The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

coRRESPONDENI Ti: , receipt yeAterday of sever.Al very 1e.,-,,rthy. reportts of int portant meetins b A • prevented the insert, , t) of a number of etmmn , ,icarions with which we have been' t'avcred. Lot- ktuernool TUESDAY MORAING, FEB. 20, 1814. We commence this day the sixth year of our pro prietcrship of THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD; and, upon such an occasion, we may be excused if we take the opportunity of addressing a few words to our readers and our numerous friends. The first of these ...ast necessarily be an expression of.thanks for support received, and good wishes fully appre ciated. The expectations, which induced us to embark our propert:, and•our energies of mind and boby, in this undertaking, have not been disap pointed, if even they have not . been so speedily realised as we could have wished. The organ under our contre' now ranks second to none in usefulness; and, although we may not as yet stand so high in that scale by which the world is accustomed to test the value and influence of a newspaper, we are fast •, treading upon the heels of those of our competitors —few in number—who at present occupy loftier positions, and have already outstripped many who were at one time far—very far—above us. For this measure of success, we thank the Conservative public. We have striven to deserve their support; and our efforts have not been unrewarded. And now, as to tiv. future. Need we say that " trusty and tried" friends of the principles of our glorious Constitution in Church and State, as we have been in times past, we shall remain in times to come? Independent in our advocacy of Conserva tive principles we have been hitherto; and inde pendent we remain. No faction in the State—no faction in our local community—have ever dictated our coarse: no such faction ever shall. Our party is the public. The good we seek is the public good. The cause of the rich man is no more to us than the cause of the poorest man, who is, at the same time a lover of his country, and a friend of order and of virtue. Enough, then, for the future. Un solicited promises too often imply doubts of a jus title to the belief of those to whom they are ad dressed. We have no such doubts. And now a word to our advertising friends. can now, with every confidence, offer to them our columns as the best advertising medium in the town or district. Our circulation last week reached within a few copies J f 3,000 ; it is week by week steadily increasing, and is already the most exten sively circulated and extensively read Conservative organ in Liverpool. Our contemporary of Friday appears to imagine that he has mistaken his vocation; that fate destined him for the office of a great constitutional lawyer, rather than for the editorial chair of the Mercury. Under this delusion he has undertaken in his last puWi ,- at;on to set right attorneys and solicitors- general, and the whole judicial bench of England and of Ireland, with respect to the question, what is or what is not " a conspiracy;" and has announced to the world at large the startling fact, that by the law as laid down by these eminent authorities, upon the occasion of the recent prosecutions in Ireland, we are all of us, who are associated for the attain ment of any particulrr object, amenable to convic tion and punishment ! Reform Bill agitators— Anti-Corn-law agitators—Anti-Church -rate agita tors—Protestant associations—nay, " the Carlton Club itself"—(why not the 'Wellington 1)—" are one and all conspirators, and amenable to the law of conspiracy, as laid down by Lord Chief Justice Pennefather" t I And here is his ground for this sweepinc ß conclusion. These associations have one and all the object " to influence and overawe the Queen's ministers, and intimidate the legislature." With all proper consideration for our contempo rary's opinion, we must submit that no such con clusion can fairly be drawn from Chief Justice Pennefather's interpretation of the law of conspiracy. His lordship stated that " the law required that" (to convict any parties of conspiracy) "a jury should be satisfied that there was a concert between them, either for the purpose of doing an illegal act, or else for doing, or causing to be done, an act legal in itself but to be brought about by illegal means." Certainly this is specific enough, and reasonable enough ; and it lays down a sufficiently broad line of distinction between the cases of the Repeal Association and those referred to by the Mercury. When Anti- Corn-law agitators and others carry on their agita tion in a legal form, and with legal instruments— when they propose to act upon public opinion, or upon the legislature, in any of the modes pointed out by the practice of the constitution, they are unas sailable by the law ; but when they go beyond these limits—when they point to violence as the ultimate weapon to be used—when they resort to displays of physical force and military organization to intimidate the legislature and the constituted authorities, — then their agitation a.)sumes the form of a con spiracy. It is then an attempt to procure an object legal in itself, by illegal means. Upon this distinction the Lord Chief Justice was very decided. Attending public meetings, however numerous, was not in the eye of the law criminal. His lordship remarked— " If a man had g r ievances, or tho ug ht or f anc i e d h e h a d grievances, it was no crime for a man to make a mistake regarding his political situation respecting a grievance. lie had a right also to communicate his sentiments on the subject of his grievances not merely to his friends but even to strangers. lie had aright to make these commu nications and complaints wherever he went, if they thought fit ; and even if he should attend a public meeting, how ever large that meeting might be (although in that respect it might be dangerous, owing to the consequences which might follow)—at those public meetings there was no rea son why any man who had, or thought he had, a grievance, should not make a statement of what he conceived he had a right to complain of, and upon the principles of free dis cussion endeavour to get, by peaceable means, as many allies and advocates in support of those alleged grievances as he could produce. That was the law, and the morality of the law, as stated by Mr. Baron Alderson, who also said, • God forbid that the country should ever be with- ' out it.' Ile (the Chief Justice) would say so too. But in order to disseminate the knowledge of those grievances,a party should take care not to infringe upon the rights and privileges of others ; and he was more bound to be careful of the effect of what he did, if the assemblies which he attended were congregated and assembled in such masses and multitudes so as to excite terror and alarm through and amongst the neighbouring people, or amongst those who were