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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-10 00:00:00

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TO THE MEMBERS of THE LIVERPOOL UNITED
FRIENDLY BURIAL SOI'IETY, COMMONLY
CALLED THE "ROYAL OAK."

the Committee of Management of the
y above Society, see, with feelings of the deepest
regret, a letter in last Saturday's Liverpool Herald, signed by John
Ellis, a recently appointed Collector to No. 9 Book, impugning the
motives and interfering with the private opinions of 50,000 members
of this society. The Committee deem it their duty, when an officer
of this society puts his own opinions before the public, in print, to
say whether their ser.timents agree with that officer or not. Now,
we beg to state that wi! entirely and emphatically disagree with the
tone, language. and sent:ments of that letter ; and we protest
against nor thing of a sectarian nature being introduced into this
society. The committee had fondly hoped that they were on the eve
of clos'ng up the agitation which had convulsed the society for the
last twelve months, when this indiscreet and silly letter appeared t
mar theirlong wished far object; but we sincerely trust the mem-
bers will look upon thatletter more In the light of a private squabble
than anything agreeing in sentiment or feeling with the managing
bo ty of ihUs sociiry.
We also give notice to members, that no collector has any right to
interfere with or to collect moneys from any other collector's mern-
be.s, it having been an understood rule, since the formation of this
society that no collector was, in any shape or form, to interfere with
any other collector's members, without the ssnction of the com-
mittee. JOHN M'FARLANE, Chairman.

COMMITTEE.
PAUL CULLEN, THOS. GREEN N 00D.
BENJ. RORER FS, CHARLES JAS. BROOM,
WM. MUAGE, JOHN H. STANLEY,
JOHN HERON. JOHN MARSH,
JOHN HARRY, JOHN PINNINGTON.

Eije Aeon MEI

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

A. Privy Council was held at Windsor Castle on
Saturday, but the part of Hamlet had to be omitted
from the play. The Premier had been unwell with
gout,- and was unable to attend; but afterwards
the members of the Cabinet met the Premier at THE Pikeists have virtually shelved the
his own residence. So we learn that it was not by Memorial of the Ratepayers ! This they, no
a secret " treaty" that France guaranteed to Austria
her Italian possessions, but by some other kind of doubt, consider a triumph; but it is little more
document. Therefore, Mr Disraeli was wrong than a dying effort of corporate licentiousness—
when lie said so, and I ord Palmerston was a base betrayal of a public trust. The Memorial
right when he flatly denied the existence of any
'such treaty. But then there in' a mita, anal the Inv was replete with moth:ration, and durerence ror
is that Mr. Disraeli made use of the wrong word. the body to which it was addressed. It asked
A. sort of round robin has been in circulation, for nothing which was visionary or impracticable;
'during the last few days, the purport of which is
to warn Lord Derby against any resumption of yet it was contemptuously received and insult-
intimate relations with Mr. Gladstone and Sir ingly rejected ! All this will not surprise the
J tmes Graham ; and the sagacious signitaries to Ratepayers. They know too well the character
,this document hope to give weight to their remon-
strance by vehement iteration of the menace. of the majority of the Liverpool Corporation.
In reference to the elections, we learn that the Jobbers in million after million schemes are not
Right Hon. William Cowper was returned for
Hertford yesterday morning, unopposed. At made of the metal that silences the ring of the
Sontharupton, the nomination took place yester- anvil. Fire may purify, but it will never soften
day, when, the candidates having been duly them. They must be brought before a tribunal
proposed, and having respectively addressed the
electors, a show of hands was taken, and it was more conventionally powerful than the body to
declared to be in'favour of Andrews. A poll was which they belong, and made to bow to law and
demanded on behalf of Butler and Weguelin, and make their obeisance to justice. They will kill,
the voting will take place this day. The excite-
ment in the town is great. Many tradesmen talk of if water poisoning can do it, rather than abandon
closing their shops, and numbers of persons are a job of the most hateful type. The gentlemen
expected from the neighbouring towns to witness who supported the prayer of the Memorialists
the polling. The immense number of unpledged
voters renders it most difficult to conjecture which must not, however, despair. A public duty,
Of the candidates, Andrews, Butler, or Weguelin, so onerous as that which they undertook volun-
'will. win. Mr. Andrews has issued an address,
tarily, cannot be discharged, in the face of a
urging 'on his friends and supporters to attend
early at the poll. He says, "As I stated at the out lawless combination of corruptionists, without
"set, if you will 'do your duty, I will do mine, at what- delays and difficulties ; and we only regret that
Bier' sacrifice:' The nomination had also taken
place' at Greenwich, where Sir W. Co'lrington, on men of honour and decorum should have been
coming forward, Was received with a volley called upon to associate their names, even in
of hisses and yells, which] seemed completely debater with those of men whose acts must
to overpower him. He attempted to speak, but
pot a syllable could be heard. At length, henceforth be branded with the most unenviable
while there was a momentary lull, he said initials.
his political principles were before the electors in
The men who would take from so large a
Published addresses, and he must leave -
hi. -- their hands. Colonel Sleigh next spoke. population as that of Liverpool a supply of
himself in . ',I favour of an abolition of the wholesome water—food, and run the risk—be it
He said he was .-
ed franchise, an equal.
Income Tax, a more extet:.4..
n. of the system ever so remote—of giving them a most dilite-
isation. of taxation, and the aboitt;,"
of purchase of commissions in the army. The rious, if not actually poisonous, liquid in its
Returning Officer took a show of hands, at.. 4 stead, must be so constituted as to disqualify
will a poll having been demanded, the election
declared it to be in favour of Colonel Sleigh ; andll
them for the society of their straightforward and
take place this day.
high-minded fellow-townsmen, The majority
Our foreign intelligence of this day is again of who voted for the cushoning of the Ratepayers'
rather meagre character. Despatches from Con•
memorial may think this exceedingly uncouth
stantinople represent the project for a union of the
Principalities into one State as in a very favourable and harsh language, but we submit it to the
position. The Porte seems to have relinquished
candid criticism of the public, and leave the pro-
its opposition, and it is said to be known that the
Divans of both Principalities will vote in favour of fessional jobber and his hirelings and hacks to
the union. A native Prince, not a foreign one, is the vengeance of that conscience which some-
all that Turkey will insist upon. The Porte has also
granted permission to all Rouman exiles to return. times makes the most stubborn quail. Liverpool
It is announced from Teheran that the brother of is in imminent danger of tieing poisoned by being
the Khan of Khiva has offered his assistance to deluged with rotten water, And we charge the
the Persians. Symptoms have been visible for -
some time that the Asiatic world of States feels Water Committee and their closely-leagued band
the necessity of united resistance against European of supporters, in the name of the Ratepayers,
dictation. Numerous Affghan tribes, too, have of
late transferred their sympathies from Dost with being fully aware of the fact that their
Mohammed, who does the bidding of the water is wholly unfit to enter the human
foreign invaders at Calcutta, to the Shah
who resists them. From St. Petersburg
Shah, stomach, and let nothing be suffered to drive
we learn that the question of the evacuation of the from the recollection of the inhabitants the day
interior waters of Turkey, and the admission of. on which this charge is publicly made, and the
f reign consuls at the Russian Black Sea ports names of the Committee and Councilmen who
have been settled between the Russian Govern- have taken an active part in yesterday's ment and our embassy there. The intended journey
pro-
westward of the Emperor Alexander is, according ceedings. There will be an election in November
to a .German newspaper, to extend to Paris, where a
personal exchange of opinion between themeeting next. In the meantime a Town's
should
be convened, an a subscription list opened to
Russian and the French monarchs on the and
state of Naples is to take Tineplh municipal raise a sufficient sum to obtain an injunction to
e;ections at Madrid have turnedace.
favour of
the Conservatives, and at present the aspect stop the supply of Rivington water to the town
i until the actual quality of the drainage trash
has been reported upon by a board of competent
or committee, should be
of affairs are of a tranquil 7 mature. A private letter
from Athens informs us that the protecting Powers
had made certain propositions to King Otho
chemists. This board,
relative to his finances. and which had been
accepted by his Majesty ; that the Powers further composed of professional gentlemen, to represent
require that the King should change his Ministers the Corporation and Ratepayers in e
and appoint others more disposed towards the
numbers. q ual
Western Governments, and that the King had con. ,
sented to that arrangement, but on condition that '' The inhabitants of Liverpool have no faith in

Mr. HAWKSLEY or Dr. TAYLOR. They may be
very clever men, but we would not give one
straw for all they have to say, either in regard to
the quantity or quality of the water the Corpora-
tion say we shall drink. The course the Rate-
payers ought to pursue is, therefore, quite obvi-
ous. The Committee state that the cost of
laying down another set of pipes, as the Inhabi-
tants desire, would be 200,0001., and, no doubt,
it would be in the hands of jobbers ; but let
them look to the cost of supplying Nottingham
with water ! That town was taken as the stan-
dard by the Sanitary Commission, and we would
recommend the Pikeists to look a little into the
Parliamentary blue books before they make asser-
tions which those volumes prove to be groundless.
It would cost 50,000/. in the hands of more
moderate men than we have on the Water Com-
mittee to supply the Pike water to the town for
the three purposes to which it ought to be
applied—namely, extinguishing fires, washing
the streets, and manufactures. It need not he
carried into every court, lane, and alley within
the Borough ; and to relieve our wells of this
very large portion of the present demand would
be worth an extra 50,000/. now that the job has
been carried so far. But, then, the Water Com-
mittee say the pumping engines are all broken
down, and they cannot continue the supply from
the wells. If this be the case, what will the
Burgesses think Was there ever a transaction
of such a frightful character brought to light in
any part of the world ? It is really monstrous ;
and the public must forthwith decide what
ought to be done. Referring the Memorial to
the Water Committee is all moonshine, and
must be treated with the contempt it deserves.