Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-02 00:00:00

NORTIIMIX DAILY TIMES

feel this new life at once. (Hear, and applause.)
But, then, and a granderresult than all; the scale of com-
forts of the greatbsdy of the people would be enormously
raised. (Hear, hear.) Shopkeepers, retailers, ancltrades
of every kind would be re'lieved, and they would find
business much improved and the aspect of the whole
country would change beyond all that any of us ever
imagined. Since 1846, and to a large extent in eon-.
sequence of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and alterations,
in the tariff-the whole of it is not attributable
to that, but it would not have arisen' without it—
the exports of this country have' more than doubled.
If -ten or twelve years would make this change
in the alteration and the condition of the country,
in the expansion of its industry and_ its commerce, and •
the. general improvement amongst the whole people, it
would be beyond the posver of language-to. describe the'
great advance which you would We during the next
twelve years, if this system were adopted; (Hear, hear.)
Now, allow me to say, d.espite those gentlemen who
are so uncivil in London, connected with the press--I
say that this system of • taxation is cruel in its opera-'
tion to the poor. Let it arise from the selfishness or
ignorance of the rich and powerful—whether it be a
guilt of neglect, or a guilt of., design the guilt
must lie at their doors, and at no other. (Hear,
hear.) Now suppose you won't go the length that
I have said that you conclude still that you re-
tain certain taxes from moral consideration; that is,,,
chiefly the taxes upon spirits and tobacco. Let me say.
the country is not •a bit more moral or a bit more sober
because of those taxes.- (Hear, heer.)E I believe if
there Were no Custom-hoteees and no xcise, and the -
spirits, and wine, and ale, and tobacco were as cheap.as
they would be if the tax gatherer was an animal ins;
known, I do not believe that the people of this country
would necessarily consume to their injury mere of those
things than they do now, because we find that amongst
the richer classes; the consumption of spirits does not
increase. On the contrary, amongst them to whom.
.price is no object, they are in the same position with
regard to spirits that the poor would be if spirits
were only half the, price. The price is-no. object to such
-men. You don't find they have. bcea every day.more,
and more intemperate; and the reasons which have
made the rich. of one.generation much more temperate
-than the rich of
,past generations, are reasons which are
continually acting more and more upon the poor, and,
without any effort. to makethom more moral or temperate
by those high duties.; no doubt, all the good we expect
from these high duties might be attained probably as,
soon if those duties did not exist.. .But in reference to a
supposed feeling that they are good in . a moral
point of view, let us retain the duties
upon spirits and tobacco. The duties -on. .those
articles are about nineteen millions. Don't you think if
the working classes de consume,_ as•l believe they do,
much more than half these articles, that nine or ten
millions aeyear collected, from them in this indirect-
manner, might suffice to us, who are richer and better.
off, and that we could undertake, for ourselves and all.
our fellow country men, who are equally well placed, the
sustentation.of all the national burdens which inie-ht.be
required in addition to. those- two taxes. That' is of
course a thing not permissible by an association which,
intends, and wisely intends,
,the utter destruction of all
custom-houses. At the same time, knowing as we do the
difficulty of marching; and however far you intend
to walk, you go by steps, if we could bring the
question of direct and indirect taxation to this point
which I have now indicated, there would be such a
change prodUced in the condition of the country that
all men would rejoice at it ; and at least there would be
no prejudice on financial or fiscal,grounds to go the rest
of the way, if anybody thought it necessary to propose
it. Now, my complaint—l will state it in a few words
—is, that the rich people of this country, who govern
the, country, are not informed on this question ; that
they don't care to be informed, and that they commit a
great injustice upon the poor by permitting this system
of taxation to exst. And further,- I say that the trade,
the industry of the country, has a great complaint to
make against the Parliament, because of the especial
burdens which it throws upon the trade and the industry
and from which it exempts most unfairly that vast bulk
of permanent property which is to be found in the soil
of the whole kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Now, at the risk
of taking your attention too far, I will ask your notice
for a minute ,or two to a department of fixation in
which there is a great deal of misunderstanding, and 'on •
account of the part I have taken in regard to which, I.
have been a great deal, antikmost unnecessarily, abused.
