The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

THE MISCHIEF, FROM LISBON TO LIVERPOOL—Tie
Mischief, barque, Captain Richard Downes, of and for L-
iverpool, with a cargo of fruit, arrived here this morning,
having sustained considerable damage in the gale of Wednes-
day last. The captain reports, that, on the 26th instant, in
lon. 6 deg. 50 sec., lat. 51 deg., about 11 a.m., the vessel
being hove to under a close-reefed maintopsail, wind at about
NN.W., a tremendous sea struck her, which washed five sea-
men overboard, and carried away the bulwarks, stancheons,
companion, galley, and boats. The severity of the gale was
such that the foretopsail, which was furled, was blown out
of the gaskets, and lost, with the maintopsail also; and, the
vessel springing a leak, the captain considered it prudent to
bear up for Bristol.. The names of the men who were swept
overboard were as follows :—John Holmes, steward; Thos.
Abbott, second mate; John Hoffman, William Blackmore,
and Alexander Collon, seaman. Captain Downes reports
having fallen in with a large vessel, bottom upwards, about
five hours previous to the accident happening to his own
ship.--Bristol correspondent of the Siundard.

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THREE CHILDREN SUFFOCATED.—Ort Saturday last in-
quests were held at Stubbington, near Titchfield, before Mr.
I,on,,bcroft, coroner, on view of the bodies of Mary Ann Ball,
aged 6 years • Eliza Ball, aged 4 ; and Charles Ball, aged 2,
three fine children of a labourer there. It appeared from the
evidence of Mary Ball, the mother, who was examined on the
inquest, that about 11 o'clock on the morning before she
went to Titchfield on an errand, but previous to leaving home,
and in order to guard against any accident from fire, she put
her children up stairs, and fastened the staircase door, which
she had done on former occasions. She returned home in
about an hour, and going up stairs found the room full of smoke
and the heartrending spectacle presented itself of her three
children all lying dead on the bed. A tinder box: had been
left up stairs which the mother was not aware of, and there
was a bag full of halls in one of the chambers, which had been
ignited, and was then smouldering. The tinder-box had evi-
dently been used. Verdict—Accidental death.—Hampshire
Telegraph.

The following were the persons invited by Sir Robert Peel
to meet the King.of Prussia, at his residence in Whitehall, on
Friday :—Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr Samuel Rogers, Professor
Airey, (the Astronomer Royal), Rev. Dr. Buckland, Sir
John Herschel, Mr. E. Landseer, Sir Martin Shee, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir Robert Smirke, Mr. Charles Barry
(architect of the houses of Parliament), Right lion, J. W,
Croker, Mr. William H. Hamilton, Sir Robert Inglis, Bart.,
Sir Robert Wilson, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir George Cock-
burn, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, Right Hon. H. Gou!burn, Sir Edward Knatchbull,
and Sir Henry Hardinge. It is understood that the King
expressed a wish to meet some of the most distinguished men
in the several departments of art and science Mr. Colnaghi.
Pall-mall-east, was in attendance at Sir Robert Peel's house,
with several of the best examples of the art of engraving of
the English School, which were inspected by the King of
Prussia with the greatest interest.— Standard.
ROBBERY FROM A SHOP.—John Chambers, sen., John
Chambers, jun., and Bridget Chambers, were yesterday
brought before the stipendiary magistrate, on the following
charge :—Mr. Newling, bookseeller, Ranelagh•street, said,
that he had occasion to pay £2O some days ago. He paid it
from a bag containing £43, and after doing so in the shop,
missed the remainder, but could not remember whether he
put the bag on the counter or in a desk, or indeed what he
he had done with it at the time. The younger prisoner was
his errand-boy, and had been with him about eleven months.
He had "some suspicions of him from his sporting a watch,
chain, and guard ; as he paid him only 6s. a week, and his
father he believed only 9s. Police-constable Lloyd said he
went to the shop, where he found a key. He proceeded to
the house where the prisoners lived, and found in a box
which the key opened, some wafer-boxes, books, tracts, a
silver pencil-case, inkstands, ink, new wearing apparel, and
a variety of articles, some of them found loose in the house,
and many of which were identified by Mr. Newling, and bore
his private mark. Several post-office clerks stated that the
younger prisoner had got some orders for money at the Post-
office, one of which, obtained in his own name, was for £ll.
A book belonging to Mr. Newling it was also proved had
been pledged by the elder prisoner with Mr; Tunstall. As
there was no evidence implicating the woman, she was dis-
charged. The father and son were committed for trial—the
former for pledging the book—the latter on the general
charge of robbing his master.

VENTRILOQUISM : THE SIGNORS VAI,ENTINI.—The
Signors Valentini gave what they term a" drawing-room
concert at the Portico Room, on Friday night last. These
artists have been occasionally entertaining the company at
the Mechanics' Institution, and we fully anticipated seeing
a goodly assemblage of those connected with it present. The
room was not full, but we must admit that those who were
there appeared much delighted. The Signors played duetts
on the Tyrolese guitar and harmonico mandolin with much
ability and taste. The most amusing portion of the enter-
tainment, however, was the display of the ventriloquial
Powers of Signor G. Valentini. The first consisted of a
conversation in French, supposed to take place during the
Russian campaign ; the voices of the corporal, the guard
Passing the post, and the distant sentinel, being admirably
imitated. The next worthy of notice, and which caused
Much amusement and merriment, was a conversation at an
inn between a waiter, a guest, and a watchman. The next
was a dialogue between a father, child, and Irish servant.
It is quite impossible to describe the extraordinary effect
produced. The child singing in the fiddle-case, and attempt-
ing to pitch its voice to a high note, was laughable in the
extreme. Signor G. Valentini's imitation of a military band
by means of his voice and guitar, was remarkably clever :
the imitation was perfect. This was encored, and elicited
immense applause. We must say we did not expect to be
very'much entertained, but our anticipations were not re-
alised, for we were greatly amused, and recommend our
readers to pay these clever artists a visit on the next occa-
sion of their exhibiting. From what we recollect of the
famous Alexandre, Signor G. Valentini appears to us to be
equally clever.
MEETING IN VAUXHALL WARD, IN BEHALF OF THE
Poop..—A meeting took place on Friday afternoon, in the
School-room attached to St. Bartholomew's Church, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the best means of re-
lieving the distress at present existing in Vauxhall Ward.
The attendance was, we regret to say, very slender, there not
being two dozen gentlemen present ; but the greatest unani-
mity prevailed, and the result, as regarded the subscription
raised, was highly gratifying. Mr. Alderman Nicol, of
Abercromby-square, was called to the chair, and stated the
object of the meeting. The distress in the ward was un-
doubtedly great, a large majority of the population being very
poor, and there being comparatively few persons of opulence
resident in it. He trusted, however, that a fund might be
raised in the room and throughout the ward that would alle-
viate the distress, at least to a considerable degree.—The
Rev. Mr. Dover said there were a vast number of destitute
persons ; and that the small fund raised in the church, and
which had been applied to their relief in meal, potatoes, &c.,
was exhausted. Many of the working classes were out of
amployinent, and the relief he had been enabled to dispense
was altogether inadequate to their necessities. He made a
suggestion, with a view to the relief of the most destitute
from the und that might be raised, and the prevention of
imposition.--The Chairman read a letter from Messrs.
Lovatt and Taylor, regretting their unavoidable absence, and
enclosing £5 to the intende fund ; also a note from Mr.
Sandbach, stating that he would subscribe £5. In the course
of a short discussion the Chairman remarked, that he con-
sidered it unfortunate that the town had been divided into
isolated wards for the purpose of relieving their respective
poor exclusively, as the wards in which the greatest destitu-
tion existed had the least means to meet it. A general fund
would have been more judicious; but as matters stood, they
must proceed in the best manner they could.—Several gen-
tlemen gave statistics of the distress among the dense popu-
lation of the ward, from which it appeared that there were
from ten to twelve thousand destitute persons within its
limits.—A subscription was then entered into, and the sum
of £55 was immediately raised—including the two dona-
tions.—Mr. Preston was appointed president, and Mr. Ni-
cholson treasurer. All present were then formed into a
committee, with power to add to their number. It was
agreed that they should again meet on Saturday, with a view
to employ collectors of subscriptions throughout the ward,
and to dispense relief in the manner deemed most beneficial.

REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL-SIR HOWARD Dou-
'ol,As.—Shortly after eight o'clock on Friday evening a meet-
ing of the operative conservatives of the park was held in the
Toxteth-hall, for the purpose of deciding upon the relative
%merits of Sir Howard Douglas and Mr. Colquhoun to repre-
sent Liverpool in the room of Mr. Cresswell. Mr. Crisp
'sccupied the chair on the occasion. Much discussion took
Place. in which Mr. Harbord, Mr. Hall, Mr. Rankin, and
several other gentlemen and operatives took a leading part,
slid at the close of which it was proposed, seconded, and una-
nimously carried, that Sir Howard Douglas is a fit and pro-
Per person to represent Liverpool;provided that he promised,
at the meeting to be held at the Queen's Arms Hotel, on
li‘onclay next, to vote against the continuance of the grant to
T.Ynooth College and the so-called national system of edu-
caton in Ireland, and in favour of church extension. It was,
Moreover, agreed upon, that a respectful communication be
addressed to Sir Howard by Mr. Crisp and Mr. Rankin, ac-
to ainting him that he would be expected to address himself
the three subjects in question in his speech on Monday
celt, and to make a distinct promise to vote against the two
first and in favour of the latter. There was a strong feeling
anifcsted in favour ofMr. Colquhoun, in consequence of
he many occasions upon which the latter had made a public
!ivowal of his protestant sentiments in parliament ; but it
47e! also stated that the principles of Sir H oward were staunch
nd
uncompromising, and that his public conduct while act-
'lig in high official situations under government in foreign
l'cuntries was entitled to he respect and admiration of all
'oYal and constitutionally-disposed sublects.

ARE THE RADICALS GETTING-UP A REQUISITION?—
We are induced to ask this question from the circumstance
that a friend of ours, on alighting from the railway on Satur-
day, observed a man very busily occupied in obtaining signa-
tures to a sheet of paper placed on a table before him, and
when asked the object of the petition, stated that it was
against the corn-laws. He was then asked for a copy of the
document, when he referred our informant to an office in
Water-street ; and, on inquiry there, the latter ascertained
that they had no connection with anything of the kind. It
is therefore obvious that this man must have bad some
other object in view, or, why give a fictitious reference ? We
shalL not be surprised to hear some day of a requisition to
some ambitious radical to allow himself to be put forward as
a candidate for, the representation of Liverpool ; and if such
an event takes place, this little incident will afford some clue
whereby to ascertain how the signatures to it have been pro-
cured.

DEATH FROM APOPLEXY.—An inquest was held yester-
day, before the borough coroner, on view of the body of a
man known as Sansfield, whose christian name was unknown.
The deceased, who was about 50 years of age, was mate of a
vessel. Mr. Spinks, keeper of the Brunswick Hotel, at the
Clarence Dock, said the deceased lodged there. On Thurs-
day evening last he went to bed about half-past two o'clock,
after reading the newspapers all the evening. Next day,
between twelve and one at noon, the servant girl found the
door of his room fastened, and informed Mr. Spinks. He
burst it open, and found him lying on his back in bed
breathing very heavily, and apparently dying. He was in-
sensible. Mr. Mc Kee, surgeon, was immediately sent for,
and used such means as he deemed proper, but the deceased
did not rally, and died the same evening at nine o'clock. The
surgeon gave it as his opinion, after an examination of the
body, that he had died of apoplexy, the result of natural
causes.—Verdict accordingly.
ROBBERY FROM A SHIP.—A man named Peter Leary,
an old offender, was yesterday brought up at the Police-
court, on a charge of breaking into the forecastle of a vessel,
and stealing some articles of clothing. He was observed by
one of the inspectors of police, leaving the Prince's Dock,
with a bundle, at half-past six on Sunday morning. On.
being detained on suspicion, and inquiry being made on
board the ship Calcutta, in the Brunswick Dock-basin, it
was found that the lock of the forecastle had been picked,
and that there were missing the clothing belonging to one
of the hands, and a small looking-glass to another, both of
whom identified them. A jacket belonging to one of them
was found on the prisoner's back. They had left them in
their chests. It appeared, on inquiry by the court, that the
two sailors had engaged to go to sea with the vessel on
Wednesday. Mr. Rushton, however, said that sailors were
often robbed in this shameful manner, and sent to the con-
signees with a view to their being transferred to some other
ship' addressed to them, so that they might appear at the
sessions against the prisoner, whom he could not otherwise
punish, under the dock laws, beyond three months' impri-
sonment. The consignees agreed to provide them with an-
other ship, and the prisoner being committed for trial, they
were bound over to appear against him.

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DEATHS OF THREE CHILDREN FROM BURNlNG.—Yes-
terday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry on view of the
body of Wm. smith, a child of three years and nine months
old, who lived in Roberts's-buildings, Eldon-street. On
Friday morning, the deceased went down stairs, leaving his
mother in bed. She soon afterwards heard a noise, as of
some one dancing, and on going down found the deceased in
flames. She put out the tire by using her apron and tearing
off part of his clothes ; but he was so much burnt that he
died the same evening. Verdict—burnt, but how the fire
happened no evidence.—Same day, an inquest was held on
the body of Elizabeth Powell, a child 2 years old, who lived
with her parents in Hankin-street. out of Gore-street North.
On the 12th ult. her mother went out and stopped about an
hour, leaving the deceased with her other children, the eldest
of which is 6 years old. On her return she saw the latter at
the top of the cellar steps, and heard her cry—" mother,
mother, the child is on fire !" She found the deceased in a
corner all in flames. She put the fire out, and then fainted.
A neighbour went in, and the deceased was dressed by a
druggist, but was so much burnt from her knees upwards,
that though attended by a surgeon, she died on Friday morn-
ing. Verdict—died by burning, but how the fire originated
there was no evidence to show.—Same day, on view of the
body of Catharine Clancy, a girl of six years of age. About
six weeks ago, while the deceased was by herself in her
parents' house, in North-street, her clothes took fire, and
she ran out. She was seen by a neighbour, who put the fire out,
and a man carried her away, and brought her back dressed.
She never, however, got better, and died on Saturday last.
Verdict as in the former cases.

