The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. —.. . ...ai yieiu or 0,500,000 gallons per water question, narrated by us last week, with we shall not criticise this document I day, or sixteen gallons per head per day for a p - respect to Mr. Hawksley's recent visit to Liverpool, severely, inasmuch as Mr. Hawksley, whose letter is I pulation of 400,000 souls. Now it must be borne and the interview which, was to have-taken place, dated on Tuesday last, only received a copy of the iin mind that the quantity, 20 gallons per head per between that gentleman and Messrs. Simpson and report in the Liverpool .Albion on Monday evening, day, estimated as sufficient for the sanitary pur- Newlands. The Town-Clerk's explanation on Fri bad no previous knowledge of the conclusions poses of a community, includes the supply required day does not contradict a single feature of our arrived at by that gentleman and Mr. Newlands, for manufactories and works of various descrip- narration. Mr. Hawksley was in town on the day opportunity afforded him of arriving tions, at present supplied from these private wells, of the apppointed meeting. He was in the Town ledge ! We treat his reply as a hasty for street cleansing, flushing sewers, &c.; so that hall at the very time that Messrs. Simpson, New .-hand effusion of a gentleman, con- we are at present deficient only four g all ons per lands, T. B. Horsfall,. Stitt, and the Mayor we r e scious that all his professional con d uc t h as b een head per day, or a total quantity of 1,600,000 gal- assembled and waiting for him. He knew that fair and aboveboard, and that, in his eminent ions per day for a population of 400,000. The they were so waiting, for the Town-Clerk says that position as an engineer of works projected, he can question therefore suggests itself, can we, from our he brought a message from him, announcing that afford to look down upon, and sneer at, the opinions present wells, by improved arrangements, more effi- he was ready for the interview, which message of practical engineers of works successfully corn- cient machinery, a few deeper sin kings, a thorough unfortunately was not heard, or remembered, by pleted. The first objection of Mr. Hawksley is rearrangement of the mains, and a better mode of any of the gentlemen to whom it was delivered. with respect to these gentlemen's measurement of distribution, procure the required increase, or, in Mr. Hawksley and Mr. Simpson met at the station the water shed of the Rivington district at 9,827 round numbers, say an additional two millions as described, unexpectedly to each other, although statute acres, whilst he makes it 10,400 acres. We daily ? one would have imagined that parties anxious for are quite content, however, to take Messrs. We submit that the evidence before us in Messrs. a meeting, either there, or in London, would have Simpson, Newlands, and the ordnance survey Simpson and Newlands' report goes very far to taken measures to secure it by some previous — r - Tockson, Professor Ansted, and show that this can be done; and it is confirmed by arrangement, or message; and, finally, they do not ,ext objection is, that it was several corroborating facts, which we shall adduce. appear to have had a meeting after all, for Mr. to make approximate estimates of In the first place, we are assured by Messrs. Situp- Hawksley, in his letter, written the following day, Id of that water shed, after " proper som and Newlands that the Green-lane well can appears to have been in total ignorance of the very .nstituted, and the fact of the easily be made to yield an additional quantity matters, upon which himself and Mr. Simpson were nso established." The answer to of 1,000,000 gallons per day. The machinery at to have met, and which both proceeded to London at such knot affair—the o against " A myself." His n the 3J _ - I'hese guagings w ere on l y i n some of th e o th er we ll s i s out o f or d er, and inca- to discuss with each other! uwo years, which other guagings pable otherwise of distributing effectively the full We made no imputations last week upon the in the district coincide in proving to have been very supply. A large quantity is wasted through dila- conduct of any of the parties concerned in this very -ears ; and it is manifestly dangerous to esti- pidation of the pipes, and the bad system of pump- singular affair. We shall not do so now. But we 'c. capacity of a most costly project to supply ping directly into the mains. Besides, we have must say that if a meeting with Mr. Simpson and ith water, to which is appended enormous little confidence that the four million gallons per the Borough Engineer, on the subject of their .‘ies for failure in giving, previously to such day from all the wells, upon which the reporting report, was really intended by Mr. Hawksley,, the supply, compensation water to other towns and to engineers have made their calculations, is the full latter gentleman took most infelicitous steps to manufactories, from such years of extraordinary , supply which even the present machinery is capable bring it about. We suspect that had the report rain-fall. Mr. Hawksley's complaint, that the cal- of raising; and could adduce a few circumstances, been more favourable to the Pike scheme, he would culation of the rain-fall at Rivington from that of connected with the working of the wells during the have been more successful in his efforts. inquiry of these gentlemen, which would corrobo has Belmont, is unfair, because the Belmont reservoir rate our opinion. Apart, however, from any dis- Morr t n i A n Y t . h only one guage, whilst the other has six, is Whether a divisi E on xc t H arpi N ce E t we' O l i te h e t m o ' inclination of the Water Committee's officials to House of Lords, on the question e of e tle g Navi extremely puerile. If the one guage erred in any Navigation Laws, e show, by the late experiments, a correct yield, it is of the six years, over which the calculation extends, a very confident opinion is expressed on 'Change that the it was quite as likely to err in M r . H aw k s l ey ' s clear from the h e i g ht o f wa t er l e ft i n t h e we ll s on country will have to thank that body for nobly standing favour as against him ; and, by-the-by, we observe the Saturday nights, after each week's pumping, in the way of one of the greatest and most suicidal inno that he objects against the assumption that " the and the fact that the springs flow faster, and are c v o a u ti n o t n r s hile i f e t r o l at u ra f pted upon : u he t crstitrion of this our wooden wu u u t de s u til w l are mean of the six Rivington guages represents the the more difficult to exhaust, the nearer the bottoms anxiou y s ' to have the fac e r recorded that o e exact average fall upon the whole of the district.,, of the wells are approached, that with more power- are still so far considered the bulwarks of our liberty and ful engines and effective machinery a much more prosperity as to be worthy of preservation. If this mea howHow many guages would the gentleman have, or few ? This question of guages, however, is satisfactory yield could be obtained. sure was demanded by the will of the country, then, in the prreeasetnethsat:teesowf:iicciiietya,veanladutearkli set at rest in the next paragraph of his letter, in Next, as to increasing the supply from deepening taking into colis c i e def l a i t r in which he says, " the one important basis of all the present wells, by additional borings, &c. Wet he F. believe that it has been laid down by Mr. Hawkes- Position of Europe, it would have be y en inadvisable for the --et deduction, namely, that the Rivington dis- 1 Lords to have thrown out the bill; but as it is a uoto ley, as an established fact, that no sinkings in the rious fact that no such demand has been made, and that id, in the years 1847 and 1848, wish a mean men as Mr. annual rain-fall of 55 inches, actually discharge red sandstone, deeper than about 150 to 153 feet, the ranks of its supporters are need by such d into the beds of the proposed reservoirs a quantity about the depth of our present wells, can be Cardwell, eso t r ei d r cootnh the eue w n b ts o t h: e l e a t s u t rn t l e i e 1 traitors f ti A i o t r lr s of water, according to my recollection, exceeding resorted to with advantage. This opinion appears 1 to be based upon the assumption that the water in can do is to reject the bill and .ivr. the neanle of this 1 - 3 ‘, ipress i i l ng their opinions, which twenty-five and a-half million gallons per annum, , country OnVy iiie"iii - OC -I g e o n n tzu m s ,c i i 3 u et e w st e io en n -Rios wholly unaffected." Did actually discharge the strata is derived fror . percolation : %wi m p y - , it * caWbe fairly settled,y whichin a crisis of a m an e :: '1 of the proposed reservoirs . 