The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

Ebt Etberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 18, 1849. THE Colonial policy of Lord John Russell's government has certainly been productive of results which must be anything but gratifying to its au thors. Last week we directed attention to the con dition of the Canadas, with a large class bf their population exasperated to the verge of outbreak and rebellion against the mother country. In Jamaica, and throughout our West Indian posses sions, the colonists are estranged, and in active collision with the government. Our advices this week add to the catalogue of possessions, whose inhabitants are dissatisfied with the proceedings of the Colonial office, the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. In every quarter of the globe, in fact, Earl Grey has managed to establish a quarrel, and to sow the seeds of enmity towards British rule. The groundwork of the quarrel in Africa is the effort of the Colonial office to convert the Cape, for the first time, into a penal settlement. The decree for introducing convicts into the colony arrived there in June last, and was communicated to the colonists in the official gazette of the 21st of that month. The indignation excited by its announcement was universal. Meetings were immediately held at Cape Town, and remonstrances of the strongest descrip tion were addressed to the Governor-General, Sir 11. Smith. The colonists contend, in one of the resolutions agreed to at the meeting in question, that " the British government has no right to degrade into a penal settlement the Cape of Good Hope, which became a portion of the British empire by capitulation and cession of a friendly power, and not by planting or conquest, with its rights and privileges as a free and not a penal settlement solemnly guaranteed ; and that all attempts so to injure and degrade it are unjust and tyrannical, and may be constitutionally resisted by the inha bitants as British subjects." They reprobate severely the conduct of Earl Grey, in first directing the Governor to ascertain their feelings upon the subject, and then acting in direct defiance of their strongly expressed objections; and they enter into solemn pledges with each other not to employ or associate with any convicted felon, and to " dis countenance and drop connexion with any person who may assist in landing, supporting, or employ ing such convicted felons." The reply of Sir H. Smith to a memorial, urging that officer to use the powers of his office to pro tect the inhabitants " from the moral pollution which they are threatened with," exhibits, on his part, a sense of the impolicy, ane even danger, of the proceedings of the Colonial-office. It is true that he demurs to fly in• the face of the direct orders received by him. In his verbal address to the deputation which waited upon him, the fine old soldier said—" This is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo; for forty-four years have I served her Majesty—l say it with pride—and I would rather that God Almighty strike me dead than disobey the orders of her Majesty's Govern ment, and thereby commit an act of open rebel lion." But it is clear that this is not the language in which he has already addressed the Colonial office. In his written reply to the memorialists, be says : " Gentlemen,—My duty indicates the line of conduct I am bound to pursue, which is recorded in my minute of the 15th inst., which I laid at that date on the tabl e o f th e Legislative ouncil ; and from which, as I there state, nothing can, or shall, induce me to swerve. "My despatch to Earl Grey of the 24th ult., accom panied by the numerous petitions, addresses, memorials, &c., signed by so many thousands of the community, will prevent this colony from becoming a penal settlement, or I am deeply mistaken. " This address shall accompany my first despatch to Earl Grey on the subject." In the mtantime, he intimates that the convicts sent out shall be kept under some guard, and pre vented from being mixed amongst the population. The following extracts from the colonial press afford an index of the state of feeling upon the subject : (From the South African Commercial Advertiser of June 27.) " Besides the pledge not to em'ploy convicts, and to drop connexion with those who do so, it will be seen, by nu merous notices in this day's paper, that banks, insurance offices, capitalists, and others, the most respected and influential members of this community, are pursuing a course that will in the end render the enforcement and the demand of the measure altogether impracticable. The felons will be thrown for support on the Governor at once, and so long as they remain in the colony. Will he venture to employ them on public works, at the expense of the colony ? The payers of rates will demur to that. " It is said, that for greater security, the people in the country districts have resolved to employ no European labourer whatsoever, until the power of smuggling thieves and murderers amongst them as free emigrants shall be taken out of the hands of their rulers by act of Parlia ment. This is to be lamented, but it is natural, and what might have been foreseen." (From the South African Commercial Advertiser of July 7.) " From all parts of the colony accounts continue to pour in respecting the exasperation of the people. This, itself, is a most enormous evil, for which the local government, as well as Lord Grey, are deeply responsible. " Yesterday, the bankers of Cape Town unanimously refused to tender for supplies of biscuit to the Commissa riat, lest it should be used for the support of the convicts on their arrival. Every man is doing his duty, as England no doubt expected. The people are of one mind and one soul." (From the Cape Town Mail of July 7.) " The Governor has, we understand, on good authority, now decided upon having the convicts expected by the Neptune, confined on Robben Island, and not distributed, even on application, until her Majesty's pleasure is known; and that a proclamation to that effect is to be issued forthwith. To accommodate them, the lepers and lunatics are to be removed immediately to Amsterdam Battery and Saardan Island (Salt River.) If this be so, it may go some way to satisfy the minds of the colonists, who can now hope, by continuing a determined and unanimous re sistance, to see the hateful order in council revoked, as soon as the home government shall receive the despatches of the Governor, and hear of the proceedings of the people." What will the home Government do in such a state of things ? Their position is in every way humiliating. They cannot compel the colonists to receive amongst them—to take into their houses or their fields—the scourings of the prisons of Great Britain, and the criminals which the gallows has spared ; and yet we doubt much whether they will submit to retrace their steps. It must be borne in mind that this insult to the inhabitants of the Cape was resolved upon, after their feelings upon the subject were thoroughly known. It was pressed forward with the dogged obstinacy, which is one of the characteristics of Lord Grey's haughty temperament. It was a deliberate and wanton aggression ; and it is much to be feared that it will be persevered in, even although, to save harmless the vanity of the Colonial Secretary, a job is per petrated, in the shape of some useless public works, to further exasperate the feelings and to mulct the pockets of the insulted colonists. A similar state of things has been brought about in our Australian possessions, partly from the gross mismanagement, by the Colonial-office, of emigra tion to these colonies, and partly by the course pursued in the transport of convicts and the re formed (?) criminals from our model prisons. We give a description of the present position of these colonies from the Sydney Morning Herald of the 28th April, just received : " Immigration has now been going on for some time ; several thousand souls have been added by it to our population ; and yet the cry from all parts of the interior is, that labour is as scarce and wages as high as ever. The arrivals have produced no sensible effect. For aught that our distant settlers have experienced, the immigrants may have been absorbed into the earth, or evaporated into air. And yet immigrant depOts have been established to the north, to the west, and to the south, for the express pur pose of facilitating the dispersion of the new-comers in the quarters where alone their services are required ? How is this ? The cause is very simple, but very alarm ing : the immigrants, with comparatively few exceptions, refuse to go ! Whether they were misinformed in their "five country as to the nature of the occupations which avaplied !item in the colony