The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. " J. C."—Mr. Newling, of Bold-street. Several letters intended for publication, we have been obliged to withdraw. Zig Eibtrpoot i,t,tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING. AUG. 22, 1848. THAT Ireland has been for centuries a terra ncognita to the mass of the British peopl3 is not at all to be attributed to the want Of writers, or speakers, anxious to place before us the condition and characteristics, the complaints and the wants, of its population. There is no country which has given a greater amount of employment to the pens of tourists and descriptive writers. We have had some hundreds of solutions of the problems of Irish discontet)t, Irish poverty, and Irish misery; and yet we remain about as mystified as ever upon the subject. We shall, no doubt, now that the crisis of a ong period of agitation has come, and that Ireland is about to he, for the fortieth or. fiftieth time, tranquilized by force, be treated with a host of new testimony, and be shewn, as clearly as.any thing Irish can be shewn, the particular points in which we have erred in our past policy towards Ireland. The Jouinal of Saturday last treats us with an instalment of information in the shape of two letters, addressed from Ireland by a military gen tleman and his lady to an eminent merchant in Liverpool, which contain some really novel views. The lady's version of things is, indeed, not only novel but funny. We have been particularly struck with her opinions as to the state of feeling in the country, and the lull which has taken place in the movements of its rebel population. The writer says : " The deep and solemn curse the peasantry have pro nounced against the produce being exported is not to be overlooked, and we must pay no attention to any news ... . papers who blink that queStfon, and vainly imagine that the fracas in Tipperary, or Boulogh Common, between Smith O'Brien, the insurgents, and the police, is the commencement of the rebellion. It is no such thing, and never was intended as such. The most formidable class yet to take the field are shopkeepers and their assistants; and well they may, for never in my long travels did I re side in a country so gifted by nature, and so perverted through bad laws, absenteeism, and tyrannical church supremacy." Ireland is certainly one of the first countries which ever complained of having a good customer in its next neighbour. It is a serious grievance with that most comical people, that Great Britain buys, and pays for, their grain, their pigs, and their butter. We ought, it is to be presumed, to go over and eat them on the spot. The passage, however, which we have marked in italics, is enough to deter any one, not possessed of nerves of iron, from so adventurous an expedition. "The shopkeepers and their assistants have yet to take the field," armed possibly with yardsticks. scissors, daybooks, or bills of parcels. Messrs. Pym's embryo colonels and generals in green and gold uniforms, were, it seems, a premature first instalment. The grievance of this dangerous shopkeeping class is a particularly Irish one. Our letter writer says:-- "And now as to the shopkeepers, who in large and small towns are stagnating, their customers are not re markable for punctuality of payment, and give them no encouragement to lay in stocks of superior articles ; for, as all the higher, if not the lesser, gentry pay an annual, and, too often, a very long visit to England, they supply themselves in that country with most they require. Ex cept in the principal towns, we cannot purchase an article of every-day use that is not rusty and decayed." This is really a very sad state of things. We know not which is the greatest imputation against the character and doings of John Bull—the fact that the customers of Irish shopkeepers are not "remarkable for punctuality of payment," or that nothing being sold in Ireland except rusty and de cayed wares, the gentry resort to shops where they can he better supplied, For the first time we learn what repeal of the union is to effect for Ireland. We are told that — "A native parliament would restore to Dublin its ori ginal prosperity. Her ladyship of Londonderry, whose routs and balls are so lavishly displayed in one capital, would be transferred to another, and the Dublin weaver of tabinet would have an equal chance with the Spitalflelds. His grace of Devonshire, so redolent of flowers and horti- culture, generous of entertainment and musical feasts, would alsa be constrained to lead the way to his coun try's welfare. His £BO,OOO per annum he derives from this country, and which he expends elsewhere (London, Chiswick, and Chatsworth), might be well bestowed in encouraging shops in the pining town of Lismore, and also in that of Dublin." We are assured that it would be ungallant to hint that our female letter writer has studied poli tical economy without profit. We might, however, venture to ask the question, whether, in her own little experience, she has not learned that ladies, whether marchionesses or more humble persons, whether living in Dublin or in London, are in the habit of going to the cheapest markets for their Bilks and all other commodities. The concluding portion of the letter is really cruel; and we pity our contemporary, the London Times, against whom the fair writer's denunciations are levelled. She says— " We had most ignorant remarks in the Times, and the editor's remarks on Ireland often, in his leading articles, are flippant, ignorant, incorrect assertions, quite at va riance with existing events. It is a paper, until recently, to which I attached much weight, but I really now throw 1 t down in disgust, it is so very flippant and vituperative where it ought to conciliate. The battle now is not be tween the Celt, and the Saxon, as he affirms ;--it is one for food and labour on the part of the peasant, and for employment and business on that of the artizan and shop keeper. It is of a too serious nature to be a war of races as in the feudal times. I will allow that the Orangeman and Celt hate each other, but they are now antipodes, the former being in the north of Ireland and the latter in the south. I have some weeks strongly suspected the editor of the Times to be an Orangeman, he is so loud against the O's and Mac's in this rebellion, whereas there are plenty of English names among them he passes over. 1 fear much_ he fans the_flame of rebellion, and ff I were not married I would tell him so. It is natural for the Celtic Irish most cordially to hate his paper, for he never lets them alone." Shocking suspicion ! The editor of the Times an Orangeman ! We wish sincerely that his ac cuser was ,not married, that she might cover him with the shame which ought to follow such an enormity. We have, however, the satisfaction to learn, that she now throws down the Times with disgust, "it is so very . flippant and vituperative, where it ought to conciliate." Our contemporary will see the propriety hereafter of speaking in the most silken terms of Irish turbulence and rebellion and Irish affairs generally. By the by, has the Journal been hoaxing the Public by printing these comical communications, or has the correspondence been intended for the columns of Punch ? IF we were to judge by the somewhat pretentious airs, which our neighbours in Manchester, and in the manufacturing districts around, habitually dis play, we should be led to the conclusion that, in visiting their locality, we should be encountering a community of philosophers ; that, in fact, here was to be found the social fac simile of Athens in its best days. A distant reader of the press of Man chester, informed weekly of the soirees, the learned lectures, the numerous and excellent libraries and reading rooms, in which its inhabitants delight; and noticing the evident cultivation amongst them of musical and critical taste, would conclude that here education was recognised as one of the best boons which can be conferred upon mankind. As a natural result of such a conclusion, we should submit to have dictated to us, from this central seat