The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

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lives and properties a little more beyond the power 1 LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ' way •af SingaPore, the Council Presume there will be de times- Heath, for their services to the Chamber, and the meet. MEETING OF THE SHIPOWNERS, -
of Popish outrage than they unfortunately are at 1 - sity for that committee to interfere in the matter.
The subjects of a local or domestic character, thcaieefe not md.bers were appointed scrutineers to investi- MERCANTILE
aßsopcli
edrNt
previous
Eve
ittohauecstt ACT.
We have alluded elsewhere to a subject on which we have re-
ceived several communications. or we should have been glad present.. The first annual meeting of this important body was
leas interesting or important to the Liverpool commehial
georeifge
regulations
last
launt ci
ue sn spe,x
session.pe inflictinge placard en,
iwude
to give publicity to such sentinients as those of " A Working ingTsherpeaermatee
held yesterday at the Cotton Sales-roam, in this town. public are, as follows : gate- the votes for the election of members of the Coun. Yesterday evening, a meeting, convened by placard, -__
The report then alluded to the exertions made by the Chem- cif, and it was agreed they should report to-morrow, hwbcoyehnlidtevhehaenttseihtnhegayemt
Man" and others. THE first annual meeting of tie Liverpool Considering the inclemency of the weather, it was ber upon the subject of the removal of the Post-office site, their (this day,) namely, Messrs. Claypole, T. A. Bushby, and provisions of the Mercantile.
We are obliged by the extract forwarded by " A Lover of
Truth," but could not make use of.it to-day. Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, in the numerously and most respectably attended. Amongst complete success in preventing which we have given elsewhere. here. F. Boult.
cMheoennunic
est oi Music-hall,
-vevh ae
dtaireil gol
The special attention of our readers to requested to the first of Cotton Sales-room ; Thomas Berry Eh -f 11 Esq., the gentlemen present we observed :-T. B. Horsfall, Onthe subject ef postal conimunication they were also still
a series of letters, in our publication of to-day, signed " A I • 'cl' • )"
a ' vigilantly attentive.
MEETING OF WESLEYANS LAST NIGHT.
Church of-England Man." It is from the pen of a dis:in- the c sturman, press ing on the occaeloo. The pro- F. Shand, Thomas Moore, R. Edwards, - M'Fie, Hugh. 3. DISPUTE BETWEEN E DOCK COMMITTEE AND THE upon. them sundry contributions, fines, &c., the climax to
?wished titled layman not a hundred miles from this town. ceedings will be found fully reported in our Hornby, - Bushby, R. Shell, - Lockett, Geo. Holt, DOCK PORTERS.—QuestionsTiOlf dispute having arisen between -----
veo are not at all inclined to be satisfied with the mere ejection , , - . Boult, Wm. Gardner, Charles Robertson, - Stitt, the Dock Committee and the porters, relative to the appoint. A meeting of members of the Wesleyan body was held last meeting was well attended, a lag r
columns ; and we refer to them in this place for ge por ion apparently con-
of the Romish Bishops feom this country. Something very - Claypole, T. Wylie. Chas. Holland. - Forwood, ment of master porters for discharging vessels, the matter was evening at the Assembly-rooms, Great George-street. The sisting of mates and respectable seamen. Mr. Rowett was
much further is needed to give satisfaction. The 4aynooth the purpose of making a few reniati...s, which the referred by both parties to the Cnamber of Commerce; and object of the meeting was to afford information relative to the t"
y - Heath, - Riley, Esqrs., Scc., &C.
Lloyd, called to the chair by
Grant must certainly be annulled. An influential clergyman suggest. your directors feel pleasure in stating, that the opinion X. recent expulsion, from the Wesleyan body, of Mr, r
writing on this subject says—" The cry now raised in Eng- T. B. HORSFALL, Esq., occupied the chair, and in open- r dlt "'
•
p esse y them, agreeing with that of the American Chamber T C ar. WT CI Ikland Mr. Christopher •T. - Mr. Rowan roseand acclamation.
