The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Scot By William Beatie, M.D. Illustrated' in a
series of views taken, expressly for this work:- By T.
Allyn), and W.. H. Bartlett, engraved by or under
the immediate direction of Mr. Robert Wallis.- Lon
don: G. Virtue, 1830... . . •

The first :number of this elegant and interesting work
has been in uur hands: for sometime, and we can truly
say that it deserves,a. very large share of public. patron-
age. It is brought out in Ore same form, but. consider-
ably improved in many respect*, as the. former work by,
the same author, entitled ``Switzeriand Illustrated", In
the present number, in addition to the vigrAtte,-which is
a beatitiful view of the pass, of tlra Trosa,clv,,Ve are pre-
sented with four spirited and highly-finished engravings,
—lst. Inverary Castle ; 2d., Loch Achray, Perthshire;
3d.i Ben Lomand,'frOm InYertictias ; and 4th. Stonehyre's
third. Fall of the Clyde: The historical 'notices are
written with great succinctness, and the 'letter-press is
highly creditable to Clay. It is certainly the cheapest,
the•most complete and beautiful work of the kind which
has yet been presented:to the public.

The 1 Young Governeas Friend. By a Lady. Hamilton
.ana,Co.,..London ; Daven Port, and W. Williams, Li-
yerpool. ,
This is a veryuseful hook, in which some excellent
advice is given to young governesses in an amiable, mo-
therly, and christiau spirit.

,Small's Veterinary Tablet ; beinff a synopsis of the
Diseases of Horses, Cattle, and Bogs, with their cause,
'symptoms, and cure. By Matthew
,Small, veterinary
•'surgeon, &C., &c., &c.
Tire indefatigable Mr! AlThun,, of Glasgow, has just
given to certain of the brute Creation the above useful
work, for-which they cannot do less than return him their
thanks,.and mark their sense of gratitude by presenting,
lrim, with a massive punch bowl, or a golden quaich out of.
which ,he and liis,friends may drink their stirrup cup.
The.work is quite original, portable, and valuable, and if
there, be a jockey, groom, cow-keeper, cattle-dealer, or
dog-fancier who shall not possess a copy of it before this
day three months, all we say is—let not, that man be
trusted.

Dreams of Liberty. By a modern Trobadour. Liver-
pool : printed for the author.

'This is a small. parcel of rhymes about " liberty" and
the'" reform bill," which we. are assured was written by
Sampson, of the rail-road, on the Ist April last, he being
much excited; and the steam up to sixty miles an hour.
It does the poet much credit, and we hope to hear the
"hymn to fteedom" chaunted along the rails for many a
day. :The .piecit _entitled " Song of the People," is tre-
mendously magnificent, and therefore it will be difficult,
if not impossible; for the " people" to do it justice. We
should like, however, to see it_ attempted by the head
trumpeter of the Mercury, perched upon the mast head of
the "aquatic plant" in a gale of wind. 4,‘ Cease, rude
bore-us,' is nothing to

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

TRIUMPH OF THE CONSERVATIVE CAUSE IN INVERNESS-
SHIRE.—This has been a keenly contested election—the
radicals andultra-liberal party forced to the poll every
man they could influence or drag to it. The,rnost
&institutional means were used, and the displeasure and
vengeance of. the Government even 'threatened against
private individuals, should they support Chisholm, Un-
fortunately for the Conservatives,.many of their number
were unavoidably *absent, and not a few were prevented
from attending by sickness... Notwithstanding; however,
of this, Chisholm of Chisholm, the Conservative.candi-
datar.has defeated his opponent, Mr Grant of Glenmor-
riston, who appeared under the support of the present
Whig-Radical Government (and indeed backed by the
persuading weight of the Privy. Purse), by a majority of
flu less.than 281
Besides those undue and illegal influences, the agent
of the Bank of Scotland in Inverness 'canvassed publicly,
and .openly. He attended the tneetings,of Glemnorris,
ton's committee, and accompanied that gentleman .and
4 his friends in their excursions. In short, .he was a.,most
aelii,e agent. The agent for the. National Bank at Fort
William is the:raditial political agent of that district,. and
in the present contest, as well as on ,former occasions,
threatened and cajoled as he best could. How the bosi-
oess of those establishments is carried on, while the
are days and weeks absent, it will be difficult to explain.
But the electors of Inverness have a right to Complain—
and-rdo complain—that the directors should allow, the in-
fluence naturally attaching to such institutions to be pro-
stituted to such improper ends.
Glentuorristori, in addition to .the support of Mr C.
Grant and his friends, and the influence alluded to; had
many other advantages; for instance, hislviell merited
popularity as a country gentleman—his beneyOlence, af-
fability—and numerous connections in theatipnty, &c.
It is consequently clear that. he polled many More .than
Mr C. Grant, or indeed any other person, OW have done
upon the same side.
In order to show that in Inverness-shire there bas.been.,
a great re-action, we have subjoined a state of the poll
the last three elections for the comity, from which it will
be seen that in December 1832, the majority for Mr Grant
was forty-seven ; in January last his majority dwindled
to 7, while now the majority for the conservatives is 28.
Election, December 1832.

