The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The incumbency of St. Anne's is not now vested in the cor-
poration. It was sold under the provisions of the Muni-
cipal Reform Act, and, we believe, was purchased by the
Rev. Mr. Stringer, of St. John's Church, in this town,
and is consequently at his disposal.
The gratuities awarded by the Gaol Finance Committee to
their servants, in acknowledgment of their exertions at the
late fire in Great Howard-street, will, we suppose. be now
paid immediately ; and the reason for the delay complained
of by " A Constant Reader of the Standard" is sufficiently
accounted for by the fact, that the proceedings of that
committee, in respect to the awards, required, according
to the standing orders, confirmation by the council before
being carried into effect. The Watch Committee for such
a payment as this are, we believe, independent of the
council.
A correspondent, who dates from Manchester, inquires whe-
ther we think it possible to " answer" certain queries, which
lie encloses to us, " upon free trade principles." There is '
some obscurity in the question ; but we see the meaning of
the writer, and shall give him a candid reply. It is possi-
ble to answer these or any other queries—to refute, in fact
any position of an opponent—upon " free trade principles ;
for one of the principles of the advocates of free trade, car-
ried out in their practice, is to make very free with facts
and premises. Concede to a man this one principle of free
trade, and he will prove to you any absurdity you have a
mind.
THE ANTI-MONOPOLY GATHERING.—We have not omitted
—who could ?—the melancholy instance of aberration of
intellect pointed out to us by a correspondent, as evinced
in the bombastical placard of the above collection of
demented old women. " CARRIAGES must set down
with the horses' heads to the south, and take up
with their heads to the north." PRODIGIOUS ! Wheel-
barrows and trucks, we presume, " take up " and
" set down" at the stage door. We hope, by-the-bYe,
that stretchers will be provided for those of the exhausted
spouters who may happen not to be provided with the
necessary amount for the hire of a cab. The rejected of
Abercromby Ward would no doubt, if requested, take care
of Mr. Joseph flume's umbrella for the night, without
either interest or a charge for the ticket.

Eire Ltberpoot Otantarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1842.

