The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

MR. CHARLES KEAN is engaged at this Theatre for
Ten Nights, being his FAREWELL VISIT T.o Livsitroo!a
previous to his departure for the United States, and
make his second appearance this season be
THIS present TUESDAY, April 30, 1839, When will
performed the Tragedy of
PIZARRO.

Rolla — Mr. Charles Kean.
Viva-9,
Pizarro.... Mr. Gray ' Orozembo Mr. .1
A10nz0.... Mr. W. Howard Cora Miss Fano,
Las Casas . Mr. Chaplin Elvira Miss Cleaver
To conclude with the Melo-Drama of the
BROKEN SWORD;
OR, THE DUMB BOY.
Rigolio.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Estevan Mr. Grimy.,
Myrtillo (the Dumb Boy):: Mrs. Tenet.

it-osara.... Miss Cleaver.
LATDOY- TO-MORROW, RI,
y 0 Wo
N,
s( W. ecdlnaeusddeaym,)e
itnhoettpeo, pmulra.ralg. fecatanbse..;
Beauseant, Mr. Lynne, (from the Theatre-Royal, New__
as,
tle-upon-Tyne,) his first appearance here ; Colonel 1)::„
Mr. Vivash Glavis, Mr. WV. H. Bland ; Madame De rr.1"...
pelles, Mrs. Clarke ; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Faucet.
To conclude with the Melo-Drama of THE BRIGA'
Alessandro Massaroni, Air. Stuart.

ebe ktbrrpoot --„tanbarbi

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1;39•

By the Packet-ship Independence we have receive'
New York papers to the Sth instant, inclusive, extracts
from which will be found in another column.
The news from the frontier is of a satisfactory e
racter. Governor Fairfield had ordered all the mil.
in the service of the State of Maine to be diseharg„
The correspondence between General Scott
John Harvey announces the amicable termination ca
the dispute.
Incendiary fired were extremely prevalent on tit s
frontier of Canada. Great excitement and animoint/
had been engendered by these burnings. of
A resolution had passed the House of Assembly
Upper Canada in favour of the legislative union of bot'
provinces. The Toronto Mirror states that Sir At s
M'Nabb and Mr. H. Merritt had been appointed:r
the Assembly as commissioners to visit England 00
W
subject of the proposed union. t
/r,
Mr. Biddle had resigned the office of Presidetli
the Bank of the United States. His successor is 'at
Dunlap. It is said that the appointment of SPeclor
Minister to Great Britain had been offered to Govern

Everett.
The Packet-ships Roscoe and Sheffield had
at New York from Liverpool.
The Exchange on England for the packet of the Ban
instant was 9to 91 premium. The shares in the 133
of the United States had fallen to 1124.

