The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OP COMMERCE.

The fourteenth annual general meeting was held
yesterday ; Mr. IL A. Yams (President) in the chair.
M-. T. 13. Boridall, LP., kr J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr.
Lawrewco Hayworth, and Mr. Story Ashworth VIM pre.
sect, sad there was a large attendance of ordinary mem-
bers. Lames of apology were read from Lord iiMaley
P., Mr. C. TWIN,. H.E. the Hon. A. Eisrten,

The report sounathated the opsratioss of the chamber
duties the year, recoaridag upon the feet that a treaty of
oommetce had 'been armaged with the King of Buramb,
which the settimeent of British inerehaats ia
and of Burmese reertheats ta British teteitory,
for the purposes of trade. Other subjects alluded to were
the customs duties in India ; the proisibitioa of the export
of arms, 100., from Siagapore ; the liability of private pee-
party to capture at sea ; the coathiterion of the present
courts of inquiry into wrecks sod aunalties at sea ; the law
of patents for revelations ; the men duties ; the ;leek Asti
of 1844 ; and the advisability of re-establishing Plymouth
as • packet station. The council had also disowned the
question of wasolidatiag the customs and island renew
estaldialsaisete ; the raise for railway earrisge to sad from
Liverpool ; the transmiethoo of samples sad patterns by
pat ; the reductioa of carrier, rates ea small paresis by
rail ; the establishment of Liverpool as a Gaut:tat new ;
the appointment of as Admiralty Court ; and a variety of
other questiow bearing upon the commerce of the part.
The Pustithar baviag reviewed sad commented woe
the sabjects onatiosed in the report,
Mr. Hoes eau, M.P., moved to adoption. He =premed
his satisfaction at the conclusion of a treaty with Ilurinah,
and believed that it would be much better for the commerce
of this and other countries with regard to treaties if there
were a patter interchanp of opine° between the Board of
Trade and the chambers of commerce. With regard to the
cotton question Mr. Honfall said that, from the facts that
is 1863 nearly half a million bales were imported into this
country more than were imported is 1861, that the stock of
cotton was sow 5,000 tales more than at the does of 1862,
that them we • greater employment of the moans meson-
fathering populate," and that there was no real increase of
distress, be coacluded that the supply of cellos dariag 1864
would materially exceed that of 1882. (Cheers.) With
' tweet to the reconstitution of the curia of inquiry into
wreaks and cesualtim, Mrs Randall aid that he believed
that captains aid odious should either be tried byaapp of
their eoustrymea, or at least have the power of to
such a jury. (Hear, beer.) Before clods, Mr. overall
paid a high tribute to the avid sad ability of the late mare-
tary, Mr. Trowels.
Mr. J. C. EWART, /LP., is seconding the resolution, said
that though he did riot agree with the remedies which Mr.
Webster proposed with regard to the Bank Act of 1844, he
those's the act did require some readmit*, considering the
enannons tactus in the trade of the country, bat bearing
strictly ia mind the inocievertibility of the Beak note,. With
regard to cotton Mr. /mart believed that, though we should
have a large quantity from India, the quality was still poor,
probably owing to the fact that the proper seed bed not been
introduci d. He looked forward with mem esafidenee to
Purkey sad Aria Minor, where New Orleans seed had been
tried, and grew very well.
Mr. Hx%ml ASHWORTH (President of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce) followed, chiefly devoting himself
to the quotas of the oottoo supply. Eqpt, he said, had
iecremed from 27,000 bales is 1861 to 248,000 bales is the
last year; this inmease, too, being accompanied by a large
increase is pries ealcaLited to extend that produatioa
not may is Egypt, but in Greece, Italy, and
many other parts of the world. lle believed that is
time we •bold receive an adequate supply of cotton for all
our wants irrespective of the United deaths, but übsPlll7
that time might be of the meet important sad seisms esr
sideratioo to many of the working classes. The Indio&
supply bad increased tress 980,000 to 1.180,000 balm—tot
so 4rge so pi °portion as that from Egypt. Mr. Ashworth
next commented upon the crushing severity with which
the option crisis had premed upoe the nuanfactiners them-
selves, sad the ruin which it would undoubtedly cause to
many. Is the aims of the maaufecturing population be
heartily thanked the people of Liverpool for their liberality
during the heaviest period of the lawashire &strum.
With regard to the palest question, and that of maritime
law, Mr. Ashworth explained the views which had bees ad-
vocated by the Manchester Chamber, sad said that though
he was not a shipoweer himself, pet se one of ten millions of
people who were fed from abroad, he claimed that, is the
sweat of war, there should he such • maritime legidatioe
that he should neither be reduced to short, commons nor
throws "out of week" by the nubility to get the raw
material for manufathure.

Mr. LL TD (01 Barniugham), the chairman of the Am".
cieted Chamber tf Commerce, explidned the ocastitatiow
and operatioas of that body, and tommeratal several mea-
sures (melodist the Morehead's' Marts Act, the Maria"
atorodealers Itol, sad the pubbcation of foreign tulle
dosiorniaeltano) which bad bees osseeded almost La.
medietaly to the reproaastatioua of the tutted olmadime.
Mr. Meets (chairman of the Liverpool Cora-trade Amr
cistiou) followed with seam remarks upon the great expan-
sion which might be anticipated la the imports of foreign
corn by the abolition of the duty al la. per quarter aow

Mr. Lawasucz Horworra spoke ant, okiody is favour
of Ye gradual but ample . abolition of customs duties, is
order that trade might be thoroughly set free.
Mr. J. B. Smcc dwelt upon the wield laws, which be
thotiqit were Miami., both to the Lovelace and the ones-
. . . . .

Mr. H. POOLIBT. while not disapproving the laws as I.
pateats, thought they might be more equitably admiair
Mired.
Both Mr. PON= sod M. FOIWOOD (who followed kb.)
depreceted the raoeopoly enjoyed by railway oompmaiee at
the carriage opium, sad the unequal high miss et marriage
whisk it involved, to Cee Wary sot oily el Liverpool amiss,
hat at those is the meautacturiag distridia.
Mr. Ewan, ILP., believed that the Leedom mad North
Wakes Clesepamy (with whose board he was adoseeled)
weld sot regime to great any reaseeable iseilitima fI peeper
nprommabsticas ware made to the..
The report was thee sdopfed, and the dumber than
proceeded to some tonsil sad matins bairns

At tbe don of the mootiag Nos Pruideet artatWad •
amber of gentlemen mouton ol the &maks and ethos,
at • eallatios at Yet loyal hoe•L