The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. There is no doubt considerable truth in the pointed rebuke of "A Sufferer," who, after noticing the immense business done on 'Change, the good attendance at the four theatres, the balls and concerts almost every day of the week, and the large collections for the charities, asks how it is that trades men's bills remain unpaid in so many instances. He says that lie cannot collect .E 5, and considers that the public should be just before they are generous. "WEEKLY PURCHASER."—We cannot find any authentic data to determine the question of our correspondent, as to the respective tonnages of the ports of London and Liverpool. All that we take cognizance of in this port is the tonnage of vessels entering our docks from foreign ports. Coasting ves sels, as paying no dock dues, are not noted. It is the same in London, where the coasting trade is almost exclusively accommodated in the river. The tonnage from foreign ports to Liverpool last year, we believe, exceeded that of London. The entire tonnage, foreign and coastwise, entering the Thames, would no doubt exceed the entire tonnage entering the Mersey. Elie Rtherpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNII VG, FEB. 20, 1849 THE Government measure for the abolition of England's naval supremacy is at length before the public ; and we must confess that its framers have shewn themselves perfect masters of their business. There is no hesitation evinced; no half-way work. The bill is trenchant and sweeping enough, and will do its work; will strike at the very heart of England a blow, which will be felt and deplored, long after its infatuated or dishonest authors have been visited with the contempt of their fellow countrymen and the world. _ _ The - objects and operation of the bill may be regarded as threefold. In the first place, upon the plea that the population of our Canadian posses sions experience a difficulty in carrying on their commerce with the far west of America, under the restrictions to which they are subjected by our navigation laws, the whole of the carrying trade of our colonies in every quarter of the globe is to be thrown open to the foreign shipowner. By doing this, we are told, we shall be conferring incalcula ble advatages on the colonist, and—strangest result of all !—the abrogation of this last link of a con nexion, which it has been the studied object of all our recent policy to break, is to "unite our colonies by the ties of interest and affection to the mother country." Why, the only ground upon which the demand for this concession is made by some of our colonial dependencies, is that the mother country has ceased to treat them as colonies; that she no longer fosters and encourages their industry; that the idea of any tie of interest or affection remaining betwixt us and themselves is a cruel mockery. The second branch of the bill is the uncon ditional surrender of those provisions of the navigation laws, by which we have at present secured to us what is called the long voyage trade, a most valuable feature of which privilege was its tendency to make Great Britain the principal depot for the produce of distant countries. In admitting the foreigner to a participation in this trade, we not only give up the most profitable source of employment for our commercial marine, but strike a blow against interests which are at present congratulating themselves upon their complete se curity. What, for instance, is to prevent a large portion of the Foreign and Colonial produce, at present deposited in the warehouses of London, Liverpool, Bristol, and other British ports, from ig a location more central for re-export, or for continental, or even for home, consumption, in Hamburg, Marseilles, or elsewhere ? That some slight modification of this portion of the existing laws may be required we have never denied. On the contrary, we have advocated such an alteration as that proposed in the draft of a Bill prepared by Mr. Henry Cleaver Chapman, which we are glad to find has met with the unquali fied approval of the Liverpool Shipowners' Asso ciation. The following is the clause to which we "11. And be it enacted, That Goods may be imported into the United Kingdom, and to all British Possessions, to be used therein, not only in British Ships, but also in ships of any such Foreign Country of which the Goods are the Produce, or in ships of any such Foreign Coun try from which the Goods are last imported ; Provided lly granted by any ;h Goods solely in always similar privileges such other Country, otherwise any British ship Such a clause we contend would satisfy every prac tical man, not absolutely bent upon the destruc tion of the commercial marine of his country, and would be in accordance with strict justice to all parties. Nothing can be more certain than that concessions made by us ought to be met with re ciprocal concessions by the foreigner, except the fact that unless we stipulate for such a return, as the coedit l Lion, t will be id A new feature of the present measure is the pro posal to throw open, to a certain extent, the coag : ing trade of Great Britain. ___MtV .TfiiT ale - pre- House thatthr ednibin - ing a foreign and a coasting Voyage, apply equally to foreign and British ship ping, and were created with a view, mainly, as far as the latter is concerned, to protect the revenue, Mr. Labouchere thus announces his new proposal: " I intend, then, to propose that all vessel% whether English or foreign, sailing from a British port, grid bound to a foreign port, shall be allowed to touch at any inter mediate ports in the United Kingdom ; not to carry car goes from port to port, .but to clear out for a foreign voy age. I have been in communication with the officers of the Board of Customs upon this point, and I have satis fied myself that it can be done consistently with the safety of the revenue, provided one restriction be imposed —I mean that this permission shall not be allowed to ves sels of less than 100 tons burden. The reason for this is, that apprehensions were entertained that an English ves sel might acquire facilities for smuggling by having high duty goods on board ostensibly for a foreign voyage, but in reality intended to be smuggled into a British port by uniting a British voyage with a foreign. Ido not think this facility will to any extent be taken advantage of. My own opinion is that-the light dues and the various other charges to which the coasting trade is subject would pre vent both English and foreign merchants from conducting a coasting trade under these circumstances. Still, f or the reasons I have stated, I think it advisable to give the faci lities to the extent I have mentioned, and I am of opinion hall altogether meet the an (Mr. Gladstone), I obtain from America dopting this course w _ ent of the right hon. gentler and it will enable us to asl iat which, considering the liberal manner on which we .e disposed to trade with her, it is but just that our mer, ,pants should recei' The only inducement held out to us for adopting s vital and ruinous change is a vague promise of the American Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Bancroft, that he United States will reciprocate with us. So far t country is concerned we might possibly some advantage from this portion of the cheine. But as a return for the whole of the sur render, which we are called upon to make, of our colonial and long voyage trade, the mere privilege of landing a portion of our cargoes at New York, and filling up there with good s for New Orleans, or Phila delphia, is a perfect mockery. So far