The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We quite agree with the remarks of " T. 8.," but doubt both the policy and propriety of publishing them. Would not the most likely way to attain the obj - ct of "An Enquirer after Truth" be to forward his letter to the rev. gen tleman personally. The letter of "J. S." has been crowded out by a mass of local matter, the publication of which we could not postpone. Mr. C. Groves begs to acknowledge the receipt, by post, of an anonymous Donation, for the Propagation of the Gospel Society, of in a bank note, dated Liverpool, IGth May, No. 91,388. We could not find room for the pungent letter of "Q ," but we must not omit the following :—" What committee was it which selected Mr. Harbord, and afterwards nominated Mr. •Fernihough, for St. Peter's ward? Let Mr. M`Donald give all the information in his power on the subject, and not - merely confine himself to denials of your statements as made, an expression which leads to the inf:rence that the sub stance of your charges is true, but that you err in some little detail in placing them before the public. How does it hap pen that Mr. M`Donald can deny so autirritatively what is alleged as having been done by one of the ward committees of the Confederation, if the central body is as ignorant as he professes of the proceedings at the ward committees?" We give our correspondent's queries but we have not much hope that they will elicit any satisfactory replies. We have heard many persons express much satisfaction with the present mode of conveyance to Manchester via canal; but one gentleman, who gives his name, complains of being de tallied eight hours on the passage, while the advertised time of the journey is four and a•half hours. We are unable to account for the detention but probably it was owing to some unforeseen circumstance. Our readers would experience some little difficulty in perusing the speech of the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, in our last, owing to tha transposition of a line, in what is technically called "making up." The fifth line should have been the fortieth, and its improper position caused obscurity, of course, in two paragraphs. The letter of "Clericus" shall appear in our next, as shall the communication of " An Englishman." We regret that we could not find room for the remarks of our Southport correspondent; but he will see in the crowded state of our columns a sufficient excuse for our apparent neglect of him. "An Evertbn Dock-Rater" asserts confidently—that were a Conservative to offer himself for the Ward he would, even now, be triumphantly returned. He mentions Mr. Thomas Wilson, the shipbuilder, as a very suitable gentleman. The present candidate is not, he says, "strong enough for the place." Cannot steps be taken to give effect to our corre spondents suggestion. STANDARD EXTRAORDINARY. It is 6urintention to publish, on THURSDAY NEXT, an EXTRA EDITION of the STANDARD, PRICE THREEPENCE, Containing all the particulars relative to the pending ELECTIONS, the Council and Parish Meetings of the previous day, and other important matters. During the day several subsequent editions will be issued, and immediately at the CLOSE of the POLL will be given every event of interest which may have occurred — hourly statement of the voting—a list of the Council as then constituted, 8(c. arc. Ebt Etherpool gPtanTsarb. TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 30, 1849. THE commercial advices by the American steamer are again very favourable, increased orders for Bri tish manufactured goods having been received by her. She also brings Q 5,000 in gold, exchange lacing at koA, and likely to advance. IT is impossible to glance over the addresses of the candidates, who will on Thursday next present themselves to the constituencies, seeking admission to the Council Chamber, and to compare them with those issued by the most popular of the candidates on the same occasion two or three years ago, with out admitting the fact that a striking change 'has taken place not only in public opinion generally, but in the feeling of the various classes of the community, upon some local questions. Two or three years ago, the popular party was indisputably that which offered to further, at any amount of cost, the progress of sanatory reform. The inestimable advantage of a copious supply of water for sanatory and other purposes was the most prominent topic put forward to influence the votes of the burgesses. To such an extent was the community prepared to go for this object that we do not hesitate to say that, could it have been at once realized, no cost would have been grudged by even the most sturdy sticklers for economy in con ducting the affairs of the town. But, happily great schemes cannot be carried out in a day. We are unable to tunnel through mountains, or to clam up valhes as by the wand of a magician. Surveys and estimates have to be made ; and time gives us opportunities of reflection. First impulses are often found to lead to extremes; and occasionally to errors in judgment, which we are left to correct at leisure. Such has been the result of the further opportunities, which we have had to examine into the real bearings of the question of increased water supply, so enthusiastically taken up, as the popular question, two or three years ago. The most forward of the advocates of such supply have been compelled to confess that, in their zeal, they overlooked the fact that sufficient water might be within their reach, without travelling to Bala Lake, to Holywell, or to Rivington to procure it. We bear no more demands for fountains in every street, and taps in every room of every dwelling. The calculating powers of the ratepayers have been busily at work in the interim ; and we have begun to discover that we were going a little too fast— about to pay too dear for our whistle. One lesson to be derived from this is the danger of allowing our judgments to be swayed, in so important a matter as the selection of gentlemen to conduct our local affairs, by their avowed opini ons upon any one or two questions, which happen at the moment to absorb public attention, or to be made the watchwords of party. Some amongst us, too, ought to be taught from it the reason ableness, whilst impelled to acknowledge our own past errors, of extending forbearance to those who feel a great difficulty in jumping round in a day. Men are at all times to be found willing to make -such questions—without taking great trouble to mature their judgments—a stepping-stone to power, and a means to attain further and unavowed ob jects. We say this with no intention of imputing such conduct to any of the gentlemen now put forward as the opponents of the Pike scheme ; but we do say let us not be hasty in regarding profes sions with respect to this single question, or even two or three others, as the sine qua non of fitness for corporate employment and trust. The mem bers of the local legislature of Liverpool have other and important matters to deal with ; ques tions requiring great business experience and judg ment ; high character and influence. A. man may have just views of water supply; great geological knowledge and local information; and yet prove most inefficient when called upon to give his advice or aid in the conducting of the financial affairs of a large public estate, of its parliamentary and other business. We cannot, either, overlook the fact that there are questions, which occasionally call for the attention of the Council, quite as im portant, and which have been quite as eagerly con tested, as the present Water question ? No long period ago this furnished the touchstone applied to the claims of the candidates of two powerful parties in the community; and it may probably, at no distant date, be resuscitated from its present temporary slumber. Entertaining, sincerely, these views, and disposed as we have ever been—at a time, too, when some of the present loudest opponents of the Pike scheme, were either its advocates, or were inert in the matter—to deny the necessity of going be yond our own locality for a supply of water, we are not prepared to lose sight.altogether of general fitness, or of past valuable services, in the choice of gentlemen