The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

lingly relinquish all claims to pre-eminence in the manu-
facture of slang. Consulting our own consciences upon
the justice of the sentiments we express ; representing
the feelings of those who, as we believe, are not the
worst subjects nor the worst christians in this country ;
and rewarded by an ample share of public favour and
patronage,—we shall pursue a calm, and we trust not a
wholly useless course, aiming at the promotion of true
religion, the maintenance of our ancient institutions,eand
the general welfare of all classes of the community : and
not, as we hope, materially ruffled, even though the
Liverpool Chronicle and its allies continue to pour upon
us their pointless darts and their unscathing balls, much
akin to those which Barou Munchausen heard trickling,
like spent shot, among the branches over his head, on his
'approach to the far-famed city of Tippoo Saib.

The writer in the Chronicle takes occasion of a mani-
fest error of the press to carp at the style of the Standard;
and this, when the ink could scarcely have been dry with
which he had penned a phrase which we entrust to the
admiration of .our readers, declaring that England and
France would " conquer the peace of Europe." After
this, any man who may be diffident of his own grammati-
cal acquirements, will know where to apply with a cer-
tainty of being "perfectionated."
We have looked—for once—painfully through the
attack with which the Chronicle has been pleased to fa-
your us, to grasp, if possible, and extract from a mass of
drivelling and abuse something like a palpable charge.
We found ourselves accused of confidently predicting the
return of Sir Howard Douglas and Sir Thomas Hesketh.
In the first p%ce, we would say we were not far from the
truth : both, we fully believe, would have been returned
had they appeared three weeks earlier. In the second,
are we to be the only persons to whom no allowance is to
be made for the uncertainty of election proceedings ? To
take' examples at_a venture :—Colonel Gardiner writes,
on Dec. 15, in North Notts, " our final triumph is cer-
tain." On Dec. 26, the election closes, and he is at the
bottom of the poll. Mr. Burnett wrote to the electors of
Kincardinshire, in the Montrose paper, " I shall be your
representative." But,. if our contemporary will look in
the returns, he will find the name of General Arbuthnott,
a Tory. To conclude : were there no equally triumphant
anticipations of the return of Mr. Thornely in this town ?
Whereas- he has had no return—except- to privacy and
insignificance.
One other tangible accusation has been made :—that
we have praised the people !
We beseech the public to consider in what situation
we stand. Our sentiments are read, by the radical jour-
nalists of this town, under a predetermination to condemn
them. An 'universal sentence is pasigd against them—
before trial. If. we praise the aristocracy, we are despots:
if we praise the people,. we are hypocrites : if we endea-
vour to uphold religion, we are hypocrites : if we expose
unblushing mockery of moral principle, we are revilers
of private character. A sentiment may be good in itself,
but if uttered by us, it is transubstantiated into absolute
wickedness. The business of that party is not truth, but
opposition ; they are not so much to establish their own
sentiments, as to contradict ours. If we say " black,"
they must say " white :" if no longer able to do so, they
must maintain, in the teeth of evidence, if necessary,
that we mean the. contrary to what we say. One thing,
in their minds, is essential to virtue : not to tell the
truth, nor, to tell falsehood ; but, to differ with the
conservatives; and not only to differ, but to scold them
soundly.

And what then ? We should have been grievously
unfit for the task we have undertaken, if we had not laid
our account with this, and more than this : albeit, to per-
form such a degrading office as that we have described, is
a hard task for human nature, until it be wholly divested
of its last remaining sentiments of bashfulness and honour.
But we merely, mention this circumstance to acquit our-
selves of the charge of disrespect to our readers, or to
reason, if we should decline entering into unprofitable
and endless strifes of paltry criticism and vapid.declama-
tion, merely in order to erect a defence for ourselves
against attacks notable only for their acrimony and their
impotence.

We have praised the people—but not the rabble. We
have drawn a distinction between the soberminded mass
—and that inflamed and infuriated sect of the people of
England, who,!being congregated in large towns, unhap-
pily become subject to. the arts of ambitious demagogues
and scribes in newspapers, whose object is, as every sen-
sible man knows, not to enlighten the people, not to
amend the people, not to detect falshood nor investigate
truth, but simply and singly, TO EXTEND THE SALE OF
THEIR PAPERS, and who will sacrifice truth or bepraise
it, precisely as they imagine will be most conducive to
the attainment of this, their cardinal and capital object :
not indeed that this melancholy statement applies alike
to all, even of the radical prints. We do not admire
the Mercury to excess, but could not conscientiously
apply this denunciation to its case, as we do to others.
We distinguish between the people and the rabble, as
we do between the Church-loving and the Church-hating
Dissenters : the mistake and the misfortune is, not that they
are now distinguished, but that they should ever have been
confounded. It may suit the speculation of the Chronicle,
to keep them confounded, and to represent us as keeping
them confounded : but, for our parts, we are convinced,
and this paper, as we hope, will prove our conviction,
that the stand now to be made against the deadly foes of
our country and its institutions, must be made on broader
than mere party grounds, on higher than mere party
principles. 'They cannot live through the hurricane,
which already rocks the ancient thrones of the world to
their bases, and -threatens 'to break up from its founda-
tions the fabric of human society. We must adopt in
heart, as well as in word, the cause of the people, against
the deriders and destroyers of the people—the cause of
union against disorganisation—the cause of peace and
confidenCe against revolutionary excitement—the cause
of true religion against infidelity and its satellites, open
or concealed. If our advocacy be false or fickle, it wil
speedily be detected and exposed : if it be humble and
sincere and constant, the blessing of England's God will
lead it onwards to final victory.

