The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-09 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE EVERTON WARD RIFLE COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.
Snr,—Would you allow me to suggest that the gen-
tlemen advertising a company in the _Daily Times as
drilling at St. Peter's Schools, Everton, should choose
some other title for their corps, and not one that is.
likely to Thad astray intending volunteers.
In November, 1859, the Everton Artillery and Rifle
Corps were established at a public meeting, held at the
Collegiate Institute, T. D. Anderson, Esq., the ex-Mayor,
and one of the municipal representatives of Everton
Ward, in the chair. J. J. Stitt, Esq., another represen-
tative, was also present, and I think also D. Crosthwaite,
Esq. • or if the latter gentleman was not present at the
meeting, he was a member of the committee formed
thereat, and attended several of its meetings. The
meeting was, in fact, a bona fide Ward meeting; and it
is only a corps formed in connection with that meeting
that has a right to the title of the Everton Ward Corps.
The artillery and rifle corps so formed are still in exis-
tence; they are the 13th Lancashire Artillery, and the
third Company of the 15th Lancashire Rifles. The
latter company, of which I am a member, numbers front
ninety to one hundred men; and, as it is known that
we are going to form a second company owing to the
number of applicants for enrolment, an advertisement
for " The " Everton Ward Company might, as I have
before stated, mislead intending volunteers.
I, therefore,-trust that while the advertised Everton
Ward Company are quite at liberty to raise a company
in our locality, if they can, it is but fair that they should
leave off using our name.—l am, sir, your constant
reader, A MEMBER
Of the Everton Ward Company of the
15th Lancashire Rifles.

P.S.—To prevent confusion, I may state that our
Drilling-place and storehouse is No. 6, Everton-terrace.

A WORD TO CONSERVATIVES.

TO Tilt EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.
think the subject raised by Lord Ingestre's
letter, and the comments of the Telegraph thereupon,
may be turned to practical benefit to the Conservative
cause. I would suggest that the Constitutional Press,
metropolitan and provincial, might do good service by
calling upon Churchmen and Conservatives to support
their own rekigious and political views by buying the
papers which oppose Brightite, Dissenting, and so-called
.4 Liberal" notions, and also advertising in them. The
Conservatives are the real Liberals in this matter, as
they, I think, suicidally persist in reading and pnr-
chasing ministerial prints; but the Whigs, Radicals,
and Dissenters are not guilty of supporting Church and
State newspapers. Nor do I blame them. In this they
are, at any rate, consistent. By buying and advertising-
in Conservative papers, we should effect a double object.
Our -own press would improve, for obvious reasons ;
while that of our opponents must decrease in influence
and ability. Why not also establish more registration
societies, considering what they have already effected,
and subscribe more liberally to those already formed ?
Perhaps my letter to you may be thought worthy of
insertion by other Conservative prints. At any rate, I
shall have done what I think a duty if I can succeed in
directing the attention of abler writers to a matter which
seems to me of importance.—Your obedient servant,
November 5, 1860. A CONSERVATIVE.