The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE CORPORATION NUISANCE.
(Pont the Manchester Courier.)
Another week has passed over, and the charter of
ncorporation has not arrived ! What is the reason ?
Is it intended that it shall not come into operation this
year? or is intended that it shall not come into opera-
tion at all ? We have heard, indeed, that the delay in
forwarding it is occasioned by the absence from town
of some of the Whig officials, and that it may still be
expected in the course of a few days. We believe,
however, that come when it may, it will now come too
late for the election of corporation officers for the pre-
sent year. By the act of the sth and 6th of the late
King it is enacted, that the overseers shall, on the sth
day of September in every year, make out an alpha-
betical list, to be called "The Burgess List," of all
persons entitled to be enrolled in that year; and shall
deliver the same "on the said fifth day of September,"
to the town-clerk, or to the person executing the du-
ties of town-clerk, who shall cause the same to be fixed
on the door of the Town-hall, or other -conspicuous
situation. Of course, as no authority for making out
a burgess list has been received, none has been pre-
pared ; and there is no provision, that we are aware of,
in that or any later act, to give validity to a list made
subsequently to the time specified. It is not, how-
ever, upon such objections that we rely. To postpone
the operation of the nuisance for a year would be
something; but we believe that it will be successfully
opposed, on the higher ground of objection, that a
charter granted otherwise than on the petition of the
major part of the inhabitants, cannot be maintained.
On this ground, fortified by some of the highest legal
opinions in the country, the opponents of incorporation
take their stand; and they look forward with such con-
fidence to the issue, that they regard without alarm the
exertions of their opponents to obtain a preponderat-
ing influence in the council: We hear a good deal of
these exertions; but from all that we can learn, the
persons selected to be put in nomination at the elec-
tion of councillors, are all violent partizans ; so little
disposed are the procorporatori to conduct the inunici
pal affairs of the town upon the Guardian's principle
of " oblivion of political feeling." We dre glad to
find that it is the determination of the conservative
party generally to abstain from all interference in the
elections, whilst the legality of the charter is in dis-
pute. This is evidently the wisest and most becoming
course they can adopt under the circumstances; and
f they
may rest assured the conservative cause will lose
' nothing by it in the end.
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Major Mackie, K. 11., has been appointed governor of the
British settlements on the Gambia, in the roonyof the late G.
Kendall, Esq.
Lord Melbourne's economical mode of living offers an ex-
ample to all servants on board wages to pocket the one and
live from their employers' pantry besides.
London is now as empty as it is generally said to be at this
season of the year; but even ,hen said to be "quite empty"
it contains more inhabitants than any other capital in
Europe.
DISEASED PARTRIDGES.—If it is true, as stated in the
Brighton Gazette, that there is a fatal disease among the par-
tridges, it will make the Brightonians very shy of buying
them.
THII FATAL DUEL.—In Vaux's "Rambles of the Pyre-
nees" there is a description of a.dinner party at St. Sebastian,
last September, to the following effect :—" On the removal
of the cloth, a row of blushing decanfers was ranged before
the president, a young officer who was that eveving unani-
mously voted to the chair, from his felicitous peculiarity in
guarding the guests against empty glasses, and maintaininz.
at the same time, a constant flow of original merriment; and
certainly never did president more ably discharge his duties."
The president, on this occasion, was Mr. Eliot, tben a lieu-
tenant of Lancers in the Legion, the survivor in this duel.
At the same time there were two officers in St. Sebastian,
who were limping about on crutches, from the effects of
wounds received in duel with the same, Mr. Eliot.