The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERP

SlR,—The Liverpool Albion of last M
things that might challenge remark, if it
notice an Author who is evidently taki
write himself down.
It is, however, curious to observe thi
anomalies of the day—the Editors of 1
Albion arrayed on the same side, and uph
tical opinions. A few years back, and tl
press, encountered each other in almost n
now united in efforts to alter, if not to ov
log institutions. The one is perfectly cc
other is about as consistent, as he is hone
corruption and Tory intimidation at the h
whilst he omits all mention of certain g
our immediate neighbourhood, who are sai,
their tenants to vote at the county election
and Mr. Wood. When such a man tall
can only feel disgust.
Whilst musing upon this strange cor
arose to my mind's eye of these two Editcy,
of the Constitution upon the rocks, and the',
More by means of a double Cork Collar.—Y
Jan, 2nd., 1833.

MR. STANLEY

—ltEr oitM
PRINCIPLES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPO
Sir,—lf there are times "when boldness
there are times-too when courage is really ra!
is eminently 'possessed by our ministers.
Mr. Stanley, need not yet pride himself al
"corking of the reform bill. They have ope
rush of "men of known character and of
parliament was immense, and, hUcl not t

vernment exerted its influence, by encoura4
the one hand, and, through the instrument
trouncing and threatening radicalism on 1
save had a monster of a House of Comn
Would have thought of depriving the whig 1
dit of having called into being. As it is,
Power, which they will find it difficult to col
tall not powerless before it. What between
(gentlemen, who I hope will bear in mind
fortunate Earl of Essex, in Cromwell's tim
lo fighting for his country's rights he was tr
the way to the seffold for his King) Irish
glish radicals, we shall have a well-spiced 1
.4.3 productive of evils, I fear, as was Pando
• Does not Mr. 4anley, having so far del
Parliament, foresee that a time may, by post
the people, suffering under distresses ovf
zoont could have control, may, at that prec
discontented period, elect men to parliam
themselves—men who would aggravate the
hot cure ; who would -sacrifice existing in
measures-of expediency, though unavailing
lief; who would adopt the theories of th
avocations as applicable to the government
materials for government would be found in
Bkrns of a free press,—and who would esti=
vernment only by its cheapness,--men w.
monarchy too expensivP, and an aristocrat
the present, such danger does not, I hope,
duty of the government to provide against e'
danger.

. The British constitution should have been
inconsiderately touched. It is the work of t
and should not, therefore, be treated as t
Pulled to pieces, that the crude ideas of visi
employed to re-construct it. We should n(
83'unetry of any of its parts, lest we destroy
beauty of the whole. We may, sir, congr.
cn the fact of the government being prepare
conservative principle is the palladium of 131
although Mr. Stanley's eloquence is of an
almost prove "the worse to be the better
well attempt to convince us that black is no
conservative principlels not the tory print
;is becoming a tory. Let him ask the "pe
opinion is that abuses, which obscure the bea
constitution, should be removed, but with a
You would brush the dust from a specimen o
The language of Mr. Canning was:—" Le
Itis views of reform go no further than to th
and lam with him. But it is because the ar;
tend much further; it is because they tend
destroy." Are not these, Sir, conservl
&re not they the principles of National Ref
with the fallacy of the argument—that the
or are opposed to measures of reform. Thi
imagine to be simply- these. To make the co)
government, as we make the bible the ba
lever to bring forward or pass a measure w
conservative, and for the good of the eauntr:
4ee security for popularity, by bringing forw
kires of policy, however brilliant; and, ind,
Filvernment as a chess-player would his game
liberation, checking hasty and visionary na
Naraging confusion. The tories had not, a
441 occasion to do, to go back to their boyil
cures which were then the objects of thei.
Ivhich they have been dreaming ever s
lay were determined to bring forward al
icss alike of their inaptness and their
Iles knew well that there was water sul
the vessel to swing round with the tide, and
4eient strength of cable to enable her to stet
slacking a little of it out. They would not, fr
tear of her "being stranded," have cut her
tlanfusion and bustle of inexperience, " hoi.
Itarted her over the shoals," with neither anch(
Pass on board, with a mutinous crew, inexl
,4ad a bad pilot. From the state she is now it
'ilcult to conjecture what will become of 1
Illoken, and it is understood they are attempt
41Igain, fearing stress of weather; and, if the
kobin point, they. intend to put into Cot
I,Welter. Whether they will succeed in any
Zhnle alone will tell; however, we may predict
'Arley is associated with men more able t
„t"re expbrienced, the crew will mutiny, tal
selves, and throw him and his comrades

Picture," Sir, which Mr. Stanley has dra
appears to me to be too bold and vivid in the :
411 d confused in the back ground, whilst he .
itietance in mist —Your obedient Servant,

RRESPONDENCE.

