The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

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The proceedings of the Dock Committee, on
Thursday last, notice the reception of a deputation
of owners of property on the Bootle shore, detailing
the serious loss which they are sustaining from the
non-completion of the north dock works, and

g to learn at what period skive operations
.ly to recommence. It does appear, to most

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people, that the Committee might have abstained
from running their outer walling as far as the
Landmarks—thus destroying the shore, for the en-
joyment of which most of the Bootle villas and
houses were built—when they were not in a position
to complete the works for a third of the distance.
From the reply given to the enquiries of the depu-
tation, that " the works would be commenced so
soon as the increased trade of the port required
them," it appears quite possible that a portion of
the property on the shore may be in its present
worthless state for many years to come.

The Radical party are making the welkin ring"
with complaints of the cruelty of the Constitutional
Office, in objecting, as they assert, indiscriminately
to the names or Voters at present on the borough
and county Registers. It is hard, they say, to drag
merchants and shopkeepers from their businesses
to answer " frivolous objections ;" and besides
loading them with all sorts of foul-mouthed abuse,
they threaten the officials with severe retribution
in the shape of costs to he inflicted by the Barris•
ters. They are called " fellows,

hirelings,

other such scurrilous epithets. But has it neyer
occurred to the gentlemen, who use this language,
that their own party set the example of the con-
duct, which they falsely attribute to others ; and
that in this very year they are objecting, indiscri-
minately, to a much larger number of persons
than the Constitutional Office have objected to al-
together ? The most flagitious part of their con-
duct is the fact that the parties chiefly selected by
them for this sort of annoyance are the poorer class
of Voters, who can the worst afford the loss of a
day's work in defending their franchise. Last year
they struck off 700 of the freemen, who had not
attended for this purpose. This year, out of 552
objections lodged at the Town hall against freemen,
49S emanate from the Radical party, and only 64
from the Conservatives. Their objections against
householders double those of their opponents.
With respect to county objections, we are not
aware of the precise proportions. We believe, how-
ever, we may congratulate our readers that the
number of Conservative objections has been large ;
and that the result will be, to sweep off the register
a host of those faggot voters, whose names were
foisted upon it during the high and palmy days of
the Anti-Corn-Law League agitation.
Whilst upon this subject, we may remark upon
the complaints which have come to our ears, that
many Conservatives have received notices of objec-
tion from their own party. '!'hey are in so much
the better hands. In no case has such an objection
been served upon a Conservative, unless there was
some informality in his description upon the regis-
ter ; and lie has only to call at the Constitutional
Office, and he will be placed right without any fur-
ther trouble in attending before the Barrister.
Some gossip has been going on, especially in
the columns of the Radical press, as to the question
" who is to be the Mayor of Liverpool next year."
It appears that at the receut annual surveying ex-
cursion of the Dock Committee and the Council,
the question was mooted amongst the gentlemen on
board the steam-boat. Nothing was more natural
than that it should have been. The Radical party and
many Conservatives complain that the name of Mr.
EDWARD MOLYNEUX should come most pro-
minently upon the carpet, or rather the deck, whilst
that of Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, who is known to

aspire to the honor, was thrown into the shade.
The latter, it is contended, has a claim upon his
party, having last year made way for the present
Mayor. The friends of Mr. MOLYNEUX reply that
he possesses a prior claim, having made way for Sir
JOHN BENT. Out of these conflicting claims, the
Radicals anticipate a splitting up of the harmony
which has of late united the entire Conservative
party. We have no doubt that they will be de-
prived of the enjoyment which they contemplate ;
and may here remind them that there are more
than two months left for the Council and their
friends to decide upon the respective claims of the
two gentlemen referred to. People, moreover, who
are fond of discovering mare's nests, often find
nothing in them.
A most important correspondence, between Mr.
DANIEL WEBSTER and the Peruvian Minister,
was received on Sunday by the American steam-
ship Africa, which places in a clear light the
grounds on which the Government of the United
States deny the right of Peru to a monopoly of the
guano on the Lobos Islands. Mr. WEBSTER de-
scribes the Islands as lying in the open Pacific
Ocean, thirty miles distant from the coast of Peru,
and being " mere barren rocks" of the sea, uninha-
bited and uninhabitable. Fishing, and the pur-
suit of seals, had long been carried on around
them, and even on the shores themselves, by the
Americans, without any attempt on the part of the
Peruvian Government to claim absolute sovereignty
over them. In 1332, Captain MORRELL, an Ame-
rican, in an account of a voyage of discovery which
he had just completed, for the first time stated that
guano was to he found upon them ; and it was not
until the year following that the Peruvian Govern-
ment published a decree prohibiting fishing for
seals and other amphibious animals on its coasts
and islands. A. remonstrance was made by the
American Government against such decree; but, to
the best of Mr. WEBSTER'S knowledge, no reply
was received ; and the fishermen of the United
States pursued their occupations on the island with-
out interruption, until lately, when the great value
of guano had become known. Mr. WEBSTER

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" The Government of the United States, however, is
prepared to give due consideration to all facts tending to CURE FOR STAMMERING.—At a meeting of the Boston
show possession or occupancy of the Lobos Islands by Natural History Society, Dr. Warren alluded to a simple,
Peru, and is not inclined to stop or preclude discussion easy, and what he describes as an effectual cure for stam-
until the whole matter shall be thoroughly investigated.mering, which ho alleges is generally a mental end not a
If there are any facts or arguments which have not been Physical defect. His recommendation has this important
brought to its consideration, they shall receive the roost advantage, that it is easily tested. It is simply, at every
respectful and friendly consideration. If it shall turn syllable pronounced, to tap at the same time with the
out that, as has been intimated above, those islands are finger. By so doiag the most inveterate stammerer will
uninhabited and uninhabitable, and, therefore, incapable he surprised to find he can pronounce quite fluently, and,
of being legally possessed or held by any one nation, they by long and constant practice, he will pronounce perfectly
and their contents must be considered as the common well. This may be explained in two ways, either by a
property of all. Or, if unprotected by the presence of Sympathetic consentaneous action of the nerves of
their twali:misotion in the finger and in those of the tongue,
volun-
Peruvian authorities, and without actual possession,
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attention
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fthat the
individualm ove
use has been by Peru abandoned or conceded, without li- n
mitation of time, to citizens of the United States for a
from his speech, and allows a free action of the nervei
long period, or yielded in consequence of the remonstrance
concerned in articulation,---Hogg 's Instructor,
of this Government or its agents, then no exclusive ow'