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

DIED.

On the Ist of April, at Calcutta, aged 17, EDWARD RED-
DISH, only child of the late Mr. James Reddish, of Parr's-
house, Heaton Norris, in this county, and Jane, his wife, now
Jane kirk, widow, F:vertombrow. Deceased went out to Cal-
cutta on the 14th November, in the Flora M Donald, for plea-
sure and to acquire a knowledge of mercantile transactions.
The vessel arrived at Garden Reach' seven miles from Cal
cutta, after a passage of 126 (lays. On the Ist April deceased
accompanied Captain Sutherland to Calcutta, and, on returning
to the vessel by a dinghy, or native boat, was accidently
drowned.

On the l`th ultimo, at Oswestry, aged 68, NATHANIEL
MINSHULL, Es 9., solicitor.
On the 15th ultimo, in Smithdown-lane, MARY ANN MOS-
LEY, late of the Manchester Arms, Dale street.
On the 16th ultimo. at the Longstone Lighthouse, Fern Is-
lands, aged 75, THOMASON, wife of Mr. WM. DARLING,
lighthousekeeper, and mother of the celebrated heroine Grace
Horsley Darling. The deceased will be long remembered for
the kindness she bestowed on the eighteen individuals saved
from the wreck of the steam-ship Forfarshire by her husband
and daughter, in September, 1838.
On the 17th ultimo, Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, the originator
of adult schools for teaching the adult poor to read the Holy
Scriptures. He closed a life of benevolence of nearly 80 years
at Bristol.

On the 19th ultimo, at the residence of her daughter Mrs.
Brown, No. 1, South-street, aged 84, HANNAH, relict of the
late PETER PARR, stay-maker, formerly of Wigan.
On the 20th ultimo, at Wootton, in her 60th year, Misa
ELIZABETH CHENEY.

On the 22nd ultimo, Mr. JOHN WAGGETT, sailmaker,
Redcross-street, for many years in the employ of Messrs.
Garnock, Bibby, and Co.
Same day, at Norley-hall, Cheshire, the residence of his son-
in-law, S. Wodehouse, Esq., in his COth year, HEN RY THORN-
TON MOSTON, Esq., M.D., late surgeon to her Majesty's 47th

Regiment.
Same day, in Grafton-street, of consumption, aged 31, Capt.
PETER POOLE, of the ship City of Lincoln.
On the 23rd ultimo. in Paddington, Edge-hill, aged 29, Mrs.
AMELIA BATEMAN, daughter of the late William Robinson,
of Trinity-place.
Same day, after an illness of twenty-four hours, aged 2 years
and 11 months, JOHN PEYTON, only son of Mr. M. AIoNT-
GOMERY. of Tenterden-street.

On the 25th ultimo, aged 57, Mr. WM. CORDALL, of Back
Chester-street.

Same day, aged 71, MARY LOWTTHAN, relict of the late
Mr. H. Lowthien, white-cooper, formerly of Shaw's-brow.
On the 26th ultimo, aged 42, Mr. HENRY YATES, tailor,
Upper Pitt-street.
Same day, aged 74, Mr. WM. WILLIAMS, for upwards of
forty years a resident at Bootle, and a bathing-machine owner.
Same day, at Bangor, in her COth year, JANE. relict of the
late Mr. J. GRIFFI I'H, tanner and curri r, of this town.
On the 27th ultimo, of typhus tever, after a few days' illness,
aged 52, Mr. MATHEW ROSEMOND.
Same day, aged 66, Mr. THOMAS BANKS, saddler, formerly
of Keswick, Cumberland.
Same day, in Clarence-street, aged 59, Miss E. M'KUNE.
Same day. suddenly, aged 3 years and 10 months, THOMAS,
son
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street.
Same day, at the Asylum, Haydock-lodge, near Warrington,
in his 75th year, Mr. E. ROBERTS, surgeon, late of Pwllheii.
On the 28th ult., at Warrington, aged 25, ANN, wife of Mr.
JOSEPH GREEN. jun., formerly of this town.
Same day, aged 21, WILLIAM, eldest son of Mr. HENRY
LEATHAM, builder, Benson-street.
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farmer.
On in his 65th year, Mr.
South, Mr. J. ROWE, sea.
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Same day, at Wavertree, aged 11 months, THEODORE, sou
of EDWARD VON DADUSZEN, Esq.
Same day, at Christleton, near Chester, ELIZABETH, sister
of the late Rev. T. LLOYDS, of King's College, Cambridge.
Same day, at the residence of her uncle, George Lang, Esq.,
of Kingsland, London, of consumption, aged 25, MARIA, only
sister of Mr. J. G. T. CHILD, of Bury, in this county.
Same day, in Oxford-street, in his 39th year, Mr. WM. F.
COURTEN AY, merchant, New Orleans.
On the ;lan ult., CAROLINE ANN, youngest daughter of
Mr. PILKI X ()TON PLATT, of Everton.
Same day, at Euiwood-lodge, MARY CAROLINE, daughter
of WM. JONES, EEq.
Same day, at Po estop, Miss TURTON, daughter of the late
Mr. Turton, of FiFliwick-mill.
Same day, in Westfield, nged 33, Mr. RICHARD WOOD-
WARD, for upwards of sixteen years a valuable and faithful
servant in the office of Mr. ANSDELL, solicitor, St. Helens.
Same day, at St. Leonard's. Hastings, the Hon. Mrs. GEO.
DAWSON 114 MER, wife of the Right Hon. Col. Darner.
On the 31st ult. aged 48, SUSANNAH MATILDA, wife of
JOHN MM%DSLEY, Esq., of Seacomhe.
Same day, after a lingern-r: illness, in her 21st year, ESTHER,
youngest daughter of Mr. THOMAS SMART, of Dickenson-
street.

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Same day, in Bedford-street North, aged 57, J. SOTHERN,
Esq.
Same day, in Seymour-street, ELIZABETH, wife of H. 11.
PILLEY, Esq.
Same day, aged 11 months, MARIA, daughter of CRISPIN
WICKSTEAD ; and, on the 2d instant, aged 3 years and 4
months, WM. WICKSTEAD.
Same day, at Wahiorth, Surrey, in her o.ld year, JANE, relict
of the late ltD. HARRIS. Esq.
On the Ist instant, in Edge hill, aged 28, Mr. THOMAS
BREW, joiner, late of Douglas, Isle of Man.
Same day, in Elizabeth-place, Mount Vernon-road, MAMMA
ANN, eldest daughter of B. HARTWELL, lithographic-printer.
On the 2il instant, in her 30th year, MARY ANN, relict of the
late Mr. JOHN HUGHES.
Same day, in Dean-street, Fairfield, aged 00, MARY, widow
of the late JOSEPH JONES, Esq., merchant, formerly of
Demerara.
Same day, in his 34th year, Mr. D. HUMPHREYS, bookseller,
Ban
Samr.
goe
day, at Elgin, N. 8., WILLIAM GRAY, Esq., late of
Pernambuco, Brazil.
On the 3d inst., aged 3 years and 2 months, EMMA WELLS,
daughter of Mr. DAVID LLOYD, plumber, Gill-street.
Same day, in Erskine-street, BENJAMIN SIMPSON, Mg.,
highly respected by numerous friends and acquaintances.
On the 4th instant, at No. 12, Catherine-street, aged 36, WM.
HYSLOP, Esq., merchant, formerly of Kingston, Jamaica, and
lately of Bordeaux.
Same day, after thirty. six hours' illness, of scarlet fever,
aged 4 years and 3 months, JANE ELIZABETH, only child of
the late Captain THOMAS N I COL, of Allonby, Cumberland.
On the sth instant, at Pendleton, near Manchester, aged 64
years, Mr. TIIOMAS AYRES PHILLIPS, formerly of Ard-
wick-bridge Brewery.

