The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

TO MR. THOMAS COGLAN.

SlR,—Whatever merit you can justly claim, far be it from me
to attempt to deprive von of; on the contrary, permit me to
bear testimony (anti I have known yeti for very many years) to
the excellencies which you do really possess.
I believe you to be a respectable man in your walk in life. I
believe you to be possessed of an equal shame of talent with your
compeers in the town. You have a ready facility for public
Speaking, and can embody a fair portion of common sense in
what you utter. You have an adequate acquaintance with the
tact that is requisite to influence a public assembly ; and can
acquit yourself with tolerable ability in the chair when eirettm-
stances conspire to place you in so trying a situation; and fur-
ther, I hold the highest and most unqualified opinion of your
integrity and moral character.
But, sir, conceding all this—" and something. more"—still
there is a wide chasm to be filled up before the lofty feeling of
tire town can be reconciled to your forming part of that imps-
imperro which is to challenge and obtain the deference
and respect of as intelligent and well-regulated a community as
any in Iris Alajesty's dominions.
It is not enough that you exhibit a list, however long, of ne-
gative qualigcations;—there must be something else on which
to fall back—something positive—something tangible—before
that high feeling Will condescend to enter into compromise with
a citizen who, however respectable as such, it cannot .look upon
as a fit depository for those resyousibilities which have hitherto
been delegated to those Only of the highest order.
Under what pretence, Permit me to ask, can you so far forget
your situation in life as tti allow yourself to be thrust forward by
a knot of individuals, the Majority of whom knew you fur the
first time on the evening of your numination only; or on what
principle do you justify, your presumption in aspiring at once
to the seat of a candidate for representative honours, unsup-
ported by the intelligence and respectability of the
.diStrict rn
which yon exhibited. On that occasion only were Yon known
to three-fourths of the meeting; and that yon should acquit
yourself ably and with tact was, ftum your experience, to be
expected; but that from the excellence of that self-acquittal
should have resulted your nomination as a fit and proper per-
sure to represent as in council; was, I have no hesitation iu say-

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ing, as great an insult to the ward as it wka surprise to your•
sell, who, I am sure, could not have entertained the remotest
expectancy of such a violation of propriety; and such a prostra'
tion of the self-rspect which it owed to itself..
Hitherto, wealth, education, and the lnthience either of ex.
tensive business or of proininence of character have been con-
sidered indispensable requisites in those whd aspired to a seat
in our local legislature, but which, in the Whole of these, can
you claim as your qualification; and what standing in society
have you to place before the public as just g!ounds on which to
fontid your pretensionsto that support which is alone to secure
,success; or what guarantee have you to offer to #dur constituents
for the faithful and adequate discharge of those onerous duties
that }fill devolve upon you iu the event of success,. when your
health, on your own admission, interposes an LiPediment that is
.and ought to be conclusive. If anything were required to show
the imperfection of the means adopted at the meeting to bring
before it the most eligible individuals for its approval and no-
mination, the conspicuous position you now hold Would alone
be sufficient. What ! is there such a paucity of respectability
and qualification among the reformers as to render your ap-
pearauce as a candidate necessary ? Shame on them, then, to
wish to displace those on whom the majority of the town has
been aceustdinCd to look, if not with approbation, certainly not
without respect.. It augurs ill for the principles which we have
been so vociferottsly called upon to " carry oat" at all ha-
zards.

"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve it, and some
have greatness thrust upon them;" and though the signs of the
times aro of questionable appearance, vet there will be some
difficulty in establishing the conviction that the period has ar-
rived for thrusting the coveted honours of councilman on you,
sir; the borough is not yet to be reconciled to so perfect a eon-
rt-ast. With your known character for prudence, it is surprising
that you haVe so far lost sight of that self:protecting virtue as
to have comMitted Youiself to the tormenting turaoil of a poli-
tical leader. It was injudicious, sir, to say the least of it ; and
I much mistake if yod do not find to your cost that you have
been perpretatiug a suicidal act on your success as a tradesman,
and your peace of mind as a man. That you have seen your
error it is easy to believe; and could the workings of yotir heart,
after the first ebullition on your nomination had subsided, be
exposed to view, they worild'proclaim a sad inroad made in that
tranquillity of mind which a delicate state of health, and the
cares and claims of a family are little calculated to increase.
As a friend, therefore, I counsel you le retrace your steps tile
it can be done with honour. Show that true greatness of cha-
racter may be as forcibly illustrated in the declension under
some circumstances as in the acCuPtat4e under others of prof,
feted honours. Consult your happirtesS 4an immediate and
manly avowal of your determination to withdraw from your pre-
sent position. Save yourself front your friends, make your best
bow to those who were injudicious enough to jeopardize your suc-
cess in business, by forcing you before tTfe publie;..and retire,
1 conjure You, retire front the quieksand you are treading on,
which can lead but to defeat; a defeat,' tbo, that will prove a
grave to your success as a man of business, necessarily carry-
ing with it all the ulterior consequences of such a calamity.
It is with feelings more of sorrow for your error in judgment,
than of auger for your presumption, that yob are• thus coun-
selled. I leave you to act on the dictates of a judgment that
will, so high is toy opinion of it, serve yorf With fidelity; and,
if left to its own unbiassed operation; with eiiceessful fidelity.—
Remaining, sir, respectfully,
Ward No. 13, Nor. '24, 1835. T.