We have been favoured with a copy of the Cati'lcul;
Register Extra of the 13th of December last, in
find an account of the intended execution of 3 ''o,
nese, and of a serious riot in front of the foreign fact;ng
The Chinese had been found guilty of keeP;;,
an opium-smoking shop, an establishment strictly I),
hibited by the authorities. The square before the lof
tories was fixed upon by the governor as the Plac.,e et,
execution, without any intimation to the hong 'tion
chants, the only authorised channel of comninnic3,,ie
with foreigners ; and it is stated that it was °Lit tion
the memory of man," or on record, that an el7tbat
had ever taken place there before. It is allege" be- ce
the reason why the governor fixed upon the the
place as the scene of the execution was, to rende.rdia
foreigners hateful in the eyes of the natives, by rtiose
the unfortunate being to death 'in the sight of
be
with whom it had been concluded that he 11',41)!
connected in business. The news spread ler to
through the whole body of foreigners, who betted
assemble in order to interrupt such an unpreeS in
and offensive proceeding. An English gentle °:;14
particular, was active and loud in his protests the
the insult thus offered to all foreigners, and °no, to
disgrace that would be entailed on them, were tore.. to
submit to the degradation of allowing their sclnavti'
be made the Chinese execution-ground. These
bled
ments were immediately diffused among the a7ioton'
foreigners. Almost every resident foreigner in 130t9'
as well as several commanders of ships with then...rtinoll
crews, were on the spot where the intended el'aer the
was to take place, which was nearly directly bv the
American flag, (which had been hauled dosvil'toeP
„
consul's orders,) and opposite to the Swedish '3:4eo
in which the American consul resides. The Pid
insisted that every implement of execution arse
frArn the square, and embarked in if:th
by
requisition which was immediately compliedL
the Chinese. The latter appeared pleased at 'btnt
the determination evinced by the foreigners; ,i-ps
they continued to crowd around the various iftl3-ibeo
the square, many of the foreigners began to best itoe
off with their canes. The crowds of Chinese'
ever, shortly increased, and made a rush °...irboog'
foreigners, who took refuge in the iroPer' tilt
Missiles of every description were sent throogas
doorway as they retired, and one gentleman
verely wounded in the head. The door was Ic,
ately closed and strongly barricaded. The 111°."
00
nued their assaults on the fronts of the factore' at'
withstanding the efforts of a number of officers,
the police, many of whom Were wounded in lc ace
Bricks and rails were used as weapons of attlato,4
the doors, windows, and verandahs of the ',loo'
The furniture in many of the houses was en°s_olo, eerm
damaged. About four o'clock, P.M., a lonkerfie of 7or
ing the confederated group of ruffians using °.the drj
pulled-up top-rails as a b-dtering ram againA,,nt, SP,
of 'the residence of her Majesty's superintellual;ll),,Je:
seeing several of the Chinese on the rerand ft,
having climbed as high as the second windo'ie"
.4(10
the state of affairs to an old and influenti3.n.dlo,
who directly applied to the proper quarter, ". lvt
cured the attendance of a detachment of rnilitalha;
mob were immediately dispersed. It is said tare, o
thousand Chinese were congregated in the sci7pg bee
Captain Elliot, who was at Whampoa, have. rwal9
informed of the disturbance by a dispatch flat 5 and
from Canton, immediately mustered the fo of
,a
crews of the shipping, and arrived in the cot— 004'
evening with 120 men; but fortunately the°. ty
were not required. 'tl
For the following extract of a letter relatif off
the
above affair we are indebted to Mr. Court, °
derwiiter's Room :

Pecj'
" CANTON, 13tetijd "tt
" SIR,—For the information of them erc3-, 1/4hi
shipping interests trading to this quarter, sscibot
acquaint you that the Chinese authorities ha in coP4'
proper to stop the trade since the 4th instant,il"l,/
quence of an European being detected too *,,
opium into his factory, and have. ordered 11''stio,
Canton immediately ; stating their deterirlii:
e
keep the trade closed till their orders are °lllllll
a'
with. to
the ef
Considerable excitement has prevailed 6-11tielleeiti
and was much increased yesterday, in e°°:eti n'Ait;
the Viceroy having ordered a Chinese W tired to°, :J
in front of the factories. This was consider", in`
and the,aratts
suiting to the foreign community,
upon, and effected, the removal of the aril
ectd,
coli

execution. .
"In consequence of the many til°tisate s
great rioting took place, which ended in alib
the foreign factories; however, before 1n 8O
was done, the military, headed by the chje
made their, appearance, and restored order'
00 t°,o
" Whilst at its height, a requisition wasio pro°;ell'
shipping at Whampoa for assistance, `body of or
responded to the call by sending uP a 00::,
armed seamen, who were accompanied bY rsed,
perintendent ; but the mob havii3g disPe be
or
services were happily not required. .bje
" What effect these disturbances ill 0551
long the trade will remain closed, it is
say as yet." AO/
1111.6er

