The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL REVISION.

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calling over of the names, and admitting the parties
named as voters, or rejecting them, as the case might be.
Two wards were gone through. The result of the day
was as follows :

Conservatives Reformers
struck off, struck off.
St. Peter's Ward
Pitt-street Ward
The court will open to-day at one o'clock, beginning
with the revision of Rodney-street Ward list.

ST. ANNE'S WARD. We are extremely glad to find
that, by an arrangement, last night, all the objections
made to the municipal voters—Conservative and Radical
—in this ward have been withdrawn.

EGREMONT FERRY.—On the 23d ult., it having been
publicly stated in a notice posted at Egremont Ferry, that
after the Ist of the present month the boats would run
from Egremont each hour only, and from Liverpool each
half hour only, a number of the subscribers (36 gentlemen
in all) sent a respectful remonstrance to Mr. Sothern the
proprietor, stating that their contract was made under the
stipulation that the boats would run from each place every
half hour as hitherto, and that the intended new arrange-
ment would be a departure from the contract on his part.
They stated that mention was made in the notice that
contracting parties might have a proportionate part of the
subscription returned, but that they were not willing that
it should be cancelled in that manner, as they would have
an additional mile to walk daily in the winter, to avail
themselves of Seacombe Ferry, which many of them who
had to be in Liverpool by a fixed and early hour could
not do ; and they therefore protested against the altera-
tion, and called upon Mr. S. to fulfil his contract. On
the 30th ult. Mr. Sothern replied to this representation
to the effect that he did not agree with the subscribers
that there was any stipulation to run boats every half
hour ; that on the contrary it was unreasonable to
expect that he should do so both winter and summer,
as such a proceeding would be attended with great loss to
himself; that he only undertook to allow the individuals
(paying £2 12s. per annum) a free passage by the boats
whenever they should run, but not to run at a loss to
himself ; and that he had offered the parties a propor-
tionate return of the money, not as a right, which they
Could demand, but to allay the dissatisfaction which some of
them had expressed. Such is the substance of Mr.
Sothern's reply, but the memorialists seem still to think
that the unreasonableness lies solely at his own door.
The boats were advertised to run every half hour from
the respective sides of the river. This is the least that is
done by any of the boats to Seacombe, Woodside,
Monks' Ferry, and Birkenhead. To and from Woodside,
indeed, they run every ten minutes, and the contract
price is much less than to Egremont. The subscribers to
Egremont have no written agreement, but the running of
the boats at every half-hour, and the general practice of
the other ferries implies, the memorialists allege, that the
Egremont boats should ply thus often the whole year.
They also consider that if the notice alluded to be per-
sisted in, the probability is that the
that ferry will be much
less used, and what is still worse, many of those who
have gone to reside in Wallasey parish may be obliged to
relinquish their cantry homes and prospects, to the
floterioration of property in that locality.