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• THE IHISEI CLEttGi--,-The Cliestr bourant state 04;4110::
subscription set on foot in tire city 'of Chester I'Lir itti. 411ii‘t1
the Irish clergy already ;lima:tits to £7OO, of which k;.;)00 ba4
been transmitted to London, to be forwarded to irelaud for
distribution.

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:APPOINTMENT.—The Rev. William Artnitstead, latp curate
at Cliburn, in Cumberland, has been appointed to the incumbent
curacy of Garstang, On the nomination of the Rev. jatites Ped2.
der, A.M. vicar of Garstang.
Government is about to regulate the, rtiilestones an all great
turnpike-roads, and to number them front the General-POstoffice ;
only two of the existing stones have been .tinind to be aecurate.`iti marking the distances; many mites so lathed are betoeen
and 509 yards either too long or too short.
FlRE.—Last Wednesday evening, soon titter five o'clock,
fire was discovered in an upper story of the colour and mustard
manufactory of Messrs. Eyre and Jeffrey, situated in Bath-lane •
Queen-street, in this town. A messenger was immediately sent
to the fire-police station, and after the lapse of a shaft time
three engines were upon the spot.
.Dying, however,. to the ra-
pidity with which the fire burned; pearly the whole of the pre-
mises were destroyed before the engines got into play.., rhe
damage done to Messri. Eyre dnd Jeffrey's stock is not very
considerable, for which they are insured to the full amount in
the Phainix Insurance Ofsce. We have notbeen able to,aseer-
tain how the fire originated. We are sorry to state that, Mr.
Parlour met with rather a severe accident. In venturing upon
the mg of an adjoining buildieg in the same yard with that in
which the fire was raging, the better• to direct the operations of
the men who were preserving the corinting-housea he roof unfortui.
nately gave way, and he, together with one of the woriaten (an
engineer) in the employ o'f•Messrs.
,Mather and Dixon were
precipitated to the „;round, d distance of upwards of twenty feet.-
The engineer, who was seriously hart, was conveyed home,
where, by the desire of fileisrs. Byre and Jeffrey, he received
iminediate medical attendance:. Mr. Parlour was sent home in
a coach, and his Worship the Mayor, who was promptly on the.
spot, aftergiving directions to Messrs. Whitty and Dowlinl4
kindly Went to see that he was properly taken care of. Wean:
happy to hear that Mr. Parlour is getting better.
FIRE AND SERIOUS LOSS OF PROPERTI.-Oti Tuesday after-
noon, between four and five o'clock, a tire was disedvered in za
small room in the back part of the house of Mr.
,Heyden, the
Blue Bell Inn, London-road. The damage dope at this time.
was not of any 'very serious kind, the. fire having been got tinder
a fen' Minutes after its connuetic'ement. I-limey-el., it broke out
again in the same apartment thirty oil the following morning,
and for some tune considerable apprehension's were entertained
fur the safety of the premises. T,,vo hundred and fifty dozens
of Wine, worth from five to six hundred pounds, which had beeh
packed up ready for sale by auettnn•- next., Monday, were de-
stroyed. A pocket-book, containiv about £5OO, in Bank of
England and country notes, which had been placed for safety
in a desk in the room in which the fire originated, was either,
burned or stolen. We understand Mr. Heydetl's loss of the
value of the wine will be covered by insurance in the Sun Fire
Office. The cause of the fire has nut been ascertained.
SsitxutNs oN Poeanv,---Ou Wednesday evening the third,
discourse on the errors of popery was delivered in St. Andrew's
Church. Renshaw-street, by the Rev. J. Haldane Stewart, mi-
nister'of Sr. Bride's church. The subject of the rev. gentle-
man's observations, was " the right, duty, and privilege of all,
to read the holy scriptures." The text was from the 17 c. of
Acts, 11 v.—The church was crowded in every part by a respee,
table and attentive congregation.
1117,0tniNo roN.—The Minna( dinner giVeri by the newly-
elected constables took place on 'Monday last, when thirty-6i*
gentlemen, sat down to dinner at the George )nit, John dare,
Esq., in the chair, John Ireland Blackharne; Fig.; M.P„ and
John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P., favoured the company with
their presence. The usual leatidity en such uccasiolts was kept
up mail lialf-past eleven o'clock, when the company separated, 1 he constables for the ensuing year are, John Clare, Esq., John
Fitton, Esq.; John Edelsten, 6q., and Peter Ddvies, Esq. •
On Tuesday evening the third meeting of the Operative Con-
servative Association was held in the Assembly Room, Warring-
ton, when '& nety members enrolled their names. The number
of members at present amounts to 107, and there is a great pro-
bability of further accession to the society. Thos. Lyon, Esq.;
of Appleton Han, hag seat a donation of LIP to the society,
whit+ will bd expended in the purchase of tracts and papers of
a conservative character. The society have now a reading
room, which is open every evening (Sunday excepted) for the
perusal of newspapers, and With which it is supplied through
the kindness of their more opulent townsmen.
LE&FURES ON CO'NSEICVAiISIL—Mr. Lloyd, of Liverpool,
delivered a lecture on 'Wednesday evening in, the Assembly
Room, Warrington, on the history, constitution, arid national
utility of the House of Lords; the room was crowded to excesti,
by persons, chiefly consisting of the labouring claases, and if
we may judge front the plaudits with which the lecturer's &Jai-.
mentS Were received, it gave general satisfaction ; and it,
was truly gratifying to seo the feeling manifested in favour of
so importanta branch of the constitution. Mr. Lloyd has pro-
mised shortly to give another lectttre an the subject, " Church
or no Church."

