As the Standard, while politely acquiescing in our assertion that
we were, to the best of our knowledge, the first journal to protest against the restoration of the names of Messrs. Schneider and Fenwick (the great bribing Liberals unseated at Lancaster) to the Commission of the Peace, declares that this protest "entirely escaped its notice," we beg to refer it to our number of the 9th October last, p. 1,170, where it will find a protest anterior, we believe, in time, and certainly not inferior in earnestness to any put forth by the Tory press. We expressly pointed out that Lord Dufferin was responsible for this mischievous act, and that it would injure the reputation of the English Bench in the eyes of the poor, who would be sure to imagine, however erroneously, that men who would corrupt electors would hardly be incorruptible, even on the Bench. We, for our parts, shall be always ready to join the Tory press in the most complete exposure of Liberal laxity of this kind, and we will in return only entreat the Tory press for that reciprocity' of which it is the well-known advocate. Will the Standard conclude a convention with us to show no leniency to Tory offenders against electoral purity, if we show no leniency to Radicals and Whigs ?
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