The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. burgesses of Liverpool are quite aware of the ex- dition to his salary may not be necessary; and no
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We agree, in some respects, with the anticipations of „.A istence of such an estate, and that it has a large doubt an efficient colleague could be procured for
Churchman," though we are not sanguine enough to expect and increasing surplus income. If Mr. Earle, the amount of increase, or a trifle over, which it is
all that he seems to hope for from the present Government. therefore, or his committee, calculate very san- said he is about to receive.
Our correspondent will find his views warmly advocated in •
gamely upon the approval of the town being given
the Oxford and Cambridge Review for the present month.
It is there strongly contended that the Church should come to any " comprehensive scheme," to which is ap- MORE RADICAL CALUMNIES AGAINST THE
boldly forward to the support of the Whigs, as there is every pended a heavy borough rate, as the means of car- EX-MAYOR.
reason to expect more from that party in the way of Church it
extension than from Conservatives, on the one hand, or Pro- tying into execution, we are afraid they are
tectionists on the other. One argument in support of this reckoning without their host; for it is not pre- The following letter we introduce in this place, because
policy is derived from the fact that the Whigs found' the of itself it calls for some remarks from us ; but, princi-
number of colonial bishops .fi re; they left it eleven. We fear, cisely true, as stated by Mr. Earle, that the burthen pally because we, like the Reverend writer, have some-
however, that the predicament referred to by the reviewer, of such a rate is paid by all "according to their thing to gay with respect to the paragraph which has
in another part of the article, "that we have to choose be- means."
tween parties, all of which are more or less hostile to us," is Any shopkeepker in Lord-street, Castle- called forth his communication.
more accurately descriptive of our real position. street, or Bold-street, could convince him of this TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.
We have received from a lady the sum of ten shillings for the important fact. SIR,—A truth-telling public press is one of the best
poor man whose loss by the death of several horses Was poor
in our last. IN e do, however, hail the appointment of the social blessings which can be possessed by a free corn-
The Customs revenue of Liverpool for 1845 was £3,433,112. committee with satisfaction, and look for great good rnunity ; but in proportion as a truth-telling press is a
We are compelled to hold over, until next week, an article on as the result of their labours ; but they must not go blessing, a lying press is a curse. Ido not think myself
the tea duties. at all out of my calling as a Clergyman, in exposing a
The lines of "C. A." are creditable, but want revision. too fast, however hard Mr. Earle may spur them. falsehood, the tendency and design of which are plainly
- Should he grow importunate, they may point to St. to injure (as far as impotent malice can injure) the repu-
Ebr Eibirpool &tanbatt. George's Hall, and ask him how many filthy places, tation of a public officer and an honourable gentleman.
now breathing pestilence, and generating and hiding I have this morning seen the Mayor, who called my
TUESDAY MORNI vice, might have been swept away by the aid of the attention to the following paragraph in the Albion:—
NG , NOV. 17, 184 6.
vast sums which have been lavished in the mere "The collection* amounted to .£B4 Gs. Bd., being nearly £2O
more than it was last year. The Mayor contributed a £2O
decoration of that expensive structure ? note, being the amount that all his predecessors contributed,
WE live in a new 1.::.a- an advanced stage of with the exception of Mr. David Hodgson, who only gave .ta."
enlightenment, with respect to the aims which ought After reading it, his worship said—" I did not give A. 20,
to direct legislation. We have been earnest in our We are happy to notice a renewal of the agitation and if there was a £2O note in the plate it was given by

ours to procure cheap food. We are an-
striving to improve the health of our
population by sanatory regulations. Sweeping
streets, cleansing courts and passages, severing,
dr ining, are objects of our everyday contemplation.
Ask of a candidate, for parliamentary or local pre-
ferment, what are his peculiar claims ; and a
reference to the hesom or the sewer, a promise of
more water and less filth, is his confident reply.
The Reform Bill professed to sweep out one augean
stable. We are now engaged, body and mind, with
another. of uhich the collected nuisance to be re-
moved is infinitely more real and tangible
It