LECTION SQUABBLING.

matt OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
been amused in perusing the various letteP
fired in the local press, bearing upon the lale,
borough; and though most of the writers °'
y feel justified in having obtruded upon tk.
fence of the direct allusion which may hale
tent; yet I cannot trace the object which ink'
names no mention has been made, can Flo'
unteering their effusions. An individual, irk°
ohn Twiname," in Gore's paper of yesterday'
ole sort of conversation which took place 11l
ise, relative to his having been canvassed
be interest of Lord Sandon, and the ground
mself upon the public, seems to be au idea
find, that He was the Merchant in Brunswick'
,een so canvassed. Doubtful, however, of
letailing the conversation correctly,. he is at'
;h very clumsily) by another individual, Who

.n, for the names of the one or the other of thoge
ages having been mixed up publicly with the"
:titan: I search, in vain, for any new light whio
upon the various rumours which have given rise
:tions in the espousal of one side or the other
Lt a loss even to guess the object which these
n view in appearing before the public; excePS
Lion of their own vanity, by endeavouring to
tbitants of this town, their deep sense of the
laws, and, at the same time, their utter disre-
amatical laws established by Lindley Murre).'
in, and do not wish to have the taste of 14
itiated by their reading such productions, eve"
a common newspaper; and I would therefor:,
nmend "J. Twiname," and " F. Maxwell,
Ives, as heretofore, to the sifting of matter/
their trade in grain; and to abstain, for the,
npting to winnow the unsound from the sane
)cality.
28, 1832.

SANDON lAN•

RT :-THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

TOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STiIdVDdIRII
istency of Mr. Ewart has been called in que.,r
rticularly by yourself. I have only to exPre7:l
will continue to contrast his declarations all
nents one week with those of the next. be
I be tedious ; but it is one from which it '
'bile Journalist, not to shrink.
ne forward as the disciple of Canning °t
is admitted. But," that he has deserted teal
!s only a general charge of inconsisteneY• '
der your notice a particular one. The folio.
From his speech, on his first appearance befog
the Town, on the 15th October, 1830: of
testion connected with another hemisphere,
nt interest to our Town. Gentlemen the
ars me, none, lam sure of the great owners
hest India Colonies, who is not an advocate
Yet there is no one, I hope, so infatuated
3edom is licentiousness, or that
.hasty and
r are consistent with the happiness of the slay he'
interests of the master. The interests of t:
opinion, pari passu. No amendment, i°s4:
, can be otherwise than gradual, and we coon*
-to the freeman and the bondsman—if tee l,l°'
ich we ourselves have sanctioned, and which ,
own legislation. RIGHTS so long acknowledge
vay without a liberal compensation?'
)ur readers to contrast the above with ytr'
its as so recently declared on our hustioe
. themselves, dispassionately, what descrifo
an be safe in the keeping of a legislator Oh
1:
steps to be a violation of property, in 181
tres his readiness to mount those steps,--4;he;
.dges a right which he disavows in 1832.
min France is not forgotten by all. Histc'tii,
.e not treated, by all, as of no worth; and to,
I a serious one, and one which affects fat
Mr. Ewart's consistency, or of his regard 0-,
luestion will, no doubt, be satisfactorily 0,
of Mr. Ewart, by some of yout able conlee
. disinterested mouth-pieces, doubtless. 11'3'4
myself to a most abject apology to tbe:j,
for bringing this question under notice, af`l
at I shall be most satisfactorily answered'
tvour of their saying what penance will °t°lit,
)n. I shall, perhaps, be told that I 1314di
h and justice, question the veracity of an
.ncy of Mr. Ewart : but no matter,
Yours, &c. A TOWNSMAS.

