The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

MUNICIPIL CbRPORATION4 BILL—PETITION

TO.THE LORDS

The following petition, most respectably signed, was for_
warded last night to the Earl of Aberdeen; to be presented to
the House of Lords, accompanied by a letter, expressing the
obligations of the persons who 'have signed the petition, to his
lordship, for the admirable stand which he has made on every
occasion for the church of Scotland.

• A petition from the same parties to the C morons' .House Of
parliament, praying the honourable house to adopt the amend-
ment respecting clerical patronage, introducd by the lords, has
also been sent off to the Lord Viscount Sanclon :—/

"To the lords spiritual and temporal in
,parliament assembled•
"The humble petition of the undersigned electors of the
borough of Liverpool and others, residing within the said
borough, members of the church of Scotland, sheweth,
"That your petitioners have observed with satisfaction the
introduction of an amendment by your lordships into the bill for
reforniing the municipal corporations of Englund and Wales,
by which the clerical patronage of the church of England; iu
said boroughs, is limited to members of council, who are also
members of the church of England; becau'u your petitioners
have ascertained that the want of a similar clause in the Scot-
tish municipal corporation reform acts .has occasioned much
annoyance and disquietude to the venerable' church of their
forefathers, and great detriment in Scotland to pure an.l unde-
filed religion.
"Your petitioners therefore pray that your lordships will pre-
serve the aforesaid amendment."

PROSPECTS OF THE WHIG RADICALS,

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STaNDARD.

Siia,—The organs of the present ministry make it their daily
boast that "the country is with them," and that " the people
are on their side." If by such expressions they mean that a
majority of the electors are favourable to the policy of the Whigs,
1 venture to pronounce it a sheer and unqualified falsehood, in
so far as England and Wales are concerned. That this is not
mere assertion, the following particulars will abundantly de-
monstrate. There has been a majority of conservative mem-
bers in the House of Commons, ever since the commencement
of the session, if the representatives of Englaud a.nd Wales are
considered by themselves; and if we investigate the relative
' proportion of their constituents, we shall fiu I that, even, there
the conservatives are numerically :nom powerful than the de..
structives.
Assuming that the voters are in an equal ratio to the aggre-
gate population of each county in the kingdom, we shall find
that the county members who are opposed to the present admi-
nistration, represent a far greater number of" the people" than
the supporters of Lord Melbourne's cabinet. The counties may
be distributed under.three classes according to the preponde-
rance of political opinions;—namely, the conservative, the ra-
dical, and the neutralized. The latter we'need not notice.
CONSERVATIVECOUN VEY: —Lancaster,Westinoreland.Cam-
bridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks, Suffolk,
Shropshire, Staffordshire, Devonshire, Northamptoushire,
Leicestershire, -Hertfordshire, Essex, Berkshire, Doisetshire.
To these must he added the Principality of Wales.
RA DICA L COCNTIIiS :—Yorkshire, Middlesex, Durham, Sus-
sex, Cornwall, Rutlaud, Somersetshire, Worcestershire, Here-
fordshire, Lincolnshire.

POP CLATION.

Conservative
Radical
Majority . 841,000
But how will matters stand at the next election ? The rejec-
'tiotc of 'the radicals from one county alone—Middlesex—will
cause the majority to be as follows :—•
Conservative • 6,776,000
Radical

Majority
And this will be the case. Hume and his partner aro to give
way to two honest constitutionalists. But Middlesex is not the
only place where a difference will be effected. The conserva-
tives may reasonably anticipate a formidable accession to their
numbers from the reaction to which the alliance of O'Connell.
Hume and Co. with the present ministry has given birth. Take
a specimen of the anticipated gains.
From Bath, 2; Bedford, 1; Berwick, 1; Beverley, 1; Bod-
tnin,.l ; Bolton, 1; Boston, 1; Bridgewater, 2; 13ridport, I;
Rory, 1; Cambridgeshire, 1; Cambridge, 2; Canterbury, 1 ;
barinarthenshiri; I ; Carnarvon, 1; Cirencester, 1; Cocke-r-
-tnouth, 1; Durham, 1; Exeter, 1; Gloucester, 1; Great Grims-
by, 1; Halifax, 1; Heref.irdshire, 2; Hereford, 2; Hertford,
1; Horsham, 1; Hull, 1; West Kent, 1; Leeds, 1; Lichfield,
; North Lincolnshire, 1; Lincoln, 1; Liverpool, 1 ; the Me•
tropolitan Districts, 8; Maiatoue, 1 ; Maldon, 1 ; Middlesex,
2; Monmouth, 1; Newport, '2; West Norfolk, 1; Northamp-
ton, 1; Penryri and Falmouth, 1; Plymouth, 1; Portsmouth,
2; Radnorshire, 1; Rochester, 1; Sandwich, I ; Sheffield, 1;
Sudbury, 1 ; West Suffolk, 1; -East Surrey, 1 ; West Surrey,
; Tewkesbury, 1; Warwick, 1; Wigan, 1; East Worcester-
shire, 2; West Ditto, 1; Wycombe, I;—iu all, 71
Supposing 74 radicals to be superseded by en many conserva-
tives, the state of parties in the future House of Commons will
standltius:

Add 74 to the 308 conservatives now in the house-382.
Subtract 74 frotn the 310 radicals now in the house-266.
Sir Robert Peel will hereafter command the following ma-
jority—or something like it—ONE IIuNDRED tIND TWENTI-
- FELIX.

