The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

SEpTr\l}rg 4, 1833

.4:°rds of wisdom itid- the- genii; of "eloquence • • which
`'r°PPed from the honourable .arid popular member for
L,iverpool I. Listen, oh, listen, " fellow . citizens," and
'dem tribe of the long ears who have a philosopher for yoUr:
.''-Presentative in, 'parliament ! Your member, holding
eae penny Araiazine in one hand and a pennyworth of
staipectoral lozenges'in the other, spoke as•follows :
111:Ewart deprecated the concessions which had been made
b,
the noble 10rd... He particularly objected to. the concession
744.iii.h had been inade the subject of qualification. It was
0,144 °Pinion altogether unnecessary, as well as foreign to the
; unjust in principle and. inexpedient in practice,
tirterice had shown that when deManded it was not only op-
es i
Prve but nugutory
ii j ad our honourable member been alive in the days of
tct CADE he Would have been hanged for.tiis learning.
4
—;raY with him," CADE would have exclaimed, "he
leaks Latin ; it will be proved to thy face that thou host
it'zico about thee that usually talk of a noun and a ye, b,
gar
such abominable words as no christian can endure to
!'
•
It is, we admit, unreasonable to accuse Mr. EWART of
..'Pe3king Latin," but CADE certainly would have been
i4stified in doing summary execution upon him for his
Would have been no defence' to have said that the
:frinurable member's knowledge of the constitutional law
4glandwaS at least eqtial to that of honest JACK in
e...ircinll jurisprudence, for great niedrei unirornily jealous
c each other, and the sturdy reformer would have hanged
'lie philosopher on the grounds of expediency. " you
state built a gratritnar...schOol," CADE would have said;
°ll have erected a mechanics' institute ; to the, gallows
aerefore you must go'!"
lie
•
ERCY. forbid L. that we should wish any such harm to
141 a gentletnan who is the author'of the "Prisoners'
Counsel Bill," particularly since that bill has been stolen
0
Strayed, and when he would be deprived of the'advan-
•osWhiCti •it 'conferi.' No,-we AD be considered
airnore merciful titan this. Mr. EWART has by several
;) public acts placed us under serious obligations to
He has kindly declined to .interfere with mercan-
tile questions, and has with excellent judgment confined
~nnSelf to jurisprudence. He has • therefore beaten iu
at track where he is least likelysto do much evil. He
tahas taken Under his protedion subjects ; which are
40 ironteasurably above his coMprehension diet, like
4
wren or a titmouse 'pecking at the trunk of an old
"4k which has Weatherell I the storms of centuries,
yannot possibly do it any damage. He is like a
;art' (a capital subject 6:4 -one of our native artists, by
e way,) throwing kidney heans at the Egyptian pyra-
mids;
Putting JACK CADE and'ttle pvraniids aside for the
Present. we cannot allow the splendid effort of Mr. EWART
me ilia
iHouse of Commons to pass unnoticed, snore espe-
. lallY as we observe with deep regret that he and Mr.
tinEEBALFPENNY ROEBUCK are now invariably found to-
gether in debate; and •are considered the Siamese twins of
the lower bons:C(lf parliament. Let us endeavour, there-
f
tre• to give .a moment's grave attention to the singular
°Ola our honourable Member has broached on this
c'ecasion. • ''' • '
h • EWART advances the curious doctrine that,
I° opinion," qualification for any office under the crown,
°r for any civil or municipal office,. is "foreign to the
"nstitution." In what book, in what school, or under
*11" schoolmaster, has the honourable member for Li-
verpool, who declared that lie would walk in the footsteps
°I CANNING and HUSKIS.SON, found this doctrine laid
(.(Iwn ? If he have read any thing at all on the subject
be.
have found That every authority is against him.
"41'science and in art competency is the qualification. In
°lltuatters of trust the qualification must be equal to, the
l'ePor7-sibility: The keeper Ora turnpike is only quali-
fied
by his 'sureties. No man entrusts.. money to.a beg-
gar; no-sane man would select for the executor under his
'4 a person whO had yesterday been whitewashed by
toe insolvent. act, or who had not .some property as well
..14 character to hazard-by abusing his trust. There never
was, and we trust there never will he, an office under any
Company,'corporate boAy...or,municipal corporation—un-
qattime crown or acts- if parliament—in which the person
appointed to it is not ault`,
.qUalified by the extent of bia,
