The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

a that when .time was afforded them thee made a bad are
, •?, protested he thought it one of the strongest argu-
favour of a change—an additional argument for a
ulated and judiciously-managed change. (Cheers.)
ng any rash, intemperate measure, but

one that would give an opportunity to improve the habits and
condition of these young men—and he was sorry to say that
there was too good reason for calling them young men, for
the injury done by the system to their health prevented many
of them from living to an advanced age. It was a grievous
fact in their history, as set forth in a pamphlet published
under the name of John Tompkins, and he did not know
the slightest reason for doubting the truth of the statement,
that few of them attained the age of 40 years, and that most
of them died under the age of 30. (Hear.) It was morally
impossible for them to emerge from the effects of a system
under which they had been long living, and at once to mani-
fest what could only be the produce ()Wong and patient
culture. He claimed then time for them. (Hear, hear.)
How else could their minds be enlarged ? How could their
responsibilities as immortal beings be 'felt and realised-? How
could their position, with regard to Almighty God, be felt
by themselves ? How could they feel their privileges as Chris-
tians under the light of revealed religion, in the glory of the
Father who had given his dear Son for them ? How could
the privileges of Christians be realised without time ? (Hear,
hear.) They must have time to think otherwise. In vain
would their parents inculcate upon them to he good and affec-
tionate sons ; in vain their masters inculcate honesty in the
discharge of their business ; in vain their pastors inculcate
upon them, when chance gave them time to call upon them,
to search the scriptures, to read the word of God, and to
pray. It was mockery to tell them all this if they had no time
to do it. (Hear.) It was calling upon them with the voice
of an Egyptian taskmaster to go make brick, when
the materials for making them were witheld. (Hear.)
Upon these grounds it was that they made their appeal to
the public ; and a good opportunity was now offered for bring-

to go to aptne place fee ingriietlan ,
willing, it only remained for the inhabitan
opinion with determination, and to carry it out:by-all
means in their power. With this view he should move ___.
amendment, which would place the onus of not carrying the
wishes of the meeting into effect, not upon the shopkeepers,
but upon the public. He expressed a wish that the clerks
in merchants counting-houses and attorneys' offices should
also have their hours of labour reduced.

Mr. CHESNEY seconded the amendment.
Mr. ADAM HODGSON opposed the amendment, on tl
ground that it was in the nature of a threat
Mr. JAMES OWEN thought the meeting
in deciding that the shops should be closed at sel en in
evening. lie was sure that would never be attai -
he would suggest that eight should be fixed.
An ASSISTANT supi)orted the amendment.
Mr. TURNER, shoemaker, opposed it.
Mr. WM. RATHEONE requested the mover to
the amendment, as it pledged the meeting to a prin
could scarcely be expected to be kept. Ile approv
had fallen from Sir J. Wahnsley respectir
the hours of clerks in countin7-house
that their's (Rathbone Brothers) had I
closed at six o'clock

Mr. WILLIAM BROWN said, from what had fallen from
Sir Joshua Walmsley it might be inferred that merchants'
clerks were as badly off as shopkeepers' assistants. Th.
was not the case. Mr. Brown then described how his cle
were treated, from which it appeared that they comme'
their duties at nine or half-past nine in the morninr
closed at seven, or earlier if there was no busine,r
and that in the day they were supplied with newspapers an

periodicals.
Mr. BATESON supported the amendment.
An AsstsTANTalso supported it in an addres
considerable amusement.

Sir J. WALMSLEY and Mr. YATES having each explai
their proposition.
The MAYOR then took a show of bands on the ame
ment and the original motion, and declared the amendn,
to have been carried. It appears in the advertisement as
of the resolutions.

On the motion of the Rev. F. BARKER, seconded by the
Rev. FIELDING OuLo, a vote of thanks was presented to
the mayor for his able and courteous conduct in the chair.

The -MAYOR returned thanks very briefly, a
o'clock the meeting t,eparafel.

A shower of hail fell over this city yesterday. Some of
the hail-stones were nearly an inch in diameter.—Durham
Chronicle of Fi iday.

The loss sustained by the Bank of England on discount
ing acceptances amounting to forty millions sterling, doe
not exceed twopence-halfpenny per cent.

TheQueen_Dowager, with her accustomed liberality, I

subscribed £2O towards the erection of the new parish church
of Portsea. Her Majesty has also given £2O towards the
erection of a new church in Stokes Bay, near Gosport.—
Hampshire Telegraph.