The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, nfortunate tyr .aphical error in oar last, we by the committee for the new a at Aintree, to be .e 10: hope this stun will soon be The dance called the Cushi ye been .tlOO, iiiiderably re Dance, or Si I old English fa many years; and if w•e do not mistake it was danced recently at one of the balls at the Palace. It was danced regularly amongst the courtiers in the time of Charles the Second and ebt Eibtrpool &taitbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1848 ME claims of communities, as of individuals, to have an influential voice in the direction of public affairs are seldom conceded as a matter of course; and still more seldom is it that the amount of weight to be attached to each is accurately pro portioned. On the contrary, we see the noisy and pretensions bust!e themselves into importance, and exercise a sway over the national mind, whilst more sober worth and intelligence are powerless, because silent. ' This great mercantile community has ever been in the latter predicament. Man chester has rarely been without its agitation ; and more than once has dictated measures to the government. A demonstration from the mercantile body of London is all-potential with the Treasury. Even the city and its companies and corporate body are listened to with deference; hut the mer cantile and trading community of the greatest port in the world have scarcely the ear of a third-rate official. A deputation from our town may now and then be listened to upon some local matter, and come hack again much as they went ; but a general political influence, proportioned to her importance in the social scale, Liverpool has never yet exercised, or attempted to exercise. We trust that we are about to witness an end to such a state of things; that our town is at length about to put forth its claim to be listened to upon the subject of national, as well as local, legislation. The merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool have too long acted upon the 'laissez faire" principle—too long stood silently by, im mersed only in their vast speculations, whilst it has been left to unimportant busy-bodies to act as the expositors of their opinions —too long been content with seeing the conclusions • deduced from their great experience in commercial and ordinary affairs smothered in blue books, or cushioned in reports of parliamentary committees, destined never to be acted upon. To be respected, to be listened to with deference, they must speak out; they must address themselves to the legislature in the hearing of the people. They possess a moral power equal, if exerted, to that of any community in the king dom. They have intelligence and character equal to that of any community in the world; and they have only to give that power a right direction to render it effectual in securing for themselves and their fellow-countrymen vast and important benefits. The formation amongst our mercantile body of an association, having for its object the securing of a general retrenchment in the national expenditure and a more equitable and politic system of raising the national revenue, we may regard as the first overt act of the desired change; and we rejoice that the promoters of the association have chosen for their exertions a direction at once so appropriate and so justifiable. For years past, the question, as to the imposition and the disposal of the national burthens, has been left too much to the direction of successive administrations, as a matter upon which the community at large were not in a position to form an opinion ; and, if an outcry against over taxation and national extravagance has been raised, it has generally come from parties, with whom the respectable portion of the community were not disposed to associate themselves. The promulga tion of views of economy has either been regarded as allied with the indulgence of democratic feeling, or it has come from members of the Hume and Cobden school, who could see no other mode of effecting a saving than by crippling one or both arms of the national strength. To strip the crown of a portion of its dignity has been the specific of one class of financial reformers, whilst the other would have us rush into dependence upon a dream of universal peace and national brotherhood, aban don our colonies, dismantle our fleets, and sink down into the position of a third-rate power. The financial association just formed, composed as it is intended to be of some of the leading merchants and tradesmen of this great mart of commerce, of every shade of political opinion, with, as its chair man, Mr. Robertson Gladstone, a gentleman whose name and connexions carry with them an important influence, independently of his admitted high intellectual and personal character, will exercise a materially different influence, and com mand the attention of the legislature. It will no longer be in the power of the hangers on of party, or of the government, to urge that the cry for reform emanates from the ignorant democrat or the dreaming theorist. The country.can no longer be taken on its weak side by an appeal to the loyalty and the love of order of its people. There can be no suspicion that such a body seeks to weaken the defences of the crown, to expose our foreign com merce to danger, or to peril the safety of property The large stake which its members hold welfare of the country will effectually protect them from these imputations. at home in the NI The time too, as well as the men, is most apropos for the movement. On the one hand, we have g the last twelve years, a progres in the national expenditure, amounting at present to nearly seven millions sterling of yearly excess over the expenditure of 1835. To meet this, and to fill up the vacuum created by the remission of various import duties, we have been compelled to submit to an inquisitorial and oppressive income tax ; and we have the prospect, besides, of a serious deficiency at the close of the present financial year. Yet we have a government which tells us that it is alike impossible to effect reductions, and to render our system of taxation equable in its pressure. Again, we are surrounded on every side by com mercial and industrial suffering►. The merchant, the shipowner, the shopkeeper, the manufacturer, and the labourer, are alike plunged into difficulties, and some of them into almost unbearable distress We have, tnessed, durin sive increas moreover, large masses of our population iv to rush into extensive political changes, for sufferings,—ready to imitate the lican phrenzy set them in the nent of Europe. Who then, at from their :h a crisis, ar so fit to approach the discussion )f reform in our financial D. auestion as ti as the mercantile bodies of Liverpool and to be point out where the shoe ,cinches ? Who are more likely to discover where the fetter galls them, than nd most severely feel its pres ard, therefore, this move traders of Liverpool as and we re :hants aieb, whatever may 1 we know that the tradesmen and the merchants of the town, the former of whom mainly compose the confederation, regard the local question in some what different lights. In most associations for the promotion of a great object, unanimity is desirable. Considerable attention has been , drawn during the last ten days to two letters, on the subject of Chartism, which appeared in the Morning Herald of the 14th and 15th instant, signed " A Liverpool Operative," and addressed to Fergus O'Connor, Esq., M. P., in reply to a printed missive, circu lated by some of that gentleman's followers, amongst the operative classes here, inciting them to disturbance, and containing avowals of princi ples entirely subversive of all social order. In combating and exposing those principles the writer