The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

distinct organised existence and distinct traditional
principles, necessitate a reconstruction of political
bodies, a careful revision of political systems, and a
deliberate resettlement of political creeds. It be-
comes, therefore, the duty of every citizen who is
entrusted by the Constitution with the electoral
privilege, to be most especially careful in the choice
he is about to make of a Representative in the
Legislature. The occasion is a most grave one;
the duty ought to be performed with a full appre-
ciation of the deep import of the result of its due
discharge. It seems now to be almost universally
acknowledged, that specific measures cannot safely
be adopted as the tests by which to determine the
choice of representatives. It is conceded on all
sides—the question of Free-trade being at present
in abeyance—that the first inquiry which should be
made of every candidate is, whether he intends to
support or oppose Lord DERBY'S Government in
the new Parliament ? And why ? Not on account
of any specific measures which the noble Earl and
his colleagues have yet carried out or promised to
introduce, but because they are men who profess
and advocate certain great principles of national
policy, which it is well known they will not aban-
don, and with respect to which the public mind is
divided in opinion. The grand guiding and cha-
racteristic principle of Lord DERBY'S Ministry is
National Conservatism in its largest and most libe-
ral sense—not the bigotted, exclusive, obstructive
Toryism of a bygone time, on the one side ; nor,
on the other, the pseudo-Conservatism of latter
days, which holds out the hand of good-fellowship
to Radicalism and Democracy. Lord DERBY and
his colleagues are no enemies to progress, intellec-
tual, social, or political ; but they deem it their
duty to take care that the direction be right, and
the speed safe. They have no repugnance against
repairing the ancient and time-tried institutions of
the country, and adapting them to the requirements
of modern society and its new relations; but they
are determined to oppose and counteract every at-
tempt to sap the still strong foundations on which
those institutions are based. In Church and in
State, they are resolved to defend what is established
and good, against the innovations of speculators,
and conspirators, and designing adventurers.
To inform the people with the wholesome truth
which applies secular knowledge as the instrument
of moral and religious advancement,—to render the
administration of justice certain and easy of access,—
to defend and promote the industry and enterprise
of our own people,—to develope the resources of our
own country,—to vindicate the honour and dignity
of our great nation from the insults and aggressions
of foreign potentates,—to stay the torrent of demo-
cratic influences whose continually increasing en-
croachments seem to threaten the subversion of our
most valued institutions—such are the great lead-
ing objects which Lord DERBY and his colleagues
have hitherto kept steadily in view, and have de-
clared they consider to be the chief ends to which
their policy should be directed. Those who refuse
their support to Lord DERBY, must differ with him
on these or some of these topics. It is nothing
short of mere absurdity for any man to call him-
self a Conservative, who does not in these respects
concur with her Majesty's Government; and any
man who seeks the aid of the disciples of the school
of Manchester, in order to make an effectual oppo-
sition to Lord DERBY'S Government, in fact deals
to Conservatism the most fatal blow which it can

We regret that we cannot find room for the able letters signed
" A Sincere Protestant Dissenter," and " A Bootle Protes-
tant." In fact we are overwhelmed with letters:on the en-
grossing topic of the Election, many of which are well wor-
thy of publication•
We have received a letter from Mr. BATTY, exculpatory of the
conduct of the surgeons in the case of a late inquest upon a
patient at the Southern Hospital, for which we cannot spare
room in the present crowded state of our columns. The
letter, however, has already appeared in another paper, and
has, we think, sufficiently answered the object for which it

was written.
The letter signed" Publius," will probably appear in our next

We only received
We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

at a late hour,

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1852.

ELECTORS ! PRESS EARLY TO THE POLL

THE strugg

TO-MORROW !

e, upon the issue of, which will depend
nce of the Monarchy, the Established

the maintena

titutions

and the Protestant Church, within these

-morrow, to be decided at the hust

of England's Sovereign—will esteem it their highest of religion, to ensure at once the safety of the
I honour to be in name and in deed, " Orangemen in Church and the tranquillity and welfare of the
people.
That Lord DERBY'S Government have the in-

the widest extension of the phrase." But we pre-
tend not yet to this desired result. The nice-
balancing of conflicting parties in the State may
require that the Ministers of the Crown do

nothing more than a,,-

,rinciples are

'ove of principles, when those I

ical, Conservative, and Coat-

stitutional, without committing t

sanction of those more mina

unfortunately, be

impulsive passion

terest of the I

Lstant religion at heart, there ar
not many who will be disposed to deny. But trier

are a few who impudently assert that the ze

Government for P

'poses,

'rotestantism is assume

that their recent proclamation

Roman Catholic

rocessions ova

what is

termed in t

ge of the day, an

fniks suggest

" dodge." These

answer to criticisms on Lord

;ned his speech by

SEL'S famous "Durham letter

of the occasions and the difference of th
adopted by the two Premiers for the yin

ion of the country, are tc
to need comment. That there was abur.

the outraged rel

for a solemn monition, such as was contained in the
proclamation, is surely amply established by the
unhappy events at Stockport. Whether the
mischief might not have been avoided h
authorities, acting in the spirit of the proclama
prevented the procession altogether, we are not
pared to say ; but it is very clear that the pro-
clamation had not, either directly or indirect:
thing to do with those lamentable disturbanc
is abundantly evident that the Roman Ca
were ready, on the first pretence, to
sive part, and that the Protestants were provoked
beyond due bounds by the audacity of the other side
The fact that the procession itself, though R
Catholic priests, well known to be such,

,ly, any

take the

prominent part in it, and though its only cLject
seemed to be a public display of the flourishing con-
dition of Romanism amidst a Protestant people, was
not made the pretence for an outburst of popular