The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

11-R.4/01-t4IIEYWORTH AND EVERTON AND
KIRKDNLE WARD.

EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
' Si am d:dighted to .find the 'tawnier in which the resi-
bnos of this ward are taking up the cowardly attack made
itely upon Mr. lieyworth, their conservative representative.
1 do not know where a gentleman could be found, who could
nave so efficiently represented this s‘ard in the council, as Mr.
flev wort h has done; indeed, it was my conviction, when he was
first brought forward as a candid ite, to it he was the most fit.
luappears there were dillimitties in the wa!, W. the time—dif-
tl,2lllties n it at ising from there being any object ions in the minds
(.1 tint conser,ative electors of the ward to him; or, indeed, In
the minds or those aho were opp iseal to him ttl poltics—for i is
taeintrkaWe fact, that a very respectaWe gentleman of that
party, Mr. John M't;ets,ge --one who had grown gray in the
service—the hard service of whig,:ery —for truly, a hard service
'tt is, attended the inessino at wti,n M. iley worth
was proposed, and voluntarily, unsolicited, and, L need scarcely
unexpectedly catne forward and expressed his great re-
s.pect for that gentleman, arising front a long acquaintance with
character. and his convict itui of his fitness to represent the
yard in the Town Council. Nay, such is the esteem in which
se is held try men of all parties. tnat at our waid dinner—that
:nemorable dinner—at which the speech was Made, which has
set oar liberal ti ienis in the council by the earsi, that we were
iavoured by the company of the radical assessor of the ward.
nip difficuities were not with the electors of the ward, for he
hid long resided in the neighbourhood, was well known and
tinieh respected, both by the rich and by the poor, (to whom his
general benevolence is a matter of notoriety.) The difficulties
were in the objection of Mr. Heyworth's own mina; and, flom
the known character of the in rjority•of that council, their con-
duct in general, and their conduct in psirticular on a late oc
casitiL, a notion may be formed of some of them; he had a
strong objection to go into the council, and he would not have
couseuted to have gone, if he had not, noleni coleus been forced

there.
I do not wish to disparage the services of other conservative
gentlemen in the council. for what—as Nlr. Heyworth observed
-at our ward dinner—could they do? A small minority, against
the cabals of the tyrant majority arrayed against them; tint I
cannot, in justice to the man of our choice but say, they have
done-much, but he has d me more; awl, at the next municipal
election, in our selection of the candid ite for our ward, I hope
we May be as fortunate as we were at the last•—that we-may hit
upon a gem bemoan of the same firm determinatiou, unflinching
integrity, and uncompromising principles.
In the first refortnel (?) council, the number of conservative
members was small indeed; it is still small, but I hope. at the
nex election it will awed out, to be equal, if not suprior to that

