The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

WINE TRADE.

The total importation of all wines into the United Kingdom
for the year 1835, amounts to 9,039,551 gallons, being a de-
crease, as compared with the importations of the preceding
year, of 726,565 gallons ; this is immense. The total deliveries
from bond for home consumption and exportation, for 1835, are
8,293,923 gallons. being an increase over 1834 of 174.258 e•al-
lons. The total stock of wines in the United Kingdom of'all
sorts, on the sth January last, amounted to 9,776,140 gallons,
which shows an increase upon the previous year's stock of
690,598 gallons.
POIITS.—The importation of Portugal wines during 1835,
amounted to 4,269,890 gallons, or upwards of 37,000 pipes. The
deliveries for home consumption, '2,780,024 gallons, being a
trifling decrease as compared with 1834. The export deliveries
of Ports were 475,084 gallons, showing an increase upon 1834 of
178,546 gallons. The stock of Ports in bond on the sth Janu-
ary last, was 4,218 264 gallons, or nearly 37,000 pipes, the Lon-
don stock alone in August last being 24,100 pipes, showing an
increase, as compared with the same stock upon the sth Janu-
ary last, of 3,250 pipes, so that if the outports have increased in
the same
,proportion, the market must remain heavy.
THE INTAGE.—No material difference of opinion, it is
thought, can exist as regards the Port vintage of 1835. The
rain commenced on the 19th September of that year, and conti-
nued until the 12th October during nearly the whole of the
gathering, which destroyed all previous hopes of a favourable
vintage. Almost all the grapes were gathered in rain ; and the
vintage, therefore, as regards quality, must be held as a failure,
although as to quantity it was an average crop. The Port Wine
trade is now under a new system, which has not yet had time to
slevelope itself; the future value of Ports, therefore cannot be
stated. although it must not be forgot that the trade in Portugal
i unrestricted. and increased facilities are thereby afforded to
the merchant and grower.
SHIM It lES.—The total import of Sherries last year amounted
to 2,732,028 gallons,. or 23,756 pipes, being a decrease upon the
previous year of 714,585 gallons, or 6213 pipes. The total de-
liveries of Spanish wines for home consumption last year are
2.230.187 gallons, being a decrease upon the former year of
49,666 gallons. The deliveries for the present year will tend to
decide whether this article has arrived at its maximum of demand
for lionie"use. The total stock of Spanish Wines on sth Jan.
last,
was 3,699,2.39 gallons, a decrease on the previous year of
2-11,282
gallons. This evidently arises from a diminished sup-
ply, and is calculated to relieve, in some degree, the great pres-
iaite prospect
on of
the
pres-
sure, on the market, anu thereby facilitate sales. The stock
however, is ton heavy, and the holders too pressing, to afford a
31st
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alone, vintage
of 1835, both as to quality and quantity, is
average.

anntnA.—The importation of this Wine, which. of late years
has been languishing in the British market, amounted to 204,825
gallons only, being a decrease of 167,873 gallons upon the pre-
vious year. The vintage of 1835 is represented as being defi-
cient both as to quality and quantity.
FRENCH WI rms.—The total in.mortati
gallons more than the im-
ports of these wines last
consumption deliveries of 1835
Januarywta
gtwith
thator
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p_yoeartrsno•afslB3347o:44,6rhgealtlootnasl,
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pet athr eovdfi
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gallons.w ne on the
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were 271,361, being an increase over those of. 1834 of 11,031
319,350 gallons,
yjeaanruiasryconsidered a failure as to quality ; it is deficient in body
5 The
stock
o
and colour• and vapid in flavour. The Clarets of 1831, concern-
ing which so much difference of opinion existed, appear to have
materially improved, and have been sought after as the only
available wines to succeed the vintage of 1631.
A good Claret vintage is much wanted, and the present year
promises this, unless spoiled by the weather before it can be
realized. Although the home demand for French wines in 1835
appears to have slightly increased, this improvement is not ap-
plicable to Claret. Champagne has materially increased in
consumption, and the French Ports hare also swelled the home
deliveries. The remarks relating to Cape, and other cheap
wines, now almost abandoned by the respectable portion of the
trade, are of too little interest to be extracted. Port, Sherry,
and Claret, seem the staple articles of British use.—Scotsman.

