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

t triumph of conserra-

was referred

.ctory proof of

loyal " con-

e importance of

Scriptural education for the children of _
We could only regret that one or two of the professing
churchmen and conservatives in the council, who hate halted
between principle and expediency upon this question, bad
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.

ing classes

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
everything; and however loudly our "liberals" may sneer at
and exclaim against such a proposition, AVE 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 community,—
binding in one bond the throne, the altar, and the people—is
most materially promoted. We know that 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
may appear out of place in such a notice as the pres,..
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 whig 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 fight 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-
b The ourers! or to the Spanish, or Portuguese, or Italian poor!
English cottager, and even the mechanic, with all his
desultory notions on some subjects, is staid and steady in his
trad-hearth conservatism ; whereas in the countries to
ch we have alluded, their social state is even more in jeo-
pardy than their political government."

—although they

It—the

Lord Wharncliffe has---a
Wounced his intention to retire
from the chairtnanship
of the
est-riding sessions.
TRIAL OF A YOUNG
LADY ON. A CHARGE OF FELONY.
—At the Glocester Sessions on Friday the trial of Miss Allen,
the daughter of the wealth
lColonel Allen, well known in the
county of Glocester, took Y in the Court-house. Miss
Allen, on her name being ePaialeil
presented herself, attended
by her mother and some tnaleeft!
attired, but kept
anxiety on her behalf. she Wasteds, who manifested great
her face closely enveloped in a elegantlythickt!ra. pe veil. When called
upon to plead she trembled violently rand would have fallen
mei.
Ng s.humratccoofmtnhieodtuartend-
to the ground had she not received'
key. The chairman ordered that she
voice
,p
thatlead pleaded "notha.d,
with a chair, and she then, in a feeble
e
guilty." The charge against the prisoneer
on the 22d of November, gone into the
and druggist, named Joslin, in the High_chemist
shot'
of
aanswered
and inquired if Mr. Joslin was in.
returned,ii
L street,beCheltenharn,
in the neg&tive, she went away, but subsequenitl';
and asked liberty from the apprentice to sit down,
prentice went up stairs, and took. his position near •'eg 31).
which was suspended from the ceiling, and upon ‘'vhiali-lass
reflected all the things in the shop. Whilst so occupiedwhich
wlais
(the apprentice-boy) observed the prisoner go towards the
counter, and take up a packet of perfume, and place it undere
her cloak. Mr. Joslin shortly afterwards returned, who,
when told by his apprentice of what had occurred, took th
prisoner up stairs sod 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, reinarkin,,,,
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.