The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Orros'Ark correspondent's statement has not surprised us.
Complaints of a similar kind have already reached us. It is
only on a footing w.th all other efforts of the league in their
ruinous objects, one of which is the redaction of the w ges
of the poor man. We h9pe all the parties alluded to as hav-
ing received but five shillings for their two dais' work, wi'l
know how to treat the agents of the league if they dare to
show their faces in the neighbourhood again.
The lines of F. A." are certainly not without merit, but they
would require a few slight alterations to make them suitable
for publication. If others of our poetical correspondents
would devote a little more time to the correction of their versi.
fications, we should be much obliged The publication of
their communications would then l,e much more satisfactory
to themselves, and we should be spared co .siderable trouble.
REGULATIONS AFFECTING STEAM PACKETS.—We have by acci-
aent mislaid the communication of our corespondent on this
subject, but we quite concur in his opinions so far as we re-
member them. It appears that even the river steamers (cros-
sing only to Cheshire.) are allowed twenty minutes to land and
receive their passengers, at George's pier, with little or no, or
comparatively a small quantity of luggage or articles to be
taken on board ; while only the same time is allowed for larger
vessels bound to Ileaumaris, the Isle of Man &c., by which
great inconvenience is occasioned, and danger incurred or
by parties anxious to embark, and to whom sufficient time to
ensure comfort and safety is not allowed. He suggests that
these larger vessels, when they can come alongside the sea-
wall should have more time allowed, which we think. is but
reasonable. Heals. suggests that a separate landing place
should be appointed for them, in which, too, we concur. We
think it is the duty of the " conservators" of our steam-
navigation (which has done much f,r the port) to take the
subject into their speedy and serious consideration. If we
have, from want of recollection. to aught, mistaken our cor-
respondent, or omitted any of his suggestions, he will please
to send us another note, and we shall attend to it. -

Ebb W.tberpool gPtantfarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1844.

If we do not live in such eventful times as those
of the last generation,—if no present master-affiic-
tion, or danger, presses upon our country,—we fear

it cannot be denied that we are surround•.d with
sufficient portents of future and not far distant ca-
lamity. It is true that England is still first amongst
the nations of the world—first in arms, in wealth,
and in civilization. She is still able, as of old, to
maintain her proud position aga nst any power, or
combination of power, which can be brought against
her. Like a mail-clad warrior, confident in her
innate strength and the tried metal of her panoply,
she keeps still her proud stand amidst contempo-

rary powers,—at once the peaceful arbiter of their
contentions and the stern represser of international

wrong and crime. But, though strong externally,
England, nevertheless, bears that within her own
bosom which threatens eventually to sap the foun-
dations of her power, and to yield up to the grasp
of anarchy and destruction the noblest empire upon

which the sun ever shone. A consuming cancer is
gnawing at her heart, which, if not arrested in its
spread, must, at no distant period, induce national
decrepitude, and ultimately bring down upon her
the:fate of those empires which, once almost as
mighty as her own, are now half forgotten things,
whose names are dimly recorded on the page.uf his-
tory, as warnings and emblems to mankind of the
fleeting character of all monuments of human power.

