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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

We have to congratulate our fellow-townsmen of
the Orange orde'r upun the loyal and truly praise-
w,)rtby 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-
christian resistance to those having authority, al-
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 hand, and studied provocation to out-
rage on the other, and we shall confess that we
have nothing to he 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 you 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 NIGHT.—The English 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 99,31 to 1; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 100 to 1 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re-
duced, 1021 to 103 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1018 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. The foreign securities were but little altered,
dealings being exceedingly limited. Spanish Five per
Cents, left off 221 to A ; the Three per Cents., 321 to 1;
Portuguese, 45 to 46 ; Peruvian, 26 to 27 ; Mexican, 35/
to 36; the Deferred, 151 to 16; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 611 to ; the Five per Cents., 1011 to 1;
Danish, 88 to 89 ; Colombian, 131 to ; Chilian, 103 to
105 ; Buenos Ayres, 34 to 36 ; Brazilian, 821 to 831 ;
and Belgian, 103 to 104.
THE WRATHER.—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 grass 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 seen
hand-cartloads of pears; some of these are probably from
the south. We had 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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our centemporary, the Journal, to have a fling at the
Orangemen of Liverpool, in revenge for their orderly
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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 heads on their own ac-
count. It would have been infinitely better, however, if
the Journal, before venting his spleen at these proceed-
ings, so provokingly peaceful, had 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-ball, wore an Orange lily, or
any other description of favor. Again, we are told that
Mr. Harbord " sported'in 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 handkerchief 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.

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It will be seen by an advertisement in this day's paper,
that the old established drapery busines, so long merito-
riously conducted by Mr, M'Connell, in Bold-street, has
fallen into the hands of Mr. Kever, of Manchester, whose
exertions, if anything like those of his predecessor, will
we doubt not meet public approval.