We learn from Kilkeel that, during the storm of Wednesday
night, about thirty fishing boats wore wrecked on the beach of
Derryoge. The loss is estimated at between two and three
hundred pounds, a loss which, to the poor fishermen, will he all
but ruinous.—Newry Telegraph.
GititmaN RAILIOAD.-It is a remarkable fact that in the for-
mation of the railway between Prague and Pilsen, the individuals
employed were chiefly females, each of whose wages amounted to
about 6d. a day. There were upwards of 2000 regularly engaged
as labourers, in forming the embankments, excavating the soil,
&c. During the two first years the engineer was able, in the
course of 40 English miles, to cut no -less than 696,465 cubic
yards, and to construct 807,844 cubic yards of embankment,
besides laying the way with malleable rails. He erected during
these two years 73 bridges from three to 18 yards each, with 133
culverts ; •and he also made 236 waggons. And all this at an
expense of about £75,200 sterling.—Strang's Germany.

Zbt Eitnrpool eStanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1836.

The French papers of Wednesday and Thursday fur-
nish us with the accounts of the proceedings at the
erection of the Luxor monument, which took place on
Tuesday in the presence of the King, his court, and
ministers of state. This relic of Egyptian superstition,
brought from Thebes, consists of a single block of por-
phory marble, on which are deeply sculptured hierogly-
phical representations and inscriptions in honour of
Rhamses the 1., H., and 111. (Sesostris,) and has been de-
posited on a :pot renowned in France as the Place of the
Revolution, and precisely where stood the instrument of
death on which Philippe D'Egalite, the father of Louis
Philippe, was beheaded a very short time after he had
been the first in the National Convention to vote for the
death of Louis the XVI. We envy not the feelings of
the King of France at the painful reminiscences which
this scene must have called to mind; whilst we think that
these things considered, as this memorial has been
brought to France, an appropriate resting-place has been
asigned it, were it not for the interruption it must give
to the fine view which previously existed of a grand and
Uninterrupted vista, when approached.P Louis Philippe
thinks, as a matter of policy, that such a monument is
calculated to obliterate the recollection of the days of
horror, sell and good; but if the line of Shakspeare was
ever truly applicable to any monarch, "Uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown," it is particularly so to the pre-
' .eat French ruler. As a matter of pure taste, however,
we candidly confess that a museum or temple expressly
built for it would have been more suitable, if the Pa-
risians are to be taught to admire idolatry in exchange
for their new theories of abstract human rights and po-
pular intelligence. It appears indispensable even to the
temporary security of the present dynasty of France,
that these displays should take place to divert the atten-
tion of mischievous spirits from contemplating greater
follies, or possibly the performance of serious crimes.
As a stupendous memento of that learned superstition
which brought down the vengeance of the Deity, and
destroyed an entire people, this obelisk on "La Place
de Concorde" may have its uses; but, alas I the French
are neither a religious nor a reflecting people. The
monument itself is termed by antiquaries a monolithe,
and its transportation to Europe has caused immense
labour and great expense.

With regard to politics, there is nothing new of strik-
ing domestic interest from the French capital. The
prosecution of the war against Constantine in Africa, and
the departure of the expedition for that purpose, accom-
panied by the Duke de Nemours, the King's second son,
had fully occupied the attention of the war department.
The suspension of intercourse with the Swiss cantons
had been relaxed, and the expulsion of the refractory re-
fugees was proceeding. The report of the committee
nominated to examine the documents relating to the dis-
pute with France had not arrived, as it was not likely it
would be tendered to the assembled Diet before yester-
day or this day. It is considered by some of the journals
that the election of M. Mounard to the station of reporter
of the committee augurs the triumph of the more violent
section of the liberal party, of that which is most opposed
to the influence or interest which France takes to herself
in the affairs of Switzerland. M. Monnard was a leading
member of the committee, the report of which on the
the conduct of the alleged spy council occasioned the
French Government to suspend its intercourse, and to
close the frontier.

Our Spanish news, furnished by these papers, comes
down to the 17th from Madrid.