What is it which has been for centuries past the
fruitful source of England's greatness—the basis of
the proud position which she has held in Europe,
and of the happiness of her own people ?- The con-
formity of her institutions to the requirements of
God's word; her firm and faithful attitude of pro-
test against all the error with which self-seeking
man has striven to overlord the plain teachings of
that word. From these have arisen the moral in-
fluence which she has been able to exercise amongst
nations. From these have resulted the rational
liberty which she has been enabled to afford to
Englishmen ; their freedom of thought, of speech,
of action ; and the protection which they have been
enabled to afford to oppressed humanity in all climes
and under all circumstances. England has been
great and prosperous in proportion as she has been
FAITHFUL—in proportion as she has clung to the
Truth; and she has retrograded in power and hap-
piness as she has swerved from the assertion and
maintenance of the truth.
From such a fatal backsliding—from such a na-
tional abandonment of the high principle which
once animated the councils and the mind of the
British nation, we look for the evil days which we
fear are in store for us. Where is now to be found
the manly recognition of our duty—the first of all
duties which we owe as a favoured and Christian
people—to support against every assailant, external
and internal, and at whatever sacrifice, national or
individual, that pure Protestant church which we
acknowledge to hold in its holy keeping, the truth—
all the truth, and nothing beyond the truth—which
is our surest guide in legislation as in the every-
day affairs of life ? Alas ! we see it not in any one
of the great parties which now control the destinies
of England. It is not in fainting, time-serving Con-
servatism, any more than in that cold and haughty
abstraction which we call " Liberalism." It is not
to be found in our philosophy; it is rarely even to
to be heard, fully and plainly enunciated, from our
pulpits. In profession, we revere the wisdom of
that Book, of which our Church is the divinely-
appointed expositor ; but, in practice, we treat that
wisdom as mere theory, excellent and admirable in
itself, but too transcendental to be taken as our guide
in the regulation of our mundane affairs.
To the working of this infidel spirit—we must at
all hazards call things by their fitting names—to the
working of this infidel spirit, which has taken hold
of the national mind, is directly traceable the bulk
of those evils which now afflict and distract society,
and whose issue we dread to contemplate. But
more especially we trace them to this spirit animat-
ing the legislative bodies. Can it he a legislature
acting upon the teachings of the word of God which
refuses, cr neglects, to extend the borders of his
Church in our land—which sees spiritual destitu-
tion on every side, and yet hangs back—" counting
the cost"—from the plain Christian duty of remov-
ing that destitution Can it be such a legislature
which, with the divine command ringing in its ears,
"suffer little children to come unto me," prefers to
hand them over, chained in ignorance, to the con-
suming Moloch who demands them for factory
toil ? Is it such a legislature which upholds a poor
law, whose iron despotism tramples in the dust the
weak and the afflicted—whose leading principle is,
that " the poor shall cease out of the land"—that
human philosophy shall work out what divine autho-
rity has declared shall "never" be ? It is not such
a legislature. It is one which palters with its own
convictions of right; and prefers the teachings of
temporary and mistaken worldly expediency to the
solemn warnings of divine truth.
The fruits of such a forsaking by the legislature
of the only faithful guide, in this life, of the cause
of nations as of individuals, are to be traced abun-
dantly in the unsettled temper of the national mind,
acting upon, nr aggravated by, the physical evils
which have been induced in our social system. We
have taught our masses, whilst we have been chain-
ing them down to the necessities of an artificial
state of society, to look forward to wild and specu-
lative social changes for the improvement of their
condition ; and they are, even now, fast progressing
towards that state of feeling in which the resort to
physical force will be welcomed for the working out
of their various objects. In one portion of the land
the incendiary is at work; and the very food for
which his hungry family are crying out is nightly
sacrificed to the gratification of ignorant and savage
revenge. On every side agitation is busy, directing
the passions of the many against the persons and
the property of the few;
whilst dissent, infidelity,
and Popery, leagued together in an unholy and re-
volting confederation, are insidiously approaching
the consummation of their labour of generations

past—the destruction of those noble institulions
which have formed the machinery by which Eng-
hnd's greatness has been advanced, and of that
Protestant Church which has formed their bulwark,
and the bulwark of the liberties of Europe.

And where is the loyalty and lofty principle by
which this approaching tide of evil is to be stemmed ?
Where is the point around which faithful men are
permitted now to rally in defence of the institutions
they revere ? It is not in a Government of pro-
fessing Conservatives that the lofty patriotism and
stern unyielding principle, which alone can save us,
are to be found. It is not in the legislature, in any
great party, in any constituted authorities, that such
a rallying point is afforded. The leading men of
all parties sedulously discourage a bold and prompt
stand for the truth. They teach us that we are to
he saved from the destroyer by concession to his
insolent requirements —by the abandonment of
stronghold after stronghold—by the abjectness with
which we bate our breath in his presence, and
prostrate ourselves at his command. We must not
only abstain from contending for the truth, but even
cloak its very expression, lest we should offend our
rampant assailants I We must walk through the
world with a lie upon our face—with a smirk of
conciliation upon our lips, whilst the loyalty which
is burning in our hearts is revealed only in corners,
breathed only with closed doors, and in suppressed
1 whispers. Yes, whilst Popery carries herself erect
in our streets, mocking us with her flaunting em-
blems; whilst disaffection parades before our eyes
its rebellious insignia, and tells us to our teeth that
it is only waiting its fitting opportunity to fall upon
us sword in hand ; amidst the scoff of infidelity and

