The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STAN DART.

your of Mr. \VM. RATHBONE'S gentlemanly courtesies,
though w•e acknowledge that it is only on Unquestion-
able testimony that we can bring ourselves to believe in
a seeming impos,:ibility.

The P,-v. HUGH. M'NEILE followed the Rev. Rector
CAMPBELL, and was most enthusiastically received. His
was the speech of the day : it occupied two hours in the
delivery, and, we will answer for it, there was not one
person in the vast assemblage who did not consider it too
short.

A whole volume of useful commentary might be writ-
ten on this splendid oratorical effort. Its principal va-
lue consists of the important facts it conveys with regard
to the operation of the Irish system even in that land for
which it was especially designed. But the most attract-
ive and the most amusing portion of the speech was that
in which the Rev. Gentleman exposed, ridiculed, and an-
swered the puling sophistries of Mr. BLACKBURN'S silky
oration in the Town Council—that speech which "struck"
some with astonishment, and drew from the Mayor so
much "admiration." We wish his Worship had been at
the Amphitheatre to witness the dissection of the sub-
ject of his hasty eulogy! Nothing could have been more
successful than the Rev. Gentleman's parallel between
the Irish municipal bill and the Irish systeM of education.
So annihilating to a false argument is this happy illustra-
tion that the Mercury is under the necessity of replying
to it by calling Mr. M'NEtLE a mountebank, a jack-pud-
ding, and a stage-player. The poor senior editor! Here
we lament the hard necessity which drove a man of his
profound learning, mature judgment, and brilliant fancy
to so miserable an expedient. What !

" Katterfelto, with his hair on end,
WoLdering at his own wonders,"

quite out of countenance, without the semblance of an
argument, driven to mean falsehood and still meaner in-
sult. But we need not dwell on Mr. M'NEILE's incom-
parable speech ; that has been universally read both by
his friends and his enemies, and its best praise is that it
came from the heart.

Mr. S. HormE made some important observations on
the feelings of the working classes in Liverpool, and the
duties of the masters who have under them large bodies
of workpeople. His anecdote of a town councillor, with
respect to the Scriptures, was at once melancholy and
instructive, showing, on the one hand, the baneful and
seductive effects of a specious liberality, on the other, the
wide difference there is between lip-profession and prac-
tical operation. Mr. HoLmF, is charitable enough to
think that many of the Town Council have been deluded
into the present system, and are ignorant of its ultimate
effects; yet he very rationally believes that there is an
unseen power behind the scenes pulling the wires, and
that that power'is popery. Now ought not the gentlemen
to whom Mr. HoLmE alludes to be able to perceive and
appreciate this glaring truth ? We say, yes. And if
we were to allow that they mean well, but are deluded,
we should do it an expense to their understandings for
which they would feel little disposition to thank us. In
Mr. HOLME'S exhortation to all who enjoy the light to
contribute towards spreading the light, we cordially con-
cur; we will say moreover that those who refuse to do so
are unworthy of the 'light, and are not very likely to be
saved by it from fatally stumbling when it is too late to
recover.

We were exceedingly glad to see Dr. RALPH take part
in the proceedings, for his own sake and that of his
church, as well as for for the cause he so ably supported.
His compliment to Mr. M'NEILE should be engraved on a
monument which ought to be raised to that Rev. Gentle-
man's honour—" The most lion-hearted Churchman since
the day's Of LUTHER."
No less gratified were we to see the resolution moved
by Dr. RALPH, seconded by the Rev. JAMES DIXON,
Wesleyan Minister in this town. The hour was late,
and Mr. DIXON had no opportunity for a lengthened
address, but he did much in two or three short sentences
relative to the establishment and the Liverpool Clergy.
44 Though Providence has placed me (said Mr. DixoN)
not exactly in their communion, but close by their side, I
wish to give utterance to this opinion, that I, for one, do
think the Church of England (scripturally speaking) a
lawful establishment. The Church of England ought to
be maintained, and preserved in its integrity, for it is
necessary for the preservation of the rights and well-being
of that great community, and I most heartily desire, and
consistently pray, that this Church may he preserved in
all her glory. I wish to respond to an expression of two
or three of the reverend gentlemen who addressed the
meeting at an early part of the evening; and my opinion
is, and I speak it as an honest man—l speak it in the
presence of this dignified assembly, and I would speak it
in the presence of an assembled world—that I believe the
Church of England is indeed the great breakwater against
the swelling tide of Popery at the present day."
Towards the close some zealous persons called for an
expression of feeling hostile to Popery in a strain which
was natural and praiseworthy in itself, but Mr. M'NEILE,
pursuing the enemy to be contended with, stepped forth
and proposed the singing of the doxology, and his request
was instant!! complied with most decorously and devoutly ;
yet it has been made matter of charge against the Rev.
Gentleman that lie encouraged disorder by attemping to
inflame ?

