The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

April 21, 1846. :5 a the the Ir ian ur- to bet :ed the ing Rpe 131 ,ing )1n- o rE ,ur: w th igtb 14 , i 3 g „ l e 6 ev is'4 re_ r le A ° 0 „ , fp( ; 01 to° (4 0 ' t e , tr es ej ,c , : of rii° ISP ,11 MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. A special meeting of this body was held yesterday morn'ng at eleven o'clock in the Council Chamber, for the purpose of considering the Wapping Duck Bill now before Parliament. The MAYOR took the chair a few minutes past eleven o'clock. In explaining the object of the meeting, he said the Dock Committee had only sent up six copies of the bill, which he understood were all they had received ; five of those had been placed on the Council table, at d the other was in the hands of the Town-clerk. He was sorry more could not be procured, as, had there been a sufficient nomber, he should have been-glad to have sent one to each member of the Council. The TOWN-CLERK still it would perbaps be better for biro to read over the clauses of the bill; and as he prs ceeded, he would direct the attention of the Council to the alterations whirl) had been made in it. Mr. H. HORNBY said he rose perfectly ignorant as to What the alterations were. The bill was one of the most important which had been brought before the Council, and he had had no opportunity of making himself ac qaainted with what alterations had been made in it. It was very true several copies had been placed on the Coun °;il table during the past week, but almost the whole of ois time had been occupied with the business of the Coun cil- lie should like to have had a copy of the bill to take home with him, in order that he might carefully have ex amined its provisions, hut if the bpsiness of the Council Was like the ancient Parliament of Paris, merely to re gister the acts of the Dock Committee, the best plan would be at once to agree to the bill without discussion. M r. BkAMLEY MOORE felt some regret at pat t of what bad fallen from Mr. Hernby, as it was entirely unneces sary and uncall-d for. It would, no doubt, be satisfac tory to him, as well as the Council. to ki ow that there was nothing new in the bill, further then what related to the Bridgewater Trust, and to the Water and Gas Corn- Panics. lie regretted that every member of the Council should not have been furnished with a copy of the bill. They were ordered, only six were received, and all those Were at once sent to the Town-hall. As. however, them was nothing new in the bill, but those clauses he had named, except the compensation clause, perhaps the most convenient course of proceeding would be for the Town- Clerk to read over the whole of the clauses, about which be - aid not anticipate any discussion, and after that the new clauses, and then he would state his reasons to the Council why the Dock Committee sought to obtain the introduction of the warehousing clause, which had been rejected by the Committee of the House of Commons. Mr. liontrssoN said from whet . he could learn, the Dock Committee had lost the puwer of constructing ware houses around the new dock. Mr Alooße interposed. That was anticipating; the discussion would come on afterwards in its proper order. Mr. PROCTER asked whether it was not-necessary that the Council should have some insight into what was about to be brought before them. At present he knew nothing of what the bill was. Mr. Moorta said it. was the very same bill which had before been before the Can cit. Mr. PROCTER said if he understood the matter rightly, the bill was one Which had passed the ordeal of the Corn rnittee of the House of Commons. Now, from that Bill be was told that the Committee had struck nut the ware. not i usi ig t h g t inclause, and he wished to know whether he was supposing that it Wes intended to propose in the Lords th'e re-introduction of the rejected clause. Mooree.—Yes. Mr. PROCTER said he understood the clause was one enabling them to erect warehouses and to exempt such 'warehouses from rates. The MAYOR suggested that as there was likely to he the - most discussion on that clause, the better way would be for the town-clerk to read the resolutions come to by the Council when the bill was previously before them, with rega r d to that clause, and then the clause itself. ( Hear.) The TOWN-CLERK then read the resolution passed eta previous meeting of the Council as follows :—" Proposed 'y Mr. Alderman Turner. seconded by Mr. Alderman ietturetire. " Resolved unanimously, that it he an instruc tion to the Dock Committee to obtain powers under the bill to construct warehouses around the new docks, it be- Ing the opinion of this council that the measure will be productive not only of great benefit to the trade of r. the th port, b ut b e con d uc i ve to t h e mora l improvement inhabitants by removing those inducements to the m e Presented by the constant exposure of goods on draw°ePe" (PlaYs'" would A clause, grounded upon leis. was bY himself and Mr. 'Worthington ; it, in effect, , h a ve rendered • the warehouses liable to rates. Its Word gelatin we re, •• all all warehouses to be erected under the e Previsions of the 7th and Bth Victoria relating to w .. a is rehouses." Mr. Burke, the parliementary agent, said toaf the Speaker not pass the standing orders; and the opinion Speaker was taken upon this point, and he was of opinion, that as the notices respecting the b II contained notbi,,g relating to rates. if such a clause were introduced the standing orders would not be sompl-ed with, and, consequently, the sureties of the bill would have been jeopardised. Mr. Burke then altered the clause by alter ing the words quoted as follows:—" relating to the con trol and monoejemenl of the s at ehonsi s " Mr. BIRKETT asked whether he clause read by thr-Town • clerk, as drawn up in Londcn, was in act oidance with the resolution of the Council, treeause be understood fr, m the mover of that resolution that there was no intention of ex , mpt ng the warehouses froan rates, but that they should be in the same position as the Albeit Dock Warehouses. Mr. ALDERMAN TURN Eli Said it was certainly his in tention, as be mover of the tesolution, that the clauses relating to the Albert Dock warehouses sbould al ply to this bill Mr HORNBY said that was his intention in seconding the motion. The TOWN CLERK then read the clause which it was proposed to re-insert in the bill. Mr. odoottt, suggested that the discussion on the clause should be taken last as there was not likely to be any dis cussion on other portions of the bill. The MAYOR thought if there was likely to be any diffi- C .,° l f Y about the clau s e that had better be got over, and lue it. l) y would proceed smoothly. (lii fir. hear ) Pitsortial moved that the clause be taken first. r• W. EARLE Wag vet • happy to second the motion ; it Was best to take the bull by the horns at overt, (Laughter.) The motion, on being put, was agreed to. Mr. Moone then rose and moved that the clause, as rea d by th e T own Clerk, form putt of the bill, end in a ° "1 at) a-sured the Council that the Dock Committee %c i ere anxions that the bill should contain a watehousing b, U se. (Hear.) When the bill was before the House of e r_ultnons the clause was proposed, and then another vs 'liuse was proposed to be inserted by the Highway Board, , lie n would subject the warehouses to local rates. The ~,4 ` t e r clause was laid before the Speaker, and he ex r.ressed a very decided opitiou (lint, that under such Ftreuntstances the bill would be thrown out on the : t a l'lding Orders. In consequence of this, the clause ',..rejected, end when the I otionittee of the House uotnmons were to coosider the wareouse clause, et was rejected. This was, as usual, di n e with closed ts 8 , a!!el when strangers were admitted, the decision of ,'e Committee was announced without any reason being I : :, l , l teti, hut he (Mr. Motile) understot d that it was thought s t' he' omtriett , e unfair to permit the clitu‘e to be in :rated. when the question of rating could not also he con or 'red• Now the. Dock Committee were very desitous h r ,. r elewing that clause, and in doing so he would very 1 1) , state that it did not go further than the mere 'cong a, °n of the priirciple that warehouses ought to be erected • passed , the docks in the town of Liverpool. If the clause lh it would be utterly inefficient and inoperative, to tal the trustees went again to Parliament for power th t ake flees, and to raise money wherewith to erect le ° warehouses, arid therefore hereafter the High way Ctard would stand in no averse position than at present, f u e luse nothing could be done under the clause without t h l l uer legislative powers. It wits a mere recegnition ot i;Principle. He (Mr. Mouse then lot lied upon any th e °slt itio to the clause as a mere attempt to obstruct 'h i) Pio:tress of the bill, and ni thing lese. He eas, pver, told that if the bill was is cted (turn g the d fi s t :" ses ion it would be n o l o s s t o the public. He i f ed tramthose who said ste arid ler this