The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

Me man 10 CORRESPONDENTS, y letter of " A Protestant" deserves publishing, but 'eived too late for insertion to-day. s of " Confounded" are too numerous and general, 11 so self-evident that we must be excused ) them. attempt to epl, ihould have sent his name, or informed us where the ill take pla, Eig Etberpool &tanbart. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1851. THE Ministerial Bill to put down Papal Aggres sion will be read a second time on Friday night week ; and, disappointing to the majority of the Protestant commnnity as are its provi sions, as explained by its authors themselves, we have yet to be assured that, in reality, it will be an efficient measure, even to the extent represented. Protestants ought to bear in mind that, presuming Lord John Russell, its author, to he in earnest, and disposed to act up to the spirit of his manifesto and his more recent declaration of his changed views. as to the character of Popery, there are trai tors within the ministerial camp; drags upon the skirts of the minister, who might otherwise he dis posed to carry out to their full extent the determi nation expressed by his Sovereign, ani to deserve the high rank in the esteem of his fellow-country 'men occupied by his illustrious ancestor, who laid his head upon the block in the same rightecul cause. Under these circumstances it is the bounden duty of all who are interested in the Protestant Institutions of our land to prepare for any emer gency which may arise, and to express their opi nions, boldly and decidedly, to the legislature upon the question at issue, by signing at once the peti tion now lying at our office and at the usual places. Promptitude in doing so is most necessary ; as we cannot tell how soon it may be desirable to forward such petition for presentation to Parliament. IT has long been noted as a singular fact that, whereas we are told that high farming is the only, and the sure resource of agriculturists, under the present free-trade system, we have found none of our experimentalists willing to give us the result of eir new system, by the publication of a balance- This desideratum has now been supplied, not by Mr. Mechi, Mr. Huxtable of pig-feeding notoriety, or any other of the amateur dabblers in ricultural science, but by a practical farmer, on a ge scale, cultivating land of the best description der one of the best landlords of whom England i boast. A few weeks ago a letter was addressed the Editor of the Cumberland Pacquet, detailing experience of Mr. Hudson, of Castleacre, upon trm held by him under Lord Leicester (formerly celebrated Mr. Coke, of Norfolk). Twenty ht years ago, it appears, Mr. Hudson took the n in question-1,400 acres in extent—for £1,500 Seven years ago the lease was renewed 21 years at £1,600 per annum, the saleable le of the estate having been increased at least Mr. Hudson's outlay upon it. During tenancy of this gentleman, it is shewn by his ks that he has laid out £55,000 in oilcake and facial manures. This year alone his outlay on ires and oilcake is between £2,200 and £3,000. e of feeding cattle on his red description. He s, 100 lean stock and pigs, which furnish a annum )00 by appro •--In it era ng IEO beast His implements description ; and, by the mills, every process upon ply of animal manure, steam and of 'm is performe the most economical man 3, of the state of cultiva- the farm, you might the land is, for 1,400 d boys are constantly offer a , like a which they not only approved of, but had earnestly pressed on ; and the object of the recent further encroachment of Rome is to bind the whole Roman Catholic population of Great Britain to a like submission to the arbitrary will of the Pope, and a majority of Bishops, of whom he possesses the absolute power of appointment. Wiz have frequently, when the subject has been prominently mooted, expressed our conviction that the timber trade of Liverpool can be best accommo dated at the north end of the town ; and that its transfer thither will, by the superior facilities afforded by the locality, the greater cheapness of storage space, and the saving in cartage of cargoes forwarded into the inetrior of the country for con sumption, in a very few years compensate any loss to be suffered by those parties who now object to any change, on the ground that it will depreciate the value of their present establishments. Our attention has been re-directed to this subject by the proceedings at the Dock Committee's l‘leet ing of Thursday last, upon which we take the liberty of offering a few remarks, in the hope of inducingsomeaccommodation betweenthecontend ing parties. Such an accommodation, we at one time trusted, would have resulted from the enquiries of the sub-committee of the Dock Committee, appointed for the purpose of enquiring into the comparative advantages of the two localities. In this, however, we have been disappointed ; and the whole question has now to be argued ab initio. The report of the special committee, as read at the meeting on Thursday, recommending an enlargement of the Toxteth Dock, appears to us to have been based upon a very narrow view of the question at issue; and to ignore altogether the very material fact of a largely and progressively increas ing import of timber into the Mersey. The ques tion at issue is not one as to the comparative ad vantages of the north and south ends of the Dock Estate, but rather a question, as was well remarked by Mr. Rankin, " first betwixt the north and Birken head, and, failing either making the necessary pro vision, it will then be other ports against the River Mersey." The trade has increased from an average of 369 vessels and 124,475 tons per annum in the five years from 1830 to 1834 inclusive, to an aver age of 482 vessels, and 241,782 tons in the five years, 1845 to 1849; and has thus nearly doubled in 20 years. The increase has been the most rapid in the last five years, having been in the latter period 48+ per cent. over the five years preceding. There is every prospect that it will progress with equal rapidity for years to come ; and with ade quate facilities afforded for its accommodation Liverpool, from its position, ought to become the great depot for the manufacturing districts and the midland counties. Surely it is eminently worthy of an intelligent commercial community, in dealing with such a question, to look forward to the wants of the future, instead of merely patching up, or eke ing out by comparatively mere hand's breadths, our present limited and costly accommodation, as we are advised to do by the report of the special com mittee. It is obvious from that report that the resources which we possess at the south end of the town are very limited in extent. The natural for mation of the land prohibits any extension beyond what is absolutely required for our present trade; and to expend from £lOO,OOO to £150,000 for the trifling increase cf accommodation proposed—four acres is the space to be gained by enlarging the Tox teth Dock—appears scarcely justifiable, when, for a few thousands more, the greatest portion of which is compulsory expenditure, we shall have provided for the trade at the north a dock of 23 acres, a float for the timber and shipbuilding trades, and 180,000 yards of adjoining quay and yard room. More over, the whole of this space may he connected with great facility with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with the London and North-Western Rail way's new goods terminus, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the East Lancashire, and the Liverpool )ort Railways. reed, and sometimes ciltogether, the few Cum lercurg, who is such a ons, remarked of a practical man -wall t Britai s of Greal luDsorr, of Castleacr hted if some of our expe s, tha' uch result has beer is easily procurable it will do for mer !d from the large of the greatest obliga- ly favouring them with the 3 years of such liberal, and al outlay ; for it is just Cie ent question has just l's Weekly Messenger. advocates of high the following letter that muc I in the Cumberland Pac t without my knowledge. as written by a gentleman is in Cumberland, hut ne- I beg to say, that with the farming is an unpro fi table 'od crops. What it is ease others to say.