passion is boiling which, if it could have free scope,
would scorch and blacken all within its reach. An in-
stance of this unhappy infirmity is before us. The
Radical and Anti-Church faction in Liverpool have expe-
rienced a crushing defeat during the past week ; and
William Rathbone has accordingly been more than ordi-
narily waspish and vicious. He has looked daggers at his
political opponents, and so more than usually savage and
bitter against the Church that we wouldn't have answered
for the safety of the rectors, or any one of the clergy, if he
had met them while the fit was upon him. The chance
for a display of cannibalism, however, was not offered
him ; and he had to endure the workings of his accumu-
lated bile until Friday evening, when the " great free
trade banquet" afforded bim an opportunity of partially
relieving himself. On this occasion he had entrusted to
him the duty of proposing the health of the Chairman—to
an ordinary man one would have imagined a very simple
duty, and uot at all likely to bring the speaker foul of the
Church or of Churchmen. But William Rathbone is not
at all an ordinary man ; and fish, flesh, and fowl, dessert,
and wine, having become an anti-Church acidulation upon
occu
his stomach, he proceeded to perform his task as follows:
" Gentlemen have told us to-night of the ignorance of
other places, but I can tell them we have ignorance in
Liverpool, ay, and in the pulpit, too, even though it be
led by MWeile.—(oh, oh.) We have had quoted
in thep pulpit Russell's history, and been gravely told that
I beg leave to give you the health of our chairto
it was Lord John Russell's history. (Hear, and oh !oh !)
applause.)" an—(loud
Unhappy old man ! The clergy in general, and the Rev.
Hugh M`Neile in particular, must torment bis spirit
sorely, to warrant their being lugged in thus unceremo-
neously upon an arena where they were so little expected.
and so much out of place ! What earthly connexion could
there be between " Russell's History," or " Lord John
Russell's History," and either the Corn-laws or the
health of the member for Wolverhampton ?