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

Of EWART, and EWART 206 a-head of DOUGLAS. Now
to show the reaction that has taken place we quote the
numbers at the close of the last election, in 1832 :

EWAu...
SANDON .
THORNELY
DOUGLAS .

4,931
4,260
4,096
3,249

Here we find that Lord SANDON has risen in public
favour nearly six hundred votes, while Mr. EWART has
fallen to- the tune of-nine hundred votes, thus exhibiting
a reaction of one thousand five hundred votes, upon the
whole constituency. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, too, has
gained six hundred votes, thereby clearly proving that a
considerable majority of the electors are now in favour of
conservative principles. In fact, the election might have
been decided more favourably had the conservatives evinced
a little more expertness and courage. The numbers'clemon-
strate that they could have returned Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS
as well as Lord SANDON, had they acted in perfect coali-
tion as the opposite party did.

However, we have no reason to complain, seeing that
we have taught the whig and radical party that they .can
no longer hope to dictate to the electors of Liverpool.
Pride has had a fall, and Mr. EWART is kicked down
from the pinnacle*—compelled to play a subordinate part
.--and left in anything but an enviabli! position. In
short, he owes his election to a mistake, which, we are
confident, Will not be repeated. How long he will
.be
permitted-to remain one of our representatives we shall
not here conjecture; but if certain facts which have
come to our knowledge he substantiated, as we trust
they will, Mr. WILLIAM EWART will be hurled from his
seat by a process as speedy as it will reflect deep and
lasting dishonour upon him and his party. We say no
more at present, for there has not been sufficient time to
investigate the returns and analyse the votes. ft would
not surprise us, however, to learn that discoveries and
disclosures have been made which are likely to unseat
him. The next parliament will not be like what the
last one was. We shall have some chance of obtaining
justice, and, in•the pursuit of it, we hope no stone will.
be left unturned—no efforts suffered to relax.

On Tuesday, the first day, the,election proceeded with
tolerably good hUrnour, out on the second day, when the
' destructives were fighting a desperate and losing battle,
they conducted themselves in a most brutal and ferocious
manner. They would not suffer the flags and badges of
Lord SANDON and Sir HOWARD Dot,•oc4s to Proceed
along the street. Cowardly ruffians, hired for the pur-
pose, were seen attacking women and children. 'Some
miscreants pelted Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS with stones, al-
though, they knew that the honourable baronet had met
with a serious accident and could not defend himself.
One blackguard, an Irish one no doubt, was seen parlding
the streets with a large hoard, on which was a death's head
and cross bones, and the words " funeral of the tories."
All this was done in order to intimidate, and exasperate,
and if possible, get up a scene of riot and plunder: At
'the booth in the Haymarket, the policy of the destruc-
tives was to obstruct voters in proceeding to the poll.
They surrounded the place in a dense crowd, and threat-
ened to murder every man who dared to vote for the
conservative candidates. Similar conduct was openly en-
couraged by the partisans of EWART, Mr. JAMES
BRANCEER, and Mr. JAMES AIKEN. At a pretended
meeting of the ship carpenters, on Tuesday evening,
which Messrs. BRANCEER and AIKIN had packed with
the lowest class of Irishmen, one of these persons, hoil-
ing with rage, offered a personal insult to a respected
alderman, and endeavoured to excite the ruffians who
surrounded him to do him violence. Such conduct is
truly disgusting, and unworthy of men who have the
slightest pretensions to respectability. But all their
efforts to promote anything like a serious breach of the
peace most signally failed. They attracted around them
the scum of the town—they inhaled the filmes of noisy
drunkards— they shook hands with the vile and the
worthless—but all their exertioris, deeply dyed as they
were in pollution, failed to accomplish their object. They
had the greatest difficulty in placing EWART second on the
poll, while their favourite Mortßts was left in the lurch.

