The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

ing out thousands of pounds on coal mines, on paper
works, on print works, on HALLS, on the removal of
TREES TO DECORATE THOSE HALLS AND PALACES;
and the day the bank stopped them in their proceed-
ings, I am credibly informed that they had three hun-
dred out-door labourers employed."
And how has this state of things grown up? Listen
to the evidence of Mr. J. C. Dyer—himself a di-
rector :

"_ls regards Raleigh's account," says Mr. Dyer, "
viewed it with great astonishment. I asked how it could be,
that men of sane judgment, and intrusted with the care of
other people's property, should allow this man to obtain
nearly £50,000 from the bank.—(Hear, hear.) I said, Let
him be stopped ;' and the answer I got was—' Why, he may
be stopped, but he will turn up a trump after all, and we
shall lose nothing by him." I resisted that, and I endeavoured
to have that account brought to a close ; but it was said that
taking into account the enormous amount of outstanding
paper, received from Raleigh, and which the bank was bound
to take up, over and above that amount, and used to raise
funds for their daily transactions, to stop him then would
stop the bank. That was the deliberate opinion of the board,
and that if I did not give way, the bank would be stopped.
I did give way ; and whatever amount the bank has lost from
Raleigh, over and above what he was indebted at that time,
must be attributed to the necessities of the case, or, in other
words, to fear of stopping the bank!"
In this way have its affairs progressed from bad to
worse, until its present extinction.

The Albion of yesterday, in his usual gibing way,
finds fault with the address put forth by the candidate
for Exchange Ward, Mr- North, for the profession
which it contains of his religious opinions. The sneers
of such a writer as our contemporary are scarcely, we
must confess, a sufficient ground for our entering upon
a serious defence of the tone of the address in ques-
tion. The world knows well the kind of opinions upon
the subject of religion which would most surely win
for a candidate for municipal or any other honours the
support of the Albion. The possession of any feelings
of reverence for the religion of the Established Church,
or of any serious views of religion at all, appears, in
the eyes of the dissenting and utilitarian party, to be a
disqualification rather than otherwise for a seat in the
council chamber. Men of serious religious convictions
are " saints," are "in the odour of sanctity" ; and
are thereby incapacitated, it would seem, from eon-
ducting efficiently "the temporal affairs" of the town
or the state.

We are really happy, however, to know that such
is not the opinion of the majority of the town of Liver-
pool ; and we much question whether it is that of the
majority of the burgesses of Exchange Ward. The
" earnest high-churchmanship" of Mr. North has
never, we believe, been considered to shake the confi-
dence entertained in him by those who, in his capacity
as an eminent member of the legal profession, entrust
him with the management of their temporal affairs.
Most people, on the contrary, imagine that such an
"earnest feeling on the subject of religion" increases
his trustworthiness. And if this be the case in our
private matters—if we readily entrust to a gentleman
of the high character of Mr. North or 4ny other of the
" saints," the management of our property, why should
we withdraw our confidence just at that point when
such a character ought to be deemed by us, as rational
men, a recommendation ? The duties of a member of
the council are not restricted to a consideration for
the mere bricks and stones of the borough. He has,
or ought to have, to care for higher interests—for the
moral improvement and the protection of life and
health of the community ; and for the promotion Of
these we would most certainly depend more implicitly
upon the serious religionist than unon the utilitarian
sectarist or the man of no religion.
The burgesses of Castle-street, we believe, will not
be driven from their purposes by the sneers of a cligne
to whom, perhaps as the able solicitor to the Ware-
house Association during a recent struggle, their
candidate is particularly obnoxious. They w!ll not
esteem it a disqualification in that gentleman for a seat
in the council that he professes the "old-fashioned
Toryism of bygone days"—that he reveres the doctrines
and practices of the Established Church in all their
integrity, and that he has the manly honesty thus pub'
licly to declare " the faith that is in him."

Mr. Robinson, of Great George's Ward, has issued,
we perceive, a second address to his constituents. As
the document is not long, we give him the benefit of
its insertion here, in return for which kindness on our
part he will permit us to offer upon it a few remarks.
But, first, let Mr. Robinson speak :
" Gentlemen,—Since I addressed you last week, I
have learned with regret, that my opinions upon the
system of education in the Corporation Schools are at
variance with some of those Conservative friends who
supported me in the last election.

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" I am not ambitious of a seat in the council, but I
consider that my retirement at this time would imPIY
a desertion of duty, and involve a principle of rights
which it is the interest of all parties to vindicate, and
uphold.
" On these grounds, and in justice to those friends
who think with me, I feel imperatively called upon t°
stand forth again as a candidate for your suffrages and
support, and remain, gentlemen,your obedient servant,
" THOMAS ROBINSON-

" Bootle, 17th October, 1842."
Mr. Robinson has discovered that his .‘ opinions
upon the system of education in the corporation
schools are at variance with" (the opinions of) " some
of those Conservative friends who supported hini in
the last election." (He will excuse us for putting this
passage into decent English.) May we ask Mr. lt°'
binson where he has been, that this discovery has not
sooner burst upon his mind ? Some of those CO-
servative Friends! rather say the bulk of them ; far we
venture to say, that, let him speak out upon this au'
cation question, instead of clothing his opinions tipoo
it in vague generalities, and he will find nine-tenths of
the Conservatives of the ward utterly indisposed t°
tolerate his pretensions to represent them i:a the

Council.
Admitting, however, that Mr. Robinson is mot in-
formed of the extent of distaste existing towards him'
on the part of the Conservatives, as the representative
of this ward ; and what should he the course of a true
Conservative candidate? Distaste does exist. He ac"
knowledges it; and he knows that he can never, with
the opinions which he holds, sit as the choice of the Cog-
servative Burgesses of Great George's. If returi ied at all
for that ward, he will be returned by the aid of Radical'
ism ! He must forfeit all claim to be consider ed as the
representative of Conservatism; and surely he is bound
to wave his own opinions upon this one point rather
than condescend to be sent into the Council as a mere
missile, which Whig-Radicalism, in its hope' iessness of
returning a candidate of its own, selects t o throw in
the face of its otherwise triumphant opponent'
There can be no " principle of right" 'in a ma”'
professing Conservative opinions, persisti ug in his
claim to the representation of a constituent y of which,
even if returned, he cannot for a moment maintain
that he expresses fully the sentiments of th e majority.