reason; "e bill did not pass, the Dock Committee would I. 6 °l.Hb'e to go on with the Albeit D ck warehouses. - hot power to do this was in itself worth going fur, if b., e else was to be gained, because they would tiien .ailed t o go en with the entire wareht uses around c Albe rt D oc k ; an d, from the progress which they 17 ~ old he enabled to metre, he had no doubt they would tha t oroPet and rady fo wrk in twelve mis tas fom ter l d. e Dils e would r he o a very important t ' , obit i tor Perri to gain. Ns w , wo h regard to the ratit.g clause, be. in his ludiVieUMl eaptlei , y, cared very little about the Fatter, as to whether th e ware h ouses ware rate d to t h e l ocal rates or not ; but, as a trustee o f th e dock estate, • felt it to be part of his duty to oppose any thing which :old tend to render the warehouses less prodtic ive to that t o tat ". If lie e.enot atrustee he sin uld consider it his duty th,s take a different ceto se, and to h o all in his poises to get es "' rated ; but, as a trustee, lie felt beund to resist opsucli clause being introduced into the bill, as wt odd docCsurse have a tendency to diminish the income of the tr, • if , however, it was the pleasure of the Council • ( 1 3 rodu ce suc h a c l ause, he should feel it his duty, as tb _ l 7 v. f . the body, and he telt sine the same feeling wt uld re the conduct of the Parliamentary Committ• e i n , t ,' rt o e n ( • to d o every thing his power to get the clause ar ty it or to resien his trust; but h e did not appre h en d rei n , ti el ,:essily for that. (Hes t , h ear .) H e nee d not re pert;.the Council th a t th e Do c k E s t a t e was na ti ona l pro exer;„ it belonged to the mitt, n and lied always h. en Pt.from taxes of every kind and description,. but it vver 3 e 't the estate was liable to be rated, If tie t it t i3b lu e t ) why did they ask for powers to make a The very fact of their attemut to get Wro,, introduced, giving them power to rate the tr • e e r'Y showed that their opinion was that they •Im„ rot Fable. And what were the dock ware b Est„, e ' ut Part of the Dock Estate. The funds of that D eek 10 ' 1 _t_ a P . resent were applied to the rre:riteitance 4 f ti e dtea ue , io B 2 o t! e _and the surplus was to be applied in the r at applied rates ; but it they tot k any portion of th at 00. " ti n o i n ttlle . d it to any other purpose , however row 11 use, be, it was directed tram its preps and r ese nt the I;* He had said euffisient to slow that at , f or loc4 ock Estste was not and ought ni t to he lie ),iii.;tY on t h e rates. They did ot els m at non Ba ilp"rt of the Estate in cons , quence of any ..t,t7 of vlt. r an d Comparing to the Doek Acts, hut teneTer the common t-; srmsratiort h mparirie this with the pronerty of the as,„, ed . 0 , e was will aware II at that p roperty was the k rates, and even paid income tax ; but the „ flii ° ;!' s I , mot from evert - kind ot Its. both e a"tweal Ile knew wt uld he urger', that the to "Vint) of the _ .s f t ,„„, _„, warehouses elected by the Dock Ti us vote nu kind of taxation was an unfair competition ti t:ill ne m , prop. rt ch ar ° f such y ; but he thought wl en the applica• a principle tended to the cheapening eit the "l u gJa -- 8 °f Lhe• tS 4fadaell. Such Privat e and the general en' micro, ent of the Property in the town by the increase an argument would not hold good. The t r°Pe rlY bele • eels liable gg to the Duke ef Bridgewater's Trus " to all the rates and taxes, and they were to a certain extent in competition with the dock estate. But theycarrythe matter further. Docks were about to be made at Herculaneum, and the projectors of those docks might say they ought not to be liable to be rated. Both these properties, however, were liable to rates, and bad to pay every description of taxes; and the argument would be just as good for them to maintain their non-liability, as for the warehouse owner. He did not blame the uarties who had taken up the question; , on the contrary, he thought it was part of their duty to do so, and no blame should be attributed to them. Indeed, had not the parish authorities taken up the matter, he thought the rate payers would have had reason to complain of their ne glect; but their duties as parish authorities, was very (tiff, rent from their duty as dock trustees, arid he (Mr. Moore) would go so far as to contend that it was nothing less than a breach of trust to attempt to saddle the Dock Estate with warehouses, unless some equivalent were given in the shape of exemption from local burdens. Mr. CHILTON seconded the motion proposed by Mr. Moore. Mr. ROBINSON contended that the warehouses built on the dock quays were an entirely separate property from the Dock ,Estate, and when the matter was under discus sion before, Mr. Moore distinctly stated, as they would find in his speech published at the request of the Dock Committee, that the funds for erectit g wart houses were entirely d fferent from the funds of the Dock Estate. Mr. MOORE.—I said the warehouses were erected un der a separate act of Parliament. Mr. ROBINSON continued—lf the warehouses should prove a failure ultimately, he (Mr. Robinson) contended that the income raised from ships, ant goods brought into the port, could not be applied to meellittny deficiency. He was, therefore, of opinion that the warehouses ought to be subject to rates the same as any private property. Mr. MooRE said, if the warehouses did not pay, there was no doubt whatever but the funds of the Dock Estate could be applied to make up the deficiency. All that the act required was that the accounts should be kept sepa rate, in order to judge of the working of theseheme. The Tows-CLERK being appealed to, said the fact was as stated by Mr. Moore, and all the money borrowed to erect the warehouses was borrowed on the credit of the Dock Trustees. Mr. ROBINSON Said, however that might be, it did not alter his opinion. He still thought the warehouses ought to he subject to rates. Mr. BIRKETT differed entirely from Mr. Moore as to the queFtion of standing o•ders. He thought he was com pletely mis►aken on that point.. The Highway Commis .ioners were not liable to any objection on the standing orders, because they petitioned. Mr. MOORE.—It was the parish authorities Mr. BIRKETT.— Well, the Speaker decided upon a question of notice. They were aware neither the pat ish authorities nor the Highway Board could give notice of what thee did not know. They were nut the promoters of the bill, and only sought to introduce a clause in committee ; but, to show the, feeling of the com mittee on the subject, they decided that the clause enabling the Dock Committee to build warehouses should not remain poet of the bill, unless the rating clause was inserted also. As to the docks being national property, he thombt oifferent from Mr. Moore on that point. No doubt the legal estate was in the trustees ; but if the docks really belonged to anybody they belonged to the bondholders, with the execution perhaps of such docks as had been constructed out of the profits of the estate, and that portion he would admit belot ged to the rate payers. He considered it most unfair to exempt dock warehouses from rates whilst private warehouses erected only a few yards from them ‘7as rated. They might as well say that the Dock Estate should have the stones, bricks, and mor tar for the • section I:4lkir works without paying for them. He was a trust s well as Mr. Moore. and he considered that he was sent there not merely as a dock trustee, but also as a trustee for the general interests of the town. and he thought it most unfair to favour one party I h t the expense of another. As to the statement that the Dock Estate was exempt from rates, by the common law, that was not so. Mr. Mooeu.—Ask the Town Clerk. • Mr. BIRKLTT would appeal to the Town Clerk, for be was sure it was not so. The TOWN CLER K—The estate is exempt by statute law . Mr. MOORS.—Not by the dock acts. The TOWN CI EVE Mr. 13taxvir continued.—Why should the tenants of the corporation he taxed, and the tenants of the dock estate not? The further they pursued tie argument the more absurd it became. There was no analogy between the Bridgewater Trust and the Herculaneum Docks and the Dock Estate. They ca e to the position they now hold, knowing what they had to contend with. He should be sorry to do any thing which 'would peril the bill, and he wished the clau-e to be withdrawn, as nothing could be done under it, even if insetted, and therefore why not postpone it until next session. If the question was to be brought forward in the House of Lords it must be met in a yr ry different manner to what it had been ; but be warned them that th e re was no t th e s li g ht es t chance of succeeding. . . IVIr. I. VANS said there were many reasons for not goirg on at all with the bill this Session. hut he would first dis pose of the rating clause. He looked upon the De ck warehouses as altogether distinct from the Locks. The Docks were a mere addition to the river, to supply the deficiency of natute ; arid if they taxed the Docks, they might as well tax the river itself. However, in rating the warehouses, care should be taken that they were not rated higher than the warehouses which they sup plied the place of. With regard to what Mr. Bi kett had said about the bond holders bring the owners of the Docks, that, according to his notion, was analogous to saying that the shareholders in a railway we re not the owners of it, but those who lent money to them. He should certainly make a motion, that the bill be with drawn for the present Session. A delay of a year l enight he of advantage and could be of no disadvantage what.