—l district would furnish us tements of the result of I several of them we have , or at second hand, from knd when high farm table pursuit, at pre te vicinity of a large a ready market for the nilk, butter, potatoes, pending solelj upon )roduced manures. gists for the Papal he Liverpool Tini prominett position gh-going organs as blin an's Journa ,tection his objections to the tnen I by an overwhelming f his fellow-countrymen, upon th"c en no aggre on to ng a phantom, he says. The the calling forth of ms hostility between "olics ; between Eng bout what is, after Roman I. .nrl +1 The Pope s appoint creatin !ci vicars-apos bishop s inst alse in am any rncre of reugt h the recent ag policy f he says sthOod of it, after this fashion, to salon of their spiritual . suite alive to the fact, on Is a re r which that ltry for th power, in 3, than it the - Roman Catholic i co is its o itch t ament estab: and to it nantry of Ireland he Roman Cat w their countenance ore for the education of all pe iszons ndent of pparently cc of Mr. Hucl! Mr. H I be d s very pe nd iris favour Ttained that i ndid sta Ireland t ) denounce and Sout The proposed outlay in enlarging the Toxteth Dock we regard as unwise, because whilst not ensuring the necessary accommodation for an increasing trade, it cannot prevent importers from taking the greater number of their cargoes to the cheaper and more convenient docks and yards to he provided at the north end of the estate, to which brokers arid dealers will inevitably have to follow them. A much more sensible proposal, to meet present requirements, would be that suggested by Mr. Steele, viz., to increase the facilities for worki ing the Brunswick Dock, by removing to some other place thelarge quantity of North American and other tonnage, jconstantly lying there for sale, and the space occupied by which could be so much more usefully employed. LARGE communities are proverbially slow to move even in matters which vitally concern their own well-being ; and very frequently they are only roused from their apathy and blind confidence in their own inert strength, after that strength has been successfully undermined by some wily and energetic enemy, Small and isolated interests, on the other hand, are ever watchful against aggres- Assault one of these, and forthwith the assailant finds a hornet's nest about his ears. This town of Liverpool has bad especial warnings of the danger attending want of promptitude in examin ing the tendency of proposed measures affecting its interests, and of energy and activity in opposing them, if prejudicial. Need we go further than to the Rivington Pike scheme as an instance of this? The public at large looked on unconcernedly, whilst engineers, amateur and professional, were spending their money by wholesale, besides pledging that of generations to come ; and only awoke from their dreaming to find themselves fast bound by an act of parliament, and by contracts, to an expenditure of nearer a million and a half than a million sterling, for the prosecution of a vast scheme, the necessity and beneficial nature of which are, to say the least of them, as yet a little problematic. We do sincerely trust that the bill to which we directed the attention of our readers last week, and which has been twice read,—a bill which has for its declared object to take away all practical control of the Town Council and Burgesses of Liverpool over the management of the Dock Es tate—will not bs treated with that apathy, the con sequences of which we have had so much reason The more we examine its provisions, they appear to us to be fatal to the real F this community. The whole bill is based upon an assumption which is grossly untrue. In the preamble it is recited, " Whereas it is t the constitution of the said (Dock) Auld be changed by giving a greater the mo interests of expedient tha Uomm 1 over the management of the said docks and harbour, and the warehouses, works, and pro nertv nnnnented thprewith_ to the merchants and siverpool, paying the rates and said acts, or any of them, authorised aised and levied." We deny that it is ex -except for the serving of their own inte any such increased control should be and .we unhesitatingly assert that " mer- rests—that given chant and shipowners" have had for many years a too exclusive control over our docks. To that ex- we owe many of the blunders which we have committed in the management of If we had had a greater infusion lesman element in the Dock Committee, e control that great estate i should we at s moment have_been speculating appro for the ship building trades ? Should mated the entire fronta rted into docks e of the river hiving this nportant nnected with if zhniild o the Clyde and ate bad so important f the commerce f these follies I no f and merchants, or their agents, many of whom may be " here to-day and gone to-morrow.? No other association in the town backs their claims to exclusive jurisdiction. They are ignored by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, by the Dock Committee, who are preparing to be heard before Parliament against their bill, and by the Town Council. The Burgesses of Liverpool, and more especially the Bondholders of the Dock Estate, for their own sakes, must do their duty ! THE country has spoken out pretty distinctly, in the columns of the press and through its represen tatives in Parliament, its sense of the inadequacy of the Government measure directed against the recent Papal aggression. One portion of it only there was which gratified the public. Lord John Russell expressed his determination to mete out the same punishment to encroachments upon the Royal supremacy in Ireland as in Great Britain. Thus far he announced himself prepared to retrace his past anti-Protestant policy; and to remedy a mistake, the result of which had been felt in the insolent course, which it had enabled the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland to take, in the matter of the system of education provided in the Queen's colleges. The remaining features of the measure were viewed as lamentably feeble, and only indica tive of a spirit " 'Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike." We are inclined to suspect that Lord John and his colleagues are inclined to back out of that only