The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

PUBLIC-HOUSE TO BE LET.

MO be LET, with immediate possession, a PUBLIC-
HOUSE,]. having an extensiv onnexion, situate in the
centre of the town. Rent - . ncoming
For particulars ap Jon N WHITE, 19, Clayton-square.

rURNISHED HOUSE to be LET, at AIGBURTH,
near Lawrence's Hotel, containing Three Entertaining-
rooms, Seven Bed-rooms, Dressi m and Bath-room, &c. ;
Kitchens on Ground Floor • e lent Garden attached.
For partieulars appl . WATEERHOUS, No. 5, Tithebarn-
street.

MO be LET, EVERTON LODGE, with Outbuild-
ings, Garden, and Hothouse, at present in the occupation
of Mr. Cazenove ; Two HOUSES, in York-terrace, Everton ;
the Furnished HOUSE, No. I, Montpellier-crescent, New
Brighton ; Double and Sin ES, and a very large
UPPER ROOM and a C R, in Atherton's-buildings, Dale-
street; Double OFF , in Exchange-street East ; an OFFICE
and CELLAR, in o. ;4, Goree-piazzas.
Apply to WILLIAM ATHERTON.

BEBINGTON COTTAGE, NEW FERRY.
TO be LET, the above beautifully-situated detached
RESIDENCE, containing Dining and Drawing-rooms,
Five Bed-rooms, Dressing-room, and Servants'-rooms, Kitchens,
Back Kitchen, and Water Closet ; ailed Stables, Coach-
house, and Cow-house; toge .ith Garden, &c.
Bebington Cottage is ted between the Rock Ferry Pier
and Bebington Sta ' , eing a short ten minutes' walk from
either point.

Will-be let for a term of years.—For particulars apply to
WILLIAM AYRTON, Wine-merchant, Chester.

AT a PUBLIC MEETING of the INHABITANTS
of the BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL, convened by the
Mayor, in pursuance of a Requisition, and held in the Ses-
sions-house, on TUESDAY. the 13th da June, 1848, " For
the purpose of considering the 1 SURES of the GO-
VERNMENT in connexio ith our WEST and EAST
INDIAN SUGAR CO S, and how far they have been
effective in carrying t the VIEWS contemplated by the
SLAVERY A BOL ON ACTS; and also to consider the ex-
pediency of giving our approval and support to the Resolutions
recently moved and carried in reference thereto by our Member,
Sir THOMAS B. BIRCH, in Committee of the House of
Commons,"

THOMAS B. HORSFALL, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair ;
It was moved by F. SHAND, Lsq., seconded by CHARLES
LAWRENCE, Esq.,
I.—That the Imperial Parliament, in passing the Emancipa-
tion Act in 1833, pledged the national faith to the honest and
effectual working out of that act, with a due regard to the
maintenance of our Colonial Property and the encouragement
of Free Labour in our Colonial Possessions.

Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by WILLIAM
RATHBONE, Esq., seconded by CHARLES HOLLAND. Esq.,
That the experiment of emancipation has been crowned with
a most gratifying degree of success in so far as concerns the
condition of the black population of our Colonies, comprising
nine-tenths of the whole; that the neglect of improvement in
the mode of cultivation and management, the extensive preva-
lence of absenteeism, the want of sufficient capital, together
with the injudicious treatment of labourers, both during the
period of apprenticeship and since its termination, are some of
the palpable and direct causes of the present depression of these
Colonies; that a return to the system of protection would con-
stitute a virtual acknowledgment that the labour of Bondmen
is more profitable than that of Freemen, thus affording to other
nations a plausible reason for adhering to Slavery.
And the motion and amendment being put from the chair,
the originakfttion was declared to be earned.
It was moved by ADAM HODGSON, Esq., seconded by the
Rev. THOMAS NOLAN,
2.—That the course of legislation pursued since the passing
of the Act of 1846 has been such as to prevent the attainment
of the objects contemplated by it—to destroy our Colonies, to
aggravate Slavery in Foreign Countries, and to stimulate the
Slave Trade.

Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by THOMAS
THORNELY, Esq., M.P., seconded by CHARLES ROBERTSON,
Esq.
That inasmuch as the most eminent public men of our own
and former times—supported by the all but unanimous voice
of the country—have pronounced monopoly to be in the highest
degree detrimental to the classes for whose benefit it is im-
posed, as well as to those from the fruits of whose industry this
unrighteous exaction is levied—this Meeting protests against
the proposition recently made by a Committee of the House of
Commons for maintaining, during the next six years, a differ-
ential duty in favour of ritish Plantation Sugars of 10s. per
cwt., which on the quantity imported thence in 1847, would be
equal to a tax on the community of no less than £2,400,000 per
annum, for the benefit of the Monopolists, and to a loss to the
Exchequer, by the reduction of the duty from fourteen to ten
shillings, without any compensating advantage, of .4'960,000
per annum.
And the motion and amendment being put from the chair,
the original motion was declared to be carried.

It was moved by the Rev. Huai.' MWEILE, D.D., seconded
by CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL, Esq.?
3.—That this Meeting highly disapproves of legislation so
much at variance with British justice, British consistency, and
British honour; and implores her Majesty's government to
adopt such measures as shall carry out the original intentions
of the Emancipation Act.
Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by WILLIAM
BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded by H. K. CLAYPOLE, Esq.,
That, although the return from a vicious to a sound system
of legislation must necessarily affect at first the interests of
those who have profited by the continuance of such a system,
this Meeting does not consider that either this result, or the
existence of any restrictions on the trade of the West Indies,
are reasons why the industrious classes of this country should
be taxed for the support of the colonial interest; and would
further express its opinion, that any restrictions now pressing
on the trade or industry of the colonists, if such there be,
should be forthwith removed.

And the motion and amendment having been put from the
chair, the original motion was declared to be carried.
It was moved by HAROLD LITTLEDALE, Esq., seconded by
_ _

4.—That this Meeting considers the plan proposed by Sir
Thomas Birch, and recommended by the Select Committee on
Sugar and Coffee Planting, well calculated to promote that ob-
ject, to prevent the immeiate and otherwise Inevitable aban
donment of the maj9rity. of the West India estates, and to
secure time for bringing into operation the intended measures
of relief, do adopt the following Petition i—
"To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
." The humble Petition of the Merchants, Tradesmen, and

others at the Port of Liverpool.
" Showeth,—That when the Imperial Parliament, in 1833,
passed the act for the abolition of slavery throughout the Bri-
tish Colonies, the national faith was pledged to the honest and
efficient working out of that act, with a due regard to the
maintenance of colonial property, and the encouragement of
free labour in those possessions.
" That the course pursued by the Imperial Parliament, since
the passing of that act, has been such as to prevent the attain-
ment of the objects contemplated—to destroy the Colonies—
to aggravate Slavery in Foreign Countries, and to stimulate the
Slave Trade.

" That your Petitioners deeply lament that a course should
have been pursued so much at variance with British justice,
British consistency, and British honour.
" That your Petitioners consider the plan recommended by
the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting well calcu-
lated to promote the original intentions of the Abolition Act
to prevent the immediate and otherwise inevitable abandon-
ment of the majority of Colonial Sugar Estates, and to secure
time for bringing into operation the intended measures of
relief.'

" Your Petitioners, therefore, pray that your Honourable
House will adopt such measures as shall preserve the Colonies
from destruction, and as shall carry out, with full integrity,
the original objects contemplated by the Legislature in passing
the Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British
Colonies.

" And your Petitioners, &c."
Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by JOHN
TAYLOR, Esq., seconded by APLEAN, Esq., that the follow-
in" Petition be adopted :
" That in the distressed state of the Commerce and Manu-
factures of the British Islands, a great and immediate abate-
ment of Taxation is required; and that the entire abrogation
of the duties on Sugar appears to this Meeting an advantageous
and necessary measure.
" That the admission into this country of slave-grown sugar
for home use is inconsistent with justice, as it aids a system
of robbery from men of their dearest rights.
" That the project of the transfer of Africans to the West
Indian Islands, under the pretext of providing free labour,
would be in reality a revival of the Slave Trade, acknowleged
to have been and to be the greatest public enormity in wicked-
ness ever perpetrated by man, and that the project ought not
to receive sanction or countenance in any way from the British
Legislature."

And the question being put from the chair, the original
Petition was declared to be adopted.
Resolreda—That the Mayor be requested to sign the Petition
on behalf of the Meeting, and to forward the same to the
Members of the Borough for presentation to the House of
Commons.

THOS. B. HORSPALL, Mayor.
It was moved by Was. BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded by
JOSEPH B. YATES, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously,—That the best thanks of this Meeting
be given to the Mayor for the courtesy and impartiality with
which he has presided over tbis Meeting.