The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have to atuilottise for our long arrear of literary notices,
the House of Commons and its intolerable tedium of talk
interfering, with more pleasing avocations. We shall, how,
ever, if possible on Friday next endeavour to make our
court of literature as clear as, Lord Brougham's Court of
Chancery, under the management of his three commis-
sioners.

The same reason must be given for our neglect of a vast num-
ber of ably written letters. The misfortune is that these.
things do not always keep well.
We have a large stock of poetry on hand, some of it so miser-
ably bad that, with the permission of the several authors, we
propose sending it to the Liverpool Mercury. The worst of it
is quite as good as any that ever made a first appearance iu
that droll journal.
"Hints on Railways, Steam-boats, and Explosions" must stand
over for the present. We do not like the subject.
"A Day at Waterloo, and Ten Minutes in the Sea, by a Man-
chester Weaver," is very good, but too personal.
About the "little ebapel in Toxteth-park," all we have to say
is-TAKE IT.

Cbe Viiberpool „Stanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1835.

By the Eli Whitney, Captain HARDING, which sailed
from New York on the 2d July, we have papers to that
date, but they contain no intelligence of much interest.
By the Johnstone, Captain NITHEasoN, we have
re-
ceived Demeraa papers to the 13th June, but there is
nothing in them worth extracting. The Combined
Court assembled at George Town on the 10th for the
despatch of business. Some important financial ques-
tions were to be brought under the consideration of the
Court. •

We have, in substitution of various matter, made room
for the whole of Sir CHARLES WETHERELL'S Speech at
the bar of the House of Lords against the corporation
robbery bill. That speech, we take upon ourselves to
assert, is 'one of the most splendid efforts of eloquence
that has been litstened to in modern times. lis reason-
ings are conclusive—its arguments unanswerable. Its.
dem6nsttations are .so palpable, its faCts so incontrover-
tible, its exposure of tyraimy and injustice so glaring,,
that it is' iwpossible to follt:4 the learned counsel through.
his appeal.withentcoming to the conclusion that a- more-
fraudulent measure of usurpation never was attempted
'in England or any other country.

For these reasons we earnestly request the attention of
our readers to the defence offered for corporations by Sir
CHARLES WETHERELL. There are three points which,
as they bear upon the vitality and existence of the Bri-
tish constitution, demand our earliest notice. These

are—

Ist. TJie King—and his rights.
211 y. The Church—and its preservation.
3dly. The Lords—and their existence.

The first concerns the. King. No less than one hun-
dred and eighty-three boroughs who possess, and have
possessed .for centuries, certain rights conferred upon
them by chatters obtained from the kings of England--
who know no superior but ltis majesty—,and are respon-
sible to no tribunal but the Court of King's Bench—these
boroughs are to be deprived and denuded of their char-
tered rights, •not by the King, or the King's court, for
any act of delinquency proved or confessed, but by the
House of Commons, or rather a faction of that 'house,
for the purpose of conferring additional power, and an
extended political influence, upon the worthless and un-
principled cabal who, by virtue of the priestly and po-
pish support of one DANIEL O'CoNNELL, call themselves
the ministers of the crown. A herd of filthy and fetid
father confessors in Ireland—a crew of monks, unwashed
even in the dog days—a set of brooding bigots, reared in
savage ignorance, and who extort money from wretched
peasants under the pretext of administering cold water
to the tongues of murderers and other felons in purga
tory—who cheat, and chaunt, and gesticulate, and per-
form all sorts of mummery in the mass-house, in order
to empty the purses, the old stockings, and the hoarded
bags of the most miserable slaves on the face of tie '
earth—these people, we say, having returnedO'CoNtstr.i.
and some forty other fellows to the House of Commons,
have compelled Lord JoIIN RUSSELL not only to rob the
Church of England, but to subvert the municipal car-
porationS of England, making them the prey of the de-
mocracy, as a prelude to the meditated spoliations .of
the church-robbing and popish democracy iu Ireland.
there be in Englishman in this favoured Aland who can
look' upon this feloniou,s'' act with any feelings but those
Of:disgust andladignation, he is a poor craven wretch,
feeble in intellect, rickety in mind and body„and ki4wa4s
.Ihom a mother's' attachment must be founded tnOre
pity than in love. It is an act which sanctions ieonf,e-,
derative insult towards the King—which strikes, and is
intended to strike, at the royal prerogative—vvlrich :not
only repeals all the charters grantedby the kings of Eng.
l'and, but also tells the King that he is not competent to
grant a charter, inasmuch as it restrains him from grant-
ing any charter without the permission of the House of
Commons. It tells the King morethan this. It virtually
says—" your ancestors have given powers to corporate
bodies, which you have
.not supervised—which you have
allowed to. be abused—which you are not competent to
manage—and which we the commons of England think
ought to be placed under our jurisdiction, and that you
the sovereign ought to be relieved from inspecting or
controlling by the powers invested in the judges of your
points." It goes a step beyond this, for it says—" You,
the King of England, having allowed divers abuses to
creep in which operate like an ulcer upon popular opi-
nion, inasmuch 'that corporators are tories when they
should be wings, and are attached to the Church of Eng-
land when they should be strongly in favour of DANIEL
O'CONNELL and the sainted priests of popery in Ireland,
oie,•Lord JOHN and othera,shave resolved to divest your
majesty of all. future power in granting charters, or form-
ing corporations, because we think that DANIEL O'CON-
NELL and ourselves are better qualified to exert such
a power than your majesty or any other king who shall
or maybe by our infferance raised to the throne of these

Word 3 like these—plain words which carry no doubt-
ful meaning' with thern—have not, we presume, been.
addressed to WILLIAM the FOURTH. • But all the insult
they convoyall the degradation they aim at—,is as-
serted, is vinilieated and approved by Lord Jowl Rua-
szt.L'a corporation bill, The king's power is treated
with radical contempt., The royal charters are eon-