The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sirt,—Passing along Ilanover-street, a few morti,gs
ago, at an early hour, 1 picked up the enclosed letter close
to the Branch Bank. It seems to contain some whelesotne
truths; and you are at liberty to make use of it, only it
may be desirable to suppress the names of the writer, and
the gentleman to whom it is add:essed. It has evidently
been dropped from the pocket through negligence, or per-
haps'in "whisking out the wipe."
lam, Sir, your's obediently, •
PH SLIM 013OTHER.E111.
Clarence Dock, Oct. 18, 1811.

DEAR WILL,—I had intended to call upon you to have
a little serious talk, but you are so confounded peppery and
self-willed, that it may save us a blow-up if I write instead
(ANIL of am glad that you are come home again, safe
and sound, and, as I .ain told, a better and a wiser man.
You will be surprised when I tell you that we hav'nt had
a decent row in council since you went upon the grand
tour to kiss the Pope's toe; and the town has been remark-
ably and most unfortunately quiet during your absence. I
know that you are a well-ineaLing fellow. but a good deal
troubled with bile, and Dr. F. says that politics teaze you
so terribly that you had bett• r keep yourself cool—if you
tan !—arid abstain from such things; but as you are aware
that I am a bit of a fatalist, s, cm will credit me when I add
that I don't believe you C 41.1 keep out of such messes, and
that your enjoyment is like old fighting Tom Pistons, who
was never so happy as when he was in a storm of grape and
canister. Discretion may be the better sort of valour, but
you hav'nt learnt that lesson yet. I see (just what I ex-
pected) that you have scarcely lighted on this orb, which
you always graced, before your arrival is announced on the
walls, in the shape of a placard, addressed to some vulgar
electors in an unknown part of the town, and in a lovality
where you always place the wind between it and your own
mobility. What the deuce made yeu go there, after sitting,
for the aristocratic ward of Abercromb;'? It is all nonsense
calling yourself '•a leveller," and such like names, whih
nobody else would have designated you, and whica nobody
believed when you were so foolish as to utter it. Why,
you are a gem f the first water,—related to nobility;s—
your very name declares it, and a more lordly fellow does
not exist! And if you wanted to tilt your lance, what in
the name of figs did you choose Parker for? Ile is not a
banker, nor a merchant, but a plain straight-fore ant
tradesman ; and there will be no honour, when the Pope
hears you have beaten a brewtr, fur beat lino you will—
that's 'a
fact, lint don't mistake me. Parker possesses
sonic old Yorkshire blood in him, quite as geed as yolirs.
His grandfather was not a tinker, and it would be quite as
wise if you not to 1. ok upon him as a snob, because I can
assure you that his quarterinvai e much more ancient and
respectable than your own. You might try AbercreMby
again if you chose. Never mind such old proverbs as
"better known than trusted," "beware of broken backed
horses, &c." Go at Ahercromby slap up, and either win
it like a man, or go to Calipbornia till you're wanted.
Rest assured that the council will die of atrophy if you are
not there. Why the reporters hav'nt had :t good thing to
amuse us with since sou paid your £5O, and made your
conger. if it is only for the fun of the thing, you ought to
be in. There wants sornethiog to counterbalance the pen-
derous gravity of poor Barclay, who is fast going the way
of all (whig) aldermen; and it is rather hard upon Sir
Thomas that he has nobody to help him to crack a joke;
and it is quite shameful to let. David liodpon have it all
his own gait. By the way, how strong Hodgson is at
Everton. Ile is booked for life there, and you nay make
up your mind That you'll have to meet him at Philippi.
and he's not like you—a F hadow. Bet now, attend Will,
don't make a fool of yeursell the next time you get into
council, by telling fibs and saying that you're "a leveller."
Does John. the footman, breakfast with y ou ? Do you clap
Joseph, the coachman, inside the carriage, and you, on a
wet night, handle the ribb arts? Did Betty, the chamber-
maid, dine in the parlour when Lord Burlington was your !
go st ? And if you ntet Loud Sefton in the street, and one
of your future constituents who bakes leaves at II iggins's-
court. Circus-stru,et, came up just at that moment, which
of the two would you first shake hands with ? • Poo4 poo !
don't talk such stuff, 1 say, e bids only makes you ridicu-
lous. And then again. '' I'm a terrier!" how absurd !
If you had told the Pope when you kissed his toe that You
were a terrier and a leveller, depend upon it that one of
his Swiss guards would have shaken his cock-tail feathers
at you, and showed you tie back door of the vatican. Be-
sides, snappish dogs ate not wanted in council, as old Billy -
Thoruhill can tell you. Thorultill is a devoted friend of
yours, and will leap out of his skin to see you back again
I fancy the old mau has looked thin and downcast sinceyou
left; but he will smoke two or three extra pipes of tobacco
a day, and doub.e his potations for joy, when he can fight
again under pair shadow. But don't be so hard upon him,
for though he does'nt speak such good grammar, he's a de-
cent fellow, and would beat you a.'y day in Scotland
Ward, Aud do'nt use such familiar epithets as " George'
when you're on your pins. It di,:es'et sound well in public,
for "Geroge," as you conteroptuoesly designate him, is a
gentleman as Well as
you, and is likely enough to Ike to
call you to •' order. You see. Will, the public has a good
memory, and they hay lit foresd the bearing you received
in Abercromby Ward, nor that you had, at last, to creep
into council through the loop Miles of the aldermanship—a
sad' and biting comment on N-i,ur own principles and opi-
nions. lam glad, however, that in your addr ss you talk
big, and disdain canvassing, &c. Tl;at's the ticket, be as-
sured. It might do well enough ten years back to canvass
the greasy voters, and write fine sentences about reform,
and liberal and economy, and a,l that sort of humbug
with which we used to gull the fellows; bat it wont do
now, "The people" have tried us all, one aft.4"r the other,
and it makes ones heart 'deed to see 'rich patriots as Path-
bone and Bolton, and Shirt cum rttift>s aliis Oriven al,nur
from pillar to post, without a ward to shelter their hapless
heads; and even you, with all your travelled magnificence
—the most finished liberal—the best tempered of the lot,
and who has bidden as high for popularity as any of them,
absolutely driven to the melancholy necessity of coming
out for an unknown region, where cambric handkerchiefs
aid Eau tie Cologne are drugs; and where it would be
death or extirpation at the Wellington Roi ms if they
knew you haul been seen in. You have run at Newmarket
you have figured at Ascot, but now.
"The high mettl -d racer's a hack on the road."
I sin, dear Will, yours, Sic.,
* * • •
Aqua-street, October 14, 1844.

