The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, We were compelled to withdraw last night several articles of interest; among others a notice of the Liver Theatre, where .Miss Anne Romer is nightly charming the audit A Subscriber" should have forwarded his nal notice his letter next v ' We may ebt Eiberpool &taittarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 4, 1849 , THE commercial advices per American steamer continue very satisfactory ; the demand for British manufactures was good, and the orders for the same received by her are very extensive. Exchange dull at 92. The Cotton Markets throughout the Union have been in a dull and unsettled state, arising from the anxiety of holders to realize, not withstanding the accounts from this place of a further advance having taken place. The accounts from all parts of the country are much more favourable to the crop. The weather was fine and pleasant for picking, and the opinion is gaining ground in many quarters that it will prove the largest crop grown in the United States (with the exception of last year), and that it will not be less than 2,400,000. Georgia and South Carolina will make fully as much as last year. Of course there are opinions of a very different complexion as to the yield given in other quarters. ACCORDINGtO the representations of th e free traders we ought to be just now entering upon a state of great prosperity. The lately troubled affairs of Europe have settled down into a calm ; and we have been increasing our exports to the other mar kets of the world. We have at home everything to eat and to wear, in abundance, and cheap. The working man ought to be enabled now, by the saving in his expenditure for bread, to buy more from the shopkeeper and the manufacturer. Every -other class, dependent upon labour or the profits of trade, ought to have been bettered in its condi tion. Yet somehow we don't seem to arrive at this halcyon state of things, although we were to have reached it long ago. Our philosophers have, over and over again, demonstrated the fact. Never was a problem of Euclid more clearly proved. Yet we are not there. We are not in the enjoyment of prosperity; but, on the contrary, complaints of stagnation in trade, diminished consumption, de creased profits, and want of employment, are heard on every side. An additional reason why we ought just now to be in a prosperous condition is the fact that money is abundant and cheap. Nay, more : we ought, in accordance with past experience of the effect of cheap money, to be at this moment progressing rapidly towards excitP— , wild speculation, and mania 'd has just reduced its The Bank of Ene Threadneedle -street sue the commercial per cent rate of inte street and Loi classes to take their idle money at any price. "Here it is, gentlemen," they say ; " do take it from us! Speculate with it ; buy cotton, corn, scrip, or anything else with it !" But there is no response. Prudent men shake their heads, as they look back upon the calamities of 1846 and 1847. The importunities of the money dealers have fallen upon deaf ears. Their reduced rates of discount have not affected the price of a single commodity in the market. On the contrary the movement downwards continues week by week The free traders are puzzled to acc ,ount for this collection of anomalies. Every tions unfulfillec their grasp ; t ways, of the every excuse for predic ipped one by one from %s of ov speculation in rail- pressure or calls, of revolutionary movements in Europe, potato rots and other bug bears, can be adduced no more; and the Economists and the Guardians, and the oracles of Manchester and Free Trade Hall are dumb. Cobden has be taken himself to a new agitation for the creation of forty shilling freeholders--a twin project to Feargus's land scheme; and the small deer, the Wahnsleys and Thompsons are hobnobbing with the Chartists in favour of Financial Reform. Free Trade is shelved for the time; "its name is never heard." It is not very difficult to account for the fact that we have at this moment a low rate of interest and commercial suffering contemporaneously; that whilst mercantile hills are discounted at 2 to 21 per cent., tradesmen throughout the country have diffi culty in collecting money to meet their payments. The simple fact is, that along with cheap money, we have a contracted circulation. Discounts are low, because trade is void of activity, and bills are scarce. The late crisis destroyed a circulating me dlum, consisting of small bills, created for the carrying on of the internal trade of the country, the aggregate amount of which is probably not over estimated at two or three hundred millions sterling, and which were in part secured upon the estimated value of shares in railway and other un dertakings, now no longer representing the same capital. Obviously, the destruction of this vast floating fabric of credit must have cramped the means of the entire trading community; and the same results, produced by the reduction of its rate of interest by the Bank of England, immediately after the passing of the act of 1844, will not follow the step recently taken, until the increased confi dence of all classes of traders in each other shall have enabled us to re-erect a similar floating fabric of credit. The bank may, in the meantime, con tinue its offers of cheap discounts, and may even bid lower. Such offers will, however, be of little avail, for the money in the hands of private bankers and capitalists will amply suffice for the conversion of the anionnt of bills now in circulation; and the directors of the great monopoly, and government itself, will have to feel for some time longer the recoil of the weapon which, in their hands, so dis astrously prostrated the enterprise and industry of the empire. Under the operation of the ancient policy of this country, we should very probably soon have recov ered from even so crushing a crisis, as that brought about in 1847 by the effect of the currency laws, combined with the failure of the potato, and the large importations of foreign food. But will this be the case with our present free trade policy ? To enable us to reply to this question, we must scru tinise closely our present position. We are, it must be acknowledged, suffering in many branches of the national industry. The manufacturing interest is depressed. This very week the spinners and manufacturers of Manchester are threatening a return to short time : and why ? Is the raw ma terial too high in price ? At present it can scarcely be said to be so; and during the two last weeks the markets have shewn a tendency to decline. Why, then, talk of diminishing production ? Because, as we learn from the market intelligence in the Manchester Courier of Saturday last, along with the reduction in the raw material, " for most descriptions of yarn, there is a very decided decline in prices, and to a greater extent than the decline in cotton, since Tuesday, and in goods prices also show a downward tendency." We know that a large export trade has been done recently; and to some markets shipments have been on a very ex tensive scale—probably larger than is consistent with anticipations of profitable returns. There is nothing, then, to which the manufacturer can point as the cause of his depressed spirits but the dimin ished consumption by our own population. The home trade has notoriously fallen off. What other result could have been expected from a policy which has left the landlord without his rent, the mort gagee without his interest, and the farmer without his profits; which has prostrated the colonial pro prietor, is ruining both the shipowner and ship builder, along with every other class, the product of whose capital, enterprize, and industry can be supplied from the cheap shop of the foreigner? Such is the present fact; and the prospect of the future is not at all encouraging. It is admitted and notorious that with wheat at 40s. a quarter, the land cannot be cultivated with profit. The farmer, this year, if he pays rent at all, must do so out of his capital; and what hope is there of the occur rence of any other state of things, or the realiza tion of any higher scale of prices ? We must look therefore in another direction for our restoration to a prosperous state; and