The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-21 00:00:00

:he Town Dues Office are more
matters than ourselves ; but, in the

meantime, it is left quite c

h for the clerk of any

honourable me

rchant of Liverpool to make such a
pn in his entry as would save his em-
r them liable to be held

ployers

nd ren

up to I.)u

s guilty of the atrocious
p" for a " double skip,"

some ground for a careful
npetent authority, of these
at such a revision will be

committee appointed yester-

such revision, or a

Cement of the exact nature of these
ashioned terms, a bonus is held out

ble parties who imagine
that they are conducting their concerns respectably,
ning liable to be visited with the
same imputations which have recently been directed
ate. We must say, how-
in question would for all

st our

he committe

investigation into the charge

Sands

ny recommendation to

!ct of the existing scale
(proved by the infusion
blood. The case at issue,

specially, is one which is

the mercantile interest; and it is scarcely

iat an

.on to which it may come

ill
be satisfactory to the town at large, when it is
!en that the committee, appointed to decide it, is

compos

of men extensively engaged in

mercan

nd large payers of town dues,
ntative of purely local interests.

repres

roceedings against O'Connell and his confe-

Irag their slow length along" at a pace
linly (Ines not afford us any prospect of
Obstruction after obstruc-

terminatic

rown in the way of the crown lawyers;
with which this policy is attended
Fast creating in the minds of a great
Irish people an impression that the
ming of their worshipped idol will
triumph over the law, whilst loyal

success

he empire are inclined to entertain
government of Sir Robert Peel is
the traitors, and will ultimately

the fear that ti

)ermit

=promise, or upon some omitted
their escape from the penalties which

to their crimes

We ca

selves think that her Majesty's ad-
-we might say base enough

enoug

confidence, and to risk the
iation of an entire people. And
which on Wednesdav

Standard, the:rec

almost warrants the

r present posi-

says—

Another passage in these communications relates
to the particulars of an interview which took place
at the town dues office between the receiver and Mr.
James Parker, the member for St. Anne's Ward,—
not Mr. C. S. Parker, as erroneously reported by
several of our contemporaries. Mr. Currie informed
the Council that Mr. Parker had called upon him
and gave the conversation which passed, in some-
thing like the following amusing and dramatic
urgesses of the town, as I shape :

" Mr. Parker asked to see a book of rates, and after
several evasive answers, he said, I want to know the
rates.' Mr. Corrie asked him whether he was a mem-
ber of the Town Council, and he replied in the affirma-
tive, adding, Neither the Mayor nor the Town-clerk
has any right to interfere with me. (Laughter.) lam
independent of the Council and of them both.' Mr.
Corrie asked, Do you wish to have a copy of the rates
to take away ?' Mr. Parker—' Yes.' Mr. Corrie—
Then I must state that all the copies are in use.' Mr.
Parker—' But let me see it ; I have a right to see it.'
Mr. Corrie called for a copy, and Mr. Parker began
reading, commencing at A, and going half through. He
then put it down without saying anything, and, making a
tong bow left the room. (Great laughter.)"

Now we would suggest to Mr. Corrie that, in a
communication of a strictly official nature, it was
not necessary to say whether agentleman with whom
he has had an interview on official business, " made
a low bow" before leaving the room, or whether he
commenced reading at Aor B. Mr. Corrie's duty
was simply to state facts, and as many of them as
he thought proper; but he was not required to be
at all funny at the expense of Mr. Parker or any
other member of the Council.

ROBBERY FROM A FLAT.—A youth named James Ed-
wards, alias Williams, was yesterday charged at the Police
Court with having stolen from the cabin of the fiat
Mary Jane, lying near the Queen's Dock, a cap, a waist-
coat, a shirt, and other articles of wearing apparel. It
appeared that the master of the flat had left her about S
o'clock on Friday afternoon, and the articles were then
safe and locked in the drawers. It was afterwards found
that the locks had all been forced, the drawers upset, and
the goods abstracted. About half-past five the same night,
police-constable Marks observed the prisoner on the west
side Queen's Dock, with a pilot-coat on, and asked him
what vessel he belonged to—to which he replied " the
Rapid." Suspecting all was not right he apprehended
;m, and enquiry being made, the owner was discovered
eke articles, which, with exception of

d about his