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BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
ELECTION OF A COUNCILLOR FOR SAINT

ANNE-STREET WARD.
PHE Mayor, and the Alderman and Assessors of the
1 above Ward DO H EREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the
ELECTION of a COUNCILLOR for this Wrd, to supply
the present Vacancy, and to serve in lieu of Mr. William
Slater, and continue in office so long as Mr. Slater would
have continued, viz., until the Ist day of November, 1843,
will be held on WEDNESDAY nest, the 23d day of March
instant, at a Building late the Shop of Mr. leer, shoemaker,
on the east side of Christian-street.

The time allowed_ for Polling is from Nine o'clock in the
Forenoon to Four o'clock in the Afternoon ; but the presiding
Officers have power to close the Poll at any time before Four
o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote
shall have been tendered for any candidate.

By order,
RD. RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk
Town-Hall, 18th March, 1842.

TO THE ELECTORS Or ST. ANNE'S WARD.
GENTLIMEN,
AVING been waited upon by a deputation from the
II Conservative Association Of your Ward, with a request
that 1 would allow myself to he nominated as a Candidate
for your suffrages, to supply the vacancy in the Town Council
caused by the retirement of Mr. Slater; having also been
confidently assured, that upon my Consenting, for the good
of our common cause, I should rally round the Conservative
banner every friend in your Ward ; I feel deeply sensible of
the kind confidence reposed in me

owever unwillinz, from various circumstances, to obtrude

myself upon the Electors of any Ward, much more upon a
Ward in which I have never resided, I hesitate not on the

present occasic

persuaded that no exertion's will be wanting on your part to
return me as your Third Conservative Representative to the
Town Council ; and in flee event of my being so returned, I
will endeavour, honestly and impartially, to act and vote so
as to give satisfaction not only to my personal friends, but
also to my political opponents.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
THOMAS BRASSEY.
West Derby-street, March 16, 1842.

TAKE NOTICE, that, from this date, EDWARD
NEWTON will not be answerable for any Debt or
Debts his Wife, SARAH NEWTON. of 61, Portland-street,

contracts. EDWARD NE
WItneSS—JOHN WORTHINGTON.
22d March, 1842.

GREAT INIPROYEMENT IN
"GENTLEMEN'S DRESS,"
Ol FIRST-RATI QUALITY, SUPERIOR CUT AND WOREN

AT THE CIVET CAT,
No. 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL

D. MYERS,
NAVY AND ARMY TAILOR,
TROUSERS MAKER,

WOOLLEN DRAPER, AND GENTLEMEN'S OUT-

FITTER.
THE STOCK of this Establishment has just been reple-
nished from the first houses in London and Paris, with
every description of Fashionable Material for Gentle-
men's Dress, suitable for the Winter Season, consisting of
Patent Waterproof Cloths, Pilots and Beavers, &c., for Top
Coats, Superfine West of England Broad Cloths, of the most
fashionable Shades and Colours, for Gentlemen's Dress,
Frock, and Riding Coats ; Cassimeres, Diagonals, Plaids,
Tweeds, Doeskins, &c., for Trousers ; French and English
figured Silk Flushes, Vlvet*, Satins, Silks, and Shawl Vest-
ings, of the most approved and really beautiful designs, all
of which having been purchased upon most advantageous
terms, so as to enable the
CIVET CAT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT
to maintain its fame of

MAKING FIRST-RATE ARTICLES OF GENTLEMEN'S DRESS

AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE.
D. M. tenders his sincere thanks to the Nobility, Gen

Clergy, and Professional Gentlemen of Liverpool and county of
Lancaster, for the great encouragement he has received, and
begs to assure them that the advantages which hays so much
signalized his Establishment (viz., that of making the best
articles at a very moderate price), will ever be adhered to ;
and as experienced Foremen are engaged from the West of
London to superintend the •
CUTTING DEPARTMENT,
A TRUE, EASY, and SCIENTIFIC FIT is WAR-
RANTED.

D. M. particularly, solicits the attention of Gentlemen who
find it difficult to procure an easy and, good-fitting Trousers,
as a Foreman is employed for this branch only, and whose
attention is entirely given to this important part of Gentle-
men's Dress ; and as every branch of this Establishment is
vvvirtsql,ligmarit• Forerne... - - •
-

D. MYERS resoectfi
Prices for the ensuing Season
Gentlemen' fravelling
Coats
Waterproof Top Coats 2 0 0
Superfine Waterproof
Top Corts, Velvet
Collars and Cuffs
Beat Waterproof Bea-
ver Top Coat,Velv
Collar, Cuffs,

ully submits the following List of his

In Taglioni,
D,Orsay,

2 10 0 t

Chesterfield

Facings.. £3 0 0 to 4 4 0J
A full-shed Spanish Cloak of Su-
Superfine Cloth, measuring from
seven to nine yards round the

£3 10 0 to X 7 0
2 2 0 „ 210

bottom, from ...
Superfine Dress Coats
Ditto. best quality, West of Eng-
land Cloth, wool-dye
Superfine Frocks, Silk Lined ....
The Best, any of the most Fashion-
able Colours, or Blacks 0 0 0 , 310
Good Winter Trousers, all Wool 0 0 0 ~ 015
Plaid & other Fancv Trousers, from 017 0 ~ 1 4
The best Dress Trousers, of Doe-
skins, Diagonals, waterproof,
fancy materials, and superfine
Kerseymeres
Shawl Vests 0
French. German, and Turkey Pat-
tern, ditto OlB 0 „ 1
The very best Genoa Velvet Vests 1 6 0 ,
Elegant figured, or embroidered
ditto. most beautiful designs
Rich Silk Flushes, in every colour
—best quality
The largest assortment in Liver-
pool of French, German, and
English figured and embroidered
Satins, from Ol6 0 „ 116

