The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. De. HAWTHORNE.—We are sick of the man •, and must beg of our readers, who have inundated us with letters, com plaining of his hardness of ht - art, in refusing to exercise his Infallible cures, without the payment of just a guinea, to re member the case of Shylock, and his pound of flesh. They - may depend upon it that such conduct will defeat its own object. Vie do not believe that our contemporary, the - Mercury', knows half the harm he is doing to his fellow' creatures by bringing before _their notice, at- a time when • cholera is so prevalent, the pretensions of so heartless a personage. „ .• THE "SCENE IN THE COUNCIL."—Our correspondent will see that we have cut down this affair as much as. possible. We hate to witness " scenes in the Council.": They only furnish matter for scoffers ; and gentlemen in the Council would do well to arcid provoking them. We are obliged to defer a paper on St. Matthias's Church, and several other communications. A2.—lt is nothing to us that Dr. Hawthorne drives his ate ton, or that the phaeton in vestion is constantly seen stand ing opposite the Mercury-office. Possibly the doctor finds it more convenient to roost on our contemporary's benches, than in his own house. That is,his taste. ri7l.ibtrpool gptanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1849. IT is impossible to resist the conclusion which is being forced upon us from every side, that the bur den of taxation is daily becoming more oppressive. Every community in the kingdom is seeking to diminish its local expenditure. We are compelled to resort to shifts—to bazaars, and other indirect appeals to our benevolence—in order to maintain our various charitable institutions. Local improve ments, both sanitory and decorative, which a few years ago we voted for with enthusiastic liberality, are being suspended. We seem, in short, as a community, to have all at once arrived at the con viction that the most severe economy is required to enable us to live within our incomes. Yet we are reminded that within the last few years about nine millions of taxation have been taken off articles of general consumption. We have cheap bread, cheap sugar, cheap coffee, and other necessaries and com forts reduced considerably. The doctrines of poli tical economy teach us that we ought to be in a state of prosperity, whilst every man, from his daily experience, recognises the fact that the contrary is the case. Every man feels that there is a secret in - fluence at work, which checks the national progress, and robs alike the capital, the enterprise, and the industry of the country of their fair reward. We see ample evidence of the fact to which we refer, in the recent motions of Mr. Henley and Mr. Drummond, for a reduction of the salaries of public officers, and a general economizing of the national expenditure. It is notorious that there has been no recent increase in either. We have not more to pay than before, but a greater difficulty in providing the means to pay at all. We have been cutting down the profits of every branch of trade and in dustry. We have added to competition at home competition with the foreigner. We have all been going to Sir Robert Peel's cheap shop ; and have forgotten the important fact that, whilst our earn ings are on a diminished scale, the public burdens remain a fixed amount. What is a pound in taxa tion is now thirty shillings or two pounds. The farmer gives to the state six bushels, his produce, where he formerly gave only four. The artizan gives six days labour where he formerly gave only four. The merchant and the shopkeeper give a month's profits where they only gave a fortnight's. Free trade has altered the value of our pound, by diminishing the profits of industry and enterprize, as effectually as if it had ordained that we should pay our indebtedness in sovereigns one-half heavier than the legal standard. It is undoubtedly easy for such flippant person ages as the Chancellor of the Exchequer to treat proposals for a reduction in our establishments, as betraying what was once styled "an ignorant im patience of taxation." A prime minister may con sider that be is not overpaid at £5,000 a-year; and may even urge that he is fully entitled to enjoy his share of the cheapness of commodities, brought about by his free trade policy. But the taxpayer has an indefeasible right to demur to paying a greater amount of the labour, mental or bodily, which is his capital, than he contracted for. And he will insist upon it, too. Such notions as those of . Mr. Henley and Mr. Henry Drummond may just now he mere flashes in the pan ; but they are indications, nevertheless, of the direction towards which the popular mind is progressing. They are extensively sympathized with by the public out of doors ; and the question which they moot will, bye and bye, have to be seriously considered. As effectual mea sures of relief, neither of the proposals of the hon. gentlemen are of great import. The cutting down of a few thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of the national expenditure, is only like the with drawal of a drop of water from an invading flood. 'Mae ..." . .."ffrti+!nri however, of the fact that retrench ment.is required at all, that the burdens of taxation are felt to be oppressive, is an acknow ledgement that those springs of enterprib. choked which once enabled us to bear almost double i nposts without murmuring. Sir Robert Peel recently enunciated the doctrine that national policy might be best examined by a reference to individual examples. We will give him such an example. One of his own tenants at Tamworth, paying, say a hundred a year for his farm, had last year for his total produce to meet such rent, the wages of his labourers, the expenses of his family, and pay for manure, seed, &c., four hundred pounds. This year his produce will only sell, at the utmost, for three hundred. Instead of a fourth of his produce representing the rent, it is now athird ; and it follows that the hundred pounds has virtually become, measured in labour, one hun dred and thirty-three. The taxes and local rates, viaich the same farmer pays, are aggravated in the like proportion. Is it unreasonable that he should complain, both as to the payment to his landlord and that to the tax collector ? Take Sir Robert's own case of the tailor and the bootmaker, each of whom vended articles at los. each, that sum, of course, representing a certain portion of their labour. Suppose the selling price of their respective articles reduced by competition to 7s. ; and let us see the result. The shoemaker produces 1000 pair of shoes per annum, the price of which would have been £5OO. Out of this he has to pay for leather, say £4OO, and rent and taxes £5O. Reduce his price to 75.; and he will be in this position. For his leather he will still have to pay £4OO, and £5O for taxes. But a thousand pair of shoes at 7s. only produce £350. Little wonder, when the poor fellow has to draw upon his capital to pay the landlord and the tax-gatherer, that he begins to grumble and call for economy in the national expenditure. But in this case neither reduction of rent, nor diminution of taxation, will restore matters to a proper state ; and there are thousands of cases, in which a diminished reward for labour and di minished profits are producing the same results. What must follow ? Rent cannot be paid. Taxes cannot be paid. We shall have first a reduced scale of expenditure; less customs and excise re ceipts; and next a deficient revenue. Englishmen justly deprecate any thing like repudiation of the national creditor, or any diminution of the national expenditure inconsistent with the maintenance of the national honour and safety. But this outcry for economy leads inevitably in the direction of such a policy. We are attacking even the expen diture of the Royal Household, criticising estimates for the army and navy, and calling for reduction in salaries of ministers of state; and we are impelled to do so in self-defence. We cannot give the tax gatherer our blood. We cannot pay him with our tears. The shopkeeper looks in his till, and finds only money for