The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-19 00:00:00

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occasion Mt. Ir !anti Mr. Cyrus Morroll, and Mr. John Gladstbhe had
• advocated that the Management of the dock n irs shoold he vested
in the rate-nayers, but when they had got in•to the council t,yy 1-eid
one by one Changed their position. (Cries of "So have you.") No,
there was this difference, their opposition -before against the Corpora.
ration having the management of the dock estate was, that the busi-
ness of that estate ought to be done on the representative system, and
it was not so. He bad now the pleasure to say that the council as now
constituted represented not only the dock rate-payers but the inha-
bitants generally. (Cries of " No, no.") He had also the satisfaction
• of stating that the town council had, masked, come forward and offered
to give up the veto. He hoped they were not come there to be twitting
each other on the charge of inconsistency. If there was any such
. charge made, he thought it ought to be on the other side. He trusted,
however, that the merchants of Liverpool would decide the question
amongst themselves and not leave it to others to decide it for them.
The rate-payers as rate-payers simply had no right to have any share
in the management of the docks, because the moment they had paid
their rates they bad had value received, and they could not get any
part of that rate back again. • The rate-payers generally were here to-
day
and gone to-morrow, and were many of them foreigners, and
whether they were foreigners or whether they lived in Kamschatica,
was it to be said that they possessed the same interest in the question
as the inhabitants generally; the value of whose property depended so
much on the good management of the dock estate. It might be the
interest of the rate-payers in order to lessen their rates to have docks
at the other side of the river or to send their shipping to Brislol or to
the Clyde. He contended that a preponderance should be given to the
rate-payers. (Hear.)
Mr. T. B. HORSPALT, said he would only detain the meeting for one
moment, •but having been personally alluded to by Mr. Ail, he
must beg to assure that gentleman that he had no intention whatever
of twitting him as he supposed with a change of sentiment,and he was
sure that the meeting would bear him out in saying that he had done
Mr. Aikiii no injustice, for he had merely quoted the words of a pe-
tition to the House of Commons, to which his 'Mr. Aikin's) si.matu re
was attached; whilst on the other hand he (Mr. Horsfall) had to com-
plain of injustice on the part of Mr. Aikin, who had put words into
his mouth which he had never used. In fact, he believed at the pre-
vious meeting he had never: expressed an opinion as to the number of
rate-payers which ought to be admitted into the dock trust. The
part he took at that meeting was to defend a young man whom at that
time he did not know, who had been appointed as solicitor to the
dock estate, and who he believed to have been both cruelly and un-
justly condemned without a trial.—;Cheers.)
After a good deal of desultory discussion, ' • •
, • Mr. ATKIN would beg to propose, to save a parliamentary contest,
that " this meeting be adjourned to this day week, and that then we
do meet together for the purpose of taking into consideration how
they might save a parliamentary contest."
The Ctiaritinsx refused to entertain the question.
After some further discussion the meeting separated without coming
to any final arrangement.