The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

EASTERN DISPENSARY,

'THE Governors of and Subscribers to this Institution will
1 hold their SECOND ANNUAL MEETING at the
Parish Offices, Fenwick-street, on MoNnAvilext, the 15th
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, to transact the necessary
business of the Charity, and to elect the ommittee for the
ensuing year.—By order of the Comm e,
A. J. WOODWA , Hon. Secretary.
No. 35, Islington, .'March 10, 1841.
Subscriptions will be received at the Dispensary, or by Mr.
Wigg, the Collector.
The Treasurer begs to acknowledge the following contri-
butions :

DONATIONS

Mr. E. G. Deane ..
Mr. William Potter
Mr. Routhledge....
Mr. T. F. Bennett

£5 0 0
10 0 0
1 1 0
1 0 0

COLLECTIONS.
Collected at St. John's Church, after a Sermon by
the Rev. B. Banning
Collected at St. Mary's Church, Bootle, after a
Sermon by the Rev. John Gladstone
Collected at St. Stephen's Church, after a 'Ser-
mon by the Rev. Jacob Picton

SOIREE—ROYAL INSTITUTION.
THE Fourth and last SOIREE of the SEASON will be
.1. held on TUESDAY NEXT, the 16th instant, when an
Essay will he read on the " Customs, Habits„, Dresses,
Im-
plements, &c., &c., of the less civilized Nations," illustrated
.with numerous Specimens of Chair Manufactures.
The few remaining Tickets/mill be iqzpled under the usual
regulations, on Monday and Tuesday Text, between the hours
of Ten and Four o'clock, on the following terms :
For Gentlemen
„ Ladies. 2s. Od.
„ Strangers
The Doors will be. opened at Seven o'clock.
By Order of the Committee,
THOS. WIN'STANLEY, Treasurer.

IF
LiA T a MEETING of the COMMITTEE of the LIVER-
POOL SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, held lOtl.
Alarch, 1841—Present,
R. S. HENDERSON, in the Chair.
The attention of the Association having been directed to
the Resolutions of the American Chamber of Commerce, of
the 2d instant, recommendatory of a revision of the whole
present system of Customs Duties, and the reduction thereof
on Timber and other Articles, it was
Resolved unanimously,
That it has ever been esteemed the soundest policy of Great
Britain to foster and increase our maritime strength, and as
this arm of power and defence is mainly/ dependent on the
existence of a large commercial marine, the encouragement of
distant commerce (especially with our own colonies) is an
object of the highest national importance, deserving at ail
times the utmost attention of the government, and particu-
larly so now, when it has been considered proper largely to
recruit the navy.

That no more commercial intercourse can be more gene-
rally advantageous or meritorious than that most extensive
trade which now subsists between Great Britain and her
American colonies, because the whole of the immense capital
invested in that trade is employed exclusively for the benefit
of British subjects. The timber is fallen by British settlers,
it is paid for in British manufactures, exported in British
ships, navigated by British seamen, and by the same means
of transport the timber is brought to this country, employing
a vast number of British ships, and paying a large amount of
freight to the shipowner, and which again is expended in
Great Britain in seamen's wages, provisions, naval stores,
and the employment of numerous mechanics and labourers
engaged in the outfit and equipment of shipping.
That it is very inexpedient to make any change in the pre-
sent scale of Duties on Timber. because for the reasons
above-mentioned such change would be detrimental, instead
of advantageous, to the community at large; and also be-
cause the remaining argument in support of such change,
viz., the alleged increase thereby of the revenue of this
country, is in the opinion of this Association equally fal-
lacious.

That the revenue of the state is at all times best sustained
by maintaining and increasing the natural sources of the na-
tional welfare, by affording all practical encouragement to
British industry of every class, and by avoiding the frequent
recurrence of legislative changes, which disturb the ordinary
current of trade, perplex and unsettle the minds of all per-
sons engaged therein, and weaken their confidence in the
stability of the system on which the government of the coun-
try is conducted.

That these Resolutions be published in each of the Liver-
pool newspapers, and that a Petition founded thereon be
transmitted to the members for the borough for presentation
to the House of Commons.
R. S. lIENDERSON, Chairman.