The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

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THE LETTER CARRIERS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,--S0 the memorial of the Liverpool letter-carriers
has failed in its object of procuring an advance of salary
for their laborious duties, the Postmaster-General having
declined, on inquiry, to concede its prayer. The stamp-
ers (only about six in number) have been raised to £7O
per annum ; and I find that the Postmaster here, on re-
ceiving the memorial, fully signed, to be forwarded to
London, implied, on expressing an opinion, that such
would be the result ; but on announcing the answer to the
body generally, it was rumoured, as a reason of the
prayer being refused, that certain paragraphs in the public
press had mainly contributed to this unfortunate issue.
This surely cannot be the fact : and if you could believe
for an instant that the authorities of the government have
acted so extremely illiberal a part in the year 1845, the
strongest reprobation of the public would be called forth ;
but I have too high an opinion of the parties so charged to
credit one iota of such statement. How the mercantile pub-
lic may applaud or condemn the economy they exercised
towards a most useful and trustworthy body of men, I
will not stop now to inq Are.
That truly high-minded and patriotic gentleman, T. B.
Horsfall, Esq., has uttered sentiments on this head that
reflect the utmost credit upon his head and heart, senti-
ments which contrast strangely with those now uttered in
that building on the site of the Old Dock.
Having heard two sides of a grumbling matter on the
event, I most respectfully solicit the aid of your columns
in telling the plain honest truth of an individual against
whom an undue share of rancour seems arising.

The Hibernia ensign, who with his companions had
eaten a sumptuous dinner and drank two bottles of wine
each, exclaimed when the waiter brought in the reckon-
ing, "Blur an' ounds I this is always the most disagree-
able part of the cursed dinner." I will not entirely at-
tempt to account for the altercations and manners of a
portion of the letter-carriers towards one of their col-
leagues, since the refusal came by some such rule ;
suffice it to say, that the letter-carriers now exclaim
against certain paragraphs which commented freely on
the celebrated Christmas-boxes inquiry; but this I be-
lieve to be one of those wayward artifices that the nature
of man will adopt in all such cases, it is to be the screen
behind which to singly esconce themselves, the scape-
goat of that body, who wish to throw the blame on indi-
viduals only.

I hope your kind sense of justice will yield this a place,
and should any person have any prejudice created in his
mind on these points, I would fain disabuse him of it, and
take this means of doing so.

lam, yours, &c
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O'CONNELL v. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
" For Daniel was an honourable" member.

SIR,—If base ingratitude and unequalled lying will
preclude a man's hopes of heaven, 1 fear all of Dan that
will ever be there is his "registered vow."
Fellow-countrymen, hear what the demagogue said-of
you at the Repeal Association held in Dublin on Monday
week last. Here it is, copied flow the Mercury:—
" The English people had shown at all times an un-
dying hatred to his countrymen, and therefore he consi-
dered it fruitless to appeal to them for redress "
Can his countrymen—even his warmest political ad-
mirers—read this without a blush for the man who could
deliberately utter such an ungrounded, ungrateful false-
hood ? Do our Irish fellow-countrymen feel this to be
the case in England? When was a demand made on our
best feelings for the starving population of his well-fleeced
country in vain ? Are not situations and appointments,
from the lowest to the highest, filled with Irishmen ?
Is it not a fact, clear as light from darkness, that in all
English houses of business where an Irishman gains or
has the control, you will seldom find an Englishman
employed ? In Irish houses in England where do you
find Englishmen engaged? Rarely—almost never!
Now, sir, whatever may be snid of Scotch "c/Inism,"
it is nothing to Irish "exclusion," wherever it can be
carried out. Take the middling and lower classes he has
so often praised. Do they show by their conduct to their
Irish brethren the feelings of " undying hatred ?" Let
them answer; and let Englishmen remember his opinion
of them, should he ever again pollute our shores, and
that millions of his dp:tled countrymen will believe this
libel because he said it
Woodside, March, 1845. CIGAR.