The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-21 00:00:00

Ni:Jr 21, Is 33 TO CORRESPONDENTS. - - We should have much pleasure in inserting the letter relative to the combination clubs si gne d a " Subscriber," provided he w ould put it i n suc h a grammatical form as would make it it , telligible. It is unlit for the STANDARD in it s p resen t shape. . To all subscribers who have reason to complain either of the non -delivery or the irregular delivery of this paper We shall be obliged by their informing us of the fact by immedi ately addressing a letter to th e office. There are careless immedi ately as well as careless agents whom we have it in our Power to coerce when convicted. When the blame rests with The post-offices we eon obtain prompt redress in the proper quarter. Zbe Eiberpoot 'tanbarb FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1833. We have New York papers to the 21 instant. The frresident we are happy t o s t a t e , h a d near l y recovere d "n his late attack of fever which, in certain works on Noyo/ogy, is termed the nervos-randolphos. They con tain nothing further . of anv interest. Our contempo 4ries of New York call it the " cucumber season," w hich being translated means that " Congress is up, 411 (1 they have nothing to do." It will be seen that as Mr. BENETT, so has Mr. MARK Hl LlPS—failed! Lord AvrtionP has large powers of d eglutiti on we admit, but Mr. WM. RATIIIIONE and the t RUSSEL L petition sti c k i n hi s th roa t. E ven L or d J OHN 4WSSELL carefully keeps out of the way, perhaps, from a se nse of s h ame. The motion, therefore, in which Mrs. off an d other parties are deeply concerned is put , I t t o some d ay — not named—the Greek kalends, per flaps. By the way, Mr. JOSEPH HUME, inadvertently perhaps, 'et out some curious facts, the other night, relative to the t a re--the very pure electors of Westminster,—those of election who h ave f or many years solemnized the purity election annually by a dinner at the crowcrown and An T avern, Strand. It a pp ears th a t a l arge num b er o f these electors have been in the habit of having their rates .4 13 11 taxes paid previou s t o th e i r v o ti n g f o i Sir FRANCIS t liltnErr and Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE. Who advanced le money is not said. HUME knows, and so does Co liel EVANS, but th e y d o no t c h oose t o t e ll. Th e na t ura l iilFerence is, that the unbought burgesses received the bu un e.Y, directly or indirectly, from the unbought and un- Ying bar onets, w h o so long were " Westminster ' s pr i de, an d E ngland's glory." In t i "Is grave case why is Mr. BENETT sick, or Mr. (1 4411 '1' silent ? If they want once more to search the a ar A k l anes and the em pty b arre l s f or proofs of bribery t h e co rruption, here they have rotten Westminster under t i. ! l. noses. All we have to add is, that if Liverpool is " e the subject of scrutiny, so must Westminster. b in another pl ace , un d er our advertisement head, will h e f °und a p or ti on ' o f th e corres p on d ence w hi c h h as ' B ed - between the unknown agents of the operative t u bs and some of the Liverpool masters. The proposi 41s which ha ve i ssue d f rom th e secre t ca b a l s , an d th e arbitrary tone of their iniquitous demands, are of so dis f „ se e•ni a n a t ure , an d, sans th e me th o d, savour so muc h m adness, that we can hardly bring ourselves to believe that th ey emanate from the workmen themselves. They :P e ar to u s t o or i g i nate wi t h some secret incendiaries, 4110, distrusted by former employers, or detected in some : Un guent propensities, and thereby expelled from the g e neral 0 body of r e s pectable partizans, are striving to in he their fellow men in the'same ruin which their in -11144 Conduct has brought upon themselves. ive say, is the most charitable. interpretation . 0 1. F ' lle h can be put upon the Wild and illegal proscriptions -; t ile leaders of these combinations. If they were men ~‘,l t lr clinary sagacity, and presuming them to be honest t. ' co nscientious men, they would at once perceive that h°.Persist in these - insolent - Mid despotic demands must of tn ig destitution on the men, and the wives and children a -. t he men w h o are th e i r d upes an d th e i r v i c ti ms . B u t ; th e styl e o f t h e i r severa l a dd resses , and the threats lere in contain e d prove that they cannot be respectable tl l4t me -- 'Thelves, we are consequently pushed to the conclusion t hey are artful and malignant demagogues—political : 11 . e4 we strongly su s p ec t, an d hired for the purpose—de tlttote of good principl es , an d • w ith out any sense o f jus •Ce or feelings of shame. We are the more convinced this from perusing the " Address to the Public," c) itl ea " 0. L. P.," and purporting to emanate from the leratiee Plasterers. We shall take ,only two para 41Pirs to show the animus of the whole address: 'v COcousequence of the very unprovoked, unju s t, an d unar 4table attack upon the privileges of our trade, we demand :41,ensation for each and every day that . our employers have ,:t , or may keep us from resum i ng our emp l oyment. We , 114 ,. he paid i n p ro p or ti on to the wages we were pr ev i ous ly tl7hitig for ; an d f rom an d a f ter t h e 12th i ns t an t, a ll p l asterers 1 1 1° Yed as journ e y m en by masters shall not receive less Il i a ': th e Sum of four shillings a day each, as remuneration for e t labour; an d every p l as t erer pl ace d i n the capacity of t r ll in tendent of an y j o b or j o b s , shall receive the sum of for 9 : and fourpen c e a day; and any master or masters w ho Cr, or cause to be offered, less wages than those above ' ' '-edi ed (unless allowed 'our committee) he or they will o kr i ar cur i ndignation, and will be dealt with accordingly! Though h 'wi nes and our children should e:chibit all the marks of gnaw tire and craving with uplifted eyes towards high Heaven te au Pd, not e ven th en w ill we brook to comply to the persons who i endeavour to perpetuate upon us such intolerable and debas wronns., I e knave or blockhead, we care not which he is, or iti e b o he -e, who wrote this, merits a more condign pu for-i.tent than th e b eggar l y p itt ance o f th e wor kh ouse , Ife and a pa r i s h grave , w hi c h i n a ll pro b a bilit y w ill b e t, 4t • He is, i n f ac t, unwort h y o f b e i ng to l era t e d i n 41;11"west scale o f soc i e ty, f or hi s pr i nc i p l es are di a b o li ca l, o l „ str ike at the very root of social existence. We pass wiethr the nonsense of pretending to fix any rate of wages r eßPect to a class of men, the labour of one of whom wo Y be worth four shillings, and that of another not , e 411 More than four pence per day. This is mere non- Ilse, and ebullition of ignorance or something worse.— T h e therefore pass it by to come to the threat.— mas ter who disobeys their mandate incurs their in i°4, and w ill b e d ea lt w ith accordingly ! Wh a t i s tn : - " t bY this ? D o t h e p l as t erers mean to B ur k e th e i r e: ter s ? In one word, do they mean robbery, or mur to;) ` 3 ' . both ? I f so, let them speak out, an d not d eal i n ..,_ l ,:eeanin g t h reats. But disgraceful as this language is, tl: cow ardly and assass i n li ke as i s t h e menace it conve y s , I l l e h worse remain s behind. Their wives and children ar e to b e exposed t _ " " gnawing hunger," and lift their tart ! , to heaven in vain than b rather than accept one to ., li ng Per day less than the four shillings ! Can the vi 'l d n e who dictated this blasphemy, this insult to the pro ;rad ce °f God, and who imprecates a curse on his wife rea(rhii.ldren • -Can such a man be a Christian ?—has he tit ot ,, i is , bi ble ?—can lie read at all ?