The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

1 THS LIVIERPOOL gIiAN)4I9. ..„ Feb. 4, BSI. .... - _ _ _ .... _________ - - --- - - -- . . - ----A r. io CORRESPONTDP.NTS. AND SEAMEN TO Pft s o l‘,ri T ea E erfn S e T to lives and properties a little more beyond the power 1 LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ' way • af SingaPore, the Council Presume there will be de times- Heath, for their services to the Chamber, and the meet. MEETING OF THE SHIPOWNERS , - of Popish outrage than they unfortunately are at 1 - sity for that committee to interfere in the matter. The subjects of a local or domestic character, thcaieefe not m d. bers were appointed scrutineers to investi- MERCANTILE a ß sopc l i edrNt previous E ve ittohauecstt ACT. We have alluded elsewhere to a subject on which we have re ceived several communications. or we should have been glad present.. The first annual meeting of this important body was leas interesting or important to the Liverpool commehial georeifge regulations last l a u n t c i u e s n spe,x session.pe inflicting e placard en , i wu d e to give publicity to such sentinients as those of " A Working ing T s h e r p e a e r m at e e held yesterday at the C o tt on Sales - roam , in this town. publi c are, as follows : gate - th e vot e s for the election of members of the Coun. Yesterday evening, a meeting, convened by placard, - __ The report then alluded to the exertions made by the Chem- cif, and it was agreed they should report to-morrow, h wbcoy e hn l i d tevheh a en t tseih t n h egay e mt Man" and others. THE first annual meeting of tie Liverpool Considering the inclemency of the weather, it was ber upon the subject of the removal of the Post-office site, their (this day,) namely, Messrs. Claypole, T. A. Bushby, and provisions of the Mercantile . We are obliged by the extract forwarded by " A Lover of Truth," but could not make use of . it to-day. Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, in the numerously and most respectably attended. Amongst complete success in preventing which we have given elsewhere . here. F. Boult. c Mh e o e n n uni c e s t oi Music-hall , - v e v h a e d t a i r e i l g o l The special attention of our readers to requested to the first of Cotton Sales-room ; Thomas Berry Eh -f 11 Esq., the gentlemen present we observed :-T. B. Horsfall, Onthe subject ef postal conimunication they were also still a series of letters, in our publication of to-day, signed " A I • 'cl' • )" a ' vigilantly attentive. MEETING OF WESLEYANS LAST NIGHT. Church of-England Man." It is from the pen of a dis:in- the c sturman, press ing on the occaeloo. The pro- F. Shand, Thomas Moore, R. Edwards, - M'Fie, Hugh. 3. DISPUTE BETWEEN E DOCK COMMITTEE AND THE upo n . them sundry contributions, fines, &c., the climax to ?wished titled layman not a hundred miles from this town. ceedings will be found fully reported in our Hornby, - Bushby, R. Shell , - Lockett, Geo. Holt, DOCK PORTERS.— Questions Ti O l f dispute having arisen between ----- veo are not at all inclined to be satisfied with the mere ejection , , - . B ou lt, Wm. Gardner, Charles Robertson, - Stitt, the Dock Committee and the porters, relative to the appoint. A meeting of members of the Wesleyan body was held last meeting was well atte nded , a lag r columns ; and we refer to them in this place for ge por ion apparently con of the Romish Bishops feom this country. Something very - Claypo le , T. Wylie. Chas. Holland. - Forwood, ment of master porters for discharging vessels, the matter was evening at the Assembly-rooms, Great George -street. The sisting of mates and respectable seamen. Mr. Rowett was much further is needed to give satisfaction. The 4aynooth the purpose of making a few reniati...s, which the referred by both parties to the Cnamber of Commerce; and object of the meeting was to afford information relative to the t " y - Heath, - Riley, Esqrs., Scc., &C. Lloyd, called to the chair by Grant must certainly be annulled. An influential clergyman suggest. your directors feel pleasure in stating , that the opinion X. recent expulsion, from the Wesleyan body, of Mr , r writing on this subject says—" The cry now raised in Eng- T. B. HORSFALL, Esq., occupied the chair, and in open- r dlt "' • p esse y them, agreeing with that of the American Chamber T C ar . WT CI Ikland Mr. Christopher •T. - Mr. Rowan roseand acclamation. t . ~) i r. .W. T. la y, land is for the throne and for power, not for Gnd and His The speech of the chairman, in opening the ing the business of the day, said, that twelve months of Commerce, was acceptable both to the Dock Committee and The room is not a very large one, and, consequently, it was to had, when he eeme into the room, that he should be e truth. The Pope, forsooth listo be resis'ed , but Popery is meeting, was precisely what st df we expe... e rom a had now elapsed since, under the auspices of the mayor of the t I h badopted. have been supposedwould h • been ' porers, am as een - called upon to take the chair. He believed there w ere to have its teachers salaried by the English people at home the town the met for the purpos e of establishing a charts- 4. PownEn MAGAZINES. Your council, perceiving the pose of accommodating anything like the numberof persons man enormities • the Sl)* ' in e mping Act of last session, to a and abroad. Oh, monstrous delusion ! Oh, fatal degene- gentleman of Mr. Horsfall's high and honourable ' Y in who would be anxious to obtain information connected with a ma - general a'arm prev..iling on this subject, and deeming the re- Li IHe thou ht he could truly ber of commerce verpoo . ioug few of which he would direct their attention. He be sotsacy! Oh, national impiety and provocation of God I Let character -temperate, impartial, and essentiallymoval of the Magazines highly desirable, forwarded a memo- subject that has caused so great a commotion in the most nu say that the experience of the past had su ffi ced to convin ce sieved that Mr. Labouchere, the author of the bill, had Queen Victor;a, now happile alarmed, be loner deluded e • oustness-like. Th h • • •fl e c airman revievved brie the Ythose who doubted the necessity of such a chamber ; and Hai to Governme in favour of such , removal,and, by merous sect in this country. The room, however, was by no by the dream that she can say to this tide, 'Thus far shaltmunicar fr the Home - Office, lE they have - a corn- means full at the time appointed for taking the chair. The been actuated by conscientious motives, and had intended thou come, and no further.' " proceedings of the past year, during which the the mode in which it had been carried on, had served to that this removal wn°i 17 -n , without reason to hope will effected any unnecessary proceedings were preceded by the singing of a hymn, * d • e bust- to do them a service; but he had gone a strange way about in consequence of the numerous reports received yesterday, a Council of the Chamber had exper iencedamount silence those an who had objected to it. (Hear, hear.) They delay. tional exercises followed, and by the time the immediat it. Before legislating for sailors he ought to have known portion of the leading articles will be found in the sixth pip. were told that having various political interests and differ- 5. PACKET STATION.—The rapid extension oftbe ocean mail ness of the meeting commenced the room was densely crowded. of public support far hevond his own previous an- packet service, consequent on our vast colonial foreign trade, Mr. lITAGOARTvas called to the chair . He said, it was with e • had' what sailors were He ought to have remembered the ---- tici . potions, sanguine as they had been. They had ent commercial views it was impossible they could meet togetherf h e ti , t• t e common good, but what had been th e has called for the special consideration of your Council, in re. deeply solemn feelings that he occupied that chair. The cir. services the performed. Since the navigation law ference to the advantages which Liverpool presents as a station cumstances which had brought them together that evening came into operation they had had a Government return OPENINGOFP A R L I A M E N T. been appealed to on various occasions by different result ? 