INCORPORATION OF WALLASEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stn,—Feeling assured that the following observations
on the proposition for an act of parliament for the im-
provement and general government of ihe parish of Wal-
lasey, if inserted in your widely-circulated paper, will be
read in the quarter I wish them to be, you will oblige me
if yon can find room for them in your next publication.

I base long been of opinion that if such a proposition
were brought forwards in an open and a candid manner,
at a public meeting of the parish, and a committee nomi-
nated at that meeting, empowered to draw up thz beads
of a bill, fairly and liberally, the ratepayers and others
'interested in the parish would be satisfied, and the ulti-
mate success of the measure ensured.

The report submitted to the meeting on Thursday last,
I, with the majority, consider to be exceedingly defective
in many particulars. _

In the first
place, the rating qualification is too high :
it should be £23 or £3O.

In the second place, in the highway clause, the com-
missioners should take power to purchase lands, with the
consent of the owners, for the purpose of forming three
or four parallel lines of roads, to run north and south
through the parish.
In the third place, power should be taken to purchase
existing ferries, as well as to establish new ones when
wanted; so that making the proposition appear a matter
of business likely to be protective to the ratepayer, as
well as profitable to the parish, the present opposition to
the measure would cease.
In the tourtb and most important place, the landowners,
instead of proposing to borrow money (say £15,000), the
interest to be paid by the ratepayers, should come forward
with that sum or more if necessary, stipulate to pay the
expenses of obtaining the act, and set it fairly in opera-
tion, before calling upon the latter to bear a burden they
cannot at present support. The ratepayers have a right
to some consideration on the part of the landowners, as
the value of land will be very considerably increased by
the act.

It some such stipulations as above were to be entered
into and brought forward at the _adjourned meeting, or
declared beforehand, I feel confident the opposition to
having the act at all would be got over, and tbat all par-
ties would come to a❑ amicable agreement on a measure
which would, if properly carried out, tend greatly to the
prosperity of the parish of Wkkilagey..
The following statistical information, relative to the
three townships forming the parish of Wallasey, for the
year 1841, may be of use ; and I may observe, that the
rates since that period have considerably increased :

Area to Popu. Poor ti'way County Assess.
Townships. Acres. Houses. tattoo. Rate. Rate. Rate. Taxes.
Poulton.
emu- 646 353 2146 £175 £205 £B6 £6lO
SeaCombe
Lisearl.... 841 406 2873 285 233 85 1034
Wallasey .. 1789 172 942 148 176 55 136
' I remain, your obedient servant,
' A RATEPAYER OF THE PARISII.
Liscard, 191 Is October, 1844.