The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The usual monthly meeting of the council was held yes-
terday ; Hugh Hornby, Esq., the president, in the chair.
The proceedings of the Communications Committee, the
Customs Committee, and the Postal Committee having
been read and adopted, a letter was read from the Foreign-
office,—in reply to the memorial of the Chamber, on the
subject of the losses suffered by British merchants at
Vera Cruz and Tampico, in consequence of the reduction
of the tariff on imports into Matamoras,—stating that go-
vernment will not fail to instruct the British minister at
Mexico to make proper representations thereon to the
Mexican government. From the Carnarvon Harbour
Trustees, thanking the Chamber for supporting the move-
ment for the removal of the Swilly Rocks ; ark' stating
that government had agreed to sanction a vote of £6,000
for that purpose.
Letters were next read from Mr. Sprye, of London, on
British commerce with sundry parts of the East Indies ;
also, communications from a member, on the opportunity
now afforded for promoting mercantile objects in that
quarter, during the approaching discussions on the Re-
newal of the East India Charter. The secretary was di-
rected to address a letter to the East India Association,
inquiring if it would take charge of such matters connected
with East India interests as might be brought from time
to time under the notice of the Chamber, offering the
cooperation and assistance of the Chamber thereon.

The fourth volume of Mr. E. Levi's work on commercial
law was laid on the table, and a communication from him
read, stating it to be his intention to write a plan for
the codification of British mercantile law ; and requesting
the support of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. It
was resolved that Mr. Levi's proposal for codifying the
mercantilelaw is highly deserving the attention and support
of this Chamber ; that his communications be referred to
the Committee on Commercial Law and Tribunals, for
their consideration as to the best means of promoting this
obi f clkter from a memoer was reau, pointing out the
unsatisfactory state of the corn trade of Liverpool, espe-
cially in respect to the want of accommodation in the
discharge of corn vessels, the excess of charges over any
other port of the United Kingdom, and the uncertainty
attendant on the forms of contract now in use. A strong
wish was expressed by the council to assist the corn trade
to remedy the disadvantages and grievances complained
of; but a difficulty existed in there being no association,
or other body representing the corn trade, to communi-
cate with. It was ultimately decided to refer the subject
to the Import and Export Committee, with power to call
in and consult members of the chamber connected with
the corn trade.
The Patent Law Amendment Bill was laid on the
table, and instructions given relative thereto. _ _

Letters upon several other subjects were read—the
Customs' Reform, the Passenger Act Amendment Bill,
and the present customs of the corn trade, &c.

ARCHDEACON BROOKS' charge to the churchwardens
and sidesmen, at his recant annual visitation, was much
admired, especially his statement of the law respecting
pews in churches.
JOHN M'ROBERT, bookseller, of Dumfries, has been
convicted of arson, and sentenced to ten years' transpor-
tation. Amongst the certificates of character in behalf of
the prisoner was one from the Rev. James Mann, of
Birkenhead.

TEE GRAND HIPPODROME.-It will be seen, from the
advertisement in our columns, that Professor Risley and Mr.
T. M'Collum will open this evening, forone week only, their
Grand Hippodrome and Great Roman Amphitheatre,
which has been erected on the ♦acant plot of ground in
Park-road, Upper Park-street. The stud of these gentle-
men is a matchless one ; and the talent of the troupe, and
the appointments of the Hippodrome, are of a very high
order of excellence. The performances which were
announced for last evening did not take place, in conse-
quence of the pavilion requiring more Ir-bour than was
anticipated.
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INQUESTS.—Yesterday there were four inquests held
before P. F. Curry, Esq., at the Coroner's Court. The
first was on the body of Ann Cramptsy, found in St.
George's Dock, on Sunday. The deceased, who was of
drunken habits, has been missing five weeks. Verdict,
" Found drowned." The second was on Hannah Fleet,
an habitual drunkard, who died suddenly on Saturday, in a
cellar in Bridgewater-street. Verdict, " Died from ex-
cessive drinking." The third was on Thomas Park,
of No. 9 Court, Clayton-street, who died from injuries
received in Brunswick-street. Verdict, `• Accidentally
killed." The fourth was on James Mawdsley, who died
in the Infirmary from injuries received by a quantity of
bricks falling upon him, in a brick-field at Sutton, in
this county. Verdict, " Accidental death."

SCARBOROUGH GAOL has been without a single prisoner
for some time, although the population of the town is
13,000.

A FIRE occurred at Bath on 'Wednesday, by which an
aged blind woman was burned to death, and a young
woman killed by jumping out of an attic window to escape
the names.

THE LOST SON.—The young London gentleman so
anxously advertised for of late by his distressed parents,
was last week discovered to be a lodger in Milne's Hotel,
Dunfermline, where he had resided for eight or ten days.
It would appear that, on seeing the notice in the news-
papers, he had communicated his address to his friends,
and a brother-in-law was quickly on the spot to remove
him.—Edinburgh Witness.
THE Patriot announces that three students have been
expelled from New College, St. John's Wood, belonging
to the Congregationalists, for having denied the plenary
inspiration of the Bible, and for having distinctly avowed
their conviction that the ultimate standard of appeal in
matters of belief is the individual conscience, and not the
written record of Revelation. Dr. Harris, the principal,
and the council of the college, offered the three students
an opportunity of withdrawing from the college for three
months, for the purpose of a re-examination of the sub-
ject, but the offer was rejected.
THE AMALGAMATED OPERATIVE SOCIETY.— The
Morning Post announces that the silver cord is loosed
that hound together the Amalgamated Operative Society,
and the machinery which was to spin fame and power for
Mr. Newton, and, perhaps, even to bear him triumphant
into the Hall of St. Stephen, lies collapsed and shattered:
—" On Saturday the fund stopped payment, and with it
has ceased the motive power of the society. Since the
middle of January, an accumulated capital of £25,000,
reinforced from time to time by subscriptions, amounting
in the aggregate to £15,000 at the least, has melted away.
In three months £40,000 has been dissolved like moun-
tain snow under the summer sun, and, like that mountain
snow, has neither begotten new being, nor fertilised what
it found already in life.

ABSCONDING OF DR. PLUMMER, OF BRIGITTON.—We
regret that it falls within our province to report that
Andrew Plummer, M.D., late of No. 9, Steyne, has
decamped from this town under the most disreputable
circumstances. A husband and a father, he is reported to
have abandoned those whom he was bound to foster and
protect, and to have fled to America with a giddy girl, the
daughter of respectable parents in 1 his locality, his amiable
wife and daughters being on a visit to their relatives in
Scotland.
havemade offencefree against morality, the scampish doctor is said to
friend, had le' X 1,600, which Colonel Howard, a

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be surprised to learn that several trades-
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