The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

vate banks to issue (under some Gove.
a gradually increasing circulation.

rnment inspection

" For Cie present, however, parties accepting of paper

of value, will require the only sure
against depreciation, that the amount of paper to be is-
sued, whether by the Bank of England or other Banks,

and of cal

Illation

be fixed by 1

that I object ; and I

e that Sir IL Peel's restrictions

lordship

me at all events) as a part

nove no restriction from

forma-

--.

We may here take an opportunity of removing

Liverpoo

Merchant," wh

signed "A

.h appeared in yesterday's

The writer, after pro-n-ouncing the project
" a magnificent idea of the Dock Chairman,"

But had be projected it before the Birkenhead Dock of
only 160 acres, was thought of, it would have had a
greater claim to originality and praise. However, as he
put off the completion of it so long as eighteen years,
I have litle doubt that free trade will by that time render

i scheme partially, if not entirely, nece
as well as the Birkenhead Dock."

It is not the fact, however, "that the completion
of the dock is to be put off so long as eighteen

ment relat

F to the completion of the sites for

may be commenced as soon as the Committee shoo
and could be completed in twelve months. T

'writer further

" There is one great objection, however, to a dock a
Bootle, to be used as a timber dock ; namely, the grza
obstruction to the navigation which will be caused by th

many flats and floattkraded with the timber for the inte-
rior, which will thus have to pass up the river for the
entire length of the port: and when we consider the im-
mense traffic and intercourse already carried on by the
ferry steam-boats, the salt-flats, coal-flats, and carriers'

better fo leave the timber trade where it is, at the south
docks, or let a share of it go over to Birkenhead ; it will
then interfere far less with the other river traffic, than if
transferred to a dock at Bootie."

No obstruction of the kind pointed out would
arise. Timber would not have to be floated down
into the river at all; and the absurdity of any
necessity of its having to be taken the entire length
of the port, in order to be conveyed into the in-
terior, will be apparent when it is remembered that
we shall shortly have a branch of the Grand Junc-
tion at the north end of the estate, and a line of

munication forming lietN-veen the.great north dock,
into which this timber dock will: doubtless have an
entrance' and the Leeds and Liverpool canal.
There is besides at the north endthe Liverpool and
Bury line nearly completed. Indeed it appears to
us that from its favourable position alone, the new
Bootle dock will engross the bulk- of the timber
trade, whilst the south docks will be converted to
a different kind of trade altogether..

We have no doubt that the project will meet the
unanimous•approval of the Dock Committee and
the Council,•of which from its comprehensive cha-
racter it is sotfully deserving. It is only another
instance of Mr. Bramley-Moore's extraordinary
foresight.

MEETING OP THE FRIENDS OF MR. CARD-
WELL, LAST NIGHT, AT THE COTTON SALES
ROOM.

Yesterday evening, a meeting of the friends and sup-
porters of Mr. Cardwell, resident in the Exchange and
other wards, was held in the cotton sales• room, for the
purpose of hearip3 that gentleman address-the electors,
and also to adopt, measures to secure his return. The
meeting was well and most respectably attended, and a
great deal of spirit and enthusiasm was manifested by the
audience. .

Shortly after seven; o'clock Mr. Cardwell, accompanied
by Alderman Sir Thomas Brancker, Alderman.J; Bramley
Moore, Esq., Alderman Nicol, Esq., J. Sheppard, Es q, , aact

several other gentlemen entered the room, - and was
welcomed with a long; loud, and hearty burst of applause
When silence was restored,
Alderman Sir Tuas. BILANCKER
Chair, amidst reiterated rounds of applause
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and in a brief:l3lk pithy
and eloquent speech, introduced the hon. Candidate to
the Meeting

was called to the

Mr. CARDWELL then presented himself, and his ap-
pearance at the front of the platform was the signal for
another round of congratulation. Order having been
established, he proceeded to say that it was an exceedingly
difficult thing for anybody to presume to address a. con-
stituency so celebratedlis the constituency of Liverpool—
a constituency which, had ever taken the lead;. in. the
sound, safe, sober, steady advancement of that great
career in which their common country stood -so con-
spicuous amongst the nations of the earth. - (Loud
applause.) But it was particularly difficult for .him be-
cause he could not help feeling that he stood there sur-
rounded by men his seniors in point of age—hie-superiors
in experience—conversantwith all the great interests of the
empire—fit judges—indeed, too able judges—for him to
hope that any:qualifications hepossessed could possibly stand
the test of their judgment. In the course of the election,.
he had to address many audiences ; but he was then placed
in that room, which, above all others, suggested con-
siderations of great impart. (Hear, hear.) In that room
was conducted the trade-in that great staple of their do-
mestic manufactures whose wonderful developement during

the past half center

bled them to compete with
oae power of imperial Erance—(cheers)—which .had made
them more prosperous and had contributed more to the
wealth of this great people than any other article of. com-
mercial import. What great considerations did -not that
bring to the mind of such a constituency as-that of
Liverpool ? True, they.were not consumers of the article
themselves; although there was a great manufactory. of it
in this town ; yet, speali'Ln7, generally, the manufacture was

itself was not the seat of the manufacture of this article,
still it suggested the consideration in the minds of the
Liverpool men that out of the cotton manufactures of
Lancashire, in a great part, arose the pre-eminence of
Liverpool. (Hear, bear.) So that whatever branch of
that manufacture they stimulated and encouraged, they
did, by a necessary consequence, stimulate thewealth and

