The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS , In the letter on the currency signed " Solvens," in our last, there were one or two typographical errors. At the close of the seventh paragraph, the word " without " should have been omitted ; and about the middle of the ninth, the word " conveyed" ought to have been printed " evinced." We do not think that the letter of " M. G." contains any ma terial argument which has not already been often brought forward. We received yesterday a letter signed by two respectable phy sicians, correcting in several particulars the statements in the Meremj relative to the cases of cholera in this town ; but as the public are now pretty well satisfied what claim Dr. Hawthorne has to the high-sounding titles which our contemporary is so forward to award him, we could not, on account of its late arrival, find room for it. Our correspon dents thus conclude their letter :—" The ilfereniw's pet doc tor has had a case such as we call cholera, and failed to cure it; and we now leave the editor to draw his own inference, and arraign the medical men of Liverpool as he may think fit at his moral court as moral murderers,' and to repeat his request that the public would make those serious reflec tions which the subject calls for. Dr. Duncan saw this case, and also the other fatal cases in Liverpool, and can readily be appealed to whether Dr. Hawthorne's patient or the five others had the best chance of recovery. All the fatal cases which we have seen were in a hopeless state of collapse when , first visited—such a state as Dr. Hawthorne cannot cure, we feel confident, from what we have lately witnessed." We are requested to state that the marriage mentioned in our last as having taken place on the 21st ult., at St. George's :M.* John assis*ant-overseer of Garston, er of the lute Mr. Edward Mercer, o such marriage having taken of Gariton: is incorrect, — place. The gentleman who moved the last resolution at the Con federation meeting, yesterday week, was Mr. Charles Callis, and not Mr. Kelly as we stßtPd. Abe Etbtrpool gPtanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 6, 1849 OUR anticipations, as to the probable policy of Government, during the session just commenced, are fully borne out by the speech from the Throne. Another assault is to be made upon the Navigation Laws, which, without a sbadOw of proof, beyond the culled evidence of a packed committee, are as sumed to stand in the way of the national prospe rity. Her Majesty is made to say of them—" I again commend to your attention the restrictions imposed on commerce by the Navigation Laws. If you shall find that these laws are, in whole or in part, unnecessary for the maintenance of our mari time power, while they fetter trade and industry, you will, no doubt, deem it right to repeal, or modify, their provisions." _ Nothing can be much more direct and sweeping than the condemnation here dealt out against a system, under the operation of which this country has maintained herself as the first maritime power in the world, and consolidated a colonial empire, greater in extent and resources than ever acknow ledged sovereignty to one throne in ancient or mo dern times. It is not enough that we have already thrown open our markets to the competition of the world; that at the very hour when this speech was being placed in the hands of our Sovereign, the Leaguers in Manchester were celebrating the con summation of a measure which, for the first time for centuries, laid the agricultural industry of Great Britain prostrate at the feet of the foreign grower of breadstuffs; and this without the slightest reci procal concession having been received or expected. We must go on headlong in our suicidal liberality; and hand over to the foreigner our carrying trade Majesty says that all this is to be slature finds that the Navigation ary for the maintenance of our We should think there can be as w( done, Aws f" the 1 unnece maritime power ittle question as to what will be the fate of time supremacy, after we shall have handed over our colonial and foreign trade, and shipbuild ing, and every other branch of a business, which gives ( population, to cheaply-built and cheaply-manned shipping of the Swede and the Dane. " If," indeed ! Why, where will be in time to come the nursery for that power ful navy, which has borne the flag of England in triumph from pole to pole ? It will be gone for Tike the shorn Samson, we shall have parted all our greatness, and exposed ) be trampled upon by the first maritime with the source o. ours elv power It m chooses to assail our shores be that some modification of these laws le, without materially impairing their ess. But even such a change ought not bmitted to without our insisting upon re- concessions from our maritime rivals; and we are not certain that any great disposition at pre sent exists on their part to making such concessions, or is likely to exist so long as we voluntarily offer to surrender the whole fabric without an attempt to Take an example of the way in which one of those rivals—France—from wing letter, which appeared in a recent number in the Shipping Gazette "Sir.—Your valu— make tern foil -uzette being always ready to that may occur on shipping, I will give publicity to the following :—The Mag. lie, from St. Ann's, Jamaica, for London, is port during a hurricance as a place of instant, (as per our report of the 15th), 'Tig in good order and health; nn the broker here for his clearance, he _rged with the an .,w, sir, I will thank you, in incorrect, to give it as much I,hr masters of vessels should be the ncur by taking a French port Ignet being laden with a If my views on the Republican government. e made a great blunder in expose an thank you iter applying to tl was surprised Co find the vessel was char nexed P nous impc ial produce) treating this vessel as a foreigner, having no claim of re ciprocity. If the Magnet, being a British-built vessel, belonging to a British subject, had come from a foreign port, laden with foreign produce, then she would have been dues ; but coming from a duce belonging to British im cc be substantiated. Briiisl Or iNol _ the same as a Smede vegian delivering the same cargo in a French port. . ,ort windbound, either e in and out, with pro further information. ervant, be compelled to r iters putt g into this p, the pil YOUR CORRESPONDENT. In the Magnet, M'Credie, from ;he port of Boulogne-sur-Mer : the vessel coming vithout a pilot .. 524 25 51 25 4 50 15 0 10 0 P. 659 85 £26 Bs. 21d." S is certain! iecimen of reciprocal to our proposed libe- it is clear, will only .t we may be able to from her hands dimmer of hope dawns fate of these laws. It ;y's advisers may have 5 deal with an interest, which has ever been a favourite one with the British nation, and which we trust will not permit itself to be sacrificed without a struggle. It is a notorious fact, and has been proved again and again, that the tatistics by which the agitation for the repeal of vs has been aided, are full of nd fictions ; that the committee upon which the government's based, was a grossly partial one, and the sses examined of little standing in the corn mercial world, and s3lected for their known hostile bias ; and hence, that not the slightest confidence tion I witne can be placed in it inquiry is indispensable b gislate at all upon the que esterday, from a highly intelligent corresponu,._ Montreal, the following letter, which gives an interesting report of what has recently taken place there, together with the pre sent position of parties in our important colony of Canada : • A new and an honest fore parliament can le- We received, yo a-nt at MONTREAL, JAN. 20. On the 18th instant, the parliament of this province assembled for despatch of business. It was opened by His Excellency the Govern or -G enera l , t h e Earl of Elgin an d Kincardine, who delivered a speech from the throne in the English and French languages. It may be said to be the first meeting of the present parliament for despatch of business since the elections, for, when called together after this period, it was immediately prorogued mediately prorogued on the formation of the present ministry. It is essentially radical in its composition. The radicals, or reformers as they style themselves, have a more overwhelming ma j or i ty than