The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-11-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MERCURY AND THE ELECTIONS.--The wonderful fiddler of Friday, in expressing his astonishment at the re•stlts of the recent municipal elections, declares that the 'Choice which the electors have made, " infers so absolute a ifairgetfulness of the past—so utter a recklessness of the Future-..(is) so gross an act of suicidal folly—that it seems Almost incredible, and would have been impossible had the hectors been left free to exercise their nominal privilege, " exemption from intimidation on the one hand, and corruption on the other." With all due deference, however, to so eminent an authority, we are ready to maintain that the choice made by the electors "infers" no such thing, but precisely the contrary ; and that there is nothing at all incredible about it. The electors have repudiated the claims of a set of rank impostors—thorough quacks—stale, threadbare and impudent pretenders. There is no forgetfulness of the past in this, we think, although there may be some little forgetfulness of our good Mercury's often repeated diatribes. What is there in the past to endear one individual of the thirteen rejected ones to the electors of Liverpool? Why nothing, "pod Mercury ! We remember well the acts of these men sand their professions. We have looked them through and through ; and we like them not. Nor is there anything that Ve can see of " recklessness of the future ;" on the contrary the electors of Liverpool have shown a pretty manifest determination, that the future shall not resemble the past ; And taken the piecise means required to carry into effect that determination. That our contemporary should be wrathful, 'under all the circumstances of this shocking disaster to his party, is little surprising; but we are, we must confess, a Tittle amazed at the bitterness with which he falls foul upon the defaulters of his own party. Has so old a stager as the Mercury been all this time " coining his wit for drachmas" is this good town of Liverpool—mixed up in every dirty Whig intrigue, cognisant of every hollow and fraudulent device with which their grand imposture, " Liberalism," seeks to palm itself upon the credulity of mankind ; and can he still have remained ignorant how " shabby" and pitiful— how " sneaking" and " cowardly" were many of the party with which he worked ? We cannot believe it. The supposition is too preposterous to be entertained for a moment. It is a fact, which all the world—with the exception perhaps of the Mercury—has been aware of for half a century, that Your professing reformers—your consummate purists—your e, minent hilosophers are not themselves more inconceivably fallow anpd shallow than a vast majority of the herd who foliLflv them are interested, mean, shabby, and tergiversating. We have known this long ago ; and were quite prepared to see shoals of them deserting their former leaders, and following in the wake of conservatism, whenever that cause beFame strong enough to stand by itself. Our contemporary, flowerer, like all new converts, is a little too indiscriminating in the fulminations which he deals out. There are " honest and honourable" men of the whig party, who (121 Monday last declined to vote for the chosen candidates of •Pe radical party ; but it is going a little too far to say that these men are no longer to be accounted " honest and i°t.lourable," or that they are " pitiful sneaking beings" who The not say their souls are their own at an election. " The real fact we take it to be is, that the reformers, or nominal reformers," who have hung back in the struggle, Were not quite so proud of the fellowship into which whig. fiery has fallen, and would fain drag them at its heels, as the fe Mercury himself. Men with clean coats, and no itching Zell beneath them, are not anxious to rub against every post they meet ; and, although we had rather have seen many of m evince their disgust at whig uncleanness, by the more a4°lY course of voting for conservative candidates, yet we tI ot discover any strong ground upon which to complain, ur at all toimpeach the motives of their neutrality. " When You Com prehend a thief let him steal out of our comany"— a maxim which many prudent men besideys Dogberpry have 'etinselled.  Mfr I'On zez E AVOW/Keg CONeßfmr.-c-This ailearnpliglied guitarist gave a concert in the portipp Room, last, evening. The company, though not nuinevopt, was very select and fashionable. The performances went off with great spirit.