The meeting ended with unquestionable proof of the
sincerity of those engaged in it, for nearly Three Thou-
sand Pounds were instantly subscribed; by Thursday
evening that amount had swelled to upwards of Five
Thousand; and at the time of sending our present sheet
to the press the subscription is £6447.
We repeat, then, that the OBJECT OF THE MEETING IS
FULLY ACCOMPLISHED. The Town Council, in this mat-
ter, are deserving of nothing but our severest reprehen-
sion ; still it must be inferred that, without intending it,
it has done much towards the promotion of the cause of
unrestricted Scriptural Education in the Borough of
Liverpool.

As instinctively connected with this subject, we refer to
our report, which is the fullest we could obtain, of the
great meeting held at Exeter Hall, in the metropolis, on
Thursday, for the purpose of laying before the public
" the peculiar perils in which the protestants of Ireland
are involved, and to receive an appeal to be made in the
spirit of candour and Christian charity to our fellow-sub-
jects themselves, as well as to the Britssh nation in ge-
neral, on the principles from which these perils ariSe.'
Mr. FINCH, M.P. took the chair; the attendance was
exceedingly numerous, and the Rev. Mr. M'GnEE was
almost the only speaker. O'CONNELL had been respect-
fully invited to attend and reply to Mr. M‘GnEE, if be
thought proper ; but he shrunk from the contest. No !
The Agitator, though he boasts that the wealth, and pa-
triotism, and intellect ci the metropolis are on his side,
dare not show himself in an intellectual and impakial
English assembly. Mr. M‘G-HEE's statement was one of
great moment at the present time, and its circulation
must be attended with beneficial consequences.

The Liverpool Town Council! What a train of mis-
chief, hypocrisy, und humbug dwells in that one short
sentence—the fabled ills of Pandora's Box were a mere
tzifle in comparison with it.
In our Friday's number we gave a full and accurate
report of the proceedings of said Council on the pre-
ceding Wednesday,with reference to Mr. FOSTER'S claim
of compensation. After a long delay, and a tremendous
expenditure of .the public money, it is at last settled that
Mr. FOSTER is to have £2500 a-vear for life; and the
Town is thus saddled with a heavy burthen by a set of
meddling and brawling partisans, pledged to rigid eco-
nomy, for no better reason than that a despicable faction
might exercise patronage and reward a hanger-on. For
this purpose, a gentleman of great talent and experience
is turned adrift without any trial, and his office is given
to one who has not the tithe of the experience in public
business as his predecessor, and which was amply proved
before the municipal commissioners.
Let us look a little into the history of this affair—it is
pregnant with instruction whether applied to the past,
the present, or the future.
No man can be better qualified for the office of Town-
clerk than Mr. FOSTER; but Mr. FOSTER is a conserva-
tive—a supporter of the monarchical constitution of the
country—a friend of the established church—one who
cannot fawn and crouch and crawl upon all fours before

persons whom he has reason to despise; therefore, as a
matter of course, Mr. FosTErt found no favour in the
eyes of liberal reformers.

