The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS "J. J." ought certainly to have sent us his nam We find that the rumour to which a corresp, t in the froril doi he suggestion of our correspondent in Wir offered no doubt with the best intention, ferred to. We have dl It elsewhere with the subject claims of Sir I Birch or Mr. We quite agree mild ha' igation Ebr R.IbETDO ni .4 "Yearly Advance, 15g. TUESDAI must make the admi i frankl whilst the lection for terminated as we wished, ti .esult h precisely what we anti oil and foretold From the first, we were sat at the a made by a force upon the acceptance of the Elect nobleman utterly unfitted to represent this great commercial community, and holding besides views upon religious questions most distasteful to the majority of the Electors, would bring about, iv' ' ncv could effect, th ection of the Cons vative party to s a youn no other a Whig canc.] of the tial Meml the return of Sir Arith their late e — clmember, Sir toward Dou alas, as his colleague. In our pal 13th July, we placed these views on record thu ,tion of "Not later than last week we confidently trusted, and expressed our heartfelt gratification, that Liverpool would still be enabled to emerge triumphantly from the efforts which "liberalism" has for years been making to possess itself of the representation of this loyal borough. The unanimous resolve of the leaders of the constitutional and protestant party to support their present tried and re spected member, Sir Howard Douglas, with Sir Digby Mackworth as his colleague, afforded almost unlimited satisfaction to the great majority of the constituency. We save to- —the introduction of a third Candidate, in the person Of Lord John Manners, who must rely upon the Church and Constitutional party for support, and hence divide and weaken that party—which materially alters our prospects, and which, if persisted in, will inevitably result in defeat and disaster. which every true friend of the good old town must sinc c wrote the passage we were in ;od sense of our brotl Ler Conserva w Lord John em to withdrav in once more tendering their tried and faithful member. d had peremptorily de T of the requisition lted to him, stating, he if, by prcsentiny eateci our ( be Manners ate, had sa. Lid not be d to Mr. Cardwell the field was open to rird Douglas been a e come forward to be conclusion to b Circumstances is inevitable, that to the friends of Lord John 3 split al zlone we owe that which has led to the retu of a Whig ne publication, in which we expr d Mr. Cardwell', dress ; and, on the (14' of such publicat gentleman appeared on 'Change, and addre d the There was still assembled Merchants and eleC time for the Conservative part elusion, by which the defeat ju have 1 to arriv at a con- experienced might It was however, thrown away On the N a meeting of the Association vas called bN ircular, such circular returned to ti tion, inviting him to allO; himself to be put in nomination. At that meeting the friends of Lord John Manners, evidently pre pared for the course to be taken, mustered strong .n numbers, and, notwithstanding the protest of an influential majority present, many of whom left the ling without voting, his lordship was adopted ion as the candidate to be brought fOrward by them, in conjunction with Sir Digby Mackworth ; and a meeting of electors was called at which both were by thelssociat to be held in t to address the elector kmphithea Another hitch, however, took place in the pro ceedings, which might have informed the friends of Lord John how hopeless his case was. Sir Digby Mackworth refused, on principle, to be leagued with a candidate, to so many of whose principles, upon questions which he considered vital, he was widely opposed ; and intimated that he could only consent to attend the meeting, or to appear as a candidate, on the distinct understanding that he and Lord John should not be in the most remote degree committed to each other; that no joint can vas should be made by them, and that each should have separate committees and separate canvassers. Was this stipulation carried out by the officers of the association and Lord John's friends ? certainly not. The placard calling the meeting at the Am phitheatre, reasonably implied that such meeting was to promote their joint election. There was no distinct explanation given at the meeting itself that they appealed independently to the electors. True, that a quasi division of their central committees took place, Sir. Digby's friends and his Lordship's occupying different rooms, in the same building. But s ill Mani of the wards both committees sat together at the same place, and canvassed for the parties jointly. Their ward and other meetings held in the same rooms, on the same evenings. .'he voting papers were directed by the same hand and delivered by the same person ; in fact, from first to last, Lord John Manners' friends stuck to skirts, traded upon his 'lit, to be returned by Mackworth's ,nd hoped, no dou the split vo of the fact on . from electors, who were 'thaw tion had been _ repudiated a barone d fair play we been assured, m( ;ardwell, nstances every body knew that the ret iorally certain. Card elector s under the the latter itleman was and his into the lit amp : and thus accomplished the ihornas Birch, to the exclusion of return of Sir Di1.7,b3 It to discover upon what grounds this of Lord John Manners, and against Sir Howard •ould certainly I (.J - and been returned with Sir Digby Mackworth, ha been fought by the majority of his supporters. T a large portion of the iercantile body- to the 1 body to all who deprecate undue interfere nce with th try, the claims ( Sir Howard Dougia alone, putting out of view his lot tried services, justified a - preferen True, his Lordship has the charact in his b of a ' ld even a poet m advocate of rural sports— tion to a commercial constitu- )ted fc 1d alleviat )r sanatory improvements 1 of the people -in which s is not behind pczent 'd Alisc —rema a period in whi nore felt by the le that population of twenty-seven millions. Wages in the former period were high, employment abundant, the working classes prosperous, with an export of British and colonial produce of from £45,000,000 to £50,000,000 annually : in the latter, wages were in many trades low, employment difficult, suffering general, - with an annual exportation of £120,000,000 to £130,000,000. ' But - extraordinary and apparently inexplicable as these facts are, they are yet exceeded in marvel by the details of _ our social and economical state, during this period of un paralleled increase in our material resources. It may safely be affirmed that the anxiety and distress which were felt during that brilliant period of national growth have never been surpassed, at least in a state possessing the external mark of prosperity. It is well known to what straits the Bank of England has been reduced on two different occasions in that period. In December, 1825, it was, as all the world knows, in very great diffi culties. We were, as Mr. Huskisson said, ' within twenty-four hours of barter.' In November, 