valuable portion of his proposed legislation; that the Irish members within the walls of the House of Commons, and the Irish Roman Catholic body outside, have already succeeded in frightening him from his declared purpose. Possibly his lordship has begun to perceive that, whilst his half-way measure has gained him few friends amongst the Protestant masses of the country, it has gone suffi ciently far to alienate his ultra-liberal supporters, and to exasperate the Popish majority of the Irish members. Whatever the cause, however, it is tolerably clear that there is a hitch somewhere ; and that the country must he prepared sternly and resolutely to insist that the Royal wishes and in tentions, expressed before her Parliament and her people, shall not be defeated, and that that people shall not be betrayed, to enable Lord John Russell to work a political dodge, or to prop up a ricketty administration. To a great extent our reasons for entertaining this belief in his Lordship's vacillation are drawn from the singular change of tone in which, since its announcement in the House of Commons, the measure has been referred to in the London Times, the most vehement supporter of Government from the very commencement of the agitation against the Papal aggression. It will be remembered that the Times was the first to launch its thunders against an act of inter ference committed by the Pope, in the partition of a Roman Catholic see, and the nomination of an additional bishop to the newly-created diocese of Ross, in Ireland. From the publication of that article we drew the conclusion, which has since been justified by the fact, that the measure to be pro posed would embrace within its provisions Ireland as well as Great Britain. The Times congratulated the country upon this fact, whilst condemning the measure, as a whole, for its inadequacy to meet the full requirements of the emergency in which we were placed. The following extract from his re marks on Saturday week are sufficiently explicit on this point : After making every fair and candid allowance for a position of the utmost difficulty and responsibility, we cannot think that the ministerial measure is adequate to what the emergency requires and the opinion of England demands. What is merely prohibiting titles and pro tecting trust estates, while we leave to the bishops the full power of synodical action, and to the Pope the power of setting the seal of infallibility upon their de cisions ? The ministerial measure, we fear, will settle nothing as between the Pope and the Government, and leave us exposed to a new paroxysm of popular wrath as often as it shall please the Roman Camarillo, in the im punity of its insignificance, to devise fresh insults for our Church and our Crown. Surely to prove that the ancient laws of England, that the modern governments of Europe, that the customs and constitution of this country will not tolerate such a thing, and yet to pass a measure merely levelled at names and trust funds, is to prove too much or to do too little. If Lord John Russell was de termined to do no more than be has announced, he should have written with less warmth and spoken with less ability ; and we venture to predict that, among all those with whom he may have to contend, he will find no argu ment so embarrassing and no rhetoric so damaging as his own." It is plain, from the passage which we have given in italics, that the " synodical action," by which the Queen's colleges in Ireland had been denounced, was fresh in the mind of our contemporary, and was an exciting cause of his hostility to the pretensions of the Papal see. In subsequent arti cles a more favourable view was taken of the mea sure; and the admission was made that, practi cally, it would meet the emergency of the occasion. How unprepared we were, underthese circu mstances, to find the Times on Friday last writing in the fol lowing strain, we need not say. After remarking, in gratifying terms, upon the assurance of the Attorney-General, that the measure would he so framed as to put down synodical action in Ireland, the Times proceeds : . . " With this addition we do not know that anything further can be suggested for England. Thus rudely shaken before it has time to take root, met with the unanimous aversion of the people, the censure of the Legislature, and the declaration of the Prime Minister that experience has undeceived him as to the expediency of trusting the Pope with the developement of his church in England, it is probable that the newly imported hierarchy may, like a sickly exotic, droop and perish be neath the piercing atmosphere of our northern sky. We sincerely wish we could indulge the same pleasing prog nostications with regard to Ireland, but every day's dis cussion makes us more keenly alive to the error commit ted by the Government in confounding the cause of resis tance to the Papal rescript with the bitter dissensions of Irish politics. Adopting the principle of the Attorney- General, of proportioning the remedy to the grievance, Ireland should have remained untouched, because in Ireland nothing was innovated. For the sake of mere conformity, in order that we may introduce a measure well suited to the circumstances of England, we are about to revive in Ireland the conflicts to which she owes so many of her miseries. It is in her representatives, on the one side and the other, that we shall find incorporated all the bitterness of the discussion. Why, they ask, is the R)man Catholic Church in Ireland to be interfered with because the Pope has made an attack upon England ? Why are we to attack John Tuam, whose insolence we have endured for twenty years, because the Propaganda has sent us Nicholas Westminster ? Here, and here alone, is the case of the Government weak; and we sin cerely trust that Lord J. Russell will see fit to strengthen his position by confining his measure to that which was not only its occasion, but its cause—the invasion by the Pope of the Sovereignty of England." Here, indeed, is the case of the Government weak ! But why ? Is it because the prerogative of the Crown has not been as grossly infringed upon in Ireland as in England ? Is it because her Majesty is not as much the spiritual ruler of the Church in Ireland as in England ? Is it because Popery in Ireland has been less rampant, less violent, factious, and less disloyal than it is likely to be in England ? Not at all. The newly-awakened tender considera tion of the Times for Ireland is based upon the reflexion that Popery in Ireland has been bought over, and used by successive Whig Governments for Whig purposes ; that Popery in Ireland has contributed to swell the cry for Free-trade and the annihilation of the national agriculture; that it is a Swiss power, exercising an influence in the legis lature, which can always be rendered available for a consideration. It has been fostered by Whigs, fondled to its present growth and insolence by Whigs, subsidized and endowed by Whigs and time-serving politicians of every class ; and it is felt that for a whig government to crush it now, is like an act of infanticide ; that it is to proclaim to the world that modern liberalism is fallible, and that all the wisdom and consistency in the world does not centre in the party, which claims Lord J. Russell