The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

\l 'e
have received sevoral communications, which our obvious
Want of space prevents qs from using.
toles& the offer alluded to by Junius had been accepted we do
not see how it could be said to be "publicly offered." That
it wa:s made there is every reason to believe.

tirbt 4Ltherpoot gi-tantiarb.

TUESDAY- MORNING, JULY 21, 1835.

We have files of New York papers by the John Jay
to the 24 July. Mr: • LIVINGSTONE, the American am-
_
bassader to Frande; had returned from his mission, and
landed at New Yoik under a salute on the 23d June.
Very little is said in these papers about the war, or of
the conditions on which the million is to be paid, ft ever
it be paid. The all-absorbing subject in the whole re-
public appears to be the election of a new monarch to
lucceed ANDREW the FIRST, whose term of office is 4m:tit
to exph.e. The candidates nominated -for this high ho-
flour are
MARTIN VAN BUREN, HUGH L. WHITE, and
DANIEL WEBSTER. There has been an extraordinary
irregularity in the election of the Vice-President, which
the followin extract will explain :
" Soon after the adjournment of the Baltimore Convention,
Ire made some remaiks regarding the manner in which the vote
of two-thirds of that body was obtained in favour-of-Sichard M.
Johna(rn as candidate for the vice-presidency. Our readers,
Perhaps, will recollect that we stated that there Avere no dele-
gates at the convention from Tenn. although in the list of votes
given fifteen were set down as the votes of that state. We also
mentioned that it was said that an inhabitant of Tennessee, who
was at Baltimore at the time, but who had not been chosen or ap-
Pointed a delegate., was admitted to vote for that state, and ac-
tually gave fifteen votes, which were counted on behalf of Mr.
Johnson, and made part of the 178 which he was said to have
received 'Ate following. article is taken from the Washington
San of June 13th :
front Mr. Rucker's letter to the editor of the Union.—
You will discover my name introduced into the proceed-
ingirs of the Baltimore Convention. To preient all =sunder-
Standing, I make the following statement. I was not delegated
act in that Convention. I happened to be in Baltiinore at the
,time of its sitting, and after the Delegates from the different
State' had their credeotials examined- bv the committee ap-
pointed. for that purpose, there appeared to be no one present
representing Tennessee. This circumstance seemed to be
deeply regretted by many, and upon its being mentioned that I
Was there and a Tennessean it was suggested by some that I
aught vote, which I accord,nady. did.
Without the votes for Tennessee, Mr. Johnson would not
have
come within the rule which the Convention had estab-
""ed, viz. that it should require two-thirds of the votes to
.elect a candidate. •If there has ever been attempted in politi-
Vi nianagentent a more gross and barefaced imposition upon
re public than this the fact has never come within our know-
ied.e.
e The same modest self-constituted representative also
'ea•Ve fifteen votes for Mr. Vau Buren as the candidate for the
Presidency.

