The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, The Treasurer o' Ind Ear Infirmary begs to acknow receipt of " C. M." 's donation of which the donor requested to have noticed in the LIVERPOOL STAN DARD. me of the provincial papers are in the habit of transferring rticles from our paper to their own without acknowled4- " The Stockport Advertiser of last week inserts, as one s," the whole of some remarks, ;Inns several weeks since, on the It is being at present carried on lg article; g taken from us another hour. couitl r priet y c to go to press before Eleven o'clock. and Ire, publish a notice of the very gratifying the Philharmonic Hall, last night. ssed a letter to a contemporary to contra. n our last, which stated that he had at- where t the chic lea!, at rnant of tiered that ther part in th the meeting. I ag of gentlemen to consider the pro , the dock and corporate estates. Mr. , g which I have attended s of the Shipowners' ,„.. ascertaining that certain reso r their object an alteration of the manage estate, were about to be proposed, I consi iember of the Town Council and one of the ►•erpool docks, I ought not to take any fur- ly meet i mooted v eeetlings, and rtherefore retired - from mention that Mr. Chilton adopted the th.turrpool &tanttarb. VING, NOT. 20, 1849 r punishment should operate as a preventa . _ deratum yet to he worked We should not, however, for a tive of crime is a d islatio moment be disposed to carry our experiments to the length, advocated by the sentimental portion of mankind, of dispensing with capital punish ment, as at present inflicted upon murderers and old that " tl‘e murderer shall not only as a terror to traitors onl surely I je put to death, evil-doers, hut as a righteous retribution for his crime. And, with respect to other classes of of fenders, we are not aware that the leniency of our modern legislation—the practical abolition of trans portation for a short term of years--has produced ..cult. Far more merciful and bene olent, we believe, to those criminals whom our I, res sentence to seven or I- satisfacto n years' transporta- ual carrying into execution the letter of such sentences, as affording them op portunities of commencing life anew, in a country where scope is afforded for industry, even with characters tainted in the eyes of an established m to the abortive disci- :ommuniV, tt an submis pline of our reformat° prison system Before we can succeed in converting the rogue permanently into an honest man we must enable him to live in his new character; and, to do this, we must first produce in society a different feeling to that with which persons, who have been convicted of crime, are at present regarded. Adhering, however, as we do to the punishment of death as due to the murderer, because com manded by the eternal lawgiver Himself, we may still ask the question whether the mode of inflict ing that punishment may not, with advantage to society, be altered. The sentence of our courts is that such criminals shall be publicly hanged. Pub licity has always been insisted upon as an essential portion of the punishment, obviously with a view to its appalling influence upon the spectators. In times past, when death by the rope was inflicted for offences short of murder, we carried this prin ciple further than at present. We had our Tyburn tree, with its procession, of which the criminal was the hero, and enjoyed his last cup by the way, escorted by his brethren in crime, anxious above all things to watch his fortitude in death, and the callous activity with which he ascended the fatal 'ed to learn the effect of that who looked on at Ty- ladder. practice Every pe burn, felt his ambition raised to become one day the principal personage in the show. An execu tion was a rogue's gala day; and Tyburn, with its festivities, not its terrors, was looked forward to as )hable termination of his career. We have improved upon this state of things in our modern legislation, by dispensing with the cart and the procession ; but we suspect that we shall have to-go further and dispense with the element of publicity altogether. the most pr ase of the Mannings, and the scenes which took place on the occasion of their execution in front of Horsernonger-lane Gaol very serious considerations. Of what classes were e recen suggest some the vast concourse assembled to witness the death of these wretched criminals composed ? Of the most degraded of both sexes, intermingled with a sprinkling of the morbidly curious, who would be as ready to gloat over any other painful, or bloody spectacle. It was not to take warning at the sight of guilt meeting its reward that the thousands of de based beings spent the night jammed up inthe streets gallows, amusing themselves in or in bandying obscenities; nor sous feeling—a pure detestation of the surrounding the horrible levity, murde vhich induced the more respectable(?) portion of the audience to pay their guineas for the same spectacle. A few, it is pos. Bible, might go away from the scene horror-struck, and warned of the consequences of indulging in Nvould leave it more -Pol luted in heart and hardened in sin than they came. It is revolting to contemplate the state of mind in which a crowd must be, by whom women and chil ntonly trampled upon, as they were _ how little the taking of life was regarded in comparison with_ securing " a good es ; but as r lay last ; _ .. "to witness the hangman's performance. Al ed that one person has fallen a Ldy we are info tim to brutal v records of the I on the occasion ; and the olice-courts of the follow wretch in the form of a gh bearing the name of ~ bbour jostling her in the mom, " knocked her down, It she would have her life, and that she • hPr, and would have her manning*, who; t to us )n a tic 3t for standing ting 'Lb. Tied a 1 ," ad, she would swing for A Horsenionger-lane Gaol, on the same drop as eyed to this uur ow .ens, no the." The warning eon ago by the fate of "her namesake," been long—and we rejoice ice given to it by the letter the London limes by Mr. Charles mean exponent of the character and ses of the metropolis, at ,tion of criminals within e walls of the lc of 'ecently age of th their I, in which they hve been con •er all the ends which society of our readers a question. vhose minds the fate of the recurred on Tuesday last, :hing to awe at the thought ine o'cl ock, two fellow d into another nselves, they are throughout thousands - who mghfares of London, nff to witness shuddered ; and thousands in every nook and y went 1 yet un murderers, emote from the scene, expe- None are so callous corner of tuts 'kneed the same sensation as not to feel a throb of awe at the thought that, at an ascertained moment, a human soul is taking its flight to judgment. Here, then, is a lever upon 'fth he minds of guilty human- Take away from the punishinent. of death -itv for parade of hardihood—its pub to work upon t us have no more incentives held oilt to Let us no longer see hose thoughts oUOit to e energies - ought - 6 be die game the best use of the miserable voted to ma - king nnant of their eyes of unfeeling and th iuffering an and uggling to seem in the ghtless crow( ls as mar- :rued death ! In a word, let every execution take place within the precincts of the gaol in which the criminals are confined, the spectators being only the authorities, and perhaps Duld be well to include the neophites in crime Is. The press could convey le world out of doors. within the same w sson to t But there is one thing due to society, and due also to offenders against the law, on the part of government. In cases where criminals are amena- ble to capital punishment, there must be greater certainty than at present exists of sentence of death being carried into effect. We do not refer to those cases in which sentence of death is recorded, without slightest idea of its eing carried into effect—a practice, by the bye, which might well be dispensed