The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

DIED.

Lately, at Calcutta, SAMUEL, eldest son of the late Captain
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, of this port.
At Bath, after a few days' illness, in his 88th year, RICHARD
COWPER, Esq.
In New Ormond-street, London, Miss JANE GASRELL, a
lineal descendant of Willatn Penn and Robert Barclay.
At sea, on the 9th of April, on the passage hence for Havana,
Captain CALVIN HOWES, of the Konohassett, of Boston.
On the 11th April, on board the ship George Washington, oa
her passage hence for New York, Mr. JOHN THOMPSON,
seaman, of Maine.
On the 19th April. at Elliott, Maine, U. S., aged 98 ye:rs, Mr.
ALEXANDER GOULD, a soldier of the revolution.
On the 24th April, at Rochester, U.S., aged 97, Mr. LEVI
GURNEY, a revolutionary pensio,er.
On the 25th April, at Pittsfield, New York, aged 95, Mr.
JOSHUA GUILFORD, a soldier of the revolution.
On the 27th April, at Conway, CLARISSA, consort of the
late DAVID CHILDS, Esq., aged 82.
On the 28th ult., at Newhaven, U.S., aged 81, ABRAHAM
BISHOP, Esq., formerly mayor of that city.
On the 29th April, at Cambridge, U.S., aged 84 years, Mns
LUCY POTTER.

On the Ist ult., at New York, aged 84. Mrs. LUCY WHITING.
Same day, at Barnstaple, U.S., aged gi years, Mrs. ABIGAIL.
MUNROE.

On the 4th ult., at Whatley, U.S., aged g 2 years, Mr. ISAIA
BROWN, a revolutionary pensioner.
Same day, at Thomaston, Maine, aged 88, Mr. JOSIAH HAS-
KELL, a soldier of the revolution.
On the 6th ult., at New York, Mr. EDWARD STACK, formerly
a respectable merchant of Tralee, Ireland.
On the Bth ult., at BarnoldLy-le- Beck, near Grimsby, aged I.IIE
years and to months, Mrs. MARY HARD.
On the 14th ult., in Upper Warwick•street, aged 74, Mr,
THOMAS CLIFFORD, commission-merchant.
On the 18th ult., at the Priory, Wrexham, in his 7;th year.
CHARLES POYSER, Esq.
On the 2oth ultimo, at Swillington-house, near Leeds, in her
74th year, the lady ELIZABETH LOWTHER, relict of the late
Sir John Lowther, Bart., whose death was announced a fort.
night ago.

On the 22d ult., at Mevagissey, Cornwall, aged 83, JOHN
PEARCE. Esq.

Same day, at Bolton, aged 93, Mr. PETER SMITH, formehy
of Burnden, near that town.

On the 23rd ult., in his 48th year, Mr. ROBERT SEIEPLEY„
of Chadwick street, Bank Top.

On the 24th ult., in his 85th year, the Rev. JOSEPH COOK.
of Newton-hall, vicar of the parish of Chalton and Shit'bottle,
Northumberland.
the maTchion'e.sat.
LtiL.ls9nptitiWti, Brighton, in.her 90th year
Same day, aged 12 years, Mr. WILLin .
of the firm of Hawkins and Russell, of this town.
Same day. at his house, Hope-street, aged 38, Mr.
LANE, timber-merchant, of this town.

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Same nay, i.t West Derby, aged 45, Mr. JOHN EIODGKINS,
of Bold-street.

On the 26th ult., at Waterloo, Crosby, aged 22, ALICE, sixth
daught7r of Mr. JAMES BROTHERTON, formerly of.Accring-
ton, near Blackburn.

Same day, aged 83 years, Mr. WILLIAM 'ELLIOTT', of
Salford, formerly of this town.

Same day, aged 77 years, M. JACQI7ES LAFITTE, the
banker. He was buried with great pomp, on Tuesday last, at
the church of St. Rock. The hearse was accompanied to Ott
grave by an immense concourse, including men of all ranks and
professions.

On the 27th ultimo, aged 8 years, WILLIAM JOSEPH, son
of Mr. JAMES BENTON, glass and china dealer, Chestev-
street, Birkenhead.

