The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.

The amount of the Dock and Light Duties received at thin port
has always been regarded as the best criterion of the comparative
Ahte orb* trade at different periods. The accounts ate' made up
on the 24th of June in each year, and the documents contair•.ing
them are always looked for with considerable curiosity by all per-
sons who feel interested in the commercial prosperity of Liverpool.
From the late unprecedented stagnation in trade and commerce, it
was generally supposed that the receipts at the hock-office would
exhibit a considerable decrease in amount, as compared with those
of the preceding year. We are happy, however, to have it in our
power to state, that, instead of the accounts exhibiting a decrease,
they chew an increase of not less titan 2,73111. 4s. 3d., when corn-
pared with the income in 1824-5. An abstract of these important
and interesting accounts is subjoined. It will be seen from it, that
although there was a decrease of 1,236 in the number of vessels
that entered the port during the last year, there was an increase in
the tonnage of 4,416 tons. The diminution in the number of ves-
sels is, we undersumd, accounted for by the increased numbers)f
large steam-boats which are now engaged in the Irish and Scotch
trade, and which have thrown out of employment many sail-vessels
of comparatively small tonnage titat were previously engaged in
it. But we have not room for extended remarks on the staiement,
and content ourselves with calling the attention of our readers to
the following abstract of the accounts

A comparnilve Account of the Amount of Dock and Light Duties. received
at the Port of Liverpool, for twelve monthe, in the years 1824-5 and
1e25-4, commencing each year uu 25tb June, and eadlng on the 2.1111
June.

Duties on Goods. 11424 25. Itr2s-26. Increase. I Decrease.
s. d. s. d. t a. d. f s. d pet,
Foreign Inwards 41324 9 0 46967 II 2 II
Coastwise Ditto.. 16417 6 5 12751 14 1
Foreign Outward 11503 16 7 10870 2 3 ...... tie 3 14 4 6
62245 12 0 70680 1 1346 17 I
Dutie.onTannage
and 62327 9 1 70721 10 3 1304 7 2 2

Dutle.onTanoctee
and Lighu
Total
1t25.... No. of e
i 526....

Decrease.

'1343 17 II
113fL1 7 ........
11
11282216 1;111310 IS/ 1 2:39 43! .... 2
i5e15....10,827 No. of Tone.. 1,223,820
.... 9,601 ..1,222.312

1.236 or 11 p. ct. Increase .4.4)ti or id. p. ct.

The great pigeon-match bovecn seven members of the
Heston, Ashton, and Midgham Clubs, at eight birds each, with
double. barrelled guns, two birds bring trapped at once, took place
yesterday morning on Hounslow-heath ; enclosure the winner to
receive 03 sovereigns by subscriwion of the members of tacit
Club. It was decided thus ; —He.ton, 9 ; Ashton, 13 ; and Midg.
ham, 5.

A fatal accident occurred in Union-street, Borough, yes-
terday afternoon, about four o'clock. As a young man, aged 19
years, the nephew of :Hr. Young, chairmaker, in the above street,
was endeavouring to stop a horse that had ran away with a cart,
the horse da‘hett hint to the ground, and kicked him upon the head.
Ile sprang upon the ground twice before assistance reached Wig
lie was placed immediately upon a shutter, and conveyed to the
hospital; but before he reached that place, lire was extinct. His
tic 3 presented a most awful appearance, the blood flowing front it
in streams. He was a youth elan amiable disposition, and much
respected by his family and friends.
lite Official Navy List to be published on the Ist of
July, contains the following promotions:—
To be Captains—Hon. Charles Abbott, Charles Hope. John
George Aplin, William Itochfort, William Keats, lion. George
Barrington, Henry John Lecke.