responsibility. Even in our own town the commissioners
for
watch and scavangers must he discreet and respectable
oUrgesses. The meaning of this could not, cannot, be
wliaunderstoOd. They must banien so qualified by pro-
Percy and responsibility as to 'possess means equal to the
,Urns of moneypassingthrough their hands. Mr. EWART
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consequently evinced gross and unpardonable igno-
Pance—ignorance that is disgraceful Rndunpardonable in
:'rePresentative of Liverpool—by stating that qualifica-
cin to any municipal office is "foreign to the constitu:
But the • honourable member;per saltum, jumps from
ignorance to downright absurdity, involving ludicrous
t.,,hconsistency. If any excuse can be offered for Mr?
"ART it must be on the ground that he does not under-
stand the meaning of the words lie employs. Such a
on the score of weakness, deserves our pity ; but
ti ja the duty of his friends to remove him from a situation
the
duties of which he has proved himself totally incom-
lietent to discharge. Liverpool surely will not suffer any,
its representatives to be the laughing-stock of the
'louse of Comthons. Even DANIEL O'CONNELL, it is
7ida stuffslmis cotton bandana into his mouth, and Mr.
4014 As TIIORNFLY bides his face in his bat every time
our member" gets upon his legs to instruct -the house.
'We cannot wonder at this when we read the following
'ecrtence from his speech. Concession, says this wAir,
of a Solon, " unjust in principle and inexpedient in
Practice ; experience bad shown that ,when demanded it
'vas Rot only oppressive BUT NUGATORY !" Many a
schoolboy has. been whipped and made to wear the cap
and bells for a solecism.less prepesterous than this. How
n an imposed condition be at, the same tittle." eppress-
'ye, and "nugatory Y" Let us
.state a preposition ap-
l'lisable, by its rare simplicity,. • to the calibre of Mr.
broomstick,
mind. Suppose that he is told, to.leap over a
un)onastick, four.feet high, under a penalty of one hun-
dred pounds. This be would, perhaps call oppressive.
)3at suppose he is told that he can elude the penalty by
walking mound the' aid broomstick, would.not this be the
'legation of oppression F How, therefore,
.can he recon-
cile the positive of a proposition with its negative 4 The
°PPression merges in the conditions of escape ;.and,. if
the power to oppress be.nugatorv,y in what consists the
°PPression ? . •
But it is in vain to reason with a mind so feeble, so
captious, and so contemptible as•imis. We really . pity
Ilhal; and this pity would be unalloyed -by hasher senti-
Inertia if lie were not in a false position, bringing obloquy,
uPon a large commercial community; for disguise it as
we may, the House of Commons and the public generally.
wl.ll judge of the intellect of this town by the mental .and
moral capacity of the individual who reptesents or mis-
represents us-in parliament.
For these reasons, but meaning no disrespect;we leave
Alr• EWART to his gingerbread and his jurisprudence—to
•btalogic and his paper cap—throwing the hells aside in
The name of charity—in order to notice the laughed-down
/4r. THREEHALFPENNY ROEBUCK who followed our ho-
b°nrable member in the debate. His speech is a beautiful
ll'eCituen of the sentimental school—curious, droll, seri-
-4,:5, and ridiculous. THOMAS CAMPBELL, the poet, of
whom it is said by Sir MORGAN O'DoHERTY, in which
°llinion, with great submission, we entirely coincide, that
he never wrote a line of good poetry since he gave over
'nearing the kilt—this said THOMAS CAMPBELL published
Poem, as lie called it, a few years ago, entitled " Lao-
ll'ortA" or some such name, in which a gentle maid, jilted
by her lover, is reduced to a sad state of distress. She
received a letter by the twopenny post, which caused the
moil hysterical grief, end is described as follows:-
4ad with her itandiereltitf and boaster hands.
She hid her face Burl wept.
THRZE-ItALSNINNY RGEBti,CE was in thistielicate ohne
anon on Monday last. He was completely nyercotne by•
own impassioned but mysterious sensibilities. That
his three-halfpenny paper is distressingly hard uphill
Work we can well believe. The wonderfully small crea-
ture who has threatened to pick a good mutton bone by
Picking Out the vitals of newspaper writers . must, we
think; ere this be convinced that he alsois throwing kid.
bed ease, and small kidney beans too, at. the py i anmids.
9wever, being Member. 'for 'Bath, '(ire trust for the

