The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received from Mr. Councillor Parker the sum of .£5, as a donation for the District Provident Society. This is a very practical commencement of the subscription which Mr. Parker benevolently originated on Wednesday, in the Council chamber ; and we doubt not that if any active mem ber of the committee of the society waited on other members of the Council he would find a general disposition to further swell the receipts of this noble institution, which is the means of conferring incalculable benefits at this inclement season on our deserving poor. Several letters received yesterday were too late to receive attention. The scolding of the Albion we receive with due deference; but it is somewhat ludicrous to.receive correction from a journal which abuses the advocates of protection in such foul mouthed language, and with so many fishwife-like epithets. Perhaps our contemporary will be surprised to hear that we received, for our exertions to reduce the parish expenditure, the thanks of numerous correspondents, and several gentle men have waited personally upon us to express their obli gations for our humble services. J:f)t Etherpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY 111ORNI G, JAN. 8, 1850. THE Manchester Guardian of Saturday, in his reply to our observations on the accumulation of gold in the Bank of England, and its causes, con fines himself to a reiteration of his peculiar views on the subject of foreign exchanges. We leave it, therefore, for the public to decide whether, with respect to the remaining features of the subject, we or he have maintained our position. Before pro ceeding to that part of the question, upon which the Guardian still maintains his correctness, we must briefly repeat his views. In order to account for the accumulation of gold in the bank, our contemporary stated, in substance, that owing to the unsettled state of European insti tutions, London was rapidly becoming the money market of the world, the merchants in continental countries preferring to make their remittances to each other, by drafts on some London banker, to running the risk of direct remittances, or drafts in a currency liable to be converted into depreciated paper, or to be otherwise affected in value. Hence, and in order to effect such operations, they had lodged large amounts of their banking capital in London. We demurred to this view of the case as contrary to all mercantile experience, and showed that such continental remittances, or exchanges, would continue to be made in the ordinary manner, —that a merchant, say at Frankfort, wishing to re mit to another in Vienna a certain amount, would simply buy a bill from some one who had funds to draw from that city, securing the payment of the amount in question. Our contemporary denies that this is the ordinary mode of effecting such a transaction. He says : "A merchant in Frankfort who wished to remit £l,OOO in value,' to Vienna, would not, under ordinary circumstances, go about the exchange at Frankfort, trying to buy some bill that might or might not exactly answer his purpose. He would request his banker to draw on Vienna for the precise amount, in Austrian currency,— say 10,000 florins,—and would remit the bill to his corres pondent, who would receive the amount in Austrian currency." Before proceeding further, let us inquire upon whom the banker would draw, and how he would meet the obligation. He might have credit with some Viennese banker; but he would have to re place the money in some manner, and thus become himself, instead of his customer, subject to the con tingencies of revolutions, &c. The merchants' banker, we contend, would proceed precisely as the merchant himself might have done. He would purchase a bill on Vienna, at the current rate of exchange, or procure one to be drawn by some house possessed of funds there, ensuring the pay anent of the amount to he remitted, the co which bill he would debi The Guardian goes on of his co ,o his customer :7!dard suggests, or as many florins as were , wand ; and these were al use between the two 7 cours, of business, ho nobody could - tell What might be the state of political affairs in Vienna or Frankfort, or the value of Austrian or Frankfort currency, when a bill, drawn upon either city should arrive et something would have to be done before ' the draft of his maturi True, bro- he accepted latter havin g drawn the bit correspondent calculated in of attracting gold to this country. The continued influx of precious metals, however, to Great Britain, so long after the existence of the causes, which led to the influx of capital, is to be accounted for as a pure currency fact. The foreign capital referred to has left us, or is fast leaving us. We trace its exit in the large increase. which has taken place in our exports. The gold, we say, as we did in our last, remains, because it is appreciated here as compared both with our manufactured products, and with its value in other countries. 9 B OUR Irish fellow-countrymen are really a strange people ; and perversely opposed to their own inter ests, now, as they have been at any period within the memory of man, or even within the range of historic record itself. For twenty years past the mass of the Irish people have been agitating for the removal of imaginary grievances, and for the attainment of intangible benefits; whilst year by year they have been sinking lower in the social scale. Demagogue-worship and priest-worship have pervaded her middle classes; whilst her pea santry have thrown themselves into whatever sys tem of wild outrage has been proposed for their adoption. Continual social turmoil, combined with the darker phases of crime resulting from mid night legislation, have gradually driven capital and enterprise from her shores; and, as the climax of her fate, she has lately seen the sole remaining source of her prosperity,—nay of her very exist enceas an industrial people—surrendered by would be rebel representatives, at the dictation of an antinational clique, or for the venal purpose of purchasing places or emolument for a few of the hireling impostors, who preyed upon her vitals so long as she had a drop of blood to feed their avarice. Ireland had but one dependence left to save her population from utter wretchedness, and her name from being handed down to posterity only as the source of weakness to a great people—the pest house of a mighty empire. That was her Agri culture. Possessed of a fertile soil, and with natural capabilities, which ought to have rendered her the envy of the world, universal improvidence, and slavish superstition had dragged her masses dowit to the verge of pauperism, when agitation stepped in to complete the ruin. The liberal ma jority of the Irish members passed the repeal of protection to British and Irish agriculture. They handed over to America and Hamburgh the Irish provision trade first ; and they consummated their work by surrendering the advantages, offered by their proximity to the British markets, to the entire agricultural community of Ireland. The result we have, in part, already seen. The industry of the country has during the past two years been hurrying to seek new spheres of exertion in foreign lands. The bulk of them, we regret to say, have left us, not as honest men, or drawing after them our sympathies for an undeserved fate, but the very reverse. They have gone away tainted with fraud, laden with capital which was not their own, leaving thousands behind, despoiled undeservedly; to suffer privations unobserved in many cases—not clamorously obtruded on the world, but passing severe, nevertheless. What is there left now as the resource of this unhappy country ? Its manufactures are well nigh destroyed altogether. Its landowners and gentry, as a class, are well nigh ruined. Its artizans have only for customers this almost