The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARC TO CORRESPONDENTS We are not able to answer the question of "J. K. P.," but he could obtain the information by aplytag at the office of the X;Tripany in Clayton-square. • Has "J. W. M." seen our• paper of Tuesdat last? We have done all in our power to rouse the Protestants from their apathy. Our readers are in full possession of the tnelantlgly features of Mr. Watson's bill. Wa'cannot insert the letter of "L "An Operative" wishes us to express his. hanks to the Rel. J. Baylee for the information furnished during the late•dis cussion. Our correspondent has had all his lingering doubts An bon. MEMBER.—What 27 hours ? Mr. M. GlnsoN.—One set of nurses did not begin duty at the exact time when the others left off ; but there could be no doubt that they endured great privations and laboured very hard, therefore he would say that the case of the hospital nurses presented an excellent field for legis lation—they worked longer than the factory operatives — they worked in a worse atmosphere—their duties were often laborious—and he could by no means comprehend why their case should be neglected, while that of the cot ton spinners was thus taken up by the members of that house. Their labours were excessive, and their situation was calculated to excite the utmost compassion—why then were they not included in the present bill ? He thought that the hon member for Newark need not give up the melancholy case of the washerwomen. If the principle of the bill before them were a sound principle, the y xv ere bound by every law of justice and humanity to give the full bene fit of that principle to every class of Her Majesty's sub jects. The workers in cotton, flax, and silk, were not en titled. to its exclusive enjoyment. ;A society had been formed" for the protection of the needlewomen, but the washerwomen worked a greater number of hours, and it was a remarkable fact that those washerwomen formed a large proportion of the out-patients of all the hospitals. Owing to the great number of hours that thil remained Standing, the tvasherwomen became subject to varicose veins and ulcerated leas, and therefore he could repeat that they ought to be as carefully protected from the temptation of excessive labour as the factory operatives." It is melancholy to think that from a mi nister of the crown, and a member for one of the largest constituencies in the empire, such rubbish should flow as the above. What earthly similarity can there be between the factory worker of tender years, who must toil as long as the engine toils, and the hospital nurse or the washerwoman, who with the fear of "varicose veins and ulce: - _ before her eyes, can make her own bargain as to ' the time she washes or works ? Perhaps, how ever, this allusion to two such ill-used classes of womankind as hospital nurses and washerwomen is only intended by the honourable member as a display of wit. If so, the judgment which prompted it is very bad. So sloppy a politician Ought neither to sneer at the Sairey Gamps, nor at the varicose veins and ulcerated legs with which other respectable and hard-working women are oc casionally afflicted. Despite of Mr. Milner Gibson, or Sir Robert Peel and his allies, we expect to see this ten hours bill passed by a considerable majority. Even Loft' John Russell must by this time perceive that the Public mind, like that of the factory workers, is set upon its triumph. removed. The benevolent scheme of "it. Subscriber" does credit to his gri - od intentions, but we fear it is not . lilcaly to be carried it is perhaps unnecessary to remark further oa the subject al luded to by "One that was present." • 'the insertiOn of-on , Correspondent's letter would only occasion another shuillin, suitical reply. late, furnished by " nd we may and appropriat 'e beg to call the lamentable details contained in another column, from Mr. James Qua Said destitution, in this town, at present, are appam,-; . and. ,whilst we ask the Health Committee to increase their efforts to afford the nectr„.._ remedy, we call upon our readers to remember the peetilia. claims, at this time, of the various 'Societies e:Aablished for the relief of the poor. he letter, for which we have rec. The effects of feve ;end to Inser appreciate our motive for not Eh: Elberpool ,tanbarts. Yearly Subscription Ja Credit . , 15s. In Advance, 13 TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1847 IT is now pretty generally.,understood that . the Report of the Commission, sent down by Govern ment to investigate the merits of the several schemes for supplying the town of Liverpool with water, favourable to the case made out by the existing Water Companies. The Town Connell, however, have, notwithstanding, determined to go on with their Bill for procuring such supply from Riving,ton Pike ; and, in this conflicting state of opinions upon the subject, we do not that we are stepping out of our- proper . .spher in offering a few remarks In doing so, v state that we have upon the 'evid€ With respect to the hardness which Professor Playfair discovers in the water supplied by the companies, we are not sufficiently chemical to give an opinion. It is fair, however, to remind the pub lic that there has never been a single complaint of the our publicatiOn of the 25th of August last, insalubrity of the water from any medical authority, we presented to our readers, accompanied with a And letoking at the startling deficiency of evidence few comments of our own, a letter from Dr. Har in favour of the Pike scheme, above noticed,—the bord, urging the authorities of the town to flash conflicting en g ineering testimony with respect to th e sewers , an d t o a ff or d a continuous supply of its merits, and the knowledge which we have that water in certain districts of the town, in which the efficiency of the present Company's supply has fever and dysentery had commenced their ravages. increased, and is capable of great further increase, So excellent a suggestion, coming from a gentle- we have a fair right to call uponthe Council to adopt man whose efforts to bring about a proper sanitory the course which we have suggebted beforetime—to condition of our town, and to alleviate the condi pausebefore they irretrievably commit themselves to tion of our ill-housed, and ill-cared for, porn:, was a Parliamentary contest, or to the possibly worse worthy the serious consideration of those to whom contingency of a victorious result. As an instance it was offered; and wonld that it had been listened of the disposition of one at least of the Compa- to, as it ought to have been !—many a valuable life vies, to perform their duty to the town, and as well would have been saved—many a struggling widow of its capability, we may mention that a week ago have at thirs moment by her side the partner of her the Harrington Company were apprised by the former days of comfort—many a houseless orphan. Town Clerk, that, in Dr. Duncan's opinion, a daily have a home, of which neglect of the great duty of supply was necessary for a certain district. The re- their more fortunately circumstanced fellow crea quest was acted upon on the afternoon of the day tures have deprived them. on which it was received ; has been acted upon ever We mention the subject at present because we since; and no sensible effect has been noticed at perceive that the Health Committee are, on the re the Works upon the supply available for the general commendation of Dr. Duncan, about to adopt the consumption of the town. very steps so long since recommended by Dr. Har - -- bord ; mid which, if then carried out, would, no IT is a satisfactory circumstance, which the at- doubt, ha4e been attended with more beneficial re tentive observer of the progress of human affairs sults than are likely to he derived from the present has continually brought before his observation, rather tardy efforts. that whatever may be the amount of selfishness and tyranny opposing it, the cause of truth and SOUP INTERDICTED BY ROMAN CATIIOLIC justice, urged with vigour, however humble may PRIESTS IN LENT. be the station of those by whose energies it is (From the Dublin Evening Packet.) urged, will ultimately prevail. The history. of the CONNEMARA—ROUNDS - TONE RELIEF COMMITTER Factory Bill is one pregnant with this lesson. A FEB. 17.