The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

FURNISHED RESIDENCE, BOOTLE.

MO he LET, beautifully situate, near Miller's Castltt, Derby-
I. road, Bootle, a commodious Residence, and eiinprising a
Dining-room, Breakfast-room, Drawing-room, atiid six Bed-
chambers, Dressing-room, and other convrietices, the whole
genteelly furnished, and suitable for the restlence of a respect-
able family. There is a Stable, Coach-house, and other Out-
offices attached to the Premises.—Further particulars may be
known on application to Messrs. Trios.WINSTANLEY and
So Ns, Church-street.

MO be LET, with Immediate Possession, for a term of years,
Furnished or Unfurnished, au Excellent and Cowthoilions
DWELLING-1-10USE, with or vithout Six Acres a LAND,
delightfully situated at Great Nestbn, near Parkgaie, ci,mpris-
ing good Oining and Drawing-room, Breakfast Pttrlour, Study,
and Seven good Bed-rooms, four of which have ressing-rooms
attached, Butler's Pantry, Store-room, a Jade, Kitchen, and
Servants'-hall, Two Productive Gardens; .easure Ground,
Spacious Outbuildings, with a good Stable Coach-house, Ship-
pon, &lc.; a COTTAGE contiguous, and Two Seats in Church.
The House is in excellent order, having been very recently
Painted and Papered throughout. .
For terms apply to Mr. Wm. QUAY, Great Neston, who will
show the Premises.

[A DVERTISiPOIENT.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.9NDARD.

.Sus,—lt is impossible not to feel indignant at the sorry
attempt made by some anonymous writer of an advertisement
in Gore's 'Advertiser of this day, to depreciate the claims to the
sympathy and support of the parishioners of Mr. Thomas El-
lerton, the son of the late Mr. Ellerton, the Collector, in his
endeavour to obtain the situation vacant by his father's prema-
ture decease. The object of the writer is pretty obvious,—
indeed the animus of his letter speaks for itself. lam aware,
Sir, that of the distorted and incorrect allegations contained in
the communication referred to, Mr-Comer did, this morning,
at the Vestry Meeting, make a full and perfectly satisfactory
refutation ; still, -us but few comparatively of our townsmen
were then present, and as your paper gets into hands who
may not have had the opportunity of hearing that explanation,
I shall feel obliged by your permitting one who has had the
pleasure of a long acquaintance with the deceased, and to whom
the several members of his bereaved family, as well as their
present circumstances, arc known, to communicate for the pub-
lic information the real state of the case, by which it will, I
have no doubt, appear that the benevolent appeal cf the Editor
of the Courier, is, after all, not overstrained, but based on sub-
stantial facts.

The writer in Gore's paper makes three round assertions, each of
which is grossly incorrect. He states that one of the two younger
members of the family, dependent on the elder brother, is "-a
young-lady who has, much to her own credit,, supported herself
for some times by keeping a well attended-school." Now, Sir.,
here are two misstatements. The "young lady," so term-en,
has never, supported herself by school keeping at all, thr its
number of pupils has not, at any time, exceeded three or four,
and these have, in consequence of the recent appearance of
cholera in her father's house, where this "well attended school"
was kept, been completely scattered. So much for this school,
the source of so much emolument. Next comes the " young
man in a merchant's office on a progressive salary." And who
does he turn out to be ? Why, a boy of sixteen years of age
serving his apprenticeship, whose allowance, some three or four
shillings per week, will just suffice to keep him decently clothed.
But Mr. }Merton, "who was only one year in office, (by the bye
it is well known he served the parish not for one, but for nearly
four years,) died, the writer is happy to say, a comparatively
wealthy man, leaving a provision for his family." IA hat ideas
this sapient individual may attach to the expression "compa-
ratively wealthy," I cannot divine, although we may, by a
stretch of fancy, even allow that the man who leaves his family
of four children property to the amount of £ll or £l2 a-year
each, is "comparatively" a wealthy man, rather than he who
leaves nothing at all! and if this is what is intended by being
"comparatively wealthy," be it so, since it is useless to contend
about mere words. BLit what, after all, is the provision which
has been ,left to the four surviving children of Mr. Merton?
It consists then, Mr. Editor, of two stnall houses, the rental' of
which is about £4O per annum, and which is left to be divided
amongst the.children, and of a small sum in the Savings' Bank,
which will, when distributed, make about twenty pounds to
each. Whatever effects there. may be beyond this will be
barely sufficient to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased
parents.
When a benevolent public shall have considered this state-
-ment, I have no fears as to their responding to the appeal to
their kind consideration to which I have already referred, and
so far am I from any apprehension that the force of their sym-
pathy will suffer any abatement from the attempt made to di-
vert it, that I the rather rejoice it has been put forth, inasmuch
as the indignation which it will excite cannot but serve to
increase the feeling of compassion in behalf of a family placed
in circumstances of such peculiar bereavement.
Yours, Sir, respectfully,
ANOTHER PARISHIONER.
Liverpool, 19th Sept. 1833.

