The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sia,—The following letter was left at my house on
Saturday last, evidently by mistake, and as the direction
was torn off, I take the liberty of forwarding it to you,
under the impression that by your extensive circulation,
it may meet the eye of the gentleman for whom it seems
to have been intended.• I wish the postmen would be
more careful. The seal was unfortunately broken.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
PEIELAN O'BOT[IEREM.
Clarence Dock, Nov. 4, 1844.

DEAR WILL,—I told you a week ago how it would be !
but you are a pig-headed fellow, and will always have
your own way. Why on earth did you compromise the
dignity of the family, by contesting such an out of the
nay place—such a compound essence of vulgarity—such
an Australia and Caliphornia as St. Anne's Ward. I re-
collect seeing by the newspapers, that there was indeed
such a spot ; but it was one, where nothing but savages
had been seen, and where it was destruction to a gentle-
man to have been heard of in its precinr ts. Don't you see
now what a foal you have made of yourself, by putting
out such a ridiculous placard on the walls? And how
all sober, sensible men laughed at it! The most provoking
thing of all is, that notwithstanding the lies put forth by
the Radical press, about Parker's beer barrels, and the
poor Papists, whom he bribed to sell themselves for a
quart of his double X, there were scarcely any of the
gentleman in the ward would condescend to favour you
with a vote. I went in a quiet way to look at the fellows
who voted for you ; and I am ashamed to say, that striking
a fair average, the lowest of the low, the priest driven
creatures and the cadaverous homunculusses who registered
their votes for you, ought to sicken you for attempting
any more to get into Council. Your attenuated dignity
is gone for ever, and the best thing you can do, is to quit
Liverpool, until your unseemly speeches are forgotten,
and until your services are wanted! Depend upon it
that you and Bolton, and Rathbone, and Shiel, and Holt,
and Dicky Vaughan—what's-his-name ?—are a flock of
gone geese. Your cackling has betrayed you, and the
whole of you may be politically slaughtered a hundred
times over, before any golden eggs can be discovered
among the whole batch. You see what your violence
and folly have done.
It would not have signified a farthing if you bad made
a political suicide of yourself; but you have sunk our
party —we are irrevocably and irretrievably ruined.
What with your furious and dirty speeches—Walmsley's
ambition—Evans' warehouse scheme—Barclay's stories
in the Wavertree omnibus—your discharging all the old
and tried servants of the Town-hall, and your republican
aristocracy, we are done for, for the next twenty years;
and those cursed Tories, who seem most unaccountably
to have the popular voice with them, will ride rough-shod
over us for the rest of our lives ; and they have got the
government, the parish, the corporation, the docks, the
highway board, and everything else, down to the very
news-rooms, under their own thumbs. It is lamentable
and abominable; but it cannot be helped, and the best
thing we can do is to submit with resignation. We shall
have two Tory representatives for the rest of our days, as
sure as a gun. don't think there is the slightest chance
for us now, unless we could get up a cry of universal
suffrage and annual parliaments, and so come in again
fora year or two upon the surge of the revolutionary
wave ; ana I think it would be a capital move. To be
sure Louis Philippe won't fight • O'Connell is going
down, and the Anti-Corn-Law League is already gone •,
the church is too strong; people are sick of the school
question, and think that the schools are going on very
well as they are; and then there's Brooks and M`Neile
among the parsons—(confound them both !) ' • and there's
Jim Aspinall amongst the gentlemen ; Sir Thomas
amongst the merchants; Sam Holme amongst the trades-
men ; and scores of those hard-headed, ignorant ship-
wrights, and others of the Conservative democracy, who
are all ugly fellows to grapple with, and are not easily
put down. What fools we were to throw the whole in-
fluence of the town into the hands of the shopocracy and
trading classes! Why, there's dozens of tradesmen who
have had the audacity to learn Latin ! and unless we hold
the candle to the middle classes, as they call themselves,
we have no resource but to budge.
But, my dear Will, you must turn over a new leaf :
you must not be so very violent; you must not call
yourself a " terrier," a " leveller." and such like ugly
names ; you must try to be a very " sucking dove," speak
coolly, use a little soft sawder, and get your stomach into
better condition by swallowing a few grains of blue pill
now and then. Ellison will supply you with good ones.
And when you have got tha mastery of your ill-tempers,
you must mount the balcony of the Bull Inn, Clayton-
square, and tell the people that they are plundered by the
Tories—that they pay a shilling a bu44el too much for
their corn (but don't tell them that, if foreign corn is
imported duty free, they will have 6s. a-week knocked off
their wages)—tell them that the advent of the Whigs to
power would be attended with the inestimable blessing of
having Billy Ewart again as our representative in parlia-
ment, and you as member of our Town Council—that
they would then have sixpenny loaves for a halfpenny,
and that money would tumble in without the tro able of
working for it, and that the primeval curse is all nonsense.
