The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

NORTH AND SOUTH TOXTETH WARD.

Last night, a public Meeting of the Conservative Electors
of these Wards was held at the Toxteth Hall, for the purpose
of nominating candidates respectively to represent them in
the Town Council, at the ensuing municipal election.
Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH, Jun., was called to the chair,
and opened the business of the evening in a very neat address,
in the course of which he congratulated the meeting that the
two outgoing candidates were radicals, whom they would,
no doubt, be enabled to replace by staunch conservatives.
A few years ago these wards were represented exclusively by
radicals, but, through the spirit and principle of the electors,
a great change had taken place; and, be believed, that no
opposition would be offered to the gentlemen about to be
proposed,—gentlemen, whose characters and principles were
such that he fully anticipated they would meet with the
warmest support from all who beard him. The town council
had for some time been engaged in matters of great impor-
tance, but he apprehended that the peculiar interests of the
Toxteth Wards had not been sufficiently attended to. He
hoped and trusted they would, erelong, experience a different
state of things, and that the return of the proposed candidates
would secure to them great and important improvements in
their locality, and fully realize all their views.
Mr. HARBORD, surgeon, proposed the first resolution,
which, he said, he would not have undertaken had the task
required any gift cf eloquence. But it was a pleasure to
him, inasmuch as the previous services of the gentleman he
should propose to their notice was his best recommendation.
The resolution put into his hands was—That John Shep-
pard, Esq. is a fit and proper person to represent North
Toxteth Ward; and in proposing him that the meeting re-
turn him their sincere thsnks for his unwearied assiduity
and exertions in all matters connected with the welfare of
the township and the interests of the electors for the last
four years, during which he had been an active member of
many local boards of the township.
This was seconded by Mr. RICHARD KNEESHAW, and
on being put from the chair, was carried with enthusiastic
approbation.
Mr. JAMES ROBINSON moved the second resolution.
He trusted that the electors would exert themselves on this
occasion. He strongly recommended Mr. Ambrose Lace to
their notice as a gentleman strongly entitled to their suffra—
ges. a man of business, a sincere churchman, wide friend to
Scriptural education. The resolution was—" That this
meeting had great pleasure in proposing Mr. A. Lace as a
candidate for South Toxteth Ward—being fully persuaded
from his business habits, high integrity, and sound conserva-
tive and Protestant principles, that his conduct as our re-
presentative will be such as to give entire satisfaction."
This was seeonded by Mr. PEARSON, and was also carried
by acclamation.
The two candidates (who had been in the ante-room) were
then introduced to the meeting, and their appearance was
the signal for long and loud demonstrations of enthusiastic
applause.
Mr. SHEPPARD expressed his grateful acknowledgements
to the meeting for the honour done to him. In times of war
the arms of theircountry had gone forth triumphant over the
world ; and in peace their commerce and manufactures had
flourished as triumphantly. And would these advantages
be surrendered by genuine Englishmen, by their ceasing to
support those admirable institutions from which such bless-
ings flowed ? No ! As Englishmen they would prove, that
as the autumn winds scattered the fallen leaves,—so would
they scatter to confusion the enemies of their peace and
prosperity. He alluded to a heartless outcry that had been
raised against Sir Robert Peel, of whose policy he approved
as conducive to the glory of the nation and the welfare of in-
dividuals, and adverting to the school education question.
contended that the Roman Catholics had no just ground of
complaint; that the original donors of the funds for the sup-
port of the schools never contemplated, other than an edu-
cation founded on the New Testament, and that the Roman
Catholic children were not excluded if their parents permitted
the use of the uumutilated word of God,—in which there
could be no error, and which would render the rising gene-
ration virtuous in domestic life, and good members of so-
ciety. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. LACE then stepped forward, and was most cordially
received. •He thanked the electors for the honour they bad
conferred upon him in selecting him as a candidate, and
should be happy to give his utmost attention to their interests.
The first and greatest object, should he be elected, was to
attend to the comfort and convenience of the working classes
in the ward. A. great deal had been said and done iu behalf
of other classes, but (as bad been properly stated by a previ-
ous speaker) too little had been done for the labouring com-
munity. The subject of education had been dwelt upon, and
on this point he had to say that he had long been a trustee
for the Hunter-street School, which was a Church of En-
gland institution ; and in which the whole Bible (not in ex-
tracts, of which so much had been said) was taught. The
comfort and satisfaction of the parents of the children at that
institution was so great and universal, at that book being so
taught, that he was determined, from the conviction of its
efficacy in his own mind, to support it. (Loud cheers.)
He entertained no bigotted feeling towards any class of re-
ligionists; but he should ever insist, whenever he had the
power, on the Bible being read by the laity. (Continued
cheers.) He wished to make all comfortable and happy, but
in this, he should ever insist as a principle in the system of
education at the public Schools. (Loud and repeated cheers.)
Mr. ROYDEN moved a resolution to the effect that, the
meeting pledge itself to support the two candidates proposed
by all honourable and legitimate means.—This was also
passed by acclamation. . .