t . ~) i r. .W. T. la y,
land is for the throne and for power, not for Gnd and His The speech of the chairman, in opening the ing the business of the day, said, that twelve months of Commerce, was acceptable both to the Dock Committee and The room is not a very large one, and, consequently, it was to had, when he eeme into the room, that he should be
e truth. The Pope, forsooth listo be resis'ed, but Popery is meeting, was precisely what st df we expe... e rom a had now elapsed since, under the auspices of the mayor of the t I h badopted. have been supposedwould h • been '
porers, am as een - called upon to take the chair. He believed there were
to have its teachers salaried by the English people at home
the town the met for the purpose of establishing a charts- 4. PownEn MAGAZINES. Your council, perceiving the pose of accommodating anything like the numberof persons man enormities • the Sl)* '
in e mping Act of last session, to a
and abroad. Oh, monstrous delusion ! Oh, fatal degene- gentleman of Mr. Horsfall's high and honourable ' Y in who would be anxious to obtain information connected with a ma -
general a'arm prev..iling on this subject, and deeming the re- Li IHe thou ht he could truly ber of commerce verpoo . ioug few of which he would direct their attention. He be-
sotsacy! Oh, national impiety and provocation of God I Let character -temperate, impartial, and essentiallymoval of the Magazines highly desirable, forwarded a memo- subject that has caused so great a commotion in the most nu-
say that the experience of the past had sufficed to convincesieved that Mr. Labouchere, the author of the bill, had
Queen Victor;a, now happile alarmed, be loner deluded e •
oustness-like. Th h • • •fl e c airman revievved brie the
Ythose who doubted the necessity of such a chamber ; and Hai to Governme in favour of such ,removal,and, by merous sect in this country. The room, however, was by no
by the dream that she can say to this tide, 'Thus far shaltmunicar fr the Home-Office, lE they have - a corn-
means full at the time appointed for taking the chair. The been actuated by conscientious motives, and had intended
thou come, and no further.' " proceedings of the past year, during which the the mode in which it had been carried on, had served to that this
removal
wn°i
17-n
,without
reason to hope
will effected any unnecessary proceedings were preceded by the singing of a hymn, *d
• e
bust-
to do them a service; but he had gone a strange way about
in consequence of the numerous reports received yesterday, a Council of the Chamber had experiencedamount silence those
an who had objected to it. (Hear, hear.) They delay. tional exercises followed, and by the time the immediat it. Before legislating for sailors he ought to have known
portion of the leading articles will be found in the sixth pip.were told that having various political interests and differ- 5. PACKET STATION.—The rapid extension oftbe ocean mail ness of the meeting commenced the room was densely crowded. of public support far hevond his own previous an- packet service, consequent on our vast colonial foreign trade, Mr. lITAGOARTvas called to the chair. He said, it was with e • had'
what sailors were He ought to have remembered the
---- tici . potions, sanguine as they had been. They had ent commercial views it was impossible they could meet
togetherf h
e ti,t• t e common good, but what had been the has called for the special consideration of your Council, in re. deeply solemn feelings that he occupied that chair. The cir. services the performed. Since the navigation law
ference to the advantages which Liverpool presents as a station cumstances which had brought them together that evening came into operation they had had a Government return
OPENINGOFP A R L I A M E N T. been appealed to on various occasions by different result ? 1 hey had met gentlemen of different political for the arrival and departure f these Its geographical were of an extremely painful character. A number of their made f •
o mails.
Portions of the commercial comtnunitv to exercise opinions—of different commercial views, and were happy . its •brethren, connectedwiththe Wesleyan Methodist•.
site, central position in respect of the great seats of trade
TH E QUEEN'S SPEECH. their influence with Government for. the redress of to say that their meetings had been attended with general and manufactures, and increasing claim to be considered the been deposed from their offices ; most of them had been ex- •
increase of 2,200 tons of foreign tonnage employed in the
in grievances, and the advocacy of measures con- good. (Applause.) The chamber had never discussed first commercial emporium of the kingdom and the advanta es pelted from that society, with which they had been for a long
it already possesses in its I office' establishment andg series of years connected. They were met there to listen to trade of this country. Some years ago, when the question
ApAcr
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ez s.- wn-'.91.1"'/DlTtNtAgssaTiTnET:fithgE:
eny political questions-they had never sullied their deli-at
irge po st
of free trade was first agitated, it was said that the come!
Ever Majesty will open Parliament this day at two ducive to the public good ; and on all occasions postal arrangements, all *us the steps which your Council statement in reference to those expulsions, and he doubted not
they had been listened to as the authoritative and berations by busying themselves with selfish interests. have taken in memoriali z i ng government on the subject, they
same woopuilndi
opinion
all
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in.
mealetlhf—i ntitieartes:i
Methodism
ha
onddi,a
min
‘,l,lai as opinion,
pwahrean.
tpmtetererisnemea ofvii allaatloi tohnuer:p:o.rrttosyt nhielGeirladeliti
an;
tria;tirnei
exclusively, but
tltaergurter:
o'clock, when she will deliver in person the usual (Cheers.) The report would be read to them by the Though difficulties occur, especially in the fact that Southanap. they had heard all that would be said, they would be of the increased. The result had been a great increase of pan-
both, combined with free trade. The speaker
duly constituted exponents of the wishes of this secretary, embracing as it did the proceedings of the coon- ton has already become the depot and terminus of twoor three
Address to the assembled Parliament, great community. In particular, he adverted to cif during the last twelve months-the measures on of the existing mail steam-packet services, yet your Council
hope that in the establishment of new lines, as that of the doxical, the most illogical, and the most inconsistent thin:
ever conceived. He had arrived at this conclusion after lookin
Pfe hope to receive this im tt d t b por an ocumen y the proposed removal of the Post-office to the site which the council had taken action-the measures under
discussion, and though they had not come to aof Good such will at the question in all its b • Could it be believed
Cape
of the Blind Asylum, which, but for the strenuous overlooked. It may be also here mentioned, that the opinion special services had been called to invoke the blessing of a statement in the circular of Messrs. Chaloner and Fle-
final conclusion on the question, they would seek their of this Chamber having been asked by the government autho- Almighty God on acts by which men had been expered from ming, stating that there had been a most ros • perous tim-
electric telegraph about three o'clock, when a exertions of the Chamber, he firmly believed would opinion en the income tax. (Hear.) Now it was right ' rities on the expediency. of moving the North American mail the ministry, whose character was unsullied, and whose re- bar trade. This, however, he contended, was not owing
SECOND EDITION of the STANDARD, have been carried, to the great inconvenience and he
should state to them that there was some difference of packet -station from Liverpool to a port on the south or west ligious standing was known to be such as to render them most to an increased consumption, but
to decreased imports; loss •of the mercantile community of the town. opinion in the Council as to whether the subject was a coast of heisted, your Council, after obtaining much informa useful? Methodism, as it is, was to a certain extent unscriptural. and he added that 1 a large portion of the tonnage engaged
containing it, will he immediately issued. After directing attention to the various suggestions legitimate one for their consideration. He (the Chair- 'on on the subject expressed an opinion unfavourable to such
lion
transfer._ Incidental '-
this • -Iremark notaltogether • to subject, your Comte'. may Those who presumed to think the Methodism of Jabez Buntin •
correct or scriptural; those men who were
g in the trade last year was foreign. The -
gross tonnage,
man) had never any doubt on the point, as affecting thenevertheless, had decreased, whereas it ought to have
-------- - - - ----- --- - ----- as to reductions of duties to be recommended by that they have received from a member of the Chain' er a very anicious to see a change in the society, though they had been
interests of the commmercial community of this town able paper, setting forth the inducement which is afforded forconnected with it for years, had been expelled without atrial, increased, and employed more British sailors. Ship ri) t ilibtrp all &tanbarb. the Chamber to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and •
the interests of the country at large, and he stood shipping goods by way of London, to the prejudice of thisport, He had mentioned the circumstances of one of these expulsions had been laced in
owners p the position, in April,
and intimating to the meeting that the question of pledged to bring the question before the Chamber, in in consequence of the rates of carriage from Mauchester to to a minister of the Church of England,and
that gentleman last that if they went into
the market and offered
-a.
