The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

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PROSPECTUS

NATIONAL AND LOCAL TAXATION.
1848.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Chairman—Mr. John Ferguson.
Vice-Chairman—Mr. James R. Jeffery.
Mr. George Atkins ,Mr. John Holme
Dr. Bradly Mr. Tames Hobbs
Mr. Edward Burden Mr. B. L. Joseph
Mr. Walter Bostock Mr. William Minton
Air. Richard Crossley Mr. P. L. Mactaggart
Mr. C. H. Chadburn Mr. Adam Pringle
Mr. John Daniel Mr. Henry Perris
Mr. Henry Danson Mr. Thomas Poole
Mr. Richard Edwards Mr John Rogers
Mr. George Groom Mr. Thomas Ralph
Mr. Thomas Godfrey Mr. James Thompson
Mr. Samuel Griffiths Mr. William Watson
Mr. E. C. Hindley Mr. Benjamin Williams.

GUTTA PERCHA.

C. SMITH AND SON,

DEALERS IN PATENT GUTTA PERCHA SOLES AND

DRIVING BANDS, &c.

The Trade supplied on the most liberal terms with every de-
scription of Article Manufactured by the
GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY,
118, OLDHAM-ROAD, MANCHESTER.

It also„ appears that twenty-five hotel-keepers
and retail traders, of the first respectability,
whose incomes may be estimated at £lOOO per
annum, are rated for local rates
which, at a rate of ss. in the pound, gives £2340,
or, per individual
Had the retail trader been assessed in proportion
to his means at the same ratio as the merchant,
he should only have paid annually 14 7
he has, therefore, been assessed in
ex.... --90 17 3
or these twenty-five, in the aggregate, have been
annually deprived, by the present iniquitous
system, to the extent of
or had these bankers and merchants paid in the
same proportion to their means as the retail
traders, they should each have contributed

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OF THE
NATIONAL CONFEDERATION;
FOR A
MORE DIRECT AND EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT OF

" The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the
support of the Government as nearly as possible in propor-
tion to their respective abilities."—Adam Smith's Wealth
of Nations, vol. 4, p. 215.

RULE Xll.—That an annual subscription, of not less than
five shillings, constitute membership; subscribers and donors
of one guinea and upwards will be eligible for the Council.
Rum.; MlL—That no question of party politics shall be en-
tertained at any meeting, or any subject not having immediate
relation to the objects of this Confederation.

Recognising to its fullest extent, as the promoters of this In-
stitution do, the justice of the principle so emphatically
enunciated in the motto which they have selected to convey to
the public an idea of their object, they express what they know
to be the universal opinion, that the period has now arrived
when the establishment of a society, having for its purpose the
more equitable adjustment of national and local taxation, has
become absolutely necessary.
That the trading community forms a large majority of the
electoral body, is a fact beyond question ; it is equally true,
that, through the want of a proper organization, calculated to
represent and enforce their views, their interests are neglected
and sacrificed.

It is the object of this Institution to concentrate the power
of carrying out the declared principles of this Confederation.
whereby its members will be relieved from the great dispro-
portion of taxation imposed upon them by the present system.
As regards the question of local taxation, unfortunately there
is not a tradesman who is not familar with its oppressive
character, the local taxes having now become an evil of such
magnitude, that a passive acquiescence in their exaction be-
comes culpable. On the present principle of rating, the trader
pursuing his business under severe losses, even verging on in-
solvency, is called upon to pay the same amount as if in the
most prosperous circumstances ; added to this, there is the
certainty of increased and additional rates for sanatory and
other purposes.
Regarding the question of national taxation, it need scarcely
be said that the principle on which the revenue is at present
levied is most iniquitous in itself, and bears with severe
pressure on the trading community. The labour and industry
of the country are taxed, while real property and accumulated
wealth pass comparatively free. The customs, excise, stamp
duties, and assessed taxes *make the revenue for the year
within a trifling amount; these taxes fall chiefly upon the
middle and operative classes, and are a burden on the skill and
industry of the country.
It is time that the trading community of this country should
take up a question of so serious importance; and in no town
in the kingdom could an agitation originate with promise of
more happy results than in Liverpool, where there is a power
which must command the attention of every town in the
kingdom, and lead to their co-operation in a struggle for the
more equitable adjustment of taxation.
The Confederation claims the active aid and sympathy of all
honest and philanthropic men. Setting aside the abstract in-
justice involved in the present principle of taxation, the evils
consequent on it are so great that it must be considered no-
thing short of a legalized spo'iation, producing poverty and
crime. By the annual drain of between sixty and seventy mil-
lions of capital frqm the re-productive classes,—that being the
united amount ()Me national revenue and the local rates levied
throughout the kingdom,--the main-spring of employment for
the poor is paralyzed, and the home trade materially injured ;
as a consequence, our workhouses will not contain the desti-
tute, or our gaols those whom ignorance and want have forced
into felony.
Looking at the subject in a commercial point of view, it is
clear that the large proportion of taxation which is thrown on
labour in this country acts as a bounty to foreigners for im-
proving their knowledge in arts and manufactures, and com-
peting with us in foreign markets, and thereby seriously inter-
feres with, and must ultimately annihilate our export trade;
also, in a social point of view, the violation of all justice, in-
volved in the fact of taxing the poor and exempting the rich, of
bearing down those who are struggling for existence, and ex-
empting inconve-
nience, . those who could bear the burden without
is calculated to produce in the minds of the people an
indifference to the precepts of morality and religion, and con-
tempt for the laws which they are expected to maintain and
obey.
The duty of this Confederation Will be to watch all measures,
parliamentary and local, which may be brought forward in any
way bearing on the interests of the reproductive classes, to op-
pose such as may appear injurious, to promote such as may
appear beneficial, and to originate such as may be deemed de-
sirable, without regard to political parties or distinctions.
To effect the important objects of this Confederation, the
promoters earnestly call upon all classes to unite with them in
this noble and humane undertaking, believing that, on the suc-
cessful carrying cut of these principles, the religious civil, and
commercial well-being of the nation depend, and, with cordial
co-operation, the result must be the prosperity and happiness
of the people,

REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE
Formed to establish a National Confederation (or obtaining a
more direct and Equitable Adjustment of Taxation, from
their Sub-Committee, appointed December 27? 1847.
Your Sub-Committee, in presenting you with a prospectus,
which they were appointed to prepare, feel it desirable that they
should explain the considerations which have influenced them
in drawing it up upon the comprehensive plan now submitted
for your approval.
Your Sub-Committee, at their first meeting, found it essen-
tial, before proceeding with the prospectus, to examine into,
as carefully as time would permit, the local grievances of which
the confederated body has to complain, and which so seriously
affect them at the present time.
In pursuing this object, your Sub-Committee soon became
impressed with the fact, that the principal cause of our present
grievances has its foundation in a partial and unequal system
of national and local taxation; they, therefore, immediately
applied themselves to collect statistical information bearing
upon our local taxation, which they respectfully submit for your
inspection, from which it appears the tradesman and artizan
are made to pay more than five times their just proportion of
the local taxation. They were thus led to perceive that,
although this injustice of which they have to complain was
strictly local, yet the same system of injustice existed to an
equal extent in every town in the kingdom, under the autho-
rity and sanction of acts of parliament, and could only be
removed by a national remedy effected by the co-operation of
the constituency of the country.
Your Sub-Committee, further pursuing their investigation,
found that this disproportionate system of raising the amount
required for local expenditure was not an exception, but is the
general principle adopted by Government, as will be evident by
reference to the subjoined returns, and by which, in conjunction
with our local statistics, your Sub-Committee have been guided.
In concluding their labours, your Sub-Committee found some
difficulty in suppressing every expression of feeling excited by
the contemplation of a principle so much at variance with even-
handed justice, and cannot but feel certain that it only requires
these facts to be duly examined, to produce a disposition that
would soon change so oppressive a system.

Confederation-rooms, 38, Church-street.

T. NEWBOLD'S

BANK POST LETTER PAPERS.

A GREAT VARIETY OF

FANCY STATIONERY,

LOCAL STATISTICS.
From an extract of the parish books of Liver-
pool, according to the rating of 1847, it appears
that twenty-five of the most respectable bankers,
merchants, and brokers, whose average income
cannot be estimated at less than £lO,OOO per
annum each, are rated for local rates
which, at a rate of ss. in the pound, would give
£685, or, per individual _ _

CLOCKS.

27 s 0

9,3G0 0 0

93 12 0

2,271 15 5

.t'936 0 0
thus showing that each of these parishioners has
been annually exempt from their fair proportion
of the local burdens to the extent of 941113 12 0
or, in the aggregate 4427,715 0 0

what portion of the community the item of Customs, amount-
ing to £24,107,347, falls :
The
revenue on tea
sugar and molasses
11 coffee, '£6B2,oB7—chicory and si-
milar substances, .'29,690—c0c0a
coa and chocolate, £15,181
71 tobacco 3,973,321
rum, brandy, gin, and other spirits 2,228,554
If wine
fl raisins, £1.59,404 currants,
£2s2,lsl—figs, £26,206 437,761
~ nutmegs,els,s9l—pepper,..eBl,279 96,870
fP oranges and lemons 71,424
11 butter, £lB6,663—cheese, £116,547
—eggs, .e 24,645
SP timber, £944,242—ta110w, £174,531
—wools, .e 720,791
ff corn, flour, and meal
~ silk, manufactured

