The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-11 00:00:00

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F 1.:11Tr:;}; Coat."' • -
Kni • "ster, the titwii:-Vierkaartivei:pool, esamitie-d-lay
ght.—ls only appointed during good 'behaviour' the-go
'Truing body consists' of 41 persons ; they are elected front all
'.'asses; the freemen are .about.s.ooo in-number; about ;,1,7,0
sire resident within seven miles-of the. borough. The ulayur is
chosen out of the governing -body of 41; - every mayor is a roa-.,
Fistrale for life after being mayor; the number of acting inagis-
LTes is 17 or 18; thought
.the magfstrates most reSpcetable
auci most competent for the discharge 'of their functions;
there are
is most 'e
offieithitli• administered, though he must admit
; ihat in
occasSnal eon:plaints, but tses-e are not more frequent
b
other places where there -are governors and governed;
sever knew
indarin th.- Eve years he was town-clerk any par-
tialuv shown •forpolitical purposes; there are men of various
1301ifft al opinions'the' council, but the decided majority are
kcattservalives; the aCcetints of the •expenditure of the c'orpara-
Ll`..°..are published, and •any respectable person will get a copy.
ss'4"6 who as3.B for it; the income of the corporation is en an
a‘etage, for the-fast the years, £1013,000 ; • the. debt of the cor-
poration isl8JU,1100;. there is nut t strong feeling of alarm in
the maids of the holders of this debt as to its security; the in-
come of the corpoi•atiou has nothing to do wilt' the docks; the
amount of dock debt is' 1;400,000 ; • hut this has no counexiou
iwti!b the cut pot ation ; the police of Liverpool is well managed ;
. ie the character of a preventive police, but rather re-
in London before the introduct len of the present.
,le town isswell --paveds and supplied with water.
a.
ieere ate two boards l'or that purpose. The rates are imp 'sesl
bY commissioners police. They are elected by the mita-
..ttalits generally iu vestry, assembled,. The eurporatoin impose
-10 rates whatever. if the power ef imposing rates were vested
Itst another lady, apt:; there might tie a collision be-
:nal it and the coultilissiOners of police.. The corporation has
urch lamonage. It has the nomination.of ten of the clergy
Gust riow. . and will its future have the nointoation of eight entire.
6sriontaneens assistance given to the clergy of- Liverpool ~
corporation is about £.2.600 a-year. The corporation:
ne.useribes.to the:charities a the town to the amount of about
a-y-ear Tire i•orpdration. derived their }tinned property
The
trrn purchase. A 'part isviS given it-by Queen. Anne.
corperation..-prOvides ..fur the expellees- of receiving the
nVsjudge.s text,, are.aliont to hold assizes there. was: ex-'
a
twenty-lour days before the municipal commissioners.
When they •lett the-:place they tffauked the cloned for the in
I°Nration given them.. Mr. Bolton, -A unitarian, was the pers
lhrt rse„ made it a wound of complaint against the corpdration
at it expended roe much money in the building and repairing
etia
44: f'hes. •The corporation expended £:.li4/ fora portrait of One.
they nuinher, which was made the subject of complaint.
had been charged with having ekpetided oh that
portrait. It was fully explained to the commissioners, in justi-
hcation of the-expeeditirre, that the alderman whose portrait
Was taken had done great cervices -to the plates. Mr. Bolton
l',°":Plaitiect that, as the corporation had given £S(X) for a statue
_
Camping and 1:.:-)00 for a statue to Mr. Iluskissor, they
4t" not statato to Mr: Roscoe (a laugh.)
1
t, Was also insole a ground hfeornpl:Sint against the corporation
nat thee tools ti..yt: s!tari;,, at 459(); in 'the King's College, while
1(17_10A-wine its the,LoudouTiiiizeySity, a liberal institution.
b laughter.) There,are twentv,one clergymen appointed
y the eorperation, of whom seveu bave relations in the corpo-
- 1.411°D. The churches generally are well attended. Men of all
Pails of the.town are dissatisfied with that part of the bill which
lung leases, unless instructed to grant such leases by
1? lords of the tiesaury The parliamentary boundary of
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Is"verpool is twice as great as the borough boundary, and, as the
former is to be adopted in the case of this hill, great injury will
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me to t e.ittaa &tams of the _town. It is not true that the
mole power -and authority of the corporation is possessed by
two or three families. It is true that there are a good many
srelateci to each other in the council.
~The Duke of WELLINGTON.—But. whether related or not,
the great majority belong to the most respectable and intelli-
-101,1 persons in the-town ?—Witness: They do, my lord.
Kuight resumed the examination: Witness believed, on
hl5 oath, tuat no flagrant abuse had been proved against the
c"ll"sation. As a.governing body the corporation had been
mist anxious to promote the welfare of the place. Dirt net think
there were better or more intelligent juries in any court of the
Alngdern thah in 11. e court of record, and at the sessions in Li-
, vesPool. The accounts or the corporation ate kept with a re-
pUtlctitality, cud accuracy; worthy of their great
niaguitutle.
laird BeouG ata.—Does general satisfaction exist there with
ttgard lo the-system ?—Witness: Certainly nut. There are a
great many must respectable persons who are not satisfied With
the present system. They are dissatisfied with the practice of
Lord Baot'onate.—Respectableersons who object to the
rottem, but find no fault with the individuals? Witness: Un-
ihtedly-
Lord WllAr.xcLiFFE.—Are there any persons in. the council
v.,;!!:. belong to any other body than tne church of England?
witness: Not any. Not, however because of dissenters beiug
Objected to, but because none have been proposed.
ord B eetn HA Nr.-1 have now a question or two to ask you,
usr• leoster, respecting elections at Liverpool; lam sureluu
answer them. Witness: I will be happy, my lord, to
Answer any qttestfon I can.
• Lord BitoUGHA —lio You, Mr. Foster, recollect the elee-
-42.,00 of -liil2? Witness: 1-do; my lord; but I would rather not
7Y Anything about it, as 1 then opposed your lordship ( laughter),
and rail lest your election. fltenewed