as Europe is cerned, the concession will he without the pos -ty of any reciprocal advantages being derived, ist be most ruinous in its results. The of the as th shinninff of weden and o per countrie is may come, say to Newcastle or Sunderland, with Baltic produce, and having discharged the bulk of it, retaining only a few packages in order to comply with the letter of the act, take in coals for the London market, and afterwards compete there with the British shipowner for a foreign out ward cargo. What the result must be of such a measure to the shipowners and maritime population of the Tyne and Wear, and to the coasting trade generally, we need scarcely state. But how has Mr. Labouchere been able to get ever the difficulty, to obviate which was the object for which the original restriction, applicable to both British and foreign ships, against combining a fo reign with a coasting voyage, was imposed ? How will he be able to protect the revenue from serious loss by smuggling ? He does not tell us; but says that the consideration which he has given to the subject has assured him that it is practicable ; and that he has been in communication with the officers of the Board of Customs on the subject. We know not what may he the impressions of London Customs' Officers, or even of the very wise board itself ; but we can assure him that experienced custom-house officers here maintain a very different opinion, and are convinced smuggling upon a most extensive scale jould be carried on under this provision of the Dill, with scarcely a chance of detection, unless, indeed, the country is to be saddled with a whole army of additional custom-house officials, and the same strictness of search extended to the coasting trade which is now exercised over our foreign trade. But, of course, neither the interests of the revenue, nor any other consideration, can he permitted to stand in the way of the carrying out of the pet prin ciples of free trade. Thus far the measure is directed principally against the ship owner an d t h e seaman; b u t here it was scarcely in the nature of Whig legislation to atop. The trades . connected with the building and rigging of our commercial marine must also be en gulphed. Mr. Labouchere proposes that "a British merchant is to be allowed to register a foreign Bri- tish ship—that is, a ship built - abroad by a'British merchant—as a British ship ;" and he adds, with the utmost coolness, " this is proposed in order to break up the monopoly which at present exists in shipbuilding." In other, and plainer words, the free traders want cheap foreign labour to add to their catalogue of other cheap articles. The ship wrights, the blockmakers, and other trades con nected with shipbuilding, are to turn their hands to other employments, if they can find them, or turn their faces towards the union workhouse. These classes, however, he says, notwithstanding the breaking up of what he calls "their monopoly," have " nothing whatever to fear from this proposed alteration of the law." Nothing, of course, except the certainty that for every foreign vessel to be pur chased, a British vessel will cease to be wanted and to be built; nothing but the certainty that, to ena ble our builders to compete with the foreign buil der, he must enable the over-taxed British carpen ter to exist upon the pittance which provides black bread, greens, and fish oil or tallow for the Russian and the Swede ! Mr. Labouchere has even the hardihood to attempt to prove his position. He endeavours to show us that, in the trade of ship building, we possess some advantages over the American builder. But he omits altogether the fact, proved beyond a possibility of dispute by the evidence given before the packed committee on the navigation laws, that the countries on the shores of the Baltic can furnish a good vessel, completely fitted for sea, for a sum, per ton, which will not cover the cost of the hull of a very second-rate British ship. Admitting, however, that, from their superiority of construction and timber, a few first class British vessels may continue to be built, there can be little doubt that the foreigner will have a vast harvest before him, in the demand for the class of vessels suitable for our immense coasting trade, the building of which we thus resign into his hands. We shall not enter upon the consideration of the subsidiary measures, which are to follow this inroad upon the principles of a system which has mainly contributed to secure the maritime greatness of this country. We have said enough already to show that nothing but its utter prostration, and the ruin of all classes connected with it, will satisfy the fac tion now at the head of affairs. Our duty is now to ask of these classes, to ask of all loyal men, who love their country, and can estimate alike the sources of its past growth in power and prosperity— are they prepared to fall without a struggle ? We are aware that there is at present existing a sad lethargy in the public mind, a hopelessness of the success of any effort to stem the tide which is set ting towards ruin and revolution, a distrust in leaders and in statesmen, nay, almost a despairing conviction that God himself has ceased to watch over and care for the destinies of this land. These feelings must be thrown aside. Now, upon this very measure there is the ground for an effective stand. We are not all deserted. We are not, either, without the instrumentalities for effecting a triumphant issue of the struggle. A House of Commons, elected under the influence of a delusion, which no longer sways the intelligent mass of the community, may be deaf alike to remonstrance. warning, or reproof. But, " thank God ! we have a House of Lords." The phalanx led on in that house by the indomitable champion of constitu tional liberty, Lord Stanley, is strong enough to defeat this mischievous and suicidal measure ; and, we say it advisedly, they will do it if they are pro perly supported by public opinion out of doors. Let the merchants and shipowners of Liverpool resolve to imitate the excellent example set them by the inhabitants of Toxteth-park ; let them make their opinions known by the voice of a town's meeting, and their opinions must have weight, if not with the present House of Commons, at all events with the right-hearted and chivalrous peers of England. We would even go the length of the advice given by one of the speakers, Mr. H. C. Chapman, to the Toxteth meeting, and urge upon the throne that a measure so vital as the repeal of the naviga tion laws ought not to he decided without an ap peal to the constituencies. Republican France has just repudiated the opinions of an assembly elected under the influence of mob dictation and mad excitement, and we have an equal right to ask that our fate stall not be decided by a House of Com mons similarly elected, under the influence of folly, delusion, and unconstitutional fraud. WE informed our readers last week of some im portant facts, connected with the resumption of the Dock Works at"Birkenhead, which we have reason to believe have been rpsciypiegtiai In tisf.ArtifghiCorthe Mersey : indeed, we may say, by a large portion of the community on both sides of the river; for it can have been no satisfaction to any party to contemplate the dreary wreck, which has for a long time been presented in a locality, of which such large anticipations of public usefulness were entertained, and the sacrifice of property and the ruin to many individuals which the stoppage of these works has occasioned. It is with pleasure, there fore, that we are enabled to confirm our previous report, and even