0 0 0
2 10 0

1 6 0 „ 110
011 0 „ 014

1 8 0 „ 210

160 „ 0 0

Young Gentlemen's Spencer Suits
(Jacket, Vest, and Trousers) of
the best quality ..... ..... 210 0 „ 30 0
Tunic Dresses, elegantly made.... 2 2 Pi 210 0
A Plain Suit of Livery complete at 4 0 0 „ 0 0 0
D. M. being a pupil of her Majesty the Queen's Habit
Maker, Ladies requiring Riding Habits will find this estab-
lishment equal to any in London, and which are made in the
most elegant style, from 1 4s. Od. to £8 Bs. Od.
Gentlemen contracted with by the Year upon the following
terms :

S Suits per Year.... Xll 14 0
4 Ditto ditto .... 15 4 0
- Best Qualit
5 Ditto ditto .... 18 10 0 y"
6 Ditto ditto .... 21 10 0
By returning the Clothes after the usual time of wearing.
NAVAL AND -MILITARY UNIFORM EXACT TO
REGULATION.
A choice selection of Gold Epauletts, Swords, Belts, Gold
Lace, &c., is kept in the Stock of this Establishment. _ _

Merchants and Captains supplied with every article of
Dress, suitable for all climates, at wholesale terms, not to be
rivalled by any House in the Kingdom.
The greatest variety of Macintosh's India Rubber Fa-
brics, and of Patent Waterproof Cloths, Cashmeres, &c.

This Establishment is Closed on Saturdays,
THE CIVET CAT,
• 72, Loan-sTRgEr.

A young wife remonstrated with her husband, a dissipated
spendthrift, on his conduct. "My love," said he, " I am
only like the prodigal son ; I shall reform by-and-by." " And 1
I will be Hite'the ptbdigal On too;'"- She "replied, ""- for riviii
arise and go to my father ;" and accordingly off she went.
A MISER MOUNTED FOR TRAVEL.—It was seven o'clock
on a March morning as the door of the hall creaked on its
one hinge, and Isaac Peppercorn, followed by Biddy the
housekeeper, and Cupid the terrier, came forth into the light.
Isaac was equipped for travel. He carried--we cannot say
wore—a coat of forgettonblaek ; made for him in the days of
his belly, he having many years since subdued that deformity.
The coat met in one wide wrinkle down the back, pocket
yearned to pocket ; and the large cuffs hung like horse-col-
lars on the wrists of the bearers ; who had ventured himself
into breeches coeval with the coat, and had armed his legs
with boots—evidently made, but found too big, for some
_as hard as horn.
.A broad-brimmed hat, tied over his
a red hankerchief, secured the beaver from the sud-
egaiarnstwith
and caricolings of the horse, should the animal
Alas ! much was the gravity of that
den prancings
indulge therein.
ancient
scandalised by the precaution. Little of Isaac's
seen, but that little looked very like a withered
quadruped
lace was to
whip with a handle a yard-and-a-half
theretb—fortunately the horse was blind—
enough a thong
apple. He be
earried a
long, and heart of a Bucephalus. Isaac said a few
en a cough and a whistle to Biddy,
voice between enough to appal the
words in a
who crossed her thin arms over her apron, widened her month
into a smile, and said nothing. The horse, held by a boy,
was at the gate ;
of a dirty white, and looked rather
the spectre of a horse wrseatshan a living steed. What hair it had
but its tail—and in the ignorant vaulty
was am rough as a rug,
of its heart the horse continually twitched it to catch the eye
carrot. The animal continued
of the spectator—was bare as a that at last it had got
something in its mouth.
with a satisfaction
to champ the bit, T
Isaac, with inhuman placidity,
m toilet-lad the mounted the horse, rein, rattled his legs in his
or two the horse boots, plied his whip, and in a minute
il •
ga-
thered itself up and shambled ofin
f—uch to the apparent an-
noyance of a party left at the [l all ;
we mean, Cupid the ter-
tier. Now, the dog was as lean, nay
even leaner than the
ilicerae, but there was a something in its spirit—it must have
theca hope—that as it sometimes looked at the white horse
-on the eommon, made it eheerfel, nay,. even
not right
morning, however, it was but too plain that all was
for
~
gamesome. This
(with Cupid, As the horse stood saddled, waiting tr.lne
eider, Cupid as on tip-toe walked round it, now looking i
its face, and now at its ribs, and now gazing mournfully at
its 'master. Wbea,however Peppercorn was fairly mounted,
Bind the steed, after alaic consideration, stumbled into a trot,
Cupid tried to bark, bot Its voice failed, and it only wheezed
at the departing horse-teak; and yet, as plainly as legacy-
hunter ever mourned his disappotutment, did Cupid exclaim
—" There go my long-nourished,hepes 44 many, many din-
ners !" The neighbours had long marked the attention of i
the dog to the horse—bad often dwelt upon the friendship of I
Cupid : friendship! in tins world how hard it is to discover I
She motives of eveu a dog;.—Jarroid'a " Cakes awl Ale."

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state of the revenue and exile

cessity of an income tax. Even th
tariff by lowering duties might by in,
lead to an increase of revenue ultimately, yet that inereaF
could not he expected in sufficient
venue of the country from its pre

a revision of our

mistake to suppose that an income or property

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press upon the labo
thing that reduced the fun
necessarily produce an effect materially
affecting them. There seemed to be