where can we turn ? An extension of our foreign trade must be followed by an increase in imports; but the profit from the sale of such imports cannot be great whilst we are sinking into a nation of non consumers. An expansion of our railway system is out of the question, in the face of decreased ability in the community-to travel. Such an ex pansion of the currency as would let loose the enterprise of the middle class of traders, at present fettered by the withdrawal from them of the bank ing facilities which they formerly enjoyed, might spread amongst them a feeling of temporary ease; but we cannot readily see to what new purposes of legitimate trade they could turn themselves, so long as the great bulk of the agricultural consumers re tusined sunk in their present prostrate condition. The conclusion to which we are driven perforce, is that there is but one policy, the prompt and re solute adoption of which will bring back the pros perity of the country, and sustain Great Britain in the power and pre-eminence, from which modern suicidal legislation has done so much to cast her down. That policy, moreover, is so clearly shadowed out before us, by the present condition of all classes and interests, that it cannot fail to he perceived by any, save the wilfully and intensely blind. The first step in that policy ought to be to place the great producing interests of the country in a position which will enable them to give in creased employment to native industry, and also to consume those foreign products which we receive in return for our own. We do not ask to go back to the days of prohibitory duties and ultra protec tion. We do not ask, for instance, that the com munity should be taxed in order that the agricul turist may be enabled to reap a profit from the soil without exertion, and the application of capital and science to develop its capabilities. We do not wish to withdraw from the manufacturer, either, the sti mulus to enterprise, to the improvement of taste in designs and economy in his various processes, which is created by a fair amount of foreign competition, upon equal terms. But we do distinctly state that if the old protective policy of the country conferred too favourable a position upon the farmer, the present errs equally in the opposite extreme. The mass of the present cultivators of the soil cannot live with present prices ; with wheat at 40s. per quarter, and that cheapness caused by constant foreign importa tions, and thus certain to be permanent. The most bigotted free trader, if he speaks his candid sentiments, will not dare to deny this fact, or that, had the nation at large been aware of the extent to which prices of all descriptions of farm produce would be reduced by the repeal of the corn laws, parliament would never have been permitted to pass that ruinous measure. We must have, then, ouch a moderate duty upon the importation of foreign corn, as will enable the English grower to compete on fair terms with the foreign grower, and at the same time, by the revenue which such a duty would produce, enable the legislature to remove some of those imports, amongst which are the Ex cise on various native commodities, which peculiarly press upon the British agriculturist and the mass of the consuming classes. The next step ought to be to protect not only the agricultural but the commercial classes as well—in fact, the industry of the country, however it may be employed—from the tyranny of our present monetary system. That astute personage, Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, once described the industry of Great Britain, under protective laws, as "a swad dled giant." His own favourite currency nostrum has reduced that industry to the condition of the same giant chained to a rock, whilst vultures are gnawing at his vitals. Or what would the worthy millionaire say to another comparison of our indus try and commerce to a victim of the inquisition, snatched from the rack, with every limb dislocated, and barely in time to arrest the flight of the vital spark, to be revived by stimulants, not administered in mercy, but in order that he may afford his tor mentors another day's spectacle of anguish to feast their horrible appetites upon ? This monstrous system must be destroyed. The commercial enter prise of the country must no longer be the slave of a monopoly, which tempts on the community to imprudence and final madness; and when that madness has become dangerous to itself, tramples its duped victims in the dust, whilst it coolly ap propriates the spoil. THE London Times of Friday last directed the attention of its readers to the great and progressing increase of crime in the agricultural county of Dorset. " Measured by the infallible test of crime," he says, " Dorsetshire is fast sinking into a slough, which threatens the peace and morality of the kingdom at large. The total number of convictions, which in 1846 was 793, and in the fol lowing year 821, mounted up in 1848 to 950, and up to the special general session, last Tuesday, for less than eleven months of the present year, to the astounding number of 1,193, being at the rate of 1,300 for the whole year." The population of the county was 175,043, being the last census ; and the convictions in four years being 3,000, it follows that during the four years there has been one conviction for every 60 persons, or in every 12 households. The object of the Times in referring to this astounding state of things is not very obvious, unless it be to distract public attention from the °c.aca which have led to such increase of convic tions. He tells us, indeed, that the increase has been entirely in the summary convictions, from which he insinuates a possibility that " magistrates may have an occasional furor of judicial severity," and, from their being themselves " prejudicially affected by the very circumstances, which have led to the breach of the law," may have convicted where juries would not have done so. But this view is met by the fact that there has been no decrease in the convictions by juries. An increased disposition in the population to commit crime is manifest, and the cause of that disposition is dis closed in the following description of the classes amongst whom such increase has taken place, given by the Rev. H. FARR YEATMAN, the chair man of the Dorsetshire sessions : " From the great distress which unfortunately existed, the union workhouses of the county had been much over crowded, and within them there had been a great deal of contumacy and violence, which had led to a great number of convictions and committals to the county gaol." In point of fact, the Dorsetshire labourers are not inclined to starve, and they rebel against the discipline of the union workhouse. Our free trade policy is pauperising the agricultural masses, and degrading alike their physical and their moral con dition. Hunger drives some to crime; the tyranny of workhouse officials drives others to contumacy, and to the ulterior receptacle of both—the county gaol, which the Times truly enough observes " is fast sinking into the punishment ward of the union workhouse." It is preposterous in our contemporary to affect surprise at this result of our present anti-national policy. The legislature deliberately invoked it, when it determined to employ mainly the industry of the foreigner, and repudiated all care for the well-being of the British labourer. It had pre sented to it the alternatives of permitting that labourer to earn his bread honestly, in the sweat of his brow, in cultivating his native soil, or of sup porting him in idleness as a pauper. It chose the latter. It reduced that labourer to the desolate condition of a being de trop in the community—a waif, borne hither and thither on the current of society; this day to the union bastile, the next to herd with felons, and again to be disgorged upon the hands of the community, branded with the mark of crime, and defiled by its contact; either sunk in the lethargy of despair, or with " his hand against everybody and everybody's hand against him," until at last some deeper offence than his previous ones rids us of his contaminating presence —and can we, after this, wonder that he is costly to us, or complain at his refusing to die quietly in the nearest