The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

REVISION (..)IF THE MUNICIPAL LISTS.

of treating the
unless we wish to reduce them to a flak P'
pers. The whole social and industrial system of
that country must be taken to pieces and re-con-
structed ; and both the owners of property, the
cultivators of the soil, and the peasant and artisan
taught to depend more upon their own resources for
support in temporary emergencies like the present.
We must not allow two-thirds of the Irish people to
be permanently left but one degree from starvation.
Ae the basis of such an improved condition of the
people, we must bare a Poor-law introduced into
Irel ,nd upon the English system. Fanatory regu-
lations for the promotion of domestic comfort and
the improvement of their cottages and cabins would
create improved habits of cleanliness, and new
tastes, instead of the present filthy habits, dress,
and persons, exhibited by the lower classes of the
Irish people. There are none who have witnessed
the indomitable industry, and the comparative
cleanliness and taste for comfort, of a large portion
of the Irish residents in the large towns of England,
who will assert that their condition, in these
respects, in their own country, is a natural con-
dition. The Irish character is too full of shrewd-
ness to warrant such a conclusion. We believe
firmly that the present wretched condition of their
habitations, dress, and mode of living, is forced
upon them. The appeal ad tnisirecordiarn is the
only weapon of the Irish peasant and small farmer
against the exactions of their priesthood, of middle-
men, and others who prey upon their industry.
The thriving man dare not show the produce of
his thrift and bettered condition in any of the forms
in which it is made manifest in other countries.

Again, the legislature must seriously devote itself
to measures which will tend to give better security
than at pr, sent exists for tenants disposed to effect
improvement in their holdings. At present it is
notorious that thousands of the farming classes dare
not, although each has his little store available for
the purpose, improve either the condition of his
land or his dwelling ; but is deterred from attempting
either by the fear of his rent being increased or the
result of his industry appropriated. Of what use
are the reports of commissions if they are to lead
to no efforts to carry out the suggestions of those
who have so laboriously devoted themselves to
enquiry ? We want some practical legislation for
this object ; and we trust that another session of
parliament will not be permitted to pass by without
such legislation being attempted. There are diffi-
culties enough in the way we know. The evils to
he surmounted are full of complication. We have
inveterate prejudices and long-accustomed habits to
he got rid of. But here, as in other attempts to effec-
tuate good, we shall be aided by the natural shrewd-,
dness of the people, which, once awakened, will soon
enable them to see the advantage to accrue to them.
Whether the condition of Ireland will urge an
early meeting of the legislature, or not, we know
not; and reports upon the subject are very little to
be depended upon. For our own part, we doubt
the prudence of such a course. The crisis in which
Ireland is now unhappily placed is such as to render
any legislative effort for its immediate removal,
attended as all such efforts must be with delays—
with tedious, and, perhaps, recriminating debates
and party struggles—impossible. The government
must act upon its own responsibility, in the first
instance; and in the meantime a series of compre-
hensive measures, of a character to meet the evils
and disorganization of th:, social system in Ireland
permanently, must be devised for a much calmer
deliberation than it is possible they could receive
at the present moment.

TOXTETH-PARK.-Our contemporary, the Mercury,
was very inconclusively sage last week with respect to
sundry doings in Toxteth-park. We have an eye upon
these affairs, and upon the extraordinary mode in which
the Radicals of that extra-parochial place attempt to ma-
nage the register. We restrain ourselves, however, for
the present. But we shall n,,t lose sight of the data which
are before us, and of the rumours which reach us daily.
Strange that men in the present age should imagine
that things could be done " in a corner," within a mile
from the locality in which a newspaper is written and
published ! Radicalism, we always thought, had some
predilection for the light—some slight hatred of under.
the-rose tyranny. In this case, however, popery appears
to pull the wires. But we say no more at present. By
and bye, the Radical magnates of Toxteth-park may ex-
pect to hear from us, and to read an exposition of their
doings.