—was he ever in a x f o 'l r . "-i8 he not a monster ? tenti r e brutal language, or more ferocious and impious Ist l , e , 4 ., en ts , it never was our fate to peruse. If not 0.1.,"1ty revoked, they will bring down everlasting dis on the parties who concur in them. Better have Plaster on our walls—better ha ve no pl as t erers a t a ll that tsbuch men an d such sentiments. We sincerely hope dis a , ° refl ecting and r es p ec t a bl e part o f t h e b o d y w ill with 7then,, and re ti re f rom a contamination so fraught )I °(lnY and ruin." We adclieSS ourselves to the not t th e re bad --to the uncorrupted, not to the spy, , n ude] the profligat e or the secret incendiary ; and 'ye warn those I ...est, who h ave any regard for t h e i r own in litt[a or any affection for their families, to wash their tts clean of such unhallowed doctrines and such illegal proceedings. They cannot do it too soon. --,........._ i_i lt is impossible to conceive anything much more ridicu ' is than rta the attempts which h ave recent l y b een ma d e by A In partie s i n opposition to the West India interest. .' ll the world has heard of a body, holding its meetings to A 41dertnanbury, called the Anti -slavery :.ithose who have made nice distinctions in reading there Society ; and i ti l i have appeared another body, also holding its meet t Aldermanbury, and, we believe, under the same bo dy, Called the AGENCY Anti-slavery Society. This last , G tlY, in a series of resolutions passed On the 13th in tetllt, takes to task most severely his MAJESTY'S minis -1 r 3, Mr. FOW'ELL BUXTON, and the whole of the West thtidia body. The first for voting money to the last, and illeir ilrumaculate leader for acceding to that grant ; talk hitgely of " concurring cordially" in the sentiments of the three hundred and . thirty-nine delegates who stormed the Colonial-office, a month or two ago, with petitions and remonstrances. We dare say our readers have heard of the lad who ran to tell his mother that there were five hundred cats in the barn. The mother prudently doubted the information, and pressed JACKY down in his numbers, until he persisted stoutly that he, was sure there was their black cat and another. Just so with the Agency Anti-Slavery Committee. Their JACKY, one JOHN CarsP, a chip of Zackmackery, now quartered upon the public purse, signs, "by order," as secretary, the resolutions in question ; talking largely, as aforesaid, about their cordial concurrence . in the sen timents of the "339 delegates,"—abusing the House of Commons,—abusing their own leader,—abusing the whole of the West India body ; and, of course, bepraising themselves. And - how Many; gentle reader, do you think this formidable body consisted of ? Three hundred ? No. Two hundred ? No. One hundred ? No. Well, fifty ? No. A score then? No, no,—just like the. cats in the barn—" our black cat and another," and JACKY the se cretary ! From the sublime to the ridiculous is just one step, we are told. Who are the authorities for this ex posure ? The West India slave owners most likely ? No, no,—but Tnos. FOWELL BUXTON himself, in a letter dated 14th June, and JAMES CROPPER, in a letter dated 15th June, both published in the newspapers. This is a specimen of the meetings by which a majority of the members of the House of Commons was stated to=-have been called upon to pledge themselves to measures, the evils of which will be felt by hundreds of thousands both here and in the colonies. For once the two gentlemen we have named have rendered the public a service. "At a meeting of the committee,—by order, JOHN CRISP, se cretary." To which we may add— Ex uno disce onmes. The-Wapping, or rather Billingsgate, tempest raised against us Tories by the ministerial "scribes has nearly subsided ; or, in other words, has been drowned in the loud roar of laughter which their spluttering and bellow ing has excited in every part of the country. The bludgeon and brickbat system is consequently at an end. The braying of the Times, which is facetiously called "thunder," has done no more harm than would the burst ing of a bottle of small beer, and the wail of the dotard Chronicle has only excited pity for the sorrows of a discon solate Whig. Oh, shade of JAMES PEttßy,'what wouldst thou say if thou couldst see how low thy paper and thy party have fallen ! It is amusing to observe, that with the exception of the journals we have named, ministers have neither an organ nor an echo in any quarter of the united kingdom. Those who were their ablest supporters among the radical fac tion are now the most virulent of their opponents. The ultra reformers execrate them in language which it is impOsSible to describe. The True Sun, which did them good. service in the day of their first struggle for office, has long since turned its batteries upon them, and keeps up an incessant fire; and we beg to tell the reader that the opposition of the True Sun is not the small chirp of a hankering and disappointed partizan, but the bold and fearless rage of indomitable hostility. The sentiments it advocates are the sentiments of the great mass of the middle and lower classes of the population, with whom the very name of Whig is odious, and who see in the broken promises, and violate&pledges, and disingenuous subterfuges, and mean and selfish attachments of tile present administration everything, that is base in the man . and dishonest in the statesman. With the party whose favourite organ the True Sun is we have no alliance and little sympathy ; but this we will say of them, that so far as consistency goes, so far as truth is concerned, so far as a straightforward and intelligible line of policy is • involved, we prefer the Radicals to the Whig's, in the same degree that we prefer candour to hypecrinr. What . the Radical party aim at they do not conceal ; but what the Whigs aim at we only know by their conduct,-which. is exactly the reverse of their professions. They tell us that they are strengthen ing and consolidating . the constitution, when they are in the very act of pulling it to pieces. They tell us that they are piling the - church upon the affections of the peo ple, when they are . actually undermining its foundations. They tell us that they are improving our legal code and bringing cheap justice to the door of:the . poor man, at the very moment when they are concocting a system of fraud which must increase the number of pettifogging lawyers, and engender a spirit of litigation among the humbler classes of our countrymen. They tell us that the policy of Lord GREY is peace and retrenchment, as well as reform. It may be reform, and it is very like revolution ; but we deny that it is peace ; and certain we are that ._instead of retrenchment it is profuse, wicked, and unwarrantable extravagance. Is it a peace policy that connives at a mnrderous in Portugal ? which allows English ships'to engage in acts of piracy ? —which permits the subjects of the KING to be enlisted and dragged off by, speculators and jew Money-lenders to be shot like dogs, and if not shot, .starved before the lines of Oporto ? Is it a- policy conducive to a long or substantial peace, Which allows France to hold possession of Algiers, and the finest portion of northern Africa which has placed Belgium at the mercy of France ?- -and which has given European Turkey to the Emperot of all the RusstAS ? • Was it. for this last that Lord DURHAM was sent on an expensive mission to the court of St. Petersburgh ? Is it foi peace or neutrality that Lord Wm. RussELl. is located as a spy. In Lisbon ? But the retrenchment ! what of that ? The word has ever been a favourite one with the " base Whigs." It has been inscribed on all their bannerS, and has been li berally interlarded with all their speeches from the days of Mr. Charles to the eventful times of Lord GREY. Let us see,•then, what this retrenchment is. The unanimous voice of the nation has called for a reduction of the house and window duties—we of the press have called for the remission of the most oppressive imposts ever tolerated in a free country. What is the answer to these prayers? " We cannot afford you• relief or redress," says Lord ALTHORP, " for the credit of the country is at stake, and the present revenue is hardly adequate to the public ex penditure." ThiS . is a good answer—good, z true. But is it true ? The revenue, he says, is unequal to the necessary expenditure, and , yet we find the noble lord voting away millions by the hour. Twenty, ten, five, three, two—in all forty millions, voted away without rhyme or reason, wantonly, unnecessarily, capriciously— voted out of an empty exchequer by a Chancellor who de clares that.it is impossible to afford two or three millions to relieve 'the pressure