London being much lower in proportion than to Liverpool, the was amazed that any such power should exist, or be used in 4' • •
—the repeal of the income tax upon trades, profes- consequence of which a resolution had been placed uponto lake freight at 80s. per ton they had a P •
natural outlet ; and thus heavy loss is sustained both by the such a case • and was astonished that an person should Prussian on one,
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 4, 1851. sions, and other uncertain sources of income would the books of the Council. It would be for the Chamber be expelled ' from the Lord's Y hand, and Swede ' • Dock and Town Estate in dues, by the shipping interest in
to deal with that resolution, either to confirm - He called upon his brethren to look at Methodism as it was, and if they came down to 755., those par
be brought before the meeting, the chairman ex-ties v ld . ' take
it, or to reject it altogether if they thought proper. plies. Your Council have, therefore, turned their earnest at- and at whist it was doing, and compare it with the Methodism 70s. To compete with such men they mus ee
THE Romish priesthood in Liverpool, encou d the great satisfaction which he and his
- dressed (Hear, bear.) It should, however, be borne in mind that tendon to the subject and have invited that of other bodies of John NA esley. When Wesley died in 1791 their body con- to live on stock the content
fish and sour krout. The seamen had
raged apparently by the present insolent attitude colleagues in the Council regarded the fact that the income tax was not like the other taxes. The general
towards counteracting 'an injury which might lead to serious sisted of 58,000 souls ;by the year 1800 it had increased 75 per
cent., but during the last ten years the addition bad been only fought the battles of their country upon 21bs. of beef a-
' of their head, Pio Nona, have stepped out a little they had been able, throughout the working of the taxes of the state were permanent-this was temporary. consequences,
at- 10 per cent. He would ask them how it happened that for the day; but if they put them upon foreign diet
of late, and appear disposed to (rive us a foretaste institution, thus far to avoid the mooting- of ques- They should also recollect that they were not going to ten6.tionUoSraMcoßmEmOiUttLeAeT, I
appointed
If loEr S
thePR I
pc
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rr o
onsse.,— e
p has been last five years their missionary field had become narrowed ? they would be disposed to lay down their
of the style in which they would lord it over us if tions which had the slightest bearing upon party ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeal an express particularly directed to the removal of restrictions which act The expenditure in this department was about £lOO,OOO per " Never mind; we will go to New South W
ananiessanude say
of
of parliament. The tax itself expired in April, and injuriously on the transit of goods trade, and some modifi- annum, and employed from four to five hundred ministers. tralia, where we can be protected." (Cries of "Nos 'l3 no!
:hey had the power to do ao. The fact, so strenu- politics, or could stir up political dissensions all they had to do was whether they would ask for its cation has been obtained • but the committee will continue They would expect from this large forcegreat effects ; but what He was glad to he
arthat cheer. It spewed that their
odsly denied by them whilst whining at the doors amongst them. He had feared that they might renewal, its continuance. • .
or oppose
their
to procure
examination of goods in transit under bond and the curtail- employed,t and this included Ireland. He attributed this un- . The chairman then
a Parliament for mere toleration, that they aim at not have been able to steer clear altogether from this subject, it was well to revert back to the period whenintroduced the first speaker,
supremacy, temporal and spiritual, in this realm, is collision with some or other of the commercial the tax was first brought into operation, and he might in frrgeoefvtilliseolmethpresent of
Customs
bonding entries.system ,
and the arbitrary saoiostft.catusgtitimtepoofrttehrf,os,
eiintol greatinstitutions measure,
as to trhyeoalnod-
Mr. FOYLE, who, on moving the first resolution, ex-
openly admitted; and it has been even intimated bodies in the town ; but he was happy to say that take the liberty of reminding them of the statement made conduct of the Board of Customs, will form an important por- Richmond. At Didsbury there was a rev. gentleman (he plained that he had been called upon unexpectedly to by Lord John Russell. He stated that Lion of their enquiries. would not mention
.names), a theological tutor in the institu- move this resolution in the absence ofanother '
to us that, in the event of the Sovereign and her they had completely succeeded in accomplishing THE INCOME Tax.—The period for which the tax on pro- ien, vi son was a minister in the. Church of England; party.