We give these despatches in another part, but there
is great secrecy observed with regard to some of the
telegraphic communications, which are dated after "night
fall." Alaix does not appear to have more than 2500
men with him ; and, from the best information we can
obtain, Gomez appeared to be moving with a view to
gain the mountains of Toledo on his return, doubtless to
preserve the immense booty he had obtained, and it ap-
pears that he had detached Carbrera, with a large body,
for the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy.
This appears the more probable, for we learn that on the
I 1 th two battalions of National Guards marched on the
18th from Madrid to Toledo. We must refer our readers
to the map for further illustration of the scene of Gomez's
most extraordinary manoeuvres. It is said he has ex-
ceeded his orders; but it is far more probable that he has
been governed by circumstances; whilst his generalship
and intrepidity hitherto, it cannot be denied, have created
a most powerful diversion in favour of the arms of his
royal master. If he succeeds in avoiding or defeating
the various corps said to be in quest of him, and we have
a strong presentiment that he will, it will be a most ex-
traordinary proof of skill, courage, and devotion ; but
rall be said of his band of heroes and their Roman-
lwikheat slperseverence ? We hope ere many days to have
some interesting intelligence to furnish to our readers.
'The state of affairs at Madrid varies little from our last
report. The Cortes had assembled, and had elected a
speaker and secretary ; and they were proceeding to dis-
cuss the question of the regency, as the first and most
important. The ultra-liberal party appears to predomi-
nate, if wo may judge from the circumstance of M. De-
caze, the private secretary to the new French ambassador,
having been peremptorily ordered by the government to
quit Madrid ! How will the French nation brook this
insult ? General Lautour Maubourg had delivered his
credentials to the Queen Regent, at a public audience,
together with an autograph letter from his royal uncle.
She replied briefly to the address of the ambassador.
merely acknowledging the declared sympathy of Louis
Philippe.
A very numerous meeting of Spanish creditors (bond-
holders) took place at the French Bourse on Thursday.
After a • disorderly discussion they came to a resolution
not to accept the form of payment proposed by the Spa-
nish finance minister, whilst it was agreed not to press the
payment in the present embarrassed condition of the go-
vernment. A petition to the King to interest himself
with the Queen Regent, on their part, and to assist her
against Don Carlos, concluded the proceedings. This is
all natural enough from those whose patriotism is govern-
ed purely by their pocket interests.
As a postscript we add, from the Journal des Debats
of Thursday, that Gomez, after having evaded all pursuit
and out-generalled the forces of Quiroga, Rodil, Alaix,
and Espinosa, each superior to his own corps in numbers,
and out-manoeuvred and out-marched them all, will really

have crossed the Guadiana, on his route to Truxillo, and
with the means CI capturing the iortress of Fuento- Ove-
juna, at the western point of the Sierra Mountains !

The dinner recently given to Sir John Beckett, at
Leeds, and his speech, are as decisive on the fate of the
O'Connell Melbourne cabinet in Yorkshire, as our own
recently noble festivals have been in Lancashire, with-
out enumerating those of East Worcestershire, West
Worcestershire, and Essex. These manifestations of
sound feeling on the part of the reflecting classes, cctn-
posing the great social community of the English people,
are, as Lord Sandon pointedly remarked in his speech at
the dinner meeting of our own Operative Conservative
Association, " Another evidence of the expiring and
mi-
serable state to which the efforts of the faction, opposed
to the constitution of the country, are now reduced."
Yes, my Lords Melbourne and Russell, they afford a
striking indication of " those agonizing throes by which
are marked their utter and final extinction !" Those
efforts of our unreforming rulers, are now chiefly limited
to a co-operative exertion with the priestly band of spo-
liators associated with the " justice-rent" conclave, and
now headed by Doctors Murray and M'Hale. Our rea-
ders will draw their own inference from the recent corn-
tnunication of the former " pastoral" christian, to this
upright body of Irish subjects
We have now passed through nearly two years of un-
mitigated Whig-radical and pro-popery government—
unmitigated in its principles—undefended in its morals
—standing upon a false plea, and endeavouring to jus-
tify its acts, by a system of pleading at utter variance
with all the accustomed usages of our mixed monarchy,
and our family customs. Happily for the interests of
truth and experience, and the elucidation of justice in
her fairer form, but unhappily for every other in the
state, this downward movement of our imbecile cabinet,
having no right or influence with the real people of Bri_
tain, and no unity of design within itself, has enabled us
to discover effectually the state of parties—to sift the
moral and political work of each section—to ascertain
conclusively to what three out of four of them would, had
each the power, without opposition, turn the working
principle of the reform bill. It is an entire paradox,
that these elements have hitherto worked together even

for a common object, altbongh that object were the ex-
tinction of our constitutional monarchy ; and we are not
in the least surprised to find, that the republican section
is preparing to burst the bonds or its confederacy, and

throw overboard the Litchfield house treaty, as Louis
Phillippe has trampled upon the quadruple alliance, and
turned his back upon the all-sufficient lord of Protocols
The real English radicals have found out there was one
party to the contract with whom they could not safely or
eren possibly go on ; and that although he was the su-
preme dictator of the government of England—the
" must" and the " will," and the hurdle-master over his
troop of lambs, mules, and donkeys, it were yet not en-
tirely incompatible with the dignity of his high estate,
as the King of the Beggars, to accept, as we learn, of a
second thousand pounds, and to negotiate a truce with
the factory masters, to serve his own peculiar Trish and
popish political objects by aid of the most essential arti-
cle—money !

