The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-09 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1835.

The. American packet of the Bth December, and which
was due on the 29th December, has not vet arrived.
She should bring the speech of the President at the open-
ing of Congress, on the 4th December. Her delay is
accounted for by the strong northerly and easterly winds
which have prevailed ror some considerable time, but
her arrival is hourly expected.

We have every confidence that the result of the elec-
tions will be extremely favourable to the new, administra-
tion. In London and some of the large towns, where
the poison whiCh ministers to destruction is in consider-
able abundance, the returns will be adverse, but upon
the whole we have every reason to expect that the next
will be a useful, an intelligent, and consequently a con-
servative parliament. We are not surprised at seeing
the merchants of London discomfited by the servile crea-
tures who ate the cruets of the late ministry—the people
who are represented by such a man as Sir John KEffor
we never knew these merchants make any efforts to
rescue their city from the disgrace of being ridden
by whigs and destructives. They are ready enough
to sign their names to an address, but they have
no idea of working, of canvassing, of bringing their
united influence to bear on public opinion. Their
opponents understand these things better, and by
dint of exertion they invariably succeed. There is a
middle class of citizens who stand between the merchant
and the artizan, between the wholesale trader and the
retailer. and they have hitherto been enabled to exert an
influence over the electors which is purely political, and
which has no connexion whatever with the natural in-
fluence of property. The merchants, bankers, and ship-
owners of the city of London constitute the soul of the
metropolis. They furnish the means of employment and
subsistence to the labouring classes; but unfortunately
there is no sympathy between these parties; no con-
descension on the part of the former, and no gratitude
on the partof the latter. London is governed by one of the
most corrupt corporations in the three kingdoms, and it
is by corruption and jobbing of the worst kind that the
leaders of the ruling faction sustain their popularity.
In other places there is a strong sympathy which rises from
the humble operative to his employer, from the employer to
the merchant, banker, capitalist and landowner, and this
sense of mutual dependence and identity of interest
is productive of the most happy effects.. But there is no
such acknowledged identity of interest amongst the
irlbabitants of Lomlon. The head is not allowed to
direct the hands, and the mob act by the influence of an
unseen agency, which misleads them from the path that
duty, interest, and the love of country would otherwise
point out.
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Hence the degraded state of the London representation
for many years, and hence also the decline of the trade
of London, the emptiness of its warehouses, the misera-
ble destitution of the Siiitalfields weavers, and the low
caste to which the artisans and labourers are reduced. It
is in fact sinking under the pestilential influence of the
beer shops and trades' unions, and it must continue to
decline uhless some wholesome change is speedily
effected.

But how can this be hoped for when we see the Go-
vernor of the Bank of England throwing himself into
the arms of levellers and destructives? What confidence
can the public have in an establishment which has such a
man for its chief director ? Well may we fear for the
stability of other institutions and corporations, when so
pernicious an example is set by the Bank of England.
We know not what the independent capitalists of London
say or think of a proceeding so utterly irreconcileable
with the preservation of property and the stability of
public credit; but this we venture to say, that if a di-
rector of:the Bank of England is suffered to bring all
the influence of that immense establishment to bear in
promoting his election—in furthering the election of a
man who is an avowed leveller and destructive—the
sooner the affairs of the bank are overhauled the better.
It will not do to tell us that Mr. PATTISON is but one
man, and that he is only exercising the right of private
judgment. The Governor of the Bank of England is not
a private individual. We cannot separate him from his
official station. He is_ on the hustings, what he is in the
bank parlour, the READ of that enormous establishment,
which has the fate of thousands, nay of millions, in its
band—which can at an hour's notice shake the credit of
the nation to its base—which cati convert a period of
prosperity into one of awful ruin and desolation—anti
make him who is in affluent circumstances to-day a bank-
rupt and a beggar to-morrow. To have a destructive in
the direction of such a powerful machine is a perilous
experiment. It is like carrying a lighted candle into a
powder magazine, or intrusting our life and property to
a madman.

The only consolation we have is that the mischievous
schemes of the metropolitan members will be counteracted
by the return of conservative candidates from every part
of, the country. Their power of doing injury will there-
fore be limited to London, and there they are quite wel-
come to do as much evil as possible. Their foolish con-
stituents will be the greatest sufferers.

TILE result of the Liverpool election, which terminated
yesterday in placing Lord SANDON, by a considerable
majority, at the head of the poll, will, we trust, convince
the most incredulous that a reaction has begun in eai nest.
The candidates were Lord SANDON, Sir HOWARD DOUG-
LAS, Mr. WBI. EWART, and Mr. MORRIS; and at the
close of the poll on the first day (Tuesday last) the num •
hers stood as follows :
SANDON ....... 2,213
DOUGLAS
EWART
MORRIS ' 1,805

On Wednesday the town was in a state of extraordi-
nary agitation, and the EwAar party redoubled their
exertions, and resorted to every species of temptation,
and in many instances to threats and intimidation, in
order to procure votes and regain the ground they had
lost. All their efforts were in vain. Lord SANDON con-
tinued at the head of the poll ft otn the first to the last ;
and the oni:i change that took place was Mr. EWART get-
ting a-head of Sir 110 WARD DOUGLAS, and winning his
election by a mere handful of votes—how gained will be
explained hereafter. At the close of the election at four
o'clock on Wednesday, when several hundreds of electors
remained unpolled, the numbers were—
SANDON
DOUGLAS
EWART

MORRIS ..
IL would itus appear that Lord SAN Dom was 332 a-head