• yen Was that a time to rush into such a scheme es that, with open decks which lie was convinced would cost nearer a million and a half than '.n% thing else ? Money was scarce, labour was valuable, and they wete already occupied with eighty acres of additional dock space. Any one would sot pose they had enough on hand—and if they proceeded with that n easure they wuuld be committing a great moral injury on the population. They would be crowding into a very shot t space of time wen kb that would re quirea great many thousand men—that would cause the erection of many thousand houses and shous to accommodate them and when tl e works wete completed, what would be the consequence ? A complete collap se. The people would be without labour and houses wit hout tenants. Another arer ment was as to the trade of the pert. Amongst other branch-s, they had lately a very inflated account of the increase of the timber trade. He happened that morning to have had some conversation with three gentlemen connected extensively wi h that trade, and he understood that nearly the whole of last year's I reduce was still on hand. One gentleman had eleven cargoes on hand, and he was but one in the same position. Not long ago that gentleman could have got seventeen pence and a farthing far what he could not then get fourteen pt nee, and it would have been better for him to have sold all his stt ck at one shilling on the quay than to keep it. lie ad mitted the vessels had sailed attain from this port, hut it was well knt wn they were not to return here. On the whole, he was of opinion that the increase of the umber trade was a very great fallacy. He might go further and show the sanie results in other trades, but he would merely mention one other, namely, guano, and with re gard to that it was admitted on all hands that with the exception of what was received from South America, it was at an end. But what were they about to do? Warehouses were already scarce, and they were going to pull down 24,100 yards of watehouses, metre than the w hole of those surrounding the Albert Dock. Would not the warelrouse•owners take advantage of that ? For then they would have to pay cash down, and the owners would Le left to rebuild wl ere they liked ; and what ne cessity was there to pull down warehouses and rebuild them some file or six yards from the same spot, soecisdly when they might obtain powers to have them around the old docks almost immediately. Ile tb -jec ed to their going to Paeliament for an open dock, and they trusted to the warehouse-owners and the Deck Corn roitiee to g t them warehouses text year. He, for one, would trust neither one or the other. He looked upon warehouses around the docks as most essential. They had hreit told about the dues in London being higher than Liverpool. That was altogether a fallacy, for they had been solute on obtaining power to eonsteuct docks leaving out the very essentials of cheapness, and doing a hat w a s either of no use or absolutely injurious. which, he contended. open docks were at the present time. Mr. Evans concluded by proposing the following amend trent at unless the whole of the clauses providing for warehouses on the proposed deck quays, and on those to be bolt under the acts of 1844, be carried. that this bill shall be withdrawn for this session and that the clause for rating the warehouses shall be worded so as to secure them from the payment of more rates titan similar inland warehouses pay." Mr. HortsFAbb entirely agreed with Mr. Birkett, in repuchninp the idea of the Chairman of the Dock Com mittee, that the docks were national property, they were rather the property of the Dock Tiu-tees, held ft r the pus nose of improving the harbour, for increasing the ac commodation of the port, and fur the encouragement of trade, by lessening the rates. He confessed he was ye ry much startled to hear Mr. Evans support the rating clause. because lie remembered that on a previous occasion M r. Eva, s had resisted that clause to the utmost. Ms EVANS—You do not recollect anything of the sort ; yr u were nut a member of the Dock Committee at.that tin e Mr. iIonSFALL continued —NWII, if be was in error as to Mr. Evatra's real views, he tr ok it that the intro duciion of tt.e rating clauses in the act of that year was a sop for the warehouse interest. He did nut. however. dill"' lion) Mr. Evat s's present views, when the subject was discussed in tie Deck Coo mittee, and be had ti en ost strenuously ru t in( r ed the rating of the watt t 1( u.e s but they were met by the statement that !Le law a as against thew. and that as trustees they had no tight to introduce any clause which would irjure the estate, o r a isapprn prate its revenues. On that ground. on the legal ground aloe e. he w.ei now opposed to the intreductir n of any clause which imposed on the estate the burden of local ewes, or any taxation wl atever On another I &nt, how ever, I e WH. tar born agreeing with Mr. Evans. He did not think there would he any gain by delay ; and, in fact, the rontialy must evidently be the case, for he retnerr bered to have seen, within a very short period, 130 vessels lyit gin the river withou► dock accommodation. (Hear, tear.) if they could not get all they married, he should say let then, take al, that they could get ; and not lose the ht lby standing out for matters of less importance. The quest ion was not, as Mr. Evans stated, one of open docks; hut it involved the completion of ti e Albert Dock ware houses, and provisions much required by the trace of the port. (Hear.) Mr. PROCTER inquired whether by the rroY:s'ons of the act under which the All , eit Dock warehouses were built, those warehouses were not rendered liable to rates. The TOWN-CLERK said them could be no doubt of that fact. Mr. H. HonNeY.—What then becomes of the ar gu merit that by common law they were exempt ? Mr. A troN would not second Mr. Evans's amendment as it stood ; but if that gentleman would allow him to alter it as follows, he should then most cordially support it :—" That tne clause now proposed be inserted in the bill ; and that unless the clause authorising the erection of warehouses in the dock quays, under this act, or under the dock act, of the 7th and 8r h of Victoria. be inserted in the committee of the House of Lords, all clauses in this bill relatintr, to the constructi in of new works be withdrawn." If the Dock Company had been as careful in taking counsel's opinion in time on that occasion, which was a very important one indeed, as they had been in tak ing counsels' op nion on mattersof very much less import ance, all present difficulty would have been removed, for the clause would have stood as a portion of the original bill. He fully concurred in al! the remarks of M r. Bram ley Moore with regard to the rating clause; and that it was the duty of the trustees to protect the estate from any such misdirection of its funds ; but if Parliament chose to insert a clause making the workhouses rateable. all res ponsibility was removed from the shoulders of the Dock Lommittee. Mr. EvANs accepted the amendment as altered by Mr. Aikin. Mr. H. HOUNBY said the amendment made by Mr. .Aikin was virtually the same as the riotice proposed by the Dock Committee, the only difference was that portion re lat'ng to the withdrawal of the bill. The amendment did not touch on the subject of the liability of the warehouses proposed to be erected, to the local rates; and that he conceived was the question at issue. If he understood the Chairman of the Dock Committee aright, that gentleman said that the trustees' proposal or even sanction of any clause making the wet chooses liable to rates was a breach of trust. That was a very grave charge against those members of the Council who were In it at the time the Albert-dock b ll was sanctioned, for that bill, it would seem was liable to parochial rates. Mr. Aikin, too, Lad in some sort. acquiesced in the chairnian's charge ; but it was the first time this Ct uncil had been charged with breach of trust. He conceived that the chairman and Mr. Alderman Horsfail were mistaken in thinking that the law of the land shut them out from making the warehouses liable to the parochial rates; on the contrary. he believed there was no law in existence which made their doing so a breach of trust ; and while they were zealous for the welfare of the dock estate, they must not forget they were also trustees for the other in terests of the town. (Hear.) With