The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

THE FORWARDING TRADF

Mr. F °ELWOOD, in bringing this matter before the
Chamber, alluded to the stimulus which had been given
by some of the railway companies to the transmission of
goods for India and China from Manchester, via" London,
instead of through Liverpool, as heretofore. The rates of
carriage for some time were in equal ratio from Manches-
ter to London and from Manchester to Liverpool ; but a

recent competition had sprung up, and 'they found
that instead of Liverpool getting her fair proportion
of the carrying trade of the East, a portion of her
trade was being diverted, and that London was reaping
the benefit. He found that the amount of goods shipped
from London for India and China, from the Ist
January to the 3d May, 1851, was just about double
what it was during the same period last year. In in-
quiring how this arose, he found that Liverpool ships
were improving in character; that ship-owners were
reducing the rates of freight; that they were doing
all in their power to invite the trade here and yet
the increase which he noticed was still going on in
London. It was true that London had an advantage
over Liverpool in one respect, her shipers could at once
command the contracts for the conveyance of ordnance
stores, troops, and other government freights ; but, in ad-
dition, they found that one of the railway companies send
goods from Manchester to London at very much lower
rates in proportion than they send goods from 'Manches-
ter to Liverpool. He would illustrate what he meant
by stating that if a retailer wished to send goods from
Manchester to London he would be charged 425. per ton,
whilst to parties who send goods for shipment in London
they charge but 235. per ton. They all knew that
from Manchester to Liverpool, the charge was 10s. per
ton. That was to say, the company would take a ton of
goods 200 miles for 235. one way, and charge 10s. for
taking a ton of the same goods 32 miles another. That
was positively not fair play; and when they took into
consideration the fact that strenuous efforts were now be-
ing made to direct the South American trade from here, it
behoved them to be mindful of the influences which were
at work. He brought this matter forward in order that
the Committee should take it up with energy.
The PRESIDENT said that this was a very important
subject ; and he felt that the Chamber, as in duty bound,
would take it up with spirit. But besides that, it became
the duty:of every man in Liverpool, and of every one who
was a shareholder in the company, to see that the direc-
tors of the North Western Company did not inflict an injury
upon Liverpool, for the purpose of benefitting London.
It would be the duty of the Council to see the directors,
and if they could not get redress from them, then he
thought they should appeal to the town and the share-
holders.

Mr. Foßwoon complained that when he went to
make the necessary inquiries, there should have been
so much secrecy observed on the part of the company.
Mr. BUSHELL asked if Mr. Forwood had ascertained
whether a reduced rate was not charged upon goods from
London to Liverpool ?
Mr. FORWOOD said the question was still under the
consideration of the committee, but he might say to Mr.
Bushell that goods were not brought from London to Liver-
pool at the same rates they were taken from Manchester
to London.

Mr.I,VyLIE was of opinion that this was a matter which
had better be left to the open competition of the various
railway and carrying companies.
Mr. Foawoon explained that in so far as Liverpool
was concerned, there was no competition whatever. The
railways and the water carriers had a fixed rate from
Manchester to Liverpool, which they were hound by;—
from Manchester to London they were bound by no such
rate,—on that route they took goods for whatever they
pleased.

Mr. BUSHELL was bound to state that arrangements
had been made by the Directors for a reduced rate of
charge from London to Liverpool.
The PRESIDENT said that it was the duty of the Cham-
ber to make a full investigation into the subject, and he
was sure Mr. Forwood would be glad to find that the rail-
way company were not doing this port an injury ; but he
feared that the reverse would be found to be the case.