ditch ? Assuredly, we have no right to impute blame anywhere save to our own blind and selfish folly. But the Times, with all other philosophers of his class, sees a judicial remedy for this sad state of things. He would not retrace the policy, which has degraded and is fast sinking human beings— our fellow countrymen—to the condition of the beasts that perish. He would not better their social condition, and enable them to live by the pursuits of industry in their native land, but merely deport them to some other, before crime had irre vocably marked them for his own ! Half of the 1300 criminals who have been committed to gaol this year, he remarks " have been driven to theft by hunger, or to contumacy by the union officials ;" and he continues : "Now, is it wholly out of the question that those 650, by a little difference of system and treatment, might be sent to our colonies, at an equal cost, in the character of honest men ? Dorsetshire has lately, with the assistance of Government, sent out an unusual number of emigrants. Why should it not send out more, instead of wasting money and ruining both body and soul by confining them in the workhouse or the gaol? The 1,300 sent to gaol this year will never be good for anything again. They will take themselves at the value which society has set upon them, and hold themselves unfit for honest employ ment. What chance has a man of getting on when he has been once in gaol ? A great part of them will altimately find their way to our hulks, and to our penal settlements ; costing the state many hundred pounds a-piece before it has done with them. Indeed, it is becoming day by day more evident that we must send out our labourers while they are honest, or at least while their characters are un tainted, for before long every one of our colonies will follow the example of the Cape." This is scarcely a very gratifying state of things for the labouring masses, or for the nation at large to contemplate. The former are plainly told that they are a drug in society; that if they stay in thin laud they have but the work house or the prison before them; and the nation is told to take upon itself the cost of sending them away at once, as a lighter one than keep ing them here, with the prospect of their ulti mately being transported. " The 1300 sent to gaol this year will never be good for anything again !" The Times should have thought of all this, how ever, before it advocated the system which has brought the labourer into bis present wretched con dition, in which the fear of his resort to crime alone extorts from the community a morsel of food for himself or his little ones, or from the free trade philosopher the remembrance that such a being has existence. COMFORT FOR THE SHIPOWNERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, We have alrecdy seen how hollow, or how based upon ignorance, of the effect of their own measures, were the promises made to the agriculturists of Great Britain, that foreign competition would not knock down prices below a paying point. We have now to warn the shipping interest, and especially our shipbuilders, that their turn for a similar experience of the folly of having trusted in these charla tans, in their concocted blue books, and in their unprin cipled evidence, is now at hand. A Liverpool commer cial paper of yesterday contains an advertisement, which will not be read by the parties just referred to with much satisfaction. It is headed " Contracts for Shipbuilding;;' and states, that the undersigned have made arrangements with ship builders in the Baltic, for the building of ships of any tonnage or description requited ; and the advertiser pro ceeds—" The low rate of ships there, as well as the known durability of Baltic ships may induce shipowners here to avail themselves of this opportunity to make chea . fi contracts, for which he begs to solicit orde r s. These ships can be built under the survey of Lloyd's agent, and can be coppered there before launching, without increase of cost." He has three of these cheap ships now on sale. This is only a beginning. There is more to follow. DESTRUCTION OF THE SPLENDID PACKET SHIP CALEB GRIMSHAW. We regret to have to record the destruction, by fire, of the fine American ship Caleb Grimshaw, which unfor tunate event took place on the 17th ultimo, sixteen miles south-east of the island of Flores. The Caleb Grimshaw was bound for the United States from this port, and had on board 390 passengers (principally emigrants.) The British barque Sarah, Captain Cook, from London, bound to St. John's, New Brunswick, having observed the fire, bore down and succeeded in extricating all the passengers and crew from the dreadful death which appeared to be awaiting them, and they were all conveyed in safety to Fayal, where they arrived on the 24th ultimo. The whole of the property belonging to the emigrants was lost, but they were truly thankful for the providential preservation of their lives. We are informed from Fayal that the captain of the ill-fated ship had been induced to charter the Sarah to convey the passengers to their destination a'; the expense of his owners. This intelligence was brought by the West Indian Mail. PRESENTATION TO MR. J. BLUNDELL, OF WALLASEY. We noticed, some few months ago, the efficiency of the amateur choir at St. Paul's Church, Seacombe, and stated that it had been instructed, gratuitously, by Mr. John Blundell, of this town, watch manufacturer, and resident at Wallasey. Yesterday evening, this gentleman had paid him a compliment, which must be most gratifying to him to remember in after life, for the zeal and assiduity with which he has devoted himself to his self-imposed task, by being presented with a copy of Scott's Bible in three volumes, and a purse of twenty sovereigns, raised by sub scription amongst his pupils, with the aid of the minister and a few of the congregation. The Bible is elegantly bound in purple morocco ; and the first page contains the following inscription, on vellum : " This copy of the Holy Scriptures, together with a purse containing twenty sovereigns, were presented to Mr. Thomas Blundell, by tha members of the amateur choir connected with St. Paul's Church, Seacombe, assisted by the minister and a few members of the congregation, as a tribute of esteem for his kindness and liberality in devoting so much valuable time to their instruction in congregational psalmody." Another leaf contains the names of the committee for getting up the testimonial, of which the Rev. E. Roberts and Mr. John Surr are respectively president and vice president. The presentation took place at the Infants' School-room, Seacombe, which was numerously attended by . Mr. Blundell's friends and others of the congregation of St. Paul's. The Rev. E. Roberts, after a very feeling address, handed to Mr. Blundell the tokens of the esteem in which he was held ; and Mr. Blundell, who was much affected, made a suitable reply, evidently, however, wanting words to express his sensations on the gratifying occasion. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—Three sermons were preached in the churches of St. Mary, St. Thomas, and Trinity, at Preston, on Sunday last, December 2nd, by the Rev. Stephen B. Sutton, 8.A., curate of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, after which collections were made in behalf of the above society. THE WORKHOUSE SHEDS IN BROWNLOW-HILL.- -. These sheds, erected for the reception of patients during the epidemic fever, are now usefully used for the recep tion of the houseless poor, during this inclement season. On Friday night, no fewer than 185 applicants appeared, including about 80 fcmalca, and they were all sheltered for the night, and received some food. THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.-It will be seen by an adver tisement in our first page that this clnb, which is now entering on its third year of existence, is about to undergo some slight reformation. There will be a reduction in the subscription. The library will be made available for out door circulation, and many other alterations are contem plated, none of which will, however, tend to diminish the usefulness of the society in promoting intellectual, moral, and harmonious associations. A MAN UNKNOWN DROWNED.