1 hey had met gentlemen of different political for the arrival and departure f these Its geographical were of an extremely painful character. A number of their made f • o mails. Portions of the commercial comtnunitv to exercise opinions —of different commercial views, and were happy . its • brethren, connectedwiththe Wesleyan Methodist• . site, central position in respect of the great seats of trade TH E QUEEN'S SPEECH. their influence with Government for. the redress of to say that their meetings had been a tt en d e d w ith g ene ra l and manufactures, and increasing claim to be considered the been deposed from their offices ; most of them had been ex- • increase of 2,200 tons of foreign tonnage employed in the in grievances, and t he advocacy of measures con- good. (Applause.) The chamber had never discussed first commercial emporium of the kingdom and the advanta es pelted from that society, with which they had been for a long it already possesses in its I office' establishment and g series of years connected. They were met there to listen to trade of this country. Some years ago, when the question Ap A cr ot G .t - ez s. - wn-'.91.1"' / Dl TtNt A g s s aTi T n E T : fith g E : eny political questions-they had never sullied their deli-a t i rge po st of free trade was first agitated, it was said that the com e ! Ever Majesty will open Parliament this day at two ducive to the public good ; and on all occasions postal ar r angements, all *us the steps which your Council statement in reference to those expulsions, and he doubted not they had been listened to as the authoritative and berations by busying themselves with selfish interests. have taken in memoriali z i ng government on the subject, they same woopuilndi opinion all a l i s st h e i n . m e a l e t l h f— i ntitieartes:i Methodism h a o n d d i , a m in ‘, l , l a i a s opinion, p w a h r e a n . tp m tet e re r isn e m e a of vii all aatloi t o h nu e r: p : o .r rt tos y t n hiel G ei r lad e l it i an ; tria;tirnei exclusively, but t l t a e rg urt e r : o'clock, when she will deliver in person the usual (Cheers.) The report would be read to them by the Though difficulties occur, especially in the fact that Southanap. they had heard all that would be said, they would be of the increased. The result had been a great increase of pan both, combined with free trade. The speaker duly constituted exponents of the wishes of this secretary, embracing as it did the proceedings of the coon- ton has already become the depot and terminus of twoor three Address to the assembled Parliament, great community. In particular, he adverted to cif during the last twelve months-the measures on of the existing mail steam-packet services, yet your Council hope that in the establishment of new lines, as that of the doxical, the most illogical, and the most inconsistent thin: ever conceived. He had arrived at this conclusion after lookin Pfe hope to receive this im tt d t b por an ocumen y the proposed removal of the Post-office to the site which the council had taken action-the measures under discussion, and though they had not come to a of Good such will at the question in all its b • Could it be believed Cape of the Blind Asylum, which, but for the strenuous overlooked. It may be also here mentioned, that the opinion special services had been called to invoke the blessing of a statement in the circular of Messrs. Chaloner and Fle final conclusion on the question, they would seek their of this Chamber having been asked by the government autho- Almighty God on acts by which men had been expered from ming, stating that there had been a most ros • perous tim electric telegraph about three o'clock, when a exertions of the Chamber, he firmly believed would opinion en the income tax. (Hear.) Now it was right ' rities on the expediency. of moving th e North American mail the ministry, whose character was unsullied, and whose re- bar trade. This, however, he contended , was not owing SECOND EDITION of the STANDARD, have be e n carried, to the great inconvenience and he should state to them that there was some difference of packet -station from Liverpool to a port on the south or west ligious standing was known to be such as to render them most to an increased consump ti on, but to decreased imports; loss • of the mercantile community of the town. opinion in the Council as to whether the subject was a coast of heisted, your Council, after obtaining much informa useful? Methodism, as it is, was to a certain extent unscriptural. and he added th at 1 a large portion of the tonnage engaged containing it, will he immediately issued. After directing attention to the various suggestions legitimate one for their consideration. He (the Chair- 'on on the subject expressed an opinion unfavourable to such lion transfer._ Incidental '- this • - Iremark notaltogether • to subject, your Comte'. may Those who presumed to think the Methodism of Jabez Buntin • correct or scriptural; those men who were g in the trade last year was foreign. The - gross tonnage, man) had never any doubt on the point, as affecting thenevertheless, had decreased, whereas it ought to have -------- - - - ----- --- - ----- as to reductions of duties to be recommended by that they have received from a member of the Chain' er a very anicious to see a change in the society, though they had been interests of the commmercial community of this town able paper, setting forth the inducement which is afforded forconnected with it for years, had been expelled without atrial, increased, and employed more British sailors. Ship r i) t ilibtrp all &tanbarb. the Chamber to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and • the interests of the country at large, and he stood shipping goods by way of London, to the prejudice of thisport, He had mentioned the circumstances of one of these expulsions had been laced in owners p the position, in April , and intimating to the meeting th a t the question of pledged to bring the question before the Chamber, in in consequence of the rates of carriage from Mauchester to to a minister of the Church of England,and that gentleman last that if t h e y we nt into the market and offered -a. London being much lower in proportion than to Liverpool, the was amazed that any such power should exist, or be used in 4 ' • • — the repeal of the income tax upon trades, profes- consequence of which a resolution had been placed uponto la k e freight at 80s. per ton they had a P • natural outlet ; and thus heavy loss is sustained both by the such a case • and was astonished that an person should Prussian on one , TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 4, 1851. sions, and other uncertain sources of income would the books of the Council. It would be for the Chamber be expelled ' from the Lord's Y hand, and Swede ' • Dock and Town Estate in dues, by the shipping interest in to deal with that resolution, either to confirm - He called upon his brethren to look at Methodism as it was, and if they came down to 755., those par be brought before the meeting, the chairman ex- ties v ld . ' take it, or to reject it altogether if they thought proper. plies. Your Council have, therefore, turned their earnest at- and at wh i st it was doing, and compare it with the Methodism 70s. To compete with such men they mus ee THE Romish priesthood in Liverpool, encou d the great satisfaction which he and his - dressed (Hear, bear.) It should, however, be borne in mind that tendon to the subject and have invited that of other bodies of John NA esley. When Wesley died in 1791 their body con- to live on st ock the content fish and sour krout. The seamen had raged apparently by the present insolent attitude colleagues in the Council regarded the fact that the income tax was not like the other taxes. The general towards counteracting ' an injury which might lead to serious sisted of 58,000 souls ;by the year 1800 it had increased 75 per cent., but during the last ten years the addition bad been only fought the battles of their country upon 21bs. of beef a ' of their head, Pio Nona, have stepped out a little they had been able, throughout the working of the taxes of the state were permanent-this was temporary. consequences, at- 10 per cent. He would ask them how it happened that for the day; but if they put them upon foreign diet of late, and appear disposed to (rive us a foretaste institution, thus far to avoid the mooting - of ques- They should also recollect that they were not going to ten6. tion U o Sr a M co ß m E m O i U tt L e A e T , I appointed I f l o E r S thePR