with—but to the somewhat capricious • exercise, under the auspices of the present Home Secretary, of the mercy of the crown. This subject is well treated by our contemporary the Morning Herald, who instances three recent cases of persons whose sentences have not been carried out. One of these was-a servant girl, who, having become criminally intimate with a soldier, deliberately shot him, be• cause he had neglected her. Another was the case of a wife, who poisoned her husband by slow degrees, wearing his life out day by day. A third was the wretched youth, who, having seduced an innocent girl, cut her throat, to save himself the expense of having to maintain her and her unfortu nate offspring. To these atrocious criminals mercy has been extended. What wonder then that Mrs. Manning, acquainted as she was with noble fami lies, to the last moment entertained the idea that there was aback stairs access to the royal mercy ? That wretched woman died, no. doubt, with her crime unabsolved, and her heart clinging to earth. She had hoped, and equivocated to the last moment. The very fact that she went to the scaffold with her face concealed from the gaze of the mob proved that she still retained, at the last hour, the fierce passions of her nature. Had all expectation of remission of her sentence of death been earlier removed, it is possible that the ice which surrounded her heart might have been thawed by the exhortations of her spiritual adviser, and that a soul might have been snatched from eternal perdition. WE have received, from a highly respectable quarter; the following communication, bearing upon the case at issue between the Earl of Derby and his lessees at Bootle, to which we directed the attention of the public last week. We erred, it seems, in describing the tenure of this portion of his lordship's property; but the actual state of affairs, as given by our correspondent, makes the case of the lessees one of greater hardship than we had ourselves represented it. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ,STANDARD. Stn.,—ln the observations in your paper of the 13th instant, you have not quite correctly stated the case of the lessees of the Earl of Derby. I therefore venture to trouble you with the following statement. The original leases granted by the Earl of Derby, and under which the greater part of the property on the north shore is still held, were for three lives only, and not for an additional term of twenty-one years, as you supposed. That the public works in progress in that neighbourhood are calculated ultimately to increase the value of the land is not denied by the lessees ; but that improvement is pro spective, and many years must elapse before the beneficial effect on the adjoining property can be felt. The loss to the lessees is, however, immediate and certain ; and indeed houses which were erected at great cost for the residence of gentlemen's families, are rendered valueless, or at least worth only the old materials. Looking then at the un certain tenure of the lessees' estates, it may possibly, or even probably happen, that those estates will cease by the death of the lives named in the leases before any benefit can accrue to the property from the works in question, thus throwing all the loss on the lessees and giving all the benefit to the Earl of Derby. The works of the dock trustees on the north shore will extend along his lord ship's estate about 1800 yards, and will enclose between the present sea front and the proposed dock a strip of land 130 yards in width by about 1800 yards in length. Throughout the whole length of this strip of land the dock trustees will form a street 30 yards in width along the dock wall, reducing its width to 100 yards, through which the dock trustees are to form another street of the width of 20 yards, and about 30 yards in advance of the present sea front, thereby reducing the available land to two blocks of 50 yards and 30 yards in width respectively. Thus the Earl of Derby will gain two blocks of valuable land, heretofore subject to the flow of the tide, one con taining 90,000, and the other 54,000 square yards. His lordship's lessees ask that the present leases may be extended, not by the addition of another life, but into a fixed term of 75 years, and that they may include the block of land between their present frontage and the pro posed 20 yards street. And if the Earl accedes to this proposal the question will be upon what terms. The lessees contend (especially those who have buildings on their land,) that as they are so great losers by a measure by which his lordship is so great a gainer. they have a natural equity to call on his lordship for compensation, and that to appropriate the block of land between the 20 yards street and their present frontage to his own use would add to the loss of the lessees by depriving them of their present frontage and converting their land into back land. The lessees have been received by the Earl's stew Mr. Hale, with the greatest urbanity, and they enter their claims strong hopes that tained by his lordship ill be favourably enter Yours, Nov. 17, 1849. We trust most sincerely that the anticipation of our correspondent will be realised; and that the grant of a fixed tenure of seventy-five years, on equitable terms, will be conceded to the lessees, so seriously injured by the works now being carried on. The Earl of Derby can well afford to deal considerately towards them. He is about to have added to his property by the Dock Committee 144,000 yards of land, worth at a moderate compu tation two pounds a yard, besides the immense improvement which must accrue to the remainder of his Bootle estate; and we shall have mistaken his lordship's character if he permit himself to accept of such aggrandisement, at the expense of his tenants, ill prepared as many of them are to suffer the heavy pecuniary loss which threatens them. WHEN the advocates of the Pike scheme selected as their especial organ, not the most influential paper in Liverpool, they calculated no doubt that their instrument would make up by the intensity of his efforts, for his inefficient position. The smallest sre, - ;imen of humanity may make his voice heard, or his presence known, in a crowd if only he shouts loud enough, or is sufficiently outrageous in his attempts to attract notice. Our contemporary, the Liverpool Times, the organ in question, has certain!y done his utmost to fulfil this portion of his compact. He has displayed an amount of vitality which has surprised his friends, and thrown dirt with a vigour quite at variance with the ordi nary torpidity of his effusions. A forty-fishwife power of Billingsgate has been stirred up within him; and the mouthpiece of the gentlemanly por tion of the_ community has not bad need to fear a comparison of his achievements in vulgar vitupera tion with any professor of the art, either in petti coats or trowsers. In noticing his performances of Thursday last, we are not about to direct attention to the classi cality of their style, or their peculiar elegancies of language. We shall not, for instance, dwell upon such a statement as the following ;—" The Town Council are the trustees of the docks, and elect three-fourths of the Dock Committee, whilst the dock ratepayers, or merchants and shipowners, elect the other third" (!) further than to suggest that our friend must have been on an Irish tour lately. Our only object is to correct a few of his statements of facts. The Times represents the ad vocates of dock rating as proposing to "abstract a large sum, probably some twenty or thirty thou sands a year, from the docks for parochial pur poses." They only ask for ten thousand a year, which is not nearly the cost of the pauperism which the docks create. " Every thousand," he continues, "taken from the docks and applied to parochial purposes is taken at the bondholders' risk, and to the injury of the security, on which they lent their money." It is sufficient, in reply to this, to remind our contemporary that the commit tee possess at this moment a surplus income, and that the same objection might be urg violently 3 against a reduction of dock rates. "It will be imp.