The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-07 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MUNICIPALITY.

We have waded through a long article in the Liverpool.
Standard of Tuesday, where that Tory organ plays most
plaintively. After upbraiding the new Corporation for be-
ginning the work of reform and retrenchment, it complains
that the Town Councillors have already, in two short days,
" swamped, lost, and utterly flung away, without excuse,
without a shadow of reason, without any deliberation, with-
out any inquiry into, circumstances, more than the whole sur-
plus revenue cf the town of Liverpool for the next two years."
And how does our Contemporary prove this extraordinary
assertion. Why, by the astounding fact, that the services
of one of the serva.ics of the old corrupt Corporation seem
likely to be dispensed with by the newly created Municipal
body. Mr. Jelin Dean Case, exclims the Standard, if
not dismissed, is already marked for dismissal.
Mr. Thomas Foster, the Town Clerk :—This ever-to-
be-lamented Gentleman, and highly paid functionary, is no
longer Town Clerk ! A Whig lawyer is to be his suc-
cessor—a lawyer, and therefore of necessity, as the
Standard says, " totally unfit for the office, inasmuch
as he must be ignorant of all the intricate forms and
elaborate details" relating to " the management of the
Corporation property, its debts, its claims, its income; and
assets." 'We are then told that the Corporation bonds are
by such doings rendered of little value to the holders, and
that the leaseholders' tenure is particularly precarious.
But the most extraordinary part of the business is to be
found in the discovery that the supercession of the said Mr.
Foster will entail a charge of very nearly 100,0001.! and
which must be paid, or " England is a dishonest and de
graded nation." To 100,0001. at least, the superceded
Town Clerk has a legal claim, that sum being " two-thirds
of all the fees, salary, emoluments, profits, and pecuniary
contingencies of every kind which he may have received for
the five years previous to the sth June, 1835."
Then the Treasurer's compensation will amount to eigl

or ten thousand more ! It is quite plain, continues our
complaining Contemporary, that " the Reformers have, by
their ECONOMY, saddled the town with an unnecessary debt
Of at least 100,000/., if not 120,000/., in forty7eight.hour."
He afterwards adds, " If they go on at this rate, the low&st
average per dices for the next fortnight cannot possibly be
less than 15,0001. For, remember, they are resolved, as
their journals say, to make a clean sweep. And if we take
the clean sweep in the one hand, and the cost, of the sweep
in the other, we shall find that the whole surplus revenue
of the town of Liver Pool, as we have already stated, is
unk, merged, and melted, for the nest two years !"
Hear this, ye men of Liverpool, and proclaim throughout
all the ends of the town that a Daniel bath come amongst
you. The Reformers, in the foolishness of their hearts,
Lave believed a vain thing, imagining that the c)mpensation
of the old Town Clerk might be saved out of the reduced
salary of his successor, and that by cutting down salaries to
the degree of remuneration which is equitable, a saving
would be effected
They are so silly as to tell the burgesses that Mr. Fos-
ter's income was a burden upon the Corporation Fund—
that having 6,0001. or 7,0001. a year, the sum saved would
Le an ample income to the new Town Clerk, and that the
excess upon that income would provide for the pension of
the retiring Town Clerk."
lint this is a miscalculation—a vulgar error—which, it
seems, none but Reformers could entertain. Heaven save
'te Standard!

The bankers were busily engaged yesterday signing.
the Iva(' and warrants for the dividends of their respec-
tive principals, and this day the merchants will sign. The
sum which they will receive will amount to about three
millions, and will be paid at the treasury of the Bank,
by
which regulation the public will not be retarded or incolif.,L
yenienced when receiving their dividends in.theiNiarrant
0.4201 which will amount to abon.t,fivi-sicriAw4 exclusive
, of th 4 Omit 04 to the bankers and meT,o4l.s )
THE regret to state, that rthe.en-
doavour to bola itutMir ille#4os 033 44rlei at the Town
,
110, Glasgow, was a tiniurd.