. Lord Beount-tr St,--f was Obliged to you, Mr. Foster, as it
„would have been the source of groat trouble to be member fur
Live' Not. 422,00) on the 'other side, and
The expericss were
4.;i8.0110 to us. Do you know how the money was spent? Wit-
: Ido not. I recollect those was a great deal of treating.
(Laughter,) •
Lord Baononaer.—Did you not give tickets for certain
of ale or beer to the electors? and did not these
tiskets acquire a sort or cumney, ind,pass from hand to hand
Wittie:s : I never gave tickets for ale, or beer, or any such
thing, but I recollect very well' that I often tnet your lordship
In public- houses on that occasion when drinking was going on.
(Loud laughter.)
Lord Ski/no itam.—And I suppose-you have also met with
Mr, Canning and sir. Huskistrou in public-houses during elec-
. lions ? -.Witness: 1 have. •
Lord Buono A si.— yes ; that was -the tray in which candi-
date.' used to meet with elettorsatt• Livererol. . Now I WWI to
come to the erection .of whin l‘lessls. Deniou and Ewalt
were. returned. Witness :.I v,ttS 'Et rate t,l'en•
lord BriocGsiast.A9ii• thereforts you. tosx• no part in tne
eleAitn. ? Wit uess : rilatnot .take. arty partio.that election.
l'"rd Rt'+ tSG Is A sl...Wstre yet; frrefent sit thelartlwuvlectioras
for Livetpooll ',Witness 11.•Isasthem, ; bur took no'part,ia as
Inn both occasions hel.;tiV 'situation I.nOw fi t.
t
Lord Bnodriasill'er apS-you Can. give us, trotwithstand- !!
ingssome inferuoitien iespecting-the beer and ale consumed et
that election ? 'Whites.: Ido not know what quantity of ale
was consumed. • , .; •
Lordpatra 0 sa—i dare say ,not. I did net speak of the
quatilii.y. 'ale'. censomed on the sicca.sion • I have no doubt
that-there would hate. heen'enough to,lbrat all the ships in Li-
terpool. 'Wiwi 'I
'wished.' tir getsOftte. in format bin about was the
tickets ? Witnes's : I Mit know-anythiug about them.. :
Lord W n the petition you piesented against
the bill as a whole, or only'aganist 'Llitairpool being iticinded in
it ? .Witness Cult asaiirst -Liverpool :being affected by it.
Lard Wrialosciaers.—So you -have no oajectiort to the bill
rf sAverpooi he not affected, and :you get another -for the better
!'egulation of the Livcrpeol corporation- alm'? Wittiess: We
Nye no objection to diu bid further than Liverpool is affected
by- it.
Lord axcuPPE Ito the Counsel) : Any other witnesses
to bring forward ? Connsel: None. •
The Hari of W lex tow:—Then counsel must withdraW.
Conusel having wi,lolrawn,• • -- • •
The Earl of &Ilia evulto could not ailoW that opportunity to
Pass without expresSing -I he highest admiration of tile colonic-I
of the Liverpool cos peration ever since he had been acqiusiuseci
'with that respectable body.. it was iinpossilde fur memo ern-
duet themselves with 'greater propriay or rectitude than they
°ways had done. - • '
The Earl of WICK LOW then- rose and said the hour having
arrived, my lords, at tvitieli•if has been usual during the hearing
()Nils evidence to propose• the- edji-Airninent of this house, I
wish, without making a -eingle.sibservatiou as to the impression
the evidence which vuur lordships base just heard has made
tiet?n, ray minds ask .yotir lordships. whether- the objects fur
vouch that evidence hae been adduced have not now been suf.
.fciently accomplished to allow the hearing of that evidence to
loe brought to a close? At this fate period of the session, it is
d~airahlc that, yourlindships do not think the hearing of fur-
ther evidence necessary, it be now-brought to an end.
- Lord BROUG lords, I beg to mention., as one of the
tsonsequences of going further into the question of evidence,
that 1 have just received a petition front a most respectab.e and
numerous body of persons to Bristol, in which they offer to dis-
Prove•all the statements made by counsel, and iu the evidence
. which your lordships have heard in favour of the corporation of
shat ciFy, and pray that your lordships would be pleased to hear
counsel and evidence in • support of their (the petitioners')
statement of facts: Though I entertain great respect for the
petitioners, I would be the last person in the world who would
ask your lordships either to hear counsel or evidence in support
of their views respecting, the corporation of Bristol. Perliapsl
Shall do more justice 'to the case itself—and it will certainly
sheer more considerationlowarde your lordships—if Isa y nothing
'ill the ease of-the petiti,ners; but content myself with asking
ermission to'read, not now, but afterwards, the petition at fun
length. I will ask no more at this late period of the session, as
I know, that were the wishes of -the petitioners to hear counsel
and evidence acceded to, others will follow their example, and
prefer similar petitions=-fur 1 know-many places which ate ready •
to do aim; and if the door were once open in such a case, there
would he no snail) the petitions-of a similar kind which would
be presented to your lordships' louse.
. Lord Etty.NBOROUGH.--I em me 'bolds, that the
evidence shoisli.l norsseksei but I hasse am r;bjeiiion to the terms
'orthe motion, as, iradopie'd,-it will have the effect of preventieg
other evidence from being brought. forward in. cases. (if:any
lth,iuld exist) where such.evidence might be of the utmost Mrs,
Pntaance. But'l can of opinion, that from the evidence which
you have heard your lordships are. now sufficiently enlightened,'
as to the different points-iu the bill, to be able to make up your
'Minds on the subject. This case is one of great importance,
- and formally to put so sudden a stop to the evidence Would con-
stitute a 1... a precedent for futureicases. I ant, therefore, r»ost
anxious that your•lordships should„weigh well every stepavhich.:
You take in the 'natter. - -
The Earl of Wicicrow .explained.—l expressed ne opinion.
as to the effect the evidence has Made on my mind, as I am
anxious to -avoid all discussion- on the subject at present; and
it ',as with this view I hunted my motion in the manner I have
dons, .
'rho, Duke.of GT is of importance that your
lordships should , now Come. to a conclusion iu so far as the
hearing of evidence-:is concerned; but I think that instead of
adopting the utotipa:6l my noble friend, the better course would
be to order counsel to withdraw in Order that time bill may he