—OR Sunday night, a man unknown fell into George's Dock-gut. He was soon got out, but was found to be quite dead. He had just before been seen at the bottom of Redcross-street, and was then quite drunk. He appeared to be from 24 to 25 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, and had on checked or plaid trowsers and vest, and a black coat. A few shil lings were found in his pocket, also a tailor's thimble, and a note written in pencil, and addressed to Mr. Taylor, in Toxteth-park. ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY, THEATRE-ROYAL.—After the attractive performances of this well-selected company during the past week, the lovers of operatic performances of a high character will be glad to hear that the manager has been able to secure a short re-engagement. Last night, " Don Pasquale" was most effectively given. The Norina of Signora Montenegro was one of the most spirited of her efforts, and drew down loud p!audits. She was well supported by Signors Santiago, Bailini, Montelli, and Gregorio. On Wednesday (to-morrow), " Lucia di Lam mermoor" is to be played. LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The new or gan will, we understand, be opened on the 26th Decem ber, 1849. With a view of obtaining the balance required to meet the contract, the Organ Committee purpose, dur ing the ensuing Christmas vacation, to give a series of sixteen soirees musicales, to comprise a grand opening performance on the new instrument ; three lectures on the capabilities of the organ, with illustrations ; three ora tcrios, and nine miscellaneous concerts. The oratorios will be conducted by Sir Henry R. Bishop, Knt., Prof. Mus., Oxon., who liberally offers his gratuitous services for tis purpose. The organ is being erected by Mr. R. Jackson, of this town. DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING. On Friday, Bernard Mulligan, aged about 50, went to a house in Stephen-court, Hotham-street, which he sometimes fre quented, and which is tenanted by a man named Burn (aged 21,) and his wife. He was then very drunk. He sat some time with Burn, and partly recovered himself, but at ten o'clock they both went out together, and both returned quite drunk. They went and lay down on the same bed. Burn left him asleep at nine on Saturday morning, and, (as he was in the habit of sleeping off his drink,) he was not visited till five in the afternoon, when a little girl was sent up to him with some tea. She re turned and said she could not awake him, and it was then found that he was quite dead and cold. THE POLICE FORCE OF LIVERPOOL.—We stated in a paragraph last week that the total number of persons in our police force (which had during the disturbances about 1,100) was "now about 1,000," reductions having taken place. We find that we were misinformed (though not intentionally) on this point, and may now state from authority that the total force, including every depart ment in the several offices, bridewells, clerks, superinten dents, inspectors, sergeants, and the whole number of " privates," both of the borough and docks, is 880. We understand the inspectors will not hereafter be increased, but rather diminished, as " sergeants" will henceforth attend to much of the duty required from those higher officers. PRESENTATION TO THE REV. VERNER M. WHITE.— On Tuesday evening last the members of Islington Pres byterian Church had a meeting, for the purpose of con gratulating their esteemed pastor on his return, after an absence of some months in consequence of ill health, and presenting him with a mark of their esteem, and an offer ing of gratitude for the faithfulness and ab ility with which he has always discharged his ministerial duties. The meeting had tea, and the chair was occupied by William Gardner, Esq., who introduced the business of the even ing in handsome and appropriate terms. A feeling ad dress was read by H. S. Hawthorne, Esq., to Mr. White, and a massive silver salver and a purse of fifty sovereigns were presented to him. Mr. White replied in eloquent and touching terms. The meeting was afterwards ad dressed by the Rev. James Fergusson, of London, and the Revds. William Graham and Donald Fergusson, of Liverpool. The salver was a beautiful piece of workman ship, and was from the establishment of Mr. Liddell, Bold-street, and bore the following inscription :—" Pre sented, with a purse of sovereigns, by the members of Islington Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, to their esteemed pastor the Rev. Verner M. White, as a token of sincere at nt and affectionate regard. 30th Nov., 1849." Tli re voted to the chairman, and the meeting sepa ighly pleased with the proceedings of the evening, an with the occasion which had drawn them together. FOR SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE " TIMES."-Mr. Cobden, the other day, at a freehold land company's meeting, put forth a little bit of "unadorned eloquence" for the special benefit, we presume, of Sir Robert Peel and the Times, which it is to be hoped those worthies will duly appreciate. He said, " Every species of abuse, mis representation, and suppression, was used against his party, until they became strong ; and then they became fashionable. (Cheers and laughter.) Then they were slavered with praise from the parties who before abused them, and he confessed that he liked their praise less than their abuse. (Chem.) TH2 tiVERPOOL STANDAR& COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT, EXCHANGE NEWS -ROOM, MONDAY. The reduction in the rate of discount at the Bank of England has not materially affected any market except that for shares, which, as will be seen below, has again improved. The rate at which cash could be obtained on good paper was so moderate before that the reduction of k per cent. has not had so important an effect as under other circumstances must have resulted. Our Money Market has decidedly reached prosperity prices. The publication of the Bank returns, showing a further increase of £342,000 in the bullion, gave an additional impulse to the English funds an Saturday, and Consols closed at an advance of nearly a quarter per cent. The first price was 951 to 2, and they left off at 954 to +, both for money and account. Bank Stock closed 200 to 202. In our last we stated it to be our impression, now that the Cotton speculation was subsiding, that public atten tion and the current of money would turn 'towards the Share-market. The events of the past week have con firmed this impression, and shown it to be a correct one. On referring to the share-lists, we find business has each day increased, and the same time prices have each day— without any of the excitement betokening a transient rise (or a spirt, as the profession denominate it)—gradually, steadily, and healthily advanced ; and these higher prices, instead as of late, bringing in sellers, have brought out additional buyers ; we now hear on all sides, of mort gages being called in, and bank balances being used to buy shares. The old stock, especially those at a consi derable discount, as Midlands, &c., are those particularly in demand. A hopeful feature of this change is, that the bankers in town, desirous to employ their capital in its present abundance, appear to be encouraging it. We are told also that the London jobbers doubting at first the permanence of the movement, delivered their reserve of stock (the reserve they keep in their own names as an auxiliary to their bear operations), and that they too are now becominc , buyers ; so that we have three classes of buyers, viz., 1. The public bona fide buyers. 