The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

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gine, from the c
leaguers, that they arc
than the manufacturers and ii
was there a greater mistake !

"That the enemy which now threatens to eat up vot
rentals,' should be thoroughly known to all parties, it will b
useful that I should explain, in simple, intelligible language
who and what these leaguers are. It is necessary, then, i;
the' outset, that I should inform you, that there are two dis
tinct classes of manufacturers and merchants. The one
composed or honest, honourable, industrious men, who wouli
disdain to build their fortunes upon the ruin of others ; mei
who are imbued with a strong desire to produce and obtair,
articles that will stand the test of wear and use, for which
they are always willing to give a fair remunerating price
these men always eschew every kind of deception in thei
dealings with mankind, never permitting the love of 17-.
drag them into the paths of dishonour.
" The other class of manufacturers and merchants corigist:
mainly of men in every respect the opposite of the former—
men who are speculators, reckless traders, and fraudulent
dealers ; whose only object is to get what they can how they
can ; and then to keep what they have gotten. The ties of
honour and humanity never bind them—cheap-Laying, at
any accumulation of distress to others, is their maxim. To
take advantage of the ignorance or poverty of their neigh-
bours, is their rule.
" The first-named class are those who would rather aid than
distress others, who, like themselves, are in the pursuit of
honourable gains ; whilst the last class know no friendship,
even amongst each other ; but jealously strive, by every un-
der-hand means, to over-reach and ruin those with whom
they compete. The competition of these men is—War.
" The former act upon the principle of ' live and let live,' the
latter adopt the maxim, thou shalt not live if I can hinder
thee.' The first are, by their opponents styled Tyrants and
Bigots,' the last call themselves `Liberal and Enlightened.'
"The former pride themselves on dealing fairly and
liberally with their workpeople, and are always wishful to pay
just and reasonable wages, rather than endeavour to screw
down the remuneration of their operatives; they are as tena-
cious, or even more so, of their honour, as they are of their
gains. Their boast is, a good article, not a low price ; and
they ever have an honest pride in keeping up the fair fame
of England in foreign markets.

barn to

" Ti)e latter care not for their work-people, but resort to
all sorts of expedients to cheat them and reduce their wages.
They will rob them in weight and measure, by the truck sis-
tem, by forcing them to attend to extra duties in their ware-
houses without remuneration, and by a thousand tricks which
it would weary you to name. In their mills they will alter
clocks to gain time, charge their operatives lost time when
they are on the spot, make them pay even for water, and fine
them for the most trifling supposed neglect ; they buy inferior
cotton and wool, and then fine their operatives because it will
not spin into good yarn, or weave into wearable cloths : in
short, Sir, the laws of their mills form the most tyrannical
code that avarice and selfishness can invent. They cheat
their customers by mixing, stretching, starching, and false
dyeing ; in fact, they practise every art to put a flash finish
on their goods. Appearance, not quality, is what they aim
at. The rubbish which they are thus able to bring to mar-
ket, they call cheap, because the price is low. They are
heedless of the honour of the nation, being always willing,
for their own profit, to sacrifice the good name of the British
merchant in the markets of the world. The only question
with these men, at home and abroad, is, 'What can we make
or sell, on any terms, to yield us a greater profit ?"
" The last class are those who, to cover their own extor-
tion and tyranny, are ever, to their operatives, railing against
the landlords. Whatever hardships their work-people have
to endure, their ready answer is, ' It is the tyrannical land-
lords, who, to protect themselves, and keep up their rents,
prevent us from having a free trade, and force us to work
long hours and pay low wages." This class of manufacturers
and merchants, are those who have always opposed any
limitation of the hours of labour in factories, or any legal
interference with their fraud and tyranny. It is these, also,
who, when they want the aid of the landlords to coerce the
operatives, tell you—That they are turbulent, seditious, and
idle ! Thus do they, for their own gain, exasperate the
labourers and aristocracy against each other : whilst the for-
mer class of manufacturers and merchants have been our
friends and yours.

" Now, Sir, it is natural that men who think and feel so
differently, whose aims and objects are so much at variance,
should not be upon the best terms—it is just so. These
two classes of manufacturers and merchants have been op-
posed for many years. The new system of trade, which
repudiates restraint of any kind, has, it is true, ruined many
of the former, because they could not compete with the
knavery of the swindlers, and it has added to the number of
the latter ; but still, by far the most substantial, and incom-
parably the most influential portion of our manufacturers
and merchants belong to the former class. I say the most
influential, I wish I could add that they used their influ-
ence."