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committed.
•
Lord BROUGHA your lordships adopt the judicious
. course recommended hv•the noble duke, most probably counsel
wilt not ask your lordships to hear any further evidence.
A Noe t.E Loe.D.—lf your lerdships should he asked to hear
further evidence 1 do Tait see how vou can refuse it, as you
cannot abiogate'y-Our own order that evidence should be heard
rn defence of those parties who consider themselves aggrieved
by this bill. The corporation of the borough of 'fruro has been
roost unwarrantably libelled in the report of the commissioners,
and the grossest mis-statements have been made reweeting that
(11'poratinn, I pledge myself in disprove the accusations pre-
!erred against the corporation of Truro to your lordships' satis•
faction ; but they have not bad time- yet to send up witnesses
frtim so distant a part of the country. The individuals composing
that body cannot go down to poste' ity with such a stigma on
'1164 character as is affixed on it by the report in question. As,
h'iwever, the feeling of your lordships evidently is, that the
klearing of evidence should now terminate, I shall concur in the
general wish, on the understariding thatat a farther stage of the
preceedings,. any borough considering itself affected shall have
do Opportunity of vindicating its own character.
The Earl of CAkft iIIVON 7. After the evidence which has
been-already heard I eln not think it would he edvisab a to hear
evi fence, hut that ire ought of this- late fieritul of the
.731'-'sSiOil to proceed tp the other lentil', ss sta. t fine xottr
Ships. thereforoillitik thy most, repot. votose would be to
atlfint the pr4ositiop of the noble (hike. 4.0516% there be ~.nne
evidence of very Material importance.to.to brooght forward.
•
This Earl of Wicki.ow ; My lople, wid. withdrew my mu-.
Thai of sCiro4 friend is,. lea usi say,Anure Vat

