The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 15, 1844

The Conservative burgesses of Liverpool have,
this year, a serious business upon their heads. For
months past the agents and emissaries of the Radical
and Popish faction in our town have been moving
heaven and earth to strengthen themselves for a
contest in every Ward, where a contest has a shadow
of success. Rates have been paid by men whose
possession of money of their own to pay them was
as questionable as their disposition to pay ; faggot
voters have sprung up like mushrooms; and already
we have a shoal of the most prominent members of
the late dominant party in our town furbishing up
their electioneering artillery and preparing to urge
their way into the Council Chamber. This effort
must be promptly met. So intolerable a nuisance
as an addition to the talking. and motion-making
offshoots of Liberalism at present in the Council,
as the representatives of the cellars of Vauxhall-
road, and other equally savoury and respectable
localities, must be warded off; and we confidently
believe that, notwithstanding some neglect on the
part of the leading Conservatives of Liverpool, who
really do not, in their present position of supremacy
in the Council, shew the same amount of energy
which gained them that position, any considerable
addition to the numbers of the Radical party may,
by the exercise of the requisite amount of activity
and determination, be prevented.
We are not in a condition, in our present publi-
cation, to give any list of the parties likely to come
forward for the various Wards, or to state how
many are to be contested. Upon three, however,
we know that a dead set is to be made, namely,
Scotland, St. Peter's, and St. Anne's. To a notice,
therefore, of the claims of the candidates for these
Wards we must, for the present, confine ourselve3.
In Scotland Ward, we believe, the result of the
proceedings before the registration court has been
very unfavourable for the prospects of the present
Conservative member, Mr. Isaac Holmes, who again
offers himself to the constituency. His opponent
is at present in the background. We entertain,
however, a confident hope that, upon his merits as
an ardent supporter of the local interests of Scotland
Ward, independently of his sterling honesty as a
politician, opposition to Mr. Holmes will be cnly
the viper's attempt to gnaw the file. We must not,
however, be too sanguine. Radicalism is singularly
forgetful of past services and old friendships where
party is to be served by forgetting them. The
merest and meanest tool would, in such a case, be
preferred by the faction to an honest man who
dared, in political matters, profess an independent
opinion of his own; and, therefore, we must urge
upon the Conservative electors of the Ward to be
energetic and watchful if they would save themselves
from the ignominy of adding another Thornhill to
the number of their representatives. Mr. Holmes
must be earnestly fought for. He is worthy of the '
exertion.

In St. Peter's, it is said, Mr. Thomas Bolton
opposes Mr. R. S. Henderson, the retiring Conser-
vative member. Surely the burgesses of Liverpool
have had enough of Thomas BAton to make his
the ghost of a chance !

The chief direction, however, of Radical malignity
is towards St. Anne's Ward, in which Mr. James
Parker, a manly and honest Englishman, is to be
opposed by (save the mark!) Mr. William Earle,
who is put forward as eminently qualified to gain
the suffrages of " the respectable Electors" of the
Ward. How Mr. Earle is more respectable than
Mr. Parker, we must confess it puzzles us to ima-
gine. And what other claims Mr. Earle can have
to the suffrages of this particular Ward it would
puzzle himself to tell. We know not what William
has ever done for St. Anne's, for the town, or for
mankind, sufficiently great to entitle him to the
dignity he seeks for. From all the observation that
we have had of his business capabilities in times
past, we have little faith in the prospect of his doing
much for the future, unless his Continental travels
have returned him to us a much more kindly tern-
pered and wiper man than we have known him
hitherto. Mr. Parker, on the other hand, has ever
been found by all parties, in the Ward and in the
town, a man eminently attentive to his duties; of
thorough business habits and capabilities: straight-
forward in all his actions, and devoted to the service
and best interests of his fellow-townsmen. No man
ever detected him in a jobbing transaction; no man
ever suspected him of implication in one. He has
been guilty however, on more than occasion, of de-
tecting and denouncing, what he conceived to be
malpractices, acted or contemplated ; and hence, we
fear the zeal and virus with which his well .earned
claims to the honest portion of the constituency—
not the "respectable" portion, which includes, of
course, those respectable people who owe their fran-
chise to the vicarious pocket of a Radical busy-
body—are sought to be defeated.

