The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

and stay its tottering power ; and the conclusion to
which they must inevitably come will be, that Whig in-
fluence in our corporation has seen its last and best
days, and that the hour of its final extinction is fast
approaching. Perhaps we shall not be far wrong in
asserting that that that hour has already arrived !

It has arrived if conservatives will be true to them-
selves, as we trust they will be ; for how can they be

otherwise ?

Let every conservative, whether a voter or not, pre-
pare to put forth his energies, at once and to the ut-
most, to promote the return of conservative candi-
dates in every ward. Let every conservative voter at-
tend upon his notice of objection to defend his fran-
chise at the Session's-house. Let no negligence, no
plea of business or of pleasure, no over-certainty of
strength prevent this paramount duty. Let it be borne
in mind that upon the issue of the approaching con-
tests the Whig faction, not only in Liverpool but
throughout England, have all at stake—that, mad-
dened and desperate with the prospect which is before
them in case of defeat, they will fight to the last man ;

hey will spare neither intimidation nor open corrup-
ion ; and that, if deprived by other means, they are
.early to buy the right to trample upon the liberties of

their fellow-townsmen. The purse of the Protector
Society, we may rest assured, is not closed now when
only half the work of its owners is done.
Conservative electors ! be firm—be vigilant. At-
tend the Session's-house and SECURE YOUR FRAN-

CHISE! The opportunity now offered you must never
allow to pass by unimproved. Our opponents must
not be permitted to enjoy for another year the

power of lavishing your money to secure their own
party interests. Be firm, then, again we impress upon
you. Be vigilant and active; but above all ATTEND
THE REVISING COURT AND SECURE YOUR FRAN-

The last lecture of Mr. Brindley's course on So-
cialism was delivered, on Tuesday evening last, in the
Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street, in the presence
of a very numerous and respectable audience. The
subject was, the fraud of Socialism on the operative

classes, and an exposure of the " community" system.
Mr. Brindley's masterly and eloquent denunciations of
the infamous practices of the Social leaders cannot fail
to do much good. The facts which he laid before the
meeting respecting the tricks of these abandoned men
will open the eyes of the operative classes to the real
character of the community system—a system which
Mr. Brindley has demonstrated to be one of unmiti-

gated fraud and villany. The meeting on Tuesday
evening sent a deputation to wait upon Mr. Hollick,
the Socialist missionary, and Mr. John Finch, late go-
vernor of the " Community," in Hampshire, to chal-
lenge them to come forward to rebut, if they could;
the charges brought against the Social leaders by Mr

Brindley. Those persons, however, thought fit to de-
cline the challenge, conscious, no doubt, that Mr.
Brindley's facts were unanswerable. The " Commu-
nity" in Hampshire turns out to be a piece of "com-
mon" land, which is nearly unapproachable on account
of mud. On this land, which has been rented, not
purchased, there has been erected a "superior habita-
tion," in the shape of a hovel, which answers the pur-
pose of workshop, kitchen, store-room, sitting-room,
lecture-room, and dormitory. This is all that has been,
as yet, produced in return for about five thousand
pounds advanced by the poor operatives who have been
gulled into the belief that the " Community" was to
be assembled in a " splendid palace," far exceeding in
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beauty and grandeur that of any earthly monarch, and
surrounded by beautiful gardens, so as to resemble a
second Paradise ! Mr. Brindley's description of the
miserable abode in Hampshire, and of the still more
miserable manner of life which its inmates led, will not
be speedily forgotten. Nor will the testimony of Ar-
mitage, a poor operative of Sheffield. who had been
plundered of his little all by the community-mongers,
soon escape the memories of the thousands of working
men who listened to the lecturer.
It is quite evident that Mr. Brindley has inflicted a
deathblow upon the abominable system of Socialism,
as far as Liverpool is concerned. After his fearful ex-
posures of this strange compound of blasphemy and
obscenity, hypocrisy and delusion, fraud and swind-
ling, we feel assured that the Socialists will be univer-
sally scouted and derided. We have no hesitation in
adding that no decent female, no, nor any man who has
in him the feelings of a man, or who has any regard
for his own character, will ever sit down in the society
of a Socialist. Every one who avows himself to be
one of this filthy and degraded crew ought to become
an outcast from society. This is the only way to ba-
nish the monstrous nuisance from the land. We hope
to see our operative friends acting upon thiS sugges-
tion to the very letter.