The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

FLINTSHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.

We congratulate the principality, and the county of Flint in
particUlar, on the formation of a Copservative Association for.
that county, which took place at Mold yesterday. We n-eed not
state that the meeting, which was held at the Black Lion Inn,
was highly respectable, for the following names will speak for
themselves. There were present, among many others, for it was
a numerous meetiug, the undermentioned gentlemen :—Charles
B. Trevor Roper, Esq., chairman, Sir William H. Clerke,
Sir John S. sP. Sainsbury, Hon. Major Napier, John Wynne
Eyton, Esq., Richard Garnons, Esq., Frederick Charles Phi-
lips, Esq., Thomas Trevor Mather, Esq., Robert John Most vu,
Esq., Edward Pemberton, Esq., Rev. W. H. Owen, Rev. B.
C. Conway, Rev. Henry Jones, Thomas Wynne Eyton, Esq.,
William Wynne Eyton, Esq., Thomas Harrison, Esq., T. R.
Trueman, Esq., Jos. Lee, Esq., Jos. Lee, jun., Esq., T. W.
Lee, Esq., D. Hughes, Esq., Dr. Hughes, Rev. T. G. Moulds-
dale, Rev. L. B. Browne, John • Smalley, Esq., Rev. J. S.
&malley,. Thomas Lewis, Esq.,
_Edward Bate, Esq., J. Han-
cock, Esq., Copner Oldlielk 'Esq., William Williams, Esq.,
John Hampton, Esq., Edward Whittey, Esq., C. H. Ingleby,
Esq., Peter Browne, Esq., Peter Whitty, Esq., Mr. David
Little, &c. &c.

The rules, regulations, and principles promulgated by this
association are similar to those of the South Lancashire and
other conservative associations established in England ; and it
is with no inconsiderable gratification we have to state that
these principles of loyalty, good order, and attachment to the
institutions of the country are extending themselves far and
wide. We have only to add, and we do so with the greatest
pleasure,. that --Roberts, Esq., solicitor, of Mold, is the trea-
surer, and C. H. Ingleby, Esq., secretary.

MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIH,—As most men are pretty well agreed about the proba-
bility of this measure becoming in a short time the law of the
land, permit me, through tha medium of your highly valued
journal, to add a few remarks to my last, which you favoured
me by inserting amongst your correspondence.
The champions .of corporate reform in this town seem to
imagine that, in next October, they will entirely new model
the town of Liverpool; but I want to know how they will ac-
complish this mighty project. if talent is intended to bring it
about, then, sir, we shall be iq tr, sad mess; fur who of all the
mighty host, (and if we are to believe all that our liberal friends
tell us, the majority of the inhabitants and electors are whigs,)
of whig reformers can boast of talent sufficient to improve upon
any of our local institutions ? We are, according to the anticipa-
tions of the Albion, to have some very disgraceful disclosures
made when the affairs of our municipal body are made public;
but I should like to know, sir, whether, when the face of things
is changed, the affairs of the corporation will, nay more, can be,
made more public than they are at present; for we annually
have an account current pdblished of the public expenditure,
which is open to public scrutiny and comment. I only hope
that we may not be disgusted by seeing the practice of the new
corporation at variance with their already avowed professions.
I very much question whether the patronage, at present so
much complained of, will not be quite as conspicuous in every
thing when the government of the town changes hands. We
shall firnfthat Mr. W. Rathbone will be well taken care of, id
return for his patriotism in so well defending the rights of his
fellow-burgesses. Mr. J. Braucker's family may be brought
into view in some very advantageous light. Mr. R. Radcliffe
will, in progress of time, be appointed to the office of keeper of
the mayor's conscience. Indeed, sir, you will, I think. agree
with me in suggesting to the present corporation not to put it
into the power of their avowed enemies to turn them out of
their respective offices. When this new bill comes into opera-
tion, we, I suppose, shall have no more of the improper appli-
cation of corporate funds; we shall have the various docks, &c.
greatly improved, all the abuses of which, and we are told there
are so many, will, of course, be done away, and no others intro-
duced. All the local affairs will be carried on in a very supe-
rior manner; there will be no such thing as patronage heard
of; for I hold, sig, that it would be very much out of character
for reformers to be guilty of any exclusion or monopoly. And
we shall have plenty of "common hall's," at all times of the
year. In short, I suppose, whatever is good, useful, or desir-
able will henceforth be found in all our local governors.
But, sir, notwithstanding all this "overwhelming anxiety for
change" in all the institutions of the country, this mania for
reform which is at present on the wing, I still am one of those
individuals who expect to hear the present reformers, not to
say radical reformers, cry "enough, enough," when, in their
desire for improvement, they have brought themselves to the
very brink of ruin and destruction, they will want some little
alteration in the reform bill, some small amendment in the cor-
poration reform bill. Yes, sir, in my opinion this will, this
must come to pass. The now reformers will, ere long, see that
they have overshot the mark, that they have, in their wisdom
and foresight, brought, itnoton themselves, then, at all events,
on their posterity, the very evils they wished to avoid. Let
the reformers of the present day take heed to the words of that
night star of this age, that man whom now his enemies laud,
when he said lately, "that they would be the reformers of the
reform bill." In these times we hear of naught but "reform,"
till we are compelled to exclaim with the poet of old, that they
are "semper candem caesus ad nauseam usque." They talk of
liberality; but let me ask them whether real liberality does
not consist in fairness and candour to all men, even to their
opponents? And then, for an example of their liberality, I
would refer you to the report of the speech of Sir Robert Peel,
on the municipal inform bill, in the Spectator, and look at that
of Lord John Russell, are they both given fairly? No, they
are not. And why? Because one exposes their own corporate
evils and licentiousness in a very much more disagreeable
manner than the other exposed the evils of tory corporations.
I certainly never saw this kind of liberality in. any of the con-
servative press. But where is the use of so much theoretical
liberality, when we have uo example to enforce its practice;
But, sir, I should think you are disgusted by hearing such a
contortion of terms, such a wresting of words from their proper
meaning, to suit the purposes of such men as these reformers
and liberals. My sincere wish is, that under the new system
we may always be governed by as good a corporation as the
present one; but I very much question whether such will be
the case.

By the way, sir, I take it Lord Stanley has "let the tat out
of the bag," in his letter to Sir Thomas D. Hesketh. Did you
ever give his lordship credit for anything else than that
spirit of trimming—of shuffling in politics? What a piece of
contradiction,__ sophistry, and trash has his lordship sent forth to
the world. He does not surely mean to tell North Lancashire
that it is meditating the destruction of the institutions of our
country ? The South Lancashire Conservative Association has
hitherto'_ had a very diPrenrejject. .1 am afraid his lordship's
days as M.P. for North Lancashire are now numbered.
But I have trespassed too long on your kindness, and must
remain yours, &c. ARGUS.
_lSt:6lo)42:st June.