The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We beg to inform our friends and correspondents that
it will be impossible to attend to their many favours
until after the assizes. Long articles, long adver-
tisements, and long reports have recently been forces
.upon us to such an extent, that, if the pressure should
continue, we shall be compelled to publish three times
a week, if we do not convert the LIVERPOOL STANDARD
at once into a daily paper.

flbe ilifterpool *tanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1836.

What a hash set of people must the reformers of the
town called Nottingham be ! We read that a procession
of " lace makers, sinkermakers, and needlemakers" went
out of that vile town the other day to welcome the Irish
beggar, and listen to his stale lies about "justice to Ire- •
land." Now, what is a "sinkermaker Y" We can fancy
the quantity of brains necessary to make any animal art
accomplished polisher or pointer of needles or pins, and
we have an idea of the human machine which assists the
other machine in making lace ; but what is a sinker-
maker? A stitcher of a button-hole is supposed to re-
quire only the ninth part of an idea to enable him to
earn good wages; but even this paucity of intellect ne-
cessary in the journeyman tailor would he absolutely
wasted upon the borer of needle eyes, and who never
did any thing since he was born but bore needle eyes.
He who never worked at any other handicraft, and could
not earn a livelihood at any other handicraft but that of
making pin points or pin heads must have a rare head of
his own. The poor squirrel which turns the wire tread-
mill is quite as respectable in the scale of creation, nearly
as intelligent, and by no means much less useful.
It was questionless by needle-eye and pin-head crea-
tures of this calibre that O'CONNELL was met, fed, and- •
cheered at Nottingham last week. We have uniformly
remarked that where quakers (whether of the moist or
dry order makes no difference) obtain any ascendancy in
a town, the inhabitants are the meanest, poorest, least
intelligent, and most discontented of the people of Eng- .
land. This, we believe, is the case with Nottingham.
The drab there is the cloth in fashion. Old HOWITT is a
sort of king, and on this occasion he forgot his cant about
"cruelty to animals," and went in state, in " a very ele-
gant barouche, drawn by four white horses," to meet the
Laird of Darrynane—the Lord High Protector of big
Majesty's ministers ! •
When such a man is held in esteem by the mob, we • •H.
may easily guess what a degraded mob it must be. We. •
see further proof of their thorough baseness and dege-
neracy in the fact that they have not in the whole town a • •
man whom they deem fit to represent them in parlia-
ment. They have no faith in each other, because the
pin-head and the sinker-makers consider their leaders to.
be not one whikrance, intelligent thantlentseites,,....TheY—''
have imported Sir RONALD FERGUSSON front Scotland
•
and Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE from amid the rotten cab-
bages of Covent Garden to protect the lace points and
the needles and pins in parliament. It was natural, per-
haps, that they should choose Sir RONALD, seeing that be
never had represented any respectable constituency. Ort
this ground he was admirably qualified for Nottingham•
Sir JOHN CAM had been drummed out of Westminster,-
.and pelted by the first-chop radicals of the Seven Dials
as an apostate—as a man who had sold his principles for
place and pelf—and, consequently, he was quite good
enough for the second-chop radicals of Nottingham. Sir , •
Jous CAM is a splendid specimen of an ultra reformer in•
whig livery—a non-flogging radical wielding the lash
when secretary at war ! _ ,

The simple fact that Nottingham is so represented de-
monstrates how very far down the bobbinet people,
the
mitten-men, the pin-head birds, and the sinkermakerS,
stand in the scale of independence and civilization.
men:to be ridden, as the proverb says horses are, when
ridden by beggars. DANIEL is a beggar and something
more ; he is a popish agitator, and something more ;
is a repealer, and something more; he is a liar, and
something more; he knows as much about the trade and
interests of Nottingham as he does of purgatory, anti
something less and therefore he is properly fitted bY
character to address, instruct, humbug, mislead, and af-
terwards betray the community of pinheads and other
blockheads who constißite the present majority of the
constituency of Nottingham. 'Why does not Sir RosALP
FERGUSON sell bins his seat as one KENNEDY did Tiver'
ton, Or one Fox did Stroud, and release the demagogue
from the embarrassment of his position ? Sir RoN'tli'n
cannot be a rich man, and we are sure the Treal
would be liberal. if O'CONNELL were to offer birt"'e....,
for STotti.nrgbain he ..vould certainly be reetrrned., rtl7