The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAM SON-SQUARE

Under the sole Management of Mr. W.

J. Hammond

THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th instant,
the Drama of

THE RANSOM

Mrs. Seymour.
After which, the Burlesque Drama of
BOMBASTES FURIOSO
General Bombastes

Pauline.

,Xr. Browne

To be followed bvi,
THE IRISH TUTOR.
Doctor O'Toole Mr. Leonard

To con&nde with
THE PILOT

THE INFANT SAPPHO,

UNDER HER MA.IESTY'S PRINCE ALBERT'S
ESPECIAL PATRONAGE.."
THIS extraordinary Child will have the honour of giving
TWO MORE MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS,
at the ROY AL ASSEMBLY Rooms, Great George•street,
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the I6th;7 and FRIDAY next,
the 18th instant, at Eight o'clock, itvhen she will sing a
variety of Italian, English, Scotch, and Irish Melodies.
including several of her own Compositions. Between the
songs of the Sappho, Mr. VINNING will perform some of
Mori's Pieces on the VIOLIN, accompanied by Miss AMELIA
VINNING on the PIANO-FORTE. The performance will
only occupy an hour. Tickets, 3s. Gallery, 2s. Children
and Schools, half-price. Tickets to be had at the principal
Music-shops.

The INFANT SAPPHO will perform'at CHESTER on
SATURDAY next, the 19th instant.

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world the weakness, the selfishness, and THE CRIMES
of those statesmen whose wicked policy, as exhibited
in the originating of these wars, has affixed indelible
disgrace upon the arms and the character of their
country. The national honour must be vindicated,
and retribution must fall upon the heads of the guilty,
however high may be their station, and however boastfit:
their pretensions to superior wisdom and virtue !

At a meeting of the Council on Wednesday last, in
vply to a question from Mr. Bushell, Mr. Alderman
Evans is reported to have said, that ." he should desire
above all things" the introduction into the Dock Com-
mittee of parties who were inimical to the erection of
warehouses on the dock quays, " because many had
come upon the committee who were at first inimical,
but, they were so well convinced afterwards, that they
had all dropped into his views." A most extraordinary
fact I—highly elucidatory of the Circwan powers of
Mr. Evans, but little complimentary to the gentlemen
who have so tamely " dropped" into his views. The
fabled fascinations of the rattlesnake are nothing when
compared with the fascinations of the wily Alderman.
Silly birds only are said to " drop" from their twigs
into the maw of the potent reptile; whilst men, reputed
to possess intellect, judgement, and experience, suc-
cumb readily, and " DROP"—we must not part with the
expression—into the maw of the more potent human
charmer.

We are not at all disposed to question the veracity
of the above assertion ; but really it does suggest to
us some considerations which are far from being com-
fortable, or flattering to the intelligence of the present
generation. What weak beings are the mass of man-
kind ! How little to be depended upon, the best and
wisest of them The merchants of this great port se-
lect, from amongst themselves, men having opinions in
unison with the majority of them, with respect to the
mode of administering the dock estate. The Council
pursues a similar course in its selection of members of
the Dock Committee. And when they look for the
fruits of their exertions ;—when they look for the mea-
sures to which their representatives stand pledged be-
fore the world—they are coolly informed by the mighty
magician who presides over and directs our dock affairs
that those representatives have eaten of the " root
which takes the reason prisoner"—have drunk deeply
of his own persuasive eloquence, and " dropped"--
fallen—from their self-dependence and consistency, to
become his blinded and infatuated followers.
Let us take this opportunity of calling the attention
of the Dock ComMittee to the above boastful parade
of their slavish submission to the great Dictator. Are

these things so, Gentlemen ? Have the opinions of

the representatives of the dock-ratepayers, and of the
Conservative majority of the Council, merged or
" dropped" into the " sic volo, sic jubeo, stat pro
ratione voluntas" of Mr. Alderman Evans ? If they

have, then away with the farce of the representative
principle in that committee, and let the proud words
of Coriolanus be engraven upon every future erection
upon the shores of our noble river—" ALONE, I DID
IT ! EYRE EVANS."

The world has not as yet, it would appear, arrived
at a knowledge of the extent of the mismanagement of
the Bank of Manchester. It will be remembered, that
amongst the debtors to that now notorious concern
was a firm doing business under the style and title of
" Joseph Raleigh and Company," and which, at the
stoppage of the bank, was indebted to it in the mag-
nificent amount of some HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
THOUSAND POUNDS. What, then, will our readers
say to the fact, which we now publish, that by the act
of the bank itself—by its attempted evasion of the
requirements of the Bankruptcy Act, in order to take
advantage of a preference over the other creditors of
the firm in question—the whole of this vast claim has
become forfeited, and the shareholders thus deprived of
the dividend which may arise from the realization of
the property of the bankrupts ? Yet, such is the fact.
The Bank of Manchester has no longer a claim for a
single shilling of this almost unheard of amount of
debt ; and Messrs. Joseph Raleigh and Company, its
creditors, are thus released from the bulk of their
liabilities.

