The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL sI'ANDARD.

therefore first slighted, and next discountenanced,
and they fell. But the day is coming, we fear, when
the organised strength which they offered for the
maintenance of the cause, will be wanted ; when
the spirit of attachment to the constitution ,nd the
throne, which they kept up, will be wanted ; when
we shall discover, too late, that we have nothing to
oppose to the restless energies of Anti-Monopoly
and other Associations, except broken and divided
forces.

And in what position is that Conservative press
which has battled so energetically in time past for
Conservative interests ? 'Where are the evidences
of that support which was so abundantly promised
us in times when Conservative councillors and ora-
tors were but in embryo—when gentlemen who now
flutter in the sun had not yet succeeded in emerging
from the chrysalis state ? They are to be found in
the cessation within the past six months of three
Conservative publications ! They are to be found,
not in Conservative advertisements swelling the co-
lumns of the Conservative, but of the Radical
papers ! This is the support (?) which faithful Con-
servative organs receive at the hands of those for
whom they have battled. They are left to struggle,
through discouragement and difficulty, whilst the
very hands, which should sustain them, are sedu-
lously feeding the most virulent of their opponents!
This should not be. It is unjust and unwise.
With some sorrow we find ourselves urged to the
utterance of these charges, which, however, we must
have it distinctly to be understood, do not apply
to all the Conservative party, in the Council or out
of doors. There are many of our Conservative
fellow-townsmen who have in all respects done their
duty nobly, and who deplore, equally with ourselves,
the mistaken policy and broken faith of some of
their Conservative brethren. To the latter only we
address ourselves—to the lukewarm and the waver-
ing—to the lovers of expediency and the seekers
after " liberal" praise ; and distinctly and unhesi-
tatingly we declare to them our conviction that they
are making shipwreck of the Conservative strength in
this town and in the Empire itself !