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of the number of those who regard this et' e VI,
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hooked our fish, and we care not 1114'o': see
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the line ; we shall certainly land hitri-with
,e poll i
his gills safely enough before long. We 11.°%etii444
those reasons which influenced the 31
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much store by the administration a the ..$ll
,_ 1300 g,
Government ?" We are content that tile c 1,17 f'
stitution is secured against legislative I'lfrilie#llol,`:4,l
though we grieve that Ireland (to use P 00;1 01
1
words) should be governed even a sh°l4 sv
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by the member for Dublin, have the sacitlol3
knowing that Enilish legigatiOn- -(3.y, all
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to the superintendence and approval of
i",:ter:.c,nservative leader.
of natio tile Duke of 'Wellington decided the destiny
defe ns on the field of Waterloo, he was fighting a
eliers we battle. With the enemy there was ambition,
gage of of Power ;-truth, justice, and the general.
was -7 mankind, with the British chieftain. It
Tirne:Poleon's cue to put the issue at once to hazard.
it now 48 his most dangerous antagonist. Just so is
\Vern with the conservatives and Sir Robert Peel.
When list have leisure to consolidate our forces, and,
and en" we strike the blow, we must strike decisively ;
fame 2elY More inspiriting were the Duke's memo-
ree words,
" up, boys, and at them !"-when the
turoali" genius of Britain vindicated the liberties of
ltohePe, and the rights of mankind-than will be Sir
gent
BrtB decisive charge, when he lets slip his impa-
thiaeouPPorters upon the hostile and alien ranks. In
o.ri°llB consummation none will deserve to share
whoheaY who have borne steadily the defensive fight,
litrn' 3'e. formed the square' phalanx, and evinced the
knit Panea„
4 of British bravery. And we have little
11.4 bll'nd on this score with our conservative friends.
hrMhreen f
°°(l. is Proverbially warm, and
()lir Protestant
of hittrnni Ireland have the exasperating memory
lep rOngs and insults inflicted by an inferior and
let e` e, the Milesians of the southern provinces.
Isrl 6:1 the Orangemen are patient and confiding,
Nciz.dt. steadily
and manfully under the conservative
e,
theberPose to ourselves some profit in considering
w,Lings of Lord John Russell's motion, and the
strehZ`4, nces which attended the division. The
stOgerhn of conservatism is character. We have no
rkter,_„.°Pe than character, and the support which cha-
the to,...7ninsure us with the English people. When
thtaiZs fashioned the reform bill, they reserved for
'1
They I,_es a handsome balance of close boroughs.
' 4r
045, e swamped the Scottish counties with fictiti-
-1 They have the great boroughmonger of
ballia2 With his forty myrmidons-forty being (as
I:lnaCunnslY observed last Friday) a most appro-
intinher, The Whigs too have the court with
kgai;1411(1 the Queen's name is a tower of strength.
st all
kale these important forces in the antagonist
ellkactee have only to set the strength of conservative
tiltl I.', the generous fidelity of the English people,
lick the
derived to truth from free and fair discus-
t'llie444 this discussion we propose from time to time
the °lir humble part, well knowing that in no city
didly aetnPire will political investigations be more can-
tve and" abl
y appreciated than in this good conserva-
;lv 4oyal town of Liverpool.
1144,11 we adverted a few weeks back to a certain whig
IVejahtresPecting a majority " clear of all officials."
los'glied this idea to scorn. We knew that a ma-
ir,atiof sixteen was far more likely than a majority of
111) by astilillY• This idea,.we perceive, has been taken
INN Ire of our conservative contemporaries, and
iagainst the ministers, who are said to have been
tileiro„l Paltry majority, more than composed of
*eight."' officials. Giving to this argument its due
iropon:,a nd it does not seem to be wholly without its
t4iitiste;nee, let US consider the materials of which the
ten'e ti-al Phalanx was composed ; and first let us ob-
the popular party ranks amongst its number
Portaat 'an 29 members from the following most im-
vP ces
ineebnrY, 1, Viscount Andover ; Westbury, 1,
flkt,k---;lse°e; Liskeard, 1, C. Buller ; Malton, 2,
1%. urut°ll---T.W.Childers ; 'Fhirsk, 1, Sir S. Cromp-
"Ye°Mbe, 9 G. R. S .111 G H. Dashwood ;
Noe a mi. - .
`‘Ordfit 2, A. Speirs-Sir R. Dundas ; Arundel, 1,
11:ts zallan ; Great Grimsby, 1, Heneage ; Hors-
,,errott' 4* H. Hurst; Totness, 2, Lord Seymour-J.
• -k;; Morpeth, 1, Lord Leveson ; Ashburton, 1,
1,,l(le1(1182-41,:gt°11; Beaumaris,- 1, Captain Paget ; Tavis-
ij `conchs Russell-T. Rundle; Flint, 1, Captain
miirst `t,rindas; Caine, 1, Lord Shelbourne; Mid-
