The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

morning attracted by a
referring toacbarge

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made against me in the Journal of Saturday, of having,
as Chaitinan, falsely made use of the Shipowners' Assoma.
••ioning the House of Commons with respect
roposed alterations of the timber and corn duties.
-ir, is the first knowledge I had of the imputa-
-ise I should have taken an earlier opportunity
pitiful slander.
_ _

on in peti

for denyi

The books of the Association are my vindication; and
I think it would have been only honest, to say nothing of
courtesy, if facts had been ascertained previous to the
publication of so malicious an attack upon the character of,

Sir, pour obedient servAnt.
WILLIAM MANN,

Liderpool, 30th March, 1845

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Live'pool Shipowners' Association,
March 30, 18461

_ ttention has just been directed to a para-
graph in the form of a leading article in this day's Albion,
imputing to Mr. William Mann, the late chairman of this
society, (upon the alleged authority of the Journal of
Saturday last, but which t have not seen,) the grave charge,
if true, of having stgned and caused to be presented by
Sir Howard Douglas, a petition to the House of Commons,
st a further change in the timber
ved the sanction of that

SIR,-M

thout having rec

That editors of newspapers, dependent as they are upon
others for information of this nature, may sometimes be
waisted, is not a matter of wonder ; but I think it will occur
o every reflecting mind that before they proceed upon
wparte statements to make or propagate a charge so
• hey are bound to institute some inquiry

ious as this

into the facts

s are, Sir, that a meeting of the committee of
n the 12th February last for the
the summons,)a considering the
ge in the timber duties," and the
it the book of proceedings, of the

g is a C

from the chairman of the General Ship-owner's
h instant, on the above subject, and the secre-

tions to any ftirtlier change, for
At to supply the ma-

ngly un

As my duty is manifestly confined to the bare recital of
facts, I will only, in conclusion, express the hops that
they who either publicly or privately have been acces,ory
to this charge will, in justice to themselves, do all in their
power "to right that wrong."—l am, Sir,

)ur obed,
JOHN

ntse,vant,
NORTH, Secretary

DECREASED MAJORITY FOR THE GOVERN-

MENT FREE TRADE SCHEME

:suit of ft-

:ond r.

ing of the

morn Bill

pf Sir R. Peel, on Friday

shows that the majority at
ht Hon. Baronet becomes
tifully less." At the ter-
the majority was
Liberals 202—and

soluposed of— Cons,

yes 20

29 Conservatives
27th February, the
oing into committee was composed of

1, and t

here *Crc

berals o

majority for
231 Whi

On th

rs and 109- Conservatives, whilst on that day
for protection there were 231 Conservatives and 11
Whigs, which gave the government a gross majority of
)n Friday 23 English county members voted
e second reading, and 103 against it. ,There
for the second reading 199 English borough
d 76 against it. Amongst those
measure on Friday night were Lord
;erton, E. Cardwell. W. Ewart, Sir
i. F. G. Tollemache, and T. Thorne-

dho vot

for the
'. T. E

son, S

) voted against the govern-
s, W. Entwisle, J. C. Colqu-
Lin Gladstone, George Hud-
)rd J. Manners, Hon. G. D.
J. Tollemache, and Lord

and J. Jery

fIIE ANNUAL

d off, and amongst
,n. W. B

VESTRY

days has but to elapse until the annual vestry
will take place ; and we have to apprize our
that the Anti-Monopoly Association have sent
no fewer than 6,000 notices to ratepayers, with a view

MEETING

ineeti

improvement in tt
that may emanate

nethen their hands in opposing any measure of
nt of parochial , affairs
are attached to the

1 to carry out their own

iews—including, as, a matter
of the new Poor Law. In
ch we had a

t year, it behoves

in the

.t the machinations

dicals (or " liberal

.t first sight

,n, in their malevo-

ELL, even in matters apper-
ve functions. From the elec-

ill proceed to the
representatives of

thened for the con-
battle must, there-

arena, or we shall

;le when we come to the

The friends of our constitution in Church
would, therefore, do well to rally round the

standard of true Conservatism, and by their attendance
s►t the forthcoming Vestry meeting obtain a vantage
ground, of late years, too unhappily, unheeded, and
relinquished by default.