to add some encouraging particu lars. In the first place, however, as they are not very generally known, it may be well to explain more in detail than we were previously able to do what are the precise works, upon which the new trustees are about to expend the money raised under the provisions of their act. It will be remembered that the original plan em braced the formation of the great low-water basin, the outer walls of which are partly completed ; and that this basin was to be connected with the great inner float and other works by a gut, and scoured by means of an expensive system of subaqueous force. The formation of the Egerton and Morpeth Docks was a deviation from the original plan; and upon these, and the uncompleted walling, the funds at the disposal of the trustees were exhausted. It is proposed to leave the outer basin and its suba queous sluices for the present untouched; and to take measures first, by the formation of a temporary dam, from a point near the western gut of the Eger ton Dock to the nearest point on the Seacombe side of the pool, to pen up the waters in the great inner float, and thus to render it at once available for wharfs, timber yards, and other purposes as origin ally intended. The entrance to the float will be from the Woodside Basin through the Morpeth and Egerton Docks, the gates of which are to be deepened to afford water and space for vessels of the largest burthen. These works, of practical and immediate usefulness, the trustees have found that they can execute within the means at their disposal, economically applied; and they confidently expect that, when they are completed, they will he put in possession of an income sufficient not only to pay the interest of the preferential bonds, but also to spare something towards the payment of the arrears due to the original bondholders. A sensible relief will also be afforded by this judicious course to the owners of frontage and other lands, Pn the margin of the pool, which have recently been unsaleable, except at ruinous sacrifices. Indeed, we learn that several applications to purchase have been made during the past week. It is not itt all contemplated that the works will for any length of time be stopped here. The entire scheme will ultimately, but cautiously, be carried out; and the outlay required for the construction of the temporary dam will not by any means be lost, but, on the contrary, afford important facilities for the construction of the apparatus for scouring, the gates, &c., which were originally to be placed 'at the main entrance from the outer basin, for which coffer dams must otherwise have been put down. A few more unimportant works will, we believe, be required, and are in course of being put into operation. On Thursday last, a force of about 150 excavators and others were at work ; and this week the number will be largely increased. From the great stake in the undertaking held by the gentlemen who represent in the trust the original bondholders, there is now, happily, the utmost certainty that every department of the works will be most faithfully and i watchfully superin tended; and that no collateral interest will be per mitted to sway them in the execution of their duties. The docks will be regarded as purely an investment, not, as in times past, subsidiary to building or land speculations. To ensure a strict surveillance on the spot, o n W e d nes d ay l as t an adjourned general meeting of the trustees was held, at which a gen tleman of Liverpool, unconnected personally with any leading interests on either side of the water, although intimately conversant with the general bearings and requirements of the business of the port, and of known high character and experience in public works, was elected to supply the place of one of the trustees of the bondholders who had resigned; and from our personal knowledge of the gentleman in question, we feel confident that his presence on the board is a circumstance for all interested in the success of the work to congratu late themselves upon. There is one consideration, connected with this changed state of things, which affords subject for deep reflection. For the interests of Birkenhead any change for the better—any progress of a work upon whose successful completion their prosperity so largely depends —must be advantageous. But it seems certain now that, if ever the idea of again attaching the property at Wallasey Pool to the Dock Estate of Liverpool was seriously entertained, the opportunity of so doing upon the same favour able terms as were at one time within our reach has gone by. It is quite possible that the opportunity thus lost may become to Liverpool interests a sub ject for regret. There is no necessity, it is true, thatthe two estates should be worked in antagonism to each other. They may, however, be so conducted. THE boast of the Whig-Radical party, when out of office, has for years been the superior efficacy of their policy in tranquillizing Ireland, and producing in that distracted country social and industrial re generation. Out of office, they bad been in the habit of denouncing, as insulting and oppressive, every measure not framed in accordance with their pattern of the hour. But, in office, they have in variably slunk from the performance of their most emphatic promises ; and adopted either the same policy, which they condemned when advocated by their opponents, or some unintelligible and time serving policy of their own, which only seemed to aggravate the evil it was designed to cure. What, thus far, are the Irish measures of her Majesty's present Whig Government ? We have had an nounced only the continuance of the Habeas Cor pus Suspension Act and a miserable dole of £50,000 for the relief of Irish distress; a dole which will be exhausted in a week—an atom of food held to the lips of a famishing man—an offering just sufficient to provoke the leech-like craving of Irish indolence and habitual beggary. Yet when was the condition of this unhappy country more full of practical difficulty; when did it more require the active remedial efforts of sound and firm statesmanship ? It is not merely factious and mendacious agitation which is now convulsing her, but the total uprooting of the framework of society, the prostration of every branch of industry, the total dependence of a large portion of her peo ple upon the eleemosynary aid of the British Go vernment to put food into the mouths of that portion at least who are not preparing to throw themselves for support upon the resources to be found in distant lands. The loss of the potato crop has done its work ; the cessation of cultivation of the soil throughout a large portion of the country, and the impossibility of an agricultural population carrying on their operations upon a vicious system, and with only the rudest appliances, will do the rest. In another season, with such legislation as we are thus far promised, Ireland will present to British statesmanship a difficulty absolutely in surmountable. We have but two prospects before us, the result of our present imbecile policy towards that coun try. We must keep the bulk of the people of Ireland, or allow them to eat up the property of the soil. A large number of her Poor-law Unions are at present in a state of hopeless insolvency; and the rates in others are with difficulty endured. Every where the spectacle presents itself of those, who have the means left within their reach, desert ing the sinking vessel; rushing from the cry of suffering, which they can no longer relieve, and from an abyss in which they feel themselves rapidly sinking. To stay at