gcm. Captain Spencer ; Bewdley, 1, Sir T.
• obn,ligtnn ; Northallerton, 1, W. Wrightson ; Peter-
!, 2, T. W. Fazakerly-Sir R. Heron; Wick,
4:; c 11; Swansea, 1, J. H. Vivian. 29.
1;144; Could, without difficulty, have raised this num-
tli,t7
u appropriate "forty." We hope an analysis
bokti;i2irision will be made with reference to close
444;7' Some few, like Helston, will be found con-
-4 More, like Thetford and Cricklade, divided,
• 1174.ning one conservative and one whig : but far
tittse-st of all will be ceruyo inera, sheer whiggery.
Ittfcw:hbigs were crafty fellows : they did not pass thetr
'''tqw .74/ for nothing. But their lease is nearly oico-
Pop 11 11 these large constituencies, the rotten .
Slsrg; Which a natural thrift recommended to whig
tAtilie:l were swept away-if these 29 votes were ex-
fit tli,'„fr°lll the majority-where would be the nit
teribi 'louse of Commons, the acquittal of these
4114;ers e ministers on Saturday morning last ? Echo
" Where !" And yet this is the voice of the
brohtt- and this is the solemn appeal of political Maw-
like the Irish secretary, Viscount Morpeth ! !
Ir.L.l' take the question nationally. According to
Ittio 7/V'S division list we find that England was con-
:te:Le as 251 to 224, leaving a clear balance of 27.
4 to t144(1, the hotbed of whiggery, the numbers were
44.10 •t,7) leaving yet upon the British isles an absolute
of 13 in favour of Sir Robert Peel. The
"labels4l4 brought in 66 mercenaries to the ministerial
4 Nit:: for Which Protestant Ireland could only afford
%N. :``rPoise of 31 ; thus leaving a balance of 35 to
ieigh „
i (if, the British verdict in our favour by the n-
-its 22, which sealed this so-called and scanty
rY.
Arlto
Ofirb, an
and analysis of Scottish and Irish boroughm on-
° traffic in close counties, we have neither
4t
ger space, nor we confess any disposition to enter
;,
to t: Rottenness is the general rule, and we leave
N'oe-11, °lle on the other side to bring forward and
huttne exceptions.
iraposwe invite the attention of our readers to the
t fact, that 41 English county members voted
1411: -e Whigs. What the effect of a dissolution of
t)f I;l4lent will be upon this 41, we think the example
ibe'v°llBhire, and of many another county contest,
4144 Zve satisfied our readers : and we dare say these
hib.- are registered carefully enough at the Reform
(41'. ?'hey have a balance, too, of 41 against us
Sidle;ecinnell's observation as to that appropriate
14k% "nes in fitly enough again in these two last
4naiLet4) in the English cities and boroughs, the
tki -vre Is •
.411 being 188 to 147 ; and this balance we leave
tt'sregrieat Confidence to the liquidating influences of a
Ztion- And we are by no means without san-
'l4 ado
that in Scotland and Ireland much may
-oLtle• At all events, in these portions of the
*lve Aire
things cannot go more against us than they
-sad Cantabit vacuus : we are secure against
I
I•
rnte here for one moment to admire the truly
14kb2tdestY and force of argument with which the
liort.`rs claim additional representations for their
thtylZl of the empire, because in every great contest
Its
t:ve turned the scale in favour of the liberals !
lkteltl7 words, whenever the stake of government has
toNn fairly
set to hazard, Great Britain has always been
11.41 t :as has always been radical,-Ire-
'n, :ts always had its way ;-and yet justice to Ire-
44ve i(lllires that the Milesian mercenaries should
414 itite number of their myrmidons augmented ! !
• ,%'tra wild justice" with a vengeance.
:ertaioltge rumours are afloat as to the terms on which
Sir 1t.040i-disant liberals have offered their support to
When
hbert Peel, Ephialtes got but a poor reward
rtioN e betrayed his country to the Persian at Ther-
-114 ' the scoundrel who sold the immortal Wallace
do illaotr4ed the guerdon of universal infamy. Now we
tat tr2,lank Mr. Fielden of Oldham, the solitary radi-
ket,Zor,
for his unsought vote. Neither, we sus-
ilervatilll those worse renegades, the professing con-
!lkVe Va, Messrs. Gibson, and Goddard, and Ingham,
1540,111. ileh cause to reflect with satisfaction on their
l's.47lnions betrayal of the principles they basely pro-
Hume indeed praised them for their can-
114;e'rtu such praise came well enough from Mr.
to be bestowed on g
_`' that drivelling virtue of this moral age,
C
'
A`rid ur ! that softens party's headlong rage,
tiod sees, with nice discriminating sight,
)3141, 'kek 's not ,yo black, nor white so very white."
uetter
black mien, who do know the difference between
ly. and white, Will •
4, The cojudge these proceedings different-
' corin. nntry will commend them to their respect-
ceive
the rtl__eilts, from whom, we hope, they will re-
11.4inortan, cWard they richly deserve. From that very
exi t Place, Cricklade, we confess but little is to
tea (144tiori there can be little room then for the cir-
of
r""tical intelligence and the wholesome in-

