The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

We most seriously and imploringly recommend this ex- I
periment. It is not open to the -slightest objection. It
would suspend the collusive bargains of the corn dealers
of Mark-lane, and it would give to the farmer the advan-
tage of everfkind of•season which Providence is pleased
to order. Lord Liverpool used to contend that steady
prices were not only desirable, but were a great blessing.
We hope this fashionable absurdity is worn out. It wars
against all the rules of a bountiful .Creator. The
Almighty sends a blight to teach us prudence and :ec6-,
nomy in our consumption of the fruits of the earth. -If,
the cup were always full, we should have no motive for
being moderate in our habits or calculating in our policy.
Steady prices, caused by foreign importations of corn, is
a denial of justice to the home cultivator. He has a bad
season, but by this rule he is prevented from having a
corresponding high price. The short crop and the low
price is ruin—for with an average crop the price must
necessarily be low. Lord Liverpool's maxim was a most
mischievous fallacy, and we are sorry to perceive that it
is not yet quite exploded.
It is said that the farmer would receive considerable
relief from a measure for the commutation of tithes. We
have no objection to the experiment, but we are afraid it
is delusive. , Church rates are hitched in the same way.
Abolish them, say we, but do not calculate that the farmer
will feel the change. No, no; the evil lies deeper; and
if some such scheme as that to which we have alluded be
not adopted, we shall despair of any relief arising from
any clipping of farthings in this way. Adopt a bold
measure—and the country will soon not only be recon-
ciled to, but will eventually applaud it.

Under the head "Contemporary Press" will be found
an article on the consequences likely to arise from the
recent death of the Emperor of AUsTRIA. As it embo-
dies all that we could say, and is admirably written, far
beyond our humble pretensions, we recommend it, to the
attention of our readers. The new Emperor is a man of
itrotigTeplings, and of hasty teniper, but he is sagacious
in his policy, and is not likely to alter the prevailing
state of things in Germany.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Wednesday Evening.

... .. . .
The only political event of much importance since our, last
has been the demise of the Emperor of Aus'iria, the illness
to which we then alluded having, as we predicted, proveil fatal.
It is somewhat remarkable, however, that this event, which
cannot but be of mo ent as connected with continental politics,
has had no influen in the value of our national securities.
The result of the in ion for the repeal of the malt tax has had

m advance in our stocks, and Consuls
lto-
'count, at 92h 1, but closed at 92h ; the 3
are 9.11 i. Exchequer Bills and India
the premium on the former having been
Bto 41, and that of ie latter, 23 to 24.

a tendency to, caus
day were, for the Al
per Cents. for Money
Bonds are both bette

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In the Foreign Miket there is very little to notice ; there has
been no intelligencc'Of Moment from the South American states
since we last wrote, and the bonds are within a fraction of our
former prices. There has been some speculation in both Spa-
nish and Portuguese Bonds, but without any material alteration
in the price. The following are the closing prices of the various
securities :
Bank Stock
3 per Ccut. Reduced
3 per Cent Consols ....MI ya
33 per Cent. Consols
31 per Cent. Reduced shut
New 3% per Cents .... 99i
India Stock shut
India Bonds • 21 23
Exchequer Bills
Consuls for Act ..... 92% 21
• • .41. 3

Brazilian Bsk
Buenos Ayres 3l 31
Chilian . 41
Columbian ' ' 37; i
Dutch 5 per Cents ..: —lO3l 6
Do. 21 per Cents
Mexican 4ll, 42i
Portuguese -92 i 1
Spanish
Scrip 6l 7 61 i

Belgian
By accounts from Tampico we learn that a rupture had taken
place between Santa Anna and Bustamenti, but the particulars
are not stated. It was generally current that the president was
not likely to advocate the church party to the extent originally
expected from him.
We have accounts from Quebec to-day which represent the
province as in a state of great excitement.• A grand meeting of
the Constitutional Association had taken place to petition his
Majesty to protect the settlers of Irish and English origin from
that nionopoly of power now enjoyed by the settlers of French
origin, who had obtained the franchise to such an extent that,
although the former class consisted of more than one-fourth of
the population of the province, they were unabie to return•more
than fourteen members out of a house of eighty-eight.
We have also advices from New Brunswick which contain the
speech of .the governor, Sir Cohn Campbell, on the opening of
the legislature. It is of a cheering tendency : announces that
the harvest is good, and that the commercial interests of the
colony were prospering.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

