The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-10 00:00:00

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bT v Tit s office the KING'S representative, and
in that capacity he should have resisted every attempt
'calculated to produce dissension amongst the three estates
or the realm---by setting the Sovereign and the Com-
mons in hostile array against the House of Lords.
The attempt, it is true, failed, but no thanks to the
MAYOR. The radicals were soundly and signally de-
reated; but no thanks to the chairman. Mr. JAMES
BRANCKER, despite his vulgarity and his impudence, was
hooted and laughed down, the auction-room eloquence of
COGLAN had no admirers, the penny magazine wisdom
of unitarian BOLTON was not inspiring, Mr. SHIEL did
not play the part of "Dr. O'Toole" to any advantage,
and the indigenous absurdities of that very shallow per-
son, Mr LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, were only ludicrous, but
for all this, no thanks to Mr. WILLIAM WALLACE CURRIE.
The first resolution submitted to the meeting was, that
the blessing: of municipal reform in England and Scot-
land were " felt and acknowledged." This when put to
thevote was decidedly negatived. The next resolution, '
moved by Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, was, "that this meeting
feeling the greatest satisfaction in the course adopted by
the Muse of Lords, most sincerely deprecates any at-
tempti to interfere with their rights;" which motion was
met by the amendment of Mr. Unitarian BOLTON, which
was, " that this meeting is anxious of seeing extended to
Ireland the same measure of reform as is granted to
Great Britain, feeling confident that it will produce simi-
lar beneficial results to that part of the kingdom."
Nbtv;gentle reader, mark the conduct of our liberal
and impartial Mayor. He, as a matter of course, put the
amendment first, which, after counting the hands held up,
be declared to be negatived ! He then put the original
"notion to the vote, which after some deliberation, and a
vast deal of consultation with his official subalterns, he
also declared to be negatived
ThiS we say looks bad. Every man of sense knows
that when an amendment is lost the original motion is
carried' as a matter of course. Not so was the deliberate
opinion of the Mayor of Liverpool. He, aided by his
advisers, plunged into an absurdity by negativing both
the amendment and the original motion ! He tried hard
to save his party. He screwed his conscience to the
"sticking place," in favour of the faction which in heart
he must despise, but whose power he dreads, and he de-
livered a verdict which we have no hesitatiOn in saying
was contrary to evidence, contrary to the plainest obser-
vation, and at variance with all his preceding judgments.
Had he reflected for a moment he would have found that
his last decision could not possibly be right. The ma-
jority against the amendment was the same majority in
favour of Mr. HORSFALL'S motion. No man of the slight-
est pretensions to impartiality can come to any other
decision.

We deeply regret this unfortunate error on the part
of the mayor. It cools all the respect we ever enter-
tained for him. It shows, that under the exterior of
impartiality, where a whig is concerned, there lurks all
the hidden qualities of mean and paltry partizanship.
From this hour we can have no confidence in Mr.
CURRIE. He lent himself to the intrigues of his party.
He could not bear the idea of their defeat. He trans-
formed the judgment seat into a whig chairmanship,
where the cast of the die must, being loaded with
BRANCICER lead, turn to the side of his friends.

Let us therefore hear no more of the impartiality of
Mr. WILLIAM WALLACE CURRIE. He called the meet-
ing and he dissolved it, writing defeat upon all the mo-
tions of the radicals, but refusing to write justice or fair
play upon those of the conservatives. His conduct in
other respects was open to grave animadversion. He
allowed the tories to be hooted without uttering a single
threat as to dissolving the meeting ; but when BOLTON,
and COGLAN spoke, he was intense in his ire against
those who interrupted them.
It will be a long time before the conduct of his
worship, on Friday last, can be forgotten. Lint we turn
from it with feelings of disgust to another subject.
When the radicals found themselves defeated in the Ses-
sions-house they threatened a public meeting in Clayton-
square, on Monday. They kept their word. The vulgar
being of the unwashed summoned his slaves, and they
assembled yesterday, the said vulgar and unmannerly
being taking the chair by virtue of his own royal fiat. The
proceedings will be found reported elsewhere. It was a
most trumpery exhibition. The hour was dinner-time
—all the tag-rag and thieves of Liverpool were collected
—the shuffling orators, holding the King's English in con-
tempt, were assembled, and the toothless being, like a
cockney disguised in liquor, essayed the cockney's im-
pertinence without his good breeding. We cannot
dwell upon the sad affair. The Mayor was rated most
severely for declining to preside over the rabble, and, as
the coachmen say, " it sarved him right" for his folly in
countenancing the meeting in the first instance. The
sugar-baker king declared that he would in future to-
lerate no such mayors as Mr. CURRIE. He did not in
words, but by innendo he denounced him. The principal
speakers were Colonel WILLIAMS, (not in his white
ducks,) and poor EGERTON SMITH, in a shabby great-
coat. Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH made as great a fool
of himself as lie did on Friday. We cannot paint the
lily in more lively colours. HEYWORTH and EGERTON
SMITH are enough to bring public speaking and popu-
larity into contempt.

DEFEAT OF THE RADICALS.