The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-18 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS,

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William Smith, Twickenham, Middlesex, baker.
George Bulmer, York, dealer.
Abraham Huddlestone, Bilton-with-llatroate, Yorkshire, hotel..
eeper.
Edward Burton, Manchester, wine-clnaler.
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Myer Myers, Birmiughath, factor.
DIVIDENDS.
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Feb. 6, J. WCammon, Liverpool, merchant. —Feb. 8, ILLeathon,
Liverpool, merchant.—Feb. 6, W. Jacks, Bristol, merchant. —Feb.
9, J. Swain, Manchester, woollen-draper.-4'eli. 14, A. Taylor.. Roy-
ton, Lancashire, cotton-spinner.—Feb. 14, T. Brockbank,
and E. Brockbank, George-street, near Carlisle, timber-merchant..
—Feb. 5, J. Doyle, High Holborn, metal-sash and fin-lilbt-manutie.turer.—Feb. 6, IL Cripps,Aldersgate-street, wine-nierehant.—Fel-. r,
J. Widdowson, Fleet-street, goldsmith.—Fub. 6, W. Farey,
Prince's-
street, Lambeth, lime-burner.—Feb.l3, D.Grant. Kensington. boihkr.
—Feb. 8, W. Neale and R Hale, Toolov-str,or, Southwark, drug-
gists.—Jan. 26, J. Burke, Greenwich, licensed-victualler.—Feb. 11,,1.
It. Lankester, Woodbridge, Suffolk, brancly,•inerch:lnt.—Vel,, 6, B.
and W. Ryland, Savage-gardens, eorn-factors.—Feb. n, Da wsfm.
Waltham, near. Grimsby,-Lineolnsliire, tanner.—Feb. 7, T. Clinullnr.
Bow-lane, Cheapside, carpenter.—Feb. 7, W. Rowloy. Great queen-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, saddlers'-tronmonger•---Pcb• 6, J.E.wore.
Bedminster, near Bristol, tanner.—Feb. 7, F. Jaques, Kent-street
Lambeth-walk, grocer.—Feb. 6. T. Laycock, idinories, slonseller.—
Feb. 6. W. Pope, Portwood, Cheshire, cotton-spiuner.—FA. 6, H.
Newport, Bognor, Sussex, wine-merchant.—Feb. 8. J. Devey, Bishop-
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8, J. Firth, Nlanchester, cotton-spinner.
Wilton, Wiltshire,
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Feb. 5, W. Svrainson, m on, ware ouseman.—Feb. 6, S. G. and
L. Hattersley, Bradford and Keighley, Yorkshire, machine-maker...
—Feb. 11, T. 11. Granger, Leeds, money-scrivener.—Feb. 5, J. Mar-
shall, Bradford, Yorkshire, ironmonger.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be st►'wn to the con-

trary on or before the sth day of February.
.1. Hookey, Portico, Hampshire, linen-draper.—E. Foster, hind-
dersfield, carver.—W. Pagett, Birmingham, hosier.--C. Wessell, Bris-
tol, grocer.

ENSUING DRAWING Rooms.—The Queen will hold drawing
rooms at St. James's, on Monday, Feb. 25 (the Queen's birth-
day); ThursdaY, March 21; Thursday, April 18; Thursday,
May 16; Tuesday, May '2B (the King's birth-day); and Thurs-
day, June 30.
HER MAJESTY'S CHAMBERLAIN.—The Gazette of Tuesday
night contained the appointment of the Earl of Denbigh to be
her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain.
The same Gazette announced the elevation grAiv.,,f..r_quica
of Stafford and Cleveland to the ducal di ii W4u, e - get
the Duke of Sutherland, the latter as Duk Okiireta 44, 1.:,
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Gazette also announced that his Majestiiit re di.
nity of a baron of the United Kingdompig •lir%rit.stet • r
i and the heirs male of his body lawfullY! elei 40.1‘ 3ple-; 0
Baron Western, of Rivenhall, Essex. -,,,A ,):,..:x4( :;./.„..---:.-
We understand, from good authoritkOltra:, ivai*--..
intention of Ministers that the Parlia .ent. -'a 041t1*.44
the 29th inst. the day specified for the retu ; t-It' 414 C-four
or five days will be occupied in swearin. .4.SeVars,,Zia
other preliminaries, when the House, after the chditWOCA the
Speaker, will proceed with the regular business of the Session.
Morning Chronicle

THE LONDON PRESS.

THE BALLOT.

We cannot think so meanly of the sagacity of the
majority of those who cry out fur the ballot as to suppose
they really imagine it capable of working such a social
miracle as that of depriving men who, by the possession
of great wealth, have the power of conferring benefits
and inflicting injury upon others; of the derivative power
of controlling aid directing the conduct of others. What,
for instance, would Lord Milton or any other tyrant of
his description care for the ballot as a means of circum-
scribing their authority over the votes of their tenants or
dependants ? He would laugh it to scorn. " I can no
longer," he would say, " know by the poll-book how each
individual of my tenantry or dependents exercises his
franchise at the election ; but this at least I know, that I
will henceforth have neither tenant, nor dependent, nor
tradesmen, who does not afford me the best possible gua-
rantee that he will always vote as I wish, by always
speaking upon politics as I speak." This would no
doubt be the language of Lord Milton, and his tenants
and dependents would quickly discover that he meant
fully as much as he said. After the enactment of the
ballot no man on the Fitzwilliam estates, who was not
prepared to be expelled by force or circumvented by chi-
canery, would dare to be a conservative in his political
professions. A Conservative, did we say ? Which of
them all, we wonder, would dare to be a moderate poli-
tician of any shade of opinion ? Is it not manifest that,
from the moment of this enactment they milk, one and
all, if they retained any value for the favour, or cherished
any hope of the justice even, of my lord, become, in their
every-day language and professions, furious and reckless
levellers ? The ballotists will, perhaps, say that men are
not bound to be what they profess. Thus their hope is
built upon habitual hypocrisy. But even this wretched
hope would fail them. Nature has happily ordained that
very'few men should be capable of habitual hypocrisy.
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, in which the daily
language of men is prevented, by some strong compul-
siim, from assimilating to their opinions, their opinions
will gradually- assimilate themselves to their daily. lan-
guage. Lord Milton wouldmake his tenants tell the lie
till they themselves believed it. Men who express opi-
nions in society are often called upon to defend them, and
how bad an advocate is he who cannot convince himself I
But in Lord Milton's case, and in that of other Irish land-
lords of the same politics, this gradual change, by which
what is at first hypocrisy is imperceptibly transmuted into
conviction, would be wholly unnecessary. They would
only have to resolve that all their tenants should be Pa-
pists, and, with the priest on their side, every thing would
be secure. The efficacy of the ballot would be put to
shame by the superior efficacy of the confessional, and
revolutionary principles would, at every election, mar-
shal their forces and call over their muster-roll, by the
invisible arms and the inaudible voice of superstition—
arms and-voice which, when employed in such a cause,
are equally trustworthy and irresistible.
Other landlords of every shade of political opinion—
other men besides landlords, enjoying, from whatever
cause, the power to bestow good and inflict evil—would
be compelled, in self-defence, to follow the example which
tyrants like Lord Milton would be the first to set. And
the ballot would be speedily proved a delusion, for any
other purpose than that of agitating society during its
discussion, and demoralizing and degrading society after
its enactmeut.-111orning Post.