The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. ire beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respect zble Inns in that town and the surrounding manufacturing district SECOND EDITION is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news of importance that may arrive in the course of the morning DR. HAMPDEN'S CASE The Court of Queen's Bench is to deliver judgment in this important case this morning, and we hope to receive the decision of the Court by Electric Telegraph the momen it is pronounced, when it hall be immediately made known to our readers Ebt Etbrupoo . l &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1848 We have given, in another place, a carefully com piled condensation of the exports of cotton manu factured goods during the past year, to which we invite the particular attention of our readers. We have been importing largely of breadstuffs from the various markets of Europe, and from the continent of America. We have expended with these coun tries, in food, between October, 1846 t and October, 1847, an amount variously estimated at £25,000,000 .to £30,000,000 sterling; and our political econo mists have always assured us that our increased purchases of corn and other commodities would be paid for by increased exports of manufactured goods. What, however, has been the result will be seen by the statement in question. Our ex i lorts to the countries from which we have drawn our food, with the exception of those to the United States, have fallen off very largely; and although for the bulk of them payment has long been made, and, by this time the wealth which we so lavishly poured into their laps must have reached the consumers of every class, we have not had presented to us, as yet, the slightest prospect of an approaching de mand for the products of our industry, upon a scale commensurate with our increased imports, or even of the average demand of ordinary years. The foreign grower of the bread which we are eating has got our hard money ; and he seems strongly in clined to retain possession. We are well aware of the apology which will be offered for this absence of foreign demand. It will be said that we have raised the price of food in the markets of the world ; and thus diminished that margin between the income of the foreigner and the cost of his living, which he has ordinarily to expend with us in articles of clothing. But we must remind such apologists that, if we have so raised the price of food in foreign countries, we have done so to our own cost, and for the advantage of the foreign grower, the foreign merchant, the foreign shipowner, and general trader, who have become suddenly rich by means of our purchases ; and, moreover, that in the countries from which we have bought, the classes thus benefitted comprise the bulk of the population. If wheat and other grain has been dear throughout Europe, in proportion has been the amount which has gone from us to pay for it. Moreover, this very raising of the price of food to the foreigner, and the equalization of the cost of subsistence throughout the world, were paraded as some of the boasted advantages of the free-trade system. The price of foreign labour was to be en hanced ; and thus, competition with us was to be rendered a losing game : and, at the same time, the increased price which the foreign grower was to re ceive for his food was to enable him to expend more in our manufactures instead of diminishing his means. We were, moreover, to annihilate foreign industry, by the same agency with which we stimu lated the prosperity of foreigners. Neither of these .contradictory results has followed ; and the reason is very evident, viz., that the foreigner prefers lay ing out the increased price which he receives for his grain in stimulating the growth of his own manufactures. But, how does this singular argument, that our purchases of food from the foreigner incapacitates him from buying from us 0) his ordinary quantity of manufactured goods, apply to the case of the United States ? Our demand, and that of Europe, has, during the past year, raised the price of food of every description in America fully fifty per cent. Flour has ranged at the principal ports from 5 dol. 50 cents to 6 dol. 50 cents per barrel, which, in ordinary years, has not been worth more than 3 dol. 50 cents to 4 dol. 50 cents. Yet America has been able to take from us, as will be seen from the state ment elsewhere, three times her ordinary consump tion of cotton manufactures, and no doubt a largely increased quantity of other British products. It is certainly not for us to attempt to reconcile this discrepancy in the application of the free traders' argument. We leave the task to them; and it will require some little ingenuity to perform it satis- factorily. The cause of the falling off in our exports to the British 'West Indies is more easily explained. The unequal competition with the slave cultivator, to which we have driven them, has rendered those once fertile and valuable possessions, one vast scene of desolation, distress, and insolvency. We ask of our readers to mark their decreased imports of our two leading cotton fabrics during the past year, as compared with the two preceding ones :- 1845. 1846. 1847. Plain calicoes, yards 16,987,142 17,765,800 11,457,080 Printed and dyed do. 20,729,641 17,758,418 11,127,260 These colonies were gradually recovering from the effects of former heavy blows inflicted on them by the British Legislature. Their planters had applied increased energy and skill, with more effi cient machinery, to the work of cultivation ; and by the timely aid of the government to enable them to procure an increased supply of labour, they might at this moment have been in a position to consume largely of the products of the mother country. This very prospect, however, of being enabled ultimately to rise triumphant over their difficulties sealed the fate of the West Indian body. The planter was a proscribed man. His approach ing prosperity was gall and wormwood to the mawkish sentimentalists, who had for years been denouncing him and impelling him to his ruin. The pseudo philanthropists of the day found that they could get over their aversion to consume slave grown sugar and molasses, if they could save a half -penny a week in the sweetening of their tea and their puddings ; that the lash and the brand ing iron were not such very cruel things, when .aid on by the hands of the Cuban and Brazilian planter; that—but we need trace the disgusting apostacy of feeling no further. The West Indies were forthwith consigned to utter ruin. Our decreased exports to British North America are not quite so easily to be accounted for. We have imported from our Canadian possessions con siderable supplies of breadstuffs and provisions, giving, however, an advantage to the neighbour ing states of America. But we have decreased by nearly one half our imports of the most important article, which Canada has to supply us with—her timber—in favour of the growers of the North of Europe. And the result of our suicidal policy, we fear, will not be confined to the loss of Canadian lemand for our manufactures: Already disaffection is spreading widely amongst the French popula tion of the lower provinces, who sigh for Republi can Institutions ; and there are many loyal subjects in either province, who complain justly that they are bound to an unkind mother, whose connexion with them is only felt in the imposts which she levies upon their industry. The most disastrous quarter, to which our atten tion is forcibly directed by the statistics referred to, is our Indian empire. We have in that splendid possession an aggregate population little short, if at sit of 200 millions of souls ;' and capable, when its resources and the habits of its people shall have been developed, by the exercise towards