WEDNESDAY.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—EilenPlughes, a servant-girl in
the service of Mr. Greetham, of No. '24, Bridgewater-street,
was charged with stealing three sovereigns, the monies of a lady
named Mary Anne Evans. The complainant, who resides at
Dee Cottage, Chester, it appears, was on a visit to Mr. Greet
ham, and had placed thirty-one sovereigns in a drawer in his
house. She had occasion to look at the money the day after
depositing it, and missed the three sovereigns. Suspicion fell
upon the prisoner in consequence of her having purchased new
dresses, and other articles of wearing apparel,—and she subse-
quently acknowledged to stealing one sovereign. The felony
was proved, and the magistrates committed the prisoner fur
trial.
Five disorderly characters, residing. in a low court in Lam-
bert-street, London-road, whose names of William Sauderson,
James Kitts, William Lewis, Anne Clarke, and William Cross
are tolerably familiar to the readers of the criminal calendar,
were placed at the bar charged with stealing a quantity.of wear-
ing apparel, the property of Anne Taylor, of Brunswick:view.
The complainant, it appeared, is a woman who takes in wash-
ing, and a few days ago she placed on a line, to dry, a counter-
pane, some shirts, and other things entrusted to her to wash,
when they were stolen therefrom. Information was given to
the police, and Thursbv, the officer, suspecting the prisoners,.
went to the house in which they reside in Lambert-street, and
there found some of the clothes stolen. It was also proved that
'each of the prisoners had, at different times, pledged a portion
of the goods stolen with Mr. Harris, a pawnbroker. When
takeninto custody the prisoners were preparing ducks to roast
for dinner, which have since proved to have been stolen froth
No. 23, Peach-street.—Committed. •
YusretnAs.—(Before the Mayes and Sir THOS. BRANCK ER.)
CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS AGAINSt A WATCHMAN.—In a
recent number of the STANDARD, we gave a police report
headed " The Tables Turned," wherein it was stated that. " a
watchman named Hacknett had brought up a prisoner before
Sir Thomas Brancker charged with drunkenness, but on inves.
tigation it was elicited that the prisoner was sober and the
watchman drunk." Sir Thos. Brancker at that time desired
Mr. Whitty, the superintendent of the watch, to lay the circum-
stances before the board of commissioners. Mr. Whitty did so,
when the witnesses against the watchman failed in establishing
the charge they had previously made before the magistrates,
one of them denying that the watchman was drunk. Me,
Whitty was desireil by the watch commissioners to communi-
cate the result of the inquiry to Sir Thomas Brancker, with a
view to exonerate the accused; and this morning, on Sir Thos.
entering the court, he acknowledged the receipt of a letter
front Mr. Whitty. The subject havinc, been spoken of, Mr.
Parlour said he was given to understand" that notwithstanding,
what the witnesses had averred before the commissioners, they
still persisted in their former statement. On hearing this, Sir
Thomas called the two witnesses, via., Lucas, the constahle,
and a person named Gleave.
Lucas said the watchman was in liquor, and that he had
stated so before the commissioners.
Cleave, on being interrogated, admitted that out of compas-
sion to the watchman, whom he feared might lose his situation,
he had told the commissioners he was sober, but the contrary
was the fact.
Sir Thos. Brancker severely reprimanded Gleave for his pre-
varication and falsehood. He had desired Mr. Whitty to lay
th'ri.ase before the commissioners, so that the man, if culpable,
might be punished, and, it not, his character cleared.
Whitty said that he believed the watchman was not to
blame, as Captain Kerr-of the watch, who was a very superior
man, had seen him on the night in question, and he had stated
hat. the watchman was sober.