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prosperity of the"trade of Liverpool. (Cheers.) From
their peculiar position, and from their great river, which
was the gate through which the wealth of the world found
its way into the other parts of the empire ; from their po-
sition with respect to imports of all raw material for the
manufacture of articles, and from the vast amount which

such articles, no matter where manufactured or where
consumed, must necessarily leave in Liverpool, those
articles must contribute to the greatness and the wealth

To increase the trade by which the imports of the raw
material would be increased in Liverpool,,was the duty of
every friend to her trade and commerce. (Hear, hear.)
And there never was, in the history of England, any space
of time so remarkable in this respect as the duration of
the six years of the-late parliament. (Cheers.) The in-
crease before had been progressively great, but it was
nothing whatever as compared with the rate of progress
which they had made during the past six years. (Hear,
hear.) In 1843 their amounted to 47- millions, and in
1845 they had increased to 60 millions. (Cheers.) If
they took the imports.of all the articleswhich contributed
to the comforts of the industrious classes,. he could, if he
wished to trouble them with figures, give an equally sa-
tis actory account. How, he would ask, was this great
amount of prosperity produced ? First, by their own un-
tiring energy ; by the unconquerable activity of the people
buto
twhearte
etnheerngychoosingt
iav
irteyp iieosuehndt a
at i vke i
af
do r
apuaprphoartmeeint ;
. in
the parliament, which by the reduction of the import du-
ties, gave them all that the, people of this town had ever
desired—a " fair stage and no favour." (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) The effect of that course of policy had not
been lost ; no, it had been felt in the increased prosperity
of the port of Liverpool. (Cheers.) The exports from
the port had increased during that period about 60 per
cent., and the shipping of British tonnage coming into
the port had increased in the same time no less than 50 per
cent. Speaking as he did before men—gentlemen who.
were so much more connected with the improvement of
Liverpool than he was—and more especially speaking in.
the presence of the chairman of the dock estate—(cheers)
—who was so much better acquainted with all such mat.
tors, he would not be justified in troubling them about
what had been the effects of these measures, of progres-
sive policy, upon their docks. (" Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Speaking of this matter brought him to, the
question of the shipping interest. (Hear, hear, hear.)
He had that day read a document in the public news-
papers, addressed to the electors of a borough on. the east
coast of England, called King Lynn, by their noble
,tive Lord George Bentinck. (Laughter.) He
_..., vas not surprised to notice in the course of that
document that the hon. member for Lynn gives the ship-
owners a back-handed blow. He tells them that they
have not always been the advocates of his course of pro-
tection which at one time he had reason to expect they
were; but he (Mr. C.) should have been much more

representa
(Mr. C.) s

ter they fou

their expo:

50 per c

, if a

and their imports
found that the tonnage of British ships increased in .
years from 600,000 tons to 900,000 tons—if after all this
they had come forward and a-' "We will have no more
)f that, our imports
and we have too many
qs increased so
stand it "

trrde

said—'
re too la'

If they had said any of ti
b

ge, we have too large
fors, in fact, the ship-
h that the shipping
iter and cheers.)
s, he should have
A the wise

had actor

would fee

then— wa

1. But perhaps the electo:

end put to those imports
pink; the blessings of so

would rnal

ach free

wilh the other kingdo
in hi

Lev would
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of the world ; yet if

minion, be still more

k such a change
The honourable

an then proceeded to notice a return from th,
ers in favour of free trade, and expressed hi

lisfaction and entire concurrence in the sentiments
expressed in it, and continued to say that they (the meet-
ing) were witnesseswhether the principles advocated in that
petition and acted on by the government since had been
right or not. (Loud cheers.) And, indeed, if he wanted
evidence in its favour, he had before him his friend Alder-
man Bramley-Moore, who had added so much by his skill,
talent, knowledge, and research, to the commercial lite-
rature of their country—(loud applause)—and he could
bear testimony to the manner in which those great mea-
sures had worked. (Cheers.) He had been asked to give
certain specific pledges upon an important subject. He
had been asked whether he would consent to any change
in that system of laws known as the Navigation Laws.
(Hear, bear.) He bad already stated, that he knew wl!nt

those laws were established for—they were established for
the maintenance of their commercial marine, and for the
security of their national marine—(cheers)—through both
of which this country had attained to her present high,
proud, and noble position. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.)
He had paid to the subject the utmost of his attention,
and as he told them before, he agreed with Adam Smith,
as to their itsefalness in promoting our national greatness
and prosperity. He had never said one vrord in opposi-
tion to these laws. He should feel it incompetent in him
to rashly interfere with the present system of laws, which
had been for more than two centuries intertwined with
But as a representative of
ppeared to him tfrat if any
likely to accrue to those interested in

the inter

sts of t

t, from

the shipping int
made, it would not
(Ch,

:halm which rni;
his duty to stand in the

improvement

•
) Nothing was easier than to

position which they aspired to occupy, nothing was
than to meet the expectation of the moment by tt

s, which often• met w
He hoped ti%tzt they
ing too far in_ saying

diest pTomis

'ith the most a-ceeptal

_ 'mild not think him
but he had higher views
1,3. (Loud cheers.) He

in seeking for their s-uffra'7,,

he might have no pretensior
he knew that however in him

ms might

to invest him with the respons,
of the empire naturally belongt
he was entitled to take higher ground

—going forward un-pled,