The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A " Correspondent" wishes to call the attention of the autho-
rities to the great inconvenience experienced by the inha-
bitants of Horatio-street and its neighbourhood, for the
want of due vigilance on the part of the police, to prevent
the horrid practice of boys being allowed to profane the
Sabbath in playing at pitch-and-toss.

Ebr Etbrrpool gPtaitTiarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1842.

We give in another column a letter addressed by
Mr. Macgregor Laird to the Editor of the Colonial
Gazette, upon the subject of emigration from our
possessions in Africa to the West Indies. We need
scarcely say that the views of Mr. Laird have our per-
fect approval. They are those in fact which have for
months—we may almost say, years past—been ad-
vacated in this journal. Notwithstanding all the
nauseous professions of the pseudo humanity mongers,
we are satisfied, and have long been satisfied, that,
whether we have in view the ultimate civilization of
Africa, or the cheapening of tropical products raised
by the labour of free men, the promotion by the go-
vernment of this country of emigration from Africa to
the British West Indies, is the most safe and the most
humane policy which can be adopted.

We beg to call the attention of the Watch Com-
mittee (who we presume are the proper authorities) to
the disgraceful state of the scavenging of some por-
tions of the town. During a season like the present,
which is far from a healthy one, it is of the utmost
importance that cleanliness should be insisted upon,
and promoted as far as possible. And yet no one can
pass through the streets of Liverpool without being
struck with the gross neglect, on the part of indivi-
duals and the authorities, of this necessary precau-
tion. At every turn we are met with unwholesome
effluvia; and in some parts of the town the nuisance
is so abominable that we cannot wonder if fever be-
comes ten times more preValent than it is already.

In particular we would point to the state of the
unsightly and unwholesome passages which exist in
the neighbourhood of Brownlow-hill and other similar
localities. Such fertile sources of disease, under
proper regulation, would never have been permitted
to be constructed. Since they do exist, however, the
least that ought to be insisted upon from their owners
is that they should be kept clean. At present, many
of them are disgusting even to pass by ; and as for
passing through them—that is evidently, to any one
less delicate than a nightman, quite out of the question.

The Conservative constituency of Liverpool, we
trust, are prepared to do their duty in the approaching
struggle for our municipal representation. Of sixteen
vacancies which must be filled up on the Ist of No-
vember, ten seats are at present occupied by Conserva-
tives and six by Radicals. To hold our ground only
is, therefore, a matter which will require the best
exertions which the Conservative party can put forth.
There are, however, special circumstances which ought
to weigh with us on this occasion. Amongst the
Radicals who go out in November, are some who are
amongst the most obnoxious of their party ; and to
rid the Council of these men, we would earnestly
exhort the Conservative Electors of Liverpool to strain
every nerve. A salutory lesson, too, is to be taught to
two gentlemen who at present occupy their seats by
the profession of Conservative principles; and if the
opportunity which now offers of enforcing that lesson
is lost, the Conservative majority in the Council will,
in effect, be told that they may safely laugh to scorn
every pledge which they have given to the constituen-
cies whose representatives they are.
Amongst the Radical members, Mr. Thomas Bolton
goes out for Castle-street Ward. Are the Conservative
Electors enamoured of Mr. Thomas Bolton ? Is this
virulent socinian to be permitted for another three
years to spit his venom against the established religion
of our land from a seat in the Council of the Con-
servative borough of Liverpool? Most sincerely we
pray that he may not ! The Conservative Electors of
Castle-street Ward must show the world that this
precious specimen of " Liberalism"—this promulgator
off twopenny veal pies—this hod-carrier spoiled by
broad cloth—is not the "English gentleman" by whom
such a ward ought to be represented. By nature,
Thomas Bolton was never intended to represent any
thing more intellectual than a bale of cotton, or a bag
of dollars. His muddy mind was never calculated for
any other end than to besmear the objects of our
respect and admiration. Dissent in its most nauseous
shape is embodied in him. He is the thing itself "in
corpore vilo." Do rid us, then, Electors of Castle-
street, of Mr. Thomas Bolton !
Saint Peter's Ward, too—Gibraltar—gives up to our
tender mercies Richard Bright, the silliest of those
mortals

" Who wield the yard and, simpering, pay their court,
And at each flourish snip an inch too short"—
the silliest of drapers and councillors. Rid us, Electors
—you can—of this bright specimen of human nature—
this animated yard stick !
In Pitt-street Ward we have no less a personage
than Mr. R. V. Yates to deal with—short trowsers,
gaiters, and all ! Surely the Electors of Pitt4treet
will not for another three years submit to be misrepre-
sented by this snivelling homunculus ! Do send him
to ruminate—

" to chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy"—

in the shades of the Dingle !
South Toxteth consigns to us Francis Jordan. We
trust the Electors will give a better account of Francis
than a certain geatleman, whose name a convenient
memory enables us to forget, is reported to have given
of himself in the last Irish Rebellion. Poor Francis !
The Markets Committee will miss you, but never mind!
You can quote to your friends the proverb, "Every
dog has his day."

North Toxteth affords us the opportunity of can-
vassing the merits of Mr. D. Math6r. Positively we
know nothing of this gentleman. He is a dumb dog
—an item in a division merely. We should like to see
a good Conservative in his place nevertheless.
But step out, ye twain—Thomas Robinson and John
Smith ! Let us look at your Conservative counte-
nances ! With what face can you, Thomas Robinson
or John Smith, solicit the suffrages of the Conserva-
tive Electors of Great George's and West Derby
Wards ? You are not Conservatives ! You are not,
at least, the kind of Conservatives we require in these
days. We would not give a button for a Council-
room full of such Conservatives ; and, therefore, we
say to Thomas Robinson and John Smith, " Vex' our
spirits no more !"
The Conservative Electors of these wards are bound
to put in nomination and to return, in despite of the
pretensions of Thomas Robinson and John Smith, two
very different men—two sound Conservatives !

We are glad to see, that at length, the notice of the
Dock Committee has been drawn to the charge which
a few weeks ago we brought against the dock surveyor,
with respect to the dismissal of one of the servants of
the estate. It is due to that gentleman that such a
charge should be investigated. We ourselves believe
that it is based upon truth. As much, in fact, was
admitted by Mr. Alderman Evans, who distinctly
stated that the fault for which a poor man was summa-
rily dismissed from his employment was " a double
fault,"—the fault of the man who discharged him, as
well as of him upon whom punishment has fallen.
We shall, at all events, now, have an explanation of
the whole matter; and we trust that it will be one
which will show that injustice has not been com-
mitted.

We should not, perhaps, have alluded now to this
matter, but for a few remarks in reference to it, which
fell from Mr. Alderman Nicol. Mr. Nicol says, that
this charge has been made upon " anonymous autho-
rity." It has not. It was made upon the authority
of Mr. Chapman, a gentleman not very long ago a
member of the Dock Committee. P
—ut suppose, even,
that it was made upon the authority which Mr. Nicol
styles " anonymous "—that it was made upon the
authority of this or any other newspaper. Does Mr.
Nicol think that, in the present day, a specific charge
made by the LIVERPOOL STANDARD can be said to
rest upon " anonymous authority ,r, If he does, we
must beg leave to assure him that he widely mistakes
us, and, in the tone in which his entire remarks upon
this matter were couched., he undervalues most egre-
giously our influence, and the influence of the press
generally, with an enlightened public,