rega rd to the justice of the question. he did not think there would be much justice in investing the public money in an undertaking by which it was brought in competition with private indi viduals. if they were not both subject to the same rates and taxes. Mr. Alderman Nicol. thought it of little importance whether 0 e rating clause were inserted or not. The House of Lords could author ze not hiog more than a con fit mation of the principle of the advantage of warehouses around the docks, while, it thr y put in the rating clause they could not entertain it. as it was contrary to the rule of the house to itttertere in money bills. It had already been decided by Lord Tenterden, that as the dock trus tees had no beneficial interests, the estate ought not to pay either rates or taxes ; and as to ti e injustice spoken of by Mr. Birkett. of a property ten yards off being taxed, while the COCK warehouses were exempt, that was no argument at all. He had no doubt there were many honest people who lived within a short distance of Buck ingham Palace who paid rates nod taxe., and yet Buck ingham Palace was exempt from rates ; and the sole reason that Lord Francis Egerton's proterty, and the Herculaneum docks, would have to pay rates was because there was a beneficial interest in both cases. The truth w'is, that the Dock Committee had not been consulted on the n atter ; it was decided for them by a committee of the House of Commons. he Dark Committee had nothing whatever to do with it ; and it had only been in troduced to carry out the resolution proposed by Mr. Turner and Mr. Alderman Lawrence, iu which there was not one svt , rd about rating. Several mea.bers expressed an opinion that there was, or if not in express words, an understanding that the warehouses were made subject to the rates. Mr. BRAM Lin' MOORK had beard nothing of the sort. Mr. MOLYNEUX was present during the whole of the last meeting, and his distinct impressiou was that nothing of the kind was agreed to. Mr. Nicol. resumed—che wording of the clause was entirely left to the management cf their legal advis ers , and h d been framed by them to meet certain Parlia. mentary forms and requirements, before the deputation of the Dock Committee knew a syllable of the difficulty. As to the proposition of Mr. Aiken, that the Docks be not co,sti owed, if warehouses be not bitilt, it reminded him of the country manager advertising the tragedy of Hamlet, wit:t the part of Hamlet left out ; and it the bill was paned with those clauses omitted, it would be exactly siroi Mr. EA RLE remarkad that a good deal had been said of bre,eh of trust arid all that sort of thing, but he thought it curie with a remarkable ill grace from aldermen who ❑ever once stood a chance of election. The only one who talked a little reasonable was Mr. Horsfall. who had once contested . one of the card•, and although he was riot sorry at that time to see him beaten, lie was now happy to have the p'easure of seeing him there. But for the others wh bad not stood a contest. nor even been asked to stand— Nlr. B. MOORE.---Yes ; I have been asked twenty times. Mr. EARLE.—Have you? Then you were afrai.l you would not be elected, I t•uopose. However, in his opi nion, the Council ontht to be supreme; and sent, as they were generally, by the. rate-pavers, they ought not to be dictated to by an inferior body. With regard to dock warehouses, the whole question turned on the point, whe ther gentlemen had any warehouses or nut. It they bail. they were naturally oopoNed to the dock warehouses ; and if not, they were in favour of them. For his own part, he had always been in favour of dock warehouses, al though he disapproved of the manner in which the ware hot.e inretest had been treated. Mr. PARKER was prepared at all times to make excuses for the chair man of the Dock Committee. He had made great speeches u hick had been quoted in the House of Com. rnons,and r.rinted in a cheap form for the inform; tion of the burgesses of Liverpool, and they were naturally enough prepared for an exiiihiti , n of his inflated dignity ; but what was he to say to the Deputy-chairman, who had called Buckingham Palace, the seat of royalty itself, insignificant, compared with these grand national docks of Liverpool. (Applause and laughter.) They had been told what was . their duty by the Chairman, and t e whole tone of hi s elevated remarks would lead any person to suppose that the whole Council was merely a board of automaton trus tees to act under his most imperial orders. (Laughter.) He must, notwithstanding, contend that the docks were the property of the burg-sses ; and gentlemen tutht not forget they were the representatives of the burgesses, and bound to look after their interests. if they had a stranger's gallery in that house, any person listening to them would think that the whole matter they had to attend to was the interests of the docks; but there would be an alteration in October, when gentlemen began to write their addresses to the burgesses. (Laughter.) He concluded by de clarir that he should always oppose measures calculated to increase the burdens of the rate-paters. Mr. TURNER was unwilling the bill should be with drawn. as there were some excellent pain s in it, and he ther.f , re would move the following amendment :—" That the Trustees have already unanin ously affirmed the prin ciple of dock warehouses b.-Mg erected, and managed as other parts of the dock estate, but as the clause proposed to be insered in the present bill, for the erection of such warehouses, hes been negatived by the committee of the House of Commons, it is riot, in the o:inion of the Tru:i tees, expedient to apply for the introduction of such a clause in the House of Lords, as no injury to the dock estimte, or to the trade of the port, can arise by delayi n g the application for warehouses to a future session." Mr. J. SHAW LEIGH seconded the amendment. Mr. Jost As BOOKER. suppored the an endment at'some length, and warmly attacked Mr. B. Moore for his allu sions to a breach of trust. It wrs then agreed, on the suggestion of the Town Clerk, that the amendment of Mr. Turner thould be put first. Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE then replied. After noticing the I.ersonal attacks of Mr. Earle and Mr. !looker, and the realty ka of Mr. Birkett. be proceeded to dissect the speech of Mr. Evans. The hon. gentleman had stated that they hail with tespect to timber done two years' trade in one; but whether that was so or not, a reference to the circulars which came out in February last would show that the trade had gone on increasing, and it would, he had no doubt, go 'lx increas'n. Mr. Evans had said IN! guano trade seas extinct, but at that moment there were more ships from this port chartered in the guano 'rade than l i d ever before been known. Perhaps Mr. Evans was one of those who hail sent • ut ships in se,rch .1 Kuhn°, which had returned with nothing hut hallsst (a laugh). The tact was that Mr. Evens knew very little about either the timber trade or the t:urno trade. In to bacco, about which perhaps he might know something, Liverpool was rapidly gaining on tit , . port of London ; and in the tea trade—an enotmotsly increasing trade — he could state on the authority of one of the first tea mer chants of Liverpool, there Lad been lately during a very short period a million of pounds brought in here n ore than were brought into tie port of London. The in (lease in the trade of the port must continue to go on, as it was backed by a rapidly Mere , sing population, and its means of communicatn n with the interior was gra dually becoming more facile. For inQtatice, at present there w as no communication br tween Liverpool and New ens' le-upon-Tyne ; but a railway comrrunication was now proj , wed, and he trusted that it would be successful, and .hat it would tay the spirited parties who had taken it up. At the present time Newcastle was supplied with an immense number of articles from London. which, when 'he railway was opened, ,would be supplied from Liver pool, and which had not Liiherto been supplied front Li verpool, because that town was intim saible from this port except at a great cost. He had no fear whatever but the commerce of Liverpool would to on increasing. Mr. l.t.ovn—The timber trade will not increase though. Mr. B. Mootta, witimut heeding the intertut tion, eon. eluded by a:4(lring the Council. Ilia , as the clause which had been lost in the Commons was only sought to be inttodured in the Lords in order to carry out the wishes rt . the Council. by whom it had miginally been inserted, he was quite willing it should now be withdrawn, it a mejosity fey ested it. The v. tea were ..hen taken, when there appeared 38 in favour of Mr. Turner's amendment, and 8 against it. Mr. Evens' amendment having partly been answered by the one just carried, and that having become the mo. tit n before the Council, by Mr. Aikirt's counsel it was altered as foll , tws :—" That all the clauses in the bill relaing to the construction of new docks be withdrawn from the bill." The vo•es were egain taken, when there only app eare d I l (or the amettdmet•t, and the clause as amended by M r . Turner was declared carried. _ _ The rent of the new matter in the bill waft then pas se d seriatim. It cumisted chiefly of al.erations as to mat. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ter, ef form and other uninteresting details which' have been before the public when they were discussed by the Dock Committee. One of the new clauses extended the term allowed the Dock Committee for the construction of the new landing stage at St. George's Pier for another twelve months. The bill was then approved of in the aggregate, and the Mayor empowered to affix the seal of the Corporation. The Council broke up at twenty minutes pant two o'clock. ?Loral anti Vriotnnual On Tuesday, Lawrence Marney was fined 40. and costs for throwing missiles at police-r fficer Rigby, 553. Sheridan Knowles. Esq., and his lady, are on a visit to John Driver, Esq., at Egremunt, near this town. On Sunday week. the body of a still• born infant was found in St. Philip's Church, wrapped in pieces of cloth. The master of a ship three himself into the river last week, with the intention of committing suicide. He was picked up by the crew. The New York packet-ship Montezuma, Capt. A. B. Lowber, sailed on Thursday, with 38 cabin and 350 st-er age passengers; a rather unprecedented number of the former in these " steaming " days. On Wednesday a lad was brought before Mr. Rushton for throwing a large earthen pot from the gallery of the Amphitheatre into the pit, but his identification could not be clearly established. A purse of eighty-two sovereigns was presented in this town, a few days since, to Mr. liibble ' secretary to the United Towns Af•snciation of Licensed Victuallers, while that gentleman was on a temporary visit. A maniac, named Gonans, jumped from the Erin-go- Bragh on her passage. on Saturday week, from Liverpool to the Menai Bridge, and was miraculously saved by one of the crew throWng himself after the man, and holding him up until the boat was lowered. Ou Tue-day, Mary Cumston, Robert Cumston and Mary Maloy, were committed for uttering base money. They tendered a bad half crown to a stall-woman in the Pedlar's Market, and another to Mr. Williams, in Rene lagh-street. In the battle of Sobraon, Cornet Knight, of the ]6th Lancers, (son of Sir Arnold Knight,) had a very narrow escane. A hall grazed his thumb, and killed an officer by his side. We have the pleasure to learn that Mr. Knight is prom..ted to a Lieutenancy without purchase. The Trafalgar Dock now contains three new steam ves sels : the Windsor and the Ajax, fitted with the paddle wheel. and the Antelope, the screw-auxiliary three-mast, d schooner, lately launched from Mes sr s. Hod gs o n 's y ar d, and intended for the Rio trade. in ft is contemplation to establish a line of four steam ers between New York awl Liverponl. to he under the Superintendence of Junius Smiih, E.q., the gentleman who was the managing owner of the steamers British Qoeen and President. Dr. Duncan delivered an excellent address, on Tuesday, in the South Corporation Schools, on the sanitary condi tion of the town Mr. Harbord also gave his valuable testimony, and deprecated the practice of carrying child ren, who had died through infectious diseases, in cars to be interred. On Wednesday, Catharine and Michael Larkin were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged by Mr. M'Kenna, auctioneer, with steal.ng a quantity of clothes, together with numerous articles of lurniture. The female was the mother of the male prisoner. The latter was discharged, and the former committed for trial. On Monday, the foundation stone of a new chapel, in connexion with the Wesleyan Methodist Association was laid in Grange-road. Birkenhead. Mr. Win. Jackson has made a grant of £250, and Mr. J. S. Jackson £5O. The piece of ground was procured, and upwards of £7OO had, in a brief space of time, been obtained. The Liverpool Peace Society held its annual meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Music-hall. The chair was filled by Mr. Richard Rathbone, and amongst the speak ers wete the chairman, the Rev. Mr. Birrell. Mr. John Cropper. Mr. Wm. Ratabone, the Rev. Wm. Bevan, Mr. Lawrence Ileyworth, and other gentlemen. On Tuesday, a cow, in a wild state, broke away from the aleuehter-hr us's, in Trowbridge-street, and, in its furious progte-s along Mount-pleasant. tossed a boy, named Creenlaill, from 15 to 20 feet in the air. The poor little fellow was taken to Dr. Bickersteth's, and bad his wounds dressed, but had no bones broken. • The commander, officers, and crew of her Majesty's packet the Zephyr, who saved the barque Mountaineer by towing her into Holyhead harbour on the 21st ult., have been rewarded by the underwriters with the handsome sum of 300 guineas, to be divided according to the respec tive ranks. No demand has been made for salvage. SMOKE NUISANCE. —Experiments were made last week on board the James, Birkenhead steamer, to ascertain how far it is practicable to remove the nuisance of smoke from the steamers. A very simple apparatus was attached, and the result of the experiment was that the smoke was wholly removed, and the owners report a sari g of nearly twenty per cent in fuel, wed more steam than formerly. IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS OF BUILDING SOC,ETIES. —The Board of a peci rl Commissioners, Somerset 11 °use. London. have decided against Caigill v. The Trustees of the B .rough of Durham Building Society, that such So cieties are liable to Lie payment of 7el. on every Mr. of interest paid to the Societies by the respective memters who have purchased out their shares, tiotwiths'anding any rule or con ition made by such society to the conttary. TILE BILL OF MORTA-LITY.—The following statement is from the getteral bill of niortelity far the parish of Li verpool and i s vicinity for 1845, just issued by the pa rish clerks : Liverpool—Baptisnis—m ides 5,590, females 5,51 ) 6—t0tal 11.176 ; hurials—maN 2.570, females 2 483 —total 5,154; marriages 4.217. In the v'einiiy— Bap tisms—Males 741, females 725—tots1 1466; burials— males 1662, females 1604—total 3.283; marriages 405. Increase in baptisms 358, rurials 41. marriages 792. Po pulation of Liverpool in 1841, 295.963. CURIOUS IMPORTS INTO THE •' PORT OF MANCHES TER:"—After the heavy tall of snow, a fe.v d iys ago, the Manchester public were surprised, early °tie morning last week, t r beheld twenty or thirty carts passing through the streets literally latter, with snow ! On inquiry, it appeared that in consequence of the great scarcity of ice this sea son, the fishmongers in Manchester have had, as the only resource, to procure a quantity of snow front the vicinity of Beaton, and which has been deposited in the ice-house underneath the fish samples. Each cart brought Anti one ton, for which they received 225. 6.1. it is said that snow will keep equally well with ice when judiciously de pos ted. WILET DERBY UNION.—The usual weekly meeting was hr Id on Tuesday. This being the first meeting after the election of guardians. Mr. J. Sheppard was re-elected chairman, after some opposition on the part of Mr. Shaw. Mr. Roberts was al-o re-appeinted to the vice-chair. An account of Mr. Harbord's, amounting to £22, for extra medical attendance on the poor of Toxteth-park, was or dered to be submitted to t e auditor, on account of some at jections made by the overseers. Mr. Smith brought 1. re ard his motion for doing away with the dining of the guardians at the house, but after some discussion, it was lest by a majority of thirteen to five. ANNOYANCE BY A FEMAI.E.—On Saturday last, Mrs. Fisher, a temple well aitired, was charged before Mr. Rushton with annnyirr , her brotlier-in•law, Mr. William Fisher, druggist, of Bold-street. by collecting a crowd oppos to his premises en the 31st ultimo, and thus inter ruptiag him in his business. This she had done more than once. The prisoner, who is allowed 20s. per week by her husband, which is regularly paid by the parish officers, had before been hrougtrt up for aim lar conduct, and her object appeared to be to obtain a huger allowance of money. She said she was sorry for what she had done, and would not repeat the offence. Mr Rushton strongly reprebeeded her. and ardered her to find two sureties in £25 each, or to be imprisoned three month.. THE TuaN-ouT IN THE BUILDING TRADER.—Th;s turn-r ut still continues, and it would appear as it it emanated from some central board or body. for it is nr pretty general, not only here, but also in Manchester, in Birkenhead, in Bradford, in Birmingham, and other parts of Yeekshite. Indeed, according to some ace. woe, as many as ten thousand hands are out of week. If any fur ther proof were wanting of the ill-advised nature of this et , ike, it must he f o und in the time selected and in the strike bring made so extensively, as to make the heaviest demands upon the veneral union funds, just when the least aid to those funds can he con'tibuted by the three largest provincial tower; in England. The masters con tame to race lie accessions of workmen who are ready to enter their enipa yeeent, &piing the declaration not to belt ng to a trades' union. EXTRAORDINARY ( ) CCURRENCE.