The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

THE LTVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE LIVERPOOL
LYIN.3,-IN HOSPITAL.
LADIES AND GENLEMEN,
IBEG to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the
vacant Office of HONORARY ACCOUCHEUR to your
valuable Institution, and respectfully solicit your Votes and
Interest in my fovour at the ensuing ELECTION, which will
take place on MONDAY, the 20th June, at the Institution.
Having been attached to the Liverpool Northern Hospital as
Pupil and House Surgeon for Eight Years, and Surgeon to the
West Derby Union for Six Years, leads me to hope for your
favourable consideration.
I remain, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
GEORGE STANSFIELD DEANE.
Liverpool, May 27, 1853.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
n= We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

We have received a letter from Mr. John Macdonald, coin_
plaining of the report of his exhibition of himself at the
Romanist meeting being an exaggerated one. We are not
surprised at this, considering his peculiar malady; but we
cannot admit any more letters on this subject unless as
advertisements.

Elberpoot gganbarb,

fellow-townsmen ; both of them are, from their
position as British merchants, the most appropriate
representatives of the greatest Commercial em-
porium the world ever knew ; both are eminently
qualified for legislation at a time when it is more
than ever necessary that the interests of commerce
should be duly represented in the Imperial Parlia-
ment ; and both of them possess that high charac-
ter for personal honour which ought to be indis-
pensable in a representative. Indeed, it may be
said that their return for Liverpool would be as
much a credit to the Borough as an honour to
themselves, and we entertain no doubt that should
political feeling influence the Committee now
sitting to unseat our present representatives, the
return of Messrs. HORSFALL and BRAMLEY-
NlooßE would be secured by as triumphant a ma-
jority as was exhibited at the last election. The
electors of Liverpool must be true to themselves, if
they would maintain the advantages which they
enjoy, and this end can only be accomplished by pre-
serving. those Constitutional principles, which,
under the blessing of Providence, have raised this
country to the pinnacle of national greatness.

indignation is expended in denunciations of the
principal offender, Mr. STAFFORD, and his too easy
chief, the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. There is
something almost amusing in the thorough absurdity,
and disgusting in the contemptible cant, of Whig-
Radicals pretending to political purity. There is
not a dirty act for political purposes which they
have not committed, nor have they ever hesitated,
in order to accomplish their ends, whether for party
or personal advantage, to resort to the most unscru-
pulous means, the most unblushing falsehood, and
the most deceitful trickery, and yet with barefaced
hypocrisy they profess profound horror at a
Conservative Minister preferring a political friend
to an opponent in the bestowal of patronage
belonging to his office. The case, however, has
broken down, as shown by the voluminous report,
without an opinion ; for, had the evidence only
decently supported the charge against Mr.STAFFORD,
Lord SEYMOUR, the Chairman of the Committee,
was not a man to stick at trifles to prevent him
from carrying out the views of the party at whose
instigation the Committee was appointed. And
now that every disappointed official, and all who
had anything to do with the case, from the late
Prime Minister downwards, have been examined
and cross-examined with all the ingenuity which
Whig-Radical malevolence could suggest or legal
skill effect, what does the charge amount to ? That
Mr. STAFFORD, as Secretary to the Admiralty
Board, and an avowed member of a Conservative
Administration, bestowed the patronage belonging
to his office upon men holding Conservative
opinions in preference to those of opposite politics, 11
and in so doing assisted in the return of Conserva- '
tive representatives for Boroughs connected with
the Government Dock-yards. " The head and
front of his offending hath this extent, no more."
" Oh," say the champions of Whig-Radical purity,
" but the public service is injured, for appointments
and promotions should only go by merit, and the
Whig-made rule should be adhered to, of all recom-
mendations coming from the respective superinten-
dents of the several Dock-yards through the Sur-
veyor of the Navy, and these men are all so impartial
and unbiassed that no political feeling could possibly
have any influence." All this sounds very fair, but
let us look how it operates. For a long series of
years, ever since they had the opportunity, the
Whigs have been pursuing silently and insidiously,
but not the less surely, the very course for which
they now pretend such hypocritical horror. They
have filled all the working departments of the
Government offices with their creatures and depen-
dents, from the Surveyor of the Navy down to the
humblest Dock-yard labourer, from the Secretary
of the Post-office down to the worst paid letter-
carrier, and yet, when a Conservative Administra-
tion was called upon to perform the duties which,
through their acknowledged inability, they deserted,
they had the folly to expect their successors to
adopt all their arrangements, and the ill-grace to
feel angry because official patronage did not continue
to flow in Whig-Radical channels. If the Earl of
DERBY is to be blamed, it is for not giving more
solidity to his Government by making it, in all its
essential elements, one of 'Conservative principles.
He did not do so, but, with more chivalrous honour
than political wisdom, allowed all the working
departments to he 'retained by those who had been
appointed by his opponents 3 and yet, because Mr.
'STAFFORD, in his crfficial capacity, exercised his
right of patronage -in favour of his own principles,
these double-dyed 'hypocrites, whom no experience
can teach and no sense of honour can bind, have
opened up a cry of political corruption, at which we
could feel indignant were it not too absurd to
excite any other feeling than contempt. The whole
affair has presented a 'curious compound, at which,
however, we ought not -to feel surprised, for when
Lord SEYMOUR pretends to political honour, and
the" Times to consistency, Whig-Radicals may pre-
tend-to anything.