The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL
STANDARD.

Sirt.,--As you are no doubt aware, from what occurred
in Council on Thursday, that a number of gentlemen met
to inquire into the charge brought against Messrs. Sands,
Turner, and Co., by Mr. Corrie, and as you will probably
wish to know the result of the proceedings, I beg to seep
you annexed copies of resolutions and letters, which form
part of the proceedings. The evidence taken in the case.
when copied, will be sent to me, when, if you have any
desire, you may see it.
I remain, yours respectfully,
WILLIAM BROWN.

THE MAYORALTY AND THE TOWN DUES.
The following Circular was addressed by WILLIAM
BROWN, Esq., to the gentlemen whose names are sub-
joined

" Chapel-street, 9th November, 1843.
"SlR,—Referring you to the proceedings which took
place at a meeting of the Tow❑ Council, held this day, I
am deputed to request your attendance to-morrow,
(Friday,) at Twelve o'clock, at the rooms of the East
India Association, with a view to the formation of a
Committee to inquire into, and report upon, the charge
brought by the Collector of the Town Dues against the
firm of Messrs. SANDS, TURNER, and Co.
" I am, Sir, your most obe'lient servant,
(Signed) " WILLIAM BROWN,
" Chairman of the Provisional Committee."

" The Committee were composed of the following gen-
tlemen, who attended in consequence of the above re•
quest

" W. BROWN, Chairman, and Chairman of the
American Association.
" R. DUCKWORTH, Chairman of the East In-
dia Association.
" C. S. PARKER, Chairman of the West India
Association.

" T. B. HORSFALL, Chairman of the African
Association.
" J. TODD NAYLOR, Chairman of the Brazilian
Association.
" J. MYERS. Chairman of the Brokers' As-

sociation.
" W. POTTER.
" W. P. BUSHBY
" T. RIPLEY.

" W. SMITH, (Isaac Lowe and Co
" ROBERT DUDGEON.
" ED. MOON.
" F. FOSTER.

" T. BOLD.
" JAS. BATESON.
" SAMUEL JOHNSTON.
" R. DIROM.
" EDWARD HUNT.
" JOSIAS BOOKER.
"The members of the town-council who were summoned
and attended, thought it desirable to retire before the dis-
cussion took place, as they might be called upon to decide
upon the question in the Council.
" The following gentlemen were summoned but did not
attend ; viz., Messrs. Charles Horsfall, Stephen Vertue,
George Arbuthnot, Thomas Tobin, Arthur Thompson,
and Harold Littledale."

"Messrs. SANDS, TURNER, and Co.
" Chapel-street, Liverpool, 10th Nov., 1843.
" Dear Sirs,—lt gives me great pleasure to hand to
you the enclosed resolution, which was unanimously
adopted by a meeting, held at the East India Chambers
this day, at which the gentlemen whose names I enclose
were requested to attend ; and to prevent the possibility
of its being said that it was a meeting of your friends, you
will perceive that they are of all political parties—the
chairmen of the various associated bodies, and such other
gentlemen as it was supposed from their station in society
would render their opinions and decision unquestionable.
" There is a mass of most important evidence, which
there is not time to-day to copy from the reporters' notes ;
but these, with other resolutions affecting the mode of
transacting business at the Town Dues Office, will be pre-
pared as soon as possible.
" Permit me, personally, to offer you my congratulations
on the result of this inquiry, which to you has terminated
so honourably._ .

"Yours, faithfully,
" WILLIAM BROWN,
" Chairman of the Meeting.
" P.S.—The members of the council who came to the
meeting retired before the proceedings commenced, feeling
that, as the subject might come before them in council,
it would be better for them to absent themselves."
The following is the resolution referred to in Mr.
Brown's note :

" After the most careful and minute examination into
the charge preferred against Messrs. Sands, Turner, and
Co., in the letter addressed to the Mayor, on the 6th
instant, by Mr. Corrie, receiver of the town dues,
It was resolved unanimously,

" That in the opinion of this rneetingtere is not the
slightest ground to justify the imputath which is at-
tempted to be cast upon those gentlemen.

Resolved unanimously,

"That no definition is procurable from the receiver of
town dues by which to distinguish a bale from a truss, or
a case from a box, but that, on the contrary, in reply to
the chairman, Mr. Ripley, and Mr. C. S. Parker, deputed
from this meeting for the purpose of ascertaining that
point, he replied that he was instructed by the Mayor and
Town-clerk to answer no questions.
Resolved unanimously,

"That, in order to prevent such inequalities in future,
it is the bounden duty of the authorities under which the
Receiver acts to put forth a clear and definite rule, by
which, on the one hand, parties may be free from the risk
of imputation who are acting in conformity with the daily
practice of the Town Dues Office; and that, on the other
hand, no parties may be subjected to higher charges than
are paid by their neighbours on the like articles.

