The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

" Pedestrian" says St. George's Clock is again unwell.
We cannot procure for our Newry correspondent a copy of
the STANDARD containing the Protestant Meeting, and
therefore forward him a copy of the publication of to-day.
A person in the position represented by " Decency" would
certainly not be justified in acting as he suggests, and it
very rarely happens that the circulars to which he alludes
are sufficiently offensive to warrant magisterial interference,
as the law is now constituted.

Ebr Etimpoot als, tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1841

When the " old," " corrupt," " self-nominated "
Tory Corporation of Liverpool was prostrated by the
Municipal Reform Act, and a rampant and conceited

" liberal" junto succeeded in scrambling into the pos-
session of local office, and the powers and dignities
thereof, what miracles did an expectant world open

wide its eyes to behold, as the result of the long-desi-
derated change ! Not a patriot strutted upon the floor

of the Council Chamber who had not his theory or his

crotchet, by the carrying out of which the coming of
a local millenium was to be advanced. New docks,

new public buildings, magnificent warehouses, parks,
baths, all created out of surplus revenue—all achieved
by the saving of Whig economy—were dilated upon,

" From morn to dewy. eve" ;

and delighted Imagination beheld already rising up
around us a city of palaces, before whose splendours
the fame of Tyre in its day of glory was to be eclipsed
for ever. And yet now, at the end of six years of
Whig supremacy in the Council, what do we behold
of all these confidently predicted benefits ? Where are
the evidences of that superlative talent, purity, and ho-
nesty which the Whig party were to introduce into the
administration of our local affairs ? Where be the
public walks, which were to outvie the hanging gardens
of Tivoli—the " playgroUnds," which were to rival
the Olympic or the Champs de Mars—the public wash
rubs—the corporation cork jackets, to " teach the
young idea how to swim"—the pegtops, hoops, bat-
tledores,—where be these components of the " rus in,
rube" which was to spring up beneath the fostering
care of the great Athelto of Vauxhall Ward and Lord-
street, and to be paid for by the cheeseparing parsi-
mony of the Whig finance committee ? Where, in-
deed ! We cannot see a vestige of them. They have
" dissolved" surely

—" The cloud capt towers—
The gorgeous pinnacles—the great Hum himself ;

And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Left not a wreck behind" !

Undeniably, so far as the public interests of the com- I
munity of Liverpool are concerned, the accession of
the Whig party to„power in the corporation has been
an utter and dire failure. They have not only failed
in securing any positive and permanent benefit for the
community and posterity, but they have failed even in
protecting efficiently the interests committed to their
charge. They have not only neglected important op-
portunities of advancing the interests of the port of
Liverpool, but neglected even the bounden duty of re-
pelling oppression upon its privileges. Need we call
to mind their suicidal policy with regard to the ques-
tion of Inland Bonding or the concessions wrung from
them by the Cheshire landowners, owing to their ano-
malous position in urging forward, in defiance of pub-
lic opposition, their pet wharehouse scheme ? We
need not. These things are fresh in the memory and
rank in the nostrils of the constituencies; and when
they are added to the insolence of tone which they
have on all occasi ons displayed towards the respectable
portion of those- constituencies, and especially the
Church of Engl and portion—when they are viewed
_ . _

together with th e reckless jobbing which they have
introduced into every department of our local govern-
ment—with their• gross mismanagement of the revenue

of the town, and_ with the deterioration of its morals
which has taken place during their administration of
the police and the magistracy—we think we need
scarcely urge upon the Conservative burgesses the
necessity of prompt and vigorous exertions in every
ward to deprive, them of any further power in the mal-
versation in our• local affairs.

In every ward, we repeat, Whiggery must be put
down. Notwithstanding the filthy alliance with which
it is endeavouring to strengthen itself—notwithstanding
all its newly acquired strut and bluster—the thing must
be trampled upon to ex tinction. The town is sick,
heartily sick, of the whole crew of tricky imbeciles ;
and would gladly see them drummed out of every ward,
to the tune of “- The Rogue's March," with a poker
and tongs accompaniment—or to any other tulle, or
with any other music that would befit the accomplish-
ment of so happy a riddance. Their whole career in
office }Las been marked with alternate bombast and in-
capaNlity, selfishness and insolence, pretension and
failrue; and if the interests of the community are to
bf . advanced, the first step towards such a con summa-
lion must be a clear sweep of the Council-room, and

the restoration of the power of the corporation to the
hands of men of business and Conservatives, wh o have
in view higher and nobler ends than the administration
of its patronage for party objects. " Liberalism, " in
the Council, has had its day ; it has left its mark too
wherever it has been able to reach. Conservatism has
gagged the monster already; and another week, we
trust, will see it kicked out of doors and hooted irr.to
obscurity.

In our last number we stated a few of the reason s
why, in choosing municipal representatives, it would be•
a great error on the part of the electors to give their
support to any man of doubtful principles, and that
Conservatives ought to vote for none but openly avowed
and express Conservatives. We did not say but that
there may be many very excellent and worthy men
who would rather avoid being classed in this or any
other great political category—marvellously proper
persons in business and in private life, but willing to
indulge themselves with a sort of amiable neutrality as
to general politics ; but we endeavoured to show that
neutrals of this sort would by no means answer at the.

present time :
Non tali auxilio, nec defensonlus istis,
Tempus eget.
We are under a stringent necessity to discard such