The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

TO FOREIGNERS

ALIENS resident in this C nutty- desirous to
become NATURALIZED entitle them to enjoy all
the rights and privileges of ritish-born -object, without
which they cannot hold • old and long Leasehold Property,
&c., may be saved m loss of time and trouble, in passing
through the nec ry Government Forms, by applying :to
Mr. W. H. HATHERSICII, Alien Naturalization Office, 3, Win-
chester-buildings, City, London. Terms moderate.
N.B.—lt is not requisite that the parties should appear in
London.

.filE COUNTY

EXPENDITURE MOVEMENT.
TO THE
RATEPAYERS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
TT is now about sixteen months since an Association.
I was formed, arising out of a Meeting of Delegates from
Boards of Guardians held at Newton, for the purpose of pro-
curing for the Ratepayers a representative control over the
expenditure of County Funds. The necessity for such an As-
sociation was rendered obvious by the rapid and enormous
increase of County expenditure (which in Lancashire alone
had reached in 1848 to nearly '180.000), and by the fact that
over the whole of this vast expenditure that portion of the
public from whom the money was levied had not the slightest
control. In fact, the amount and mode of County expenditure
constituted then, as they do now, one of the most oppressive
and glaring grievances of the day.
To bring this subject before the Legislatuf‘iind to obtain
for the Ratepayers their constitutiowar right in relation to
County expenditure, became the ect of this Association, to
conduct the affairs of which mmittee was appointed, com-
prising gentlemen of all ades of political opinion. The
Committee have since eir appointment pursued the work
entrusted to them a renuously as their limited means would
permit. They ha circulated throughout the kingdom a great
amount of info ati ,n on the subject of County expenditure;
they have ex ised a strict surveillance over the financial pro-
ceedings o he magistracy, by which they have reason to be-
lieve a reduction of expenditure has been effected and a greater
regard for economy induced; and they have also succeeded in
he
introducing into Parliament a Bill for the constitution of
County Financial Boards, at which the Ratepayers will in fu-
ture be represented. This Bill was last year retarded by fac-
tious opposition and by the indifference of the Ministry, but
this year it has been brought forward by Mr. Milner Gibson
under much more favourable auspices, the second reading,
which was carried without a division, having had the support
of Government and the ads ocacy of the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel and the Right Hon. Sir James Graham. The Bill is now
before a select Committee of the House of Commons; and the
Committee of this Association have every reason to hope that,
with close attention on their part, and the continued exercise
of those appeals to Parliament collectively and individually
which have hitherto proved so successful, it will this Session
become law.

To conduct a work of this magnitude and importance, how-
ever, it is requisite that the Committee shoula be put in pos-
session of pecuniary means. Hitherto they have been enabled
to defray all the expenses of the movement by subscriptions
from Boards of Guardians and private individuals, without
appealing to the public at large ; but the present position of
the Committee renders an extension of pecuniary support im-
peratively requisite. For this extension the Committee now
address the Ratepayers of the County, and they do so with
confidence on the following grounds. First, because this is
essentially the Ratepayers' own question, deeply affecting their
interests and their rit hts; secondly, because the labours of the
Committee have already been very useful, in bringing the in-
fluence of public opinion to bear upon the magistracy, and in
reducing the amount of County expenditure; ana, thirdly,
because there is the strongest assurance for believing that, by
a vigorous prosecution of the movement, the object of the
Committee (viz., the establishment by the Legislature of re.
presentative Financial County Boards) will be speedily accom-
plished. On these grounds the Committee, the whole of whose
services have been, and will continue to be, rendered gratui-
tously, appeal to the Ratepayers at large for assistance in de-
fraying the expenses inseparably attendant upon the prosecu-
tion of a great national object. Their sole aim is to effect a
reform in the system of County expenditure, by placing the
management of County funds in the hands of parties respon-
sible to the Ratepayers ; and to this object they propose scru-
pulously to adhere, without the slightest admixture of party
political feeling.

The amount of the.dCommittee's expenditure up to the pre-
sent time has been 'B5O, and the following are the subscrip-
tions already received:—

The ehorley Union
Rochdale do.
Burnley do.
Chorlton do.
Clitheroe do.
Haslingden do.
The Fylde do.
Salford do.
Caton Incorporation
Bury Union
Ashton do.
Leigh do.
Oldham do.
Barton do.
Parish of Liverpool
A Friend to the Movement
James Chadwick, Esq., Eccles
Interest allowed by Bank
John Bright & Brothers, Rochdale
T. A. Crook, do. •
James King and Sons, do.
William Chadwick, do.
James Tweedale, do.
William Benecke and Co., do.
John Petrie and Co., do.
Samuel Radcliffe and Sons, do.
James Hoyle and Sons, do.
James Schofield and Sons, do.
Thomas Chadwick, do.
Knowles and Co., do.
Booth and Hoyle, do.
Henry Kelsall, do.
Abraham Brierly, do.
James Chadwick, do.
Pagan Stewart and Co., do.
Jacob Tweedale and Sons, do.
Messrs. Tweedale, do.
James Heywood, Esq., M.P
Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P
C. P. Grenfell, Esq., M.P
Chorlton Union
James Kershaw, Esq., M.P.,

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Further Subscriptions may be addressed to the Treasurer,
Mr. Alderman LIYINOSTON, Cross-lane, Salford; or will be
received by Mr. RsNDALL, Plymouth-grove, Manchester; Mr.
WurrwonTn, Clerk to the Barton-on-Irwell Union, Patricroft;
Mr. ROBERTS, Solicitor, Rochdale; Mr. HENRY NEWALL,
Littleborough ; Mr. HARTLEY, Ightenhill Park, Burnley; Mr.
KAY Cucoo, Oldham ; Messrs. LIVESEY, Guardian-office.
Preston; Mr. MILNER, Guardian-office, Lancaster; and Mr.
MITCHELL, Bolton-street, Bury.
Signed on behalf of the Committee, .

. P. LIVINGSTON,
Committes-roon, Star HotR
el, Mandato; a0.1111119h
April 16,1850.