DARING ROBBERY.-At the Police-court, yesterday, John
M'Ghee and Patrick Barry, two well-known thieves, were
placed at the bar on a charge of robbery. Mr. William Tho-
mason said he was overlooker of the Harrington Docks, and
lived at the "Tall House, situated near them. (The house
is, we learn, also occupied as the office of the company.) On
Sunday morning he went out, leaving Mrs. T. (his wife) and
two young girls at home. He returned at half-past two
o'clock, and on reaching the door he heard a noise, which he
could not well account for, and afterwards a crash. He en-
tered and locked the door. It afterwards appeared that there
were two strange men in the house. One of them got upon
a table, and attempted to get through the window. Witness
got to the front and gave the alarm. A police-officer came
up and secured Barry before he could escape. The other
eventually jumped through the room window, and a Mr.
Bennett, who heard the cry of " stop thief," got hold of him
before he could recover himself from the shock of his descent.
They were both taken to bridewell. When brought there,
M'Ghee handed to Inspector Somerson a purse containing
14s. Id., saying, " It is all up with me ; my goose is cooked.
I have had a long run, but I am guilty, and will plead guilty,
and have a short trial." The inspector searched the house,
and found the prisoner's• boots and cap. He also found that
the drawers had all been forced open, and ransacked ; and
that a quantity of clothes had been placed on the floor in rea-
diness to be carried off. A common key, and also a skeleton
key were found on one of the prisoners. Mr. Thomason
said he had lost one like the first mentioned, from the docks,
but could not take upon himself to swear that it was the
same. Both prisoners being long known to the police, they
were committed for trial at the sessions.

ST. BARNABAS CHURCH.—On Sunday evening last, at
this church, after a most eloquent appeal from the Rev. T.
Nolan, incumbent, the sum of £22 3s. was collected for the
purpose of relieving the poor in the densely populated district
where the church is situate. The reverend gentleman had
given no previous intimation that the congregation would be
called upon for such a contribution or, no doubt, his appli-
cation would have been still more liberally responded Ito.
We have been much struck with the alterations recently
made in the church, by which, through an additional gallery,
300 free sittings are placed at the disposal of the poor, and
there is now gratuitous accommodation for little short of
750 persons within the church, which is capable of containing
1700 people. Mr. Nolan has secured a most attentive and
numerous flock, and his persevering exertions are effecting a
considerable improvement in the moral and spiritual condition
of the vast multitudes by whom he is surrounded.

INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of a man, a stranger, supposed
to have been from Burton-in-Kendal. Ann Muckelt, wife of
Thomas Muckelt, alehouse-keeper, Freemason's-row, said
that the deceased had come to their house on Tuesday last,
and also on Wednesday, and remained a long time. He
complained of being ill, and that he was all of a shiver, and
he had some coffee, and a little ale warmed. He said he
was a stranger from Burton-in-Kendal, and a blacksmith.
The cold, he added had struck to his heart, from being two
nights in the street. On Thursday morning he returned, and
continued in the house all day. At three in the afternoon
she gave him some dinner. As he was very dirty she gave
him some water to wash, and while applying some soap to his
hands, he laid his head down on the settle and appeared ill.
He afterwards sat down and appeared sleepy. He said he
had no chance of getting:better, as he had no warm bed or
medical attendance. He afterwards became worse, and his
head hung on his breast. He was unable to speak and ap-
peared to be dying. She sent fora police officer, and a sur-
geon was called, but he never rallied, and died soon after-
wards. lie did not tell her his name, but said he had
friends in Burton, and was a smith, and had a shop of his
own ; and that lie would send for money to pay for anything
she would do for him. The body was taken io the dead-
house. Mr. Arnott, surgeon, said that when called in he
found the deceased at the point of death, and he died shortly
after. He could not account for death. On a post mortem
examination he found the heart muchenlarged, and the lungs
greatly congested. The cause of death was congestion of
the lungs, the result of natural causes. Mr. John Coglan,
keeper of the Night Asylum, after viewing the body, said be
recognized it as that of a man who had been several times
there, and who gave his name as William Cocking, addinr,
that he was a blacksmith from Kendal, and was 46 years old'.
He had so entered him in the books.
He was admitted on
the 24th, and left on the 27th ult. The jury returned a
verdict to the effect that deceased died from disease of the
lungs, produced by natural causes. The coroner directed his
clerk to write to Burton in Kendal, with IA view to inform his
friends, and the body will not be interred until Wednesday,
to give them an opportunity of coming up.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND PROTESTANTISM.—The
Macclesfield branch of the Protestant Association have,
through their president, Edward Hall, Esq., sent a congra-
tulatory address to the King of Prussia on his visit to this
country, in which they express their admiration of his cha-
racter as a religious and protestant monarch.
,SUDDEN DEATH OF HOLBROOK GASKELL. ESQ.—It is
our painful duty to record the death of Holbrook Gaskell,
Esq., of Prospect Hill, near this town, one of the magistrates
acting for the Warrington division of the county, and for
Cheshire. The, melancholy event took place on Thursday
morning. The 'deceased sat on the Warrington bench on
Monday, and on Tuesday attended Daresbury Petty Sessions,
apparently in his usual good health. Ou Wednesday he
complained of indisposition, and on Thursday morning de-
parted this life. We are'informed that the deceased gentle-
man was in the 72d year of his age.
" THE HIGHLAND KANDIANS AND LOWLAND CIN-
GALESE.—It has been said that the physiognomy of moun-
taineers is influenced by the bold scenery amid which they
reside, and which is supposed to impart somewhat of hardi-
esse to their manners and aspect. 'Whether the mode of life
and active habits of the dwellers in elevated legions may give
some appearance of plausibility to this theory is a question
that may be submitted to the discussion of physiognomists
and phrenologists. But from what cause soever it may pro-
ceed, and some of them have already been cited, there is cer-
tainly an evident dissimilarity between the Kandians and the
Cingalese, the highlanders and the lowlanders of Ceylon.
The latter are the children of servility ; which seems stamped
on their brows by the hand of Nature, and, by their peculiar
practice of wearing long combs in their hair, they have con-
trived to render themselves more effeminate in appearance
than she intended them to be. Their crouching manners
and want of manliness evince most forcibly that they do not
apprehend fully, and in all its merits, the doctrine of our
Trans-atlantic brethren, that all men are free and equal."
PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.--
The House of Lords is already assuming a very neat and ele-
gant appearance, although it will require several days to
complete the preparations. Up to the period of our publi-
cation, it was not definitely known whether the distinguished
personages shortly expected in this country, would be able
to attend this ceremony. The measures in course of adop-
tion by the Lord Great Chamberlain are, however, in ac-
cordance with the supposition and the general expectation
that the Kings of Prussia and Belgium would be able to pro-
tract their stay for this purpose. The peers have already re-
ceived a circular, to the effect that their usual orders to the
galleries cannot be admitted on this particular occasion,
owing to the limited accommodation which the present house
affords ; and it has been signified to the Speaker of the House
of Commons that members of the Lower House must neces-
sarily be excluded from that portion of the gallery devoted to
them ; the gallery ll be exclusively occupied by ladies,
whose cards will be corked " full dress," and the interior of
the house will, therefore, present an unusually brilliant ap-
pearance.—The King of Prussia and suite will go in separate
state to the house, and be received with the usual distinction
paid to crowned heads. The Ministers and Great Officers
of State will. be in waiting for his Majesty at the Queen's
entrance, and conduct the King to his chair, immediately in
front, and one step below the platform upon which the throne
is placed.—Court Journal.
PERILOUS SITUATION OF HER MAJESTY'S CUTTER,
MERCURY, DURING THE LATE DREADFUL HURRICANE.—
FOUR OF THE CREW KILLED, AND SIX BADLY WOUNDED.
—BRISTOL, JAN. 28.—Her Majesty's cutter Mercury, was
last night towed in here by the County of Pembroke steamer,
in a very disabled state, having lost four of her hands during
the gale, and had six others severely wounded. This morn-
ing I went on board of her, and hiving seen Mr. Scarlett,
(her commander,) acting master of the Queen, I learnt from
him the following particulars :—The Mercury tender sailed
from Kingroad on Saturday last for the Queen, now lying at
Spithead, with twenty• two volunteers, and having on board
Mr. Francis Peel, a first class volunteer, nephew to the Right
Hon Sir Robert Peel, her commander, and a crew of six men
and a boy. Having experienced very heavy weather, she
hove to under Lundy Island, where she lay until Tuesday
morning, the 26th. She then again put out to sea, and at
about two o'clock, when about thirty miles to the westward
of Lundy Island, as she was lying to under a close-reefed
trysail and a storm-jib, in consequence of the hurricane,
which was then raging with the utmost fury from the W.N.W.
a sea suddenly struck her, which washed away the mainsail,
the boat, and the companion, threw the cutter completely
down on her beam ends,-half filling her with water, and sweep-
ing every one of the six men who formed the crew overboard,
four of whom almost miraculously recovered the vessel, the
other two meeting a watery grave. The violence of the
shock caused the whole of the pig-iron ballast to be thrown
to leeward, and forced up the lower deck, which was split
into a hundred pieces. Mr. Molesworth and Mr. Peel, who
were below, immediately jumped upon deck, and, aided by
the volunteer seaman, fortunately succeeded (after cutting
away the wreck, pumping, baling, &c.) in righting the ves-
sel. Her head was then put before the wind, and she ran up
the Bristol Channel, until she fell in with the County of
Pembroke, by which she was towed safely to Bristol. So
sudden was the shock, that the helmsman, who saw the sea
coming, had scarcely time to cry " Look out, there !" and
catch hold a rope, before the sea struck her, and he was un-
fortunately drowned. After they had succeeded in getting
the vessel in sailing trim, on going below they found two
men—viz., Alick Mackay and James Reed. killed, and six
others severely wounded—one having his thigh fractured,
another his arms broken, and another having lost an eye, in
addition to other severe injuries. The two men belonging to
the crew who were drowned were named Thomas Sanger and
Thomas Berry, and were both married men. Berry has also
left two children. The captain of the Billow, arrived here,
reports having seen a vessel, bottom upwards, and a large
quantity of wreck, off the Foreland.

FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN.—The Quarterly Review,
in discussing an objection to the Copyright Bill of Mr. Ser-
geant Talfourd, which was taken by Sir Edward Sugden,
gives some very curious particulars about the progeny of
literary men. "We are not," says the writer, " going to
speculate on the causes of the fact ; but a fact it is, that men,
distinguished for extraordinary intellectual power of any sort,
very rarely leave more than a very brief line of progeny be-
hind them. Men of genius' have scarcely ever done so.
Men of ' imaginative genius,' we might say, almost never.
With the one exception of the noble Surrey, we cannot, at
this moment, point out a representative in the male line even
so far down as in the third generation of any English poet,
and we believe the case is the same in France. The blood of
beings of that order can seldom be traced far down even in
the female line. With the exception of Surrey and Spencer,
we are not aware of any great English author, of at all remote
date, from whose body any living person claims to be de-
scended. There is no other real English poet prior to the
middle of the nineteenth century ; and we believe no great
author of any sort, except Clarendon and Shaftesbury, of
whose blood we have any inheritance amongst us. Chaucer's
only son died childless. Shakspeare's line expired in his
daughter's only daughter. None of the other dramatists of
that age left any progeny—nor Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cow-
ley, nor Butler. The granddaughter of Milton was the last
of his blood. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot,
Hume, Gibbon, Cowper, Gray, Walpole, Cavendish, and we
might greatly extend the list, never married. Neither Bo-
lingbroke, nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor
Burke transmitted their blood. Mr. Renouard's last argu-
ment against a perpetuity in literary property is, that it would
be founding another noblesse. Neither jealous aristocracy
nor envious jacobinism need be under such alarm. When a
human race has produced its 'bright consummate flower' in
this kind, it seems commonly to be near the above list. The
theory is illustrated in our own day. The two greatest names
in science and literature, of our time, were Davy and Sir
Walter Scott. The first died childless. Sir Walter left four
children, of whom three are -lead, only one of them (Mrs.
Lockhart) leaving issue, and' the fourth, (his eldest son,)
though living, and long married, has no issue. These are
curious facts.

