The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

arious fact that the name of a street runninz

le of ti

v north docks, supplies, with ii
tters, the designation of the lat-
Llev Dock.

, a match came off
lub and the Oxton

of the former at Edgehill, which
of the latter. which scored 103

err opponer

urday, a seizure of no less than 4251b5. %eight
was made in a cellar in Lace-street. The
F the copper have been discovered, and four
I in possession have been sent to gaol for three

VNY LIND Al
Thursday

'HE COI

EGIATE INSTITU•
iguished cantatrice

Ineous concert, to be
Idditional attraction
Roger, the cele-
Signor Beletti,
ost fashionable

1, by the c

nt of Mons.
F. Lab'sell(

ncli tenor, Sig

is expe

!ver drawn together in Liverpool will be present.
E ROYAL.—MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL
rcE.—Mr. Simpson, the lessee of the Theatre
'vides us on Thursday night with an opportu-
'in hearing our veteran tragedian, previous to
re for the United States. The able services of
er are also retained. The plays will be Henry
and The Jealous Wife.

ITALIAN OPERAS AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL.
tention to the spirited effort making
to present to the inhabitants of

) direct at
. Aldrido

rpool a series or three grand Italian operas, by an en-
tnent which be has formed with the 1 lite of the
er ful company of the Royal Italian Opera House, Co-
garden. The pieces will be Norma, I Puritani, and,
he first time in Liverpool, Don Pasquali ; the nights
12th, 14th, and 15th instant. The orchestral and
r arrangements are of the first order.
OYAL AMPIIITHEATILE.—The lessee of this house is
ivied to be behind none of his contemporaries in cater-
for the public, and again presents us with first-rate
for the week.

Y SERMONS.—On Sunday week the Rev. D.
tched two sermons in Pemberton Church. On

ay thd Rev. W. Falloon preached two dis-
Rainhill Church, and the Rev. J. R. Conar
aro sermons in Blackrod Church, near Bolton.
ns were preached for the schools attached to

-On Thursday, the launch of a small it was perhaps a mischievous Measure, in attacking the
hip took place at the yard of Messrs. docks. (Hear.) He contended that that great estate
near the Brunswick Dock. The ought to pay local rates ; first of all, because it was a
.19S been built for Messrs. Pryde, Jones and trading company. It was not difficult to know what trade
e China trade, is 108 feet long aloft, 23 feet the Docks Committee were carrying on, but it was diffi-
'ships, and 18 feet in depth. Her burden is cult to know what trades they were not carrying on.
w measurement; and she is in structure all They were brickmakers, bricklayers, joiners, carpenters,
builder or an owner could desire. She was plasterers, coopers. porters, warehousekeepers, engineers,
blacksmiths, and he did not know what. Being a trading
-.l,urday an inquest was held on view company they ought to contribute to all the local rates,
of Ann Bogue, aged 33 years. Deceased as all the other tradesmen did. He said nothing about
.er husband, &id was found sitting on a stone the policy of the Dock Committee doing their work by
contract,. but he knew that the railway companies did
eof destitution in Longville-street. It appeared
had been incontinent, and had left her husband their work by contract, and he did not see why the Dock
. ago in consequence. She was taken to a cellar Committee should not do the same. (Hear.) He did
'et, and some brandy was given to her, and not see why tradesmen of the town should not come in
^,l- She had left her husband's house for a fair share of the work about the docks; but if the
She died on Wednesday Dock Committee were to become traders, competing with
tradesmen, they ought to compete on fair terms, for the
lER FATAL COLLISION.—The following, from the taxes amounted to 25 per cent. on the rent, and the dock
riters' Room, appeared in our 2d edition on Tues- estate should certainly pay that tax too. (Applause.)
—The Cosmopolitan, Maxwell, from Liverpool to The docks of Liverpool should be taxed, because, if the
present Dock Committee did not make the docks, other
aid St. Lawrence, Brown, from Liverpool to New
-ere in contact on Sunday, about 25 miles S.W. of people would, and there would be no difficulty in getting
ul. The crew of the Cosmopolitan, except one man rates from such property. Docks in every other town in
1, got on board the St. Lawrence, which afterwards England were subjected to local rates, and docks in this
I Kingstown, with damage to cutwater and loss of town ale. paid rates. The Mate', Dock paid local rates;
t. The Cosmopolitan, which immediately sunk, the Old Quay Dock Company, when it was existing, paid
dto Messrs. C. Horsfall and Son, and has been local rates; the Harrington Dock, when it belonged to a

finely-built si
iller and Co

ed the Naomi

)ti the Ist of

FERRY REGATTA
it intro

—A splendid regatta, under
ge of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club,

longed to the pock Tiusteesit did not pay rates. (Hear.)
There was so much unfairness in this preference to pro-

turday, at Rock Ferry

The weather was

the sport excE

Lent. anc

attendance

graCed the occasion

The Queen Of

to the local taxation. Besides, why should they, the
tradesmen of the town, be almost exclusively liable to the
support of the poor and the sewering of the streets, when
the merchants equally with them, derived advantage ? In
mentioning the names of two individuals, he wished not
to do so invidiously, because he had great respect for both
of those gentlemen, but it was necessary in illustration of
his subject. He would take the senior churchwarden as
a tradesman, and he would take the chairman of the Dock
Committee, as a merchant. The churchwarden was well
known as a tradesman of the town, and the presumption
was that the business of a tradesman was not so profitable
as the business of a large shipowner and merchant ; but
what

Ocean, selected as the flag-ship, gaily decked, was
ad near to the pier. Mr. T. Littledale and Mr.
acted as stewards; Vice-commodore Grindrod as
mpire. We give below the result of the contests of
ay :—The Mersey Plate, value twenty-five guineas,
Ton by Enigma, beating Hebe, Echo, and Ranger.
Wirral Purse was won by Ariel, beating Crusader
Ineen of the Dee. The Royal Rock Ferry Cup was
by Ariel, beating Earl and Crusader, club's boat.
Ladies' Stakes were won by Elfin, beating Nemesis.
Trial Stakes were won by Ariel, beating Crusader

and Belk

There were

us supplemental

was the amount these two gentlemen respectfully
contributed to the local rates ? Mr. Ferguson contributed
from £3O to £4O, 'and 'Mr. Bramley-Moore about £lO.
(Cheers.) As he before said, he did not mention the
names of these gentlemen invidiously, but they were about
correct samples of the classes to which they belonged, the
one ropresenting the shopkeepers and the other the wealthy
and influential merchants and shipowners. There were a
number of objections urged against the taxing of the
docks. They were told that they should not tax the
docks because there was no beneficial interest. But the
Dock Committee themselves had given up this point, in-
asmuch as they had allowed one part of their property,
the warehouses, to be subjected to local taxation. But
he believed the non-beneficial exemption was never in-
tended to apply to trading companies. It was only in-
tended to apply to churches and hospitals, places from

which no benefit was derived. He con'tendeClithere was a
profit to some one from the Liverpool docks. They were
told by Mr. Bramley-Moore and other gentlemen—advo-
cates of non-exemption—that, if they taxed the docks,
they taxed the trade. So they did. The shipowner and
merchant would have to pay a little more ; and conse-
quently, by their not being taxed, they put that money
into their pockets. (Applause.) They were told else-
where that this tax was objectionable, because it was a
tax on trade. All taxes were objectionable in themselves;
all taxes were taxes on trade. The manufacturers of
Manchester might as well say, " Don't tax the factories ;•
37,u know it is the source of all our trade. If the facto-
ries are shut up, what will become of the trade of Man-
chester ? Don't tax the factories !" (Applause.) That
would be a very convenient doctrine for the manufactu-
rers, but a very inconvenient one to the rest of the rate-
payers of Manchester. And so the doctrine propounded
here was a very profitable one to the merchant and ship-
owner, but a most expensive and unprofitable one to the
tradesman. Mr. Dover concluded an able speech by
showing that the decline of Bristol, as a port, was pro-
-1 .1

u cea aer causes than high charges, and that althouah
there were no charges at all at Birkenhead, vessels would
not go there. He declared it to be a breeches-pocket
question, and that the Ist of November must decide it.

Mr. JOHN SMITH, in moving the second resolution, ex-
pressed the opinion that the commerce of the port would
neither be increased nor decreased by a diffusion of the
pressure of the local rates. At present the pressure fell
on fewer shoulders than ought to bear it ; and it could
not be supposed that any disadvantage of a charge on dock
rates would not be compensated by the diminished charge
upon those who supplied ships and sailors with different
articles ; for, if those parties paid less rates, they could
work more cheaply. ( Hear, hear.) He advocated the
proposed charge on the ground that it would induce
economy, and diminish the expenditure in which our pub-
lic men indulged, because it afforded them the opportu-
nity of bestowing patronage and fortune, on favoured in-
dividuals, at the public cost. (Cheers.)
Mr. RICHARD JOHNSON seconded the motion.
Mr. WILLIAM MANN said, as a member of the Dock
Committee, he would not listen to an observation in the
report impugning the honesty of the deputation from the
Dock Com nittee who were in parliament at the time Mr.
Ferguson with the parties with him came up. He ap-
pealed to that gentleman whether. when he came up, he
did not find the Chairman of the Dock Committee and the
deputation honestly endeavouring to pass the clause giving
them power to pay the local taxes on the warehouses.
He (Mr. Mann) was always in favour of the warehouses
being taxed, and, as one of the deputation, he was
pressing honestly, and with all integrity, passing of
that clause, and every endeavour was made to have that
clause passed by getting the standing orders suspended.
With regard to what had fallen from Mr. Dover as to the
filling of the committee room with secretaries and other
officers connected with the Do 'k estate, the Dock Com-
mittee were not in parliament for the purpose of spending
the public money. The Dock Committee were in parlia-
ment to protect the rights of the Dock Estate from those
on the other side, who tried to take away the rates, and
also to obtain additional dock space for the accommoda-
tion of a trade which was threatened to be taken away
from the town, if sufficient space had not been afforded to
it.

Mr. FERGUSON said that at the Easter Vestry an
attempt hai been made to foist on them a proviso. If
they had acceded in public Vestry, that proviso would
have bet n adopted ; but, finding the Vestry decidedly
opposed to the proviso then, he had no hesitation in saying
that the deputation to London from the Dock Com,
mittee proceeded vigorously to obtain the suspension of
the standing orders. If the Vestry had acquiesced in the
proviso, they might depend upon it no exertioS wonhl