The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

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hold of needy lawyeri and shabb:yShopkeepers who can
honestly declare that Sir JOHN cAMPHELL is an inde•
pendent representative' llc is unite the reverse.
is, what the pi esbytet ians of the north will comprehend;
merely the "minister's man." In the unfortunate state
of his family he stands self degraded. His lady was fit
to be a peeress, but. the knight could not ire made Lord
Chancellor. The connuon lawyer was useful in the Com-
mons; hot a brief Was deemed inure consonant, to his
taste aid more soited to his talents than a coronet. AI
ill-iv'. Prigs he is a petty monarch; at l)ttdley-he was a
repuhlican ; at Stafrod 'ic was •-• Sit AIAssEY I.4oPEz ; at
Elittbor.;, he is a kVilif.:; in the (.louse of comwons he
is, like Yorick's clay, the stoppet. of a beer-barrel—in
the House of holds he would be a reale of foolscap, of
blotting paper, never used but in the private study -of
Lord .k1...,-.Lnonimi; or Lord GLENEI.G. if Ihe ttliotturgh
people are satisfied with-Slid) a tool as this for their ce-
presentative, it, ist primk facie, proof that they are nut
entitled to any representation ai all.
brit come we now to Glasgow. It is a splendid town;
the eminent merchants of which, who gave it all its opu-
lence and renown, are now trampled upon by their own
dependants—by the shopLeeping, the Weaving, and the
pauper interest, which last they imported for the
sake again when they should have rejected them for the
sake of principle. But let its survey the town as coin-
ntnnity of reformers. Li most he in a deplorable state
when it capnot, furnish from its hounds or. fro;.. its 'cavi-
-1
rons a gentleniao of character and talent to 'Pepresern it
iu the House (4. Commons. chard pressed, most it, iv!
when ;i is compel led to search the odd and-cnriouS physic
recesses of -Rath and Cheltenham to ;ind a slippered part-
taloon, alike damaged in health and reputation. Lord
WM. BENTINCK was . Governor General of India, he is
now member for Glasgow ! lle was the viceroy of one
hundred millions of human beings, he is the delegate of
a clique of jabbering bailies, of pragmatical " tOon
coonOplors" with a tail of dram-drinking weavers and
Irish cotton,Spinners ! What a fall was there my coup-,
trymen ! Lord WILLIAM returned from India, not to re-
ceive a coronet, not to be elevated to the peerage, not to
receive those honours and magnificent rewards which all
his predecessors had received, bUt to sink down into the
common mouth-piece of the burgesses or Glasgow.
Mouth-piece did we say ? He is nothing half so re-
putable. Nature did not form Lord VITILLIAm fur an
orator. She Moulded him of very ordinary
.clay, but
give him the advantages of high connection. To this
alone he owes his station and his misfortunes. It is per-
haps from his consciousness of his own defects, and his
unfitness for parliamentary duties, that he has honoured
his devoted constituents by sitting for them in Paris in-
stead of London. He was no sooner elected than he
went over the seas,and actually transported himself be-
fore he was tried. This is the new member for Glasgow,
but the simple fact that he holds the citizens in contempt,
is to us a mint of 'consolation.

We. congratulate all radical reformers upon this de-
lightful mode of carrying out the principles of the refo►m
bill !

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, on , Tuesday, ex-
plained-hii project for altering and reducing the news-
oper stamp ditties. He proposes to carry newspapers
through the postoffice, as at present, free of charge; and,
in lieu of a postage, to impose a stamp duty on all news-
pApers of one penny only.
This is precisely what we thought Mr. SPRING RICE
vfonld do. , ft will not satisfy the legion of knaves and
bloi4heads who complain of the " taxes on knowledge ;"
it will not correct the. evils in the postoffice transit of
papers.; ant! it will rail in putting a stop to the ROE-
BUCKS and the other dabblers in the contraband trade,
while the respectable portion of the press do not thank
him for the reduction, and concern themselves but little
about the matter. •

