The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

have Jeen used to get the standing orn,..
That was a plain statement of the facts. When

sus?ended.
the depu-

tation was called into the room-,-"Ke—(Mf. Ferguson, as
chairman, was told that the rating clause, in its integrity,
had passed. Mr. Bramley-Moore (who, with Mi'. Mann,
was there) said—" Have we not acted honourably in this
business ; you see the rating clause is now brought in in
all its integrity ?" He (Mr. Ferguson) said they had done
so, but he was rather surprised to find Mr. Moore stating,
the other day, in Council, that they had been compelled
to put the clause in—that the clause had been forcedi n.
When he spoke to Mr. More, in the House of Commons,
that gentleman claimed great credit for passing the clause.
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. HARDY referred to the numerous ward petitions
which had been sent to the Council, and which, by two or
three of the most liberal gentlemen in the Council, had
been treated with more contempt than by any others. If
they did not succeed in obtaining the right to tax the
docks and the corporate estate, their rates would soon be
ten shillings in the pound. If it pleased God to spare
him, he should go round to every ward and remind the
electors of the Ist of November. ( Loud applause.)
Mr. W. BROWN briefly moved the next resolution.

Mr. THOMAS WYLIE, In seconding the resolution, re.
ferred to the vast amount of money which was received
by the bondholders, without contributing anything to the
relief of the poor. He hoped the efforts of the Rating
Committee in this matter would not cause the general
body of the parishioners to relax their efforts, but that they
would most strenuously keep up this agitation, which had
been so wisely and well conducted since its commence-
ment. He was certain that, with continued exertions,
they should ultimately meet with success. (Applause.)
Mr. FERGUSON mentioned that there were no fewer
than 3,851 houses at present unoccupied in the parish. It
was entirely owing to the high rates they were called on
to pay, that, persons were induced to leave Liverpool and
go elsewhere.

Mr. POOLE alluded to the absence of their opponents,
and attributed it to the very wise maxim, that, "discre-
tion is the better part of valour." What they proposed
was to apply to Parliament to enable the Dock Committee
to raise a fund for the payment of the rate. They did not
go to them and ask them for money, without, at the same
time, making provision where the money was to come
from. Where was it to come from but from the general
disbursements of the dock estate, which had lately been
much altered ? It was now a trading body—trading, in
the most complete and strict acceptation of the term. It
bought goods wholesale and sold them retail. The only
competing port with Liverpool was London ; and they had
returns from the various overseers of the parishes in which
the doe'

~,ciis o. Jondon were situated giving vast amounts of
assessments on that property; but they beard no com-
plaints as to the interruption to trade by these charges.
Mr. J. P. M'KNIGHT and Mr. ROBERT BRYDEN rose
at the same time to second the motion, and both reminded
the electors that the Ist of November was the time when

this matter should not be neglected.
Mr. URQUHART moved the next resolution, and alluded
to a statement which had been made in the Council and
elsewhere, that it was not the shopkeepers who paid the
rates, but their customers. The shopkeepers had no ob-
jection to its being understood that their customers paid
the rates. What they wished was, that the customers of
the merchants should also pay the rates in common with
the customers of the shopkeepers. (hear, hear. and ap.
plause.) The merchants took all the advantages of the
Liverpool docks, streets, and other local protection and
facility, but did their customers pay their share of the
Liverpool poor rates. ( Hear.) He hoped the Town
Council would recognise the correct principle of an equal
adjustment of local taxation by rating the dock property,
so that the customers of the merchants might pay the
rates to Liverpool, as well as the customers of the shop.
keepers. (Applause.)
Mr. SEWARD seconded the motion.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A complaint respect-
ing the state of the road along the outer wall of the new
north docks, was referred to the Council. The Marine
Committee suggested that various improvements should
be made at the telegraph stations, and that the Liverpool
station should be removed from the present premises to
Tower Buildings. That an office in the same premises be
procured, on lease, at a rent of £7O per annum, with the
use of a wall on the ground floor. The Albert Dock
Warehouse Committee recommended the dismissal of a
number of the servants of the trust, in consequence of a
fraud supposed to have taken place, of twenty-one bar-
rels of flour. Confirmed. The Chairman read the
regulations and resolution of the Special Committee of
the Council appointed to investigate the bgrievances of the
porters. The document was referred to the Master
Porters' Committee. A communication from Messrs.
Brown, Shipley, and Co., relative to the accommodation
necessary for the five ocean steamers in course of con.
struction in America, to ply between this port and New
York, was referred to the Committee of Works.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—This committee met as usual
on Thursday. The inspector of nuisances made his
weekly report. Mr. Johnson attended to complain of the
state of the cellars at the Queen's Hotel. The engineer
reported that he had served a notice upon parties on
whose property pools of stagnant water existed, stating
that the Council were empowered to compel the drainage
or removal of stagnant water within twenty-four hours
after notice, and calling upon the owners to abate the nui-
sance immediately, or they would be subject to the
penalty by law provided. From the report of the super-
intendent of Paul-street baths and washhouses, it ap-
peared that 20,650 persons had bathed there since March
last, gratis. A question was asked, if arrangements had
beel made for the performance of the duties of the medi-
cal officer during his absence for three weeks. It was
stated that no arrangement had been made. It was re-
ported that 311 notices had been served on those parties
who applied to register lodging-houses, but only 83 had
registered.

