The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TO CORRESPONDENTS. I working brethren to ponder de e ply u p on thi s state PROPOSED INCREASE OF LANDING ACCONI- We do not think that the lette r re l at i ve to S i r Thomas Reade gives any additional inf orma ti on. of things; to ask themselves how it i s brought MODATION FOR THE SEACOMBE, EGRE. about, and wh e th er it i s i n accor d ance w i t h the MOM, AND NEW BRIGHTON, AND THE LARGE STEAMERS laws of nature and of God. The essence of a so cial state is the dependence of one class with t Jly next Air. Crawford's letter is too long. another The rich man wants the poor man's la- The p)or man wants a portion of the rich man's superfluity. Both are willing and anxious to make the exchange; and why are they not able to make that exchange ? We give a case ; and it is precisely that, to a mistake with respect to which our present difficul ties are, in a great measure, attributed. We wish to improve the internal communications of our country; and railwayS we find the most eco nomical and rapid of transit. We have the mate rials at our command. We have land, stone, iron, timber, tools, food, and skilled labour; and the owners of each are willing to devote them to the required purpose. Yet so simple a transaction our philosophers and statesmen cannot arrange; and The want of a convenient landing for the large and other steamers has long been a subject of complaint ; and we pointed attention last week to the danger which results from their coming to the steps and landing stage at present used by the Seacombe and Egremont boats. Since we wrote another accident has occurred, from the same cause as those previously noticed, by which the life of a cler gyman was nearly sacrificed, the particulars of which will be found in another column. We are happy to find, that at length the attention of the public is being directed to the want in question, and that it is about to be urged upon our local authorities; for, independent of the ad mitted fact, that our northern ferries, to the most delight ful and salubrious portion of the hundreds of Wirral, are wretchedly provided for, there ought surely to be some deference paid to the claims of such companies as the Dublin, the Glasgow, and the owners of other large Irish and coasting steamers. We have - been favoured daring the week with a private view of a model, constructed by Mr. John Grantham, ar, mains in the gparry, the iron in the mine, and the food in the warehouse or the shop, and the maker of pickaxes and spades, the bricklayer, the mason, the smith, and the navvy walk about our streets without the value of a meal in their pockets. We are told that we are suffering because we have invested too much of our floating capital in these , railways; because we have converted to a C.E., of a proposed new landing stage, to be laid down at the Prince's Pier, by which the want referred to will be supplied. The model in question is to be brought be fore a meeting of the Polytechnic Society, on Thursday next, at which his worship the Mayor has consented to be present. In the meantime, a brief description of it may not be uninteresting to our readers. It is proposed by Mr. Grantham to lay down a stage four hundred feet in length, and a little narrower than the large stage, and built as a neatly flat bottomed ship, at the south end of the Prince's pier, one extremity of which will be placed nearly opposite to the southern corner of the present Egremont basin. The mooring proposed consists of spring cables, or transverse chains from both ends crossing each other within its own length, and thus not interfering with the navigation of the river, except as preventing vessels running between the stage and the pier. It will be further kept off by iron booms. The ferry steamers will be accommodated at the southern end ; and at the north end, iron stauncheons, fourteen feet high. will be placed for the accommodation of the large steamers. The height of the deck will be the same as that of the present small stage, which is found to be most convenient for the ferry boats ; and for the large steamers moveable gangways will be provided of the various heights required. The stage will be approached by a bridge of a very neat construction, to run from about half way between the Egrement basin and the present Seacombe steps, transversely to the centre of the stage, by which a greater length of way will be secured, and a less incline than that of the bridges at the George's landing stage. The ap proach from the pier is most convenient; and the turn, by which carriages will run from the bridge to the north end of the stage is equally easy. Each end will be at tached with hinges, thus accommodating the bridge to the rise and fall of the tide. It is conceived by experienced authorities, that the stage, thus constructed, will afford the most complete accommodation possible for luggage to or from Cheshire, or elsewhere. this, that information s requested to be mauc Parish-office?" ebt useful object, and one by which the march of civili zation is promoted, too much iron, stone, timber, and human labour. How can this .be the case ? We have never yet felt a scarcity of any of these commodities. We have never experienced a want of iron, stone, timber, or labour to devote to other and ordinary purposes. Into whatever part of the country our railway works have been carried they have borne with them employment to the labourer and prosperity to all classes ; and yet the labourer, we are told, is suffering from too much railway TUESDAY One very material advantage to be derived from the adoption of the plan will be the removal of the present Egremont stage, which is felt to be a dangerous obstruc tion to vessels coming into or going out of the George's Basin. It may be found necessary to fill up entirely the present Egremont Basin, which will no longer be required, except for fishing and other boats, and thus to secure an uninterrupted line of pier from Prince's Basin. This proposal, however, is entirely distinct from that of the landing stage. THE ASSIZES. The special winter assize for the southern division of this county will be opened at Liverpool, on Monday next, before Mr. Boron Alderson and Mr. Justice Erle. The calendar, in a numerical point of view is very heavy, there being already not less than 154 prisoners for trial, 62 of whom, however, are charged with political offences. There are charged with the capital offence of murder 7, (six of these being for murdering policeman Bright, at Ashton-under-Lyne,) manslaughter 5, rape 3, burglary 17, stabbing 13, bigamy 7, forgery 6, robbery from person 8, horse-stealing 1, sheep-stealing 5, night poaching 5, mint cases 11, concealing birth 1. stealing post letter 1, making a false register 1; (Mr. Chubb, the registrar, who has continued in custody since his committak) " conspi racy",—such is the general charge against the whole of the political offenders,-62. In one murder case a young man, named James Kelly, stands charged with having cut the throat of his sweetheart, at Heaton Norris, in Sep tember last. The sad details will be yet fresh in the me mory of our readers. The following are the names of the parties charged with the murder of Bright :Joseph Rat cliff, Joseph Constantine, Thomas Kenworthy, Jonathan Walker, Wm. Winterbottom, and James Stott. A second and minor count in the indictment charges these prisoners, in case of acquittal on the capital charge, with conspiracy. It is arranged that the trials of the political offenders shall be taken first. Of the sixty-two charged with conspiracy ten are Liverpool Confederates, twenty-eight are Chartists frem Manchester, and the twenty-four others are from Ashton. It is thought that the trial of the ten Liverpool Young Irelanders will take place on Tuesday, the 12th instant, and many interesting facts, showing the designs of the leagued Confederates here, will doubtlessly be elicited. The names of those in custody are, Joseph Cuddy, cabinet-maker; Matthew Somers, (formerly a provision-dealer, in Hurst-street;) Francis O'Donnell, surgeon; Edward Murphy, clerk; Robert Hopper, joiner, are four out on bail: Martin Boshill, cashier in a mer chant's office • Peter Herbert Delamere, coal- agen t ; J as . West; and Richard Smyth. 