The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-23 00:00:00

THEE ANATOMICAL ENTHUSIAST.

The structure of the brain, and the investigation of the phe-
nnena connected with matter and, mind,- have long employed
e researches of the most celebrated philosophers. A Mr:
erman Golti passed many years in anatomical investigations
The 'brairi, and in endeavouring to trace the connection be-
teen its marvellous and its important uses. • At last, -despair.:
g-of attaining the end, of hisleng and wearisome investiga-
ins, he hung himself in his dissecting room, and was nearly
tvoured by the rats before hiiloss was discovered. His work
t the topography :MA nomenclature of the cerebral mass is
e'itant.• 'Before he committed suicide, he wrote, on a slip
the following remarkable words: "for more than
'enty years I have pursued a phantom, an iris fatuus, that
is decoyed the into misery-and ruin. 'My vision •has become
dint, that I eau nolonger-diStinguish the objects of my re- ,
arch; m hand is too tremulous to bold the scalpel. Uun
ted, in' thrfe,eigikruel house, 1.. have been estranged from pa-
re's fair:o4,iiivAill .prospects---1 have etiltiiratgd.rio.inan's
enchihip.;;not-Seaight for the affection of wotnn.n,
,1 have, in-
iefia .n the -charms of society, the "eibilitratieni of wine,
e,delights of a deruestic partner, and the blessechieSs of chil-
en ;—Lot C have been a sOlitaty -student : water has been my
.1y beverage: no female can 'approach Inc with attachisient,
,b can a child curse inn fox : iti existence. TO live ledger is
eless--the past has been inisemployed; the pi'egelit'is We:Ari-
l:4;w; Arid I will ailtiapate'the future !"--,Tl4e-Deklay.. 1

THOITNtLY'S AtilikESS.

To' THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4IND4RD.

Stn,—The amarance of the journal to be published under
your direttion having heen'regurded' with so much rierimony,
not to say fear, by the Live. pool .Totirnat, induces me to feel satin-
; fled that, your columns will be devoted to the maintenance of the
I Throne; the Church, the Aristocracy, acid the People at large,
in their relative just prerogatives and righti, and not to the shy-
port of Ehat'fizetio'n: warm in, their applause of a penny-wise-and
pound-foolish Administration ; and this cohvikion leads me to
cherish a hope that the following exposure of some parts .of
Mr. ThOinely'S Address to the EleCtOi-s of this town will find a
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place in your paper.

With the three first paragraphs of that Address (containing;
as ther dci; iirwitely'kitipl'y'itf 'the affirinative to a requi'sition
viting him to come forward as a candidate for the representation
of this town,) we have little other concern'than to draw this in-
ference, that since he is field it bell-eves every lover•of
real and constitutional libeity,to leave no eipedient untried to
secure, not his electioti, but. his defeat.

Mr: Thornely tells us that the Reform,Bill is a "Great Mea-
sure:l". No*, if, as I pfestiln! he (loos, by " Great," Mr. T,
means " GoOd," I 'ain at a loss to reconcile this with what fol-
lows, namely, " I shall be much mistaken if the ensuing elec-
tions do not demonstrate the necessity Of 'resorting to Vote by
BA L IA) T." 'l3utsliivts.7'll,ll.. T. 'tin''be thC'adVOCate of a system,
so degrading to the fee'tings of Britons, so derogatory to the ex-
alted character of the English nation, do no othergrounds than
the most dire necessity, resulting from the abuse of the iiiilnCifee
of latullOrds atlmastei•S, ; and here we have Mr. ad-
mission that the very working. of that bill,: which its framers
assured us was final; and calculated to remove all abuses in-our
representative systent; and'furthei, the'Sure and only means of
avoiding Vote 14 ballot, will render'this most obnoxious and re-
volting measure "necessary."

The next 'sentence which demands our attention is, " The
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preservation of'iieace with foreign countries must he the object
of every good bovernment."•.Burely, then, it is not Mr. Thorne-
ly's intention to support a bad Government, which; his own
showing; our Mini4ry are ; for he cannot be' ignorant that it
has appeared, it to the uijcisumifig Lo'rd Grey,, the pacific Lord
Durham, and the sagacious Lord Palmerston, to commence "hobs
old` PiiitAtiiiit allies, the Diitch; thus
making.us the tool of revolutiin'!a4 40Alidel France ; • and this
too. wi 'Wont even consulting the Parliament or the people. The
former, to be sure, is not sitting, (thanks tolheteltiiiistworkind
of the bill,) "the i=liice Of' the latter' Is` noiir'ialSed';and.will ere
:Ong 13,e heard, speaking in accents thunder to. Loid Grey and
his tribe; amitelling those who-so lately declared allinterferen6e
in the affairs laf thecoittiiicht tb be contratTi'o thn'sdanttpolicy
of England, !that liavt no (Leslie to bie'invYlved a
flagitious wall with il4:cOinitri !tie Caine
to establish olar'oviil lTheittes ;) that thgy Wavg no .'inaintition to
add yet more' heavily to thd btifthens of the auntitit, fed ji1t:1.0445e
the taXes, to imPdverisli.still farther a revenue which—thanks to
the blunders of the Whigs and the principles of Mr. Fructiti&g
Poulett Thompson—is unequal to meet the eXpenditurel'flait
is contrary to their wish to involve all Europe in a general *4r,
of which we may see the commencement, but not the end. Let
Mr: Thornely listen Co this ere he 'laud the proceedings of the
incapablei; to a people now disgusted' withtheir misdeeds.
If these remarks are deemed worthy of a place in your journal,
I will, on a future occasion, return tn'tli.eonsideration of this
preciouS ge&Otltadicalisin and Wliigglsiii:otirs, &e.
Nor. 19, 1833.
. CONSERVATOR.

