The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-13 00:00:00

£20462 13

FIRE POLICE ACCOUNT.
Dn.
To Amount, as per last Account, in the £ s. d.
hands or Leyland and Bulling--
Rate of 1834, collected at id in the £.. 952 14 1
Arrears, do. 111 7 10
1064 1 11

.£ s. d.
303 9 4

•amounts received towards the Outfit of
the Estalklishtuent, from the York-
shire Insurance Company, per Mr.
. L. Hanmer, jun. 5O 0 0
The Guardian, per Mr. Wm. Chamley 100 0 0
The. Alliance, per Mt. I. Richardson.. ICO 0 0

2)O 0 0

THE COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT
DEBTORS.
N.B.—See the Notice at the end of these Advertisements.
Iv HE Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of th Prisoners
hereinafter named, (the same having bee iled in the
Court,) are appointed to be heard as follows, ath mint House,
at Lancaster, m the County of Lancaster, o t e third day of
November, 1835. at Ten o'clock in the Morni :
WILLIAM GREY, formerly of Carte ace, Gildarts-
gardens, Liverpool, in the County of Lanca. 'r, oiner, builder,
and pipemaker, and late of 35, 13ispham-street in Liverpool
aforesaid, joiner, builder, and rent-collector, (su by the name
of William Gray.)
On the fourth (lay of November, at the same hour and place,
JOHN Ft/ RN FAUX, the younger, formerly of Lime-street,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, grocer, breadbaker, and
llourdealer, and late of Ditton, near Prescot, in the said County,
out of business.

On the fifth (lay of November, at the same hour and place,
JAMES ALMON 1.),' formerly of Rufford, near Ormskirk, in
the County of Lancaster farmer, and late of Burscoughk near
Ortnskirk aforesaid, retail dealer in ale, and carter
On the sixth day of November, at the same hour and place,
MARGARET 'COX, widow of William Cox, formerly of
Upper Clieapside, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
brassfounder and lamp manufacturer, afterwards of Richmond-
row, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, licensed victualler,
and late of Washington-place, Everton, in the said County,
out of business.

FRANCIS HAARER, formerly in lodgings in Mill-street,
Toxteth-park, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, at the
same time of Exchange-street East, Liverpool aforesaid, after-
wards in lodgings in Erskine-street, Liverpool aforesaid,‘ and
late in lodgings in Russell-street, Liverpool aforesaid, and at
the same time of Rumford-street, Liverpool aforesaid, drysalter,
broker, and commission agent. .
On the seventh day of November, at the same hour and place,
WILLIAM BROOK BRODRICK, formerly of Cockside
House, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, afterwards of the
Brigantine Kitty, of Plymouth aforesaid, then of the Schooner
Kattern, of Plymouth aforesaid, master mariner, afterwards of
Saint Blazey, in the County of Cornwall, out of employment,
and late a passenger on board the Schooner Louisa, of Ply-
mouth aforesaid, laying in Salthouse Dock, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster.
THOMAS HASKAYNE, formerly in lodgings at 112, Ho-
ratia-street, Scotland-road, Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, at the same time of 102, Great Crosshall-street, Liver-
pool aforesaid, flourdealer, afterwards of Juvenal-street. Liver-
pool aforesaid, at the same of Hodson-street, Liverpool afore-
said, flourdealer and starch manufacturer, then in lodgings at
Heaton•place, Breck-lane, Evetton, near Liverpool aturesaid,
formerly manager at a starch works, and late commission agent.

- TAKE NOTICE.
1. If any Creditor intends to Oppose the said Prisoner's
Disc barge, Notice of such intention must be given to the said
Prisoner in Writing. Three Clear Days before the Day of
Hearing above-mentioned, Exclusive of Sunday, and Exclusive
both of the Day of giving such Nutice and of the said Day of
Hearing.
2. The Petition and Schedule will be produced by the proper
Officer for Inspection and Examination at the Office of the
Court in London, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
between the Hours of Ten and Four, on this Notice being
exhibited :—and Copies of the Pelition and Schedule, or such
Part thereof as shall be required, will be provided by the proper
Officer according to the Act 7 Geo. IV. e. 57. sec. 76.