•
1 be Commanders—Hon. Wm. Anson, John Aitken Blow,
Lewis Davies, William Smith (b), Silas llisaitt Paddon, William
Henry Pierson, William Howard 11I•Dougall, Edward Reeves
Philip Itlainwaring, William .Zones Prowse, Charles Elliott,
Edward Chappell, Joseph O'Brien (b), Andrew Baird, Charles
Henry Seale.
To be Lieutenants—Arthur buncombe, Windham Berkeley
Portman, Richard Buxton, William Weaver (I), Thomas Rix.
bee, John Purcell, James S. M. Watson, John Bee, Charles Fitz-
gerald, Charles Bucliett, James Bolton, Edward Lushingion
Smyth, Edward Charles Miller, Thomas Hungerford, Wintring-
ton Seacole, Henry Johnstone, Garrett Rufus Taylor Disney,
Robert Brown, Edward George Elliott, George Edward 11 hit.
taker, Edmund Pope, Elisha William Tupper, Hugh Thomas
Rowe, Justus Oxenhain, John Mawby Coffin, Edward NVilliam
Pilkington, William John, Edwin Lipscomb, Alexancicr Ding.
wall Fordyce, Joseph Pyke, Francis Balloch Tinling, Thomas
Pryer Wheeler, Robert Lee Stephens, Edward Barnett. George
Davies. Frederick Spencer Thuraby, Henry Allan Griffith, Jcifiey
Hall, John Donglas.
To be Masters—William Green, Robert Stewart, Robert James,
James 31nrice.
To be Captains of Marines—William Henry Robinson, Richard
Edwards.
To be First Lieutenants of Marines—William Ryrie, David
Galloway.
To he Second Lieutenants of Marines—James Buchanan, Henry
George 51i dim& John 31. Coppinger, 11. J. Huston.
To be Surgeons—William Atkin, Andrew Ramsey, John G.
Sebinci
To be Alvivtunt-Surgeons—William Darryl& David Grant,
Thomas G. Ring, John 0. Lyell, John lisconehy, James
Butler.
To be Purser—Thomas Giles.

BRANCH BANKS OF THE BANK OF L•N(;LAND

[From the Gloucester Joarrpoll
We have been favoured with a perusal of Om application
was made t.) the Bank of England, in April last, with rim view of
insiueinktlicur to establish one of data, Brartelo4 at Gloucester.
The spin:cation led to much inquiry and Inserts ation on the part
of tha Mat*, the result of which so eompletely substantiated eta
several ststementa contained in it, as to the tethers local advan-
tagvs of Gloucester, that the Hank ultion.tely decidtel to act on it
rwommendation, and We hope spaelily to see our neighbours reap-
ing the fruits of this derision. Thinking that a perus.l of this do-
cument will be gratifying to our readers at this juncture, we sub-
join a copy of it for link purpose; but we have not app ndrel the
gentleman's name by whom the application wes jnatle, because lit
to:adders the measure me ',hog( thee of a palate Amore, and totally
unconnected with peramsl consider.itions.