[ADVERTISEMENT.'
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STA4VD.IRD.

Sin.-1 see in your paper of Tuesday a letter signed " Fair
Play." It appears to me hardly "fair" to put assolions of an
anonymous writer upon a footing withjacts which I have given
under my own signature; and it is somewhat odd, too, that such
a letter, and dated in 1825, should be called an answer to mine,
only written on the 7th August, 1833.
However, if you will be so good as to insert in your paper of
to-morrow the enclosed refutal, with the note appended, to or-
der that they may have the same circulation, the mischief may,
in some degree, be corrected. At all events this shall end my
correspondence upon the subject in the public papers.-1 am,
sir, your obedient servant, JOHN CRAGG.
Thursday, 19th September, 1833.

TIIE OPENING= OF TITHEBARN STREET.

TO-THE EDITORS oE—Ttle

. _
Liverpool, 2d December, 1825.
GENTLEMEN,—In your last week's paper, a correspondent,
under the title Fair Play, has chosen to make very free with
the names of others, and to conceal his own. A writer, under
such circumstances, might be expected to take considerable
liberty with facts to suit his purpose ; and might, consistently
enough, impute unworthy motives to another. But this " ano-
nymous scribbler," (to use the terms of a worthy Alderman on
Dock affairs,) almost tills a whole column with his assertions,
whilst he shuns altogether the argument upon which my dispute
with the Corporation is grounded : indeed the flippant manner
in which he disposes of the serious question leads me to conclude,
either that he had never seen, or that he was incapable of under-
standing, the plain provisions of the 17th clause of the Improve-
ment Act, the very foundation of my claim. That clause says,
that an owner of premises, under the circumstances, shall not be
compelled to sell a part : the Chairman of the Committee says,
" We will take a part, though, in spite of him, and leave him to
his remedy; he (Cragg) will have to proceed at his own ex-
pense, whilst we use the Corporation purse." " Yes," says the
Town-clerk.
But to return. Fair Play shrewdly remarks, that assertions
may acquire a certain credit if not contradicted : that is my
reason for not letting his own pass entirely unnoticed. Upon
his very first assertion, then, we are at issue. He says, " I as-
sert confidently that the course adopted by the Corporation to-
wards Mr. Cragg has been similar to that which they have fol-
lowed towards all the other parties with whom they have had to
deal under the Improvement Act." Now, Pcontradict this bold
assertion by a fact which he himself cannot deny, for it stares
hire in the face, and was the subject of a trial in open court on
the 24th July, 1824. The late Mr. M. Gregson had a house on
the front of Oldhall-street, and he bad also at the back thereof,
at the top of a yard, a warehouse unconnected therewith, far
beyond the line of improvement, and in a separate occupation,
totally distinct from the house. Here the Corporation insisted
upon taking the whole plot of house, yard, and warehouse; be-
cause the whole was inserted in the schedule: and this was truly
conforming to the ad, and diametrically opposite to the course
adopted by the Corporation towards me, at an adjourned session
for the purpose, held on the 25th of August last, under the self-
same Assessor of the Court. This warehouse of Mr. Gregson
was as, istinct from the house in front, as the foundry is from
my house; and the whole plot was five times as much as was
wanted for the street, and yet they took it. What, then, becomes
of the confident assertion of this m4n, who signs, and of course
professes, Fair Play.
My offer, so long ago as November, 1820, to let the Corpora-
tion have what land the Street wanted, in itself confutes his ar-
gument, "that I wanted them to take the foundry off my hands;'
and my proposal to the last Common Council, (a copy of which
is at foot,) int had been accepted, would not only have opened
the street immediately, but would have shown by the award whe-
ther the price I had demanded was or was not exorbitant.—
But both these my proposals will, I trust, be recollected when-
ever the non-opening of Tithcbarn-stroet, as a principal entrance

