The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL.

We are sorry that the few remarks we lately made, upon
the subject of making Bristol a free port, and once more
restoring it to its ancient pre-eminence, have rather touched
one of our Bristol contemporaries—the Mirror; and
almost equally sorry that he should imagine that the
" good folks of Liverpool begin to take the alarm. They
are more than half afraid." We can assure him
that our own pulse was never more regular ; and, more-
over, we are not so ungenerous as to wish the efforts
making by the Bristolians any thing but success. Diffi-
culties we see in their way we readily confess ; and to those
difficulties we pointed in the article in question. But, if
referring to them is cruelty, both our contemporaries, the
Mirror and Felix Farley's Journal, are very cruel indeed
in giving insertion to the reports and letters, detailing
those enormous and complicated difficulties with which
they have to contend in carrying their object.
Upon one point we must set the Mirror right. We
ought to know something of what is going on, and what is
the fi.eling, in this locality •, and we assure him that he is
misinformed if he,thinks that the " north country men"
are either endeavouring to check the movement for making
Bristol a free port, or that any "Liverpool and Manchester
shareholders in the Great Western Railway are putting
the screw on the directors to prevent them from rendering
that efficient aid which Bristolians are entitled to expect. '
The letter of his Liverpool correspondent, from whom be
has his information, we can assure him is, in the expres-
sive language of Mr. Burcheil, " Fudge." We are think-
ing far more about cotton and corn, the loss of the Great
athor mcarmr mattes, to crialJlC us Cu raise
our thoughts to the sublime height of the Bristol Free
Port Association, or to penetrate so far into futurity as to
canvas the result of their meritorious and patriotic endea-
vours to advance the prosperity of their town. We have
all the humanity of Uncle Toby ; and, in all sincerity and
kindness, assure our brethren of the ancient city that
there is room enou:,,b in the world both for them and us.

CHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—
The Bishop of Chester has issued circular letters to the
clergy throughout his diocese, directing them to make col-
lections in their various churches, before the expiration of
the present month, in aid of the funds of this excellent
object, which are now exhausted. In compliance with
his lordship's request, a collection, amounting to 410,
was made at St. Jude's Church, on Sunday last.
We u .derstand that the anniversary sermons for the
Irish Society will be preached in Liverpool this year on
Sunday, Nov. Bth, and public meetings held the following
days. The Rev. Daniel Foley, a native of Dingle, and
once a member of the Church of Rome, who attended the
anniversary in Liverpool two years ago, and the Rev. Mr.
Winning, the clergyman of Kingscourt in Ireland, where
the Irish Society has been so signally blest, have promised
to be present as a deputation in November. Other cler-
gymen are also expected. We are glad to find that many
pulpits of our town are already promised. It would be a
melancholy addition to Ireland's miseries at this time if
there should be a " famine of the Word of God" also in
those districts where the Irish-speaking population desire
it in their own tongu', through a deficiency in the funds
of the Irish Society. Besides the Society affords employ-
ment, and in this way means of support to several readers
and teachers throughout the country. Further particulars
of the anniversary will be given in advertisements in a
week or two.

INQUESTS YESTERDAY, BEFORE MR. CURRY.—On
view of the body of Isaac Hulse, aged 25, a Runcorn
flatman. On Thursday fortnight, the flat to which de-
ceased belonged was lying near another, off Spekewood,
in the Mersey. Deceased and his father got into a boat
to get to the other flat, in order to assist in hoisting the
sails a little higher. When in the act of coming across
the bows of the flat (not their own) they were run down,
and deceased and his father went down under her. The
father got hold of the boat astern of his own flat, and
saved himself. It does not appear that the deceased
rose to the surface. The body was seen floating in the
river by the people on board the steam-packet Sampson,
on Saturday last, and was conveyed to the dead-house.
Verdict, " Accidentally drowned."—On view of the body
of Elizabeth Conroy, a married woman, aged 51, who
resided in Brooks'-street. The husband stated that she
was much addicted to drinking : that on Friday night she
came home much intoxicated ; that he assisted her to her
bedroom, where she began to undress, and he went to
bed ; that she fell against the tire-place, and then against
a cupboard door which was partly open ; that she began to
moan, and said that night would he her last ; that she
then fell upon the floor, when he left her, as she was in
the habit of lying there when drunk; that not hearingler
speak for some time, he called a girl who lived in the
house, and on lifting her found her mouth bloody; that
she then made a dart to the door, fell to the bottom of
the stairs, and never spoke more. The surgeon who was
called found her dead, and on examination was of opinion
that she died from apoplexy, the result of natural causes.
Verdict accordingly.
DOINGS IN TONTETH-PARK.—The bulk of the rate-
payers of Toxteth.park, we are sure, cannot be acquainted
with the effort making to oust a deserving public servant
of the township, Mr. Ayrey ; and the utter want of rea-
sonable grounds, beyond his known Conservative politics,
for such a proceeding. Were they fully acquainted with
the facts of the matter, and the rapidity with which their
affairs are being hurried into inextricable disorder by the
clique which at present rules the roast in that township,
they would at once, by their presence at the poll now
going on, crush the effort in question. It has all along
been a boasted tenet of Whiggery, that their proceedings
in office were directed by a just deference to the voice of
public opinion, openly expressed in a public meeting.
In the present case such a meeting, to consider the
charges against Mr. Ayrey—bow or by whom got up we
say not—was held on Thursday last ; end the following
is a copy of the resolution, as entered in the books of the
vestry :—" Moved by Mr. Harbord, seconded by Mr. W.
B. Jones, that in consequence of the so-called charges
against Mr. Ayrey not having been substantiated, he be
reappointed an assistant overseer, at a salary of one hun-
dred pounds per year, with the same duties as those
allotted to him in the appointment of the 18th December
last, and with the same conditions. Motion carried."
—Another resolution, of a similar character, was either
moved or seconded by Mr. Alderman James Lawrence.
In despite, however, of such declaration of the Vestry's
opinion, a poll has been called, and is now going on. At
present, we regret to observe that, by the apathy of the
Conservative party, the want of knowledge that such poll is
going on, and the various and well-understood appliances
which the other party command, the friends of a perse-
cuted man are in a minority. We trust that such will
not continue to be the case. A single effort of the Con-
servative ratepayers of the ward will snatch a valuable
servant of the public and his children from undeserved
destitution, and we trust it will be promptly made.
THE POLL, we repeat, lil WM going on. Record your
votes at once.