of intelligence and refinement, our commercial policy ; and be ready to pay a proper and respect ful deference to the suggestions, continually eman ating from it, of changes in our social, our financial, and even our representative system. A people, so unapproachable n arts, in literature and in philo sophy, we should conclude, could not but be per fectly au fait in the framing of constitutions and systems of government. Alas, we should err grievously in jumping to such a conclusion. Admit that in Manchester, as a centre, there is existing something approaching to a fair average of the education and ability to be found amongst large communities, those qualifica tions have scarcely radiated at all in the direction of the surrounding localities, or amongst the labour ing classe s in the to w n itself. On every side of th e metropolis of the cotton manufacture are masses of ignorance dense as the darkness of a Lapland win ter. Wealthy communities have sprung up around it, giving employment and food to a vast population, and swelling the importance of the great central mart, which receives their productions; but it can not be said that education, and, scarcely, even that civilization, has followed the track of wealth and en terprise. The suburban townships of Manchester, and the small manufacturing towns of Lancashire, contain society of the rudest order; whilst the working population of the manufacturing villages throughout the county remain sunk in a state of ig norance little short of brutality. The fact is almost an acknowledged one, that manufacturing wealth has lamentably failed in its duty to those by whose toil it has been created. It has seated little communities upon every available water course, by the banks of our canals and in the neighbourhood of our coal fields ; crowded them in confined dwellings, and exacted froth them, almost from infancy, the incessant round of daily toil, which has left no interval available for the cultiva tion and improvement of either their minds or their hearts; and here it has stopped. The communities thus drawn together have been left without chart or compass to guide them; with the spectacle only of the wealth achieved for others by the wear and tear of their own energies, to sour their tempers and di rect their untrained ideas to schemes of retaliation and social revolution. No educational . provision, worthy of the name, has been provided for the .; young in these communities ; neither, had such been provided, have opportunity and leisure been allowed them to embrace such provision. The re sult is a natural one. The demagogue or the in cendiary has possessed himself of the sympathies of these miserably deserted minds. They have been easily absorbed in the vortex of political agitation, which has been the more to their taste the more vio lent and insane it has been. A lamentable instance of this disposition amongst an uncultivated portion of our manufacturing po pulation has occurred during the past week. We refer to the recent Chartist outbreak, accompanied by deliberate and cold-blooded murder, which has occurred at Ashton-under-Lyne. In the neigh bourhood of that town, co►nprising the adjacent places of Stalybridge, Duckenfield, and Hyde, there is probably to be found a greater amount of realised wealth than in any similar district in Great Britain, or in the world. Yet, in no other district is the social condition more deplorable, more vici ously unbalanced and dangerous. With the excep tion of a small shop-keeping class, there is no in termediate body between the wealthy millowner and the operative population ; and the latter are, with very rare exceptions, both ignorant and demoral ized. For years this neighbourhood was the stronghold of the Joanna Southcote imposture ; and Chartism, which succeeded the fanaticism of this impious sect, has been nowhere more violent in its proceedings, or unscrupulous as to the wea pons of which it has made use. The circumstances of the recent attempted out break will be found in another place; and it will he admitted that they were characterized by an amount of brutal ignorance unparallelled, unless, perhaps, amongst the repeal peasantry of Ireland. The population has shown itself to have been armed as in Ireland, both pikes and muskets being sup plied in abundance, and, where they were not to he had, other dangerous weapons, scythes and ham mers, being substituted. The object of the out break was to carry the charter. How ? By march ing upon Manchester, burning factories, and ar resting the industry of the entire district. What other than mad or unreasoning men would think of such a mode of convincing the legislature and their fellow-countrymen of their fitness to exercise the elective franchise, and to wield political power? What other than a population, scarcely removed in intellect and morals above the condition of savages, could be brought to listen to the ruffianly prompt ings of the demagogues, by whom so criminal and insensate a course was dictated ? We seek in vain for a parallel case, unless it is to be found amongst the thieves and desperadoes of the metropolis, driven to want and to outrage as the consequences of their own multiplied and habitual crime. These men live in the centre of enterprise and of ade quately rewarded industry. Unlike the Irish pea santry, they are, on the average of years, in posses sion of employment adequate to the supply of their moderate wants, as working people. Compared even with our own agricultural population, they have nothing, connected with their bodily wants, to complain of, the income of a family amongst them being double or even treble that of an agricultural labourer's family. To their want of educational and moral culture, alone, can we attribute their seditious violence and their debased social condi tion. Glance for a moment at the savage crime with which they crowned, or rather commenced, their happily frustrated outbreak. A mob of these vil lains, armed with pikes, pistols, and other weapons, met with a poor fellow—a policeman—alone, pa trolling his beat at the dead of night. There was no effort made by him either to arrest any of them or to give the alarm. The only words be spoke to them were a request that they would not injure him • and the main body went away, leaving him in the hands of two or three persons. By one of these he was shortly afterwards run through the thigh with a pike; and another consummated the horrible crime by deliberately shooting him in the breast. A more cowardly murder was perhaps never perpetrated. It was the cold-blooded act of fiends rather than of men. To all outward ap pearance, it was a crime without a pretext ; but circumstances have transpired which tend to show that it was preconcerted, although the doom fell by mistake upon an unoffending man. The poor policeman, thus murdered, was mistaken for a brother officer, who had given evidence against a Chartist demagogue—an offence in the eyes of these brutalized and ignorant aspirants to the pos session of the suffrage which, it appears, is regarded in their sanguinary code of laws as worthy of death ! What can there be worse than such a state of things in Tipperary itself? It is worthy of remark that the hulk of the , would-be insurgents on this, as on all recent occa sions of outbreak, were young men and lads—the rising generation (!) of this wealthy district. On whose souls, we ask, ought to rest the onus and opprobrium of their demoralised state ? Upon those of the millowners themselves, who, whilst amassing money from their toil, have neglected to make any provision for their education or their social and moral improvement ; who have seen them grow up in ignorance and graduate in crime, without raising a hand to snatch them from the perdition towards which they were, but too easily, being led by the incendiary demagogues who are ever to be found in such localities, fattening in turbulent idleness upon the toil and the folly of their wretched dupes. But has the Government and the Church itself nothing to answer for here? In this and in all similar districts the population has far outgrown