The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY & HERCULA-
NEUM DOCK COMPANY AMALGAMATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application
is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session,
for an Act to authorite and empower the union and consolida-
tion into one company of the Birkenhead Dock Company, and
the Herculanean Dock Company, and for incorporating a new
oompany for the purpose of carrying into execution the under-
takings of such two companies, and for vesting in such new or
consolidated company all the docks, works, lands, property, ca-
pital, stock shares, estate, and effects, of the said two compa-
nies, and all the rights, powers, privileges, and authorities now
vested in and exercised or enjoyed by such respective compa-
nies, and for enabling such new or consolidated company to
levy the tolls, rates, and duti nted to the said two compa-
nies respectively in the s e manner and subject to the same
powers, restrictions, o • tions, and liabilities as the said two
companies respectiv may now levy the same ' • and to em-
power such new o onsolidated company to grant, for a longer
term of years an is prescribed by the Acts hereinbefore
mentioned, th wharehouses, wharfs, buildings, and property
belonging to the said two companies respectively, or any of
them, or any part thereof.
And it is intended to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and
to repeal some of the powers and provisions of " The Birken-
head Dock Company Act, 1845," and "The Herculaneum Dock
Act, 1846.—Dated the sixth day of November, 1846.
MALLABY and TOWNSEND, Solicttors for the Bill.

HROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS.
SHREWSBURY TO WORCESTER.
PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM SHREWSBURY TO
WORCESTER,
WITH FOUR BRXNCHES, NAMELY,-TO THE SHREWSBURY
AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY AT COALBROOKDALE,-TO
THE SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY IN THE
PARISH OF MADELEY, NEAR THE AQUEDUCT HOUSE,-
TO KIDDERMINSTER,-AND TO THE OXFORD, WORCES-
TER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY AT WORCESTER.
-AMENDMENT OF ACTS, AND POWICII-TO PURCHASE OR
LEASE THE SHROPSHIRE CANAXISTAVIOATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV . that Application is intended
to be madeto Parliament i e ensuing Session for an Act to
amend, enlarge, and con idate -or repeal the provisions, or
some of them' of "Th ropshire Union Railways and Canal,
" Newtown to Crewe, 'th Brahches,Act 1846;" "The Shropshire
"Union Railways and Canal, Chester and Wolverhampton line,
"Act 1846;" and "The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal,
"Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway, Act 1846;" and to declare tbe
Shropslire Union Railways and Canal Company referred to in
such Atts respectively to be onelind the same Company.---And
it is also intended by such proposed Act to authorize the said
Shropf:hire Union Railways and Canal Company to construct
and maintain the following Railways, or some of them, with all
preper works, approaches and conveniences, connected there-

with, namely;-4 Railway commencing by a junction with the
line'ef the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, as at present
authorized to be made near 'the Race Course, in the parish of
Holy Cross and Saint Giles,,in the borough of Shrewsbury, in the
county of Salop, and terminating at Sansome Fields, near Lowes-
mnre Basin, in the parish of Claines, in the city of Wonester,
and County of the same City, which said intended Railway and
Trill yam" alt".Tv l3,sltlTllte"
within the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial, urother:
ritaces followin,org someOf them, that is to say,—TheStone Ward
Without, Holy Cross and Saint Giles, Abbey F'orega'te, Coleham,
Trinity Coleham, Shrewsbury, Saint Alkmond, Saint Mary,
Saint Julian, Brace Meole otherwise Meole Brace, Sutton Mill,
Sutton, Longner, Uckington, Berwick Mavison, Cronkhill,
Chilton, Emstrey, Atcliam otherwise Attingham, Atcham other-
'wise Attingham, Betton and Alkmere, Betton Strange, Little
Betton, Saint Chad, Betton Abbotts, Abbotts Betton, Great
Betton, Betton, Cross Houses, Cantlop, Eaton Mascott, Brow-
ton, Berrington, Berrington, Donnington, Rushton, Norton,
Wroxeter, Eyton and Dillon, VG:r;oxeteri Eaton Constantine,

sage, Belswardie, Garmston, Leighton, Leighton, Shit,
Wyke and Bradley, Much Wenlock, Much Wenlocki-Butnt
Houses Buildwas Abbey and Lands, Buildwas Benthall, Coal-