NEST
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TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 7, 1848

THE Mayoralty of our excellent Chief Magis-
trate, Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall, will terminate
on Thursday next ; and we cannot suffer him to
descend from his elevated position, and to return
to the more constant enjoyment of his domestic
lot, without tendering him our sincere congratula-
tions, and those of a great majority of his fellow-
townsmen, upon the mode in which he has dis-
charged the arduous duties imposed upon him.
Mr. Horsfall's year of office has been cast in a
troublous period. We have been visited by great
political, commercial, and social difficulties. Under
the influence of the one every class of the com-
munity, and every branch of industry, have been
called upon to suffer; and under the influence of
the other, aided by the machinations of incendiary
agitators, we were at one time threatened with
serious danger td property and life. Amidst this
complication of sources of anxiety, his worship
bore himself throughout with dignity, firmness,
considerate judgment, and impartiality. To his
exertions and prudence, along with th :se of his
brother magistrates, and to the ready zeal with
which they were responded to by the loyal portion
of our population, we owed, in all probability, our
escape from dangers, the extent of which have
never been fully made known.
Mr Horsfall entered upon his duties with a de-
clared determination to regard himself as the repre-
sentative of no party; to be the Mayor of all the
town. He has eminently succeeded in carrying out
his resolve. His impartiality has been perfect in
every respect. To any measure, or any movement,
having for its object the good of his fellow-towns-
men, and the community at large, he has freely lent
his countenance and active aid, as is evinced by
his readiness at all times to call and to preside over
public meetings, at which the opinions of this great
commercial people could be expressed and brought
to bear upon the Legislature. As the most impor-
tant of these we may instance the meetings upon
the question of the Navigation Laws and the Sugar
Duties, at both of which his impartial bearing, his
perfect courtesy, and his firmness in resisting the
slightest attempt at disorder, were acknowledged
by all parties.• Besides these, however, are nume-
rous other meetings at which he has presided—the
Early Closing Association, the Tradesmens' Asso-
ciation, the Church Missionary Society, the Gospel
Propagation Society, the Church Pastoral Aid
Society, and others,—to all of which his kind coun-
tenance, independent of his individual liberality,
has been productive of advantage.
That personal liberality has not been the least
prominent feature of his worship's mayoralty. He
has been rarely appealed to in vain for any worthy
object; and to all so appealing to him, as indeed
to all who have had occasion to address him on any
subject, he has been found invarably kind and easy
of approach. His hospitality has been profuse, and
dealt out without any party bias; and its accepta-
bleness has been infinitely increased by his worship's
constant display of that tact so invaluable in a host
—the tact which enables every guest to feel him-
self at home, in good humour alike with his enter-
tainer, his fellow-guests and himself. Few more
agreeable chairmen have ever presided over the
hospitalities of our Town Hall.

We can assure Mr. Horsfall, with sincerity, that
he will carry with him to the retirement of his own
happy home, which during the year of his mayor-
alty has been blessed with an additional source of
a parent's happiness, the goodwill and affection of
all classes of • his fellow townsmen. We cannot
flatter him, however, with the hope that they will
be content to yield him up permanently. There is
a strong, feeling abroad that one who has served
his fellow-townsmen so efficiently in a compara-
tively limited sphere of action, is capable also of
sf:.rviL:g them in a more extended sphere. In .a
word, we look to see Mr. Horsfall called to repre-
sent in Parliament this community, with whose
interests, institutions and feelings he is so perfectly
conversant. The time bas come, it is thought, for
laying aside those petty jealousies which have here-
tofore intervened to prevent the member for Liver-
pool being a resident merchant of the town, and
sent us a begging for the honour and countenance
of some professional politician, or hanger on of
party. Common sense bids us, in these times of
political tergiversation, to stay at home, and to
give our confidence only to one whom we know,
who has been tried and not found wanting, either
in talent or in honesty. Such a man we possess
in the retiring Mayor—Mr. Thos. Berry Horsfall.

