The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

TO MERCHANTS,

N ALL TO WHOM
SECURITY FOR D
CASH, VALUABLE PROPERTY
AND DOCUMENTS,
AGAINST

ROBBERY, VIOLENCE, AND FRAUD, AS WELL AS FIRE,
IS IMPORTANT.

THE Risk of sending large S oney in Cash
Boxes by Boys along the c ed Streets, as proved by the
SEVERAL R T ROBBERIES,
BESIDES THE QU lONABLE SAFETY

OF THI

VARIOUS pEPOSITORIES THEMSELVES,

AS DAILY EVID-ENCED IN OUR PERSEVERING EX-
PERIMENTS IN RED HEAT,
AND IS AND WILL BE PROVED WHEREVER
ACTUAL FIRE OCCURS,

MASSES OF IRON, STONE; BRICKS,
FIREPROOF (?) WROUGHT OR CAST IRON
OVENS,
ALL MISCALLED SAFES,

ARE INCOMPET ENT TO RESIST FIRI

ALL THESE CONSIDERATIONS SERVE TO

SHOW THE NECESSITY FOR SOME HOME DEPOSITORY,

PERFECTLY SECURE

4GAINST

THESE DANGERS-ALIKE IMPREGNABLE TO ALL.

To meet this :contingency effectually, we have taken in detail

every part,
LOCKS, BOLTS, DOGS, HINGES, & BACK FASTENINGS,

QUALITY, STRENGTH OF MATERIAL. CONSTRUCTION,
AND MIRE-RESISTING POWER OF OUR

PATENT FIRE-RESISTING & HOLDFAST SAFES

STRONGEST WROUGHT IRON SAFE IN THE WORLD,

LINED WITH OUR
TREBLE FIRE-RESISTING CHAMBERS,

AND HAVING INTRODUCED EVERY POSSIBLE

PROVEMENT THROUGHOUT THEM,

With the greatest confidence recommend them to every holder
of Cash or Valuables, who may thus become their own
BANKERS AND INSURERS.

We respectfully solicit an inspection of our

PATENT FIRE-RESISTING & IIOLDFAST SAFES

AT OUR WORKS,
LORD-STREET BUILDINGS, AND CABLE-STREET,
AND 15, SOUTH JOHN-STREET, LIVERPOOL, AND
47A, MOORGATE-STREET, LONDON.

We have secured by the above means, the Cash of the
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY,

IN LIVERPOOL,

THOS. MILNiiR AND SON

LivEr,TooL SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT

BLIND.
CIIARITY SERMON.

THE LORD BISHOP of the EiffsoESE will preach
a SERMON, in the CHUB FOR THE BLIND, on
SUNDAY next, the 29th i , when a Collection will be
made in aid of the Fu of the Charity, which is at present
suffering greatly the pressure of the times.
Divine Service will commence at Eleven o'clock.

NOTICE TO THE LESSEES UNDER THE COR-
PORATION OF LIVERPOOL.
GROUND RENTS for the present Year having
become due on the 29th of September, the Lessees are
hereby requested to pay the same immediately, at this Office.
And such Persons as are in Arr for the like Ground Rents
are hereby informed, that ,a Measures will he instituted
without further no nless the demands, which have re-
peatedly been e, shall be liquidated forthwith.
JOHN WYBERGH,
Treasurer to the said Corporation.
Town-hall,l7lh October, 1848.

TO THE GOVERNORS AND SUBSCRIBERS OF
THE LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IBEG to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the
Appointment of HONORARY MEDICAL OFFICER to
your Charities.

Should I have the honour 'being elected it shall be my
study to fulfil the duties ' osed upon me, and to maintain the

1 havalle honour to he,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient humble servant,
JOHN FENTON.

3, Upper Parliament-street.

TO THE GOVERNORS AND SUBSCRIBERS OF
THE LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IBEG to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for one of
the Appointments of HONORARY MEDICAL OFFICER
to your INS FITUTIONS.
Should you do me the h r of conferring' on me an ap-
pointment. I beg to as you that my best efforts will be ex-
erted in the disc „e of the duties, and in the promotion of
the welfare of e Charities.
I have the honour to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
ROBERT WHITE, M.D.
125, Mill-street, Toxteth-park.

TO THE

GOVERNORS OF THE LIVERPOOL
DISPENSARIES.