It is tied rsteeol to be the intentit n of the Bank of Englthd
to establish Branch Banks at certain stations : and in the Hie,-
ing observations it is reposed to elle, that Olouceiter is, from ate
aggregation of circumstances, general and particular, the Rees:
point Cm such an establishment, with reference to South Wales and
the w eetrn parts of England.
"GI tucester is the capital of an opu*.ent routfle,the seslB.pfa large
Eccleisiastieal Establishment, end its central mutation gives it im-
portant advantages as a ststion for difFusirg the currency of the
Bank of England thretighout a great extent of country. The it
tereourse with Londou is tasty and regular; a letter written at
Gloucester in the evening being delivered in London the next mom.
ing, and vies versa ; it has intitteee commercial relatiose with the
towns of Tewkesbury, Worcester, Kiddermisister, Stourpart.
Shrewsbury. Wolverhampton, Birminghnm, Coventry, Wsrwleks
And generai:y with all parts of Worcestershire, Shmpshire, Stat.-
fordeliire, and Warwickshire, on its northern side, by means of
the river Severn, and the numelous canals and rivers branching ofix
front it. On its eamern side, its communicatioas extend into Os.
fordehire anti Berke, embracing Cirencesttr, Cheltenham, are
of her populous towns. On the south, lies theopolent cloth ing country'
of Stroud, Painswiek, Rndborough, Henley. Women. &c. thrower
which its communications extend on to Bath atal the manufac-
turing districts of Wiltshire : by the channel of the Stem, also.
they mace dawn to the Welsh ports, to Bristol, Bridgwater, sued
into the counties of Somerset and Devon. On Its western side. Itei
Hereford: hire, the Forest of Dean, and the whole of South Waits,
perhaps the richest in natural prieductions of any pert of Great
Britain, and with which its eneninunitations are extremely active
by means of numerous turnpike reads. ell converging on Woe-
cost r as a count os centre ; and iik:Win• by means of the fa; .
roads, canals, and rivers, which fall into and communicate with ia •
river Severn. Indesd, Glotteeeter is now temente a kind of mart
for disposing of the agricultnral and other ptoduce o tirsu.h {Stales.
a great market and numerous fairs bring held here: end h re, as
being the most 'convenient point, the Welsh Icon Master..
sad those of the Forest of Dean, have oceaManal electing"' with
those from Staffordshire and the northern counties, for the purpose
of adjusting the intetests of their trade.
" In whatever direction a line is drawn from Gloucester, it vat
be found to radiate into a populous and inn outset vier. ige, which
seems to point it out as a fit station for the establishment of a
Branch Bank of the nature here referred to. It may. perhaps, be
objected, that its population is small, as compared with Bristol or
Birmingham: it is, however, rapidly increasing; and no conchs.
sion ought to be drawn from its present actual amount, as to the
comparative import:ince or otherwise of Gloucester, either in 'pi'e,
or with reference to the adjoining coentry.—Bristol is now, is
fact, the port of Gloucester, a large portion of its imports being
destined tor, and its exports received from, the River Severn and
' the country bordering on it. These goods are now, for the mos:
part, transhipped at Gletteester, both in passing uttered' and
downwards; but the circuitous and expensive route by Bristol will
no longer be adhered to. when the Olouces'er and Berkeley Canal
shall he opened, as it will be in the course of the present summe: ;
for then seaborne vessels of two, three, four, aid even of five ben-
d?, d tons burthen, will be enabled to pass up the Canal with fe-
licity to the wharfs at Gloucester, where eccommotiaion for thee
teception, and the deposit of their cargoes, is actively preparing--
Gloucester will then become entirely, and in fact, what firistol Ithe
hitherto partially. but most inconseniently been—the port of the
Biter Severn and its comntunieatioes: it will rapidly increase
in extent and population; and a Branch Bank established here;
will at once promote and participate in its growth, till it shall se..
tain to a degree of importance commensurate to the many *tinge
rages of its situation.
The foregoing reasons in favour of Gloucester, as a station for
a Branch Establishment from the Bank of England, are founded,
for the most part, on its Mutation and localities, and are nhogethet
unlimited as to time, and perfectly general in their nature and sp.
'pile:than. Whet follows has reference to this particular juncture,
which seems to present's peculiarly faveurable opening for the foe-
'nation of such an Establishment here. In December last,
Turners and Morris, bankers, of Gloucester, suspended me-mew%
Their transactions were very considerable in amount, and their
notes eircoleit (Invent!' the ant rrountling country, and nearly through.
out the whole of South Wales. Their suspeosion, therefore, caused(
great distress at the time, which has been increased by suleseetitee
failure,. of many other banks in the reighboitrhood, some even very
recently. These events have caueed an almost total stagnation uT
every sort of business throutthoot the country, to the serious injury
of all classes of the community. and to the entire ruin of numerous
deeming individuals. The whole country, in short, is naralyseu.
and is thirsting for a healthy circa lion, which tile Bank of Eng-
land might afford it in the most advantageous form, by means ut
a Branch at Gloucester.

`• This subject is well deserving the attentive consideration of
the Bank I)ireetors, being highly interesting in a national point
of •iew, and most deeply important in its cimsequences to the city
of Gloucester. and to all the country bordering on and conamant.
eating with it."

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