The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

Another meeting was held yesterday. There were
present Messrs. W. Brown, W. R. Sandbach, Geo. Cros-
field, J. Holt, W. Rathbone, W. Stewart, Jos. Heap,
Robt. Gill, Thomas Todd, R. C. Crosbie, Ed. Pilcber,

Geo. Holt, John Marriott, James Miller, and Robinson
Duckworth.

The CHAIRMAN (Mr. W. Brown), before entering upon
the business of the meeting, stated that a strong impres-
sion had arisen amongst the porters and others of the
working classes, that what they (the association) were
endeavouring was adverse to their interests, in which
they laboured under a very erroneous view, inasmuch as
every step they had taken had a tendency quite the reverse.
What they had done was with a desire to improve the
trede of the tov,n, in which the porters were as much in-
terested as any other class of the community. They had
also opposed, oot s,oletioned, the proposed payment by
these men of ss. for the license, and were in no point inimi-
cal to them.

Mr. TODD expressed himself in terms to the same effect.
All they had done was in favour of the working classes,
who would be subjected to a diminution in their earnings
by a decrease of the trade of the port. He believed that
unless the improvements which had been suggested in the
bill by the associations were carried out, numbers of the
operatives would be thrown out of employment. By a
contrary result, they would be benefited as well as others.
The business of the meeting then commenced.
Mr. RATHBONE proposed, as a means of attaining their
object, that a deputation should be
,sent to the common
council, then sitting in discussion on the clauses of the
bill, to request them, if possible, to procure the postpone-
ment of the consideration of the measure in committee in
parliament, fixed for Tuesday (this day), until Thursday,
so that the associations might have time to consider the
several clauses as proposed to be altered or amended by
the council. They could not at present tell in what state
the bill would be returned by the council, and he consi-
dered it was due to the mercantile associations that they
should first see it, and then direct their exertions to pro-
cure the suppression or amendment of such clauses as
they considered still remained strongly objectionable.
The CHAIRMAN questioned whether the council had
the power to obtain a postponement of its consideration
in the parliamentary committee?
Mr. RATHBONE said he was under the impression that
those who had the conduct of the bill might, on a re-
presentation of the circumstances, do so. He also thought
that it would be but right and candid in them to apprize
the Council that they purposed strenuously to oppose it
if it went back in its present shape, or was not sufficiently
altered to meet their views.
The CHAIRMAN said that in order that the Council
should not be in ignorance of their proceedings, he had
sent copies of all their resolutions respecting it enclosed
in a note to the Mayor.
Mr. RATHBONE thought the sending of the deputation
would be a fair and open manner of dealing with the ques-
tion, and if the Council did not apply for the postpone-
ment, they could then petition Parliament itself, who, he
had no doubt, would see that justice was done to them.
He did not, however, wish to come into any state of un-
friendly contact with the Council, but rather to proceed
in a conciliatot y and respectful manner.

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A conversation, somewhat desultory, took place on this
and other points, in which Mr. Mellor, Mr. Steuart (the
delegate from the West India Association), and others,
took part. The question of raising funds to defray the
necessary expense of a deputation to London to consult
with the members of committee (should that hereafter be
deemed necessary) was also brought upon the carpet ; and
it was stated that the American Chamber of Commerce
had agreed to subscribe to the extent of ±5OO, the brokers
£lOO, and the grocers (a comparatively small body) £5O.
Several of the delegates of other associations had not been
instructed on this point. This subscription applied to the
Fire Bill only, without reference to the Warehouse Bill.
Mr. Toren said that some of the additional clauses in
the proposed amended bill sent down, under the bye-laws,
were monstrous.

Mr. MELLOR strongly objected to the clauses requiring
the private warehouses, appropriated to the use of the
proprietors and their connections only, to be subjected to
the same management and regulations as the large hired
warehouses, in which goods were promiscuously stored
from Jack, Tom, or Harry. Ile thought the bonded
warehouses, which were more than half of the whole,
might be satisfactorily regulated in three weeks, by an
application to the Lords of the Treasury.
Finally, a resolution was agreed to, that a deputation
should be sent to the Mayor, then presiding in council,
with a letter to the effect that that body should apply for
the postponement of the consideration of the bill in com-
mittee, for the purposes before stated ; and while the
secretary was about preparing the letter, Mr. Tood, by
request, read the following memorial to the duck trustees,
submitted for approval by the sub-committe of the
associations:—