C. Grant. Macleod,
Inverness District,- 172 75
Kingussie ditto
Fort-William ditto, .. 63 22
Skye ditto, 5 56

, 257 210
Election, January 1835.
•C. Grant, Macleod.
Inverness District,
Kingussie ditto,
Fort-William ditto,
Syke ditto,. ,

260 253
Election, May 1835.
Chisholm. Glenmorriston.
Inverness District
Kiugussie ditto,
Fort-William,
Syke ditto,

268 240
240

. Majority for the Chisholm,
. The above announcement of the signal triumph of the
conservative- cause in Inverness-shire, emanating from
the Chisholm's committee, has been received by post ; and
a. most satisfactory document; establishing as it does
the- gradual but certain and now triumphant march of
conservatism in. that county,. and we have no doubt also
in the neighbouring counties.
We cannot avoid alluding to the direct charges made
against some of the bank agents in the district,•particti,
larly that of the Bank of Scotland. We can tell the di-
rectors of that institution thatit . is not enough for them
to say that they issued contrary instructions to their
agent, they must 'see these instructions complied, with,
and if they fail, the proprietary have a just right to com-
plain that their own resources shoUld, at the caprice of
atir agent, be turned into a political engine against them.
No one, we believe, will deny that the great majority of
that proprietary are conservatives. They do not call for
interference in favour of their cause, but they are entitled
to. see—nay they will insist .that it, shall not be used
against it. That the agency at Inverness has been used
e a powerful engine in favour of the radical party in
this and the adjoinhig•county of Ross, and in the Inverness '
burghs, has been again and again loudly complained of.
We admire the ingenuity of the _lnverness Courier in
discovering that this signal triumph is to be attributed
to relationship, &c. We deny it. Could this cause have
produced a change in the Inverness district alone of 57
votes—a .district in which no particular party influence
prev.ails ?. .We can tell the Courier, and we proclaim it
to the country, that it arrows almost entirely from a change
in public opinion. Mr C. Grant knew this, well before
he "took
,refuge" in the House of Peers, and we know
that no sooner was his vote ,on the Speakei:ship known
in the capital in the north, than he received unequivocal
proofs that he rieederrnot to come back again to ask the
spffrages of the electors—having, as they; thought and ex-
pressed; broken the pledges given by 'him to allow the
Peel administration a fair trial. We may revert to this
subject next week. In the meantime we congratulate
Scotland and the country in general on this signal victory.
—Edinburgh Evening Post.

The characters of the leaders of the two parties in the
House of Commons have been brought into comparison
last week in a manner which the friends of Lord John
Russell.may justly designate: as odious. Sir Robert Peet
stands forward as the champion of all that is honourable
—Lord John. Russell as the incarnation of all that ismean.
Truth dwells upon the lips of Sir Robert—those of Lord
John appear never to open but to let forth a falsehood.
The son of the cotton-spinner, and the son of the duke,
have changed the characters which we should have been
inclined to have given as those most appropriate to the
representatives of long-descended aristocracy, and of sud-
denly-acquired wealth. Shabby Russell—noble -Peel—
are in everybody's month. The supporter of the gentle-
men of England, no matter what may be his original
condition of descent, may look with the profundity of dis-
dain on the hack agent of the blackguards of Ireland, in
whatever circle that agent may be discovered.
Of the past week the great event has been the speech
of Sir Robert Peel at Merchant Tailors' H;111. Of its
eloquence, or any other graces of style and composition,
we shall be silent. -Practical men we have always pro-
fussed ourselve3 to be—and to the body. of what is said,
rot to how it is said, shall we ever address ourselves. In
the spezeli then of Sir Robert we find that be (for the first
time since:the unhappy: Clay when it.entered into the head
of Lord Liverpool to construct a divided cabinet—a ca-
binet divided on a question admitted by all parties,
whether hostile or favourable, to be of the most vital im-