ASSESSED TAXES.

roR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST./MD.410
00
lave given in your paper of Fiiday last isll
'uardian and Public Ledger, remarking -,0
n the operations necessary to make the 10:,
charging those who are not assessed so biri
•s; and as the same article in perempt°,f,t
oust have the Assessed Taxes repealed ;
order that your readers may have a CO
t, to examine the items of which the Asse6s
d.

.... £1,295,972 £1,357,000
.... 1,164,355 1,178,300

2,460,327 2,535,300 £2,535P'
277,859 295,100)
352,579 393,000
340,771 417,800
59,946 S "£1,526'
182,990 181,000
1950
19,4,096
... 161,647 239,100
y.. 31,569
ngs 50,770
£3,952,504 £4,061300
. of

not sanguine enough in the present fitsfo'
in immedtate repeal of this branch of l're,
Loxious part of it may be ; but if to ei,
nount as has been rumoured, is to be su
y tax, it will be necessary to be very atte9tJ9
as it .occurs to me, that those- who ere"
the repeal, would be the most streoof
tx that should make them contribute WOO
:1,526,000, which may be considered tv
as distinguished during the latter part 01:).,
as understood to be exclusive of income, olt
se rent or value of all hoises, land°'
tf
the rental value of the kingdom to bel
.equire a tax of above four persat. W
window duty,—and two and a half Per?
.e duty on luxuries,,—making. in the '
spon the rent or value.—l am, Sir, yo,fi,
IN DAGO°

AN ODD COMPLAINT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIRS I see in last Saturday's Liverpool Chronicle a pathetic
complaint, that you have two days a week to perpetrate evil,
while they have but one to expose it.
Let the Editor then likewise take two, or three if he pleases!
Why does he not? Surely it cannot be that the public would
Sot support him in his benevolent purpose—that his readers
are not yet sufficiently alive to the beauty of his style, or to the
purity of his principles ?—Yours, &c.
January 1, 1833. THE WEEK.

THE MERCURY AND THE ALBION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IND4RD.

SlR,—The Liverpool Albion of last Monday contains many
things that might challenge remark, if it were worth while to
notice an Author who is evidently taking so much pains to
write himself down.
It is, however, curious to observe this among the various
anomalies of the day—the Editors of the Mercury and the
Albion arrayed on the same side, and upholding the same poli-
tical opinions. A few years back, and these gentlemen of the
press, encountered each other in almost mortal strife; they are
now united in efforts to alter, if not to overthrow, all our exist-
ing institutions. The one is perfectly consistent in this; the
other is about as consistent, as he is honest, in talking of Tory
corruption and Tory intimidation at the late Borough election;
Whilst he omits all mention of certain great land-owners, in
our immediate neighbourhood, who are said to have commanded
their tenants to vote at the county election, fur Lord Molyneux
and Mr. Wood. When such a man talks of his integrity, I
-can only feel disgust.
Whilst musing upon this strange conjunction, a Picture
arose to my mind's eye of these tu•a Editors, steering the vessel
of the Constitution upon the rocks, and themselves escaping to the
shore by means of a double Cork Collar.—Yours, &c.,
Jan. 2nd., 1833. Q.