fast time, brsath otriirb to be drowned in its own physic
wells) be made a speech, during which 'the handkerchief
and the hat created mor6.sport'-and luuder laughter than
We have had the pleasure of recording for some time.
Hera it is entire from the pages of the Chronicle:—

"Mr. Roebuck was for some time inaudible. He strongly
deprecated the concessions which had been made by the noble
lord, and denounced the House of Lords for having treated with
contempt the w.it of an united people. That. body had interests
too minute and selfish to act in harmony with the wishes of the
nation; and why Should the real representatives of the people
bear the insults of so weak a body, when they had the power to
crush them? (Laughter.) There was a time when forbear-
ance ceased, and they were fast' being driven to that point.
That house had thrown out all the important measures which
the representatives of -the people had passed; and how much
longer would they be required to go on with concessions? Hay-.
ing reformed themselves, be asked was there no other body that
required the excision of the knife? (Laughter.) He was an ad-
vocate to the utmost for democracy (laughter), and the sooner
they brought the matter to an understanding the better. (Laugh-
ter.) lie knew there ►vere some few persons in that house pre-
tending to represent-the people who bad a contempt fur democ-
racy; but.in his opinion what the people desired ought to be
law, and nobody ought for a day to stand, or could much longer
stand, between the petiPle and their wishes. (-Laughter.) The
interests of the. Lords being only to-maintain the supremacy of
irresponsible power, were wholly incompatible with those of the
people.. 'Airily should .such,a body, with circumstances, inter-
' eats, and feel►ngs entirely opposed to popular desires, any
longer have the power of controlling the decisions of that house ?
(Laughtei.) It was childish.and imbecile to talk of concilia-
tion and concession in such a case. He was one of those who
felt it necessary to stir 'up the people upon this subject to something
almost like a revolution (loud laughter, and cries of oh, oh), in
order to prevent such a body from domineering over them; such
a state of things was wholly incompatible with good government
(bear, hear), and while he could put his finger on the "dirty
spot" (oh, oh), where all their best measures had been muti-
lated, if not wholly rejected, he could not but reprobate that
spirit of concessienvtich seemed to prevail; and be, for one,
Would haie much ratherlave preferred making a firth and quiet,
but resolute stand, saying, " That is the people's desire, deny
it who dare."

The violence of this man, a very, snail in legislation,
and who cannot be 'considered in any other light than as
the flunkey, or rather the pot boy. of JOSEPH HUME—
honest JOSEPH the Greek!—his violence, originating in
Sore disappointment, rejected agency, and interdicted
pay, is of no more consideration, es regards its influence
its force, than the explosion of a roasting chesnut be-
tween the ribs of the kitchen grate, placed there by SUSAN
the hitusernaid. This poor creature denounces the House
Of Lords! He would, in his witlessness, apply the "ex
eision' of the knife" to the peerage! Does he mean to
say that he would stab any body ? God help the silly
fool ! Two men can play at that game, and if he would'
but try he would, perhaps, find that he would come off
second best, by dancing. in the air, not much to the credit
of the gallows. He, the turnspit, whom a penny-a-liner
at Bow-street would not go halves with on a mutton
chop unless the money were tabled and secured—he, the
shoeblack, raised, as they say in America, in the liberties
of an Indian Bullock market—he, the oyster dredger and
the coat brusher of JOSEPH HUME—he "control the de-
cisicns of the House of Lords," and "stir up the people
to something like reolUtiOn"—he, the beggar, menace
England with.his power, or bring his principles to bear
against its institutions--he do this ?—but stop !—the
creature must be mad..