— he says, "to resist the demand that the same estate should be taxed for national purposes." What national taxation are they likely to be called upon to submit to ? They always pay, like other people, the imposts upon every taxable article which they use; and a large portion of their earnings —the interest upon their bonded debt—is charged with income tax. sible," " Unfortunately," says our contemporary, " the cry for the rating of the docks was one of th e t wo cr i es nut forward during the last municipal election, and, still more unfortunately, the choice of dock committeemen, made by the Town Council, on Friday last, is such as to leave no doubt that the majority.of the Council will seize the first opportunity of rating the docks. Three of the four gentlemen elected on the dock committee are in favour of the rating of the docks, and the fourth must be altogether powerless with such colleagues. Of the three pro-raters elected, only one has any personal interest in the manage ment of the docks—that is Mr. Bernard Hall. Mr. Preston is a distiller, a totally different department of business, and Mr. A. F. Jones, the new member for Rod ney-straet Ward, is not in business of any sort, and never was in business in Liverpool. If the question had been— how a ship of war should be built, Mr. Jones would have been a very gond authority, having been employed in that department of the public service all his life; but he has no knowledge of commerce generally, nor any interest in the port of Liverpool." Let us ask, would the Council, had they been in clined to override the Dock Committee on the rating question, have returned Mr. Horsfall, an anti-rater, when they might as easily have returned four pro raters? Certainly not; and their forbearance is the more ;obvious, when it is considered that the rating party are still in a minority on the committee. Our contemporary says, that of three members favourable to rating, one only, Mr. Hall, " has any personal '„interest in the docks. Mr. Preston," he continues, " is a distiller, a totally different depart ment of business." Is the Times not perfectly aware of the fact that Mr. Preston's firm are amongst our most extensive importers of foreign wines and spade ? We venture to say that, in dock rates and like himself might have prevented this illtreated branch of industry from being knocked about from pillar to post, removed now to the north, and now to the south, until it may almost be said to have been driven from the port. We know of no class of men whose interests have been so wantonly sported with by the Dock Committee, of late years, as the shipbuilders of Liverpool, and we shall be most happy to see him instrumental in bringing about a change of policy towards them. But we would go even further than this, and maintain the advantage of a few more practical tradesmen in the committee, not only for the interest of the town at large, but for that as well of the Dock Estate itself. The committee have now become emphatically tradesmen. They are their own lumpers, their own porters, their own coopers, painters, warehouse keepers, &c. Would a little practical knowledge of these branches be disadvantageous? The committee are their own masons on a most extensive scale. They have, at the North Docks alone, some hun dreds of workmen employed on daily wages. Is there any merchant on the Dock Committee able to assure the public, of his own knowledge, that these men are fully earning their wages ? Certainly not. Mr. Hartley, their surveyor, no doubt thinks so; but the public would be well satisfied by being further assured of the fact. Our contemporary proceeds : " As far as mere personal respectability is concerned, there is no objection either to Mr. Jones or Mr. Preston ; but it is the poverty, not the will of the majority of the Council, which induces them to put a gentleman so totally unqualified in so high a position at so critical a time. The pro-rating party are so poor in merchants, and their whole course of proceeding is so odious to them, that the merchants and shipowners of the port will have nothing to do with them. They are, therefore, obliged to place the management of the pock Trust—the greatest trust in the country—in the hands of distillers and gentlemen unconnected with business." We have shewn that these gentlemen are not " totally unqualified" for the position which they hold. They are both infinitely better able to per form its duties than the Times to babble about them. It is not because the rating party are " poor in merchants" save the mark ! that they have returned such members, but because they consi dered them perfectly qualified for the office. Our contemporary treats it as a good to the town that the management of the Dock Estate should pass from the control of the inhabitants of Liver pool into that of strangers. He says : " Without a total change in the composition and spirit of the Town Council, its influence in the management of the Dock Trust will very soon pass away. The interests of the bondholders of the Dock Estate, those of the mer ehants,of the port of Liverpool, those of the inhabitants and all the great.towns of the interior, are strictly identi cal in this matter ; and if there is no other way of check ing parochial and confederate folly in Liverpool, they will join to check it by taking the management of the docks out of the hands of men who are giving such indisputable proofs of their unfitness to manage them." We like this throwing away of the mask. It tells us what we have to expect from the hands of the movers in this threatened measure, and the kind of allies who are about to be banded together in an attack upon the privileges and property of the burgesses. Because a few gentlemen are piqued by the result of an election, and choose to stand out against the wishes of a decided majority of their fellow-townsmen, we are to be swamped by the men of Manchester, Stockport, and other ma nufacturing towns. Let us hold the helm, they say, or we will blow up the ship. The patriotism of such a position is not very obvious ; but we may ask is its wisdom more so ? Suppose for an instant that these parties were successful, and that the control of cur magnificent docks was handed over to an alien majority, composed of representatives of the bondholders, of Manchester cotton-spinners, and of Jew money-lenders, what would be the pro bable policy of such a management of our docks ? In the first instance to cut down dock rates below that point required to maintain the efficient work ing of the estate, keeping in view, however, the security of the bondholders interest. Could we guarantee that adequate provision would be made for the growing commerce of the port ? We fear not. But, above all, we fear most injurious results to the prosperity and trade of the town from the existence within it of a powerful public body, no longer having interests in common with the kindred body and the sister estate of the burgesses. What would a dock committee thus constituted, care for the convenience, the interests, or the property of the people of Liverpool ? Our contemporary, in another part of his precious effusions of the same day, attempts to lay the onus of the present unfortunate posture of affairs at the door of what he pleases to style " the sham-Con servative press." We are not aware whether we ourselves are included in this charge. But we must tell the Times that no influence has been so powerful in producing the state of things which he affects to deplore, as the disgust and offence created by his own scurrilous writings. If a respectable party wish to render themselves obnoxious to the community in which they live, let them