The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

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Of our most esteemed shipowners and timber im-
porters ; and we have ourselves verified the portion
relating to Birkenhead by the Commissioners'
printed table of rates :

Expenses upon a Ship of 700 tons, nevemeasurement, and
upon her cargo of Square Pine Timber, supposed to be
39,000 feet, string measure ; and 45,000 feet, customs
measure, discharged at the Birkenhead Docks, in the
Port of Liverpool : the ship departing in ballast.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL

STANDARD

SIR,—As I find some misunderstanding and consequent
misrepresentation existing, with reference to the part
which I am supposed to have taken in the recent election
for Liverpool, and the fact that 1 was not present to give
my own vote, I request you to do me the favor to publish
this letter.

To the best of my ability, and in accordance with my
conscientious convictions, I give instruction, not on the
eve of an election only, but at all times, in those great
principles of revealed truth, on which, as it appears to
me, every duty—the exercise of the elective franchise in-
cluded—ought to be performed. Those principles do not
fluctuate. They are unchangeable in themselves and in their
eternal sanctions, whatever differences of opinion concern-
ing them, or the application of them ,may arise among men.
They cannot be affected by elections, or by Parliaments, or
by nations. If, for example, all mankind were to declare
themselves in favour of image or creature worship, and
image or creature worshippers ; it would not in the'
slightest degree affect the great eternal truths that such
worship- is idolatry, and that all idolaters shall be cast
into the lake of fire. If all mankind were to declare
themselves in favour of the convenient distinction
between religion in private life, and no religion in
public life, it would not affect the great truth that
whatsoever is not of faith, whatsoever is without religion,
is sin, and that, consequently, all the acts of an assembly
so constituted as to repudiate religion, are sinful acts. If
all mankind, under favour of Divine forbearance, which
does not execute judgment speedily, were to avow their
conviction that no danger is incurred by a nation in eon-

sequence of the irreligious acts of its rulers, it would not
at all affect the unalterable truth, that the nation or king-
dom which refuses to serve God shall perish.
To be distinct and determined in such expositions of
truth, appears to me to be no more than an honest result
of believing the Holy Scriptures to be the word of the
living and true God. But when it comes to the matter
of candidates and canvassing at an election, I do nothing.
I deprecate in a clergyman the excitement of personal
partizanship. I took no part whatever in the late con-
test. I asked no vote for any one. And now, for the sake
of many who professed to be influenced by the principles
which I inculcate, I rejoice to be able to say that so far as
I have been made acquainted with the particulars of the
polling, no man in Liverpool has disappointed me by his
vote.

I did not vote myself, for the simplest of all reasons,
that having neither residence nor any other qualifying
property within the precincts of the borough, I had no
vote.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,
HUGH M`NEILE

Aigburth, 9th August

CUSTOMS REVENUE OF LIVERPOOL

The quarter's revenue of this port, up to the sth July
last, we learn amounted to £785,175, against £944,498,.
the receipts of the corresponding quarter in 1846. The
decrease may be accounted for by the fact that in the
quarter of 1847 we had no corn duties to assist us, the
falling off from this source having been, in the month
of June to July sth, £140,000. The receipts to the sth
current were £234,222, against £254,336 in the same
period in