Same day, suddenly, at his father's residence. Nestoa, aged
37 years, Mr. E. B. LYON, Rock-ferry.
Same day, at her house, Circus-street, in her 77th year, ANN:,
widow of the late Mr. ROBERT THOMPSON, blacksmith.
Same day, aged 6 weeks, MARIA, infant daughter of Mr. S.
M. THRELFAL.

On the 28th ultimo, aged 14 months, ELIZABETH JANE,
daughter of Mr. JOHN HUTTO V, Bold-street.
Same day, aged 41, ELIZABETH, Wife of ➢ir. HENRY
FRANCIS ALDRIDGE, professor of music.

Same day, at Holybourne, aged BJ, Alton, Lieutenant-Colonel
THOMAS FREDERICK.

On the 29th ultimo, aged 3 years, THOMAS, son of Mr_
R. DEWHURST, Stafford road, Manchester.

Same day, THOMAS, infant son of Mr. JOHN ECCLES, or
Great Mersey-street,

Same day, at Primrose-cottage, Egremont, MARY, wife ot
Mr. T. T. FOWKES, and daughter of the late Mr. IL Horton.
of Lord-street, in this town.

Same day, in London, aged 62, MARGARET, relict of the
late WILLIAM TARTE.

Same day, at his house in Berkeley-square, London, in the
64th year of his age, THOMAS THORN HILL, Esq., of Fixby-
hall, Yorkshire, and RichileswJrth-hall, Norfolk.
Same day, suddenly, of apoplexy, aged 30, HENRY, youngest
son of the late ROBERT FLEETWOOD, Esq., surgeon.
On the 30th ultimo, aged 29 years, ANN, wife of JOR
MAINWAIUNG, 16, Wilde-street.

Same day, at his house, Great Mersey-strcet, Kirkdale, aged
49 y, ars, Mr. THOMAS WATi3ON.

On the 31st ultimo, suddenly, EDWARD, eldest. son of Mr.
JAMES FELTON, printer, of this town.

Same day, at Braddon, Isle of Man, aged 25 years, Mr. W.!,,L
CAIN, of the firm of Orford and Cain, of this town, eldest sow
of the late James Caln, Esq., Nunnery Mills, Douglas, Isle a
Man.

Same day, Mrs. LINSTEAD, Crown-street, aged 57.
Same day, in London, aged 87, BENJAMIN RAWSON, E.
of Nidd-hall, Yorkshire.

Same day, aged 49, Mr. JAMES WEBSTER, fringe-manukc-
turer and carpet dealer, Bold street, late of Manchester: a man
much respected, and who will be long regretted by aiargecircle
of friends.

On the 2nd instant, at Leamington, URIATI DAVENPORT,
Esq., aged 43 years.

Same day, at Eyerton-crescent, ANNE, relict of Atr.JOSEPa
YEOWA ItD, merchant, of this town.

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TUESDAY 310RAING, JUNE 4, 1344.

We abstained last week from replying to certain
remarks of the Manchester Guardian, because we
did not wish, by the expression of any opinions of
ours at such a crisis, to give encouragement to the
apathy which we saw existing amongst the Conser-
vative party in this town and district. Nor perhaps
should we have been at the trouble of addressing
ourselves to our contemporary now, were it not
that, whilst vindicating the tone of the article
commented upon by him, we shall be afforded an
opportunity of throwing a light upon some features
of the recent contest for the representation of the
division which, unexplained, are calculated to lead
to very erroneous conclusions as to the existing
strength of genuine Conservatism in our locality.
At the risk of lying tedious, we give at length that
portion of the Guardian's article which refers to
-ourselves.

" THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE CAUSE."—If any
county elector in South Lancashire, who calls himself a
vonservative, should have begun to feel rather doubtful as
to what con-ervatisen truly means, we would not recom-
mend him to institute a very strict comparison between
the speeches of Mr. Entwisle, whom he is called upon to
support, and the remarks of the Liverpool Standard in
reference to the present contest, or he will be pretty sure
to feel much more bewildered than ever. On consulting
the latter authority, he will find the present administration
described as " a ministry which worships expediency,
whilst it plays fast and loose with promises and pledges ;"
and, as for the premier, he is denounc-d as having, by the
-course he has taken on the Factory Bill and other ques-
tions, done his best to convince his supporters, that
" there is no principle connected with his government for
.which it is worth the while of conservatism to contend."
Such, then, being the present state of things, an honest
conservative would naturally expect to find the Standard
urging upon the electors of South Lancashire to throw
base expediency to the winds, and rally round a candi-
date who would not pin his faith to the sleeve of the prime
minister ; who vinuld not give his unqualified support to
" a ministry which plays fast and loose with pledges ;"
and, above all things, who would most distinctly pledge
himself to support Lord Ashley, and oppose ministers, on
"that great conservative question of humanity—the Ten-
hours' Factory 1111,"—even at the risk of turning a faith-
less and pledge-breaking ministry out of office. Alas for
the inconsistency of " poor human nature," as Judge
Ha!iburton says! Aft-r all its grand flourish about prin-
ciple, and its horror of expediency-worship, the Standard
feels itself constrained to follow the very same course as
that which has been pursued by the ministers whom it
denounces. Instead of calling upon the electors to sup.
port a candidate of decided political principles, it urges
them to " throw aside their present apathy, bury their
present jealousies," and rally round Mr. William En-
twisle, who claims their support chiefly on the ground of
his unqualified admiration of Sir Robert Peel's abilities as
a statesman ; and who expressly declares, that, were he
returned to parliament, he would support ministers in
their opposition to Lord Ashley's agitation for a diminu-
tion of the hours of labour in factories.
What, then, are the principles involved in that "great
conservative cause" of which we read so much in minis-
terial prints, and for which the electors of South Lan-
cashire are called upon to exert themselves so energetically
on Monday and Tuesday next? We have seen that the
Liverpool Standard can furnish no intelligible answer to
these questions; but it may be said to be unworthy of
much notice as an organ of toryism.

This is scarcely a fair statement—indeed it is a
very unfair one—of the position taken by us in the
article in question ; but we are perfectly willing to
give the Guardian all the advantage of his jesuitry.
Grant that we described the ministry of Sir Robert
Peel as " a ministry which worships expediency
whilst it plays fast and loose with promises and
pledges ;" that we have represented Sir Robert Peel
as having done his best to convince his supporters
that " there is no principle connected with his go-
vernment, for which it is worth the while of Con-
servatism to contend ;" does it follow that we ought
to have called upon the Conservatives of South
Lancashire to damage the cause of Conservatism
Itself, and those institutions and principles involved
in it, by a refusal to support the candidate offered
to their choice, even although he chose to " pin his
faith on the sleeve of the prime minister"? Would
there be any " consistency" in recommending a
il
course which could only have had the result of giv-
ing victory to a party diametrically opposed to all
those institutions and principles which, as Conser-
vatives, we revere and trust to maintain, whilst by
an opposite course would be secured the election of
a gentleman, who, although not altogether to our
taste, is still the faithful supporter of many, and
some of these the most important, of those institu-
tutions and principles ? Surely there would not.
Surely the Guardian entertains a better opinion of
our judgment than to expect from us the advocacy
of a policy so suicidal.
'We expressed, with sorrow, our coi-%•.:-"-" "1"
Tetent measure,: a annistry had produced
giCal. apathy amongst the Conservative electors of
this district. We warned them that the conse-
quence of persisting in such measures would be de-
trimental to them as a ministry—would lead to a
permanent alienation of many of their once ardent
supporters. The result of the contest has shewn
that we were right in the opinions which we ex-
pressed. It is not the exertions of the Anti-Corn-
law League which have reduced the apparent strength
of Conservatism in South Lancashire. On the
contrary, the insolence of that League has increased
the genuine Conservative feeling of the county, of
which the number of votes recorded on the poll on
Monday and Tuesday last is not a faithful index.
It is the disappointment felt by so many sound and
loyal men with the trimming policy of Sir Robert
Peel's government, which most materially tended to
weaken our position in this contest; and we urged
upon the Conservative electors to waive the expres-
sion of that disappointment, and rally to the side of
the Conservative candidate, not for Sir Robert
Peel's sake—not for the ministry's sake—but for
their country's sake. We felt confident that a de-
feat of Conservatism in South Lancashire—and a
seriously diminished majority is such a defeat—would
be turned, by an expediency-worshipping minister,
to the serious detriment of Conservatism ;—would,
in fact, he the ready plea put forward for further
concessions, and further trimming ; whilst a deci-
sive victory would have shewn to such a minister,
that the time had not yet arrived when it was neces-
sary to bolster himself in power by such concessions.
It may be said by the Guardian, however, and
will no doubt be said by some of those Conserva-
tives, by whose apathy the Whig-Radical party has
been reduced by one-half, that by returning Mr.
Entwisle, an avowed admirer of Sir Robert Peel's
measures, by a larger majority, we in effect declare
our unabated satisfaction with his government,
whilst, on the other hand, by keeping back from
the poll, we stew Sir Robert the necessity of retrac-
ing his steps and consulting more the Conservative
feeling of the country. We aamit the perfect rea-
sonableness of the argument were it an ordinary
case and an ordinary character with whom we had
to deal. But we are not in such a case, and we
have not to do with such a man. It was not the
general policy of Sir Robert Peel's government
which was sought to be attacked or defended, so
much as the question of a rash and headlong adop-
tion of what is styled free-trade measures. Thus
we might have intimated, by a reduced majority and
a hesitating support, our diminished confidence in
the present ministry ; hut we should at the same
time have declared our diminished dislike of Whig-
Radical and destructive measures. All England,
which was regarding this contest, would have pointed
to us and exclaimed, " See—the commercial and
manufacturing county of Lancashire has submitted
to the dictation of the League ; and even Conserva-
tive Liverpool itself has consented to receive her
convictions at the hands of its hireling seditionists !"
This is already being loudly boasted ; and instead of
the diminished strength of Conservatism in South
Lancashire being likely to operate as a warning to
Sir Robert Peel to abstain from encroachments upon
the Church of the land, and violations of the Pro-
testant feelings of its people, it may too soon, we
fear, be seized upon by him as a justification of that
utilitarian and anti-national policy, towards which
he is already fast progressing.

