The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have again to say that we cannot insert advertisements
from London, unless they are forwarded to us by one of
our agents. The announcement of " The Daily Despatch
cannot appear in the STANDARD unless transm►tted
through the medium of some regular news-agent in
town.

The number of licensed victuallers in Liverpool was stated
in our last at 382 ; it should have been 1.382.
One of our country subscribers asks us to enclose the
STANDARD in a stronger cover, and write the address on
the paper in addition to the usual one on the wrapper, and
tie a string around both for greater security. We should
be glad to follow our correspondent's advice if we had
only half-a-dozen papers to despatch; but to send two or
three hundred in such a way as he recommends, with fre-
quently only two or three minutes for the operation, would
not only be inconvenient, but absolutely impracticable.
We can assure the fair authoress who has addressed us on
the subject, that her selection of a radical printer and
publisher will not, as she fears, have the slightest influence
on any remarks which we may submit to the public in no-
ticing her productions. We 'felt almost inclined to be in-
sulted by such an insinuation.
The " Fine Young English Gentleman" shall appear on
Tuesday.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is not elected by the
ministry, but by a majority of the members of the house.
The present speaker was first appointed in 1839, on the
elevation of Mr. Abercromby to the peerage, and whilst
the whips were in power, Lord Melbourne having suc-
ceeded on the resignation of Sir Robert Peel, who was
driven from office by the Bedchamber Plot.

Ebt 7Liberpoot Otanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1841

A London contemporary describes the present mi-
nisterial party as. probably the " strongest in moral
force" that ever appeared in a British Parliament. It
is almost superfluous to say that we concur altogether
in the observation; and such strength is the more re-
markable from the contrast in which it stands with that
of the exiled company, who were extremely deficient in
this particular commodity. Nobody ever spoke of the
moral force of the Whigs; it was a sort of thing upon
which they seemed to set very little value—conceiving,
probably, that they could get on quite well enough
without it. People would only laugh.to hear anybody!
talk of the moral force of Lord Melbourne, Lord Nor-'
rnanby, Lord Palmerston, or of Daniel O'Connell,
(who, by the way, had more of it than any of the rest);

The ministry of Sir Robert Peel succeeds, and it
comes to power with that double moral force of which
we have spoken—the moral force which is derived
from defending and upholding those things which
command the respect of mankind, and from weight of
personal character, or that additional influence which
men gain by being esteemed sincere, earnest, unaffect-
ed, and pure in their designs and actions. To have
such a ministry at the head of afihirs is a subject which
we cannot contemplate without deep acknowledgments
of thankfulness, and offering to our readers our warmest
congratulations. Its influence will be felt in the re-
motest corner of the empire. It reaches touts whilst
we write, because the accession of such men to power
inspires us with, a confidence which' we could not
otherwise feel, that their actions will be right, and that
the affairs of the country will be administered wisely
and well in their hands.

That which is " moral force" on their part becomes

"confidence" in its operation upOn others; and such
confidence is one of the most powerful agents in pro-
moting social happiness. People no longer perplexed
with fear of change, cease from the agitating pursuit
of party politics; they place trust in their rulers, and
without ceasing altogether to be observers of their

Conduct, they enjoy repose from the conviction that
their affairs are in good hands. Confidence and repose I
of this kind are favourable in the highest degree to
commerce, the arts, and peaceful industry in every
form. There is but one thing more which civil go-
vernment can do—one other effect which it can aim at
producing—and that is the religious enlightenment
and moral happiness of the people. We expect that
such an aim will be kept in view by the administration
of Sir Robert Peel, and that such an effect will be pro-
duced by it,
Sir Robert Peel comes in as a Conservative minis-
ter, and, as such, has nothing to do with Liberalism—
that thing which has to look for its religion—its political
-creed—its everything. He must know well that this
country owes everything to that pure faith •which it
professes, or, rather, to that gracious dispensation of
divine Providence which attests the purity of the na-
tional worship by the signal prosperity and great ho-
nour to which it has permitted the people to attain;
and therefore he will spare no pains to uphold and ex-
tend the National Church, and spread the faith and
practice taught by its ministers widely through the
land. The Whigs pretended a mighty zeal for the
welfare of the people; but they did not show it in any
one way. that could contribute to their moral elevation
or solid happiness. They ministered to their lust of
power, or their love of change; they indulged them
with a liberty of opinion, and a choice of instructors;
which amounted to licentiousness ; they abandoned the
flock to thieves and robbers, and sent out none to guide
or direct them ; they, in fact, did nothing for the peo-
ple which could subserve their moral interests ; on the
contrary, their influence was in quite an opposite di-
A Conservative ministry cannot do so ; it

eel it as a burtlion themselves, and are painfully eon-
tious- of their deficiencies. Do, then, electors, we
;ay, relieve them of their municipal offices ; set them
it liberty from ,cares of state, and you will do them
md your fellow-townsmen, at the same time, an infinite

ervice

Strangers have frequently remarked to us the im-
mense amount of demoralisation which presents itself
to view even in our most public streets ; and we find
it difficult to offer any apology on the subject. Every
body is aware that there is a large Police force con-
stantly on duty through the town, i. e., dOing nothing,
and each man helping his companion diligently at the
same laudable 'work : also that her Majesty's proclama-
tion against vice and immorality is duly read twice in
the year, at the commencement of each assizes; and
also that Mr. Rushton, the Stipendiary Magistrate,
duly admonishes, as well as fines, all the disorderlies
that come before him in the course of his daily sittings
in the Police-court : and yet, with all this, the town,
as we hear, presents to the eye of the stranger much

;hat offends in the way we refer to, and is,' in fact,
reproachable in this respect beyond other towns. Now,
.s not this a disgrace to our local government ? Where
Ls their " moral force," if they have any, whilst these
things exist in a degree so glaringly apparent and so
Dffensively visible to the eye of a visiter ? Does the

Chief Magistrate, or the Council, assist in any degree
in carrying out the royal proclamation, whilst they
wink at these things, and take no pains to remove "or
restrain exhibitions so extremely disgusting ? Why,
we might as well have no such authorities at all, for
any thing they do to keep such nuisances out of sight;
and when we refer to the outward demonstration, of
course we would be understood to complain of the still
more unpardonable laxity and liberalism which must
exist in a proportionate degree towards the resorts of
infamy, and the vices themselves which lead to the
exhibition.

Change, then, in its personal composition, we say

a local government which exerts no wholesome infln•
ence in the abatement of gross immorality—whicl
shows no paternal care for the moral well-being of the

,wer orders—and which knows no better creed to ac'
pon in the education or government of the people
religion or politics, than indiscriminate licence.

Every man who feels the most ordinary degree a

!gard for the locality in which he dwells, ought t 4
!el a deep interest in this subject—we care not whethe
ebe Whig or Tory for this purpose. If he be any
[sing of a fair or moderate Whig, we would seriousl
ut it to him that liberals have been tried long enougi
municipal administration, and that they have faile,
30St miserably ; and that be ought, therefore, as
;ood citizen, and a good townsman, to assist in turn

ag them out of a position for which they have n(
alent—no fitness. The party in power do themselve