the means provided for its moral and spiritual instruction, even with the valuable assistance of the Pastoral Aid and other kindred Societies ; and the efforts of voluntaryism and dis sent have proved them miserably incompetent to effect any sensible good, if even the latter has not done positive evil, by proposing the spread of fanaticism in the place of true Christianity. The state of our manufacturing districts, as here evi denced, must surely, after a while, bring home to the consciences of statesmen, and of the selfish wealthy of this money-grubbing world, that their utter neglect of such communities is not only cri minal but dangerous as well. Let the Premier, and any half-dozen of those " liberal" friends of his, who object to all State aid for the promotion of religious education and teaching amongst the people, spend a week incognito in the filthy cot tages, the beershops, or in the streets of Ashton, Stalybridge, and Hyde; and we venture to say that they will return shocked and startled at the amount of ignorance, heathenism, and vice, which their visit will disclose to them. We are glad to perceive that the Rev. Daniel Foley, the eloquent and faithful clergyman who spoke at the Irish Meeting, last night, is to preach at St. Michael's on Wednesday evening (to - morrow. ) Mr. Foley was formerly a member of the Church of Rome, and is now one of the ablest champions of Protestantism in our Church. We understand that Mr. Chadwick—the government inspector under Lord Morpeth's health bill—is at present in Liverpool, for the purpose of making enquiries into the state of the town, with special reference to that bill. In all probability the Rivington Pike Water scheme will be brought under his notice. AN IMPOSTOR.—Yesterday a cunning old vagrant from " Erin's Isle," appeared before Mr. Rushton, charged with extorting money by simulating illness. He was seen to go and sit on the steps of one of the hotels in Dale-street, and when a gentleman made his appearance he pretended to faint ; this naturally excited compassion, and the prisoner was relieved. The fellow then repeated the same trick at other hotels. He was discharged on promising to go to Ireland. NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.—These ce lebrated melodists are announced to give their entertain ment, at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, every evening during the present week, prior to their departing for the United States, their native place. On many occa sions since their debut in this country they have afforded us great delight ; and we trust they will be gratified by the attendance of a crowded audience, and experience a sub stantial benefit, as a parting reward for their exertions in providing for the public amusement. We wish them a safe passage to the " Far West."—See advt. i 8 TIII LIVERPOOL tirANDARL COMMITTAL OF MURPHY, SECRETARY TO THE SARSFIELD CLUB, FOR A TREASONABLE CONSPIRACY. Yesterday a young man, named Edward Murphy, who, it will be seen from a paragraph elsewhere, was remanded on Friday last upon the above serious charge, was brought up at the Police -court, before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Hardman Earle, previous to his final committal for trial at the assizes. The following is the substance of the evi dence, as read over to the prisoner:— Peter MacNally, policeman, deposed to going with an inspector and other police-officers to make a search for arms at the house of the prisoner, Edward Murphy, in Peover-street. He found, amongst other things, a book (produced) upon a table under theoil-cloth. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Yates for the prisoner, but his evidence was not shaken. Stephen Ames, police inspector, went with MacNally and other policemen to the house, No. 16, Peover-street. They found a musket in the clock-case and a pike head in a cupboard. There were also two printed placards on a chair, which they brought away with them and produced. Murphy's name was attached to the bottom of each as the printer. This witness was also cross-examined by Mr. Yates for the prisoner. Charles Perkins, policeman, was one of the party who assisted in the search, and found a letter (produced) call ing a meeting. When they first went into the house the cupboard was locked. He got the key from prisoner's wife, and found the pike-head on the top shelf. In cross examination Mr. Yates endeavoured to draw from the wit ness an admission of having heard from Edwards that the gun was in his hands to be raffled, but it was denied. John Williams, tailor, 18, Tarlron-street, stated that prisoner had been two years in his service as book-keeper, and swore that the letter found by one of the previous wit nesses, and some of the entries in the book—a minute book of the Sarsfield Club, we understood,—were in the prisoner's handwriting. In reply to a question from Mr. Yates, the witness said that he had dismissed the prisoner for embezzlement. T.ie landlord of the prisoner was the next witness called, and proved letting him the house in Pewer-street, and his absenting himself from it when the officers were after him. Joseph Burrill, inspector, Rose-hill station, deposed to the prisoner's having called there for his gun and book; and that when he came he was very communicative. He said he was secretary to the Sarsfield Club, but was con nected with no other, and that he had just been over in Ireland. Edward Merrill, bridewell-keeper, also spoke to a long conversation with Murphy. He said he had been all through the county of Tipperary, and found the people there all quiet. It was not so hospitable a part as the north of Ireland. He remarked that Cuddy had been very foolish in bringing pikes through the streets, and that such pikes as they had in Liverpool were not fit for sending to Ireland, where they had them all polished and sharpened. Cuddy's were badly finished. In cross-ex amination, witness stated that the conversation took place on the 17th inst., and he committed it to paper on the 19th. William Davidson, cabinet-maker, lived opposite pri soner's house, in Peover-street. His attention was cal led by some of his family to prisoner, who was busy ex amining a lot of pike-heads on a table before the window. On another occasion, after he had seen him so occupied, prisoner left the house with a bundle in his hand, which he supposed to contain pike-heads ; and he heard pri soner's wife caution him as he left the house not to run any risk. The whole of the evidence having been gone through, and the prisoner being cautioned that whatever he might say would be used against him on his trial, declined, by the advice of his solicitor, saying anything in defence; and on his solicitor intimating that, if Mr. Rushton was about to commit him, he would not address the bench, Mr. Rushton said that the case was too clear to admit of a doubt ; and that this was only a link in a chain. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner was committed. COMMITTAL OF O'BRIEN FOR TREASONABLE CONSPIRACY. On Saturday, Wm. O'Brien, at whose house, in Hurst street, it will be remembered a variety of pikes, bayonets, and other weapons were found, was again placed in the dock at the Police-court, the charge against him having now assumed the definite shape of " treasonable con spiracy." A man named Bond was called to prove that the prisoner was in the habit of attending a Confederate clubroom, at 52, Hurst-street, and of addressing speeches to the audiences assembled there. On one occasion, when Bond was present, he told them they should organize to liberate Mitchel. and produced a pike-head, saying the possession of these instruments was the way to achieve it. O'Brien denied that he had ever made a speech in his life, and said he could produce two or three witnesses to prove it. The case was accordingly remanded to yesterday, when lie was brought up at the Police.court to receive the benefit of the evidence of his witnesses. The first of these examined was a boy named Henry M'Divett, an apprentice to Campbell, the tenant of the reading or club room in Hurst-street, the other witnesses being sent out of court during his examination. M'Divett's evidence went only to prove that he had never heard the prisoner make any speeches in the room, or seen him do anything beyond reading newspapers or books. Several other persons were then called who deposed that the prisoner was a quiet man, that they had never heard him use any exciting language, and that he had not at tended the news-room until after Mitchel's trial. The papers taken at the room were the Irish Felon, the Nation, the Freeman, and the Liverpool Mercury. Mr. Davenport, who defended the prisoner, then said that though he had many other witnesses, he did not think it necessary to call them, as they would only prove the same facts. Mr. Rushton then said he could not get over the evi dence which had been brought forward against the pri soner. They had before them conclusive evidence of this man having been found fastened up in a room with gun powder, pikes, and other implepients of war around him ; and, in addition to that, a letter of a suspicious nature had also been found upon his person. He could not get over such evidence as that; and the prisoner as well as other persons who placed themselves in such a situation would find that the law must be vindicated. The prisoner had been found in that room, and fully sworn to and he (Mr. R.) must, therefore, commit him for trial. It was a very serious responsibility which working men incurred, when they engaged themselves in such schemes as the case dis closed—schemes from the success of which they must always be the first to suffer, by being themselves thrown out of work. Such disturbances could not in England be tolerated ; and, in justice to society, all concerned in them must be brought to trial. The prisoner was then removed from the dock, shouting out as he left, " I am very much obligde to those witnes ses who have spoken for me." LATEST FOREIGN AND..COLONIAL. LATEST FROM PARIS. Paris was perfectly tranquil at the departure of the express on Sunday forenoon. Our Turin letters of the 16th state that the conference for the settlement of the Lombardo-Venetian question would be held either at Piacenza or in Switzerland. GERMANY AND DENMARK. PF OM THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Accounts from Hamburgh of the 18th instant, state that the Prussian Finance Minister had given official notice that the Bank was not in a condition to pay its liabilities of five millions, without being authorised to suspend its payments. The Danes attempted a secret landing on the 15th, between Apenrade and Haderaleben, but were repulsed by the Prussian general. more anxiously looked for, as likely to develops the pro bable events in Europe. "A successful rencontre ha§ taken place between Her Majesty's ship Scout and a most audacious set of pirates near Amoy; Commander Johnston was slightly wounded The coast is, in fact swarming with pirates; yet our Government appears officially to discourage merchant ves sels acting as convoys to native craft. We observe an in crease of foreign vessels carrying up native produce to the north, particularly sugar from this port to Shanghae. Owing to the late equalization of duties in India on foreign and British bottoms, the American flag is already in active and successful competition with the country shipping, which must suffer severely." DEATH OF BERZELIUS.—A letter from Stockholm announces the death, on the 7th instant, of the illustrious chemist Berzelius, aged 69 years. THE FEAST OF ST. IGNATlUS.—Notwithstanding the dispersion of the Jesuit Order, the feast of St. Ignatius was celebrated with great pomp at Rome on the 31st of July last. Several Cardinals, Generals of Orders, and other dignitaries, took part in the solemnity. ROMISH SENSITIVENESS.—One of the speakers in the National Assembly at Paris having made use of the term jesuitical, the Bishop of Quimper interrupted the debate for the purpose of protesting against an expression in jurious to a body of men whose eulogy the Bishop was about to pronounce, when he was put down by cries of " question." The Univers is very indignant on the sub ject, and maintains that the word jesuitical ought to be banished from parliamentary language. THE RIVER PLATE.—The following remarks on the state of affairs in the River Plate are extracted from the Jornal di Comercio of the 24th of June :--•' The French steamer Magellan arrived yesterday from Montevideo, having on board Boron Gros. As we have already in formed our readers, the negociations for peace entered into have been interrupted in consequence of General Grike having withdrawn the propositions which he had presented through the medium of the intervening negoti ators ; a withdrawal which had been imposed upon him by General Rosas. Baron Gros, upon retiring, had resolved, in accordance with Admiral le Predour, to suspend until further decision the blockade of the port and coast of Buenos Ayres, and to make effective the blockade of all the points of the Oriental coast occupied by forces under General Oribe. Besides this measure, the French Mi nister had decided upon allowing the government of Monte Video a monthly subsidy. The Oriental govern ment had revoked the decree of the 20th of May, which established an impost upon all articles of consumption, substituting in its place another, by which all mercantile houses had to pay monthly a quarter part of the annual impost appertaining to each. In Monte Video, some in dividuals recently arrived from the besieging camp, and suspected of being accessory to the murder of Dr. Varella, had been arrested. Mr. Gore, the colleague of M. Gros in his recent mission, remained at Monte Video in the character of Charge d'Affaires of her Britannic Majesty. From Buenos Ayres nothing important." ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IRISH SOCIETY. LAST NIGHT. The Annual Meeting of the above society for educating the native Irish through the medium of their own lan guage, was held yesterday evening in the Lecture-room of the Collegiate Institution. The Rev. the Chancellor Raikes was in the chair. The spacious hall was crowded ly a highly respectable audience, and we noticed upon the platform the following gentlemen :—The Rev. Chancellor Raikes, Revs. H. 111`Neile, D.D., W. Carpenter, D.D., R. Davies, F. Barker, F. Parry, John Hughes (Aberyst with), John Davies, Wm. Hughes, Wm. Falloon, Hugh Stowell, H. Carpenter, W. Ryan, Govell, D. Foley, C. J. Hamilton, S. Fenton, W. Green, Woseley, H. H. Higgins, D. Stewart, and about 20 other clergymen ; Wm. Jones, Esq., Edwd. Jones, Esq., George Langtry, Esq., Edwd. Webster, Esq., &c., &e. The meeting having been opened with prayer,—the Rev. Chairman briefly adverted to the objects for which they were assembled together. We were at present, he said, experiencing a great crisis, both of a political and a social nature • and there was but one stable object upon which we cou ld fix our regards. We could only look up wards to our great Creator and feel a certain dependence of security. God seemed at the present time to have a . controversy with Christians. However we might strive to evade his power he seemed determined to assert it ; and to teach us the lesson that a people never can be saved when the interests of one portion of them are neglected for those of another. Children, when neglected, become a trouble to their parents. The domestic relations of a country can never be neglected without disturbance of the social system of that country. The population of Ireland had been flagrantly neglected, although it was not for them to say by whom. They had not received the free use of the Word of God • and the consequence was to be traced in the present perplexed and disturbed state of the population of Ireland. It would seem that God has at length allowed to be discovered a mean of remedying the evils of Ireland, by teaching us the great influence of the Irish language upon the Irish people. The best in strumentality for promoting a Christian and loyal spirit amongst that people had at length been made plain, and this society was doing what all the wisdom of politicians had failed to