—lest‘rday week, about one in tire afternoon, a Liverpool car was observed to stop fog Sandown-lane, aurl a worn or get out of it with a boner-le and a basket. A female win, was passing sus- peeled at meshing wrong; tire alarm was given, and the woman was followed, she having crossed souse fields near averttee. In a short time a newly-born infant was fonnel in a bole near a wall, with its f ce towards tha clay, and a flannel petticoat thrown over it. It was taken alive, hut much exhausted. The mother was pursued, and staidly after apprehended on the Old Swan-road, some distance from the spot where the child was found. On being brought to the police station, a second chid was found in the basket under her cloak. She had been deli vered of twins in the ear, between this town and Waver tree; and being unmarried, she had made every exertion, even at the expense of endangering he childrens' lives, to conceal her shame. The infants were taken to the work house, and are doing well. The woman is, of course, under the surveillanee of the police. SUICIDE BY A MARRIED LADY. —On Friday after noen, the inhabitants ef Woodside were much surprised by learning that Mrs. Martha Vickers, a lady of respect • able connexions in Liverpool, and who occupied the house, No. 4, Argyle-street, Birkenhead, (a lodging-house, which she kept). had cut her throat with a razor. The deceased, who was in good circumstances, was the wife of the captain of the ship lienty Curwen. She was twenty nine years of age, and without children. Captain V. returned from sea on the 9 h instant, but returned to his ves s el in Milford Haven on the following Saturday. Nothing is known as to the cause of the fatal act beyond the fact that the deceased was somewhat intemperate in her habits. The in quest was held airfare Mr. (Murton, on Saturday. From the evidence. it appeared that de. ceased and her husband lived happily together. She was recently heard, although generally in good spirits, to threaten erladeetructlon ; but this was not. thought to be genuine. On Friday morning and during the day she was mach excited About half-past two o'clock in the after. noon, she was found in one of the lodger's bed-rooms, lying dead upon the floor, with her throat cut, and the blew, scattered about the room. It appeared that on several recent occas i ons s h e had expressed s'range fancies, arebably from the effccts of slight inebriation, cambined with other cautea. A letter .was shown to the jury, written by Capt. Vickers, and addressed to the deceased, It was dated " Tuesday" last, and had been received on Thursday. It was couched in very affectionate terms, and concluded with the words, " Keep up your spirits, my lass. God bless you." The jury returned a verdict ef death from suicide, under the influence of temporary insanity. HINTS TO PANNIMOKERS.—On Wednesday, Sarah Jones. a prostitute, was charged with having illegally of fered in pledge acoat, R hick had been taken from a sea faring man in a house of ill fame on the previous night, The owner of the coat, along with a comrade, had been completely s'ripped of all their wearing apparel. The pri soner had offered the garment in pledge at the shop of Mr. Wi kin ; but she was stopped and given into the cus tody (la police officer. Another pawnbroker, aho pro duced part of the stolen property, was reprimanded by 'lr. 'Rushton for not ha-Aing taken the step which Mi.. Wilkin did, in giving the prisoner into custody, and was ordered to restore the article without any payment being made.—On the following day a similar decision was given. - DREADFUL Snievertrote.—The splendid packet-ship, Henry Clay, of Go innel,. Minturn and Co.'s Liverpool and New York line, was driven ashore on Squam Beach, about twelve o'clock on the night of the 15th u't., where the Jelin Minturn went to pieces. The masts were cut away. and she remained tight till day light., when her keel broke off and she began to leak. Mr. Cooley, second mate, and four sailors, carried a line ashore with the !Re heat, made fast a hawser, and returning to the ship took off biz persons; hut before they reached the shore the boat was swamped and - six: were drowned. Mr. Cooley and his men were taken from the surf - by the people on shore, and restrained from any further attempt to reach the ship, which contained 300 souls, mostly steerage pas sengers. By advice of Captain Nye. who remained on board, Mr. Cooley then started for New York city, leav• ing the vessel high out of water and unbroken ; and the wind having shifted there would probably be no fUrther loss of life. A New York paper says " The ship had no pilot, had had no observation for two days, and had not made the land—the weather thick and very stormy." Subsequent accounts state that all the sound cargo on hoard had been discharged, and brought to the city in lighters, while men were constantly at work getting out what was damaged. The steam pump had been set to work, and all the water had been ant out, and she has been moved about one length off shore; hut it was ex pected that alt the cargo would have to be discharged be fore she. could be got off. • ASTOUNDING SHIPWRECKS ON THE COAST OF PATA orrie.—Mr. John M• Leod, who left Liverpool in July last, as agent for a Liverpool house, has sent by the Tor rit s. from Camerone's Bay, Patagon'a, a list of shipwrecks which look peace off that coast, on the 3 . 1 of January last. He says the opinions of the shipmas•ers now at Came rone's Bay is, that no fewer than 300 ships from different ports in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as from Fran re, and other foreign ports, are on the coast in search of guano and other valuables, from latitude 41 degrees 30 minutes to 45 degrees 30 minutes s , uth. About 3.000 tons or the former, and some chrvstal zed ammonia have been ship ed to Liverpool and Glasgow, at this date, from Colloney Island, and another on the north aide of this bay, leaving hut a few hundred tons to load from this bay, —Ships wrecked : The barque Edwards, of Sunderland, Captain Crithber Ism a total wreck, crew saved ; the Ex potter, of London, Captain Northwood ; the Integrity, of Liverpool, Capt. Hutchison ; the Eagle, of Liverpool, Captain Kerr; the Achilles; the Minerva, of Liverpool, Capt. Burst, y, all total wrecks; cress saved. Mercy, of London, cat.t.in, mate, and 13 hands drowned ; Eliza beth, total wreck, crew saved •, Brilliant, of Liverpool, Captain Payne; Jane Diann, Capt. Smi h ; Catherine, of W hitehaven, Captain Coffee ; an American whaling schooner; an American whaling echnotier to the north ward ; all total wrecks, crews saved ; a French ship, stern post and rudder gone; Mary, of Liverpool, seriously in jured in I ull and materiels. Several ships have lost an chors and chains. their names unknown to me. HIGHWAY BOARD.—At the weekly meeting on Tues day there were present Mr. Holme, (chairman.) and eleven other men bers. Mr. Gladstone passed a high eu logium on Mr. Capes Ashlin, ft r his great at tetition to the interests of the Board, and propose d that the salary et present paid to him as secretary should be increased from £l6O to £2lO, so as to make it the same amount as that paid to him by the Watch Con mittee. The Mayor, Mr. James Lawrence, and Mr. Tinne, concurred in the opi nion expres-ed liv Mr. Gladstone, as to the value of the secretary'. services, and considere , i an increase necessary, as the dut'es were note responsible, owing to an increase having taken place in the amount of rates during the last few %ears. The proposed inc , ease was agreed to, and a resolution to that t ffect adopted unanimously.—The Chairman read a report from the parliamentary commit tee, to the effect that it was the intention of the Dock Committee to get a dense inserted in their bill, when be fore the lords, as to the exemption of the new dock ware hous s from rates, similar to that rejected in the Com mons. The report, which recommended opposition to the clause, was adopted.—Mr. D-nton t.rought under no rice altermii ni no-de in the Grand Junct on Railway Company's premises at Wapping, by which a considerable amount of races had been lost to the authorities. It was agreed that Nlr. Wighttnan should make inquiry into and repo, t n the subject. Mr. Tomkinson and Mr. Johnson were introduced to the Board.—Mr Tornkinson said they had waited upon the Beard to request an extension of time as regarded the completion of the orate r sve rks in Green-lane ' owing to the circumstances in which they were placed by the turn-out on the part of the men. He did not a-k for adiliy to any particular period, but that the B nerd should take into consideration the position in which they were placed,—they were willing to leave the matter in the hands of the Board.