of the present taxes ! What are we to infer from, this, but that Lord ALTHORP is either tampering with the national credulity and imposing upon the people; or that he is labouring under some mental hallucination ? . Where are all these millions to come from which he is voting away with as much nonchalance as if he were throwing filberts to a squirrel ? He has either a surplus revenue or he has not. If the former, then is he bound to apply all or part of it to a reduction of the public burthens. This is the first duty of an honest and patriotic minister. But if he have no surplus, then these grants, subsidies, peace-offerings, and hush monies must be met by loans and new taxes, in which case they are a downright robbery of the people. But all this, we apprehend, will be explained hereafter. There will be a day of reckoning, and when that day comes we shall be happy to find a fair balance sheet and no bad debts. In the mean time, the • cause o f the ministerial uproar, and the raving . of the ministerial scribe's, has been explained by the Tr4e . S'un. • The ma jority of the members of the present House of Commons dread abOve all things upon earth a dissolution of the present Parliament: If . the GREY administration were turned out, this would be, the case ;and should it occur, more than•one- half of them, and the whale of the pledge makers, pledge-eaters, and pledge-breakers, would never again find their way into St. Stephen's: ... It took forty thousand pounds to return Mr. J 013 1 ,1 WALTER for Berk shire, and the Times knows it ! • In our last we touched upon the question of . refining foreign sugars, in rather general terms: Since then we learn, by the debates in Parliament, that Mr. EWART has "presented a petition from the Merchants and shipown ers of Liverpool, praying for the removal of all restric- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. tions upon the importation of sugar fur the purposes of refining." Not having the petition itself before us, we cannot do otherwise than discuss its details as they are presented in the brief analysis which is contained in the newspaper reports of its contents. If these be correctly given, we have only again to regret that parties bringing forward such petitions will travel away from the truth, as established by official documents. When they state " that the colonies do not contribute anything to the re venue of this kingdom, but that their government and protection is a heavy charge upon it—that there is an nually paid out of the Treasury, on the exportation of refined sugar and bastards, nearly £soo,ooo—and that the exports of British manufactures and produce to the aforenamed countries exceed, by five-fold, those to our West India colonies"—when they state these things, we counsel them, in no unfriendly mood, that they injure their own cause. If they will turn to the official accounts, just published, they will find that the net revenue de rived from sugar only, in the year ending sth January last, was £3,394,338175. 2d., after deducting alldrawbacks upon refined sugars, according to the established rates of calculation, amounting to £949,172175. 9d. If, therefore, they contend that there is paid out of the treasury £500,000 on the exportation of refined sugar and bastards, they must mean one of two things. If they mean that because the duty is paid back upon refined sugar and its adjuncts, there is a loss to the country to the amount so paid, it is worse than idle to discuss the question in that spirit. If they intend that, why not take the right sum at once, and say £949,172 17s. 2d. instead of '.£500,000 ? But, if it be meant that there is a loss to the country of £500,000, paid back in drawbacks or bounties on refined sugar and bastards, over and above the duty paid upon the raw sugar, then can nothing be more preposterous than such an assertion. It is saying, in short, that there is a bounty of 225. per cwt.. thrown away on all the refined sugar ex ported ! So, with . regard to the amount of exports to the West India colonieS, including the Mauritius, arid those to Brazil and the foreign West Indies, the countries to which they mainly refer, they will find the account stand thus : To the British West Indies 0,988,286 To the Mauritius 280,948 Total £4,269,234 To the Brazils £2,131,664 To the Foreign West Indies 2;235;245 Total £4,366,909 These accounts are given at the " official" valuations, and, therefore, exceed the real or declared value consi derably. But, as both accounts are so stated, the pro portions may be considered as preserved, although the actual amount in each case will be less. We will not go further into this question at present. Lord ALTHORP stated, in reply to a question from Mr. CLAY, that the matter must be gone into next session. Before that period, the experiments that have been long making with reference to the actual quantities of the se veral products obtainable from the different kinds of sugar, raw and clayed, will be determined. An accurate knowledge of the quantities of each which can be ob tained must be the basis of future legislation on this question. In the meantime, and we speak advisedly when we say it, the parties interested in obtaining the privilege of refining foreign sugars for export will do well to abstain from exaggerated statements to accomplish their object. This done, and the real amount of saccharine matter con tained in the different sorts of sugar once ascertained, we believe they will find but little opposition offered to the adoption of the general principle which they demand. , THE extraordinary decrease in the importation and consumption of wine in England within the last few years, is a better test of the real condition of the upper and middle classes of society than any other connected with the public revenue. About two years ago, Lord ALTHORP, inspired by a fit of absolute wisdom, intro duced his famous budget, in which he equalized the duty on French and .Portugal wines, and considerably in creased the duty on Cape wines. His avowed reason for this was his. contempt for mercantile_ treaties, his sympathy for the distressed wine-growers of revo lutionary France, and the strong suspicions he enter tained that the honest wine-merchants of London and elsewhere were in the habit of selling the earthy-tasted and heartburning grape juice of the Cape for the sun bright, soulwartning zeres of Spain. The secret rea son, or rather the real reason, was, the necessity of bringing a fresh supply of grist to the treasury m ill, and thus increasing the produce of the public revenue. The noble Lord calculated that French wines were spa tingly drank in England, solely because they 'were dearer than those of Portugal. He imagined that by lowering the duty on the former, and raising it upon the hitter, he would increase the consumption of the one, without diminishing the consumption of the other. Unfortunate Chancellor ! unfortunate even in his biba cious calculations ! Had he consulted Lord BROUGHAM or the members of the Beef Steak Club, or the drovers who frequent the Ram Inn of Smithfield on the market day, or the stewards of the farmers' dinner at Southampton, he would have learnt that not one bottle of claret more or less would these worthy persons drink if it were as cheap as ditch water, or, as dear as GEORGE the FOURTH' S Hermitage. If he had consulted his friend Mr. ANGEL() TAYLOR, or Lord NUGENT, or the members of the Goldsmiths' company, he would have found that they must have claret, burgundy, and champagne, be its price five or fifty shillings a bottle. Had be made these inquiries, he would have ascertained that every reduction in the duty on French wines would only injure the revenue, perhaps benefit the French grower, but confer no benefit whatever upon the English thinker. In like manner the increase upon the duty of Portugal wines was a positive tax imposed upon the consumer of Port, without adding a single sixpence to the produce of the revenue. In other respects it was an injudicious'a n d even an unjust tax.— It imposed an increased duty upon the article consumed by the middle classes, at the very time that the duty upon the wines exclusively consumed by the higher and wealthier class of persons was considerably reduced.