And then you can say that Annual Parliao.ents, Uni-
versal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and all the Yankee
nostrums are great blessings : and would speedily lead
to the repudiation of the national debt, the extinguish-
ment of the peerage, (all but Lord Sefton, because you
have once or twice dined with him); that a president with
£lOOO a year would be cheaper than a monarch ; and that
the bishops and clergy should be like M.D.'s, only seat
for to physic people when they want it ! This would take
with the fools, and they are always the majority ; and so,
by a little cajolery, and a good deal of humbug, you may
perchance, as you dearly wish, get again into that room,
which you once described, in your own elegant phrase-
ology, as " the most ill ventilated room in the town."
You see, my dear Will, I am tendering you good ad-
vice, if you have only the good sense to follow it. Let
me add, however, that the life of a demagogue is any thing
but easy ;—he must go forward, or be left behind! The
expectation of the " people " travels rather rapidly ; and,
being easily gulled, they are unfortunately in the habit of
believing all that you mob orators say to them. But I
shall not moralise, for I know your temper is none of the
best, and that a little quiet will be beneficial to you.
Perhaps the Conservatives may yet make you an alder-
man! To be sure a little more cubical space might help
you ; but the vast extent of your mind will always be a
drawback upon your body, and I rather despair of seeing
You look any better. All things considered, you are
better out than in. You would be continually saying
things that would disturb your repose. David Hodgson,
however, is revenged ; and as to poor Thornhill, when he
heard you had lost St. Anne's Ward, he jumped—be
stuttered—he swallowed two pints of half-and-half—he
smoked three pipes of shag,—and, after throwing up his
shocking bad hat to the top of the ceiling, he shouted out
* * * [Here the MS. was so torn that we could not
make it out.]
I am, dear Will,
Your own chum.
Aqua-street, Nov. 4, 1844. ** * ** *

John Paley, Esq. is the mayor elect for Preston, and
E. D. Salisbury, Esq. for Lancaster.
The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sails hence with the usual
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ROYAL COLLEGE' OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-Un-
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James Ainswo th, Manchester I Charles Boutflower, Liverpool
Robert Thorpe, Manchester John Cooper, Liverpool
Wm. Jas. Wilson, Manchester John Prince Halton, Liverpool
Thomas Turner, Manchester John Maurice Banner, Liverp.
John Monttlower. Manchester Wm.. H. Bainbridge, Liverpool
J. A. Ransome, Manchester Henry Stubbs. Liverpool
Joseph Jordan, Manche,ter Wi ilam Gill, Liverpool
Samuel Parton, Manchester James Long, Liverpool
John Windsor, Manchester I Abraham Wood, Rochdale
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James Dawson, Liverpool J. Stockdale Harrison, Lane.
Robert Bickersteth, Liverpool Samuel Gaskell, Lancaster
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THgATRE-ROYAL.—The performances at this theatre
during the nights not occupied by the concerts noticed
elsewhere, have been principally those dramas in which
that excellent representative of Scottish originals and ec-
centrics, Mackay, has won for himself so many admirers.
In one of these, "The Rights of Woman," Miss Mon-
tague has succeeded in making a decided hit, and shown
that she is equally at home in comedy and in tragedy.
Her Widow Blandish is a delightful piece of acting. Last
night Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean entered upon an en-
gagement, when the " Gamester" was performed ; and
we may look for a series of our best standard tragedies.
We are sorry, by the bye, to record the loss of Mr. Comp-
ton, who appeared for the last time on Saturday night,
previous to proceeding to the Princess's Theatre, in Lon-
don. The high success which his talent deserves attend
his steps.
COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, the
following persons were committed to take their trials at
the sessions, nn the several charges stated : A boy
named George Hill, charged with stealing, on Saturday,
a cheese, value 65., from the shop of Mr. Twineham, in
Whitechapel. John Tarleton, for stealing on Saturday,
a pair of boots from the shop of Mr. Henry Plimer, Dale-
street. Mary Watkins, for stealing from the person of
Alexander Mc Kinlay, in Brunswick-street, 15s. in mo-
ney. Mary Jones, for stealing from the stall of Joseph
Birtles, in St. John's Market, 31bs. of mutton—a second
offence of the same kind. Anne Green, charged with rob-
bing James Cawell of 255. in a house of ill fame, in Al-
bion-street. Eliza Hampson, also an abandoned female,
for robbing William Rigby of his watch, which she after.
ward threw on the ground when the police-officer came
up. Charles Turner, on suspicion of entering and
robbing the house of William Williams, in Boundary-
street, during the absence of the family on Sunday. He
was seen to come out of a back window, and attempted to
escape by a back passage, after passing several yard walls.
Several drawers were found to have been opened, and a
quantity of wearing apparel, &c., removed for the conve-
nience of being carried off. The prisoner was not before
known to the police. Sarah Stowman, for robbing a man
named Wiliam Neild of a sovereign ; and Joseph Mur-
phy, for stealing in Bannister-street, on Saturday, a
jacket belonging to Joseph Blood.