Our attention has been directed to a petition, now
in course of signature in this town, in behalf of the
" Dissenters' Chapels Bill," which certainly does
appear to us to be one of the most impudent docu-
ments we ever met with. After reciting briefly the
nature of the bill in question, and the fact of its
now being before the legislature, this precious pro-
duction of Socinian cunning and dishonesty pro-
ceeds to declare—we give the precise wording--
"That your petitioners, though not themselves holding
the opinions proposed by Unitarians, do not desire to see
them punished by civil forfeitures, but regard them as en-
titled to the full benefit of those wise laws by which the
once stringent conditions of toleration have been relaxed,
and the liberty of worship from time to time enlarged."
So, in the opinion of the very wise people who
are to be got to sign this petition, the present non-
recognition, by the law, of the right of one class of

religionists to usurp the possession of property held
in trust for another class—the non-recognition of
robbery—h is the effect of punishing the usurped
"by civil forfeitures !" But another clause is even
richer than this; for we find it stated—
" That the attempt, on the part of one denomination,
to wrest from the members of another, on the ground of
doctrinal belief, the chapels in which they have always
worshipped, the schools in which they have charitably
laboured, and the burial-grounds which contain their most
interesting family memorials, cannot but engender la-
mentable animosities, and bring a reproach on the religion
of peace and love; whilst by making the courts of equity
judges of religious truth and error, the course of justice
is embarrassed with questions beyond its natural province,
and, in relation to a class of unoffending subjects of the
realm, the law is turned, in effect, from an instrument of
protection into a weapon of persecution."

The law, then, which this bill is to change,
wrests from Unitarians, on the ground of doctrinal
belief, "the chapels in which they have always wor-
shipped." This, we are assured, notwithstanding
the notorious fact that that law only so operates
upon them on its being satisfactorily proved that in
those chapels they have nit always worshipped !"
Again it is ground of complaint that it takes from
them " the schools in which they have charitably
laboured," in direct and proved perversion of the
interests of their pious founders; it takes from
them " the burial grounds which contain their most
interesting family memorials," whilst it restores
those burial-grounds to the descendants and con-
scientious followers of the faith of those who first
slept within their hallowed precincts; and finally,
notwithstanding these plaintive appeals in behalf of
the sanctity of the " most interesting family memo-
rials" of these petitioners, a new measure is prayed
for, which would enable them to wrest possession
of the graves of others as soon as ever they are
able to prove a twenty years' usurpation ;—which
in fact provides that the son or daughter who may
to-day inter, in the burial-ground of the chapel in
which he has worshipped, a beloved parent, may
twenty years' hence, when he had hoped to be laid
in the same grave, be called upon to resign that
hope unless he is content to be buried in accordance
with the forms and service of a faith which he pro-
tests against and detests !
_ _