have had the conservatives since the dissoluti on o f that parliament which passed resolutions condemnatory of the conduct of Lord Metcalfe, on the occasion of his celebrated " antagonism " with his ministry, on the sub ject of responsible government. Without stopping to enquire in detail the cause of this revulsion of the public feeling of the province, as main fested at the last elections, in favour of the party now in power—suffice it to state, that it may be attributed to the defection of a part of the conservative party, owing to dis gust caused by the weakness and vacillation of the late conservative ministry, rather than to a penchant of Anglo-Canadians at least towards the radicalism of this country, which Lord Metcalfe in his day charged as having a tendency towards republicanism, and the separa tion of the colony from the mother country. The terms tory, conservative, radical, and reformer are not synono - mous with similar terms used in England. English whigs, and even radicals, when they come to this country, gene rally join the conservative, and oppose the party bearing a name similar to that to which they were attached when at home. One example—Lord Metcalfe, a whip at home, and whose mild rule in other dependencies of the British empire caused him to be hailed as a benefactor, and monuments raised for the perpetuation of his memory and fame, was in this province greeted by the party now in power with such epithets as " Indian despot" and " tyrant." Much is promised, and much is expected from the pre sent parliament ; and the province has much need of legislation. The Governor's speech is rather a wordy document : it alludes to several of the more important bills the ministry intends to submit, and measures to be taken for improving the country. Among the more im portant bills which the ministry intends to submit, are a judicature bill, and a bill for reforming the representation of the province, by increasing the number of representa tives in parliament from 84 to 150. What of the latter is generally known, is variously regarded, and is produ cing angry discussion. The English conservatives say, that the preponderance it will give to the French portion of the country will swamp their influence ; the French Canadian ministerialists parade, that if it be successful and themselves united, they may '` reign " ; while the more ultra still French Canadians, the avowed republi cans, and followers of Papineau. are dissatisfied with it. The position of the Earl of Elgin is doubtful, and per haps anomalous. Not his high position as the represent ative of our Sovereign, nor the historic fame of his long line of royal,ancestors, has been a'jle to shield him from the bitter invective of the conservative press, and sarcas tic allusions to the poet's " Curse of Minerva " on the father being fulfilled in the impotent weakness of the son. While the ministerial journals have been at very little pains to defend him, those which have ceased to support the late conservative ministry say never a word on the subject. If weakness have characterised some of his conduct, there is little doubt but that his position has been difficult. It would not be reasonable to expect, that with the large majority the ministry has now in parliament, it would have learned very much from the failure of its grasping demands from Lord Metcalfe; and the excuse, if such it be, that may be made for him is. that it might be better to submit to some arbitrary acts of minor importance—such as the dismissal of one public officer and not keeping faith with another—than go to the country upon them. There was a large public meeting held in this city a few days ago, for the purpose of taking into consideration the protection of Canadian industry. The meeting was large, and resolutions were passed to the effect that pro. tection was necessary. They intend to organise an agita tion, and it will be favourably looked upon in the country. It is their intention not to make English manufactures an exception, unless England consents to grant some pro tection to Canadian bread-stuffs. In the speeches at the meeting a good deal was said of the capabilities of Canada for a manufacturing country : in the eastern townships alone there is an endless amount of water power, at all seasons of the year. And much was said of the present general distress of the country : it is true that bankruptcy and ruin are now as common as was formerly prosperity. The board of trade of this city has petitioned her majesty to grant a protection of five shillings per quarter on Canadian wheat, and that this petition may be accorded seems to be the general wish of the country. If it be, the leaders of the protection movement have agreed to make English manufactures an exception, and to have them admitted at a nominal duty. It is not probable that the people of this country will be satisfied without some protection in the English market, or protection of their own manufactures. There also seems to be a general feeling of the necessity for repealing that part of the navigation laws which has reference to Canada. The Board of Directors of the St. Lawrence and At lantic Railroad Company has published its annual report and statements of accounts. The whole seems favourable, and a portion of the road as far as St. Hyacinthe, a dis tance of thirty miles, is completed, and in operation. The estimate of cost from Montreal to boundary line, including engineering, office expenses, and furnishing the road com plete for operation, is as follows : From St. Hyacinthe to Shipton, opposite Melbourne, .t at .4'5,500 per mile, making, in round numbers, for that distance, 42 miles From Shipton to the Salmon River, '6,000 per mile, for a distance of 28 miles From the Salmon River to the point of junction brthe Coaticoke Route, £6,500 per mile-26 To which add the cost of the Montreal Di ballasted, and the amount expended which is of com , ion when mon advantage to the remainder of the road, Making the total cost of the road, from Montreal to the Boundary Line, per mile, at .'16,070—0r in the aggregate 231,000 168,000 173,674 198,000 This approximates closely to the original estimate by A. C. Morton, Esq., late chief engineer of the company The capital which the Company is empowered to raise by the Act of Incorporation, by 12,000 shares of ~50 each ' 600,000 kdded to which, they are, in the event that that sum prove insufficient, authorised to raise a further sum for completing the undertaking with its branches, of 500,000 Making a total capital of The winter has now fairly set in, which means here that sufficient snow has fallen to cover all the roads, to afford good sleighing, and that the rivers are everywhere bridged with ice, to allow driving over them with heavy teams. The cold has been steady and severe for some time ; the thermometer yesterday morning at 11 below zero. THERE has been no argument which has been more strongly urged by the Colonial-office, and the advocates of free trade, in opposition to the claims of the West India proprietors for aid, than the al leged bad system of cultivation in the West India colonies. The planters were rebuked as ignorant and prejudiced. They were told that they were the authors of their own suffering; and that if they would only introducD more capital, employ scientific modes of agriculture, and economise in their pro cesses, they would be able to compete successfully with free labour against slave labour, and no addi tional immigration would be required. One of the authorities upon this point, caught hold of eagerly by Earl Grey, was a Mr. Smith who, being employed in the construction of a railway in Jamaica, turned his presence there to account in a series of letters upon the subject of Sugar Cultivation, in the co lumns of Mr. James Wilson's paper, the Economist, facetiously styled in a letter before us his lordship's saccharine adviser. This gentleman, in addition to numerous calumnies against the management of the planters, had the hardihood to assert, as the result of his own experience, that " free labour was actually cheaper than slave labour;" and he referred, as contradictory of every complaint on the subject which has reached us from the colonies, to the evi dence of " Mr. Dickon, of Thorseway, near Caistor, Lincolnshire, who has been long and extensively an experienced