1 " How Mr. surface,.. and .d4u,poti,,fow, ` what' does experience representatives and constituencies. actually' measured this di, i tarte, b ifiefact ?'eac'h us upon this head ? In sinking the present The Share market again gave way at the close of the that such discharge was only that of two wet years, week. On Thursday th e l a t e react i on was checked, Green-lane well th e b u lk o f th e wa t er was o b ta i ned without any apparent ca use . L on d on s t oc k h a d reac h e d below that depth, in th e l oose f r i a bl e s t ratum near 131, and Midland 69; but on Frida an Saturday these its present bottom ; and th e eng i neer was only stocks fell to 127 an d 64. The market closes d this evening I prevented going lower by the fear of a supply which slightly firmer : London stock is 127 @ 9, Midland 65 might have overwhelmed the miners. It is a fact, @7. Great Westerns are extremely heavy, and have w . a c . . too, within the recollecti o n, d ou btl ess , o f many given The int y ellige onsiderab nce by ly the Hermann is to the effect that and gentlemen connected with the old water companies “ct exist, , the canals are ge tti ng opene d , an d t h at t h e i nter i or is approaches to that the sinkings at the well in W a t er - s t ree t , groaning with produce of all descriptions, grain and aluch irregularity, (Toxteth-park,) were carri e d t o thi s d ep th w i t h out everything else, England being looked to not only as a dm the average ova - consumer, but as the procuring a supply at all ; a n d th a t it was actually principal market for it. _ the Rivington dist r i c t i s contempl a t e d t o a b an d on t h e well as a failure. Some Pernam an d B enga l S ugars were so ld on Satur ..,ere about 12 or 13 inches, and Happily, however, they were induced to persevere day at very firm rates, nearly as high as the highest point of the market. On Friday (after the circular was made ry, whether the year be more or for another week ; and on tapping the hard black up) 800 bags of Native Ceylon Coffee were sold, good _y wet; although (exactly contrary to the ...sed in the report) the evaporati on i s ac t u- seam at the bottom, b enea th w hi c h i t h a d b een parcels realizing 34/, which is an improvement of 2/. in a dry year, and greatest in a we t year. I n imagined that no wa t er ex i s t e d , t h e present ample 1000 bags of Rice were so ld t o- d ay at 10 / 6 for new fresh eah we fl ad thate lo irst case, because the water is no t p resen t on t h e spr i ng b urst upon them. Following the analogy B wer sorts were more ng i l, nqui whic red for e , r for ul lreland. prices ; n Nit re continues heavy , e ground to be evaporated ; and in ' 4of these facts, which can be well established, it is of sale at 11/6, and Saltpetre is a shade easier. 200 pun , it is present to be -- the only reasonable to conclude that by b • being deepened cheons fair Demerara Molasses were sold from the qua 'ion wither. , ,sture ; the other wells would be made to yield a largely on Saturday at 19/6. In other articles little or no change. y ,mates very increased supply. Th e C orn tra d e d i splays no new feature since Friday, Had we now to commence operations de novo excepting a further advance in Indian Corn and Meal, for the erpool, whom purpose of procuring water, or were we in _scion is undoubt-for the particulars of which see separate article elsewhere The Cotton week terminated on Friday favourably for to evaporate than other respects m ore f avoura bl y c i rcums t ance d , we the seller, and on Saturday a very healthy feeling was .carcely needed a gen- should, no d ou bt, pre f er a d op ti ng th e en l arge d manifested ; 7000 bales were disposed of, and the ordi- After his name to make scheme ofMessrs. Simpson and Newlands, of driving nary and middling qualities of American, of which the t ste r s e pLi a n s ci l iz e l n ly a c n ons e i x s t t e e n d s , i w ye elt in he an tyn dearer . d To-day a tunnel from the present Green-lane well, as more iy within the observation of scientific, capable of being most economically , v s a p n r c i e ces e ooy, who ever saw a green most cases of kd.v- lb in American on e F:i l tla e y chat in dry years " vegetation worked, and likely to be ultimately the cheapest The sales are estimated at 10,000 bales, 3000 of which .e absence of mo i s t ure , an d i n wet and most effective, besides providing fully for f u t ure were for export and on speculation, 1400 Pernams being .., a redundant supply." We must re- increased supply for the wants of a very greatly in- for the former purpose. creased population. We are not, however, in Our Iron market continues in a very inactive state, and firi:iixceesd numbers, re a c t ed 4 i s n / g . riawksley, however, that he is through whole of the paragraph misrepresenting either of these positions. We have already in our an 7a a q rt u9te Scotch at6 Pig to at s . I , i r e a r l r e i s e 4 , . --. and Newlands. The deductions, hands the property of the old Water Companies ; Glasgow; Bars ' at £5 2/6 f o.b. in and at l £5 . 17/6 we have to pay the interest of a large bonded debt here; but the actual business doing is very small. ' -man, as to the proportions '-""coded, in wet as incurred in their purchase; and these are certainly - 'n from the not times in which th e a l rea dy over b urt h ened MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.- A woman, named ~; , n tradesmen of our town are justified in still further Margaret M'lsiamara ' was yesterday char g ed a t th e Police taxing themselves to car r y ou t compre h ens i ve court, w ith ma ki ng a false declaration before a magistrate, and he twhauss committed uttering (bi u schemes for the benefit of a future generation. The for trial i t t) ti l l i false ticket for a watch. great evils complained of in years past have been NEW Cnuacn.—On Tuesday, th e e foundation stone of the intermittent supply and the deficiency of water anew church, to be dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, for the suppression of fire. Much of the effect of was laid at Kingsdown, upon a lofty cliff bctwen Walmer these has been already removed by the sinking of Castle and Dover. The church is to be erected and en- Esq., of Kingsdown, at a cost of the Green-lane well and improved arrangements at designs have been furnished by Mr. the water-works; and much more may be accom- Johr Hay% of this town, under whose superintendence the plished, now that these are placed under one cen- beautiful structure will be built. -..,hwitsiey could tral management. By the a d o pti on o f th e gravi t y - . B IRKENHEAD RAILWAY AND THE POTTERIES.—The _ e p wan- to execute th e recis 9 pumping into the mains, we can h ave a constant ion principle and h e ad reservo i rs , i ns t ea d o f t h at of advant ages o f thi s ra il way, i n i ts connection with the Bit.- of embanking_ ei,4-1-;. , - 4. , . ... kenhead Docks, and with th e ra il ways t o W a l es an d the ..._,, , . . instead of an i n t erm itt en t supp l y; an d by increasing the active and persevering exertions of Mr. J. Roberts the yield of the we ll s , a ddi ng to t h e power of their the manager of the goods department, is becoming an machinery, and perfecting and simplifying the ar- important item in the revenue of the company. On Fri rangement of the pipes throughout the town, we day last, a vessel called the Rigby arrived in the Birken feel confident that we may be placed in a position, head Docks, from Larne, in Ireland, laden with flints for as to sufficiency and economy of water supply, the Potteries. The cargo was di sc h arge d i n th e course o f equal to that of any locality i n th e em the afternoon on the railway waggons, an d nex t morn i ng pire. the goods were at the manufacturer's door ready for use. MINOR OFFENCES.