The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

LECTURE 111

Last evening, at the Music-hall, Bold-street, there was
a much larger audience. The subject of Love, Sympathy,
and Antipathy, was handled by the lecturer; and many
moral propositions dogmatically asserted, which we can-
not report for want of space, followed by experiments
similar to previous ones, but on fresh and untried subjects.
W. left the doctor about to organise a committee of
medical and other gentlemen to investigate his subject.

Viscount Sandon has presented. throngh the Dean/of
the Faculty, the liberal donation of £25 towards the
building fund of the Queen's College.
ANDERSON THE CONVICT.—The paragraph in our paper
of Friday sennight, respecting Anderson offering one of
his keepers £4OO was wrong. The person to whom he

offered the bribe has just c;lled onus, and states that
Anderson's first offer was £6OO to the contractor and £lOO
to the keeper, £7OO in all. This took 1.1

same party £250, and £7OO to the 'contractor
he wished a sum to be named, as hundred,

consequence to him

There wa.

party in the trait

to give the none.

as soon as any bar

'gain was

could bare been

Mercury

SP►.IT AMONG Live
t week. Bernard NiTartil

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EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN

RAILWAY

The few remarks witieli we madelast week, in reference
to this undertaking at d the proposed BraLch hoes to
Leith and Granton Pier, have drawn upon us the follow-
ing effusi .n of fpleeti, and something else, from our
cotemporarv, the Railway Times.
"But for certain influences which, in this matter, we
have reason to believe hold sway_ over the Liverpool
Standard, we should be at a loss to account for the in-
sertion in that respectable journal of repeated puffs of the
(so-called) " Edinborgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway"
—one of the hollowest bubbles ever blown. To-day we
give a specimen of the Standard's statements—or rather,
we should my, tne statements of a person in Liverpool,
who is perhaps " better known than trusted," in connec-

Lion with this project. We.should ill deserve the confi-
deuce reposed in us, if we did not once more caution the
unwary as the barefaced puffery of this concern, which is

thrust before the public in the Liverpool papers. Will
the manai..ers venture to give a full and fair statement of
what has occurred at any meeting, legally constituted,
within the last three years ? '1 hey dare not !
" The whole concern, from first to last, has been carried
most suspiciously; and if the Directors wish it, we shall
be happy to prove what we thus assert."
In the first place we have a few words to say in reply to
that portion of our cotemporary's remaks which contain
an imputation upon ourselves. We are said to have been
induced to speak favourably of this undertaking on ac-
count of " certain influeoces " which " hold sway over

the Liverpool Standard; " and this by the way, is not
the first occasion on which our contemporary has used
similar language towards us. Coming from such a quar-
ter, the charge is, broadly stated, that we have been
bribed. In our own town, we flatter ourselves such an
imputation would sc trcely need a simple denial. It is not,
as our fellow citizens know, an easy task to " hold sway
over " the Liverpool Standard ; and, we believe we may
say that an attempt to bribe would provoke, from most
of our local contemporary's, a sornewhat.hasty and plain
form of rebuke, if it did not even draw personal_ castigation
upon the unlucky briber. Before the world at large
however, who know us less, we must take the earliest
opportunity of indignantly repudiating the calumnious
insinuation endeavoured to be taster ed upon us. It is
fats. and malignant in intention; and is, moreover, as
silly as its venal utterer is contemplib.e.
A question or two, in return, we will take the liberty:of
putting to our contemporary. There are " influence.,"
then, employed to " hole sway over" journalists who
comment upon railway undertakings! A man, for in-
stance, who, week after week, for years past, has ern oloyee
his hireling pen in misrepresenting- the position. of any
particular line—say the Eastern Counties—and in slan-
dering its directors and supporters, may be BOUGHT OVER
to become their apologist and puffing advocate.. The ad-
mission is an important one; and whilst it es' ahlishes the
value of the laudatory effusions of writers thus venal,
furnishes at the same time a clue to the source of their
occasional bitterness and malignity. In the present in-
stance the quid dam peculium has perhaps not been fur-
nished! and the Editor has, in addition, a grudge of old
standing against the respected agent of the undertaking.

And now with respect to the merits of the line in
question—the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway
—which this disinterested, and perhaps disappointed,
scribe describes as "one cf the hollowest bubbles ever
blown." After the explanation which he has afforded us