We are happy to notice a renewal of the agitation
amongst the manufacturing operatives for a re-
striction of the hours of labour in factories, and to
see at the head of that agitation Mr. John Fielden,
Mr. Ferrand, and our old friend, Richard Oastler.
The time has surely at length arrived when ten hours
of tedious toil and confinement will be acknowledged
to be sufficient for either man or woman to endure
as a day's labour. The manufacturing interest has
had its pound of flesh already. It has raised itself
upon a hecatomb of human corpses, sacrificed to
glut its grasping avarice. It has dwarfed the limbs
of infancy, brutalised the mind of girlhood, and worn
down the strong man in his prime of years to pre-
mature imbecility : and now, at length, the Legisla-
ture must do its duty, and relax the grasp which has
so long been thus debasing and destroying our po-
pulation. If we hope for any thing from the admi-
nistration of Lord John Russell, it is this act of
justice to our working poor. He stands pledged to
it by his vote of last session. Some of his most able
colleagues are equally pledged to a Ten Hours Bill.
They must not be permitted, when in office, to turn
their backs upon those, whose humble supplication
for protection from the selfishness of superiors they
declared, when in opposition, to be a just demand.
It is a little difficur to guess what can be now the
ground of an opposition to this measure, on the part
of any statesmen of any section of political opinion.
It is not at all difficult, however, to produce satisfac-
tory replies to every objection which has been offered
in past times. The selfish political economist may
still reiterate his cry,—" Leave labour free;" and
talk of " demand" and " supply," as the circum-
stances which are to regulate both the rate of wages
and the duration of labour. We have lately recog-
nised, however, a new principle in legislation. We
have happily learnt and proclaimed the fact that it is
the duty of a Government to protect, not only pro-
perty and capital, but the lives of human beings,
expended in its production. We say to the builder,—
" You shall not erect dwellings prejudicial to the
health of their occupants." We say to those occu-
pants,—" You shall not continue practices preju-
dicial to the health of your neighbours." We say to
the carter or the cabman,—" You shall not over-
drive your beast ;" and we are surely privileged to
say to the manufacturing capitalist,—" You shall
not aggrandize yourself by daily sacrifice of the
health, the morals, and the lives of human beings."
We have already offered up the agricultural in-
terest of the country as a propitiatory sacrifice to the
manufacturer. We have granted him the privilege
of taking, and applying to others, his own prescrip-
tion. He ought to be, in accordance with his con-
fidant prognostications, in the most robust health, if
not in a surfeit of prosperity. That he is not so is,
at least, no fault of ours, or of his labourer; and that
labourer must not be made to suffer the penalty of
his master's mistaken quackery. We are now in a
condition, so far as the privilege of importing food
goes, to compete with all the world, and we "must no
longer be met with the assertion that, to do so suc-
cessfully, we must work up human life into the sub-
stance of our fabrics. It cannot be tolerated.
Manufacturing superiority is a good, no doubt ; it

After reading it, his worship said—" I did not give A. 20,
and if there was a £2O note in the plate it was given by
some one else."

The public will now judge how much credit is to be at-
tached to the other statements in the paragraph.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
HUGH M'NEILE.

* At St. Peter's Church, on Sunday last, for the Blue Coat
Hospital, when the Mayor attended in his official capacity, as
has been the custom for many years.

Mr. Al`Neile, it will be admitted by his political oppo-
nents—and they are not particularly nice in taking any
course which can annoy his feelings, or lower him in the
estimation of his friends—is not in the habit of noticing
calumnies directed against himself. It may be asked,—
" Why this voluntary defence, on bus part, of the conduct
of the ex-Mayor, Mr. Hodgson?" His letter points to
the reason clearly. His notice was expressly called to
the falsehood of the paragraph by the present Mayor ; and
seeing it to be one put forth for the injury and annoyance
of a gentleman who has just filled an honourable public
office, he could not do otherwise than lay before the public
the evidence of such falsehood fortunately in his pos-
session.

ver appeals, however, to have occurred to
ther legislators or philosophers, how much might

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be done, even for the promotion of this sanatory
movement, by a simplification, in the first instance,
of the laws relating to the conveyance of real pro-
perty, and, in the next, by the removal of the
Inequality of the taxes upon such conveyance. We

