The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

Cbt 7Liberpool TUESDAY MORAING, JUNE 4, 1844. We abstained last week from replying to certain remarks of the Manchester Guardian, because we did not wish, by the expression of any opinions of GUM at such a 'crisis, to give encouragement to the apathy which we saw existing amongst the Conser vative party in this town and district. Nor perhaps should we have been at the trouble of addressing ourselves to our contemporary now, were it not that, whilst vindicating the tone of the article commented upon by him, we shall be afforded an opportunity of throwing a light upon some features of the recent contest for the representation of the division which, unexplained, are calculated to lead to very erroneous conclusions as to the existing strength of genuine Conservatism in our locality. At the risk of being tedious, we give at length that portion of the Guardian's article which refers to ourselves. "THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE CAUSE."—If any county elector in South Lancashire, who calls himself a conservative, should have begun 'to feel rather doubtful as to what con-ervatism truly means, we would not recom mend him to institute a very strict comparison between the speeches of Mr. Entwisle, whom he is called upon to support, and the remarks of the Liverpool Standard in reference to the present contest, or he will be pretty sure to feel much more bewildered than ever. On consulting the latter authority, he will find the present administration described as " a ministry which worships expediency, whilst it plays fast and loose with promises and pledges ;" and, as for the premier, he is denounced as having, by the eourse he has taken on the Factory Bill and other ques tions, done his best to convince his supporters, that "there is no principle connected with his government for which it is worth the while of conservatism to contend." Such, then, being the present state of things, an honest conservative would naturally expect to find the Standard urging upon the electors of South Lancashire to throw base expediency to the winds, and rally round a candi date who would not pin his faith to the sleeve of the prime minister ; who would not give his unqualified support to " a ministry which plays fast and loose with pledges ;" and, above all things, who would most distinctly pledge himself to support Lord Ashley, and oppose ministers, on "that great conservative question of humanity—the Ten tours' Factory Bll,"—even at the risk of turtling a faith less and pledge-breaking ministry out of office. Alas for the inconsistency of " poor human nature," as Judge klaliburton says ! After all its grand flourish about prin ciple, and its horror of expediency-worship, the Standard feels itself constrained to follow the very same course as that which has been pursued by the ministers whom it denounces. Instead of calling upon the electors to sup port a candidate of decided political principles, it urges them to " throw aside their present apathy, bury their Present jealousies," and rally round Mr. William En twisle, who claims their support chiefly on the ground of his unqualified admiration of Sir Robert Peel's abilities as a statesman ; arid who expressly declares, that, were he returned to parliament, he would support ministers in their opposition to Lord Ashley's agitation for a diminu tion of the hours of labour in factories. 'What, then, are the principles involved in that "great conservative cause" of which we read so much in minis terial prints, and for which the electors of South Lan cashire are called upon to exert themselves so energetically en Monday and Tuesday next ? We have seen that the Liverpool Standard can furnish no intelligible answer to these questions ; but it may be said to be unworthy o f much notice as an organ of toryism. This is scarcely a fair statement—indeed it is a very unfair one —of the position taken by us in the article in question ; but we are perfectly willing to give the Guardian al the advantage of his jesuitry. Grant that we described the ministry of Sir Robert Peel as " a ministry which worships expediency whilst it plays fast and loose with promises and pledges;" that we have represented Sir Robert Peel as having done his best to convince his supporters that " there is no principle connected with his go vernment for which it is worth the while of Con servatism to contend ;" does it follow that we ought to have called upon the Conservatives of South Lancashire to damage the cause of Conservatism itself, and those institutions and principles involved in it, by a refusal to support the candidate offered to their choice, even although he chose to " pin his faith on the sleeve of the prime minister"? Would there be any " consistency" in recommending a course which could only have had the result of giv ing victory to a party diametrically opposed to all those institutions and principles which, as Conser vatives, we revere and trust to maintain, whilst by an opposite course would be secured the election of a gentleman, who, although not altogether to our taste, is still the faithful supporter of many, and some of these the most important, of those institu tutions and principles? Surely there would not. Surely the Guardian entertains a better opinion of our judgment than to expect from us the advocacy of a policy so suicidal. We expressed, with sorrow, our conviction that recent measures of the ministry had produced great apathy amongst the Conservative electors of this district. We warned them that the conse quence of persisting in such measures would be de trimental to them as a ministry—would lead to a permanent alienation of many of their once ardent supporters. The result of the contest has shewn that we were right in the opinions which we ex pressed. It is not the exertions of the Anti-Corn law League which have reduced the apparent strength of Conservatism in South Lancashire. On the contrary, the insolence of that League has increased the genuine Conservative feeling of the county, of which the number of votes recorded on the poll on Monday and Tuesday last is not a faithful index. It is the disappointment felt by so many sound and loyal men with the trimming policy of Sir Robert Peel's government, which most materially tended to weaken our position in this contest; and we urged upon the Conservative electors to waive the expres sion of that disappointment, and rally to the side of the Conservative candidate, not for Sir Robert Peel's sake—not for the ministry's sake—but for Their country's sake. We felt confident that a de feat of Conservatism in South Lancashire—and a seriously diminished majority is such a defeat—would be turned, by an expediency -worshipping minister, to the serious detriment of Conservatism ;—would, in fact, be the ready plea put forward for further concessions, and further trimming; whilst a deci sive victory would have shewn to such a minister, that the time had not yet arrived when it was neces sary to bolster himself in power by such concessions. It may be said by the Guardian, however, and will no doubt be said by some of those Conserva tives, by whose apathy the Whig-Radical party has been reduced by one-half, that by returning Mr. Entwisle, an avowed admirer of Sir Robert Peel's measures, by a larger majority, we in effect declare our unabated satisfaction with his government, whilst, on the other hand, by keeping back from the poll, we spew Sir Robert the necessity of retrac ing his steps and consulting more the Conservative feeling of the country, We acmit the perfect rea sonableness of the argument were it an ordinary case and an ordinary character with whom we bad to deal. But we are