the traveller, who has supplied his wares, if even he finds that; and demurs alike to local rates and public imposts. It is a natural re sult of that policy, which sacrifices British industry at the shrine of the Idol, Cheapness; and determines that the most highly-taxed people on the face of the globe shall be compelled to descend to the level, in prices, of the products of labour of the com paratively untaxed foreigner. WE are in a fix it would seem ; at least the lawyers and the advocates of the Pike Scheme tell us so. We must go to Rivington, although Riv ington has no water to afford us ; and we cannot get what we have in abundance beneath our feet, because we cannot devote the money, to be raised under the Act of Parliament, to that purpose. We have made contracts for pipes, which we do not want, but which we cannot get rid of because of what Mr. George Hall Lawrence styles "the honor of the Council." But where, it may be asked, was the good sense of the Council, when we were brought to this sad condition? We our selves certainly thought, when this most stringent act was applied for, that its being carried out was perfectly optional; that the main object was to enable the Council to buy the property of the - Water Companies, and to have the supply of the town with water in their own hands. We imagined, as most other people did, that the first step of the Water Committee would he to increase the efficiency of the present works; that, at all events, during the construction of the Rivington Works, a proper supply would he afforded to the town. But it appears that we cannot take a single step for the purpose. We cannot anticipate a single hundred pounds of our income for any other pur pose than that of proceeding with this new scheme. We cannot even stand still, and do nothing. If we were to be favoured by Providence with the sudden outburst of a river of chrystal water within our boundaries, we must leave it untouched, neither construct a reservoir to hold it, nor pipes to con vey it, but turn our faces to the pet locality of Rivington to find there a supply, not so much for ourselves as for the manufacturers, and bleachers of Chorley and Wigan. . . What is to be done ? The " Honor of the Coun cil" is a fine thing; but we remember the pertinent question of Sir John Falstaff—" Can honor set a leg ?"—and are disposed to doubt whether the honor of the Council can render the Rivington Scheme a very paying, or successful, concern. We would rather invoke the common sense of the Council to take the requisite steps to rid themselves of their present onerous liabilities, and to procure the privilege of exercising a discretion of their own. Can there be any doubt that Parliament would interfere to protect the interests of the town in such a case ? None whatever. The Legislature has retraced its steps frequently. I-lon. members of both Houses know pretty accurately the real value of the professional evidence, by which this bill was carried. They would never have passed it had the sense of the town been expressed against it, as unfortunately it was not. Liverpool, at the titne when the Rivington project was being pro moted, was half demented in its longing for clean liness. We were in a sanitary fever; and with the exception of ourselves, there was not a journal in Liverpool which insisted on the fact, developed by Mr. M'Donald before the commissioners sent down by Government, that we had within our reach an ample supply of water. If we have run into a dilemma. as it is certain we have, Parliament will not compel us to cut our own throats; and we trust that the Committee appointed to re-investi gate the subject will recommend Ois common sense course. WE have all along given to the apostle of free trade, Mr. Richard Cobden, the credit of adherence to the truth. We imagined, too, that he was acquainted with the rudiments of political economy. It appears, however, that he can stretch a little when to do so serves his purpose ; and that he is marvellously uninformed as to politico-economical science. Some months ago, a very able member of the protectionist party, Mr. George Sandars, one of the representatives for Wakefield, urged upon the House of Commons the fact that a small duty upon foreign grain would, by reducing the nett price to be reaped by exports to this country, in reality be a tax paid by the foreign grower. Nine-tenths of those acquainted with the grain trade were acquainted with the fact that the pros pect of admission to the British market has always been the great elementsin determining the price of grain in foreign markets. With the price in England, under the old corn laws, at 60s. a quarter, the price in the grain markets of the Continent has generally been about 605., minus duties, freight, and a small margin for profit. As the price in creased at home, the duty being less, the price abroad rose; and vice versa. There is not a corn merchant in Liverpool or London who is not aware, from his own experience, of this fact. Mr. Cobden, of course, demurs to it, as do the Whig ministry, although Lord John Russell him- . self distinctly maintained, when proposing his fixed duty, that a large portion of it, at least, would he paid by the foreign grower ; and, to back up his opinion, the former gentleman, in a letter published in the Manchester Guardian, has stated that Mr. Sandars, in a private conversation with him, recently admitted that he had been in error upon the subject. After such a representation, we were a little surprised to find that gentleman distinctly re. annunciating his previously-expressed opinion. The honourable gentleman said : "Allusion having been made to a remark which fell from him in an incidental discussion, that the duty on corn in this country was paid 'by the foreigner, he would now repeat that from an experience of from 20 to 30 years in the corn trade, he knew that as prices rose in England they declined abroad. His general experience told him that the foreigner accommodated his price to the price which ruled in England ; and since he had made the remark, he had taken care to ascertain the opinion of gentlemen ,who could form a correct one upon the ques tion. He had written to a friend in Liverpool to put the question to 20 of the merchants of the greatest standing and respectability in Liverpool. They were largely en gaged in the corn trade, and 13 of them positively affirmed their opinion to be that the foreign power paid the duty, and not English consumer of foreign corn ; two of dicm were of that there was no rule upon the subject—that the price would b. ...ciliated by supply and demand, and that sometimes one would pay tho duty, and sometimes the other ; the other five were of opinion that, the duty was paid by the consumer. (Hear, hear.) Well, but but there was a clear majority of 12 to 5 in his favour—a majority which would be very satisfactory in that house.—(A laugh.) Not satisfied with that, he had himself gone on the Corn Exchange in Mai k-lane, and he put the question to from 15 to 20 merchants there, and the unanimity which prevailed astonished him. Out of the whole number there was only one—an hon. member of that house—who was a dissentient ; all the others dis tinctly gave it as their opinion that the duty in all instances was paid by the foreigner." We should certainly much prefer resting upon the opinions quoted by Mr. Sandars to those of Mr. Cobden and his school. But the latter goes further in his letter than to make a misrepresen tation of Mr. Sandars. He indulges in sneers at those political economists who hold his opinion. Yet these are amongst the ablest of the writers, on this science, to whose light Mr. Cobden's is but that of a farthing rushlight. It is perfectly obvious that, in nine cases out of ten, there is a wide margin between the price of grain in this country and the natural price on the Continent, and in the United States. What is it but the fact of the markets of England being open to the foreign grower, which advances prices abroad to nearly our own level? Impose a five shillings duty upon foreign grain, and we may depend that foreign prices will be by nearly as much reduced. Besides, we may remind Mr. Cobden