The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

Mr. En An nous TO CORNESPONDw.NTS would not admit of EN. ministerial man as '' Ego" linst ministers on Monday ew poor-law into Rochdale. ertisements and other matter, which , stponement, hai again prevented the Itberpool 4)tanbarti. TUESDAY MOING, MARCH 25, 1845 We do not think that the proceedings, during the past week, of that party in the House of Com- raons who style themselves, p ar exce ll ence , "the farmers' friends," are calculate to confer any bene fit on the class whose interests ihey profess to study. On the contrary, the great mass of the public, and even of those favourably disposed towards the aur►- cultural class • regard with an indignant eye the impediments which have been thrown in the way of the settlement of the Government measures by trifling and captious motions, made night after night Treasury benches; and very justly attribute , entletnen the inactivity from tt, to the pro,. ~igs of these and embarrassment, which must continue to charac terize the operations of commerce until these mea- sures arc ~. producer and artizan was predicted, we find that, ____... It is, we conceive, highly injudicious that such a though to a slight extent the revenue has been be feeling should be allowed to spring up in the public nefitted, these parties have in most cases not been mind. The agriculturists have already quite suffi- sensibly affected. In some of these cases the re eient to contend with in the te m p er o f t h e present d uct i on h as prove d a di rect protection aga i nst the " Liverpool, March 19. times,—in the increasing tendency of modern injurious operations of the smuggler; and in others ha ' v ' e M be ir e bee n LORD, —erlfrboemg to m assureten intention nu than to to nothing p o impose could upon ®pinions towards relaxation of the protective system, the predicted ruin has proved a mere bugbear. Thus your Lordship the unreas y onable trouble of entering into and in the powerful system of agitation which is the reduction of the d u ty u p on forei gn potatoes, any details, or anticipating any of the arguments which organized against them. It is sheer madness, there- from 2s. to 2d. per cwt., was to have put an end to may be adduced in a Parliamentary discussion. fore, in their advoc a t es i n P ar li ament to aggravate t h at b ranc h o f cu l t i vat i on i n Yorkshire, in Ireland, "My simple and sin g l e o bj ec t i n ta ki ng th e liberty o f ad the difficulties of their position by an outcry against and elsewhere. Yet, although the imports rose in d o res h sing your Lordship was to be favoured with a. reference government, which, obviously, can have no valuable two years from the passing of the act from 1794 to s e si ljt t t o er bav f e the engagements into which Parliament f entered for the support of the College o result ; which excites no sympathy in their behalf, cwts. to 99,062 cwts., the latter quantity is only es- 1 Maynooth. and which, fro m th e tr ifli ng nature o f t h e o bj ects t i mate d as the produce of 600 acres of land, or about , " Your Lordship said, in the House of Commons (at 'least, it was so reported in the public papers,) that you contended for, to very many people will appear fac- one-sixtieth part of the consumption of the metro , ' thought itthe bi d e u b ty bs of d the Parliament . to carry out the tious and unreasonable. True, it may be that the polls alone. The duty on onions was reduced from engagements been entered . into with the Col general policy of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues 3s. to 6d. ; yet the quantity imported in the secondwhich h• lege of Maynooth, both in the spirit and letter.' has been directed principally to the removal of COM- year was little more than doubled, being only the i " I was therefore led to conclude that your Lordship's mercial restrictions ; that their amended corn law yield of 116 acres of land—a space said to be de- ! opinion rested, not on any doubtful bearing, or variously has been attended in it s o p erat i on b y pr i ces l ower vote d i n t h e county o f E ssex alone to the raising, estimated value of certai n facts an d arguments , b ut upon actual l d engagement or engagements e m b o di e d i n t than the average which it was est i mate d b y i ts au - not o f on i ons, but of onion seed ! The importation : some thors to establish ; an d t h at , as state d b y M r. Mil es, o f men ' s b oots an d s h oes rose from 5900 pairs to ;son' e F p ro u m the nc r u e m pl e y n w s ith which your Lordship has fa the price of butcher's meat in the metropolitan mar- 16,600 pairs, shelving an increase of between voured me, 1 now perceive that you have no knowled g e kets has been considerably reduced. But really, 10,000 and 11,000 pairs, and women's in somewhat of any such document (from which I confiderely infer with no favourable predil ec ti on f or many o f t h e i r greater proport i on. Y et assum i ng that every inha- that no such thin g ex i s t s ) b ut th at your op i n i on rests on generally measures, and no symp a thy w i t h t h e very cava li er bi tant o f t h e metropo li s an d i ts v i cinity wears out f ac t s ra fo tu te re pa to tlia di m sc e u n s t s at large until th e w h o l e style in which they ar e i n t h e h a bi t o f treat i ng the i r two pa i rs o f b oots or s h oes annua ll y, the increased subjectdknown, and argum en t s w hi c h you t hi n k e o m P e s e h m e friends, when agricultu ra l quest i ons are under dis- i m p orta ti on would not supply the wants of one- " I will not, of course, intrude any further discussion cussion, we must submit that some consideration is hundredth part of that population alone ! of the subject upon your Lordship, or expect you to take ' the trour,le of noticing this letter. But, however due to the position of ministers, placed as they are The remainder of the articles particularized, as We are happy to be able to state, that the demonstra ffaoctory your Lordship's reservation of your arguments satis in antagonism upon these questions to a powerful chewing these results, will well repay an attentive Lion of the Protestants of Liverpool,' against the Govern agitation out of doors, and in the House of Corn- perusal of the pamphlet. We must come, however, w r in th a e re fl i o n or a of the otousbeesotfLosmnmswoents them ay there,betothitosise ment proposal of an increased national grant to Maynooth, Mons itself. Nay, we may without hesitation ex- to the statesmanlike conclusion which Mr. Glad- obviously not the most satisfactory arena for Lord- has now been definitively arranged to take place on Mon your day week, the 7th proximo, in the Royal Amphitheatre. press our conviction that, under all circumstances, stone draws from the whole facts stated, so far as ship's constituents. Sir Robert Peel and his colleague s , by th e i r corn - th e B r i t i s h pro d ucer i s concerne d : , " I trust, theref ore , th a t you w ill ki n dl y excuse me, The Resolutions will be move d b y some o f t h e most when I take advantage of the connexion of this comes- eipine r nt t member i s m of h t a h v e e mercantile bi aristocracy and clergy law and other similar measures, made for the agri- "That in some few instances," he remarks, "among .sbamneo of lethargy come for n wa o r n d ttboisre vitals ue cultural party a very advantageous hargain,—a much alterations so numerous, the British producer may have pondeneewith your Lordship's respected name and ex- °I . been subjected to inconvenient pressure, I can readily tended . influence, to state briefly some . of my own convic- Liverpool from the better than they seem capable of suggesting for tions (in which I doubt not many millions of her Majesty'sdisplay question ; and . we may with safety anicipa p te a of believe : that increased importation has produced benefit honest consistency, of right Protestant and Tory feeling, themselves, if we may take the abortive proposal of to the public, almost follows, as a general rule, from the subjects will concur) upon this subject. Mr. Miles as a specimen of their financial ability. fvct that it has taken place. That the degree of increase ' " I believe, that as it has pleased Almighty God to bless and vigorous eloquence, which will serve at least to strip It is absurd in Mr. Miles and his supporters to has ordinarily been so limited, appears to me, on the us with a revelation of His