them of a just and wise policy, of compensating to the British manufacturer the loss of every market of Europe, should so improbable an occurrence ever take place. When we see, therefore, as in the present year, our exports to the Indian market diminished by nearly one-half; when we hear from that country of large amounts of British capital embarked in encouraging the enterprise of its people, and developing the vast resources of its fertile soils, now all but sacri ficed ; when we look amongst the long list of once wealthy firms in this country, who have been com pelled to suspend their operations and submit to ruinous loss, if not to be reduced to utter beggary, and that the most extensive of them have been en gaged in East Indian commerce, we feel bound to enquire what can be the inducing causes of such grievous calamities? The apology of the free-trader for the nonfulfillment of his large promises does not apply here. India has had no potato rot, no famine. to check her onward progress. She has indeed had, like our West Indian colonies, to enter into a dis advantageous competition with the foreign slave producers of sugar; and thus far her sufferings may be laid at the feet of the free-trade party. But the source of an evil which has prostrated the whole fabric of our commercial system, in the eastern world, has a deeper seat than this ; and the subject is of far too much importance to be discussed at the close of an article already sufficiently extended. We shall, therefore, return to it on an early occa sion ; and conclude now with asking of those phi losophers, under the operation of whose theoretic policy Great Britain was to assume at once an atti tude of preeminence amongst the nations of the world greater than she bad ever hitherto attained —to what part of that vast empire, upon which the sun never sets, and which owns the British sway, can they point in which industry is not prostrate, enterprise suspended, and suffering and disaster rife amongst all classes of its population ? COUNTY RATE BURTHEN The sum required to be paid by the several townships in the West Derby Union for the county rate for the pre sent quarter only, amounts to the enormous sum of £2612 Bs. 10d. This is exclusive of the borough rate payable by those townships, which are wholly, or in part, within the borough of Liverpool. The above sum is di rected by the precept of the Clerk of the Peace to be paid to the County Treasurer on or before the first of March ; but it is not expected that the overseers of the poor, who have already very heavy charges upon them in the relief of the poor, will be able to pay one-half of the same. It is really high time that this oppressive county tax should be reduced ; the burthen increases, and is becoming a very serious matter. The Guardians of the West Derby and other Unions have on more than one occasion memorialised the county magistrates on the subjeet ; but the evil has been growing greater and greater ever since the establish ment of the county constabulary force, and there appears no prospect of its amelioration. IRISH MENDICANCY IN LONDON We had our own share last year—a lion's share—in the burthens induced by the invasion of wretched Irish pau pers, and vicious and filthy Irish beggars. For their maintenance we exhausted our parish funds ; and the rate payers of our town are still groaning under the pressure which was the result. Our dock quays and streets were crowded with a famishing peasantry, driven from their homes to prey upon our own industrious people ; and with sturdy beggars who were told that we were able to sup port every vagrant, who, unwilling to work, found the sources of charity in his own country, for a time, closed. Our complaints with respect to the preference with which we were favoured (?) met with little sympathy from her majesty's ministers, or from the community at large. We were gravely told that Ireland sent us a large quantity of her corn, her pork, her butter, and her poultry, and that it was little wonder that her people followed to eat it ; and that the least we could do was to find them knives and forks, clean table cloths, and the other necessary ap purtenances. Our port was the entrance gate by which Irish produce found its way into the stomach of John Bull, who, by the bye, it was forgotten had punctually paid for his dinners and suppers so received ; and it was urged as not unreasonable—and by a cabinet minister, if we remember right, that our port ought to be happy to keep a people who had thus extensively traded with us, although that people had at the time our money in their pockets. We were unreasonable enough, too, to com plain that Ireland was converting Liverpool into her fever hospital. We appealed to the valuable lives of our towns men—in addition to our funds—sacrificed in the effort to cure the sickness of the filthy lazars disembarked upon our dock quays. We asked for the aid of government and the nation in this dreadful emergency. We asked in vain. All that we received was the loan of a few hulks for floating hospitals ; and we had to pay even for their transport here and their fitting up. The tables seem to be turning, as they generally do in the long run, however imperfectly some people may sup pose the affairs of this world of ours to be governed. The plague has penetrated to the manufacturing districts long ago ; and at length, and in most seasonable time, it has reached the metropolis itself. We quote a very graphic description of the invasion—and we can vouch, from its likeness to the picture presented here, for its perfect faith fulness—from the columns of the London Times : Everybody must have observed the increase of mendi cancy in the metropolis. It is not a very agreeable topic to talk about, but cannot be easily forgotten while the liv ing subjects obtrude themselves so numerously and so ener getically on one's notice. The great thoroughfares " are alive" with beggars. To be sure the poor creatures are in motion, like mites in a cheese ; for the policeman's "move on" just prevents them from absolutely blockading the pavement. But it is only a hideous mockery of life and business. You see an ill-clad wretch before you, walking on, as if work, engagements, a home, a family, hope and comfort, were in prospect. The instant you come up to him, he turns round with some form of entreaty or com plaint ; and then you see he is a homeless, friendless, placeless outcast, without aim or hope in existence. Then there are wretched women with infants in their arms, or children at their sides, the lame, the maimed, diseased, young women, little Oils, and every class of suffering, ex cent, to the best of our observation, the aged. No small proportion betray the Celtic origin in their accent, their costume, and, .it must be added, their winning address. Some affect to sell picture books, or flowers, real or arti ficial, according to the season, or anything that may dis guise their vocation; or they swarm around you asking for tickets to some benevolent association, the tickets being as much a pretence as the flowers. The most miserable fea ture of the case is, that many look as if they had seen better days. Others, indeed, to all appearance, have never been anything better than they are. One sad thought, however, embraces the whole class ; and that is, how quickly such poor creatures must pass to the grave. " Of their numbers we can form no idea, but it must be something enormous. In one particular quarter mile of pavement sheltered from the wind, and blessed with the sun, if any there be, there cannot be less than fifty some times, of all ages and sexes. Ladies turr.ing out after lunch to do a little shopping, or get a little health, have to run the gauntlet past, or rather through, whole files of mendicants, many of whom, whenever an opportunity oc curs, will appeal to fear