The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

WA RD MEETINGS.

SCOTLAND WARD.

A second meeting of the conservative electors of Scot-
land Ward was held at the house of Mrs. Barton, Bur-
lington-street, on the evening of Tuesday last. Shortly
before eight o'clock, the chair was taken, amid loud cheers,
by Mr. Alderman Houghton.
Mr. Councillor ASPIN ALL rose to propose the first re..
solution, and was, as usual, received in that spirit of un.
bounded enthusiasm which his public and consistent
character through life has so justly deserved. He said
that it afforded him intense pleasure to meet the electors
of Scotland Ward, and to encourage them to pursue that
onward course of conservative action which had so nobly
distinguished them on former occasions. He regretted,
however, to have to inform them that Mr. Thomas
sou had declined the honour of becoming their candidate.
Ile was authorised to say that Mr. Wilson having received
a most respectably and numerously signed requisition to
allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the ward
at the approaching election, and having maturely con-
sidered whether he could conscientiously accept it from
his numerous avocations requiring his constant attention,
had been reluctantly compelled to decline their kindness
on the present occasion. He (Mr. Wilson) begged to be
permitted specially to thank those who interested them.
selves on his behalf and signed the requisition. and to say
that having consented to become chairman of the corn.
mittee for conducting the election of Thomas Vernon,
Esq.—(cheers,)—who had kindly allowed himself to be
nominated in his stead—(loud cheers.)—he most respect.
fully solicited their votes and interest in favour of that
gentleman, being fully convinced that he would do credit
to their choice and justice to their municipal concerns.
(Renewed cheers.) Mr. Aspinall then proceeded to des-
cant upon the merits of Mr. Vernon's character, undoubted
respectability, and staunch conservative principles, and
that he carried on the business of an engineer and boiler.
maker in the ward to a very considerable extent. He
concluded by proposing Mr. Vernon as a fit and proper
person to represent the ward in the Town-council. (Loud
cheering.)

Mr. RICRARD EDWARDS, in seconding the proposi-
tion, said he coincided in all Mr. Aspinall had so justly
observed respecting the numerous qualifications of Mr.
Vernon.

The motion was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. Councillor JONES proposed the second resolution,
to the effect that it was incumbent on the electors to
use every exertion to secure Mr. Vernon's triumphant
return.

Mr. G. KERFORD seconded the resolution, which was
also unanimously adopted.

Mr. Vernon here -entered the room, and was hailed
with protracted cheering. He said that in consequence
of the retirement of Mr. Wilson he had been requested by
a very la►ge and influential portion of the constituency to
become a candidate for the representation of their ward at
the approaching municipal election. The respectful and
urgent manner in which that request had been made,
coupled with his own sense of duty, had induced him to
comply—though very much opposed to his inclination.
He promised, in case they should do him the honour to
return him as their representative, toexert himself to pro-
mote every measure calculated for their benefit and that
of the town. (Hear, bear.) His political principles were
strictly conservative—(cheers)—hased upon the desire to
regard with reverence the sacred injunction of " Fear God
and honour the King," which led him to oppose infidelity,
Popery, and radicalism, and to promote, by every means
in his power, Protestantism, true liberty, and scriptural
education. (Cheers.) But, notwithstanding his high con-
servative principles, vet, if any proved abuses should Lave
crept into those institutions, which had been rendered
venerable by antiquity. he was willing to rectify or correct
them ; and whenever he saw oppression, whethe► tt pro-
ceeded from the radical or the conservative side, he
would ever be its most determined and decided enemy.
(Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. Vernon proceeded
at mucb further length with the enunciation of his
principles.

UpOn the motion of Mr. VERNON, seconded by Mr.
TUC/WAS ELLIOT, a vote of thanks was passed to the
chairman, and the meeting separated, after having given
several rounds of cheering and the Kentish fire.