to represent our interests in the Council chamber. We are not prepared, either, to treat our municipal elections as contests for the preponderance of this or that class in the local legislature. It is not the fact that the interests of the merchant are necessarily distinct from those of the tradesman ; and, until we see it proved, we demur to the class, to which any candidate belongs, being made a ground of his receiving our support. The tradesmen of our town have never met with any exclusion, that we are aware of. They possess already a considerable influence in the Council, which, to their credit, they have exercised with great ability and disinterestedness; and we should be the first to resist any attempt, on the part of the marcantile body, to lessen that influence. More over, on the water question, the advocates and op ponents of the Rivington scheme are composed of members of neither body exclusively; and grant ing the perfect right:of every tradesman to aspire to corporate honors, and even to the highest of these, we are confident that few of this class of our fellow-townsmen would wish to attribute their suc cess to anything less than a full deserving of them, earned by the integrity and ability displayed, not upon one question alone but in every phase of their ,• public ana private career. In the few remarks which we shall add, with respect to the qualifications of some of the gentle men about to be submitted to the choice of the constituencies, we shall abstain from entering into any invidious comparisons. Personally, we cannot object to the claims of any of them ; and we firmly believe that, but for the heats and ill-feeling, which have been sedulously infused into the minds of the community upon the question of the water supply, we should have seen some of the wards uncontested, so generally is the fitness of the retiring represen tatives acknowledged. On no other question ex cept that of the Rivington scheme would Mr. S. Holme have been opposed for Rodney-street Ward ; and should the result be his exclusion from the Council Chamber, regret at the loss of so efficient and useful a man will, in their cooler moments, be the prevailing sentiments of many, who are now actually engaged in promoting his rejection. In Castle-street Ward Mr. James Aikin would, under ordinary circumstances, and but for the use of ex traneous expressions, no doubt have walked over the course, as in years past. As it is, although his opponent, Mr. Avison, is personally unobjection able, the absence of Mr. Aikin from the chamber, and especially from the Dock Committee, would be regretted by men of all classes,—by many men'who are at direct issue with him, not only on the water question, but on political subjects generally. In West Derby Ward, on the other hand, we trust to see the return of Mr. Arthur Henderson, as a gen tleman sound on all points, and likely to become a valuable member. We support this gentleman, admitting fully the talents and past services of Mr. George Hall Lawrence, who, we may remark, would have stood better with the constituency, had he dis played a little less decided contempt for the opini ons of the public at large, on the water and other questions, and received less of the damaging coun ' tenance of his relative and adviser, Mr. William Earle. In some of the other wards we fear that the issue of the struggle will present very singular anomalies ; a strange division of parties, and con flicts of opinion between friends and connexions, which will leave deep regret and ill-feeling behind them. Happy will it be for the community if, at the same time, the further conviction is left behind, how much of these evils and animosities have been entailed upon us by the officious intrusion of that body—the confederation—which has set itself up to dictate to us how we are to exercise the franchise entrusted to us, and to conduct the affairs, both of the town and of the state ! If the close of the poll ing at four o'clock on Thursday presents in some places a result unexpected by the opponents of the Rivington scheme; if it be found that many men have been induced on this occasion to throw them selves with ardour into the struggle, who in previ ous years have taken no active interest in local questions ; and that powerful influences have been brought to bear upon the issue, which it would have been most desirable to have seen left unexer cised; it will lie found that the chiefly impelling cause amongst a large portion of the community, has been the conduct of this body, which has pre sumed to point out their course of conduct to men as capable of thinking for themselves as its own members, and which obviously wants the power, not the'will, to set itself up as a tyrannical Junta to lord itself over the town. Should these elections r It in strengthening the hands 'of the Rivington p , which we trust they will not, for notwith stan ing the declarations which have been put forth to the contrary, we feel convinced that the question - will yet be settled, as all other questions should, by a temperate and careful examination of evidence, the public will have ample cause to parody a cele brated expression, and to exclaim, "the confedera tion has done it all !" BY the arrival of the mail steamer Canada we have the following important communication from our private correspondent at Montreal : "Montreal, October 15th. " The question whether England will retain this colony is arriving at a crisis. A movement, which I had, some time ago predicted, has at last taken place. It is, that last week, a manifesto was put forth in this city, signed by three hundred and twenty-five of the wealthiest and most respectable citizens, men of both parties, and in eluding two members of parliament, and two Queen's counsel, in favour of ANNEXION WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and the absolution from their al legiance to the Queen. At the time the mail leaves there are about one thousand names to this manifesto. An effort has been made to get up a counter movement, and another document, expressing strong dissent from the annexion manifesto, has been carried round for signature, as yet with but sickly success. " You felt little inclined to believe when I formerly told you that the loyalists of Lower Canada had changed. The names of some of the principal ones, side by side with former rebels, are attaulied to the auneAlun maul festo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ " La Minirre, the organ of the French influence in the ministry, and Mr. Attorney-General Lafontaine's paper, publishes this document, with no other commentary than ' that as it will find its way into the history of Canada, it is well that it should be before the world.' And the Pilot, the other ministerial organ in this city, criticises the docu ment delicately and gingerly. It is openly supported by the other once loyal and conservative newspapers in the city except the Transcript. The Quebec papers have re ceived it with neither very decided dissent nor approba tion. Sufficient time has not transpired to allow the news of its reception to have arrived from Upper Canada, but there is no doubt that it will be received with indignant protest 'by the loyalist party there, judging from the terms in which the preliminary steps have been com mented upon. " I will refrain from any commentary at present on the effect that this movement will have on the existing parties, and only observe that its stronghold will be in Lower Canada. " The manifesto sets forth the present depressed state of the country, as caused by the legislation of England. It then reviews the different remedies which have been proposed, and concludes by expressing an opinion that none will be effectual but annexion with the United States. This, it sets forth, would benefit both nations. It would not that the separation from England should take place except in a peaceable and friendly manner, and that any other than a separation of this kind would be neither practicable nor desirable. L., We were certainly not prepared, from the tenor of all the advices hitherto received from Canada, for so decisive a step, as is here described, to be taken as yet, although, for years, we have regarded it—and placed our opinions