hire the advocacy of our contemporary. And now a word or two upon the subject of this movement to the Manchester Guardian. Our con temporary says, in his effort to incite the cupidity of Manchester to an assault upon the Dock Estate of Liverpool : " It must be borne in mind that it is stringently obli gatory on the Dock Trustees to apply any surplus revenue —(after defraying current charges and securing additional dock accommodation under parliamentary sanction)—in reduction, not of poor and police rates to the inhabitants of Liverpool, but of the various dock dues and charges on the merchants and shipowners of this and other countries; and thus equitably to give to those from whom the whole revenue accrues, the benefit of any surplus income that nifty nrien 01 This is going a little too fast. Our contemporary in mind that the Dock Estate of this port is considerably mortgaged just now. There are a class of people amongst us who are styled dock bondholders; and before we make any further reduction of rates, as suggested by the Guardian, these gentlemen would, perhaps, wish to have their money paid back to them. It is "stringently obli gatory upon the Dock Trustees" to do this, not only out of their surplus revenue, or their gross earnings, but out of the property of the estate itself if required. It is proposed by the bill, in favour of which Man chester is asked to gird up its loins for a parliament struggle that, a portion of the Dock Committee should consist 'of these same dock bondholders. Perhaps, on reflection, our contemporary will dis- cover that these are not the most likely parties to cut down the rates out of which their interest is payable, or permanently to provide what the com merce of the district most emphatically requires— abundant and cheap dock accommodation. We have not the slightest doubt, however, as to the eagerness with which Manchester is disposed to enter into the proposed movement. Our neigh bours rather like troubled waters, and equally dis like this good old town of Liverpool. must bear THE LATE T. D. LEWIS, ESQ.—The will of this gentle man (the youngest and only surviving son of the celebrated comedian) has been proved. He has left £lO,OOO to the National Gallery to provide an eligible place for a portrait of his father, which represents the late celebrated come dian as the Marquis, in the " Midnight Hour." The pecuniary legacy is directed to be invested upon trust to pay the dividends to Miss Lewis, the testator's only sur viving sister, for life, and at her death the £lO,OOO is to be transferred to the trustees of the National Gallery. Miss Lewis is appointed sole executrix of the will, and (with the exception of the foregoing benefaction, and legacies to the trustees, Thomas Smith Tarleton, Esq., and William Edward Hilliard, Esq.,) has an entire and uncontrolled power of disposition over the whole property of every kind whatever, including a valuable collection of plate. In th e even t o f Miss Lewis not disposing of the whole or any part of the estate, some contingent legacies are given to private friends and charities, and the ultimate residue is to be divided between the deceased's only sur viving relatives. The property is sworn under £35,000, but we understand that in addition to the property passing under the will, Mr. Lewis, some few years before his death, presented to his old and constant friend and com panion, Thomas Smith Tarleton, Esq., property to a con siderable amount. warehouse rates—and let it be borne in mind that The ship BerlinAence to New Orleans, arrived at that the Dock Committee have now become warehouse- port with the loss, by cholera, of 43 out of 200 passengers. men. This The Rev. W. W. E w b an k was , onFriday, presented the four gentlemen who m th e Ti mes men ti ons as very firm pay as mu c h as any or all . by the full suit of canonicals, and a communion service, being excluded from th e comm itt ee . Addi ng to t ll ladies of his congregation. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.—On the day of public Mr. Preston, his two c o ll eagues , M r . H a ll an d M r . T hanksgiving, the sum of £2l 7s. 10d. was collected at Horsfall, the new members probably pay as much St. Ann's Church, Stanley, after a sermon by the Rev. as these gentlemen in Dock rates alone. Thomas Gardner; and the sum of £22 Ils. at Huyton Church, after a sermon by t 1 Rev. George . John Banner, But Mr. Jones, we are told, is an improper per- Church, the benefit of this o interesting ceton i r n r s i t v i a tuti i o n n. We ar happy to notice son to sit upon the committee, and for a very sin- Demerara, of gular reason :—He knows " how a ship of war Messrs. J. A. Tinne and W. R. Sandbach, together with ought to be built. having been in that department the Hon. Mr. Stanley, son of Lord Stanley. They were aw la ifi n ii d o e h d v b e y sse Ccptain Risien, in the gig of the ship Parker, of the public service all his life." Why, this is just left this port on the Bth September, and had one one of the qualifications we want in a few members of the committee! If Mr. Jones knows the n e i r e u o n nora , days.Ca p Thomson,This intelwlitieenhcearirsivebA•otiligehret on how a ship ought to be built, he knows also what Sunday morning, having completed the run from Deme kind of accommodation ought to be provided for rara in 31 days. The West India Mail steamer would leave in th ree d a y s a ft er h er . shipbuilding. The services of a f ew more members SEACOMBE FERRY.—Another fine steamer, the Wal lasey, which formerly ran between Liverpool and New Brighten, was yesterday added to the Seacombe stock of boats. The appointments of this ferry will thus be made during the coming winter most effective. THEATRE ROYAL.—On Monday evening next the Italian Opera Company, who created so g re a t a s ensa ti on during their - last engagement at this theatre, will com mence a series of six performances. Their appearance will be cordially welcomed by all lovers of music. An American ship-owner has challenged the screw steam-ship Ohio to run from New York to Liverpool for £lO,OOO aside against any steamer afloat. MR. RICHARD HORNBY.—WC regret to say that this gentleman, the celebrated chronometer maker, died rather suddenly on Saturday. at his house at Walton Breck. He was much esteemed by a large circle of acquaintance ; and, as a token of respect to his memory, several of the shops in South Castle-street near to the deceased's estab lishment were yesterday partially closed. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet ing of a board of examiners held last week, Edward Ebenezer Osborne, master of the Reliance, of Liverpool, was found duly qualified for a first class master's certi ficate, and Mr. William Henry Watts, chief officer of the same ship, was found qualified for a first class mate's certificate. Our mercantile readers will observe that, to meet the views of the foreign shippers, Messrs. M'lver have re solved to open steam communications with Havre at an earlier date than had previously been contemplated. It was in the first instance intended to commence operations only in the spring of the ensuing year; but, according to present arrangements, the steam-ship Commodore will run fortnightly to Havre during December next, and until the close of March. In April a weekly line will be esta blished. A SINGULAR COTTON SPECULATION.—In the course of the last ten days, a speculation has been closed which is almost without a parallel in the obstinacy and fatuity which it exhibits. A lot of cotton has been sold in our market, which was originally purchased during the specu lative mania of 1825, and which has consequently been held for 24 years, the owner refusing to sell for less than it originally cost. The results are as follows. The price in 1825 was, we believe, Is. 9d. per lb. ; the cost, with interest, warehousing, &c., when sold, 10s. 6d. ! The price realised was 71d. The article, when sold, was of excellent quality, and in good condition. We believe that the neighbourhood of Manchester furnished the sensible speculator. ANOTHER RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC.—The Com pany to whom the Mexican Government granted the right of constructing a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec are proceeding as rapidly as possible with the preliminary arrangements. -Before five years the probability is there will be three connections between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, namely, the Panama Rail road, the Tehuantepec Railroad, and the ship canal on the Nicaragua route. In ten years from this time few, if any, vessels will go round Cape Horn.—New York Herald. NAVIGATION FROM NEW YORK TO LIVER 'OOL.—Vast preparations seem to be making on both sides of the Atlantic, for a future mighty contest between the United States and England, in traversing the At lantic by steam between New York and London. It ;ed Mr, Cunard, as soon as the American steamers start, to-pro ceed direct front Liverpool to New York, without touch ing at any port. Good—very good. This contest will begin as soon as the Collins line of steamers is ready for action, which will he about next spring. —New York Herald. PABLO FANQUE'S EQUESTRIAN COMPANY AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This company continues to attract; and some of the performances are of a very first rate and astonishingly clever character. The young Her mandez is a wonderful equestrian, bold, dashing in his style, and at the same time graceful and classical in his riding, The Messrs. Elliot's performances are also most wonderful ; and, amongst the females, Miss Gee is a very graceful and clever little girl. This week we have an entirely new programme, which is full of ability in all the various departments. One of the most unique of the feats is the sports:of Atlas, by the brothers Elliot. The vaulting by the various members of the company is very good. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—Loss OF THREE LIVES.— On Wednesday last a fishing boat, of 43 tons, left South port in command of Mr. Jackson, the owner, with whom were his two sons, their object being to pursue their usual avocations in the neighbouring channels while the tide served. On the same night a dense fog set in along the whole line of coast, and as the boat did not return at her usual time, nor has since been heard of, the strong appre hension is (especially as a ship was previously seen in the channel, apparently bound for Liverpool) that the boat was either accidentally run down by that vessel; or other wise came into collision with her, so that she sank, and all on board perished ; or, as a storm took place on the same night, and it is not improbable that the boat pe rished in it. None of the bodies were found up to yester day morning. The missing parties were industrious men, and much respected in Southport. THE SELECT VESTRY AND THE COTTAGE-OWNERS. — On Saturday another meeting of the committee of the Select Vestry and the deputation from the Houseowners' Guardian Society was held to receive evidence and make inquiries relative to certain charges mada against the col lectors of rates on cottage property, of having improperly interfered with the tenants. The committees have now had several sittings, the result of which has already been made public through the newspapers. The chair was oc cupied by Mr. Willmer. The object of the present meet. ing was more particularly to allow the collectors an oppor tunity of rebutting the charges which had been brohght against them. Mr. Christian, one of the collectors who had been brought forward prominently in the inquiry, entered upon his defence, and produced evidence to show that the allegations brought against him by the House owners' Guardian Society were unfounded ; that he had never done anything illegal or gone beyond the instruc tions he had received for the recovery of the rates ; and that he had always acted with the greatest leniency con sistent with the duty he had to discharge. Three other collectors read exculpatory statements and endeavoured to show that the cottage-owners had interfered with the tenants in order to prevent them paying the rates. Some discussion ensued, which was carried on with some warmth by some of the speakers, and the strongest personalities were indulged in. The interference of the chairman was frequently required, and it was with difficulty that in some cases anything like order could be maintained. The whole of the evidence and the statements, both pro and con, have now been received. These will be considered by the committee of the Vestry, and the report will be drawn up and laid before a meeting to be called for that purpose. ROBBERY UNDER EXTRAORDINARY AND SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.—On Saturday, Maria Ball was charged before the magistrates with having been concerned in a robbery of £B5 from, as is suspected, a man, who, some days ago, was found drowned near New Brighton. Sus picion was roused in the following singular manner :—On Friday night, police-officer Tuck met the prisoner in Castle-street, who beckoned him into Sweeting-street, saying she had something to say. She told him that she and her husband lived in Redcross-street, and that on Tuesday night a gentleman came there, whom her husband robbed of £BO, of which he gave her £5. She requested Tuck to get the note (a£s one of the Leedsbank) changed, and to say nothing about it. She was taken to the police office, but, no report of the robbery having been received, her story was disbelieved. On inquiry, it was found that, on Tuesday night, a person, who gave the name of George Richardson, had been booked for safety, and had com plained of being robbed. This man was that night found in a tap-room in Redcross-street, where the prisoner lived. The officer who took him could elicit nothing from him that was satisfactory, and he was discharged on Wednes day, and it was not known what afterwards became of him. Mr. Superintendent Clough found a clue to his friends in Leeds, and learned that on the 30th October he had drawn from £l3O to £l4O from the Leeds bank, since which time they had not heard of him. From further inquiries it appeared that the man found drowned answered the description of Richardson exactly. A brother-in-law identified some of his clothes. An inquest was held on the body, when, there being a want of definite evidence, a verdict of " found drowned" was returned. It appeared that on Wednesday (the day after the robbery) the pri soner's husband left her and went to the neighbourhood of Wallasey, near where the body was found. Mr. Rush ton ordered the prisoner to be remanded, observing that the case was one requiring the most serious investiga tion. He gave directions for an examination of the body and other inquiries necessary to be made in order to the clearing up of the mystery in which the affair is at present involved.—Yesterday, Mr. Superintenden: Clough, of our police, went to Wallasey, and had the body of Richardson exhumed for a post mortem examination, which was ac complished. The surgeons found two wounds on the back of the head, both of which bled a little when the body was picked up, but they were not of a nature to cause death, and the scalp, or skull, was not injured. The viscera were healthy, but some specks appeared on the membrane of the stomach, and the contents of the latter appeared so unusual that the examiners carefully abstracted the whole for analyzation. Their opinion will not, however, be expressed until they appear at the second inquest, which will be held this day, at the Cheshire Cheese Ton, Wallasey village. No one has been found who saw the man Ball and the deceased together, at or near New Brighton, and Ball is no where to be found ; but it is ascertained that Mrs. Ball sent her brother across to that neighbourhood to look for her huslaand, and the question arises how did she know that he had gone across the water ? Every exertion has been used, and will be continued, to fathom the mystery, but the police authori ties are not sanguine of being enabled to fix upon the guilty party—if there be one ; for it is possible that the deceased, from depression of spirits on losing his money, might have resorted to self-destruction. The Royal Agricultural Society of England's prize of £5O, for the best Essay on the Construction of Farm Buildings, has been awarded to Sir Thomas Tancred, Batt 1 GENERAL TRADE REPORT. Nov. 20, 1V49. ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH. - DEPARTURE THE REV. T NOLAN. Nolan Our readers are aware that the Rev. T . _, s dw, appointed to the ministry of St. John's, Iletn 1100 London, the former sphere of the labours of th e et and Rev. Baptist Noel. On Sunday last the 1 14;e reverend gentleman, whose talents have gained form e d. brilliant reputation, and whose Christian virtues endeared him to every membe r o f his congreens whether rich or poor, pe r fo rme d th e functions eta ir, sacred office for the last time in St. Barnabas' n u T In the morning his worship th e ma y or w as present , _ e s several members of the corporation, amongst whom I sf f, Mr. G. H. Horsfall, Mr. R. L. J on es, Mr. Wfg a s t the Mr. Thomson, &c. The mayor and his party mel „ r e. school-rooms, in Parliament-street, whence they rim ceeded to the church. They were accompanied f e hi tee Town-clerk, the Deputy Tow n - c l er k, the Clerk 0 lion, Peace, and several other of the officials of the corpo ra ece rg The municipal regalia w a s b orne by th e different 0 :",6 1 who headed the procession. Th e c h urc h was d , 7c e ta crowded. The reverend p r e ac h er t oo k his text bo a Matt., chap. iv., verse 4.—" M an s h a ll no t live by _ ut b alone, but by every word that p r oc ee d e th o ut of the ow, ie . of God." After enun c i a ti ng th e grea t an d leading P t he ciples embodied in his text, he called attention to schools connected with the chu rc h, an d g ave a brief b' lt tory of their origin in 1845 and subsequent progress'—a appears that the present ave rage a tt en d an ce of scholeeli is about GOO ; and, pre v io us t o th e sc h oo l s being f orm i n g there were above 2000 children in the district receNti no education whatever. In co ns e quence o f the inanbe of the poor, a few years ago, to contribute even ee bt smallest sum for the education of th e i r c hildren, IV,' be had been incurred, whi c h it was very d es i ra ble shou'uoe liquidated. Their present li a biliti es were about .#;...; The rev. gentleman b r i e fly a ll u d e d, i n ver y W e rra terms, to co the circumstance of his being about to sepal' s ; from his ngregation, and from whom he had receive' many proofs of kindness. A c oll ec ti on was made, , flit me close of the service, in aid of the school fund, the rf s e d. of which was highly sati s f ac t or y, £7O h av i ng b ee n rece e • et , The evening service was still b e tt er attended, note withstanding the extreme wet night ; every seat in church was occupied, and the a i s l es , as w ell as ot her b y, available space, were choked up with most resPee t t e le persons, who were compelled to stand during the w bet of the service ; a little relief was afforded by e .a n u e l l e de of forms being introd uce d i n t o th e church. ion' f. were compelled to leave for want of room. The Rev....* e Parry officiated in the rea di ng -d es k , an d i n diffe,,,, i; parts of the church were s e a t e d severa l o f M r . NomP'e brethren of the ministry, w h o ( no d ou bt t o their g rea s inconvenience) thus seized the opportunity of PaY ing te a parting tribute of esteem totheir deservedly-resP ee de , coadjutor. The text on the occasion was from v., / r e 20 and 21 " But ye, beloved, buildi ng up yours eo on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost — " of yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mer e) " e el our Lord Jesus Christ unto et erna l lif e ." Th e revere gentleman commenced his discourse by addressing an th e : audience as the congregation of St. Barnabas' Church +' made this remark because he perceived very m anY P er .' sons beyond the usual number that attended worship there. He desired to address all as making part of the r, selves that night, first bec a u se it was diffi cu l t t o make'd, distinction, and secondly because he did not deem A a to visable to make a distinction. He then proceede cl e , '4' e touch on the connexion w hi c h h a d su b s i s t e d b e t w een the congregation and himself for 8i years, that being eThe lapse of time since the consecration of the church. ,Vi e purport of the remarks on thi s s u bj ec t was t o re mind hearers, as he had often done before, that they had new left that place as they came into it ; if they had not ice proved they were made wo rs e, th e W or d of God being either a saviour of life or death. It was with that 6 4 viction he desired to speak t ) them that night, an d might be possible that through God's spirit som e there might be brought home saved and sanctifi_e_ Repeating the first clause of the text, " But ye, bele/e"; building up, &c.," he went on to explain the metaph°,,,,," observing that sometimes the words " living stone" , r e ' - tle made use of, and it was by this latter use the aP°' a would apply the word to each individual. The reverena preacher continued in a strain of e l oquence n ot ofte t equalled, to elucidate the subject matter of his text, b ° for several reasons we ar e una bl e t o a ff or d t h a t Og le the space in our columns which an e l a b ora t e s k e t c h of tUn' discourse would render necessary. T owar d s the lat ter r part of his sermon, Mr. Nolan introduced the following remarks on the Prayer Bo o k. W e oug h t to b e thanid to God we possessed it, for r next to the Bible, our NNW' was the most precious bo on we cou ld h ave . W e were no to value it merely because it came to us from our paren , "' although that circumstance was not altogether to be over,: looked—he could well understand a ma n regarding it wit: peculiar attachment from the re co ll ec ti on o f h av ing been guided by a mother's hand, to some precious collect of formulary of our church ; still the Prayer Book ought t° be endeared to us for some deeper reason than this- 0° should love the Bible first, because it is the book of Cod." truth, and we should love th e P ra y er B oo k because it conceived in the same spirit an d cas t i n th e same moel" s Here followed some remarks on the part taken a f e t years ago by a certain party to pervert the Prayer 1 3 ° e from its integ r ity, b u t h e con j ure d hi s h earers t o 1 10 A it sacred, since it was d er i ve d f rom th e S cr i p t ure s, an bore the impress of the word of God. The rev. gentlema! went on to show the regard which sincere members of t 1": church must naturally have for the prayer-book, an d adduced instances among the poor, where the scriptel readers were struck at finding so much joyful attache:le!, to that book, under circumst ances o f t empor al miser' such as his hearers could scarcely realise in their coneer tions. From this subject Mr. Nolan glanced to the esPe cial object of his discourse, namely, to appeal to his ne gregation on behalf of the schools in connexion with his church. He explained that it was then four years sinc e the idea of erecting those schools to the glory of God vre g first attempted to be carr i e d ou t. H e con f esse d that at i that time he was almost af ra id t o encourage t h e boPe ° realising so desirable an object, but their dear friend thee (the Rev. F. Parry) urged on the good work, and his sub' scription was the first contribution received for the purPl e w The schools were brought i n t o o p era ti on ; b u t d ur ing wa . depression of 1847 their funds b ecame i nsu ffi