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

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRU_IRY

27, 1856

THE Town Dues Confiscation Bill has been
abandoned by the Government, and Liverpool

is much indebted to
Sir F. BARING for the manner in which they
conciliated the opposition on Monday night
last. The Vice President of the Board of
Trade, worried by truth, goaded by sound
reasoning, and crushed by facts, made only a lame
an 3 wandering defence. He talked as incoherently
as he did on introducing his measure to Parlia-
meat, and pleaded the immensity of the subject
with which his bill dealt, in extenuation of his
childish assertions, admissions, and duplicity.
While confirming all that his opponents said,
still had the effrontery to ask Parlia-
ment to entertain his nostrums. He com-
menced fiist by legislating for all boroughs
which levied pissing tolls and town dues. But
he found that in the cases of the Hull Dock
Company and the city of Bristol there were
" special contracts, and exceptional incidents:,
which would have made his bill difficult of applica-
tion to those places. And he said, " We propose,
" therefore, to deal with those cases by special
" clauses, and if it can be shown that there are any
" other places so circumstanced as to require
" exceptional legislation, we shall bo most
desirous to make in their regard such arrange-
)mpletely satisfy the justice of
eviously decided that Liver-

F. TH

R, and

ments as w

each case." Having pr

pool had neit

a poli

legal title to either

of the sources of revenue

a matter of course, scouted the idea of compensa_
tion ; and said to his opponents, " You have no
" right to take the money of the whole State and
" give it to a part ; or, if you make the attempt,
" surely you should seek to justify it on some

" higker ground than the fact that such
"things have been done before now." This logic
we will accept without a murmur, provided that
Mr.
LowE will allow us to reverse his reasoning
and ask if the Legislature has a rig ht to take a
property from the inhabitants of a
ofseaport
town who have expended every farthing
income, and created millions of debt to increase
their
the trade of the most populous portions of the
realm, and plunder a few for that " greatest of
all corporations—the community at large?"
"
expended, asJr. HORSFALL very
Liverpool has M
clearly proved, 1;300,
090/. in increasing the facili-
ties of trade which extends its benefits to the
remotest parish and hamlet in the country.
This sum represents an amount greater than the
Town Dues would have been worth had they been
capitalised twenty years ago. Where we could
prove that tho income arising from them has been
strictly applied to extending the facilities of com-
merce, was it reasonable—was it honest—to ask us
to forego them without receiving a fraction in the
shape of compensation? Mr.LowE even admits that,
s. as long as there was in special and particular cases
0, an infringement of a general policy, so long there

"was in .such cases an equitable claim to com-
but when there is no longer a general

pensatidla