The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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have removed ; and eve:7 one feels that to have subjected their
generalissimo to undeserved detraction was a villanous pre-
parative to future advancement. That Sir WILLIAM COD.
RINGTON will acquit himself nobly and well in his exalted
position, there is not the slightest reason to doubt; his ante-
cedents are all in favour of such a presumption; but he will
not have to thank his ministerial friends for any prestige which
they have thrown around him.
Rumour is once more busy in settling the affairs of state
in martial and in diplomatic matters. Sfr HAMILTON SEY-
moult supersedes the Earl of WESTMORELAND as British
Ambassador at Vienna ; with this move, the soothsayers,
who see marvels through millstones, profess to connect im-
portant diplomatic manoeuvres, and placing the finger on the
compressed lip, like the author of " Douglas," endeavour to
impose "silence with a stilly sound." Another of the vagrant
oracles, which float for ever in a courtly atmosphere, has it
that the Horse Guards will speedily present the highest
vacancy. In other wprds, that Viscount HARDINGE is about
to resign the office `Of Commander-in-Chief, which the same
veracious chronicler avers will be bestowed upon the Duke of
CAMBEIDBE. Who holds the mirror of CADWALLADER up to
the horizon. of such high events, it is no easy matter to
determine, but no harm can accrue from taking a sidelong
peep at that picture of the future has presented on its surface.

CASTLE-STREET WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—Our Radical friends do not like the loss of their
"Gibraltar ;" and the quiet way in which the victory was won
appears to have made them ridiculously vituperative.
The Journal appears to be the only Radical writer who had
common sense at his command, and yet he seems to think, in
his "Talk," that Mr. Livingston ought to have gone round

the town to raise up an opposition to his own return !
Mr. Livingston, no doubt, accepted the pressing call of his
friends to stand, but he left his cause in their hands, and in-
deed was in London, I understand, up to the day of election.
The business was done by those interested in a business way,
and our Radical purity men ought to be delighted that no
canvassing, treating, or other naughty practices were adopted.
Avison and Livingston were on a par in this respect, but
the tact and energy of Mr. Livingston's friends gave the
finishing-stroke to the victory.
Mr. Avison has chosen in his address to speak of the,
electors turning him out by a "discreditable manoeuvre." I
hope the electors will remember his words ; they do not ap-
pear remarkable for modesty, for it supposes they had no right
to do so. _ _

Mr. Avison might fancy himself Prince Gortschakoff for a
moment, and ask whether he could be foolish enough to ex-
pect that the French ought to have blown the trumpet before
they rushed upon the Malakhoff ? How absurd!
The Radicals have lost their Malakhoff; or, if they please,
their Gibraltar—and " there's the rub." They were fairly
beaten, and they have been taught that the freemasonry of
electioneering can be practised by Tories with crowning suc-
cess. Let the Reform Association sanction its• Secretary's
projects of objecting to Tory Aldermen, on purpose to throw
them off by this shabby trick, and next year they may be
taught a lesson another way.—Yours, truly,
ONE OF THE FORLORN HOPE WHO TOOK
CASTLE-STREET WARD.