c i e nt, ar e a they then were in the position of either being comPe l ' to restrict the usefulness of the school, or incur a debt+ the latter alternative was chosen ; hence the desire ne w felt to liquidate the liabilities with which they were en: cumbered, so that no impediment might be cast in the /it of him who was to succeed t o th e m i n i s t ry o f t h a t chum' ' '. There was a necessity for great liberality ; for althout the collection in the morning had been received fro; generous hands, it we; to be feared the p roc eeds of how collections would be insufficient t o mee t th e heavy de mands against them. Mr. Nolan here became deeply affected as he touchei on his aproaching separation from them ; h e expres s e e himself afraid of trustin g hi s f ee li ngs t o the trial, and t hen proceeded proceeded to say that he had d es i gne d t o h ave visited as his congregation, but his,arrangements in that respect lie o been frustrated by a fortnight's indisposition which e, f bad suffered recently. He con f esse d hi mse lf consc ions. incapacity for the efficient dis c h arge o f th ose sacre d de e , ' with which he had been i nves t e d, ye t if, an d b e hoPe a such had been the case, any sinners were brought too, sense of their position, th roug h hi s h um bl e m i n i s tratio ut it was to him a source of j o y. Th e i r separa ti on was bre temporary, and for a season. Th e y must remember the v was a time coming when they s h ou ld a ll mee t f ace to fr. again. In a strain of un a ll o y e d e l oquence t h e rev . gent; eb man then proceeded to characterise the connexion svbt o had subsisted between himself and his flock. When was parted from them, ea c h L or d' s Day as he offered nr prayers to Almighty God, a reminiscence would be f i g ) , nished of the joy he bad ex p er i ence d i n his feinis.eel among them, and never would those prayers be offe''ef up without their being recommended to the protection ; ,r heaven. Those prayers should cease only when the sil v i a cord should be loosened ; when the golden bowl shotti o be broken, and when he should go not from Liverpco l e London, not from St. B arna b as ' t o St. J o h n ' s , but whe n he should g) to his long home : when the dust should .s ° , to the dust from wh ence it came , and when the sP l i e l should go to the God who gave it. Mr. Nolan conch' t e with a short benediction, bre a thi ng th e mos t f erv ent Pie;e, and affection for those to whom he was bidding farewe:t Throughout the discourse the indi ca ti ons o f sorrow , losing their much esteemed castor, were genera l and phatic. This was evidently pe rce i ve d b y th e i r min ister' who, affected as he was by hi s own feelings, in vain str or; to conceal the effect the vibration of such a chord wtt likely to produce. When the farewell was pr onoutl s ; there was scarcely a dry eye i n th e c h urc h, an d we a s° persuaded that, whilst the c o n grega ti on w ill n ever ee „ to remember the benefits o f M r . N o l an ' s scr i p t ur al tear' s , ing, their regret at his sep ara ti on f rom th em will be us lasting as it is now deep and sincere. They will join, ;s t m i n n w is i t s r h y i n h g e r t e h , a w t l t l h b e e s w a i m t n e e s r s e e s d u 1 t ins a h s i s have lalyt importsnded " 11 . sphere in the metropolis. The collection in the evening amounted to £3O Ns' • Monday Night. By the arrival of the Europa we bare a week's later news from the United States, an abstract of which will be found in another column. The accounts respecting the probable yield of the cotton crop are very conflicting. We refer both to public estimates and the representations made in private letters. The account which we give from the New York Courier and Enquirer, estimates the crop at 2.100,000 bales ; and the impression conveyed by the private letters of some of our cotton houses, favours this view. From a very influential source, however, we have an estimate of from 2,300,000 to 2,400,000 bales ; and the feeling in the market yesterday, seems to favour an opinion on the part of the trade that a crop greater than was at first reported is expected. The weather through out the union was genial and warm : and a short time be fore the sailing of the packet a telegraphic dispatch had been received, contradicting the reported setting in of frost in South Carolina, as announced elsewhere. All the accounts agree in representing the quality of this year's crop as very superior. Exchange upon England was generally a little lower. First-class bills however, which were scarce, continued to command previous rates. The packet brings extensive orders for British goods. The Corn market here remains without change from Friday's prices ; but a feeling of dulness prevails. In the country markets and principal places of consumption the rates are slightly drooping ; but in Ireland they remain firm, with a tendency to advance. The advices by the Europa have not influenced this market. There has been a steady demand for produce during the pagt week, both for export and the home trade, and prices have been fully supported. With an easy money market, cheap food, and peace and quietness on the continent, it is not unreasonable to look for a revival of that confidence which is so essential to the development of our commercial and manufacturing energies. Since Friday there has been a fair inquiry both for sugar and rum. Coffee has been rather in less favour. Tea is without change. In other articles there is little passing. Saltpetre is firmly held, and there are buyers of nitrate at lls. 6d. per cwt. to arrive. The article of cotton blows all statistical calculations to the winds, and pursues its capricious course according to the whiff of public opinion. The steamer's advices are of a very assuring nature, and yet their effect here to-day has been to put a wet blanket upon the market, which has not only dashed for :.he moment the cup of higher prices from.the lips of speculators, but has even made the steady going man pause, and seriously ask how is it, and what is to be done ? Very little doing. Sales do not exceed 2,500 to 3,000 bales, and prices are irregular—certainly lower than on Saturday. The Share Market Of the week has been quiet, with some good buying. Sales towards the end of the week preponderated, but they have been altogether the opera tions of the bears—no bona fide stock having been sold. At the close this evening there is a tendency to reaction. Business has been done during the day at the following prices :—Chester and Birkenhead, 13 ; Cheshire Junction, 10 dis ; Caledonian pref., 74 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30 : Great Northern, 13 dis., pref., 2 16 3 dis. ; Leeds, sths, 6f dis. ; North and South Wales Bank, 3 ; London Stock, 113, 1124, 1-shares, 1, 6/3, 4 pm.; Midland, 47, 1-shares, 211, 16 3, 22, 224, 4 ; Dover, (No. 2,) 16 dis., No. 4, 64, Is. 3d., k. The arrivals from British America during the past week consist of 18 vessels, 12,460 tons. The market continues with little alteration, as in our last report ; from the upper ports having now almost closed, prices, and on a knowledge of stock in port being acquired, assume a steadier bearing. Pine of all descrip tions it is probable will experience a slight decline; on the other hand the import of Deals having been compara tively light lately, prices will most likely improve. A slight improvement having taken place already, Mahogany and Furniture woods sold last week, by auction, at Bir kenhead, at fair prices—A cargo of Baywood sold at d 8 11.32 d. per foot average; a parcel at 5d., and one at d 5 5-32 d. ; Bahia Rosewood sold at from £7 ss. to £2O 15s. per ton ; St. Domingo Mahogany—a parcel sold at d 8 29-32 d. per foot average; Lancewood spars at 5s 6d and 5s 9d each. THE COTTON MARKET, The remarkable position of this article is beginning to attract the serious attention of all parties connected with the