terchange of opinion. We commend it to the earnest
reformers, and hope they will find it a place in the sche-
dule Aof their new reform bill. But we look with
confidence to Ipswich and South Shields.

We have thus endeavoured in this and our last num-
ber to estimate the present position of public affairs,
because it must be evident to every person of religion
and good sense that a strong under current is at work,
though a temporary calin may brood upon the surface,
and that, for good or evil, this current may be guided,
but cannot be restrained ; and we know of no way for
saving the British empire from the perilous dilemma
into which, by wicked counsels, it has unhappily been
brought, except by cultivating among the people at
large a habit of calm and serious reflection. Fixedness
of purpose for good, and steadiness in resisting blasts
of strange doctrine and sudden excitement, are the
only safeguards which the recent changes in the balance
of power have left to the British constitution. If we
can contribute in the smallest and most limited degree
to cultivate these great principles, we shall not have
been wholly useless. Few towns are so intelligent as
this good town of Liverpool, and nowhere is it more
important that sound principles should flourish and
increase, since none exercise by their example a more
extensive influence over the public mind. And we shall
never remember without the liveliest sense of pride and
pleasure, that the tradesmen of Lii-erpool have set to
their brethren throughout the empire the noble exam-
ple of uniting in an association, whose avowed object
and consistent practice has been not more to support
the good they found existing in the institutions of
their country, than to promote the diffusion of sound
principles, religious, moral, and political, by every law-
ful means. This course will save the country yet : if
it does not, we are lost irredeemably. Di feliciter
Vortant !

William Ewart has been declared duly returned as a
member of Parliament for the borough of Wigan.
This is just what we expected. The constitution of
the committee, composed as it was of seven liberals
against five conservatives, convinced us that the case
of the petitioner was hopeless. Who ever heard of an
instance in which a liberal committee decided otherwise
than according to their political bias and in favour of a
fellow-reformer ? Henceforth, at least untiLan altera-
tion takes place in the system of deciding upon con-
troverted elections, we would advise our conservative
friends to abandon their petitions the moment they
discover that a majority of their adversaries have been
placed upon the committees. It is worse than useless
to expect a tribunal in which the liberals have a decid-
ing voice to have any regard for the justice of any
case.

The result of the petition against Mr. Ewart's re-
turn has furnished us with another proof of the ne-
cessity of some reform in the system of deciding upon
controverted returns to Parliament. The evils of the
present system are of too extended a character, and
involve interests too important in their nature, to be
allowed to continue much longer. We are glad that
the subject was brought so prominently before the
House of Commons on Friday evening last. Among
the speakers who delivered their sentiments on Sir Ro-
bert Peel's " Election Petitions Trial Bill," we find Sir
George Strickland, who, our readers may recollect,
obtained an unenviable degree of notoriety, as the
chairman of the Hull Election Committee. He com-

plained bitterly of the animadversions which had been
made upon his conduct; but he altogether forgot to
mention that he had given as many as ten double votes
in his capacity of chairman. He also forgot to say that
but for these double votes, many of the extraordinary
decisions of the committee would have been reversed.
The reply of Sir Henry Hardinge was of the most
stinging character. How applicable are his concluding
words to the liberals in general ! He said, in reference
to Sir George Strickland, " Such, in a word, was his
conduct, that if the bill now pending, shall give a right
of objection against any individual as a member of a
committee, I never will hear that hon. baronet's name
proposed, without stating that I consider him disquali-
fied for any such function, not by his motives, because
those I cannot read, but by his incompetency, his ig-
norance, and his want of common sense."

