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

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

A TRITE, if not also a querulous saying, informs us that

eek's expe

ence, however, fully assures us that extent of circulation
and rapidity of flight are not confined exclusively to the
spread of unwelcome intelligence. The news of that vic-

tory which crowned the heroism of the Allied army in the
Crimea, literally flashed in welcome speed from point to

point all over our "sea-girt isle," at each repetition
'ng new sources of delight. In the metropolis:no
one found ti or ear, or understanding, for anything

but " war." The news, which kindled such a delirium of
joy, proved—as from the first I had some suspicion it
would prove—considerably exaggerated; nothing, how•

ever, has since occurred to invalidate, or even modify, that
portion of the intelligence relating to the decisive and
glorious victory achieved on the heights of the Alma ; and if
the fall of Sebastopol be not already ranked among the
achievements of our arms, its being so enrolled is only
delayed, not averted. The enthusiasm of the past week
may well be pardoned, even now that we know Sebastopol
was still a Russian stronghold on the 28th of last month,
at which time we were instructed it had fallen before our

Compelled by his defeat on the 20th, MErrscnr-
KOPF did, what he would have displayed more prudence

in doing before, he retired to the mountain fastnesses a

Baktchi Serai, where, with the remnant of his beaten and
disheartened troops, he prepared to resist the advance of

found wanting." If r

His chances of doing so, n

time, were much reduced by the

iND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

s face, and whereve

en put to the test, it has "beer

the Turko-Russian war than awakening the world from a

mighty delusion, 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. Thurs-
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,
" indulged in coarse language, such as was not to be to-
lerated by a scholar or gentleman," adding that he (the
speaker), 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

,ervers 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
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-