The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1853.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS,

We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if ourfriends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

J. H. D.—The proferred poem is declined.
HOME THOUGHTS, a new monthly periodical, has not expired.
It was duly published at the beginning of the month. The
number for June, however, has not yet come to hand.
THE GREAT MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—We regret
that a pressure of election and other late news prevents our
giving at greater length the admirable speeches delivered on
Thursday last, at the Amphitheatre meeting, in behalf of
the Church of England Education Society. We understand,
however, that a full report of the speeches in question will
appear in pamphlet-form, in the course of a few days.
THE "MERCURY" AND THE LETTER-CARRIERS.—A corres-
pondent, who gives us his name, says :—" Messrs. Graham
and Adlard, the two letter-carriers who were summoned
before the Parliamentary Committee of the Liverpool Elec-
tion Inquiry, on the grave charge of having detained several
circulars belonging to the voters of Cardwell and Ewart,'
have recently waited on the editor of the Mercury to request
the publication of their letter, refuting the statements made
by the Walthews ; but, instead of having their wish com-
plied with, it was peremptorily refused. This is a fair illus-
tration of the boasted Liberal principles of the Mercury;
it is well known that a full report of the evidence against
the carriers, by the witnesses referred to, was inserted in its
pages ; and surely, in common justice to these men, whose
situations were at stake, it ought to have given publicity to
their statement also, especially as they had no opportunity
of giving their evidence before the committee."
A VOTER FOR FORBES MACKENZIE.—We do not agree with
our correspondent. Mr. Mackenzie has not been proved to
be guilty of any act of which either he or his supporters need
be ashamed, notwithstanding the part which he took in other
elections. At the same time, if the worst which his enemies
say of him be true, we should be the last to sanction such a
cowardly attack. We are not, and never were, under the
slightest obligation to Mr. Mackenzie ; but we utterly repu-
diate the dastardly practice of maligning a man when there
is no longer anything to hope for from his favour, or to dread
from his opposition.
J. J. KENSINGTON.—The expenses of election inquiries are
paid for by the individuals interested. The money he alludes
to as having been voted by Parliament was for those addi-
tional investigations which are considered preliminary to
disfranchisement.
"G. O."—We know nothing of the proceedings of the Carlton
Club, nor have we any desire to assume the position of an
independent Conservative paper, and yet accept of bribes,
under the name of support, from any quarter whatever.

stant of going to press, we learn that the Radicals
have at last found a candidate, and that an address
from Sir HENRY L. BULWER is being printed,
and will be issued this morning. Sir HENRY BUL-
-IVER is best known to the public from his having
been Ambassador of Madrid, where he carried out
the Palmerstonian profession of non-interference,
on the Radical interpretation of interfering to such
an extent, that he was peremptorily dismissed by
the QUEEN OF SPAIN, and for a time a war with
that country was considered inevitable.

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION.
IT is said of a celebrated General, that when con-
gratulated on a victory which he had just achieved,
he replied :—" One more such victory, and I am
ruined." This appears to be a somewhat similar
condition to that of the Petitioners in the recent
inquiry, who, having slandered the Electors of
Liverpool and defied them to a trial of the accusa-
tion before a Parliamentary Committee, have
obtained their verdict, and may now ruminate on the
consequences. We can easily fancy the mortifica-
tion with which the Radicals witnessed the defeat
of their Candidates, at the last Election, when the
Conservative majorities showed by their overwhelm-
ing numbers the utter hopelessness of Liberalism
obtaining an ascendancy in the capital of commerce ;
but their feelings on that occasion must have been

