The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

WEST DERBY WARD

The contest in this ward was of a character hitherto, we
are happy to say, unknown in our annals of municipal elec-
tioneering. A Conservative—JAMES PLIMPTON, Esq.—op-
posed a renegade from the ranks of his party—a renegade
from his vaunted professions of sound Conservative princi-
ples—Mr. Jour: SMITH. The former was supported by the
elite of the Conservatives of the ward. The latter threw
himself upon the support of a party whom we find it difficult,
almost impossible, to characterise. The former stood upon
constitutional principle alone; the latter was championed by
the " liberal," the Radical, and the Popish press ; was held
up as a martyr,—a man of sound sense, and liberal conser-
vative opinions, and, as a matter of course, laughed at for
being gulled by such empty professions. Strong as the Con-
servative majority in the ward was known to be, and last year
droved itself, Mr. Smith boasted, during his canvas, that he
could beat any opponent by forty votes. How this prophecy
was realised we now proceed to show. At an early hour the
conservatives began to muster round their committee-room,
the Edge-hill Coffee-house, that of Mr. Smith being a corner
shop lower down on the opposite side. In the latter place,
during the first hour, we did not see a single individual. The
worthy candidate himself, however, was bustling up and
down, looking very merry to see so many of his FRIENDS (!)
At the opening of the polling-booth, at nine o'clock, Mr.
.
Plumpton's voters presented themselves in great force, whilst
scarcely one of the other'party came forward for the first half
hour. One of these voted for Mr. Smith to fulfil a promise
extorted from him upon the assurance that there would be
no contest. The other was the illustrious CATSPAW who is

THE DUCHESS DE BERRI

The Charivari publishes the following letter from Deutz,
the betrayer of the Duchess de Berri :

" Let the Royalists overwhelm me with their contempt, I
have not the strength to complain ; but those who, after
having incited my treason, have so well turned it to their
profit, ought, in my opinion, to be the last to throw the stone
at me. I allow that all the world are justified in calling me
infamous, yet there are some whom I regard as more infa-
mous than myself. Yes, Sir, let it be well known that all has
not been told on the crime to which I had the misfortune to
lend my name. Simon Deutz was willing to accept all the
responsibility of the act for the miserable sum which was
paid for it. But a day will perhaps come when the veil which
now covers that terrible machination will be torn away, and

each one will assume the part which belongs to him in the
odious creme of 1832. In the meantime I can only beg the
Orleanist journals to speak of me with a little more modera-
tion. If they calculate better the bearing of their insults,
they will doubtless comprehend that Simon Dentz has been
in the hands of certain exalted personages but a vile instru-
ment, and they will judge it proper to keep silence on his
account. The police, they say, are fatigued with my impor-
tunities. lam really desolate. Have I not had reason in
my time to complain of the importunities of the police ?
Alas ! was it not their cowardly and perfidious solicitations
that robbed me of my honour, and it can be readily conceived
that, however importunate I may now be to them, I have not
the means of treating them in a similar manner. Strange !
The police now despise me. They appear to blush at my
acquaintance ; but if I had not been followed by them with
M. Thiers at their head, who will dare to say that I should
not now have been an honest man? Remove M. Thiers and
M. de Montalivet from the history of my life (I will for the
moment only name those two), and I should remain what I
always wished to be, the loyal and faithful servant of the
august princess who had ever loaded me with kindness.
How can they then escape from the odium that is cast upon
me, who, by their infernal seductions,bave so cruelly led me
on to ruin? What! shall the assassin, who for a piece of
money murders a man at the corner of a street, be reputed
infamous, whilst he who placed the poniard in his hand and
paid him the price of the murder, is allowed to walk with
head erect and quietly reap all the profits of the crime ?

" As to those honest men who cannot pronounce my name
without a shudder, I ask of them neither pardon nor pity ;
and nevertheless, if they would be just, they would look on
my part of the infamy as less glaring, and give a part to those
who deserve it. This would only be distributive justice.

(Signed)

" SIMON DEUTZ."

The announcement of the failure of the respectable firm of
Hunter and Coventry in the corn trade, produced a consi-
derable sensation with renewed anxieties in that department
of business on Wednesday afternoon. The amount of their
liabilities have, however, been much overstated by the most
of our contemporaries this morning. The real amount does
not exceed £lOO,OOO, and the debts owing them, and the
stock on hand taken at present prices, exceed £120,000. It
will naturally be asked by business men, if such be the
real state of their affairs, how does it occur that they could
not obtain support to enable them to go on ? The tact, how-
ever is, that the wheat market is at present so completely
under the influence of panic, that it will scarcely sell in large
buantities at any price, whilst at the same time the discount
market is literally shut against all paper connected with corn
transactions, notwithstanding the abundance of money.—
Stondard.

TIDE TABLE.
Days. I Mrn. Evn. I Height. I Sunday s, Holydays,

A. at. u. M. F. 1.
Monday .31 851 gl7 15 11 Moon in Perigee 4h even.
Tuesday 1 941 10 3 17 g All Saints.
Wednes 2 10 27 I() 50 lb 8 hew ail 3h 54m even.
Thursday 3 11 12 21 34 19 2 Venus sets 51i 43m even.
Friday.. 4 11 56 - 18 8 Saturn sets 711. 32m. even
Saturday 5 017 036 18 0 Powder Plot, 1605
Sunday.. 6 1 0 122 16 9 24th Sunday after Trinity