The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT
BANKING COMPANY.

THE Directors hereby GIVE NOTICE, that a
DIVIDEND, at the rate of Eight Shillings per Share, for
the Half-year ending 31st December last, (being Eight per Cent.
per Annum, clear of Income-tax, which is paid by the Bank,)
will be paid to the Proprietors, at tlHeattßank and Branches,
on and after WEDNESDAY, ti h—of February.
The TRANSFER BO will be CLOSED from the date of
this notice till th of paying the Dividend.
y order of the Board.
PHILIP THOMSON.
Manchester, 30th January, 1850.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause of Abram versus Sudlow, the
Creditors of JAMES MATHEWS, late of Liverpool, in the
county of Lancaster, Solicitor, who died on the 10th day of
June, 1847, are to come in and prove their Debts before Sir
WILLIAM HORNE, one of the Masters of the said Court, at
his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London, on or before the Ist day of Ma k1850.-or•in default
thereof they will be peremptorily uded the benefit of the
said Decree.

KEIGHTLE NLIFFE, and BEAUMONT,
, Chancery-lane, London,
A s for KEIGHTLEY and BANNING,
of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.

AT a PUBLIC MEETING of the INHABITANTS
of LIVERPOOL, convened by the Mayor, and held in
Sessions-house, on Thursday, the 31st day of January,

JOHN HOLMES, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair,

. .
It was moved by A. H. WYLIE, Esq., seconded by WILLIAM
RATHBONE, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously,—That,in the opinion of this Meeting,
it is essential to the welfare of the great mass of the commu-
nity, that the Legislature should proceed steadily on the prin-
ciples of commercial policy which have already proved so ad-
vantageous to the country; and especially that they should
repeal or modify those taxes which press most heavily upon
the health, the morals, the employment, and the comforts of
the people.
It was moved by F. BOULT, Esq., seconded by CHARLES
ROBERTSON, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously,—That as the recent policy of the
Legislature has been to repeal the taxes on the raw materials
ofindustry, to remove gradually the existing obstacles to the
extension of our trade with foreign countries, and to ameliorate
the sanitary and moral condition of the people, this Meeting
considers that, in pursuance of this sound policy, the Legisla-
ture is imperatively called upon to repeal the Taxes on Timber,
as constituting the raw material for Ship-building, and other

important pui:poses; and to reduce lar y-theliiity on Tea,
and thus open for our mannfactur n extensive market in
the populous empire of China,— abolish the Window Tax,
and Excise on Soap and Br' s, which tend directly to the
physical deterioration of t eople,—and the Excise on Paper,
as no less injuriously cling their moral and intellectual
advancement. . _

"Ii;;;Tiao;113ort. V. YATES, Esq., seconded by JOHN
SMITH, Esq.,
Resolved upanimously,—That in order to meet any deficiency
which ma "arise from the removal or diminution of these
Taxes, Government ought to act on a system of rigid economy

in every department of the State, and especially introduce au
effectual reform in the system of Colonial Administration, in
the expenditure of the Army, the Navy, the Ordnance, and the
Woods and Forests, and abolish all useless places and sine-
cures, and unmerited pensions.
It was moved by RICHARD SHIEL, Esq., seconded by Jowl
FINCH, Esq., and
.Resolved,—That whatever duty it may be found necessary to
continue on Tea, be charged ad valorem, instead of the present
unfair mode, which presses most heavily on the poorer classes