There is a tax
,upon bills of exchange which brought'
£457,000, and another ou receipts and drafts £418,000.
These last are mostly pennies, and they have 'a great
notion in the. House of Commons that if a man only.
pays a penny he never knows he pays anything.
(Laughter.) But you cannot put £900,000 by.
these two taxes into the exchequer 'without• some
persons being £900,000 the worse for it. And it does
happen, as we know, that most bills of exchange, and.
receipts and drafts, are things which are known amongst
towns and -trading people, and probably not•one-tenth
of them are known amongst the strictly landed proprie-
tors and the rural population of the kingdom.
(Applause.) I, of course,. know it would be hardly
possible to have the same taxation everywhere; and
therefore I would not complain of a thing of this sort :
if I did not find it systematically the case. lam now
going through the list in the department of stamps. ,
Marine insurance is £285,000. - Now, what could
have been the coinposition of the head or
heart of the Chancellor of the Exchequer who put
a duty upon marine insurance. (Hear, hear.) I speak
in a town where the matter is of particular importance.
'You see much of the risk and the calamities of the sea; •
and everybody who is accustomed to send goods abroad— '
and with•loo millions a year of exports that number ofa
persons must be.great in this country—there must be a
large portion of the population who have an interest in:
the abolition of that duty. It seems to me the worst:
duty that could be imposed, wholly indefensible, and
that it should be abolished. There is a great peculiarity.
in the duty on fire insurance. You know—even the
landed gentry know—(hear, hear)—that a landed
estate does not require an insurance from fire.
If they had property in the prairies, it might be .
a reasonable thing, where the long grass sometimes
burns with great rapidity, but it is not necessary in the
counties of England. There, you observe, the great
property of the landed proprietors, the everlasting earth
is incapable of taxation by a duty upon fire insurance..
That was a good reason why they should not put a duty
upon fire insurance, because there is no reason why
warehouses and shops should pay £1,400,000 a-year to
the state, where the ;landed proprietors have a descripe.
tion of property not applicable at all to such a tax. Bute
what is more, by the law inflicting this tax upon fire,
insurance all farming stock is specially exempted., (Ap-
plause.) I suppose farming stock was considered par-
ticularly insecure. Under the corn law, you know the
labourers were, periodically starved, periodically discon-
tented, periodically revengeful, and periodically there
were a great number of fires. I don't know whether
that entered into the minds of the legislature when the
exemption was made ; but I say when the land does not
need to be secured, never requires it, and when farming
stock is specially exempted, I say it is an impudent
and unwarrantable tax. (Great applause.) One other
illustration. The legacy-duty is a duty which to my
mind always appears one particularly reasonable.
There are persons who think 'differently. But for the
legacy duty to be reasonable, surely it ought to come
down to a certain lowness of amount ; it ought to come
upon all the property left at the death of every individual'
holder of property ;: and though I may make a difference
in the amount-of the charge, for which some justification
may be offered, to tax on a large description of property,
and leave another wholly untaxed, appears to me to be
a monstrous infliction upon that portion of the people
whose property mainly is taxed. Let me beg your
attention to this, because the case is so extraordinary,
that now and then when I have stated it, I have found
men contradicting it in leading articles, as if I was
stating a thing not true. In fact the thing
is so monstrous that they in their ignorance, not
knowing the facts, could not believe them. (Hear, hear.)
Now the legacy duty is a duty which is paid; as you
know, upon the property of a person who dies, but
when you go to act upon the will you take out what is
called probate, which consists of certain papers that are
stamped, and on which- you have to pay a very heavy
sum. These taxes were imposed in 1797, and they were
brought into Parliament first by the ministers of that
day to be laid upon all property. He had not fathomed
the depth, and there is no plumb line ever will fathom
the depth of selfishness in any particular cldss enthroned
in the seats of irresponsible power. (Applause.) He
brought in two bills, one for personal property, and
axtertafxoers
pfreeholdl property y
property—that
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twhhaitch :not freehold land or houses ; but the
bill which taxed freehold land • and houses, the
property in which they were mostly interested,
Rather,
sholTa
sayt,urally rejected. (Hearl hear.)
it could. not be carried tNlv thdrew t it
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has been paid on these duties? The amount of probate
duty paid has been .£1,240,000 sterling; legacy duty,
£1,400,000, that is, £2,640,000 together. But, in 1853,
this enormity: struck either the reason or the conscience
of Mr. Gladstone, who was then as now, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and he proposed in some degree to
reinedy it He 'brought in a bill proposing what was
called a succession tax; and, although I don't want to
-charge him—he is one of the last men IwOuldeharse with
dishonestye-but either 'he was greatly misled himself,
or he did succeed in misleading us—not exactly as to the
principle. of the Measure, . hilt as to' the amount of. re-
venue we • should get from it. He stated that two
millions a-year woold be received, but, I believe, that,
.not mole than £70,000 or • £BO,OOO has heen received e:
and, I believe, that since that has been proposed, it has
not brought above three millions altogether. But. let me
explain to you the subtilty with whieh thishvas brought
-in, as if to: persuade us that 'a great amount of justice
• was to be done, but it was only to„ commit us to another
evil. Supposing that one of • your townsimn dies, and
leaves £lO,OOO in ships, orincottoninyour warehouse„Or
in shares in the North-Western Railway, or in the public
funds, or in cash at his bankers, andhe leaves it to.a marn
who is no relation to hinnethe legatee .will have to pay
;1;1,000, that is ten per cent. upon the legacy which
comes to him. Another man dies, and leaves 10,000—
hn
equal sum—in a nice estate between here and War-.
•rington, or anywhere, and' let . us "assume that the two
'men are of the saine age,-10, or 45, or 50, one pays his
£1,600, his legacy being in ships, or in cotton; or. Tail-
.way'shares; or funds, but the other than does not pay
£1,500 at all ; but they say, Mir! So-and-50,..v,i1l ;you
have the kindness to tell us •how old you are ? He is
45 or 50, as the case may be,' and'then they turn to a table.
which shows 'how long a than of 'that age'. is-likely to
live, and then they tike the annual value most ;modera-
tely calculated-e-(laughter) of £lo,o'o worth of land,
and they multiply, not by` 30 :years' purchase, 'but they
multiply. it by ten,, or five, or two years, the age
which it is supposed that this man may, in all.probability,
live to, and instead of going with £l,OOO of legacy duty,
he goes with £2oo' or £3OO, as 'Abe case" may be. I
stated a case the House" of Commens, which was told
the by a friend. The gentlemen said he had an estate
left him to the value of- £32,000, by 'a person who was
ino relation to him, and they made the calculation as I
told you. They asked him what sage he was, and then
looked at the table, and said he had so many years
to live ; then multiplied this by so many years, and it
came out so much. Now, if this .£32,000 had been in
cotton, or in ships, or in North-western shares, or ill the
public funds, he would have had to pay £3,200. What did
he pay? I am giving you the story as I told it in the House
of Commons in his presence, and he did not deny it. He
paid not £3,200, but £7OO, or less than one-fourth.
That is the principle of Mr. Gladstone's succession tax
of-1853, and I pronounced it a' scandal and a disgrace.
(Applause.) Look for one moment at the grand
result. Taking -the whole time . from 1797 to this
hour, the legacy duty On personal property has
paid more than fifty-seven millions sterling, and
probate duty more than forty-six .millions, or one
hundred and. three millions altogether. Deducting the
succession duty which is probably received, it leaves a
balance of one hundred millions sterling paid on per-
sonal property, from which freehold property had been
absolutely exempted. (Applause.) Now if' these be
faCts, are we justified in protesting against this state of
things, or are we justified in asking our: fellow-country-
men to meet to discuss, to deliberate and to resolve that
a more just system shall be established in the taxation
of this country'? (Applause..) I say that the pocrer
are taxed professedly to spare the rich, and I will give
you my explanation of it. (Applause.) The. Parliament
is entirely a Parliament for the rich. I have shown you
that in houses below the rental of £lO, twenty-four
millions of people are found. These twenty-four millions
are excluded from representation. The represented,
therefore, consist of six millions who are supposed to be,
and are of the upper and richer classes; but Parliament
besides being a Parliament for the rich, is specially a
Parlianaent for lauded proprietors, and I have no doubt
that I .speak within the mark when I say that 300
members, probably much more, haVe no kind of title to
scats in the house, but by the voice and by the will of
some half dozen or dozen of the chief owners of land in
the respective counties °from which- they come. (Ap-
plause.) Now, what is the remedy ? There are two modes
of remedying this matter, perhaps they may go together.
One would be by making information on this subject
universally known and so widely extended, that even
with our present bad system of representation the
wrong might he redressed in some great excitement,
and. after some long and perhaps perilous agitation for
it; may be repaired by amending the constitution, by
.amending your representation. -Now, gentlemen, seri-
ously, you are not believed in Liverpool to be so
potent as . you ought to be in all matters in what
is.. called Liberal, and what • we, believe to be-
jest legislation. (Hear, hear.). Do you think it is
safe, is it just at any. time, that! twenty-four millions
of your countrymen should be wholly debarred from
represer&ation Parliamenthi- (A voice : "No, no.")
A great mass of the nation is wholly unrepresented
—(hear, hear)—and, those who pay much more-than
half of all the indirect taxation has .no :voice whatever.
in the Parliament of what is called a Free Constitution.
'Tax monarch is not responsible, and, can perhaps do
little in this matter; your houses of Parliament cannot
be responsible to the people efor . whom they profess' to
legislate. Now, I invite the Times, and that ingenious
gentleman who found out that if the work people
should only start a carriage , and' :pair and. get ponies
for their children, their employers would be forced
to pay them wages to, find them in that luxury. I
invite the Mines; the- Spectator, -and the Economist to
lanswer me those questions.' .Do not the twenty-four
millions living in houses under £lO rental pay half . the
taxes of the country ? I ask them further,. do they not
work harder, and produce greater value from-their in-
dastry; than any other equal number of people in any
other countries in the world ? I ask them further, are
these twenty-four millions not wholly without represen-
tation, barbarously excluded, and dreaded now, by the
monopolists. of power ? (Hoar, , hear.) Only the
other day you- had,—probably some of you were
present—on - this platform ,the expelled ministers
of the last cabinet. (Laughter and cheers.) A
yeah, ago -what were they doing ? :They :were pre-
tendiine. to concoct a Reform Bill. You remember the
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exceeding, duplicity which they manifested on that occa-
sion; you remember their ignorance of the people's
'wants, and the utter contempt of the people's under-
standings ; and you know the , result was their
ignominious and well-merited downfall. (Applause.)
You have now another Cabinet at this very
minute discussing the very same question. I hope not to
come to the same result—(hear, . hear—) by :attemptines
the -same system of subterfuge. , There are men in thin
cabinet, I know there are, with the sincere :wish that
the reprepresentation of the people should be 'really and
greatly improved. (Hear, hear.), They know, you
1 know, I know intimately what. was the question upon.
! which their predecessors were turned out, and upon
which they succeeded to power. I know what was the
understanding, what was the declaration, what were the
pledges upon which the majority, was secured against
the Government of Lord Derby. I know some
of . the difficulties they had to' contend with.
There may be colleagues who do not like reform
at all; , there may be colleagues who are faint 'in
their affection for it; there may be, some whose courage
is always oozing out at their finger ends when thereas
anything really to be done. I-have seen statesmen, .so
called, who were nothing, and who were fit for nothing
but clerks, I mean to do the work well that wassput
before them to do, but who seemed to know nothing of
what I understood of the principles of statesmanship.
I make no comment upon this cabinet. I only describe
the circumstances under which they succeeded. to power,
and the promises which they. made with regard, to this
great question, and I only hope-that they may have the.
wisdom to know.that the future of their government,.
and for a length of time the future of their party, depends
upon the honesty and the courage avith which they deal
with this great and unavoidable question. (Loud cheers.)
I said that the corning within the. pale of the franchise
of 24 millions, or any great portion of .them, was
. dreaded by the monopolists of power. Now I venture
to say before this audience -that .in the observations I
' have made .to-night •I, have, not, dealt merely with
opinions and speculations. I have dealt largely , with
facts, and in facts which I :believe no man at all ac-
quainted with this great cause can deny. I have been
charged with virulence,. and now I ani charged in a paper
with untruth—with fasehood ; I am so charged I say
by those miserable conspirators against the• common
weal who write 'in the 1.;,-; columns of the, Times
newspaper—(great cheering, -and iuncon,genial slanders
are -vomited forth weehly in the pages of Alm- great.
Saturday -reviler. , (Roars of, laughter, and cheering.)
. But still 'these: facts remain; and they remain, I hesi-
tate not to say, to the dishonour of this country, and make
Gsvernment and .authority insecure. (Hear) Aristocracy,
entrenched within the citadel of power, mayrest upon
unchallenged rules—monaichy itself, venerable with the

antiquity of a thcasanct years—authoritj of evety kind
will be quickened-and will pass away, 'finless it be based
upon the true interests, and comnrends itself to the
consciences, of the people. (Cheers.) I ask this—that
Parliament should be made a real representative of the
property, the industry, and the intelligence of the nation
—(hear, hear)—that we may be delivered, if possible,
from chaotic legislation, from reckless expenditure, and
from a taxation oppressive and unequal and unjust.
(Cheers.) The monopolists of power reject this de-
mand with scorn. The day will come when it will
be made in a louder voice than mine—(hear, hear)—
and when this question will be grasped in abler hands
than mine; and when it is so made as was, the case in
1832, that will be rurrendered amid terror and humilia-
tion for which reason and justice now plead in vain.
(Loud cheers.)
Lord TEYNHAM, at considerable length, spoke in
favour of direct taxation, and financial economy in the
State.

Mr. J. C. ENTART, M.P., said he had attended there
that night with very .great. pleasure to hear his friend;
Mr. Bright, and although he did not,- as the hon. gen-
tlemenvery well knew, agree in. every opinion he ex-
pressed, yet he. (Mr. Ewart) cordially agreed with him
in the general abstracted question of direct taxation ;
and although he would not go so far as to say that we
should have direct taxation noiv, yet he would'
say that he agreed that we should gradually pro-
gress in the path of direct taxation. The honourable
momber then went on •to say that he was opposed to
the levying of taxes on any kind. of insurances, and
'expressed a hope that the 439 articles in the customs
tariff, yielding only £750,000 a-year,.would be speedily
expunged from that tariff.
Mr: POLLARD URQURART, in a long speech, spoke in
favour of direct taxation.
A vote of thanks to the members of Parliament who
had attended the meeting was moved by Mr. Heyworth,
seconded by Mr. Francis. BoUlt, and carried, and a similar
tribute having been paid to the chairman, the proceed.:
ings were brought to a close at eleven o'clock by the
audience singing "God save the Queen," tothe accom-
paniment of Mr. Thomas's euphonic band.

VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

MEETING AT EDGE-HILL.

A public meeting in connection with this movement
was held yesterday evening, in St. Mary's School, King-
street, Edge-hill, in furtherance of the cause in this
town. Mr. F. A. Clint occupied the chair ; and there
were also present Messrs. J. B. Cooper, H. Bremner, A.
Stone, T. B. Forwood, Newlands, James Thompson,
Woodall, James Harvey, the Rev. R. W. Connor, &c.
The CHAIRMAN said, when be was asked to take the
chair on that occasion, he thought he might plead his
several engagements connected with municipal affairs
,as an excuse for not joining in the affairs of that evening,
which were rather foreign to his other business ; but,
believing that to be a great national movement, he
could not refuse the request of their excellent friend, Mr.
Cooper. He had beer_ in London, to attend a large
meeting of shipowners, called -together to consider
the very disastrous condition of that interest—a condi-
tion which no one could witness without feeling deep
regret, whether connected with the shipping trade or
not. He mentioned that subject because it had some
bearing on the present movement in the country. It
had always been considered that it was by the supremacy
of her fleet that this country had remained in possession
of the channel, and it had always been the boast of England
that she had been able to maintain possession of the seas.
Since the peace in 1815 a great change had taken
place, and within the last few years a still greater change
hy the introduction of steam, so that warfare is con-
ducted on different principles: The steam fleet of France
was about equal to that of England; and taking that in
connection with the shipping interest, he did think that
it was necessary for the Government to inquire into the
cause of the depression of that interest. He
believed that the volunteer movement was called
for at the present time. A sort of vague
idea had taken possession of the minds of the people
that something great was about to happen. He was
linot aware that there were any well-defined grounds for
it; but, as a matter of precaution, it was right to be
prepared. He hoped that meeting would be a
successful one, and add a unit to the general move-
ment that was going on in the town. It was easy
to see, from the position of France and England,
how a large body of men could be thrown on our
coast. He might repeat a very trde observation, that
the best way to avoid was to be prepared for it, and
therefore when a gentleman in another place, who was
likely addressing a much larger meeting than that .arro-
gated to himself, or rather his followers called him the
apostle of peace, he believed that they (the volunteers)
were the true apostles of peace. He believed the prin-
ciples advocated by Mr. Bright and his friends would be
much more likely to lead to a breach of the peace than
they would. He concluded by calling upon Mr. For-
wood to move the first resolution.

Mr. FORWOOD then proposed, " That in the opinion
of this meeting, it is r2ost desirable that every assistance
should be given to the volunteer artillery and rifle
movement, with the view more especially of raising effi-
cient companies in the West Derby Ward district, and
this, meeting pledges itself to promote this object by
every means in its power." Ho said they were all fami-
liax,,through the Medium of a free press, with what had
been doing from day ,to day in the movement, which
was to show to the Government that, like Englishmen,
they would protect their country. It became every
man in Liverpool, which was the foremost town 'in
wealth and commerce, to do as they were doing, and they
had always been forward on occasions of this kind. The
Gm'ernment had not done their duty in providing proper
defences for Liverpool; but he hoped that now, when
they had taken such a step, they would get that en-
couragement which they looked for. It had been said
that, in case of an invasion, the buoys could be removed,
and the lights put out, but when they took into considera-
tion the great interest that would be at stake, and the
amount of life and propeity which might- be sacrificed
by such a proceeding, he would say that it would be
Madness to attempt such a ihing.

At this stage of the proceedings, the first company of
the Liverpool Rifle Brigade, numbering 100 men, under
the command of R. G. Hamilton, Esq., arrived, and
were greeted with three cheers.
Mr. BREMNER, in a long and able speech, seconded
the motion, which was eloquently supported by the
Rev. R. It Connor.

Mr. HAILEY then proposed that a committee be
formed to organise a canvass. The motion was
seconded by Mr. Cooper, and thanks having been voted
to the chairman, the meeting broke up.

THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS' BALL, IN
ST. GEORGE'S HALL.
The preparations' for. the grand ball to be given in
St. George's-hall next Friday, by. the Ist Company of
the 'Liverpool Volunteer Rifles, in aid of the Royal
Infirmary, and Other local charities, are rapidly ap-
proaching .. completion. The sale de dense will, of
course,
,be the great hall, which will be boarded covet with
a flooring of the best seasoned pitch pine ; and the con-
tractor pledges his reputation that it will be the most
clamant, so to speak, laid down•in the building. The
whole of the suite Otrooms will be thrown open during
the , evening, so that the ball-room, in, spite of the
numerous attendance (for upwards of 1,000 persons
have expressed their' intention, of being present), will
never be overcrowded. The supper, it is said, will be
laid out in the smaller concert-room ; and the band will
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consist of the elite .of the instrumental performers of v
arni brilliant i ant a
s St.
George's-hall, No
ge ball-room
lo in the
r 9 world
a
by' a numerous and well-dressed company ; 'and next
Friday it- will present an oisemblc of splendid gaiety-,
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so esl_lic
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DECEMBER 2, 1859.

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke and Duchess of Aumale have been on a
visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The Queen, with Princess Frederick William of
Prussia (Princess Royal), and the Duchess of Aumale,
walked in the Home Park on Wednesday morning, and:
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at
Frogmsre.

The second dramatic performance took place after
dinner on Wednesday evening, the play selected being
Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
A Cabinet Council was held on Wednesday, at the-
official, residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, ill
Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the-
Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John.
Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right lon. Sidney
Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,' the Chancellor of the-
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. E.
Cardwell, the Right, Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Earl
of Elgin.

DECEMBER 2, 1859.

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,BRITISH & NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-
SHIPS.
rj=• NOTICE.
The Steamers for Halifax and Boston are intended to call at
_Cork Harbour, on both Outward and Homeward passages, to
land and receive Mails.
reight by the Mail Steamers to Halifax and Boston and to New
York direct, £3 per ton and 5 per cent. primage.
Freight on Parcels ss. each and upwards, according to size.
Parcels' for different Consignees, collected and made up in single
l'aekages, addressed to one party for delivery in America, for
'the purpose of evading the payment of freight, will, upon ex-
amination in America by the Customs, be charged with the
tproper freight.

The BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL
STEAM-PACKET COM r ANY draw the attention of Shippers
and Passoigers to the illigth section of the New Merchant
•Slipping Act, which is as follows
:
"No person shall be entitled to carry in any ship, or to
require the master or owner of any ship to carry therein,
'Aquafortia, Oil, of 'Vitro', Gunpowder, or any other' Goods
Which, in the judgment-of such master or owner, are of a dari.;,
terous nature ; and if any person carries or sends by any .ship
any goods of. a dangc„-ons.nature, without distinctly marking
their nature on the outside of the pack7:geoontaining the same,
or otherwise giving notice in writing .to the-master or owner,
at or before the time. of carrying or sending the same to be
'shipped, he shall for every such offence incur a penalty not
4Xceeding £100; and the master or owner of any ship may
tefuse to take on board any parcel that he suspects to contain
Goods of a dangerous nature, and may require them to be
OPened to ascertain the fact."
tRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM

APPOINTED BY THE ADMIRALTY
.4,, • *4 To sail between
• Arlitw, LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK DIRECT,
And between
LIVERP .OL AND BOSTON,
She Boston Ships only CALLING at HALIFAX, to land and
.: , • . receire Passengers and her Majesty's Mails.

SCOTIA (New SI
Captains. Captains
Pfisik„ 0 H. E. .14(1kins. AFRICA Neil Shannon
ARABIA . ..„janao Stone. - AMERICA W. F. Millar.
ASIA . Ed„-d, G. Lott. NIAGARA Ilex. eyrie
CANADA Vi. J. C. er.'ang• I EUROPA John Leitch
CAMBRIA.. Captain Small.
Vessels are appointed to Sail
The under-noted or othei-
RPOOL. 1859
From LIVE.
AltEßicA For Harlin, and to.'iton. Saturday... Dee. 3
ASIA Foe :cw fork ........ Saturday... Dec. 10
CANADA For Fl altfax and Boston ~.Saturday...Dec. 17
,ARABIA For New York Saturday... Dee. 24
.I.ITROPA For Halifax and Boston Saturday...Dec. 31
Fro;ri AMERICA. - --1859
AMERICA ' From Boston Wednesday...NoT. 16
ASIA From New York Wednesday...Noy: 23
CANADA From Boston Wednesday...Noy. 30
AFRICA From New Nork" Wednesday... Dec. 7
EUROPA From Boston - Wednesday... Dec. 14.
PERSIA From New York
The passengers and Goods for New York are intended to be
landed at J.kTsey City, within the jurisdiction of the Custom-
nolls, of New York. •
kASSAGE MONEY PROM LIVERPOOL TO HALIFAX AND BOSTON.
Chief Cabin Twenty-two Pounds.
Second Cabin 'sixteen Pounds.
: TO NEW YORK DIRECT. . . .
Chief Cabin Twenty-six Pounds.
Second Cabin Eighteen Pounds.
these rates include Steward's Fee and Provisions, but without
Wines or Liquors, which can ie obtain ?.d.: on board.
s----11.13.—These Steam-ships. have accommodation for a limited
'number of Second Cabin Passengers.
--" Passengers are allowed twenty cub's et of personal luggage
„ Aret of freight ; but the agents do not gull-ante° to reserve room
for more than that quantity, and they will be charged freight on
their personal luggage when it exceeds calf a ton measurement.
Passengers are not permitted to go on board by the steamer
'that takes the mail. ..— ..

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kFiCi;eveiiidisappointment or difficulty, passengers are
'pectfully informed that packages of merchandise will not be
"luowed to be shipped as luggage, or with their luggage.
„Parcels will be received at the °thee of the Agents here. until
-‘ .i cloc on the Friday evenings previous to nailing,.
Letters for Consignees or others must pass through the Post-
"4-e: None will bo received at the Office of the Agents.
Apply, in Halifax, to Sir Samuel Cunard, Bart. ; in Boston, to
' C. and I. G. Bates ; in New York, to Ed. Cunard ; in Havre,
to Donald Currie, 21, Quai d'Orleans ; in Paris, to Donald Currie,
12, Place de la Thurse ; in London, to .1. B. Foord, 52, Old
13read-street ; in Glasgow, to G. and J. Burns, 9, puchanau-
'Street ; in Queenstown, to D. and C. Mae Iver ; or in Liver-
-1)001 to
D. and C. MACIVER, 8, Water-street.
The AMERICA will start for Halifax and Boston on Satur-
115Y, the 3rd of DeceMber. The steam-tender SATELLITE will
Save the Lan ::ing-s I,,ge, opposite the Baths, George's Pier, that
ay,
at Twelve. o'clock Noon, with -the Passengers fcr the

Patratilas:

CARGO for the respective Steamers will be received at the
Company's Berth, east side of the lluskisson Dock.
THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK Ik
DELPHIA STEAM-SHIP COMPANY'S
Full-powered
---Vasi.imigWep7 British iron screw steam ships
CITY OF BALTIMORE 2387 tons... Capt. R. Leitch.
CITY OF WASHINGTON 2330 tons... Capt. I'. C. Petrie.
CITY OF- MANCHESTER 2109 tonai.Capt. J. Kennedy. '
EDINBURGII 2197.t0n5... Cummin.
KANGAROO IS74 tons... Capt, J. M. Jeffrey.
GLASGOW 1963 tons...
'VIGO 1953 tons... Capt. P. M‘Guigan
BOSPHORUS (Branch 448 tons... Capt. S. Brooks.
Steamer)
The undermentioned or other vessels are intended to sail in 1859
FOR NEW YORK, FROM LIVERPOOL.
Calling at Queenstown, Ireland, about noon on the following
day, to take on board Passengers and despatches.
CITY OF WASHINGTON Wednesday, Dec. 7.
CITY OF BALTIMORE Wednesday, Dec. 21.
And each alternate Wednesday.
FROM GLASGOW.
KANGAROO ......Wednesday, Dec. 15.

And every Month in Winter, and each alternate Wednesday
,in Summer, thrts forming a regular weekly communication
. _

with New 'fork.
FROM NEW YORK,
Calling at Queenstown to land all Passengers for Ireland, and
despatches—delay about one hour.
CITY OF BALTIMORE Saturday, Nov. 19, for Liverpool.
VIGO Saturday, bee. 3, for Liverpool.
CITY MANCHESTER...Saturday, Dec. 10, for Glasgow.
EDINBURGH • Saturday, Dee. 19, for Liverpool.
Three Saturdays each Month in Winter, and every Saturday
•in Slinmer. •
Rates of Passage from Liverpool to New York :
Cabin 15 guineas, 17 guineas, and 21 guineas, according to
the accommodation in the State Rooms, all having the same
priveleges in the Saloon.
Forward passage, 8 guineas, including an unlimited supply
of Provisions, cooked and served up by the Company's Stew,
ards.
These steamers carry "Phillips' Patent Fire Annihilators,"
and are built in water-tight compartments.
An experienced Surgeon is attached to each Steamer.
Freight £3 per ton, to New York, and Unmanufactu red Goods,
&c., will be taken subject to agreement, payable here, or Nevt
York, at-4 dollars 80 cents per Pound sterling. •
Parcels ss. and upwards, according to rise and value, will
be received till six p.m. of the day before
. Apply, in New York,. to John G. Dale, at the Company's
offices, 15, Broadway ; in Philadelphia, to John G. Dale, at the
Company's offices, 109, Walnut-street ; in London,..to._EiveS
and Ma-ey, 61, King William-street ; in Paris, to Jules Decouo,
5, Place de la .Bourse.; in, Havre, to Davidson and Co. ; in
Antwerp, to J. P. Kremer and Co. ; in Manchester, to
George Stonier; in Dublin,. to Cornelius Carleton; in Belfast,
to John M'Kee, 103, Victoria-street; in Cork, to Daly and
Foley ; in Queens-town, to. C. and W. I): Seymour and Co. is
in Glasgow, to William. Inman, 13, Dixon-street; and in
Liverpool, to
WILLIAM INMAN,
62, and 63, Tower-buildings South, 22, Water-street.