BEFORE proceeding to reply in detail to the

Manchester Guardiaii''s remarks upon our last
week's article in defence of the Liverpool currency
scheme, we have to thank him for the admission
that it was, " on the whole, a fair and temperate
article." 'We wish to argue a question so impor-
tant in no other spirit than that which our con-
temporary admits we have displayed thus far.
Our object is not at all to triumph as controver-
sialists. We wish only, in any argument which
we may have with the Guardian, to furnish to him
and the public an opportunity of weighing dispas-
sionately the merits of the system proposed by the
Currency Reform Association, as compared with
that system to whose operation, we firmly believe,
the present depressed condition of the commerce
and industry of the country is mainly attributable.
But wewill here take the opportunity of correcting
the error which our contemporary has committed,
doubtless inadvertently, when he styles the plan of the
association a " scheme of inconvertible paper curren-
cy." The paper money they propose will be based
upon, and convertible into, consols, and unless be be
prepared to assert that these securities possess no
value, he must admit that the proposed paper will
not be inconvertible. It would appear as if the
powerful sway which gold seems to exercise over
the minds of its votaries renders them unable to
perceive the possibility of paper being convertible
into anything save this precious metal. -
The Guardian seems to be either unable or dis-
inclined, in his objections to the currency we
advocate, to regard it through any other than a
bullionist medium. His first paragraph is an in-
stance of extreme confusion of mind, arising from
this source. He says:—
" It will probably be recollected that the association
take, as the basis of their standard of value, the funded
debt owing by the fetish government, the price of which,
according to their scheme, is to remain always at par, and
which, if its real exchangeable value was always the same

as measured in commodities, and in the command over la-
hoar, might possibly furnish something like a standard.
But it is perfectly notorious that the value of the funds,
as measured in commodities and labour, has fluctuated
exceedingly. At one time the market price of XlO6, in
three per cent. consols was as low as £57, even in a cur-
rency depreciated some 20 or 25 per eAlt. At another
time, it was worth a hundred golden sovereigns. In one
case, the proposed standard would have given us a pound
worth less than ten shillings; in the other, it. would have
given a pound worth fuly twenty shillings. A vary pretty
standard that would have been, certainly."

Our contemporary appears wishful to alarm us
by quoting the extreme rnd violent oscilations
which form a part of the bullionists' sys!em, but he
need not have gone so far back for his illustration,
as so recently as Oetober last year exchequer hills
were not convertible; it rests with him to prove
whether this arose from a depreciation in the go-
vernment securities, or fr:on an appreciation of the
gold. WE HOLD THAT IT WAS AN APPRECIA-
TION OF THE GOLD.

The object of the association is to obtain a steady
value for money by a uniform rate of interest, and,
at the same time, a safe and adequate supply of the
medium of exchange; and this, they contend, may
be, secured by making consols convertible into
legal tender at par, or at such rate as may be con-
sidered the least disturbing to existing prices. -
The only difficulty under which the Guardian
seems to labour with respect to a currency based
upon the value of the national debt, as applicable to
our ordinary transactions with foreign countries, is
its liability to fluctuation with the price of Consols.
We have already said enough, however, to show
that no such fluctuation would take place. But we
had better let him put his own case :

