The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-27 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS We received the letter of "A Poor Member of St. Jude's' too late for insertion. We will represent the complaint of " A Townsman" in a quarter likely to affo d him redress. :ijr Riberpool (4...l7tanbari). TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 27, 1844. Our contemporary, the ManchEster Guardian, affects on all occasions a propriety of manner and of language to which plain men of the world of litera ture or commerce must not aspire. He never uses bad language : oh, no! He never imputes unwor thy motives to a political opponent. He never de nounces deliberate " falsehood" on the part of such opponent by any more violent appellative than the words " fib" or " erroneous statement." Look through his columns fiom January to December; and the unthinking world, who know not the hol low pretension of the man, would imagine it impos sible to find a sentiment which a Cowper might not hare dictated, or a line which a Chesterfield might not have penned. With this refined spirit animating him, our con temporary on Wednesday last approached the consi deration of a letter, which appeared in our last week's paper, addressed by our townsman, Joseph Sandars, Esq., to Lord Talbot, and which, from the fact that it has drawn upon the writer the yelping of the whole pack of the League's scribes, must have some • -what galled that august body. Of course it was impossible to deal with the letter in question with out a preliminary flourish of the Guardian's exceed ing gentility of style and language ; and accordingly Mr. Sandars is accused of " abusing the Anti-Corn• law League, in that choice and elegant style which seems to have lately found so much favour with more aristocratic advocates of monopoly," and which is so unappropriate; when applied to a hody so gentle of speech and irreproachable in manners as are the League and its itinerant spouters I We ourselves cannot discover any portion of the letter which de serves our contemporary's reproach. We can find no expression throughout which is not quite good enough for the parties to whom it is applied. His perception of the genteel, however, is more acute than ours ; and we are informed that Mr. Sandars, on the ground of this same " abuse," would have been deprived of all the advantage and honour of a reply in the columns of the Guardian had his letter not contained " some statements re garding the average-cost of bringing foreign grain to this country," which this great authority esteems calculated to " mislead the publ c" from their blind devotion to the oracles of the Anti-Corn-law League. Let us see, then, what are these statements which our contemporary proposes to controvert. Mr. Sandars had remarked upon the falsehood •f the statements made by Mr. Cobden and others, that " the average cost of freight of foreign wheat to this country was 10s. 6d. per quarter," and that such charge was a sufficient protection to the native agriculturist. We will, however, for the satisfaction of our readers, and the more clear elacidation of the question at issue between Mr. Sandars and the Guardian, give the precise words of the former gen- tleman. " I have stated that the League have been guilty of falsehood ; perhaps misrepresentation would be a less of fensive term. I will proceed to the proof. In the Times newspaper of the 30th December last, Mr. Cobden is reported to have said at Derby, ' that the average for carriage, &c., of bringing foreign wheat to this country, was 10s. Gd. per quarter. Take the cost at 40s. per qr., if they liked, and that was 25 per cent. carriage to be paid before the corn could be landed here.' " Upon this (to the precise wording of which we call the attention of our reade. Mr. Sandars went on to say— " It is astonishing, after the repeated contradictions which similar statements have received, that any man -can be found daring enough to repeat them. I now beg to state, from my own intimate knowledge of the foreign corn trade, that the freight from Hamburg has long ranged at is. 3d. to 2s. per quarter ; and that foreign wheat, so imported, is subject to no charge to which English, moved from one port to another, is not subject likewise : and, moreover, I state, without the fear of con tradiction, that the rate of freight on such English wheat, moved coastwise, is as often above 2s. as it is below it. He is a bad calculator, who thinks that the merchant in Yarmouth who buys wheat, and the factor in Wakefield who sells it, work without a commission. The charge for commission, porterage, metage,' and the ' imaginary profits' of Mr. Macculloch, are common to all wheat, wherever bought or sold. Freights from the Danish ports vary from 2s. 3d. to 2s. 9d. per quarter, and from the Baltic ports from 3s. to 4s. per quarter, to which must be added 6d. per quarter Sound dues." In reply to the above statements made upon the faith and the extensive experience of an honourable British merchant, our contemporary quibbles most wofully. Mr. Sandars, he says, has not made " the slightest attempt to prove that the statement (of Mr. Cobden) is erroneous." The question at issue, he says, " was not as to what the mere freight is from one foreign port only, and that the nearest to Great Britain, but as to what the average cost of carriage is from the various ports of the Continent and the United States." But Mr. Sandars has not given the mere freight from one foreign port only. He had given it as well from the Danish ports and the Bal tic—from the ports, in fact, from which we derive the bulk of our foreign supply ; and the Guardian's assertion, therefore, is a little more than a quibble. It is decidedly and desperately dishonest. But with respect to the freight from Hamburg, as given by Mr. Sandars, the Guardian is not satis fied, and quotes the following estimate of Mr. Meek, the government commissioner, in favour of his own and the League's views. " A fair average rate of freight would be 3s. 6d. per quarter. Exportation would b- subject to other charges, amounting, on the whole, to from 2s. to 3s. per quarter." This, the Guardian states, would be the average rate of charge " if the trade were permanently ex tended." We have always been told, however, by the League and its organs, that, under our present system of Corn-laws we were paying higher freights than we should do under a free trade, when an ad ditional and regular supply of vessels would be driven into that branch of the carrying trade. View the question, however, as it stands at present, upon practical evidence of the past. We have a specula tive opinion of Mr. Meek, against the bond-fide ex perience of one extensively engaged in importation. The former fixes the rate of freight at 3s. 6d., and the latter states that it has long ranged at Is. 3d. to 2s. We believe the latter. With respect to the " other charges," which the Guardian, on the authority of Mr. Meek, puts down at 2s. to 3s. per quarter, we must tell our contem porary that they are quite