2. The speculators, backed by the bankers and the dealers. For these reasons we are of opinion that the advance of the past week is hut a commencement of a material and per manent one, and we would recommend the (hitherto un fortunate) holders of shares to withhold sales at present, resting assured that the winter of their discontent is passing and that they will soon see their property reach some thing like its real value in the market—a value harmoniz ing with the current rate of interest on money. Our market again closes good this evening. Business has been done during the day at the following prices :—Cale donian, 121; Leeds fifths, 6 3/9 + d. • London stock 1161 116; do. quarters, lk 3/9 k 1 / 3 -k 1/3 1+ p. ; London fifths, 2 1+ p. ; Midland 50's, 20 2- 8/9 d. ; North British preference, 5k ; Dover No. 4, 6 16/3, 61 16/3 7/8 ; Newcastle preference, 4+ 1 4 48 4 ; Royal Assurance. p. ; Fire and Life, asked for, 2+ to 21 p., new shares, 2+ to 3k. The estimates of the Cotton crop having somewhat in creased, according to the Hibernia's advices, which also mention large receipts at the ports, speculators paused, the trade bought as little as possible, and prices further receded, up to the close of business on Friday, kd. per lb. on American descriptions, making the decline from the highest point Id. per lb. The total sales of the week amounted only to 19,000 bales, of which spinners took 12,900. This is the fifth consecutive week in which spin ners have purchased very sparingly, and on the average have only taken some 17,000 bales weekly, so that they must have reduced their stocks 50,000 bales. On Satur day, however, although the sales only amounted to 4000 bales, including 1500 on speculation, the market was steadier, with greater regularity in prices. The Cambria steam -ship arrived this morning. The estimates previously given are in some instances reduced, ranging now from 2to 2,300,000 bales ; but the receipts had increased. The shipments for the week to Great Britain were 23,000 bales, and the weather generally continued fine. The market this day has been very languid, and the sales sum up about 4000 bales, (chiefly American, at ad. to 61d. per 1b.,) at a decline generally of an eighth per lb. on Friday's prices. The stock is 100,000 bales less than it was this time last year, and as the spinners in many in stances have nearly exhausted their own, we may look for more doing before very long. By the official tables published by the Board of Trade for the month ending the sth November, there has been imported 145,617 qrs. of wheat, and 188,602 cwts. flour ; whereas, the quantities taken for consumption are 154,193 qrs. wheat, and 196,697 cwts. flour, thus showing that the demand has been in excess of the arrivals by 8,576 qrs. wheat, and 7,495 cwts. flour ; whilst, on referring to the importations for the same period last, we find there were 'entered for consumption 506,721 qrs. wheat, and 251,182 cwts. flour, from which it is contended by some parties that the recent fall in wheat is not so much due to the arrivals from abroad as to a general disposition manifested by our growers to force their produce upon the market, irrespective altogether of the prices ruling on the conti nent. It should, however, with more justice be ascribed to a combination of causes. Farmers finding themselves possessed of more than an average amount of produce, owing to the plentiful harvest with which this country has been favoured, it is natural that they should be desirous to effect sales ; but as we find at Newcastle-upon-Tyne that farmers' wheat realises an advance, while the foreign article remains stationary in value, it is clear that the demand for native produce is in excess of the supply, and that consequently the weight of foreign importations may be considered the chief cause of the depression in value. It is not necessary for importations to be taken imme diately into consumption to effect a depreciation in prices. Farmers' wheat is also higher at Wisbeach. With these exceptions the English markets are generally dull, and lower. In Ireland, although the English advicss always do much to rule the markets, only a partial participation has taken place, and a pretty general improvement is ob servable in the demand for Indian corn, which in some instances is 2s. 6d. per ton dearer. Advices from Youghal, however, are of an opposite tendency. But few transactions have taken place •in Brunswick street since Friday in wheat and flour; it is, however, anticipated that the decline in London, as noticed below, will have some effect upon to-morrow's market. There is little Indian corn offering at present, owing to which rather better prices have been obtained. Since Thursday last the demand for Sugar has not been active; grocery descriptions of W. India are becoming scarce, and command full prices, but for other sorts former rates are barely maintained ; the Sales consist of 300 hhds. W. 1., 5000 mats Mauritius at 375. to 375. 3d., and 500 bags Bengals, dates 345. 6d. to 355. No sales in Molasses. Rum steady ; 60 puns. Demerara sold at 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d. for 38 per cents. Rice very quiet. The demand for Coffee is unabated, and no doubt a further rise in the value of all descriptions will take place. The sales comprise 150 tierces Jamaica at full rates ; 300 bags native Ceylon 505.; and 51s. has been refused for a parcel consisting of about 1000 bags good ordinary. 500 bags Costa Rica realized 50. per cwt. for fair ordinary. Cocoa has also been in great request both by the trade and speculators ; 2000 bags Guayaquil fetched 265. 6d. per cwt. ; small parcels have been placed at 275. 6d. to 28s. Jute is not much wanted; about 1500 bales have changed hands at £l2 7s. 6d. to £l4 10s. per ton for fair ordinary to middling; a small parcel of very superior quality brought as much as £l9 per ton : good and fine quality is very scarce. For Nitrate of Soda there is a speculative inquiry, and prices have advanced to 12s. 6d. to 12s. 9d. per cwt. In Saltpetre there is little stirring. A reference to the circular of Messrs. Duncan and Ewing shews that during the present year the importa tions of Colonial Timber have considerably increased, while those from the north of Europe have decreased more than one-half, the tonnage being From Ist Feb. Same time Average for 4 to 30th Nov. 1849. last year. years previous. North American C010nia1..206,567 178,007 182,625 North of Europe 12,204 24,838 28,633 The circular further states that " The aggregate supply since the commencement of the year of import considerably exceeds an ordinary quantity, which causes the market to continue in a depressed s tate, prices are somewhat lower than they were a month ago. Several of the importers, however, looking forward to an improvement in the spring, prefer storing their cargoes than to accept the present very low rates ; this for a time has a tendency to steady the market, but when these cargoes come to be offered for sale in the spring it may be the means of checking an advance that otherwise might take place." _ The comparative prices of colonial wood present a curious irregularity ; but as these must in some measure depend on the relative imports, we subjoin both Import SincelstFeb. Sometime Prices from to this date. last year. this date Same time last year. Quebec 68,705 logs Pine 49,625 aellwid@ald 14 —l4k St. John, ' N.B. 32,441 „ 33,860 1.... • .18 —l9i 15 —lB „ Other f Miraml3-14 13 —l3k ~ Ports 9,231 ~ 12,1431 Pictou 12— 0 12 —,O „ Quebec337,447pcsDeals 182,808 { r'p in r e uce l 6 I ° s?- 7 7 1 216 1( 0 ) . 1 . 6 1 r, 5 ,. { Pine, 2d®2411 2p?}disft,2in St. John, &c. ' 2,3, 1,438,87 arc. ~53'.042pcsPInkst,,, 1 Sprucell--li Ig-14 „ Quebec 5,442 logs Oak 3,402 is 7@is 9 is 9@2s Wt. Messrs. Holme, Slater, and Crook attribute the present low rates to " the great difficulty of storing the immense quantities which have latterly arrived, and the great ex pense of performing this operation in Liverpool ;" and adduce arguments to prove the superior advantages of Birkenhead, where, they say— " The importer or dealer can hold his timber in the store at the moderate rate of WI. per foot per year, with a trifling charge for attending the rafts and keeping them in repair, de livering the timber afloat to the various carriers, and ensuring its safe custody. Another heavy expense and annoyance is here avoided, viz., the heavy dock fines • which often in Liver pool, during the busy season, amount to a considerable item. The advantages offered in this place are so self-evident, that we need only enumerate a few of them, sheaving how much greater the facilities are here than in Liverpool, to induce the importers to give it their serious consideration. The timber is here discharged into the water without the expense of teams of horses, and removed to the store without the expense in- curred by this process as in Liverpool; the vessels for trans porting it to the place of consumption can