of a little fact, viz., that it was one of the leading arguments of the anti-corn-law agitators, and of himself amongst the rest, that the opening of the British market would raise prices abroad ;: and, whilst enabling the foreigner to buy more from us, deprive him of one of the elements of cheap labour. If opening our markets has conferred upon him an increased profit upon his cultivation, a small toll upon his produce would not deter him from giving us the benefit of his supply, whenever our prices were a single shilling above its cost. On this ground, and from the necessities of our position with regard to the revenue of the country, which are very apparent, we feel assured that the proposal made by Mr. Herries, on Friday night, to adopt a moderate fixed duty on corn for revenue purposes, will, at no distant date, be affirmed by the house and assented to by the country. It is in the teeth of all fact and experience to argue that a duty of ss. or 6s. would, pro tanto, be an addi tion of that sum to the amount paid by the British people for their food. The very fact of a surplus existing in any portion of the world, and the pos sibility of its profitable introduction into a wealthy country, would, with such a duty, always keep down prices to a moderate level. Mr. Cobden himself, we dare say, knows as well as anybody else that an excess of supply of any commodity has a far greater effect in reducing prices than any mere fiscal impost has in raising them. We could no more raise the price of the whole stock of grain in this country by laying a small duty upon the sur plus with which other countries could supply us than we could raise the price of the whole stock of calicoes in Manchester by taxing the few hundred thousand pieces which some half-dozen millowners are manufacturing in excess. There is the strong argument also to be adduced, in favour of such a duty, that it would return probably a couple of millions per annum to our impoverished exchequer, and enable us to dispense with some items of our taxation which are really felt by the country. LIVER THEATRE. — This Theatre has been open during the week for the Walhalla Exhibition of the well-known and talented Madame Warton. The attractions elsewhere have been unusually great, yet as an evidence of the esti mation in which this artiste is held in Liverpool, her ex hibition has been well supported ; a more liberal reminis cence of her former achievements is no doubt reserved by the lovers of art for the remaining portion of the time limited for her stay in Liverpool. The fact of Madame Warton having received the distinguished approval of the Royal Academy, stamps herself and her company with the mark of great ability. We observe that she is about to give morning performances. .01.41. P. Nalk THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COUNTY EXPENDITURE. A meeting of the delegates from the various Boards of Guardians was held, yesterday, at the Legh Arms, New ton, at which there were present guardians from the fol lowing unions :—Salford, Rochdale, Bury, Haslingden, Preston, Burnley, Oldham, Chorley, Liverpool, Ashtoti under-Lyne, West Derby, Chorlton-upon-Medlock. Poulton-le-Fylde, and from the Leek and Cheadle Unions in Staffordshire. Robert Towley Parker, Esq., of Cuerden, was unani mously called to the chair. In opening the proceedings, he called upon Mr. Roberts, clerk of the Rochdale Board of Guardians, and secretary to the committee, to read the following circular, which had been addressed to the different Boards of Guardians, convening the meeting, and explanatory of its object : COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. This bill, though not thrown out by the vote in the House of Commons, yet being shelved so that it cannot further proceed this session, the committee appointed at the Newton meeting, held en the 15th of January last, have instructed me to call another meeting of deputies from the various unions in this county, to he held at the Legh Arms, Newton, on Monday, the 23rd day of July next, at the hour of twelve at noon, in order that they may report their proceedings since their appoint ment, and that such meeting may consider and decide as to the future proceedings to be taken in order to obtain the control over the county expenditure suggested is the following resolu tions, passed at the last meeting : "That the irresponsible power of the magistrates to contract debts to any amount, and charge them upon the ratepayers, is a principle so nnj ust as to require forthwith the interference of the legislature. in order that the ratepayers may obtain some control over the funds that are expended. "That, in the opinion of this meeting, this control would be obtained by the constitution of a county financial and admi nistrative board, to be composed of magistrates and of elected members from each board of guardians." The committee, of course, confidently rely on deputations attending from all the unions which sent deputations to the former meeting. The committee have directed me to invite the members for the county, and also for the boroughs in the county, to be pre sent at the meeting. The committee, therefore, hope that your board of guardians will send a deputation; and I was instructed also to state that, as the meeting will be a public meeting, the committee will be glad to see at the meeting any ratepayers, from any of the townships in your union, who ma) feel an interest in this im portant question. The SECRETARY also read letters from the following members of Parliament in the county, all of whom ex pressed their regret at not being able to be present, and many of them stated their opinion to be in accordance with the object the meeting had in view :—Sir T. B. Birch, Messrs. Wm. Brown, Thos. Greene, Jas. Pilkington, W. J. Fox, A. Henry, J. Wilson Patten, J. Bright, W. S. Crawford, and James Heywood. The CHAIRMAN then said that the meeting, having heard read to them the circular of Mr. Roberts, addressed by direction of the committee with whom he acted, it be came his (the Chairman's) duty to make some remarks before he left the general question of the day in abler hands. They stood, however, in a somewhat better posi tion than they did at the time when that letter was ad dressed, for, as they were aware, the amendment which Mr. Milner Gibson proposed on Sir John Pakington's mo tion, namely, that the House of Commons should appoint a committee to inquire into the expenditure of counties, with a view of ascertaining whether any more satisfactory mode of controlling such expenditure could be adopted. They were aware that, although that amendment was defeated in the first instance by the determination of those members of the House of Commons who acted with Sir John Packington, yet it had since been carried and therefore in the next session of Parliament, when committees were appointed, the special object of that committee would be as to the best mode of giving effec tive control over county expenditure. (Hear, hear.) The concession of Sir J. Packington, and those acting with him, was important, for it appeared that the pre judices of the members of the House of Commons had so far given way. It was in vain to suppose that a bill of that sort could be proposed without meeting with the most strenuous opposition from those members who were in the commission of the Peace, but the principal upon which it was founded appeared so just that he could hardly think that it could long be defeated. The chairman then proceeded to quote some evidence given before a com mittee of enquiry as to the burdens of the ratepayers, which showed that they were rapidly increasing, and against the principle of taking the expenditure from the control of local authority. Ile then proceeded to contend that the guardians of the poor were the proper parties to have the control of the expenditurein their various districts, inasmuch as they wre elected by the ratepayers, from whom the money was raised, and were in a position to afford the magistrates very efficient, very valuable assistance, in the administration of their finances. He was strongly of opinion, from the attention he had paid to the subject, that it was