The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-30 00:00:00

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—A letter from Mr. Win. Ewart, in a late number-of
the Saturday's Advertiser, has caused me to reflect, not for the
first time indeed, on the temporal advantage of holding the
Sabbath as a day of rest. I perfectly agree in opinion with
Mr. Ewart, that the amusements of the poor, (rower orders
more properly) are tender grounds of legislation, if he thereby
means healthful and manly exercises' not inconsistent with
the peace and order of society. But, pursuits which tend to
the ruin of families, and to filling our jails and workhouses
with inmates, are, surely, not such amusements as any bene-
ficent government ought to tolerate.
Under the Sabbath dispensation, a day, is set apart when
man is released from toil, and, refreshed thereby in mind and
body, he again; at the appointed time, resumes his labours.
But not so the drunkard. Reckless of himself,—callous to the
sufferings of his family, the day is passed in the pot-house or
dram-shop; and, unfitted for honest industry,. he betakes him-
self to crime, or seeks a respite from the cravings of hunger in
a Workhouse.

Surely, if that be not only. true, but widely exemplified by
numerous instances, the Legislature is bound to exercise a
'parental authority, and to avert the effect by removing the
cause; and, when it is considered that in the six days of
labour is included provision for the seventh, the public, which
pays the wages, has a claim to protection from the pauperism
which, soonei or later, is the sure accompaniment of drunken-
mess. My remedy, so far as it relates to the Sabbath, is sim-
ple : close the dram-shops, and let no tippling be allowed on
the premises, in either pot-houses or beer-shops. To allow the
proprietors of those places to sell, is an indulgence not granted
to butchers, bakers, or flour-dealers, and why, then, are these
to be wholly exempted?
This, Sir, is not, and ought not to be, a party question; and,
I would say, to men of.every persuasion, "let all wages be paid
ora the Friday." This may, for a season, lead to idleness on
the 'day following; but herein a speedy cdrrective will be
found, through the eye of the master, and the loss of pay, as
a consequence,—a privation which none but the abandoned
libertine will frequently incur for a momentary, and, as the
labouring classes themselves must find it,—a ruinous and
debasing gratification.—l am,_ &c.
A SINCERE FRIEND OF HIS COUNTRY.

THE DOCK COMMITTEE QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST2INDaIRD.

SIR,--Your correspondent Conservative has anticipated me,
partly, in what I intended to have said to you respecting our
Radical journals. lam pleased to find, in your notice of his
remarks, that you are disposed to deal charitably by them.
Poor fellows! they need it; the Albion and Journal especi-
ally, whose case isbecoming hopeless. I am puzzled to think
what has come over Mr. Albion: he used to be jocose--quite
a wag. The leading article of his last number is quite
savage, because Mr. T. B. Horsfall may not have the per-
spicacity of Mr. Bean, or the six protesting members of the
Dock Committee, in seeing into the alarming and instant
necessity of altering its constitution, along with every exist-
ing constitution in the state, (the levelling axe is at the
root of all,) and, in indignant and honest language, terms
that spirit " insatiate" and "unprincipled," he is hunted
down, in the leading article of the Albion, as having ap-
plied the "foul slander" to the men, and not the system. A.
man must have the stomach of the ostrich he talks about to di-
gest this, which poked its head out here, however, and to the
sight and conception of all, who read the grave charge_ in the
paper, revealed pretty clearly his intention to hold up Mr. Hors-
fall as an object of personal attack and dislike to his opponents
on that measure. Can this be a professor of liberality, who
thus illiberally construes another's words and motives ? Truly
'tis like Whig liberality; all on one side. What has Mr. Bean
done with the cork-jacket the senior editor of the Mercury made
him a present of, in pity to his heaviness ? He will need it to
keep him afloat, if he embark far on such a "sea of troubles."
This sort of work is not to be tolerated; the conduct and mo-
tives of those who reside amongst us to be thus villainously at-
tacked and branded, on party grounds and no other • ignorance,
presumption, cloven-feet, and the like jargon, showered on
them, when met to discuss matters of local interest, with honest
intention, no doubt of it, because a sagacious printer, and some
of his wise contributors, think otherwise. You say, Mr. Editor,
that you have "resolved to take the Albion under your especial
patronage." Do so, and keep him under strict" surveillance."
.rhen there is the Journal, with his notions of Gall and Spurz-
heim, never can rest, when any discussion is going. on, without
•taking the measure of the speaker's cranium, and indulging in
serious remarks on the colour of his whiskers, eyebrows, and
hair; no doubt particularly interesting and amusing to some
folks, who dare not venture, and have not the talent, to say
"boo to a goose," but not so agreeable to those who are thus
held up to ridicule by a crazy phrenologist. Do see after the
"par nubile" -

