The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The Dumfries Courier of the lfith instant, quotes an article,
headed " When will trade improve", as from the LIVER-
POOL STANDARD. We assure our Scotch readers that we
have never held (except in abhorrence) the sentiments that
our cannie contemporary has attributed to us.
Sufficient has already been said on the subject noticed by
"J P."
If " R H C" will in confidence furnish us with his name,
we shall have something to say to the lecturer whose ob-
servations have caused his animadversions.

Ebt EtbrEpoot &tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1841

We inserted in our last the Mercury's gross calumny
upon this great commercial town so emphatically put
forth in these words—viz., "that in this our native
" town, intolerance and the absence of true Christian
"feeling are more disgustingly prominent than in any
" other town in the kingdom, or any part of the world
" with the history of which we are at all acquainted."
That this most foul and calumnious charge is altoge-
ther false and unfounded, anybody who knows any-
thing of the numerous, respectable, and enlightened
inhabitants of Liverpool will most readily admit; and,
for its own sake, we do not attempt the refutation : it
will be sufficient to say a few words touching the source
from which it springs. And, in the first place, it is
the railing of a grievously chagrined, aged, and disap-
pointed Cynic, who, supposing that lie had founded a
sect sour and cynical as himself, is sorely amazed to
find that in the hour of need the themes fly from him;
the pupils whom he had been so long drilling and on
whom he thought he could rely, scatter ; and himself
left alone to roll his tub, or vent his rage like another
Timon

" Let me look back upon thee, 0 thou wall,
That girdlest in those wolves! Dive in the earth,
And fence not Athens ! Matrons, turn incontinent !
Obedience fail in children ! * *
* * * * Plagues incident to men,
Your potent and infectious fevers heap
On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
Cripple our councillors, that their limbs may halt
As lamely as their „manners !"

With the defeat of Sir Joshua Walinsley and the
Foreign Secretary Whiggery died a natural death in
Liverpool, and Liberalism is now a worn out, decayed,

and exploded fallacy. Can we be surprised then at the
crackbrain raving of a veteran who piqued himself on
being an adept in the art, and hugged himself in the
imagination that he had thoroughly befooled the world
with its mysteries ? We hear his shrill pipe whistling
in the wind, and we gather up the Sybil leaves that he
scatters about ; but we catch the echo of the one and
preserve the fragments of the other only as memorials
of impotent rage and detected folly.
He fumes and sputters about "intolerance," as if he
himself did not stand forth a living disproof of the ac-
cusation. IN"o placid horsepond has been disturbed by
the sousing of his person ; no friendly pump has been
wedded to his ears since this saucy impertinence was
uttered ; nay, the niaiseries, lying, anal stupidity of his
porteleuille are endured; and yet it is of a town and
people who tolerate so much that this, brazen calumni-
ator says, they are " intolerant arid unchristian !"
Why patient and christian endurance: so extraordinary
is worthy of being inscribed upon our crest, and will
pass into a proverb.

But we promised to advert to some other portions of
his tirade. And first, he attributes the reverse of for-
tune which his party have sustained in Liverpool, not
to the loathing and disgust which people everywhere
begin to feel to the false %caching and delusions of
Whiggery, but to the influence of the clergy. " Li-
verpool," says the anile railer, " is cursed with the
presence of meddling Irish Orange parsons, who pro-
stitute the pulpit to factious. party purposes, and evince
their piety by inciting one, portion of the Christian
community to hate and re vile the other." Prodigious
preachers and most comir landing revolutionisers these
Inch Orange Parsons," who could give the Mercury
such long odds, and beat. iirn soundly at his own game
in so short a time ! How little stamina must there
have been in Liberalism -to give way so rapidly, and
sink at once before the M
va sion of two or three simple,
unattended parsons
thing, we ask, must the reli
from reland ! What sort of base
igion or the policy of Libe-
ralism be, that should ftee like a coward, or die aipon

lc instant from such 4 feeble attack as this ? We
Liall merely add, that if the Mercury's statement be
(lowed as the true cause of that glorious change which
as taken place in the political sentiments of Liverpool,
is the strongest condemnation that could possibly be
Itered against the sophistical and miserable inanities
Pi* the mock philosophy, or, rather, mesmeric humbug
.nd nonsense of which the Mercury himself is so emi-