The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are compelled to postpone one or two lengthened reviews until next week. Ebe Zibtf43ool &tanbari). TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1849. THE ability of Sir Robert Peel, as a parliamen tary gladiator, has always been more remarkable than his wisdom, and consistency, as a statesman. Never, during the course of a long career in his favourite arena, the House of Commons, was the former quality more eminently displayed than in his speech, on Friday night, on Mr. Disraeli's motion on the state of the nation. Sir Robert ex hausted the question on the side of Free Trade. If our present policy was capable of defence—if the public; could be blinded to the evidence; daily presented to their own eyes, of its utter failure — his consummate tact and ingenuity, would effect the object. Happily for the cause of truth, how ever, even his talent cannot distort facts, and twist reasoning, without the disengenuousness being detected. We shall briefly direct the attention of our readers to a few portions of this great effort, in which we conceive are false statements, and con clusions, which completely undermine the imposing fabric, which the ingenious architect persuades himself that he has erected upon them. _ _ Sir Robert maintains that Free Trade has had nothing to do with the existing and recent suffer ing amongst the commercial and industrial classes ; and especially that free-trade in corn can have had no such effect, even upon the agricultural interests, because the Corn Laws were in existence up to Feb ruary in the present year. He maintains also that the more we import of foreign food and luxuries the better it is for the national weal. We must in fairness, however, quote his own words. He says, with respect to ris first position : _ _ _ " And now observe, with respect to the repeal of the corn law, that did not take place until the Ist of February, 1849, (hear, hear)—and from necessity, in 1847 you repealed the duties, and the hon. member for Dersetshire seconded the motion for their repeal. But during nearly the whole of 1848 you had a duty of about Bs. or 10s. on foreign corn, and, consequently, if there have ensued any evil effects from the repeal of the corn law, you cannot date them from an earlier period than the Ist of Feb., 1849; and the protection. as long as you thought it, expe dient to retain it, lasted up to the Ist of February, 1849." (Hear, hear.) It is very eisingenuous to urge this admitted fact upon us, and to omit another, viz., that dur ing a portion of this period the Corn Laws were practically abolished. Our ports were thrown open ; and we had introduced into the country grain to the value of thirty millions sterling, for which we paid in gold. Had that foretaste of Free Trade in corn no influence in producing commercial and industrial suffering ? We can all remember its result in the annihilation of millions of the realized property of the nation; the prostration of trade; panic, bankruptcy, and universal distress, from which at this moment we are only slowly recover ing. Sir Robert proceeds to his next point, viz., to show that increased imports must of necessity benefit the country. He says :-- " 1 challenge you to show me in what it is possible that the free trade introduced into the tariff can have caused the distress of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Let us refer to the official value of the imports into Great Britain in 1848, and compare it with that of 1846. In the latter year the official value of the imports was £73,000,000, and the official value of 1848 was £89,000,000. Some con tend that it is the amount of imports, without any corre sponding amount of exports, which has caused the de pression of industry in this country. Let us then analyze these imports, and consider of what this tariff consists. I divide it into three great branches. First, I take the articles of consumption—the food, the luxuries—the articles which the people eat and drink. I next take the raw materials, and next the manufactured goods. Your argument is that the amount of the manufactured goods which under the operation of free trade have been im ported into this country has interfered with domestic industry, and caused many laborious and industrious per sons to lose their trade. Let us divide the imports of 1848, amounting in value to £89,000,600, into the heads I have referred to—viz., articles of consumption, raw materials, and manufactured goods. The amount in official value of the articles of consumption imported was not less than £32,500,000. Will any man tell me that be grudges the payment of any one single pound of that money for articles of consumption ?—(Hear.) What have those articles been done with ? (Hear, hear.) They have been imported, they have been paid for, and they have been eaten by some one or other.—(Cheers.) Can you deny any one of these three propositions, that the articles in question have been imported, paid for, and consumed ?—(Hear, bear.) And how paid for ? By gold, I suppose I shall be told.—(Hear, hear.) It has been argued that if you permit these free imports there will be a great derangement of the currency ; that the foreigner will not take our manufactured goods in return, but will insist on payment in gold, and consequently the currency will be disturbed ; the reserve in the bank will be with drawn, and there will be a constant and enormous exhaust ing process going forward. There will be imports, it is true; but, as a necessary consequence of those extrava gant imports, there will be a constant exportation of gold, and an appreciation of the currency. But the bank bad at that time ten millions of gold, and now it has fifteen millions. How happens it then that, concurrently with this great increase of imports, there has been, at the same time, no diminution of gold ; but, in consequence of the state of the exchanges, an accumulation, an increase of gold ?" . . _ Let us test this argument. We imported in 1848 in money value £16,000,000 more than in 1846. Sir Robert justly contemplates that he will be reminded that these products were paid for in gold. Was the process an innocuous one? Why, it cost us to pay these sixteen millions, which were temporarily abstracted from our currency, a sacrifice of a hun dred or two millions. It swept away a third from the marketable value of every railway share, every mine, every farm, and other description of property and produce in the kingdom. It threw the banker, the merchant, the small trader, and the artizan into one common mass of suffering and confusion. But the gold ultimately came back again, we are told. "The bank had in 1846 ten millions in gold, and now it has fifteen millions." In October 1847, however, the bank had little more than one million ; and was within 24 hours of insolvency. All Threadneedle Street would have been appealed to in vain to discount Sir Robert's own acceptance. Now, we have got the gold back, however; but by what process ? We have had to give five and twenty shillings in British labour for every sovereign ! We have been compelled to " slaughter" our goods in every foreign market to bring back this precious metal. It has come to us to be invested in our depreciated funds and railway shares. Even the disturbances on the Continent, which are urged as having caused a large portion of the national suf fering, have aided us in restoring the equilibrium of our disturbed currency. The worthy baronet proceeds in the jocular line : " Who have consumed this £32,500,000 worth of eatable and drinkable materials ? (Hear, hear.) Who grudges the expenditure? Has there been any case of surfeit? (Cheers and laughter.) Ts the cholera attributable to that consumption, or have disease and sufferin g been entailed in consequence of this increase of imports? (Hear, hear.) I believe not ; but, on the contrary, I believe that the whole of these imports and the consumption of them have contributed to tl.e material comfort of the people. and that it would have been a public misfortune if this £32,000.000 worth of imports had been by any process reduced to £22,000,000 or £25,000,000 worth. (Cheers.)" The reductio ad absurdum is palpable here. The potato rot, which compelled us to import more grain, was a benefit after all ! A man to be com fortable ought not to grow his own cabbages, but buy them from the greengrocer. We proceed now to an instance of Sir Robert's unfair mode of treating his case, or rather of mis representing that of his opponent. He remarks : " It is said, we cannot fight hostile tariffs with free im ports. That is an epigrammatic way of stating the case. But the hon. gentleman, the rember for Buckinghamshire, says also, that the only way we can encounter hostile tariffs is by countervailing duties. Let me dispassionately and closely examine this position. If it applies to this country, it may apply to Russia, France, and the United States as well. Take the United States. The United States im poses duties on our manufactures, say 20 per cent. on our cotton goods ; and, admitting that we maintain a not very successful competition in the markets of the United States, what course are we to take ? We must, it is said, have countervailing duties on America. Would it be wise to have a high duty on raw cotton ? (Cheers.) What good should we gain ? The complaint is on the part of the English cotton manufacturer. He says, ' I meet the United States manufacturer in neutral markets I meet him in his own market ; but in the neutral markets I ma i n t a i n my ground. What is the course I should take ? Impose countervailing duties on the produce of America' —that is, chiefly on raw materials, and no doubt cotton will be among the foremost. Will you tell me how you favour the manufacturer by imposing a duty upon his cotton ?" Did any man, the most ultra among the protec tionists, ever dream of retaliating upon America by taxing the only article of hers which we cannot do without ? Sir Robert must have known that he was here fighting with a shadow of his own creation ; and he is little more ingenuous in the following application of the doctrines of political economy to the case of the agriculturist : " Dr. Adam Smith illustrates the great truths of poli tical economy by the case of individuals. He says the tailor does not make his own shoes. but finds it more con y( nient to buy them from a man who can make them bet ter *Di cheaper than he. Nor does the shoemaker make his own clothes, but he takes them from the tailor. Let us take two individuals living in the same town. Take a tailor and a shoemaker. Supposing the shoemaker deter mines to levy from the tailor a certain amount of goods which is represented by 10s. What are the 103. ? They merely represent hours of labour. Instead of 103. call them hours of labour. The labour of an hour is worth Is. The tailor can make goods which are worth 10s. ; the shoemakee cah make certain goods which are worth 10s. But each of them could buy the same goods in a neighbouring town for 7s. You say they live in the same town and they are to deal together. If the shoemaker pays 10s. for that which he might obtain for 75., and if the tailor pays 10s. for that which he might obtain for 75., is there not positively a loss of 6s. by that transaction ? (Cheers.) If the shillings represented hours, is there not a loss of six hours' labour? (Cheers.' Would it not be manifestly for the interest of the parties to appropriate seven hours of labour to buy from the stranger that for which they are giving 10s., or 10 hours' labour; and would they not do it ?" The tailor does not make his own shoes, of course; but what should we think of him if he bought his own coat, paid for it with his goose and sleeve hoard, and then proceeded to sell his bedstead to r . ret them back again ? We should think the tailor a fool ; and yet that is precisely what we are doing with our free trade and Sir Robert's restricted currency. Again, take the case of the two parties. The tailor makes a waistcoat for ten shillings, and the shoemaker a pair of boots for ten shillings, and they exchange. It makes no matter here whether the articles are worth ten shillings each, or ten pounds each. You exchange a given quantity of labour, which we are glad to see Sir Robert adept as the true standard of value. But suppose the tailor buys his boots at the next town for seven shillings, how is the shoemaker to pay the tailor for his waistcoat? Suppose each goes to the shop which can undersell his neigh bour, has not each taken seven shillings out of his stock of money ? Sir Robert says, however, " Would it not be manifestly for the interest of the parties to appropriate seven hours of labour to buy from the stranger that for which they are giving ten shillings or ten hours labour; and would they not do it ?" What they could labour at it puzzles us to imagine, when each was being undersold in the cheap town. Each would first have to find somebody to buy his overdear article. Neither at present can make a ten shilling article in less than ten hours; and Sir Robert has not given us the process by which either can make the same article in seven hours. Apply the same test to the cur rency part of the question. Both these tradesmen take their money to the next town. How are they to get it back again, if the next town will not buy their commodities ? Obviously they must come down to the next town's price. They must take less for their labour, or part with their capital. Sir Robert says:— " But it is said that under a system which is not pro tective all the currency of the country would be taken away. Don't you believe that the town will retain all the currency which answers to its purpose, that no inconve nient abstraction of currency is necessary, but that the interest of each party will be promoted by purchasing in the cheapest markt (Wear, hear) the articles for which they have a demand ?" How such a town is to retain its currency under such circumstances it is rather difficult to conceive. Apply the test, however, to the case of the agri culturist. He cannot grow so cheaply as the com munity can buy elsewhere. Obviously he cannot go himself tothe cheap market, for he has no other occupation to which he can divert his labour, to provid himself with the money required. He is completely in a fix, from which even Sir Robert will find difficulty in telling him how to extricate himself. One passage of this laboured effort shows an extraordinary confusion of mind on a subject, upon which we should have expected from him clearly stated views. " I say that the wider you extend your principle of protection, the greater injury you will inflict on the na tional wealth and on the interests of the people. (Cheers.) Surely the capital of the country is a fund from which the industry of the country must be maintained. Surely the industry of the country must be promoted in propor tion to the capital which can be employed in its manufac= tures. Surely the augmentation of capital, as our popu lation increases, must depend on the saving of annual revenue. (Cheers.) If you choose to give for certain articles produced at home more than you can purchase that article for if it is to be brought from abroad, is it not a diminution of your annual revenue? (Cheers.)" What is meant by maintaining the industry of a country upon its capital, or by the augmentation of capital by the saving of annual " revenue," is not very clear. We presume, however, that the industry is to be employed by the devotion of capital to the spread of manufactures; and, if so, why not to the promotion of its native agriculture, its shipping, colonial and other interests ? Have we added to the national capital by the sacrifice of our sugar colonies, or the blows which we have dealt upon every branch of industry ? What is meant by the expression "annual revenue" we are at a loss to know. If, however, it mean the yearly addition to the national stock, we deny Sir Robert's assumption entirely. Particular classes may com plain of injury from being compelled to employ British labour, and to consume British products, instead of being allowed to resort to the cheap markets of the foreigner; but it is obvious that the more we grow and produce at home, and the more we sell to, and the less we buy from, the foreigner, the snore rapid will be the growth of the national wealth. OUR attention has been drawn to a paragraph in last Saturday's Chronicle, reflecting injuriously upon a most respected townsman, Mr. R. W. Preston, in his capacity as Chairman of the Floral Committee for the coming fete in the Prince's Park. The writer of the article in question in dulges in the grossest misrepresentation, as can be proved by every member of the committee. Mr. Preston is one of the most efficient men who could possibly have been chosen for chairman, and to no member of the committee is greater credit due for in defatigable exertion and a devotion of his valuable time to the furtherance of the charitable objects of the fete. We are certain that our contemporary will be the first to regret having given insertion to the paragraph when we tell him that it has been most hurtful to Mr. Preston's feelings, and has nearly caused to the charity the loss of his very valuable services. The kind of source from which our contemporary has derived his information may be inferred from the following lines : " It is proposed that no prizes be given to the gardeners by whose extra exertions this part of the affair has to be got up." We should, on such an occasion as the present, have had no objection to such a course being adopted ; and greatly suspect that the objection has not come from the gardeners themselves, than whom a more respectable and intelligent body of men does not exist, but rather from some of that class of gentlemen who grow fruit and flowers more for St. John's Market that for their own tables, and ask the public to contribute, by giving prizes, to the remuneration of their gardeners, for these extra exertions by which they themselves profit. It is not the fact, however, that "no prizes are to be given," as the following decision of the committee sufficiently proves : " The Floral Committee have determined that three tents shall be provided for the floral exhibition; the first and largest for the general exhibition, the second for the sale of plants, bouquets, &c„ and the third for the show of plants for competition. The plants are to be exhibited in three classes :—namely, first class, orchideze ; second, stove atid greenhouse; third, miscellaneous. The follow ing are the other resolutions of the committee : "That a prize of £4 be given for the best collection of six plants in class one ; and a prize of £2 for the best collection of four plants in the same class. That a prize of £4 be given for the best collection of ten plants in class two ; and of £2 for the best collection of six plants in the same class. That a prize of £4 be given for the best collection of eighteen plants in class three ; and of £2 for the best collection of ten plants in the same class.' " It is really a pity that parties so ill acquainted, as our contemporary's informant appears to have been, of the proceedings of the Floral Committee, should be allowed to take an occasion like this, in which men of all parties are working harmoniously together for a most worthy object, to introduce dis cord and indulge in ill-feeling; and, we repeat, we are satisfied that our contemporary has been mis led on this subject. We remember, a few years ago, a very striking illustration of the danger to a nation, from its being dependant upon an extrinsic source for fond, being given from Holy Writ, in one of those splen did speeches delivered by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile during the progress of the Anti-Corn Law agita tion. The argument was taken from the following verse, the 20th of the 12th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. "And Herod was mightily di§pleased with them of Tyre and Sidon : but they came with one accord to him, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace, be cause their country was nourished by the king's country." These great marts of commerce, whose fleets and argosies were on every sea, and whose wealth and luxuries were drawn from every clime, had no agriculture ; were dependant upon another land for the food of their people; and were compelled to sue for the favour of Herod to preserve their very existence. They are now swept away; and their very locality unknown to nine-tenths of mankind. The same danger to Great Britain herself is adverted to by the writer of an able article in this month's Blackwood. " Assuming it, then, as certain that, under the free trade system, the importation of grain is to be constantly from a third to a fourth of the annual consumption, the two points to be considered are, how is the national independence to be maintained, or incessant commercial crises averted, under the new system ? These are ques tions on which it will become every inhabitant of the Bri tish islands to ponder; for on them, not only the inde pendence of his country, but the private fortune of him self and his children, is entirely dependent. If so large a portion as a third or a fourth of the annual subsistence is imported almost entirely from three countries, Russia, Prussia, and America, how are we to withstand the hos tility of these states ? Prussia, in the long run, is under the influence of Russia, and follows her system of policy. The nations on whom we depend for so large a part of our food are thus practically reduced to two, viz., Russia and America—what is to hinder them from coalescing to effect our ruin, as they practically did in 1800 and 1811, against the independence of England ? Not a shot would require to be fired, not a loan contracted. The simple threat of closing their harbours would at once drive us to submission. Importing a third of oar food from these two states, to what famine-price would the closing of their harbours speedily raise its cost ! The failure of £15,000,000 worth of potatoes in 1847—scarce a twentieth part of the annual agricultural produce of these islands, which is about £3oo,ooo,ooo,—raised the price of wheat, in 1848, from 60s. to 110 s.—what would the sudden stoppage of a third do ? Why, it would raise wheat to 150 s. or 200 s. a-quarter—in other wordq, to famine-prices—and inevi tably induce general rebellion, and compel national sub mission. After the lapse of fifteen centuries, we should again realise, after similar Eastern triumphs, the mourn ful picture of the famine in Rome, described by the poet Claudian, from the stoppage of the wonted supplies of grain from the two granaries of the empire, Egypt and Lybia, by the effect of the Gildonic war. But the know ledge of so terrible a catastrophe impending over the nation would probably prevent the collision. England would capitulate while yet it had some food left, on the first summons from its imperious grain-producing masters." Add to the danger of such a contingency as this the . too probable alienation of our American colonies, and the destruction of our present over whelming supremacy as a maritime power, by our transfer of the carrying trade to the shipping of the foreigner, and our possible position is full of matter for serious fear. Already we are perilled by our dependance upon a rival country for the supply of the greater portion of the most important staple of our manufactures. For the last twenty years no British statesman has contemplated the consequences of a rupture with the United States with very complacent feelings. The withdrawal of the supplies of cotton from the mills of our great manufacturing towns for a few months would of itself plunge the whole kingdom into confusion, which would be infinitely increased by the with holding of a necessary supply of food. WHATEVER the result of the step taken by Baron Rothschild, as regards his future relation to the electors of the City of London may be, the events of last Monday and Tuesday repeat a thrice told moral: the modern Babylon is anything but Christian. The mass of the population of Lon don know as little and care as much about the con cerns of religion as the people of the interior of Africa, or any other heathens. It is mere trash to assert that their views are not confined in choosing a parliamentary representative to men of their own creed, from the conviction that religion has nothing to do in the affairs of the " Houses." They who laud the liberality of the Londoners know well that religion of any description is practically un known to them. If Christianity is anything it is of paramount importance, and must weigh in the prosecution of national onjects : it is absurd to contend that the people may be sincere Christians, while the law-makers are of any or no religion, as the case may be. But it is unnecessary to take up space in advancing arguments to show that no sincere body of Christians could choose a Jew as their parliamentary representative. This will be at once acknowledged. The extreme rigour of indi vidual christianity is supposed to relax in large bodies, and soften down to a simple profession of creed. If this be true, it is a lamentable truth that on the low ground of consistency ought not to be acknowledged. But in fact no such sophis try is assumed in favour of the electors of London. Religion is despised rather than courted in the metropolis, no occasion is allowed to pass where it may be scoffed and reviled : the church is regarded as a cunning invention and her pastors as wolves in sheep's clothing. It is a melancholy truth, but nevertheless an evident one, that the population of the metropolis is fast assimilating in taste and cha racter to that of Paris, which is nothing less than a hideous mass of infidelity. It is indeed time after such evidences as have lately been given of the tendency to atheism for good men to bestir themselves. The work of religious teaching is yet scarcely begun, notwithstanding the great efforts lately made. All great masses of men, left to themselves, continue unbelievers, and as such will eventually aid the enemies of Christianity. This lesson has been read to us by the frequent acts of the metropolitan constituency; it behoves us to guard our own and other swelling communities against the pit-fall, by assisting our clergy in their benevolent endeavours to make provision for the religious instruction of the masses. OFFICIAL STATISTICS CONDEMNED BY A HIGH AUTHORITY. There is no member of Parliament who has been more in the habit of making use of official statistics to bear out his views than Sir Robert Peel. Assail his policy upon any point, and he has always tried to overwhelm his op ponents with official documents. But Sir Robert can manage to throw them overboard when their statements do not suit him. Mr. Disraeli, in his splendid speech on Monday night last referred to the fact that there had been a falling off in the declared value of our exports last year, as compared with the average of 1845 and 1846, of £6,500,000; and contended that it spewed that we had received this amount less for the labour of our Deputation in 1848. The conclusion is a natural one making some allowance for the cheapening of imported raw materials; but Sir Robert demurred to the evidence. " Nothing can be more fallacious," he says, " than any inference drawn from a falling off in the declared value of manufactures exported." We suspect that he would not have objected to the evidence had it shewn an increase. We should have had it paraded in all the pomp of statesmanship as an unanswerable proof of the wisdom of his measures. LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION. We have great pleasure in stating that a most satisfactory progress has been made, greater even thaw might have been anticipated, in the formation of an institution for governesses in Liverpool and the northern districts. This object has received the cordial support of many of the noble and leading families in the neighbourhood, as well as of the town ; and we have no doubt that, by a little more continued and united exertion, this great object will be speedily and efficiently attained. Amongst other let ters promising patronage and support, the following has been reeeived from our venerable and highly esteemed neighbour, Lord Skelmersdale:— Portland-place Linden, June 26, ISO. " Si 11,-i have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th inst., which was addressed tome at Latham, together with a lecture delivered by you on the subject of a proposed Institu tion for Governesses at Liverpool, but which by some accident did not reach me till a few days ago. I would not write to thank you till I could add to my . thanks the expression of my appro bation of your lecture, which I have read with great interest, and am glad to find that the cause of so deserving a class of so ciety as that of the governesses has been taken up, and so ably and feelingly supported and brought into public notice. " I shall have much pleasure in accepting the honourof being one of the patrons of the society, and in promoting the fur therance of the plan which you have proposed, for the town and port of Liverpool. But I live too far from it to be able to give much personal attention to it, and I am at too advanced a time of life, and too severely afflicted with extreme deafness to be of much service to so good a cause. " 1 hope to be in Lancashire before long > and as I shall hope to see my friend Archdeacon Brooks soon, 1: shall be glad to com municate with him on the subject. I heartily hope that the plan will succeed to the utmost of your wishes, and I do not doubt it from the character which Liverpool has always deser vedly borne on all subjects connected with charity. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient Servant,. " SKELMERSDALE. "W. H. Bainbrigge, Esq." ST. SILAS. CHURCH.—This church will be reopened, we understand, after being thoroughly repainted and otherwise improved, on Sunday week, the 22nd instant, when sermons will be preached in aid of the schools in connection with the church. In the morning the Rev. W. W. Ewbank will occupy the pulpit, and in the even ing the Rev. Thomas Nolan. THE QUEEN'S VISIT.—The loving brotherhood of the Dublin Corporation had a special meeting on Friday, to take into consideration the letter of Sir George Grey, in relation to the intended visit of her Majesty, with its fore-shadowings of baronetcies, and the other good things which were almost of necessity to follow in its train. The address of congratulation was proposed by a red-hot Repealer, and upon a Conservative devolved the honour of seconding the motion. So far all went smooth and merry—the Lord Mayor (Mr. —a slip of the pen was nearly writing it " Sir"—Timothy O'Brien) all smiles and condescension, when the harmony was interrupted by an unlucky wight named Loughnan, who, wandering from the question before the chair, commenced an attack on the Whig Ministry for their " paltry grant of 4:50 1 000 for the relief of Irish distress." THE LIVERPOOL sitiiiiiiiiii. THE INFALLIBLE DR. HAWTHORN. The Mercury has found a coadjutor in puffing the infallible treatment of cholera by Dr. Hawthorn. Mr. John Bigham communicates a case in Friday's publication, in which the doctor was called in to a party, whom he succeeded in curing after being attacked for twelve hours, given up by two medical men, one of them a parish doctor, and was believed to be in a dying state. The facts of the case this gentleman offers to guarantee ; and says, " the patient himself (a young man about twenty-five years of age, whose address he offers to give) is now gradually re covering, not from the effects of cholera, but from the excessive dose of mercury poured into him from the two gentlemen who first attended." - We have no doubt then, in appealing to the Select Vestry to employ Doctor Hawthorn, Mr. Bight= feels that he is doing an act of duty ; and our contemporary no doubt feels the same when announcing week after week that the doctor has had so many cases, and no deaths. But is it a fact that ho cures every case to which he is called ? It is not. We can prove one instance of failure. which we only mention because Dr. Hawthorn's treat ment bas now become matter of public comment. The week before last he was called to a young gentle man, an American, temporarily residing at Seacombe. The party in question crossed from Liverpool in the half past four or five o'clock boat ; was attacked shortly after arriving. He was attended by Dr. Halliday, of Seacombe, by whom other advice was promptly sent for. Dr. Vose came across at half-past seven o'clock, and by the request of the young man's friends Dr. Hawthorn came over at eight o'clock. The two former gentlemen had given the usual medicines and applications; and they explained to Dr. Hawthorn their treatment, and asked him what he would do. He mentioned what would be his treatment; but Messrs. Halliday and Vose declined being responsible for giving the large doses of opium on which Dr. Haw thorn relies ; but offered to give the case up entirely into his hands. They appealed to him as a Christian man that, as be said he could cure Asiatic cholera, he should save the life of this young gentleman. He resisted their in treaties, however, and left the house. The patient ex pired in the course of the night. What is the inference to be drawn from this refusal. We are informed that it was a bad case; but if Dr. Haw thorn is to pick his own cases, to decline engaging with bad cases, to stipulate that he must always be the first to be called in, and that no one is to prescribe until he is present himself, the wonder at his alleged great success ceases. Hundreds of slight cases, in which the premo nitory symptoms are only to be dealt with, but which might assume the form of cholera, are cured daily by the regular me.lical practitioners of the town, many of whom could, with equal truth with himself, assert that they had so many cases, and all recoveries. THE COTTON TRADE. PROBABLE STOCK ON HAND IN THE KINGDOM ON THE 30TH JUNE, 1850. To our last pthlication we offered some remarks and statistical calculations as to the turn the Cotton market would be likely to talce during the next few months, in the course of which we estimated that the stock in this port on the 31st Dec. next would not exceed 390,000 bales of all descriptions, and we are gratified to find that this and our other estimates and conclusions were considered moderately drawn by both importers and consumers. Our attention has since been called to an article which appeared in the Manchester Examiner and Times of Wednesday last, headed " A Glance at the Cotton Trade," in which several inaccuracies occur. We will point out a few of the most prominent. Our Manchester contemporary draws particular atten tion to the short crop of 1846 and 1847, and states that prices advanced at that period nearly 100 per cent, and that had it not been for the great depression in commer cial matters in the latter year, there is no saying to what height the price of cotton would have gone; and admits that the weekly consumption of the present year (33,000 bales) exceeds that of last year by 5000 bales. He then talks about croakers, seeing that the past has been a large crop,, are now inventing all sorts of tales respecting the coming one; then ridicules the idea of the spinner feeling alarm for the future, and satisfies himself " that there is not the slightest ground for supposing there will be any falling off in the supply of cotton for the next twelve months." He pursues his way through a variety of figures, which we will presently criticise, hops over a very important point—the probable stock of cotton six months hence, before we can receive any quantity of the new crop— and arrives at the conclusion that the stock in the king dom, of all descriptions, on the 30th June next, will be 765,000 bales. He then admits that if the stock were by some chance to dwindle down to 500,000 bales on the 30th June next, " then speculators would have good grounds for operating largely;" and concludes with warn ing all his friends that they must not forget that America has exported 2,074,000 bales of her present crop, and that " if they will only bear this simple tact in mind, they will naturally conclude that there is no immediate prospect of supplies falling short, and that all speculation founded on the probability of such ao event 11111 A bo very hazardouo." Very plausibly reasoned : " Se non e vero e ben' tro vato." Th€ writer estimates the coming crop in Ame rica at 2,250,000 bales, which we believe to be a fair esti mate; but he says there will be 1,250,000 bales for this country, which we dispute, without there is to be a consi derable rise in the value of cotton. which he denies, for America will want for her own consumption ..... 550,000 the Continent will require something equal to their supply of this year 1,200,000 which will leave for this country 1,050,000 He commits a second blunder of equal magnitude by stating that we shall receive this quantity by the 30th of June next. That this is an exaggeration must be evident to every one, for if, out of the present crop (our supply of which is put down at 1,500,000 bales), and which was an early and prolific one, we have only received 1,214,000, how is it likely we can receive the whole of our supply by the same date next year. Besides this, he omits the export from this country altogether, which we will take at 150,000 bales ; so that, instead of there being a stock on the 30th June of 765,000 bales of all descriptions, there is every probability it will not exceed 450,000, with out, as we have before observed, there is a considerable advance in the value of cotton in this country, so as to check the consumption. The following figures,.which we are assured are moderately stated, will show how we ar rive at this conclusion : . -...-- Stock in Liverpool, 30th June, 1849, 731,000 bales, „ Clyde and London 172,500 Import from America of this crop, 90,000 At sea, 128;500 Estimate of the coming MP, 2,250,000 less America's consumption 550,000 „ Continental „ 650,000 -------1,200,000 1,050,000 If 1,500,000—0ur supply this year from the States —gives 1,214,001 to the 30th June, and an early season, 1,050,000 bales will give 833,000 Imports from other countries, 360,000 2,315,000 Our own consumption for the next 12 months at .33,100 bales a week (which is what our Manchester friend estimates it at), 1,715,C03 600,000 The exports from this country for the next 12 months, 150,000 Estimated stock in the kingdom 30th June, 1850, 450,000 The writer in the Manchester Examiner speaks of the great risk there wasin 1847 of extravagantly high prices for cotton, had there not been the great commercial depres sion. But is not the present aspect of affairs very diffe rent? Our consumption is larger than ever; money is cheap, and so is bread ; and there is every prospect of the coming cotton crop being late and a short one. With re gard to the croakers, it is well known that the coming crop has received injury from frost, that the season is in consequence a month later, and that considerable injury has been done in some districts by the overflowing of the Mississippi and Ohio, and the consequent fever and cho lera amongst the slaves. He ridicules the idea of spinners feeling alarmed, but does not dare to say what prices will be in December, and between this and then will be the criti cal time, before fresh supplies are received. He admits that if there is a chance of the stock being only 500,000 bales next June, then speculators would have good ground for operating largely, and then warns his friends that America has parted with upwards of 2,000,000 bales already, and upon this builds his position, that there will be no lack of supply. Why this. is the very reason that there should be a material falling, off in the supply of cot ton. The Americans have already parted with nearly every bale they dare ; their stock will only be 300,000 when they have received the balance of the present crop ; and when they hear of the improved state of this market, the whole will be held for much higher rates. In fact, the general feeling in this country is that cotton is low, and must be higher ;. and every day, although the imports for some weeks have been very large, spinners, when. making their purchases, find they are met by spe culators. Further, the cheapness or dearness of money will,. whatever we might wish to the contrary, rule the va lue of produce, particularly an article like cotton; and it is more to this barometer and the harvest that we shculd keep our eyes fixed. On Friday last the stock of cotton, including all descrip tions, in this port, was.put down at 752,000-bales, against 629,000 same period last year. It has now touched the maximum, and will decrease each week. The foregoing remarks have been forced from us in defence of the position taken by ourselves last week. We could not allow the assumptions of the Manchester Exa miner to pass unnoticed ; and if this plain statement of facts should give additional momentum to the anti cipated advance, we disclaim any other motive than that of correcting the miscalculations of our contemporary, lest they should mislead those very parties whom, we pre sume, they were intended to serve. THEATRE ROYAL.—Last, night " Hamlet" was per formed, the part of Op&lia being sustained, for the first time, by Miss Anne Romer, who was received with al:larked approbation, and justified the good opinion of the audience by a most careful acting, although the part lies out of her line. The play, on the whole, was very well performed. To-night ' Othello" will be brought forward. THE POOR LAW BOARD AND THE SELECT VESTRY.— We understand that the Poor Law Commissioners have instituted an inquiry into the circumstances which led to the recent dismissal by the Vestry in this town of Mr. Callan, one of the surgeons in connecsion with the parish. We say nothing of Mr. Callan's fitness for the office, but the inquiry by the Commissioners implies an assumed unfitness on the part of the Medical Relief Commitee of the Vestry for their office which might as well have been spared, especially as three mouths have elapsed since die matter was reported to the Loudon board. These gen tlemen ought to have addressed to them another of the Rev. Rector Campbell's cutting letters of rebuke. Mr. Austin was down here yesterday, and after some it gation the inquiry was adjourned. THE ACCOUNTS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. TiO teturns from the Board of Trade which have just appeared merely carry on the history which we have sketched in former months, of a continually-growing influx of the products of foreign industry, unbalanced by any similar augmentat!on in our own exports. Of the advance made in the importation of foreign articles, a few examples may suffice : Embroidery and needle- Imported in Imported in five months, five months, 1848. 1849. work.. - Ornamental glass lbs. 206,504 Women's boots and shoes .. 35,889 Boot fronts 164,624 Potatoes cwts. 198,837 Bacon. 70,452 .. Beef, salted ,541,22655 t r , 69 Pork, salted Watches.. £ 26, 788 ._ ......._ £33,823 Woollen manufactures X 180,269 Of the above articles we have not the means of com paring the present year with any other year but 1848. But of the following we can take a wider view, and com pare 1849 with 1846: Imported in five months ending June 5- 1846. 1849. Oxen . .. Cows Calves 193 .. 4,859 Sheep.. Wheat .. Barley Oats . Flour . Gloves. 143,459 .. 398,596 cats 899,511 .. 1,542,174 pairs 1,137,937 .. 1,590,500 SILK MANUFACTURES. Breadstuffs Ribbons Ditto gauze But now let us turn to the other side of the question. We were promised that if we would only take the corn and cattle of other countries they would gladly take cot tons and other manufactures from us. How has this promise been realised ? Let us see:— Five months Five months EXPORTS. of 1846. of 1849. Cotton manufacture and yarn Earthenware 345,318 .. 303,232 Glass manufacture Hardware and cutlery Linen manufactured and yarn 1,510,837 .. 1,528,446 Machinery Metals, wrought and un wrought 2,800,270 .. 2,865,716 Silk manufactured Woollen ditto 2,445,443 .. 2,321,006 It will be seen that we have here taken the five months at the opening of 1846, when Sir Robert Peel's free trade measures were only under discussion, and could not have produced any result. These therefore, might be considered as the last five months of the protective sys tem. We were urged to abandon this system on the as surance that if we would but take our corn and provisions from other nations, they would readily become our cus tomers for a similar amount of manufactures. This was the constant argument of Messrs. Bright and Cobden, Col. Thompson, and the Rev. Baptist Noel. The House of Commons was induced by Sir Robert Peel to believe these representations, and here is the result := In 1846 (January & May) we_bought of foreign coun tries, 630.991 quarters of wheat. We have removed the duty, and in the same months of 1849 we bought 1,982,460 quarters. Did the foreigners augment their purchases of cottons in return ? The answer is, that in 1846 (five months) they bought £10,526,227: and in 1849 they bought only £10,113,549. Of flour, in 1846 (five months) we took from them 899,511 cwts. In 1849, we took 1,520,500 cwts. In return, they took of woollen manufactures, in 1846, £2,445,443. But in 1849 they took only £2,391,006. Have we not been deceived, then ? Has not the Legis lature been deluded into passing an important measure, by representations which turn out, in the event, to have been altogether 'UNTRUE ? ANNIVERSARY OF THE RECHABITES. Yesterday being the anniversary of the above society, the members mustered, in pretty strong force at nine o'clock in the morning, in Williamson-square, and, after being duly arranged, walked in nrocession through the town by the following route :—Houghton-street, Elliot street, Lime-street, London-road, Stafford-street, Fox street, Great Homer-street, Wilbraham-street, Scotland road, Byrom-street, Great Crosshall-street, Tithebarn street, Castle-street, south John-street, Bt. James-street, returning to Williamson-square by Bold-street and Church-street. The procession was attended by a band of music, and adorned with the usual variety of flags and emblems. Amongst other embodiments and illustrations attendant was one of a rather singular description, being nothing less than the sections of two houses, one inha bited by a drunkard and his miserable family, and the other by a disciple of temperance. The contrast was, of course, striking; indeed, in one respect literally so, in asmuch as the bacchanalian householder was apparently in the act of delivering a blow with his bottle to the head of his wife. In the evening, the first of a series of meet ings, (to be held during the week,) took place at the Liver Theatre, which was tastefully ornamented for the occa sion. The little house was crammed in every part. When the curtain rose, Mr. JAs. ORD stepped forward and gave out a hymn, which was sung by the whole assembly. He afterwards addressed them. The effect of his appeal was to shew that all sincere brothers of the order had experienced the beneficial results of their having become total abstainers, by which comfort and happiness were exchanged for misery and penury. Mr. Jrzo. WILLIAMS, a district ruler, related his expe rience.. He was a teetotaller of fifteen years' standing, and had joined the society, not that he ever feared falling into the snare of drunkenness, but with a view to helping forward the movement of temperance, which he consi dered the only panacea for intercepting the ruin which he saw impending over England. He proceeded to depict, in all their native hideousness, the many debasing and dread ful consequences— , both to the drunkard himself and to his connexions)—of giving way to the evil habit. Other speakers succeeded, but want of space precludes our noticing the purport of their remarks. POLICE COURT. Y- _ ESTERDA.Y. ROBBERIES OF SEAMEN.—Margaret Edwards and Pa trick Hartegan were charged by a sailor, William Antre, with having, in a place of ill repute, in Albion-street, robbed him of a £lO Bank of England note, and other property, on the 7th instant. The case appeared to be made out, and, as both prisoners were old offenders, they were committed for trial.—The same man, and another woman, (Cavanagh,) were charged with having, in Spital fields, in a similar manner robbed another sailor of nine half-eagles, ten dollars, a twenty-dollar bill, a silver pen cil-case, his clothing, &c. The woman was taken as a witness, and the man was committed for trial on the second complaint. A handkerchief was found upon him belonging to complainant, which was identified. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—MarfaM 4 Kay, a girl of the town, was committed for trial, for robbing David Frater of his watch, value £4 10s., and some other pro perty. STEALING FROM AI OFFICE. A woman, named Eliza Welsh, with a child in her arms, and whom we re cognised as having been. in the habit of vending matches at offices, was charged with having stolen from an office in the Goree, a tin cash-box. The evidence rested with two lads; the box was not found upon her, but in the storey in the building above the office whence it had been ab stracted. She was committed for trial. CHARGE OF STEALING A DOG.—A man, whose name we did not learn, was charged with stealing a dog from a youth in St. James's-street, on Friday afternoon. The boy, who knew the owner, had taken the dog (a fine bull and terrier) out for an airing, when the prisoner came up, told him it was his own dog, which he had reared from a pup, and forcibly- led him away with a string round his neck which he (prisoner) procured in the vicinity. Pri soner escaped for the time, but was apprehended on Sun day evening with the animal, which, it was stated, was worth £2. Under the new dog act, the prisoner was or dered to pay the estimated value of the dog, and a fine of £5 for the offence, or, in default, to be imprisoned for forty-two days. The dog belonged to a Mr. Mitton. ABSTRACTING MERCHANDISE FROM A BONDED WAREHOUSE. —At the Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Brooks, solicitor for the Customs, exhibited an informa tion against Francis Cole, a warehouseman to Messrs. Bushby and Edwards, and a youth,, named William Perry, in the same employ, for having removed a quantity of bastard sugar, (weighing 1 cwt.. 1 qr. 7 1b.,) in a tea chest,, from a warehouse called 'Yates's, in Atherton street, occupied by the firm named, with intent to ap propriate the same without authority. In all about 2 cwt. 3. qrs. of the article had been missed out of four casks, which, however, did not appear to have been re cently broken into. Cole had absconded, though he was seen to assist the lad in removing the sugar. The latter was apprehended, and as it did not clearly appear that he had not acted under the influence or orders of Cole, thougb&be was convicted, (in the mitigated penalty of £25) Mr Rushton said he should recommend him to the favourable consideration. of the Hoard of Customs. Cole was fully convicted in the penalty of £lOO, and a warrant was issued for his apprehension. Two CLAIMANTS. TO A SHIP'S CARGO.—An application was made yesterday to Mr. Rushton, at the police-court, by Mr. Bate.con, solicitor, for advice relative to the cargo of a ship (laden, we learned, with mahogany), and to which two distinct mercantile parties had laid claim, and were ready to fight for. He had, he admitted, made an application on Saturday in behalf of one of these parties, and he had now to make another on behalf of the captain. Part of the cargo, which had been landed on the quay, had been carried off by one of the parties alluded to. The captain of the vessel, not well knowing how to act, and aware that both parties would endeavour to take any part of the cargo vet on board which he might land, had thought it safest to detain the rest on board, though he was anxious that it should be discharged. Mr. Rushton said he had no power to interfere unless a breach of the peace were committed. He did not know who the right ful claimant was, or whether the captain was in rightful possession. That question must be settled elsewhere ; but if any disturbance or annoyance should take place, the applicant need but apply to . llir, Dowling, Head, Consta ble, who would KeAcler, 1 4%. ai the Captain . eklegithnate . 1 assistance. July OfICG. LIVERPOOL JULY Ititm 4t '" . AO, 111 4 ° This crack meeting will be held on Weelli' s f day, and Friday next. at Aintree, the Earl o 0 0, Sir Robert Pigot, M.P. and Viscount Clifden„. ,;citri as stewards. Mr. E. W. Topham, the indefati,ar,,,,ii of the Chester course, will act as clerk af the cri., which office he succeeds the late lamented W-gritispel. a gentleman well known for many years in gen , we' ing circles, and particularly in Manchester and The sport is expected to be abundant, there beind, two events to come off in the three days, all th ,_ l4 ee v o amongst which are acknowledged to have be! weighted. The course is in good order, bat have o #, ov bed proved by a few genial showers. The pi ~;" ezcej of it has been harrowed over recently; air, ' ; `,,, - rs es ":y qualities for being galloped over have causeu ,bete" -re' many stables to be brought here some day s er t : usual time. The applications for booths on ta d t have been greater than last year; and it is exPe c ie ditl the attendance, owing to our increased raibabs; will be very great. Large parties of faSkleaa e ts o f ir f assembled at Croxteth and Knowsley, th ; ,,„ e :of Earls of Sefton and Derby, and in the mans,— . elfof our merchant princes. e • On Wednesday (to-morrow) the sport elnuri e „ stg l races, two of which are newly-introduced Pre" r ites which, as from them may be found many fa ter ira t e next year's Derby, will render this day of greate r Stitt than formerly. The first of these is the MerEetb; for which not many are expected to conle t ° is OIL Jack Briggs is the horse fancied. The see n " bick,.