The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Mercury is ever prone to impute motives to those who differ from it, and insinuates that we had "reasons" for sup pressing in our report of the inquest in the late cases of cho lera " pll !illusion to points which are usually considered very '.. essential in such twitters." The fact is, that our reporter was taken seriously ill, soon after the inquest, and was unable on Monday to attend at the office to complete his report. which was certainly sent to press in a form in which it would not have appeared but for that circumstance. Whilst upon the subject, we may observe, that owing to the unavoidable absence of one of the editors, and the misplacement of several corrected proofs, a number of typographical errors were ph served in our last publication which would not otherwise have been allowed. THE FANCY Far t is suggested by a correspondent that the children of the Blue Coat Hospital, and of all the public and charity schools in the town, should be treated to a ram ble in the Prince's park during some one or other of the three days. We have not had an opportunity of making any enquiries on the subject ; but we take it for granted that the suggestion has been anticipated by all the heads of our edu cational establishments. ; and certain we are that the com mittee of the grand festival will afford every facility for the admission of the children, at such times, and in such man ner, as may not interrupt the progress of the proceedings for the benevolent object in view. We may add that, in our opinion, a procession, from time to time, of school children, led by their teachers; showing their little flags and banners; offering up an occasional hymn or song; gamboling on the green sward. cr enjoying the sights—to them novel and de lightful—would form, to well-reculated minds, an appro priate and affecting attraction. That they would be treated with buns and other slight refres:hment by their respective generous patrons and others, we can entertain no doubt. tßib.r:rpoot &tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 7, 1849. The Niagara mail steamer, which arrived yester day from New York, brings very little news of a 5 ;nmercial nature. Business was almost entirely nded, the heat of the weather, and the preva- A: , ! of the cholera, having driven most of the merchants to their summer resorts. Money was in abundance, and the rate of interest very low. The Niagara brings, the season considered, an unusually fair amount of orders for British manufactures. THE history of our dealings towards the wretched negro race presents the most lamentable instance of national backsliding and selfishness ever exhi bited to the world. We were acting righteously and nobly when we first interfered to put down the slave trade, as carried on by our own countrymen, and to discourage it, as carried on by the foreigner. We were munificent when we liberated, at a heavy cost, the negroes in our own colonies. But every subsequent legislative act of ours towards the African has been marked by gross inconsistency and even hypocrisy. We have been negotiating with foreign powers to put down the slave trade by force, whilst we have given it a tenfold increase by our encouragement of slave cultivation. We have sent fleet after fleet to cruise along the swampy and pestilential shores of Africa to put down the traffic in men ; but whilst our gallant sailors have been swept away by disease, and decimated yearly in the effort, the mock philanthropists of Great Britain have been neutralising the work by clamouring for cheap slave-grown sugar. We have offered, in short, by out legislation, a premium upon the felon trade, at which we affected to hold up our bands in pious horror. It would seem at length, however, that we are to be driven into a consistent course of action, with respect to this trade. It is now acknowledged that, with our markets opened to the produce of slave cultivation, the exertions of our African squadron have been almost abortive, and all the valuable lives lost upon that station literally thrown away. The following statement, taken from the Foreign office Reports, affords convincing proof of this fact : Number of Slaves Number captured exported. by cruisers. 1840 64,114 .. .. 3,616 1841 • • • . 45,097 .. .. 5,966 1842 28,400 .. .. 3,950 1843 • . • • 55,062 .. 2,797 1844 54.102 4,577 1845 36,758 3;519 1846 76,116 2,783 1847 84,356 .. .. 3,967 The exportation of 1848 is expected to amount to 100,000, of which not more than 6000 or 7000 have been captured. Let the reader remark particularly the large increase in the exportations since 1845. Up to that year. under a system of moderate pro tection to our own free-labour colonies, the trade declined. The profits of the slave trader and culti vator were not worth the risk to be encnuntpred. The passing of the sugar bill, admitting slave grown produce, more than doubled the exportation of •slaves in a single year, whilst the number of captures was absolutely decreased ! But we have further evidence from these reports, which prove incontestibly the fact that it is to the increased price which we are giving to the slave cultivator, that we are to attribute the increased energy with which the slave trade is carried on. We beg to refer our readers to the following table, showing the effect upon the trade of a rise and fall of the price of ordinary Havana sugar at different periods : Averate price of sugar per Rise or fall. cwt. s. d. 1820 to 1825 31 0 Increase or decrease, in slave trade. 1825 to 1830 34 6 9 per cent. rise 21 per cent. increase 1830 to 1835 24 8 29 per cent.fall 37 per cent. decrease 1835 to 1840 29 3 19 per cent. rise 73 per cent. increase 1840 25 4 13 per cent.fall 53 per cent. decrease 1841 to 1845 21 1 17 per cent.fall 29 per cent. decrease 1845 to 1847 25 7 18 per cent. rise 44 per cent. increase There are obviously only two courses open to us as a consistent people. The utter impossibility of our putting down the slave trade by our present policy is admitted by the report of the recent corn niittee upon this subject. We must, therefore, either withdraw the squadron at once, and allow the trade to be carried on openly, or what would far better become the character of a Christian nation, decrease the profitable nature of slave cultivation by extending a moderate protection to our own colonists. We cannot go on sacrificing the national revenue, and destroying the lives and health of our gallant seamen in the abortive endeavours which we have been making. Both policy and humanity demand its abandonment. Very little more effectual have been our efforts of a more peaceable description, by treaties and free settlements, to put down this trade. Nothing can do it, save the adoption of a protective policy, or a complete change in the social condition of the African people themselves. Upon this part of the subject we beg attention to the following extract from a letter addressed by a gentleman who has resided for a long period in an official station at Sierra Leone : " I am not," remarks the writer, " one of those who place any importance on the third argument put forward for maintaining a squadron upon the coast of Africa, and upon which Lord Denman writes a good deal of vigorous eloquence. Domestic slavery under no system can be more general, or under a worse form, than it exists at present in Africa, with the single exception of the English settlements. In every Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch settlement upon the coast, it exists in as revolting a form as in the slave ship. They who hold nominal treaties with us for the suppression of a barbarous traffic, encour age and foster domestic slavery from Cape Mount to Cape