The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-07 00:00:00

TO THE iIEV. DR. BUTLER

SlR,—Tbe apostle Peter tells us that the blessed iestis
left us an example that we should follow his steps, that when
he was reviled he reviled not again, when he suffered he
threatened not. A true minister of that Holy Saviour, sur-
rounded by hundreds of immortal souls, would have his
thoughts and his words occupied with some holier theme
than the ridicule of one opponent, and the slander of
another. He would remember, that although for a time he
might secure the laugh of the thoughtless, the careless, and
the profane, yet when he would have to render up an
account of those souls at the judgment seat of Christ, the
laugh of a moment would be a poor compensation for the
eternal frown of Him who will not be mocked, and who
cannot be escaped. _ _

As a Minister of Christ I feel it my solemn duty thus
publicly to rebuke the desecration of his holy day of which
you have been guilty. I can truly say I do so in the spirit
of earnest, fervent prayer, that God may give you repent-
ance to the acknowledgement of the truth, and give grace to
the immortal souls who were addressed by you on Sunday
evening, to seek more suitable teaching.

We both, Sir, now occupy a most solemn an:l responsible
position. It is not the passing politics of a day which has
brought our names before the public, it is the eternal inter-
ests of millions, it is God's truth, the Saviour's glory, the
sinner's hope, the saint's reward. . .

We stand in a position one towards another calculated to
draw out the worst feelings of the human heart, so much so
that " odium theologicum" has become a proverb. And may
I ask, Sir, at such a moment, what ought to be our state of
mind? If ever a true Christian needs holy watchfulness,
deep prayerfulness, and earnest waiting upon God, it is when
the eves of thousands are fixed upon him; the partizans at
one side to applaud, and those on the other to watch for his
halting; when the interests of truth are in no small degree
entrusted to Him, and the eternal destinies of many souls
are, humanly speaking, depending on his demeanour and
reasoning. Ah, Sir, had those been your feelings on Sunday
evening, the audience of St. Anthony's would have heard
something more suited to the professed purpose for which
they were assembled than the printed report of your sermon
exhibits.

The Liverpool Mercury is said to have announced that
you were to state your reasons for not meeting me in oral
discussion. You much mistake an English audience, com-
posed though it might be of persons as yet but a short time
resident in this happy country, if you think the reasons
alleged will satisfy any reflecting persons amongst them. I
shall examine your supposed proofs of my incompetency to
enable them to form a better judgment of them. They are
these :

1. Mr. Baylee's " face indicated that he had been in many
a battle."

He " had absolutely held a controversy with a socialist.';
When Dr. Butler's lectures were answered, he would
the man who answered them in an oral discussion.
Mr. Baylee is a little man.
He is unable to write ten lines of good English.
He is ignorant of Latin.
7. He made a mistake respecting the existing eastern
bishops

Mr. Baylee holds the doctrine of the real presence
9. He confounds oblation with sacrifice.

10. He had thrown Martin Luther overboard. These, sir,
are all the disqualifications alleged by you according to the
published report of your sermon. A simple perusal of them
is sufficient to shew the character of the person who alleged
them. A few observations upon them, however, will not be
out of place. To some of them I plead guilty. It is true
that I have been in many a battle, and that my face indicates
it. It is true that my opponents in those battles were a Ro-
man Catholic Archbishop and seventeen priests. It is also
true that that archbishop succeeded in having my life at-
tacked, that he described me and my faithful companions as
`• venemous fanatics," that one of his attendant priests ad-
vised the people to beat us off with stones, and that the arch-
bishop promised to save the people the trouble of fishing-
boats, for that, by his episcopal blessing, he would bring the
fish up on the shores, provided they would drive me out of
the island. Yes, sir, it is an awful fact that, upon the re-
commendation of a Romish Archbishop, I was a prisoner for
two days in a little island, and saved my life (under God)
only by descending a steep cliff of ::bout 400 feet, and escaping
in a boat.

It is also true that another priest in the same diocese sent
two men after me, who nearly deprived me of life ; and that
the same priest was not ashamed to avow before a bench of
magistrates that he had ordered the people " to put me out
of their houses with pitchforks."
It is true that another priest excited the inhabitants of
another island to seize me, and that I was rescued by an
armed force, or I should have lost my life. That same
priest pleaded the cause of those men, and offered to pay
the fine inflicted upon them.
Upon another occasion, sir, I received a severe stroke,
from a stone, in my head for asserting that the consecrated
host is not God. On ten different occasions has my life been
assailed by the direct agency of Romish priests. The only
crime alleged against me was that I was " a proselytizing
adventurer."