The court for the revision of the lists of municipal vo-
ters commenced i►s labours on Thursday last before D.
Hodgson, Mayer, and Messrs. Radcliffe and Yates, asses-
sors. The result of the proceedings was as follows
SCOTLAND WARD. There were 186 notices of objec-
tion served by both sides. Of these the Radicals suc-
ceeded in estabFshirg 65, and the Conservatives 26. The
residue. 95 failed.

VAUXHALL.—Of 120 objections, each side succeeded
in establishing 38 ; 44 failed.
ST. PA ves.—Here the whole of the objections, 87 in
number. were made by the Radic.ls, and they succeeded
in knocking off the list 63 votes ; 24 failed.
EXCHANGR.-01 127 objection•. the Conservatives
established 33, and the Radicals, 31 ; the residue, 63,
were retained on the list.

CASTLE-STILEET.—Of 147 objections, the Conserva-
tives susta'ned 40, and the Radicals 24; the residue. 83,
wet e retained.

•
In Everton Ward there were neither claims nor oh-
jections.
On Saturday. the court revised the lists for Pitt-street
Ward, St. George's Ward, and Rodney-street Ward.
Yesterday, the lists were revised for Abercromhv,
Lime-street, St Anne's Ward, in which the Conservatives
gained eight v.,tes, West Derby, and South Toxteth Wards.
In the latter 'he Conservatives had taken 194 objections,
of which they sustained 49; 60 were withdrawn and the
rest failed.

The Court adjourned at seven o'clock till Thursday
morning.
We cannot close this brief report without noticing the
indefatigable exertions of Mr. Bremner, solicitor, the
agent for the Conservatives, whose tact, ability, and tem-
per thoughout an arduous contest with persevering oppo-
nents, deserve the warmest commendations..

PROFANATION OF THE SABBATH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Slll,—May I beg the favour of your drawing the atten-
tion of the police authorities to a nuisance of a serious
magnitude which is of wetitly occurrence in this neigh-
bourhood, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants.
of the street in which I dwell, as also of those adjacent.
Every Sunday afternoon a mob of ragamuffins, amounting
to several hundred, congregate on the common, fronting
my house, and commence pel'ing each other with stones,
brickbats, &c., so that not only our windows but persons
are endangered by these aboini.ah!e prictices ; and as a
policeman is rarely seen in this neighbourhood, the
offenders escape with impunity.—By inserting this you
will much obbge the inhabitants of this district, and also
your obedient servant,
A CONSTANT READER.
Windsor. alreq, Toxleth-park, Oct. 5, 1846.