STRANGE CASE.-ALLEGED LOSS OF A LETTER

CONTAINING £ll5

A case has occurred here, with reference to the supposed
loss of a letter in the Post-office, which, from the circum-
stances, deserve every publicity to be given to it. On the Ist
December last, a Mr. 'l'. H. Sledge, of No. 5, Crown-court,
Cheapside, London,—who is stated to be the agent or ser-
vant there of Mr. Edmund Howarth, whose warehouse is
No. 1, Church-street, Manchester, and who calls himself an
agent also,—remitted to Mr. Howarth, his principal, the
sum of £ll5, in six Bank of England notes enclosed in a
letter, which he posted at the General Post Office. London,
on that day. Not receiving from Mr. Howarth any acknow-
ledgement of this remittance, Mr. Sledge wrote to him on
the subject; and what answer he received does not appear.
However, on the 6th December, Mr. Sledge made a com-
plaint at the General Post Office, London, that the letter had
never reached its destination. Of course the authorities at
the postoffice instituted rigid inquiries, which wet e not only
prosecuted in London, but the solicitor of the postoffice was
sent down here to investigate the matter ; and the Bank of
England were also apprised of the loss, and furnished with
the amounts, dates, and numbers of the notes, which were
the following; all being of the Bank of England :
No. 45,141, dated June 7, 1841
No. 11,125, „ Oct. 8, ~ £3o
No. 58,342, „ Aug. 9, „ £2o
No. 30,405, „ £lo
No. 13,833, „ tf
Of
No. 94,304, „ f f Pt

£ll5
Several most respectable parties in Manchester, who were
supposed to have received part of the contents of the letter,
employed themselves and their clerks in making diligent
search, when, at last it was discovered, on inquiry at the
South Lancashire Bank, that on the 2d December, the day
on which Mr. Sledge's letter with its enclosure would reach
this town, Mr. Edward Howarth himself paid £lOO into the
South Lancashire Bank, to his own credit; such £lOO con-
sisting of four of the six notes remitted by Mr. Sledge, viz.,
the idntical £4O, £3O, £2O, and £lO notes, the numbers of
which we have given above. This fact was communicated to
the police, and Mr. Howarth, when requested, appeared be-
fore the magistrates. The superintendent of police stated
the above facts, and added that Mr. Howarth had come to
the Manchester Post-office himself to make inquiries for the
letter, which he stated had never reached him. The expense
had been very great indeed, of making these inquiries, espe-
cially on the part of the post-office authorities, who had sent
their solicitor down from London. Mr. Willock, the post-
master, had been put to great trouble and inconvenience ;
other parties had also had the trouble of going through their
books to search out the different payments they might have
received and made since the Ist December ; the clerks in
various establishments for atime were subjected to suspicion ;
and two gentlemen, from different concerns, were in court to
complain of this. Several gentlemen gave a detail of the
trouble they had been put to. In reply to the magistrates,
Mr. Howarth persisted in saying that to that moment he had
no recollection of receiving the notes, and that the first inti-
mation he remembered receiving of the money was the letter
from Mr. Sledge, stating that he bad not sent an acknow-
ledgment of it ir Charles Shaw said, on account of Mr.
Howarth's conduct, a great many innocent persons have been
suspected ; and had one of the notes been traced to a gentle-
man in any way connected with the post-office, or had the
gentleman been unable to show how he received it and paid
it away, the matter might have assumed a more serious shape.
trust the gentlemen present will take this into their seri-
ous consideration, that if inquiries had been made by the po-
lice at all painful or unpleasant to them, and productive of
trouble or inconvenience, these inquiries were all, in fact,
the result of the conduct of Mr. Howarth himself.—On a
recommendation from the magistrates that Mr. Howarth
should reimburse the expenses, the parties left the court.—
Manchester Guardian.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)
PROMOTIONS.

Rev. James `'enables, M.A., to the Prebend or Canonr
of Alton Borealis, in the Cathedral Church of Sarum.

