The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

THE OASTLER TESTIMONIAL

Trustees.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Feversham John Fielden Esq., M.P.
Sir George Sinclair, Bart. W. Busfield 'Ferrand, Esq.,
John Walter, Esq. M.P.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. William Atkinson.
trim object contemplated by the supporters of this fund
1 is that of providing for the well-known advocate of
public rights, Mr. RICHARD OASTLER, and his family.
Having been impressed very early in life with the extreme
importance of those principles which conduce to the general
welfare of society, and encouraging constantly in his mind a
feeling hostile to every infraction of those principles, Mr.
Oastler became a strenuous supporter of the cause of the
weak and the oppressed, as well as au ardent opponent of all
who attempted to exercise injustice and cruelty.
The sphere of his private duties being the great manufac-
turing districts of England, Mr. Oastler's sympathies were
necessarily excited by the sufferings of children of tereler
years who were employed in the manufactories, and the ener-
gies of his mind were directed to the great question of legis-
lative regulation of factory labour. To all who have exerted
themselves in this interesting and momentous question, Mr.
Oastler has given the most efficient support ; and those who
have watched the progress of the subject are gratified by
knowing that the question having obtained the sanction of
the legislature of Great Britain, has also been adopted in
France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, and a part of
the United States of America. Mr. Oastler, as is well known,
has also contended for a just and humane system of Poor
Laws; and his advocacy of the great and sacred principle
upon which all Poor Laws should be founded, in contradis-
tinction to the modern attempt to innovate and encroach
upon the constitutional right of the poor to relief, may be
characterised as strenuous, constant, and most successful.
Although the advocacy of the great public questions before
mentioned has placed Mr. Oastler in the position of an in-
fluential supporter of popular rights, yet he has not attempt-
ed either to increase or to uphold his influence by appealing
or yielding to the selfish passions of any section of the com-
munity ; but he has boldly and emphatically, and often in
the midst of great personal danger, denounced oppression
and injustice in whatever quarter they appeared to him to
originate, whether it was in the case of the rich against the
poor, or in that of the poor against the rich, his object being
to instil into the minds of the whole people the great truth
of RELATIVE duties, and the paramount necessity of fulfil-
ling them ; the source from which he has derived his know_
ledge of those duties being the will of God, as revealed to
mankind in the Holy Scriptures.
Thus Mr. Oastler's constant endeavour has been to main-
tain the principles upon which the British Constitution is
founded ' • uniting the monarchy.- the aristocracy, and the
entire body of the people in a mutual and just support of
each other, that bond of union being the Church of Christ.
It will not excite surprise, that, seeing systematic tyranny
and cruelty practised upon the most helpless of our race in
the extent to which Mr. Oastler has witnessed it, he should
have been driven, by the enthusiastic ardour of his nature,
to utter expressions which those who have not been similarly
circumstanced might well condemn ; but on this point he
has been the subject of much misrepresentation, and also of
much wilful detraction; notwithstanding which he has con-
tinued in an undeviating course of public duty, not permit-
ting his exertions to sustain the least check on account of
opposition and difficulties which would have overwhelmed
most men. One very important fact, shelving the true and
valuable nature of his services, should here be mentioned,
which is, that those who have been so placed as to be best
acquainted with his motives and his proceedings, have proved
themselves to he his warmest and most constant public sue'
porters, as well as his private friends, amongst whom tal'Y
he reckoned proprietors of some of the largest factories la
the kingdom.
The great efforts which Mr. Oastler has made for, his
ours
country, have, however, cost him much. No consider/1:1°'
of private interest have ever restrained him in his enoes This
to fulfil that which he conceived to be his public dutyuate
of a
great, benevolent, and patriotic man is now the la
admire-
debtors' prison ; debarred the full exercise
of
thosell adapted to
ble faculties of mind and body which are so well A most
procure au ample provision for himself and f a"l
earnest appeal is made to those who are a
of British Constitutional Government to
, ,ac°ll,lr. Oastler, his
raising a fund for the purpose of aleortable circinn-
wife, and their adopted daughter, !" be under the eon-
teinc'threidbutotetltioewceaurtsies
°;fiolire mentioned, who
stances. The money which is raisedb
trol of the Trustees whose names aorfe fulfilling the object in-
will decide on the best method
tended. &lonia( beg to suggest to all
ediateiy to form themselves into
The projectors of this Voss oastler's principles, the
of canvassing their respective
the friends and supporters
necessity of proceeding i
nicating the results to the Ho-
neighbourhoods, be particularly remembered
aPcinFit-.llliobtain their living by their daily
Committees for thef
neighbourhoods, anfodr
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labour is especially
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interest in it, whose
them feel a warns contributions,
small,how-
will be equally esteemed as those of much larger
will be received_ by Messrs. DRUMMONDS,
ever
amount.
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and communications are to
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London, to whom all inquiries • •

