The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE ,NEW DOCK BILL

MEETING OF THE ELECTORS OF LIME-STREET WARD

Yesterday evening, a large meeting of the electors of
Lime-street Ward took place at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, in consequence of an advertisement posted
and published by Mr. Henry Danson, one of the council-
lors of the ward, requesting their attendance, when
they would have an opportunity of expressing their opi-
nions on the New Dock Bill, which the Dock Committee
appeared to be disposed to prosecute in parliament, con-
trary to the opinions of a majority of the Council." Mr.
Danson,' in his announcement expressed his sense of
so novel a movement on his own part, and stated that,
though Mr. J. B. Lloyd, his colleague in the ward, con-
curred with him in relation to the question, he did
not agree in the propriety of the representatives of the
ward summoning a meeting. Mr. Lloyd, nevertheless,
gave his sanction to the meeting by appearing on the
platform, and he, his colleague, and their friends, were
enthusiastically received by the meeting.
Mr. JEFFERY, of Church-street, was called to the chair,
and explained the business before the meeting in a spirited
manner, expressing his opposition to the bill if the rating
clause were not introduced.

Mr. DANSON being_ called up, eloquently explained his
views at considerable length. Desperate diseases, he said,
required desperate remedies; and as the ward had fought
manfully on former occasions when their rights were
threatened with invasion, he trusted that they would
again show their determination not to be overcome. The
fight on the New Dock Bill was to come on for the fourth
time in the Council on Wednesday next, and he hoped
the spirited constituency of Lime-street Ward would come
forward and show that neither the Dock Committee (nor
any other body) should be permitted to injure their in-
terests. He went on to explain the different phases
of the New Dock Bill since its introduction,—in all
cases avoiding a rating clause, by insidious means,
and stated that by the bill regulating the Albert Dock
Warehouses the goods of merchants were in a manner
put into the hands of the pawnbroker—the rates and
charges being locked up. He related the whole history
of the present bill from the 15th September to the pre-
sent time, showing that the Dock Committee had step by
step endeavoured to carry their point—keeping the
public, by ambiguous verbiage in each new amendment
or alteration of their bill, as much in the dark as possible
as to their final intentions—all of which were, however, to
evade the rating clause. He also read the following letter
from Mr. S. Holme, which was received by the meeting
with marked approbation :

" Hohnestead, 31st January, 1848

" DEAR SIR,—I write this note from my boll, where I
have been confined for some days by a severe attack of
rheumatism. My brother tells me that, in consequence
of the last decision of the Dock Committee, you have
most properly called a meeting of your constituents on
the subject.

" I regret that I am unable to attend the meeting, and
which, as a member of the Council,. I would have done
had I been out ; and I, therefore, take the liberty of
saying that anything mortdestructive of the independence
of the Council than this, the fourth attempt to coerce or
live out that body, I never knew; and I trust that after
so many days' discussion, the Mayor will not again allow
the, subject to be mooted.

a I see clearly that if the Dock Committee are permitted
to go to Parliament, both the owners of warehouses and
the parishioners at large will be sacrificed, and the ulti-
mate result of these proceedings will be an absorption of
many occupations by the Dock Committee on the one
hand, and a separation of the interests of the merchants
and the tradesmen on the other—an event which every
one will deeply deplore.
" I am in such pain that I cannot write much; but I
warn the inhabitants of the consequences to themselves, if
the Dock Committee should succeed in their attempt.
" Let proper notices be given, and proper plans be
digested, and it will then lie time enough to go to Parlia-
ment, to carry them out. We must have a few more
tradesmen in the Council next November.
" I am, Dear Sir,