Thanks were then cordially passed to the chairman, and
afterwards to many gentlemen who had been active in their
support of the good cause, (including Mr. Harbord and his
brother, " the doctor,") and the meeting, which was enthu-
siastic throughout, separated in excellent humour, and fully
prepared to " Do their Duty " on the Ist Nov.

STAFFORD SPECIAL COMMISSION.-FRIDAY.

SENTENCE ON PRISONERS.

Thomas Murray, Henry Howard, John Cunle, William
Ellis, Elijah Clay, Joseph Green, Thomas Roberts, and
William Fearn, convicted on Monday last of the demolition
of the house of the Rev. Robert Ellis Aitkens, were brought
up to the bar to receive sentence.
Mr. ALLEN, on the part of the prisoner Ellis, said that he
appeared not to move in arrest of judgment, nor to pray for
a new trial, but to ask hia lordship to take a note of an ob-
jection which he had omitted to urge upon the trial. This
was was an indictment under the statute for demolishing a
house, and the means by which the demolition was to be af-
fected was by fire. Now it had been ruled repeatedly in
cases of arson, that persons who had come to the place ig-
nited after it bad been set on fire, could not he convicted of
setting fire to the house. The case of Ellis came under a
different statute, but requiring the same exactitude in proof
of the offence. Now, the evidence did not show that he was
there at the commencement of the fire, and there was no
fact in the case from which the jury could deduce the conclu-
sion that he had been present at its commencement. He
had reason to believe that Mr. Baron Parke was somewhat
impressed with the view which he (Mr. Allen) took on the
subject, and therefore he hoped his lordship would enable
him, by reserving the point, to argue the case before the
judges. The offence charged against him was complete when,
the house was set on fire, and he contended that parties who
came up afterwards could not be indicted as principals, but
only as accessories after the fact.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that if he had felt the
force of the objection he would have reserved the point, but
this was an offence quite of a different character from arson.
The indictment charged persons with riotously and tumul-
tuously assembling together, to the disturbance of the pub-
lic peace, and while they were so assembled together, and
while the rioting continued, with demolishing the house. He
could not, therefore, reserve the point for the consideration
of the judges, but the learned counsel might apply to the
Crown.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then addressed the prisoners
in the following terms :—Prisoners at the bar, you have been
found guilty of the offence of riotously and feloniously assem-
bling yourselves together and destroying by fire the dwelling-
house of the Rev. Robert Ellis Aitkin, at Stoke-upon-Trent
—a crime than which one more pernicious to the general
happiness and security of social life can scarcely be imagined
or described. The miseries which have been proved to have
been inflicted by yourselves and others upon peaceable, on-
offending, and meritorious indiiriduals within this county,
both in respect to their property, and, in some instances, to
their persons, far exceed those which would be occasioned
by an invading enemy, who spare the habitations, the pro-
perty, and persons of private men, where no resistance is
offered. But the law of your country, which you have
set at defiance, has now resumed its sway, and it is your un-
fortunate lot to give a warning to all others by the example
of your own suffering, that the offence of the destruc-
tion of property by a riotous multitude is that of all others
which must be put down by the severity of punishment which
it entails upon the offender. lon Thomas Murray and
Henry Howard, have been shown to be the persons who
were present at the actual firing of the dwelling-house, and
who either put the torch to the materials or fed the flames ;
and you, William Ellis, although not present at the com-
mencement, were proved to the satisfaction of the jury to have
been actually present with the mob during the continuance
of the flames, and to have been one of the most immediate
promoters of the crime by your violent and exciting language
to the multitude who were assembled in the morning of the
day. Under these circumstances, the sentence upon you,
and each of you, is, that you be transported beyond the seas
for the term of 21 years. For you Elijah Clay, John Cun-
liffe, Joseph Green, and Thomas Roberts, who, though pre-
sent, have taken less part in the commencement of the
offence, the sentence is, that you be transported beyond the
seas for ten years. And for you, William Fearn, who ap-
pear to have been the least engaged in the offence, the sen-
tence is, that you be imprisoned in the House of Correction
and kept to hard labour for 12 calendar months,
The prisoner Cunliffe wept bitterly, and said, " You had
better hang me up by the neck at once ; I am as innocent as
the child unborn.

