The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

THE MAYORALTY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'
Sir,—l perceive by the Journal of to-day that At
John Holmes is to be proposed as mayor, and that, if 11°
finds the duties of the office too fatiguing, Mr. Prods?
will have pleasure in favouring him with his valuable
assistance. Would it not be a much more rational cowl
at once to elect Mr. Procter instead of Mr. John Holmes.
How was it that Mr. Holmes' own party did not elect
him mayor when they had an opportunity, instead of
electing the gentleman who has been so unceremoniously
ejected from Leicester on the ground of bribery and cot
ruption ? Can a real Conservative consistently vote wrl
Mr. Holmes, whose every vote in Council on the sclro
question, and on all others connected with the main"
tenance of Cons ervative principles, has been opposed to
those principles ?
If Mr. Procter is qualified for the office, why not st
once press his claims on the Council, rather than
him to act the part of a sub to a gentleman whose princl"
pies he is known to condemn ?

I am, Sir,

Your most obE

lient servant,
JOHN BULL

'Jiver poo,

.—it gives us much pleasure to
able manner in which this project

THE MODEL PARISH

is being received in many different localities, and by vet/
different classes of individuals. It is a plan which, °ll
being•carefully examined by the Christian philanthropist'
approval,drinking
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entitled " The Model Parish." beg
rapidly gone through several editions; the eighth is noif
out, and in it we notice a new mode is now in operation
for raising money to assist in the establishment of the
scheme. A highly-respectable firm at Birmingham, COn;
sisting of two brothers, members of the Society of
Friends, and warm supporters of the temperance cause,
has generously undertaken to manufacture a particular
kind of cocoa, the profits on the sale of which are to go to
the Model Parish. As cocoa is now coming into veil
general use, and as the profits on this go to so laudable en
object, it is confidently expected that many will benevo-
lently give " The Model Parish Cocoa" a preference, and
thus assist in promoting the nation
tion. In addition to this, its very s

I sobriety and clays-
?erior quality is such

most decided approval. It is to be
this town and throughout the kings
the later editions of this pamphlet

had of tradesmen in
im. We also see in
n account of a pro-
-.

perance villa;

Of Illinois, United States. It is likely that this proposi-
tion, coming from a bishop, of establishing a village on a
similar principle to the Model Parish, (to which the
bishop is a contributor,) may obtain for the latter project

the approval and support of many who might otherwlse
not be inclined to assist it. During the last few wefkg'
the projector of the Model Parish, the Rev. William!

Wight, has been visiting many of the towns of Yorirspir.,
and Lancashire, and has had numerous opportunities
afforded him of bringing the subject before crowded
audiences, both at public meetings and in the
churches of various towns. The mayors of the
respective localities presided at the meetings held
in Doncaster, Wakefield, Warrington, Preston, and other
places. The rev. gentleman, who is so unremittingly en:
gaged in this plan for crushing the drinking customs, sc.r:
two years resident in Newcastle, and his exemplary hi°
was such that his name is deeply engraven on the hearts
of many a family in the parish in which he laboured with
such truly apostolic zeal. He is possessed of independent
means ;.and his self-denying patriotism in undergoing th
care and anxiety inseparable from the prosecution of s!-Ic."he
a scheme calls for our most cordial sympathy, and it 15
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