The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDUTER OF THE STAN RD

Scat,—l think it rite to let yu no the whey we have been
treated—that is the Pertecturs. Wen we was axed to jine
the society, we was lead to bleive tht it uld be for our gud ;
but we have ad no gad. We have lost our tim, sur, without
any recompense: we have lost our tim in paing our muney
in, droring it out, and pying ur tackses. We have lost more
time in wateing to no if we was to be pade for our tim ; and
when the day of elecktion came, they would not pa us for
goeing to vote, whitch oncet for all is a grate sham, as we
consider that if it was worth wile to get us to pa, it was
worth wile to pa us for voteing, whitch we expected foolly.
Sur, I tell you this cos they waddnt pa us for our votes, whitch
we expected, and so we did not vote for nobody. Sur, lam
no skollard, and hop you will spell this rite if you put it in
the pepper. A PURTaKTUR.
New Burd-street, Twoesday.
THE MAYOR'S STIPEND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Before the Mayor makes his last bow to the Com-
mon Council, and takes his final leave of the public, permit
me through the medium of your columns to draw attention
to the very large sum that must be standing to the credit of
his worship, unexpended, out of the handsome allowance of
£2,000 granted from the corporation funds, for the purpose
of maintaining the dignity of the high office in a manner be-
coming the importance of our town. You are probably not
aware, sir, that the official allowance under the old regime
was £1,200 only, and that this amount was made the subject
of considerable vituperation by the immaculate Whigs of
those days as being outrageously extravagant, and as chal-
lenging the earliest attention of the new common council. It
had that attention pretty early, but it was only to increase
the £1,200 to £2,000.

,
Now, sir, the selfishness of whiggery is too well esta-
blished to call for proof at my hands—it is upon record a
hundred times repeated. I am not now going to argue the
propriety of the increase ; it might or might not have been
necessary ; but this is very certain, that the stipend was de-
signed to confer the power on our first magistrate to display,
not a poor meagre charity—not a fourpenny veal pie enter-
tainment—but a (I was on the point of writing liberal; that
word, however, has been so prostituted that I shall substi-
tute another, namely,) munificent hospitality that should do
credit to the representative of a princely corporate estate,
enabling that individual to entertain his townsmen hand-
somely, and the foreigner of distinction magnificently, when-
ever circumstances shall bring the latter within the precincts
of the Town-hall.
That the hospitality of our present Mayor has been of a
more circumscribed character than any within the previous
twenty years is beyond dispute ; and the corollery is inevi-
table, that a very large portion of the £2,000 must inevitably
be unexpended. Now I beg to inform his worship, that the
public eye is upon him ; that the community will not allow
an appropriation of that £1,500 or £l,BOO to private pur-
poses without marking the act with its indignant reproba-
tion. What has become of the corporation carriage, and
what of the hor,es ?—all are laid aside—and the parapher-
nalia that was wont to be properly exhibited on the Sunday,
challenging and receiving the respect, as well of the respect-
able citizens, as of the plain and honest, but clean and re-
putable artizan, each on his way to the national temple, all
this has been placed in the corporation chest, the emblem of
a former state, and significant of the dignity and importance
of the situation filled by the personage before whom it was
borne. _

The time has now arrived, however, for a resumption of
the good old practice of visiting a Christian temple, and for
bringing forth the insignia of office ; and a glorious sight it is,
sir, as well as a fitting example for those who are called upon
to submit to the authority of him who ought to be a terror to
evil doers.

I shall not trespass on a fallen foe, although our present
chief magistrate has provoked that disposition beyond his
predecessors—it were needless to draw the picture of his
faults, positive and negative—they are in the memory of the
present generation, and will serve only to furnish a contrast
to his successors in office. I shall only again remind hint
that the eyes of the community are upon him—the public
charities are waiting, open mouthed, for the very large funds
which his official parsimony has placed at his disposal.

THE RADICAL PRESS

'ARGUS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Feeling assured that every man who buys the radi-
cal papers to a great degree supports radicalism, I rejoice
that the readers in Toxteth-ball belong not to such a class,
and I have more reason to rejoice when I know that when
the Albion is sent to us by some of our liberal friends, it is
scarcely looked at ; and when the papers are offered for sale,
they can only get one penny for the Albion, while the
Standard and other conservative papers are bought for half
price. This is the way it should be. Who but a fool would
pay for lies and infidelity, abusive language, in the place of
sound argument. We have reason to be thankful to God,
sir, that the people are beginning to look upon truth as they
ought to do. 'Long may your columns be filled with truth
and sound Christian principles, and the people eager to act
upon them, is the earnest desire of an operative Protestant,
who is a voter, and reader in

TOXTETH-HALL NEWSROOM

EXCHANGE WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL 3T.4IVDABD

SlR,—The circumstance of Exchange Ward being lost this
year although carried last year by a majority of 30, has
caused many to imagine there was a lack of zeal, or to use
your expressive remark, " a want of generalship."
Allow me to state a few facts in explanation.
Last year Mr. Sands had a majority of 3O
This year Mr. Ridgway lost by

Barley . Q
Corn .. Q

SOO 1 16334
610 1 229 S

5530 i 1296 i 6826

'n, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Beans,
y, qrs. ; Oats, 843 qrs.; Oatmeal, gdi Ids.; Flour,

—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Oats,
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ;
—lreland. Wheat, qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ;
—Coastwise. Wheat, 394 qrs. ; Barley, 10
Oats, is qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 10
qrs. ; Oatmeal, 10 Ids. ; Flour, 105 sacks,