Palrnos ; from the Shebar and Gallinas rivers to the con fines of free Liberia; from the shoals of Bisago to the northern extremity of the peninsula of Sierra Leone. At Calabar, in 1847, for the purpose of marking some remarkable occurrence (I think it was the poisoning of a king) the chieftains cut the throats of 100 slaves. Of what advantage in arresting this awful wrong was our squadron riding at anchor, or running before the winds upon some idle chase ? In the very treaties which we sign, upon the part of our sovereign with the native chiefs of Africa, we have to acknowledge their right to establish domestic slavery; and it is highly improbable that any treaties with native chiefs for suppressing the export of slaves can be binding upon men who recognize the justice of domestic slavery. From what I have seen of domestic slavery in Africa I think its horrors are more lingering and infinitely more severe than the middle passage. I have seen the infant children and wives of chieftains working in slave gangs to satisfy debts due to another chieftain. I should be glad to learn, sir, if our squadron was 3,000 miles away from the west coast of Africa, what worse state of things than that I have depicted could exist, or how can its withdrawal from the coast let loose any fresh horrors in the slave trade which do not exist there while I write ?" The removal of such a state of things, by the spread of civilisation, must evidently be a work re quiring such a length of time that it is Quixotic to hope for any speedy and sensible diminution of the slave trade from this source. A far more effectual course would be such a protective policy as would attract negro labour to our own colonies, and so increase the supply of sugar as to render slave cultivation by imported slaves unprofitable. This voluntary immigration, however, the same writer considers, is checked by the presence of our squa dron, and the means resorted to for its promotion. The withdrawal of the squadron, he says,— " Will be found to exercise a most salutary effect in the encouragement of free emigration from the coast of Africa. I have witnessed the abuses of the liberated African de partment in Sierra Leone. The native African sees the slaves whom we have professed to set free, confined in a yard, surrounded by a wall 20 feet high, and at length drau2hted into a vessel for another land. He deems this country converted into a nursery to supply the West I ndie with slaves in another form, and in many instrnces ob jact to go to a land which requires compulsion to induce men to visit it. See, sir, the unhappy anomalies which attend the support of a system whose very successes are t'ius converted into evils." THE tide of commerce has at length begun to flow once more in favour of our manufacturing population. The exports of the leading staple, cotton goods. have increased largely during the past six months, notwithstanding the still dis turbed condition of a large portion of Europe; and if our home consumption were upon its ordi nary scale, we ought at this moment to be in a condition of great prosperity. We shall endeavour to lay before our readers a few of the leading features of this increase, as shown in Mr. Burn's Commercial Glance, just published. In the article of Cotton Yarn we exported during the first six months of this year 58,606,9041b5., against 46,774,8131b5. in the first six months of last year. This quantity, however, does not exceed the average ,of the five years from 1842 to 1846. The export of this particular article will, however, have been materially affected by continental dis organization. The most important increase is in the two leading fabrics of plain calicoes and printed and dyed calicoes. Of the former we exported in the past six months 345,769,822 yards, against 252.855,726 yards last year, being an increase of 92.914,096 yards. This is the largest export of the article which we have as yet reached. The in crease has been principally to the following ports, as per statement annexed : Plain Calicoes exported during the first six months of 1848 and 1-839. 1848. 1849. Yards. Yards. 21,093,350.. 27,811,052 Brazils Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. 4,165,778.. 10,755,840 Egypt 4,318,503.. 0,398,428 India 60,644,965.. 100,270,034 China 23,195,725..35,102,969 Trieste, Austrian Ports, &c. 4,137,311.. 9.382,601 Turkey and Levant 30,496,766.. 40,52903 It may be remarked as sindular that there is a falling off in our shipments to the United States, which have been only 7,518,155 yards this year, against 9 : 950,156 yards last year, and 22,130,635 yards in 1847. The British West Indies, in fact, have taken more than the United States, and British North America nearly as much. Our exports of printed and dyed calicoes have also been greater than in any former half year, being 196,395,897 yards, against 136,850,593 yards in 1848. The increase has been to the following countries : 1848. 1849 Yards. Yards. 14,969,683.. 16,661,850 Brazils Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. 2,274,769.. 7,198,699 British West Indies British North America. 4,589,811.. 5,701,857 Belgium Coast of Africa Chili and Peru Columbia Foreign West Indies Turkey and Levant Trieste Austrian Ports, &c 1,504,401.. 3,722,517 Sardinia, Tuscany, &c Naples and Sicily Mexico.. India Holland 6,453,556, 7,499,720 United States 19,220,121.. 24,724,232 The export of this article would seem to have been materially affected by the Californian gold discoveries, which have attracted supplies in that direction. To Chili and Peru, for instance, there is an increase of ten million yards in the half year. From these returns we cannot fail to be struck with the importance to this country of maintaining our command of the trade with Turkey and the Levant, Sardinia, Tuscany, &c„ which is at present being seriously menaced by the encroachments of Russia in the East; and upon this subject the following remarks from an able article in Frazer's Magazine of this month are worthy of serious consideration : " Probably (says the author of an ably-written pam phlet which we have before us), probably there are few who will seek to justify the conduct of the Russian Go vernment in taking possession of the property of a neigh bouring and friendly power; but there are many who af firm that, in affairs of countries so remote, England has no interest, and ought to take no part. Yet the interest of England, in preserving the integrity of the Ottoman em pire, is direct and evident. One of the most lucrative branches of our continental commerce, that carried on with the Levant, would be undoubtedly annihilated if Russia should succeed in attaining the great object of her ambi-, tion—the possession of Constantinople. By far the largest portion of our exports to the East passes through the Dardanelles in order to reach, by a sufficiently cheap route, the markets of Turkey, Persia, and Central Asia. But these exports, consisting, almost entirely of com pletely manufactured articles, would be excluded from this passage, and, consequently, from the countries beyond it, as soon as Russia, according to her invariable policy, had extended her present tariff, virtually prohibitive of such articles, to her new dominions. It is to the liberal com mercial.system of Turkey, that the Levant or Greek trade owes its present vast extension, and the almost unlimited prospect which it affords of future development. With the fortunes of the Ottoman empire, this important source of our national prosperity is indissolubly con nected. That the whole weight of the Russian power is pressing slowly and surely upon Constantinople, who will deny ? Each year, each conquest, each encroachment, adds strength to the impetus ; each year, each conquest, each encroachment, diminishes the power of resistance, and accelerates the final catastrophe which will be fatal to Turkey, but not less fatal to England. Is the condition of this country such that we can afford to lose a market of two millions and a-half annually without a struggle? 'What the chances of that struggle would be, it is easy to foresee. The expenses of the war would fall in a time of grievous commercial depression. The contention would be with an enemy who can afford to lose both vessels and men ; while with us every sailor, every spar, every block, represents a certain sum in hard cash, and one which, in the end, we should find it difficult to replace. For the struggle once begun, cannot end unless it be with the an nihilation of either the one or the other of the contending parties. England and Russia represent two hostile prin ciples, and they represent them on the largest possible scale. The world is too narrow to hold them both. To check the career of Russia before she has attained the only point on which she can safely commence that struggle ; to do that by an enlightened and energetic diplomacy, which otherwise must be done with the blood, the sinews, and bones cf our sailors and soldiers; and to risk even the chances of a present war to to the certainty of a war of extermination, which must commence before the end of the next ten years, is a plan which even the familiars of Mr. Cobden and Elihu Burritt would hesitate to con demn. Yet it appears we are fated to choose of two evils, not that which is least, but that which is most remote. There is a large increase in all except a few in considerable articles of the cotton manufacture ; and the condition and prospects of the trade are very promising, as shown by the fact that the con sumption of the raw material supplied to the trade from this port has increased from 28,652 bags per week in the first three months of the year to 31,831 in the second three months. The following is Mr. Burn's calculation of the stock and movements of the raw material : Bags and Bales. Stock of cotton in the ports Ist Jan. 1849, 496,050 Ditto in hands of spinners and dealers.. 100,000 596,050 Imported from Ist Jan. to 30th June .. 1,342,621 Total Deduct exported 107,378 Supply up to 2oth June Consumption (251 weeks) 33,176 weekly 845,993 Stock of cotton in England and Scotland on 30th June, equal to 29i- week's consumption Of which 855,300 bags are in ports and 130,000 bags in the hands of spinners and dealers. AN instance of the increased audacity of the Popish faction in this country has just occurred in the northern portion of this county. During the last four or five years the Romanists have been erecting at Burnley . a magnificent Roman Catholic cathedral, of large size, and most ambitious in its structure, decorations, &c., in which they hav e b een aided, pecuniarily, by the wealthy family ofTownel e y. On Wednesday last, this building was appointed to be opened, with all the gorgeous rites with which this heretical church seeks to entrap the imaginations of the unthinking public, and we understand that a body of about 40 ecclesiastics had been assembled for the occasion under the roof Mr. Townley Parker. Of course we should have had no exciting cause to remark upon the occurrence, bad it been conducted without insult to the Protestant portion of the town and neigh bourhood. Such, however, has not been the case. On the contrary, the most marked assault has been directed against the religious feelings of the Pro testant clergy and laity, by a circular addressed to a large number of both, inviting them to give their " attendance and support " on the occasion. This insult, we art glad to find, has been replied to in a ler) , proper manner by our Protestant bre thren in the locality, whose pastors have felt it their duty to warn their flocks against the wiles of Popery in the following admirable address : "BELOVED PROTESTANT PARISHIONERS.—As you have been expressly invited, by a private circular, to give your " attendance and support" to-morrow, at the opening of the Roman Catholic Chapel in this town, we deem it our duty, as your authorized pastors, and as faithful ministers of the Reformed Catholic Church of England, to admo nish you not to be present, or in any way to countenance that gorgeous ceremonial. You are informed in the cir. cular you have received of the splendid music and fine eloquence with which you will be entertained, but you are not instructed in the nature of that worship to which you are invited to be spectators. You are not told of the signing of the cross above the threshold of the building to make the " demons fly." You are not told of the " sprinkling ashes over the pavement of the church in the shape of a cross," nor of the praying to saints and angels almost without number, to " pray for" the poor worship pers • ' nor how " theglorious Virgin Mary and all the saints will be joined with Almighty God," in the dedication of the altar. You are not told of " holy relics," (bits of bones and scraps of rags most likely,) which will be " borne about by priests on the retie bier," " deposited in the sepulchre of the altar," " incensed by" the bishop, and thus prayed over,—" Grant that they whose relics we here venerate with pious affection may ever aid us by their merits." You are not told how the bishop will bless salt and ashes, and then thus address the salt,—" I exor cise thee, creature salt, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; I exorcise thee that thou be sanctified for the consecratiwz of this and altar, and for the doing away of all temptations of demons; and to all who shall taste thee be thou a safeguard of soul and body, health, protection to confirm their salvation." Nor are you told how he will pray over the ashes, saying, " Send down from heaven thy holy angel to bless and sanctify these ashes, that they be a wholesome remedy to all who humbly call upon thy holy name, and grant, through our calling upon thy most sacred name, that whosoever shall be sprinkled with these for remission of their sins, may gain health of body and protection for the soul, through Christ our Lord." And the last, though not the least, you are not told. how, to crown all, when this mournful mixture of scriptural supplication and magical incantation shall be ended, the bishop or priest will profess to CREATE lIIS CREATOR, and the assembled multitude of earnest, but most deluded, Romanists fall down and worship a PIECE OF PASTE, WHICH EVERY SENSE —TASTE, TOUCH, SIGHT AND SMELL—PRONOUNCE TO BE WHAT IT WAS BEFORE CONSECRATION, MERE FLOUR AND WATER. "Beloved parishioners, such will be some of the perform ances you must sanction, if you allow your ears to get the better of your judgment, or your curiosity to be stronger than your conscience. We write in sorrow not in anger; nor can the Romanists blame us for thus addressing you, they themselves having placed us under the necessity of doing so, by distributing their circulars amongst you, which ought to have been confined to the members of their own communion. We bring no railing accusation against the Church of Rome; we have taken the preceding quo. tations from the "Service for the Consecration of a Church, in English and Latin, extracted from the Roman Pontifi cal," and the correctness of which the Romanists them selves will not deny. Is it proper, then, is it consistent, that you should share in such a scene Can you do so with a quiet conscience ? Would you be able to justify it before God ? Were you to go, you must go either to wit ness or to worship. In the former case you must see what you could hardly forbear to ridicule, which would be highly improper; in the latter case, you must with