Saint Like front

Coalport, Madeley, Madeley, Jackfield, Marsh, The Tueki'ess:
Severn Hall, Stairley, Coalmoor otherwise Colemere,' Burton,
Rowton, Swinney, Broseley, Broselev, Linley, Linley, Gaughley,
Little Caushley, Earrow, Barrow Morton, Stockton,'Stockton,
Willey, Willey, Actley Abbotts, Astley Ahbotts, Astley, Nord-
ley Regis, Aston Eyres, Talley, the Boreugh of

Briagnorth,
Bridgn`Orth, Saitt IClary Magdalen Bridgmii•th, -St. Leonard
Bridgnorth, Oldbury, Oldbury, Eardington, Qua ford, Roms
ley, Alose, Worfield, Sutton Maddock, Dudmaston, Quatt Mal.
vern, Quatt Jervis, Quatt, Sutton, Hampton otherwise Hamp
tons Load, Chelmarsh, Chelmarsh,Alveley,Stauk

--a,
Highley ntherrise Higley, Earnwood,- Kinlet, .Kinlet and
Dowles, Claverley, and Billingsley, in the county of Salop ;
Upper or Over Areley otherwise Upper or Over Arley in the
county of Stalford ; Eyinore, Netherton, Henwick, Hatton,
Grimley, Astley, Areley Kings otherwiseLoWer Areley, Ribbes-
ford, Little Witley, Great Wey, Holt, Bewdley, !Borough of
Bewdley. Wribbenhall, Blaastone, Hoarstone, Netherton,
Sandbounte, Kingsford, Wolverley, flit •

gn oz warier-
minster, the rarish of Kidderminsier Burlish, Lickhill Moor-
hill, Mount Pleasant, Stourport, Lower Mitton otherwise
Lower Milton, Upper Mitton otherwise Upper Milton,
Mitton otherwise Milton, Pansington, Clareland, Titton,
Charrick • otherwise Cherrick, Lincombe, Redstone, Ast-
ley, Hampstall, Hartlebury, Shrawley, Dunhampton, Par-
sonage, Powers, Boreley otherwise Burley, Lineholt, Hadley,
Acton, Acton with Downhampton, Chatley, Brookhampton
with Comhatnpton, Uphampton, Bennetts, Sychampton, Tapen-
halL Northampton, Parsonage with Pavers, Half-way house,
Winnall, (knbersley, Hadley with Hay Elms, Mayeux with
Chatley, /Whney Holt, Holt Fleet, Northampton, Rax, Old-
field, Mount Pleasant, Comhampton, Gcorg_eßarbourne,
-;reen

Whistones otherwise Whitstones, Hawroru,
otherwise Beverley Green, Northwiek, Bevere otherwise Bever-
ley, Astwocd, Tollerdine, Lower Tapenhall, Upper Tapenhall,
Tapenhall sotherwise Tappenhall, Smite, Claines, Whittington
otherwise Wittington, the Blockhouse otherwise Blockhouse
Fields otherwise Saint Paul, Saint Peter •otherwise Saint Peter
the Great, Battenhall, Upper Battenhall, Lower Battenhall,
Middle Battenhall, Grimley, Grimley cum Hallow' -
Saint John in Bedwardine otherwise &iintJOhn, Saint Clement,
Henwick, and Saint Martin in the county of Worcester; the
Blockhouse otherwise the Blockhouse Fields,othervse Saint
Paul, Middle Battenhall, Lower Battenhall, Upper Bittenhall,
Battenhalli Saint Peter otherwise Saint Peter the Great, All
Saints. Saint Andrew, Saint John in Bedwardine otherwise
Saint Joha, Saint John in Bedwardine otherwise Saint John,
Saint Clement, Henwick, Saint Nicholas, the Butts, Pitchcroft
otherwise Pitchcroft Ham? Saint Martin, Saint Oswald, Saint
George, Barbourne, Whistones otherwise Whitstones, and
Claines, in the city of Worcester and county of the same city.
Also a Railway diverging out of the -said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, at or near Benthall Edge, in the Parish of
Benthall, in the said county of Salop, and .terminating by a
B.junction with the line of the said Shrewsbury.and Birmingham
ailway, as at present authorized to be made, at or near to