—Two men, Hennessey and Hussey, were committed for a month, for stealing Is. ld. in copper from a poor man while he was counting a five shilling paper. A foreign seaman was fined 40s. for concealing on board of a vessel 541bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. A man for picking a ladies pocket in Basnett-street, was commit ted for three months. Two men, Gregson and Williams, were committed for three months for obtaining money from several parties by means of false letters, purporting to be signed by respectable parties, the names being forge ries. A man was fined 20s. and costs for setting two bull-dogs (one of them his own) a-fighting on Sunday afternoon. operation during a town s pena trict d Hawkslev " remains whollv—unaffeefpj ..oil of Mr. Hawksley's letter we shall One liberty of giving enti re : " have further to remark upon the entire inconclu ,ess of all estimations founded upon per centages and 'oportions assumed to exist between rain-fall and No such proportions do in fact exist, deduced. The evaporation really approaches to a constant quantity, though subjected to much irregularity, within certain moderate limits. Thus the average eva poration from the surface of the Rivington district is known to me to be somewhere about 12 or 13 inches, and does not materirily vary, whether the year be more or less than averagely wet ; although (exactly contrary to the opinion expressed in the report) the evaporation is actu ally least in a dry year, and greatest in a wet year. In the first case, because the water is not present on the surface of the ground to be evaporated ; and in the second 1 -. , •ause it is present to be evaporated. In the former, vege,..._ hers from the absence of moisture ; ' - latter obtains a redundant supply." ,vriter of this paragraph evidently estimates very the intellect of the people of Liverpool, whom s intended to mystify. Evaporation is undoubt when there is nothing to evaporate than re is abundance. It scarcely needed a gen __ .viio writes C. E. after his name to make such a discovery. Equally within the observation of any little blue coat boy, who ever saw a green field, is the fact that in dry years " vegetation withers from the absence of moisture, and in wet years obtains a redundant supply." We must re mind Mr. Hawksley, however, that he is through out the whole of the paragraph misrepresenting Messrs. Simpson and Newlands. The deductions, which he attempts to impugn, as to the proportions and water impounded, in wet as ._.., years, were not drawn from the .ects of evaporation alone, but of evaporation and absorption by the soil_ The next Di water impounded or can be edly les when tl tleman en rainfall compar ed with d ain argument upon which Mr. Hawksley is the asserted fact that he "is au nes of experienced and ars to competent contract( who are willing: to enter int( works • the due execution of the his estimate, providing the THE government and the supporters of the Navigation Laws Repeal Bill, hard up for legiti mate argument in its favour, appear determined to put in motion every possible engine of the execu tive which can excite dissatisfaction against the present system. Although, in our East Indian possessions, the Governor-General has ventured to act as if the bill of Mr. Labouchere were already law, there never was a period during which every petty restriction, calculated to impede British com merce at home, has been more stringently insisted upon. Our Customs' officials appear to have been gifted, of a sudden, with more than their ordinary lynx-eyed powers of perception ; and each fresh instance of their newly awakened officiousness has been hailed and chronicled with rapture by the Swiss press of liberalism. An instance of their eagerness to make a case and to pervert the public judgment against our present laws, is afforded in the following paragraph, which appeared in the London Times of Saturday SAUSAGE-MAKING.—In another paragraph we have noticed the result at the poli ce - cour t o f an information laid by the inspector of meat of St. John's Market, against an individual who it appeared had, as a dealer in sausages (or polonies) made use, as the main ingredient, of horse-flesh, in place of beef or other legitimate but cher's meat. In the report of the case allusion is made to another wholesale dealer, though not by name ; and in consequence of this, Mr. H. Harding, wholesale manu facturer of Russian and other sausages, addressed Mr. Rushton, stating in effect that the report in question might seriously affect his business, were the second party al luded to supposed by general readers to be himself, though (he declared) he used nothing but the best of meat and other ingredients. The inspector of meat (Mr. Jones) was in court, and stated that he had frequently inspected Mr. Harding's establishment (in Rose-place), and had found all the articles used perfectly sweet, proper and wholesome. Mr. Rushton said that the applicant need be under no apprehension, as it appeared, and would be come known to the public that he conducted his business as an honourable tradcsmau. - ` 1 PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The American ship London, bound from New Orleans to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton and grain, was wrecked in December last on the island of Cuba; part of the cotton was saved, and shipped from Cardenas in another American vessel, and sent, in prosecution of the original voyage on account of the original owners, to Liverpool, where it arrived about a fortnight ago. The Customs' authorities allowed' it to he landed as the pro duce of the United States, brottght in an American vessel, and it was warehoused, and about being delivered to other parties, when the Customs discovered that this had been done in contravention of the navigation laws— namely the production of America imported in an American vessel from a Spanish port, and they have seized the cotton. The owners are thus put to the trouble and delay of memorialising the Board of Customs, and in the mean time the cotton is suffering from being in a damaged state. There was no Spanish or British vessel at Cardenas to bring forward the portion of the cargo saved, and if it had not been sent in the American vessel, it probably would still have been lying on the beach at Cuba." Now what is the mighty " trouble and delay in memorialising the Board of Customs" in a case like the above I—or,1 —or, rather, what would it have been had no such extraordinary influence, such as the wish to create dissatisfaction with the present Navigation Laws, existed? The penning of the memorial by any ordinary Custom-house clerk, or broker, and the delay of a couple of posts, would be the extreme of inconvenience and delay. Every shipowner, and nearly every captain of a vessel, is aware that such"-would be the only penalty; under similar circumstances, the utmost facihtit have always been granted by the Board of Customs ; and,. consequently, there would have been no danger of this wrecked property " still lying on the beach ',creased supply of water, sufficient for the require- at Cuba." The remark that " there was no Spa ments of the town, can be most economically se- nish or British vessel at Cardenas to bring forward cured from the new red sandstone ; and, in deter- the cargo," only shows the consummate ignorance mining this, the Council will have to take into of the Times; for the Navigation Laws, by the long their consideration one or two important facts, voyage clauses, equally hinder a British or Spanish which have not been previously sufficiently esta- vessel from taking such a cargo, transhipped at an blished. In the first place, the fact, shown by intermediate port. Moreover, the Times, or the ini- Messrs. Simpson and Newlands, is an important nisterial flunky, who furnished him with this para one, that the private wells of the town afford a graph, knew very well that there is not at this mo supply at present of two million gallons and a ment a single shipowner, or protectionist, however half, a quantity which we believe to be under rather ultra in his views, who would oppose such a re than overstated. The springs at these wells yield laxation of the Navigation Laws-as would make pro an excess of supply above the wants of the various vision for an emergency like this. works and dwellings to which they are attached ; - and at this moment large quantities of water are Two of our contemporaries will, perhaps, be doily running to waste into the sewers. Add to prepared to acknowledge that the were in a little the above the four m illi on ga ll ons now s h own to be too much haste to treat as altogether without drawn from the Green-lane and other public wells,' foundation the little episode in the history of the and vyrn Isnvv" . 4.-.1.-.1 --.:-1-3 _P P .....-. ...