hopelessly embar rassed class, a few farmers, who still struggle to maintain their position, and a sweltering mass of absolute pauperism. The only hope of Ireland lay in the success of a combined effort of her people to re-erect an agricultural system. Aid was ten dered to her for the realazition of this object ; and signs were not wanting of her disposition to em brace that aid. It is now, however, we are afraid, too evident that she has perversely resolved to de ceive the expectations of her friends. the story of the prodigal: she can d she is not t ashamed. reaches us which do The reverses s. Scarcely a mail from Ireland I not fail to bring us accounts of some meetings of the ten& gentry, called for the purpose of discussing their condition and the steps which must be taken to I by ignorant clamour remedy it between at the current rate of exchange between - e --"two and demagogue influence. The bitterns th classes is being actively stirred up by towns, would sell it in the mar k e t t o some one hay- agencies on the spot, and party journalist s i n th is ing to pay money in F ran kf or t. Oth erw i se what country, to whom an addition to th e ca t a l ogue o f use to him, in Vienna, w ou ld b e a d ra f t paya b le in Frankfort so-styled " protectionist failures" affords an ineen ? tive for the loudest gratydation, though it may have It is an obvious fact th a t suc h Bills, drawn been brought about by a mo b o f h a lf idi o t s an d C( to states of siege, &c., confirmed beggars. As a mass, th e p o p u l a ti on o f of ble on any terms, unless they Ireland seem to have been afflicted in vain. it( , ate value. How, then, is have brought no lessons of peace, of natier this secu , fforded ? We will give an , •••• - - etween countries liable nefarious would nr represented a deter ment of it tured ; and, in order to m intelligible, we shall transaction between 1, le settle- market. )tedness is manufac- ce our statement more suppose it to arise out of a ichester and a foreign in Manchester has exe- A. manufacti which they are but We take as a specimen of the just now e cuted an order for a of £3OO st Oporto, for wl on that city he finds b td. per amount of his invoice, t ".Sixty d pay thiE s after d t of excha :erling, in gold, silt pint whic actuates the parties' engaged in obstructing the . efforts which are being made to save Irish agricul ture from utter ruin by union and harmony amongst Irishmen, the following portion of the address delivered by a Mr. Ryan, a free-trader, at a meeting held last Thursday, at Limerick : "He bad heard it stated that day, that Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel were badmen. (Haar, hear.) Now he begged to observe, that the landholders of Ire land were far worse. (Cheees.) He solemnly arraigned Me landlords of Ireland as Me murderers of at least 2,000.000 of human being:. (Groans and hisses.) Too long had they tamely submitted to their misrule, without coming forward and proclaiming the treachery of which they had been guilty towards the unfortunate peasantry of the country. (Hear, and cheers.) It was not as individuals, but as a class, that he arraigned them. (Hear, hear.) Some of the landlords were generous and kind to a fault; but others, some of whom were at that moment listening to him, had assisted in murdering and exter minating the peasantry:" (Hear, hear, and hisses.) - - urrent rate - of Exchan.6' Other speakers at the same meeting attributed the sufferings of the people to high rents and evictions; but not a word throughout of indolent cultivation, of valuable time wasted in the reckless pursuit of agitation, or of money spent in filling the wallets of mendicant agitators. The Limerick Radicals oppose any step, however small, towards protection, and call for low rents and immunity for tenants of small holdings, which they will not pay for nor cultivate. But the real spirit of the movement is to abolish rents altogether, to confiscate the property of the landowners, and to divide the ownership of the soil amongst an insol vent tenantry and a pauper peasantry. It is the war of Celt against Saxon in a new form, indirectly aided by our recent legislation, and carried on under a mask of the grossest hypocrisy and false hood. For is there one of these bawlers against landlordism under the old system ignorant of the fact, that extensive clearances of the soil, the aboli tion of small holdings, and the conversion of the small farmers into labourers, is the very essence of that new system of scientific culture, which, we are told, will alone be profitable under the operation of free-trade ! Can these men—these dependents upon the potato culture—drain and practice high farming, and pay rent at all ? Can they pay poor rates, the bulk of whom are only a remove from pauperism ? No. They shout now for free-trade, as the shortest method of getting rid of the pro prietors of the soil; and for the rest, look forward only to the opportunity of becoming squatters upon the land, of which:the legislature and agita tion have aided them in wresting from others. For those, however, who are encouraging an ignorant peasantry to press forward such projects—for the petty tradesmen of the towns, and men of the same stamp as the Mr. Ryan, whose ravings we have quoted above—the day of retribution will come. A population, producing barely sufficient to supply their animal wants, exporting nothing, and their means of consuming reduced to the lowest point, wiil form sorry customers ! TH E increase in the exports of the country, shewn in the published " Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation," for the eleven months ended sth Dec. last, deserve a careful scrutiny, not only for the sake of eliciting truth, but in order to guard the public against entertaining the undue confidence in the resources of the country, which some parties are anxiously endeavouring to propagate. We were ourselves perfectly prepared, like most other per sons, to expect a revived activity in our foreign trade after the prostration which followed a year of mania (1847), and a year of revolutionary change and social disorganisation (1848). The material questions, however, to which the British public ought to direct their attention, are,—how much of the increased exports of 1849 ought to be set down to the natural effect of a restoration of continental peace and order, and how much to the effect of the change which has taken place in the commercial policy of the country. -- The gross increase in the exports of the eleven months of 1849, compared with those of 1848, was £9,781,897 the respective amounts of the two years being £54,082,809 in 1849, and £44,407,912 in 1848. Now, we were not by any means prepared to have treated the increase in value, represented by this £9,681,897, as a very large one, had even the comparative amounts of the two years really represented a corresponding increase of quantities of commodities. It was natural that a year of com motion and interruption of industry in nearly every country of Europe, by which most foreign markets were swept bare of goods, should be followed by extended importations from Great Britain, whose people had escaped convulsion. But there is one consideration which we think should he taken into account, whilst comparing the two years. The year 1848 was one of severe commercial suffering in this 'country, following, as it did, a year (1847) in which panic had driven down the price of every product of industry to a losing point. The exports of 1848 were forced ones, at prices, in many instances, ruinous; and the aggregate amount of ;those ex ports—£s4,ooo,ooo odd—represents, in all proba bility, a quantity of commodities much less than we are asked to believe, and which materially re duces the increase upon which we are asked to feli citate ourselves this year. We are reminded, with some appearance of tri umph, by the Manchester Guardian, that- a large portion of the present year's increase of exports consists of cotton manufactures and yarn, the amount of which in 1849 is returned as £24,705,118, against £20,478,158 in 2849. The increase is there fore £4,227,950, or one-fifth of the gross amount in 1848. Our contemporary has omitted noticing a very important element in the comparison, viz., the increase which has taken place in the price of the raw material. We find from the circular of Messrs. Geo. Holt and Co., of this town, that the average price of Upland cotton in 1849 was sid. for the whole year, against 41d. in 1848—an in crease of .1-(1. per lb., or one-fifth on the price of that year. This would seem to show that the increased quantity of cotton manufactures could be very little indeed in 1849. An examination of the annual circular would show that the increase in the entire quantity of cotton spun in Great Britain in 1849 only amounted to 2400 bales, or little over one twelfth of the previous year's consumption. If, then, price and value are equivalent terms, and the export trade has increased one-fifth, whilst the total quantity of cotton manufactured was only increased one-twelfth, the home trade must have suffered a large diminution, or there is nothing laft us to as sume, except that the export trade •is only a frac tion of the entire trade. We shall not go more at length into this matter however, for the simple reason that we place no confidence whatever now in these Customs' reports. Since the abolition of the half per cent. duty on exports, there is nothing in the world to prevent goods being entered at any price the shipper pleases. A bale of cotton, and other goods, may be valued at £5 or £5OO, without incurring a farthing of in creased charges in our ports; and, without im puting to any party the wish to commit a moral wrong, and to make out a favourable case in behalf of a particular policy, it is enough to throw dis credit upon returns, thus left unprotected against error, to know that extensive malversation can be carried on. Some of our contemporaries augur great things in favour of this country becoming a great entrepot for foreign produce from the circumstance that the re-exports of foreign prodncts in 1849 considerably exceeded those of 1848. No wonder. In 1848 foreign cargoes intended for Europe came here be cause here only they were safe. Europe is now tranquil, and they are proceeding to the markets they were ordered for. Our contemporaries should have waited a year, before drawing such inferences from the experience of years, when the natural courses of commerce were notoriously diverted. THE BRAZILIAN FRIGATE ALFONSO We have been favored with the following extract of a etter, received by Mr. Thomas Royden, shipbuilder, of his port, from Robert Grundy, Esq., chief engineer of Lis Imperial Brazilian Majesty's steam frigate Alfonso : ities, I think I may give it you without fear of We have steamed and sailed upwards of 12,000 of cost for alterations—that is to say, feces- She is the finest steamer, without excep ' built upon correct ideas, of goods to the amount hipped to a me ies to be paid. ] ant in Exchange he last packe to be 54d t, for the "Manchester, Jan. 5 ght, as the case may be) e for three hundred pounds Dr paper of like value at the The stipulation in Italics is used in all cases when the currency is especially in danger of sudden and arbitrary fluctuation. In the ordinary course of business, the manufacturer would pay the Bill into his bankers, who would forward it to their London agents, to be negotiated at the rate of Exchange of the day, which we have stated to be 54d. to 541 d. per milrea. The Bill is by them sold to some party who wishes to place, or pay, money in Oporto, and is endorsed with the rate of Ex change at which it had been negotiated,- 54d. or 541 d. per milrea, according to the relative demand for and supply of such Bills in the market. Had it been originally drawn in London, the rate of Exchange would have been inserted in the body of the Bill. In either case, it has now been rendered a document perfectly secure from any fluctuations in the value of the currency of the country on which it is drawn. The holder will receive for it in Oporto as many times 54d. or 541 d., in gold or silver, as he has paid for it in London, or, if in paper milreas, as many as will give a purchasing power of the corresponding amount in specie. He is, therefore, enabled to fulfil his obligation in Oporto, whatever fluctua tion in the value of money may take place before the Bill remitted arrives at maturity. The Guardian conceives it to be a fact strongly in accordance with his views that "a foreign bill, drawn in London, in the year 1813, would have been paid on nominal pounds sterling, worth, in gold or silver, about thirteen shillings each." Of course it would, if the obligation to be satisfied by suchbillhad been contracted in nominal pounds ster ling Worth thirteen shillings each. And no injustice would accrue to the drawer. Say, for example, that the remittance was for goods sold by a British merchant on foreign account. The return of sales would be in the same sort of pounds as the rem it tance; commodities would have appreciated here, in proportion to our depreciation of money; and the foreigner would receive in exchange for the bill as much of his own currency as if his goods had been sold for specie at specie prices. The Guardian omits, however, to observe that in what ever way the obligation arose the foreigner would negotiate the bill at home ; and that the rate of exchange would regulate any difference in the re spective values of foreign and British money. Do we find, for example, any difficulty in adjusting our money transactions with the Brazils ? None. Yet the paper dollar of that country is only worth 27d. to 28d. sterling. In conclusion, we cannot but regard as an ab surdity the conclusion of the Guardian, that foreign capital has been transmitted here, in order to he made available for settling foreign international transactions; or to enable the merchant in Frank fort, for example, to fulfil a monetary obligation by drawing on London. The system would not work, or answer the objects which our contemporary an ticipates from it, for the simple reason that although the monetary pivot in London might be steady, the two ends of the balance in Frankfort and Vienna would be constantly oscillating. We re spectfully invite our contemporary to show us the process by which it would be worked. That a con siderable quantity of foreign capital was transmitted to this country for safe investment, and because it could not be_ employed in its ordinary channels in the disorgani4eti condition of Europe, it would be folly to deny;.and equally so, that it had the effec of turning tlie.exChanges in our favour, and thus )ntradietion tiles, and hay try—one farthin ng floor; would have been faster with the same power, had e been ten feet longer forward. We average 84 to 9 miles autical) per hour, with 5 to 600 troops, and our crew, num ring 230 hands. The engines are in better working order an when we left Liverpool. Our boilers have never yet been mned inside, not requiring it. We opened one this morning, d all was as clean as the day we left. I can assure you that I ivery proud of the engines. The trip we have just run of vas against the Brazilian Steam Company's steamer t her 48 hours' fair steaming. She was put Iliad but few passengers, whereas we had --- e have now been in every port of con iting Peru and Rio Grande de Lul. As best trim, ant ird 500 troops Brazil, is not to be beaten by any steamer afloat. H.1.8.g. does possess a steamer of the same tonnage and power as the niso, that is able to compete with her either in speed or any nr qualification necessary for a man of war. (Signed) "ROBERT GRUNDY, " Chief Engineer of the Alfonso. Pernambuco, Ist Dec., 