The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

masters—the observed of contractors and surveyors.
But the mighty has fallen from his seat. A new
dynasty, more potent to wield the vast interests
consigned to the management of our dock affairs,
has risen ; and the ex-Alderman can only fidge In
his chair, and indulge himself in carping at their
measures. Like

" The one red leaf the last of its clan,
That dances as oft as dance it can,
Hanging so light and hanging so high
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky,"

this once-despotic member of the Committee can
now only flutter his unheeded plumes occasionally
upon the eminence where he sits—the last, or the
penultimate of his fallen dynasty.
That, in general, the effusions of the ex-alderman
are harmless we admit. It is not, however, because
they are devoid of splenetic feeling towards his bro-
ther members of the committee—not because he
would not wound, but because his efforts to intro-
duce discord are effectually repressed by the deter-
mined firmness of the Chairman of the body, Mr.
Bramley-Moore, and the majority of his Conserva-
tive supporters. Occasionally, however, in the ab-
sence of the former gentlemen, and when the
check is removed which restrains him, some as-
tounding mare's nest is discovered, or invented, and
an overflow of accumulated bile is the resu.t, which
drowns the note books of the repbrters, and sets
the whole Whig press in extasy, with the belief that
the shadow has passed away from before the eyes of
their chosen champion. Such a case occurred a
fortnight ago, when, in reply to a question put at
the Board, it transpired that Mr. Bramley-Moore
and the surveyor were in London on important busi-
ness. Mr. Evans and Mr. Aikin, his second on
these occasions, took the opportunity to introduce a
cavil, and to impeach the authority of the chairman,
or the surveyor, to go to London at all on business
of the Trust, without the sanction of the General
Committee, and to impute a charge of stretch of his
authority against the former gentleman. The cir-
cumstance of which he complained was satisfacto-
rily explained at the time, by Mr. Nicol, the deputy-
chairman ; but Mr. Evans, still reiterated his charge
of stretch of authority on Mr. Bramley-Moore's
part, and implied want of deference to the commit-
tee, of which he is the valuable and able head.
The Chairman at the next meeting of the com-
mittee, and only then when the charge against him
was brought before his notice by a member, and
reply was unavoidable, explained the circumstances
under which he had gone to London, and commented
with warmth, but no more than natural and proper
warmth, upon the uncourteous way in which he had
been charged in his absence. To this speech Mr.
Evans replied in a letter addressed to Mr. Bramley-
Moore, and certainly as unwarrantable a letter as
could be penned by a gentleman, not anxious to
promote a retort of a less peaceable character than
one of more words. Mr . Bramley-Moore was in-
this letter charged with indulging in personalities—
" impertinent in the vulgar sense of the word"—
and told that "it is more than probable :that the
presence of Mr. Aikin and Mr. Evans," at the
meeting in which the Chairman's speech was made,
" would have much modified, if not prevented this
unseemly diatribe." What, in the ordinary mean-
ing of words, is this but an imputation of personal
fear on the part of Mr. Bramley-Moore, of the
prowess of his redoubtable and irascible opponent ?
It is as plain, a " you dursn't have said so in my
presence," as could be uttered ; and the gentleman
to whom such ;unseemly language was addressed
was quite justified in returning the irritating com-
munication as unworthy of his notice.
Perfectly correct, in our opinion, was the com-
mittee at its last meting, in refusing to hear the ex-
alderman further on a subject, upon which he had
shewn that, even in a written communication, he
could not speak without violating the courtesies
usually observed amongst gentlemen. An indi-
vidnal whose wrath could not keep cool for a week,
without the necessity of a previous printed ebul-
lition, ought not to be indulged with the opportunity
of giving it a second viva voce vent, and interrupt-
ing the proceedings of a committee met for import-
ant business matters, with a further exhibition of
his uncontrollable temper.
We can assure Mr. Evans that he does not ad-
vance his position in the estimation of his political
opponents, or even of the reflecting portion of his
own friends, by the assumptions, which he is in the
habit of making, of the furioso style of conducting
himself. The public does not, in the present day,
favour attempts to browbeat those with whom we
happen tod iffier :in opinion. Men disposed, like
himself, andso incapable of governing their un-
ruly dispositions, are very fast beginning to be
regarded by rational people as not fit to he entrusted
with the management of affairs of weight, requiring
deliberation and coolness, and certain not to be ad-
vanced by contentious and irascible habits of con-
ducting themselves towards their fellowmen. We
see, in such ebullitions of splenetic feeling as that
in which he has just indulged himself towards Mr.
Brantley Moore, more of the bitter consciousness of
his fall in public esteem for his presumed talents
and prudence than of that calm consciousness of
real ability which is usually displayed by those who
are satisfied that their temporary position is not
their just one, 'and who rely on the returning good
sense of the public—seldom permanently wanting—
for a more correct appreciation of their merits.