I p c li r r r o o n s s e . , — e p has been last five years their missionary field had become narrowed ? they would be disposed to lay down their of the style in which they would lord it over us if tions which had the slightest bearing upon party ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeal an express particularly directed to the removal of restrictions which act The expenditure in this department was about £lOO,OOO per " Never mind; we will go to New South W an a n ie s s an u d e say of of parliament. The tax itself expired in April, and injuriously on the transit of goods trade, and some modifi- annum, and employed from four to five hundred ministers. tralia, where we can be protected." (Cries of "No s ' l 3 no! :hey had the power to do ao. The fact, so strenu- politics, or could stir up political dissensions all they had to do was whether they would ask for its cation has been obtained • but the committee will continue They would expect from this large forcegreat effects ; but what He was glad to he arthat cheer. It spewed that their odsly denied by them whilst whining at the doors amongst them. He had feared that they might renewal, its continuance. • . or oppose their to procure examination of goods in transit under bond and the curtail- employed, t and this included Ireland. He attributed this un- . The chairman then a Parliament for mere toleration, that they aim at not have been able to steer clear altogether from this subject, it was well to revert back to the period when introduced the first speaker , supremacy, temporal and spiritual, in this realm, is collision with some or other of the commercial the tax was first brought into operation, and he might in f r rg e o e f v t i l l iseolmet hpr esent o f Customs bonding entries. system , and the arbitrary sa o i o s t ft . c a tus g ti t i m te p o o f rt t e hrf ,o s, eiintol greatinstitutions measure, as to t r h y eo a l n o d - Mr. FOYLE, who, on moving the first resolution, ex openly admitted; and it has been even intimated bodies in the town ; but he was happy to say that take the liberty of reminding them of the statement made conduct of the Board of Customs, will form an important por- Richmond. At Didsbury there was a rev. gentleman (he plained that he had been called upon unexpectedly to by Lord John Russell. He stated that Lion o f their enquiries. would not mention .names), a theological tutor in the institu- move this resolution in the absence of another ' to us that, in the event of the Sovereign and her they had completely succeeded in accomplishing THE INCOME Tax.—The period for which the tax on pro- ien, vi son was a minister in the . Church of England; party. " A tax on income was only to be resorted to in a very great The speaker said that be would commence by going over Government taking any steps to arrest their inso- this very desirable consummation. emergency, admitting that it did. not matter whether that Percy and income was originally enacted expires this year. this gentleman, t w on a visit a short time ago, was invited to reach b the previous affecting the mercantile marine, and first The attention of your Council has been called to those clauses P , u . he declined, on the ground that it would damage lent designs, domestic rebellion, aided by foreign We regret, however, that, as will be seen from a emergency arose from war or preparations rendered necessary which particularly affect the commercial and trading classes. the reputation of his son. The son of another preacher was noticed an act passed in the reign of George 11, in which lky lu t i he state of l the things, still the emergency must be great ." a tractarian bishop of the Church of England. He made these it was stated that his Maje t • hed arms, will be invoked to crush and avenge the perusal of the proceedings this day-, the meeting . The propriety of petitioning the Leeislature for the exemption t he the sailors of effort. We shall give a few specimens of the itself has not succeeded in achieving- this desidera- tax w a asTiTe reserved e'rvta:d now ony li o l t olle:Lal e igi n e e l es ti o i a f t , =pco me of all incomes derived from precarious sources, in case of the I, e i t4 t r i n ti edit i vg,, , z e inte v i v i i t t Z d o t f o di t sparag t i l ng . the Church of England should be released v es t compulsory acts : he ravings of these gentry, perpetrated at a meeting turn. The defunct Anti-Monopoly Association (Hear, hear.) This as the opinion of Lord J. Russell. w a n v e e w tt t o o u f g • l t i 11 e i t aTi sifts! been e considered pg in any the co C o o rs u e n , c t il c; t w a ho e England, k sionaries, they sent o y nt priests, wsh'onwtairi g r t , T o s s te e T t t sm of mix- proceeded to mention the act establishing the Merchant held at the Music--hall, in Bold-street, on Tuesday appears to be impatient under its present abridged Then there • was the w similar opinion of the Duke of the sense of the Chamber on the question, which will be sub- Tractarianism, and not Methodism. The Chairman, before Marine tt Fund law, by which 6d. per month was to be paid evening last. sphere of action; and hence the wiredrawn reasons Wellington. Such was the opinion of those two states- mitted to it in resolution passed at the Council Board, but re- resuming his seat, introduced Mr. T. Isloyd, town councillor, t that fund , and 6d. to Greenwich Hospital. By to the meeting, for the purpose of making a statement relative a subsequent act, in the year 1830, the seamen in ferred to this meeting for confirmation or otherwise. men at the time the tax was first levied. (Applause.) For • hthe law to his expulsion. the navy were e xempted from the provisions of this his own part he agreed with those who maintained that reiring one-third of the directors, elected at the annual Mr. LLOYD entered into a detailed ac c oun t o f hi s experience In 1840 there was an examination into these 'act . pose of considering the propriety of erecting very income tax question which he acknowledged • • the tax was odious in its character, and inquisitorial in its meeting, iose to ti l t • e etire each year. your Council regret that they 11 seven o labours ors. as He e M h e a t Methodist, o T e l , e which p h i crohocohmtphrei sdaperiod different gradations o fo t i r o tg matters in the House of Commons, and a gentleman named 'William schools for the children of the Roman Catholic to have first mooted in the Council, and the operation. (Cheers.) There were various other questions thus poor in the district which they have christened attempts of other gentlemen of the same party to which had been brought under the consideration of the Claypole, Gardner, c Gladstone. riMessrs. s a r n s CI nvn ' Robinson, l4ll w F il 'o F n aorwn wgoort, out of teacher in the schools, superintendent, and class-reader; Watson, secretary to the Merchant Seamens' Corpora with the name of " Holy Cross," in which it was throw in the apple of political discord, and to Council, one of which was the reduction of duty on coffee, of office, and are ineligible for re-election for one year. The and during all . that period he defied any man to charge him lion, London, a company consisting. of 117 gentlemen, Council would take this opportunity of recording their sense with any act of immorality, or conduct which would justify his who had the full power of managing all the money 74 belong stated by Mr. Aspinall, barrister, in moving the broach their predilections for direct over indirect and although they were desirous to avoid anything which of the great services rendered to the Chamber by one of its expulsion from the society. He alluded to a law enacted in ing to the outports, of which there were first resolution, that there are 2,500 such children duties. So far as could be done, withoutheing tvran- t m h i e g ht u e c s r t e i a o t n e o se f i d i i differential r e a n m t?a n l g g tie h s e mstillvethebyweinretraottinugs r o e ti si d b o e o rs, Mr. WEliarn Brown, M.P., both at its board and in 18 4 3 9 5, but ie which had . been allowed to remain dormant until management of trustees, and 45 other ports dir'e u Ay de u r n t d h e e r practically without the means of education." meal in his office of chairman, Mr. Horsfall put a to see the duties on tea and coffee reduce", if it could be the Coun; cr, d t a, 7 rust l a l het be t t ug 11a , s itfil =l:asbela e t i i o n_ 1 8 