absolutely necessary that a a check should be put upon the expenditure of the county—that it was not fitting that there should he no limits to the expenditure save the patience of those who would have to bear the burden. (Hear, hear.) Since they last met the magis trates appeared to feel the importance of the subject, for at the last general sessions of the peace a resolution, pro posed byMr. Edmund Ashworth had been adopted ,requeit ing " the justices of each petty sessional division to appoint one of their body to form a committee to act with the general finance committee, to inquire into the expenditure of the county, with a view of ascertaining what curtail ment of expense may be judiciously carried out." Then came a few words which gave a very large margin to the operation of the committee, It stated—" Due regard being had to the efficiency of each department." (Hear, hear.) From those few words he feared the inquiry was likely to have very little effect,. for the excuse that due regard was paid to efficiency to leave matters just as they were. Nothing, then, remained for them but to go on just as they were, for, unless the support of the rate payers, whose interest was deeply involved in the question, was obtained, not only in this county, but in all the counties of England, he feared there was little hope in carrying out to a successful issue that which they thought to be just—that which they knew to be necessary—and which they were in hopes of compelling the government to accede to. (Loud cheers.) Mr. ROBERTS then entered into a very lengthy state ment showing the state of the finances of the county, justi fying the present movement, and proving that the present expenditure was considerably larger than was necessary. He quoted the opinions of those competent to judge, to prove that crime was on the decrease ; and therefore there was no necessity for an enlargement of prisons, that the county asylums had confined in them one half of the patients who ought not to have been there, as they were not dangerons lunatics, and therefore there was no ne cessity for any increase in that department ; that the county constabulary was much too large, and carried on at too high a rate of expense —in fact, that, in stead of being an efficient body, they were often med dling with questions they had no right to interfere with which necessarily increased the county expenditure. Mr. Roberts then defended in an able manner an elabo rate statement of the county expenditure put forth by the committee, and which had been attacked by Mr. E. Ash worth, in severe terms, at the county sessions, and smartly retorted on that gentleman's inconsistency, he having for merly been a strenuous public advocate for economy, but since lie had taken his affirmation, as a magistrate, ap peared to have changed his views on the subject. The speaker, after eloquently urging upon the meeting the necessity of perseverence, sat down amid loud cheers. The Rev. J. B. JONES, one of the Guardians of Cheadle Union, in Staffordshire, rose to propose the first resolu tion. He had the greatest satisfaction in proposing the resolution. and in assuring the meeting that the county. of Stafford were with them in the struggle, and ready to assist with both person and pocket. (Cheers.) Since 1833 they had been engaged in the struggle for a reduc tion of county expenditure. And although they had not been able to effect much, they had never lost sight of the• greatprinciple the meeting hadin view, for it was the principle of the British Constitution—that those who paid should be represented, whether they paid singly a only to a small extent. With regard to the highway rates, the poor rates, and the church rates, all the payers were entitled to re presentation irk the expenditure. Why then should such large funds be placed in the hands of an irresponsible ma gistracy, so far as the ratepayers were concerned. He urged the meeting to agitate un,il they obtained justice in this respect, and concluded by moving the following resolution : . _ . " That the proceedings of the committee appointed at a meeting of Guardians, held at Newton, on the 15th January last, meet with the cordial approval of this meeting, and that they be adopted and confirmed." Mr. JENKINSON, of Salford, briefly seconded the motion. Mr. SYDNEY, of West Derby, supported the motion at considerable length. He, however, objected- to attacks being made on the magistrates on account of the expendi ture of the county, but would rather the meeting con tended for the principle on which their opposition to the expenditure was founded, namely, that there should be representation along with taxation. He was exceedingly sorry they had not met with the support in London they had a right to expect, and which had been promised. He understood the government had promised their support to the county expenditure bill which had been promoted by the committee, and wished to know from the chairman whether such promise had been made ? The CHAIRMAN replied that it had. _ _ _ Mr. SYDNEY strongly condemned the conduct of the the government for first promising support, and then with holding it in the hour of need, and in conclusion strongly advocated the principle they had in view, and sat down amid loud cheers. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. J. LIVESEY, of Preston, proposed the next reso lution, which he introduced in a speech of considerable length, in the course of which he defended the statements put forth by the committee from the attacks made upon them by the Rev. Mr. Birley, at the Bolton Board of Guardians, and asserted that those statements had been admitted to be substantially correct by a subsequent account published by the magistrates themselves. He concluded by proposing the following resolution : " That the continued pressure of local taxation, and parti cularly of county expenditure, which now forms one of the most important items of local finance, and in the manage ment of which the ratepayers have not any voice, renders it a duty on the part of the ratepayers, not only in this county, but throughout England and Wales, to take some decid, d steps, in order to obtain from the legislature the early establishment of county financial and administrative boards, and this meeting urges the co-operation of boards of guardians, and other parties throughout the kingdom, in support of the present motion." Mr. SCOLEFIELD, of Rochdale, seconded the motion. It was, he observed, a matter of congratulation that they lived in a free country—it was matter of congratulation that they lived in a country where taxation and repre sentation went together. This was the great principle recognised by the constitution, contended for by the committee, and he was happy to add that none of the members of the legislature could be found opposed to it. (Loud cheers.) Mr. SMITH, as a ratepayer from Chorlton-upon- Medlock, spoke in support of the motion, which was unanimously adopted. Mr. Alderman LIVINGSTON, of Manchester, briefly proposed the third resolution, which was as follows: "That in the opinion of this meeting such county financial and agricultural boards should consist of two members, to he elected by each board of guardians in the county, one member (not being a justice of the peace) to be chosen by the represen tative guardians, and one to be chosen by and from the ex officio guardians (being magistrates) in each poor-law union." Mr. Churchwarden DOVER, of Liverpool, seconded the motion. It was quite true that the borough of Li verpool was not much interested in the question of county expenditure, but yet they were interested inasmuch as they could keep their pauper lunatics at less expense than they were paying in the county asylum. His object in being present was for the proposing of cultivating a feeling of atimity between the Select Vestry of Liverpool and the various Boards of Guardians throughout the county, who were pursuing the same object the meeting had in view, the speaker then went on to ask the co-operation of the meeting with the Select Vestry, in their endeavours to regulate the number of passengers brought by the Irish steamers to Liverpool, when The CHAIRMAN