as well as to pity. Again, three or four groups will perform the circuit of a square at equal distances, all day long, and thus keep up the continual appearance of progress. They do not cease with the day ; indeed, whither they go at night we cannot tell. There are, however, beggars in the street all night long. There are miserable creatures too old, too ailing, and too ugly, either for work or for vice, who glean the last vestige of alms till two or three in the morning, when, we presume, they finish the night on a door-step, if they cannot do better. Where the day-beggars stow themselves at night one is almost afraid to conjecture. It would take barracks to hold them with the most moderate regard to decency and health. Their numbers we cannot estimate ; but were we told there are 50,000 professed beggars, who do nothing but beg, we should not be surprised." The mendicancy in our streets is such as must convey to foreigners a very unfavourable opinion of our charitable institutions. Moreover, the nuisance to passengers and injury to shopkeepers is enormous. Many people will not enter a pastry cook's shop, for fear that some poor creatures should take a stand at the door, watch them eat their bun, and attempt to make a prize out of the half pence given in change. There are also whole rows of shops the custom of which is considerably injured by the cordon of beggars occupying the pavement. Few ladies like to encounter twenty squalid supplicants before they can purchase a pair of kid gloves or a few yards of riband." Our readers will recognise the features of the picture. They will recall to mind the half dozen men, women, and children who were wont to beset every pastry cook's door, and to hover about our eating-houses: But in one respect the resemblance fails. There was no "pretence" offered here for the mendicancy—no requests for tickets for soup ; no flowers, or tracts. The beggars at present afflicting the London people must have learned a little policy since they were first imported. When they, landed here, they came direct from the quays to the parish-office ; and, when relieved there, into our streets and to our doors. They are, however, quite in a mind with out own supply of the commodity as to their disincl.nation to be sent home. They prefer even an English prison to Ireland ; and not a few, as we find from the London police reports, are just now resorting to the plan of committing petty thefts, or breaking windows, in order to be enabled to sojourn, during this inclement weather, in domiciles which, how ever distasteful to our own poor, are something like Para dise in the estimation of the vagrant Irish. We do most cordially congratulate the country, and the people of Liverpool in particular, upon this movement of our Celtic brethren southwards. We may now expect the sympathy, on any future occasion of such a visitation to Liverpool, which the experience of fellow suffering creates. Chesham Place, we trust, will not be without its daily, visitation, in order that its noble occupant, Lord John Russell, may learn what it is to be pestered with a crowd of wretched beings whose very contact is COntugi", • THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD - GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. We mentioned in our last, that Mr. Rimmet had deli= vered a very interesting lecture on this subject at the meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society,' the previous evening. Mr. Rimmer said, there were at pre sent in England only two or three buildings which could be proved to have been constructed during the time of the Saxons, and Saxon architecture was in fact nothing but debased Roman. Under the Normans, architecture flou rished, and the four styles prevalent were the Norman, the lancet, the decorated, and the florid. There are Norman remains in nearly every county in England. The little church of Bebington, Cheshire, contains some good work of this period. St. John's, Cheshire, is a fine example. The noble west front of Lincoln, the nave and aisles of Norwich, and the interior and transepts of Dur ham Cathedral, are all beautiful specimens. The pointed arch appeared earlier in England than in France, and the various varieties of style were the growth of English im provement, and not of foreign importation. Since the time of Henry the Eighth, there was scarcely a truly Gothic edifice built ; the Elizabethan style was a mixture of Italian, French, and indeed nearly every other kind of architecture. After some elaborate remarks on each of these styles, Mr. Rimmer noticed some of the ecclesias tical structures of this town, and his remarks on these buildings we give in &demo : " Liverpool is very short of good Gothic buildings, far more so than of classical. St. Luke's Church, which, from its size and cost, stands first, is by no means without faults. The details (excepting perhaps the windows) are very beautiful ; the railing and piers of the gateways are also good, but suitable to a building on a much larger and grander scale; the outline also from the top of Leece street is very pleasing. But the proportion of its side elevation is very inferior. its appearance from Bold-street extremely meagre, and the porches on each side of the tower ill correspond in size and character with any part of the building. There are several periods in the style of its architecture; one rather singular error would make the upper story of the tower, which contains a window of the fourteenth century, built 100 years before the lower, which contains one of the fifteenth, and we could point oat se veral more faults. " There are in Liverpool many churches with even much less beauty to recommend them than St. Luke's ; but we must except one or two recently erected, and now in pro gress of erection. The most beautiful and pure Gothic building in Liverpool, perhaps, is a small incomplete chapel in Canning-street. It is of the Decorated or 14th century architecture, with a large variety of beautiful windows, and a graceful doorway ornamented with flowered mouldings. The stained glass on most of the windows is very well arranged, and the colours finely harmonised. There is also a Roman Catholic chapel in Edmund street, by A. W. Pugin, which contains a very beautiful altar-piece and two elegant stained windows ; though, from its position, the front is necessarily flat and without buttresses: the two doorways are well composed. " Another large chapel in Salisbury-street is good ' Early English.' St. Martin's-in-the-Fields is not a bad piece of composition. But with all these exceptions, Li verpool is short of anything approaching a fine G othic edifice. " We may remark, in conclusion, how strange it appears that while we have so immensely surpassed the middle ages in arts and sciences, we should remain so far behind them in architecture. One reason is mentioned by Alison in his beautiful essay upon taste If, besides the cost liness of the subject, it is also permanent or durable,• this character is still further increased. Those productions of which the materials are perishable and must often be re newed, are, from their nature, subjected to variety ; but buildings may last, and are intended to last, for centuries. The life of man is very inadequate to the duration of such productions; and the present period of the world, though old with respect to those arts which are employed upon perishable subjects, is yet young in relation to an art which is employed upon so durable materials as those of architecture. Instead of a few years, therefore, centuries must probably pass before such productions demand to be renewed; and long before that period is elapsed, the sacredness of antiquity is acquired by the subject itself, and a new motive given for the preservation of similar forms.' " We are thus mere copyists, and no one who follows the