" A tax on income was only to be resorted to in a very great The speaker said that be would commence by going over
Government taking any steps to arrest their inso- this very desirable consummation. emergency, admitting that it did. not matter whether that Percy and income was originally enacted expires this year. this gentleman,tw on a visit a short time ago, was invited to
reach bthe previous affecting the mercantile marine, and first
The attention of your Council has been called to those clauses P , u
.he declined, on the ground that it would damage
lent designs, domestic rebellion, aided by foreign We regret, however, that, as will be seen from a emergency arose from war or preparations rendered necessary
which particularly affect the commercial and trading classes. the reputation of his son. The son of another preacher was noticed an act passed in the reign of George 11, in which
lkylutihe state oflthe things, still the emergency must be great." a tractarian bishop of the Church of England. He made these it was stated that his Maje t • hed
arms, will be invoked to crush and avenge the perusal of the proceedings this day-, the meeting
.The propriety of petitioning the Leeislature for the exemption the the sailors of
effort. We shall give a few specimens of the itself has not succeeded in achieving- this desidera- tax waasTiTe reserved e'rvta:d nowony lioltolle:Laleigineelestioi aft,=pco me
of all incomes derived from precarious sources, in case of the
I,eit4trintieditivg,,,zeinteviviittZdotfo ditsparagtilng
.the Church of England should be released vest compulsory acts : he
ravings of these gentry, perpetrated at a meeting turn. The defunct Anti-Monopoly Association (Hear, hear.) This as the opinion of Lord J. Russell. wanveewttto ou fg • lti
11 ei
taTi sifts! beene consideredpg in
anythecoCoorsuen,ctilc;
twahoe England,
k sionaries, they sent oynt priests, wsh'onwtairigrt, TossteeTttsmof mix- proceeded to mention the act establishing the Merchant
held at the Music--hall, in Bold-street, on Tuesday appears to be impatient under its present abridged Then there •
was thew similar opinion of the Duke of the sense of the Chamber on the question, which will be sub- Tractarianism, and not Methodism. The Chairman, before Marinett Fund law, by which 6d. per month was to be paid
evening last. sphere of action; and hence the wiredrawn reasons Wellington. Such was the opinion of those two states- mitted to it in resolution passed at the Council Board, but re- resuming his seat, introduced Mr. T. Isloyd, town councillor, t that fund, and 6d. to Greenwich Hospital. By
to the meeting, for the purpose of making a statement relative a subsequent act, in the year 1830, the seamen in
ferred to this meeting for confirmation or otherwise.
men at the time the tax was first levied. (Applause.) For
• hthe law to his expulsion. the navy were exempted from the provisions of this
his own part he agreed with those who maintained that reiring one-third of the directors, elected at the annual Mr. LLOYD entered into a detailed account of his experience In 1840 there was an examination into these 'act.
pose of considering the propriety of erecting very income tax question which he acknowledged • •
the tax was odious in its character, and inquisitorial in its
meeting,
iosetotilt•eetire each year. your Council regret that they 11
seven
o laboursors. as
He
eMheat Methodist, o Tel ,e which phi crohocohmtphrei sdaperioddifferent
gradations
ofot
irotg matters in
the House of Commons, and a gentleman named 'William
schools for the children of the Roman Catholic to have first mooted in the Council, and the operation. (Cheers.) There were various other questions thus
poor in the district which they have christened attempts of other gentlemen of the same party to which had been brought under the consideration of the Claypole, Gardner,
c Gladstone. riMessrs.
sarns CI nvn'
Robinson,l4ll wFil 'o
Fn
aorwn wgoort,
out of teacher in the schools, superintendent, and class-reader; Watson, secretary to the Merchant Seamens' Corpora-
with the name of " Holy Cross," in which it was throw in the apple of political discord, and to Council, one of which was the reduction of duty on coffee, of office, and are ineligible for re-election for one year. The and during all. that period he defied any man to charge him lion, London, a company consisting. of 117 gentlemen,
Council would take this opportunity of recording their sense with any act of immorality, or conduct which would justify his who had the full power of managing all the money
74 belong-
stated by Mr. Aspinall, barrister, in moving the broach their predilections for direct over indirect and although they were desirous to avoid anything which of the great services rendered to the Chamber by one of its expulsion from the society. He alluded to a law enacted in ing to the outports, of which there were
first resolution, that there are 2,500 such children duties. So far as could be done, withoutheing tvran- tmhieg htu
ecsrteiaotne osefidi i differential r eanmt?anlgg tiehse mstillvethebyweinretraottinugs roetisidboeors, Mr. WEliarn Brown, M.P., both at its board and in 184395, butie which had
.been allowed to remain dormant until management of trustees, and 45 other ports dir'euAydeurntdheer
practically without the means of education." meal in his office of chairman, Mr. Horsfall put a to see the duties on tea and coffee reduce", if it could be the Coun; cr, dt a, 7 rustl al hetbettug 11a,
sitfil =l:asbelaeti ion_ 18
stittitionalli, arWligivsivveent
otllteo AsecrtllteedtW:X as. uiincoowno- the management of the Corporation, gave evidence ; and
Whilst engaged in the work of erecting painted stop to this sort of party work, and, -in so doing, done without loss to the exchequer. (Cheers.) There fluence, which has been hitherto so readily and powerfully ex- expulsion, which arose out of the fact of his having acted as to a question put by an honourable member it turned out
windows and providing gaudy decorations for their acquitted himself admirably in ar office which we were other questions which might be brought before the ercisdinf all matters emanating from this Chamber._ Too ther chairmanHolvet alltewhooTteeteionems:dotna in Liverpool, and the other in that the salary of the aforesaid Mr. Watson was £4OO per
chapels. the Romish clergy very quietly allowed feel assured not one of his fellow-townsmen can be Chamber with advantage to the public, one of which was are membersdue for the
borough,%it 2g,litiLb43lg=z)tii!gatitilb
communications he Holy
the latter meeting,eepc:v-
upon
ytZfttlitioptretitensubsetftotz gear. Iterfr:lrliludlizeito. other examinations before the
connected with the paper duties. He held in his hand a have received at their hands, as well as the readiness with attend that meeling, for be would be liable to expulsion • but ter,,_77.:d that the object of
these poor beings to grow up in ignorance, in filth, found to perform the duties of with more ability.the assoch'ition, of which A AS on was secretary, was
statement on this subject which, perhaps many present vfhich they have supported the Chamber in its representations as he was an Englishman, or rather a Welshman— laughter - and in vice ; and it was only when the discovery The happy manner in which this was done, had seen. The Chairman' then read a long' extract from ato Government.