foreign to the present question. Mr. Cobden's statement, to which Mr. Sanders addressed himself, was, that the average of " freight, &c.," of foreign wheat was 10s. 6d. ; and the object of that statement was to show that such freight, &c., was an ample protection to the British farmer. This object is clear from the passage quoted above, viz., " take the cost at 40s. per quar ter, and that was 25 per cent. carriage, to be paid before the corn could be landed here." Those charges, therefore (landing charges, brokerages, &c.), t o which British wheat, borne coastwise, is equally subject with foreign wheat, cannot be brought into the calculation ; and as to any similar charges in foreign ports, we beg to inform our contemporary that the quoted prices abroad are all " free on board." There is no foreign corn upon which there is any charge, beyond mere freight, from its ship ment abroad to its arrival in a British port, except Danzig and Baltic cargoes, which have to pay Sound dues of 6d. per quarter. And now let us see how this very gentlemanly journalist, who so loudly deprecates the use of bad language, proceeds, at the c, nclusion of his remarks, to insult his opponent. We give the passage as a and of i gnorance as we ll : specimen of insolence, " Some people may be disposed to say, ' Why should Mr. Sandars have any strong feeling on this subject? Whatinterest can he have in the maintenance of the sliding scale ?' We believe that Mr. Sandars has good reasons for preferring a tax which causes great fluctua tions in the price of corn. He is a man of good judgment in his business, t a ki ng great pains to procure information. and, if we mistake not, has been a bold and most success ful specul ator i n corn. His preference of the sliding scale is as natural as we believe it to be sincere: it rests upon the same grounds as the preference of Demetrius, the Ephesian, for idolatry—' SIRS, YE KNOW THAT BY THIS CRAFT WE HAVE OUR WEALTH.' " We beg to inform our contemporary—and he stands occasionally in great need of information— that neither Mr. Sanders, nor any other Liverpool corn-merchant or broker, is " interested in the maintenance of the sliding scale." That scale works injuriously for the corn-merchants of Liverpool, whether as speculators or in their legitimate busi ness; and for this simple reason, which every prac tical man will acknowledge to be just. At a time when great fluctuations are taking place in the price of corn, the object of the importer will always be to get his cargo to a British port as soon as possible, in order to be able to avail himself of the most fa vourable time for entry, at the lowest duty payable. On this account, purchases made on speculation at such times, in any port in the North of Europe, will be shipped for the east coast of England (Hull or London), which can he reached in a few days; whereas the average voyage to Liverpool is at least three weeks. The operation, therefore, of a sliding scale is to divert consignments from merchants and brokers in Liverpool to other more accessible ports; and, if personal and pecuniary interests were alone to he considered, those gentlemen would be infinitely advantaged by a free trade or a small fixed duty. In reply to the insolence which the Guardian di rects against Mr. Sanders, in this charge of interested motives, we need say little to those who know our contemporary's own venal na ture. Has he no interest in his advocacy of corn law repeal, and his slavish couching to the League? We remember an occasion on which the Guardian openly denounced that body and its crotchets; and, assuredly, it is not for nothing that he has been for four years past so busily engaged in eating his own words. So much of the preceding article applies to the observations of the Mercury, as well as to those of the Manchester Guardian, that we might easily have spared ourselves the trouble of noticing our Liver pool contemporary. We cannot, however, refrain from remarking upon some figures with which the Mercury has furnished us, as bearing upon the sub ject, which we conceive to be as outrageously ab surd, or as glaringly dishonest, as any statement of the kind which has come under our notice as jour nalists. The object of the Mercury (crammed, no doubt, for the purpose by some eminent League authority) was to show a high average rate of freight, as pay able upon foreign corn imported into this country. And how does he set about his task ? Does he first inquire, as any man acquainted with arithme tic and desirous of arriving at a fair average would, from what foreign ports the bulk of our supplies are procured ? No : That would not have served the purpose of the writer ; for the reply to such an inquiry would have been that the bulk of our imports are from the near ports of the North of Europe. He leaves this part of the question therefore, and strings his figures together after the following fashion. The ordinary rates are, he says, From Hamburgh... s. d. s. d. 2 oto 2 6 „ Lower - Baltic ports 3 0 t.) 3 6 „ Danzig,Elbing, &c. From Italy .. ~ Odessa s. d. s. d. 8 0 10 o—average 210 to 3 4 .4 6to 6 0 ..8 oto 9 0 12 6 15 o—average 6 3to 7 6 From United States 5 oto 6 0 „ Canada . 11 0 14 o—average 5 6to 7 0 14 7 17 10 General average. 4 10 to 5 11 A queer kind 'Of.. calculation this, Mr. Mercury, as we shall endeavour to show you anon. In the first instance you state, as you say, " upon high authority," the freight from every port higher (by is. per quarter) than it really is; and in the next you introduce a shuffle into your calculation, which stamps it as fraudulent. For what reason, pray, do you specify separately the rates from Italy and Odessa, the United States and Canada, whilst so many of the ports of the North of Europe are com prised in a convenient " &c." ? Simply to raise average. The bulk of the freight paid on foreign corn—three-fourths of it—is paid at something less than the rates in the three first lines of the state ment; and yet, by this Jesuitical juggle of figures, we are to be made to believe that the average freight paid is between five and six shillings. Average in deed ! A speculator would have a nice bargain who should undertake to pay the freight of this, or any other year's importations, according to such an average ! But leaving this question of figures, with a re commendation to our contemporary to rub up his arithmetic, we come to the use which the Mercury makes of it. The lowest average freight is 4s. 10d. Our contemporary then goes on to enume rate other charges to which the wheat is subject, viz., Insurance Expenses of delivery Dock and Town Dues Commission, 4 per cent. .. . Ri-k of damage not covered by insurance . 