The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, MAROH 8, 1856

MR. WILSON has documents relating to the
Liverpool Custom House before him, and our local
members " must allow him to know best." Such was
the language employed by that right honourable
gentleman in the House of Commons on
Thursday, when Mr. HORSFALL ventured to ask
" whether any commissioner had been sent, or was
"intended to be sent to Liverpool, to inquire into
' the frequent complaints which have been made
"by a large body of officers of Customs in Liver-
" pool, of inadequate remuneration for their

" services ?" We will not, here, discuss the pro

priety of noticing murmurs emanating from
Government officers in any particular locality.
The remuneration given in the several branches
of the public service must be uniform throughout
the Kingdom. And, as this is pretty much the case at
present, it is difficult to conceive why the
complaints of officers of Customs in Liverpool
should receive more attention than those
of other malcontents. But when Mr. WILSON
states that more had been done for this than
any other port, that the long room had been
revised, i.nd the salaries of the clerks increased ;
he attempts to justify a very broad assertion by
limiting himself to matters which are far more
interesting to a few officials, than to the merchant
and general public.
The Treasury has done little or nothing in the
way of affording Customs facilities in Liverpool.
They certainly have not done for Liverpool as
much as they have for London, and the other
large seaports of England. And here the injustice
of the Government's attempting to take from us
one of the principal sources of local revenue'
by which we have been enabled to supply
many national wants, assumes all its
blackest tinges. On Monday next this
proposed spoliation will be taken up by a Select
Committee of the House of Commons, who will

‘robably be enabled ;to make out a case by which

Liverpool will be deprived of a large share of the
revenue she has applied to works of public
utility. Should the attempt succeed, Mr. WILSON
will indeed have good cause to say, that more
has been done for Liverpool tfian any other

place. And with Slr. Lowz's bill before him, we
shall be free to admit that, if he does not " know
'best," he will be able to see as well as other
people what is really desired. But it is to be hoped,
however, that our local authorities, and all those
who feel a real interest in the welfare of the
will exert themselves to defeat the

appointment of a committee which can only be
designed for the purpose of seeing how a bitter
pill of injustice may be gilded, and how Mr.
LowE's poison can be administered without
detection. It will be doing mu. 311 for Liverpool
to retard her progress, and for London and the
Government ports in other parts of England to
compel Liverpool to raise her dock and other
corporate rates to a level with those of more
favoured spots.
There are court and fashionable circles in com.
merce as well as in high life, and it would be a great
thing to make us assimilate our dock dues to the
bon ton raftliMUlla of London and Southampton. The
House of Commons, however, can scarcely have for
gotten all that has been said within the last month
on this question.. Its members must be aware that
the PREMIER only recommended the appointment
of a committee to get rid of Mr. Low-es bill, and,
probably, the right honourable gentleman himself,