1 hour makir .?, great depreciation which has taken place in the price of railway property : and here we approach to the key of the mystery. We may some of us have mis calculated the value of such property. A. may be poorer to-day by half his fortune than he was yesterday ; but B. will have got the property of A. for half what it cost. As a nation we are no poorer than before. The railway is of the same public utility as before. But it will not sell for so much of the conventional representative of value, money ; and here is the pinching point of our difficulties, so far as railways are concerned. A., having in vested a temporary surplus of, say £lOOO, in a railway, requires it back again for his ordinary business. In the meantime, however, we have had a monetary panic; and as the result, his £lOOO is only worth £5OO in the same conventional article, money, and, to some extent, in commodities. Hence A. cannot pay his Christmas bills so readily; and, perhaps, may have to discharge a servant, or to limit his business operations, which in the ordinary nature of things would lead to the increase of a neighbour's, who has been more fortunate. But, what was the cause of the monetary panic ? is the question. What is the nature of the myste rious operation by which half of A.'s £lOOO has been lost ? We will endeavour to give an ex planation, which shall be intelligible ; and, if in doing so, it may appear to any of our readers that we are stating matters which are well known to them, we must remind them that we are appealing to parties who are not so well informed. When A., then, invested his £lOOO in, say London and North western Stock, at £2OO per share, and paying ten per cent. dividends, the return which he could have had for that money, placed at call in his banker's hands, or employed in the discount market, was from 2 to 21 per cent. The railway was, there fore, even at £2OO per share, his best investment. But when A. had to sell, money was worth 10 to 121 per cent. interest in the discount market; and the security which only returned 10 per cent. on £lOO, became worth something less than the £loo—which then would produce £lO per annum in that market. But how did it occur that amount money—currency—a mere vehicle for transferring commodities from one man's hand to another—had become worth 121 instead of 21 per cent ? Be cause we have a monetary system, the essential feature of which is, that when the Bank of Eng land parts with a few millions of gold, she is com pelled to withdraw from circulation the same number of millions in paper, thus withholding from the community 4- 1 ' • by h tine vehicle in question, -1C the interchange of labour and commodities for commodities is effected. We had this drain of gold last year to pay for our heavy imports of breadstuffs, and a the consequent contraction of our currency; and the effect is before us, in the stagnation which we have been experiencing in the commerce and industry of the country, and in the decline in the marketable value of every description of securities and tangible property, estimated to amount to at least five hundred millions sterling. We ask of our fellow-townsmen to reflect upon this strange state of things, existing in a nation which boasts of its advancement in civilization. The question is not the difficult one which it is said to be. It is a plain matter of fact affair, which requires only common sense to understand. If any of our readers had a pair of boots which grew tighter every additional mile he had to walk, or a poker which went out of the way every time the fire wanted stirring, and compelled him to break up his tables or chairs to perform that necessary _ operation, he would speedily arrive at some correct notions of this very complicated stion. -ncv al WANT OF CURRENCY, NOT WANT OF CAPITAL, enting to his readers a tabular statement, shew ing the fluctuation which has taken place in the price of Consols and railway shares during the month of Novem ber, the London Times remarks : THE CAUSE , OF LOW PRICES, In pre took place on the 2d inst., Consols, it will be observed, have advanced nearly 2 per cent." _ So far, the adrilisiion is a welcome one, The abundance or scarcity of currency, not of capital, determines prices. A high or a low rate of interest determines the exchange able value of securities. But the Times might have gone on and noticed the fact that, under the operation of this increased abundance, or cheapness of money, nearly every sort of property has advanced in marketable value ; and that an increased portion of the labour of the country has been placed in active employment. The cause of our re cent difficulties then, has not been the conversion of our capital into railways or anything else, but simply the fact that the Bank could not accommodate with currency at a fair rate, combined with the general want of confidence arising out of tl recent commercial crash, caused by the e Bank to afford us any currency at all, ex- Ray of tY Our contemporary goes on to contrast the rise in the price of Consols with the position of railway property which he says, in the majority of stocl they are made by our the table liew - a rary contradi s his assumption —Of the capital embarke _ illionists to bear ! Un given by our contempo- The mass—in amount having d SPLENDID NEW PACKET-SHIP.—We learn that there is f completion, at New York, a super now in process line of 'packet. be consigned to 'vit.— , and Co., of this port. She will be larger than even " The New World," her burthen being 1800 tons, and besides sple did cabins she will have - Spooner, Sand , commoclations for 800 steerage passengers. She will make her first trip from this port to New York, in March next. A VERY QUESTIONABLE COMPLIMENT.—The Man chester Guardian, in noticing the appointment of Mr. Barkly, M.P., to the Governorship of British Guiana, in the room of Sir J. Light, very innocently remarks : " Mr. Barkly was not a snpporLr of the pi:esent govern ment. and his Edpointment cannot, therefore, be attri buted to political favouritism." Our contemporary evi dently feels that the absence of political favouritism here is an exception to the general rule, by which the present government is guided in making its appointments. SALT-WATER BATHS.—At the Council meeting to morrow, Mr. Parker will submit a motion for the Council to obtain possession of the baths, at George's Pier, in order that the same " may be appropriated for the benefit of all classes of the community." If this step can be taken without injury to the present respected occupier of the premises, it will be a move in the right direction, and Mr. Parker will doubtless be seconded by all wbo desire the cleanliness, and therefore the health of the inhabitants of the town. THE DOCKS OP LIVERPOOL UNABLE TO CONTAIN ITS SHIPPING.