The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

the writer of a letter signed " Honestos" in the Chronicle
of Saturday last, is on the wrong scent respecting our
correspondent " Amiens." Amiens is not, nor ever has
been connected directly or indirectly with any publication.

EN) Ztherpool gPtanTiarb.

7UESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1842

Another anniversary of that eventful day which li-

berated Europe from the iron yoke of Gallic tyranny
and shed imperishable glory over the arms of Great Bri-
tain has passed away ;—another year has been added
to the life of that distinguished chieftain whose genius
and valour contributed so largely to that crowning

triumph ;

—and we seize upon the opportunity which

the present time affords us of suggesting to our fel-
low-townsmen the propriety, before he himself is re-

moved from amongst us, of determining unon some
substantial commemoration of the name and form of
one whose life has contributed so greatly to the honour
of his country and to the peace of the world. We
have already the statue of a kindred spirit, the hero
of the Nile and Trafalgar, ornamenting the area of our
Exchange; and our town would do honour to itself,
and, at the same time, convey a tribute of respect,
which would be well appreciated, by the erection of
some similar work of art in a central public po-
sition.

The day will come when the loss of the opportunity
which now exists will be regretted; when the form,
bent as it is 110\t with years, yet still a noble one, will
no longer remain amongst us, for the sculptor to mo-
del or the painter to delineate, If AV
fore, to omit altogether the erection of such a monu-
ment, the time for its adoption should be now ; and
by whatever mode the funds required may be raised—
whether by the corporate. body or . by public subscrip-
tion—we are confident that the proposition would be
received with grateful satisfaction by all classes of our
fellow-townsmen

are not, there-

The overwhelming majority by which the second
reading of the New Poor Law Bill has been carried in
a Conservative House of Commons, renders hopeless
for the present any
__attempt to put down the system
which it aims at perpetuating. Ultimately, however,
we have no doubt that the force of public opinion will
get the better of the utilitarian spirit in which that
system is conceived ; and we still indulge the hope
that, in committee, many of the obnoxious features of
the presen,li''Measure will be wiped away.

Above all, we trust that a strenuous and effective
effort will be made to exempt from its operation the
larger towns of England, in most of which the admi-
nistration of the law has been one of exemplary pru-
dence and justice. It is an acknowledged fact that the
system of Somerset House can never be worked in
such a community, for instance, as our own, or indeed
in any town of large population liable to be affected by
the ebb and flow of commercial prosperity. In such
places, so far as the experiment has yet been tried, a
modification of the regulations of the commissioners
has been found imperative. The whole system; in fact,
has never yet been even attempted ; and the only ef-
fect produced in such towns by the imposition of a
part of it, has been to introduce.difficulty and distract-
ing annoyance into a hitherto well-conducted admini-
stration of the parochial funds. In Liverpool, we
know that this has been the case, and that the guar-
dians have been compelled on many occasions to act
in violation of the controlling authority of the central
board, and thus incur heavy responsibilities, or to
leave undone that which humanity itself required
should be done.

The town of Liverpool is one
the working of any fixed and undeviating principle in
the administration of relief to the poor, as, in fact, is
The position, moreover, of this

peculiarly unfitted for