effect. After a most touching appeal to the meeting, praying for aid to a society which was doing more than any other at present before the public to advantage Ireland, arid expressing his hope that the present oppor tunity would not be lost, the Rev. Chancellor introduced the Rev. Henry Carpenter, who read the report of the society : The report stated that at no former period was a greater de sire manifested in Ireland, on the part of numbers, to be in structed in the truths of the gospel. Thus, while multitudes have been drinking in the principles of treason and rebellion, thousands in the Church of Rome have been drinking in prin ciples from the pure fountain of Divine Truth, which will en sure loyalty to our Sovereign respect for British law, and, above all, obedience to the Saviour. Whatever remedies may be employed to establish order and promote prosperity in Ire land, the root of her disease will be left untouched until scrip tural light is poured upon the minds of the people. Other plans for ameliorating their condition may be beneficial up to a certain point, but the word of God alone can grapple success fully with the master evil of that land. If this remedy were more extensively applied, the same results which we now be hold on a small scale, through the labours of the Irish Society, would soon be discerned far and wide. On this principle that society conducts it.; labours. Already it has brought almost 300,000 of the people into contact with the Irish scriptures, and this year nearly 800 individuals are employed by this society in instructing the people in their own tongue. The seeds of hea venly truth will promote Ireland's real welfare, and establish British influence on a lasting basis. The Rev. D. FOLEY proposed the adoption of the re port, and said that the great master evil of Ireland was the Church of Rome. He felt, as the result of a rational con %iction, that Rome was not only the great evil of Ireland, but the great evil of every country where Romanism pre vailed. In the north of Ireland a vigorous spirit of Pro testantism prevailed, and crime was almost unknown. In the south of Ireland crime was encouraged, and all kinds of evil were encouraged. The pike was the weapon fre quently used, and this, and much more than this, was the vicious teaching of the Church of Rome. Ireland was not one isolated instance of the villainous system of Po pery. Spain afforded a lamentable example of the atroci ties of the Roman system. What was the remedy ? He had no objection to legislative enactments ; but still, un less Protestant modes of order were adopted, no good could be expected. It was a constant cavil that Protestantism was a total failure in Ireland. He denied this, and he asserted confidently that if it were not for Protestantism, trial by jury would be a farce in Ireland. The Protestants sustained trial by jury, and were absolutely the only men who sustained the connexion between England and Ireland. The great fact must ever be told, and never be forgotten, that the Church of Rome had never yet circulated the Bible in the Irish language ; and yet there never was, at any former period of the Irish history, such an opening for the circulation of the scriptures as there was at present, even in Tippe rary. About six months ago, we had only 25 scripture schools, but in three months these schools increased to 92. Then persecution commenced; the priests spoke from the altar against him (Mr. Foley) and other Protes tant clergymen ; and great were the efforts which were required to sustain the position of the Irish Society's school. But the society was nevertheless sustained ; and here he was delighted to say that there was not a single teacher connected with the Irish Society who was connected with any Ribbon or Rebel Society. There were now 100 teachers, and 1,850 readers of the Bible in Tipperary alone ; and, besides these, there were upwards of 3,000 more who were reading the Bible in their native tongue, though they were not exactly recog nized by the Irish Society. He asserted publicly and fearlessly, that the priests, one and all, were the teachers of sedition and rebellion, but he asserted with equal pun licity and fearlessness, that the two millions of Protes tants in Ireland would drive all the repeal clubs out , of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) He, moreover, asserted confidently that the Protestantism of Ireland was the Protestantism of courage, and intelligence, and deter ' mination, and that in the midst of obloquy and persecu tion, the friends of the truth would steadfastly maintain the cause of Christ. He was happy to say, also, that even in Ballingarry, where the late rebellion was rife, the Scripture readers were exceedingly busy, and that in another part of the country not far distant from Ballin garry there were no fewer than one hundred converts from Popery. He had himself preached to one hundred and fifty Roman Catholics in the city of Cork, the other day, and the work of preaching was going on successfully in various districts of the county of Cork. He was happy to say that very many of the Protestant clergymen were now preaching in the Irish language, and that one of these clergymen alone had no fewer than six hundred converts from Popery who were attending the Scriptural schools. Along the coast of Waterford there w a s a mos t wonderful spread of the reading of the Scriptures; tradi tion was being entirely abandoned there; and most im portant and interesting were the conversations which were constantly going on among the peasantry relative to the Sacred Scriptures. He (Mr. Foley) was in the habit of addressing thousands of Roman Catholics, at the va rious funerals at Clonmel, and he was happy to say that much good was the result. He concluded with a power ful appeal in favour of the society, and urged upon the meeting valianey to oppose the master evil of the day and of Ireland—Popery--and strenuously to propagate the Go spel of Truth in his unhappy land. Mr. Foley con cluded amid great applause. The Rev. HUGH STOWELL rose, amid protracted cheer ing, to second the resolution. He said it had often been his lot to stand before the people of Liverpool in favour of Ireland ; and though he was no Irishman himself, yet he was delighted with the Irish friends by whom he was sur rounded; and he could not but feel that Ireland would be great and glorious among the nations were she but freed from the upas-tree of Popery. Ih d it not been for the direct and indirect conduct of the government, Popery would now be as low as the depths of the sea, for she seemed occasionally to be sinking like a dead body, until galvanised again by the acts of the government. Orangeism was the mainstay of Ireland. ( Loud cheers.) Let him not be misunderstood about Orangeism. They were too much in the habit in England of talking of Orangeism as of something allied to Ribandism, but he be lieved the Orangemen of England were bound together by their love of an open bible and a preached saviour—that the men who branded them as political incendiaries had a design in view, wishing to bring them into disrepute, and to make them noxious in the eyes of the British public. (Hear, hear.) A lady told him the other day that she had seen 10,000 Orangemen assembled together on a spacious plain, with banners inscribed with various passages from the Word of God,—that she had seen 30 ministers on their platform, by some of whom they were addressed—that these ministers preached to them " Christ and Him crucified,"—(hear, hear.)