Let us endeavour to convey to our readers the mode
in which this queer transaction has been managed.
By the eighth section of the Bankruptcy Act it is
enacted—

" That if any such trader, liable, by virtue of this act, to
become bankrupt, shall, after a docket struck against 1)103,
pay to the person or persons who strike the same, or anY 0f
them, money or goods, or deliver to any such person any
satisfaction or security for this debt, or any part thereof
whereby such person may receive more in the pound in re•
spect of his debt than the other creditors, such payment, gift,
delivery, satisfaction, or security, shall be an act of bankrupt-
cy. And if any commission shall have issued upon the
docket so struck, the Lord Chancellor may either declare
such commission to be valid, and direct the same to be pro-
ceeded in, or may order it to be superseded, and a new COin"
mission may issue ; and such commission may be supported
either by proof of such last-mentioned or any other act of
bankruptcy. And every person so receiving such money, 90'
delivery, satilaction, or security, shall forfeit his whole
debt, and also repay or deliver.up such money, gift, ez.e,
the full value thereof, to such person as the commissioners
shall appoint, for the benefit of the creditors of such bank-

rupt."

Clear enough one would imagine this! Well, then,
how, it will be asked; could the Bank of Manchester
commit itself by running counter to a statute dins
penal ? On the 3d of August, a docket was struck
against Mr. Joseph Raleigh, of the firm of Joseph
Raleigh and Co., on the petition of the Bank of Marl;
chester. On the sth of August, sundry bills were pal°
into the hank by the bankrupt, with a credit n°te
advising of their application, and no objection syse
made at the time to the receipt of such bills, although
clearly paid in after the striking of the docket, anti'
therefore, coming within the meaning of the above
clause of the Bankruptcy Act. By the evidence
of one of the clerks of the bank, they acted upon the
advice of Raleigh given in his credit note, and, with 3
portion of the proceeds of the bills paid in, retired, on
that day, another bill then due, and for the payment
of which Raleigh was liable. So far, the transactil
though clearly illegal, was wanting in that " fraud an
privacy" which the statute contemplated as its accon'
paniment; and this was supplied on the following d 3 Y;
One of the managers was, it seems, struck with th
dangerous nature of the payment ; and what did that
gentleman t
gentleman under the circumstances ? Repudiate t,
payment and give up the money ? No such thing'
The bill was sent back—still remaining in the 13°e'
session of the bank—to Raleigh, and his consent asked
to its being endorsed by another firm, in which he syas
,
a partner. This quibbling evasion was perfecte,o
do
outward appearance, at least; but its failure proveSaii
be two-fold. First, the original payment by Italelliv
to his own account is clearly proved ; and, seccsri'co'
the procuring its endorsement by Thorpe and es
would fail, because Thorpe and Co. are thernselvo
partners of the bankrupt, and the payment Nv°tl
therfore be his as well as theirs ! set
It is presumable that an effort will be made t° 0,
aside, in the Court above, the decision which was pr,
nounced against the claim of the bank by the n°11319 t,
sioners under Raleigh and Co.'s fiat on Friday la seo
We, however, doubt much the success of such
attempt.

The philosophers of the Anti-Corn-Law League arbeie
at this moment, engaged in the effort to levy, from t
gulls, male, female, drab and blue, of this befooleo be
.tion, the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS, t°
spent, as they tell us, in the dissemination of "
alts
principles of free trade," by the circulation of
trill
and hired spouters, throughout the land. Now it /yot
scarcely be denied, that one of the most imP°rtare
" principles" of free trade is the principle that tbe,th
should beno protection for labour—no interferanceta
et
the marhet for that commodity. Upon this subject 00 si,
of men have more unmistakeably expressed their opiflis
ons than the leaguers; and, we believe, there would thd
day be found, amongst that body, men hardY
shameless enough to denounce every past effort of the
b 0
legislature to protect even infant labour from tof
tyranny of the facto-ry , or to arrest the bestializatioti
females in our mines and colleries.
tint;
Labour must compete, unaided by the protec is
care of the legislature, with the power of capital. 'llO
is one of the free trade doctrines, for the dissernin2ti°it
of which English men and women are contributing eaves,
shillings and pounds to the begging box of the
fibsleagi
Let us, then, invite the lovers of this doctrine to
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