and scientific agricul- known as t urist in a letter which will be ound in page 565 of the Economist, of 1846 :—" I saw upon several estates" (proofs of the falsehood of the planters' assertions) "and certainly they are completely refuted by our experience in the con struction of the railway between Kingston and Spanish Town." We shall trace these two gentlemen's subsequent proceedings, as detailed in a letter signed " a West Indian," which appeared in the London Times of Wednesday last, addressed to Earl Grey. The writer says : " Fortified by his own experience as a railway contrac tor, and by the scientific and practical knowledge of Mr. Dickon, Mr. Smith originated a joint-stock company in Liverpool, for the purpose and better cultivation of 20 or 30 estates in Jamaica, which Mr. Dickon was to conduct r him, as agriculturist, at a salary of £lOOO a year. ie and Ewart, of Liverpool, were the uty-chairman, and the capital of the of £400,000, in 16,000 shares, of £25 each. Here. the You tot lord, was yo tne country a year ago that you could not con ceive any better investment for capital than a scheme of this sort ; that it was your firm conviction that five or six men of capital and science emigrating thither, with a resolution to assist each other, and establish a central manufactory, could not fail of perfect success.' " I will now briefly expose to you the success that has attended the speculation you suggested so earnestly to British capitalists. That it has not failed from want of capital, or intelligence, or enterprise, or energy, you your self must admit. " Mr. Smith, on his arrival in Jamaica, decided, in stead of purchasing, as his prospectus had announced, 20 or 30 estates, on purchasing one and leasing another. The deposit on the original allotment of the shares of the company, and a subsequent call, had placed at his dis posal £22,901. " Out of this he paid for Retreat estate £5050, including all stock and implements upon it. Cornwall estate he leased for seven years at £4OO a year ; he had therefore £17,851 money in hand for the current expenses of the two estates, for improved machinery, additional stock, &c. It is fair to assume that Mr. Smith, advised by Mr. Dickon, a scientific man, at £lOOO a year, did not select two of the worst or most exhausted estates in Jamaica ; during the last five years of apprenticeship Retreat had averaged annually 200 hhds. of sugar and 97 puncheons of rum, and during the subsequent seven years of free dom 103 hhds. of sugar and 40 puncheons of rum. The buildings on both estates were in excellent repair when taken over. . _ " Two years have elapsed since Mr. Smith started as planter. No dividend whatever has been paid to his shareholders. He himself has not paid the single call made on the 2,000 shares which he holds himself. - The whole £17,851 has been sunk on the land. The company now owe £2,000 in the island, to cover which they have on hand 140 hogsheads of sugar, valued by Mr, Smith, at £1,960. - The prospects for the crops 1848-9 are estimated by Mr. Smith, whom your lordship has probably discovered to be a sanguine man, as likely to amount, on the two estates, to 335 hogsheads of sugar and 170 puncheons of rum• The expenses of the current year he computes at £8,900, exactly £1,830 less than the produce will at the present prices realise; and these mortifying facts have been forced from Mr. Smith and are now before the public, because he wants to extract £6,400 more from the share holders, without which the cultivation of Retreat and Cornwall cannot, according to him, go on. ` Retreat, which in 1845 produced 125 hogsheads of '3oat of help . -e dut Llo t ou ployinent and food to five millions of our a ruinous competition with the TIM LITERIPOOL sugar and 58 puncheons of rum, will thus, in 1848-9, after three years of Mr. Smith's management, after an expen diture upon it of nearly £lO,OOO, besides its purchase money, make but 110 hogsheads of sugar and 50 pun cheons of rum, if Mr. Smith's best hopes are realized, and that from no bad seasons." We certainly never heard ourselves of this very promising experiment. Perhaps Messrs. Rathbone and Ewart, the chairman and deputy, or some of the unfortunate shareholders, can inform us whether the result of the company's operations, as given above, is correct. If this really is so ; if, with all the appliances of abundant capital, improved ma chinery and science, they have found the cultivation of the West Indies such an awfully losing concern; they are bound in justice to admit that the free trade agitation has been based upon false statistics and representations, and that the proprietors in those colonies are a most injured and oppressed body of men. WE are happy to inform our readers that the orders for manufactured goods of all kinds by the steamer which arrived yesterday from America- are very extensive. The late imports into the States were realising very handsome profits. All the letters from New York give a very favourable account of trade, &c., and people were in the highest spirits regarding the Californian gold. The following important letter, on the subject of the present condition and future prospects of the cotton trade, is from the pen of the same gentleman who furnished us with some valuable information on the same subject for our last. His statements are well worthy of attention : TO THE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF COTTON IN LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. GENTLEMEN.—Since I addressed you last week the sales of cotton have again been extensive, and it may not be altogether uninteresting to you to have an analysis of the total sales for the past month, ending the 31st ultimo, by which you will the more plainly be able to discern your own position. The sales are estimated at 236,000 bales, of which 69,000 are to speculators, 11,000 to exporters, leaving 156,000 to the trade. 4t is generally admitted by those who have the oppor tunity of forming a correct opinion that the consumption of cotton at the present time is greater than at any former period. Messrs. Littledale, in their last India circular, estimate it at 33,000 bales per week, whilst other parties put it down at 34,000; but in calculating it at the lower figure, we shall find that 156,000 bales for 31 days is little more than 35,000 per week, leaving barely a surplus of 10,000 bales : to this we may add 10,000 forwarded into the country, unsold, during the month, chiefly on manu facturers' account, with probably 10,000 more yet to be sent forward—in all, 30,000 bales, or less than a week's consumption. So far importers have met the demand very freely, and the advance in the month is not more than id. to Id. per lb. ; but the stock of all descriptions is only 415,000 bales, of which speculators at the present moment are supposed to hold at least one-fourth. Hitherto, the late imports have realised a good profit, but they are now nearly exhausted, and future supplies will stand the importers much higher rates. By advices brought by the Indian mail, from Bombay, we find that there was little doing in exports, so that any supply from this quarter must of necessity be very limited for some months. Should the steamer from the States, now hourly looked for, bring accounts of increased shipments, our market may be heavy for a time, and possibly droop kd. per lb. But on the other hand, should the accounts be favourable to holders, an advance in prices would be inevitable. In deed present prices are moderate when compared with those of previous years ; and, as I stated last week, I do not consider it to be to the permanent advantage of the manufacturing interest to keep down prices below a re munerative point to the grower. In corroboration of the foregoing remarks, I may add, that I have been informed, within the last few days, by unquestionable authority, that the stocks of manufactured goods in America are greatly exhausted, and that we may look for a very exten sive demand from this quarter during the ensuing spring; and in letters received by the last steamer, the writers stated they were only waiting to get samples of the newest patterns previous to sending their orders forward. Liverpoot, Feb. 3rd. P.S.