Vir: say, it is most truly unfortunate for the ministry,

but useful to the country, that a Bell has been rang, and
is still ringing, the clapper of which neither the chief of
the Melbourne cabinet, nor his deputy can muffle, for
the bell, aided by the pulling of the ostler, (Oastler,) who

has been called to its aid, has given double tongue to
unharmonious sound, and alarmed the prime minister
himself in his slumbers at Brocket We envy not the

consternation amongst the noble and mighty of the
Whigs—they richly deserve all the contempt and disgrace

which will inevitably accrue to them from their unhal•
lowed connexion; nor is it any pact of our province to

cleanse them from the mire of their own freely purchased
political iniquity. Pretending to know nothing of the
merits of the transaction to which we allude, beyond
what is put before us in print, we leave Mr. Bell, Mr.
Condy, and Mr. Potter to adjust its truth amongst them-
selves; but we have a right to draw our own inferences
from the vote given, and apply its consequences to the
advantage of the parties interested, in our own way, as
politically opposed to them all.
And now, as we are enabled to arraign the worthy
confederates on far more serious grounN, let us cull a
page from a powerful contemporary, who adduces a yet
stronger ground of argument, than all that the exposure
of the factory peccadilloes can effect. What says the
London 7'imes in its Friday's leading article ?

" If the history of England were now to be written, materi-
als fur it, at once authentic and invaluable, would be found in
the vast conservative meetings by which every great town and
district throughout England Lave of late been animated, and
continue to be so, in the various classes and comprehensive
numbers of those who attend them, the perfect unanimity of
sentiment which they exhibit with regard to the one great evil,
which now oppresses the British empire, and the one grand re-
medy by which alone it can bo cured."
Shall we extend a little further :

" The evil to be guarded against, as is felt and declared by
all conservative Englishmen, high and low, rich and poor, tom-
perate and zealous, is the danger of inordinate and wanton
change, the sacrifice of the tried for the untried ; and the nature
of the remedy is pointed out by that of the evil. It consists in a
general and strenuous co-operation of those who love their
country, for the persecution of all change not proved by satis-
factory evidence or reason to bo indispensable to the public
good, and for the overthrow of that weak and unprincipled Mi-
nistry, whose accession to office was the signal for such calami_
tons experiments on the safety of the nation, while its continu-
ance in office is announced by its own members and their parti-
zans, to depend on, and be inseparable from, the unmeasured
progress of revolution."
Here is another full, and, we consider, an unanswer-
able justification for what we have recently written on
the course and policy of the Melbourne administration ;
and the talented writer's premises, as the grounds of that
justification, are borne out by the declaration of him who,
at the Edinburgh dinner, and when denouncing the
House of Lords, declared himself its "organ-blower."
The meetings of Liverpool, of North Lancashire, and
of Leeds, have furnished one page in the historical ca-
reer of conservative England, sufficient in itself to dis-
pute the entiro authority of the whigs, and to disturb the
repose of Brocket-hall, had there been no disunion in
the camp. And whether the mighty lord "do little"
and " do less" has appeased the fears of the trembling.
Lamb, in his recent visit or not, the day of reckoning
assuredly approaches; and the consolation of Francis the
First awaits no one member of that piratical crew, who
have been cruizing under false colours against the birth
right liberties—the most choice inheritances of Eng-
lishmen. No, not even the belted knight of Spanish
diplomacy will be enabled to exclaim "tout est perdu sur
l'honeur"—the case is hopeless, and the disgrace inevita-
ble. Well, a moral crisis then approaches, and how will
the government meet it? Within the last fifty years
three great principles have been started for the govern-
ment of her European family, of which Great Britain is a
leading member. We had, first, the age or march of rea-
son commenced ; in France it performed prodigies of va-
lour at a celebrated spot, now covered with an Egyptian
pillar, and successively known as "La place de concords"
—"La place de la Revolution," and a variety of other
names. Here, under the vision of the blood red cap of
liberty, and aided by the presidency of Doctor Guillotin,
it despatched in mock legality its thousands by day, whilst
another tribunal acting as its confederate assisted it at
night, d la lantern° !
This principle was put down in France by Buonaparte
at the battle of the sections—in England by the firmness
of William Pitt. Since the peace of 1814, we have been
assisted with a new principle in name, but, in reality,
only a modification of the other, this has been denomi-
nated the march of intellect, carrying in its right hand a
crooked wand, a sort of accommodating hand maiden
named reform,—this principle has been proved to he
retrograde in its character, and its companion not only a
base coquet in design, but an arrant jilt tin practice !
The danger attendant on their united progress haying
been tendered doubly apparent, from their becoming
linked with an old associate of evil, and a common enemy
to the welfare of mankind, as an engine of spiritual tyr-
ranv, the old English principle of preservation has been
aroused from its slumber, and as that principle is based
on the authority of scripture—on the code of morals—