bound to preserve and watch over the frame and constitution of the country." Agitation, therefore, carried on peaceably, need not, as the Mercury would have us believe, lead to those disastrous restrictions of the liberty of the subject which he has painted in such sombre colours. The announcement of last week, in the House of Lords by Lord Wharncliffe, and in the Commons by Sir James Graham, of the forthcoming Irish policy of the Peel administration, has created a feel ing of serious apprehension and disappointment amongst the Conservative party on both sides of the Channel. Amongst our loyal brethren, in Ireland especially, who, for years past, have battled so stoutly, for the integrity of the empire , and, the secu rity of their Protestant liberties and religion, against the aggressions of Popery; and who for months past may be said to have slept with the torch of the incendiary about their roofs and the knife of the as sassin at their breasts ; the fear is deeply felt that, by their patience under insult nd their firmness when in danger, they have enabled a Conservative governmen ..' ,• to vindicate the majesty of the law—onl:• to witness the Protestant institutions of their country bartered, With a better grace, for the securing of a temporary and hollow truce with their ruthless enemies. We cannot say that we feel all the alarm which the firstpromulgation of this policy—so far as it goes, one of concession - has occasioned here or in the sister land. And yet, calmly as we have reviewed the measures proposed, in all their bearings, we are little disposed to be grateful for them. The details, of course, are not before us. We cannot speculate upon the precise working of any of them. Yet we cannot but see, in the meagre form in which they are given to us, evidence conclusive of a disposition, on the part of government, to embark afresh in that fatal course of conciliation—towards a body whom nothing save the concession of THE WHOLE of their demands will ever tranquillize—by which this uni ted empire has already been brought to the verge of a violent dissolution, and Ireland herself within twenty-four hours of a bloody insurrection. Work out the policy involved in these measures, to its issue ; grant these stepping stones to the goal which Rome has placed, and retains, before her eyes ; and we feel that it is only a mockery to tell us that we have not yielded up into the hands of the agitators of Ireland a boon, for which they will be content to hug their fetters in any prison to which the law may consign them for their past misdeeds, and gloat the while upon their coming triumphs. That we may not be accused of misrepresentation, or of undue alarm, let us briefly place before our readers the substance of the measures announced. The first in order is a measure to be founded upon the report of the committee now sitting to inquire into the existing relations between landlord and t enant in Ireland. Upon the nature of this we can not at all speculate, until such report is laid before Parliament. The reference of Lord Wharncliffe, however, to the (alleged) fact, that " in the north of England no tenant left a farm without a valuation of his stock, and if improvement had been made by him he was compensated" —a practice which the noble lord said was " constituted by custom, which the courts of law upheld"—leads us to anticipate, notwithstanding the disclaimer of Lord Wharncliffe , some measure approaching, in principle at least, to that fixity of tenure, which has been amongst the blessings (?) to result from repeal of the Legislative We I Union. The next measure, in order, is an increase in the grant for the purpose of national education, upon the non-scriptural system. We are told by Sir James Graham that it is important that, in the schools conducted upon this (to Protestants) obnoxious sys tem, there should be more constant inspection, and training schools for teachers; and for these purposes the additional grant will be asked for. We admit that, if we are to have this system perpetuated in Ireland, government is bound to see that, such as it is, the education provided for the infant poor of Ireland should be the best of its kind, and adminis tered by competent teachers. But first, before we enlarge the annual grant, we are surely entitled to know what such education has as yet produced for the good of Ireland, What fruit has been borne by this tree which repudiates the blessing of the full light of Heaven upon its branches and the undiluted living waters at its root ? What increase of fertility has this fountain produced, from which the bigot and the scorner, the papist and the infidel, may alike praw congenial draughts ? We apprehend that the reply, to these questions, so far as the past is con cerned, will not be altogether satisfactory; and, if such is the case, the question may fairly be mooted, and will be mooted, whether a Conservative govern ment, and a Conservative legislature, ought not ra ther to look round them for a better system, than , by an increased parliamentary grant, and the pro mise of more efficient instruments for its working, to bolster up a system which has notoriously failed —as it deserved to fail—in its past operation. The Protestant Conservatives of Great Britain will de mand an inquiry from Sir Robert Peel's government upon these points ; and the demand ought to be conceded! Another measure announced, is one to alter the law in Ireland, "in reference to gifts for charitable and religious purposes," or, as it is explained by Lord Wharncliffe, to decrease the " difficulty of making over property, and placing money in trust, for the purpose of supplying the Roman Catholic clergy with stipends, and glebes, and building chapels." Upon this proposition, we cannot re mark in the absence of fuller explanation than is at present afforded us. The necessity, however, of any such alteration of the existing law is not very clear to us, unless it be for the purpose, as broadly hinted at by Lord John Manners, last session, of introducing more extensively into Ireland the monastic system. Such a step, surely, cannot be entertained by the present Government! The last measure, to which we are called upon to refer, is a registration bill, combining (according to Sir James Graham) "a more extended county franchise," but which, Lord Wharncliffe assures us, would probably cause "a considerable diminution of county voters," with a remission of the necessity, in boroughs, of paying certain local taxes, as the condition of receiving the franchise. Here, we are in some degree of darkness; and any comment we might be disposed to make is obviously impossible . We have endeavoured to place the spirit and sub stance of the whole of these measures before our readers as clearly and impartially as w.,s in our power; and we must now wait to see them brought in detail before Parliament, repeating, however, our fear that they are not likely to prove steps in the right direction towards that object which all men ou g ht to desire; viz.