not in such a case, and we have not to do with such a man. It was not the general policy of Sir Robert Peel's government which was sought to be attacked or defended, so much as the question of a rash and headlong adop tion of what is styled free-trade measures. Thus we might have intimated, by a reduced majority and a hesitating support, our diminished confidence in the, present ministry; but we should at the same time have declared our diminished dislike of Whig- Radical and destructive measures. All England, which was regarding this contest,would have pointed to us and exclaimed, " See—the commercial and manufacturing county of Lancashire has submitted to the dictation of the League ; and even Conserva tive Liverpool itself has consented to receive her convictions at the hands of its hireling seditionists This is already being loudly boasted ; and instead of the diminished strength of Conservatism in South Lancashire being likely to operate as a warning to Sir Robert Peel to abstain from encroachments upon the Church of the land, and violations of the Pro testant feelings of its people, it may too soon, we fear, be seized upon by him as a justification of that utilitarian and anti-national policy, towards which lie is already fast progressing. Our attention has been directed to a petition, now i in course of signature in this town, in behalf of the ill h " Dissenters' Chap e l s which certainly does appear to us to be one of the most A ost impudent docu ments we ever met with. reciting briefly the n ature of the bill in question, and s the fact of its precious honesty now being before the legislature, t pro duction of Socinian cunning and di s pro ceeds to declare — we give the precise wording_ "That your petitioners, though not themselves holding the opinions proposed by Unitarians, do not desire to see them punished by civil forfeitures, but regard them as en titled to the full benefit of those wise laws by which the once stringent conditions of toleration have been relaxed, and the liberty of worship from time to time enlarged." So, in the opinion of the very wise people who are to be got to sign this petition, the present non recognition, by the law, of the right of one class of religionists to usurp the possession of property held in trust for another class—the non-recognition of robbery—lns the effect of punishing the usurped "by civil forfeitures !" But another clause is even richer than this; for we find it stated— " That the attempt, on the part of one denomination, to wrest from the members of another, on the ground of doctrinal belief, the chapels in which they have always worshipped, the schools in which they have charitably laboured, and the burial-grounds which contain their most interesting family memorials, cannot but engender la mentable animosities, and bring a reproach on the religion of peace and love; whilst by making the courts of equity judges of religious truth and error, the course of justice is embarrassed with questions beyond its natural province, and, in relation to a class of unoffending subjects of the realm, the law is turned, in effect, from an instrument of protection into a weapon of persecution." The law, then, which this bill is to change, wrests from Unitarians, on the ground of doctrinal belief, "the chapels in which they have always wor shipped." This, we are assured, notwithstanding the notorious fact that that law only so operates upon them on its being satisfactorily proved that in those chapels they have not always worshipped !" Again it is ground of complaint that it takes from them " the schools in which they have charitably laboured," in direct and proved perversion of the interests of their pious founders; it takes from them " the burial grounds which contain their most interesting family memorials," whilst it restor es those burial-grounds to the descendants and con scientious followers of the faith of those who first slept within their hallowed precincts; and finally, notwithstanding these plaintive appeals in behalf of the sanctity of the " most interesting family memo rials" of these petitioners, a new measure is prayed for, which would enable them to wrest possession of the graves of others as soon as ever they are able to prove a twenty years' usurpation ;—which in fact provides that the son or daughter who may to-day inter, in the burial-ground of the chapel in which he has worshipped, a beloved parent, may twenty years' hence, when he had hoped to be laid in the same grave, be called upon to resign that hope unless he is content to be buried in accordance with the forms and service of a faith which he pro tests against and detests ! This - is impudence enough; but not so thought the concoctors of the petition. Distinctively ema nating as it does from a Socinian source, the Bri tish parliament is actually to be told that it is " the humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Liverpool and the neighbourhood, MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH (!) and of others." It has been remarked that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is the only organ which has resolutely stood forward to protect the local interests of this port from the injury with which they are menaced by the bill now before Parliament, for forming Docks in Wallasey Pool ; and, before proceeding to offer a few more observations upon the subject of that bill, and the projects which it is intended to carry out, we owe to the public, and still more to ourselves, some little explanatinn, with respect to the motives which have actuated us in assuming our present position. We have no objection to the utmost possible extension of the prosperity of our neighbours of the rising town of Birkenhead. We have no fear of any rational dock scheme, at Wal lasey or any other point upon the Cheshire shore, being injurious to the trade of Liverpool or her own docks. But we have contended and must con tend, that such scheme can he carried out to as great an extent as is desirable for the interests of Birkenhead itself without injury to the port of Li verpool; and that in looking at this or any other measure projected by our neighbours, the safety and unobstructed navigation of the river, upon which depends the prosperity of Birkenhead as well as Liverpool, should be the one absorbing object of solicitude. In this spirit we have throughout treated the questions involved in the measure now before Parliament; and regardless of being mis understood, we must continue so to treat them. We have certainly heard—who has not ?—strange rumours of the doings of juntas of great men here, and coteries of small men there, which if not calculated to startle disinterested observers like our selves, were at least sufficient to tell them that, in justice to the public at large, and the public of Bir kenhead in particular, such doing s should be care fully and cautiously watched. We have done so; we have performed perhaps an unpopular duty— we trust faithfully, not more for the sake of the in terests of Liverpool, but of those of the people of Birkenhead as well;' and we must continue our watchfulness, notwithstanding the rebukes of thin skinned friends, or the bitterness of those who feel that we are an obstruction in their way. Having said thus much to prevent our motives being misunderstood, we proceed to supply some omissions in our last remarks upon the Wallasey Dock project. Assuming the evidence of seven or eight eminent engineers to be correct, we showed that positive injury to the navigation of the river would result from the abstraction of seven million tuns of its tidal waters "at one fell swoop ;" and common sense tells us that such must be the case, It has been asserted, however, that