The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-04 00:00:00

"to extend" the principle.to other Docks. This is just
w bat we have ali along suspected. After such an inti-
mation, we are sure that no one will condemn the ware-
house owners fur so strongly protesting against the
scheme. Mr. Birch also very justly remarked that the
contention on the subject in parliament would in all pro-
babiliiy prove severe and bitter, adding that "he should
be glad if it did not turn out to be the medium9f severe
injury to the port." Of course the expense that will be
entailed upon all parties by the struggle will be enor-
mous. But then what do our "economical" reformers
care about the lavish expenditure of the public mo-
ney ?

The very harmless remarks of Mr. Birch, who always
speaks temperately, seem to have had a very potent
effect on Alderman Evans, whO launched out into a
violent person'al attack. He accused Mr. Birch of con-
duct the most atrocious. He said that "the council had
received More aggression—more aspersion—bordering
on insult—from that gentleman, than from any other
person." This charge he reiterated by observing "that
he (Mr. Birch) delivered those aspersions in the tone
of humility—nay, almost of intreaty—on the School
question." What relation the School question could
possibly have with the Warehouse question the pugna-
cious Alderman has not condescended to explain. His
allusion to Mr. Birch's " anathemas" and "denuncia-
tions" are to us equally incomprehensible. We have
paid considerable attention to the proceedings in the
Town Council from time to time, and we must candidly
confess that we have never have seen anything in Mr.
Birch's conduct which, in the slightest degree, merits
the language to which Alderman Evans has thought pro-
per to resort. We have not a doubt that the real cause
of the Alderman's hostility to Mr. Birch will be found
in the circumstance that the latter was returned the last
time into the Council with the full approbation of the
conservatives.

On the question that the report of the Finance Com-
mittee respect ing.the Corporation churches be confirmed,
Mr. Bolton embraced another opportunity for displaying
his consummate ignorance, and his inveterate hatred to-
wards the church. His attack upon that part of the
report which related to the erection of a gallery in St.
Michael's Church was quite in keeping with his celebra-
ted speech about " grgans and grinding•stones." This
very vulgar personage scarcely ever ventures to open his
mouth in the Council-chamber but to attack the church
or the clergy ; and on every occasion when he makes
such attacks he equally displays his wonderful ignorance
and his malignant spite. In the course of his harangue
on Wednesday last he spoke of the church as " a sect."
Does this conceited councillor know the meaning of the
term sect Y We apprehend not. If he will consult any
tyro in Latin he will find that it means something cut of
or separated from another. He ought to know that the
Church of England is the parent stem from which all
the .sects in the country have been separated.
We are compelled to postpone any further remarks
on the proceedings of the Council until Tuesday, when
we shall recur to the subject.