home is to starve, to be re duced to pauperism, or to live upon the accumu lated industry of their neighbours. To adventure themselves, without capital, and with their present habits, in any other land is only to flee from a known to an unknown evil. To England, at all events, their nearest and accustomed refuge, they can only come to beg, to fill our prisons, or to drive our own industrious population to pauperism and the Workhouse. Certainly, if there was ever a state of things which imperatively called for a government possessed of fertility of resources, of indomitable courage and energy, and of practical knowledge, of firmness to resist alike the clamour of habitual mendicancy and the flippant dictation of ignorant quacks and selfish demagogues, it is to be found in the condition of Ireland at the present moment. We must—the times imperatively call for it—have a government capable of grappling with the great social problem which Ireland presents, and resolved to t uy ., ,the caustic, if healing salve will not suffice, great empire, If, in the . prieea +jr4qAd,PAl the House of Commons and the present dislocation of parties, such a government cannot be found; if, amongst the representatives of Ireland herself, there is scarcely to be found a member returned for any other qualification than his adhesion or his opposition to Repeal; and amongst those of England the question of the condition of Ireland has been regarded as one of importance by the consituences; we must now in our cooler and more collected moments, take measures to impress upon her Majesty's advisers, or, if necessary, upon the Sovereign herself, the absolute necessity of our being permitted the privilege of returning a House of Commons more accurately representing the changed convictions and opinions of her people. To .every human being in this empire—to the capitalist, the merchant, the shopkeeper, and the working man—the prompt solution of the Irish problem is a matter of almost life and death interest. We must neither suffer that country to become a social pandemonium, nor our own to be inundated by its disease, its filthiness and its beggary. WHEN our Manchester friends get up a case for fussy interference, it would add much to the in fluence of their exertions if they would endeavour to he correct in their facts. During the past week, we observe, they have been getting up a little steam to oppose the bill now before Parliament for the rating of the Liverpool Dock Estate; and if the deputation, which has proceeded to London for this purpose, have gone with their case as stated by the Guardian of Saturday last, they will impose most egregiously upon the credulity of those honourable members whom they may favour with their communications. The Guardian says, one effect of this bill, if it passes, will be to compel the Dock Trustees to raise their dock dues. We can assure our contemporary that no such effect is at all likely to occur; that, in fact, notwithstanding a reduction of forty per cent. in those dues last year, our dock receipts showed a surplus over expenditure of £35,000; and that during the eight months which have elapsed of the present year, there has accrued a further surplus of £15,000, which is expected to be increased to £25,000, making a total of £60,000 surnlus over current exnenditure. Instead, there fore, of any raising d the dues, there is every probability that the Estate can not only contribute its fair proportion to those local burthens, which it assits in creating, but even afford, although already the cheapest port in the empire, a further reduction. Our contemporary is a little magnificent as to the importance to be attached to his own locality; and a little oblivious, at the same tia.le, of his political economy. lie says, "We believe we do not overstate the matter when we estimate the amount of the Liverpool dock dues paid by this city and the surrounding manufacturing district, at little, if at all, less than three-fourths of the entire revenue arising from that source." If our contemporary means that dock dues, or any other charges, upon imports, or upon the vessels bring ing them, form a portion of the price to be paid for them, he is so far right; but the Manchester manufacturer no more pays those charges out of his own pocket than the original importer. Po litical economy teaches that the consumer, whether home or foreign, is the ultimate paymaster. We shall not attempt to argue with our con temporary the question as to the justice of the measure. Perhaps if he was a Liverpool rate payer, and had to pay for shipping back to their miserable homes the shoals of Irish paupers, which the manfacturing districts periodically throw upon our streets to starve, or beg, or plunder, he would not object to the commerce of the entire kingdom— for that is the real object sought to be taxed—being made to contribute the same share towards the local burthens, as it would be liable to do if the docks and quays, a large portion of which has been abstracted from the rateable area of the parish, were in thy; hands of private individuals. It should be remembered that the Doek Estate of Liverpool is the on'ty similar property in, the kingdom which is not *rated to the local burthens. If our Matt chelte7: friends were consistent in their opposition. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. to the bill now before Parliament, they would ex tend their views to the existing state of things in Hull, London, and other ports. WE understand that a movement is about being made in this town in behalf of the American Colo nization Society, an institution founded thirty years ago, through the piety of a clergyman of one of the northern states, and which, confining itself to the simple plan of purchasing territory in Africa and paying the passage there of American coloured people who wished to go, has succeeded in esta blishing the flourishing republic of Liberia, whose independence, under a coloured president and co loured officers of state and a coloured legislature, has lately been acknowledged by the governments of England and France. We are not sure that this is not the happiest charity that has yet been devised for the benefit of Africa. While the armed interference of England and the United States for the suppression of the slave trade has been thought by some to increase the horrors of the traffic, this colony, in a much more economical way, has broken up the slave fac tories and established a peaceful and healthy com merce on near four hundred miles of coast. While our American and British missions have been slow and expensive in their gains, and though highly necessary and useful in their particular province, still narrow in their limits and labouring under great distress from the mortality of the white mis sionaries who have gone to them, this colony, it seems by the last census, has brought into it 72,000 of the native heathen, who have become acting citizens of the republic and supporters of its schools and churches. And while our own colony of Sierra Leone, though useful in many of the same ways as Liberia, still has no large nation of Christian blacks to whom it can look for future emigration, this co lony has a tide setting into it from among three millions in the United States whose attention is in creasingly turned to it, and who are offering them selves or are offered, with their own consent, by their masters in such numbers as already to over run the means of the Colonization Society. If England is to continue, as she certainly must, to do her part among Christian nations in help of Africa, it becomes a question, and we