steps of another can ever pass him. Again, Gothic architecture for a period of two hundred years fell into disuse, its beauties were unktr)wn, and its principles for gotten ; but we are beginning now to be justly proud of the national monuments with which England abounds, and to confess at last that there is beauty in the pointed arch, and that a cathedral is not as Sir C. Wren has de scribed, ' A huge monkish pile, unworthy of the name of architecture.' Such prejudices are fast losing ground ; and we may hope before long to see Gothic buildings erected with some portion of their former excellence." THE FIRST SOIREE OF THE ROSCOE CLUB The first reunion of thi young club promises, from the spirited character of the arrangements made by the direc tors, to be one of the most successful entertainments ever provided upon an occasion of the kind in Liverpool, if it does not even vie with the more pretentious Atheneum soirees of Manchester. The only circumstance of regret connected with the soiree is the fact of its having been determined upon too late to allow of notice sufficient being given ; the day fixed being more convenient for members of parliament and literary men to confer upon us the favour of their attendance. As it is, it is anticipated that the soiree will be attended by Sergeant Talfourd, M.P., Messrs. Charles Dickens, Thackeray, (Michael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser's Magazine.) Mark Lemon John Leech, George Cruikshank, Daniel Maclise, and other gentlemen distinguished for their literary or scientific at tainments. The soiree will be held this evening, in the Concert hall, Lord Nelson-street, which will be lavishly decorated for the occasion, and, from its construction, will afford an opportunity for those visitors, who may be disinclined to mingle in the dancing, which will conclude the evening's entertainments, to view the gay scene below, and listen to the splendid music to be provided. The quadrille band, which has been provided by Mr. Goodall, and will be under his excellent leadership, will be one in every way worthy of the occasion, if we may judge from the unsparing expense which has been gone to, and the first-rate talent engaged. It will consist of Mr. Goodall himself, (leader,) one re-piano violin, violin se condo, violincello, two double basses, flageolet, first and second cornopeans, first and second horns, opheiclide, trombone, drums, triangles, castanets, &c., in all seven teen performers. We learn that Mr. Goodall has com posed a new set of polkas for the occasion, to be called the " Roscoe Club Polkas, " and, as soon as published, to be dedicated to the club. The band will play several fa vourite pieces whilst the company are entering the hall, after which they will retire until the dancing commences, which is expected to be about half-past ten o'clock. Dur ing the soiree several songs, glees, &c., will be sung by the vocalists engaged—Miss Whitnall, Mrs. George Hol den, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Roberts. Mr. George Holden will conduct on the occasion. . . _ _ _ —..-- The occasion is, we understand, to be signalized by the liberality of several of our leading tradesmen and lovers of arts in the town. Mr. Mayer has promised the loan of his " Roscoe Chair" for the use of the president, and it is intimated that when a club-house has been provided by the club, it will be presented by the present owner. Mr. Illidge, the eminent artist, who was one of the invited guests, but is deprived of the opportunity of attending in consequence of his professional engagements, has, to serve the interests of the club, presented a first-class proof im pression of the portrait of Lord Sandon, (now the Earl of Harrowby,) one of the patrons of the club. Mr. W. W. Mortimer, of Birkenhead, has also presented a copy of his excellent History of Wirral. The North and South Wales Bank have concluded ar rangements for an immediate resumption of business. About eight of the smaller branch establishments are to be discontinued. The directors and manager have received much credit for their exertions. ROSCOE CHAIR.-Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street, has lent to the Roscoe Club for the use of the president, at the forthcoming soiree, a chair made out of art oak beam, taken from the house in which Roscoe was born, Should the club acquire a house of their own, the chair is to be presented to them. SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Monday, Mrs. Lever, of Upper Pitt-street, left her child, ten months old, on a pillow before the fire, and on returning, in about twenty minutes, found it dead. It had been suffering for some time.—On the same day, an old man named Langshaw, was taken ill in St. Ann-street, and was carried to the Rose-hill station, where he died.—On the same morning, John Kilfillan, living in Regent-street, was found dead in bed. He had gone to bed the previous night without making any complaint. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—LECTURES.- - The season is about to commence on Tuesday (this day), under the most favourable auspices, Mr. J. Sheridan Knowles being engaged to deliver a lecture on oratory. The great repu tation which this celebrated poet has so justly attained, would, under any circumstances, ensure for him an over flowing audience, still more so when connected with a sub ject, so attractive. The list of lecturers announced to appear during the season is of an extraordinary character, and indicates an unceasing desire on the part of the direc tors of this noble institution to keep pace with the spirit of the times. THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.—We learn from the report of the annual meeting of this excellent institution that it is now progressing most satisfactorily,—new members are daily added—and many who originally were only quarterly subscribers have become annual ones. The new commit tee who were balloted for by the members, and of which Mr. Brooke is chairman, and Mr. J. Walker vice-chair man, are using every energy to promote the usefulness of the society, not only in the diffusion of intelligence, but in the advancement of the many healthy exercises pro vided. A discussion and a music class are already in course of formation. FEMALE AMERICAN SERENADERS.—The performances of this troupe of American serenaders have, during the past week, attracted crowded audiences to the Concert hall, in Lord Nelson-street. Several of their songs are beautifully harmonised, and some solo songs given by them are full of spirit. Miss Jumbo is a very clever singer of " nigger melodies," and " suits the action to the word" in all her performances. Cora is also a very supe rior singer; and her " Mary Bine" is a first-rate song. The finest voice, however, amongst the serenaders is that of Yurico, whose song of "A Life in the Woods for me," is a perfect gem. We understand that the female Ame rican Serenaders are to visit us again very shortly. _ ENCOURAGEMENT IN WELL-DOING. -On Tuesday last, the Rev. Thomas Nolan delivered a most beautiful and interesting address to the young gentlemen of that excellent establishment, Great George-street Academy, in this town. He thanked them kindly and affectionately for their handsome contribution to the Southern Hospi tal. After alluding to the honourable and important po sition which Mr. Fisher, their much-esteemed preceptor, occupied among the higher circles of society, and the cele brity he had attained in his professional career, he expa tiated very fully on the advantages which must accrue to the youthful mind from the study of mathematics and science, especially the sublime pursuits of astronomy. These, he said, in connexion with classics and polite lite rature, could not fail to impart a reality and a solidity to a Wieral education, and prepare them for the honourable