The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

However, unless they are better organised, and better located,
the inbabitaants might as well look to each other, as the town
increases, for protection.
And some further check is loudly called for with respect to
the hackney coach and cab nuisances and extortions. At
present respectable females, even two or three together, dare
not engage one; if t hey do, and even offerthe full fare, and per-
haps a trifle more, it is rejected, and generally doable fare
demanded, or more than double; end, unless they pay in-
stantly, they are seized by the urns even. I have known a
cloak snatched off, and a reticule taken; and when they are
terrified into giving the extortion money, if they attempt to
look at the name and number, they are jostled, pushed, and
personally insulted. No constable near to seize the ruffian.
Indeed these vehicles and fares are a very great nuisance both
to the male and female public, who are almost completely de-
prived of the.. advantages and use they might derive from
them. There is a table of fares attached to the directory,
where we have a list of the fares from Castle-street to a reason-
able number of places, and from the Adelphi, where coaches do
not stand, and from the Waterloo and the hotels in Clayton-
square, to eight (only) different places, and from the Angel Inn,
Dalesst:eet, and eight other different inns in Dale-street, we
have the fares enumerated to the eight same places, and a few
country places are enumerated, with the fares attached; hut how
does this expect, in the first instance, to apply to the residents.
I am a good deal about town, and on a wet day frequently hire
more than either two or four cars, and sixpences overpaid each
fare amount to pounds in months; and what guide have I, ex-
cept taking the lengths of the streets, and thus .making myself a
table of fares for my own use unsauctioned ? I constantly use
hackney-coaches and cars, and have lots of squabbles, and a •
few tiffs with these fellows, and invariably when travelling to
cross-angles I have both trouble and quarrelling. Suppose I
want to go from St. James's Market to the north market, or
from St. James's Cemetery to Scotland-place, or when I get
back from Cheshire want to go to Low-bill, Edge-hill, or Pem-
broke-place, or the New Market, St. John's, or from St. Luke's
Church to Scotland-place, from St. Luke's to Kiikdale Sea-
sions'-house, or from the Theatre to Scotland-place, or from the
Theatre to Boundary-place, Erakine-street, or take a coach
passing down Church-street and go toltbercromby-square, or
from Abercromby-square to Mile-end, pray what is the precise
fare, and where the sanctioned rates ? Certainly these tables
want amending and enlarging for the benefit of the resident
public, whcse interests ought first to be consulted. Observe, if
I a coach at St. George's Church corner to go to Edges
hill 1 am obliged to pay an extra sixpence more than from the
stand in Castle-street, although the St. George's stand is the .
lesserdistance, else waste half-a-day in attending summoning the
coachman, &c. The list or table ought to specify from the
stands at St. Georg.e's Pier to Toxteth-park, Edge-hill. Low-
bill, Railway Station, Everton-hill, New Haymarket, Kirkdale
Sessions'-ho.use, and sundry intermediate places, and from the
Castle-street stand, and also the stands at St. George's Church,
St. James's Market, Clayton-square, particularly- from Wil-
liamson-square, Scotland-place to Tuxteth-park, from Edger
hill, as betere enumeruted, and to Castle-street, Abercromby-
square, Windsor, and
.the Exchange, and also meet -of - the.
intermediate distances; surely a table to this extent might
easily be drawn out, sanctioned, and published. It would be a
great benefit to the public, prevent numberless impositionsrand
annoyances, and when the new police act is framing it should
certainly embrace the hackney-coach regulations, if required ;
at least it might extend the present powers to grievances and
offences committed out of Liverpool, and lay a claw or check
upon the coachmen and cards ivers in Kirkdale, Everton, Low-
hill, Edge-hill, and 'roxteth-park, and make these men amena-
ble to some /au, or moral decency. For if you hire a coach or
car from any of these places to the Railroad Station you have
nearly to pay double fare and be insulted by an intoxicated
driver—for you are out of Liverpool and master will hare his
fare, sir!"—generally one-third more than it ought to be. Be-
sides, smother very desirable object is to embrace Toxtetls-park,
Edge-bill, Windsor, Low-hill, Evertor, Kirkdale, the North
Shore, and Bootle, in the police -clause, making everyone of the
police constables for those districts also, so that they Cats follow
their men or search for them, if suspected to have wandered into
those townships. During the summer months you may see
herds of felons and culprits herding and congregating together,
sleeping in the fields and iu the waste grounds at the verge of
everyone of those townships, characters well-known to the
Liverpool police and wanted by them, but net known to the
constabulary of those townships, or if k..een, perhaps not then
wanted, when a Liverpool police reconuoitering these rendez-
vous, and enabled to- seize his men would soon lay hold of the
greater number of them; even the township police and borough
police are both desirous to have these townships embraced in
the new bid, and they are —certaiuly become most populous
places now; they might, nevertheless, be rendered liable to the
maintenance and support of the individual constabulary em-
ployed and engaged in each township respectively ; such regula-
tions might easily be secured as nut to make the. rates more
burthensome than what each township required.—Yours, a
:clod townsman,