your eyes open participate in idolatry. Your going would en courage others to look to your example to go on subse quent occasions, and consequently, you might for the sake of a vain and momentary gratification " destroy your brother for whom Christ died." Beloved brethren, you know the blight which Popery has cast upon most f the nations of the earth where it is dominant, and how Pro • testant England has stood unshaken as a rock in the ocean, whilethe recent revolutionary tempest has desolated almost the whole face of Europe. We implore and beseech you, therefore, by the memory of our martyred forefathers ; by your blood-bought civil and religious liberties ;—by all that is good, and great, and free in our matchless country ; as you prize a preached Saviour, and as you love an open Bible, lend no succour, give no sanction to Popery. " We remain, beloved brethren, your faithful friends and pastors in the gospel of Christ, " R. M. MASTER, J. BARDSLEY, " W. THURSDAY, H. STAMER, " J. M`LINDOII, D. SUTCLIFFE, " T. WILSON, It. NICHOLSON, " J. SUDDARD, R. LOMAS." _ _ _ _ WTe trust that, as the result, the enemy will find that he has outstepped the bounds of prudence in the matter; and raised a feeling of indignant remon strance against the errors and the insolence of the apostate church. WE have given, in another part of our publics. tion, a lengthened description of the preparations made for the philanthropic festival which com mences to-morrow. The arrangements are most perfect, anti will more than fulfil the most san guine expectations which can have been entertained of them by the public. A fine week is now all that is wanting to ensure the success of the fete, ana whilst we write appearances are most favourable. Upon one subject, connected with their own con venience, and that of the managing committees, we beg to offer a little advice. It will be observed that privileged tickets arc being issued, which entitle the holders to admission during the whole three days, with the additional advantage, not possessed by the day tickets, of enabling parties to leave the ground and return at pleasure. We would suggest, and indeed strongly urge, that these, and indeed all tickets, should be purchased in the different shops where they are on sale, at once, in the first place to enable the committees to form some estimate of the numbers likely to attend, and in the next, to pre vent confusion and crowding at the various en trances. By this means the labours of the com mittees will be very greatly lightened. We are pleased to observe that the merchants and tradesmen of the town aretakingstepsto enablethose employed by them to, share in the festival, and to contribute to its success. Thursday will be treated as a holiday, after twelve o'clock at noon, by most of our leading establishments; and many propose also giving Friday evening. The Association of Brokers do no business on Thursday; and although the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange have not as yet announced such to be their intention, we are sure they will not he less liberal than their brethren on the flags. Indeed, we confidently expect to see the principal portion of the three days devoted to holiday making, and a pleasant interchange of communion with friends at home, as well as with those who may visit us from the surrounding neighbourhood. LORD ASHLEY, who is never weary of well doing, has not allowed his colleagues to relinquish their duties without being reminded of the awful amount of responsibility which continues to attach to them as legislators, in the particular of juvenile depravity. His lordship, on this occasion, considered his ob ject would be best promoted by appealing to the house to sanction a comprehensive scheme of emi gration in connexion with the ragged schools. We regret that a resolution of such paramount im portance should be withdrawn. From his lordship's remarks, it would seem that the comparative insig nificant sum of £15,000, granted by government last year for the promotion of the above object, was productive of immense good ; in fact, did more to relieve us from the redundance of juvenile crime than £200,000 lavished on the pet experiments of Parkhurst or Pentonville, which, in fact, are com plete failures. But the junta of philosophers that we are compelled to take for a government cannot be made to believe this ; discipline is everything in their opinion, and hence we have it developed in our prisons and workhouses as well as in all other receptacles of human beings over which the execu tive have control. This is all very well when ap plied to the practical and mechanical powers of the mind; organization and system here are attended with profitable results : the task of instilling Chris tian precepts, and inspiring sound moral principles, however, is a labour of a more arduous kind, and is to be carried out in a different manner. The ragged schools, we believe, to the extent their crip pled resources are capable of reaching, are semina ries of real moral teaching : the head is not stuffed with information, perhaps, of a character little likely to serve the child of poverty, but the nature is touchingly invaded ; the rank weeds of vice and ignorance —the true ignorance—of religion are plucked out to make room for more lovely dowers. But our enlightened statesmen prefer in culcating virtue on the grand scale, and so set apart large buildings in which thousands of the youthful, of both sexes, are submitted to a more experi mental and mechanical system, which is attended with enormous cost to the country, and with no better than evanescent good to those subjected to its operation. Lord Ashley would reward the most exemplary of the unfortunate youth who are in duced to attend the ragged schools, by transporting them to the colonies, where their services would be acceptable and profitable to themselves. That we should require any such unnatural process to re lieve us from the thousands of youth teeming around us seems anomalous with our boasted wealth. If, as we advance in civilisation, wealth and power, as a nation, we are to be shackled with this enormous and ever-increasing mass of pauperism and vice, better were it that we had never emerged from that primitive condition, where simplicity took leave of us and luxury was gained instead! It is universally admitted that poverty is the foster mother of vice, and it is as self-evident that the present artificial state of society—the ?fl LITIRPOOL STANDARD. ascendancy of the manufacturing system, with- its consequent destruction of the true relation which should subsist between employer and employed, — has induced the awful amount of misery by which we are surrounded. It would seem that to make a millionaire a certain number of hundreds of in dustrious beings are required, who are, in the natural course of things, subjected to such an amount of oppression, and liable to such long in tervals of distress, owing to causes over which they have no control, that of necessity their average life must be one of positive want and degradation,— hence the prolific drafts to the criminal section. But let us take Lord Ashley's description of "the 30,000 youths of both sexes by whom the class of juvenile delinquents was recruited from what he had personally seen—inhabiting dry arches or out-houses, huddled together in nakedness and filth, covered with vermin, and infected by disease. He had examined thirty-three, from the age of 12 to 18, of whom twenty-four had no parents, and most had been in prison, one eight and another twelve times. They confessed they had no other means of subsistence than begging or stealing." His lordship assigns, amongst other causes, the following for this deplorable state of things, " the oppression of employers, the abundance of penny theatres, and the exposure of articles in shops." All these, even to the " oppression of employers," may be traced to our " high civilisation," by which employers have lost their sympathies, and which warrants the corruption of the youthful mind by spectacles which, to say nothing of their positive bad tendency, ought naturally to be appreciated by none but adults. If we are to go on thus in company with pestilence, both religious, moral and physical, we are not ashamed to express a wish that by the assumption of Fortunatus's cap, or some other appliance of magic, the good old times could be restored, when the field for labour was so restricted that population could not receive any unnatural incitive, and when employers, from feel ing themselves but slightly elevated above their servants, and other causes incidental on a compara tively simple state of society, had all the warmth of heart towards their dependants which men ought to feel for one another. For such a change we could dispense with some of the superfluities of art. The Colonial policy of the Whig government appears to be especially directed to estrange the affections of our colonists from the Mother Country, and to precipitate their ultimate separation from the British empire. By the arrival, yesterday, of the West India mail, and the Halifax mail, we have advices from Jamaica and from Canada, which go far to spew that such a crisis is rapidly approach ing in.both these colonies. The legislature of Jamaica had been called on the 25th of June by Sir C. Grey, who addressed the members at some length, urging upon them to pro ceed at once with the business of the colony. The assembly expressed, in reply, a wish to hear read first the two despatches which Sir Charles intimated that be had received from the Home government. Two days after this sitting the documents were laid upon the table. The first contained a disapproval by the Colonial office of the votes in the preceding session, partially stopping the supplies ; and an announcement that the form of government in Jamaica might, if the people wished, be changed for the Canadian form. The second simply approved of the conduct of the council in rejecting the Re trenchment Bill—a measure passed by the assembly to reduce the expenditure of the local government to something within the means to pay of the suf fering population. Both despatches were referred to a committee for consideration ; and the follow ing was the reply resolved upon by the house, by a majority of 19 to 11 : " That, as there seems to be no disposition on the part of Her Majesty's Government to afford the redress so urgently prayed for and demanded by this house and the people, as set forth in various memorials and petitions, but, on the contrary, every desire has been evinced to continue the present extravagant expenditure, which the impoverished condition of the inhabitants renders it im possible longer to sustain, the house considers that it will best consult the rights and interests of their constituency by abstaining from any attempt at the further exercise of legislative functions until the people shall have expressed their decision on the course which has been hitherto pur sued by the house." Although opposed in all its stages through the committee of the house, it was ultimately laid before the governor on the 7th instant. The attendance of the assembly was immediately re quired by his excellency, who dissolved them in the following address : " Gentlemen of the Council, " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " I regret that the hon. House of Assembly, in resolv ing not to exercise its legislative functions, has departed from British practices and principles. " The erroneous assertion thata desire has been evinced by her Majesty's government to continue any extrava gance of expenditure will be sufficiently answered by my remarking, first, that the scale of expenditure at its high est elevation was always what had been proposed by the House of Assembly ; secondly, that the general expendi ture,. by official returns, which have been for some time before the House of Assembly. is shown to have decreased within the last three years from £304,000 to less than £236,000 ; end thirdly, that it is impossible to point out a single expression on the part of her Majestys govern ment which is indicative of the slightest objection to the colonial legislature's reducing the expenditure still fur ther, provided there be no violation of legal obligation or good faith. " I trust that the people of Jamaica will be content with British liberty, and that their representatives should have such privileges as are enjoyed by the representatives of the people of England. "No good will come to Jamaica from any attempt to go beyond this. Guiding themselves by that safe rule, the people may always know what they have, and what they ought to have. If they should be so misguided as to pass beyond those landmarks they will find themselves in darkness, or surrounded by false lights ; and in either case they will be invo.ved in confusion and peril. The best'proofs they can give of their loyalty to her Majesty, and of their desire to rest under the shelter and defence of the crown, as good and faithful subjects, and as members of the British empire, will be to elect for their representatives men of temperate and considerate minds, who are not likely to lead them into trouble. " In Her Majesty's name I dissolve this assembly, and it is dissolved accordingly." The colony is thus virtually without a legislature, with no supplies voted, and no business done, or capable of being done, until a new assembly is elected. It is confidently expected that such an assembly will have a much larger majority opposed to the governor than that now dissolved. In Canada, the excitement, caused by the affir mation by government of the Rebels' Indemnity bill, continues to increase. On the 25th ult. a provincial meeting of the British American League was to have been held at Kingston, and attended by deputations from all parts of the colony; and by the next arrival we may look for information of a character decisive as to the steps to be taken by the British party. In the meantime, the contest is watched with intense interest from the opposite side of the border, the letter of General Scott, upon the subject of annexation having given it a reality which it previously did not appear to possess. It is strongly asserted that the general will make it one of his leading topics, in appealing to the constituency for the presidential chair. THE APPROACHING CONCERTS AT THE PHILHARMONIC HALL. We gave in our last a programme of the series of musical treats to be provided for the public on the occasion of the opening of the new hall belonging to the Philharmonic Society. Amongst the singers engaged on the occasion is one, Miss Catherine Hayes, with respect to whose abilities we have been grieved to read some very disparaging, and we may add ungenerous, remarks in the columns of a contemporary. Miss Hayes is an English singer, who has had a first-rate continental education, and has received a very large mEed of admiration from the cognoscenti of a country, the taste of whose inhabi tants in song is acknowledged. Her engagement for two years as prima donna at Milan vouches of itself for her efficiency ; and we are further assured of it by the opinions of several gentlemen of musical taste, who have heard her since her return to her own country.. British critics have never been very tolerant of the singing or playing of British artistes ; and whilst we are quite indisposed to rush into the other extreme; to praise a singer because she is a native, and to exclaim, with Mrs. Malaprop, " hang your Italianos," we may suggest it as a most improbable thing that, without the possession of eminent talent and training, Miss Hayes could have maintained either her continental or her English metropolitan standing. We have no doubt whatever that she will fully justify the selection of her services by the committee on this occasion. It will be seen that English wheat dropped yesterday, at Mark Lane, 4s. per quarter. A subscription, amounting to £5OO, has been raised for a memorial to the Duke of Richmond, for his exertions in procuring medals for the veterans of the army and navy. MONSTER BAND.—The performances of the united bands will take place on Thursday afternoon, but we are not aware of the precise hour. HOLYDAY.—We believe that Thursday and part of Friday will be observed as a general holyday. The brokers will close their offices the whole of the former day—the pawnbrokers will close at noon on both days, and the shopkeepers intend to finish business at noon on Thurs day, and at four on Friday. THE COTTON TRADE. In reviewing the transactions in Cotton during the past month, we have the advantage of having perused several of our eminent brokers circulars, published at this period of the month for their East India and American corres pondents, and what we have hitherto stated on this im portant subject we have much satisfaction in perceiving is fully borne out. In the early part of the month the trade bought very largely, and the market was further stimu lated by purchases for export and speculation, when prices advanced to id. per lb., but the last fortnight spinners have kept aloof from the market, except for their imme mediate wants ; and though the market has been quiet, prices have kept pretty steady, and now rule for American Id., and for Surat id. per lb. higher than on the Ist of last month. On the whole the accounts from abroad are satisfactory, and it must be quite evident to all that the demand for twist and manufactured goods must be consi derable for some months to come. The stock of cotton in this port on the 3rd instant was probable import for the coming week.. 726,420 „ Suppose the trade buy sparingly, they will take Exporters 30,420 which will leave, on the 10th instant, of all descriptions against 601,790 same period last year ; so that we are ap proximating the stock of last year, when the consumption of Manchester and the surrounding district was only 26,000 bales weekly, against 32,000 at present. There are now to arrive of the exports from the States. some 20,000 bales, and with the loss which would attend shipments at the present prices, we cannot with any degree of reason look I for a supply of any moment from this our great source for nearly five months ; particularly when we know that the stock in the ports was reduced to 173,000 bales, exclusive of some 27,000 bales yet to be received of the crop, against 239,000 in 1848, and 377,000 in 1847. With regard to the growing crop, it is an admitted fact that it will be three to four weeks later than usual ; and from this circumstance alone is placed in a hazardous position, as to its ultimate outturn. It has been remarked by several parties who are not conversant with the position of this article, that, if it is manifest that the value of cotton must be considerably dearer before the end of the present year, how is it that the demand has been so freely met by holders, as only to establish an advance of 44. per lb. during the past four weeks ? This is easily to be accounted for : in the first place, the arrivals have been heavy, and have generally left a good profit; and, in the second place, speculators who purchased largely two months ago have begin tempted by the late advance to realise. But how stands the matter now ? The cheap cotton has been sold, and the bulk of our stock which is now held will require a considerable ad vance to pay the investors a fair remuneration for their outlay of capital ; and we may depend upon it, with the cheapness of money and the daily improving prospects of an abundant harvest, that it will be held. There are " none so blind as those who won't see" ; and it is to be regretted there is so much ignorance or stupidity amongst a large number of the consumers. They have had so much their own way of late years, both in commercial a well as political matters, that they imagine they have nothing to do but to will and to be successful, but we shall be much mistaken if, in the present instance, they do not find themselves wrong for once. On the other hand, there are some of them, the most enlightened, who have listened to the good advice of their brokers, and having purchased freely, are in a position to keep out of the market for a length of time. It is further advanced by some parties that the late prosperous state of the manufacturing districts cannot last ; but it must be borne in mind that we are now only filling up the vacuum which was occasioned by the commercial crisis of 1847 and the subsequent revolutions on the continent of 1848. It is also worthy of remark that in the spring of last year the Americans experienced an active demand for breadstuffs for this country, and kept back their cotton to be after wards sold at ruinous prices, arising from the French revolution and other disastrous tumults in Europe. This year the case has been very different—they had compara tively no demand for their corn, and with an unprece dented crop of cotton, and the sad experience of the previous year fresh in their memory, they parted with, we may almost say madly, their cotton ; and thus it is that the surplus of their crop is now in this country. But how, after this enormous import from America, does our stock stand ? By the Brokers' Circular, dated last Friday, the 3rd instant, we find it was only 706,420 bales, including all descriptions, against 596,950 same period last year, plainly showing that we have already nearly con sumed the surplus of their present crop. We might even dilate further on this important subject, but our space for such matters will not admit of it,though we shall have much pleasure in laying before our readers, and those particu larly connected with this important branch of commerce, any information we may obtain, in our future publications. We cannot close this article without expressing our satis faction that whatever advance may take place in the value of cotton during the next few months, though it may militate against the interests of our manufacturers, yet the profit will, in this instance, generally find its way into the pockets of Englishmen, instead of the foreigner, which hitherto has too often been the case ; and though the transactions may possibly be extensive, and capital to a large amount turned over, yet the money will not as heretofore leave the country. Tim promising appearance of the harvest has more to do with the future value of cotton than any other circumstance, as the prospects of an indifferent one would immediately enhance the value of money, which would lay prostrate all speculation in this and every other article. The harvest in the south is becoming very general, and we hear of oats being cut in this neighbourhood, and the last few days we have seen several fields of wheat as near ripe as possible. The potato plant is also looking exceeding well—the yield is large, and the quality excellent, not only in this country but in Ireland, which will be a great blessing. The apple of the potato plant this year is very general, which is augured as a good sign, showing that the plant has reached maturity, and it is hoped overcome the disease. This is a most important fact, for it has been remarked by several scientific agriculturists, that for the last three or four years the apple has not been visible. P.S.—Monday, Noon. The American steamer Niagara has arrived, and the accounts by her are considered favourable to holders of cotton. The receipts for the week were only 8,000, the exports to Great Britain 14,000, and the stock in the ports and on shipboard reduced to 154,400 bales. BETTING AT TATTER.SALL'S LAST NIGHT. (B Y EXPRESS.) ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 on Flying Dutchman. DERBY. Ghillie Callum, 13 to 1 offered-15 to 1 taken. EBOR HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Mahon. 8 to 1 agst Giselle. The business of the settling for Goodwood left no time for betting. The Mayor has written to the masters of the Royal, Collegiate, and Mechanics' Schools, soliciting for the boys a holiday on Thursday next. The West Indian mail brings intelligence that the barque Milford, of Liverpool, with a large cargo of mer chandise consigned to Messrs. M'Cavan and Co., having struck on Cobbler's rocks, became a total wreck. ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—The life of a boy was nearly lost yesterday, as he was attempting to get on board the Seacombe boat, after she had moved from the landing-stage. He was rescued by one of the police on board the stage, by means of a life-buoy. _ EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meeting of the board, held at the Board-room, No. 8, Exchange-alley North, on the 3d instant, Captain David Wilson, master of the Sarah, of Belfast, was examined and found duly qualified for a second-class certificate as master. MAN DROWNED AT NEW BRIGHTON.-011 Saturday afternoon, a young man, bathing at New Brighton, was carried out of his depth by the tide, and drowned. A party in a punt were within reach, but did not think the deceased was in danger, He was, we learn, to have sailed for America this day. _ _ DEPARTURE OF THE IfIDERNIA.—Shortly after eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Hibernia, Capt. Stone, sailed from Liverpool for Boston vid Halifax, carrying out the weekly mails for Canada and the United States, be sides passengers, to the number of eighty or ninety. LIVER THEATRE.—This little place of amusement will be re-opened this evening, when Mr. E. L. Hime will commence a series of musical entertainments, which are to be interspersed with anecdotes and similar amuse ments. We trust success will attend the young gentle man's efforts. MAN DROWNED.—On Saturday evening a carpenter named John Smith, who resided in Hurst-street, left his home with the apparent purpose of enjoying the relaxa tion of a walk. As he did not return, his wife sought him without success in all likely quarters. The poor woman was shocked, ultimately, at hearing that the body of her husband was lying in the dead-house. It appeared it was found in the Albert Docks, into which deceased must have walked unconsciously. PLEASURE EXCURSIONS.—At this charming season of the year there are few excursions that can afford greater pleasure to the tourist than the delightful lakes of the north. They are peculiarly our own, and to those who have never yet visited the m we canno t b u t recommen d t o their notice an excursion to Windermere, which we find announced in our columns, under the able and experienced management of Mr. Marcus, which is a sufficient guarantee for the comfort of the arrangements. Those who have enjoyed this lovely scenery will require no inducement to avail themselves of the opportunity, as the cost is but six shillings for the trip there and back. GRAND CONCERT.—Juliien's second concert, last night, was another triumph of his excellent band ; and Madame Persiani, who again delivered to a numerous and fashion able audience two of her most beautiful airs, has left an indelible impression on the minds of all who heard her, and takes the highest esteem of every friend of music with her on her retirement. Signor Bottessini, the celebrated contra-bassoist, took the audience by storm. Such a per formance on such an instrument as the contra-basso we never heard before, and the applause bestowed on him was justly deserved. All the pieces given were well calculated to fascinate such an audience as was assembled last night, consisting of much of the beauty and fashion Liverpool can boast of. MEDALLED HEROES.--IR the small town of Linlith gow, Stirlingshire, there are no less than fourteen indivi duals, formerly of the army, who have received the war medal. Ten of these veterans belonged to the gallant 94th, and some of them have as many as ten bars. There are likewise three old sailors in the town who have the medal, and one of these was present at the battle of Trafalgar. Aug• RI CA eitAtilTY! A WORD T O THD LIVERPO WR O I L TT C E H N I , 6 , BY THE AUTHOR. OF "PROVERBIAL PHILOS°. R A I T T A A B L I A 4 lET:TREESa, '7AEt''' Z°9,8,31,90-I:.'"P' For charity's sake ! to the poor of the land You generous blessing xtend,— `i h lerNeed and Affliction, e with suppliant hand' Solicit your help as a friend; Remember, the Master of these, as of us, On earth was a brother in need, And all that ye give to the desolate thus, To Him do ye give it, indeed ! To 00l l In r i e m strive ! s o To Him !—in his Judgment, a fiery sword Hath smitten and scattered, and slain; A To Him I —in his mercy, the sword o f the Lord ßeturns to its scabbord again : To chase away sorrow and sin. 0, Britain ! dear home of the good a nd the great' fo The kind, and the fair, and the free,— r e s te, ofnr against the expects o o d evil, and o i s k was doi n whatpleased o. e c t a o be I The nations applaud thee for strengt h and And marvel thy glor y to see : 001 Because—through the length and the breadth of True Charity scatters her seed, the band And Heaven still strengthens the hear t and That blesses a brother in need ! Aye, Britain 1 the destitute's refuge and rest, O'ershadowed with olives and palms, art blest, In war thou art prosper'd, in peace thou Because of thy prayers and thine alms: ~, The soft rain of heaven makes fertile thy And so, in sweet incense again, It rises like dew o'er the harvest it yields, To solace the children of pain. Then hasten, ye wealthy! to bless and be blest , By giving to God of His own: He asks you to help the diseased and distreso He pleads in the pang and the moan In vain ?—can it be?—shall the Saviour in vi -- Petition His pensioners thus? Oh, no! with all gladness we give Him 118 .5 in What He giveth gladly to us! It, Aldbury, July 28. increase convulsionstnh ca T h rteta e hs r ee e l t nm ur n ap • STATE or TnADE- di e ° ing the sth of July present most satisfscrjaly, l ts i The increase in the exports as compared ;i t , co onnSe —a month when the effect of the preeei`ls4,o i : . i tz, , • gratifying point noticed in the returns of ant font a ; 51' most all—is still more observable in the Pr e- ;d e ,anu'ito four on the whole list being on the adverse still the ' for insignificant amounts. Machinery is 9 kit 9 ii hrfsoaevdnwefpmaat articles, tnsi e cetlde ß esxt o ,hh a bie r übdi exhibited etc f hdli a T mwt r aaxi a ts d _ W e noas f i o ,: i: C,t:, resent ‘.se esoni read ca n o,:cre.:: E t.l l obr:4 l eli t .8,1 5 : which shows the heaviest falling off. the ''' cot' The total increase in exports during, t he Si s t t3 months of the present year as compsred Wit' ' sl id 115 0 ,1 responding months of 1848, is £3,741,613, coniP D ot decrease of the first six months of that I. e t ß o r -ss, l(ss pol with the same period of 1847, enormousas,l.,, 016.0 more than £3,822,304, it will be seenthai co — ve rea rii - t v fairly congratulate ourselves upon having, rn n , fro ro c , the check which was then sustained. Ju°g',;7oce d e l) ri' indications of the present return, and the ' sl r o iso r c er' pects