1 6 Making a total of Now to every one of these additional charges Bri tish wheat is equally subject with foreign ; and it is quite beside the question at issue between Mr. San dars and the League—which is one as to the amount of protection afforded to the British grower by the cost of conveying foreign corn to this coun try—to introduce them at all. We may remark, that the quantity of British corn moved coastways and by canals, in England and Ireland, and the amount thus paid by the British farmer, are not generally known or reflected upon. The port of London receives annually by sea be tween two and three millions of quarters (foreign excluded). Upwards of a million quarters enter the Aire and Calder navigation ; Liverpool and Glou cester receive another million ; and there are also Glasgow, Newcastle, Leith, Plymouth, and Bristol, to be supplied. Besides this, a quantity, greatly exceeding the whole of the corn moved coastways, is borne on canals and rivers for distances varying from 20 to 100 miles. Yarmouth itself, one of the greatest corn shipping ports in the world, receives nearly a million quarters per annum down the Yare ; and there is scarcely a town in either Eng land, Ireland, or Scotland, which does not contain two or three, and sometimes twenty corn-dealers. whose principal business it is thus to move corn from one place to another. In fact, our internal trade in the single article of corn greatly exceeds that of our general trade with the whole world; and it must be borne in mind, that the cost of that trade, and of the transit of the article, must princi pally, and with foreign competition always, be borne by the British grower. At length, after nine nights' debate, and the delivery of no less than SIXTY-THREE SPEECHES, the motion of Lord John Russell has received its deserved doom, by a majority of ninety-nine votes in a house of five hundred and fifty-three members. And, strange as his lordship may consider the fact, we believe we may assure him that, defeated though he is,—decisively and shamefully defeated—there is scarcely a Conservative throughout her Majesty's dominions, and certainly not one of her Majesty's ministers, who does not from their inmost souls thank him for the effort which he has made. The sting of a gnat has been known to rouse a lethargic man to exertion beneficial to his health; and the peevish spitefulness of this human representative of the gnat species has afforded an opportunity, to the members of Sir Robert Peel's Government, of laying before Parliament and the public an explanation and vindication of their proceedings, in the recent trials in Ireland, the most signal and triumphant ever offered by any ministry within recollection. The whole of the film of misrepresentation studiously thrown round those proceedings by the organs of the Whig-Radical party, is now scattered to the winds; and all the effect which it has left behind is the indignation of thousands of honourable men, who, though opposed in principle to a Conservative Government, would not stoop to a resort for its overthrow to deception and falsehood. And has his lordship, in this hour of his defeat and shame, the poor consolation of reflecting that he has earned from that man, at whose feet he has abjectly licked the ground, one feeling of respect, or one even of pity, for his abjectness and self sacri fice. He has not. At this moment Lord John Russell knows that the convicted conspirator despises alike him and his party with a depth of contempt almost unfathomable. And his lordship knows, moreover, that Daniel O'Connell is not the man to confine his opinions and his feelings within his own breast. By this time, in all probability, the foul tongue which affixed the epithets " base, bloody, and brutal " to the Whig Ministry of Earl Grey, has declared to his fellow-countrymen the grovelling meanness of the Whig opposition, and heaped his obloquy with an unsparing hand upon Lord John Russell, its leader. THg LIVERPOOL STASIbARD THE POOR LAW AMENDMENT BILL, The following are the heads of the clauses of this bill now before parliament, as introduced by Sir J. Graham, who, we are given to understand, conceives they will re move every objection to the New Poor Law Bill. The clauses refer to that portion of the present act which re lates to bastardy, vicious and unjust as it stand. hut which, our readers wilt perhaps concur with us, would be rendered doubly unjust to unfortunate mothers and to parishes by this would-be "amendment." We invite the public, however,—and the question is a most important one,—first to read, and then to judge for themselves : " Repeal of existing remedy of Parish against the puta tive Father, and enactment of remedyfor the Mother of a B as t ar d aga i nst the putative Father. " Clause I.—All powers of making order on putative father shall cease, except in pursuance of this act. " 2. The mother of a bastard may apply for a summons to be served on the alleged father, for the next petty ses sion. " 3. The justices in petty session may, after hearing proper evidence, make an order on the putative father to pay to the mother a weekly sum, not exceeding 4s. and costs, and m a y en f orce such order by distress and impri sonment. " 4. The hearing in petty session may be adjourned, but every application must be determined within forty days from the service of the original summons. The pu tative father may, on giving security, appeal to the quarter sessions. 5. " Money payable under the order shall be paid to the mother, or, if she be incapacitated, to a person to be appointed by the justices to have the custody of the child. The child must not be chargeable, and the order is to cease when the child reaches the age of thirteen, or at the marriage of the mother. 6. " The mother of a bastard neglecting to maintain it. or deserting it, is to be punishable under the Vagrant Act, (5 Geo. 4, c. 83.) 7. "No officer of any parish or union is to receive the money from the putative father, or to interfere in making the application to the justices. If the mother is dead, or incapacitated, the guardians or overseers may apply to enforce the order. 8. "Any person conspiring to cause false evidence to be given, shall be guilty of perjury. Any parish or union officer endeavouring to promote marriage by threat or promise, relating to an order in bastardy, shall be guilty of misdemeanour. Any person having the custody of a bastard misapplying the money for its support, or ill treating it. may be fined ten pounds. 9. " Orders already made, and proceedings pending, not to be affected by this act ; but no order made before the 14th August, 1834, shall be in force after the Ist of January, 1849. 