Ltstritt Relos.

A woman at Blackburn became last week so excited by
passion that she fell down in a fit and expired.
The Bishop of London is on a visit at Whittington
Hall, near Lancaster, the seat of Thomas Greene, Esq.
A little girl, four year' old, was burnt to death a few
days since at Lancaster, through her clothes catching fire,
whilst playing with lucifer matches, which unexpectedly
ignited.
William Bolling, Esq., M.P. for Bolton, whose death
on Wednesday we record elsewhere, was long a Sunday
school teacher, and on the Sunday before he received his
final summons he was instructing a class in the Bolton
Parish School.

On Sunday week, the bodies of most of the persons
drowned by the flood on Wednesday week were interred
in the presence of tens of thousands of people. Six of
them were buried in Trinity Churchyard, Darwen ; two
in the Parish Church, Blackburn ; two at the Lower
Chapel, Darwen ' • one at Ebenezer Chapel; and one at
the Methodist Chapel, Belgrave-square.
IMPORTANT TO AUCTIONEERS.—At Bolton county
court, on Friday, the judge allowed a defendant to set. off
a claim which he had against a party who had sold his
goods by auction, and a portion of which were bought by
the defendant. The action was brought by the auctioneer
on the occasion. His honour said that though the auc-
tioneer had a right to sue, he- must do so subject to the
claim of the defendant against the owner of the goods.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—An explosion of fire-damp hap-
pened on Monday at Mr. Wood's coal-pit, Hindley, , (close
to the road leading to Leigh,) which caused the death of
five persons. Three others are dreadfully burnt, and
one of them not expected to recover. The real cause of
the damp taking fire is unknown, but some people sup-
pose it was occasioned by a collier lighting his pipe out
of one of Davy's safety lamps.
PAUPERISM IN PRESTON.—The first of the periodical
lists of paupers receiving out-door relief in Preston, was
laid before the board of guardians on Tuesday last. The
list contains nearly seven hundred names. As the pressure
of work prevents the guardians and relieving officers inves-
tigating every case in so large a number as thoroughly as
is desirable, the board have adopted this plan of making
known who are the recipients of relief, in order that those
who know of parties receiving relief improperly may ap-
prise the relieving officers of the same.
MAGISTRATES.—The number of magistrates now in
commission of the peace for this county is 403 ; being in
Lonsdale hundred, 58 ; Amounderness hundred, 20 ;
Blackburn hundred, 57; Leyland hundred, 20 ; West
Derby, 101 ; Salford, 147. The three oldest magistrates
in the commission are, W. W. Carus Wilson, Esq., of
Casterton Hall, who qualified October 8, 1799 ; Lord
Skelmersdale, who qualified January 20, 1809; and Ed-
ward Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall, who qualified Octo-
ber 6, 1807.
WATERSPOUT NEAR GARSTANG.—On Thursday after-
noon, a waterspout passed near Garstang, and covered
the railway with water for upwards of two miles. The
train which leaves Lancaster at five minutes past three
was compelled to stop at a cutting near Garstang. where
the water was between two and three feet deep.. Several
attempts were made by the engine driver to drive the
train through the water, but he was afraid to proceed,
fearing that the earth had been washed away from the
rails. The passengers then got out, and some of them
took conveyances and went on to Garstang—and others
waited with the train. The express train was due at the
time, and signals were put out to stop its approach. The
express and two other trains from Preston were also com-
pelled to stop on the other side of the water. After hav-
ing been delayed about an hour and three-quarters they
were enabled to proceed.
FESTIVITIES AT RAWCLIFFE HALL. —During last I
week there were gay doings at Rawcliffe Hall, to welcome
the heir to the- Rawcliffe estates on the attainment of
his majority, and to congratulate the family on that ans.
picious event. Wednesday last was a day that had been
looked forward to with much interest by the family and
those connected with them, not only on account of the
entrance upon manhood by the young squire, but also be-
cause the attainment of that epoch would enable the pre-
sent owner of those estates to obtain a more permanent
tenure of the property over which he has presided for
nearly twenty years. The manor and estate of Out Raw-
cliffe, now held by T. R. Wilson France, Esq., was for-
feited by its owner, one of the Butlers, taking part with
the Pretender, at the rebellion of 1715. The then heir to
the estates was also tried for participation in the rebellion,
and sentenced to death, but he died in prison, in London,
in January, 1716. The estate had been in the family of
the Butlers, formerly the De Botelers, from a very early
period of history. The estates were then sold by authority
of parliament. They were purchased by a Mr. Roe,
whose only daughter, by marriage with John France,
Esq., of Eccieston. brought the estate to that:gentleman,
whose son and successor, John France, dying issueless,
left the estates to Thomas Wilson, Esq., of rreston and
Norbreck, for his life, and afterwards to his eldest son,
Thomas Robert Wilson, Esq., and his heirs male ; failing
which, to other and distinct families. Mr. 'Wilson and
Mr. T. R. Wilson (the present owner), assumed, the
former for hinalelf alone, and the latter, on succeeding to
the estate, for himself and, issue, the awe of Iran in
additioq to that of Wilsont