s'olecteskag etr tuturq home, whet4rAirey have imbibed false Orions respeothig our remote districts, or whether they are personally unfit for rural avocations, so it is, that from Sydney large pro. portions of them will not budge. "This is a state of things which cannot be contemplated without serious misgivings. Our former apprehensions as to the possible redundancy of immigration went on the supposition that the immigrants would be fairly distri buted throughout the lengths and breadths of the land. But this new aspect of affairs aggravates our fears a hundred-fold. The colony is now in danger of having its towns over-crowded, and its farms and sheep-walks de serted. Where labour is not wanted, it is coming in overwhelming profusion ; where it is wanted, and wanted with extreme urgency, it comes in feeble rills, or not at all. What must be the issue of this astounding anomaly ? One result must be, that our land-fund will have been thrown away ? another, that pur towns will be filled with poverty and distress. We shall have been spending hun dreds of thousands of pounds for the purpose of crowding our streets with beggars, and goading hungry masses to violence and robbery. We shall have a repetition of the disastrous scenes of 1844 and 45 ; only with this differ ence, that wages were then at the lowest minimum in the towns, and at the highest maximum in the interior. The settlers will be ruined for want of labour ; the labourers will be starving for want of work." Th;s is undoubtedly a singular phenomenon. Yet it is capable of explanation. This glaring evil is inflicted upon our colonists, in order to provide a field for the pet experiment of our Whig empirics in the treatment of criminals, or—we beg pardon— in " criminal reformation." The honest yeomanry of Great Britain are thrown for support upon the streets of Sydney, Port Philip, and other towns, that the young thieves of Parkhurst and Milbank may be planted as Arcadian shepherds amongst the graziers of the interior districts. 'We quote the explanation of the phenomenon from the con cluding remarks of our Sydney contemporary : " But the colonists will naturally enquire, have the Government done all they could to avert these conse quences ? Nay, are they free from the responsibility of having been accessary to the breach of contract ? Let Sir Charles Fitzroy give the answer. Speaking of a widely different class of immigrants—of immigrants whose crimes have banished them from their native shores, and who come to ours bound with felon's fetters, and branded with the felon's infamy, His Excellency proclaims the decree— ' They will not be landed in Sydney, but receive their tickets for the remote districts of the colony.' " Whatever causes may have operated heretofore to deter the free immigrants from accepting employments in the remote districts, here is a cause quite sufficient to account for and justify their repugnance hereafter. Sir Charles has hermetically sealed our sheepwalks against untainted shepherds. He has put the finishing stroke to that series of disasters of which we have long been appre hensive, and of which we now behold the commencement. By proclaiming the dispersion of the cc•nvicts, he has ratified and perpetuated the non-dispersion of the immi grants." THE Morning Herald last week had the fol lowing "The condition of England is daily made more appa rent. A good harvest is not now the boon that it was at one period of her history. Dearth and dearness, a plen tiful harvest, and a plethora of penury, now act similarly here. Legislation on the free-trade system has performed its work. Goo° or bad, well or ill, as to our productive agricultural resources, the results are still the same." The first remark of our contemporary is partly correct. A good harvest is not a boon to Britain to the same extent that it formerly was; yet it is a boon notwithstanding. The farmer no longer gets for his good harvest the same remunerating prices which he got in the days of protection. But he has more to sell at the low price which foreign compe tition has established. His increased quantity of grain fills the place of a portion of the foreign supply which would otherwise come in ; and the money receipts of the farmer arc un doubtedly greater than with a short crop, the enhancement of the price of which is prevented by the foreign supply which is always available. The second portion of our contemporary's para graph,—" Dearth and dearness, a plentiful harvest, and a plethora of penury, now act similarly here," —is simply incorrect. It is inconsistent, moreover, with the preceding portion of the paragraph, which presupposes that dearth does not imply dearness— remunerative price for the farmer. What " a plen tiful harvest and a plethora of penury" have to do with each other, either as antagonistic or coinciding states, we are at a loss to know. This, however, is true, that a deficient and plentiful harvest do not act similarly. A deficient harvest is followed by a drain of money, to pay foq increased importations of food, a disordered and decreased supply of cur rency. commercial depression, deficient home con sumption of agricultural products, bankruptcies, and industrial prostration. A plentiful harvest brings with it none of these evils. It brings both to the agriculturists and the community less of good; but it wards off a vast amount of calamity. THE COTTON TRADE. The transactions in Cotton have again been limited, (considering the large consumption which is going for ward in the manufacturing districts), arising from two circumstances, the non-arrival of the American steamer Hibernia, and the determination on the part of spinners to keep their daily purchases within as limited a quantity as possible. In the Broker's circular of Friday last the week's sales are put down at 31,700 bales, of which spe culators and exporters have taken 10,000, so that the Trade have again taken considerably less than their weekly requirements. Notwithstanding the comparative small purchases on the part of the Trade prices remain pretty much the same as they did on the previous Friday, fair Orleans being quoted at 5/ per lb., which is a significant sign of what spinners may expect when they are forced to again make their appearance in this market, which they will be obliged to do before very long, having now drawn heavily on their own stocks for the past four weeks ; but as we have before stated, " there are none so blind as those who won't see." It is well known that there are dozens of spinners buying almost daily for immediate wants, and some of them consumers of 200 and 300 bales per week, and whether these gentlemen are pursuing the safe or prudent course remains yet to be seen, but with the paucity of supply which is unavoidable for the next three months, we have our misgivings. Should the Cot ton Market during the next few months take the turn which to us seems inevitable, such of them who have read these articles, (which we have given for the last three months,) without giving them due consideration, will only have themselves to blame ; we care not whether he is a merchant, spinner, or speculator, he is naturally preju diced in favor of his own interest, and it is unadvisable to reject information without first weighing it well. During the past week we hear that the operatives in some of the mills at Bolton have turned out for an advance in wages, but this cannot be of long duration, for they will either have to submit, or should trade further improve, of which there is every prospect, their employers will have to meet them LIBERALLY. The home trade of late has improved very considerably, and we know that at a small concession on the late advanced prices of twist and manufactured goods, there would be an enormous business doing for foreign markets. In the Liverpool Courier of last week there was a small attempt to write cotton down, and the writer of the article warns holders of cotton not to forget what occurred at this period of 1847, when it was thought by many, cotton might advance to 10d. and Is. per lb. Now as it is advisable that the cotton market should be kept as steady as possible (any unsteadiness in prices in juring the spinner and the manufacturer more than any other cause, buyers of goods immediately taking the alarm and stopping their operations, in the hope of purchasing on better terms), we shall recall to our readers the ANA LOGY of the two periods which we conceive to be the aim of the writer in the Courier. In the early part of Septem ber, 1847, fair Orleans were worth 7td. per lb. ; we had experienced one money panic in the spring of that year, and were just in the thick of the second, confined more particularly to the importers and factors of corn, with provisions comparatively high and potatoes rotting, and were on the point of the greatest commercial shock this country ever experienced. It is just possible that the writer in our contemporary might have been a holder of cotton at this period, and might have counted his chickens before his eggs were hatched, but he cannot persuade us that the reflecting portion of the community, and the business men, were sanguine of prices going to 10d. to Is. per lb. But how stands the matter at the present period ? In lieu of mid dling Boweds bing worth 7d. and fair Orleans 71d., (after all which has been written of the present high price of cotton,) they are worth to-day 51d. and 5/d., or just one penny and a halfpenny less than they were at the same period in 1847. We are now securing a most abundant harvest, we have an easy money market, with every cer tainty of its continuing so, and have a larger consumption of cotton than at any former period, a natural consequence of our limited exports of last year. There is only one more point left to discuss,—the pro bable reduced state of our stock before we can receive fresh supplies from America, and though we have promi nently demonstrated it in previous articles, we will go over the ground once more:— Bales. Our stock of all descriptions this day is 570,000 Probable import to the Ist Dec., including India 70,000 Export, 11 weeks, at 3500. 640,000 38,500 601,500 Consumption, 11 weeks, at 28,000. 308,000 Probable stock Ist December next 293,500 In estimating the consumption at only 28,000 bales per week, we think unprejudiced parties will agree with us that of the two, we have rather under-estimated it. In regard to the export, we have taken that also at a low figure, indeed we should not be at all surprised to see it considerably greater, for we understand that France, in addition to the extraordinary demand from other places, is indirectly drawing large supplies from this market. Last year our total supply from this period to the end of the year was 350,000 bales ; this year, in all probability, it cannot exceed 200,000 bales-50,000 from India, and 150,000 from the States and other parts;—and of thi quantity, as we -have before stated, not one-third can be s received before the month of December. Last year we received from the States alone 150,000 bales of the old crop ; but this year we cannot receive one-third of this quantity ; by the last advices their stock was reduced to 100,000 bales, being only sufficient for their own consump tion. In the foregoing statement it will be observed we have entirely omitted all reference to the coming crop in America, either as regards a late season or any i n j ury i t may have received, both of which, though doubted by some parties, are in the chapter of a c cidents, and which should not be lost sight of, more particularly as it is now generally believed that the last crop did not exceed 2,500,000 bales, the other 200,000 being made up from Cotton loft over from the two previous seasons, the prices current in this country, in 1848, at all events, not offering sufficient inducement for the planter to send it forward. For the ensuing three months we look upon it that the article of Cotton resolves itself into simply one of supply and demand, and, with these facts before them, our readers will be able to judge for themselves. CRICKET.—The match between the Collegiate and Warwick Clubs was played on Saturday, on the Collegiate ground, and terminated in favour of the Warwick, who won the game with five wickets to go down. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Loral Reins. The Unitarian Chapel, Hope-street, is to be opened on the 4th October. The inmates of the Female Orphan Asylum were, on Thursday last, provided with healthful and innocent en joyment at the Zoological Gardens. On Friday a fire took place on the premises of Mr. T. Harrison, ship-bread baker, Ansdell-street. A portion of the flooring of the bakery was destroyed. On Saturday, a child, named Edmund John Jones, aged three years and a half, was run over by a horse and cart, in Dale-street, near the bottom of Moorfiel3s. It survived only a few minutes. A refreshment room, under the superintendence of Mr. Hilliar, is about to be opened at Monk's Ferry railway station. Mr. Lewis, so well known as the manager of the Liver pool theatre, died in Paris on Friday week, after a short illness. On Monday, a flatman named Richard Wild was drowned in the river whilst attempting to jump from a flat into a boat. On Wednesday evening a lorry, while turning in Red. cross -street, backed into the window of Mr. John Carter, hair-dresser, and broke the entire front. The Liverpool Hunt Club will hold their autumn meet ing on Wednesday and Thursday, at Hoylake. Mr. Topham is clerk of the course, and the races are numerous. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This is the last week of the season at this delightful resort. No doubt the public will be sorry to witness the close of the numberless attrac tions. On Sunday week Evan Thomas was found dead upon the top of a brick-kiln near the Boundary-road. About three weeks ago he buried his wife, who died from cholera, and since that time had been drinking very hard. A fortnight since a message was forwarded through the Electric Telegraph Company, from this town to Pa ris, and forty-eight hours were occupied in its delivery, and £1 14s. 6d. was charged for transmitting the message, which consisted of only six words. The burgesses of Rodney-street Ward are very pro perly taking steps to secure the re-election of Mr. Samuel Holme. Prior to November a meeting of the ward will be held ; when Mr. Holme will give an account of his honest and straightforward stewardship. ABUNDANCE OF WATER.—One of the two wells at - the Kirkdale Gaol recently fell in. To remedy the accident the other well was bored some five-and-twenty yards deeper, and such was the gush of water subsequently:to the operation, that at the present moment the one well is capable of supplying fully the requirements of the prison, and even those of the vicinity in addition. CRICKET.—A match was played on Saturday week be tween eleven of the Liverpool Collegiate Cricket Club and eleven of the Tarvin Hail Club, on the ground of the lat ter, in which the Tarvin eleven were victorious in one in nings by 149 runs. The Liverpool club scared 56, whilst the Tarvin club in one inning scored 205. The two clubs were entertained sumptuously in the evening by the Prin cipal of Tarvin Hall. It is the intention of the Health Committee to purchase or rent several thousand acres of waste land near the shore, in the vicinity of Ince or Formby, and apply to these the manure conveyed thither from Liverpool in boats. The farm operations are to be carried on by able bodied paupers from the parish, and it is supposed that the profits will not only pay the cost and the value of the manure, but leave a surplus in favour of the Corporation. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 6th instant a shandry, dri ven by a boy. with whom was a man, ran over an old man, named John May, in the Old Haymarket. The boy was driving at a slow trot, and May, who was on the foot path, attempted to cross the street ; but the horse knocked him down, and trode upon him. He was conveyed home in a car, and attended to, but died on the 14th instant. It did not appear that the driver was to blame. On Sunday week a young man whilst bathing between Egremont and Seacombe got out of his depth and was drowning. Mr. Verley, watchmaker, Renshaw-street, hearing his cries for help, took off his hat, coat, and handkerchief, and, rushing into the' water, seized the drowning man by one arm, and swiming with the other rescued him from immediate death. Mr. Verley's wife and family were on the beach, and in a state of great trepidation during the performance of this noble and courageous act. A gentleman at Seacombe kindly fur nished Mr. Verley with a change of apparel. HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—At the Health Committee meeting, on Thursday, the medical officer reported that, for the week ending the Bth of September, there was an increase of 87 in the general mortality of the borough, and 105 in the deaths from cholera. The deaths from all causes were 758, and from cholera 488. Since Saturday, there had been a decrease in the number of deaths from cholera, and during the four days there were 456, against 656 in the corresponding period of the previous week. A conversation ensued relative to the evils arising from burials in the town, and the medical officer was desired to report on the subject. THE PUBLIC BATHS.