(ChePts.) Mr. Hornby, who was a staunch conservative,
had also authorised him to state, that be would support
inviolate the present system of scriptural education pur-
sued in the Corporation Schools, and would do his utmost
to carry it out. (Cheers-) He concluded by reading Mr.
Hornby's address to the electors, just then printed, (and
which will he found in another column ;) and said he
should be glad, on behalf of Mr. Hornbv, to answer any
questions that might be put relative to that gentleman.
No question was put, with the exception of whether
Mr. H. had any connexion with Mr. Hugh Hornby, which
was answered in the negative, amidst much cheering.
Mr. INGRAM, seconded by Mr. Sothern, moved the
thanks of the meeting, in complimentary terms, to the
chairman, which was carried by acclamation ; after which
the meeting gave three cheers for the chairman, the like
compliment to Mr. Royden, and three groans for Dan
O'Connell, and then separated.
The election for a councillor, in the roots of Alderman
Lawrence, will take place to-morrow, (Wednesday.)

MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF

BIRKENHEAD

An adjourned meeting of the commissioners of the
township of Birkenhead, was held in the commissioners'
room, Birkenhead, on Thursday, for the purpose ofconfirm-
ing the appointment of a superintendent to the police
department, as well as that of a surveyor of buildings for
the township. The night was very stormy, and there was
but a thin attendance of members. Mr. Jackson, in the
absence of J. D. Case Esq., took the chair. The follow
ing members were present : Messrs. Wm. Jackson, Cole,
Adamson, Kerr, M'Nicoll, Appleton, Hinde, Hammond,
Dale, Pin, and Bentham.
Mr. MALLABY stated the object of the meeting, and
said that the committee appointed to fix upon a superin-
tendent of the police were unanimous in recommending
Mr. Samuel Moss to that situation. Mr. Mallaby then
read the report of the committee on the subject. It
stated the various duties which the superintendent would
have to perform. Independent of his services as super-
intendent of police, he was to act as collector of rates,
and treasurer of the township. His salary was to be £l,lO
per annum, and he was to find adequate surety for the
due performance of his respective situations.
Mr. BENTH AM thought the arrangement a very good
one. He was, however, of opinion, that as the collector
on some days would only collect a few shilling, it would
not be necessary to give him the trouble of going over to
Liverpool to place it in the bank.
The CHAIRMAN said, that there wonld be fear days in
which the collector would not receive £lO. The arrange-
ments, however, had been come to in order to put the
township to as little expense as possible.
Mr. HINDE said, that the collecting of taxes was always
a disagreeable occupation, and the less expense the town-
ship was put to the better.

The CH AIRMAN said, that the committee bad come to
the determination of appointing Mr. Samuel Moss for a
certain time to see if he would answer. It was, however,
his (the Chairman's) opinion, that they could not find a
more suitable person.
Mr. BENTHAM begged to say, that when he had, on a
former occasion, opposed the appointment of Mr. Moss,
it was not that he thought that person unfit for the sitars.
tion, but he thought his appointment at the time was
placing an improper power in the hands of the board. He
had, however, since come to the conclusion that they had
done right, and thought they could not find a more suita-
ble person.
The appointment of Mr. Moss was then confirmed.
The CHAIRMAN said, that the next business of the
board was the appointment of a surveyor of buildings for
the township. There had been five applications to the
committee, three of whom were architects, and the other
two were engineers. The committee had fixed upon Mr.
Walter Scott, architect, for the situation, at a salary of
£250 per annum.

Tile appointment was confirmed by the board, after
which they adjourned.