—Since writing the above, the "America" steamer has arrived, bringing one week's later account of receipts and shipments. As I prognosticated in my former letter, which appeared in the Standard of last Tuesday, prices have advanced in the States half a cent, equal to a farthing; the receipts have considerably fallen off, being only 70,687 bales ; the shipments are exceedingly light, being only 21,370 for the week ending the 17th of January ; and ge nerally, by well-informed parties, the estimates of the crop are reduced. These accounts will unquestionably have a tendency to further enhance the value of cotton in this market, as it will be impossible for any supply to ar rive within the next two or three months at all adequate to your wants. _ Under these circumstances it will be for you to judge whether it will be for your interest to hold off till, proba bly, the comparatively small stock will have found its way into the hands of speculators, or whether you should not continue increasing your purchases, though you might have to pay some advance. - Your obedient servant, Sol, Feb. 5,1849. Liverpo HINDOO THE events which have taken place in Paris during the past week, and their favourable issue, have proved that nothing beyond a confidence in the permanent duration of peace throughout Europe is wanting to give an increased value to our public and other securities, if not even to sti mulate a similar course of wild speculation to that from whose recoil the community have so recently been suffering. Since the first of January, Consols have advanced from 884 to 92; Exchequer-hills from 40 to 43; Premium to 47 to 50; and the fol lowing advance has taken place in a few of our leading railways : Jan. Feb Eastern Counties lll 114 Great Western London and North-Western 126 139 Midland Stock North Staffordshire -and other stocks in a similar proportion. general feeling of the market is in favour of a fur ther advance ; and we may, in the course of a few months, find prices fixed at a point which will yield only a very moderate return upon the capital invested. The important question suggests itself, is this a sound and healthy state of things ? Do we notice, as contemporary with these increased investments, an increased activity pervading the ordinary chan nels of the national industry ? To some extent we do observe a disposition to embark more freely in trading operations, but not to anything like the extent which we should wish to observe. The manufacturing bodyexperience difficulty in realizing upon the perfected article an advance equal to that which has taken place in the raw material ; foreign produce is with difficulty marketed with a profit to the importer; building operations, which have been justly regarded as a test of the prosperity of the country, are all but suspended; and the retail trader and shopkeeper are still suffering severe dis tress. The effect of the more easy position of the money market has not yet reached the latter classes. Perfect confidence is restricted to men of known wealth; and the striving industrious have as yet experienced no sensible relief. It is greatly to be suspectedthat we are rather at the commencement of a period of speculation, which tvill issue in mania and subsequent crisis, than of a healthy developement of the industrial energies of the country. It is true that the capital which is now flowing into the market for our rail way and other securities will release a large portion of the means, the locking up of which has incon venienced seriously our producing classes ; and that it will remove the pressure under which many per sons of restricted monetary facilities have for some time been labouring. But it is not clear to us that the profitable character of the avocations of these classes is what it used to be. A large margin has been cut away from the reward of the national industry. In manufacturing operations, we learn from the annual circular of Messrs. Barbour and Sons that the recent lengthened stoppage of factory labour has been seized upon as an opportunity for increasing the efficiency and power of the machinery employed, and thus diminishing manual labour. And when we look at the serious competition with, the foreigner to which many classes of our opera tive brethren are now exposed, we find ample reason for gloomy anticipations as to their continued ability to consume as usual and to sustain them selves in comfort. Our agricultural classes, too, are just entering upon an arduous struggle, in which he is a bold man who can prophesy that they will be enabled to sustain themselves. In fact, if the cry, raised by the league agitation, for a cheap loaf was not an imposition and a fraud ; if there was any sincerity in their plea that the manufac turer could not, under our protective system, com pete with the foreigner, a low price of agricultural produce, and reduced wages for all classes of arti zans, must inevitably ensue. We may be told that such has not been the result thus far; that the farmer has not experienced low prices and the labourer materially-reduced wages. But there is an ample reason why these results have not occurred. We have had a large decrease in the supplies of food throughout the world, which has kept up the farmer; and the labourer, if he has not had a reduced rate of remuneration, has, at all events, from diminished employment, been barely enabled to procure the means of supporting exist ence. He has reached that limit below which starvation cannot go. We may be taking what some of our readers may consider a gloomy view of our condition and pros pects. We hear around us on every side congra tulations over an approaching sensible improvement in the trade of the country. Our customs' revenue is assuming a more satisfactory aspect; the ton nage entering our port is larger month after month. But we miss the results which ought to be seen in the increased prosperity of our trading and operative classes, and the increased drain upon our resources for the support of our poor. Statistical data may be excellent arguments for the parlia mentary debater or journalist; but they fail when applied to convince a man that he is not hungry, badly housed, or badly clothed. THE ST. JOHN'S SCHOOLS A meeting of a number of gentlemen holding pews in. St. John's -Church was held last night, in the School room, Great Crosshall-street, to adopt measures for the extension of the school accommodation in connexion with that church. The Rev. Mr. Falloon, the minister of the church, occupied the chair. He commenced the proceedings by adverting to the object of the meeting, which, he remarked, was known to all present, as cir culars had been sent round setting that forth : he fur ther read the minutes of previous meetings of the com mittee held with the same object, and which had resolved into the present one. The rev. gentleman gave a graphic delineation of the moral destitution of the town generally, and the district of St. John's in particular. ! A statement, showing the urgent claims of the district in this respect was submitted to the meeting. It appears that the parish contains nearly seven thousand inhabi tants, and is bounded by Shaw's-brow, North-street, Standish-street, Tithebarn-street, Hockenhall-alley, Sir Thomas's-buildings, Whitechapel, St. John's-lane, and Lime-street. The church is the only place of worship within this extensive area, except a small Welsh chapel at its extreme corner in Marybone, and there is no public school for the poorer classes within its entire limits. The neighbouringdistrict of St. Stephen's is similarly destitute of any educational provision. Last month, after careful inspection, it was found that there are in St. John's dis trict 2.292 children, of whom 1,617 attend no school what ever, and who, if left to themselves, will most likely disfigure rather than adorn their station in life. The ' adult population are represented to be, in too many in stances, examples of depravity rather than patterns of virtue. The congregation of St. John's have felt, and ex erted themselves to remedy, this sad state of things. They have " done what they could." At the close of 1845, premises were taken in Great Crosshall-street, on a lease of five years, and at a rent of £5O per annum, affording accommodation for about 250 children—but none for infants. These premises have proved quite inadequate to supply the wants. As many as 28 appli cants have been reluctantly refused