Mr. Parker,' however, has in him some good
Yorkshire ancestral blood, which those of his op-
ponents who have no blood worth tracing for two
generations back will find difficult to bully. We
fear him not against William Earle, despite that
gentleman's respectability and the consummate fit-
ness which, on that account, he possesses to repre-
sent the respectable gentlemen who have been foisted
upon the register by the Radical party. There
must be hard working however in the Ward, if the
Conservative electors wish to hold their own ; and
hard working we trust there will be. We must not
destroy the Conservative character of St. Anne's,
or lose such a representative of it without a struggle.

It is not often that we are able to quote with ap-
probation any portion of the leading columns of our
contemporary, the Chronicle. The following pas-
sages, however, from a leading article of his last
publication, present themselves so appropriately to
us, at the very moment when the reverend gentle-
man. thus highly eulogised by a political opponent,
is entering the eleventh year of his ministry in
this town, that we cannot resist the temptation of
giving them to our readers. We need scarcely pre-
mise that the gentleman referred to is the Rev.
Hugh WNeile, whose claims upon the gratitude of
the Conservative party in Liverpool are thus spoken
of :

" But for his ceaseless activity, but for the hot tide of
eloquence which be has at his command, but for his agi-
tating powers and marvellous tactics as a political leader,
where and what would they have been at the present mo-
ment ? They and all the rest of their fellow-tortes would,
in all probability, have still been in a wretched and miser-
able minority. They were in an utterly helpless and hope-
less state, without a head to think or a tongus to speak
for them, when he first appeared in this locality and de-

voted himself to their rescue, and to say the truth, as a
new Coriolanus, ' alone he did it.'"
Again, the same wri►er say s :
" In short, he was the chief, the guide, the stay, the
prop, the support, the planner, the doer, the all in all, the
Alpha and Omega, of every thing that was accomplished
in the grand struggle which issued in the expulsion of the
liberal party from the local and municipal power which
they had achieved after the passing of the Reform Bill."
This is no trifling meed of praise from an opponent,
It is an acknowledgment of the wondrous power and
commanding intellect of the reverend gentleman,
wrung, in very bitterness, from the heart of one who
would fain have seen that power less effective for
the great objects towards which it has been devoted,
and that intellect perverted to meaner and less en-
nobling purposes :—for, mark the events which he
contemplates as the imm.diate results of Mr.
M'Neile's withdrawal from the sphere of his past
usefulness :
" We often think that if it would only please Sir Robert
Peel to withdraw the pastor of St. Jude's from amongst
us, by making him a bishop, we would soon once more
make short work with all the rest of the party. It would
be, indeed, an easy task to do battle with the body after
the soul had left it, and Liverpool Toryism would be no
more than a defunct and breathless corse, if its animating
principle, the presence of Mr. M'Neile, were taken from
it. It would be child's play to deal with all that would be
then left of it."

Nothing certainly, but such an extension of the
sphere of his usefulness as is here pointed at, could
reconcile us to the loss of Mr. M`Neile's presence
amongst us, so perfectly satisfied are we of the truth
of our contemporary's estimate of its value.

The Joornal, in his anxiety to obey the prompt-
ing of a certain party in the Dock Committee, and
to have a fling at the owners of warehouse property,
has laid bare a subject of controversy, in which it
may be found that other parties, and especially the
shippers of the port, may discover themselves inte-
rested.

