The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-23 00:00:00

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NOTICE.
THE Proprietors of the OLDCOMPANY 0 CARTERS
respectfully inform the Merchants, Brok s, and other in-
habitants of Liverpool, that they have fora themselves into
an Association for the purpose of Prosecuti their Carters who
may be guilty of defrauding their employe s, or of purloining
Goods committed to their care, belonging to any Merchant,
Broker, or others, having an open account with the Company.
The Proprietors earnestly request that the earliest information
of any case of fraud or pilfering by their Carters, may be sent
to the Company's Office, in order that the offending parties may
be prosecuted. WM. POWNALL, Agent
Canning-place, 16th October, 1835.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT MEETING.
A MEETING will be held, if the Lord will, in the
11- Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street, o THURSDAY the
29th instant, fo'r the purpose of commun• ating important
documents, and forming a Protestant Ass iation, under the
following regulations:-
1. Admission by Tickets.
2. As the Meeting is not convened o discussion, no persons
but those deputed by the Cominittee" 1 be allowed to address
the Meeting.
3. Every person using the privilege of a Ticket is consider-
ed pledged to adhere to the Rules of the Meeting, and to sub-
mit to the Chair.
The Rev. Robert J. M'Ghee is expected to attend and ad-
dress the Meeting.
Doors will be open at 10 o'clock, and the Chair will be taken
at 11 o'clock,
Enquiry for Tickets 'to be made at Mr. DA vENcolit's,
R -meta gh-street.
Liverpool, 21st Oct. 1835.

sourn EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
LONDON to BRIGHTON, by CROYDON, OXTED, WORTH, LIND-
-FIELD, and CLAYTON, With a communication frou OXTED
With TUNBRIDGE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, and the WEALD OF
KENT, and to be extended to Dovsa.
Caiiital, £l,-100,000—in Shares of £.50 each—Deposit £2 per
Share.
TRUSTEES.
Herbert B. Curteis, Es 3., M.P. David Salem Ons, Esq.
J. Miuet Fector, Esq., 'M.P. I John Twelis, Esq.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Hon. C. Compton Cavend'.,A, Robert Gear, Esq.
M.P. Edward Graham, Esq
Herbert B. Cateis, Esq. M.P. Bur Wood Godlee, Esq.
Howard Elphiustone, Esq., Edmund Halsewell, Esq.
M.P. John Langford, Esq.
Minet Fedor, Esq., M.P. Horatio Legg,att, Esq.
Frederick North, Esq., M.P. Captain l'ringle,
Hon. General St. John. John Smith, Esq.
Edward Barnard, Esq. • David Saloinons sq.
James Burton, Esq. John Shewell sq.
Decimus Burton, Esq. Henry Shir , Esq.
Robert Clutton, Esq. Rober 'l' ter, Esq.
Captain Cole. John ' Its, Esq.
Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thonia W. Tvotlale, Esq.
H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. Henry Wrench, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
Engineer H. R. Pa Lsnait, Esq., F.R.S.
Solicitors
Office of the Company. 98, Gracechurch-street.
THIS is not only the shortest and most direct practicable
line to Brighton, but it has also the advantage, for the first
twenty milecout of London, of a joint communication with the
counties of Sussex and Kent; offering thereby a double source
of profit for that part.
From its termination at the Northern Entrance to Brighton,
it is proposed to extend it to Shoreham, and from n convenient
point on the line to carry a branch by wav of Lewes to New-
haven, securing thereby the commercial advantages of the two
harbours, without the necessity of lengthening the line for pas-
sengers to Brighton.
From Oxted the Kentish line proceeds direct to Tunbridge
and Tunbridge Wells, through a country particularly well
adapted to such a work, and the proposed continuation to Dover,
through Ashford, is direct end easy.
The advantages of effecting these two great objects by one
expense of management, and one outlet, common to hoth, are
obvious. .
Brandies will hereafter be carried from the main line to se-
veral important neighbouring towns ; but in the mean time it is
anticipated that the Depots at Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells,
will be points of rri% al and departure for Hastings, St. Leo-
nard's, and the South-eastern coast, and will secure the traffic
with those districts.
The survey has been completed, and the Parliamentary notices
will he given in due time.
Applications for the remaining Shares may be made to the
Low ours and VIESTAIINST.KR BANK, Throgmorton-street and
Waterloo-place ; Messrs. SPOoNlilt, ATTWOODS, and Co.,
Gracechurch-street, London; Messrs. Moss and Co., Bankers,
Liverpool ; the MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANK,
Manchester; Messrs. SMITH, IliLnEit, and Co., Bankers, Has-
tings ; Mr. THOMAS COGIAN, Share Broker, Liverpool ;
Messrs. ecurros and FEARON, Solicitors. .Crownoffice-row
Temple, and aligh-street, Southwark; or to the SECRETARY
at the Office.
Oaoter 19, 1835.

J. S. YEATS, Secretary,

The Appropriation of Shares will be loath, ou FRIDAY, the
30th instant. No Application fur Shares will be received after
THURSDAY, the 29th instant.
By order, ' J. S. YEATS, Secretary.
Rqiletty Iffica, 98, Gracerhui ch-street,
21st Oct., 183").

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a private object. This is my charge against the resolutionists
—a charge which they have nut and cannot disprove with all
their legal ingenuity and critical acumen.
I am accused by One, indeed I believe by both your corres-
pondents, of having. indulged in sarcastic, uncourteous, and
acriraonious expressions ; I deny that I have used any terms or
applied any appellatious which were not call9cl for hy the occa-
sion. The term " speculator" of all others appears to have
been the most offensive to their sensitive ears. Until now I
did not know that there was anything offensive in the word
" speculator," or that it was considered an opprobrious term.
What, I would ask, is the whale commerce of England based
upon but speculation ? and what would become of that com-
merce it there were no speculators? If Messrs. Requisitionist
and Humanitas choose to speculate in land near the powder
depot, or if they feel disposed to speculate in gunpowder, or
purchase the magazines even, I for one have no objection to
deal with them on the established "mercantile principle of value
received for value given ; if they will treat with me upon the
honourable footing offair instead offree trade principles I am
ready to meet them, but I protest against the system they have
adopted; I protest against their attempt to take the magazines
by storm, or to carry them by a coup-de-Law, and I protest also
against their attempt to rase them to the ground by the aid of
popular clamour. F 0 that I will never succumb.
One of your correspondents says that 1 am, because I resist
his measure, opposed to all public improvement. How does he
! prove his assertion? Why, forsooth, because lam unwilling to
see an attack made upon property for au object which the pub-
lic care little or nothing about, and because I have told him
that be has not proposed any practicable remedy: The fact is
he is altogether ignorant of the importance of the gunpowder
trade to the port of Liverpool, not on account of the quantity
consumed but on account of the absolute necessity that every
ship leaving this port is under of taking more or less of this ar-
ticle as a part of her store. Hence, there are other and more
important interests to be consulted " than the insignificant sel-
fish interests of a few gunpowder manufacturers."
Whenever the question comes to he agitated these interests
will find more defenders than either of your correspondents
dream of. If the question becomes one of law, the highest
court in the realm will have to deride it; if it engage the alien- ,
tion of the legislature I will take care that its merits shall be ;
properly understood, and they who commenced the work of
agitation will have to bear the consequences. If they untenant '
their houses by their own unwise proceedings the fault lies not
at my door.
Buraanitas has kindly prescribed for me a drench of the
Meicury, but I reply that my thirst for knowledge is not so
. great as to induce me. to swallow the iinsings of that slop
pail
while a better beverage is to be had. With respect to tha ex-'
plosion at Peel Harbour I remember perfectly well, although
the vessel was aground, at the time, that not a single pine of
• glass was broken in the, town, and what is still more extraordi-
nary, the men who had the charge of her escaped, after seeing
what must inevitably happen, and by simply throwing them-
selves on the ground escaped uninjured. lam not so insane as
to advance so monstrous an absurdity as that gunpowder is not
a dangerous commodity. All that I contend for is that every
possible precaution is taken to guard against accidents, an as-
sertion proved by the fact that nothing of the kind has happened
at the Liecard Magazines since their establishment, or at any
other magazine within my knowledge. Private as well as pub-
lic considerations are a sufficient safeguard that no danger will
be needlessly incurred.
I have only to add in answer to the insinuation of A Requisi-
tionist that I am not a Cheshire man, do not possess a-single
foot of land in that county, and moreover, that I am neither a
lodger or inhabitant of Liverpool, although but very few days
pass in which I ani nit to be found during the hours of business
" where merchants most do congregate.' —I am, &c.,
CONSERVATOR.

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