The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

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ND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

P. W.
ELivsntnw,oßo
da,n Royal tiritrtelE: 718
JHRouehtslar. y White,B Lto nR,
Dale-street.
Jchn Atkins on ,hall--esBtttrtre-beeettt::.
T. Jackson, Harford-street E. Wareing, Oldhall-street..
Chairman.
G. Robinson, St. James's- T. Jaggers. Pitt-street.
place. J. Hamer,Williamson.sq.
T. Clarke, Cable-street.
den Pitt-st
R. Ben Upper . T. Green, Limekiln-lane.
W. C. Alexander, Great j S. W. May, Kent-street.
George-place. f R. Bickerstaff, Christian-st.
The COMMITTEE of the SOCIETY most respectfully
solicit the kind support of their numerous Friends and the
Public on this occasion. The proceeds will be applied to.
wards the -increase of the Fund for iii-oviding a School and
an Asylum for.the aeciOd tbembeis'of the Traae. •
The Theatre will be tastefully and appropriately decorated
for the occasion, under the superintendence of a distinguised
artist.
A Professional Gentleman will be in attendance to ciate
as Master of the Ceremonies.
Ladies' Tickets, ss. ; Gentlemen's, is. each, may be had
at the Society's Office, 15, Great Charlotte-street, or from
the Stewards.
Doors to be opened at Half-past Eight.
JAMES ROBINSON, Secretory.

February 8, 1640.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIE-
TORS of this COMPANY will be held, in pursuance of the
Act of Parlit.ment, at the MERCRANTS' HALL, in the City
of Bristol, on TUESDAY, the 3d of March next, at Twelve
•o'Clock, for the ELECTION of 'FOUR DIRECTORS; in
the room of those who retire by ballot, and for other affairs.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve o' Clock precisely.
FREDERICK RICKETTS, Chairman.
The retiring Directors are eligible for Re-Election.
Shares in Arrear do nett entitle the Holder to Vote.
The Transfer Books will be closed on Saturday, the 22d
of February, and not be re-opened until after the said Half-
Yearly General Meeting, on the 3d of March. •
By order of the Board of Directors:,
J. B. BADHAM, Secretary.Briatol, 7th February, ,1840.
OFFICE 30, BROILD-STRNET.

BULL ATIkiI)7fOrITTCOMMEAVE AND
FAMILY HOTEL.
ST. MARTIN'S .LE-GRAND, LONDON.
EDWARD HENRY ANDERSON begs respectfully to
acquaint his Friends and the Public generally, that he
has undertaken the manag,:ment and entire conducti,nk of the
whole of the business of that well-known and iong-established
Inn, the Bull and Mouth, and it is his intention to make
such arrangements in the Hotel and Tavern Depirtments ns
will ensure that accomodation and comfort which is so desi-
, rabic for persons after travelling long journies ; rusi by fis:-i-
-duity, moderation, and strict attention, he trust's he
merit and have such patronage that will enable him to sup-
port so arduous an undertaking.
The House and Premises are new and well built. adynjra%ly
situated (without exception), in the most desirable part of
the City of London, affording ample means for the accoin dation of Private Families, Commercial Gentlemen, Public
Bodies, Committee Meetings, and Travellers generally.
Suites of Rooms, Hot and Cold Baths, good Stabling, safe
and dry Standing for Carriages, Post Horses &c. ; Chaises,
Omnibuses, and other conveyances to the Railway Station's,
or any part of London and its environs.