was made that they were willingly, and in num- coupled with the heartiness with which the thanks pamphlet by T. B. Crompton, Esq., whic entered ela- During the year your Council have also been deprived, by Society, and he went. He bad since been informed of his dition of the seafaring class, the speaker observed that they
hers, frequenting the Protestant ragged schools of the meeting, messed 1-, M Charles Holland, boratelY into the extent of the paper manufacture, y T.and resinatien, of the services of Mr. Stolterfehtemd Mr. George expulsion ; but, though expelled, he still continued to lead his found in this port a society- possessed of a certain sum Holt,sub-
their other avocations preventing theirgiving that atten- class, the members of which, he supposed, were expelled too, scribed by ship-masters. There were fifteen trustees ap-
and other similar institutions in the town, that were awarded to him, convinces us more and more he conclude -1 by reading the following from -the same lion to their office here
that they could • the vacancies Mr. Was, BYRON entered into a long statement of circuin- •
pointed
annually,
supposed to be by the b t
masters; u
document :- thus occasioned have been filled up by the election of Mr. stances, which resulted in what the opposite party said was his these gentlemen,•
reality, had '
in nothing whatever to do
--s'oeir reverences seem to have remembered that that Mr. Horsfall's vocation is that of member for withdrawal from the society; he contended that he never had •
"The raw material from James R le and Mr. Wm. .
which paper is manufactured is now Y y .
they possessed minds to he formed and souls to , Liverpool. His unswerving honesty of principle, being• purchased by foreigners for exportation, to be manufac- It may be mentionea that there have been appointed twenty- withdrawn. one way.
one standing. and special committees, whose aggregate number Mr. CHALKLEY, also one of the expelled, went into a still No doubt these trustees were all actuated by the very
he saved. The history of their awaking- to a sense his amenity of manner, his thorougl knowledge, tared in countries where no tax exists, and the paper produced
of this fact shall he narrated in the words of one of alike of commercial subjects, generally, and of the ttherserbonirsperseding, in our own colonies and other
ncrnes_ of itriiieeegtienngesratperoouurclitihem,gg iosreeifohttty-feontin additio to those
emvoernetedceotoanileeodtesjawr
tt
eaxipticollitdoreopolitidellsrtso. ueeetdeg.nGtriiife
abeetstirowf
am,outirvrers,l but under the existence of the present
-r:e speakers at the meeting, the Rev. Mr. Noble : interests and requirements of flits port, in parti- or the rialivlameari.aralicpopigiegettgeosii,igirszoz 4.ltltt gis of
The only alteration, Or rather addition. to the fundamental fit and Dunn. He accused the prosecutors in that affair of The speaker, eaflerimfuPrettbrle that they do any good.
laws of the institution which your Council, after the experience unconstitutional and . unchristian conduct.—ln the course of condemning ia acts of Mr.
Labouchere, alluded to the strike amongst the seamen of
" You have all heard, no doubt, of the famous Hodson- cular, would render him not only an invaluable not only advances the price here, but takes away the labour
be performed in Eng. of the past year, deem it expedient to recommend is, that the the evening a resolution of ssmpathy with the expelled mem-
mod..4lrie same, which would otherwise • t
all the hers, and that the meeting would still continue to recognise he northern ports, and stated that it was to be distinctly
street-(hear, hear, and laughter)-you have heard of it, representative, but we are disposed to prognosti-payment of .42 25., annual subscription, shall entitle
xod you have heard of the ragged schools. (Hear, hear.) cate that his certain rise in the parliamentary arena "The small duty of five-sixteenths of a penny per pound upon partners of a firm to a membership. This is not intended to them as brethren, and to contend for Wesleyan reform, was understood that there was no disaffection whatever exist-
disturb the existing law, as contained in the second paragraph moved by Mr. BELL, and seconded by Mr. SIMON, and car- ing here amongst the seamen en the question of wages,
Some time ago, it may be three months, a respected ld dr h. cl. -. d. b ren e inn at no 'stout peito .an onour raw cotton was also abolished, because it was supposed to affect ges,
under the head of " membership," but to enable firms consist- tied. The proceedings were protracted to a very late hour.
clergyman—a Catholic priest ; I don't want to be misun- 1 wnn injuriously the cotton manufacturers. And yet, while raw cot-but they were determined to move for a repeal of every
elerstood, for there are some persons who will call parsons , to his native town. ton is exempt from the small duty, which only amounted to five mg of three or four members to acquire membership for all the act now in force against the British Marine. (Cheers.)
por cent. of its actual value, the refuse of the same article, partners on rather more favourable terms.