would invite our readers to take this occasion of inquiring into it, whether helping this colony is not, as the thing stands at present, decidedly the most effective and frugal means. Yesterday morning, a special meeting of this body was held in the Board-room, Hamilton-square. Present, Messrs. Bentham, Ravenscroft, Watson, Golbourne, Greene, Hughes, Stevenson, Laird, Appleton, and Wil liamson. R. Watson, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. Wartnaby , clerk to the committees, read the notice calling the meeting, which was to consider " The expe diency of petitioning parliament against the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway (abandonment of part of line extensions to London and North-Western Railway, &c.) Bill, or against some or any of the provi sions of the said bill. Mr. GREENE asked, why they were called together at that early hour, which was a most inconvenient one for men of busineSs ? The CHAIRMAN replied that the committee had been anxious to effect an arrangement with the railway com pany, and for that purpose had postponed the meeting until the last moment. It was, however, necessary the petition should be sent off that evening, and therefore the meeting could no longer be postponed. Mr. GREENE said, no one had a right to alter the hour of meeting of the board, and call persons away from their business at that inconvenient time of the day. The con sequence was that scarcely a quorum were present, whereas had the meeting been held at the usual hour in the even ing, there would most probably have been a full board. The minutes of the Road and Improvement and the Parliamentary Committees were then read, from which it appeared that they objected to the alterations contem plated in the bill now before parliament respecting the railway company. The principal portion objected to was the abandonment of the Canning-street bridge, which carried the road over the railway, and proposed that the street should cross on a level. They also objected to the proposed alteration of tolls. Against these the Parlia mentary Committee had agreed to a petition. The CHAIRMAN suggested that the petition should be read. Mr. GREENE said, the better course would be to take the sense of the meeting whether the board would petition at all. GOLD AND THE BULLIONISTS, We beg to direct attention to an able article, which we ' extract from the Sun, evening paper, upon the subject of the operation upon our currency of the recent discovery of gold in California. We ourselves hail that discovery as the most fortunate event which could have occurred for the industry of this great commercial country. It is the clinching rivet in the chain of evidence, tending to prove the complete rottenness of our present monetary system. The idol, gold, has turned round to mock at and trample upon its worshippers. It is the bullionist now, not the currency reformer, who, by adhering obstinately to his favourite system, is liable to the stigma of entertaining a desire to rob the annuitant ; to pay to every creditor less than his due ; to disturb all the existing contracts of the community with each other, and to bring about a total revolution in the value of property and the remuneration of labour. Hitherto the extent of the probable supply of this valuable metal—valuable by act of parliament, com paratively worthless in itself—has been attempted to be underrated. Would-be wise men have scoffed at the ac counts jrom the Gold Region as fables invented by dream ers, or designing adventurers. Their truth, however, is now beyond dispute. The reports thus far have been under rather than overrated ; and we may, within a very few months, see England, and even Europe, inundated with a metal, to be picked up by adventurers from every country,—trappers, hunters, and Indian aborigines,—at the rate of ten or twenty ounces per day, and yet every ounce exchangeable for two months' worth of the aver age wages paid for the labour, present and accumu lated, of the British artizan. Mr. BENTHAM was opposed to a petition being pre sented at all. He had a great dread of law expenses, and when once the small end of the wedge was inserted there was no knowing the extent to which it might be driven. Mr. GOLBOURNE.—WouId you have them take the bridge away ? Mr. BENTHAM said, he thought it would be a great blessing to the township, and a saving of considerable ex pense, too, if it were taken away. If completed it would merely be for the benefit of some particular land in that neighbourhood. We might, very safely, leave the important question, between ourselves and the bullionists, to settle itself. The class which has hitherto been most energetic in de manding their pound of flesh for their bond—their quantum of golden sovereigns for the interest of the paper pounds lent to the nation—the fundholders, will be the first, unless we much mistake, to raise a howl against our present monetary laws, when they find their golden idol worth only ten shillings in the pound, and their hundreds per anpuT,p9ssess only the purelnsing power of fifties. We might, even, rejoice to see such " engineers hoist with their own petard." But there is a England wish to pay t o ever y man what o te i o2le?! have no wish to rob the widow and the orphan ; to de preciate the value of the marriage settlement, or t o defraud the honest and careful invester in our saving banks. We wish to pay the national and every other creditor in money, and at its present value ; and to do so we are, day by day, more firmly convinced, with our con temporary the Sun, that we must adopt the mode of equitable adjustment and the wise monetary system pro posed by the Liverpool Currency Reform Association. PROSPECTS OF THE IRON TRADE Mr. RAVENSCROFT said, if that doctrine was to prevail they had better not interfere with any of the bridges. Mr. GREENE asked what was the object of the petition ? The CHAIRMAN said, it was merely intended to present the petition, but not go to any expense in appearing by counsel unless it became absolutely necessary. The TOWN-CLERK then read the petition, after which he stated that certain clauses had been proposed against the abandonment of any portion of the scheme. It was originally proposed to make the line to Manchester, War rington, and Stockport, but by the present bill the line would only be made from Chester to Kekewick, to join the London and North-Western. Mr. GREENE said, he had no doubt the company were as anxious as the commissioners to complete the whole line, but where were the funds to come from ? He thought it would be much better to point out the mode of raising the money than petitioning against the bill. The CHAIRMAN then put the question whether they should petition at all or not, and it was carried in the affirmative, all voting for it except Messrs. Bentham, Greene, and Hughes, who did not vote on the question. Mr. APPLETON, after observing that it was against the interests of Birkenhead that the branch from Houton Station should be abandoned, moved that the clauses against that should be embodied in the petition, but this was not seconded, and the petition, as read by the Town clerk, was adopted. The meeting then broke up. THE DOCK RATING BILL (From our London Correspondent.) LONDON, MONDAY MORNING I hand you a statement of the case of the ratepayers, which has been sent to the members of the House of Commons.