on record—as the in evitable result of our recent commercial policy, and of the conduct pursued towards these depen dencies by the Colonial Office and the British Government. It is clear, however, that, in common with the bulk of the British people, we underrated the extent of the irritation produced by the insult ing course adopted with respect to the Rebellion Losses Bill. It has sunk deeper into the hearts of the Canadian people than was perhaps expected by the Colonial Office or the Ministry themselves, and has precipitated a movement which seems to have taken a large mass of the colony itself by surprise. We have before us a copy of the manifesto, in which the case of the advocates of annexation is stated in very striking terms; and the advantages of that step urged with a clearness and plausibility which must have considerable weight with an offended and a suffering people. The memorialists give, in the following passage, their views of the effect of our policy, and a distressing account of its results on the condition of all classes within the colony " The reversal of the ancient policy of Great Britain, whereby she withdrew from the Colonies their wonted protection in her markets, has produced the most disas trous effects upon Canada. In surveying the actual con dition of the country, what but ruin or rapid decay meets the eye ! Our provincial government and civic corpora tions embarrassed ; our banking and other securities greatly depreciated ; our mercantile and agricultural inte rests alike unprosperous ; real estate scarcely saleable upon any terms ; our unrivalled rivers, lakes, and canals almost unused, whilst commerce abandons our shores ; the cir culating capital amassed under a more favourable system is dissipated, with none from any quarter to replace it. Thus, without available capital , unable to effect a loan with foreign states, or with the mother country, although offering security greatly superior to that which readily obtains money both from the United States and Great Britain, when other than colonists are the applicants ; crippled, therefore, and checked in the full career of pri vate and public enterprise, this possession of the British Crown—our country—stands before the world in humili ating contrast with its immediate neighbours, exhibiting every symptom of a nation fast sinking to decay." They proceed to canvas the merits of the various other remedies suggested, which are,—lst. A re vival of protection in the British markets, which they consider could not be permanently effected. 2nd. A protection for home manufactures, which they conceive would be of little value, without access being afforded them to the United States market ; a federal union of the British American provinces; the independence of the British North American provinces as a federal republic ; and reciprocal free trade with the United States as respects the •products of the farm, the forest and the mine ; each and:all of which, they contend, would fall short of the full amount of benefit to be derived from annexation. It is clear that our Canadian brethren look with a longing gaze upon the prosperous condition of the neighbouring union. They contrast their own unfavourable position with that of the protected people of the United States, and argue that annexation would at once open to them the markets of the entire North American continent, and at the same time attract towards their soil American capital, to cover it with railways, to work its mines, and to give increased facilities for the developement of its vast resources. It is professed by the memorialists that the object is not to be carried out except peaceably, and with a most amicable feeling towards the mother country. We have not succeeded yet in uprooting loyalty from the hearts of the British portion of the Canadian people. But can annex ation be effected with the consent of the British people ? Are we prepared to hand over these valuable possessions to the United States ; or shall we retain by force an allegiance •and a connection which we might have retained by kindness ? We leave it to - the Government to answer these questions. SYMPTOMS are already dawning upon us of the approaching end of a system, based upon human fatuity, the grossness of which succeeding genera tions will contemplate, in the pages of historic record, with utter amazement. Sooner than we had dared to hope for such a result, from concurring causes, the confidence of the world in that un erring (!) standard of value, which has, within the last thirty years, according to the confession of the London Times, doubled the pressure of taxation and of every private debt in this country, is shaken to its base. We have seen manifested in past years the effect of the working of the principle, upon which our boasted monetary laws are based. We have seen the natural action of temporary exports of specie, followed by contraction of the media of exchange, with its attendants, commercial suffering and suspension of every branch of industry. And discerning men have doubted the wisdom of thus submitting the commerce of the whole nation to the operations of " a metalic formula," and condemned, as the most injurious of all sliding scales, the sliding scale in gold, upon whose oscillations not the marketable value of one commodity alone, but of the entire property of the nation, at home and spread abroad throughout the world, has insanely been made to depend. But we have now to witness the operation of the world's doubts with respect to the continued marketable value of the commodity— ,gold itsel:—which we have adopted as our standard. The advocates of the bullionist theory have, as a body,'endeavoured to argue the world out of the expectation that any great addition to the supply of the precious metals would be the result of the recent discoveries in California. The golden stream, they have argued, would at once be absorbed by the increasing commerce of the world. One of them, however, the Times, treated it as a matter of little moment whether the price of gold should rise or fall—as an agreeable kind of lottery in which one part of the community would win and the other lose—no matter which. "We are now," he re marked a few years ago, and be has recently repeated the remark, in treating of the subject of California, " bound by a definite bargain, expressed in a certain nomenclature—pounds, shillings, and pence.• To cancel our liability is impossible. To • evade it by arbitrarily changing that nomenclature is impossible. To evade it by changing that no menclature would he a piece of tyrannous rascality. It would be quite another thing, if such a change were to be operated by natural causes. Of this we ,and our creditors, like every other debtor and every other creditor, must take our chance. If, by circumstances, over which we have no control, the value of money rises, so much the better for them; if it falls, so much the better for us." Other nations, however, as shown by some recent move ments, do not appear to entertain such free and easy opinions upon the matter. The commercial community of Belgium, for example, are not gene rally regarded as tyros in monetary science, and are shrewd enough as to the relations of meum and tuum. Yet we learn that, from some new lights which have shone upon them, they have just passed a decree suspending the circulation of the British coined sovereign as legal tender in Belgium, until the question shall be discussed at the next assem bling of the legislative chambers. Evidently, these shrewd traders are beginning to doubt the con tinuance of the relation, in value, of our golden pound to their own silver and paper money. It was stated, a week ago, that upwards of £300,000 in sovereigns had been returned from Belgium to Great Britain, since the passing of this decree, which renders them no longer legal currency or money of fixed value. Th. DuLdi pcuplo arc c.atcnoiy - ; dcaloro in es - change, and reputed as quite alive to their own interests in their dealings with other nations. We find them, too, repudiating the correctness of our bullionists as to the unerring value of gold, as a commodity. A project of law has just been pub lished at the Hague, depriving gold of its monetary functions, and