The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-04-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDSRD.  We mentioned last week, that the Mayor, Sir T. Brancker' and Mr. James Ileyworth, had been appointed county magistrates. We since learn, that Mr. Chas. Horsfalt and Mr. H. 13. B. Holliushead have also been appointed.magistrates of the county.  Sin,—Nothing is more usual than that men should denounci the crime of which they themselves are most frequently guilty; and decry the imperfection to which they themselves are most prone. Sir Roger L'Estrange, in his amusing preface to Cicero's Offices, tells us that one of the vilest women be ever knew had these words always in her mouth,." Lord," said she, "to see the impudence of some women !" The conduct of the self-styled liberals in this generation of political quacks sad democratic levellers affords an apposite illustration of this po4 sition. Ifi no men do the avowed principle and the actual practice appear in such startling contrast and direct opposition. If preference be shown or patronage be conferred brthe conservative party they are at once denounced 118 exclusive dealers and bigoted monopolists; while the declared liberals, in order to advance the interests of a liberal cause, will not scruple to forbid intercourse, interdict acquaintance, impute motives, propogate-scandal, and heap abuse. I have thought fit to preface with these remarks the statement of a circumstance of recent occurrence :  Namick Pacha has returned to Carlton Hotel from• j3elvoir Castle. His excellency leaves this week for Constantinople. . We congratulate one readers upon the immediate probability that Greece will again assume her former station among nations. It appears by an advertisement in our columns of this day, that the King of Greece has given a grant to an Englishman, containing extensive privileges, to establish a steam eunitnunicatMn between Marseilles, Naples, Malta, Athens, and Constantinople. It cannot fail to be taken advantage of by the myriads of travellers that will now visit Greece, Turkey, -and India, far the quickness of travelling will bring these countries so near to us. Ibis undertaking cannot fail to be beneficial to Greece, and to our enterprising countrymen.  " Pratt, an Englishman, proprietor of a small mill on the banks of the Royal Canal, about three miles from Dublin, and also of a small retail shop in Fing,las, by means of which he supported a numerous family, exercised the privilege of a freeholder by voting for the conservative candidate at the last electiorf for the county Dublin. Ills shop was immediately, deserted, and of necessity subsequently abandoned, he himself was assaulted, and his mill remains idle, some even of his protestant neighbours and customers being deterred by threats from dealing with him. Ile is 'consequently reduced to a state of great embarrassment and distress, witlia wife and ten children dependent on him for support." This unininciped act of oppression did not occur in a remote, village or in an obscure district, but in the immediate vicinity of the Irish capital itself. The report of it had no such lengthened distance to travel as would prevent its arriving at the fountain head of information uniucumbered with those additions and modifications which, if coming; from a distance, it might .necessarily gather oohs way. It is no unauthenticated rumour— no gratuitous declaration. The accuracy of its statements is _vouched for by two justices of the peace, one of whom 'Was' formerly high sheriff, and by a respectable medical gentleman. There is one circumstance in this matter to which you will allow me to advert. It is true that in some districts of Ireland the conservative voter and the independent protestant are de= terred from the exercise of their franchise aid the 'declaration ~ of their opinions by threatened acts of murder, pillage, or arson. .; In other districts tie presence of the military or the residence' of a numerous body of gentry and respectable tenantry compel' the lawless agitators to resort to a modified system of attack. Of that system the case of Pratt is an instance. The depredators are indeed less culpable than the murderer and the incendiary, but the mischiefs of their interference are capable of more accurate adaptation and of a more extended range. Where the agitator dare not bare the steel or fling the brand he' will harrasti and impoverish, intimidate and annoy, until the disheartened protestant in 'very weariness of spirit is compelled to seek in a foreign land for that safety and protection which the demagogue and the priest, the unpunished assassin, and intimidated ma.; gistrate, forbid, him to enjoyiu his own.—Y.ours, Liverpool, 2'2d Ain it, I X, N. S.  A