—A subject of a sectarian nature was introduced few years ago the cry for a restriction of the hours this day in committee by the Roman Ca tholic p riests of of labour to' ten hours, was set down as the cry this district. These rev. gentlemen insisted that soup merely of a few disaffected' operatives, led an by should not have been dispensed on this day week to the ek of Lent, and imputed base demagogues, anxious only to prey upon them, and pobY and dishonourable motives to the Protestant clergymen to profit by the appropriation of the funds who issued tickets for that purpose. The subject was in which it was sought to be urged forward. Even troduced by Mr. O'Malley, C.C., who was immediately the honest and indefatigable Richard Oastler, en- opposed by the Rev. W. Crotty, Presbyterian minister, throned though he was in the hearts of thousands who deprecated the introduction of such irrelevant and sectarian matters in committee. It being ruled, however, of suffering women and children, and boasting a by the chairman that Mr. O'Malley should be 'heard, the kingly title, before which that of the King of the following scene-Wok place : Railway System is as gaudy dross—even the Kingv Rev. Mr. O'MALLEY.—Mr. Chairman, it is a fact that of the Factory Children was reviled as an incen- soup has been given this day by members of this commit diary, and the amiable Michael Thomas Sadler tee, for the purpose of casting a stigma on our holy reli gion,r they taking advantage of the poverty of the people. sneered at as a mad enthusiast, by the hollow and M . DALTON, treasurer and superintendent of the soup selfish philosophers, whose tyranny they sought to kitchen.—lf these remarks are intended to apply to me, I put down. must exonerate myself. I believe the soup was dispensed Was the result of even these first efforts in the at the request of the Rev. Mr. Crotty. cause of humanity not an exemplification of the Mr. CROTTY.—Rather say at the request of the poor, saying, that " the truth is mighty, and will pre- who are starving, and who were exceedingly anxious to it. wail" ? Wealth, ignorance, the apathy of the g Mr. O'MALLEY, addressing Mr. Crotty.- public mind, and the cupidity of the manufac- know it was Ash Wednesday, and that the noman ~ turers, were arrayed against these men. Yet their tholics'are not permitted to partake of flesh meat ? and, combined influence was borne down by the cause then, What could your object in giving it be but to insult which they had in their hands and in their hearts. The atrocities of the " billy" roller ceased to be perpetrated. The strap and the scourge ceased to afflict, and to stimulate to renewed exertion, the fainting limbs and sinews of infancy. The whole system was ameliorated. Public opinion INGO' 3 almost . nominal, Did you not us Mr. CRorry.—Really I must again protest against this discussion as altogether irregular ; it will serve no purpose to fight here about your laws and customs. What am .I Cotton Manufactures.— tions are meant to apply to know, as a Presbyterian clergyman, of your Ash Wed nesdays or Good Fridays? My duty, as a member of this committee, is to relieve the poor, as far as is in my power, not tolerate its cruelties, when once they had been fairly dragged before the light of day. without reference to sect.or.party.. . Mr. , DUANE.—You ought .to know the laws of our church, for you once kept them yourself. §Lee that happy issue was achieved, the pro- zress of the measure at first demanded—the limi- Rev. Mr: C O'Malley is righ URRAN, P.P„ and CHAIRMAN.—Mr t. The obiect was to insult our religion Fation of the hours of factory labour to the power of human beings to support them—has never been for a day arrested. Their old leader was impri soned, and pined his days in a cell far removed from the scenes of his labours of love; but his pen pleaded from those stone walls, although his tongue was silent. A new and noble advocate appeared in the field. Fresh witnesses and advocates pressed forward ; and at length a portion of the demand of the operatives was conceded. The weight was taken from the shoulders of infancy ; and twelve hours per day was made the maximum period of adult labour. . it should not he to The Rev. M. O'Malley we are informed, addressed his people on the evening of the above day, in the chapel, and denounced the stovers, as he termed them, also the Protestant clergymen, as enemies to his religion. Does not the conduct of this priest prove the wisdom of the government regulation, excluding Roman Catholic curates from relief committees ? amount. Cotton Yarns The collections at St. Bride's Church, after sermons by the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, and the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, in aid of the schools, amounted to £7B. The weather here is extremely mild, but seasonable. Yesterday was a lovely spring day. We have plenty of March (lust. It was hoped by the philosophers that the sop thus thrown out would appease the claims of the ten hours advocates. But no. They felt that they had a just, a rightful cause. They had measured nt of the suffering which they sought to They knew, by sad experience, of how inch toil the human frame was capable; and they or of Scotland and Ireland, in this church, bruary, amounted to £4l 15s. The Rev. Benjamin Strettell Clarke, curate ;f plate, by a member of the congregation biith-day gift /et rid of ;lomoanies in this town have amalgama- pany re mild not be seduced int, fiuen ced by this movement, and have resolved to persevere with their bill. . ion, their cause was only prevented being v ous by a wr +ha 'tart lehed exhibitfon of tergiversation TESTIMONIAL -There is now on view in Mr. Doke's street, a splendid engraved silver tea In this session, thus far, it h triumphed, in spit service, which is to be presented to Captain Hunt), the manager of the London and North Western Railway, by b:4 brni-.bpr (Afters in the company. on the occasion of the Pushed though it has been, as if it was a question of merely subordinate interest, into the Wednes gallant captain's removal to Limdon. The service, which is in the Elizabethan style, consists of coffee-pot, tea-pot, sugar-basin, and cream-jug, together with a dozen tea spoons and sugar-tongs, of the king's pattern. FEVER.—We have already stated that three officers of the parish, viz : Mr. Rowlands, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Robinson, had died of feVer caught in the discharge o their duty. On Saturday, one of the twenty-four police f Men employed ' twelve districts day's morning sitting, it has neVertheless been sup ported by majorities which have half paralizcd some of its most resolute opponents. Overwhelming, however, as was the majority in . favour of its second reading, another effort was made on Wednesday last to -,- into committee, by a gen- vent its going 41%13. Escott— -who, himself a turncoat — friends"—appear post of cad to Sir Rohe' The effort was, c farmer ) be ambitious of iieel and his millowning-11 mcndnient of MT Eseott was defeated by a signal majority again we see the force of the Magna est Titas, et preevalebit Isionof ti opinion of parliament; hacked as it is by the opinion of the country, Might to put an end to all tempo rizing on the part of those gentlemen who, like Mr. Beckett Denison and others, seekto substitute, for the proposed ten hours; an eleven hours' clause. They may depend upon it that they cannot hood wink the well informed short time committees, or even the youngest factory child, whom these com mittees represent. There is. a true medium some -where ; and these men have found it, by the best of all tests—experience. • Ten.hatirs is their ulti matum. Give them less, and agitation will still go on, with all its heartburnings; . until their fitll object is forced upon our milloeracy, perhaps by combination and a turn-out, at a period.when they will be infinitely more inconvenienced than by the passing of the bill at the present moment. We do not purpose here entering into any ex amination of the laboured and soph r istical argu ments used by Sir Robert Peel; Sir James Graham, and others, in opposition to the motion on • Wed- Refax for going into committee, We shall con. . • ONDENTS. i report, he invalidates the whole o f t he conclusions tent ourselves with giving a sample from the FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. e s tion of "J. K. P.," hut he derived from these analyses. Addressing the speech of the honourable member for Manchester, The money market during the past week has been in a gloomy state, caused in part by the drain apprehended to Y nOlyteg at the °Bice of the : Town-clerk, he says,— Mr. _ Milner Gibson. That gentleman remarked, arise from the Government Loan for Ireland ; and consols "Museum of Economic Geology, that :-- of Tuesday lust ? We haveare quoted at tower rates. The advertisement of the the Protestants from their " SIR, " 9th February, 1847. "To him it appeared most unacccountable that all the North Western Railway for Loans on Debentures at three possession of the melancholy "As you are aware, I proceeded on the Bth of January sympathy of the Legislature should hive been reserved years date, at 5 per cent., and the announcement of the to the district from which yoo propose to take Water for for the colliery and the factory operatives—that they could shipment of £300,000 specie by the Boston steamer, con- L. M. C." on anenymous au- the supply of Liverpool, for the purpose of taking fair not see any other : for example, there were the hospital tributed to produce this effect. On Saturday an addi wess his. thanks to the Rev. specimens to report upon and analyse. a- I was accom , P nurses ; one portion of them worked during 16 hours of tional depression was produced, by the draughts of the arnished during the late.dis- nied by yourself Mr. Hawksley the engineer, Mr. Finne, t h e n i g h t, t h e ot h er 11 h ours o f th e d a y. North of England Joint Stock Company being refused is had all his lingering doubts one of your Councillors, and Dr. Duncan, the Health An hon. MEMBER.