The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
shall feel obliged by your giving publicity to the
following correspondence.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
SAMUEL HOLME.

Holmestead, 25th October, 1849.
REV. AND DEAR SIR,—I am sorry I was not in when you
called a day or two ago. I understand that you have promised
your vote to Mr. Jones, and when it was communicated to me,
I confess that I felt GRIEVED, because I feared that you might
have withdrawn your confidence from me. I was not, how-
ever, aware of any act or expression of mine that could have
given you ground for such withdrawal, as my sole desire has
ever been to use all my influence for the general good.
On the subject of water.—l am made painfully sensible of the
state of thousands of our labouring classes, and have long
been striving to introduce every measure that can ameliorate
their physical as well as moral condition.
I have had to bear up against much prejudice, great obloquy,
and indeed severe abuse; and I am pertectly content to bear
it, in the full conviction that I am in the path of duty, and that,
when the prejudice has worn away from the public mind, I
shall have full justice done both to my acts and motives.
At the same time, I will be candid enough to inform you, that
anise of those who are opposing me have made much of your
promise, and I understand that it will he the means of depriv-
ing me of the support of several others.
My object in writing is simply to request that you will fulfil
the promise which you have made, whatever may be the conse-
quences to me, for I fear that if you do not do so (whatever
may be your feelings at present) it may be made a pretext for
attacks upon you which might not be pleasing, and may be
transferred from you to that church of which you are so zealous
a minister.
Of ail the votes with which I may be favoured, I value none
so much as those of the clergy of that church of a hick I am a
member, and whose principles I have for so many years had
the privilege of advocating ; and I shall endeavour to think that
your promise was hastily made, and that your recorded vote
against me will not deprive me of your friendship and esteem.
—Believe me to be, reverend and dear Sir, your very faithful
servant, UEL HOLM E.
Rev. W. Pollock.

51, Rodney-street, Oct. 25.
MY DEAR SIR.—I have to thank you very much for your
kind and generous letter. It has iniieed pained me exceedingly
to find myself occupying' a pesitiin of seeming hostility to you.
But I trust you have already heard how inadvertently I placed
myself in it. It was without the remotest idea that you were
the opposing Candidate that I promised to vote for Mr. Jones.
Your address had not then appeared, and so i4-norant was I of
Thafterf, municipal, that I did not so 11:11C11 as know you to be
One of the Members for this Ward. Had I been better informed
nothing would have induced tne to pledge myself against you ;
for however I may have the niisfortnne to iiiffer from von on
the Water question, as far as I understand the merits Of the
case, I have always entertah ed the very liigliest respect for dour
motive, and character, and felt it a privilege and a happin.ss
to reckon you anumgriiy friends. It has accordingly pai,,,d
rue not a little to see you the object of so much public animad-
version, and I should have been the last person to have know-
ingly arrayed myself against yon.
I have applied to Mr. Jones's Committee for permission to
withdraw, conditionally at least, front my engagement; and I
have reason to believe that I shall be whtilly set free. I much
wish that the whole event were as though it had never been.
With sincere e►teem and regard,
I am, my dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully.
WM. POL LOCK.
Samuel Holme, F.sq.

Holmestead, 29th October, 1849.
REV. AND PEAR Stn,—Finding, from conversation with
various persons, that much misapprehension exists as to your
voting against me, and seeing in the Journal, of Saturday, a
remark to the effect that you had been canvassed by Dr.
IWNeile on my behalf, I should feel obliged, by your per-
mission, to publish the letters which we exchanged, as it
would have the effect of setting all parties right, and particu-
larly you and myself; anti, if you have no objections, may I
trouble you for my letter, as I have no copy of it. considering
it at the time a mere private note to a friend.—l am, reverend
and dear Sir, yours faithfully and respectfully,
Rev. W. Pollock. SAMUEL HOLME.

51, Rodney-street, Oct. 29th, 1849.
My DEA it SIR,—You are perfectly at liberty to publish the
letters which have passed between us, although mine was
written, like yours, without the least idea of its future
publication.
1 lays not seen the paragraph in the Journal; but it is quite

untrue that I,waa canvassed by Dr. *Nude fur lir. Ilolm♦
The simple facts are that, at a public breakfast, Dr. BI‘N elle in-
cidentally alluded, when ►n conversation with me, to the unfor-
tunate mistake I had committed in ignorantly pledging myself
against you. I was, at the moment, about to have introduced
the subject myself, and he afterwards offered to give me, should
I desire it, an introduction to Mr. Jones, that 1 might explain
the matter to him. Ile did not attempt to exercise the
slightest influence over me. Should you decide on publishing
our former letters, I should like this statement to appear also.
Before I conclude, it is right to say that my error is wholly
to be attributed to my own precipitancy. I am sure that the
gentleman to whom I promised my vote is above all conceal-
ments, and supposed me to be in possession of ail the circum-
stances of the contest.
Believe me,

Samuel Holme, Esq

My dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully,
WM. POLLOCK.

DOCK RATING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—Being an advocate for a modified rating of the
Dock Estate, and as the question appears to be taken up
more as a party cry than on its own merits, in order to
influence the municipal elections, I venture to present it
to the electors in what I conceive to be its true light.
As your space is valushle I will be very bref. In the
51st George 111., passed in 1811, the principle of provid-
ing for worn-out or superannuated servants is distinctly re-
cognised, by aprropriating two-thirds of the penalties in-
flicted for offences under the Dock Act as a fund for this
purpose ; and stipulating that in the event of the sum not
amounting to a certain amount, then that amount was to
be taken out of the dock rates. This clause, sir, I sub-
mit, clearly recognises the principle that the dock estate
should be chargeable, and not the parish, with the main-
tenance of the worn-out servants, or the widows of those
who might lose their lives in the service of the Dock
Trustees. The Municipal Reform Act, passed in the
reign of William IV., diverted the penalties to the
Borough Fund for the maintenance of felons committed
under the Dock Acts, depriving the servants of the Dock
Trust of their retiring fund, but still recognising the prin-
ciple of payment of expenses to the Borough Gaol.
In an act passed, I think, in the 4th and sth Vic.,
power is granted to the Dock Trustees to take £lOOO per
annum for charitable purposes. out of the rates; and, in
a late act, further power to grant pensions to the officers
of the Trust, to be secured by Dock Bonds.
Now, sir, as I believe it will be admitted that, whatever
may be the beneficial advantage offered to the general com-
merce of the country, the inhabitants of Liverpool experi-
ence certain prejudicial effects, and in none more than the
increaseofcri me, rendering it necessary to pro% idea large gaol
at the cost of the borough ; and if, as I believe, the docks
cause half, if not more than half, the cri me committed, I again
submit that. the Dock Estate should contribute, pro rata,
to the erection of the new gaol, and to the maintenance
of the same ; and such a contribution would, I should
hope, induce all parties to look the present difficulties
fairly in the face, as regards the position of the Corpora-
tion and the Pike water scheme, with a view to an honour-
able settlement.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY C. CEIAPMAN.
Liverpool, Oct. 31st, 1849.

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