The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

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ROYAL INSTITUTION.—The second soiree of the season
takes place this evening. Mr. White's lecture on music is
expected to be extremely interesting.

The Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire has appointed Charles
Henry Potts, Esq., deputy clerk of the peace, in the room of
Charles Potts, Esq., resigned.

STEALING CLOTHES FROM A LlNE.—Elizabeth Williams,
a good looking but poorly dressed young woman, was, yester-
day, placed at the bar, on a charge of stealing various articles
of wearing apparel. It appeared that a woman named For-
thaw had received some clothes from different parties to
wash, which she hung out to dry, near the Herculaneum
Potteries. The prisoner and another woman were seen to
take them off and to fold them np as they went along. The
other woman was apprehended and was committed for trial
on Saturday. The same witness identified the prisoner, who
then made her escape, and was afterwards found concealed.
Her case was also referred to a jury at the next quarter
sessions.

THEFT FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE, AND ACCUSATION
OF AN INNOCENT PARTY BY THE DELINQUENT.—A
coarse-looking female, named Bridget H 4.
day charged at the Police-court with stealing a sovereign
Ellen M'Culloch said she lodged at No. 5, Bui lington-
street, with Mrs. Kenworthy, whose servant the prisoner
was. She was in the habit of putting her money in a drawer
in her room, and on Friday missed a sovereign. She
mentioned it to the prisoner, who said that she would not
have done such a thing—adding, that she saw her young
mistress come out of her (witness's) room on the Tuesday
before. The prisoner soon afterwards said that she was ill,
and would go and get something to relieve her, and return
to the house. Mips M'Culloch, the lady accused by the
prisoner, denied that she had taken it, or had ever been in
the room. Finding the prisoner about to leave the house,
she insisted on searching her before she went. The prisoner
took off her clothes, but refused to take off her stays. When
compelled, however, to unloose them, the sovereign, which
had been ingeniously concealed, dropped out. The prisoner,
when apprehended, admitted that she had taken it. The
prisoner was committed for trial,—Mr. Rushton remarking,
that but for the firmness of the young woman accused by
her, she might have remained under the imputation of being
the offender. It was, in fact, a scandalous ease.

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FINE ARTS.—UNION GALLERY.—There are at present
some fine specimens of art, by the modern and ancient
masters, now exhibiting at the Union Gallery, Slater-street.
The collection is small, but very choice. There are two re-
markably fine pictures by Bgbert Hemskerk ; a magnificent
" Rubens." A Sea Storm, by Saivator Rosa, is a very spi-
rited picture. There is also a capital picture by Annibale
Carucci, entitled, " Christ's Charge to Peter., A Sea
Coast, by Wilson, is a very favourable specimen of the Eng-
lish Claude. An Alonzo Can° is well worth notice. There
are also works by Cuyp, De Witt, and others. A very curi-
ous Sedan Chair, sweetly painted, is also exhibited. The
pannels are from the charming hand of .Boucher, and might
be readily taken for Watteau. All these works are very
fine. There is a group of statuary, which is stated—and we
have no reason to doubt the assertion—to be from the in-
spired chisel of Michael Angelo. It is a matchless work,
representing the well-known story of Ptetus and Arria. The
noble conspirator is in the act of stabbing himself, while his
devoted wife, the life-blood streaming from her, has just
sunk, exclaiming, " See, my Pietus, it is not painful." This
group alone is worth going a pilgrimage to see. We recom-
mend our readers, who take a pleasure-in the fine arts, to
pay this collection a visit. Its stay in Liverpool is limited.

OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION
TEA PARTY AT THE MUSIC-HALL.

OUR " CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY" THE STRENGTH OF

TRE GOOD CAUSE

I 10n Friday evening our operative Protestant friends held
their annual tea party in the Music-Hall, Bold-street, on
which occasion the room was crowded with the cheerful and
happy faces of a goodly number of their wives and daughters,
to whom the tea and Christmas cake, provided in abund-
ance, and of excellent quality, and the orderly and gratifying
proceedings throughout, imparted unmixed satisfaction. The
room was decorated very prettily with evergreens, and with
the flags and banners of the association ; and presented from
the platform a very pleasing and animating scene.
The chair was cccapied by the Rev. 11. S. Joseph, who
addressed the assembly in a long and appropriate speech,
which was responded to with great applause. Several other
gentlemen, amongst whom were Mr. Howard, Mr. Crisp,
Mr. Green, Mr. Cleaves, &c. subsequently took part in the
proceedings, and were also well received; and the enthusi-
asm which was created when the recent triumph of conserva-
tism in the council, upon the school question, was referred
to by the different speakers, afforded satisfactory proof of

the strong feelings existent in the minds of the loyal " con-
servative democracy" of Liverpool as to the importance of
Scriptural education for the children of the working classes.
We could only regret that one or two of the professing
churchmen and conservatives in the council, who have halted
between principle and expediency upon this question, had
not been present to witness the sterling protestant integrity
evidenced by their humbler fellow labourers, to whom they
and the cause which they profess to advocate, owe so deep a
debt of gratitude.