What a fuss the liberal folks are making about the incapacity
and the unfitness of the young and untried! 'Tis strange, at a
time when every thing old, and staid, and venerable, is being de-
cried and shuffled out of the way, and new systems, and new
lights, the rage. Is not Mr. Ewart a young man ? and do
not these gentlemen, who are so touchy and personal respect-
ing Mr. C. Bourne's appointment as a solicitor to a dock estate
(surely not an object of such jealousy and care as a member of
,Parliament for a community like this) do not they hold Mr.
Ewart up as the most capable, the very essence and quintes-
sence of ability and perfection ? and what do we or themselves
know of him than, (proh pudor I) that he is a young man ?
Whig liberality again; all on one side. I was at this meeting,
Mr. Editor, that has so stirred up the bile of the Albion, and
had the honour of sitting amongst and listening to " all the ta-
lents," as Mr. Canning facetiously termed the liberals ; and
young though Mr. Horsfall may be, and " son of the Mayor,"
as one of the speakers sneeringly chose to term him, though
where the point or meaning of the sarcasm lay, I cannot divine,
he made an inipression by what he said that would have done
credit to the oldest head in the room, though with difficulty
sustained on the shoulders of an Atlas, like Mr. Bean. His
inquiry for the guarantee that the liberal gentlemen, when they
had got all the poliver, would not do as they had blamed their
predecessors for doing, in filling up the appointments to the
good things out of their own ranks, with the fact before the
world that the Whig Premier and his friends, with all their
ethinter-professions, had " out-I-I eroded Herod," when they
got the upper hand, was quite "the thing." And I do earnestly
and fervently pray, that the warning may be traced in capitals,
the size of beans, over the walls of the town, and be conned
over and commented on by all, to put them on their guard, at
the coming election, against returning a brace of these liberal-
preferring gentlemen (an infliction with which we are threa-
tened) as their representatives.

Will nobody dissect Mr. Thornely's address? None of you
'so deep read in Cobbett aud the rules of grammar as to attack
it ? No critics but the Albion and Journal? Sandon's has been
butchered, and you let the " I by myself I" pass by unnoticed,
"unshorn, unkempt." How long will the-Tories stick to the
motto, " bide my time ?" They must "up and be doing," or
the force of circumstances will overwhelm them, as they threa-
len to do his Dutch Majesty. I trust a better fate is in store
for both than to die in the last ditch, although with arms in
their hands, fighting "pro aria et focis."

I have trespassed too much already on your patience to ex-
pect you will bear with more on this occasion, or I wished to
• have engaged your attention whilst I commented on the singu-
,,lar circumstance of Mr. Ewart's asserting that the inhabitants
of Toxteth, Park were not wishful to have a representative of
:their own, at the time when the, Tories were abused for with-
holding the extension of this so •cried up, by
,his party, as the
greatest of blessinc,s and, boons, from the unrepresented corners
'of England. Ido not understand this, and should like to have
'it explained in some other waY than it has been urged to me,
as it does no credit to Mr. Ewart's modesty, though it may
speak for his boldness, namely, that he considered himself per-
fectly competent to undertake their representation along with
that of. Liverpool, his own, we all know, and are so often told,
by,birthright and purchase.—Yours, 4c.
Liverpool, NoveviLer 26, 1832.

DISTRESSING. OCCURRENCE -AT SEA.—So long ago, as the 13th
of October, an-old fisherman named Joseph Grayson, and his
son-in-law, William Wilson, went out to sea-in a boat called
the Jane; and after
fishingsonic
for time they landed at llar-
rin,Yton, and re-embarked, in the eveninboth being in, a state
of intoxication. The weather was cold and boisterous at the
time, and as the)? did not arrive at home at the etpeeted, time,
great apprehensions -were entertained for their safety. Week
after week passed away, and no tidings were heard of them un,-
til Monday last, when intelligence to the effect, that the boat
was fallen in with on the 15th instant, by the Neptune, Daniel,
rnaster, from 'Maryport tO Kirkcudbright, and both Grayson and
Wilson found dead on board. The remains of the unfortunate
men were interred at Kirkandrews, near the latter plate, on the
17th. Grayson was between 70 and 80 years old, rind Wilson'
about 28. -When picked up, the body of the former was lyinc,
in the bottom of the boat, while that of the latter was in a sit-
ting position, with his head -resting on, his hand. No df.mbt is
entertained that their deaths were 'occasioned by exposure to
the cold, under the joint influmce of sleep, YitOgue, and liquor.
—Carlisle Patriot.