The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

't the next election. Oh dear ! What a melancholy and
dreary prospect ! Enlightenment is to go to the shades
with that paragon of a representative, Mr. WILLIAM
EwAirri. Wisdom is to perish with our native SoLom( it
4 Genius will be compelled to trade below, and sing old
i songs with LUCIAN'S cobbler for a livelihood at the next
tlection I Dr. JOHNSON will have no agent of grandilo-
quence upon earth ! Alas, the "four times in three short
years," will end in nothing, and get sour, like
_spoon
meat three days old, in the person of Mr. EWART, who
has no chance of the peerage !

But let us retreat back to sober facts. The Liverpool
It Times knows as well as we do that Mr. EWART has no
!, chance whatever at the election which must come soon.
It may rave or lament about it as much as it pleases.
Th ie is cast. A thousand times abler, and better, and
'mo ntelligent man—a man of better principles, of
1 bett education, of higher understanding, must be the
repre ntative of Liverpool in the next parliament. The
Liver of Tinies knows that even his own personal
friends are sick of Mr. EWART. Some of them do not
Hesitate to confess that they brought down Mr. MORRIS
to oppose him ; and some of the most honest radicals,
natives of Liverpool, voted for MORRIS in prefei•en.ce to
I Ewattr. But are we to build upon this certainty the
flattering hope, personal to ourselves, that the electors of
Liverpool stand ,alone at the burning of the old bones,
and in seeking a change at the expense and the inter-
ment of a man who is hardly entitled to christian burial ?
No; Liverpool has not the honour of taking the lead in
this moral revolution. It pervades the vvhole country.
It is the rising and ruling sentiment in the breast of every
honest and intelligent Englishman. The nation is sick
of the ignorant empirics—the superficial and contetnptibly
-small disciples of the " march of intellect" school—who
have been: suffered to talk, and spout, and legislate for this
mighty empire. Have we not heard of an hospital of in-
curables ? Yes, but what is that to a convention of fools ?
And if folly had been the worst of it, we might have been
content to-speak sparingly of their conduct. But when
we see such tricks such glaring impositions, such down-
tight swindling as has characterised the formation of the
"Reform-Association," we must resort to a less mild term
' of reprehension, and call the fraud by its proper name.
~ • We have had lying enough, and a strong spice of perjury
from the popish members of Ireland. We looked at the
crime as we do at an Irish murder—at !toughing of cattle
—at the villanies committed in fields by night—at the
unhallowed revenge which vents itself upon the sinless
'• beasts who have no avenger—these crimes, however, will
,bring their own punishment, and ragged and supperless
ought the slave to be, who, instigated by his priest, in-
dulges in such debasing and disgusting acts of revenge.
These crimes like other sins will have their cure in the re-
coil of an awful retribution. But when we see Englishmen
participating-in and conniving at the frauds of the Irish
members—resorting to theirjesuitical fictions—adopting
"their nranners—practising their impositions—and at-
tempting to cheat the public under the sanction of popu-
lar names—we must, however reluctantly, and however
degradingly, admit that if we have not a rearguard in
. the people of England we must be beaten. The question
depends upon an " if." We are not afraid of that word; '
simply because we believe that the people of England
are now alive to the frauds which have been practised
• upon them.

We had written thus far when we received The Stan-
dard of Wednesday evening, containing the following
letter from Sir FRANCIS BURDETT :

To THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

Sir,—Endeavouring to be concise, I find I have become ob-
scure. Since I addressed my former note to you, I have read
the paper to which you alluded, and I am happy to find that
there is in it no disrespectful allusion to his Majesty, nor any
such expressions as appear to me to bear out your representa-
tion of it. At the same time I beg to be considered as not in
any way implicated in it, or responsible for any of its sentiments,
or as having anything further to do with the business it relates
to, than as a subscriber to a fund for facilitating• the registra-
tion of voteA, and which I think ought to be done by the public,
And impartially for all.

