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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-22 00:00:00

to be Mr. EWART'S best apology. There are others who
,view the matter differently, and think that, like 2 house
wilfully set on fire, it points to quarter-day. Tom DUN-
COME knows right well that, if the payment of rates and
taxes could be dispensed with, he would have a much
better chance of being returned for, the new-made but
unwashed borough of Finsbury. Mr. EWART says
" ditto to Mr. BURKE." He is prudently looking forward
to another election; and if he could procure votes cheap
—that is to say, if he could procure votes without the
voter being compelled to dole out the cash, he would !lave
much better chance in another contest. But the ma-
noeuvre was too barefaced, and bore all the marks of
mercenary suspicion in the hands of the member for
Finsbury. And here our simile again comes in. The
pointer overleaped his distance: both dogs would have
taken an unfair but foolish advantage. Mr. CAMPBELL,

the gamekeeper, did not approve pf, and, consequently,
could not avoid punishing, such conduct. He adminis-
tered the lash freely, severely, but from an overwhelming
sense of duty. The master of the gamekeeper, DANIEL
FIT2-DENS, it is true, was rather in favour of the dogs; but
Mr. CAMPBELL and the steward, Mr. JOHN RUSSELL, be-
ing entirely dependent upon their respective professional
characters, did not choose to sanction such a wanton
abandonment of all the rules of the field and the kennel.
The owner in this instance, rather a solitary one, could
not protect the pointers, and they were corrected accor-
dingly.
But for the present we have done with metaphor and
Mr. TtiomAs.DUNCOMBE : we cannot part so easily with
Mr. WILLIAM EWART. We implore every respectable
and conscientious, man in Liverpool, be he whig, half
whig, radical, or nothing at all, who has lent a vote to
Mr. EWART, to reflect for a moment upon the animus or
the motion supported by his representative on Monday
night. Of course we presume we are addressing many
hundreds of respectable men who live by their honest in-
dustry, who have saved something to secure them against
pauperism, or have accumulated such a Oirtion of wealth
as renders them independent,. and places them, as far, as,
money can do, in a creditable and, perhaps, enviable .sta-
tion of society. We ask these men, in perfect candour,
what they think of their representative who would place
the wealthiest of them on s par, in the scale of political
power, with the meanest pauper in the town ? Mr.
EWAIRT'S proposition, if it be intelligible at all, means
this. A keeper of a beer shop, or something worse, who
has once paid taxes, in any one year, should he allowed
to vote whether he shall ray them or not in the succeed—.
ing years of his life. He may this year have paid his
taxes; next year he may he in the workhouse ; and yet
he is to vote-as if lie were a contributor to, instead of a

receiver from, the poor rates !
This, we say, is Mr. EWART'S scheme and one more
repugnant to common sense, or rational liberty, or, the
principles of every honest ond consistent reformer, we
never heard broached in public assembly. We never
kners ? reformer contend for more than that representa-
tion should be co-extensive with taxation. This, we ad-
mit, is wild enough doctrine with a witness, for it is an
unjust representation. • It is democracy in an abhorrent
form. But Mr. EWART'S plan is much more absurd and
unreasonable than this for how can a man be said to be
any thing but o pauper who cannot or will not pay the
poor ::ates ills refusal to pay these rates makes him a
pauper upon the community to the extent of the rate
which he refuses. If,- assessed in twenty shillings only
to the poor, be should refuse to pay that sum, would it

not follow that lie receives that sum from the pa-
rish ? If lie should say I agree to owe that money,
still he is < debtor to the parish. He may pay it eventu-
ally ; but, while it. is not paid, the has no right to claim
the same privileges as those who have paid it.
We trust we have placed this absurdity in its proper
light, and that the moderate reformers of Liverpool who
have property to lose, and who do not wish to plunge head-
long into o violent conflict with those who have nothing
to lose, and whose principles are "take what you can—
rob if you please," will call Mr. EWART to account for
conduct which his respected father would have sacrificed
every farthing he was worth in the world, and even
life itself, rather than have countenanced, directly or in-
directly.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City,, Wednesday Eveniv. 7a! C7,ock.

The English money market to-day has evinced considerable steadi•
ness, and the last price of Consols for account was 91i buyers. Ex•
chequer Bills are firm at 19 to 29 premium, and India Bonds are 6 to'
pm.

The chief business in the Foreign market to-day has been in Spa-
nish Bonds, which have been depressed to 471. and closed at 471 to 48.
In Portuguese there is some flatness, the 5 per cents being at 841,
and the 3 per cents 541.
In the Republican Bonds there is little to notice—Columbian are at
33—Chilian at 48 to 49, and Mexican are 36 to 37.
In Northern Stock there is little to notice—Belgian Bonds are at
1031 3—Dutch 5 per cents are at 1001, and Russian 1093.
The speculation in shares continues—Calcutta and Saugur are at 2
premium—Stevenson's Brighton are at 203 premium—Greenwich
Shares are 91 premium—Rennie's Brighton are 21 premium—West
Wheal Hooe are at 1 premium—Preston and Wyre are at 11 premium
—and Deptford par are 3 premium.