The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

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ing, in the contemplation of the present state of
Wales. We have never listened to the thousand
and one stories which have been promulgated, with
respect to the identity and rank of the mysterious
virago, Rebccca. We are inclined to think that
there are " many Reheccas in the field." We can-
not believe that men of rank and station encourage

an agitation with so petty an object in view as the

lestruction of toll-1.

urs; or even the greater one of

putting down the new poor-law system in Wales.
And yet it is evident that great talent, and great
energy, direct this extensive organisation, which so
daringly and so effectually defies and laughs at the
power of the law, as well as the arm of the military;
and it becomes more palpable every day that an
effort must be made, at once, by the government to
unravel this mysterious and threatening state of
etily, provincial, things.

From all that we have yet seen, it cannot be that
the perpetrators of those midnight outrages of which
we daily hear, are of the same station and character
with those who are to be found implicated in similar
outrages in Ireland, or who have ever displayed a
similar spirit in the agricultural districts of our own
country. Rebecca is neither a " Swing," a " Cap-
tain link," nor an O'Connell. Her followers are
not the same debased and demoralised hordes who
have followed the bidding of any of these incendia•

an extraordinary swallow for fluids might take a
fancy to bolt the Giant's Causeway or the Dublin
Custom House, or perhaps the Hill of Houth itself,
by way of preparatory solid before a draught so
enormous.

A BOWING MATCH.—The debate, or properly
perhaps the squabble, which took place on Friday
last on the subject of the Chelsea Pensioners' Bill,
afforded to the House of Commons as singular an
exhibition, and as amusing a one, as any which has
been exhibited for months past in that or any other
place of performance. Mr. B. Williams, the mem-
ber for Coventry, and double of Mr. Joseph Hume,
rose to ask a question. Mr. Bright rose at the
same time to move the adjournment of the house;
and, as we are informed by the report in the London
Times,

The hon. member for Coventry and the hon. member
for Durham both continued on their legs bowing to each
other several times amidst roars of laughter, neither of
them appearing inclined to give way. The hon. member
for Coventry, however, persevered, and at length his
rival, less accustomed to the laughter of the house, re-
sumed his seat."

Who could wonder'at the roars of 1, tighter at such
a scene ? The attempt of Mr. Williams to enact
the drawing-room beau must have been sufficient to
convulse a stoic ; but the graceful (I) efforts of the
Rochdale Quaker, in the same line of performance,
must have been irresistible ! When such exhibitions
of elegance can be afforded us by two such person-
ages, we may be almost inclined to think that, not
" the schoolmaster" only, but the dancing master
"is abroad"! After all, and joking apart, it is
pleasant to see a spirit so pacific actuating honour-
able members towards each other. In the American
legislature a contest for precedence between any two
members would have been decided by the bowiely
knife. Here we have it decided quite as efficaciously
by " persevering bowing." In time, no doubt, as
Quakerism gets perfect in accomplishments, we shall
arrive at hornpipe dancing or the Highland fling !