Thanks were then voted to the President, and the
Chamber adjourned.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

On Tuesday the receipts at the Crystal Palace from ss.
entrance fees rose to the enormous sum of £3,360 155.,
which with the amount drawn from the sale of season
tickets (£350 145.) amounted altogether to £3711 9s.
Such a result is truly surprising, and is probably attribu-
table to the additional number of visitors brought up to
town by the attractions of Derby-day. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert, with the Princess Alice, accompanied by
the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Federick Wil-
liam of Prussia, the Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, and the
Duke Ernest of Wurtemburg, left Buckingham-Palace at
half-past nine o'clock in the morning to continue their
inspection of the Exhibition.
The Derby day had no effect whatever on the flow
of visitors to the Crystal Palace. On the contrary, the
numbers who flocked there on Wednesday were greater
than ever, and £3,513 was taken at the doors. The
sale of season tickets amounted to £279, and the total
receipts were £3,792. Her Majesty and the Royal party
at the Palace arrived at the building shortly after 9 o'clock,
and remained for nearly two hours, during which they ex-
amined the French, Spanish, Turkish, and Egyptian corn.
partments. From all the accounts we receive the success
of the undertaking in a commercial point of view and with
reference to exhibitors, is likely to be quite as great as it
is now certain to be financially and with regard to the
Royal Commission. Many of the most remarkable con-
tributions have been bespoken for purchasers when the
display terminates, and extensive orders have been given
founded on examples of excellence in various manufac-
tures produced. There is every reason to believe, there-
fore, that exhibitors will be amply renumerated for all
their outlay and trouble in the increased custom and re-
putation which they will secure. _ _

The self-supporting character of the Exhibition is vin-
dicating
itself in the most remarkable manner, for on
Friday the receipts at the doors, from ss. payments,
amounted to no less a sum than £4,095 10s. From the
sale of season tickets £134 Bs. was taken, so that the total
sum added to the finances of the commission was £4,229
18s. This is really a prodigious success, and astonishes
even those who had made the most extravaeant calcula-
tions on the subject. The truth is, that the attractiveness
of the display is now beginning to tell upon the mass of
the community, who were slow to believe the astonishing
features of the collection thrown open to their curiosity
and admiration. Notwithstanding the immense assem-
blage gathered within the building, it still remains as a
whole by no means overcrowded. The nave is well filled
but no inconvenience is experienced there in passing from
point to point, and, though the more attractive objects
have groups collected around them, it is quite possible,
with a little patience, to see everything worth inspection
comfortably and well. The more remote parts are visited,
but not in -large numbers, and there are some portions
which, during the entire day, remain almost empty.
On Saturday the period for ss. admissions terminated,
and in a manner which reminded one of the last night of
a favourite actor. There were thousands assembled at the
entrances before the doors opened, and when 12 o'clock
struck no excited and expectant audience ever rushed into
a pit of a theatre with greater eagerness. Each party has-
tened off to make sure of the first view of some particular
object, and.in a space of time which appeared incredibly
shortthe galleries-and nave were swarming with visitors:
During-the morning -a few invalids in Bath-chairs, having
a special privilege accorded to them on account of their
infirmity, were allowed to enter and be wheeled round.
Just before twelve they collected in a circle round the
"Eoli-i-noor," of which they were determined to have
the first sight as it emerged from the iron prison which
confines it. A little incident like this well illustrates the
curiosity which is felt about the far-famed diamond, which
is, after all, a great disappointment in the effect which it
produces on almost every body who sees it.
From twelve till four o'clock the influx of people never
ceased for a moment, and some idea of the vast numbers
assembled may be formed from the fact that £5,078 was
taken at the doors. There were thus, during the day,
20,312 persons who paid the ss. entrance fee, and the
number of Aeason-ticket holders could not have been less
than 10,000 to 15,000, making altogether from 30,000 to
35,000 visiinns. From the habit of crowding into the
nave, which is (till persevered in, that part of the building
appeared well filial on Saturday, more so, indeed, than
we have yet seen
it, but the interior had ample accommo-
dation for thousam.'4 of
people, and Mere were one or two
parts which remained Almost deserted. On Saturday the
police were, for the fin't time,
of visitors flowing in die
some inconvenience, the'erent directions. Their arrange-
ments answered well the active in guiding the streams
whole, and if attended with
jikely to have one excellent

effect in putting an end to mere idle sauntering. A large
party from the University of Oxford visited the Exhibi-
tion on Saturday.
The arrangements hitherto made by the royal commis-
sioners have reference merely to the prevention of any
obstruction ; and the capacity of the building would be
tested by the admission of as many as presented them-
selves yesterday. Of the 30,000 season ticket holders not
5,000 would visit the building on that day. One of the
first of the special trains from Oxford by the Great 'West-
ern Railway, was to bring up between 1,300 and 1,400
visitors. For the last few days the great bulk of the
visitors confine themselves to the naves and the transept
—they consist principally of those who, having paid
several visits, return merely for the fashion of the thing,
and amuse themselves by promenading up and down.
The result of this is that at times great difficulty is expe-
rienced in moving forward, and from the galleries the vast
central space has actually a crowded appearance from one
end of the building to the other. A line of telegraphs is
being laid down from the building in connection with the
various railway termini in London, so that the earliest
information will be given of the arrival of special trains
and of the number of passengers by each.