No man, on the whole can he less qualified for the
office of Town-clerk than Mr. RADCLIFFE, if sundry re-
ports be true; but he is not a supporter of the monarchi-
cal constitution of the country—he is not a friend of the
established church, but its enemy—he can fawn, and
crouch, and crawl, too, if need be, before persons whom
he ought to despise; therefore, as a matter of course, he
is just the man for sham liberals and mock reformers,
and several thousand pounds a-year of the public money
are put into his pockets.
Mr. Fosma, as most of our readers are aware, was
displaced on the Ist of January last. The act of parlia-
ment which gave the faction in power authority to turn
him out, also gave him 'a claim tocompensation to a very
large amount; so that his right was quite equal to that
of his enemies; yet these people (as they now openly
avow) took it i!ito their wise heads that they should be
able, by hook or by crook, to shuffle out of paying Mr.
FOSTER his due. In the course of the discussion, on
Wednesday, Councillor RATIIBONE unwittingly said that
though the committee had recommended a specific sum,
they "conceded" the compensation with "the greatest
reluctance." Councillor COGLAN went further. He
averred that Mr. FOSTER " was not entitled to one
penny," well knowing at the same time that he was "en-
titled," by act of parliament, to a sum nearer £4,000
than £2,500.
The committee, however, after a series of drixi ous in-
quiries, and the expenditure of a large amount of money,
made the discovery that they could not defeat Mr. Fos
TEE'S just claim, and within the last two months several
sums have been named from £1,500 to £2,300, as having
been offered to Mr. FOSTER; if this be true it proves the
shabby spirit in which these offers were made, not on ac-
count of the insufficiency of the sum, as from the outset
Mr. FOSTER stated, in his letter dated the 11th inst., that
he felt disposed to "meet the council liberally" on the
subject.

By referring to the report of the committee, the reader
will get a .glimpse of the ruinous machinery put in mo-
tion in this matter. A whole host of accountants were
organised to make calculations, and these gentlemen so'
bothered the shallow brains of Councillor RATIMONE
that the poor man seems to have been quite at sea. Then
Mr. Town-clerk RADCLIFFE is set to work; and he, in
turn, very naturally seeks the "eminent" assistance of
his London law-agent, Mr. FAULKNER, who gets sundry
"nice pickings," for he runs to the "public-officer,"
who naughty man, gave JOB'S comfort. Here we Ought
to ask, what right had the " public-officer" to give an
opinion on the subject? There was nothing before the
court to justify Mr. FAULKNER'S "influence" being used;
or had the "public-officer" any right to give an exparte
opinion, as the lawyers have it. In our opinion this
"public-officer" ought to be reported to his superiors.
Then a Mr. PATTERSON also had his tug at the purse-
strings; and the "advice" of Mr. CROMPTON and Mr.
RUSIITON was taken, and these disinterested and patriotic
liberals were so obliging as to take their fees in return
for their advice, which, after all, was worth nothing to
the unhappy committee, for the report tells us that Mr.
CROMPTON and Mr. RUSHTON, as well as Mr. -FAULKNER
and Mr. RADCLIFFE, were strongly in favour of a "com-
promise of £2,500." Wherefore ? Because that was
Mr. FOSTER'S due? Ah, no, good reader. These
"mousing" gentlemen had found out, in process of in-
vestigation, that the Lords of the Treasury would not
aid the council in their dirty designs upon Mr. FOSTER,
and that if he pushed his claim, and the matter had got
into the impartial hands of the "public-officer," it was
"seriously apprehended" (vide report of the commit-
tee) that Mr. FOSTER would obtain, not £1,500 not
£2,300, not £2,500, but at least £3,278 12s. 3d., pro-
bably a larger sum; therefore, as the report says, they
"advised" a "compromise of £2,500."

Poor Councillor RATIIBONE'S committee were thus
driven up into a corner---.-literally tailed to the wall by'
all their ample ears. Now mark the characteristic way
in which they played the subsequent part of the dis-
honest game.
Having ascertained that Mr. FOSTER was legally en-
titled to between three and four thousand pounds, and
might obtain that amount if he chose to put the council
to the expense of a legal appeal under the act, they seize
the opportunity of that gentleman's absence, dispatch
the Town-clerk to Mr. LLOYD, Mr. FOSTER'S partner,
with the "liberal" offer of £2,500. Mr. LLOYD good
naturedly entertains the proposition, under proper pre-
Cautions and stipulations—writes to his friend, Mr. Fos-
TER—describes to him, no doubt, the agitated state of
the Rathbonian nervous system—lays open to him, we
dare say, the secret workings of the paltry plot, for he
must have seen through the whole thing—and Mr. Fos-
TER takes pity on the woe-begone RATTIBONE, and saves
himself from further annoyance by accepting the proffered
£2,500, thus opposing to low trick a real and practical
liberality of spirit. It is clue to Mr. FOSTER to repeat
here, from his own letter, the actual and undeniable cir-
cumstances under which he consented to put an end to
the sacrifice of the public money in the vain and dis-
graceful pursuit of some possible method of perpetrating
an act of injustice by driving the Town Council coach-
and-six through the whig,r statute.
" I. wish to state (says Mr. Foster) that I am entirely led to
agree to this proposition from an anxious desire for the ami-
cable settlement of a question in which I am so personally con-
cerned, and likewise that in so doing I consider I am voluntarily
relinquishing a legal claim to more than £l,OOO per annum,
according to the terms of the treasury minute, upon the lowest
estimate of the profits of the offices held by my predecessor and
myself, and this not upon an average of the profits of the last five
years only, but upon the well known and acknowledged emolu-
ments for many preceding years.
" On accepting an amount of compensation so much below
the amount claimed, I feel it due to myself to make this state-
ment, as it might otherwise he inferred that I was conscious the
claim could not be supported as delivered; whilst on the other
hand, having always declared my readiness to meet the town
council liberally on the settlement of my claim, I trust my
acquiescence in theiir proposal to you will prove that I have
fulfilled that determination."

