The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The monthly meeting of the council was held yester
day, W. J. Tomlinson, Esq., president, in the chair.

A draft report for the half-yearly general nr?ting was
submitted and agreed to.

The proceedings of the special committee on direct
trade with Western China were reported and adopted.
They comprised a memorial to Lord Palmerston suggest-
ing whether, since British India is now under the direct
control of the Crown, it might not be desirable that
her Majesty should be represented by an Envoy at the
Court of Burmah, for the promotion of British interests,
and asking that, in the case of a now treaty with China,
stipulations should be introduced to provide for opening
the Chinese frontier city of Esmok for commercial pur-
poses on similar terms to the open ports on the seaboard.
A reply was read, stating that Government do not at
present consider the project a feasible one.
The law as to the transfer and delivery of goods was
further deferred.
BONDING PRIVILEGES FOR PAPER.

A letter from the. Treasury was read, in reply to the
memorial of the chamber praying that similar facilities
might be given by the Excise to English manufactured
Paper as will be granted to foreign paper in bond, stating
that the question has the best consideration,of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchcquer.

The half-yearly general meeting will be held on Rion•
day next.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN HYDE-PARE., LONDON.
On Sunday afternoon upwards of a dozen orators, pro-
fessing various doctrines, social, political, and religious,
took up their positions in Hyde-park, and harangued
large bodies of people ; one of them had at least
1,000 listeners, and many of the others as many
as NO and 800. The most attractive of the orators—
the one at least who succeeded in getting together
the largest number of auditors—was one Who dealt
chiefly on politics—a red-bearded Chartist named
Owen, from the Eastern district of London, who fancies
he has obtained some distinction in consequence of an
oratorical conflict he had a few Sundays. ago with the
Right Hon. William Cooper, the First Commissioner of
Works. At a very short distance from Mr. Owen was a
boy about fourteen years of age, who was dealing nut
very tierce condemnation, in a style which was anything
but impressive. He was attended by two other boys,
who gave out hymns and prayed in a style which,
to say the least of it, was extremely irreverent.
Scattered here and there about the park were other
persons surrounded by groups of people, to whom they
preached with seriousness, but apparently without much
effect, for few of them were even reeasonably acquainted
with Christian doctrine, and none of them bad the
power of profitably enforcing it. A more ignorant class
of public instructors it would be difficult to find; and
without any desire to disparage well-directed efforts in
this respect, it must in common justice be stated that
the Hyde Park orators only tend to bring religion into
contempt. There were several policemen in the park
during the afternoon, but they _did not . any way
interfere.
TRADE CATALOGUES.—One cannot but be struck with
astonishment at the innumerable ways m which an enter-
prising tradesman appeals to the public with a view 'o increase
his trade. Printing in all its branches, assisted by the skill • f
the wood engraver, seems in the present day to be one of the
media most generally employed in spreading the knowledge of
various manufactures. These arts have ably been brought into
use by Mr. Benson, the eminent watchmaker of Ludgate-hill,
who has sought by means of an " 1111istrated Pamphlet" (con-
listing of nearly 60 pp., and containing upwards of 250 beau-
tiful designs for watches, clocks, itt., with an elaborate
description of every construction of watch now made), to
enable persons living in any part of the world to select a
watch best adapted for their u Writ se, and ' forwarded free by
post.--hurt, 23rd August.

CORRESONDENEk.

rtFth FIFTEENTH LANCASHIRE RIFLES.

ED 'fig OF THE DAILY TIMES.


Stn,—As I att sifie wool& not an
injustiOe to ther.above 'obrps,.nom masters from
'29;Ei to NOY-men; I fake the liberty of Correcting n
graph in to-day's very 1n41: report of the Knowsley
.review. ,

in the descriiition of flat UniformS, you described at
great lenFth the-dress' Of ther.,iverpoel Borough Guards,
mentioning, their scarlet tun* &c., and then you put
dtmtn A. being something simitirr, and "no less
ftiedsing.4
This TrOtild teat]: some to believe .tkat, there were
other scarlet corps or the ground beside ours. This is
not the case, as the Whole fotrr companieS that roarched
past in that colour uniform belong to the Fifteenth,
and, excepting the Manchester untt .Liverpool Mounted
Rifles, the Fifteenth were the only scarlet corps;present.
The Liverpool Borough Guard do not wear scarlet,
but rue dressed in rifle green. There is a wrps called
the VOlunteet Guards in formation, whose uniform is
. similar to what you pat down for the Borough Guard ;.
' anti r take this opportunity of suggesting that when
this doYps is completed they sturdd form a company of
the r'ittcenth; that being the only corps whose uniform
is of the sante colour, and I can assure the nrembers of
the Guards that they could not meet with a better
battalion commander Chun out respected major. I
observed one, and there may' have been more, of the
Volunteer Guards present, but merely' tooking on, for, as
before stated, the. Fifteenth was the only corps present
clothed in the national colour.—l am, sir, your obedient
sertarii, A CORPORAL, 15th L.V.R.
Liverpoot. geptember 3rd, 1860.

GRAND VOLUNTEER PROCESSION AT
OPENING ,THE FREE LIBRARY.