On Thursday last the Bishop of EXETER inquired of
Lord MELBotiaNEWhether he had received a certain let-
ter which had appealed in the daily press, purporting to
be addresied to him from Dr. MURRAY, one of the
Romish hierarchy. in Ireland ?
The
y of Viscount MELBOURNE is perfectly in
l'eePing with that- shuffling and duplicity which are so
thoroughly the characteriSiics. 'of the party to which he
belong,
It seenis that Dr. Murmur writes a letter to
Lord 111Et.ioutort through the medium of the newspaper
press. Of this letter Lord MELBOURNE knows nothing
until he had written to Dr. MURRAY to inquire if there
•be such an one in existence, .and then Dr. MURRAY
condescends to send a manuscript copy to the Premier
of England! We have remarked this in order to show
"ow eagerly. the first responsible minister of the crown
serer upon any expedient tOsCreenit popish priest. But
throw this matter overboard; It is no new thing to
see the Servants of the King tr4ated with disrespect and
insult by the men of Rome.
The fact of the correspondence is, then, admitted. The
principal qtrestion that now remains is the conclusion to
which this admission ,inevitelsly leads. It proves the
l'ulietY :of .the dignitaries of Rome to disavow all con-
nexion with a book which contains a faithful exposition
cf their tenets. We have already shown that.this work.
of DOMINUS DENS is the text book and private manual of
The Irish priests. Dr. MURRAY does not deny that his
sanction has been lent
_to this work ; but, with all the
usual jesuitical craft of his order, he says he did not
derect its publication. In fact, the whole of his letter is
one tisane of base and paltry quirks and quibbles.
The hollowness of the denial, was ably pointed out by
'the right rev, prelate who introduced this subject in the
Rouse of Lords. His lordship's speech was characterized
by his usual clearness and vigorous power of debate.
No one who reads that speech can now doubt, however
sceptical he might have been previously, that this work
i's'one.of standard importance among the Romish priests.
This we consider a point irresistibly and incontestibly
proved. work replete with treasonable counsel and
fully stored with the most obscene filth is invested with
the sanction of the Romish hierarchy in Ireland. Dr.
MURRAY is one of that body. Dr. MURRAY is also one
of the Commissioners of the Board of Education for Ire-
land. This is our principal business with the work in
question. We have always entertained our own opi-
nions—,epinions founded on -close and rigorous obserya-
tion—onthe theology of Rome. We have long been
aware of the peculiar aniazu.s. which pervades the edicts
of the-papal chair. But so long as these tenets were not
allowed to interfere immediately with the education of
protestants and of those horn in our own pure faith, we
could only protest against the error, and do our best to
prevent its future spread. But now the question has
ceased to be one between the people of England and Dr.
MURRAY, or Dr. MURRAY and his ecclesiastical col-
leagues. The re-al ,question- now is between the people
of England and the government of England. The Ro-
MisVpriests have full right and permission to glut even
to satiety their own depraved and diseased imaginations.
'nut let thorn confine themselves in this case to the
Cloister, and, if they have impiety sufficient, let them
L'hirethe' vengeance of the offended majesty of
.Heaven
°34 Polluting the sanctuary. But on therirrest the shame,
110.1gtlermit*, and the sin ! It is too mrich,, hOwever, to
*P'e'et''OC as,that We should quietly submit to the domina-
tOtt of these -Irish priests in. the bosoms of our own
famines,
protestants have beeit the victims of a long
t7t.jes of insults and contumely. It is now high time that
he_ People of England should send forth a cry in their
liehalf—a cry which shall find its echo in the houses of
Parliament, and whose effects shall be felt by the slaves
O'Corststu, who are the unmoved spectators of this
lYstem of Violent. outrage on protestant feeling. Spec-
Irqors did we call them ? They are more, they are the
Promoters of this accursed work ! .
present ministry were the instruments m the
.11414 of O'CONNELL, by whom the Kildare-street Society
Ivas.refused the aid of government. We have not time
:/t Present, nor indeed have we inclination to wade
'through all the abominations of this specimen of whig le7
Attention must be called to the startling facts
'n connection with this board of education. The people
of England must learn the manner in which their pro-
-testhut brethren in the sister country are consigned to the
...lender mercies of the popish priests, and how they are
*Tbreed to attelld on the impious worship of Rome. Many
'.ref the schools in Ireland are held in popish chapels. 'This
f4et' then, is also clear, that the education of the children
nf the protestants of Ireland is in the hands of the (mils!
/I.,at.:ies of Rome. The complexion of these-men's minds
.31s s,ritten in plain and legible Character& in the work of
u.'l,lNus DENS. Protestants of England, look
rnay soon-he our own fate ! to this,'

lie attention of our readers to the sixth clause
athe municipal corporations' bill relating to the qualifi-
'9_:4!!"•of burgesses, and fur that purpose extract the whole
It from a copy of the bill as amen:led on reconimit-
. Theta

.13 1,, A nd be it enacted, that every male person of full a;e, who
*9lll' 8 tan day of August in any year shall have occupied any
.Urics,4ls Wrehouse, counting-house, or shop within any borough
yeag
a thu Vikar and the whole of each of the two preceding
ild also. iltiring the time of such occupation shall have