consequent upon the opening of the ~r e r, e tbe it and the quieter state of Italy, there is, m„ ° l , — , i•e 0 , ; ,,0 0 t r h ea e so c n on t d o it a i n o t n ic o ip f a l te m ch , at bu b t e a fore _the e nsi nd O de i r : u lior 3 " s ,'; me ac A c n o st u r n ue t pg s oa w nrd i i l st l i s m how not merely a permanentlt Or a large increase, andc very c 0 it is tobe observediuir t he , - sumption is greater than the supply. In tbe ~, tes yet. of coffee there has been a large increase, whil e 1- how e it , has been an equally large reduction, the reults,,io,,, being on the opposite side, although not to, sfi p t i j o,u to tint degree, with regard to the quantities tee c i i , b ', 0 ,1 call for any particular Of sugar the importations have varied tb t e9 0 not ,Ol . , home • • deliveries show a striking falling off• , ti otn,tV to other articles of comfort or luxury there ufcs9o-0,0 stationary •th ghat to denote that as compared sci ll° o u r l s ai ,. gr . a grain remark. an d They h o e u y r c r o e n n. il ow:tallest::: e rtefiscoti 001, , seem warranted by our increasing trade the gelope s oil lotion must be living economically. The C °11 1 , 5 1 fr ° ,fe r° r' spirits again shows a heavy increase, probn".,'Sr idea amongst the lower classes of their acting P vative from Cholera. __.....! SMOKE NUISANCE. t L'3 h a ai °l7 li We copy the following letter from the ''-•stere' s Journal, Liverpool rn asptiwoen consider o a f t to town a itn cl hi e en d ff `` " SIR,—In an article in your last n'e e ' ll e 0 1 3 '0 ° o Con f reference to the plan of Mr. Andrew Sul i _c o l' y oP e 'r t t h l s t noticed my patent, which has been hi succesv.64 01, 0 t, tshepk t re h e se,e,n co tl n in t o e ob ti ro9 t e s vel :! : 0 -; :tiot b e . oi t oo , for many years. It is so long since the sinklza D ot je in patent was discussed in your journal, that .I ,lhen t r.a ol ; prised at your having forgotten its details. isi i teo which the air is said to be admitted in nay for n ;: e ctif !,-che rectly given by you, while you have most. c e , yip: m ot' it when speaking of the plan of Mr. Sot"' ta te fig" admitting atmospheric air in a finely divided 5 pts et i oti diately behind the bridge, where it conles e ie m e ls tot the gases evolved from the fresh supply e: ;l l ted twi u,', the incandescent fuel, in addition to that an.t" the _ t s igi fe , and th e 5 0 t ,4. I the ash-pit and bars ;" and again a drnittln'i tt ole"o o ' itm mechanicalei is n impossible o f a arrangements, r u a b ni e ugoer l m a e i edancteasucr:baotusestl accurately oe e ds f ee t liserentir scientific „in : , trt o iit l net, : ii re ' po l .or c ' ijo,s t i b re. :( behind the bridge, &c., and perforated 0.. 4 „ t " - rot 9 e r e °; vaizm. not , t e au w t a h t o e r r i - s my patent. To put this, however, beyond e 1 1,,, ider .. „?; given at page 362 a diagram of vir , hal von " - i s rer - a l Smith's plan. This diagram, sir, is an identical Pfato, tation of my patent, as applied to many furnse'r'referof which, being in public establishments, I will he tadlott engine of the railway, at Edge-hill, both i 0 t vitc l o o Having sold my patent many years since to 3fr. 100 ,o i, being in London, and not having an agent i l , l - 0 OS. ,1,5 every bricklayer and pretender affects to ne., tr ,D' t ) l l s burner, on the principle of my patent. How -" nt on will deal with this unmistakeable infringen 3- 0 15 ' rights I cannot say. Iv Ilill' l ' l. " CHARLES WYE " Dublin Steam-Packet Company, Liverpool, July 31." oj ed 0 1 co A Treaty of Peace and Commerce has bee ° is. o o l ' and that between Great Britain and the republic of Liber io ,f , Lord and Lady Stanley arrived in town fr ° 'eft 0 1 wood on Friday, and on the following ...,dlltifiliirntlie James's-sqnare for Knowsley , whence his ' ' v. ; teS P ' Lady Stanley proceed next week to visit his es vi jo, county Tipperary. na Sit f A dispatch has arrived at the Admiralty fr °- ce ° 0 ° Richardson, who has not gained any intelliglocvoj John Franklin. The Esquimaux, along tb e h a°l3 3eil and Coppermine river, all declared that no w "" - o no'' A appeared there. , t o- pi Death, the irrespective leveller of all c lasse , o ld w or t: tions of men, has at length struck down nu r ocl 1 li ls Pierce Egan, the veteran historian of the riog n ion ing journalist, who expired last Friday el7„e"- raid' wedortkosiPnutemrflireng:engine' residence at Pentonville, at the full age of I of r The Wigan Times mentions the singular P iio fte, h at of a dog, which had been thrown down the 5 0 ,0'; the old coal-pit about three months since, and O s o, r terf; week at the bottom of the pit well and liv el f • ,iOY/ Op' animal survived its fall, or how it subsisted , , lso° W'', BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. --1 ", JO' )0; description was tried at Warwick on Monthr t ts i 0 11 Cox, the son of a wealthy farmer, u•-at cl ' eliler. was s ~4 1 9 „ a 11 ,4 Owen, daughter of a small - °L- ''' farmer. He proin t 0 ~e s to marry her, and under thatsanction s' -- l'° L- ti; ° f ., t ~,, She gave birth' to an infant, znd then, as coos; t' '"-r , he deserted and insulted h - "L" 141 "°' her. The WY . plaintiff, damages £75. t ial" t at' A leo' ,„II , THEFT BY MEANS OF CHLOROFORM.'"'" frO." ll 'f a fine pig, ready for slaughtering, was stolen al catalir, tage between this and Brechin . , The ar ti u /33 ;a - d 5 ,. iii ir r missed until morning, a towel being left be'r t he Pleb; rated with chloroform as to put the mistress °,, 1 0 5°,1 tl'" mansion into a state of unconsciousness , in re " i at ° , was found by her husband, when the true 11 ' it' 0 ° (1 0 j 4 theft was discovered.—Dundee Courier. LUCK OF A DRUNKARD.—A drunken 0 , '„' 1 113,5;:r, wandering about the streets of Glasgow , ° '',l, sl. ° L to b e 4 5 ' se‘ night, fancying that he was about -to go c lie' off his coat, in the pocket of which were two . ages, for £l4O and the other for £5, and left it in re d a e j I A constable while making his rounds, discorefe''tat! 0 t° cured the coat and its contents, which wer e alies P° t their owner on the following • 00 aPr tllll - te e t the police office. r , sto ,e • AN UNFEELING WIFE.—Th d naP e r t er' The Lon on te '. O Mr. Joseph Duncan, a wealthy West India PA lie' n e e , recently to lodge with a widow whose h u sba,_ r•,* o II; annuated exciseman, had been dead a fortniguri r Tis' ing how rich the planter was, the widow se t tn e ig b icil e 'i him, succeeded, and in less than another O r ., ill 0 ,,' t io: married to him. Yesterday week he was tak e ;ge 1, _ A O' lera, and died the following morning, leis nieol;o3s' entirely neglected him from the conitnell' - oce ) , ell' attack, by which it was believed his death wa s tha t t 0 A coroner's inquest was held and a verdict T h ep ba s t o° l returned. The coroner severely repriman d go 1 15 : 1 . 0 11ri AN INCCRRIGIBLE BEGGAR.—A man atlY" re. , employed in the ateliers nationaux was recetbeclre, before the Tribunal Correctional Police 011 "el be I , e mendicity. " Have you ever been condemn no te co iti d e said the President. " I should think so !" e ios b e o e ;:' " How often ?" " Always ; in fact the thing h t l' c e • e g . , a perfect bore, for every time I've been ent-aegglijais; condemned." " You have lived 40 years " , i 1 f 1 0 ,, 0 111 , "No; 39 only—as I passed the first Year -,' . (01 if," nurse ?" " And you are decided not to work •do' e fe if I found a lucrative place with nothing t° A th e not object to take it." The tribunal col:0031'- I°w to three months' imprisonment. _- LIVERPOOL 0 49 ' whiteA, o lo,, p . 0 , TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, - ,I.' Co.tAtlvNaorw. 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