We are not in the habit of noticing the sayings
and doings of those very wise people who compose
the Anti-Monopoly Association of this town. The
twittering of sparrows upon the house-tops we have
never committed the absurdity of mi taking for the
notes of the nightingale; and as little are we in-
clined to fancy that when Mr. William Rathbone
" aggravates his voice," or Mr. Charles Holland
saws the air, or any other of the young gentlemen of
the anti-monopoly clique indulge in their crude im-
pertinencies, we are listening to Demosthenes.
Cicero, Pitt, or Huskisson, or are contemplating the
graces of an Apollo Belvidere. If, therefore, we de-
part from our custom to-day, and devote a few re-
marks to the proceedings of the Amphitheatre
meeting of Wednesday last, we would have it un-
derstood that it is for the purpose of noticing, not
this local clique of speechifying and tract-distributing
busybodies, but the very honourable and enlight-
ened gentleman who, by the grace of Lord London-
derry, and the purse of the Anti-Corn-Law League,
and the votes of the dean and sundry prebends, is
M.P. for the Cathedral City of Durham.
In the first place we cannot but refer to the very
unaccountable circumstance that politico-economical
knowledge should be an article so rarely to be dis-
covered in this good old town, whilst the locality of
Rochdale has such a superfluity that it can aflord
us an apostle to enlighten our darkened understand-
ings. All the world have been imagining for a
quarter of a century past that, upon the banks of
our noble river were to be found a race of niter-
chants, second to none in intelligence and enterprise.
Sad mistake ! Amongst the chimneys, the cotton
fuz, the mud, and the mingled wool and oil of 'the
atmosphere of Rochdale alone are to be found a race
of individuals who know anything of the true prin-
principles of commerce. All the world, too, have
concluded, when they watched the growth of this
great port—when they contemplated her extending
trade, her increase of shipping, her extending range
of docks and piers, warehouses and wharves—that
the effect must spring from an inducing cause, and
that that cause must be found in part in the pros-
perous colonies, for whose produce Liverpool was
the great mart. Nothing of the sort we find has
been the case. The effect has not been produced
by the cause ; for the cause was to produce some-
thing quite contrary! Our colonial trade has all
along been ruining us, notwithstanding all the evi-
dence of our senses and the proof to the contrary
of our ledgers ! We have been labouring under
"the blight of monopoly" all this time; and PHI-
LOSOPHY assures us that we ought to have dwindled
into a little fishing village ; that the magnificent
vessels which crowd our docks ought to have been
cobles or smacks, and that our merchants, who buy
and sell yearly the produce of half the globe, ought
at this momen to be chaffering for a cargo of her-
rings, or meditating the astounding adventure of a
shipment to Nantwich or Hoylake ! Such, poli-
tical economy tells us we ought to be ; but we are
not so nevertheless, however unaccountable may be
the face. But let us turn to Mr. Bright.
This most enlightened gentleman commenced his
long and luminous speech by saying that " If he
understood the object of the meeting rightly, they
were assembled for the purpose of discussing a very
simple question,—whether it were advantageous to
Liverpool and the empire at large to have a great
trad or a little trade ? for, after all the mystery and
all the fallacies which had been thrown around the
question of the corn laws and free trade in general,
it appeared to him that the question resolved itself
into one of much trade or little trade." Certainly
if this was all the question to he decided—whether
it were better to have " a great trade or a little
trade"—we should without much hesitation have
thrown up our hat for the former. There is one
kind of trade, however, which we should prefer to
either—viz., a safe and remunerative trade. We
have had within the past few years some little expe-
rience of the danger attendant upon " large trades,"
and this experience teaches us to long, above all
things, for moderation.
In opposition, however, to Mr. Bright's state-
ment, as to the question which the meeting before
him were assembled to discuss, we must contend
that they were not met to consider the relative ad-
vantages of a large and a small trade, but by what
legislative policy the former may be secured. Free
trade, Mr. Bright assumes, leads to large trade; but
we look through the whole of his laboured effusion
in vain for proof of his position. We have asser-
tion, supported by assertion ; but of proof none !
The orator never condescends to enter into the
question how free trade is to operate in producing
large trade, beyond hazarding the merely speculative
assertion that increased consumption will follow as
the result of the cheapening of foreign commodi-
ties, and increased importation attend the permission
to import produce in return. He never touches
upon the possibility (.9 that the price of labour, and
the consequent limitation of the power of the work-
ing classes to consume, may attend the realization
of his schemes. He never hints at the decreased
power of consumption of the agricultural commu-
nity. His sole position, in fact, amounts to this—
viz., that merchants will import more and manu-

facturers export more ; but whether we are still to
have a prosperous home market for manufactures
and produce is a matter wholly beyond or beneath
the scope of his enquiries.

In addressing to the people of Liverpool such
claptrap oratory as that with which he endeavours to
persuade us that a mere extension of imports and
exports will permanently benefit us, Mr. Bright a
little mistakes the character and intelligence of his
auditory. Increase your imports of coffee or sugar
or corn, he says, and you will want more ships, more
sailors, more carters and porters, more carpenters
and coopers. True : but shew us, Mr. Bright,
where we are to find consumers for the mightily in-
creased imports which you promise us. Ships will
not continue to bring produce for which there is no
consumption ; and sailors, carters, porters, carpen-
ters and coopers will find employment only so long
as commerce continues to be profitable. The sage
eleve of a Rochdale cotton factory may imagine that
all the world is comprised within the smoke which
he inhales, and that it is possible to cut off from his
consideration the rest of the empire. But the mer-
chant of Liverpool knows that his produce becomes
valueless, when he is deprived of those very cus-
tomers which the cotton lord would sacrifice so
flippantly ; that without a prosperous agriculture
and a remunerating home demand the wheels of
commerce stand still, or only hurry him on to em-
barrassment or ruin.