Whether Sir Robert Peel's bill is calculated or not
to reined)" all the existing evils in the mode of deciding
upon the merits of election petitions, there can be no
doubt that a change is loudly called for—a change
which shall tend, at all events, to produce something '
like uniformity in the proceedings and decisions of
election conmitttees. •!.•
f
observable in these proceedings is, undoubtedly, owing
to the ambiguity of certain clauses in the Reform Bill.
Would it not be advisable to pass a series of short
declaratory acts, fixing and defining the exact meaning
and application of those clauses ? Would it not be
also advantageous to furnish each committee with a
code of instructions, in conformity to which all its de-
cisions should be framed ? We see no reason what-
ever for removing the trial of controverted elections
from the jurisdiction of the House of Commons. As
to Mr. Buller's suggestion that three assessors should
be appointed to try every election petition, the absur-
dity of this plan was fully demonstrated by Sir Robert
Peel. In the month of March, 1838, there were, on
an average, seven election committees sitting simulta-
neously. How could three assessors assist seven com-
mittees ?

But, whatever alteration may take place in the law
on this subject, little benefit can be expected to result
from it until we have a more honest set of men in the
House of Commons than the present liberal majority.

Mr. Sleigh (so we find him designated in the New
York papers) has just published a pamphlet, entitled
"A Visit to the Corporation Schools in Liverpool," in
which he has thought proper to indulge in certain re-
marks respecting his late connection with the Liverpool
Standard. We have hitherto carefully abstained from
making any allusion whatever to this gentleman's se-
cession from this paper, in the full conviction that
the reasons which he has publicly assigned as the cause
of his resignation, would be considered by our conserva-
tive friends as an ample justification of the conduct of
the proprietors of this journal. As to the liberal faction,
we did not care one fig what they might think or say
in reference to " the stand " on which Mr. Sleigh
takes such a large amount of credit to himself. Our
silence has been more than justified by the publication
of the pamphlet to which we have alluded. The con-
servative public must now lie fully satisfied that Mr.
Sleigh is a liberal of the first water in politics, and an
anythingarian in religion, and, of course, as such, a very
unfit person to have the conduct of a journal essentially
constitutional in its principles, and pledged, in the
most unqualified manner, to advocate the interests of
the Protestant Established Church.

If Mr. Sleigh had confined his remarks to the sub-
ject of the Corporation Schools, we might have con-
tented ourselves with consigning his pamphlet to that
oblivious contempt which is its only merit : but as he
has, in his introductory remarks, sought to implicate the
character of the proprietors of the Liverpool Standard,
we feel called upon, in justice to them, to repel his in-
sinuations.

We shall not stop to inquire who was the " gentle-
man" who called upon Mr. Sleigh to " fulfil his pro-
mise" to visit the Corporation Schools. He may pos-
sibly be a member of the Education Committee, or a
phantom of Mr. Sleigh's imagination. Nor are we
curious to know at whose "request" the pamphlet on
which we are commenting has been published. We
hope that the expense of printing it will not be de-
frayed out of the corporate funds. These things we
pass by.

Among the " preliminary remarks" which Mr. Sleigh
makes, we find the following assertions :

" When he was invited to edit the Journal before men-
tioned, he consented to do so upon the distinct understanding
that it was TRUTH, and not party, he was to advocate and
defend :—that he was to render equal justice to all—and not
to defend error, even in friends ; if any, therefore, imagine
that he ever joined that paper for the purpose of defending
TORIES, and repudiating WHIGS and RADICALS, right or
wrong,' they are very much mistaken."

Mr. Sleigh must be possessed of a most marvellous
stock of ignorance or presumption, if he imagines that
the public of Liverpool can be gulled by such state-
ments as the above. Would it be credited that the
proprietors of the Albion, the Times, the Mercury, the
Journal, or the Chronicle, would be disposed to intrust
the editorial controul of their respective journals into
the hands of parties without any fixed principles in
politics ? Is it not equally absurd to expect that the
proprietors of a conservative paper should be guilty of
such palpable inconsistency ?

The fact is, that Mr. Sleigh was engaged by the
proprietors of this journal under the persuasion that
he was a conservative and a churchman. It turns out
that he is neither. Who has been deceived ? Is it
Mr. Sleigh ? Did he not, in his prospectus, pledge
himself to support those principles which have been
all along advocated by the Standard ? If he could
not conscientiously do so, why, did he accept the en-
gagement ? If he did not think that the " tories" were
" right," and that the " whigs and radicals" were
"wrong," he was not acting candidly in reserving this
opinion to himself. If he did not believe that the
interests of " truth" were identical with the cause of

the conservative " party," why did he so far compro-
mise his character as to undertake the editorship of a
journal irrevocably pledged to the support of conser-