THE MARRIAGE ACT.—Amongst the myriad of abomina-
tions and excesses committed by the late whig administration,
none certainly, in our humble opinion, has had a more im-
moral tendency, than the act abolishing the religious obli-
gation of marriage, and making it a mere legal formula. This
act is rapidly subverting among the lower classes of the
country, that feeling of reverence and solemnity which
added so much to the sacred character of the ordinance, and
enshrouded it with a holiness that gave additional importance
and stability to the rite. Marriage is now beginning to be
considered no longer a sacred thing. The ceremony which
has so long been adopted, as indispensible, not only to the
legality, but to the respectability of the parties united in
what have been denominated the " holy bonds " of wedlock,
is now no longer necessary. The aid of the ministers of the
gospel is now no longer requisite. Not even the sacredness
of the altar is required for the performance of the ordinance.
Every thing, in fact, which gave a religious solemnity to the
ceremony, is utterly set at nought, and any dirty hovel may
be licensed as a place of marriage—any illiterate and immoral
clod-pole, if invested with the dignified office of registrar,
may perfoperformthe office which has heretofore been the province
of the minister of Christ alone. Never was such a fright-
ful impetus given to the flood of immorality and irreligion,
as has been given by this irreverent and short sighted act.
Never was the moral feeling of England more insulted--
never was religion more mocked. Never was every barrier of
social order more effectually assailed. Had the act even
confined its operations to established places of worship,
and to appoint ministers, of all denominations, the country
might not have objected ; but when we see a rite, which cus-
tom has for ages rendered one of the most solemn among
our religious ceremonies, reduced to a mere simple contract
before a chaw-bacon over a pot of porter, at his own kitchen
fireside, we cannot but express our indignation at the fac-
tion who had the power thus to insult the cause of religion,
and widen the flood-gates of immorality and reckless infi-
delity. Most extraordinary effects were, no doubt, antici-
pated by every right-thinking man, from this heathenish
measure, but, we think, it could never for a moment have
been supposed that it could have been applied to the So-
cialists—a body of reprobates who repudiate and denounce
the institution of marriage as a pernicious restraint upon na-
tural liberty. In a recent number of the London Gazette,
however, it has been announced that the Socialists' Institu-
tion, in John-street, Fitzroy-square, has been licensed for
the celebration of marriage ! This, of course, can be only
for the purpose of a filthy mockery,—and if the law be open
really to such an abuse as this, it is high time that the act be
amended or altogether repealed. If the women of England
would busy themselves in getting up petitions against such
an abomination as this—against such an attack upon their
own privileges and safety—instead of meddling with the corn
laws, they would be acting much more in accordance with
their own sphere, and much more for their own interest ; for
to the purity and moral dignity of the females of this coun-
try, this act is one of the deadliest stabs that has ever been
dealt out for generations. Our Royal Sovereign, we trust,
will not long allow this filthy blot to -remain upon the institu-
tions of our country.—Staffordshire Gazelle.

" Brompton, Friday Evening.
" MY DEAR SIR THOMAS :—Understanding that a large
meeting of my former constituents will be held on Monday,
I avail myself of the opportunity of bidding them farewell,
and think it will be more correct to do so through the medium
of a letter to you than by a formal address to the electors
at large. Pray assure my friends that when I received their
invitation in 1837 to become a candidate for the representation
of the great town of Liverpool in Parliament, it was as unex-
pected as unmerited, and that I consider the honour con-
ferred upon me in that year, confirmed as it was by my re-
election in 1841, as the highest that I can ever attain. Had
it been in my power to make an adequate return for the con-
fidence reposed in me, and to discharge the duties of my
station without laying an unfair burthen on my noble and
generous colleague, I should have hesitated to accept even
the high office to which her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to appoint me. But not doubting that you will be
able to find a successor more competent to watch over your
varied and important interests, I trust that I shall stand ex-
cused for putting you to the inconvenience of a new election,
probably not to be contested.
" Although my political connection with Liverpool is now
dissolved, I hope that many friendships formed there will be
as enduring as my life, and that I shall have many opportu-
nities of cutivating them when visiting you in my new cha-
racter. Trusting that my humble endeavours to serve my
country in that capacity will be received with the same in-
dulgence that was always extended to me as your representa-
tive, I remain,
" Your much obliged and faithful servant,

" C. CRESSWELL."
Loud cheers followed the readine of this letter ; after which
the CHAIRMAN proceeded. Having disposed of their old
representative they must now look out for a nc, Inc. It
was for them now to select such a man as would . "wnour
to the town of Liverpool, and no doubt the ret.... of "this
meeting would be such as would give satisfaction to the in-
habitants of Liverpool at large, and hold out the same exam-
ple to the country which they had hitherto done. 'The
Chairman concluded au energetic speech by calling upon the
mover of the first resolution.