327,855

1,939,564
1,105,321
286,914

.t'23,115,673
Leaving to be distributed over a number of corn-
modities of raw material, such as hides, &c..... 991,674

.124,107,347
The Excise duties are a burden exclusively on our own ma-
nufactures, which, from the nature of their operation, enhance
the cost to the consumer, in most instances, three or four times
the amount of revenue produced, as in the case of the salt duty
when in existence, which, while under excise, bore a duty of
30s. per cwt., and sold at 40s. ; while, immediately on the re-
peal of the duty, the selling price fell to 3s.
The revenue on soap .E927,725
malt 4,752,296
PP bricks 439,975
PP glass
/9 paper
f 9 license for public-house, &c.
ft spirits (home manufactured)

X 13,714,720
PP hops, sugar, and vinegar 754,616

.'14,469,336
The Stamp duties fall chiefly on fire, life, and marine policies,
charter parties, bills of exchange, and other commercial docu•-
ments.

The revenue on fire and life policies
?I marine policies
bills of Exchange 570,605
!I legacy and probate duty 2,280,053

deeds, receipts, newspapers,
advertisements, and various
other commercial documents 3,229465

£7,327,803

MESSRS. MARTIN AND CO.,
HORTICULTURISTS,
HAVE the honour to inform the Nobility, Gentry,
and Amateurs of Plants, that they have just arrived from
France, with a great assortment of

NEWLANT
for Pot and Garden uses, such P
as Amarilis, Camelia, Magnolia,
Oranges, Peonia, Arborea, Rhododendron, Azalea, and more
than 200 different sorts of new Roses, Ditto Moss, Bulb Ra-
nunculuses, Anemonies, and Flower Seed. A great choice of
FRUIT TREES,
Apples, Pears, Apricots, Prunes, Cherries, Cherry Currants,
Celestial Vines, and various others, too numerous to detail.
Catalogues will be given gratis at the Shop, 41, Bold-street.

CELEBRATED BIRMINGHAM PORK PIE

ALAMODE BEEF ESTABLISHMENT,
IS NOW OPEN,
NO. S. COMMUTATION-ROTV,
NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION.

LONDON PROVISION WAREHOUSE,
15, ELLIOTT-STREET,
NEAR ST. JOHN'S MARKET.
HAMILTON and CO. having OPENED the above
Premises, flatter themselves that they have done so under
very favourable auspices, as there has long been wanted in
Liverpool a good Retail Provision Wareho•ise, where
QUALITY AND CHOICE IN ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF
PROVISIONS may be depended upon.
H. and Co. have fitted up DRYING and SMOKING ROOMS,
for Curing Bacon after the
LONDON ANI; MOST APPROVED METHODS.
But while QUALITY will have their principal attention, they
will maintain that COMPETITION in PRICES that will allow
of no advantage to any future competitor.
H. and Co. solicit the attention of the public to their choice
STOCK OF CHEESES,
Comprising Stilton (very fine), rich old Cheshire, rich Cheddar,
North Wiltshire, (weighing. about 41b5.,) prime Derby, Double
and Single Gloucester, Edam Cheese, &c. &c.
FINEST WESTPHALIA, YORK, CUMBERLAND, AND
HOME CURED HAMS, Prime
WILTSHIRE, HAMPSHIRE, * CUMBERLAND BACON,
With a large assortment of
BUTTERS, TONGUES, GERMAN SAUSAGES, CHAPS, &c.
N.B.—HAMS and BACON SMOKED and DRIED for
FAMILIES, HOTEL-KEEPERS, &c., who will find it to their
advantage to give this Establisament a trial.

ROBERT WRIGHTSON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STATIONER,
64, CASTLE-STREET,
(CORNER OF DERBY-SQUARE')
RESPECTFULLY informs the Mercantile Commu-
nity and the Public generally, that he has

OPENED THE ABOVE PREMISES
with an entirely NEW STOCK, comprising PAPERS,
ACCOUNT BOORS, and other Articles used in
Counting-houses, &c.
R. W. begs to call particular attention to those enumerated,
viz.:—
LEDGERS, JOURNALS, DAY BOOKS, CASH BOOKS, &c.,
manufactured in the most durable and handsome styles.
COPYING BOOKS for MACHINES, with Indexes, and Paged.
LARGE BLUE WOVE LETTER PAPERS, from 6s. 6d. per
Ream upwards.
LARGE BLUE AND CREAM LAID LETTER PAPERS,
from 108. 6d. per Ream.

FOOLSCAP PAPERS, Laid and Wove—Brief 36 and 42 lines.
------

ENVELOPES of all Sizes and Prices.
THE REGISTERED PAPER CLOTH ENVELOPES, of
various Sizes.
DRAWING PAPERS and TRACING PAPERS.
COPYING MACHINES, manufactured by MORDAN and
others, with or without handsome Mahogany Stands, with
Damping Boxes.