Well, then, having sped so far, and so fortunately, the
next consideration was how the SHELLS and the COGLANS
of the council might be best humbugged ; and it must
be confessed that the plan adopted was worthy of the bril-
liant genius of Mr. Chairman-of-Committee RATHBONE.
That worthy repairs to the council-chamber with the re-
port of the committee in his pocket, and, with an air of '
importance and mystery suited to the occasion, calls for
the "confidence" of his colleagues, and moves that the
report be adopted without being read. There were de-
tails in the report, be said, which the "other side" might
take advantage of, if the report went forth to the public
and were not agreed to by the council. He felt assured
that the council had full confidence, and so forth.
Alas! Mr. Councillor RATHBONE'S "assurance," though
notoriously great, stood him in poor stead this time. Mr.
Sum wished for something better, and talked of having
been sent into the council " to promote the interests of
his constituents," as if a single man, woman, or child in
the wide range of the municipal borough of Liverpool
cared a single straw about anything such a man may say
or do in his office of town•councillor ! Councillor Coo-
LAN also refused " confidence " to Mr. RATHBONE in his
own peculiarly mild and gentlemanly manner, and
growled out something that the reporters took for "bol-
stering up a system of oppression." I‘lr FOSTER'S
clai, '
excessivelyhe said, was so " monstrously extravagant, and
so
not be placed upon the shoulders of the council or upon
any
ties—upon the Lords of the Treasury. He (Mr. F.) was
a
unjust, that the onus of its payment should
f. the members of it, but upon those of other par-
not entitled to one penny." Now the report then lying
under this silly man's very nose established precisely the
contrary of his dogmatical assertions. It proved that Mr.
FosTEß's claim was below the just mark; and that he was
entitled to one thousand pounds a-year more than the
RATHBONE committee propose to give. We would, there-
fore, advise this head-over-heels unitarian radical to give
up the perilous practice of oratory and stick to his traffic
in shares if he is desirous that any human being should
in future place "confidence" in him.
The desire evinced to hear the report read socompletely
conglomerated Councillor RATHBONE that he fell into the
most pitiable mistakes. In contradiction to Mr. Stwir.,

he said that "it was not the treasury," but the Lords of
the Privy Council, with whom the decision on Mr.
roy-
TER'S claim rested, and it was easy to perceiVe (he added)
what would have been their situation in the hands of such
a body constituted as it was! Mr. SHELL, however, again
refused to place "confidence " in Mr. RATHBONE; and de-
clared that he (SHELL) was right in saying that the de-
cision lay with the treasury; and the Town-clerk, on be-
ing appealed to, was compelled to give his verdict against
his bosom friend, when Mr. RATHBONE apologised, and
expressed a hope that his ignorance would not be made
to attach to all the members of the committee of which
he was the head—and what a bead ! But this man's
impudence greatly exceeds his ignorance, profound as
the latter unquestionably is. He knows as little about
the Lords of the Council as about the municipal act and
the treasury; yet he dares to insinuate that that body
would depart froml, its sworn duty for the purpose of
putting a little money into Mr. FOSTER'S pockets! The
best of the joke is—for RATHBONE'S public acts are so su
premely ridiculous they are a general jest—that the Lords
of the council, "constituted as that body is," consist, in
the present disorder of things, almost wholly of politicians
of his own stamp.

