The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

We congratulate the Conservative electors of Dub-
lin upon the crowning victory which they have won
for the cause of loyalty and constitutional principles.
The truculent beggerman may now gather up his wal-
let and hide' his beaten head in the fastnesses of Derry-
nane ; for Dublin—Conservative Dublin—will neither
brook himself nor his nominee as its representative.
So near as we can at present ascertain, the numbers
at the close of the polling on Saturday evening were—
For GREGORY ........... 3790
For Morpeth. .... ..
.... ...
....... 3301
Majority for Conservatism

399 ! ! !

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ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF THE DOCK COM-
MITTEE, IN THE PLACE OF MR. CHAPMAN.

The election of a member of the Dock Committee, in the
place of Mr. Chapman, who resigned for the reasons stated
in his letter published in the Standard of Friday week, took
place yesterday in the Dock-office, Revenue-buildings. This
election was regarded with considerable interest, as the libe-
rals, although the ground on which Mr. Chapman resigned
was non-political, brought forward Mr. Robert Benn, the
late chairman of the Dock Committee, partly from his liberal
principles. and partly from his experience in dock affairs.
The conservatives brought forward Mr. Thomas Bold, of
the firm of Messrs. Bold and Starkey, and as Mr. Chapman
declined being put in nomination, the contest lay between
Mr. Benn and Mr. Bold. The polling commenced at one
o'clock before the Mayor, and was continued with con-
siderable animation till four o'clock, when it closed, the
numbers being—
For Mr. Bold ....................
For Mr. Berm l7B

Majority for Mr. Bold

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c

Our market for cotton during the past week has slightly
declined in price, although we can report an improved feeling
on the part of the buyers, some of whom have made large
purchases in anticipation of a speedy improvement in the
trade generally. The sales yesterday amounted to 4000 bags,
with no change worthy of noticing.
The market for manufactured goods continues without
animation, and prices are a shade easier. We have not
heard of any extensive orders by the last arrival from the
United States ; and little is yet doing for the continental
markets.

The opinion still gains strength that the government of
Sir Robert Peel will bring forward, on the opening of Par-
liament, some important commercial measures, the probable
effect of which will be a restoration of the confidence of ma-
nufacturers generally, and a more healthy feeline in the
market. We trust that this expectation will be realized ;
but the manufacturing interest must unshackle themselves
from the thrall of the blatant members of the Anti-Corn-
Law League if they wish to reap the full benefit of such a
change. A cessation from commercial agitation is quite as
much wanted as any legislative measures to give a tone of
confidence to the market for their goods.
Two or three extensive failures have been spoken of as
having occurred in London this week. The engagements of
one house, that of Messrs. Hunter, Gouger and Co., are said
to amount to £70,000; and their stoppage, having arisen
from no imprudence of their own, but from the failure of
some of their correspondents in India, has excited general
regret. The other cases mentioned are of less importance;
and it is thought that the difficulties of one of them are only
temporary and will be surmounted.

COLLISIONS ON THE RIVER.—On Thursday, at the Po-
lice-court, the captain of the Seacombe steamer Alice, was
summoned by the owners of the Efinishowen, Egremont
boat, for damage done to that vessel by the former, on the
4th of the present month. Mr. John Martin, master of the
Ennishowen, stated that he was coming up the river on the
afternoon in question, when the Alice attempted to cross the
bows of his vessel. At that time a large steam-boat was
going to sea, and the Alice, finding that she could not clear
the steamer, put her helm up and run under the bows of the
Ennishowen, carrying away her stem. The captain of the
Alice admitted the leading facts of the case, but said that the
Ennishowen had run into his vessel. The testimony of
Martin, however, wastupported by a gentleman named Bu-
chanan, who was on hoard the Egremont boat at the mine,
the Mr. Rushton directed an order to be made out against
the owners of the Alice, for the damage done to the other
vessel. Captain M`Fie, of the Christina M`Nab, was also
summoned for having on the 18th carried away, by running
foul of her, the mast of the Ennishowen, whereby damage to
the amount of two guineas was sustained The facts were
admitted, and the defendant was ordered to pay the amount.
In both cases the costs of the repairs to be subjected to the
approval of the Harbour-master, Mr. Askew, who attended to assist Mr. Rushton in the decision of the case.