THE LIVERPOOL PRESS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STrINDARD.
SlR,—The Spaniards have a proverbial saying, that " the
person who injures you never forgives you," and'however sin-
gular it may appear upon the first reading, a little reflection
will shew, that it is reconcileable with the comman practice of
those who can wantonly injure or wound the feelings of others;
because such men being devoid of generous sentiments, con-
clude, that those whom they thus injure, must entertain and
act upon the same malignant spirit which actuates themselves.
Upon this ground alone can 1 account for the unabating, nay,
rattier increasing, malignity of part of the Liverpool Press,
against those whom they choose to select as victims of their as-
perity and vituperation. There is, however, a faint ray of hope,
that in one instance, something like a correction of this un-
happy propensity may take place, and this hope arises from the
pain and anxiety evidently suffered by a certain Editor, while
he is writhingly endeavouring to extricate himself from tilt,
dilemma in which he is placed, by having published an un-
authorised statement of a conversation, (for aught we know, a
private one,) which he alleges took place between him and a
gentleman, who denies the truth of that statement.
If the sufferings of this editor have the effect hoped for, and
cause him to be more cautious, in future, how he publishes t
statements arising from incidents related to him in casual and.
incautious conversation, (the publication of which the relator
would, no doubt, if asked for his . consent, instantly refuse,),
particularly when such statements deeply affect the feelings;
and injure the characters, of honourable and innocent persons-:•'
if, I say, his sufferings have this effect, and induce him to con-
duct his journal upon that generally unerring and respectable
principle, of avoiding to give that offence, or to do that injurj
to others, which he would energetically deprecate if offered to
himself, it will effect a reform infinitely more valuable to him'
than that sweeping measure of spoliation and robbery which.:
he labours, in his way, to persuade the unthinking multitude , •
must follow the measures he so recklessly advocates.
But whether this effect be produced or not, one good is ce•X' •
tain to result from the publication, namely, an extension of the
conservative principle, which every respectable man must now
see the necessity of acting upon, by avoiding any communica-
tion with those who make it their business to cater for the worst
purposes, and who do not hesitate to publish any incident,
however trivial, in utter recklessness of the .consequences to
others, so as it. tends to promote their main object, namely..,'
that of endeavouring, by defamation or otherwise; to brim N.
down to their own lever those•who stand upon an eminence 01 ii
well-earned reputation and respectability, which they will never . kin
attain while they pursue their vicious course.
The Journal too, "par nobile patrum," not only emulates t
similar notoriety, but claims for the Liverpool Press, meaning, test
no doubt, that portion which comprises itself and its colleague, , it,,i
that it is "second only in character to that of -the Metropolis.' '!iq ,I,
This is assumed modesty; it being evident, that for envy, hatred, ~'-',
malice, and all uncharitableness, it is second in character to - I ;Lei
none in or out of the Metropolis.
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LONDON LATEST NEWS.

(From our Correspondent.)

LONDON, Wednesday Evening, half-past 7 o'clock.

The Consol Market has exhibited some considerable degred
of buoyancy this morning, and, at the close of business, the
quotation for the Account was 86g, sellers. Our heavy stocl-4
are also better : 3 per Cents. Reduced are 851; 31 per Cents.,
93a ; and 4 per Cents., Mi. India Bonds left olf at 22 to 18
premium. _ .

- Our various Foreign Bonds carried a tendency upward 9;
Russian Bonds left off at 100 i ; Spanish Bonds closed at 1611
and Belgian at 76, after being as high as 76-1. The closirig
price of Dutch Stock was 424, ex. dividend.
We find, by the Paris letters, this afternoon, that the Greek
Loan there has been taken at 96. _ _

The letters from Bologna announce the arrival there of the
young King Otho on his way to Greece. He was first to pro'
ceed to Naples, and then embark for his new kingdom. 'lb
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French troops would remain in garrison, at Napoli, until Oa
arrival of the Bavarian troops, when they would proceed
Ancona.

At a public meeting, held at Lloyd's, to-day,-atid very /mine'
rously attended, the amended motion of Mr., Carruthers, thal
one hundred guineas should be given to the arctic expeditiou
in search of Captain Ross was confirmed.