stittitiona l l i , arWligiv s i v v e e nt ot ll t e o As e cr t ll t eedtW:X as . uiincoowno- the management of the Corporation, gave evidence ; and Whilst engaged in the work of erecting painted stop to this sort of party work, and, -in so doing, done without loss to the exchequer. (Cheers.) There fluence, which has been hitherto so readily and powerfully ex- expulsion, which arose out of the fact of his having acted as to a question put by an honourable member it turned out windows and providing gaudy decorations for their acquitted himself admirably in ar office which we were other questions which might be brought before the ercisdin f all matters emanating from this Chamber._ To o the r chairman Holvet al l t e w h o o Tte e t e i o ne m s :d o t na in Liverpool, and the other in that the salary of the aforesaid Mr. Watson was £4OO per chapels. the Romish clergy very quietly allowed feel assured not one of his fellow-townsmen can be Chamber with advantage to the public, one of which was are m embersdue for the borough,% it 2g ,l itiL b 43lg= z ) ti i!g a t i tilb communications he Holy the latter meeting,eepc:v upon ytZfttli t i o ptr e ti t e n s u b s e t f t o t z gear. Iter fr :l r l il ud l iz ei to . other examinations before the connected with the paper duties. H e h e ld i n his hand a have received at their hands, as well as the readiness with attend that meeling, for be would be liable to expulsion • but ter,,_ 7 7.:d that the object of these poor beings to grow up in ignorance, in filth, found to perform the duties of with more ability. the assoch'ition, of which A AS on was secretary, was statement on this subject which, perhaps many present vfhich they have supported the Chamber in its representations as he was an Englishman, or rather a Welshman— laughter - and in vice ; and it was only when the discovery The happy manner in which this was done, h a d seen . The Chairman ' then read a lon g' extract from ato Government. was made that they were willingly, and in num- coupled with the heartiness with which the thanks pamphlet by T. B. Crompton, Esq., whic entered ela- During the year your Council have also been deprived, by Society, and he went. He bad since been informed of his dition of the seafaring class, the speaker observed that they hers, frequenting the Protestant ragged schools of the meeting, mess e d 1-, M Char les Holland, boratelY into the extent of the paper manufacture, y T. and resinatien, of the services of Mr. Stolterfehtemd Mr. George expulsion ; but, though expelled, he still continued to lead his found in thi s port a society- possessed of a certain sum Holt, sub their other avocations preventing theirgiving that atten- class, the members of which, he supposed, were expelled too, scribed by ship-masters. There were fifteen trustees ap and other similar institutions in the town, that were awarded to him, convinces us more and more he conclude -1 by reading the following from -the same lion to their office here that they could • the vacancies Mr. Was, BYRON entered into a long statement of circuin- • pointed annually, supposed to be by the b t masters; u document :- thus occasioned have been filled up by the election of Mr. stances, which resulted in what the opposite party said was his these gentlemen, • reality, had ' in nothing whatever to do - - s'oeir reverences seem to have remembered that that Mr. Horsfall's vocation is that of member for withdrawal from the society; he contended that he never had • "The raw material from James R le and Mr. Wm. . which paper is manufactured is now Y y . they possessed minds to he formed and souls to , Liverpool. His unswerving honesty of principle, being• purchased by foreigners for exportation, to be manufac- It may be mentionea that there have been appointed twenty- withdrawn. one way. one standing. and special committees, whose aggregate number Mr. CHALKLEY, also one of the expelled, went into a still No doubt these trustees were all actuated by the very he saved. The history of their awaking- to a sense his amenity of manner, his thorougl knowledge, tared in countries where no tax exists, and the paper produced of this fact shall he narrated in the words of one of alike of commercial subjects, generally, and of the t t her s erboni r sperseding, in our own colonies and other ncrnes _ of i t r i i i e e e g ti e n n g e s ra tp e ro o u u r cli t i he m, gg i o s r e e if o h t t t y-f e on t in additio to those e m v o e r n e te d c e o t o a n il e e o d te sja w r t t e a x i p tic o l l i tdo re o p o lit i d e ll sr t s o . ue e e t d e g . n G t r i i i f e a b e e t st ir o w f a m , o u ti r v r e r s, l but under the existence of the present - r:e speakers at the meeting, the Rev. Mr. Noble : interests and requirements of flits port, in parti- o r the rialivl a me a r i . ar al i c p o p ig i ege t tgeos ii , i gir s zoz 4 .l t lt t g is of The only alteration, Or rather addition. to the fundamental fit and Dunn. He accused the prosecutors in that affair of The speaker, eaflerimfuPrettbrle that the y d o any good. laws of the institution which your Council, after the experience unconstitutional and . unchristian conduct.—ln the course of condemning ia acts of Mr. Labouchere, alluded to the strike amongst the seamen of " You have all heard, no doubt, of the famous Hodson- cular, would render him not only an invaluable not only advances the price here, but takes away the labour be performed in Eng. of the past year, deem it expedient to recommend is, that the the evening a resolution of ssmpathy with the expelled mem mod..4lrie same, which would otherwise • t all the hers, and that the meeting would still continue to recognise he northern ports, and stated that it was to be distinctly street-(hear, hear, and laughter)-you have heard of it, representative, but we are disposed to prognosti-payment of .42 25., annual subscription, shall entitle xod you have heard of the ragged schools. (Hear, hear.) cate that his certain rise in the parliamentary arena "The small duty of five-sixteenths of a penny per pound upon partners of a fir m to a membership. This is not intended to them as brethren, and to contend for Wesleyan reform, was understood that there was no disaffection whatever exist disturb the existing law, as contained in the second paragraph moved by Mr. BELL, and seconded by Mr. SIMON, and car- ing here amongst the seamen en the question of wages, Some time ago, it may be three months, a respected ld dr h . cl . -. d. b ren e inn at no 'stout peito .an onour raw cotton was also abolished, because it was supposed to affect ges, under the head of " membership," but to enable firms consist- tied. The proceedings were protracted to a very late hour. clergyman—a Catholic priest ; I don't want to be misun- 1 wn n injuriously the cotton manufacturers. And yet, while raw cot- but they were determined to move for a repeal of every elerstood, for there are some persons who will call parsons , to his native town. ton is exempt from the small duty, which only amounted to five mg of three or four members to acquire membership for all the act now in force against the British Marine. (Cheers.) por cent. of its actual value, the refuse of the same article, partners on rather more favourable terms. He concluded by moving the resolution as toll .- ()Ws . e?ergymen, although they are only government officers. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. • swept from the floors of the cotton mills, and which heretofore The TREASURER (Mr. Stitt) read the accounts of the "That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the act of par -" Laughter and applause.) This Catholic priest sent me i LATEST INTELLIGENTOE. was burnt or thrown away, is, because it is devoted to useful past year P . y , from which it appeared that there was 14s. due !lament. called Labouchere's Mercantile Marine Bill is, in its word-whilst I was performing a duty unknown to Pro- 1 purpose—the manufacture of paper, not less indispensable thanMonde Ni ht workin most rejud• • Mon y g : . . 