The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

wholesale accusation, for which there seems to be
not the slightest foundation, and have boldly re-
torted the cha.rge. The horning Chronicle states
that it was never one of the favoured papers,
whereas the Times has four times received the
Corporation patronage. But this is not the whole
of the return charge; for, in a case before the
Bankamptcy Court, respecting a certain Islington
Cattle Market Company, the following paragraph
appeared in the reports given by the Herald, the
Chronicle, and the Daily News :

" There is a claim of £5,730 on Messrs. Laurie and Attree,
of which £1,500 will be credited and carried to incidental
charges, whenever they render an account of the manner
in which 150 ten pound shares have been distributed
among the members of the press, for which purpose they
were placed in their hands."

The Times also gave a report of the case, but
omitted all mention of the " 150 shares appro-
priated to the members of the press ; " and the
pertinent question is put, whether the repudiator
of Corporation patronage is equally free from
having shared in a far worse transaction, of which
it had so carefully omitted all mention.
Whatever decision the Commissioners may ar-
rive at, may afford but little interest to Liverpool ;
but we may remind our readers that just twenty
years since, being in November, 1833, a Commis-
sion sat in this town to investigate similar Radical-
made charges of corruption against the old Liver-
pool Corporation, and expectation was on tip-toe
to hear an exposure of doings that were never
intended to bear the light of inquiry. It turned
out, however, that the accusers had relied upon
their imagination for their facts, and the result
was, that the Commissioners paid the highest com-
pliment to the Corporation which words could
express, declaring that the interests of the public
had been managed with far more care and fidelity
than many men devoted to their private affairs.
Municipal Reform followed ; but the characters
which popular election has sometimes allowed to
come into the Council, have caused many to draw
comparisons between the old and new systems, by
no means favourable to the latter.

THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION of Industry and
Art was closed on Monday last week, after having
experienced a success which more than realised
the most sanguine anticipations of its promoters.
It has not only developed the native genius of
long-neglected Ireland, and given a stimulus to
its dormant energies, but has also, by bringing
others acquainted with its capabilities, opened the
way to new markets for its future produce. No
longer confined to the primitive pursuits of rais-
ing beef, pork, and grain, Ireland may, in future,
be looked to for the fruits of more refined inge-
nuity. These are advantages which she has a
right to calculate upon as the results of the Great
Exhibition, and for all these she will be indebted
to the munificence and public spirit of one indi-
vidual, whose energy and enterprise has endowed
him with wealth, which he has devoted to the
welfare of his countrymen. It was but a fitting
compliment to his disinterested generosity to
entertain him at a public banquet to his hononr,
which was given on Wednesday last, in Dublin,
and at which the nobles of the land showed by
their presence the respect which was due to the
genius of labour, so worthily personified in Mr.
WILLIAM DARGAN. If the hope should be
realised of Ireland rising like a phoenix from
the ashes of bigotry and indolence, of agitation
and strife, in which she had well nigh lost her
nationality, and even her population, the name of
WILLIAM DARGAN will be handed down to pos-
terity as the saviour of his country, eclipsing
by its glories the tinsel popularity with which
DANIEL O'CONNELL beguiled the Irish to their
ruin. Liverpool has an interest in the question,
for, every step in advance made by the sister
country, will add still further to the trade of this
port ; and the time may not be far distant, when
Dublin and Liverpool will be united by still
closer ties, and the intermediate Channel bridged
over by additional steam-boats.

THE return of the iron steam-ship Brazileira
from her first successful trip to and from the
Brazils affords an earnest of the increasing traffic
between this great port and the productive conti-
nent of South America. Liverpool has here taken
the lead in applying the powers of steam to the
extension of her commerce with the distant ports
of Brazil, and we may reasonably anticipate that
the good effects will speedily be experienced in a
considerable augmentation of trade, which has
usually been the result of more rapid communica-
tion. This pioneer of the new line of steam-ships
has well maintained the reputation of her builder,
Mr. JOHN LAIRD, of Birkenhead, having per-
formed the distance each way in 26 days, and we
may soon expect to have advices from South
America with the same regularity with which we
now receive them from the United States. Great
credit is due to the enterprising company who
have thus, as 'it were, opened a new source for
commercial traffic, and all who feel any interest in
the prosperity of Liverpool will join in wishing
success to their exertions.

THE MAYOR AND MR. R. GLADSTONE.

" SwmEr are the uses of adversity," said the
poet of all time, and equally beneficial is excess
even in Radicalism, when it serves to reconcile us
with its milder manifestations. There are certain
members of the Town Council who would serve
'their constituents more effectually by following
their colleague to California than by talking against
time at the Council Board ; but they will now ap-
pear as angels of light and real gentlemen in com-
parison with that solitary individual who inter-
rupted the harmony of proceedings at the last
.meeting of the Council. All were agreed as to
the merits of Mr. SAMUEL HOLME in his perform-
ance of the duties of the Mayoralty—all were
inclined to carry the vote of thanks to him by
acclamation ; but the Radical Mr. R. GLADSTONE,
by his extraordinary display, which being without
reason is beyond all argument, not only showed
his own mental and moral defieieney,---for which,
perhaps, he is more to be pitied than condemned,---
but raised his Radical colleagues in public esti-
mation bythe comparison. It will be observed that
he has since attempted a correspondence with the
MAYOR ; but the latter has more good sense than
to allow himself to be dragged into a paper war
with one so utterly! regardless of the ordinary
amenities of society.