CONTRIBUTIONS ANNOUNCED

The Right Hon. Lord,Feversham
Lord Ashley, m.p
Sir George Sinclair, Bart.
Sir Alexander Hood, Bart., Compton Castle,
Somersetshire
John 'Walter, I?,sq
W. 13. Perrand, Esc] M• P
The Rev. J. D. s'ehomberg, polesworth,
Taniworth..
Mr. William Atkinson
A Rutlandshire Rector and his Wife.
La:don, January 1, 1842. •

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LONDON MONEY-MARKET AND CITY

INTELLIGENCE

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The stock-markets were not
active to-day, nor was there any news which could be sup-
posed to influence them ; nevertheless the English funds were
nut nearly so good as yesterday, although the actual decline
quoted in prices was hardly more than 4 per cent. Money
was easy at 3 per cent. Consols for money left off 89 to 4 ;
Ditto for the account, 894 to 4 ; Bank Stock, 166 to 167 ;
India Stock, 246 to 247 ; Exchequer-bills, 16s. to 18s. pre-
mium ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 to 4; Three and a
Half per Cents. Reduced, 991; New Tbree and a Half per
Cents., 984 ; Long Annuities (expiring Jan. 5, 1860), 12
9-16; and India Bonds, 10 to 12 premium.
The foreign funds were quiet and steady, but some of the
brightness was taken off their market by the weakness of our
own stocks. Spanish Actives left off 244 to 25 ; Mexican,
291 to 30 ; Danish. 80 to 81 ; Colombian, 22 to 1 ; Brazilian,
63 to 65; Portuguese Five per Cents., 34 to ; Ditto Three
per Cents, 204 to ; Belgian, 101 to 102 ; and Dutch Two
and a Half per Cents., 51 to 4. . . .

Brazilian Imperial shares Were done at 7 ; Real del Monte,
unregistered, 3+; Bristol and Exeter, 25 ; Eastern Counties,
debentures, 10i; Great Western, 87; Ditto, new. 611;
Brighton, 37i ; Birmingham, thirds, 574 ; South-Western,
58 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ; Midland Counties,
82i ' • South-Eastern and Dover, 27 ; York and North Mid-
land, 91k to 92; and Provincial Bank of Ireland, 40 to 40k.
INDIGO.—The sales which commenced yesterday, inclu-
ding 5,320 chests, continued to-day at even easier rates than
those current yesterday, which were as follow :—Benares,
good to fine violet, 6s. 6d. to 7s. Id. ; ordinary and middling
ditto, ss. 3d. to 6s. sd. ; violet and copper, ss. to Gs. 3d. ;
consuming qualities, 3s. 6d. to ss. 9d. ; trash and low ditto.
ls. Bd. to 3s. 3d. ; Oude, 2s. 3d. to 4s. About 2,221 chests
passed to-day.
SUGAR.—In consequence of the bad state of the weather,
the sales of British plantation were limited to 100 hogsheads
at former rates. There were no public sales of other sorts.
COFFEE.—The only sale of this article consisted of 240
bags fine Ceylon, and 710 bags damaged East India, the for-
mer was nearly all taken in at 80s. to 85s. ; a few fancy lots
of pea berry brought 105 s. 6d. to 115 s. The market is gene-
rally steady.

kice.-4,800 bags low middling Bengal sold at 10s. to
and of 8,300 bags Java offered, about 1,000 of the round
were disposed of ; good ordinary yellow, to fair bold white,
9s. to 10s. 6d.

SALTPETRE.-Of '1,500 bags offered, 3,000 found buyers ;
good gray, refraction 51, 265. 6d. to 275. ; refraction 81, 265.
Madras, 1,600 bags, refraction 10, 255. 6d. to 265. ; the re-
mainder was taken in at 285., for refraction 31, which are
considered steady prices.