The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

n to their cellar
le

to whict

irge of twc
pland. and

with his whol

given with the

his Jaw

lv run his bayonc

an iuterf

an inquest wa

beth Davies, a respectably female, who,
ered, threw herself into the waters of the

%red from the

_ .
3 was about 40 year
standing in the Fish
a Stephenson, living i

in Oakes-

Last Saturday week, I went
"ter I had got upon
ed. In a few

with the deceased to the pier-heat
the landing-stage, I lost sight of

r. Before any assistance could be given to her she
unk. For some time back the deceased had been in a
very low state of mind, in consequence of being in debt,
and, (as stated by another witness) having a good deal of
money owing to her which she could not get in. B.•fore
going down the steps leading to the stage, I Ey.ked the
1' I officer on duty to stop her, as she was in alow way, anti.l

was afraid

was going to make away with herself. His
friend of hers, I could follow

woman. Her body was 1
Thursday morning, near t

bout to remove the gas pipes and tit-
offered resistance, .and was dragged

sion. the motion was rejected by a
WALLASI
took place on Thursday night
ex. chair. The Improvement Co
he other Mr. Thomas Deane. of Seac

comrnitt

COMMISSION

1 stated that the Crown had co❑
Commissioners to wi

the view of it

t embankment at Wall,
ie Law-clerk said he

nassengers from the permaner
Pool to Seacomb Ferry. T
sorry, however, to say, that the 1

,ortion of

that was made, whether the Liverpool peopl
else got the docks. A plan of the road wa
The estimated cost was £BOO, exclusive of t
Littledale said this parish ought, to watch

:ommitt

FINANCIAL

REFORA.T.

its maintenance, was also enormous; and among the et
causes of all this was the Bank Act of '44, which wa
ditgrace to .legislation. But the supreme cause was
unjust system of taxation. He exhibited its partial I:
preferential operations upon the rich, as compared vu
the poor man ; and strongly urged (with the sympath3

determined to procure an adjustment of expenditure a
Justice to the overburdened people" shot

taxation

'ranee what results had attc

disiniss from their minds the war Inunbug, whit_
exposed. Financial grounds had been the cause of rev

gn ports, t

•
much as it was an incitement to the Feamen to be turbt
lent and discontented, because of the premium they coal

large armaments, yet t

were fully

he said

proceedings, for whoever got the docks, they would thinl
little of the parishioners of Wallasey. He regretted muc
the crown did not get their hills. Mr. Littledale
that on Wednesday night some persons walked thr
Mr. Maury's house and Opened every lock in it. Phu
were ordered to be issued, offering a reward for the at
hension of the offenders. Plie Chairman did not I

any community so free from crime
Mr. Meadows said if they had three or four more imlie
men they would have fifty times more crime. The Birker
head commissioners had a policeman in every
robberies were daily committed, whereas in
loughhy's boats, where there are no policemen, no rob-
beries occurred. Mr. Barton asked what had bee(
the memorial from Mr
matter had been defers
not having attended th
referred to.

s Wallasey parish

Mr. Wil-

is and influential town's wetting was held in
house, on Wednesday, in pursuance of a re-
ressed to the mayor, " for the purpose of pe-

by vise

and prudent retrenchment, and a just revision of taxation,
to equalize the ordinary expenditure with the ordinary in-
come of the country. •
His worship the Mayor took the chair shortly after the
hour of noon, and opened the proceedings by a short ad-

dress, pronouncing ale object orf the meeting to be moss
legitimate—none more so.
Mr. FERGUSON then rose to move the first resolution
which, with the others, will be found in an advertisement

The question was essentially a tradesman's question, he
said, hence the prominent position he occupied before the
meeting. Ile depicted at length the sufferings and the
depression which weighed upon every branch of mercantile
affairs. Speculation was at an end—speculation, the life-
spring of commerce. Ile detailed the sufferings which,

locdly as well as generally, had been experienced, and
which had caused thousands of the artizans of Liverpool
to pawn their little goods. The list of bankruptcies were
enormous ; the extent of pauperism, and the cost of

the meeting) the axiom that the expenditure must not
exceed the receipts. lie justified the loyalty of the inha-
bitants of Liverpool, but whilst they were loyal, whilst
they were resolved not to countenance sedition, they were

be their cry
Mr. C. HOLLAND seconded the resolution
exchequer was now virtually eoing on in P ba _
e the Ministers had not the courage or had not the ability
I,_ to come forward with some measure of amendment. Yet

finance affairs of the state ? We were Threatened with a
deficit of £5,000,000 by the ensuing year; and what if
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had then to go the Bank
of England, that foul monoply upon which the merchant

was forced to rely and seek advances ? They must de-
mand from the Government some better system. They
absolutely now had none. The Chancellor wished to in-
crease taxation : they were determined to reduce e
diture; and in order to promote their view t

hey mus'
1 he full]

.
of the continent were our guarantee for peace. The
security of this country was her large population, and it
was an injury to their interests—to the interests of their
trade and commerce, to extract annually from their capi-
tal the enormous sum of .Z 18,000,000 for our war estab-
lishments. He denounced the waste on account of our
Coburg marriage intrigues, the results of which had been
so br;cfly dispelled by the financial convulsions that waste
tended to increase. The African armament ought, he
maintained, to be dispensed with. Shipmasters feared
the approach of our vessels of war in fore

secrecy pre-served in the miscellaneous estimates. Finan-