To our "conservative democracy" we repeat—to the loyal
protestant operatives of our town--the cause of good order
and good government, national as well as municipal, owes
everytiting ; and however loudly our "liberals" may sneer at
and exclaim against such a proposition, WE shall never cease
to maintain, that by such spirit-stirring demonstrations as
that which we witnessed on Friday, the growth of conserva-
tism. of protestantism, and of a sound and healthy social
feeling, cementing together all classes of the commupity)—
binding in one bond the throne, the altar, and the people—is
most materially promoted. We know tl•at the contempla-
tion of this spirit amongst the working classes of Liverpool
is a sore Grievance to the eyes of our opponents; and we re-
joice at every opportunity which its display amongst our
operative brethren affords us of holding it up to their view,
and of contrasting the indissoluble bond of unity which con-
servative protestantism constitutes in the hearts of a people,
by whom it is entertained, with the " rope of sand" which
connects the ill-assorted materials of the levelling radical
faction.

Upon this subject we cannot resist quoting—although they
may appear out of place in such a notice as the present—the
following remarks from an able article entitled "The State
of the Nation, in the number of " The Church of England
Quarterly," just published :
" The labourers, mechanics, and artisans of this country,
in their social character, are essentially conservative. We state
this broadly and plainly. We do not say that, politically,
they are either whip or tory. They are not so ; but, socially,
they are conservative : they respect their employers ; they
love the church ; they desire the religious education of their
children ; they are no levellers in their notions of property ;
and are rarely deceived by the representations made to them
of the advantages which would result from their becoming
the masters, and their masters becoming their labourers. The
mere possession of land, without capital to work it, is no
utopia of theirs. They prefer the marriage state, and family
life ; have a great love for their offspring ; a great attachment
to their localities and local authorities • and, on the whole,
a feeling of respect and quiet submission for those whom God,
in his providence, has placed in this world above them.
" We are well aware that the chartists and socialists can-
not be included in this number, especially the latter ; and we
are likewise aware that many thousands of members of trades'
unions profess subversive doctrines : but they are doctrines
they would not fight for; they would fight for their hearths
and their homes, poor though they be, but very few indeed
would tight for the charter; and even all these socialists, and
chartists, and ultra-radicals combined, what are they in num-
ber when compared with the inert, though not less sincere,
mass of the right-thinking poor?
" And it is just because there is this conservative social
feeling amongst the working classes that we feel so strong an
interest in their welfare. How different are their hearts to
those of the French labouring people! or to the Belgian la-
Thl2.9nrers! or to the Spanish, or Portuguese, or Italian poor !
e English cottager, and even the mechanic, with all his
desultory notions on some subjects, is staid and steady in his
home-and-hearth conservatism ; whereas in the countries to
which we
partly than the have alluded, their social state is even more in jeo-
ir political government."

Lord Wharneliffe has announced his intention to retire
from the chairmanship. Of the West-riding sessions.
TRIAL OF A YOUNG
—At the Glocester wealth LADY ON
A CHARGE OF FELONY.
on Friday the trial of Miss Allen,
the daughter of the s l Colonel Allen, well known in the
county of Glocester, Cooky
a ,Palalec3 in the Court-house. Miss
Allen, on her name bein
a thiceke
presented herself, attended
by her mother and some malewafisierilds, who manifested great
anxiety on her behalf. She
elegantly attired, but kept
her face closely enveloped in
ha
Ne
en calledfallen
upon to plead she trembled violentl ciireaarined'w.eiolu.ldWh'
m. support of the turn-
to the ground had she not received yt
ith!,be accommodated
key. The chairman ordered that she
pleaded "not
with a chair, and she then, in a feeble
guilty." The charge against the prisone.orlsN(i.ea's, that she had,
oei.strieoept of a chemist
on the 22d of November, gone into th
and druggist, named Justin, in the Yli
and inquired if Mr. Joslin was in. upon
being answered
answered
in the negative, she went away, but subsequently returned,
and asked liberty from the apprentice to sit down-,
gaa
ap-
prentice went up stairs, and took his position near a glass
The
which was suspended from the ceiling, and upon whichreflected all the things in the shop. Whilst so occupied he
(the apprentice-boy) observed the prisoner go towards the
counter, and take up a packet of perfume, and place it under
her cloak. Mr. Joslin shortly afterwards returned, Who,
when told by his apprentice of what had occurred, took the
prisoner up stairs and charged her with the robbery. She
denied it at first, but upon Mr. Joslin's sending for a police-
man, the prisoner gave up the packet of perfume, remarking
that her head was so distracted that she did not know what
she was doing. It wss contended on behalf of the prisoner
that she was subject to fits of abstraction and weakness of
intellect, and that she was not at all times mistress of her
own actions. Medical and other testimony having been ad-
duced in support of this defence, the jury, after a short deli-
beration, returned a verdict of acquittal.