--- v. DISTRICT COURT. OF BANKRUPTCY. YESTERDAY, IMPORTANT DECISION, In the case of Augustus Mongredien, merchant, of this town, Mr. Commissioner Perry gave judgment yesterday. He said,—This was an application for the bankrupt's cer tificate, the allowance of which was opposed by Mr. Avi son, on behalf of the assignees, on the ground of th e t ra d e and person a l expenses of the bankrupt being, as he con tended, excessive as compared with the amount of profits, and was further opposed by Mr. Lowndes, the solicitor for the Stolberg Machine Factory Company, at Magdeburg, who had employed Mr. Mongredien as their agent for the purchase and shipment of iron. The circumstances of the transaction upon which this further opposition was founded were as follows :—The Magdeburg Company had employed the bankrupt to purchase for them 200 tons of iron, of which 185 tons were shipped, leaving the small residue of 15 tons of iron to be afterwards forwarded. A further order was given to him to purchase 300 tons, which were to be shipp e d t o H am b urg, an d t h ree vessels' were char tered by the bankrupt for the shipment of the greater part of the iron, i. e. 240 out of the 300 tons, and the company were advised on the 13th of March, 1848, that the vessels had been so chartered. No shipment took place, the Magdeburg Company having requested, in con sequence of the state of affairs on the continent, that the shipment should not then take place. The vessels were re-chartered, and a charge of one shilling cr ton appears to have been paid to a Mr. Herz, ship-broker, at Glasgow, for the cancelling of the chartering of the iron. No iron, in fact, was ever delivered to the company or purchased for them by their agent, the bankrupt. He, however, in August last, sent to the company an invoice, as well for the 300 tons as for the balance of 15 tons, part of the first order. The invoice bears•date the 7th of that month, and is for 315 tons of pig iron, " bought by an - order and for account of " the company." It represents the pur chase of 15 tons at 525. on the 25th of March. rn each 1 case interest is charged tothe company from the 'date of the alleged purchase, a sum' of £l2 also for further re chartering three vessels to the island of 240 tons,- and commission at two per cent. amounting to £l4 163. 9d. The total of the invoice, including stamps, &c., is £7oB 6s. 64., after giving credit fo r a d epos it of £lOO. For this sum of £758 6s. 6d., the bankrupt drew bills upon the Magdeburg Company, who having never received the iron for which the bills were drawn, have been compelled to come to this court to prove their debt, contracted under , these eirenwmtancoc, againct Mr. Mongrcdicn'a catate.- In one of the examinations which have taken place rela tive to this transaction, the bankrupt, in answer to the question " Did you in fact purchase the iron mentioned in the invoice,' said, " I sold it from stock that I held of my own." And in answer to the question put by his counsel, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, " HAd you the means, as well as the intention, of sending the iron at the time you chartered the vessels ?" said, "I' had," and he also stated that he had 300 tons of iron in stock at the time of making the contract. Since that conversation, a letter was produced; which was written by the bankrupt, in February last, to the Magdeburg Company, who had pressed for the delivery of the iron sold to them about a year before, and in which, after stating the suspension of his payments, there is this passage, referred to by Mr. Lowndes, in his argument, " The declining tendency of the pig iron market induced me to delay buying, although had you at any - time called on me for the iron, . I should have been prepared to buy and deliver it." Such being the state of circumstances connected with this transaction, Mr. Lowndes pressed not for the refusal of the certificate, but for the suspension of its allowance, for such a period of time as the case might seem to merit. He contended that the conduct of Mr. Mongredien, as a master, in the instance merited strong marks of reprehension, and suggested that it was by no means clear that, upon this invoice with the receipt signed at the foot for the price of goods which had never been purchased, a criminal prosecution would not lie against the bankrupt —a point which he was not called upon there to decide, and as to which. therefore, he gave no decision. Mr. Lowndes further insisted that a Person filling the office of factor and agent (which, in this instance, was the case of the bankrupt) should be espe cially careful not to abuse the confidence reposed in him ; and that here, even the alleged intention of purchasing what his own stock of iron would not supply, was not attempted to be carried out by Mr. Mongredien, who delayed, even thus irregularly, to complete the purchase, in order to advance his own interests. Mr. T Atkinson, who appeared as counsel for the bankrupt, addressed himself first to the objection of excessive expenditure, and referred to items to show, as I think he did satisfac torily, that much of the expense incurred in the conduct of the business was occasioned by high salaries necessarily paid to clerks skilled in foreign languages—expenses which would not have been incurred in a mere speculative busi ness—and by law costs, travelling expenses, postages and foreign agencies. He then, for the purpose of proving the good faith with which Mr. Mongredien had dealt with the Magdeburg Company previously to the particular transaction complained of, alluded to the fact, that the company having commissioned him to purchase the first lot of 200 tons of iron at a limit of 565., he had shipped the greater limit of it at the lower rate of 525. Mr. Atkinson urged also, that this was a single case occurring among large dealings of the bankrupt, who, In his cha racter of broker and merchant, had not been shewn to have been engaged in speculative transactions of a gam bling nature, and that it occurred partly in consequence of the anxiety of the Magdeburg Company to avoid the shipment of the iron while continental affairs were unset tled, He also called attention to the answer o f M r . Mon grectren, that he had, at the time of chartering the vessels, both the intention and ability to procure the iron so seta to the company. It seems to me that this transaction with the Magdeburg Company is not to be judged of by any coni deration of what were the intentions or ability of Mr. Mongredien to insure to the company the supply of the iron, but that it must be examined on other and higher grounds. This is the case of an agent employed to pur chase by another. The principal who so employs him has a right to expect from a person placed in a situation of such confidence the strictest good faith. It was said, in deed, in the course of this case, and he was sorry to hear it, that it was not an uncommon practice in Liverpool for an agent employed to purchase goods to sell to his prin cipal goods from his own stock, instead of going into the market to purchase them. Surely, it must be known in the great trading community that, where this is done without the knowledge of the principal, the transaction is contrary to law. But the bankrupt in this case, though it appears that he contemplated such a sale to his principals, has not committed a mere breach of the law, but has done much worse. By the communication made of the fact of delivering the three vessels, he, as early as the 13th of March, 1848, led his principals to believe that the iron had been purchased ; in August, he calls upon them for payment, and receives not only purchase money but interest from the dates of the respective purchases mentioned in the invoices, and commission, also interest upon money never paid by him for his principals —com mission on purchases never made. In the course of Mr. Lowndes's address, some observations fell from him as to Mr. Mongredien's general good character, and some ex pression also of a wish that one who possesses high quali fications for mercantile pursuits may not be prevented altogether from engaging in them. To these observations and to this expression coming from the party opposing the certificate I have given due weight ; but as I cannot find in any explanation of the transaction with the Magdeburg Company given upon the proceedings, as suggested by the ingenuity of the learned counsel for Mr. Mongredien, the slightest excuse for the deception practised upon the company, the allowance of the certi ficate must by suspended for two years from this day, and I must for the present withhold protection. SERIOUS CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. A well dressed man, named Thomas Daley, was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having received va rious sums on account of his employer, which he did not pay over or account for. Mr. Davenport appeared on behalf of the complainant, and Mr. Grocott on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Samuel Bates, wholesale grocer and spice dealer, Derby-street, said that he had known something of the prisoner for two years, but not parti cularly until the last eight months, during which he had been in his employ as clerk and collector. In January last they had some conversation about becoming partners in the business, but no arrangement was come to, as the prisoner could not raise above £4OO, which he (com plainant) wanted him to put in, as the condition. Shortly after prisoner came into his employ, he (Mr. Bates) bor rowed from him the sum of £5O, and as security prisoner obtained from him a bill of sale for property to that amount. Mr. Bates produced his books, which were kept by the prisoner, and receipts