has displayed great acumen and vigour of style, combined with a happy adaptation of language and illustration to the general capacity of the class which he addresses ; and running through the whole is to be found a view of sound Christian morality, which adds tenfold to their value and impressiveness. Our object in referrin g to them here is to urge upon the employers of labour in our town the ad vantage which might be gained by their circulation in a cheap form amongst their workpeople, and to recommend to the latter to possess themselves of copies. We have the kind permission of the writer to print them ; and shall be able to sell single copies of the two letters for a halfpenny. For a quantity for circulation, of course we should charge some what less. As a specimen of the tone and style of the writer. we append the following extracts, showing the real nature of that equality for which Chartists and Levellers contend : " Fellow-countrymen, ask yourselves at what link of the social chain does pulling down end ? Tom, and Dick, and Harry complain of the inequalities of society, and of the restraints imposed upon them by law, as an infringe ment of their natural liberty. Park walls, gatekeepers, and gamekeepers are not to be endured. Agents and bailiffs are the ensigns of tyranny, the strongholds of an intolerable monopoly. Well, let all legal restraints be removed, and what then ? Why, then, they are removed from Bill, and Ned, and Jem, as well as from Tom, Dick, and Harry. And Bill has a fancy for Tom's pig, and Ned has a fancy for Dick's coat, and Jem has a fancy for Harry's wife. No restraint ! No infringement of natural liberty!! Down with the duke's park wall, says Tom : and down it goes. Down with Tom's pig-stye, says Bill ; and down it goes. Seize the marquis's steward, and divide his rents, says Harry. Good. Seize upon Harry's wife, says Jem,—l'll have her. Why not ? No restraint ! Oh, glorious natural liberty ! " No, no, no, vociferates the infuriated revolutionist, swallowing back liberty, equality, and fraternity at a mouthful. No, no ' • that is not what I mean by liberty. " Probably not ; but it is . ell and right that your neighbours should know what you do mean. You mean that you should be able to take the law of every man who injures you, and no man be able to take the law of you. You mean that you should pull down without restraint everything above you, but that no man should be per mitted to pull you down. But you must remember that "no restraint" is a game for two to play at—a knife with two edges—and that if Tom be above the law which pro tects the duke or the marquis, Bill must be above the law which protects Tom." Or the following sensible advice to the working classes as to their conduct under their sufferings : " There may be, doubtless there often are, just causes of complaint. A rapidly-increasing population, inde pendent of a bad harvest or a potatoe-blight, may involve districts or even the whole kingdom in difficulty. An enormously-producing, and, at the same time, a non consuming power, such as machinery now is, may, I believe I might say must, lead to periodical returns of manufacturing and commercial difficulty. But difficulties are inseparable from all human conditions. Wisdom de vises - remedies and repairs for the injured house : it is madness to say that because the rain begins to drop through the roof, therefore we will destroy the whole fabric. Such remedies and repairs have been devised and applied, and will be now again, by the wisest and most independent statesmen the country can supply. " Fellow-countrymen, make known your real distresses and privations by all lawful means ; but as you value the inestimable blessing of subordinated liberty, be persuaded not to forget your duty to God, your neighbour, and your self, so far as to take into your own hands the punishment of those who oppress and those who despise you. " Many of you really suffer, I doubt not, and bitterly too. I feel with you and for you, and am filled with a mixture of indignation and grief at the personal brutality and political stupidity of those men in your neighbourhoods who could, but will not relieve you.', We had prepared for insertion in our last publi cation a notice of the proceedings of the very deco rous and orderly meeting of the working porters of Liverpool, held at the Concert Hall, in Lord Nelson street, which, however, we were compelled by a press of advertizing and other matter, to withdraw. Our readers have by this time most probably pe rused the report of the proceedings in question in the columns of some of our contemporaries ; and we shall not therefore further refer to them, inasmuch as we have already expressed our conviction of the justice of the claims of these poor men, and the impolitic character of the system of which they com plain as oppressive and injurious to their own in terests, whilst they show that it is equally so to the importer and the merchant. Our object in recur ring to the subject is rather to impress upon the authorities, who possess the power of providing a remedy, the valuable effect which would be secured if by a prompt and vigorous effort they could snatch this industrious body of men from the temptations by which they are surrounded, and bind them by the ties of gratitude to the property of the town, and the capital and enterprise which alone afford them the means to live. We have never concealed our impressions of the danger of permitting a feel ing that they are isolated from the consideration of their superiors in station to grow up among any class of our working population. We have shewn that such a feeling does exist ; and that there are grounds for its being entertained. Altogether apart from the ravings of Chartism, a spirit of dis content with their position is abroad, and is spread ing amongst these classes ; and we would direct the attention of our mercantile body to what would be the probable and advantageous result of a manly effort to allay that spirit, to act justly, as instanced in the recent conduct of a body of men of the same description as our working porters. We quote the lesson from a leading article in the London Times, of Saturday, the tone and spirit of which are con genial with remarks which we have previously offered on the subject generally of the condition and conduct of our own labourers : " Casting," says our contemporary, " a glance over the events in England of the last few weeks, we have one fact which attracted attention both in and out of Parlia ment, and deserves not to be forgotten or overlooked. When the Trafalgar-square mobs produced among the idlers in the clubs and the busybodies in the shops the plate-glass-Window panic, and again, when a more real danger threatened the nation, the coalwhippers on the Thames offered their services voluntarily as special con stables, to assist in the preservation of the Queen's peace. There is much to be learned from this. A few years _ - since the Thames coal-whippers were a much-injured, oppressed class of men, under the thrall of a set of middlemen, who plundered them shamelessly of a large portion of their hard-earned wages, and so completely enthralled them that they had not the power to extricate themselves from the bondage to which they had by degrees become subjected. Parliament, with great judgment, interfered for their relief, and, without any improper dis turbance of the relative rights and duties of employers and employed, afforded to those coal-whippers the means of disposing to good advantage of their labour. It may not have been with any very distinct consciousness of re paying the paternal care which Parliament had bestowed on them that the coal-whippers offered themselves as guardians of the public peace; but it must be evident to all who have paid any attention to the wants and feel ings of the working classes, that the offer of those ser vices was a consequence of that care having been taken. The condition of the men had, through parliamentary interference, been essentially bettered, and they _felt that the law embraced their interests within its beneficial operation. They had daily and hourly reason, in the improved condition of themselves and their families, to know that they were underabetter government than that for the intention alone, ttitude of all classes of their eet to what may be the are, of course; ;on. Glad mrticular views at present having In 'the character of its ne, however, we at they will be such as zed in commercial ,bout loss of they will be urged with that xpose which distinguishes his ion upon which t also to see id mercantile sagacity of d commercial lenee to the power . • at, under his be necessary must neither consumption of inch, no h any party in Niuheniu paralyze opinion local taxation Through at made the cl lbi character; and tl ,he ass islatur in the tz xnent of the meT its suc to the Bard and g w-countryr le and manly effort, !cess, entitles them )nly c ;ociation ough for c ad they s'ponaneously came 'forward to prove the stence of that by an endeavour to secure the ;macy of that law over any new form of irresponsi- The cases, we maintain, of the coalwhippers of the Tha r mes, previously to legislation in their be " and the working porters of the Mersey, were precisely analogous. The former were under the thrall of a set of middlemen ;" the are subject to a similar, although not so less a condition of bondage. The cord is not cite so tight ; the master porters, as a class, Are nr of the same character as the metropolitan : but they are middlemen not- hame maste withsi ,sp a portion of the hard; there is here the same dist pr,hts and du- ties of employers and employed,— on the one hand and the la' A' the merchant latter has not t ment of the porterage business of large firms, whilst he has himself, perhaps in the full vigour of his life, to return home day after day to his pining wife and family, with the same unvarying tale of bitter disappointment. What wonder if he is discontented with his lot ! 'What wonder would it be if be were to take refuge in the wild doctrines of Chartism ! For him " the times are out of joint." What wonder if, when no change can much lower his position, he embraces the first which is offered to his acceptance ! Now, what would be the result, so far as regards the improvement of their temper, of an effort on the part of our merchants and the dock trustees to restore to the working porters of Liverpool the system of which we unwisely and unjustly deprived them ?—for let it be borne in mind that we directly framed for that body the system of which they complain, whereas that under which the coal-whip pers of the Thames suffered bad grown up, in despite of both the working man and the merchant. The effect would be two-fold. The old relations restored between the real owners of the produce which we import and store up in our warehouses, and the working porters, such owners would pos sess in those men a powerful body, bound to them alike by interest and gratitude, and ready at all times to protect the shipping and the property of the port from outrage. The authorities, and the merchants of Liverpool might laugh alike at the threats of Chartism and Repeal, with those men ready at a moment's notice to garrison their ware houses and to guard our docks. We durst guarantee that such would be the feelings of the great mass of the working porters. Restore these men to their former position as independent la bourers; take away the class of middle men, who stand so injuriously between the merchant and the working man ; cease to hold out facilities for exact ing from the latter by unworthy devices a portion of wage which he earns; and you have them at once ready and anxious to wield a truncheon when ever called upon, to repress disturbance of the peace and the commerce of the town. _ _ By the same course you would check the immi gration of unskilled pauper labour from Ireland, which so many of the middlemen porters and Jumpers employ in preference to that of trained and skilled men, because the possessors of that labour are ready to submit to reduced wages, and to the numerous exactions practised by them. A wholesome competition there would always remain. But the over influx which at present operates to threw hundreds of honest and skilled workmen and their families upon the parish funds, whilst their place is filled with raw and turbulent recruits from the soil of Ireland, would cease to exist. We should thus get rid of a continual source of tumult, disease, and filth, and at the same time be enabled to lighten the burdens of the already suffering ratepayers of the town. )urer on the other oosal of h own labour. —to being paid in ruses; and as the result of a disinclination to submit to these practices, he sees inexperienced his fellows being consigned to gaol wituout ang ut. NV e and more pliant competitors occupying his for- should not object to making the negroes of the desert a feited position. He sees shoals of immigrant present of the gentlemen: in question to fight for, if we attracted to our port by , the favouritism of satisfied that the facial beauty of their grand-chil- Irishtime,(. 7 r e e r n e t l e co a tzt et ez a nce o l li w at o n u o ld ae b s e av i_m er paved by our liberality, Irish warehousemen, entrusted with the manage- 'And THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE DOCK BILL We are confidently assured that the preamble of this bill only passed the committee by a majority of one ; and the committee would have been equally divided, had not one of the members arrived a few minutes before a divi sion was come to. The clauses of the bill can scarcely be said to be " passed" by the committee, though there is an evident leaning to grant the bill ; yet so far we believe the clauses have been, in parliamentary language, only " discussed." The rating clause is not yet inserted, though the bill ought not to pass without it, as the un derstanding with the Council on the subject was so dis tinct. The following is the proviso which was sought to be inserted, but it does not appear to us to be sufficiently precise to meet the case : "Provided always, and be it enacted, that the warehouses to be erected under the authority of this act, shall not be opened by the trustees for the reception of gods, wares, or merchan dise, until the trustees shall have obtained an act directing whether the occupancy of such warehouses by the trustees, shall or shall not be subjected to the payment of all parochial and other local rates, now levied, or hereafter to be levied in the parish of Liverpool, in like manner as the same would be payable in respect of warehouses, the occupancy of which is beneficial." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) FRANCE. The elections proceeded on Sunday with the greatest tranquillity ; the voting went on in perfect silence. - - Yesterday was the day chosen by the notorious Mr. Cochrane to present his petition to Sir George Grey against the Poor Law. He was accompanied by a crowd of ragged men, but Sir George was engaged, and the agitator had quietly to retrace his steps. MONEY 'MARKET- YESTERDAY The funds were heavy, and slightly affected in consequence, and Consols were sometimes down at 82, and a shade below. Upon the report of £400,000 in gold being advised from St. Petersburgh as on the way and shipping for this country, they recovered, however, and have since reached 821 to k for money, and 82a to for time, as they n)w are. Reduced ' Threes, 801 to I. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 81i to n. Exchequer bills, 425. to 455. premium. Bank Stock, 187 to 9. LONDON CORN MARKET. YESTERDAY, With a small supply of English Wheat by land carriage sam ples from the near counties this morning, factors found little difficulty in obtaing an advance of Is. per quarter upon the rates of Monday last. Foreign Wheat was a more free sale, but cannot be quoted dearer. Barley was in request, and in some instances rather more money was obtained. Our market was well supplied with Oats, for which article there was a good sale, at fully late rates. English Beans and Peas were fully the turn dearer. Egyptian Beans sold at an advance of Is. per qr. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-.YESTERDAY. We have, for a holiday market, as this is generally consi dered, a very large supply of Beasts. Trade is very dull, at lower prices, 4s. M. being quite an extreme price for the best qualities. Although the number of Sheep is small, it is quite adequate to the demand, which is exceedingly limited. Bather lower prices are submitted to, and a clearance with difficulty obtained. Lamb is also a heavy trade, and late quotations barely supported. Calves sell slowly, at about the same as on Friday last. The weather is against the sale of Pigs, and prices are rather lower. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, YESTERDAY. — The Duke of Bedford's Bridle received forfeit from Chainbearer. — Sweepstakes of 100 sows each. C. by Hetman Platoff, out of Maid of Lune, 1; Self-Defence, 2.—Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sows each. Vert-vert, 1 ; Carissimq, 2; Prioress, 3; Ptolo mans, 4.—Sweepstakes of 20 sows each. Clementina, 1 ; Bridle, 2; Goose, 3.—Sweepstakes of 50 says each. Backbiter, 1 ; c. by Don John, dam by Jerry, 2; Rosslyn, 3; Franconi, 4. THE WAR MOVEMENT In answer to:the Premier's declaration to sustain the Uhion between Great Britain and Ireland, the United Irishman thus concludes a diabolical article : "Blow then, blow, ye blacksmiths' bellows! Let the stal wart forge-hammer rest neither by day nor yet by night ! Re peal' is on the anvil ; the battle of the Constitution is to be fought in the forge first, and afterwards in the fields and in the streets." An extract from " Our War Department," and which almost out -Herods anything that has get fallen from the pen of the Irish Catiline, shall wind up this day's glean ings from the . United Irishman : " A great number of people are getting serious about the quantity of troops which the Castle organ tells us have been for several weeks thrown into Dublin. Keep never minding them. They are too wise to attack the city, were they ten times as strong as they pretend to be. There is no city in Europe. not excepting Paris or Vienna, so defensible by the citizens as this in which we have the happiness to live. Every house in this city is provided with a mine before it, of exquisite con struction for the blowing up of a squadron over head, and at present used as a coal cellar. The cellars of houses oppo site to each other are often separated in narrow streets by a wall merely—in wider streets they communicate with each other by sewers, large and high, running from each to the main sewer of the street. The owners of one cellar could thus easily blow up the street right across—thereby, first, making a mine; second, a covered way ; third, a ditch in front of a barricade, if he chose to throw up one behind it. Or two citizens, living opposite to each other, who fear the attack of troops, could with great ease make an unO.er ground passage from one house to the other—to be used, first, as a means of communication or escape; and, secondly, as a mine. Indeed, our city is so strong in this respect, that if we were a Lord-Lieutenant, which God forbid, instead of, in parlous fear, mining round and under the castle, building secret passages for the passage of troops, or the construction of mines, as Lord Clarendon is now engaged in doing, we would withdraw into the liberties, or the region about Smithfield or the Four Courts, select a quadrangle of streets, barricade every extremity and angle, mine the cellars, pile brick-bats and crockery-ware and household grenades on the parapets, and beard the lion in his den.' In such a position Lord Clarendon might defy his own troops to take him, even should they prove disloyal, as, indeed, they mean to do." ST. JUDE'S CHURCH. — We understand that the Rev. Dr. Carpenter will commence his ministerial duties in St. Jude's Church on Sunday next. MR. MITCHEL'S WHITE FEATHER.—This doughty Young Irelander, who was to have put down Lord Claren don, smashed through Dublin Castle , and we don't know what else, is, instead of appealing at once to the pike, about to attempt to protect himself from his indictment by a legal quibble. One of the members of the grand jury who found a true bill against him is, he says, a mem ber of the Corporation of Dublin, and, hence, was in competent to try his case. ,We trust that the Irish law officials have not been blundering, as usuld. The attempt, however, thus to shuffle out of his dilemma is significant enough. THE MOST AWFUL CURSE EVER THREATENED FOR IRELAND.—One of the priestly pike and rifle agitators of Ireland—the Rev. Father Kenyon—at a meeting held last week, in the parish of Templederry, gave the following startling intimation of what would befal the people if they did not shoulder their weapons and fight to protect Messrs. Mitchel, Meagher, and Smith O'Brien : " I tell you that slavery will be innate in your race, your children will have lost the independent feeling of manhood, your grand-children will be born with flat noses worse than the negroes of the desert, your memory will be ignobly forgotten as that of degenerate slaves, or, if remembered, can only be so, coupled with execrations and curses on your apathy." An awful doom, truly, upon the poor Irish grand-children to be " born with flat noses," as the result of Mitchel and EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER OF THE LUCIFER PLEASURE YACHT, The Lucifer left here about half-past nine on Sunday morning, for a trial trip to Mostyn, with a party of eight ladies and eight gentlemen, and on her return, through Hoylake, from three to a quarter-past three, in the after noon, touching the bank as she came through, the sand got into the feed pipe, and before the fires could be drawn, or other precautions taken, an explosion took place, by by which the boiler and middle part of the vessel were torn to atoms. There were five females on the bow of the vessel when the accident took place ; these fell into the water, but were saved by the boat belonging to the vessel by the exertions of Mr. M'Ardle and one or two more, who kept the ladies up till another boat came to their as sistance. The other females and the rest of the crew were all aft, clear of the boiler, and by this means were safe, as this part of the vessel touched the ground, and conse quently was above the water. The ladies were taken to the hotel at Hoylake, where they were immediately put to bed, and received every attention. Greater hospitality could not, in fact, have been shown by the landlady and her daughter. We are happy to add that not one of the party received the slightest personal injury. The Lucifer is about 27 tons register burthen, and is a very fast and beautiful vessel. She will, no doubt, be immediately re paired and refitted. The accident was one of those which we must place in the category of events which are often beyond the control or preconception of the most talented of even those who are conversant with steam. Mr. M'Ardle, who had command of the boat, and is, we may add, proprietor, has had a practical experience, as a me chanic and engineer of steamers, for nearly a quarter of a century, and but for the casualty of the sand getting into the feed-pipe, all would have been as safe as in any steamer afloat. He deeply laments the occurrence, as it necessarily produced great alarm on board, and is thankful to Providence that no loss of life, or injury beyond that above, accrued from the casualty. The United States steam-ship brought £6,000 in specie. She met the steam-ship Hibernia, which left Liverpool on the 25th ultimo, going into New York, on the Bth instant. DESPATCH.