The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

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The Conservative committee of North Toxteth Ward hav-
ing ascertained that a voter who had polled for the conserva-
tive candidate at the previous election, and who was known
to be " a good man and true," was a patient at the Northern
Hospital, deputed a medical man to ascertain whether he
would be able to vote at the then ensuing election. This
gentleman waited upon the house surgeon, who, in answer to
his question, informed him that " it would do the man no
injury to remove Mm on the 2nd of November;" and as this
was also the opinion of the medical man himself, he accord-
ingly went to the hospital on the day of the election with a
coach for the man, but as the house surgeon was not in, and
the assistant house surgeon did not like to take upon himself
the responsibility of giving the man permission to absent
himself, the " tory doctor" went away; but finding, on his
return to the Park, that the race was almost neck and neck,
be went back again to the hospital, and as the house surgeon
had still not returned, the man consented to go and poll on
condition that he was brought back immediately. He went
with, and was accompanied back again by the medical man
before mentioned, and left at the hospital. He polled from
the coach, and was absent less than an hour.

The next day the committee ordered the poor fellow to be
turned out. This was done accordingly, and he, a widower,
with a family of small children, was at a moment's notice
ejected from a CHARITABLE INSIITUTION, to wander about
the streets with a half-cured broken leg swinging between
a pair of crutches ! As soon as the account of this transac-
tion reached the ears of his friends, he was well cared for,
and immediately received into the Infirmary, where he now
is, and will remain, until he is discharged CURED.
Mr. Bateson says, many or most of the committee were
conservatives ; but I would ask whether the committee had
the matter set before them in such a light as it now appears,
and should have done then? and I need scarcely remind Mr.
B. that certain influential persons connected with the ma-
nagement of the hospital are " liberals" of the first water.
—ln conclusion, I would beg to say that any subscriptions to
the Liverpool Infirmary will be gratefully received by the
treasurer of that valuable, and (especially in the case before
us) truly charitable and useful institution.—l remain, Sir,
your most obedient servant,

ONE OF THE NORTH TOXTETH WARD
COMMITTEE.

Toxteth Park, November 16, 1840

[The writer of the preceding letter is known to us, and we
have felt constrained to give insertion to his reply ; but in
doing so we disclaim all intention of expressing our own
opinion on the merits of the case. We still adhere to the
opinion which we originally gave on the subject—that it
would have been much better for the interests of the charity
to have left the matter alone. Of course, the correspondence
must here close.—E. L. S.]

TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH TOXTETH WARD

GENTLF,NIEN,—As you (by the lamented death of the late
W. W. Currie, Esq.) will be called upon to use your elective
franchise in the choice of his successor, and, as an attempt
will be made to thrust upon you a man who is a Unitarian
and the rejected of Pitt-street ward, I hope you will one and
all put your shoulders to the wheel, and slim the radical
faction that your ward is not so lost to honor as to accept of
their pet candidate, as your representative in the town coun-
cil of the borough shew•s them that you are too strongly at-
tached to the church, for which a Cranmer, a Latimer, and a
Ridley—were burnt at the stake, to choose one who has been
mainly instrumental in placing the corporation schools of
your town in the hands of the bachelor priesthood of the
popish church. Electors !—You have now two candidates
before you, one, a sincere supporter of the protestant church,
the other, a most determined hater of all that you value most
dearly, and who, by his late support of the Protector Society,
has sought to overwhelm your honest votes by the votes of
the lowest grades of the Irish lumpers, &c.
Electors ! the eyes of your townsmen are now upon you :
shew them that you can do your duty, by returning to the
council chamber Alexander Smith, Esq. as your representa-
tive. I am, Gentlemen,

Your well-wisher,
AN ELECTOR OF PITT-STREET WARD

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRIDAY

Two notorious thieves, named Goulding and Young, were
committed to trial under the following circumstances :—Po-
lice officer, 176, stated, that about ten o'clock last night he
was passing along Park-lane, when he heard the cry of stop
thief, and on going up, the two prisoners rushed from the
shop of Mr. Tindal. Mr. Tindal stated that he kept the
shop No. 32, Park-lane ; he was a hair-dresser, and sold
cigars ; about a quarter-past nine last night he locked the
shop-door, and when he left to go to his residence, which
is in another part of the town, about ten o'clock he had
occasion to pass the shop, and he observed in it a light ;
and on examining he found that some one was within ; he
held the door and called for an officer the police came up,
and the prisoners were taken into custody. The cigars were
scattered about the shop, and from six to seven shillings
worth were missing. Upon one of the prisoners a box of
lucifer matches was found, and a skeleton key on the flags
near the door.

CHARGE AGAINST A POLICE-OFFICER,

A gentleman, whose name did not transpire, appeared to
prefer a complainst against police-officer Reeves, No. 432.
The complainant stated, that on Sunday last he was passing
through Clarence Dock gate, with a carpet bag in his hand.
The officer accosted him, and after using much approbrious
language, and asking many impertinent questions,—as to
who and what he was, where he belonged to, where he was
going, was the bag his property, and what it contained,—
insisted upon examining the contents of the bag, and locked
complainant up in his box while he fetched a custom-house
officer. In about five minutes he returned with a man whom
he called Healey, and they commenced to search the bagl;
and after throwing the contents about in no very ceremonious
manner they allowed him to depart ; but he had not proceeded
far before he was again accosted by the officer, and again
locked up in his " box," where he remained for upwards of
half an hour until the inspector arrived, when he was libe-
rated. Reeves, upon being remonstrated with by complainant
on his unwarrantable and ruffianly conduct, made use of ex-
ceedingly insulting language, and called complainant a b y
smuggler. Reeves, in his defence, said that lie had detained
complainant because he refused to give an account of him-
self. Mr. Rushton, after severely reprimanding the officer,
and observing that he had no business whatever to have in-
terfered with the complainant, unless he had some grounds
for suspicion, ordered that he (the officer) should be sus-
pended.