The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-01 00:00:00

guess has, at heart, any thing short of the general
of the United kingdoin ; and especially of that port
it over wllich he presides. But fears will force then:
upon our minds that, in the execution of the trusts io
upon him, and in his personal character and conduct
has been mixed up a considerable portion of weak
much haste and indiscretion of manner, and, what
more dangerous, too strong an inclination to suffe
self to be guided, in the exercise of his official dot
certain noble Lords, and reverend and other persol

recorded acts of whose lives, as well of earlier as t
times, determine them, in our judgment, to be littl
fill the office of privy councillors. We fear the qt
to which we have here adverted have laid the noble
guess too open to the influence of those wily advise
objects other than the general good.

The same influence, we have reason to believ
been the primary cause of that weak and vacillatit
hey which has been too appal ent in the public coil'
another authority—we mean the Right Honourab
cretary for Ireland. Thinking, as we do, highly
attainments of that right honourable gentleman--
of him, we may say, from local consideration,
countryman and one of the representatives of his
county, we shall better shew our good feeling Ic
him by not glossing over his striking faults, (AI
individual, than by bespattering him with indiscril'
praise, in the manner of some of our contemp°
The greatest official blunder which Mr. Stanley I'
made, was'on that occasion when Mr. O'Connell,'
raged by his own unresisted success, if not by ill
nivance, or, perhaps, even the encouragement
ministers, had fallen• into one of those traps for
diaries which, fox-like, he thought he had been e°
enough to evade; and when a verdict of " guilt)•
recorded against him under one of the acts which I
violated.

To those who remember the firm and unwavering'
ner in which the right hon. secretary declared it to
res'blution of the government to bring Mr. O'Covilel
for judgment ; and who may have contrasted that
ner with the shuffling, shifting course which succed
that expressed determination,.consummated, as it sl
Lord Grey's " conciliatory act"—the silk gown 213
tent of precedence —to those in whose remedi
these matters still linger,_ the subsequent conduct, e
of Mr. O'Connell or of the government, cannot be c'
of great surprise. The right hon. Secretary near,
that, on the occasion to which we allude, he was
ruled by the determination of higher powers. 011,

that he was so. But there was another act then °t'
his own power, and over which there was no ccitlo
He might have resigned his office. Had he s°
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when he was forced by his colleagues to the instill'
of the abandonment of a plain and public duty, he s(
have occupied a much higher station, than he doesat
moment, in the estimation of his fellow countrymen',
If Mr. O'Connell, instead of being honoured 'cl
patent of precedence, and brought, by virtue of his
gown, within the Bar, had been a little further adv,3
in front of it, and placed upon the floor of the U
there to have heard awarded against him that punish
which his conduct had so richly merited, the nl3 1
infallibity with which, in the eyes of his deluded f°
ers, he is invested, would have been stripped frl
ho alders ; and, thenceforward, instead of the de
the law and the disturber of his country's pea°
would have appeared before the world as neither!
nor less than plain Daniel O'Connell, Barrister-a 0
—and the necessity for the present severe nieasd,
coercion, the result chiefly of the weak, timid, ted
ing, or worse policy, or impolicy, of the Govern
would, in all probability, never have existed.

DARING THlEF.—Robert Fitzgibbons was comui,,ititel,
trial for the impudent theft hereunder described. D'iy)
Parry, servant in the family of Mr. Myreer, in Falknerii
was making some purchases at the shop of Mr. Jac,o4
confectioner, in Berry-street, and while tying up the '
laid her purse containing four half-crowns, a shilling,
pair of ear-rings, on the counter. The prisoner cuter
shop and asked-the price of an orange, and being ansise
Miss Jackson, went out without buying anything, but re a
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in about a minute afterwards, he snatched up the purse
off with it. An alum was immediately made, and a geg
passing at the time stopped the prisoner in Seel-street,
the purse in his possession.
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BIRTH.
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. On Sunday last, the lady of William Woodhouse, Esq.,
park, of a daughter.

MARRIED. 5 I"'‘
On Tuesday, the 19th instant, at Manchester, Mr..TameAte
Heron, merchant, of that town, to Caroline Emma, only (13u
the late Charles Lord, Esq., of the city. of New York. tol'V
Same day, at Eccles, Thomas Harrison, Esq., of BartowdleD
Mary, eldest daughter of the late James Smith, Esq., of PO

DIED. PI
On Wednesday last, at his house, Edge-hill, deeply regretted' vti
the beloved wife of Thomas Mellor, l?sq.
Jan lot
On Sunday last, after a painful and protracted -illness, , ,r,
~,
Mr. James Judson, and only daughter of the late James Cart 0114
On Monday last, Mrs. Allen, relict of Mr. William Allen, of rif
square, poulterer. e-,,fod
Yesterday, at Altrindham, at the Rev. D. Whitles, arte ofigi"-
illness, Sarah, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. GeOrgr -
of this. town, aged 23. ,illl3'
0--f On the 26th December last, at Tortoli, in the Island of the •
the 40th year of his age, Lieut. Joseph Fletcher, formerlyi,lhts to .
Regt. and youngest son of the late Joseph Fletcher, Esq, o/

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Several communications, after being in type, are oecess
postponed.
Mercator in our next.
r
We thank A Subscriber, and will take an early oPP°"ttt
of referring to the letter he points out.
W. M's poetry is received, but is not exactly suited to
columns.

The extract given in our paper of Tuesday last, relative tfoj
American Indians, was taken from Mr. Boardman'' " t
entitled "America and the Americans," and not fro
work of Mr. Stuart, as we stated. 141
T. G. is received—a press of matter precludes the inser—
his letter.
M. C's. order from Derby shall have our attention.
aji
We shall be glad to see Tay if he will favour us with a c
in the course of the day.
Any communication from the Pigeon House will be acceptable'
Felicitas came to hand too late for to-morrow's publication•
A West Indian suggests, what we fear it is utterly odes;
propose to the party he mentions,—we may probablY
the placard to which he alludes in our next.

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