the exulting triumph of many-hued Liberalism, the
loyal Protestant subject alone must hide his feelings
and principles from the world, though they be those
of devotion to the throne and the institutions of his
native land ; must strike the banner dear to his
heart, and lay aside the emblems which all else may
wear; must be humbly content if, on the anniver-
sary of a day sacred in memory, he is permitted to
go into the Church of his fathers, protected from the
savage insults of a ruffian mob by a posse of armed
police ! To this degradation—this folly—we have
come in once loyal and Protestant England !
What can we look for from further pursuit of
such a course as this, by which loyalty is repressed,
whilst the attacks of disloyalty and outrage against
the institutions of our land are invited by continual
concessions, regulated in amount and in depth of
insult by the fierceness with which they are de-
manded We can look for nothing save individual
shame and national disaster.

The town of Birmingham return a Conservative
member as its representative!— Birmingham, the
seat of the famed political association—Birming-
ham, whose Chartists and Radical Reformers threat-
ened once to march upon London, and coerce into
the adoption of " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing
but the bill", the Throne, the Lords, and the Com-
mons ! We can imagine the start of surprise with
which the venerable Earl Grey would receive the
intimation of this astounding fact; how Lord Al-
thorp would shudder over the mutability of human
things, as he contemplated the utter powerlessness
of a body with whom, in their day of pride, he
coquetted so lovingly; what contortions of delight
would agitate the countenance of Lord Brougham
and Vaux at the thought that, although now he is
not singular in his conversion from the miry paths
of Radicalism, into a path more wholesome and
cleanly, though a little devious, " Brummagem," as
his lordship politely prounounces it, is before him ;
has repudiated its past political associations, and
arrived, as it were, per saitens, 'at the desired haven
of downright, honest, genuine, oldfashioned Toryism
which his lordship has yet to learn.

Well, admirably have our fellow-countrymen in
that locality redeemed themselves; and from our
hearts we thank them. A few more such victories
as this, and we should begin to hope that England
was still sound at heart, and faithful to her noble
institutions. A few more of such encouraging
manifestations of the spread of Conservative feeling
amongst us, and we should labour at our arduous
task in the full confidence that we were at length to
be bountifully rewarded for many a weary hour
which, in common with our brother journalists, we
have devoted to the advocacy of the good cause,
amidst discouragement and almost in hopelessness.
As it is, we hail this as the forerunner, at least, of
similar triumphs to come ; and we thank our
brethren in Birmingham who have thus shown to
the oppressed constituencies of the empire what
can be achieved when men set about their work in

earnest.
A very casual examination of the polling on Sa-
turday will prove that there is no mistake in the
reaction which has taken place, as exhibited in this
happy result. In the general election for 1835 there
voted for
Thomas Attwood l7lB
J. Scholefield
Richard Spooner 915
the leading Liberal being thus 803, and the second
745, over the Conservative candidate.
In the general election for 1841 there voted for
G. F. Muntz
Joshua Scholefield
Richard Spooner 1825
the leading Liberal being thus 350, and the second
Liberal 138 ahead of the Conservative candidate.
On this occasion the following are the returns o
the hourly polling :

Spooner. Scholefield. Sturge.
9 o'clock .. .. 150 66 21
10 o'clock .. .. 619 315 119
11 o'clock .. .. 989 588 170
12 o'clock .. .. 1,283 813 227
1 o'clock .. .. 1,494 967 247
2 o'clock .. .. 1.611 1,075 265
3 o'clock .. .. 1,806 1,214 288
Final close .. .. 2,101 1,731 345
Majority for Spooner over Scholefield .. 370
Over Sturge .. • • • • • • 1,760
Over both together .. .. .. 25
Mr. Scholefield's committee gave Mr. Spooner three
more votes than reported by his own friends.
It is worthy of remark that:whilst, between 1835
and 1841, the late Mr. Scholefield had increased his
strength at the poll from 1660 votes in the former to
1963 in the latter year, or less than one-fifth ;Mr
Spooner in this time had doubled his strength, by
an increase from 915 to 1825. In this contest the
Conservative strength in the borough appears to
have gained 276 votes—the difference between 1825
votes polled for Mr. Spooner in 1835 and 2101„
the number polled on Saturday. The liberal
strength on the contrary has declined in actual
number of votes from 1825 polled for Schofield, sen.
in:1835 to 1731 polled for Schofield, jun. in 1844.
It is urged, we are aware, by the liberal party, in
extenuation of their defeat, that they have been
thrown over on this occasion by the marplot pro-
pensities of friend Joseph Sturge. But, if this
were even so, what does it prove ? That mere
whiggery and ultra-radicalism, which once pulled
briskly together towards their common prey, have
become sick of each other's discovered wog thless-
ness, and refuse further contact, whilst moderate
men, disgusted with the dishonesty of both, pre-
fer to fall back into the ranks of loyal supporters of
the institutions and of the liberties of their country.
The plea, however, is sufficiently disposed of, by
the fact, already noticed, that the votes recorded for
tr opponents.
exceed the combined amount of both
What would they have more than
such a beating ?

