The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.INDARD.

Sta,—When I replied last week to the observations of a
Merchant's Clerk, I did not anticipate any further necessity for
my taking up the space in your valuable columns, which might
be occupied with- more useful matter. So little indeed did 1
think of having to trouble you again, that !kept no copy of toy
reply; and, not having seen Tuesday's paper, I was not aware
of my letter having been published, until I observed a further
communication in yesterday's from your previous correspondent,
as well also one from a. new champion, who signs himself Justus.
I will therefore,•with your pernaission, take one at a time, and, as
regards the Merchant's Clerk, observe, that being in all things,
with the exception of business, au *indolent man, I did not think
it necessary to take his letter line by Line. consequently only
generally, and in following up his-own admission of the scarcity
of huts. stated my opinion--if a sufficient number were provided
in every dock there would be no more room for complaint. I
now see I am charged with evading the fact—the awkward,
stubborn fact of 50 or GO vessels having been kept waiting for
landing-waiters. Will your correspondent affirm as a fact, that
60, or even 50 vessels, actually having a quayed or a stage berth,
With hut., and weighing apparatus, ready for discharging, have
at one time been waiting for landiug-waiters ? If such can be
" so readily proved," let the onus probandi lay with him, and
when so proved, I shall be most willing to allow the necessity of
an augmentation of officers as well as huts, whi;:li latter, I again,
assert, are not the property of the crown, neither has any one in
the Customs an authority over them ;, and, as the Merchant's
Clerk is wilfully blind to my previous hint at the quarter to
which the, do actually belong, I at once tell him they arc the
property of the Dock Committee, and to that committee alone
does the blame attach for the disgraceful state of a very con-
siderable number of them, as also for the necessity of the officers
bcig compelled, to the scandal of the flourishinl port of Liver-
pool to sit on a box, with a barrel fora table, under a sail spread
over spars lashed together, to land a cargo ! ! ! There is another
fact which your correspondent may possibly be able to contro-
vert, namely, getting landing-waiters appointed to ships reported
to be ready for work, though at the same time they may lay far
out and two days have passed over before they are played. I
do hope the Merchant .1' Clerk will he now satisfied, and, as I have
pointed out distinctly, and not again by inucudo, where the
want of huts should be remedied, be will adopt the proper
course, and not throw all.the blame on the Customs, for he might
with equal propriety charge them with not bringing vessels into
their berths—instead of the dock master. Having given him
all the information necessary to effect a remedy for his griev-
ance, and being, as observed before, an indolent man, (shall
not trouble myself again on this subject.
Your friend Justus does me the favour to invest me with a
little brief authority, and also a want of experience in this port.
Does lie mean to honour me, by the inference, of having had
much experience in some other ? Possibly he, like the Mer-
chant's Clerk, can equally.prove these facts? lam astonished,
sir, that Justus, after finding the Tony, loud, and deep complaints
of the merchants, so useless when made through the STAN OA RD,
did not lay his grievance before the Committee of Commis-
sioners of Custonis;when. here a short time since? He might,
with his superior talents and extraordinary experience of this
port, have effected much more than tie is likely to do by his
present mode. Justus complains of a vessel having waited four
days for a landing-waiter, who was only obtained after "very
strong measui es were about to be adopted." Justus was wrong in
this case; lie should have availed himself of this solitary in-
stance of a:shin, waiting so long, and pushed his strong measures
at' once to tbe:fountain bead, when, no doubt, the remonstrance
of so experienced a per Son would have been attended to at the
instant,. and another regiment of landing-waiters appointed
forthwith. What en oppdrtunity was lost !
Is it not astonishing, Mr. Editor, that Justus, with his won-
'derful experience of this port, should have been so misled res-
pecting the property of the huts ? I almost question whether
the Dock Committee will thank him for transferring their right
and title to the." chief officers."—Yours, &c.,
Liverpool, Jan. 31st, 1535. FAIR PLAY.
P.S.—The time of attendance at this period of the year at
the Customs is half-past eight, not eight, which is, I suppose,
an emir of the printer.

IRREGUtAR TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS.—The Morning
Herald is frequently irregular—the Morning Post of Saturday
did not arrive—the same paper was a defauiter last week also—
the London Satirist has, fur the first time, not arrived. The
Court Journal, too,.sometimes forgets to visit us... Such irregu-
larity in the transmission of English newspapers must needs be
injurious to them and to us: Ile will thank them to have it re-
medied."—Dublin Freeman's Journal of ff'ednesday. [The
irregularity does not proceed from any neglect on our part.
We have fiequent occasions of complaint in the non-delivery of
our-Irish and provincial journals. The system of purloining
newspapers transmitted through the postoffice is carried on to a
most disgraceful extent; but no blame can be attributed to the
authorities of that department, for the utmost anxiety is inva-
riably evinced to secure a safe and prompt delivery.—London
Paper.]
I'he Marquis of Bute was the first nobleman who, for a cen-
tury, proposed to'builtitand endow a new parish church in Scot-
land. Her Grace the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, we
learn from the following quotation from a cotemporary, is the
second noble person who has resolved on a similar act of patri-
otism and piety. "We learn from a correspondent, that her'
Grace—the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, with that noble
spirit of benevolence and liberality by which- her grace is so
distinguishad amongst her numerous tenantry, has proposed,
not only to-build, but also to endow a church in the village of
Helmsdale, for the accommodation of her numerous tenantry in
that part of the parish of Loth. The inhabitants of that part
of Sutherland cannot feel too grateful to her grace for this mu-
nificent gift. When in Sutherland, last autumn, her grace, in
presence of the Duke of Bedford, pointed out a spot on which
she proposed to erect the church, and on the following day a
'number of the most respectable inhabitants of Helinsdale went
to the spot, and erected a "cairn" of stones, which will remain
until, by her. grace's liberality, they will be removed to make
way for the more lasting memorial of her munificence. We ate
happy to add, that the proposed building will be commenced in
spring first.—Caledonian. Mercury.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

Before the MAYOR, Ald. LEYLAND, and Ald. WRIGHT.

RtoT.—On Sunday morning, between the hours of two and
three o'clock, the neighbourhood of Stockdale-street, Marybone,
was thrown into a state of confusion in consequence of a num-
ber of disorderly Irishmen creating a disturbance by fighting
and rioting. It appears that this street is chiefly infested with
bad characters, who frequent the numerous houses of a low
deseriptibn there situated, and the dispute originated in one of
these sinks of iniquity. The brawlers divided themselves into
two factious, who turned into the street to decide their diffar-
enees by battle. Here each party met with an accession of
strength, and a regular riot commenced; stones were thrown,
shillelaghs were broken about the heads of the people congre-
gated, and many were seriously injured. The nightly watch
endeavoured to quell the disturbance, but they were beaten from
the field. They returned, however, in g-reater numbers, and
succeeded in.capturing fifteen of the ringleaders, who were this
day placed before the magistrates, and those who could be iden-
tified were held to bail to answer the charge at the sessions.

SINGU LA R RousEßY.—Alice Bird, Sarah Keaton, and a boy
about fourteen years of age, the latter employed by Messrs.
Hazledean, Pierson, and Co., shipwrights of Salthouse Dock,
were placed at the bar on suspicion of stealing twenty-five
pounds, the property of Messrs. Hazledean and Co., under
the folliming rather singular circumstances. A gentleman con-
nected with the firm stated that the 'bov, who had been in their
employment for some time, and they had had no reason to sus-
pect his honesty, was, on Saturday, sent to get change for a
£2O and a £5 note. He went into two shops to get change
without succeeding, and in the last, a hair-dressers in Paradise-
street, he saw the female prisoners, who, seeing the notes in his
hand, followed him out, and Keaton said that she could get him
change at her sister's. The lad was foolish enough td give the
girl the note, and she, after taking him through several streets,
entered a house, telling him to wait at the door. He did wait,
but to itO purpose, as the prisoners entered at the front door and
went out at the back. It appears that both the prisoners then
went to a shop kept by a Mr. Butler and requested change for
a£s note, but he not having change they left. The lad haying
by some means heard that the prisoners had been to Mr. But-
ler's to get change, went there to see for them, and told Mr.
Butler that they had got a £2"..) and £5 note. Mr. Butler, sus-
,pecting that all was not right, gave the boy into custody, and
informed the police of the circumstance, who, subsequently,
took the female prisoners into custody, but on neither of them
was found the money. Mr. Butler now identified the girls who
came to ask change, and said that Keaton appeared to have two
notes in her hands. The female prisoners denied having ever
seen the boy in their lives before, and said that they went to Mr.
Butler's for' change for a five shilling piece. This was, how-
ever, denied by Mr. Butler and the boy, and the magistrates
remanded the two females for further examination, discharging
the boy on the assurance of his master that he did not believe
!dm to be a participator in the robbery.-

Gnoss ASSAULT BY. A CARTER.—Mr. Whitley, surgeon, of
Islington, appeared against a ruffianly carter for having grossly
assaulted bins on Saturday afternoon last. It appeared from
the statement of Mr. Whitley, that on Saturday, between five
and six o'clock, as he and his brother were proceeding along
Moortields in a gig, he observed the prisoner riding on the
shafts of his cal t, heedless whether anything, could pass him or
not. Having many times been subject to inconvenience from
the negligence of carters. he desired the prisoner to alight from
the shafts and take his own side of the road, which instead of
doing, he used the inuSt Ausive language. Mt. Whitley then
alighted from his gig to take the number of the cart, and in order
to do so attempted to stop the horses, but had no sooner laid his
hand upon them than the prisoner struck him a blow on the eye.
Mr. Davis, a surgeon, and Mr. Jones, an attorney, who were
passing, seeing the ruffian's conduct, went up to the assistance
of Mr. Whitley, and endeavoured to take the prisoner into
custody, but being a poweiftil man he extricated himself from
them and escaped.- Mr.' Whitley and Mr. Davis followed him
to the street in which he lived for the purpose of obtaining his
name, when the prisoner again attacked them and threw Mr.
Davis into a cellar. Mr. Venables, the barrister, appeared for
the defendant, and endeavoured to show that Mr. Whitley had
given the carter provocation, but failed. Witnesses were also
called for the defence, but their evidence was so contradictory
and vague that the 'magistrates said they could not believe them.
Mr. Whitley, in mitigation of punishment, said that as he was
given to understand the man's character was generally good he
did not wish to. urn=e the case with severity. The Mayor and
M r. Alderman Leyland observed that the pri.mer's conduct was
gross in the extreme, and were it not for Mr. Wnitley's recom-
tnendation, they should have inflicted a heavy fine upon him.
He was then fined in the penalty,:of 10s., which with the costs
amounted to 16s.

DINNER TO TILE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY.

(Abridged from the. Newcastle Journal.)

The conservatives of the county of Durham gave a dinner
to the Marquess of Londonderry, at the Waterloo-Inn,Durham,
on Wednesday last, on his appointment to the important mis-
sion to the Court of St. Petersburgh, on which he Will shortly
leave England. The chair was tilled by the Hon. Henry Thos.
Lyddell. In thanking the company fhr the honour done
him on the occasion, the-Marquess.of Londonderry said, that
the point in which the public will feel most deeply interested
was his refutation of the scandalous attacks of the press, in re-
ference to his recent appointment by the
,government, to the,
embassy of St. Petersburgh. He declared that, so far from
those insinuations and assertions that had appeared in the ra-
dical newspapers, on this subject, being correct, they had no
foundation whatever. The fact was, that a very few days after
the accession to office of Sir Robert Peel, the right bon.
baronet did him the honour to send to him (the Marquess) a
King's Messenger, soliciting his confidence in, and support of,
the new government. Accompanied with that letter of the
premier, was a letter from the Duke of Wellington—that great
commander whom he (the Marquess) had followed, and whom
he looked up to during so many years of his early life—to state
that the important embassy to St. Petersburgh was one that the
Duke of Wellingtoin'as Foreign Secretor..., wcs very anxious
should be confided to his care. The noble Warquess then went on
to say, that, considering the domestic position in which he stood,
he felt that, after a life of considerable activity, difficulty, and
hardship, that he might at least be permitted to enjoy those
advantages which, under providence, he possessed. The noble
marquess next adverted to the great works in which he has em-
barked, and the consequent inconvenience of a protracted
absence from home; but added, he at length, resolved—as the
situation was not of his seeking, and as he had been called upon
by- the ministry of the country and the King—he would sacra-
lice every personal consideration and obey that call, if she
whose welfare he had at heart above all other earthly things
would accompany him. The noble marquess then said that
he might be called upon to leave this country in a few weeks,
and, after adverting to several other topics of a snore general
nature, declared that the testimony of respect that day paid
him would live fu his memory when far away from the shores
of England, and might God be his judge if ever he was ungrate-
ful for it. (Reiterated cheers.)
In the course of the evening, JOHN WRIGHT, Esq., proposed
the health of Lord Seaham, the eldest sun of the Marquess by
the present Marchioness of Londonderry.
Viscount SEAHAM (a handsome and noble-looking youth of
about-fourteen,) said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I will nut
trespass further on your time than by cordially thanking von
for the coinpliment you have paid to me. I shall not fail b
bear in grateful remembrance the kind reception I have received
from you on this, the first occasion of my appearing in intWie
life. (Tremendous cheers.) This shOrCaddress was extremely
well delivered.

The Rev: GEORGE ToWNSENP urged upon the meeting the
propriety of commencing at once to secure and register votes
for the nest election, whenever it may take place.