admission in one week, and last year no fewer than 743 c hild ren were ex cluded simply for want of room. Such a state of things must not be endured any longer if we wish our population to becomeeither good Christians, or good citizens; to overlook it, as was well said last night, would be impolitic, to make light of it would be sinful. The remedy is easy,--let per manent and adequate schools be at once erected. The body of the church is free—essentially a poor man's church, and as therefore the congregation cannot do all, we are much mistaken if our merchants and tradesmen will not gladly supply all that is lacking. The CHAIRMAN having read the statement, said that if it were approved the next object would be to have it print ed and circulated through the town, each circular to be accompanied by a note soliciting aid. Mr. JOSEPH ATKINSON moved the first resolution, to the effect that the statement be adopted, printed, and largely circulated ; and Mr. OWEN WILLIAMS seconded it. The second resolution was to the effect that the meet ing being deeply impressed with the deplorable state of moral destitution existing in the district, pledges itself to forward the object proposed by all the means in its power. It was moved by Mr. HIGGINS, and seconded by Mr. CARSON, who shewed the necessity which existed for education, and especially religious education, at the same time deploring the awful condition of the mass of the lower classes in this town. The Rev. CHAIRMAN stated that it was designed to apply for assistance from the National Society, and also from the government boards. He exhorted all present to bear in mind the conditions to which they were pledged, and shewed them that in pursuing that benevolent object they were also benefitting the town in a temporal sense, by training industrious labourers and workmen. ABUNDANCE.—On Thursday, being the first day after the abandonment of the corn-law, no less than 119,939 barrels and bags of flour, and 44,998 quarters of wheat, were released from bond. COMMITMENT FOR A ROBBERY IN JUNE LAST.-At the Police-court, yesterday, a young man named George Warrington was charged with having, on the 6th of June last, robbed Benlamin Wilkins, of No. 90, Wood-street, in this town, of a watch and a large quantity of wearing apparel. He had resided in the same house, and was ap prehended in Manchester, wearing and otherwise in pos session of some of the articles. Some others of them he had disposed of in Staffordshire. He was committed for trial. INQUESTS YESTERDAY, BEFORE MR. CURRY. -On view of the body of Elizabeth Jones, aged 14 years. De ceased lived with her parents in Union-street, out of Boundary-street, near Everton, and on Saturday was left in the house with some other children, when, by some means unknown, her clothes took fire, and she was so much burned before assistance could be rendered that she died on the following day.—On view of the body of a male infant child, found on Sunday morning in the burial ground of St. Anthony's Itc man Catholic Chapel. It appeared that the child had been still-born. THE WEATHER.—During the last three days—after great humidity with little rain for about a week—the weather has been dry and peculiarly mild for the season. Vegetation, in some early plants, is in consequence ad vancing ; yet it is to be apprehended that it will be checked by frosts and cutting east winds, which may still be expected. A very early spring is seldom safe in this lati tude, but we must hope for the best. The wheats in this neighbourhood look well and healthy, and are, happily, not too far advanced to be injured by over-rankness. Sunday and yesterday were as mild and pleasant as if we were in the month of April. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—We witnessed the perform ance of the romantic play of the " Foundling of the Forest," last week at this theatre, and were much pleased with the ability shown by the different members of the company in their various parts. The celebrated musical burletta of " Midas" followed, and Miss Glover sustained the part of Apollo in a very creditable manner. Mr. Cony and his dogs have also contributed to make the amusements of a pleasing variety REPRESENTATION OF I -STREET WARD,—Yester day evening a meeting of several of the electors of Lime street Ward was held at the Clarendon-rooms, for the purpOse (as stated in a printed note widely distributed to those interested) of considering the present position of the representation of that ward in the Town Council. Very few were in attendance, even some time after the hour appointed ; and Mr. Reap, the secretary, whose name was attached to the circular calling the meeting, intimated to the two reporters present that the object of the meeting was merely prefatory, and that as no public advertisement had been published, he did not expect or desire any reporter to be present. Upon this the reporters (one of them from this office) retired. ROBBERY FROM A LADY, AT THE MENAGERIE, SHAW'S-BROW.—Yesterday, at police-court, three boys, named James Fitzsimmons, Francis M•Donnel, and Thos. Murphy (the oldest apparently not more than eleven years of age), were charged with robbing a lady named Pugh, of her purse, containing 75., while she was with her children looking at the animals in the menagerie, top of Shaw's-brow. The complainant suspected that some thing of the kind was to befal her, and took the best pre cautions she could, keeping her hand in her pocket; but one of her children becoming troublesome, her attention was withdrawn, and in a moment she missed her purse. The prisoners were apprehended, and some of the money found upon them. They recriminated upon each other, partly admitting the theft. Murphy is known as an adroit thief, who travels in his vocation to Glasgow and other towns. The prisoners were committed for trial. AN UNKIND CUT.—Our Liverpool Financial Associa tion is receiving kicks from all quarters. Last week, it got anything rather than a friendly salute from Mr. Wm. Jackson, M. P., at the meeting of the National Associa tion—almost a twin body. And no less a personage than Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, thus denounced it in the debate on the address in the House of Lords : "One subject which was referred to in terms of great gratula tion in her Majesty's speech was the proposed large reduction in the estimates. An agitation, to use the popular expression, had been commenced in this country, in his opinion under very unhappy auspices, with very que:tionable motives, and for very unquestionable objects, namely,pernicious objects (hear, hear), commencing in the West Riding of Yorkshire (a laugh), passing over the county palatine of Lancaster, enthroned—as its metro polis of agitation—ii the town of Liverpool, with branches, subordinate capitals of agitation, in Manchester and elsewhere, and supported by the Chartist, or Radical, and seudo-econo mical press of the metropolis." Fie, my Lord ! You are a good judge, however, of politi cal alliances, and know what "seudo-economy" is, viz., cavilling at expenditure when you are out, and maintain ing a convenient silence when any of it falls to your share ! SUPPOSED ATTEMPT AT INCENDIARISM.