Coalbronkdale, in the Parishes of Madeley and Dawley, or one
of them, and which said last-mentioned intended Railway and
nther works connected therewith, will pass from, in, through.
into, or be shiate, in the several parishes, townships, extra-
parochial, and other places following, or some-of them that is Burton,
Marsh, .say, Benthall, Ironbridge, St. Luke's Ironbeldge,
Marsh, Jacktield, Madelev, Madeley, Coalport, Coalbrook,
Coalbrockdale, Dawley, Dawley Magna, Dawley Parva, and
Malin's Lee, in the County of Salop.
Also a Railway diverging out of the said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, in the Parish of Brosely, „at or near The
Werps, and terminating by a junction with the line of the
said Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, in the Parishes
of Madeley and Stirchley, or one of them, in the said County

-of Salop, at or near the turnpike.road frem Hawley to
Madeley, and near to the Aqueduct House, and which said
last-mentioned intended Railway and other works connected
therewith, will pass from, in, through, into,-or'be situate in the
several parishes, townships, extra-parochial, and- other places
followin; or some of them, that is to say, Broseley, Broseley,
•Ironbridge, Saint Luke's Ironbridge, Jackfield, The Werps,
Swinney, Madeley, Madeley, Madeley Conrt, Madeley Wood,
Coalport, Norton, Rowton, Burton, Marsh, Kerriberton, Kern-
:berton, Stircbley, Stirchley, Hawley, Hawley Magna, Bewley
Parv&and Malin's Lee, in the County of Salop,
Also, a Railway diverging out of the said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, at or near to Lower Mitton, in the Foreign and
Boroughof Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, and
terminating at or near the turnpike road from Kidderminster
to Droitwich in the Foreign of Kidderminster, :in the said
Countpof Worcester, and which said last-mentioned, intended
RMlway, and other works connected therewith, will pass from,
in, through, into, or be situate in the several parishes, town-
ships, extra-parochial, and other places, followingor some of
them, -that is to say, Stourport, Lower hlitton, otherwise Lower
Milton, Upper Mitton otherwise Upper 'Milton, ,Hartlebury,
Sutton,rOldington, Borough of Kidderminster, Foreign of Kid-
derminster, and Parish of Kidderminster, in the County of
Worcester. _ _ • .

• • •
Also,a Railway diverging out of the said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, in the parish of Claines aforesaid, and termi-
nating at the line of the Oxford Worcester and W.olverbarnp-
ton Railway, as at present authorised to be made, in theparish
of Claines aforesaid, in the County of the City ,of Worcester
and County. of Worcester, or one of them, near the road from
Worcester to Portfields Farm and Warndon, and which•said
last-mentioned intended Railway and other works .conneeted
therewith, will pass, from, in, through, or into, or will be-situ-
ate whollyin-the parish of Claines aforesaid.
And it is also intended by such Act to take power: o stop up,
alter or divert, temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
other roads, and highways, railways, tramways, aqueducts,
canals, sewers,.pipes, streams, and rivers, within-the aforesaid
parishes, townships and places, or any of them, which it may

be necessary so•tn stop up; alter, or divert, by -reason of the
construction of the said intended Railways and works, or any

of them, and it is also intended, by such Act, to take-power's
for the purchase.of lands and houses, by compulsion or agree-
ment,'for the purposes thereof, and for levying tolls, rates, and
duties in respect thereof, and to grant certain exemptions from
such tolls, rates, and duties. And it is further intended by
such Act, to vary irr extinguish all existing rights or privileges
in any manner connected with the lands proposed to be pur-
chased or taken for the purposes of the said undertaking, or
which would in any manner impede or interfere with the con-
struction, maintenance, or use thereof, and to confer other
rights or '

And Notice isThereby further given, that maps, plans, and
sections, of the said intended Railways, and works, and of the
lands proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, together
with books of reference to such plans, containing the names of
the actual or reputed owners, and lessees, and of the occupiers
of such lands, will be deposited --

on or before . to 30th day of
November, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace of
the County of Worcester' at his office in the City of Worcester;
with the Clerk of the Pence of the City of Worcester, and

County of the same City, at his Office, in the said City of iVor-
cester ;• with the Clerk of the Peace of the County of Stafford, at
his Office in Stafford ;•with the Clerk of the Peace of the County
.e-eatop;--ux-rus-i-Pmce-m nurewsum y and that-a oor,r--.4--eo
much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference, Pc.
t- th- t hich .1"

fates to each o. Ae parishes, in, or .nrough wi.. Gne said in-
tended Railways and works are intended to be made, will be
deposited on or before the said nth day of November, with the
Parish Clerks of those Parishes respectively at their respective
residences.
And it is further proposed, by the said intended Act, to en-

able the said Shropihiie Union-Railways murCanal Company
to •purehase, or take on lease, "The Shropshire Canal Navi •
" gation," or some part or parts thereof, together with all or any
of the lands, buildings, property, rights, and powers, of the
Company of Proprietors of the Shropshire Canal Navigation,
and of " any Persons or Corporations (if any) interested
therein, and to enable the said last-mentioned Company,
and such Persons or Corporations, to sell or let and to transfer
the same •acoordingly and to dissolve the said last-mentioned