* The opponents, fearing to have the question fairly gone into, which it would be if the bill were allowed to go into committee, are stirring heaven and earth to throw it out on the second reading, which comes on to-morrow. if they succeed, it will be in a great measure through the exertions of Mr. William Brown, one of the members for South Lancashire, who is going about, using the in fluence which his position gives him, to do all he can to benefit his Manchester constituents, to the injury of a majority of those of Liverpool. In justice to Sir Joshua Walmsley, I must state that he is doing all he can to help forward the bill. It is reported here that Lord J. Manners is using his influence against the measure. The deputation to Government in favour of the bill consisted of Mr. Ferguson (churchwarden), Messrs. Poole, Urquhart, Dover, Birkett, Hart, and Lowndes (on the part of the parish) ; and Mr. Litt ledalc and Mr. Parker (on the part of the Town Council of Liverpool). They were accompanied by Sir Thomas Birch, M.P., and Mr. Card well, M.P., and had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the [Tome-office, and afterwards with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. A deputation to oppose the bill, consisting of the Mayor Sir A 1,1, _ rianche ' stei Elkanah Hopkins, Mr. Councillor Gibb, and the Town-clerk of Manchester; the Mayor of Salford and Mr. Alderman Jenkinson, with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Messrs. Bright, M.P., Brown, M.P., Henry, M.P., Ker %tftyfi.bM.P., M`Gregor, M.P., Pilkington, M.P., Arm- M.P., Thor:nel? : . Nugent, M.P., Messrs. Duncuft, Hornby, M.P., Hindley, M.P., Blair, —Mr. William Nicol (deputy c h a i rman - W• - nu deputation Charles Saunders, Thomas Bold, and William Mann (members of the Dock Committee), had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere (President), Earl Granville (Vice-President of the Board of Trade), and Mr. Baines (Chief Commissioner of the Poor Laws), at the office of the Board of Trade. What the chance of success is I do not know, but the anti-raters are confident in their anticipations of a tri umph ; however, if the bill be allowed to go into com mittee, there is no fear of the result. No means are left untried on the part of the pro-raters to carry their point ; and they feel certain that if they do not succeed now, they will next year. *This statement contains, in a succinct form, the main ar- This metal has latterly attracted considerable attention, and it may be desirable for those parties interested in the leading staple of our productions, and one of our most valuable exports, to take a view of its present position relative to the probable demand there may be during the ensuing spring, present value, &c. Bar iron is worth £6 to £6 10s., and Scotch pig 525. to ROBBERY AT THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—Yesterday a 565. per ton. Last year, previous to the revolution in youth, named Joseph Roles, was committed from the France, the former was worth £8 10s. to £9, the latter Birkenhead police-court for fourteen days, and to be once 51s. to 545. ; and at one period in the memorable year whipped, for stealing sugar from the docks, being part of 1845, £lO 10s., and £5 to £5 10s. respectively. the cargo of the ship Rosendale, now discharging. The accounts from Birmingham and the other large ST. THOMAS' CHURCH SCHOOLS.—We are glad to find manufacturing districts are highly satisfactory. It is that the bazaar for the benefit of these schools, which, as thought probable, from the low rate at which money is will be seen, will take place in Easter week, is likely to be to be had, and the buoyant feeling so evident in the well supported. W. Brown, Esq., M.P., has sent the public mind, that some of the railways now in progress of handsome donation of £lO in aid of the benevolent construction may be hurried forward to completion, and object. The Countess of Sefton has consented to act as that others, abandoned for a time, may be revived. The one of the vice-presidents. orders received from America for iron, by the last two Or STREET AND OTHER ROBBERIES.—At the police-court, three steamers, have been very large, and quite unprece- yesterday, Mary Ann Ellis was charged by William Wil dented of late years, and the demand is thought likely to Hams with stealing from his pocket, in Canning-place, on increase. By advices received by th e Sheridan, (arrived Saturday night, £1 13s. She was given in charge, and Friday, the 16th instant,) prices had further advanced £1 of the money was recovered. She was sent for trial. three-fourths of a dollar, or to 22 dollars per ton, to 88s. —Mary Jones was charged by George Watson with hay duty paid for best brands of Scotch pig, and this previous ing, early on Sunday morning, stopped him in the street, to the late advance here—so that when they hear of the and afterwards followed him into Gloucester-street, rates ruling in this country, prices will be further acted where, a struggle having arisen between them, she snat upon. This improvement in the States is attributable in ched away his watch and chain. He gave the alarm, and a great degree to the recent accounts from California ; and a constable who was at hand took her into custody. should a tithe only of what we have heard from this The watch and chain were afterwards found in the street. golden region be true, no doubt the value of iron and all at the spot when: the scuffle took place—both partially other staple articles, gold excepted, will be enhanced. broken. She was committed for trial.—Hugh Evans The Continent, too, is drawing l arge l y upon us f or a charged by Thomas Eaton with stealing a quantity of supply of all metals. From the unsettled state they have emery stones from the quay of the George's Dock, and been in for the last twelve months, their stocks of most sending them off in a cart, was committed for trial.— articles, particularly metals, are much reduced; and it is John Hurst Green charged by Mr. Husse with stealing a the opinion of parties who have lately returned after visit- hand-cart and a ladder, both of which he afterwards sold, ing their large towns, that to such an extent is this the was also sent for trial. case that, should they settle down to industrial pursuits, THE TRADE TO CALIFORNIA.—The following is a list of which there seems to be every reasonable hope, of the principal goods, entered (in considerable quantities) the demand for British metals and manufactures would be at the Liverpool Custom-house, for export to C a lif orn i a , beyond all calculation. up to the present time :-155 bales and 79 other p ac k ages The shipments to India are inc r e as i ng , an d we may o. cottons; 133 bales and 27 pc...irngps of woollens expect a good Tr a d e f rom thi s quar t er . F rom S out h 1149 b ales of b lankets ; 40 tons of bar, hoop, anti sneo, America the advices are also very aati.factnry, the demand iron, and 50 boxes of tin plates ; 419 packages of spades, for California having in many instances cleared the mar- hardware, shovels, nails, &c. ; 15,000 bricks, and 38 boxes kets of all hardware. It is generally admitted that the of glass ; 160 tierces and 70 barrels of beer, and 165 ditto present value of pig iron is very little, if any, above the bottled ; 71 packages of wearing apparel ; a quantity of cost of production—so that the present rates, though plain spirits, French brandy, and gin, castings, pickles higher than they were ip the depressed period of last year, and sauces, soap, medicines, shirts, umbrellas, parasols, may be considered moderate. thread and silk, 19 cases of cutlery, 69 barrels of vinegar, With these prospettsi there seems °MY reason for 28 packages of shoes, tool chests, &c., 200 iron pots, two anticipating a steady improvement in this a: ranch of ploughs, six cases of patent felt, stationery, one