1849." THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 THE NEW COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS Gazett, contains a notification, dated Whitehall, January, and signed by Sir G. Grey, that the Queen s been pleased to appoint a commission for the promo- tion of the Exhibitions of the Works of Industry of all Nations in the year 1851, to consist of Prince Albert, Duke of Buccleuch, Earl Rosse,_Lord Granville,- Earl of _ _ Ellesmere, Lord Stanley, Lord J. Russell, Sir R. Peel, H. Labouchere, Esq.. W. E. Gladstone, Sir A. Galloway, the Chairman of the East India Company for the time being, Sir R.Westmacott, Sir C. Knight, or the President of the Geological Society for the time being, Thomas Baring, Charles Barry, Thomas Bazley, Richard Cobden, William Cubitt, or the President of the Institute of Civil Engi neers for the time being, Charles Eastlake, Thomas Field Gibson, John Gott, Samuel Jones Lloyd, Philip Pusey, and William Thompson, Esqrs. The following are ap• pointed trustees of the sum of £20,000 to be awarded to the most meritorious exhibitors :—Marquis of Northamp ton, Earl Clarendon, Sir J. Boileau, James Peache. The following are appointed treasurers for all receipts :—Arthur Barclay, William Cotton, Sir John Lubbock, Shmuel Peto, Baron Lionel de Rothschild. The following are appointed treasurers for payment of all executive expenses : Peter Foster, Joseph Payne, Thomas Wirkworth. The following are appointed an executive commission for car rying the exhibition into effect :—Henry Cole, Charies Dilke, jun., George Drew, and Robt. Stevensoti ; and with Matthew D. Whyatt as their secretary. The commis sioners are authorised to make full and diligent inquiry into the best mode by which the productions of the colo nies and of foreign countries may be introduced into the kingdom. As respects the most suitable site for the said exhibition, its general conduct, and the best mode of de termining the nature of the prizes, and securing the most impartial distribution of them—three or mere members of the commission are empowered to nominate and appoint local committees in the United Kidgdom and foreign parts, and have full authority to call persons before them to make inquiries with the view of obtaining information. John Scott Russell and Stafford Northcote are appointed joint secretaries to the commission. INTERESTING MODEL OF ERECTIONS PRO POSED FOR THE EXHIBITION OF THE ARTS, &c., OF ALL NATIONS, IN LONDON, IN 1851. On Saturday, Mr. Turner, the constructor of the ele gant new iron roof of the Lime-street Railway Station, in this town, exhibited, at that station, to a number of gentlemen invited by note from Mr. Grantham, secretary of the Liverpool committee of the above important exhibition, a large and beautiful model, from his works in Dublin, of his proposed plan of erections for the great exhibition of the arts, manufactures, and inventions of all nations, to be held in London next year. Amongst those who attended were his Worship the Mayor, the late Mayor, and several engineers, architects, and others interested in the great " coming event," in cluding some members of the Liverpool committee. The model, which is on its way to be submitted to Prince Albert, and represents iron in tote, is built of wood, and is exteriorly carried out in the minutest details with great neatness and accuracy, being the scale adopted one inch to represent ten feet in the proposed real structure. The buildings form in their outer portions a quadrangle, and, including ample surrounding space for shrubberies and parterres, the whole is comprised within three sides of a square, with a frontage embayed in a segmental form. This frontage consists of a double row of Doric columns, surmounted by balustrading. In the centre of the seg ment is a grand arched entrance of the same order, with two decorative external lodges, and at each side (near the angles) there is another corresponding but smaller en trance, each with its lodge. This façade, from its great extent, and the multiplicity of columns in a sweep (960 in all) has a very rich and imposing appearance. It is proposed that the whole structure should be in the Green Park, and that the present marble arch, erected by George IV„ and which cost £70,000, should be appropriated, as it stands, as the " Royal Entrance Gate " from Piccadilly. The area within the boundary line of the proposed works comprises 25 acres, and the centre or main buildings would cover 9 acres ; in addition to which there are two flanking buildings, covering 2 acres more. These latter buildings (forming two parallel sides of the outer quad rangle,) are each 1020 feet long, by 40 feet wide, and two stories high—the upper parts for the fine arts, the lower parts for committee-rooms, &c. Midway in each of these flanks stands a circular building, dome roofed, and intended for refreshment rooms. The diameter of each of these is 150 feet. The roofs are all of corrugated iron and glass. The main central building consists of several oblong ranges, disposed in nearly a square, and are peculiarised by segmatical roofs of corrugated iron and huge sheets of glass, forming continuous openings, and by four circular corner buildings, rising to a great height, and one large building of the same form in the centre of the whole: all of them with cupola roofs. The centre one is (to the top of the dome), 200 feet in height, and with a colossal statueof Atlas, with the world on his back, at the top, the whole elevation is26o feet ! The other four correspond, and being 220 feet, bear figures and flags, representing respectively Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The diameter of the centre dome is 200 feet ! and, (as are the others,) it is outwardly surrounded at its base by a ballustraded walk, from which extensive views may be obtained. The main central buildings are ranged parallel, and across the frontage sides, with a wide space between them. The central range is 60 feet by 200 feet; and the other two lateral ranges are 160 feet by 175 feet. Each of these is 600 feet in length, and the surface of superficial glass in the roof of one of them will be three acres ! The first range of building is proposed for engine -work and machinery ; the centre one (600 feet long and 200 wide, which is di vided into two by the central circular building), for mis cellaneous articles ; and the further one for agricultural specimens, implements, &c. From the central dome a comprehensive view of all that is to be seen or done below may be obtained. In the rear of the quadrangle there are two square object towers, for working steam-engines, consuming or preventing the smoke fron t the buildings, supplying steam for working models, &c. A temporary and very rude building for the exhibition would probably cost at least £50,000. A few yearly ex hibitions would bring a succession of the same expendi ture on each occasion. Mr. Turner, therefore, proposes a permanent establishment, such as the model represents, which, though it would cost about £350,000, would be a lasting monument of art, and the interegnums between na tional exhibitions might he profitably appropriated as botanical gardens, theatres, lecture-rooms, museums, &c. Should his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and those who are acting with him in the magnificent project now before the public, decline to order such a structure, Mr. Turner purposes to propose its being built (after being duly con sidered, and, if need be, improved in its details) by a public company. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, 9th inst., at Thursday, 10th, at .. Saturday, 12th, at Booth's Obelisk. Monday, 14th, at . Beeston. Wednesday, 16th, at Wrenbury. Thursday, 17th, at . Saturday, 19th, at . Each day at half-past ten. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, 9th inst., at Thursday, 10th, at Acton Reynold. Saturday, 12th, at Each day at half-past ten. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPO RT EXCHANGE NEWS -ROOM, MONDAY. The official returns of the revenue being of a satisfac tory nature adds another gratifying feature to the opening year, which isnot without itseffect in increasing the feelings of confidence already prevailing in commercial circles ; and the accounts from Manchester and other of the manu facturing districts continue good. The Share Market has been steady all week, the advance noticed in our last having been generally main tained. London and North-Westerns are chiefly in favor, and extensive bona fide purchases both of the stock and quarters have been made. Midlands have fluctuated a good deal daily, having been done at all prices, from 421 to 45k, influenced by rumours good and bad respecting a financial statement to be issued this week. The quotations of this day's business are as follows :—East Lancashire, 11*; Leeds stock, 58; ditto sths, 74- d.; London stock, 110; ditto quarter, 5/8 11/3 p.•, ditto C quarter, 23/9 14- p. ; Sheffield Preference, 74; Midland stock 43 4- 43; ditto halfs, 234- I 23 ; North Union, 232; ditto B. 162; Shrews bury Preference, 10 ; South Staffords, nd.; Newcastle Preference, 41 dis. ; Dutch Rhenish, 61 d. ; Royal Assu rance, p. ; Gas, quarters, 43. Market closes the best of the day. The great abundance of money is at last having its in fluence in the produce market, and wherever prices are at all below the average of previous years, a disposition is evinced to speculate, and the consequence is an improved feeling with respect to every article. As yet it has not found its way to Sugar, but there is a strong impression, with the steady demand existing, and as most Sugars are losing money at present prices, that it cannot escape being included. Messrs. T. and H. Littledale, in their East India circular, published on Saturday, touching upon this subject, give the following information, that which refers to railway matters being curiously important:— "Money will force itself into employment, and if one class of operators cannot employ it, another and a more gambling class will; and thus the spirit of speculation is set in motion, which too often ends in disaster. But The golden discoveries in California . ' would point to mining, were not the almost total failures of 1825 still remembered. Railways are a dead letter for years to come, and with good reason, when their frightful position is contemplated. The total sum paid on railways in the United Kingdom amounts to upwards of 220 millions, with power to call up 75 mullions more in the next five years ; and the estimated depreciation on the Ist January is 60 per cent.,—or say 130 millions. The paid-up capital of the fifteen principal lines amounts to 101 mil lions. The estimated value in September, 1845, was 175 millions ; the present value 65 millions ! The abolition of the corn laws, and the present ruinous condition of the agricultural body, are strongly against investments in land, but may not entirely counteract the effect of Ann. emptied by the late disturbances, may take advantage of the position of the money market and advertise for loans ; but we think the first movement will be in produce. manufactures, and general commercial enterprise, which points out the year 1850 as likely to be one of great activity, and, we trust, of prosperity, if the machine be not driven with reckless impetuosity; and surely the catastrophes of 1847 are sufficiently recent to prevent this." In our local Produce Market 200 hhds. of Antigua Sugar have been sold to-day at 365. 6d. to 415.. with mg in favour of lea; ana nottung to be bad in common Congous under 10Id. The accounts from Mincing-lane come very excited to-day, and native Ceylon Coffee has been sold at 615., which is a further advance of Is. since • DO...VW Saturday. We have a good business doing in all kinds of wools by private contract, at full prices ;, but, as we remarked be fore, our market is so very bare of a great many descrip tions, that at present there are considerable orders here which cannot be exeeuted for want of stock : onr friends in the United States have become large buyers in this market. A public sale of East India, &c., will commence here on the 22d instant. The import for the week end ing the 7th instant is as follows :—Foreign 2,631, Irish 86, Scotch 48. The market for Metals is still looking up, and Iron has once more got into the 50's, as will be seen from the sub joined quotations. We have had an improved demand for Pig Iron, during the past week, and sales have been made to some extent, at advanced rates. Good brands f. o. b. at Glasgow, mixed Nos. 48s. 6d. ; Gartsherrie, 495.; No. 1, 503. Among much statistical information which has latterly come to hand, with respect to the Corn trade, the follow ing has been brought prominently to our notice, in a com mercial letter which reached us, this morning, from Bel fast. The writer states that the average price of Wheat, since harvest, has been about 7s. 10d, to Bs. per cwt., whilst that of the entire year has amounted to 9s. 3d., against 10s. 6d. in 1848, 10s. in 1845, and 10s. 74d. in 1844, leaving out of consideration the famine years of 1846-7. From this we find that as far as regards the past year, although the total reduction does not shew a very marked difference from that of the other years specified, still the low rates which have latterly prevailed, and which may be properly judged to be the fair criterion of the operation of the new law—(which could not be tested until the weight of our own harvest was thrown into the scale)—the low rates, we say, current for some time past, are so far sufficient to alarm the British producer, that; whatevermav be said to the contrary, while the corn fields of of the world open to our use, it can scarcely be hoped, except in years of peculiar scarcity, in other countries as well as our own, that prices can ever get higher, if they are able, indeed, to maintain their present position.—The markets in this country and Ireland generally display little change. The week commenced with firmness, and, in most places, with a slight tendency upwards, but slackened towards the close. In Brunswick-street, on Friday, as will be seen elsewhere, we had an advancing market, and to-day the trade is reported to maintain the quotations noted on that day, with but little passing, parties being pre-occupied with the grand new scheme promulgated at the meeting which took place to-day, and which is reported in another column. There is con siderable schism in regard to this undertaking, some par ties thinking that the old building might have been en larged and beautified, at much less expense than that likely to be incurred in the execution of the new plan, which will occupy the extensive area of 2,400 square yards. The arrivals of timber from British America, here and at Birkenhead, this month are 26 vessels, 13,785 tons, against 11 vessels, 6,351 tons for the corresponding month last year, being an increase on the month of 15 vessels, 7,434 tons this year as compared with last. The market has been rather firmer this month, many cargoes having been yarded by the importers, who decline taking the low prices offered by the trade. Spruce Deals not arriving in such large quantities for the last few months as in former years, are gradually recovering from the very low price at which they were sold at the commencement of the import; the demand for this article continues good, and prices are likely to improve. Most of the cargoes have been sold on arrival. The arrivals from the Baltic are 4 vessels, 1,135 tons. The demand for Cotton during the week has been suffi cient, not only to counterbalance any deterioration which the difference between the estimated and actual stocks might otherwise have occasioned, but even to cause a fur ther advance up to Friday night of about kd. per lb. on American descriptions. On Saturday we had another firm market, without any further change in prices, and 7000 bales (of which about 3000 were taken on specula tion) were sold : SOO were Surats, and the remainder, chiefly American, at 51d. to 61(1. per lb. To-day the trade has continued steady, and the sales amount to be tween 6 and 7000 bales, at full prices. Between 2 and 3000 * were taken on speculation. The general impres sion is, that present prices are moderate and safe, and that with the large business doing in the manufacturing dis tricts, we must not be surprised to see higher prices. * We are obliged to take this range on account of the dissi milarity of the reports which have reached us. As further sales sometimes occur at a late hour, we generally incline to the larger estimate. THE NEW AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP " JACOB A. WESTERVELT." The SALOON, or first Cabin, forms a kind of quarter deck ; but, for the convenience of working the ship, there is a gangway completely round it. The hitherto elegant fitting of ships' cabins is in this excelled. Round the wkole apartment there is a panneling of beautifully fea thered satin-wood, with skirtings of zebra-wood, which is divided by pillasters of rosewood, chastely enriched with enamelling of gold. The ceiling is formed into pannels by the deck beams, and being dead white and gold, forms a light and elegant relief to the richly polished cabinet work. Brilliant pier glasses, in carved frames, are fixed at each end of the saloon, and though the cabin is not calculated to accommodate more than twenty persons, by the double reflection its appearance is greatly augmented. The between decks is worthy attention. From the cabins being built on the upper deck, one uninterrupted space is presented from stem to stern. The berths are of iron and portable, but, instead of being placed as in ordi nary ships, down each side, they are in centre, and thus, from the ventilators, which run through her fore and aft, a double action of air is received, and the side lights be come far more efficacious. Indeed, we may safely say that the accommodations now presented are perfection. Every modern improvement is adopted, and nothing that , could add to the comfort of the traveller has been neglected in the equipment of the Jacob A. Westervelt. The num ber of superficial feet in the second cabin is about 6,000 feet, and on the lower deck about 5,000, which will enable her to carry in all about 900 passengers. The Jacob A. Westervelt is a three-decker, but with the exception of the enclosed state-rooms for second cabin passengers, there is little difference between the lower and upper deck,—indeed, the latter has the advantage in height, but both approach eight feet. She was built at New York, and bears the name of her constructor, who is now classed as the largest shipowner in the United States. The dimensions of the J. A. Westervelt are— Length between perpendiculars .... 190 feet. 206 feet. 42 ft.. 6 in. 28 ft. 8 in. Length over all Breadth of beam Depth of hole .. In point of strength she is such as will class h . ten years, being admitted as a " live oak built ship ;" framework, timbers, and deadwood fore-and-aft, are o that durable material. Her planking is of white oak, commencing with a nine-inch thick guardboard steath, and diminishing proportionately to the wales, where it is 5 inches thick. This strength, too, is greatly aided by the ceiling which crosses the planking diagonally. The number of white oak :and yellow pine knees, used in her construction must be enormous, and they are all of great strength and well grown. The hanging knees are about 22 inches in the throat, and beautif u lly fitted A 1 for She is built with every strength, and finished with every nicety, her bulwarks being scraped nearly to the finish of a coach panel. In beauty or appointment the J. A. W (irrespective of nations) second to no ship in port. She is consigned to Mr. John Taylor Crook, and is under the command of Capt. Hoodless, whose run of 16 days from New York to the bell-buoy, needs no commendation to establish his name in handling a " clipper-craft." will stand ?,_NAVIGATION OF TIT INDUS So far back as August or September 1843, we had oc casion to notice the building, by Mr. John Laird, of an iron vessel, for the navigation of the Ganges, called " Loodeania,"—now " The Napier",—and which has proved herself the best craft for the purpose hitherto pro duced. Mr. Laird's success in this, and in many other instances, (embracing all kinds of iron vessels) recently procured him an order from the Hon. East Tndia Company for a large steam vessel, for the navigation of the Ganges. for shallow water, and as she is now nearly completed, we obtained a cursory view of her yesterday. The vessel is upwards of 200 feet long, and 30 feet beam . ; and will draw, when loaded, about two feet of water. Her model resembles that of the Napier, with such modifications as experience has suggested. The principle, (in form), is that of the canoe, shovel shaped at both extremities, and the bottom, amidships,—without keel—forming an inverted gentle segment of an arch ; the centre portion, however, or floor, being nearly flat. The rudder is loose, and hung by an iron bar. This is applied at either end as necessity requires, and the lower part of the rudder is level with the under part of the bot tom of the vessel, though it is below that part of the turned up extremity under which it hangs. On deck the vessel much resembles the Woodside iron steamers, (also with a rudder at each end), built by the same gentleman, but is of much greater length. She is divided longitudinally into what may be called three vessels, by water-tight bulkheads, and traversing these, athwart ships, there are other bulkheads, dividing the whole vessel into thirty water-tight compartments, and adding greatly to her strength. Her depth from the spacious flush-deck, varies] (from her build) from 11 feet in the middle to 8 feet towards the extremities. The floorings, engine bed, &c., are all of tubular or spout wrought iron, imparting great strength. She is to be propelled by paddle-wheels, to be worked by engines of 160 to 180-horse power, but which may be worked with safety to a much higher pressure. It is expected that the vessel, per se, will attain a good speed, and she will be capable of towing two or three large cargo or luggage boats. The bottom being of the canoe form, should she go upon a sand bank with the current in her behalf, an anchor may be let go at the then stern end, and the water washing under her will clear away the sand and release her from the danger (to which ordinary boats are liable in such navigations) of getting broadside on and being da maged or capsized. Should she take a bank or snig, in running against the tide or current, the anchor may be let go at the then bow, and she will drift back into the deep water. The numerous bulkheads will give her great strength in resisting collisions of any kind, or strains on the shifting sands of the river for which she is destined. Such is the floating capacity of the vessel, and the ex tent of her decks and accommodations, that she will carry a full regiment of soldiers at a time. All deck or top lumber is avoided. So far as we can judge, the plan is much more simple, and likely to be more efficient and workable than the composite or united train of boats pro posed by Mr. Bourne; but we shall defer all details on this point until a future occasion. The vessel will, when finished, be taken to pieces, and sent in a ship to India, to be finally put together. GREAT GEORGE WARD.—Last night a numerous meet ing of the electors of this ward was held in the large room at the Great George Tavern, Upper Pitt-street, for the purpose of proposing a gentleman as a councillor for the ward, in the place of the late lamented councillor, Mr. H. G. Harbord. It was proposed by Mr. Thomas 'Wag staff, and seconded by Mr. Samuel Lloyd, and carried unanimously amidst much applause, that Mr. Richard Ilarbord was a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the council chamber. A committee of influen tial gentlemen was formed for the purpose of securing Mr. Harbord's return. The election will take place to-day, and we have no doubt that the popularity of the respected candidate will secure his return without opposition. GREAT SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN RUSSIA.—A suspen sion bridge upon a large scale is now being constructed across the river Dnieper, at Kieff, under the direction of Mr. Vignolles, the English engineer. The town of Kieff is picturesquely situated on the right shore of the Dnieper, which is one of the largest rivers in Russia, and at this point, though one of the narrowest parts of the channel, half a mile broad. This bridge is to be thrown from the marshy ground on the left bank to the foot of the accli vity on the Kieff s id e . W roug ht iron chains are to be used for the bridge by Mr. Vignolles' suggestion, instead of wire-ropes, which were thought of. The bridge is to have four principal openings, each of 440 feet, and two side openings of 225 feet each ; also a passage of 50 feet on the right shore, spanned by a swivel bridge for the passage of steam-boats and other crafts. The architecture of the river piers, five in number, harmonises with that used in first class fortresses. The ways through the piers have a clear breadth of 58 feet, and the platform of 53. The footpaths project beyond the chai ns . Th e quan tit y o f machinery employed in the construction is enormous, not less than nine steam-engines being in use. A model of the bridge, which was made in London, is now exhibiting at St. Petersburgh, where it creates a great sensation. An interesting circumstance connected with Klieff is that it was the spot where Christianity was first planted in Russia. The " wooden walls of Old England" is a glorious, national, and time-honoured toast; one that was wont to command a bumper goblet frdm all who held allegiance to our state, but, like " speed the plough," it seems des tined amidst ministerial mismanagement, to be placed as but " a record of the past." However we may wish, from a national pride, to uphold the supremacy of our mercantile marine : we cannot close our eyes to the rapidity with which America is increasing her merchant service. Since the Ist of January last, 28,815 tons of shipping have been launched at New York, and 19,045 additional have been partially constructed; together com prising 5 steam-ships, 12 steam-boats, 22 ships, 3 barques, 6 ferry-boats, and 1 barge, or a total of 52 vessels. Our docks are at this moment graced with " the Constella tion," the Guy Mannering," " the Shannon," and other of the 22 ships, not one of which is of less burthen than 2000 tons ! Another new and beautifully-finished "Mon ster Ship," has just completed her first passage, she is called "The Jacob A. Westervelt," and as for beauty of model will no doubt command attention, dismissing natural predilections, we give such particulars as may prove interesting. The Jacob A. Westervelt is by new measurement 1,600 tons register, but her burthon considerably exceeds 2,000 tons. She was constructed as a sister ship, is of similar dimensions to the favourite liner Guy Mannering, and is, consequently, some five or six feet larger than an ordinary seventy-four gun ship. With a breadth of beam thoroughly efficient to provide ample bearing, she is particularly fine on the lines—clean in the run, and sharp in the entrance; but she is so neatly rigged, and sits on the water so lightly and gracefully that few from exterior appearance could form a conception of her gigantic tonnage. On deck, however, her midship beam is carried well forward, so that a roomy topgallant-forecastle is secured—and aft of this are several deck houses, which offer accommodations certainly worthy of notice, at a time when sanitary regulations are so requisite. They comprise a surgeon's room, with ample stores of medicine, not packed in a chest, but arranged as in a chemical laboratory, bath rooms, and separate hospitals for male and female emigrants, ice houses, &c. There are separate fore and aft entrances for the several classes of passengers, and the cooking apparatus provided is superior to any we have hitherto seen. To prevent the possibility of fire being communicated to the ship, the galleys are floored with concreted cement, and entirely lined with zinc. Lightning conductors are inlaid in the mast, and carried through the ship, and she is fitted with Brown's portable fire engine, which can be momentarily used in case of need. Jan. 8, 1 THE FATALITY AT MAdritlLL, The inquest on the bodies of th e th ree un imuthoF sons who met their death at Maghull, on Tues,ll2 was resumed at the Railway Inn, Maghull, po f - ; Mr. Norris, soli c it or , o f Li ver p oo l, w h o was one uhl passengers in the train from Ormskirk, on the n i t f io t the unfortunate occur r e nce , was present, an d t o prominent part in the in qu i r y, w ith a v i ew t o Pr° the interests of the public in coming at the truth. Mr. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, appeared j y fessionally for Michael Mason, the driver of the ' Bull engine a tt ac h e d t o th e l uggage tra i n, which 10 cause of the calamity. M r . H ac ki ng , t h e secre t a rl° East Lancashire Railway Company was also present. The evidence of Ralph Steel, the driver of the Phie the engine attached to the passenger train, was effect that he whistled three times, when he first ssw tt o luggage train approaching, it being then about el 4 hundred yards off, and had it been coming at a in pace could have been stopped in time to prevent the fi dent ; but ho considered it was procee di ng at a rate" ~ miles an hour when it came up, Mr. Penkeyman and Mr. Hudson, gentlemen., were waiting at the Magh u ll s t a ti on w h en the train gentlemen up, gave evidence o f th e way i n wh i ch the acci, occurred, from which it t rans pi re d t h at i t i s a 5130 master's duty, when he thinks it necessary, to run eL line for the distance of, perhaps, half a mile, with a signal. No such precaution was %bserved while the riage was being attached, although considerable deg been caused in the operation. Henry Slater, the stoker belonging to the luggage, stated that when they left Blackburn it was five 031 9:0 past eight o'clock, and w h en t h ey arr i ved at Orms lo, was perhaps twenty minutes to nine. Ormskirk is to five miles from Magiaull. During the whole couP` t y the trip they never were cautioned by any one as t° ti i speed at which they were proce e di ng . Thi s witness st%, that as soon as the engine dri ver got to Howard's 13510 he whistled, and soon after he heard the whistle 01 stationary train, and he then reversed his engine, b u te i was too late to prevent the collision. He further Et a . that the night was so fo gg y as t o prec l u d e the i r see s any object beyond the en gine , an d was certa i n tha t o'i e dthey passed the station th e y were go i ng at a spe ed about twelve miles an hour. James Morris, the gu ar d o f th e l uggage train, atlini 14 that the train was about two hours earlier than it oiT; to have been, which he attributed to their having not", to take up by the w a y. H e h a d ne i ther book of instriiii tions, time-list, nor any other guide for his directio n the discharge of his duties. Mr. Wolstenholme, the superintendent of the passengl department at Liverpool, st a t e d th at i t was the duty of,r e) the servants to have a book o f i nstruct i ons, for Nc l they were ordered to apply to som e super i or o f fi cer . was at the Maghull station at el even o ' c l oc k on the fl of the accident, and he found the s t a ti on-master d run k ;d In answer to a question from th e C oroner, M r . Hacbtl said that the guards were the pe r s ons i n whom the of the trains was vested ; but, of course , t h e engine- d r ib had the controul of the spe e d of th e eng i ne. The CORONER, in summing up, sa id i t was quite $ that the luggage t ra i n h a d p er f orme d t h e distance fro Blackburn to Maghull, 28i m il es , i n l ess than an 1 1 1 If the jury thought th a t e ith er t h e dr i ver or the guar d the "John Bull" eng i ne , or any other person had bet,l the cause of the acc id en t, t h e i r verdict must be one manslaughter. .• After a deliberation of 21- Hours, the jury found ° ll e engine-driver, Michael Mason, and the guard, JO Morris, guilty of manslaughter. We understand that a government inquiry is to he 11 ,: stituted into the catastrophe to-day, under the directl°' of Captain Wynne, who has been deputed by the gove r went railway board for that purpose. THE GROWTH OF FLAX The following information with respect to the growtb t flax we give on the authority of an Irish correepcm derii It is the only encoura g i ng f ac t connected with the pre position of agricultural aff a irs, w hi c h h as come under o notice : - ` 7 Tlax, the only article of home growth which has 1 3 ,,, no protection afforded to it formany years, is now, fro the advanced state of it s cu lt ure, t h e ma i n dependence °, the farmers who grow it. It i s , h owever, to b e regrett ed' that the prospect of ano th er l arge sow i ng of flax is In3te rially marred by the sma ll supp li es o f see d . The t o ts, quantity shipped this season, from Riga for Belfast, 0 : 9,010 barrels, of which number 1,383 barrels were lost 0 , the passage, leaving only 7,627 barrels for the season' supply, of which quantity two cargoes are still at Eel against 13,300 barrels last year; whilst for all Ireland tile, quantity this season will b e 15,477 b arre l s against 29, 61 t last year, and it is feared that the quantity from Hollav will be proportionally small." YESTERDAY.—YestercIa miming, during a dense haze, the Woodside sternne f `Queen," while on her way towards Liverpool, and opP O ite and near to the mouth of W a ll ase y P oo l , ran f ou l °' the schooner •• Rambler," of Wicklow, which was the lj lying at anchor. Both vessels were damaged, but n ot t° much extent. The schooner had her figure-head carrier' away, and the steamer had her stem'above water and pal l of her bulwarks and sponsons slightly smash e d. We 8.0. ACCIIIEN ON THE RIV informed that another schooner wrs anchored close to the Rambler, and that, owing to the fogand the strength of tides the collision was not attributable to want of care. Indeed. the number of vessels in the river yesterday morning, 1i the direct line between Birkenhead and the sta•re. dered the navigation very difficult, and even hazarclows. LITERARY AND PHIL OSOPHICAL S OCIETY. —At the usual fortnightly meeting of this association, last nilzh,." )I the President, Mr. J. B. Y a t es , i n th e chair—nt Lowndes read a very interesting paper, on th e su bject c", the origin, the language, and the ar ts o f th e peop le 0' Etruria,—much of the information conveyed in which, h e prefaced by saying, was derived by the work of 31r. Dennis, on the subject. The meeting was well attended and the lecturer was listened to with great interest, and displayed, in the course of his remarks, great study of the subject. After the conclusion of the lecture, an in' teresting conversation ensued, in which the Chairman gave some information as to the difference of the genuine Etruscan vases, which had found their way into the collections of some of the cognoscenti, amongst whom he mentioned his friend Mr. Rogers, the eminent banker, of London ; and some modern vases, said to be of the same manufacture and class. Mr. Inman, the hon. sec., made a few very interesting remarks on the subject, which con cluded the evening'sproceedings. THE COUNTESS OF LANSFELDT.—We extract the fol lowing from a letter dated Cadiz, Dec. 27 :—Lola MonteS and Mr. Heald have been here for the last ten days; They came from Barcelona. She is much altered and aged, not so good looking as when here in 1842. Het temper is not at all improved, and her delight seems to be to keep Heald in the greatest terror and dread of her. Heald made his escape with his English servant from the hotel Ismenez, (where they were staying on Christma 3 morning,) and is supposed to have gone to Gibraltar. Lola was furious. She went in a French steamer that evening with her two friends, foreigners, who are i n her party, to Algesiras, and sent Ismenez and aenther man 1)9 land : so that if Heald does not succeed in getting on board the Pacha, she hopes to catch him. It is reported on good authority to-day that Heald has embarked this morning on board the Pacha, and he will now be enabled to reach England in safety, and no doubt feel grateful to his aunt for all she has done for him." It is said that Mr. Heald has arrived in London, and put up at an hotel in Cork-street. Burlington-gardens. PRESENTATION TO THE REV. GEORGE DOVER AND HIS LADY.—Last evening the congregation of St. Bar' tholomew's Church met in the scho o l- room , Naylor-, street, for the purpose of being present on the occasion ot their beloved minister and his estimable lady receiving ,1 testimonial of the respect in whi c h b o th are h e ld b y a ll the inhabitants of the district, Mr. Dover having, as our readers are aware, been appointed incumbent of St. Bar', nabas'. Mr. Dover's present c o ns i s t e d o f a f u ll su it of canonicals ; that intended for Mrs. Dover was an elegant work-table, with appropriate fittings and appendages : it is a superb piece of furniture, of tasteful design. Aff. Taylor, surgeon, read the written complimentary address , the substance of which was that the testimonial was an offering of regard, respect, and affection, for their minister on the occasion of his taking leave of them. It enume' rated the many benefits that had een conferred on the residents of the district since the commencement of Mr. Dover's ministration ' • the neighbourhood then a b ou nded with low and immoral characters, rendering it unsafe for persons to pass along the streets ; but owing to the faith' ful efforts of their pastor in his ministerial capacity, 0 ; well as from the fact of hi s h av i ng originated a ragged school, which now numbers an average attendance of 300 children, much of that apparent vice and irreligion had been removed. The address also praised Mrs. Dover for her unremitting exertions in the school. Mr. Dover, who appeared much affected, replied in terms of piety and affection to ti. address on behalf of himself and his lady; he renounced all claim to merit in what had been done in the neighbourhood, attributing much of the credit to the Rev. J. 0. Powell, his coadjutor, and he spoke of Mr. Dandy, his scripture reader, in the highest terms of cool' mendation. His address concluded with the best wishes for the welfare and final happiness of those amongst whom he had ministered, Mr. Powell then addressed the meeting in suitable terms, and the parties separated with mutual feelings of regret and affection. USE OF CHEMISTRY.—Amongst jiher experiments the powers of the bleaching liquids were exhibited. Soon after the exhibttion two of the old wives of Kilmany had the following soliloquy :—" Goriminister," said !the one , "is neathing short o' a war l oc k ; he was teaching the follc; to clean claes 'hout (without) soap." "Aye, woman, was the reply, " I wish he would teach me to make per ritch 'hout meal.—Hanna's Life of Chalmers. LIVERPOOL : TUE S DAY, JAN. 8. 1850. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT. LIVERPOOL. ')rders for Advertisements re ce i ve d b y M essrs. 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