of our opponents; that i n4l little baud utas go 011 increasing,
until it becomes a large contnany; and if an ichi•lon to holy
_writ is'not etrit of place—" That-like the cloud no higeer than a
man's hand," it tuayswell out and extend itself, giving tokens of
,amalitailitance of greet rain.
tjitherto 'the harmony of that most inharmonious body—the
Tema Conncii—had been unbroken, except, indeed. by their
Own paittY .j,a,tiosies, their petty intrigues, confitetiug inter-
tests, anit''.the earpittes of theiratiseppointed expectants ; but
now, when the property and intelligence of the town is begin-
ning to be represented—when they are reflected there_ by gen-
tlemen who are not from their necessities liable to temptation,
Or, •froni their education and standing in society, likely to
." dodge and 'sitter in the shais of meanness:" they feel un-
easepi suspicious, and spiteful. Whether they are false y
alarmed. or groundlessly afraid, I knew hot but as ail man-
kind are liable to err, and most require to he kept it) check.
when they have 'matey and patronage. largely; at their dis-
posal • so I think that the most ardent admirer of radicalism
aid tAnit, the possibility—mind I do not the pror.abilit y —of
their going a little asttay, in the absence of some wholesome
stontriful.
Ner wonder that the feelings of the peapkOrie..ds shnuid be
wounded, when they -were told that they had used the power
and patronage committed to them, in trust, for the general
gesoil—they who had all their lives tong believed, or wished to
make others believe—that they wouid be pure and um orrupt in
all their dea:ings in public matters', that they would not only
Hot lavish their lav ter. upon their relations, personal friends,
but that they won d equally pass by their po [twat adherents;
I sly, no wonder that they should be annoyed when they wet e
told that they hid nut only put their own relations, personal
friends, and political sorbet emits into places, but they had turned
out the old servants of the public,—whose only fault was fleet
they were tories—to make toren for them: and that, when
pl. rei-s could not be found--either from the voluntary resigna-
tion of seine, who knew that if they remained. these places
‘,Oll II be made too hot for them, or from the compulsory dis-
charge of others—Wares wete actually made.
It w uld he too much to expect from the party—that in-
famous party—who had framed that most infamous enactment
of the pour-law bill—to l',ltrtilliSPl ate the feelings lit old peuple,
when they were thus abruptly sent away from the plate's they
Were attached to from their youth, and in which they. from
custom, supposed they had a life interest—or the actual misery
that woutci be lireught upon some, by not being able to earn
their living in any other way; far every one knows the diffi-
culty that persons who have been brought up in public uffices,'
iu g titling their lir:elite...ft in any other way. True it is, not
mairv—ttianks to the [louse of Lords, whir had a sort of pro-
phetic knowledge of what the treatment of such persons would
he—have been thus left desolate, but some have; and these that
were' not have become a burthen —not upon the private re-
sources of these who were time unworthily making provision
fn their friendS=but mein the pilblec ; men who for many years
weenie have been able and tviiling to serve them. Anil have
the public been benefited by those changes? Have tho.e per-
sour who have been substituted iaarnts superior to th se wh
have be-n retrieved? Certeinly not. We ch tbenge cutup I-
risans, (ceinearisous are odious, as the continent proverir has it,
and in this in.-twice, no doubt, particulaily edifies to Int, Town
Council, ) yet, note ithstanding their—let tithe, s ju tge whether
the: are honest —prejudices—we most institwe couparisotis
Is the tiffice ut Town-clerk better filled by Mr. Radcliffe than
it wus fey Mr. Foster ? is the offi,-e of Treasurer better _Weed
by Mr. Wybergh than it were by Mr. Case ? Is the effiee tit
.'s,ifrvey'•r better fi lest by Mr. Franklin than it was i.y Mr. John
Posts r ?. Is not the answer plain to any mail eff common ststose ;
and the reason nevi els wily !hes,' l'l,lll,tes were made e.
that the I:ilk:11s iniuht get places for their trietids, and is not
Mr. Theories Sinirh correct in saying,. " that we have a mort-
gaged council," that they ate pledged up to the chiu in promises
to their !milieu ters.
It is an unpleasant thing, it is a hard thing to be placed as
Mr. ritnes [jet worth is ill the Town Council, to have to-fight,
almost singlelvineled. su, h a conclave as, at present, that body
is constituted; ..fur, hawever ?north they may disagree amongst
themselves upon tn•tuy st)%jects, and disagree they do, they are
quite agreed 1ip.,11 one. viz., to oppose all that is conservative
in mil civil, arid all that is chi istian tit our riligiouninslitut ;
and though "Mr. fleyworth is a host in himself, and equal to
the whale horde, (fur when were not pritivi;ile and consisteucy
spal, though in one individual, to their opposite (pi dines in a
hundred?) and though the greatest satisfaction a gentleman
has, in tliiiag what he thinks is his duty, is the approbation of
his own volse,ence; yet there is sometiting in knowing that his
conduct is approved of by those fur whom he unity have au es-
te, in. Fur.her, I feel it is a duty we owe to him for thus fear-
le.sly fighting our battles, -amused as he is, by such an unequal
force ; and, turther, it is, as a natter of self presery .thin, our
interest, as well as oitr duly, to express our determination to
support these whit rata; y, and at such. fearful odds, in point
of numbers, stand up for us;. for if such fearless conduct meet
not with our marked apporbalion and suppose how can we ex-
pect any one to enter the lists for its. And, if any other reason
is wanted, it is our duty to show to his oppressors, and our 'n-