Mr. DAVID HODGSON then came forward amidst great
cheering. He said, there had been put into his hands a
resolution which he was quite satisfied the meeting would
receive with acclamation ; and he could not say it had been
imposed upon him as a duty, but offered to him as a gratifica-
tion to have the opportunity of expressing our deep obligation
to our late representative, Mr. Cresswell. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution he was about to offer for their approval at the
present moment was not according to the commonly received
notion of gratitude which was for favours to come, but it was
an expression of our approbation of, and gratitude for, the
conduct of an individual who had been chose!, our represen-
tative in times of danger—who had defended the cause of the
constitution in times of difficulty—and who now did not run
away from his post; (hear,) but who, after having manifest-
ed to the whole empire in a most remarkable manner talents
admirably qualified for the situation of a lawyer, had, to us
and to the country at large also, shown that he understood
and studied our constitutional privileges, and he was now
called upon to exercise them in the honourable capacity of a
judge of the land, in which we might feel assured he would
administer justice with impartiality,—without fear, favour,
or affection. (Cheers.) Whilst we must in some degree
acknowledge that it was always painful to part with a friend
in any capacity, if any thing could take away the sting and
grief of parting with a friend, it was to see the man placed
near to us doing the duties of the most important station,
and honoured because he had supported the cause of his
country; and that, he would tell us, was the situation in
which Mr. Cresswell was now placed as a judge. ( Hear,
hear.) We had chosen him ; and he (Mr. Hodgson) believed
that one of the reasons he had been asked to propose a
a resolution in his favour was, that he, in conjunction with
Sir Thomas Brancker, (who, being in the chair, was pre-
cluded from taking the lead in moving the resolution,)—Sir
Thomas as mover, and he (Mr. Hodgson) as seconder—pro-
posed Mr. Cresswell upon his first election here. They were
led to the choice of Mr. Cresswell not from any great expec-
tations which they had formed that he could devote any large
portion of time to the details of what might be brought
before him in local matters. (Hear, hear.) They knew,
indeed, that his eminent qualifications as a lawyer required
that he should be giving his assistance to his country in ano-
ther capacity, but they chose him as a man of approved prin-
ciples, and one that would support the constitutional princi-
ples of the country. In this, his higher post, he had been,
by the noble lord,—(cheers)--his revered and honoured col-
league—(cheers)—supported in a way that had done him infi-
nite credit ; and, therefore, though he might not have been
able to give all the time which, under other circumstances,
might have been wished to the details of the business of the
town, vet there had been no lack upon that score, from the
extraordinary combination of efficiency, both in great and
small, which his noble colleague had been enabled to exer-
cise. Under these circumstances he need not, he thought,
occupy much more of their time. It would not be necessary
for him to go further into this subject, but he would observe,
now that we were in a flourishing condition with regard to the
political views which we took, now that theory, and specula-
tion, and foolish notions in a trap-clap form, which seemed
to have either lulled Great Britain into a false security, or to
have been unhappily taken by many that heard them, were
gone—now that that delusion was passed, and all those foolish
schemes were manifest, England had returned to her pro-
priety again. (Hear and cheers.) She was now in great
force upholding that which was right and true in legisla-
tion and religion ;—(renewed cheers)—but we must not
conceal from ourselves—for it would be a fatal delusion
to conceal it— that, as a nation, we no longer stood in
the position that we once did—though we had seen the
error which had been committed that the reform bill
and the act for Catholic emancipation had removed many
of the greatest bulwarks of our constitution. (Hear, hear,
hear.) There was now no legal impediments to their get-
ting forward into stations to put their various schemes into
force ; therefore, although we were as strong as an army we
must fight as an army. (Cheers.) Our power was to be
constantly exerted. We saw this in our town-council and in
our annual elections. Our peace was gone, and our warfare
was come, and we must fight it out, and fight manfully. (Hear,
and cheers.) He could go into considerable detail to show
the meeting what had been the practise—to show them how
all the leading posts in the town had been occupied, the ma-
gistracy, the police, and the schools which had been turned
nearly into Popish seminaries. He had only taken a cursory
view of these things to point out the absolute necessity
that we should all be united. He called for union with
no man who, in order to obtain it, was called upon to
give up a principle, for there couhlbe no union but a false
one where that was the case; but he called upon every man
that heard him to give up secondary questions which referred
to expediency and opinion, in order to get that perfect union
which must be proposed to him. (Hear.) He believed we
were in the happy situation at the present moment—a happy
situation lie called it—of having no difficulty in finding a
dozen men that would do honour to the situation of represen-
tative of this great town, and that would feel themselves
highly honoured by it ; but knowing this to be the case, let
them not fall as it were between two stools. (Hear.) Let
them take one man, and unless there was some serious ob-
jection to it, take him and carry him at once; and he was
quite sure that one man standing on this principle would be
proposed to them. He wished that some one who had power
to have eulogized Mr. Cresswell as he deserved had taken
his place, but he did not feel that it was much wanted, be-
cause the great thing was not elegance of manners or words,
for the true eulogy was where the approbation proceeded
from the heart. (Hear.) That he felt he was now speaking ,
and that every individual would vie with him, and unite
heart and hand in passing the resolution which he had to
propose. Mr. Hodgson then concluded by moving the first
resolution, which is as follows .
`' That the Thanks of this Constituency are justly due, and
are hereby given, to Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., lately one of
our Representatives in Parliament, for the valuable services
rendered to us during the time he has held that situation;
and while this Meeting laments the separation, it rejoices
that he has been elevated to a rank and station to which his
talents and industry eminently entitle him, and which they
hope he may have health long to enjoy."
Mr. WILLIAM POTTER, in seconding the resolution, said
he considered it a great privilege to be allowed to take part
in proposing a vote of thanks to our late most esteemed re-
presentative. (Hear.) He had done the duty to which he
was appointed, and not only that, but he was most distin-
guished in all his proceedings. He was one of those who for
a long period had to exercise the severe virtues of industry,
patience, and perseverance ; and when he had at last ob-
tained a very high post in his own profession, he was called
upon to take the representation of this town--a call which
was at least as honourable to the constituency as it was to
him, for notwithstanding his being in the daily practice of au
important and laborious profession which might well have
occupied all his time, he (Mr. P.) could testify that he had
upon several occasions given up a most extraordinary por-
tion of his time to the objects and ends of his consti-
tuents, not only by constant attendance in parliament,
but by long attendance upon committees. This was
more than could have been expected at the time, and it
did great credit to his independence and his disinterestedness,
for he was thereby giving up a very large amount of remune-
ration which he might otherwise have obtained. (Hear.)
During his whole career lie was evidently determined upon
the maintenance of his independence and integrity; and the
post to which he was now elevated conferred as much honour
in this instance upon the giver as upon the receiver. (Loud
cheers.) Mr. Cresswell was now placed among that class of