—the permanent pacification of Ireland, unaccompanied by present or ultimate danger to the Protestant Church in that land, and the peace and security of the empire. These objects are not to be secured by the violation of one—the least—of those constitutional and Protestant prin ciples, by the profession of which a Conservative Government was placed in power, and a rampant anti-national faction prostrated, amidst the tri umphant acclaim of a delighted people. His little lordship of the house of Russell has taken little, thus far, by his new compact with " the convicted conspirator" O'Connell; little of good, at all events—little which is not calculated to damage his reputation as a public man, and convince the world of his utter unfitness to control the destinies of this great empire. The debates of the past four nights, upon his factious motion, have afforded us, from the opposition side of the house, only a nauseous re-hash of the speeches delivered—how much more eloquently !—by the counsel for the traversers; whilst the withering replies from the Government benches have effectually dissipated the film of falsehood and error, in which the proceed ings of the law authorities in Ireland have been artfully held up before the gaze of the British people. The Whig party, with Lord John Russell at their head, are now the pledged supporters of physical force appeals—of military organization of the people in Ireland—of seditious proclamations, and incendiary speeches —as the legal and safe weapons for bending the will of the majority of the empire to concessions, previously acknowledged by a Whig-radical government as dangerous to the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD public peace and the institutions of the country. The destruction of the national church in Ireland is now openly acknowledged as a desirable event in the eyes of Lord John and his party—as the price which Great Britain will have to pay before she can secure the services of a Russell, a Palmerston, and a Howick in this country, and a Normanby, as the liberator-general of gaol-birds, in Ireland. But it is riot for their adhesion to this or that set of measures, as those by which Ireland is to be pacified, that we complain of Lord John and his hungry supporters. There is nothing which these men may do which could surprise us. There is no amount of personal degradation to which we would not expect them to submit, in pursuit of their dar ling objects—place and pay. But we do marvel at the position in which they have, in this debate, ex hibited themselves at a crisis like the present. The law has just declared the leaders of the recent movements in Ireland guilty of conspiracy. Seditious organs in that country have laboured, and are labour ing, to excite dissatisfaction amongst the people, at the unanimous finding of the jury upon the facts, and the unanimous expounding of the law by the bench. Such dissatisfaction, dangerous to the peace of the country and the integrity of her Majesty's dominions, we did trust that men, so lately ministers of the Crown, would have striven to allay. Yet we have seen them pursue an opposite course ! We have seen Lord John Russell and his fellow Whigs labouring, in concert with the organs of the con victed conspirators, to spread the belief, existing in the minds of an abused and an excited people,— a people organized and ripe for revolution,—that the Government had entrapped those conspirators—that the jury had unfairly convicted them, and that the judges had stretched the law and polluted the judicial bench, to gratify party hostility, and cringe for the favours of Government! Such a course we did not expect of Lord John Russell, mean and factious as we believe him to be. Its consequences, however, will recoil upon him. If an outbreak should hereafter unhappily take place in Ireland—if the ignorant and excited people of that country should take the hint thus held out to them, that " the wild justice of revenge" is their only defence—the people of England will not forge s to visit with their execration, and something more, the factious and mercenary spirits who have been engaged, and are now engaged, in pointing out to rebels the objects at whose heads to direct their weapons, and the men from whose hands they may expect toleration for their violent deeds I We beg the attention of our readers to an im portant letter, addressed by our townsman, Joseph Sandars, Esq., to the President of the Stafford Agricultural Protection Society, the Lord Talbot, on the subject of the Corn-laws. To those who are acquainted with the fact of the extensive experience which Mr. Sandars brings to bear upon the question, as the head of the most, extensive firm as corn mer chants in this pert, no commendation of ours will be necessary to add weight to his opinion on the subject upon which he writes : and to those unacquainted with his standing in the world, we may safely leave his facts and deductions to speak for themselves. By the Cobdens and Brights of the Anti-Corn-Law League, they are unanswerable; and we venture to predict that they will not be attempted to be answered. We may, however, refer these gentlemen —we may refer, also, our anti-monopoly goslings, (who, on such matters, ought to know more than even the parent geese of "the Port of illanehester,") (!)—to the rates of freights as here given, upon the word and faith of a practical man of long experience as a merchant. How long have these gentlemen been in the habit of gulling the world with statements that the freight of wheat from any foreign port, near or distant, was, of itself, sufficient protection to the British farmer ? We have it here, however, dis tinctly stated that such freights, from the Baltic ports, and from ports in the German Ocean, are actually lower than the average of coasting freights in Great Britain ; and, although from the Mediter ranean considerably higher freights are paid, yet these are amply made up for by the much lower rates paid for the article itself. We must not, how ever, forestall the interest of Mr. Sandars' letter by further comment of our own. It will, we say again, speak for itself. The latest accounts from Stockholm represent the ill• ness of the King of Sweden as still of a very serious cha. racter. The British barque Bolivar, from Sierra Leone to England, with a cargo of timber, was lost off the Cape Verd Islands on the 2d October. The crew were saved. A deputation from the committee of deputies from the Joint-stock Banks of England, Wales, and Ireland, had an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the official residence of the Right Hon. Baronet, in Downing -street. The de puties, 23 in number, were headed by Mr. P.M. Stewart, M.P. A deputation on the subject of Inland bonding had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa turday at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Phillips, M.P., Mr. Tattoo Egerton, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Buckley, M.P., with Mr. W. B. Watkins. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, was present at the interview. PERU.—The nature of the intelligence from Peru which is generally known in the city, is of itself almost sufficient to show that the price of Peruvian stock is kept up by speculation rather than by any substantial ground. The army of General Vivanco, under the command of General Guarda, and composed of 3,000 men, infantry and cavalry, has been destroyed by the opposing army under Generals Castillo and Nieto, 300 men only esaping. The letters state that the Vicvnco Government cannot last, there is every appearance of anarchy, and yet the stock stills maintains a high quotation in our market. — Yesterday's Times. _ _ WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode out in a pony phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Welles ley, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taking a carriage airing, and the Princess Royal rode out on her pony. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and her illustrious Consort, at the Castle. This morning her Majesty and his Royal. Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the 'household, attended Divine service, in the private chapel within the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English Stock-market has been well maintained throughout the day, although the amount of business has not been ex tensive. Bank Stock left off 193 to 194 ; Consols for money and the account, 971 to 1; Exchequer-bills, 69s to 71s premium : India Stock, 277 to 279; Three per Cent. Reduced, 981 to ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 103 to ; New Three-and. a-Half per Cents, 104 to 1; Long Annuities, 12 9-16; and India Bond, 85 to 86 premium. In foreign securities pricss, generally speaking, were firm ; but the dealings mostly appeared to be of a speculative character. Spanish Actives closed at the ad vanced price of 238 to ; ; and the Three per Cents., 321 to id. Mexican left off 343- to ; the Deferred, 111 to 12 ; Peruvian, 31 to 32 ; Portuguese Converted, 444 to 45k; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 55 + to 4; the Five per Cents., 1018 to 1024 ; Danish, 87 to 88; Colom.. bian, 14 to 4; Chilian, 103 to 105 ; Brazilian, 784 to 798; and Belgian, 106 to 107. BANK OF ENGLAND.--In FI iday's Gazette we bad the return of the average aggregate amount of promissory notes payable to b earer on d eman d in circulation in the United Kingdom during the four weeks ending on the sth instant. Compared with the previous four weeks, ending on the 6th of January, the circulation of the Bank of Eng land h as increased from £18,964,000 to £21,828,000 being a difference of £2,864,000 ; the private bank circu lation in England and Wales has increased from £4,822,000 to £4,980,000, being a difference of £158,000 ; that of the joint-stock banks in England and Wales has increased from £3,234,000 to £3,446,000, beihg a difference of £212,000 ; that of all the banks in Scotland has decreased from £2,901,000 to £2,791,000, being a difference of £llO,OOO ; th a t o f t h e Bank of Ireland has increased from £3,489,000 to £3,581,000, being a difference of £92,000 ; that of all the other banks in Ireland has increased from £2,361,000 to £2,429,000, being a difference of £68,000 ; the total circulation of the United Kingdom has increased from £35,774,000 t o £39,056,000, being an aggregate dif ference of £3,282,000 (luring the four weeks. The bullion in possession of the Bank of England has increased from £14.638.000 to £15,480,000, being a difference of , £852,000. TH E COTTON MARKET IN AMERICA.- FOUR DAYS LA TER FROM NEW OR LEANS-BY EXPRESS.- An unusual anxiety has been excited durin2 - , the past week in our Liverpool cotton market, for toe arrival of the American mail steamer Britannia, which was expected to he the bearer of important news for or against the speculators upon a short crop of this important raw material. In the ordinary course she was due on the 13th or 14th instant, hut having been delayed by meeting with ice at the com mencement of her voyage. she did not arrive in this port until Sunday night at a late hour. The dates brought by her are from New York to the 31st ult., from Charleston to the 23d, from Phi ladelphia to the 30th, and from New Orleans and Mobile to the 13th only, the mails from the south ward having been detained, nine or ten being due from various ports at the date of the Britannia's de parture. By the kindness, however, of Messrs. Stewart and Wright, of New York, we have been favoured with information of importance, from New Orleans,four days later in date, viz., to the 17th Instant, brought by special express to New York, and, we believe, at the hour at which we go to press, the latest known in Liverpool. To enable our read ers the better to estimate the value of the impression which the . arrival of this packet has produced in the Liverpool market, we shall confine ourselves in the first instance, to that portion of the news brought by her, which is generally known. The latest dates from IV ew York inform us of th result of the arrival out of the Britannia from Liver pool, conveying news of the excitement in this port, and the advance which had taken place of id. to 2-3 d, per lb. These facts, together with a know ledge of the kind of accounts which left New York on the Ist of January, and had not arrived in Liver pool, to produce their effect upon the market, at the date of the Britannia's leaving the latter port, led to a confident belief that a further advancee must take place in the English market, and the result was on the 23d sales to the extent of 5000 bales, at -th of a cent 'urther advance on the previously high rates in New York. On the 24th 2000 were sold at these prices, and on the 25th, 1500 bales, further business being checked by increased demands on the part of holders. On the 26th, 5000 hales were sold at advancing rates, and on the 27th 3000, making a total for the week of 19,000 bales, the market clos ing firmly at prices equal to the highest point this season. Up to the 31st ultimo, at which the latest accounts left, the market was quiet and little doing. At Charleston, on the 23d, we find the market almost at a stand, and prices down 1 4 of a cent, holders unwilling to make further reductions, and preferring to wait fnrther advices from England. At• Philadelphia, on the 30th, nothing doing. At New Orleans, the market was represented as having been dull, the speculative feeling having, in a great measure, subsided. Continued heavy rains had been falling which had had the effect of facili tating the inland navigation; and western produce having arrived in large quantities, freights had in consequence advanced, -Id. per