The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

THE LI VERPO3I_, STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM.

One'Of our contemporaries has been instructed to comment
upOn an article in Our number of Friday-last neon the- partial'
and improper proceedings of the sub-committee iu some recent
changes of newspapers in the above establishment. In short,
a laboured and most impotent attempt at apology has been put
forth for this compound display of political feelings and violated
compact. To guard against any possible misunderstanding of
our motives, we again state that if our own proportion, which is
equal to that of any other paper published, were swept out of
the room altogether, it would cause us not the smallest annoy-
ance. It would, we repeat, be rather a benefit conferred upon
us, in a pecuniary sense. But we have and shall continue to
watch the proceedings of parties who do acts, in their public
capacity, which are inconsistent with the impartial discharge of
their duty. As for the trash about the "Liverpool Ude," the
Cuisinier of the room, " taking it into his Milesian head" to
feed his customers' according to his own fancy, we think the
said Mile Xian, if such he be, will not be much obliged by the
intended compliment ; and the " parallel," as it is called,
would have been much more-" complete" if the writer had in-
troduced a dissertation on the merits of calves' heads, a subject
that would come very naturally from him. But if either he, or
hiemasters, think they can parry the charge by such a course
as they have adopted, we Will try to undeceive both them and
him. The Times and the Morning Chronicle we are told have
more numerous readers than the Conservative morning pa-
pers ; and we are also told that " the readers of the Sun, the
Globe, and the Courier, far outnumber those of the Albion, the
Standard, and the St. James's Chronicle, papers which, in four
cases out of every five,—we might say in nine cases out of every
ten—are taken up only when no other evening journal can be
had." Now, we should be perfectly justified in saying that
this assertion might be designated by a single word which
may not be said to " ears polite." We may, however,
recommend it to the admirers of MUNCH A USEN, as well suited
to their taste. The Sun is read for its third edition during the
sitting of Parliament; the Globe is consulted as one of the organs
of those Atlases, our present rulers ; whilst, of the poor Courier,
so fallen from its once " high and palmy state;" the less we say
of it the more, we apprehend, will the people concerned be
obliged to us ; it is certainly running at a great rate—down-
wards. Of the others mentioned, our excellent London name-
sake, for instance, we would say that there is not an evening
paper published which is half so much read through the United
Kingdom by the respectable and well-informed classes of society,
.as the Standard. But the whole attempt to excuse• the act is
one of evasion. Else, in the spirit of impartiality, why cut
down what are called the tory papers thirty or forty per cent.,
whilst the radical Times is only reduced ten pet cent., and the
"neutral" Herald, purporting, by the title_ given to it by these
same gentlemen, to be the essence of " impartiality," is to be
lopped off twenty-five per cent. But we have not done yet.
There is something in the arrangement of the provincial papers
which we will touch upon, without scruple, at the expiration of
another week, if we then find the present plan persisted in. In
the meantime, we will content ourselves with a single and very
short remark on the composition of the proprietors and sub-
scribers to the Exchange-room; we mean it as a general
answer to the apology put forth--rthat the majority of them are
persons who have nothing in common with the writer of the
article to which we are now alluding;—they are strict con-
servatives.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sra,—lt delights us poor Tories to see how the STANDARD
works its own way in spite of liberal conspiracy. -How the case
stands with regard to the Exchange News Room, the Tory
" nobs" must decide ; but a pennyworth at Scott's is as 'much
as I can afford just now, it is therefore with the widow I have,
to do. • For weeks (and I think months) after the STANDARD
was set up, it was not allowed to go near Scott's,—but now she
takes six or .eight copies (you know bow many) of each publi-
cation, but only, that small number, which causes actually a
scramble for them in the mon; you cannot get hold of one with-
out waiting a length of time and "bespeaking" one. I think
that widow Scott ought to discover that the number of her
visitors on STAN haat. days are much more numerous than they
are on-other days.
1 have counted eleven hiere4rys' aye, eleven copies of that
old gossip, lying quiet as death on the table, whilst a copy of the
STANDARD was not te be got hold of without waiting your turn,
and this only a fortnight ago; and nearly as many of the
Unitarian paper have I counted on some Tuesdays.
Does the poor woman think that any body will take Mercury
if she goes to the expense? Quere. Does the fund for the
houseless poor go towards finding widow Scott an ample num-
ber of "Bott's' dull sheet?

I have stated-facts; you may make your inferences. Surely it
cannot be that so many of Scott's readers are Tories. It is too
bad that the old woman will not take a sufficient number of the
paper. most read in the room, and force one to read the dull
trash of the " top-spinning•man down to the sprinkler of holy
water." Ha!, ha! , That was the cut.—Yours, &c.
A POOR TORY.