The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. J. Hammond.
rrl-lIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 22d instant.
the Petit Comedy of

THE HAPPY MAN.
Paddy Murphy Mr. Leonard.
After which, the Melo-Drama of
THE BRIGAND.
Alessandro Massaroni .
(As originally performed by him in London.)
To conclude with
THE MISER'S DAUGHTER.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The lines " To Memory," are sadly below our " Standard."
All marriages must be certified by the residence, as well as
the name, of the party forwarding them.
We cannot insert the letter mentioned by " One of the
Twenty," and cannot explain our reasons sufficiently
without a personal interview.
The STANDARD was, as usual, forwarded last Friday to our
correspondent at " The Elm, Wolverhampton," and we are
quite unable to account for its non-arrival.
The paragraph referred to by " A Playgoer and an Old Sub-
scriber" was sent by a correspondent. It did not emanate
from the usual source of such notices, and was unfortu-
nately not read with our usual care.
Some of the lines by " A. S." reflect a little credit upon his
poetical genius, but such a descent " from the sublime to
the ridiculous," as that conveyed by the two first lines,
spoils the whole. We need only transcribe them to show
that the " tyranny of poetry " has too much command
over our correspondent :
" Almighty, great, eternal God !
All nature's laws obey thy nod."
A correspondent wishes to know what is the meaning of the
following passage in Mr. Rathbone's speech at the Roman
Catholic Benevolent Society's dinner, on Wednesday last :
—" In Catholic France, where Catholicism is the esta-
blished religion of the country,—(l wish there were no
,•
establishments,—with all my respect for churches gene-
rally, I wish none of them to have civil power; for when-
. ever they have had it, Catholics or Protestants, I believe
they have abused that power,)—but let it be recollected
that Catholic France provides more liberally for the Pro-
testant clergy, because they are allowed to marry, than it
does for the Catholic clergy, because they are doomed to
celibacy."
We readily apologise to a contemporary; the Manchester
Courier, for having, in a recent article, overlooked unwil-
lingly his excellencies as a journalist. He has, however,
with all the circulation which he boasts, occasionally com-
plained of his friends for the same slight of which we have
unwillingly been guilty ; and, under any circumstances, the
gross language which he makes use of towards a brother
conservative for an unintentional omission does not become
him or any gentleman.

Ely Etberpool &tanbarD.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1842.

We beg to refer our readers to the important foreign
news communicated in our columns this day. Our
war with China, if the news in question is to be relied
upon, is at an end ; and one, at least;of our entangle-
ments in the Eastern World thus got rid of—whether
honourably to us as a nation or not so, with the meagre
intelligence which is before us, we express no opinio n
We must confess, however, we like not the considera-
tion which appears on the face of the telegraphic
despatch, as a recompence for all the sacrifice of life
and Christian character which Great Britain has su s
tained in this unjust quarrel. TWENTY-ONE MIL-
LIONS OF DOLLARS ! Really there is too much of the
buccaneering character in this feature of the settlement
to satisfy our taste. We wait, however, for further in-
telligence before we commit ourselves by any remarks.

