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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1842

The gratifying unanimity which prevailed at the
anauting, haia flatalao-ilptm !bo nantl j csta
to be brought forward by the .ConservatiVe party at
the approaching election, furnishes a sufficient reply
to the chuckling of the now powerless Whig faction
over the alleged divisions of opinion existing amongst
the Conservatives of Liverpool. We can now tell our
opponents proudly that we are no broken, disorganised,
spiritless host. We have no difference—and -we have
had no difference—of opinion with respect to the illus-
trious individual who is selected to fight our battle.
The merchants, the tradesmen, and the operatives of
this loyal borough will rally, in one united phalanx,
and in resistless strength, beneath the banner of Sir

HOWARD DOUGLAS; and they laugh at the feeble
efforts of their prostrate opponents to create division
in their ranks, or to damp the enthusiasm with which
they are prepared to struggle for the cause of their
country and her venerated institutions—to add another
to the long list of triumphs which they have already
achieved in behalf of the monarchy, the church, and
the liberties of this great nation.
To the gallant candidate himself so unanimous a
display of enthusiastic feeling in his behalf cannot fail
to be flattering, as it is most honourable to the Con-
servatives of Liverpool. The long array of influential
names which were present at this meeting, to record
their approval of Sir Howard's claimS and fitness, is
in itself sufficient to stamp that gallant officer as al-
ready the chosen of all that is loyal and Conservative
amongst us. Our fellow-townsmen have shown that
they are not the unstable and fickle beings who will
turn their backs to-day upon. the recorded opinions of
yesterday. " TRUSTY AND TRUE," the appropriate
motto of one of the Douglas race, might now, with
equal propriety be emblazon ed upon the banner of the
Conservative electors of I:am-pool ; and we do not he-
sitate to assure the gallant Sir Howard, and the oppo-
nents of his claims on the present occasion, that he
and they will find no flinching in the coming contest ;
but that the entire Conserv.2tisin of the borough will
be found in readiness on the day of trial to place in
overwhelming strength uponithe poll the champion of
its choice.

With respect to the qualifications of Sir Howard
Douglas for the important position which he is called
upon to occupy, we need not enlarge. They are well
known amongst us, and throughout the empire. To
those of our opponents, however, who object to him
as not being, though well versed in the theory of com-
merce—though acquainted with all our commercial re-
lations with other countries, and possessing a long
experience of the wants and working of the trade of our
colonial empirehimself a commercial man, we would
recommend a perusal of the admirable address of Mr.
Samuel Holme, which will be fOund reported at length
in another column. Let the gentlemen in question
look in that mirror for a correct reflection of their
amazing inconsistency ;—let them glance through the
long list of non-commercial candidates, in whose lauda-
tion they have yelped in chorus in years gone by—at
the number of the illustrious obscure, consisting of
horse-racing Lords, second-rate speechifiers and •brief-
less barristers, in just proportions, for whom they have
shouted and agitated,—and we do think that on the
score of modesty and decency alone, if from no other
consideration, it would become our sapient friends of
the Whig-Radical camp to be discreetly silent. Creep
into a walnut-shell, good gentlemen, and rant no more !

To the 103 al Protestant Operatives of Liverpool,
whose presence at this meeting contributed materially
to the pleasing and proud picture of Conservative
strength which it presented, we must express our sin-
cere congratulations. In the gallant candidate, whose
cause is now in their hands, they have a sincere church-
man and an unflinching Protestant,—one who will not
surrender one stone of our national establishment, or
one tittle of our national faith, to the hand of the de-
stroyer. He has already proved himself the ardent
friend of scriptural education for the children of all
classes of the population of Great Britain and her
colonies; and to his firmness, his honesty, and his un-
swerving sincerity, our Protestant fellow-townsmen
may look up with confidence for a zealous advocacy in
the House of Commons, and with the Government
itself, of sound scriptural principles as the leading fea-
tures of any system of education which may be nro-
vided for the people at the national cost. Upon this
point we recommend to the perusal of our readers the
address of Sir Howard on the first occasion of his
coming forward for Liverpool, which was read at the
meeting by James Aspinall, Esq., and will be found in

our columns. From the principles there expressed we

are satisfied the gallant officer will not recede.
That Sir Howard has not before this, according to
our anticipations, appeared personally amongst U

were informed by the chairman of the meeting, Sir
Thomas Brancker, is to he attributed only to pressing
engagements of a public nature, which have hitherto
detained him in London. The requisition, however,
which will this day be presented to him, will, we have
no doubt, at once bring him amongst us; and in the
mean time need we call upon the Conservative electors
to be up and doing ? At this moment we are not
aware whether the enemy has any intention of entering
upon so hopeless a speculation as would he a contest
for Liverpool. Our Conservative fellow-townsmen,
however, must not trust too far to the seeming quies-
cence of so shifty a set; and we call upon them, there-
fore, to unfurl their banner, to rally round it in all
their strength, and to be prepared to strike home at
the first summons of our war-cry—" A DOUGLAS !
A DOUGLAS !"