will, that revelation cannot be disregarded without , guilt . in the act, and danger in the from around the subject the Jesuitical subleties and the q btal gso . expediency which it is sough . t to b . e whole, to be a fact full of instruction, and gives rise not in a remission of taxes to the amount of consequences, whether it be done by a nation or by an surrounded, if even it fail to arrest the approaching evil. only to the supposition that foreign competition has often The nation will at least have its eyes opened to the nause upwards of six millions sterling, since 1842, the individual man only.' stimulated improvements which have enabled the British agricultural interest h ave h a d no b ene fi c i a l s h are. producer to repel or to endure it., but also to th e i n f erence " I believe that a national adoption and encouragemen t, oneness of the drug, althou g h u n h a ppily it ma y b e com - Where that remission has been upon the raw mate- I have already named—which, if true, is very important of the doctrines and practices of the Roman church is, on 'Jelled to gulp it down. gals of manufacture, it is true that benefit to them —namely, that British industry —even when it is not the part of England, a practical disregard of the authority has only accrued indirectly. And yet how vast supported by superior machinery, by the application of of Almighty God, n d w f ho bi h d a d s plainly condemned f many of lsa capitalie to o n m a large eet tb the scale, in d o industry y b y o r o a t t e h n y sei coaulnttcountries advantages— o on a t SELECT VESTRY. --YESTERDAY. n t T e an a m y o o nn t those o the practices.grant of d A special ttelv m e e o et e i n li Ff e r i ) c f the for Select t - must this have been ! How vast the advantage of" I believe that to increase r g upon r. the prosperous condition of the manufacturing and footing of less inequality than we have been apt to suppose. public money for the support of the College of Maynooth commercial classes,—the consumers of their pro- "It would be well, also, if all parties who conceive and to pledge the state to the repairs of the buildings the y ic a ont w racts recently advertised, for the supplies quired for the Liverpool Workhouse and Industrial ducts,—to the native producer ! But the tariff of themselves to be threatened by impending changes would composing and connected with that college, amounts to a School, for the next six months, when there were pre 1842national adoption a nd a very efficient encouragement o f sent — the Rev. Rector Campbell, in the chair, Messrs. was far from b e i ng con fi ne d to raw mater i als recollect that there a r e u s ually s o me c l asses w h o h ave a the doctrines and practices of the Roman Church. , Houghton, Muncaster, Molyneux, Whitby, Sholfield, of manufacture. It embraced timber and a varier strong interest in exaggerating their force, and that such My conviction, therefore, is, that even if it could be Bright, Thornely, Ford, Green, Kilshaw, Hand, Briscoe, Y interest may either afford a temptatioo to dishonesty, or of imports extensively consumed by the agricultural very powerfully warp the judgment." shown that a constructive engagement (and the plea of a Mellor, Wilkinson, Bennett, Bremn e r ' classes ; and the t ar iff o f 1845 i s st i ll more in favour We may perhaps be twitted by those parties who direct one must now be relinquished) existed to maintain Ferguson and that college, the result w ou ld b e to p l ace us i n t hi s di- the Vestry Clerk. The following are the names of the of the British farmer. Th e c h eapen i ng of sugar will arrogate to themselves the exclusive possession of a viz.:— be to him an important boon, from many conside- right to the title of a free-trader—by the ultra and of our either from deference to the acts and words parties whose tenders were accepted, Mr. James Parker, Rose-hill, ale and porter. g m b u t s y t ; continue or on t to of violate (i e fe t e re h e e r o t atilni the we : Messrs. Jos. and John Fernihough, 2, Parr-street, to rations, as will be the abolition of the glass duties ; unreflecting persons who compose the Anti-Mono- cepts of . the rs :ara e ii whilst, with very few, and those unimportant excep- poly Association—with something like a dereliction thority of the God of our fathers and our own God, we m bacco and snuff. 3 tions, there is scarcely another duty remitted by of principle, or a wish to " steal their thunder," •in must refuse to make ourselves voluntary partakers of our Mr. John Scarborough. i 9, London-road, clogs. r. John Frost, Tarlton-street, ,. shoes and boots. ' which other classes will be benefitted, di rect l y or t h e tone o f approval i n which w fathers sins. Mr. Joshua Henshaw, Ranelagh-street, flour. e have spoken of the lam quire aware that this is a tone uncongenial to Par- Mr. 'William Parry, 53, London-road, tin-ware. remotely, from which the agricultural interest will views taken by the able writer of this pamphlet. liament, and that the ready retort is at hand about the as not benefit as well. Mr. Gladstone himself, however, shall he our ago- sumed interpretation of the revealed will of God. But, Mr. Caleb Ashworth Tate, 17, Great George-place, tea, Upon these grounds we regard the proposition of logist. Upon commercial policy we can unreservedly my Lord, if we once admit the sacred Scriptures to be so m c e o s ffee, and groceries. Upon Miles to relieve the county rates of the sum of adopt his opinions, although, with respect to a few obscure, that it still remains doubtful whether bowing James Marsden s. and Sons, 1, Duke-street, down to images, e. p., and teaching men so, be, or be not, brushes.sr £3oo,ooo,—the estimated amount of half the ex- minor articles embraced in the tariff, upon whose offensive to the Almighty, and such an offence as, in days All the rest of the contracts were referred to the Work house and Finance Committees to examine and report. penses of sessions trials and coroners' inquests, and results he comments, we at first entertained inis- past, incurred crushing calamities, subversive of the most The Board broke up at half-past two o'clock. of the whole expense of assize trials and the mainten- givings. Here is his creed : flourishin g national prosperity, we do, in fact, yield all ante of prisoners in the county gaols, and to transfer "lam a deliberate adherent of that policy which is that is worth contending for, all that Rome has ever con it to the consolidated fund, as both unreasonable described in contemptuous terms as haltin g between two tended for, viz., the practical uselessness of the written and trifling. A n d, more t h an t h at, i t i s a proposi- opinions: between the opinion whi c h regar d s commerc i al wor d o f G od. It i s in vain—it is, I think, an offence to tion to which th e üblic ought never to submit. restriction as being permanently and essentially a goo d, goo d sense an d h onest consistency, to profess to take the P and the opinion which deals with it as an evil n ecessar il y S cr i ptures as our gu id e i n some things, while we so wil Whilst country g e n tl emen pers i st i n ma i nta i n i ng greater than that of a sharp and violent transition to fully and avowedly disregard them in thers. Itis mor e; - air preserv es as a temptat i on to t h eir ill-paid pea- freedom ; as the source of all our economical difficulties ; itis an insult to the Almighty himself, to pretend to be .owding our county gaols with often- and even as a violation of the laws of God. Nor is it a guided by His word, so tar as it involves no practical in . the game laws, it is a protection which . fearful and a languid mean, a mere neutrality, of which convenience among our fellow-men : and, as soon as . the observance is here implied : it is only that reasonable such inconvenience arises, l to find excuses for not being enjoy that at least a portion of the expense of circumspection—that regard to the lessons of the past, in guided by His word any "ring and maintaining them comes out of their ' their detail, as guides for the future—that just compari- "lf England, in her y Pa o r n li g a e m r ent and in her constituen- It is a protection, too, against the I son of conflicting considerations and care to elicit their cies, be content to treat the word of God so, we must only arter sessions prosecutions,—too compound result, which, in almost every branch of legis- patiently await His