The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-07 00:00:00

To-molutow, the fith instant. at Golding and Nash's Saleroom,
Cork Exchange, Brun4wick-street,
2000 Barrels Superfine Sweet Baltimore FLOUR,
just landed ex Ann E. Hooper from Baltimore; and
1000 Barrels Superfine Sweet Extra States FLOUR.
just 'muted ex Albion and Benjamin Adams, from New York
4PPtY toJOHN TOMLINSON & CO., Brokers.

tro.atoaaow, the Bth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers'
Office. Col ,nial.buildings, Dale-street,
100 Bales JUTE,
now landing ex City of Dublin, from Calcutta, in the Albert Dock.—
Par further particulars apply to BUSHEY & CO., Brokers.

To-moastow, the Bth instant. at Twelve o'clock, at the
Brok,rs' Office,
2000 Bales J U T E,
ex Florence Niehtingale.—Apply to Messrs. Thomas and John
Brocklebank, Merchants, or to
T. & H. LITTLF.ERLE & CO., Broker..

R.'

NODDER,

HATTER,

81, CHURCH-STREET,

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Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver-
pool that his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY
for Inspection. -

E4e Indian Can

MONDAY, JULY 7, 1856
4.-

MR. LOWE'S defeat in his own Committee on
Towns Dues will probably satisfy that gentleman

on two points. First, that the rights of property
cannot be violated in this country with impunity
and secondly, that he owes to his own casting
Vote the rejection of a report in favour of the
continuance of the Liverpool Town Dues. But
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade's
humiliation did not end here. His amendment
to Mr. HEAnLaxt's motion, in favour of a report
declaring the indisputable right of this Borough
td tta manorial privileges, left him no escape. The
right honourable member was obliged to carry up
4id evidence to the House, replete as it is with the
tlearest ptoofe of the legal and sacred character
Mr. LowE would have
the world believe that we levied black mail, and
usurped rights which were wholly incompatible
with the wants of commerce, and the general

of Our corporate property

interests of the community. But now he goes
back to the House of Commons with a volume of
evidence in his hands, to show that all we claim is

as firmly secured to us as the estate of any
individual in the realm. The report when
printed will be of little use to those who
-d it into existence. They will

scarcely venture to quote a part of it, and leave
Parliament to read and digest the remainder. The
Manchester version of the history and operation
of the Dues has its antidote, and when the
poison is used, its corrective must be brought
forward, and by the time Mr. LOWE has read to
the 'House the title, Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH has
placed on record, it is likely its hearers will ask
no more.

Manchester complains as we do, and every
ether town in the kingdom does, of the pressure
of such taxes, but what is the remedy ? What
would become of the manufacturing districts if
they had not docks, with proper approaches, and all
the conveniences of ease and despatch which our
port and town present ? The Government have
not supplied these facilities, and now that they
have discovered the means by which the great and
necessary work has been accomplished, they ask
us to deliver our property up to e Government
Board, and leave us encumbered with debt which
supplying a national want has created ! Mr. LOWE,
we must repeat once more, never proposed to
relieve trade of the Town Dues. He merely seeks
to have them transferred to the Board of Trade.
This is centralisation in its essence, and setting
aside the moral injustice of this scheme, it
must be opposed as a vast political design by the
advocates of local self-government throughout the
country. If Mr. LOWE and his supporters
proposed to widen the basis of our municipal repre-
sentation, and reform the Corporate administration
of the realm, we should be able to follow them,
but we hold the property of the subject to be as
sacred as life, and the British public will no more
tolerate a violation of one, than an outrage against
the other. The promoters of the present attack
upon the income of this town, would, therefore, do
well to let the matter drop where it is. Our title
to Town Dues is well proved, and what ministry
will attempt to subvert all the property rights of
Great Britain? Mr. Dlsni.su spoke out like a
good continentalist on corporate affairs, at a late
banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London.
But we do not believe that a union of Derbyites
and Ministerialists would suffice to carry any great
scheme of municipal spoliation.

• Every town and parish in the three kingdoms
will see, in the case of Liverpool, what they have
to expect, and the House of Commons have not
yet grown so vastly in power, as to be wholly
beyond the managment of their constituents. A
little corporate and parochial agitation will suffice
to make a very visible impression on the Parlia-
mentary mind. And it will take more than
a DISRAELITE and PlamzusroN whip to get a
Majority to despise the interests of their friends
on the advent of a general election. Our safety
then lies in the magnitude of the centralisation
policy, of which Mr. LOWE has been made the
mouth-piece and tool ; and we promise the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, that as soon as
be enters on the second scene of his career, the
Corporation and citizens of Manchester will be
found in the foremost ranks of his enemies. We only
ask Mr. LOWE to give his dupes time to rub the dust

out of their eyes, before he draws them further to-
wards the pit he has prepared for them—before he
enquires of Mr. COBDEN what right Manchester
has to manorial tolls, which " every housewife has
"to pay when she goes to market." In dealing
with our respected neighbours, we would say to
Mr. LOWE, "Pity the blind." They will regain
their sight after a while, and then they will be
fair game. If Parliament should decide on taking
away the manorial rights of Liverpool, it must be
equally just and necessary to abolish those of
Manchester. But the matter will not, we predict,
be pushed to such lengths. Mr. LOWE has spent
a long and miserable session, and has now, per-
haps, a better knowledge of the horrors of the
probationary system than he would have acquired
if he had spent the whole of his life in the penal
colonies.

Next Session the right honourable gentleman
will, however, be more at home, and we feel no
hesitation in saying that he will keep clear of

committees for the remainder of his days, if it be
possible. The expense he has put the rate-payers
of Liverpool to, is all we have to repent. Our title
to Town Dues is now so completely established
that it can never be shaken, unless, indeed, Parlia-
merit is ready to overthrow the Constitution, and
give us taxation without representation, except that
of the Board of Trade, whose Vice President
was returned to the House of Commons by 246
voters out of a constituency of 495. This would
hardly be representation in a Constitutional sense,
The President of the Board of Trade is a Peer,
and we do not think that a member who owes
his seat to such a miserable unit of the good sense
of the community, is qualified for the very respon
sible trust which a wholesale centralisation of
local revenues would create. But passing over these
points, which may be left for future discussion,
we trust, for Mr. LOWE'S sake, that he will endeavour
to find a fairer field for the display of his legis-
lative powers—that he will look for public favour
by candour and straightforward dealing with
mercantile and shipping interests, and will hence-
forward avoid using the credulity of one large seat
of trade, for the subversion of the lawful rights,
and manifest injury of another vast home
of enterprise and emporium of commerce. The
great commercial communities of England
are not accustomed to harsh and unjust treatment
and they will not surrender their property without
a struggle, in which the expulsion of a ministry
from office would be among the least of the
changes which would follow a determined corporate
agitation in defence of local self-government and
rights of property. Mr. LOWE has been fairly
beaten ; and, with the frankness of a noble foe, he
ought to acknowledge his defeat, and withdraw
from a contest in which he has lost the prestige of
a fair Parliamentary name.