We have for some months past been under the ne-
cessity of supply ing to our Manchester readers the
want of a journal honest and bold enough to remark
upon the doings of the junta who misgovern that
great manufacturing emporium. This, admission will
account to our Liverpool friends for the rather undue
space which Manchester politics have occasionally
occupied in our columns. Our neighbours, as the
world knows, possess the unspeakable advantage of
being enlightened twice a week by that unerring
oracle, the Manchester Guardian. His dicta, his opi-
nions, his facts, are the meat and drink of the cotton-
spinning population. The Guardian is their literary
breakfast, dinner, and supper. He is the misty planet
which they worship morning and evening ; and it is
well for mankind that a constant contemplation of
such a luminary has the effect of producing in the
gazer the state of mind denominated " muddy," or
the world would long ago have been subjected to
some awful convulsion or conflagration, from the ex-
traordinary amount of knowledge, commercial, poli-
tical, and philosophical, which appears to emanate
from the very handling of calico and cotton bobbins.
Of late, however, " a change has come o'er the spirit"
of the luminary in question. He has refused to shine;
has been mysterious and moody ; upon many
important matters, has been but a dumb oracle; and
we have unwillingly been compelled to step out of our
orbit to enlighten his disconsolate and deserted wor-
shippers.
We are happy, however, to observe, that the
sullen fit of the Guardian is at length passing from
him. The crash of the Bank of Manchester before
his very eyes ; the sight of bank directors with whom
he once hobnobbed,
" Fallen from their high estate,
And weltering in "
recollections of rotten rag-money, premiums, and
dividends of nine per cent. per annum ; the contem-
plation of ruined widows and orphans, of desolate
homes and blighted prospects, caused by the grasp-
ing selfishness and dishonesty of men who can them-
selves swagger in official trappings ;—these things
moved him not. A hundred Banks of Manchester
might have been broken, a hundred managers ab-
sconded ; and not a word would our moody oracle
have vouchsafed respecting them. But a few remarks
of ours upon one of his favourite theories—the regula-
tion of the market for labour—have waked the slum-
bering philosopher. The stream of drivel is once more
let loose ; and in a while, after the way the wind blows
has been duly ascertained, it will meander over the
whole range of hitherto untouched ground, and Man-
chester will be enlightened upon the subjects of bank-
ing and bank directions, corn-laws and currency, or
mystified with respect to the same, as the breeches-
pocket barometer of our astute friend may decide.
Really, and seriously, we, do sympathise with the
people who are self-condemned to the tolerance of
such an organ as the Manchester Guardian. Ever
shuffling and trimming, nibbling at straws, fastening
upon petty questions of mere words, that journal has
never, during its long existence—if to crawl can be
called to exist—grappled, in time and honestly, with any
question, however importantly affecting the interests
of the locality in which it is assumed to represent
public opinion. It is, at this very moment, and has
been for years past, at issue with the principles of
action which actuate the proceedings of the Anti-
Corn-law League ; yet it dares not denounce those
proceedings. It cannot have been ignorant of the
reckless management of the Bank of Manchester; yet
it haS never dared to denounce that reckless manage
ment ; and it dares not even now, ready as it is usually
to kick friends and opponents when they are down,
express an opinion upon the subject. It shirks every
question upon which any section of its supporters,
however unimportant, may differ from it; and, to
quote its own expressive language, used on a recent
memorable occasion in a recent memorable article, for
all useful purposes of a local journal, as directors 01
public opinion in their own locality, the Manchester
Guardian and its editors " might just as well be in
Liverpool" or Kamschatka " as where they are."
We purposed offering a few remarks upon the
article in his last publication addressed to ourselves
but really, on re-perusal, we find that to do so would
be only a waste of paper, ink, and the patience of 0°1:
readers. As a specimen, however, of the kind 01
flimsy rubbish, which the Guardian is in the habit 01'
passing off among his readers as philosophy, we can'
not resist laying before the public the following excel"'
lent morceau :—" Can the Standard point to any cause:
except one suicidal restrictions on trade, which should
prevent the women of Great Britain from earning 35,
good wages as are earned by the women of America.''
Now what, we ask, is the inference intended to he
conveyed by this passage ? Obviously, that the goocl
wages earned by the women of America are attri-
butable to the absence of "suicidal restrictions on
trade" in that country. And, yet the veriest booby
that ever pinned his faith upon the sleeve of an
Anti-Corn Law philosopher, knows well that Arne'
rica, above most other countries, has ever made it
a point of her boasted commercial and financial
policy to impose those very "restrictions upon trade"'
which the Guardian terms " suicidal," and to the
absence of which he would have us believe is to be
attributed the prosperity of her industrial population
America protects her native industry ; and hence, i°
parts, at least, its flourishing state when compared with
the pauperised industry of Great Britain. Surely this.
attempt to deceive is, on the part of the Guardian, as'
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should devote his pen and his columns to something
more useful than this skirmishing upon the outposts

of public questions,—to denouncing the numerous
glaring evils which a jobbing and agitating faction
have brought and are bringing upon the particular
Community favoured with his lucubrations. Why fly
out of his way continually to fight upon abstract
questions, with journals which scarcely look aside to
ascertain the fact of his very existence, when he may
be so laudably and fully engaged at home ?

The noble Institution in Shaw-street, so creditable
to the public spirit of our town, is now, as will be seen
from the advertisement in our columns this day, pre-
pared for the reception of pupils immediately after the
Christmas 'Vacation ; and we take this opportunity of
Calling the attention of parents and others to the
Important advantages which it offers for the education
of our rising generation. We do so the more readily
because we believe that a very erroneous impression is
abroad with respect to the kind of education to be
afforded.

The Upper School, it is quite true, will be, as the
Ilaine of the Institution implies, a College. In this
school the students will receive an education equal, if
not superior in usefulness, to that afforded by either
of our English Universities. The Middle School, too,
will provide an education of a very excellent descrip-
tion, such as ought to be enjoyed by every aspirant to
mercantile success. In both of these the terms are
most reasonable, the advantages afforded being taken
into consideration. The Lower School, however, it is
to Which we would particularly direct the attention of
our readers, and which, in our opinion, fills up what
has long been a vacuum in the educational institutions
of the town.

