The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—A special meeting of the
council was held on Friday. A letter from the Treasury was
read enclosing copies of the present rules of practice in the
county courts, and requesting from the chamber any sug-
gestions for their amendment. Ordered to lie on the
table for examination. A letter from the Bank of Liver-
pool on the new Stamp Act was read. The secretary was
instructed to procure a copy of the bill, and the matter
was adjourned until its receipt. The Mercantile Marine
Bill was again brought under notice, and the following
memorial to Mr. Labouchere on the subject agreed upon :
" To the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere,M.P.,President

-of the Council of the Board of Trade

"The Memorial of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
"SHOWETH,—That your memorialists have had repeatedly
under their consideration the proposed Mercantile Marine Bill.
"That, regarding the object of that bill as most important,
your memorialists highly appreciate the desire of her Majesty's
Government to promote by legislation the security of life and
property engaged in the maritime trade of the country; to
improve the discipline on board merchant ships, and the condi-
tion of the seamen generally; and to define more clearly the
relations existing between them and their employers.
" That, notwithstanding the valuable amendments which
have been made, there still exist, in the minds of your memo-
rialists, many. grave objections to the bill in its present form ;
and, considering how greatly the efficacy of all legislative enact-
ments depends on the hearty concurrence of the classes whom
they are intended to benefit, your memorialists do again, ear-
nestly, but respectfully, urge on, her Majesty's Government the
propriety of suspending further proceedings in this bill until
the next session of Parliament, that opportunity may be given,
by reasonable and well-considered alterations in its clauses, for
making it more effective in its operation, by receiving the cor-
dial co-operation of the shipping interests of the United King-
dom.

"And your memorialists will ever pray.
(Signed) "THOMAS B. HORSPALL, President."

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The business transacted
at the meeting on Wednesday was unimportant. The
whole amounts claimed by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Chal-
mer, for medicine, &c., for cholera patients, were ordered
to be paid.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The monthly meet-
ing was held on Tuesday Richard Bryans, Esq., in the
chair. A conversation, which resulted in nothing, took
place as to the intended visitation of the county inspector
of weights and measures. The ferry receipts for March,
1849, £l3lB 6s. lid.; for the same month of 1850,
£1462 10s. ; from April 23rd to March 31st, in 1849,
£14,963 7s. 9d.; in 1850, £17,784 109. 6d. Ordinary
working expenses from 31st March, 1849, to April Ist,
1850, £11,839 19s. Bd.

ARCHITECTURAL AND ArCHMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
The fortnightly meeting of this society was held on
Wednesday, J. A. Picton, Esq., in the chair. The prin-
cipal portion of the evening was devoted to a discussion
on the merits of Mr. Ruskin's book, entitled " The Seven
Lamps of Archite,sture." The subject was introduced by
Mr. J. P. Horner, who gave an epitome of Mr. Ruskin's
book, commenting on the principles laid down as he pro-
ceeded. An animated discussion followed, in which
Messrs. Barber, Rimmer, Picton, Barry, and Mr. Reed,
took part, Mr. Frank Howard replying upon the whoiet
and maintaining that the position which hi) took up et OP,
fat meeting against Mr. Ruakia, Valtaid wishakt.,tk..