Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-19 00:00:00

TRADE AND NAVIGATION REMRNS

The following are the amounts of Me principal
articles of commerce exported from England.in the
month of December for the last three years:—

Apparel and slops
Beer and ale
Coals and calm
Cotton, calicoes, mus-

1856. 1857.
£197,180. £181,371
124,119 155,600
168,717 186,121

1858.
£194,191
206,384
196,975

Bcd 2,704,494 1,945,844 3,008,984
Cotton yarns
Earthenware and por-

celaine
Haberdashery. &c.
Hardware and cutlery
Leather, unwrought
Ditto, wrought
Saddlery and harness .
Linens (cloths of all
kinds, and cambrics)
Linen yarns
Steam machinery
Other machinery ....

34533
34-0,879
22,348
146,654
25,649

84,073
188,753
275,584

143,115

20.600

29;756

16.551
123,502
28,256

-24,410
31,210
22,474

401,047
162,520

200,114
104,388
112,261
152,695
56,890

425,336

155,864

42,251
153,308
73,959

192,111

Metals—Pig iron
Bar Iron -
Wire Iron
Cast Iron ..
Wrought •iron
Steel, un wrought

44,663

413,239

332,554
12,849

315,551

52,541
228;173

51,28€
211,61

15,781
49,608
207,926
54,329
87,186
149,260
33,980

55,800

Copper, unwrought
Ditto, sheets and nails
Lead ........
Tin, unwrought
Pin-plates
Oil seed
Painters' colours . . .
Pickles and sautes . . .
Plate, plated ware,jew-

70,236

143,507
31,650
22,822
113,275
85,173
34,560
36,541
53,799
28,070
82,292
41,217

27,978

50,118
72,133

19,502
12,226

ellery, and watches
Salt
Silk manufactures (silk
only)
Other articles of silk
Silk manufactures m'xd
with other materials
Silk, thrown

50,099
18,826
27;862
58,949
12,720
38,335
14,131

26,086
92,529

85,303
30,792

twist and yarn

147,808
22,970
19,607
140,218

21,053

12,650

13,233
21,876

Spirits :,British)

Stationery

64,178

23,579

Sugar, refined
Wool
Woollens (cloth)
Flannels (mixed, stuffs,
carpets, Sre )

28,178
80,880
223,323

23,087

16,091
177,659

Worsted stuffs
Woollen and worsted

262,642
200,179

159,051

288,673

135,433

107,36.5

DOCK RATING

35,360
10,022

44,972
43,118

21,55 C

55,673

25,308

13,814
18,801

58,342
23,795

37,713

205,835

341,715
320,684

249,148

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—l would not have ventured to have again
addressed you upon the subject of dock rating, if
I had not noticed a petition in favour of the bill,
placed in the News-room for signature, today,
with an array of arguments in it, that if con-
sidered upon for a moment, serve more to show
the impolicy of rating, than to prove the justice
of such a course.

This petition, in one of the leading clauses, sets
fortLi that because our docks are comparatively
empty, when an East wind blows, they should be
rated, because many men are out of employment,
or in other words, make the docks accountable for
the winds.

Another clause has, that the docks have displaced
rateable property. What rates do our wise pro-
moters of the petition expect they would have got
out of the beach, for the docks are constructed
upon the site of the shore, except the Wapping,
and here, instead of a quantity of squalid dwell-
ings, we have a fine range of dock warehouses
paying rates.

- The argument goes on, that because certain
joint-stock enterprises are rated, the docks should
be, which are a source, of no profit or emolument to
any person or body, but are the direct cause of these
enterprises being profitable to their shareholders.
The next clause reads that the rates would
scarcely be felt, spread over the amount of pro-
party frequenting our docks. Does the writer of
the petition mean to say that £50,000 per annum
extra would not be perceptible in the dock rates P
I can scarcely think he has given a moment's con-
sideration to the subject. This amount comes up
to 1-6th of the present dock revenue. .

Then, again, 'because the Liverpool are the only
docks in England not rated, they should be. The
Liverpool Docks, thanks be to the shrewdness of the
promoters, are not commercial docks. They yield
no revenue to anyone, being quite different in this
respect from every other port ; but in course of
time, if left free from rates, they will be almost
free docks, much to the benefit of the town.

It strikes me that the promoters of the Rating
Bill are not going the right way to work. The
sense of the town has not been taken upon the
question. Let the inhabitants of the old town
have a word in the matter. Piace before them the
pros and the cons of the case ; and I shall be sur-
prised. if the good sense of the town does not reject
a measure so calculated to drive away the trade,
and thereby ruin the property owner, the mer-
chant, and tradesman—for they are all dependent
t 1,2 9n the one source, the docks and the trade they
bring. A. B. F.

SUPERINTENDENT OF MARKETS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

Sir,—Allow me your kind indulgence for a few
words, in answer to an article that appeared in
the Mercury of Tuesday last, relative to the
appointment of a " General Superintendent of the
Markets," The boast of an •Euglishigan is fair
play—all on an equal footing, hand-to-hand, as it
were ;
Saud the boast of the Press, in general, is
the guardian of this fair play. For once it is at
fault, in the nre-judging of the appointment of a
person to the newly-created, not vacated, office
as he would have it. That the article has em-
anated from a friend in court, appears pretty
certain, doubtless the head constable could tell
the story of its getting up ; sad more than this
could he tell, though we may " search the country
and a better man cannot be found." How singular
that thirteen years have passed and this virtuous
man has never come forth ; is it because we have
not had a new office created with £3OO
a-year, the pickings, that this mighty
clever man has not been held up sooner
to the public view. What a loss to the nation
that such abilities have not been sooner rewarded.

,cl, find a man

fit to compete, and thus is Major Greig
endeavouring to thrust him upon the committee ;
they cannot, of course, have much choice—sup-
posing them a committee of gentlemen who really
admire matchless men, - 'ssiug the rare

qualific
with ;

Sybbald -is blessed

doubtless he has in his day performed
wonderful things ; the Major knows it, so does Mr.
Campbell, of the Health department, who, if he
chose, could " a tale unfold," hOw, once upon a

time, a certain person was fined heavily for absence
from duty. Yes, but Mr. Campbell could tell how
that absence happened, and how it was covered by
fine, and this by one who was not his equal. Our
appointments are to be on the scale of our pocket
boroughs, at least judging from the article in
question. Happily, we have on the com-
mittee gentlemen who will not allow them-
selves to have thrust upon them any one, with-
out a thorough investigation of his merits,
though he be paraded by the head constable, and
the divisional superintendents • others are as
deserving, and many with much more superior
abilities. The article is intended to damp the
energies of those disposed .to make an effort.
May we hope that it will not have this effect ;
better men, so far as abilities are concerned, can
be found out of the police than at the present
time can be found in it ; and if matters can
be sifted, it will be found that a " better
man can be found" without a search through
the country. A corner for these few words, in your
valuable paper; will oblige, yours, &c.,

CALIXTUS,

MAIL NEWS. - The Bombay letters will be delivered
in London on Monday. • The screw steamers Lord
Arlilew and Lord Worsley having arrived in New
Zealand, the mail service between Sydney and the
various ports in New Zealand was commenced. on the Ist
November. The Airedeles sans this week, to be put
upon the line, .which is to consist .of four -steamm