The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

whom they have been con
acknowledge the folly of
speak of its wickedness—

eir past career—not to

he folly of every man

who, in this country,

Is the paths of industry

to follow the trade of

_ a demagogue, and the per-
fidy and faithlessness alike of those who lead them
A adoption and cheer them on in its pursuit.
The case of the Ashton murderers presents fea-
_fres of a darker and more melancholy character;
.nd discloses a state of society existing amongst
as both disgraceful and deplorable. It is sad to
think that in the centre of our busiest hives of in-
dustry, amidst the boasted enterprise of our manu-
facturing districts, from which, it is assumed,
mainly arises the strength and wealth of the na-
tion, we should have permitted to grow up a ge-

neration of human being;
and brutality, and so rea

) steer

e(I In Ignorance

st dye, as the

on this question

of many lives

ensuing year

wnere I and every one present heard Mr.
tewart make remarks upon it : so that of its existence
circulation he wo- fully aware, and I believe at that
was the author of it. So much
ins declaration that it was a fabrication. That
was a mockery—that it was intended by the corn-
)ser to be a caricature of a list of proposed
,ommitt2e-men handed round, is obvious; but in such
mockery I had no participation. I had nothing what-
ever to do with the composition of this list. I knew not
even of its existence till it was put into my hands two
minhtes before I give it to Mr. Aspinall ; and Mr. Stewart
ought to have known. from my previous conduct towards
him on more occasions than one, that had I been the
o will not now I comp(

er of that list his name would not have appeared
in it. The absurdity that struck me was the annoyance of
these gentlemen at having their names coupled with that of
the man whose chief supporters they were, in opposition to
a respectable committee of their own choice. But this was
not my reason for recommending_ the publication of
" Enquire

letter. It was solely because I saw that it
would give publicity to the whole affair, and would
thrust upon the attention of the public a matter in which
they are the p arty most deeply interested. They give all

of us our orders,—they send in their sums for invest-
ment,—the abundance of wealth, the remnant that loss
has let behind, the hard-earned savings of the year ;
and if these fall into hands not clean—if these orders are
given to one who abuses them, I contend that the Stock
Exchange and the members of it are to blame for allow-
ing to such an one the guarantee of their society's name.
have no personal or individual feeling in this matter,

Tinging it b

,he public, I can gain their

as -:stance and countenance in our endeavour to re-estab-
lish the Stock Exchange on a more respectable footing,
will still continue to strive whether we are to have the
e3teein and approbation of the good. or be content with
--
"4be bad "`'

,ne hollow o itidence of ti. It is a simple question
of respectability, or the reverse—of honesty, or the con-
trary; and so I believe it will be viewed by a very large
majority of our association.—l remain, sir, your obliged,
JOHN B. NEILSON.

Falkner -square , Monday.
P.S. —I may add. in the absence of Mr. R. Horsfall,
at.he entirely concurs with me in the above opinions

The postage of a letter from any part of Great Britain
to any part of the United States of America will, in
future, be is. instead of 2s.

The shipping intelligence of yesterday and previous
days, records several disastrous shipwrecks jand the loss

John Smith Entwistle, Esq., of Foxholes, in this
county, will be the High Sheriff of Lancashire for the