—What 127 hours ? payment by their agents. Officer to the Corporation. . Mr. M. GinsoN.—One set of nurses did not begin duty Our Cotton market has partaken of the dulness which bacriber" does credit to his " The weather was frosty, and I was informed had at the exact time when the others left off ; but there extends unfortunately through nearly every branch of s not irk further to lik:dy the subje d t abe carrie wil- been t. • dry for a considerable period. The specimens of could be no doubt that they endured great privations and commerce. The following is from the circular of Messrs. sent." The insertion of Water were tak en laboured very hard, therefore he would say that the case of OA c in all cases from the body of the George Holt and Co., dated Friday last : ly occasion another shuffling, Brooks, which were rem arkabl y clear a n d colourless; the hospital nurses presented an excellent fie ld for legis- "Another dull week has passed over our cotton market. • the only one upon which I had occasion to make the ration—they worked longer than the factory operatives — e This state of - depression does not appear peculiar to our_ Constant Reader," is forcible slightest d ev iation from this description was in the stream next week. they worked in a worse atmosphere—their duties were staple, but seems also to extend, in a greater or less de mo room for it on of all our readers to the , below Anderton Ford, which had a very slight white often laborious—and he could by no means comprehend gree, to nearly every article of merchandise and manufac in a well-written tette?, in muddy precipitate in suspension, but not so much as to why their case should be neglected, while that of the cot- tune. In the absence of any further news from Ameiica ies Quayle, one of the relieving render it at all objectionable. , ton spinners was thus takencrop up by the members of that reg a rdi ng th e ex t en t of the and probable supply, we inl destitution, in this town, • This would undoubtedly be conclusive as to the house. Their labours were excessive, and their situation are al mos t en ti r ely g ove rn ed by the state of the manufac 1. whilst we ask the Health quality, although not as to the quantity of the sup- was calculated to excite the utmost compassion—why then turing districts and the Manchester market. The ' short Torts to afford the necessary Ts to remember the peculiar ply to be derived, if for a moment it could be sup- were they not included in the present bill ? He thought time' still continues ; nor is there, on a comparison of the ions - Societies e:'tablistied forthat we could obtain such supply from the posed. that the hon member for Newark need not give u_p the present cost of the raw material with the manufactured melancholy case of the washerwomen. If the principle of article, any inducement for the trade to change their brooks, or if the weather was always as Professor ceived some additions, we in- the bill before them were a sound principle,they xv ere bound course in that respect. There can be no reasonable doubt, r correspondent will no doubt Playfair found it, " frosty," and "had been dry for by every law of justice and humanity to give the full bene- however, that the very greatly reduced supply of yarns, ;Wing publicity to-day to his a considerable period." But that supply has to be fit of that principle to every class of Her Majesty's sub- &c., for so lang a period, is preparing the way, by the ex obtained by impounding the annual fall of 60 inches jests. The workers in cotton, flax, un . d silk, were notheeenn- haustion of stocks in the hands of all retailers and foreign I ,talibarts. of rain upon 10,400 acres of land, a portion of which 10 . its the excl r u o s t i e v e e tio e n mo i r societyj l n e t. ne A ediewona had t fo t rmed t tor en, but the markets (just •as the spinners have worked up their own is cultivated, and the rest composed of deep peat soil stocks.of raw cotton,) for another of those periods of ex seri/Afton : washerwomen worked P a greater number of hours, and it and heather ! Instead of "remarkably clear and was a remarkable fact that those washerwomen formed a cetsive demand which produce a disturbance to the gene ral commerce of the country almost as injurious as the On Credit, 15s. colourless water" from the body of the brooks, the large proportion of the out-patients of all the hospitals. present depression ; but such are the fluctuations to which ------- --- ------ reservoirs must depend upon the . sweepings of Owing to the great number of hours that th 4 remained our 'cotton trade has always been subjected—alternating - G, MARCH 9, 1847. floods, carrying with them the decomposed ariimal standing, the tvasherwomen became subject to varicose_ periods of prosperity and depression, mutually bearing veins and ulcerated leas, and therefore he could repeat lly, understood that the and vegetable matter, accumulated during the d upon and producing each other. L, sent down by Govern- periods. The high lands are principally composed temptation 1 7 that they ought to be as carefully protected from the of excessive labour as the factory operatives." "We need hardly advert :vain to that which is in the mind of every one—namely, how closely this depressed its Of the several schemes of peat moss ; and the whole is liable to receive a It is melancholy to think that from a mi- state of the cotton market is connected with the great Liverpool with water, is constant coating of soot from the factories and nister of the crown, and a member for one of the question of food and finance. This appears to be under stood_hand felt by all. lade out by the existing coal-pits. If Professor Playfair would take advan- largest constituencies in the empire, such rubbish ' I the meantime, and under such testing circum- rown Connell, however tage of the first period of heavy rains to procure a should flow as the above. What earthly similarity stances, our market remains wonderfully steady and firm atermined to go on with sample of water for analysis, perhaps it would alter can there be between the factory worker of tender in price. We are no lower this week, and although we AI supply from Riving,ton his opinion as to its pure character. years, who must toil as long as the engine toils, and are very dull for the most part, there are occasional pur ing state of opinions upon We have already adverted to the circumstance the hospital nurse or the washerwoman, who with chases on speculation, which relieve in some degree the that the water has been analyzed by Dr. Brett, our the fear of " varicose veins and ulcerated ted legs" general w i i i l i l on4o r n e l o , r o e f , o:u e r m p a r i o n ceedings. Our notations of nk that we are steppingas before." q townsman, and that with his opinion the public before her eyes, can make her own bargain as to in offering a few remarks prices The circular of Messrs. Trueman and Cook, of London, time ' have not been furnished. Perhaps reason was the she washes or works ? Perhaps, how -411 sides. , In doing so,dated March lst, gives us the following with respect to :ly state that we have no that Dr. Brett objected to give a decisive opinion ever, this allusion to two such ill-used classes of the colonial and produce markets for the past month :___ he Water Companies, or without another sample being furnished him. It is, womankind as hospital nurses and washerwomen " The sugar brought forward at the public sales in the bringing our supply from iwe believe, the fact that the first sample, upon s only intended by the honourable member as a earl y p art of the month met with a brisk demand, and Ay that the Corporationanaly sis, produced a deposit of solid matter, which display of wit. If so, the judgment which sold at an advance of 6d. to ls. per cwt. ; subsequently, however, very heavy supplies of East India and Mauritius preserve themselves from led him to express himself convinced, without fur- prompted it is very bad. So sloppy a politician came in, and importers being anxious to take advantage T of a false step, should ther examination, that the water was peaty. ought neither to sneer at the Sairey Gamps, nor at of the existing demand, large sales were pressed upon the r their position ; and, at Whether or not such water was taken when the the varicose veins and ulcerated legs with which market, which brought about a decline equal to 3s. per fore going to Parliament, weather was frosty and dry we cannot say, but cer- other respectable and hard-working women are oc- cwt. on the prices current at the end of last month." . re sound data in support tainly, from Dr. Brett's high standing as a chy- casionally afflicted. The deliveries for the month give a total consumption in Great Britain of 42,100, against 30,600 in tne corre at mical analyst, the publication, in an unreserved Despite of Mr. Milner Gibson, or Sir Robert than the sponding month of last year. In coffee no change of y appear p form, of his opinion, would have been most satis- Peel and his allies, we expect to see this ten hours importance has taken place during the past month ; for -..._...:.,.. „ I . ___ __,l,„ factory to his fellow-townsmen. bill passed by a considerable majority. Even Loft' although at one time, there was a slackness in the _ . - prices will, therefore, remain as before." The circular of Messrs. Trueman and Cook, of London, dated March st, gives us the following with respect to the colonial and produce markets for the past month. " The sugar brought forward at the public sales in the early part of the month met with a brisk demand, and sold at an advance of 6d. to is. per cwt. ; subsequently, however, very heavy supplies of East India and Mauritius came in, and importers being anxious to take advantage of the existing demand, large sales were pressed upon the market, which brought about a decline equal to 3s. per cwt. on the prices current at the end of last month." The deliveries for the month give a total consumption in Great Britain of 42,100, against 30,600 in tne corre sponding month of last year. In coffee no change of importance has taken place during the past month ; for although at one time, there was a slackness in the demand, and .prices of Ceylon reached about Is. per cwt., this has latterly been fully recovered, and they are now on a par with those ruling on the Ist. ult. ThotransactionS for home consumption have been consi derable; the trade buying with great confidence at the existing prices, and altogether the market is in a healthy and, satisfactory condition. " The sales of indigo, which terminated on the 19th ult, contained 9,494 chests, viz., 6,350 chests Bengal, Benares, &C., and 3,140 Madras, Kurpah, &c. Of this quantity 8,000 chests found buyers, being the largest amount ever sold at this early season of the year. The prices obtained , ranged from 2d. to 6d. per lb. higher than the October rates for Bengal, &c ., and 2d. to 3d. for Ma dras and Kurpah . Sincethe close of the sale there has been a fair extent of business going on, and from 200 to 300 chests have been sold, mostly of the better descrip tions of Bengal, and the low and middling qualities of Madras, at prices quite upon a par with the sale rates. The reduced supply in importers' hands for the May sale will, probably, have some influence upon prices, and pre sent rates will, no- doubt, be firmly maintained. " the imports for the two months have been - 2,263 chests, against 2,330; the deliveries 3,859 chests, against 4,126; and the stock is now 31.581 chests, against 31,711 in 1846. _ . " The tea market has presented no new feature during the past month; the trade have taken freely of the new teas offered on arrival, but there has been no improve ment in rates. The stock of tea in this part on the 16th ult. was very nearly the same as that at the same date last .'vear... being. 29 90&,0001b., against 29,295,0001 b. ; i_while the' deliveries to the same period were 4,632,0001 b., _ I against 4,142;000Ib. in 1846 ; and the imports 2,759.0001 b. only, against 3;695,0001b. " In rice, with a comparatively limited demand, prices during the early-part of the month continurd to recede, , until a decline of 3s. per cwt. from the highest point was, established; a reaction then took place, consequent on a renewed demand for shipment to Ireland, and the quota tions are now onry about 6d. below those of the Ist ult. " The•market for silk throughout the month has been exceedingly dull, and- the arrivals both of Bengal and China have- been unusually heavy, consisting of about 1,500 bales of the former, and upwards of 5,000 bales of the latter, exclusive of 3;300 bales into Liverpool. Public sales are to he held on-tjle. 24th inst., and as the quantity tothp then offered will. no doubt be large, prices for the At a piibiiC sale_held at China, 700 bales soid at a reditction of id. to ls. on pre- vious quotations." The advices by the Indian mail, received on Thursday, are not of , a • character calculated to raise the drooping spirits of•the manufacturer. The Calcutta market was dull for most cotton fabrics, at a reduction in prices. Little was doing in w6ollens, and former rates were with difficulty obtained. . The demand for white mill twist was not very brisk. Still, a fair business was doing ' • and for some counts, the tendency- was upwards. There has been more animation in the market for metals. Copper—Tile has been in demand, and sales to some extent are reported at about 34 4 sa. rs; per maund ; sheathing has also been placed at Co.'s rs. 37 4, and - brazier's at Co.'s rs. 37 4 to 37 12. Iron -j-Several sales have been effected in common bar, at from 2rs. 14a. to 3rs. per maund, the latter being for fresh arrivals. Spelter has been gradually advancing in price, more, however, from the firmness of holders, than forn any extensive sales or increased inquiry. Exchange on England has been steady, 2s. o.ld. to o+ +MI mnritive thitc, havine been the extent of the fluctuation on good paper. Freights are stationary, and little alteration expected. A Bombay circular,. dated Feb. 1, contains the follow- -The foregoing general observa mytieularly to those, and little • additional falls tobeailded. Gray domestics, which lately were in demand for the Arab market, have, since last issue, been sold at 8s to lOs below former prices. Turkey red cloths, both twilled and plain, have also been disposed of at a reduction. The _holders of gray long- cloths and gray domestics, seem ful selling than parties- are of purchasing I esirous o. white shirtings and 4.: request, but there is no improvement to notice in their value. 7-1 and 8-4 cambrics are scarce, and would com mand good prices if now in the market in moderate Sates in conse tof price. - Fine LI gray c —Sales of twist have not been made to and a sliffht decline on several of, the however, we must di ...cr Companies, or either of the two projects for bringing our supply from a distance. We wish solely that the Corporation and the town, in order to preserve themselves from the disastrous consequence of a false step, should pause and weigh leisurely their position ; and, at least, that they should, before going to Parliament, possess themselves of more sound data in support of their favourite scheme than they appear at pre- leanings, either towards ti sent to possess. It cannot have escaped the notice of any one, who has read the repOrt of the last Council proceedings, that there is something in the result of the steps taken by the Health Committee with respect to the Pike scheme, which is reserved from the public eye. In the report which they have just published, we have, of engineering evidence, the opinion of Mr. Hawkesley. Has no other Engineer examined the country, with a view to give an opinion as to the cost and feasibility of Mr. Hawkesley's work ? We have Prof ,sor . Ansted' s report as to'the geolo- gical fitness of the country. Mr. Cunningham, however, was selected by the Committee them selves ; but his report cannot be squeezed out of the Committee. We have ProfcssorPlayfair's analysis of the water; but at least as competent an authority— Dr. Brett—also made an Oalysis. This is neither given in the report, nor produced to the Council. There is som .• irery unsatisfactory in all this. It may be the pa ,pf an acute lawyer to afford as little clue as possi ele to his opponent, with respect to the weak point of his case. This, however, is not a matter for legal subtlety to be exercised upon It is a public oil a national question The pAlic require the best procurable supply of water,— not a victory merel f the promoters of the Rivington seheine over th —and they demand the oppori Vkrater Companies, city of forming a nt - with the whole case before them. adverted to the refusal of the Health Committee to furnish Mr. Cunningham's report ; and, although we have not such ':report authorita- We have Lively before us, we hay from other sources Of drift ation in givin t gentleman's Cunningham, we understand, went I first inspected th J lity of the lower reservoir in the Alorwich ey, where the filteiing tanks are to be constructed. The strata he found tubelong to the lOwer division of the coal formation, and the upper' eds of the mill stone grit. The latter is, throughout, extremely . 'fissured ; anti even allowing that, possibly at con siderable expense of puddling, the shale foundation may be made impermeable as a reservoir, the mill stone grit, from over which the water will have to views 'l' the district be collected, will, Mr. Cunningham thinks, permit lerable body to escape before reaching In the $ very eons', the Rivington .e so numerous, that the such reservoir scheme c Pike range the fractur strata resemble basaltic columns The locality around the Anglesark Reservoir is upon the mill-stone grit formation, which is seri ously fractured and very ill calculated to retain water. A portion of the Reservoir itself is upon the coal measures ; but it is doubtful how far they partake of the dislocated character of the neighbour- r ing strata. A Reservoir, in such a locality, must be. puddled at a large expense, to ensure its safety as the depository of the large body of water proposed to be collected in them. The extent and expensive character of this puddling may be judged of, when we see from the section, that one, the Rivington Reservoir, is to contain a column of water of 52 feet at its lowest point, which gives a pressure of 24 lbs. to the square inch ; and that the Anglesark Reservoir is at its lowest point 32 feet deep, which gives a pressure of nibs. to the inch. And this too mon a bed, a part of which is known to be llv unfavourable for the ret the rest suspected of being gre - ` 1 Ruddlesworth B bad strata upon !ntion of water, and y fissured. In the ly situated as to the to be formed, the hich they olumn of water is to be, in the West 81 feet; and n the East 88 feet Ttain, that a very . .1 to for the pur- expensive process must be res pose of securing their retentive power, if indeed such a result can be achieved at all. The strata unon their ban' moreoi re very bad. Upon ••• ry --- 7 r the whole the opinion of Mr. Cunningham, with respect to all these Reservoirs, with the exception of the lower one, is, we are informed, unequivo cally unfavourable. The lower Reservoir may be secured ; but it is not certain that the country around can supply it with the body of water which it is calculated - to contain. Mr: Hawksley calculates in his report of the 30th January, contained in the pamphlet just published by the Health Committee , that 10.400 acreP mountainous water shed, he , mOdcrate estimate, 231 - million of gallons per diem ;hall derive, at a - 1 - 31cii. will allow for 800,000 pc per head per diem VicabA tention of our re which v haven give in italics. ficial area of the ei at about 1.1 is comp Mr. Hawksley's 10.400 acres less than the larger number containing in round numbers and the latter fall of rain yearly over t although thin Rivington d about f( per cent foomc average his district is stated to `b is well ascer it has ted. Nc hat upo ease in qu hat not a third of the favourable as herefore reduced 60 inc tained, and is most like I by many the m it was thetrapformation annual fall couli though the atmosphere the stratum. The amu to 20 inches per annum, which will give us .t 1 -maximum quantity froni about 18 million [oils daily, - and t the b apprehended fissures and insecure strata, or for the demands of the Mills, Bleach-works, &c., in the neighbour hood. 15 millions of gallons, we believe, is the utmost quantity which Mr. Cunningham thinks the neighbourhood capable of producing, even should his fears of the strata be proved fallacious, or million gallons Ir. Hawksley esti- the supply for Liverpool m for the Downers, &c., The water compen in the district from which this supply is abstracteu has to be deducted ; and here we come to the 71 mil lions of surplus, "applicable to other purposes," and which we feel assured will be absorbed by these patties. We have, therefore, left for Liverpool, as the . result of this expensive and hazardous scheme, a supply of 7i instead of 16 millions per diem ! And now, with respect to the quality of the Professor Lyon Playfair speaks highly in Amiour. of its softness and purity, and enters into lengthy details of his various analyses. But it strikes us that here, in the opening passage of his LUC 4.411.1. C2LUCLI,,, cram 0x•5r..... , ----- numbers, both mule and water is quoted thus : ei.mnna without alteration, prices. Cotton -There is still considerable activity in. cotton r”. Rno-land. but prices have .a tendency, down. snipments 'or - wards, partly attributable to the inferior article on hand, and to the scarcity of availab le tomrage in the harbour,. and consequent. advance in the rate of freights. Shippers of this staple for China are doing nothing, preferring ap- hat remains of the old. Of the new, some trifling par cels of Oomrawutty have been received, and for which 88r. per candy is asked Freights.—To Great Britain continue firm at £5 55., with an upward tendency, owing to the small amount of available tonnage in the harbour. To China freight is ninally 14 rs . _ Exchange is slightly advancing, being now quoted at 2s. Old. to 2s. 0-.}d. There seem to b more drawers than buyers, the Rlles of English goods not having amounted to much, and the purchases of raw cotton being Th. r.i-o of Pxylituvre on Calcutta, at sixty at above 08-15-6 rs.; on Price of bullion— Buzland notes, days' sight, is now stated to b( Madras ; and China no quotations ;overeiglis, each 10-12-Ors • BOARD OF EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES. —At a Board of Examiners, held on Tuesday last, Capt. Henry F. Grebow, of Liverpool, was examined and found duly, qualified 'for a first-class master's certificate. Mr. Thomas W. Asbridge, late chief-Mate of the Rajah Bassa, of Whitehayeii, was likewise examined and found duly to .distrioute relief in arie ~.. - —William Higgins, No. 619 — died of small- : qUelified foi a first-class master's certificate. rex communicated to him while discharging his dutiei. - SERIOUS ASSAULT.—A female, named Ann Grove, wa. Xithin the last week there has been a marked increase in yesterday charged with committing an assault upon an he arrival of paupers from Ireland, and the fever cases old woman. It appeared that, on the 25th day of last nthe lower districts of the town are very n umerous. month the parties had a quarrel, when the prisoner struck THE . GREAT MADRAS RAILWAY COMPANY.—Under the complainant on the head with a liar of iron. The in his title a prospectus of a project appears in our columns, jured party was unable to attend and give evidence until lesigned to open out a communication between the lead- yesterday, and in the meantime the prisoner had been con ing districts and towns of the . Madras presidency, which fined in the Borough Gaol. Mr. Rushton said the pri appears to us to be singularly deserving of the attention miner had-barely escaped being committed for trial on a of capitalists. The length of the line projeCted is 270 charge of murder, and ordered her to pay a fine of £5, or miles-by the present winding route, and by this project it in default of payment be committed for two months. will be reduced to 200 miles. the construction of which is SKELETON FOUND.—On Saturday, at noon, the skele estimated at the - cost of £5,000 per mile. The popula- ton of a man, supposed to have been about twenty-five tion of the presidency of Madras, for which this must be years of. age, was found by the men engaged in digging he main trunk line, is. set down at 14,000,00 0 . The the foundation for the Sailors' Home. The body was ''^ is certain from its extent to pay an excellent found in what is presumed to have been an underground ~as not fa l i l r i l t y l i r e e r a to ch t e h d e and, according to the medical testimony, the ' suspected .to have fallen a victim to foul play. ydiaenntpearspsreissesinonfs.thiswcnouLtz mpaasnsagise o ra ur ilw ln a left the development of the resources of those possessions One of his teeth was broken, and, from the remnant left to the slow working of the Indian government. The city in the jaw, the surgeon concludes that it was broken be article of the Times of Friday affords a striking instance fore :death. The premises which covered the ground If the disadvantageous results of Government under- many years since, were inhabited by some of the worst 1, as compared with those of private enterprise, in characters, .. . . • • _we of the construction of the Ganges canal, which OBTAINING . Goons UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. — ...,S been for six years constructing at an enormous outlay(' i Yesterday, a miserable-looking girl named Ann Summer whilst the scheme, if confided to a private company, would i lit, was brought; before the magistrates, charged With the steadily have prograa*ll owar d s completion, since the ea- I above offence. It appeared, that on Saturday. the prisoner pitql would have been:l' l 4lsec], irrespective of any political -went to.a grocer's shop kept by Ann Whitley, and said eirises that might affect the revenue of the country, or she had been sent by Mr. Parker, of -Boundary-place, for divert the energies of the Government. We trust that i some groceries.- - She added, that. she was servant to Mr. this company will, in its own locally, prove to the world Parker: -As the party had some knowledge of Mr. Parker, that the effects of private enterprise need never be 4-. 1 the goods were sent ; but, on inquiry, it turned out the . spairod of,.and be instrumental in developing the resources . prisqner. had Made a. fraudulent representation, and, she Of a t country so important as is QUr Bast Indian empire to was accordingly given luta custody. The prisoner was. Urgut Britain. , remanded.. of the town return ms twenty gallor s 0-f-galla y more c ANNUAL SHIPPING STATEMENT, BY MESSRS. AYLWIN & CO., FOR THE INDIAN COMMER CIAL YEAR, 1845-6. In introducing these most important Tables to their friends, Messrs. Aylwin congratulate the commercial world upon the increased imports into Bengal of salt during the present year, amounting to 502,616 bazar maunds, or nearly 18,500 tons, which is - one-fifth of the total manu facture of the East India Company. We have on previ ous occasions noticed the valuakie services of Mr. A. C. Aylwin in this country to gerlid of the enormous im post upon this article in our Indian territories. His views are here fully confirmed by the firm, who state that if the trade were fairly thrown open. England might safely cal culate upon supplying from 150,000 to 200,000 tons, even should freights be raised to 40s. instead of 205., the rate at which the past import has been effected. It is difficult, they say, to estimate the vast benefit which would accrue to our shipping interest and our manufacturers if the peasantry of India were relieved from the pressure of a monopoly which compels them to surrender three and sometimes four months of their annual labour to procure a necessary which could be immensely cheapened, thus giving them a large portion of the fruit of that labour to expend upon our manufactures. The bearing of the tax upon the articles of sugar and hides has the effect of re pressing exportation. In the former article they calculate that its abolition would enable us to procure from India a further supply of 80,000 tons annually ; and that from the general stimulation of commerce India might be expected to be able to take from us cotton cloths to the extent of £2,000,000, beyond her present consumption, and to em ploy 225,000 tons extra of outward and 100,000 tons extra of homeward shipping. Of the tables furnished by Messrs. Aylwin, we must necessarily give only a mere outline. Table A gives, for instance, the entrance and clearances of British vessels in each year since 1820. We can only give the two extremes. In 1821 the British shipping "entered inwards" at ports of the United Kingdom from British colonial ports, was 2532 ships, 656,213 tons. The clearances were 2698 ships, 663,145 tons. In 1845 the entries were 5685 ships, 1,895,529 tons. In 1821 the entries of British vessels from foreign ports were 6669 ships, 863,891 tons. The clear ances were 57G6 ships, 757,295 tons. In 1845 the entries were 13,817 ships, 2,289,744 tons. The clearances were 14,008 ships, 2,427,552 tons. Messrs. Aylwin remark that the abolition of the salt monopoly would tend to equalize outward and homeward freights, thus cheapening sugars, rice, and other commo dities, to the British consumer ; whilst it would remove the necessity of shipowners selling the consignment of their vessels in Calcutta to those agency houses which can supply the greatest amount of homeward cargo to ensure dispatch. They remark, too, that although the greater part of the supply of salt will go from Liverpool, eleven vessels arrived during the last year With whole or part cargoes of saltfrom London, the major portion of which, to their own knowledge, paid the shipping a nett profit of upwards if 40 per cent. ! ! ! Table B.—The imports into Calcutta in 1840-41 under British Colours were 545 ships, 202,166' tons. The ex ports were 619 ships, 202,497 tons. The imports in 1845- 46 were 549 shim, 220,031 tons ; the export's 717 ships, 267,698 tons. The imports under Foreign Colours, were, in 1840-41, 66 ships, 21,183 tons ; the exports were 80 ships, 29,914 tons. The imports in 1845-46 under Foreign Colours were 80 ships, 29,914 tons ; the exports were 98 ships, 35,327 tons. Table C. contains a vast mass of statistical matter of great interest, tracing the imports into Calcutta from 1793-94, when we find "hone" to 1845-46. We shall content ourselves with tracing the progress from 1837-38. In that year the total British imports were 509 ships, 137,143 tons, of which 123 ships, 55,132 tons were from the United' Kingdont direct, and via the Cape, and Madras. The total foreign imports were 87 ships, 26,547 tons. The grand total for the year was 596 ships, 163,690 tons. In 1845-46 the British imports were I,oBo' ships, 286,024 tons, of which, 267 ships, 136,5'15 tons, were from the United Kingdom direct. The foreign imports were 99 ships, 34,030 tons. The grand total was 1179 ships, 320,054 tons. Table D. gives the clearances for the same years, viz., 1837-38; of British exports, 444 ships, 146,372 tons, of which 124' ships, 59,289 tons, were for the United King dom direct, or via the Cape and Madras. The foreign ex ports were 86'ships, 25,739 tons, Grand total, 530 ships, 172;111' tons. In 1845-46, the total clearances, British exports, were 725 ships, 262,620 tons, of which 282 ships, 140,220 tons, were for Great Britain direct, or via the Cape and Madras. The foreign exports were, 114 ships, 38,075 tons. Grand total, 839 ships, 300,695 tons. The number of ships in the River Hoogly, at the close of the commercial year, was 87, of which 9 were loading for Liverpool: " Table E. contains the amount of British shipping en tered inwardS, and cleared outwards, from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, from the Ist of January to the 30th June. in the years 1844, 1845, and 1846. The totals are as follows :—En tries inward 4, half year of 1844, 406 ships, 166,382t0ns ; 1845, 488 - ships, 202,032 tons; 1846, 503 ships, 288,984 tons. Clearances on/leanly, same period, 1844, 545 ships, 202,056 tons- 1845, 475 ships, 194,371 tons ; 1846, 490, ships,-203,'386 tons. In this period the entries from Lon don have risen from 116,632 tons, in 1844, to 148,926, in 1846. Liverpool has increased from 37,031 tons, in 1844, to 50,338, in 1846. Bristol and Hull have decreased from 4807 tons, in 1844, to 2674 tons, in 1846. The Clyde and other ports had 7822 tons, in 184 4, 4301 in 1845, and 7046 in 1846, spewing a large decrease in the average of the last two years. The Clearances outwards shew an increase from London, a decrease from Liverpool of 15,500 tons, a decrease of about two-fifths from Bristol 'and Hull, Table Fives the number and tonnage of vessels en gaged by the Land and Emigration Commissioners, to convey coolies from India to the West Indies on the 2d and 11th Tune, 1846. The number of the ships was 33, the tonnage 19,902. From Calcutta five of• these were destined for Jamaica ; seven for British Guiana, and four for Trinidad. From Madras, five were for Jamaica, eight for British Guiana, and four for Trinidad. Table G gives the monthly and average homeward rates of freight for the last six years, for dead weight and light goods, as follows :-1840-41, for dead weight. say sugar, per ton, from Calcutta to London, monthly aver age, £s"los. 10d. to £6 Is. 6d. ; 1841-42, £3 4s. Id. to £3 10s. ld. ; 1842-43, £3 Os. 7d. to £3 28.10 d. ; 1843-44, £3 14s. 3d. to £3 16s. 3d. ; 1844-45, £4. 15s. sd. to £4 18s. 4d. ; 1845-46, £5 to £5 4s. 2d.• For light - goods, say shellac, per ton of 50 cubic feet, from Calcutta to Lon don, 1840-41, £4 14s. 2d. to £4 12s. 3d..; 1841-42, £2 12s. to £2 I9s. Id ; 1842-43, £2 9s. 9d. to £2l2s. ld: ; 1843-44, £3 7s. 6d. to £3 9s. 7d. ; 1844-45, £4 6s. 7d. to £4 10s. ; giN..461 £4 Os. 9d. to £4 4s. 9d. _ , From the above tables, Messrs. Aylwin,—adopting , the conclusion that the rate of homeward` freight is regulated by the available supply of tonnage and the quantity of prodUce to be shipped home, and considering that the supply of the former will be seriously diminished by, the number of s taken up !oolie emig few .vessE .As unloaded in other ports and Other countries are expected to call at Calcutta, and produce is,abundant, —argue that increased rates of freight may be anticipated. The remainder of this highly valuable compilation is more immediately interesting to East Indians, and' parties desirous of entering into commerce wan tn., than to the public at large. We may , however, gather from it some information of interest to be communicated on another opportunity. In the meantime, we cannot forbear complimenting Messrs. Aylwin upon the industry and research with which their circular has been got up. If our readers could see its great extent, and the immense mass of figures to be dealt with, they might even think that we had been a little industrious in affording them this abstract of its contents. IMPORT AND CONSUMPTION OF FOREIGN CORN 1N THE YEAR ENDED STH JAN., 1847. parliamentary return has just been publish quantity of wheat and wheat flour (stated in c uarters of wheat) imported into the United kingdom iii the year ended the sth January, 1847 ; also of the quantity entered for home consumution in the same period : the results of which we annex Of tbreign wheat we impOil-ed.2,001,47.4 quarters ; of British colohial, 350,433 quarters 2,351,907 quarters. Our entries for consumption were — of foreign, 2,593;448 quarters ; British colonial, 369,384 quarters ; total,. 2,962,832 quarters. The quantity of grain, &c., imported from Ireland in the half year ended stb January, 1847, was—of wheat, barley, 47,757 quarters; oats, 475,914 quarter, , mealor flour, 186,610 cwt. ; and oatmeal, 169,006 cwt 73,865 guar ters ; wheat- The court of requests in this town will cease its opera tions on Saturday next ; an& on the Monday following, the small debts act will come into operation. Any person after that day bringing an action for debt in any other court will have to pay the costs of the same. INQUESTS.—The following inquests were held yester day :—On Edward Hughes, an old man aged 82, residing in Worraticourt,• Naylor-street. On Tuesday last, th e deceased was crossing the south bridge at George's Dock, when the shaft of a cart caught against him and knocked him down, and the wheel passed over his right leg and fractured it. The deceased was taken to• the Northern Hospital, where he died on Friday last.—On John Waldon , a boy eleven years old, of St. Martin-street, who also died in consequence of being run over by a cart about a month ago in Dale-street. It appeared, -that in neither of the above cases there was any blame attributable to the drivers. , A SHABBY TIIIEF. —Yesterday, a man named Edward • Wilion was brought up charged with stealing a pair of shoes, a handkerchief, and a shilling, from a patient in the Lock Hospital. The prisoner was a patient in the institution, and 'succeeded in getting the articles above named from one of his fellow-sufferers, who was also receiving medical aid in the house, but the robbery being discovered, he was given into custody by Mr. Graham, the house-surgeon. Mr. Rushton commented, in strong terms, on the prisoner's conduct ;—that he should .be receiving the benefits of a charity, and actually commit a robbery oii one of the inmates. lie ordered the prisoner to be committed for trial. LOOKING FOR A Jon.—A man named George Preeson, having the appearance of a bricklayer, was brought up yesterday, charged by Mr. George Sparks, with being found in his garden, in Collingwood-street, under suspi.. Awurnstances. The complainant stated, • that on mous Sunday morning , he was awakened by hearing a noise i. n his yard, got up immediately, and went to ascertain the cause of it, when he found the prisoner, who in reply as to his business there, said he was looking for a j o b . Th e com plainant, concluding that it was rather an unseason able hour for a party to be seeking work, said he would soon find him a job, and immediately called an officer and gave him into custody. It appeared the prisoner was very drunk when brought to Bride*ell, and the proba: bility was, , (as he himself stated) that he had got into tl:e --complainant's premises without any intention of cont mittmg a felony ; under those circumstances he was fin€ d 45,. fur being drunk, and discharged. March 9,1547. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN MARKET, .-.YESTERDAY, The arrivals of English Malt for our market last week were somewhat large, while those of Flour were moderate. Of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas, of home growth, the receipts were, taken collectively, small. There was a slight in crease in the supply of Scotch Barley ; but from Ireland only about 9SO quarters canie to hand. The imports of foreign Wheat and Flour were trifling, but upwards of 27,000 quarters Of Oats, and a fair quantity of Barley, came to hand. From Essex the receipts of English Wheat fresh up this morning were good, brit by no means of very superior quality. The supply from-Kent was less than that received on Monday last, while from the Essex coast the quantity was barely an average. Although the number of samples left over from last week was. comparatively small, the stands were tolerably well, but by no means heavily, filled with parcels of red and white English, Wheat. There being again several buyers from France in attendance, we have to report a very steady demand for all descriptions. About 1203 quarters of Kentish red were disposed of for imme diate shipment to the French ports, at an advance in the quo tations obtained on Monday last of ss. per quarter ; while, for home consumption, 35. to 4s, per quarter more money was paid for red qualities. In white parcels not quite so much business was doing as in red, nevertheless the currencies im proved 2s. to 3s. per quarter, and - at which nearly the whole of the samples were disposed of. Owing to the foreign demand, red Wheat is now bearing a very high relative value to white. The.quuntity of foreign Wheat brought forward was unusually small, and, no doubt, will continue so . for some weeks hence. This article was in good request for France, and about 2000 quarters found purchasers at a rise in value of from Is. to, in some few instances, 3s. per quarter. Notwithstanding 'the ;hoW . of Barley was but moderate, the Barley trade=arising from the heaviness in that for Malt—was dull, at an abatement in the value of fully Is per qr. Foreign Barleys were a mere drug. The supply of Malt exceeding the wants of the brewers, all kinds moved off heavily at a reduc tion in last week's prices of from Isto 2s per qr. The market being very heavily supplied with foreign Oats., buyers held off, and the prices were Is to 2s per quarter lower than on Monday last, and at which the market closed heavily. In Beans, next to nothing was doing, at an abatement of quite Is per quarter. Peas were in short supply and slow inquiry, at imaltered prices. Flour—both sack and barrelled—was held at Is to 2s more money. Indian Corn, both on the spot and Mr arrival, was very firm, but not dearer. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY _ . . The weather being somewhat warmer than last week,_ the butchers evinced. but little inclination to purchase largely. The primest arrivals were, however, in fair request at: prices about equal to those paid on Monday last; but the inferior and second-rate ones were heavy, at, in most instances, a decline in the quotations, of 2d. per 81bs. The highest figure for the best Scots was 4s. 2d. per 81bs. At the close of the market a total clearance had not been effected.