I confess, sir, I was not prepared to find a chamberlain
of the pope*" in one of the most enlightened cities of pro-
testant England, making a jest of persecutions which one
would suppose policy would have led him to deny.
But you say " Whether they had been well fought battles
was another question."
That is a question to be decided before another tribunal.
Sure I am that when I meet my Saviour, and shall be like
Him, seeing Him as He is, He will have for ever blotted out
all of human infirmity that had mingled with those scenes,
and accept the service which, through his grace, the stone
and the pitch-fork did not deter me from rendering to Him.
Our weapons, sir, did not allow an ill-fought battle. They
are enumerated in that chapter which so fearfully describes
the fall of Rome—they were the blood of the Lamb, the
word of our testimony, and loving not our lives unto the
death."—Rev. 12,11. Those scenes often enabled us to say
with the apostle " We both hunger and thirst, and are naked
and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place—being
reviled we bless ; being persecuted we suffer it ; being de-
famed, we intreat ; we are made as the filth of the earth, and
are the off-scouring of all things."—l Cor. 4, 11-13.

Hard as such service might appear in the eyes of the
world, it was indeed a happy one ; the remembrance of it is
still sweet.

I write not this, sir, to obtain the poor applause of men,

. ,
but because I believe the occasion demands it. I trust that
then and now our hearts' desires have been " Not unto us,
0 Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory." _

if we may judge of a well-fought contest by results, I can
tell you, sir, that a protesting catholic congregation, wor-
shipping God in their native language (Irish,) has been per-
manently fixed in those quarters, that a faithful minister of
Christ is their pastor, and that more than 200 children are
now receiving a Christian education who would otherwise
have been as Romanists, worshipping the works of their own
hands, and giving that service and homage to the creature
which is due to the Creator.

2. Your second objection is that I had held a controversy
with a Socialist. On this ground St. Paul would have been
incompetent to meet Dr. Butler, for he disputed in a court-
house with every atheist and idolater who opposed him:.

3. As I am about to answer your lectures Ishall be able to
remove your third objection.

4. I did not at first understand the meaning of a person's
being a little man making him an incompetent theological
disputant. However, when I connected this with the former
one about the scarred face, it reminded me that physical
force, not metaphysical, is what Rome most values. You
probably forgot that you were not then delivering a lecture
at St. Clement's College, Rome ; but at St. Anthony's

Liverpool.
5,6, 9. Your sth, 6th, and 9th objections I may meet in
this way. If we meet in oral controversy, I pledge myself
to bring no prepared translation of any passage quoted by
me ; but produce the author's writings, and to read them
into " good English." Of this, sir, I am persuaded ;if
your education has been a Maynooth one, you will not do
the same.
On this score, then, we shall hear no more of incompetency.
7. I re-assert that there are throughout the east, at this
day, episcopal churches descended from the apostles, and
holding no communion with Rome.
8. I do not understand, how, holding the doctrine of the
real presence could be a proof of incompetency. Dr. Butler
asserts that the scriptures teach it. Ido believe, and rejoice
in believing, that Christ really and substantially, although
not materially, but, after a spiritual and heavenly manner,
communicates himself to the soul of the devout believer, at
his holy table. Every Church of England clergyman has
sworn to his belief of it. _ _ .

10. Mr. Baylee never threw Martin Luther overboard.
He simply asserted that Luther never set foot in England,
never founded our church, nor framed one of our doctrines.
Luther was indeed a glorious servant of God ; yet, I am as
far from making myself responsible for all his statements,
as Dr. Butler is from holding himself accountable for every-
thing written by St. Jerome or St. Augustine.
I have now, sir, examined all your allegations of incompe-
tency, and, for the present, conclude by assuring you, that
while I cannot respect the exhibition of character you have
shown since your coming to Liverpool, my heart's desire and
prayer to God is that you may be saved, that the souls now
led by you, and by those who think with you, to eternal ruin,
may be taught of God, and that in any future communica-
tion we may both act as men, who remember, that for every
idle word we shall give account at the day of judgment.
That the Great Giver of all Good may fill us with his Holy
Spirit, make us accordant witnesses for his heavenly truth,
and instruments in his hands of giving to many souls " the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ," is, sir, the earnest prayer of your obedient
servant, JOSEPH BAYLEE.
Parkfield, May 5, HD.
* Dr. Butler designates himself as a Chamberlain to the
Pope, and formerly President and Professor of Divinity in
St. Clement's College, Rome.