Tfyz Iliberpool

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1835.

We have, to the exclusion of much valuable matter,
made room in to-day's impression for a very full report
of the evidence glven.at the bar of the House of. Lords
.on the municipal ,corporation bill. We earnestly beg, to
recommend ittto ttletrttention of all our readers. There
never was in:this-world before such. an exposure of un-
fair statements and wilful misrepresentations.

Our readers can testify that we have hitherto abstained
from making any vbservations, in any leading article,
upon the recent occurrences in Paris. y When the " in-
fernal machine," as it is called, exploded, the sound of it
conveyed to our ears very different sensations from those
which were re-echoed by the multitude. We saw in that
murderous coup cretat the commencement of a bad ex-
periment—vvortliy of BuoNAPARTE or the Grand &hair
—worthy of the greatest tyrant in the worst of times—
an experiment to prove that the people of France, and
the patriots of France, are not only contemptible block-
heads and poltroons, but also the most despicable slaves
in Europe. This experiment is to demonstrate that the
French do not understand what constitutional govern-
ment is, and that liberty in that country is only another
name for despotism of the most ruthless and savage cha-
racter.

•We confess with unaffected sincerity that we looked
upon this last coup detat of Louts PHILIPPE with feel-
ings of overpowering distrust, and we consequently,
waiting the course of events with composure, did not feel
inclined to compromise our opinions by any rash declara-
tion of them. The time, however, has arrived when we
can speak out fearlessly, and appeal to facts in verifica-
tion of the sentiments we have entertained ever since the
Duke of ORLEANS, by the most atrocious conspiracy
amongst the revolutionary republican and Jacobin clubs
of. France, was raised to the throne—still in law and jus-
tice the birthright of the expatriated BOURBONS. Let us
see how this last past of the conspiracy has worked in
Paris.