MANCHESTER " SQUANDERS."—Now, I say there never
was a greater abuse of any word in the English language than
the word " bank." (Laughter.) We have had in this town
the " Northern and Central " squander. We have had the
" Imperial " squander. We have had the "Commercial"
squander. We have had the " Manchester and Liverpool"
squander; and as if the town had not been sufficiently dis-
graced, we are called together this day to testify to the
" Manchester " squander, which, though not last, is, I am
sorry to say, not the least. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Greig's
Speech at the Bank of Manchester Meeting.
A SWINDLER CAUGHT AT WARRINGTON.—On Tuesday
last Mr. Jones, the deputy constable at Warrington, re-
ceived a letter from New Brunswick, in America, informing
him that a man of the name of Jolin Hall had robbed a
London gentleman in that town of a quantity of Texian
notes, of the value of 5000 dollars, and had taken his pas-
sage about a fortnight before for England. The letter, after
giving the man's description, stated that it was believed he
originally came from Warrington. Mr. Jones accordingly
commenced making inquiries, which in a short time led to
Hall's apprehension. Mr. Jones met with him, as he was
about to leave the town again, and took him to bridewell,
when it was discovered that nearly the whole of the notes
were in his possession. Hall was brought before the magis-
trates on the Wednesday, when it appeared from the state-
ments that he was formerly bound apprentice to a druggist
in that town, whose daughter he married. On the expiration
of the term of his apprenticeship, he commenced business on
his own account, at Winsford, near Northwich, where he
carried it on until about nine months ago, when he decamped
with whatever he could lay his hands on, leaving nothing
wherewith to pay his creditors, and sailed for America. It
did not appear how he supported himself during his sojourn
there, but it seems, at the time he committed the robbery,
he was engaged as a warehouseman in New Brunswick. It
seems he called, on the day in question, at an inn, with the
intention of remaining there all night, and that in the course
of the evening the London gentleman before named entered
the room, bringing with him a small box, which attracted the
prisoner's attention, but whether it formed a subject of con-
versation between them is not known. In the morning,
however, both he and the box were gone. The proper steps
were taken immediately, and have fortunately ended in the
apprehension of the prisoner with most of the property in his
possession. The magistrates bad no jurisdiction, and it is
not known what will be done with Hall, but it is presumed
he will be delivered up to the proper authorities to be dealt
with according to his proper deserts. This is the third case
of the kind which has been brought to light, in Warrington,
within the present year.

A briefless barrister ought never to be blamed, because it
is most decidedly wrong to abuse a man without a cause.
" Bob, I understand you are on a cruise after Dick, to cow-
hide him." " Yes, lam off on a whaling expedition." "A
play upon words," as the fireman said when he thrust hi::
hose into the bookseller's store, to put out the flames.

Coi tESPOIVDENCE.

Mit. :ROBINSON AND GREAT GEORGE WARD.