The misstatement noticed by Mr. M'Neile, however, is
not the only one in the paragraph. The present Mayor
not only did not give £2O to the charity, but that sum is not
" the amount that all his predecessors contributed, with
the exception of Mr. David Hodgson." On the contrary,
the treasurer of the charity was, at the time of the previ-
ous collection, about to compliment Mr. Hodgson himself
upon the fact of his having been the largest contributor to
the charity on any similar occasion, until he accidentally
ascertained that Mr. Lawrence had given £2O in the year
preceding. We have reason to know that the ,* hole pa_
raeraph is an invention, as such pains were taken by the
collectors to prevent the amount of the contributions of
individuals transpiring, that it is impossible that any
thing could he known by our contemporary. As to the
gross amount of the collection this year exceeding that of
last, it may be borne in mind that the corresponding
Sunday in last year was a most dismally wet one, whilst
this year it was a beautiful day.
The authorities at the Blue School were applied to on
Sunday afternoon by a reporter—we presume our con-
temporary's—as to the amount of the collection, which was
promptly afforded. They were then asked what amount
the Mayor had given? To this unusual question the
reply merely was, that neither they nor any other person
could tell. The whole statement must, therefore, be pure
fabrication.

hear complaints, on every side, of had landlords—
spen who will neither repair nor keep wholesome the
•enements which they let. But we ne er ask how
nds, who possess the means,
their own landlords—cannot build,

s that

le tho

t become

_ and keep in order, houses for themselves.
Why is it that the working man, with his fifty or
bis hundred pounds in the Saving's Bank, or the
tradesman, with his few hundreds stored up, cannot
save a habitation to tail his own ? The answer is
familiar to every one—the exorbitant cost of its con-

or buy,

veyance. The stamp duty takes one slice of the
money required for such a purchase. But the lion's
share is reserved for the lawyers. The title to real
property in this country has got into such a state
of confusion, by the aid of redundant legal verbiage,
that no man can safely say what is his own and
what is his neighbour's

Leases and releases, fines
and recoveries, provisions for barring dower and
y,al cobwebs, bewllder us on every side, a d
a matter of doubt whether, after we have
atisfied the lawyer who
has conveyed it to us, it is really our own.

id for a property, and

In conclusion, we may congratulate our contemporary
upon his good taste. His notice of the collection on both
Sundays has been, very characteristically, made the occa-
sion of a spiteful and slanderous attack against Mr.
Hogdson.

We must have a change in this state of things.
We must be rescued from the oppressive burthen
imposed upon the man of humble means, by the
inordinate stamp duty imposed upon conveyances
of property of small value, as compared with those
of larger extent, and by the absurd verbiage and
suht

THE MERCURY AND THE COUNCIL COM-
M ITTEES.

leties of lawyers. Why should the conveyance
of a freehold
,estate, of the value, perhaps, of only
fifty or a hundred pounds, cost twenty or thirty,
when a copyhold property is conveyed for as many
shillings ? There can be no satisfactory reason.
Some of our ablest lawyers have proved that the
mass of complicated and unmeaning stuff in ordi-
nary use may be got rid of; that the preposterous
length to which our conveyances are ordinarily made

Our Contemporary of Friday is fond of mare's nests.
In complaining in his last, of the new member for Lime-
street, Mr. Danson, being appointed upon only one Com-
mittee, he stumbles upon the parallel circumstance that
Mr. Joseph Hornby was only upon one, whilst he might
have been useful upon many. There is, however, with
respect to Mr. Hornby, a very striking fact, which the
Mercury forgets to notice. This gentlemen, we dare say,
might have been useful on more ; but he did not happen
to be very useful upon that one. The Committee in
question was a very important one, the Watch Commit-
tee ; but Mr. Hornby did not often attend, or give his
services to any of the various sub-committees which be-
long to it. Men do not usually go into the Council, or
any other assembly, full fledged, and practical working-
members. The best way to prove a new man is to try
him first ; and if Mr. Danson attends his one Committee
better than his fellow sufferer, Mr. Hornby, he will pro-
bably have work given him next year. We may cbserve
that the attendance of members appointed on Committees
is very desirable on their days of sitting, a fact which we
would impress, not only on our opponent's notice, but on
that of one or two of our Conservative friends.

un, may safely be cut down, without alteration
of the existing laws affecting real property; but such
an alteration might easily be effected, as would ren-
der the transfer of such property, or its mortgage to
meet any emergency—a very material matter in a
commercial country—as easy and inexpensive as a
transfer of railway or any other stock.