were also produced from se veral parties in the town for money received by him, which he had not paid over, or entered in any of the hooks. On Wednesday last, complainant wished to have him apprehended, but prisoner threw some obstacles in the way, which prevented him from doing so until Friday last. In the mean time, that is, on Thursday, the pri soner, acting upon the bill of sale, distrained upon com plainant, clearing the house not only of all his furniture, his watch, money, and other property, but articles be longing to his lodgers, the whole of the value of about £lOO. Mr. Gough, chemist, of Curry-street, said he had on the 11th of November paid the prisoner, 10s. for Bates, and produced the prisoner's receipt. No such sum had keen paid over, nor was entered in the book. Mr. Her ring, grocer, Ranelagh-street, paid, him £3, and another sum, to be handed to Mr. Bates. Mr. Charles Ebb, grocer, on the 23rd April paid him £1 15s. Bd., and also showed a receipt of Mr. M. Brown, of Stanley, had made him a payment; and a Mr. Lockett had paid him £lO upon an 1.0. U., with which Mr. L. would have to call upon Mr. Bates for payment. None of these sums were accounted for, £2O being substituted by £lO, to cover de falcation to the latter amount. It appeared that the pri soner, by retaining moneys, had more than paid himself the £5O he had lent his employer, and that the small sums stated above were additional appropriations, and yet he proceeded to execute the bill of sale as above stated. An attempt was made to show that the prisoner was a partner of Mr. Bates's, but this failed, as he had told Mr. Her ring, when he paid him some money, that he was not a partner, and had himself made, from time to time, entries in the books of sums paid to himself "on account of salary." He had never, in fact, been a partner. On hear ing the whole case, Mr. Rushton c omm itt e d th e prisoner for trial. The accused, on being cautioned, declined to say anything in his defence, or in explanation. An appli cation made to release the prisoner on bail, was refused by the magistrate BEBINGTON BAZAAR.—This interesting fete, which has been for some time in preparation, and which is patron ized by royalty, and all the beauty and fashion of the Wirral hundred is fixed to be held on the 16th, 17th and 18th current, and from the excitement which it has occa sioned, the work tables of our fair readers may reasonably be expected to prove a most delightful gathering. A short MS. poem byLord John Manners is amongst the matters to be offered for sale, and some elegantly printed copies will be supplied. The tables are likely to be exceedingly well supplied, and the receipts, we hope, will be considerable, PETER'S SCOTCH CHURCH, GREAT OXFORD STREET NORTH. — This church is to be opened on Wed nesday evening next, by the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, so well known to the religious community by his writings, " Life in Earnest," and recently by his inimitable series of tracts, " The Happy Home." Other services are also announced for the Sunday following, when the Rev. Dr. Hethering ton, the historian of the Church of Scotland, and of the Westminster Assembly, will officiate. The church is a very simple and elegant edifice, combining in a rare de gree symmetry of form with the utmost economy of mate erial and construction. The total cost of the building, including masonry, carpentry, painting, iron railing, &c., we are informed does not exceed £3,300, scarcely more than half the sum expended ou some of the recently erected Presbyterian churches in this town ; another in stance, were any needed, of the uniform skill which cha racterises the works of the architect, Mr. Hay. The church contains, without galleries, nearly 800 sittings, and there are excellent school-rooms, sufficient to accom modate between 500 and 600 children. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF THE DEATH OF A CHILD.— An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Catherine Ellis, who lived with her parents in Lumber-street. Deceased was two years and a half old. The mother said that at about seven o'clock on Saturday night she put the deceaned to bed, and about midnight she and her husband went to bed also. Deceased lay between them. Some time in the morning the mother felt deceased getting over her, and the deceased made a spring and fell on the floor. She was lifted up ; and wit ness endeavoured to awake her husband, but not succeed ing, called the landlady of the house, and got a light, and found the chamber-pot was broken, and deceased had a wound on the right side of the neck, from which blood flowed. When the light was brought deceased was quite dead. Witness threw the broken pieces of the pot into the ashyit, not, as she said, thinking they would be wanted. Deceased had been in a burial club, but from witness not being able to paw up, she had been out of benefit some time. The husband made a similar statement so far, stating that when he awoke he found the child dead. Mr. Wood, surgeon,. who made a post mortern examination of the body, found an incised wound on right side of the neck, about one and a half-inch long, and about one and a quarter of an inch deep. It had divided the common integuments, the facia, and the broad muscle of the neck, &c., causing great hiemorrhage, of which the child died. It was possible that a sharp piece of earthenware would produce the wound. The case was adjourned until this day for further evidence. The parents of deceased were kept in custody, in order to ensure their attendance. THE LIGHT DUES.—The Daily News of Saturday contains the following paragraph, which seems to intimate that Government is likely to afford some relief from the vexatious imposition of the light du es , f rom w hi ch our shipowners suffer so grievously:—" There can be littl e doubt as to the points on which Mr. Labouchere will propose remedial legislation. First, there are the Light Dues; imposts whereby those eminent protectionists, the Masters and Elder Brethren of the Trinity-houses of the United Kingdom unnecessarily add to th e p ecun i ary bur thens of that navigation and commercial marine of which they are, in words at least, such devoted friends. The burthen of these dues on our shipping is in itself a serious disadvantage to the shipowner and a heavy tax on freight. Two parliamentary committees have at intervals exposed their abuses and suggested remedies. What the necessi ties of the case require is obviously to place all lights in the United Kingdom under the management of one cen tral board connected with the executive government, and compelled to report their proceedings annually to Parlia ment. By such a board the expenses of the lights would be greatly reduced ; and shipping taxed on ly t o suc h ex tent as would defray the reduced expense of management, and not, as now, Trinity House extravagance and dinner bills. Last year Mr. Labouchere introduced a bill on this subject; but it was, unfortunately, a halting, imper fect measure. It left the lights under the management of the Trinity-houses, and of the Scotch and Irish boards, but made their proceedings subject to the revision of a central board. This was a complel and clumsy expe dient; one which would not have been thought of, except from the apprehension that a thorough measure of reform would be unacceptable to the Duke of Wellington ; to whom Sir John Pell) , and his brethren run and whine in their distress. It is, then, to be hoped that another year's deliberations may have infused more courage into Mr. Labouchere, whose constitutional timidity at times interferes with his good intentions and his sound prinei. pleat" TO CORRESPONDENTS. The excellent letter of "H. C. S. C." did not reach us until officially informed of our intention, the lighter will yesterday morning, or we should have been in a better posi- be the amount they will be enabled to recover. tion to have given it publicity. The arguments of our car- The next step will be to ascertain th e amoun t o f respondent deserve to be rea d an d c i rculated. m. S.