The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

a curious coincidence
and fact, that juvenile crime has increased in an un-

act came into operation ;

precedented degree since the year 1836, and that as
the system of teaching adopted began to develope
itself and its fruits became known, crime rapidly aug-
tnented ; the trials at the quarter sessions were actually
doubled from 1838 to 1842 ! Six sessions are now
held in lieu of four in each year, and the necessity of

having a sessions every six weeks is under discussion

There is another reason connected with the increase

of crime in our police-courts which we cannot go into
at present ; we must defer this to a future occasion,
and meanwhile express our thankfulness if the recent
debate should lead to such remedial measures as to
lessen crime, and wipe out so foul a stain as is the
fact, that juvenile crime is greater in Liverpool than
any other town in the United Kingdom !

Before these remarks meet the eyes of any large
portion of the Conservative burgesses of the town, we
trust that in the majority of the contested wards they
Will have made the return of their candidates secure
even against the most desperate trickery to which the
degraded Radical faction can resort. Nothing like a
good lead when you are opposed to an enemy as craven
as he is tricky and malignant ! In some wards, how-
ever, we have a real and perhaps a hard struggle to
fight, which will require all the energies and all the

watchfulness
In these wards we now briefly address ourselves

ert; and to the struggle

And first with respect to West Derby Ward, we ob-
serve that the walls of the town have been extensively
Placarded with the name of a third candidate—a pro-
fessing Conservative. " A weak invention of the
enemy," Gentlemen of West Derby ! The Conserva-
tive Committee of the Ward recognise no Conservative
Candidate except Mr. Plumpton. Support him with
all your strength, and you will do a deed worthy of
Yourselves and of the ward of West Derby !

In Castle-street the Conservatives have, in Mr. Hugh
liornby, " A foeman worthy of their steel." By energy
and perseverance they can beat him we are confident;
and we trust that we need scarcely call upon the Bur-
gesses of that oft contested ward to do their duty.
Saint Peter's—GlßßALTAß—must also be energeti-
cally fought. The Burgesses have a Candidate of
Whom any ward might be proud ; and if they will
stand by him until the stroke of four by St. Peter's
clock, they will be rewarded by a Conservative shout,
such as was never heard since a fishing coble first an-
chored in the port of Liverpool.

Pitt-street, too, must not rest satisfied wtth less than
such a victory as that which sent a Rathbone wailing
to Green Bank, or that which brought an Aspinall
°lice more into the Council. We have no fear, how-
ever, for Pitt-street, meanly as the Whig battle is
fought in that ward.

Vauxhall, St. Anne's, and Rodney-street are all con-
tested, and must all be won ! Doctor Blackburne must
be sent to his gallipots, Mr. R. E. Harvey to his
brewery, and Mr. James Mullen eux to rack his brains
and his gin casks in his own distillery.
ENERGY, ENERGY, and VICTORY IS OUR OWN