The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

TO THE CONSERVATIVE RATEPAYERS,

" Up, boys, and at them," was the rallying cry of " the
Duke" at the memorable battle of Waterloo. " Up, con-
servatives, and at them" is the advice which we would offer
to the ratepayers during the impending struggle for the office
of Dock Trustees.
The contest which was commenced yesterday is one which
involves far more important results than the conservative
ratepayers of Liverpool seem to be generally aware of. The
question at issue is, not whether we shall return five conser-
vatives to the Dock-office—not whether we shall have dock-
warehouses erected—but whether the borough of Liverpool,
with all its important interests is to be handed over, in
perpetuity, to whig-radical thraldom.
Conservative ratepayers of Liverpool! we would have you
to reflect upon the momentous consequences which are in-
volved in the present struggle. Upon your decision will de.
pend the future independence or the future degradation of
the borough. Are you willing to be made the subservient
tools of Alderman Evans, and the radical clique who com-
pose his " tail ?" Do you wish to see the Council-room
once more filled with radicals ? Are you willing to have the
town represented in parliament by two thorough-going mi-
nisterialists? Your votes to-day will solve these questions,
either to your honour, or to your disgrace—either to the sal-
vation of the town from radical tyranny, or to its degrada-
tion and enslavement.

" Procrastination is the thief of time." We beseech you
to be prompt in tendering your votes. Delay or indecision
may cause you hereafter many a pang of bitter but unavailing

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TO THE RATE-PAYERS TO THE DOCK ESTATE

The struggle was this day commenced by the liberal party
in the Town-council, under the firm'of Eyre Evans, Tindal
Atkinson and Co., to swamp the cause of conservatism in
this town.
Unable, as the leaders are well aware, by their own
strength, to do any injury; they have induced some gentle-
men among the conservatives to permit themselves to be
brought forward as candidates, under the plea, that the
Warehouse Question is not a political question. This con-
clusion I decidedly deny, and ere too late, I urge those con-
servatives who have not voted to take warning, and by ten-
dering their votes at one o'clock to-morrow, (to which time
the polling is adjourned) in favour of Messrs. Potter,
Crosthwaite, Chaloner, Henderson, and Bold, convince the
brawlers for liberty, that the cause of conservatism is still
dear to them.
A RATEPAYER AND NO WAREHOUSE
Aug. 17, 1840. , OWNER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—lt is positively disgraceful the apathy of the conser-
vatives in the struggle now going on in the Dock-office :
many refused to go to the poll because it rained !!! and, un-
less every exertion is made this day, the cause is lost.
A CONSERVATIVE RATEPAYER.

FANCY BALLS.—We understand that some gentlemen of
our town intend giving a series of public fancy halls during
the coming winter. If properly managed, we think no
means of enjoyment likely to become more popular in the
" good old town." In London, Paris, and many provincial
towns, this elegant recreation is daily becoming more admired
and general. Its light, airy gaiety is unsullied by the coarse-
ness and lack of delicacy which too often attended the almost
exploded masquerade; and its brilliant display of beauty and
magnificence, its vivid realisation of the fairy dreams of
childhood, and its comparative freedom from the formal re-
strictions of the full-dress ball, bid fair to dethrone the lat-
ter, and erect in its
place the far more fascinating attractions
of the fancy ball.