The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-21 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORAING, FEBRUARY 21, 1843.

On this day, we commence the fifth year of our
proprietorship of the Liverpool Standard, and, we be-
lieve we may state, with truth, that our own case is
the only one in which an English provincial Con-
servative 'paper has been published twice a-week for a
similar period by the same proprietors. We do not
refer to this circumstance in a boastful spirit. It is
one, nevertheless, of which we may justly feel proud,
at the same time that we feel grateful to a discrimi-
nating public, by whom our efforts in its behalf have
been appreciated and rewarded. Relying upon our
own resources alone to carry it on, we entered first
upon the arduous career which such an undertaking
involves; unaided, except by the kind preference of
our friends, we have thus far carried it on, with much
occasionally to annoy us—much which might have
tempted some men, less earnest than ourselves in the
cause which has ever been next our hearts, to abandon
the effort—and the reward of perseverance is now
before us. \Ve enter upon our fifth year of proprie-
torship with brightened and brightening prospects,
with added triends to support us—with increased in-
fluence with- tite public to render our exertions useful
to the cause and the principles which we advocate—
with ample resources of talent, information, and the
other indispensable requisites in the successful ma-
nagement of a newspaper property, within our reach,
to enable us to command attention. For this we
should be less than human if we did not, along with
the gratitude which we owe the public, entertain at the
same time some little self-pride. The public has
been good to us; we feel that we have deserved well of
the public.

In returning our thanks, therefore, for the past, and
making our profession for the future, we have little to
say. The former we pay in all sincerity ; the latter we
take to be somewhat supererogatory. We shall continue
to follow the straightforward path of honesty, as we
have, to the best of our judgment, followed it hitherto.
We shall maintain, at all hazards, our independence.
In politics, we remain the unflinching supporters of
the Throne, the Church, and the Constitution. We
take our stand, as we have ever done, upon the " old
ways" of our fathers, with

" Hearts resolved and hands prepared,
The blessings we enjoy to guard."
We adhere to the Protestantism of the Reformation ;
and abjure popery and every system hostile to the
principles, discipline, and doctrines of the Established
Church. Need we say more, to entitle us to the con-
tinued favour of the Conservative community of this
great commercial metropolis, when we have the past to
point to as the surest and best guarantee of our prin-
ciples, and of the truth and faithfulness with which
they have ever been upheld ? We need not !
And now, a word to our advertising friends. In-
disputably, we now occupy, in influence and respecta-
bility of circulation, a prominent position amongst the
Conservative journals of the country, and are fully justi-
fied in claiming to be regarded as second to no journal
in the town, 'of whatever politics, as an advantageous
advertising medium. We beg to impress this fact upon
the attention of our friends amongst the advertising
public; and whilst we assure them of our gratitude
for past favours, we can now with confidence urge our
claim, upon grounds which they will readily acknow-
ledge, to future patronage and support. We can give
ample circulation, in the most influential circles, to
whatever advertisements they may honour us with.
Men of business require no more !

It may now, we think, be viewed as an. established
fact, that every effort is to be used, of which agitation
is capable, to prolong the existence of the present de-
pression in commercial affairs—in the hope of using
the consequent sufferings of the people as a lever for
the attainment of the political ends of a party. What
is it which the mercantile classes, and the working
classes as well, have most to pray for at the present
moment ? The answer, which thousands of voices
throughout the country are ready to accord in is CON-
' FIDENCE IN MERCANTILE TRANSACTIONS ! The
amelioration of the tariff, during last session of Par-
liament, unsettled for a time many important branches
of foreign commerce and native industry. Some mil-
lions of active capital during the past year, partly
owing to legislative changes, and partly to the prospect
held out of further changes, have been withdrawn from
productive employment, and are lying idle in the
coffers of the Bank of England, and other similar
places of security. What does it want now to set this
capital in motion—to give impetus to the wheels of
commercial enterprise—to remove the icy chain which
binds up the fertilising streams of industry ? The
answer is still—" CONFIDENCE"! Vast markets in
India and China are open to us. We are in the en-
joyment of peace with all the world. The food of the

people is almost unprecedently reasonable in lirice.
What aid then do we require to enable us to avail our-
selves of those facilities to the attainment of our usual
condition of successful commercial energy ? The an-
swer is again--CONFIDENCE; and the cessation of
that political agitation which alone retards our return
to that position !

We submit then that, in such a state of things, the
mercantile community of Liverpool have an imperative
duty to themselves to perform. Why are WE to be the
unresisting sport of a few reckless and incendiary ad-