1839, the stock of specie was reduced to £2,800,000, and the bank was under the necessity of negotiating a loan of £10,000,000 sterling from the Bank of France. There can be no impropriety in mentioning these facts, which are universally knovin, regarding - that magnificent establishment, which now has above £15,000,000 of bullion and specie accumulated in its coffers: The dis tress among the mercantile classes for years after the dreadful crisis of December, 1825—0 f the agricultural interest during the low prices from 1832 to 1835, and of the whole commercial community from 1837 to 1842, was extreme. Wages sank during these disastrous periods, in the manufacturing districts, so low, that they barely suf ficed with the great bulk of workers, especially females, for the support of existence. Serious insurrections broke out in 1820 and 1842, both in England and Scotland, ostensibly for political purposes, but mainly occasioned by the general distress among the manufacturing opera tives, as was decisively proved by their entire extinction when labour again received a remunerating turn. Farming capital in the agricultural districts was, during their distress, everywhere grievously abridged—in many places totally annihilated. Ireland during the whole period has been in a state of smothered insurrection ; and for the last four years has convulsed the country by the fierce demand for the repeal of the Union, which was only prevented from breaking out into open rebellion by the continued presence in that island of thirty thousand armed men, between the regular forces and armed police. The manufacturing districts of Scotland were involved, during the same period, in such distress, that in 1837 the mortality in Glasgow was 1 in 22; in 1842, 1 in 30; and in the latter year 32,000 persons took typhus fever in that city, and the deaths were upwards of 10,000, out of a popu lation not exceeding, at that period, 280,000 souls. Thelate Poor-law Commission has accumulated evidence proving to demonstration the existence of severe and unheard-of distress among the poor of all parts of Scotland, gene rally esteemed, and in some respects with reason, the best-conditioned part of the empire. The Poor-law Com mission for Ireland has shown that there are in that fertile land no less than 2,300,000 persons in a state of almost permanent destitution. The heart sickens at the proofs, numerous and incontrovertible, which the parliamentary reports for the last ten years have accumulated, of wide spread and often long-enduring suffering among the labouring poor in England. " While wealth was in_ _creaging to an unparalleled extent among the c ommercial classes, suffering-and distress as generally ensued among the rural inhabitants; and the multitude of ruined fortunes among them rendered it certain that at no distant period the old race of landed proprietors would, with the exception of a few magnates, be all rooted out, and their place supplied by a new set of pur chasers from the commercial towns. While population was advancing with unparallelled strides in the manufacturing districts, pauperism even more than kept pace with it in all; and the extraordinary fact has now been revealed by statistical researches that, in an age of unbounded wealth, and general and long-continued peace, a seventh part of the whole inhabitants of the British islands are in a state of destitution, or painfully supported by legal relief. While all attempts even to pay off the National Debt have been abandoned by government, and the prin a I ciple openly pr _ aimed by the Prime Minister, that any surplus of revenue above expenditure must, to relieve the necessities of the country, be applied to the reduction of taxation, without a thought to the reduction of the debt, the Home Secretary has announced the not less alarming fact, that since the peace above two hundred millions sterling, or a fourth of the National Debt, has been raised for the relief of the poor in England alone. Wh returns of the Income-tax have demonstrated that seventy thousand persons in Great Britain possess among them an annual revenue of two hundred millions a-y about £2,300 each on an average, the mel has been revealed, by the result of attem! le the r y or mcholv fact to increase that source of income can no longer be relied on ; and in a time of profound, and at the close of a period of long continued peace, it has become indispensable to recur to an assessment on property and direct taxation, as it was in Rome in the decaying days of the empire." The progress of crime increased, pari passu, with this inflated prosperity of the capitalist, interspersed commercial classes, on the one hand, and steady deterioration of the condition of the landowner, the lay, however to recorc dined to which had that he wo reioicec however, to their c Sir Howard that this object ed ; that opinion Mr. Card " and h had commun and stf candida, divide our drawn from t appea , and to over, a step ion, that be something beyond t, has opefated upon the small ,ervatives, by whom his claim hose of Sir Hoy were p: those gentleme at a tin -ultimately d his Lordship, were rable Baro someth n, who to come every nerve to indut, dOh forward. Do we not find tha. Lordship's peculiar religious opinions ?—Do nothing in the hitter hostility with which an ultra section of his Lordship's supporters regard the Pro testant party, and sneer at and revile its leaders Bear in mind that Sir Howard Douglas is a consis• tent and firm Protestant ; that Sir Dighy Mackworth was brought forward on expresslyProtestantgroun ds. On the other hand, remember that Lord John Man. ve been ners has lost the representation of Newark, as we may not unreasonably surmise, because his anti d to those of the birth- it views arc ,ppose of New- t is tc on what his hip was introduced to the Prot electors of Liverpool—to soli stant Conser ; the party up of the Ictarians, to hand over a portion n of the borough to the Liberal ,nnot be said that from the commencement chance doubt much to friend the Roman views his own too o nearly approach )rt to keep vould have polled for Nazar( 3.rt which we ourselves have taken in his lords For the this c we have no ,aid that .s to make. It andidate of our coupled a - member of a party against many of whose acts we have been found in active We did so ; and we explained our` rea id still maintain them to be sound. We had offered to us Sir Digby Mackworth and a. Free " Liberal" or a Tractarian We preferred the Conservative Trade Conse as his collea Free Trader to either of the two left us for choice. That the result of the election has seated a Whig, with a Conservative Free Trader as his colleague, and unseated Sir Digby Mackworth, with whom our feelings were most strongly bound up, with the friends of Lord John Manners, we repeat, the blame of the issue rests. serve that we ar 1 not attempt t presented him, by quo ased by a contempo- in the course s of which nitate, with having misre- ng and commenting upon ' Certainly, there are same persons into whose life the state of boyhood extends very far ; and his lordship must be one of those Fhe earliest of the opinions in question [gated by his lordship in 1843, and we was not quite a boy then, in the ordi nary sense of the term. Ample opportunity, how ever, has been offered to his lordship to repudiate those opinions, and to tell us what are the virile is which he has taken up in their stead. If not seized upon the opportunity, the blame were promul ing at the foot of the Poll, how small an amount of influence he wields in the town ; and we do not, therefore wonder a 1 his scolding, or the very lame charges which he ral :s up to fling at other parties before us two remarkable and valuable pamphlets upon ti tion most important subject, the currency as pointing out the past operation of our present system upon the industry and the social condition of the country, and most valuable as containing, in addition to the 3 our If ess of those The first of - these it the order of publica h both the pamphlets tion, apparen bear the imn nt is the fourth entitled "Enq and a Conti tid Currency ?.S.E., luthor of the ilistor-y rich Re rurope, a nd is en Trade and a Fettered ley," by avouring to lay I T of Mr. Alison vs. we shall deal f 1 1845 bland in 1815 E Alison trac from 1793, which commenced with an amount of parilelled by amercial dis in intensity or d any previot tion, which was only relieved by an t tensive loan by government to the t ding cla, and which terminated in the dreadful monetary crisis and run upon the bank, and mutiny in the Fleet in 1797, which brought the nation to the brink of ruin, and forced upon the government the necessity of sus pending cash payments. During the our external pOsition had been equally disastrous, defeat, with one exception—the Victory of Howe— well known, Victory crowned our arms in every contest by sea and land. The despot of Europe was hurled to the dust ; and from the position of the most distracted and depressed of nations Great Britain rose to a pinacle of glory and power, which she had never before occupied. Her colours en circled the globe. Her flag was paramount in every sea. Nor had her industrial and social progress failed to keep pace with her naval and military Her agriculture, commerce and menu: progress factures had increased amazingly in extent and prosperity; her exports, imports and tonnage .had doubled since the war began; and notwithstand ing some temporary distress experienced by the operative population, especially in the years 1810 and 1811, their average condition had been one of prosperity. Her yearly revenue from taxation had risen from £21,000,000, in 1796, to £72,000.000 in 1815 ; and in 1814 and 1815 the nation had borne, without exhausting either our capital or resources, _ _ the enormous drain of £117,000,000 of taxation in each year. The comparative lightness with which this burthen was felt is proved by the fact that the loan of 1844 was raised at £4 1 ls. 6d. per cent., or lower than at the commencement of the war, although that loan was to the amount of £35,000,000 and the population was only eighteen millions, or just two thirds of what it is now. The arrival of peace, and the sudden contraction of the war expenditure, necessarily caused great temporary distress, which was aggravated by the disbanding of above 300,000 men, who were thus thrown upon the country without means or employ ment, and by the effects of a commercial crisis, which took place especially in our eastern ports, owing to the inability of the impoverished Euro pean states, to purchase the large quantity of goods which we poured into their markets. 'et upon the whole, the years from 1815 to 1817 were pros perous, notwithstanding two bad harvests occurring succession; and in proof of this, although the e-tax was repealed during the period, along he war malt taxes, producing together above £18,000,000 a year, the annual surplus applied to the reduction of the debt amounted to £10,000,000, applied to the redemption of with t nd other financial ope well known that Sir Robert Peel's the land ; and t time to 1844, Mr. Alison remarks " The empire exhibited the most extraordinary spectacle which world has ever witne s follows : nay sum it up briefly Our popula- tiori had increased from 20,600,000 in 1819, to period from £30,000,( Ruts from £44,000,000 to £130,000,000 and our lm 2,350,000 tons to 3,900,000 tons nilarly prof ,ed, whilst our importations had steadily declined from the commencement of the century, until, previous to ssive bad seasons commencer in 183( it had k to 400,000 quarters on the average of ng scarcel red-and-twentieth part of the consum nd animals, which Mr. Alison rat 0,000.000 Quarters. And he adds— )n of mer What is most extraordinary of ail income tax, v f severe Toied th in Great B per annum e £150,000,000 f realised c et never v more sufferings by the people; and this increased until the nation was extricated only by the re imposition, during the thirtieth year of peace, of the War Income-Tax. The sinking fund had also been abandoned during the period ; and a. years of peace, we had added £11,000,000 sterling to the national debt. Mr. Alison sums up this 'por tion of his remarks by the following statement : " The nation, during the latter years of the war, p' t length, in six pered, and experiencid general well being under _ annual taxation of £72,000,000, drawn from eighteen millions of souls : in the latter years of the peace, it has with the utmost difficulty drawn 450,000,Q00, from a .armer, the operative and labourer, on the other. According to Mr. Porter's Parliamentary Tables, the following were the total Committals for Serious Crime in Great Britain and Ireland, and the popu four years lation. in— Total, 8,2 11S a remarxaoie mature or tne aoove state or things, it is to be observed that capital has been daily acquiring greater power over industry; and that large capital is crushing small capital, however industry combined with the latter may endeavour to sustain the pressure. As a mode of protecting the small struggling masses of capital against the large masses, the co-operative or joint stock system has sprung up, as exemplified in our railway corn- , panies, banking companies, &c. The growth of this system and its success, Mr. Alison thinks, may in time produce an evil of no small magnitude. Already the sway of our railway and other com panies have become a very formidable interest in the state, superior to the East and West Indian and shipping interests put together, and exercising out of doors- powers, to which those of the feudal system were very inferior, Besides, the resource, adopted originally to protect small capital has de feated its own purpose, such companies now, directed as they are by a few energetic individuals operate in- precisely the same way to depress small individual capital, as the large individual capital complained of. Connected also with the subject are the changes which have taken place in the relative proportions', of town population and rural counties population ;. and the extraordinary inequality which is being produced in the various sections of the working classes, some of whom are still in a position of moderate