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

EASTUANI FERRY.

TO T1IF: EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.
your last publication, in the reporrof a meetin,*
having for its abject the projection of ;.% new road between
Wales and Liverpool, I find the following,
" Mr. Ambrose Lace said that passengers were not able to
get from Eastham 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 hoar and a half.
" Mr. Boyden said he had very often been detained a couple
of hours by hieing five minutes too late for the boat."
I deem it necessary not to. pass this in silence. " Another
gentleman" is most likely a.Bock Ferry proprietor, and, there-
fore; difectly intereisted" in injuring nistham 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 banks; 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 understand his observa-
tiods in no other light,) of the great punctuality observed in
the sailing of the packets from Easthani is somewhat of the
drollest. If the packets were detained past their appointed
titne 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
Eastham is far the safest and most acceptable ferry on the
Alersey, and more particularly so in had weather\—until they
can talk and scheme away this fact, they are likely, as far as
those wko.know anything of Eastham, and are disinterested
a siseargry e sto
boatsco uld Liverpool,
n t 0
parties, go, to have their labour as the only reward for their
pains. M y boats have made
andas man
ify
persons knots, when the h
e l owepr
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 t i give them pub-
licity, I trouble you to give publicity to these observations.
Yours, &e. ItIQUAIID SMITH.
Eastham Ferry, Sept. 22, 1836.
N.B.—ln justice to time, 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.

IMPORTANT DOCCMENTS FOR THE CLERGY.
tri. E Marriage Act—the Registr ion Act—the Act to regu-
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•tite4yrnelarn,nAdpointments to certain ignities and Offices in Ca-
and the Act t'i ilegiate
Churches ml to Sinecure Rectories;
r00k,,,,, ar,,
,__Via,eilitate the C eyance of Sites for School-
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Among ‘..,ei, 1 .
form festival, at Poole. Friday was the day named, but the
Among the Original l',.)er, price, as usual. 2s. 6d.
together wit h the Tithe ars the above Bills are also discussed, plan was abandoned from the stewards' inability to get rid of
United Kingdom—the „ga"ipery—Religidu4 Orders in the lickets.—Derset Chronicle.
Irish Schools—National ltdticat"e to Ecclesiastical Canons— Mrs. Ilvam, who died on the 17th ult., aged 90 years, re-
umbeleru—and the Dark Ages.
*,,,,s The September N ceived, on.tbe• dayrof her marriage, a present of a ham, with a
verbatim, may still be had on a,,,pilecaZtaieinv the . Tithe Bill request thatit should trot be cut until the birth of her first
J. G. and F. Rivington, St. paurs
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Regent-street.
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