The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

ALDERMAN EVANS AND OURSELVES

The sketch of Alderman Evans in " Our Portrait Gallery"
on Tuesday last has, we regret to aay, been received by the
gentleman in question as a much more serious production
than, we arc sure, the writer of it ever intended that it should
be considered. One portion of it, in particular, has been
construed as meant to impeach his character as a man of
honour and a gentleman, and we have been applied to by the
worthy alderman himself, and subsequently by a gentleman
as his friend, for a retractation of the alleged impeachment.
Such a demand being made, through the medium of a man of
honour, there could on our part be no hesitation as to the
course to be pursued. However much we might have re-
gretted the obnoxious allusion made, we' must, unless con-
vinced that it was unfounded, have risked any consequences,
legal or personal, to which it might lead. We have, however,
received the assurance of Mr. Alderman Evans's friend that
the circumstance to which we alluded, merely however as
matter of report, and in a playful spirit, is entirely unwar-
ranted by facts ; and we are therefore bound, in gentlemanly
feeling, to express our sorrow that it should have been alluded
to in our columns in such a way as to pain a mind sensitively
alive, as that of every gentleman must be, to the imputation
which it conveyed.

THE LIVERPOOL TIMES v. THE HALIFAX MAIL
STEAMER BRITANNIA.

A contemporary, the blundering Liverpool Times, in a
notice of the recent passages of the Great Western and Bri-
tannia transatlantic steamers, informs the little world in
which he moves, that, whilst the Great Western made the
passage from New York in 12 days and 8 hours, the Bri-
tannia " left Boston on the afternoon of the Ist, and Halifax
on the 3rd instant, and reached the Mersey late last
night" (Monday),—thus making the passage from Boston
appear to have been performed in something less than 16
days, with only the ordinary stoppage at Halifax. The
whole paragraph is a tissue of blunders. The Britannia did
not leave llalifax on the 3rd, but on the night of the sth inst.
She did not arrive in the Mersey on Monday, but on Sunday
night. Her entire passage from Boston was therefore made
in 15 days (not 16 days, as our contemporary's version would
imply), and, deducting 53 hours' detention at Halifax (not
noticed by the Liverpool Times), may fairly be placed in
competition with the excellent passage of the Great Western.
The passage from Halifax was made, not in 13 days, as
stated by the same sage, but in 10 days and 3 hours !
We should not have noticed this blundering tale but for
the circumstance that it is copied into the London Times of
yesterday, and is thus calculated to obtain circulation, and
do harm to the reputation of our excellent mail steamers.
Our contemporary, we dare say, will urge that he copied the
paragraph in question from the Albion of Monday last.
When adopting the Albion's errors, however, (which, by-
the-bye, were corrected by a statement in the same publica-
tion,) our contemporary might have altered the date of the
paragraph. " Last night," when the Albion wrote, was
Sunday night. Has our contemporary forgot that his day
of shining is Tuesday ?