At present the stamp costs threepence and one fifilt
as penny, and the paper is. sold to the public for seven-
pence. By the proposed plan the stamp will cost a
penny, and the' I;rice to the public cannot he less than
fivepence.: :I'he gain to newspaper proprietors will con-
sequently he one-fifth Of
,a penny, and the saving to the
public will be twopence.
Now, Loweer, that a change is contemplated, we beg
Wean cite erention of the Chancellor Of the F.m.:letiner.
to the real hardship of the .case, as respects newspapers
and paper manufacturers wlto live in this part of England,
or at any considerable distance from they metropolis.
For instance, the paper manufactured in Lancashire has
to be carried all the tray to Loudon to oe stamped, and
then carried hack to whence it cone to be printed. Why
Shonld riot this immense trouble and expense he avoided
in future? Stirel the stamp could oe impressed as
easily,' as safety, and as conveniently in Alauchester, as
regards newspapers, as in SOMerset•house. We cannot
see any rational OhjkAion to this Oath It would field
an immense saving to newspaper proptiettns in the
country, over whom paper-maLers and the press of Lou_
Lawn have a considerahle advantage.

But perhaps We may secure some relief by the equali-
zation of the English and Irish stamp and paper duties.
ft would be much more convenient to send to• J For
our stamps than to London. What do the Londtin peo-
ple say to this ?

In our report of the council proceedings on Wednesday
last we have used the pruning knife pretty liberally. We
have cut ont an immense quantity of trash, but, with al!
our labonr, we regret to say that we have been unable
to make the exhibition appear even moderately respect-
able. The 'same snarling, huffing, grinning, and snub
;ling prevails, .and some forty or fifty persons spend the
greater part of a day in clipping away a few pounds
from, the salaries of working clerks, like so many old
Jew clothesnien tiveciing guineas.. Their attempt to de-
pri e Mr. JOHN DEAN (;ASE of .C 250 has failed, Witt they
have. gained the immortal ri iimpit' of intloci tug the elder
Mr. StroLow to sot render his appointment of £262
a-vear in a dispute about £l2 10s. '.l.‘b.s Mr. 89 9Loiv
has tieen twenty years in the service of the corporation.
without the slightest complaint being made agaiiist him;
but 1:12. 10s. is a godsend when plaCed in contrast With
their expensive reform in the case of Mr. 'rims. Ftis'i
Of EIGUTY-,Sp:VF,N THOUSAND POUNDS ! The younger
Mr. SuDlow also gives up .11.50 per anntint.• He'-was
to be restricted froM engaging in any other business.
What a sacrifice

POsitively we never recollect having seen associated
together so many penny-wise awl pound-foolish SOLONS.
They are- -almost all so thany JosEthr lit-,'Nres on a re-
( iced scale W411(014 JOSEPH'S redeemingpo;nt, his im•H
pet torbable good-nature.. r.rliey areiffilable and snap-
pish as well as rooljslt—e“iauag'ant as 'well as.miserly---
and alt this for the c'ery'.tuelmest,of purposes. One part of oie 494.i/w,44.,iiv have taken the liberty
to suppress relate4.!-W4'10,5,014) iemPerale•and vulgar at-
tack upon Mr. CAS.. tartioo;4l. it. would have:
disgraced ik iipsey coalheaver in a pothouse. We are
only •aStonished that this had-tempered and malicious
person :i-spermitted by his friends, if he have any friondS,
to exi;Ose himself, and insult others in the way he has
done, ton long.
The only piece of fun upon- the present occasion is the
resolution of the council to convert the Town-hal! into a
tavern, where wine and spirits are to be sold to the
Mayor, the bar and the cellar being entrusted to the ma-•
nagement of t, select committee. We hope that these
heroes of the spigot will make a good use of their tune.
They appear to us to have the hest berth in the place.

• The 0' united Irishmen" resident in Liverpool had a
field-day yesterday in honour of St. PATRICK. Some
hundreds of them paraded the streets, dressed out in taw-
dry scarfs and sashes, once green, in rosettes, once
white, and in tufts of clover leaf which had suffered sadly
from the frost. They carried banners, flags, and popish
trumpery of every kind, to show their respect for the re-
solutions of the House of Commons, but they were care-
fully watched by the military and the police.
The person that headed them is a-Mr ROSSON, who was
a clerk or some sort of correspondent of the late
Rothan Catholic association of Ireland. Domestic Alio-
!ion; we are Vssaire'd, Should have" kept Rini away from'
such a Scene; we mistake our man. At. any
rate, why aie illtieSe people allowed to meet in
_clubs andH
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