Mr. NICHOLAS ROBINSON said a resolution had been put
into his hands, which he would very shortly read. In conse-
quence of the elevation of Mr. Cresswell to the judicial
bench, of course a vacancy had occurred in the repre-
sentation of this borough, and it was a matter of deep
importance that the electors should choose a man whose
political principles not only coincided with their own, who
would defend the constitution in Church and State, but
that they should also find a man well acquainted with
the commercial relations of this great country, and more
particularly with those of this town. In the years 1832 and
1834, in selecting a inaa for this office, they looked upon
their valued friend Sir Howard Douglas whom he had the
honour of bringing forward ten years ago. Sir Howard
Douglas was firmly attached to conservative principles, both
in church and state. He had long been in Canada; he was
well acquainted with the commerce of that country and of
the States ; and since then he had had the government of the
louian islands. He had recently returned from those pos-
sessions, where he not only gained the approbation of the
government at home, but the praise and approbation of those
over whom lie presided ; and in every. situation he had paid
particular attention to the commercial arrangements with
this country. (Hear.) Viewing this combination of cir-
cumstances he did not know where they could look for a man
who better met their ideas, or indeed one more suitable than
Sir Howard Douglas. Under these circumstances lie took
the liberty of recommending Sir Howard Douglas as a fit
and proper person to be brought forward as a candidate for
the representation of this borough. (Loud cheers.) Mr.
Robinson concluded by moving—" That in the opinion of
this meeting Sir Howard Douglas, Hart., is a fit and proper
person to be put in nomination as a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Liverpool, to succeed C. Cresswell, Esq."
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME rose, amidst loud and general ap-
plause, to move the next resolution. The cheering having
terminated, he spoke nearly as follows :—Mr. Chairman arid
gentlemen—We are again about to be plunged into the excite-
ment of an election, but I hope it will pass by with less than
its usual turmoil. If, in being deprived of the services of
Mr. Cresswell, we had had any trouble in finding a suitable
successor, I should have experienced some difficulty in ad-
dressing you to-day. But it ought to be gratifying to the
inhabitants of this great town to know, that such is its cha-
racter for loyalty and public spirit, that one of the loftiest
order and the most exalted rank may feel proud in represent-
ing its opinions in Parliament. (Cheers.) We applied to
Mr. Cresswell during a period of great excitement to permit
us to put him in nomination, and most nobly did he respond
to-tile call. Through him and his noble colleague did 'we
fight the battle and gain an important victory. (Cheers.)
I call it important, because Sir R. Peel's motion of want of
confidence in the Melbourne administration was only carried
by a majority of one ; and had we not, on the occasion to
which I allude, ejected Mr. Ewart from the representation of
Liverpool, Lord Melbourne would have had a majority of
one, and that majority with him and his forlorn hope would
have been a sufficient inducement for them to misconduct
the business of the country. (Applause.) A second time
did we fight the battle, and on that occasion had little diffi-
culty in gaining it. The eminent talents of Mr. Cresswell
are now required to adorn the bench, and by a salutary pro-
vision of our constitution, to render justice pure and unsul-
lied at the fountain, he has done with the political arena.
The extent of his legal acquirements, united to the excellency
of his personal character, justify the choice which the Pre-
mier has made, and while he will add dignity to the seat of
judgment, all will admit that the ermine will fall with
grace on a distinguished lawyer and an excellent man.
(Loud cheers.) Ili your name, my fellow-tradesmen,—
for I leave the merchants to speak for themselves,—
I thank him for the alacrity with which he responded
to our call, and for the faithfulness with which he
has reflected those great and vital principles, for the main-
tenance of which he was elected our representative ; and you
will all join with me in the wish that his career as a judge
may be as successful as it has been as our advocate, and that
his legal knowledge may now be serviceable to men of all
parties and of all conditions. (Cheers.) I will now say a
few words in reference to the honourable baronet, who is
again a candidate for our suffrages. The scientific acquire-
ments of Sir Howard Douglas, his knowledge of commercial
matters from his long and brilliant governments in Canada
and the lonian Islands, the experience of a life of profound
investigation and reflection, his high military reputation, and
his great moral worth, all point him out as eminently quali-
fied to represent the opinions of this great community. Do
you wish to know his feelings on Protestant education ?
While Governor of New Brunswick, he founded a college at
Frederickston, subscribed himself a munificent sum towards
its erection, and promised to procure from government a
sum equal to that subscribed by the inhabitants. This he
performed, and in addition founded a scholarship at his own
cost, as the Douglas medal of that college testifies. Sir
Howard is the firm and uncompromising supporter of educa-
tion based on Scripture, such education as we all approve of,
arid such as we are here resolved to maintain. (Loud cheer-
ing.) Some of our opponentshave said,—True, we admit Sir
Howard to be an excellent officer and a good man, but we
want a commercial man to represent a commercial town.
Well, sir, let us meet this question, and, first, where is the
consistency of those who raise the objection ? Instead of
assertions let us look at actions. Who brought forward Mr.
Brougham for Liverpool? Was he a commercial man ? Mr.
Creevey ? Was he one ? Who nominated the Earl of Sef-
ton ? That noble lord was not a commercial man. Who
gave us Mr. Ewart? Was he a commercial man ? Mr. El-
phinstone ? Was he one? Lord Palmerston ? Was he one ?
Why, sir, the whig party are themselves inconsistent, for
with the exception of our two townsmen, one of whom at
least may be said to have brought himself forward, I can
only recollect one gentleman having any pretension to be a
commercial man, whom they have brought before us. Mr.
Morris, of whom none ot us had ever heard before, and many of
us will probably never hear again, was a tiny drop precipitated
by the flying clouds of radicalism, and as suddenly evaporated
in a gleam of conservative sunshine, which that moment shot
forth. (Loud cheering.) I well recollect that Mr. Canning
was objected to, not because he was an unfit representative
for a commercial community, but because he was identified
with those glorious principles which we are anxious to see
paramount in the government of England, and which, thank
God, are now paramount. (Cheers.) Mr. Huskisson, too,
a most suitable representative for a commercial community,
was objected to on similar grounds, and it requires little sa-
gacity to see that it is not so much the commercial but the
political unfitness of Sir Howard Douglas that renders him
the object of their antipathy. (Applause.) Let me familiarly
illustrate my meaning. Au architect may be a competent
judge of the stability of an edifice, and may be acquainted
with all the details necessary for its construction, and yet he
may be unable himself to erect the structure. An engineer may
be well acquainted with the nice contrivances, and the various
motions required in the steam engine, and yet be unable to
forge the rods or to cast the cylinder ; and so may a man of
talent, by experience and observation, by scientific acquire-
ment and profound research, be well acquainted with the
theory of commerce, and with the wants and productions of
every nation,—he may possess a knowledge of international
law and of those fiscal regulations which are the hinges of
commerce, the air it breathes, and yet he may not, strictly
speaking, be a commercial man. As well might we argue that
a merchant should not be a shipowner unless he can build and
rig and steer his ship. (Cheers.) I grant that a knowledge of
commerce is required in all our legislators, not merely in those
who represent Liverpool, Hull, and Bristol, but in those who
represent every constituency for a member is not to legis-
late for Liverpool alone, but for commercial England, for
manufacturing England, and what, I trust, she will ever re-
main, that we may be as independent as possible of foreign
nations for the bread we eat,--I mean for agricultural Eng-
land. (Continued cheering.) Is not Lord Sandon as fit a
representative forlcommercial Liverpool as Lord John Rus-
sell for commercial London? (Yes.) And will not Sir Howard
Douglas be a more suitable representative for this community
than Mr. Gibson for Manchester, Mr. Fox for the' Tower
Hamlets, or the Hon. Mr. Berkeley for Bristol? (Loud cries
of "yes.") And yet we hear nothing of the commercial
unfitness of these gentlemen ; and it is probable, that had
Sir Howard Douglas been a whig, those who object to him
now would suddenly have discovered in him the' most suit-
able capacities, together with all the virtues that can adorn
and dignify human nature. (Long protracted cheering.)
Sir, England has now arrived at a critical period of her
history. Her dominion is boundless; her influence is un-
limited; her language is heard in almost every place where
the winds blow, or the ocean rolls. The enterprise of her
merchants has penetrated every clime, and her looms supply
the human race in a hundred colonies and dependencies.
(Applause.) And although for a period—l trust a brief
period—commercial gloom has overspread our land, and
many of our population are experiencing great distress, yet
still her wealth and industry exceeds that of any other na-
tion ; and by skilful management and sound legislation, the
sun of prosperity will again kindle that wealth and industry
into a new flame, to give employment to our artisans, and
enable the country to develope her mighty resources. (Loud
cheers.) But all this grandeur—all this extent of empire
may have its limits. Nations, like individuals, have their rise
and fall. Great Britain has been victorious in war and pros-
perous in peace, because she has been governed on fixed prin-
ciples, and has possessed a constitution which has repressed
tyranny and spoliation from whatever quarter it has pro-
ceeded—whether from the monarch or the people—which has
zealously guarded the individual liberty of all, and secures to
all the possession of that property which is the fruit of ho-
nest industry—which offers an asylum to the victims of ty-
ranny from every land—which encourages virtue, while it
discountenances vice—which invigorates, while it cherishes
and sympathises where it cannot heal. (Loud cheers.) But
above all, England has risen triumphant, and has gone on
step by step to her present greatness, since she became Pro-
testant England—(loud cheering)—and as long as she re-
mains thealepository of divine truth—as long as she nationally
recognises the power and the worship of Him by whom kings
reign arid nations flourish or fade—while she colonises but
to bless and civilise—while she conquers not to aggrandise,
but to protect—while she upholds a pure church, and her
constitution remains based on eternal truth, which is inter-
woven with her structure and pervades her sentiments—so
long will England flourish and maintain her glorious supre-
macy. (Loud applause.) But, if she is smitten with the
spirit of republicanism—if she discards the lessons of wisdom
which history teaches, and lapses into that latitudinarianism
which is the indubitable precursor of national decay—not all
the valour of her fleets and armies, not all the wisdom of her
senators can save her, but she will sink into decrepitude, and
finally into ruin. (Great cheers.) It is because Sir Howard
Douglas is a man of Protestant conservatism, who will up-
hold the British constitution in all its essential elements—
who will give protection to national industry, and foster na-
tional feeling—who will not be dazzled with the specious and
tinsel theories of the day, nor sacrifice that constitution at
the shrine of liberalism or expediency, that I call on you, my
fellow-townsmen, to identify yourselves with him on this oc-
casion, again to display your loyalty, and again to uphold the
character of our town. (Loud cheers.) I will not enter
upon any of those great questions which agitate the commu-
nity at this time, as it would lead me into a long speech.
(Cries of "go on.") I will conclude by seconding the mo-
tion of Mr. Robinson, and requesting you with one heart and
one mind, to discard every. feeling but that of loyalty, and love
for our country ; and, trusting to that feeling, I am convinced
that you will return to parliament as our representative, un-
fettered and unshackled, the friend and comrade of the illus-
trious Wellington. (Loud and long-continued cheering
followed the expression of this sentiment, during which Mr.
Holme resumed his seat.)

