The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-08 00:00:00

THE SHIPOWNERS' OHJEVANCES.

At the annual meeting of the linnderbind Ship-
owners' Society a report ai read and adopted, of which the
followieg is an eitract:—

" It is to be regretted that, throughout the great coolest,
so ouch strength has been wasted in the useless effort to
prove that the repeal of the Navigation Wes was a great
political and commercial blunder. Whether it was •
blunder or sot, the deed is dote ; and although your sem
suites may be of opinion that so wide an opening of oar
trade was premature, that it was • departure from the
ordinarily practical and centime character of British
legislation, and that free trade is 'Moen is roach less
likely to promote British interests than free trade in
manufactures and in commerce, it has now Moose so
thoroughly an essential element of our commercial policy
that, were any @showily to advise retregresdoe, he would
only excite public feeling to an indignant residence, and ex-
pose himself to general obloquy. But, if we Mina fall back
upon • protective policy, why nt, it is sail, retaliate is
those cases in which foreign couutnes have declined to reci-
procate! Here your committee venture to suggest with the
greatest respect that the shipowneni are in great danger of
losing sight of that which ought to he their exclusive object.
Their province is not so to assume the office of the states-
man as to dictate the precise form of the remedies to be
adopted For this, reason, mach • course is fatal to unity. The
moment particular measures of redress begin to be discussed,
differences of opinion arise-1104.moms better befitting
the cabinet than a shipowners' committee ; and the conse-
quence of this speculative disunion is that those practical
mischiefs, which all agree in deploring, are not exhibited
with the boldness mid vigour necessary to secure parlia-
rnentary action. Of this there is ample evidence in the
select ionusittee's report At 12 they unequivocally
admit that, allbeirgiltritish s is manifestly labour-
ing under pest dbedvantages Piped to it. competition
with foreign shMpMm no &el& government, whig or tory,
his made the elfgltrft effort. Pm by the mildest mencia-
stream with beige gontrements„ to obtain for it justice.
Hot why is it that gemeammil Yea bees to rumba is its
duty' Clearly hemene II hes sot beta gni ea by par-
liamenbuy prentre. Thee why is parihmet so apa-
thetic? Why, lint lisemie the representatives el mari-
time counties mad homer are not =ode=
by • Agin= sad senetriented
They me dist same shimernsee lave pews
notwithstanding the osespinints of the ate m ; end
that, while lime dead napshistredlif shot /Ago thf!ifiiiid
meal et allow themeless le be insemited by
political sad ego theseise.
It trams link eihmeniPaa=emeishise am en miler-
tarot* sibmied, they alert se ladasitre. The treAshful
saitemmak math be sestiphe is the seals the eemblsed
lisimelo '
aimseel..,'-1
el emil thee the eldemeteg newest
in pawned beemeee se feeble he its repatrealudies that it
might es well, for all wankel power. be mbar am
preetated i the executive goveremmi, sehiseled le ea
:di=stimalus, does nothing and the triodes of
ab imam.. not without amplerzmatis.
essegbin. saver remit itself except in the rif •
few metre membere mil thesehmes of • few friendly new
pipe% Mile he hem* pinemeele it is confessedly ma
espieltred. and item non pet prebsbly wholly uskeowa.
Year monnitiss `eel hesitate to sey that the plow-
men, adynittni by the mien committee to exist, armpit=
el by them in temp mph tee gentle, end that the report
nti%
of
the Loudon se hr as it ermines the perpe-
tration of grow Is set • whit too Moog. The
peeress form of the It may be dillesh to divine.
11 its very daintily te be ewer to emelleed action.
01113 free bade boom s% le eddies to DMA shipgiog,
menetriieg better than • emoidied liemple, lei the ships
of ?mitred are *cod I. a/I pate ea en oval intim
with foreign shi natal wag nib mil &Mew
two munkipel priv ipa me abregstai.
abolished, repecially ....._...Fr7==
which it has ~ftea operated meet epos the sell
country shipowasek end beestre eetrales of skulls.
large soma of imam hem than medergaise of kipiliTien;
mid the whole of iser moved .a sails heti ben wised, the
liabilities of shipewases whiled, and Sze= Ws
them reduced to • =Minium figure; your wonld
id is its duty did it not, se the organ of your society, em.
phseacelly record its concurrence in the (mimosa expressed
hy the shipowning interest generally, and aaeoeses the &-
tenni nation of their society to smite with other sosistres in
every practicable expedient for obtaining redress."

LORD PALYRIRTON AID TRZEmitits Coarse'
0011 T AMT.—The Ilsater Cutler of Sheffield haring for-
warded *Lard Palmentes the address which wee prepared
far pessudiaiise to his lordahip by the Cutlets' at
Wentworth Howse, had babas. able to (Mein in Y
itlew longer as expected, Lord Palmerston has for-
warded the following reply :—" 94. Piccadilly, Nov. 2.
eir.-1 hare had the homer to receive your letter of the
slat of last month, together with its accompanying addrem
ham the Company of Cutlery in Hallamshire, which the
sestpay had appointed yourself and some other members
of the company to present to me during my visit to Went-
worth ; and I have to 'Ypres my plat that
Lad Pahninton's indispeettiou, which re=d it
neesseary far me to take her at once to London,
and thus prevented me from availing myself of Lord
Fitawaliam's kiu.t invitation to Wentworth, has de-
prived me of the great pkinsure which I should have felt in
reesivhog this address from your hands and from times of
the gait blab." who would have accompanied you. I
am theettek however, to yea and to the Cutlers' 4 'menthe
for baying sent me the Nikon; and I bee that you will
balm the to swop to the eempany the expreence
of the gratilintion and thepnda with which I hare
received so frettassehis and flatter
. rag • twitimoay al the
goodwill and apprised of so shsd • body. Ili seen
always to Ls the study of every am charged with the re.
eporisibility of *Mks ths piddle amnia so to art se to
deserve the seed gibe end .piddle
el his haw
Losi=ezend it Rut always be most biglappriesd
of Mews to led that this
ie Ises at-
wined. 1 repeat yen to swept my eirlolllo thanks fbossor the
very terns of your Uttar ; and lan wenn yea
that it°ll= afford ma poet pleasure to be side at some
future time to visit that active and lawman cwt al pros-
meth industry from which your letter is dated. base
the holm: to be, sir, you obedient servant, PA LIIYAISTO3‘
M. Hunter, Eq., jugs., Master Cutler of Sheffield."
THE Sr. PAUL', STTROAL SERVICIL—Tbe special
Sander mooing swvlsee will conmenoe in • few smelts.
pouts hly as Sunday, Desember 2, being Advent hasstay.
ffir. Hehry Buckled i orsenling a choir, whisk will be,
twine effective than on fanner aecaaioos in emegessee of
the improved musical arreeepensets which have bees ow*
sail the removal of the screw. The Bish of Leedom will
preach the inaugural serreoe, and will he f by w 7
eminent preachers, including the Bishops of Dedham tad
Carlisle, the Deans of Canterbury and ()Whaler ; the
Itec A- Bari, iocunitient of Paddlegten ; the Rev.
C. J. Erre, A. rector of St. Marylehone ;LW the Rev.
boatel Years, of Camberwell. There will he • re-arrange.
meat of sesta, which will afford aceomtoodatith to • /arpr
number of persons than hare hitherto been able to stud
powwow errata's.
A Portuguese giant, repre4ente.l to be upwards
Ibe 414 M feet high, has arrived at :tladrid, and is about to
o:nitrated.