The subject theu dropped. ,
A GENU-WINE KENTUCKIAN.--A rough-looking American
seaman, whose wild appearance might perfectlyjustify a Yankee
gazetteer in describing him as half alligator, half hymua,or half
anything. but a human being, was placed at the bar charged
with having forgotten the lessons ou temperance learned in the
United States, by getting beastly drunk on the previous night,
and wallowing in the kennell, thereby obstructing the wheels of
carts and hackney coaches, and disgracing the American nag.
The prisoner, clothed in a capacious frieze wrap-rascal, or great
coat, with huge black whiskers and long lankey hair to match,
was introduced to his worship by the watchman, who in nate
Irish said, "This devil-the-care feller, yer worship, I. catched
last night, at half-past one this morning, chateing his lodgings
by taking a snoose in the kennell; and so, says I, " Ilolloh! me
King'sKhiligigh,ws his weight
highway,
he, I could whip
and Pua the King's repre-
sentative."i s ,
.t.h e
p—n
the
in wild cats, and your's too—Pin a Kentuck." ' ".Mvver mind,
my swell," says 1, "%rot you is—Pai a watchman ;.'' nd so I
wins him to Bridewell, and here he is to answer the ne.
The Mayor (to the prisoner).—What are you ? -..
Prisoner (yawning).—l guesses Pin a man. (Lang .)
A constable.—The ;Mayor asks what trade you are .
Prison er.—l calculates lam agenu-wine Kentuck. (A laugh.)
The Mayor.—What do you say for getting drunk?
Prisoner (in a singing tone).—l've a notion' that I don't
know, but I considers you must do something with me.
The Mayor.—Have you any money? •
Prisoner.—Oh no, 1 guesses I havn't.
The Alaym.—l think I had better discharge you.
Prisoner.—l think so too.
The Mayor.—Well, go about your business.
Prisoner (staring with his mouth wide open, but not offering
to go,) .
The Mayor.—Why don't von go?
Prisoner.—Oh yes, (laughter,) exit, with a hop, step, and a
jump.
POT-VA LI ANT.—A poor starved tinker was charged with being
drunk and courageous at two o'clock in the morning.
Please yer honour, said the guardian of the.night, this jiiitle-
man was elevated at an unseasonable hour, and said as how he
could lick forty watchmen yer honour.
Mr. Whitty here acted as interpeter, from whom it was un-
derstood that lick, in the vulgar tongue, meant feat.
The Prisoner.—Lord bless yer grace, I could not lick one.
The Mayor.—l dont think you could, you nosy go.
The prisoner then made his escape with becoming speed.
STEALING WEARING APPAREL—A man of bad character,
by trade a watclimaker, and formerly the driver of a cab, who
gave his name Frampton, was committed for trial for stealing and
pawning two pair of boots and it suit of clothes, the property of
a young titan named William Chantrell, with whom be Joeii-cd.

ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND.

There are some people who have an amazing fondness
for running their heads against a wall,tnd there are
others, alas that they should be clergymen I who, to use
a homely phrase, are never apparently happy but when
they are up to the chin in hot water, and making them-
selves troublesome and ridiculous. We regret to say
that the Reverend EDWARD HULL is a gentleman of

this class.
On the 29th of January last this reverend personage
addressed a letter to the Liverpool Courier, in which be
poured forth a flood of unmeasured abuse on the conduc-
tors of this journal. The accumulated bile of many
months was emptied upon us, and he calculated that we
should not survive its acescent potency. The minister
of the chapel for the blind had valorously undertaken the
task of " writing down" the STANDARD, and some few
simpletons looked forward to the catastrophe with consi-
derable interest. Poor man ! How miserably did he
miscalculate our strength, and overrate his own powers !
We are not to be blown :up by a bottle of ginger-beer,
nor swamped in a Lilliputian tempest.
But the most characteristic part of Mr. Htmes letter
was its last sentence, which we beg leave to quote.
"The proprietors of the STANDARD," he says, with
pompous gravity, "are at full liberty, henceforth, to per-
mit or direct their drudges to attack me as they think fit.
I will never, hereafter, condescend to reply to any arti-
cle which may appear in its pages."
This is very condescending towards us "drudges" on
the part of the reverend gentleman. Like a mischiev-
ous boy behind a wall, he throws a handful of mud at
the passers by; but the moment they detect the urchin
and are about to, return it, he runs away. He, is quite
welcome to pursue this ccurse with others, but he must
not-try tile experiment upon us. We can get to the in-
side of the hedge as well as himself.
At any rate, Mr. HULL has not kept faith with his
friends according to the terms 'of his letter. Weltad
occasion, on Friday last, to notice the reverend gentle-
man's conduct at a meeting of the committee of the
Blind Asylum, in the early part of last week. His con-
duct on that-occasion did not evince either meekness or
temperance, or any of the christian virtues, but we sim-
ply gave the leading points of the discussion and the re-
sult. Mr. HULL, nut satisfied with our report, conde-
scends to reply to it in the Liverpool Times of Tuesday
last. We congratulate him, therefore, on his re ap-
pearance in the public journals, despite his declared re-
solution to the contrary, and we hope lie may be enabled
to retire from the field in no worse condition than for-
merly. It is true that he does not give his name to the
article, but it is impossible to mistake the quarter
whence it emanates, or who dictated it. To be brief, we
assume it to be the reverend gentleman's own statement,
land we shall treat it accordingly.
First.—He says in the Times :
"On Tuesday, January 6, Mr. Lucy, the superintendent of
the school for the blind, informed the Rev. Mr. Ilull, as he
was entering the committee-room, that Mr. H aymond Houghton,
the treasurer, had directed him to send Robert Stiles, the master
roper, to the hustings to vote for Lord Sandon, and that he
wished to know for whom he was to give his other vote."
As this statement is calculated to implicate Mr.
Hot:Grrros, we have taken the pains to make the most
minute inquiry into the real facts of the case, and we
learn from several gentlemen, who are members of the
committee, that there is in the above extract statements
which are untrue: Mr. HOUGHTON did not direct Mr.
LUCY to " send ROBERT STILES," but merely left a
card, with Lord SANDON'S name on it, requesting Mr.
LUCY to give it to STILES, and to say that if lie had not
promised his vote, he (Mr. HOUGHTON) hoped he would
vote for Lord SANDON. He did not interfere in any
other way, and attached no importance whatever to the
request. The answer of ROBERT STILES to Mr. Lucy
was, " I have always voted for the red." It should
also be stated that Mr. HOUGHTON, the treasurer, al-
though a captain canvasser, and a very active one, so
far from dictating to or directing STILES, did not even
include him in his "returns to the election committee,
nor did he mention to 'any one that he knew or was
aware that STILES intended to vote for Lord SANDON.
Un the ground that such interference on the part of
the treasurer (which was no interference at all) might
be injurious to the charity, Mr. HULL, says the Times,
on the morning of the election, proposed the following
resolution at a meeting of the committee:—
"Resolved,—That none of the officers of this institution
interfere with, the masters employed in it as to the way in
which they shall give their votes at the election of members of
parliament."
It was then sugvested that, instead of the words "officerF of
this institution," the words "members of this committee" should
be used, which was accordingly dor.e. A further discussion of
the subject took place, and the communication made by Mr.
Lucy was entered in the waste-book by the yentkman who acted as
secretary."

