The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-22 00:00:00

sense of delicacy does not understand the nature or
his duties. He who holds back in the presumption that
the electors are sufficiently acqtiainted with his life,
and habits,- and qualifications, draws too liberally and
freely-Upon his own self-esteem. He who shrinkft from
the personal labour of a canvass on the ground that he
.does not choose to ask any favour, or give any explana-
tions to the electors, may be a radical, but in heart and
soul he is an aristocrat of very suspicious pretensions,
and not .fit to exercise so responsible a trust.
These are our views on the subject, and the electors,,
we feel convinced, entertain similar-ones. They have a
sacred duty to perform—to the inhabitants of LiverPgol
generally—to the corporation as the trustees of immense
sums borrowed upon bonds—to the working classes upon
whotn the corporation have for a long period expended
a considerable surplus income annually in- public im-
provements---and last, but least of all, to themselves,
their families, and the generations which shall succeed
them. These are the serious obligations under which
every burgess will proceed to.the poll on Saturday next.
On Friday we shall endeavour to pass under review
the pretensions of the radical candidates, and show their
connexion with each other, and their standing in society.
We have an idea that such an exposé will be rather a cu-
rious docuthent. But justice must be done though the
lieaVens should fall.

A prosing blockhead has a long letter in the Albion of
yesterday, which would not be worth our notice but for
his ridiculous sensitiveness with respect to the ensuing
municipal election. He cannot bear the idea of the con-
servatives canvassing their respective wards, and he
charges a candidate with insulting him by calling at his
house and leaving his card ! What a poor, spiteful, ill-
bred creature it must be. We should like to know where
it could have been born, what sour crout it could have
been fed upon, and what disappointment it could have
suffered to rAiake it so venomous, captious, and liy-percri•
,tical. Our-contemporary must be hard pressed for mat-
,ter when he gives a column and a half of his space to
twaddle that would bring discredit upon a sick tailor.
He complains of anonymous attacks in the newspapers,
and yet he is guilty of the same thing himself. His ho-
nour has been wounded, he says, but he doe's not tell us
where his honour is to be found, or what it consists of.
He accuses a conservative candidate of being in some
way connected with this journal; but supposing the ac-
cusation to be well founded, what does it amount to ?
The very Albion in which his silly letter is inserted, is,
we believe, partly owned by one of the candidates in the
radical interest; and Mr. EGERTON- SMITH, another ra-
dical candidate, is, we apprehend, a newspaper proprie-
tor. We would advise this man of delicate honour, and
who is evidently sore, to take a strong dose of calomel
and go to bed ; and, if he be afraid of the visits of con-
servative candidates, let him tie up his knocker.

We invite the attention of our readers to the excel-
lent speech of Mr. WILLIAM POTTER which will be found
in another of our columns. If the electors of St. Peter's
Ward neglect availing themselves of the services of such
a man as Mr. POTTER, to serve any party or political
purpose, they will display a want of discrimination
which will be a severe loss to the town at large.