the pool is too near the mouth of the river to allow any injury to the scour to result from its being closed. We might admit that there is something in this argu ment if we could be assured that the water, which now flows into it, would go up above the neck of the river, in addition to the quantity which is at pre sent held there ; and thus leave the same force to operate upon the channels and banks outside. But we are far from being satisfied that this would be the case ; whilst the evidence is overpoweringly strong that as at present held, the water in Wallasey-pool does materially operate upon those channels and banks. In answer to the question " Do you agree with Mr. Rendel that two-thirds of the water from Wallasey Pool is of little valne as a scour ?" Mr. Page replies—" No, I do not ; I cannot imagine that any abstraction of tidal water from Wallasey, or any other part of the Mersey, so far as the tide flows, but particularly these portions, and in that locality, will not injure the sea chan nels." In corroboration of this opinion we might quote Messrs. Rennie, Vignoles, Giles, Mylne, Walker, Probis, Colthurst, and Fletcher, together with Mr. Jervis, Professor of Mathematical and Natural Phi losophy in the College of Civil Engineers ; and with such authorities in favour of our opinion, we are certainly not much in danger of its refutation. In addition, however, we may state that, so strongly impressed was government with the importance of preserving the tidal waters as a scour, some years ago a bill was brought into Parliament by the Admiralty itself, for the special protection of all the government harbours from any tampering with those waters ; and at this moment we believ e it s provisi o ns are most rigidly enforced, and no jetties are allowed , to be constructed, or abstractions of any kind per mitted, without the fullest enquiry being instituted as to their probable effects. Pray what enquiry has been instituted into the effect of the proposed Walla sey Dock upon our own noble river—a river destined at some future and not distant day to be the chosen highway to the whole western world ? There has been no enquiry, no evidence, worthy of the name ; and we submit, with great deference to the Lords of the Admiralty, that where such vast inferests are at stake, it is their bounden duty to institute a most searching enquiry, at once, and especially before they permit the merits of the present plans to be affirmed by a deliberate vote of the House of Commons. At all events, those members of the House of Com mons who may be induced to support the third read ing of the bill to-morrow night, under the impres sion that it has received, in its details, the full ap proval of the Admiralty, should be undeceived, both with respect to the fact itself of such approval being given, which is roundly boasted, but of which never theless we are very sceptical, and also with respect to the question whether the Admiralty has ever yet had an opportunity of arriving at a well grounded conclusion. Before such a bill is permitted to . pass the House of Commons, let the plans be submitted to a Committee of Enquiry on national grounds— for national interests are involved in its successful or injurious operation ;—and not be permitted to be decided upon by private individuals only, who may be warped by considerations of a private and even personal character, and who have never looked at it in the broad light, in which alone a scheme soim portant in its tendencies ought to be viewed. Let the most eminent engineers be called npon to ex amine and report, instead of trusting altogether to naval men who, however eminent in their own noble profession in all its details, may not have the know ledge or the habit s mos t requ i re d f or t h e sa tisfactory prosecution of su c h an enquiry as is here necessary. To revert, however, to practical matters. In our former remarks we o m i tte d to not i ce one o f t h e pro minent features in the proposed scouring of the great tidal basin, which is intended to cause so vio lent an agitation of the waters as to keep the silt in a THE LIVERPOOL SUANDARD. state of suspension, and thus prevent any deposit taking pl ice. Was ever any thing so absurd pro pounded to the public ? Violent agitation of the waters in a tidal basin, where vessels are to load and unload, with a great lift and fall of tide! A pretty place would such a basin be for a vessel to find herself in, without her stiffening ! There would be nothing left for her but a capsize. Before the Wallasey Bill should pass into a law, we insist that there should be a clause binding the projectors to carry out the proposed works, and give guarantees to the amount of the estimates; such a clause is necessary, if only to protect those who are unable to protect themselves, and who risk their property in the undertaking, lured by the splendid prospects held out to them by its pro moters. The safety of the navigation also demands some protection of this nature. The plans have already undergone several altera tions, and we have reason to believe will undergo more. In the published plans the sea wall was to be in a straight line ; in the amended plan it slants inward about 450 feet from the ten acre open basin to the entrance of the south side of the great tidal basin. The sluicing—yes, the sluicing—doubts have arisen as to its efficacy to scour and cleanse the basin—but this, it is said; is of little moment. If it fail, they can drudge—but then the cost of drudging will be a pretty little item ;—at the most moderate computation, based on the annual deposit in the Liverpool docks, it will cost, at the low esti mate of 10d. per cubic yard, about £13,000 a-year. If docks are to be made in Wallasey Pool, let them be so formed as not to obstruct the flux and the influx of the tide, and not endanger the navi gation of the river and safety of the Liverpool docks ; further inquiry into the scheme, we say, is necessary, and the very apprehension of danger is a sufficient ground for the matter being delayed until it has obtained at least the sanction .of an amount of engineering talent, equal to that which has been found recorded against it. We conclude, therefore, by calling upon our townsmen to protect their river from so dangerous an innovation, to protect their docks, trade, and the general interests of the good old town. THE FUNDS—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English se curities have been good to day,: at a slight advance, but not much businesss was transacted, because of the early closing of the market. Consols for money left off 921 to 1, anal for the account 991 to / ; Bank Stock, 199 to 200; Three per Cents. Reduced, 981 to 8; Three-and-a- Half per Cents. Reduced, 101/ to 202; New Three-and a-Half per Cents., 102/ to 103 ; Long Annuities, 12 7-16 ; India Stock, 288 to 490 ; and Exchequer bills, 70 to 72 premium. In the foreign market there was no alteration of importance, but prices exhibited rather more ffrmness. Spanish Five per Cents. were last quoted 234- to I ; and the Th ree per Cents., 341 to / ; Portuguese, 451 to 461 ; Per uv i an . 27 t o 28 ; M ex i can , 351 to ; the Deferred. 158 to I ; Dutch Two-and a- H alf per Cents., 611 to 1; the Five per Cents. 1001 to ; Danish, 88 to 89 ; Col om bi an , 131 t o / ; Chilian, 102 to 104 • Buenos Ayres, 33 to 35 ; B ra zili an , 801 t o 811 ; and Belgian, 103 to 104. ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS AT BIRKENHEAD.