The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

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A object to him

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proposed repeal of the
in at the last hour, T

entertained not the sligh
Such is also his Sugar I

;hese he fully expected to be
1; and thus to escape from
lties of his position, and to
laze of affairs into the hands
a. And that ultimately this

But the time has not yet
sunk deeply enough in
to warrant that crafty
control of our case, and
nary relief by his ordinary
3putation of some limb of

bleeding to the

point of a

icing tone

the stagnation of the vital

ider this treat
to the gre

ess and

einpire. It is

once flours _
t we have submitted unresistingly to
the shuttlecock of party that
we attribute much of our present suffering. 'We

bandied about as

t empire, at once so sense-
. ery blow levelled against its pros-
iuced to the position of a helpless
cd with narcotics, or sent to sleep

patient, dru
with chlorc

rival quacks, in turns,

aced him and blister him, purge him and galva-
lize him, cut off a limb or hack the trunk. The
,nergy of the nation has sunk under repeated
)etrayals ; and we seem to wait passively for the
ast stroke which is to rid us of our long pro-
racted pain.

Surely it is time at length to lay aside this insane
submission to our tormentors. Surely it is within
our power to do so. The last quivering of the
insensate corpse will drive the vulture from his
prey; and will not the resolute stirring of the not
yet inanimate social frank be equally effective to
the political vultures who are seeking to drain the
vitals of this great people ? It must, The resolve

s of paytie

,:ount of the IT
1), being extrernell

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I not enjoy all the
ements of the town. The
ood sewerage,
I eventually

n would

district of West Derby
satisfactory, the ratepayers

!arnestly protested against t
woposed by the Council for the p
.hem to consult with a view to their reduction
considerable length against the argument

crease on those rates
sr, and called upon
He spoke at

,cing var

counts of the Corp(
expenditure of that body

1 and deductions of
)nt the printed ac-

the extravagant-and foolish
mequal manner in which it
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rate-payers not to send men to the Council mere 4
:al purposes, but to elect business men who would
their affairs and the economical expenditure of their
He instanced Manchester as having accomplished
re, and likely to do so, in economical local ex-
mnn.ffement. both as regarded sewerage,

[an Liverpoc

ion, following generally
,y had good reason to

alarming rates of which they com-
-5h compliment to Mr. Booker, who had
gainst them. (Cheers.) .

call for a decrease of tl
plained. He paid a 1

Mr. PLumPTON, a representative of the ward, in moving the
second resolution, to the effect that a memorial, founded upon
the resolutions, should be presented to the Council,-,bylthe mem-
bers for the ward, said that he heartily concurred in nearly all
that had been stated by the previous speakers.
11Ir. DENTON, in seconding it, took occasion to chide the
Chairman, rather severely, for his defence of the Council
against the rate-payers of the ward.
The motion was put and carried, as was also a hearty vote o 1
thanks to the Chairman, who explained some errors the
speakers had fallen into. Thanks were then voted to Mr.
Plumpton, who replied, and the meeting dispersed.

On Saturday, Mr. Duke, governor of Dorset gaol, was
elected by the magistrates to the governorship of the
Borough Gaol, Liverpool. The list of candidates had
previously been reduced to four' viz. :—Mr. Duke, Mr.
Parkinson, keeper of the Main Bridewell, Col. Martin,
governor of Preston House of Correction, and Mr. Law-
rence, deputy-governor of Milibank Penitentiary.
STEALING COTTON.—Two men,Wood (a warehouseman
at the transit shed) and Richard Evans, a porter, were
yesterday committed for trial charged with having pur-
loined a bag of cotton-pickings, the property of Messrs.
Chapman, Bowman, and Co., from a shed on the quays.
On Sunday morning, a woman, with a child in her arms,
jumped off Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames. The
body of the child has not been found ; but that of the
woman has been discovered dreadfully mutilated, her
head having in the fall caught a stone pier.