Since writing the above, we find the same foolish rav-
ings followed up by the saare 114.rson in the House of
Commons, on Wednesday evening. ROEBUCK is backed
on this occasion by Hu 1E and a member called RIPON.
Here it is from a second edition of the Standard '

" Mr. Roebuck said that he intended next session to bring
forward a motion, the object of which would be to accomplish
that great desideratum. ,He did not see why the hereditary
legislature, a compound of folly .and -ignorance, should he em-
pOwered to pass a veto on acts passed by the rommons.

" Mr. Hume said that, very early iu the next session, he should
bring in a bill on that subject. The upperthouse enjoyed privi.
leges which he was convinced were not calculated to tend to the
public good. He must, however, state that he was convinced
that few if, any in this country wished that the House of Lords
or the privi:eges they possessed, should be abolished. Some re-
forms were necessary in that body, and those he hoped 'soon to
bee eff,cted-

Mr. C. Ripon said that early in the next session he should
move to bring in a, bill to remove the bishrps from the House of
Lords, and another for the purpose that the property now vested
in the deans and chapters, that had no cure of souls, should be
transferred to commis,iouers, to he appropriated to other purposes
that might be determined upon ! ! •

Honest JOSEtilt, it Will be observed, takes care to put
off his motion to a very distant day. This is his usual
way, when he affects any daring, and it is a safe way.
ROEBUCK'S second attack like his first is sheer black-
guardisrn: RIPON contents himself with turning out the
bishops from the House of Lords, and plundering the
deans and chapters. Well! we shall see! Something,
perhaps, will turn up before the next session of parlia-
ment, and should the event occur which we anticipate,
Bath must and shall be contested to the last vote. We
trust every conservative in England will keep his eye on
Bath—find . out who his friends are who reside there—
send in his tribute to Ili; general fund—stir upall the in-
terestbecanbring to bear on the contest—and aid in
flinging out the most worthless and venomous wasp of
the House of Commons. .

Middlesex, we know, will be contested, and Hum,
we feel certain, Will be beaten. He may, however, try
to enter by some other gate as Lord JoiN did, but Hui
pays no money, and has no patronage, so here is a diffi-
culty at once. As to RIPON, wa know nothing about

LONDON LATEST NA ('VS.

Cily, Wednesday Ecening, Half:past Seven o'clock.

The money market has been very animated during the last
day or two, and the evident influence the fine demeanour of the
lords has had upon the ministry has caused no little satisfaction
among the capitalists. The Melbourne squad still cling to
office, the general belief that they would give up before the evi-
dent preponderance of wealth and-taleut arrayed against them
not having been 'borne out by fact, the Consols for money
have cloied this afternoon at 9O .1, -and for the account at
90f ;* omnium bears a premium of 3;
IL is generally unddrstood here that parliament will termi-
nate -its session on Wednesday, but we learn that Sir Robert
Peel will leave' London for Tamworth to-morrow.

At the setulemcnt of the account in our fureigu market on
money, one large and much-respected member of the house was
de'daied a`defaulter.-• Blest of our Foreign Securities have ad-
vanced; the iCrice off' Russian Bonds is 1071 es dividend, which
is now in course Of payment; Spanish Bonds left off at 411 44;
the Scrip at 18 dis., Portuguese 5 per cents. at 87i ::, the
3 pet cents. at sel, I-Stitch 5 per cents. at 102 L the 21 per cents.
at 541, and Colouthiau at 31k.
The following was issued from the General Postoffice this
afternoon:—

" General Ppstoffice, September 2, 1835.
" The mails fur Lisbon will in future be made up and dis-
patched from this ctfice every Friday, instead Of Tuesday, us
heretofore.

" This arrangement will commence Kith the mail to be made
up and despatched from here on Friday next, the 4th instant.
"(Signed) F. FitEELIING, Secretary."

Letters have been received from Genoa to-day to the 25th
ult. These give a most fearful account of the progress of the
cholera there, the number of deaths reported being upwards of
one hundred per day. Among the victims were already num-
bered two noblemen, three physicians, three merchants, and
four bankers. The utmost alarm prevailed, and numbers of the
people were quitting the place. A religious procession had
been made with the usual superstitious solemnity. At the mo-
ment, however, of the departure of the letters a northerly wind
had set in, which, it was hoped, would arrest the progress of the
frightful contagion.
By letters received from Metelni we learn that the English
consul bad fitted out four armed vessels which had succeeded in
capturing two pirates in the Gulf of Adrainitz, and that their
crews had been sent to Constantinople.

Letters were received this morning from Leghorn to the 21st
of August. They furnish us with the following bulletin of the
board of health, by which it will he perceived that on the last
day the chulera appeared to .ite n►aking some progre,a
rew cases. ;Cured. Deal,
August 11
.„ 18
19
1
.; 20

hr 17C03 fiftyimiles a day was considered a prodigious rate of
travellingjalifiartuOlto announce so important an event as the
death of List. ptinik3l; The math limn Edinburgh to London
started otivey. Arthiund occupied sixteen or eighteen days on
the jtarusi....4tAhpoirsonanay now idart from Edinburg!) Thurs-
d e'verri4tii•bie4wo spare days in Loudon,-and be back again
irntbeStiiitt6slru'retiopolis to breakfast on the next Thursday.—
Domcitic Life in EnDland. •

NEW AMERECAN SEA SERPENT.

The New York papers contain the following, which is
as great a •curiosity" as the "old woman" to wlitch it
refers :

"The greatest curiosity in the world, and the most interesting,
particularly to ArneriCans, will be to be seen at the Saloon
fronting on Broadway, in the building recently erected for the
Diorama views. On ISlond,ay'; Aug. 10th, Juice Ileth, the nurse of
Gen. George Washington, (the Father of our country,) who has
arrived at the astonishing age of 16l years, as authentic doeu-
?vents will prove, and in the full possession of her mental facul-
ties, She is cheerful and healthy, and relates many anecdote.
of heryoung master, as she calls him. She speaks also of the
Red Coats, during the 'evolutionary war, but does not appear to
bold them in high estimation.
" During the shgrt exhibition in Philadelphia, she has been
visited by crowds of ladies and gentlemen, among whom were
many clergymen and physicians, who have pronounced her the
most ancient specimen of mortality the oldest of them has es er
seen 'or heard of, and consider her a very great curiosity.
"She has been a member of the Baptist church for upwards
of one hundred years, and seems to take great satisfactiOh in the
conversation of ministers w ho visit her.

" As she remains in this city hut for a few days, on her way
to Boston, she can be seen from 9 A. M., to 10 P. M.
" Admittance 25 cent..

"P. S.— A more interesting account of this extraordinary old
woman will be given hereafter."

We do not complain of the Americans occasionally im-
posing upon the credulity of each other, nor are we ques-
tioning the fact that General Washington's father had a
slave, by name Juice Heth, who is still alive. Those
who choose to believe this are right welcome. The style
of the advertisement, however, is extremely amusing.
"Will be to be seen," is rich, and the "authentic docu-
ments_" are irresistible. That the "old woman" speaks
of the " red coats" we can credit, for some people who
are by no means old, recollect the burning of the "city,
of Washington." What is meant by saying- that Joice
has been a member of the "Baptist church for upwards
of an hundred years," we are unable to conjecture. She
is admitted to have been a slave, and sure we are that
none Of the Baptist sect were tolerated, or even known
in the slave states of America at the distant period al-
luded to. That, however, is their concern.