" The warehouse owners," he says, " contemplate a
new movement, which is to prove a regular coup de grace
against the Dock Committee. They have discovered that
the new warehouses in the course of erection at the Al-
bert Dock are in violation of the Act of Parliament; that
they do not leave sufficient quay room ; and that the floors
are only about half the elevation that they ought to be."
Any reader of this passage must arrive at the
conclusion that some opposition of a very petti-
fogging character is about to be offered to the Dock
Committee; that the objection to their plans is ra-
ther directed by pique than founded upon any sub-
stantial grievance. This, however, it appears to us,
is scarcely the case. Whatever may be the amount
of support which the objection, or rather objections,
in question may receive from the public, there can
be no doubt whatever that a fair and legitimate
ground exists for their being made. A plain state-
ment of the points at issue (which the Journal's pa-
ragraph is not) will enable us to form a dispassionate
judgment with respect to their merits and their hn-
portance to the public.
It was stipulated, when the Albert Dock Bill was
before Parliament, as a part of the compromise be-
tween the Dock Committee and the parties hostile to
dock warehouses, that the whole of the quays of the
Albert Dock should remain open for shippers using
the dock without availing themselves of the ware-
houses. At the same time it wai agreed that these
warehouses should not be more than four stories in
height above the open quay. The substance of
these stipulations is contained in the following
clauses, Nos. 55 and 56 of the act of Parliament—
C. 55.—And be it enacted, that the said warehouses so
to be erected on the quays of the said wet docks shall be
erected by the said trustees of such dimensions, and of
such height not exceeding four stories, besides the ground
floor or quay, and with such and so many vaults or cel-
lars under the same as to the said trustees shall seem
most proper and convenient.
C. 56.—Provided always, and be it enacted, that the sur-
face of the quay over which the said warehouses shall be
erected shall be reserved as public quay, subject only to
the general regulations of the said docks, and that the
owner, consignee, or shipper of any goods, wares, and
merchandize which may be larded or shipped in or from
the said quaA, shall not be obliged to house or deposit any
part of such goods, wares and merchandizes, in any of
the warehouses of the said trustees, nor be subject nor
liable to pay any warehouse r. nt, except in respect of
such part of such goods, wa.es, and merchandizes, (if
any,) as may be deposited in the said warehouses.

It is perfectly clear what was intended to be
enacted by these two clauses. The space upon
which the warehouses were to be erected was to form
quays, the whole to be open to shippers to be used
free of charge for export or import, subject only to
the usual regulations of the Dock Committee—to be
used, that is, as the sheds round the Prince's and
other docks are at present used. But has this, the
only legitimate interpretation of clauses 55 and 56,
or the agreement in accoi dance with which they
were framed, been carried out by the Committee of
Works ? An inspection of the warehouses already
erected, as well as of those in course of erection,
will shew that the spirit both of the act and of the
agreement has been evaded. It is very questionable,
indeed, whether even the letter of the act has not
been so far violated as to place the Dock Committee
in some measure at the mercy of any objector to
their present plans, who may choose to resort to a
court of law to oppose them.
In the first place, the whole of the space upon
which the warehouses are erected is not made into
quay room, but only about one-third, or perhaps
(for we speak from observation only) about two-
fifths of it, fronting the dock. The remainder is
converted into warehousing rooms; and thus, whilst
the façades of the erections shew only four stories
besides " the ground floor or quay," there are, in
reality, upon much the greater portion of the space,
six distinct floors of warehousing room. Here then
is a double objection to the present plan. The quay
space is less than was contemplated by the framers
of the act; and there is a direct violation of the
clause which limits the height of the warehouses to
four stories. But the spirit of the act, which ob-
viously meant that this dock should be available for
vessels unloading, without an intention of using the
warehouses, as well as for those intending to use
them, is even more glaringly set at naught. The
limited quantity of loading and discharging space,
the want of accommodation for carting to and from
a ship's side—the whole arrangements, in fact, are
such as must almost compel parties using it to use
also its warehouses, and must convert what was
professedly intended as a general dock into an im-
port dock exclusively.
We are not prepared to say that, under all cir-
cumstances, such would not be the best purpose to
which it could be converted. Nay, we believe that
the very circumstance of its being surrounded with
warehouses would ultimately make it an import
dock alone, whatever facilities might be afforded by
it for export. But we should have wished such a
result to have been achieved in a more open man-
ner, without violating either the letter or the spirit
of the law; and we are sure that neither the chair-
man, the deputy-chairman, nor the majority of the
Dock Committee, would have wished otherwise.
For only glance for a moment at the results, if, as
we anticipate, it is found upon the completion of the
Dock that it is capable of being worked only or
mainly as a feeder for its own warehouses. Every
vessel which enters it, when discharged, will have
to be hauled out to load at the Salthouse, the
Canning, or the George's Dock, where there is
sufficient accessible quay room; and the mass of
valuable warehouse property comprised within a
circle from the Goree to Duke's-place, which may
be safely estimated as worth at present upwards of
two millions sterling, must be very seriously and at
once decreased in value by
being placed as an in-
creased distance from the import docks by which
they are at present fed. Gradually, no doubt, this
would have taken place, as a result of the successful
working of the Albert warehouses, and the ultimate
conversion of that dock into an export dock ; and
gradually we should have preferred seeing that re-
sult brought about, if inevitable,
It is far from being our purpose to suggest any
course for the committee to pursue to satisfy the
objections urged against their plans, and still further
to aggravate existing feelings of dissatisfaction.
We believe that matters could still be accommodated
to the satisfaction of all reasonable men, and without
ultimate injury to the Dock Estate ; and to the
honor and consideration of the members of the
Dock Committee we are willing to leave its arrange-
ment, convinced that they will not allow themselves
to be drawn into a position of hostility to the just
claims and interests of a large body of their fellow-
townsmen.