List of cabin passengers per Patrick Henry, Delano,
from New York—left on the evening of the Bth Sept. :
M rs. Buckley and two daughters, Mr. Alexander Nelson,
Miss Clarke, Mr. Thos. Green, Mr. A. Auld, Mr. Hyde,
Mr. Beesley, Mr. Rodgers, lady, and two children, and
167 in the steerage.
we —A magnificent iron steam-ship, for
d (,lasgow was vc inuncnra rrom-TrIC yard
-a. Thomas Vernon and Sons, Sefton-street, to-
morrow (Wednesday), at half-past eleven o'clock. The
launchways along which she will glide into the water will
be of the extraordinary length of about 400 feet.
At the council meeting to-morrow, Mr. Procter will
move that the resolution of the council of the 2-Ith May,
1843, authori.ing the erection of a gaol on the site of the
Wavertree-t.all estate be rescinded, and that a committee
be appointed to consider and report to the council the
most desirable mode of laying out the estate as ground for
public recreation, in connexion with the Botanic Gardens.
We hope sincerely that the resolution will pass.
SAINT ANNE'S WARD.—We learn that the electors of
this Ward have selected Mr. Bennett, the extensive iron-
founder, and one of the most active members of the com-
mittee of the Collegiate Institution, to represent their
interests in the Town Council. A better man, a sounder
conservative, and a more deservedly-respected citizen,
they could not have pitched upon. We trust that the
burgesses will bestir themselves actively to return their
candidate; and especially we warn them to be upon their
guard against whig radical strategy.
The • Manchester Chamber of Commerce has shown
equal warmth with the Commercial Association in op-
posing the salt monopoly of India; and, indeed, the ma-
nufacturing interest generally seem alive to the argument
that if three months of the labour which is now absorbed
by the purchase of salt can be directed to the production
of sugar, there will be additional means of purchasing
British goods. The Chamber of Commerce have address-
ed Mr. Aylwin, stating that their directors have decided
upon memorialising the East India Company to relinquish
the monopoly, and to permit the free importation of salt.
STEALING A CASs of LINEN.—Mr. Rushton, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, was occupied a long time at the
Police-court yesterday, in investigating a charge against
three men, named Frank Downey, James Byrnes, and
Lawrence Ellmore, of having stolen a case of Irish linen
valued at £2B. It appeared that on the 29th ult. eight
boxes, and a sample box, of linens were received here by
the Belfast steamer, Sea King, from Messrs. W. E.
Brown and Co., of 13a11eymena. They were all numbered
and marked WD, with an M enclosed in a diamond ; and
were intended for shipment to Vera Cruz by the ship Reis
Effendi, now lying in George's Dock. The consignee sent
a carter, named Reynolds, to bring them from the Sea King
to the Reis Effendi; and the delivery of the eight boxes, and
the samplebox, tothe mate of thatvessel was clearly proved;
but on the consignee attending in the afternoon, for the
purpose of seeing the measurements taken, one box was
missed. The next day, Saturday, a man named Rice,
who lives in Garden-street, gave information at the
Police-office, to the effect, that Ellmore had, on Friday,
left a box at his house, which he desired should not be
given up to any other person. Three men were with him
at that time, the other two prisoners and another man.
Byrnes, he stated, asked him to keep the box till night,
and he would give him a sovereign. Acting upon this
information the police stationed themselves in Rice's
house, and when the box was called for they secured the
whole of the prisoners. The box was identified, as the
same which was missing. Ellmore and Byrnes were de-
fended by Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Dodd appeared for
Downey, but they failed in rebutting the charge. The
prisoners were consequently committed for trial at tbs
next sessions.
THEFTS EV A SERVANT.—CAUTION TO PAWNBRO-
KERS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a case was
brought before Mr. Rushton which may operate as a
cau'ion to pawnbrokers against negligence in ascertaining
the marks upon articles pledged with them. particularly
wearing apparel and domestic linen. Mr. Dawson, soli-
citor, who lives in York Terrace, Everton, charged his
nurse girl, named Susannah M'Kenzie, with having
plundered the house of a great quantity of property, all
marked, of the value of £3O, and another woman, named
Maria Johnson, with having feloniously pledged portions
of it. M'Kenzie had only been a fortnight in the prose-
cutor's service when table-cloths, sheets, vests, a splendid
cashmere shawl, and many other articles, were missed.
Information was given to the police, who sent printed no-
tices round to all the pawnbrokers, containing a descrip-
tion of each article, and the marks upon them. Suspici-
ons attached to the nurse, and she was apprehended ; and
information given by Mr. Pye, pawnbroker, Marybone,
led to the apprehension of the other prisoner. One
of the officers in the case complained to the court
that the other pawnbokers, two in number, who
had received portions of the' stolen property in
pledge, were not 'in attendance, although they
had received notice requiring them to be present. The
hearing of the case was consequently postponed till this
day (Tuesday). In ordering summonses to be issued,
peremptorily requiring the attendance of the absent par-
ties, Mr. Rushton said it was really shocking that any
respectable pawnbroker should take property offered in
pledge by strange persons, when the name of the owner
was upon it, and notice of the robbery had been given
from the police-office; In the present instance, M. Pye
was the only one out of three who had given info: oration of
the pledging. There was something dreadful in this un-
willingness to aid the ends of justice; and he called upon
the parties to remember that they were keeping stolen pro-
in their possession after due notification of the robbery of
the property stolen. What distinction, he asked, was
there between them and the parties actually guilty ? Such
conduct would assuredly lead to some of them being in-
dicted as a warning to others. The prisoners were then
remanded.

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