c dling in from circulation the Dutch gold pieces of five and ten florins, which it is pro posed to replace by paper money, provisionally at least, until the present stock in hand shall have come down to its legitimate value. In the preamble of the decree it is stated by the finance minister th=l, since it is known that the rival mountains of Russia and the mines of California produce so large a quantity of gold, prudence demands that, with a prospect of an extraordinary appreciation of this metal, more or less near, the gold of Dutch coinage' should be withdrawn from circulation, and an oppor tunity given to offer it for sale at, as nearly as prac ticable, present prices. The minister urges that if, within a few years, gold should lose one-tenth of its value, prices would rise in a proportionate ratio r and the nation would have the right to complain of the want of foresight in statesmen, who should have hesitated, or recoiled from making a trivial sacrifice whilst it was yet time. We commend the lesson to Sir Charles Wood and his colleagues. A still more striking fact has just reached us by the last arrival from the Brazils. From a private letter, addressed to a mercantile firm here, we learn that an edict has just been published at Rio, sus pending the act which regulates the price of the precious metals, until the opening of the chambers , in January next. The Brazilians will not allow the value of their own, paper dollars to be mea sured in our now suspected standard. Have they more accurate information than we have as to the probable yield of the diggings in California,. or do they contemplate the early and entire blow up of the bullionist system, and the reduction of the precious metals from their present fictitious value, as monies, to their intrinsic worth as commo dities? Most likely both these considerations have had their weight. The Brazilian people possess themselves a well-regulated domestic currency, in dependent of any metallic basis. Their paper money has for years fulfilled all the requirements, both of their home and foreign trade. And they object to receive as payment for their labour and their products, a commodity which, is being scram , bled for in another part of their great continent by adventurers of all nations, and is, apart from its value as a money, for which they do not require it, of no definable and permanent worth. But there are whispers, it is said, nearer home, which point at coming monetary revolutions. The circular to hankers, whether accurately or not, hints at perplexities in Lombard-street; and at new pro jects and modifications contemplated in Downing street and Whitehall. The bank labours under a plethora of specie, and is said to seek to be relieved from the legal necessity of taking a further supply at the mint prices. It is not unnatural that she should do so ; not unlikely that she sees some por tion of what is passing in the world, and calculates its possible effect upon her interests. What indi vidual merchant would be willing•to receive all the corn, sugar, or any other commodity, which sellers may choose to bring, at a price fixed by law, inde pendently of the considerations of supply and demand ? Yet this is precisely what the bank is now doing with respect to the commodity, gold. The directors know that the legislature cannot fix a price for other nations; that a large increased supply, beyond our wants for the metal as a money, would reduce at once its relative value, as compared with commodities, the supply of which has not been thus increased ; and that by continuing to in crease their hoards, and paying for them the mint price, they would be progressing rapidly towards a future serious sacrifice of their funds. It would be premature of course, now, to specu late, as to what are the precise modifications, if any, intended to be introduced into our monetary . system. We can only rejoice in the confident as surance that the bullionists must feel themselves in a difficulty ; and that the more they attempt to tinker their present system, the deeper they will flounder into embarrassment. Suppose that it is attempted to release the Bank from its bond to pay £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for gold ; and enact that, when holding a certain stock, the national market for the commodity will be closed. What will fol low ? We shall have an instant depreciation of the standard, and a disturbance of the prices of all commodities and of all contracts, public and pri. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. vate. We shall have also two prices of Gold—one the statutory one, which will be in abeyance ; and the other the natural one, regulated by the laws of supply and demand. A pound in account and a pound in gold will no longer represent twenty shil lings in silver. Such a state of things could not possibly be submitted to. We should be driven, perforce, to a readjustment of the standard, and an increase of the weight of the golden pound. But the debtor interest will here interpose, and say No ! We demand our bond no w. We agreed to pay a certain number of ounces of gold of a given weight and fineness; and this is all that we are willing to pay. The dilemma will be rather a difficult one to solve, in accordance -with both public convenience and perfect justice to individuals. We cannot tell, either, where the necessity for such readjustments will stop. Once admit that the Bank is not under obligation to carry out fully its bargain with the public, by taking all that is offered to it at the Mint price—whatever that may be—and gold ceases to he a standard of value at all, and beco:nes a mere commodity. The Bank might just as well issue its notes upon a basis of quarters of wheat, tons of iron, or any other product of similarly variable price. We can well perceive, under the pressure of all these circumstances, how misgivings, as to our pre sent system, may exist in Downing-street. But we repeat, no tinkering measures will meet the present emergency. The whole question of monetary sup ply—its principle—must be grappled with ; and we do not see, either in the ranks of the present ministry, in the Peelite, or in any other political section, "the men for the hour." IN expressing our deep sympathy with the natives of Wales in the strong wish they now evince through the entire of the country to obtain for the vacant see of Llandaff a bishop who will be able to di charge the duties of his important office in the language of the people, we feel sure we only record the feelings of the English community of Liverpool. The policy pursued by the government for the last hundred years towards the Welsh church has broken the spirit of the native clergy, and depressed their cha racter. The bishoprics have been uniformly given away to Englishmen unacquainted with the lan guage, and, as might he expected, a fearful abuse of the patronage vested in the bishops has followed. The cathedral preferments and the best livings have been bestowed upon friends or relatives all equally ignorant of the Welsh language, whilst the native clergy have been doomed to labour without an adequate remuneration. Where the Englishman has not resided, a curate, ill paid, hasbeen left in charge of the parish, and the revenues derived from the toil of the parishioners have been spent elsewhere. In every way the policy has operated most injuri ously to the interests of the church, the native clergy, and religion,. It is confidently asserted that eight portions out of ten of the Welsh population have been driven by this unjust and oppressive conduct of the golernnattit from the Established Church to the ranks of dissent. And we ask if it be not high time for the English press generally to take up the subject, and urge upon the present Premier the necessityof giving to the Welsh church what it really wants—pious and patriotic Welsh bishops—in order to make an effort to save it from extinction before it is too late. We cannot close our remarks on this subject without calling attention—practical attention—to an excellent letter from the Rev. David James to Lord John Russell. FROM every quarter we are inundated with com plaints of stagnation in trade. The merchant, the shopkeeper, the manufacturer, and the artizan alike