The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

LAST WEEK

OF THE •
pANORAMA AND DIORAMA,
NOW EXHIBITING/AT

THE PORTICO, NiIfINGTON.
Admission, SIXPENCE ; Res ved Seats, ONE SHIL-
LING. Children under twelve years of age, Half-price to
the Reserved Seats.
Hours of Exhibiting
Three ; Evening, Eight

Morning, Twelve ; Afternoon,

ATO ED ITO RS.
LL Persons to whoCmß the late JOHN BARKER, of
Northwich, in the county of Chester, Solicitor, deceased,
stood indebted at the time of his cesse, are required to
yr'
send in their claims to me. within month from this date,
or they will be excluded from any
enefit arising under his
estate. . By order of the Executor,
W. S. BRADBLTRNE, Solicitor to the Estate.
Northwich, Aprill3th, 1842.

TO THE TRUSTEES AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE
LADIES' CHARITY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, /
CIRCUMSTANCES having reed me to withdraw
from the contest for the S eoncy of the Northern
Hospital, I beg respectfully to inform you that should a Va-
cancy occur in the office of Surgeon to your valuable Charity,
I shall take the earliest opportunity of soliciting your Votes
and Interest in my behalf.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.,
HENRY GORDON HARBORD.
•
4, Upper Parliament-street, April 14, 1842.

NOTICE.
TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, Bre. Sm.
EXTENSIVE PRISON AT BELFAST.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a presentment for
Building a Bridevvell and House of Correction at Bel-
fast, in the county of Antrim, having I)ten made by the Grand
Jury of the said county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended
at Spring Assizes, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis-
sioners therein appointed now to CONTRACT for BUILD-
ING the said PRISON:
Persons desirous of Contracting for the same may see the
Plans and SpeCifications relating -thereto at tt-e•Offiee of Mr.
CHARLES. IJAN oN, County Surveyor for Antrim ;Donegal-
Belfast, on or after the 12th day of April, 1842.
order to facilitate the proceedings of parties intending
sqlun are,
to Tender for the abovementioned Work, they are requested
to attend at the Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above-
mentioned, for the purpose of nominating or appointing a
Measurer to take out the quantities of Work in said proposed
Building.

A similar Person will be appointed on the part of the Com-
missioners, so as that each may be a check on the other.
A Copy of " the quantities" so ascertained will be given to
each Person intending to Tender.

The Person whose Tender shall be accepted will be required
to pay the charges of the Measurer appointed as abovemen-
tioned.

Sealed Tenders, for the execution of the above Work, to be
forwarded on or before the 24th May, under cover, addressed
" To the Clerk to the Commissioners of Belfast Bridewell
and House of Correction, Carrickfergus."

Sufficient Security will Ze required.
(Signed, by order,) JOHN COATES
16th March, 1842.

MR. JOSEPH HUME AND THE MONTROSE
BURGHS.

(from the Edinburgh Standard.)
. The anxiety of Mr. Joseph Hume to get into Parliament
is only surpassed by his intense regard for the " sinews," by
which such an honour is usually accomplished by men of his
stamp. The conflicting operations of Mr. finale's ambition
and avarice, havebeen.seldom more strikingly and amusingly
exhibited than in the correspondence which has passed be-
tween him and certain parties in the Montrose burghs, and
which the honourable gentleman, with marvellous self-sacri-
fice, has just given to the public. It would be an unwar-
rantable waste of room to insert these documents at length ;
but we cannot resist the temptation of stating their course
and purport, as affording a new and characteristic illustration
of this luminary of the radicals.

Hr. Hume appears to have been the first person to whom
Mr. Chalmers communicated his intention of resigning his
seat, and the electors were ignorant of this fact for some
days after Mr. Hume was aware of it. The object with which
Mr. Chalmers gave this information cannot be doubted, for
Mr. Hume immediately proceeded to act upon it, with his
characteristic caution however. By the way of a feeler,
Joseph addressed the following curious epistle to Mr. Car-
negy, of Craigo, the most influential man amongst the
liberals in the district :

PRIVATE.)

" Bryansion-square, 22d March, 1842.
"My DEAR understand that Mr. Chalmers re-
signs this week his seat for Montrose.

I have been unwilling to undertake either the trouble or
expense of a contested election ; but, if any constituency
aball think fit to elect me, I shall serve and go on as for-
merly.

" It would doubtless be pleasing to me to again represent
the burghs, where I so long sat, in spite of all Tory opPosi.
tion ; but I am altogether unacquainted with the state of the
constituency, and only mention to you my wishes in that
way, leaving the electors to decide of their own accord.
Believe me, your's sincerely,
(Signed,) "JOSEPH H tam.
" David Carnegy, Esq., Craigo."

The object of tbis production was obviously to induce Mr.
Carnegy to commence a canvas on his (Mr. Hume's) behalf,
without committing the aforesaid Joseph. But Mr. Carnegy
seems to have been too dull or indisposed to take the hint ;
and the letter being marked " private," he, of course, made
no use (Wit. This part of Joseph's game, therefore, was
completely nonplussed.

Meanwhile, events progressed in the burghs. The whig-
radicals of Forfar despatched letters to Messrs. Gisborne,
Warburton, and E. J. Stanley, besides Mr. Hume, request-
ing to know whether they were disposed to start. Mr.
Hume replied that he was quite willing to start, provided his
success could be ensured, and that he should be put to " no
expenses beyond the legal ones." This was a decided step
beyond his original proposition contained in the prirale letter
quoted above, where the condition plainly is, that he shall
be elected " without trouble or expense."
The whig-radicals of Forfar and Montrose, having met
and passed resolutions in favour of Mr. Hume, culled upon
him to appear amongst them, and at the same time it was
communicated to him on the Ist of April, that Mr. Carnegy
was the only candidate in the field. Still Mr. Hume insisted,
with his accustomed caution, that there should be a declared
majority in his favour, evidently, however, resol% et] to make
a start. During this correspondence, he engaged himself
sedulously in removing Mr. Carnegy from the field—and,
while he told the electors that he was not yet satisfied with
his prospects, he assured Mr. Carnegy that he was a candi-
date before he (Mr. C.) had come forward, and that, there-
fore, Mr. Carnegy, however, was not disposed to budge a
step from his position ; and it has since been understood that
Mr. E. J. Stanley, the ex-whig secretary of the treasury,
had expressed his intention of appealing to the electors
against both Mr. Hume and Mr. Carnegy.

This intimation, or rumour, seems to have completely upset
Joseph's fine diplomatic rnanceuvriug. Accordingly, with-
out farther ceremony, he came to the determination, on
Saturday evening last, of presenting himself before the elec-
tors. The following epistle contains his reasons for this
step, which put an abrupt extinguisher upon his farther co-
quettings :7.