Fir Timber
Deals and Battens
Deck Planks
Wainscot Logs
Lathwood
Staves

"'Yours faithfully,
" SAMUEL HOLME

" Henry Denson, Esq." ________.
Mr. Danson said, in conclusion, that no evil could arise
from a postponement of the bill. The bill would be again
discussed in Council on Wednesday next. He read the
notice on the paper to that effect, in order to show that it
was vague, and in fact, as he conceived, a mere quibble,
undeserving the confidence of the Council or the consti-
tuency. He considered the-whole proceeding an insult to
the electors and to himself, and urged that they-should so
give expression to their opinions as to achieve justice to
the rate-payers by obtaining a rating clause. (Cheers.)
Mr. JOHN BUCK LLOYD =said that he felt as deeply as
his colleague on this important subject. The parochial
rates were limited to the parish, and sites for new struc-
tures near the docks were scarcely to be found. They
ought, therefore, since a large quantity of now rateable
property was proposed to be taken away, to look with a jea-
lous eye upon anything that would take away the amount of
parochial income. He considered that no warehouse
should be erected without its being' subjected to rating.
Double caution ought to be used to prevent the present
bill from passing without a rating clause, and the bur-
gesses of the ward should have his support in opposing it
at every stage until that disuse was introduced. The Town
Council were the representatives of the burgesses, and
many of the Dock Committee were elected by the payers
of dock =Les %clime Interet3 were appmucutly muiticvvliaL aL
variance, but, as a warehouse owner, he was himself ready
to waive any individual feeling to promote a general good.
By commerce we lived, and by commerce we paid our
rates, and that which would advance the interests of the
port would be alike beneficial to all. He urged the neces-
sity of cheap warehouses in order to maintain a market for
the goods stored in them. If warehouses round the docks
would be advantageous, it was the duty of the ratepayers
to support the bill, but it was also their duty to watch
carefully that such warehouses bore a proportionate share
of the burthens requisite to support our local liabilites.
Mr. PARKINSON then moved a vote of thanks to Mr.
Danson for having called the meeting, and to Mr. Dan-
son and to Mr. Lloyd for their able and united advocacy
in the Council Chamber of the interests of the rate-payers.
Mr, PICTON, the late candidate for Lime-street Ward,
in a somewhat lengthy address seconded the motion.
He congratulated the burgesses on their good fortune in
securing the energies of such able and energetic repre-
sentatives.

Mr. G. HAIGH then submitted a memorial for the
adoption of the meeting. It prayed the Council not to
pass the bill without the introduction of the rating clause.
Mr. JOHNSON seconded the adoption of the memorial,
and Mr. J. SMITH spoke at some length in its favour.
A vote of thanks to the chairman, Mr. Jeffrey, :was
then moved by Mr. Lloyd, and seconded by Mr. Danson,
which was carried by acclamation.

SCOTLAND WARD.—We understand that Mr. Poole,
one of the most intelligent members of the Select Vestry,
is to be brought forward as the Conservative candidate
for Scotland Ward, to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Mr. William Thornhill.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a
meeting of the board, held on Friday, the 28th ultimo,
Mr. Thomas Downward, first officer of the Berhampore,
of Hull, was found duly qualified for a first4class master's
certificate that he had applied for.
Mr. Hicks, whose lectures on phrenology and mesmerism
have excited so much attention, will deliver a course of
four lectures on the same subjects during the present
week. The lectures on phrenology will be illustrated by
busts and diagrams of known characters, and those of
mesmerism will be accompanied by a series of experiments
on several individuals.

CURIOUS (BEING PURELY ACCIDENTAL) CONNEXIONS.
—On the slate of our Exchange news room in yesterday's
foreign arrivals the following names of ships were to be
seen :—" Sir Robert Peel" followed by "Free Trade;"
then " Lady of the Lake" followed by "Marmion ;" then
came "Anglo-American" followed by "Columbus,"—all
brought up by the same tide.
THEFT FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a man named Henry Glover was charged
with having stolen a quantity of coats, trousers, and other
articles of " masculine " apparel from a house near St.
John's Market. It appeared that the prisoner had been
seen by a "police-officer while he was making his " game "
with a gambling table. The officer had some difficulty in
arresting him, as he made off on being detected. On
being apprehended there was found in his possess ion a
large bundle containing the articles wrapped in a woollen
knitted shawl, which, it further appeared, he had pur-
loined from a trunk in an upper room of a house in St.
John's-lane.----He was committed for trial.
THE CHURCH, THE DISSENTERS, AND THE JEWS.—
We are told that but " five or six Jews" at most will
find their way into the House of Commons. Must it not
be remembered that we were told exactly the same thing
in 1829 ? And now the calculation is, that between those
of the Romish religion and those who vote with them,
the party number.