"A Liverpool merchant." he says, " who has credit at
New York, or who can procure an undertaking from
others who have credit, to accept his bill drawn in that
city, goes into the market there to buy corn, or fi,mr. or
cotton, and proposes to pay for it with his bill on London.
Before any man will part with his merchandise on such
terms, he will be satisfied what it will eventually produce
him. At the present time, be knows that it will yield
him, for each sterling pound expressed in it, a golden so-
vereign of a given weight and fineness, with the value of
which he is very well acquainted; and therefore. if the
price of his cotton. corn, or thur is satisfactory, he feels
no hesitation shout the value of the proceeds of the bill
w!len paid. But let the Liverpool merchant go into-the
New York market with a bill payable in three-per-cent.
consols,—or what is precisely the same thing, in a cur-
rency the value of which is determined by the value of
the three-per-cents.—and what will the owner of the
merchandise say to him ? He would very likely say,--` I
have no confilence in your funds. I have recently wit-
nessed the most violent fluctuations in the value of French
rentes and of Austrian metalliques ; and I know that
English three-per-cents have been sometimes worth less
than ten shillings in the pound. Bring me gold or silver,
or give me a bill payable in gold or silver, and then 1 will
sell you my merchandise;
.but I will not sell it for a hill
the real value of which is uncertain.' It would be quite
useless to tell him in reply that he would receive so many
paper ' pounds.' He would require to know whit!: each.
pound would net at New York : and feeling no confidence
on that head, he would either refuse to sell, or demand
such terms as, in his judgment, would indemnify him for
the risk he incurred."

We are still of opinion that if we can only esta-
blish a well regulated system of domestic exchanges.
we may safely leave the foreign exchanges to take
care •of themselves ; and we feel sure that they
would fluctuate much less than they do at present.
But, should the Guardian still disagree with us on
this point.we would ask him whether Brazil, Buenos
Ayres, and other countries circumstanced as those
are, have ever experienced any difficulty in obtain-
ing every description of merchandise from every
part of the world, though their paper money is
totally inconvertible ? Nay, did Great Britain her-
self, find it difficult to obtain all the supplies of
produce, and all the food she required, during the
period of the Bank Restriction Act, merely because
the bank-notes were then inconvertible ? The
reasoning of the Guardian clearly implies that,
whenever hank-notes cease to command gold, fo-
reigners will cease to trade with us, though the
instances just mentioned are evidences to the con-
trary. The fact is, that his error, and that of the
hullionists in general, arises from the vulgar preju-
dice that gold is the only thing that possesses value ;
but the association are .desirous to bring this pre-
cious metal down to its place as a corninodi!y, and
a commodity only. Feeling satisfied of its total
unfitness as a measure of value, because of the
instability of its own value, which depends upon
the quantity that may happen, at any given time,
to he in the country, they think it a very great evil
that the national commerce and industry should he
paralised, merely by the accidental circumstance of
a few boxes of bullion being, at a particular time,
on the wrong aide of the Atlantic. This part of the
argument the Guardian shirks ; he says much as
to the possible depreciation in the value of Consols,
but is silent upon the actually extreme fluctuations
which are constantly taking place in the value of
gold.

Our contemporary repeats his allusions to the
depreciation of French assignats—that respecting
the paper money of Buenos Ayres he seems to give
up as untenable ;—and in reply to our remark that
these were inconvertible, exclaims, " What ! no solid
basis of convertibility in the French assignats ?
Why, everybody knows that they were issued on
the security of church lands, and of the confiscated
estates of the emigrant nobles."
We are rather surprised that the Guardian should
be so badly informed upon the point as to reiterate
with evident self-complacency what "every body
knows," or should know, to be incorrect. The case
is, that the first issue of assignats by the consti-
tuted assembly, in 1790, of about £2,500,000, was
based upon public lands, but these assignats were
received back by the government in taxes, and in
payment of the confiscated estates. It was the sub-
sequent and excessive issues, without any basis, or
provision for their withdrawal, that became depre-
ciated and worthless. The ignorance of these facts
may be the chief cause of the bullionists prejAice
against a paper currency. It should be borne in
mind that all depreciated money has originated in
the fraudulent expedients resorted to by Govern-
ments in their necessities, and that a paper money
based upon sound principle, has never yet been
adopted by any nation.
There is one thing of which we have to complain
in the mode in which the Guardian argues this
question. He persists in assuming facts, as proved,
which he has never even attempted to prove ; treats,
as certain to occur under the proposed scheme,
conditions which have constantly occurred under,
and are the most mischievous characteristics of our
present system. We really wish that he would deal.
a little less in such assumptions, and give us a little
more of proof and argument.