But enough of this subject, stale enough in all
conscience, and not much enlivened by the senseless
ravings of this rabid Quaker. We cannot follow
him through all the trite details and ten times re-
futed arguments which he has strung together, and
shall conclude by asking of the working classes, and
especially the freemen of Liverpool, (to whom Mr.
Bright especially addressed himself,) what is the
treatment, what the language which they have ever
received from these manufacturing agitators ? On
every occasion, when it was possible to level a shaft
at that portion of our fellow townsmen, when has
it been spared,--when has it been deficient in point
and bitterness ? The " venal freemen," the
" drunken freemen," have been stock phrases ; and
within the last twelve months no effort has been
wanting on the part of the people of Manchester, by
means of their inland bonding bill and other appli-
ances, to ruin the very class of men—the porters,
coopers, &c., of Liverpool—into whose ears they
are now anxious to distil their nauseous flattery, for
the working out of their own inted and selfish
schemes. Let our fellow towns be warned!
They will find in these men, depend upon it, their
most determined enemies and treacherous betrayers.
Trust them not !

INDECENCY OF JOURNALISM.—The press is no
doubt an instrument which exercises an important
influence upon public opinion for good or evil. To
he powerful for the former, it must be respectably
conducted. It must spurn that grovelling feeling
of self-interest which leads men to outrage taste, and
to pander to diseased appetite. It must keep the
lofty ground of principle and virtue, if it is to be a
blessing ; it has only to leave that path to become a
curse and a scandni to mankind. We have been
led to this subject by the publication, in the columns
of one of our contemporaries, of the history of a
felon, of whose character the town has little reason
to be proud, and of whose private doings and say-
ings decent society scarcely can be conceived to
demand information. The press, we conceive, de-
grades itself when it thus panders to the prurient
curiosity of readers, whose intellect cannot be con-
ceived to be above taking delight in the perusal of
the Newgate Calendar; and we cannot but regret,
therefore, to see a contemporary whom hitherto,
notwithstanding all the feelings of hostility with
which we have always viewed his politics, we have
always thought well of stooping to become the
historian of a brothel-keeper and a robber; or to
see the " leading journal " of Great Britain and our
respectable Conservative fellow-labourer, the Morn-
ing Herald, defiling their pages with such a revolting
record of crime and indecency.

PORTENTOUS !—We beg to call the attention of
the people of Liverpool to the following awful an-
nouncement, which appears in a Manchester con-
temporary, (the Courier) .of Saturday last, in the
shape of a reply to some correspondent !--" A
Friend to the Manchester Trade." When the ar-
rangements for bonded warehouses in this town are
completed, LITTLE WAREHOUSE-ROOM WILL BE
REQUIRED EITHER AT RUNCORN OR LIVER-
POOL (!); the goods will be transhipped into vessels
small enough for the river or canal navigation,
brought at once up to Manchester, and stowed in
the bonded warehouses here." Have mercy on us,
Mr. Bobadil, how very magnificently you do talk !
"When the arrangements for bonded warehouses in
Manchester are completed"—stupendous arrange-
ments no doubt !—this poor unfortunate town of
Liverpool may creep into an oyster-shell, for we
shall be no more wanted by our mighty neigh-
bours ! We know nothing much better than this
marvellous anticipation, except the saying—" when
the skies fall we shall catch larks !" Will our
Manchester fellow-countrymen never cease making
themselves ridiculous ? Sensible men may reason-
ably anticipate some trilling convenience to their
town, to result from the concession of this their pet
hobby. But that it can ever have the effect re-
ferred to by our credulons contemporary, is just as
improbable as that a fleet of line of battle ships will
ever anchor off the Old-quay wharf, or Knott-mill
be selected as the site of her Majesty's Dock-yard.

THE IRON STEAM AND SAILING SCHOONER " MAR-
GARET."—We are under the necessity of postponing our
notice of this fine vessel until next week, owing to a press
of other matter. We visited her yesterday evening. She
is adapted for " getting a-head " either by sail or steam,
being fully rigged as well as provided with a fine double
engine, with the screw propeller of J. P. Smith, Esq.;
and has already done wonders, under the circumstances,
on her voyage from Hull to this port, round the north of
Scotland.

DEFINITION OF " CONSCIENCE."—A local contem-
porary gives us the following as his estimate of what
" conscience" really is :—" There is not a more abused
word in the English language than that of conscience.'
In all ages it has been put forward as the monitor of fraud
and injustice. In the name of truth it revels in lies. With
a friendly aspect it murders while it smiles; and in the
guise of religion and charity it practises cruelty like a
fiend of hell. Conscience and the cheat and the extor-
tioner sleep on the same pillow. It is ever on the lips of
the blackest hypocrite and the most demure scoundrel;
and it is the most successful purveyor of baseness, and the
most flagitious instrument of crime, because it is either
beyond the reach of detection. or the grasp of comprehen-
sion."—Taking our contemporary's definition as here ex-
pressed, we should certainly do him great injustice if we
were to assume for a moment that he has any consci-
ence" at all.

