The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

SECOND PRICE TO ALL PARTS OF THE HOUSE.
THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, September 6,
1812, the Musical Play of

ROB ROY.
To conclude with
THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

To FOREIGNERS.—A letter addressed to "Mons. Gasserre"
Was put into our editor's box yesterday—no doubt under
the impression that it was a post-office. If the writer of
the letter will apply at our office, it will be delivered to
him on producing satisfactory references as to his identity.
The communication from J. H. Romaldkirk, shall appear on
Friday.
Nento's only veritable assumption is the signature.
'e cannot without further enquiry insert the letter of " A
Conservative."
A correspondent requests us to call the attention of the
authorities to the number of dissolute characters con-
stantly stationed around one of the penny theatres in
Dale-street, who either insult or rob the passers-by.
Several pieces of poetry stand over.
We know nothing personally of the appointment alluded to
by " A Churchman." If the fact be as stated, it looks
something like a marked insult to some gentlemen whom
we need not name.
We cannot insert such a letter as that forwarded by " A
Conservative Rate-payer," on anonymous authority.

Ebt Zthcrpool I.,taitZtari).

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1842.

Whilst directing, in our last publication, the atten-
tion of the municipal constituencies to some gentlemen
who retire from the conned on the approaching first of
November, and whose services the public can well dis-
pense with, we omitted the name of the radical mem-
ber for Exchange Ward—Mr. Thomas Mellor. From
the continuance in office of that gentleman, we should
anticipate no very serious results to this community or
the world at large. Mr. Thomas Mellor is not a man
whose powers for good or ill are very astounding. His
eloquence' will never stop the tides or fire the Mersey ;
yet we can dispense nevertheless with his presence in
the council. Tke effort at least, we believe, will be
made, A sound conservative will be put in nomina-
tion for this ward, and Mr. Thomas Mellor must, for
the future, be satisfied with the power of dribbling
forth his tiny stream of wisdom to the ears of his ad-
miring friends alone.

And now we may be permitted a few words with
respect to the conservatives who retire during the pre-
sent year. Of Messrs. Thomas Robinson and John
Smith we have already said our say. The conservatism
of these twain is of too eccentric a character to suit
our taste; and we long for an opportunity of wishing
them, most respectfully, good bye. But of the eight
other gentlemen who, we trust, will, on the first of
November, present themselves for re-election, there is
not one with whom we would willingly part.
The first of these in order is Mr. Francis Shand,
who retires for Everton Ward. Were it for no other
service to the community than his unseating, at a
heavy personal sacrifice, the usurping' Radical Mr.
Quayle, whom the practice of personation had foisted
upon the Council, the Conservative body would be
bound to return this gentleman to the seat which he
now holds. But the claims of Mr. Shand are far from
being of so limited a character. He possesses excel-
lent business talents, is sound in his conservatism, and
short as has
,been his actual occupancy of a seat in the
Council, has established his title to the full confidence
of the Conservative constituency.
Mr. Richard Houghton retires for Scotland Ward,
and we trust will be returned again triumphantly by
his constituency. In fact, from the respect which that
gentleman deservedly commands from all classes in
the ward—a respect earned, too, without having flinch-
ed one tittle from the assertion of sound Conservative
principles in the Council—we scarcely anticipate even
the shadow of an opposition on the present occasion,
even in a constituency which has earned the unenviable
distinction of selecting as its Radical representatives
the dirtiest and meanest tools of that faction. The
constituents of Mr. William Thornhill, even, will
scarcely be obtrusive enough in the assertion of their
taste for the garbage of party to oppose the return of
a candidate of the high character enjoyed by Mr.
Richard Hbughton. The very fishwives and oyster
dealers of Scotland-road Market have discretion
enough to appreciate a gentleman.
Mr. H. R. Sandbach, of 'Vauxhall, stands next in
order; and to promote his re-election, we trust the
Conservative party not only in the ward, but through-
. out the borough, will exert their utmost and most
earnest efforts. Without exception, or with few at
least, Mr. Sandbach is now the most rising member of
• -the Council. With eminent business talents, with a
discretion, such as few young men possess, and with
considerable powers as a speaker, Mr. Sandbach is
sound in the principles of conservatism. As a debater,
he is ready and happy ; and even when measuring
swords with such a dealer in verjuice as Mr. William
Earle, he is not often at fault, and by the very supe-
riority of his temper, is most frequently the victor.
We could miss many sound Conservatives with less
regret than we could Mr. Sandbach ; and we trust
that, this year, protector faggots are not strong enough
in Vauxhall to effect such a calamity.
Of Saint Paul's, Rodney-street, and Lime-street
Wards, we do not know that they could be better re-
presented, even by conservatives, than at present, by
Messrs. John Barton, John N. Wood, and Robt. Rigby.
It is true we have not in any of these gentlemen pro-
minent speakers ; but we have in each of them a sound
Conservative Englishman, whose vote is ever found
supporting the principles of our glorious constitution
in church and state. Let the electors rally round
their old friends and return them triumphantly, in
spite of every attempt of the puling, pitiful thing,
Radicalism.
The two gentlemen who remain to make up the
number of retiring Conservatives are Mr. Christopher
Bushell, of Abercromby Ward, and Mr. Robert Jones,
of Saint Anne's.- To the former gentleman, we deem
it little likely that anything worthy of being called an
opposition will be offered. Although one of the " best
abused" men in the Council—one upon whom, from
the very outset of his public life, the spite of Radical-
inn has been plentifully showered—we do not think
that any member of the faction will be hardy enough
to meet him before the electors of this ward at the
approaching day of trial. To the return of the mem-
ber for Saint Anne's, it is possible that some opposi-
tion may be made; but we have uo great fears of the
result. Mr. Jones deserves too well of every Con-
servative in the ward, for having first enabled them to
throw off the incubUs of Radical dictatorship, and for
1118 subsequent staunch conduct as their representative
in the Council, to allow us to doubt his triumphant
re-election.
Upon general grounds, this contest must be hard
fought in every ward. If we wish for a good local
government, we must seek it by keeping the majority
of the Council Conservative. We must do more than
this. We must have it exclusively Conservative. We
must rid ourselves of those eternal "liberal" speech-
Makers—those eavf%-dropping spies upon our schools,
and mouthpieces of disaffected teachers and appren—
tices—who now occupy so large a portion of the time
of the Council, and impede the transaction of legiti-
Mate business. We must have men to represent us
whose feelings are in unison with the majority of this
loyal, Protestant, and Conservative constituency; and
not the spouters of Clayton-square gatherings, the
nose-led tools of Popery, or the panders to the spread
of doctrines calculated to subvert every valued institu-
tion of our country, and to introduce into it, in place
of order and security, confusion and hopeless anarchy.
To every ward, therefore, we say UP AND BE DOING !

la referring our readers to a report in our columns
this day of the proceedings of the recent half-yearly
kneetiug of the shareholders of the Sheffield, Ashton-
linder-Lyne, and Manchester Railway, we cannot with-
hold the offer of our congratulation to the directors of
that hitherto depressed undertaking upon its present
riPraveff and improving prospects. We augur the
hest results from the steps which their report informs
as the directors are pursuing. The forfeiture of the
shares
upon which calls were owing is, we are con-
vinced, a course which must infuse a better spirit
amongst the remaining proprietary. By such a course
the market for their shares must be sensibly relieved,
haveand a stock, Which hitherto can scarcely be said to
d more than a nominal value, he at length
looked upon as a legitimate and marketable investment
for the capitalist.
The most important feature, however, in this report,
is the resolution to apply to parliament fur permission