TilE‘EbrIUR TRE'L/PIEIiP6O:L STANDARD.

Si nil-Ai a lover of my country's liberties and happiness I hail
unfeigned satiSfaCtion, the prospect now afforded the truly
English party of this town, of possessing an organ of their
sentiments, and hulwarklifthe institutions ihq venerate; and
that all have profited by living under. ..
You; have befoTe you tr twine and animating- task, in guiding
and encouraging that srjt of Ye74ciPUtagainst Witigdefirsions
and of atefoim, which is now beginning to, develope itself
in this part of, the kingdoM, with as much earnestness and as
:sincere a conviction of ,the rectitude,of its object, as has alrea-
';dy been . -so triumphantly man lte,sted , in,the west and south.
;What though you are assailed with characteristic vulgarity by
the Papist Journal, or denoutied with emulative coarseness,by
the rabble-courting Mercury, or Aortae under the sophistical lash
,of the apparently serious and reasonable Albion, this—and a
thousand times more such puny, pot-house opposition as this—
will not deter you frond :advocating the, honest. straight-forward
cause, founded as it is, not in theory, but on historical facts ; not
on principles which the ftirions fancy of a _partisan has pre-
. conceive to be best, but on, those_ which have; come approved
to us by the sober, and often dearly-bought experience of
.man-
kind. In opposing yourself to anarchy, b.oodshed, and revo-
lution, I am sure you will, carry with you the sympathy and
' active assistance of the, bulk of all good and peaceable men; and
it is to be hoped.that if you cannot work a reformation in that
iportion of our press, which lends itself to the spreadrcif opinions
subversive of the social fabric, you will at least be able tully to
counteract.th9ir pernicious operation on the minds of those who
are either Unwillingor incapable to' reilect for themselves, and
who do not distinguish bctween.reckless confidence of assertion,
and the less specious evidences of.truth.
These; certainly, are no common times; we see, in places of
dignityand power„men whose lives have been passed in railing
and scoffing at such
~distinctions; we have heard the servant of
our HEAD of the CHURCH, address its chief pillars and or-
naments in an emphatic warning, to prepare for ruin and dis-
' may; the
,promise of. peace, is hardly cool on the hypocritical
lips which swore it, and yet we are involved in war; the pledge
of retrenchment is fulfilled by the conversion of uncertain into
large and, certaiu emolument; .by the costly transportation of a
bilious-faced puppet into company which cajoled before con-
temptuously, dignifying himr by the quartering of a needy,
arrogant, and rapacious family on the national purse; and—
by curtailing minor functionaries, who have struggled with bare
success against want. And the dust of Reform is thrown be-
fore us, 'that we may blind our eyes therewith; and we are
desired to gloat on more splendid Things ,to come! Never,
j truly, was uggling more happily contrived, or dexterously con-
summated.
,j3ut the end is not_yet .come. The burnings at
BriStol still remain without an assigned cause; the degradation
of an estate of theyeal4nmust be atoned for; the tolerance of
physical threats explained!
have wandered-, from my gratulatory theme, but it needs
not to be dwelt upon, for, hundreds of; gia.d hearts will welcome
the first appearance of your STANDARD, unfurled over the
ALTAR and the THRONE.—I am, &c._

A 'CONSERVATIVE.

TO THE EDITOR ut, LirAiti)ool; STANDARD:

SIR—As the term " Ultra Tory" is frequently applied, or
rather misapplied, to those with whom I have both the honour
and the happiness of agreeing in political opinions, I will,
with your permission, trouble you with a few observations on
that subject. And first, Sir) let me remark, that at the same
time, that I consider the term to be, improperly applied, yet as
distinguishing us from those who are what are called " Liberal
Tories," I not only do not object to it, but I am proud of the
designation.
" Uhl* Tories," commonly so called, are men who are un-
willing ,thit thanges should be made in any of the institutions
of the eousry merely for the sake of change, but where any
abuses really exist are"most anxious that they should be, not
wildly and thoughtlessly, but carefully and deliberately re-
Moved. They are, also, men in whom love of country super-
sedes every other consideration, and whose consistency, and
inflexible integrity, have earned the respect and_ admiration
even of their warmest political opponents. Now, Sir, as to the
intended and opprobrious meaning of the term " Ultra Tory,"
I understand to be; that the person so called, is one whd holds
extreme opinions and will not hear of any thing like an alter--
ation, however desirable or however great an improvement
such an alteration may be. If, then, I am right in this pre-
sumption, the term is manifestly inappropriate. I hold it to be
the duty of us all, of whatever denomination, to endeavour as
much as in us lies, to' correct all remediable evils; hut, at the
same time, to recollect, that as all human institutions are im-
perfect, we are not to look for perfection ; and we should take
espeidul care that in• repairing, we do not pull down-4n remov-
ing, that we do not destroy—lest in the attempt to git rid of
the ills we have
Fly to others that we know not or"
Your obedient servant,
PROREGE ET PATRIA.

Liverpool, Nov. •l(1.