discharge of the various duties which lay before them in future life. The vast importance of a sound scriptural education was clearly proved—the necessity of a living faith in the atonement of the Redeemer—as well as the renewing and sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, to prepare them for the higher honours and more enduring realities of another and a better world. THE WEST INDIES-THEIR IMPROVEMENT We have repeatedly called attention to the ruinous con dition of our West Indian colonies owing to the disastrous policy pursued towards them during the last few years. It has been truly said that " those who have marked the progress of the late commercial crisis, and have witnessed the prostration of the most splendid commercial fortunes, are well aware that one of the chief elements of these dis asters is to be found in the working of that fearful experi ment by which, in 1846, slave-grown sugars were admit ted into competition with the sugars of British colonists, not yet fully inured to the free-labour system." We have been much instructed by the perusal of a very sensible pamphlet*, in which the whole question connected with our West Indian possessions is discussed with unu sual ability. It is proved from parliamentary returns that prior to the abolition of slavery our colonists there were able to produce sugar almost as cheap as the slave- The average price of British sugar during the nine years between 1825 and 18.33 was 30s. Id. per cwt., and Brazil 245. 11d. Previous to 1807 the West Indies could compete without protection with the whole world. After the emancipation of the negroes a great proportion of them refused to labour, and the author of the pamphlet before us declares his solemn conviction that " instead of the £17,000,000 (granted as compensation to the planters of the West Indies, the Mauritius, and the Cape, for the freedom of the slaves) being equivalent to their loss, it has probably amounted to twice that sum." The planters could not allow their estates to be uncultivated, or the loss would have been excessive—they could not sell the estates, for no buyer was to be found. Thus they were left until 1846, when the cry for cheap sugar was raised, and in that year the Sugar Duties Bill of 1846 completed the catastrophe, and the writer we have alluded to thus graphically describes our inconsistency in passing that countries, measure " In 1832, slavery was depicted as a sin and a crime: it was denounced as a stain upon the national honour ; as a blot on the conscience of the people of this country ; from which, at all hazards, and at whatever cost, they must be freed. We did not even ask the planters what were their feelings upon the subject. Nor would it have satisfied our scruples to have declined for ourselves the receipt of this slave-polluted produce ; leaving to the planters the re sponsibility, if they thought fit, of continuing the use of slave-labour, and resorting with their produce to the mar kets of other countries where no such objections might have existed. No : the abolition of slavery was declared to be a matter of principle ; to which all considerations of cost, or time, or aught else, must be altogether postponed. " Who could have dreamt that before eight years should elapse from the final completion of that memorable measure—as if to humble our national pride, and tarnish the fame of this boasted Act (of which hitherto we hadre ceived all the praise, whilst the much-abused planters were left to sustain almost all the loss),—another Act should be passed by the British Parliament, at the instance of the Ministers of the Crown, for the purpose of admit ting into the markets of the country the slave-grown su gars of other nations ! Slavery and the slave-trade being active in Cuba and Brazil, it was discovered that their sugars might be bought at a penny the pound cheaper than those of our own free-labour colonies ; and it was calculated, moreover, that we might derive some addition to the national exchequer by the transaction 1_ _ " If it were right - to have denounced slavery and the slave trade as sins and crimes in 1833, what is to be said of setting ourselves to work in 1846 to derive a profit from the commission at second-hand of these very crimes ! If it be right to pursue the slave-dealer on the coast of Af rica, and bring him to trial as a pirate and a robber, what is to be said of sharing the profit of his cheap and polluted gains across the ocean ! * * * * " Those of the planters who had means or credit, have hitherto persevered in the struggle to maintain their es tates : they persevered against fearful odds, and, despite of difficulties the most distressing and perplexing. But who can tell the bitter sorrows of those who were doomed to fall in that unequal struggle ! From a condition of easy independence plunged into distress and ruin ; their families beggars on the world ; and they themselves left without even the consolation that, although deprived of their property, their character would at all events be al lowed to remain. But instead of this, to find themselves classed as reckless bankrupts !—who would not be warned of the folly and imprudence of overtrading !—Bankrupts, without any fault or imprudence of their own ! No : one unpardonable folly, it appears, they must acknowledge. Must it be owned that they trusted the good faith of their country !" The following reasonable remedies are submitted by the author, as calculated to restore the prosperity of our West Indian colonies ; and the sooner they are resorted to, the better for the mother country and those valuable possessions : " 1. A fixed differential duty, of adequate amount, be tween slave-grown sugars and those of our own colonies, to be determined either by reducing the present duty on colonial sugar, or by increasing that on foreign. " 2. Advances of money to be made to the planters, on the security of their estates, for the purpose of promoting improvements in drainage, irrigation, or otherwise, as may be deemed most expedient. _ " 3. The encouragement of a well-regulated immigra tion of free labourers from the coast of Africa. " 4. Such means, as a proper consideration of the con dition of our West India colonies and of the legitimate objects of emancipation may suggest, for reclaiming to in dustrious habits the multitudes among the emancipated classes who have withdrawn from labour; and for secur ing their own gradual moral improvement, as well as for the instruction of their children. * Remarks on the present state of the West Indian Colonies, with suggestions for their improvement. London : Smith, Elder, and Co. THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVISION FOR THE PARISH OF MANCHESTER. When the Rev. Canon Parkinson was appointed to the Presidency of Saint Bees College, with the incumbency of that parish, and announced his intention of holding in ad dition the rectory of Manchester, we drew the attention of our readers to a memorandum entered on the parish journal by the churchwardens of Manchester, expressive of their opinion that the parish would suffer from the length ened absence (for the greater part of the year) of Mr. Parkinson, however earnestly the rev. gentleman° might strive to prevent it. During the agitation of the question, Lord Stanley made some strong representations in the House of Lords, in which he stated that " it was intended that the Dean and Chapter of Manchester should reside within the parish; that they did not reside, and that they violated not only the intention of the founder, but also the moral duty which dovolved upon them, with reference to the population of Manchester. They had avoided the le- gal responsibility, and they had not fulfilled the moral obligation which had devolved upon them." These were serious charges, but Lord Stanley was not the man to make them