The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

TO THOMAS BOLTON, ESQ.

linoTnrit Buenass,—l greet you with the hug of fraterniza-
tion, a species of salutation to which you, the urea major of our
municipal hemisphere, can have no possible objection.
You owe the present address.to the great skill as a genealogist
which you displayed before the corporation commissioners. I
now call upon ybu to enlighten the public upon souse points
connected with the great unknown candidates for seats in
council. This will be no difficult task to you as these inquiries
principally relate to your own intimate acquaintances, while
your former researches must have been laborious, from your
slight knowledge of the parties to whom they referred.
You can probably state whether relationship between the
members of the new town council will not lead to the same abuse
of family influence which was your subject of complaint against
the old corporation; and when you have settled this point to
your own satisfaction, you can proceed to investigate the fol-
lowing problems :
'" First,—The degree of connexion between Mr. Earle and the
two Messrs. Hornby, and whether a near relation of the latter
was not a disappointed candidate for church promotion, and
whether that promotion was not refused at the instance of hi
congregation, and for neglect of duty, and what effect the pre.o
sence of his three relations in the council is likely to have upon
his prospects.
" Second,—The precise degree of relationship (including
your favourite cousinship-in-law) which exists in that pestilent
knot of sociniaus nominated by yourself and others as candi-
dates, and whether one of them (Mr. Enoch Harvey) is not the
uncle of the youth you intend to force into the office of town-
clerk."

Should your modesty lead you to decline the task of thus
chronicling the illustrious obscure, I may probably be tempted to
supply the deficiency, notwithstanding the small assistance I can
derive in my researches from the herald's office.
It will indeed be a curious inquiry why you, who denounced
as a crime one common councilman having married the sister of
another, should lend your support to a list containing the names of
a brace each of Horubys, of Holmes, and of Croppers; and why
a sect, (that is the word,) scarcely numbering in this town a
thousand followers should attempt to gain an actual majority
in the new council, fOr of so many rank socinians does your list
of candidates consist. . :=-, ---
Nor will it be uninstructive to follow this inquiry further, and
view the effect of a snug little farnily party of aldermep—how
wonderfully your ideas will expand under such circumstances—
you will soon confess you were in the wrong—human nature,
my dear sir, is everywhere and always the same, and I have no
doubt that, when you get the power, you will do all the good you
can to your ow❑ relations and friends; Your actions already
prove yaur good intentions.
Let me give you one hint at parting. I have no doubt that
we shall have much pleaSant colloquy together, andl should be
sorry to offend you by differing in opinion with you, for that
I am told is a thing you cannot bear; but do you not think it
is a little too strong to try three of them in one ward ? You
know what I mean. Mix theirs by all means. Your friend Dr,
thickburn will tell you too strong a dose is as bad as none at
all, and perhaps the patient may reject it altogether.
Ilelieve.me,
Yours very respectfully,
Lori-street, Yin. 14. HENRY SNOOKS.