10. "The clerk to the justices in petty sessions to trans mit to the clerk of the peace a list of orders made, &c. Copies of these lists are to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Department." Now, we venture to state, even on these naked premises, that such "amendments" (!) or anything like them, will not only reduce the existing inadequate remedy which parishes now have against the father, but in almost all cases, cruelly and unjustifiably deprive mothers of all re medy whatever. We have Herod now, but these propo sitions, if carried, will out-Herod Herod. The mother may apply for a summons (at her own cost,) to be served on the father for the next petty sessions, at which the justices, on hearing " proper evidence," (brought up also at the cost of the generally poor woman, and, generally the deceived and aggrieved party,) may make an order on the father for a considerable weekly payment,— it might be 4s. What the " proper evidence" may be, we are left to infer, but the chances are that the father being generally by far the richer of the two morally offending parties, may readily smother up all " proper evidence" by superior force of nickey, if, indeed, the woman can muster enough to come into court at all. Then the hearing in petty sessions may be " adjourned," and every application must be made within forty days, while the putative father may appeal to the quarter sessions. How is a poor and dishonoured female to be supported while these protracted proceeedings are going on ? Can she ever appear against the seducer at all ? The sth clause appears to us to be most nefarious, un just, and immoral in its tendency. The money payable under an order is to be paid only to the mother by the father, thus bringing the two p a rtie s i n t o contact wee k ly, and the child must not be chargeable. We need scarcely say that this will beget a sort of compulsory meeting, which is not likely to improve the habits of either, but the contrary. The mother, as a natural consequence, may forgive a portion of the debt, for no witness of the pay ment need be by ; and a new intimacy may beget a new progeny. The 6th clause renders the mother liable to punishment as a vagrant if she neglect or desert the child ; yet this new law throws so many barriers in the way of her ob taining a maintenance for it from the man who ought to support it, that in nine cases out of ten she must be con signed to gaol. No parish officer is to receive money from the father, or to interfere in assisting the mother in, the application to the justices. She is thrown upon her own resources. No parish officer is to• endeavour to promote marriage between the parties by threat or promise relating to an order. Such endeavour would certainly be wrong ; but, so far as relates to promise of marriage given by the fa ther, the animus of the clause is, that no father of an illegitimate child ever wronged the mother; that she is the sole offender, and ought alone to be punished. • The proposed amendments would operate as hardly on parishes as on mothers. Nineteen out of twenty of the latter could never dance attendance first at petty sessions and then (in case of appeal) at quarter sessions, to take proceedings against the man, who may fee counsel, pay witnesses, &e., against her. The application, too, in the first instance, must be made within forty days.. The man may have gone to sea or elsewhere, and no summons can be served upon him. The mother has then, no redress, nor the parish either ; and the aggressor msy glory in his impunity. There are other portions of the " amend ments" equally reprehensible; but we must now con clude by expressing an opinion that the proposed bill would be a further carte blanche to libertines, and could not be carried out in a town such as this. We are glad to learn that the magistrates have already had a meeting on the subject, and have sent a strong representation against it to Sir James Graham. We will just, in con clusion, suppose that a mother obtains an order for 4s. a week (the maximum), and goes on Saturday night to re ceive it from the father. He is most probably intoxica ted, having just received his wages, and in ail probability knocks the poor creature down, or persuades her to re ceive a smaller sum, and, by promises or threats, induces Here and we batteries, have (e)rubrieelaepvsiel assaultsferonmnstavniritue. and a probable increase of population (if not of vice) any thing but Malthusian. The whole thing is, we have no chhearnc to e o a f no a t d h hesitation in saying, not only unjust, but grossly absurd. LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. MACKRILL'S WIDOW.-Mr. Parker, of the Cus tom-house, a gentleman every way qualified for the task by education and talent, has handsomely consented to deliver a lecture on English poetry, at the Town-hall of Birkenhead, to-morrow evening, for the benefit of the widow of Mr. Mackrill, who lost his life a week or two back, at the George's Pier ianding-steps. John Dean Case, Esq., and Wm. Jackson, Esq., will preside on the occasion. The latter gentleman has gene rously contributed ten guineas to the fund. We hope the attendance will be numerous. FANCY BALL AT THE TOWN-HALL.—The ladies and gentlemen who love gorgeous and quaint array,and " mirth and antique pageantry", may prepare their bonnets, and plumes, and spangled attire as soon as they please, for, lo ! it is decided that the fancy ball, in aid of the public charities, will take place, at the Town-hall. at the close of next month. The brilliant bachelor's fite, which took place a short time ago, will have prepared numbers for this new festivity ; and hundreds of others, whose hearts and hands are ever open at Charity's call, will no sooner learn the fact than ready invention will be followed by " jauntie tailor and the sempstresse trim", and chaos after chaos of cloth, stuff, satin, velvet, and calico will be formed into robes, vests, tunics, trunks, mantles, boddi ees, petticoats, and all sorts of habilliments of all desig nations. An advertisement, announcing particulars, will appear in our next publication. NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS REGARDING SPIRITS FOR SHIP'S STORES.—The following general order has been received at our Custom House here, from the ho nourable Board of Commissioners in London :—On an application of Mr. John Driver, requesting that masters of temperance vessels may be relieved from the general regulations in force, on the shipment of stores, by being allowed to take such small quantities of Brandy only, as they may require for Medicinal purposes, without any other spirit, and also be allowed to ship such spirits as they require in stone jars. We are of opinion that the masters of Temperance ships, provided they waive their right to any allowance of spirits, as stores, may be allowed to ship from warehouse, for Medicinal purposes, upon their application and certificate to the above effect, Brandy in the proportion of one tenth part, to the whole aggregate quantity of Brandy, and other spirits to which they would be entitled for stores, according to the complement of the crew, and the duration of the voyage, also that there is no objection to the shipment of spirits for stores in stone jars, provided the whole quantity of each descrip tion of spirits is contained in one jar,and you are to apprize the applicant." ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—The yearly meeting of this useful society was held yesterday in their room in Slater-street, the Rev. J. Hargreaves in the chair. The treasurer, Mr. M. Ashton, read a list of the donations to the society during the past year, amounting to £607 Hs. 6d., which, added to the balance of £64 16s. 3d. left over last year, made up an amount of £672 14s. 9d., which they had received to meet the demands of the present year. They had expended of this sum £593 3s. 10d.. and had, on the 30th December, to which date the accounts were made up, a balance in hand of £7B 10s. 11d. The secretary then read the report, from which it appeared that, with the limited means at their disposal, the visitors and officers of the society had relieved 1922 cases of destitution, comprising 4576 per sons. 472 were cases of widows and their families. In addition to the affliction of poverty, they had met du ring the year much sickness; and had the gratification of reflecting, that through their agency many unfortunates had been snatched from death. They had to remark upon a most s a ti s f ac t or y c h ange i n the temper with whi c h their bounty was received by the poor. They met now with much gratitude and thankfulness, and their lessons and admonitions were listened to in many cases with eagerness, where formerly they had only noticed impa tience and almost insult. After a few remarks by the Treasurer upon the extreme value of the society, Mr. Freme moved a vote of thanks to the officers of the society for their valuable services, and particularly referred to those of Mr. Eden, the secretary, who had been indefa tigable in his exertions for the benefit of the society and the alleviation of the condition of his suffering fellow creaturegi, The meeting then broke up, tsZ SA• C.J. en to o 0.7 1 , 0 IND OD OD o oo G 0.2 ,4,C, CO 00 ZO 74. Ca O,N CC 00 c, = 00 NWC,« 0 0 pi- CZ CD Cr) 74. c. co co oo oo co GO e 0 c, 1,3 orA. V CO IND C,4 N )4.• "cp "u , q t cA C.. CD CT> CO CP CO CZ CM co co © c., A' 0 @ U. 6 .- g 0, ..,. C.n .4 7 .4 at r.t. 0, CD ,= CA: 1 . 0 NN O too C. 4 c) cx) ••••4 WOO 09Ct , 4.•v Fr ID I-. ZO g 4, VI . C 73 uu IA 00 ob• • Cr 4 V 00 VI 00 t . 'o 00 CNO ;•!1 g .9* The imports of some articles were rather more than in in the previous year (1842), and in some few considerably less; and the duty received on the whole shows rather an improvement, the gross receipts for 1842 being £22,596,263, and those of the past year £22,636,659. The import of spirits was nearly alike. It is worthy of passing remark, that from the import of eels in , from 70 to 80 vessels, the government received in gross amount of duty in 1812, £985, and in 1843, £1,106. No. 2.—Exports of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise shows a decrease in the export of cocoa, corn, unnaanu factured tobacco, and cotton and sheeps' wool, metals, &c.; but an increase in that of coffee, spirits, sugar, &c. The Exports of British Produce and Manufactures (No. 3) in cotton goods, earthenware, glass, hardware, linen, metals, salt, silk goods, woollens, &c., on the whole exceeded the previous year, the declared value of those exported in the year ending sth January, 1843, being £40,785,350; and that of the succeeding year £44,720,563; The Net Receipts of Customs Duties, (No. 4) after payment of bounties, drawbacks, &c. was, in the former year, £22,465,839';. and in the latter, £22,574,103. The number of vessels employed in the foreign trade of the kingdom, with their tonnage, is next given. From this it appears that in the year ending as above in Ja• nuary, 1843, 19,647 ships, with a total tonnage of 3,655,230 as entered inwards; and in the year following (last year) 19,564 ships—tonnage 3,925,422, In the former year 21,402 (tonnage 3,691,574) cleared outwards; and in the latter year 21,980 ships —tonnage 3,755,369. Of the last number upwards of 15,000 were British ves sels, and about 600, of the United States of America— the rest being of the European states. The final table shows the number of vessels employed in the coasting trade : total during 1842, 127.800, with a tonnage as entered inwards of 10,785,450; in 1843, 131,461—tonnage 10,842,176 as entered inwards. In 1842 cleared outwards 141,010—tonnage 11,302,657; and in 1843, 141.697—tonnage 11,321,138. Of these last clearances 16,760 were of vesssls employed in the inter course between Great Britain and Ireland. The years stated end on the sth January of the next year. These accounts (which are made up from the custom house returns of the different parts of the kingdom) fur nish a gratifying proof of a very considerable increase in our trade and navigation, notwithstanding all that has been asserted of a general depression in the commerce of the country. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, 5w,i7.0,,, Feb. 24. (Before Lord Abinger and a Special Jurg.) PICEFORD V. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. Martin and Mr. Cardwell appeared for the plain tiffs; and the Solicitor-General with Mr. Crompton, for the defendants. This was an action brought to recover compensation from the defendants for a breach of their duty as carriers, the declaration alleging that on two occasions large quan tities of pork had been delivered by the agents of the plaintiffs to the defendants at Liverpool, to be carried by them on the same night to Birmingham, whence they were to be carried by the plaintffs to London. Instead, how ever, of so doing, the defendants detained the goods till the next following night, by reason whereof the London markets were lost, and the plaintiffs deprived of the cus tom of the parties to whom the pork belonged. The defendants denied that the goods had been received on the terms set forth in the declaration, and it was now shown by the plaintiffs in each case that the pork had been deliv ered at the " goods station " of the defendants, between five and six, o'clock in the afternoons of two days in Jan uary, 1812, but that in neither case did the pork arrive in Birmingham until Saturday morning, and only reached London on Saturday night, whereby the plaintiff missed the market and lost nearly £6O. The Solicitor-General having, in the cross-examination of one of the pork-dealers, elicited the fact that there always had been, and now was, a large board at the defen dants' sta'ion on which it was notified in large characters that all goods delivered after 4 o'clock p.m. would be for warded on the following day, and also that on several occasions special application had been made to.the super intendant when perishable goods were delivered after that hour to insure their being forwarded on the same evening, went to the jury upon the case as proved by the plaintiffs' witnesses, contending that the contract declared on had not bees proved. The defendants had a right to make what terms they pleased in the p er f ormance of their busi ness. Lord Abinger was clearly of opinion that the defendants were entitled to the verdict on the plaintiffs' own showing, and where he the party to decide,should say so without hesi tation ; but it was a question for the jury, to whom he would submit it, rather than nonsuit the plaintiffs, in order to avoid farther litigation. The jury, however, did not at first seem to be unani mous with the learned judge, and begged• to retire. Leave having been granted to that effect, they were absent for about one hour, at the end• of which time they returned with a verdict for the defendants. DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Saturday an inquest was held before the Borough Coroner, to inquire into the cir cumstances touching the death of Isaac Appleton, a child two years of age. It appeared that the deceased lived with his parents at 38, Tenterden-street ; and that, while left alone in a room, in which was a lighted candle, he was so severely burned on the left arm and side that he died shortly after. A verdict to this effect was returned. THE NEW YORK PACKET-SHIP YORKSHIRE. —AVe recently noticed this fine new vessel, commanded by Cap tain B4iley, and on a second visit were much gratified by a visit to her accommodations for steerage passengers be tween decks. The berths are not, as is usual ranged along the sides, intercepting the light from the small ports, and exposing the luggage, and frequently the bedding to. damp and water. They are fixed amidships, or, in other words, ranging with the masts in a double tier ; and are roomy, commodious, and dry at all times. The whole space on the lower deck is thus left free open and well ventilated and lighted for the purposes of exercise or recreation. The Yorkshire is, in fine, a superb passenger vessel in every respect, and her appointments in every respect su perior. Her fore and main masts are in one piece and splendid sticks, being 32 inches in diameter below, and 56 feet in height. She will sail, we understand, on Friday next, and we wish her and her polite and gallant com mander every success. REVIVED PROSPERITY OF THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—Our readers will no doubt remember the gh begins to stranger and unction with which the members of the leag u e used to ocpied dwell upon the ru i n o u s state of the borough of Stockport —its unemployed factories and un tenanted sho p s and dwellings. This borough was their chos en exam p le of the injury inflicted by the corn-laws up on manufacturin g in terests—distress even yet they are slow to acknowled g e as passed away. Even Stockpo rt, however, now g ives the til i and aee f lie to their false prophecies a nd un p rinci p led state ments, as the following extract f rom a local pa p er—the Stock n Inlto of m s edour of , atl ourd the industrious now brightened fully pamsoosrurtemApeledaar pleasing nb t ga is rt e ao r e — ttehr w e i mr l l e os resident e o ni w nt i iht ` ai ` nnOg it u i t a s assumed "Our for some u em ployed operatives, added to the ea ger occupation ofs osr i beasendk. dw i The i n s busy l o g habits closed, wholly of the inhabitan t s lon g de p ress ed , give to our streets vitality, and shopsfy,,ecatra, andetheito our population u ne q uiv ocal signs of commercial bani,hing from amongst us that mournful appearance ul appearance which untenanted houses and "shops to le cipal streets and thoroughfares. were t" in ou r min every well-wisher of this towt:." wont to convey to ileb. 2/, 1841 THE TRUTH-TELLING MERCURY AND TO ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION. having di sc i ose d to the world the tact that, on se e'„f Our Friday's con t emporary i s wrathful aga i ns t u: foe recent occasions, an d more part i cu ' arly on the occatiniV . an attempt to gu ll a public as,embly, held at LasselL s room about ten days ago, " the young men who corn Pr. the lecturers of the Anti monopoly Association " have br ty outvoted by their opponents. We tou,t certainly pleadg a ir e to the charge, if guilt it can be to have told the truth. have informed our readers of the result of these aPPon' to the public, and shall continue to do so. We have notri however, to intr o d uce our readers to a gentleman, o ne ° the " young men," doubtless, who has the modest assl; ance to inform th e wor ld , through the columns o f t Mercury, that what we have reported of the particul a r,, meeting referred to is not the truth. The " young man shall tell his own story. "TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCUR Y. ' " Gentlemen,—Allow me to call your attention to song remarks in Tuesday's Standard, on a lecture delivered bf me. as a m em b er o f the Anti-monopoly A ss ociation, 0 1 1 Thursday evening, at Lassell's-roorn, Great Richma n " street. " The report of the Standard is, as usual, utterly From wh a t I h ave seen before of the doings of the 5071;. dard to endeavour to serve party, irrespective of PrifigiL ple, on this quest i on, I was not surprised. Our procee d ' ings were, as on former occasions, interrupted by Of% score or two o f D IRTY BOYS, whose only argument Ws' plentiful use of their ' most sweet voices.'—Yours, " H. DaNsori• The vanity of lectureship is strong in Mr. H. Dail' whoever h e b e . B ut " young men should be modes however high an opinion they may entertain of themselves' We must take leave to assure Mr. H. Danson that out report is not f a l se i n any one important particular; i Mr. H. Danson, on perusing it, discovers that be made a blockhead of himself, that is his affair, not can' Despite his eloquent lecture, himself and his party wer e outvoted on this, as on many other, occasions ; and qielf defeat was acknowl e d ge d b y M e chairman of the well f They were not " di r t y b oys " who replied to Mr. I Danson's sh a ll ow sop hi str i es, b ut bearded men—aye, at grey-haired men—men equal to Mr. H. Danson in ever' particular except, p er h aps, t h at more cotton was on tbe"' , backs than line n or b roa d c l oth. So far, then, Mr. „ • Danson, we give you back the compliments which 1 011 have ventured to offer to ourselves. And now, sir, a word in seriousness. How dare yoa, or your Whig-radical ally, the Mkrcury, indulge in a sneet at the working men who composed a large portion of these meetings? I s thi s your " liberalism " —your toleration , - The honest operatives, forsooth —the "dirty not to come " between the wind and your gentility! The greasy artisan is not t o ra i se his " most sweet voice in your neighbourhood ! Consistent gentlemen ! Isg prate to the world your anxious solicitude for the interest , of the poor man; and if he ventures to express an opinion of his own, as to the effect of the nostrums you offer hitaf he is strai g ht wa y a dirty fell ow — part and. parcel of art "unruly rabbl e " unfit to possess the rights of as Englishman, or to breathe in a land of liberty. A pretty' set of despots, in truth, would be these same " young men who compose the lecturers of the Anti-monopoly Association," if Mr. H. Danson is an average sample. WATERLOO COURSING MEETING. THIS DAY AND THURSDAY. MR. M'GEORGE, of STAINDROP, JUDGE. The Dogs to be in the Slips at Ten o'clock. The following is the Drawing for the - first Day. WATERLOO CUP. Mr. Bake'S Birdlime against Mr. Pont:des Lancer Gale's Ajax • . Hughes's Mungo Park J. Robinson's Hoc .. Harper names H os t ess Robinson's Ariel .. Wynne's Briton Swans Sparks of Fire .. Bagge's Traveller Garven ns Knocknawling .. Barton's Slater's Speculation .. Barker's Hector Ball n s Youn g . Priam .. Watt's Slaughterman Standish's Streamer • . Mare's M ounseer Fletche r ' s F reeman .. Eglinton's Blue Banner Sharpe's Skylark • • M'Guire's Garland's Clark's Dressmaker • . Dr. Brown's Cantrip Deakin's Wing • . Jebb's Titania Craven's Canto • • A. Graham's Sir Edward G. Barge ns Tyrant .. Etwall ns Brocade- Eden's Exquisite • . Scott ns Dangerous WARTERLOO PURSE. Eglinton ns Bugle against Garven's Glengeath A. Graham's Screw .. Sharpe's Star Dr. Brown ns Sportsman .. Bake's Kake Bagge's Tramp .. Slater's Sandy Deakin's Driver • • Etwall's Billy-Fo.by-reul' Swan's Sov ere i gn Q ueen .. Jebb's Criftin s. Clarke's Drainer . • Wynne's Baroness. Eden's Rowena • . Pollok's Loudoun. CIRCULATION OF THE STANDARD. We have long refrained from noticing the abuse which almost weekly appears in the columns of the Mail against ourselves ; and we should not now devote a line to the subject, had not a statement appeared in the last number of that paper, imputing to us a fraud on the public in extending by unfair means the circulation of the STAN DARD. The declaration subjoined sufficiently disposes of that mean insinuation, and all the remainder of our contemporary's abuse must go for what it is worth. We may, however, as well remark in explanation that, althorgh our' foreman has sworn that his mistake (occasioned by a provoking misapprehension of our instructions) has not extended to the use of more than 100 penny stamps, we by no means admit that anything approaching that num ber has been erroneously consumed ; and, had it been so, that, in 17 months, during a portion of which time we were publishing twice a week, we had got rid of the full number mentioned, our weekly circulation would not thereby have been raised a single copy. Our readers, however, will bear in mind that the slanders of the Mail, in this instance as in nearly all others, have not been elicited by any allusion of ours to that paper 1, JOAN HORATIO HALL, overseer in the Liverpool Standard newspaper printing-office, having seen a state ment in the Liverpool Mail of the 24th instant, to the effect that ' the numbers of the Liverpool Standard have apparently been increased by the printing of second edi tions on penny stamps,' do solemnly and sincerely de clare, that during the whole period of which I have held my present situation, (a period embracing more than 17 months,) not more than one hundred penny stamps have been used for printing second or third editions, or for any purpose other than the issuing of the regular publication of the Standard ; and that those stamps were used con trary to the proprietors' intentions, and that I was imme diately remonstrated with by them when the mistake was discovered, many months since. "The above declaration was solemnly made and sub scribed by the said John Horatio H all, this 26th day of February, 1844. Before me. " THOS. SANDS, Mayor." REVIEW OF THE COTTON MARKET. Since our last, the market has been exceedingly tame and reduced. The sales of the week were only 17,530 bales, of which the trade only got about 13,000 bales ; thus shewing that they are not alarmed at the cry of short crops—which induced speculators to rush on furiously into the staple article. The daily progress has been as follows : —on Wednesday, the 21st, 4000 bales; Thursday, 3500; Friday. 4000; Saturday, 4000; and Monday (yesterday), 6000 ; without the slightest change in prices. We may remark that on Saturday and yesterday there was evidently a firmer tone about the market, and holders withstood any attempt to gain a slight decline, which several of the buyers attempted to do—with this feeling the market has really gained what it lost during the early part of last week—no arrivals from the States to affect it. THE SWAN RIVER NEWS AND,rtg•TERN AUSTRA LIAN CHRONICLE.—We have );!fore us the two first numbers (for January and Febrtfiry) of a new publication under the above title, which his been got up for the pur pose of conveying information, to parties interested in this colony, of its progress and improvement. It is the joint offspring of a rty of gentlemen in Australia, and the editor and a few riends at home ; and promi s e s t o b e great interest, and t be especially useful to parties wish ing to settle in this knarter of the globe. It is in a large octavo form, containing eight pages, and is to be published at ss. per annum, or 6s. 6d. post free. THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NlGHT.—Although business has been very limited to-day at the Stock Exchange, the appearance of the market was rather better, and prices closed the shade firmer. Consols for money and the ac count left off 971 ; Bank Stock, 1944 to 54 ; Exchequer bills, 68s. to 70s. premium ; India Stock, 277 to 279 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 98 to ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1034 to 4 ' • Long Annuities, 124 ; and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, 1024 to 4. The foreign securities were, generally speaking, steady, but there was not much doing among the speculators. Belgian closed 106 to 107; Brazilian, 79 to 80 ; Buenos Ayres, 35 to 37 ; Chilian, 103 to 105: Colombian, 130 to 1 ; Da nish, 87 to 88; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 541 to 55 ' • the Fine per Cents. 102 to ; Mexican, 34 to +; the Deferred, 124 to a ; Peruvian, 304 31 ; Portuguese, 444 to 454; Spanish Actives, 234 to 4; and the Three per Cents., 334 to ARCHDEACONRY OF MANCHESTER.—Our readers are probably aware, that, in accordance with the provisions of a recent Act of Parliament, two new Archdeaconries have been founded for this county. One of these, the Archdeaconry of Manchester, which includes also the town of Liverpool, has been conferred on the Rev. John Rushton. This gentleman has very greatly distinguished himself in the cause of Church Extension and National Education. And there are probably but few clergymen so well qualified, in every respect, for the duties of this important office. We hear also that the degree of " Doctor of Divinity" has been conferred on the Arch deacon ; and it must be gratifying to his friends to know this mark of honcniary distinction was unsought for by himself, and that the expenses necessarily attending it have been paid by a few persons, who were glad of the opportunity of testifying their respect for him. EDINBURGH, LEITH AND NEWHAVEN RA.ILWAY.