Lord Leigh has invited all his numerous tenants to
visit London at his expense, that they may see the Crys-
tal Palace and its contents.
The magnificent dessert service manufactured by
Messrs. Minton and Co., Stoke-upon-Trent, and now in
the Great Exhibition, has been purchased by the Queen
as a present to the Emperor of Austria.
Prince Albert has presented a dozen season tickets to
the female pupils of the Government School of Design ;
and a dozen season tickets have also been given to the
twelve best male students of the school by Lord Gran-
ville and Mr. Labouchere.
At a meeting of merchants and manufacturers, held at
Birmingham on Wednesday, the mayor in the chair, it
was unanimously resolved to invite his Royal Highness
Price Albert, the Royal Commissioners, and Executive
Committee of the Great Industrial Exhibition, to a public
dinner in the Town-hall, at an early day.
A LADY'S REASON FOR LIKING THE GREAT EXHI-
DITION.—" My dear it is so very agreeable. You cannot
tell how amusing it is ! It is much better far than going
a shopping The whole place is full of some!of the pret-
tiest things in the world—laces, silks, brocades—and such
lovely jewels—and the beauty is, you may look at them
ever so long, without being expected to buy a single
thing !"

A DAINTY DISH.—The huge standing pie, fifteen
stones weight, prepared in Carlisle, for the refreshment-
room in the World's Exhibition in Hyde-park, from a
model by Mr. Dunbar, was shown to her Majesty on the
morning of the opening day, and so eager were her sub-
jects to taste and try its good qualities, that the whole
fabric, ornaments and all, were entirely devoured at the
close of the third day's exhibition.
GENERAL LEAVE TO THE ARMY.—Leave of absence
for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition has been given
by his Grace the Commander-in-Chief to all regiments at
home, from the Ist of June to the 30th, one field-
officer, half the captains, and half the subalterns to be
allowed the indulgence each fortnight in the month ; and
it is the intention of some of the railway directors to al-
low officers, upon producing a certificate of their rank, to
travel at the Government rate of charge of 2d. a mile, as
when on duty.
The Daily News, in describing the chemical apparatus
says, " The most remarkable are some large electrotyped
glass retorts. The outer surface of that part of the glass
exposed to heat, has a coating of copper deposited upon
it by the electrotype process. This metallic coating serves
the two-fold purpose of more rapidly conducting the heat
to the substances acted on, and of protecting the retorts
from breaking on the first application of the spirit-lamp,
for the heat being distributed more equally, the irregular
expansion caused by the non-conducting property of glass
is prevented. The exhibitor of these vessels is Mr. J.
B. Edwards, of Liverpool."
THE GREAT EXHIBITION HAS KILLED EVERYTHING
ELSE.—The Court, the two Houses of Parliament, the
nobility, the gentry, the commonalty, the army, the
police, carriages, cabs, and omnibuses, are all dancing
attendance upon it. Tile shops are unfrequented. The
places of public amusement are comparatively deserted.
Even the railways lose their summer excursionists.
Hampton Court and Greenwich exhibit in vain their
horse chesnuts in bloom and their white bait in season.
The tall plant in Hyde Park has smothered everything in
its neighbourhood. The Exhibition is London—the
Exhibition is the Parliament—it is the British Empire—
it is house and home—it is drawing-room and study—it
is parterre, conservatory, and promenade—it is park and
club—it is shop and bazaar, theatre, picture gallery,
panorama,—everything in a word, which a man or woman
wants in this metropolis. The possessor of a season
ticket, with a small surplus for cabs, or, in default thereof,
a good pair of legs, is set up for the season.— Times.