The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

support.

rtev. I.vir. JONES, of Uheadle, Staffordshire, rose
propose the first resolution, and observed that he had
tended that meeting as a deputation from the Guardi,
of the Cheadle Union. He had been engaged forty ye
in trying to reform the county rates, and twenty years
a committee was appointed at Uttoxeter to take into ci

sideration the county expenditure, and it i:

means of reducing that expenditure in the county of St
ford from £40,000 to £14,000. He objected to the ru
police, and to the administration of the money raised
the county rates, by the magist

many of wt

tant an office, or when they are just 21, or have just kft
college, a description of magistrates which were c
his locality, "sucking magistrates." (A laugh
not deny the power of the Crowu to appoint
but he denied the power of any one to tax him without
representation. He advocated the appointment of a clerk
of the peace with a fixed salary ; a proper government au-
ditor of the accounts, and said that they must persevere,
for the present was an important crisis, and they must
now either succumb to Sir J. Pakington and the Commit-
tee of the Commons, or persevere and effectually make
the movement successful. He begged to

ed, in
) He did

I hat the proceedings of the Committee be
that the Report read to the meeting this day be n

copy sent to ea At Poor-law UnioninlnglaridalTWaia"—"
Mr. CHARLES DIXON, of Rotheram, felt disappointed
at seeing so few persons there from Yorkshire. He
alluded to the county rates of the West Riding, which had
risen from £35,000 to £103,560 in a few years, and said
that great interest was taken in this subject at Rotheram,
and the Clerk of the Union and three Guardians;had been
deputed to attend that meeting. He thought that the
magistrates, if properly met, would act in harmony with
the committee, and he hoped that the agitation of the
question would be carried on with spirit. He begged to
second the resolution.
C -ho wished to

AC CHAIR AN invited any gentleman w.._
speak upon the resolution to do so, but no person rising,
it was unanimously carried.

Mr. JOHN LIVESEY, of Preston, rose to propose the
second resolution, and thought it strange that a meeting
should be called to show that representation should be co-
extensive with taxation. He urged those interested in
the movement to increased perseverance, and said, that
fifteen years ago, a parliamentary commission, had recom-
mended an alteration in the County assessments, and the
appointment of County Financial Boards, composed of
Guardians of the Poor and Magistrates. He observed
that the county rates were higher this year than last, but
he did not like the appointment of a government auditor,
as suggested by Mr. Jones, for he only had power to veto
any illegal items in the account. He begged to propose
the following resolution :
"That the irresponsible power of the magistrates to raise
Irge sums of mcne• `l, we• if count" -

t Ay of county rate, and expend the
same uncontrolled by the ratepayers, is a principle so unjust
as to require forthwith the interference of the government anti
the legislature."

Mr. ROGER FENTON, of Salf
tion, which was carried.
Mr. Mru.s, of Stoke-upon-Trent, briefly urged the
meeting to be firm in the prosecution of the object for
which it was called, and proposed the next resolution—

, seconded the resolu-

"That two members of each board of guardians in the coun-
ty be elected, who, together with John Livesey, Esq., Preston;
Jos. Schofield, Esq., Rochale; a.ld Henry Newall, Esq., of
Littleborough ; be appointed a committee to carry out the ob-
jects of this meeting." _ _ _ . .

SMITII, of Ashton, seconded the resolution. It
was carried unanimously.

A resolution was then carried for the appointment of a
deputation to wait upon government to urge the introduc-
tion of a bill to effect a more popular constitntion on the
administration of County Finance, as was a vote of thanks
to the members of Parliament present, to which Messrs.
W. Brown, A. Henry, J. W. Patten, J. Heywood, J.
Brotherton, and R. A. Thicknesse returned thanks.
Mr. HEYWOOD recommended the committee to meet
the magistrates half-way. He advised the payment of
the police from the consolidated fund, and that the magis-
trates appoint a portion of the County Financial Board,
but his remarks were not cordially received.

A—vole of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and
the party afterwards dined at the Hotel.

PROPERTY LEFT IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—The ma-
gistrates at Stowmarket have intimated to :a passenger
who retained, an Indian Cashmere shawl left by another
passenger in a carrage on the Eastern Union Railway,
that persons not delivering up property of this description
to the railway authorities are liable to be indicted for
felony.

SLAVE-TRADE TREATIES: GREAT PUBLIC MEETING.
—The Glasgow Daily Mail of Friday contains a very full
report of an interesting public meeting which took place
on the previous evening in that city on the slave-trade
question. It was called by the Lord Provost, in compli-
ance with a numerousand influentially-signed requisition,
and was held in the City Hall, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of adopting resolutions, and appoin -
ing a committee to prepare petitions to the legislature in
favour of enforcing the treaties ratified between Great
Britain, Spain, and Brazil, for the suspension of the shy e
trade. The following gentlemen, among many other s,
took their places on the platform :—The Hon. Sir Jarres
oilllnlia Macgregor,m Symington. Es q
Anderson, Lord Provost, Alexander Hastie, Esq., M.P.,
J
itelvi:PG"eoßergev. King, Rev. Dr.
William , Rev. William
Anderson, and the Rev. Dr. Buchanan.