comfort, whilst others are reduced to a state of continual struggle against actual pauper ism. In the latter class the increase during the last twenty years has been fearful; and their phy sical condition, closely packed as they are in the worst and most filthy parts of all our great towns, imbibing vice from constant association with vice and disease from daily contact with it, and from the habits which engender it, is one of the most alarming features of the present times. After remarking that some parties attribute the decline in the condition of the people generally, and the difficulty experienced in supplying the exchequer to imprudent remission of taxes, in which argu ment he is not disposed to coincide, as accounting for the change which has taken place, r. Alison thus sums up the second chapter of his pamphlet : " That some great and overpowering cause has para lysed the financial resources of the country during the last nd-twenty years, to which it formerly was a stran ger, is evident from the following consideration. The sum raised by taxes in the year 1815 was £72,000,000 ; and the population of the empire was at that period about eighteen millions. Deductin& the property and war malt taxes, which were repealed in 1816, and amounted to £18,000,000, there remains £54,000,000 raised at that pe riod, by indirect taxes, on eighteen millions of inhabitants. These eighteen millions have now swelled to twenty-eight millions in the present year ; and if none of the taxes had been repealed, and the resources of the empire, as me sured by money, had continued unimpaired, these twent eight millions should now have produced, at th per head, £80,000,000 a-year of income. 111 sources of the empire, as proved by its exports, import and shipping, have increased in that time not fifty, but above a hundred per cent. ; .the exports alone, which were then £51,000,000, being now £130,000,000, and our im ports, which were then 112,000,000, having now risen to. £70,000,000. There cannot be a doubt, theref had no extraneous cause intervened, the export am e rate tion having more than doubled, the imports dmbkd, and the population advanced a half, the revenue raised by taxes, supposing the rate of taxation to have rem ained unchanged, should have been at pr Is there any man sup; poses it possiute, uy a n e „I a sum at this time from the empire, wh arrest, prosperous commerc revenue raised in 18,13 ion existing at th hall content ourst Id curren, 'eel to ba n to be that the root c the aid of a fine the income-tax, £56,000.000 country has been for the last twen kept on the lar' I under whiCh the nation throw Alison Te shall endeavour to give 'tics in our next by stating his op all the evil is a contn attempt of Sir Rob at a fixed mint price The doleful lament of the Mail over the defeat of contemporary begins by expressing, as a set-off against his regret at that event, the " consolation" Avltich he has, that it has "for ever put an end to the Conservative Association," and " prostrated bigotry and intolerance in the dust. That the Noble Lord," he adds, " and Sir Digby Mackworth would both have been returned if there had been any union or fair dealing on the part of Sir Digby's senseless friends, there can be no doubt." The de feat, moreover, is owing in part to "the paltry prejudices and remarkable ignorance of Sir Digby Mackworth," and in part to the " bigotry and arrogance, and, we might add, the bad and unchari table feeling and conduct of Messrs. Thomas Berry Horsfall, Francis Shand, Samuel Holme, and John Lawrence." What follows is so rich in absurdity that we give it verbatim : " These personages were leading members of the Con servative Association, and they were bound in honour and common honesty to support the candidates recommended by that body (!) They refused to do this. They talked with unbounded insolence (! !) of their conscience and their principles, -as if no other gentleman could have a conscience or principles differentfrom theirs ; and boasted that they had four thousand staunch supporters, chiefly Orangemen, who would vote for their low church candi date, and no other, on the day of the election. This idle boast has now been exposed, and their arrogance openly punished, and at this punishment, which they so richly deserved, we heartily rejoice." We shall not insult the four gentlemen, here singled out for abuse, by any defence of ours. Their character is known to their fellow townsmen. We shall content ourselves by asking our irate contemporary a few plain questions upon the re marks generally, which we have quoted, First, does not our contemporary think that they would be " senseless " people altogether, who would sub mit to be dragooned or dragged into " any union " in support of a candidate, whose organ charac terizes themselves as " bigoted and intolerent," and their candidate as having " paltry preju judices and remarkable ignorance ? ' It would have been "charitable indeed of•-• Sir Digby Mack worih's friends , but not very sensible, to assist poor Lord John Manners out of the cruel dilemma into which his own friends had deluded him ; but will the Mail tell us how, out of the few plumpers recorded for Lord John Manners he could have re turned the obligation ? His lordship recorded the surprising number of 2,413 votes, including splits ; and nine-tenths of the plumpers recorded for him were those of persons most bitterly opposed to Sir Digby's principles and party. Whether it was an "idle boast," which the Mail talks about, that Sir Digby had "four thousand staunch supporters, chiefly Orangemen," is best ascertained by the fact that he polled 4089 votes, the majority of them plumpers. The splits from Sir Digby were prin cipally those of parties, many of them Orangemen, induced to vote for Lord John partly through mis understanding, and partly upon the.question of the Navigation Laws. Take away those splits from Lord John Manners's miserable minority of 2413 votes, and his position on the poll would have been ridiculous indeed ! " We," says the Mail, " offered to suppress our opposition to the disqualifications of Sir Diyby Mackworth, and cordially give him our second votes, if they would stretch their Consciences ! waive their Hypocrisy ! ! and—recipocrate," How magnanimous r Was it the Conscience stretching, the Hypocrisy waiving (on both sides we presume), or the Votes, which were to be reciprocated ? If the latter, the reciprocation would have been rather a losing. one to Sir Dighy. "Mr. John Lawrence, of G-reat George Ward," our contemporary com plains, "refused or neglected to send out Lord:John Manners' cards." More honour to him as a con sistent man, when the candidate for whom • he was working had distinctly refused to have any con nection with Lord John Manners, as our contem porary himself very well knows. But we cannot follow this ridiculous antlflaugh able tirade. We can imagine our contemporary indeed to have been , laughing himself as he wrote it, and to have laughed ever since. As for the portion of his columns which he has devoted'to our selves and a contemporary, we shall merely cull out a few