THE FUNDS SATURDAY EVENING.—In the English
stock-market to-day business, though taking a limited
range, was quite sufficient to produce the fraction advance
in prices. The reduced securities and Bank Stock are now
shut for the October dividends. Consols left off 95 to *
for money and 951 for the account; Exchequer-Bills, 58
to 60 premium ; India Stock, 265 to 266; India Bonds,
675. to 695. premium ; and new Three-and-a-Half per
cents., 102 k to 1.
The foreign funds were also rather firmer. Mexican
closed good at 37k to 38 for the Fives, and at 101 to*. for
the Deferred ; Spanish Actives here last quoted 191 to 1';
and the Three per Cents., 261 to I; Portuguese 43* to 41
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 to * : the Five
per Cents., 101 to 1; Colombian, 241 to 25 ; Mien, 98
to 100 ; Brazilian, 74 to 75 ; Belgian 104 to 105 ; and Da-
nish, 86 to 87.
LOSS OF THE ST. ANDREW.—The master of the St.
Andrew, which left Liverpool a few days since, arrived in
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this city yesterday morning, and reported the total loss of
his vessel, and proceeded at once by the Ocean steamer to
Liverpool. The only facts we were enabled to collect
from what the master, Mr. Molony, said was, that the St.
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room, and when in the act of forcing a brass cock into a
tbhaerrcealsokfbsreiwritus,p, and in a moment the liquid floated him.
a quantity of gas escaped, which ignited,
ing through the vessel. Every effort was made to check
the fire, but unavailingly,
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after the deck blew up, and the vessel was on fire fore and
aft—tbe flames rising above the masts. After having
burned to the water's edge she went down. All the crew
arrived in Dungarvan on Thursday.—Cork Coutilution,
of Saturday. •

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER AND
THE ORANGEMEN OF ENULAND.

We have this day to lay before the loyal Protestants of
our town a document, or rather documents, which we are
sure will be read with intense interest and delight. The
circumstances which called forth the correspondence an-
nexed are briefly the following. The visit of his Majesty
the King of Hanover to these dominions appeared to the
loyal Orangemen of Liverpool anti of England a fitting
opportunity for them to pay their respects to their foi mer
grand master, and the uncle of their beloved Sovereign ;
and at their Grand Lodge meeting, held in Wigan on the
12th of July last, it was unanimously agreed that a peti-
tion, to be drawn up by the Grand Officers. should be ad-
dressed to his Majesty, expressive of the feelings of the
body towards him. The following is the petition which
was ultimately arranged:—

" TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER, DUKE OF
CUMBERLAND, &C. &C.
_ _

" We the loyal Orangemen of England, in Grand Lodge
assembled, beg leave to express to your Majesty our
hearty congratulation upon the occasion of your Majesty's
visit once more to the shores of England. Your Majesty
will, we are convinced, sympathise with us in the feelings
of sorrow and alarm 4ith which, as loyal subjects of her
Majesty, your august niece, and tried supporters of the
British Constitution of these realms, we regard the pre-
sent disorganised state of our country, and the rebellious
proceedings which are distracting our sister land. These
evils, we feel, may be viewed as a righteous retribution,
visited upon us by God's unerring judgment for our fatal
departure, in years past, from that pure Protestant legis-
lation which ought ever to be found in the councils of a
Protestant nation; but although, as Protestants, we shall
ever be found uplifting our voice against further conces-
sion to that alien power and apostate religion by which
the liberties of this great nation are threatened, we feel it
our duty as loyal subjects, and we pledge to your Majesty
our determination, to maintain our present passive posi-
tion, unless called upon by our rulers to'aid in the pre-
servation of the peace or of the Protestant institutions of
our country.
" We trust your Majesty may belong spared to rule over
the councils of the Hanoverian dominions, and be the
means in the hands of God, of preserving that blessing
(without which nations cannot be truly free)—Protestant
Ascendancy, in that quarter of the world.
" We have the honour to remain,
" Your Majesty's most humble Servants, and faithful
Brethren, (on behalf of the G. L. &c.)"
Signed by the Grand Master and the Deputy Grand
Master.