-A visitor to our port, acquainted with the requirements of shipping, would certainly not say that we had shewn any great rashness in the construction of addi tional dock space, as alleged by Mr. Eyre Evans and other cavillers at the policy of the late Dock Chairman. For the last three days the flag, intimating that they are full, has been hoisted at every dock in our port, except the Albert Dock, and including the new north docks ; and even the Albert Dock is inconveniently crowded, and every hand in it actively engaged. In addition, we have at least 20,000 tons of shipping lying in the river at anchor, and large vessels coming up every tide, not one of which, until we have a change of wind, and a large number go to sea, can get into dock. We could do just now with an increase of accommodation at least equal to that provided by the four north docks recently opened. A STAPLE TRADE LEAVING US The following paragraph, which we copy from the Sheffield Times. discloses to us a rather alarming feature in the position of the nation : "WHAT IS TO BECOME OF SHEFFIELD? is a question of no inconsiderable moment, and ought to be the grand subject of reflection in the minds of all who re a lly, a s they profess. feel an interest in the welfare of their town. Independently of the temporary stagnation of commerce, the staple trade is fast leaving 'Sheffield. There is a sad want of capital in the town, which arises, in a great measure, from the fact that any man with a few pounds in his pocket can start as manufac turer; and he almost necessarily consumes his capital as fast as he makes it. No ,efforts are made to restore, increase, or create new branches of trade; there is a total want of spirit and enterprise; and no man will venture a shilling unless he can calculate to a certainty on the return of t w o. The intro duction of a new trade alone will us." " The staple trade is fast leaving Sheffield !" Where is it going to ? Its cutlers have no capital,—no enterprise. They make no efforts to restore the old or create new branches of trade. How is all this ? We fancy that we can trace it in part to the very policy which Sheffield, above all other towns, by the return to Parliament of her Wards and Parkers, has been most anxious in promoting. Her merchants a few years ago were in the enjoyment of a large Canadian trade ; but free trade has smitten these colonies, and the woodman's axe is no longer busy in their forests as of old. The West Indies were their customers; and they are ruined. The foreigner, moreover, has been treading on their heels in other markets, and the competition of the hungry artizans of Birmingham has done the rest. We are sorry for the fate of this once enterprising town. The reputation of its cutlery is as old as the Heptarchy, when "a Sheffield whittle" was the sportsman's companion in our primeval woods. Although now furnished with railway communi cations to every market its decay has commenced, and a few years may see it the centre of a mass of pauperism. The Sheffield Times informs us that "a new trade alone can save it ;" but where, he must tell us, is anew trade to be found ? THE WEATHER.—The week ending last night, was on the whole very boisterous, with frequent heavy rains; but some fine intervals were experienced. The wind has pre vailed almost exclusively from the N.W., with an occa sional breeze from the S. and S.W. The air, for the most part, has been very humid, and at times very cold, but there has been no freezing. We have nothing new to notice in reference to the crops. __ TOWN COUNCIL MEETING ing will be held to-morrow. —The usual monthly meet- The Finance Committee recommend the purchase of one or two more steam-boats for Birkenhead Ferry. The Dock Committee proceedings comprise the agreement for the purchase from Lord Derby of the land at the North Shore, Dock Chairman. The Town H and the election of the ings comprise arrangements in consequence of the resig nation of Mr. Solomon. The committee on local rates will make r, report. The Mayor's communications com prise —Resolution of the justices of the borough relative to the new gaol and house of correction for the borough. Memorial from the operative porters of Liverpool, praying the Council to tare steps to repeal so much of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 109, as relates to the present system of master porterage. The following motions will be sub mitted--By Mr. Councillor Thomson—That the Corpora tion offer the Birkenhead Ferry to be let by auction to the highest bidder, he giving satisfactory security to keep the ferry worked by steam-boats. That, if no bidder comes forward, the Corporation cease to work the ferry; that the steamer " Fanny" be sold by auction to the highest bidder ; that the ferry be thrown open to all steam or other boats,—the Corporation to maintain the right of ferry by employing one row boat to go over once a day. By Mr. Councillor Harbord—That it be an instruction to the Watch Committee to furnish a return of all cases of nui sances, and other matters connected with the Sanitary Act, reported by the police to the borough engineer, medical officer, building surveyor, and inspector of nui sances, from the first January last to the present time. By Mr. Councillor Harbord—To rescind so much of the resolution of the Council of the 16th of August last as directs the Water Committee to take immediate measures for proceeding with the construction of the new works, authorized by the act called " The Liverpool Corporation Water Works Act, 1847," and to move that it be an in struction to the Water Committee to stay all proceedings with reference to such new works until a report on the special matters of income and expenditure, now referred to and under the consideration of the Financial sub-Com mit tee of the Water Committee, and also a report on the charges contained in the Liverpool Mercury, and now under investigation, shall be received by the Council. By Mr. Councillor Woodruff—That it be an instruction to the chairman of every committee to report to each monthly meeting of the Council, the names of members of the committee of which he is chairman who have been absent at any meeting of the committee, or any sub-committee thereof, during the preceding month ; and also to report to the Council at the first meeting in October, in each year, a summary of the attendance of members during the preceding twelve months. By Mr. Councillor Parker— That it be an instruction to the Finance Committee to give the regular notice to the tenant of St. George's Baths, with a view to obtaining possession thereof as soon as practicable, in order that the same may be placed under the management of the Health Committee, and be appro priated far the benefit of all classes of the community. LIVERPOOL DECEMBER SESSIONS The sessions of the peace for the trial of prisoners con fined in the Boreggh House of Correction, commenced yesterday, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar contained the names of 106 prisoners charged with felony, and 12 charged with misdemeanour. Of the whole number (118) it appears 18 can read imperfectly ; 41 can read and write imperfectly ; 52 can neither read nor write ; and 7 only can read and write well. The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute THE GRAND JURY : Henry Jenkins, merchant, Goree-piazzas, Foreman, Robert Coleman Crosbie, merchant, Cook-street, Charles Fairclough, cotton broker, Lower Castle-street, John Finch, jun., iron merchant, Rumford-place, Charles Groves, merchant, 8, Goree-piazzas, Wm: Lindsay, merchant, New-quay, Thos. Marshall Myers, accountant, Exchange-alley, East, Charles Wm. Newman, cotton broker, Hackin's-hey, Wm. Rotherham, merchant, Exchange-street East, Samuel F. Symonds, wine merchant r Lower Castle-street, Richard Withers, share broker, Royal Bank Buildings, Henry Curry, broker, Rumford-place, L. R. Baily, 21, Exchange Buildings, T. B. Blythe, merchant, Rumford-street, J. B. Cooper, broker, Rumford-street, Robert Higgin, merchant, Rumford-place, Wm. Moore, merchant, Chapel-street, R. A. McFie, sugar refiner, Bacheior-street, James Livesey, cotton broker, Rumford-place, J. T. W. Leyland, merchant, Exchange-street East, S. Taylor Hobson, gentleman, Catherine-street. The proclamation against vice and immorality having been read, The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury. He said that, though six weeks had not quite elapsed since the last