The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY,

after a comfortable breakfast, we would advise our friends to
lose no time in getting a sixpenny ride, per omnibus, to St.
Paul's Cathedral, which you may ascend, going into the
Whispering Gallery, for about ninepence. The various
charges of sixpence and a shilling, for seeing " the clock,"
" the bell," and so forth, we would not advise your paying,
as the sight of them is scarcely worth either the consump-
tion of the time or the money ; therefore pass them over.
Having left St. Paul's, walk round the corner, and see the
Post-office, and then proceed down Cheapside and King-
street to Guildhall, for no stranger could go to London
and not pay a visit to the renowned Gog and Magog. After
walking past the Mansion House, and viewing the New
Exchange in course of building, on the spot of the late me-
morable fire, you can proceed through the Bank of England.
Now we would advise your dropping into the Dining-rooms,
opposite the Mansion House, or the Virginia, in Cornhill,
or any of the excellent Dining-rooms by the Mansion House,
after which, proceed to London Bridge, and, if you please,
go up the Monument, and witness the scene of life and bustle
from the top. Now, proceed down Thames-street, to the
famous Tower of London. This will take you some. little
time, but, having finished, proceed on to the entrance of the
Thames Tunnel, or should you not wish to go to the Tower,
go from London Bridge per steamer to the Tunnel—cross
through the Tunnel, under the Thames. If there be time
left, we would by all means advise your going to Greenwich
Hospital, the place of abode of our weather-beaten Green-
wich pensioners, who have seen and taken part in many a
glorious battle, and are here comfortably provided for during
the remainder of their lives. A boat will convey you to
Greenwich in a very short time. You can return to your
location per steamer, which is the cheapest and most expedi-
tious conveyance from thence. Now you have but one day
left, and the most must be made of it, unless you have de-
termined upon spending another week in London. On

THURSDAY

morning, rise early, settle your accounts at your hotel, and
you had better not have the trouble to returning, and pro-
ceed at once to the British Museum, in Museum-street.
You can merely have time just to pass through it; then walk
to the Soho Piazza, and up Oxford-street, to the Pantheon,
which is well worth a stranger's seeing. From thence pro-
ceed up Portland-place, which will bring you out at the op-
posite end, at the entrance of the Regent's-park. Go across
the park at once to the Zoological Gardens, after spending
some time in the gardens, proceed round the park to the
Diorama, and then finish the day at the Colliseum.

You will now have arrived very near the time of the start-
ing of the train from Eustan-square Station again ' • nine
o'clock, therefore, it will be well to get a cup of coffee before
starting, and this, I believe, may be done very comfortably
at the Colliseum.
As our tastes may differ, perhaps the following order might

suit some better •
For one day—Boat from London Bridge to Thames Tun-
nel, from thence to Greenwich Park, and back for the even-
ing to the Gala at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth,
or, omnibus to Dulwich, to take a view of the beautiful
paintings at Dulwich Gallery, and then a walk on :to the
Beulah Spa, at Norwood, or a trip to Windsor, to see the
noble seat of royalty there; but we have merely pointed out
the best and most systematic way of seeing the most of Lon-
don during the three days, with a hope that it may increase
the comfort and amusement, as well as knowledge of our
country friends, in their laudable anxiety of seeing all that
they can of the great metropolis.

Not Dr. Jenner, but the Church; or, Lay Baptism re-
weighed and found wanting. By the Rev. J. Gate,
Bidston. Liverpool: Arthur Newling.

The subject of this pamphlet is the legality of lay bap-
tism, which has recently been brought somewhat prominently
into notice. The writer takes high church views, and sup-
ports them with considerable ability and a mass of scriptural
proof. To those who feel interested in the question raised
we recommend Mr. Gate's pamphlet, as one by the perusal
of which they will be instructed, at least, if not convinced.

The Foreign Quarterly Review. July, 1842. London
Chapman and Hall. Liverpool : Wareing Webb.

The present number of the Foreign Quarterly appears
under new editorship; and if we may take it as a lair speci-
men of the ability and judgment with which its future pub-
lications are to be conducted, we may safely predict for this

review, as indeed it deserves, a long career of brilliant suc-
cess. " Very great improvements," the publishers state,
and we can bear witness, " have been effected in all its de-
In aid of its general management, extensive
correspondences have been opened with men of letters on
the Continent. The scope of the review has at the same time
been enlarged so as to admit of the notice of all works, in-
cluding such as may be published in our own country, which
come within a circle of relationship to its main purpose and
design. Discussion of English books on matters of foreign
concern will no longer be excluded from the Foreign Quar-
terly; and subjects of classical scholarship, important alike
to every country, will receive more careful attention."
" But the chief endeavour," we are told, in the new ma-
nagement of the review, " will be to give an English interest
to its treatment of general foreign literature ; and on every
possible occasion to introduce into its pages that popular
character, wherein, notwithstanding high literary claims and
acknowledged services since the period of its establishment,
the Foreign Quarterly Review has been always felt to be
defective."

partmen ts

We are happy in being able to acknowledge, that'the ob-
jects here referred to have been faithfully and ably carried
out in the number before us. The contents are well diversi-
fied ; and, with scarcely an exception, the whole are written
in a suitable spirit—not too lively for the style and purposes
of a review, and at the same time not too grave to deter the
reader for amusement.