Nov, 1. 1536,

on the love of order, law, peace, and integrity, it is en-
tirely -cnntradktinc,rnished from the others, and having
truth for its guide and rational freedom for its object, it
acts with union and with concord, and will assuredly tri-
umph.

We have strong reasons for believing that the Whig
Cabinet is sadly disturbed—that its most valiant mem-
hers are suffering great mental indisposition, arising from
this manifestation of the preservative principle,—the
cholera of unpopularity which sternly follows in its train,
is a sad competitor for weak governors, and neither the
fumigations of the Attorney-General nor the camphor
bags of Mr. Rice, will prevent the convulsions that are
threatening their ill-conditioned limbs, and now freely
indicated by the pulse of their own paid organs of the
press, one of which in terms of despair laments their ap-
proaching disorganization. Knowing as we do the game
of O'Connell and his priestly supporters, armed with the
spiritual authority of Pope Gregory, and proclaimed by
his AVuncio, Dr. Murray, wo confess we pretend not to
"charity" sufficient (although appealed to by the learn- -
ed Jesuit) as to be very sad for the additional confusion
and embarrassment which is given by its recent associ- •
ates to a Cabinet already involved by its own dishonour-
able intrigues beyond the rational hope of extrication.
Doctor Murray has had the presumption to appeal to the
justice and generosity of a Protestant King of England
for support of the men, who have dishonoured his crown,
and who are prepared to advise that King to break his
trust with the Church ; but the assumed moderation of
this leader of Irish popery will avail little against the
firmness of the Sovereign in this respect, backed as he is
by the House of Lords, and by the voice of the intelligent
classes of a loyal and affectionate people.
IF those who are nominally his Majesty's Ministers,
are at all capable of exercising reflection on the past or
foresight for the future, they must be heartily tired of
that condition of uncertainty to which they have reduced
themselves and the power of their government,—they
must see that they have prepared a crisis for themselves
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rather than for the English nation, by their jugglery in
.04.
Irish policy. The feeble replies of Lord Melbourne and sasi
Lord Holland to Lord Lyndhurst's noble exposition in a are
his remarks upon the Lord's proceedings with regard to =la
the Municipal Bill and its rejection by the Ministry,
would lead one to infer, that they must have had great
lack of information with regard to the probable dist nrb-
ance of the public peace in Ireland, or the display of
popular commotion likely to be got up in favour of their
violent course,—here, their expectations have been foiled,
and the hopes of their guardian angel frustrated—the
.blustering agitator has been nearly ns much disappointed
in Ireland as he was last year in England ; for after all
he has made but little progress, compared with the means
taken, and the government patronage of the Lord Lieu-
tenant placed at his hands, independently of the indi-
vidual exertions made by the ministerial representatives'
in their various circles.
Falsely insincere as the Melbourne Cabinet has in-:
controvertibly proved itself to the icterests of the Irish
branch of our Protestant establishment, it has dug a pit
for others into which it has deservedly fallen itself—de-
feat and despair now stare it in the face—its prop has
proved in reality a broken reed, and the inflated vanity
which led O'Connell to rely on the impression, that his
tour to our mauufacturing districts would have produced
a popular demonstration against the House of Lords
here, of which there now exists no hope of his being en-
abled to accomplish, has also led him widely astray with
regard to Ireland. The difference between him and Mr.
Sharman Crawford, has proved as fatal to his promise of
obtaining for his proteges the exclusive and unanimous,
support of the Irish radical interest, as his expectations
with regard to England were chiefly and deservedly
frustrated by his own violent letter against that illustri-
ous assemlly, which aroused the first feeling of indigna-,
tion against the government, which could afterwards
give him countenance, whether previously, or not, im-
plicated in that discreditable procedure. There was,
therefore, abundant reason for the ministers having lost
ground with the reflecting classes in this country, and in
Ireland with the Protestants, en masse, even before the
termination of the last session ; for their lame defence