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T a PUBLIC MEETING of Owners of Land .and
Warehouses, and others opposed to the Plan of the
Dock Trustees for Building \Warehouses on the Dock Quays,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool, 13th Feb. 1840,
JOHN MONTGO3IERY, Esq. in the Chair,
It was moved by WILLIAM EARLZ, Esq. seconded. by
JOHN DAD:all-ATER, Esq and . ...
Resolved unanimously,—That this meeting views with great
regret the recent decision of the Town Council-sanctioning
the proceeding, by the Doek. Cominittee, in the present session
of parliament, with the bill empowering themselves to erect '
and manage warehouses on' the dock quays—a decision, con-
trary, in the opinion of the meeting, to jtistice and sound po-
licy, and the evidence on which it purports to be founded, and
tending ruinously to depreSs the value of private property in
the town, in which some millions of money have been invested
by purchasers and mortgagees, on the security of the existing
laws. That the measure is called for by no necessity or desire
on the part of the public, there being already a great super-
abundance of warehouse room, and is opposed to the expressed
opinion of most of the commercial associations. That it was
not included in the recommendations of a body of nearly 300
merchants lately united for the purpose of enquiring into the
best mode of managing the docks and facilitating business ;
ha 4 been expressly petitioned against. by 6000 'inhabitants of
the port ; and in_ the opinion of this meeting, approVes itself
in no single feature to the impartial inquirer into facts. That
it has been persevered in, and, for the present, been carried in
furtherance of the views of a few individuals only, against the
wishes of the community at large, and also against the reso-
lution (not twelve months ago) of the Town 'Council itself,
founded upon the disapproval of its own Finance Committee,
after alaborious investigation,and without any circumstance
having occurred its the interim to account for so strange a va-
cillation of purpose on the part of that body.
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Moved by W. P. &Haar, Esq. seconded by Jolts
FLETOHEit, Esq. and
Resolved unanimously—That the Land and Warehouse
Owners of Liverpool, are as anxious for, and as much in-
terested in the improvement of the port as the most
vehement advocates of this measure profess to be, and admit
as freely the evil of delay in the loading and discharge of
ships, and the necessity of some effectual remedy,
.but they
maintain that this remedy will not be found in the erection
of warehouses, and is at all events attainable with infinitely
less expense and no injustice, by other means, upon the ne-
cessity and propriety of which the whole commercial com-
munity are agreed, that is to say, by the construction of
transit sheds, and the adoption of various improvements
lately recommended by the body of merchants already alluded
to, and by the said Finance Committee, in their report to the
Town Council.
Moved by JOHN CROSTHWAITE, Esq., seconded by
THOMAS MURRAY, ESq., and
Resolved unanimously--That even admitting for the sake
of argument, (though denying the fact of,) the expediency of dock warehouses, the proposal that they shall be erected and managed by the Dock Trustees, is a monstrous in-
justice, altogether unprecedented in this country, as it would
enable that body, building at the public expense upon land
costing them nothing, and therefore requiring no return in
the form of rent, and without personal responsibility, or any
other stimulus to good management, to compete with, or
rather ruinously to depreciate the property of persons who
have bought land from these same Dock Trustees (the Cor-
poration) at very high prices, and under express restrictions
to build warehouses only thereon, and with various en-
couragements to landowners generally so to build, held out
by the Corporation, amounting to n moral pledge that that
body would never themselves become warehouse holders;
and because, also, the establishment of such a monopoly as
this, is opposed to every sound principle of policy; and must,
for obvious reasons, encumber and harass, rather than relieve
the shipowner and merchant, and necessarily increase the
present very high dock rates, by the enormous expense of the
project. _ _ _

Moved by JAmes BnasocEß, Esq., seconded by WIL-
LIAM MCIVER. Esq., and
Resolved unanimously—That the very essence and vital
principle of the London Dock Warehouse system, with which
(as an argument fur the present scheme) that of Liverpool is
often disadvantageously compared, consist in the fact that
the London Docks and Warehouses are private, not public
property, purchased and erected by the Owners with their
own money, and managed, therefore, at their own risk, and
in daily competition with powerful and vigilant rivals ; and
so far are the Land and Warehouse Owners of Liverpool
from being adverse to the introduction of this system, that
they court such fair competition of interests, and would ne-
ver have opposed the construction of Dock Warehouses here,
if it were part of the plan that they should be erected and
managed, as in London, by individuals or companies, to whom
the Dock Trustees should sell the land for that purpose, at
its full and fair value, and at properly extended periods, as
an adequate demand arose, in the same manner as the exist-
ing warehouse property of the town has been purchased and
built, and they anticipate with confidence the affirmation by
Parliament of this plain and undeniable principle of common
justice.

