The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

policy to infringe there is no longer any occasion

we think Liverpool
can make aut a special and particular case,

for compensation." Now

would justify the infringement of a
national policy, short of that

general 0:

violation of the rights of property,

which Mr. LowE's Bill directly aimed at.
Our special case is simply this :—We have one of
the finest rivers in Europe, and by unremitting
care, foresight, and toil, a few hundred thousand
people have succeeded in more than doubling the
trade of the realm. They purchased a right to levy
tolls and dues as they would a bale of cotton, a log
of timber, or any other commodity which is legally
saleable; and as the income derived from the dues
did not increase fast enough to meet the grow
ing wants of a trade in which the world par-
ticipated, we borrowed money on those
revenues, and expended every shilling on
works which benefit the shipowner, the
mariner and the merchant, more than any other
classes of the community. Those who doubt this
can visit our harbour, docks, and their approaches.
And, having looked carefully at all that is to be
seen, we think that even Mr. LOWE would admit
that our " particular case

is established, by the
let that there is not a second Liverpool in the

British Empir

If the tolls and dues were to be abolished, and
every city and corporate town dealt with
alike, there would have been something of con•
sistency in the Government Bill. But London,
Bristol, Hull, and Manchester, were to enjoy their
tolls and dues, and Liverpool alone was to be
mulcted ! We have always been led to believe that
the "general policy" of England was to deal fairly

and impartially with the rights of property, and
where any peculiar locality was required to give up a
certain description of income that all its recipients
were treated alike. Mr. HORSFALL reminded the
House of Commons that the Corporation of Man-
chester now levy dues to the extent of 10,3721 a-year
in the shape of market tolls And though the right
of that Corporation to levy a tax upon every house-
wife who goes to market, and on every man who
buys of the manufacturer, is not questioned, still
our neighbours petitioned Parliament to transfer
our Town Dues to the Government, and complained
of the bitter injustice they are obliged to submit to
at our hands ! We are always ready to give every
man credit for the service he renders to the public,
and we now beg to thank Mr. HORSFALL most
cordially for his timely exposure of the unmanly and
dishonest course pursued by the Manchester Town
Dues agitators, whowere the first to forget the adages
and pour forth the volley of stones on our devoted
heads, But we shall not be going too far into
lebt, when we state that we owe Manchester one
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ster shippers from
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This cannot be the " general
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establish a right to compensation

Such a principle of legislation would have
exposed its authors to much greater popular
thatof which the Vice-Pre-

moquy

Board of Trade complained

Monday

r. Passing by altogether the
with which every class of the

sacredness

English people view the rights of property, it
would have been held up to universal contempt as
a perversion of legislative influence to promote
private ends by affording aid to certain localities.
But the right honourable member for Kidder-
minster is beginning to show us that he has little
in him beyond good lungs, and a .ew
stereotyped ideas which have brought him
thus far before the public, and which he
Ipes, ' stand by him until

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