intimated that the question could not be entertained at that meeting, and Mr. Dover resumed his seat. The resolution was then passed unanimously. Mr. Tilos. LIVESEY. one of the Rochdale Board of Guardians, briefly proposed the following resolution:— "'That the best'thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby given, to those magistrates who have supported the present movement; to those members of the House of Com mons who have aided the committee in their efforts during the Session of Parliament now closing, and to that portion of the press who have so efficiently seconded and supported the efforts of the committee." He disproved some of the statements made by Mr. Ash worth at the meeting of magistrates at Preston, and in doing so said Mr. A. had asserted that a ratepayer at Roch dale only paid the same rates now that they did in 1824 ; but suppose a person then paid ss. rates, he (Mr. Livesey) should like Mr. Ashworth to state how many yards of cloth a person would have to weave now and in 1824 for ss. The speaker concluded by urging earnestness in the cause in order ensure success. Mr. BENTLEY briefly seconded the motion. The resolution, after a few words from Mr. Jenkinson, expressive of a hope that the object they had in view would meet with the support of the magistrates, passed unanimously. Mr. J. Mitchell proposed a resolution to the effect that a committee be formed, consisting of the Chairman. Mr. Itobert Tweedale, of Rochdale, Mr. James Scholefield, of Rochdale, Mr. Newall, of Littleborough, Mr. J. Livesey, of Preston, and the chairman and deputy-chairman of each board of guardians favourable to the object they had in view, to carry out the object of the meeting, with full power and authority to adopt all such proceedings as they may think proper, and with power to add to their num bers ; every three to form a quorum. Mr. ROBERTS, of Burnley, seconded the motion, which, after some discussion, was adopted. Mr. Alderman LIVINGSTON having taken the chair, a vote of thanks was unanimously carried to R. T. Parker. Esq., for his able conduct in presiding over the meeting, and the valuable assistance he bad afforded the committee in London when on the deputation. Mr. TWEEDALE seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation, and, after an acknowledgement from Mr. Parker, the proceedings terminated, having lasted within a few minutes of four hours. ARRIVAL FROM HALIFAX. Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, we were surprised by the firing of guns in our river, and concluded that the boats of the Halifax Steam Mail Company had again made one of their unparalelled passages, although we were well aware that the boat, whose turn it is, was not due, the port of sailing this voyage being New York. A glance at the vessel, however, as she passed up the river, satisfied us that she was not one of Messrs. Cunard's line; and we fancied her at once to be the old Margaret, built by Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, of this town, and for several years past laid up in the American waters. Such she proved to be. to the great chagrin of our purveyors of news and the merchants interested in our United States trade. Orr enquiry it was discovered that she had been chartered to. bring home troops from Canada ; and had sailed from Halifax on the 7th instant, one day later than the America.. Considering that she had had steamed 5} days only of the distance, coming under canvas for the remaining ten days, the old lady has shewn herself a very good sea-boat. She brings no late news or papers. THE COTTON TRADE. It is now a fortnight since we refuted the statement put forth in the Manchester Examiner and Times, that the stock of cotton in the kingdom on the 30th of June next would be 765,000 ba!es. We have looked carefully through each number of our contemporary, expecting that, after having made such a flourish of figures, he would not be in clined to give up his position without another attempt in its defence; but neither reply norexplanation has appeared, and we must conclude that, after looking into the matter, he- finds that there may be a deficiency in the supply be tween the present time and the end of the year, and has in consequence tacitly acknowledged his error. The sales during the fortnight ending the 20th inst., have amounted to 159,000 bales, including all descriptions ; of which the trade have taken 95,000 and exporters 13,000, at a further advance of an eighth each week. The accounts by the steamer " America, " which arrived on the 15th inst., were again in favour of the holders of cotton, stating that the cholera was raging amongst the slaves in some localities, that there was every certainty of the coming crop being late and short, that the receipts were tailing off r and that prices in con sequence had aavanced another quarter of a cent. The impression that our Manchester friends have secured a considerable stock, and are in a position to stand aloof from appearing in this market for several weeks, is erroneous : for though they have bought freely'the last fortnight, they have, on the aggregate of the last two months, enhanced their stock little more than 60,000 -bales, or equal to a fort night's consumption. It is a fact that many of the large manufacturers are working to order, and must continue to do so for several weeks, and that others are obtaining a liberal advance on their yarns and manufactures. The armistice between the Kings of Denmark and Prussia was finally ratified on the 17th inst., and though some of the small fry of the German States may bluster and talk large, they will have to succumb, as this nonsense will be no longer tolerated by this country and the other powers. There are two other features connected withcotton which are worthy of consideration. The first is, that the late heavy purchases, said to have been made on speculation, have, in very many instances, been transactions of capi talists for investment, the railways particularly holding out little inducement for the employment of money, so long as the excitement prevails with regard to Mr. Hudson's conduct. The other is, the fact of orders having been re ceived from America to buy cotton, as we predicted in a previous article would be the case; the Americans finding themselves without cotton except for their own consump tion, and knowing the precarious position of their growing crop, are naturally anxious to possess themselves of stock, (it may be profit,) and we should not be surprised to hear of further orders to a considerable amount being received by the next and following steamers. The stock in the Brokers' Circular, on last Friday, was put down at.. ll' we add the probable supply which will arrive during the next twelve weeks, 50,000 from the States, and 100,000 from Bombay and other places 854,000 And deduct twelve weeks'' consump tion, at 32,000 a week. 384,000 Export for the same period: 50,000-434,000 , We shall find our stock of all descriptions 420,000 on the 12th October next,. against 580,000 same period last year. It is worthy of remark that up to this date in the same year the trade purchased 25,700 bales weekly, whilst this year their weekly purchases have amounted to 32,100; so that supposing they have an excessive stock.of some 60,000 or 70,000 bales, the consumption so iar this year has been upwards.of 30,000 bales a week. Some persons seem, to doubt the estimate of the con sumption of cotton at the present time in Europe and America, but we wilt only refer the sceptical on. this point to the Manchester Guardian of Saturday, the 21st inst. for information as to the former, and to the London Times of Wednesday, the 18th inst. as. regards the latter. SUNDAY SCHOOL. SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—TIIO an nual meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary (in Liveryool) to this society, was held last evening, in the Christ' Church school-room, in Christian-street, when the Rev. De Lavel Willis, perpetual curate of Portadown, attended as a de putation from the Parent Society. The meeting was not very numerously attended. The Rev. Mr. Whalley was in the chair ; and after having touched on the