WHEN we first heard the announcement that
Mr. Eyre Evans, confident of his ejection from the
Council Chamber, was about to give to the world
his notions on dock matters, in the form of a letter
or a pamphlet, we trembled for the Dock Chair-
man, the committee, and all concerned. We are
enabled once more to breathe freely. The pro-
mised document has appeared in the form of a
letter in the Albion.; and there has been no explo-
sion. The Custom-house, the Docks, and the
Dock Warehouses, stand precisely where they
were ; and the Mersey shows no symptoms of being
on fire. In fact, we have read over the production
half a dozen times, only to ask ourselves the ques-
tion every time we reached its conclusion, what on
earth could have induced the worthy gentleman to
think that there existed any necessity for his trou-
bling himself to write a letter at all.
Mr. Eyre Evans seems to labour under the delu-
sion that our Dock affairs cannot possibly go on
without his interference. He states it to be "a
duty owing to the community, from whom lie is
officially about to part company" to offer them a
few observations; and reminds his readers of the
way in which " he and several others, the latter
amongst the most distinguished citizens of the
town, exerted themselves for the last thirteen years
in both official and private capacities." We could
have spared him the exertions in question, and the
trouble of reminding us of them. Their result has
been two of the most complete failures ever perpe-
trated either in the Dock Committee or the Coun-
cil; the erection of those extravagant structures,
the Dock warehouses, which Mr. Evans assured us
were to pay ten to twelve and a half per cent., and
which return a miserable fraction upon the outlay,
which we are afraid to mention, and the Gill-street
Market, which pays nothing at all. We shall some
of these days, no doubt, have a proper debtor and
creditor account of the result of these pet schemes
of Mr. Evans and his friends " the most distin-
guished citizens of this town," which we imagine
will reconcile us to the official parting of company
which he seems to regard as so calamitous.
The burthen of the letter before us is a complaint
with respect to the agreement come to by the Dock
Committee and the Earl of Derby, for the land on
the North Shore, which he conceives to be an
improvident one, and the terms of which ought to
have been left to be settled by a jury; and another,

that the Dock Committee have acted unwisely in
providing to such an extent for the increase of
traffic,. which they expect to accrue to the port.
Under the bargain referred to, he states that " the
lion's share of the property" is conceded to the
Earl ; and, from the increase of dock accommoda-
tion which the committee are providing, he sees
nothing, he anticipates nothing, but ruin and bank-
ruptcy to the estate. Unfortunately for his consis-
tency and truth, however, this bargain is by no
means one from which the Earl is to reap the lion's
share ; and his complaint, that the price of the.
shore has not been left to a jury, and the Earl
included amongst the parties embraced by the
compuliory clauses of the act, is neutralised by the
fact that a similar purchase of a thousand lineal
yards of strand was made by himself from the sane
nobleman, without even the insertion of his name in
the Act of Parliament. The Dock Committee, in
this purchase, wisely departed from the established
rule of past years—viz., that of making the land
first, and buying it afterwards, at from 20s. to 255.
per yard. They required the site fur the purpose
of depositing upon it the soil from the docks now
in course of formation ; and they will get, as the
result of the plan they have adopted, a magnificent
reach of land, for dock purposes, at a rate cheaper
than that of any former addition made to the estate.
With respect to his fear that the committee are
going too fast, he affords us an admission which
completely upsets his whole case. The interest on
the debt and expenses, he says, will, when the pro-
posed works be completed, reach £250,000 to
£300,000 per annum, " an appalling sum to those
of us who remember the gross income of the Dock
Estate being under £50,000 per annum." When
we remember, however, that the income in question
has already reached £250,000 per annum, and has
increased in even the present year of depression,
we need be under little alarm that the further
increase, during the eighteen years that we have'
allowed for completing the entire docks proposed,
will not be amply sufficient to meet all the charges
upon them, and allow of room for reduction of the
rates as well.