So brief a period has Low to elapse before the open-
ing of parliament will throw a full light upon the
question, that it is scarcely worth while to enter into
an inquiry as to the probable measures or the general
policy of the government of Sir Robert Peel. It may
be useful, however, in order to enable us to estimate
the vast extent of responsibility which attaches at the
present moment to the right honourable baronet and
his colleagues, to glance briefly at the disastrous state
of things which they have to encounter, and for which
the country, distracted by the variety of nostrums
which are eagerly pressed upon its acceptance, looks
up in patient and confiding hope to their sterling ho-
nesty, their admitted talent, and their energetic deter-
mination to provide a remedy.
In whatever direction we turn ourselves, there is
most assuredly nothing in the prospect to render a
statesman enamoured of the task before him. On
every side are difficulties, vast, complicated, and im-
minent. Abroad and at home, in our colonies, in our
commercial relations, in our financial and in our social
system, we see only derangement and impending dan-
ger. From without we are compelled, by numberless
entanglements, to keep up to their full extent our na-
val and military establishments ; whilst, at home, we
have a deficient revenue, the public debt accumulating
upon the shoulders of the people, commerce enfeebled
and shaken with disaster upon disaster, industry laid
prostrate, and famine and misery crowding our streets
with pallid and sinking victims. Bankruptcy and ruin
have compassed the length and breadth of the land,
and have struck down, and are even now striking
down, their thousands of our once wealthy and thriv-
ing classes ; whilst poverty, dogging their path, knocks
at the door of the miserable hovel of the labourer, and
drags the blanket from the bed and the bread from the
lips of his shivering children. The whole fabric of
our past prosperity. is shaken to its base; and Eng-
land—once " merry England"—like one whom a burn-
ing fever has racked to the verge of the grave, lies
powerless, bloodless, and exhausted, where she stood
so lately in her pride of healthful vigour.
_ .

To such a state has ten years of Whig legislation
reduced this once happy and flourishing empire. At
the present hour we cannot lay our hand upon one
branch of industry—we cannot point to one class of
our population—and say, " Here is no canker-worm,
no decay, no disease !" There is not in Great
Britain a city or a valley, a mansion, a farm-
stead, or a hut, to which suffering, more or less
intense, has not penetrated. The mechanic, the
agriculturist, the manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the
artisan, and the humble labourer alike languish
under the blight which presuming incapacity has
brought over their homes and their hopes ; and even
CAPITAL itself—the vampire which has lain so long at
the fountain of our national industry and absorbed the
waters which a bountiful Providence intended should
irrigate and fertilize equally the fair face of society—
which has been wont to feed upon toil-worn frames and
wasted limbs—to blanch the cheek of youth and to
paralize the despairing efforts of age—has sunk be-
neath the giant pressure of the times, unable to pursue
further its career of exaction, and compelled even to
disgorge a putdon .vf Its uau►iuua act:m-11111460ne.
From one extremity to the other we can travel now
through this once smiling land, and exclaim, with per-
fect truth, that " all is barren"—all is present or inci-
pient desolation. . .

To the correction of such a mass of social disease
and suffering the government of Sir Robert Peel must

