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

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

correspondent attributes the defeat of Mr. Bourne in West
Derby Ward to the industrious misrepresentations circulated
that he was opposed to the rating of the dock and corporate
estates, whilst he was in favour of the same. We perceive
that the Mail fe:l into the error.
" Old Seaman" is very indignant at the friends of Mr.
lit`Guffie " carrying through the streets our national flag as
a the'' of distress, union down." The parties, our correspon-
dentstates, were intoxicated, and disgraced themselves, but
rtot the union-jack.
We are really at a loss to answer our "Render's" inquiry as to
What are our best works to consult to acquire a thorough un-
derstanding of the currency. What our present currency is,
can be learnt from a perusal of the article. " Banking." in
" rs'Culloch'sCoeimereial Dictionary." Our correspondent,
however, should look only, in reading thia article, for the de-
tails and principles of our present system, and remember
that it is imbued with bullionist views. The antidote is a
careful examination of the results of that system ; the 'llia-
c= fluctuation of commodities; the speculation and the em-
barrassment which have attened it. He might read, as an
wltidote, Mr. Taylor's work on the currency, Mr. Gray's re-
cently published "Lectures on the Nature and Uses of Mo-
ney." Aladdin's "Letters on the Currency," in Douglas Jer-
reid's Magazine," and a work, we believe published by
Siropkin, Marshall, and C 0.," "The Nat onal Distress; its
fraanciai origin and remedy."
A correspondent of high standing and great experience says,—
" From an experience of more than twenty years in the con-
duct of many of the largest public meetings in London, I am
enabled to soy that the weight of authority is wholly against
nr. Evrbank's claim. I have seen Mr. George Finch, at
Ic.`xeter Hall, and Lord Ashley, at Freemasons' Hall and at
Willis's Rooms, summarily suppress attempts at discussion,
exactly resembling that of Mr. Ewbank. The ground taken
by these experienced presidents was, in each case, This is
net a meeting for discussion or controversy; it is a meeting
uxowedly meant merely to enable certain speakers, selected
by the committee, to develops and expatiate upon the objects
nod operations of the society. If controversy is allowed to
enter, charity will at once fly away. Therefore no dissentient
weaker can be heard. Our answer to all objectors is, at
meetings like the present, it is always understood that the
proceedings are wholly regulated by the committee."'
Jut answer to an inquiry that has been made of us, as to the
number of Irish clergymen officiating in and about Liverpool,
we have examined the clergy list for 1848, and find that in the
'parish of Liverpool, and the surrounding ones of Sefton,
Walton, and Childwall, there is a total of 63 incumbents and
31, curates. Of these 12 incumbents and 5 curates are Irish.
But why should such inquiry be made? Are the words a
mockery which we read on the title page of our Book of
Common Prayer, "The United Church of England and Ire-
land?"
The lines with " J. F." attached shall appear next week.
'We cannot answer the question of "A Churchman."
We have received innumerable letters in reply to the abuse
heaped upon a number of the clergy of this town by several
local Journals bnt the characters of the reverend gentlemen
roinire no vindication.
• We received yesterday a letter from Dr. Quail, strongly urging
ens owners and masters of emigrant ships to provide for every
ship a competent medical gentleman, and to remunerate him
suitably. The Doctor says :—" As sufficient is given for
freight of emigrants to enable owners and masters to pay
medical men at least 3s. 6d. per head on each emigrant.
Ilich is a third of 10s. 6d. paid by the Government Emigra-
tion Commissioners in London on each emigrant sent to
Australia, an American passage averaging one month, the
Doctor is entitled to a third for his labour and time."

Ebt iLlberporti Otanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 7, 1848.

