The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

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Just Published, in 2 vols., Post Bvo., cloth boards
itlust rated by a Map and 10 Pates
Dedicated to tier Most Gracious Maj.sty Queen,
THE MISER/V.B. rind BEAUTIES tELAND By.
JONATHAN BINNS, Assistantlivic oral Commissioner
on the late Irish Poor Ingoily.• • • ••
These volumes contain abstracts of the most interesting and
itnpurtant parts Of the Official Examinations; Remarks on the
State of Agricultme, aid on the Condition and Habits of the
People; the Narrative of ar Tour through Thirty of the Irish
Counties; and Suggestions for Reviving the Industry and
Prosperity of Ireland.
LONGMAN, 0101.1 i, and Co., London; J. F. CA NNELL, Liver-

T A PUBLIC MEETING of the COTrAGE OWN-
A EUS' AS,SOCIATION, held ou the evening of WED-
itesday, the 10;n.January instant, at the Pied Bull I n, Gleat
Charlutte-street,
Mr. EDMUND FORD in the Ohs' ,
Moved by MI. E. KN PPER, and seconded t • I'. JONES, and
Resolved, —Thatthe Iteport of the COIIIIIII ehe adopted.
Moved by Mr. ELLIS, and seconded by Mr. IlaNsuaw, and
Revd, ed,—That the following petition he ;Wowed, and re-
main fur signature until the 22d instant; that it be sent to Lind
Sandon fur presentation, and that Mr. Cresioxell and the metn-
bers,of the county be requested to suppuit the prayer of the
petition._ -