RADICAL TRICKS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WERPOOL STAND:4RD.

Ste,—However inferior the radicals are in every other re-
spect, they must, at least, be allowed to excel in those essential
qualificat?ons—cuaning and impudence. In illustration of this
I shall expose a few of those manoeuvres by which they have
uniformly sought, and sometimes acquired, popular ascendency.
The most notable of their expedients for creating a sensation,
that is, for " raising the wind," is to dwell upon some particular
4e,'Gm day to day, giving it all the emphasis of an undeniable
truth, until they become haf persuaded themselves that it is no
longer a falsehood, and until the deluded creatures, which these
radicals flatter with the appellation of "the public," are, in like
manner, befooled by their ridiculous hallucinations. Let us
take an instance, exactly in point. • Joseph Flume, and the
smutty whipper:snappers of the republican press-gang, have
been, for the last three or four weeks, asserting and reasserting
that " the people" of England are at issue with the House of
Lords;—that the popish majority in the How of Commons
echoes the voice of the people ;—tbat that same house had ex-
ercised its inquisitorial functions in accordance with the senti-'
meats of "the public;"—and that "the people" of England
will stand by the present " popular ministry."
Du these drivelling fools really believe that the fact is so ?
Are they not aware that they are uttering a barefaced, auda-
cious lie? Yes, they do know it ;, they are fully conscious of
their moral turpitude. But what care these vagabondising ven-
ders of treason and mendacity, if they can carry their own am-
bitious projects into execution? Well, then, this lie is harped
upou from hour to hour; it occupies a prominent position in
every newspaper in their interest ; it is bellowed by every blus-
tering blackguard, who leaves his lapstone or his cabbage-gat-
den, to sport his oratory before his delectable and odoriferous
associates; it becomes the insolent brag of every unshorn puppy,
who fancies that his appetite is strong enough to digest politics
as well as lollipops and gingerbread. But what is the fact?
The PEOPLE OF ENGLIND have, by their representatives, al-
ready condemned the present ministers; they have condemned
them by virtue of their former title to the verdict of "guilty."
The people of England have strongly evinced their mistrust in.
them, even before they became the allies of the destructives;
before they displayed the cloven foot of duplicity; before they
dropped the visor, and showed the snake-wreathed head of that
'grizzly and devouring monster, which theyt have, falsely bap-
tised " reform;" before they realised Lord- Monboddo's whim-
sical hypothesis, and assumed the decorous
,appendage of " a
tail." If, then, the people Of this great cotintry have already
signified so strongly their opinions of the present ministry, un-
der circumstances which precluded them from a knowledge of
their ulterior designs, what would " the people" now do, if the
anticipated contingency of a dissolution of parliament took
place ? Now, that the whips have all but plunged the country
into all the horrors of a civil war; now, that they have formed
au imprudent alliance with the scurvy wretches who are endea-
vouring to wrest Ireland and Canada from their. allegiance to
their lawful- sovereign. Would the—people of England any
longer tolerate their ascendancy? Would they not indignantly
hurl them from their eminences, and teach them that their
dearly-purchased rights and privileges are not to be trampled
upon by a despicable, slavering set of political economists ?
The pertinacity with which the radical scribes urge this lie is
truly laughable. They make it assume every shape, and dress
it in every imaginable guise. The most ludicrous, however, is
that in which they assert that the people have to contend with
au oliyarchical factian of one hundred' and sixty hereditary le-
gislators. These are represented as the sole enemies of "the
people." Blockheads how comes it to pass that there is a
'majority of Englishmen in the House of Coney/I°ll3,—in "the
great national council," who are adverse to those rebels thus
dignified by the magniloquent title of " the people !" Inde-
pendently, howeter, of this glaring fact, are the 5,0,i0,00a which
constitute the agricultural population of England to be counted
as nothing? Are our stout yeomanry not a purtiou of "the
people?" Ate the proprietors of the Laud—the wealthy class of
werchante—the learned professions—the preponderating conser-
vative 'coustituency,—are all these to be without. sun roic.e t
The people or Ragland did their best atthe last electiou to save
out country luau the yawuiug gulph of a tevolutiou. But their
honest representatives were swamped by the scoundrel-otracy •
which scutemed over the foul cauldron of Irish agitation. They
have been overmue by a hideous monster of thirty-seven tail
power. But the next time! Ahl there's the rub I
Let thci radicals do their worst. Let their lies have their day.
Let them proceed to disgust the people of England still more
by their despicalale proceedings. Let them fume and fret their
short hour upon the stage. The curtain will soon drop upuu
them. The last scene of their tragedy is at hand. Their final
exit will be amidst the houtings iusulted people,
•

AMBROSE.