resorting to a bazaar, or any similar tawdry exhibitions
for the purpose of raising money either for a public or
a private object. There is something un-English and
almost revolting in the contemplation of respectable
matrons or misses, tricked out in smiles, and exerting
• in public those blandishments and powers of lit riva-
sion which are so irresistible when exercised within
the private circle of their own homes, to entice staring
and vulgar loungers to purchase worthless toys ; and
although we may endure such a breach of the proprie-
ties of society and of the sex, when the act.is sanctified
by a charitable motive, we can view it only with the
deepest disgust when it is prompted by unprincipled
selfishness and sordid avarice.
With such a feeling we cannot but confess that we
have noticed the exhibition of female Liberalism which
was opened yesterday in the Theatre-Royal, Manches-
ter, under the title of the " Grand National Anti-
Corn-Law Bazaar." We could have tolerated this
display of the wives and daughters of the League-men
of that town with some degree of patience, had the
object been to raise a fund for the purposes of bene-
volence; had it been proposed out of the funds re-
alised to relieve the mass of poverty and wretchedness
which may be found at the very doors of the fair ex-
hibitors. But we cannot extend our forbearance to
such a degradation of the set, when the object is
merely to save the pockets of their husbands and fa-
thers—to swell the funds of the Anti-Corn-Law
League—and to enable its itinerant mountebanks and
spouters, its Aclands and Smiths, to go on in their
work of delusion and fraud, without the necessity of
dipping into the purses of the Cobdens and Potters
who seek to profit by their agitation. It is an inde-
cency of which men of correct taste and principle
would not have been guilty, to have drawn forth from
the privacy which best becomes every female, and an.
English female especially, these,' no doubt, estimable
lid amiable ladies, to mingle in the field of political
strife, and to be ogled indiscriminately by every puppy
who has a shilling in his pocket to purchase'a nic-nac
of their fair handiwork. With this feeling we are
confident that nine-tenths of the gentlemen and ladies
of Manchester will view the proceedings of this Grand
National Anti-Corn-Law Bazaar; and that the shame-
less and selfish beings themselves, for whose factious
objects the profanation has been practised, will incur
the well-merited contempt of every right-thinking man
throughout the empire.

We blame not the ladies themselves who have figured
in this affair, however much we may deprecate the
party and political spirit which has led them to allow
themselves to be put forward thus publicly upon such
an occasion. We blame the men of Manchester—the
" Leaguers"—whose avarice and meanness could in-
duce them to degrade the amiable ornaments of their
firesides to the level of the Jew clotheswomen of Rag
Fair, or the slopsellers of Cranbourne-alley. Verily
they are a scurvy set, these men of the League !

Where is Sir Joshua Walmsley ? Pray good, kind,
' Whig-Radical gentlemen, do resolve for us this im-
portant question ; for your press, we lament to say, is
most mysteriously silent upon the subject. Or if the
worthy knight is not willing to come forward to redeem
his pledge--if his purse is hermetically sealed, and his
name is no more to lead on your forlorn hope to the
breach, do tell us upon what superlative genius his
mantle has fallen; who wields his abandoned rod and
reigns in his stead. You are silent, all—muzzled and
mute—dumb as dormice—dead beat ! You are a lost
faction ; and we pity you most sincerely.
We did hope, indeed, from the swaggering tone of
your oracles, one and all, that some astonishing speci-
men of Liberalism would have been found to titillate
you into life in your last extremity. There was a mys-
teriously mischievous meaning in the countenance of
more than one of the elite of Whig-Radicalism whom
we met yesterday in our peregrinations; and we have
listened anxiously for the tocsin to be sounded in be-
half of some of the fraternity ; but, as yet, we have list-
ened in vain. Liberalism has no stomach for such a
fight as we could promise its followers, It flies no
longer at noble game; but hawks at dung-hill birds,
and silly sparrows—is content now to squabble in the
council, scribble in the corner of obscure journals, and
speechify in pot-house gatherings; but it dare not
" meet us at Philippi."
Do, gentlemen—do, good, kind Radicals,—let us
have a fight for fun's sake, and to keep our hands in !
Bring forward WM. RATunc.Nz, WM. EARLE,---any
body; don't, pray don't go out like a spent rushlight,
or a farthing dip ; but allow us to extinguish you, or
turn you up in the socket, and then you may die de-
cently.