bale being demanded for cotton to Liverpool. Activity, however, had sprung up on the 13th, and a fair business was doing at a reduction, however, of fully 4- of a cent. Holders were, however, unwilling to sell largely at those rates. By the more recent advices, however, furnished us by Messrs. Stewart and Wright, and which had reached them after business hours, we have a letter on the 31st by way of Louisville, from New Orleans to the 17th instant, from which we extract the fol lowing important passage : " NEW OILEANS, 17th Jan. 1843. " Yesterday some northern buyers made their appearance in the market, influenced by good ac counts from New York ; and the transactions amounted to 500 bales at very full prices, and in some instances at a slight advance on Saturday's rates, making a total business of the past three days of 10600 bales. We have advanced our quo tations to the actual state of the market—Liverpool clasification—Mississippi and Louisiana inferior V I to 71-, ordinary 8 ton, middling 8 1 8 1 to 8-1, middling fair 9i- to 9a, fair 9f to 9i, good fair 10 to 101, good and fine 104." - Our advice adds, that after the Cambridge and the Sheffield sail from New York, both of which were full, and their day of sailing the Ist instant, there would not be a single bale of cotton in that port, on board any vessel bound for Liverpool, or a single bale in course of shipment ; and this with a stock of over 100,000 bales t The following we give as the comparative state ment of roccipto from the lot Scptcrobor, and stocks of cotton to dates : Receipts 179,858 57,324 20,000 20,601 37,495 500 2,000 28,000 33,000 342,259 172,676 53,698 106,835 148,021 4,406 6,570 6,244 491,866 147,534 52,095 156,214 194,202 4,304 5, , 00 12,693 New Orleans Jan. 10 Mobile ,, 13 Florida Georgia South Carolina „ 20 North Carolina Virginia Other ports .. • • ~ 13 New York .. -• • ~ 30 Total 840,709 1,063,928 526,8 , 3 386,778 In our own Cotton-market yesterday, as will be seen by an article upon the subject elsewhere, the reports by this arrival were not viewed as favourable to speculation, and sellers were more numerous than buyers. To that article we refer our readers ; but we may again state our doubts whether the trade generally were in receipt of so late news from the South as we have given above. REVIEW OF THE COTTON TRADE. TUESDAY, FEB. 13.—The animated demand experi enced yesterday has not been kept up to-day ; never theless a fair extent of business has been done, amount ing to 5,000 bales, chiefly in American descriptions. Speculators have 1500 bales appropriated to them. WEDNESD &Y.—The market has appeared tame and quiet to-day, notwithstanding which a fair extent of business has been done, at the full prices current yes terday. The sales reach 6,000 bales, 2,000 of which are placed to speculation account. THURSDAY.—The non-arrival of the Boston steamer of the Ist instant has induced a temporary lull in our cotton market : neither buyers nor sellers seem anxious to operate to any extent previous to the receipt of her advices, so that only 2,000 bales have been sold to-day, at full prices, entirely to the trade. FRIDAY.— Several speculators have been in the mar ket to-day, availing themselves of the quieter tone to invest previous to the arrival of the steamer, whose protracted non-appearance begins to cause a little anxi ety. The sales of the day reach 6.000 bales, 4,000 to the trade and 2,000 to speculators. The sales of the week amount to 40,510 bales, and we close our price current without the slightest change in prices, except in some descriptions of long- stapled cotton, particularly Egyptian, which are to lower than the highest point. The total amount of speculation for the week is 18,100 bales. SATURDAY.—Throughout the day the market has appeared unusually tame and quiet : consumers have been the only purchasers, and their operations are to the extent of 3,000 bales, without any change in prices. MONDAY (YESTERDAY).— The Boston steamer ar rived last night : she brings conflicting accounts : ne vertheless, it would appear that the sum-total of them is not favourable to speculation, for throughout the day the market has had a sluggish, sleepy tendency, with more civility than of late from the sellers, some of whom " play the civil," or otherwise, according to the tone of the market. Prices have had a downward tendency, and the 5,000 bales sold to-day have been bought on better terms than they could have been last week : 12 to 1500 bales of these are placed to speculation account. It is a fact worthy of notice, that the stock of cotton now in the shipping ports is 200,000 bales more than it was this time last year, so that, though tardy in its arrival, we presume it must come at last, and we Fee no legitimate reason why cotton should advance beyond present rates. For further detail we refer to our careful selection of American commercial intelligence. PRESENTATION.—We understand that the Earl of Moray, in the most handsome manner, with the harmo nious concurrence of the heritors, elders, and people, as expressed at the moderation of the call, last Thursday, has presented the Rev. Dr. Ralph, late of Liverpool, to the parish of Dalgety, just adjoining his present one. This parish, while affording a most important sphere of labour, contains the beautiful properties of the Earl of Moray, Sir Philip Durham, and Sir Robert Moubray. The church, recently erected by the Earl of Moray, is a perfect gem of Gothic architecture, and the manse and offices are the finest in the country. ANOTHER SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.—At Chester, on Wednesday last, Messrs. Nicholls and Gough, tobacco manufacturers, appeared before the maffor and magistrates to answer au information, at the instance of Mr. James Williamson, Collector of Excise, Liverpool, charging them with having, on the 13th January, used molasses in the manufacture of tobacco. There was also a count for the forfeiture of upwards of four cwt. of tobacco, which had been seized. After some slight discussion, in which the defendants said they had used molasses, they pleaded guilty generally ; and judgment was entered for the crown for one penalty of £3OO, and the forfeiture of the material seised, EXCLUSION OF NEWSPAPERS FROM THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. We have been somewhat surprised to n-ad, in the columns of the Albion of yesterday, a report of the pro ceedings of the Select Vestry at its last meeting, in which we find our respected Junior Rector Campbell stating, (with respect to the exclusion of the Liverpool Standard and the Mercury from the workhouse,) that " newspapers were prohibited by the poor-law cciumis sioners, but that the committee had ordered three copies of Chambers's Journal, three of the Penny Magazine, and c'ix of the Saturday Magazine, to be taken weekly." We are surprised at this statement of the rev. rector, acting on the