sitting of the court, the juries of the borough were called upon again to discharge heavy duties. I find in my. calendar (which is more complete than the printed list) the names of 128 prisoners for trial. He remarked that there was an enormous increase in the number of female offenders. Out of 103 names in the present list, 49, or nearly one half, were women,, the number being nearly double the usual average. The evil was increasing in this town, and he found, by a careful examination of the prison returns, that there was no town in the kingdom where the sex was more degraded, and so steeped in crime. This was the more painful, inasmuch as it was an evil to a great extent beyond the controal of the court ; for, what improvement could be hoped for in such cha racters by imprisonment in a gaol in which there was no means of separate confinement. And what amendment could be hoped for in the punishment of such persons, when it was known that their places were filled up by new comers from Ireland ? This , was an evil which would, he feared, continue in the town, until as was probable, some experiment were made to arrest it. He thought some controal should be put upon that class of women; that they should be so restrained that their number would be reduced ; and that some degree of punishment should be inflicted upon those who harboured them. With regard to the other cases in the calendar—he might remark that the offences of picking pockets, stealing lead, &c., from warehouses, carters carting away stolen property—he had latterly punished such offenders with severity, including corporal punishment. The Grand Jury would find, by the calendar, that the severity of the court had been followed by good results, as there were few or any of these classes of crime. It was certainly something, if they could not reduce the number of crimes, that they could decerase their atrocity. The cases were generally of a light de scription ; but there was one case of o'ataining money from a burial society, on pretence of the death of a child. On reading the depositions, he was struck with the great facilities with which the names of children could be en tered in such societies' books ; and knowing, as he did, what had recently transpired in a court of justice, and what had taken place elsewhere, he did hope that parlia ment would interfere, and would take such measures as would prevent the strong temptations offered to parents by these societies, which gave them a pecuniary interest in the death of their children. The system had, in some instances, led to the greatest crimes. He thought that it would be well if some plan were adopted by which the parents would receive no share of the money, or by which the societies only would attend to the burial of the chil dren. He made these remarks generally, without in the slightest degree impugning the conduct of those whom he brought before them in the case alluded to. He con cluded by saying that the Grand Jury were perfectly competent to the law affecting the cases that would be laid before them, and also to judge of the facts. With these sentiments he dismissed them to the discharge of their duties. Several true bills having been found, the trials pro ceeded. A FEW MORE NUTS FOR THE BULLIONISTS TO CRACK. No. I. •" The _Construction of Railways has been the cause of the present national sykerin.o." Yet we have in reality been increasing the national ca pital by creating a mass of property, which will pay, on the average, from five to ten per cent. annual interest, whilst it contributes incalculably to the developement of the resources of the country and to the convenience and cheapness of locomotion., both for passengers, merchan dise, and produce. This plea is urged against railway investments, whilst we have been converting land, much of which is scarcely worth the cost of cultivation, into highly remunerative lines of road ; And whilst some hundreds of thousands of tons of iron have been extracted from the bowels of the earth, to pay from five to ten per cent. interest on the cost of the labour employed in getting it, and converting it into rails, &c. No. 2.—" The conversion, by means of the railways, of floating into fixed capital, is the cause of the present national distress." What is " floating capital" but money currency ; which is either deposited at your bankers, bringing in a small per centage of interest, locked up in your till, or employed in your ordinary business ? You don't bury this " floating capital," in the shape of bank notes or gold, in tunnels or embankments. It is not abstracted from circulation ; but pays the " navvy" to-day, goes to the baker, or the beer shop keeper to-morrow, and into the bank at the end of the week. It is " floating capital" all the while. The same sort of conversion of floating into fixed capi. tal takes place when a man buys a house, a mill, an es tate, a horse, or a new hat ; but we never heard of any amount of such conversions creating national distress ! No. 3.—Anomalous results of the causes of national distress above pleaded. _ _ From three to five hundred agricultural labourers earn ing 9s. per week, or supported, with their families, in the union workhouses, converted into "navvies" earning 20s, a week, spending that sum with the butcher, the baker, the grocer, &c., and yet causing national distress! - - Miners, smiths, artizans, &c., receiving a similar ac cession to the amount of their employment and its pay, and yet causing national distress ! Money in more active circulation, and a large portion of the community with increased means of consuming ; and yet the manufacturer and the merchant selling their produce at ruinous prices, and bankruptcy impending over their heads ! A an East India merchant, B a grocer, who has had the increased custom of the well-paid navvies ; and C the landowner, who has got a hundred pounds an acre from the railway proprietors for a slip of land intrinsically worth only one pound,—none of whom ever held a share in any line, suffering because D, E, and F have been en- gaged in converting capital at their bankers, paving only 24 per cent., or consols paying 3 per cent., into railway property, which will pay ten per cent. ! G, in temporary want of currency, selling the ten thou sand pounds, which he has lent on bond to a solvent rail way company at 44 per cent. interest, to Samuel Jones Loyd, or some other bullionist, for seven thousand five hundred pounds ! A depreciation of ten per property of the nation, c the value of the entire at say £5,000,000,000 staling, because £30,000,000 in cur.,_:,(Y haN%e to be Paid within the year in the shape of railway calls, which will be expended in labour and commodities, to create addi tional property, and returned to the banker within a week after it has been so paid ! No. 4.—What ought to have Leon the effect of the ex tension of our railway system. Increased prosperity of the labourer, the shopkeeper, manufacturer, and the merchant, arising from the increased power of consumption given to the former. the agricult ist, - th, A large increase of the realized capital of the country, by the conversion of capital producing only from two to three per cent. into railway property—still capital—pay ing from five to ten per cent. No. s.