1 1 g, .p c al to the shipping interests of Great testantism, namely, the arduous duty of the confessional- 1 BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. calico—burdened with a tax in the shape of Paper Duty, which to him ; and he stated that since the commencement of We hay h d th fl at wee k, d e a ano er an nearly every descrip- Britain ; especially to the general welfare of the masters, that there were large numbers of children, Catholic ' actually amounts to THREE HUNDRED PER CENT. ON ITS the year 1851 eighty-eight new members had been en- - Lion of produce has a downward tendency. Sugar is quoted officers, and seamen, and also degrading and offensive to their VALUE." I rolled. children, assembled in what were called the Hodson- i , 6d. to Is., and Coffee Is. to 2s. n e r ma t_ I. wa , 7`... :. class." LONDON, MONDAY NIGRT• foi s ,.., „,_ _ , I 111 . .. TS TS • • al— --7 —a: —C al— Monday Night. Wehave had another flat week, and nearly every descrip tion of produce has a downward tendency. Sugar is quoted 6d. to ls., and Coffee is. to 29. per cwt. lower. Tea is very heavy of sale. For Jute there is rather better feeling. All dye stuffs are neglected. On Saturday the demand for Cotton was improved, and prices were steady at the quotations of the previous day. The sales amounted to 5,000 bales, including about 500 Brazil and 4CO Surat; 1,000 bales American are taken on speculation. The steamer Pacific arrived at noon today. She brines advices of a small decline in the value of Cotton at New York from 4-c. to c. per lb., which is not so great as was generally expected. The markets are creeping up, and with many, the estimates of the crop are being ex tended ; but, on the whole, the news has bad little effect here, and the market closes without change. The sales to-day were 4,000 bales, all to the trade. Imports since Friday : Upland, 3,883 ; Orleans, 5,697 ; total, 9,580. The Overland Mail reports that the import market, at Bombay, bad been extremely dull. Supplies had come freely, two vessels having arrived from Liverpool, two from Hull, and two from Glasgow. The pressure in the money market was felt severely, and it will be seen has led to the stoppage of a leading firm. Tonnage was abundant, and freights had declined, for Liverpool, to £1 17s. 6d. During the past year 290,000 bales of Cot ton had been exported to Great Britain. First-class bills, six months' sight, at 2s 21-d. At Calcutta the demand for manufactured goods had fallen off to some extent, and prices had, in several in stances, experienced a further decline, but stocks gener ally were not excessive. Freights were unsteady, but had experienced a downward tendency, under the influ ence of abundant tonnage, and little produce to ship. Exchange for best bills was at 2s 21c1, and a considerable business had been transacted. called the Hodson )W that tt ;e you all ho are Her AT aj moved ears have m t infant children of five, six, or s o maturer o assist them- (Cheers.) Now, he spoke of this subject as most important, because it was distinctly shown that in the manufacture of paper there were 160,000 persons, which, if properly carried out. would give employment to at least half a million of our population. (Applause.) There was another question with reference to the soap duties. He held in his hand a statement on this subject, which said— Mr. H. HORNBY, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the meeting on the successful position in which the Chamber of Commerce stood. The commercial classes would now have a sufficient exponent of their views, and which, if it continued to make way as it had, would be found of the utmost value. (Cheers.) Cases of hardship and wrong were continually occurring amongst commercial men; and he felt bound to say that, in every case which had come before the chamber, their decision yes than w D Buckinirhain Pala A Privy Council w Captain NrcoLs briefly seconded the resolution; which, on for repent being put, w t a t : carriedr orby accilasmio of clauses as requiredation. Captain THOMAS Cook moved the next r e so l u ti on , to the effect that a petition be adopted to both houses of parliament, praying masters and mates to pass a board of examiners appointed by government, so far as regards those who may have been six months in such capacity previously to the - passing of the said act ; also, the clauses which relate to the domestic arrange ment on board ships, and to the shipping offices,—which clauses were tyrannical and oppressive. He would first touch upon the ticket system ; there was nothing would bear comparison with this but a similar system in existence in New South Wales amongst the convicts. (Cheers). They were rendered not merchant seamen,—but government sailors, lent to the mer cantile marine, and on that accou n t must have a ticket. (Cheers). Was it not monstrous that a class of men should submit to such tyranny and abomination 7' They had the remedy in their own hands, however; let them not coerce others, but exercise the full freedom they possessed,—refuse their tickets. (Cheers, and cries of "We will"). He re membered at the last assize to have heard the charge of Mr. Baron Alderson, relative to a strike amongst work men, and that learned judge on that occasion said, " Every man in Great Britain was the best judge of his own abilities and what his services required. Now they (the seamen) had never been consulted on the matter. There were connected with the mercantile marine of Great Bri tain some 36,000 vessels, so that there must necessarily be the same number of masters and mates, and these, according to Mr. Labouchere's idea, were not worthy of being consulted on a matter which so intimately affected themselves. The whole of the enactments of that statesman were as oppressive and tyrannical as they could well be made. This bill appeared to him to be the effervescence of a disturbed brain—Mr. Cook then denounced the idea of the men being paid off at a shipping office, by a government official as an insult alike to the mad ter and the crew. Again the keeping of an official log book on board a ship was one of the most abominable things , irman could have thought or contemplated. From this it might be supposed that on our British ships rows were taking place every day and every hour. The fact was, Labouchere could not forget the battle o o vH f eer C nw am imtes p n e ats r o d infn ow ucese n t: c o t f . th ( e H W e e s s r t , when the gallant Rodney thrashed the Dutch. (Laughter.) Labouchere's father and himself could never forget this, and the son was determined' to have revenge upon the British by hear.)adl nip: attempting t H g b i n e t e g f l w et r o o e a u r t i d ‘ b eau m akedr passing fi s e e i t e h rm s e l smaoavfi slaves sailors. r l a t: e s. a v(sCetheserieetehr (Cheers.) Emancipationati natives e A s as they would a pest-house. (Cheers.) Could they respect such a man as Labouchere?' He couldn't : he'd die first. Let them all lie able to say— "lf it is for liberty we war, Let the word be, Nelson and Tra-fal-gar !" (Laughter and cheers.) Capt. WALLACE briefly seconded the resolution. The petition was then read by Mr. FOYLE, and unanimously adopted. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. CREDITABLE TESTIMONIAL TO AN OMNIBUS. PROPRI ETOR.—On Saturday afternoon a number. of gentlemen from the neighbourhood of Bootle, Seaforth, and their vicinities, met at the office of. Mr. Gee, architect, Castle street, for the purpose of presenting to Mr. Thomas Bretherton some testimonial of the sense of their grati tude for the enterprise he had shown while conducting (as proprietor) his omnibuses on the Bootle line of road— which had not only brought about a reduction of fares, but had been the means of establishing a permanent and direct line of conveyance to the village of Seaforth. The opening of the railway having materially , interfered with the traffic, a present of £3O was presented to him by the donors as a mark of their high opinion.. This munificent present for his strenuous exertions and uniform civility was suitably acknowledged by/ Mr.. Bretherton, who, though he has withdrawn his onanibuses-from that line of country, is working an equally great revolution in Cheshire—as it will be seen, by an advertisement, that his conveyances leave Woodside nearly every half hour, for Oxton, at a charge of three pence only. LORD SHREWSBURY ON 111 E, PAPAL MOVEMENT."'" The eventful drama of Papal aggression is not yet con cluded, but it has already found an historian in the person of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Having enjoyed the advan tage of absence from th e coun t r y during the whole time of the discussions occasioned by the brief of the Pope, his lordship comes forward to describe to the