We are requested by the Orange body to acknowledge
the deep obligation under which they labour to the Right
Hon. Lord Kenyon, for the kindness and alacrity with
which he met their wishes to be permitted to approach
his Majesty ; and to Sir Frederick B. Watson, as well,
they feel indebted for the punctuality and attention mani-
fested towards them.

The following are the communications received from his
lordship and Sir Frederick. That from the former was
addressed to the Deputy Grand Master.
" Gredinglon, Aug. 24.

"DEAR SIR,—I have this moment received the enclosed,
which I have great pleasure in forwarding. and remain,
yours most truly, " KENYON."
6` SIR FREDERICK B. WATSON presents his compli-
ments to LORD KENYON, and has the honour to acquaint
his Lordship that he has not failed to lay before the King
of Hanover the Address of the Loyal Orangemen of
Liverpool, which His Majesty received most graciously.
" His Majesty purposes to acknowledge the receipt of
it in his own hand, and to transmit to Lord Kenyon a
reply thereto.
" Kew, 21st August, 1843."
The following is the gracious communication of his
Majesty, which we are firmly convinced no loyal man, rio
lover of his country and of his Sovereign, will read with-
out satisfaction and approbation of every sentiment which
it contains :

" SIR,—I have received the address of the orange men of
England in grand lodge assembled. lam most truly sen-
sible of the attention so kindly paid to the ; and I am gra-
tified in finding, that after an absence of several years
your Grand Master is not forgotten, but possesses the
undiminished regard and esteem of his brethren.
" No one, believe me, can more deeply lament than I do
the present disturbed state of our sister kingdom ; but I
am much rejoiced at the determination you express, to
maintain that calm course which you have hitherto pur-
sued.

" By a perseverance in that system you will best evince
your loyalty and attachment to our sovereign, my illustri-
ous niece, and your readiness to afford any assistance
which government may call upon you to give in support
of our sacred established church, and the laws and con-
stitution of the United Kingdom.

"Yours, sincerely,
" ERNEST.
"To the Grand Master of the L. 0. I. of England.
" London, August, 22d, 1843."

Four publicans were, on Friday, fined 20s. and 40s. for
infringing the law, and six beer-sellers were brought up
on similar charges. One was fined X-I, another £2, a
third lOs. Two cases were acquitted, and one was re-
manded.