box of rade, and a gradual advance in the value of iron and c: 1 r Seidlitz powders, one iron warehouse, a quantity of agri mon,„sctures. cu;:liral implements, 100 tons of coals, anvils, grates, 45 packages galvanized tin, white lead, gr i n d stones, bis on,: variety of miscellane ous art i c l es , Of late if ears the cry has bee n lei i o W p r i ces o f a ll s t ap l e articles and manufactures, whi c h m ai / h ave b een po li t i c cu i ts, wove w i re, and to the interest of our manufacturing pet,plation ; but of which the respective quantities were comparatively so there is this difference with metals over every °they article, small, that we do no particularise them. with the exception of coal and salt, that they are the COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—Dr. Wolff delivered his natural productions of this country, and that we reap the third and concluding lecture on Friday evening, to one of benefit of comparative high prices, and have the b e i er ice the largest audiences ever assembled within the walls of of trade in our favour over the foreigner, a circumstance' the Collegiate Lecture-hall on a similar occasion. He which so seldom occurs to us; for though we are un- gave an extremely interesting account of the last stages doubtedly a great manufacturing nation, yet we have to of his journey to Bukhara, the tragical story of the murder look to other countries for our MAIN supply of the other of Stoddart and Conolly being communicated to him by great manufacturing staples, cotton, silk, and wool—and several persons with whom he conversed, together with thus the advantage this country gains by being the manu- the most positive assurances that he might prepare himself facturer is considerably marred by haying to pay coin- for the same fate. The particulars that he first received peting powers for the raw material, too f requently from a dervish of the country were substantially confirmed manufacturers of the article themselves, by all that lie' heard afterwards. This man had told him that Stoddartend Conolly were first put into'a'dungeon among other prisoners, where they were fed upon bread and water, and' crammed so closely that holes we 'e eaten in their flesh by vermin. They were brought out with their hands tied. Cone*, on being informed that if he ' would turn Mahornetan the king would spare his life, said, " I believe in Jesus Christ, and will die in that belief." He then turned to his companion, and said, " Stoddart, fear n0t 4 ,.. we are both believers in Jesus Christ, and we shall be with Christ to-day." Stoddart, who, alas ! had given way, and consented to become a Mahomet an , on being thus appealed to, said to the cham berlain, in his violent Mariner, "Tell the 'tyrant that 1 have no faith in Mahomet. I Yepent of my recantatiom• I am a believer in the Lord' Jesus Christ." And both were slaughtered.—This-evening the Rev. St. Vincent. Beechy will deliver the first 6f tiro lectures on astronomy;; and next week the Rev. I-1: 11. 1 Higgins will commence'at interesting course Palestine,'EgYpt,, &c, We understand that the Rev. Dr. M'Neile will return from Ireland during the present week. STEALING FROM SElOPS. — Yesterday, at Mr. Rushton's court, Ann McAvoy was charged with having stolen 3lbs. of bacon. On being apprehended on this charge, a quan tity of printed calicoes, or fents, (13 yards in all,) was found under her cloak. The owners of both appeared in court and identified the property. The prisoner was) sent for trial. CHARGE OF EMEEZZLEMENT.-At the police-court, yesterday, a youth named• William Neville, was charged by Mr. Samuel Lord, wool-dealer, with having to receive a sum of 16s. Md.. and another of 2s. 6d., for smalliquan titles of wool sold to a lady, and accounting for only 11s. to Mr. Lord, his- employer. As it was expected that some other cases would. belliscovereclagainst the pritioner,, he was remanded. guments in favour of the bill; but as these have already been presented to our readers, in one shape or other, we have not thought it necessary to publish the document alluded to. Peb. 21, ISA LATEST FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. Cseejs' The North American Roy a l ma il s t eam - s hip , Captain Judkins, arrived i n th e r i ver l as t n ight s' . t y o'clock from America. She left New York on the:, and Halifax on the 10th instant, having made the P from the latter port in less than ten days. She has bo il ' 59 passengers, a list of whom we soin : The intelligence by this arrival is übj unimportant, e o , l a the advices from California, which we give elsewher e ',4 which, it will' be seen, are as ex c iti ng an d ronutoll e ne w even more so—than any p r e v i ous ly rece i ve d. Fort , % o p, territory nothing could be done i n th e s h ape o f legisie ti . as the American Congress was approac hi ng its eons tional demise, having only about three weeks to live, left it is, therefore, to be fe are d th a t C a lif orn i a will be ic with its heterogeneous pop u l a ti on , a b so l ve d from e ll 1111 but such as the settlers may adopt for themselves• ty passion for migrating there c on ti nue d una b a t e d, be tiob cost of getting thither necess ar ily con fi ne d th e emig° to persons of some means. jThe application pending in C ongress b y the he'r o Aspinwall and Co., of N ew Y or k, f or a con t rac t duo ° , term of years to convey over the railway which thefTty pose to construct across the Isthmus of Panama tt h g mails, &c., of the United St a t es governmen t, met Wl'ol much opposition as to rende r it s success pro blem' ' re . this session. That firm has, however, paid the sul a w t quired by the government of Ne w G rena d a , an d a n el t yd party has been despatched t o ma k e an es ti ma te o work. The road, it is said, will be made. The bill for lowering and equalising duties betwee n ,p Canadas and New Brunswick and America on the itel,,N tation of grain, lumber, flour, animals, &c., is likell; r y defeated. The representatives of the Southern agriew.isl interests specially oppose the bill as t en di ng to dims " the value of their own agriculture. k A considerable business had b een d one a t New vt,) Foreign Exchange. Bills on London were sold from 81. Exchange left off flat on all places. 0 1. The February dividend on the Publi c D e bt o f Penei e vania has been paid, but half of it in " relief" e () , b o which, on an average, are 2 1 per cen t. b e l ow par, robbing the public creditors of .8123,000, and leavie 6 unworthy taint on the good faith of the United States . : 0 „ ` 1, The intelligence received a t N ew O r l eans on the ~ ultimo from the Peninsula of Yucatan which has bee„. to Indian devast a ti ons , indicates 'the renewed SW: macy of the white r ace . Aid e d b y a reg i ment o f v olu' teers from the United States commanded by Col. Ge' lr , v .,, W. White and Lieut. Colonel Besancon, the Yueste; seem to have completely triumphed over their foes , captured towns and cities which the Indians had occup y —and thoroughly discomfited their adversaries. stabile From Mexico the news c on ti nues to indicate stsu' and efficiency in the admini s t ra ti on o f President Bare , ,'". His speech of Ist January. o n th e open i ng o f Coogt`"o and the reply thereto of that body indicate h ar pionF views. It? List of Passengers.