The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE WATCH COMMITTEE AND THE LATE

HEAD-CONSTABLE.

f this responsible office. I will add, in conclusion, for
he satisfaction of the many influential gentlemen in this
town who took an interest in my election, the following
communication which 1 received from Sir James Camp-
bell since my arrival in Liverpool, testifying the opinion
which he and a large portion of the community of Glas-
cow entcrtained of my services as Superintendent of Po-
lice there, after a discharge of the duties during eight
years.

I am, sir, your most obedient servant, H. MILLER.
Liverpool. Ist Nov., 1844.
[Mr. Miller then gives a letter which enclosed the very
handsome subscription of £360 by persons in Glasgow.]

LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO A FRIEND ON

MISFORTUNE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Slap—The following letter was left at my house on
Saturday last, evidently by mistake, and as the direction
was torn off, I take the liberty of forwarding it to you,
under the impression that by your extensive circulation,
it may meet the eye of the gentleman for whom it seems
to have been intended. I wish the postmen would be
more careful. The seal was unfortunately broken.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
PHELAN O'BOTHEREM.
Clarence Dock, Nov. 4, 1844.

LIVERPOOL JEALOUS OF BIRKENHEAD !

The exposition which we gave last week of the increasing
financial resources of Liverpool, and the accounts which
have since been given of the growing prosperity of our
noble Dock E,tate, ought really to furnish matter suffi-
cient, in the minds of all reasoning •men, to absolve us
from the trumpery charge of viewing, w'th anything re-
sembling jealousy or fear, the projects of our neighbours
of Birkenhead. For all this, however, we may be excused
if we allow ourselves occasionally to smile at the absurd
vaunts which reach our ears with respect to these projects,
of which we give here a couple of specimens, extracted
from a letter of Mr. Herapath, addressed from Liverpool
to the Railway Magazine of last Saturday.

BIRRRNBILAD-SPECULATIOSS.—The following may, I believe,
be depended on. One gentleman, in a small way, has cleared
£12,000 by land speculations; another assured me he Lad cleared
.e13,00l in a fortnight ; a third bought some land, eeveral years
ago, for £3,000, and thought he did exceedingly well to sell it,
some years after, for .?,oc,o, but his successor has actually re-
sold
-the same land, lately, for £BO.OOO.

Now, is not such bra gadocio sufficient to tempt any
man, who is not possessed of lamblike meekness and the
gravity of a stoic, to retort upon the boasters or to expire
in a fit of laughter ? Might it not tempt one to remind
these fortunate speculators of a fact, which we suspect
they know already, that " all is not gold which glitters;"
that debtor and creditor statements which look surprisingly
well, on paper, do not always wind up Quite so well. It
would be wisdom in such men to keep their gains secret
until they are actually in hand. Puffery of this descrip-
tion is rarely the accompaniment of bona fide prosperity.
But let us proceed to extract No. 2. _ _ _