provoked and sure, though mercifully common in many part s o f th e country ,— w hi c h t h e lation, constitute the universally acknowl e d ge d ru l e o f protracted j u d gments; but all that is required to change summary jurisdi c ti on o f a l oca l b enc h i s quite statesmen, and which have alike marked th e gen i us o f t h e the f ace of affairs, and enabl e us , without hypocrisy, to suffi- institutions of this country as a whol e , and the cha racter see k s h e l ter under the shado w o f th e M ost H igh , i s prac ciently qualified to d ea l w ith, were it no t th a t some of its people. tical consistency in the members of England's Church. needy country att orne y h a s the ear of an easy com- I. " Fo r the desire to realise, under these conditions, a "To say that such views and arguments are not suited miffing magist ra t e . N o , no ; we must not give up I just liberty of trade, I an d eem no apo l ogy requisite to these times, is manifestly not to answer them. They 1 from any adherent of a party which follows in the train profess to rest upon the word of Him who is the same yes to such hands the privilege of dipping extensively, of Mr. Burke and Mr. Pitt as its guides among the lumi- terday and to-day and fore ver ; and unless they can be s, into the consolidated fund ! naries of a former generation, and which has reckoned refuted from the y same source, they must stand. To at- Mr. Canning, Lord Liverpool, and Mr. Huskisson among tempt to refute them from any lower source is to concede its members, within the memory and the experience of their Scriptural character, and to betray the unchristian ...to w0ei...,.. our living statesmen." weakness of thecause opposed to them. To attempt to luthor professes to be ins ~., And, now, with respect to the extent and the turn them into ridicule is to betray worse than weakness. •of the tariff of 1842, or as mode in which Mr. Gladstone—and we may take "As a clergyman of the church of England, I cannot tonewitli a andsafe do m conscience ost take y other than this 'f the principles upon his views as those of the Government of Sir Robert r e e d io a i t c t e ee irLyo en u t r 1 and of the length Peel—would have the principles, which. have thus 1 assur ; ance of your ' cordially undiminished to our Lordship'sPro 'it in future legis- far been so successfully applied, carried into fur- testant faith and our Protestant institutions, and your f, must be re- ther operation. Upan this subject we quote from unshaken desire to uphold them." -sing portion the pamphlet at length without offering a comment " I have the honour faithful and o b e di ent servant. honour to b e , my L or d, -1 opinion, of our own. Remarking upon the e xc l us i ve corn- "Your Lordshipl -, n pos- mercial policy, recently pursued by f ore i gn G overn - " HUGH M'NEILE, " Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P." 'in of ment, which he maintains " demands from us a vi •,l gorous and steady counteraction," he continues,— " But what is the form of that counteraction ? Are we to weary them, by remonstrances, into undoing their acts ? But first, as matters now stand, it is too probable that we should be interpreted by contraries, as Irish pigs are said to understand their drivers ; that the earnestness of our request might be deemed the most demonstrative reason against its being granted. Secondly, to do is one thing, rapidly to undo is a very different one. We ourselves have occasion to urge this plea : we must allow it due weight on behalf of others. We cannot and ought not to expect foreign states at once to break down the lofty bar riers which they have been so carefully erecting. " Shall we then counteract by retaliation? The public sentiment, I think, among us nowhere leans to such a course. For states having more contracted interests to regard, it is, I believe, in most cases, as unwise as at first sight it is seductive : for us it would be suicidal. " Shall we then pursue the daring course of repudiating at once all our own restraints, all our protective duties, high and low, and our Navigation Act, from its first sec tion to its last, in order thereby to prove our heroic sin cerity, and to force a sympathy in other lands, which shall bear down every obstacle, and establish the commercial intercourse of men on the footing of universal brother hood ? This is the sentiment of a hardy minority among us; but the project, on account of its disregard of sub sisting arrangements and habits, is unwise and unjust ; and, what is enough for enabling us to dispense with de tailed discussion upon its merits in this place, it is plainly impracticable. ' the measure upon domestic producers—presents features which eminently deserve attention, and which ought very materially to allay the apprehen sions of those who view with dread the approach of foreign competition, in articles of which domestic industry and labour are principal ingredients; whilst they are calculated to operate as an encouragement to statesmen to proceed judiciously, and with due consideration, to further remissions of duties sup posed to be required for protection. Thus Mr. Gladstone points out a number of articles, upon which almost prohibitory duties were replaced by merely nominal ones, yet upon the import of which the revenue has gained largely, whilst the home producer has not been sensibly affected. In this category are a large number of raw materials, upon which the duties, previously to their reduction, pro duced £294,000, and which, with reduced duties, pro duced last year £834,000—a result which is most satisfactory so far as the revenue is concerned, but infinitely more so when we consider how vast a mass of additional industry must have been employed to convert such materials into manufactured commo dities. Again, with respect to a number of articles, upon which the protective duties were reduced, as the consequence of which certain ruin to the native letter by the same rev. gentleman and his lordship's further reply. The last was received in Liverpool yesterday ; and with it, we presume, the corres pondence will close. " London, March 15, 1845. "Mr DEAR SIR.—I have already, in answer to letters from several esteemed constituents, expressed my regret at finding myself at variance with them on a point so in teresting to the feelings of all of us, as the proposed en largement of the parliamentary grant to Maynooth, but in my replies to them I have thought it better not to enter in detail upon the grounds on which I have formed my opinion in favour of the proposition,—reserving them for that more full discussion of the subject in parliament, in which, ere long, the whole question will be debated, with every advantage for statement and counter-statement, for argument and reply, on every side. To this course I must still adhere. I have no private sources of information upon the subject. I know nothing upon it, to which the world has not full access. Upon the bearing and value of the facts, or arguments, which induce me to think that the state cannot abandon the support of the College of Maynooth, different minds will, I have no doubt, come to different conclusions. " I only ask for myself that credit should be given me, in the conclusion which I have come to, for an undimi nished att4chment to our Protestant faith, and our Pro testant institutions, and an unshaken desire to uphold them. fully into effect THE SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL Yesterday forenoon, a special general meeting of the trustees of this institution was held in the board-room of the hospital, Parliament-street, for the purpose of con sidering the expediency of enlarging the present building; Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq., the President, in the chair. It was decided that it was highly desirable that a story should be built on each of the two wings now forming wards, for the reception of fifty or s i x ty a dditional pa tients, in consequence of the increase of casualties in that locality. It was determined also to issue a circular letter, soliciting the aid of the public, so as to raise about £l4OO, the sum required for that specific purpose. The Chair man submitted a letter which he had prepared to that effect, which was approved of, and a sub-committee being appointed to carry out the object, the meeting separated. Before leaving the hospital, we made a cursory inspec tion of the whole of the premises and arrangements, and may state that no similar establishment in the kingdom is in finer condition or better adapted, in every depart ment, for the humane purposes for which it is intended. The principal front (to Flint-street) is of two stories in elevation, and of neat. but unassuming, architecture. Here, below, is the board-room, surgeons' parlour, &c., together with a spacious vestibule ; and above two excel lent and cheerful wards for the female patients, private rooms for the resident officers, &c. From the vestibule a large folding door leads into a spacious corridor, out of which are the entrances to the respective wards for the males, and to the nurses' closets, and other convenient small apartments between these wards, of which there are four larger and two smaller. This corridor is well lighted from the roof by sky-lights. and serves as a pro menade for the convalescent patients. At the further end of it is the operation-room, forming a semicircle, with seats round it for the students in surgery ; adjoining is the surgery or laboratory, commodiously fitted up, and well stocked with drugs; also an excellent bath-room, an out-patients' room, and the porters' rooms. The heating and ventilating departments throughout are on the most approved principle that modern science can suggest, and are all that can be wished. The wh le is beautifully clean. The building is cellared throughout. and in this lower part there is a spacious kitchen, with every conve nience, scullery, large washhouse, stoves for drying the clothes, a capital laundry, &c. &c. The surgeon (Mr. Medcalfe) and his assistant (Mr. Challinor) reside on the premites, and are, one or both of them, constantly in attendance. About sixty-two beds can now be made up, and there are at present fifty-seven in-patients ; but as it is desirable that a nu m b er o f b e d s s h ou ld b e kpt in rea diness for patients,brought in, accidents (about the docks especially) being very numerous, it is clear that the pre sent number of patients in the house is a full complement, and that the increasing population, and consequently increasing number of accidents, fully justifies the trustees in their present appeal to their benevolent townsmen for the enlargement of the building. We were politely shown through the house by the respected matron, Miss E. Jackson, and were much gratified by the order and regu larity we everywhere observed. " We may differ now, as we have before, as to the means—we differ as little as ever upon the object. " Believe me, my dear sir, yours, very truly, " SAN DON. affirm tha Bantry, an ders agair own pocke evil of paltry go for such purpose. N. pamphlet has just been published by Mr. W. E. ( adstone, whirl- — l- lether we look upon it as afford (; ' - ie i. • professes to be his object, 2 -w of the oper on of the tariff of 1842, or as containing an ,- us, what ti a revs which t exposition of the principles upon ziff was framed, and of the length out in future legis- F . esent Government, must be re with equal interest by the reasoning portion - -Timunity, of all shades of political opinion. as emanating from a gentleman pos ..' character and grasp of great fund of commercial to be can like L. " The Rev. Hugh M`Neile London, March 20th, 1815. MY DEAR SIR,—I do not write now for the purpose of answering or attempting to answer the arguments of your letter received this morning. I only wish to set myself right on a point on which I appear to have been misunderstood. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION The expression which 1 am reported to have used in the House of Commons as to the duty of Parliament in acting up to the spirit as well as the letter of its engage ments in regard to the College of Maynooth, referred not to the language of s particular document as to the engagement itself, but to the amount to be proposed this year as compared with that which had been granted from year to year, since theunion, forthe sun?, purpose. Thecon tinuance of the same sum might be considered as acting up to the letter, the proposal of an increase according to the occasion, as acting up to the spirit of the engagement, It was in this sense that the word, were used. The misunderstanding of my meaning was not unnatu ral, especially considering the necessary brevity of the reports of Parliamentary debates, and it is not of much importance ; but as it has been made the subject of ob servation I had rather it were removed.—l am, my dear sir, yours faithfully, SANDON. To the Rev. H. M`Neile. " There remains, I think, only one course—it is to use every effort to disburden of all charges, so far as our law is concerned, the materials of industry, and thus to ena ble the workman to approach his work at home on better terms, as the terms on which he enters foreign markets are altered for the worse against him. I do not believe that this will be a losing game. " If a new tax is laid in Germany upon the iron which our bounteous earth yields us in profusion, that tdx crip ples the power of the country imposing it to compete with us in every one of the hundred branches of trade to which iron is an accessory. If France doubles the duty on our linen yarns, she stimulates us to economy, and bids the smuggler thrive, she taxes her consumer, and fetters that ingenuity and taste on the part of her weavers, which are the main support of her commercial strength. I do not mean that what is undoubtedly injurious to us is to be viewed with satisfaction because it is yet more in jurious to others; but let other nations come to be con vinced that such is the tendency of their present policy, and they will spontaneously save us the trouble of expos tulation, and will hasten to reverse it, for the just and natural reason which alone would warrant their reversing it—namely, not our interest, but their own. " Let us have a few more years of experimental instruc tion, such as that which is afforded by the figures of the statement I have given of the relative growth of our trade with Europe and the world: such results cannot fail to exercise a powerful influence on the intelligence and the will of governments, and of the nations whom they rule. " It is this regard to the course of commerce and of commercial legislation in the world at large which con vinces me of the wisdom of pushing further than might otherwise be necessary, or even desirable, our efforts to relieve the materials of industry from fiscal burdens, and also of endeavouring to diminish (as is just now being done in the case of sugar) the impositions upon articles of consumption, as the state may be able t o a ff or d it. an d our own industry and capital, immediately engaged, to bear the operation, I do not say without alarm, but without real and substantial derangement." Whilst directing the attention of our readers to these documents, we beg to correct an error into which a Conservative contemporary seems to have fallen as to Mr. M‘Neile's position with respect to the movement now making and about to be made against the Government proposal of increasing the grant to Maynooth. Our contemporary, who de precates any interference with the ministerial bed of roses, and who would have us believe that a measure regarded by Churchmen and Protestants as highly dangerous when brought forward by Lord Mel bourne's Ministry, must be perfectly innocuous when introduced by Sir Robert Peel, remarks,— " With Mr. M'Neile and his friends, this is exclu sively a religious question—a question embedded in a strong feeling of conscientious duty—is the reverend gentleman the fountain-head of religions obligations ? Has he consulted the rectors of Liverpool, or other cler gymen, not so high in the church or parish as they, but quite as much entitled to be consulted as Mr. M'Neile himself? If they have not been so consulted, or con sulted, have not acquiesced in the p opriety of the mea sure, then we must, however painful 'must be the task, contend that the intended meeting will be nothing but a party meeting." We subjoin the reply of Lord Sandon to the letter addressed to him by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, which appeared in our last publication, with a second We do not know on what ground he imagines it obligatory in the rev. incumbent of St. Jude's, to consult " the rectors of Liverpool, or the other cler gymen" referred to. If the rectors or the clergy of the parish of Liverpool did not choose to move in the matter, Mr. M‘Neile had a perfect right to con sult his own feelings and take his own steps; and this he could do without the slightest want of cour tesy towards them. Mr. M`Neile is not, we believe, subject to the spiritual authority over him of the Rec tors of Liverpool, his incumbency not even being in their parish. It is a mistake, too, in our contemporary to attribute the entire onus of the movement in pro gress to the rev. gentleman, as he will discover in good time. THE FUNDS • SATURDAY NIGHT.—The news from India. received by the bi-monthly mail, was read with much interest in the city. It had, however, no particular effect on the funds, which continue steady and quiet, with a small amount of business transacting. Consols closed 99k to 100 for motley, and 100 to k for the account. Ex chequer-bilis were 595. to 61s. pm. The foreign securi ties have not exhibited much change. The only altera tion to notice is rather flatter quotations for Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish Five per Cents. closed this after noon 291 to 301 ; the Three per Cents., 401 to a ; Portu guese, 671 to 661; Mexican, 36 to 37 ; the Deferred, 17 to ; Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents., 63 2 . to I; Danish, 90 to 91 ; Colombian, 14k to ; Buenos Ayres, 43 to 44; Brazilian, 90 to 92; and Belgian, 101 to 102. A fine new vessel will be launched from Mr. Steel's ship-building yard, Baffin-street, to-morrow (Wednesday.) ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.—The subject of this even ing's lecture is " The Christian guarding against the love of money, and cultivating Christian liberality." MR. CHARLES KEMBLE.—It will be seen that Mr. Kemble will give a reading from Milton's " Paradise Lost" this evening, at the Collegiate Institution. As this is the first time that Mr. Kemble, or perhaps any one else, has ventured to occupy one evening in readings from this most sublime of poets, the novelty, if not the confident anticipation of most refined enjoyment, must ensure acrowded audience. Mr. Kemble's readings will terminate on Friday week, after which, Mr. Thomas Griffiths, tie most popular lecturer of the day upon Che mistry, will commence a course upon that subject at the Collegiate Institution. THE PORT OF RUNCORN.—Some few years ago a vessel of 200 tons burthen could with difficulty navigate the estuary of the Mersey up to Runcorn. The improvement in the navigation, together with the facilities afforded to merchant craft by the introduction of steam-tugs, is evinced by the following interesting fact. Yesterday, the brig Pomona, of 306 tons, loaded with meal from Ireland, and drawing thirteen feet of water, was towed up to Run corn by the steamer Alice, and safely placed in the Duke's dock there,—which is a considerable height above the high-water level of the river,—locks giving the means of exit and entrance. The vessel, which is larger by one third than any that has before entered the dock, had nearly two feet of water to spare before she would have touched the bottom. THE WEATHER.—The frosty and chilling weather, which had prevailed with slight intermissions for many mouths, broke up on Friday last, and has been succeeded by a mild temperaturelnd occasional heavy showers, so that all vestiges of the severities of the long winter have already disappeared. The change is exceedingly grateful not only to the farmers and gardeners, who may now sow their spring seeds, but to all workpeople whose occupa tions are out of doors, and bricklayers, joiners, &c. are again in full and active employment. The wheat crops in this neighbourhood look well, though less forward than is usual at this advanced time of the year. Vegetation is, indeed, generally backward, as might be expected, but a few weeks, and perhaps even days, of the present weather will bring all rapidly on, and any subsequent severity of frost can scarcely be apprehended. GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGEMEN.—We understand that it is intended to open a lodge of the above loyal order, in Chester, on Sa turday evening next, when various of the officers and brethren from Liverpool and other parts have promised to attend and assist in the proceedings. Contrasting the steady, quiet, persevering loyalty of this body under all circumstances, whether of success or discouragement ; their ready willingness to abide not only by the orders, but even the wishes of the authorities ; with the rebellious proceedings of some other societies of a very opposite character, who hesitate not in acting against the wishes of the magistrates and even the authorities of their own or der, all true and loyal men must be glad to see the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen so rapidly spreading throughout the country. COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY.—It will be seen, from a notice in our advertising columns, that a meeting in aid of this institution is to be held to-morrow, in the Music hall. The society has especial claims on the support of the friends of religion in Liverpool, its object being to send the gospel to our emigrants in those colonies to which the trade from our port is so extensive, and to those settlements of English which our commerce princi• pally has formed in so many foreign countries. The con stitution of the society being that of a strictly Church So ciety, based on sound evangelical principles, must com mend itself to the approval of discerning membersof our church; and as we understand that many of the most in fluential of the clergy have promised their support to it, we hope the meeting alluded to will be well attended. Rev. Hugh Stowell, and Rev. S. H. Merrich, secretary of the Parent Society, it will seen, form the deputation. " THE OLD DUKE IN HIS PRIME."—We had occa sion a short time ago to notice in terms of commenda tion, which we think the piece well deserves both in music and in words, a song (of which we gave the words) entitled '' The Old Duke in his Prime," complimentary to the veteran of " Waterloo" and " The hero of a hundred fights," and who has shown himself not less the staunch and uncomprising guardian of constitutional principles in the senate, than he was the fearless and skilful defender of his countries welfare and honour in the field. The song, we are glad to say, has become popular wherever it is yet known, as a truly English expression of patriotic feeling, both in the poet, our townsman, Mr. Murphy, and the composer, also our townsman, Mr. Molyneux. A copy of the song was transmitted to Lord Sandon, and another to Sir. H. Douglas, by a gentleman of this town, both of whom have acknowledged the receipt of it in a very complimentary manner—feeling that the national sentiments it conveys are in accordance with their own. ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATES.—IO Easter Term, 1834, there were 9,450 certificates taken out, which produced a revenue of £Bl,lBB. The certificates taken out to the Bth of March instant numbered 10,120, and the sum realised therefrom was £89,222. REPEAL AND REDUCTION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES WEST INDIES. The Royal mail steam-packet Severn arrived at s lier The delay which has tak en pl ace i n b r i ng i ng i n t o opera - iampton, from the West Indies, on Saturday n i g ht. Hel p tion the changes effected by Sir Robert Peel's modifica- ;dates are, from Jamaica to the 23d of February, f ib of tion of the tariff is now at an end ; and we may expect Ithe 25th, St. Thomas's the Ist, and Fayal the 1 ' immediately to see every branch of our import trade, March. not e seriously by them, and which f or some ti me past h ave b een Th e d amage caused by the fire at Barbadoes i s 1t 100 seriously embarrassed by the u ncer t a i nt y un d er w hi c h ti ma t e d at more than £40,000 or £50,000, an d the se merchants have laboured, ass ume a v i gorous ac ti v it y . w ill pr i nc i pa l ly fall on the opulent portion o f thew t ia o On Friday morning the autho r iti es o f our C us t om -h ouse mun i ty, who already are planning improvements ill b received their official notification of the passing of the old ground, in streets and houses, many of which I/ resolutions, since which considerable stocks have been en- forthwith commenced. side° 4 tered, or removed from bond, at the new rates. Amongst The west end of Hayti, under Guerrier, the Pre - io the most important of the large nu m b er o f ar ti c l es a d m it- i s f or th e moment tranquil ; but he is far from fittarrible ted duty free, we may enumerate co tt on woo l , f urn i ture post, as th e seeds of intestine convulsion are pe rc t r io / woods. vegetable oils and spermaceti oils the produce of enough, and will break forth at the first oPP °I. O the British fisheries, foreign bar and sc ra p i ron an d h oops , aga i nst t h e J aunes, or coloured people, against vili a .„ the staves, silk raw and thrown, flax, skins, woods for ship- r ancour o f th e bl ac k s has b een transferre d from rb° building admitted as teak woods, unwrought steel, &c. ; whites. It was reported at Jacmel that Santana' a pd upon nineteen sorts of seeds the remission of duty takes President of the Eastern part, had been defeate u ers li; place on the Ist June next. Upon sper mace ti an d sperm h a d surren d ered, with his staff, to Guerrier's gesat oils, the produce of foreign fisheries, the re m i ss i on takes this, however, was not confi rme d on t h e packees leafs place on the Ist of Jan. 1849, and upon fo re i gn w h a l e I n t h e meant i me, b us i ness and industry in the isl e fa r oil and blubber, and whale fins, not prohibit e d, on th e I st a t a l ow e bb . The indemnity to the French i s as oths Jan., 1847. A reduction from a high to a low duty h as ever f rom b e i ng pa i d, though the latter are in bctesie also taken place upon seven or eight articles, of n o ver y H ayt i ans w ill get a l oan, when their squadron, v":: 0 the great moment however, except as entering into the corn- always at Port au Prince, the capital, will pounce `' position of some branches of manufactures. The removal lion's share. tht in of the excise duties has not yet taken place. That of th e F rom th e very f avoura b le season, as wel l as t o pro' auction duty will, however, probably take place immedi- improving cultivation, a larger crop of sugar will " e d. for ately after the termination of the official quarter (the sth d uce d i n t h e W est I nd i es than has been obtainehhtlf,, of April), and the duty on glass a little later in the y ear , many years. J ama i ca, i t is said, will make 50,007 0 r as originally proposed by government. D emerara 45 , 000 , and the other islands one-third 106 A great number of free entries were passed in cons e - h a lf more t h an usual. Agricultural improvelne:to quence yesterday for goods which hove for a considerable paid considerable attention to, and the plough o % o o' time been housed in the bonded warehouses, but which implements of husbandry are fast coming into will Rio the are now free of duty, and the officers of the warehousing- ficially replacing manual labour, and no doubt wib L i si ots department will no doubt be very busy for a time, until end enable the West India planter to compete Wit° the goods on hand, now declared to be free of duty, are grown sugar. Eli- a be tb ' all delivered, when it is expected that the bulk of the f ree A gent l eman, i t i s reported a resident of St. 1 : - P d e goods imported from the present time will be delivered has made a discovery in the manufacture of coffee h l c sit direct from the quay at the side of the importing v esse l, h as ma d e a statement to his brother growers, by vdcloPtei thus doing away with the necessity of placing them a t a ll i s apparent t h at the method he has so succes sfulli a in the bonded warehouses, and thereby relieving the ware- very materially improves the berry in quality. housing department of a great portion of the duty which At Demerara, 220 emigrants had arrived *e a ' , " big" at present devolves upon it, though of course a ddi ng i n Leone, in the barque Arabia. • They were 0. 1 ,sor, proportion to the landing department, and thus s t r e ng th- spirits, and seemed pleased with the change. It Is rose, ening the claims put forth in a r e cen t memor i a l f rom this rally thought th a t th e s y s t em o f em i grat i on will be i ; 00 1 town to the Central Board of Custo ms , p ra yi ng f or an t o answer excee di ngly well in every respect. It rtel' increase of strength in that department. i yet decided to what part the convicts will be trans li Some are of opinion that a p ar t o f B r i t i s h G u iana ',- selected. PARISH AFFAIRS.-IMPORTANT ANNOUNCE- 1 MENT TO THE PARISHIONERS OF LIVER POOL, BY " PUNCH." THE CHASE. FELLOW PARISHIONERS,—Your interests are largely involved in the proceedings of our parochial authorities; and as mine are only so far involved in those proceedings as they affect the prosperity of the newspaper with which it is my pride to be connected, I conceive myself, there fore, much better able to judge how the affairs of your parish can be advantageously managed ihan yourselves. I beg, therefore, to intimate to you that I shall have the honour to present myself to the notice of the annual gene ral vestry, this day, when I hope to make your personal acquaintance. Twice have the authorities of your parish disobeyed • An explosion took place at the patent signallightfardif your earnest desire that the meetings of the Select Vestry factory of Messrs. Robeson, at Poplar, on Satd, r d. should be reported in the Liverpool Mercury, and that which a young man and a young woman were hil.r e io6l enlightened journalist be thus spared the pain of squeezing himself through the keyhole, to the serious derangement EXECUTION.—On Saturday, at Reading, J e Ot t the murderer of his two children by poison, ti t s i d i of his person, in order to catch the stray flowers of ors- the last sad penalty of the law. He persisted id, t oe° tory there delivered. I have myself a deeper interest nocence . to the last, and died in a most hardened ' than my contemporary in wishing that these meetings mind. r bel l should be open, Mercury could only give you dry On Wednesday, as three boys and six men vie e at oae., speeches and musty figures —a matter which I conceive let down a pit near Pontypool, the chain (a patent w bo' to be of very little importance, now that your ancient slipped off the pully wheel and by the jerk broe' 01 0 control over the parish accounts is chiefly transferred to the poor fellows were dashed to the bottom• il i ts lir the Poor-law Commissioners, and the Select Vestry can- were killed, and the rest received, it is feared , fa te not be guilty of the extravagance of putting an extra cur juries. rant into the Christmas pudding of the paupers in your ~.„.. tO, th e : THE PORTLAND VASE.—It Will be interessi••a p r tto workhouse, or an additional handful of meal into their antiquary and the lover of art to know that the ez t ; le si!, cauldron of gruel, without drawing down upon themselves of Mr. Doubleday in the restoration of this vald a o giF condign punishment from Somerset-house. I propose, instead of this, to inform you, not what the Select Vest r y tique, have been so success f u l, th at i t w ill i n the oil does, but how they look when they are doing it. You of a short time again b e su b m i t t e d to public inslihishi shall have, in the inimitable style for which Punch is very little blemished by th e e ff ects o f an i n j u ry cy" celebrated, correct portraits of Bright upon his legs, first seemed to be irrep ara bl e . h trio- ,tol boi Thornely reading his speech out of the crown of his hat, M UMMY FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA.—The h s , &c., &c., which - will form a gallery of comicalities to be of a Portuguese seaman, dug out of the guano at ng' prized for all time, and what is most important to my se lf, in April last, after being inhumed fo r upwards of . t ots will add immeasurably to the already large sale of my in- century, and of which we recently furnished a desc ril e i %trs: valuable publication. is now on view in North John-st r e e t. It is a very„ it 7, Those who know me personally are well awar e th a t I ordinary relic of humanity. Th ousan d s h a ve seekr' visit have no political feeling in this matter. In the co l umns Manchester, and equal nu m b ers w ill, we d o ubt n°" 0 here. PARTY of Punch I am never political, and will praise th e ra di ca l s it PROCESSIONS.-15 p ersons p l ea ded << g il d iit t i s ke i Bright and Thornely, as invariably as I w ill a b use t h e tory members of the vestry. In private life. I associate at the Derry assizes on Monday, "in ignoranc e r y ° quite as much with conservatives as w ith reformers • in- law," of walking in p rocess i on on t h e l ast an nivers il ger deed, the dinners of the fo rm e r I a l ways prefer when 1 the battle o f Au g h rim. The judge deferred th e see hare two invitations on h an d f or th e same d ay. ces.