The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

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EDITOR OP THE LIkEEPOOL ST4INDARD:
SIR,--Allow me to state; that owing to the false and ura:'
founded comments which appeared id the hureaf, regarding a
meeting at Lowhill, held solely and exclusively for parochial
business, I have hesitated for some time to say a word about it,
thinking that its own iermitingi and deductions would be its
own contradiction ; but when I tee the same obtuse intellect iU
the same paper last Saturday, pursuing with pertinacity the
same oblique course, I cannot forbear stepping out to tell a plain
unvarnished tale. Now, sir, the factS are these;—At the last
annual meeting of the township, £7O of the public money wai
improperly voted away, to its own already well-paid servants;
and mark I—l understand that one or two of its own officers
(that would be mitgtert) actually went round to get their owe
friends to muster for a particular purpose; namely, to raise their
own salaries, without even considering the merits of each case,
and in direct opposition td the knowledge and experience of
gentlemen who had performed the honorary duties of the parish
fur the last six years; and although there were many persons
present, perfect strangers, the first motion for an increase was
only carried by a majority of three, all the rest followed as
matter of course.

When this improper conduct became more generally known
amongst the inhabitants and rate-payers, a requisition was
quickly got up, addressed to the overseers, and readily signed
by about forty respectable names, of all parties (and I will here
distinctly assert, done without any political object whatever) to
call a special meeting of the parish, to consider the propriety of
revisit-1g the salary and gratuities thus voted away. A meeting
was held accordingly, and the whole of the gratuities Were can-
celled, say £5O, and the amounts fixed to the officers, with the
same duties as last year. It was fsuud not even necessary to
put it to the vote, and the remaining £2O to the assistant over
seer it was, after some very irregular discussion, mutually suf-
fered to stand over till the next annual meeting. Here, fir
the business ended, and the books would have been numerously
signed, had not the law clerk stated it was unnecessary. The
whole of the matter is now known without reserve, and I ask,
for I shall make no further cdtrunent, what right has the editor,
along with two of his crazy partizans, to publish and intrude
their own suspicions and opirlibn, as Mutters of fact, thereby
throwing their political firebrands to destroy the peace and
hat many of the township? the public shall determine. A word
to the writer in the Mercury; he is pretty well known as one of
the interested party, therefore I would advise him, if he hasany
regard for himself and family, to keep quiet and not show hiai
ingratitude. This account, sir, is longer than I thought it would
be. I 'hope, however, you will give it early insertion in your
useful paper, and you will oblige

Yours, respectfully,
A REQUISITIONfST.

West Derbr, May 18, 1835.

THE COURT.

Their Majesties clnie to town on Wednesday, and we are'
happy to state, in thd enjoyment of excellent health. Shortly
after his arrival, the King held an Investiture of the Ordef of
the Bath, and his customary Levee. Her Majesty's Drawing-
room, on Thursday, was the most numerously attended and
brilliant of the season. The Queen honoured the performance
at the Italian Opera with her presence in the evening. The
Duke of Cambridge arrived on Friday afternoon from Rotter-
dam, and visited the King and Queen, soon after which thou'
Majesties took their departttre for the palace at Windsor: