The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-18 00:00:00

THE ,LATE.ELECTIONS,

The result of The city elecTiOn is, in our judgment, fatal
to the pretensions of the bill, while it furnishes a most
- -striking instance of the accuracy of conservative antici-
• rations. We said that the 101. qualification would create
a radical constituency, and 10! at the very first election,
the metropolis of Great Britain and the world ,ends four
radical. members to. Parliament. Mr. Grote, the most
respectable of the group, is a radical doctrinaire.; he
spurs the bill, as a final measure, and advocates among
• other` pleasant items triennial parliaments and the ballot.
Key professes to be a radical to any amount required,
'and the others have been the well-knoWn hacks of vulgar
• radicalism through the whole Of their lives. The feeling
of the .merchtintS, ba:nheis, and leading commercial men.
• in London at the present time is perfectly understobd, but
they. have in vain endeavoured to procure the return of
one conservative member out of four. As we predicted,
the constituency is -so intensely radical that- the concen-
trated respectability and intelligence of the metropolis at-
tempts in vain to impress either dignity or' wisdcm Upon
• its decisions. The fOi'eniost class of electors in the em-

pire'for, vealth 'and'obaraotcr, ought for the" sake of
the public good, to exercise a predominant influence in
public affairs, are practically disfranchised by the bill !
The strength of the eonson, alive interest is proved by
:he spontaneous effort of five thoniand eminently respec-
table voters; the infamy ci the bill by the incunpetence
i-Cf Snob -ibedy (linen to mate their voice heard in par-
liament. It is obvious that if this election were a sam-
ile;;of,the rest, the Howe of Commons would be an un-
manageable mob; and the C6nstittit ion a democracy of the
worst kind, incomretept to the business Of.,governmeut,

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and ,unable to' save the empire from dismemberinent, and
.ruin. The iiiinisterialists attempt to conceal the truth by
calling' radical members Whig-s; but the Sub'erfuge is
sufficiently transpafent. The expected imperium in int-
verio has already begun in Westminster, a committee be-
ing-appointed to watch the conduct of members in refer-
ence.tollWir electittneering phsiges.::.We.coutmend these
considerations to the attention of reflecting mem—Morn-
ing P-asi.

THE ETERNAL SIEGE.

Thete seniething-excesFively ludicrous in the air of
complaint ill tile following lines of AL:ash:al G-erard's last
despatch: . -

" The tire of oar batteries has compelled the Dutch to with--
draw to the:ca-sernates of 4the Citadel, winch are immente.- Tire-
communicatiorls from one baAon to a no: her ate upw • only
thade Under' ground; and except the number of iren arict.y
necessary for the service of such batteries as arc stiA tic iiia, 110
one is seen in the interior of the citadel. This total di,ariteal-
ance of the en: my dein ices our,file if the greater plait of the effect
which it should pt °dove. 'upon the
The Dutch won't be Shot—oh, the cunning , knaves !
" Dilly, Dilly;" cries the ohl " come and be
killed:" but not a 'step will the'DW chman move to death,.
out of Complaimney at least. He sits 'under his caSe.mates,
" which are immen-se,", and ~ays,over his4pe, " The more.
you French fire, the more I won't come gut." NtAv it is
batterY No. 2, now .NO:. 13, such in the irmst.solemn
manner in t d oeseecites the -Dutel:man to come
forth. But no—,lne and burr.—with such--lat umbrella
-over his, head as, a ,bomb-proof casemate; :Myrflieer does,
not dread the extinction (:f his pipe ; and that,is the prin,
eipal'consideration Withthe garriort of our ancient ally,
Casemates above andcasetnates beloW, he neither fears
bombs nor sluices. In ease of 'being flooded, his•hreeches
would serve him fora coracle ..to. sail down The Scheldt in ;
and, pipe alight, it would tat e a heaVy sea- to 'send him
down.---Thitis° Hit 'first time that Dutchmen' were ever
inri.4ble.—Spectator.