WE publish the following letter with the very
greatest pleasure. not because we suppose that the
malicious and shameful libels on the Irish clergy
will be felt by that excellent and laborious body of
men, but because we are glad to find that more
than one English clergyman has been hold enough
to protest publicly against the unfounded allega-
tions levelled in such a wholesale manner against
their Irish brethren. The character of Mr. Parry
will add much to his earnest protest, and without
further preface we present his letter to our readers.
TO TiIE_EDITOR OF_TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Unaccustomed and unwilling as I am to obtrude
myself on the public attention in the columns of a news.
paper, I cannot refrain from entering my earnest protest.
as an English clergyman, against the ungenerous, the
uejtist, the unworthy treatment, to which my Irish breth-
ren in the ministry in this town have been recently sub-
jected. lam filled with feelings of sorrow and of shame
when I reflect that the men thus assailed are men of
whom, if we regard their mental endowments and attain-
ments, any town, any country, any church, might be
justly proud, and for whom, if we consider their piety,
their zeal, and their devotedness in their Master's work
and service, any town, any country, any church, might
well be thankful.

Were my beloved brethren mere men of the world, they
might be in some danger of self-complacency from this
source, if the language of the poet be the language of
truth,—

Fnvy does merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true."
Were they men of the world, they might regard with
contempt the unsparing and unmerited hostility of which
they are the objects. But they are Christian men, and
they will, therefore, pity and " pray for those who des-
pitefully use them," consoled, in some measure, by the
reflection that there are many amongst their English
brethren, wbo, like myself, deeply and affectionatelisym.
pathise with them ;—consoled in a far higher degree by
the recollection that their blessed "Master went " through
evil" as well as " good report" before them, and that
" the disciple is not above his Master, nor the servant
above his Lord." i am, Sir, faithfully yours,
20, Falkner-square, Nov. 4, 1848.

FREDERICK PARRY.

In connection with this subject, we may allude
here to a reply we have made to a correspondent,
and mention that in this and the three adjoining
parishes there are eighty-seven officiating clergy-
men, and of these only seventeen belong to the
Irish Church.

WE hear of some difficulties, which are said to
stand in the way of a harmonious action amongst
the Conservative body in the Council, upon the
subject of the approaching election for the mayor-
alty. It was by a majority, not only of the Con-
servatives, but of all classes in the town, fully
understood that, after the postponement of his
claims last year, in favor of those of our present
respected Chief Magistrate, the election of Mr.
Bramley-Moore on the present occasion was almost
a matter of course. Up to within a very few days
past we heard of no settled purpose to disturb
that arrangement by any opposition; and hoped
that time sufficient had elapsed to allow of the
subsidence of party heats, and of a candid ac-
knowledgement being accorded to services of a
very high order, conferred by Mr. Bramley-Moore,
at the expense of great personal exertion, upon the
Commerce and the Institutions of the Town:

In this anticipation, we fear we are doomed to be
disappointed ; and that a section of the Conserva-
tive party are disposed to push their views, as to
the rating' question, to the extreme point of mak-
ing it the turning pc•int of fitness for the civic
chair, putting out of sight all. those other import-
ant questions of constitutional principle, upon
which they have for years gone hand in hand
with the Dock Chairman, and are even regardless
on the score of personal fitness. It is to be re-
gretted that such a course should be pursued—a
course which must tend greatly to bring us back
beneath that Whig domination, from the effects of
which, its extravagance and jobbing, its Georges's
Halls and Albert Warehouses, we are now paying
so fearful a penalty. It is an instance of that same
fatal spirit, which broke up the great political party
in our own town, and in the country : which ended
in handing over a share in the representation of once
Conservative Liverpool to a Liberal, and in fasten-
ing, as an incubus on the country's energies, a
Russell Administration.
We would entreat of our Conservative friends to
reflect upon the course which they are about to
pursue, ;,nd to regard with jealousy and suspicion
the seductive voice with which they are tempted—
the voice of a party which never fawned upon and
flattered loyal constitutional men, except to draw
them under their feet, and trample upon and deride
them. Let them remember the fable of the horse,
who submitted to be bridled and mounted, in order
to be revenged upon an enemy, and has remained
that rider's slave ever since.