The CHAIRMAN then put the motion to the meeting, and
it was adopted unanimously. The declaration of the result
was followed by three times three hearty cheers.
Mr. JAMES ASPINALL, who was received with great ap-
plause, in moving the third resolution, said that after the
able speeches which had been made, and the unanimity
which seemed to prevail, it would be needless for him to
take up the valuable time of the meeting by any observations
from him. They knew, as he had often told them, that lie
was no speaker, but that he could work (hear, hear) ; and as
the resolution he had to propose had that tendency, be was
sure they would all join heart and hand with him in coming
forward to support Sir Howard Douglas upon this occasion.
(Cheers.) Notwithstanding all that had been said by Mr.
Robinson and Mr. Holine, he should think it right to read
the first address which Sir Howard had issued in Liverpool.
Whatever opinions there might have been abroad about him,
he (Mr. Aspivall) was quite sure there could be no mistake
about his address :

" To THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF

LIVERPOOL

" Gentlemen,—l feel the distinguished honour which so
many respectable electors of the town of Liverpool have
conferred upon me, by their invitation to become a candi-
date for the representation of this loyal and ancient borough
in parliament.

Mr. C. S. PARKER said, he had been requested to move
the following resolution
" That a requisition to Sir Howard Douglas be signed by
the chairman of this meeting, and that it be transmitted to
him, requesting him to offer himself as a candidate for the
representation of Liverpool, and that he be requested to pro-
ceed to Liverpool as soon as possible."
He congratulared the conservative, and he condoled with the
liberal, party of this borough upon the harmonious feeling
which pervaded this meeting—a meeting which might be
fairly said to represent every varying shade of conservative
opinion. (Hear.) This concord so auspicious to us was a
death-blow to the hopes of our opponents. The sight of that
united phalanx would make them quail, and he doubted not
whether now, at this third gallant effort about to be made by
Sir Howard Douglas, they would not allow him to march
unopposed to the citadel. (Loud cheers.) Taught by the
fable, our opponents would fain untie this mighty faggot
bundle, united by the single chain of attachment to our Pro-
testant national faith, and they would invite those, whom they
are pleased to flatter as "enlightened conservatives," to come
out from the old, dry, rotten tory party,—(Loud laughter)—
and to be bound up by that new fangled and exceedingly
elastic anti-monopoly hand which they had manufactured in
the Amphitheatre. (Laughter.) Now he took it that the
" liberal conservatives" were not quite so green as that—
(hear, hear)—that they would prefer to remain with the good,
old-seasoned timber, though it were a little stiff and unbend-
ing, to being bundled up with all the green shoots that were
springing up from the hot-bed of the Anti-Corn-Law League.
(Cheers.) He thought the conservatives might take a leaf
out of their opponents' book. Let them sink all minor diffe-
rences. (Hear, bear, hear.) They were so perverse as not
to look, as they wished us, on the few points of difference,
but we rather loved to dwell upon the many and more im-
portant points of concord. (Hear.) Methought he heard
sonic gentleman ask where is Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Laugh-
te..) Did he not pledge himself to stand again. (" He did.")
He thought, however, that he could explain the conduct of
Sir Joshua. He was too grave a maa to enter on the con-
test now, and therefore he reserved himself till Lord San-
don's seat was vacated. (Hear.) Where, too, were the
Manchester dictators ? He would tell them as a great secret.
.Surgeon Braid had mesmerised them, and they would remain
in a trance till the Conservative electors of Liverpool awoke
them with the shouts of victory. (Great laughter, and
cheers.) But to be serious. He trusted that in proceeding
to this contest none of us would forget that of January, 1835.
The first day Sir Howard was in a majority, but the next
day he was in a minority of 236. They owed that number
to their opponents, and he trusted they would now pay the
debt with compound interest. Mr. Parker concluded an
energetic speech by calling upon the Conservatives to place
Sir Howard in a majority of 2000.
Mr. GRANT, in seconding the resolution, called upon the
electors of Liverpool to follow the example of the city of
Dublin, which had returned a Conservative by a majority of
400 in opposition to Lord Morpeth. He trusted the majo-
rity here would be, not -100 only, but 2,400. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, before putting the resolution, mentioned
that Sir Howard Douglasi had been detained in London at
the request of Lord Ashburton, who was going out to Ame-
rica, in order to give him some important information re-
specting the affairs of North America : and to-day he had
been requested to attend Lord Stanley upon important busi-
ness connected with the lonian Islands. After these mat-
ters had been disposed off, Sir Howard would be at liberty
to obey the commands of the electors. (Cheers.) The re-
solution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. EDMUND MOLYNEUX in proposing the appointment
of a committee to conduct the election, said be had been
highly gratified by the proceedings of the day, and with the
unanimity that had prevailed. There was a little anecdote
which the meeting might not have heard respecting the
father of Sir Howard Douglas. The excellent father of their
now candidate was the first British officer—the first man in
existence—who ever devised the plan of breaking the enemy's
line. That took place in Rodney's victory in the West
Indies, when our colonial possessions were saved from the
immense French fleet which had been collected to attack
them. After that other officers, and particularly Nelson,
carried the plan into execution, and how often had he broken
the enemies' line and gained important victories ! And he
believed it was a fact that the last time he (Nelson) left
England he said that he had carried Douglas' plan of break-
ing the enemies' line into execution once, and if he went into
action he would break it twice. That was done at Trafalgar.
(Cheers.) He (Mr. Alderman Molyneux) mentioned this
only to shew the meeting that Sir Howard came from a good
stock ; and he had no doubt if there was a line brought
against him now he would break it through and be victorious.
Mr. BOLD seconded the nomination of the committee.
The CHAIRMAN put the motion, and it was carried with
the greatest enthusiasm.
The business of the meeting being now closed, Mr. RICH-
ARD DAWSON moved the thanks of the meeting to Sir
Thomas Brancker for his conduct in the chair.
Mr. DUNCAN GIBB seconded the motion, and the meeting
carried it with loud cheers. _ _

Sir THOMAS BRANCKER having returned thanks in a few
appropriate remarks, the meeting separated, after having first
given three tremendous cheers for Sir Howard Douglas and
the Conservative cause. The same compliment was after-
wards paid to several of the local Conservative leaders.