• To the Honourable the Commons of the United King-
-
dons. or Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
assembled :
The humble Petition of the Owners of Cottage Pro-
perty in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster,
SHEWETH,
That your Petitioners observe, with great surprise and alarm,
that Sir H. Verney has iutioduced to yotisr Honourable House
a Bill, the provisions of which are to rate the Owner, of tene-
ments of £2ll. and under, 1,; the parochial rates, inileatrortlie
Occupiers. Against such an enactment your Petitioners most
earnestly remonstrate, inasmuch as they consider it partial, un-
just, and oppiessive.
That your Petitioners, from experience, are convinced that
the returns front small property are regulated by the prospet it y
add adversity of the tithes; tmsequently, in adverse times the
()woe's would be called upon for the greatest contribution, when
their receipts would be .the least.
Thou such a liability. on the Owner would prevent the erections
of property subject to its operation; therefore dwellings for the
poor
,would become scarce and dear—the working classes in
large towns would be compelled to herd together us dark and
unwholesome cellass and looms; the demoralizing, pernicious,
and iajurious effects of which on the inin,lS and bodily health
oftheir inhabitants, your Honourable House can more readil
conceive then your Petitioners can desciibe.
That your Petitioners are ready to prove that their losses,
through the poverty of the lowe r classes, are as two to one its
proportion to the rates required for the relief of the poor, being,
as before stated, regulated by the state of the times; thus slaw-
ing that such property as is occupied by the very pour does in-
nuil‘eere poverty,rum
should
to ptahye
voluntarily coutribute to their support.
That it is a well-known fact,' that many of the Occupants of
small property are unable, through extre
their rents without any additional charge ; i
measure pass into law, the Landlord would be obliged to lay
ditublethe uwount of rates on all Ms Tenants—thus compelling
those who do pay to make up for the defalcations of those who
do not.
That an Act similar in principle was in operation in this
Parish four Yeats ago), which caused touch biekering and ill-
feeling. The -owners were neces.ari.y more severe in eilfincing
the rents, which impoverisheot the• Tenants, increased the bur-
thens of the Parish, raised the rates. from Is. Pd. lite first year
to 2e 61 the second year of its operation. 'lints in lieu of re-
lieving the rate-payers at- large, had the contrary effect, and
was rotund, after' t tiree years' trial, to be an instrument to gruol
down . the industrious artizan into a state or pauperism to so
alarming au extent, that the Parish authorities, (from whom
the Bill originated,) at their own expense, obtained the repeal
of the Act;' since which'utne, the rate is reduced to 'ls, 6d. its
the pound.
Anil your Petitioners therefore pray, that the Bill do
not pass.
Moved by Mr. Wa LTH ENV, seconded by Mr. Batt, and
ReAtilved,—'Phut the tlranks• of this meeting are due to .11 A.
Aglioubv, Esq., M.P. for •Cockerniouth, for his perseverance
in bringing forward a Bill "by. suounary process it, übtaiu
plies ssiun of small Tenements," and that a petitiou be sent to
the. House or Common's in supportorit.
Moved by Mr. DA N [ELS, seconded by Mr. II ESK ETH, and
Itesoleed,—'['hat the following Petition be approved of and
forwarded to Lord Saadon for presentation, and that Mr—Cress-
well be requested to support the sante; aud that the members
of the County be requested to assist in passing the bill.
To the Hontotable the Counuatis oof the United Kim:-
dons of Great Britain and Ireland, iu Partiaineut
assembled,—
The Petition of Owners of [Louses and Tenements in
the Town of Liverpool and its vicinity,
Ilirmistr So WETH,
That your Petitioners teat with great satisfaction that a Bill
is now'before your Iluteturable House, " A Bill to
liteilitate the recovery of possessioon lit tenements, after due de-
termination of the tenancy," and they beg usual earnestly but
respectfully to slate, •
Thal the law between Landlord and Tenant as it now stands,
is very insufficient for the recovery- of the possession of lauds.
and tetsements, held by Tenants alter the due and legal expira-
tion of the tenancy, am,: tines lint afford to the landlords thereof
that security necessary to the enjoyment of ijietr prispert).,.
That this lamentable defect of the law is very often, and
indeed constantly, taken aSvantitee of toy ill-disposed and re-
fraetot Tenants, who etinsequently are itolueed to commit the
most agravated frauds, as well as wilful delapidationt, on the
premises; and these things they do with impunity, setting the
Owners at defiance.
That tiunteruus instances occur where Tenants not):)ystsi,t,n
re-
fuse to pity rent, but withhold' from. their Landlords possession
of the p,etuises alter the expiration-of leases or legal notices too
quit, conscious as they are that the expense of tiny remedy
against them, provided by the existing law. would be still tur-
ther ruinous, and in smile instances would almost reach the
value of the tenements sought to be t ecovei ed.
That. in the present (Selective state of the law, the length of
notice given, and tbe time net weary to prosecute au ejectment,
gives tenants Of vicious habits sufficient oprrtutlitv,iii aitolitiou
to non-payment of rents, all "kinds of waste, wilful dilapidation
alit' depredation on the property; and at length, when restored
to the•landlotd, is found to have cost numerous expenses in law,
and is seriously injured. the tifending tenants absconded, and,
from their poverty, the landlords are deterred attempting to re-
cover any compensation for losses and injuries sustained.
That these instances of hardship are so very frequent, your
petitioners have 'experimentally been fulls' convinced that the
law, its it now stands, leaves the landlords of tenements entirely
at the met cy of the 'tenants, as to their retaining the illegal
possession and commission of all sot ts of fraud and destruction
•on their propetty. '
Lastly.—:Yonr petitioners bey to submit that the hill now
pending seeks to take not advantage of the present law between
landlord and tenant, as the tenancy must be shown to. have ex-
pired, nor can it at all (operate RS oppressive to the poor in any
wise; this we know to be the feeling of honest tenants:
Your petitioners therefore humbly •hope that vour
honourable house will be pleased to pass the said bill
into a law.
And your petitioners will ever pray, Bz6-
Moved by Mr..I‘PGEE, secouded by Mr. 'lljkiciett, and
Resolved,—'That a subscription be entered into towards de-
fraying the expenses attending the opposition of Sir Harry
Verney's hill..
..(Signed) EDMUND FORD, Chairman.
The Chairman haying left the chair,
It was unanimously resolved that the thanks of the meeting
are due, etd-rre hereby given,'lto Mr. Fordi for his conduct in.
the dial.,