—KB.—Entraiice to the Office in Portugal-street, Lincoln's
Inn Fields.

3. The Duplicate of the Petition and Schedule, and all Books,
Papers, and Writings filed therewith, will be produced by the
Clerk .of the Peace, for Inspection and Examination, at his
Office at Preston, in the said County, and Copies of the Petition
and Schedule, or such part thereof as shall he required, will be
provided according to the Act 7 Geo. IV. c. 57. sec. 77.
EDWARD RAINLINSON, Solicitor, Lancaster.

[A DVERTISEMENT.I
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4NDS RD.
Si rt,—ln reply to your correspondent under the signal of
.4 Requisitionist, whose letter appeared in your paper o • e 9th
instant, I have in the first place to justify myself for vin;; used
the terms he comments upon with respect to the oval of the
Powder Magazines. In this I- have done no ore than an act
of justice to those for whom I have ac s agent since the
year 1815, a period long before the panic ho signed theirequi-
sition calling a public meeting of the it abitants of Wallasey
ever contemplated entering into land speculations in that
neighbourhood, and as it became my duty to protect and up-
hold the rights and interests of my employers, I assumed the
name of Conservator, under which title I will endeavour to main-
tain the ground I have taken, and endeavour also to show the
public, what are the motives which have caused the sudden ap-
prehensions of the gentlemen who have commenced the agita-
tion of the " Powder question."
All that I have said in reprobation of the intended proceeding
by indictment lam prepared to restate. The Powder Maga-
zine is not more dangerous now than it was before the buildings
now supposed to be jeopardised by it were built • they " the
speculators" could not have bought their land and hula their
houses in ignorance of that danger. And what is now sought to
be done ? Why an attempt to remove it, not in the fair, open,
honourable, and equitable way of taxing the property which it
is alleged the removal oft hese stores will improve,—and therefore
I have a right to assume were minus the value,—this will add to
them, when they were purchased ;—but to proceed by an indict-
ment for a nuisance—au attempt to procure a divorce between
law and equity—between honesty and justice—for be it remem-
bered that the indictment resolution does not contain one single
word, or syllable of
.a word, indicative of an intention to com-
pensate the owners of the Magazines in case the indictment
should be successful. The reasonings upon which this proceed-
ing is founded are simply these :—" It suits the interests ot us, the
Requisitionists, to remove the Magazines--ergo, they roust be
removed—if we go to Parliament that old-fashioned word coat-
PENSATION will find its way into the act, for the Lords at least
have some antiquated notions about "the rights of persons,"',
and of late they have taken, occasionally, a fancy to particular

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words, and have insisted uponsupplying them when accidentally
or otherwise omitted—therefore let us try an experimental in-
dictment, audVo to parliament only as a dernicr resort." if this.
were not the animas of their proceedings would they not at once
have opened communicatiims with the proprietors of the Maga-
zines and others interested in that property, and have said to
them, " We consider you dangerous neighbours—your removal.,
would benefit us—at what cost would you remove out of our:
way?—if we cam effect a friendly compromise' let us do" so."'
The entire absence of any attempt at compromise warrants
all that I said in my former letter, and a great deal more. The
indictment, 1 have no hesitation in saying, cannot be sustained.
And now fin the quantity of gunpowder said to be stored in
the Magazines. My wish to place before the public the real
extent of the supposed danger induced use to state precisely the
quantity of gunpowder the Magazines would hold; the attempted
subterfuge in the reply is manifest. That document sets forth,
that from twenty to forty thousand casks were deposited therein.
In speaking of casks, I have no doubt A Requisitionist meant
barrels of 1001 b. each, or, if ho be a matter-of-fact man, why did
he not multiply the number of packages by 8, 12, and 16, the
packages now much in use, by which it might appear that a
larger quantity of gunpowder was deposited there. Id speaking
of casks, I mean barrels of 11101 b. each, and will maintain
that the average annual consumptio' of barrels, half-barrels,
quarters, eighths, twelfths, and sixteenths, collectively, has not
exceeded 18,000 barrels for the last twenty years at no one
period, and I really believe that inure than 4000 barrels have
not been deposited at any one time in the magazine.
In reference to my observations respecting the value of the
land in the immediate neighbourhood of the stores, I think
lam borne out by the facts. They are proved by the increased
number of buildings, and if the speculators have shot beyond
the mark, is that a good or valid reason why the property in
question should be disturbed ? I have as much right to any
property I may possess in the Magazines now established as
the requisitionists can have to the land they have recently pur-
chased.- To maintain that right lam prepared to meet them in
Parliament or elsewhere; but I 'will not go round with a
begging-box to obtain subscriptions, nor will I levy a rate
upon the poor householders of Wallasey or Liverpool. I have
to state further that I am not a Cheshireman, do not reside near
the Magazines, and, as an inhabitant of Liverpool, will resist
any attempt to levy a tax upon the town to further a private
speculation. _ _ ,