of their literary objugatory elegancies, for the admiration—we trust not the imitation—of the noble lord and the gentlemen of his party; who selected the Mail as their champion in the late contest. Here they are : "The now degraded Standard, and the con temptible and puritanical Courier." " Most paltry and vindictive hirelings." " Clerical incendiaries." "Mean spirit of disgusting malignity," &c.,. &c. His imputation to. us of interested motives—of being influenced by any well understood pressure from without—in the course which we have felt it our duty to pursue, we can well afford to disre gard. It is absurd, and were we disposed to adopt our contemporary's vocabulary, we might worse name, nt at least _X90,000,000 yearly lior-street, the 3, 1847 THE LIVERPOOL STANDAItb. THE WOOL MARKET. (Prom Messrs.Greame-and Co.'s Circular of August 2.) There has been a fair amount of business done during the last month, and prices are fully supported ; the excite ment always attending. a general election has, how ever, for the last ten days, materially interfered with business operations generally. Considerable sales are re ported in Russia and TOrkey Wools, Donskoi Fleece, 7d. to 7d4. East India Wools are much inquired for, parti cularly the better kinds, both white and yellow, which may be quoted at id. told. higher. In Peruvian Wools about 2000 bales washed have been sold at 8d to 10d., part taken for export. For Alpaca we have had a good de mand, and considerable sales have been made of , the best assortments, both in white and colours, at full prices. In Irish Wools a large Business has been done at our quota tions. Not much of the New Clip Scotch Wool has come to hand yet, and the business of the month has-been to a limited extent. Public sales, Australian, are fixed to commence here on the sth, and in London on. the 12th. Since our last monthly report, provisions have again fallen materially in price, and, as the weather- continues to be everything that can be desired for the harvest, we may, we think, reasonably expect that alarm caused by the famine prices that have ruled so long will pass away, and with restored confidence bring about a more healthy state of trade. TOTAL IMPORT OF . SHEEP'S WOOL TO THE UNITED KING: IST JANUARY TO THE IST JULY, 1846 DOM, FROM TR AND 1847. July Ist, Is46,—Colonial do. Foreign 57;878 75,613 July Ist, 1847 do. Total .—Colonial .. Foreign .. 53,491 Bales, 57,573 62,226 FINE SAMPLE OF THIS YEAR'S WHEAT.—A bunch of wheat in the ear may be seen in our office window, many harvests past. Some of the ears are 6 inches in length, remarkably well filled ; and most of the stems are lg us assurance at once lent crop of grain and plenty of straw grown by Mr. Brookfield, of Aigburth. eel- The sample is CAtiTiO —A gentleman, residing at Egremont, on Saturday evening last, purchased a quantity of fruit, &c., in St. John's Market, and engaged a decent looking boy whom ha met there to accompany him to the boat. Turning•round accidentally, however, in Lord-street, to read a statement of the pollin g , his carrier and his mar keting,vanished, and were not seen again. People should always employ in such matters some one they carrier who wears the market badge k'ULT ON A POLICE-OFFICER . At the Police-court, yesterday, a man named Charles Rice was charged with violently assaulting a police-officer on Saturday night, during a riot and disturbance-at the end of Porter-street, which complainant and some of his comrades were.endea vouring to quell. Four witnesses were called for-the de fence, who attempted to show that the prisoner•was not the man ; but the other evidence satisfied the- mind of the magistrate, and the prisoner was fined £5, or in de fault to be imprisoned, and he was further required to find bail, himself in £l5, andtwo sureties in £lO each. At the Police Court yesterday, ed with rob- 'oman, named A bing a cattle dealer, named Arthur WlCewin, of money to the amount of 475., in notes and gold. The com plainant had put the money into a bag in his breast, and being overcome with drink, went to a lodging house in Pownall Square,. to lie down. The prisoner was there. Information was given, and the prisoner was traced to a house of ill fame in Johnson Street, and upon her was he money, but a copper Dutch coin which. it, and which was identified by the corn.-_ was anion plainant. SIR DIGBY MACKWORTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Now that the election is over, and Sir Digby defeated, 1 beg leave to offer a few brief remarks concerning his defeat, and to We all know that some persons vote according to principle ; others according to whim or caprice, and that many others are actuated by baser motives. There are some voters who would not, on any account, (if they could avoid it,) leave it in the power of any person to say to them, after the election, that they had voted for the losino nartv. They wish to vnte with the : stronger party, so that they may afterwards boaat that their side has won the day. The necessity, therefore. of showing STRENGTH earl on the polling day must be sufficiently ob vious. Well, indeed, did Mr. Cardwell finish his address at the M i usic-hall, n Bold-street, when he said, " Gentlemen, you . _ double favour by voting tnitLy." So they did, and the result showed that he was right. His coaches (and he had lots of them) were seen dashing along every street at all hours of the polling, so that even the display of his hired vehicles wa s enough to inspire confidence in his cause, and to weaken the ardour of those who had intended to vote for any of the weaker parties. The same observations will nearly apply to Sir Thos. Birch ; in whose favour, moreover, a most active canvass was carried on, whilst but very few were solicited to•vote for Sir Digby. The following facts, however, will throw some light on this subject. . At ten o'clock there were at the booth in Stanhope. street, fifteen of Mr. Cardwell's coaches, and only three of Sir Digby's ! In Toxteth-park, some of Sir Digby' i s canvassers consisted of boys, between sixteen and eighteen years of age .. . , At the booth in Lyceum-place, some electors who had given plumpers to Sir Digby, being unable to get any refreshment at his expense, were taken by Sir Thomas''s canvassers into the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, where they were sumptu ously regaled. And last, though not least, there was a small slip of paper, with lithographic writing on it, sent with Sir Digby's voting cards, from the Roscoe-street Committer., requesting the elec tors in his favour to —what ? To come early? No : but to attend at different hours of the day. Thus, those whose sur name commenced with any of the letters from A to D, both included, were to poll between eight and nine o'clock; and so on with the other letters of the alphabet, dividing the time of polling between eight and four o'clock into eight distinct pe riods of voting, so that a certain number only should vote in each hour. And all this was done, as stated on the paper, to prevent confusion ! Now, was this the way in which Cardwell and Birch acted? No: their motto was, Go EARLY TO THE POLL. Really, Sir Digby's friends would have served his cause much better if they had requested all who intended to vote for him to do so at eight o'clock if convenient, or as soon as possible after that hour. There have been many serious- mistakes and oversights on the part of Sir Digby's friends, but all of them of course un intentional, as his friends were too staunch in their principles not to heartily desire his triumphant return ; but I mention these facts, which have come Under my own observation, merely to show that Sir Digby's non-election is no proof of the want of Protestant and Conservative principles in Liverpool, as• the Radical press would lead the world to believe; but that his failure is to be chiefly attributed to the want of a little tact and management on the part of his supporters —a tact and ma nagement in which the friends of some of his supporters were deeply versed, and which they did not fail to exercise to the aggrandisement of their respective candidates, and to the dis comfiture of Sir Digby Mackworth.