The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

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found wanting." If no other advantage be derived from
the Turko-Russian war than awakening the world from a

ision, it must be looked on as some recompense
for the expenditure of life and treasure which it has cost.
The laurel of victory may indeed be 'some reward for the
expenditure—some recompense for the toil of the sur-
vivors ; but to the manes of the dead, we owe the obliga-
tion that they shall not have been sacrificed to secure a
merely temporary triumph—an evanescent glory.
While the great world has been disturbed by the clang of
arms, a small world has been nearly as much convulsed by
a war of opinion and conflicting interests. The "Li-
censed Victuallers" of the metropolis, feeling agrieved by
the operation of the new " beer act," and many of them
being dissatisfied with the inefficiency of the aid or rather
by the want of aid which they expected to be afforded by
their organ, the Morning Advertiser, in opposing the
" beer act," resolved to have the matter changed
day, being the day for the quarterly meeting of the
Licensed Victuallers' Association, one of their number
moved a series of resolutions in connexion with the sub-
ject, which inter alia declared that "the Morning Ad-
vertiser is discreditable to the present high character of
journalism ; that in its general character it is inferior to
contemporary journals." These resolutions were moved
by a gentleman who assured the meeting that "sectarian
principles would never do for a morning paper ; they were
inimical, he said, to the interests of the trade." He fur-
ther maintained that " instead of Sabbatarian principles
and sectarian tendencies, there should be sound intellec-
tuality in such a paper." The speaker affirmed that the
Editor of the Morning Advertiser, unhappy man.

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indulged in coarse language, such as was not to be to-
;rated by a scholar or gentleman," adding that he (the

never knew of one gentleman calling another a
nincompoop," and probably he never did. The accusa-
tions laid against the Advertiser are no doubt grave, but
being made by one of its numerous proprietory, and sus-
tained by a majority of them, the public is bound to
recognise their truth, and henceforward even less critical
observers than those who never knew a gentleman call
another a "nincompoop" will be enabled to appreciate that
organ of opinion at its full worth.
In a recent instance I had occasion to remark the fa-
vourable impression created in Metropolitan circles,
respecting the good taste and public spirit displayed by the
Liverpool public in respect to St. George's-hall and its
formal opening. Since then I regret to observe that some
of the proceedings connected with that great municipal
event have provoked a captiousness of comment alto-
gether unworthy of the occasion and the community.
With more sincere regret still do I perceive that
some of the leading men of Liverpool are made targets
for the irreverent wit of " Diogenes." Such a matter,
however much it may " make the unskilful laugh, cannot
but make the judicious grieve." Yet how are such ex-
posures to be avoided, when we find in the public prints
that a member of the municipality gives notice that, at
next Council meeting, he will move, as one means of liqui-
dating the expense of inaugurating that magnificent edifice,
that each member of the Council shall pay for the tickets
of admission he made use of at that inauguration ; and,
worse still, I find that the honourable corporator persevered
in his intention, and caught—nothing. If any member of
the Council of Liverpool have a burden of care resting on
his conscience, as to the inefficient seductiveness of half a
hundred such implements of cajollery, or if, like the ghost

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of HAMLET'S father, he " could a tale unfold" which would
throw additional light upon their value, he surely might
find some venerable spinster into whose ear he could pour
" the leperous distilment," without rendering himself
publicly ridiculous, and attracting ribald jests from profes-
sional jokers, not at his own absurdities alone, but risking
the reputation of a too confiding community, which
evidenced that it " loved not wisely but too well" in en-
trusting its affairs of head or heart into his hands.