The onward progress of popery and the lethargic
efforts by which it is opposed in the present day
have never been m ore signally evidenced than by
the transfer, in this town, of a Proprietary Church
(All Saints) into the hands of the Church of Rome.
&few days ago the world would not have credited
such an event, as having occurred in aroused and
protestant Liverpool. It would have been treated
as a fable—an impossibility—that in this town, from

which the voice of eloquent warning and denuncia-
tion of the errors and insidious designs of popery
have so often and powerfully issued, a lapse of pro-
testant energy so deplorable should have been
witnessed. Yet so it is, and we grieve to record
the fact. Before three months pass over our heads
the masses and mummeries of poperies will be
enacted in the same hallowed walls which have
echoed to the beautiful song of the Anglican Church
and the preaching of the unadulterated word of God.
We need not go at any length into a history of
the circumstances of this hapless misappropriation.
' They are simple and by no means singular, and we
merely mention them as considerable misapprehen-
sion exists on the subject. The Church of All
Saints was a licensed building provided in the
dearth of more legitimate Church accommodation in
the locality. Its ownership was in lay hands ; and
upon the death of that owner, it was found, we
understand, to he mortgaged, with the usual power,
of sale, we are informed, in the mortgagee. The
founder, by his will, did all which, under these cir-
cumstances he could do. He expressed what we
believe is considered to amount to little more than
a hope that All Saints would continue a Church
for the preaching of protestant doctrine. It was
sold, however, the mortgagee having sufficient
power for that purpose, and Rome bought it. It
it
s
congregation in January next a popish Chapel ; and
congregation have in the meanwhile to look out for
a fresh building in which to worship God in the
pure and simple form of their fathers. The fact, we
repeat, is to he deplored, but thus it is.
Under such circumstances of pressing emergency
an appeal has been made to the public of Liverpool
for funds to provide for the congregation a suitable
building to supply that of All Saints; and already
a considerable amount has been subscribed. It
woula be greatly to be regretted, however, if they
were still to be left at the mercy of similar contingen-
cies to those which have given up their Church to
the grasp of insatiable Popery. An advertisement
in our columns this clay gives most praiseworthy
evidence that the exigency is not unappreciated. A
thousand or eleven hundred pounds, the price of
the mere building, with say another thousand for
the ground and contingencies, are about being
raised, and we have no doubt, if the Protestant
public do their duty, will be raised to provide im-
mediate adequate accommodation for the congrega-
tion. But we would suggest that much more
should be done. A church must not only be built,
but a church with an endowment, sufficient to pro-
tect it from such a fate as has befallen All Saints.
For this purpose more than three thousand pounds
will be required ; and when we appeal to such a
community as the Protestant merchants and inha-
bitants of Liverpool, we cannot; surely, appeal in
vain.