I remain, Sir,

Your very obedient humble servant.
St. James's-place, Juue 3. FRANCIS BURDETT.
The following is the first letter which Sir FRANCIS
addressed to The Standard

TO THE ,EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

Sir,—l beg leave to inform you, that if my name is affixed to
any such paper as that you mention in the Standard ofSaturday
last, it is not with my knowledge, nor is kat all consistent with
•Lay sentiments and opinions. I never heard of it until I read
Your account of it in the Standard the day before yesterday—
tor have I yet seen it.

I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
St. James's7place, June L FRANCIS BURDETT

It is somewhat difficult to reconcile these two letters.
One thing, however, is plain enough, viz., that the name
the honourable baronet bad been used without his
knowledge or consent—in other words, his name had
been forged! Our argument, therefore, is not affected
by the second explanatory letter. •
That Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has been tampered
.with
in order to screen certain parties is evident enough;
and he has subscribed his money to do that which the
worthy baronet deprecates in the most unequivocal terms.
We leaVe him, however, in the hands of our contem-
porary

We have no disposition to enter into a controversy with Sir
Francis, and we shall, therefore, only quote from the address
*hat appeared to us, not merely disrespectful, but insulting to
the King ;
" The abrupt dismissal of a liberal administration in which
the country confided, replaced the executive functions of the
state, at the end of last year, in the hands of the tories."
Dr. Johnson gives four interpretations of the word " Ab-
to pt, "

1. Broken, craggy.
2. Divided, Without any thing intervening.
3. Sudden, without the customary, or proper preparatives.
4. Unconnected.

Now, the third is the only sense in which the word can have
Ilre any meaning, and we confess, that we cannot consider it
t'therwise than disrespectful, and even seditious, to charge that
the King had dismissed an administration trusted by the people,
without the customary and proper preparations. But let Sir
Praucis read what follows, after a few words describing the
Ireet of the King's "abrupt" dismissal of the people's favourite
kitiisters

`` Notwithstanding these unconstitutional and corrupt acts,
kiceessive majorities in the present House of Commons have
driven the tories from office."

We are better pleased, however, with sir Francis's denial of
411 participation iu the address, than with his defence of that
document; that denial establishes one case of forgery against
the " Reform Association" advertisers; and, just as we should
°'Arge a tnati who produced out of a parcel of new Bank notes,
all alike,'•iiae that proved to 'he a forgery, so we hold all the
494 names printed with the address to be forgeries ; ex uno
`Free mimesis the rule in all such cases. •

The Glasgozo Courier, of Tuesday last, in a very able
Itnalysis of the reports presented by the municipal corn-
ttlissioners, addresses itself to Liverpool in terms which
print with great pleasure. The analysis, however,
would have been more perfect if our contemporary had
h
~.!ea in possession of a little more local information.
le has not drstinguished between the conservative and
whig corporations, those of the latter which he has
wl.,rlatnerated not being a tenth part of the whole number.
''ar instance, Nottingham, Gloucester, and Derby, are
borMighs. The first is notoriously the most cor
4Pt and jobbing corporation in England ; the second is
ititl such hands that they can hardly prevail upon a gen-
LeNan to become a, member, and it is not long since the
41ayor was a pauper; the last, Derby, is worthy of the
°thers. We cannot speak of the present year, but we
laveti been assured that some time ago the corporation did
ot subject themselves to the drudgery and formality of
,efzing books, and they actually boasted that the way
which they spent their income could not be recrimina-
fctti against them, for no trace or record of it could be

We take the opinion of our Glasgow contemporary
:cist cordially because we know that he can teach us ex-
-711 Mentally upon the subject of municipal reform. The
of Glasgow is now in the hands of radicals and dis-
itqters, and their common council proceedings, which
Bhlr ade public, would disgrace the lumber troop, or an
• wake. • Such motions, such debates, such chaffer-
4k, scrambling, and scratching, was never seen or
tlttl in the wortd before, Such are the effects of cor-