at once address itself ; and it will readily be admitted
that a task more herculean was scarcely ever presented
to any statesman. That the right honourable baronet
is deeply convinced of the momentous responsibility
which is imposed upon him we know; and it must be
gratifying, as it is flattering, to him to notice, that not
all the efforts of the faction, whose dishonest legisla-
tion has produced the disease, have been able to shake
the nation's confidence in his ability and his honest en-
deavours to effect its cure. The people of Great Bri-
tain look indeed for no miracles at his hands—for no
sudden restoration from a state of suffering and ex-
haustion to one of health and vigour. They anticipate
no resort to legerdemain in his mode of cure. They
wish for no merely temporary, hand-to-mouth legisla-
tion—no mere skinning of the wound ; but are con-
tent even to endure the probe and the cautery, in the
hope of at length arriving at a complete and a perma-
nent prosperity.
We certainly do not anticipate that the government
of Sir Robert Peel will attempt to effect this, by taking
up the wild and crude theories put forth, in their last
clutching hours of official life, by the faction which
preceded him, in 'power, however loudly their admirers
may proclaim their drenches •and stimulants to be the
only effectual restoratives. The wise, physician will
not, we think, adopt the kill-or-cure practice of the
quack,who has just been kicked from the bedside of
his exhausted and abused patient. We look for no
measures of free trade in corn, in timber, or in sugar,
at his hands; but we do look for liberal commercial le-
gislation, for the healthy developement of the national
industry, and for the protection of that industry—(call
such protection " monopoly " or what you like)—
from every encroachment, from within or from without.
Sir Robert Peel, we know, will carry out to their just
and wise extent, and no
.further, the principles of
" Free Trade ;" and we can easily afford, even with the
prospect of an election before us, to laugh at the pre-
sumption of the incapable faction which, having caught
up in their fall the mere words, without the substance,
of commercial liberality, are content to repeat them as
a shibboleth which, of itself, establishes their exclusive
claim to legislate for a commercial people.
'We look with perfect confidence for many important
ameliorations in our commercial system from Sir Ro-
bert Peel—for many relaxations of the stringency of
our present tariff; but those relaxations, we know, will
be conceded temperately and upon grounds only of
justice and wise policy, and will be such as are calcu-
lated to diffuse their benefits universally, and not to be
absorbed by the manufacturing capitalist and the
scheming speculator. The people of England, amidst
all their sufferings, f6el this confidence; and they can-
not forget that, notwithstanding all their present cla-
mour for free trade, the liberal faction, when in office,
and with a powerful majority at their back, made no
efforts to attain it; and they suspect, moreover, that
that clamour was only at length resorted to when its
parrot-like and senseless iteration was all that was left
them to hide their absolute dearth of practicable and
definite measures.
That these are the feelings and opinions of the com-
mercial constituency of Liverpool we confidently be-
lieve; and that they will give expression to them by
returning, as their representative, a gentleman prepared
to support the government of the right honourable
baronet against all the mere chattering by which it will
be opposed. Let the local faction, whose ceaseless
prate is of " monopoly" and " restrictions," bring
forward, if they dare, one of their most shining lights
to contest the representation of Liverpool with Sir
Howard Douglas, and the electors will point to the
bankruptcies, the poverty, the crimes which Whig le-
gislation has brought down upon Great Britain ; they
will point to the mass of suffering and wretchedness
which is around them, as the realization of the abun-
dant promises of the past ten years of. "liberal" rule—
and laugh to scorn the attempt once more to palm
upon their credulity mere chattering incapacity for
statesmanlike ability—a senseless parrot for the bird
of Jove.

We are not at any time admirers of the practice of

resorting to a bazaar, or any similar tawdry exhibition,
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 persua-
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 se; 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
Errglish female especially, these, no doubt, estimable
in'l 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 fn 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. RATIIBONE, WM. EARLS,--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.

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
For Morpeth • 3301
Majority for Conservatism

399 ! !

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

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 Been, 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 Mesrs. Bold and Starkey, and as Mr. Chapman
declined being put in nomination, the contest lay between
Mr.. Beni 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. Benn

Majority for Mr. Bold

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c,

Our market for cotton during the past week has slightly
declined i❑ 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 4900 bags,
with no change worthy of noticing.
The market for manufactured goods continues without
animation, and prices are it 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 feeling 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 nu 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.

CowsioNs ON THE RIVER.—On Thursday, at the Po-
lice-court, the captain of the Seacombe steamer Alice,
summoned by the owners of the Ennishoweti, gO E emw
°past
boat, for damage done to that vessel by the formerntne
4th of the present month. Mr. John Martin, master of the
Ennishowen, stated that lie was coming up the river on the
afternoon in question, when the Mice attempted to cross the
eaiofclear
bows of his vessel. At that time a large steam-boat was
going to sea, and the Alice, tinecrlitsltgeroth.at
Tshhee
couldcaptain
e not
the
the steamer, put her helm up and run under the bows of the
jEunieneislw•
Ennishowen,
admittedcatrhre adyildegaiwngly her
of the case, but said that the
Ennishowen had run into Ills vessel. The testimony of
Martin, however, was supported by a gentleman named Bu-
chanan, who was on board the Egremont boat at the time,
and 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'lslab, 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
admited, 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 m
to assist .1 r. Rushton in the decision of the case.