s seventy in the house. There can be
no doubt, that if the door be thrown open to one Jew,
fifty will follow. We know too well the nature of popular
elections to doubt on what species of candidates the
hustings will first fix its affections. We already see, too,
with what sudden sensibility the whole body of Secta-
rianism has awoke to the " merits" of the Jew—with

what quick foresight they are all measuring the prospec-
tive strength of this addition to dissent—with what open
arms they are already rushing to welcome the opulent
recruit who is to head such a supply to their ranks. The
Romanists cancel at once the remembrance of the Ghetto.
The Dissenter erases the brand once burned in upon the
forehead by the bitterest hand of dissent—all is oblivion,
recantation, and " gratitude for favours to come." What
is the evident source of this sudden union ? With prin-
ciples wide as the poles asunder, their appetites converge !
The subject is boundless. But I must make one remark
more. lam not about to be the panegyrist of the
Established Church. But this I say, on the fullest con-

viction, that if the Established Church be suffered to
perish, with it will perish Christianity in England. I
speak of this as matter of demonstration. Sweep away
the Church, and you will instantly have the ground co-
vered with every monstrous birth of the human mind ;
the land will teem with every extravagant, fierce, grotesque,
and frantic shape of fanaticism. Religion will instantly
become a trade, and a trade for every one. The present
disciplined and decorous sects will be the very first to be
hurried clown the popular torrent, and mingled fraud and
fury will usurp the land. Then will come Popery, slow,
perhaps, but sure; contrasting its pomps with the squa-
lidness. its tissues with the nakedness, its stately antiquity
with the vulgar newness, and its soothing applications to
the conscience with the savage severities and mad denun-
ciations of rabble Sectarianism. Popery, with wealth in
its hand, power on its brow, and the might of Rome and
vassal Europe behind, will crush its wild antagonist ;
while true Protestantism will perish in the dungeon, or
live only to lament its tardiness or its timidity in hopeless
exile,—,Speech of Pr. Croly.

THE TlMali TRADE OF LIVERPOOL,

Messrs. A., F., and a Mackay'; of Liverpool, have
just published their annual circular; containing a history
of this trade, from the Ist of Februark, 1847, to the Ist

of February, 1848, from which we glean the following
facts. Generally, these gentlemen coincide in the repre-
sentation made in other circulars, that the trade this year
has been very unprofitable both to the shipper and the
importer; and they hold out little prospect of an early
improvement. The import of British American timber
has been considerably less than that of the preceding
year. We give the quantities for the two years in juxta
position :- 1847. 1846.
Pine, feet 4,172,700 7,429,431
Red pine, „
Quebec oak, „
Quebec elm, „
Quebec ash, ~
Hard wood, „
Quebec deals. standard 2,180 3,462
Planks, N.B. & N.S., ft. 17,976,500 20,367,600
Boards & scantling, „ 546,300 615,793
Lathwood, fathoms
Staves, per M l2O 279
The import of railway sleepers has been double that of
last year, the importation being 431,370 pieces, against
240,587 pieces last year.
The consumption of most descriptions has decreased
considerably. That of pine has been less than last year by
1,531,640 feet, and less than the average of the past five
years by 680,100 feet. There has been an increase in the
consumption of red pine, the quantity taken being4s6,ooo
feet, against 192,000 feet last year. The consumption of
Quebec oak has been 323,700 feet, against 378,400. The
consumption of Quebec elm, 178,600 feet, against 155,100
feet. Quebec ash has been 38,300, against 24,000 feet.
The consumption of hardwood has been 311,500 feet,
against 360,400 ft. last year. On hand of all kinds 3,359,000
ft. against 4,705,000 ft. last year ; red pine equal to 7 5-12
months' consumption ; Quebec oak, 231,000 feet, against
192,000 ; Quebec elm, 84,000 feet against 103,000 ; Que-
bec ash, equal to 3 5-12 months' consumption ; hardwood
equal to 3 4-12 months' consumption ; Quebec deals equal
to 6 5-12 months' consumption.
The following were the prices at, the commencement and
the close of the year :-

February, 1847.-Quebec Yellow Pine, 151 d. ; Red
Ditto, 23d. ; Oak, 2s. 6d. ;• Elm, 21d. ; Yellow Pine Masts,
3s. 14d. per foot ; Deals, with cargo, £8 per standard ;
St. John Yellow Pine, 191 inches average, 171 d. ; Birch,
15d. per foot ; Deals, with cargo, at 2d. per foot of 2
inches. Lathwood, £2 per fathom ; Deals, separate, 21d.
to 21d. per foot of 2 inches ; Spruce Boards, 21d. to 2jd.
per foot of 2 inches ; Hackmatac Sleepers, 9, 10, 5, and
9,9, 41, at 3s. 6d. each ; and blocks at 7s. each.
January, 1848.-Quebec Yellow Pine, 14d. to 14d. ;
Red Pine, 19d. ; Oak, 29. 2d. ; Elm, 17d. to 19d. • Ash,
13d. to 15d. per foot ; Deals, with cargo, £8 to is 10s.
per standard ; Deals, separate, at £9 ss. per standard ;
St. John Yellow Pine, 181 inches average, at 154. d. ;18
inches, at 154-d. per foot ; Deals, with cargo, at 2d.. per
foot of 2 inches.

