The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

something ominous in this. In the court, in the camp—
on the hustings, and at the bar—Mr. KELLY has hitherto
been found the successful opponent of Mr. RIGaY WAsoN.
He, is apparently Mr. WAsoN's evil spirit. He comes
before him in his robes and points to Philippi. He stands
before him in plain habiliments and points to Philippi.
Wherever he obtrudes himself the WASON is rendered
powerless. There can be no blood of the KELLYS in that
of the ancient house of WAsos. When the former shows
itself, the latter curdles, and the muscles quail. We are
no believers in dreams, or the stories of the old women,
but there is a repulsive affinity, if we may be allowed the
paradox, between the KELLYS and the WASONS. How it
is, we know not, and we are superstitious enough not to
be over anxious to inquire. Mr. WAsoN- has been de-
feated. We lament the catastrophe ; but he cannot say—

" WE DID IT."

We take shelter under the poetry of an " ancient
poet," as Mr. EWAET " happily" expresses it, and
we add—

Namque inscitia est
Adversula stimulum cakes.

Which we translate for the benefit of Mr. EWART'S
committee as follows :—" It is gross folly to struggle
against the spur."

The nomination, at Newton for the south division of
this county takes place to-morrow, and the election will
commence 'on Tuesday next. We hope and trust that
every elector is prepared to do his duty. We cannot
think that any member of this religious community will
again commit the inconsistency of returning to parlia-
ment a man who denies all the leading truths of christi-
anity. Mr. GEORGE WILL,IAM WOOD is an avowed
unitarian ; and will those who revere the institutions of
their country, and have any regard, for the word of GoD,
vote for a candidate who would use the power they might
confer to destroy the one and desecrate the other?
When Mr. WOOD brought in his bill to admit dissenters

into the universities, it was in vain for him to concea

his real object, which was to bring obloquy Upon, and if
possible throw into the shade, the thirty-nine articles of
the Church of England. It was an insidious attack upon
the church and her doctrines through the universities.
This ambitious socinian imagined that he could pollute
the stream by poisoning the fountainpand that by giving
to infidelity the polish of learning, and the decorations
of honour, he could raise his fallen and worthless sect in

the estimation of.tnankind. It was a daring attempt,
but he overshot his mark. Even the whigs took alarm
at the consequences and is bill was smothered.
Let the same fate attend Mr. WOOD'S pretensions on

the present occasion, and all will be right. Indepen-
dently of his obnoxious principles, which every sincere

lover of his country should guard against—which every
parent should place far away from her WOOD

has neither rank, nor influence, nor connexion in the
county to entitle him to represent us in parliament. It
is discreditable to Lancashire that he has sat so long;
and, if the electors have any pride, or any sense of that
duty which is due at this crisis to their King and country,
they will not lose an hour in rejecting Mr. WOOD, and
making choice of Lord FRANCIS EGERTON.
As to Lord MOLYNEUX, we have yet to learn what
claims he possesses either as a statesman, a moralist, an
orator, or a man of business, upon the electors of South
Lancashire. Lord MOLYNEUX may be a good judge of a

horse, a setter, or a 'game .cock ; but we do not want such
men in the House of Commons. A tremendous pair of
lungs may be marketable in Clayton-square; but who
ever heard them at work in St. Stephen's, except in lead-
ing a cheer or outgutturalizing a•cough ? Perhaps Lord
MOLYNEUX'S silence in the house is a proof of his pru-
dence ; but has he been useful, or has he distinguished
himself in other respects? As to his principles,. we are
not- quite sure that lie has any. He calls himself a
radical reformer ;" but whether he applies the term to
manners or to sporting—to fighting or jollifying—we
cannot even conjecture. If, however, in his last new
character of " radical," he intends to spoliate the church,
rob the fundholder, and make a general division of pro-
perty, like our own Mr. Wm. EARLE, he is a very un-
worthy and ungrateful representative of his ancient house.
We do not mean his lordship any disrespect, and should
not much object to join
.him at a hand of whist; but we
contend be is a very unfit person to represent so exten-
sive-a community in parliament. If the electors be of
our opinion, as we trust they are, they will lose no time
in throwing the noble lord overboard, and returning the
Honourable Mr. WILBRA.HAM.