— Impolicy, injustice, ignorance, and Lord ALTRORP, are therefore synonymous terms. But let us now see how this truly ALTHORPIAN scheme of finance has worked. We have before us a return of the quantity of wine imported, for home consumption and otherwise, from 1828, and printed by order of the House of Commons. By this document it appears that the whole quantity imported in the period mentioned was as follows: Year 1828 there were 9,637,951 gallons. " 1829 " 7,618,196 " " 1830 " 6,879,588 " " 1831 " 7,116,870 " " 1832 " 6,018,480 " By this return it appears that in the first two years previous to the alteration of the duty by the noble lord, the quantity imported was 17,256,147 gallons. In the last two years, under the liberal system and the revenue bolstering system, the quantity imported was only 13,135,350 gallons. It will be recollected that Lord ALTHORP, in 1831, raised the duty on Portugal wines one shilling per gallon. But has the gross amount of duty been increased in that proportion ? No; on the contrary, the revenue arising for Port wine has fallen oft' considerably. •On the other hand, Lord ALTIJORP reduced the duty on French wines, (2s. 6d. per gallon, we believe,) but has the quantity imported or consumed been increased in an equal ratio ? So far from this, we have actually imported a less quantity of French wine than we did before the duty was reduced ! These facts are as important as they are, incontestible, forlhey demonstrate one of two things, either that the increased duty on Port wine has narrowed the consump tion, or that the country is in so impoverished a state that it cannot afford to consume the same quantity of wine as formerly. Lord ALTHORP, therefore, as HOW says, may take his change out of the alternative. Mont: TRICKS.—In the House of Commons on Monday, Lord Althorp dossed from the Treasury Bench to the oppoSi tion side of the I - Lsose, and seated himself beside Mr. O'Con nell, with whom he entered into earnest conversation, which continued for some time: This novel and extraordinary occur rence has occasioned much speculation.—London Corregpondvit of the Evening Mail. It would ippear that similar combination? to those of this townprevail among the operatives of New York in America. The men have struck fur higher wages, and have canmenced the folly of walking , in proc,:.ssion throught fie streets, thus exhibiting their pride and ignorance, heir poverty and independence. The Editor of the New York Gazette, who says he is a " mechanic himself," and has " worked as a journeyman," addresses his refractory brethren as follows : " I have wtnessed the proceedings of the Journeymen Car penters since the commencement of their turn-out, and inn satisfied that no body of men so well deserve the names of conspirators and aristocrats (the names they apply to the Bosses,) as tiemselves. I would ask what proceeding is more aristocratical than forcing men from their work, without regard to their engawments, or the price they obtain for their labour; thus injuring ioth Boss and Journeymen. What sort of a dis position towarls a reconciliation do they show, when they treat those who has; endeavoured to assist them by advice and pro positions, with such articles as have appeared in their answers? What sort of trinciple do men go upon, when they injure them selves to spite another? By what rule of arithMetic do they calculate to slow their gain, by their present proceedings? What sort of away to obtain justice is that which leads through acts of injustice ? Suppose the Bosses do make money, is that any reason Way the journeymen should prevent them ? Is their demand just? If so, will it not admit .of extension ? Why not demand 2 dollars per day ? The Bosses would not lose by it, inasnuch as they could calculate their estimates ac cordingly. Wly force the Bosses to pay 1 dollar 50 cents . per day to bad workmen as well as good ? Is not that the height of injustice and folly? They say that they do not tyrannize over the BosseE when they act in this matter, but merely act for justice. Tiny may call it what they please, but it is nothing less than holding a rod over a man's head, and demanding terms. lam not defending the Bosses, nor do I intend to, for I believe that - tie labour of the journeymen is worth 1 dollar 50 per day; bit I .mean to show the journeymen that their proceedings since the commencement of their turn out do not entitle them totheir demand. I shall not propose any plan by which they might obtain their end, although there are many, for fear of healing some quotations from Shakspeare.—lt is sufficient for me to say, that if they wish any assistance from the public furtler than a subscription of 1 dollar or 50 cents, &c., they must learn to treat those who wish to do them good through the press, with a little more respect." We take leave to recommend to the especial attention of the unregistered electors of the southern division of the county of Lancaster, possessing property within the parish of Liverpool, a notice addressed to them by the churchwardens and overseers, requesting that all claims to registration may be made on or before the '2oth July next ensuing. —We do this the more earnestly from a full conviction that the Grey administration is in the agonies of a political death, and that there will be a general elec tion, when we are most anxious to see the sense of the people taken to the utmost possible extent that the Re form Bill will admit of. We do not address ourselves to a party, but to the whole body of electors—we call upon them to be prepared for action, and we entreat them not to shrink from the performance of this duty in disgust, or disfranchise themselves, because the bill imposes some troublesome restrictions on the assertion of their rights. The Bill, such as it is, is now the law of the land, and we hope that we shall not hear of any captious objections to the shilling fee for registration. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half.past Seven o'clock. I stated in my last that there was every probability that Mi nisters would be in a minority in the Lords upon the Irish Church Robbery Bill. It appears that this was not without foundation, and that the Government of Earl Grey has been on the eve of extinction. Aware of its danger, and anxious by every means to avert a loss of place, Ministers in their extre mity applied to the Earl of Harrowby, as a mediator with the Conservative party, and by representing that a change of Mi nistry would only be the means of embarrassing the country by impeding the adjustment of the three great questions of the Bank - and the East and West Indies, have succeeded in preserving themselves, at present, from a defeat. The result of the negotiation, as far as I can learn, is, that Govern ment will pass a bill, acknowledging the principle of a reform in the Irish Church Establishment this session, but that the advanced state of the session will prevent the arrangement for the assessment of tenants, which will not be brought into operation at present, and, consequently, that that part of the bill must be postponed. To show the confidence placed by the monied interest in the power and principle of the Conserva tives, it is only necessary to say, that when it was known that they would not exert their weight to impede the settlement of the Bank and East India Charter questions and the Emancipa tion scheme, Consols rose from 89i to 90, have been this day as high as 904, and left off at 895. Bank -Stock is quoted at 2()-12 to:205&. In the Foreign Bonds there has been some specula tion; Belgian Bonds are 911 I, Brazilian 674 to 68, and Dutch 481 to 49. Spanish Stock, atter being as low as 18, has ral lied to 191. Portuguese Scrip is 21 2 discount. LATEST PARLL4MENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. The Speaker took his seat at a few minutes after twelve o'clock. ST. GEORGE'S STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. Lord SANDON, in moving the third reading of the St. George's Steam-packet Company's Bill. stated that in the original, bill there were some clauses to which objections had been made,. as they gave a power to that company over several others; but as the bill stood at present, it was simply to enable the