THE FUNDS. SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English stock
market to-day was by no means in an active state. Con-
sols left off 1004 for money and the account ; New Tbree-
and-a-Quarter per Cents., 1024 ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced 994; India Stock, 288 to 290; Bank Stock, 2051
to 61 ex div. ; and Exchequer-bills, 755. to 775. p.m.
Very little business has been transacted in the foreign
house. The last quota ions were—Belgian, 1031 to 1041;
Brazilian, 851 to 861 ; Buenos Ayres. 36 to 37 ; Chilian,
101 to 103 ; colombian, 144 to 4 ; Danish, 88 to 89 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 621 to 4; the Five per
Cents., 984 to to I ; Mexican, 444 to 4; the Deferred,
154 to 4; Portuguese, 541; Peruvian, 25 to 1; Spanish
Actives, 234 to 1 ; the Three per Cents., 344 to ; Ditto
Deferred, 134 to 14 ; and Ditto, Passives, 54 to No-
thing whatever has been doing to-day in the Share-
market, and prices are generally the same.
TAHITI.—THE AFFAIR AT MALAHENA.—The official
account from Captain Bruat of his untoward affair has
been published. M. BRUAT justifies his attack on the
natives by necessity; having failed, even with the aid of
the English mi,sionaries, to induce the insurgents against
the French auth rity to disperse. The Freuch force is
here rated at 441 men; the natives are said to have had
1500 fighting men, of whom 1000 were engaged in the
defence of their entrenchments. They had 102 men killed,
their guns spiked, and a large portion of their ammunition
captured. The French loss is stated at 15 killed, including
two officers, and 51 wounded ; and it is admitted that the
natives fought with great bravely and determination.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST
THE J EWS.—The names of the reverend gentlemen an-
nounced to preach the anniversary sermon 3 of this society
on Sunday next, will be found in another column. We
would call the especial attention of all those favourable to
the objects of the society to the announcement, that a ser-
mon will be preached to-morrow evening, at Christ
Church, by the Rev. A. M. Myers, when three of the
brethren of the house of Israel (inmates of the institution
in this town for enquiring Jews) will be baptised, and a
collection made in aid if the funds of that institution,
which ha, been in existence for some years, but which is
comparatively unknown. May we ask our readers to ex-
amine the objects and present position of this interesting
asylum.
THE REGISTRATION.—Mr. Peter Marrow, of the
Conservative Association, has addressed a letter to a
contemporary, (in reply to a letter in the Courier,) from
which it appears that the real loss to the Conservatives in
the Liverpool Revising Court is only 92 votes, which are
more than counterbalanced by their superiority of fresh
claims. He also states that " there are in the different
townships lately revised upwards of 1,100 objections made
by the overseers, which we, as yet, have not bad time to
inspect ; but from the great preponderance of Radicals
(upwards of 300), we may naturally expect that much
benefit will arise to us from that source; this, however,
will be shown when the revised list is published." Not-
withstanding their objections were rut aside by the bar-
rister's second opinion being at variance with his first,
they have at least held their own, which is more than has
been done in any other polling district in the southern
division of the county. The remarks of the writer in the
Courier were, therefore, uncalled for.
PROTESTANT ORPHAN SOCIETY.—A meeting of the
friends of this society was held in the school-room of St.
Jude's Church, on Friday evening, and was sparingly, but
respectably attended. The chair was taken by the Rev.
E. O'Meara, of Dublin, who addressed the assembly in a
very interesting discourse, describing the origin, object,
and plan of the association, and relating numerous in-
stances of its success—illustrated by affecting anecdotes.
It appears that in 1828 it was discovered that a Protestant
widow, left with two children without the means of sup-
porting them, was induced to give up her son to the maim"-
gers of a Roman Catholic Orphan Society in Dublin; and
further that there were numerons similar societies in that
city, which were the means of withdrawing in a similar
manner many destitute Protestant children from the faith
of their fathers. ,To meet this evil, it was determined to
institute this counteracting and benevolent society; and
from a small beginning, it has now (in the 16th year of
it existence,) 320 children, with their respective nurses,
which with 120 orphans already apprenticed, make 440 to
whom the society has afforded an asylum. The reverend
gentleman stated that there were now no fewer than 19
Roman Catholic Asylums in Dublin and its neighbour-
hood, all eager in their endeavours to make proselytes;
and he condemned the Workhouse system in Ireland, as
ill calculated to give vigour to Protestant Principles—ren-
dering this society the more necessary. He stated that
the smallest donations for the society would be acceptable,
and, in proof of its economical management, added that
the whole cost of an orphan per annum was but about £5,
including education and food three times a day. At the
close of his address a collection was made, and cards were
distributed to those who were willing to solicit their friends
and acquaintances in behalf of a society which is well wor-
thy of the support of every true Protestant.