,hee,n eut
.4114bitant Ito ageleolde ithin the-said borough, or within
seven miles boreughrshall, duly enrolled in that
year according. to: the provisions hereinafter contained, be a bur-'
gess of such borough .and member of the body corporate .of. the
mayor and burgesses of such borough: provided always that no
such person shall be so enrolled' In itny year, unless he shall
have been rated in respect of such premises so occupied by him
within the borough to all rates made for the relief of the poor
of the parish wherein such premises are situated during the
time of his occupation as aforesaid, and unless be shall have
paid, on or before the last day of August as aforesaid,,all such
rates due from him in respect of the said premises, except such
as'shall have been made or become due 'within six calendar
months next before the-said last day of August: provided also
that the premises in respect of the occupation of which any per-
son shall have been so rated need not be the same
.premises or
in the same parish, but may be different premises tu the same
parish or in different parishes: provided also that no person
shall be so enrolled in any year, who,"within twelve calendar
months next before the said last day of August, shall have re-
ceived parochial relief or other alms, or any pension or charita-
ble allowance from any fund intrusted to the charitable trustees
of such borough hereinafter mentioned : provided that in every
case provided in this act the distance of seven mites shall be
computed by the nearest public road,- lyyiand or water."

From the perusal of this clause oil' 'readers will per-
ceive that householders, and householder's* dnly, will be
the burgesses of the new corporations ; that to constitute
a perfect qualification to vote, the . voter must not otiy:
have occupied a house, warehouse, counting-house, or
shop within a borough, and must have been rated thereto,
and paid all rates for a certain time, but 'he must also
have been an, inhabitant householder within such bo-
rough, or within seven miles thereof.
We thinkk.2ecessary. to, call the especial attention of
our readersXid of all persons residing or interested in
corporate towns-,--for it affects all parties,be they conser--
vatives, Whigs, or radicals—to this most extraordinary,
unprincipled, and iniquitous clause, a clause which will
effectually cut off from any participation in the manage-
ment of corporation affairs all those who occupy and pay
rates for warehouses, counting-houses,. and other pre-
mises, however largely they may contribute as rate-
payers, who dOnothappen to be householders within. the
prescribed distance: -

There are hundreds of merchants and others in this
town occupying such Premises, and contributing very
largely to the poor, and to all other local rates, who, as
single men, either reside in lodgings, or with some mem-
ber of their families;—but surely it cannot be gravely
argued that these persons have not an interest in the good
government of it in proportion, to the amount of their
contributions to its public burdens, or that there can be
any plea of justice in depriving them of those rights
which the occupation of property within the borough
would otherwise confer upon them.
But let us consider the greet of this clause. It will
most assuredly place in the hands of small householders
a preponderating power, if not the entire controul of all
boroughs. , This may not be the avowed object of those
who framed it, but if it be not reformed, in- this it will
most assuredly end. In illustration of our argument we
will assume a case, :—Mr. A. occupies a warehouse, or
other. premises, rated at £3OO, pays all the rates with
which they are chargeable, but resides4with his relations,
or in lodgings within the borough ;—as the occupant of
this property he will not be entitled to vote in the elec-
tion of the common council, or other municipal officers,
whose appointment rests with the burgesses, while. Mr.
A.'s ten porters, living in a court in houses rated at eight
pounds per annum, will have.votes. Mr. A., under the
reform act, can vote for members of parliament, because
under that act it is only necessary that he should reside
within the borough, or within seven milesthereof—whe-
titer in a palace, a garrett, or a cellar is immaterial, —but
under the clause of the bill we are now considering he
will be excluded from voting at all ! Is there any princi_
ple of equity or justice in this ?
We hope we have said enough to rouse the • attention
of all those who are likely to be affected by the operation
of this clauie, and we earnestly recommend them to make
some effort to remove it altogether from the bill, or to
modify its gross and glaring injustice. We trust that no
time will be lost in' petitioning the House
.of Lords on
the subject.