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ThursdaY Morning the remains of the late Edivard
Greenell, Esq., of Wilderspool, passed through Warrington on
the way to St. Helens, the burial place of
.the family. The
whole of the shops in the streets through which the procession
passed were closed.
The Marquis Conyngham, Lord Chamberlain. to the King;
arrived here yesterday froin Dublin; in His Majesty's packet
Thetis, Cliptam ToWnley.
Roliesay.—Between two and three o'cloCk 1:14 Tuesday
afternoon, some villains entered the kitchen of, the dwelling-,
house of Mr. John Holmes, Salisburv-street; Evertmi, during,
the absence of the servants, and stole therefrom a quantity of
silver plate, consisting of upwards of two doitm forks, about
dozen spoons, a tea-pot and stand, anti a large circular waiter
We understand geveral robberies ofa similar kind have recently
been committed in this neighbourhood.
Muslc.—A new selection of tunes from the most eminent
foreign composers,. with several original conipositioiA from J.
Hargreaves, Logier, W. Hawes, G. Hargrees, G. Thomson; and W..
ShaW, is just published, edited and arranged by .1!,11- R. An-,
(trews, of Manchester. We consider the•work adinira,l'ilY adapt.;
ed for the purposes of congregational singing, and have no feat'.
but Mr. A. will be well tepaid fur his zeal m the prodaction of
so truly excellent a work.
It has been decided by the slbscribers to the fund for erect-.
ing a memorial in honour of Earl Grey: that the object shall be
a column, 150 feet high, surmounted. by a statue of the noble
lord, to be placed in a conspicuous situation in Newcastle. The
subscriptions amount to upwards of t LAX), and it is wished to
extend the list.—?l etecastle Journal..
Lord Thurlow, grand-nephew of the celebrated Lord Chan-
cellor Thurlow, attained his majorityd on the 12th instant. The
event was commemorated at his lor ship's seat, Great Ashfield,
Suffolk, in the tree old Engligh style. His lordship, who a.
young nobleman of staunch conservative principles, orOfeci
that the healthy or the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert
Peel should be proposed on the o6i:.asion, and the toasts were
responded to With great enthusiasm.
Wnycx or THE COUNTESS OF GLASGOW STEAKEIL-06
Wednesday, this vesSel; which used to sail between this port
and Rhyl, went to pieces near the Pier-head at Wood Side. She
had only arrived in Liverppol, .from Rhyl, on the previous
evening. We underittiiii this less was occas.ionei by some,
mismanagement on the part of the man at the helm: She was
worth from £2500 to 63000:

DEVIZES EixertoN.—The norhin'ation of candidates took
place on Tuesday, when Mr. Estcourt and Captain Dundas
were duly proposed and seconded. Tho. Wow of hands', in spite
of the influence of the Earl of Radnor and
.the Marciuis of Lans-
downe, was, strange to tell, in favour of Mr. Estcouit,'Ai rtaunclt
a consertative as ever sought the sulriaaes of the people. The
polling commenced on Wedueiday, when, under the new act
regulating elections, it will have to close. The result will possi-
bly reach us in time for our seeond editiun.

