The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

men drinking—he says drunk—in the house;
and, as a proof that he saw no more, since the
commissioner could not wreak his vengeance
upon the publican Allen for his refusal to with-
draw the flags—a proof that he knew his inter-
ference, with respect to them, was an illegal and
improper interference,—he subsequently directed
informations to be laid against him, for allowing
drunkenness in his house,—singling him out
amongst a hundred other Inn Keepers who might
have been found similarly circumstanced on that
or any other day of the week. Had Allen with-
drawn the Flags and bowed at the feet of the sub-
lime substitute for ft Head Constable—had Mr.
Parker not ousted Mr. William Earle for St. Anne's
Ward, or called at Rose-hill Station—it must be
plain to any man of common discernment that no
information against Allen would have been laid. A
paltry proceeding this, Mr. Dowling—very paltry !
And in what has this mighty affair resulted ?
What is the value of the resolution of the worshipful
bench ? It is ordered that "if any individual what-
ever sh'all directly or indirectly interfere with any
superintendent, inspector, &c.—wink at him, we
suppose, whistle at him, or in any other way notice
or comment upon his vagaries—he shall forthwith
" communicate the fact of such interference to the
Commissioner of Police"—(laying the foundation
for a little new authority, Mr. Dowling ?) why not
to the Head Constable, when such an officer shall
he appointed ?—" who shall lay the same before the
Worshipful the Mayor." And pray what then,
Gentlemen ? What can the May; or what can
the Magistrates, legally do to such a party? The
whole resolution is preposterous and abortive, and
is only calculated to cover its originators with ridi-
cule. 6
But, to have done with this portion of our sub-
ject, let us just ask Mr. Rushton, and his brother
Liberals on the bench, a question. It shall be a
pertinent one. We have now had from them ano-
ther effusion of their venom against the loyal Orange
body. The last time they would not allow any
member of that body to hold a situation in the po-
lice force; and they now seem disposed to carry
their persecution of thim into their, very lodge-
rooms—into their own houses even. When their
last attempt was made, it was sought to be di-
vested of its partizan character by including, in
the ban pronounced against Orangemen, Ribbon-
men as well. It was declared that the latter cha-
racter would be visited with the same penalties
directed against Orangemen. We ask Mr. Rush-
ton, and his fellow Liberals, for the performance of
their promise of impartiality. It has now been dis-
tinctly admitted, on no less an authority than that
of Mr. Hearne, Priest of Granby-row Chapel, in
Manchester—a Repealer—confirmed by Mr. M.
O'Connell, M.P., that Ribbonism is increasing
with giant strides in that town and in Liverpool
that the " Hibernian," and other similar ex-
clusively Roman Catholic societies, are almost
to a man, composed of Ribbonmen. We now ask
of these gentlemen how many of our present
police force—how many of the inspectors—belong
to these societies ? And we shall repeat the ques-
tion, until we get an answer. If the bench of Liver-
pool can afford time to investigate such trumpery
matters as this charge against Mr. Parker, they
can spare time to go into the investigation to which
we now invite and challenge them.

SLANDERS AND SCURRILITIES OF THE

RADICAL PRESS.

All the world knows by what agency the Reform bill
was carried and the whiz radical faction foisted upon the
country as its rulers. ENORMOUS LYING was the lever
used; and to enormous lying and shabbiness the paltry
whig radical press are just now so vigourously applying
themselves that we are afraid we shall he driven to have
the heading of this article stereotyped, for weekly use.
Our employment of it, for the present week, has arisen
from the following paragraph in the Liverpool Journal.

" The Councillor makers in this town are the master tradesmen.
One firm polled at one polling place, on the first of this month, fifty
of their workmen for one candidate ; and they did it without any
disguise—literally lumped' it
"How is the thing done? In the easiest way possible. A
master tradesman—say a worker in iron, or a worker in
bricks—says to his foreman, Pay the rates for all the men who
are householders, and stop it from them at threepence a week.' They
are then on the registry. On the first of November he says to
the same foreman, "Tell So-and-so that he would oblige me,
and I will oblige him, by voting for my friend So-and-so." The
election is won—Toryism is triumphant—and the Councillor so
elected is the tool of the master tradesman—the worker in iron
or the worker in bricks—who elected him."

Here is the commencement of an insinuation. " A
worker in iron or a worker in bricks"—mark the allusion!
—is assumed to pay the rates of his men, deducting them
at twopence a week. So far, however, it is a vague charge
—an assumption, merely, levelled at no one in particular.
In this state it would not suit the prurient tastes of the
party for whose edification it was penned ; and the
writer accordingly proceeds to attribute motives, and to
point out more definitely the subject of his slander. The
object for which rates are thus paid by him is set
down as a sordid one. " The master tradesman," he says,
" moves the councillor, the councillor the committee, and
the committee the council. Little jobs in disguise are
done for little people, and the larger ones for men occu-
pying a larger space in the public eye." He proceeds
then to insinuate that the sale of the Harrington Dock
was such a job, so brought about ; and further intimates
that, by another job, as the price of the exertions of the
" worker in iron and worker in bricks" in support of the
Conservative party, the Herculaneum Estate is to be si •
milarly disposed of to the council or the dock committee.
"Those who make councillors," he says, "can make
docks, and having made them, surely they may sell
them ;" and again he indulges in allusions, in cony exion
with such docks and such intended sale of them, to " the
influence of the anvil and the trowel."

We need not inform any one acquainted with the local
politics of Liverpool that it is intended throughout this
article to impute the most dishonorable and infamous
practices to a particular party, who is well known to be
largely embarked in the Herculaneum Docks. The allu-
sion has been already recognized quite sufficiently to
stamp the article as a libel, for which no judge or jury in
the empire would refuse to convict. The gentleman at-
tacked can, however, afford to despise the attack for suffi-
cient reasons, to which we shall briefly refer. In the
first place, it is based upon a mean betrayal of the con-
fidence, and perversion of the meaning, of a private con-
versation. The writer will understand to what we allude;
and perhaps the circumstance may serve to teach
the gentleman in question, and other good easy people, the
danger of expressing themselves freely, even in badinage,
in such quitters. In the next place, no such sale of
the Herculaneum estate to the Dock Committee—no such

"job," as is insinuated—is likely to be even attempted,
for the ♦ery simple reason that the estate in question is
almost definitely sold already to other parties! Surely
this will content this very virtuous journalist—this too
acutely sensible opponent of jobs in contemplation by
" workers in iron and workers in bricks 1" 'We almost
fancy, by the way, that we can remember a time when his
scent was not quite so keen ; but that was when another
set of men held office, to his own individual profit.
We might have remarked upon the tone of another
article in the same publication, in which Mr. David
Hodgson, the present chairman of the Watch Committee
is attacked with a degree of rancour and coarseness not
easily to be paralleled. The world, however, will readily
discern the feelings which dictate it ; and we, therefore,
refrain from the task as needless.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English funds
maintain very good prices, and, compared with yesterday,
the market presents a firmer appearance. However, Sa-
turday at the Stock-Exchange is generally a day of limited
business, from the early hour at which the house is closed.
Consols for money and the account left off this afternoon
1001 to ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931 to A ; Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents., 102 to A; Long Annuities, 12
1-16; Bank Stock, 204 to 205; and India Stock, 286 to
288. In the foreign market scarcely anything has been
done. The speculative securities were rather flat, and
quotations in this respect show a downward tendency.
Spanish has been most affected by the unfavourable aspect
which affairs in Madrid present. The final prices of the
day were—Spat.ish Five per Cents., 231 to 2-1; the Three
per Cents., 35/- to A ; Portuguese, 52A- to 53; ; Russian
118 to 119 ; Mexican, 358 to 364 ; the Deferred, 151 to ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 62A to ; the Five
per Cents., 99 to a ; Danish, 89 to 90 ; Colombian, 131
to NI ; Chilian, 101 to 103 ; Buenos Ayres, 35 to 37 ;
and Brazilian, 87& to 811.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.—On Saturday a very destructive
fire broke out on the premises of Horne, Thompson, and
Holland, coach makers, Oxford-street, London. The
building consisted of a large factory and workshops. The
whole fabric was destroyed, with nearly all its contents,
amongst which were a number of most magnificent car-
riages, the property of noblemen and gentlemen, with
large quantities of tools and materials of every description.
Messrs. Horne estimate their loss will amount to between
£20,000 and £30,000, a portion of which only is insured
in the Royal Exchange. The premises are also insured
in the same office.

MR. LOVER'S IRISH EVENINGS.—The celebrated au-
thor of " Rory O'More" gave his first " Irish Evening"
last night, at the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George-
street. The company was numerous and highly respecta-
ble ; and the applause with which Mr. Lover's amusing
" instances " of Irish character, as well as his singing of
Iri,h melodies, and the historical and quaint illustrations
with which he introduced them, were received, was a
more legitimate tribute to his merits than can be paid by
our individual pen. He was encored in several of his
songs, and most deservedly ; for in the plaintive melo-
dies he introduced a degree of national and genuine
pathos rarely evinced by public vocalists. His remarks
on the influence of bardic music, in national movements
of old, were striking ; and his entertainment, on the
whole, was highly entertaining. His story of " Paddy
the Piper" and the concluding song of " Rory O'More "
were received with the warmest plaudits. The " bill of
fare " for Friday evening nest (the second night) pro-
mises a still greater treat, the performance being entitled
" Paddy by Land and Sea,"—embracing many peculiari-
ties of his countrymen, and Irish songs of his own OW.
position, &c.