To do this, however, we must really have some
rather better and more trustworthy agents at work
than a mere lawyer, whether an ex-chancellor or
any other functionary, whose mind is full of the
cobwebs of his profession. We have had a multi-
tude of law reforms, from such authorities, of late
years ; but what material good has ever accrued
from them to the public we have yet to learn. We
have had established cheap *owlet& -foe- 4.16.0.-ese.ompbey
of small debts, for instance; but any pettifogger
may still sue by the more expensive processes for
such debts, and make the law, which was devised

constitutes much of the strength of this great empire.
But we were not sent into the world merely to amass
money. We have, both individually and as a nation,
a higher destiny to achieve; and we are not ad-
vancing towards that destiny whilst, to increase
individual or national wealth, we suffer any portion
of our population to sink in the social and moral
scale.

GRAND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERTS.--THE

BOHEMIAN BAND

The Lessee of the Theatre-Royal has provided us with
a gratifying treat, by his engagement of a band of instru-
mental performers, 'sleeted _from_ amongst-those of the
first talent and celebrity in Germany, by Herr Leipold,
which made their first appearance before a Liverpool
audience last evening. The troupe consists of sixteen
solo performers, certainly of first-rate ability upon their
several instruments; and was ably led by, we presume,
Herr Leipold himself. As the bills, however, with which
we were furnished, were somewhat meagre in their infor-
mation, we are only enabled to arrive at this fact from the
advertisements; and the same circumstance will prevent
our referring to the various performers individually.
The first part was commenced with the overture from
the opera of Sandella, which was finely played, after
which Herrs Hahn and Rittersch gave a concertante by
Lindpainter, upon French horns, with great brilliancy
and effect. The most attractive piece of the part, how-
ever, was the Musen quadrilles, by Straus. which were
played with a precision which we do not remember to
have heard even under the magic baton of Julien him-
self.
Part second commenced with a grand pot pourri, enti-
tled " Paganini in China," introducing a number of
favourite airs, or parts of them, taken up in solo by the
various instruments, with an occasional full band, and
producing a beautiful effect.
.This piece enabled us to
judge of the powers and execution of nearly the whole of
the performers seriatim, and established the fact of their
excellence as musicians. A grand concerto, by Herr
Sobeck, on the clarionet, followed, wnich elicited frequent
bursts of enthusiastic applause from the audience, who
seemed only to refrain from an encore by a consideration
of the labour of re-producing such a piece on a wind instru-
ment. It was a splendid effort throughout, as was " The
Post Horn Polka," which succeeded, and was encored.
Two other pieces followed ; and the concert concluded with
" God save the Queen," played by the whole band. The
house was not completely filled ; but an audience appa-
rently more capable of estimating musical ability, and
more enthusiastic, we never saw within its walls. We
suspect that a bumper will attend this evening's per-
formances.

"Real[l. the IMTI11;103 ratarma a prey;
When wealth accumulates and men decay!'

It has become a clearly established fact that no
relaxation of the hours of factory toil is to he looked
for as the voluntary concession of the manufacturer
himself—a strange fact, when it is borne in mind
how frequently he is driven, in order to check pro-
duction, to work his factory for three or four days a
week instead of six. Working ten or even eleven
hours a day, he tells us, does not pay. He cannot
get the same amount of profit out of the bones and
sinews of the workers ; and were he even disposed
to make a sacrifice, his neighbour is not willing to
imitate his example. We have, therefore, no course
left open to us but one, viz., the interference of the
Legislature to fix a limit for all. To the men of
Yorkshire and of Lancashire, who are now agitating
this question, we say, therefore,—" Go on, firmly
and peaceably, and success will at length reward
your labours."

'or the protection of all, an instrument for wreaking
iersonal spite or exacting exorbitant fees from
rely able to pay their honestly clue obliga-
re must have rather less conceded to the
I vested rights of the profession, and some
sideration given to the public requirement of
) law and equit,. Is there no statesman

parties ba

of the present day capable of ridding us of such ex-
pensive remnants of feudalism, as those which are
o be found in every department of the legal profes-
connected with the person or with

n, whether (

verty ?

