The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-01-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CORRESPONDENTS.  P. S.,Wavertree, has no grounds for the remarks which he has made. There was quite sufficient reason for the address not appearing in our columns in the fact that it extended to a pamphlet of twelve pages, copies of which may be obtained at the office of the National Club, in Whitehall. We have always given publicity to the statements to which he refers when it has been in our power. W., Birkenhead.--It was 5 months and 21 days, from the time the Marco Polo left the Mersey untilher arrival off Holyhead; but the actual extent of her absence from the Mersey would be 5 months, 22 days, and 2 hours. Mr. James Gillespie complains that, in the local Sanatory Bill, which has been drawn up and is in the hands of the Health Committee, no provision has been made for the closing of burying grounds. He strongly inveighs against the practice of bolding schools in close proximity to graveyards, and suggests that the new bill should contain some provisions on the subject. We have no room this week to publish his letter. t*, We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communication on subjects of local or general interest ; and if ourfriends will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signatures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.  mier may not be questioned ? And yet this is the reason, publicly stated in his place in Parliament, by which Lord ABERDEEN attempts to justify that heterogeneous combination of political opposites which is being palmed upon the country as a Ministry, which shall cement all differences, and perform good  been so imminent, and the enormity so flagrant. It may operate as a spur to the legislature to correct an abuse so grievous, and we entertain no doubt that, next session, some means will be devised of protecting the honest candidate who may be successful against the slanderous and vexatious proceedings of defeated electioneering tacticians. Apart from the• question in its generality, we feel a more than ordinary interest in it, arising from local circumstances, inasmuch as a petition has been presented against the return of Messrs. TURNER and NfACKENZIE for the Borough of LIVERPOOL, upon the allegation of bribery and treating, and it is said that the recognizances entered into to prosecute the petition have been found to be unexceptionable. This we can easily believe, because, in a Parliamentary sense, it is the mere signatures of men of ordinary credit to a printed form, by which they declare themselves liable for a certain amount for expenses. But is there a man in Liverpool possessing the commonest ideas of honesty, and only a moderate share of what the world calls sense, who has the faintest shadow of a belief that either Mr. TURNER or Mr. MACKENZIE owe their seats to corrupt means of any kind ? It is too preposterous for argument, too large a draught upon the wildest credulity to be listened to with patience. It may have soothed the wounded pride of Mr. CARDWELL to tell the meeting at Oxiord that he owed his defeat at Liverpool to bribery; but he must have formed a miserable estimate of the intelligence of his auditory if he expected them to believe him. We do not deny that•bribery and corruption have been practised at elections where party feeling ran high, and numbers were pretty equally divided, but who ever heard of a majority which topped a thousand, and left plenty to spare, being gained by such means ? It would be a political suicide of which the most rabid Radical would not be guilty, nay, even Mr. DYCE SOMBRE, who bought Sudbury, and so helped to disfranchise it, would not have dreamed of such a folly; and yet, because the abuse of an imperfect law allows it, such an unscrupulous and unfounded charge is made, and months may yet elapse before the slander can be officially refuted. We have, however, still the proud consolation of knowing that not a man even of those who make the charge have the slightest belief in its truth.  service to the Crown and the people—a Ministry whose measures are to be Conservative as well as Liberal, because he considers both to be essentially necesHe next proceeds to decry the alarm of the Earl of DERBY on the encroachment of democratic principles, for the reason—which is unique in its simplicity—that he never recollected thecountry more tranquil, more contented, and less abounding in subjects of danger and alarm than at the present moment. Upon this narrow ground he hinted at