occasion as chai rman o f t h e b oar d , inns much as it shews that in making this statement he has been, by some party or other, grossly misled ; for we are convinced, that he himself would be the last man to sanction, by aperversion of the order of the commission ers, such cruelty as is involved in this shutting out of the paupers in our workhouse from a knowledge of the affairs of the world and of their fellow-beings, such as is conveyed in the columns of a respectable newspaper. We beg to call the attention of the rector to the pre cise words of the order in question, by which he has been induced to give his sanction to this course. The - order in question is contained in the 26th clause of the instructions of the commissioners to the Select Vestry of Liverpool; and is thus worded: " No written or printed paper of an improper ten dency, or which may be likely to produce insubordina tion, shall be allowed to circulate, or be read aloud, among the inmates of the workhouse." The rev. rector, we know, will be among the last to say that the Liverpool Standard is such a printed paper as should not be circulated or read aloud in any commu nity. Our remarks upon passing events are certainly neither of " improper tendency," nor " likely to produce insubordination" in the workhouse. We dare say, however, that it is upon the " explana tion "of this rule by the poor-law commissioners, that it is attempted to mislead the vestry into the supposition that newspapers are prohibited altogether. What says that explanation P That " the words printed paper' comprehend any newspaper, ,handbill, book, pamphlet, &c.," obviously, only if these are of "improper t endency.'' If the "printed papers" mentioned in the explanation are not to be limited, a respectable newspaper, by the qualifying expressions in the original instruction, not only is prohibited, but so are Chambers's Journal, the Penny Magazine, and the Saturday Magazine, —SO is, in fact, THE BIBLE ITSELF! There is, however, we say it advisedly, no prohibition which can affect us any more than these "printed papers" which are readily ad mitted. The explanation is general manifestly because the limitation is contained in the instruction. May we beg of the rev. rector and the vestry to reconsider this question P As affects ourselves it is a light matter ; but surely it is a hardship upon the poor prisoner of the workhouse, that, once within its walls, the world with out should be to him for ever an unknown land, and its proceedings and the prospects it holds out for ever hidden from his vision ! LIVERPOOL ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT TRADES MEN.—On Friday last, a deputation from this body had an interview, by appointment, with his worship the Mayor. They were very courteously received ; and it is expected that some measures will a r i s e ou t of the propositions sub mitted for his worship's consideration, which will induce a more extended adoption of the rule of closing shops at seven o'clock. BOBBING ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.—Sophia Thomp son was brought before the police-court, on Friday, on a charge of stealing a Bible and two Prayer-books from the above-named church. On the application of Mr. Dowling she was remanded, there being other similar charges against her. On Saturday the prisoner was again brought up and fully committed for trial. TARLETON COURSING MEETING.—At this meeting, which came off on Wednesday and Thursday last, the Tarleton Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Brandwood's d. Ajax ; Mr. Brandwood's d. Jebb ran up. The Bank Hall Cup was won by Mr. Eden's d. Eau-de-vie ; Mr. Taylor's b. Salute ran up. The Radcliffe Hall Cup was won by Mr. Graham's b. Screw ; Mr. Eden's d. Eros ran up. The Bremerton Puppy Stake was won by Mr. Craven's b. Castlewellan ; Mr. Simpson's b. Madeira ran up. The Craven Stake was won by Mr. King's d. Vanish ; Mr. Rodgett's d. Claret ran up. SPLENDID PAINTING BY ETTY.—We yesterday viewed, by invitation, a painting of this now celebrated artist. The name of Etty must be familiar to all acquainted with the art : and this is allowed to be, in every point, his mas terpiece. It is a " Sleeping nymph," and were it not so denominated, some might be attempting to address her, so near is the resemblance to life. The colouring is al lowed by the best judges to surpass even Titian, while the drawing, particulariy the foreshortening, is worthy a Raphael. In the colouring there is true purity, and every limb as it were stands from the canvas, and this, too, without the aid of those life-destroyers, shades, generally used to produce effect. The back ground is equally rich ; and we would recommend all connoisieurs to lose no time in viewing, which they may do on application, one of Etty's best works. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—WiIIiam Sturgeon, Esq., will deliver his first lecture on electricity this evening, and certainly we never saw a moreattractive syllabus than he has put forth. The experiments will be numerous. and the apparatus by which they will be made first rate. These will be succeeded by a course on church music, by Dr. Wesley, for which the Philharmonic Society have been for some time actively employed in getting up the vocai illustrations. These lectures are anxiously looked forward to by every lover of music in the town, and, from the high character of the parties engaged in it, we are confident that the most sanguine anticipations of their excellence will be realised. The merits of Professor Rymer Jones and his beautiful diagrams are too well known and apprecistrA to require us to do more than to say that they will follow. We perccivc that the cele brated poet, James Montgomery, Esq., of Sheffield, author of " The World before the Flood," has consented to deliver, at this institution. the course of lectures on poetry which created such a great sensation at the Royal Institution, London, and in several other places. The subject and the man will fill the lecture-hall during their delivery. Our facetious friend, Mr. Roby, has also pro mised to come forward in the autumn with his highly-in teresting course on botanical physiology, illustrated by upwards of 300 diagrams, to be exhibited with the oxy hydrogen microscope. Judging from the exceeding popu larity of his lectures on botany, introductory to the pre sent course, we should anticipate a good fate for this. Professor Calvart completes the list of the announcements at present made by the dirertors. This gentleman's oratorical powers never fail to fill the lecture-hall where ever he goes, any eulogium of ours, therefore, on his merits, is needless. With such a brilliant series of courses in prospect, the directors of this institution will not only deserve but command success. ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.