AS you have announced that it is your intention to
ELECT` SIX HONORARY MEDICAL OFFICERS to fill
up the Vacancies in your most valuable Charity, I beg most
respectfully to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for one of the
Appointments.
Allow me to intorm you that my Medical Education com-
menced at the Northern Hospital, in 1835, under the late Wm.
Gill, Esq., Senior Surgeon, and Professor of Anatomy, and that
my services as Honorary House Surgeon to that Charity have
procured for me the best thanks o he Committee; as lam
fully aware that a personal ca is frequently disagreeable,
I shall not further obtrud yself upon your notice, than to
request the favour of vote and interest on my behalf ; and
to assure you that ould I have the honour to be elected, my
most active e ions shall be used faithfully to perform the
duties of such a responsible Appointment.

I have the honour to remain,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN OLIVER TAYLOR, M.R.C.S.L., L.A.H., &c.
5, Portland place, Roscommon4treet,
24th Ocleber,lB4B.

DR. MUSPRATT'S COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY,

•
21, CANNING-STREET.
THIS Institution is NOW OPEN Daily, from Ten
till Five, for the purpose of affording P tical Instruction
in all branches relating to CHEMIS . Gentlemen desirous
of entering may attend half-da e, two, three, four, or five
days during the week. Te , 6s. per day, or per Session
of four months.

Commercial and otter analysis will receive immediate atten-

TO THE BURGESSES OF GREAT GEORGE

WARD

.•
GENTLEMEN,—
AHIGHLY-RESPECTABLE and influential Depu-
tation having waited upon me with a Requisition, signed
by a large number of the Eleetors, inviting me to announce
myself as a CANDIDATE at the ensuing Municipal Election,
to represent the interests of your Ward in the Town-Council,
I hesitate not in acceding to their request.
In thus appearing before you a Candidate for your suffrages,
it is incumbent upon me to state candidly my opinions on the
topics which at present occupy the public mind.
I am a decided advocate for the Rating of the Docks and the
Corporate Estate.
I am anxious to see our Public..-s fairly Equalised. _ _

lam desirous of Econo • • g (as far as is consistent with
the due maintenauce important a Trust,) the Expenditure
of the Corporatioi „ .

I have alwa • een opposed to the " Rivington Pike Scheme,"
in all its stag s, and should an opportunity offer I shall be pre-
pared to resist its further progress.
lam a Resident Tradesman of your Ward—l was born there;
and as such my interests no less than my feelings are identified
with yours. Should you deem me worthy of your confidence I
will do my best to serve you.

;entlemen,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS WAGSTAFF.

121, St..)

Tamer's-street, Oct 23, 1848,

TO THE RATEPAYERS OF LIVERPOOL,

AS the EQUITABLE RATING COMMITTEE
appointed by the Inhabitants, in GENERAL VESTRY
assembled on Easter Tuesday last, we desire, at the present
moment, to address our Fellow Parishioners a few remarks on
a subject which immediately affects the interests of every
ratepayer and every owner of property in the town.
We refer with satisfaction to the efforts which have been
made during the present year to reduce the pressure of Local
Taxation, by endeavouring to render those two gigantic pro-
perties, the Dock Estate and the Corporate Estate, contributory
to Local Burdens.

We could not see the justice of the Liverpool Docks, which
may be called the Marine Highways for the Commerce of the
World, and which notoriously collect large masses of the la-
botlring Poor to their quays, and in the same ratio create Pau-

Poor, without taking peremptory measures to remedy the evil.
If the Docks add, as unquestionably they do, to the burdens of

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contribute to the funds of the Parish. When the East Indian,
the South American, or any other Merchant sends his produce
to Liverpool, it is properly subjected to certain Dock Dues, to
defray the expenses incurred for the safety and °dation
of that produce and equally right and sit that the same
produce should contribute to the s ort of that Poor which
are thrown on the Parish Fund the casualties arising from
a cessation of employmen the Docks. Hitherto the Pa-
rishioners have borne e than their share of Local Taxation,
to save the pockets, only of the importing Merchant, but

consume the,m'gtitudinous articles which every tide and every
wind waft to our port.
We consider it to be an unfounded apprehension that the
imposition of a penny on a ton of Sugar, or a halfpenny on a
bale of Cotton, for Parochial purposes, would injure the trade
of the Port. Such a Tax, although it would greatly relieve the
Ratepayers of the town, is in itself so infinitesimal that it
would not be felt by the parties who use the Docks, or the mil-
lions of persons who consume the produce which they contain.
Liverpool in fact owes its greatness to its locality, backed as it is
by the manufacturing districts. When it is remembered that
during the last year the enormous sum of £40,000 has been
sacrificed in the reduction of Dock Rates, and this too without
materially adding to the tonnage of the Port, opposition to
Parochial Rates on this property surely comes with a bad grace
from its rresent source.

Hardly less important than the Rating of the Docks, is the
Rating of the Corporate Estate. Like the Docks, all Corporate
Estates elsewhere pay Parish Rates, and this town would have
been in the same position, if the then municipal authorities of
the town had not cleverly contrived, without the knowledge of
the Parishioners, to introduce a clause into the Municipal
Amendment Act, exempting the Corporate Property situated
within the old Borough from being so rated. The absurdity as
well as the injustice of the present state of things will be best
exemplified by stating this astounding fact, that, if the Town
Hall, the Sessions House, or the Public Offices were situated in
Kirkdale, in Toxteth Park, or in any of the Townships com-
prising with the parish, the present Borough, they would be
legally liable to Parish Rates, but being within the Parish, they
are, through the instrumentality of the clause now referred to,
exempt.

We leave these facts is speak for themselves. The Municipal
Election is approaching. The decision rests with the Rate-
payers. The Town Council has affirmed the principle we now
contend for, by a majority so small, that it can hardly be
deemed to have triumphed, and unless public opinion is brought
strongly to bear on the question, so as to insure a good working
majority in the Council, all the exertions which have been hither-
to made may be frustrated for a time. The enmity with which
the new movement is viewed by certain interested parties,
shows that the opposition will be strong, although ultimately
it must prove unavailing. The fact that the Local Rates will
be reduced nearly one-half by the success of the battle which
the Parish is now fighting, is surely sufficient to rouse the dor-
mant energies of the Ratepayers on the First of November.
The thousands of houses which are now tenantless, the inmates
of which have crossed the river or gone beyond the town to
escape e
wish txoissttiantf pirnescsounrceluosfitoanx,attiiioaiti we
arebe aLatinpoaqiuzpaild:
we appear, not as tie supporters or the opponents of any of the
Candidates for Municipal honours; but viewing the question
as it affects the welfare of the town, we have a zealous interest
in the success of the Candidates who will heartily co-operate
with us in the objects for which we are struggling—namely,
to equalise, as far as possible, Parochial Taxation, and to pre-
vent it from pressing with undue severity on any particular
class.

JOHN FERGUSON,
WM. BENNETT,
THOS. POOLE
THOS. URQUHART,
THOS. CLARKE,
WM. WATSON,
E. P. M'KNIGHT.
Liverpool, 21st October, 1848.

C. E. RAWLINS,
JAS. R. JEFFERY,
THOS. GODFREY,
JNO. WOODRUFF,
THOS. DOVER,
JNO. SMITH.

RAILWAY DEPRECIATION

AT a MEETING, held this day, in the Star Hotel,
Glasgow, of Parties interested in ENGLISH and SCOTCH
RAILWAYS and other JOINT-STOCK PROPERTY,
WILLIAM BROWN, Esq. in the Chairs__
/t was unanimously .qesoleed,
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lst,—That in the opinion of this Meepilg there exists, at
present, an undue depreciation inth slue of Railway and
other Share Property, arising from e recent too rapid exten-
sion of the Railway System and vague apprehension of an
extent of obligations undertak by various Railway Compa-
nies beyond what prudence uld justify.
2d,—That, in order to re ore the just confidence of the public,
in such investments, it important that an Association should
be formed for the pi ose of ascertaining and making public,
either directly osA trough the Shareholders of the respective
Lines, the real acts as to the existing engagements of the
Railway Companies—the period over which their future Calls
can be distributed—and the power which they possess of either
abandoning altogether or postponing the construction of Lines
of Railway in progress. or not yet commenced.
3d,—That this Meeting do now form themselves into an As-
sociation for this purpose ; that a Committee be appointed
with power to carry out the objects specified in the foregoing
Resolutions ; and that Mr. H. Guthrie Wright, late of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, be requested to act
as Honorary Secretary to the Association.

4th,—That the hearty co-operation of the Railway Boards is
to be expected in thus putting the Public in possession of the
above facts, and in entering into such arrangements as shall
curtail to the utmost the demand on the Shareholders for fur-
ther Calls; and that Deputations of the Association ought to
wait upon the Directors for that purpose.
sth,—That this Meeting respectfully suggests to Shareholders
in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, the pro-
priety of forming similar Associations.

6tl4—That these Resolutions be published in the Times, and
such other newspapers as the Committee may direct.
(Signed)

WILLIAM BROWN, Chairman.
H. G. WRIGHT, Hon. Secy.
Glasgow,lsth October, 1848.