The cases spoken of in The Mercury may have been ocea-.'
sinned by the explosion of gunpowder mills, or in the manufacture
of fireworks. .These are from the dangerous nature of some of
the processes of too frequent occurrence; but I know of no
instance of the explosion of a magazine by accident, and there-
fore can see no good reason why we should be disturbed in the
peaceable occupation of our property unless some better reasons
can be shown than any yet adduced.
The scheming Itequibiti should be consistent, and be
prepared at least with their Irstruni to effect a radical cure of
the evil of which they complain. A floating depot has been pro-
posed. • Have they duly considered the danger likely to ariso
from the steam-boats which would have to pass and repass
it every hour, wherever that vessel might he moored ?
As to the occupation of Hilbro Island, or the saudhills
by Hoylake and Leasowe, either would destroy the gunpowder
trade of the port, for it would be impossible to ship it, from the
danger of approaching, the rocks of Hare or the shoals of
Hoylake on a falling tide. The attempt to do so would absolve
the underwriter from his liability as a deflation from the voy-
age. Again; supposing the magazines removed to either of
these places, bow long would it be before the same danger now
feared at Wallasey would he apprehended by some new specu-
lators, who might buy land and build other houses in or near
these places? Were this reform bill carried, what security will
be given that it shall be a final measure !
The requisitionists are not, perhaps, aware that the dock laws
and town regulations, with respect to gunpowder, are very
strict and severe. No gunpowder brought coastwise is per-
mitted to appyoach the town; no vessel is allowed to take gun-,
powder on board within the range of the buoys outside the pier-
heads under penalties of £5O or £lOO. Nevertheless, the article
is charged with dock and town dues, both on importation and
exportation. The amount levied.on this article in this man-
ner exceeds £l5OO per annum; and I question whether the rate-
payers of Liverpool are now benefitted to that extent by the
gentlemen for whose benefit it is modestly proposed to levy a
new tax.

- .
In conclusion, I beg to observe that the signature I address
,you under—my real name and address I inclose for your pri-
vate knowledge—is, though accidentally assumed, not an inap-
propriate one;. the one suggested by your correspondent " De-
structive"_ would be the reverse. He seeking to destroy, Ito
maintain property with all its appurtenant rights; hence, I
send back the donation which he would bestow on me; and, in
doing so, I venture to predict that he will not succeed in gain-
ing his object; and, moreover, that he has endangered the
prospects of his party by raising a doubt in the minds of those
who have been influenced by the descriptions of the "splendid
scenery" in that neighbourhood, to locate themselves at Lis-
card and the Red Noses. The idea of danger now started by
the proprietors of the soil can only depreciate its value. I
um, &c.,
Liverpool, Oct. 11,1535. CONSERVATIVE.

kDVERTISEMENT.]
THE POWDER MAGAZINES:

