The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

TO TER EDITOR OP TILE LIPERPOOL

Stu,--:-In your paper of -Friday last I observed ft, letter on
discharge orroreign
" The want of landing. waiters," in which all the delays which
occur in thevessels are endeavoured to bu
thrown upon the customs, and the want of more landing-waiters.
Now, sir, this is so far .froni the fact as• to be admitted by your
correspondent's alloWing that, after the-difficudy of getting a
ship into a-berth, and an officer appointed, several .hours are
lost in procuring a hut, and, when obtained, in so wretched a,
•condnion as to be a nuisance. Here, then, lies the real cause
of delay and gretua4 of complaint; tor not only are vessels
generally kept front, commencing their discharge for .several
hours—very frequently for a Whole day, and sometimes many
days—and, even Wier several days' waiting in vain, the 'captains
have been obliged to- rig out canvas coverings fur the landing-
waiters. These, sir, are facts, which, disgraceful as they may
appear, cannot be disputed. Where do they originate ? - Not
with the.survevors of the, customs; for the huts are not crown
properf7. The fault arises-then in
.another quarter, which will
not be very difficult to find out. ,Let the Merchant's Clerk make
his complaint of the actual cause of delay in the right quarter,
anu I venture to say there will be found no more cause of
a sufficient. fitimber of -bats are iirovided in every dock) tbr
complaints against the landiuoiarveyurs,for want of
-, ° •
waiters.- • •

Truting to *our impartiality for • the insertion of this reply
to your previous correspondeut,—l aai, &c. FAIRPLA

TO TIIE-PDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL ,S*T.4IVDSRI).

.
S Meiritry has'beconie a Positive nuisance Gy allow-
ing its pages to be.disgsaced by the effusions of such scribes as
" Au GUS," et a gefiflo fimfie.
lieany,-sit,- When. the seeds of disaffection are hebdomidally
thrown alining theirruititude with so unsparing a hand, it be-
comes the bounden; duty of e7rry friend of order at once to op-
pose his honest vote to such flagitious proceedings.
This many.eyed:epistolarian of the Mercury, himself doubt-
less an• Irishman,,tells us that the "lads of the isle" wiil be.
useful allies at futtire elections. - Does he, I wonder, mean such
a pack of scoundrels' as were usually found at the heels. of Mr.
Ewart and _Marsha I3rancker during the late election, and
who, by the bye. made a most dastardly assault on your humble
servant in Vauxhalke.ol, simply, ;or having given his vote to
Sir Howard Douglas and-Lord Sandpit, ? If he does, I can tell
him, that whenever occasion requires it, there will be found a
mural feeling, aye, and a 'physical force too," in the good old town,
sufficiently energetic to snake the "dirty-fingered Briareus"
quail beneath the indignant sciesi of.loyalty, truth, and order.
But what a calumny does this contributor of the "Old- Lady"
endeavour to attach to " the lads of the isle r' Why, sir, lam
an Irishman, nursed, thank God, in the cradle of lovalty,—but
at the Witte tinie so tenaciously national that had I heard or
even •understood that Lord Sandon had•uttered anything dero-
gatory to the character of the nation, I should promptly have
found means to express my warm dissent. - His lordship, how-
ever, is incapable of offering abuse to any party merely because
it differs with him in opinion. On the other hand the political
demeanour of the noble scion of the' ilhistrious house of liar-.
rowby is above all praise. It-is•to men like him—men who Cate
not fur party—who care not for unpopularity—who cannot be
swayed by national delusion, and 'who courageously assert the
dictates of truth, reason, and patriotism, regardless of the conse-
quences,—whom England ought to follow: To such noble-wen
England owes what she possesses, and through them only can
she retain what she possesses.--I am truly, sir, yours,
H. W. 11.

Tabley-street, 41funday, Jan. 26, 1825.

The Bishop of St. Da*Ws has, according to his annual cus-
tom, distributed through the hands or the Rev. J. Jones, Vicar
of AhergWilly, a large and seasonable supply of clothing, hlan-
ketting, &e., among the poor of that parish. They are also
regularly supplied twice a week will) soup, over winter, from the
palace, which cdotributes not a little to their 'comfort at this
inclement season. His lordship gave likewise, to the debtors
in the county gaol, a barrel of coal and' Ma. of mutton each.