The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

STREET.

Eibtrpool Atanbarb.

At the present moment, however, we shall refrain
from doing so. It would be cruel towards Mr.
Bushell, however well merited, on his part, that cruelty
on ours. We refrain, too, the more readily, because
we see—and that circumstance does not add much to
the respect in which we would wish to hold him—that
Mr. Bushell is, at present, scarcely at ease with him-
self, with respect to the position which he has chosen
to occupy : for although advocating, to their full ex-
tent, the principles involved in the amendment of Mr.
G. H. Lawrence, he voted, we otserve, against that
amendment, sheltering himself in an unworthy evasion
—for in no other light can his own little scheme be
viewed. If there is an insuperable objection—to a
man who has advocated different principles—in the
one scheme, there is equal objection in the other; and
there is this in favour of Mr. Lawrence's, that with its
adoption the requirements of the law may possibly be
recognised, whilst with that of Mr. Bushell they never
can.

Upon one point we would make a suggestion to
Mr. Bushell. We admire the liberality with which he
offered the aid of his purse, to affOrd scriptural edu-
cation to such of the children of the poor as might be
dispossessed of the advantages, at Present afforded
them, by the adoption of any " liberal" scheme of
secular education, or the abandonment, by the Council,
of the office of providing education at all. We would
gladly see such benevolence assume a tangible shape;
and we would suggest a course in which it might flow,
and at the same time produce peace with regard to this
much-agitated question. Let Mr. Bushell leave the
Corporation Schools in their present legal system of
management, and display his liberality by subscribing
his promised hundred pounds towards the secular
schools which he would have established. No doubt
he would find abundance of " liberal " friends who
would aid him in so excellent a work ! We should
like, at least, to see the experiment tried.

It was very vulgar in Mr. David Hodgson—so at
least thinks Mr. Blackburn—to sneer, in his speech on
Wednesday se'nnight, at the profession or trade of an
opponent. What a pity that Mr. Blackburn and his
party have never before made this notable discovery !
We have heard gentlemen, in the council and out of
" thinking men" and other men,—talk about

grains and barm, double XX and single X; and ima-
gine all the time that they were supremely witty; but
i to talk of senna or rhubarb, it appears, is course be-
yond expression. A brewer, a lawyer, or a tradesman
of any description, is a fitting mark for the refined sar-
casm of an Earle or a Blackburn to shoot at; but a
surgeon and apothecary, a pestle or a mortar, gallipots,
potions, pills, powders, and other appendages and ap-
pliances of the healing art, are sacred things, and must
not be jested withal !

We can agree, to some extent, with Mr. Blackburn
with respect to the inviolability of his own profession—
that physic, like edged tools, should not be lightly
handled. All poets and philosophers have recognized
the awful calling which the worthy councillor pursues.
Even the enemy of mankind, we are told by the wise
and witty Coleridge, was struck, when

" He saw an apothecary on a white horse,
Pursuing his avocations,"
with a lively sense of the sublimity of his profession;
for, though " he laughed," it was because

" it put him in mind
Of DEATH, in the Revelations."

But there have been a few—and those not by any means
coarse or vulgar writers—who could see nothing more
sublime and sacred in a gallipot, than a tundish or a
gimlet. Shakspeare, the immortal, has painted an
apothecary—a lean, starved wretch—who is anything
but an amiable character. John Dryden, we believe—
glorious John—asks—

" What 's expected from a horse,
With an apothecary on its back ?"

a significant intimation that he had no overpowering
respect for the profession. After all, therefore, the
world is divided upon this point ; and a witty or a
daring Wight, who happens to hold an opinion opposed

AMERICAN CIRCUS,
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-
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The Proprietors respectfully give notice, that they will
PROLONG THEIR STAY till FRIDAY next, after
which the Amphitheatre will POSITIVELY CLOSE.

HIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 20th instant,
the Performance will commence with
T'Chit,.Chet'Cha, Ra-Ghan.
Mr. Sweeney in his Negro Extravaganzas.
Master Rivea in an Act, entitled A Purse for the Winner.
Mr. Decamp will introduce the Indian Pony, Osceola.
Three-fold Transformation Act, by Mr. LEVI NORTH,
entitled, Italy, France, and Spain.
Mr. Derious will introduce La Tranca Hispaniola.
Mr. Sands and Master Buckley in their Ilerculeau Feats,
on two horses.
Posturing and Pyramids, by the Rivea Family.
The French Reaper, by Mr. Buckley.
VAULTING EXTRAORDINARY.
Fourth Appearance of Mr. AYMAR in his Daring Act.
Mademoiselle CAMILLE LEROUX in her much-ad-
mired Act, entitled, TiH GODDESS OF LIBERTY !
Magic Ladder, by Master R. Rivea.
Mr. J. L. NORTH will appear in his Grand Principal
Act.

Sweeney with his Banjo, and Jack Vanbramer in a long
Island Break-down.
The whole to conclude with a Grand Gallopade.
Doors open at Half-past Six, First Music at Seven, Per-
formance in the Circle at Half-past Seven o'clock precisely-
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1842.

We presume it is not at us that Mr. Christopher
Bushell pointed, on Wednesday last, when he talked
of dictation being exercised towards gentlemen who
differed from what have certainly, ever, been our
opinions upon the education question, and what we
can remember—and we have not greatly to fatigue our
memory in remembering—as being his own declared
opinions, and no doubt his sincerely-entertained opi-
nions, so far as he knew his own mind, upon that
question. We have never presumed to entertain any
such dictatorial powers as those alluded to by the
member for Abercromby Ward. We impeach no
man's sincerity who differs from us, upon the subject
of the system of education to be carried out in the
Corporation Schools; and we do not now impeach
Mr. Bushel's sincerity, or his wisdom. But, how-
ever averse we may be to dictate, or to'be dictated to,
and however averse Mr. Bushell may be to be the
object of our censure or of any other party's censure,
we shall not allow ourselves to be deprived of the li-
berty of telling a gentleman, whose past actions and
declared sentiments have always led us to believe that
he was " one of us," that we have ceased to regard
him as a consistent and faithful member of the party
to which it is Our pride to belong.
We can quite appreciate the sincerity and the purity
of motive of some gentlemen, of Conservative and
otherwise sound principles, whose names we are sorry
to observe in the list of the minority at Wednesday's
Council meeting. From some of these gentlemen, no
inflated professions have emanated in time past. They
came into the Council unfettered by such professions.
They owe their seats in the Council to no such pro-
fessions ; and they can vindicate the course which they
have pursued, upon the broad ground that it has been
shaped by a sincere conviction, of long standing, and
perfectly consonant with the tenor of their past pro-
fessions and opinions. Of Mr. Bushell can we say
;his ? We fear not. It will be a matter of infinite
difficulty, we are satisfied, to reconcile his present to
his past course, upon the question of education—to
reconcile himself with himseV and however delicate
he may he in making the comparison, he must not
complain of us if, despite of any imputation which we
, may incur of being guilty of dictation, we make the
attempt.