The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

only next door but two to the reformers' committee-room,
and within a few yards from one extreme part of the ward.
Here is reform, here you have justice and liberality, ye
people, the very quintessence of it, but if any person would
assert it to be such, in its true literal meaning, I would un-
hesitatingly assert it to be a measureless falsehood.
Reform, indeed! why it would be scarcely possible that
there could he a greater burlesque, or a word more burked
or gibbetted. Oh, if the tories had been guilty of such base
transactions ! all Pownall-square, (the sink of radicalism)
and hell itself would have gaped together, nay, the very
stones would have left their resting places with maddening
revenge ! Yet, we " poor tory wretches" have had to put
up with it like dumb dogs.
But, I trust, the time is not far distant, when we shall be
able to exterminate these reforming radicals for ever, at least,
in this ward. Leaving these honourable representatives of
the people to digest these subjects at their earliest conveni-
ence, and reconcile them to reform and their consciences. I

would respectfully, but 'earnestly appeal to the conservative
duplicate voters of the ward to lead us on to that victory
which awaits us—we are in their hands—and who will doubt,
but that they will discharge a moral duty they owe to the
town, to society, to themselves, their families, and posterity,
as becomes men who are determined to burst the bonds of a
tyrant, and radical faction.—Yours, truly,

A DICKEY SAM.

THE NEW LICENSES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In reading over your valuable paper of this day, I
am happy to see that you have taken the licensing system up.
I am convinced that some have been granted to individuals,
and in situations, where there were none wanting, and to the
great injury of tradesmen, who have paid large sums of mo-
ney for their licenses. There is one case in particular that I
wish you to notice. Perhaps you are not aware that the
magistrates have given a new license to one of the Corpora-
tion servants. I will just describe the situation, and then
you will be able to judge how sonic of them have been dis-
posed of. When I heard that this man had got a license, I
took the liberty to survey the neighbourhood where he lives,
and to my surprise I only found four houses in the street,
with stabling belonging to the houses on the south side of
-- square. I turned the corner of the street, which is
about 40 yards long, and saw a public-house within a stone's
throw. 1 ani quite at a loss to know what occasion there was
for a new license in this obscure place. Perhaps one of the
worthy councillors of the ward will be able to throw some
light on the subject, as I hear that this seine man lived as a
servant with him. 1 hope the councillor will give him a
hint to resign his situation. If he does not, I hope our worthy
mayor will. Formerly, when any corporate servant thought
of embarking in the public line, he was compelled to resign
his situation immediately, though perhaps he was about to
pay from 200 to £3OO for his license. But this man seems
to think they cannot compel him to resign. I hope if he is
allowed to retain his place, that some independent member
of the council will bring this matter before the next monthly
meeting. I am, Mr. Editor, your's, &e.
A CONSTANT READER.

RAILWAY TIMES AND THE GREAT WESTERN

RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,INDARD,

Sta,—l am greatly interested in the progress of railways,
and particularly in the Great Western line, which bas been
so roughly handled and condemned by the Railway Times—
a paper professing to be edited in an impartial spirit, and
originally introduced for the purpose of giving every legiti-
mate support to the railway system. It has been the practice
of this paper to write with specious ability against the en-
gineer, the directors, and the principle upon which the Great
Western Railway is constructed; and whilst it gives publicity
to every article to its prejudice, written principally to serve
stock-jobbing purposes, it has studiously avoided and sup-
pressed every communication favourable to the line. The
editor has, accordingly, been gravely charged with being
influenced by unworthy motives, either as a speculator or a
paid agent; and by a reference to the last number of that
paper, it would appear, that there is much truth in the ac-
cusation. It will be seen that there is, for the first time, an
advertisement of the Great Western Railway Company, and,
for the first time, there is not a single word said against the
railway, though we-have been promised for weeks past, some
further exposure of its demerits. This, Sir, speaks volumes
for the animus of the writer, and shows how unfairly the
public may be misled, and brought to sacrifice their property.
I am happy to say, (although I am not insensible of the
errors that have been committed in the construction of the
Great Western Railway,) that I have not been one of the
alarmed, for 1 have ever been sanguine that it has merits to
carry it over all difficulties, and place it among the best rail-
way property in the kingdom • but I know many of our
townsmen who, not having troubled themselves to detect the
illogical deductions of the writer in the Railway Times, or
who have not been to view and judge for themselves of the
merits of the line, have been induced to sell out at a ruinous
sacrifice •, and it is to prevent the further spread of this in-
fluence that I offer these remarks, which by your insertion
may serve the public and will oblige—Yours,
September 24th, 1838,

SCRUTATOR.

THE AIKINITES AGAIN

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.,IND,IRD.
Sin,-Knowing you to be a friend of true religion, I may
naturally infer you are opposed to hypocrisy, in whatever
shape it appears. An assumption of godliness—the outer
cloak of sanctity, often covers a heart of uncharitableness.
I beg leave to call your attention to the following instance of
Methodistical sanctimoniousness. On Sunday ovening last
I went with a friend, for the purpose of hearing the Rev. Mr.
Atkin, in his chapel, in Hope-street: but upon finding it
was the Mr. Bromley who occupied the pulpit, we were pre-
paring to leave the chapel in as quiet a manner as possible
(having sat at the door) : but the officious piety of an indi-
vidual in the congregation prevented our carrying our design
into execution. He jumped from his seat, and closing the
door, demanded, in a most impertinent tone, what we meant
by daring to leave the chapel in the middle of such an excel-
lent discourse? (The excellence was a matter of opinion.)
Now, Sir, I had always imagined that so as the congregation
wavot disturbed, an individual had the right of leaving any
place of worship. But it appears that the liberality of a mo-
dern Methodist will not allow a person to leave a chapel
when he hears what, in his ignorance, he considers a piece
of rhodomontade and fustian.—Your's, &c.
A LOVER OF TRUE RELIGION.