—firmness, in fortitude, and meekness to their foes ; and that they then awoke the hills to the echo of their song. It was, therefore, a lie according to this lady, and he fully be lieved her to assert that Orangemen were mere political incendiaries. He (Mr. Stowell) would give nothing for a mere political partisan, because politics, when weighed in the balance. would be found wanting; but the man who placed his back against the Rock of Ages, and wielded the sword of the Spirit, would stand firm, and thousands of the Irish Protestants were buttressed by that rock, and though they would not drive the poor Papists into the sea, yet, they would face the burning fiery furnace, heated like that into which Shadrach, Meshach, and AbeJnego had entered, before they would give the slightest sanction to what they conceived to be idolatry. He was persuaded that our Irish Roman Catholic brethren wished for nothing more than an opportunity to burst the rotten bonds by which they were trammelled, and that, despite all that statesmen could do to foster those bands around them, it would still be impossible to keep the Gospel from the mass of the Irish people. That peo ple wanted not the Repeal of the Union ; they only wanted the Union between England and Rome to be se vered, and the Gospel to be free. (Cheers.) He would to God our British statesmen would come to a better mind, and that, instead of endeavouring to keep Ireland quiet by means of 70,000 soldiers and police, they would send over a set of troops in the shape of 5,000 Scripture readers, officered by such men as Captain Foley and the Bishop of Cashel—(great cheering)—and other Irish-speaking cler gymen, and guard them against altar denunciations, by bringing every priestly imprecator to justice, if he dared to mark them out for slaughter. (Hear, hear.) If her Majesty's government would carry out a plan like this, they would do more for Ireland than all their regiments , of soldiery had ever done yet; and after all, if the past policy were continued to be pursued, would it not be better to get rid of the country altogether rather than to keep it as a fortress of the Pope of Rome ! (Hear.) Why adopt diplomatic relations with Rome now, at the end of the session, by a sneaking, Jesuitical sort of policy learned from Rome herself? Why hurry that bill through the house at a sort of express railway speed, in the face and against the expressed wishes of the great body of the people of England ? ( Cheers.) Six thousand people in Manchester had met in public meeting and opposed the bill. Where was the Protestant Association of Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) Were they letting their asso ciation die away in Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) This was not the time to let Protestant associations die away. They might say that their ag itation availed nothing. Be it so. But, at all events, let them fall fighting. and not falling back. Let them march on still. The Captain of their Salvation was on their side, and the shield of omnipotence was around them. The bill had been brought on in the front of the session, and now it had been suffered to fall into syncope, when most of the members of the House were gone to amuse themselves in, the fields; and now, by a sneaking sort of policy, the Diplo ma'icrelations Bill would be carried by fraud, and stealth ily, and not before the fair face of the British nation, This was really too bad, particularly at a time like the present, when Popery was tottering on its pedestal. There was no nation under heaven that was now sup porting the Jesuits but England and Turkey—the land of the false prophet and the land of the true. (Hear) Oh 1 .• was it mat vellous, then, that God was threatening our har vests—that the cholera, which scourged us so quietly once, should again be travelling towards us on the wings of the wind, and that our country should be restless and dis quieted ? (Hear.) Bishop Wiseman, at Salford, had lately been twitting the Church of England with having per mitted the growth of Chartism ; and he (Mr. Stowell) admitted that the Church of England had a great deal of past and present unfaithfulness to answer for. He ad mitted that she still fell very far short of her duty; but if Wiseman found fault with the artisans of England, why did he not look at home—why did he not point to Italy, where there was the most debased, priest-ridden, and utterly wronged and degraded. population upon the face of the globe ? (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The Italians, however, had been unable to bear the yoke any longer, and they were now crying out, " No priest, and no Pope !" and, better than all, they were demanding the bible. So much so, that a name dear to them all, and not the less dear because their beloved Bishop of Chester was now the Archbishop of Can terbury—the Archbishop had told him last week that an order had come to London for 10,000 Italian Bibles, for distribution among the Pope's subjects. (Great Ap plause.) The battle, therefore, was the Pope against toe Bible, and the Bible against the Pope—who feared the result ? (Cheers.) It was said that there was only one niche vacant in St. Peter's for one Pope more, and it was a common impression that that niche was for the present Pius, after whom there would be no more Popes, no more priests, no more masquerades,no more masses, and no more of the phantasmagoria of the Papacy, of which he was sorry to say, some so-called Protestant clergymen seemed mighty fond. Oh ! if the spirits of Peter and Paul ever came back to earth, how must they have been horrified at the monstrosities of Romanism, and how must they have been gratified as they have hovered around the Church of England, and heard the people praising God, not in an unknown tongue, but in a lan guage simple, and understood of all men ! Why had not Bishop Wiseman pointed to Ireland ? Why had he not looked at the picture drawn of that wretched country re cently by Lord Shrewsbury ? But what made it , wretched.? Popery. Look at the north of Ireland. Was it a scandal to the world ? Nay, verily. Its beauti ful fire-sides, its peaceful hills and valleys, its open-hearted generous yeomanry, and its fine, bold Orange peasantry, had not a rival in the whole world. (Great cheering.) Let Bishop Wiseman come nearer home, and look at England. Why, we should have had no disturbances in England. if it were not that we had Irish Papists amongst us. (Hear, hear.) The criminal returns showed that at least one-third of the crimes perpetrated in this country were committed by Irish Papists. (Hear, hear.) The Leeches and others who had been lately arrested for Chartism were all of Irish extraction, and the priests of Ireland nurtured sedition in that country, though now, like the monkey in the fable, they were putting the cat's paw into the fire and taking care of their own paw. (Loud laughter and cheers.) But the sedition in Ireland was the:harbinger of better times. The people would awake to the treachery of the priesthood. The people would assert the prerogative of immortal beings. This was the harvest time of the Irish I Society if only it bestirred itself. It was a disgrace• to England to have so long permitted the holding of masque rades and dumb•shows in the middle of the noon-day. Those who practised these masquerades should be made ashamed of their tom-foolery. (Cheers and laughter.) Such things might be practised in the twilight of Spain and Italy, but never could they be carried on in England, the cradle and birthplace of the Reformation, the land which had successfully resisted the encroach ments of Romanism, and the country that was the very palladium of Protestantism. (Loud cheers.) Let, then, the people rise up ! Let every Protestant try what he could do by the progress of Scriptural knowledge, and the influence of the truth, to give Romanists no rest until they changed the red robe to the surplice— the sacrifice of the mass to the consecrated bread and wine—angels, and saints, and purgatory and penances, to Christ Jesus and Him crucified—the basin of holy water for the Bible—and the service of the masque rade for the service in pure English of a known tongue (Great applause.) When they did this we would be one with them. All we wanted was, that they should give up innovations, and adhere to what was primitive—have no head but Christ, and allow neither Pope nor any one else to share homage with the Redeemer. Let British Protestants demand this, and soon would the time arrive when England and Ireland, and all the ends of the earth, would have the Prince of Peace reign ing over a tranquillised and purified world. The rev. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud and protracted bursts of applause. The Rev. F. BARKER moved the last resolution, and in doing so expressed his warm approval of the objects of the society, and commended their exertions. As a pre vious speaker had remarked, they would only attain their object by showing a bold front to the enemy. The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE seconded the motion in a pow erful address. The resolution called attention to the dis orders and commotions now prevalent in Ireland, and which had their origin in Romanism, and could be over come finally only by the dissemination of Scriptural truth. The Government of England had gone so far in encouraging Romanism that they dare not now look it in the face. It was thought by Protestants some years back that there were two ways to put down Popery,—the cir culation of the Bible and the co• operation of the British Government. They (the Protestants) had long warned the liberal legislators that if they proceeded from con cession to 'concession confusion would be the result, and now actual rebellion was the result. The law-givers had scorned their warnings, and the consequence now was, that through divided interests, we had a suspension of the constitution. The Liberal Government had gone so far, that it would be difficult now to find a remedy. We were now aware that no human powers, but God alone could put down the moral disorders. He alluded to the period between the reign of William 111 and George 111, when alone, thorough peace generally prevailed in Ire land, from the maintenance of the principles of the Reformation. He gloried in the measures that had brought this about ; he had no objection to the energetic measures of the Orangemen of Ireland, who had but to show themselves in comparatively small numbers, in order to disperse and confound their oppo nents. From the time that concessions were shown to the Roman Catholics, rebellion showed its head. The priests fomented disaffection in Ireland; but the moment they found the government too strong for them, they changed their tactics, and preached peace. (Cheers.) There was not a true-hearted Protestant who had belonged to the government for some years back. Lord John Rus sell had not supported Protestantism ; neither had Sir R. Peel, who had acted in fact more reprehensibly, for his promises had been greater. He would always prefer an open and candid foe, to a pretended friend. He then, with allusion to the meeting of the night, said that they had heard some excellent speaking, but that they had yet some real business to transact, and late as it was he would allude to it. He was sorry to observe that he saw among them few or none of their merchant princes to support their worthy and venerable chairman. (Hear, hear.) True, the weather was unfavourable, but their respected president had braved the ran *ad the tempest to be pre. Almost 22,1848. S ent. He considered that no town in the kingdom would be more benefitted by the improvement of Ireland than Liverpool, and he proposed, not as an amendment, but a rider to the resolution, that a special subscription should be raised in Liverpool for the furtherance of the objects of the society, in any way, suggested by the committee, in which itwould be likely to be most effective. The government, if they showed themselves in earnest in this way, would be constrained to come forward in the cause of Protestantism and could no longer sanction Popery. He alluded to the diplomatic negotiations between this coun try and the Pope in Italy, as disgraceful and de grading to England. He proposed that they , should come forward with small subscriptions for Scriptural teaching in Ireland, The House of Commons would then no longer taunt them when they petitioned. by say ing they talked much but did nothing themselves. no concluded by moving a rider, to the effect, that a special fund should be raised in Liverpool, and a sub-committee be appointed to conduct the correspondence and assist in forwarding the plan. This was seconded. The Rev. CHAIRMAN put the motion, remarking that the rider was an excellent addition to the motion. The motion, as amended, was unanimously carried. A vote of thanks, on the motion of the Rev. Mr. PARRY, was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. _ . On Sunday sermons were preached in many of the churches in town, when liberal collections were made in aid of the funds of the society. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) MONEY MARKET. YESTERDAY. The Stock Market is exceedingly quiet to-day, and the quo tations are very fairly supported considering the weather. Consols have been 85 to 86 for present transfer, and 85i to 86k for account. Exchequer Bills of Mar c h h ave been 325. to 3.35. prem., and India Bonds of ..t'lo,lo 225. to 255. premium- The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. have brought 86k and the Three per Cents. 83k to 861 LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Railway Shares, although not active, are rather better this morning, especially Midland, since it is found that Mr.. Hud son does not retire. LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. During the lase week, the arrivals of all kinds of grain' of home produce, including Flour, coastwise and by land carriage, were on a very moderate scale. Although the attendance of buyers was not large, the demand for alI kinds of Wheat of home produce was steady, arising from the continuance of very unfavourable weather for the growing crops, (harvest work in particular,) and the' spread of the Potato disease, at an advance in the quo tations paid on Monday last of from 3s. to 4s. per quarter and at which nearly the whole of the supply was disposed of. There was a better inquiry for Foreign Wheat, at a rise in value of 3s. to 4s. per quarter. In bonded Wheats, as well as in floating cargoes, a good business was done, at 4s. to ss. per quarter more money : 575. per quarter was paid for bonded Dantztc. Although the supply of Foreign Barley was good, that article moved off freely, at an advance of from Is. to 2s. per quarter. No English samples were on the market. Since SaturdaY several cargoes of foreign have come in. The Malt trade was active, and the currencies improved 10. to 2s. per quarter, botn on the spot and for delivery. The supply was not equal to the wants of the buyers. Notwithstanding the immense importation of Oats last week —nearly 60,000 quarters—the Oat trade was tolerably steady , and late rates were fairly supported. Beans were in moderate sutply and fair request, at extensive rates of currency. White Peas were from 3s. to 48. per quarter dearer than last week; grey and maple qualities advanced 28. per cmarter. _ Indian Corn was is. to 2s. per quarter higher, but thesuppll was very small. Indian Meal was held at a rise of Is. per bar rel. A good business was done in English Flour at last week's improvement. American qualities were held for is. per barrel more money. BIRKENHEAD.—We understand that the population of this town has increased 300 within the last fortnight. There is not a single house to let either in Higher or Lower Tranmere. The latest provincial journals received from the south contain little of interest with respect to the late insurrec tion, except the announcement of the death of Mr. James Stephens, the young man who was. wounded at the battle of Ballingarrv. and who for some time was mistaken for Mr- John Dillon. THE ENGINEMEN ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAIL" WAY.—It was hoped that the disputes between these melt and the company would have been settled on Saturday, and the company, we believe, had consented to the men resuming work yesterday, but a meeting of the men took place on Sunday night, at which it was announced that the firemen had not received intimation that they might resume work, and the enginemen, therefore, resolved not to go to wcrk until the firemen• were allowed t ) do so. So great was the number of the mirrors, crystals, &co that were broken by the mob in the Palais Royal during the revolution in Paris in February last, that the frag ments of glass,. which were lately sold' by auction, weighe d no less than 25,000 kilogrammes (25 tons.) STANDARDS OF REPUTATION.