The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

WIGAN-MONDAY.

CHARITY SERMONS.—Two sermons were preached in
Haigh Church, on Sunday last, by the Rev. W. P. Hutton,
ALA., Rector of St. Bridget's, Chester, and collections made
after each to defray the expenses of the Sunday Schools at-
tached to Haigh Church. The sum collected was but small,
as the indifferent weather prevented many persons being
present from Wigan on the occasion.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST TFIE OVERSEERS OF THE
Pooll.—Mr. John Whittle, Mr. J. Mason, and Mr. C. Sa-
vage, the overseers of the poor of the borough of Wigan,
appeared before the magistrates of the borough on Monday
(yesterday) under the warrant of the chief constable, issued
by an order from the town-council, having the borough seal
affixed to it, for not paying into the borough fund the sum
Of £7OO, being the remainder of a rate of £l5OO laid last
Year. Mr. Scott appeared for the overseers, and took seve-
ral objections to the informations. He also objected to the
chief constable giving evidence, es he was not a competent
witness, being a party interested in the matter, as his salary
Waswas paid out of the borough fund. Mr. Scott also begged to
that it was not right that any magistrate being a
member of the council should sit and adjudicate in the mat-
ter, as they themselves were interested in the case. Ho also
contended that the warrant had never been served upon the
overseers, being merely left with the assistant overseer at
the Guardian-office. The magistrates, however, overruled
this objeetion, as the parties acting as overseers were in the
habit of using the Guardian-office to transact their business
therein, and the revising barrister having held that it was cor-
rect to admit thrt the place was the overseers' office. The
magistrates had a long conversation on the subject, and it
was agreed to adjourn the case for a fortnight, as many
Points had arisen out of it which were not expected, and to
afford the overseers an opportunity of paying up the arrears
due to the town.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENISG.—The Consol market
closed rather flatter this afternoon. There were one or two
sales, and, though not extensive, they sufficed to give a back-
ward tone to prices. Consols for money left off 934 to 4;
ditto, account, 934 to 4; Bank Stock, 1651 to 1661; India
Stock, 252 to 254 ; Exchequer-bills, 565. to 58s. premium ;
3 per Cents. Reduced, 93 ; 31 per Cents. Reduced, 1004 to
1 ; New 31 per Cents., loll; Long Annuities, 121; and In-
dia Bonds, 48s. to 50s. premium.—ln foreign stocks a shade
decline was also observable. Spanish Actives were finally
quoted 164 to 4-; ditto, 3 per Cents., 214 to 4; Portuguese
5 per Cents., 381 to 391; Danish, 82 to 83 ; Brazilian, 631
to 641 ; Belgian, 1031 to 1041; Dutch 21 per Cents., 524 to
; Colombian, 261 to 214 ; Mexican, 221 to 381 ; and Peru-
vian, 16 to 16.

Whiggism, in its best points of view, is prejudice that re-
fuses to be enlightened, ignorance that defies instruction, and
hypocrisy
that defies experience. In its worst, it is
IYl)ocrisy boasting of its candour, venality pretending to in-
dependence, and perfidy trafficking in principle. A whip
earl no more comprehend the constitution than a gambler
Can honour the tenth command ment.—Blackwood's Maga-
zine for October.