in no way exonerated them from a connivance with, if
not a direct participation in, that hostile declaration and s?L '3 ;
its ruffianly abuse of the hereditary Peerage, replete with
sentiments wholly unsupported by the English nation, 1 e
and decidedly objectionable, however presumptuously
they may deny it, to the personal feelings of the King.
Who then can wonder at the position into which Lord ...sae"`
Melbourne and Lord John Russell have brought them-
selves ? Will their parasitical apologists of the Strand,
with all their brassy effrontery, tell us, that the King of usiss
England grieves, because " a heavy blow to, and ast
severe discouragement of, Protestantism" has been first ifiae
averted by his faithful peers, and their decision nousss'Pl"
freely responed to by his loyal subjects? In the language
of our powerful contemporary the London Standard,' V°
est;
more than a match for the very best of them :
sA
" We take this defeated measure as the key of all. the rest; ,
and such as it is, whether considered as the essential article of
that treaty which keeps Lord Melbourne in power, or as thJa• • (
public act of homage, by which Lord Melbourne's cabinet ac-
knowledges its master !"
It cannot be too often impressed upon the attention of
the people of England, that the corruption of popular
representation in the reformed parliament of the House
of Commons, is already rendered by the confederated
factions more prejudicial to the consistency and security
of the state itself than all the alleged corruption of the
old borough system—the Carlow and Manchester
jobbery to witness.
This evil can only he removed by the people them- .
selves, and by what means we have freely pointed out to
them.
As a people, dead indeed should we be to the evidence
of our common understanding, were we not fully alive
to the advantages of a rationally reforming administra-
tion; and having seen both sides of the question, the
conviction flashes on the mind, that from Sir Robert
Peel's administration we had everything to hope—from -
the present everything to fear! We make no reserve 'or
on this point—we owe it as a duty to our fellow-citizens- °`'f'
—we owe it a matter of loyalty to our King, and of :4;,v
common respect to our own judgment, to declare that
the ruin of this country is consequent upon the stay irk,
office of the present Cabinet. We use no improper exit
terms—we start no improbable hypothesis ; but we build
on matter of fact data, furnished by those we condemn, .
and let their time-serving supporters refute it if they
can. We are willing to take issue with the entire Ca-
binet upon three speeches last delivered in this town, by
Lord Sandon, Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, and Mr. W. E.
Gladstone, and though we cannot possibly go into that
discussion to-day, for our municipal election merits some
share of our attention, deeply connected as that election
is with the prosperity and comfort of its inhabitants, by
the return of men attached to sound principles in re-
ligion and government, we unreservedly assert, after an
attentive perusal and consideration, that the address of
the latter gentleman was altogether so explanatory and
conclusive, as not to leave our opponents a leg to stand
upon, nor the opportunity to gainsay the keenly Ultra-
trated political declension of Mr. William Ewart. The
independent men of Liverpool are now too much alive to
what is due to themselves, and due to their common
country, to be any longer gulled by vain sophistries, or
deceived by idle and unmeaning promises. We must
have honest men in the Cabinet—honest men in the
House of Commons, and,. as a necessary adjuvant,
honest men in the Town Council, and not allow reform-
ed acts of parliament, if reformed they be, to be per-
verted to the purpose of infringing on our religion and
our domestic liberties.

Although we may happen to differ with his Worship the
Mayor on political matters, we make no scruple of expressing
our conviction, now that his term of office has drawn to a close, •
that, under the present constitution of the council. their selec
tion of Mr. Currie was the best that could have been made.
Mr. Currie has for a long series of years advocated popular
principles—has more than once figured on the balcony of the
Bull Inn, Clayton-square, and has furnished no s4all quota of
respectability to the party with whoin he has long been identi-
fied. By his speeches and writings (for the Mayor is a literary
character) he has helped forwards the movement in this town,
and radicalism owes much of its triumph here to his poweiful