The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

ACCOUNTANTS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
-In a report lately published by the authority of Par-
liament, a country Barrister, in answering a string of ques-
tions, describes an accountant in the following unmeasured
terms :—" There are in a class of persons calling
themselves accountants, who get into every bankrupt estate
and charge most exorbitantly." The purport of this illiberal
remark is quite clear, but I don't think accountants will have
much to fear from it, seeing the quarter it comes from, and
particularly as no other commissioner who has been called
upon to answer the same questions has travelled out of his
way to make the same remark.

f dare say this fee-hating witness would not like to have
an opinion concerning himself expressed by the accountants
of whom he is speaking.
As your paper has a wide circulation, and is found in many
distant towns, I hope this will meet the eye of the parties
concerned.—Yours, CENSORIOUS.

TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL

GENTLEMEN,—If you wish to be successful in the struggle
which is to take place on the 2d of November, let no trifling
difference deter you from giving your votes in favour of the
candidates chosen by your own party ; do not allow any per-
sonal dislike to a certain candidate prevent you from'voting ;
if you do, you give your opponents a chance of beating you,
and then they will exultingly taunt you with their success.
I hope the disgraceful proceedings in the revising courts,
and the attempt of the Protector Society to swamp your
honest votes with those of the lowest grade of Irish pig-
drivers, &c., will act as a stimulant to your exertions. Let
the electors of Pitt-street and Lime-street wards particularly
exert themselves, and rid the council-chamber of those two
men who were the chief instruments in adopting the popish
system of education in the corporation schools. In the
words of the Duke, I can only say " up lads and at them !"
Let your cry be " Toulmin and Kilshaw for ever !" and may
success attend your exertions, is the wish of one of yourselves,
Liverpool. 23d Oct., 1840. A BURGESS.

MUNICIPAL

ELECTION

FOR 1840.

RIGHT OF VOTING

The following letter has been addressed by the Town-clerk
to the Solicitors concerned on both sides in the election. It
will be seen to bear directly upon the rights of burgesses hav-
ing two or more qualifications in several wards :
Town-hall, 29th October, 18,39.
Dear Sirs,—l have been this morning favoured with a copy
of an opinion of Sir Frederick Pollock, given yesterday, in
London, on the rights at the ensuing municipal election of
a burgess who had distinct qualifications in two or more
wards, but at the election of November, 1839, had exercised
their privilege of selection by voting in one of the wards.
The opinion of Sir Frederick confirms the view which I
submitted to the meeting of Solicitors on, both sides, and
which met with their approbation ; and according to which
I subsequently advised the Aldermen and Assessors, viz.—
that every such burgess will, on the second of November
next, be concluded by his selection in November, 1839.
Subjoined is a copy of the opinion.
I am, dear Sir, yours frilly,
RD. RADCLIFFE.

John Pennington, Esq.,
J. G. Snowball, Esq.

OPINION

I.—l am of opinion that under the circumstances above
stated, " the Roll of 1839 is to continue to be the Burgess
Roll;" (is " to continue in force" is the expression of the
act.) " A new Burgess Roll has not been duly made."
Neglect or informality somewhere must have existed or the
Roll would have been duly made; and clearly either the lists
were negligently and informally made out, or the objections
were so, or both
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4.—1 am clearly of opinion that a duplicate voter cannot
claim to vote in any other ward than the one he voted in in
1839.