This—is impudence enough; but not so thought
the concoctors of the petition. Distinctively ema-
nating as it does from a Socinian source, the Bri-
tish parliament is actually to be told that it is "the
humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of
Liverpool and the neighbourhood, MEMBERS OF THE
ESTABLISHED CHURCH (0 and of others."

It has been remarked that the LIVERPOOL
STANDARD is the only organ which has resolutely
stood forward to protect the local interests of this
port from the injury with which they are menaced
by the bill now before Parliament, for forming
Docks in Wallasey Pool ; and, before proceeding to
offer a few more observations upon the subject of
that bill, and the projects which it is intended to
carry out, we owe to the public, and still more to
ourselves, some little explanation, with respect to
the motives which have actuated us in assuming our
present position. We have no objection to the
utmost possible extension of the prosperity of our
neighbours of the rising town of Birkenhead. We
have no fear of any rational dock scheme, at Wal-
lasey or any other point upon the Cheshire shore,
being injurious to the trade of Liverpool or her
own docks. But we have contended and must con-
tend, that such scheme can be carried out to as
great an extent as is desirable for the interests of
Birkenhead itself without injury to the port of Li-
verpool; and that in looking at this or any other
measure projected by our neighbours, the safety
and unobstructed navigation of the river, upon
which depen•'s the prosperity of Birkenhead as well
as Liverpool, should be the one absorbing object of
solicitude. In this spirit we have throughout
treated the questions involved in the measure now
before Parliament; and regardless of being mis-
understood, we must continue so to treat them.
We have certainly heard—who has not ?—strange
rumours of the doings of juntas of great men
here, and coteries of small men there, which if not
calculated to startle disinterested observers like our-
selves, were at least sufficient to tell them that, in
justice to the public at large, and the public of Bir-
kenhead in particular, such doings should be care-
fully and cautiously watched. We have done so;
we have performed perhaps an unpopular duty—
we trust faithfully, not more for the sake of the in-
terests of Liverpool, but of those of the people of
Birkenhead as well; and we must continue our
cUUKCS oz thin-
7tfl..ifjrn!inuns,otoNrvitthhetbitAte"riiess of those who feel
that we are an obstruction in their way.
Having said thus much to prevent our motives
being misunderstood, we proceed to supply some
omissions in our last remarks upon the Wallasey
Dock project. Assuming the evidence of seven or
eight eminent engineers to be correct, we showed
that positive injury to the navigation of the river
would result from the abstraction of seven million
tuns of its tidal waters "at one fell swoop ;" and
common sense tells us that such must be the case,
It has been asserted, however, that the pool is too
near the mouth of the river to allow any injury to
the scour to result from its being closed. We
might admit that there is something in this argu-
ment if we could be assured that the water, which
now flows into it, would go up above the neck of
the river, in addition to the quantity which is at pre-
sent held there ; and thus leave the same force to
operate upon the channels and banks outside. But
we are far from being satisfied that this would be
the case ; whilst the evidence is overpoweringly
strong that as at present held, the water in
Wallasey-pool does materially operate upon those
channels and banks. In answer to the question
" Do you agree with Mr. Rendel that two-thirds of
the water from Wallasey Pool is of little valne as a
scour ?" Mr. Page replies—" No, I do not; I
cannot imagine that any abstraction of tidal water
from Wallasey, or any other part of the Mersey, so
far as the tide flows, but particularly these portions,
and in that locality, will not injure the sea chan-
nels."