Tic DoLouttoux.—We feel gratified in hearing that Mr.
Cronin has been successful in completely relieving this most
agonising of all nervous affections. Most of our contempo-
raries have favorably noticed this gentleman's treatise or
this and other painful nervous affections ; the rapid sale of
which, is the best proof how the public estimate his treat.
ment.—See advt.

PORTRAIT OF WM. COMER, ESQ.—We understand that
a portrait of this gentleman, by T. H. Illidge, Esq., is
nearly completed. The services of Mr. Illidge have been
employed by the committee and friends of the deaf and dumb
institution, in this town, of which Mr. Comer is well known
as a long tried and zealous friend. The likeness is admirable.

VOTES OF LANCASHIRE MEMBERS.—In the division
lists upon the amendment proposed by Lord Hock in the
franchise clause of the government Irish voters bill, we find
the names of the members connected with this county in the
following order :—For the amendment, Lord Stanley, Mr.
Patten, Lord F. Egerton, the Hon. B. Wilbraham, Lord
Sandon, Mr. Townley Parker, Mr. Ainsworth, Mr. Black-
burne, Mr. Bolling, Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Feilden, Mr.
Greene, and Mr. Martin, in all, 13. For the original clause,
Sir H. Fleetwood, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Fenton,
Mr. Fielden, Mr. Fort, Mr. Greg, Mr. Hindley, Mr. Mark
Philips, Mr. Standish, and Mr. Walker, in all, 11. The
names of Gen. Johnson and Mr. Turner are in the list of
absentees. If, therefore, we give the two absent members to
the minority, (and in all probability they would have voted
for the original clause) it would appear that the votes of the
members connected with this county would have been eqnally
balanced on the question.
TIIE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.-Mr. Smith Barry's bunters
are to be sold off to-morrow by Mr. Lucas, at the kennels at
Sandiway-bead, in Cheshire. This will be a rare opportunity
for those gentlemen who are interested in the sports of the
field and the chase to supply themselves with a capital ani-
mal. Mr. S. Barry's stud has been long celebrated for its
blood, bone, and speed. Mr. Lucas will sell also two other
lots after the sale of the stud, in both of which some first-
rate nags will be offered up to public competition. Consider-
able interest is excited in the sporting world by this sale, and
much regret is felt upon the occasion of Mr. Smith Barry's
resignation of a post he has filled with so much honour to
himself, and satisfaction to his neighbours, a many years.
CONCERTS AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—The splendid band
now performing at the Amphitheatre, is exciting the utmost
admiration and delight amongst the musical amateurs • over-
tures, quadrilles and waltzes are played with the most brilliant
efforts, excellence and spirit. There has been nothing heard
like this band since Strauss was here ; it consists of 20 perfor-
mers, all of whom are celebrated as solo instrumentalists.
Mr. Frisch on the flute reminds us of Drouit, and Herr Muller
of Harper, but Mr. Prospere on the ophicleide stands alone.
He produces the most astonishing effects from this instru-
ment. Mr. Laurent upon the cornet a piston is very clever :
his tones are clear and his execution brilliant. Mr. Julien
on the piccolo delights all who hear him on this novel and
bird-like instrument. It is a great treat to hear
thet hishne
band—everything is played with such spirit, that
even-
ing is over before it seems half commenced.

I FEW THOUGHTS ON VIE CONTEMPLATED
REDUCTION OF THE FOREIGN SUGAR DU-
TIES.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.

I believe it will scarcely be denied, by any unprejudiced
person who has studied the subject, that our West India
colonies, already brought to the brink of ruin by the destruc-
tive policy pursued towards them by our liberal government
during the last few years, but particularly by the thwarting
of all the measures adopted by the colonists for pr
free labourers to cultivate their soil, are now do -
ruin, if the proposition made by the C.
chequer, to reduce the duty on foreig
into effect. It may be proved as clearly as figs
that the actual cost, in labour alone, of producing
dredweight of sugar, under the present defective system in
the West Indies, is more than double the whole cost of pr.(
ducing an equal quantity in a slave country. What, thei
is the use of a protecting duty of 50 per cent. as propose
by government? It would be just as well for the West I
dian that they were equalised at once, as he can no E
compete with the planter of Brazil or Cuba on the t(
proposed, than he can without the aid of any prc
whatever

,ugars,

government

The immediate reasons assigned by tl
proposing so sweeping a measure, at present,
I. The very high prices paid for the article of late, and
the consequent burden on the country in so important
an element of consumption.
11. The pressing exigencies of the revenues of the coun-
try, which must be recruited from some source. And
111. The benefits to our manufacturing interest, which.
it is asserted, would result from an application of the
principles of free trade to foreign sugar-growing coun-
tries.

