The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

sold ?. Mr. MARK PHILIPS is not-your representaave.
He is only a warming-pan, and warming-pans are vend-
ible. He keeps his seat until he can dispose of it to the
best advantage, and who so good a customer as a secretary
of state ? Make up your minds to this—if Mr. PHILIPS
resigns, you are sold! The weaver sells you to a chap_
man of the house of Bedford, who are sleeping partners
in the firm of O'CONNELL, MELBOURNE, and Co. You
are treated like a piece .of damaged calico, fit only for
• exportation. Many animals are sold and exchanged
without being consulted; but it is painful to think that
you should be treated in so light a manner.
Electors of Manchester! Have you any pride ?—but
before you answer we will tell you a story. There was
a poor tailor living in the far-up attic of some obscure
street in London, who, from a tedious illness, was re-
duced to extreme want. His laSt penny was spent—his
coat and his wife's shawl and other garments were pawn-
ed and they had hardly an article of furniture or clothing
left. His wife proposed, in her extremity, to 'pledge
an useful implement in his craft, namely, the tailor's iron.
" What !" exclaimed the dying man, " dishonour the
goose ? No; I have too much PRIDE to do that!"
Electors of Manchester! we ask you if you have as
much pride as this Poor forlorn journeyman tailor; for
if you have you will. spurn the affiont which is to be of-
fered you, whistle Mr. MARE PHILIPS to the winds, and
reject Lord JohN RUSSELL with disdain.
In order that you may be enabled to do this in a mas-
terly and triumphant manner, it is proper that some can-
didate of high standing,'of great talents, and of consi-
derable political experience, should be submitted to your
choke. You have twice rejected Mr. BRAIDLEY, simply,
we fear, on the ground that a prophet is not respected in
his own country. There are too many jealousies amongst
you to elect a townsman who mixes frequently with you
in the intercourse of trade. For these reasons, there.
fore, Mr. BRAIDLEY, we presume; will not offer himself
again. Who then is to face and beat Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL ? You all recollect how much your highly favoured
town_ s ipAtebtel! to the. late Sir ROBERT PEEL.
711 e was
one of those who laid the foundations of your prosperity
and renown. The daughter of that truly great and ex-
cellent man is the wife of Mr. GEORGE ROBERT DAW-
SON, the late candidate for Devonport, and who' contri•
buted not a little to defeat Lord JOHN in Devonshire. He
has sat in many parliaments. He is a gentleman of liberal
and conservative principles, a fluent and even eloquent
speaker, of large experience, of good business habits,
and is just the man to meet Lord JOHN RUSSELL and call
him to a strict reckoning on the hustings of Manchester.
There is not a man among you who is not an admirer of
the present Sir ROBERT PEEL. You may say what you.
please, but in your hearts you are proud that the late
prime minister is a native of this county. In his brother-
in-law, Mr. DAwsoN, you will find a gentleman of corre-
sponding sentiments and equally sound principles. If
he will consent to stand ,the contest you cannot be in
better hands. He might be induced perhaps by a requi-
sition. Try him by all means. If he should accept the
invitation, our own opinion is, that his very appearance
on the hustings would frighten Lord JOHN into an imme-
diate resignation.

It is singUlar that among the violent whigs, some are
so much addicted to misrepresentation that they cannot
speak the tiuth,'even when the ti nth would serve their
purposes quite as well as falsehood. The speech attri-
buted to Mr. JOSEPH EWACIT of this town, in presenting
a certain address to Lord JOHN RUSSELL in Devonshire,
is a case in point. We beg pardon for not noticing the
affair sooner, but when we first read the Morning Chro-
nicle, we imagined that the Mr. EIVART. there spoken of
was our own consistent and immaculate representative,
for whom we entertain such a particular respect, that we
never think of reading any thing that he is reported to
have said or done. The gentleman in question, who
figured in Devonshire, is, we regret to state, unfortu-
nately, the brother of our member.