The returns from Ireland are of the most exhilarating
kind, and there is every prospect that O'CONNELL and
RUTIIVEN will be beaten in Dublin. The repeaters have
been defeated in Cork, and so much has the influence of

the great agitator waned that he had the greatest diffi-
culty in securing tha election for his son in the borough
of Tralee, situated on his own estate in Kerry.

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All the respectable Roman Catholics are voting agains
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the repealers and the paraders of death's heads and cross
bones. The conduct; of Mn. LATOUCHE, a Roman
Catholic, and one of the best men in Dublin, in voting
and speaking against O'CONNELL and his party, reflects
on him everlasting honour, and will, we trust, be at-
tended with the happiest results.

We beg to direct attention to the correspondence of
our reporter in reference to the conduct of the persons
who compose the committee of Mr. Was. EWART. For
littleness of mind, arrogance of manners, and waspish-
ness of temper they are quite matchless. They were
about to celebrate their chance s uocess, and yet they had
not the spirit nor the good sense to allow their narrow
feelings to expand fora single moment. Even before the
wine was in the wit was out. The very name of the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD, associated with that of an indivi-
dual who has no more than a professional and subordi-
nate connexion with it, puts them all into a fume, like an
overheated bottle of small beer. And yet these fretful
and fussy creatures call themselves liberals, and profess
to be admirers of a free press! It would be comical
freedom if they had the power to. control it. Luckily,
however, they have no such power. The public have
given them a fair trial, and they are now convinced; that
more conceited boobies, or more ignorant charlatans, or
more venomous tyrants, never lifted a knife or wielded
a spoon in the cause of vulgar patriotism. We intended
to give them the benefit of a full and impartial report,
but we are glad that their own captious proceedings,
which are a disgrace to Liverpool, have spared us the
trouble of describing a scene of intoxication which, in nu
merous instances, ended in the watchhouse. The officers
of police, we understand, are ready to, testify that they
never had such a night or such a hcuseful of drunken
disorderlies. The greater portion of the company were
carried home in omnibuses in a state which we shall not
attempt to describe.

Loan SANDON.—The friends and constituents of this much
respected nobleman will be glad to learn that an engraving of
the portrait of the noble lord, painted by T. C. 'Thompson,
Esq., is about to be executed by one of the first artists in Lon-
don. We understand that tha engraving will be published by
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subscription.

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In the Sessions Court, on Wednesday, a boy, about twelve
years old, was indicted for stealing a gold watch and a silver
guard from the dwelling-house of a gentleman. Two women
were indietecrfor receiving the watch, knowing it to have beau
stolen, and an old man was indicted with them fur receiving the
guard. There was ho evidence against the boy, who was ac-
quitted, and some discussion took place between the learned
Recorder and the bar as to the poiet of law, whether, A being
indicted for stealing and B for receiving, in the event of the
acquittal of A, the indictment must not fail as regarded B. The
opinion of the bar was that the indictment against the receiver
.must fail, the presumed stealer having been acqitted, and the
two woolen and the man were consequently discharged. In the
course_of the same day a precisely similar case came on, but
attended with different results. A. lad was indicted fur stealing.
a coat, and a young tvoman was indicted as the receiver. It
appeared, however, that the only evidence whit h Could convict
the boy was that of the party indicted with him—and her evi-
dence not being good in law, the Recorder directed the boy to
be acquitted; but told the jury that although there was no
proof of the stealing there was ample testimony of the receiv-
ing, and although a short time since several persons standing
in the same situation with the female prisoner had been ac-
quitted, he should recommend them to consider of their verdict
as regarded her. The jury accordingly found her guilty; but
the learned Recorder, in consequence of the doubt before ex-
pressed, deferred passing sentence.
The Earl of Wilton's Christmas dunation of clothing to the
poor in the neighbourhood of Heaton Park, took place last
week, when were distributed to 398 persons the following
articles, viz. :-1119 yards of linen, 948 yards of flannel, 93
yards of woollen, and 110 blankets.

Quick SamiNc.---•The ship Victoria, •Copt. Merrill, sailed
hence to-New York on the 12th of November, was only 23 days
on her passage, and on Wednesday evening she arrived back
here in 17 days, having accomplished her voyage in 63 days,
tinting 23 of v►•hich she lay at New Turk.