— We have already announced that the election of nine commissioners for the township of Birkenhead was fixed for to-day. The poll will be opened at 10 o'clock this morning, and will close at four in the afternoon. The seven following commissioners, who retire in the usual rotation, have been nominated for reelection—namely, Messrs. J. D. Case, J. S. Jackson, W. Jackson, W. Laird, S. Stansfield, D. Appleton, and R. Fry. Mr. Marcus Brownrigg, merchant, of Hamilton-square, has been nominated in the steal of Mr. Frederick Berner, for two years ; and Mr. John Sudlow, accountant, of Claughton, in the stead of Mr. Peter Howard, for one year. We believe there will be no opposition to the elec tion of any of these gentlemen, except to Mr. Stansfield, against whom Mr. Edward G. Willoughby, hotel-keeper, of Birkenhead, has been started as a candidate. The con test will, therefore, lie between these two gentlemen only. Yesterday aftenaonn, a small handbill was issued in the shape of an electioneering squib, and es cited much laughter and merriment amongst the quidnuncs of the opposite shore. It was addressed to the ratepayers of the town ship, and read as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen, — At a meeting of some of the principal ratepayers of Birkenhead, the undermentioned gentlemen were nomi nated as fit and proper persons to be commissioners, being men of weight and substance, who are much wanted to look after our interests, both in and out of. Parliament." The following are the names of the persons said to have been nominated at the meeting in question :—Mr. Arnold S. Waters, painter, of Chester-street ; Mr. William Craven, contractor, of Craven-street Mr. Charles Smith, innkeeper, of Woodside; Mr. William Hilton, butcher, of Market-street; Mr. William Briscoe, inn keeper, of Birkenhead ' • Mr. Allan E. Fowler, bookkeeper, of Somerville-street ; Mr. Thomas Evans, pawnbroker, of Lower Ivy-street; Mr. John Watson, blacksmith, of Birkenhead; and Mr. John Monk, gentleman, of Hamil ton-square. DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.--LORD BROUGHAM'S BILL.—The bill introduced by Lord Brougham, which has been read a second time, contains only tburteen sec tions. It is entitled "An act for facilitating arrange ments between debtors and creditors." The preamble declares that "it is expedient that trust deeds, and other amicable modes of arrangement between debtors and their creditors, should he facilitated, and that better means should be provided for carrying the same into effect." After the passing of the act, it shall be lawful for any debtor, who is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors, such debtor not being a trader, with the con currence of one-third in number, and value of his credi tors, who shall sig n a petition, to petition the chief judge of the Court of Bankruptcy, setting forth all his debts, property, &c., and praying to be protected from imprison ment, and he shall make a proposal to pay:the creditors, to which one-third shall consent. A commissioner is to examine in private the mode of contracting the debts, and then to appoint a second meeting, at which an official as signee may preside, and the resolutions to be adopted be reported to the commissioner. The first meeting to be called by notice, and at the second a certain number of creditors must agree to atcept the arrangement proposed ; the resolution or agreement of such meeting not to be valid, unless one third in number and value of all the creditors were present, either in person or by an autho rised agent. The resolution is to be confirmed and a tem porary protection afforded. The property is to vest in a trustee without any deed, as fully as if such trustee were an assignee in bankruptcy. Examinations may take place if it be suspected that a full disclosure has not been made. Trustees to be freed on performance of their duties, and a " certificate" to be granted to the petitioning debtor, which shall have the same effect as a certificate of con formity in bankruptcy. The Court of Bankruptcy is to make rules and regulations to carry the act into operation. This measure will it is to be hoped, soon or late, become part and parcel of our laws ; if considered before the com mittee at the same time as Lord Cot ten ham's Bill, it will be a most useful addition to that enlightened n:•easure, as the two bills would render the law of debtor and creditor all that common humanity and the trading interest re quire. ORTHOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES BY THE ANTI-MO NOPOLY A SSOCIATION.—From the most authentic sources we are enabled to assure our readers that the views of this tremendous body are not at all confined to the repeal of protective duties. On the contrary, having settled our tariff upon a grand and comprehensive scale, they propose to effect a thorough reform in the laws of orthography, grammar, punctuation, &c. which areat presentoppressively and needlessly restrictive. Why, for instance, should a man be compelled to expend six letters in the spelling of a word, when he can do it with five ?—or why should he be compelled to express an idea in ten words when it can be as forcibly expressed in half the number ? We give here two specimens of the new style of orthography. The first is addressed to ourselves, and teaches us how to spell the name of our own paper : No. 2. ' Committee Room, Eastwood's Royal Hotel, 73 May, 1844 The Editors of the Standart. Please to insert the Advertisemts. for Committee Meetg. Public Meetg. & Address accompanying, and charge the same to ;the Committee for conducting the Election of WlLLtam BROWN, Esq. EDWARD BERRY. A Bill must be sent on executing the order. Here, it will be observed, there is a direct saving of a letter o, hitherto foolishly used in forming the concluding d, when a simple t will do as well. The second we will give verbatim et literatim : " Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, dearness,and uncertainty." Anti-Monopoly Association, 7, Water-street, Liverpool, 22 May, 1844. MY DEAR SIR The bearer will reside in St. Helens until: after the Election. Yrs truly C E RAWLINS JR It will be observed that the above note is constructed upon a different principle, the word until being spelt with an additional 1, to direct particular attention to the limit of " the bearer's" residence in St. Helens. In the original this untill has been written twice, the word " district " written over it, and the compound thus formed subse- - quently obliterated with a flourish. Independently, how ever, of its orthogaapbical novelty, there is something about Mr. C. E. Rawlins' note which is a little singular, and suggestive of practices not very pretty. What, pray, had the g entleman to whom the note was addressed — whose name we omit as the mention of it can Contribute to no good end—to do with the fact that " the bearer" would " reside in St. Helens' untill after the election" ? Mr. Rawlins, we know as the secretary of the Anti-Mo nopoly Association. We do not know the recipient of the note, and, pray, what poor unfortunate voter was " the bearer" ? We could have understood the affair had the note run thus—" bottle the bearer in St. Helens' untill after the election" ; but, as it is, it must remain to our poor comprehension a little mysterious. Perhaps it may be explained • and in the mean time the original note may be see n b y the curious at our offiee. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—We understand that a deputation froM the Free Church of Scotland will hold a meeting in Liverpool some time early this month. We believe that Dr. Cunningham and the Rev. Mr. Begg will form a part of the deputation. THEFT BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a young woman, named Ann Clarke, who had been living as house servant with Mrs. Jane Scott, of Chester-street, was committed for trial for having de camped with a large quantity of wearing apparel, the pro perty of her employer. MR. FERRAND AND SIR JAMES GRAHAM OR, " THE GREAT MOTT CASE." We suspected, at the time when the Home Secretary brought the shield of a parliamentary majority to defend his character and conduct against the charges directed against him by the chivalrous member for Knaresbrongli, and the latter refused to plead before the tribunal offered him, that the world at large would be allowed to know the actual facts upon which the charge against Sir James was based ; and in this expectation we have not been dis appointed. Repudiating the arena of the House of Com mons as the fit and constitutional place for defending language used out of it, Mr. Ferrand has boldly appealed to the public, in a pamphlet entitled " • The Great Mott Question,' or the Mystery Unveiled," which, if it do not exonerate that gentleman from the imputations of slander and calumny attempted to be thrown upon him by the House of Commons,—deciding upon his conduct without hearing evidence in its justification,—would, in our eyes, go very far to prove that the world is tired of the truth, and wiling to be slavishly dragooned into the recognition of falseho o d an d i n j us ti ce at t h e di ctat i on o f a cabinet minister—that, in fact, we are fallen, as Englishmen, into the condition of a people willing to submit, not our per sons only, but our minds as well, to a grinding despotism. We will briefly recal to our readers a few of the facts of the case between Mi. Ferrand and Sir James Graham, and proceed to detail the evidence offered by the former in the pamphlet before us. Ina speech delivered by Mr. Ferrand, at a meeting held in Leeds. that gentleman imputed to the Home Se cretary that he had procured a report to be made which was false, " for the purpose of crushing him" ; and that Mr. Mott, who made that report, was subsequently dis missed, in order to prevent its truth or falsehood being accurately investigated and exposed. Such a charge, it appeared to the meddli ng mem b er f or B at h , was so da maging to the character of a cabinet minister, that it ought to be met and confuted ; and he accordingly thought proper to bring it before the House of Commons. Upon this Sir James Graham rose in his place—said something of his disinclination to notice such charges, which, how ever, he also took the opportunity of repudiating—de clared that be knew nothing of Mr. Mott or his report, except that he had found it in his office, of course casu ally, and had used it in debate, of course most innocently, and without the slightest notion of its being unfair or unfounded, or got up for a special object. How the House of Commons afterwards behaved towards Mr. Ferrand, the public will remember. He was virtually denied the opportunity of replying to Sir James Graham's statements, and very properly walked out of a house, by whose members he was insulted, whilst the minister rode off in the impunity which was thus temporarily afforded him. The matter, however, was not allowed to remain here. Sir James Graham was to be formally white washed, and Mr. Ferrand asked to admit the falsehood or error of his charge. Mr. Ferrand refused, however, to plead ; and the house, without hearing evidence, be yond the declaration of the minister himself, decided that be had been guilty of using language and making charges which were slanderous and untrue. Here the matter rested until the publication of the pamphlet before us. Let us see, then, what is the vindication —or, rather, what is the corroboration of those charges—which Mr. Ferrand might have offered had he recognised the House of Com mons as the proper tribunal before which to make them. On the 25th August, 1841, during the debate on the address, Dr. Bowring narrated three cases of distress, suffering and death, which had occurred in Bolton, authen ticated to him by the evidence of the guardians and ma gistrates, and which told severely against the system of the Somerset-house Commissioners. An immediate inquiry into the circumstances was promised by Sir Robert Peel ; and Sir James Graham, as home secretary, subsequently dispatched Mr. Mott, an assistant poor-law eommissioner, for the purpose of instituting such enquiry. That gen tleman arrived at Bolton on the 10th of September— glossed over the matter by shutting out the evidence upon which the original statement was founded, and culling fresh evidence suited for his own purpose—and finally de spatched his report to the house, with which Sir James Graham well nigh extinguished the learned doctor. Un fortunately, however, for Sir James and his special com missioner and concocter of reports. Mr. Mott's statemenfs got wind, and created a perfect storm amongst the doc tor's constituents in Bolton ; and, as the result, a meeting was held and evidence taken of the correctness of his original version of the matter, which had been denied by Mr. Mott. That evidence, verified on oath before several justices of the peace, was forwatded to Sir James Graham, and a motion made for its being printed and circulated through the usual channels. Acdompanying this evidence was a declaration signed by thirteen respectable inhabi tants of Bolton, expressing their surprise that a public functionary, holding the high and responsible office of assistant poor-law commissioner, should " have ventured, without personal investigation of his own, to accuse" a committee appointed to enquire into the distress of the town "of partizanship and misrepresentation, leaving the impression that they had invented or exaggerated tales of distress in order to serve a political and party object,"— and stating further that they " denied the accusation, and complained of the levity and cdrelessness in which it had been made." This was sufficient to stagger an ordinary man, or minister, in any amount of faith which he might have reposed in his pet commissioner, especially when at the head of the signatures to the document was the name of so respectable a gentleman as Mr. Edward Ashworth, of Turton—a liberal and pro-poor law man of the first water. But this was not all; for we find that the remon strance concluded in these words--; " We have thought it desirable to notice principally those parts of Mr. Mott's report, with which we are indi vidually concerned, but we cannot refrain from protesting against the manner in which Mr. Mott has conducted this inquiry, the animus which pervades his report through out, and the exceedingly unsatisfactory character of the whole investigation." More than a month having elapsed without any notice of this communication, a letter was addressed to Sir James Graham by Mr. Bolling, the conservative member for Bolton (radical and conservative thus equally protest ing against the correctness of Sir James Graham's pro tegee), in which Mr. Mott was impeached of having in his report dealt in " unfounded statements and slanderous insinuations," and appealing to him, on the score of jus tice, for an investigation into the statements contained in the report in question. He appealed, however, in vain. Sir James Graham persisted in screening his special com missioner, and thus established between the Home Se cretary and that worthy functionary a kind of partnership account. And there, notwithstanding a subsequent at tempt to bring Sir James to confess the wrong done, the matter remained. Dr. Bowring was bamboozled, and, with all the evidences of the truth of his controverted statement in his pocket, quietly swallowed his leek ! What, then, was the position in which Mr. Mott was left ? He was still a shot that might be fired at any hon. member who might happen to be troublesome to the Ne therby Baronet; and Mr. Ferrand was the unfortunate party destined to receive the