bear testimony to the fact. An under current is at work somewhere, which mocks at all our hopes of coming improvement, and defeats our best exertions ; and it is only now and then that we stumble upon evidences of its nature and workings. We have before us, at this moment, what may account for the dulness of one branch, at least, of the national industry. We have had shown to as an assortment of samples of every description of paper,—posts, foolscap, account book, printing, super bank, drawing, and others,—manufactured at Antwerp, and offered at price; which the British manufacturer cannot possibly make it for. The qualities are excellent; and some of the post is marked with the English stamp " Bath." To uuuvey tut Idea, of talc catLcuLu ,licavuLao chasi,vcd. by the foreigner, we may state that a very first rate bank post is offered at 3s. 9d. per ream. But how, it will be asked, can this affect the British paper maker ? The duty on its importation is a prohibi tory one; otherwise our free traders would prick up their ears at the prospect of their epistolary wants, and their briefs, ledgers, and cash-books being supplied for so little. But, although there is this prohibitory duty, it does not operate in our dependencies, which we used to supply with the home manufactured article. From the samples before us hundreds of reams have just been selected, to be shipped at Havre for Bombay. Another large quantity has been forwarded, on English account, to Port Adelaide. It is little to be wondered at that the British maker feels his trade to be deserting him ; that the shopkeeper misses his usual export orders. We have been seduced into throwing the custom of a hundred millions of British subjects into the hands of the foreigner; and we are reaping the fruits, whilst ninety-nine of a hundred of the complainants of bad trade know nothing of the why ! The shipowner is just now beginning to experi ence the fruits of our recent insane legislation. We have, at this moment,_ flocking to our ports, hundreds of foreign vessels, to reap the harvest which will be ready for them in January, when the recently passed Navigation Bill will become law. Hundreds are also preparing to receive freights from our colonial possessions, whilst British ships seek employment in vain. During the past week we have had an arrival in- our port of a large first class British vessel,—we could give her name if required,—with an oversee, freight of only £l7O, — not as much as would pay the wages of her men. We are having flour brought from the United States well nigh gratuitously. The total cost of its transport from the head of Lake Ontario, nearly 500 miles down the St. Lawrence, and above 2000 miles across the Atlantic, to a British port, is as little per ton as a coastwise cargo to Bristol or London ! Yet the expense of transport was to have been a sufficient protection to the farmer ! Is it wonderful, then, that agricultural produce is not worth the growing, that our shipowners are sinking, and thousands of, unemployed' British seamen crowding - our boarding houses,, or starving in our streets. No difficulty now in procuring men to accept of employment in our navy I' Hunger will do the work shortly far more effectually than the press gang and the crimp. STATE OP THE BOROUGH ACCOUNTS. The state of the Corporation accounts, just published, is of a most healthy complexion, and Fhoxvs that if we could get rid of a few sources of extraordinary expendi ture, a considerable surplus would shortly he at the dis posal of the Finance Committee, to be devoted to the lightening of the general burthens of the ratepayers. Tae total " ordinary income" of the year has heen £152;258 14s. 3d.; the total " ordinary expenditure" £131,031 61d., leaving a surplus, carried to the extraordinary account, of £21,227 4s. sid. The amount of outstanding bonds upon the whole estate, yielding this large yearly revenue, is £908,627 7s. 2d., the interest upon which will be little more than a quarter of the income. The general cash account shows a balance in favour of the borough fund of £376,029 9s. 3d. A NEW TERM OF REPROACH. Our contemporary, the Meg cury, is rather fertile in the invention of names and party cries, which look imposing in large type—that general resort of writers of the " for cible feeble." He has just invented one for the opponents of increased Sunday labour in the Post-office. They are — we will give him the benefit of capitals—" SABBATA RIANS." How all good men must sink under the re proach ! " Sabbatarians." Men so far. behind,the libe rality of the age as to respect the fourth of God's com mandments ! All the different varieties of Arians — Unitarians, Utilitarians, &c.—sink into insignificance beside the enormity of " Sabbatarians." Our contem porary, to be consistent, should find nicknames for the observers of the other nine portions of the decalogue. For example, a man who obeys the commandment " Thou shalt not steal," might be consigned to ridicule as an hones tarian. A meeting of the Council, to wind up the business of the year, will he held to-morrow. EVERTON WARD.—We are authorised to say that Mr. Francis Shand is not a candidate for Everton Ward, and that his name has been put forward without his sanction. THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication we had on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, considerable downfalls of drizzling rain, accom panied occasionally, :with a close atmosphere, but succeeded, however, by some cheering sunshine towards evening. Sunday and yesterday were delightful days, sunny and pleasant throughout. The mangel and turnip crops look remarkably well, aid some have already been gathered. We have seen some fine crops of after-grass. COUNCIL MEETING.--(Continued from page 3) The Town-clerk then explained that' the special water com mittee were sitting last Thursday for the purpose of reading over their report, thinking that the whole matter was at an end, but about half-past three o'clock the resolutions referred to were brought into the room by Messrs. Rushton, Gladstone, and Bold. The resolutions were dated 25th October, 1849, J. R. Jeffrey in the chair. The two first resolutions were agreed to without any alteration, but the third he (with consent of the committee) altered to " That an application be made to parlia ment in the next session, for an act to amend the Water Works Act of 1847 ; and at the foot of the resolutions he (the Town clerk) wrote the words " and that the works be stayed," &C. These resolutions as so altered, Messrs. Rushton, Gladstone, and Bold took away with them, and shortly afterwards re turned, stating that all had been ageed to except the word " stayed," as the parochial committee preferred the word " stopped." The MAYOR directed the attention of the Council to the fact that on comparing the two letters from Avison and Pritt,. now before the Council, they would find that there was an evident inconsistency in them. One letter stated that they had not yet been able to appoint an engineer, whilst the other protested against the whole proceeding. The TOWN-CLERK said that the object of the special commit tee was to embody the name of the gentleman who was to be named on the part of the parish in their report, and that gen tleman was to be named, if possible, to the mayor to-day. Mr. HOLT, in continuation, said that be was in hopes that they were to adopt the report of the committee in peace; but he re ally did not know what to do now. It was reidly like a bye play ; a sort of mockery— [Here the speaker and the council came to a dead stand; nothing could be observed but mem bers going hither and thither; consultations, murmurs, and all the buz of gossip being the only business thought of. It would seem as if the protest of Messrs. Avison and Pritt had put the worthy aldermen and councillors to their wits' end. In the course of about seen or eight minutes, The MAYOR said that the better course for Mr. Holt to pur sue would be to gO on in the spirit of good faith on behalf of the Water Committee; to make his recommendation according to that spirit, and to put aside all that had occurred in the Coun cil. After that let the blame rest where it should fall, but at all events let the Council stand