as its head, and the London Times as the exponent of its opinions and principles. Will the country, we ask, be satisfied, or ought it to be satisfied, with such a miserable emascula tion of a measure paltry and miserable enough in its original form ? Most certainly not ; and when the Times warns Lord John Russell of the hostility which he is drawing upon himself from the Irish members in the House, and the Irish priesthood and laity out of doors, and invites him to throw himself once more for support upon those factions, he omits to remind him of the strong Protestant attitude of the great mass of the British people, who will not he trifled with upon this question. He forgets, too, his own admission, made on the day before the measure of Govern ment was brought before the House of Commons, that if, in its provisions, Lord John Russell " only went far enough, he would carry nine-tenths of the peopl The public are of England with him. already beginning to suspect that some compro mise is in the wind. It is hinted tY,at, if the Synod of Thurles would withdraw its edict againit the Queen's. Colleges, Lord John ilvJuld not be in disposed to hand over Ireland and her Majesty's prerogative in that country as the price. But we tell his Lordship emphatically that England will insist upon having a voice in this matter ; that England will no longer submit to see her Sovereign degraded in the eyes of the world, and her Minis ters abject crouching slaves at the feet of Rome. The blood of the nation is up : let Lord John and his colleagues take care that it does not boil over ! Whether this craven submission however to Popery in Ireland, counselled by the Times, be acted upon, or not, the measure of Government, as originally proposed will not satisfy the great ma jority of the people of Great Britain. What are their true feelings upon the subject, and the ex tent of their demands, cannot be better described than in a petition, prepared by the Liverpool Protestant Defence Committee, a copy of which will be found in our advertising columns. THE movement respecting a Free Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art in Liverpool, has ex cited less stir than similar movements in other towns : but it does not follow that it is going on less successfully. The announcement contained in our advertising columns to-day shows that already a sum of £1,064 3s. has been subscribed; and yet, not a hundred names in all are recorded. When a thousand or fifteen hundred have given their mite towards a project in which more than 400,000 are interested, the list will be more worthy of the town and of the great object, and more like what it ought to be. The general committee, who meet weekly at the Town-hall, have issued nearly 16,000 circulars, from house to house, in the principal streets, and at all the offices and places of business. The people of the borough, therefore, and those who do busi ness in it, though nonresident, have had the mat ter regularly brought before them. The circular does not enter into a minute statement of the facts, but assumes that these are almost sufficiently known from previous announcements. For several months the public have been aware that the pro prietors of the Royal Institution were ready to hand over their present property in that institution to the public, on the sole condition that it shall be devoted freely to the use of the public. The Corporation are to pay the future expenses of keeping the whole collection in perfect order and efficiency; and a joint committee, consisting of seven members of the Town Council, and seven proprietors of the Royal Institution, will be the governing body. The pre sent movement is for the purpose of setting the good ship fairly afloat ;—of placing in the hands of the future guardians an institution which shall be eminently worthy of preservation, an honour to the town, and useful to the inhabitants. Two of the three departments already exist—but they require to be considerably enlarged and improved in their management—these are the Museum and Permanent Gallery of Art. The com mittee have resolved that none of the sums sub• scribed shall be appropriated to these; but they will be happy to receive donations of suitable articles. Pictures, statues, &c. of sufficient merit will be deposited in the Gallery, and antiquities, curiosities, in the Museum. The third department— the Library—has to be founded from the commence ment. There are a few books in the Royal Insti tution—probably about 250 volumes ; but they have never been of general use to the proprietors : they were used almost exclusively as books of re ference by the late worthy curator. When the Committee of the Town Council were receiving evidence upon the subject, in the month of July last, it was calculated that £5,000 in money, and 5,000 volumes of books would readily be subscribed; and there is no reason to believe that that estimate was enormous. There is now little or no doubt that more than 5,000 volumes will be arranged in the Library before a single one is purchased; and Liverpool must be far below other towns if £5,000 be the limit of its pecuniary contributions. There has long been in Manchester a library of great value, known as the Chetham Library; and the borough of Salford has established a Free Library, like our own intended one, during the past year. Yet, during the last month, a Committee in Man chester, headed by the Mayor, issued a circular and a list of subscriptiohs, respecting a third free public library. The first 74 subscriptions in the list amountto£4,46s, including 26 subscriptions of £lOO each. This is showing a right spirit in behalf of intellectual advancement. The Library in Manchester is to be partly a reference and partly a circulating one. In our own town this question is wisely left open for the present. In the meanwhile, a room has been fitted up at the Royal Institution for the temporary reception of books, and during the present week a large number will be received, and put in order on the shelves. It is very important that donations be sent in promptly, or that an intimation be given to the Secretary to send for them. If this were done, the Joint Committee might be able to throw the Institution open to the public as soon as the act is passed, for which it is intended to apply to Par liament. At the present moment, nothing is so much wanted as a number of gentlemen to canvass for donations and subscriptions. It will be in vain that the circulars have received so wide a distribution if the impression be not followed up, if the town be not canvassed with equal system and vigour. There are thousands who are favourably disposed to the measure, and who only require a formal appli cation to be induced to aid it. Gentlemen who are deficient in acquaintance or in courage to address the members of their own profession or occupation, could take distinct portions of the town. Fortified with a document from the Treasurers, they need have no hesitation in calling regularly on those whose assistance has already been solicited in print, and receiving their final answer. The donations of books and specimens are not announced at present ; but a list of the most im portant, as appended to nearly all of the circulars, appeared in our last number. We hope that so fair a beginning will be followed up with spirit, and there will be no doubt of the ultimate success. The Lord Bishop of Chester will preside at the annual meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society on Monday next, when a very influential deputation will attend. Abraham Lesneur, aged six months, was found dead in his mother's arms, in a court in Gore-street, on Sunday morning. ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRE. - Mr. Franconi's engage ment, we would remind our readers, is now drawing to a close. The entertainments continue to attract and to entertain. A. petition of Mr. James Harvey, of this town, to the House of Commons, praying for the abolition of gold as the standard of value, and for the substitution of govern ment paper in lieu thereof, was ordered on Friday " to lie on the . Cable." Messrs. Thomas Tucker and Co. ' of this town, ship builders, have offered to accept the American challenge, to construct a sailing ship, of any size, to compete with one of Yankee build ; and the owners of the winning ship to gain the losing one. A series of cheap Protestant Tracts is now being issued in Manchester. The first number, written by Canon Stowell, is entitled " Protestant Puzzlers," and contains twenty questions, which no priest in the world could an swer with satisfaction to his own church. We understand that the committee who are engaged in procuring books and subscriptions for the Free Public Library, intend to hold a soiree in the Town-hall, to pro mote their objects. The Easter week has been mentioned as the time ; and it is thought that some of the most "eminent men of letters and statesmen could be induced to come down to us on the occasion. MAN DROWNED.—On Friday, the 4th instant, a man named John Wallace took leave of a friend named Hardy in Oldhall-street, since which time his friends had sought him in vain. At the time referred to he was rather in liquor, and doubts were enteztained that ho might have met with some foul death ; these suspicions proved true ; on Sunday his dead body was found floating in the river, opposite the Prince's Dock. He lived in Ray. street. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday Ann Hughes, a charwoman, aged forty-eight, went to the house of a person residing in St. Andrew-street, for the purpose of washing. She had not been in the house long, when she leaned her head on her hand and complained of being unwell. Shortly afterwards it was observed that she was dead. The unfortunate woman had been addicted to habits of intemperance. MR. LLOYD'S NEW NAPOLEON BOOT.—We under stand that Mr. Lloyd intends to present a beautiful boot, made on altogether a new principle, to the bazaar for the benefit of the Sailors' Home. The Napoleon boot is ma nufactured of glass, richly cut and gilt. The heel is armed with a gilt spur ; and altogether the article is unique. Mr. Lloyd has for many years been known in this town as a very first-rate bootmaker. TEA PARTY.—A tea party was given last night at the ball, Lord Nelson-street, by Messrs. Finch and extensive ironfounders at Windsor, to the Jas workmen in their employ and their wives. The ceremony took place to celebrate the binding of thirty apprentices. The spacious hall and galleries were crowded in every part, and, after partaking freely of the excellent refreshments provided, many first-rate addresses were made, and much excellent advice given and gratefully re ceived. The tables were then removed, and all the com pany entered heartily into a lively dance and, after spending a merry evening, dispersed in good humour to their respective homes, COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. Monday Night.— With regard to the proposal to increase the American tariff there is nothing definite per Arctic. A paragraph is going the round of the free-trade papers in America, to the effect that Mr. Walker (the ex-secretary of the trea sury, and the Sir Robert Peel of America,) had authorised a denial that he was in favour of Mr. Strong's project. We hope it may be so, but our faith in the correctness of the report is not great, when we remember:that this is the very man who proposed to modify the tariff so as to meet the views of the iron and coal interests of Pennsylvania, as a means of taking over the vote of that state to General Cass when he opposed General Taylor for the presidency. It was, and still is, thought by many that Walker's pro ject would have decided the day against General Taylor. It seemed, however, too barefaced a thing for the free trade party to propose, and the friends of native industry in general got the votes of Pennsylvania, at that time against Mr. Walker and the foreign interest. The Corn market continues in a drooping condition, with large quantities of foreign arriving daily, and further quantities announced to come forward, principally from France and the Mediterranean. A telegraphic despatch from Paris, on Saturday, announcing an advance in Grain, had no effect in imparting confidence to the trade, and has proved to be a mere speculative ruse. It is an im portant fact, and is proved by every report of the leading Corn markets, that London, Liverpool, and the most ex tensive consuming districts in which the highest prices are obtained, are now almost exclusively supplied by the foreigner, the home grower being left to find a market where he can. The monetary and commercial article in the Albion of yesterday, relating to the state of our trade with foreign countries, the writer of which is well known as being one of our best informed and intelligent townsmen, grapples, we think successfully, with a subject which hitherto has baffled even the Solons of the metropolis itself, and with respect to which parliament has been so preciously bam boozled during the present session. With the aid of the Board of Trade returns he has furnished us with the total declared value of our exports, and with great care he has given the total actual value of imports, affixing the sepa rate value to each article, which we feel great confidence has been correctly done, as we happen to know the un questionable sources through which information to arrive at the latter, was obtained. The result is, as we have long thought and stated, that the balance of trade has been against this country ; the amount of which adverse balance is now shown to be no less a sum than eight million pounds sterling during the past year ; our exports being sixty-five million pounds in value, whilst the imports reach seventy-three million pounds. What will our free traders say now ? We well remember what they did say, " that foreigners would take our ma nufactures for their corn." It is evident that they have done no such thing ; and that we have had eight millions to pay in gold and silver ; a fact which fully accounts for the adverse state of the exchanges, and the constant drain of bullion to the Continent. This also explains the prostration of trade during the last two months, which must continue so long as the balance of trade continues against this country. There is little to report in our produce markets since Friday. Sugar has been in fair demand, but it has been freely offered, and prices are rather lower. Tea and coffee continue neglected. Political matters in Germany