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The annual ex-
amination of the children educated at this school will take place
on Tuesday next, at the society's school-roots, Pleasant-street.
The examination will commence at eieve❑ o'clock in the
morning.

THE CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—The sum of £1 IQs. mcovered
front the captain of the American ship Russell, in the Court of
Requests, yesterday, by Mr. Archibald Robertson, has been left
with our publisher for the use of this institution. The dispute
between Mr. Robertson and the captain of the Russell arose
from the imperfect manner in which a piece of carved work was
said to have beets executed. Mr. Robertson, feeling this allega-

lion to be an imputation upon his character as an artist, brought
an action for the recovery of the debt—not, however, caring for
it in a pecuniary point of view, as he has proved by the manner
iu which he has disposed of the sum recovered.
FINES AND RECOVERIES' ACT.—The Right Honourable Sir
' Nicholas Conyn{,►ham Tindal, Lord Chief Justice of his Ma-
jesty's Court of Common Pleas, hath been pleased to appoint
Julia Ausdell, Esq., of St. Helen's, solicitor, to be one of the
peipetwil commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of
deeds, &c., under the recent act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, in and for this county.

In the Journal of Saturday last, an intimation is thrown
out that the proposeTnew :Medical Institution is regarded by
the Editor as the nucleus of a Medical College in Liverpool.
We are fully. authorised to state, that the projectors of that
institution neither have-now, nor ever have •hed,- shy intention
of establishing anything like a College of Medicine here.
Their sole object is to obtain a suitable building for the Mc•li-
cal Library, for a Pathological Museum, and for such other
accommodations as the present state of the profession in Liver-
pool requires.