— We observe that the petition for the branch lines to Gran ton and Leith, in connection with the above undertaking, was presented to the House of Commons, on Friday, th e 23d inst., by Mr. Gibson Craig, member for Edinburgh, and that the bill would be brought in by same gentleman, in conjunction with his colleague, Mr. Macauley, and Mr. Rutherford. member for Leith. By the carrying out of these branches, and the completion of the tunnel con structing to bring the Edinburgh and Newhaven line into the heart of the city, important benefits may be confi dently looked for to Edinburgh and to Leith, as well as to Granton, which is shortly destined to become, by means of a low water pier at Burntisland, the principal point of ferry communication between the North and South of Scotland. To the agriculturists of the adjacent localities, to the proprietors of the great mineral districts and the mercantile and shipping interests, this undertaking must be of infinit e i mportance; and, we may safely i n f er f rom its vast publi c utility, that it i s no t lik e ly to be an unpro fitable one to it s s h are h o l ders. It will he seen, b y an ad vertisement in our columns this day, that a special gene ral meeting of the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Com pany will be held on the 14th proximo, when the heads of a proposed agreement with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, with respect to the rates to he mutually charge able, will be brought forward for consideration, TRADE AND NAVIGATION. We have been favoured with a perusal of the official accounts rela . ing to trade and navigation, customs dues, and tonnage of vessels, as recently presented to p,irlia ment by her M ijesty's command, and ordered by the House of Commons, on the 15th instant, to be printed. The accounts are divided into six heads, and are arranged in tabular form; but they are on so large a scale (em bracing numerous articles of import, export, &c., in de tail) that we can only supply a comparatively few of the principal statistical facts. The first and longest account gives the imports of the principal articles of merchandise, .of the quantities en tered for home consumption, and of the customs dues re. ceived thereon, in the year eliding sth January, 1844, compared with the same in the previous year. Below are a few of the main items : c") , -3-i rAc 4 7v=1....-- no 0 -.! 0 ''D .., Z :::: , r ,,, ---4 0 ~, ~.. .., a- P, o§ n• ,i, , , i cra = c 7:o,vo . c., ,- ,4 - - on 2 .t, . a - g f-°- • Fg,, 1' S.' : , a-s. - a a' F-1.-.? a a —O-• ~..,= c; . c .-, .9 0, 2 r, : 0; =,- = 0 B 0 = ..: * • : 1 ;:*c' ...." ~.; a , ''''.% - o' : *- ;*. .....?, ~,9 (73 -, CO 0- , g 0 , :7, a,....- ' ./fi n '''' o '.",.. - 0 ..., Isa. = F-'-'. a 2 a • 4 Al • ' ( 7l / §: GT3'n' ' 0.. . = ~9 • : ~...• 10 : • .rb . . . :7: . g ". PP" . . . • P.' .1 4 ., g • v • ,F - c• kt : ,-, E,. „c " , . ,-,. z t ......., _ „ ,„.. c-...., ~.,-... c•-. ei. ;;" Ctr , C•• es ca Cr• st ... c , . 0 . • •• , •1 00 4. 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FASHIONABLE VISITORS TO THE STEEPLE-CHAS° . AND COURSING MEETING.---We understand that al . following distinguished visitors are the sam.t.i. OP. wcck, sit VrO7Lteth :—The Earl "n dt of Egli og t oun , t h e E ar l and Countess of Craven, the' Dowager Countess of Craven, Lady Caroline Townier, Lady Louisa Johnstone, Lord Curzon, Sir Frederick Bathurst, Sir Richard Brownrigg, Miss Brooke, Captain Sunderland, Mr. Applethwaite,. Miss Grenfell, Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. Payne, Mr. Smith Owen, Mr. Brooke, and Mr. Charles Townley. THE HOOTON PARK STEEPLE -CHASES.—These dash ing events are fixed to " come-off "on Friday next, over three miles-of a fair hunting country, within ten m iles of • Hooton Park. The first race will be a sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., and only 5 if declared, &c., with 100 added by Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., for horses of all denominations, carrying 12st each ; a winner of the Leam ington, &c., to carry 10Ib. extra; the horses to be the property of members of White's, &c., and ridden by meal hers of the same. The second race will be a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added by Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., 12st. each ; horses which have been regularly hunted' with Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds to be allowed 10 lbs. The horses to be ridden by their owners, or farmers or gentlemen who hunt regularly with the Hooton hounds. Both the above stakes close to-day. Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, Sir S. Glynne, and Mr.- E. Cardwell, were amongst the company present at the third parliamentary dinner of the Speaker of the Muse of Commons on Saturday. The electors of Pontefract have addressed a remon strance to Mr. Monckton Milnes dissenting from the sentiments expressed in his late speech in reference to• the measures to be taken for the benefit of the Roman. Catholic population of Ireland. ISLE OF MAN BANK.—At the Court of General Gaol Delivery on Friday the court took into consideration the matter of " Duff and Kelly against the Trustees and' Directors of the Isle of Man. Joint Stock Bank." The judgment of the Court was, that " Injunction be forth, with granted ;" but no receiver is yet appointed—the last part of the prayer of the complainants being still " under consideration." —Manx Liberal. TUB TARIFF.—The practical working of the tariff, as it respects the importation of live animals, certainly, gives no ground for alarm on the part of the agricultural class of producers. The oxen and bulls imported last year amounted to only 1,114, against 3,156 in the preceding year ; cows 367, against 1,036 ; calves 40, against 70; sheep 210, against GU; lambs 7, against 10; and swine 35i, against 410. This exhibits the whole extent of the importation during the second year of the operation of the tariff.—Berkshire Chronicle.. THE WILLS' FORGERIES. —We learn from a.source 00 which we place reliance, that Mrs. Dorey, one of the par ties charged with being an active agent in the extensive' conspiracy by which large sums were obtained by means of these forgeries and fraudulent personations,. has made a full confession ; and that the document is in the hands of the authorities. We presume that the fact of such con fession having been made was the cause of Mrs. Dorey'e solicitor taking no part in the last examination of the parties before the Lord Mayor, beyond requesting that the unfortunate woman should be allowed to remain is the Compter until the eve of the session.—Globe. MELANCHOLY REVERSE OF FORTUNE.--An of the sad changes to which persons who have movedhigu' in commercial credit and wordly comfort are frequentlf subjected, has occurred in the case of Mr. Robso n , the projector and publisher of the Post o ffi ce Directors,. which bore his name. The unfortunate gentleman, after suffering the loss of his fortune, and b e h o ldi ng the wreak of his pes, sank lower and lower i n poverty, until be was compelled to seek parochial aid, a n d at lenth die 4 nu Tuesday n f a t: r a considerable ti me an inmate .— Globe. Po t in the Peckha m W orkhouse, of which he LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1844. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, tI a JOSHUA ridACt .N:wF.L4a Warwick c. H kG : Es to:LorAse BY LEONARD Barker,ofß E 5 .5 c i , G rov e. str e e t, and wLEONARD; R AD ey D n NChaonf c l e 4 r , y_ G i r an e e at ; OrfGrd-street, Oder and Advertisements are received by Messrs. N evi Birchin-lac e ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Corn.bilb Muriden Hammond. 22, Lombard-street ; Mitchell, 8, Re d N F Fleet-street; - i s s v o t E n r en. andeF t ° ; ° L. 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