The imports from the North of Europe this year exceed
those of last. The following are the quantities for the
two years :

1847. 1846.
1,091,000 feet 819,500 feet.
1,758 „ 2,700 „
2,177 ~ 953 „
350 pieces 1,141 pieces.
689 fathoms. 612 fathoms.
9M. 19 M.
Sleepers ..... 11,620
The consumption, however, has not kept pace with the
import, that of the fir timber having been 1,024,000 feet
against 1,157,000 feet. That of other descriptions has
also been on a reduced scale, with the exception of deck
planks,.of which, although the import of this year was
double that of last year, the consumption exceeded the
import.. The stocks on hand on the Ist February of the
two years are as follows :

1848
Fir timber, feet.... .. 412,000
Deals and battens, standard 1,259
Deck planks, pieces 1,223
Wainscot logs „ 327
Lathwood, fathoms
Staves, per
Sleepers

1847
345,000

The latest sales made were of Riga 211 d. ; common
Dantzig 19d. to 190., from the quay. In staves the
transactions are retail at £llO to £l2O per M. In other
sorts there are no recent sales to report. For the current
prices of the various descriptions we must refer the reader
to the trade circular.

The import of timber, the produce of other countries,
has also fallen off in the past year. We give the quan-
tities of the two years :

1847. 1846.
MAHOGANY, St. Domingo.... feet 879,000.. 1;085,563
„ Cuba ..
f t Honduras .
Havannah Cedar 234,000.. 299,610
Pencil Cedar 6,600... 62,673
Rosewood, Rio and Bahia... planks 3,352.. 4,779
Pitch Pine feet 110,000 .. 432,435
Teak Wood .
Lancewood Spars pieces 4,645... 10,060
Greenheart feet 46,250 .. 39,400
The consumption, has very largely decreased, and the
stock in hand has increased correspondingly.
The trade between British North America employed,
last year, 314 ships, with a tonnage of 172,427 tons, against
460 ships, and 244,958 tons in the preceding year. The
trade between Liverpool and the North of Europe em-
ployed last year 84 vessels of 26,564 tons, against 137 ves-
sels of 33,762 tons in the preceding year.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The answer to
inquiries at Lambeth Palace yesterday (Monday), we
regret to say, was that his Grace is seriously ill, but no
immediate danger is anticipated.
The Standard of last night gives a letter from Lord
Palmerston's secretary to the chairman of the Shipowners'
Association, who enquired whether a paragraph, in the
New York Herald, stating that his lordship had promised
the annihilation of the navigation laws, was true. His
lordship, in reply, does not deny it, but merely refers
the chairman to " the paragraph in the Queen's speech
on the subject of those laws."

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The weather has undergone a complete change since our last
report, and the frost and snow have entirely disappeared.
There was a good supply of English Wheat from Kent at this
day's market, but from Essex and Suffolk only a limited
quantity. The samples being in better condition, a quick sale
was effected at fully the currency of this day week, and on fine
selected samples an advance of Is. per quarter was realised. Portorico
Foreign met a fair consumptive demand at our previous Cuba
quotations. HP
. . .

Barrel Four retains its price. Doavana
mi lb
ngo lb
Floating cargoes of Indian Corn are held for Is. per qr. more Laguayra it
money, and a corresponding advance is generally demanded Brazil : lb
here. Manilla and Java%
Maple Peas Is. to 2s. per qr. higher. United States lb
Beans and Malt ruled dull without any change in the value. European ports lb
Fine Malting Barley is Is. dearer and scarce; other descrip-
tions in improved request at former rates.
Although the arrivals of Oats are very trifling, no advance
could be maintained, and buyers purchased without difficulty Stock in hand Ist
at about the rates of last Monday. January if

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SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at a decline of 2d.
per 814: _

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Sold in bond.... tbl

The Mutton trade was heavy, at a fall in value of quite 2d
per 81b. The top figure for the best old Downs was ss. per 81b
Heavy demand for Calves, at 2d. to 4d. per 81b. less money
Little business in Pigs; prices stationery.

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