are again beginning to cause uneasiness. The Cotton Market on Saturday was languid and dull, with less offering, holders evincing no desire to press sales. Prices continued very irregular. The sales amounted to 3,000 bales, of which 500 British American, and 500 Surat were taken on speculation. The steam ship Arctic brings advices of receipts being still on the increase at the American ports, and prices again on the decline there. This, however, was expected, and had therefore not much influence on our market to-day, though prices were in favor of the buyer, particularly for the common and middling qualities of American. The sales are 4,000 bales, chiefly American, 200 for export. Imports since Friday :—Uplands, 8,250 bales ; Orleans, 825 ; Pernamas, 605 ; West India, 9 ; Egyptian, 715 ; Madras, 511 ; total, 10,913 bales. This has been another great week in shares. An im mense speculative and real business has been done daily, and prices continue steadily to advance. London stock has reached 135, and Midland 63. The London statement is considered most satisfactory, and the Midland one is expected to be equally so. We annex the day's quotations— Aberdeen, 14; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Chesle re. 8d ; late Chester and Birkenhead, 203 1 ; Caledonian, 121 1; East Lancashire, 14.1 ; Great Northern, 181 ; Old Leeds, 59 1 ' ; Do. Fifths, 71c1 • Do. preference, 131; Lancaster and Carlisle Thirds, 73p; Southport, 4 1p; London stock, 1341 5 41 5c 41 5 ; Do. new Quarters, 68 f 1 s 1p ; Do. Fifths, 61p ; Do. C Quarters, 3 3 16 p ; Manchester Sheffield and Lincoln, 35 11 ; Do. Quarters, 13 ; Do. preference, 12 ; Midland, 621 ; Do. Halves, 15 14* 1; North British. 91 ; North Union B, 167 ; Scottish Mid land, 101 ' • S'bury and Birmingham A, 81 ; Do. B, 9-161 ; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 15-16 d ; Shropshire Un. 2 13-16 d ; Old Dovers, 264 ; S.Staffordshire,3ld, York, Newcastle, andßerwick, preference unpaid-up, lid. POPERY SPEAKING IN SENSE A NON-NATURAL A statement has just been published by authority from the secretaries of the synod of Thurles, contradicting the remark of Lord John Russell, that the celebrated address of that body was only carried by a majority of one. The secretaries in question say, " We feel it our duty to de clare that such statement is wholly devoid of foundation, the said address having, as already described, been read in full synod, and unanimously adopted, in our presence by the fathers, and by them ordered to be published." We can very easily believe that the address in question, after having been duly debated, and its opponents having found themselves in a minority, was passed with this ex terior show of unanimity ; but it is perfectly notorious that some of the most intelligent, and least bigotted amongst the Irish Roman Catholic bishops were strongly in favour of the acceptance, by the Church. of the Queen's Colleges, as provided by government. We can only view in this compulsory unanimity an instance of the abject slavery in which the Canon Law of Rome binds both hierarchy, priesthood, and people to the domination of the Papal see. Last week, as a woman named Ashton, who resided in Higher Tranmere, was in the act of conversing with a friend, she was attacked with a paralytic stroke, and after lingering in great agony for a few days, she expired on Saturday. She was the mother of seven children, most of them very young. __ THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL AND CLUB. — Mr.WhiteDlatl, the proprietor; of the Brunswick Hotel, and founder of the Brunswick Club, continues to allure his guests by the aid of the three magic words, " comfort, economy, and despatch," and to retain them by fulfilling to the letter the promises which those words imply. The subscription to the club is very moderate, and its advantages for re creation, exercise, and refreshment, mental and corporeal, very numerous LAW REPORTS.—A very valuable digest of law cases is advertised in our columns to-day. It is published monthly, and is prefaced by an elaborate index of points and a consolidated index to the names of cases, which is so arranged as to obviate the necessity of looking through the numbers individually. In addition to a digest of all the reported cases, (including those of Ireland,) issued during the above period, it contains notes of many im portant cases decided during that time, and which are as yet unreported,—especially decisions under the new chan cery orders, joint-stock winding-up act, county courts, &c. The important statutes of the se ssions and the new orders and rules of court will also be found digested in their appropriate places. ENLARGEMENT OF THE CORN EXCHANGE, BRUNS WICK-STREET.—This much required work for the accom modation of the corn trade is now commenced; and although during its progress some little inconvenience will, no doubt, be felt, we are assured, from the energy with which the works are to be carried on by the con tractors, that this will be limited as much as possible. The enlargement is to be effected by the addition to the Exchange of the site at present occupied by Messrs. Scott's large warehouse, running on the west ward side of the building, from Brunswick-street to the Old Ropery, for taking down which preparations are now being made. A portion of the back of the present building will be simultaneously removed ; and until this and the new space are erected, and fit for occupation, the trade will have to put up with the front portion of the building alone, and " the flags." Mr. James Leader, joiner and builder, of 'Wood-street, is the contractor for the entire work. The excavations and bricklayers' work will be executed by Mr. Joseph Parry, Elizabeth-street. ESCAPE OF WILD BEASTS.—The neighbourhood of S t . George's-hall was thrown into a state of great alarm and excitement at an early hour yesterday morning. It seems that two bears, forming part of Hilton's menagerie, con trived to break from confinement about eight o'clock, and forthwith exhibited their awkward erratic propensities to the dismay of a vast number of persons who were proceed ing to business. The carmen, who ply in the vicinity of St. John's Market, immediately congregated in great strength, and, headed by the bears' keepers, gave chase; the animals, however, were not to be taken without trou ble. One, to use the polite expression of a bystander, " dodged about" up and down the streets in the neigh bourhood, and finally set off at full speed up Mount Plea sant, but was finally captured in the Prince's Park. The first exploit of the second bear was to kill and partially devour an unfortunate dog which he espied within a few yards of the caravans. The pause in his career occasioned by this act led to his speedy capture. Beyond that of the dog no life was lost, nor have we heard of any personal injury having been sustained by this untoward incident. ALLEGED DEATH THROUGH THE CONDUCT OF BAI LIFFS.