The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

3 had 615 town and

quarter there was a slight reduc-
but, on the Ist October, the force consisted
for the town and 274 for the docks. A dif-
--tement was subsequently made, by
-4: of the present year,
. for the town
.tension of dock
cen place, owing to the completion
at the North end of the

,t the commend

to consist of 660 men

dnd 310 for the clocks, a la

space havin
of some of the wor

We suggested in the P

article in quastion that, the
(crease of the force having,
in a grew. ~.sure ceased, it would he most con-
ducive to the economizing of the local revenue, if
the authorities would consent to a reduction; and
we urged upon them the year 1847 as that by
which we might safely regulate the number of the
ody. By doing this, an expense of £10,230 per
lum, the difference between the cost of 970 men,
time on the books, and 784, the number of
..847, would he saved to the public. At
le, however, through some accidental cause,
o steps to carry out the reforms
glad, 1, ''serve that

yfor this large inerf

n in 1

ited. We are

the subject has been t

3wever, to 01,
n up by Mr. Parker, a
Is a member of the

1 of long.experienee
who has given not
n rt. tn.,-

Watch Coma

tion at the Council r

ce of a mo-
'or a reduc-

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tion of the town police to the average of 1847, viz.,
544 men. The adoption of this motion would save
to the Borough Fund about f 6,600 per annum.
It will he observed that Mr. Parker has not de-
cided upon going the whole length of our sugges-
March last, by which we sheaved a saving
n
In this he is

Lion of

all events so far as

The Dock Committee ha

their force for the pi
such increase; and they pay f
the funds of the D

; they may

require

Or their owr

herefore, to the

propriety of the

reduction moved for there cannot

Et shadow of a doubt

and we trust that ever:
ent will give Mr

id of economical governm
.. .

er his hearty stippo—rt

in to-morrow's Council

London 'limes has a propensity for inflict-
vv blow

ters where they are ver

little expected

Notting pleases him so mud

a cut at an old friend. He Sets up an idol one day,
and knocks him down the next, with as little cere-
mony as a child would display in knocking down a
house of cards, or throwing away a toy, after he has
found out the trick of its constructor. A brief
40, the Manchester school of political eco-
_ 'as our contemporary's idol. Cobden was
ayWard and crotchetty boy; John Bright too
much of the blustering Quaker; but the political
economy of the two worthies was perfection itself.
Its working was to throw into the shade the
achievements of all past past statesmanship, and to
flood the land with unexampled prosperity.
light, however, seems to have just broken in upon
our slippery contemporary, which is displayed in the
following opening of one of his Thursday's lucu-
brations

nomy

A new

" It seems reserved for the propagandists of the Man-
chester School to repeat a series of protests against the
character of the times in which they live, and the circum-
stances by which they arc surrounded. Every axiom
which they propound is met by some startling confuta-
tion. Every appeal they make to contemporary history
is rebuked by some singular condemnation of the hypo-
thesis from which it proceeded. Do they inaugurate an
hegira of peace and proclaim the cessation of war ?
Forthwith all Europe is in a blaze of martial conflagra-
tion. Do they celebrate the termination of dynastic
struggles, and the burial of national sectarianism in a wide
and comprehensive philanthropy ? Straightway half the
kingdoms of Europe are at loggerheads for nothing else
but the vindication of nationalities and the revival of old
traditions. Do they herald the approximation of a com-
mercial era in which all men and all nations are to merge
their distinctive characters of history, race, ambition—
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all their memories of the p6t, all yearnings after the
future—in the relation of buyers and sellers? Imme-
diately we hear from the popular leaders of a German
movement a loud cry of protection to German industry,
and a clamorous jealousy of English commerce. Worse
than this;-while the example of the great Transatlantic re-
public is appealed to as the incomparable example of the
most rational liberty and the most popular government,
,:ttp capital city is disgraced by a riot not only as tumultuous