discharge. The Keighley Union had been formed ; and Mr. Ferrand, an ex-officio member of the Board, was unruly in parliament, and put forth there some di , agreeahle statements. Down came our Special-commissioner Mott to Keighley, and in no very good humour ; for it comes out in the evidence of Mr. Hulbert, vice-chairman of the board, before the select committee on the Keighley Union, that " when he came into the room (of the board of guardians) he ap peared, from the first words he uttered, to be in a des perate bad temper, before he saw anything." Upon what he saw, however, during that visit, Mr. Mott founded a report, which got into Sir James Graham's red box in some mysterious way, to be ready to extinguish Mr. Ferrand on the first convenient opportunity, as a similar report had extinguished the poor polyglot doctor. That opportunity arrived on the 17th of June, 1842, when Mr. Ferrand having addressed the house, Sir James Graham immediately rose to reply, and produced Mr. Mott's red-hot shot, as he had formerly produced the Bolton document for the edification of the learned member for that city of loom shops. By this report the Keighley Union was charged with sundry acts of mis conduct and maladminstration. Mr. Ferrand with " job bing as a guardian, by giving encouragement to lawyers to create legal disputes, and sanctioning such proceedings in his capacity as a magistrate." To clench the matter Sir James declared that he was quoting from a document pre pared by one of a class of men " whose reports, he for one, speaking from experience," (!) was ever anxious to rely upon with confidence; and, on a subsequent oc casion, when driven to the wall by the pertinacity and downright English courage of Mr. Ferrand, he declared solemnly of Mr. Mott, " I am not aware of any circum stance which ought to dispose me to think any statement made by him to be untrue." And this, as Mr. Ferrand justly says, " after the Bolton affair''! We need go no further into the subject ; but this we must do. Let our readers before they again listen with any credence to the radical villifiers of "the notorious Fer rand," raad this pamphlet. We should not, and few men would like to be placed in the same position in which it leaves her Majesty's Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, MANCHESTER AND THE MOON IN ECLIPSE TO GETHE R. We have been given to understand that the people of Manchester were an exclusively enlightened race, and could see further through a millstone or into earth or sky than their neighbours. The following parapraph, how ever, which we copy from the Manchester Guardian, leads us to suspect, either that the pretensions of the Manchester men are somewhat stretched or that during the past week they have had their usually keen percep tions somewhat mystified. We quote our contemporary:— " LUNAR' ECLIPSE.—The eclipse of the moon took place last evening under the most favourable circum stances for those who knew where to look for it, the sky being without a cloud ; but owing to the low elevation at which the moon was during the period of its greatest ob scuration, comparatively few persons in Manchester would observe it. The' darkness produced by the total eclipse of the heavenly body was not so great as many expected, the twilight being as powerful at half-past ten as that pro duced by the moon in her first quarter." One would imagine that most people know where to look for a full moon. But it is never too late to learn. Here are clever people in Manchester it seems who do not know I Then, as to the difficulty of observing the eclipse, we cannot tell hovi that can have arisen, unless the moon was " for that night only," as the players say,' lower in the heavens in' Manchester than elsewhere. Here it was certainly seen by any one who had any cu riosity for a look. ROBBERY AT THE RAILWAY STATioN.--About nine o'clock, on Saturday evening last, Mr. F. Thompson, a commercial traveller from London, at present lodging a t he t No: railway station, Lime-street, of a brown paper parcel con 4, Clayton-square, had his p ocket picke at taining a t:5 Bank of England note, thirty or thirty-five sovereigns and half sovereigns, and one of Pickford's parcel tickets. The thieves have hitherto eluded the vi gilance of the police. ADDRESS OF THE CLERGY OF LIVERPOOL TO THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF NEW FOUNDLAND. A meeting of the Clergy of Liverpool and its neigh bourhood was held yesterday, in the Board-room of the Blue Coat Hospital, for the purpose of presenting to the Rt. Rev. Dr. Field, newly elected Bishop of Newfoundland, an address of greeting previous to his setting out for the scene of his future arduous and important labours. At the appointed hour a number of the leading clergy and several of the laity were present to receive the Right Rev. Pre late; and on his arrival the Rev. Senior Rector Brooks rose to address him, on behalf of his reverend brethren, and to present him with the address which had been agreed upon. The rev. gentleman said that the clergy of the town had availed themselves of the present opportunity, on the eve of his departure for the scene of his future important labours, of testifying to his lordship their sin cere wishes for his welfare and his successful performance of the duties upon which he was about to enter. They felt convinced that the connexion of the Established Church . with all our —lonia' possessions was a great move, and one of the surest means of extending Christianity to that distant and most destitute portion of our subjects over whom his lordship would shortly assume a pastoral care. In undertaking such an office, he would require from God assistance and a blessing upon his labours; and he (the rev. rector) could assure him that, in approaching those labours, he carried with him the best wishes and the fervent prayers of his brethren in the ministry, who had endeavoured to embody their sentiments in the ad dress which he held in his hands. The rev. gentleman then read the following address : " My LORD,—We, the clergy of Liverpool and its neighbourhood, gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity offered by your lordship's presence among us, of express ing the satisfaction we feel in your advancement to your high station, and our cordial wishes for your welfare. To refrain from so doing at a time when you are on the eve of leaving behind you your most deeply cherished friends and connections, with the certain prospect of encounter ing no ordinary toils and dangers in the distant diocese to which you have been called, would, indeed, mark a great indifference in our common master's cause, and a great lack of Christian charity towards yourself. " The reflection, my lord, that you are proceeding to one of the colonies of our gfeat empire, there to exercise your episcopal functions, naturally claims from us a de claration of the interest we feel in the future prosperity and advancement of the infant colonial church. When we consider the advantages derived to our country from her colonies, as they form both a considerable stay of her power, and an abundant source of her wealth, we cannot but acknowledge the deep importance of binding them to us by an inseparable tie of amity and affection. And on what foundation can this be based with such complete se curity as on religion ? Whatsoever tends to give stability to the profession and practice of religion, tends, in an equal degree, to rivet the connection between this country and her distant possessions. In this, then, we find a cogent argument for confirming and extending to our co lonies the perfect framework of our ecclesiastical system ; a system divinely constituted, the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons, and