The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,-A letter, signed " A Ratepayer," again appears
in the Albion of yesterday, reiterating that the proprietors
of Egreniont Ferry were negotiating with us for the sale
of our lease. We should not have noticed this, had it
not appeared twice in a public print ; but now we feel it
our duty to our friends and the public to give a flat con-
tradiction to the letter signed " ARatepayer.".

JOHN AND RICHARD PARRY.
Seacombe, Bth October, 1849.

REVISION OF THE MUNICIPAL LIST OF VOTERS.—
The Mayor and the Revising Assessor, Mr. J. Yates,
jun., and. Mr. T. Atkinson. held a court yesterday for the
revision of the municipal list of voters, at the Sessions-
house. There were, in the whole, only 14 claims; and
the objections were as follow :—Everton, 17; St. Paul's
ward, 24 ; Exchange ward, 142 ; St. Peter's ward, 11 ;
Great George ward, 9, making a total of claims and objec-
tions of only 217. Tile result of the day's proceedings
was—Objections admitted in Everton ward, 8 ; St. Paul's,
19 ; Exchange, 73; St. Peter's, 10 ; and St. George's, 4.
The claims substantiated were— Everton, 1 ; Kirkdale,
1.; Scotland, 1, and Exchange, 2.
SCOTLAND WARD.—We believe that the committee
appointed to select a candidate for this ward have fixed
upon Mr. John Bigham ; but so dissatisfied are many of
the• electors with the selection, that they have resolved to
bring forward Mr. Wm.. Roxburgh, who is a highly respect-
able resident in the ward, and a gentleman well qualified
to represent the interests of his intended constituents in
the Council. Mr. Roxburgh is a churchman, an anti-
Pikeist, and a dock-rater, and is so popular in the ward
that he will most likely obtain an easy victory, especially
as his opponent, from his narrow-minded sectarian pre-
judices. is not likely to meet with any considerable amount
of support.
NORTH AND SOUTH TOXTETH WARDS.—A meeting of
the burgesses of these wards was held last night in the
Toxteth Hall, Mill-street, for the purpose of approving of
the nomination of Mr. Richard Harbord and Mr. Thomas
Lloyd, as representatives in council. It being supposed
that no opposition would be offered, the meeting was at
first but thinly attended, and promised to be a mere for-
mal affair. Ultimately, however, it became crowded, and
in consequence or some opposition offered by a gentleman
present, the proceedings took an uniooked-for turn, and
were prolonged to a late hour. Eventually Mr. Lloyd
was proposed hy Mr. Plow, seconded by Mr. Joseph Har-
rison. Mr. Harbord's nomination was moved by Mr.
Mr. L. Jones, seconded by Mr. Gregson, and supported
by Mr. J. It. Jefery. An amendment, substituting Mr.
W. J. Horsfall for Mr. Harbord, was moved by Mr. Bet-
teley, and seconded by Mr. Batten. The amendment
upon Using put, was negatived, and the original motion
was carried unanimously, and by acclamation. _

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FATAL PRIZE FWHT.—On Sunday night week, sub-
inspector Sandford apprehended n man, named Thomas
Welsh, at his lodgings, Lad-lane, Deansgate, Manches-
ter, under a warrant charging him with being a bottle-
holder in the fight which lately took place, and in which
one of the combatants, Richard Lilley, was killed. He
was brought n 9 at the New Bailey on the following
morning, when the offence was proved, and he was com-
mitted to the assizes. He was matched to fight that day
fortnight with another man, for £lO aside. We heed
hardly say that this fight will be prevented.
Jw FOR IT—HOW TO GET OUT OF IT.-OIICe on 8 time
there was a gentleman who won an elephant in a raffle.
It was a very fine elephant, and very cheap at the price
the gentleman paid for his chance. But the gentleman
had no place to put it in. Nobody would take it off his
hands. He couldn't afford to feed it. He was afraid of
the law if he turned it loose into the streets. He was too
humane to let it starve. He was afraid to shoot it. In
short, he was in a perplexity very natural to a gentleman
with—moderate means, a small house, common feelings
of humanity—and an elephant. France has won her
elephant at Rome. She has brought back the Pope.
She is at her wits' end what to do with him. She can't
abet the Pope and the Cardinals, because she interfered
in the cause of liberty. She can't abet the Republican,
because she interfered in the cause of the Pope and the
Cardinals. She can't act with Austria, because Austria
is absolutist. She can't act against Austria, because
France is conservative and peaceful. She can't continue
her army in Rome, because it is not treated with respect.
She can't withdrr w her army from Rome, because that
would be to stultify herself. She can't go forward, be.
cause she insisted on the Roman people going backward.
She can't go backward, because the French people insist
on her going forward. She can't choose the wrong, be-
cause public opinion forces her to the right. She can't
choose the right, because her own dishonesty has forced
her to the wrong. In one word, she is on the horns of a
dilemma, and more she twists, the more sharply she feels
the points on which she is impaled, like a cockchafer in a I
cabinet, for the inspection of the curious in the lighter
and more whirligig species of political entomology. Poor
France—will nobody take her precious bargain off her
hands ? Rome is her bottle imp. She bought it dear
enough, but cau't get rid of it "at any price."