The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have not yet received the Sportsman, Belle Assembles,
Farmer's Magazine, &c.
We wish our correspondents would only write on one side of
the paper.
We do not precisely understand the drift of " A Defender of
the British Constitution." His arguments are not suffi-
ciently close, and his style is too vapid and unconnected.
We observe another prosy epistle from that reviler of the
church of England, Mr. M'Crea, in a radical contempo-
rary of yesterday. Our dispute with this gentleman lies
in a nutshell—we will state it as briefly as possible. A
communication was forwarded to us a few weeks since by
this dissenting minister, in which our church establishment
was designated " the vainglorious first-born of the mother
of harlots," and a highly estimable clergyman of that
church was branded with "exclusive bigotry." We de-
clined to disgrace the columns of the STANDARD by the
insertion of this letter, and we infer our conservative con-
temporaries followed our example. For adopting this step,
we of course gave our reasons, which so offended this prag-
matical, conceited personage, that he descended to give
publicity to a gross and libellous untruth respecting the po-
sition of the proprietors of this paper. We have given
Mr. M'Crea an opportunity of retracting his calumnious
and disreputable language. He has declined to do so ; and
we are therefore compelled, in defence of our characters as
tradesmen, and in defiance of our calumniator's hypocriti-
cal abhorrence of personalities in which he indulges with-
out measure, to repeat that the language to which we have
alluded is wilfully false, and that we shall hold no further
communication with a person so contemptible as to use it,
until it is plainly and unequivocally withdrawn. It was evi-
dently used in relation to our standing in business, for we
have never condescended to notice any reflections upon our
" meekness of temper, or dignity ag a journalist," under
which subterfuge Mr. M'Craa endeavours to hide himself.
We know more of this gentleman's proceedings than be is
perhaps aware of, but we forbear at present exposing him
further. He will find in another column a letter from Mr.
Baylee, the contemplation of which will be a more suitable
employment, than reviling and bearing false witness against
any of his neighbours.

Ebr Eibrpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1841

CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL ! Are

you wide awake? Yes, we believe you are, and no
mistake. Well, what do you think of the,—the--
c, c,—orn laws ? All, we see that tickles you. Yes,
that question is enough to set you all a-going ; but we
beg of you to be serious for a few moments. What
would you think of that question being used to convert
you all into Liberals ? (Laughter.) There' again I
but we beg of you to keel) your countenances : would
you laugh if the Whigs were to gain the representa-
tion of your town ? Certainly you would not. Then
that is the subject to which we are about directing

your attention; for you must know that the Whigs in-
tend contesting the borough, and seriously hope to
win by fightinsr you with—" corn laws." (Laughter.)
Sir Robert Peel has beat them gloriously in the House
of Commons, and has drawn from that assembly a de-
claration that Whig ministers are unworthy of confi-
dence. The house is a house of their own choosing,
and it is what is called a " reformed" house, that is to
say, a house constituted on reform principles, and ac-
cording to laws introduced by Whigs who presume to
call themselves above all other men, " Reformers," and
yet this house has brought in ministers " undeserving
of trust." Well, if their own friends, and those who
know them best, think thus of them, would it not be a
droll thing if they should come to you for a character,
and request of you, who always had a suspicion of
them, to place confidence in them ? You would natu-
rally ask to see the discharge they had obtained from
their last employers, and finding on examination that
it declared them to be. men who could not be trusted,
you would immediately exclaim, what amazing assu-
rance they have to come to us ! And then, so soon as
you had turned them out of doors, you would in-
stinctively try you pockets, lest anything might have
been picked from you whilst you were, inadvertently,

in such bad company.
CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL ! Will
you vote for Whigs whom a Whig House of Commons
pronounces, after a most searching investigation, to be
unworthy of confidence ? No ; we are very sure, un-
less some foul trick be played, you will do no such
thing. But there is a trick—it trick that can be called
whose artifice is open to every eye—and do ye-1 know
what it is ? Why our old friends, or acquaintances
rather, (for there is no great friendship between us,)
the old boys, we say, are all to come out with new
faces, or rather with Anti-Corn-Law masks (specially
imported for the occasion), and they confidently ex-
pect that under this disguise you will never know them 1
There now, you laugh again ; but we tell you this is
the game. You will see the mummers running about
the town in all directions crying "cheap bread, cheap
bread ; and many a poor Whig fool will be caught by
the yelp; but, brother Conservatives, do you put under
the mask, or just look down to the foot, and if you
don't see the old knavish phiz under the one, or the
cloven foot at the other extremity, vote for Lord Pal-
merston and Sir Joshua Walmsley by all means, or
any other brace of Whigs you please. We shall not
say another word to induce you to vote against them,
if you find us deceiving you in this particular.
But if, having stripped off the masquerade dress,
you discover none but the inveterate humbugs beneath,
we ask, will you not feel indignant at such an attempt
to impose upon you, and more anxious than perhaps
you have over felt to place this great commercial town,
your native borough, beyond the gripe of such par-
ties ? We are convinced you will. It will not be
enough to have your justly-esteemed, excellent repre-
sentatives, Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, placed at
the head of the poll; you must re-elect them by such
a glorious, triumphant majority as will shew what stuff
you are made of, and give to Liverpool a conspicuous
place in the great Conservative returns of the kingdom.
CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL ! It will not do
for you to do things tamely. Your noble example has
never failed to inspire other constituencies with a ge-
nuine Old English feeling—a true patriotic ardour;
and this, we tell you, is a time when " England expects
that every man will do his duty."
There are two points of which, both now and at fu-
ture opportunities, we should wish especially to remind
you ; and these are—first, that you never heard a word
about " cheap bread," " free trade," &c., from the
Whigs, till Lord Nlortpe by th'
the s Popish-Irish Registration
Bill was thrott n u
Conservatives. Mark
o
wethat,
you ! There you have the cloven foot
as beg of
ifplain
Satan himself had lost his boots. " Now,"
said Lord John Russell, " we will pay you for this.
You think you have got us out;—no such thing; we
will be revenged of you." So out comes the cheap-
bread and free-trade scheme!
Secondly, we warn you, and we will prove it to you,
that this cheap-bread, free-trade scheme is the most
flagitious falsehood, the most execrable delusion, the
most diabolical plot, ever invented to lead a simple
people to their destruction. We know both who de-
vised it and by whom it is adopted, and well we know
that, when all is told, you will not be imposed upon
by it.

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Conservatives of Liverpool ! The time is come for