COPYING, WRITING, RED and BLUE INKS.
WEDGWOOD'S MANIFOLD WRITERS.
LETTER FILES and CLIPS.
ELASTIC BANDS.
BEST PEWTER OFFICE INKSTANDS.
SEALING WAX and WAFERS.
STEEL PENS, in great variety, by the best Makers ; Samples
of which may be had upon application.
PLAYING CARDS, with Plain and Ornamental Gold Backs.

viz.:—
DE LA RUE'S DOUBLE THICK CREAM LAID NOTE
PAPER, in Packets containing 5 Quires.

PAPETERIES, containing Note Papers of different Sizes,
Envelopes, and Fancy Wafers.
ORNAMENTAL PAPETERIES, containing Fancy Note •
Papers, Envelopes, and Wafers.

BLOTTING CASES, ALBUMS, &c.
BIBLES, PRAYER BOOKS, and CHURCH SERVICES, in
the newest and most elegant Bindings, suitable for Presents.
CHEAP BIBLES, PRAYER BOOKS, &c.

LETTERPRESS PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHY,
AND ENGRAVING.

PERIODICALS Punctually Supplied as Published.

L. HAUSBURG bets. very respectfully to
• announce, that his periodical importation of
CLOCKS
FROM HIS MANUFACTORY, AT PARIS,
Has just arrived.
Encouraged by the very extensive patronage with which he
has been favoured in this Branch of his Business, he has de-
voted every energy to the Manufacture of the Articles; availing
himself of the latest Improvements in the Mechanical Depart-
ment, securing the newest Designs of the most skilful
Modellers, and producing them in every Material which could
be rendered available for the purpose.
F. L. H.'s entire collection of Clocks has been re-arranged,
and he feels assured that the coup d' (ell presented by them
will amply compensate for the trouble of an inspection, being
unequalled in extent, variety, and beauty by the Stock of any
Establishment in Europe.
F. L. H. would especially notify to his Friends, that every
Clock bears his name, is guaranteed to perform with the
greatest accuracy, and all are offered at prices so moderate as
to ensure universal approval, viz. :
ALARUM CLOCKS, adapted for Bedrooms, Eight-days
Movement. with Shade and Stand £3 5
CLOCKS, in Rosewood Cases, richly Inlaid
£3 43 (3 6 4.,
ALARUM CLOCKS, Fifteen-days Movement, t••• •
Shade and Stand 4 5 0
CLOCKS, in Ebony Cases, richly Inlaid Buhl, .z
with Shades and Stands, Twenty-five Inches a.
in height
DITTO, in Ormolu, elegant in design, with
Shades, and Stands 6 15 0 `P
DITTO, in Ormolu and White Marble, suita-
ble for elegantly furnished Drawing-rooms,
with Shades and Stands 7 10 0
and upwards.
DITTO, in Square Cases, suitable for Public Rooms, Offices,
Halls, &c., the Dials very. distinctly marked, the Striking
part deep and harmonious in tone, at 985., and upwards.
A great variety of TRAVELLING CLOCKS, Lever Escape-
ments, Jewelled in Six Holes and Three Actions, at £l2 to
4'25.

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F. H. L. would particularly direct attention to his very ex-
tensive Stock of first-rate
ENGLISH AND GENEVA WATCHES,
ALL WARRANTED,
To the careful Selection and Manufacture of
begswhich
reference
his
t unre-
mittingo attention has been devoted, and he
the following Prices:—

.4 S.
GENEVA WATCHES, SILVER, Jewelled in Four Holes 4 4
DITTO DITTO, GOLD, Jewelled in Four Holes 810
ENGLISH WATCHES, Silver, Levers, Jewelled 5 10
DITTO DITTO, Skeleton Levers, Jewelled 6lO
GOLD WATCHES for LADIES, Lever Movements,
Gold Dials, Capped, Jewelled in Four Holes l2 10
GOLD WATCHES, Skeleton Levers, for GENTLEMEN,
Jewelled in Two Holes..
Of the Watches completed in F. L. H.'s Manufactory upon the
Premises he can with confidence speak in the highest terms.
They are finished in the most careful manner, under his im-
mediate superintendence, combining all the latest improve-
ments, and, by their perfect accuracy of performance, justify-
ing the high encomiums which the experience of years has
enabled his Friends to pass upon them.
Every deseription of Mechanism, of the most complicated de-
scription, English and Foreign Watches, Musical Boxes, Clocks,
4-c., Repaired upon the Premises, with despatch and at
moderate prices, by skilful Workmen, thoroughly conversant
with the manufacture of similar articles.
Clocks Wound at a moderate charge per Annum.
F. L. HAUSBURG,
OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS.

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