We have to congratulate our fellow-townsmen of
th 3 Orange order upon the loyal and truly praise-
worthy conduct displayed by them on the occasion
of their anniversary on Friday last. It was more
than praiseworthy ; it was a noble demonstration of
their obedience to the laws, to the constituted autho-
rities, and to the teachings of that divine Word
whose direct bidding is, that Christian men should
" submit themselves to the powers that be"—an
obedience freely rendered, even whilst those who
rendered it were grieving under unmerited obloquy
and discouragement, heaped upon them virtually by
those authorities themselves. In the language of
the eloquent preacher who addressed them on the
occasion, we can say to the Orangemen of Liver-
pool, " Your proceedings of that day we cannot but
regard as in unison with your professions ; you
went openly to the house of your God to praise and
to pray according to the sublime ritual of the church
of your country ; you asked of a minister of that
church to offer from his proper place a word of in-
struction and exhortation, and you tendered your
contributions to a strictly national and church pur-
pose—the Blue Coat School of your town." How
much more grateful it must be to every sincere fol-
lower of Orangeism to hold within his own breast
the consciousness of having deserved such com-
mendation, not only at the time it was addressed to
him by his minister, but by his conduct up to the
close of that day, than could have been any tempo-
rary triumph over the faction which reviles him and
his, achieved by disobedience and disloyal and un.l
christian resistance to those having authority, Ill-
though erroneously and unjustly that authority might
have been wielded !

We may now, surely, ask of those Conservatives
of Liverpool, by whom Orangeism is discouraged,—
who regard an Orangeman as something deadly and
venomous, to be frowned down, or coerced into
silence by the stern arm of the law,—is this such a
body of men as its malignant enemies have painted
to the world ? Compare the conduct upon which
we have remarked above, and which every inhabitant
of Liverpool had an opportunity of witnessing for
himself, with the conduct of the antagonist party
amongst us on any past occasion. Orangemen were
called upon to abstain from anything resembling a
procession through the streets of the town. They
complied. They were warned that, unlike every
other society, they were not even to hoist a flag from
the windows of the lodge-rooms in which they
dined; and they submitted even to this arbitrary
requirement. They were dogged in the streets, in-
sulted and assailed by disorderly ruffians,—they
were beset even in the sacred building in which they
had assembled for prayer and praise ;—and yet they
preserved their proud position, as patient and loyal
men, rather than forfeit the pledges and the resolve
which they had made to preserve the peace. Show
us, gentlemen, one instance like this, of forbearance
on the one band, and studied provocation to out-
rage on the other, and we shall confess that we
have nothing to be proud of—nothing for which to
thank our loyal Orange fellow-townsmen.
But no such instance can be pointed to; and
here, when this anniversary has passed over, we
may without impropriety and with justice assert,
that the treatment which Orangemen have met with
of late, and for years past, at the hands of the local
authorities of the town, has been the reverse of fair,
the antipodes of considerate and kind. "Repeal"
has held its meetings amongst us, has paraded its
sittings and displayed its revolutionary insignia,—
has received the countenance of magistrates, alder-
man, and members of the Council. No hostile
mobs invaded these meetings, where sedition was
spouted by furious incendiaries ; no threat of the
vengeance of licensing magistrates was levelled at
the houses in which they were held. Yet loyal and
peaceful subjects—supporters of the Throne, and
the institutions of their country—have bare tole-
rance from the authorities, and scarcely permission
to meet for the advocacy and celebration of an im-
portant era in theircountry's history, without danger
of life or limb from the attacks of the unruly and
disaffected. We ask of our Conservative fellow-
townsmen should these things be ? And to the
Orangemen themselves we would repeat the affec-
tionate advice of Mr. Nolan:—

" Many of you have, no doubt. trials and privations to
endure. You may have experienced disappointment
where you reposed confidence. You may lament that
your cause and yourselves have met with coldness and
unconcern where von expected, because you deserved,
both sympathy and support ; and this even in high places.
Still you have duties to perform ; if others neglect or for-
sake their duties, that is no reason for us to be remiss in
the discharge of ours, and we are not without encourage-
ment, for " we know in whom we have believed," and he
will never desert his cause, nor abandon those that put
their trust in him ; we know that we shall, we must be,
victorious in the end."

THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NV:MT.—Me Engliell stocks
to-day have been good without any great deal of business,
and prices maintain a firm appearance. Consols for
money and the account left off 998 to 4-; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 100 to 8; Three and-a-Half per Cents. Re-
duced, 1024 to 103; New Three-and-a-Half f;er Cents.,
1014 to 102; Long Annuities, 12 9-16: India Stock, 285
to 286; India Bonds, 94 to 96 premium; South Sea Stock,
115; Exchequer-bills, 765. premium ; and Bank Stock,
199 to 200. 'll3e foreign securities were but little altered,
dealings being exceedingly limited. Spanish Five per
Cents, left off 221 to 4 ' • the Three per Cents., 321 to i;
Portuguese. 45 to 46; Peruvian, 26 to 27; Mexican, 35*
to 36; the Deferred, 15-1 to 16 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cent.- 61* to 4; the Five per Cents., 101* to $;
Da:ash, 88 to 89 ; Coloniblan' 131 to ; Chitian. 103 to
105; Buenos Ayres, 34 to 36; Brazilian, 821 to 831;
and Belgian, 103 to 104.
Teis WHATHER..—The country in this district has for
the last week been much refreshed by frequent showers,
and mry now be said to have attained its meridian of
summer splendour. The only field crop in which the
hopes of the husbandman have yet been disappointed was
the hay, and this, it is anticippted will be nearly made up
by the after gra's in autumn. The wheat (the golden
crop) still looks beautiful, and, with the feeding rains and
a favourable gathering, will probably be heavy in yield,
and good in quality., The spring corn is improving fast,
and indeed all products of the field. Garden stuffs are
abundant and moderate in price. Large quantities of
cherries, gooseberries, currants, &c., are on sale in the
markets, streets, and shops ; and we have even glen
hand-cartlolds of pears; some of these are probably from
the south. We bad yesterday morning, shortly after eight
o'clock, a heavy shower of rain mingled with some hail,
and accompanied by two or three claps of thunder, which
was succeeded by one of the most agreeable and clear
days we have enjoyed during the season, the air being
(with a brisk breeze propelling the fleecy clouds) balmy
and envigorating.
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proceedings of Friday last. The body were, it seems,
guilty of two heinous offences in his eyes. Imprimis,
they went to church ; secundo, " there was no row"—
they broke no heads; or in other and truer phrase, by
their forbearance under insult, they disappointed the
craving of the pet bludgeoneers of Popery, and of a cer-
tain Milesian section of the police force, of a pretext for
getting up a row and breaking beads on their own ac-
count. It would have been infinitely be'ter, however, if
the Journal, before venting his spleen at these proceed-
ings, so provokingly peaceful, bad taken the precaution
to be well informed respecting them. Such a precaution
would have saved him the utterance of numberless im-
pertinences, and not a few falsehoods. As a specimen,
he states that Mr. R. Harbord walked at the head of a
sort of procession from the Commercial-hall to St.
John's Church with " an Orange lily in his button hole."
Neither Mr. Harbord, nor any of the gentlemen who
went from the Commercial-hall, wore an Orange lily, or
any other description of favor. Again, we are told that
Mr. Harbord " sportecrin his left digitals the only decent
Orange wipe in the procession"—such wipe, meaning
handkerchief, thus translated into thief's slang, for the
information of his readers, no doubt. Mr. Harbord dis-
played no such thing, for one satisfactory reason amongst
others, that he had not an Orange bandkerchilf to dis-
play. The remainder of our contemporary's description
is probably just as true as the portions which we have
quoted ; and its wit, we can assure our readers, quite as
classical and elegant.
It will be seen by an advertisement in this day's paper,
that the old established drapery businrs, so long merito-
' riously conducted by Mr, M'Connell, in Bold-htreet, has
fallen into the Lands of Mr. Kever, of Manchester, whose
exertions, if anythiug like those of his predecessor, will
j we doubt not meet public approval.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.