fairly before the public in the matter. Alderman D. HODGSON wished. to know if that letter came from the Parochial Committee, or if it came only from Messrs. Avison and Pritt? Mr. PROCTOR observed, that Avison and Pritt were the re cognised legal men belonging to the Parochial Committee; the men who were to go with the Town clerk for the act of Parliament. Mr. HOLT again rose, and said that the principle upon which they had made the attempt to settle this question was the only principle upon which it ever could be settled—namely, arbi tration. On that principle both parties were agreed ; and he could assure the Parochial Committee that if they were only to keep to their terms, there would be every disposition on the part of the Water Committee to meet them fairly. (Hear, hear.) Then with regard to Glasgow, he thought that a better arrangement of this question might be made than what had been glanced at in the report of Messrs. Haigh and Newlands ; but he did not think to discuss these points in the Council, inasmuch as their publicity would take away their chance of bringing about those desirable ends: which they all so much desired. He would ask for the confidence of the Council to be given to whatever committee might be entrusted with the carrying out of the propositions which he was about to lay before them; for, although he knew that their duties would be arduous, yet he had a strong opinion that something better than what had yet been glanced at would be done; and, therefore, the committee which would have this to carry out should have their full confidence. (Hear, hear, hear.) Messrs. Haigh and Newland's did not glance at a very important part of the subject. It was quite possible, and indeed he thought highly probable that the Rivington scheme would go on. The report of Messrs. Haigh and:Newlands did not embrace that important point, and it was to that he alluded. The special committee had made great sacrifices of opinion in their endeavours to carry out this arbitration ; they had done all that could be done with regard to testing the wells, having carefully examined all the evidence on that subject, from that of Jones, the well sinker, to the President of the Geological Society; but still they were willing to give up their convictions on that point, and place the matter in the hands of arbitrators, for the sake of peace. During the course of the negotiations the committee had much : anxiety ; their minds were very much perplexed, but they were very much indebted to Messrs. Rushton, Gladstone, and Bold for the help they had received from them. (Hear, hear.) The town was much indebted to these gentlemen, for by their assistance a channel had been opened by which the question might have been settled in a manner in which neither party would have had a victory, and neither have suffered a defeat. (Applause.) The thanks of the town were eminently due to these gentlemen. On/the 15th of October every thing had been settled except the point in volved, and the suspension of the contracts; but he was much surprised at seeing an advertisement in the Mercury, of the 22nd instant, signed Richard Harbord, informing the people that nothing beyond the preliminaries had been settled at that time, and making an electioneering cry of the matter. Under the circumstances in which they were placed—endeavouring as it were to obtain a settlement of the vexed question, such a proceeding was unwarrantable in the extreme. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Holme.) In all that the Special Committee had done they were actuated by no feelings whatever but those of peace and honesty; and it was really too bad after all havin g been agreed to, everything settled as they thought, to be rest with a protest against the whole of their proceedings. It was disheartening; it was positively dis heartening to find parties going from their agreements in this manner. What could they do of a public nature to give satis faction, if they were to be met in such a manner as that? - In the few remarks which he had made he had cautiously avoided discussing the water question itself, because it formed no part of the present business. Mr. H. then concluded by moving to the following effect :—That the Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports of the Water Committee he approved of, and that it be referred to the Special Water Committee to carry them into effect; and that it be an instruction to the committee to make such arrangements with the contractors as they may deem expedient, and that the necessary notices be given for an Act to amend, alter, and extend the compulsory clauses of hie Water Act of 1817 ; and further, that Mr. Fairbairn be ap pointed engineer, to arbitrate on the water question on behalf of the Corporation. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE having seconded the motion, and after a few words of explanation from Messrs. BENNETT and FREME, Alderman PROCTOR begged to ask the Town clerk, if any decision come to to-day, at this late period of the municipal The TOWN-CLERK observed that any future Council might do what it pleased on this or any other subject. Alderman PROCTOR said that showed what folly it was for them to come and discuss matter that a future Council would have to deal with. He was glad to hear Mr. Holt claim the confidence of the Council for - the committee, which would soon have to be appointed. What he (Mr. P.) said was :—Let this matter be referred to the new committee altogether. He would take Mr. Holt at his word: he-would join issue with him, and say let the whole matter be placed in the hands of that coin- 1 mittee, for which their confidence had already been bespoken. It appeared to him as absurd, now upon the 29th of October, to , be discussing a question of such importance, when they knew that a few days must seriously affect whatever decision they might then come to. With this view, he would, there fore, propose, as an amendment :—" That the report, resolu tions, and proceedings of the Special Committee, now pre sented to the Council, be received and referred to a committee, to be appointed on the 9th of November next, and that the Town-clerk be now instructed to prepare the necessary notices for an application to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for an Act to extend the time for the- compulsory taking of land for the Rivington works, and for all necessary powers for extend ing the street pipeage and means of distribution, and the appli cation of water for the existing works, including the Green lane Works, and also for improving and extending the works at Green-lane, and for such other additional powers and pro visions as are necessary for extending and enlarging the present powers of the Corporation and- of the Council with reference to the supply and distribution of water; and, also, to charge the Borough fund as an additional collateral security for money borrowed on the Liverpool water account and the interest thereof, and for altering the rates, now authorized to be levied and received; and, if necessary, for the abandonment of an act, engagement, or contract, already entered into with refer ence to the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act of 1847." In conclusion, he would ask if Mr. Holt would agree to this ? Mr. Hour—Oh, no. I have put my resolution. Mr. WOODRUFF seconded the amendment. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, after what had occuared, did not see the use in going on at all. He would leave the matter till after the 9th of November. Mr. Annie also concurred in this view of the case, for if they even went on to approve of their report it would be of no use, because the other side were not consenting parties to it. There was, however, a third way of settling this question, which had never occurred to the minds. of the gentlemen deliberating on this question—that was to ascertain how many pipes might be cast in a specified time, and—if lam out of order Mr. Town- Clerk I will say no more. The TOWN-CLERK said that the particulars of any mode of the-kind might be prejudicial to the corporation. Mr. At mei—Well then, I will say no more. Mr. HOLT had no objection to add that the works be not I gone on with till after the 9th of November. Alderman PROCTER. — That is as much as to say that Mr. Aiken, who has every probability of walking out of Castle street Waid, and Mr. George Hall Lawrence—(cries of order, order)—l wish to show the unreasonableness of the proposition of-Mr. Holt. I meant no offence to Mr. Aiken, or any person. The MAYOR.