calm content, compared with the bitter sense of
humiliation, akin to despair, under which they are
now suffering. After an expenditure amounting to
£12,000, or something more, they have, by the aid
of a pliant Committee, gained their ostensible
object of unseating the late members, but for what
purpose, when they cannot avail themselves of the
vacancy, from thorough conviction of the inutility
of attempting a contest ? The real design was to
make out a case of systematic corruption, with the
view of demanding from the Legislature the dis-
franchisement of the Freemen, and in this they
have been miserably defeated. The Committee, so far
from sympathising with the movement, have strained
the law beyond its fair and legitimate spirit, in
order to give the Petitioners that modicum
of satisfaction which is comprised in the unseating
of the members ; but in their report, which we have
given in full in another column, they have amply
justified the Freemen from the aspersions which
were cast upon them, purified the reputation of 1,
the Constituency from the stain thrown upon
it by Liberal candidates at previous Elections,
and partially extinguished the hopes in which the
Radicals presumed to indulge. No marvel, then,
that the chivalrous Messrs. RATHBONE, jun., and
Co. were received by their political allies with
angry recrimination, and upbraided with having
deceived their friends into playing such an expen-
sive and yet losing game; for they are in an infi-
nitely worse position now than they would have
been had they prudently submitted to the decision
of the Electors, and allowed Messrs. TURNER and
MACKENZIE to retain their seats. With regard
to the Representation, they must still be content
with its being in the hands of the Conservatives :
they have destroyed all chance whatever of depriving
the Freemen of their Franchise, and they have so
disgusted every honest and intelligent man of their
own party, that their cause—weak as it was before
—has been materially impoverished. Never had
professing Radicals greater cause to say, " Save us
from our friends" than now, when they have been so
wretchedly deceived. They were told, and their or-
gans were instructed to echo the tale, that the last
Election, when submitted to parliamentary investi-

gation, would present such an exposure of demoral-

ising corruption, that nothing but the unsparing
exercise of the pruning knife of disfranchisement
would restore the Liverpool Constituency to a whole-
Alas, for the folly of building hopes

some state

upon the insecure foundation of Radical promises.
Thousands of pounds have been expended, more
than a hundred witnesses have been examined, legal
ingenuity has been taxed, and assertions exaggerated
to the verge which separates truth from falsehood ;
and, after all, that Committee, which, from its con-
stitution of three Liberals to two Conservatives,
was boasted of, as being favourable to the views of
the Petitioners, have reported, that nothing from all
this volumnious testimony has been elicited to
justify any further enquiry, to delay the issue of a
new writ, or to impugn that electoral purity which
was so Liberally attacked. Well was it observed,
that no two members in the House of Commons
who had stood a contest were more justly entitled
to their seats than Messrs. TURNER and MACKEN-
ZIE ; the decision is practically and essentially a
Conservative triumph, as signal as that which
marked the election ; and we leave the Radicals,
who would not be content with their previous dis-
comfiture, to chew the cud of bitter mortification at
their present double defeat, which has annihilated
their position as a party in Liverpool, and into
which they have been betrayed by the overweening
confidence of their own partisans, without even the
poor consolation of the credit of sincerity, after the
admission by Mr. RATHBONE of the offer of a com-
promise. Sic transit gloria Radicales.

the Bill may be judged from the allegations in the

petitions against it, one of which, presented by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL with much form, purported to
emanate from the Nuns of an establishment in
Essex. They stated that they were free to go out
and come in, and to receive and visit their friends
when they pleased, and they prayed the House not
to subject them to such inquisitorial visitation as
was proposed. If their allegations be true, they
have nothing to dread from the Bill, for they would
not be subject to its operation ; but we have ample
evidence to the fact that no nun is a free agent to
do anything, and therefore the signatures to such
a petition are of not the slightest value, as they
may have been obtained under priestly coercion or
applied without resorting to them. The division,
however, may be viewed as a complete Ministerial
defeat, as the list in the minority contains the
names of

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir W. MOLESWORTH

Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BARNES,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. HAYTER,
Sir CHARLES WOOD, Mr. F. PEEL,

The bill was th
the bill do pass, the
Earl of WINCHILSEA proposed an amendment to the thir
teenth clause, providing that the mode of assessment in Ire
land should he the same as in England.
The Earl of ABERDEEN opposed the amendment.
Lord BEAumoNT supported it.
[Left Speaking.]

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