This gentleman is reported in the Morning Chronicle
to have spoken as follows, in allusion to the address
which he presented to Lord JOHN :--
It was adopted at a public meeting and left at the shops of the
town for si,gnatures, without any efibri being made to give it pub-
licity beyond the fact•of its announcement; and that, in the
zhe4 -Tux* 4krite. days 444:waived-no less than 10,516 sitna-
tures (long continued chee7ing).; they were obtained without any
exertion or solicitation—(Hear!) It was left freely fir the inha-
bitants to come forward, and the number thus obtained exceed-
' ed, by about 4,000, the number obtained, by every effort that
could be made by the tories, to en address to Sir Robert Peel,
requesting him not to resign. (Great cheering.)
We have a great and conservative regard for the cha-
racter of our townsmen, and therefore we are•unwilling
to believe that Mr. JOSEPH EWART spoke the words as-
cribed to him by the Chronicle. If he did, however,
(he has hot contradicted the report in any of the Liver-
pool papers) all we have.to say is that he is guilty of
uttering misstatements, if not downright falsehoods in
almost every line of the above extract.
Ist. The address was not adopted at "a public meet-
ing," but on the contrary was got up by unknown per-
sons in some hole and corner.

2d. Instead of lying only three days for signatures
it lay, to our knowledge, from Thursday in one week to
Wednesday, inclusive, in the succeeding week, which
we calculate gives a space of at least six clear days. It
is true that Good Friday and Sunday intervened ; but
these were the very days on which the address received
the greatest number of marks, signatures, and apolo-
gies for signatures. It was planted at all the doors of
the Roman Catholic chapels—signed by all those who
could write, and crossed by those who could nut—the
people who did so, for the most part, not knowing what
it was about, inasmuch as they were quite as unable to
read as to write.

3d. Mr. EWART is made to say that the signatures
were " obtained without any exertion or solicitation."
The fact that the chapels were resorted to on Good Fri-
day and Sunday proves the contrary, and we moreover
assert that The address, and sometimes sheets without the
address, was hawked through all the low open houses of
Liverpool for several days. We should like to see the
signatures. . The committee took very good care they
should not be seen. Why ? because they had good rea-
son to be ashamed of them—because they knew hun-
dreds of them to 'be fictitious—and because they know
well that the whole of the heavy sheets, which Mr.
EWART could not lift, do not contain five hundred genu-
ine signatures of persons of respectability.
We honestly confess that we .are sorry to .see Mr.
JOSEPH EWART made the mouthpiece of such unseemly
misrepresentations. No wonder Lord Joitx RUSSELL
was defeated, when he was supported by such fiauils so
repulsive to the people of England. Had Mr. JOSEPH
EWART been a joint of the tail instead of a merchant who
has a character to lose, and whose word should be his
bond, we should not have been surprised. But Mr.
EWART is not one of the creatures of O'CONNELL ; he is
an Englishman, and we presume independent. He
should not therefore mix himself up with such barefaced
misstatements; but we still hope that the speech ascribed
to him by the Morning Chronicle is a fiction, and a
fraud practised upon his good nature.

STRAY SLIPS FROM THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY

(Read at the Guinea Pig. on Tuesday Evening, as our leading
article for our next number.)
Notwithstanding the determined efforts of the tories, consist-
ing of the most barefaced bribery, intimidation, and corruption,
Lord John Russell, as we anticipated, has carried his election
for- South Devon. We have only time to congratulate our
readers on the result of what we hold to be the last contest in
which the miserable faction will venture to engage.
The enlightened electors of South Devon have nobly done
their duty, and. Lord Russell again takes his seat in the House
of Commons as member for one of the most-important counties
in England; where he will be enabled, as leader of the house,
to carry into effect those wise and wholesome measures of re-
form which can emanate from none- but a master mind like his.
If we did not feel -too much contempt, we should really pity
the tories for the-signal defeat they have sustained. After all,
Tavistock will not be vacated. -