—The real cause of the depreciation, not only of railways but of every description of property, includ _ _ ing laboui Because, precisely at the time when, from the increased activity of the industry and the enterprise of the country, an increased amount of money, or currency, was required to conduct its transactions, a large portion of the medium of exchanges—currency — was withdrawn, in accordance with the provisions of the act of 1844, because the com modity, Gold, had gone out of the country temporarily to pay for corn. We had thus—to use a parallel case--to measure 1000 yards of cloth per hour with a less number of yard sticks than we usually require to measure 100 yards; to weigh in a given time 1000ths. of tea with the same pair of scales with which we usually weigh 100 lbs. ; and, as, the natural result, every body bidding against his neighbour for the loan of the yard stick and the scales, the holder of either could exact his own terms. And the mischief was increased by the anomalous provision of the act in question, which makes the yard stick and the scales —or the pound of gold—themselves actual values, as compared with those of commodities, instead of being, what they ought to be, only measures of value. We believe that Mr. Councillor Poole will be proposed at the Council meeting to-morrow as a member of the Dock Committee in the room of Mr. J. Bramley Moore. TOMB OF THE REV. J. H. FORSYTH.—Over the grave in which, in the month of July last, were deposited the remains of the Rev. John Hamilton Forsyth, in the north-west corner of the parish churchyard of this town, an altar-tomb has just been raised. It bears the follow ing inscription :—" Sacred to the memory of the Rev. John Hamilton Forsyth, second son of Thomas Forsyth, Esq., of Liverpool, for six years curate of this parish. He fell asleep in Jesus, June 25, 1848, aged 32 years." " He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord, for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith."—Acts xi., 23, 24, The style is a gothic of chaste design, and every part of the work is strictly in keeping. The material of the tomb is Painswick stone. It rests on a moulded plinth, having a base of freestone. The four sides of the tomb are ornamented with sculptured paneling of proportionate dimensions, containing ef f ectively disposed quatrefoils,-- Bristol parr. an article relative to th , stion of " A Itatepa !aints of." 11l requi nothing to fori;.ard hi We have handed over Mr. Taunton's letter to the the Liverpool Currency Reform Association. of the Republic of France is to be elected by the beople, but the President of th e A ssem bl y i s e l ecte d b y that ody. Cavaignac is at present acting as President of the Republic, pro tempore, and though others are in the field, the chief contest for that important post will be between him and Louis Napoleon. URRENCY A corre's bitterly onsideration. I last night, complains at four News-n a being cI( en, as rest, erday, ther Cinadian ag out-door ielief y are not e corresponderit years a ratepayer, had always inc lid cheerfully, knowins: that ver riving dii s and fan linate. Is it not too bad that .n, women making a living by td unkind re and more than be sotight, and communications arding such sufferers, to the W.V, , ,crpoct :MORNING. DEC. 5, 1848 UNDER the heading of "A new Budget," the Manchester Guardian gives us notice of some rumours, "to the effect that the honourable member for the West Riding of Yorkshire has prepared, and intends to submit to an early public meeting in Manchester, a scheme of finance, by the adop tion of which the Government is to be enabled to -save from ten to twelve millions in th e na ti ona l ex ... rualu11)1.11c. vur contemporary conjectures that this large saving is to he effected by a reduction of the force of the army and navy; and we perfectly agree with him that any great saving, thus effected "will not, under the present circumstances of Europe, command a very general acquiescence." The circumstance, however, which strikes us most forcibly, in connexion with Mr. Richard Cob den's thus assuming the office of volunteer Chan cellor of the Exchequer, is the very peculiar posi tion of the man himself, whilst promulgating his grand scheme of retrenchment. Two or three years ago Mr. Cobden would have treated the sav ing of a few millions in our national expenditure as a mere bagatelle, compared with the wonderful effects to be produced upon our commerce and in dustry by the adoption of his favourite free trade policy I'he prosperity to be caused by that policy was to have been such that taxation to even an in creased extent would scarcely be felt. The manu facturing interest was to have been rendered able to buy up the property of the landed aristocracy; ..Istruct all the railways, and to have effected we know not what magnificent things besides. How little of all this large promise has thus far been fulfilled we all know; and no one knows bet ter than the great prophet himself how lucky a dog be is, living at his ease, and propounding new budgets, with his testimonial fund in his pocket, instead of being compelled to print and sell calicoes, and to endure that ruinous pressure in commercial affairs which has followed so closely upon the adop tion of his nostrum, and crushed to the earth so many better men than his presuming self. Mr. Cobden would no doubt tell us, like his ally, the Manchester Guardian, that the disasters which to cor we have been, and are, daily witnessing, are the results of undue railway investments; that we have been over-speculating; converting floating capital too rapidly into fixed capital :—in short he will run through the whole of the hazy cloud of words, with which politico-economical philosophers seek to mystify us, as to the cause of the egregious failure of their own pet experiment. But can he shew us that a saving of ten millions per annum in taxation will protect the community from a recurrence of he extravagant specula n referred to Can he chew us th - St it N - V ill protect us from the conse- quences of money going a begging one day at one and a half per cent. interest, and only procurable the next at twelve and a half; of railway and other interest, being and only ten 'oni being in the ig millions, in the :ence to-day from 5 years tunes wo Gazette t 100,000 to ( rrow, and wo session of the comforts of e 3ein'g to- er's L'o the tra g, ckmourou;, and e at hand orrow the famisl s of the relief doled out at the tes of the union workhouse ? It will do no such 1 red I ing; and the ( forth by 11 cial Assoc With re only a burst liubbl Liverpool, damaged al assc ewers and pepper, and "ha 'omen for cheaper onions an( 7, alum r hour, and the vessel is on the 1' veal sedto call it—is ,acts and its ban ments o cription to thc • gar will be a memory, an imagination, not a re ity; that there will be heavy hearts and sad to he ob at many Christmas hoards. vn task is a sterner and less pleasant one. a few questions of our readers, with nd prospects; and we iem in an intelligible endeavour ddress oursel rofits of the 1 less, and with what to collect their usual Astir' himself knows well the Economy in the national E to secure Ir. Cobdi But it !ri, as it i e real sot ect to anxiet pursue a man a, for w tch scene: ition of :penditure it is most desirableness is put r own "Fin-an- o divert us from an enquiry and sufferinci Mr. Cobden, we care little what He is at the best one idea—a par- ranee of one set of ge of commer- )y the absurdites f a wise body of in checking-the off the supply of " with market ges, whilst the , on the pumps a foot he end of the commer- Christmas, ," we WI its joyous 3 family circle, hat we wish to We leave their novelist and the writer of fiction y Christmas" this actory one 'be profits are in ts, in too r baracter, “iiy cases, have ed through the agency of the lawyer, or 3 so : Has some abstracted half of every fields borne no harvests. et, why is t Have c Yet without the int Dn ceased to re reign enemy N ..ilts which would I is can scarce ion of any for- mities occt eriencing the same ave ensued bad 3 income, and _ save been snatched from d. Half of eve whole of many men We have now in t allthese cala- nto it, food in abun as been g housands. [he manufacturin artizan have at and pouring and yet hunger of hundreds of operative_and the .ed by their, foodless and fireless 1 his deserted counie driven to ( aited in vain by I The tra sman has been 3n the accumulation of past n vain at many a 1 door, which his footsteps never previously invaded. The screw has been upon us all, from the highest to the lowest ; and the fruits of labour and of the arth's increase have been as effect .ond our reach as if one of God' Ily placed be everest judg- To our hiunbler, working, fellow-countrymen we address ourselves also; and ask them why, at this genial season, they are comfortless and almost hopeless. Is there no man in want of a house, a hat, of shoes, of a coat, of a shirt, or of a bed ? There are many ; yet the hands which are skilled to fashion these articles are unemployed, and the materials which enter into their composition are a drug in the hands of their pr o d ucers or i m p or t ers . How do they explain this anamoly—this hunger, with food in abundance around them ; this idleness, whilst so many are willing to work and so many anxious to possess the products of their labour, and to give their own in return ? We ask 9f our :used from paying sufficient respect LATEST FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP AMERICA The Royal Mail Steam-ship America, Captain Leitch, arrived here yesterday about noon, from New York and Halifax. She left the former port on the 22nd ult., and Halifax on the 24th. She has brought fifty-four passen gers, amongst whom is Mr. J. L. Clarke, who is a bearer of despatches. The Steam-ship Acadia arrived at Boston on the 18th ult. The demand for exchange for remittance by the stea mer was not very active. The best bills on London were done at 81 to K. A severe snow storm visited Boston and the neighbour hood on the 20th. The trains on the railroads were much detained. and the snow was two feet deep on a level. The official returns of the Presidential election had not yet been received from all the States, but of course there is no doubt of General Taylor's return. The following is the official vote for the state of New York, as compared with the election of 1844. Taylor 218,551 Clay 232,482 Cass 114,592 Polk.. 237,588 Van Buren On the 21st ult. there was celebrated by a splendid din ner, at Irving House, Sew York, the triumphant election of General Taylor to the Presidency. The affair was at tended by over two hundred gentlemen, with several vi sitors from other States, all composed principally of those persons who have aided more or less zealously in General Taylor's election. The new propeller steam-tug-boat Dragon was burnt to the water's edge at, Philadelphia, on the 19th ult. The loss is 18,009. The fire originated in the furnace-room, the door of the furnace having been forced open by the blower. We learn from Yucatan that Yaxcaba has been reco vered by the government troops from the Indians with little fighting. The place had been totally destroyed by the Indians while in their possession. A letter dated Poston, Nov. 21st, says, " the schooner Olive, Capt. Oliver. from New Brunswick, bound for Boston, went ashore during a gale yesterday, on Nantucket beach, and all handa perished. Two of the bodies were washed ashore this morning. The British brig Anglo- American, from Nova Scotia, is ashore on " Outer Breuster." Her rudder has come ashore, hut nothing is known of the fate of the crew. The steamer Bay State was disabled off New Haven last night. Her passengers were taken off by the Cornelius Vanderbilt." List of passengers :—Prom New York—COlonel Tho mas, lady, two children, and nurse, Mrs. Featherston hangh and daughter, Mr. H. S. Taylor and lady, Mr. George Wright and lady, Mrs. Myers, Madame L. de Gonzaga, Lieut. Tyssen, R.N., and servant, Lieut. Har per, R.N., General A. Dapny, Dr. Tobin, Don Francisco Castillon, Mr. G. T. Woodrooffe, Mr. J. A. Woodrooffe, Mr. James G. Warts, Mr. Sohn Foster, Mr. Richard Patrick, Mr. M. Connaly, Mr. Grant, Mr. Hawksworth, Mr. J. B. Mearris, jun., Mr. Mearris, Mr. F. Foeke, Mr. T. Kumff, Mr. March, Mr. Samuel Haskill, Mr. P. L. Ronalds, Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Charles F. Shaw, Mr. Curtis, Mr. M. Blain, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Alex. J. Ha milton, Mr. H. Brown, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Coghill, Mr. B. Adgimian, Mr. J. Le Clark, bearer of despatches, Mr. J. H. Phipps, Mr. Barry, Mr. William Campbell, Mr. Lewis Marisergh, Mr. M`Far/ane, Mr. Geo. Taylor, Captain John N. Gittins, Rev. Martin P. Parks. From Halifax—Mr. Lewis Bliss. N . w YORK, Nov The flour market was somewhat less thrill to-day, with mode: rate sales of this state. Oswego, and Michigan, at a slight de cline, in some cases, on yesterday's rates. A sale of fancy Genessee was made on terms stated below. There was no change in Southern. Wheat was hardly so firm. Sales of Genessee and Western were made on terms stated below. Corn was lower by about one cent per bushel, with moderate sales. Meal remained the same. There was no change in rye or oats. The weather was more moderate, which lessened the fears of a speedy closing of the canal. Prime pork firm, with Anther sales at yesterday's prices; mess remained the same. Beef continued firm. Sales of lard were made on terms stated below. Groceries continued quiet, and sales light. For a re port of the cotton market we refer to the article below. COTTON.—The demand to-day from sninmrs, joined to a moderate inquiry from shippers. took off 1003 - bales from the already very reduced stock. Prices are fully ic. up on the steamer's news, and repeated parcels sold establish an advance of fths on good grades, especially Gulph Cotton. We now quote— Uplands. N. Orleans. Middling 4 a 6 Good Middling 6l a6l Middling Fair Fair Fully Fair Good Fair Stock, 16,000 bales ; on sale, 3000 ditto_ The following are the movements of cotton for this season, compared with last:— 6i. a 64 Ga a 6- 6} a 6i 7 a7i 74 a 7i 7a a 8 Arports to Stock& on Receipts. Gt. Britain. For. Ports. .hp.board .397,546 169,990 231,796 236,530 .255,960 92,743 171,217 210,976 Increase.... 141,586 70,247 60,579 25,554 FREIGHTS.-1,000 barrels , flour were engaged for Liverpool, in an American ship, at 2/3. Beef in tierces at 4/, and 40 toso tons cheese at 30/. BUFFALO, Nov. 21, 1848. Receipts within the past 24 hours.—Flour, 2,000 bbls. ; wheat, 27,000 bushels. The flour market continues firm, with a fair demand. We notice sales of 7,000 bbls. 84561 a .84 62i. In wheat there were sales of 10,000 bushels, including Chicago, at 77c., and good Ohio at 91c. In freights there is an active business doing, without change in rates. ALBANY, Nov. 21, 1848. Receipts within the past 24 hours.—Flour, 18,800 bbls.; wheat, 4,500 bushels; corn, 13;000 do. ; barley, 8,300. The market for flour is without change. WEST INDIA' MAILS The steam ship Clyde arrived at Southampton on Sun day with the usual West India mails. She left Jamaica November 7th, St. Thomas, 14th, and Fayal, 27th. She arrived here nearly four days before her mails were due. The Jamaica House of Legislature was opened on the 27th October by Sir Charles Grey, with the usual formalities. In the speech delivered on that occasion by his Excellency, it was intimated to the House that the recent measures in England for the alterations of the import duties on sugar and rum, with the reductions effected in the wages of la bourers in Jamaica, would have justified the supposition that the prospects of the sugar planters for the next twelve months would be improved, were it not for the increased difficulties in obtaining advances, which has necessarily operated as an immediate and worse blow upon resident proprietors than even the competition of foreign produce. His Excellency then recommended the adoption of a sound system of mutual credit and exchange, by which the culti. vators should receive, on moderate and beneficial terms, the pecuniary assistance absolutely necessary for produc , tion and manufacture. To effect this desirable object his Excellency recommended peace amongst the inhabitants and the cultivation of kindly feelings, and the cessation of the struggle going on with the higher e Aire The GOver - nor further advised the HcZe-io';1:;;;;Za and foster any disposition of the mother country to afford assistance, and to accept of loans from Great Britain, at moderate interest, in the way provided for by act 11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 130. The general proceedings of the Legislature and Assembly were not of much importance. An address, in reply to the Governor's speech, was voted. The Jamaica Despatch gives the expenditure and ex ports of the colony for 1848, from which it appears that the former amounts to £403,000, and the exports are 35,000 hogsheads only, besides the coffee and pimento;. that is, the grand staple of the island is worth only £350,000, or £50,000 less than the expenditure; or, in other words, for every hogshead worth £lO, they have to pay £ll in taxes. - The Demerara crop was estimated at 40,000 hogsheads against £200.000 expenses.