people of Eng land what they have been doing for the last three months. He passes in rapid review the bishops and the univer sities, and bestows most severe chastisement on the historical counties of Flint and York ; but the gem of the narrative is the following notice of the riot at Birk enhead, which is adduced amongst other instances of Protestant intolerance by this impartial annalist :-- " In some places the very proposal of a meeting creates a riot, in which human victims are sacrificed to vindicate the rights of liberty of conscience." It is quite evident that the author of this, sentence thinks it was very wrong of the protestant police to be sacrificed, and very right of the Catholics to vindicate the liberty of conscience, and that:the whole affair was merely an act of poetical justice. His Lordship then proceeds to a most unmeasured profession of ultramontane faith, in the course of which he interims us that the Roman Catholic Church is the friend of science (which would have been agreed able to Galileo); that she is armed only with the sword of the Spirit—the Word of God (which would have saved much trouble to the Albigenses); that Edward the Con fessor was the best king that ever sat on the throne of England that in the reign of Queen Mary the catholic• faith was restored in its original purity and former splendor;.: that England is an unhappy country; that the dominions of the Pope are not misgoverned,and other discoveries of eqpal value, too numerous for us to relate. The rest of the ad dress is taken up with unmerciful extracts from Lingard's History on the persecution of the Roman Catholics is the times of Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth,. which Lord Shrewsbury seems to imagine burst upon the world for the first time through the medium of his pamphlet; and it concludes with an unmeasured invective against'that endless thesis for historical disputation, Arch bishop Cranmer„ " who, in a fit of desperation., thrust his guilty hand into the flames, rather in, proof of his ob stinacy than his orthodoxy."— Times. 1 the Royal arliament I: Linnet xport trade in soap in Great Britain has continue to do so. mirya to the severe re- g qualities to suit the different markets, d by an extra cost of fully five per cent incidental to our method of working: for instance, the soap-makers in Ireland frequently ship a particular quality of soap in bond to Liver pool by steamers, for trans-shipment on board a vessel for a foreign market, while a Liverpool soap-maker would lose nearly 455. a ton in the drawback if he made a similar article." The Share-market has been remarkably active during the past week. The great body of the public, who had been kept back by the state of French politics, and the apprehension of the Bank directors again turning the screw, appear now to have taken heart at once, and to be securing a good stock of shares, in the hopes of reaping the benefit of the increased traffics expected during the festive days of the Great Exhibition. There is no doubt but that railway property was as much too low as it had been too high ; and it only required some event to occur, to direct public attention to it, to cause it to take rank at its relative value with other legitimate securities. Our own opinion is, that there are few lines which will not see par during the present year,—an opinion which is strongly confirmed by an intelligent writer, whose published re marks on " Railway Prospects" we have inserted in another column. The business done within the last few days has been immense, and prices have ranged high,— London stock having touched 132, Midlands 57. The market this evening closes flatter; with prices gene rally lower, and it appears probable that we shall have a dullness for a few days. For this buyers are very anxious, to afford them a more favourable opportunity to get in. We annex the day's quotations:— Lancashire and Cheshire, d 114; Caledonian, 10.13.9 1( I; Chester and Holyhead, 154; East Lancashire, 133 13/9 3; Great Northern A-shares, 0; Old Leeds, 584 158 ; Do. Fifths, d7s •, Do. £2O F-shares, d 1.8.9; Lancaster and Preston 1-12 shares, 63; Leeds and Thirek, 15 ; Brighton and South Coast, x.d. 95 ; London stock, 1294 304 3 30 ; Do. new quarters, p 5 51 54i Do. fifths, p5l 4 ; Do. C quarters, p 3 ; Sheffield, 28 73 ; Do. £lO pref., 111 11 ; Do. 4:6 pref., pB/9; Midland stock, 55/ 4 / /6 51 ; Do. halves, d 17.3.9 .17i 17 ; North British, 8-g- ; North Staffords, d 7 , North - Union A, x.d. 237 ; Preston and Wyre, 1-shs. A 4, p 81; North Western, d 12.8.9; South Eastern stock, 24441 ; South Staffords, d 34 3 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 203; G.N.E. pref., d 244; York and N. Midland, 243 3 5 43; Northern of France, d - Rouen and Havre, 114 ; Commercial Bank, 10. Some anxiety has been felt about Birmingham, in con sequence of the miners and colliers, in various localities, being very dissatisfied. Their wages are considered very remunerative, but they seem inclined to demand higher, and some temporary cessation from. work has. been the consequence, as the masters never were in a position more imperatively compelling them to refuse such exactions. The Birmingham Gazette of to-day furnishes the follow ing report of the iron trade for the last fortnight : "The slight advantage obtained during the late quarterly meetings has been supported with , little difficulty; but it is evident that the buoyancy then experienced is gradually sub siding, and with it thesanguine expectations of steady improve. meat in prices. No symptoms of unusual, activity in the forthcoming spring trade are yet developed, but rather an un expected sluggishness bas supervened in the nail and chain departments, and other manufacturing branches of our home consumption, orders being proportionately slacker. In pig • iron little is doing, most parties having made their purchases early in the last month, and there's no tendency to any further advance in this article. Coal and ironstone also remain unal tered.—The reports from other districts are as carious as the sources from whence they are derived ; upon the whole they are quite as satisfactory as the facts within our own knowledge would seem to warrant.. Welsh bars are said to be in good de mand, and a considerable increase' of make has been lately brought into the market. Scotch pigs. have had a downward tendency, though theprice. of manufactured iron is there repre sentedas firm,'• It is said that efforts are being made in this town to establish a new company to run screw-steamers from this port to Calcutta. The proposal is to build iron boats for the service of 2,000 to 3,000 tons with 500 horse pover. ALL SAINTS? PARISH, LIVERPOOL.—We understand that the Rev. Henry Marlen, with the assistance of a few friends, is now canvassing his parish, previously to making a public appeal, in order to raise funds for the building of schools for the reception of Sunday, daily, and infant scholars. Those who have already been waited on have cheerfully responded according to their ability, and even the poor, by their weekly contributions, have manifested a readiness to lend a helping hand to the good work. We are, moreover, glad to be able to announce that Charles Groves, Esq., has subscribed £5O, and Edmund Moly neux, Esq., £lOO, towards this important undertaking ; and we believe that our merchant princes will not be backward to emulette their noble example, when the wants of the parish are there promiuqjly brought milder their notice, should luiging in all return ag a of ti hove hey we some abuse c om he found t and corn e of to and I nits a n their prete was I unden duty to ere, t nt every evening to ' )r the purpose, where, determination to keep them— of air, and suffocatio nabled to enter a Prote Bishop of Dur tain bene !and gate t right, it will . e concludes by stating—" belong to a religious orde laws b 1l am t ken out ' We hay( ty and insol of a M r, perhaps said enough t aders to ask themselves tl of the conf Df the secret the es and daughters of of Cath lts and E whom he i 1 those of loci: These children, it appears, w the engrossing al," and who, he to which he has ;an neve I am nc //, I will of it, gentlemn who h call for more serious notice .union to the Duke of Norfolk ssed amongst hungry lords in waiting," ption a_voice in the meeting ceeded lifted to her M sels in port, to tt. Exchange 30 t of importance. )NDON MONEY