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into the kuvn, is found hazardous or inconvenient to the public ;
and O*S/the responsibility will remain with .the Chairman and
the rest of the Improvement Committee.
I am, Gentlemen, your's, &c.,
J. CRAGG.
An anonymous . letter signed Feir Play," which first-ap-
peared in the Liverpool Mercury, of the sth of November, 184 a,
being republiNhed us the LIVERPOOL STAN DA rth of Tuesday
last, after a silence of more than seven years, snakes it necessary
for me to revert to the above refutation of it, which I puolishea
iu my own defence in the Mercury of the following week, say
Friday, the 2d of Dec. 1825.
The subject of opening so great a public street, which leads
direct to the Exchange, and in a part of that street within two
minutes' walk of that Exchange, has latterly become snore and
more interesting daily, from the dreadful accidents which have
happened in that part which remains•for some yards at its ori-
ginal width, opposite the old Tithebarn, of about six yards;
whilst all the rest of the street is sixteen yards wide. And it has,
indeed, been often remarked that the Improvement Committee
have added greatly to the danger of passengers by their taking
down each end of the front of my premises, and leaving that
abrupt projection in the middle. •
The assertion of the anonymous writer, that I wanted the
corporation to take The foundry off my hands is, I trust, set at
rest by the foregoing; and it will be obvious to every one who
oeives the matter a moment's thought, that the protection of the
17th clause of the act alluded to is truly indispensable in my
case—for, if by waving that safeguard, I could fall into the
corporation's scheme of now taking another part, they would,
I can see from the disposition some of the Improvement Com-
mittee have evinced towards me, infallibly let my lease run out
for the remainder of my premises, which comprise about half a
statute acre of land. And on the other hand, should they be
compelled, in regard to the safety of passengers, to conform to
the act, by taking the whole, the corporation estate would not
suffer a single farthing—because, if I- should decline the prefer-
ence of re-purchasing (to which I am entitled by the act), they
could at once put it into full lease. and sell it to adv:oitage.
had forgotten to mention that the other day I offered to let the
corporation have what the street required in exchange for a re-
newed lease of the remainder, to commence from this

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 14.—A letter from Ostend of the 13th, says,
—"Yesterday evening the iron steam-boat wl7ich is intended to
navigate the canals of Belgium, arrived in port in seven
hours from Ramsgate. The vessel will reinain some days at
Ostend, where some alterations are to be made in the internal
arrangement, in order-to make the cabins more convenient for
the passengers. It is intended to ply regularly between Brus-
sells and Ostend, by our canals, the Ruppell, the Scheldts and
the canals of Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend." -4
Lady Morgaiktho has been for some days at Brussels; is on
the point of returning to England.
The cholera continuing to rage in the prisons of Alsot and St.
Bernard, orders have been given not to transfer any prisoner's
to them for the present.
We learn from good authority that M. Laverne of Nantes,
was given up at the instance of his creditors through the medium
of the- French ambassador, and who, after he left Brussels, was
conducted' under an escort of gendarmes from station to sta-
tion on foot, succeeded in making his escape. The place of his
retreat is unknown, but it is said he has been seen in Belgium.
The review, at which the King will command, on the anni-
versary of September, will be only of the garrison of Brussels.
On the 21th, bands of the 15th regiment of the line will arrive
here.

The Major-Geheral commanding the federal fortress of Lux-
emburg returned th that city on the Cth instant.
General Haxo, per of France, with an aide-de-camp, passed
through Luxemburg on the 9th, on his way to Frankfort.
General Bersteil, Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian troops
in the Rhenish
.provinces, has arrived at Luxemburg: We in-
tended to exercise the garrison for three successive days on the
ground without the walls of the fortress.
The Chamber of Representatives continues the debate on the
bud„cret of the nlinister of the interior.
Their Majesties arrived at Namur on the 12th.—Brussels paper.