Company.
And for the:several purposes aforesaid, it is intended by the
said proposed Act to ail,. 1. enlarge, or repeal, as far as
may be necessany, scU c I:owers and provisions of the
following Acts of Parliament, namely i—The Acts relating to
the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Navigation, passed respec-
tively in the Bth year of the reign of His, late Majesty King
George the Fourth; the 11th ye.ir of the reign of His said lOC
Majesty King George the Fourth; in the Ist year of the reign
of Her present Majesty; in the sth year of the reign of Her
said present Majesty; jand in the Bth year of the reign of Her
said present Majesty; and in the Session held in the '9th and
10th years of the reign of her said present Majesty ; the Act
relating to the said Shropshire Canal Navigation, passed in the
28th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third ;
'the Act relating to the Shrewsbury Canal Navigation passed
in the 33d year of the reign of His said late AfajesiY King
George the Third ; and the several acts relating to the Montgo-
meryshire Canal, or Eastern Branch of the said Montgomery_
shire Canal, passed respectively in the 34th and 55th years of
the reign of His late 313.iesty Meg George the Third, and in
the 2nd year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the
Fourth ; and the several Acts relating to the Western Branch
of the Montgqineryshire Canal, passed respectively in the 55th
year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third
and in the4th year of the reign of Ms late Majesty King Wil
Ham the Fourth.
Dated this 4th day of November,. 1846.
PARKER, HAYES, BAItN vim
• 1 , Lincoln's Inn Fields, to/40n
POTTS'S and BROWN, Chester.
SLATER and HEEL'S, Manchester.
JAMES WHEELER, Manchester.
HENRY HEANE, Newport.
LOXDALE And ITELF., Shrewsbury.

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PORTRAITS,

FROM ONE GUINEA AND A-HALF AND'TWO GUINEAS.
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with Daguerreotype correctness.
_

MR. JULLIEN, of the A.R. of Paris, whose Por-
traits have obtained immense success, has the honour to
announce his arrival to Liverpool, (for a short time,) when those
persons who, previous to his necessary absence from town, were
not able to avail themselves of having their Likenesses taken,
are requested to see Specimens of some well-known persons, at
Mr. Key's Repository, 52, Bold-street nd at the Artist's resi-
dence, 159, Duke-street.
Mr. J. begs to remind th , y the adoption of a simple and
original process, he is led to guarantee a faithful Likeness,
in a New and most ,fashionable style, in two or three hours'
sitting. Miniature's for Brooches and Bracelets, and Water-
coloured Portraits, by the same unerring process, at moderate
terms.

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WORKS, LORD-STREET and CABLE-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

OST, on SATURDAY EVENING, between the Bruns-
..LA wick Hotel and Bedford-street North, a Metallic MEMO-
RANDUM BOOK and a few 1 APERS, of no value to any
one except•the Owner. one bringing them to the Bruns-
wick Hdtel, or 77, -street, will be Rewarded.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COMPANY.
MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
11 GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COMPANY will be held
at the White Lion Hotel, in the city of Bristol, on THURSDAY,
the 3d day of December, 1846, at One o'clock precisely, when
the conttruction by this ComPany, alone,er in conjunction with
any other Company, of the following proposed Lines of Rail-
way, will be submitted for considerstion.
'lst.—A Railway from the Bristol er Railway, near
Taunton, to join the Wilts, Sourer „end Weymouth Railway,
near Castle Cary.

2d.—A Railway, from thelristol and Exeter Railway, near
Bleadon, to Wells, Glast6nbury, and Street, where it is intended
to join the proposed Railway from Taunton to Castle Cary.
4.—A Railway from Crediton, in the county of Devon, to
*on, in the county of Cornwall.

4th.—A Railway from Launceston to Liskeard, there to kir,
the Cornwall Railway.

.I...caum.a-errnss,--ohairma.
J. B. BADHAM, Secretary,

Bristol, Office, 30, Broad-street,
12th November, 1846.