Well—the " grand demonstration"—the " GREAT
FREE-TRADE FESTIVAL," which was to strike terror
into the soul of monopoly, and prostrate the domestic
agriculture and the colonial greatness of England at
the feet of the manufacturing Juggernaut, is over !
Buckingham—" humbug Buckingham" has had his
say; Bright—not he of " Gibraltar," but the quaker
of Rochdale—has illuminated the elderly spinsters and
petition-hawking blue-stockings of our good old,town ;
Ashworth, of three-halfpenny beef and pauper-migra-
tion notoriety, has dribbled forth his small modicum
of absolute wisdom ; Richard Cobden, M.P., -the new
light 'of the world, has delivered himself of a 'string of
his stereotyped sophistries; and yet this great port—
this " hot-bed of monopoly"—Liverpool--stands pre-
cisely upon the same spot, upon the shore of the
Mersey, which it occupied a week ago, and we are not
aware that any thing stranger or more portentous has
occurred than the spoiling of a few Saturday's dinners,
and the exhibition, by the female free-traders, at
various dissenting chapels, on Sunday last, of an
unusual number of undarned stockings and dingy-
, looking cambric pocket-handkerchiefs !
Seriously and candidly, this much-vaunted affair,
trumpeted though it has been by the League press as
something inordinately important and triumphant to
their cause; has achieved absolutely nothing, beyond
contributing some hundred or hundred and twenty
pounds to the agitating fund of the Anti-Corn-law
League, and preparing the way for an irruption of
mendicant committee-women into the courts, alleys,
and cellars of the town, in search of shillings and
pennies, wherewith to feed the craving stomachs of the
Buckinghams, the Aclands, and other itinerating hire-
lings of that pestilent body. We defy the whole
Anti-monopoly Association, from Charles Holland to
Edward Rawlins, junior, to point out one new fac',
which is a true one, or one new argument, which is not
based upon absolute falsehood or perversion of the
truth, as having been added, by this amphitheatrical
tea-and-toast festival, to the stock of the existing oft-
refuted anti•corn-law facts and arguments. As a
mere demonstration of strength, it was composed of
but a miserably-small portion of the wealth or the
respectability of the town ; and, with respect to any
probable effect which it can produce upon public
opinion, we cannot but look back upon it as an utter
failure !
The only two addresses which were at all listened to,
and which are worth a mordent's notice, were those of
Messrs. Buckingham "and Cobden. As a mere lecture,
the address of the former gentleman was precisely of
that superficial and flimsy description which might
have been expected from such an orator, to be deli-
vered to such an audience. As an effort to win con-
viction from men of intellect, it was as contemptible as
it well could be; as one intended merely to please an
audience of self-satisfied male and female quacks, it
was eminently suited to the occasion, as partaking of
the sloppy character of the materials upon which that
audience was assembled to regale. Its characteristic
was egotism, larded here and there with hypocrisy and
sheer nonsense ; but it contained, as well, a few
instances of extreme want of judgment, to one of
which, in particular, we shall take the liberty of
directing the attention of our readers.
In attempting to particularise the causes of the
distress at present existing among the industrial and
commercial classes, the speaker remarked that " ano-
ther cause of the distress in question was this : we
had, by the application of manual, mechanical, and
other powers—by mineral wealth and manufacturing
power—by the application of steam—so increased
our powers of production that, according to the
usual estimate made in such cases, the power of
production of the population was equal to some-
thing like THREE HUNDRED MILL:ONS OF PEO-•
PLE" ! Of course the meaning intended to be here
conveyed was that our power of production had
been increased until it had become sufficient to meet •
the power of consumption of this three hundred mil-
millions, or, according to his own estimate, of NEARLY
ONE-THIRD OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE ! Great
Britain, with seventeen millions of population, not one-
third of them employed in manufactures, can, according
to Mr. Buckingham, manufacture for one-third of the
whole world! And, we ask, if this be the case—if
production has made this gigantic stride—if our present
manufacturing masses cannot be fully employed with-.
out engrossing the trade of one-third of the human
race,—can any man be bold enough to stand forward.
and say that such production has not been urged
forward far beyond the extent to which a reasonable-
hope exists of its being met by consumption ? Can.
any man stand forward and say that production to•
such an unheard-of extent is not OVER-PRODUCTION ?

But, argues Mr. Buckingham, in continuation, " so'
long as the world is open to our enterprise, and we
can penetrate into other countries and bring back.
their produce, that power," of (production) " tremen
dous as it seemed, will not meet with any check or-
arrest for a hundred years to come" ! Or, in other
words, if seventeen millions of people can take and.
consume the produce of three hundred millions of people;.
the manufacturing masses and the manufacturing,
machinery of Great Britain will be kept employed.•
magnificent gentleman—and his,
But, says the same
absurdity was cheered by the very sensible people•
present at the Amphitheatre—the world is " very.
slightly peopled compared with its capacity to sustairs