The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

PIANIST AND CONDUCTOR-Mr. E. F. SMITH

Doors to be open at Seven; Concert to commence at
Eight precisely.
Tickets to the Body of the Room, ss. ; a limited number
to the Gallery ; to be had of Miss E. HAMILTON, at her
Residence, 27, Norton-street, and the principal Music
Shops.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

" Senex" shall appear on Friday

We are compelled to postpone our papa upon Mr. Wilson's

late entertainments.
J. K. should address his letter to the Watch Committee

The letter signed " A Burgess" should be sent to the Town-

hall.
" W. R. H."—No

We have to apologise to our readers for a few inaccuracies
of a typographical nature which crept into our publication
of Friday, owing to the demand upon the time of our
compositors by the heavy tabular matter contained in the
Report of the Paid Officers' Committee, which we pub-
lished exclusively, preventing their bestowing the re-
quisite care upon the correction of their proofs. By one
of these errors, we are made to represent the loss of the
Bank of Manchester, by the failure of Messrs. Joseph
Raleigh and Co., as £710,000 instead of £170,000. We
have also mangled sadly the excellent address of Mr. T. T.
Glazebrook to the Electors of Castle-street Ward, for which
we tender our regrets to that gentleman. We have no fear
that the effect of the speech in question will be weakened
upon the minds of those who heard it by our misreporting;
yet, to those who had not that pleasure, it is but justice to
state that our version is in some places, by the omission of
a portion of a sentence and errors in punctuation, any
thing rather than a fair one.

ETA' Eibtrpool otanbatt.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1842

There is no quality possessed by the gentlemen (!) of
the Anti. Corn-law League in greater abundance than
that of IMPUDENCE. Day by day we hear of the
private dwellings of our neighbours being invaded by
the promulgators of their seditious and blasphemous
tracts. If the door is shut in their faces, and the
fellows kicked into the street, their offensive wares are
foisted upon us through the medium of the postman.
At every turn their walking placards meet our eye;
and the begging-box, for money to feed the hireling
mouths which defame and slander the noblest in the
land, is shaken in our faces with an " assurance"
which is almost Palmerstonian, and a pertinacity equal
to that of the Great Beggarman himself.
Consummate, however, as is the impudence of this
body, we were scarcely prepared for the glaring display
of that quality which has just been perpetrated. Some
few weeks ago, it seems, a noble duke, a conspicuous
supporter of the landed interest, entertained a portion
of his tenantry in his own castle. The entertainment
in question was strictly a private one ; and in the
unreserved confidence of such a communion between
landlord and tenant, the noble entertainer gave free
expression to his known opinions upon the subject of
our native agriculture and its enemies, the Anti-Corn-
law League. A report of the festivity, and of the
remarks in question, furnished by some of the guests
present, found its way into a local paper, and was
copied thence into the Mark-lane Express ; upon
which the Anti-Corn-law League proceeded instanter
to direct against the noble duke—the Duke of Cleve-
land—that vulgar insolence which they have made
their peculiar weapon. A letter is written to his Grace,
by their chairman, enclosing a collection of that nau-
seous and blasphemous stuff which they denominate
Anti-Corn-law tracts, and " venturing to hope that
when his Grace shall have carefully studied these
documents, he will arrive at a different conclusion to
that which appears in the speech referred to, and that
he will take the earliest opportunity of correcting his
error" ! The noble duke, schooled and corrected by
these pragmatical impertinents, is to go down on his
knees, turn up the whites of his eyes, fold his hands,
and " take the earliest opportunity" of confessing that
he has been through life, and until " corrected" by
the superior information of the cotton-spinners of
Manchester, in a state of woful and utter ignorance of
that very subject which, from its superior importance
to himself and his order, he may be supposed to have
studied most carefully !
That a nobleman like the Duke of Cleveland should
have condescended to notice such an impertinence in
any other manner than by desiring his butler or his
footman to convey the communication and enclosure
of ." George Wilson, Chairman," upon a coal-shovel,
to the kitchen or the scullery fire, is to be regretted.
His Grace did, however, reply; and the result of his
indignant disavowal of the authority of this insolent
body to call him to task, for the expression of his
known opinions to a private party in his own castle, is
that the League has directed one of their most foul-
mouthed itinerants to proceed in person to the neigh-
bourhood of Raby, the seat of the noble duke, and to
insult him in the presence of his own tenantry From
the " Queen's Head, Staindrop," the " bottle mounte-
bank," Acland—(he will recognise the term)—has
addressed himself to his task, of pelting the contents
of his literary dunghill, with an unsparing hand, at the
unfortunate object of the League's enmity. We shall
certainly not soil our columns with the insolent trash
in question, which, we dare say, will be furnished, as
" a dainty dish," by our radical contemporaries. But
we will take the opportunity of putting the question
seriously to the respectable portion of the opponents
of the Corn-laws : do they think that the cause which
they profess to have at heart can be advanced by the
reckless and impudent course which the Anti-Corn-
law League are pursuing—that the confidence of the
British people can ever be earned by a party who thus
insolently unloose upon the nobility of the land the
hired tongue of any quondam mountebank and quack
doctor, who happens to possess, in addition to his
fluency of vituperation, a brazen countenance and a
person upon which the horsepond is innocuous ?
Let the respectable members of the Anti-Corn-law
party take this question into their earnest considera-
tion. They may depend upon it that by their present
course they are offending all that is decent and right-
minded in the community; and for what ? To feed a
few itinerant hirelings, and to let forth upon the world
the venom of a clique of baffled and sinking adven-
turers, who, but for a certain joint-stock bank, which
is at this moment, we perceive, itself in extremis, would
never have possessed more influence upon the opinions
of the world around them than any half-dozen pro-
fessors of timble rig or shove penny, or any half-dozen
tailors, of " Tooley-street, or elsewhere.

A vast quantity of " excellent indignation" has
been wasted of late upon his Excellency, the Governor-
General of India. Decrepit whiggery has blustered,
chuckled, and threatened by turns. Conservatives,
even, have looked grave, and expostulated with his
lordship and the ministry, upon the impropriety
and even dishonour of the course which it was
assumed they were pursuing with respect to our
Eastern embroilments. The news, however, by the
last overland mail has, we are proud to see, put a new
face upon matters. Whilst the detractors of Lord
Ellenborough, in India and at home, have been de-
nouncing his supposed inactivity, and proclaiming the
degrading character of the policy which he had
adopted, his lordship has been steadily concentrating
his forces, and providing the requisite materiel—artil-
lery, camels, and treasure—for a decisive movement;
and we have now the assurance, not only that the
British forces are about to advance to the rescue of
their captive fellow countrymen and countrywomen,
from the hands of the murderous fiend, Ackbar Khan
—not only that they are about to endeavour, at least,
to wipe away the stain which has fallen upon the
British arms in Affghanistan, and by a bold attack
upon the very stronghold of the barbarian, to put an
end for ever to his ability to injure and insult—but
that they are about to do all this, provided by the
wise and foreseeing care of Lord Ellenborougb, with
every appliance necessary to ensure early and complete
success !

By this time, we feel assured, the British flag float
from the walls of Caubul, and the leader of

triumphant army has dictated to a savage, and lately
exulting enemy the terms of an honourable peace.
What those terms will be, or what will be the course
pursued by Lord Ellenborough, after he has rescued
the lives of his brave fellow-countrymen, and vindi
cated the character of British arms, we do not presume
to know. Wisely, we think, his lordship preserves
his own councils secret even from the ear of gossiping
journalism, until he is prepared to carry out his
designs effectually; but we much mistake his cha-
racter, and that of his colleagues at home, if those
designs are not such as will promote the interests and
the honour of Great Britain, and the stability of her
Indian empire infinitely more than that step to which
the Palmerstonian oracle would urge them—viz., the
colonization of Affghanistan. " Open a path for the
commerce and the manufactures of England through
the passes of Caubul !" Fudge, my Lord Palmerston !

The editor of the Albion, if we may take all which
appears in that paper, graced with his leader type, as
the production of that gentleman, must have been,
during the past week, in a somewhat unusual ill-hu-
mour. Commenting in his would-be-witty manner—
(and of anything approaching to sterling wit the Albion
is as innocent as the gentleman who does the " think-
ing man's " buffooneries)—upon the speeches of Mr.
Samuel Holme and Mr. Glazebrook, at the recent
meetings in St. Peter's and Castle-street wards, our
contemporary proceeds to utter the following amongst
other impertinences :

Mr. Glazebrook, on presenting himself to the meeting,
was, we are informed, " received with immense applause."
Thereupon the worthy gentleman delivered himself of a
speech, and such a speech! A conglomeration;of ideas! a
hotchpotch of nonsense ! We have read it, and read it
again, and every reading has had the effect of rendering i.
meaning the more obscure. Mr. Glazebrook, if he has not yet
given the proprietors of the Liverpool Standard notice of an
action for libel, for publishing in their paper a mass of nonsense
and attributing it to him, ought to give them notice immediate-
ly. He cannott pass another day without vindicating his head
and his heart from the imputations which the reported
speeeh in the Standard is calculated to bring upon both.
The reporter who has thus dared to put nonsense into a re-
spectable gentleman's mouth, and sentences which " lead
to nothing," for they have no end, must be as ignorant and
illiterate as he is impudent and designing. Mr. Glazebrook
must punish both him and his employers, for the insult
offered to his understanding, by their report of his speech
on Thursday night."

We have already explained, in our " Notices to
Correspondents," the cause of the inaccuracies which
occurred in our last publication, and apologised for
those in the report of the speech in question. Such
inaccuracies, every man conversant with the manage-
,nent of a newspaper knows, must occasionally be
committed. No one knows better than the writer of
this splenetic trash that in nine cases out of ten they
occur from circumstances over which no control can
be exercised ; and that in a journal like our own, in
which every occurrence of interest is recorded up to
the hour of publication, without an intervening Sunday
to allow us to polish up our phrases and revise our
corrections, they occur more frequently than in any
other ; and it is therefore only evidence of a nasty
spirit, such as we do not suspect the proprietor of the
Albion of entertaining towards ourselves, when a bro-
ther journalist steps out of his way to indulge in such
remarks as those contained in the paragraph which we

have quoted.
There are people in the world,—we have met with
many such—who entertain a magnificent opinion of
themselves, and whom it would be a good mercantile
speculation to purchase at the price which the public
would put upon them, and sell again at that which
their Own inordinate conceit imagines to be their value.
Such a gentle Man, evidently, is he who so oracularly
denounces our reporter as being " as ignorant and
illiterate as he is impudent and designing "(!) We are
not bound to find the gentleman in question, whoever
he may be, with intellect to comprehend the speech of
Mr. Glazebrook or any other speech ; but we would
just hint to him that, being so little gifted with com-
prehension himself, it would be wise and decent in
him, when next venturing upon the editorial stilts, to
adopt a style more becoming him,—leSs bombastical,
and more intelligible. "As ignorant and illiterate as
he is impudent and designing ! " Gramercy, good
sir ! what high-flown rubbish is this

THE REDUCTION OF THE DUTIES ON FOREIGN MEAT.—
The provisions of the New Tariff, with respect to foreign
meats, came into operation yesterday, and these articles are
now admissable at the reduced duties. A reference to our
advertising columns will, we think, sufficiently show that
this measure is not destined to be inoperative. This day,
will be offered for sale, by different brokers, 368 barrels of
American and Canadian beef, 1,417 barrels of American and
Canadian pork, 238 barrels and 15 hogsheads of American
hams, and 260 boxes of American cheese. Upon the latter
article, we may remark, no alteration of duty is made by the
tariff. Next week we observe another sale announced of
538 barrels of American beef; and, no doubt, a considerable
quantity of the article is offering which is not advertised in
our colomns. In a few weeks we venture to predict that the
effect of this extensive introduction of foreign meats will be
sensibly felt in our provision markets ; and, if the quality of
the article be at all tolerable, the operation of the measure
must confer a very material boon upon the labouring classes
during the approaching. winter.