The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

TO Ski'WEL liOPE, ESQ.

Stu,—Time was, and that not long since, when I and others
used to look to you and Mr. Blackburn as our leaders in every
good cause which had for its object the glory Of our Redeemer;
but now, alas! " how is the gold become dim !—how is the
tine gold changed!" Mr. B. has becotne a leader of
poii-
tical agitators, and yourself a supporter of a certain scandalous
newspaper. These are. signs which seem to justify the present
general opinion; that your religion is much akin to that of the
monster Cromwell, and that you and your party are not unaptly
denominated Cromwelites.

Will you deign me an answer when I ask it your subscription
of two pounds towards propping up a journal, which by the
remaining morality of the English people has been doomed to
immediate annihilation, be an avowal of your approval of its
principles? or do you suppose that £2 will purchaSe for your
sect an immunity from its scurrility and libellous calumnies?
Have not all the christian churches (except the baptists) in
their turn been the objects of its fury ? Think not, sir,
that they (the baptists) will escape its vengeance if, by
your aid, the £I,OOO should be sent to his help, without which he
owns -that his slander must cease. It is too absurd a►r idea to
suppose that your subscription to this vile thing was intended
to conciliate the churchmen, the ►methodists, and the quakers,
who each in their turn have been the objects of its libels, with a
view to become their representative in the coun::il for the—

EVERTON WARD.

WEST DERBY WARD.
On Wednesday last a public meetingof the burgesses of West
Derby was held at the Workhouse, Low-hill, on the summons
of the overseers, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the course most proper to be adopted at the ensuing municipal
election. Mr. John Smith, wine-merchant, was called to the.
chair, and delivered an eloquent and luminous address on the
importaru of the subject. and the necessity of electing fit and
proper persons to represent the interests of the ward in the town
council. Mr. Homer moved a resolution pledging the meeting
to elect as councillors only such men as were intimately ac-
quainted with the business and affairs of the township, the ob-
ject of which resolution was, we are told, to favour the tory
cause, as the said township has long beers under the management
of men of that party. There was, however. a pretty strong muster
of reformers present, and an admendment, adjourning the
meeting for six months, moved by Mr. Homer and seconded by
Mr. Blain, was carried by a majority of three to one. Thanks.
were then voted to the chairman fur his able and impartial con-
duct in the chair, and the meeting separated.—Mercury.
On this subject we have received the following errata from
a correspondent :—" Mr. 1-lomer moved a resolution pledging
the meeting to elect as common councillors only such men as
were intimately acquainted with the business and tali; s of the
tows ship; the object of which resolution was, we are told, (by
disturbing political officers who ought to attend exclusively to
their local duties,) not to favour the tory cause, us time sale
township has been long under the good management (admitted
even by reformers themselves) of gentlemen of that party."
The Mercury ought not to lend a willing ear and publish state-
Merits from paid servants, hurting the independent feelings of
the township, and most unfairly applying everything to party
purposes, and this is not the first time. Be good enough to
insert this in your useful paper, and you will oblige, ,
PAM. PLAY AND NC) PARTY MAN.
Liverliool,l6th November, 1835.