value of the society, and on Sunday schools in general; introduced Mr. Willis to the meeting, who rose and addressed an eloquent speech to those around him. He contrasted the scanty meeting of that evening with the. overflowing as semblies which formerly congregated in this town in fur therance of that cause; but he was not: disappointed at this, for he could well understand that they might become weary of making efforts for good in Ireland : yet lie would remind them that there was Protestant Ireland and Ca tholic Ireland, and Protestant Ireland had never been ungrateful for the benefits conferred on them by the Christian congregations in England.. The rev. gentleman went on to contrast the favourable features of the Pro testant districts of Ireland with the deplorable picture presented by the Catholic localities. As a proof of the industry resulting from the practical observance of the word of God, Belfast, in the year 1847, not only. supported its own poor, but absolutely sent to the South and West the handsome sum of .R 30,000 ; and as a striking aggravation of this difference, the people of the South possessed greater physical energy than the people of Ulster, and the land was also more fertile in the former district than the latter. The cause was the want of energy on the part of the people who were debased by the teaching which they were subjected to. He advocated scriptural education as beyond all things necessary, and opposed the system of education as carried out at the present time in Ireland. and deplored the inimical spirit now prevailing in Ireland to the Book of God. He deplored the thousands which went from this country to Ireland to support Maynooth, and for the purposes of the National Board, which is different from the National So ciety in England, as that teaches the Word of God, which the former does not. But with all the influence and money of Government there were in the Scriptural schools 150,000 children, 40,000 of whom were the children of Roman Catholics, and indeed there were more Roman Catholic children in these schools than in those under the care of the National Board. There was no society in Ire land of more value now than the Sunday Schools, for the people could no longer send their children to the daily schools. 84,389 copies of the Holy Scriptures had been, through this society, diitributed throughout the country, all of which, he was convinced, would result in good. Thus it was that the society recommended it to them, and it recommended itself also from its wants. ELECTION OF WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS. Considerable excitement has been manifested during the past few weeks in the parish of Wallasey, on the subject of the annuarelection to supply the place of seven members of the board, who went out on the 19th instant, and of one who is disqualified by removal; it being apparent that a keen contest would take place on the occasion between the two parties, into which the ratepayers are divided. Two lists were in circulation, one called the white list, containing the names of eight gentlemen favourable to economy in every department, and the other the red list, containing the names of eight who are supposed to be favourable to carrying out fully the powers for an exten sive system of drainage, sewers, &c., given to the board by its act of parliament. This party has hitherto had a majority. A third, or blue list, sas also put forth, but ' exercised little influence in the result of the election. On Thursday morning last, a most lively scene pre sented itself, cars and canvassers, with the favours of the respective parties flying about in every direction ; and at nine o'clock the polling began at the Queen's Arms Hotel, Liscard. For the first hour and a half the red, or New Brighton list, took the lead ; their opponents, hower, gained upon them rapidly afterwards, and at the close of polling the following was the result : White List.—Henry Meadows, 282, Thorley Lester, 254, Thomas Dean, 233, William Callow, 245, Henry Johnson, 222, Thomas Blundell, 246, Evan Jones, 221, and Joseph Brice, 222. Red List.—W. R. Coulborn, 147, Robert Edwards, 158, T. T. Glazebrook. 156, James Livesey, 168, John Wawdsley, 183, Isaac Penny, 199, James Stringer, 182, and Thomas Odell, 156. The whole of the white cendidates are thus elected ; and it is said that this places them in a majority on the board. So decisive a result was not expected. " • - BOROUGH SESSIONS. The July sessions commenced yesterday morning. The cases for trial were of the ordinary character, comprising ninety-three prisoners committed for felony, and twelve misdemeanours. Of these 36 could neither read nor write, 63 could read and write, or read only, imperfectly, and the remainder were considered to read and write well. There were six whose ages were either fourteen or under (which may justly be stated as the number of that class generally designated as juvenile offenders) presented. The Recorder entered the court soon after ten o'clock, and took his seat on the bench, when the Clerk of the Peace called over the names of the grand jury, which were as follow : Mr. Robt.Crosbie, tobacco broker, North Jo?m-street, foreman Mr. Wm. Bowman, merchant, Fenwick-street, Mr. Thos. Bouch, merchant, Oldhall-street, Mr. David Cannon, merchant, South Castle-street, Mr. Robert Dirom, merchant, Rumford-place, Mr. Edward Eccles, cotton broker, Rumford-ylace, Mr. Thomas Stanton Eddowes, anchor smith, Bath-street, Mr. Geo. Langford Fosbery, merchant, Tithebarn.street, Mr. Hancock Gregg, merchant, 11, Brunswick-street, Mr. Edgar Garston, merchant, Rumford-place Mr. John Gatty, merchant, 24, Bedford-street'Nortk Mr. Geo. Glen, merchant, India-buildings, Mr. Gordon John James Grant, tobacco broker, Sweeting-street, Mr. Hilton Halhead, merchant, 37, Sefton-street, Mr. Jacques Myers, broker, Exchange-alley West, Mr. Henry Harrison, merchant, George's Dock Gates, Mr. Thos. Duckworth Headlam, insurance broker, Exchange buildings. Mr. Samuel M`Gill, merchant, Brunswick-street, Mr. Thomas Lewin, wine merchant, Castle-street, Mr. Frederick Boardman, merchant, Sweeting-stieet, Mr. John Willis, the younger, cotton broker, 1, Rumford-place, Mr. Frederick Robinson Lowe, cotton merchant, Lower Castre street. The iiiiiA jury being sworn, and the clerk of the police having read over the Royal proclamation against vice and immorality, the Recorder proceeded very briefly to deliver his charge, which was to the following effect :—He was pleased to be able to say that the state of the calendar was more satisfactory than had been the case for some time. There were one hundied and five prisoners for trial. He, the learned Recorder, having read over the depositions, might rdd that the cases generally were of a very trifling character, it was not, therefore, his intention to trouble the grand jury with any further observations, but he would send them at once to discharge those duties for which their experience and intelligence so well fitted them. In a few minutes a true bill was found and the judicial business commenced. Several gentlemen on the petty jury not having answered to their names, the Recorder imposed, in each case, a fine of 40s. Frank Foley, 7 years ; John Clarke, 3 weeks, and 1 solitary ; Thomas Cunningham, G weeks 3 days solitary ; Ellen Wilkinson, 5 months ; Bridget Flannery, 11 days ; Rose Fay, 5 months •, John Pearson, 8 months, and 2 whippings ; John M'Anally, 7 years ; James William Kearney, 6 weeks, 1 week solitary; Rose Ann Burns, 4 months ; Mary O'Donnell, 5 months. FETE CHAMPETRE AND FANCY FAIR. This undertaking, for the benefit of three of our most excellent charities, progresses most satisfactorily. Indeed, all that is required to^ render it one of the most successful efforts of the kind, which has hitherto• been made in Liverpool, is favourable weather on the days when the fete is to be held. Offerings of contributions of every description are daily pouring in upon the various commit tees ;- and the pecuniary contributions-already amount to upwards of £5OO. Since our last notice, the following money contributions have been received : Joseph Brereton, Esq. George Larke, Esq. 111`Cormick, Essq