—Sever..) letters which Had passed between Mr. Tomkinson and the workmen were read, showing the pi sition of affairs, and that every thing had b en done under the circumstances to get hands, so that the work he had in hand _might be pro ceeded with. It was finally agreed that Mr. Tomlinson should not be pressed under the circumstances, and the matter was referred to the next meeting. EASTER VF.STRT.—The attendence at the Vestry on Tuesday, in St. Nicholas' Chun h, was much more nu merous than usual. Toe Rev. Rector Brooks was in the chair. It appeared from the parish accounts that there was -C26l in hand ; and, on the mothe of Mr. R. Hough ton. they were passed. Atter the election of churchwar dens, nverseres, and vestrymen. whose names will he found in the advertisement elsewhere, Mr. John Wight. man and r. Robert Adams were elected churchwardens for St. John's; and Mr. Wm. C. Williams and Mr. Wm. B Sangeter were elected churchwardens for St. Paul's. Mr. Scholfield proposed that the church rote fur the en suing year he laid at the rate of three halfpence in the pound. He thought that at the expiration of the year they would have a sufficient balance in band to enable them to do with a pinny in the pound. They had now a balance, but still he thought that for the present. the rate of a penny would be found too small. Mr. Smith second ' ed the proposition. Mr. Rawlins, with the view of col !retitle the opinion of the vestry on the subject, moved that there be no church:rate at all ; but finding afterwards that a chut ch-rate was bath legal and tieressary, he altered the terms of his amendment, and proposed that instead of three half pence, three f•rhings in the pound be the church-rate for the ensuing sear. Mr. Bighorn seconded the amendment The rate of three fat things woos declared carried by a small mej .rity. Mr. Riding demanded a poll. Mr. Earle thought there should be a poll, for the church wordei s t ould not be expected to put themselves in a situ; - (ton in which they would have to pay mosey out of their ono n pocket , . 31r. Rawlins, at a later stage of the proceeding , . declined to go to a poll, so that a rate of three half. pence in the pound will now be laid The following pay remote were erde-cd to be made ?—£so to the parish Het ks for keeping the hills of ratify ; £5O for the Welsh eer ejee at St. Paul's; and £3O for St. Matthias's. Mr. Thornely then brought forward his motion for the repeat of the Leal poor-law act, but, after some discussion, with drew it. Mr. Earle drew attention to the water question at some lemth. ti I:ing the Vestry that the Co rporntion arid Highway Board were seeking for powers to supply the town with that necessary article. Bethought the ne ces-ary powers ought to he Owed in the hands of the cor poration. Mr. Forbes thought that if it had not been for the Ili e hway Board the Corporation world never have taken up the sus jeTt. Mr. Cooper d fended the conduct ursued by the Highway Board, hut said that if the Cor p, ration would give a better and a cheaper supply they were quite at liberty to do so. Mr. Earle emid he had no motion t t submit ; his object was answered by calling at tention to the subj•ct. . _ _ SALE OF THE STUD. AT MERE HALL-The side of the hunting and taring stud of Thomas Longlord Brooke. Esq., welt place at Mere, on Thursday. wider ihe able supt!intetidetice of Messrs. ( huitoii, the auctioneers The attendance was numerous and highly resiiectab e, including some of the principal Cheshire gentry, and several gentlemen from ,his town. Toe following are t he pricers realis , d - Hunt,* and Hoek,- I. Flexible, b.y bone, 8 y ,, ars of 1, equal to , 5 stone, 140 guineas. 2. Bob, by Bob L.,.g;c, hay twrse, 7 tears old. no to 13 or 14 stone, 175 aotoeas. 3. Nortio..b.rtn. by ll.wk's 1•;,P. brown horse, 6y e ,r• 01.1. 100 guitiea.. 4. Tile Y. rkshire Lass, chesi:ut mare, 7 years old, has been regularly hunted with the Cheshire hi n•fds, very neatly thoiough.. bred, 95 gu neat. 5. Superior chesnut horse. 6 years ld. 16 hands. by Acariur ; a first-tate London cab-horse, 85 2oineas. 6. Broo n mare, 5 years old. 15 hands, by Black (Merton, very fast and steady in haine.s, 60 tuineas. 7. Brown horse, 6 years old, 153 hands, own brother to Lot 6; a g 'ad hunter. famous hack, and .quiet in harness, 80 guineas. 8 Paddy, a grey horse, 7 years old. an excellent back and harness horse. 7U guineas. 9. Lady's pad, a light grey mare, aged, 75 guineas. 10. Lady's pad, a brown horse, 8 years old, by t Hd Fi!ho; has been hunted occasionally, 55 f umeas. 11. Bay filly, tour years old. hr Acorn ; a gool hark Red qu iet in harness, 54 guineas. Carriage Horses.-12. Very s uperior grey horse, 6 years old, 16 hands, either for single or double harness. and very steady in tandem. 120 guineas. 13. Do. di , . do., 7 years old, an exact match. and i qoallY good and steady, 120 guineas. 11. Do. do. do., 5 years old. 17 hands h; g l i , by Herbert Lacy, 105 guineas. Brood Marex.-16. a Chesnut mare, by Foley, dam by Comus, out of Margrave's dam, with foal at her heels, by Ant• lope, by Camel, out of Miss Bowe, and stinted to GI idia or, 65 guineas 17. Faith, is bay mare, 8 years old, by lan gar. out of talista, now covered by Accident. sire of Ito repid. &e. ; s e was amiss, 9 guineas. Thorough bred Colt.- 18. 'I wo years. old filly, by Liverpool. out of Rachel, (lot 16), with her engaxements. viz.. Colborne Snakes at Newton, Pi ince of Waits' Stakes at York. and the Oaks at Epsom. 40 guineas. 19. Two %ears old bay or brown c dr, by Tory Boy, dam by Muley Moloch. gra,dam by Whisker, with his engagements, and now in training. 20. Yearling brimn colt, by Tory Boy. out of , Rachel (lot 16). 50 guioe s. 21. Yearling bay filly. br Try Boy, out of Faith (lot 17), 27 guineas. Ha f-bred Colic-22. Two years old hay filly, by Merrylegs, 22 guineas. 23. Two years old bay colt. by Speculator. out of a hal'-bred mare. 14 guineas. Carriage, Harness, Dogs, Ice -24. Spit-nthd tandem drag, recently built in fir-t-tate. style. with hind seat, patent axles. &e , 25. Complete set of neatly new Louden) hat ties`, with plated furniture, either in one or two, £l3 10s. 26. Rock. a pointer dog. has been shot over one seq , on L 6 ss. 27. Rap, a Oiito, ditto ditto, .C 3 ss. 28. Bell. a ditto bitch, ditto, £ 2. 29. Fan, a (lit . ° ditto, w i t h t ou r puppies , £2. 31. Fop, a ditto ditto dig. £4 54. 34. Boh, an ex= cellent spaniel, 35a. 35. Bru-h. a ditto di - tn. 535. 36. Floes, a ditto ditto, 20s. 37. Black mastiff, 10s. LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND. The following is a letter addressed, by the steamer of 19th April, to the Board of Trade of Hamilton, Canada West, by its President, Mr. Isaac Buchanan, now in this country : ow, 15th Apil. 1846. Daniel 3 -P Glas fcArab, Esq., Vice re s i dent Board of Trade, Hamilton, Canoda West. DEAR SlR,—Feeiltig firmly persuaded, as i do, that Free Trade is just, another name fir the abandonment of the Colonial s)stem, and the handing over of British. America to the United States, than which there can be no more fatal policy on the part of Great Britain, 1 viewed it to be my ditty to my Sovereign, as well as to my fellow loyalists in Canada, publicly to declare my conviction. on the introduction of the measures now pending, aid the same feeling has made me continue to do so, as you wilt see by the enclosed answer to the Manchester Guardian.. Neither the new Tariff nor the Corn Bill has yet passed the House of Commons, and I firmly bo•lieve that the fact that both Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell have committed themselves to their principle, is the. only chance of these measures becoming Even the strong feature that I have referred to would not avail the promoters of Free Trade, except that the same thing which affected the decision of the political leaders, the bullying of the Anti.Corn.law League, added to the important fact of Sir Robert Peel's apostacy ' has ' raised a feeling in the minds of many opp onen t s of Free Trade very unlike their old national sentiment— " Fear God, and have no other fear." These men say that so morbid has become the public mind, that an actual experience of the bitter fruits of Fi re Trade without reciprocity is the only nowtr that can dispel the delu,ions under which the people labour. To such argumerr, , I reply, that this is just asserting that, in ortler to prove it, they sill allow their neighbour to taste a cup they know to be deadly poison. The mistake, in the sense of their duty, that is com mitted by these opponents of Free Trade, arises from their confusing between an antidote against the same cup being presented to the next yrneration, and an antidote to ite deadly effect on the present gfeatness anal power of Eng land, forgetting that the latter will be sacrificed in the meantime, and that no adequate compensation can ever be found in the inevitable tesult that Sir Robert Peel's wont of princip:e will be repudiated, after general diitreps, through want of employment among the people, and na tional bankruptcy are seen to flow from it. The great difficulty of the Colonists here is, that we have no open