LAUNCH OF A PILOT SHIP.—At twelve o'clock yester-
day, a new boat, built by Mr. Cato, in the place of No. 7
pilot boat, was launched, and is to be called " George
Canning." The launch was beautiful. Afterwards there
was a dejeuner, at which Mr. Cato presided The usual
loyol toasts were drank; and the health of Miss-Banner,
by whom she was Christened. The entire proceedings
passed off joyfully.
GRAND ORDER of MODERN DRUIDS.—The fourth an-
niversary supper of the opening of the Loyal United Sa-
maritan Lodge, No. 166, at the house of host Gelderd's,
Ranelagh•street, on the evening of yesterday week, when
about forty pers us sat down to an excellent supper pro-
vided in Mr. Gelderd's. best style. After supper P. A.
Jones, corresponding secretary of the order, after a most
feeling address, presented to P. A. William Hivey, the
president of the whole board of management of the order,
with an elaborately wrought silver snuff-box, on which was
beautifully engraved the following inscriptiou :—Presented
to P. A. William Hivey, by the Officers and Brothers of
the Loyal United Samaritan Lodge, No. 166, as a just W-
hine of respect for his watchful care over the interests of
their society, Anno Domini, 1844. P. A. Hivey then
briefly acknowledged the token of respect bestowed upon
bins, and expressed the highest estimation of the Lodge,
and the order in general. After the usual toasts the com-
pany separated highly delighted.
THEATRE ROYAL.—The performances at this theatre
during the past week have been a succession of tragedy,
comedy, and musical drama, which have been ably sus-
tained by the members of the regular company, with the
assistance of Mr. J. S. Reeves and Mr. Baker. The
beautiful new tragedy of 'The Patrician's Daughter,' which
want of space prevented us noticing last week has been
repeated this week, to aoproving and select,—rather too
select audiences. In this piece Miss Montague has
eminently distinguished herself, by her very fine acting as
Lady Mattel Lynterne. This young lady has both genius,
taste, and artistic finish, which will raise her to a very
high, if not the highest rank in the profession. Mr.
Pitt's acting in the rather unamiable character of Mor-
daunt is also very fine. In the musical dramas played,
Mr. Reeves has shewn himself a very correct and chaste
singer, and has been ably supported by Miss H. Gardner.
We have never been more struck than this week with the
acting of Miss Telbin. This young lady has not yet been
sufficiently estimated. It will be observed that Mr. C.
Perkins, the acting manager, takes his benefit on Friday
next, when a good bill of fare is announced. We trust
that the great and liberal exertions of this gentleman for
the amusement of the public will be appreciated in the
shape of a bumper house.
FINE ARTS.—We invite the attention of our readers to
a very choice collection of pictures, now on view at La-
cey's rooms, and particulars of which will be found in
our advertising columns. As they comprise many genu-
ine works by the great masters, we may probably notice
it further next week.