J. A. Thine, Esq. It is now confirmed that the London and North-West ern Railway Company have offered to bring down the military bands from Manchester and Preston free of charge each day. By the suggestion of his worship the Mayor of Liverpool, a poor's box has been put up in the passage of the Town Hall, to receive the contributions of visitors ; and yesterday it was found that the proceeds had yielded £4 Os. 9d. We learn that the ladies are still most active in their efforts to add better attractions to their several stalls ; and we can only impress upon those who meditate pre senting articles to them, or supplies to the committees, the importance of the motto " bis dat, qui cito dal." Our readers probably will be quite unprepared for the announcement that there will be not less than twelve bands of music on the ground, four of these being military ; and with the other endless attractions, and the throng of beauty and of fashion, it would require a vivid imagination to realize the picture that the Prince's-park will present during the three days' faney fair. Perhaps one of the most pleasing and scientific amusements on the ground will be the electric telegraph, which Mr. Cross has arranged shall transmit messages across the lake. The powers of the galvanic battery will also be exhibited under the same superintendence. Many curious uses of this now im important apparatus will be shown, amongst which we may mention that fireworks and other explosive materials will be ignited under water. The affair will appropriately terminate by a grand miscellaneous concert, which is to be held at the Theatre-Royal, on the evening of Saturday, the 11th, at which the leading amateur musical societies of the town and many professional ladies and gentlemen will give their assistance. ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, ST. ANNE-STREET:—The Rev. I W. Wheeler, perpetual curate of Ainsworth, near Black burn, has been appointed to the incumbency of St. Anne's Church in this town. The rev. gentleman was a student at St. Bees' College, and after his ordination, officiated as curate at Trinity Church, Bolton. We believe the Archbishop of Canterbury, when presiding over this diocese, appreciated highly the talents and min isterial services of the rev. gentleman, which we are glad to hear are calculated to advance the moral and spiritual condition of the densely populated district to which he has been appointed. A FONDNESS FOR. TITLES OF Horrou.—A ludicrous instance of this craving for flattery, so common to liberals and other professing deriders of the honours of aristo tocracy, occurred lately in the person of Laurence Heyworth, Esq. The collector of his district—very likely a plain man of business—sent a schedule of assessed taxes to be filled up by the worthy member, and unfor tunately addressed it simply to Mr. Laurence Heyworth. The document was returned by Mr. Heyworth's livery servant, by his request, with instructions to wait until it was properly filled up with his fitting title of honeur— " Laurence Heyworth, Esq., M.P:' , --which was at once done. Laurence Heyworth, Esq., M.P's horse is re ported to have gone back a hand higher as the conveyor of his owner's proper title. THE WEATHER AND THE CROFS.—Since our last pub lication, we• have, in these districts, had plentiful and most welcome showers of rain, which have given a fresh ness and verdure to the whole of the vegetable world, which is delightful to the eye and gratifying to the heart, inasmuch as all gives promise of an abundant harvest. The showers have not had the effect of " laying" any of the grain crops, though the wheat is getting heavy in the head as• well as long in the straw. The potatoes continue to look well and healthy, and the grasses (before almost parched up) are again reviving—exhibiting a lively and virgin green. The oats and barley are equally promising, and all garden stuffs are abundant and fine, including fruits. The currants, particularly, are more than usually . excellent; most of the black, which loaded the bushes in bunches almost resembling grapes, have already been consigned to the " brass pan." Great difficulty has existed in the light soils about transplanting broccoli, winter cabbages, &c., through want of moisture, many of the plants put down having absolutely been burnt out of the soil. - THE PACKET-SHIP " CONSTELLATION": NAVAL VEN TILATION.—This splendid American " liner," under the skilful command of Captain Luce, and measuring nearly 1,800 tons register, or 3,000 tons burden, and, it is super fluous to add, the very largest of the recent build of superb packet-ships, has had a remarkably quick and prosperous passage from this port to New York, in 24 days, having on board as many as 860 emigrants whom she delivered in good health ; and, as we prognosticated in vessels, where a great altitude is given between decks, the promotion of health is greatly facilitated. Before this vessel sailed from Liverpool, we stated our belief that her lower deck space was far better ventilated and more healthy than the ordi nary 'tween decks of the generality of ships, and this is carried out by the fact tnat she had hardly a single case of sickness during the passage among nearly 1,000 souls, comprising crew and passengers. We learn that this gra tifying result is mainly attributed to the scientific and admirable manner in which she is ventilated. The para mount advantages of an improved ventilation in vessels carrying passengers, have been wisely urged by Lieutenant Hodder, R.N., the head of the Government Emigration Office here, and the subject is increasingly occupying the attention of shipbuilders and shipowners. Were the salutary example of the " Constellation" more universally followed, we are persuaded that disease and death on board emigrant ships would be wondrously diminished, if not reduced to the ordinary ratin,l r ~-✓-' July 2._____LLO' 1 ,t, COURT OF PASSAGE. —YgsTEWY' ---- (Before Mr. Crompton , A ssessor) al A (l5 BREACH OF PROMISE OF ••••• k -ri. TAYLOR V. BANISTER.. cc ao snTeshi of court ferbarbe alec wasbreach of ef unusuallyinterest 11promi seal.i oi ifg 12 abeenrricrowdedmarriage , ey, caused e t s h t e e b r A d r a ts Y ht e s : f, t hri e : I l i ft s s : taken place under the jurisdiction of the court. ,2400 The plaintiff in the case was Eliza Taylor, ag l e a tif orbil the defendant John Banister, aged 21 . Th e P il'i t heg tf ' is a daughter of Mr. James Taylor, a p rinter. at, fe 00 1 The cia e r of cur; rn Office, resides in Bispha-street, and is a sailor and an innkeeper, in this town. Th were laid at £5OO. stated the case. The learned counsel, ate rea'4ool tiff iu M ; r r .a . An J ds A pivi A r i E Nr s .AT a L nrdopApAle opened ieA A d r s tit P hi r e N N s A p ol t eN t. a dafiopnrpgtegFeeadnedffae3rn i l r,s h . n e lite P l, ; l' proceeded to detail the facts of the case from the ' . ‘ dots defendant first became acquainted with th e Plain tg e l to the time when he last saw her, which wag e n gr an, ing of the 15th of April last, having previousllitgorverfloi for the marriage to take place on the 17th of th c l i k , He contended that he had behaved in a most 0! manner to the plaintiff, whose affections he had Ron'of bii led her to expect that she would be the partl idlictl future life. He referred to a legacy of £ 2,2 ';05 1° came to the defendant shortly before the marria.ll..forcl have taken place, with the view of strewing that this ford 60 had influenced him in his conduct towards her ; and stating that the defendant was married tfftoo,asnebrerhi6itietiitti; in eight days after the day on which he was to " ig elP' u tpho n eAr it tn e eo d anfr t lßt o yhre t po h wac e rs p , laintiff, proceeded to call witneoe' stated that t ms a ta n a d tkeed o n ttlea o rt n w e hh e ioeso ;t nc h e aldewBesistfrioeBes defendant e dd r eapfn o epl tan f eidrnf t eaet h tnin e ffutd; a p ncn l eai a tdnm i n ef i stt: easstleyshli 2 :at, bt:oiolit:4fAi 1 about two years, and during that time refused to receive the addresses of any other ma9 rett ele e d she had received offers. When the defencine;ion.t. from sea, the intimacy was renewed. The 9 s t t lfr i in tie