"That Mr. Brow, the Chairman, do transmit a copy
of these resolutions to the Mayor and each member of the
Council."

The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the
committee on Monday (yesterday) :
That this meeting, having already exonerated Messrs.
Sands, Turner and Co. from the charges brought against
them in Mr. Corrie's letter of 6th Nov., is unanimously
of opinion that Mr. Sands should withdraw his objection
to being nominated as Mayor for the present year.
(Signed) WILLIAM BROWN,
Chairman of the Meeting.

Resolved,—That the chairman and members oicihe
committee wait upon Mr. Sands with the above resolu-
tion.

(Signed)

WILLIAM BROWN.

TOXTETH -P ARK COMMIS SIONE RS.—On Friday Mr.
J. Heckle and Mr. A. Ryan were elected two of the com-
missioners for Toxteth-park, in the room of Mr. R.
Harbord and Mr. Joseph Harrison, who 111-,:. resigned.
EARLY CLOSING OF Snors.—The principal woollen-
drapers in this town have agreed to close their places of
business every evening at seven o'clock, commencing to-
morrow.

NEW FORT.—A new fort is about to be constructed on
the shallows of Bootle Bay, which, when finished, will
enable us, with the present fort at the Rock, to receive
any unwelcome visitors, on their entrance into the Nar
rows, with a cross fire from right and left.

WOOD PAVING.—" STEAD V. WILLI AMS.—A rule nisi
was obtained in the Bail Court, on Monday last, to set
aside the verdict given at the late Liverpool assizes, on
the ground of its being against the evidence.
CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—The
usual half-yearly meeting was held on Monday, at the
company's offices, Eden quay, James Ferrier, Esq., in the
chair, when a full report of the proceedings of the com-
pany for the past half year was submitted to the proprie-
tors. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum
was declared upon the profits for the past half year.

WESLEYAN EDUCATION SCHEME.—The Watchman
newspaper, as the organ of the Wesleyan Methodists, in
its number of Wednesday last, furnishes a variety of par-
ticulars regarding the scheme last week promulgated for
supplying in some degree the educational wants of the
population in our manufacturing districts. It is hoped
that the Wesleyans will be able, within the next seven
years, to establish at least seven hundred schools, in ad-
dition to those already in operation. In order to accom-
plish this object, it is calculated that an outlay, amount-
ing to not less than two hundred thousand pounds, will
be required, in addition to the sums necessary for the
annual maintenance of the schools, above the income
that may be derived from the weekly payments of the
children. Of the aggregate amount thus called for, by
far the largest portion must be raised gradually and lo-
cally, in order to the provision of suitable buildings, and
the discharge of other unavoidable demands ; but it is
resolved that a sum of £35,000 shall be forthwith raised
as a General Education Fund, to be appropriated to the
providing of suitable masters and mistresses, the outfit
of new schools, &c. An appeal is made to the Wesleyan
Circuits for the supply, at the earliest possible day, of
£20,000 of this latter sum.

THE WIDOW OF THE LATE CAPT. C. R. R. DIJSCAiT,
OF TILE MAIL STEAM-SHIP " SOLWAY."—The melan-
choly loss of the West India mail-ship " Solway," in the
spring of the present year, off Corunna, will still be in
the recollection of our readers. Amongst those who pe-
rished was her highly-esteemed commander, whom we
personDy knew, and who, in his anxiety to preserve the
lives 4his passengers and crew, remained on board, until
all chattte of his own preservation was at an end. His
fate, in the very flower and promise of life, was the more
deplorable from the circumstance, which must ever em-
balm his name in the memory of all who knew him, that
he was one of the bravest and most generous seamen that
ever trod a deck, and that with his own arm, and at the
risk in every case of his own life, he saved the lives of
several individuals, on perilous occasions, who, but for
his aid as a daring swimmer, would have found a watery
grave. After servinc, honourably and usefully for some
years as first officer in several of the finest transatlantic
steam-shius of this port, he was appointed to the com-
mand of the Solway, and his prospects in life assumed for
the first time a meridian brightness, when he was sum-
moned to that bourne whence no traveller returns. About
two years before, he had married a young, amiable, and,
we may add, accomplished lady, who (with an infant
child) was plunged in the deepest grief by her bereave-
ment, and left comparatively destitute. Some sympathi-
singi friends in Southampton set on foot a subscriptionill
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receive subscriptions; and we shall beAnui glad to hand ore
to that gentleman any donations which parties may fia4
it more convenient to leave at our office.