( From the Mercury of this day.)
We received by express from Exeter, at a late hour last
night, the result of the first day's polling for South Devon.
Owing to bribery, corruption, and intimidation, the usual wea-
pons of the tortes, Lord John Russell was in a minority.- This,
however, the address from Liverpqol, when made known to the
electors, will neutralise. Should they succeed in their efforts to
embarrass the reform administration by rejecting Lord John,
the home secretaryship will be offered to ou enlightened towns-
man, Mr. William Ewart. Indeed, he has already written to
the Liverpool reform association on the subject. ci special pri-
vate meeting of that body wiil be held this day, in order to take
Mr. Ewart's letter into consideration. Ttie great length at
which we have written on this subject compels us to omit on
admirable scientific article on cats' paws, and also an extract
from our paper of April Ist, I 830, which we have been requested
to reprint. .

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock.

M r. O'Connell and his hopeful progeny have occupied the pub-
lic attention almost entirely since we last wrote, and the younger
chips of the old block seem as much inclined to enact the bravo
as their honourable sire does that of bully. The whole tenor of
the conduct of these worthies is of a piece with what might have
been expected from them, and we believe some.three ar four of
them are now under bail to prevent their murdering certain of
those of hisMajesty'ssubjects whom the father has spent his life
in libelling, he being safe from his merited chastisement by the
sham vow in which he has bound himself of not answering for
his misrepresentations and inventions.
Money has continued scarce with us for the last few days, and
the consul market is heavy at 921 for the account. This
scarcity has also caused 'a considerable depreciation in both
India Bonds and Exchequer Bills, and it is understood that the
Bank of England has been selling the latter securities. The •
premium on India Bonds has fallen to 12 13, and that on Ex-
chequer Bills to 31 32.

In the foreign market there is also a great degree ofheaviness,
and the market closed heavily this afternoon at 19%42 for Bel-
gian, 811 4 for Brazilian, 491 for Columbian, 77 for Danish,
58i for Dutch 21 per cents, 1021 for the 5 per cents, 481- 49 fur
Mexican, 104 a for Portuguese, 70i g for Spanish, and Igt
for the scrip.
By late accounts from Peru we learn that since the late re_
volt of the troops at Callao the markets had became worse than
ever, and confidence had again been destroyed. It was not ex-
pected, even if everything remained tranquil, that the market
would recover for months.

By advices from La Guayra to the 4th of March, it is stated
that an extraordinary advance had suddenly taken place in
coffee, and that sales had been effected at Caraccas at 1l z, 114,
and even 12 cents. This sudden rise was owing to many Ger-
man houses suddenly coming into the market as purchasers.
The article was also extremely scarce iu consequence of a short
crop.

By adsvices from Nassau we find that his Majesty's brigs
Cruizer and Racer had each captured a slaver. The one taken
by the former is said to be very large, and had an unusual num-
ber of slaves on board.

Our private accounts from New York announce the arrival
of the schooner Oral, in thirty-one days, from Para, having on
board the vice-president of that province and three officers of
the customs, who, in consequence of the recent disturbances
Ihere, haAtfled.for, their lives:- The Oral touched at Barbadoes,
at the desire of the British residents at Para, to desire thut a
vessel of wax might be sent for their protection.
We have also a file of Boston papers which state, that the
house of representatives of Maine had adopted the following re-
solutions, having reference to the boundary question, by a ma-
jority of 129 to 7 :
Resolved;—That as the recommendation of the King of the
Netherlands was an evasion and not a decision of the question
submitted to him, we cordially approve its rejection by the pre_
sident of the United States.

Resolved,—That as the.final adjustment of our north eastern
boundary line is a question involving the future growth and
prosperity of this state, the executive of the state be requested
to urge upon the executive of the United States the great im-
portance of a speedy settlement of this exciting question in such
a manner as will preserve the territorial rights of Maine, as
deicribed by the treaty of 1783.