The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL SUANDARD.

state of suspension, and thus prevent any deposit
taking pl ice. Was ever any thing so absurd pro-
pounded to the public ? Violent agitation of the
waters in a tidal basin, where vessels are to load
and unload, with a great lift and fall of tide! A
pretty place would such a basin be for a vessel to
find herself in, without her stiffening ! There
would be nothing left for her but a capsize.
Before the Wallasey Bill should pass into a law,
we insist that there should be a clause binding the
projectors to carry out the proposed works, and
give guarantees to the amount of the estimates;
such a clause is necessary, if only to protect those
who are unable to protect themselves, and who risk
their property in the undertaking, lured by the
splendid prospects held out to them by its pro-
moters. The safety of the navigation also demands
some protection of this nature.
The plans have already undergone several altera-
tions, and we have reason to believe will undergo
more. In the published plans the sea wall was to
be in a straight line ; in the amended plan it slants
inward about 450 feet from the ten acre open basin
to the entrance of the south side of the great tidal
basin. The sluicing—yes, the sluicing—doubts
have arisen as to its efficacy to scour and cleanse
the basin—but this, it is said; is of little moment.
If it fail, they can drudge—but then the cost of
drudging will be a pretty little item ;—at the most
moderate computation, based on the annual deposit
in the Liverpool docks, it will cost, at the low esti-
mate of 10d. per cubic yard, about £13,000 a-year.
If docks are to be made in Wallasey Pool, let
them be so formed as not to obstruct the flux and
the influx of the tide, and not endanger the navi-
gation of the river and safety of the Liverpool
docks ; further inquiry into the scheme, we say, is
necessary, and the very apprehension of danger is a
sufficient ground for the matter being delayed until
it has obtained at least the sanction .of an
amount of engineering talent, equal to that which
has been found recorded against it.
We conclude, therefore, by calling upon our
townsmen to protect their river from so dangerous
an innovation, to protect their docks, trade, and
the general interests of the good old town.

THE FUNDS—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English se-
curities have been good to day,: at a slight advance, but
not much businesss was transacted, because of the early
closing of the market. Consols for money left off 921 to
1, anal for the account 991 to / ; Bank Stock, 199 to
200; Three per Cents. Reduced, 981 to 8; Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. Reduced, 101/ to 202; New Three-and-
a-Half per Cents., 102/ to 103 ; Long Annuities,
12 7-16 ; India Stock, 288 to 490 ; and Exchequer
bills, 70 to 72 premium. In the foreign market there
was no alteration of importance, but prices exhibited
rather more ffrmness. Spanish Five per Cents. were last
quoted 234- to I ; and the Th ree per Cents., 341 to / ;
Portuguese, 451 to 461 ; Peruvian. 27 to 28 ; Mexican,
351 to ; the Deferred. 158 to I ; Dutch Two-and-
a- H alf per Cents., 611 to 1; the Five per Cents. 1001 to
; Danish, 88 to 89 ; Colombian, 131 to / ; Chilian, 102
to 104 • Buenos Ayres, 33 to 35 ; Brazilian, 801 to 811 ;
and Belgian, 103 to 104.
ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS AT BIRKENHEAD.—
We have already announced that the election of nine
commissioners for the township of Birkenhead was fixed
for to-day. The poll will be opened at 10 o'clock this
morning, and will close at four in the afternoon. The
seven following commissioners, who retire in the usual
rotation, have been nominated for reelection—namely,
Messrs. J. D. Case, J. S. Jackson, W. Jackson, W.
Laird, S. Stansfield, D. Appleton, and R. Fry. Mr.
Marcus Brownrigg, merchant, of Hamilton-square, has
been nominated in the steal of Mr. Frederick Berner,
for two years ; and Mr. John Sudlow, accountant, of
Claughton, in the stead of Mr. Peter Howard, for one
year. We believe there will be no opposition to the elec-
tion of any of these gentlemen, except to Mr. Stansfield,
against whom Mr. Edward G. Willoughby, hotel-keeper,
of Birkenhead, has been started as a candidate. The con-
test will, therefore, lie between these two gentlemen only.
Yesterday aftenaonn, a small handbill was issued in the
shape of an electioneering squib, and es cited much laughter
and merriment amongst the quidnuncs of the opposite
shore. It was addressed to the ratepayers of the town-
ship, and read as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen,—
At a meeting of some of the principal ratepayers of
Birkenhead, the undermentioned gentlemen were nomi-
nated as fit and proper persons to be commissioners, being
men of weight and substance, who are much wanted to
look after our interests, both in and out of. Parliament."
The following are the names of the persons said to have
been nominated at the meeting in question :—Mr. Arnold
S. Waters, painter, of Chester-street ; Mr. William
Craven, contractor, of Craven-street Mr. Charles
Smith, innkeeper, of Woodside; Mr. William Hilton,
butcher, of Market-street; Mr. William Briscoe, inn-
keeper, of Birkenhead ' • Mr. Allan E. Fowler, bookkeeper,
of Somerville-street ; Mr. Thomas Evans, pawnbroker,
of Lower Ivy-street; Mr. John Watson, blacksmith, of
Birkenhead; and Mr. John Monk, gentleman, of Hamil-
ton-square.
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.--LORD BROUGHAM'S
BILL.—The bill introduced by Lord Brougham, which
has been read a second time, contains only tburteen sec-
tions. It is entitled "An act for facilitating arrange-
ments between debtors and creditors." The preamble
declares that "it is expedient that trust deeds, and other
amicable modes of arrangement between debtors and their
creditors, should he facilitated, and that better means
should be provided for carrying the same into effect."
After the passing of the act, it shall be lawful for any
debtor, who is unable to meet his engagements with his
creditors, such debtor not being a trader, with the con-
currence of one-third in number, and value of his credi-
tors, who shall sign a petition, to petition the chief judge
of the Court of Bankruptcy, setting forth all his debts,
property, &c., and praying to be protected from imprison-
ment, and he shall make a proposal to pay:the creditors,
to which one-third shall consent. A commissioner is to
examine in private the mode of contracting the debts, and
then to appoint a second meeting, at which an official as-
signee may preside, and the resolutions to be adopted be
reported to the commissioner. The first meeting to be
called by notice, and at the second a certain number of
creditors must agree to atcept the arrangement proposed ;
the resolution or agreement of such meeting not to be
valid, unless one third in number and value of all the
creditors were present, either in person or by an autho-
rised agent. The resolution is to be confirmed and a tem-
porary protection afforded. The property is to vest in a
trustee without any deed, as fully as if such trustee were
an assignee in bankruptcy. Examinations may take place
if it be suspected that a full disclosure has not been made.
Trustees to be freed on performance of their duties, and a
" certificate" to be granted to the petitioning debtor,
which shall have the same effect as a certificate of con-
formity in bankruptcy. The Court of Bankruptcy is to
make rules and regulations to carry the act into operation.
This measure will it is to be hoped, soon or late, become
part and parcel of our laws ; if considered before the com-
mittee at the same time as Lord Cot ten ham's Bill, it will
be a most useful addition to that enlightened n:•easure, as
the two bills would render the law of debtor and creditor
all that common humanity and the trading interest re-
quire.

ORTHOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES BY THE ANTI-MO-
NOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—From the most authentic sources
we are enabled to assure our readers that the views of this
tremendous body are not at all confined to the repeal of
protective duties. On the contrary, having settled our
tariff upon a grand and comprehensive scale, they propose
to effect a thorough reform in the laws of orthography,
grammar, punctuation, &c. which areat presentoppressively
and needlessly restrictive. Why, for instance, should a man
be compelled to expend six letters in the spelling of a
word, when he can do it with five ?—or why should he be
compelled to express an idea in ten words when it can
be as forcibly expressed in half the number ? We give
here two specimens of the new style of orthography. The
first is addressed to ourselves, and teaches us how to spell
the name of our own paper :
No. 2.
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Committee Room, Eastwood's Royal Hotel,
73 May, 1844

The Editors of the Standart.
Please to insert the Advertisemts. for Committee Meetg.
Public Meetg. & Address accompanying, and charge the same
to ;the Committee for conducting the Election of WlLLtam
BROWN, Esq. EDWARD BERRY.
A Bill must be sent on executing the order.
Here, it will be observed, there is a direct saving of a
letter o, hitherto foolishly used in forming the concluding
d, when a simple t will do as well. The second we will
give verbatim et literatim :
" Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, dearness,and uncertainty."
Anti-Monopoly Association, 7, Water-street,
Liverpool, 22 May, 1844.

MY DEAR SIR
The bearer will reside in St. Helens until: after the
Election. Yrs truly

C E RAWLINS JR
It will be observed that the above note is constructed
upon a different principle, the word until being spelt with
an additional 1, to direct particular attention to the limit
of " the bearer's" residence in St. Helens. In the original
this untill has been written twice, the word " district "
written over it, and the compound thus formed subse--
quently obliterated with a flourish. Independently, how-
ever, of its orthogaapbical novelty, there is something
about Mr. C. E. Rawlins' note which is a little singular,
and suggestive of practices not very pretty. What, pray,
had the g entleman to whom the note was addressed—
whose name we omit as the mention of it can Contribute
to no good end—to do with the fact that " the bearer"
would " reside in St. Helens' untill after the election" ?
Mr. Rawlins, we know as the secretary of the Anti-Mo-
nopoly Association. We do not know the recipient of
the note, and, pray, what poor unfortunate voter was
" the bearer" ? We could have understood the affair had
the note run thus—" bottle the bearer in St. Helens'
untill after the election" ; but, as it is, it must remain to
our poor comprehension a little mysterious. Perhaps it
may be explained • and in the mean time the original note
may be seen by the curious at our offiee.
FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—We understand that a
deputation froM the Free Church of Scotland will hold a
meeting in Liverpool some time early this month. We
believe that Dr. Cunningham and the Rev. Mr. Begg will
form a part of the deputation.
THEFT BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the
Police-court, a young woman, named Ann Clarke, who
had been living as house servant with Mrs. Jane Scott, of
Chester-street, was committed for trial for having de-
camped with a large quantity of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty
of her employer.