The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-04-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EWART." INPPOWm. Ewart has very odd noticing of the duties of a statesman, and 'a representative of the people. He opposed the reduction of the malt tax because it is "too partial to the landed interest." Bless our simple hearts ! we always understood that it was the drinkers of ale, beer and porter, who paid the duty upon malt ; but it would seem, by Mr. Ewart's account, to be chiefly consumed by the " landed interest!" T-lvetivitrtion42.f lax upon beer is considered, by tet our iniellit, representative, to be no boon to his constituents or the people of England. Who would not be proud of such a representative ! But then, again, Mr. Ewart opposed the motion because it " endangered" the administration, and because they have been " SERIOUSLY EMBARRASSED" by it. Is the honourable member . looking out for a place, that he takes so seriously to heart the embarrassments of the ministers? . Was it to support any one particular set of ministers, to the neglect of the interests of his constituents, that he was returned for Liverpool at the- last election ? We suspect not, and this perhaps he will discover on the next occasion. 'What are the ministers to us ?—what Lord Grey and his family ? what all the Whigs, old and young, weaned and suckling ? It is his duty, and the duty of every representative, to consult the interests of his constituents, hidependent of party bias, and without regard to the people in office. But Mr. Wm. Ewart is, after all, we suspect, looking after a place, or has he, like Poulett Thomson, or Mr. Manchester Philips, some snug speculation in view ? T;me perhaps N. 11 tell.  We have been favoured-by our correspondent with a few pages more of the evidence given before " the thirteen" Solons of the reformed parliament, relative to the Liverpool election. We do not purpose to make any comments upon it at present, being rather anxious first to hear what Lord John Russell, it he still be the paymaster of the forces, has to say " thereanent"—to use an expression which Lord John, and Mr. Bannerman, who has been sick ever since he signed the report, perfectly well understand. But we cannot resist saying a word or two.  It is hardly credible that any thirteen or fifteen men could for five -long days sit patiently and listen to the nauseous stuff, the glaring inventions, and the unsupported and frivolous statements which are designated by the name of evidence. It is really a burlesque upon judicial proceedings, out-heroding all the nonsense to be found in Bombastes Furioso. When we have been enabled to lay- the wnole of the examinations before the public, we intend giving our readers, and the freemen of Liverpool in particular, a rare treat, by laying bare the whole details in such a way as has not been attempted in anatomical schools, since the Whigs passed the bill for sparing the bones of murderers, and restricting the honour of .dissection to the Duke of Sussex, and the-poor who die in the hospitals. " Sweet is .revenge," as some poet, we:think Dr. Bowring says—" Sweet is revenge in a good cause!"  One of our contemporaries, without having the courage to attack the STANDARD in an open and. manly manner, has, for some time, been indulging his love of eaves-dropping and personality, somewhat after the manner of a pickpocket. He