The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-07 00:00:00

EAS;I:LIAM PERRY.

TO THE EDITOR of THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.
your last publication, in the report of a meeting
having fur its abject the projection .of a new road between
Wale's and Liverpool, I find the following:_
" Air. Ambrose Lace said that. passengers were not able to
get from Eastliatn to Liverpool more than once in two hours.
" Another gentleman observed that. the boat sometimes
struck on the banks, and he himself had been stuck there for
an hour and a half. _

" Mr. Boydell said he had very often been detained a couple
of hours by being five minutes too late for the boat."
I deem it necessary not to pass this in silence. " Another
gentleman" is most likely a Rock FerrT proprietor, and, there-
fore, directly interested in injuring Lastham Ferry; but if
truth and honesty had been among his qualifications, he would
not have contented himself with the vague assertion, that my
boats "sometimes" strike on the hanks; he would have stated
when, and how often, and under what circumstances. But
such a statement would have done me no injury; and there-
fore it was, I have a right to infer, that "another gentleman"
made his assertions in terms that the public, always timorous
on such matters, would interpret to the disadvantage of East-
ham Ferry.

Mr. Boydell's complaint, (for I can understandunetutity observedli his
n
observa-
tiodsi in no other light,) of the great punctuality the sailing of the packets from Eastham is somewhat of the
drollest. If the packets were detained past their appointed
time for the accommodation of laggers, I should have no little
difficulty in knowing when to despatch them. Unless there is
punctuality in a business such as mine, there can be no Con-
fidence on the part of the public.
The lower ferry people, under the disguise of "another gen-
tleman," and "several gentlemen," may talk and scheme as
they like, but until they can talk and scheme away the fact that
Eastharn is far the safest and most acceptable ferry on the
Mersey, and more particularly so in had weather—until they
can tafk and scheme away this fact, they are likely, as far as
those who know anything of Eastham, and are disinterested
parties, go, to have their labour as the only reward for their
',dins- My boats have made passages to Liverpool, as many
persons know, when the lower ferry boats could not ; and if
"another gentleman" will divest himself of his disguise, and
ask for proof, he shall have it.
if it were not that strangers may be prejudiced by the ma-
licious statements of " another gentleman" I should not have
thus noticed them; and as you were the first to give them pub-
licity, I trouble you to give publicity to these observations.
Yours, Sze. RICHARD SMITH.
East/Lain Ferry, Sept, 22. 1836.
N.B.—ln justice to me, those newspaper proprietors who
have published the report ought to publish this; and I hereby
request them to be so kind as to do so.
R. S.

The liberals have failed in their endeavours to get up a re-
fo-rm festival at Poole. Friday was the day named, but the
was plan
abandoned from the stewards' inability to get rid of
tickets.—Dorset Chronicle.

Mrs. Bram, who died on the 17th ult., aged 90 years, re-
ceived, on the day of her marriage, a present of a ham, with a
request that it should not be cut until the birth of her first
child. The lady newer attained to maternal dignity, and the
ham was kept until the day of the funeral, 64 years, when it was
dressed, and; to the surprise of all present, was perfectly good
ktnd tender.—Chelmsford Chronicle. •