The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL

The trustees of the Liverpool Diicks having applied to
Parliament for a New Bill, the Board presented a petition
to the House of Commons, that no clause might be allowed
which should authorise the Corporation of Liverpool to lay
dock or town dues, on vessels passing the town of Liverpool,
and not intending to use the Docks. The whole community
of Manchester are greatly indebted to the attention and zeal
displayed upon the occasion by the members for this borough
and Salford. This' subject will require the constant atten-
tion of future Boards.

CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA

The proceedings of the board on this important subject,
having been submitted to a special general meeting of the
Chamber, on the 13th of August last, they have nothing to
report in this place, beyond the fact, that the American gen-
tlemen engaged by the Hon. East India Company left Eng-
land for their destination, soon after their visit to :Man-
chester. From the report of the proceedings of the Agricul-
tural and Horticultural Society of India, it is shown that the
improved culture of the cotton of that country is a subject of
much interest, and that the arrival of the gentlemen alluded
to is anxiously looked for. The board takes this opportu-
nity of publicly expressing its acknowledgments for the
transmission of these interesting documents.

On the motion of Mr. HERFORD, seconded by Mr. Isli-
CHOLSON, the report was received and ordered to be
printed.
JAMES CONSTERDINE, Esq. then rose to move the ap-
pointment of Messrs. Lewis Williams and John Herford as
auditors of the accounts for the past year, and in doing so he
said,—would the Chamber allow him to express his dis-
appointment that there was no allusion in the report to the
subject of bonded warehouses in Manchester. The subject
of inland bonding appeared to him to be one of great im-.
portance, especially to Manchester, and it appeared to him
that this Chamber ought to have an eye upon all matters of
real interest, as well as upon those of a more enlarged
nature, affecting the interests of the whole country. (Hear,
hear.) It was a subject upon which there was very little
difference of opinion among the commercial community of
this neighbourhood, and therefore it was one upon which the
interference of the Chamber might be likely to have some ef •
fect. (Hear, hear.) He could not help expressing his re-
gret that extreme opinions had prevailed of late years in this
body, to the great prejudice of the interests of the Chamber,
and the great commercial community it represented; and he
feared that the diminished attendance at this meeting, and

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the decrease in the number of subscribers, evidenced by the
balance-sheet just read, were indicative that this feeling wa
by no means confined to a few. He ',should not like tc

Withdraw himself from this Chamber, but he thout,.
that it was to be regretted that the attention of the board had
of late been directed to subjects upon which they entertained
extreme opinions, and on which they did not represent the
general opinions of the community—opinions, in fact
ing the effect of excluding from its benefit
those who should not only be represer.ted by, but form a
portion of, the chamber. He was sorry to express this
opinion, because he had no doubt that the directors had been
actuated by the best motives—and he had no hesitation in
bearing testimony to the ability which they had displayed in
carrying out those opinions. (Hear, hear.)
BENJAMIN PEARSON Esq. said, that Mr. Deacon Hume,
in his examination before the Committee on Import Duties,
had put forward opinions on the subject of free trade and the
corn laws far more extreme than those of this chamber.
(Hear, hear.)
Some further discussion took place on the subject, after
which the board for the ensuing year was appointed, which
. included six new members, several of whom were conserva-
tives.

;s a majorit

It was stated during the proceedings that a meeting would
shortly be held for the purpose of drawing the attention of
the legislature to the nature of the duties on the exportation
of machinery. The meeting then separated.