The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Observer of Sunday last says that parliament will
not sit beyond the 19th instant.
Neither Mr. Cobden nor Mr. Bright voted or spoke
with reference to the bill for suspending the Habeas Cor-
pus Act.
RADICAL PURITY.—The late Radical candidate for this
borough, Messrs. Bowring and Brook, are being sued for
the expenses. Among others, Mr. Dobson of the Bay
Horse, has brought an action against a brother spirit sel-
ler, named Howarth, for "a little bill." Howarth was
an agent for Messrs. Bowring and Brooks. Well, to this
claim of Dobson's, the following most shabby plea has
been put in :—" That the goods, chattels, meat, drink,
and cigars, were sold and delivered, found and provided,
to enable the defendant to use the same ; and for the pur-
pose, that defendant should use the same as gifts and re-
, wards, in corrupting the Electors at the last Election of
Members for the borough of Bolton." And this to come
after all the protesting, the professions, the loud shoutings
of self-approving Liberalism,—the petition against the
elected member for " bribery and corruption,"—and the
cant of the Radicals that they thanked heaven that they
were not as other men were ! No wonder that the poor
tool who " did " the Bolton Tinies abandoned his task
in despair, and took to costermongering—declaring that
the conduct of his erewhile masters " was not worthy of
support." And there are electors found in Bolton to
trust these men ! Said VI e not right, that the richest of
all rich jokes was to hear Bolton Radicalism prate of—
" PURITY !"—Bolton Chronicle.

THE ORANGEMEN. '

(Fvom the Cambridge Chronicle.)

Truth and justice are now bursting through party bar-
riers, in reference to the Orangemen of England. Who
does not remember how these men, whose fault was their
over zealous loyalty, were traduced and branded in the
palmy days of Whigism ? It was the fashion then with
the present official coercionists to pamper sedition and
put down loyalty by act of parliament. Loyal Protestant-
ism was an abomination in the eyes of Mr. O'Connell, and
so the Whig ministry directed their parliamentary battery
against the Orangemen of Ireland, and placed them, be-
neath the heels of Popish incendiaries. But the day of
revenge has arrived. The Orangemen are now acknow-
ledged as one of the main-stays of the country. For-
getting the injuries they have received, they are throwing
themselves heartily into the cause of order, and the Times
one of their old calumniators, if we recollect aright, is
compelled thus to speak of them:—
" Of course there is quite a strength and an immense
strength on the side of loyalty in Ireland. There is a well-
disciplined and well-appointed army of 45,000 men, in-
cluding 10,000 police, worth twice the amount of those
very miscellaneous, ill-trained, and ill-officered forces we
had in 1791. There are also a million and a half of
' Orangemen,' as superior to the celts in personal courage
and strength as they are in loyalty and intelligence.
Every Englishman who has had the opportunity of com-
paring the two classes is persuaded that these million and
a half are more than a match for the six or seven millions
who claim to monopolise the Irish title and soil."