The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

all men who would be consistent must act

We are no

friends to any intolerant, persecuting, or exclusive
system ; we wish men first to act consistently, and then
with a proper feeling towards the weakness and errors

of others, and a due allowance for the exercise of a con-
scientious liberty. All this will be observed in the course
which we suggest ; we should then have a Conservative
council establishing a system of education in conformity
with its own religious principles, just as it should do; but,
at the same time, not rendering that system exclusive,
nor insisting that all the children who attend the schools
shall partake of its benefits to their full extent, if the
parents of any come forward, as in the Presbyterian
schools alluded to, and state their objection thereto.
To accomplish an object so important, there is now the
strongest appeal made to the municipal electors of Li-
verpool. It rests with them ; they have the power ;
and if they have the will also, they cannot but find the

way.
At the numerous meeting of the electors of North
and South Toxteth Wards on Friday evening, Mr.
Alexander Smith, jun., the Conservative candidate for
North Toxteth, in vivid terms presented us with a re-
view of Radical administration in the Council, and its
results :
" He would ask the electors," he said, " whether it was
in the power of the conservatives, evenif they became the
dominant party, to do worse than those men had done who
had been in power for the last few years ? He should like to
know what they had done for the town? (" Nothing," from
a hundred voices.) Really nothing. He believed there were
more people out of employment at present than was the case
for the last century ; and to what was this owing ? Why,
every improvement had been put a stop to ; not a single
thing was doing ; and, until lately, when they commenced to
build the new courts of law, there had been no expenditure
of money. There would, indeed, be an expenditure of
£lOO,OOO for the building of the courts, and £30,000 more
for another erection ; but those sums had been wrung from
the radicals as if the conservatives had been squeezing from
them their hearts' blood. (Hear, hear, and cheers;) The
truth was that the dominant party in the council had set their
faces against everything like improvement, or the promotion
of public works, unless the hobby of the aldermen, that of
erecting docks with warehouses around them, were to be con-
sidered as such. But this circumstance of the docks and
warehouses had been the means of preventing a very large
sale of land near the docks; and the consequence was that
the treasury of the corporation had been drained to the last
dregs, so that nothing could be done in the shape of improve-
ments, the widening of streets, or a thousand other things,
which, in so large a town as Liverpool, were constantly re-
quired."
We may add to this, that all they have done by their
cosmopolitan system of education, seems to have been
a produce of just such fruits as one might a priori
have reasonably expected from it. In the Sixth Report
of the Inspectors of Prisons under sth and 6th Will.
IV., recently published, the inspector of the northern
district states it as his belief, and gives his data for the
conclusion, that the amount of juvenile criminality in
Liverpool is proportionably greater than in the metro-
polis, or any of the most populous manufacturing and
commercial districts in Great Britain ; and that, judg-
ing from the description of the offences, and the num-
ber and frequency of the recommittals in this class of
prisoners, the character of juvenile delinquency is ge-
nerally, and in Liverpool in particular, more desperate
than that of the adult class of criminals. May we not
fairly trace this melancholy and 'disgraceful state of
things to the want of sound religious instruction, and
education for the poorer classes; or, in other words,
to the non-religious system patronised by the domi-
nant Liberals of our Corporation ? The fruits are
indeed most deplorable, and leave every man who pre-
tends to the smallest feeling of benevolence, without
excuse, if he neglect to use whatever influence or pri-
vilege he may possess for the purpose of putting an
end, we hope for ever, to so ruinous a domination.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN
GAP RAILWAY.—On Tuesday last, previous to the departure
of the first afternoon train from the St. Helen's station, a
porter, named John Baxter, in the employ of the company,
was killed by.some waggons which had just been detached
A-om the engine running up to some other wazgons which
were being discharged of their loads, and against which he
vas standing, in the centre of the line. It appears that the
eleceased saw the waggon coming, but was unable to get out
of the way, as a horse which had been employed in drawn?:
was standing close to the line, and he could not get past it.
He was very much crushed, and lingered after it only a very
short time, although every attention was shown him by
Wolfenden, the company's agent, in procuring him medical
assistance. An inquest has been held on the body, and a
verdict of " accidental death" was returned, with a deodand
of ss. on the waggon.