lightly. Within the last few days, we have had sent to us a copy in the original latin, together with a translation by J. Wheeler, Esq., banister at law, of the " Foundation charter of Christ's College, Manchester, granted by King Charles the First, and dated 2nd October, 1635," from which we make the following extracts : " And forasmuch as under the foundation as well of the Lord Philip and the Lady Mary King and Queen of Eng land, as of the Lady Elizabeth late Queen of England (of blessed memory,) the college hath sustained most grievous prejudice by reason of the absence of the keeper, warden or wardens, who, though absent and performing none of the -luty of warden, have drawn from it a large portion of the revenues of the said college ; we therefore decree, or dain, and will, that the warden and fellows, and their suc cessors, do constantly reside and eat and drink in the town or parish of Manchester, or in house or houses col legiate, so soon as the same shall have been provided. " We also decree and ordain and will, that on each day on which the warden and fellows Shall be altogether absent from the town or parish of Manchester, so as to be unable, when called upon, to visit any sick person, or perform any other works of piety and charity in the said parish, the warden, as often as it so happens, shall forfeit of his own proper annual stipend two shillirigs and eightpence, and the fellows shall forfeit, &c." l ' How far Mr. Parkinson can comply with these provi sions, and at the same time effectually discharge the du. ties devolving upon him at St. Bees, we leave to his own conscience to determine ; but knowing as we do that the 400,000 parishioners of Manchester require an increase of clerical superintendence—knowing that the time of Mr. Parkinson will chiefly be occupied at St. Bees—we feel bound to say that we sympathise with the efforts now making in Manchester, by many warm friends of the Church of England, to procure an appropriation of the parish funds, more in accordance than at present with th e labours and duties of the working clergy. * Of course the value of money has amazingly increased since the period when the charter was granted. Tun SPIRIT OP ROME.—Bishop Sant, the new Romish Bishop of Malta, has, like his predecessor, Caruana, re fused to take the oath that he will not attempt to disturb the Protestant faith, required before he can be admitted as a member of the Maltese council of government. On Saturdays printer named Bathe recovered £35 4s. Bd. the cost of printing tly prospectus of the Liverpool and Derby Direct Railway Campany, from the Hungarian Count Batbiany, who was one of the provisional commit tee-men of the unfortunate undertaking. EARLY CLOSING. — The anniversary dinner of the mem bers of the association, which has for its object the early closing of shops in this town, was held on Thursday, at the Queen's Hotel, Lime-street. In the absence of Mr. E. Flower. the president of the association, the chair was filled by Mr. Miram, and the vice-chair by Mr. Rayney. Several excellent toasts and speeches were made ix 4 the course of the evening. • total Rms. On Thursday, Mr. H. C. Walton, of this town, passed his examination at Apothecaries' Hall. Last week two robberies were committed in houses in Shaw-street at an early hour in the evening. _ . The Rev. T. Nolan preached two sermons, on Sunday last, in St. Thomas's Church, Lancaster, for the schools attached to the church. _ A child, three years and nine months old, of Mr. David Morris, Copperas-hill, died on Wednesday, from injuries received through its clothes catching fire. The Rev. John Martin, M.A., of Sidney Sussex Col lege, Cambridge, has been licensed by the Bishop of Chester, to the curacy of St. Martin's, Liverpool. The bill for the amalgamation of the two gas companies in Liverpool safely passed the standing orders of the House of Commons on Monday, and will be reported the first day that parliament re-assembles. Lieut. Hosken, late of the Ureat Britain steam-ship, has been appointed by the admiralty, captain of the port of Labuan, and will go out in the suite of Mr. Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. During the past week, Mr. F. L. Hausburg, of Church street, has, according to his usual custom, at this season, been distributing coals to his numerous workmen, and clothing to the workboys connected with his establishment. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday night the mill of Mr. White, at Bootle, was consumed by fire. We regret that the owner is not insured, and the loss is stated at £1,600. On Sunday week, a young man, named Clayton, in the employ of R. Blundell, Esq., Deysbrook, ventured on a frozen pit, near Finch-house, on the West Derby-road, for the purpose of skating ; but the ice, being thin, gave way, and he was drowned. The custom of demanding a cradle for a child born to the Lord Mayor, during his year of office, used to prevail in London. On the last occasion of such an occurrence, Alderman Copeland, then Lord Mayor, waived insisting on it. There was, however, some other present made to mark the occasion. SALE OF MESSRS. BARTON, IRLAM, AND CO.'S SHIPS• —The ships of this firm were sold by auction on Wed nesday, at the prices following :—Lintin, 558 tons, £3,800 ; Charlotte, 535 tons, not sold ; Vigilant, 308 tons, bought in • Higginson, 475 tons, £1,895; Alice, 302 tons, .£1,790 ' ; Mischief, 196 tons, £855 ; Carena, 292 tons, £1,785 ; Irlam, 279 tons, £2,005. At the monthly meeting of the Charitable Society, held on Friday last, the visiters reported as relieved 899 cases, containing 3540 individuals; 1178 visits made, and be tween £BO and £9O expended. This society deserves sup port at all times, but especially at present, when there is such unusual distress, and when, as we are sorry to hear, the funds of the society are nearly exhausted. PREPARATION FOR THE GRAVE.—A few weeks ago, we mentioned the circumstance of Thomas Francis, Esq., of Bebington, having ordered Mr. Walter, plumber, of Birkenhead, to construct two lead coffins for himself and his wife. The coffins were duly made, and the wife of Mr. Francis actually assisted to polish them up. On Sunday last she died at the age of Thursday she was inter in the coffin she herself bad eighty-four years ; and on worked At recently. POLICE INTELLIGENCE At the police-court on Wednesday a number of persons were fined for letting cellars which were not constructed in conformity with the requirements of the Sanitory Act. THE SANATORY LAW.—On Saturday several persons were summoned for keeping pigs in Beech-street, which were a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Mr. Davenport, on their behalf, promised that the styes should be removed that day; but Mr. Rushton said he had come to the de termination to enforce strictly the Sanatory Law, and in flicted in each case a penalty of 20s. and costs. ARTFUL THEFT.—On Saturdaann Green, a wretched looking middle-aged woman, only that morning liberated from gaol, was charged with having stolen some blankets, the property of a poor woman, who had given her shelter, and (on a pretence which she made of being ill) had al lowed ber, although a stranger, to go up stairs and lie down in the bed. There was a second charge against the prisoner, but as the evidence in both cases was un fortunately inefficient to convict, she was discharged. WANT OF FAISON DISCIPLINE.—On Friday, Frances Kelly, a middle-aged woman, was committed for trial by Mr. Rushton, charged with having stolen a dress-piece from the shop of Mr. Lewis, Great George-street. The prisoner had been sentenced in September, 1842, to seven years' transportation, and got off with three years. In November, 1845, she was sentenced to transportation for life, and got off with three years and a half; and last June, she was imprisoned six months. When sentenced to transportation, she was not sent out of England, but endured her seven years of imprisonment in the aggro , gate in this country. A BAD PULLEY.