He concluded by moving the resolution as toll .-
()Ws .
e?ergymen, although they are only government officers.
COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT.
• swept from the floors of the cotton mills, and which heretofore The TREASURER (Mr. Stitt) read the accounts of the "That it is the opinion of this meeting,
that the act of par-
-" Laughter and applause.) This Catholic priest sent me i LATEST INTELLIGENTOE. was burnt or thrown away, is, because it is devoted to useful past year P
.y , from which it appeared that there was 14s. due !lament. called Labouchere's Mercantile Marine Bill is, in its
word-whilst I was performing a duty unknown to Pro- 1 purpose—the manufacture of paper, not less indispensable thanMonde Ni ht workin most rejud• •
Mon y g : . . 1 1
g,
.p c al to the shipping interests of Great
testantism, namely, the arduous duty of the confessional- 1 BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. calico—burdened with a tax in the shape of Paper Duty, which to him ; and he stated that since the commencement of
We hay h d th flatweek, d
e a ano er an nearly every descrip- Britain ; especially to the general welfare of the masters,
that there were large numbers of children, Catholic ' actually amounts to THREE HUNDRED PER CENT. ON ITS the year 1851 eighty-eight new members had been en- -
Lion of produce has a downward tendency. Sugar is quoted officers, and seamen, and also degrading and offensive to their
VALUE." I rolled. children, assembled in what were called the Hodson- i
, 6d. to Is., and Coffee Is. to 2s. ner mat_ I.wa, 7`... :. class."
LONDON, MONDAY NIGRT• fois,.., „,_ _ , I 111... TS TS • • al— --7 —a: —C al—

Monday Night.
Wehave had another flat week, and nearly every descrip-
tion of produce has a downward tendency. Sugar is quoted
6d. to ls., and Coffee is. to 29. per cwt. lower. Tea is
very heavy of sale. For Jute there is rather better
feeling. All dye stuffs are neglected.
On Saturday the demand for Cotton was improved, and
prices were steady at the quotations of the previous day.
The sales amounted to 5,000 bales, including about 500
Brazil and 4CO Surat; 1,000 bales American are taken on
speculation. The steamer Pacific arrived at noon today.
She brines advices of a small decline in the value of Cotton
at New York from 4-c. to c. per lb., which is not so great
as was generally expected. The markets are creeping up,
and with many, the estimates of the crop are being ex-
tended ; but, on the whole, the news has bad little effect
here, and the market closes without change. The sales
to-day were 4,000 bales, all to the trade. Imports since
Friday : Upland, 3,883 ; Orleans, 5,697 ; total, 9,580.
The Overland Mail reports that the import market, at
Bombay, bad been extremely dull. Supplies had come
freely, two vessels having arrived from Liverpool, two
from Hull, and two from Glasgow. The pressure in the
money market was felt severely, and it will be seen has
led to the stoppage of a leading firm. Tonnage was
abundant, and freights had declined, for Liverpool, to
£1 17s. 6d. During the past year 290,000 bales of Cot-
ton had been exported to Great Britain. First-class
bills, six months' sight, at 2s 21-d.
At Calcutta the demand for manufactured goods had
fallen off to some extent, and prices had, in several in-
stances, experienced a further decline, but stocks gener-
ally were not excessive. Freights were unsteady, but
had experienced a downward tendency, under the influ-
ence of abundant tonnage, and little produce to ship.
Exchange for best bills was at 2s 21c1, and a considerable
business had been transacted.

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(Cheers.) Now, he spoke of this subject as most
important, because it was distinctly shown that in the
manufacture of paper there were 160,000 persons, which,
if properly carried out. would give employment to at
least half a million of our population. (Applause.)
There was another question with reference to the soap
duties. He held in his hand a statement on this subject,
which said—

Mr. H. HORNBY, in moving the adoption of the report,
congratulated the meeting on the successful position in
which the Chamber of Commerce stood. The commercial
classes would now have a sufficient exponent of their
views, and which, if it continued to make way as it had,
would be found of the utmost value. (Cheers.) Cases of
hardship and wrong were continually occurring amongst
commercial men; and he felt bound to say that, in every
case which had come before the chamber, their decision

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Captain NrcoLs briefly seconded the resolution; which, on
for repent being put,
wtat: carriedr orby accilasmio of clauses as requiredation.
