The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

JENKINS Wu,D.E. playing DANIEL, in Newark—and the
purpose of his agitation is creditable to his character.
But we beg to ask hiM, in a whisper, why it was that
Lord GREY objected to his filling the office of' solici-.
tor-general When earnestly recommended by Lord
Bur:won:lm ? Will Mr. Serjeant Wri.mt favour us with
a copy of the correspondence which passed on that in-
teresting occasion ? Will be candidly state the reasons
why be was scornfully rejected by Lord GREY, and will
he furnish us with the letter of apology which Lord
BROUGHAM wrote him after Lord GREY had positively
refused to appoint him ? No, GRIFFITH JENKINS WILDE
knows better. That is a painful subject, over which,
under the pretence of illness, he Ins shed crocodile tears
in liberal profusion. His mission at Newark will there-
fore not redound to his credit ; and what is far more im-
portant, instead of gaining converts to the ministry, he
will only lose those who in ignorance, and in frenzy,
polled for himself.
This is a delectable state of things. Out of it much
good must come. We see who the whig missionaries
are. There is not any man of the slightest claims to re-
spectability who.has joined the order. The hacks are
truly
.contemptible, and they are worthy of such minis-
ters.

The system of registration established by the reform
bill appears to afford but little prospect of the ultimate
establishment of a uniform code for the regulation of
elections and the guidance of persons entitled or claiming
to vote for county or borough. Hitherto many barristers
have been influenced in their decisions by their various
political feelings—by their desire to restrict or to extend
the franchise, by the consideration of the effect of their
decisions upon particular cases, and with reference to
particular places. Unless then souse security can be
given that banisters will be appointed in future merely
from ability to execute the task, and not from their known
political prejudices and feelings—unless some reasonable
hope can be entertained that barristers, when appointed,
will endeavour .to "decide without any desire to obtain
notoriety by singailarity and caprice, but on the contrary,
with a view to establish uniformity and clearness, unless
some substantial alteration can be made alike in judges'
feelings, and lawyers' prejudices and characteristics, it
will be folly to expect that the effect of the present
system will be any other than the increase of difficulty,
and the gradual Conversion of the registration courts
into specimens of those much lauded local courts, in
which, at regular intervals, the means and the scene of
litigation were to be supplied to persons happily hitherto
ignorant of the • blessings to which such discord would
inevitably lead.

The revising circuit in South Lancashire is a proof of
the inefficiency, or rather, perhaps, it is not too strong to
say of the gross absurdity of the present reform bill sys-
tem. Four barristers appointed—without having ar-
rived at uniform conclusions on any but Ole most super-
ficial and elementary points—(perhaps entertaining
doubts and willing to create difficulties as to these)—they
arrange to talte.the parish of Liverpool in four equal
portions. The result is, that persons who claim for the
same qualification but whose sitnames happen to differ in
the first letter, find themselves in very different situa-
tions. A gentleman' named JONES is allowed to vote,
but such a favour cannot be allowed to his co-trustee
JOHN WATKINS ; and THOMAS BROWN finds his claim
sanctioned for a property which could not be made to
afford a franchise to him who either happens to write his
sirname in a different manner or who was unfortunate
enough to a:live in court at a moment when the irrita-
bility of his distinguished judge had lately been slightly
excited. One learned gentleman refuses to see trust
deeds, another will not decide without them ; one thinks
evidence of admission of service by an objectee to a
third party sufficient, another treats such evidence with
well-merited ridicule; and while one is deciding that
leasehold can be altered into freehold, another refuses
such indulgence. With one the reform act is to be con-,
strued strictly, with a second only enfranchising clauses
should be translatead liberniiy, with a third the meaning
of the legislafure is plain, and with a fourth it is ex-
trcitnely obscure ! Few, indeed, are the points upon which
even these gentlemen agree, and they expressly refuse
to pay even the slightest attention to previous decisions
either by preceding revising barristers or by committees
of the House of Commons. The feeling which pervades
almost universally the persons'who have appeared before
the courts lately held appears to be that of disgust at a
system so clumsily contrived. The intent appears to
have been to keep the various boroughs and counties to
which the reform bill gave members in a periodical
state of turmoil and agitation, and at the same time to
give increased patronage to the liberal government from
whom this specimen of legislation originated. It is not
improbable that such twofold objects will appear ridicu-
lous to those who have not considered it attentively, and
praiseworthy to those who so worthily have followed. it
out and exhibited in such striking colours the advantages
which the enfranchised places must derive from a full
participation in the elective franchise.

We embrace the last opportunity which will be afforded
us to renew our earnest appeal to the protestants of the
empire, reminding them of their solemn obligation re-
ligiously to observe the approaching FOURTH OF OCTO-
BER.