In corroboration of this opinion we might quote
Messrs. Rennie, Vignoles, Giles, Mylne, Walker,
Probis, Colthurst, and Fletcher, together with Mr.
Jervis, Professor of Mathematical and Natural Phi-
losophy in the College of Civil Engineers ; and with
such authorities in favour of our opinion, we are
certainly not much in danger of its refutation. In
addition, however, we may state that, so strongly
impressed was government with the importance of
preserving the tidal waters as a scour, some
years ago a bill was brought into Parliament by the
Admiralty itself, for the special protection of all the
government harbours from any tampering with those
waters ; and at this moment we believe its provisions
are most rigidly enforced, and no jetties are allowed
to be constructed, or abstractions of any kind per-
mitted, without the fullest enquiry being instituted
as to their probable effects. Pray what enquiry has
been instituted into the effect of the proposed Walla-
sey Dock upon our own noble river—a river destined
at some future and not distant day to be the chosen
highway to the whole western world ? There has
been no enquiry, no evidence, worthy of the name ;
and we submit, with great deference to the Lords
of the Admiralty, that where such vast inferests are
at stake, it is their bounden duty to institute a most
searching enquiry, at once, and especially before they
permit the merits of the present plans to be affirmed
by a deliberate vote of the House of Commons. At
all events, those members of the House of Com-
mons who may be induced to support the third read-
ing of the bill to-morrow night, under the impres-
sion that it has received, in its details, the full ap-
proval of the Admiralty, should be undeceived, both
with respect to the fact itself of such approval being
given, which is roundly boasted, but of which never-
theless we are very sceptical, and also with respect
to the question whether the Admiralty has ever yet
had an opportunity of arriving at a well grounded
conclusion. Before such a bill is permitted to pass
the House of Commons, let the plans be submitted
to a Committee of Enquiry on national grounds—
for national interests are involved in its successful
or injurious operation ;—and not be permitted to be
decided upon by private individuals only, who may
be warped by considerations of a private and even
personal character, and who have never looked at it
in the broad light, in which alone a scheme so im-
portant in its tendencies ought to be viewed. Let
the most eminent engineers be called npon to ex-
amine and report, instead of trusting altogether to
naval men who, however eminent in their own noble
profession in all its details, may not have the know-
ledge or the habits most required for the satisfactory
prosecution of such an enquiry as is here necessary.
To revert, however, to practical matters. In our
former remarks we omitted to notice one of the pro-
minent features in the proposed scouring of the
gienretatantidal basin,
ayitation whofthich is intended
ewatersa sto kteoep causeth the Silk
so
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lent

state of suspension, and thus prevent any deposit
taktny pl'ice. Was ever any thing so absurd pro-
pounded to the public ? Violent agitation of the
waters in a tidal basin, where vessels are to load
and unload, with a great lift and fall of tide A
pretty place would such a basin be for a vessel to
find herself in, without her stiffening There
would be nothing left for her but a capsize.
Before the Wallasey Bill should pass into a law,
weinsist that there should be a clause binding the
projectors to carry out the proposed works, and
give guarantees to the amount of the estimates ;
such a clause is necessary, if only to protect those
who are unable to protect themselves, and who risk
their property in the undertaking, lured by the
splendid prospects held out to them by its pro-
moters. The safety of the navigation also demands
some protection of this nature.
The plans have already undergone several altera-
tions, and we have reason to believe will undergo
more. In the published plans the sea wall was to
be in a straight line ; in the amended plan it slants
inward about 450 feet from the ten acre open basin
to the entrance of the south side of the great tidal
basin. The sluicing—yes, the sluicing—doubts
have arisen as to its efficacy to scour and cleanse
the basin—but this, it is said, is of little moment.
If it fail, they can drudge—but then the cost of
drudging will be a pretty little item ;—at the most
moderate computation, based on the annual deposit
in the Liverpool docks, it will cost, at the low esti-
mate of 10d. per cubic yard, about £13,000 a-year.
If docks are to be made in Wallasey Pool, let
them be so formed as not to obstruct the flux and
thetnflux of the tide, and not endanger the navi-
gation of the river and safety of the Liverpool
docks ; further inquiry into the scheme, we say, is
necessary, and the very apprehension of danger is a
sufficient ground for the matter being delayed until
it has obtained at least the sanction of are
amount of engineering talent, equal to that which
has been found recorded against it.
We conclude, therefore, by calling upon our
townsmen to protect their river from so dangerous
an innovation, to protect their docks, trade, and
the general interests of the good old town.