Mr. HOPE proposed to cut the gordian knot. He pro-
posed to exclude the reporters. He had in his pocket
some cut-and-dry " calculations " on the subject of the
compensation, he intimated, and he would produce them,
and even go further, if the reporters were excluded!
Mr. HOPE is wise in his generation. While the reporters
are present he acts most discreetly in keeping his "cal-
culations " to himself.

The report, however, was read, and then out came Mr,
RATHBONE'S cat from the bag. Then it was seen that if
the council did not agree to give Mr. FOSTER the £2,500,
which 113 forbearingly consented to accept, they would
have to pay him nearly £l,OOO more ; so the report was
adopted by forty-five to two. The illustrious pair of dis-
sentiems were COGLAN and MAXWELL. We have seen
what manner of
.man the former is; he has a patent right
to absurd wrong-headedness. As to Councillor MAX-
WELL, his radicalism is so rank that it long since over-
grew his modicum of common sense, therefore he was
quite in character.

Now let the great, opulent, and honourable Town of
Liverpool contemplate these doings of the men who, by
virtue of a whip Act of Parliament, presume to call
themselves its Council. Not only have these economists
burthened the borough with £2500 a year by their scan-
dalous dismissal of Mr. FOSTER ; hut, under the guidance
of Mr. RATHBONE, they add to the injustice they have
done Mr. FOSTER in that dismissal by depriving him of
his right as established by their own inquiries. If they
had entertained a proper sense of honour, they would
have given Mr. FOSTER all that was due to him, having
ascertained it at the cost of so much labour and so much
public money, after having fenced with him and misre-
presented and abused him for a period of six months.
Councillor COGLAN protests against the onus of pay•
ment being placed upon the shoulders of the council or
those of any of its members; and this is also the lan-
guage of the base journals in the pay of the grovelling fac-
tion. But even the pothouse politicians refuse to be made
the dupes of this shallow artifice. If it is the Council,
and the Council alone, upon whom the scandal rests of
having saddled the Borough with the £2500 per annum,
in all probability for many years to come, for Mr. FOSTER
is in the vigor of manhood—and long may he live to
enjoy theconfusion of his mean-spirited enemies !—for it
was the Council, and the Council alone, who dismissed
Mr. FOSTER, thus rendering compensation necessary and
inevitable.

One word more, and we have done for the present.
Having bared to the public gaze the gross and disgraceful
jobbery with regard to Messrs. FAULKNER, RUSHTON,
CROMPTON, RADCLIFFE, the Accountants, &c., we must
be allowed to express a hope thai at the very first oppor-
tunity some independent member of the municipal body
will move for the production of a statement of the expense
thus incurred. Let the burgesses see into what hands
they have fallen—let them see what awaits them
as to the future, unless, as each succeeding Novem-
ber arrives they do their duty by making a clear sweep of
the precious "councillors" who have so glaringly-com-
promised the public interests.