Moved by Jolts SnAw Lstnn Esq., seconded by J. A.
Jee, Esq..
Resolved unanimously—That for these and many other
reasons not compressible into the form of resolutio 1,. rme
committee are hereby authorized to Nice the most effectiNt
measures for opposing the bill in both Houses of Parliament,
and that for this purpose the residue uncollected of the rate
of three per cent. on the annual value of the warehoue pro-
perty of the town, agreed to be raised at the 'last general
meeting, to be forthwith collected by the Treasurer with the
assistance of the Committee. ,
Resolved also—That a Petition, embodying the substance
of these resolutions, be forthwith presented to both Houses
of Parliament, and that these Resolutions be published at
the discretion of the Committee.
JOHN MONTGOMERY, Chairman.

RAPID COMMUNICATION-- our;0-thY
notice, hay.
the Ba Gof 183 bound
for reference, seen
at the North anomb
dy azette
South Ainerican9 , Coffee-
house, being only the 43d day from Bombay.—Morning
Herald.
ST. SEBASTIAN, JAN. 31.—Nine officers and 170 men of
the battalion of the Royal Marine. • - •
to return to Erwin' Aragon since that of which we have al.
Y.rsru-spdv.en.—Gazette de France.
THE BARBARITIES OF THE CHINESE.—Mr. Moss, tire-
oat,the nephew a Mr. Marks, of
young Englishman who was so barbarously, mutilated by the
P knocked down in the cabin, and while one
ge.b is
wasC II
lmSh.aeinrneew.saeiiiihnioetlbdeingahai: ear the other sawed it off with a blunt
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instrument, and then, with some of the skin of his head at- "/U 3144';
tae, 11St it down his throat. His deposition, together --
with that of the tindal of the vessel, and certificates of four
doctors, were scat from there to his parents. They were
transmitted to Lord Palmerston, who forwarded them to the
Queen, by whom they were promised every assistance to oh- "
tain am_ple amends. He is a young man about 25 years of
age. He was in possession of considerable property belong.
ing to himself, his parents, and brother-in-law, who are all -11!3,
dealers in foreign curiosities, besides £14,000 belonging to a,7
gentleman with whom he resided at Macao.—Hertford H
Tilt STOCKPORT VIADUCT.—This wonderful undertaking
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company, in 4"
this borough, is proceeding sufficiently fast to realise the per. VI
fection of it within the term of the contract,' notwithstanding •
the difficulties which have twice attended the progress of the
river arch. All the arches, except one, on the Lancashire
side are turned, so that 10 of the 63 feet arches may be said
to be almost completed ; whilst the stone piers for two others,
on the Cheshire side, are ready to receive the superstructure,
and the brickwork for the two small arches at the extremity
of the viaduct, like those at the Lancashire end, is rapidly •
proceeding to a termination. Twelve of the twenty-six
arches may therefore be said to be pretty well ot.t iidthe
hands of the workmen, and another six months will'see the
perfection of one of the most r,igantic productions' of art of a
similar character in the kingdom.—Sioaport,Advertiser.

NOVEL MODE or CONVEYING A STEADi ENGINE.—It le
but a short period that the steam engine has been used to
convey post letters on land ; and now, for the first time, a
Messrs.
letter is made the means of 'carrying a steam engine. --,e/
Messrs. Newton and Berry, of the Patent Office, Chancery wietl
Lane, London, received on the 29th of January, per postp9insq
from Messrs. Chadburn, Mothers, Sheffield, a perfect work- aibod
ing steam engine, constructed on the oscillating cylindetz"
principle, with its fiy-wheel, framing, boiler, and fire-pliteer-g
complete. The whole was enclosed in a case wrapped 111 ''n'
paper, secured with string, and accompanied with a descriP-
ton of its• construction and mode of working: The total
weight being under four ounces, was charged as eight
which sum being pre-paid at Sheffield, cost eighteen peace
postage, and came sate to hand with its fellow penny travel-
Holborn.
lers. We understand that Messrs. Bailey, of
letters,„„i, _
was directed
received last week, per post, a proofimpression ofan embossed
metal plate, which being under half an ounce,
on its surface, pre-paid at Birminghere,
and delivered as a
penny post letter. QudrY Howthe poot mat or it the
did
pest-oftee stamp upa3 it NrfrianCl49", PILOT'