enter the place of deposit and take the timber on board without expense to the purchaser ; and if it has to go by rail, it is floated to the railway wharf in like manner." American Lard has declined 6d. per cwt. A moderate business is reported in Bacon, on terms about 6d. to ls. easier than last week. The imports of Cheese have been large, and prices have receded 2s. per cwt. Beef and Pork are both dull, the tendency being downwards in value. The first parcel of new Beelhasarrived from Baltimore. Tallow - has recovered the decline mentioned in our last WOOL AND OIL, Unlike the Cotton market, some new feature of which is developed day by day, and reported each afternoon in shoals of little octavo circulars, the Wool trade, although both important and extensive, is slower in its movements, and more subjected to the influence of periodical sales, so that we have to wait patiently for the monthly circulars, for anything like succinct details of the progress of the market. Messrs. Joseph Robinson and Co. published the following particulars on Saturday : " Considering the reduced stock, and limited imports, a fair business has been done during last month in wool ; and although the market is cleared of most useful descriptions, no advance in prices can be notified ; still the feeling is in favonr of a rise, probably the commencement of the new year will cause a move upwards. Throughout the scene of manufacture, mills continue fully employed, and are working mostly to order, sheaving that the trade is in a healthy state, nothing need be feared for sometime hence, seeing, at this advanced period of the season, no falling off in the consumption. Buenos Ayres has been more freely sold by private treaty, especially for export; sales have been effected in Greasy Barbary, Washed Oporto, Egyptian, Turkey, East India, and Peruvian, &c. In Russia little doing. There is a demand for Cordova, a shade under the figure asked • also for good Pe ruv i an , o f w hi c h not much is to be had ; other descriptions of coarse are in request at the quotations. Public sales were held here on the 23d ult. ; small parcels only were offered, consisting of Australian, East India, and Washed Peruvian ; the attendance was moderate for the quantity ; all the Australian and East India was dis posed of at full prices, and the Peruvian would have sold at the current market value, but was withdrawn for higher rates. There is now a bare supply of Mohair, no sales are reported. Alpaca is in demand, and scarcely any here. Scotch : Trans actions continue on a limited scale, though more has been sold lately ; Cheviot is enquired after, but few sales ; very little doing in Laid and White Highland at the quoted prices, and holders refuse to submit to any reduction.—English and Irish : Sales are trifling, the demand being rather easier ; there is a want of assortment, or more could have been cleared. The metropolitan sales commenced on the 29th ultimo, and will continue some time, the quantity brought forward being about 20,000 bales. " Although the oil Market was quiet since our last, holders are firm, and no change is to be notified in value ; more enquiry is evinced recently, and we see no prospect of a reduction, but the contrary, for consumers are only indifferently supplied." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON MONEY MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Consols opened and closed good. Closing price, 95, YESTERDAY LONDON SHARE MARKET Shares did not close quite so good as they were at an earlier time in the day : London 115, 116 ; Midland 51, 2. LONDON CORN MARKET YESTERDAY The display of Wheat this morning from Kent was small ; from Essex, moderate. The foreign arrivals being large, a slow business resulted, at a reduction of fully 2s. per qr. from the rates of Monday last, on both English and Foreign. The amount of Barley brought forward was not met by a corre sponding demand, and prices declined Is. to 2s. per qr. Oats were very difficult to sell, on terms 6d. to Is. per qr. easier. Beans and Pease both dull, and cheaper. Town-made Flour moved off tardily; ship markets in some cases Is. per sk.lower. English Red Wheat White „ • ARRIVALS 38s. to 435. 41s. to 48s. English Wheat .. ..2,iii Foreign.. .. 23,40 C „ Barley.... 2,897 f , 32,923 ~ Oats 1,114 „ ... . 51,654 „ Malt 3,134 „ Flour 4,853 „ .... 4.708 „ Beans 923 „ .... 1;268 ‘,.............--.................... LITERARY NOTICE. The Covenants Distinguished ; a Sermon on the Restora tion of the Jews. By the Rev. Dr. M'Neile. Liver pool: Newling. WE have already observed that this sermon was preached in St. George's, Bloomsbury, and has been published in compliance with a wish expressed by a considerable num ber of clergymen, who heard it. It is a most masterly argument, and will well repay a serious and pains-taking perusal. The reverend author selects as his text the seventeenth verse of the third chapter of Galations.— " And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the Law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." The covenant here referred to, being, as the author contends, the promise made to Abraham, and to his seed, of " all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession" (the two phrases of " the covenant," and " the promises made to Abraham," beingused synonymously by the apostle,) was entered into with Abraham without any condition whatever. " There is no intimation of any contingency : no hypothesis of obedience on the part of Abraham or his descendants. * * * What consisted of free and absolute promises to Abraham, the apostle calls a covenant confirmed in Christ," who, in ' due time performed all the conditions required by the high and holy moral government of God." This covenant he then contrasts with that made with Moses, " four hundred and thirty years after," which the author argues was conditi ona l th roug h ou t , and which has been utterly abolished, and has totally vanished away. " The contrast between the language of this covenant and the promises made to Abraham is most striking. The blessings held out are the same—prosperity to the nation —salvation—and the land—but the manner of speaking of them is totally different. Here is not the absolute I WILL; but the avowed condition and contingency, If ye be obedient. Here nothing was confirmed in Christ,' but all wlitt d to be confirmed by the persevering obedience of the people." That these two covenants (the Abrahamic and the Mosaic) are therefore .essentially different—that the Mosaic is abolished—that the Abrahamic is not and can not be abrogated, and that the promise of the land to the Jewish nation is a part of the Abrahamic covenant ; all these positions are in this discourse demonstrated with a brevity and clearness which at once rivet attention, and go far to carry conviction, and afford another instance of the author's peculiar power of discrimination between " things that differ." The following eloquent passage is very forcible : " What then? Does the failure of the Mosaic disannul the Abrahamic? This is the question: and St. Paul gives the an swer in the words of ourtext The covenant which was con firmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred sad thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should ma k e th e promise of none effect.' "If the Mosaic and Abrahamic covenants be identified as one and the same, as by some persons they inconsiderately have boon, then in thy total vvi et}, of the Muscle, trie Anranamic luso is totally wrecked. Suppose such a statement as this—God's national covenant with the Jews was originally made between God and Abraham, as the father of the Jewish nation. It was successively confirmed by him with Isaac and with Jacob. It was solemnly ratified at the base of Sinai, where Moses sprinkled with blood the book of the covenant and the people of the covenant. "This, you will observe, represents the two covenants as o ne and the same.