ADDRESS OF THE LIVERPOOL ASSOCIATION

REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON TEA

TN again calling public attention to the present
oppressive and impolitic tax upon Tea, the Association are
anxious to give prominence m those facts which indicate the
necessity for an ►mmediate reduction of the day.

The conclusion of the treaty with China encouraged confiden
expectations of the extension of our trade with that Empire
It was reasonably anticipated that the low rate of duty impose(
by its Government upon British Manufactures, would be re
ciprocated by a correspondingliberality in the admission, of On
staple production of the Chinese for the use of ourselves. The
elements of agricultural industry essential to the production of
Tea—the fertile and extensive territory, and tile superabundant
population of China, estimated at above 11;000,000—are capa.
ble of enlarging its supply in ara ' t least equal to that in
which the machinery of our m ifacturers can increase the
production of fabrics required-for exportation. Our imports•
tions from China have nev yet reached four per cent. of the
entire production of th country-, according to the. best calcu.
lotion.

It is, however, a/trotorious fact, that. the expectations thus
cherished have been disappointed. The merchantsare exposed
to heavy losses in the importation of Teas, which are now-sell-
ing in the British markets at prices below their current value
in China; while at the same time our manufactures are selling
in China for less than the cost of their production here. The
popylation at large are uribenefited by any practical result ac-
cruing from a treaty which has left behind it a tax upon British
industry, which at the same time confers a bonus upon foreign
competition. _ _ _

There is no difficulty in ascertaining the causeof 60 disas-
trous an issue. The pressure of an impost, unprecedented in
any other tariff, cripples the operations of our merchants, and
excludes our manufactures from the larger proportion of the
Chinese population, while it deprives the labouring classes in
this country of one of the most needful articles of domestic
comfort. The foreign policy of our Government has achieved
a brilliant success, but its results are marred and counteracted
by the incongruous arrangements of the Home Exchequer.
The chief export of China is brought in abundance to our
shores, only to accumulate in our warehouses. A tax,. as ano-
malous in its principle, as it is mischievous in its results, stops
at once thetide of commercial prosperity, and the pervading
currents of social civilization.
Under such circumstances, it is almost as easy to predict the
future as to review the past. A losing trade can never be a
permanent one. The discouraging results of this. year's Un-
ports will curtail the shipments of the next. Comparative
scarcity, and proportionately high prices will follow. The pro-
fessed intention of the :financial measures of Government for
some time past has been to cheapen the necessaries of life. In
this country Tea occupies a more prominent place among those
necessaries than in any other. Under the operation of any
uniform and reasonable system of taxation, it would, therefore,
have been recognised as a primary object for the ameliorative
interposition of Government. On the contrary, however, the
legislature of the country in which it is most extensively con-
sumed, is the last to recognise its importance in the civil and
social economy of the .state. The Government has afforded
every facility for its supply to other countries, where it is little
more than an occasional luxury, and has impeded its consump-
tion among ourselves, where its use is indispensable.
The necessities of the Exchequer—the only plea advanced in
palliation of an impost so obviously. indefensible—is one which
will not bear examination. There is no reason to apprehend
that the reduction of the duty to Is. per pound should leave a
deficit 'of any importance. The immediate result of .such a
change would unquestionably be the liberation of a larger
quantity.from bond than had ever been taken out during the
same period before. If any temporary pressure upon our
finances existed, it would thus be promptly relieved. There is
no room to doubt that in the farther course of time the gradual
increase of consumption would enlarge the revenue upon a sure
and satisfactory basis. This is not a gratuitous conjecture, but
a reasonable deduction Trom the result of similar changes in
the duties on coffee and sugar • and, above all, it is confirmed
by the only two existing precedents of a reduction in the tax
upon Tea itself. In 1744, the duty was reduced from £i3 Its.
73d. per cent. and 4s. per lb. to .t:18 18s. 70. per cent. and Is.
per lb. The consumption immediately advanced nearly .50 per
cent. In 1784, the duty ..was reduced from .z 55 15s. 10d. per
cent. and Is. Id. 4-sths per lb. to 121 per cent. The consump-
tion was at once more than doubled. In 1785 it was trebled,
and in 1794 it was quadrupled. Since that period the duty has
gradually advanced. Under the monopoly of the East India
Company it was 100 per cent. • and under a system of indivi-
dual enterprise and competition, it is nearly 200 per cent.
Every reduction in the price of the article has, however, been
followed by an increase in its consumption.

