The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE TIMBER TRADE.

An influential meeting of gentlemem engaged in the
timber trade of this port was held on Saturday morning,
at Messrs. H. Steele and Co.'s office, Brunswick Dock,
for the purpose of considering the question of the high
rates of inward carriage paid here, as compared with other
parts of the kingdom. Mr. H. Holland was called upon
to take the chair, and amongst those present were—
Messrs, Chaloner, Carter, Ewing, Fleming, Smith, Wat-
son, King. Bennett, M'Murdo, H. Steele, Anthony,
Halhead, Bland, Pearce, Mercer, Lord Smith, jun., &c.
Mr. Fleming (of the firm of Chaloner and Fleming), who
was called upon to bring the subject before the meeting,
entered into a statement from figures received from Mr•
Braithwaite Poole, to show that the cost of carrying tim-
ber to and from some other ports was much less per mile
than to and from Liverpool. He remarked :—" Mr.
Poole says that by rail from Grimsby to Manchester is
107 miles, and the rate at the present time is 10s. per ton.
The distance from Liverpool to Manchester is 31 miles by
rail, and the rate is 7s. 6d. per ton. By water carriage
(canal) from London to Birmingham, the distance is 160
miles, and the rate is 10s. 6d. ; it is 112 miles by rail, and
from Liverpool to Birmingham 98 miles, and the rate is
lls. From Liverpool to Manchester is 48 miles by canal,
and the rate is 7s. 6d. There is thus sufficient inducement
for this meeting to endeavour to get the rates set straight.
He had made a great many enquiries as to the ratcs
between other places, which he laid before the meeting
in a form which would enable them more conveniently to
master the facts. From Liverpool to Manchester be
found the rate was 21d. per ton per mile, and from Hull
to Manchester only led. per mile. After some conver-
sation, Mr. Chaloner moved the appointment of a:com-
mittee to collect evidence upon the whole subject,-and
suggested that if a memorial were presented to the Earl
of Ellesmere he would at once meet their views. Mr.
Steele and other gentlemen thought that the railway com-
panies would be the most likely to do so. After some
further conversation, the resolution appointing a com-
mittee was put and carried, and a subscription entered
into for the purpose of carrying out the views of the
meeting.

LICENSES.— We understand there are nearly 200 ap-
plications for new licenses within this borough, for con-
sideration at the annual licensing session, to be held on
the 30th instant.

THE SPLENDID SHIP MINESOTA, for Australia, has
been placed in a berth in the Salthouse Dock. She is a
beautiful craft, and the manner in which she is being
fitted by Capt. Allen, who has had gyeat experience in
passenger carrying, is such as will no doubt meet all the
requisites of a voyage of such duration. The rooms are
to be capacious, light, and well ventilated. She is the
first Australian ship of Guion and Co's New Line.
EASTHAM FEERT.—The late propitious weather has
attracted hundreds of visiters to view the lovely scenery in
the vicinity of Eastham ; and so altered is the channel, that
the difficulties of landing and embarking at low water are
now almost entirely removed. During the past neap tides
there was at least on the fore shore twenty feet more
water than during any summer for years past. Two of
the fastest river boats are now running to and from East-
ham every hour.

IcEs.—The public were warranted in declaring that in
his pine apple ices Mr. Feeny had excelled himself. A
more delicious production of gastronomic skill and taste
we conceive to be " impossible." That the word, how.
ever, is not in the dictionary of this eminent restaurateur,
has been proved during the past week to all who have
tasted his latest and greatest novelty—the " Vanilla
Ice." The most voluptuous of the Roman emperors
would have given a province to Feeny for this exquisite
article.
DEATH FROM VIOLENCE.—An inquest is to be held
this day on the body of a blacksmith, named Charles
Black, who met with his death under the following cir-
cumstances.—On Monday last the deceased was at work
in his smithy, when a person named Sanderson went in
and began to use a hammer improperly. He was told to
desist, but refusing, he was turned out. After this, he
kicked the deceased (who was stooping to shoe a horse)
in the eye. Black immediately complained of pain at the
back of his head, and went home. Next morning he was
worse, and Dr. Arnold was called in, but the deceased
died of the injury on Saturday, and Sanderson is in
custody.

AN ALARMING SACRIFICE !—Matrimonial " sacri-
fices " are by no means new to us. Almost daily are we
hearing of somebody or other of our acquaintance having
" thrown himself away," as our informants phrase it, on
the Hymeneal altar ; and with the feminine converse to
this our ears are scarcely less familiar. But the following
instance we certainly were unprepared for, and, with all
our experience, it has quite unnerved us. We stumbled
on it lately in one of those interesting sheets, the"Times'
Supplements," where, with an address as voucher, it
stands authentically recorded thus :—" SACRIFICE.—For
Sale, in consequence of a slight domestic difference, a
very superior and well-bred gelding, new Newport Pagnel
cart, and plated harness ; also a thorough-bred hack,
with bridle, saddle, and clothing. The above cost a gen-
tleman a hundred guineas within the last two months,
and no reasonable offer will now be refused." Of " do-
mestic differences," we are, perhaps, not utterly unquali-
fied to speak, but we must confess that the above quite
passes our experience. We are morally convinced, in-
deed, that our darling Judy could never so inordinately
"differ" with us, as to occasion the necessity for our
clearing out our stables in such a horribly wholesale way
as this. It really reminds us of Hercules and the Augean
Stud. And to think that with these tremendous conse-
quences, the " difference" in question is absolutely reek-
oined , slight"! Sincerely do we pity the unfortunate
gentleman" who, by painful comparison, is forced to
IT' so. If
,this be a specimen of his " slight domestic
differences, ' ateiTi.ble problem at once suggests itself,
which the martial round instinctively shudders to solve !
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