The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

P. S.,Wavertree, has no grounds for the remarks which he has
made. There was quite sufficient reason for the address not
appearing in our columns in the fact that it extended to a
pamphlet of twelve pages, copies of which may be obtained
at the office of the National Club, in Whitehall. We have
always given publicity to the statements to which he refers
when it has been in our power.
W., Birkenhead.--It was 5 months and 21 days, from the time
the Marco Polo left the Mersey untilher arrival off Holyhead;
but the actual extent of her absence from the Mersey would
be 5 months, 22 days, and 2 hours.
Mr. James Gillespie complains that, in the local Sanatory Bill,
which has been drawn up and is in the hands of the Health
Committee, no provision has been made for the closing of
burying grounds. He strongly inveighs against the practice
of bolding schools in close proximity to graveyards, and sug-
gests that the new bill should contain some provisions on the
subject. We have no room this week to publish his letter.
t*, We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communication
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if ourfriends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

mier may not be questioned ? And yet this is the
reason, publicly stated in his place in Parliament,
by which Lord ABERDEEN attempts to justify that
heterogeneous combination of political opposites
which is being palmed upon the country as a Ministry,
which shall cement all differences, and perform good

been so imminent, and the enormity so flagrant.
It may operate as a spur to the legislature to correct
an abuse so grievous, and we entertain no doubt
that, next session, some means will be devised of
protecting the honest candidate who may be success-
ful against the slanderous and vexatious proceedings
of defeated electioneering tacticians.
Apart from the• question in its generality, we feel
a more than ordinary interest in it, arising from local
circumstances, inasmuch as a petition has been
presented against the return of Messrs. TURNER
and NfACKENZIE for the Borough of LIVERPOOL,
upon the allegation of bribery and treating, and it
is said that the recognizances entered into to prose-
cute the petition have been found to be unexcep-
tionable. This we can easily believe, because, in a
Parliamentary sense, it is the mere signatures of
men of ordinary credit to a printed form, by which
they declare themselves liable for a certain amount
for expenses. But is there a man in Liverpool
possessing the commonest ideas of honesty, and
only a moderate share of what the world calls sense,
who has the faintest shadow of a belief that either
Mr. TURNER or Mr. MACKENZIE owe their seats
to corrupt means of any kind ? It is too prepos-
terous for argument, too large a draught upon the
wildest credulity to be listened to with patience.
It may have soothed the wounded pride of Mr.
CARDWELL to tell the meeting at Oxiord that he
owed his defeat at Liverpool to bribery; but he
must have formed a miserable estimate of the intel-
ligence of his auditory if he expected them to believe
him. We do not deny that•bribery and corruption
have been practised at elections where party feeling
ran high, and numbers were pretty equally divided,
but who ever heard of a majority which topped a
thousand, and left plenty to spare, being gained by
such means ? It would be a political suicide of
which the most rabid Radical would not be guilty,
nay, even Mr. DYCE SOMBRE, who bought Sudbury,
and so helped to disfranchise it, would not have
dreamed of such a folly; and yet, because the abuse
of an imperfect law allows it, such an unscrupulous
and unfounded charge is made, and months may
yet elapse before the slander can be officially refuted.
We have, however, still the proud consolation of
knowing that not a man even of those who make the
charge have the slightest belief in its truth.

service to the Crown and the people—a Ministry whose
measures are to be Conservative as well as Liberal,
because he considers both to be essentially neces-
He next proceeds to decry the alarm of the
Earl of DERBY on the encroachment of democratic
principles, for the reason—which is unique in its
simplicity—that he never recollected thecountry more
tranquil, more contented, and less abounding in
subjects of danger and alarm than at the present
moment. Upon this narrow ground he hinted at

WHOLESALE PLUNDER OF A LIVERPOOL
TRADESMAN BY HIS FOREMAN.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, a young man, named
William Henry Brook, was brought before the magis-
trates, charged with being concerned in an extensive em-
bezzlement by his father—which seems to have been for
some time systematically carried on—of the goods of
his employer, Mr. Eastee, wholesale fancy merchant,
carrying on business in St. George's Crescent and Church-
street, in this town.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1853.