The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

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have seen used to get the standing orders sus ?ended.
That was.a plain statement of the facts. When the depu-
tation was called into the room, he (Mr. Ferguson) as
chairman, was told that the rating clause, in its integrity,
had passed. Mr. Bramley-Moore (who, with Mr. Mann,
was there) said—" Have we not acted honourably in this
business; you see the rating clause is now brought in in
all its integrity ?" He (Mr. Ferguson) said they had done
So, but he was rather surprised to find Mr. Moore stating,
the other day, in Council, that they had been compelled
to pet the clause in—that the clause had been forcedi n.
When he spoke to Mr. More, in the House of Commons,
that gentleman claimed great credit for passing the clause.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HARDY referred to the numerous ward petitions
which had been sent to the Council, and which, by two or
three of the most liberal gentlemen in the Council, had
been treated with more contempt than by any others. If
they did not succeed in obtaining the right to tax the
docks and the corporate estate, their rates would soon be
ten shillings in the pound. If it pleased God to spare
him, he should go round to every ward and remind the
electors of the Ist of November. ( Loud applause.)
Mr. W. Br owN briefly moved the next resolution.
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Mr. Thomas WYEta,-in seconding the resolution, re.
ferred to the vast amount of money which was received
by the bondholders, without contributing anything to the
relief of the poor. He hoped the efforts of the Rating
Committee in this matter would not cause the general
body of the parishioners to relax their efforts, but that they
would most strenuously keep up this agitation, which had
been so wisely and well conducted since its commence-
ment. He was certain that, with continued exertions,
they should ultimately meet with success. (Applause.)
Mr. FERGUSON mentioned that there were no fewer
than 3,851 houses at present unoccupied in the parish. It
was entirely owing to the high rates they were called on
to pay, that persons were induced to leave Liverpool and
go elsewhere.
Mr. POOLE alluded to the absence of their opponents,
and attributed it to the very wise maxim, that, "discre-
tion is the better part of valour." What they proposed
was to apply to Parliament to enable the Dock Committee
to raise a fund for the payment of the rate. They did not
go to them and ask them for money, without, at the same
time, making provision where the money was to come
from. Where was it to come from but from the general
disbursements of the dock estate, which had lately been
much altered ? It was now a trading body—trading, in
the most complete and strict acceptation of the term. It
bought goods wholesale and sold them retail. The only
competing port with Liverpool was London ; and they had
returns from the various overseers of the parishes in which
the docks of London were situated giving vast amounts of
assessments on that property; but they heard no com-
plaints as to the interruption to trade by these charges.
Mr. J. P. M'KNIGHT and Mr. ROBERT BRYDEN rose
at the same time to second the motion, and both reminded
the electors that the Ist of November was the time when
this matter should not be neglected.
Mr. URQUHART moved the next resolution, and alluded
to a statement which had been made in the Council and
elsewhere, that it was not the shopkeepers who paid the
rates, but their customers. The shopkeepers had no ob-
jection to its being understood that their customers paid
the rates. What they wished was, that the customers of
the merchants should also pay the rates in common with
the customers of the shopkeepers. (hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) The merchants took all the advantages of the
Liverpool docks, streets, and other local protection and
facility, but did their customers pay their share of the
Liverpool poor rates. ( Hear.) He hoped the Town
Council would recognise the correct principle of an equal
adjustment of local taxation by rating the dock property,
so that the customers of the merchants might pay the
rates to Liverpool, as well as the customers of the shop-
keepers. (Applause.)
Mr. SEWARD seconded the motion.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A complaint respect-
ing the state of the road along the outer wall of the new
north docks, was referred to the Council. The Marine
Committee suggested that various improvements should
be made at the telegraph stations, and that the Liverpool
station should be removed from the present premises to
Tower Buildings. That an office in the same premises be
procured, on lease, at a rent of £7O per annum, with the
use of a wall on the ground floor. The Albert Dock
Warehouse Committee recommended the dismissal of a
number of the servants of the trust, in consequence of a
fraud supposed to have taken place, of twenty-one bar-
rels of flour. Confirmed. The Chairman read the
regulations and resolution of the Special Committee of
the Council appointed to investigate the grievances of the
porters. The document was referred to the Master
Porters' Committee. A communication from Messrs.
Brown, Shipley, and Co., relative to the accommodation
necessary for the five ocean steamers in course of con-
struction in America, to ply between this port and New
York, was referred to the Committee of Works.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—This committee met as usual
on Thursday. The inspector of nuisances made his
weekly report. Mr. Johnson attended to complain of the
state of the cellars at the Queen's Hotel. The engineer
reported that he had served a notice upon parties on
whose property pools of stagnant water existed, stating
that the Council were empowered to compel the drainage
or removal of stagnant water within twenty-four hours
after notice, and calling upon the owners to abate the nui-
sance immediately, or they would be subject to the
penalty by law provided. From the report of the super-
intendent of Paul-street baths and washhouses, it ap-
peared that 20,650 persons had bathed there since March
last, gratis. A question was asked, if arrangements had
bee•l made for the performance of the duties of the medi-
cal officer during his absence for three weeks. It was
stated that no arrangement had been made. It was re-
ported that 311 notices had been served on those parties
who applied to register lodging-houses, but only 83 had
registered.

A public meeting, tea-party, Al ball were held at
Oldham, on Tuesday evening, to commemorate the
passing of the Ten Hours Bill. Messrs. Fielden and
Cobbett, candidates at the last Oection for the representa-
tion of Oldham, were the principal guests. Nearly 1,100
people attended the tea party.
GREAT ECCLESTON.—The harvest has now hecome
general, and, if the present favourable change in the
weather continue, will progress rapidly. The crops are
considered to be a good average, with the exception of
beans, which are an indifferent crop, and late : turnips,
also, are, in general, expected to be a light crop. Wheat
is proving better than was expected by many ; and, if fine
weather continue now, good and sound crops will be
housed daily. Oats are good, and many fields quite ready
to cut. Potatoes are going fast now, and it is likely that
at least half of the crops will be lost by the disease. A
large quantity have been planted, particularly towards the
mosses, and very heavy crops would have been got, had
the rot not affected them. The late wet weather has
rendered the moss roads almost impassable, so that very
few, if any, turf stacks have been made yet. Two or three
fine weeks will make a wonderful difference in everything.
The grass lands are rather bare for the time of the year,
and fine weather will do the meadow and pasture lands as
much good as the green crops. Second crops of clover
are either cut or ready, and the universal cry of the far-
mer.; is for fine weather.—Preston Chronicle.
CRICKET MATCH.—PRESTON V. LIVERPOOL.—On
Thursday a match was played between the Preston and
Liverpool Olympus Clubs, on the Preston cricket ground.
Only one innings on each side was played, and the Preston
eleven beat their opponents with forty-seven runs to spare.
Liverpool went in first and showed some good play,.
Danse scoring 17. Clare 16, and Comber 7. They had to
contend against good fielding, and their last wicket went
down at a total score of 52. R.ainford and J. Clarke
then went in as the first men on the Preston side, and the
former only lost his bat by one of Clares' balls, after scor-
ing 21. Clarke made an unlucky hit in striking for his
ninth score, and was caught out by Williams. Case
scored 18, when Comber again forced him to retire. Mar-
riott played well and carried out his bat, having obtained
20 runs. Palmer scored 5, and the others less numbers,
with the exception of two, who could not defend their
wickets successfully against, the excellent bowline of Com-
ber, and went out with 0. The full score was—Liverpool
52, Freston 100.