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, two tall men, in velveteen coats, named Kitchen and Davies, were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged, on suspicion, with having attempted to set fire to the extensive and valuable timber-yard of Messrs. Henry Steele and Co„ timber merchants, in Lower Harrington-street, and extending into Grafton street. They were seen on Saturday night going into the premises, the gate of which they forced, and information being given, they were found within, and near them three bottles of spirits of turpentine, amongst a quantity of shavings. Upon one of them being searched by a police officer, two boxes of lucifer matches were found. It was also proved that a man resembling one of them had taken one of the stone bottles produced to the shop of Mr. Heath, a druggist, in the neighbourhood, and had pur chased the full of it of turpentine. Mr, Heath could not, however, positively swear to the identity of the man, but he thought he was the same, and said he had frequently seen the other man in that vicinity, and believed him to be a sawyer by trade. The prisoners said they had been out of work for a long time, and finding the gate open had gone in, glad to lie down to sleep where they could. Mr. Rushton said that no doubt the object of the prisoners was to set fire to the property, and he ordered the deposi. tons to be taken, preparatory, when further evidence i$ prom .ed, to their being finally committed for trial, ExTRAC_RDINARY PROCEEDINGS. DESTRUCTION OF SEVEN HOUSES. Since Thursday last, the neighbourhood of Greenwocd street, Boundary-lane, West Derby-road, has been the scene of uproar and riot, owing to a brigade of labourers being engaged in pulling down a number of newly-erected houses for the purpose of removing the materials. This proceeding, of which we are about to give the details, is the more extraordinary as it was conducted by the party who built and laid claim to the houses. Conflicting rumours of the strange affair having reached our office, we despatched a reporter yesterday morning to the spot, with instructions to glean particulars of the oc currence from the best available sources. When he arrived at the end of Greenwood-Street, where it joins up to Boundary-lane, he perceived evidences of the truth of the report. A plot of ground on which four houses stood but a few days previously, was quite clear. and the mate , rials of which these houses were composed, with the ex ception of a few bricks, removed. Of two houses facing Greenwood-street one only remained; this one was oc cupied by a party of men armed with sticas. A little further, and in a line with Boundary-lane, appeared the remains of two large houses, that is to say, a few of the walls of the first floor, and part of the floor itself: these were surrounded by a heap of bricks, and here a few Irish labourers were engaged in razing the last relics of the fated dwellings. It was a scene worthy of Tipperary; —from a hundred to a hundred and fifty Irish labourers and " lumpers " were assembled around, all carrying sticks. Before going further into the narrative, it may be stated that these were the men who had been en gaged in pulling down the houses, in which work they had been occupied from Thursday until yesterday morn ing, when, as is stated to us, their stipulated pay not being forthcoming, they " struck," and refused to proceed in the work. The party for whom they had acted, however, prevailed, by promises of pay, on a few of them to con tinue their operations. These were the men as before stated. Their labours, however, were brief, for a few of the fellows stepped from the mob, and seizing one of them, knocked him down, and by their treatment of him gave his companions an idea of what was in s ore for them in case they persisted in working contrary to the will of the majority. The men at once ceased and joined the others. To be brief in our explanation of the cause (as repre sented to us) which led to this, we may state that the land had been purchased by a builder from a party who had in like manner purchased it from the original pro prietor. The title was to be conveyed on the 6th Feb. (this day), the original proprietor assisted the builder with funds from time to time, but, disagreements happening, withheld this aid. This step gave the finishing stroke to the builder's operations, as his men immediately ceased work, and demanded their arrears of wages. The day of reckoning approached, and the builder foresaw that he was in the power of the proprietor of the land, for if he failed on the 6th to take up his title, that individual could seize the houses. It is said he applied to the magistrates at this juncture for aid, and that they informed him that he had the power to remove the materials he had used in building, up to the day that he had appointed for taking up the title, on which, and after, he would have no right to remove anything whatever. On this advice he began to act on Thursday, pulling down the whole of the build ings he had erected. In this proceeding the most dis graceful violence has been resorted to, perhaps a conse quence on the fact of the parties engaged being for the most part men unused to such operations. However that may be, there is little more than the mere bricks which will ever be available for any purpose : the timber, espe cially, has been so mutilated as to be valuable only as refuse. It appears that the proprietor of the land, hearing how matters were likely to go, on Thursday night removed some of the doors and window shutters of the houses to a place where the other party had no legal access : this, however, did not prevent him regaining possession of the articles so removed. Thus foiled, the unlucky proprietor came on to the ground on Friday morning, accompanied by more than a hundred men, his object being to prevent the further destruction of the houses, and the removal of the materials. This, however, he could not do without occasioning a breach of the peace, which it appears he was anxious to avoid, and which, indeed, would have been prevented by the police, who were in attendance in considerable force. Thus, during the whole of Friday, the neighbourhood was in a state of indescribable uproar, there being no less than eight spring carts employed to zemove the materials as the work of demolition proceeded, nor would this have been stopped on Monday had the funds been forthcoming to meet the demands of the hands engaged. Should this or other causes operate to stay further proceedings until to. day, little will have been pre served. As we write, all that remains of eight houses is one, entire, and, as before stated, the lower walls of two others. The whole of these houses were finished, or in the last stage of completion, when the unlucky misunder standing took so malicious an aspect. Such is one of the consequences of the system of jerry building. In publishing the foregoing particulars we make no comment on the course taken by the respective parties concerned, whose names we suppress ; and we may add, that we do not vouch for the accuracy of all the state ments. They are published as they came to us—un coloured or dilated upon. LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY SESSIONS The periodical court of sessions, for the trial of persons confined in the Liverpool Borough House of Correction— now held every six weeks—was re-opened yesterday, befnre Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar is, we regret to say, unusually heavy. It contains the names of no fewer than 199 persons for felony, and 34 for mis demeanour. Of this number 35 can neither read nor write ; 34 can read imperfectly ; 107 can read and write imperfectly ; and 6 can read and write well. The follow ing gentlemen were sworn in to constitute THE GRAND JURY. William Rathbone, merchant, South Castle-st., foreman Thomas Bolton, jun., tanner, St. Anne street. Robinson Duckworth, merc hant, Cook-street. John Audley Jee, broker, Exchange-alley North. Samuel Job, merchant, Edge-hill. Edward Jones, merchant, Castle-street. John Owens Johnson, merchant, Cook-street. John Lister, gentleman, Netherfield-road North. George Warden, broker, Oldhail-street. William Wilson, commission agent, Pembroke-place. George Bates Richardson, ship chandler, Wapping. Alexander Shand, merchant, Old Churchyard. Arther Thompsom, broker, Rumford-street. Richard Fisher, merchant, Harrington-street. John Gerard Geller, merchant, Slater-court, Castle-st. Edward . prey, broker, Cook-street. Robert Wynne, shipliroker, Tower-buildings. Vincent Wanostrocht, broker, Dale -street. Charles Robert Taylor, merchant, Fenwick-street. G. B. Thompson, merchant, Brunswick -street. The usual proclamation against crime and immorality having been read, The RECORDER thus addressed the grand jury : Gentlemen,—The duties that will upon this occasion de volve upon you are rather heavy. Within the space of about two months, which has elapsed since the last ses sions, no fewer than 233 persons have been committed for trial at this court. Of that number 30 have been previ ously tried here ; but more than 200 have not before been committed—presenting a rather alarming prospect. It is not, however, my intention at the present time to make any remarks on the causes of this increase. Indeed, I regret that I have, at some times, to say anything at all in allu sion to the cases at these sessions, as I am of opinion that that would be better accomplished after the respective trials, when the circumstances are disclosed. I shall, therefore, gentlemen, dismiss you to the performance of your duties. Counsel then entered nor court, and, soveral true bills being found, the trials commenced, but no case of peculiar interest took place during the day. The following was the — result of the cases tried yester day : William Quinn—five weeks, hard labour, one week solitary James Ashcroft —two calendar months, hard labour, solitary, and once whipped ; and John Turner —three calendar months, hard labour, one week solitary. and once whipped. John Anderson—acquitted. Samuel Hezvson—two calendar months, hard labour; Elizabeth Rowlands—acquitted; and James Wignall— three calendar months, hard labour, one week solitary, and once whipped. _ Marna, et Lyons —four calendar months, hard labour Mary Murphy—six calendar months, hard labour. Yesterday morning the body of a man unknown, was found floating in the Brunswick Dock. THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON7SQUARE.