MEETING OF PUBLICANS.—Oti Wednesday last, a respect-
able meeting of the publicans of this borough was held in the
large room of the Royal Hotel, tbr the purpose of taking into
consideration the propriety of petitioning the House ofeom-
mons to reduce the impost of fifty per cent. laid upon publicans'
licenses by the late administration. Mr. James Morgan, of
Hanover-street, was called to the chair. The meeting was ad-
dtessed by Mr. Butte!), the secretary, Mr. Brennan, Mr. At-
kinson, and several other publicans, who enumerated many in-
stances of hardship upon the licensed victuallers, and patticu- .
lady enlarged on the unfairness of the late imposition of fifty
per cent. additional duty on the license of the retail spirit
dealer at a period when they considered almost every other
class of the community was benefited by a reduction of taxa-
tion. The meeting ultimately cause to the resolution of pre-
parinq a petition for presentation to the House of Commons' to
the efieet that they could not refrain from pronouncing their
disapproval of the late imposition, and praying for its removal
as being oppressive and unjust. The petition being read and
adopted, it was moved that its presentation be entrusted to Mr.
Ewart. This motion led to some discussion, as it had been
stated that Mr. Ewart voted with the late ministry for the ex-
tra tax being imposed. it was proved, however, be Mr. Bry-
den, who produced letters from Mr. Evart, that (his was not
the case, and Mr. Wm. Musker, of Gildart-street, was in con-
sequence induced to withdraw an amemlnieut, which was to the
effect that the petition should be presented by Lord Sandon.
A resolution was subsequently entered iota that Mr. Ewart be
requested to present the petition to pariiatneut, and that Lord
Viscount Sandon, together with the members for the county,
should be requested to co-operate with Mr. Ewan in support of •
the prayer, and that the chairman be deputed to communicate
with the hon. members thereon. The proceedings of the meet-
ing were then ordered to be advertised in each of the Liverpool
newspapers, and that the petition should be left for signature
at each of the newspaper offices. The meeting then separated.
CoRPonAL PeNIsHMENTs IN THE VltMY.—The King has
been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the
great seal, appointing Lord Wharneliffe, Lieut.-General Sir
James Kempt, G.C,B, Viscount Sedition, Sir Edward Hyde
East, Bart., the Bight Hon. R. C. Ferguson, Lieut.-General
Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.8., Major-General Sir Thos. Reynell,
Bari: and K.C.8.; his Majesty's commissioners fur inquiring
into the several modes of punishment now authorised anti in use
for time maintenance of discipline and the prevention of crime
in his Majesty's land forces, and to report whether, after a care.
ful reference to all the circumstances and conditions under
Which the British army is constituted anti governed, and all the
services it is called upon to perform, it may be practicable to
dispense with the power of inflicting corporal punishment, or to
make any other changes or modifications in the punishments'
now applicable to offences committed by the soldier, without
detriment or danger to the paramount object of maintaining
strict discipline and effectually repressing crime in the ranks of
the British army, throughout all the various contingencies of
military Service to which his Majesty's troops arc necessarily
liable.— Leaden Gazette.
T. MALT Tex.—. Sir Francis Berdett voted against the
motion of the Marquis of Chandos for 'the removal of the malt
tax. Sir Roger Gresley, who also voted with the majority, has
addressed his constituents, the electors of the county of lierny,
declaring that he did so to prevent the resignatien of Sir Hebei t
Peel and the "formation of a democratic cabal, Whose first
measures would be annual parliaments, universal suffrage, vote
by ballot, secularisation of church property, the oe„ation of
the church 'from the state, confiscation of private propeety, the
abolition of the hereditary peerage, notional bankruptcy, and
civil war."
( Liverol,) mentions the
PEESEEVATION rig A VEssEt. nY A FISH.—The Holyheadespondt,
eduesdey's letter :
efoolrlroe:pinogndceunrtiooufs Lloyd's
circumstance nuomi,h
his
The brig Endeavour, Gregory, from Whit ehayen to Drogheda,
put its on the morning of the kh instant ill a very leaky state,
having been out under the heavy gale of the 7th. ileing hauled
up the harbour her bottom was examined this morniug, when a
small fish called the sea five inches in length, was found
pressed into one of the seams under her bottom, and alive. The
fish was certainly the means of saying the vessel and the lives
of all on board. The fish is preserved."
LEGAL PeeceneNTs.—lt is a maxim among lawyers, that
whatever has peen done before may legally he done again; and
therefore they take special care to record all the decisions
formetly made against common justice, end the general reason
of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they pro-
ducethe most iniquitous opinions, and
as authorities, to justify
the judges never fail of directing accordingly.—Swift.
A BuTTEneLY WITH Fl VE I NGs.—ln the Zoological
Journal (No. 13) it is recorded that at a meeting of the Liniixan
Society, on March 11, 1832, Mr. Stephens exhibited a remark-
able monstrosity in a specimen of Panessa Urticrs. pos-
sessed ,fire wings, the additional one being fornied by a second
but smaller hiudet wing on one sitie.—Milror.
THE TRI,E PAPVITES—from which paper was formerly
made, and which %eve thought to lie lust,. has been, it ie
discovered at Syracuse growing wild, and that, after various
experiments, paper has been manufactured from it einmilar to.
that used by the E
gyptiaas.—elthenatton.
We are informed by letters from Vienna.of. time 2d, Isat the
first act of the Emperor Ferdinand the First was to send circular,
letters to Prince Metternich and the great officers of state, con
firming them in their situations, and expressing his approval of
time policy hitherto pursued.
Mr. W. Harvey has already begun by declaring the church
revenues of England to be
.five natlious. Two years ago they
were given out to be nine or ten millions, and the Irish church
revenues to be three millions. To time last possible hour delu-
sion and misrepresentation will be kept up; and even the go-
vernment commissioners have declared the one to be about three
millions only, end the other not much above half a million.
There is nothing, however, like full inquiry, which will gradu-
ally deprive time adversaries of the church of the power to abuse
the public mind.—,Scottish Gmordian.