The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

JANUARY 2i ISP.

-(his we rest our case--we appeal to public opinion. We
are confident of a verdict in our favout.
But the matter must not drop here. Mr. ASPINALL is
pleased to say, in Letter No. 4, that the STANDARD has,
"since its first -appearance to the present• day, (if not
vslematically, at all events so often accidentaity'as: to
approach to something like a system) been iwthe habit
of dragging_ my name before the public."
• This is another falsehood. During the two years we
have had`the management and control of the STANDARD,
we defy,Mr. ASPINALL to point out a single instance iu
which his name has been dragged before the public. The
reverend gentleman assumes too much importance_ At
the earnest instigation of a friend we gave a work of his
a rather favourable notice. But we deny that we have
otherwise brought him befote the public. We never

considered him of sufficient importance to attract our

censure. We never met him—never saw him—never
I cared any thing about him. We heard that he had voted
• . for EIVART and Mona's, and we did feel some disgust•
which hrs mellowed down to something like contempt for
his principles and character. It is long since we had re-
. sAved to forget that such a person as Mr. SHEPHERD, who
left Liverpool " leaving his character behind him," was
. in existence : we cites is'- ql the same kind of oblivious
respect fur the Reverend Mr. ASPINALL.
He complains that the corporation of Liverpool, in
• preferring our most excellent rector, the Reverend Mr.
CAMPBELL, to Mr. ASPINALL, inflicted a serious wound
upon the church, and were guilty of gross neglect to-
wards ‘the claims of native talent. He drugs in Mr.
HULL in order-to cover his disappointed ambition, and
making a • tool of the ininkter of the Church for. the
Blind, he plays, bins ofd' in order to detract from the su-
'perior talents of the successful candidate. Ile blames
:Sir THOMAS BRANCKER for voting fur one relation (Mr.
CANw.t.siat.) Cu the prejudice of another (Mr. Ass' LL).
Can any this; be more selfish or contemptible ? We
thank Sir TlmmAs BRANCKER fur his honest and impar-
tial. preference in this matter. Mr. HULL is a formal
preacher—an industrious ecclesiastic.—and a man of se-
vere discipline but of extreniely moderate talents. He
is useful enough in the charity where he is placed; but
we have yet. to learn that his talents bear any compari-
son to those of the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL. Mr. HULL,
in our opinion,—now that we are compelled to speak
out—is a much-overrated man. He is, indeed, superior
to Mr. ASPINALL, who in his letters would make a foil of
Mr. HULL; but neither are fit to stand in the same place
with Mr. CAMPBELL. The soreness of the one, and the
vanity of the other may form the ingredients of a college
salad, but. they require more oil, to make them safe,
constitutionally, than they really possess.
But the last letter of the reverend gentleman demands
some attention as a curiosity. He states in his corres-
pondence that Mr. HOttsiALL promised him the insertion
of iris communication. Having, according to his own
ttccount,Teceived this promise, what. does Mr. ASPINALL
4 next? He says he went immediately to Mr. WALES.
at the office of the Liverpool Times, and he requested
that gentleman, in case his (Mr. As MALL'S) letter should
not appear in the Standard, to insert it in the Tunes!
Now, we ask, will any man of common discernment be-
lieve that had Mr. ASPINALL received the promise he
speaks of, he would have asked such a" conditional favour
from Mr. WALES? We have no doubt that Mr. WALES
was told the.story as,Mm'. ASPINALL has told it, but the
circumstances connected with it, and now unfolded, prove
that it was untrue. Mr. WALES gave the reverend gen-
tleman good advice when he counselled him to let the
matter dropi but Mr. WALes had an advantage over us;
lie knew his man. What a pity lair. ASPINALL did not
act upon it! . .
Due word more and we have done. .Certain parties,
whom we have in our eye, are anxious to make certain
friends of -the. STANDARD responsible for
,the articles
which appear in it, which they do hot write, and over
which theyhave no conttol. It is now time for us to
make the real authors of certain attacks upon us respon-
iiple for the same. Mr.-Rust-11.0N, we believe, was once

the Editor of the Liverpool Chronicle, and we arcs not
aware that he has retired from that honourable situation.
We beg leave, therefore, to ask Mr. Rust'TON who wrote
tie article on the AsmiAit. -corre,pondence in the Chro
lade of Saturday last? Report ascribes it to him.. We
are anxious for an answer, in order that we may know
who is our opponent, and who our most tangible assailant.