LOUIS PHILIPPE chose, in defiance 'of public opinion,
and as a studied insult to the thousands of victims linger-
ing in the prisons of France, to keep up the mock cere-
monial of the anniversary of • the THREE GLORIOUS
DAYS. There was no apparent necessity for this re-
newed clap-trap of military parade. The very men who
had raised -hint. the crown were the most deSpised of
his ignoble fellow-citizens. Some of them, once proud
hankers,' were rwoly bankrupts . walking the streets
of Paris living.'npcn alms. Some, once opulent, had
died, leaving Widows and
,children beggars. The
noblest. portiong the aristocracy of France were ex-
'de... The taleut4thenat ion had been banished froni the
court. Hundreds of those who raised the paving stones,
erected , the .barrieades, and looked from their'ehimney-
tops joyon!ly upon the -triumph of the ''citizen king,"
Were working lung and heaVy oars in the galleys. Thou-
sands whq had fought, rioted, robbed, and bled in the
service of Loins PHILIPPE, were in gaol, living
upon bread arid water. His partizans had beeome his
dupes.. The dungeons of France held within their iron
bars the most active and zealous of his early admirers.
In fatt Louts PttfutTE had lived upon the passions he
had excited, as the outcasts of society do upon the silly
but innocent' victims they entrap, and.-.therefore it was
the greater crime in him to make a pretence of liberty
his seductive bait'to the voracious friends of citizenship
and constitutional government. There was no excuse
whatever for keeping the idle farce of the anniversary of
the THREE DAYS. It was the • ridicule of all France.
Idle, frivolous, and stupid as the people of that country:
unquestionably are, still they were sensibly alive to the
absurdity of a.festival which exposed them and. their
avowed principles to derision. 'Lows. PHILIPPE, how-
ever, chose to continue the insulting spectacle, for rea-
sons which he perfectly understood. .
What were they ? List and you shall hear. LOUIS
PHILIPPE, when proceeding on hot seback to the military
fete—along a Street like that of Oxford-street in Lon_
don—every house in which was as well known to the po-
lice of Paris as are the hotels in Liverpool to Mr. PAR.
Lotia---and where the houses, windows, and roofs of which
could not have remained unoccupied by observers for a
single moment.witlmut attracting 'the notice of the po-
lice—while proceeding along this street, called the Bou-
levard du Teniiile,:he was, as the papers say, fired upon ;
his horse, one of his generals, a colonel and some other
officeiA, and 'several of his cortege and byestanders
killed or wounded,

' All thi's s,natural enough, provided that some mad,
insane, or <lesperate.man, well tempted, could he found to
do the work at the risk; of his life. The person who firedlhe
battery is now, said.to 6e a Corsican, of the name of FiEscut.
That he is doomed-to- die, we have no doubt whatever.
for the honour of France and Louis
PHILippE is certain. .I'he newspapers say- that lie 'has
been seritiusly. wounded, that he has torn the:bandages
from his:wow:l4S, and . that an immediate death is more
, than probable'. ,• We have no doubt whatever as to the
-issue. die; and make no sign. Whether
he
is wounded or not lie must dio,---the state requires it.
,No one has 'seen.him but the ministers, the agents, and
the police of Louis PHILIPPE:- 'We do, rib"( believe a
single word,they utter; all we believe is that Fivscar,
or GERARD, :ortilißAßD, or. .whatever name is given to
the ptatoortiit;,aatist be made. to die; and it would not
surprise us that after his death he stiOulti.figure as a fo-
'reign crinnt'in the faihionable streetsolLondon.
That FLEsCill is declared to be dead iii donsequence,ot,
tearing off *bandages is the next 'news we exp,,ct from
Paris. That lie never lives to be brOught to trial,--that
no authentic biography of the ' platoon-firer is ever pub-.
lished, we-shall bet. a sovereign to a franc with any li-
beral who has a franc to spare.

Reader mark the point of these words ; ponder upon
them; inwardly digest them ! First and foremost, bear
in mind that Louts: PHILIPPE himself was nottonched.
They tell us that his horse was killed. We do not be-
lieve it. The citizen king rode him to the i„.iew, and
came gallopping back upon the back of him. This, sup-
posing a serious.wound, is too much to swallow. The
horse d;d nc.t die until the convenient time came, as de-
creed, which was two days afterwards. The wounded
horse, wounded by a slug in the neck, died, as the French
say, apropos ! Something was
,said at first about his
'Majesty being :‘Voundeti in the hand. That was after-
wards found to 'be too conspicuous a member, and the
wound was necorcriorly shifted to the arm, where a-batid-
av dould. %%Mt mote' ingenuity be applied. ,
LOUts therefore, escaped by a miracle. The
ftilg. of TirAzisik* VOP.I,FIoi'P, I'l4oa-similar deliverance: 'Not