—Yours, &c., PROTESTANS. SCRIPTURAL POLITICS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Will some one of your numerous readers answer me this question, fir it is a daily, hourly, puzzle to me :--in what way do our new members and those who, with them, deprecate so much what they call "mixing up religion with politics,"— who make even a war-cry of exclaiming against it.—apply, or rather escape, the application of this text, to mention no others, "whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do;,' do all to the glory of God"?' If this does not involve religion with every mortal action, what can be conceived so to do 7 To be consis tent,—and I here address the many, too many Churchmen among them,—such persons ought to be found leagued with the staunch opponents of " Church and State," for on no other ground, except , the duty of "mixing up religion with our poli tics," as a nation, can their union; and the existence of a state church, be demonstrated to be either necessary or useful. Some people little consider what they give up when they thus thoughtlessly abandon a principle. Acts and principles may be, and too often are, at variance, but no sound argument against the having a thing rightly . to use can be drawn from even the gro...,^est actual abuse of it. For what purpose, then, I would ask, hold our bishops their seats in Parliament, ex cept that they may season with the salt of divine truth the otherwise merely secular debates of human expediency? Grant, even, that they fulfil not this duty, still, this principle, and this alone, defends them where they are, and keeps them, whether we see IT clearly or not, before our eyes as a nation, in their true position. Were not this purpose to be answered, and were it not a principle of duty to "mix up religion with politics," surely the end of giving glory to God would be much better answered by them elsewhere. To be brief. If, then, such be our duty in all that we do, and if the bible be our counsellor along the course of that duty, who shall say where we ought to stop, and prohibit our adviser from accompanying us further? One admits the benefit of his counsels at church or chapel, another there not only seeks his direction but en courages his influence over his family; a third permits him to follow him to his shop or counting-house, and is not even ashamed of his companionship as he walks the public streets, but one and all testify either indifference or ingratitude, who, professing themselves christians, seek not alike his approval and support, on the committee, at the hustings, in the senate. Mr. Editor, I know from whom I borrow, but I name not his name lest this feeble tribute to truth should be regarded as offered solely to him. but I do not hesitate to say that, after this, you, whether you admit this avowal into your columns; or not, as partaking in this too common apprehension, will not doubt me when :I say that, from my soul, I admire tin noble, dignified, straightforward. conduct of the man whoa once Protestant Liverpool, to her everlasting shame, has just " What a contrast ! I am, sir; yours respectfully, *ejected! PIIILALETHES, Simon, in Gloucester street; will be opened on the 25th instant, when it is expected that will be preached by the Rev. Rector Brooks, arid; the Rev. Dr. RUNeile. ROBBERY PROM 'ME PLu.soza.—At the Police Court yesterday, a woman, named Fanny Keeley, was com- abstracted from 1 The Quarter S on Friday next. lessions for this borough will commence They are fixed, we presume, so soon ast sessions in order to , ettee fore the next assizes Livery be- ASSAULT.—A - man, named Michael Ryan, was yester day fined 40s. and costs, (or to be imprisoned twenty-one days,) for a violent and threatening attack upon an officer, who had gone to defendant's place, under due authority, to demand an amount due for rent. The prisoner was also required to find bail to keep the RATHER A BOLD ROBBERY.-At twelve o'clock yes terday, twcemen, dressed in barragan, entered the office of Mr. Sorley, Castle Street. . . One of them seized the boy, who was in the office, and held his mouth, threaten- ing to kill him if he made an alarm, while the other mad, off with abort lls. in silver, whichwas lying on the desk APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES.—We learn that no fewer than. two hundred and fifteen applications for licenses for public houses have.been handed in to the ma gistrates. It is scarcely to be supposed that more than a very few of these will be granted. The licensing session will take place on the 30th or 31st of the present month. THE LATE MR. FELL.—WC are sorry to hear that the fifty pounds, voted by the t - iluardians of the West Derby Union, to the widow of the late Mr. Fell, has been finally disallowed by the district auditor. We are glad to learn, however, that the subscription which was in part pro ceeded with, for the benefit of I Mrs. Fell, will be actively resumed ' • and we trust that• the wealthy classes resident in the West Derby district will not be found wanting when the call of - the widow of the medical practitioner, who first fell a victim to Typhus, in connexion with the recent influx of Irish paupers, is brought before their sympathetic consideration. ASSAULTS ON POLICE OFFICERS. - At the police court yesterday, several charges were preferred against different parties, of violent assaults upon police officers, particularly in the districts chiefly inhabited by the Irish. Four pri soners—Patrick Gallaghan, James Mahoney, Ellen W- Cormick, and Mary Lotg----were charged with having, on Sunday morning week, .during a riot in Great Crosshali street, assaulted and struck: with stones, mud, &c., several of the officers while in the execution of their duty. The case being made out, the two male prisoners were each fined £5, and required to find securities, or be imprisoned; and the two women were.fineclin 20s. each. Several others were brought up on similar charges. 