-011 Sunday last the Lord Bishop of this diocese preached two sermons, one in the morning and the other in the evening, at St. Andrew's chinch, Renshaw-street, in aid of the schools attached to the church. His morning's text was from the 19th chapter of Proverbs and 2d verse : " That the soul be without knowledge it is not good." In the evening his text was from the 6th chapter of Galatians and 15th verse : " For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avail eth anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." The collection in the morning amounted to the sum of £95, and that in the evening to £42. It was announced during the morning service that the bishop would ex amine and address the children attending the schools, in the afternoon, when a large and respectable congrega tion were assembled and witnessed an extremely inter esting and gratifying ceremony, the bishop, prior to the examination and address, reading the prayers of the church. In the evening his lordship was pleased to speak of the children's acquirements in terms likely to be peculiarly encouraging both to them and their teachers. Indeed we knew not which most to admire, the simplicity and fervour of the bishop's remarks to the children, or the readiness with which they answered his queries, and the facility with which they produced Scripture quotations to illustrate the various subjects upon which he questioned them. He took the 9th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, beginning at the 18th verse, a n d s h owe d f rom i t the power of faith. He described the two sorts of life in man—the life of the body and the life of the soul, and explained that while the natural life was the gift of God, the spiritual life was the peculiar province of the incarnate Redeemer through the operation of the Holy Spirit. The illness of the human soul is general ; and all men naturally go astray like lost sheep. He described in a most simple and beautiful manner the office of Christ, not only as the Physician to whom all must go for cure from the universal malady of sin, but as the Shepherd who knows and takes care of his flock, and especially of the lambs, who are ex by hailing him as the son of David ; and he then t p l o ie se h d li t n o d m m an e y n d „, a , n h g e er fo s l a ie n w d e t d em tb p e tat s io av n i s e . ur H w e e s r h e o f w e e lfi d l t li h n a g t prophecy led the children to prove the divinity of Christ by the miracles which he performed. He glanced at the value of the Scriptures, and showed the children that the only true wisdom that would avail at the last is to be found in that book which he exhorted them to value and study ; by great multitudes who profess much 00 was a n h d and that the only safeguard of youth andma and told them that many things are wro i n inasmuch as close adherence to the precepts of the Bib l e, the opinions the word of God was to be believed before world calls wise Bible, but our only se curityadvocate opinions contrary to the G d' word, because • •to adhere to o s wisdom, and in temptation is be judd, not according at the last all mankind are to immutable wordof • of man, but by the to the opinions then proceeded to show, by of a multitude. We find many whom the He . God•wrong worldly which the life and labours of God, and his exceeding love for heart-searching of Christ upon the earth, his desire to extend the Kingdom the lambs of his flock. He illustrated the compassion an d d by a striking but simple anecdote, an d t h e children how, as the shepherd i nc l oses care of a shepher d showed to the sheep in a fold , feeds them, and watc hes over them, and has a peculiar knowledge of each, so does th e S av i our watc h over p i n ignorance, them t e fehw and se the an d preserve all who come to hi m i n f a i th. He He exhorted war ned the children against evil companions when th ey wen t out as apprentices , and spoke with much f ee li ng o f the number of those in this large town who h ave none to care n foruetnhteimy in vice. 'butwho are H brought l ea ding of the Spirit of God, which w ou ld enable them to surmo unt temptation, and would bri ng t h em to the waters of life everlasting; and he conclud e d an affectionate and t o uching address by a ferv en t prayer for all the young of Christ's flock in every pl ace . W e hope that this valuable and laborious prelate may be l ong spared to the Church of which he is so bright an ornament. consequently Feb. 20, 1844. WEST INDIES. --- - The West India mail brings dates from Jamaica t° the 9th ult., D emerara to t h e 7th, Barbadoes to the rt,ule and Trinidad th e 3d. Th e papers so received give th e least possibl e news o f i nterest. With respec t to he state of the crops, they are generally alluded to a s P re senting a promisi ng appearance, though in some o' , the districts compl a i nts are st ill made of the wan t of rain trial and the conti nue d d ry weather. At Barbadoes t he of Mr. Thomas for the robbery at the Colonial Bank, l2 that Island h a d b een d e l ayed for the presence of male' rial witnesses. In all the islands the Christmas heir' days had passed over quietly, and the cOnduct of the negro population on this occasion is alluded to as o ° lll.. pletely satisfactory. Some statistics in these papers give the produce of Trinidad and St. Lucia up to this Year. The sugar cicig• ported last ye ar f rom T r i n i dad amounted to 2'1,615 h 1,327 tierces and 4,836 barrels, against 19,176 hilt ' s ' 1,401 tierces and 3 ,7B3.barrels in 1342. The coffee 0 " ported was 124,5831 b. aga i nst 393,3631 b in 1842. t7e exports ofsugar f rom S t. L uc i a last year was 5,095, 19 u against 6,405,3651 b. i n 13 42. Co ' ee showed a gre,2l'74i decline, the expo r t s l as t year b e i ng only 26,7951 b. again -144,4411b. in 1842. 1 A St. Thomas paper of the 10th ult, contradicts theof report which had been circulated that the ravage s t the small p ox h a d preva il e d to a fearful extent. l i paper st a t es th a t t h e disease was gradually on t; decrease, and was expected very soon to disapPe7 altogether, and that th e report h a d b een cricu l a t e d i certain speculators for the promotion of their plans o f combinations. The dise ase i s state d to b ave been la I 0 progress generally wild and the result favourable. 