The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

we submit t

the cornri

)nd to none of its local contemporaries in
nee and extent of its circulation.

rtant Chan

well known, has

n made in the principle upon which a
Liverpool is conducted ; and

felt it their duty to their friends and the commu-
nity to take the lead. On the 15th of December
the publishing price of their paper was reduced to
threepence. The step was a hazardous one ; it was
a direct sacrifice of an ascertained profit resulting
from its circulation. Public interests, however,
seemed to them to require that sacrifice. It ap-
peared to them that a boon would be secured to
the public by conferring upon them, at a cheaper
rate, the advantages of a well-conducted, moral,
and healthy press; and they ventured upon the
experiment, in the confident hope that their motives
would be appreciated, and the sacrifice submitted
to, made up to them. In this hope, they are happy
to state, that they have not been disappointed.
The circulation of the STANDARD has been
TRIPLED SINCE THE CHANGE,

Of course ti

and it is steadily increasin
but through new channels

not only in Liverpool,
a the districts around;

whilst the
A

,dverti

g favours of their friends are

owing in in a largely-increased ratio, as the co-
lumns of the STANDARD for the last two months
will abundantly prove.

The enquiry before Mr. Page and- Mr. Ellison,
the government commissioners, into the merits of
the, scheme, projected by the corporation, for sup-
plying the town with water from the high lands
zhbourhood. of Rivington

and streams in the n€

Pike, has now conc

d ; and we may, without
presumption, offer to our readers our views of the
bearing of the evidence adduced, both with respect
to that scheme and the claims of the existing com-
panies, upon the confidence of the public. We
shall principally, however, for reasons which we
shall explain before concluding our remarks, dwell
upon the case made out in behalf of those Com-

an opportunity of cross-examination ; and migi
even have been able to rebut Mr. Cunningham
objection. We have heard, however;
the course of the inquiry of any s -
neither has Mr. Cunningham been called to give
)prietors of the STANDARD any evidence. •

le Health Committee

nothing in

n directing

ness of purpose, and with a view to promoting
the success of a project which they regard as one
calculated to benefit the town. 'We cannot think,
however, that it will serve them in those inquiries
which will have to be gone into
should it appear that the evidence of a witness

)efore parhampn

selected by themselves, has been kept back ; and
that such evidence is opposed to the validity og, the
case made out by Mr. Hawksley. An explanation
of the grounds upon which it has been determined
not to examine Mr. Cunningham would be must
satisfactory to the public mind.
It does really appear to us, from the whole facts,
as at present elicited, that the council would do

tify personal jealousies, or to advance incipie

ambition

We a

of

;lad to perceive, from the
the Commissioners-ye,sterday, that there
disposition to return to a better state of things

'ems a

LIVERPOOL COURT OF. BANKRUPTCY

plicatiodvi
part of M

er the sitting of the court on Friday, an ap-
made to Mr. Commissioner Perry, on the
Stockdale and Son, whose failure some
led such excitement. in the mercantile world,

against ther
Mr. Norr

Mr. Harvey

Hemingway, of tl

Mr. Bard

Il onT b

Stockdale's dead of insr

iupport the fia

contmt
It apps

I, and the manner in which it had been paid.
ed that the Messrs Stockdale had purchased a
aatity of palm oil from him (Hemingway) for
which he alleged that he never' had been paid, and also

1, however, was d
d havh

Mr. Hemimmay admit
deed of corn'

On th

signed the bankrupt's
iit was thoughtthe

.e nature of the case, which iastea nu
afternoon, the court adjourned.
are resumed shortly after eleven o'clock
and the evidence of Mr. Hemingway was pro-
. a.t crraat lenrth. in the coarse of which he

four o'clock in t
The sittings w

6d. in tile pounc

stated that after receiving 2s.
dividend due him under the deed of composition, he was
-k loser to the amount of £7.564, in consequence of
,f the Messrs. Stockdale.
Evidence of a contrary and rebutting charNeter was then

failure o

gone into, from which it ay
acknowledged to Mr. Fry, the accountant forihe trustees,
after having made a very careful examination of the state
of his account with the Messrs. Stockdale, as set forth in

their own ledger,
fled with the fact

that, alt
, still it

by no means satis-

)peared he had no. claim ton
The examination of these two witnesses

ijourned till one this day

lock, th

y the Rev. Henr

Hampton, the sum of £7B' Bs. was collected at St.
James's Church for the distressed Irish and Scotch.
On Sunday morning,, after a sermon in St. Philip's
lman-street, by the Rev. Mr. Burton, In-
sum of £95 was collected for the destitute

cumberit

A contemporary is surprised how Mr. Robert Roxby
could be playing in Manchester. It is easily accounted
or; Mr. Roxby had the permission of Mr. Simpson,
essee of the Theatre-Royal, to appear there for one night.
We hear that the Rev. Mr. Griffiths, who is to preach
Lt. St. 'David's Church, in this town, on Sunday next, and
rst of March, is one of the most talented
kinisters in Wab
Last

at the Assembly RA

We shall i)X
DAY of

See• adv
ght

Mr. W. M

mnpanied with some beautiful illustrations.
,bably notice the subject ftwther next week.
qATIONAL HUMILIATION.—The petition to

ieir gr

ions 'of a the committee and th

of destitution al

MEETING OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ST.
JUDE'S FUND, FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
DISTRESSED IN •IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.

A meeting of the above was held yesterday, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, to determine upon the further seeps to be
taken for the relief of their destitute brethren in Ireland
and in Scotland. The chair was taken by the Rev. Canon
11`Neile, incumbent of St. Jude's ; and we noticed a
number of influential members of the congregation

rral letters were rend' by the rev. chairman, and Ti 3
-v. John .Tnnp;. fnfne corresnondents in Ireland

ace of their

Jones, stated