The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

THE ALBION BANK-PAPER

In his reply to the harmless raillerie which we addressed
on Friday to our contemporary the Albion, we are sorry to
notice a degree of acidity of tone, the display of which we
cannot think was at all called for. In congratulating the
Albion upon the flourishing state of his journal, and upon the
degree of patronage on the part of his friends which had con-
duced to so gratifying a result, we expressed the pleasure
with which we should receive at the hands of our friends a
similar measure of support; and it does not evince either
good temper or good taste in our contemporary to retort upon
us in so vicious a spirit as that which characterizes the follow -
ing passage
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we cannot be supposed to know what truth there
may be in our contemporary's complaint against his party,
but this we do know, that for every ten pounds which the
whigs have spent on their section of the press, (we never re-
ceived a single farthing from any party, except for value re-
ceived in papers or advertisements,) the tories have spent
ten hundred : and yet, their press, after having, within the
last ten years, had not less a sum than ten thousand pounds
expended on it in direct payments, complains of the neglect
of the leaders of the party ! Tha fact is, the tories have been
lavish in their donations for the support of their press, and
if, after all their largesses, its conductors still complain, if
not of poverty, at least of want of patronage, the fault must
lie with the parties who squandered or pillaged the funds so
liberally contributed towards their support by the tory lead-
ers."

We cannot but think, that, whilst penning this splenetic at.
tack our contemporary must have known that not one sell_.
tence of it could apply to ourselves. WE, like the Albion,
can safely assert that " we have never received a single far-
thing from any party except for value received in papers or
advertisements." And we have never either received, or
desired to receive, one shilling of the ten thousand pounds
alleged to have been expended by our party " in direct pay-
ments" in support of their press, and should unhesitatingly
spurn any such bolstering patronage were it offered to us. In
the management of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD we have
throughout relied solely upon our own resources, and neither
" squandered " nor " pillaged " any funds belonging to any
party ; and we complain neither of " poverty " nor of " want
of patronage.".

As we have, however, been dragged into this subject by the
Albion, we will unhesitatingly say that the conservatives of
Liverpool do not support their press with the same zeal which
is used by the whig-radical party. Let our contemporary
turn to his own advertizing columns, and, we venture to say,
that for every whig-radical, whose favours are conferred upon
us, he will find fifty conservatives patronizing the Albion.
The whig-radicals, as a body, bestow their exclusive patron-
age upon whig-radical journals ; whilst conservatives. more
liberal, crowd with their advertisements those very columns,
which weekly heap slander and ridicule upon themselves and
the cause which they advocate. We ourselves ask for no ex-
clusive support from our friends. We ask for no support
which we are not prepared to earn by the zeal with which
our humble efforts are directed to the advancement of con-
servative interests. We ask only that those efforts should
be taken into consideration by our friends; and that their
extraordinary liberality should not be practised to our exclu-
sion from a just and legitimate sharp of their favours.