—At the last assizes in Newcastle, the keeper of a lodging-house, a woman, who had put some thievish men and women in hed t og ether, told Mr. Dundas that " she did not think they were bad characters : she would not have any - bad characters in her house."' " Bad characters," observed' Judge Erle, " with such persons as the witness, means people who do not pay for their lodgings." In another case the landlord of the Beeswing was asked to define the condition of a foolish old man, who had been robbed while he was tipsy, and replied, " He had had drink, but was-qualified to , call for liquor, AND PAY FOR IT :" which, said Mr. Otter, was a landlord's criterion of sobriety. A ROYAL ROMANCE.—The new Administrator of the German Empire—the Archduke John of Austria—was long exiled from the Imperial Court on account of his plebeian marriage. The story is thus told :—Once on a summer's day, upon, arriving at Aussee, a small town in Styria, the royal traveller was informed that from some graverrnshp or other no postilion was at hand. The unfortunate g ou t y old postmaster and his wife were in the greatest distress-- the maids were sent out to find a man able to drive the -Prince's carriage; the groom was bid rather harshly to pot t° the horses, when the handsome young daughter of the house quietly approaches her father, and assures him that she will take the reins, for fear that' on the bad roads some harm might happen to his Imperial Highness by a more unpractised driver. A few moments afterwards she ascends the box, and drives the horses in wrnasterly man ner through the narrow and tortuous street of the moun tain village. The Pt-ince was surprised, and, when the road became easier, he accosted her, thanking her for so great a kindness on her part. To all he said, the answers were so innocent and so clever, that he ended an hours conversation by announcing his intention.to marry his fair driver. The post-master's daughter was frightened and so was the Emperor Francis when he heard of this untoward plan. The Imperial permission was refused; but the Archduke John persisted in his resolution, sou, the young lady of Aussee went to live with her husban d at his charming country seat at Brandhof, from which she received her title. The Count of Meran, her son, is lovely boy, ten years old, and brought up as a regular Tyrolese. INDIA AND CHINA. We have received by express from Marseilles our ad vices from India in anticipation of the arrival of die over land mail of the Ist of July from Calcutta. Our advices from Bombay were by dauk to Madras. The dates thus received are from Calcutta and Bombay to the Ist of July, and Madras to the 9th of July. Our military position in the Punjaub seems well se cured. There is no news from the north-west of India of any prominent importance. The intelligence from Moultan, as regards the opera tions of the district officers in the field, continues to be of the most satisfactory character. The force under Lieut. Edwardes amounts by these advices to nearly 6,000 men, Mahomedans. The body is secure along the line of the Indus, and has managed to gain possession or all the means of passage in that part of the stream. It is said that the Bunnoo Sikhs continue to join the standard of the Dewan, but that the Patans and Beloochees stand aloof; while, on the other hand, Colonel Cortlandt's dis trict force had been much strengthened by Belooch en listments, and Lieutenant Edwardes counted a strong body of Patans. The forces of the rajah of Bhawalpoor had already crossed the Gharree river into the insurgent territory, but, not taking proper precautions, in their eagerness for plunder, one of their parties had met a stronger body of the enemy and was cut off. This dis aster spread alarm at first, from conflicting rumours which got into circulation, but happily did not entail any mis chief, and subsequent accounts announce the capture of four small towns on the western bank of th e r i ver . Th ere seemed every probability an advance would be made. should further circumstances secure the probabilities of success for a movement by the Briti s h district officers on the centre of insurrection. The captive governor of Dee ra, Ghazee Khan, and another man of note on the side of the insurgents, had been executed. The Dewan, on hear ing this news, is said to have sent 100 rupees to each of their widows; and, apparently taking a hi n t o f t h e f ate that might await himself, ')rdered a funeral pile to be prepared for his family, to be used in the event of his fall; evidently not more inclined, by these circumstances, to sell his life cheap. No less than 630 followers of the insurgent Gooroo. Maharaj Singh, who took arms in the Punjaub, had sur rendered, and, by late accounts, were prisoners at Shung. The property and arms of the fanatic Gooroo had been secured, and he himself is reported to have been drowned. Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice in Bengal, has sus pended Mr. Grant from his office of Master in Equity in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, in consequence of that functionary having been implicated in the transactions of the Union Bank as one of its directors. Some disturbances which had broken out among th e Bheels in the Mye Counts district of Guzerat—a still un settled portion of Western India—had been promptly suppressed by the energy of the Political Agent, Captain Wallace, who gave orders for the instant march to the scene of riot of a sufficient body of troops. Our correspondent at Hongkong writes as follows, under date of June 14 : " We have had a month of inactivity, and nothing to disturb the general quiet at Canton and the other ports. The Braganza arrived on the 16th inst.; the -next mail is SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY AUGUST 21.—Wind W. to N.W. ARRIVED.—Texian, from Laguna—Delhi, Wheeler, Charles - Sargensen, Neinstadt—Anna Agatha, Hock, 10- terdam, and Palmyra, Waldack, from Ghent. SAILED.—John Geddie, Appleby, Cronstadt—Themis, Leig • h ton, and Commerce, Henry, St. John, N.ll—Leila, Benso Baltimore—Albert, Baylis, Malta—Jane Duff, Stevenson, N a "r pies—Vestal, Hannah, Pillau. Mexican Packet, Hudson, from Bahia, and Isabella, Tilley? from Pernambuco, at Cove. Broad Axe, Corner, from Rio Janeiro—Margaret, from Bahia—Eliza, Abernethy, from Pernambuco—and Jan e and Esther ' Whalley, from Paraiba, at Falinouth. Fairy, Pußock, hence for Danzic, at Salcombe. The Victoria, of this port, from Cadiz ' with salt, was I°st near Rio Grande, previous to 20th June. Crew saved. de , Navigator, and Sophia, from Monte Video, at Rio Grande , and sailed for Buenos Ayres. Randers, from Monte Video, at ditto. Lancashire Witch, sailed from Rio Grande for Monte 21st June. Somnauth, Lawson, hence at Bombay. Swithamley, Jennings, sailed from Bombay for China on t he 25th June. Constant, from Sydney, at China. Amathea, and Devon, from Bombay, at ditto. John o'Gaunt, M`Donald, hence at China. Eliza Archer, from Cape de Verds at River Plate. George Glen, hence at Ceara. Zuleika—Catherine—Arion—Eliza—St. Helier—Jane ---B°4 Matilda, at Rio Grande. Esther Anne, Hunter, and Mary, Clarke, hence at PerP' buco. Esk, Wyse, hence at ditto. .reiVed Rio GRANDE, 20th June.—The Lancashire Witch here Bth instant from Monte Video; she came over the Bat ha d company with 33 vessels, of different flags, some of which te r; been detained outside upwards of 40 days for want of wanont and there are at present 22 vessels detained i n side, and 2 4 t of side, from the same circumstance, there being but 10 f ee s ide water over the Bar. The Levenside has been waiting 01 hat upwards of two months.—The Xarifa, with a cargo of salt,. t in . had been refused entrance into Bueno s 'Ay res i n the firs'i s ot stance, from Monte Video direct, is reported on the 7th i ns , r e. to have been refused a second time, havi n g com e here, an newed her papers. JLTURAL PRODUCS GUST 19, 1848. 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