The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

PAY YOUR BILLS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD_
SIR,—At the commencement of the new year, may I
urge upon all who have the means the desirableness of
sending:; to pay their accounts. Many a tradesman,
though greatly in, want of money, feels a little hesitation
in sending to his affluent debtor for payment of his ac-
count, fearing he should offend, and particularly if he
happen to be a new customer ; or if he have ventured to
send once without success, he is deterred, from sending
again.

A•shopkeeper who receives an account of £lO or £l5
is-prepared to disperse it into four or five different chan-
nels, .thereby preventing himself being pressed by others
for their just demands, and imparting to them the com-
fort •of not having to dun him for their-debts. And by
this means money,is circulating to an extent unthought of
by him who hoards it up, or at least thinks it will be time
to pay when called upon.
. The same remark applies more forcibly to the payment
of subscriptions to our public charities, when the sub-
scriber reflects that his guinea is raclu.cad'below £1 when
it-is collected by an agent : though this is avoided wheat
the charity collects its subscriptions through means of the
committee, as in.the case of the Infirmary.
In addition to the reflection of doing good to others,
the party so paying has the comfort of knowing that he is
free from debt, and that among the many knocks at his
door (which are so troublesome to all housekeepers) none
of them are calls for payment of money. Supposing he
subscribes to- twenty institutions, and owes the small
number of 20 accounts at Christmas ;for many trade ac-
counts must necessarily stand- over until then), and sup-
pose each account is only called for twice, for the debtor
very often may not be at home, he will have saved eighty
dunning rings at his door, by kindly anticipating his cre-
ditor in the way proposed—a way which I can answer is
adopted by manv considerate• persons, not only for their
own sakes, but for the sake of others.—l am. sir, &c
Liverpool, Jan. 15, 1851

CONSIDERATE.

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STREETS TIE.

AT WANT PAVING

TO TIII EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND...IRD-
SIR,—I observe that Sweeting-street, alias Elbow-lane,
has been lately paved in a very efficient and expensive
manner, and I think properly so : this is for the benefit
chiefly of our merchants and brokers. But I should like
to plead for the poo";; and call the attention of those in
authority to the sad state of Rice-street ( it runs from.
Hope-street to Pilgrim-street). A great many of the
humbler classes reside in this street, and in the courts
leading out of it ;. and St. Philip's day and Sunday schools
are lately established in this street. lam persuaded it
would confer a great boon on these poor people, and pre—
vent accidents to their children, if the street were welt
paved, and made even from top to bottom.—Yours, &c.,
A VISITOR FOR THE
PROVIDENT DISTRICT SOCIETY.
Liverpool, :Pan. IS, 1551.

THE RAILWAY TERMINUS IN TITHEBARN-

STREET

TO DIRECTORS OF THE

LANCASHIRE

YORKSHIRE R.

4TLWAY

GEN,rx.ENIEN,—The great flight of steps out of Tithe-
barn-street to your offices and yard is N ery inconvenient,
but of course cannot be avoided'; but may I suggest that
the steps should be sloped, in. order that the water may
not lodge on them so long after a shower of rain,—this
alteration would be most advantageously felt by ladies.
And while writing, I would urge you to put up a large
clock outside the offices in front of Tithebarn-street ; it
would be seen for some distance, both east and west, and
save many an unnecessery run, as well as be an ornament
to the building. Yours, &c., VIATOR.
Liverpool, January 1851.