AND SHARE MA CLOSING PRICE: market has been very Railway 129 i standing with Brazil w Sunday Mon , brings .'40,(1 an apathy nuns' 'rotti ft River STERDAY Saturday. res closed rind--Quarter quer Bills, had been satisfactory Their influence had also secured the greatest attention on the part of her Majesty's Government, and had placed the merchants of Liverpool in a far better position. (Cheers.) Mr. F. SHAND had great pleasure in seconding the mo tion. He confessed that originally he participated in the apprehension that the Chamber of Commerce might be made use of as a political engine, but he was happy to say that it had been so conducted that such apprehensions were done away, and the oldest association in the town (the West India Association) had withdrawn their oppo sition, and appointed him as a delegate to the chamber. (Applause.) Under the able auspices of their able chairman, they had no fear for the result. The speaker, in strong terms, condemned the mode in which coffee was adulterated—in very many instances to such an extent as four-fifths of the whole substance ; and, after congra tulating the meeting on the position of the Chamber, concluded by seconding the motion. After a question from Mr. G. Holt as to whether the motion included the question of the income tax, which, being answered by the Chairman in the negative, the motion was put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then stated that it would be necessary to elect eleven new members of the Council. There were now seven delegates from various associations, but it was requisite that members should be elected to fill up vacan cies, and six of the retiring members were ineligible for re-election for one year. The election would remain open until half-past four. He then stated that the next question for the consideration of the meeting was the sub ject of petitioning parliament in favour of the repeal of the income-tax. Mr. HOLT asked whether the petition would include the repeal of the income as well as the property-tax. The CHAIRMAN replied, that in the present state of the exchequer the Council did not think it right to interfere with the property-tax. Mr. C. ROBERTSON said be had been asked by the Council to propose the resolution recommending the repeal of the income tax ; but he felt placed in a very anomalous position, for, he was required to speak to a motion which he could not support. The CHAIRMAN said he was then afraid Mr. Robertson could not go on until a motion was before the meeting. Mr. HEATH suggested that the motion ac agreed upon by the Council should be read by the chairman as the original motion. The CHAIRMAN then read the following :—" That this ChP.mber petition Parliament and Government for the total repeal of the tax on income derived from trades, , pro fessions, and other sources of a like fluctuating and uncer r tain .A nature." Mr. C. ROBERTSON proceeded. Seeing it had Come in Jape perhaps he might be permitted to state his rea sons why he did not agree with it. He objected to the motion, first, because it was not general enough ; secondly, because it was too general. On the ground that it was !.enough he argued that it ought not to remove burdens from their own shoulders whilst it left the whole community untouched. On the second ground he expressed his opinion that he would much rather see the principle of direct taxation carried to a much greater extent than that the income tax should be repealed, and he contended that other indirect taxes, such as those on tea, coffee. and tobacco, had as great if not greater demo ralising effect. Mr. WYLIE also advocated the retention of the tax, but in a modified shape, so as to render the mode of levy ing it less objectionable. Mr. n. K. CLAYPOLE then rose to move an amend ment to the original motion. He agreed with Mr. Robertson, that there were other taxes of a much more demoralising tendency, and instanced several, amongst which he enumerated the receipt tax, which was evaded to an enormous extent. One of the advantages of the income tax he stated to be this. A foreigner might come into the country and make his £3OOO a-year, and not apprehended inohp w n bapt n anrht i cei this tobacco. i g ht odsee. district poor orem b ipodc r ,orti i rt c tmhth k oa ea, of Liverpool rne o te g, r a single yard of land, paid nothing towards the Gov er n ment , or , a t a ll even ts, little more awwrhda point;os t p oa a i gi d ftroset t rha a i t x enhr e qeed s u ewi f hsao inquisitorial his rdoeor aadsl t ucm e erc a i irhn , stacag c roi o ann ff tcech e tdee e e pr , yl a hico n haar ti . 1850 upwards of 5,000 assessments, out of which there were only 420 cases of appeal came before the commis sioners. Of that number it was found that 196 had made no return of their income whatever, leaving about 224 real cases of appeal. Of this about 130 established their claim to exemption, leaving only 90, or under 2 per cent. of the whole assessment, applicable to be surcharged. After some observations. as to the mode in which the tax ought to be modified, the speaker concluded by proposing the following : "That this chamber, being of opinion that it is inequitable to tax incomes derived from precarious resources in the same proportion as those arising from realised property , do petition Parliament for a modification of the income tax levied on trades, profesau ns, and occupations of a like fluctuating and uncertain nature ; as well as with a view to obviating its pre sent inquisitorial character." of genera Mr. C. HOLLAND seconded the motion in a speech of some length in favour of direct taxation. Mr. HEATH supported the amendment at some length. Mr. F. 'BOULT suggested that the subject should be withdrawn from the Consideration,of the chamber entirely, and was about proceeding to iu,troduce political matters, when the Chairman interrupted him, and the motion of Mr. elaypole was unanimously adopted as a substantive resolution, Thanka were then vottd to. the Chairman, and to Mr Ag - ain- The foreign export of soap from Great Britain for the last a not exceeded on an average 220 tons weekly. ten years We have every reason to believe that in Marseilles the export of soap is not less than 300 to 350 tons weekly to the different markets in the Mediterranean, South America, &c. The apparatus required to make soap similar in quality to the French we are prohibited from using in this country. With a free trade in soap, we could command a large portion of this trade, as we can manufacture cheaper than the French : w we 4 salt ----" ley have, and ' ..,Kall, coals, anu .- . much lower than t raw material fully as low." Now, since this had been sent to the Council, he had read a letter addressed to a member, which stated that the duty on our home manufacture was more than that paid by the foreigner. (Cheers.) Enough had been said to show them, briefly, that some very important subjects had demanded and received the attention of the Council. and without being subject to the charge of interfering with politics, for they were well aware that it was necessary the expenses of the government must be maintained. (Applause.) There was, however, another subject well worth their consideration, and that was the cultivation of cotton. The subject of an increased cultivation of that article had been warmly taken up by the merchants of Manchester, and the Chamber sent there a deputation. The gentlemen forming that deputation acted with great discretion—they refused to commit the Chamber to any particular opinion. He (the chsirman) mentioned this subject, because it had been said that the deputation had a political object in view. That was far from their inten tion ; the great object was to ensure an increase in the cultivation of cotton. He would just read the opinion of one of the deputation on the subject— - "Mr. Riley, of Liverpool, said he attended here, with another gentleman, as a deputation from the Liverpool Cham . :immerce; t' compelled by other public business to be absent. InLiver pool they had not yet received any details of the plan; but the general principles, that more cotton was desirable, and that India was a likely place to obtain it from, had met their universal approbation." There was nothing political in that. The same speech 'ent on to say— ' It was desirable not unnecessarily to introduce the discus in of politics ; but it appeared to him individually that the 54, declared