Let us examine the bearing
detail.

of these points a little in

I. The first, though certainly a serious evil, particularly to
the poorer inhabitants of this country, is not one of unmiti-
gated severity to its general interests, as it is solely by its
influence that the existence of our West India colonies, as

productive dependencies of the British crown, has of late
been preserved, in the face of the tremendous falling off in
the production of their staple commodities, consequent on
the want of labour; and the very enhanced rate at which
that diminished quantity has been produced. But this
evil, already in process of being remedied by the
enlarged imports from our East India possessions, may
be entirely removed without the enormous sacrifice
which the adoption of the Chancellor's plan involves, by
simply encouraging the resort from various quarters, but
particularly from Africa, of a class of labourers adapted to
the soil and climate of those Colonies. The cause why
such prohibitory restrictions have been laid on the
stream of emigration that promised at one time to pour
into so excellent a labour market, was the outcry against what
they called a revival of the slave trade, raised by individuals
of that very party who are now loudest in their exclaina-
Lions for the virtual encouragement of slavery and the slave
trade, which would inevitably follow the adoption of the pro-
posed measure. To such contradictory results are we led by
a blind adherence to the principles of (so called) expedien-
cies. We see then that government, after having by the
policy it has pursued of late years, produced an evil now ac-
knowledged to exist, instead of endeavouring to apply such a
remedy as would form some, though but a tardy reparation
to the interests most aggrieved, attempt to neutralize its ef-
fects by a plan, which will certainly give the death-blow to
those they have already so deeply injured, and utterly rejects
a principle of their own, which has been ever one of their
rallying cries, and the maintenance of which they have consi
dered cheaply purchased at the price of £20,000,000 o'
money, an annual expenditure of many thousands ofponnds
and the sacrifice of the lives of hundreds of our fellow-sub.
jects. It is indeed time that this principle of expediency is
legislation should be numbered with the things tl

at were,

arid that our legislators should learn that when a-great leading
principle is once affirmed, it should not be wantonly rejected,
whenever " the pressure from without," or any other tempo-
rary excitement, assails it. Unless the country has some gua-

rantee that such are the views of those in bib
that in their hands the great bulwarks of pro_
from the turbulent waves of popular commotion, society will
lose its stability ; and when its foundations are once sapped,
and the superstructure " nods to its fall," all the nostrums
of political economists and legislative charlatans will be in-
sufficient to prevent its speedy and tremendous downfall.
11. Let us next examine the second reason assigned for
this change in the sugar duties, viz.,

peal, arc

The pressing exigencies of the revenue, which shows a very
serious deficit, and must be recruited from some quarter. I
will not enter here on the vexata queeslio of what has caused
this deficiency, further than to mention that the principal
ones assigned are the increased expenditure on the navy and
army, particularly the former, in consequence of the warlike
aspect of affairs during the past year, and the actual hostili-
ties carried on in two quarters of the globe {-and which, in
one case at least, cannot yet be dispensed with), and the de-
ficiency arising from the new post-office regulations. Now,
we put it to the sense of justice of the country, whether a
debt, incurred for the support of measures considered
necessary for the preservation of the peace of Eu-
rope, for the placing of our commercial relations with
the Celestial Empire on a more favourable footing, or

for the obtaining such a great national boon as the penny
postage has undoubtedly proved, should be defrayed by ruin-
ing the prospects of our West Indian fellow-subjects, who
have derived no benefit from the operation of either of the
causes which have led to the present unfavourable aspect of
our financial relations. I see no very wide difference between
such a proceeding, and that of the man, who, feeling
convenience of an empty exchequer, sallies forth
down the first unprotected person he meets

ears heavier than his Means of protecting it twerpOw
l.

