The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

'Manchester merchants and spinners pay the dock
dues, it is true, upon the produce which they im-
port; and we, as exporters of their fabrics, and the
world at large, as consumers, reimburse them. Our
contemporary goes on:—
" Hut even supposing that all the corporations in South
Lincashire had been honoured by invitations to their
chief offpets, there would have been but f ur Tonal
guests, for whom surely spice could have been found. We
do not believe this part of the explanation : and cur in•

credulity is strengthened by what we know to be a gross
unis-watement in a suh.equeut passige. The Standard

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apply to the mayor of Manchester for the service.' of a
party of police, availed himself of that opportunity to for-

day ; a second on Monday; and a third, by or through
S.r Thomas Arbuthnot, on '1 uesday ; hut, none of these
was accompanied by an invi ation. That,

Et we tuive al-

rrady stated, came to hand on Wed. enday afternoon,—
)efior F e banqu. t,—a

e aftercoon of the

We lre not aware that we said any thing about
"South Lancashire," and, the plaining cry of its
mayors, "we are only four," does nut affect our
remarks. We do not even see, if the possession of
official dignity was to regulate the matter, how we
could even refuse to go into the neighbouring
county and T ass over the Mayors of Chester. Stock-
port, &c. With respect to our reason why the in-
vitation was at length sent, the Guardian forgets to
tell the public that the applications for police, re-
ceived on Sunday and Monday, were refused, for
what reason we know not. We should imagine
that the peace of Manchester is not dependent upon
fifty men in blue or green coats. The application
of Tuesday, backed by Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, was
more favourably received; and then, the authorities
of Manchester havi,-,g shown some little neighbourly
feeling, the invitation was promptly forwarded.
What pretext could the committee have had for in-
viting a functionary, who would not ob!isie them in
the small matter which was requested of him?
Again :

"The Standard girt's some explanalons respee!ing the
inviiati,,n t,.) the dig. titer, which ae do not very clearly

underst,nd ; but be says nothing about the very oriminal
idea of glint a man out of bed at Manchester. late at
night, to receive an Intitatitm lo breaklaid at Dverpoof
4. fowl morning ; and, pruhab;y, the lees tie says uou the
' ' eurjoct the better."

I THE-MAYOR AND THE RXDICAL PRESS

Our eonteTporary the Albion hai been again drawine
upon his iniagitrition for fii4 ts. in his eagerness to hilt-at.
the Mayor of Liverpool in the estimation of the public.
As on th s occasion he has indulged in what Shakespere
calls the " fib circumstantial," we shall be able to lay be-
fore cur rtaders the wretched and dishonest shifts to

which political and personal nialevo
drives men. We shall first quote his cha!ge—

le,nce sometimes

rest of his brethren

Town-ball, was pr

3e:ng present on tha

,n invitation to the banquet at the
.rated by his duty on board from

ive occasion

Atu,da

heard from hi,4 brother officers such a dei.eription ofc the
beauty of the edifice, that he determined, before he

Liverpool

af company him, lie proceeded to the Town -hall, and sent
his card in to the Mayor, with a message. stating that
du'y had prevented hini from attending the banquet, but
he was exceedingly desi ous of viewing the apartments,
&c., if his worship would grant him permission. Refusal
was not for a moment ant e'pated ; and the surprise of
the gentlemen n,av be conceived, when a reply came from
the Mayor, that l►e had given orders that the hall was not
to be shown to any person, and he could make no excep-
tions."

What is there to complain of here, we ask, even on the
Albion's own showing? Toe mums at the Town-hall

oseti, and not in a tit state to be shear(' to
stranzer, the men being at the time in the midst of
removal. The 111.tyor had given orders that they were
not to be so sit,wo ; and it was not tieceto•ary even that
hii worship Nhould have bail any request for admission
conNev,d to him. This wEri dine. howevtr, in rowtrt-
mem to the service t, which the applicant said, no tkuht

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correctly, that he help, gel ; awl the reply sent back was
most courtenus, and expressive of his regret that circum-
stances made compliance impossible.
But the fact is not correctly represented. The gen•le-
man—a piling man about twenty years of age—sent in no
card, bet merely gave his mune as Mr. Hare, or Acres,
of the royal yacht. He was in plain clothes ; and his
companion, bring unkri ,wri to any of the Towohall people,
Avres might es easily have been J,lm Snooks or Toni
Sttlea as any other verso'. We proceed, however, situ)
our emitemi.orary :—" The other bought there must be
some mistake. lie theref •ra I cemsted toe attendant to
inform the mayor that he was e stranger; that hr was
about to d- part front Liverpool at two n'e;oek w•th the
roy 41 yacht; and that, if his worship would do him the
favnur to permit him to see the building before he re-em-
barked, the kindness would be duly appreciated. The
mayor simply repeated his termer message, that he had
given hisorders, and could no, make any excepti,ns. Toe
ffieer, who had been loud and feivetit in h's expressions
plret,nre at the rottresies which he Hai his friends on
board had received fiom the peoule of Lite rpool, turned
from the hall with a very different interentsion of their
chief maeistrate." We have the best authority for stating
that the whole of this story, about a sec on I application
being made and the rnavor h,ving "simply repeated h's
fotrner message," is a debb-rate invention. We give the
conc. tid frig paragraph of the attack ,
"On his arrival at the rival yacht, he 'mind some
ladies there on a visit of inswe ion. The gentlemen who
had accompanied him t. the Town-hall, no sooner saw
them than he said. this is rather simndar : those