The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

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We copy the following appropriate remarks on the " enmor-
mous lying" of the ministerial papers from the Preston
Chronicle—a liberal paper :
" Some of the London papers, miscalled- ' liberal ' but
which, whether liberal or not, ought to know better than be
guilty of ruffianism, have this week hit upon another exploit
of shameless fabrication, and low badinage, unworthy of the
character of the British press. We abhor this system of
enormous falsehood, from. whatever political purpose it may
he intended to serve. We cannot condescend to argue upon
any dreamy speculations as to the rationale or truthfulness
of the shibboleth against which our reprobation is at present
directed, and which we subjoin, but must appeal to our read-
ers as to the character of the writer who pens, or the poli-
ticians who delight to banquet on, such disgusting offal of a
vicious imagination and a depraved heart as that of which a
sample is presented in the following paragraph :
" ' Great secrecy has been observed by the conservative
journals respecting the mission of Lord Stuart de Rothesay
to the King of Hanover. His Lordship has returned; and
although his report is kept secret, we hear from good au-
thority, that no direct attempt to dethrone her Majesty will
be sanctioned by Sir R. Peel, notwithstanding the traitor-
ous declarations of his agents at Canterbury and Ashton.' "
" Who can wonder that royalty is reviled, that virtue is
slandered, or that vice is fawned upon, when malignant ca-
lumnies like the above are printed in palace journals. If
certain newspapers will print such vileness, they must be
content to bear the taunt of being traitors to the cause they
profess to support, and that for two very cogent reasons.—
First, because they are open to the charge of fighting with
weapons which no good cause requires ; and secondly, that
they put into the hands of their adversaries weapons which,
if adroitly used, will do far more execution in the defensive
than the offensive application. We have no desire, however,
to go further into the subject ; it will not bear the probe,
and the more we touch it, the more it will soil. We leave
the . public to settle their own verdict upon that class of
writers who regularly traffic in monstrous inventions, for
the purpose of blackening political opponents—inventions so
extravagant as to be undeserving of serious notice, if con-
temptuous silence did not encourage their wicked specula-
tions upon public credulity."

DUBLIN 'METROPOLITAN CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY.—
ANNIVERSARY DINNER.—The annual dinner of this so-
ciety is fixed to take place on tile 9th of January. The Earl
of Rathdowne will preside. The admirable mariner in which
the dinners of this society have been hitherto conducted,par-
ticularly that in the iound-room of the Mansion-house, may
be recollected. The arrangements in progress on the pre-
sent occasion will exceed by far, in splendour and magnifi-
cence, those of any former entertainment given by this influ-
ential society.--Saunders 4 11 eu-34,141er.