% duce Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 addec!:rs. received the large number of fifty-three subsee w ei e le fllr f DBiuctkeerhinstaanffe(Suitaeke, winnerfor tohfreteheyeDaresrbolyl, ablifirflas`,3olll,,eariteo,,;o the Leger) to the post, and will probably 0 0 r ari^' he there being nothing which it is thought 0° ,0, 1 , him. His name appears also in the followin ci g pis over, Foot Sweepstakes. both which it is exPeet e i a tteeP owner (Lord Eglinton) will carry off; in tu r s o t Sila9 haps with another horse, Belus. Another na stakes follows, which it is thought Mr. carry et' with the Italian, although he giv es vv ' s ject' ra ct or two good horses. The Sefton Stak es is eciading be won ky one of Mr. Green's pair. The e°l oo s. this day is a Trial Stakes, on the usual conwi , r sdes" - The great day, Thursday, brings on the „ crt hees,,,'„ s e Cup, for Well, out of an entry of 123 s u r„reOrthe accepted. Ot" these, however, the chances end the been disposed of by their running elsewh e '„ r iarg e ,,,' a nt number at the starting post will not be f e 'l e collnes has not been a good betting race; but the re " weer' o f will be watched vOli immense interest. T eds istO seem to be almost c utirely the three year ei Aori to the others, originally well in, having been 0, 3 ill r i pe combat by the heavy %Tights added for sue c 'w• which have taken place since the handieePc:iti s e il i a only one of these which retains anything lille i 'Asfe r m l John Cosser, four years old, who carries 101 b loatlfrteo victory at Newcastle, rnd is still fancied at ae in many quarters. The betting up to within days placed Eswarius, three years old, (in,„,_V a rtb , ship, and was fora day or two at the head at:l",iiat The Manchester party, however, have stuck wu - bols.„j well known Lbt a i t olorrne t s h deeo e ,ynwe t aah o r p nisedio o l il f ndi B,t(hien Scott's tree. l‘v st i a o b re le, r ) ec co e n n t t e ll Ste tcluit;l e re ; winner in the race. Lif t To The next important event lathe week is the 1 ,, St. Leger, to be run for on Friday. For this °r i g ' j 5 tt six are expected to start. The Flying Diltele.: autthh n eo o rip w rtoy i v n ,i d np i ce s e p gs u esta, t: n b d l , y ios fi f r g s iß t re f en a lr v s o b u y : r i a : ft n e o: o l :7o l with 71b extra, but it is expected that his Pa`" taken by Belus, his stable companion. r rice d ' i Up till last night the following horses bad 8- 10 b . 5 1 ; Captain Grant, Stepping Stone, Old Dan Tilek er 'hilOh wool, Bon-mot, Timothy, Hammer and Tongs , ~ pole'l West, Tearaway, Sweetheart, Harriet, The Flyinrvers,,, man, Uriel, Belus, Raby, Cigarette, Strongbool'iaet, Day Boy, Newcourt, John Cosser, Kelesbea , ri o rtr ° ; Ess• daring, Colleen Rue, Sylvan, Cadger, Ar l , Sie;' ) el Westow, Romance, Harum Scarum,. on Penthesilea, The Widow, and filly by Don PP"' sister to Ainderby. NIG H, BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S LAST (BY EXPRESS•) LIVERPOOL CUP. 7 to 4 agst Thringarth (taken) 5 „ 2 „ Essedarius (taken freely) 9 „ 1 „ Keleshea (taken) 12 „ 1 „ John Cosser (taken)' 12 „ 1 „ Westow (taken) 20 „1 „ Sauter-le-coupe (taken). w e) ' 7„ 4 on Thringarth and Essedar iu s 1 GOODWOOD CUP. 4 to 1 agst The Hero 10 to 1 agst Solon, to a great deal of ni°ll./. GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Maid of Masham (taken) 12 „ 1 „ Tophana (taken) 15 „ 1 „ Fire-eater (taken) 16 „ „ Giselle (taken) 16 „ 1 „ Syrup (taken) 16 „ 1 „ Collingwood (taken) 20 „ 1 „ Bacchanalian (taken) 20 „ 1 „ Van Dienien (taken) DERBY. lb to 1 agst Italian (taken) 30 to 1 agat John O'Groat (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Witchcraft (taken) CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.—We perceive the ..°* pr ielv` o i Standard has raised its price to five pence, tber l oh or %I finding that a less sum will not pay for the o' fi alri3 0 ( talent employed upon a paper of such high Sta .' one ri the one in question. The Liverpool Standard 15.,10 the best conducted papers out of London, its 0 , 141 l id !" e l public events evince the highest order of tale, l3 " a spir;; o variety of its information, combined with le t be manner in which it is conducted, must insure it 'tes:. port of the thinking community. The cheap 0 9 5 0 ei; been tried and failed, the London Daily News i 9 et, do ample. When we look at the price of the P ts, w e t , stamp, and the labour in a variety of departrae ° o o ° 4 not see how any journal can make a profitable r e oe smaller sum than five pence, especially the one, n rio! le , pages alluded to, for it comprises eight of close , ' 'lo'3 e d matter. The cheap mania has been Pr °v iderte although, we confess, that at one time we ca°,"osir might be turned to good account.—Shrovshire ‘ coj tine.—[We feel much obliged to our iiidepencle"o" temporary for the flattering terms in which he i 9 to speak of the result of our labours.] l le 5 !, ( 10 °' LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. - mop evening the monthly meeting took place at the rooms. The attendance of members was not vaii; o 0 0 3 rous, owing to many of them being absent a t ' 40 0 ~t 5 count of, the great show in London. Dr. Dickeypl fr De called to the chair. Al usual, a number of choscere ! to and flowers were brought up, amongst ivhi°, ll 4 of P f , following, grown in this neighbourhood :—A "' fros i r black Hamburgh: Grapes ; Struthiola Stricta, tte r; Cropper, Esq., Dingle-bank, Mr. Lloyd, garf l „f,h (1 ,,` 1 ' 0 1 0 largonium Zenobia, fine, s cud bloom ;) nrL i d r t i 6 Strawberries, very fine, ruddy and luscious , ~„" 0 so f' four inches in circumference; also a brace o f 'e " monster" Cauliflowers, from H. Winch, D s qca . 4 ;0 combe, Mr. Young, gardener; a fine . 1 ,, 1 , 1 1, - ,c/Ye'esb' Apple ; a dish ot Derbyshire Alpine et WI and a large specimen of the Enfield T 1 C. bage, from R. Alison, Esq., of Woolton, gardener ; Gloxiana alba-sanguinea • Fleminggetio.49o, Afelon, from Harold Littledale, is A 1 1 ,,, 5 " ph el ,:hg; hardy fruits, consisting of Gooseberries, g. rrp s 'ibe', l o" and Black and Red Currants, from Mr. J. B. 0 0 4 9 row. An agreeable conversation took the members present, and the meeting sePa." - K 0'4 3 : may here express our opinion that this soule'tiserioP said to form the nucleus and support of th e of Floral and Horticultural exhibitions, the 1 4 1 ,0° went off with so.much eclat, at the Corn // week. TELEGRAPH-OFFICE, JULY 9. ol• « o'oo. Wind at Holyhead, W.N.W., fresh breeze , 3- 1 9 1, _,I Ditto Ditto, W.N.W., light breeze. at, 6 p.tyr, Ditto Ditto, W.S.W., gentle breeze , a t ," ;p), 1 '1? Off Holyhead, at 4 a.m.—No. 7206, Liverpool (s;. ci oek. ii,,,, telegraphed where from ; No. 9540, Peruvian( te ; „), fo'. In. Africa, at 5,a.m.; No. 4279, Queen of the West (15 ,1 ` s rpol i ;,;per , ' York, at 9 -a.m.; No. 543, St. Patrick (shigb at c(s cit re , 4182, Ganges (barque), at 6 p.m. ; No. 1062,9 11 "" ~ig , ___________ , 7 at 6 30 p.m., hare not telegraphed where front.„, a r so' z Off the• Port, at 830 p.m.—Two barques itiul "_:___,----'- METEOROLOGICAL REGISTO>4I.• / TIV - '" BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD' S 0, ) pirec . 1 J ti o Of 1 g Win 6 fi/, at 1,1,3 SO °. i d ? ATMOSPHERIC Temperature in Humidity at shade by self- Noon. tering Difference of [meter Wet and Dry Min. bulb. Pressure at Nine Six a.m. ! p.m, 1 1 2 1n. 9 64 2913 29'75 29'92 30'02 30'04 . 30'04 'I 29'9x' 29'97 1 30'34, 30'42 Deg. 68 67 70 67 77 72 Deg. Deg. 56 5 57 7_ - 56 9 , 59 60 1 6 rri s fr s , ivb - 10 4 5 c1: • ;,: I : 6t e' i ' 0 . 0 17 ?,11 1 ' _ HE WEATHER.-3rd : bright'; n i g ht, cl9 l l t 4th: clouded; squalls.-sth brilliant;, 11 2. g.",; clouded; p.m., light rain.-7th a.m., brgu,Vd —Bth: bright ; night, clear.-9th: morning , c"" LIVERPOOL: 1 849' ij, TUESDAY, JULY 10, - PRINTED AND PUBLISH ED $ 1 • i pi EVERY TUESDAY g° s e str eet ', By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Gr°,i'.. s ire", LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orfor sit ro° o oti At No. 4, Sr. GEORGE'S CRESCENT. 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