enemies, though ac are honoured by secret and insidious enmity of every man of rt.pub lean and atheistical tendencies in England. I am tar, very far, from asserting that all our opponents are of the sump I allude to, but only that perr e le of that stan-p are all against us to a man. The tactics with which they manage to humbug the public are these— Itirst—Canada and the timber trade are shown to be one and the same thing ! arid we are represented as simply and selfishly al - nog/lino with no higher aim than a tim ber monopoly, allowed to be detrimental to the people of England !! Second—Following Sir Robert Peel's example, they dis play masses of dry fieures fom official returns, which'. they argue on as taws, although they know, and every one knows that, in most cases, these are not even art approximation to the truth, from the loose way they, are made up. It is an imposition on the public; for intelligent Free Traders, who know better, to persist in calling the timber trade peculiarly a Canadian interest. The extirpation of the Canadian Timber Trade would injure the individuals in Canada who have embarked in the trade by rendering useless the immense machinery by which it is carried on, and which it has taken forty Stara to perfect, but it would permanently injure the Colony only to the extent of the market which the timber trade now creates for provisions, the great bulk of the price of the timber being paid for, not in Canadian labour, but manufactured goods or British labour. The fact is, that it has always been a question with me whether the timber trade is not rathera clisadvantep• than otherwise to the population of Canada, as direct ti them from their sure source of independence, the cult ivat;on of the land, to a more precarious and less moral employ— ment. In the necessities of the empire in 1808 the timber trade was created by an act of the British Parliament, it bring found that, unrestra'ned by British competition. the foreigner charged his ou n price, even in time of peace, and in time of war our s upply was entirely cut off. The consumer was at that time paying the murchants of Memel and Danziz three times the price at which tim ber cpuld be produced, and has ever since been af f orded, from British America. After the war, and when the machinery of the timber trade had got thorougly started, the protection was re duced to what was then supposed to be the amount of the disadvantage of distances and higher priced labour, which the colonial lumber merchant labours under as compatOil with the lumberer of the Baltic. In 1842. Sir Robert Peel made a farther reduction, and brought the protection 50 low as to give the foreign a posi. live advantage practically. The Colonial duty, which WAS 10A., was, in 1842. re duced to Is., and the Foreign duty, which was 55... was reduced to 255. The British lumberer p a ys the Crown 4a. 2d. per load in the Colony for the privilege of cutting. and is at a disadvantage of 21a. per load in freight, the freight from the Baltic being 175., and from Quebec 38s. ; so that the foreigner has a distinct advantage to the ex. tent that his article is more esteemed in the British mat ket, and to the extent also, that the serfs of the Baltic will work for less than the population of Canada, who have agricultural pursuits always oden to them, (all our lum berers being either owners of land or able easily to ac quire it.) In 1841, the revenue drew £1,600,009 from the timber trade, and on the then or old trustern of duties the revenue would have reached or approached £3,000,000 on the in creased import of 1845. On the new or Peel plan, however, the duties decreased by the year 1845 to £1.000,000, although the import had extended from 1.200.000 loads to 2,000,000 of loads ; and, while no benefit, but great Injury, has accru-d to the re. venue, tee public has not got their timber cheaper in the least, the who'c of the duty remitted having gone into the pockets of the foreigner (prices at Memel and Danzig having risen from GO to 75 I , er cent). What classes, then, are inlereved in the timber trade of 13 , itish A meric‘. ? I answer, besides providing a cheap conveyance for emigration. the British coosumer of tint ber and the British shipowner are the only Gab:AT CLASSES to be considered, both these being deeply concerned ita retaining, at le+st, as much protection to Canadian tim. ber as will pay the difference of freight, 215.. as or herwise the trade will not be coot.nued, and the foreigner left without opposition in the British market. Never let the consumer forgot that a trade which has taken 40 tears to call into existence, could not. if allowed to go down, be built up again on a sudden in case of emer. gency. (Continuation on page 8.) DOCK COMMITTEE. THURSDAY. —in consequence of the fire which tsccorred on board the Chieftain in the Brunswick graving dock, it was ordered, at the sugges tion of the h•rbonr master, that no ve•sel should be " sweated" unless the waterman was in attendance and had his pipes on board.—The clause intended to be in serted in the new bill for lengthening the time during which timber will be allowed to remain on the dock quays was submitted, but it was ordered to be altered so as to leave it optional with the committee to grant 72 hours, if they thought it desirable. o.s Sunday night. the wife of Captain Morris,. of the ship Richard, in Union Dock, had a very narrow escape from drowning when crossing the gates, the tide having forced them several feet open, and the gatemen neglecting to put up the neck-chain, Mrs. Morris fell into the gut. A policeman immediately threw her a " life-buoy," and, by the help of a seaman. named Shepherd, who I tilled off his jacket and jumped into a host, rescued her from her perilous siti ration. A woman to whom the seamen gave hts jacket to hold deconi,ed. but she was shortly after wards apprehended wi , h it in her posss ssion. CAUTION 70 CAB DRIVERS.—On :aturday, a g-ntle man named Savage was summoned bef. re Mr. Rushton, tin a charge of having refused t.. pay a cab-driver his due tare. for a drive to the Park and back. wi h his sister. Detendant h••d tenth-red half.a.cr:•wn at the time, which complainant refused. Mr. Rushton, finding tie amount correct, requested it to he a2ain tendered in his rresence. This was dote, but the diver refused it ; and Mr. R. told the defendant to repocket it, and that be had hsd his drive nwhing.—Jarnes Cooper was afterward. fined 4s. 6J. for fooinsoJv droving his coach down Lord. street; and Robert Jackson 1.2 4s. 6d. fur furiously driving his orneibus along Castle street. Vile have no hesitation in recommending Mr. Thompson as the best teacher of writing we ever knew, and we speak of him from the knowledge of the result of his teilrhing a fiiend of our own.—Journal. The whole of the beautiful material with which the 113- zaar at the Collegiate Institution was decorated, and which reflected so much credit on Mr. Brisloe, is adver tised for sale in our paper of to-day, not at the usually reduced prices, but on such terms as to be scarcely credible. BONNETS.—It will be sr en in our adverti-ing columns that Mrs. Gardner, who now occupies eligible premises in Bold-street, is now prepared with her Spring stock, which, having been all selected within the last few months, is replete with much variety. Indeed, we hear the lidies say, that they are not only becoming in shape, but are displayed in such variety that the most fastidious taste may be suited. CIGARS.—Mr. Henry Stafford, who has long been re.. pitted, amongst those who " puff away the c- , res of life," nit only as an excellent judge of cigars, but as a dealer only in an excellent snide, hHa opened another shop in Church-street, where he P romises (and those who know him will not doubt his veraci'y) to supple, on tradesman like terms e those fine-flat oured and hi,hly-adruiredrigirs and tobacco, for which be has hitherto been esteemed. THE FLORENTINK VENUS AND ADONIS —TI ese did models of the human structure are still on view, and we would urg.ntly advise those who would learn "what a noble form is man," not to omit the present oppor tunity, as any description, however detailed, will give but a:taint idea of the facility with which every part is pour trayed. Every important internal part is heoutifuly shown, and accompanied by a description so talented and intelligible, that visitors are not only interested, but highly benefited. Separate days are spur priat-d to ladi S. COMMITMEYTS AT TUB POLICE-COURT. YESTERDAY. —A girl of the town nauied Jane Dean was con mitted to the House of Correction for a'month, on a cha.ge, which was fully proved, of robbing a man. na Sunday D ° ming, of three sovereigns.—A man named John Burn, who had, apparently when intoxicated, fallen against and br oken a pane of glass of the, value of X 4 10s.. that amount, and in d. fault to be imp rison w as ordered r rl r d de furl to ur,e pay day —A roan named Thomas Ready was comm itt ed her to gaol for a month for stealing a quant ity of . K rtes " (used as a dye) from a Weasel tue trig s Dock,