—From N ew Y or k ; —M r. a n-A Sullivan, Mr. G. L. Manson an d child, Mr. and .4, 4 Rigney. Messrs. W. G. Harrison, J. B. Gardner, 14 , ° : 1 ,1 ' streth, T. D. Doubleday, G. H. P o ll oc k , Robertson, o'4, Young, J. T. Hiltman , Livermore, Fi s k en , M a kell l/ 0, Schwendler, Jos. Thompson, G. M'Keana, Wm. 01 %. gan, Lindner, Hagdorn, G. W. Browning, Murray' ti , Gibson, F. M'Whan, D. H. Solis, E. J. King, L. S. L e tv , J. Farrell, T. Waddell, W. M acue l , J . H. Mead, to Napier, Cash, Nicoll, Logan. From Halifax Nordbeck, Miss Gogin, Messrs. Culloden, Doren, C. , r , ver, Thos. Knight, Fry, W. Fairbanks, Win. White , Furlong, John Hagan, James Doherty, W. D. Pie Wainwright, Geo. Beattie, Bruce, Skerry, Lockhart, J °. Cunard, Strong. NEW YORK, Feb. 7 t ti t ; i 4 The principal trade at this season o f t h e year in Flour for Grain being for city use , th e d eman d h as become light allliro market free from excite men t, Th e supply from New Oveaoi and other Southern ports having nearly su ppli e d th e want .ept the trade, the decrease in stock has not been enough to pre : of prices giving way, 124 a 25 c . p er bb l. lower than at the date my last circular of the 9th January, per Europa. Ol e The EXPORT from this port t o E ng l an d and Ireland fo r month of January was only 7651 bbls. Flour, 5818 bbls. C" Meal, 3859 bus. Wheat, 413,160 bus. C orn. Th e larger P art, will be perceived, has been of Indian Corn for Ireland. 1 11, FREIGHTS to Liverpool are taken at 2s. per bbl, on fl ° and 7d. per bus. for Corn in bulk. Cotton 5-16 d. 0 i n imp l ro ar v g e e m su en p t pl m ies en f t r i o o m nedthesouth, my was F checkedou u. . —T b h y e the are lower. The rang e f or a wee k past has been 35 44 to V,:e. for city made; $5 50 t o $5 62i- for Western and common nessee, and sz 621 to .85 75 for the better kind s ; G eo rgetp Alexandria and Baltimore are se lli ng at 35 374 to 35 50..„ fot FLOUR sells at $3 25 to .83 37a. C ORN MEAL 82 87i to Jersey yellow. • last an d c r p c; 3o cOl ee GRAlN.—Wheat is dull a t 125 t o 128 c. per 601 b. for Gene,- d A t white, and 108 to 115 c. for Ohi o re d and mixed. Rye sells tO 65 to 66c. per 561 b. Barley, 61 to 68c. per 481 b. Oats,, 11 e 43c. per bus. Indian Corn is lower, and the market, 10 absence of an export demand, closes heavily ; white RP A ell° sells at 58c. ; White and mixed Southern, at 55 to 60c. ; - y Southern, 59 to 61., and Yellow Northern 63 to 65c. goo COTTON TRADE c .—The receipts, exports, , and stocks of cotton at the different ports of this country, up to the latest date* each of the past two years, were as annexed : MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES. Baltso 512 , 1 230, 1 2 57' 3 5 567, 1 991 •• •. 481., • 502 • 94 6 46. 990- 10 7 22, 4 0 47: NO the IDI. him., nave been 1 , ors, 3,000; taken on 6 n, 5,000; amount on Exports to Great Britain, since Sept., 1, 1848 Corresponding dates last year year before :: Stock in shipping ports of receipt. Corresponding dates last year .. e befoe If Receipts at ports since Sept. r 1, 1848, Corresponding dates last year „ ear be Exports from Unite y d States fore since Sept. 1, 1848 Correftpondin g rinten !no- y 0.1.1. year before Theieceiptiat thl;PortOiL bales; exports, 1,500; taken by spin • •• mu lt ch m t a r y ou b b e l r e em th em co b n e v r i ed nc t e ha o t u a r t th ea is de t r i s me tha sla t t th y e ear crorr 4 ; 1 reach 2,300,000 bales, (it was 2,348 , 000,) and lest they s'ipto be induced by the then small receipt s a t th e por t s t o f a ll , A 5 the general estimate of 2,100,000, we showed how the recelV_, of Florida, Mobile, &c., had been p reven t e d b y l ow rivel"; how large the stocks were in the interior, &c., &c. Thank.' is the full rivers this year, the figures are strong enough c e themselves to prevent any under estimates of thi s crop. 'Ol need take no such trouble now. If people will insist tiP with the . previous season and taking the coln,l' o p rative +heir guide, they will make the present c ',De 3,300,000 bales, aim 1.}.....by discern thP absurdity of ' sr , thing now, and the absurdities they were led into last V But as to the facts—the receipts of the last two weeks 11 , 8 ',, been large in the aggregate, very large at the Atl an tic po , 'a Florida ports and Mob i l e , f or the rivers have been higiq' the advance in price s h as attracted cotton from the interio r ' t . ; but at New Orleans, a lth ough the cholera alarm has 10, ceased, they have been 60,000 bales against 90,000 last Y%' 0"; The fair chances are that the present crop will be about 2, 600, "" i i bales, and it is to be hoped that the opinions (freely writq j from ' Liverpool and Havre of late,) that 2,600,000 bales will 5 none too much, may prove correct, or we are very far wrong 0 , now having prices at all our ports so much above the last clu tations at Liverpool. 2-- 5; The present crop, perhaps, m os t resembles that of 184 and if compared with that, it promises to be about 2,550, , 5 t bales. We must now expect th e wee kl y amount of receipts 41. n ~nnha 4n 4,11 -Ar ..... The ,—...... ~.. ~.... .. touiareu year. a $ news from Liverpool to the wun 13th last of January, ca use to few sales at * cent decline, but the market has since rallied about the prices of a fortnight ago. We now quote midcilll 6j to 7 for Uplands and 7* for Gulfs; fair 7* for Uplands ap,. Bto 8* for Orleans. Freight 9-32 d to Li verpool, and ic. per " to Havre. The sales for the last three days amount to 2700 bales. ,„,, t Up. & Fla. Mo., N. O. Sr I' 1700 bales. 1000 bales Inferior none. Ordinary to good ordinary 6# to 6/ Middling to good midd.ing Middling fair to fair 7} to 7 , Fully fair to good fair 7i to f Fine iO 8i none. , February 6, 'of P•g The market continues without PHILADELPHIA activity in any brancll trade. Flour hang s h eavy at .85. Rye Flour a n d C o rn 3 1 : .0 are also without demand for export, and prices unchang'id Wheat is dull, and cannot be quoted above SI sc. to SI 7c. ° id reds. Corn is arriving pretty freely, and will not bring 11 2,, than 56c. for ne w fl a t ye ll ow. Oats dull at 30c. for good ,y thern. Cotton remains quiet ; a small sale of middling Geor g brought 7c. on time—h o ld ers are f i rm. Provisions selL,4, wanted at ste a dy p r i ces : Mess Pork is worth Si 3 sc. to zk, Prime, S'l2 50c. B a c on i n d ry salt and pickle sells at 7i W•tb• for hams, and to sic. for shoulders. Lard and Butter WI out change. 1 -.--- BALTIMORE, FEB. 6, P.m.—Th e Fl our market is dull. Slsl sales of Howa r d- s t reet and City Mills at .S'4 871 c. Corn A lo l' ll l .82 73c. Receipt s o f gra i n light. Small sales of Red Wile s lc , Si.' sc. to Si. 10c. Whit e C orn, 46c. t0,47c. ; Yellow, 50c. to 5 Oats, 31c. Rye, 62c. Provis , oas are quiet. ter • • ,• la. NEW ORLEANS, JANUARY 29.—The anticipation o f 0 0 European news prevented any extensive business in C 0040,4, Saturday, though they amounted to about 400 bales, at the ' lowing quotations :- 6i to 1 Inferior 42 to 54 1 Middling fair Ordinary si to 51 I Fair i i tO 1 itc:A 1, 61 to 61 I Good fair ... 6a to 62 Good and fine Good middling, EXPORT OF BREADSTUFFS TO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRW" fl FROM SEPTEMDER 111., iele I Flour hills. ----"- rn Meal.l Wheat i Cora bbls. I bush. I bug", New York N. Orleans u, Philadelphia do 26 , Baltimore do 24 78,457 Boston Other Ports 524,172 2,89 2,v 5 1,185-5 - 88,089 .. 38,3131 18,721 200,187 ?,`,`'3B§ 5,126 164,622 60 2,146 12,887 3 , 1 , 1 '0 53 11,546 3f.a.„1„../. 1301,5031 5,915,42' 1856 bus. Barley fin N. York, and 1000 bus. Oats full: LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET—YESTERDAI; 4 We have had an averag e su p p l y o f all k i nds of Stock st,t,'ef, market to-day, which, on the whol e , me t w i t h dull sale. P.' 4id. to 50. ; Mutton, sad. to 60. per lb. 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