—On Thursday, an inquest was held before the bo rough coroner, on the body of Hans Shaw, a poor man residing in a court, in Harding-street, Windsor. About three weeks ago, the house in which the deceased resided came into the hands of Mr. Bennett, an estate agent. The deceased was at that time lying ill in bed, suffering from disease of the heart. A written notice was given to the deceased to quit the house, and on Saturday last two bailiffs went to take possession, and said the dece a sed m ust go out. The deceased's wile produced a certificate from Dr. Hangman, stating that deceased was in a bad state, and unfit to be removed, and if he were disturbed it would be at the imminent peril of his life. Notwithstand oberceuwpeireyd;fo thre some room time. is e. ove T r h a e Notwithstand ing this, the bailiffs got deceased up, and to o k hi m to a room, stable, near and AI l a rs not t beers ßarton's deceased had no shoes, th e y h av i ng b een p l e d ge d t o g et some bread, in consequence of his destitute condition ; but one of the bailiffs went and released the shoes, and they were 'Placed upon his feet. After being removed, the dece - As,ed became gradually worse until Monday, when he died. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had died from natural causes, but observed that they could n'jt separate without condemning the conduct of the in':diffs in removing the deceased in the kce of the mcd . .ical certificate. of the port as the We should .esent fix ? ther ports ing trades ber Trade driven winds ion of our hich f MCI", LLI of dan sts of the bona fide community of t is essentially a bill for the advantage xclusive -local interests ; for zo are the parties t at we find m Jving actively in Not the merchants and sh;--- dnipowners ,not any important section of the Promoters of the bill are exclusively Chamber of Commerce; the repre- parties wh - o possess no permanent t in the welfare a our port; shipowner§ to the the matter of T JAverunni sentatives interes THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. teb. 18, 1811. THREATENED_ STRIKE _OF SEAMEN IN LIVERPOOL: The resistance to thi Mercantile Marine Bill has thi S week assumed a more definite shape, and, on Monde) . morning, the town was startled by a procession of seamen' several hundred strong, carrying aloft a Janus-faced OM of Mr. Labouch ere . A par ti a l str ik e h as taken place, ar il ' several hundred seamen have refused to ship under the new regulations—depositing their register-tickets with thea committee appointed at the late public meeting, as a prPel of their sincerity and determination. We understand the the leading boarding-house keepers have mutually pledged themselves to maintain gratuitously, for three weeks, those of the sailors lodging with them who may choose to strike; and a subscription has been set on foot to organize agite: Lion against the act. Each day since Monday the wile" who are out have walked through the streets in procession" preceded by a band of music, and men carrying union jacks. Several meetings have been held during the past week, at which the grievances under which the seamen labour were fully detailed. At one of these, Mr. Rowett made a very long address. In the course of it, after maul remarks on the noble and disinterested character of the British sailor, he said, in allusion to the Mercantile Marine Bill of Mr. Labouchere :—Tf this apple of discord has been merely thrown up for some kindly motive . towards the Sailors' Home, w hy s h ou ld t h ere b e any wan t of union between the homes of three hundred seamen tt the Sailors' Institution, and the homes of six thousand o men who are scattered over this town ? Will the Sailors Home provide for seamen who, from a hundred mod, are often without the means of living, as the boarding', house keepers have f requen tly d one , i n ant i c i pat i on of payment out of future earnings ? Is it fair that a multi tude of boarding-house keepers, lodging six thousand meth should be condemned and ill-used because there are some improper characters among that class ? The board surely' overlooks the justice that is due to them, and also their influence over the 6,000 men who are constantly in close intercourse with them. It must be remembered that this class, who contribute largely to the local rates, are under large expenses, and cannot afford to have passed upott them such stigma—such sweeping condemnation—as the antagonistic position taken by the local marine board, and sailors' home board, so unwarrantably implies. The element thus provoked, it must be admitted is most dangerous to the peace and welfare of the town at large. But the board of trade was not content with setting these, parties in hostile attit u d es w i t h each other. The Zr shipping masters of the port—gentlemen authorized I)/ license from the board of trade—have also been loaded with indignities and contempt, their influence among the seamen also forgotten. And to make the attack on these gentlemen complete, without any previous notice they are by the Board of Trade deprived of their licenses as ship ping -masters ; their business monopolized by Govern: went; and, tho' many of them have for 10, 15, and 2 0 years carried on their business with credit to themselves , and great advantage to seamen and the shipping interest, at large, they are now, by Act of P ar li ament, deprive d o f their legitimate business, and thrown on the wide world to get their living as they best can. This is another ele• ment of discord which ought never to have been inflamed by the Government. The influence of these gentleraee, with seamen mi g ht h ave d one much to allay some 01 the minor objections to the maritime bill,—especially that of the ticket,—which you now learn are going by hundreds, or perhaps thousands, back to their author , with a polite intimation to Mr. Labouchere that they wil l not wear his badge of distinction. We, as master mariners' deeply deplore this state of things, and to remedy the untoward positio n i n t o w hi ch the ' Board of Trade 1 19 . 5 forced the mercantile marine of this country, and to re. scue one class from the utter destruction with which we are threatened—the association—w e are met this day to fool , will, we trust, under God's blessing, be instrumental averting. The mercantile business of the country ca nnoli long be carried on according to the present law, it is clear to your minds ; and when from outward pressure the Board of Trade is compelled to yield in one point, the time has arrived when the whole of its provisions should be remodelled, according to the wisdom and practical ex' perience of the entire marine body. The positioninto which a few days will bring the case is this—Government re' quires the ship's articles shall be signed before the col• lector of customs can legally clear the ship ;—the articles must be signed in presence of a Government officer, ati the office of the local marine board, and no seaman or, officer can sign articles u n l ess h e produces his " ticket ' to the Government officer, and cannot possibly be shipped without this ticket. But the tickets, being sent back to Mr. Labouchere by the seamen, cannot be available for this purpose ; and therefore men, however willing t o earo their bread, cannot legally do so. Capt. Rowett went on to denounce other portions of the bill, and contended that old experienced captains and mates ought not nogt be called on to undergo an examination, though they w ere not afraid of having their qualifications put to the test. li e concluded with the following resolution, which was carried: THE BRITISH