We have already laid before our readers the reasons
which render it imperative on all who value their free-
dom from the enslaving thraldom of popish superstition
to regard this the third centenary of the reformation as
an epoch of no common occurrence. Indeed, so fully
alive do all true protestants appear to the national im-
portance of this day, that we know not whether we should
have again recurred to the subject, did there not appeal-
to be conflicting views abroad as to the nature and cha-
racter of the coming celebration of that day on which
Englishmen were presented with the first complete edi-
tion of the holy scriptures in their mother tongue.
We see that there are those who speak of this day as
one which should be solemnized as a fast. In our hum-
ble opinion nothing can be more injudicious than such a
method of showing our gratitude for the blessings con-
ferred on us by the united exertions of a TINDAL and a
COVERDALE. In the first place, this the three hundredth
anniversary of dawning light upon this once benighted
land occurs on a Sunday. Now the day which God.has
consecrated to his own use is a day especially calculated for
the outpouring of holy joy. The occasion, too, is a joy-
ous one. Surely we ought not to appear with mournful
countenances on a day so eminently signalized by the
gracious interposition of JEHOVAH on our behalf. No,
let this be a day of jubilee and of rejoicing. Let the
smiling contentment which pervades every countenance
on this day bespeak a reliance upon the favour and su-
perintending care of a just GOD. If we had our way, we
would have every set of bells in the town to usher in this
glorious day with a merry peal ; and let no church be
without its flag hoisted mast high. Thus it is—and very
properly so—that our days of national rejoicing on such
occasions as the birth-day of our Monarch, or the anni-
versary of some great battle, are ushered in and charac-
terized, and shah it be said that we pay less attention to
a matter of such high import as the approaching JUBILEE
Of THE REFORMATION,? Let Sunday next, then, be a
day of NATIONAL REJOICING, a day of NATIONAL THANKS •

The resolutions of the, clergy at a meeting in Bir-
mingham will be found in another part of our paper.
They are every way worthy an attentive consideration.
We have reason to know from private sources, as well as
from our acquaintance with the general character of the
clergy, that those who wait upon the sanctuary are pre-
pared to do their duty. On Sunday next we anticipate
that every church will resound with praises to Almighty
God for his mercies to this highly-favoured land, and
with warnings to the people to -beware of soul-debasing
popery.

One word more and we have done. It has been ob-
jected that it is sought to make the approaching festival
a day of political triumph. The insinuation falls heavily
on the heads of those who throw it out. By this very
insinuation they identify the existing government with
popery.. This is no business of ours. Our business is
with the heresies of papal introduction. If the progress

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of the principles of the reformation mean
.the downfall of
the MELBOURNE administration, the sooner it falls the
better. We say—PEOPLE OF ENGLAND LOOK TO THIS !

:We percthe that O'CONNELL arrived in Dublin on
Tuesday last. He came by way of Holyhead, and was
received at Kingstown by some family friends. In the
evening he addressed a few persons assembled under his
window in Merrion-square.
Now comes the point—how did he travel ? From
Glasgow his nearest way to Holyhead was through Li-
verpool. He took very good care, however, not to show
himself in this town. The probability is, that he came
in a Glasgow steamer, and posted onwards, iricog. to
Holyhead. At any rate it is tolerably clear that the
Irish beggar shunned Liverpool, kept aloof from respect-
able Englishmen, and dared not face the protestants
whom he had insulted and calumniated.

City, Wednesday Evening, Hay'pakt Seven o'clock.

Money is exceedingly scarce here, and a consequent depres-
sion has occurred in. our Consol Market. Consols touched to-
day upon 9JI but closed at 904 91. The floating securities are
also lower, 15 to 17 prem. is the quotation for the Exchequer
Bills, and 3to 5 prem.' that of India .Bonds.. A corresponding
depreciation has occurred in Foreign Stock; Belgian, 101 i
Brazilian, 874 88; Columbian, 33; Mexican, 38; liaria",
per cents. are at 874 88, and the 3 per cents , 584 ; SpaniSh
Bonds are at 431 ; the Scrip at 164 17. dis.
Chilian Bonds are ;an exception to the others in general de-
preciation, the price being 4.14 45. The advicee received from
this republic are considered of a favourable character.
The most contradictory advises continue to be received from
Spain, but Lord John Hay, by all accounts, seems to have
forgotten his character as a British naval commander. and to
have descended to a mere subaltern of General Do Lacy
Evans. This, however, is but an humble imitation of the con-
duct of Lord Melbourne, my Lord John, and the rest of the
papist cabinet, who are content to figure in a similar subordi-
nate situation under Daniel the big beggertnan, and his sans
culottes "tail." Were his late Majesty George the Fourth to
rise from his septillehre, he would die again with vexation to see
the councils of thatfreat nation, which has been wont fo give
laws to the world. usurped and prostituted by such a miserable
herd of blockheads as those now at the head of affairs.

We have recently seen a gentleman who has returned from
the seat of brigandage, who states, that he was surprised at the
condition of the forces of Don Carlos, their high state of disci-
pline, the effectiveness of their equipment, and their ardent
and sanguine expectations of a favourable issue to their chival-
rous and loyal efforts; and he (altbout4h imbibing opinions ad-
verse to the cause of Don Carlos) is of opinion, that it will be a
task of no little difficulty for the Clifistinos, albeit aided by the
redoubted heroes under the M.P. for Westminster, to put au
end to the contest.
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--A
—sper cent. instalment on Spanish Scrip is payable on
Friday next.

REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT FOR THE
BOROUGH OF LIVEEPOOL.

The Barristers Court for the revision of the freemens' list is
appointed to be held this day week, Friday, the 9th instant.
We scarcely think it necessary to repeat the caution we have
already given the freemen against neglecting to attend when
their names will he called over, however personally inconveni-
ent it may be to them. Their neglect of this duty is indeed the
only hope or chance the reform association, their most
inveterate enemies, have of sustaining any of the objections they
have so vexatiously raised.
There bas been a little suuglhole=and-corner work, something
like the celebrated " private meeting for a public purpose," on
the subject of the forthcoming election of town-councillors,
anent which we shall have something to say when we are more
at leisure. _