- The . numbers of Sheep were considerably on the increase, and or full average quality.. Although the Mutton trade was somewhat firmer than on Friday, it was by no means sce active as on this day se'nnight, and prices ruled a trifle easier than. on the.latter day. _ A few very superior old Downs sold at ss. 2d., but the more general figure did not exceed ss. per sibs: With Calves we were scantily Supplied, yet the Veal trade was in a very sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. In Figs. only a limited business was doing, at last week's currencies, There were a few Lambs' in• the market, but they sold very irregularly. MONEY MARKET, -YESTERDAY The English Stock market opened rather better to-day, but has gone worse since. The rise in wheat again this morning, the continued heart-rending accounts from Ireland, the unfor tunate embarrassment of the North of England Joint Stock Bank. at Newcastle, and the high rate of interest afforded by railway companies on debentures, all concur to favor bear operations. Consols were 89.1 1, but are now 89-a for transfer to-morrow. Time bargains have been made at 89} ; and the new scrip is flat at # premium. Exchequer 13ilbi have realised 3s. to 6s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 92 to 911. The Three per Cents, are shut. Bank Stock is firm at 203. No fewer than 70 persons are said to have perished at the, fire in the Carlsruhe theatre, the destruction of which is announced in another column. The celebrated Mrs. Wood, whose appearance here created such a sensation a short time since, is announced to sing at two con cer t s nex t week., The attendance will no doubt be exceedingly great. Lord Howden arrived in London on Saturday from Paris. His lordship had a lengthened interview with Sir R. Peel. We hear that his lordship does not depart for Rio Janeiro until the close of the ensuing week. FATAD ACCIDENT.—On the 2d ult., as James Walsh, of 50, Bispham-street, was working in the hold of a ship, a sack of corn slipped out of the sling - , fell upon him, and injured him so severely that he died en Thursday. AMERICA.—We have not had any later advices from America since our last. The packet-ship Henry Clay, which was to leave New York on the 6th ult., is fully due, and the steam-ship Cambria will prbbably arrive in time for our next publication. MR. O'CONNELL'S HEALTH.—The reports as to Mr. O'Connell's • health are very conflicting. It is said, how vier, that he is alarmingly ill, and is labouring under diarrhoea, in addition to his other complaints. It is added that his mind is affected. _ _ FIRE LAST NIGHT.—A fire broke out last night, about ten o'idock. in a joiner's shop and yardi in Cartwright place, between Clayton-street and Byrom-street. An engine was promptly on the spat, and; before going to press, the fire was subdued. JENNY LlND. — Jenny Lind has finally arranged to come to London and sing at her Majesty's Theatre, Mr. Lumley giving her an indemnity against all actions for breach of contract with Mr. Bunn_ The battle in t courts will therefore be fought, if at aid ; between the till managers Poignant- to previous. arran g ement, a deputation frOtri " the Irish Pa•rty," consisting of Lord Monteagle, the Right Hon. Frederic Shaw, M.P ., M r . G eorge Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Edward regan, M.P., and ) I ' .. Anthony Lefroy, M.P., waited upoiti, e at his official residence, Downing-strim,u, y 13,st, for the purpose of submitting to his lordship - lutions condemnatory of the propmd•new poor law, as relief to the destitute slit of unions at large he powers intended to regards the extension of ou able-bodied labourer; the assess' instead of -electoral districts ; and tl be conferred on relieving officers. RATE OF INTEREST. — An advertisement of tenders for, loans to the London and North-Western Railway Com pany, to be paicVnterest for at the advanced rate of 5 per cent. per annum, has excited much• attention, and rather taken people by surprise. It was considered, rather super ficially, perhaps, that a powerfuli, high-dividend-paying and large capital-endowed company like that, should be enabled to borrow money upon easier terms. Its securi ties, in many quarters, are held to be scarcely or little inferior in value and solidity.everdo those of the govern ment. The fact should, however, rather be taken as a sign of the times, and with a regard to accompanying circumstances. For it must be observed, that no sums of lass than five thousand pounds - ..are to be accepted, and that the rate of interest quoted is not gauranteed for more than three years. FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT and SUPPER LOUNGE, 17, CLAYTON-SQUARE. Those who. have not yet visited the ORIENTAL DIVAN should not omit an opportunity; for the arrangements not onlY surpass those of every similar Rotel, but the viands are of choicest kinds: An excellent Steak, cut in the London style, Yik charged 9d., and it may be finished with a half-pint of splendi d Amontillado Sherry, or fine-flavoured Port, for One Shilling. The Oriental has been flattered by the following notices from our local Press ! rnt - •, 1.11 WHICH II 1J L most it Me nea t n fashionablees s i t w h i r e e l ithss everythingrestaurant . —Standard. ,Ip,ree.ist .cannot aanat ao i tn s thabe s ae e : i d l p. e 6e d e. up, reader The Restaurant, Clayton -square.—We have no doubt the pro mises which Feeny makes the ear he will, Macbeth's T witches,he dinnerske e p 13 ot andand lowness of charges.—Albion. It consolidates the reputation of the proprietori—tedl for variety, as ltil' ca t for the public.—Mail. Suitable to all classes; the wine is undeniable.— Times. BILL OF FARE AT THE FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT, For THIS DAY, the 9th, and TO-MORROW, the lOth inst. TSIS DAY. Soups.—Mock TurtleiHare, Mutton Broth, and Grayy. , isti.—Soles, Codfish, and Whiting._ and Ham, —Saddle* Mutton, Pigeon Pie, Veal 'One *Mock Two o'clock Roast and Ham, Shoulder of Atu .ump Steak PIA- Three o'clock , ,ali - olfed Rabbit and Bac :Wa? o'clock -Rabbit Pie TO-MORRO\ Sours.-Mutton Broth, Gravy and Mock Tur One o'clock Roast Tu !y, - Boiled,Beef, Haunch of Mut- Tic° o'clock.—ltabbit Pie, Roast Beef. Three o'clock.—Roast Pork, Calves' Head and Bacon Four o'clock.—Beef Steak Pie, Veal and Ham Fire o'clock.—Roast Leg of Pr► 4 Six o'clock Pigeon Pie. Puddings, Tarts, and. Pancakes Half-pint of Vine Amontillado Sherry, or £ull-flavoured Port,' Is. ; Pint, 25.: Quart, 45.. Cup of Coffee, 4d. ; with Toast or -Muffin, 6d. Plain Tea or Coffee, Is. Ladies will Put the Restaurant a tnost call at for Refreshment. •eepectable House tol London Oysters received daily, 7s, 6d. per barrel, or Is. 6d. per score. The following are the opinions of the Press : CELEBRITY OF THE LONDON OYSTERS, ‘..• 1,-,•••-•• The acknowledged superiority of the London Oysters, and the difficulty of obtaining th em regu l ar l y even i n t hi s grea t onecom commercial town, tirstFishmongers of has indneed the P ro p ri etor to arrange with Billingsgate, from whom be daily receives AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF THE NATIVES; but, as all the Liverpool journals have eulogised them, Mr. F. sub mits their recommendation rather than his own. " A dish of the finest Oysters we ever ren - ienl;er to have seen or tasted ; we can honestly recommend them."—Mercury. " We can safely vouch tor their fine condition and excellent flavour ; better cannot certainly be had in London or else - " Standard. where.' "We .ommend our friends to pay the Divan a visit, and judge of the Oysters by their size, f res h ness , an d d e li c i ou fla vour."—Journal. "Our bretheni of the press, however they may be divided in 'their opinion on other subjects, give their testimony nna - nimonsly in favour o f M r. r eeny ' s excellent Lon d on 0 testers." I—Albion. "The lovers of this fine shell-fish can now procure it of •splendid quality at the Oriental Divan, etayton-square."-- Standard. TIDE TABLE MORN. I EVENG.I LIGHT. 1 MOLVDAYS, STC Wednesday.lo 4 1 431 112 3 Thursday ..11 5 8 548 11 11 Friday ....12 633 714 12 3 Saturday' ..13 752 826 13 , Sunday .... 14 856 924 15 Monday ...15 950 10 16 17 8 5 4th Sunday in beat LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING" By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53 Grove street, sag 1 0 EONARD A.DDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. No.. 4 4 ST, thconos's Ltriuttoost. •and er Nit.jl:ll-