Cotton trade. That spinners and manufacturers have a good trade there can be little doubt, and what further advance in the value of Cotton it will take to seriously check consumption remains yet to be determined ; that the advance so far has not consummated the prophecies of spinners is quite clear. The stock in this market on Friday last was 390,000 bales, against 461,000 same period last year. The supply for the next two or three months will be quite inadequate to the consumption. By the "Europa," arrived yester day, from America, the shipments for England, for the week, had been only 4000 bales,—making the total quan tity now afloat for this country 14,000 bales, against 97,000 last year. The rivers were high, and the receipts at the ports had increased. On receipt of the Europa's accounts out there, transmitted south, per telegraph, prices had further advanced, which would tend to preclude the execution of the orders sent out by the previous steamer, the letters of which conveyance had not come to hand at New Orleans, at the time of the receipt of the accounts per "Europa." This circumstance is of the utmost consequence to the merchants of this country, and, no doubt, will demand their early and serious consi deration, as it is calculated to lead to serious disputes. The very idea of Brother Jonathan" being in possession of a week's later news than parties in this country at the time they dispatched their letters and orders, is too startling to contemplate coolly on the first hearing of it. POLICE COURT - YESTERDAY - - ESTERDAT CRUELTY TO HORSES.--4 carter, named John Robin son, was charged with cruelly beating his horse, and cut ting it on the nose with the butt end of his whip, until the blood issued from the wound. The striking was not denied, but it was urged in extenuation that the animal had become stupid and provoked the punishment. Mr. Rushton fined the inflictor 20s. and costs. There was another case of cruelty—working horses on whose backs or breasts there were raw sores, but this was postponed for further evidence. UNRULY CONDUCT AT THE WORKHOUSE.—Three girls, who had been admitted for food and shelter into the sheds at the Workhouse, were charged with gross and unruly conduct, on being refused leave to go out on Saturday night. It appeared that they and others, having had leave on former occasions, bad gone into the streets in a dissolute manner, and returned drunk and riotous. They were each sent to gaol for twenty-one days. STEALING MONEY. — Mary Riley was charged with rob bing a female, with whom she lived, of three sovereigns, in Wright-street. She denied the charge, and the sove reigns were not found ; but, just before being brought into court, she handed over the identical (new) coin to one of the turnkeys._ She was committed for trial. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—The master of a ship in George's Dock was fined £5, for having, amongst his dirty linen, 51b. of foreign manufactured tobacco. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—A female child of only nine years of age was charged with having dexterously picked the pocket of a lady in St. John's Market on Saturday,— a second offence of the same kind I The mother was in court, and seemed distressed at such conduct in her child, whom (she said) she sent to school daily, and to a place of worship on Sunday, so that she could only account for such crime by her contact with bad company. Mr. Rushton could not help thinking that the offender was nal strictly looked after; but after strongly admonishing the mother ordered the child to be given up to her, so that she might yet endeavour to reclaim her. STEALING DRINK FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—A man r amed Murphy, and a woman and girl named Renslay, were charged with stealing several bottles containing whiskey, rum, and porter, from the public-house of a Mrs. Dowling, on Sunday morning. They were sent to gaol for a month. THEFT FROM A SHOP.—A woman, named Catharine Kelly, with an infant in her arms, was cha ged with having stolen a quantity of glass and fancy china ware, from the shop of Mr. Henry Cotton, 21, Cleveland-square. A police-officer observed her with a basket in Great Cross hall-street, and on asking her what it contained, her an swers excited suspicion, which led to the tracing of the property. She had purchased some trifling articles at the shop, and took the opportunity to purloin the rest, — worth 10s.—Trial at the sessions. STEALING FROM A LODGING-HOUSE.---A servant girl named Elizabeth Bold, was charged by a lady who keeps a captains' lodging-house in Bridgewater-street, with stealing a sovereign and some articles of clothiug. The prisoner had been in the service of complainant, but she had generally behaved well, the charge Its not pressed to any punishment beyond a warning She was - committed for 21 days THEFT FROM A DOCK SHED.—A man named Michael Callaghan was charged with breaking open a package of linen at the north end of the Prince's Dock, and stealing from it several pieces. He was seen on Saturday by a police-officer passing through one of the gates, and two pieces of linen (14 yards in all) were found upon him. He was committed to gaol for three months, Ilerapath's Journal, which is rather given to make ex travagant statements, says that there is a strong impres sion that the Chester and Holyhead Railway must be shut up, in consequence of its not paying. The govern ment refuse to pay £3,000 a year for carrying the mails, and the Conway and Britannia tubes have cost such immense sums of money. MARRIED. 11 0 ' On the 19th instant, at St. John's Church, by the .7_loo bert Warren Wolseley, BA., Mr. EVAN BALDWIN, l" CICELY BALDWIN. 119 At the same time and place, Mr. WILLIAM NORRI— NG STAVELEY, to Miss MARGARET HIGHTON, Csr Same day, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. He 0 6 05 penter, A. 8., Mr. WILLIAM POTTER, mariner, to ELIZABETH PRUTIIAUGH. DIED On the I7th inst., WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT, Es ' Parkfield, Birkenhead, aged 70. Mr. R. Somerset, son of Lord Fitzroy Somerset, has accepted the post of private secretary to the King of Hanover. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, NOV. Sin JOHN FRANKLIN. —The Rev. Dr. Scoresby has just delivered a speech at the Whitby Institute, in which he states very confidently hi s h opes f or the safety of Sir John Franklin, grounding them upon the considerations that it was not likely some little band out of 140 scientific and hardy men should not have made their way, had there been a catastrophe, within the range of some fishing sta tion ; and that had the vessels been destroyed in the inte rior ices the very bodies of ice would afford platforms for escape, and because supposing no catastrophe, they might, just the same as Sir J. Ross, remain sealed up and unheard of for a like p er i o d, an d yet be safe. The probability, too, was, though he would receive the details with doubt, that the general story of the Esquimaux is true, from the accu racy of their delineations of localities. The season was, no doubt, wearing away, but there was still time for ships or boats behind the Enterprise and Investigator to get out even within the time of stay of the residue of the whalers. He thought one of the returned whalers should be sent out with supplies to winter at Disco. A grand source of hope was in the mercy and goodness of Divine Providence which had worked such wonders in the case of other adventurers, and there were those amongst our ab sent countrymen who were God-fearing men, the com mander being eminently so. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 20, 1849 MORN IAisr By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-stree t, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. EVERY TUESDAY se Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. 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