PROPERTY.—" I do not know," says Dr. Paley, " wise-
er our attachment to property be not something more than
the mere dictate of reason, or even than the mere effect of
'aso iation. Property communicates a charm to whatever is
the object of it. it is the first of our abstract ideas; it
cleaves to us the closest and the longest. It endears to the
child its plaything, to the peasant his cottage, to the land-
holder his estate. It supplies the place of prospect and sce-
tlerY. Instead of covetity, the beauty of distant situations,
it teaches every man to find it in his own. It gives boldness
and grandeur to plains and fens, tinge and colouring to clays
d fellows. —Natural Theology.
BRITISH V. aim LANDLORDS.—A correspondent of the
Evening Mail, in remarking upon an assertion made by that
Journal, to the effect that the farmers of the Lothians could
afford to live in comparative luxury after paying £5 or £6 an
acre for land, while the Irish agriculturists, paving but £2
er £3 can barely exist, thus draws the line of distinction
adopted by landlords in the two countries, from which a hint
;fight be taken with profit by the owners of the Irish soil.
In Great Britain," says the above writer, " the landlord
hailds the house and farm-office, and keeps them in repair,
It° Pays a certai prtion for prmanet improveents. In
reland the landlordo does nothing butn receive them rent. In
the Lothians and adjacent counties, to which you particularly
ude, the landlords pay generally one half, and not un-
requently two-thirds of the cost of ermanent improvements,
,BOch as thorough drainage, &cand this too on 19 years'
ilettBeS. The tenant rents house and offices included with his
and has no dead outlay to make whatsoever. How
his is the case in Ireland! The tenant must expend
11 capital, both of labour and money, upon a dwelling-house.
of his
sheds, on gates, and fences, or drainage. When the term
'i, his lease expires, or that he wishes to remove elsewhere,
L
1,8 landlord considers it a most unwarrantable proceeding
;nen the tenant claims from £5 to £lO per acre for the
goodwill of the land ; ' yet the demand is founded in simple
!.tron
rid strict justice—it is a demand which will yearly become
ger, as the information of the agricultural class in-
i;reases ; and if the landlords of Ireland do not anticipate it
iT7 a voluntary alteration of the system, it will yet become
ere difficult to deal with than tithes ever were. Under the
,t'esent system, £3 per acre is a higher rent than £5 or £6
kwhich last, I think, is above the maximum) in the Lothians.
The hovels, the wretched agriculture, all that shocks the eye
iet,t,he tourist in Ireland, is attributable to the system of
'
tal,tog
ea all. lands, by which the landlords give nothing and
all,katTs OF KING LOUIS PHILIPPE.—The King of the
•ch enters this day (October 6) his 70th year, and I am
et;PPY to say, with every prospect of his going on well for
lattPel° a Years to come. All reports which, have been in circu-
foh of his being afflicted with dropsy are utterly un-
is 'tided. He has no organic disease, and his general health
etiloilch better than is usually the case with ninety-nine men
Ru; of a hundred at his time of life. His habits are very re-
ititiar, and, with the exception of his working hard up to a
does nothing
of the night, or rather early in the morning, he
lit," nothing which could, in the slightest degree, impair his
ili;e9gth. It is even doubtful whether this habit of sitting
ae,elo injurious to him, for it is not of new date, and has
oat r Yet been found hurtful. lam assured that five nights
woof six the King is alone, writing, from eleven or twelve
thetcTlc to three or four in the morning. It is at this time
ageile corresponds with his ambassadors, and with his secret
tlieujB at the various courts, and also prepares his notes for
ia uesiness of the succeeding day. It is said also—but this
heuPrrobably mere surmise—that he devotes regularly one
Isitil every night to the writing of his own memoirs. Not-
riseastanding the late hour at which the king goes to bed, he
the ()early, and when in the country, walks for some time in
tkice Pen air before he sits down to breakfast. In Paris he
hour exercise within doors. At breakfast he passes half an
ease cheerful converse with his family, and then devotes
piaacer half hour to the reading of the journals, as well
oat, i of the opposition as those devoted to the government ;
exile: addition to his own reading, he has a secretary whose
to ail ,I°e business is to direct the attention of the sovereign
or new`uat is striking, whether it be in the way. of comixTit
extracts ; and he receives besides a daily bulletin containing
nook 8 from all the leading journals in Europe. Towards
Inenrlehfe gives audience to his particular friends, and to
this
over Science and art whom be patronises ; and when this is
hie ' begins the daily and reular business of the state with
free fro'
and others, so that in the four and twenty
'ree fro' bas only the five or six which he devotes to sleep
is lot m occupation. With him, therefore, the kingly office
hhieui;•_a sinecure, to say nothing of the cares and anxieties
e won"u•-- Peculiar to im amongst alle crowned heads of
Pyris Corh
respondent of the Globe.

A FEW NOTES ON WEDNESDAY'S COUNCIL.

NOTE I.—What a pretty notion Mr. Alderman Evans bas
of the " dulce et.decorum" in matters of corporation expen-
diture ! It is pleasant and proper for the council to build a
new prison ; but the poor leypayers of the town must furnish
the materials. It is delightful for great projectors, con-
noisseurs in architecture, and patrons of architectural genius,
to inspect plans, determine upon sites, and exercise the pa-
tronage which the power to expend money confers: and it
has a mighty sound to talk about the money in question being
raised "by this great and opulent town." But unfortunately
the honour thus attempted to be conferred upon " this great
and opulent town, rather than our great and opulent corpo-
ration, is little likely to be appreciated. " Honour," Sir
John Falstaff assures us " will not set a leg." Neither will
honour reconcile the tradesman, or the owner of cottage pro-
perty, to the necessity of putting his hands into his well nigh
empty pockets, in search of the wherewith to pay a gaol rate,
whilst " rich and opulent" men like Mr. Alderman Evans can
drive home to their country houses without contributing a
shilling.
It is true there is something in the fear entertained by Mr.
Evans and one or two other gentlemen, lest, by the erection
of such a building as will be required, out of the funds at the
disposal of the Council, the " corporation ship" should be
" run aground." Such a consummation would be as grievous
as if the surplus funds of the Dock Estate should run foul
of Mr. Alderman Evans's favourite dock warehouses, or be
overwhelmed in the fall of Mr. Jesse Hartley's dock sheds.
Were the " corporation ship" to be run aground, there might
be an end for a while to playing at chuck halfpenny with the
purser's stores. There might even be created a necessity for
that word—