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HYDROPHOBIA IN A Hoest.—Abont eleven it eeks ago a.,!
very valuable horse belonging to a professional gentleman of
Worcester, was bit in the mouth by his own dot,. which proved
afterwards to be affected by hydrophobia. The hivrse, did not
exhibit any symptoms of the dreadful disorder; he did work
as well as usual up to last Thursday, when he appeared. to droop.
Orr the following day it became obvious that he was efrefecl by
li)dropholiia, and between that day and Sunday, he suffered the
most dreadful paroxysms, durit, which gouies appeared to.
• lie, intense ; he beat his head furiously against the wail. On
Monday he appeared to have exhausted himself, for hgg sunk.
down in an apparently helpless state, and in that state fie con-
tinned until yesterday afternoon, when he died %,rthout rt
siraggle..--Gloucester
,
RODAN cultivation of cotton in the liomati
states has, it is said, been tried this year on a great scale, amt
been completely successful. A new process of culture has led
to this important mercantile result.

ADVEIMSEMENT.—An Irish doctor advertises that .
the deaf may hear of him at his hoise in Liffey-street, vtheri '
his blind patients may, see him from 10 till 3.
SOn'te time since a young woman of respectable charaefet 61
Torpoint, married a seaman. who striirtly after the nuptial cere-
monies proceeded to sea in his majesty's ship *Conway. Dui ing
the husband's absence, the bride conducted herself 'With pro-
priety, and lived in anxious hope of her husband's return, and
on -one day of the last week, quite unexpectedly, he Wps.
an-
nounced to have arrived from sea; in fact, a pers.tin rePresent.:
ing himself to be the happy man claimed his Wife; arid so Corn-,.
pletety kept up the deception, as to be received and W#leomed
by the parents of the real husband as their darling Soh, the occa-
sional suspicion of whom, as to the trOth of his story, being lulled,
by the assurance that the difference in his appearance now HO
when he left was occasioned by his having suffered severely froni
the brain fever. Things passed on smoothly for some days, andt
the fellow got cornfortablv bearded and lodged,.iintil at last the
Conway arrived, and the real husband apprised his wife of his
return to this notintry. The trick was then discovered, and the.
impostor was, of course, discarded. He has since been commit-
ted to the conaty gaol, by T. C. Roberts, Esq., a magistrate, for.
stealing a watch. The duped girl is now deprived of both the
real and pretended husband.—Dertinfiart Tidevraph.

UMaRF.LLAS.—" Here will I mention a thing," says Coryat,
in his Cruditiei, 1611,'—'that, although, perhaps, it will seem
hut frivolous to divers readers that have already travelled in
Italy. Yet becainie unto mini' that neither have hien there, nor
ever intend to go thither while they lire, it will he a mere no-
velty, Iwiil not let it pass unmentioned, &c. "Many of them
doe carry otherfine things of a great price, that will cost at least
a duck.at. which they cooinionly call in the ftalian tongue • um-
brellas,' that is, things rust minister shadow unto them for shel-
ter against the scorching limit of the stin. These are made of
leather, something answerahre to the forme Of a little, compie,
and hi.ped in the inside with ctivers little wooden hoops that
extend the umbrella in a pretty larke eompasse. They are used
tsp. e,-ally hy horsemen. who carry florin hi their hands when they
ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs,,'
and they impart so long a shadow unto hem, that it keepeth the
heat of the sun from the upper pith et their bodies."
AN INTELLIGEN7 VorEa.-In cetisequence of the salutary
operation of the reform bill, which•waS to, ",create a new 1111(1
noes valuable constituency," a confaryman in a southern county
obtained a vote in respect of a t 6 pound tenancy for a long
term of years, A few days after he had come into possession Of
his important franchise, he Was applied to by, an active partisan
of one of the candidates for th 4 representation of the county "to
give his vote to Mr. —." " Now, naw," (Oath the clodpole,
"who'd he the fool then ? Thee know'st I have only Imd my
vote a week agorae, and dolt fnee think the 5'40) a ninny as to
gie it away so soon ?" We have no doubt that this intelligent
voter would subsequently giv
Gloticester Chronicle. e his vote to the tchty candidate.—

The result of cold windS, dense fogs,
damp atmosphere &e.
are frequently subversive of female comfort and attraction, by,
generating cracks, chapS,;and a harsh rough skin, and signal
using a prominent feature of an other wise beautiful countenance.
with unseemly coarseness. To successfully oppo,e these inno-
vati,ors, the Ladies liave a powerful friend in ItOWLAND's.
kALYDOll—and where the results mentioned. have attained
progress or completion, this infallible specific excludes and re
sists with an effective and rapid energy truly astonishing, ren-
dering the skin delightfuily motith and peasant and Inc; easing,
the fairness and transparency of tht skint o.lc6cla all conve-
titian: