Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1859

v F - :Board deferring the consideration of the report on
thb`ralanagement of the docks and quays, epresented by the
cooicil-ot the chamber.— -lle-was -very-glad-lb-find-that
the whole questions was at once, to come on% for consi-
deration,- and that the chairman of the present meeting
had re-considered his determination, and would accept a
seat in the committee, appointed for the-purpose.
The Chairman : I beg your pardon. (Laughter.)

Mr. Hutchison : I uriderstocid it to-be sa

The Chairman : You are quite misinformed,
Mr. Hutchison : At the last meeting of the Dock
Board a notice of motion was given to that effect, and I
supposed iti waswith your assent.
Mr. Rawlins adverted to the French emigration
scheme, and observed that, whilst he rejoiced at the
partial success which had followed the efforts of the
chamber and of other bodies he had to remind the
meetingthat the Emperor of the French had .decided
upon abolishing the system only on• the east coast of
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Afriea, and it was with. the; west'coast that the interests
of England were particularly-bound up. A great deal
had been lately said about the treaty of Vienna, with
regard„, to Austria and Lombardy, to which lie would not
refer ; but he begged
,to remind the chamber that the
rights of the people of Africa were placed under the
protection of the confederated powers by the treaty of
Vienna as well as those of Austria to Lombardy. A
declaration was made by the united ,powers, in 1815,
proclaiming that the slave trade was piracy; and it
would be destructive of the cause of advancing civilisation
if France, one of the principal parties to that declaration,
should now be permitted to ignore its provisions. (Hear,
hear.) It was possible that the French Government
had been misled as to the nature of the scheme
she had been patronising, but it was certain that much
plainer men found no ditAculty in making up' their minds
upon it, and 'nothing short of its total abandonment
would ever satisfy England. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Rawlins
then proceeded at some length to direct their attention to
the great importance of having the importation of, salt
into India. He observed that no subject deserved the
attention of Lord Stanley more than the salt monopoly
of that empire. There the labouriug classes subsisted
entirely upon a vegetable diet requiring larffe quantities
of salt to make it healthy and palatable. The East India
Company had taken advantage of this for revenue
purposes, and although a clause in the act abolishing
their trading character bad especially declared 'that they
should " with all convenient speed close their owner-

cial business and make sale of alltheir merchandise, stores,
and effects at home and abroad, * * * and shall
discountenance and abstain from all commerce which
shall not be incidental to the closing of their actual

their dissolution retained their monoiooly of salt.
True, it had been inoclificd. in 1836. It was then
admitted into Madras 'on a duty of about 2s 4d, into
Bombay of 2s Bd, and into Calcutta of 6s 8d per cwt.
But, as the salt chamber of this town had pointed out, in
consequence of the want of bonding arrangements, and
the refusal of the Government to allow wastage in private

warehouses, the modification, so -far as 'Bombay and
11,1adras were concerned, had had no effect. The• salt
chamber had suggested as a remedy That all imported
salt should: be. bonded in Government stores, and the
duty paid only .on what was delivered. But it was
surprising that they .had, not suggested a much shorter
solution of the difficulty,, viz., to repeal the duty .alto-
gether. (Laughter.) A parliamentary
,comniittee, of
1838 had so recommended, and now that it ,protected a
monopoly in favour of the Crown, :it was still mire
objectionable. Let theni look at it in the light of
revenue. Did it fulfil the conditions so well laid
down by Adam Smith, that a tax should yield to
the Exchequer nearly all that it took, from the
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people ? On the contrary, £2,200,000 gross revenne'*as
levied, and only £1,500,000 went into the Indian
Exchequer. For every poand that went in, ten shillings
had been expended on its collection. Then, again, look
s upon the people— Elle would take the
as an examPle. It contained ten

Bengal Presidenc

with their

man had to st

thereto;

have to p

nt twppenc

.1(1 amount to 1Q

it was that there were some manufactori.eSTayingjlpr
£l5 that ought-to flay £BO.
-Mr.-Cronin-said; what he -found fault with vrartbe-
expense of, getting this information,:while he
,und.erstood
the collectors could have obtained it. They were en-
deavouring, to the best of their power, to keep the expenses
of the establishment down. Last year they were £23,900 in
expenditure over their income—a deficiency much:talked
about—and now they were going to lay out £4OO in
addition, which he thought might be prevented.
The Chairman said, he had just heard from the
treasurer that all the money was not spent yet ; , and if
they could get from the collectors the required information
there could be no objection.
Mr. Ryley said, he was much mistaken if the information
would not be worth more that £4OO. He thought, however,
that it was a, bad, time to say that they were going wrong
when they had spent the money, but if there was a
cheaper ivay of getting the information, let them have it.
Mr. Bennett said, from the remarks of a gentleman at
that board, a few weeks ago, there was great dissatisfac-
tion among the manufacturers, as to the supply, and he
(Mr. Bennett) thought there. was information to be ob-
tained •' which they could not rely on the collectors
obtaining. ,
The Engineer considered that the result of the matter
in reference to the manufacturers would be satisfactory,
and very desirable. They would then be in a position to
charge every gallon that was used. , .
Mr. Crellin asked if the meters could ne4., have
been fixed to • the various manufactories and breweries
without the resolution at all ?
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The Engineer, after some irrelevant explanations,
said. that they bad the power if they liked. •
The Town-clerk was then called upon to read Mr.
Jeffery's resolution, the terms of which have already
been published.
Mr. Farnworth remarked, that its requirements could
not have been carried out by the collectors.
The Engineer said, the cheapest mode of getting the
returns had been adopted, with a view to economy and
efficiency. They did not intend to adopt an expensive
mode, and he did not know that a shilling had been
thrown away that could be helped.
Mr. Crelhn did not mean to say that Mr. Jeffery had
adopted this mode, but somebody had adopted it.
Mr. Earle asked what discount they would get by this
conversation on the subject ?
Mr. James Holme said it was very easy adopting such
resolutions, but generally expensive in carrying them
out. It was not only what was paid for extra work, but
the evil of, taking the clerks from their general duty
which was all important. •
The Chairman was of opinion that the collectors could
not obtain the information. Their business was to collect

money.
The subject then, dropped without any result.
There was no other general business, and the corn-
mittee then proceeded to the matters of finance.

SECOND EDITION.

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NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, TUESDAY, 9 A.M.

FIFTH EDITION.

NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, TUESDAY, 3 P.M.

MID-DAY

}XPRESS.

KING OF NAPLES.
NAPLES, . Feb. 4
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A message, received from Dari, announces that
the King is again suffering from pleurisy, which
had been cured in the first instance. His Majesty
will return to Caserta.
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The marriage of the Hereditar4 Prince was
celebrated yesterday.
It is asserted that a note from the English
Government has arrived, in which remonstrances
had been made to the Neapolitan Government
about the insufficiency of the amnesty.