Quebec papers to the 2nd of December have been received'
The ice is forming fast, and it was more than probable that the
vessels then in port would winter there. The thermometer, 01
an exposed situation was nearly down to zero.
We have had a Malta mail, to-day, with dates to the end, of
December. They contain a bulletin of the progress of *the
Egyptian army in Syria, which we subjoin.

SYRIA.
We have received accounts from Syria, with the official
letin, of the army of Ibrahim Pacha

"22nd Djemazel-ewel, 1248, (16th Oct., 1832.) f
" At day-break we left Bouzetni, preceded by the cavalryr!,.°
the Delis, and followed by that of Ahmed Isey,'AlehneridJe
Gade, and the Bedouin cavalry, who were in' the rear. ' Chet
defile we had to pass is very narrow; we made a short halt
Takhta Kupru. During this interval five or' six men, wh°
were on the look out, saw us, and hastened to give intelligence
of us. The enemy had fortified Tehefti Khan on all sides
Having left a sufficient number of troops at Tallita
and upon other exposed points, we advanced in the above °a
der upon the enemy in the defile. More than a thousei
horsemen came down into the' valley, and postek ov:'0
thems
before us • five hundred more were ranged with the infantry', 1,
order of battle, above Tehefte Khan. Another corps took 1113.4
position along the opposite mountains. After oirserAing, 1;0
half an hour, the movements of the enemy, we put ourselves
a position to repulse him. The affair began with a fire'of
ketry, during which the enemies'ehiefs, Sadik Pacha, and 3'13
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mendji Oglou Habib Bey, passed; sword in hand, through
ranks of the infantry posted round the entrenchments, end
vouring to preserve order. Ten minutes afterwards the to
Tchoukador Ibrahim Aga at the head'of his infantry, who Yfv.. e,
upon the left of our corps of infantry, marched upon the C.,,y1
my's entrenchments, foilowed by a detachment. of cavalry, .",e,
Seiko. Bey advanced from the centre with his Bedouin 00("03
men upon the tent of Alish Paella. Our Delis joined Ibr3h
Aga. The shock was so great, that the enemy found liitus
obliged to abandon his entrenchments. Sadak'l'acha and Ile'
bib ktey were the first to take flight.
The loss of the enemy in the combat was 500 men, of whorl
200 were killed and the remainder made prisoners. The
Pacha was pursued from Tchifti Khan to the distance of tweive
leagues. Other fugitives carried to the. Pacha.a.t Oolon iii b"
lak, the news of their defeat, who having under their ordo.'
more than 1,000 cavalry, considered themselves ea.led upon ii
attack us. Our Bedouins and the other cavalry met them. 111
the mean time, Selim Bey and Ibrahim Aga came up with
body of horsemen, and all charging the enemy at once, put biwo
to a complete rout. Having followed up their retreat for I%
hour and a half, our soldiers returned to Oolou Kishlak just %
sunset, and, according to the orders of the General-in-chief
after a day's rest at Oolou Kishlak we marched forward td
gle (Heraclea). On the march Selim Bey received letters
congratulation from the Mufti, the principal inhabitant, arlo
the people. The General-in-chief had determined to stoP.o
Aleppo, and wait the decision of the Sublime Porte to puto
end to the present state of things. The enemy were far fr'4‘e
acting in the same manner, at one time appearing in the &wag
of Gulak, at another concentrating his troops at-Antab, or,,he
Oolou Kishlak, and spreading everywhere false reports. 1.03
inhabitants of these countries, tired of the vexations to whie
they were subject, begged continually the assistance of
. General-in-chief : these supplications were signed by the m,;l
hers of the religious bodies, by the magistrates, and prinolci,
people in each town. Adana in particular called loudly for aelif
us inhabitants fearing that he could not comply with
wishes in person, besought him to send in his stead His 11,10,
ness Abbas Pasha. Urged by so many entreaties and beinq
formed of everything that passed around him, the Genera
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chief found himself obliged to go as far as Adana. The 0107
persevering in his sinister views. fortified the defile of G11,1..3.%
and assembled his forces at Oolou Kishlak. The Genera,,,l4,
chief sent a detachment to take possession or the defile, s::ed
to avoid giving cause for the prolongation of the war, orclefbe
it to be guarded by some sel hers of the tribe of Adana.
enemy, however, still continued to annoy us. He had ford,
Tchifti Khan, and was preparing, also, to fortify Oolou
lak, with the intention of organizing a new army. One of tiwf
Beys of the province of Itchil, Aclimed Bey, irt ;Mussed, Pre,
been assassinated in his house, by the enemy's troops. Whieice
ver they went despair was at its height. Repeated sulgbs
tions were made to His Highness, the General-in-chief, [lvo,
inhabitants of the province, who entreated him to deliver tied
from these oppressors. The re-estabiishment of peace and tied
order in their unfortunate countries, and, the frustration ulOf
plans of the enemy, have been the object of the expeui i)
Oolou Kishlak."

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