The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-24 00:00:00

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BROUGHAM would again join Ainnonasn or RUSSELL,
Particularly after the florid description be has given of
their intrigues and machinationa in the above extract
from his speech. Lord BROUHLIAM cannot. Mean 'this.
Neither is he in earnest about joining GREY or AL-
•TR°RI'. for these two statesmen are in every sense of
the word, if • not morally, at least politically defunct.
Who• then remain? WELLINGTON and PEEL; ha is
Lord BROUGHAM ready to join them ? He says so.
Are they ready to join him? That is quite another
question.
The noble and learned lord, after - dwelling upon his
misfortunes, and assailin'in the most galling terms,
the conduct of his late colleagues, amid the cheers of at
least five hundred persons wbo could not understand his
'allusions, at length changes his strain, and consoles him-
"if that, being released from the cares of slate, he is
now the faithful and independent servant of the people.
He says
• "Judge of the bounding exultation which seized and made
to quiver every fibre of my frame, when I could burst from the
cerements of that living tomb—start into new and unofficial
life, and once more take my place in the van of my honest, en-
lightened, and free countrymen. (Loud cheers.)"
Not so fast, my lord. Before you are entitled to as-
sume the command of the people, and lead the " van,"
it is necessary that you should exhibit your 'credentials
and. show your appointment. Lord BROUGHAM like
many other pretenders may flatter or delude himself that
lie has had a eall. The call, ton, may have been from
within ; hat unless it come also from without, and from
a very different class of persons than those. who Cheered
him on Monday last, all his sUppliCations will be in vain.
Such claPtraps are proofs of dovinright and incorrigible
silliness. •
Bat the noble and learned lord; MI6 of a Sodden has
henome SO enanionred of Lord ELDoN, whoni he libelled
and insulted- for at least fifteen years of his life, ik -pleased
to call the male part of his audience at the Amphitheatre
Suppohetie 'did t- includeladies} his,
se TIO RAINCK R,t
"fellow citizens:- Is this affectation, or is it ignorance,
or is it a significant adaptation borrowed from the French
revolution? We strongly suspect the latter. Liverpool
is not a city ; the inhabitants of Liverpool are not citi-
zens; Lord BROUGHAM holds no burgess rights in Corn-
!non With our freemen; and therefore to address them
-as citizens, however gratifying it might be to a few Ame-
ricans who shared in his triumph, and astonished him by
the familiarity of their peculiar manners, evinced as
much bad taste as it showed a marked disrespect towards
the subjects of the king, and the " gracious master"
Whom he recently served, and so much loved. Lord
BROUGHAM may place himself in any " van" he pleases,
but he must not expect the " citizens" of Liverpool
' either to acknowledge or draw him. We could point out
to Lord BROUGHAM a much more convenient place than
a " Van," and one better adapted to his genius, but that
must leive to another opportunity.

We have already noticed, perhaps more than it deserves,
4110 treatment which the reporters of this journal expe-
rienced on Monday last at the hands of the liberal con-
ductors of the entertainment given to a certain personage.
This Conduct of Mr. JAMES BRANCKERI however, has been
?1 a nature which we cannot allow to pass. Had the
Object of the meeting been exclusively of a party nature
we neither slu.-uld have asked nor expected pfirmission to
report ix proceedings. On the contrary it was stated
to be one wholly unconnected with politics or faction ;
that it was strictly of a national character ; and that as
11°1•16V but the moral an.] religious instruction of the
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rising': generation was contemplated, we imagined that
110 objection.would be made to place our reporters on the
same footing with the rest of the press, particularly as this
W4-' the only journal in the town which could,on a short
notice give a full report of the proceedingq.
At the place of the ceremony application was made on
behalf of the STANDARD to Mr. JAMES BRANCKER. who
was perched upon an open carriage, and who, as chairman
of the Committee, seemed to direct the whole proceed-

Inga• The application to
.be admitted was not only
but it was refused• in the most marked and
"ostentatious mane r,. He...spoke in_answer. _loud
voice, in the presence of. Lord Dwbu<in.l.3,r, and in:the
hearing of a vast number, that tickets of admission had
been given to sit of the • Liverpool papers, but that no
ticket would be given to the 5T.1,113.1:11D.
If Mr. JAarss BR: NCKER fancies that we care three
straws foranything he could give or refuse to this journal,
or any one connected with it, he. is. greatly mistaken.
That this illiberal denial, so loudly made, was intended
to injure the SrANn van we 'have no doubt whatever.
Were we in the forlorn condition of some newspapers
.this treatment might)Jit-ve affected our credit, and that is

a matter which Mr.JAMES BRANCKER should treat in a
more delicate manner. If he had said " there are six
papers in Liverpool which I will trust,.but I will not trust
the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," the public would have
clearly understood his meaning, jest as if we were to say
there are sixty merchants in Liverpool which we wil(
trust, but we. will not deal with Mr. JAMES BRANCKER."
If this noisy person be unacquainted with the rules of
courtesy, that is his misfortune ; hut we shall not allow
him, or any one else, • to attempt to• vapour us down
'Othout resenting it with do—uble• interest, and in a way
that he will perhaps live to regret. • 'When he and his
Party begin to act upon their empty professions, and
"ince some libera:ity towards us, they will act-wisely,
and they will be treated accordingly. If• they should
continue to act otherwise, us they have invariably done,.
• they must abide the consequences.