—Yesterday evening this theatre was opened, under the management of Mr. Simpson, the lessee, Mr. Buckstone (with Mrs. Fitzwilliam) being engaged to appear in the characters which he sustained by command of her Majesty. The first piece was Douglas Jerrold's drama of " The House keeper," of the merits of which we cannot speak on better authority than in the words of the London Times : " In the whole range of dramas written within the last twenty years there is not, probably, a more agreeable work than Mr. Jerrold's " Housekeeper." The story is simple and interesting ; the dialogue is written with that point in which the author is unequalled, and the building up of the play shows a constructive skill which is not to be found in all his productions. With the present audience " The Housekeeper " remains f res h as ever. The repar tees command laughter and applause, the situations create surprise, and the sentiment and tone diffuse a general good humour." The other pieces were the farce of " Box and Cox," and " A Rough Diamond," in both of which Buckstone and Mrs: Fitzwilliam are unapproachable. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Yesterday, at the Police court, William H. Perry was charged with this offence, at the instance of Mr. Brooke. The prisoner is second mate of the ship Charles Carroll, which arrived at this port from Savannah, on 4th instant, when she was boarded in the river. The searcher heard the captain threaten to give the prisoner into custody if he did not deliver up more tobacco than he had given ; upon which the prisoner ran up the rigging into first the main top, and afterwards the fore top, from each of which he: pro duced (taken from its concealment at the lower mast head), a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, when orders will be received from the board in London, how he is to be dealt with.—Two other men, Johnson, the carpenter, and Seveur, the cook of the ship G eorge E vans , w hich arrived off Egremont on the 31st ultimo, from New Orleans, were charged with a similar offence, they having concealed in a chamber or hollow space in the carpenter's berth, con structed on deck, 42th of foreign tobacco. The prisoners were also remanded until Thursday.—Another seaman was fined 30s. for attempting to smuggle a quantity of tobacco under the weight of 6th, which leaves the magis trates power to proceed summaxily s without application to the authorities ill London. Feb. 6 Is4 l . 4, ' R EAM , ea,,: n der the 1 I ',T r ofa , •RNT -i"Pso, • We transcribe below a paragraph from the lead..er tt ilitaely F rr % Drumfrieshire Herald, of the Ist instant, ictur;it F M serve to show in what light an impartial press Olaf'', Fo of the eminently successful services in the preventl e ," TR cholera, carried out under the direction of o r i Pitzwir Mst l an Dr. Sutherland, the indefatigable commisusir oner e er Grin n Board of Health. h Fo Perhaps no better re f u t a ti on o f th e s l an d e rous 4 ht I D untruthful articles which have been permitted to find way into the columns of a contemporary, will be 033 0 kg ) , " an] by the discriminating and uncajolable portion 0 f t y D' 4 ied b y her; public, who prefer facts to fictions, and can estimate P c'r thi n full value of that dignified refutation of calumn7 °l a d ~,I " , h eal i toniv a , Dr. Sutherland has given, by maintaining silence, eo called A l l th letting his actions—his character for probity alone 'Po ) 00 „ He is at his post assigned him by his government, an t bs r ?o dy.... the competent tribunals of his professional brethrem_;,., ( high praise has been bestowed upon his exertions! , n 1 T o " that he is doing his work well." Some editors "- aIrO I PRRow, triter ' , an i"edri, more ! ! ! t ,y ter . ion l as hick oe " We trust that bitter letter-writing, in referenceo B oy ated th e :eek, a , c the late visitation in our burgh, is now exhausted. ter' o 4 ,Nhew,„po l i' l everything but creditable to our community. It 13 ,RO‘al'il i rnPnii‘' Witt cially unsatisfactory to the body of our citizens, Oa' b L: "ty w !atri e j il and Sutherland has never yet got anything like due Pn terY, %."h , (04 a t thanks for his signal services here. The propa Liel' n l "‹. Fitzwijj am ledgment ought to be paid him yet. For all that w e 4 to of able;hm, his conduct was highly conciliato racient , a ° 0 y ry ' P fideo` l A L ; and the effective way in which, from the con- to "gee generally placed in him, and the special desire of to an d Aiar, young medical officers ten win the good opinion carry ,: p eminent man, he was abled to embody and ,4 - 1 1 % 11 03 Am the visitation system in Dumfries will never be forgui 4 ;„ l resum ed by our right-minded citizens. Our magistrates and te'i j Tits council owe it to themsel ves , an d t o th e i r constituento instaatPresent record their sense of D r . S u th er l an d' s most vslw" b, help." -.io n., mi. DR. SUTHERLAND. ,DAM( p isi PROBABLE POLICY OF THE NEW AMERI'' Noii 4o. nin s PRESIDENT. To • • M r . c . concludi Until the inaugural address of President Taylor eb sli I n whi ch 1 THE • ad 11e D have been delivered, nothing certain appears to ball pkt! f ill 1 .1) • ORR transpired as to what is to be the policy which he h , 1 414 )1 .41 , 8 °W ov e pursue. The prevailing opinion, however, appears to ' it° , l, TOP 'r4 ' ; . ',ii,( that he will, whilst pursuing a whig policy, avoid th e SONfii G rAh l t a Spo, -1 4 extreme to which he might be urged by injudicious frieo cls " tt ,fiti F 4) sw i t , rs. With respect to the formation of his cabinet nothing ii : 0 4, 1 : 4 11 e t i) ! 17, " — Ito Nii: known, beyond the fact that he conceives himself O r ' '`‘Z W ar 'eter Ip E. o ranted in entertaining personal objections to most of the members of the Polk administration. t , Ad ° ht ~ePen at ti Upon the subject of the tariff he is supposed to I>e h.4'4, 4' 4, 4" Preci' s e e favourable to a modification of the bill of 1846; bat ill' tk t i o ,v . (l a i ler l y 2 art 8 II disposed to go back to that of 1842. P ro b a bl y this 0 5. 'ol k S ' e°4 e p r i c e A f o _ tIL e. tion will be made a compromise. H e i s u tt er l y oppos°' go %E• c ,T r x-ofq et to Mr. Calhoun's policy an d p re t ens i ons , a l t h ou gh i 4 ° ( IT O s ea wil! hi southern man ; and would w i s h t o h ave t h e qu estiq ' Thlr t n In e n hi ar settled without the adoption of the Wilmot pro P o ds!,: COL, which has stirred up su c h a f ermen t i n the south. P,,," P , 1 , 'tGIAT views rather lean to allo w i ng th e ex i st i ng law upon '- subject to remain in force in the newly -conquered states i bk . „ to the annexation of which he has all along entertair3o., Cr ~„ ''EN objections—until the question is settled by a vote ° I t ilti c . " .4)Ay Congress itself. To all further schemes of encroachre o or annexation he will give his strenuous opposition ; 0133 is especially indisposed even t o enterta i n i ng any prop os as to the purchase of C u b a . Of course, these views 8 `" , ' only put forth at se con d h an d, from conversations s aid .. ,t° have been had by hi m w ith f r i en d s . H e i s not expec t; to be in Washi ng t on un til th e 28 t h i nstant, having ' course of visits to pay on the road. 4 13L LE Miss- Hiunidity at' Fall Noon. LADY h 'AI R ON Lti t ER.. Mr. Samuel Holme will oe to-morrow, at the Coll! Cfix,,, cil meeting, for a memorial m to v the post-office authoritie s ' b . ii, :Ton. urging the propriety of more effectually closing the Livr" 'IN , i - "and a nd , pool post-office on Sundays. We hope that this reselw 1.%,, a " Tick ets tion will be allowed to pass unopposed. I: 'Cali ' pf DV, "Y THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.— elect Malcolm will delic-i '• • • gal lery .... this evening, his concluding re on this interesti° s l ob subject, at the Collegiate Institution ; and as his ape; N o ' had nf (A. ratus will then be more perfect, no doubt a great nuun'' )e ti rs t o ~„' l ‘lessrs. of persons will be present to witness this novel sight. i ' l 4t t i " Pe ri at Hall EDDCATION.--It will be seen that the congregation °, 414ast Seve the Presbyterian chapel in Islington are about to hale; CIIAN 7 ,, bazaar to obtain funds for the improvement of tit Co,, .'" MIS( schools. A table will be exclusively appropriated for tie ~ oCt io , sale of work from the Connaught Industrial Schools. ~,t i ltli kr , '' - lIAL/ THE STARVATION CASES.— The jury at the ingll_n `GUI on PA on the bodies of the mother and child, who, as we stag it last week, died at Birkenhead, from starvation, brour , 1 1 0 . . 11 THE in the following verdict :—" That the deceased died o°' I/4i n , of 0 LDE the want of the common necessaries of life. The ki l l L tits g t vi nt , th e Ic on are also of opinion that the con d uc t o f M r. Harwood, PaiNcip assistant overseer, of Mr. M'Ne rne y, th e re li ev ing-or/lee" Zd M and of Dr. Vaughan, medic a l o ffi cer o f th e di str i ct, is e li r iC , ~,IT IOUG, tirely free from any blame, b u t th ey cannot exonerate• RYALI the assistant relieving officer, A nn Elli s , servant t 0 r• iNsTa, ) Dr. Vaughan, nor the Re v . M r . Brown, Roman ; asst e r sK E M A is i , tholic priest, for had the latter a c ted w ith more human ead consideration, and the two former exe rc i se d greater caret 4 ktm Con L dnc the melancholy. result might have been avoided." , 1 t‘i,,Jodsisti ng NOVEL MODE OF SELLING OYST ERS .—At th e Pone' 1 'eci e ,. l °n from I court, yesterday. a stout coarse-l oo ki ng young woman' ciaiwillYr,,rwho lia named Mary Gilligan, was charged with h av i ng o btained 11 14' 4 1 - 4d T e a a n ts e money in several parts of the town, by taking oysters tO , will tortimara the different houses, and stating that the gentleman val ° "4,-.,„,e announCe': lived at each, respectively, had ordered her to leave theS 3, b -,....._ -)-811 '" it and to obtain payment, he not having any small chale t q.'rk l ,, ----- :---:,, when he made the purchase in the market. She had el' h , t7,,' - IIOYA dentiy learned the names and residences of the parties' 1 S Ct . , P nRCEJ and the probability that they would not return home 0 - c'ALE's dinner in time to detect her, and her success was equal to 1 her criminal ingenuity. She had recently played off ha t PRI: , story at the house of a gentleman living at No. 193, Gres, k i , it , M +II A. ~.‘, fOrn I Homer-street, where she was paid ss. for a hundred (/' ...,8AX(), the shell-fish. Many other cases of a similar nature ar e Signor N and t 1 known against her, spreading over two years, but tbe evidence at hand was confined to two, in addition to tha t k Sig stated. In one case she had asked for meal and water? t o 'THA L IN ST BRG, a tub, to feed and preserve the fish ; and in another, I _ ....z ° f W ill p salt and water for the same purpose. One of the ale r "' Pllr t , "form, w i a t r, occurred so far back as 1847. The mistress, or house' 1 1,,,,14. 14 ` Nor ma, ,, f keeper, at the respective domiciles, were a good deal se' 1,, O; ss, %Wars %, i prised that their lord and master should make such 511 , , 7 , ,tni,-y bt i. , n,„ iit, unusual purchase, but the prisoner made such a plausible l'. °d at tl e I N V 2 t representation, that the money required from each wO l I N l ' the'i l ' u s'e t, 22r duly paid. She was committed for trial at the sessions. 'lt , r „ --, r 0 \ .11JSICAL SHIPPING INTELLIG_ MONDAY, FEBRUARY s. —Wind W., light. ARRIVED.—Chasco, Wise; Arthur, Talbot, and Devon, trol l New Orleans—Albania, Oxnard, from Mobile—Ranjer, Robert_ . ; son, from Odessa—Fairfax, Clark, from Smyrna—John Weems from Girgenti. 49 ,„qt . r... ii A I / I , AY arid ' qs th, lysraink k"4 Am iligf ItILI• ' FAL A ikt,i;ilMS, Mr. te°olDanied I t„. turt tmiArA h e a .I.lver It:iitievA ancter Pon •ki: 4 6(1. 414/0,4 h 4,1 t , 1 9, M Pl. AN 411('t tiA 1;i11? ORPFI to e ~ ant town col 41 11,4tistan t . ' tllt '''' e ach. 114,chll'IPP S it , and tr eet ; 8 will be open lit''l'l4lvP4lPOOL t td4 U AL ;: 11 1 .,v,,,`4 A, N I 8( lel I 'FAT ° 4 B :. p r: Itiptk J adies 4havF , a , ,, (1 1i t i t r 'll "L tIV' Chaurill' NV p t4r °4 - 1 l A 4 4. Y4'ies Turn, .;tx.' A. rk e4 (11 .. 'f.l ) 414 t 41; CV:NI E E The Rothsay, for Africa, has put back, with loss of bowspo head, cutwater, &c., having been in contact w i t h an ou tw bound barque , last night. The Red Rose, for Wilmington, has put back, with her bol l stove, &c., having been in contact with the Bootl e , which Pr' ceeded. Camillus, and Spartan, both bound to Savannah, have P„U S , back, the former with loss of bowsp r it, b ows damaged, dec"' started. &c., and the other with loss of foreyard, cuthead, Sce d having been in contact, off Holyhead. A brig was seen on shore, in or near Memory Rock, sth Jo-; A brig, apparently English, with pai n t e d p or t s , an d l o if masts of a whitish colour, with spars and sails alongside, a n vessel full of water, was passed 14th January, about 50 rail' S.W. of Cape Hatteras. West Lothian, and Lucretia, hence at Vera Cruz Native, Doyle, hence at Virginia. H.M.S. Juno, (26,) from Valparaiso Channel. Pwminm, 4th Feb.—Margaret, Griffiths, of and from Ne": t port, for this port, str u ck on t h e rocks in Bardsey Sound, 1 3 instant, and sunl- td Rio Janeiro in t' BOSTON, 18th Jan.—The Helena, Berrill, from New York to Galway, was fallen in with 10th instant, in lat. 39, long. 65, O , fe sinking state, and crew take n off by th e Virginia, arrived he 17th Jan.—The brig Alice, of Galway, was fallen in with 1 2 ! instant, in lat. 33, long. 75, in a sinking s t a t e , an d crew taken off by the W. R. Jones, arrived at N ew Y or k .—A largesh!P' apparently cotton laden, and on fire, was passed 14th Jan., 1 ' lat. 35, long. 71, by the Chicora, arrived here. Constitution, Britton, hence at New York, after being 0 shore in East River. Montezuma, Lowber ; Wisconsit don ; Caleb Grimshaw, Hoxie ; An tor, Coffin ; Oxford, Goodmansen ; Wright ; J Z, Porter ; Marmion, F lespie, hence at New York. Elizabeth, Hasty, hence and Matamoras, at Tampico Joseph Porter, hence at Phtladelphia. Washington, Tracey, hence at Boston. f- nford ; Memnon, Go r :er, Howes ; Seni!' mstrong ; Diaol ad Centurion,G LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET—YESTERDAY• We have had a large supply of Stock at our market to•daty with a decline in prices. Beef, 4d. to sd. ; Mutton, s&d• Gad. par lb. , BY MR METEOROLOGICAL . C. H. CHADBURN, 71 REGISTER , LORD-STREET DailylDirec-1 P tion . 4 Of of ATMOSPHERIC iTemperature' Pressure at I shade by self °f reterin Wind g 1.4 gisg Nine Six ' Difference o at thermometer Wet and Dry Rain. Noon. a.m. 1 p.m. M ax . j Min. ! bulb. , In. 1 In 30 29'99 29'89 31 30'18; _ 1 30•33 30'30 42 38 2, 30'34 30'37 49 42 41 31 30 - 38 1 30'39 1 52 46 — Deg. I Deg 49 37 45 I 38 In. o'os s.s.w. 48 1 3 w 45 3 3 E.s.s. 40 5' s.byE. 4 „ 1 341 s.w. 15 2 4 ,1 w ' s 50 T' .., ~., w 51 30'51 1 30'52 I W THE WEATHER.—Jan. 30th : light rain and scialls.-3 16t j, bright.—Feb. Ist : light rain and f ogg y.- 2n d : foT gy ; donde , —3rd: foggy ; bright.-4th : clear; clouded.-5 : fo of clear; clouded. .killi i ikni,,W. LIVERPOOL : of •It.'rt 41 1. p. ASP] TUESDAY, FEB. 6, 1849. kA )11 ' 4l , P 4 9 1 'it.' l, ll. ' ' t 4 9. . PRINTED AND PUBLISHED a NY". t9' EVERY TUESDAY MORNING p• 4,, ti,',!to r ,. By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, OP I',_. Pcv t .; 4 l, t N LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, t' p ho ti c , tth , , n . • At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. ~,i ( 4 40 1 , 1, 1. ZN, I' M . Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. Newton n; 4 'tc.;' , P.' Eft 'N. 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