The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

for will it not be admitted, that to passengers
arriving from Scotland, Ireland, and coastwise, an im-
portant point would he conceded by finding themselves
landed on the site of the Monks Ferry, "where" an hotel
is provided and their railway journey to commence ?
Nay more; will it not be an object of pecuniary sav-
ing, especially if contrasted with the present practice—
first, of some occasional delay in the steam-boats en-
tering the Clarence Dock waiting for the tide; after-
wards procuring a carriage to proceed to an hotel, pos-
sibly at some little distance, where, being deposited,
when the hour for departure arrives, another carriage
is required as a conveyance. to the railway station in
Lime-street ? And in the same manner with goods.
coining by steam-boat, the owners of these would
gladly seek not to be exposed to the expense of cartage
and porterage from the Clarence Dock to the railway
station at the King's Dock. And yet acknowledging,
as all must do, these disadvantages, with the exception
of an attempted opposition on the part of the corpora-
tion, this bill was permitted to pass both houses of
parliament (and has since, it is said, received the royal
assent) without one single step having been taken by
the different trades of the town to thwart it !
The fact is, the spell was broken when the Cheshire
coast was emancipated from the payment of dock dues
by the passing of Mr. Alderman Evan S's dock ware-
house bill. The Roman Catholic ship-lumpers fore-
told, as they thought, a downfal, when the application
of the steam engine was, by that measure, destined to
supplace their labour and the winch. They were in
wrath at the idea, nor is it to be wondered at that they
should have been so. And now the inhabitants of Liver-
pool may by the same means have bitter cause to lament
also; but much, as we have said, will depend on the
Grand Junction Railway Company. On them, very
probably, it may be urged, that a saving of some eight
miles in distance will be gained, by travelling via Che-
shire, both to the public and to the company ;
that additional security to the passenger may be
depended on, from the use of a• line, where the
terminus is not common to other railways ;—to such
arguments, if ever offered, we hope the Grand Junction
company (as they may be from past experience) will
be preparcj to give their answer, and adhere to
the motto, "to let well alone ;" in fact, the town
has fostered and fed both the Liverpool and Man-
chester and Grand Junction companies, and to these
companies the inhabitants of Liverpool look with
confidence for a firm and determined preservation
of their rights and interests, which have so far pro-
gressed together, and we trust will long continue to
do so.

We are informed, by the notice of motions issued
by the council, that on Wednesday next it is the in-
tention of Mr. Francis Jordan to move (in case of the
adoption of Monument-place as the site for.the new
haymarket) that the equestrian statue of George 111
be removed from its present position to Great George-
square, the locality for which it was originally intended.
There can certainly be no question that, in case of the
market being transferred to London-road, the re-
moval of the monument will be inevitable. The council
might at the same time remove a goodly number of the
houses by which it is surrounded, and even divert the
direction of Pembroke-place. We are scarcely satis-
fied, however, that Great George's-square is the best
position which could be selected for his majesty's
equestrian exhibition, unless it is thought that the
venerable monarch should be sent into retirement; and
have a fancy that St. George's Crescent would be to the
full as fit a locality to possess the honour of his ma-
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jesty's presence.
We have no doubt that Mr. Jordan possesses a very
keen perception of the proprieties, and is sufficiently
loyal to wish that the statue of his majesty should not
be obscured by the near proximity of carts of coal,
hay, and other similar vulgar materials. There is
certainly something incongruous in the association ;
and yet that eminent local sage would scarcely, we
hope, go the length of arguing that the rustics, who
are in future to assemble in the neighbourhood in
question, should be deprived altogether of the embel-
lishment with which it is at present occupied. Take
away, we would certainly say in any case, the statue
of the monarch, and of his horse as well ; but would it
not be well to leave the pedestal, and erect upon it the
figure of an bumbler quadruped, from which an eminent
alderman, in congenial bronze, might survey the im-
provement effected by his transcendant genius, and
luxuriate in perpetuo upon the prospect of the fodder
around him ?

We merely throw out the hint to Mr. Jordan. Some
day or other, after Mr. Alderman Evans shall have
removed all our markets, remodelled all our docks,
translated our exc''ange, and, finally, removed himself,
we shall probably have to perpetuate his fame by the
erection of some permanent memorial; and we can see
no more fitting opportunity than is here presented, of
doing that in his lifetime which must be infinitely more
gratifying than if done when the restless improver is
no more.