—You said that there was a probability of his doing so. Alderman PROCTER.--I did not mean it in that sense. The MAYOR.—WiII you, Mr. Holt, adopt Mr. Procter's amendment. Alderman Nicot.—Oh no. Mr. AIKEN thought it would be better if they were to treat the matter as an adopted motion altogether. Alderman HODGSON suggested that the better way would be to let the report lie on the table till after November, as they were in this exceedingly awkward position with regard to the contracts that they did not know one half of the cost they were likely to be under in negotiating them. If Mr. Procter and Mr. Holt could agree, he should like to see such an agreement come to. ifr. C. H. LA 12rR InTer: trent.eti with-hlaprrAm, lansiesaw.. Sok. long as all was nranimous he agreed with all that had been done, but now that the proceedings had been repudiated he could not think of going on. If they did so it would be putting them in a very unfair position. Mr. HOLT then, after some further discussion, amended his resolution as follows :—" The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the special water committee, comprising the report of the negotiation. with the parochial water committee for the settlement of the water question, having been read,—Resolved, That the same be approved, excluding the report of the com mittee, dated 25th instant, and any resolution connected there with, and such report and resolution received and directed to be laid before the Council for consideration at the meeting of the committee to be holden on the 9th November. That notice for a bill in parliament be given, for the several purposes men tioned in the report of the committee, of the 25th instant, and also for the purposes on this subject already sanctioned by the Council." After a few words from Mr. HORNBY ' Mr. S. HoLME rose and said , that he freely confessed that he had read the report which had been issued by the speciatwater committee with feelings of pain, because he felt satisfied that the recommendations which were then made for the sake of peace would be the means of binding down the future Council to the agitation which would take place on this question, and it would have the effect of involving the future Council in an amount of cost which but few people had any idea of. There were two recommendations in the report. One was with re ference to the appointment of arbitrators. On this point it was necessary to effect anything that both parties should be sincere in entering into the agreement. He had heard with pain the letter which had been read that morning, and he hesi tated not to say that it would be better for the Council to let the proceeding drop altogether, and let the responsibility of failure or success fall upon those who were the means of this agitation, for he said that it was impossible for any honourable mind to come to any, other conclusion than that there were gentlemen who did not desire the settlement of the water ques tion. They could not keep faith with those gentlemen; they would not allow themselves to do so. In the report of Messrs. Haigh and Newlands, he was told that a suspension of the con tracts for three months would cost .e 11,500, and if they re quired a suspension for six months, many thousands more would have to be expended. Then with regard to the aban donment of the works, which was the only object sought—if they should decide on proceeding with Rivington, £24,000 would have to be thrown away for the sake or peace, and that, too, by the gentlemen who were always the trumpet advocates of eco nomy.—(Hear, hear.) And if parliament should decide against the opinion of reterces—(supposing that opinion to be against the Pike)—that we should go on with our works, and keep our bill there, what position would we be in by the abandonment of our contracts, and the consequent loss of our moneys? They could not even go to Breen-lane without an Act of Parliament. Had they money, or had they power to borrow money to defray the cost of the proposed suspension, and proposed operations to test the home yield? If these engineers merely gave their opinions, why their opinion would be worth but little; but it they were to have the power of boring, Plain Welts. ttad Oct. 30, l a making nd a tunnels,considerable Pb e ( Hi t o s their disposal. In doing this, they did not take the I ng consideraion, that whilst these experiments were g° ter. 11 the town would in a great measure be deprived of w ater, the they added the cost of the suipension of the contract_„ e nt cost of going to parliament, and then add theamount tol;4re. in testing the present supply they would be confirroin f ; 1 ,0, position for spendino. a sum of money, the aggr . egate,l„ be when known, woulebe looked upon with surprise. b e dit , to the decision of the town ; but he would not say that tion to so cheerfully. He must say that it was not his rote co arse vote on the question at all, for he thought that the b est would be to let the responsibility be on those who hail ° On e° this matter on their own shoulders. Seeing that otie; were not prepared to keep faith with the Council, he, " we sh , was not inclined to vote at all on the subject; for thel leave those gentlemen to grapple with that giant wli' had now raised up for themselves. (Applause.) o f Mr' Mr. PARKER was entirely opposed to the mot , " con' Holt. He thought it would be better to defer the fur the r r , sideration of the whole matter till after the 9th of Nove Eiw,lr,`,.. uld, Mr. BENNETT understood that the motion of Mr. t b of confirm all the proceedings, except the report of the'l3 the October; and the motion of Mr. Procter merely slier ge whole of the proceedings back to the 9th of NovemheL, r es. opposed the passing of their proceedings because of raZtbel '' son which had been advanced by Mr. Nicol, who said 'ir con' were not bound to report to t` e Council till it suited the upt , venience to do so. Were no monies expended, to any am to shackle the Rivington upon us ? (No, no.) The TOWN-CLERK.--NOt more than a few pounds. oil Mr. BENNETT—Then why is Mr. Nicol so anxious to_ao the proceedings confirmed? Mr. Hawksley, in his letter,Ttber a great deal of what had been done in giving notice and thTheings. O t TOWN-CLERK.—There has not been a notice giv en landholder since November, 1818. of tb e BENNETT would vote against the confirmatio n „ n ot proceedings, as they contained matter of the greatest to the town. As regarded this report he had a few words; 0 1" (Loud cries of vote.) He would object to the confirrosou thMre roceedings. p . T. L. Honosox asked, if it was not of the utillosl w ith portance that the committee should be empoweredtot rea . , 4 the contractors immediately, as their offer of negotiation r" end to-day. to rna lce Mr. H. HORNBY.—Pooh, pooh, we will be able t , good, if not better, terms after Nwernber than at pregnant After some further discussion, the amendment was P • lost. The numbers being:— For the amendmen: 25 Against it 27 The following members A ‘ l . te 2 o ajo d ri : ty Won k For the amendfnent,—CouncillorsLangsdale,Walthevr,,inor ruff, Preston, Hodson, Briscoe, Ferguson, Toulmin, Itr, n neLts Rogers, Wagstaff, Kaye, Gardner, Neil, Johnson, jolt ], Parker, Freme, Beckwith, and Hindley. Aldermen : Holmes, J. Lawrence, Henderson, Proctor, and Bent., ioo finf Against,—Councillors: Morris, Stitt, Tyrer, G. 1 - 1. "gone , Littledale, Aikin. Holt, Hornby, Bell, Bit:timer, S• Booker, Lloyd, G. H. Lawrence, Watson, Mann, and'l i n - de , Aldermen: D. Hodgson, Swainson, T. B. Horsfall, Nice` , Cooper, Wood, Molyneux, Turner, and the Mayor. „f The original motion, or rather the amended motion , " Holt, was then put and carried. The numbers were, — For the motion Against it 23 _- 5 Majority The annexed is an analysis of the vote „ v rer, For the motion,—Councilors : Langdale, Morris, Stitt! mar, G. H. Horsfall, Littledale, Aikin, Holt, Hornby, Bell, n a no, S. Holme, Booker, Lloyd, G. H. Lawrence, Watson„, , taib and Fisher. Aldermen :D. Hodgson, Swainson, T. B. 11% the Nicol, Sands, Cooper, Wood, Molyneux, Turner, a n i" Mor. T. Aqainst,—Conncillors Walthew, Woodruff, Presto'' , Wag' Hodson, Briscoe. Ferguson, Toulmin, Robinson, Roger u 'oer' staff, Gardner, Neil, Johnson, Bennett, Parker, Freine , fe nce , with, and Hindley. Aldermen: John Holmes, J. La w " Henderson, Procter, and Bent. otb el Mr. BENNETT intimated that he intended to move 1 0 (fi the amendment ; but as his motion was a direct negative re f o re motion of Mr. Holt, it could not be put, and was the withdrawn. ied nt s This being all the business, the Council adjourno quarter to three o'clock, p.m. THE COST OF OUR PU LIC B ATI3S .11:517 WASHHOUSES. ort' These establishments, although not quite self-suPP be ing during the past year, have been so little costly t° te a corporate estate as quite to warrant their conternP' extension. It would be difficult to imagine in wha t, 4 :4 1 4 at so small an outlay, so great a good could be nen ie t ,. :eet upon our working population. The Frederic K- 5 10, establishment has cost £506 12s. 4d. during the ) 0 01 some of the expenditure, however, appearing to be to description which cannot occur every year. The for the use of baths and washing utensils has been t he 2s. 7d., leaving a deficiency of £B9 9s. 9d., paid fr° ll ' c ost borough fund. The Paul-street establishment ha g tr y £987 lls. Bd., some of the expenditure being also es jo g ordinary ; and income has been £823 Is. 3d., l ea 1 a deficiency of £164 10s. sd. 11149._ THE BIRKENHEAD FERRY ACCOUNT' The exact cost to the Corporation of this unfortunarii estalalishment is not so very clearly displayed in the Ye t ' e . accounts just published as we could have wished, ql e id penditure and income of the " Birkenhead estate A u. to e mixed up with it. The apparent excess of exPe nul f e rrf over income of the whole is £2743 is. 4d.; but the to , account, separately from the estate, shows a more for favourable result. The following are the items: of hire of steamers, £2869 9s. 4d. ; for wages to the er e c ,, the steamer Fanny, collectors of toils at ferry' ,c 1; £793 Gs. sd. ; coal for steamer Fanny, £390 6s. 61; " De . dues on• steamer, £ll 17s. :—in all, £4065 19s. 3(1., and duct the tolls received at the ferry, £ll3O 2s. the loss- from working the ferry is £2934 16s. pu e traordinury payments," £2BOl Os. 6d., for pareha' to the repairs of the Fanny, and £4500 paid on account it, builders of the two new boats,—in all, £7301 5 11111 stock to carry or. the unprofitable affair. TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDA SP 's a l. Si R,—Last week I was, amongst others, comfortingmYs elf I should be able to take a business ride in Cheshire, jug an exorbitant price for the accommodation of crossi n ,f o rse, river. I therefore went on the landing stage with my and gig, intending to go in the Woodside steamerat the be n d to fare oils. 6d.; but finding I had to return ta• the pier ne;;be . tt get into the luggage boat, I was turning for the purPosed,,, sto (1 two men from the Birkenhead steamer came to me anti e they were desired to tell me that I should only be chalV n ie same, viz., 15,6 d., if I would go by their boat : to lace rUn" did so, when, after seeing one hawser snapped, and t o°, ' about ten minutes before the steamer could be brougu` n teq landed, and was then refused a passage through the gatell I paid the old fare of three shillings, which I refused to call this sharp practice, and shall not feel again- disposed w into the hands of the Philistines. Yours, Oct. 29th, 1849. A RATEPA withouto.yrte :t. SCOTLAND WARD.—Last night, a public meetingetin, of i nt - friends and supporters of Mr. John Bigham took Plac e 1 0. Liversedges, in Burlington-street. The attendance IT it ir , merous, the large room of the inn being completely filled„'".to Smethurst, the chairman of the committee, was cal tn le u d: t :t e : preside. The business of the meeting being opened, I ‘.i i 'arr, ham addressed the electors. He explained away the to' that had been uttered against him, especially with ref', a ver( transaction in railway shares, and also the chartering 0 d ot° sal. He then recapitulated his general views on the con licit; the Council, as regarded the Pike scheme, and the of places and amount of extravagant expenditure wh ic it res o ' had sanctioned. He was warmly received throughout• lution was unanimously passed in his behalf. fer ir. ST. PETER'S WARD.—A meeting of the friends of Ato nihough was held last night at Mr. Whiteman's, Mr. Bold-street, in the chair. The attendance was stna'",(lP.': Pringle opened the proceedings, after some remarks , 1 . 1 „d he troduced Mr. Fernihough to the meeting, who reiter n ‘i• e rnr, views. In answer to a question from Mr. Callis, 1%!!;.•, CO, houghsaid that the Birkenhead Ferry ought to be let. went on to remark upon the case of the Messrs. Win" - is E ; of Birkenhead Ferry, and other matters, and referr .A ',,;0 1r .. ) , passing remark, to the circumstance that they had in i"" 9 1 0 'e candidates holding the same opinions ; but lie- never wad tt , pier than in the company of the respectable Radicals i jat e ' ward. After the usual motion of approval a t he can' I , the meeting separated. A et1 1 ,, 11 :10 WEST DERBY WARD.—Last night numerous an astic-meeting of the friends °Mr. Arthur Henderson ',; ) 0 11 7 at the Tunnel Hotel, when a resolution was unan'ora' passed as to his fitness to represent the ward, and s 0 se eo o were the proceedings that the return of Mr. Henders° ° o ° ¢ certain. Mr. Tattershall took the chair. Mr. 1 -l er ‘ satisfactorily explained the reasons which- led to .bclla, bed brought forward. He alluded to a number of sultl e oce t ,,te proved his determination in every possible way to t e a to r e 'r Corporation expenditure—to stop the Pike scheme, ,a,n, a s,,„ l the docks.—Mr. H. C. Chapman, in e a very lucid nall'oenr c li pressed his gratification with the proceedings of the r g oi and further explained the equity of rating the docks, O ca t. of they had already a precedent in a recent act of parlisinctors VAUXHALL WARD.—Last night a meeting of the elo ti pon j , Vauxhall Ward, favourable to the election of Mr. 113 , 1 1,r(t a t was held at the house of Mrs. Butterworth, Van;' l a t. The meeting was advertised to take place at eight closeso • when. that hour arrived % there, were but three elector! V eleC l o o From that time "till about nine o'clock a few other rIY, bat dropped in and dropped out again, in , the m o r" oP eri eti certainly not in the most enthusiastic manner, a dot l' ic als t t s. of the evening was there such an attendance as was e1! t i00 ,5 6, to raise hopes of success in the minds. of the rennia'.. J. o f Amongst those present we noticed Alderman CooP,e' e 'orinee Morris, Esq.., Rigge, Esq., F. M'Greggor (late of '1 11 ,; ( 0 George Forrester and Co.), and William Earle, Est' Me, e ell were about fifty or sixty persons present. Mr. J. "joi was called upon to preside, and after a vote of thank s for pr 0 , passed to Mr. Morris, on the motion of Mr. W. Ea r l y. W I , conduct as a councillor, Mr. M'Gregor moved tha t 1110 Dir' bone be brought forward in the place of Mr. Morris seconded by Mr. Pickering, and carried unanimon lleffeet Alderman Cooper then addressed the meeting in a n 1 , manner. dr INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. — On view of the bo ils Of w Liam Davies, aged 32. At midnight, on Sund',”ilit„ ceased was seen very drunk in Tempest - hey. and 0 5 0' a i in Court No. 4in that street. In about four hoa c r ort; l o wards he was found dead in a privy in the sa me 03 0 0 `1, On view of the body of Catherine Kelly, eleven .o tre e j old, who resided with her parents in Banastre,foa" Deceased was placed in bed between them, and dead in the morning. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1849. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED 7%1 I EVERY TUESDAY MOR— t 131 ' By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove stresi',' LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-str ee ,,,fr 0 4 , At No. 4. ST. Goonos's CRESCENT. LlVElV::,tori..,et. 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