164,447 89,257 28,000 30,497 60,052 300 1,250 58,000 95,000 LATEST FROM SPAIN. Accounts have been received from Madrid to the l itti f instant. Two battalions of the National Guard °. Seville resi s t e d th e or d er f or t h e i r d i sarmament, an d ths' great excitement and disorder prevailed there. Further accounts had reached Madrid from the pm' vince of Mercia, stating that Bonet, who had not bees, engaged, as e roneous l y state d , at Elda on the st h had on th e f o ll ow i ng d ay recaptured the artillery 0111` prisoners captured by General Pardo from the insurgent4' Additional arrests had taken place, but the Count d° Las . Nevas and several officers of the National Guar d j against whom warrant s h a d b een issued, had escaP' " the search of the police. A few Senators and about 70 deputies of the forme r majority had signed and presented an address to the Queen, in which they expressed their unalterable dev o ; tion to the throne. They had likewise voted an ad' dress to the Queen-mother, and deputed Messrs. Carr!' quiri and Vilches to compliment her Majesty in their name on her arrival in Spain. The proceedings in th e , case of Mess rs . M a d oz, C ort i na, an d others, were 00 ' yet terminat e d. Th e pr i soners were still in solitary 000 ' finement. The Political Chief of Murcia had written to th e Minister of the Interior, that the insurgents of Cartl l2l. gena had retired f rom M urc i a, carrying off all the pu blic monies, together with l arge sums exacted from the wealthy inhabitants of the place. The Queen's troops reoccupied it on the Bth ; General Jose de la Concha at rived there on the same day. WALLASEY DocKs.—The Wallasey Dock Bill 1 05 passed the standing orders. THE CHASE.—The Cheshire fox-hounds will meet ou Monday, the 19th, at Beeston Castle ; Tuesday, the 20th, at Tatton Park ; Thursday, the 22d, at Hankelow ; Fri; day, the 23d, a t H ur l es t on ; an d S aturday, the 2 4 t h, Broadfield Green, at half-past ten o'clock. GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL.—We understand that. it has been determined t o h o ld a gran d f ancy dress ballirl the splendid suite of rooms at the Town-hall, in about month from the present date, f or the benefit of the publ ic charities. The arrangements will be on the most exten sive and magnificent scale. SALUBRITY OF TH E M ERSEY DISTRICT.—III the l ath quarterly returns of the registry in the rural districi;i bordering upon the M ersey , t h e d eat h s are i n gen e; much below the usual average. In the township of Hal e ' r' containing, by the late census , a popu l at i on of 645 P e sons, not one death o ccurs i n t h e reg i ster between AP"" 26, 1843, and January 30, 1844, a period of more th nine months. FLATTERING TESTIMONY ITO THE CREWS OF T e t MAGAZINES AND THE L IVERPOOL L IFE- BoATS.---4 following letter, a dd resse d to t h e cha i rman and mem bers of the Dock Committee, in relation to the services of tbe Ls s e boats on a recent o ccas i on . was rea d at t h e meet i ng o f t" Dock Committee on Thursday last:—" The Marine Sti r : veyor reports that on the morning of the 11th instant If Magazines and Liverpool lif e -b oa t s procee d e d (i n tom the Mona and Victoria steam-tugs) to the assistance e' the ship Franconia, ash ore on G rea t B ur b o B an k, nee' .!! the Formby light. ship, and succee d e d i n t rans f err ing the passengers, amounting to 158 p ersons , t o t h e Me° i ' Victoria, and Hero steam-tu gs , w ith ou t any ac cidee although the sea appears to have bee n h eavy a t the tiro s ' The Magazines life-boat having arrived first on the st_i bad made two or three t r ip s p rev i ous l y t o t h e arr ival; the Liverpool boat. The master states that he ha4 j d many as forty-four persons in the boat at one time, betw menwr,•• crs - cww — cre - wle•ref mcmcnr prornytitauc 4.1 - tions of the life-bo a t crews on this occasion appear to WO'„ been extremely praiseworthy." (Sisiied,) D. Luap. THE RATTLER AND PROMETHEUS S T EAMERSI I From want of sp ace i n our l ast num b er we briefly alluded to the recent trial of speed on the Thames between H. I" formersteamers vessel Rattler had and e aPtreonm theeth eof nearly half a knot per hour, their relative speed hely( 8.757 and 9.240 knots per hour. It will be recollects that the Rattler has been fitted with the screw expressly for the purpose of comparing its powers with those of the the paddle wheel, but as this could not be fairly tested u' t two ships of different form and capacity, the gorerntne ll , caused her to be built upon the same model as the third class war steamers, (of which Prometheus is one,) and t ° latterus merely o ae stating ttihn the rate that rate the have the same amount of engine power, draught of water' &c. &c. The r esu lt o f th e l ate trial has, we understan d ' given great sa ti s f act i on at the Admiralty, and fully bear! out the favour a bl e op i n i on we expressed of the merits 01 the screw propeller when our port was first visited by t he Archimedes nearly four years since. We are glad to se e , that this i m p ortant su bj ect has at last been taken up w ith a degree of spirit becoming of the present administratio n at the head of our nasal affairs, by whom a series o f ex periments have been ordered to be made upon the Rattler , with various modifications of the screw propeller, so as t° ascertain the best possible form prior to its general intro' duction into H. M. navy. These experiments have been confided to the care of Mr. Brunel, projector of the Gres' Britain, of Bristol, Mr. F. P. Smith, patentee of the s ere ( propeller, and the officers of Woolwich dockyard. Tbi S is doi ng thi ngs as they should be done, and we hope e re long to see th e uns i g h t l y, cum b ersome and dangerous pad die boxe s e n ti re l y di spense d w i t h , an d su b st i tute d by t he use of the s crew prope ll er . THEATRE,-ROYAL.—During M AT Madame Celeste, e . — ste D: h u a i s ng ad th d e ed pa t s o t week a t t h tr e ac ta ti l o en n t ei d lessee, the performances at this theatre her own beautiful actil in " St. M ary ' s E re ," an d " Th e P retty Gi r l s of Stet' berg." The new co m i c p an t om i me "Th e M err i e Det of Edmont on , or G rea t B e d o f W are ," go t. up f or the purpose of displaying the amusing feats of the Boleno F a x mily, has concluded each evening's entertainments, se t been very favourably received. It is got up with gree, splendour, and som e o f th e t r i c k s an d me t amorp h ose s all admirably managed. O n W e d nes d a y even i ng th e farce the " Rendezvous" was introduced as the interlude, I which the acting of Mr. Compton convulsed the house,ly with laughter. This actor in the line of characters which he take ffi s tt , almost e s o:i twuci hnsocwehaisci oh unapproachable- nocmeurr. iwn tehb H es i t, s e,rß f a re c en e pdee a az l t o ve n od e it , : :, :or was a comedy of itself. On Friday Madame Celeste too,' a som be e n o e excellent delineations of Napoleon. The house was crowded and fashionable one, the novelties of the even ing being a scenic drama, e bt it l e d " A Christmas Cart; or Past, Present, and Future," founded upon the recent" published " Carol" of Charles Dickens. The piece is er cellently got up throughout—both scenery, machineT and characters— an d th e t a bl eaux presente d are vr, striking. The dinner a t B o b C ra t c hit' s (C ra t c hit, Compton) was famous. " Never was such a g oose , i„ Mr. Ross, as Master Pet er C ra t c hit, was a mos t o dd 6 0 and irresistibly droll. 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