—A :commercial letter from Demerera says, "The fatal effects of the `stoppage of the supplies' is already making itself felt and understood. Within 10 days after the expiry of the Tariff of Duties there had been a loss of .$65,000 upon imports thrown into the market in consequence of there being no duty leviable, an amount equal to the saving which was ex pected from the 25 per cent reduction of the civil list. This loss has been transferred from the consumers of im ports to the producers of exports—the planters; at the same time Barbadoes is pouring in her dry goods and pro goods. T gin and of which, free of duty, will come into competition with the duty-paid goods of the merchants, and likewise overstock the market." the islands for the crops Dec. 5, 184$. of strength in the Punjaub, and it serves to explain the fact, which otherwise we should have to regret, thlit General Whish had not at once been supplied, as regard the northern line of frontier, with any considerable rein forcement. Our authorities in Western India, on their part, we ere told, had determined for some time past that only a gene ral and combined movement should be made by the troePs of the Western Presidency, and the effective division thee on the march might be expected at the seat of war coinci dentally with the arrival of the main body under Lord Gough. There were advices that the head-quarters of tbs Bombay division had arrived at Sukkur. One detachment , with some artillery, had already left Roree. The RO Brigade, under Brigadier Dundas, whose movements up' wards from Kurrachee had been so long spoken of, was ul motion on the Indus, and, with the European regiment. of the division, might be expected to reach Upper Seim? at the end of Octobe r . It was expecte d t h at J aco b arScinde Horse would etac cross the frentier immediately on the arrival of the fi stdhment from Roree above a lluded to. and they would proceed together to the camp of Gene' ral Whish. TRADE AND COMMERCE. The monthly Accounts relating to Trade and Naviga° tion continue to tell awkward tales. What a pity that ths Manchester Chamber of Commerce cannot suppress their' as "inconvenient and unnecessary." —as they have don. the " weekly return of unemployed hands in the borough of Manchester." The general character of the facts revealed in these ac' counts, is that of increasing imports, and decreasing el'; ports. We will give a fe w sam pl es , b e i ng t h e resu lts 01 the first ten months of 1848, compared with the first teg months of 1846. To begin with some of the Imports : Sheep Bacon, cwts Butter, cwts.. Cheese, cwts. 1846. 13,124 61,116 1,668 199,231 242,452 1848. 19,60 98, 39 , 6 195,2 16 239,8 02 319,!? Wheat, quarters Barley, quarters Oats, quarters 640,961 786,86 4 Beans, quarters 206.666 411 Sig Gloves, pairs Z029,642 2,652 , 649 Pork, salt, cwt. 43,565 232,783 Silks.or satin, broad 111,418 260,0 Silk ribbons Gauze - ribbons Velvet ribbons Wines, French, gall 345908 572,711 Now, let us turn to the other side, and see what havif been some of the Exports. 1846. 1848. Cotton Manufactures. £14,808,324 £13,466,74 6 Cotton Yarn. 6,802,391 4,789,53/ Earthenware Glass Cutlery and Ffardware Leather, wrought & unwrot, Linen Manufactures Linen Yarn Silk Manufactures 221,256 , 1,828,872 286,387 l• 694.0`! 2,276,518 687,679 724,902 5,436,650 202,39 6 1,524,6 4 223,30. 2,242, 291 387,0 466.254 Woollen Manufactures 4,718,3 11 THE; LATE IBRAH.IM PASHA. Ibrahim Pasha has left only three sons living.—Ahmed Bey, born in 1825 ;. Ishmael Bey, born in MA both par suing their studies in Paris; and Mustapha Bey, born 01 1832, at present in Cairo. Ibrahim Pasha was buried with military honours, 1311 t with little ceremony, on the day of his death, inMehems' Ali's family tomb, in the vi c i n ity o f Cairo. Selim Pash a has gone to the Upper Country to see that order and trail' quillity are maintained there, and during the temporal' absence of Abbas, Said Pasha assumed the authority 10 Cairo. Abbas Pasha, who succeeds Ibrahim in the governmen of the country, was born in Arabia, in 1813. He is the son of Toussoon Pasha, Mehemet Ali's second son,, who died of the plague in the year 1816, and his right to the succession arises from his being at present the eldest living male member of Mehemet Ali's family. CHARITY BALL AT AINTREE.—The charity ball at. the Grand Stand, Aintree, under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Sefton, will take place in the Large Room; on Wednesday, the 13th instant. It is fully expected that the attendance will be numerous, and that the after will be at once brilliant and delightful. STREET ACCIDENT.—On the night of the 25th of 10 month, a man named John‘Moony, aged 54, was crossieir Parliament-street, when a cart coming down, went over . him. Whether he had fallen down before the cart calms up or was knocked down there is no proof. He died olt Saturday. RAPIAEL'S ALMANAC. This prophetic messenger , which last year contained such a singular prediction—since verified—of the revolution in France, is now published for next year. It contains many new predictions as to the weather, political commotions, &c., which are interesting to the curious. There is also much valuable information in addition of a miscellaneous kind. BITING A MAN'S EAR OFD—At the Police-court yes terday, an elderly man, named Robert Rushton, who bad his head bandaged up, preferred a charge against a rough looking young man, named Robert Beggs, for having violently assaulted him. The prisoner is a carter, and was employed by the complainant in that capacity. He was at work on Saturday, and complainant paid his wages to his wife. Prisoner next day- came to his masters, and on his refusing him money, he struck complainant, and in a scuffle which ensued, actually bit off a great part of his (complainant's) ear. The surgeon who had dressed the wound, said that about half the ear was torn or bitten off. The prisoner was committed for trial. CHARGE OF STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—Yester day, at the police-court, a female named Ann Smith, and her daughter, a young girl, were committed on a charge of having stolen a quantity of clothes, &c., the property of several parties. In the elder prisoner's house there were found a box or case, containing, amongst other things, a kettle-holder, ei g ht , p a i rs of socks, a muffler , some tea, &c. It was proved that the kettle-holder cos the property of Mr. Arthur Littlejohn, of Bold-street , and that the owners of the other articles were Mr. Mae' taggart, draper, and Mr. Sillitoe, tea dealer. LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—WE ar e , glad to find th a t a strong effort is now making to exten d the number of ragged schools in this town, to which the half-clothed and ill-fed children of our struggling poor can resort for mental cultivation ; and which will attemPt to reclaim the hundreds of those children who, steeped in , ignorance, and with vice and improvidence daily before their eyes in their own wretched homes, are cast upon our streets, and almost thrust into crime. We have before us a prospectus of , a society for the promotion of this object , • • Vl - 7 , V • 1 • 1 of which we observe that his Worship, the MayOr,.i s chairman, ex-officio, supported by an influential commit tee, and with a very active secretary in Mr. J. Hubback ; and we shall watch its progress with great interest. In the meantime, we invite every friend of order and of religion to give the society the benefit of his aid in the furtherance of an object so beneficial. Amongst the cow" mittee are Chas. Cotesworth, Esq., and T. B. Horsfallt Esq. ; T. D. Anderson, Esq., is the treasurer. CURIOUS SEAMAN'S CASE.