The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE,

Mr. PARKRR wished to be allowed to correct what appeared
to be an error in these accounts; the Paul-street Baths appeared
to be minus £162, but it should be remarked that .elOO voted
for painting had never been applied, and that .430,000 children
had been allowed to bathe gratuitously—each being provided
with a clean towel ; if the wrshing of these and other items
were taken into account, it would be found that the, balance
in favour of the baths would be ."19.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE thought it should be remembered
that they paid nothing for their water.
Mr. JOHNSON objected that the tenders for buildtng the
baths in Cornwallis-street had not been publicly-advertised for.
Mr. PARKER was of opinion that advertising :in this case
would have been attended with great evils, as parties unable to
find thenecessary plant would have been induced to accept the
contract, and after giving much trouble would have been com-
pelled to give it up : he cited instances in which this had oc-
curred, and in this view lie was supported by Mr. Nicol and
Mr. Bennet. He said the mode adopted by the committee was
to make it known to all the extensive buildeis in the town—
men who were capable of carrytng out such a contract.
Mr. BucxwiTo and Mr. THOMSON were both in favour of
open contracts.

Mr. MANN took the same view as regarded the present case,
as it was a specific job, the cost of which might readily have
been calculat,d by any person in the trade ; though he agreed
that there were cases where to advertise for tenders might be
una,lvisable.

Mr. WALTHEW asked Mr. Driffield to read the resolution
passed on the 2nd August, relative to the erection of the
Cornwallis-street baths, and upon this being done, it was
fonnd that unlimited publicity was ordmed, consequently Mr.
Johnson's amenument could not stand, and the proceedings
were confirmed.

Before the present "extraordinary" edition of the
STANDARD reaches the hands of many of our readers, the
" tug of war 7 will have commenced in the various dis-
tricts of the town, the result of which is felt by every one
to be of surpassing importance to the future well being of
this growing community, no less in a moral than in a
sanatory and financial point of view. We have already
expressed ourselves strongly on the urgent necessity of
regarding the opinions of the respective candidates on
other suljects than those of water or the rating of our
public estates, though we are not disposed to underrate
the pressing importance of the latter much agitated ques-
tions, neither have we seen any ream). to doubt the
soundnest of our original, but strong and often reiterated
opinion, that we possess in our own locality as much
water as we need use, and of as pure qbality as we can
desire.
We ask the calm consideration of the electors for a mo-
ment, whilst we call back their attention to one or two
subjects which seem for the present to be entirely over-
looked. Can it be suppCsed that the objections of the
opponents of the system of scriptural education in our
corporation schools have been altogether removed, because
that party has lately been so silent on the subject ? We
trow not. It is only because they have been reduced to
such a miserable minority in the Council that they have
ceased to raise their voices against it. Let them once
again obtain an ascendancy in the Town-hall, and we may
rest assured that they will attack that system with all the
virulence which characterized their agitation a few years
back. What can we think of the consistency of the elec-
tors of West Derby Ward, for instance, if, after their loud
denunciations of the Romish plan of education three years
since, they now throw those opinions overboard, and re-
turn as their representative, Mr. Mather, a gentleman per-
sonally highly respectable, no doubt, but quite unworthy
of their confidence on this and other questions, involving
deep and abiding principles.
Let us take another subject which is perhaps nearer
being made a point of discas,ion than many of the elect-
ors appear to imagine. We allude to the financial condi-
tion of our ecclesiastical establishments. It is evident
from what has appeared within the last week in the Mer-
cury and other papers, that those "enlightened" journals
are disposed to overlook the blessings conferred on the
poor by a church,—" St. Thomas," for instance„—where
seats are provided " without money and without price,"
and that they merely calculate the result of such an
" institution" as affects the debit or credit sides of the
corporation accounts. Will the Bighams and the Ferni-
houghs be likely to satisfy the wishes of the Pretestant
electors of Liverpool on such points as these? Let the
constituencies, before recording their votes this morning
maturely reflect that they are about to send to the Coun-
cil chamber gentlemen who will retain their seats for three
years, during which many questions of equal or more im-
portance than that of water will have to be decided by
their local representatives. We have on previous occa-
sions alluded to some other of these, and for the present
verbum sat.

The following gentlemen have now ceased to be mem-
bers of the Council, but several are candidates for re-
election :

Everton Ward
Scotland Ward.
Vauxhall Ward J. G. Morris.
St. Paul's Ward
Exchange Ward James Tyrer.
Castle-street Ward James Aikin.
St. Peter's Ward .. J. A. Tinne.
Pitt-street Ward T. Toulmin.
Great George Ward..
Rodney-street Ward . S. Holme.
Abercromby Ward ..., .... T. Kaye.
Lime-street Ward
St. Anne's Ward ...... W. Bennett.
West Derby Ward ... . Gen. H. Lawrence,
South Toxteth Ward W. Watson.
North Toxtetli Ward R. Benn.

In Everton Ward, Mr. Chalmers would have been
defeated had not the Conservative committee been asleep.
For Scotland Ward, Mr. Bigham opposes Mr. James
Holtne, but surely the electors will not reject a tried and
valued servant for a narrow-minded sectarian like his op-
ponent. Mr. Bigham must not merely be defeated, but
must be made to feel that he ought never to presume to
urge his claims for a seat in the Council chamber.
There is little excitement in Vauxhall Ward. Pro-
bably Mr, Atkinson will obtain an easy victory over Mr.
Rat h bone.

The polling in St. Paul's Ward will be somewhat sin-
gular—two Anti-Pike Conservatives—Dr. Games and Mr.
Godfrey—opposing each other. Mr. Stitt has declined to
stand.

J?nr Everton, Exchange, Pitt-street, Ahercromhy,
Lime-street, St. Anne's, and North Toxteth Wards, there
is no opposition.
In Castle-street Ward, Mr. Aikin has served the elec-
tors with much satisfaction, ever since the passing of the
Municipal Bill, and we are surprised to see his party treat
him so unceremoniously, but he is evidently too respecta-
ble for them.
We understand that Mr. Tinne has been withdrawn for
St. Peter's, as the validity of his 'election in consequence
of his being abroad might he questioned. We hope sin-
cerely that Mr. Clarke will be returned.

We need not refer in detail to the other wards ; and we
will now only again desire the electors seriously to weigh
the responsibility which attaches to the duty which they
will have once more to discharge to-day.
The following is a list of the retiring members, and of
the present candidates:—