TnE Mayoralty of our excellent Chief Magis-
trate, Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall, will terminate
on Thursday next ; and we cannot suffer him to
descend from his elevated position, and to return
to the more constant enjoyment of his domestic
lot, without tendering him our sincere congratula-
tions, and those of a great majority of his fellow-
townsmen, upon the mode in which he has dis-
charged the arduous duties imposed upon him.
Horsfall's year of office has been cast in a
troublous period. We have been visited by great
political, commercial, and social difficulties. Under
the influence of the one every class of the com-
munity, and every branch of industry, have been
called upon to suffer; and under the influence of
the other, aided by the machinations of incendiary
agitators, we were at one time threatened with
serious danger to property and life. Amidst this
complication of sources of anxiety, his worship
bore himself throughout with dignity, firmness,
onsiderate judgment, and impartiality. To his
'exertions and prudence, along with these of his
'brother magistrates, and to the ready zeal with
Erich they were responded to by the loyal portion
of our population, we owed, in all probability, our
escape from dangers, the extent of which have
never been fully made known.
Mr Horsfall entered upon his duties with a de-
clared determination to regard himself as the repre-
sentative of no party ; to be the Mayor of all the
::olvrt. He has eminently succeeded in carrying out
his resolve. His impartiality has been perfect in
cvery respect. To any measure, or any movement,
having for its object the good of his fellow-towns-
uen, and the community at large, he has freely lent
his countenance and active aid, as is evinced by
his readiness at all times to call and to preside over
- -public meetings, at which the opinions of this great
commercial people could be expressed and brought
to bear upon the Legislature. As the most impor-
tant of these we may instance the 'meetings upon
the question of the Navigation Laws and the Sugar
Duties, at both of which his impartial bearing, his
perfect courtesy, and his firmness in resisting the
slightest attempt at disorder, were acknowledged
by all parties. Besides these, however, are nume-
nrous other meetings at which he has presided—the
Early Closing Association, the Tradesmens' Asso-
ciation, the Church Missionary Society, the Gospel
Propagation Society, the Church Pastoral Aid
Society, and others,—to all of which his kind coun-
tenance, independent of his individual liberality,
'has been productive of advantage.
That personal liberality has not been the least
iominent feature of his worship's mayoralty. He
has been rarely appealed to in vain for any worthy
object ; and to all so appealing to him, as indeed
to all who have had occasion to address him on any
subject, he has been found invarably kind and easy
of approach. His hospitality has been profuse, and
dealt out without any party bias; and its accepta-
Ineness-has been infinitely increased by his worship's
constant display of that tact so invaluable in a host
the tact which enables every guest to feel him-
. :self at home, in good humour alike with his enter-
tainer, his fellow-guests and himself. Few more
'agreeable chairmen have ever presided over. the
'hospitalities of our Town Hall.
_ We can assure Mr. Horsfall, with sincerity, that
'he will carry with him to the retirement of his own
happy home, which during the year of his mayor-
--alty has been blessed with an additional source of
a parent's happiness, the goodwill and affection of
an classes of his fellow townsmen. We cannot
flatter him, however, with the hope that they will
be content to yield him'up permanently. There is
a strong feeling abroad that one who has served
• his fellow-townsmen so efficiently in a compara-
tively limited sphere of action, is capable also of
serving them in a more extended sphere. In a
-word, we look to see Mr. Horsfall called to repre-
limit in Parliament this community, with whose
iseterests, institutions and feelings he is so perfectly
conversant. The time has come, it is thought, for
awing aside those petty jealousies which have here-
'ore intervened to prevent the member for Liver-
pool being a resident merchant of the town, and
sent us a begging for the honour and countenance
of some professional politician, or hanger on of
party. Common sense bids us, in these times of
political tergiversation, to stay at home, and to
gr.-e our confidence only to one whom we know,
who has been tried and not found wanting, either
in talent or in honesty. Such a man we possess
in the retiring Mayor—Mr. Thos. Berry Horsfall.

BEFORE proceeding to reply in detail to the
Manchester Guardian's remarks upon our last
week's article in defence of the Liverpool currency
&theme, we have to thank him for the admission
that it was, "on the whole, a fair and temperate
./.1.-tlcle." We wish to argue a question so impor-
tant in no other spirit than that which our con-
temporary admits we have displayed thus far.
Our object is not at all to triumph as controver-
sialists. We wish only, in any argument which
-we may have with the Guardian, to furnish to him
and the public an opportunity of weighing dispas-
sicmately the merits of the system proposed by the
Currency Reform Association, as compared with
that system to whose operation, we firmly believe,
the present depressed condition of the commerce
15.714 industry of the country is mainly attributable.
Butwe will here take the opportunity of correcting
the error which our contemporary has committed,
doubtless inadvertently, when he styles the plan of the
association a " scheme of inconvertible paper curren-
cy?' The paper money they propose will be based
upon, and convertible into, consols, and unless he be
• prepared to assert that these securities rossess no
value, he must admit that the proposed paper will
mot be inconvertible. It would appear as if the
-powerful sway which gold seems to exercise over
the minds of its votaries renders them unable to
perceive the possibility of paper being convertib'e
Into anything save this precious metal.
The Guardian seems to be either unable or dis-
clined, in his objections to the currency we
7illvocate, to regard it through any other than a
Monist medium. His first paragraph is an in-
-stance of extreme confusion of mind, arising from
this source. He says :
"it will probably be recollected that the association
trifle,- as the basis of their standard of value, the funded
Aebt owing by the British goyernment, the price of which.
=cording to their scheme, is to remain always at par, and
, if its real exchangeable value was always the z• me