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vex' ref the royal family were injured in the slightest cle•
gunf, no' battery Was yoiitted at them. The
lilleti'ar the assassin were •only.F.'welled at the Auite, And+
as regards them, a. fearful list .of cold blooded murders
signalized the glories of the THREE•pAys.
We-tio not atop here-to inquire whether FIEsCHI was,
or was not, the agent of parties whoM it would be im-
prudent to name. We do nbtssert that the escape :of
the King of the 'French more than the work of chante.
We leave the readerfta Soirin It own conjectures on this,
delicate-subject, contenting ourselves with remarking
that the ulterior measures of the*government of Paris are
Well calculated to raiselhe:darkestSuSpicions. The press
of Paris is made responAble for the acts of this unknown
assassin. Now, what had the press done to draw down.
npOn its conductors, all the fury of the government, and
the measureless oppressions which LOUIS PHILIPPE has
directed agtilirst. them ? It cannOt for a moment be al
leged that they were the instigators .of the murder. It
cannot be pretentletfthat they, or anyone of them, were
cognizant of the guilty plot, or that they were even re-.
mutely the instigators of it. The press of Paris is now
what it was in 1830, when it mainly contributed to place
the citizen king on the throne. • The same men conduct
it who then declared the new dynasty to be the " best of
all republics." The press is not now more unprincipled
or licentious than it was when it tore the crown from the
brow of CHARLES the TENTH, and gave it to LOUIS
PHILIPPE. The charter of the constitution of 1830 re•
cognised and confirmed its rights and liberties. It insured
to France the rights of free discussion, and gave to the
_citizens what the driveling whigs of our own island call
" the air we breathe, if we have it not we die !"

In short, Louts PHILIPPE himself is only. .recognised as,
the reigning sovereign by that identical charter which he
has violated. Repeal tat, and he breaks his compact
with the people—the constitution becomes a dead letter,
—and he ceases to be a limited monarch, and he can only
reign as an usurper, the head 61 a military despotism.
The new law 'declares it to be criminal to introduce into
. „
any newspaper, or written or !minted document, any ultu-
sion. whatever, direct or indirect, to the exiled family,
to any republican form of government. Parties offending
are to be punished by fine and imprisonment—the maxi-
mum five years, and 10,000 francsl Whoever, by the
same means, shall " turn into ridicule" the sacred person
of the king, shall be subject. to the same penalties. In
discussing the acts of the king, it is forbidden to introduce
"the name of the king either directly, indirectly, er‘by
allusion." The party offending may be imprisoned for
one year, and fined, 5,000 francs. In case of a second
offence, in respect to the matters above alluded to, the
maximum punishment is to be doubled. Any person who
Shall publicly or otherwise subscribe any sum of money to
enable offending parties to discharge their fines, is liable
to be fined 5,000 ft ancs, and imprisoned one year. It is
also forbidden, under the same penalties, to publiiih, either
before or after the sentence, the names of the jury who
try the case. The bill extends to all prints, engravings,
caricatures, emblems, and theatrical pieces.

Bravo, Lows PnILIPPE! Vive la liberle in France
The" best of all republics" has been in existence fur five
years, and the liberty of the press is completely extin-
guished! The mutes of the seraglio ate not held in
more silent bondage titan the heroes of the THREE DAYS.
In Italy men are still permitted to talk about and occa-
sionally to laugh at the pope. In' det many the emperor
is the subject oenewspi:per articles. In Spain many liberties
are allowed to be taken with the queen. In Holland the acts
.of the King of the Netherlands are.fteely canvassed, but
io France, happy and reformed France, where the citi-
zen monarch created by-the people is only the vile up_
start of yesterday, all tnentipn of or allusion to Lows'
PHILIPPE, except, in the sfu of fulsome flattery, is to
be punished as the worst of crimes, viz., perpetual imf'
prisonment in a loathsome gaol!,
We congratulate the people of France on this the first
issue of theirsenseless revolution. They complained of
the Censorship of Louts XVIII--4iey rebelled against
CHARLES X. for his coup dela levelled at the press;
tint the restrictions °Mows and the rigours of CHARLES'
were mere trifles:to the wholesale and sweepin,g edicts of
the man of their choice who presides over the " best of
republics:" Vive la Liberte ! .