We have frequently had occasion to speak of the
praiseworthy effort now making through the agency
of the Rev. J. R. Connor, to provide increaßed
religious accommodation for the :district of St.
Simons—a district requiring such accommodation.
not only from its present deficiency of church
sittings, as compared with the population of the
district, but also from the vast amount of vice
which it comprises. We are happy to observe that
the appeals which have been made through our
columns, and by o'ber sources, in favour of this
good work, have drawn the attention of one so
worthy of having his efforts in behalf of any good
work imitated by his fellow-townsmen, as is the
effort which we have to announce in favour of this
work on the part of the worthy and Rev. Junior
Rector of Liverpool. Whilst appealing to our
friends in behalf of an extension of church accom-
modation in this district, we cannot do better than
quote the junior rector's letter, addressed to the
Rev. Mr. Connor.

" July 25, 1815.
"MY DEAR Sta,—As I perceive that you want £560
to complete the £3,000 required for your church, I have
great pleasure in promising you £lOO, provided the whole
sum is subscribed, not merely as a proof of my anxiety
to promote so pod a work, but in testimony of the grate-
ful sense which I entertain of your untiring energy and
unobtrusive zeal in discharging the most sacred of our
nftnisterial obligations—the preaching of the gospel to
the poor.

"Yours, very sincerely,
"AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL."
We trust that an intimation, so Christianlike in
its spirit, will be followed up by our wealthy towns-
' men. Let any one of them call upon the reverend
gentleman, whose labours in the district are now so
exemplary, and he will learn that his bread cannot
be thrown upon the waters with greater certainty
that it will yield an increase, than in an endeavour to
carry out the effort now making by the worthy in-
cumbent of St. Simon's. It will not require a very
large sum to complete the work required ; but we
hope the public will enable Mr. Connor to accom-
plish much more of good than he anticipates.

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THE LATE FIRES AT QUEBEC.—It is with pleasure we
refer our readers to an advertisement in our paper of to-
day, appealing (andwe feel that it will not be in vain.) to
the generosity of the public of Liverpool, to aid the
sufferers of Quebec, not with any pecuniary assistance,
for a subscription is already going on rapidly, but with
such articles of clothing as may b:! comparatively useless
to many in England, but which would tend to protect 'a
portion of the destitute population from the severities of a
climate, the winters of which can only be truly estimated
by those who have experienced their intensity. The
whole of the clothing collected will be sent out free of
freight. We notice this subject at length in another
column.
VEATII FROM DROWNING.—Yesterday, an inqnest
was held before the borough coroner on view of the body
of George Grant. On Saturday morning, a labourer, who
was grappling at the Brunswick Dock for a pair of dog_
irons that had fallen in, brought up the body of &e de-
ceased. The carpenter of the ship Mary White said he
knew deceased, who was 28 years old. On Friday morn-
inz, he and deceased were on board the vessel named.
Deceased. who was second mate, was very much in liquor.
The vessel had arrived the night before from New South
Wales, and the hand, had got some drink, and began to
rip up old grievances" they had had with deceased on
the voyage. Deceased left the vessel to fetch the police,
and was seen to land safely, but was not afterwards seen
alive by his shipmates, who, it appeared were all on board
except the cook and steward, who had had no quarrel. In
the absence of all further evidence, the jury returned a
verdict of " Found drowned."

THE PRESS AND THE BAR.
The bar bars the press from its travelling mass,
The press from the press bars the bar ;
Which shall first be in need, the wiled or unfee'd—
Those who are not in case, or who are?