—The ship Fancuil Hall. Captain Bangs, from New Orleans, with a cargo of 2,083 bales of cotton, consigned to Mr. Wm. Moon, arrived on Tuesday, com menced discharging at one o'clock, p.m., and had all her cargo passed through the scales at half-past five on Thurs day, occupying only the space of fifteen hours for the total dic'harge The - Medusa and Merlin, lately employed as steam packets between Liverpool and Dublin, and now under the orders of Sir Charles Napier on the coast of Ireland, are ordered to Portsmouth as soon as they can be spared, where they are to be refitted. They are each 889 tons, and 320-horse power. The Medusa is to be detached first, and the other is to follow. APPROACH or SPRlNG.—Swallows made their appear ance in this neighbourhood on Sunday week, the 16th, and on Thursday last, the 20th, the sweet notes of the cuckoo were heard in our suburbs, and have been con tinued morning and evening since. These arrivals are both about ten days earlier than last year. They are generally considered harbingers of fine weather, which we sincerely:hope now to have. AN AFFLUENT BEGGAR.—An Irishman was brought before the magistrates yesterday, charged with being found in the street, the previous day, begging. He was seen in the Haymarket exercising his profession, and on being taken to Bridewell and searched, the sum of 10s. lid. was found in his pockets. Mr. Rushton said the prisoner must go to gaol for a month, and the money found upon him appropriated to his maintenance. A TREAT.—We may be excused reminding . our readers that the astronomical lecture by Mr. Fisher, in aid of the valuable schools attached to Christ Church, will be de livered this evening, at the Concert-hall. Every one pre sent will receive some valuable and interesting informa tion, and will also contribute towards liquidating a debt which presses on the benevolent exertions of the com mittee of the schools. We understand that the Liverpool Church Missionary anniversary will be held this year on Sunday, May 21st, and following days. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Rev. G. Smith, and the Rev. H. Powell, with others, will attend as a deputation. Mr. Smith is the well known author of an excellent work on China, in which country he was lately a missionary. Mr. Powell was formerly a missionary in Ceylon, and has been recently appointed District Secretary for Lancashire. THE PUBLIC BATHS.—We are glad to find that the receipts at these establishments in Paul-street have been, during the present month, nearly thirty per cent. above those of the corresponding period of last year. The more they become known, the better are they attended, and the more highly are their benefits appreciated. Among the parties who used the baths this month, gratuitously, were 956 children in the Corporation School, 607 children from the Ragged School, Naylor-street, and 614 soldiers. LIST OF CABIN' PASSENGERS per packet-ship Isaac Wright, Capt. A. C. Marshall, from New York :—Mr. Alexander Rankiii, lady, two children, and servant, New York ; Mr. Joseph F. Sunger and lady, Miss Sunger, Brooklyn ; Mr. Godfrey Pattison, lady, five child ren an d servant ; Dr. Grenville Pattison and lady ; Mr. Henry K. Skilding, lady, and Miss Elizabeth H. Skilding ; Mr. John Gillelan ; Professor William A. Norton and lady, Delaware Cottage; Mr. Black, Mr. Denniston, Canada; and Mr. White. CAPTURE.—Amongst the passengers by the steamer United States, which arrived here from America on Sa turday, we notice Mr. Byron, the agent to the bankers and merchants of Great Britain. He was despatched to America last autumn, with instructions from Messrs. For rester, of the Mansion-house, London, to search for and apprehend four men who had defrauded certain banks in. Yorkshire and Scotland. He succeeded in tracing and ar resting them at different places in the backwoods, 1,400 miles in the Western States. STEALING A SACK OF OATS.—Yesterday, a man named John Day was brought before the magistrates, charged with stealing a sack of oats. The property belonged to Messrs. Earle and Co., and was stolen on Wednesday last from a warehouse in Crooked-lane. It was proved that the prisoner removed it in a cart, and took it to a house in Reilcross-street, where it was found. The prisoner was apprehended at his own residence. He admitted the offence, and said he had been led into it in consequence of intoxication. He was committed for trial. ROBBERY OF WEARING APPAREL.—Yesterday, a man named Wm. Furlong was brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing wearing apparel from a man in Marybone. The complainant alleged that he came from Newton to see his friends, and got into the company of the prisoner at a public-house in Marybone, where he was robbed of his money and a bundle of wearing apparel. The prisoner was carrying the bundle for him out of kind ness. It did not appear that the prisoner had taken any active part in stealing the money. He was remanded for further inquiry. SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.—YestercIay. three youths, named John Lambert, Thomas Henry Anders, and John Harlow, were brought before the magistrates, charged on suspicion of attempting to steal articles' from shop doors. It appeared that on Saturday evening the prisoners were observed passing through several of the principal streets in the town, and examining goods that hung at shop doors, police officer Toole followed them, and knowing they were persons of questionable character, took them into custody. The prisoners had been several times convicted of felony. They were committed to gaol far three months. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES.--In another column we have stated that the two men convicted at Chester for murder made an important confession. We learn that they have acknowledged that they were the parties who committed the robbery on the Rev. Mr. German, at Prest wich, near Manchester, on the 15th January last, for which Dan. O'Brian and Michael Connolly ware tried at the late Liverpool Assizes, and sentenced to fifteen years transportation. The depositions were sent to Sir George Grey on Friday night, and Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Camp bell Leigh are instructed to apply for the discharge of the two latter convicts. JUVENILE HIGHWAYMEN.—Two little boys, apparently about ten years of ago were yesterday placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a loaf from another boy about their own age. The complainant, it appeared, was passing along Netherfield-roaa on Saturday night, with the loaf under his arm, when the prisoners made an attack upon him, knocked him down, and endeavoured to take the loaf, but were unable to succeed. The boy who had charge of the loaf stood nobly in his own defence, and eventually succeeded in getting away, when he gave in formation to the police. and the prisoners were appre hended. One of them had been previously before the court.—Mr. Rushton ordered - them to be sent to the overseers. _ _ _ STABBING.—A. seaman named Robert Jones wasbrought before the magistrates, yesterday, charged with stabbing one of his shipmates—William Rogers. Both parties be longed to the ship Andrew Foster, and it appeared that on Friday night the prisoner was ill-using a man at a board ing-house; the complainant remonstrated with him on the impropriety Of his conduct, and gave him a push, when the prisoner drew a knife and stabbed him in tne breast. The wound was not considered of a dangerous character. The prisoner in his defence alleged that he had been first assaulted, and drew the knife in his own defence. He was fined £5, and in default of payment to be imprisoned two months. :CURTAIN LECTURES IN STORE.—An Irish emigrant, in going in a boat, on Saturday, to get on board the ship in which his wife and family were going with him to the United States, being slightly elevated with whisky, drop ped his purse, containing forty sovereigns, into the Dock Basin. His own wailing over the unfortunate occurrence was, of course, sufficiently loud, and the language addressed to him by his fond partner was anything but complimen tary. Epithets were showered upon him unfit for ears polite to hear, and as, his passage being paid, he proceeded in the vessel, the journey is likely to be the reverse of pleasant. The grievance will most likely keep too, and form the subject of many an evening's lecture and morn ing's salutation, in the land to which the poor wretch has departed. FATAL ACCIDENTS. —On Friday morning Richard Morrow was driving a horse drawing a loaded waggon, along the railway of the North Dock works, for the pur pose of emptying it, when he stumbled and fell down lengthways on the rails. He caught hold of the chains, and was drawn some distance along the road, when, un fortunately, his body was thrown across the rails, and two of the waggon wheels went over him and fractured both thighs. He was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he died of his injuries the following day.—About three weeks since, Henry Davies, a lad, 15 years of age, who b e l onge d t o one o f the Duke of Bridgewater's floats, was playing in a timber yard at the Potteries, when, in endeavouring to get a stick from under some deals, which were piled up. three of the deals gave way and fell upon VT 4111,•.. was ascertained his skull was fractured, of which injury he died on Friday last. Parties wishing to purchase or rent country houses will meet with onnortunities by applying to Mr. Williams, o( MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS FROM SHAKSPEARE. This talented lady presented us, last night, at the Col legiate Institution, with the first of a series of six dramatic readings which have attracted so much notice in the me tropolis. The prices of admission to the institution were raised on the occasion, to meet the considerable expense attendant upon such an engagement. The audience, how ever, was a most numerous and fashionable one, shewing at least that, if amongst a large portion of the inhabitants of Liverpool, stage performances are not encouraged, it is not from any want of appreciation of the mighty genius of our great bard. The attention throughout the reading was most marked, and the applause of the audience meted out from time to time with great discrimination. The play chosen for the first of the series—Macbeth— is one, the delineation of the leading characters in which, by the sole remaining dramatic scion of the Kemble family, possessed peculiar interest, from the circumstance that, as with respect to others of the plays of Shakspeare, a difference exists amongst both critics and actors as to the true meaning of the poet ; and that amongst the latter are ranged the uncle and aunt of Mrs. Butler—John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons—whose delineations of their respective characters are opposed to the reading of the leading tragic actress of the present day, Miss Helen Faucit. The Macbeth of John Kemble, though a fine impersonation, as every character in his hands must have been, was yet but a cowering and irresolute tool in the hands of his wife, who, as pourtrayed by Mrs. Siddons, was a strongminded, imperious woman, void of conjugal affection, and seeking only the gratification of her soaring ambition. The Lady Macbeth of Miss Helen Faucit is a totally different character ; and to meet the requirements of the piece, her husband must be differently regarded. We shall, perhaps, best describe the views of the latter lady by quoting the following argument from Fletcher's Studies of Shakspeare," a very talented critical work, recently published, the writer of which appears to have closely studied and appreciated Miss Faucit's admirable reading of the play : " It has been customary to talk of Lady Macbeth as of a woman in whom the love of power for its own sake not only predominates over, but almost excludes, every human affection, every empathetic feeling. Had Shakspeare in tended so to represent her, he would probably have made her the first contriver of the assassination scheme. It is true that even Coleridge, in his " Literary Remains," de sires us to remark that, in her opening scene, `she evinces no womanly life, no . wifely joy, at the return of her hus band, no pleased terror at the thought of his past dan gers.' We must, however, beg to observe, that she shews what she knows to be far more gratifying to her husband at that moment, the most eager and passionate sympathy in the great master wish and purpose of his own mind. In this epistle, be it well observed, after announcing to her the two-fold prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial fulfilment, he concludes :—` This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness ; that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell. Can anything more clearly denote a tho rough union between this pair, in affection as well as am bition, than that single expression —My dearest partner of greatness ? And, seeing that his last words to her had contained the injunction to lay their promised greatness to her heart as her chief subject of rejoicing, are not the first words that she addresses to him on their meeting, the most natural, sympathetic, and even obedient response to the charge which he has given her ? " Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! Thy letters have transported me beyond The ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant.' " We do maintain that there is no less of affectionate than of ambitious feeling conveyed in these lines—nay more, that it is her prospect of his exaltation, chiefly, that draws from her this burst of passionate anticipation, breathing almost a lover's ardour. Everything, we say, concurs to show that, primarily, she cherishes the scheme of criminal usurpation as his object—the attainment of which, she mistakingly believes, will render him happier as well as greater. " She is fully aware, indeed, of the moral guiltiness of her husband's design —that he ' would wrongly win ;, and of the suspicion which they are likely to incur, but the dread of which she revels by considering, What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power into ac count ?' Nor is she inaccessible to remorse. The very passionateness of her wicked invocation, ' Come, come, you spirits,' &c., is a proof of this. We have not here the language of a cold-blooded murderess—but the vehe ment effort of uncontrollable desire, to silence the still, small voice' of her human and feminine conscience. This very violence results from the resistance of that milk of human kindness' in her own bosom, of which she fears the operation in her husband's breast. " Of religious impressions, indeed, it should be care fully noted that she seems to have even less than her husband. " On the other hand, it is plain that she covets the crown for her.husband even more eagerly than he desires it for himself. With as great or greater vehemence of passion than he, she has none of his excitable imagination. Herein, we conceive, lies the second essential diffrence of character between them ; from whence proceeds, by neces sary consequence, that indomitable steadiness to a pur pose on which her heart is once thoroughly bent, which so perfectly contrasts with the incurably fluctuating habit of mind in her husband. She covets for him, we say, ' the golden round' more passionately even than he can covet it for himself—nay, more so, it seems to us, that she would have coveted it for her own individual brows. Free from all the apprehensions conjured up by an irritable fancy—from all the horrible imaginings' that beset Mac beth—her promptness of decision and fixedness of will are proportioned to the intensity of desire ; so that, although he has been the first •contnver of the scheme, she has been the first to resolve immovably that it shall be crzried into effect. " Fearing that ' his nature' may shrink at the moment of execution, she determines, if necessary, to commit the murder with her own hand. Hence her invocation to the spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,' to unsex' her, &c. ; and hence that part of her reply to Macbeth's an nouncement of Duncan's visit : " He that's coming Must be provided for : and you shall put This night's great business into any despatch ; Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway o and up mast clear— erdom ! . Only, k . . To alter favour ever is to fear : Leave all the rest to me. " But now it is that all his previous apprehensions of odium and of retribution rise up to his imagination against the deed, in more terribly vivid and concentrated array ; to oppose which he feels within him no positive stimulant but that of pure ambition. This finally proves insufficient; and he falls back to the counter-resolve, We will proceed no further in this business.' But he finds, immovably planted behind him, sarcastic reproof from the woman whom he loves, if he loves any human being ; and, which makes it most formidable of all, from the woman who, he knows, devotedly loves him. Her exordium is fearful enough : " Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such I account thy love.' " Then comes the bitter imputation of moral co wardice : " Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire,' &c. " And his effort to repel the charge— " I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none' — only serves to bring upon him, most deservedly, the wi thering and resistless retort : " What beast was it, then, That made you break this enterpr i se to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves—and that their fitness now Does unmake you.' " No longer daring to plead his fear of public opinion, Macbeth now falls back upon his last remaining ground of objection, the possibility that their attempt may not succeed— " If we should fail Her quiet reply, ' We fail,' is every way most character istic of the speaker—expressing that moral firmness in herself which makes her quite prepared to endure the con sequences of failure—and, at the same time, conveying the most decisive rebuke of such moral cowardice in her hus band as can make him recede from a purpose merely on account of the possibility of defeat—a possibility which, up to the very completion of their design, seems never absent from her own mind, though she finds it necessary to banish it from that of her husband:— " ' But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.' " This view of the two characters is obviously the most poetical, and certainly the most natural; and, in our in terpretation of the great dramatist's works, we must ever remember his fidelity to nature. It is borne out, more over, by the subsequent events of the piece. The mad ness of Lady Macbeth is unaccountable, if we are to view her as the undaunted, imperious woman pourtrayed by Mrs. biddons ; and the subsequent crime into which Mac beth so recklessly plunged, from no instigation of hers, and even without her knowledge, is equally unaccountaz ble, if we are to regard him as the originally amiable man, whose first step •in guilt was taken to gratify the ambition of the proud woman whom he loved. Miss Faucit's reading is natural throughout. The madness of Lady Macbeth is caused by the weight of remorse pressing upon her own mind, when she sees that all her self sacrificing efforts to sustain his spirits are made in vain ; and that, having given up, to gratify his self-ambition, her own soul —having aided to embark him in guilt—he is bent upon rushing through an ocean of. blood. It is, of course, a somewhat difficult matter from a mere reading to arrive at the same just conclusion as to the interpretation of the text of any play, as when we see it acted, so much is always left by the dramatist to be filled up by the action and expression of the player. So far, however, as we could gather, Mrs. Butler entertains similar views to those which are above given as those of Miss Helen Faucit.• Her Lady Macbeth was a womanly being, with a determination to achieve the subject which her more irresolute husband would " wrongly win," whilst he paused at the effort to win, yet full of the fine sensibilities of her sex, when not strung up to the contemplation of the deed which had to be done. One of the finest points, illustrative at once of the natural gentleness of her sex, and ,of the feeling which drove her to outrage it by the murder of Duncan, was her ren dering of the passage beginning, " I have given suck, and know how tender ties," &c., which elicited hearty ap plause. The scene with Matheth before the banquet was also_in accordance with this view of the character. Her rendering of the part of Maebetl generally true to nature. The sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth was a beau tiful delineation, worthy of the admiration which it re and the celebrated dia- qually fine nn a critical logue between Ross and Meeduff—in which the lader is informed of the slaughter of his wife and family—was given inimitably. The concluding exclamation of Illarduf, --1 " What ! all my pretty ones ! all—all-- " The chickens and the dam at one fell swoop ?'" was perfectly electrifying. The time and space at our disposal forbids anything like a perfect criticism of this performance. We must say, however, that it satisfied us—that the lairds which Mrs. Butler has won in these readings have been well earned—and that the public have rich treats in store in the readings which have to follow. We could point to many detached passages and scenes, which we have never before heard so beautifully given, and which could only have been so given by one possessed, like this gifted lady, not only with the highest gifts of the actress, but also with a mind thoroughly and intrinsical Shakspearian. Amongst the audience present we noticed his worship the Mayor, Elias Arnaud, Esq., and many of the leading merchants of the town, by whom and by the whole of her hearers Mrs. Butler was most cordially received, and very frequently cheered throughout her arduous task. A3ril 25,1848. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE WEST INDIAN AND MEXICAN 11/MILS. The Thames, steamer, from the West Indies, arrived at Southampton on Sunday. Her Majesty's steamer Vixen, Commodore Rydete r , ar rived at Jamaica on the 21st of March, in six days fora San Juan Nicaragua. She brought intelligence of the termination of the late difficulties between the King of Mosquita and the Central American Government. The loss of the British has been two killed, to° drowned, and 13 wounded. The loss of the Central. Americans was more serious-12 dead were buried bye our troops, and several found wounded afterwards died : From Hayti Re have intelligence of an outbreak which' occurred on the Bth of March. _ . From the impunity with which the actors in this affair' escaped, it is very generally supposed that the President► was at the bottom of this movement, to get rid of an officer not suited to his purposes. The Thames brings but little news from Mexico, drabs there being in a very quiet state when the Great Western left to bring up the mails for the Thanes. Commerce was assuming a much more active aspect. At Havana the tidings 'received by the Avon of the revolution in France had produced a paralysing effect► causing a complete stagnation to all mercantile transac tions. The French West Indian islands received the news of the convulsion in the mothe r coun t r y i n com p a rat ive silence. The weather amongst the Windward Islands had been generally fine, although someplaces had been visited With a good deal of rain, still not sufficient, it was hoped, to cause much apprehension for the crops, which appeared promising. A considerable number of emigrants had arrived at Jamrdea, Demerara, and Trinidad ; their presence in those colonies, it was supposed, would cause a most beneficial effect upon the working population. Altogether the prospect of those islands seemed to assume a more cheer ing hue than the continued gloomy forebodings which have for so long a period been published, could lead us to anticipate. SOUTH' AMERICA.—We have advices from Monte Video to the 20th February. Mercantile affairs were paralyzed by the strict blockade observed by the British and French squadrons at Buenos Ayres. Oribe was encamped at Cerrito, and General Rosas had taken possession of the province of Corrientes. The Comercio del Plata, of the 19th of February, publishes a very lengthy letter addressed by the principal editor of that journal to Lord Howden at Rio Janeiro, vilifying the conduct and proceedings of Rosas, and desiring his lordship's interference. Exchange at Monte Video on London was 401 to 41 ; on Paris, 5f 22c. to sf. 25c. ; on Rio Janeiro, 8 to 9 per cent. prem. SCHLESWIG - HOLSTElN. — Hostilities have not yet been resumed. Every one is at a loss to conjecture what is next to happen. Fresh troops arrive daily on their way to Holstein. The German army becomes hourly more formidable. Captain Frost, of the Helen M'Gregor , which arrived at Hull on Sunday, states that he brought over an English gentleman, who, on Wednesday last, W$ at Lubeck, and there had a conversation with the captain of the steamer running from Copenhagen to that port, who informed him that a captured Prussian vessel was brought into Copenhagen that morning. The gentleman added that he himself saw two Danish frigates cruising oti Lubeck. A deputation of the " fraternal Socialists " of Great Britain, amongst whom was Mr. Owen, arrived in Pari! on Saturday, to compliment the Provisional Government on its efforts in favour of the indigent classes, and to sub mit to it various suggestions relativo to the organization of labour. SHOCKING AFFAIR.—On Thursday a youth, of th° name of Clark, fourteen years o f age , whilst shooting , birds in a tree, a t W a t er H ouse , neat : tuf Hertford, unfortu nately shot an aged female, of the name of Mrs. Huckle. She expired before medical assistance could be procured. THEATRE-ROYAL. `— NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS:" ... This now popular company made their last appearanc e during their present engagement yesterday evening ; buy so excellent have been the audiences, that they are an" flounced for a future period. Their songs, though bor t : ing similar titles, are perfectly different to the Englisi: version ; and being set to Yankee music, are in man' cases far more effective. CONCERT.—Miss Emily Grant gave her grand concert, under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Sefton' and Mr. and Mrs. Blundell, a t th e C oncer t-h a ll, T o night, when the house, though fashionably, was nob_A numerously attended as the ability di s pl a y e d deserv-1 de which was fully demonstrated by the repeated encores rnanded. The talent of Miss Grant is well known, et 9 also, that of Miss Kede ; but of those who are unknova to a Liverpool public, we can only say they distinguisr es themselves in such a manner as will render them favouri on a future occasion. f use— ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This p opu l ar p l ace o f - sea so ment was last ni g ht re - o p ene d f or the dramatic under the most favourable auspices. During the re cess, the and theatreaevarl improvements a hasbzveanmtheonrtos made c in l theu glilyeanseadrraanndareme-ednetca of r e-decorated interior for the increased accommodation and comfort of the audience. The lighting of the theatre has also heel considerably ;mproved, and altogether the house looks exceeaingly well. The Orchestra has also been much aug mented. " Guy Mannering" was performed, Miss Cob -- man sustaining the character of Meg Merrilies with her usual ability. At th e c l ose o f t h e piece Miss Cus h : was enthusiastically called for, and led on by Mr. pre n 7re The national anthem was afterwards sung by th e , lle d strength of the comp an y. Th e h ouse was we especially the pit. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET, ATMOSPHERIC Daily Direc- Temperature tion m Humidity at Fall of Pressure at shadebyself- Noon. Wind registering I of , it Nine Six thermometer Dry I Wet Rain. Noon. a.m. p. m. Max. 1 Min. bulb. 1 bulb. ..------ Tn. Def. 1 Deg. Deg. I Deg. n. -- ~.. - • 181 29'48 ' 29'47 52 46 19 29'25 29'30 55 46 20 29'48 29'50 59 50 21 1 29'56 - 58 51 22i 29'62 29'70 58 48 231 - - - 24. 29'83 29•90 - 51 47 o'ol E. 8 .1 54 50. o'oB s.E. 58 52 o'o2 N.E • 56 53 o'o3 w.NW " 53 o'os N.E. o'ol R. 1,1. E THE WEATHER.-18th: light gale, occasional silo' 19th : light squall, bright ; afternoon, showery.-20th pleasant, bright; night, light rain. -21st; clouded;, light rain.-22nd: light rain. -23rd; occasionally slight rain. -24th : slight rain ; bright. R .mss . Ll 'd a 6 0,. 3 .q ,tiers, • i g it, brigh t ; SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE MONDAY, APRIL 24.—Wind E.N.E., fresh. „AO,' ARRIVED.—E Z, Hartshorn, and Isaac Wright, Ing, r icic, from New York—Julia and Maria, from Wolgast—Fre ,— from Danzic. Mangosteen SAILED.—Lord Elgin, M‘Hardy, for Boston—. „ e gon , Pentreath, Bombay—Elizabeth Bentley, Bennett, and ~ri o n , Sinnott, Staten Island—Matilda, M`Dowall, Calcutta — A lb - Scarrow, Newfoundland—Palender, Rice, St. Petersburg Friendship, Davies, Rotterdam—Gasper, Coughlin, Riga• Fancy, Mather, hence at Odessa. Fortune, Taylor, hence at Constantinople. at P. Dean, Dean hence a Smyrna. h ence Lady Rowley, , Harvey, and Osmanli, (steamer,) Malta. ill' A g Grecian Queen, Sterry, sailed from Smy rna 2 n d AP A ' ife t shire Lass, Bryan, sth ; G ra tit u d e , S mart, 6th ; and Warren, Bth April, all for this port :___________ PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN BIRKEN1 121 " - MARKET, APRIL 22, 1848. ch s. a. s. d. 1 s. d. -* 0 Beef Mutton T.lb. 0 0 8 6 _to 0 0 7 71 F P i l l u b m er s t , s % Quart.. 0 0 8 0 ..... to 0 : 0 0 Veal' Lamb, per qr. - 0 0 Fresh Pork __ 0 0 Bacon ..._ 0 0 Hams 0 9 0 10 Chickens Salmon -15 0 0 Fowls, vo , Couple 3 „ v 6 ' 0 0 v , Soles Cod Fish Turbot Haddocks Whiting OOO 0 4 92 2 L. — 00 0 30 3 T pG a u e r te r s k re e fd y cg s ien . st:r y . e b a fre c c l d i 0 0 0 0 0 0 ......-:: go : --0 6 Plovers Lobsters n . Fresh Butter.... 1 1— 1 2 Black Game 0 0 Salt ditto Eggs.... lir 120.. 6 0— 0 0 Hares ..... . each 3 0 ..... i 8 Potatoes, t Peck 1 4 1 8 Pigeons,vcouple 1 6 1 0 a Goosebernes, qt. 0 0 0 0 Rabbits 0 24. , LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET. APIII L ur 01 81 ,,, We have had a good supply of all kinds of stock a, , A u ttoo - ket to-day. Beef was sold at last week's prices, ana shade lower. ...... Firmontsa.mssamomte..eL. o LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1&48. 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