company to sue and be sued, and to make some other regulations for the management of its concerns. The only reasonable objection ,that could now be made to it was that it placed the company in COiipefition7Witli Otters ; 'but in his (Lord Sandon's) opinion, so far from its giving the company greater powers than others were invested with, it in fact contained less provisioni to that purport than other companies had. It would be a new line of policy if the legislature were to discourage the formation of joint stock companies; but he would wait until he heard what objections were to be offered against the bill before he presumed to go at any greater length into the subject. After some discussion the gallery was cleared for a division, when there appeared— For the third reading 24 • Against it 47 Majority against the third reading_ ~ —23 • Mr. COLLIER presented a petition from the merchants, ship owners, and master-mariners of the port of Plymouth, praying that merchant seamen might be exempted from the payment of sixpence per month to Greenwich Hospital; and that the money now payable to that purpose might for the future be ap plied to the maintenance of merchant-seamen's hospitals, and to the benefit of their widows and children. After the presentation of several other petitions the Speaker left the chair. LOCAL NEWS. On Wednesday week James Watson, Esq., stepson of Dr. Traill, late' of this town, and now professor of Medical Juris prudence in the University of Edinburgh, was called to the bar by the Benchers of the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple. At the Examination of the Pupils of Messrs. Sorley, 77, Great George-street, on Tuesday last, prizes were awarded to the fol lowing young gentlemen, for their proficiency in the various departments of literature and science taught at the Academy : Anthony Bower, (for five classes;) William P. Campbell, (for three classes;) Robert Schultz, (for two classes;) Robert Houl grave, Alexander Harvey, Thomas Jackson, Alfred Darby, Robert Anderson, Henry 211`Call, William Broadhurst, Peter Sinclair, Edward Darby, David Twinaine, Thomas R. Hope, and Robert Headland. CASE OF EXTREME DISTRESS.—Among the many severe losses sustained during the gala on Tuesday week, we regret to have to include a boat and two men, belonging to floylake, engaged in the fishery by which the markets of this town are supplied. By the premature death of these men nine children are left without the aid and protection of a father. Had their families resided in this toy n, they would have met with that relief, of which they stand so much in need, from the various public charities, or from the ready kindness of benevolent indi viduals with which the place abounds. But living on an un frequented part of the coast, where few reside who have the power of relieving them, their situation is destitute indeed. The circumstances connected with this case are fully known to the Rev. C.. L. Swainson, of Edge-hill, and should they excite the friendly sympathy of any whose eye this may meet, and who may be disposed to relieve them, he will gladly apply their contributions to the most useful purposes. A book is open at the office of this paper ' to receive contributions. Tuesday being the 18th June, the , anniversary of the schools in connexion with the Established Church was celebrated in the customary manner, by a procession of the children and the per formance of Divine service. Nineteen different schools contri buted their juvenile bands to swell the march, and when formed into an entire line, of no fewer than 2-120 girls and 3122 boys, ' with happy countenances and decent clothing, they presented a sight most cheering and instructive. They marched to St. Peter's Church, where the sermon was pi eached by the Rev. Henry Raikes, M.A , chancellor of the diocese of Chester, from Matthew xviii, 10, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones." The ability and impressiveness of the rev. gen tleman's discourse were the theme of much encomium. His worship the Mayor and the Corportion were present, having accompanied the piocession, along with an unusual display of the clergy; the congregation was numerous and highly respect able;. and a collection at the doots, after service , am ounted to £76 65. - 41 d. The plates were held by the following ladies : the Mayoress, Mrs. Horsfall, Mrs. Rector Brooks, Mrs. Colton, Mrs. Dcbson, Mrs. Poole, and Mrs. R. Smith. In the evening , our worthy chief magistrate, with his characteristic hospitality, entertained the clergy to a sumptuous dinner at the Town-hall, at which also a few other gentlemen, including the churchwar dens and the treasurer of the Blue . Coat Hospital, were present. CABIN PASSENGERS IN THE PACKET SHIP EUROPE, Captain Maxwell, from New York, in 17 days.—Mr. and Mrs. Barra. Clough and servant, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. Ball and servant, of .Charleston • Mr. Samuel S. Seward, Mr. Wm. H. Seward, Mr. Heard, of New York; Mr. Ford, Mrs. Ford, Miss S. A. Ford, Miss C. W. Ford, of New Hampshire; Mr. Snyder, Mr. Tames, Mr. Baker, of Pennsylvania ; Mr. Carrell, of New Orleans; Dr. Harland, of Philadelphia; Dr. Campbell, of Ten nessee; Mr..Ferandez, of Havanah; Mr. Stapler, Mr. Nor ton, of Quebec. • AWFUL SIGNS OF THE TIMES..—A short time since we had to record "the fall of the angels," who supported and smiled on "the archangel" of reform, Lord Brougham, leaving him in all the solitary dignity that plaster of Paris • can bestow upon the learned Chancellor's wig and features, when raised to the level of the attics of Brougham-terrace as an object of adora tion to the passing stranger. It is now our duty to make known to the world the appearance of omens equally portentous. From our streets a "Brougham House" and. an "Althorp House" have vanished "like the baseless fabric of a vision." They have not, courteous reader, been swallowed up by an eartii quake,—dey have not been destroyed by "the devouring ele ment,"—neither have they been rased to the g round by , the hand of time, or by the ruder hands of "a beast of - a nation. ' No ; the houses stand firm item " turret to foundation stone," but ' their names are totally obliterated ! Even here our tale is not ended, lot we have to announce that our " O'Connell Tavern" has changed masters no less than three times in the space of two years! Oh, Liverpool, Liverpool ! where is thy patriotism, where ths love of reform and reformers ! Coming events are said to east their shadows before them. As it is In Liverpool, so it will be in London. The House of Lords has almost ceased to be Brcugham's* House, and " The Commons' House," com mon as it is, shows symptoms of impatience, and a strong in clination to erase " fhe Althorp House," emblazoned over its portals. The "O'Connell Tavern," too, of Ireland becomes every dar a less profitable concern. These symptoms are aw fully grie;ous, and show that " the times are out of joint." At the next election the cries of " Ewart and Thornely for ever" may not le vociferated so loudly as they were at the l a st. Oh ! dear, what can the matter be ? We confess ourselves at a loss even for t conjecture, THE DRAMA. On Wednesday, Sheridan's comedy of • The Ricals was pro duced at the Theatre Royal, fur the purpose of introducin ,, Mr. Power as Sir Lucius 0' Trigger, a part in which we think he is not ,so successful as he is in those of Irish low life. Vanden holt, as Captain Absolute, threW off his usual grave and senten tious manner of delivery, and appeared as the gay and graceful English Gentleman, a character that is seldom well sustained on the stage, because no actor who is not a gentleman can do it justice. The Rivals has been called the best comedy in the English language, and we are inclined to concur iu that opi nion, for we know of no other in which so many excellencies are combined, whether we regard the brilliancy of its language, or the tact displayed in contrasting its dramatis persona. We never read, or see this play performed, without regretting that its highly gifted author ever meddled with politics, or linked himself to the car of a heartless, worthless faCtion. Browne was the Bob Acres, and did this part, as he does every other, well; he alMost reconciled