This is not a correct statement. No such resolution,
or amended resolution, appears on any of the books,
waste or otherwise, of the institution. It is true that
ROBERT STILES was called into the presence of the
committee, and told that he might vote for whom he
pleased, and a minute of this important communication
was finally entered in the waste book. It was among
other things to expunge this minute that the committee
met on the 3d February, when Mr. HULL, according to
the statement in the Times, was absent from indisposi-
tion: ! It is very convenient to become indisposed
when anything unpleasant is about to happen, and Mr.
HULL'S illness came on precisely at the hour when the
expunging committee were to assemble. The reve-
rend gentleman was seen on the steps of the Athenaeum
on the previous day in good health, seeking, or, as
some sac, preserving his ‘"cold" for the next day. Very
ill indeed! He knew what subject was to be discussed.
The Times proceeds to say:—
"At the last meeting of the committee on the 3d instant, Mr.
Hull addressed the meeting at considerable length. The fol-
lowing is the substance of his address:—
"The resolution to expunge the record was altogether unpre-
cedented. That record had been submitted to the last annual
meeting of the trustees of the corporation; and the committee,
which Inserted it in the book of proceedings had received the
thanks of that meeting; and still the record was afterwa►ds ex-
punged by a new committee."
We must here premise that the manner and tone in

which Mr. Hutt addressed himself to the committee was
in the highest degree irreverent, passionate, unseemly,
and even insulting. He commenced his oration (duly
prePared beforehand, and perhaps read in the street to a
certain barrister) by stating that he did not intend any
personal-offence to the committee, which was no sooner
said than he began an attack of the most personal and
virulent kind.
The article in the Times does not contain a fair y o-
portion of the substance of what Mr. HULL said. \ ill
Mr. HULL deny that he made a most unbecoming anc in-
temperate attack upon a reverend gentleman, a men, her
of the committee, of which the reported speech in the
Times does not contain a word ? Will Mr. HuLL deny
that he stated in the course of his speech that several
c‘i
gentlemen with whom formerly he lad been on terms of
intimacy and friendship had now ince the appearance
i of the "foul-mouthed monster" in the Courier) reduced
their acquaintance to a passing nod, or words to this
effect ? .

In the last extract, Mr. HULL, it will he seen, called
the act of expunging his minute from the waste-book an
unprecedented one. He continues also to call it a resolu-
pronounces it to be illegal, absurd, useless, uncour-
teous, blunt, coarse, unceremonious, and so on. These are
ilki, soft words from a mini -. the gospel ! But to whom
are they addressed ? ' number of gentlemen of ac-
knowledged and undoubted respectability, who volun-
tarily and gratuitously conduct the affairs of a valuable
institution, whose paid servant Mr. HULL is, and who is
dependant upon its prosperity for the stipend he now
enjoys.
" It could not be imagined," says Mr. HULL, " that
Mr. R. HOUGHTON would condescend to pack a e,m-
rnittee." The sneer is well understood, but it only insi-
nuates a falsehood. The meeting was not more nu-
merous than usual, there being present only two gentle-
men mnre than attended the corresponding meeting in
the previous year. Besides, it is a fact that the gentle-
man who moved that the minute be expunged,-as well as
several others, did not know anything of the circumstance,
and did not know of any such minute, until they came
into the committee-room.
Bat the rcrerend gentleman broached a doctrine on