TO 71fE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stu,- -I hope you will permit me to trouble you once more
with a few comments on the address which besmears the
walls of Liverpool, purporting to be from Thomas Robinson,
Esq., the retiring conservative councillor for Great George
Ward, and which comments I sincerely hope and trust will
be carefully and constitutionally considered by those electors
who have it now in their power to send to the council a man
of frame and uncompromising principles.
Brother electors!—the time is fast approaching when an-
other annual sacred duty will devolve upon you, viz., to
tetu:ii as your representative to the common council a true
and faithful conservative. Now, as it regards the past con-
duct of Mr. Robinson, only behold the ambiguous paragraph
in his address to you on the education question. "On this
question," says he, " great: diversity of opinion exists "
(which idea is according to his dormant and lukewarm Pro-
testantism); and he wishes you to believe the same, but you
know to the contrary, as well as I do, that only two opinions
have been and ever will be manifest on this most vital and
important subject, viz., Protestantisrn and Popery ; and that
it is by a diversity of individuals with wavering opinions,
who falsely style themselves, on the hustings and at our
meetings, protestants and conservatives. Again he says :
" There is no doubt but that the system of education, as
now established in those schools, is most unexceptionable.
if the children of protestants Were alone to be studied ; "
and in the same paragraph he states, that " it will be very
desirable to see relaxations made in the system ; " at. the
same time he says, "although a promoter and firm supporter
of the Church of England schools." I now ask you all, who
are electors of any ward, where is there language more je-
suitical than this? The education which is now being in-
culcated in the schools in question, we must maintain, as it
is in accordance with that sublime article of our church, viz.
the sixth, which teaches that " Holy Scripture containeth
all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not
read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be re-
quired of any man that it should be believed as an article of
the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation,"
&c. From this Mr. Robinson has essentially departed, and,
we tell him plainly, from such an article there must be no
relaxation at all, otherwise we shall bring to those once Li-
verpool Colleges of Maynooth that system which is an idola-
trous superstition—a gross perversion of Christianity—a
substitution of darkness for light—a crafty organised system,
put together at different times, to invest its priesthood with
absolute dominion and pretended spiritual powers. If you
have such men as Mr. Robinson to make, or cause to be
made, any relaxations in the present system of education,
then you forsake all that is. dear to you and your posterity.
—I remain, sir, your obedient and humble servant,
A PROTESTANT CONSERVATIVE VOTER,
AND A LAYMAN.
Liverpool, 17th October, 1812. _

EXAMINATION OF THE MASTERS AND MATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sfit,—lntelligence having been brought to our court, by
our cousin " /Bolus," that you have commenced exerting
yourself in behalf of our loving subjects, I am requested by
his Majesty to write you an " autograph letter, in acknow-
ledgement of your valuable exertions. His Majesty would
have done so himself had his other onerous duties afforded
him time ; but, owing to the great respect he entertains for
his cousin " Victoria," be could not allow any of her chil-
dren to pass the equator without being regularly initiated
into those " baptismal rites" which confer on them the pri-
vileges of freemen throughout his dominions; and the for-
mer bad advisers of his august cousin having rendered it ne-
cessary to send out a greater number of her children than
formerly, in order to uphold her dignity in China and Aff-
ghanistan, his Majesty's time has been fully occupied. By
the way, his Majesty desires me to say he has found all ani-
mated with the very best spirit. You will perceive, Mr.
Standard, that, though a queen, a good deal of the woman
will peep out; for (between ourselves) I am uncommonly
fond of gossipping a little with his Majesty's friends;
and as he is not at all jealous or displeased at my so
doing, why, I indulge occasionally ; indeed, I sometimes
think he is rather pleased than otherwise ; at least, I
often hear him speak of humility and condescension
being our brightest ornaments; and as I am very par-
ticular in not making free with any one but those for
whom he has great friendship, he could hardly be otherwise
than pleased : this brings me to mention that his Majesty
requested me to direct you to send him without delay all in-
formation respecting " common badge porters;" on this
point he particularly wishes to know whether it is a mark of
disgrace, or whether it is a token of honor and honesty, si-
milar to what is worn by our " Tritons." From his Ma-
jesty's intimate friendship with Captain Fitzroy, who has
visited our Court several times, he thinks it must be the lat-
ter; if so, his Majesty wishes you to make known, through
your respectable paper, his opinion on the subject, viz., that
if it is a badge of honesty, for the wearing of which only men
of good character are selected, then it is as invaluable to them
in their sphere as the " ribbon" at the breast, the noble's
" star," or the " badge" of the " garter," that decorates the
beautiful arm of our sacred cousin ; more especially if it be
worn on the same arm. You must be particular in giving
his Majesty information on this point, as it will ysist mate-
rially in guiding his judgment.
1 am further directed by his Majesty to ret you will
caution his cousin's erring children against the'boo boo non-
sensical cry they are attempting to raise of there being no ne-
cessity for " examinations ;" they may depend on it if they
are so foolish as to push it to the proof, there will he such an
expos 6 as will cause their countrymen's ears to tingle for
years to come.
His Majesty only desires me to say further, that he shall
expect one of your papers by every ship, and that he hopes
none who own fealty to him will allow your exertions to go
unrewarded. _ _

From under our hand and seal at our Equinoctial
Palace, on the Equator, this 15th day of October,
1842, 'AMPHITRITE.
P.S. Our barber has orders to prepare a sharp razor for
,he refractory.