* The Mosaic is confessedly abrogated, and ac• cording to such a statement as this, so also is the Abrahamic abrogated. The promise of the land to Abraham is gone. So also the promise of Messiah made to Abraham is gone. And the promise of preservation to the Jewish nation is gone. All is gone. It is gratuitously inconsistent, first to identify the Abrahamic covenant with the Mosaic ; then to declare the Mo saic done away; and then to plead for a part, for any part, of the Abrahamic as not done away. "If the promise of the land in the covenant with Abraham be abrogated, so also is the promise of Messiah in the same covenant, and so also is the promise of preservation to the Jews as a nation. " And on the other hand, if Messiah be indeed come according to Abrahamic promise, and salvation in him be proclaimed to the Jews notwithstanding their failure and forfeit under the Mosaic covenant; and if the Jews, under the most unfavoura ble circumstances for preservation, be preserved to this day as a distinct nation according to Abrahamic promise, notwith standing their failure and forfeit under the Mosaic covenant : if two out of the three promises made to Abraham, and con firmed in Christ, have thus survived the Mosaic ruin ; the third will be found to survive also, and the land of Canaan will be given to the Jewish nation according to Abrahamic promise, notwithstanding their long failure and forfeit under the Mosaic covenant. "For what saith the Apostle? This he says—' that the cove nant that was confirmed before of God in Christ (the Abra hamic), the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after (the Mosaic), cannot disannul, that it should make the promise (in any part of it) of none effect.' " "* On the supposition of the promises to Abraham, and the law by Moses, being successive ratifications of one and the same covenant, how could it ever have been imagined that the one could disannul the other? And how utterly useless would be the statement of the Apostle, that the one cannot disannul the other. How fallacious also the pointed contrast which fol lows, between the law and the promise : If the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise : but God gave it to Abra ham by promise;' therefore it is not of the la w . A n d there fore, although th law be abrogated, the p r o m i se may st ill b e standing and sure." On the subject of the ministry of a Christian Missionary to the Jews we have the following lucid statement in a note : "The question under present discussion is not what a Chris tian missionary ought to preach to the Jews, but what a stu dent of Holy Scripture ought to anticipate, as the revealed pur pose of God towards the Jewish nation. "On the primary duty of a Christian missionary, there ap pers to be no difference of opinion. All agree that it is to preach the Gospel,' to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.' To the Jew, with special reference to the promised Messiah, opening and alleging that Messiah, as predicted by the Pro phets, must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead ; and that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the Messiah. Neither does there appear to be any difference of opinion as to the spiritual character of true Christianity, in which all national distinc tions are lost sight of, so that there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, but all are one in Christ. and Christ is all in all. "But when the Jew;hears the Gospel, and attends to the state ments which aim at convincing him that Jesus is the Christ ;' when he hears prophecies of the Old Testament cited, such as Isaiah vii. 14, liii. 4-9, and facts of the New Testament ad vanced, as fulfilments of those prophecies : when he assents so far, feeling the force of the reasoning, and then assigns as his reason for refusing to go farther,—his reason for finding it im possible to come to the missionary's conclusion,—that many other things, predicted with equal plainness to be done by Messiah, have not been done by Jesus Christ : when he says, The argument which would convince me, by shewing that Jesus was literally born of a virgin, invites me at the same mo ment to expect that he would as literally occupy the throne of David, and reign over the twelve tribes of Israel—what is the missionary to say? "He must either, first, give up the argument, unable to maintain his ground ; which, of course, he is not disposed to do "Or, secondly he must introduce a new species of interpre tation, forsaking the literal, on which he had up to that point relied, and presenting, by such inconsistency, a serious, if not a fatal hindrance in the way of an intelligent Jewish inquirer. " Or, thirdly, he must candidly admit the force of what the J:w says, and plead for time. " The Christian argument, in a syllogistic form, stands thus. No one but Messiah could really fulfil any of the things pre dicted of him, Jesus has fulfilled some of them. Therefore Jesus is Messiah. "The Jewish argument thus :—lf Messiah be come, all things predicted of him must be fulfilled. Some things predicted of him are not fulfilled. Therefore he is not come. "The Christian responds, nego majorem. It is not true that if Messiah be come, all things predicted of him must be already fulfilled. It is predicted of him that he shall eome again. The point, then, at issue is—Shall the Christian consent to give up what has actually been done? or shall the Jew consent to wait until more shall be done?" THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication, we have experienced changes of weather such, though seasonable, as was on the whole severe. On Tuesday a frost set in, and continued, with increasing severity, for about forty-eight hours. So keenly did it freeze on Tuesday night, that many parties enjoyed the pastime of skating in Sefton Meadows upon ice, upwards of two inches in thickness. It was not probable, however, that a frost so severe a priori would long endure, at so early a period of the winter; and it was succeeded by cold and almost conti nuous, and generally heavy, rains, with great humidity of atmosphere during cessations, amounting to " a Scotch mist," which (as the saying is) will wet an Englishman to the skin. Nearly all outdoor work was necessarily sus pended, but there was much employment for cabs, cars, and omnibuses. The wind was generally from the south or S.E. On Sunday it rained heavily during the day and great part of the night, with little intermission. Yester day was, on the whole, dry, with cold winds, varying from, in the morning. south to east, and E.N.E. in the evening. bec. 4, lii4l. ) THE ORANGE SOCIETY IN IRELAND AN D THE GOVERNMENT. The public will remember the h ow l w hich was s et the popish and " liberal " factions, on both sidessef channel, at the impropriety of th e Orangemen o f o clod refusing to allow themselves to be unresistingly but the by bands of armed Ribandmen at Dolly's Brae , " eager delight with which these factions hounded on 1 '; vengeance of the pitiful Whig government against Roden andd others. In reply to the storm of abuse T ed which the whole Orange b o dy were a t th a t time Oro the government authorities i n D u bli n wer e reminded T ee . there had been a time when, the British dominion inn_„th land being threatened, they had not thought it be . them to court the aid of, and even to arm and disclll4l; the Orange body for the protection of the throne. I , U i n g authorities, however, chose to ignore the charge of ba`_ ever so recognised the existence of the Orangemen. s'oo legally constituted body; and for the last few weeks gland lodge in Ireland has been sitting to collect eriu; O f and prepare a report, vindicating their own version their transactions which had taken place between t 17,0 selves and the Irish government. Their report is L . published, and we proceed to l a y a f ew o f its leading IP. tures before our readers. at its In the year 1848, when th e R e p ea l ag it a tion was e a, height, and a physical f orce re b e lli on open l y threatq lo the Orange brethren, i n di gnan t a t th e re presentat put forth by the Repe a le rs th a t th ey were disposed either to side with the rebel party or to remain neutral ia_,, conflict, gave expression to those sentiments of loY,'? awhich utteredh ad ever fern loud been denialch characteristic c t Le e r i s foult ic of as p t e h r e s i i r e n i the" them. At a meeting of the Dublin Lodge, where dr expressions were these expressions were made, a brow, unknown at the time to the members personally, wa s ' O l troducud as Cel. R. W. Phaire, a past grand