The Manchester Guardian has taken to heart in a
vvry serious manner the gentle surmise which appeared
in the LIVERPhOL STANDARD of Friday last, relative to
Lady , HEW LEY'S charity. We should be som• to give
our contempoia'ry any pain. .This is not a season in
which he can afford to be goul humoured, and certainly
it-is profane on our part to talk loud or even smile so
near to the house of mourning:

Far less are we disposed to return railing for railing.
Anger, and coarse words, and fustian in flames, are the
consequences. of disappointed hopes, of shattered alli-
ances, of rejected addresses. In the case of a London
milliner disappointment •ton frequently ends in melan-
choly and the ,Regent's Canal ; but in our Manchester
contemporary it only excites rage, which we sincerly trust

may noV,terminate in insanity.
We did • not accuse Mr. WOOD of applying any
of the funds of Lady LiEwLEr's charity to defray
the election expenses of the hope of the House of
SEFTON, and the protegt, of the Earl Of DERBY.—
We were only anxious to know whether any of
the funds were so applied— -We all Well know
tit they have been
-applied to worse purposes. Mr.
WOOD may be a %ery honourable and upright %an fur
y thing we to the contrary. We are told that
he is incapable of misapprojiatieg trust money, and
we most willingly believe it ; but Mr. WOOD is not the
only unitarian in these realms. If it be admitted that
he,'Mr. WooD, the late member for South Lancashire;
(lid advance money to promote the ,return of Lord
MOLvNEUX and secure his own, that would alter the case,
but we are nut aware that this is admitted.
We say again we cannot allow ourselv-es to take any
offence at the abuse so liberally heaped upon tis by the
.Atunche.vter 'Guardian. When he is fairly restored to his
senses, and his wounded feelings are healed, perhaps we
shill have some conversation with him about cotton.
Meanwhile we recommend him to take medicine. The
Party to which he belongs is for ever prostrated, and he
knows and feels the de.gradution ; but we would advise
hitu t " put the chapel in order !"

ll.,fader, do you wish to know, or have you the slight-
est idea, what a republic We beg to assure thee it
it 4 one of the greatest curiosities in art or nature.—
People go to the zoological garderts to see strange ani-
mals—to the horticultural exhibitions to see rare flowers
and extraordinary cabbages—:-sonie ro to.the opera to be
enchanted, and sorne to the theatre to be amused ; but it
monsters have charms, Stonehenge any attractions, or a
OW long loud laugh be 'desirable in dull times, we would
adtise the curious and inquisitive and wonder-loving
Nrt of the population to pay a, visit to the Waterloo
Dock, an 4 see an immense mass of timber called a ship,
and ehristengd The Republic;
-Of all the odd combinations of whim or folly this is
he most extraordinary. It comes from the United
Staters, and, as it bears the favoured and popular name,
it may be taken as a fair model of that immaculate
union. Who built The &public, we of course cannot
Certainly it never came from the hands of a ship-
carpenter. The owners, we take it, must be quakers,
‘
"no have endeavoured to convert simplicity into absur-
di,y. It has all the appearance of having been con-
structed by steam, its timbers being stuck one upon the
other at .random, and its form left to chanCe or the wea-
tbJi.

Just imagine the Adelphi Hotel floating down the
Mersey, having 111uspttAT's chimney, the steeple of St.
Ceetge's church, and the light-house for masts—that it
has.the floating-bath for a long boat—and the front of
the lockup-house for a stern—and you have some distant
idea of The Republic. We hope the Mercury will
-fav‘.4ll- us with a drawing of it; it beats his sea serpent
hol;oW. Go, reader, and see it by all means—only don't
laugh yourself into fits.