The report of an account having been received at
Lloyd's of the los; of the emigrant ship Thetis is incor.
rect.

- - -
ROBBERY IN DUBLIN.-At the Police-court yesterday,
a young man named James Biffin charged another named
James Wilkinson with having recently robbed him, at
his lodgings in Dublin, of £3O in cash, a watch, and a
quantity of clothes, with which he came to England. He
was ordered to be sent to Dublin, to be de tit with by the
authorities there.
STEALING BUTTER FROM A MARKET WOMAN.—A
woman named Catherine Nicholson, was yesterday
charged at the police-court with having stolen from the
stall, in St. John's Market, of Catharine Howard (of
Ormskirk), 12 pounds of butter, value, is. per pound.
She was observed, pursued and captured in Market-street
by a police-officer. The prisoner was sent for trial at the
sessions.

--.-.--_
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CAR-DRIVER —At the police-
court yestenLy, a car-driver named Thomas Robinson,
was charged with having retained from his employer the
sum of 103. 6d., which he had received for a fare on Sun-
day evening. The prisoner said he was so drunk that he
knew not what had become of the money, which he must
either have lost or was robbed of. He was remanded for
further enquiry.
BONFIRES.-All or most of our readers know the origin
of bonfires. But though bonfires are sometimes dangerous,
they have, on many occasions, been of great service in
preserving life and property, as in the following instance :
It is now forty-two years since the ship Bellona, Captain
W. Lace, bound to this port from Africa, with a valuable
cargo, was overtaken by a storm on making the land,
which increased as night came on, accompanied with sleet
and rain. It soon became as dark as pitch. The pilot
would not listen to the remonstrances of the captain, and
the consequence was the ship struck, and soon became a
wreck, on one of the banks near the village of Wallasey.
At this time, they could not see the Bidston light, but
occasionally seeing the reflection of the bonfires on Bid-
ston-hill, the captain and crew took to the boats, and
pulled in that direction for several hours. The sailors
became so exhausted that they were about to lay down
their oars in despair, but the captain assuring them he
could then distinctly see the bonfires, animated the crew,
and another hour's tug brought them to the shore. The
men, on reaching terra firma, near the Magazines, could
scarcely be restrained, and vowed they would every sth of
November have a bonfire that would blaze as high as the
mainmast of their unfortunate ship, as they must have all
perished but for the Cheshire boys commemorating the
memorable day. The pilot was discharged for his head-
strong conduct.

RECONCILIATION BETWEEN DR. M`NEILE
AND iHE REV. W. W. EWBANK. -ADDI-
TIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.

We are rejoiced to find that through the kind exertions
of Mr. Inman, a cordial reconciliation has taken place be-
tween these reverend gentlemen, who, on Saturday, had a
most affectionate personal meeting. The following cor-
respondence is extremely gratifying, and we publish it
with much pleasure :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Everton, Nov. 6, 1848.

DEAR SlR,—Will you be good enough to insert the
enclosed correspondence in your next paper ?—I am, dear
sir, your faithful servant,
W, WITHERS EWBANK.

COPY.

Aiybyrth, 3rd November, 1848.

REP. .?AND DEAR Stn,---Mr. Inman has just informed
me, to my very great satisfaction, that you do not insist
on an acknowledgement of your right in this matter, as a
preliminary to our reconciliation and Christian intercourse,
but that you are willing to refer that to subsequent dis-
cussion by competent tribunals.
This being the case let us meet as brethren, and, in such
a conference, I will gladly and readily repeat to you what
I have already said in full committee, of my sincere regret
at having been induced to use words which ought not to
have been used under any provocation, and which were
calculated to inflict a wound not designed by the speaker
of them.—l am, reverend and dear sir, yours truly,
HUGH M`NEILE.
Rev. TV. Wither* Eubank.