The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

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world, however, is not so oblivious ; but, lest
any member of the Council should be misled by
the artful case which, no doubt, will be made out
yof the Mercury's rea- on Wednesday by the Alderman and his friends in
_t or foolhardy Protestant and behalf of their new move, which is a disingenuous
:Mures to breathe in their sublime effort to get rid, by a sidewind, of the requirements
of an Act of Parliament, we shall, at the risk of
enalty for attempted mur-
nsulted law should lay hold of
being tedious, endeavour to lay the whole question,
few months' now mooted, open for the contemplation of our

, are forthwith, in Mer- -
timation, suffering martyrs, whilst their By the Act of Parliament, under which these
victims are to be held up before the world transit sheds were erected, it was stipulated that,
nd lawless" people, who are justly punished after a trial of their operation for six months, the
;iving in their allegiance to their committee should proceed to the erection of sheds
doi following the traitrous behests of round one or more other docks, unless, confirmed in
-itator, and howling concert with their opinion by the Council, they should determine
truction of the Protestant insti- otherwise. Now, acting up to this clause, what has
been the course of that body which owns Mr.
Our contemporary Alderman Evans as its Magnus Apollo ? In the
at perfect liberty to insult that Pro- first place, we are assured, that the sheds in ques-
whose misplaced support enabl€s tion could have been easily erected in three or six
culate his worthless sheet. But we must months ; and, yet, two years were occupied in their
n that whilst doing all this—whilst dandling completion, and most villanously were they corn-
and stimulating disorder amongst that pleted after all; and this circumstance only adds to
of our population, to whose efforts the our conviction that the present movement for their
:t of this agitation looks for the burning removal, to make place kr more magnificent dock
a blaze amongst the warehouses, after Alderman Evans's own pattern,
..ester—he must not be has been all along a preconcerted thing.
lth without being called to And what has been the experience as to their
Perverted representa- successful operation ? Of course, they have been
open six months. But how open ? They were in-
It for in such a journalist;
on indecent in-
tended as facilities for vessels discharging, and yet,
- reilow, strange to say, they are placed on that side of the
dock which the committee pertincaiou sly insist
shall he the side for loading, not discharging. In
fact, the regulations of the committee seem as sedu-

ion as

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