Amongst the articles which please us most, and which at
the present moment are of the deepest interest, are " The
Reign of Terror—its Causes and Results," (a review of the
recently-published " Souvenirs de la Terreur de 1788 'a 1793,
par M. Georges Duval,") and " The Last Fifteen Years of
the Bourbons." The latter especially is a masterly sketch,
touched off by one who is well versed in the history of the
conflicting parties which have for years past agitated, and
are now agitating, society in France. The writer—a French-
-is not over complimentary to his fellow-
countrymen, or to the dynasty which at present occupies the
throne of France. His strictures, however, are dealt out
pretty impartially ; and his views are characterised with
And force. " Characteristics of German Ge-

man we imagine—

great j

" is an interesting and ably-reasoned essay, and is well
worthy of ;in attentive perusal by every lover of German li-
terature. " The German in England," " Friedrich Baron
de la Motte Fouchi,," and " Eugene Sue's Mathilde," are
reviews of recent publications, written in a lively and sketchy
style. The latter, in particular, we recommend to the peru-
sal of those readers who are curious to know the kind of
stuff of which a popular modern French novel is composed.
Most irredeemable trash the work reviewed appears certainly
to us.

The proposed feature of the Review (notices of the ancient
classics) is well brought out in the present number, and is
likely to be once interesting to a large class of readers, and
°I infinite value. We have here, as the first article upon this
branch, of learning, an excellent article upon the writings of
in Which much critical acumen and research is
displayed.
We have also an ingenious disquisition upon the
comparative genius of Tasso and Chatterton, and a slashing
notice of a very conceited production, " France, its King,
Court, and Government, by General Cass."
The minor Reviews are written apparently in an impartial
spirit ; and the foreign, correspondence and literary intelli-
gence now added to the Work, are well worthy of perusal.
We quote a paragraph or two from the French correspon-
dence :

itsiis
~ An account of French drooit(i)
sayings, thoughts, and
were an
an easy task, we
writings during the last few
an ample theme
should think. The sayings, indeed,
more than :t has
for never has that loquacious people taleircseeedri
thoughts,
pa riai
naps
goo:
done of late. Of deeds, however, or
writings worthy of attention, there is a monstrous lack.
The season has not produced a book, or aodwrathse
or an irneute, or a ministerial crisis. H Ina, or a opera,
through winter and spring without any of these
wonted excitements, is a marvel only to be explaigneedie an
thetit
ill-humour. Our worthy neighbours are like men h 0 had
lost at play, or met with some other misadventure over-night
which had totally discomposed their morning, and
made'
them dissatisfied with every one and every thing,—valet,
cook, clothes, viands; with the most friendly faces; with
fortune, and the face of nature itself. They fulminate in
the journals, epigrarninatise in the theatres, declare war in
the parliament, and are quarrelsome past endurance in society.
" It is needless to state, that the origin of this diabolical
humour in the French is Milord Pal-tiers-ton, (they pro-
nounce every letter of his hated name,) and the ungenteel
things which lie did and ordered in Syria and Egypt. Vain
it is to tell them that the Whig Foreign Secretary was their
),e st and warmest friend,—far too much so,—and that he
andb!t his country's policy to favour the French in Belgium
tra-
ditional elsewhere in a manner quite repugnant to English
the Kin
policy. Vain it is to tell -that the bad faith of
them
King of the French and his ministers converted their
passionate friend int.:)as passionate an enemy, and that they
earned in Spain the blow they received in Syria. The French
will not listen to reason. And if even to the soberest of
them he pointed out
and ut the means of annoying or bearding
England, they seize
mBehreems.ploy those means,
dis-
advantageous to the. _ however
But there are few questions,
fortunately, in which there is cause of quarrel between
France and England. Their interests are not really divergent.
And it was chance, more than any thing else, which furnished
a Question into which anti-English hatred might pour itself.
extending This was the treaty for the right of search. It

