The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

POLITICAL APOSTACY OF THE MAIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Mr. Editor,—The Mail, in its impotent rage at the recent
defeat which Young England has sustained in Liverpool, is
wreaking its fury upon friends and foes alike, and madly
enough attacking the conservative press of Liverpool. You
have, of course, been honoured with some of that scurrilous
abuse which the blustering, inconstant conductors of that very
reputable journal know so well how to use, and they have de
voted an article to your offences, which, for coarse vulgarity,
would have done honour to the fair fish merchants of Billings-
gate. They have, with their accustomed modesty, presumed
to designate a much more respectable paper than their own,
" The degraded Standard," because they would not support
then' puseyitical candidate, the advocate of " Compensation
to the Romish clergy:" or, recommend to the electors of the
commercial town of Liverpool for their representative one of
the boy lords of Rutland, who, in the wild flights of his crude
and infantile imagination apostrophises in the following
rhapsody—
Let laws, let learning, and let commerce die,

But leave us still our old nobility

If the Standard be degraded for not supporting the preten
sions of the noble student of Belvoir, it may " glory in its
shame," and
.plead a common degradation with by far the most
respectable, intelligent, and consistent portion of the Conser-
vative body. You have, however, Mr. Editor, some solace, in
your pitiable condition, by the fact that the censure of so at
dOned a publication as The Mail is the highest c----"
which could be paid to' you, and that its ridiculou
of indignation only serve to fortify your position in the opinion
of the public,. and to deprive your irascible contemporary of the
very limited influence which he possesses. The dictum of the
Mail is by no means synonimous with truth, and the public,
remembering with sorrow its past breaches of veracity, regard
as questionable its most dogmatical statements, especially
while blinded by passion and interest. The Mail has certainly
acted a very reckless part, in daring to accuse you of inconsis-
tency, and would have been far more prudent had it taken the
beam out of its own eye, before it stepped so officiously forward
to remove a fancied mote from that of the Standard. To hear
the Mail talk of consistency, is like the profligate d scanting
on the advantages of thrift and temperance.
But the editor of the Mail has doubtless forgotten that dur-
ing the recent contest he was Whig, Peelite, and Protectionist,
in quick succession, and that each week found him of different
politics to the one preceding—' all things to all men,' that by
all means he miht gain some. In order to improve his me-
mory on 'this subject it may be well to sketch the progress of

this 'political weathercock in the various
ing conduct. When first Lord John 11a

wircias a candidate,
vituperative invective

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,upport

noble thrd were rapidly increasing. In the same pub-
lication that the editor of the Mail repudiated his
allegiance to the Conservative Association and its candidate,
he professed a great affection for the Whigs, thought that no
one would oppose the return of Sir Thomas Birch, and pro-
posed to join the friends of this gentleman in keeping out
Sir IVsby .11,1ackworth. To such an extent indeed did the
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carry his predilection for the Whigs, that he
speedy arrival of the period when Lord John I
Lord George Bentinck, having laid aside their p

fired th
sell ani
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would -coale

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did this 'unprincipled journal bid for
Whigs ; those same Whigs which it had

will venture to sl

well: brought forward as a candida

began to Perceive that Sir Digby was not quite so bad as lie had
represented him to be, and that in conjunction with Lord John
Manners he would be a proper person to represent Liverpool in
Parliament. And while indulging the most sanguine expecta-
tions as to the favourable position in which a junction with Sir
Digby would place his candidate, the Mail, in the true spirit of
the fox and the grapes, finding that Mr. Cardwell would com-
mand the second votes of the Whigs, discovered that they were
traitors to the constitution, and that Sir Thomas Birch was un.
worthy of confidence. When, however, Sir Digby Mackworth
asserted his independance, and refused, even at the loss of a
seat, to:act in concert with a puseyite, who in his dreams of rus-
tic simplicity would cover the land with monastaries, the Mail
could not refrain from pouring out the vial of its wrath upon
the devoted head of the protestant baronet.
And now the election is over, as though his inconsistency was
not sufficiently flagrant, the editor in the same paper abuses Sir
Digby Mackworth, and yet declares that he was ready to vote
for him, stigmatizes his first love, Sir Thomas Birch, as unfit to
represent the town, sagely wonders why the friends of Lord
Manners and Mr. Cardwell did not unite; and concludes his

they would have been both elected. Thus, then, we see that this
political renegade, after having shown that he can divest him-
self of his principles as easily as his coat, offer to coalesce with
Low Church, Liberal, and even with the bosom friend of the
man whom he designates the "arch-apostate Peel," if he could
but have secured the return of his Popish candidate.
If, Mr. Editor, you are accused of inconsistency in supporting
Sir Dighy and Mr. Cardwell, you have, at least, the satisfaction
of knowing that that exquisite specimen of literary and political
infallibility—the Mail—offered to support the one, and, had he
been invited, would have been but too glad to support the other.
If the charge against you is made on the authority of some
imaginary document, which the Mail has conjured into exis-
tence, the guilt of your accuser rests upon no such doubtful
evidence, but may be seen attested in glaring char
own "leaders." But while
support the claims of Sir _
not, sir, I apprehend, create confusion in tl
ranks by introducing a Puseyite and a l
to Liverpool, and then amicably offer to join
opponents who would unite with you; and above all

'Digby and Mr. Cardv

did not so far forget your duty to the ancient constitution
our'gountry, and to the Conservative body of England, as
propose to coalesce with the Whigs. You did not, through in
mercenary motive about the printing, delude a young nobl
man to try for the representation of Liverpool, by holding o
hopes to him which could never be realised.
And now in conclusion, Mr. Editor, I would advise the edit
of the Mail to be careful how again he attacks journals of I
spectability, as he may rest assured that his own faults as
numerous to allow him to assume the o -
he will, if he persist in doing so, me(
political apostacy and brazen effrontei

I am, Sir, yours

A FREEMAN

THE HARVEST.-Although the harvest is proceeding
in this neighbourhood, yet the wet which has fallen with
us during the last few clays has much retarded operations.
From all we can learn, and we have made numerous in-
quiries, the wheat crop, though looking prodigious when
uncut, is yet when down not more than an average yield.
Barley is a great crop, and so are oats in many situations.

Bean's are a• failure

Poole Herald.

THE PRUSSIAN LAW OF HIGH TREASON.—By the
83rd article of the Prussian code : " All persons guilty of
high treason will be condemned to death, by the most
terrible means." Article 95 bears, that all persons guilty
of high treason shall lose not only all their rights as well

as their goods and chattels, but 'their childrZ

A DIGNITARY OF THE ROMISIT CHURCH. I
For the edification of the English reader is subjoined a
report of a most characteristic speech delivered by a dig-
nitary of the Roman Catholic church (Archdeacon Laffan)
in proposing Mr. Scully, one of the successful Repeal can-
didates at the recent election for the far-famed county of
Tipperary

con LAY

greeted with a tre-