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

servative democracy" of Liverpool
Scriptural education for the chil

We could only regret that one c

churchmen and conservatives in the council, who have halted
between principle and expediency upon this question, had

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.
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, WE

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
operative brethren affords us of holding it up to their view,
and of contrasting the indissoluble bond of unity which con-

mongst our

servative Protestantism constitutes in the
by whom it is entertained, with the "

carts of a people,

rope of sand" whict

connects the ill-assorted materials of the levelling radical

faction

Upon this subject we cannot resist quoting—although they
may appear out of place in such a notice as the present—the
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,
an his providence, has placed in this world above
" We are well aware that the chartists and
mot be included in this number, especially t
are likewise aware that many thousands of

,ts can-
and we

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unions profess subversive doctrines : but they arc 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 nut 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. [low different are their hearts to
-those of the French labouring people! or to the Belgian la-
bourers ! or to the Spanish, or Portuguese, or Italian poor !
The English cottager, and even the mechanic, with all his
*desultory notions on some subjects, is staid and steady in his
home-and-hearth conservatism ; whereas in the countries to
-which we have alluded, their social state is even more in jeo-
pardy than their political government."

Lord WharnclitTe has announced his intention to retire
from the chairmanship of the West-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 wealthy Colonel Allen, well known in the
County of Glocester, took place in the Court-house. Miss
Allen, on her name being called, presented herself, attended
by her mother and some male fiends, who manifested great
anxiety on her behalf. She was elegantly attired, but kept
her face closely enveloped in a thick crape veil. When called
upon to plead she trembled violently, and would have fallen
to the ground had she not received the support of the turn-
key. The chairman ordered that she mightbe accommodated
with a chair, and she then, in a feeble voice, pleaded " not
guilty," The charge against the prisoner was, that she had,
on the 22d of November, gone into the shop of a chemist
and druggist, named Joslin, in the High-street, Cl
and inquired it Mr. Joslin was in. Upon bein

eltenham,
answered

in the negative, she went away; but subsequently returnee,
and asked liberty from the apprentice to sit down. The ap-
prentice went up stairs, and took his position near a glass
which was suspended from the ceiling, and upon which was
reflected all the things in the shop. Whilst so occupied be
(the apprentice-boy) observed the prisoner go towards the
counter, and take up a packet of perfume, and place it under
her cloak. Mr. Joslin shortly afterwards returned, who,
when told by his apprentice of what had occurred, took the
prisoner up stairs and 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, remarking
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.
dueed in support of this defence, the jury, after a short deli-
beration, returned a verdict of acquittal.