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—As it appears very improbable
that these schools will ever be of any advantage to the town
under the new system, and as the Corporation funds are being
fast exhausted in meeting demands for compensation, and
prosecuting legal proceedings, instituted for no public advantage,
but solely to gratify the political hatred of some members of the
council, we think such a bargain for the two schools might just
now be made as would relieve the council from the onerous
task of taking charge of the rising generation
REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.--In the Standard of this day
week, we stated, upon the information of a person connected
with the family of Mr. Baines, that that gentleman would re-
tire from the representation of the borough at the termination of
the present session. Coming from such a source, we had no
hesitation in publishing the circumstance, believing it to be
true. It appears, however, from a statement published in the hon.
member's own newspaper, that he has no intention of resigning
his seat during the present parli iment, and that Mr. Croker,
whom we mentioned as having been named as his successor,
would not be returned if put in nomination. Now what is the
meaning of this ? He has no intention of resigning during the
present parliament. Mr. Baines knows very well that it is be-
lieve,' on all hands, the present parliament will never be called
together again—that it will be dissolved before Christmas and
that he will not then tender his services to the electors of Leeds.
Therefore, we were not far wrong in asserting that his parlia-
mentary career would terminate with the present session. Will
he tell us point blank whether our information is not now " ac-
curate" ? As to Mr. Croker, we understand that he would
be a very formidable competitor with even Mr. Baines, to say
nothing of a less plausible person, for the second 'seat, ad-
mitting, of course, the return of Sir John Beckett to be certain.
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens now present a
most delightful resort; the numerous plants and flowers being
in full foliage and flower. Some of the flowers are very rare,
and very beautiful specimens of the kind, and almost entitle
the gardens to the epithet of a Botanical Garden, as well as to
its present cognomen. Mr. Atkins, the spirited proprietor, has
recently erected a new building, adjoining the gardens, which
which he has converted into a museum, and which is in process
of formation. The museum, besides collections of rare stuffed
birds, skins, shells, &c. already contains, perhaps, one of the
finest entomological collections in the kingdom.
WONDERFUL ESCAPE..—On Sunday night, about twelve
o'clock, as Inspector Heaton was going his rounds down
Prussia-street, when opposite Mr. Johnson's, publican, a man
suddenly fell flat from the top (three story) window, on the
flags before him. On raising him he found him quite insensi-
ble, but after a few moments he came round, and commenced
abusing the police, asking them "what the devil they wanted ?"
Inspector Heaton immediately sent for Dr. Broadfey from the
Dispensary, who quickly arrived. On examining the man,
however, he was found, most surprisingly, to be uninjured.
The man's name is John Hill, from Wallasey, audit appeared
that he had been drinking all day, and had gone up stairs to
bed and opened the window, when he was so drunk that he
tumbled out.
A petition has been presented to the House of Commons by
Lord Sandon, from the bakers of Liverpool, praying for per-
mission to make ship biscuits, for the use of outward hound
vessels, from bonded flour.
LIVERPOOL AND NEW OR LEA N A.—A meeting has been held
at New Orleans for the purpose of forming a line of flist sailing
packets, between that port and Liverpool. It was determined
that it should be formed if a sufficient number of subscribers
could be obtained.
A JAIL-BIRD.—Ann Hall was, for the one-ltundretl and stmt)
time, committed to the borough House of Correction. On her
last appearance at the Police-office, a calculation was made,
by which it was ascertained that she had, although lint little
more than 30 years of age, passed
form oretha_u ten years of that
time in prison, as a punishment her disorderly conduct.
Mr. Hall sent her for another 14 days, and she left the bar ex-
claiming, " Thank God! fourteen days will not hurt me after
being in prison for ten years !
The brig Irish Lass, Captain Samuel Gandy, arrived at this
port on Sunday last from
.St. John's, Newfoundland,*fter tire
unusually short passage ot eleven days.
Charles Blundell, Esq., of Ince, near Liverpool, has very'
liberally returned 25 to 30 per cent., to his tenants, last rent-
day.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRITANNIA SONS OF MERSEY SO.
CIETY.—Con Tuesday last, the members of this society held
their anniversary dinner at the house of Mr. John Dredge, the
Blue Bell Inn, in London-road. The dinner was a most ex-
cellent one, and was served up in the first style, doing much
credit to the landlord. After the cloth had been removed, the
following toasts were drank amidst loud applause :--" The
King," three times three; " The Queen and Royal Family,"
three times three; " The Army and Navy," three times three ;
" The Land we live in," three times three; " The Representa-
tives of the Borough," three times three; " Our worthy Chief
Magistrate, William Wallace Currie, Esq.," three times three ;
" Mr. and Mrs. Dredge, and thanks to I hem for the excellent
manner in which they have provided fur and conducted this
feast," three times three ; " The Britannia Sons of Mersey
Society, and may they enjoy health, wealth, and prosperity,s
three times three ; " The health of Dr. Gillow," three times
three; " The President and Officers of the Society,',
0,,, three,
times three. The members, after enjoying themselyest ther
other in love and harmony, and congratulating each
early hour, the
'On the
prosperous state of the society, broke
up
greatest hilarity and good order having pr a
prevailed aniied throughout.
CAUTION TO CAR DRIVERS.—On Saturday, at the Police Wainwright's car'
office, William Roon, the driver of V
No. 9, was brought before the
magistratesiilian r
on the information
of Barton, charged with gallopingctown Parker-street, after the
London mail, on Tuesday afternoon last, and afterwards plying
hire in Church-street, a place not appointed
The carmen to the ointed for a stand. It was
a practice much complained against.
num-
ber of five or six were in the habit of galloping after the mail
to the great danger of persons in the street, in order to secure
a fare from the coach. He was fined ss. and costs. Mr. H all
remarking if this would not put a stop to it, they must take
severer measures. Several other informations of a precisely
similar nature were laid: