The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The church service for the "Institution for relief of Widows' and Orphans' of Clergymen," will be held on Thursday next, at St. George's Church, and not at St. Peter's•—the latter being closed for repairs. We were in error in stating last week that the service would take place the following Thursday. The charity is a deserving one, and will com mend itself to all who feel the solemn duty of providing for the families of those who during life ministered to them in spiritual things, sacrificing thereby emolument and the chances of pecuniary advantage. Ebe Eiberpool 'tanbarb. Till - LIVERPOOL STANDAiii. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1850. IN our remarks upon the importance of provid ing such accommodation upon our Dock Estate as would insure the retention and growth in Liver pool of the trades connected with shipbuilding, we endeavoured to show what a deep interest the whole trading community, owners of property, and rate payers of the parish ought to feel in the achieve ment of such an object. We urged at the same time our opinion that for years past too little at tention had been paid by the burgesses to the pro ceedings of the Dock Committee, which had been regarded as of interest almost solely to merchants and shipowners. It is by no means because we are opposed to the general policy of that committee during the past few years that we repeat this opinion. On the contrary, as a whole, we have given that policy our humble support. But we think that circumstances are taking place around us, which suggest the propriety of a reexamina tion of our position, with a view to discover whether some modification of the previously adopted plans of the committee, and further energetic efforts to improve the vast estate under their management, may not have become desirable and even necessary. The fact is becoming apparent that the productive ness of our own dock revenue is not progressing at the same rate as the burthens on the Estate. It is no secret that loans on bond security are not so easily procured as they were a few years ago ; and that the works at the north end of the town are at this moment in a state of partial suspension from this cause. Many persons of discernment con template the probability that a portion of the in creased trade once so sanguinely contemplated may be diverted to other ports.. For example, Hull and Goole are supplying the manufacturing districts with grain, timber, &c., from the Continent. Other eastern ports are improving their local advantages, and inviting the shipping of the foreigner. Is it not then time that we should consider not only how a decline in our position can be prevented, but also how we may be enabled to advance that position. . Amongst the greatest inducements for shipping to visit this port has been hitherto the cheapness of its dock accommodation, the facilities which it offers for the transmission of produce into the consuming markets of the interior, and the oppor tunities afforded , for procuring out war d f re i g ht. The first and second we have been sedulously labouring to provide. Our proximity to the grow ing countries on the Atlantic and the Pacific insure us the permanent possession of a large export trade in manufactured goods ; and we have thus far enjoyed the great advantage of being in the possession of means for giving a large amount of rough freight—earthenware from the potteries. salt from Cheshire, iron, slates, and copper, from Wales, and coals from our Lancashire coalfield. Have we made all the use within our power of these valuable auxiliaries afforded by our local position ? Unfor tunately we have not. One of these articles, the most valuable—coal—we have almost altogether neglected to provide for. A few years ago we commented upon this fact, in noticing an able pamphlet upon the subject by Mr. Braithwaite Poole ; and we have now before us a very valuable and beautifully illustrated work upon the same subject, addressed to the present chairman of the Dock Committee, by Mr. Wm. Laird, in which it is clearly shown that from a proper encouragement being given to the coal trade alone, we should be placed in receipt of an increased amount of dock rates and town dues sufficiently large to place both our local estates in a condition of plethoric prosperity. A glance at a few of the statistics furnished by Mr. Laird will show at once the extent of our past folly shown in our neglect to cultivate this trade. The coal field of Northumberland and Durham is estimated to contain a productive area of 780 square miles ; and from its development has been derived by the locality a mass of wealth almost incalculable in amount. The shipinents from these counties for a single year alone-1848—are returned at 7,838,380 tons, which, taken at 7s. 6d. per ton at the pitmouth, would yield £2,939,392 ; or, in round numbers, £3,000,000 sterling. The capital embarked in the trade was stated, by a deputation of coalowners to Sir Robert Peel, in 1844, to amount to £9,500,000, and it employed upwards of 33,000 men and boys. Its transport to a market employs 4,031 British ships, with a tonnage of 702,575 tons, and 2,842 foreign ships, and 275,490 tons. Only 107 British ships, of 16,615 sons, and 90 foreign, of 10,042 tons, are employed in the north of England otherwise than in the coal trade. In order to show the great extent to which the trade is cultivated in the northern ports, we may state, on the authority of parliamentary reports, that of 11,625,193 tons shipped coastwise and foreign in 1848, 7,838,380 tons were shipped from the counties of Northumberland and Durham. From the county of Lancaster, at the ports of Liverpool, Runcorn, Preston, and Lancaster, the total quan tity shipped was only 252,408 tons, the export of Liverpool being 131,947 tons. In the transport of the coals of Northumberland and Durham it was estimated that, in 1844, 18,000 men were em ployed, or nearly one half of the number, 39,500, in the entire coal trade of the kingdom. But it will be said the coal trade of the northern counties is of old standing; and again that the Tyne and the Wear afford facilities for carrying it on, which Liverpool does not possess. Let us examine briefly both these arguments. We admit that the coal trade of Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields has for some years existed upon a very ex tended scale. But it has vastly increased during the last 40 years. In 1818 the shipments of Nor thumberland and Durham, according to Mr. Porter's Progress of the Nation, were 2,612,388 tons; in 1838 they had increased to 3,489,775 tons. In the next twenty years, by the formation of rail ways, additional docks, and superior facilities for shipping, the trade was much more largely devel oped, the shipments in 1848 having reached 7,838,380 tons. New coal fields were opened in various parts of the district ; and several new ports rose up to accommodate the increased trade. Stockton-upon-Tees, which in 1826 shipped only 10,754 tons of coal, and Seaham, which has only sprung into existence since that time, shipped in 1842, 1,682,402 tons ; Hartlepool, which has only become a coal port within the last twelve or four teen years, shipped in 1848, 1,165,428 tons; and, in the port of Sunderland alone, the shipments in the same year rose to 2,409,974. And now, as to the superior facilities afforded for the trade in the northern counties,—in what do they consist ? Obviously not in any natural advantages possessed by them over those of the Lancashire district. The following conclusions are arrived at as the result of Mr. Laird's inquiries, and are borne out by the opinions of first-rate mining authorities.:— " Ist. That the quality of our coal equals that of Newcastle, except in point of cohesion and presence of sulphur, the first of which points can be cured by means of proper mechanical contrivances for shipping it, and the second by the more extended use of Wigan coal. " 2d. That the varieties of coal found in Lancashire exceed those found in Durham and Northumberland. " 3d. That while the depth of our pits does not exceed an average of 750 to 1,000 feet, those of Durham and Northumberland range from 1,200 to 1,800 feet. " 4th. That the cost of raising coal in Lancashire is 3s. to 3s. 6d. per ton, against 4s. 9d. to ss. per ton in Durham. •' sth. That the average cost of carriage from the pit's mouth to Liverpool by railway equals, and by water and rail averages 9d. per ton less than that of Northumber land and Durham." Mr. Laird proceeds : " These reasons why coal should be as cheaply shipped from Liverpool as any eastern coal-port are patent, and open to all who will inquire into the subject ; but there is still another which does now in a limited degree, and will eventually bear in a most important manner on this question. I allude to the rates of freight to foreign ports. As a general rule, vessels loading at eastern ports go to them in ballast ; and no vessel exceeding 500 or 600 tons burthen can safely take in and sail with a cargo of coal from them, on account of the inferior accommodation afforded by their harbours. " From Liverpool we have daily communication with all parts of the w or ld, an d f ew vesse l s l eav i ng thi s p or t wo uld sail without taking some portion of their cargo in coal, provided facilities were given by the Dock Trust for taking it in conveniently and quickly, say at the rate of 150 tons per hour, as at Hartlepool, Sunderland, or Car diff. So much competittou would ensue for coal freights, if it was known that a vessel could always get such a freight at a certain price, that they would be reduced to the minimum, and be much lower than now known ; the present system of loading coal being synonymous with dirt, delay, and trouble, besides destroying the coal." We shall not follow Mr. L. more into detail, but on the whole question, recommend his pamphlet strongly to the attentive perusal of our fellow townsmen. Neither need we here describe the nature of the accommodation to be provided for the trade, further than to state that it consists of the formation of proper communications from our railway and canal termini, and our docks, north and south, and that the works are simple and could he executed at a light cost. We shall only offer to our readers a few of the concluding remarks of the writer, detailing the advantage to our Dock and Corporate Estates which he con ceives would result from the adoption of his re commendations. Having described the plan and probable cost of the coal staiths required to be erected, he proceeds thus to calculate the result : " Now, let us look at the probable returns for such outlay. The average shipping power of each staith would ‘ -, e 1 ern tons nPr day, or 6,000 per week, or 300,000 tons per annum. It follows that a pair would ship 600,000 tons ; but to provide for casualties let two pair be erected, the cost being, according to Mr. Highton, £6,400 ; but I will be liberal, and say £lO,OOO, allowing ten per cent. per annum for interest of money and wear and tear—say £l,OOO a year. Assuming that during the next ten years our coal trade only increased at the same rate as that of Hartlepool and Seaham, we should ship 1,200,000 tons in 1860. Supposing, also, the present relative proportion to be maintained between coasting and foreign shipment, then one-half of that amount, or 600,000 tons, will be for export, and the returns to the Dock Estate as follows Staith and drop dues on the Tons. Per Ton. Per Annum. whole amount shipped 1,200,000 2d. £lO,OOO Dock dues on export ship ments only .. Dues on 450.000 tons of ship ping required to convey 600,000 tons of coal, the proportion of coal to ton nage being as 3 tons coal to 2of tons burthen 450,000 is. 22,500 Coal Revenue to Dock Trust in the year 1860 To which mut be added town dues on 600,000 tons at 2d. per ton Making a total annual gain to the town and port of Liverpool of . £35,000 5,000 £40,000" We cannot think that these calculations are much overdrawn, when we look to the large num ber of small foreign vessels at presen coming here grain -laden, and going away in ballast, the bulk of which would prefer taking a cargo of coals if it could he put on board with dispatch, and in good condition ; and moreover when it is borne in mind that Liverpool must in all probability become the great port for our increasing steam communication with the American Continent, and all portions of the globe. The present month's number of Blackwood's Magazine contains one of those ably drawn-up arrays of facts and figures, which have of late shown to the world that our free-trade philosophers are not invulnerable by their favourite weapon—statis tics; but that, on the contrary, the test of com mercial experience and returns, honestly applied, is daily demolishing some portion of their specious theories. There was no point upon which these men have insisted all along with more dogmatical confidence than upon the alleged fact that the opening of our markets to the grain of the foreign agriculturist would be followed, as a necessary con sequence, by a vast expansion of our exports of manufactured goods. If we take the agricultural products of Russia, of Germany, of France, and other countries, we enable them, it was said, to take our yarns and our calicoes. In vain they were reminded that the serfs of Russia used few of our fabrics ; that Germany had her own coarse wool- lens, her own heavy cottons, hosiery, &c. The Manchester economists maintained that their wares must inevitably, by the natural laws of' commerce, furnish the medium of remittances in exchange for our increased imports of food ; and that even the protection of high tariffs would be unavailable to prevent so gratifying a result. Experience, however, as the writer before us shows, has completely nega tived this assumption, and proved incontestibly that notwithstanding our immens4ly increased im portations of food, the countries from which we have principally drawn them have shoWn no d;spo sition to increase their consumption of our goods. The following is given as the total quantity of foreign and colonial wheat, wheat meal, and flour, imported into the united kingdom. during the last five years, as computed by the EConomist, of Feb. 23rd, of course a free-trade authority 1845 1846 1847 4 465.894 „ 1848 1849 or, the average of 1845-6. was 1,742,581 quarters against 4,835,400 qrs. in 1849." By far the greatest quantity of this large increase has come from Euro pean countries. Thus Russia increased her supply from 119,315 qrs. in 1845-6 to 600,355 qrs. in 1849 ; Denmark, from 67,867 to 243,297 ; Ger many and Prussia, from 527,612 to 1,096,486 ; Holland, from 1,043 to 305,482 ; Belgium, from 2,023 to 366,098; France, from 54,791 to 742,023; Austrian ports, from 47,717 to 174,654 ; Turkey, Greece, &c., from 27,201 to 226,724 quarters. The realization of the free trade theories would have led to a largely increased consumption of cotton manufactures in all these markets ; yet in most of them we find an opposite result. There has been a falling off in the exports of plain cali coes and of cotton yarns, the most- important and accurate tests of the trade, to the following mar kets, viz., Belgium, France, the Hanse Towns, and Prussia, (ordinarily, almost our largest customers,) Sweden, Norway, and Holland ; and a small in crease only to Russia, Trieste and the Austrian ports, and Turkey and the Levant. The consump tion of the corn-growing countries of Europe, taken as a whole, have remained, as nearly as pos sible, stationary; and, for the increase which has taken place in the aggregate amount of our ex ports, we have to look to either cur own colonies or, with the exception of Egypt and the United States, to countries which have not furnished us with a single quarter of grain. Upon these facts, of which we have only given the substance, the writer in Blackwood remarks : " We know from old experience the kind of argument or rather excuse which will be reared to account for this indisputable fact, and are quite prepared to be told of re volutions on the Continent, which have rendered society unsafe and business unsettled. If, by recalling these facts —of which we readily admit the truth in a limited degree —our free-traders desire to apologise for their own foolish and preposterous behaviour in holding sympathetic meet ings with Italian cutthroats and Hungarian rebels—if they wish to acknowledge that free trade is not practicable as applied to the political constitution of a country, and if they are anxious to withdraw their previous testimony respecting the character of the mild, peaceable, and vir tuous revolutionists of the Continent—we are disposed to accept their apology for what it is worth, and to hail their approach to common sense as a harbinger of better things. But if by this they mean to excuse the complete failure of their theory, we cannot admit the soundness of such a line of argument ; for although exceptions may in some cases prove the rule, they never compose it. We always understood that corn, like all other matters of import or export, had to be paid for in some way or other ; and it scarcely seems probable that any revolution would in duce our neighbours to expend their time merely in im porting corn to this market, did they not receive a quid pro quo. The insecurity of life and property must exer cise a peculiar influence over a country, to induce large exports of foreign corn for which no corresponding value was to be received in exchange. " How far the plan of a cotton currency has sue , eeded, any European country will shew ; and as we know the free-traders will still talk about revolutions, we shall, for the mere sake of giving them no opportunity of question ing our argument, pass by the case of. Prussia and Ger many. Let us take France, where our cotton exports arc almost nominal and stationary, and whence our import of grain has increased from 54,000 to 742,000 quarters ! take Holland, with an import increased three hundred and eight times !—or Belgium, with an increase of one hundred and eighty-eight times, and our exports not affected per ceptibly. In these countries there have been no revolu tions during the past year to disturb our trade or injure the sale of British goods. Look to Russia, where there is not a breath of revolution to taint the air, or to afford the slightest pretext for insinuating that political inse curity has affected the balance of our trade ; and we shall find that while our exports of cotton have fallen nearly one-half, yarn being the principal article taken, our im ports of corn have increased nearly sixfold. Naples is al most the only E uropean market where there has been a large increase of exports, and, by some circumstance which our free-traders must explain, we received from. that country in 1849 just one-third of the quantity of wheat which was sent to us three years before. We can tell them the reason of the increased exports from this ] country, which rather militates against their excuse of re volutions—viz., that the disturbances and suspension of regular authority have permitted the importation of goods, duty-free to an unusual extent. Of all the European markets, Austria and Turkey are the only two of any magnitude which can furnish an argument for free-trade , ' notions; and this slender support will be lessened when we bear in mind that, while the imports of grain come en tirely from Turkey and Greece, the goods exported are in very large quantities forwarded 16 Persia and the west of Asia, vid Constantinople ; and could ite draw the line with accuracy, we should doubtless find that the increase of exports has prinCipally been sent to Persia, from which we have imported six quarters of corn during the last five years ! and where, as is the case with many other foreign governments, politics have much to do with trade. As regards Austria, any remark upon revolutions applies to her with greater force than to any other State of the Con tinent ; and therefore, if we are generous enough to ex clude Germany, with a contribution of 1,000,000 quarters, from our argument, we may certainly claim that Austria and Hungary, with an export one-fifth the amount, the seat of far more severe and recent war, should be excluded also. Besides, we have never said that it was absolutely impracticable that, in some extraordinary case, cotton goods should not be taken in exchange for corn. The apocryphal case of the French captain, who, by an order of the Bey of Tunis, sold a shipload of cotton nightcaps to the Jews one day at four francs a-piece, and, within forty-eight hours, by means of a second order, rebought them at one franc, furnishes a humorous example of the su perior value of cotton goods, in particular instances, over money ; but as it is more than probable that this inte resting anecdote of commerce derives its sole origin from the fertile imagination of Alexander Dumas, we must, until more pregnant proof is afforded us, insist on our position, that the export of goods is not necessarily regu lated by our importations of wheat. We have a practical illustration in the case now before us ; and without lis tening to the rodomontade of the League, we have a right to ask, how has the large increased import of corn from the Continent of Europe been paid for ? One answer is quite certain,—lt has not been paid for in Manchester cotton goods. Such leas been the state of that foreign trade for which we have deliberately ruined our home mar ket. The fact ought now at all events to be acknowledged, as statistically proved, that the foreigner does not exchange his corn for our cotton goods, but takes as a cheaper remittance our gold and other specie, as we too fatally know by the disasters of 1847 and 1848. Our cheap loaf during those years was purchased by the sacrifice of hun dreds of millions of the realized capital of the country ; and its passage to our shores has been marked by insolvencies, bankruptcy, and suffering more fearful in amount than ever was recorded in our commercial annals In the quantity of goods then, taken by the ex port trade in exchange for grain, the expectations of the Manchester economists have been disap pointed. But there is another feature connected with this part of the subject with respect to which we have no statistical evidence whatever. Have our exports to corn-growing countries returned a profit to the exporters, of whom a large number it is well known ship speculatively, or on consign ment ? To this question we much doubt whether an affirmative answer can be given. Our mercan tile readers are familiar with the process of an export transaction ; but for those who are not engaged in mercantile pursuits a little explanation may be necessary. In the first place a manufac turer is advised that a consignment of certain descriptions of goods•to a given market may pro bably be a profitable one; and the consignment is accordingly forwarded. If the remittance is in money the profit or loss upon the transaction is at once ascertained. But remittances in such cases are frequently made in produce—say cotton, sugar, dye stuffs, hides, &c.,—and here another element of risk is introduced. Again, if the money market at home be disorganized, as in 1847 and 1848, sales must be pressed, in order to relieve both the ship per and the consignee, who has probably made advances-on the consignment. With respect to both these influences of hazard, the circumstances of the past few years have been against the adventurer in foreign markets. We have had severe monetary pressure and consequent sacrifices of goods abroad ; and at home we have had unremunerative prices for imported produce. The deterioration of the market has cut both ways. It has diminished consumption of British manufac tured goods, and diminished at the same time the product of the returns for goods sold in the foreign market. No statistics, we repeat, can reveal to us the amount of loss thus sustained ; yet it is easily to be seen how even a very large increase, both of exports and imports, may be productive of nothing but disaster. It is, we fear, but too probable that, notwith standing an apparent amount of prosperity at pre sent existing in the manufacturing districts, espe cially so far as regards the labouring classes, affairs there are not the most satisfactory. Upon this part of the subject we shall conclude by quoting from Blackwood's article:— " The manufacturing districts are pointed to, where wages are good and provisions cheap. Surely here, at least, the system works well. Let us see. A very large number of mills are employed in the manufacture of goods suitable for India. There we have seen that free trade can claim nothing : we have still a large number of mills to deal with employed in home-trade manufactures, but here there has .een no reduction of wages. Mark that word reduction. Great stress is laid upon it. There has been no reduction of wages ; consequently, you would suppose that the hands were obtaining the same amount of wages. Very far from it. They may be obtaining very much less ; for these mills are work ing short time; and the hands being paid so much per piece, the amount paid for each piece remains unaltered, although the weaver mai nave only three pieces to make instead of five, and, consequently, obtains so much less. It will be said, " here is:a distinction without a diffe rence ; and, practically, such is the case ; although this is what is understood when it is said that in Manchester there has been no reduction in wages. That this practi cal reduction of wages, by working short time, has not affected the operatives more' injuriously than it has done as yet, is no proof of the sound condition of our trade. From a variety of causes, ''et mill-owner will lose less, in most cases, by workinglhis mill, than by working short time, or closing; and, therefore, until his case becomes desperate, he prefers- paying his hands, and losing £5OO per week, rather than discharge them and lose £750 in other ways. " In every cotton manufactory there are certain fixed expenses, such as rent, interest of capital, wear and tear, and a number of fixed salaries, which form 'very large items in the cost of production, and cannot be reduced by any curtailment of the hours of labour. These ex penses are so great, that it is generally considered a saving to sell yarn or goods at an actual loss on the cost of production of 4d. to Id. per lb., rather than resort to short time ; and practical proofs of this have, for a very considerable time, been constantly given —the market price of domestics suitable for the home-trade having been from aid. to lid. per lb. under prime cost ; or, to make it still plainer, the loss in a single piece will vary from fifteenpence to three shillings. Bearing this in mind, it will be seen how great must be the loss when we bear of mills being closed or on short time; and a com parison of the selling prices of domestics with that of cotton will be sufficient to show any one who has the slightest acquaintance with the trade, what our recent commercial policy has effected. And yet this was the interest which was to be so largely benefited, and of whose prosperity government officials could not say enough at the commencement of the present session !" We can fully confirm the accuracy of the views here expressed, which are evidently those of a practical man. A contemporary of Saturday, the Journal, in an article entitled "a dream of gold," has propounded some views upon the currency so curious that we feel tempted to place them before our readers. Our contemporary sets out by expressing his opinion that the increased supply of gold from California will not be at the rate cf more than £5,000,000 sterling per annum ; and that this " will hardly do more for several years to come than afford a quan tity adequate to the management of the commercial exigencies proceeding from the discoveries on the Sacramento." These discoveries are to give a sti mulus to enterprise on the shores of the Pacific and the Eastern seas which is shortly to lead to the population of the entire continent of America, whilst the commerce of the old countries of Europe is to become " poor and insignificant" compared with that centreing in the auriferous regions of the west. Hence he concludes that " the fear of evil from an influx of gold is groundless. If gold comes from California gold will go to it; and probably as much has gone to it, up to this time, as has arrived." One would naturally have assumed that, if the supply of gold in California was to produce this immense expansion of commerce and enterprise in the western world, it would be through its exchange by the diggers for those articles of necessity or luxury which persons not so favourably situated are compelled to live by supplying. It will pur chase the tea and the silks of China, the cotton goods of Manchester, and the food raised in the grain growing states of America, enhancing prices everywhere, or, in other words, reducing the pur chasing power of the precious metals throughout the world. Our contemporary proceeds The present abundance of money, and the low rate of interest, can certainly have no reference to Californian imports. Both proceed from very different causes, and people ought more seriously to estimate them. A circu lating medium is required by the exigencies of trade ; When commodities are dear, more money is obviously re qiiired than when they are cheap. When tea and sugar were double the price at which they are now sold, gro cers, wholesale and retail, needed twice the sum now re- Oared to conduct their business. It is the same in all other trades ; and it so happens that almost all commo dities are now unusually cheap. Cotton is almost the Only exception of importance; but unfortunately, in cotton, a diminished quantity corresponds to an increase in price. No more money is required than when the ar ticle was lower in value; and hence it is that money is superabundant and discounts low—there being ho finan cial alarms, no undue speculations. Gold is fotitid not quite so portable as bank notes. and sovereigns therefore are permitted, by general consent, to enrich the safe vaults in Threadneedle-street. This is one reason why money is plentiful ; there is another : railways render large stocks in the hands of manufacturers and retail traders unne cessary. What they now want they can obtain in a few hours ; and the electric telegraph, if necessary, antici pates the rapidity of the penny post." The passage which we have marked in italics would lead to the inference that the gold of Cali fornia is not wanted here ns money; yet we find it coming here, and we have to receive it at a price which it is not worth for any other purpose than as money. We don't want it to make tea trays of, or thimbles, or pencil cases. The silver article would be quite as useful were it not that wealthy people prefer gold as arguing their superior means and standing in the world. When it comes here it is " permitted by general consent to enrich the safe vaults in threadneedle-street," where we need not say that it is anything but a profitable stock-in trade. Our contemporary proceeds : " If people would pause a moment from prejudice to be wise, and make an effort at emancipation from here ditary fallacies, they could not fail to discover, in the last four years, lessons of commercial instruction pregnant with more information than was ever before presented so briefly. The late panic and its sequence falsffy nearly all the theories which had previously prevailed in re ference to gold and currency." We really think that "the late panic and its sequence" showed that there was rather too in timate a connection between gold and currency ! And in a subsequent parapraph our contemporary confesses as much : " Let us have a bad European harvest, a deficient sugar supply, and another failure in the cotton crop, and we shall have three things—a high rate of discount, a decrease in the stock of bullion, and alarming speculation, all to be followed by loss, bankruptcy, and a—panic." If there was no connexion between gold and currency, we cannot see that there need be any high rate of discount, or any greater calamity than the temporary rise in prices, as compared with other commodities, of the article in deficient supply. The following will perhaps surprise some of our commercial readers : " It is obvious, therefore, that gold has positively nothing to do with , trade beyond its operation as a com mercial commodity. SO far it is attended with this pe culiarity, that, not being seasonable or consumable, po pulation has increased in proportion to its augmentation. We have no means of estimating its former and modern value, for data is wanted ; and, as in our own day, its value was probably regulated by a kind of general assent, rather than by its positive quantity. Viewed, however, in reference to population and its attendant trade, there is no reason to suppos<• that it will ever be so abundant as to create a serious disparity between the price of bullion and coined gold. Should such, however, be the case, the public will be gainers by its increase, as they gain by the increase of any other vendable commodity." There is a blunder in every sentence of this paragraph. Gold is not " a commercial commodity." It is unfortunately a fixed measure of value, as much as a yard is a fixed measure of length. One hundred and twenty grains of it, of a prescribed fineness, pay £3 17s. 101 d. of debt or taxes; and, under our existing laws, will continue to do so, although the article should become as plentiful and comparatively valueless, as a " comsdkcial commodity" as lead or iron. We have plenty of means of ascertaining " its former and modern value." They have been fixed from time to time by the statute laws of the land, and varied by the circumstances of the times. We never heard, under our existing law, of any " disparity between the price of bullion and of coined gold" ; and never shall do so long as the mint is compelled to give us £3 17s. 10A-d. in current money for every ounce of gold bullion we take to it to be coined. We are, moreover, at a loss to know how " the public will be gainers by its increase." Those who owe debts payable in gold will alone gain by its depreciation in purchasing power. Every creditor, every man of fixed income, will be losers. They will receive fewer commodities in exchange for their depreciated pounds. The concluding sentence, however, upsets the whole of our contemporary's previous reasoning. He says of gold : " Its price will still be relative ; and it signifies nothing whether the7sovereign contains an ounce or an ounce and a half. In either case it will exchange for the same quantity of bread ; and the debtor and creditor will obtain no advantage over each other whether the sove reign be large or small. Of course, the growth of the small sovereign into the large one would be gradual, the state providing against any dishonest operation in the transition, if perceptible. But the present generation may rest assured that they will experience no alteration." So the weight of the sovereign is to be increased after all, as the result of a large yield of the Cali fornian mines ! Here is a fixed measure of value with a witness ! The state is to watch the growth of the small sovereign into the larger one ; but perhaps the debtor interest may demur a little to this pleasant arrangement, and remark with justice that the state took marvellous little notice of the subject, whilst the pound of debt and taxes, as measured in gold, was yearly increasing in its pres sure and value. They may, perhaps, be disposed to hold the state and the creditor interest to their bond, which enjoined the payment of their claims in gold, fixed at the price of £3 17s. 101-d. per ounce, and not in pounds of from four to six times the value, as contemplated by the Journal. THE Gorham controversy has expired, to all practical intents, with the harmless protest of the Bishop of Exeter, and the equally fruitless demon stration of the knot of enthusiastic personages who assembled recently at St. Martin's Hall. The author of contention in this casus belli has received his quietus, and been consigned to the oblivion from which he was too long detained. But we live in exciting times ; and just as one cause of dis union in the church is grappled with, she is assailed from without ; for we can characterise th e a tt emp t to force Jewsinto parliament, nolens volens, now being made by a section of the House of Commons, in no other mode than as an attempt at the inte grity of the Church of England as by law esta blished. It is only one more of those " cunning devices," which of late years have been so nume rous, to weaken the church as a component of the constitution, and as an ecclesiastical institution to degrade her to the level of a voluntary association, to strip her of all prestige and legitimate influence, and confound her amongst the parti-coloured sects which have united to undermine her. The church has long been the broad mark at which the envy of some, and the malice of others, of her enemies have directed their shafts. The most effectual mode of getting to close quarters and fingering the spoil is by adverse votes in the legislature : hence the efforts made by her enemies to become eligible for this honourable service. It may seem the height of absurdity to dread the power of a single unit of the Hebrew community, but "small begin nings" sometimes end formidably. There are other rich Jews in England than Baron Rothschild, and other liberal constituencies than London. But passing over that possibility. Whom will the Jew vote with in matters affecting the stability and extension of the church ? With her friends, who would give her that rank , in the nation which she legitimately claims, and that influence with the people which is essential to the due effect of her exertions, and which she has always exercised con sistently with the high behests of her vocation, or with her enemies, who would cripple her resources, abridge her power, and then vilify her objects ? The church lacks friends, and it is positively treacherous on the part of churchmen, merely from a mawkish affectation of liberalism, to impair her power, by diluting the already weak spirit in the Houseof Commons by a single antagonisticelement. Baron Rothschild maybe a most amiable man, butit cannot be supposed that he will care to build up a church which he must necessarily conceive to be in error. A yet stronger ground of argument might be taken. This nation is essentially Christian ; it is sought to adulterate its tone by t e admixture of an unbeliever; there is an attempt to denation alise ; but we content ourselves with reviewing the matter in its policy as it affects the national church. The subject, though old, is suggested anew by the events which have transpired during the past week. We exhort all churchmen who know the extent of the demands on the church in our day, to ask themselves whether she is likely to prosper under such blighting influences as are threatened to be brought against her, and to take all legitimate means to prevent the enactment of any power t o supersede the ir.tegrity of the present form of oath administered to members of parliament. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—This corn panv's branch line between Halifax and Bradford is to be opened for public traffic on Wednesday next. Th e open ing of this line will effect a considerable saving in distance and time between Bradford and Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Burnley. and intermediate places. Eight trains are W run each way on the week-days. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST NIGHT. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock, when Mr. Higgins took his seat for the county of Mayo, in the place of Mr. R. Dillon Browne.—Mr. J. A. SMITE asked the Speaker why the fact of Baron Rothschild's declara tion, which he had signed as any other member, was not noticed in the votes.—The SPEAKER said, in reply, it was not noticed in the votes because the proceeding was irregular and informal, as the hon. member had not taken the oaths in the form prescribed in the act of par liament. (Hear, hear.)—The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to bring the two resolutions re specting the Baron's case as follows :—That the Baron Rothschild is not entitled to vote in this house, or to sit in this house during any debate, until he shall take the oaths of abjuration in the form pointed out by law : that this house will, at the earliest opportunity in the next session of parliament, take into its serious con sideration the form of the oath of abjuration, with a view to relieve her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion. The hon. and learned gentleman declared his cor.viction that the seat of the baron was not vacant in consequence of his not taking the oaths in the form re quired, and that the statute did not enable parliament to order a new writ to be issued. He remarked, that the oaths were not framed with a view to the exclusion of Jews, but to abjure a family which no longer existed, and therefore it was expedient that they should be altered. If there was time, he would propose that they should be altered this session ; but there was not. Mr. HUME contended at considerable length that the resolutions of the Attorney-General prejudged the question by alleging that Baron Rothschild was not en titled to take his seat ; the baron was clearly entitled to do so, and he would move as an amendment "that the Clerk of this House having proceeded as directed by this house to administer the oath to Baron Lionel Nathan de Roths child, one of the members for the city of London, upon the Old Testament, being the for in which he declared to be the most binding on hisconscience, and thebaron having so sworn tothe oath c)fabjuration with the omission ofthe words ' upon the truefaith of a Christian,' and doub ts having arisen as to the legal effect of his so taking the oath, it is expe dient, at the commencement of the next session of parliament, that a bill should be introduced to declare the law with reference to the due administration of that oath ; and, further, that this house will then take into its serious consideration the subject of the oaths now administered to its:members with reference to the changes which have taken place since they were first imposed by law." LATEST BETTING. TA'TTERSALL'S, MONDAY. BRIGHTON STAKES.—St. Rosalia, 2 to 1 ; Fernhill, 5 to 1 ; Bee Bunnoo, 6to 1. Nothing else doing. LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY. CLOSING PRICES, Consols for Account, 96j to 97; for Money, 962 to ; Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. 99i to ; Exchequer Bills, 66 to 69 prem. ; Mexicans, 292 to 30; London Stock, 111& to 112; Quar ters, Ito 2 prem. ; Midland Stock, 34, ; Halves, 25, 24} dis.; North Staffords, n dis. ; Old Hovers, 14, i ; Ditto, No. 4 reed., 41, ; Caledonians, 7i, 4; pref., 5, ; Eastern Counties, g ; Great Northerns, dis. ; Great Westerns, 59i, 60 ,• Leeds Stock, 37, 38 ; Berwick pref. 5 11, dis. ; York and North Midlands, 16, . . . _ English market 6id to-day ; Consols opened at 962, I, and 97 for Money, closing as above; market ending steady in ap pearance. Railway market buoyant in the morning, but gave way towards the afternoon. It closes with rather a flattish tone, at reduced quotations, with scarcely anything doing. Weather very fine. MANCHESTER CLOSING PRICES. North Staffords, 11* ; London Stock, 1114; Ditto Quarters, 1, 1 1-16, 1 prem.; East Lancashire, 7i. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY, FIRST REPORT.—British %% heat market opened dull. There was a good supply, and a reduction of is. took place. Foreign offered at rather lower terms, and sales limited. Flour met little change, and in some cases easier terms acceded to. For Oats the trade was quiet, and common sorts 6d. per quarter lower, but fine corn not cheaper. Beans and Peas n ear ly brought late rates, but sales limited. Bar`ey met little atten tion. Rather lower terms taken for inferior, but prime kinds sustained former terms. Trade dull in Indian Corn, at prices barely so good. English White Wheat 4ls. to 48s. „ Red ~ ARRIVALS. Qrs. Qrs. English Wheat ~ Earley II ~ Oats „ Malt „ Peas — „ Flour sacks BBl9 „ Beans Irish Oats — Indian Corn — „ Malt SECOND REPORT.—In English Wheat not much desire to purchase, and in some cases prices close Is. per quarter under last Monday. Limited business in foreign at barely former terms. Prices for Flour much the same as on • onday, but sales unimportant. Malt and Barley sustained late rates. Terms asked for Beans equal to last week. Fine new white Peas held for 408. No change in fine Oats from last Monday, but inferior sorts rather cheaper. Prices lower for Rape and and Canary seeds. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. -YESTERDAY, - - ESTERDAY. Beasts, 3,587 ; Sheep and Lambs, 30,900 ; Calves, 264 ; Pigs, 201 ; Dutch Beasts, 642 ; Calves, 116 ; Sheep, 2,970 ; Scotch Beasts, 200 ; Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts, 50u ; Leicester, Northampton, and Lincolnshire Beasts, 1,500. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ' • Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. ; Veal, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. ; Lamb, 3s. 10d. to 4s. Bd. Large supply of Beasts and Sheep. Trade in consequence dull, at a reduction from last Monday's quotations. Number of. Colvoo not en largo Trade nn bettor Primo Scotch, pa. Bd. per stone. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY, In refined Sugar the supply of home goods was small and prices firm, with ready buyers. Brown grocery lumps realized 495. 6d. to 50s. per cwt. ; British crushed met more attention at 28s. 6d. per ch t. In Coffee limited sales, and value of good ordinary native Ceylon 425. 6d. per cwt. In the Hemp market to ''3o ss. was paid for clear, and £27 for half clear, at which prices a fair business is doing. Jute held with firmness at '1.3 10s. to .tlB, but demand less active. Tea continues brisk, and prices still on the advance; few sellers under Is. for common Congou. Several parcels of Cotton sold to-day and rather higher terms obtained; value of East India from 5d to bad. per lb. • LONDON TALLOW MARKET—YESTERDAY. Stock 2,506 casks, against 23,707 casks. Deliveries last week, 1,254 casks, against 1,250 casks in 1849. Quiet market. Prices steady, at 365. 6d. to 365. 9d. for prime P.Y.C. on spot It is expected that, during her Majesty's progress to Scotland, the Queen will honour two of the cabinet mi nisters with a visit, staying a night at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle, and remaining a night also at Falloden, Alnwick, Northumberland, the seat of the home secretary, Sir George Grey. COUNTY COURT.—Yesterday was appointed by Mr. Ramshay for the resumption of business in his court. The court was opened at eleven. The following gentlemen of the profession were present:—Mr. Grocott, Mr. Wood bourne, Mr. Hime, Mr. Bretherton, Mr. Cross, Mr. Stamper, Mr. Greatley, Mr. Pemberton, &c., &c. The judge did not take his seat until about twenty minutes be fore twelve o'clock. On entering the court, Mr. Ramshay was the object of general and marked observation. The learned gentleman has been staying at the Isle of Man for the benefit of his health. His visit has evidently been attended with the best consequences. The improved state of his health was observed in the temperate and judicious manner in which he conducted the business. There was certainly room for improvement in this particular, and it is gratifying to know that the irritability displayed by the judge of the County Coutt was the consequence of phy sical suffering, and not of any natural infirmity of temper. Mr. Ramshay, however, is unfortunately far from the en joyment of vigorous health, and we hope sincerely that he will not be again visited with his malady, the general opinion of competent parties being that the learned gen tleman is a profound lawyer. MAGNETISM IN PARIS.—Four persons were tried on Thursday by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris on charges of swindling, illegal exercise of medicine, for tune telling, and explanation of dreams. They consisted of a woman named Montgruel, calling herself "La Sybille Moderne," the somnambulist; of her husband, who assisted her in her business ; of a Polish physician named Grabowski, who signed her prescriptions ; and of a Polish druggist named Sokolowski, who made up the physic. Montgruel, had, it appeared, been a primary schoolmaster, and had allowed his wife to die in the hos pital at Rouen. He then went to live with a girl named Lefevre, and afterwards married her. They then commen ced the magnetizing trade. They established what they called a " Cabinet de consultations magnetiques" in the Rue de Seine, and made pompous advertisements of their skill in revealing secrets, curing diseases, giving infor mation respecting persons and places, predicting the future, and all other feats of the magnetizing fraternity. They, it appeared made numerous dupes, their gains having amounted to 20,000 f. in the course of a year. They paid Grabowski, who described himself as a poor man without. resources, 50f. a month to sign the pre scriptions. Their charge for each consultation was from 10f. to 60f. They also gave advice by correspondence, for which they were well paid. The most extravagant questions were put to them ; one was as to the means of making Paris a seaport ; and several as to what was to be the future government of France ; and the fee once paid, they answered each and all with becoming gravity. It further appeared that in some cases their pretended reve lations caused profound discord in families. A. M. Le moine, a builder in the Faubourg St. Antoine, stated that his wife had consulted the " sybille," and had been told by her that he kept a mistress, and gave her 300 f. a month and a house to live in. This drove his wife to de spair, and it was for some time feared her mental faculties would be affected. To pacify her he at last went with her to the somnambulist, passing himself off as her bro ther. To his astonishment the ' sybille" not only re peated peated her tale of his keeping a mistress, but actuallygaof him the name, address, and description of the person ina agony the pretended mistress. The poor wifew l:e s r that she of Mind, and, in the hope of convincing ress, and was imposed on, he took her to the named. It turned out de manded the lady who bad been PL I " bitterest indignation. Her it naturally excited the lady's described by the somnam r bulist, who was the person . with that a herlad d y a o u f g h t h te e r n . a m r e h e given p bu actually e l e de r e t l i o v l e d d h ins story,the houseaod builder and is wife o e nre accompanied the t. being covered by confusion, as sibyl, but instead o the woman asserted that they t b a u t l i i o s n t , casta m almost her.f a fainted t e :tot ladyhearing aohd. thetit e . f ab t abominable hi daughter,nabhl e o tw i e m envd p ee u rd: might have been expected, e h r i n h g n a of a them. d, w h The not appear at the t o e ht n months' imprison- Polish doctor to sf. floe. meat ; the Sokolowski was dis charged,tthhaet ordinary n ahrayd coarseonly his t p r a t d h e e . m we e ir d be i u c n , a mad,l e ° nadn ed mtnheadt r h a s h l e , es t i o kbYn t ie h wa f n r t dn e n s p t e a s p c p rrb e r n ign $ 01" THE HOUSE OF LORDS, AND \VA Til L'''.h‘ic AGAINST THE LIVE RPOOL BILL. The Special Report presented by Lord ,i 0 the part of the Lords' Committee, aPPein' a into the circumstances connected with the forgei3A in the petition, on the Livereool Water".„4„l9 Tee just been published; and although the ee",-1656 not find the gentlemen, most prominent in linje, sonally implicated in the conduct of *rile.' eot M'Arthur, who committed the forgeries, it ear° censures them very severely for their conduct the transaction. 'rhe report states that daf.lLti was not exercised by them in testing the sertito;. the signatures, previously to presenting the Peoe that their neglect in this particular was the ' • exertion on their part would have immediate Y_..go the fraud." It goes on to urge " That subsequeu c"oiunldasnmoutchheayse tetespuesdpitchieoiurseettheaertaicotet,rivoi lteheti:cietso, resentation of the on, but previous top.f having been commenced consequent thereoet,ree of , was given to Messrs. Gage, Greatn, fled ; we; Ifi impositions practised by their agents in the eddy notwithstanding such information, and tfethe 16:' rsee,ioP ph: circumstancevrtiineg b‘eon froofercwotaghrnedi esf redadutdihnuel ean t publicch ar a cvtee:t roy , the pet; icdostturesecmptiehnssi vettwaeie. rgneprsreaioeetrlsytil aci:iikhntmeoatnoerv,:ectteoba.i consideration ehisTneindvrhegeber asajyt tic 0: investigate eoe,:palrbretot ee::00; meot "appkiinitn,t hoar erbtistii/: parliament, and who were, coPnetsietql grog aevi-ii the ', instance, and of still more culpable thenceeduct e4.P.0 place, by not having, in one case 1 "kelllowivg'er ttoino ootrrearuttichmes r prevent frau.d, card h_Y silo to thepe romnilty , when theytinue, ought to have instilu.,'" 0," of •• 0 knoll ittee made the true character of the petitio . 00 oe T behe minutes of the proceedings of tuedoot,oo °nen ftl';, Prireeigonsithbe% tot laid before their lordships on heroisie e did iis expected that Lord Monteagle Will c 5 11041 ft ii on the subject.. We are afraid that this mattert will have a tendency. to taint the cater that trboGior speenitt.ions, at a crisis when it is so import';°kooriores iiamiemeents of the people should be roaestitatoti,etiori open them, in the event of a Pit, OP refusing refusing t appeal to terw:heeisctlhteisetteheieteesc,l4l bi i° iOjoannfordhDltenharCe.naPsMi n fi rmar 3' ; his Pg'" rea ch 111 , e ei:. it Church, Belfast, on Sunday next and I "" es ieri f %ilsC' 'Nene is announced to P„, i da,", ,f , The Bishop of Chester confirmed, Y d ., number of young persons ------.-------''''''''....