—During last year ending the 30th ult., the number of baths, &c., used was as follows : Frederick-street—Total number of baths used 25,282; receipts, including wash-houses, £417 3s. Bd. Paul street—Number of baths used, including those granted gratuitously, 79,013 ; receipts from baths and washing, £907 14s. sd. There had been a great increase in the number of baths used during the year, at both establish ments, and at Paul-street the receipts exceeded the ex penditure by £BO 7s. 9d. In Frederick-street, the expenditure had exceeded the income by £75, owing to the great amount of repairs required in the machinery, &c. MADAME SONTAG IN LIVERPOOL.—MISS Whitnall has always been most liberal in the musical treats which she provides for her friends. At her annual concerts we have had the gratification of hearing the first artistes of the day—the most eminent talent, in fact, within reach. For her approaching concert, however, she has outdone, in the excellence and liberality of the engagements made, her former efforts. The first time for years the beautiful Countess of Rossi—the Sontag of former days—will de light a Liverpool audience ; and amongst the other emi nent artistes engaged are the Lablache, Signors Calzolari and Belletti, and Mons. Thalberg. The concert will be under distinguished patronage; and we trust that the mu sical public of Liverpool will shew their appreciation of Miss Whitnall's liberality by cramming the amphitheatre on the occasion. The concert, it will be seen, takes place on the first proximo. PRIZE ESSAY ON DIRECT TAXATION.—The essay to which has been awarded the prize of £7O, offered by the National Confederation for the best essay "On the sub ject of National Taxation, and the Equitable Adjustoaent of the same," has just been published, and is elsewhere advertised. The basis of taxation proposed is the capi talised income derived from labour, and all sorts of pro perty, estimated at so many years purchase :—for exam ple, the wages of a labourer, at 74 years, leasehold pro perty at 124, real property, consisting of houses, at 15, and land at 20 years, which, for Great Britain and Ire land, is estimated at £6,274,508,125 ; a tax of per cent. on which would realise a revenue of £47,058,811. The enormous saving in the expense of collection, the unspeakable advantages of freeing industry, commerce, and manufactures from the incubus of the Customs and Excise, the checks upon jobbing, patronage, and needless expenditure, the doing away alike with smuggling and the preventive service, and many other advantages, social, moral, and political, anticipated from the proposed change, are strongly insisted on. ITALIAN OPERA AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.—On Tues day evening the opera announced was " La Figlia del Reggimento," Alboni supporting the part of Marie, and some curiosity was felt amongst musical critics to witness her in a character which Jenny Lind had made her own. She was in excellent voice, and her appearance was the signal for hearty applause. We cannot say that the im personation was a very successful one. With the fair Swede fresh in our memory, and especially the enthusiasm with which she threw her whole soul into the character, Alboni's exertions did not strike us favourably. Her singing, however, was magnificent in some portions of the music, and occasionally her acting was most racy. It was not Lind's Marie however, but altogether a broader and more masculine character. Only a few of the best known portions of the opera were given, the concert con cluding with the last act of " Cenerentola." Here Alboni was once more herself, and magnificent. Her " Non piu Mesta" excited a perfect furore, and Tagliafico's rich comedy was inimitable. The house was better filled than on the preceding night; but it was not a bumper, as it ought to have been. THE LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EX HIBITION.—This show came off, at the Corn Exchange, on Thursday last, and with great satisfaction to all present, whether interested in the products of Flora or Ceres. The plants were numerous, and many of them fine speci mens of their respective kind. Amongst them was a beautiful specimen of the Cassia Corimboses, sent by Charles Wilson, Esq., of Allerton. The Heaths sent by the same gentleman, and by Mr. Farrie and Mr. Mus grove, were also fine. The fruits were particularly fine. The grapes, from the Earl of Derby, Thos. Weld Blun dell, Esq., Jno. Cropper, Esq., and R . C. Gardner, Esq., could hardly have been surpassed. The vegetables were also of first-rate quality ; some splendid roots of celery were exhibited by George Brown, Esq., T. W. Blundell, Esq., and Mr. Thomas Hayes. Amongst the articles shown, not for competition, was a splendid series of wire manufactures, from C. D. Young, and Co., of Derby place, St. George's Crescent ; two baskets of potatoes, from Mr. George Barry, seedsman, South Castle-street, one of which was Fox's Seedling, the other Turner's Flukes; they were remarkably fine, and excited much attention. Another lot of potatoes wes regarded with much interest : it consisted of four new seedlings, raised by Mr. John Harrison, of Ince Blundell. None of them showed any symptoms of disease. Mr. Skellon, of the Liverpool Botanical Gardens, obtained the first prize, for • the best collection of twelve indigenous plants gathered within twelve miles of Liverpool. The show , _ in this de partment comprised many fine specimens. Mr. Skirving sent a splendid collection of Coniferae in pots, which being placed in the elegant flower-stands of C. D. Young, and Co., had a fine effect. We have but space to notice the first or head prizes, namely :—Heaths and Groups of Plants, A. Fairrie, Esq., T. Davies and Co. ; Fuchsias, Mr. Leatherbarrow : Geraniums, James Stringer, John Gray, Chas, Rylance ; Roses, R. Griffith, Esq., C. Ry lance, Harold Littledale, Esq. T. S. Gladstone, Esq., Mr. Skirving, and all the gentlemen before named, were also successful in obtaining other prizes. Amongst the successful competitors in other choice specimens were H. Winch, Esq., C. Wilson, Esq., R. Griffith, Esq., 11. Littledale, Esq., Mr. W. Musgrove, T. W. Blundell, Esq., W. H. Hutchinson, Esq., R. W. Preston, Esq., Thomas, Hayes, Esq., and others. Amongst the win ners of the prizes for fruits were Mrs. Phillips, T. W. Blundell, Esq., the Earl of Derby, H. Wynch, Esq., and many other of our neighbouring horticulturists. Mr. Gribbin's excellent band performed through the day, and the large ball of the Corn Exchange was most tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens. The energy with which these exhibitions have been got up reflects much credit upon Mr. J. B. Leatherbarrow, the indefatigable secretary. A steam-packet, (the Edward,) belonging to Messrs. Finch and Co., has commenced running between Toxteth Slip and the Pottery Slip to New Ferry. It cannot fail to prove a very great accommodation. LICENSING SESSIONS.—The annual sessions for the granting of licenses, &c. ' was held on Wednesday, in the Crown Court, before the Mayor, John Holmes and Hugh Hornby, Esqrs. The court was crowded. There were 278 applications for new licenses, but of these only fifteen were granted, as follows :—John Kirk, Hygeia-street ; Jno. Bullen, Walton-road ; Jos. Savage, Great Oxford street North; Silvester Matison, Great Howard-street ; Joshua Wilson Nelson, Gibraltar-row ; Thomas War rington, Chapel-street; Samuel Parsonage, Harrington street; John Martin, Water-street; Samuel Gardner, South Castle-street ; Richard Lupton, Vine-street; Robert Fleming, Hotham-street ; John Scott, Norton street; Mary Parry, Grafton-street; Samuel Walker, Miles-street. The following licenses were forfeited : Thomas Chester, Brownlow-hill ; George Caldwell, Bur lington-street; Margaret Gaynor, Down-street; John Weeks, Edmund• street ; Martin Joseph Curwen, Henry Edward-street; John Bamber, Limekiln-lane; Thomas Potts, Norfolk-street; William Murray, Rupert-street; William Bond, Scotland-road ; John Mulwell, Vauxhall road ; William Humphreys, Chadwick-street; William Morrison Kenneth M'Lean, Litherland-alley. The Mayor then read a list of persons cautioned, observing, that he hoped all publicans would take warning. THE NEW SCREW STEAMER, THE VICTORY.—On Wednesday the beautiful model screw steamer Victory, Captain Coppin, made a trip round the Black Rock for the purpose of testing her sailing qualities, which proved to be very great. She was built by Messrs. Alexander, Denny, and Brother, of Dumbarton, and belongs to the North-West of Ireland Steam Packet Company. She is 150 feet long, 26 feet 6 inches in the beam, and 13 feet in the hold, and will carry 40 cabin and 500 deck passengers. Her machinery was supplied by Messrs. Hick and Son, of Bolton, and her engine is 175 horse power. She is provided with a spar or grating deck for the use of deck passengers, and this is so constructed as to form a com plete and substantial covering and protection for the deck passengers. She has been inspected by Capt. Denham, the Government inspector, and is much approved of by him, as being well adapted for passenger accommodation. She is worked by twenty-three hands. Her state-rooms are beautifully fitted up with blue-cushioned seats and every requisite for comfort and ease. The state-rooms were painted by Ballantyne ; and the surrounding pieces, which are executed with great talent, represent subjects of an historical character, chaste and beautiful in design and execution. This new steamer is destined to ply be tween this port and Londonderry. LIVERPOOL PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.