The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

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dent they will exhibit a triumphant majority in favour
of his Majesty's ministers. . ••.
Do the fallen whigs still persist in asserting that there
is no reaction ? Here it is, as. HUME would say, "on
black and white." In those places where the whigs were
strongest at the last election they are the weakest now.
Look at Leeds, where MARSHALL once reigned. The
conservatives carried the election with a high hand, and
placed Sir JOHN BECKETT tit the top of the poll. Look
at the glorious triumph in Bristol, the whigs signally de-
feated, and two stanch tories returned. Look at Ipswich,
where Mr. RIGBY WAsoN has been discomfited, and

stripped of his blushing honours and his ostentatious ini-
tials (M.P.) by two excellent conservatives. In Leicester
also, one Mouutsort, of some notoriety, as one of the
founders of BROUGHAM'S College, and a proprietor of
the Morning Chronicle, has, with his colleague EvANs,
been sent to the right about, and their places filled by two
conservatives, Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN and Mr. Thos.
GLADSTONE. Alasl for poor Colonel WILLIAMS, be too

is gone! Another colonel, of the name of TORRENS,
connected with the Globe, has been driven from Bolton.
Bradford has redeemed itself by returning Mr. HARDY.
Colchester has for ever shaken itselfclear of Mr. WHITTLE
HARVEY. Wigan has given us Mr. KEARSLEY, York
Mr. LOWTHER, Warrington Mr. BLACKBURNE, Halifax
Mr. WORTLEY, and Rochdale Mr. ENTWISTLE. In
short the reaction is complete. A change has come over
the spirit of England's drearn,.a.nd our beloved country
is saved from the destroyer. Our paternal monarch has
been the instrument in the bands of a merciful providence
of rescuing his people from the- despotism of a mob, from
the horrors of revolution, from the guilt of sacrilege, from
the pollution of infidelity.

The conservative cause being thus triumphant, we
must endeavour to keep it so. He who relaxes in his
efforts is no good soldier ; and he who fights against us
while he wears our colours, and professes to be friendly,
-is the basest of all miscreants. We know how to deal
with an open-enemy, but it is difficult to combat with a
domestic traitor, n the mask of a conciliatory conservatiye.
Why,' we, ask, was Manchester delivered over, to the
Whigs? or rather, why was Mr. BRAIDLEY .110 t returned?
The tradesmen and operatives did their duty. admirably ;
Mr. BR AIDLEY was the popular candidate; but where
were the gentlemen of the town, the leading manufac-
turers, The tory squires of the suburban cottades, when
the conservative candidate required their support ? They
were busy, they were engaged, they were dining at a
friend's house, at a pleasant party in the country, and
therefore they could not come ! Paltry subterfuges
They might have carried the -election—they could have
carried it if they had'done only half their duty. And yet
these gentlemen call themselves conservatives, and would
get into a blue fever if they were charged with radicalism.
We know not what they are, but
.if they be tories, they
are the worst specimens we ever handled. Nay, this is
not the worst. Some of them, to our knowledge, actually
voted for Mr. POULETT THOMSON ! What are they,
then, but the hacks -of Mr. THOMSON ? For the sixteenth
part of a quarter of a per cent. upon the price of a pound of
cotton they a:mid sell their principles and their country to-
morrow. We have no patience with such conservatives,
and it is very' likely they will have as little towards us
' when. they read 'this. But these are not times to speak
ivith a feather in the mouth, and with the teeth oiled like
the wheels of a weaver's shuttle. It is the duty of every
man to stand with his King in the gap of revolution, and
drive back froM the church and the palace the men who
would lay both: in ruins if they bad the power. And
such men are Mr. POULETT THOMSON and Mr. MARK
PHILIPS. They are both avowed destructives in the
worst sense of that term, and yet there are conservatives
in Manchester who voted for them 1 Oh shame
shame !

In London the same infatuated game was played.
Sergeant SPANKIE states that he lost his election from
the apathy and the violated pledges of his professed
friends. We have no doubt of the fact. The conserva-
tives are as difficult to move as horses are when the stable
is on fire. They are magnificent in promise, but,' like
the braves Belges, they prefer a soft bed or 4n easy chair
to the air of a wintrv_worning.
Nor can- we deny that we have a numerous body of
these hold-backs and never-in-a-hurry people in this
good old town of Liverpool. The election of Sir
HOWARD DOUGLAS would have been secured if there had
been a little more cordiality of purpose, and less regard
shown for tender consciences. We hate the plumping sys-
tem when it is done under the mask of delicacy, which,
being translated,- means hypocrisy. It is true we had
fearful odds to contend against—enemies within as well
as without the camp. It is serious work when we see a
clergyman of the church of England voting for EWART
and Moßals—another leading an unitarian by the hand
—a third trimming his suspected radicalism and his
known hatred of corporations by voting for Lord SANDON
but refusing to vote for Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS! We
shall have some questions to put to these reverend gentle-
men on an early day. Meanwhile, we rejoice that we
can dispense with their services. The church is safe
without their aid, or, rather, despite their malice. Their
king has nothing to thank them for, and we trust he has
nothing to confer upon them. It is easy for prating
priests to talk of corruptions in the church of England
who are unable to distinguish themselves in it; vvha have
no merit by which to rise—no talents to command silo-
Cess,

We are glad to observe that a new weekly paper, en-
titled the Watchman, has been established in London,
which, from the sentiments..it professes, and the talent it
already evinces, is calculated to do much good to the
cause of christian charity and moderate conservative
principles. This paper is, we understand, started by that
estimable body the Wesleyan methodists, and we believe
it will be recognised as their organ all over the country.
In it the churchnian will find the echo of his own loyal
opinions, and the same devotedness of attachment to the
religions and venerable institutions of England. Speak-
ing of the new administration the Watchman observes :
" It is but common justice to give them fair play, and: to allow
them the full benefit of their own future conduct. They are
placed in the responsible position which they occupy hy 'a legiti-
mate exercise of the prerogative of the crown ; and we are
hound by every patitotie consideration cheertnity.to aCquieice
in the'arraugerneut.. The latZr:„Kjeets of their predecessors,
we repeat, excited in our minds a VeaterArstrwit, from the
excess of-an opposite .spirit, which, in its ultimate .effects-au'
protestantisrn in Ireland, and eventually in the nation at Idrge,
segiouAy menaced the public tranquility."

If-the friends of. 154r—Jtyvies'anANcxtin and Mr. SAMS
AMIN have nothing better t...d0: tha,. n: to walk about
town, holding out impotent threats arainsV-this,journal,
we are sorry for them. These gentlemen. have .so long
been accustomed to ride over the whig press of LiKer.
pool, :that they cannot bear to be exhibited in their pro-,.!
per colours, or brought under the I*h of truth. . We
despise their menaces. We have said Ntliing of them
which we are not willing to repeat, and Mich, we can
prove by the most undoubted evidence. IF they pos-
sessed the sensitive feelings to which they -lay. c k 1:70;.
they would be silent. , ,We have no desire to .pun Ai
tts
them severely, or even to the extent -of their deserts,,*:
what we have said would be gentleness itself to what
we have in store. If they choose to enter the lists with the
STANDARD, we challenge them to the combat in a manly
manner; but we hate sneaking eavesdropping and
empty threats. Go to law indeed! This must be a
juke, and not a very felicitous one.