to be very fond of each other. He told P lan 5 - 0 00 ness's hearing, that he would marry he r first O e- c l5 came of age. The day for the wedding wag d t erwa r no be the first Tuesday in Easter week. It '''l, l s iirere' s ;s postponed to the 17th of April. Defendanti.secs3l"use he he why he wished to have it postponed was w i One' fry about taking some public houses. lie tniti,.. n i a iett ~1 had taken two. After that time he bonil°,. l " o Wit' wedding clothes, and the wedding ring. Ile '7' 0 1)1 4 1 a young woman to the wedding, who was to r;,ff's b e lt . maid. The last time witness saw him at P lol° atte r " was on the 15th of April. He came about a t e r u ds yt e : fore four o'clock in the afternoon, and after 64 "hot short time he kissed the plaintiff and s aid', . k f t er ti, you, I will be here again at seven o'clock:, ea ger w o time he never came back at a ll. F o r e t ` me lo t gikivrA:edinnrl kindly, : Rile : earnmd osstahe ATKlNSONimedresdh2et3oc livedrt cross-examined som e ,A ha p ness and her mother thought something vr 0 , 11 " ; „ ( 1. hot plaintiff she was in such a distracted state 0 1 _9 3 ;,, -- e ss, 1 x n a th m N e i a n w s ed h ed G d r i t n o h g v e e e lev" iri t i bt i4: 6 ;l? ch e tio l eff i mr ci ti t hhi e laug d tsb n tia o fan th sdthh in ee g airwn o dah f iot i re m uedsm p e o ue. rtan ce except that de' en ~h notw u ldl l il d eke fene rn ntA a ndi r eao r mno y tr Moore, wedding, am. By Mr. JAMES t b TiI lo e h r vhe e ey d er s .tcre plaintiff apteefdbe neda n k i hi e ftrootootl h d e s r i,e:l l ; :phite . bat' 1 0 res ell the defendant's . — ye oe l tu ni in my thoughtmwo woman, mhtaoh n t ue h.s2ee said ad m i w do e e fs r h e A v e l p o ;tag : ( 1 1 9 . ~ :id that d. James Moore, father to the last witness. - °'" : „.bine" managed a public-house for the defendant iv P`w Deft: row, for which• defendant gave £6lO good vi'll,., l ',9;oo°' dant told him that he had received a legacy of '',lifil Mr. Eaton, of the firm of Leigh and Eaton , 7, 12 , deposed to having paid the defendant a lega c i on.the 30th of Mareb,lB4B. Mr. ATKINSON then addressed the jury onbeb'-lef of gi t e ° et defendant. He admitted that a verdict rou st 1 ;0 1 °0 against his client. It was altogether a question .0011, amount of damages. His learned friend had Pa l _,,alie' A tw - tS e such glowing and poetical terms the virtues ne -- ,_ ; „; of of the plaintiff, that he (Mr. A.) reminded P''''' language of Milton-- " - Here love lights nT:, his golden lamp, rin g '' j Employs his shafts and waves his purple o t s "' a v 0 14 He contended that the plaintiff's character he. , sh°,, e r fered, and that up to the time when the raarr ie %rkl s " have taken place the defendant lud behaved to . Olf in the most honourable manner. gate The jury, -after a few minutes' consultation, ge diet for the plaintiff.—Damages, £250. LATEST FOREIGN AND Col,olo°. THE RIVER PLATE. 1 , F 5 ,' r. , 2 r• The schooner Sappho, Captain Easton, w, -1c o ,9 .A t i v from Buenos Ayres on the 20th of May, arri ve " day, and brings some interesting and importan bid gence respecting affairs at La Plata. . istep, tß At that date Mr. Southern, the British w in to Y ° been officially received, and a steamer had gone Video to bring up Mr. Hood. col"' Prior to Mr. Southern's reception the follov an ' 10 9 'd pondenee took place :-- .15, so " Buenos Ayres, ALOp i tios t teib " The government encharged with the foreign r e p ‘e dell v iss the affairs of peace and war of the Argentine Co, t y, sfr considering that the state in which the affairs of voe., intervention of England ana France in Me iter" w illb Plata stands presents a well-founded hope that this Ge ra just and honourable solution, as well for the alit as for the intervening powers; that the friendlY P Pr : - ,.o. l ,o°Ptis e auproximate that solution of his Excellency Fle e " Art e , flr appointed her Britannic Majesty's Minister to the y. Confederation, and of his-Excellency Rear-Admir al e s 0 0 . t oi dour, commander-in-chief of the French naval fo e ' r oreqe Brazil and La Plata stations, empowered by the g e ;,lie . ° ,1;015 4 , the French Republic, are entitled to the esteem „of ivol' ment of the Confederation ; and that in such a stoThins tv er it is expedient to promote as far as possible eve r 'ibose Dee j may tend to a reconciliation, and to do away Wit h bate_4o: sores which, though adopted with perfect rig"" rdoi' taken as a just reprisal for acts evidently hostile _ A en ta id the intervening naval forces, bath determin e " 00' decree— h N l :j " Art. I. The execution of the decree of the 25t- t 1845, prohibiting every kind of communication dire rect with British and French vessels of war, as v!' fo r tl' e the 15th of July, 1848, declaring it again in force, is utlf sent susend. si° co " Art. p 11. The vessels-of war of both nations nig/ of ro tit cate with the shore to the same manner as tho se c er'fr friendly nations. e c "Art. 111. Let this be communicated to all what It and inserted in the official report. " ROSAS. m ks ere On the following day, a letter wa " s F a i d L d iP re s 4 (lll :o :l ll : above parties to Mr. Southern, stating that W.' t he P,"O • ment had determined to suspend for the presen t t he or, 0 4 ponement which it made of the exequatur to fer reo 01 , mission of Consul of her Britannic Majesty coo his e r gs M. H. Hood, Esq., in returning to the latter mission, and on manifesting to the Argentine s e r or i o London, in the note of the lfith of July, 184 6 . t be ' which impelled it to that measure, in order that lay them before her Majesty's Government. LATEST FROM PARIS. t ot' tor e PARIS, SUNDAY.—An article in the cons t o 0 5 leaves no doubt as to the intention of France 010 the Pope to his- temporal authority. fts t tb z Letters from Toulon of the 18th inst. st a r r, for Ae rf' Mediterranean fleet sailed thence on that da er or. Islands of Hyeres, where it is to wait for fllrti',.; o lji The Prince of Canino has addressed a Dupin, the President of the Legislativei protesting against the force employed w color" quit France. 1V ) at t We have received from our corresponden aitp o d under date of the 14th, long details conneet7the French occupation and the proposed return al t or!' ,4!' The state of the city was in all respects satisfa‘_eape as strangers had all been romoved, no distul'eaolli vailed, and• the rigour exercised at first was g appearing. Garibaldi was last heard of at Terni. 0 1 O" 10 t ful ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. This nen gn, p ast amusement has drawn crowds to it during T d ` le sPV: the chief attraction, in addition to those 0' the )01 1 ,'" collection of wild beasts and birds, the uneq u i)lP,,vi„ tacle of Constantinople and the fireworks e` Atkins, being the graceful and classical pese'„ef of Madlle. Lucie Duval and her clever tro t ii Y - 10 6 ,/tV I the chaste style of the impersonations- of to"' 05;0 11 have previously commented. Her grouPia,g p s 'posseo . l l :j with her individual impersonati•ms, displaY of great knowledge and study of the picture - 0 0;0'i sympathy with the divine inspirations of th, e , fl ode l ;ilt, ° ,, sculptors of the best periods of ancient and of Last night, she attempted and succeeded in 11 ;iies her art, viz., the production of living fee I, l o l f subjects of some of the best works in thi s :,:sr",; Academy Exhibition. Some of these were o ', c ' n - of r o ori especially the fine scene from the Destruetil e- voel' lem, by David Roberts, R.A. ; the Syrens,bY 1, R. A. Ev?, personated by Mdlle. Lucie Duv a eo or ti Mc. Dowall, R.A., and Bailey's celebrated' r i ll:, ort• The whole indeed was a triumph in this Pc t_ _ l DIED. N a r IA s, er On the 21st instant, aged 15 months, 4•" - 0 0, • daughter of Mr. RICHARD WILLAN, policeolo, court, Pontack-lane. • LIVERPOOL : 184 9 ' TUESDAY, JULY 24, - l O' PRINTED AND PUBLISIO,D a ist ./. oi EVERY TUESDAY gu'.stre ez ' Orders for Advertisements received by By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, ef 53, Gil:street .0 LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orforvorooror;eo At No. 4. 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