—We refer our readers to the advertisement containing the prospectus to this society, which will be found in another column. There have been many societies of a general character established in Liverpool, but none for clerks exclusively till the present one. From a careful perusal of the rules and tables, we are pleased at being able fully to recommend them to the serious attention of the Liver pool clerks. It must be borne in mind that this is a local institution, and we think it necessary to call attention to the fact, that the high patronage under which it makes its appearance consists of noblemen and gentlemen of oppo site political views, who have kindly given their support and countenance to the society from a conviction of its utility and necessity, without reference to any political bias. We have been informed by the secretary, that a most lively interest has already been evinced by those for whose benefit the association is intended, and that he is literally besieged by applicants for information as to the nature of the rules, &c. It is scarcely necessary for us to say more. The institution is formed for the benefit of a large and respectable body of men, whose interests have been lost sight of, and it only remains to be seen whether they, as a body, will respond to the call. We believe the Custom-house, Post-office, and Railway clerks will be about the first on the list, with the exception of some 300 or 400 Mercantile and Law clerks, friends of the promo ters, who have been aware of the proceedings of the so ciety from its commencement, in April last. MODEL BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—A third suite of baths arid wash-houses have been ordered to be erected by the Health Committee, from plans proposed by the borough engineer, and specially designed to combine the highest possible degree of convenience and comfort, with simplicity in construction, and economy in expense. The site selected is at the junction of Cornwallis-street and Leveson-street, which forms the east corner of the spa cious square enclosing St. Michael's Church and Cemetery, and possesses the rare advantages of being elevated, salu brious, and yet central to a large population, inhabiting one of the most dense parts of the borough. The build ing is designed in the simplest Italian style, two storeys in height, and with projecting roof, and includes first, second, and third-class baths, two classes of washing stalls, each of which will be distinct and separate from the rest, with improved and original contrivances for wringing and drying the clothes. There will be three public plunge baths. The wash-houses Nill form an important feature in the institution, and great attention will be paid to details. The drying of the clothes is intended to be effected by means of a blast of highly desiccated air, a prin ciple perfectly novel. The first stone of the structure was laid on Tuesday, in the presence of a numerous assembly of the principal i ,, habitants and public men of the borough, with their families, by J. A. Tinne, Esq., for several years the chairman of the Health Committee, and a most indefatigable sanitary reformer, to whom his colleagues presented a very elegant silver trowel on the occasion, as an expression of their respect, and as a souvenir previous to his departure to the West Indies, and a consequent resignation of his office. THE PICTURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—BariVard'S pic ture is the accomplishment of a life. He appears at an early age to have set before himself this task to paint the largest picture in the world, and circumstances assisted the object. Banvard (which is a corruption of Bon Verd) is of French lineage, though in manners he is thoroughly American. Being exposed to reverses in early life, he left his native city, New York, and went to Lou'.sville, Kentucky, where he was engaged by a drug gist ; but instead of compounding medicines, as was his duty, he was engaged in sketching with chalk or coal, a proceeding which induced his master to discharge him. The young painter, for he was then but sixteen, set up a shop for himself, which was a failure. His next attempt was at a dioramic exhibition on the Wabash River. Here he and some companions fitted up a boat for the purpose of exhibiting a diorama to the villagers on the banks of the river, but the speculation appears to have been unfortunate. At one time the voyagers meet a storm, and are nearly swamped ; at another the painter takes a fever ; and at a third the boat lodges on a sand bank. The co-partners often had to adopt a somewhat whimsical tariff of admission. Money was scarce, and the belly was of more consequence than the pocket, so that it was not uncommon for a family to come and see the show, the father bringing a bushel of potatoes, the mother a fowl, and the children a pumpkin a piece as the price of admission. In a short time, as business was bad, the dioramic company dissolved partnership, and Banvard painted a panorama of the city of Venice, which was a successful exhibition, but which he soon lost by the sinking of a steamer. His next attempt was a floating museum, but this ruined the exhibitor. The only thing now left to the artist was a small boat, in which he went down the river from St. Louis to Cincinnati. From this he continued to sail down the Ohio river, penniless and friendless, and living upon the nuts he gathered on the banks of the river. On this river the artist came to a small town, where he got some painting to do ; and here he sold a revolving pistol for twenty-five dollars. With, this capital he bought a larger boat, purchased some pro duce, and went a speculating. His method was to buy calico in large towns, sail up the river to the settlements, and traffic with the people for produce, such as giving a yard of calico for two pounds of bees' wax, &c. When his stock was sold out, the artist trader returned to the large towns, and converted his goods into money, by which he made some thousands of dollars. SAINT GEORGE'S HALL.—A cursory view of the in terior of this noble building enables us to furnish a brief description of its progress towards completion. Although the otter or of the pile is justly appreciated, even now, as a splendid specimen of architectural taste in the German style, the beauties of its proportions, and the amount of its chaste decoration, will be much more conspicuous when the present walls enclosing the large area of ground are superseded by appropriate railwork. No one, who has not personally visited and inspected the building from end to end, can form an adequate idea of its magnitude and elegance, in collonades, roofing, and general construction and embellishments,—all of the last peculiarly rich without being in ought gaudy or meretricious. The great hall is even yet in a crude state, so great is the amount of work to be accomplished. The room is one of the largest in Europe, or in the world. It is 169 feet in length ; 65 feet in width, and 84 feet in height. There is a superb col lonade of polished granite on each side, with smaller columns at each end. Eighteen of these columns, each in five pieces, and all of the Corinthian order, are of red variegated, or mottled, granite, and four of shorter stature, at the ends, of grey granite, from the north of Scotland. The large columns are of great height, with rich capitals, and they are all polished to the brightness of a mirror, showing to perfection the beautiful mottle of this ada mantine kind of stone,—far exceeding marble. The columns are now encased in upright spars of wood, to preserve them from injury from the plaster-work with which the walls have yet to receive a final coating. Be tween each column there is a lateral arched recess, form ing, as it were, a continuous gallery on both sides for spectators or quiescent visitors at a ball or public meet ing. The roof is of semi-circular form, the arch being from end to end. This roof is of perforated tile or brick work, for ventilation, and will be beautifully finished in empanelled compartments, the air-holes being left open. There is an outer and flat roof over this. The arch was cast over the immense smq,lF Mos,qrs. S. and J. llolme, and the tiles were figot tWe Vinufantory of Mr. Rollitreup, p of Manchester, the tentee. We are informed that the mere perforation of the bricks has saved a weight in this interior roof of about 1500 tons. The hail, including the galleries, will, it is said, accommodate 7000 persons. There is a large arch at the south end, which, being open, admits a cheerful volume of light. Each of the courts of assize is approached by a wide colonaded passage leading from the great hall. The flooring of these courts is laid already, and the whole of the interior work so far com pleted that it is hoped they will be ready for the transac tion of business at the next August assizes. The crown court and grand jury room are nearly finished. Our readers will observe that a lofty framework is now in course of erection against the portico at the south end of the building. This is for the purpose of hoisting up the fine architecture alto-relief work, by Mr. Cockerill, which is to enrich the triangular pediment over the fine Grecian columns at that end. The steps and ballustrading to be fixed at the same end are all ready for deposit, and it is expected that they will be laid down before Christmas. There is still, however, much to be completed in the general building, (including the concert-hall at the south end,) so far as relates to the interior, and we imagine that full two years will elapse ere the workmen finally leave the building. SPECIAL GENERAL VESTRY ON THE WATER QUESTION. A special general vestry of the ratepayers of Liverpool was held on Thursday, at noon. at St. Nicholas's Church, and by adjournment at the Sessions-house. The meeting was convened by Messrs. Harbord and Dover, churchwar dens, in pursuance of a requisition numerously and re spectably signed. The Venerable Archdeacon Brooks occupied the chair. The first resolution was moved by Mr. J. R. JEFFREY, and with the others will be found in our advertising co lumns. Mr. Jeffery was received with loud applause. He dwelt upon the duty of the advocates of the Pike scheme, in accordance with the demands of the ratepayers, to have tested the present wells; to have seen what was the yield, and what the value of the water purchased; and, if there had been sufficient, they might have acceded to another request by boring deeper, and the response would have been instantly more water. They should have as certained what were the defects of the pipes at present in the streets, and after repairing them then they might have proceeded to Green-lane, and put down an addi tional engine in order to raise the water which was over flowing at the present moment, in which case a great deal of time and money of the burgesses might have been saved. He defended the ratepayers and the Guardian Society from the charges of inconsistency that had been brought against them, and complained that they had been deceived into quietude. When they discovered this they offered remonstrance upon remonstrance, but it was clear they had placed too much confidence i❑ the gentlemen of the day, who had handed over the keeping of that confi dence to an interested party—(loud cheers)—parties di rectly interested in the spending of money, and not in the saving of it. Would not the ratepayers insist on their voi:.es being heard in the Town Council of Liverpool ? And would they, as the majority of those who sent mem bers to that Council, insist on their will being carried out ? Or would they suffer themselves to be treated as of no consequence ? It had been said, and said truly, that taxation without representation was tyranny. He submitted that at that moment they were being tyran nised over. They had sent gentlemen into that Coun cil for a specific purpose—they had gone with specific pledges, and resolved to execute a certain commission; but when they had got themselves firmly seated in the chair, which was so exceedingly comfortable, and inhaled the atmosphere which appeared to turn some men's brains—they then turned round and said, "My opinions are altered,—your will is no longer to be the dictate of my actions,—and I will do whatever I may think proper." November was at hand. Our local parliament had dared to do that which the Imperial Parliament of this great country dared not do. When the Imperial Parliament attempted to increase the income tax, Liverpool raised its voice, as the first town in the kingdom, and said, "No ; it must not be done." The Imperial Parliament hesi tated, absolutely withdrew the proposition, and ceased to act on that question,—so that the people's will was the will of the Parliament. But the local parliament despised the popular will. Should this state of things continue ? It would be for the burgesses, on the Ist of November, to say whether it should or no. He felt much pleasure and much pride in Laving been one of those who gave his name to be inserted in the notice of injunction on the Town Council, to restrain them from misappropriation of the Corporation funds, without the power of an act of Parliament. Mr. J. P. APICNIGHT seconded the motion. Mr. S. HOLME begged to move an amendment. He was received with laughter, hisses, and marks of disap. probation. He . said, it is now man y y ears s i nce , M r. Mayor—(roars of laughter, which continued for some time, followed by a little uproar.) The CHAIRMAN begged that every gentleman who wished to speak should be fairly heard. Mr. S. HoLme said it was quite clear that if the arch deacon had not been a clergyman he would have been mayor. (Laughter.) He came there in an open way, for the purpose of doing that which he believed was his duty, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the town. He was a member of the Town Council, he presumed, for a few weeks longer—(laughter and cheers)—and having given his hearty assent and consent to the bill, which they had obtained from parliament, he must state that the language applied'to the members of the Council was somewhat hard. He then read an extract from the Mercury, in which the following passage occurred :—" The ratepayers were shamefully and wickedly deceived and duped by those whose duty it was to have enlightened and protected them." Mr. Holme then referred to the early history of the water question, and read several extracts from the Mercury, in which the Pike scheme was lauded, and the opposition of the Standard and Journal reprobated. He then proceeded to show that Mr. R. S. Henderson, Mr. Procter, Mr. Preston, - Mr. Kaye, Mr. J. Lawrence, and Mr. Bennett had voted in favour of the Pike scheme, although they now opposed it. They were told these clauses were not compulsory. When they applied for a dock act, or any other act, they did not expect it to be a dead letter. They had been told by Mr. Jeffery that the supply from the red sandstone had not been tested. That was a question settled before parliament. (Never.) It was a question whether they could get a sufficient supply. (Cries of " Time, time.") Adding the cost of pumping, &c., to the expense of getting water from the red sand stone, he could show that the Rivington plan would be the cheapest. (No.) They could exhaust anything. How did they get tin ? Look at the coal•pits. It was by exhausting water from the red sandstone that they got coal. Mr. Holme proceeded to refer to what they were doing at Bristol, where works were now being constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Simpson, and stated that he had a letter from the town-clerk of Bristol, who said every working man in that city might soon have a tap in every room in his house. A good deal had been said about compensation to the millowners. The act of par liament gave the corporation power to impound the water over thirty miles of country, compelling them only to leave one-third, and yet the people turned round and said they were paying large compensation. He begged the meeting to remember, that under the general Water works Act, if they went on tunnelling under Green-lane, every inhabitant of West Derby would have a claim on the purse of the Corporation. He begged the ratepayers to receive it as a warning from him, that they would have greater compensation to pay to the owners of property in the immediate neighbourhood of Liverpool, if they got the water by cutting a tunnel, than they would if they went to Rivington. (Try it.) If they allowed the act to ex pire, the result would be, that they would be driven to the river Dee or to Rivington, and then they would have to pay a money compensation, instead of getting two-thirds of the water for nothing. Mr. AMBROSE LACE, in rising to second the amend ment, was received with loud hissing. He said it was quite necessary that something should be said, because he had not heard one word that day from the proposer of