The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I wish people would mind their own business'
What does it signify to Mr. Ebenezer Jones, who is,
per-
haps, only a grumbling costermonger, whether the cbatro
man of the Birkenhead commissioners gets £l2OO an acre
for his land or not? If it only cost him £3OO an acre,
and he can get £l2OO for it, is it not a proof that he is°
very " smart ' man, and his disinterestedness is worth
something. Is he not water-furnisher, gas-manufacturers
dock-maker, park-ranger, act of parliament getter, fear
man, head commissioner, et quibusdam aliis, of Birketv
head ? Is he not our Alpha and Omega? Is he not to
wear a cocked-hat, a black gown, and a gold chain like
O'Connell, when he is Lord Mayor of Birkenhead, as the
Town-clerk of Liverpool prophesied he would soon be?
And is he not to represent Birkenhead in Parliament,
when it is made into a burrow, as it will be before another,
year runs away ? Let me tell you that it was very ,
judged of old Samivel, the great author, to oppose the
purchase of the twenty-nine acres ; and his remarks were
quite uncalled for. What would Birkenhead be without
a park ?—what would the park be without the twenty-nine
acres?—and ?—and what would the acres be (the dirty acres_
without that spit ited and most excellent mandwhose energy
is the breath of Birkenhead, and who can convert even
mud banks and swamps into land worth any-thing-y° it
like-to-ask•for per yard ? Sir, I wish to tell you that 1
is a most foolish thing to let such meddling fellows as re'
porte:s into rooms where public matters, not at all
nected with private interest, are brought upon the—w°ol
do you call it ? If it had not been for those fellows
who turn the world upside down, the sale of the tweut),.",
nine acres would not have brought out such an imPfd,
tinent scribbler as Mr. Jones. There they sit n'jt,
everytheir etrinroguadar
isnostaeidb;ooaknsd and pencils,
nothing can 6 tjt
o
innt
iet
where they poke in their noses. Mr. Jones may say
what he pleases, but the land was DIRT CHEAP. An"'
I am sure that every body ought to admire the me-
desty of the chairman, and the manly way in which he
did the thing. Did he not say, " I have had £l2OO an
acre bid for it • I wont take less ; I can get it ; and you
may either take it or let it alone?" And did he n°'4.
leave the chair and stand in the cold outside, in the
hmaodnst
do f
their
sa yFebruary,a otdi old
ntii
the Samivelorie saonfd vote,the othervote t ,
put
an end to their speechifying? Why, sir, the commis;
sioners actually deliberated above ten minutes before they
concluded the bargain ; and what is the use of riel
yawning away by the hour like they do or, your side of
the water, when everybody has made up his mind abet':
a thing; and what is the use of kicking up a shindy about
a paltry £35,000, when it comes out of nobody's pocket
in particular ? Why the ferry alone will pay it in a wee'
Sir, let me tell you that we are a young and muscular
people, and dont intend to be behind nobody. Our cor:.
poration (in embryo) have already chosen their coat 0'
arms. It is to be a railway train at full speed, running
over a ship's top-mast, on au azure ground, with stripes'
and the supporters a vulture proper, a black man dexter,
putting a heavy purse in his pocket. The motto
STRIKEM IRONIBUS HOTTIBUSQUE.
Ye Deus nobis &cc otia fecit men—ye little stars,chide
your diminished rays. Sell your docks. sell your CO
porate estate, and the commissioners of Birkenhead will
buy them, and allow your mayor £20,000 a year to give,
his dinners with. Soon will cucumbers grow upon your
dock quays, and little boys sail their little ships i°
your empty docks. Your quays may be turned int!
quoiting grounds, and your warehouses used to receive
the overflowings of Birkenhead.
lkeln
Ebenezer
z Ee
rd i
Jones,tor, —whois a
beg that yousp spiteful
e wiltro fellow,
permit
guess
doesn't pay his taxes with a good grace—dont let him, I
say, publish any more letters ; it may stop a great many
good sales, and do us a tarnation mortal injury in thls
land-rising, money-getting, sun-shining, dock-making
country, where everybody is running a race, and where
everybody is sure to win.

Yours obediently,
ZEPHANIAH SMITH•
Birkenhead, February 19th, 1844.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stn,—ln your opposition to free trade. you seem to for:.
get that Bolingbroke, the great leader of the tories in QueeP
dAjicnee: time,slib eliberal
itnretahteytrweiatthy
France,of U t r echt,
reducing h
attemptedte dutiestoin otro;
our goods, and their wines and silks. He was opposed bY
the whigs.
Mr. Pitt, in 1787, relaxed our commercial restrictions
with that nation, " for the purpose of encouraging habit;
of amicable and advantageous intercourse, and for tha
purpose of putting down smuggling." He was °Woe',
by Mr. Fox. Full particulars are given in Bishop To
min's life, volume the second. Mr. Huskisson's measure., ~
tairoen nooft t
hfoa rt gsettatteetsi
the member for Coventry.
,mna
no r
fikrul rm. Cthaenantitnagc'kss ionfdillginra.nltvviiiniidaiwc_:,
wtoiTrb.
it Gey
ltadne
es
tcheapesttornaeearssaparine de
willings oe ln tinahnt
eoo themonopoly
pet
oedrlie)eytamrtteho(*) levgiebn. ight
Sir Robert Peel's celebrated declaration, " that we , a
prohiEntw"
on the export of machinery, (a bill against which the DT
nufacturers, to their honour, did not raise a single ob-
jection,) should be borne in mii,d.
hands of a conservative administration. Why, then, 010."
they be the objects of so much vituperation?
To link conservatism and is to tie
logholfrtol at.
the
the dead to the living. I. 11.
15, Catherine-street.

In reply to our correspondent we aresuite as ready 35
Bolingbroke could have been in Queen's Anne's vole
to reduce the duties on French wines, provided France
reduce her duties on our manufactures. Three OS'
ceeding governments have, however, offered Frao--
such a treaty
; and Me refuses to agree to it, not COr
servatives. Our correspondent reminds us of the con'
cessions made to France by Mr. Pitt and Mr. 1135;
kisson. May we ask him what has been the return •
`We have certainly had no concessions from Francei
but, on the contrary, prohibition of the most import
of our exports. "I. H." evidently does not ko°
the meaning of the term " free/rade ;" or the term
has materially changed of late. He must be a tyro
politics who supposes that any of the great 130'Wp,
-
which he mentions would have supported that &sell;
tion of free trade,—that giving up of all to reco,o
nothing in return,—which passes current as such,ll.
the present day. We give our correspondent's letter
that we may be understood. Our readers will take
it for what it is worth. At all events, by his 041,0
shelving, free trade has not, in past times, found 11111,,cv
favour with the whig party. Modern philosor4
would persuade us that it had its birth and nurt%
defunct administration.— ED. L. S.
amongst Lord John Russell and his colleagues of tn

Lord Sandon had an interview with the Chancellor
the Ezehequer, on Saturday,

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