The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

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On Tuesday next, the STANDARD will be printed
with a new and elegant type, manufactured spe-
cially for the purpose by the celebrated house
of Messrs. V. and J -qins, of London.

THE STANDARD ALMANAC,

In consequence of the extreme satisfaction which this
elegant little Almanac has given, we have had an
extra number printed of, which -may be obtained

AT TWOPENCE EACH.
It answers the double purpose of Almanac and

Date Case

THE " LIVERPOOL STANDARD " FOR
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YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION

in advance

On credit

The announcement which we make to our readers,
that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now
offered to the Public for THREEPE CE,
requires from us a word or two of explanation.
For some time past we have had in contemplation
this step—a serious one to ourselves, and one of
no trifling import to the community amongst whom
our paper circulates. We have not been blind to
, the fact, that newspaper literature must ultimately
accommodate itself to the requirements of the age;
that the great organ which aspires to direct public
opinion, and which is hourly proving itself more
powerful than statesmen or parties, should be ena-
bled to address its appeals more directly to the
many—to address them in their own homes, and
by their own firesides—to substitute its earnest
teachings for the penny trash, which alone at
present finds its way to the poor man's dwelling
and to the perusal of his family. To effect this,
cheapness is mainly required. The hearts of our
humble fellow-countrymen, we know, are not too
enamoured of the wretched sentiment and worse
principles—the inflammatory doctrines and false
philosophy—contained in the papers to which we
have referred as constituting at present their usual
mental food ; and we have arrived at the conclu-
sion, that we are only doing our duty as journal-
ists, conscious of the great responsibility which the
march of circumstances has thrown upon us, in
submitting to a sacrifice—we trust only a tempo-
rary one—of our personal interests, with a view
to increased usefulness and advantage to the pub-
lic.
Whilst making this announcement, we must assure
our readers and those friends who have, thus far,
so liberally rewarded our humble labours, that we
do not intend to attempt to compensate ourselves
by any parsimony of management, by which the
article which we furnish at a reduced price shall
be less worthy of their acceptance and approbation.
We hope even to improve upon the past. The con-
sciousness that we are addressing a more extended
circle of readers, calls upon us for increased
energy and increased watchfulness for the interests
of those readers. The task before us we fully
recognise ; and we trust that we shall not be
found unequal to perform it faithfully and bene-
ficially.

Isom one source, and from one alone, we look for
our reward, so far as mere pecuniary considera-
tions extend. We shall be able to give to the
favours of our advertising friends greatly in-
creased circulation and publicity ; and it is only
natural to anticipate that those favours will fall
upon us in an increased degree. Henceforth we
hope to be behind none of our contemporaries in
the advantages which our columns uford to the
advertising cammunity.

We cannot conclude these brief remarks without re-
turning thanks to our friends and the public for
the support which has raised us to our present
position amongst our contemporaries; and we
trust that our future labours will not be less de-
serving or less rewarded.

titirrpulai gnarWarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 29, 1846.

A calm review of the difficulties which the present
ministry have to face at the approaching meeting of
parliament will leave little doubt that the session
will be a short one, and that a dissolution must very
shortly be resorted to by Lord John Russell, and
our future policy be dictated by the constitutionally-
oice of the country. A weak govern-
ment cannot grapple with those difficulties. Upon
many of the leading questions which present them-
selves for consideration, his Lordship is tolerably

certain to be in a minority. Ireland has to be raised
from the verge of famfne and degradation ; her
turbulent spirits to be repressed, her miseries re-
moved. We have education questions in great
Baitain to be decided upon, and financial questions
pressing for consideration. The country has ad-
vanced half way upon the path of free trade, and
asks to go further. There is an evident inclination
to re-model our system of taxation; and there is a
prospect that our trading interests will be shortly
involved in difficulty, and the working portion of
our population in suffering. Former experience of
the policy of Whig governments warns us of at-
tempted "heavy blows and great discouragement"

gainst the

National Church, and it