At the Police-court, on Friday, two publicans were
fined 60s. and 20s. each for infringing the law. One was
acquitted, as was one beerhouse-keeper ; and two of the
latter were fined 20s. each, and one 40s.
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—One morning last week,
during the temporary absence of the servant, who had
gone for a pail of water, leaving the front door open, some
evil disposed person entered the house of Mr. Godfrey,
Renshaw-street, and took thence two over-coats.
A CAUTION TO REPEALERS.—The directors of the
Liverpool docks have given notice, that if any of the men
employed either in the docks or in their police shall take
any part in the Repeal movement of O'Connell, they shall
be discontinued from any further occupation in their ser-
vice. The same notice has been given at Bristol, where a
great number of Irish are also employed.—[This para-
graph has been going the round of the papers, though
there is not the slightest foundation for it.]
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT NEW YORK.—A robbery
was committed on the 3d tilt., by breaking into the pre-
mises of E. and S. S. liockwell, of Broadway, New York,
the particulars of which reached Liverpool by the Caledo-
nia, on the 17th instant. It appears that the thieves
escaped with 108 valuable watches, 60 diamond rings, 60
diamond breastpins, 25 gold rings set with stones, 36 gold
pencil cases, 30 gold guard chains, 20 fob chains, 36 gold
bracelets, a number of acqua-marine, amethyst, and topac
necklaces and brooches, black enamel brooches, and about
15 dozen of silver forks and spoons, &c. &c. One thou-
sand dollars are offered for their recovery.
SPANISH CATTLE.—Another cargo of Spanish cattle
arrived in Liverpool froro;;Cortinna last week. They are
said to be the finest yet received from Spain, and are
worth from twelve to fifteen pounds a-head. The pre-
vious lot proved to he very good catsle when slaughtered,
the meat being of fine quality and with the proper mix-
ture of fat and lean. From the continuance of these im-
portations, it is reasonable to conclude that the trade is
not unprofitable even at present prices, although they are
said to be the lowest that have been known for a dozen
years, Should prices rise to their former level, the im-
portations from Spain would doubtless increase consider-
ably.

CORINTHIAN ESTABLISHMENT, LORD-STREFT.
Great as have been the improvements of late in the prin-
cipal thoroughfares of this town, none, we are justified in
saying, ca❑ be compared with those just effected by Mr.
Tuton, in the above establishment, which has, under his
correct taste and good judgment, become a most pleasing
and conspicuous object from all points whence a view of
it can be obtained. The centre squares of plate glass each
measure ten feet six, being the largest hitherto introduced
into this town. The interior has undergone extensive
alterations, improvements, and embellishments; and, al-
together, the premises may fairly vie with any other of
the kind in or out of Liverpool. We trust the respected
proprietor will meet with an increased support commen-
surate with his great outlay. The establishmen is again
in full operation.—Albion.

THE TERN-OUT SAILORS AT LIVERPOOL.—It will
be recollected that the sailors of Liverpool made several
public demonstrations, a short time since, against the
enormous exactions to which they were subjected, as they
alleged, by the shipping masters of the port for obtaining
them berths on board vessels. They have at length suc-
ceeded in accomplishing one of the oblects they had in
view, namely, that of having a general registry office es-
tablished, where they could have their names and charac-
ters entered on the books on paying the small sum of Is.
each, and where the captains could resort and select their
hands. The General Registry office was opened in Liver-
pool on Thursday morning, under the auspices of the
Seamen's Friend Society, and bids fair to be eminently
successful. The sailors had a great meeting in Liverpool
on Wednesday night, at the Queen's Theatre to celebrate
their triumph over the shipping masters and to pledge
themselves to unity of action and determination of con-
duct.

LUNATICS IN THE WORKHOUSE.—On Friday last,
some conversation took place (partly privately) between
Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, and several of the
overseers of the parish relative to the keeping in the
Workhouse of seven poor lunatics, who, it appeared, had
been sent home from the Asylum at Lancaster. Mr.
Rushton said that it was not proper or legal to keep them
there, where they could have no proper medical attend-
ance from which a cure or alleviation of their disease
could be expected. It was stated in explanation that
there was no room for them in the Liverpool Asylum.
Mr. Rushton contradicted this allegation—stated that be
had made personal enquiry of the governor of that es-
tablishment, and found that he had never been applied
to at all on the subject, and that he had room for ten
patients. He further gave notice to the overseers, that
if the unfortunate individuals were not removed on the
following day, he should inflictjthe full penalty of the law
on them (the overseers). The parties thereupon left the
court.