MARINER'S ASSOCIATION. "That, under this name, an association be now formed' consisting of masters, officers, and seamen, employed in the merchant service, for the purpose of maintaining and defendial their interests and rights fro m th e var i ous and repea t! , attacks that are being made upon the privileges they bate hitherto enjoyed, and under which th ey h ave b een bl e ss with, and still enjoy, pre-eminence among t h e nat i ons o f the world. To make their defence effect ua l, it i s essent i a l that ti permanent board be established, and entrusted with the repre sentation of this important body of her Majesty's loyal al'', jects. At the meetings of such bo ar d every shipmaster in W A being a member of the associatio n s h a ll b e ent i tled to sit Or vote thereon. By this means, all who awe absent, it is consl' dered, will be as fully and faithfully represented as any means could devise. That the expenses of carrying on this associatil v with effect are to be defrayed o u t o f vo l untary contributio ns, and the subscriptions of its members, which have been deter mined on as follows :—Masters of vessels, 55.; mates, 45 :, ; , second mates, 3s. ; third mates, 25. ; carpen t ers, 2s. ; sea me n' cooks, and stewards, Is. per annum. No su b scr ib er i s to responsible beyond the amount of his subscription or copal., bution, and a card of membership is to b e g i ven t o eac / subscriber. As the efforts of the associ a ti on are a t present specially called into active operation by the well.ko Labouchere's Merchant Seamen's Bill, which every practics seaman must know is, alike to the shipowner, master, officer s ' and seamen, oppressive, vexatious, and calculated to do seriou s injury to the class for whose benefit and advantage it is said t.,v have been intended, and which, if pursued, must result. l ; incalculable damage to the state, as well as to the shipPit!„,' interest in particular, every master, officer, and seama n therefore, or who have at any time been in either of sag,. capacities, are hereby earnestly requested, as they value the' s . narnesas British seamen, to enrol themselves at once on th e boa., of the association, as the only constit u ti ona l means of obta i e ll from Parliament such practical, reasonable, and effi c i en t lads for the merchant service of this country, as w ill con duce to the welfare, interest, and happiness of all parties concerned. On Friday Mr. Stuart Knox was elected for the borough of Dungannon, vice Lord Northland resigned. The Tablet announces that a meeting ofßoman Catholie prelates of Ireland is to be held immediately to petition against the Papal Aggressions Bill of the ministry. An unexpected opponent—Mr. Houghton, the. fre e :, trade farmer—has come forward to o pp ose C o l. for Bedfordshire. The bill brought in by Mr. W. Williams to preve n t : trading on Sundays applies• only to the metropolis. l a enacts that all Sunday trading is to cease• at nine, an goods exposed for sale may be seized. On Wednesday one of the French war steamers,, whieb arrived at Jersey on Monday, on return from St. Helie r , captured 11 oyster-boats, which were d re d g i ng on t h e French limits, and took them to Granville. At noon, on Saturday, a meeti ng o f the members an d friends of the Ca m bridgeshire Protectio n S oc i e ty w as he', at Cambridge. There were not less than 800. person ; present. The Earl of Hardwicke, Lord-Lieutenant of tb county, took the chair. Captain Beechv attended at Hull on Saturday, and m e t a great body of the seamen at present on strike. He 01 however, unable to produce a favourable impression, $ ll the reports from the north were of a nature cal cu l a ted t 0 strengthen the determination of the sailors to hold out_%, A deputation, consisting of Re ar Ad m i ra l V ernon 11 a court, Captain Bague, Mr. J. B. Ryder, and Mr. T. ~ Young, waited upon the Bi s h op of London, at Lon de; House, by appointment, on S aturday, to present an ad dress of the Protestant laity of the parish of St. Chelsea, against Popish practices in the Church, whic h had been una n i mous l y agreed to at a pu b l i c meeting he l d at the Commercial Hall, King's-road. THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—The ce h, . brated actress, Miss Helen Faucit, made her first apeei: ance, to fulfil a short engagement, at this th ea tre le o , night, in the part of Merianie, 4 in a new drama writt en ' ' expressly for her by Mr. Marston, the author of Strat, more and other favourite modern pieces. She was ently.il, siastically received by a fashionable, although not son be merous an audience as we could have wished to see, action of the drama is laid in the stirring times of PPI4, Augustus, of France, and is full of historical inter , Mr iv lh an i t to i o n k the thelapsat three part of the lli months, ona the rch. at St" Bar STRANGE.—Within Cross ANYSu GE.v Keys Inn, Oran g e G rove, i n this e vi itt r h e : from time to time, complai ne d o f pa i ns i n different Pe r o s of her body, and she h as b een un d er me di ca l treat Mets, for the same. To the su r p r ise o f h er me di ca l atteudatio within the last month, no fewer than 23 needles 118 , 0 been extracted from her knees, three having ben out yesterday : two perfect and one broken.. She s' % . exhibits symptoms of having many more to , be yet fog tracted. She has not the slightest recollection of hal l . at any time swallowed any needles, and her usual occul ls o tion has prevented her from making much use of tb ° implements of female industry. —Bath Chronicle. ,ge . LODGINGS FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—The chanic'-house," near Thames-bank, now being fitted t i ff is a large warehouse of most lugubrious aspect, forme r l y called the " Thames-bank Depository," in Raneleg er e road ; at present a ver y una pp roac h a bl e dist r i c t. 1 3 to t are two fl oors in th e ma i n b u ildi ng 250 f ee t l o ng. t`l. about 50 wide, besides other , buildings ; the whole e e ' r , culated to provide nightly accommodation f or 1,000 P 00 sons. The separate rooms (one for each lodger) are 1 1 ;0 formed by p ar titi on s s ev e n f ee t hi g h. Th ere is te,ot general dining-room and reading-room, and many exce" arrangements are being talked of. We should, be therefore, to discourage a speculation whicl nuch r ,s being “ 13 "0 eded but ' a d bee" at great cost to supply what t a brighter spot ,et lone after dark will be quite n°d o a out d tt o i o s f t fi r i tn c hd t e s rgh i n i e l eir n st o iwo t andyti_sbocol,ro.4o, must, nevertheless selecied. The men from the c that they have left them —On th after a lingeri Yesterday, at _ of Mr. JOHN LZADI on the Ist ultimo. stant, in the 22nd year of her 0 V) ARGARET, wife of GEORGE Ruzs l o o o , South, aged 22, HELEN, ,iett Ir, to whom she was Mar' 2, Windsor-stye rER MT ..... MARRIED.—On the 11th in s t an t, a t C ross- C annon by, C O' berland, by the Rev. Mr. Gomley, Mr. JAMES MO Me ( master-mariner, of Belfast, to S ARAH HANNAH, o n ly daufr of Mrs. SARAH SHILTON, Of MarypOrl. "..IVERPOOL TUES.D 18, 1351. 1164 PRINTED AND PUIRLISHRO EVERY TUESDAY m0ft141,4 liy 4021 - 11.1 A FLETCHFA LACE, of 53, Grovestreet, t,EO,NARD ADDI&JN, of 14, Great Orford-street, " NS. 4, ST. gitrilitiril CRESCENT, LAVEMet.