—The inco rrect spell i ng of a signature by one of our t h e money liabilities thus brought upon us, an d t o contemporaries in the same paragraph in which he criticises arrange for their settlement. This task will be one the orthography of two simple words, is no doubt a • • typo graphical error. Or th e wor d may have been ur:tten so by requiring great tact, judgment, and experience. the person subscribing it ; thi s would not, however, warrant It will involve the conducting o f man y i n t r i ca t e the perpetuation of an err or w hi c h none but an' ignorant inquiries, and require some knowledge of men and person could make. ____ localities; for, we may depe n d u p on it th a t , so soon Ely Riberpool tt tanbatt. as ever it is noised abroad that the Corporation _ purse of Liverpool is about to b e o p ene d , th ere w i ll _ MORNING, MAY 8, 1849. be hundreds of hands held out to grasp a portion THE report of M essrs .. Si mpson and Newlands, of its contents, and hund re d s o f h ea d s at work upon the important question of the water supply manufacturing cases for compensation. A select of Liverpool, ha s now b een f or a week before the committee might with ad van t age b e appo i nted for public; and we can sa f e l y say that no document this particular object,, on many grounds, th e fi rs t of the kind h as ever b een rece i ved with more uni- of which is that the wat er comm i ttee, upon whom versal satisfaction. The a u th or it y o f t h ese gentle- the duty would re gu l ar l y d evo l ve h ave already men to give an opi n i on upon suc h a question seems ample business to att en d t o , w hi c h must shortly be to be generally ackn ow l e d ge d . I n them we have increased; and on anoth er , an d th at a verystrong one,. extensive engineerin g exper i ence i n hydraulic viz., that the nego t i a ti ons an d settlements required works, combin e d w ith accurate and practical will be more sati s f ac t or il y con d ucted by a few knowledge of the geology of the district ; and we tlemen from amongst the body of the Council than breathe mor e f ree l y, f rom the weight being removed by a committe e , k nown t o b e h ostile to the pike, from our minds of vast expenditure and probable and who may already have had to come into colli claims upon us, of incalculable extent, to arise out I sion with some o f th e part i es to b e settled with. ' -- shunted in rash The next nuestion is as to the nemfl. ir, ‘,4,:,,l- TUESDAY e partial failure of ww haste, and sought to be pressed forward in the teeth of our awakened reason. The verdict of the people of Liverpool is unmistakeably Pike project, and in affirmation of the conclusion of against the our reporting engineers that an ample supply of water is to be had from the new red sandstone strata under our feet ; and the only question which now presents itself for our consideration, and which ought to occupy the attention of the Council at its special meeting on Monday next, is, what are the steps to be taken to realise such supply, and to extricate the town from the disagreeable dilemma into which we have been dragged by the parlia mentary sanction of the Rivington bill. roceediu g to offer our own views upon the must bestow a glance at the letter Hawksley, the engineer for the Pike ed to his Worship the Mayor, subject, ; which M project, h addre Nay 8)184 We e T an ir t E ion A LARGE ADMISSION BY A SUPPORTER OF "THE BILL AND NOTHING BUT THE BILL." cone 0 1 ---- its first formation, against lacing implicit _ 0 0 All the world will remember the earnestness of the the body calling itself "the National Confedenno Times on the subject of the reform bill ; and his furious Liverpool. It had at that period, to stre , 1 - opt y diatribes, from " The Queen has done it all," to his appeals to public sympathy, a few rather exciti°,g ',roe celebrated recommendation of " Brickbats and bled- N ed A o T u l r O C N o A n la ser C va O ti N ve FE fr D ie E nd ß s A , a T t lZ l edeti % oo l geons." What will they think of the following descrip- questions, in which we, as well as they, heartnY_eire Of tion of a parliament returned under the operation of that pattern measure ? The Times is glorifying upon the scheme chuhiesesemtdi question 7 w o i a t fn h rda its tai o the p e tw r h o e f o e d s t h s o i ee o rk n s s a . oufd Amon leesorsp oi g rma s t t peo these,retsatna tceshbiee;o return of Mr. Roebuck for Sheffield—of the same man could not fail to observe'that, notwithstanding, s T o r ffee whom, a few years ago, he fell foul upon with his choicest to observe fair play, and to eschew the exerovith,e, Billingsgate—and thus he delivered himself yesterday:— political bias, its most active members were, t o ot! As a phenomenon in the history of parliament, we could solitary exceptions, of the whin-radical, or ill • t utio 9 hardly afford to dispense with this single exception to the con- co oft school. We had, besides, an aversion on ~i , e re o , sequences of the reform bill, which has left the representation of the people, for the most part, to men with large purses or grounds to bodies sitting in judgment upon L" to l e , accommodating consciences ;to those who will bribe with money merits of competing candidates, di c tating ~,A 4 and those who will bribe with servility ; railway directors or encies the parties to be chosen; and we do 01'.", 05 0' platform declaimers. Shade of Lord Durham ! Living presence of Lords the policy of basing that choice upon their olr e lu nt to inspect only to one or acc Brougham and \Tama, Russell, Lansdowne-, and the rest ! tions, irrespective of those which identa others holds ° f e4' what think ye of such a contemptuous description of the ee er general importance. eis A ed t fi a rst to t l h e e ra C hl o y nfe fa d i er r at s i: l n ee m tio ig u h . t saidbe They pet achievement of your political lives ? 0 h a ' d $ The world has an axiom, however, and a true one, that a certain class of people ought to have long memories ; influenced the return, of• conservatives as w r e e l t i, u t n l ik 'big. and the Times has a particularly short one. We could radicals. But of late they seem to have gathereo n' o t? imagine such a journalist forgetting, whilst asserting that and restricted their favours to parties who repr o icl black was white to-day, that a year ago he swore - as con- opinions of the majority of their members. 11 , s iel I v fidently it was blue ; but it is an outrageous instance of forgetfulness to find him contradicting himself in the War i' con set instance of this party leaning has just been d'sl_ re p the return of Mr. Freme for St. Anne's same publication—holding up the House of Commons as to which we are sorry to observe that some of mu ,tf, composed of " men of accommodating consciences," vative friends have permitted themselves to be 111 °:_ er if assenting parties. It was known that Mr. Thoe.. D _ ° 9 o‘ is?, " bribers with money or bribers with servility." in one column, and in the next threatening the lords with eater - willing to be put in nomination ; and if a gentle; co ot minationi if they presume to hesitate in registering the be found in the town who has more than auc' ti lderal dicta of that same venal parliament. The writer has- puled to forward the local objects which the con res ted, been abusing Lord Stanley for daring to oppose the pass- profess to have in , view ; who is more into is iir ing of the navigation laws' repeal bill, and prophesying seeing our local expenditure economized, and w ho is o thl o h's certain defeat ; and thus he proceeds : With this certain prospect of failure and disgrace, there can be found men who cry, " Thank God, we have a House of conducting of public bu •confess that sve ono business, we sessed of more local knowledge and experience do persona )ft: Lords." With this sort of flattery are weak minds excited to know where to find him. He was the r c, Al their destruction. We are ready to say with anybody, "Thank moreover of the late lamented member for the ` O , in God, we have-a House of Lords." We cam say also, " Thank POole ; had worked side by side with him for yea r ,, re sej , God, there is a House of Commons," and "Thank God, there conducting of parish affilirs ; and was in ere r 'coan / is a Queen." Nay, we can add to the list of mercies for which mostweeligsaibwl,e atan d th li e ke l l a y st to ho b u e r, v m alu r a . blein e ted ...,5: 0 thanksgiving is-due. We can thank God for the people, for the Yet CI SI W. bil Dover's • l a press, for the constitution, for the blessings of a representative aside, and a Whig candidate, Mr. Frame, aaoll,,, ts bl fr , legislature and responsible government. We certainly could scarcely say " thank , God there is a stead. Mr. Avison, a Whig, and quite as ren 0 0 , ', House of Commons," if that house is as the Times Mr. Freme, had been previously in the field ; °"„, s 0 1 ; describes it ; or add to the list of mercies for w hi c h Dover's name being announced, that gentlerna" op pOl i thanksgiving is due, by thanking God " for the p ress , , _ , was withdrawn. Mr. Dover, therefore, stood 9 n 0 0 ,, if the Times is a fair specimen of that power ; We would, and, upon his own merits, would have been trel re cl , , with all due respect for our contemporary, be willing to elected. Why a crusade was immediately cornet` for l ',: say " thank God for an (honest) press," in - which case the Confederation to procure a Whig candidatereoeno we should run the risk of leaving his own sheet out of o ur ward, and a portion of the Conservative party w e re ean° thanksgiving ; and also " thank God for the- people," ing parties to his nomination • and return, " who, at any rate, are not with the Timesu ponthis question. fathom. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. _ . of BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONER„.„. tbe ,01 A meeting of the board took place last evening, 4-nctiir, pose of passing the annual accounts and for the tra „ t: vt , other business . The following gentlemen were pres e v ' en scrv; Bryans, (in the chair,) Robert Hughes, H. Fox, — ,l t t o ulbsr D. Appleton, Adamson, W. Stevenson, and T. p farpet The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been called fitS• 0 3 purpose of the examination and passing of the accou. - 4 0 t, e had been audited by Mr. John Bewley, public accon.t. wser were there for the inspection of the meeting. A desire a j pressed to hear them read, which was complied Id isito which it appeared that the financial year cormne ne dur A e balance on hand of ''f4 lls. The total receiPts,,, disbni year were .e 10,351 10s. 4d., which, after meeting t'',. PPP ments, left a balance in the North and South wales ..I £174; exclusive of £lO in the treasurer's hands. ro ve M r. RAVENSCROFT was of opinion th a t as the im,q,,, D , rate did produce a surp l us, there was a chance of " .10 holders receiving something* (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY - • There is a considerable depression in the market for English funds,—as well as other securities, this morning. Consol s opened at 91/ to 92, being a b ou t / per cent. lower than the closing prices of Saturday, and'are now quoted 91i to /. The Three-per-Cents. Reduced are quoted at 9O to ; and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, at 91i to I. Bank Stock is quoted at 192 to 4; and Exchequer Bills at 458. to 48s. prem- LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. - - The share market is more depressed again to-day. Nothing to alleviate the distrust which has been so manifest for some days coupled with the fall in the English funds this morning, has increased the desire to realise, and the quotations are l ower than on Saturday. London and, North Westerns are quoted -126 to 8 ; Great Westerns, 83 to 5 ; Midlands, 64 to 5 ; South Easterns, 20 to ; Eastern Counties have been as low as 73 to 0, and are now 74 to 0. North Stafferdshires, 5 to 5i discount. Great Northerns, 10 discount. Mr. Fox concurred in the view that so thin" shoo' .aL reserved from the surplus for this purpose. de Mr. RAVENSCROFT considered £2,000 might - bese t set ail this object. t liO o r,J Mr.APPLETON, i n re f erenc e to the improvement ride, w naia d the The informed him that the amount 0 f v rateoeisohliilelisng CHAIRMAN would produce sixpene more than the con e teate w raa a o s n a subject already d ec id ed on at the general wee' . 0 1 could not now be discussed. Mr. APPLETON was under the impression that flit,t. ir this rate was one object of their meeting there thaten , an cl , i ,„ would ask the chairman, when that rate of one shilling rio l d pence was laid, for he believed it would operate very n ; bo No man under heaven, nor any junta . of men, but tha t , o se had a right to lay a rate. Referring to a contemplate d n' rog e e of doubling the present charge for the ferry, he thoul s of , proof had been fu rn i s h e d d uring the past few mon th s good effect of the p enny f are, which had produced ni',osr• the old fare in th e corresponding period of the former./ortj The CHAIRMAN, aft er re f erence for the purpose, I n to ra " " il Mr. Appleton th a t th e meeting at which the Is. 6d. „do, determined en was held on t h e 30th March, and confirs—ent the 3rd of April ; an d t h at he (Mr. Appleton) was P re that occasion. Mr- APPLETON considered that the measure v (55 o ' Tlee ttle ' broached then, but no t agreed on. the The CHAIRMAN m us t proceed with the business of - at ing, which w as t o pass the accounts.—A resolution ,tt,, accounts be passed, and printed for circulation wig: 4l 'ole; Aa the 0 0, board, was unanimously carried.—He then inform •„a be, b i ing that they had to resolve themselves into a sPe c t r etia t o the purpose of which, as appeared from the summon:a, O A the clerk, was to make a rate of Is. 6d. in the Poo"' teliw improvetnent rate ; also, one of Is., for lighting and vira and one of 4d., for sewerage &c. Mr. APPLETON contended , that the very words of the llee!, just read confirmed his opinion. Th ey were sumln°' rein to make a rate," an d h e wou l d move that the rat . e .j. t the same-as last year. —The motion was not entertipo'id the the Chairman infor me d M r. A ppleton that the wordnlgietos_ s a j ) ppper, though it might seem to confirm his (Mr. APv re le . y o views, had really no e ff ect i n the matter ; they were n _ 4.-ft ago terms, and the busi ness - o f the meeting then wa s to books in confirmation of what had previously been 0 1 1,0 Mr. Appleton left the room protoctin g that hie helie! 6 ,lio 0 1 the measure ne v er p asse d the general meeting, after :yate,,, buuk. biAacd, and the meeting separated afte r ,;sed_fe thanks had been passed to the chairman, who exC r t — prtiw th3nks, and gave his opinion as to the approach of be for the affairs of. Birkenhead. LONDON CORN MARKET YESTERDAY. - • Our market was fairly supplied this morning with English Wheat by land carriage samples from the near counties. The demand, however, was far from brisk, and a decline of Is. per qr. upon the quotations of Monday last had to be submitted to before progress could be made with sales. The arrivals of foreign Wheat during the past week have been very heavy, and business to a very limited extent was transacted to-day at a reduction of ls, to 2s. per or. Barley, both English and foreign, was rather easier to purchase. Oats, of which receipts from abroad are large, must be quoted 6d. cheaper. Beans and Peas fully supported late rates. Ship and country Flour barely maintained previous value. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAy. The supply of beasts is smaller, and there is a more numer ous attendance of buyers. There is, however, a large weight of meat on offer, and our top quotations are obtainable only for tke most selling kinds. The weather being good, no doubt a lair clearance will be effected. The number of Sheep is also less—quite adequate however to the demand ;-,prices are rather higher, but they are not cheerfully given. fhe weather is rather too cold for lamb; still prices remain about the same as of late. Calves are not quite so plentiful, and make an advance of fully 2d per 81bs.. From Germany and Holland we have 274 beasts, 860 sheep, and 72 calves ; from Norfolk and Suffolk, 2000 beasts; and Scotland, 500. MEETING OF THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY The monthly meeting of this society. (the last before the summer vacation,) took place at the Royal Institution, last night, Mr. Milner, the president, in the chair. The attendance was pretty numerous, and the matters discussed of general interest. Amongst the private business in the Council, a high eulogium was passed upon the late Rev. T. Dwyer, an origi nator and warm supporter of the institution, and a motion of a member having' for its object to do ho nour to t h e memory or tin. atato,..l.heu anu tamenteu gentieman, ~.euany with the approval of the meeting. A discussion took place relative to Messrs. Newland and Simpson's recent report on the supply of water to the town, a question in which the society had taken an early and steadfast interest, and it was , decided that an adjourned meeting of the society should be held on Thursday evening next, when a com pendium of the report, with abstracts, should be read, as the groundwork of a discussion on the question as it now stands, with a view to put the public in possession of the facts, without reference to party feeling. Several gentlemen present ex pressed their willingness to do their utmost to promote the good of the town by an unbiassed consideration of the sub ject, and we doubt not that the result will be a most interesting debate. , 7 ,420- 41 rf ' d TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ;fere 0 Sir,—l beg to state that the person mentioned in thet . „ o o, of the 27th ult., and erroneously styled "Captain of the': col 0,; is not Captain Beazley, of the Prince steamer, who ha g manded the City of Dublin Company's vessels (and 110° ' for the last 22 years. Your obedient servant, ,01'. WALSINGHAM BEA" , 46, Great Mersey-et., Kirkdale, 7th May, 1849. The public business commenced by Captain Purnell reading an excellent paper on his patented invention for preventing timber and other vessels from being waterlogged—which we have already described. He illustrated his views by appro priate models—one of them a large cutter. The plan was highly approved of by many practical gentlemen present, and excited much interest amongst all. Mr. Grantham thought it the best plan yet out for the purpose. The thanks of the meeting were passed to the several gentle men who had contributed to the intellectual entertainment of the evening. The Record announces that leoll measures have bee n „ i t' c l e, ol by the Bishop of O x f or d aga i ns t Mr. Allies, in consequ',,,ill his Popish book of continental travel, and that theY prosecuted with all possible vigoar. The Lord Bishop of Manchester, on Saturday 18 - s "„, c s ci sir r e j crated a new church, St.Margaret's,Whalley Range, )"- tb' D near Manchester, c a p a bl e o f h old i ng 500 persona, of the sittings are f ree. It is a very handsome buildtß7,',lo, spire, in the early E ng li s h style. The cost of. builetU'doil fitting up has been between .e 5,000 and .c 6,000, beside s ments, &c., all obtained by private subscriptions. oss i fy ATROCIOUS MCrRDERs.