We possess already, in our Corporation Schools,
Most excellent seminaries for the youthful children of
our working classes ; but as yet, except in private and
too expensive schools, we have not the means of pro-
viding for the education of those children in the
Principles of the Church of England when more ad-
vanced in years and aspiring to a wider reach of
knowledge. Hence, the. merely secular education
afforded by the Mechanics' Institution Schools is
grasped at as the only one available to them and to
the humbler classes of tradesmen. This desideratum—
a school in which religious education is afforded, com-
bined with the advantages of the Lecture-room and a
valuable and well-selected library-7-the Lower School
of the Collegiate Institution now supplies ; and we
trust to see those advantages embraced by a large
Portion of the children of the industrious classes in
our town. To the character of her working classes
and her industrious tradesmen England must look,
amidst the distractions which a mischievous agitation
Is struggling to create, for the safety and permanence
of her institutions. To the loyal operative we, in this
town especially, owe a deep debt of gratitude for the
Past, and upon that class we build much of our hope
for the future. Let us see the children of the opera-
tive well educated, and, above all, educated in the
truths of the Bible ; and agitation may do its worst—
anti-monopoly meetings may drum up their political
firebrands, and repealers summon their rebel gather-
ings—we repose in the consciousness that, with a
loyal and religiously educated Democracy, ENGLAND
18 SECURE !

We may here venture a word to parents proposing
to embrace for their children the advantages which
this Institution affords. Let them at once intimate
their intention to do so in the proper quarter, that the
necessary arrangements for their reception may be
made.

Our readers are well aware that we are not much in
the habit of noticing theatrical entertainments in a
leading article. They will, however, we trust, pardon
its for so doing in our present publication. The enter-
tainments to which we have to call attention are, it is
true, not strictly theatrical, although " the play of
Hamlet,' with the part of Hamlet omitted," bears
some remote resemblance to them. They may, with
Propriety, be styled Menagerie Exhibitions; and as no
tine can object to those opportunities of studying the
Physiognomy and the physical conformations of strange
animals, which the enterprise of our Wombwells and
Atkinses affords the public, we cannot be complained
°f for noticing the exhibitions of a similar description,
With which we have been favoured, or should have been
favoured, during the present week.

The first, in order, of the entertainments in question
took place on Wednesday evening, and was for a
charitable purpose. The attraction was to have been
the exhibition of a well-known wild animal imported
from Derrinane, who was to be seen feeding. The
admission was by ticket, and the charge twelve and
812cpence each. There was here, however, a melan-
choly disappointment; for, although the house was a
bumper, the principal performer was non est ! There
was music and a multitude, but no bear to dance ;
and, as a matter of course, blank faces were the result.
4 few of the minor animals, it is true, were poked up
°Y the exhibiting management, and performed their
Peculiar evolutions. The aviary and the apiary flut-
tered and chattered. But the promised great attraction
the animal from Derrinane— being absent, the
Proper amount of spirits could not be got up, and the
audience eventually went away in sulky mood, mutter-
mog something, very vulgar and shocking, about their
Money being returned, and the entire affair being "a
take in."
The 'exhibition of Thursday was of a lower grade
and more questionable in its purpose. It was, in
short, a meeting of the back-slummery and cellar-
°craoy of the town, for the purpose of promoting the
cause of REPEAL. The same Irish animal was pla-
carded to appear; and various hods full of copper
Were to have been presented to him, in reward for his
services as the great "liberator" of the

" First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea."

The curtain rose, amidst throbbing hearts, sweet
brogues, dirty faces, and a hurricane of shillaleghs
beating tattoo upon the floors and benches of boxes,
Pit, and gallery. But, alas for the mutability of human
affairs and the vanity of human expectations ! A
N7eeter audience never assembled to greet prima donna,
tragedian, or comedian, than were met to honour the
animal from Derrinane ; but again disappointment
'Vas fated to

for the animal came not !He was sea-sick at home
With the thoughts of crossing the Channel ; or he was
13111; of humour, or busy counting " the rint," or some
'they unaccountable hindrance had interfered ; and the
41klience went home, stark mad with chagrin, to their
various domiciles, in cellar, court, or alley : but what
became of the copper collection to the present hour we
know not.

For this evening another exhibition is announced—
plendid affair, got up by the elderly ladies of
the Anti-monopoly Association, who have taken the
Amphitheatre for the occasion. With respect to this
.:(11ibition, we shall have something to say in our next.