- .
The present consumption of Tea iii this country amounts to
an average of about 131 b. per head per annum for the entire
population. This is about-one-fourth of the allowance usually
aftorded to domestic servants in families of the middle classes;
it is less than one-half of the quantity consumed in the Channel
Islands, where all intoxicating beverages are far cheaper than
in this country; and it is scarcely one-sixth of the proportion
used in Australia, by a population whose physical requirements
will appear to most persons lass favourable to its use. What-
ever test may be applied to our present consumption, it will
pui n+l sr 4r. Ins •AN. s. s Aa& + o,Pli h‘r the artifirial limi tit of

price, and not by any objection 'to .the qualities and properties
of the article. A careful examination of these will justify the
conclusion that it is adapted more than any other beverage for
incorporation with every description
.of diet, and for use at
every meal ; that it is suited to every variety of physical con-
stitution. and adequate to sustain every description of mental

or corporeal exercise.
The present duty amounting to two-thirds of the cost of the
most serviceable descriptions of Tea, it is evident that the
dealers require, in order to cover their investments in its pur-
chase, three times the profit which would repay them, were the
article free of duty. The public have thus to pay a tax upon a
tax ; the magnitude of the impost, in the first instance, being
indefensible and oppressive., Were the duty reduced to Is. per
lb., the consumer would obtain at least albs. of Tea for the
same money that he now pays for 2110. ' • and there is no doubt
whatever that the larger quantity. would be used. As the con-
sumption of every pound of Tea involves that.of 51bs. of sugar,
the extra duty on the latter, added to that on the increased
quantity of Tea at Is., would
_at once yield a revenue of about

tile the futitre enlargement of this source of publiC income
light confidently be expected.

The Association conceive it unnecessary. to enlarge upon
those moral and social benefits that may fairly be anticipated
under the operation of a more equitable impost. They are
persuaded that the removal of •those restrictions which now
impede the use of a 'cheap and salubrious beverage would be
highly conducive to the happiness and well-being of the com-
munity, by encouraging habits of temperance and domestic
comfort, and by supplying practical dissuasives from crime.
They regard the burden of the tax as now pressing upon the
energies of the entire population, under whatever character
these may be beneficially developed; and they, therefore, in-
vite the 'sympathy and support of all classes in their efforts for
its removal.

WILLIAM NICOL, Chairman,

Liverpool, November, 1846

STREET RonBERY.—At' the Police-court, yesterday.
three men. Thomaii Wilson and two others, were charged
with knocking doWn and robbing, in Whitley-street, a
man of LI Is. The offender named could alone be
identified, and he was committed for trial. The other
tWO:Wer4o-naccuaitrarily discharged.. _

The workmen in the employ of Messirs. Hibbert and
Platt, machine makers, Oldham, have raised among them-
selves £6O, as the commencement of a fund for the esta-
blishment of a public park in that town. Two or three
years ago, the Government offered a thousand pounds for
a park at Oldham, if a similar sum were raised by sub-
scription. Nothing, however, has been done in the mat-
ter till the present time.
GRAND CONCERT.—We would direct the attention of
our readers to the concert announced to take place at the
Concert-hall, on Monday next, the 30th instant. The
attractions are great, Mr. Sunderland and Miss Whitnall,
Mr. Ryalls and Mr. Lunt, and last, though not least,
John Parry, the side shaking John, the inimitable John.
Who would not hear him ? The programme is excellent ;
but John Parry does not announce his songs, which
would signify 'that he will treat the Liverpool public with
something new.
BRITISH WHALE AND SEAL FISidING COMPANY.—
The advertisement announcing this important project
will be found in another column. It offers the fairest
prospects of being amply remunerative to the proprietors,
and is founded on an excellent plan. Whales are abun-
dant in the Arctic regions, and if the business of capturing
them be systematically pursued, no doubt very large pro-
fits will be realised. The prospects of the company are
very flattering, and the promoters are gentlemen of the
very highest respectability.
fIIE BOHEMIAN BAND.—This talented corps of
musicians are staying, during their sojourn here, at
Whiteman's, Brunswick Hotel, where they' have been
daily visited by numbers of strangers and admirers of
harmony. They have, during the past week, been earn-
ing the admiration of the genuine lovers of fine music.
The clarionet playing of Herr Sobraon, and violincello
concertante of flerr Grosse, have drawn down thunders
totfraepetp, wlause. The efficiency of the whole company, in.
deed, is firstrate, both as solo players sad as a band.
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