Captain THOMAS Cook moved the next resolution, to the
effect that a petition be adopted to both houses of parliament,
praying
masters and mates to pass a board of examiners appointed by
government, so far as regards those who may have been six
months in such capacity previously to the-passing of the said
act ; also, the clauses which relate to the domestic arrange-
ment on board ships, and to the shipping offices,—which clauses
were tyrannical and oppressive. He would first touch upon
the ticket system ; there was nothing would bear comparison
with this but a similar system in existence in New South Wales
amongst the convicts. (Cheers). They were rendered not
merchant seamen,—but government sailors, lent to the mer-
cantile marine, and on that account must have a ticket.
(Cheers). Was it not monstrous that a class of men should
submit to such tyranny and abomination 7' They had the
remedy in their own hands, however; let them not coerce
others, but exercise the full freedom they possessed,—refuse
their tickets. (Cheers, and cries of "We will"). He re-
membered at the last assize to have heard the charge of
Mr. Baron Alderson, relative to a strike amongst work-
men, and that learned judge on that occasion said,
" Every man in Great Britain was the best judge of his
own abilities and what his services required. Now they
(the seamen) had never been consulted on the matter. There
were connected with the mercantile marine of Great Bri-
tain some 36,000 vessels, so that there must necessarily be the
same number of masters and mates, and these, according to
Mr. Labouchere's idea, were not worthy of being consulted on
a matter which so intimately affected themselves. The whole
of the enactments of that statesman were as oppressive and
tyrannical as they could well be made. This bill appeared to
him to be the effervescence of a disturbed brain—Mr. Cook
then denounced the idea of the men being paid off at a shipping
office, by a government official as an insult alike to the mad
ter and the crew. Again the keeping of an official log book on
board a ship was one of the most abominable things, irman
could have thought or contemplated. From this
it might be supposed that on our British ships
rows were taking place every day and every hour. The fact
was, Labouchere could not forget the battleoovHfeerCnwamimtespneatsrodinfnowucesent:
cotf.th(eHWeessrt,
when the gallant Rodney thrashed the Dutch. (Laughter.)
Labouchere's father and himself could never forget this, and
the son was determined' to have revenge upon the British by
hear.)adl nip:
attempting
t Hgbi netegfl
wetrooeaur tid‘b eau makedr passingfiseeitehrm sel smaoavfi slaves
sailors.
rl
at: es. a v(sCetheserieetehr (Cheers.)
Emancipationati natives
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as they would a pest-house. (Cheers.) Could they respect
such a man as Labouchere?' He couldn't : he'd die first. Let
them all lie able to say—
"lf it is for liberty we war,
Let the word be, Nelson and Tra-fal-gar !"
(Laughter and cheers.)
Capt. WALLACE briefly seconded the resolution.
The petition was then read by Mr. FOYLE, and unanimously
adopted.
After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated.
CREDITABLE TESTIMONIAL TO AN OMNIBUS. PROPRI-
ETOR.—On Saturday afternoon a number. of gentlemen
from the neighbourhood of Bootle, Seaforth, and their
vicinities, met at the office of. Mr. Gee, architect, Castle-
street, for the purpose of presenting to Mr. Thomas
Bretherton some testimonial of the sense of their grati-
tude for the enterprise he had shown while conducting
(as proprietor) his omnibuses on the Bootle line of road—
which had not only brought about a reduction of fares,
but had been the means of establishing a permanent and
direct line of conveyance to the village of Seaforth. The
opening of the railway having materially, interfered with
the traffic, a present of £3O was presented to him by the
donors as a mark of their high opinion.. This munificent
present for his strenuous exertions and uniform civility
was suitably acknowledged by/ Mr.. Bretherton, who,
though he has withdrawn his onanibuses-from that line of
country, is working an equally great revolution in
Cheshire—as it will be seen, by an advertisement, that
his conveyances leave Woodside nearly every half hour,
for Oxton, at a charge of three pence only.
LORD SHREWSBURY ON 111 E, PAPAL MOVEMENT."'"
The eventful drama of Papal aggression is not yet con-
cluded, but it has already found an historian in the person
of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Having enjoyed the advan-
tage of absence from the country during the whole time of
the discussions occasioned by the brief of the Pope, his
lordship comes forward to describe to the people of Eng-
land what they have been doing for the last three months.
He passes in rapid review the bishops and the univer-
sities, and bestows most severe chastisement on the
historical counties of Flint and York ; but the gem of
the narrative is the following notice of the riot at Birk-
enhead, which is adduced amongst other instances of
Protestant intolerance by this impartial annalist :--
" In some places the very proposal of a meeting
creates a riot, in which human victims are sacrificed
to vindicate the rights of liberty of conscience." It
is quite evident that the author of this, sentence thinks it
was very wrong of the protestant police to be sacrificed,
and very right of the Catholics to vindicate the liberty of
conscience, and that:the whole affair was merely an act
of poetical justice. His Lordship then proceeds to a most
unmeasured profession of ultramontane faith, in the course
of which he interims us that the Roman Catholic Church
is the friend of science (which would have been agreed-
able to Galileo); that she is armed only with the sword
of the Spirit—the Word of God (which would have saved
much trouble to the Albigenses); that Edward the Con-
fessor was the best king that ever sat on the throne of
England that in the reign of Queen Mary the catholic•
faith was restored in its original purity and former splendor;.:
that England is an unhappy country; that the dominions of
the Pope are not misgoverned,and other discoveries of eqpal
value, too numerous for us to relate. The rest of the ad-
dress is taken up with unmerciful extracts from Lingard's
History on the persecution of the Roman Catholics is
the times of Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth,. which
Lord Shrewsbury seems to imagine burst upon the
world for the first time through the medium of his
pamphlet; and it concludes with an unmeasured invective
against'that endless thesis for historical disputation, Arch-
bishop Cranmer„ " who, in a fit of desperation., thrust his
guilty hand into the flames, rather in, proof of his ob-
stinacy than his orthodoxy."—Times.

