The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

May 7, 1844.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. COLVILLE'S MEASURE AND THE

LIVERPOOL BUILDERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In my last I endeavoured to show the unjust and
unconstitutional character of this measure. I shall now
confine myself to its effects.
There are two points of view from which this measure,
in its effects, must be considered—the first is as it relates
to the landlord only—assuming that he could not be able,
by enlY means, to reimburse himself of the rate imposed
tiPon him as owner. The other point of view is, as it
Would operate upon the cottage tenant in case the owner
should raise the rent to cover the projected dedu lion
from his profits. I shall now apply myself to the first
thisof the question. I would, by the way, observe, that
is the only point of view in which the legislature can
consider this measure. I should suppose that Mr. Colville
does not even think of the possibility of the landlord ob-
laining the rate from the tenant in any way, for that would
be fatal to the enactment, inasmuch as it would amount
to a declaration, that a rate upon the owner instead of the
Occupier, would be inoperative, the legislature will there-
fore proceed upon the assumption th,t the landlord only
will be affected by the impost.
The most singular feature of this measure, as regards
1;;8 oPeration, is its inequality. I would illustrate it thus,
is a,shopkeeper deriving from his business, say £3OO per
Lannurn, he occupies a house wbich is assessed at £35, and
1 pays in poor rates upon the said house (calculating at
the Present rate) £3 15s. 10d. ; B is a builder, receiving
annually £3OO in rents from cottage property, and upon
which tie lives be also occupies a house assessed at £35,
out having to pay poor rates upon his income, as well as
oPon the house le occupies, he trintributes annually to
the Poor fund £36 odd, but the income of B is, to a great
extent, nominal, he has a mortgage upon his property,
the annual interest of which is £lOO, which, deducted
lotTethe gross rent, leaves him only £2OO income. A and
: n would stand thus—A with £3OO per annum to live
that I
onlywould Pay £3 15s. 10d, poor rates, whilo B. with
,0.30 income, would have to pay £36 odd. I protest
? not intend any invidious comparisons; all I wish
meau demonstrate the obnoxious inequality which this
w sure would effect. The test and principle of the poor
act is ability to pay; yet here is one class that would
Pay la per cent. upon his in-ome, while another, with less
'lncome, would be compelled to cont-ibute to the tune of
12 per cent. I maintain that any enactment operating so
unequally among individuals of equal means, as would
this, must be radically bad. It would be a disgrace to the
statute book of England, unjust! intolerable !! But its
effects upon cottage buildings would be synonimous with
a prohibition upon that class of builders. Cottage build-
ers in this town are, to a great extent, without capital—
their ownership is almost nominal. The mortgagee is in
Many cases the bona fide owner. There are scores of
houses which, if brought to the hammer, would not realize
more than the mortgage money and expenses of sale, yet
the mortgagee, the wealthy man, would be exempt from
'this rate, and the cottage builder w0,.1d be the care- worn
toil-worn slave, paying a roor rate upon a portion of the
Mortgagee's income, and also the taxes of his tenant.
There are peculiar burdens upon, and difficulties belong-
ing to, small property which many entirely overlook. As
for instance, the great wear and tear, losses from rents
and empty houses to an extent unknown to the owners of
tt lalarger property. Well, take this into account, and add to
the mortgagee's interest at 5 per cent., and a property
that and there will be no difficulty in at once concluding,
THE
if to all this there be superadded a poor rate UPON
build
towEn"Lt R-RNTAL, the days of cottage building, in this
at least, are numbered; in fact, the sooner the
existe
will thene his trade the better will it he for him, and he
be divested, or rather robbed, of his means of
I'M But the effects of this measure would be, in
a---"Y
ow cases, a species of refined cruelty. Take the ea,,e of
widwith four or five children living upon the surplus
trepn°tal of property left to them by a hard-working. indus-
11s hils')and and father; a tax such as the one under
consideration would be to them, not only oppressive but
ruinous.
ei It has been said, that property has its duties as
aaits rights. The converse, however, is equali y true,
acres Alta rights as well as its duties—the one equally as
as an .4 as the other. I denounce Mr Colville's measure,
sonl,Myrtsion of those rights—the poor rate being a per-
..and not a property tax. The occupier is the pro-
Farr object for a parochial assessment. The owner, there-
distributed
rea'wno may be holding ten cottages, would have to pay
amount that should, by law and equity, be
although in its imposition amongst ten individuals,
not t In Pecuniary circumstances, it may be that he is
sedulously
shilling better than any one of his tenants.
struibisetkatliemers.tain from declamation, as I really dare not
btenne for
to a description of the measure. Is it pos-
tbe c •
is it th Colville sees as other men see? What is
d which the cottage builder is to do penance
dePrived of his only means of sustentation ? Why
prod' ull
sien fat he should be singled out for legislative °pores-
-3' as useful and us deserving as any other class of
right?ceis? I see no reason why he should be thrust from
ghroaa of industry. He has a right—a God-given
of whZ,live and to thrive by the sweat of his brow ; but
may lir. Colville would, it appears, (unknowingly it
then deprive him. I cannot, however, trespass tor-
nPon
Your space. 1 must reserve the subject of
Pbuubilldicin
g. societies and the cottage tenant to your next
abouldat3n. if the insertion of another letter from me
and be consistent wi'h justice to your other numerous
intelligent correspondents.
Liverpool, 4th May, 1844.
LETTER PROM AN ORANGEMAN.

ILLAUDATUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Permit me through your widely circulated jour-
Dal to expre•s'my surprise at the aspersions which hive
been thrown upon that truly loyal Protestant and inde-
pendent body—the Orangemen of England. The time is
now arrived when it becomes the duty of every tree born
and loyal subject to asserts his rights in a land where true
Protestantism ought to be triumphant, and to be supported
up in all its purity. As brethren we are united to a man
to uphold the dignity of our monarch and the constitution
as by law established.

Are we then to be branded and held up to scorn be-
cause we are loyal, and supporting those endeared and
fundamental principles, " Our gl,trious Constitution in
Church and State.' Or is there a determiliatien—as it
Would appear—to root out ail those bright jems for which
our forefathers suffered at the stake, and to let rampant
bPon us the horrors of popery, and the does of war ! If
such be the intention, we wish them t 9 speak out, and
not as the bight assassin to stab us in the dark ?
We invite every man who is a lover of his country, and
of the true Protestant church, to read our laws, and to
Judge for himself whether they are not found on the true
Pula of a Christian spirit. That all power and authority
have their origin from God, and that one creature is not
.I.laced over another, except by the prmidence and will of
zi HI who is over all, cannot be denied, and by conse-
Mine all the authority we have over men by our laws is
ritv 'mProved for God; and the chief objects of autho-
i,to
our institution, as may be gathered from our laces,
tbabe "Use to our fellow creatures, and to restrain vice
encourage virtue. This, therefore, is my resolution,
Poiswed ;h atsoever authority the most high God shall be
to put upon me I will look upon it as my duty to
further these glorious objects bv extending the blessings
of the 3
Orange Institution.

Yours, &c„
AN ORANGEMAN.

Mr. Youatt; in one of his orations to the members of
the Veterinary College, observes, " that by the improve-
ients in modern chemistry, the medical profession are
enabled successfully to treat diseases which were previously
loPposed as not within the reach of medicine." This
truth has been manifested for many yews: hut in no in-
Stance of greater importance to mankind than by the
discovery of " Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills."—See
advt.
MR. SAMUEL LOVER'S FORTHCOMING ENTERTAIN-
ME. NT IN LivEßFoot..—We fully share in Lire pleasure
the announcement of Mr. Lover's appearance in Liver-
pool, in his new and fashionable entertainment, entitled
" Irish Evenings," seems to
created among our
contemporaries and the public generally.ln a locality
like this, where party feeling runs so higlias occasionally
to render even intellectual enjoyments inaccessible to
one or other portion of the comnnunly, it will be gratify-
ing to our readers to learn that Mr. Lover's entertain-
ments are entirely exempt from all party allusions what-
ever, and that they are in reality what they profess to be
--an accumulation of anecdote, song, and legendary lore
--the production of one of the most original and variously
Rifted minds in the annals of a country prolific beyond
all others in the growth of genius, like that so character-
istically developed in this minstrel poet. With the ready
allantry and tact proverbial in all his brother-h. od, Mr.
oqover intends, we understand, to select the tion
vi
of
!Ongs from the vocal talent of each placeillustra he may
, sit
Provincial tour. We hope he will be :is fortunate
8 respect as he has been here, where, we believe, he
'clued the services of Miss NV hitnall and Mr.
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?WI its (froth a variety of causes) is frequently neglected,
. decay is often the first symptom of declining
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th2or some effectual remedy to arrest its progress.
Prornjiiumerous compounds constantly announced for
"rvive, the growth, or reproduction of the Hair, few
Whilst fle_ven in name, beyond a very limited period ;
paraiii'W AND'S MACASSAR OIL. wiih a reputation
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tto..•te gllar virtues of this successful invention for re-
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t„'„' Preeervin and
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