The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

iiss in not alludina

o the large sums

m the public on a title, which appears as
.qction as that set up by any carp°.

akin to

Town and other Dues

aend as

We hope,

e proceed, and with

many valuable correspond

s, we in the North are not goißg

ie exanapl

t at centralisatior

in a great minis

he met

while the Lendone

coruoi

to be deal

with in a

requiremet

and when or how

whether it
is to be dealt we are, and lose a
revenue of 125,000/, a year, of whicu the proposed
recipients of our Town Dues are to apply 14,0001.
a year to tho purposes of commerce, and 0 make
a free gift of 50,000 z. a
year to the shipping of f'
world under the disgraceful pretext of bene:
Manchester, and relieving the trade of the No
from the heavy imposts levied in this port The poor right honourable Mr. LOWE must tak
us for very muddy-brained and comical people in
Lancashire We had better be serious, however, as
Mr. LOWE may be one of those men whose wrath when
once roused is not easily appeased. With such
en it is better to tell them in plain language
mean, and to skew them we see through
Some men are thought

an income of 1,000/., and to

towar

navigation

s the
ad-

and the

vancern

their Hums

„,o profoundly weather-wise that when they
speak the sensible portions of a village arm
themselves with an umbrella, or put on an extra
And when crammed
gin to talk about demolishing the
and other

coat, to keep out the rain

noney rights of corporations,

S 110 U I (1.

unfurl our banner and put on
us tell Mr. LOWE broadly

ie dread

ight. L

ses of this town will not surrender

25,000/. a year, to bestow 50,0004 on

the shipowners of the world ! Let our shipowners
tell them such a sum is scarcely divisible among
the world's tonnage, and that they really cannot
comprehend what portion of the spoil will come to
them.

Mr. LOWE proposes no boon to the merchant
—he thinks of take compensation from pilots, and all those like
" for services rendered." It is true, he would
I allow them to raise the present rates of pilotage as a
Proposes to bestow on
the 50,000/. a year which ho
certainl shipping. Australia
had
y a good riddance of such law makers
They would tax the citizen for
the kanciaroo,
if it were only for the pleasure of robbing its nest.
lir. LOWE says, he expected to be assailed by cor-
e towns, when his measure was fairly known,
Ind it would be a pity if he should be
only for the
of time-honoured
political axioms, when endeavouring to palm on
Ithe country a measure of wholesale spoilation, and
replete with public immorality. It is not for us to
ask whether he is able to hear the flagellation

them,

set-off against

porat

made

he has provoked ; but of this the right honourable
gentleman may rest assured, that he has only yet
tasted one end of the rod, and he should lose no
time in preparing himself for the other.
The Government have no right to interfere with
the corporate property of the country, unless they
come into the market as buyers. They have no
business to ask corporate towns to hand over to
them the power of levying taxes to the amolnt of
upwards of 1,000,0001. annually without

representation. Our Government is repre-
it is true ; but our corpora-
tions are equally so ; and the shipping
interest must have far greater confidence in men
elected in seaport towns than they would have in
such Government officials as Mr. LowE in the
levying of Dues and the administration of funds
derived from tonnage. If there is anything wrong
in the application of Corporate revenues, no matter
from what source derived, let it be reformed.
That grave wrongs do exist in the management of
corporate estates, we freely admit; but Mr.
LOWE'S notion of transferring municipal property
to any Government department is not the
reform which is sought. If the Ministry
are resolved to take all matters of self-government
of the country into their hands, as they propose to
take that of the police, let them abolish corpora-
tions altogether ; but let the corporate estates of
England be put up and sold for the benefit of
those to whom they belong. The business of
assessment and levying rates could be placed
under the supervision of magistrates in towns as

entative,

well as in counties. We could understand such a
proposition as this. We could comprehend what the
country would gain by such a reform. Breaking up
factions and jobbing cliques, would secure us more
intelligent and able representatives, and, therefore,
more popular representation. We should get rid
of a host of local employees and corporate sinecures.
The political atmosphere and commercial morality
_ _

of Liverpool would be immensely purified by such
a change. If Mr. Lows contemplated any such
measure we are not prepared to say we would not
give him our humble support, but as he means
nothing but what is highly reprehensible in prin-
ciple, we shall continue to expose the extraordinary
depth of deception displayed in his speech, and
the gross injustice and danger of the scheme
which has emanated from his extraordinary and
ill-regulated brain.