—On Saturday, Mr. John Westhead, flour-dealer, Great Howard-street, was fined twenty ssil- Itngs and costs, Mr - hauling up to Ms warehouse some barrels of flour without proper rope or pulley. A police officer stated that on the occasion in question the pulley appeared to have gone wrong, and the men engaged pulled up the barrels with a rope held in their hands. One of the barrels slipped, and fell upon the head of a poor working man who was passing at the time, and who was seriously injured. Mr. Rushton said Mr. Westhead was liable to a penalty of ten pounds. He would mitigate it to twenty shillings and costs, in order that he might make compensation to the poor injured man, who had a clear case against him. He- had better compromise the matter with him. POVERTY AND CRIME. Five young women were brought up on Thursday, charged by a man named Robt. Roberts with stealing a loaf from his shop on the previous evening. They were all young women of poor but re spectable appearance, and one of them stated that she had stolen the loaf, and that they had all partaken of it. Her reason for doing so, she said, was that they were starving. In answer to inquiries from Mr. Rushton, she stated that they had all been at the Night Asylum for the last three weeks—that she had applied to Mr. Simpson at the parish office for relief, and he told her to go for it to where she came from—that the was born in Liverpool, had been five years in Manchester, and they were all at present out of work. Mr. Parkinson said the prisoners were not known and that only one of them had been there before. The case was remanded, to give time to make inquiry into the truth of the charge made by the prisoner against Mr. Simpson, the relieving officer. IMPUDENT ATTEMPT TO Ron.—On Wednesday a re spectable seafaring man called a cab at the stand in Lime street about seven o'clock, with the view of proceeding to an hotel in Regent-street. Immediately on his doing so, a man named John. Taylor said to him, " Sir, I'll fetch you a good cab," and shortly after he came to him in com pany with a cabman whose name and number he did not know. The prisoner and the cabman were talking toge ther when he was getting inside ; and as soon as he was seated the prisoner came into the cab also and sat down. In this way they proceeded down Dale-street, and on till they reached Waterloo-road, when the prisoner began to be abusive, and struck the complainant several times in the face. He then attempted to pull his watch out of his pocket, but in this he was defeated by the exertions which he made to save his property. While this was going on he called to the cabman as loudly as he could to stop the car; but this the cabman did not heed, as he drove on until within a short distance of the hotel, when he stopped, and his accomplice got out and left the party. The cries of the seaman then brought a policeman, who apprehended Taylor, who was brought before Mr. Rush ton on Thursday. Further inquiry was ordered to be made, as there appeared to be some doubt as to the-iden tification of the parties. ii: tstrtrt 13.0335. The assizes at Chester will commence on Wednesday, March 29th. _ The new market house at Blackburn was opened on Friday. Mr. Cobden and other free traders, met at Bolton, on wrat-m-,ao.r, too prociant a piper% of plate to. Mr. Brooks, as a testimonial for his conduct at the late election. OPERATIVES IN MANCHESTER.—The number of cot ton mills working full time, with a full compliment of hands, and of those working short time, remains this week the same as last ' • but one mill which had been working full time, with a portion only of the hands, has stopped altogether. Some excitement has been caused at Ashton by the Rev. J. R. Stephens and Dr. Lees, of Leeds. The former accused the teetotallers of trickery, and the latter placard ed Mr. Stephens as a " buffoon." A public meeting has since been called, and they exonerated Mr. Stephens, and said that the language of Dr. Lees had excited their disgust. On Thursday, at St. Helen's Mr. J. B. Heard, clerk at the Patent Alkali Works, in that town, was committed by the magistrates to the sessions, but admitted to bail, on a charge of defrauding the company by making out false returns of the amount of work done by the men employed in the works. John Truman, a junior clerk, was also held to bail charged with being an accessory. A SCHOOL ON THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM.—A short time since, a new school-room was built, between Port land-street and Bloom-street, by subscription, for the purposes of a day-school in connexion with St. James's Church ; the Rev. John Hollist, the incumbent, making great efforts among his flock and friends to raise the ne cessary means. The school, or schools (for we believe an infant school was added), were opened a master and mistress employed, and notwithstanding the district is a very poor one, full of children whose parents ought to de sire to seek instruction for them at a good day school, it has been found that the subscriptions fell off; that it was in vain to hope to make the school self-supporting ; and the result is, that the managing body have come to the determination to close the schools, as far as they are con cerned, next week. We believe that they have offered them to the master, giving him the option of conducting them for his private benefit, and taking upon himself all pecuniary responsibility ; but, having tried the experi ment, they are at length satisfied that they can no longer work the schools, relying on the voluntary contributions of the friends of education connected with St. James's Church and the district. —Manchester Gyardian (Liberal paper.) Feb. 1, 186 SEPTUAGENARIAN BIRTH-DAY DINNER.—On r r , idl y, last, the Rev. C anon W ray , su b-d ean o f M an che :, having on that day completed his seventieth year, seventy poor and aged persons to dine at his horise' regaled them with the b es t o ld E ng li s h fare. For 4 years past the rev, gentleman has, on the anniversary; his natal day, invited to his house as many o f thq poor as his own life numbe re d y ears ,— a gracefil l , ; f e Christian way of commemorating these milestones in journey. THE EGERTON MEMORIAL.—Th e conc l u di ng En, of the committee appointed to collect subscriptions we ni erection of a cenotaph in Oulton P ar k, t o the er° ' the late Captain Egerton (brother of Sir P. Egerton/ se i was held at the Hop Pole Inn, on Saturday. Tile amount subscribed was £369 2s. Sir P. Egerton W o o gaged Mr. Romney to make a d raw i ng o f t hi s mon°, 4 4 tal cross ; from which the worthy baronet intends to a number of engravings executed for the purpose of r . senting a copy to each of the subscribers. THE COAL MINE ROBBERIES AT WIGAN. —Toe men, Enoch Grimshaw and H enr y Bl eas d a l e, who u been taken into custody charged with being c oncern the robberies which have b een entnnaitted in Mr. •''' o Bleasdale's mine, were again braught up at Wig 9ll 4 Tuesday. Our readers will be aware from our 1 0 ,4' 1 reports of this case that Grimshaw had left Mr,Blest d o colliery some months ago. H e h as up to the n time been in the employ of Messrs. Byrom, Taylor? cow ) Byrom, at the Strangeways colli er y. In, t he co r e the examination on Tuesday, it was stated what en A , ments had been made under the property of forty proprietors, and that no less th an t wo h un d re d and t'M houses had had the co a l or cana l e i t h er wholly or Port taken away. The amou n t o f cana l gotton heyone Bleasdale's boundary was stated at 19,000 tons, en t o King coal at 1900; the former being valued at £lO, l O and the latter at £BOO or £9OO. The two prisoners_ A committed for trial at the a pp roac hi ng