—Last week, an aged woinan , br etit,,i Trainor, and a young female, named M'Court, were , e reiP t o murdered at Drumferneskin, Monaghan, for a few cover {to of which they . were possessed. The murderer endeav ° " ro st o strangle his victims with his thumbs, and black i n dentet b l eeo ! were found on their necks, but as this appears to have r .,.5111 slow a process he used some weapon like a hatchet, c d through the skull into the brain. To cover the crime at' or drk o , it the appearance of accident, M'Court's body vvs- Are, ' e t from the far end of the cabin and placed opposite the " 4 . wliLi feet towards the hearth, the body resting against a posi s itli supported the roof. Trainor's body was placed in lost,tdi position onler straw bed, with her back supported a.g a ' a gi',, gable of the house • and in those positions, face to face,,;s `ti social converse, the murderer set fire to the clothes of ,f 5 tiros in the hope that the flames would destroy the p r omo his crime, and communicating with the.thatch would c the entire cabin, and bury the bodies of the murdered ""01, in its ruins. The bodies of the unfortunate creatutetiso,e' frightfully burnt, but the fire did not reach their 11 , 3 1 1 1 e P er , necks. It was the opinion of the medical men that e it l ,4. was applied to both the bodies before life was extinct in re st - , Five individuals, relatives of the . deceased, have been ~,a r vtP7 DERBY HOTEL . — The opening dinner of the P, 3 ,4°, Club on the New Green, at this hotel, is to take pv t lf Thursday next. As it will be a recherche affair , can be little doubt that it will be well DEATH.—On attended . o' l3 SUDDEN DE AT — On Saturday night, J ohn 65 , years of age, was taken to bed in a state of intoiLi c " r oo o and next mo rn i ng was found on the floor of his OF , t quite dead. F rom a post mortem examinations i.h ~f found that th e cause of death was ossification valves of the heart. A gentleman connected officially with the p o or partment states it as his positive belief that the de a „ 0 11 Ireland from privation within the last month ontn" fot those of the whole winter of 1846-7, and that a nw r ci e o tl season has yet to come, inasmuch as he appreben v A what in April and May is no worse than a sear° ' amount before Midsummer to a positive famine. 0.04 mer; On Sunday, John B ennett, b etter known ag Bennett," was found drowned in the river near Tra bridge. The deceased was a man of dissipated I ' o 3 gt; frequently slept o n b oar d an o ld flat belonging tcriatsilej Chamberlain, laid up. in the pool. On Saturday n/ 'o was seen in the neighb our h oo d d run k , and it is aq o tP" that, in attempti ng t o ge t t o t h e vessel, he fell nil of water and was drowned. 5 ;1$ THE LATE CUSTOM- HOUSE FRAUD - 160 0 BA G COSTA RICA COFFEE AND 1100 MATS OF MAUL Fr SUGAR.—We do not know whether we shall have t. ,jeli r tience to keep this affair before the public until the . 0 0 5 ` quency is brought h ome t o t h e proper parties ; the 1060 tigation is now alt oge th er i n the hands of the Cils',ol" but the transa c ti on h as b een so dexterously ei" 11- det; „ that althou g h th ere i s an appearance of delay, we "'jot stand that every possible exertion is really being to unravel th e mystery. No EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION AT MANC."" iff."l The public discus s i on between . Mr. E. Baines and ° Watts, on the res p ec ti ve mer i ts of the voluntary sli'Asf education and that of the L ancas hi re P u b l i c Sale"' I%oll' elation has bee n s li n k e d. Th e committee of thectiaci; Chester auxiliary to the C ongregat i onal Boar d of l'iirablej tion have resolved that "the most fair and 1 1011° 0 0 0 method of discussi ng a ques ti on w hi ch must be detereal, by the accuracy of the statistics adduced, will be by ; es s, of counter-lectures, an d th roug h t h e med i um of the Pat '" In other word s , th ey d are not let Mr. Baines :t 1 11 antagonist face to face. W e are not surprise" ma decision. DIED. 70, her ner On the 3rd instant, at B ootle, awfully sudden, in year, Miss HANNAH ROPER, niece of the late Richar d Esq., of this town. LE RPOOL : TUESDAyIV, MAY 8, 1849. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED 6 , io EVERY TUESDAY MOR.0 1 „so l By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, fit ; At No. 4, ST. Goorton's CRESCENT, LIVER P o ',oll t ret; Orders for Advertisements received by Messrs. N..,, e ,1-st r k e6 Co., Warwick-square ; Barker and White, r Z.; 13s;i ii ir Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-lane ; i o 0 " Birchin-lane; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Covo i ll e d v - or den Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mitchell, 8: rt , C° e; court, Fleet-street; Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle-co u r ipti ffe r hill; at the London Commerci Coffee-house, ,° flee' at the Jerusalem Coffee-house,_ Coruhill; ChaP.` - an 11 0 0 house, Paternoster - row; North and South Arnellfaria house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons, 9, Ave". London; Johnston and Co., Eden Quay, Dublin' 31olhor Exchange-street, and C. H. Lewis, Market-stree t, wo:c i •a, ter; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth, Booksellero,4vb ton; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; and Wrigh_t .7 S ';/. Herald.office, Birmingham ; Harthill and SAIM ° '" rriucel-square, BußlAgykau . -titi:eet, GlaseiTt re the n 'eements fo Corporation are willing to become parties to an un dertaking to that effect." We have very little doubt that he is right here. Mr. Hawksley could easily get a contractor to execute the precise quan tity of embanking, cutting, tunneling, bridging, walling, &c., laid down nn his own Parliamentary plan, at his own estimate, he himself being the sole party authorised to decide as to their workmanship, `rength, and adequacy for the purpose for which .:. projected ; but we much prefer a revised .tamentary estimate, and therefore lean towards the opinion, as to the real cost, of Messrs. Simpson and Newlands, as do most people, who have oh sered anything about engineers' estimates and pub lic works. they we: So much for Mr. Hawksley's letter;—and now let us proceed to the important inquiry with which we set out—what course is the best to be pursued under present circumstances. The Pike scheme, so far as the people of Liverpool can exercise an inde pendent power, is utterly condemned. How then are we to get rid of the liabilities which it has already entailed upon us, and what steps are we to take to procure an adequate supply of the water, which we now find that we possess in abundance in our own locality ? The first pro ceeding towards the realisation of the former con summation ought to be the passing of such a re solution by the Council, as would place beyond all doubt the fact that they have abandoned the scheme entirely. Under the provisions of the act of Par liament, notices have been given to various land owners along the line of the proposed works of the intention of the Liverpool Corporation to purchase portions of their property. These parties, of course, hold such property as virtually sold, or at all events unsaleable to any other buyer until the Corporation has taken what it requires ; and many of them, no doubt, in the event of the scheme being abandoned, would claim, and be entitled to compensation. The sooner, therefore, they are .°44lsee lilt Five 771 18 piz 11348 , 2; it,to fir t ext vpv F. r 20. rk oarn CONe] 1 1 KID trtri; n:r11 „To Nt; l ig 6. io Art". .1 4 w elc ilt t o t Op 4x I '~2'. l L4S THI% , h ere I 4mir 4it'llittrTn ei tp it1444,41 , 111 CELT e h, At T 2c art Th. 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