" Unpleasing to a liberal ear—"

—RETRENCHMENT! The researches of a Paid Officers'
CoMmittee might have to be driven deeper into the core of
whig-radical corruption. We might be required to apply
the pruning-knife in other quarters—to burke a few schemes
now in embryo, for the erection of new haymarkets and
other matters, as the auctioneers say, too numerous to men-
tion. But, upon consideration, we can discern nothing which
ought to present a serious obstacle to the erection of this new
prison being undertaken—if at all—by the corporation. The
collection of the amount, we are told, can be extended over
28 to 30 years. Then BORROW the money, for which the
corporation can give ample security, and repay it by instal-
ments!

By the bye, if the question is not already settled, let us, in
our rambling way, suggest a mode of putting it to the deci-
sion of the constituency. Let the question between the Ra-
dical candidates and the Conservatives at the approaching
election be, gaol rate or no gaol rate, and see who will carry
the day !

NOTE 2.—The way in which poor William Thornhill was
flouted by the waspish alderman for Exchange Ward, is illus-
trative alike of human nature and of " liberalism." But a
few years ago, and even William Thornhill was " somebody"
in the eyes of the aristocracy of whiggery. He was not very
presentable, it is true, at select parties. He was, however,
" a capital fellow" for a' that. He was superb in the Watch
Committee, and excellent in the markets. He was, in short,
as good a paw as your aristocratic ape could have to pull his
chesnuts out of the fire.

But now—shame on the wickedness of Toryism !—on a
change tout cela. The ascendancy of Radicalism in the
the Council has lied. The committees are no longer worked
by the faction for its own purposes, by its own subservient
tools ; and Thornhill—

" Quantum mutatus al) illo Billy !"

is but a nobody, and in the Council or in the street he must
not " come between the wind and the nobility" of William

Earle !

Poor Thornhill !

NOTE 3.—The discussion upon the relative merits of the
words " removal," " dismissal," and " retirement," is
curious. Preferring that which best expresses the real facts
of the case, the public, no one can doubt, will be satisfied
with either " removal" or " dismissal." Ironically, in-
deed, one might be brought to say of a man, who had been
kicked out of a situation, that he had " retired ;" but where
you are walked out of an office of emolument to make room,
by a kind of hocus pocus, for another man, you are " re-
moved." In the case in question, however, there was a
retiring salary, and that perhaps makes it a " retirement."
We are " bothered," however, and give it up.
NOTE 4.—" Save me from my friends !" will, no doubt,
have been the exclamation of Mr. Abbott, the clerk to the
clerk of committees, and partner of all the poll-clerks, on
reading the report of Mr. Thomas Bolton's speech in his
behalf. With the question, however, between the said clerk
of many denominations and his patron councillor, this NOTE
bath nothing at present to say, its object being simply to ask
Mr. Thomas Bolton how it came that "his wee bit mou, so
sweet and bonny," was hermetically sealed, up to Wednes-
day, upon the subject of the poor fellow, picked up out of the
streets, and—what shall we call it?—out of half-a-guinea,
fairly earned as poll-clerk, and fairly paid out of the corpo-
rate fund ?

NorE s.—Mr. Bright was a fit gentleman to illuminate the
blank leaves affair. Mr. Bright is himself the quintessence
of blank ; his place in the Council will soon be blank ; and
whenever we have in future to mention him in our columns
we shall always allude to him as Mr. blank, lest we
should have a repetition of the Dodson and Fogg affair.
NOTE 6.—The blank leaves again ! There is something
in these leaves which we cannot decypher. Mr. Alderman
Earle, in his happy mode of expressing himself, assured the
Council that " they were all clap-traps." Traps or not, they
were not bailed, which is a wonder, seeing that such a " cun-
ning chiel" as Mr. James Aiken had the setting of them.
We should like to have the memoranda made by the com-
mittee, nevertheless ; and we trust Mr. James Aiken or Mr.
Bright will find them for us one of these days, before Mr.
Thos. Bolton goes into retirement. We shall as gladly give
them publicity in the columns of the Standard, as we did the
report of the Paid Officers' Committee ; and they will not
give us neatly the trouble of composition, and the cost of
ink.