Kerrnibet oftperrsoriS 'lisserntifeit yesterday, in Clayton-
square, to talk trash and treason about the House of
Lords ani the municipal corporations bill, that ba)t.t.
facetious warrior Colonel WILLIAMS, being in wh,it is
Called the chair. It was pleasant to observe that the day
was eacessivety hot, which contributed greatly to render
the colonel nine!) more cheerful and comfortable in his
duck continuations; than he was when he' exl,ibitet.l:
in the same place, similarly :dressed; in December last.
In winter chick shooting may he good sport, but duck
Jights is nu fun. At his last appearance, on the &line
stage, the words fell from him like hail-stones, as if be
had been sowing
.his
.teeth among the hard-mouthed
hirelings who shouted under the balcony ; but on this'
occasion the drivel fl wed more genially, arid he ex-
panded like the iron railings lie leant upon in the heat of
the sun. We shall not attempt to do justice to• the
here's oration, that having been frequently dune before;
for what lie uttered yesterday was precisely the parrot
squeak of his whole life, which he picked up from MajOr'
CARTWRIGHT, who stole his one idea from the patriots of
the first French revolution.

Of the meeting itself, it is admitted on all hands to
have been a decided failure. The colonel's speech Was
addresse 1 to some two hundred persons, who seemed to
make themselves. vastly merry at his expense. Mr,
JAMES BRANCKER had the good sense to absent himself,
which his friends, we trust, will duly appreciate„ Lord
MOLYNEUX was non est invenius, and there was cons&
quently an absence of lungs as well as of Ideas.
But the rarest portion of the fun had reference to
Colonel WILLIAMS himself. People asked, " What hn-
sine” has the old fool here ? He does not reside in
Liverpool— he has no rights to assert or preserve under
the proposed bill—he can neither gain nor lose by cor-
poration reform." •

It is difficult to answer this question. The. Morning
Chronicle told us the other day that the country was
stirring—that Finsbury had met—that ninchester %%Nis
up—that the. Tower Hamlets had spoken ont—that
PARKES had summoned' the .Birmingham union, and that
Westminster was in-the field, and so onL, Now these
people and plarex'are just as much interested in corpora:-
lion affairs as Colonel Al4lksts. The eleCtOrs of Maiy-',
bone recen►l;r presented. a petition M reference tai" the
condud of Governor DARLING, of New South Wakes.
We can understand their Motives, for unquestionably'
they take an interest in their fviends and relations who
are located in• Botany Bay ; but we cannot comprehend
the nature of the-interest which WILLIAMS has in the cor.
poration of Liverpool. He does not reside in the borongh
—he is not a merchant, or a cattle-dealer; or anything of
the sort ; and therefore we should like to know what
tempted him to expose himself at the meeting' of yester-
day. , , • „ .

'lt is true the worthy reformers of the town were bard
pressed for a chait man, and as they prefer a lord on all'
occasions when a lord can be found, they were glad in
ibis instance to accept a colonel, it being whispered that
Mr. Eottrotq•Smiril had offered his services. In this
view of the case.-the meeting were perhaps justified.in
selecting- a" military personage."
A Mr. Boo;ru, who cut a very miserable appear-
ance, threw out •ft hint about the Lords, which Mr.,
Justice-of-Peace RATHBONE followed up by saying that
the "House 'of Lords ought to.be an elective body." 'This
trash comes naturally enough from a man who declared
his "blood to be.boiling." General GAscotox reniem-
bers when it. not only "boiled," but run, over. if the
Rouse of Lords is to be elective, what necessity would
there be fora House of Commons ? This sage, too, has'
discovered that wisdom is not hereditary, and a Mr,
RossoN prOved it, by contrasting Mr. RATHBONE, the
Unitarian, with. his father Mr. RATHBONE, the Quakei.
But comparison is odious between the hereditary ivisdom
of the Lords and the.elective wisdom of the present Hobse
of Cormwyns. &Mr. JOHN SMITH, who seemed' to be
crammed with the wislotn of.the Commons., talked about
"stopping the supplies.", I there nu 041 woman in this
poor mun'a neighbourhood to tell hfra that the supptiest-