But this is not all. We had not only the mud, the
missiles, and the obstruction of the rabble of the town to
contend against, but even the denunciations of the Roman
catholic priests were turned to account against us. The or-
gans of this party had a meeting on Monday night, when
they agreed to oppose the conservatives. In-order to chi this
most effectually, some of the priests were induced to write
urgent letters to some of their flock, beseeching them, in
the most solemn terms, to vote for EWART and MORRIS.
This, no doubt, is part of the league formed by the unita-
rians with the Roman catholics; and we have a very
strong- suspicion that the scoundrel who exhibited the
death's head was an emissary of O'CoNNELL's. We
need not add, that most of the Roman catholic electors,
urged thereto in the manner above described, voted
against us.

This conduct on their part must not be forgotten. We
do not, complain of the Roman catholics exercising the
franchise in any way reconcileable to their consciences;
but we contend they have no right to combine anti place
fetters on their humble brethren. The protestants of
Liverpool do not deserve this treatment at their hands.
They should recollect how much they are indebted to the
protestants for the liberal support they have uniformly
given to their public charities and their schools. They
know that the principal burden of these institutions falls
upon those whom they have thus opposed so bitterly and
malevolently, and that we have it in our power to resent
such conduct in a way that would be felt. Liberality is
a fine thing, but it must not be all on one side.
Upon the whole the freemen have conducted them-
selves in a laudable manner. Some of them have
been intimidated from voting, while others have been
induced to vote against us, but we hope against their
inclinations. There is a vast difference between a slave
and an apostate : the one is a compulsory, the other a
willing victim. We have heard many rumours on the
subject, which we trust are unfounded. At any rate, we
think it better to abstain from any reflections until the
whole particulars are collected.

Mr. WM. EWART, we are informed, indulged in some
scurrilous invectives against this journal while addressing
his followers, at the Adelphi Hotel, on Wednesday even-
ing. His abuse was suited to his company,and in perfect
keeping with his own character. He is quite Welcome
to exhaust all his curious flowers cf speech upon us, who
care just as little for him or his scurrility as we care for
any person whom we despise. Mr. EWART was safe in
the midst of the noisy but convenient pickpockets who
shout in his rear, and who, in drawing his carriage, serve
by contrast to elevate the worth of what are called the
" inferior animals." Wnen he obtains a place in better
society we shall possibly treat his slander and his imper-
tinence in a far different manner.

To finish the proceedings, we have only to add, that-a
worthy reformer in the garb of a quaker was taken up on
Wednesday for attempting to do an act which looks very
like swindling. The case is reported in oar police pro •
ceedings, and we beg the reader's attention to it, as an
illustration of the march of intellect and the effects of
reform.

ROBBING A PAUPtil.—On the 24th ult. the house occupied
by Martha Cowell, a widow, 79 years of age, living at Thaxied.
and who has been for some years in the receipt of parish relief,
was broken open and robbed. of money to the :anoint of nearly
twenty sovereigns. The thieves forced down the wall by the
side oi the back door, cut away the lath, and were thus enabled
to unbolt the door. They then entered the old lady's apart-
ment, and she being very deaf cud sound asleep, they contrived
to remove a pocket, containing all her money, frmn under her
pillow, without disturbing her. Tie following morning the
widow missed her money, but not knowing the exact amount of
her loss, she rather under. than overrated it to her neighbours.
Two or three days after the' robbery, suspicion was excited
against a man of very indifferent character, named John 13ut-
ton, who was observed with several sovereigns in his posses•
sion, though he was known to have been previously quite des-
titute. Button's wife also had slept with Mrs. Cowed during
the harvest, and was acquainted with her depository. Limier
these circumstances, Button was apprehended at Thaxtedon
Tuesday last, by Palmer, the constable, who, on searching .
found a silver watch and 17s. Std. on his person, and also a
paper, containing au account of money which he had paid to
different persons, and of a watch, and many articles of wearing
apparel, which he had purchased, altogether amounting to £l5.
Upon his apprehension lie could give. uo account of the man-
ner in which lie became possessed of the money. Ho tinderweta
a long examination before the ltev. T. Lee, and was commit-
ted for trial at the ensuing assizes. We understand that an ac-
complice of the prisoner is also in custody, who has revealed
that he was iu the company at the time of the burglary,—
Otel/tes,fird Chronicle.