portance) has put the position of the tory or conservative!
interest in its fair light. He tias cast aside all distraCting
and distmiting topics; and 'soaring above the small con-
siderations of party, loOked upon the influence whibli the
great body of all that renders England honoured or. re-
spectable at home or abroad,. ought of right to demand "in
its native country: It was with him no question of fac •
tious ascendancy—no desire of holding office, or of seek-.
ing it—no shabby motive cannected,with so many thous-,
ands a year to be pocketed by this or that class of hungry,
politicians. No—he .considered the posture ,of the aris-
tocracy and the mitldle'classes of England as they mainly
conduce to the Well-being of all the people; and he called,
upon thern: to :fulfil their s duty, because it .k a duty.,
While .Sir Robert, in ,a hasty
,speech,- delivered after
dinner, .was thus laying downdoctrines of universal ap-
plication, 'in language 'worthy, of -eternal memory, the
worthy peerling, by whose resolutions *the late premier'
was deprivecrof ofgce; was wriggling about like a reptile
to aqueeielihriself into any of 'the dirtiest created
for the refuge of those . who:dare not face independent
constituencies, by the dirtiest .of means. It would be-
indeed'a pleasant work so contrast the occupations of
Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel 6n MOnday even-
ing last+-the tory, the friend of darkness, the enemy of
freedom, the patron of corruption, and so forth, openly
coming forward to avow his sentiments before an assembly,
of men whose wealth, to say nothing of other considera
tions, rendered them wholly independent of the favours of
any governrrient, whig, tory, or radical=and Lord *John:
Russell, the whig, the reformer .theliberal, the father of
the bill, and the son of the Duke of Bedford, occupied-in.
sneaking over to Stroud under the mantle of night and the
cloak of Colonel Fox. The tory ex-minister stimulating,'
'by all the pdwers of his reasoning, his hearers, to all
appeal to the largest constituencies of the empire—the
whig looking with anxious eye for the smallest and the
paltriest he could find. The tory inculcating upon his
Ihuzzaing audience the propriety of acquiescing in the
reform bill, and endeavouring "to carry out" its pro-
visions to, the utmost that they could. in compliance with
their literal meaning, and the sa&-ly of the constitution
the whig,- in his hole-and-corner 'conclave, eating up with
worse than Saturnian maw, the joints of his own mangled
offspring, and virtually declaring, that no matter what
may have become of schedule A, yet so long, as a Lord.
John Russell is to be found; so long there is to be no want,
of rotten-boroughmongering. •
Such then is; without going into further particulars, the
outline of the contrast presented by, the leaders-of the
whig and tory parties during the last week. Even the
whigs admit that Lord John 'is unfortunate in his com-
pelled choice of . a borough ; and rather unlucky in that
want of veracity which gains no grace:by, perpetual itera-
tion ; .but they say, Any thing is better than a tory. We
must keep Lord John in powerhe is a small creature,
we admitnobody can depend upon a word he says—he
has quite nullified himself (as the Yankees have in the
Stroud affair; but what can we do?
We shall tell them. Make no more pretences about it.
You have.got into all these scrapes by an idle endeavour
Of,concealing the fact. Lord John Russell is not your
head—Lord Melbourne is not your head—the people of
England are- not 'your supporters—you do not lose your
seats or gain your seats by virtue of the part you have
taken in the .English'reform bill. Delude not yourselves
on the subject. Tell us the truth at once, without any
more of the John. Russell touches of Mendacity about it.
Say honestly and fairly that you are the slaves of O'Con•--
nell=thai. you are, not an English party at all—that you
have not one Protestant feeling about youi whether church
of England, or orthodox Dissenter—that you are ready
to rob the-Establishment, or to revile the " Swaddler,"
according as the real dictator commands—that as the hap-
piness, honour, and integrity of the EngliSh empire, are
incompatible with the designs of.,.your master, you are
ready, without another word, to throw them overboard;
and having said this, you will have at least the merit of
being intelligible in your line of policy. At present you
are fighting under false colours, and CoMpelled-perpeto.
ally, as in the case of John RUssell, to show false papers,
and to live in a constant course of forgery and fraud.
Believe us, the other way of doing business is far more
honourable. • •