us to his strange fantastic oaths, and to his abominable' cowardice. Miss Eyre and Miss lluddart were the Lydia Languish and Julia of the night; and we never saw the contrast between the ill and well educated woman, be tween romantic and true feminine delicacy, more beautifully portrayed. Miss Eyre is an actress that improves on acquaint ance, and we suspect will make a good Juliet, on the London boards, some day or other. The author's Julia is a beautiful character, and lost none of its interesting features in Miss Huddart's hands. Her lover, Falkland, is a fastidious, roman tic coxcomb, unsatisfied by the frank avowal of his mistress's love; who is always tormenting himself lest he should not be loved for himself alone. He is, in fact, a sort of sentimental voluptuary, who revels only in the romance of passiOn,—" a captious sceptic in love, a slave to fretfulness and whim—who has no difficulties but of his own creating." The finest scene was that in which he announces to Julia that he has killed an antagonist in a duel : here Miss Huddart, ceased to be an ac tress by pourtraying THE WOMAN. When she agrees to fly with him, she says,—" I ask not a moment. No, Falkland, I have loved you for yourself: and if I now, more than ever, prize the solemn engagement which 'so long has pledged us to each other, it is because it leaves no room for hard aspersions on my fame„ and puts the seal of duty to an act of love. Perhaps your fortune may be forfeited by this unhappy act. I know not whether 'tis so; but sure that alone can never make us un happy. The little I have will be sufficient to support us; and exile never should be splendid." Here we must close our remarks on this performance, by ex pressing our hopes that it will be repeated. As Teddy the Tyler, Power was have at home. and kept the house in a roar, which, we have much pleasure in adding, was a full one. John Bull was repeated last night as successfully as at its 1 , first representation on Monday. MEETING OF HOUSE OWNERS. On Monday evening last, a public meeting of house owners was held at Mrs. Stretch's, Liver Inn, Kirkdale, to take into Consideration the best measures to be _adopted to prevent two bills,, now' before the house of Commons. passing into a law. The meeting was very numerously and respectably attended; several excellent speeches were delivered•, the greatest unani mity of sentiment prevailed; and at the conclusion a liberal sub scription was entered into to discharge the necessary expenses. JOHN 11 'GEORGE, Esq., was called to the chair, and having briefly stated the nature and object of the meeting, the follow ing_resolutions were passed unanimously:— Moved by Mr. llt - CKWORTH, and seconded by Mr. BROADBENT, 1. That this meeting views with feelings of regret, that a bill has been brought into •Parliament, called the "way wardens bill," which makes all owners of houses, of the yearly value of twenty pounds and under, liable to the highway rates, and empowers the way warden to lay on a rate of three shilling in the pound,—this meeting considers that such an extent of power to any parochial officer or way warden is adding to the already oppressive burdens of the people, without any prospect of alle viating. them, and that the rates are sufficiently high without increasing them. Moved by Mr. ROBERT ELLIS, and seconded by Mr. JOHN JONES, 2. That this meeting, deeply sensible of the situation in which owners of property aie placed, views with great alarm that a bill brought forward by Mr. Slanev, member for Shrewsbury, has been read a second time in Parliament, which makes the owners of all tenements, of the yearly value of ten pounds and under, liable to the parochial rates, &c. That such a tax is unjust in principle, and will be most oppressive upon the poor and labouring classes, and will entail additional burdens upon them, which, in their present state, they are unable to bear. Moved by Mr. CHADWICK, and seconded by Mr. J. R. Man- CALF, 3. That the late small tenement bill in Liverpool is a practi cal refutation of the principle of Mr. Slaney's bill, that it in creased the number of applications for parochial relief, and added to the expenditure or that parish more than it realized by its enforcement. And this meeting has similar views with the parishioners of Liverpool, that an application to Parliament for a bill to repeal the same was ver y p ro pe r and necessar y. MoVed by Mr. JAMES BECKETT, and seconded by Mr. W. RIBY. 4. That this meeting cordially approves of the sentiments expressed, the resolutions adopted, and the petitions forwarded by the "cottage owners' union," and the house owners' society," in Liverpool, and in their sending up deputations to London to o ppose those ruinous bills passing into law. Moved 'by Mr. WILLIAM WALTHEW, and seconded by Mr. WILLIAM JONES; 5. That a petition be sent to Parliament against the " way wardens" bill, and Mr. Slaney's bill, and that the petition now read be adopted by this Meeting. Maied by Mr. MORLEY, and seconded by Mr. FINNEY, 9. That the petition be presented to the House of Commons by Lord Molyneux, and that Lord Saudon and Wm. Ewart, Esq., be earnestly requested to support its prayer. Moved by Mr. 'l'. Mama LP, and seconded by Mr. Ducx- WORTH, 7. That a subscription be now entered into to defray the ne cessary expenses in calling the meeting, &c. Moved by Mr. BROADBENT, seconded by Mr. Mc - ninny, 8. That these resolutions and petition be printed once in the LiverpoJl newspapers. (copy.) u aim HONOURABLE THE_ COMMONS OF GREAT B RITAIN__Am IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, THE PETITION Of the undersigned owners and occupiers of small tenements in the townships of Kirkdale, Bootle, and Walton-on-the-Hill, in the county of Lancaster, , Humble Sheweth,—That your petitioners have heard, with deep regret and alarm, that two bills are now before your ho nourable house, the one entitled "a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to highways, in that part of Great Britain called England," contains clauses to enforce the payment of the high way rate upon the owners of houses and tenements of the value of twenty pounds and under, however the same may be let. — And the other entitled " a bill for the better rating of tenements, under a certain annual value, in England and Wales," contains certain clauses to enforce upon the owners of houses and tene ments the payment of the rates or assessments for the relief of the poor and' ecclesiiitical or church rate, highway. paving, lighting and watching rates, and all'other rates ►mposed by any local or other act, in the parish in which such house, : building. office,. apartment, tenement, or laud shall be situate, instead of upon the occupiers thereof. And your petitioners humbly beg to apprise your honourable house, that should such bitls pass into a law, they will have a tendency deeply to affect, or otherwise ruin, the owners of such property, who are, for the 'most part, persons of small capital, and in many cases orphans and widows, who are dependent upon the precarious collection of rents difficult and 'uncertain to be obtained. And it is also humbly submitted to your honourable house, that the occupiers of this description of property are very nu merous; and, of course, the lowest order of society, and who have aenerrally ' according to the usages of all parishes and places, hitherto been, on account of extreme poverty, exempt from such rates, will now have, (though indirectly,) through their landlords, to contribute very largely to the said parochial, church, and other rates. And it is also humbly submitted to your honourable house, the extreme hardship and injustice such bills would have in compelling such occupiers of small tenements to pay (though indirectly) to the support of poor and other rates, whilst, ac cording to law they would be deprivedof the privilege. ofhaving anything to do in the management of the parochial affairs, and if strangers in the place, be denied any relief, save a removal order to their distant parishes. And it is further submitted to your honourable 'house, that the owners of small tenements do now, in a way, contribute to the parochial rates in the remission or loss of one-half or twip ! thirds of their