—TWO seamen, who had belonged to the ship Hero, of this port, and also the com mander of the ship, Capt. Grant, appeared before Mr' Rushton yesterday, with a view to clear up a circumstance of, we believe, rare occurrence, the shipping of foreign for British seamen. Capt. Grant said that the ship sailed from Liverpool for Bonny on the I7th July last. TWO seamen were shipped on board the vessel by Mr. Hodson jun., as British seamen, and they produf ...gister tickets. After the ship had been out a fevi days, the captain found that both the men were foreigners, and that one of them could not speak a word of English. He had, however, no fault to find with them, and had no objection to pay them v s w ai i d lli he a ms knew and t c h o e u t ins vro . ea their wages. The tickets were produced, Messrs. Hod son (father and son) were sent for. Joshua GreenhaU, s (wh m o e h n whadao calledcted as secomd mate) e bemsle s Collins, who speaks some English, said that young Mr* Hodson told them that they must pass by those names/ NI he would make all right. Messrs. .._mason were both sent for and told the charge, which, Mr. Rushton said, was a grave one. They said there must have been some mistake. Mr. Hodson, sen., said that he recollected there were two men lodging at the same house with these two seamen, whose names were Collins and Williams, and it was probable that the tickets had been stolen from them. Mr. Rushton, in order to give Messrs. Hodson time to prove this, or to explain away the charge in some other way if possible, postponed the further hearing of the case until this day. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET, I : .F 1 tion INDIA We have received by express from Marseilles our ad vices and papers from India in anticipation of the over land mail of the 2nd November. The dates thus received are—Calcutta, Oct. 21 ; Madras, Oct. 24 ; and Bombay, November 2. There is no news yet of any effective movement as re gards the operations on the north-west frontier of India, nor does it appear probable that we shall hear of anything decisive until, at least, another month. Shere Singh slipped away with his force from Mooltan on the night of the 9th of October. An attack was at first contemplated by General Whish on this body, but was desisted from on sufficient grounds as it appears, namely, that the attack would have been a night one against artillery, with the Dewan in the rear, and, on our part, a lack of the necessary cavalry force to insure suc cess. _ _ _ Orders hi - ve appeared, dated " Simla, October 13th I•L A• from the Cornmaiider-in-Chief of India, constituting a force of some 30,000 men, to be designated "the Army of the Punjaub," and of which Lord Gough intended imme diately to take the command in person. The intelligence, as regards the state of the Punjaub generally, shows but too clearly, that the whole of the lately acquired territory is virtually in a state of rebellion, and that the machinations of the various parties in arms against our authority are at present, and have been for some time past, directed on a combined plan of operations, the results of which are likely yet to develope themselves to a greater extent, although happily the checks the Sikhs have received, and our vigilance round Lahore, have much marred their plans. A rumour which had been prevalent for some time, that Chuttur Singh and Shere Singh were playing a game ultimately to result in a combined move ment and attack on the capital, would appear by the latest advices to have been well founded, intelligence having reached Lahore that Chuttur Singh's forces were approach.. ing in the vicinity of Wuzeerbad ; and we are t o ld t h at Sir F. Currie considered the intelligence sufficiently au thentic to induce him to call for reinforcements from Fe rozepore, consisting of Colonel Godby's Brigade (of one European and two Native regiments), with the Ferozepore Brigade of five regiments of cavalry, with ho rse ar till ery , which had crossed the river in readiness for operations, and at the same time to recall, with similar instructions, Brigadier Eckford's Brigade, (of two Native regiments and two companies of artillery) then on the march to reinforce the camp:of General Whish. At that time Shere Singh had advanced on the other side to Sirdarpore, some 30 m il es from Mooltan. The probability that a coup might be made on the capital from some direction by the Sikhs in arms appears to have been entertained throughout by the Resi dent at Lahore, whose chief object it has been to secure Ihe safe occupation of that and the two other chief points LIOSPHERIC Daily] Direr Humidity ati F a ll Noon Temperature in _ or 0 Pressure at shade by self-! — , Wind 3 e t "' registering Nine 1 Six thermometer Wet and Dry Rain Noon. -,—,% Differenceof °‘ at • ...e. a.m. I p.m. Max. I Min. : bulb. El 0 . In. In. Deg. 28 29'94129,83 55 49 ' 29 29'90 29'68 55 46 301 1 29'98 29'87 47 41 1 29'64 29*34 45 43 2 29'22 29'47 49 42 41 29'02 o'o2 s.w. 55 48 0'44 w. 52 44 'l4 w. 45 37 015 w.bys 4238 w. 4 37 0'42 48 39 THE WEATHER.—NOV. 28th: bright; squalls; night, light rain.-29th : a.m., fine ; p.m., heavy, rain.-30th : a.m., fine ;• p.m., showers and squalls.—Dec. Ist : light rain and wind ;• night, clear.-2nd : showers of hail, with squalls.-3rd : a.M.* clouded ; p.m., rain.-4th : a.m., light rain; p.m., fair. REGISTER OF LAST MONTlL—Pressure; max. 30.54; 29.05 ; average, 29.71.24.—Temperature : max., 55 ; min., 38 average, 45.40.—Humidity max. difference, 4 ; mm. 1; aver age, 2 deg.—Rain during the month, 2 in 45. Temperature, at Everton, max., 55 ; min., 39 ; average 43.40. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4.—Wind S.W ARRlVED.—Americi, (steamer,) Leitch, from New York; sailed 22nd Nov.—Constantine, from New Orleans—Keepsake. Gray, and Constance, from Montreal—E Z, Hartshorn, and John It. Skiddy, Luce, from New York. SAILED.—EmiIy, Anderson, for Cape of Good Hope. Creamore, Kemp, from Paraiba, at this port; sailed 31 0 Oct. Left the. Proteus loading for this port. Saw the Bunn? mede going in, from Pernambuco, to load. Euphemia, Kendall, hence at Montreal. Ocean, Huddart, hence at Quebec. Cambria, (steamer,) Harrison, hence at Halifax 22nd Nov. Acadia, (steamer,) Stone, hence at Boston 19th Nov. HALIFAX, 25th Nov.—The Favourite, Wylie, from Montreril and Quebec to Liverpool, put into Sydney, C.B. 14th Nov , considerably strained, and with part of her cargo thrown over' board, having been on her beam ends and must discharge. OFF HOLYHEAD, at 3 P.M., Sarah Sands, (screw-steamer.) LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, DEC 5, 1848 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNIN et By JOSHUA FLETCHEA LACE of 53 Grove street, sad LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At Ns, 4, Sr, GSOIIIIIOI Cumuli; Luxuries. 'ri G, 1 Ti TO NEE Part The Even NEP open at F Aud Mr. Islir Shot Evi Cele cept Peru and papa