11. Let us now just glance at the third division which I

been made of this subject, viz. the expected benefits which
it is asserted will result to our manufacturing interests, from
an extension of the principles of free trade to foreign sugar-

•owing countries
In dilating on this subject, its supporters do n
ave taken into their calculations the immediate fallin,,
od ultimate annihilation of our exports to t
which, in proportion to the number of inhal
Sore of our manufactures than any other part of the
xcept our Australian colonies), and the serious reduction of

itants, consume

those to our sugar-growing possessions
would inevitably follow, on the introduction of the pro
posed alteration in the tariff—a diminution which would
infinitely more than counterbalance any increase, a large
portion of which too is for export, to the unhappy slaves of

in the East, which

For itinust be re-
-1

cs has now

Africa, to be bartered for hunian beings
membered that the free labourer of the West In
become a large consumer of the manufactures of this coun-
try, and is rapidly acquiring a taste for the comforts of life,
which, with a prosperous state of that country, would go on
increasing; which the poor slave who labours on in hope his
bondage, for the aggrandizement of his master, partakes not

,
of the-benefits for which he toils, but still plods on his weary
round, in no respect differing from the beasts of burden,
who are his fellow-slaves, save in the possession of those
higher hopes and aspirations which must only add to the bit-
terness of his state of degradation.! !Let not, therefore, the
manufacturer delude himself by the idea that he is opening
new and extended vents from his inerchandize, when he is
seconding the efforts of those who seek for selfish ends, to
bring about this change—rather let him throw the wtiO;t of
his influence into the opposite scale, where with— his own

truest interests, he will find associated the efforts of the phi-
lanthropist, and the fervent wishes of all who wish their country
well. Although our government has ever appeared very forward
in asserting the rights of the negro population of the West
Indies, and have shown quite as little scruples in discarding the
claims of the planters, they do not seem to have sufficiently
taken into consideration, when planning their recent attack
on the West India interests, the consequences which will
result, from its success, to that very population. What is
to prevent their returning to the same state of wild and
savage nature—to which undoubtedly the soil now smiling

under the influence of civilization, and so capable of indeed
becoming " a land overflowing with milk and honey," will
speedily return—when the European,with his skill and capital,
is driven to take refuge in some other clime, - is
interests have the advantage of some more fostering pro-
tection. This is no idle theory ; the state of St. Domingo,
now rapidly returning to that state of primeval nature in
which it was before Columbus landed on its fruitful shores.

where 11

is a melancholy evidence of what the negro population wi
do when the master spirit of the European has fled and I
them to themselves.
Let us remember that by the ruin of the West In,'"
will show practically to the world, that all our noble
interested efforts for the amelioration of the
have proved abortive ; impression will be continue,.
they are unfitted for any higher purposes than to be on
hewers of wood and drawers of water ; the shackles of th
captive throughout the world will be rivetted beyond the pus

IS egro rac

ibility of beiiig severed, and the last ray of hope for his el
ion iu the scale of humanity be quenched for ever.

REPRESENTATION OF SANDWICH.—We have reason to
believe that Mr. H. H. Lindesey, a staunch Conservative,
will start for Sandwich, in the room of Sir Rufane Donitin,

eceased

A SHROPSHIRE PATRIARCH.—Died on Sunday week,
aged 106 years, Francis Wilding, of Shepton Fields, in the
full possession of all his mental and great part of his corpo-
real faculties. Mr. Wilding, throughout the extended period
during which he existed, was mostly occupied in farming and
sheep-rearing, on a farm he held under lease from an ances-
tor of the present Hon. Mr. Powys, of Berwick, in which
family he held a situation as upper servant SO years ago.
After he had turned his SOth year, he began again to conduct

the farm of which he held the lease, his-relatives havii
ken one of greater extent : and when calling on the n
men of the town to order the necessary articles, he laugi;
entreated them to deal tenderly with him, he being a 3
beginner ! Up to the third year before his death 11(
forinly attended in the harvest field, and presided at the
on his own sheep shearing festival.—Shropshire papei

SUICIDE.-Mr. Richard Minshall, a facetious, s;irewd,
and clever man, long known in the neighbourhood of Osives.
try for his convivial powers, and his sarcastic drollery, has
become a victim to sunken spirits and altered habits. All
his family, he said, had died in the 49th year, and he, being
just that age, could not break the. charm. On Saturday last,
during the temporary absence of his wife, and whilst several
persons were in the house with him, he was observed by a
child to come into his parlour and gaze around the room as if
registering in his mind its contents, and then went up stairs
towards his bed-room. Some one having called in the shop,
on business of importance, the child called out for Mr. M in-
shall, and receiving no answer, became alarmed, and applied
to a neighbour to see what had become of him, and on prk)-
ceeding up stairs, they were horrified at finding the bode
suspended from a nail in the wall, by a very slight cord, ‘vith
which he had contrived to deprive himself of life,
his body was on the ground. All attempts to restot
Con were fruitless, the jerk he had received on his f
having destroyed him.—Shropshire paper.