------'- at- Birkenhead:l:is stlibecee r sl ' c u to Mr. Birchall's yacht " Vision wa s i t , the g %totio Saturday, winning, at the Cork regatta,. diy ci cbo oli On Tuesday last Mr. Mather veil t i a n t idaa l t. 4 allow the children of the Vauxhall l'" i tso i ro see through his grand camera obscura. ur d s y o f 1 0 0 FATALITY ON THE Rivta.--On Si t 1 , a bt i e J o° ., , his wife, of the name of Preston, te c e i nf ocot,' company with a relative and their c hil e r bo t tiP aquatic excursion. Unfortunately, t h h d ti,o. the child, Mary Ann, was drowned. ce ty g' o plril s ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH.--We are Oa/ "t. t t o ha ra t i th p e re ß ao ti h v e . r A , Alfred aHdevwooalettte, :. I ver: . : 1 1 : 1 :0 y. f , 11 : 6 ' 11 0 1 11 ; i e claite s etti ° V P attached to St. Thomas's Church on ~' - a , is ^ - 0 , The church, situated in Park -lane, i 3 ' " 1 . - e fell A O in a district where such institutions a pr o masters quired. Wel Cti;,d, On the Ist and sth inst., CaPlf t , g i v erP ec ate rl ' Cooper, late master of the Sarah, 0 1 ' - ii, O f 1 1 1 4 FATAL OUTRAGE.-'Michae l FA pt w faoa i e rnn r da' Dar tmouth , slfiacartmsae wtpu. master teecarliiaenssspfimorsivaoga,nfgiscdtsql.eautSa lei Bogart'i master iteo r ° o f ro i . r o:;: edi manner :—On the evening of the 5t ~ e tet e dbt. t tl turning to his home in Almond-streeti stt oli jp 6 i near the Edge-hill station , when hand wBbsing i ,j o il• ° 0 4 fellows who attem ted to ;obi:dm, () t e r fe ;a lo in their object, one ') t a th e 1)- ere 6 ' ' of their' s rti 0 .0 ol' brick on the head ; the consequence lete ~, et. (1 .11 19r ' death. ii , t h , The Rev. Frederick Parry Inc ur —n hY t.- f 1)15 ; egl' Church, Windsor has been'authorised o ne o i o i f the Chancellor of ' the Diocese, to e , Ct tt as acY 1)r to SS' f il l rogates for the Liverpool District, a ' j joae„„ 9 to ° . ,f,,r dl o oi c oo c c. a e s s i occasioned r e i d upt b a y hrar t vy h i e nhg r a e sb m be o ee o v n a no l wroifgaiotthlyaely:e f ar c hp ; p:ohi S ie ir o tte r o r e d s v c ,,, , j e t d ?::: ence to another part of it, has now -1 u te 0 0 0 6 o r in Liverpool. ays fo lco t t PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE `'. Spe o l fi‘ tie ZINES.—We are glad to learn that; the ~ o i e t e"e i delot of the Wallasey Commissioners, net° ceo- a im monthly meeting on Thursday, t°ta:eeineg„ltbe,ilvi the danger of the continuance of tu e ', - Nte,,,ero li a r pe, present situation,_have entered prionPr'nrst 7 o ry 'r ant duty imposed upon them. Their reli a ': 0 , es p i riOg, held yesterday ; but, being inerelY ' I n i q uitr tio n '- e - pi , ' arrange the mode of c .inducting th e f n forult 1.11 ,p,i waFsaorar e o l bsed ig uli n to, :t sc h il e i te : tol eo ,ll , , o li" f course, be expected to give anY ~,',. thelo repot ~, upon the subject, as yet elicited ul,, p ise,lev i 'd tr" lamentable explosions which have ta l ‘ e ' c i Ftre j loo illl ge e l der manufactories have naturally exci,te p r i j gb te tb:,,,hat alarm amongst the inhabitants in .N evi tedrl ,site rs i ' N' neighbourhood, which indeed have Ifeig:oil)l'Doata the opposite side of the river; for ,tbeciil' we have recently seen, to contetaltO'cl sioa of such a mass of combustihfr be stored In the Liscard magazine' in : AR, D i _spoAeauYea SHIPPING liAliAuoGl IN— T:,-;,fi,ararrirresgoi:cse:_httos:siCaorosic,tlPll,,erglio::oV,.nips4.. hc mmae—hst Tlailig oyie. tint II iajanr:rdoi 55,,,,,G"::01 rdeor;datd:he 1 I S oape : t.3 TS K Aahs e ni s oad t : r el e f S rar l s U s, irzI,DI GP 00 .0' ---- c Q. W.. /r ow Af- 00 0,- ARRIvED.--.l.lmes Lumsden, 1 41 : - Iii0 v „pfit 00.' '., Callao—Pike, Francisk, stl:eace,,,,jolifdhoot Ludlam; Saxon, Croker ; Silas Gree,l. oo clbeLtles af aia , t..S Hale, Robins, New York—Sacbetn, `,,bellyraie, 510 1 e, P,,.i —Ann Grant, Quebec—Ernest. 1,3 "" a d nci, 0 111 0 ' 11 , St. Petersburg—Juno, Pryen, H anil n 'i rt"rd Do i ‘ e st' i ttib t; 111111 : nigsberg—Vilena Gerardo, SveneY9i'. Thepeotleiier, tijler Ellerslie, Harvey, New York-1,111,005---,geW 0 1 o is, and Rosalinda, Thompson, NeW O r ic habe e „ah, Cl! n cl:, Calcutta—John Cock, Thompson,2.o,„-Te' gees , 09' Paraiba—Bessie, Ritson, St. Steff' d iporN i bel , 0 ~ ganrog—Reform, Malta—HenrY !Tao, Ne . Podo , Igo,. Jim Crow, Henessy, Stettin—Rle., A deos ~.,... 0 0, 0 1!: Active, Hawkey; Jantina Doornbas;,o`iterdafor-,olgue Susannah, Darnell, and Sieverdina,lio. Finline-The.d. SAlLED.—Caledonia, Menhennet, vi, Cos ~t i noP or ~ son, Vera Cruz—William Jarvis,..Wh const a ,'Lger * y ° ing, Mold, Bergen—Guista,ScoPln!c„ih 0.), .."- t i l ii I sailedW a t Watson, f n r , o C m r o ß n: s t t a o d n t — 24 D t i u 4 m a b n a d r t i o i a n , i l t ia ; „ Iv , at s o r -------- a 0g 1 " ` % let) I Hibernia (s.), Lang, from Boston 1. ,, , 60 , pill% s at Tigris, Mawson, from Calcutta 0 ) March, and from St. Helena 13th J l ! , ,in to c. 5 0° Jane Goudie, Stabb, hence at Bo . a d a 911 Sea Johnson, hence at CronstadL. /fa wn , Athena, Ogg, from Calcutta at June for this port. Lancaster, from Calcutta off Cape uriti s • 1,20 11 Charlotte, from Bombay, off Ma , i , yor -is' America (s.), Shannon, henc , As A a t sr l i a aa c h i ( t s i s c .) a, ( n s idu ) s , d, lV Ti enhssot,m, hence at aaftrtoßdmoi t 5 t t21,,,, 0 I Ll ,l2 s a t oa j r.ic ol a Y e i oe,. ;: nceavr l sth June, and sailed 18th June for n r_ _ ale wa.s , for un i t e NEW during 3th Julv.—A viole c 0 1: s tella tic ;stio e ie e% i p ere dr iven oe bl c}: l9, . 18 cm rG t h euynl instant, ntuarrieno,gn,, eici Perkins, on mcsk,b; iniew,nbhLcieeacn,dhactyyetcdhaeHhvet a aop. t rbswh : a ae s_i.ri - v e (ttave l- 0,., 1 1x - nn * t ' e i gco.ii s e j vpopse u ,„ P gtrei. ° le.sael s.s f res: . s i ,t).f.;e, i r ei3r,110,1.1 1 isr ob.oitivii)l,l e .s e: roti r'a .,c4 ll lllo: ‘ ‘,oliii e tto and British ship Ellen, Phillips? n w Aawa ge. 1 11 di' yesterday, the former with trail g. _ ~,,, froa l oiD to the southward of Baltimore. , . le scntu' .40 0 ti t , and Jo c h nrisstho;ae: Spence,Harris from o a m n d s J odsneepyn: N t . ' s . sv . at . French ; Guy Mannering, Edwards' . terloo, hence at New York. • I' ll'nd O ti' Amelia, Agry, hence at Bostouiton E. at P. ode,' Zetus, Malcolm, hence and Bo MONDAY, AUGUST 5.--Win i• l3 „rips ..... .m) :, 0 ARRIVED.—Wm . Tucker, fromes, Anllo°,9Ceeello Fawcett, Demerara—Lyclia, Greay__ c a yes - ,"_ u i,... , ~ Porto Rico—Times, Jackson, A: 1 1: si r aTPIC ACk:l 4 hams, New Orleans—Yankee Blanc o'l9 Marseilles. -- W i lete l 0 Ili pibht ni loei esTeutaaolhiusweoeucTrrSorkeeluueicstgtptkroc:oi.slffpnitbffeTcrtcre:rkl4peCidelewaheroysos,:tnavafubrev,uogleinhoemd.e;b2F-apTicltrrTeehhterohlte: : o l:punso S imiitoiye cat ;.!.ttio.c.l:iee.eoonrArinleni:ti:enoviirocistitanp:ivi'o,;,l;:rtuear,:iitiosje,!eiP:;eo,rtsileeir:sDiDteee)tei,io,,;:eltE ,44:1 n all saved by two boats from Southport' taf aousAdrit:iFea:lierdosin.tr‘blaY,s. rl3uPthnasJore: r S P Sr. THOMAS, 15th July. instant, "" calv e , The Isabel, having plaYrt-e-ditbber:hwe hh w ee a rr r during i d ionaadsit nsg.f os t r h h e t i l vh l ea t r p o l s i ,sgb.wheeoorellisr.niecihsntucdrv.ocnhteltava.iiiPev c n n i: c u l e a r yd e at ra d n v. bnr ); :d g p i ,73 l B : l l ‘ t c t e l e e .rs i j et f oi l , i c e : et : c , ifoi , :: : rej ' if f; :i New Orleans, put in here Ist a ir there, 0 ,40 ~ Antigua, but being unable to . rep „,,,. , Gr ey i k p o TA r f p ha o er y s m e N o a f ri vygooEfni from going eamnn o d n cwhA o a fi u sna r ccr abt r i e i p as ai, a zt i he ln nai g fp! s aaa lt a a ,n ll fs 001 0 : 00, 1.___,,p0,,, , : il r 0 tH, ; Heniiette, .. _,.________— Di f co oOp MEETINGS OF CREDITORS Oft tri • C t il August. 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