Mingled with much absurdity, an occasional
gleam of sound sense is permitted to emanate from
Mr. William Earle, during his displays in Council.
It was in such a lucid moment, that, on Monday
week, he proposed the appointment of a special
tommittee, to devise measures, by which the Coun-
cil could be provided with decent approaches
from the outskirts, and good and spacious tho-
roughfares be opened for its proper ventilation,
and the convenience and comfort of its inhabitants.
We have long ago, in common with some able
members of the body to which he belongs, and of
many of our leading medical men, advocated such
a course, as one indispensable to the real improve-

A paragraph in the Albion of yesterday announces
that, in consideration of the very onerous and in-
creasing duties of his office, it is in contemplation
to advance the salary of Mr. Rushton, the stipen-
diary magistrate—at present £1,300 a year—and to
place him more upon a par with the Town-Clerk,
who is in the receipt of £2,000 a year. We are
rather at a loss to account for this reference to the
emolument enjoyed by the latter gentleman, as af-
fording anything by which to guide us in fixing the
salary of a stipendiary magistrate. The duties and
responsibility of the Town-clerk, involving immense
labour of body and anxiety of mind, are, in our
opinion, infinitely greater than those which are
complained of as overburthening Mr. Rushton.
Upon this point, however, we shall not remark.
The salary of the stipendiary we shall presume was
fixed on his first appointment at what was then the
full value of his labours ; and if these have in-
creased materially, it is a legitimate subject of con-
sideration whether or not their reward should be
increased in proportion. Before deciding the
question, there is another which suggests itself,
viz : whether by some better arrangement than the
present, the labour, which falls to the share of Mr.
Rushton, may not be materially lessened, and, at
the same time, the administration of justice within
the borough be greatly promoted.
To any one who has been in the habit of occasi-
onally sitting a few hours in the Police-court, it
must have occurred that the business was too great
for one magistrate, or one bench, satisfactorily to ad-
judicate upon. Yesterday, the police sheet con-
tained seventy-six cases of drunken and disorderlies,
felonies, &c. Last Monday it contained about 140.
The average is perhaps between the two numbers
for the Monday's sittings ; and the number on
week days will be somewhere about two-thirds of
the average of 'Mondays. Besides these, there are
assaults, applications for warrants, summonses, &c.,
daily occurring and demanding magisterial atten-
tion—sometimes, too, requiring for their proper de-
cision a degree of patient inquiry which, we fear,
they do not and, under the present system, cannot
obtain. It must be remembered, too, that the ma-
gisterial business of a seaport like Liverpool is more
than ordinarily complicated—occasionally requiring
in the party presiding some nautical knowledge, in
addition to the usual legal attainments. Under all
these circumstances, it cannot be wondered at that
an impression exists very generally that the mass
of business coming before our Police-court is
disposed of rather more summarily than is
conducive to the ends of justice. Often, we are
told, parties decline prosecuting charges, in prefer-
ence to submitting to the detention, occasioned by the
inordinary demand upon the time of the court, and
probably many an offender thus escapes.
We have more than once suggested the advantage
of having two Police-courts, one of which might be
in the south end of the town, instead of the present
central court alone. The town might be divided
into separate divisions, according as convenience
might be found to dictate. It appears to us-that,
before we resolve upon increasing the emoluments
of Mr. Rushton, the present is the time to take
into consideration the propriety of the course which
we have suggested. If Mr. Rushton can be re-
lieved of a portion of the burthen, of which he, or
. his friends, complain as being too onerous, an ad-

and, as much as
arle and Mr. Samuel Holme, we deplore that
ighted and parsimonious policy of the Fi-
e Committee, which, by allowing the land upon
the site of Cook-street to pass out of the hands of
the Council, has snatched from us for ever, or at
least for a period which few amongst us can expect
to live through, the opportunity of effecting one of
the noblest improvements of which Liverpool is
capable. There is still, however, a wi-'e field open
r the investigation and exertions of such a corn-
If we cannot pass the ploughshare of urn-
nt through so much of the built over por-
he town, we ought at least to take care that
led in by the erection of pal-
ts suburbs ; and that some
ensive plan should be laid
iidance of the Finance Com-

short-

CHARGE OF ARSON.—At the police-court, yesterday,
a young girl, of pre-possessing appearance, named Ellen
Mills, was charged by her mistress, Ann Capewell, who
keeps a shoe-shop, No. 99, Church-street, with setting
fire to the bedding in the room in which she slept, on
Friday morning last. It appeared, however, that the
prisoner was in bed when the fire was discovered, and
that the stays she wore were partly burnt. She had left
the candle burning in the candlestick, on the bed, and the
latter was found blackened, and with no remnant of tal-
low. Mr. Rushton, on hearing all the evidence, said
he could see no cause to suppose her guilty of wilfully
firing. She had evidently been overcome by sleep, and
shown unpardonable carelessness in leaving the candle
burning on the bed. The prisoner, to whose character a
lady was in court to speak, but was not called upon, was
discharged.