MR. STANLEY :-.1tE1,011,N :-CONSERVATIVE

PRINCIPLES:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

• Sir,—lf there are times "when boldness is really caution,"
there are times too when courage is really rashness :--such courage
is eminently 'possessed by our ministers. The right hon. gent.
Mr. Stanley, need not yet pride himself and colleagues on the
Working of the reform bill. They have opened a sluice, and the
rush of "men of known character and opinions" to get into
Parliament was immense, and, had not the horror-struck go-
vernment exerted its influence, by encouraging conservatism on
the one hand, and, through the instrumentality of its press, de-
Ooiracing and threatening radicalism on the other, we should
have had a monster of a House of Commons, which no one
Would have thought of depriving the whig ministers of the cre-
dit of having called into being. As it is, they have created a
Power, which they will find it difficult to control, if, indeed, they
tall not powerless before it. What between English reformers,
(gentlemen, who I hope will bear in mind that the able but un-
fortunate Earl of Essex, in Cromwell's time, little thought that
io fighting for his country's rights he was traitorously preparing
the way td the scaffold for his King) Irish repealers, and En-
glish radicals, we shall have a well-spiced House of Commons,
,48 productive of evils, I fear, as was Pandora's box.
Does not Mr. Stanley, having so far debased the dignity of
Parliament, foresee that a time may, by possibility, arrive, when
the people, suffering under distresses over which no govern-
ofent could have control, may, at that precisely distressing and
discontented period, elect men to parliament a fac-simile of
themselves—men who would aggravate the distresses they could
40t cure ; who would sacrifice existing interests, by passing
measures "of expediency, though unavailing, for temporary re-
lief; who would adopt the theories of their own trade and
4voccrtions as applicable to the government of the state; whose
kateiials for government would be found in the democratic effu-
4irens of a free press,—and who would estimate the value of go-
l'ernment only by its cheapness,—men who would consider a
monarchy too expensive, and an aristocracy too proud ? For
the present, such danger does not, I hope, exist; but it is the
duty of the government to provide against even such imaginary
danger.

The British constitution should have been protected, and not
inconsiderately touched. It is the work of the wisdom of ages,
and should not, therefore, be treated as a child's toy, to be
Dulled to pieces, that the crude ideas of visionary men may be
employed to re-construct it. We should not destroy even the
BYormetry- of any of its parts, lest we destroy the usefulness and
beauty of the whole. We may, sir, congratulate the country
all the fact of the government being prepared to admit that the
conservative principle is the palladium of British liberty : and,
although Mr. Stanley's eloquence is of an order that would
almost prove "the worse to be the better cause," he may as
Well attempt to convince us that black is not black, as that the
conservative principle 'is not the tory principle. Mr. Stanley
is becoming a tory. Let him ask the "people." The tory's
opinion is that abuses, which obscure the beauty of the British
constitution, should be removed, but with a cautious hand, as
You would brush the dust from a specimen of fine art.
The language of Mr. Canning was :—" Let any man say that
tiis views of reform go no further than to the removal of blots,
and lam with him. But it is because the arguments of reform
tend much further; it is because they tend not to remedy but
destroy." Are not these, Sir, conservative principles ?
&re not they the principles of National Reform ? Away then
vith the fallacy of the argument--that the tories ever were,
or are opposed to measures of reform. The tory principles I
imagine to be simply these. To make the constitution the basis
of government, as we make the bible the basis of our faith ;
ilever to bring forward or pass a measure which is not purely
conservative, and for the good of the country ; never to sacri-
ke security for popularity, by bringing forward doubtful mea-
lures of policy, however brilliant; and, indeed to conduct the
Rovernment as a chess-player would his game, with tact and de-
liberation, checking hasty and visionary movements and dis-
couraging confusion. The tories had not, as the whigs have
had occasion to do, to go back to their boyish days, for mea-
sures which were then the objects of their delight, and of
Which they have been dreaming ever since, and which
th cY were determined to bring forward and carry, regard-
less
alike of their inaptness and their danger. The to-
Iles knew well that there was water sufficient to enable
We vessel to swing round with the tide, and that there was suf-
•
,cient strength of cable to enable her to stem the current, by
'l44.eking a little of it out. They would not, from the imaginary
tear of her "being stranded," have cut her adrift, and in the
Nrfusion and bustle of inexperience, " hoisted all sail and
%tatted her over the shoals," with neither anchor, cable, nor com-
pass on board, with a mutinous crew, inexperienced officers,
and a bad pilot. From the state she is now in, and at sea, it is
'iteult to conjecture what will become of her; she has been
Ipoken, and it is understood they are attempting to beat home
;Pain, fearing stress of weather; and, if they cannot weather
acobio point, they. intend to put into Conservative hay for
Welter. Whether they will succeed in any of their objects,
Ziae alone will tell; however, we may predict, that unless Mr.
'lanley is associated with men more able to command, and
,ore experienced, the crew will mutiny, take the command
Zeraselves, and throw him and his comrades overboard. The
Picture," Sir, which Mr. Stanley has drawn at Lancaster,
appears to me to be too bold and vivid in the foreground, thick
4,1_11 Confused in the back ground, whilst he has shrouded the
'Lance in vaist.—Your obedient Servant, J. M.