TO TIM EDITOR OF' rate LIVERPOOL SEIND/IRD.
SIR,—It is with no little surprise I perused a letter in your
paper of the 6th ult. upon the subject of the powder magazines,
addressed to you under the signature of Conservator.
Your impartiality will I ant sure permit me to offer a few ob-
servations upon your correspondent's letter, siuce he has chosen
to animadvert upon the various resolutions adopted at the meet-
ing held in the Egretnont Hotel.
Allow me to premises that the establishment,of apowder depot
on the Cheshire coast must be considered by every man pos-
sessed of common sense, prudence, and humanity an admitted
nuisance fraught with the most immiuent danker to all the re-
sidents in its immediate locality, and also to the interests of the
town of Liverpool, whose commercial importance and prosperity
is daily increasing in an unparalleled degree.
The security of life and property generally was the main ob-
ject kept in view by the members who compot-• that meeting,
and the sarcastic censure passed upon them b • ur correspond-
ent in denominating them "disinterested ay,i ors" is not only
uncalled for, and inapplicable to them, but pears to have es-
caped from him iit a moment of irritation wounded pique.
- Conservator remarks in his strenuous -.vocacy for the con-
tinuance of so dangerous a nuisance th. "builders and' occu-
piers of houses near the magazines tve voluntarily braved
whatever danger they may have •cu ed." The very circum-
stance of the rapidly increasing o lation in the neighbour-
hood, and the continued erection ? new buildings in my opi-
nion enhances the danger. The ectric fluid-=an evil-dispersed
person in a fit of drunkenness r a madman as in the case of
York Cathedral—a house or chimney catching fire in the vi-
cinity, would at once settle the question of removal in a way too
melancholy to contemplate upon.
That the magazines have existed for upwards of a century and
a half without any accident having happened is no reason why
such a disaster may not occur at any moment. It is the se-
curity of the present and the future that is so anxiously sought
for in the removal of the powder magazines.
Conservator instances the case of the Sarah as evidence that
no damage was occasioned by her explosion either to Liverpool
or the buildings on the Cheshire coast. At the period te which
he refers houses on that coast were indeed "few and far be-
tween." He does not say what quarter the wind was in at the
time of that melancholy event, nor whether there was a light or
strong breeze blowing kt the time, a circumstance wnich would
have occasioned a considerable difference. Let me remind him
of the conflagration of the Liscard Hotel, an .event of a more
recent date. Was there no alarm and dread that a chance
spark might then have alighted upon the magazines ? As it
fortunately happened a miracle alone saved them on that occa-
sion, otherwise Liverpool and the neighbourhood would have
had to lament the disastrous consequence. It is a matter of no
moment whether forty thousand or four thousand barrels of
powder are deposited in the magazines. The lesser quantity I
conceive would occasion a pretty tolerable concussion in case
of an explosion, and be anything but agreeable to the feelings
of the truly humane.
Conservator mentions several places by name where there are
public and private stores of powder. It those who live in their
vicinity are content to bask quietly in their fancied security, is
that any reason why those living in the neighbourhood of the
Cheshire magazines should be careless of their lives and pro-
perty? If Conservator cannot defend the continuance of the
nuisance complained of on better grounds than those urged in
his letter, his case is indeed "lame, weak, and unprofitable."
From his allusion to remuneration one would imagine he had
some dormant interest in view. But I suspect that if any such
'remuneration is clue to any one, the corporation alone are the
parties to whom it should be paid. They will lie put to the
whole and sole expense of removing the magazines, and finding
a more eligible site. I could wish to know whether Conservator
ever remunerates the domestic servanti, lie discharges. The
corporation surely have a right to discharge their hired servants
without compensating them. If Conservator asserts the right in
the case he states, he must admit it in the other. Such a doc-
trine would, I take it, be rather inconvenient—compensation of
late has been the fashion, and every one is ready enough to fol-
low in its train. '
In my opinion the disinterested ayetators have to deal with the
corporation of Liverpool alone as principals, and it will be for
them to determine upon the most eligible plan of removing the
magazines since once the public have evinced their sense of the
danger. The well known liberality of the corporation of Li-
verpool will, I am convinced in this instance, be anxious to gra-
tify the expressed wish of the public by removing the object of
complaint without allowing any petty private interests to pre-
vail-against a general punt good by so doing they will reap
their reward in the gratitude of a discerning public.
I shall conclude with a couplet from an old admired poet, in
whose sentiments I perfectly agree:—
" I put no private man's ambition
With public good in competition."
I remain yours. &e. &c.; HUMAN ITA S.
October 12, 1835.