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ee, in dealing with such property, in improve-
hbourhoods, which may from time to time

SERIOUS ASSAULT AND ROBBERY IN THE STREET.—
On Saturday night last, about eleven o'clock, as a young
gentleman, who is employed in a respectable office in this
town, was returning homeward through Warwick-street,
Toxteth-park, he was brutally assaulted by two ruffians
in short coats, seriously injured, and finally robbed. One
of them got hold of him by the throat, and while he wis
making a desperate effort to escape, the other struck him
violently with a life-preserver, so that he fell, stupified,
to the ground. While he lay helpless, the fellows rifled
his pockets of all the money he had, about 175., also
of a snuff-box with his name engraved upon it in
full "3. A-." After lying a considerable time in-
sensible, he found his way home to Mill-street, and could
not see a policeman on his route. He is still prevented
from attending to his duties from the injuries he received,
his eyes having been bunged up, and one of his temples
cut. His impression is, that his assailants had left him
for dead. It is to be hoped that this notice may lead to
the discovery of_his brutal assailants.

fall out of lease

There is one charact

Tistic in Mr. Earle, of which

we are afraid, and must caution the gentlemen
composing the committee against. The worthy
gentleman is rather too much given to the indul-
gence of the magnificent in his notions. His
views of improvement, too, seem to travel in a par-
ticular circle, of which his pet hobby, St. George's
Hall, is the centre. Everything must come down
which impedes a view of that erection. Every
new thoroughfare must lead to it. All, the
world, he seems to imagine from the north,
south, east, and west—come to Liverpool for the
express purpose of seeing this fine specimen of the
architectural taste of Mr. Elmes, and the splendid
rate body. Ask him to

ance of the co

SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—On Saturday, a deputation,
consisting of the Rev. Thomas Nolan, John Platt, Esq.,
and John Lawrence, Esq. , waited on his Worship the
Mayor, to request him togive his attendance at St. Bar-
nabas' Church on Sunday next, when a sermon was pro-
posed to be preached by the Rev. T. Nolan, incumbent
in aid of the funds of the Southern Hospital, to whicl;
the reverend gentleman is honorary chaplain. His Wor-
ship received the deputation most courteously, hut was
obliged to decline the invitation for that clay, on account
of his having to attend St. George's Church, where a
collection is to be made in pursuance of the mandate of a
Queen's Letter. It was ultimately arranged that he will
attend St. Barnabas' on Sunday, the 13th of December.
His Worship, however, does not on the occasion go in
procession from the Town Hall, but will meet the com-
mittee and the reverend preacher in St. Barnabas' school,
whence they will proceed in procession to the church.
We trust that on this occasion, and in behalf of this ex-
cellent charity, the eloquence of the reverend gentlemanwill be rewarded with such a liberal contribution as it is
justly entitled to. We may remark in passing, that during
the present year, according to the information derived
from a friend, the persuasive appeals of Mr. Nolan to
various congregations have been so powerfully attractive,
that they have realised in the aggregate nearly a thousand
pounds. In all probability that amount will be conside-
rably increased before the year expires. The fact of there
being a necessity to enlarge the Southern Hospital will,
we hope, be an additional stimulus to increased liberality
on the approaching occasion.

alk with you into such places as Freema-
son's-row, or amongst the courts and cellars of Ma-

take a

ad, or Vauxhall, to ascertain
what 'can be effected for their wretched population,
and he turns from you with disgust, exhibited in a
profane " God forbid." The widening of the road
to Aigburth or Wavertree, or any other subu.ban
retreat of local aristocracy, may be thought of,—
is to be effected at any cost ; but the improve-
of more vulgar places does not seem at all to
come beneath his contemplation. His colleagues,
we repeat, must take care of him here, or he, will
infallibly swamp them with the magnificence and
wrong application of his views.
Upon one point, Mr. Earle is a little out in his
notions—the expectation that the people of Liver-
pool are very anxious to be taxed for this, or any
other purpose. The people of Manchester, he
says, submit to heavy improvement rates ,with
great complacency—a fact of which we entertain
strong doubts. The cases, however, are not pre-
cisely parallel. Manchester has no corporate es-
tate, to, which its population have been in the habit
of looking for the improvement of their streets, and
the erection of their public buildingi; whilst-the•

rybone,