affording the best safeguard for the preservation of Christian truth, and the performance of Christian duty. But further, my lord, the interest we take in our colonies is in no small degree enhanced by the fact that their population consists for the most part of persons, who, forced by the pressure of the times, have gone from our own shores to seek elsewhere a subsistence denied to them here. In so doing they have, of necessity, abandoned the religious advantages and privileges they possessed at home, without any power on their own part of procuring them in the land of their adoption. To sup. ply this want by any means which we in England possess, does certainly seem a claim of no common urgency, as it is a work of no common magnitude. For this end we should unite our contributions, for this end combine our coun sels, for this end offer up our prayers. Fortunately there has long resided in this country a society which has de voted all its energies to the task, and in co-operating with the society for the propagation of the gospel, we shall best promote the object we have at heart. Possessing as it does the confidence of all our bishops, directing its efforts mainly to the advantage of our own countrymen, and proved in its fidelity to the principles of th e chutch by a service of nearly a century and a half, it demands, as it deserves, the countenance and support of all the members of our national church. You, my lord, may already have bad reason to testify to its zeal for the good of your own particular diocese, and may have still further cause to ac knowledge its prompt and liberal assistance in all your undertakings. " In conclusion, my lord, we beg again to give expres sion to our sincere good wishes for your welfare, and shall not be wanting in our pt avers for you, as well that you may meet with safety in proceeding to the scene of your labours, as well as with success in the discharge of them. " Jona. Brooks, Stephen Cragg, Augs. Campbell, Henry H. Higgins, Cecil Wray, Richd. Appleton, John B. Monk, 'William Badnall, Frederick Iliff, James North, Thomas S. Ackland, J. C. Prince, Thomas Hornby, J. G. Headlam, Cyrus Morrall, J. Jones, Prince Crawford, Wm. Mulleneux, Charles T. Wilson, C. W. Lawrence, Thos. Halton, Thos. Bold, William Wells, Robt. Leicester, Abm. Hume, T. J. Leigh, R. L. Townsend, Joseph Baylee, Fielding Ould, George Dover, Thomas C. Cowan, Thomas Carter, Ellis Ashton." At the conclusion of this address his lordship proceeded to reply, evidently under feelings of strong emotion, in a speech of which we regret our inability to give more than a very brief sketch. It was impossible, he said, for any one who had studied the apostolical Epistles not to have been convinced of the advantage of having the prayers of his bre thren. If the great apostle himself sought their prayers, how earnestly ought he to desire them, and what comfort would it be to him, when engaged in his arduous duties, to reflect that he had the prayers of his brethren in the ministry now assembled ! They knew the serious nature of the difficulties which he had to encounter; and he trusted they would be earnest in their prayers, not for the sake of himself personally, but for the cause in which he was about to engage. The colonies were objects of great regard and infi nite value to this country ; and it was the bounden duty of the country to extend spiritual aid to the colonies, many of whose inhabitants bad been compelled by their circumstances to remove themselves away from the spiri tual advantages which they had enjoyed when here. It was also the duty of the colonies to repay the obligation, which, as recipients of our bounty, they incurred, by availing themselves heartily of the benefits thus placed within their reach. Every country, he felt, ought to do all in its power for the support of its own church. Ulti mately he doubted not that would be the case with the colonies ; but at present the colonial church was in its infancy. Ile had that day received a letter begging him to urge upon the colonial church this duty, which he would do. In the mean time, however, until that church had passed its infancy, he trusted that his brethren would persevere in their efforts for its support. The address with which they had presented him spoke of the best cement between country and country being that of one common religion. The events of history bore out that statement. The whole of our original colonies would have been secured to this country, if we had taken in C te h g u r r a c l h a . n d A am mosteiica would d t o atis establish m o them nt a v a e n valuable portion of the British empire, if we had acted thus toward s h er; an d h e hoped that in future it wou ld be considered our d u ty as a n ation, wherever we e x t en d e d an empire, to ex t en d a l so our c hurch. N ew f oun dl an d , the scene of his l a b ours , h a d d er i ve d grea t b ene fi ts f rom been Episcop al an the exertions which had been made for her. The number of missionaries established there had trebled within the last four years. A friend in the ministry had told him that on his first going there were only six mission aries, and a short time previously there had been but two. Now, by the munifirence of the society for the propagation of the gospel, and the society for the promo tion of Christian knowledge, there are twenty-six mis sionaries actively employed. His lordship proceeded to remark upon some prejudices which he thought existed against the society fOr the propagation of the gospel, which he said had the unanimous approval of the colonial bishops, and was warmly sanctioned by the Lord b shop ofthis diocese. Nearly half of his own - income was pro- vided for by that society. His lordship concluded by thanking his reverend brethren for their great kindness. Whilst passing over the deep waters, upon which he was about to embark, lie should remember with gratitude the comfort which he had derived from that meeting. The right rev. prelate was deeply affected whilst uttering his closing words, and having pronounced a blessing, the meeting broke up. LITERARY NOTICE. Flowers of many Hues. Edited by Frederick Kempster. Falkner, Manchester. A very elegant work for presentation, the contents by different authors, well known to the reading public. has: just made its appearance from the Manchester editor contributes several very graceful effusions. dan Knowles. MrS. Coulten, J. B. Rogerson, an Mrs. The Cornwall B. Wilson, have each excellent and w ith the title page is one of the P neatest we have s eb wo rk to the ner the printers. We can recomMetl fl wi •ll prove very ac tteilsivl notice of our fair readers, to who m so uvenir—it is es it.ceptable. As a elegant presen t pecially worthy cf ess rs. Falk getting up of the work, does great credi t for the purpose of mISSTONERS OF BIRKENHEAD. the commissioners of Bir kenheadamended rate. preparatory to the annual bald there to-day. The following gentle election to be _ Messrs. Pim, Green, Cole, Gilbert • b i e F e t eCt llr e g- lown-hall, men were present,,, Kerr, and Hiad.• Mr. Green presided ; Gilbert son; Adamson , the proceedings, said the object of the in °P en- to certify to an , , Was merely the amended rate, in MEETINGL as t evening, was` ee " ; enable those of the inhabitant's who had recently der to . .. °r p c ; their premises, or had come into the possession changed property, to. vote at the annual election of commis sioners, in case they wished. He then submitted a long list of persons who'had changed their residences, &c., at the fbot of which there was the following order : " We do order the improvement rate to be amended by the above list being added thereto, and we do amend it accordingly." Thi s order. having been signed by the several commissioners in attendance, and Mr. Cole having expressed a hope that they should have to announce the passing of the Birkenhead Dock Bill at the next meeting, the board separated. FIRE.—On Sunday night, a bakehouse in Lower Hill street, Toxteth-park was destroyed by fire. The flames were prevented extending Through the exertions of the firemen. June 4, 1844 MURDER OF TWO PROTESTANTS AT BRAD FORD, BY AN IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC MOB. The Romish Church is really going a-head just now all over the world, after a fashion which deserves the serious consideration of the British Protestants of every denomination. We give in our publication this day. the particulars of a case in which a poor woman has heea sentenced to death in Madeira, for disclaiming popish idolatry. We give also full ; articulars of the atrocities committed by the Irish Roman Catholics in the city of Philadelphia, and the b urn i ng an d s l aug h ter i n retaliation which have been the result ; and we have now to record the particulars of a savage and brutal assault committed by a mob of Irish Catholics in Bradford, upon the mem bers of a band belonging to the Protestant Confederation, whose crime was, that they had played during a procession on Whitmonday, some tunes which are hateful to re bellious ears. The poor fellows, it appears, were taken for Orangemen, and having been attending the gathering of various lodges, and an evidently preconcerted attack was made upon them near the Airedale Collage, Undercliffe, nearßradford, were they were attacked by a body of Roman Catholics, who threw stones at them, and beat them severely with cudgels, shillelaghs, stones, &c. At the time of the attack, they had given over playing, and were proceeding quietly home. Their musical instruments were smashed to pieces, and the unfortunate musicians felled to the ground amid the yells and imprecations, of their assailants. One poor fellow was left on the ground horribly beaten about the head, and is since dead ; and from the Halifax Guardian, we learn that at the time of its going to press on Friday, another had just died. Several more were dangerously wounded. A number of of parties are in custody, charged with being concerned in the outrage, and await the result of the inquest, which was adjourned to yesterday. St. Peter's Church, Rock Ferry, will be consecrated by the Bishop of Chester this day (Taesday). The borough magistrates contemplate, it is said, the admission of reporters to their meetings in future. The King of the French is to arrive in this country at the latter end of September. It is said, and we believe with truth, that within the last few days, a fresh importation of pickpockets into this town has taken place. It well becomes the public and the authorities to be more than ever on their guard. THE BISHOP OF CHESTER.-011 Sunday morning last the Bishop of Chester preached at St. Peter's Church, in tLis town, when the sum of £27 was collected in aid of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen. TRENNIAL VISITATION.—To-day, the Lord Bishop of Chester will hold his trennial visitation for the district of Liverpool, at St. Peter's Church, on which occasion, after Divine service has been performed, his lordship will deliver his charge to the assembled clergy. HAVE WE SUFFICENT DOCK-ROOM ?—A vessel ar rived here cn Thursday last, reports having counted two hundred and fifty sail of shipping within sounding for Liverpool. There are few people, we imagine, who with the present vessels in our port, would assert that we bar sufficiency of dock-room for such a shoal. CAUTION To GIG DRIVERS.—On Saturday, at the Police -court, a young gentleman was fined five guineas for injuries inflicted upon an elderly female by reason of his furious driving on the 23d April last. The defendant, it was proved, was driving the gig at the time in question at the rate of ten miles an hour. CONFIRMATION.—On Saturday the Lord Bishop of Chester held a confirmation at- St. Michael's and St. Martin's Churches, in this town, when nearly 2,000 young persons were admitted to that sacred ordinance ; and, yesterday his lordship administered the same rite at St. Jude's and St. John the Baptist's to about half the; number of candidates. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—We have not, dining the usual bustle consequent on an election, been able to visit this picturesque promenade since the opening night, but we are not ignorant of the general satisfaction the Fete de Ete has given. Every person who has honoured Mr. Atkin with their presence, pronounces the preparation of this season superior to any that•has preceded it.—See adv. MAIL TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, --The British and North American royal mail steam-ship, Acadia, CaptainAyrie, sails to-day for Halifax and Boston. Newspapers may now be transmitted to Canada, if *ad dressed via Boston, without any charge for conveyance by packet. They will, however, be charged'the colonial rate of one penny each paper, and, of course, titiy United States postage for transmission to Boston. PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—We were exceedingly gratified yesterday by a glance at a beautiful silver tea and coffee service, manufpctured by Mr. Doke, of Lord-street, about to be presented to the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, as a token of the estimation in which he is held by his con gregation. The Articles severally bear the following in scription :—" Presented to the Rev. Eh' Carpenter, A.M. of St. Michael's Liverpool, by the members of his congre gation, as a token of their Chribtian love, and as a testi monial to his faithfulness in preaching the truth as it 15 in Jesus.'-Ist June, 1844. The articles are beautifully •made, and will, we are' assured, be highly prized by the reverend gentleman as a memorial of the strong affection entertained by the congregation for himself personally, as well as a proof of the attachment of his flock to the scrip tural doctrines he so faithfully labour to disseminate. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JUNE 3. The extreme aridity of the weather has shortened supplies o new Butter, and caused an advance in price of fully 3s. per cwt. The demand is very good. Provisions are in moderate demand, and prices of the primest Irish are fully supported. Foreign is rather neglected. Bacon in brisk request at 40S. to 425. for Pelfast middles. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTA.TOE MARKET, JUNE 3. Potatoes, To 901 b s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2'.lr) 0 8® 1 1 Pink-eyes Cups Short-tops 2 1- 2 4 Straw,Wheat. 0 3a— 0 4 Cattle - 0 0 Oat Red Rogers .... 3 0— 3 6 Grass Manglewurzle .... 0 0— 0 0 Vetches LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. Direct. I direct Direct. Indirect. Australia... .. Jan. 4. Lima Bahia .... Mar. 26 Maranham Mch. 23 .. Barbadoes .. April 24 Mauritius .. Feb. 26. Bombay .. .. April 1 Mobile . B. Ayres .. .. Mar. 21 Monte Video. .. Mar. 21. Calcutta .. V ar. 23 N. Orleans C. G. Hope .. Mar. 15 New Yolk .. May 15. Charleston .. May 11 Pernambuco. April 11. .. China .... Feb. 27 Rio Janeiro .. Mar. 29. Demerara .. April 15 Savannah Havana . .. May 2. St. Helena Jamaica .. .. April 23 Valparaiso . .. Feb. 8. Laguira (April Vera Cruz April 22. TIDE TABLE. DAYS. MRN. EVN. HEIGHT HOLYDAYS, ETC. Tuesday 4 1 8 132 18 I Wednes. 1 1 56 221 16 10 Boniface. • Thurs... 6 246 312 15 5 Corpus Christi. Friday.. 7 337 4 3 13 11 Jupiter rises lb. Elin. Saturday 8 433 5 4 12 9 Mars sets gh 46m. 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