Anything more frightful than the immorality of this reply
was, we venture to think, seldom recorded ; were another
Fielding to arise, he would most assuredly embody it in a
satire on our representative system ; and yet Mr. John Att-
wood seems to have been perfectly unconscious how, step by
step, he plunged himself into this precious mess. Mr. Att-
wood was invited to stand for Harwich, a place notorious for
corruption ; his name is heralded as a man of immense for-
tune—as one who was likely to discharge some town debt—
he tells his friends that he would have nothing to do with the
place if he could not act honourably and properly, and they
reply, "you have nothing to fear about that!" His friends
then either knew nothing about Harwich or their opinion was
valueless. A Mr. Mosse introduces Major Beresford as a
second candidate to Mr. Attwood, who agrees to pay the ex-
penses of his newly-acquired friend as well as his own, and
Mr. Attwood immediately advances Mr. Mosse £2,300 for
the " honourable" purposes of an election, where the con-
stituency is only 182 ; with this money Mr. Mosse starts for
Harwich, and ascertains at once that bribery must be had
recourse to. Mr. Mosse told Mr. Attwood that the cost of
the election would be between £3,000 and £l,OOO, and he
replied, " I will with pleasure pay it ; but I shall not pay any
money for bribery !" How, in the name of common sense,
did Mr. Attwood think even such a sum was to be spent at
Harwich if it was not disbursed for corrupting purposes ?
Had Mr. Attwood subsequently refused to pay the large sum
—amounting in all to £6,3oo—spent in corruption, he might
have claimed the benefit of such Arcadian simplicity ; but
when he paid those sums, knowing how they had been ex-
pended, he must pardon us if we hold him responsible for
what was done from first to last. But, urges Mr. Attwood,
" honour required that I should make these payments." If
the " honour" of a Harwich election required Mr—Attwood
to compound a felony, would he do so ? The idea of " ho-
nour" requiring any man to pay for the corruption of his
fellow citizens, and then for the payer to claim to be irrespon-
sible for such corruption, is a state of things so preposterous
that to comment on it would be waste of words. Men now-
a-days, having lost all sense of what is just and what is right,
set up a phantom entitled " honour," which they mould to
meet the varying necessities of their conscience, and then
plead it in bar of all responsibility. Does Mr. Attwood
think that such a plea will be received at a higher tribunal
than that which he has lately been before? " Honour!"
forsooth. Dishonour is the proper word.
What Major Beresford may think of being taken down to
Harwich in Mr. Attwood's carriage, and " brought up a
member of Parliament and all the expenses paid by Mr.
Attwood," we don't know ; but " honourable" men will
have a pretty strong opinion on the subject, we suspect;
though it is probable another sort of " honour" may teach
them to restrain their expression of it.
Sir. John C. Hobhouse,—" the universal suffrage patriot,"
the " liberty boy," the slanderer of Mr. Canning, of other
days,—and Sir G. Larpent place £lO,OOO in a bank at Not-
tingham, previously to the last election, and neither know
how one penny of that large sum was expended ; they do not
give the money to an agent, but they put it at the disposal of
a Mr. Wakefield, and, never requiring any account of its ex-
penditure or appropriation, these casuists claim to be exempt
from the moral responsibility of its guilty application. Mr.
Wakefield, too, imitating the example of his confiding
friends, though be has "no doubt" that the greater part of
this money was spent in bribery and corruption, and the
whole illegally in procuring the return of Sir J. C. Hobhouse
and Sir G. Larpent, still thanks his God that he is not as
these " publicans and sinners" who actually spent the mo-
ney. He, " good easy man," was only a conduit pipe, and
what between the responsibility of the successful candidates
at one end, and the actual corruptors and corrupted at the
other, congratulates himself on his freedom from criminality.
The recipients, too, Mr. Waketield tells us, though he de-
nies he knows them, do not think that:the receipt of money
during an election for Nottingham is bribery or a moral or
legal offence. Their excuse is, at all events, more satisfac-
tory than that special pleading, quibbling, and mental reser-
vation of Sirs Hobhouse and Larpent, or their trustworthy
ally, Mr. Wakefield. The corrupted plead poverty, and
their want of confidence either in Hobhouse and Larpent, or
in Walter and Charlton. _ _

" A great many said, 'We care nothing about polities ; it
is a contest between whig and tory ; neither of them will do
anything for us.' Men who used to have a decided political
feeling, and whom I believe no temptation would have di-
verted from what they thought the right political course, had
become indifferent, and therefore were willing, from poverty
and from want of political feeling, to make a market of their
votes."

How does Mr. Wakefield think that Nottingham electors
are to resist temptation while there are such " honourable"
candidates for their suffrages as those who figured off at the
last elections, or such " kind friends" as himself to receive
£lO,OOO, and then give no account, and to be ignorant of the
application of that sum with £2OOO more ?