—[ln Liverpool papists can wa lk i n p r ocessi° l ! oi a t li I will not, like an em i nen t b ro th er l um i nary w h o, I repeal and other rebel fl ags an d can p l ay party t niie b - stl II perceive, has addressed you on th e same su bj ect, an d impunity, whilst in Ir e l an d th e p ro t es t an t i s punish sill whose enlightened vi ews o f p ar i s h ma tt ers an d persona l celebrating a day glorio us i n th e anna l s of truece.) interest you will this day have an opportunity of com- freedom. This is " justice to Ireland" with a vengn,,,,, paring with mine, indulge in needl ess r i gmaro l e . E m- INVISIBLE AMATEUR PER FORMANC E AT T 11 5,1 if; phatiCallY, lam a modest ma n . I, th ere f ore , con t ent THENON.—What is that? the r ea d e r will sal' 8 11 00; myself with calling upon you to come for war d on T ues d ay refer him for an answer to the advertisement in: c l e ver ° and elect men as your public servants who will really column. The idea, however, is really novel en u .,,ss serve you, amongst whom will be myself. El ec t men t d and will no doubt attract a lar g e au di e nce, anx t e a l'' who disapprove of extravagance and he av y ra t es —( w h o ascertain what amount of modest mer it blushes 11 05 ,40: should be, of course, men who have the smallest possible our town. The singers —for it is to be a vocal entei - 0 1 amount of rates to pay)—who disapprove of workhouse ment—will, we presume, wear invisible green 0 4 4 0 0 ' immoralities (unlike the Rev. R ec t ors an d th e present raise their mo s t s wee t vo i ces f rom b e hi n d a °''' tory majority) of cruelty to suffering humanity, of illegal Either way will do. payments by means of secret service money ;—but, I find BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—On Eli,the lam getting into rigmarole like my worthy contemporary. an action was tried at Exeter, brought by X 6sili f l° I shall, therefore, close by stating that like him I shall Hillyard Cummins, against Lieutenant Willenford ° fe s $ have a list to propose; and, as a poll will doubtless take 66th regiment of foot, to recover compensatidr!ded Is place, any little favours in the printing line will be thank- breach of promise of marriage. Both parties re 6l 0 0 ; fully accepted by, Tavistock, and it appeared that the attachment Wil e isor, Fellow Parishioners. menced in 1842, when the plaintiff was 17 and th e , it `l i Your obliged and faithful servant, ant 20, but at the request of the parents of bow. f e sc PUNCH. broken off. The lovers were again enamoured ° i n ter; , other, but from some unexplained cause another so ruption took place, when all the letters which ha d . 1) 03 e 1 between them were respectively returned. Sosne"dol l 1842 the defendant's father died, and left the defe". o - sa; considerable sum of money. After this the plain ti ve 0., defendant again met at a ball, where his reser d b e 1 0 r broken, and his resolution taken that she shd, nl „,l l3e o wife. The plaintiff again received his propoFa' , '" e jitq i r , father was applied to, who gave his consent on ,c ° s e t that there was to be no further breaking off of wet Jet t A correspondence was then carried on, his 6f r s d.'' x j, commencing—" My dearest ever-devoted HillY e ;110 , "( thousand loves and angels, dears and darlings l e 1:1 0 ' Another letter opened with—" My dearest dedr'noo; dear, dearest dear:" and if one might judge by t h ,f t',„ 1 !0 ber of "dears," " sweets," " angels," and " Pe', l ° v love of the valiant gentleman was strong indeeu'dail defendant however broke off the match after ~,o'h e , JO cake, clothes, gloves, &c., had been prepared. . 1 ;ie. / returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £7OO dam The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet niefit il Wednesday. 26, a t . Duddon o ld Thursday, 27, at. -- 141 Saturday, 29, at Sfrettenhan i Al a Quarter to Eleven o'clock. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet owe Wednesday, 26. at.. Friday, March 28, at Saturday, 29, a t pentre— h INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH.—We publish in another part of our paper a paragraph announcing that a meeting had been held at Hillsborough, in the diocese of Down and Connor, to consider the changes in the mode of conducting the church service in that parish, of which Archdeacon Mant is the rector. A series of resolutions, strongly deprecatory of the innovations, as well as pe titions to the Queen and the Legislature, were unani mously agreed to. But the most important feature of the meeting was the reading of a letter from thelord primate, toj.he Marquis of Downshire, who had previously written to his Grace upon the subject of the changes lately made in the churches in the county of Down. His Grace laments the dissensions " because men's minds cannot be occupied in such controversies without drawing away their thoughts from the consideration of more profitable and edifying subjects, and also because the energy of the Church, while engaged in strife about what is of comparatively trifling importance, will be slackened in those efforts for the advancement of true religion in this country, which require the hearty co-operation of all its members in order to be successful." His Grace's remarks upon the obsolete laws of the realm, and particu larly as to their bearing on the conscience, with his application of the subject to ecclesiastical laws which have long since been disregarded, deserve to be carefully perused. " The laws," he says, " which regulate the pe culiar ceremonies belonging to our national Church, are, in my opinion, no more exempt from the effects of long usage than the laws of the land. And if the rulers of the Church have for successive generations allowed of that disuse, and do not now command a revival of them, I would hope that the peace of the Church a ill not be disturbed by attempts to return to ancient custcrns where the feelings of the people are repugnant to them." It might be thought that such ssntimen's, expressed by one so high in au thority, although only in the way of an opinion, would have had some effect on the conduct of a junior and a subordinate. But no: when the Marquis of Downshire received this communication from the Primate of Ireland in reply to a letter from himself, he informed the Arch deacon of its contents, and wished him to read it. But Mr. Mant had made up his mind and taken his measures, and was so much above remonstrance, even of an Arch. bishop, that he declined to receive the letter—he declined to enter into discussion—he declined an interview! CONCERT AT BIRKENHEAD.—It is announced in ano ther column that Miss Whitnall purposes to give on Fri day evening next a grand concert at the Town-hall, Bir kenhead, when she will he assisted by her pupil, Miss Kelly, Mr. J. S. Reeves, and Mr. Robinson, who will preside at the piano. LANDING STAGES.—It will be observed by an adver tisement in our present sheet that it is in contemplation to form an exhibition of the models and drawings for landing-stages, after the decision of the Dock Committee, and the parties who have sent in either to that body are invited to come forward and take part in a meeting to consider the subject. LOCAL BILLS.—The Wallasey Improvement Bill has been reported, and the report ordered to lie on the table. The Birkenhead Commissioners' Dock Bill is to be read a first:time on Monday next. The Birkenhead Company's Dock Bill was reported on Tuesday, and the report ordered to lie on the table. The petition for the Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool Junction Railwry has been referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. The Liverpool Guardian Gas Bill has been read a second time, committed, and referred to the committee of selection. The committee on the bill bad been fixed for Tuesday, the Btb of April. THE GlPSlES. — Arrangements are making, we under stand, for that beautiful vocalist, Mr. Bansford, of Lon don, to give three nights of his highly-interesting and instructive entertainment, entitled, " Illustrati ns of Gipsy Life and Character," which has met with such im mense success in the metropolis. Considering the very interesting character of the real gips;es, and the very little that is known of them by the people; as a distinct race, their close a pp rox i mat i on to the R ec h a bites mentioned in Scripture ; and their general manners and habits, it can not fail to give the highest interest to such an entertain ment, even apart from the vocal performance, which, in itself, must be a great treat. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Wednesday, a young man, named William Tierney Munro, was brought before Mr. Rushton at the Police -court, on a charge of having em bezzled various sums of money, to the alleged amount of £4OO. the property of his employers, Messrs. Sandbach, Tinne, and Co. Mr. John Howell, cash-keeper at the house of the complainants, stated that the prisoner was employed to receive the amount of out tending accounts, and that he usually accounted for the money so received by handing it in immediately. The clerks at several houses who transacted business with the complainants, and paid them accounts from time to time, were examined, but, the only case that seemed to be made out was one in which the prisoner had received a sum of £62 from Henry Horsbrugh, clerk to Gladstone and Co., and failed to ac count for it to Mr. Howell. On Thursday the young man was again brought up, and several cases were established against the prisoner, and he was committed for trial at the sessions. At Half-past Ten o'clock SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ,t • fi t ' l MONDAY, MA Reit 24.—Wind N.W. mo-e - a o e a , foir . ; ARRlVED. —Frederick Augusta, Berg, from G en tt s-' Morgan, from Havre—lsabella Cooper, from Cale u n co. Its White, from Lundoo—Rodolph, from Drogheda — D . 6o' Swansea—Lesmayne, from Poole—and Scipio, from SAILr).—Wm. Fisher. M'Lean. for New Orleans. Alftl ell os`" Diamond. Fowler, and Pl a t a , P r i ng l e, hence at 13° Mast ry, from Stettin, ditto /fe le ° Lord Sandon, from Africa, for New Orleans, at St. Bolivar, Peat, from Calcutta, at Bristol Caroline. Marsh, from Ichaboe, at St. Helena Zante, hence for Tobasco, at Waterford Superb, Applet n, hence at Sierra Leone 1 18t ; 01 Solway, Spence ; Queen Dowager, Robinson ;,,„ 6 0 0 ' Brown , Naples Pa c k et , Th ompson ; M a yb ro ', Steph` - Grasshopper, Hawkins, f rom I c h a b oe, at F i l mo uth fr o 1 1, Sheraton Grange, Bulmer, f rom Al exan d r i a. at di r ., t° l)ie ° 4 Brooke, Locke ; J o h n H a ll , Th wa i ts, and VelocitY' ;0; from Ichaboe, at C o v e ter fo CARNARVON, March 23.—The P ros p er it y, f ro m orl ' to Liverpool, parted from her anchors at Llandclwll' k elf ipo r o night, drifted among the rocks, and sunk ; she 0 I':e ;I' front pti come a total wreck ; crew saved. The r e, to Liverpool, was driven on s h ore near the same Plr' s ge fe e been got off, and into Lla n d wyn Cove. without d 3 g gig, HoLYHEAU, March 23.—The O a kl an d i s a tota l Wr eee part of cargo will be saved c et t/ 21sr r ol Dumfries, from China to Liverpool, was spoken, or n Leeward Islands, Straits of Banes.; Woodstock, ir,,„ Dv to Liverpool, 9th Nov. in lat. 9 N, long. 84 E; Tag" - Ichaboe, 10th Jan. in lat. 34 S. long. 16 E 0 ,0: TELEGUAPH OFFICE, MARoI ; Wind at Holyhead, N.N.W., gentle breeze, at 7 9-„t ° ditto N.W. ditto at 12 noon ; ditto W. li g ht breeie Or ditto W. ditto at 6 p.m. th eft , A ship and barque off Holyhead (has not shown hers) at 12 noon ; and 1 brig and 1 schooner off the r r , o "o 4 Oif the port, at 3 39, p.m., No. 5641, Isabella C ° , 2 l 3 rig g ' from Calcutta; off the port, at 6 p.m., 1 barque , schooners. vrAfin i e LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, A paralysis has seized upon our Cotton market , he tr i4 o';di ness is very trifling to-day —say 3000 hales—all to "'oe d , which. 70 ; are Bahias, i n one hand. Prices rang e ea t'' ea t ' par with last week—ab ou t id . to 4d. lower s i n ce t" off. „ 411 ! eG LIVERPOOL PROVISION NIARK ET, l‘ l io te c o 9 Genial spring weather having succeeded th e some lo continued wintry blasts, holders of Butters have % e ll te s ilf!O :pondently melted. All is now anxiety to sell" — a tell 001 week, anxiety to buy. Stocks, however, are fort uo 5 u lt• tCr otherwise great confusion would have been the re' s ste brands of either northern or south country Bu tter offered at 1009 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKE --- Tr We have had a smaller supply of Cattle at 1 7101. ," A i t0 v" . last week, which met with d u ll sa l e a t—B e ef, s *"' ton, 64d. to bid. per lb. 4' NORTH HAY MARKET, MAR- rig 2 0. 4 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 5 , d. it s d. s. d. I 0 ' I o @ 1 o ,Potatoes, r_ol b 6 9 11 Cups. ..... • O 8— 010 Short-tops •• 8 0 O 0— 0 0 Pink-eyes •• 2 6 0 59 0, O 6 0 6 ,Turnips, ton . 38 0 O 6i— 0 7 iCarrots ..... - .. 6 (1 0 0 Manure .• • Hay, old new Clover Green ditto Straw, Wheat. Oat Bar:ey Tuesday 25 - Wednes. 26 025 Thurs... 27 1 4 Friday.. 29 146 Saturday 29 231 Sunday. 30 324 Monday. 31 3 31 TIDE TABLE. HO L1TA0_...., EVN. HICIGHTI 0 8 19 4 Lady D'Y: t . 7 11 1 4 i0 , 045 I g 7 Jupiter 124 I g 0 M ars risei, e rje'ol l iet 2 9 18 moon iT? O, P' 257 16 4 Venus Os ate 356 14 s Ist Satidai 5 12 13 5 LI VERPOOL : TUESDAY, MARCH 25, I °` s " . PRINTED AND PUBLIS H ED I j l r EVERY TUESDAY MOR I I ~et 11 JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 13,GrOYe-S"..eett LEONARD AtNO. 4 A , S D T D . l e r xo N ; 0 Concel4entecastNO2.3l;ll,l,oo//' is valuable combined tly the possession of the ex- Board of Trade; and it is even production of one so intimately con vith the subject in his late ministerial capa nd who must have scrutinized every feature of it with such anxious watchfulness. We make, therefore, no apology for bringing before our readers a brief summary of the leading facts and arguments which it contains, referring them, however, for more full and detailed information, to the pamphlet itself. The object of Mr. Gladstone, as stated at the com mencement of the pamphlet, is thus laid down information, so emin PresidPnt MOT so as ti n succession the following de- I. The pr of our entire foreign trade which .ed, in various degrees, by the re- ue directly surrendered by " 111. 'I actual ri _,suits of the recent changes upon enue of the state and on our trade in va rious branches, so far as they are exhibited by documents now before Parliament. IV. Their results upon domestic producers. The policy of these measures, with especial refer che recent proceedings of foreign powers In matters of trade." With respect to the first of thes e h ea d s Mr. Glad- ence to stone informs us that, of a hundred end thirty-three articles of import specified in the returns annually presented to Parliament, the duties have been altered or removed upon one hundred and six, (comprising gal value to the amount of duties upon twenty-nine an aggri value of £5,500,000,) remain untou,. In the total revenue of the kingdom, however, arising from imports, so far as it is affected by these changes, no very extensive effect was likely to be produced, as will be seen when we state that, towards the revenue under the first head, four arti , the duties of which were left unaltered, tobacco, wine and spirits, yielded, in 1844, ', or more than half of our customs' articles, (of ti hed. cies alone £12,7 )3,000 the third branch of the inquiry is, as to the re sults to the revenue of the remissions of duty made. Generally, the conclusion to which Mr. Gladstone's statistics bring us is, that the views of Government in making them have been fully realized. It was anticipated that the Exchequer would be reimbursed fur the loss of income caused by the sacrifices con ceded,—not immediately, perhaps, but shortly, by the effect of the increased demand created for im ported products. Accordingly, the revenue for the first year after the change shews an increase over '• ; it; whilst the revenue for the second ncrease over the first which bears out the ation that, in a very brief period, it will reach the piint from which we started when the remis sions were made ; and the individual consumer, and the community as well, be thus benefitted, without the loss of a shilling to the national exchequer. The effect of the remission of duty on manufactured goods, Mr. Gladstone informs us, was fully made up for in the second year from the passing of the act. The fourth branch of the subject—the effect of spews THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Mar. 25, 1846.