Liverpool A 971 TEIE FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION—A FAILII On Thursday night last, the l ong an d much-ta l " Great Demonstration" came off in the Free 11 ;4 Hall, the edifice which was spe c i a lly erec t e d a few Yen' for such exhibitions. Anticipating, to some eld° ll l 4 o o great display of league oratory an d reason i ng, an d s° ftti to behold the formidable array of newly-fledged„„ n g Trade M.P.'s announced to be p resen t, some 2,suur o ; sons met together in the hall to grace the " great &1 01 l stration" by their presence. They were, how e ver, ° o c ed to disappointment, in more ways than one, and el f ! s now that the bubble has b urs t, are l ou d i n the expres'' • of their dissatisfaction. I n th e fi rst place, they, we' learn the prospects of free trade, and to ascertain ' how soon, and in what way it was to benefit then 3 extent once so confidently predicted, instead of / I „,t they were regaled with anti- war s p eec h es , an d t h e 0 0, out effusions of the peace society. There was o ° o ll part of all the speakers, a timid shrinki ng f rom the o, question, each and all f them prefe rr i ng ra th er W t lt about the national defences, o r any ot h er su bj ec t for e go to the meeting. Another great sou rce o f di sappo inti was the quality of the wines and viands, the former pronounced execrably bad, whilst of the latter there ro not a sufficiency. This we rather wonder at, ° s e " League" provided all, and we can only accoun t ib i r i o supposing that they are getti ng ou t o f f un d s, a n d e t anxious to realise a trifle by the speculation. E'en t io this the case, it is no business of ours, further than jie we should be sorry that any innocent licensed victtuvo should be blamed when Messrs. George Wilson and were selling on their own accoun t, an d are t h e only Ph u , on whom the blame res t s . It i s sat i s f actory, howeve"o know that this unkindness met its reward, for W e bb ' assured that it has recoiled on its grasping authotst, t it are likely to lose by the affair. Many disapp o i n ted Pne talk unpleasantly about having been decoyed to the , to l monstration" by false pretences—that is, induced " for the purpose of hearing the new lights of the free, 17 party, instead of which they were enlightened on 9 the new gas chandeliers, which certainly threw more ?ft upon the subject than all the " unadorned eloquenl e g Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Gib son , w h ose o ft PO speeches possessed no charms, especially for those 0' went expecting to hear the gentl emen w h o were kept by " previous engagements" or indisposition, whiPt' suppose really meant, that they were indisposed t° seen in such company. Manchester Courier. Feb. 1 , TUESI ARRlVEDH utchinso n ,' tOramitti_ Fei em, from ( ;ete ED,--m Miller Phi Blarnfield, Air ' Rushton Fost Wert). ::! oe , y e v ea r G :e ir c e° s_na k o e r vt g d he e re o e i o Ylake. 'ma port 29th I Mary Clark, Instant. Brilliant Eva Salem,. Hagui ohn and Ma caaePs Mount,F lora M`D om „ Inperor, Da ;me) , Wright London C N 'on oy ang .rons, Joh] A.Ner, Bell s gear • POstrt D . th .ec• bee. avbrene.4 ) zost6Wal 7r(senix" ' cepr A FEW WORDS TO THE ASSISTANTS V' 4. 38 bo , long. 55: EARLY CLOSING. ----- TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAN, 'f) -Ai ,( Stn,—Much has been written, much- has been spat i b and much also has been done, towards the accomP to tl ment of early closing ; but much•m ore s till remains,,d achieved. What has been done with the excesu'd limited means possessed, is a sufficient proof than j o t increased means, unity of purpose, conti nue d agi%ti and persevering zeal, all that is sought to b e donere'po is desired, may, and will be accomplished. It is v simply a question of time, when shall these things . 0 The assistants. have the solution intheir own povrer. _V them aid the moral movement of their f r i en d s , that c 9; thren, and the enlightened portion of the thvoursb9, e posed and generous public, and their enfranchis e ., fl' from the bondage of unnecessarily-lengthened tostoyo soon become a-verified and substantial:fact. If the ' of the assistants, however, notwithstanding the bu t signs of the times, will not arouse themselves, t ic, remain callous to all entreaties, and suicidally apso e c o their own well:being, the evil, great as rit is, must ~ nue, and more young and sanguine hearts he sac r e ; , upon the accursed altars of Mammon and. Indiff.er s Once, again, I' entreat the present sufferers to do . duty. This is the age of sanitary reform, this is ts 77 riod when all attempts to improve the health and 11 2iilirl of way uoottou of tho community moot. -,,rith the w o r aid of philanthropists of every grade; nobles, clergP t ic, try, influential tradesmen, all are willing to help , h ot who first shew a desire to help themselves.. Seize, , I beseech you, the good that is offered. If you ', / o l ', yourselves now you may be saved; you. ay balk ills, or at least a large portion of them, removed. „ , o t , and the means may pass out of your reach. Slug' ot and reasonable reduction of the hours of l a bour, LI, tamed by the unity and exertion of the p res ent toe tion, or must it be delayed until a more liberaleld lightened one succeed ? We hope the former.; til°": that we may not be deceived.—Yours, &c. J. January 28th, 1848. r Jo 0-. 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Plry, 114. 144 t!t;,,A t Z, 31gt I 'l_4 MarrTi„ l3el ork_ -TI Pli t t Sim 'ngl( honl _„lnons, Al2-aarnioni d r ' s °n, C the • In g a 81 1 & 11 Cr ' 1 118, "(le. QUI Z l( r e MP tor 44 the' llo , Bid ( ,Part. .Pl'' -al eY, g Pec ulad l o st 4 14 .t il a a r t tiett, a r , witei; t. t h ,„ 1, 4 - ' 4 t " l 2l Pi,e,, fr om I 14G s % - 1 - 1 I), THE PROVISION MARK ~T. c 9 We quote the state of the provision trade from w V cular of Mr. George Badenach, prepared for tranos 3 ' by the packet which sailed on Saturday last : " Cheese has been in fair demand, and the Oa' pretty well cleared. 'tsl‘ " Beef. All the import of the new cure has been at full prices. Old is neglected. 0 11 ' • Pork. Very little doing. Some inferior primer few strips, taken at extreme low prices. " Bacon. There is an improved demand for tPV tide, and considerable sales have been made of u'oe, ordinary quality, at extreme low figures—the bette r A ' have also been taken at about 40s. Our stock is 7 3 ,e very small compass. For new there is a fairdeoi e % e several small parcels have been taken at 50s. , cwt. " E , a ies .ams and shoulders. Some extensive sir_tio been made of these, at reduced rates, for. the Iris b ito d' ket. Some dried hams, of the best reputed cure , excellent condition, have been sold at 28s. per cwt• K O: " Lard. This article continues to be taken on er r ,be improving prices, a small parcel'of fair quality havii i ° sold at auction at 60s. to 60s. 9d. 130 14 ' " Butter. About 1,500 firkins Canadian were o re forward at auction on the 21st instant; in conse(l 4 ,l, the large quantity, buyers calculated upon low,, r A which the holders would not submit t 0..; but, ult.', 0 nearly the whole were cleared off at prices rangi ng 58s. to 675. orY " Soda Biscuit. Very little doing, old parcels off at low prices. " Apples. The season is now over." The imports for the month ended 27th JanUar', been—of cheese, 847 casks and 1798 boxes tierces 7 brls. ; pork, none ; bacon, 1825 cwt.; - casks ; lard, 634,br15., 367 kegs, 72: cases ; butter , The easterly winds, which have prevailed lately , 111'; as doubt contributed materially to this shortening °, supplies. We give Mr. Badenach's latest quotatl° ~C~r roxro • y% f , 4 1 5 1 4 IL"; 0 - 1 511 - .p -8- 2.Etz4 7 1 r.a CZ:. ■ EN' Fr c , 3 t,Z: E% V V4".8 n. ~ _rill 0.- el X Ol 0) 0 0 0 0 CD .4 oas is ; • mcoci , po. ?O ' 4.-CJIIV ,11) F.,..?- 4 .ijiVen niZC4CIV, c 7: