The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sln,—Passing along Hanover-strcet, a few mon i
ago, at an early hour, 1 picked up the enclosed letter close
to the Branch Bank. It seems to contain some wholesome
truths; sod you are at liberty to make use of it, only it
may be desirable to suppress the names of the writer, and
the gentleman to wlrim it is add:et:seri. It has evidently
been dropped from the pocket urough negligence, or per-
haps iu "whisking out the wipe."
!am, Si:, your's obediently.
YH ELIAI O'BOTHEIIEM.
Clarence Dock, Ott. 18, 1841.

DEAR Wiae,—l had intended to call upon you to have
a little serious talk. but you are so confounded peppery and
Belt-trilled, that it may save us a blew-up if I write instead
of talk. lam glad that you are ca;iiie home again, safe
and sound, and, as I am told, a better and a wiser matt.
You will be surprised when I tell you that we hav'nt had
a decent row in council since you went upon the grand
tour to kiss the Pope's toe; and the town has been remark-
ably and most unfortunately quiet during your absence. I
know that on are a well-meaaing fellow, but a good deal
troubled with bile, and Dr. F. says that politics teaze you
so terribly that you had bett-r keep yourself cool—if you
can !—and abstain from such things; but as you are aware
that I am a bit of a fatalist, you will credit me when I add
that I don't believe you can keep out of such messes, and
that your enjoyment is like old fighting Tom Pictons, who
was never so happy as when he was in a storm of grape and
canister. Discretion may be the better sort of
valour,
but
you hav'nt learnt that lesson yet. 1 see (just what I ex-
pected) that you have scarcely lighted on this orb, w their
you always graced, before your arrival is announced on the
walls, in the shape of a placard, addressed' to some vulgar
electors in an unknown part of the town, and in a locality
where you always place the wind between it and your own
mobility. What the deuce made you go there, after sitting
for the aristocratic wand of Abercromb3 ? It is all nonsense
calling yourself a leveller," and such like names, which
nobody else would have designated you, and whica nobody
believed when your were so foolish as to utter it. Why,
you are a gem of the first water,—related to nobility,—
your very name declares it, and a more lordly fellow does
not exist! And if you wanted to tilt your lance, what in
the name of figs did you the ose Parker for? tie is not a
banker, nor a merchant. but a plain straight-forward
tradesman ; and there will be no honour, when the Pope
hears you have beaten a brewrr, for beat him you will—
that's a fact. But don't mistake me. Parker possesses
some old Yorkshire blood in him, quite as good as yours.
His grandfather was not a tinker; and .it-would be quite as
wise of you not to link upon him as a snob, because I can
assure you that his quartering.; are much more ancient and
respectable than your own. You might try Abercromby
again if you chose. Never wind such old proverbs as
"better known than trusted," "beware of broken backed
horses,'&c." Go at Abercromby slap up, and either win
it like a man, or go to Caliphornia till you're wanted.
Rest assured that the council will die of atrophy if you are
not there. Why the reporters hav'nt 41c1 good thing to
amuse us with since you paid your f.:50, and made your
coeiq if it is only for the fun of the thing, you ought to
be in. There wants something to counterbalance the pun- -
demos gravity of poor Barclay, who is fast going the way
of all (whig) aldermen ; and- it is rather hard upon Sir
Thomas that he has nobody to help him to crack a joke;
and it is quite shameful to let David Hodgson have it all
his own gait. By the way, how strong Hodgson is at
Everton. Ile is booked for life there, and you may make
up your mind that you'll have to meet him at Philippi.
and he's not like you—a shadow. But now, attend Will,
don't make a fool of yourself the next time you get into
council, by telling fibs and saying that you're "a leveller."
Does John, the footman, breakfast with you ? Do you clap
Josef h, the coachman, inside the carriage, and you, on a
wet night, handle the ribbiins? Dirt Betty, the chamber-
maid, dine in the parlotir when Lord Burlington was your
go st ? And if you met Lord Sefton in the street, and one
of your future constituents who bakes loaves at Higgins's-
ceurt, Circus-street, cause op just at that moment, which
of the two would you first shake hands with ? Poo, poo
don't talk such stuff, 1 say, cinch only makes you ridicu-
lous. And then again. "I'm a terrier!" How absurd
If you had told the Pope when you kissed his toe that you
were a terrier and a leveller, depend upon it that one of
his Swiss guards would have shaken his cock-tail feathers
at you, and showed you the hack dOor of the vatican. Be-
aides, snappish dogs are not wanted in council, as old Billy
Thornhill can tell you. Thornhill is a devoted friend of
yours, and will leap out of his skin to see you back again.
I fancy the old man has looked thin and downcast sinceyou
left; but he will smoke two or three extra pipes of tobacco
a day, and doub:e his potations for joy, when he can fight
again under your shadow. But don't be so hard upon him,
for theugh he does'nt speak such good grammar, be's a de-
cent fellow, and would beat you any day in Scotland
Ward. And do'nt use such familiar epithets as " George'
when you're on your pins. It does'nt sound well in public,
for "George," us you contemptuously designate him, is a
gentleman as well as von, and is likely enough to lice to
call you to "order. Yen see. Will, the public has a good
memory, and they hav'nt Corgi t the beating you received
in Abercromby Ward, nor that you had, at last, to creep
into council through the loop holes of the aldermanship—a
sad and biting comment on your own principles and opi-
nions. lam glad, however, that in vonr addr es you talk
big, anti disdain canvassing, &c. Tliat's the ticket, be as-
sured. It might do well enough ten years back to canvass
the greasy voters, and write fine sentences about reform,
and. liberality, and economy, and all that sort of humbug
with which we used to gull the fella's; but it wo'nt do
now. "The people" have tried us all, one after the other,
and it makes ones heart bleed to see such patriots as Hat h-
bene and Bolton, and Shiel cum mulls aliis driven about
from pillar to post, without a ward to shelter their hapless
heads; and even you, with all your travelled magnificence
-the most finished liberal—the best tempered of the lot,
and: who has bidden as high for popularity as any of them,
absolutely driven, to the melancholy necessity of coming
Out for an unknown region, %here cambric handkerchiefs
aod Eau de Cologne are drugs; and *here it would be
death or extirpation at the Wellington Roi ms if they
knew you had been seen in. You have run at Newmarket
you have figured at Ascot, but now
"The high metthd racer's a hack on the road."
I am, dear Will, yours, &c.,
* a *
Aqua-street, October 14, 1844.

INCORPORATION OF WALLASEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Feeling assured that the following observations
on the proposition for ari act of parliament for the im-
provement and general government of the parish of Wal-
lasey, if inserted in your widely-circulated paper, will be
read in the quarter I wish them to be, you sill oblige me
if you can find room for them in your next publication.
I have long been of opinion that if such a proposition
were brought forwards in an open and a candid manner,
at a public meeting of the parish, and a committee nomi-
nated at that meeting, empowered to draw up the heads
of a bill, fairly and liberally, the ratepayers and others
interested in the parish would be satisfied, and the ulti-
mate success of the measure ensured.

The report submitted to the meeting on Thursday last,
I, with the majority, consider to be exceedingly defective
in many particulars.
In the first place, the rating qualification is too high :
it should be £25 or £3O.

In the second place, in the highway clause, the com-
missioners should take power to purchase lands, with the
consent of the owners, tor the purp)se of forming three
or four parallel lines of roads, to run north and south
through the parish.
In the third place, power should be taken to purchase
existing ferries, as well as to establish new ones when
wanted; so that making the proposition appear a matter
of business likely to be protective to the ratepayer, as
well as profitable to the parish, the present opposition to
the measure would cease.

In the fourth and most important place, the landowners,
instead of proposing to borrow money (say £15,000), the
interest to be paid by the ratepayers, should come forward
with that sum or more if necessary, stipulate to pay the
expenses of obtaining the act, and set it fairly in opera-
tion, before calling upon the latter to bear a burden they
cannot at present support. The ratepayers have a right
to some consideration on the part of the landowners, as
the value of land will be very considerably increased by
the act.

It some such stipulations as above were to be entered
into and brought forward at the adjourned meeting, or
declared beforehand, I feel confid not the opposition to
having the act at all would be got over, and that all par-
ties would come to an amicable agreement on a measure
which would, if properly carried out, tend greatly to the
prosperity of the parish of Wallasey.
Tbe following statistical information, relative to the
three townships forming the parish of Wallasey, for the
year 1841, may be of use ; and I may observe, that the
rates since that period have con&iderably increased :
Arcata Popu- Poor ti'way County Assess.
Townships. Acres. Houses. Wiwi. Rate. Rate. Rate. Texes.
Poulton-
cum- 646 353 2146 £175 £205 £B6 £6lO
Seacombe JJJ
Liscard.... 841 406 -2873 285 233 85 1034
Wallasey .. 1789 172 942 148 176 55 136
I remain, your obedient servant,
A RATEPAYER OF THE PARISH.
Liscard, 19th October, 1844.

SHIPBUI LDING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sm,—Seeing your town is the principal mart of our na-
tional commerce throughout the world, permit me, as oc-
casion may present, to solicit a corner in your useful pa-
per, in diffusing some general remarks on the principles
of shipbuilding, thereby to create an inquiry as to the de-
fective nature, both in theory and practice, of our com-
mercial navy. Nothing but being a well-wisher to the
prosperity of my country could induce me to this task,
seeing I shall have to contend against a hydra of many
heads.

In this oumredclonfisextensive improvement in all branches
of art and mechanism, would be natural in concluding
that shipbuilding, a'sn top extent and equal in import.
acce to any other branch would be first in ad-
vance ; but it is unfortunate ;ocriels,country, that realities
in improvement too frequently
prevailer
there never was a day in which producelcalri: counterfeits, and
and systems tienmnso andbra
branch
-
roneous theories have more
have they taken such a deep hold, or beenof attendedsi with
such direful consequences, as in that
Many visionaries have started up who, by
di
ng
.
argu-
ments and specious reasonings, have introduced raiprinciples and innovations into this otherwise receding
e
art, and none more so than by that less than futile, that
ruinous opinion of supposing that an artificial floating
body, acted on by different elements, should have its
form regulated by that of a living animal ; and the only
reason assigned is that a fish sports in its own element
with ease and rapidity. If this reasoning is of force suffi-
cient to establish a principle, in opposition to nature's