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xport trade in soap in Great Britain has
continue to do so. mirya to the severe re-

g qualities to suit the different markets,
d by an extra cost of fully five per cent incidental to our
method of working: for instance, the soap-makers in Ireland
frequently ship a particular quality of soap in bond to Liver-
pool by steamers, for trans-shipment on board a vessel for a
foreign market, while a Liverpool soap-maker would lose
nearly 455. a ton in the drawback if he made a similar article."

The Share-market has been remarkably active during
the past week. The great body of the public, who had
been kept back by the state of French politics, and the
apprehension of the Bank directors again turning the
screw, appear now to have taken heart at once, and to be
securing a good stock of shares, in the hopes of reaping
the benefit of the increased traffics expected during the
festive days of the Great Exhibition. There is no doubt
but that railway property was as much too low as it had
been too high ; and it only required some event to occur,
to direct public attention to it, to cause it to take rank at
its relative value with other legitimate securities. Our
own opinion is, that there are few lines which will not see
par during the present year,—an opinion which is strongly
confirmed by an intelligent writer, whose published re-
marks on " Railway Prospects" we have inserted in
another column. The business done within the last few
days has been immense, and prices have ranged high,—
London stock having touched 132, Midlands 57. The
market this evening closes flatter; with prices gene-
rally lower, and it appears probable that we shall
have a dullness for a few days. For this buyers
are very anxious, to afford them a more favourable
opportunity to get in. We annex the day's quotations:—
Lancashire and Cheshire, d 114; Caledonian, 10.13.9 1( I;
Chester and Holyhead, 154; East Lancashire, 133 13/9 3;
Great Northern A-shares, 0; Old Leeds, 584 158 ; Do.
Fifths, d7s •, Do. £2O F-shares, d 1.8.9; Lancaster and
Preston 1-12 shares, 63; Leeds and Thirek, 15 ; Brighton
and South Coast, x.d. 95 ; London stock, 1294 304 330 ;
Do. new quarters, p 5 51 54i Do. fifths, p5l 4; Do. C-
quarters, p 3 ; Sheffield, 28 73 ; Do. £lO pref., 111 11 ;
Do. 4:6 pref., pB/9; Midland stock, 55/ 4 / /6 51 ;
Do. halves, d 17.3.9 .17i 17 ; North British, 8-g- ; North
Staffords, d 7 , North -Union A, x.d. 237 ; Preston and
Wyre, 1-shs. A 4, p 81; North Western, d 12.8.9; South
Eastern stock, 24441 ; South Staffords, d 34 3 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 203; G.N.E. pref., d 244; York
and N. Midland, 243 3 5 43; Northern of France, d -
Rouen and Havre, 114 ; Commercial Bank, 10.
Some anxiety has been felt about Birmingham, in con-
sequence of the miners and colliers, in various localities,
being very dissatisfied. Their wages are considered very
remunerative, but they seem inclined to demand higher,
and some temporary cessation from. work has. been the
consequence, as the masters never were in a position more
imperatively compelling them to refuse such exactions.
The Birmingham Gazette of to-day furnishes the follow-
ing report of the iron trade for the last fortnight :
"The slight advantage obtained during the late quarterly
meetings has been supported with, little difficulty; but it is
evident that the buoyancy then experienced is gradually sub-
siding, and with it thesanguine expectations of steady improve.
meat in prices. No symptoms of unusual, activity in the
forthcoming spring trade are yet developed, but rather an un-
expected sluggishness bas supervened in the nail and chain
departments, and other manufacturing branches of our home
consumption, orders being proportionately slacker. In pig
• iron little is doing, most parties having made their purchases
early in the last month, and there's no tendency to any further
advance in this article. Coal and ironstone also remain unal-
tered.—The reports from other districts are as carious as the
sources from whence they are derived ; upon the whole they
are quite as satisfactory as the facts within our own knowledge
would seem to warrant.. Welsh bars are said to be in good de-
mand, and a considerable increase' of make has been lately
brought into the market. Scotch pigs. have had a downward
tendency, though theprice. of manufactured iron is there repre-
sentedas firm,'•

It is said that efforts are being made in this town to
establish a new company to run screw-steamers from this
port to Calcutta. The proposal is to build iron boats for
the service of 2,000 to 3,000 tons with 500 horse pover.
ALL SAINTS? PARISH, LIVERPOOL.—We understand
that the Rev. Henry Marlen, with the assistance of a few
friends, is now canvassing his parish, previously to making
a public appeal, in order to raise funds for the building of
schools for the reception of Sunday, daily, and infant
scholars. Those who have already been waited on have
cheerfully responded according to their ability, and even
the poor, by their weekly contributions, have manifested
a readiness to lend a helping hand to the good work. We
are, moreover, glad to be able to announce that Charles
Groves, Esq., has subscribed £5O, and Edmund Moly-
neux, Esq., £lOO, towards this important undertaking ;
and we believe that our merchant princes will not be
backward to emulette their noble example, when the wants
of the parish are there promiuqjly brought milder their
notice,