't with, Mr. Rusht and were similarl .4311 remarxing cnat, in some aes, the officers clearly stood in danger of their lives ;,a, hat the court WaS determined, in all such cases, to protect . . - OBTAINING GOODS ON FALSE. PRETENCES. — Police-court, yesterday, a stupid-looking boy, John Costello, was charged with this offence. It a, At the that the prisoner had over the whole period between the 10th February: and the 27th ultimo, gone from,time to time to the shop of. Mr. Philips, baker, Copperas-hill, and obtained a quantity of bread,' (generally three loaves at once,) which he represented to be for the Rev. Dr. Booth, of Netherfield-road, who, he said, had sent him. As the ud was not detected: until a few value of 434 15s. 2d. He had previously been employed by Dr. Booth in the menial capacity of brushing shoes, cleaning knives, &c. The case was proved against him, and he was committed for trial at the sessions. EGRUMONT FERRY.—We are glad to say that the plans of our ingenious nautical townsman Mr. Winspear (of the firm of Winspear, Hyde, and Co., boiler-makers, &c., Victoria-road,) have been carried out, under his own merintendence, to improve this landing-place; and that had so long " hung fire," was yes- the new stage terday found to work to admiration. The stage is milled up and down to meet the steam-boats, by means of a strong endless chain, passing through a huge iron block at the extremity of the projecting inclined plane. The slip is, however, to be yet a little further prolonged in stone-work, so that the block may be fixed yet further out, and steamers may land and embark their passengers at all times (without requiring a small boat for that purpose) and have plenty of water to spare. The advantage to the numerous and growing population of Egremont,• Liscard, Wallasey, &c., will be obvious. The chain passes round an immense iron drum, at the top of the plane, worked by an engine of eighteen horse power. TELE .CROPS. — We have to report another we finest possible summer weather for the advanc the crops in the surrounding districts —warm al almost through, followed nightly by a fine clear I sunny Sunday wa ripening Fhe sky was .evailed lv a unobscured by a cloud ; light ai on the heights, whilst in the breath ; and the tcrnperatu s of wind onl mllows there with an ar sionally equalled, the gl have already b .hed, and o conics. Wheat aim felt within yeuuw, and, excepting on the colder soils, much of it will be cut within ten days. The hay is nearly all stacked, that re maining out being generally over ripe ; so that if the owners should be overtaken by rain, they have themselves to blame. Barley, turnips—and, indeed, all field crops— are also most promising. Fine new potatoes have been abundantly brought to market, and on Saturday were sold, in many parts of the town, at the greatly reduced price of 3s. per measure of 901bs. So much of the bugbear of the disease. The late sorts will be very large. Vegetables of all kinds are proportionably abundant, cheap, and we may add, excellent in quality. We had some fine rain yester day morning, which will do great good after the drought, especially to turnips and other green crops, The day afterwards turned out beautifully fine, INDIA. BY EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES We have received by our ordinary semi-monthly courier Marseilles our despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail from Bombay, of the 20th of June, The intelligence thus received is of considerable interest. It is the more so as two attempts to send letters from Bombay to Europe, via" Madras, had failed. The express from Bombay was robbed on the Bhore Ghaut on the .1 3 T 3rd of June ; and a second express, of the sth of June, arrived too late in Madras for the Bentinck steamer, on her voyage from Calcutta to Suez. From the Punjaub we learn that an exchange of terri . . . )etween Gholab Singh and the been effeete erritory given up by Gholab consists of certain mountain (Hazareh) districts, the chiefs of which were by no means inclined to submit to his rule. He had obtained a slice of territory called the Kurree Kurreealee. Gholaj had taken up his residence at Cashmere, and appeared to wish to be called the Maha rajah of Cashmere, rather than of Jamoo. He had received Colonel Steinbaeh into his service. His system of taxation was not calculated to render his government popular. vernrnent In Lahore there had been talk of a conspiracy, the de tails of which are not exactly known. Its object was said to be to avenge the insults received by the Ranee (Queen-Mother) on Tej Singh , . Runjoor Singh (the Chief Justice of Lahore) having- been dismissed, had threatened to excite a fanatical war ; but the British officers were on the alert. A rumour was in circulation that some serious disturbances might be expected in La hore after the next Dessera. At Peshawar, the return , of Sultan Mab.ommed Khan, which was effected by the in fluence of the English, had produced the best impression on the inhabitants, and even on the neighbouring Affghtur tribes, the chiefs of which had proposed terms of friend ship and alliance. Major Lawrence, who acts for the Governor-General at Peshawur, had ordered Aspar Singh, the late Governor, Li return to Lahore. From Affghanistan there is now news of importance- Dhost Mahommed, having settled the disputes in the neighbourhood of Jellalabad, had returned to.Cabul. His son Hyder Khan, had been appointed Governor 'on the frontier near the Khyber pass. The death of th e late Wuzeer, Akhbar Khan, had brought about a cessation of hostilities in that part of Affghanistan, and there was a chance of peace during the lifetime of the old most- He had allowed agents from the Governor-Gerne ra i to take up their stations, under the name of news-writers, at various places in his , dominions. In Scinde the utmost tranquillity prevailed. The trade by the Indus was likely to obtain soon a remarkable in crease, for the Bombay authorities had, by orders of the Supreme Government, issued a notification declaring.tbat goods coming by way of Scinde shall be admitted. free into Bombay. This is a great advantage to the trade of the Indus. Sir C. Napier was at Kurrachee. The Governor-General was at Simla, where he intended. to remain during the rainy season. Lord and Lady Gough were also there. The robber Dhongur had recommenced his depredit dons ; he had plundered some caravans. The disturbances which were lately apprehended in the. Deccan had passed over. In consequence of the Nizam'S. having given up for the time his intrigues, arrangements , had been made, by establishing a bank at Hyderabad, and by opening a loan, to make provisions for the wants of the treasury. In the Gosmoor country fresh distur bances had broken out ; the infuriated fanatics were again in arms, and had offered up more human sacrifices. Mr.. Grant, of the Bengal Civil Service, had been ordered to examine into the grounds of the disputes between_l3riga dier Dyce and the other officers employed in pacifying these districts. The efforts made by Akhbar Khan to induce the Schah of l'rsia to enter into a Moslem war rgainst the British in the east had failed. The Cajar Sovereign of Persia told