rents, which, on an average, they are obliged to submit to, the enforcement of which often drives the wretched occupants upon the guardians of the poor for shelter and relief. Trusting that your honourable house will take into your most serious consideration, and refuse your sanction to measures which your petitioners are afraid would cause a serious ferment and unnatural .collision among all classes of society in the king dom, your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Kirkdale,rith June, 1833. COMBINATION LAWS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE I.IVERPOOL ST,INDARD. Stir,—l have read with attention the excellent articles in your paper of the 11th and 14th inst., as to the alarming state to which the present illegal combination of the artisans, under the-specious title of - the " Trades' Union," may and will soon reduce the couotry, if not iimmediately checked by the interference' of Goverument ; but you have still not pointed out all its evils. That industry is wealth, or the source of wealth, no one will deny. Let these deluded people therefore consider, that' if 500,000 men be rendered inactive Tor a week only, and taking the weekly produce of each man's labour at 205., the national stock of wealth will be deprived of .C 500,000, or if these 500,000 men be unemployed fOr twenty weeks, the country will • be deprived of 10 millions, whilst there is an equal destruction of capital going on at the same time for the support of these very men—these drones in the hive of industry. But as ex- • treme positions show more clearly the absurdity of false reason ing, let us suppose that by unanimous consent the whole nation should agree to be inactive for twelve months, that all the bees in the hive shall becoine drones; it does not require much fore sight to see what the end must be. As is witnessed in Oporto during the present struggle, that capital, which is the suppoit of industry, must be exhausted for the support of life, the tielda go uncultivated, and famine with all its accompanying evils must ensue. Had not the ship carpenters of Liverpool com bined to demand extravagant wages', perhaps the pres ent exten sive ship building establishments in the Isle of Man might never have been thought of, to say nothing of the dangerous tendency of these Unions as a machine for political purposes in periods of excitement. • • Our•anceStorS guarded against this evil by wise and equitable . laws against combinations, as well as by securing to the British ship-owner that protection by navigation laws,. which had con tributed so much to raise this country to its (then) ,greatness and power • but with Mr. Huski ss on a new light a rose , un d er which the legislature would sanction any scheme, however wild and destructive to the best interests of nation, proVided it were based upon principles bearing the name of liberality; or in Other words, because a mail het abundance, ho innst in his boundless charity give it all away to the poor, until at last he has not a shilling left for himself; forgetting that his children have bonds to pay . (the national debt), which the children of the poor (the foreigner) has not. In -this rage for liberality Mr.- Hume had little difficulty in obtaining a bill to do away with the combination laws; but Mr. Home forgot one material point ; he must have thought the lower classes equal in-intelli gence and knowledge to those who-have devoted a whole life to mental improvement, and that they would not abuse, to illegal purposes, the freedom of action which the legislature thus conferred upon'them ; but in this he was exceedinglymistaken, as the result proves; and that this luminary may be still more en lightened I purpose sending him (Mr. Hume) your paper of the 14th, with these Comments, and to call upon him to assist in re enacting the laws against combinations. For since this class . of the community is either too ill informed or too . perverse to profit by the liberality of the existing laWs, not seeing the con sequences to which theirpresent conduct tends, it'is only right that the better informed should legislate for them. I therefore suggest, Mr. Editor, that the legislature be immediately petition ed to re-enact the laws against„illegai combinations of artisans and workmen, and hope that: yon will lend the invaluable aid of your•pen to achieve this objecti—Yourt, &:c COMMON SENSE, SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'clock. Sir Benjamin D'Urban, late Governor of Jamaica, ar rived here this morning, in the ship Phwnix, Hartley.— The General, we are happy to state, is in excellent health. CORN EXCHANGE. FitinAY, 21st JUNE, TWO O'CLOCK. At this day's Market, which was but thinly attended, a fair business was done with the town dealers m good and fine Wheats; all kinds are now ls. 2d. d earer th an on T ues d a y, and held with firmness. The price of Irish Flour also has advanced 6d. to is. Oats supported former rates, but the quantity sold was limited. There is still a speculative de mand for Oatmeal at 21s. 9d., but primer, quality cannot be had under Us. Seygral lots of old sweet American Flour have been taken forexport at 21s. The trade generally is less de pressed than of late. COTTON MARKET. FRIDAY, Two o'CLocK . .. There is a good demand to-day from the trade, with some little inquiry by speculators. The sales may probably amount to 4000 bales at 'steady prices, upon which . terms holdertare supplying the demand freely. COLONIAL MARKET. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. The Colonial Sugar market is steady, and prices, though no improvement can be noticed since our last, are fully supported. In Foreign Sugar there is but little doing. Molasses are not in demand, in consequence of the boilers being well supplied, but higher prices are generally demanded by holders. In Cocoa and Ginger nothing doing. Pimento is in good request by speculators. Bum—the ordinary qualities of proof Leewards are sought after for export; but in other qualities there is scarcely any thing doing. The sale of indigo closed this morning, and the advance of yesterday has been readily obtained for the remainder of the sale, about 140 chests. The Caracca Indigo has sold' rather cheaper in proportion than the East India. In other East. India articles there has been considerable business done this morning. Lac Dye has brought good prices, as has also Saf flower, both sold by auction. About 800 bags Saltpetre have been sold to consumers at 38s. and 425. per cwt. duty paid, about half at each price; this is an advance here on previous prices, for the better description of which the stock is extremely short, and consequently attracting the attention of buyers. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, 21st June.—Noon, Wind N.W.—gift ARRIVED :-Ilannah, Shaw, from Mobile—Colonist, St. An drew's, N.B.—St. George, Garrett, Pernambuco, (sailed 6th May ) — Liverpool, Rowe, Paraiba, (sailed 7th May.) Off the port—Phoenix, llartley, from Antigua—Grenada, —, Charleston. SAILED :—Jumna, Pinder, for Calcutta. Blessing, Jaycey ; Bee, Chalmers, and John and Mary, Johnstone, hence at Newfoundlond. Two copper-bottomed vessels was seen the beginning of May, wrecked, and lying on the ice, at the outer ledge of the Bank, by thr. Madeira, from the Clyde, arrived at Newfoundland. One appeared to be either a brig or large schooner, and the other a ship. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK._ Wind at Holyhead West light breeze in the morniug—S.W. blowing fresh in the evening. Passed inward bound this day. No. 719, Grenada, BS, at 7 a.m. 238, Christina, BS, at 1 p.m. 505, United States, AS, at 12, noon. Passed outward bound this day. No. 101, Tagus, B Schooner, at 4 p.m. 1241, Sarah, B B, do. 1242, Cervantes, B Bk, do. An American Packet Ship, with a black ball in her foretop sail, or, outward bound, at 4 a.m. Passed Point Lynas, inward hound, No. 5, Phoenix, B S, at 7 a.m. passed Point Lynas, inward bound, No. 386, Dyson, B Bk, at 12 noon. THE CLYDE STEAM-BOAT. This vessel, which sailed from the Broomielaw on Saturday for Liverpool, got among the rocks off Portpatrick, about one o'clock on Sunday morning. All the passengers reached the shore in safety. The Manchester steamer from Liverpool for Glasgow, when passing the Clyde, was hailed by a signal of dis tress, but could lend her no assistance beyond - leaving a boat and some men. The vessel on coming off the rocks was found to have sustained great damage, and was filling with water. Captain Crawford, who behaved in the most admirable manner, ordered her instantly to be steered for Port-Nessock, about two miles off, which she reached in safety. hlad it been necessary to proceed much farther, she would inevitably have sunk. We are happy to learn that there is a great probability of the best part of the cargo being saved, as the captain without a moment's delay engaged hands to unload her. The following extract from a private letter appeared in our second edition of Tuesday l as t : " We left Glasgow in the Clyde steamer on Saturday morn ing, and at midnight we struck on a sunken rock, a little way from this place, and had hardly time to run as far as Port Logan, a distance of about four miles, before she filled with water. Fortunately the weather was fine, had it been other wise, we must have immediately sunk in deep water. The shock pitched me fairly out of my berth, indeed we had a most miraculous escape. 'We have just reached this place. The steamer was run right ou the rocks for safety, and had we been five minutes later, we could not have kept above water, it hav ing just at the moment covered the fires. You may judge how fast the vessel made water when the pumps were pumping out a ton a minute, but if they could have pumped four tons it could not have saved her. There were about one hundred of us on .board." - . . _ We have since received the following account from another quarter:—The Clyde, steamer, which on the night betwixt Sa turday and Sunday last, struck on a rock near Portpatrick, was so little damaged that she returned to Glasgow on Tuesday, with her own steam, and after discharging her cargo, went down to Greenock the same evening for the purpose of being caulked, and she will again shortly be brought upon the line. She was not running a race with any other vessel at the time the accident happened, nor had she been doing so before. LA W REPO!? 7' COURT OF EXCHEQUER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19. HUNT V. ROCKLIFF AND DUCKWORTH. Mr. Hunt having commenced an action against the Pub lishers of the Liverpool Journal, for a libel contained in a para graph respecting the Preston election, it was tried this day before Lord Lyndhurst. Verdict for the Piaiutiff, with Fort' Shillings daniages. An action against the Publisher of the Globe for a similar paragraph came on the same day, with a ver dict fur the Plaintiff, and Forty Shillings damages. ADMIRALTY COURT, TUESDAY, JUNE 18. THE ORELIA.-BOTTOMEY. Thii was an action on a bottomry bond given by William Hudson,. the master-of the Orelia, bound to London, to Mr. Henry Barlow, at the Mauritius, for £900; bearing a maritime interest of 18 per cent. The owners, as well as the master, have becqme bankrupt, and the proceeds of the sale of the ship, now iu the registry, are insufficient to meet the full , deMand of the bondholder. It appeared that the master of thete*ssel was part owner, but had mortgaged his share to the full an cunt; that he had traded between Swan River, Souralrava, , and the Mau ritius, in the years 1830 and 18.31, partly on his own account; that his consignees. at the Mauritius were Thomson, Pasmore, and Co., to whom he became indebted in a balance of 900 dol lars, besides 514 dollars due to Mr. Edes on a bottomry bond, and I:50 to Messrs. Pearson and Co. ; that the vessel was stopped from proceeding on her voyage by a process in the court at the Mauritius till the two latter sums were paid, Thom son, Pasmore, and Co. holding, as consig n ees ; a cargo of rice belonging to the master; that - an advertisethent was inserted by Thomson and Co. in the Gazette of the island, of the 20th May, inviting a loan for 3000 dollars on the hottom of the ship; that Mr. Bailow, in casual conversation, on the 12th of June, hearing that Captain Hudson was in want of a loan on bot tom'', and being desirous to remit money to England, by ad-. vice of Mr. Cockney, the procurator-general of the on the 15th of June, agre e d t o edvance-£900; (which was more than the sum advertised for,) on bottomry; and the bond was executed without any inquiry made by the lender, of the con signees, as to the actual necessities of the master. - Dr. DODSON (with whom was Dr. Addams,) on the part of the assignees of the owners, contended that the vessel was not in a condition to require an advance on bottomry ; that the master was not without funds and credit; that the money ad vanced was not applied to the necessary repairs of the ship, but to the purposes of the master; and that the - bondholder had not exercised due caution, or made proper inquiries, which would - have disclosed to him the real state of the ceee. , • The Kitw,'s ADVOCATE (With whom was Dr. Haggard) ar gued that there had been perfect hone files on the part. of the bondholder; that he had dealt with the master, not merely in his capacity of master, but as part owner; .that although be might have been guilty of some inadvertence in not consulting the - consignees, Alessrs. Thomson and Co., they bad in f ac t h e ld out, by their ad ve rtisement, that a bottorury bond was necessary and that, in point of fact, the vessel not being able to sail till the accounts of the master were liquidated, she was in a condi tion to justify a n advance on hottomry. - Sir Joite NICHOLL held that, under the circamStaireee.of the case the b on dholder was entitled to n o p r i or i ty of 'claim.. 'Alt. Barlow hail not exercised that reasonable degree of caution which would have shown that the master was without funds or credit, and that the vessel was not in want of. those necessary repairs and provisions which could justify a security which gave the lender a priority of claim; and if he had been overcome• by the representations of Hudson,—if Hudson had; as he stated in one of his letters swindled him,—the loss must fall .upon him, on account of his want of caution. Botterary bonds were not to be used merely as a convenient mode of remittance to England. He directed the money to he paid out of the re gistry to the assignees of the owners. SECONDARY'S OFFICE, Gummi:lLL, JUNE 13. 5.1171%,' LIABILITY OF PARTNIIRS. - BABRON AND OTHLRS v..ffiktrty.,AND UTC 1-1 N SON. The plaintiff; in this ca.se are wholesale drugg . ists iii friltspus- street; the defendant, Mr. Septimus Wray, is Aurgeon, re siding in Salisbury-square: The action was brought tb try the liability of Mr. Wray to pay the plaintiffs for gOods delivered to the other defendant, Mr. Hutchinson. The circumstances of the case were these:—About, three years ago Mr. Wra y took Mr. Hutchinson, who is also a sur wean, into partnership, and' both delndants carried on the usiness of the firm at 93, Farringdon-street. In the course of some time a disagreement arose between them, and their disputes became the subject of a Chancery suit. - On the 10th of August last the defendant, Mr. Wray, withdrew his busine:.; from the house in Farringden-street, and circulated notices to the different creditors of the partnership. and among others to the plaintiffs, stating that he would not hold himself liable , for any debts contracted after that date by Mr. Hutchinson, either on his (Mr. Hutchinson's) own account. or in the HMO of tie partnership, from which he apprised them that he had with drawn. The plaintiffs continued to supply Mr. Hutchinson with drugs. 'I he defendant, Mr. Wray, tendered the plaintiff; a check for the amount due to them up to the 10th of August The plaintiffs, however sued for an amount, including the debt contracted by the defendant, Mr. Hutchinson, subsequent to that period. - The question at issue was, whether, as the part nership had not been formally dissolved, the plaintiffs were en titled to recover from Mr. Wray as a 'member of the firm, not withstanding his notice to the plaintiffs. The Jury returned a verdictfor the lesser amount, and thereby found that the defendant., Mr. Wray, was not liable for the debts contracted by the other defendant, Mr. Hutchinson, after the 10th of August, • r ~-