SPdt Gamma TOBACCO.—On Saturday, a genteel-look-
ing young man, named James Loney, surgeon of the ship
Rosania, from Savannah, which arrived on Wednesday,
was placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having on
board 71b. of tobacco, which was found concealed under
some s, is and cotton, in the cabin. He acknoaledged to
the officer, on its being found. that it was his property.
As the quantity was upwards of 61b. weight, he was re-
quired to pay a fine of £lOO, with, however, an intimation
from the magistrate, that a memorial in his behalf might
be sent to Londor, a id that he wot ld be recommended to
the favourable consideration of the Lords Commissioners.
CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A. DRUGGIST AND
HIS WIFE.—At the police-court, on Saturday, Alexander
Shaw and Exebia Glendinning Shaw, his wife, were
charged by a Mr. Abraham, executor of the late Mr.
Scott. surgeon and dentist, Mill-street, Toxteth-park,
with having taken away and appropriated to their own use
several articles the property of the deceased gentleman.
It appeared that the female prisoner, who is still young,
had been for upwards of thirteen or fourteen years a fa-
vourite housekeeper to Mr. Scott. The male prisoner
was his principal assistant in the shop, and continued in
it for some time, when he was superseded in it by a young
man named Blelock, appointed by the executor, and (we
learn) took a house and shop for the carrying on of the
same business on the opposite side of the street. The pri-
soners were married after the death of Mr. Scott, and
some time after several articles were missed by the new
assistant, who also received information of others from a
woman who used to be employed at Mr. Scott's, and to
whom the prisoners had subsequently delayed or refused
to give a character. The articles consisted of a small pair
of scales, for weighing drugs, a tea-pot, an old set of fire-
irons, a piece of old carpet, a horn ladle, a black coat, a
pair of silver sugar tongs, &c. The coat was found pledged,
but as Mr. Abraham said that he did not think it had be-
longed to Mr. Scott, it was not proceeded with. Finally,
the female prisoner claimed the carpet and ladle as her
own, and the only article that was closely brought against
her was the silver tongs, for which a pair, of German silver,
had, it was stated, been substituted,—being first bought
by the female witness herself, whose testimony required
corroboration. The scales, it appeared, from the evidence
of Blelock, were missed from Mr. Scott's and found in
the prisoner's shop. With reference principally to these
two articles the prisoners were committed for trial at the
sessions. They declined to say anything at this stage of
the proceedings. The male prisoner, we are informed, in-
tended to open his shop on Saturday.
THE SAILORS' STRlKE.—During the past week con-
siderable excitemeut has existed amongst the seamen of
our port, caused, we understand, by an attempt on the
part of the " shipping offices "—who act the part of
brokers between seamen and their employers and captains
—to raise their commission from 2s. per man to 10s.
The position of the sailor and his habits, at all times
render him liable to exactions, and, in some cases, to
downright plunder. He is the prey of lodging-house
keepers, slopsellers, crimps, and others of a similar
stamp, from the moment that he lands in port, until, his
last farthing gone, he sails again, with even his future
earnings forestalled and mortgaged. Against these things
Jack never murmurs; but the direct attempt now made
upon his pocket has raised his choler, and produced a
ferment amongst the whole of our seagoing population,
which is rarely to be witnessed amongst that body. Thus
far we are glad to see that the proceedings of the sailors
have been unattended with any serious violence. Pro-
cessions, drum-beating, &c., have principally occupied
them. On Thursday night, however, a body of sailors
went to certain shipping offices, and ordered, with threats,
that they shoeld be closed; a command which was com-
plied with. They then went to the Waterloo Dock, and,
having learned that the Majestic, a large vessel about to
proceed to sea, had been manned by seamen supplied by
the offices, went on board and insisted on all the men
coming ashore. Two or three were induced to do so,
and their chests were about being removed, when the
police interfered and dispersed the " agitators." The
Majestic has since gone to sea; and, as far as we can
hear, no similar attempt has been made upon any other
vessel. On Friday, a meeting was held at the Queen's
Theatre, which was numerously attended, at which the
chairman, a Mr. Shiel, an old seaman, thus described the
position of sailors :—Thev, nominally, got -C2 per month,
but, owing to the exactions of the shipping masters and
others, their wages were reduced to thirty shillings and
under. These men were generally unfit for their situa-
tions, as most of them were not brought up to the sea,
and he mentioned an instance, in which one of them
shipped a shoemaker lad, of Kingstown, Dublin, on board
of the Liverpool, of Liverpool, as a ship-carpenter. It
was such conduct as this which had caused the loss of so
many vessels, and left so many widows and fatherless
children, and he called upon the shipowners and in-
surance offices of Liverpool to put the system down. A
sailor, named Benest, from Jersey, addressed the meet-
ing. He complained of the low wages which sailors re-
ceived, but, low as they were, they had to pay about
seventeen shillings to the shipping masters and others
before they could get a ship. These shipping masters, in
someinstances, got ten shillings from them, then there
was five shillings for cashing the note, a shilling for a
character, and another for a boy. He concluded by re-
commending a memorial to the Mayor and Council
suggesting that the shipping offices be put down, and ;
general office established at the Custom-house, to which
the ship-masters might go and choose their men. Several
other sailors addressed the meeting, and a proposition to
the effect mentioned by the preceding speaker was carried
with acclamation. The proceedings throughout were
very orderly. The probability is that all the uproar will
be terminated by the return of the shipping offices to
their original charge of two shillings.