-Commend us, for instance, to the honest carpenters of
Dublin, who sported "Repeal of the Uniou".on the ban.-
nerS with willed they greeted their novel. Lord Lieutenant:
It was much fairer than the pretences ofloyalty, with
Which the less
,candid saluted. that'unhappy slave in the
Chariot. Commend us again to the constituents who gave
the breaking-up of the empire as a gratifying toast to
their new member, the Papist Solicitor-General selected
by the whigs ; and much praised be Jerry O'Loghlin. for
cheering it. Mulgrave and O'Loghlin did quite right—
they knew their duty ; one as a servant of the Popisb
ascendancy in Ireland, the other as a member of the body.
When the time comes—as come it will---7we .shall know
how to deal with those folks. • In the meantime, we re-
spect them far more than we do those wretched abortions,
who pretend that they are ruining the church for the
purpose of dOing it good; and undermining the monarchy
to make its foundations the surer.

To get back to trifles—to conclude the tragedy of our
last sentences with a farce—it is pleasant to reflect how
completely Lord John Russell is done. Let Stroud re-
turn him or not, Rotteriboiough Johnny has not three
"months longer life as a statesman.—Age.

The rumours we alluded to last week respecting Lord
John Russell's destination have proved true. This
boasted place of independence, where the 'vain babblers
about liberty have preached more loudly than in any spot
in the kingdom, has at length become a whig- govern-
ment borough. Colonel Fox, who was by mere accident
brought here by a little junto of a few individuals, three
or four months ago, has now resigned his seat, at the
bidding of the same little junto, for the express purpose
of enabling Lord John Russell to obtain a place in par-
liament, to facilitate his attacks on the institutions of our
country; and his Lord Johnship was on Tuesday last'
accepted by the self-styled liberal party.as their candidate.:
These are the doings of the same little junto, who, to
gratify the Honourable Henry Moreton, induced Mr.'
Tracy Leigh, by vain misrepresentations, to incur an'
immense expense in his fruitless contest with Mr. Cod-
rington •' and when they might have returned him soon
afterwards, at the last general election, without any con-
test, on the Honourable Henry's retiring from public life,
with his blushing honours thick upon him, they discarded
him to gratify the same Henry Moreton by returning
his brother, the Honourable Augustus, who, in effect,
was expelled from the western division. The conserva-
tives commenced a slight canvass in opposition to Lord
John; but finding that their chance of success was doubt-
ful, havino• been too late in the field, it was abandoned:
This, we ttink, is to be regretted; as, had they persevered,
•it is impossible to calculate what might have been the
effect produced on the minds of the independent portion
of ;the constituency by the degrading conduct. of the
whig party. We understand Mr. Ricardo declared his
determined opposition to Lord John, and commenced an
,active and successful Canvass against him, and that
several wing gentlemen, of constitutional principles,.
'have stood aloof, and will give him no support. The
candidate whom the conservatives' proposed bringing
forward was, we are told, Mr. Midmay, a' partner in the
house of Baring and CO., and a connexion of the family,
and we have heard, though a conservative, of whig
principles. The .conservative party have done itself
credit by the spirit it has shewn, and the judgment it has
,evinced in the selection of a candidate; and we have
little doubt, that on a. future occasion nothing, can
-prevent their securing his return. They have selected
for their candidate a gentleman Of enlightened views in
trade and commerce, and of sound constitutional princi-
ples., who isS connected with the first mercantile house in
,England—perhaps in the world: a house, too, concerned
in its transactions with the manufacturers of this district
to a very ednstderable-extent. What a contrast to- the
choice of their opponents ! Did they imagine that their
looms and mash-tubs would be put into more rapid mo-
tion by the polite deportment of a -Colonel Foiy or the
vain and factious spirit of .a Lord John Russell ? both of
whom have been rejected 'by their former- constituencies ;
the latter, twice by-. populous counties, -and • once by an
;ancient city, notwithstanding his having, in each of them,
,an influence froth 'wealth and rank greater than any other
candidate could possess. Thui repudiated by the opinion
of constituencies, amounting iri the aggregate to nearly
half a million, as an unfit person to be entrusted with the
protection of their rights and privileges, he has found a
temporary. refuge in the vales of -Gotham.—Gloucester-
shire Chronicle.