NOTE 7.—When Mr. William Earle interrupted the speech
of Mr. D. Hodgson with an exclamation of " Oh, the
angel !" was he lamenting the by-gone days of the clique,
when the affairs of the borough were settled at that fur-famed
hostel? If not, be took a liberty in mentioning the name
of a being with whom he cannot possibly have any ac-
quaintance.

NOTE B.—When the same individual presumed to say of
Mr. David Hodgson, that " nobody cares one button-top
for what he says," he should have said that nobody cares
one " rap" who it is that William Earle " raps" at. Poor
William—thy time is short, hereditary alderman though thou
art ! We regret the fact in our heart of hearts ; for, oh !
how the reporters must miss thy pirouettes upon the ultimate
joint of thy spine—those pshas and pughs and phoos—which
" set the table in a roar"—those screeching interruptions,
those disjointed exclamations, those strange contortions,
which, in their variety, defy a menagerie of apes to imitate !
We would no more lose William Earle than we would the
council itself, or the Town-hall, or the dock estate ; and
whenever the day comes—
" The day decreed by fates—
(How our heart trembles whilst our pen relates !)
The day when thou, facetious Bill, must bend"

to the decree irrrevocaiile of a majority of the council, we
shall most assuredly put ourselves into mourning, as will no
doubt nine-tenths of the laughers of this great community.
Inimitable William Earle! But, good-bye for the present.

The Globe (London paper) states, that the secretary to the
Oriental Club has absconded, taking with him about a thou-
sand pounds in money, and leaving several additional sums
unsettled. The club may thank itself for the loss, for the
secretaries need not be entrusted at any time with more than
a small sum to meet the current petty expenses, and every
thing else ought to be paid through the committee.

THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA IN WARSAW.-It appears,
from the news received by the Hamburg!) mail, that great
rejoicings took place at Warsaw, on the arrival of the Em-
peror Nicholas at the capital of the ancient kingdom of
Poland. The city was illuminated for three successive
nights, in honour of the sovereign who had battered it to
pieces, who had sent to Siberia hundreds of the bravest sons
of Poland, and who, in defiance of the treaty of Vienna, is
adopting measures for making that country an integral por-
tion of the Russian empire.

A FEMALE CHARTIST'S SPEECH. " POLITICAL
RIGHTS "OF THE FAIR SEX.—A meeting of female Char-
tists was held on Monday evening, in the National Charter
Association Hall, Old Bailey, for the purpose of forming a
" Female Chartist Association," to co-operate with the male
association ; and for other objects connected with the inte-
rests of " the people's charter." At this meeting a Miss
Mary Ann Walker was the great gun. The "political rights"
of women having been brought under discussion, a Mr. Co-
hen observed that " political rights," such as he understood
that meeting to aspire to, women could never, in his opinion,
attain. Miss Mary Ann Walker then declared that she was
astonished at Mr. Cohen. She repudiated, with indignation,
the insinuation that if women were in parliament, any man,
be he husband, or be he lover, would dare be so base as to
attempt to sway her from the strict line of duty. (Hear,
hear, cries of " bravo " from the men, and much applause).
She would treat with womanly scorn, as a contemptible
scoundrel, the man who would dare to influence her vote by
any undue and unworthy means (cheers from the men), for
if he were base enough to mislead her in one way, he could
in another (" hear, hear," and renewed cheers). The events
which were at that moment taking place in the North, where
their sisters and brothers were being cruelly and unjustly
transported or else they were plunged into dismal and pesti-
ferous dungeons, for no other cause than standing up for
their rights and demanding bread to appease their hunger
and save themselves from dying of starvation in their native
land, were unfortunately of a nature to drag woman from her
retirement, and call upon her to lift up her voice against such
deeds (great cheering from the men, and cries of " bravo,
Miss Walker," and " hear, hear," from the ladies). As
for Lord Abinger—(hisses), he was unworthy of the name of
" man," and unfit to represent the interests of either man or
woman. His lordship had said, that the Chartists wanted
to get the power into their own hands to make all the laws
themselves." She (Miss Mary Ann) flung back the malig-
nant falsehood with all the scorn it merited (cheers from the
men, and " hear, hear," accompanied by waving of hand-
kerchiefs by the ladies). The spirited young lady, who spoke
with great warmth, and suited the action to the word, after
passing some additional censure on his lordship, and touch-
ing on a variety of other points connected with the objects of
the meeting, declared herself a Chartist in name and feeling ;
and having appealed to her fellow-country-women to " come
out " in favour of the charter, and, however ungramatical
their language, not to be dismayed by any shaft of ridicule
that might be pointed against them, concluded by giving them
the encouraging hope tha t if it were only from the curiosity
to hear " a woman " spe•ak, the young men would came ont
and speak to them (laughter, and long continued applause,
amid which Miss Mary Ann Walker resumed her seat)