FREEMASONRY.—There cannot be a doubt but much of
the prosperity of the order has been owing to the Freema-
sons' Quarterly Review ; which, by offering a vehicle fur re-
cording its proceedings in every part of the globe, has intro-
duced a spirit of emulation amongst the lodges, to compete
with each other in promoting the holy feelings of brotherly
love and charity. This invaluable record displays moral
worth and active diligence wherever it is found to exist, and
while any remissness in the masonic authorities receives its
proper stimulus, a steady and regular discharge of duty pro-
duces applause. Hence the craft is highly indebted to this
periodical, for the benefits it has conferred on the institution
and its prolonged existence forms a striking feature in the
history of freemasonry at the present periodmoinentotis
Dr. Oliver's History of Freemasonry, 1829 to 1840.

UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday evening an
unhappy occurrence took place on the road between this city
and the village of Calnbus 1 a n g . Itei,
baadeptpbwcejaexrnts
at tetlnica
aat
ninadbcue collier
t‘li;
named John Dunn, and his wife, who live at Eastend, where
otlniebfaosrimpresrs,isaeamd prileoryeelgirii.ggliheiolm',
o'clock, when they were overtaken by two individuals, both
of whom move in a respectable sphere of life, and who were
passing walking
upon
into thet
h scity.
footpath, Some a altercationnd
unfortunately
collisiont w t e n
the parties, in consequence of a jostling which occurred in
ended in violence. One of the gentlemen, itviaepwpeoafrlsv.rehsattiina4
hesirts'ick, and, in the struggle,o)pon
stick in his possession, and lifted it for the paurpose of striking
grasp.when theTh
The
stick, latter seiizt ed
appears,it ai t h
was what they call
opponent,
ictolil er
alleged,un‘vi ttitnhzel:.:
uaittinsfesrphoceelaalrltih e d the weapon. His
plunged the spear into the right side of the poor collier, who
received a dreadful wound, of which it is problematical whe-
ther he may recover or not, part of his intestines having,
under very dangerouso;itsiiturcutmosctroes, protruded from the
wound.-- Glasgow

commissioners and
that the powers fc

:er, wouli

hands of comm

respect, would be a I
Raiment. And the 'I

by the Birkenhe,
that by the cours
bill now in parlia
of the opportuni

deration- Of the co

necessary to WI

sentation of t

to light Birkenhead and seventeen
s, and to supply Birkenhead with
:elusive privilege ; but still, if the
tants of Birkenhead are of opinion,
with gas, and supplying with
ship, be better solely in the
;nst the bill in that

their ca

subject for the consideration of par-
n-clerk reports, that it is represented
imissioners appointed by the council,
tied with regard to the gas and water
the commissioners have been deprived
_ .

4 submitting their case to the fair consi-

the commons, and now it is
A before the lords, with a repre-
circumstances under which the bill has
That in this matter the
s a landed proprietor in the

passed through the commons

Council are concert

township of Birkenhead.
The minutes of the committee contained a report from the
surveyor, touching the improvement of Myrtle-street. The
report set forth that the present width of Myrtle-street,
from Mulberry-street to Crown-street, is 13 yards. The
following estimate is calculated to extend it to 18 yards wide :
From Hope-street to Mulberry-street arrangements have
been made, and allowed by the Court of Chancery, for
setting back the houses to be built thereon three yards on
present line of street ; thus leaving the
5e to house 22 yards, and the street 16
rea. Should this part of the street be
le same width as Hardman-street is
11 be necessary to purchase from the
Ir. Thomas 420 square yards, esti-
£399. Should

each side from the r
distance from hous
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the street be cor
street to Bedfoi

_ ime width from Mulberry-
gill require the destruction of
04032 ; deducting £BOO
ding £7O for paving,
-street and Laurel-
s would be required,
&c. at £390. The
rth side to Crown-street
ition, from which 730 yards would be
the flagging and making the street the
hied at £693. Total cost of the im-