th;right of the public . Co judge of the pro- (Loud cheering.) They had all felt the advantage of inquiry into that, and he (the chairman) did not see why ny company should shrink from inquiry. (Applause.) py the attention of the meeting He would only jus for a few moments, whilst he read the opinion of the chairman of the Commercial Association of Manchester on the subject. He merely read this for the purpose of showing that the object of sending a deputation to Man chester was not political, but simply for the purpose of securing a further supply of cotton for the country. After apologising to the meeting for occupying their attention so long, the chairman called upon the secretary, who read the following REPORT The Council of the Chamber of Commerce, in meeting their constituents at the close of the first year of the existence of the institution, are happy in being able to lay be'ore them a report which they trust will show that the institution has realised the expectations of its promoters. After recommending that the services of Mr. Leone Levi in establishing the chamber should be complimented by present ing him with a life membership, and stating that it had been determined to hold quarterly meetings instead of yearly, the report proceeds to give the subjects which have engaged the at tention of the council under two heads t -- Ist. Matters of general interests to the commercial commu nity. 2d. Matters of a local character. Commencing with the first, your directors would call atten tion to. 1. THE MERCANTILE MARINE BILL, an important measure introduced early last session by the President of the Board of Trade, and one which affects most materially the shipping in rests of this country. The bill, in its original form, was most objectionable, and your Council thereupon put themselves in communication with the government ; and, after a correspond ence and several interviews with the President of the Board of Trade, the principal objectionable clauses were either with drawn or amended. 2.—THE DANISH BLOCKADE, the inconveniences of which to British trade having been brought under the notice of the Council by a forcible letter from one of the members of the Chamber, the Government was memorialised, and a successful result had followed. 3.—NEW STAMP ACT.—The Council have memorialized the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a commencement, in favour of a repeal of those on receipts. 4.—COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.—A series of ques tions were addressed to this Chamber by Government, but the Council had confined themselves to expressing their approval of the extension of their jurisdiction to causes not exceeding £5O. S.—CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—This important snbject the Chamber is, no doubt, aware has long engaged the attention of the manufacturing interests. In November last, on an invitation from the Chamber of Commere at Manchester, a deputation from your Council, consisting of the President and Messrs. Aikin and Riley, attended. and reported that it had been resolved to despatch a commissioner to India to in quire fully into the causes which hitherto have interfered with the increase of the Indian supply and the improvement of its q ual it y. 3.—STEAM TO ATJSTRALIA..—UPOR this subject several COM municatior4s have been received; but seeing that Government have advertised for tenders for the conveyance of the mails by LIVICRPOOI.; TUIIDAY, FEB, 4, 1851. PRINTED AND PUSLISHID EVERY TUESDAY MORNING,. JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grovestreet, ant. lEONARD ADDISON, of 14. Great Orford-street, 4X Ms, 4, Sr. G pAO„S!s, IVOR 'r,: LITEILIVOL. f do in case it v Government to put d nactment of penal laws s ters again. (Loud and continued applause,) • And I ow that many thousand hearts in England, in Ireland, i in the colonies, will bound and burn to resent what hall be cast on our altars and our hearths, and blood of their hearts should be shed ere emies of civil and m to the , us liberty ause, t . whole comps rising and waving Yes, le lv hishni iem touch one hair of the head of nd, without being a prophet, I can which shall overwhelm this empire ch conduct woult We have a noble cause arms— Europe and America on our side the nature of the disasters What, we a threatening priest, as the result direct legislative action to repel the aggressive rit of Rome ? We can understand rebellion and ge ; and we may remind Mr. Marshall that weapons have been tried not so long ago. he and his co-religionists had been put into session of that civil and religious liberty, of they boast themselves as the champions, which they allow so little to the benighted laced under their yoke. It will not be the her, that Popery, in Ireland at least, as summoned the aid of foreign powers to carry at its treasonable designs, and betrayed the allies irst time, ( who trusted its lying professions. The fate of the unfortunate Humbert and his gallant little band is recorded in dark letters in the pages of history. The United States of America are not likely to embark in a crusade against Great Britain, to gra tify the hordes of Papist Irish, with whom their vast territory is being overrun, and with whose turbulence their intelligent citizens are already heartily sick. It must, therefore, be some other sort of " disaster" with which England is threat ened ; and we trust that it is not disaster of the kind which was hinted at by the late Daniel O'Connell on a memorable occasion. We would warn Mr. Marshall, and his brother priests, that such atrocious and menacing language, if pesisted in, may probably suggest to the Protestant public .;- Great Britain the desirableness of placing their 'en ball a lANCHESTER SHA MARK LEEDS 'tester, „ Sheffield, and tinjoln 71 ISir ; Great Western, S 7 S 89; llitto Fifths, 7* Gi dis.; I, LONDON CORN MARK MAY of English Wheat wa nowever Beans Did slori Irish Oats 6,158 quarters ffect sates of which a 'reduction of I. Oats 6d. per quarter lower. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-YEK ain, particularly 5. per quarter ans and Peas r and all other Very little doing at our market to- lay, Without change in LONDON PRODUCE MARKET—YEsi )AY, Sugar: The holders of Foreign firmer, but ' disp to operate ; home-refined dealt in cautiously Avn linty —Coffee • Buyers of Native Ceylon ~ but no a under 475. 6d. •, Plantation in good demand at rather higher rates.—Tea not lower, but little disposition to operate; common Congou, Is. lid.—Cotton : Sales small , but no change in prices.—Oils: Little doing in Linseed at 325. 9d. to 33s'. on the spot ; Seal dull at 365. ; Cod, £38.-1 ron : Scotch Pig not lower, but sales small ; bars and rails in good demand, at late rates. mown 11114 vs, 49: ' seller LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—YzsTEnDAY - - Market firm with a good demand. Fine new Y.C. 375. 9d. on the spot. The present stock is 47.830 casks against 43,370, being an increase of 4,460 casks. The deliveries hist week amounted to 2,372 casks, against 1,487 in the corresponding week last year, being an increase of 835 casks, SMITH FIELD CATTLE MA RKET.— ) lgsrEftwtv. The supply of beasts is large, and there is no al teraticn in the trade since Monday last. The number of sheep is small, and found ready buyers at Friday's prices. Calf trade without improvement. Beasts, 3 ,892 ; sheep, 9,100; calves, 193; pigs, 295 ; beef, 2s. 2d. to 3s. id • mutton, 3s. 2.1. to 4s. 4d. ; veal, 38. 6d. to 4s. Bd. ; pork, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; Holland beasts , 519 ; Ditto sheep, 1,380 ; Ditto calves, 137 ; Scotch beasts, 400; Nor folk and Suffolk beasts, 2,200; Leicester, Lincoln , and, North • iimpton beasts, 600. --- Mr. Miva-t has denied that the Emperor of Austria has engaged his hotel. RAPID PASSAGE OF A SAILING V) , : •._:l , :f...—The mon ster packet-ship Washington, Capt. Funk, arrived here On Thursday, after the smart passage of 15 days. She was inside Cape Clear in 131 days, notwitlod - andinfr. two days of dead had wind. Ott' Pus, she lac. to six vows from thick weather, and yet completed her - diitui ce in this comparatively short time. She is one of the !)leek star line, consigns,' to I\tr...t. I'. Crx,!., South Staf i-t6; South Maticlieiter, F.lO shares M and B C, YEST F. A ; Leeds Stock ler CeAt. No. I ►-Western ;ell owing to the Flour and Mall 445. to 48$ 28s. „ 43s Landon and N