Akhbar's emissaries, on hearing them state the object of their mission, that he placed no confidence either in the Affghans or in their promises. Some fanciful rumours had been current relative to the interference of Russia, but nothing certain was known on the subject. The governor-general was about to send a political mission to the capital of Thibet, in order to open peaceful relations with the government of,the grand Lama at Lassa. The reduction of the British troops in India is Spoken of. Six regiments of her Majesty's army were, as it was reported, to be sent to Europe at the close of this year. 40,000 sepoys had been removed from the army within the last six months, which diminution, together with that of the Royal regiments, will lighten the:burdens of the Indian finances. The Five per Cent. Loan still continued open, but as it was already at a discount, very little was then being subscribed to it. No later intelligence from China was known in Bom bay than that which came by the last mail. The death of Sir:David Pollock, the Chief-Justice of Bombay, is quoted as an example which ought to deter elderly gentlemen from trying a tropical •climate. ' Sir E. Perry has since discharged the duties of the Supreme Court to the satisfaction of all parties ; he is expected to succeed as Chief-Justice, to which his legal know ledge and his experience of India fully entitle him. The Governor and Commander-fn-Chief of Bombay were at Poona, where they intended to remain during the The monsoon had set in at Bombay with an, unusual fall of rain; of which about 25 inches had fallen before the 19th of June. In a postscript, dated the 20th of June, our corres pondent states that the steamer was delayed for nearly 21 hours in consequence of the non-arrival of the Governor's The only point of political importance to which our correspondent alludes is the state of Hyderabad, in the Deccan. Violence and bloodshed were the order of the leneral w Frazer had endeavoured to induce to leave the Nizam's country, were returning by degrees to it. They were implicated in several gang robberies, and ordered to be deported. They came near the cantonment, quarrelled amongst themselves, when Hassein-ood-Deen Khan was killed ; his assassin was cut to pieces. Letters from Dinopore mention that the cholera was ravaging her Majesty s 98th Regiment ; 64 persons died in the month of May ; there were 170 in the hospital daily. tine, which consumed the British Hotel, a building well known, in one of the principal thoroughfares. committed for trial .o returns are nu,. .rivals Jm Ireland, but they do not exceed those est time. The number applying for relief daily, and the temporary hospitals are in a made of the restored to Weir original and more ap s. it is considered desirable to furnish removal to Ireland to all who, apply for chargeable to the parish funds ; but in hat have occurred this week the appli ;earched, and found to have money con- We understand lARGOLI ..icumbent of the parish of Glasnevin, near Dublin, the principal editor of the works to be published by the Philo-Hebraic Society, as well as of that interest ical the Star of Jacob; is.about to leave for the ne important mission of inquiry and research :ate of Christians, Jews, Turks, Infidels, and From what we know of the reverend gentle man, we have every reason to anticipate much interesting and instructive information respecting that part of the world and its inhabitants, as he is by far the most quali fied persmi for such an expedition, being correctly con veasant with the languages, customs, and manners neces mportant and comprehensive an enterprise, t on so into the heretics. Aug. 3,1517. RACHEL.—We see by the London papers, that a great actress has played Virginie, in the tragedy of that name, with great success. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager returned to her resi dence, Bushby House, Bushby Park, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from a visit to her majesty at. Osborne, Isle of Wight. It is intended immediately to establish an electric tele graph between all the fire-engine stations in London, so that when a fire breaks out information of the fact can instantaneously be communicated to all the- stations on its reaching one of them. SUMMARY OF GOODWOOD RACES.—TotaI number of races, 38 ; won by favourites, 14 ; won by non-favourites, 17 ; even betting and forfeits, 7 ; horses entered, 643 ; horses started, 209. Total amount of stakes, £26,140; subscriptions, £25,035 ; money given, £llO5. The railway calls for August amount to £1,899,489, as far as they have been announced to the present time. February and August are the lowest months, but the present total exceeds that of February by nearly half a million. The aggregate of this year's calls now amounts to £29,293,702, giving a monthly average .of £3,661,712. STEALING FROM A 9nor.—A boy, named John Turner, was yesterday charged, before Mr. Rushton, with stealing from 4 -1 Mr. W . -qtar -f It, de shop ot , install, ot J3yrom-street : _ three pairs of shoes. It appeared that he cut them from the place where they were hanging while making a pretended purchase, and made off with them. He was pursued, and apprehended in Great Crosshall-street- Committed for trial at the sessions. THEFT OP PALM OlL.—Yesterday court, a man, named Bryan Fallon,, at the Police as charged with stealing tram the brig Rapid, lying in the Salthouse Dock, about 281 b. of palm oil, with which he was folloived to the shop of Mr. BeF-litie,tallow-chandler, wh ere h e h a d just 't for sale,) atenciin The charge was proved anc 1 for four months. when he was apprenencte( the prisoner was committed to gao STEALING PROM THE PERSON.—At the Police-court , yesterday, a loose woman named; Bridget Foran, was charged with, robbing on Sunday night, a foolish fellow vis, of his watch, value 47 He - gave She was asleep when found, and on being rousedi, the watch dropped front her person. She was committed for trial at the sessions. n a lions in Garden-lane DROWNED.—An inquest was yesterday hekt Curry, on view of the body of William aged five years. William Wilson, a twine spinner, who works at his trade in Brick-field, near London Road, where there is a pit, said, that on Saturday morning, having heard that a boy had fallen into tho water ; he dived into the pool ; . and brought up the deceased , who: was quite dead. A surgeon was called, but of avail. The father of the deceased is a tea-porter,resid, ing in Newsham Street ;. and it appeared that deceased had gone with another little boy to catch jack sharps 111 _ the pit, and that when getting up the bank to come awn he fell backwards, and, was drowned. AAR before Stalker On the 18th ultimo, 3 reet ; and on the 231 DIED. ROBERT STEEL, of Great Homer' Mr. ROBERT STEEL„ h us b an d of LYDIA, relict of the late Mr• DERICK HARRISON, of her Majesty's Customs of II" 31st ultimo, aged 7, TUESDAY, AUG, 3, 1847 • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNINLI , By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street At No. 4. ST. 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