NEW LIFE-PRESERVER.—lnventions for the preser-
vation of life, in cases of shipwreck or disaster at sea,
have of recent years been very numerous, and several of
them highly ingenious, and apparently of greatpractical
utility. One of the best, if we may judge from its appear-
ance, and the ease and readiness with which it may be
available in cases, or in apprehension, of danger, is that
now on sale at the Union Cloth Hall, North John-street,
and a specimen of which may be seen for a few days at the
office of this paper. It consists of a handsome double-
breasted waistcoat, of fine woollen tartan, lined, or rather
doubly cased within, with strong patent air-tight cloth,
which may be immediately inflated by the breath through
a tube attached to each side near the top, and which may
be instantly raised to the mouth on an emergency. When
thus filled with air, it is capable of sustaining any one in
the water, even though be were no swimmer, and weighed
upwards of 20 stone. It is a garment, moreover, which
would evidently be exceedingly warm and comfortable on
shipboard, and withal very becoming. ( See advert.)

SINGULAR ACCIDENTS FROM LIGHTNING.—During
the thunderstorm on Thursday week the house of Mr. J.
Langsbaw, farmer, at Speke, was struck by lightning.
The electric fluid, it is said, entered through the window,
knocking part of it down. It passed into a room in
which Mrs. Langshaw's brother was sleeping, and must
have crossed very near to him, for it knocked out several
of his teeth and singed all the hair of his head. The walls
of the apartment were blackened, many articles of apparel
which hung therein were perforated as if riddled by shot,
and a chest of drawers completely shattered to pieces.
The lightning next ascended to the lower part of the
building, tore up the floor of the milk house, smashed the
vessels that contained the cream, but did not touch the
crockery-ware on the shelves. Mrs. Langsbaw was seated
at the kitchen fire when the fluid t assed through that
apartment. She states, that the lightning appeared to
settle upon ber knee for a moment, and then disappeared
without doing her any injury. A horse belonging to a
neighbouring farmer was found dead in a ditch, having
been killed by the lightning.

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STATE OF FEELING AMONGST THE PEOPLE
OF IRELAND UPON THE SUBJECT OF RE-
PEAL, AND THEIR PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS
IN THE EVENT OF AN ARMED INSURREC-
TION.

In the present crisis of affairs in Ireland the observa-
tions of every impartial observer of passing events and
character assume a tenfold value ; and we shall make,
therefore, no apology to our readers for offering to their
perusal the following condensation of the facts contained
in two highly interesting letters, which have just been
addressed to the editor of the Morning Chronicle, and
copied from the columns of that paper into the leading
journals of both parties, in England and in Ireland. We
may premise that the writer, whom we may assume to be
of whig politics, had,' before entering upon his inquiry,
arrived at the conclusion, from a contemplation of affairs
in Ireland as represented in the public press, that the agi-
tation for repeal was " a gigantic piece of blarney on
O'Connell's part," kept up to save himself from pecuniary
ruin ; and that the object contemplated was, at the utmost,
the obtaining of an instalment of those measures which
he has been in the habit of clamouring for, as " Justice to
Ireland." His changed conviction, on visiting Ireland,
we give in his own words

" It soon became apparent to me, after my arrival in
Ireland, that although this view of the case was perfectly
correct as far as O'Connell was concerned, the matter had
taken much deeper root. Other leaders beside O'Connell
either appeared on the stage, or skulked behind the scenes ;
and, above all, it was evident that the great mass of the
Roman Catholic peasantry had thoroughly taken the mat-
ter to heart. The people were bursting with repeal. It
was not in the least necessary to put searching questions
to them in order to get at their sentiments. You could
not make the commonest inquiry without bringing on a
repeal discussion. If you asked the price of pork or fish
in the streets, the old women were sure to say something
of this sort after they had answered your question :
Well, sir, when are we to have our rights ? when will our
Parliament sit in College. green ?'
" The people, in short, were determined to have repeal
—by fair means, if possible—but, at any rate, repeal.
They had, moreover, fully made up their minds to the
sacrifices consequent upon a popular rising, and had fami-
liarised themselves to all the contingencies of an insurrec-
tion in an extraordinary degree. There was not a single
important point connected with the subject on which they
were not prepared with a good military answer ; and, in
whatever part of the country the question might be
asked, you were sure of receiving the same answer in
substance, and, generally speaking, in nearly the same
words. The last-mentioned circumstance proves to de-
monstration that the plans of operation with which the
heads of the peasantry were filled did not originate with
themselves, but that they had emanated from some com-
mon source, and were, in fact, the instructions of superior
minds, which had been carefully prepared to suit the exi-
gency of the case, and had been afterwards disseminated
by means of some established organisation among the
people."