Rev. Jobn Chapman, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of Milton, near Cambridge ; patrons, the
Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge.
Rev. A. Boyd, M.A. of the Cathedral, Derry, has been
appointed to succeed the Rev. C. E. Kenneway, at Christ
Church, Cheltenham.

Rev. R. Thompson, 8.A., Curate of Stanhope, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Shotley, Northumberland, vacant by the
death of the Bev. J. Messenger.
Rev. W. H. E. Bentick, Rector of Sigglesthorne, to be a
Rural Dean for the district of North Holderness, in the
Archdeaconry of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Rev. F. J. Walker, to the Curacy of Eccles, Manchester;
patron, the Vicar of Eccles.
Rev. R. Moore, jun., 8.A., of Christ Church, to the
Rectory of Wetheringsett with Brockford, Suflblk ; patron,
the Rev. R. Moore.

The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, M.A., of Christ
Church, third son of the Earl of Devon, has been presented
to the Vicarage of Broadclist, Devon, vacant by the death of
the Rev. W. Barker ; patron, Sir T. D. Ackland, Bart.
On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. John Clayton, M.A.,
of. Pembroke College, was instituted to the Vicarage of
Weston-on-Avon, Gloucestershire, vacant by the death of
the Rev. Dr. Davenport.
The Rev. Thomas Vere Bayne, M.A., of Warrington,
Lancashire, late Scholar of Jesus College, hss been presented
to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John's, Broughton, Lan-
cashire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. R. Wood;
patron, the Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Hall, and
others.

The Rev. J. Gregson, M.A., of Brasenose College, has
been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Upton Over-
church, Cheshire ; patron, W. Webster, Esq.
The Rev. Charles Drury, M.A., formerly Fellow of
Queen's College, and Rector of the first portion of Pontes-
bury, Salop, has been presented to the Prebend of Warham,
in the Cathedral Church of Hereford.

The Rev. J. J. Troilope, 8.A., of Pembroke College, has
been presented to the Vicarage of Wigmore, Herefordshire,
void by the resignation of the Rev. J. Taylor, D.D.; patron,
the Bishop of Hereford.

SHEFFIELD.—Lord Wharncliffe, a member of the present
cabinet, has intimated to deputations from the inhabitants of
Sheffield, that a charter will be granted to that town, pursu-
ant to a petition recently presented.

AN INSANE CLAIMANT TO THE QUEEN'S HAND.-At
the Kensington Police-court, on Friday, a person, respect-
ably iiressed, about 25 years of age, having the appearance
of a foreigner from his moustaches, and wearing a large brim-
med white hat with a low crown, entered the court, and de-
manded to have an interview with the magistrate. Mr. Ni-
chols, the clerk, who was still in the court, informed him that
the magistrate had just left, and inquired what was the na-
ti7e of his business, as he appeared much disappointed at
being too late. The applicant then said, in broken English,
that he wished to see the Queen, as she was his wife, and had
left him in New York two years ago. After some further
conversation, he said he would go to Windsor, and if his wife
would not own him, he would get Prince Albert to pay his
passage back to Saxe Meinengen.

Ebt Eitirrpool (tailbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1842

The elevation of our talented member, Mr. Cress-
well, to a seat upon the Judicial Bench creates a vacancy
in the representation of Liverpool; and the Conserva-
tive electors of our " good old town" have thus pre-
sented to them an opportunity of proclaiming, once

more, their firm and devoted attachment to the princi-
ples of our glorious constitution. The eyes of all the
empire look now to this leading mart of commerce and
industry for the opinion—to which we are about to

Lye constitutional expression —with respect to the

policy by which this great country is to he governed ;
and we can say with confidence for our Conservative
fellow-townsmen, that they know their duty, and will
discharge it fearlessly and triumphantly. It was the
voice of the constituency of Liverpool, expressed in

the motion of her present representative, Lord Sandon,
which shook in their tenure of office the unprincipled
adininitration of Lord Melbourne; and the voice of
the same constituency must now be raised to strengthen
in their seats the Conservative Government, who at
present happily hold in their hands, to guard by their
wisdom, the destinies of England.
We do not yet announce the name of the ken-
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tletnan selected to succeed, in the confidence of the
constituency, our late representative. Our brother

Conservatives may be assured, however, that he is one
worthy of them ; and before our next publication he
will he amongst them in person to speak for himself.
We have no fear of the result: and if one painful