real o , the Wexford Orangemen. A few days after the wee _,,,,,' Col. Phaire waited on the grand master and grand sL"'", tary of the Dublin Orangemen, on behalf of the Oevlii, meet, with a request that they would withdraw the 0 dress and resolutions which had been agreed upon , .. A. they would embarrass the government, and would in dition give whatever information they could as to the' ; chinations of the rebel party. In the course of the nef e a tions of the body with this officer, occasionally ass is p.. we are told in the report, was " Major Turner, his cellency the Lord Lieutenant's !ale Master of the lio.r.seoi; and in which persons high in office afforded codfirms" it of the genuineness of Colonel Phaire's representatio n e s r l i , was intimated to the Orangemen that the Irish ge c _ it y, n eas stitn t u ti p e o a ., ; ment placed much reliance on their coarage and loYe , tl that, iu the event of an insurrectionary outbreak pos ts l great moment would be confided to their keeping , a a s st that detachments of the military should be so ordered to aci in concert with them." The body naturally received these marks of confiden.Z with satisfaction ; but de man d e d, as a proo f o f sineet i on the part of government, a grant of 500 stand of s 4 or the means of purchasing them. The reply to of demand was a letter addressed t o th e G ran d SecretarY,__, the Orangemen of Dubli n f rom C a pt a i n J. P. KenneaL if the officer to whose care the military defence of the was entrusted—requesting that he would arrange to ha w ,'" 500 stand of arms pack e d an d cons i gne d "t o his • house." Captain Kennedy's public authority to stir 'l the matter was notorio us •, and the communication s of Colonel Phaire with th e body were confirmed by a °ln. munication from the Lord Lieuten an t' s pr i va t e secretaT Mr. Corry Connella n , an d by f requen t re f erences to ta'' official in the course of the negotiations. In April, however, it was communicated to the Orel, body that the intention of government to supply arms e ; them as a body had been abandoned, and that they w a . to recefve them at the public depot ; and, indignaTce§ at this breach of faith and paltry pandering to the preLe u n i 0 of rebels in arms, they insisted upon their recogniti c tte " loyal Orangemen" as part of any compact with r ; Whig government, the Lord Lieutenant's officials haV i a studiously withheld the title after his first cominuniea4 o witn the body. This was conceded in several interrtee, between the Grand Master and Major Turner, in $1 the latter expressed himself " authorised by Lord J e s s ; rendon to say how much indebted he and tha govell 3 .1 of the country felt to the Orangemen for their coed through the troubles of the spring of 1848." The ." Major even expsessed his own wish to be made an Orang e ' man. The question of a su pply o f arms was n ow t b : only one left to be arranged ; and in this the goversne:, seemed afraid to commit themselves, but resorted body evident subterfuge, jesuitical enoug h t o d ece i ve a ny Du: of straightforward siri plain-dealing me n . After alt.r; terview on tt e subje c t b e t ween L or d E nn i s kill en an d 0 0 0 brethren and Colonel Phaire, the latter retired with tt l in ultimatum of the body, a n d re t urne d w ith a l e tter, d which he gave his guarantee for the purchase of 500 stir it of arms. The letter was returned by Colonel Phaire,,,, the time; and, as sin ce p u bli s h e d b y hi m, turns ou t to" - a guarantee to iaise the required money by a subscriPt sfrn ; Cheques for £603, drawn i n f avour o f th e G ran d Maste of Dublin, were accordingly received from Captrin nedy within a few days, and the arms subsequentlypnt chased. That the government themselves were cogn_ i tan of the whole tra n s ac ti on — an d th a t , i n e ff ec t , the Du" were armed by the Lord Lieutenant, is evidenced 10 fact that only one person besides Captain Kenned and relative signed the p re t en d e d su b scr i pt i on, w hich u' ss never called for throu g h i ns t ruc ti ons t o t h e po li ce for tr; delivery of the arms. The case of government complies_," with the arming of the Or angemen i s per f ec tl y c l ea r. b": ever it may be denied by themselves, the London Ti°"" and others of their hacks. On Sunday morning, in Lambeth Church, just as t he rainister had commenced to read the Psalms for the ( 15 1 a respectably dressed person In oilo tho pow atos - er fell, and expired. MARRIED. pitt. On the 27th ultimo, at St. Michael's Church, Upper o street, by the Rev. H. Carpenter, M r . JOHN HARRISONL , Mrs. M. WEBB. On the Ist instant, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Ed 01 0,,,.. street, by the Rev. P. Levey, JOHN, e ld est son o f t h e latejA , JAS. WILLS, of Higher Seaco m b e , t o FRANCES TERM' youngest daughter of the late Mr. JOHN MORAN, of town. On the 2nd instant, at same pl a ce, by th e R ev. H. Carpe nor, Mr. JACOB BERRY to Miss ELIZABETH JOSEPH. o. Same day and place, by the Rev. C. M orra ll, M.A., Mr. Jam' HURLEY to Miss ANN HARRISON. gr• Same day and place, by the Rev. C. M orra ll, THOMAS NICHOLSON to Miss ANN GOULD. gr. Yesterday, at same place, by the Rev. C. Morrall, HENRY STOYDON HIGHAIT, mariner, to Miss . 1,3 " GRIERSON. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET.—YEsTERDA: I ::4, The supply of stock at our market to-day has been laTis than last week, the quality gener a lly secon d rate . There Die a numerous attendance of customers, and prices on the wh may he quoted at late statements. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET ATMOSPHERIC et; Daily Direc- cil / Temperature' tion 4 in Humidity at Fall of a I Pressure at shade by self- Noon. of Wine y R Difference of q Nine Six L.,g thermometer reg i s tering Wet and Dry Rain. Noes. % P; •$4 a.m. I p.m. Max.' Min. I bulb. , , r 4 ' -- -- - __ Deg. In. 2 -- s.E. 3 1 33 2 -- s.E. 44.. 71 o'so s.bya• 45 ,, 1 47 I'3o __ 4 J s-E. 9 41 In. I In. Deg. Deg 27 30'23 30'21 36 29 28 30'10 29'98 39 32 29 29'84 29'83 45 35 30 29'85 29'94 48 43 1 30'13 30'04 50 42 31 29'57 29'76 THE WEATHER.-27th: clear.-28th: ditto; evening cloi s l ot : —29th : light snow ; b reeze ; li g h t ra i n, continuous. rsiti dense fog; day clear; night, heavy rain.—Dec. let foggY ;Ad continuous.-2d : rain continuous I night, stiff breeze breeze; fair; clouded SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3.—Wind E.S.E., fresh. of ARRIVED.—West Point, Allen, from New York—Au` Trumps, from qt. Michael's. saile d u. Cambria (s.), Shannon, from Boston, at this port; 21st, and from Halifax 23rd Nov. America (s.), Judkins, hence at New York 17th Nov. Caledonia (a.), hence off Halifax 23rd Nov. Andover, Hayton, hence at Ceara. George Glen, Parry, hence at Para. „ Gazelle, Miller, from Demerara ; Eleanor, Brook, iron; Cat lao, and Cossack, Bradshaw, from Manzanilla, all at Q town. Lord Elgin, Heron, from Cardiff at Payta. —Joseph ortl ey, Morrell, Bdger s ; c h E o . fi a e n i d d , E a n . d Perkins wo o Woodstock, POI New Orleans. s;toWci,Dl3.lSaeirvr,eble'.---"4 Liverpool, Irving, hence at Apalachicola. bief Lands, Abbey Barclay; Alcyone, Watson, and r Cottis, hence at Savannah. Defence, Brewster, from Newport at Virginia. Robert Burton, Decan, hence at Philadelphia. W. H. Harbeck, hence at New York. 4.. conv ict Robert, Beauchamp, hence at Boston. CAPE TOWN, 11th Oct.—At a meeting of the Ao. l- s tore S Association, held this morning , it was resolved—That al l and shops be shut up, and business suspended. PHILADELPHIA, 19th Nov.—The Tuscarora, TuileY , g iver Liverpool to this port, was driven on shore near lodit. The 16th instant, bilged, and has ten feet of water in her ho crew and passengers saved. k i e l The Caleb Grimshaw, Hoxie, hence to New York, W l f t i o o Westernliten she lsla was to t a ll y l 2 t h N d o es v t . r , o a y n e d d c A t le r o. t e r." b at ur s n e l a ng n ti e l a l r th t e he lBth lee of Flores. The crew and passengers, nearly 400 sou:,7yfifil saved by the Sarah, Cook, from London to New Bru n twohoikchthreempeoaipnleedtboyFtahyeal, wherevesself sh ort e ashrweedagualnecrl ednigtohtsionvef them to New York. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1849. 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