THE FUNDS—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English se-
curities have been good to day,: at a slight advance, but
not much businesss was transacted, because of the early
closing of the market. Consols for money left off 924 to
4, awl for the account 994 to 4 ; Bank Stock, 199 to
200; Three per Cents. Reduced, 984 to i ; Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. Reduced, 1014 to 202; New Tbree-and-
a-Half per Cents., 1024 to 103 ' • Long Annuities,
12 7-16 ; India Stock, 288 to 490 ; and Exchequer
bills, 70 to 72 premium. In the foreign market there
was no alteration of importance, but prices exhibited
rather more ffrmness. Spanish Five per Cents. were last
quoted 234 to 4 ; and the Th ree per Cents., 344 to 4 ;
Portuguese, 454 to 464 ; Peruvian. 27 to 28; Mexican,
354 to 4 ; the Deferred, 154 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-
a- Half per Cents., 614 to 4 ; the Five per Cents., 1004- to
4 ; Danish, 88 to 89 ; Colombian, 13/ to 4 ; Chilian, 102
to 104 • Buenos Ayres, 33 to 35 ; Brazilian, 804 to 814 ;;
and Belgian, 103 to 104.
ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS AT BIRKENHEAD.—
We have already announced that the election of nine
commissioners for the township of Birkenhead was fixed
for to-day. The poll will be opened at 10 o'clock this
morning, and will close at four in the afternoon. The
seven following commissioners, who retire in the usual
rotation, have been nominated for reelection—namely,
Messrs. J. D. Case, J. S. Jackson, W. Jackson, W.
Laird, S. Stansfield, D. Appleton, and R. Fry. Mr.
Marcus Brownrigg, merchant,. of Hamilton-square, has
been nominated in the steal of Mr. Frederick Berner,
for two years ; and Mr. John Sudlow, accountant, of
Claughton, in the stead of Mr. Peter Howard, for one
year. We believe there will be no opposition to the elec-
tion of any of these gentlemen, except to Mr. Stansfield,
against whom Mr. Edward G. Willoughby, hotel-keeper,
of Birkenhead, has been started as a candidate. The con-
test will, therefore, lie between these two gentlemen only.
Yesterday afternonu, a small handbill was issued in the
shape of an electioneering squib, and ea cited much laughter
and merriment amongst the quidnuncs of the opposite
shore. It was addressed to the ratepayers of the town-
ship, and read as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen,—
At a meeting of some of the principal ratepayers of
Birkenhead, the undermentioned gentlemen were nomi-
nated as fit and proper persons to be commissioners, being
men of weight and substance, who are much wanted to
look after our interests, both in and out of Parliament."
The following are the names of the persons said to have
been nominated at the meeting in question :—Mr. Arnold
S. Waters, painter, of Chester-street ; Mr. William
Craven, contractor, of Craven-street • Mr. Charles
Smith, innkeeper, of Woodside; Mr. William Hilton,
butcher, of Market-street; Mr. William Briscoe, inn-
keeper, of Birkenhead ' • Mr. Allan E. Fowler, bookkeeper,
of Somerville-street ; Mr. Thomas Evans, pawnbroker,
of Lower Ivy-street; Mr. John Watson, h1a01....;t1., of
Birkenhead; and Mr. John Monk, gentleman, of Hamil-
ton- square.
DEBTORS AND Cu.m-........--Ltiao lIROUGHAM'S
Da L.A.,. —A. 1,0 out introduced by Lord Brougham, which
has been read a second time, contains only fourteen sec-
tions. It is entitled "An act for facilitating-arrange-
ments between debtors and creditors." The preamble
declares that " it is expedient that trust deeds, and other
amicable modes of arrangement between debtors and their
creditors, should be facilitated, and that better means
should be provided for carrying the same into effect."
After the passing of the act, it shall be lawful for any
debtor, who is unable to meet his engagements with his
creditors, such debtor not being a trader, with the con-
currence of one-third in number, and value of his credi-
tors, who shall sign a petition, to petition the chief judge
of the Court of Bankruptcy, setting forth all his debts,
property, &c., and praying to be protected from imprison-
ment, and he shall make a proposal to pay'the creditors,
to which one-third shall consent. A commissioner is to
examine in private the mode of contracting the debts, and
then to appoint a second meeting, at which an official as-
signee may preside, and the resolutions to be adopted be
reported to the commissioner. The first meeting to be
called by notice, and at the second a certain number of
creditors must agree to accept the arrangement proposed ;
the resolution or agreement of such meeting not to be
valid, unless one third in number and value of all the
creditors were present, either in person or by an autho-
rised agent. The resolution is to be confirmed and a tem-
porary protection afforded. The property is to vest in a
trustee without any deed, as fully as if such trustee were
an'assignee in bankruptcy. Examinations may take place
if it be suspected that a full disclosure has not been made.
Trustees to be freed on performance of their duties, and a
" certificate" to be granted to the petitioning debtor,
which shall have the same effect as a certificate of con-
formity in bankruptcy. The Court of Bankruptcy is to
make rules and regulations to carry the act into operation.
This measure will it is to be hoped, soon or late, become
part and parcel of our laws ; if considered before the com-
mittee at the same time as Lord Cottenham's Bill, it will
be a most useful addition to that enlightened measure, as
the two bills would render the law of debtor and creditor
all that common humanity and the trading interest re-
quire.

ORTHOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES BY THE ANTI-MO-
NOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—From the most authentic sources
we are enabled to assure our readers that the views of this
tremendous body are not at all confined to the repeal of
protective duties. On the contrary, having settled our
tariff upon a grand and comprehensive scale, they propose
to effect a thorough reform in the laws of orthography,
gram mar, punetua tion , &e. which are at present oppressively
and needlessly restrictive. Why, for instance, should a man
be compelled to expend six letters in the spelling of a
word, when he can do it with five ?—or why should he be
compelled to express an idea in ten words when it can
be as forcibly expressed in half the number ? We give
here two specimens of the new style of orthography. The
first is addressed to ourselves, and teaches us how to spell
the name of our own paper :

No. 2.
Committee Room, Eastwood's Royal Hotel,
13 May, 1814

The Editors of the Standart.
Please to insert the Advertisemts. for Committee Meetg.
Public Meetg. & Address accompanying, and charge the same
to !the Committee for conducting the Election of WILLIA3t,
BROWN Esq. EDWARD BERRY.
A Bill must be sent on executing the order.
Here, it will be obserced, there is a direct saving of a.
letter o, hitherto foolishly used in forming the concluding
d, when a simple t will do as well. The second we will
give verbatim et literatim
"Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, dearness, and uncertainty.'"
Anti-Monopoly Association, 7, Water-street,
Liverpool, 22 May, 1844.

MY DEAR SIR :
The bearer will reside in St. Helens untill after the
Election. Yrs truly
- - -

C E RAW LINS is
It will be observed that the above note is constructed
upon a different principle, the word until being spelt with
an additional 1, to direct particular attention to the limit
of " the bearer's" residence in St. Helens. In the original
this untill has been written twice, the word " district"
written over it, and the compound thus formed subse-
quently obliterated with a flourish. Independently, how-
ever, of its orthogaaphical novelty, there is something
about Mr. C. E. Rawlins' note which is a little singular,
and suggestive of practices not very pretty. What, pray,
had the gentleman to whom the note was addressed—
whose name we omit as the mention of it can contribute
to no good end—to do with the fact that " the bearer"
would " reside in St. Helens' untill after the election" ?
Mr. Rawlins, we know as the secretary of the Anti-Mo-
nopoly Association. We do not know the recipient of
the note, and, pray, what poor unfortunate voter was
" the bearer" ? We could have understood the affair had
the note run thus—" bottle the bearer in St. Helens'
untill after the election" ; but, as it is, it must remain to
our poor comprehension a little mysterious. Perhaps it
may be explained • and in the mean time the original note
may be seen by the curious at our offiee. _ _

FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—We understand that a
deputation from the Free Church of Scotland will hold a
meeting in Liverpool some time early this month. We
believe that Dr. Cunningham and the Rev. Mr. Begg will
form a part of the deputation.
THEFT BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the
Police-court, a young woman, named Ann Clarke, who
had been living as house servant with Mrs. Jane Scott, of
Chester-street, was committed for trial for having de-
camped with a large quantity of wearing apparel, the pro,
perty of her employer.

THE LIVERPOOL g tAsnino.