pressors, our con'empt and disapprobation of their cenduct.
o.Oviously, the thanks of the electors oil our ward in particular.
and that these in every either ward in general, are eminently
due to Mr. James Heyworth.
Ii feel, too. that the it., tiks or all independent men are due tin
Mr. Samuel liirltne, for the prompt manlier in which he drew
the attention of the medic, thiough the inechutti of the Trades
inea's Conservative Societe. to the meritorintis conduct of Mr.
lie) %toth, in exposing the delinquencies of the Connell; and
though his talented and piquaut letter to the chairman !no tem.
tuts the isteeibig, net being able to Attend himself, was nut, evi-
deutly, intends-, to he made public, as, doubtless, from his
kniiwil coati tes . it would ;rave been couched in mere •softetied,
though 1101 Omit iota less firm languatte; for it contains only his,
as well as that of conservatives genetelly, sentiments avowed
both it) private as well as in punlic a thousand times over.
The vaunting: of the radicals, as pet forth in their hireling
journals upon their supposed vanquishment of Mr. Ile% worth,
in their cowardiy attacks upon him in the -Cutincil-va;our„ se-
minds me of those juvenile rhymes, perhaps not in the Rath-
bun(' collectien
" Father, mother, and I, with a stout and sturdy hand,
Beat a very little boy until he could neither Nalk net stand."
Where was that mild and religious gentleman, Mr. Black-
burn, the divinity lecturer of the Torn Couucil, in whoete ac-
count of the Irish schools there ate inure misstatements than in
the same length that I ever read in any other document pto•
tessing to come f a gent:en:an ;, and the tnast chafitable
enlist uction that I can put upon it is, that it was made in a tidal
ignorence iif the subject. Where was he, when his friend
mit he by name Bidly—fortheue is one in that august body by
name Bully, as well as one by mature—Bally. I say where WAS
he, whose tireolegy is put final) so. ostentationsly• t%h, n God's
hot% word is to be sacrificed to help fit ward the Socinian seheme
of educating youth without religion ? Where was he When his
friend insulted the laws of righteems heaven. by seeking to Om-
-I;rue his hands in the bared of his fellow creature ?
A word or two about the seiner's, and then I have done.
Where are u w those ministers that our voluntaries are sir round
(if. boasting of. now that the schools ate abandoned by the cast gv?
Abandoned, did I say, yes, but nut willingly. the Town
Council left them as they found them, the clergy would still
visit !Item. but now they cannot, now they dare not ; true, sti I,
the tiletr is there, but the sacred fire is gone. Where are those
men, the filial' iinfl boast of the voluntary system? The foot of
no teacher of religion, I speak of the sleuth school, ever toners
there except that of a Renteish priest ; and, as a dissenter,
Councilman, and liberal. said to rue, a few day, ago, with st Stilt
or leer—" it will be well if he confines his instructions to hie own
children;" and it is a fart, these few protestant citildren who
remain in the school, "those few sheep" have no re ig,ions in-
struction whatever, except what they receive from the gratui-
. tints zeal of the Icily of a Councilman, who, as if she felt cern-
, scions theta her husband had been inst rument al in bringing
neon the seined its pre.enf mural dearth, thought.she ought to
-do-something in mitigation oftts degradation. a She hash done
what she could;,' and let its hope that she, uninfluenced by
those principles which have blighted and deadened the - better
feelings of her husbaud, in secret, unseen by mortal eye, un-
heard by mortal ear. teems forth, in tears, a prayer; and such a
prayer as woman. for her husband only, can pray. But what
will become of those little eluldsen, when, front choice or • ne-
cessity, this benevolent lady withdraws tram the sieved ? Is it
not more that) probable that the result will be, (what rut friend,
the entinciltmen, in-his inueedre, hinted it may now be,) that it
will become a pepish seminary?
It is not generaily known, that soon offer the election of the
fiist Gentled, a committee was funned to investigate the.enn-
tract. fertile sate of land made by the old (-maim at inn ? Ft gin
their silence mare the subject. the result may he easily guessed
at ;- bad ally long vrrona tweet' round on —would they have ob-
set ved such it dignified silence? And slieh teas the examina-
tion to which some or the old servants of the cerperatioir were
subject. that questions wee e put iiivolving ideas that never en-
tered, from their wickedness into their minds, arid could oroy
emanate from there(' of the elatkirst hue.
I never enter the Toter.-hall through its (Lilt and tortuous
passages, made- so ify late changes—eould that all min it changes
hail been so harmless—tie ugh ights are kept constantly burn-
ing, showing that theugh the light of reason (according to
slam.) mat enter there, the light fif heaven, in more senses,
pethaps. than titre never can : I say. I never cuter there but I
am reminded of some ancient mien.'on. once the ateuele of the
nolee and the goad, that has feeren into the hands of some res.
call% attorney. sufficient or the rid l furniture remaining to show
its former oplendour. Yours, &c..
AN.INtimitTANT OF KIRKDALE.

FIRE IN 01.1'1141A1 S1:1; KET. —Oil Sdttirtlay morning as police.
officer Brien, No. 327, was passing the prelniso" Mr. Ed-
timmison. Oldham-street, he discovered them to be on fire; he
immediately gaVe the alarm, and three young► men, Messrs.
WC -why, Aspinall, and Smith. who were seturning ftrim
the
tile in Pi-ianall-street, cline to his assistance. They give the
alarm to the family, and gained admittance to the hte►nises;
and before the engines arrived they succeeded in getting the
Lames under. Much praise is due to thecn,for their exertions.