The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

At the beginning of last week the Council of the Cham-
ber met to consider the course that should be taken with
respect to the decision come to by the Lords of the Trea-
sury for the removal of the General Post-office to the site
of the School for the Blind. A very strong opinion was
expressed at the course taken by the Government against
the express wish of the town, and it was agreed to forward
memorials on the subject to Lord J. Russell, the Post-
master General, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The following is the purport of the memorial :
"The memorial of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
humbly showeth :—That your memorialists have learned with
much disappointment the determination of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to confirm the selection of the School for the Blind
for the site of the new Postoffice ; and, with still greater asto•
nishment, that the chief reasonassigned for this course is, that
the said site will most conduce to the accommodation of the
public ; an allegation in direct opposition to all the memorials
and communications which have proceeded from the associated
mercantile bodies of the town on the subject, as well as to the
resolutions passed at two public meetings convened by the Mayor,
and forwarded to her Majesty's Government.
" Believing that the mercantile and trading public of Liver-
pool are the parties both the most interested in the selection of
a proper site for so important an establishment as the Post-
office, and also the best qualified to form a correct opinion on
the subject, your memorialists cannot but feel strongly that
their deliberately expressed opinions should have met with so
little attention from the authorities appealed to.
"Although it has been intimated that the purchase of the
Blind Asylum has been virtually made, your memorialists are
of opinion that any cost for cancelling the contract can be but
of little consequence compared with the permanent inconveni-
ence of the public by the erection of the postoffice on so unfor-
tunate a site.

" Under the strong conviction that the practicability of
largely increasing the accommodation of the present PostotTice
at a small cost has not been duly considered, nor that sufficient
examination of the various proposed sites has yet been made
by the authorities entrusted with the selection, your memori-
alists now respectfully urge on your lordship's attention the
expediency of appointing one or two qualified persons to meet
as your deputation, who may deliberately revise the whole sub-
ject, and that all proceedings connected with the Blind Asylum
be suspended for the present."

At the same time it was agreed to place a memorial of
similar tenor in the Exchange for general signature. This
memorial has been numerously signed by the principal
merchants and tradesmen of the town, and will be for-
warded to the metropolis in the course of the week.
The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held
yesterday, Thos. B. Horsfall, Esq., President, in the
chair. The subject of the removal of the Post-office was
considered, and a deputation from the Council appointed
to confer with the Committee of the Town Council
thereon.

After the routine business the report of the Committee
on the Stamp Duties was read and considered, and it was
agreed that it should form the basis for a report to be
presented at the next quarterly meeting of the Chamber.
A memorial to the treasury, proposed by a special com-
mittee, was read, setting forth the claims of Liverpool as
a port of departure and arrival of Foreign mails. The
committee were requested to continue their functions, and
to secure the co-operation of the principal towns in the
North for that purpose.
Some communications, on the subject of the differential
duty levied on English coal imported into France, were
read, and the importance was fully admitted.

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—A grand mis-
cellaneous concert will take place this evening in the Phil-
harmonic Hall. The principal artistes engaged are Miss
C. Hayes, Madame Macfarren, Signor Bordas, Herr Carl
Formes, Mr. H P. Sorge, and Mr. J. Zeughur Herrman.
TOXTETH WARDS.—We understand that a joint requi-
sition was presented yesterday to Mr. Samuel Holme and
Mr. Matthew Gregson, inviting the former to become a
candidate for the representation of South Toxteth Ward,
and the latter for North Toxteth. We believe that both
gentlemen have consented to comply with the request.
Indeed, refusal was out of the question, for not only was
the requisition signed by gentlemen of both political
parties, but it embraced the signatures of all the timber
trade, with about two exceptions, all the shipbuilders,
and the great mass of the tradesmen of the wards. There
can be no doubt that both gentlemen will be elected with.
out opposition ; and we shall welcome heartily Mr.
Holmes return to the Council Chamber, from which we
regret be has been so long excluded.
We refer our readers to Mr. DufTey's advertisement of
native and other oysters.
A club, it will be seen, has been formed for the pur-
pose of visiting the national exhibition of 1851. A small
weekly contribution is so arranged as to clear all expenses.