the original motion, except assertion. He had no object in view except the general benefit of the town. He had nothing but what was in the property of the town, and if the getting of this water from Rivington was either pre judicial or expensive to property, he would feel it as much as any one. On this subject he did not profess to speak from his own knowledge. He had never given his mind to geology, but he had endeavoured to get the best infor • mation he could, and he had no hesitation in placing its assertions against the assertions of Mr. Jeffery. All the most eminent geologists of the country told them there was not the quantity of water within the limits, except at a greater expense than the Rivington scheme. There was not a town, ancient or modern, which got a supply of water from underneath that town, unless it was drawn from a distance of from fifty to sixty miles. if it were not for the expense be should recommend them to go to Bala Lake, where it was morally impossible they could ever exhaust the supply, but the expense would be nearly two millions. As to filling up the wells, that never was intended. They did hope that the wells would not be used. They would all admit they were not supplied with water sufficient. (" Yes, plenty.") The next point was, where they would get it. He said they could not get it in the red sandstone rock, and that they could get it cheapest at Rivington. There had been many schemes for raising water from the river. He would say nothing of the ex pense, but he understood that if they used salt water for watering the streets, and a high wind came, the dust spoiled the tradesmen's goods. (Oh, oh.) Had none of them ever got their hats spoiled with salt water ? You, said he, have got this act. He gloried in the share which he took in getting that act, because he believed it the best thing that could be done for the good of the town. However valiant they might be in that room, when they went to parliament they would be turned to the right about. (Oh.) Mr. SMITH replied, and contended that he had only ad vocated going to Rivington in case the local supply was found deficient, and the extent of that had never yet been tested. Mr. HARBORD said that when he came to the meeting he had no intention of taking part in the proceedings. But if he understood rightly what Mr. Lace said, he seemed to place his support of the amendment on two great arguments. He wished to assume to himself a great deal of sincerity in the matter, and he wished them to take as an argument in favour of carrying out the Riving ton scheme, that he (Mr. Lace; had some property in Liverpool. Now, they all knew that people did very foolish things, from investing money in railway shares, down to cutting their throats, when they had got no more to invest—(laughter)—and he did not see how it followed that because a man had property, and that it would be de teriorated by a certain act, why they should necessarily follow his suicidal example; and besides, it might have been quite possible to suppose there would be a compen sating balance elsewhere. The second argument brought to bear on this subject by the gigantic intellect of Mr. Lace was, that for certain geological reasons we should go to Rivington. But Mr. Lace, at the very onset, asserted his absolute innoc ence o f an y knowledge of geology at all ; ,and he Den Mok it on himself to tell tilip meeting about 'the ferkreandstone, aid about the water drat was net there, and abTut a great many other things which, as he said, he evidently did not understand. He was glad to hear the ex-chairman of the Water Committee say it never was the intention to dismantle the engines, &c., or to do other wise than to keep the wells as a dernier resort. (Hear, hear.) What did it imply ? That they had not faith in their own scheme. (Cheers.) If they believed all they would cram down the throats of the burgesses, they would not make this excuse for keeping the present wells, with their beautiful water. Mr. Holme graphically described the mode in which the Highway Board had been extin guished—" snuffed out." (Hear, hear.) This was used as an argument for proceeding with the Pike scheme. If so, it was an extinguisher under false pretences ; they put out the farthing rushlight with the municipal extinguisher, under the pretence that they were going to give them wax instead. He (Mr. Harbord) would merely say, if the press and the public supported this scheme under false pretences, so much the more shame for those who misled them, and so much the more guilt was on their shoulders for such a course ; and he saw no argument in favour of the Pike projectors from the statement of Mr. Holme. Then they were favoured with the extraordinary announce ment, that acts of parliament were always compulsory. He (Mr. Harbord) did not pretend to much legal lore, Sept. IS_2.t Pe r° but he had seen acts of parliament which were _„„e sive. If he recollected rightly, the Corporation suia a'o) in getting placed in the water company's *et . rpe s oy powers to purchase those works, at a c ertain enc e iolfl, believed it was a notorious fact. that within theifbi: I years, fifty-five railway acts had been rePe ale rjseP j I were equally compulsory with the Rivingto n or t,s s, j (Great applause.) Mr. Holme asked a yeti P etli ° question with reference to mines. How do they gopel (Great laughter.) How do they get tin ? By the water out. He (Mr. Harbord) would ask Mr. ;f, how the Rivington Pike people expected to get eni, permitting their dirty water to come to Live r P °o . pumping the tin out of the pockets of the burg , (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Holme had refertoro Bristol, Manchester, and other places. Mauc h d, fo' intrinsically a manufacturing town, which req uire pe l purposes not domestic, a vast amount of water a to fol was no reason why Liverpool should be comPe lle low their example ; the eases were not at a ll P, to Then, with regard to Bristol, they were not e' i gto°, there the silly thing which was to be done at Ititc;ll,'tl,' It was proposed to furnish Bristol with wat er Ir, Mendip hills,—the water springs from the side s ° iv fit" hills, and that town would be supplied ex clusiv e c°6'spring water. Mr. Holme had told them that ...th e fps pensation clauses were not understood. He (t ur. F pote ° bord) hoped, with reference to the compensation ol d 17e r of in the disastrous act of 1847, that it never .w i ° l n fe; understood by the burgesses of Liverpool. do s ence ence to this matter, there had been something Oa, the £4500 compensation to Mr. Pendlebure- ge. e Harbord declared that this gentleman bad n e .;e the value of a shilling for this £4500 he had Wel re, was to receive. Mr. Chippend a l e w as also to bay bo e, ; a year, and he gave nothin g fo r it. (C r ies of S ro ino ° , In addition to this special cl a use inserted in this ode; act, by which those gentlemen were entitled t° i 'beeo; compensation than any other parties interested-I . ° o 0! —he (Mr. Harbord) did not hesitate to say that interested- I. °o iniquitous part of this "ruinous bill of pains and P e . as Mr. Avison had properly styled it on a Preve's-ted ° I ; casion, was that any party, high or low, int e . r f beo o disinterested, were bou g ht o ff on this occasi°°' I f OP P °'' ke w J as as. ( w A h p o pi w au a s s e, st a i l l i l d a stiff-necked v oice,,Li put his head or his hand up with the intention o to , ing it. Some they deceived into complianeellasrij And now about sealing the contracts. The burges-ceille.; had many a blow inflicted upon them by the Cl o gl" fore; they had many a heavy whack ; but the se t ! " f tlic'•: l on those contracts did more harm than all t u d e ,, r iN they had had put together. And as to the a° rd) was all moonshine. (Cheers.) He (Mr. fisnte b T e t u lo g m ht so i n n , t t o h e e e b i" te r cws eri s not hesitate, in his place in Council, to denoun ce „ c ! politi dr cally imm • oral a " of° honest. (Hear, hear.) Th e o n ly au thority e a", had was under the advice of the town-clerk. ( y r ; re ts? ° ;, bation.) Gentlemen would put I heir own int er r.. n eve h ",l on such an act. It had been suggested to him t°`oo" what an admirable contrast wasresented by the 's itt ee. of Mr. Henderson, the Chairma n t . th e D Co 3'll.' sPri o Doc" d (Applause.) He simply appealed to the law an. of the case, and was c on t en t t o a bid e by the decio O . R s' voice—" A cheer for Mr. Henderso n. ." Th e c 9 wer t e heartily responded t o .) the amendment was put, an d a b ou t ten ba n ,"„¢3 o ' held up in favour, and some f our or fi ve hundre d 4 it. be The CHAIRMAN declared the amen dment t ° , i t and amidst applause, and the original motion wa s r od carried. a The Venerable Archdeacon th en vaca ted the e l ' s° te Mr. Churchwarden Harbord occupi e d it. Se., Mr. S. HOLME then rose amidst cries O. 05 1 already," " Order," " Chair," &c. When silenc`e, tlll5 s ot' l some measure restored, he said he was exece ing2/ ious that there should be an end put to agitation asst; question, and that the publi c opi n i on s h o uld be e l Pseila' therefore he demanded a poll a s th e f a i re st way o f ning it. (Disapprobation.) mo t ' lll Mr. JEFFREY, as the mover of the origina, - h ,islei should be very happy to assen t th a t a po ll s houl d d, r", A number of othe r sp eec h es were th en delive re og' we have already given the principal arguments, l i s t readers will no doubt have read sufficient about tb some question. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The re- °I so T, of . tion of the Marine Committee for the appointo; 011 1 1 ; officers to the Albert Dock warehouses, Ste. , wll d de e , firmed. The petition of John Kelly, a discharget ict• gateman, was not entertained. A long rneul ° , r h a e 0 1 , h ; read from the operative porters, and referred t° f committee. A letter was read from the secrets' ° ef t h ee Underwriters' Association respecting the ren30, 13 ,, co t' buoys at the mouth of the Ribble, without o° ' ova be exp explained being given. The chairman t h a t the b°' er r In •je been placed there by the Ribble Navigation Co. its 0 „ sequence, however, of the chan ne l on the 00'1,01 of the river having been fou n d p re f era ble for o tr the buoys had been remov e d, d ue no ti c e of wl" e "" to have been given. fir , Ch. a b l ; WEST DERBY GUARDIANS, W EDNE SDAY. -- - of mers reported to the board that the ap p o int e 1 lay domiciliary visitors in his dist r i c t had been sags with very satisfactory re s u lt s . I nnum erable ti bowel complaint had, through thei r a gency, b ee ° e net, municated to him which otherwise might have lected. Mr. Sidney withdrew his motion for th e : c e went of an inspector of nuisances. Mr. .M'C u— a pe ll S notice that he should move, next Wednesday , t i t tie - di e overse er of Mr. Musker, as a s si s t an t °verge . 0 1 ' letter from the Poor-law Board was read, relsu.'not aceo appointment of Mr. John Whitehead, as as s ' s ' oPi ° ,:7 seer to the West Derby township, expressing the l n f 1 „ that that gentleman was appointedat salar9 " eel a t se per annum. Mr. Smith said that the letter ° 1 “. eiss. se law Board was contemptible and s h u ffling, as',.; of nothing but "ifs." Mr. Sidney gave note o f t e 's; would move, next Wednesday, the appointmen t " o rb r • dent medical officer for the township of Litherla wo o r the suggestion of the Rev. Mr. Badnall, a Pla ce se P °° dered to be covered in for the accommodation of t applicants waiting for relief. qnc f/I T HALE FLORAL AND AGRICULTURAL 0- , -- 15 ,1 Tuesday, the annual meeting of members 8° ;,. 0 , 56 :0f of this society, for the exhibition of fruits, fll'„"dlarde cultural produce, &c., was held in the beautiful to 014 Hale, and notwithstanding the unfavourable sipectr,er weather the attendance w as numerou s and ren e s t e,` e r and the show was, on the whole, one of the O w selP t i witnessed ender the auspices of the association roclocv as regards rare plants and flowers, or the Bl e achgener sl .„ P of the field or the garden. After the show, I :; t y . . burne and his friends, at the head of the sl e 'vdeclF dressed the assemblage outside of the tent, °f a . ce - ide the prizes, complimenting the successful enti a ': e l s on , set titors. The Rev. Mr. Steward, Mr. Robert rely fee,),4 Nickson and others, addressed the assemblage 101 l terms. The following were amongst the prineiqbooreto prizes :—The cleanest cottage, Richard Mason ; 4 00 th e oo e cottage, also roots and vegetables, Thomas of .e• best roses and creepers, Thomas Ireland; mode s ; fall; tage and garden, Dunbavin ; fruits, Tim. M:, a° sfe s ,,, ° l ol tables, Stephen Appleton ; window plants, ‘`..* ke r n; dahlias, Richard Mason ; red roses, pansies, ‘ s ‘, ; th, e t ,te cucumbers, W. Beesley ; sweet herbs, Thos. t he -05 &c., &c. Amongst the first prizes awarded t b ° scribers, or tenant farmers were :—White Allen ; red wheat, James Cowley ; oats, W. r„3" of barley, Henry Houlgrave ; beans, John El"!;deficeo; turnips, Wm. Walker; mangels, James Bireb, g flowers, John Molyneux ; cabbage, Rober t o o cucumbers, James Green ; carrots, ditto ; P Martha Hosker ; celery, George Fleetwood. A SPECIAL FORM OF PRAY b ou t cr bos a Of To be used in all Chur c h es an d Chapels throe. Is o 0 0 Parts of the United Kingdom called B it a • Ireland, instead of the Prayer used during s ao r,oB Common Plague or Sickness, on Sundays, o bt o oog Prevalence of Cholera in this Country;. t er besee C oit l) Pardon of our Sins ; and, particularly, r Dl . : .,es ge God to remove from us that grievous c ist which many places in the Kingdom are n ew J O ~.tor BY HER MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COM , — „ crtnl e j j , " 0 Almighty God and Father, whose power tw s lo f to able to resist, and in whose hands are the is su . e e o death: look down, we beseech Thee, from 11 ea' 00_,, t d ling-place, upon us Thine unworthy servantsz„ e ss s ; f r e e6 Thee, their only refuge, in this season of sic'' o t dep;oll i d mortality. 'We confess, 0 Lord, that we have 0 , ha g t oe o f be free from that visitation of Thy wrath, whiq o gis t 1 0 r other nations of the earth. We acknowledge la•ol 0 01 0 411 contrition that we have shown ourselves unthan r ode, jii7 o , special mercies vouchsafed to us, and have Ile t ,i e btai c ° oo turn for our national blessings, which Thou n„ro v" 4,01 require at our hands. We have departed fr;bitiPAeir e rs mandments ; we have followed too much' the %:,,,,r oo ff j present world ; and in our prosperity we have, in, „, honoured "lhee, the Author and Giver of it 4 €l to deal with us after our sins, or reward us ac — , fr e e, iniquities, we could not stand in Thy sight. Goo o r tbs , " But Thou hast revealed Thyself unto us BS . a u oivo..o l jog and forgiveness, towards those who confess their Info l; wilt- ox ., and turn to Thee in repentance and prayer. t i l ed ~g 1 provoked Thee to wrath, and thousands fell bY pestilence, Thou didst stay the sword of tbe 4i f e d, Nio pi ,en leg when the purpose of Thy judgment was fu l ' Tou t s men of Nineveh repented of their iniquitY , .. e d 6 t to aside the fierceness of Thine anger, and slg" the ir el o etyte city, when Thou savvest that they turned froT„ r icb c it 0. 0 1?, " And now, 0 Lord, we entreat Thee after t l i 'ge SP ' ,00:;11 1 ; grant unto us Thine afflicted servants the ' st ies') pentance, that Thou mayest withdraw Thy eh' s l ie lme t o our land, and stay the plague and grievous ... Ae ist,. o abroad, making many desolate. May the4:7, i» Tb9lD Thou hast sent, work in us a more lively faith' to o f obedience, a more earnest endeavour to cot! sen sib,,,, and to advance Thy glory. Make us dulY_,, lit yql_ gran , goodness, in maintaining the domestic trancir an d If t ° 001 in preserving us from intestine commotin o ttillocl i 4 a plentiful return to the labours of our bUs , v on 00 us to show our thankfulness for these mercies, o f op . d, desire to relieve distress, to remove all occasion 01;0, 4 and murmurings, and to promote go ur , l o stsol ie sfo o plri amongst ourselves. And may the frequo!',4 the O o f tality which we have beheld, remind us alt i'bot death and dispose ns so to number our daY.s , or dY7lll'o' our hearts unto wisdom : that, whether living.. u m e , he found faithful disciples of Him vvh o bn o tiog sting of death, and opened the gate of ev e ' and $ ti re; believers. • great ; o ur V' " Hear us, 0 Lord, for Thy goodness is the se to the multitude of Thy b' merc i es receive .• through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. " „oPi o t or Sio THE WEATHER AND THE URODS. —The favo° t the week just past was, upon the virli c ''_' fi d Des l a* i re P iot the completion of the grain harveshti;)o;rhood bole wheat, oats, and barley in this neig— _;d to be e 0 0 .40 1 stacked in good order, and may average of crops in quality and we may state, that Harold Littledealbilin,sttiy.si:!ac' scrs.loo:(_°,`,l.lll7orl:: has at his farm got under cover five „ oak sni.' r y. to two of oats, and four of hay, each 01 ,";tisfse_ i _ c tecl o ll in length. The yield has been most ; re j o te ireot regret to say, however, that Tota tee wo hoPe',..d . e e ,eef; considerable , extent with rot. f this ese"- tte r P oe we can learn, that the general crop 0 . . o f 1 0 h sti o be more abundant, and, with painsta i o,'! s We o oe ing quality, than for some years ba n ch::_ iy p oo heavy fall of rain from Saturday to et" day. Yesterday was a lovely day. 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