The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

those who may be termed the aristocracy of our
party, in whom we cannot but observe a coldness
towards those whose exertions and local patriotism
have contributed to the building up of the present
Conservative strength in our local legislature, which is
not likely to induce a continuance of such ill-rewarded
exertions. The men, who stood in front of the battle
when the fight was an up-hill one, are being dis-
countenanced. The " workers" of our public body
are to be quietly dropped into that private station
from which, it would seem, they were only drawn
temporarily, to be sacrifice I at leisure. This course,
however, may at length, and when too late, be
found to be one which will not he tolerated by the
Conservative community so quietly as may at pre-
sent be imagined.
We throw out these observations at present as
hints, and in the hope that a more honest course
may he determined upon by the parties interested,
within the few days that now remain for remedying
past neglect, or worse. On a future occasion, if
they are not attended to, we may be tempted to
speak out more plainly.

In another column we have given a series of ex-
tracts (all that our confined space would admit of) from
some letters recently published in the London Times,
addressed to that journal from the scene of opera-
tions before Tangier. The publication of these let-
ters has brought down upon the head of our con-
temporary a perfect storm of frantic reprehension
from the French press. That was to be expected.
They describe the bungling of the Prince de Join-
ville and his fleet with a truthfulness too evident to
render them very acceptable to either the war party
in that country or to the Court itself. Their graphic
and racy descriptions utterly dissipate the senseless
swagger of the former and the self-satisfied serenity
of the latter ; and, accordingly, they are denounced
as forgeries, as mere inventions ; and their writers
are asserted to bear any character but that which
they assume, viz. the character of British officers.
This we say was to be expected ; but really we
were not prepared for the same tone of reprehension
and abuse, on such a ground, from British journal-
ists. IVe were not prepared to see the conservative
Standard fume, or the ministerial Herald whine,
because a brother journal had made public the sen-
timents and statements of British officers writing
upon a subject so important as the bearing of an
admiral and a fleet of France before the enemy.
The Palmerstonian oracle might consistently take
such a course—might treat these letters as forgeries
and then publish another addressed to himself corro-
borative of the truth of every detail which they convey!
But the Herald and the Standard—

" Tantoene animis celestibus irm ?"

This is too bad !

We are happy in being enabled to state, for the
information of our cont9mporaries, that the letters
in question, by whomsoever written, convey a correct
account of the operations against Tangier. We
have the assurance of their truth from a letter, ad-
dressed to a highly influential merchant of Liverpool,
by a friend, who also witnessed these operations, and
of whose respectability and capacity for forming a
judgment we are well acquainted, (from p ist corres-
pondence from him on similar subjects, addressed
from the Chinese seas during the recent operations
there, and which appeared at the time in our own
columns,) and who gives a precisely similar state-
ment of the whole affair, and expresses nearly simi-
lar sentiments to those of the Times' correspond-
ents. We had not permission to publish, or we
should have felt no squeamishness, on public
grounds, in doing so.

Among=t the business wnich will come before the
Council to-morrow, is an announcement, by the
Chairman of the Dock Committee, of an amended
plan of construction of the New North Docks, by
which, we believe, a water space of 58 acres will be
gained, in lieu of the 34 acres provided by the par-
liamentary plan ; thus giving a clear increase of 24
acres over the original plan. The mode by which
this great boon to the commerce of our port is pro-
posed to be secured, is, we understand, by the for-
mation of docks, upon the site laid out in the origi-
nal plan for the great Steam and other Docks, on
the North Shore, running from east to west, instead
of from north to south. By this change, not only is
a greater portion of the ground made conveniently
available for dock space, but the lineal quay space
is much increased ;—so much so that, when the
works are completed, it is calculated that the entire
quays of the port of Liverpool will reach little short
of the amazing length of fourteen miles. With such
a noble addition to the facilities afforded by our
spirited public bodies for the commerce of the Mer-
sey, Liverpool may well cease to pride herself upon
the title of the second port of the empire, and boldly
and consistently assume for herself the proud posi-
tion of the first port of Great Britain and of the
world.

That we are so progressing, we feel that we are
indebted to the energy and talent displayed by the
gentlemen at present wielding the resources of the
Dock Estate, who have shown, from their first exer-
cise upon the important duties of their trust, that
foresight and reach of mind, that determination not
to be satisfied with patching and peddling for the
supply of present wants alone, but to provide for
the future as well—which is so requisite in men
occupying a station such as theirs. For this they
have already earned the thanks of a grateful public,
and we doubt not they will continue to deserve them.

In another part of our publication, we have given
an article from the Dublin Evening Mail, stating,
upon the authority of an influential correspondent
in London, the fact of her Majesty's intention to
visit Ireland during the autumn, and hinting that a
portion of the object of that visit was to exercise, on
the spot, the Ro) al clemency towards the imprisoned
conspirators, O'Connell and his confederates. We
must confess that we doubted from the first the
correctness of this piece of intelligence. Of course
it is not in
the power of man to conceive how far, or
in what direction, Sir Robert Peel's government
may choose to carry their favourite expediency and
conciliatory policy, however bitter and however un-
deserving the opponent in whose favour it is exer-
cised. We are inclined, nevertheless, to give some
degree of credit to the repudiation of such a step by
the quasi-ministerial Morning Herald. It is too
preposterous a notion to be readily believed, that
even Sir Robert Peel could so far abuse the credu-
lous ear of his Sovereign, as to advise such a policy
towards men, whose recognized organs obtrusively
declare that its only effect would be to send back the
pardoned offenders to their seditious agitation, and
who insolently proclaim, through the Dublin Nation
of Saturday last, that " if she does" so exercise cle-
mency towards them, "they are ready to march,
from Richmond prison to Burgh Quay, and fall back
to their accustomed places, like rested men, to do
double work" (double sedition). " She will curtail
their leisure, and anticipate by some months the
time of their renewed labour—that is all." Truly,
very proper subjects for royal clemency !
In this belief we are borne in countenance by
nearly all the journals of Ireland, of all shades of
politics. The Repeal organs are too full of the
prospect of impending war with France—are gloat-
ing with too much truculent joy upon the prospect
of embarrassment and confusion in England, during
which a blow may be struck by internal traitors at
her social peace—to welcome such a step on the
part of Government, or to hold out the shadow of
a hope that it can effect the object for which alone
it can be adopted—the restoration of good feeling
towards British connexion in Ireland. And Con-
servatives, however little disposed to place faith in
the firmness and good faith of an Administration
which they feel has betrayed them, are loth to be-
lieve that even that Administration can so far com-
promise the honour of their Royal Mistress, as to
advise her to such a step.

STRIKE AT BERLIN.—The workmen in the extensive
calico-printing works of Berlin, comprising a body of
from 2,500 to 3,000 men, have struck for an advance of
wages. The men have been accustomed to earn from 13s.
to 18s. per week.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The ('ourrier Clzarentais
states that a few days back two little girls, of six and
eight years of age, having in playing got into a kind of
chest, the cover fell over them, and shut with a spring
lock. They were alone in the house, and when their
mother returned home, not finding the in, it occurred to
her that they might have got into the chest, and on lift-
ing the lid she found them both dead.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Friday a singular accident
occurred at 2, West-street, Smithfield, one of the houses
which are to be demolished for the improvements. An
ox from Smithfield, putting his head inside the doorway,
and, seeing no obstruction, walked leisurely into the
house, when, the flooring giving way, he was precipitated
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