To another paragraph we must direct attention, inas-
much as it shows that the labours of Father Mathew,
honest or not honest in intention, are at all events a part,
and an important one of the agitation for repeal. The
writer observes of the peasantry—

" If the rebellion of 1798 was spoken of, the remark
invariably made was to this effect Those days, sir,
were the days of drinking whisky. Our people lay drunk
in the ditches, and the troops obtained an easy victory.
But now we are a sober, temperate, and religious people.'
If I heard this remark once I heard it fifty times."
It has always been imagined that, ignorant and duped
with respect to this question as are the Irish people, they
could never hope to contend successfully against the dis-
ciplined troops which would be brought against them.
Such, however, it appears, as a successful stand in the
field, was never contemplated. The reply of the peasantry
to any remark upon this subject was usually to the follow-
ing effect :—" Oh, sir, you don't suppose we shall give
you the advantage of fighting a pitched battle with us?
We shall rise in our counties and baronies, and do all that
we want (which means making a clean sweep of the Pro-
testants); and when the troops arrive they will find the
people quietly at plough, and we shall be doing our work
elsewhere!" The military defences of the country ap-
peared to be regarded by them with cold contempt. They
declared that the walls of the barracks " would be scaled

in every direction by night, and that the people would
tumble over by thousands, and squeeze the troops to death,
if they did not take them out and throw them into the
river."

Another circumstance, as to the ulterior views and
ex-
pectations of the peasantry, we must give in the graphic
words of the writer :—" There is another horrible pre-
vailing idea, which really startled me the first time I
heard it. I was waiting for my car early in the morning
in the street of a small, sulky, ill-conditioned town, when,
seeing a farmer's wife setting up a potato-stall, I asked
her the price of her potatoes. She gave me a civil an-
swer ; but two men were standing by, one of whom said,
without my having previously addressed him, or having
made any remark calculated to encourage the observation,
We shall eat wheaten bread next year, sir.' I was really
unable to make out his drift, and told him good-humour_
edly that I was very glad to hear it, but begged to know
how the change would be brought about. ` There will be
fewer of us, sir,' was the reply_ I then hewn,' to nniler-
stand his meaning, and, as I encouraged him to speak
out, he proceeded to say that there were 8,000,000 of
them, that the land was not able to bear them, that
1.000,000 or 2,000,000 might be spared with advantage,
and that the country would be for the survivors. I after-
wards heard the same idea, either in whole or in part, in
a variety of forms; but the burden of the song always
was, ' Protestant and Catholic will freely fall, and the land
will be for the survivors.' "

It was a guerilla warfare which was looked forward to ;
and the arms relied upon were the pike and such weapons
as are now used in their agrarian outrages. With respect
to the former, they reminded their catechist that " they
could be manufactured by any common blacksmith, in
large numbers, in the course of a day." The same reli-
ance upon the irregular mode of warfare accounts for the
fact that there has been less drilling, and other similar
preparations for warlike movements, in Ireland, than has
ever been the case previous to any attempted insurrection
in any country.

A great reliance,loo, was placed upon a presumed dis-
position of the army to join the contemplated insurrection.
" Three-fourths of the army" it was commonly observed,
" are Irishmen • and every Irishman is a repealer." The
opposition of the Protestants of the North they depre-
ciated from the assumption that they would not stand by
their landlords. The writer of the letters, from which
we gather these facts, remarks—" on no one occasion did
I hear it stated that they could beat the Protestants of
the North. What they always said was that the Protes-
tants of the North would not turn out at the call of their
nobility and gentry.