The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

TO OUR. SUBSCRIBERS. We have this day, at the commencement of a new half-year, a most grateful duty to perform. We have to acknowledge an unexpectedly large addition to our subscribers, and at the same time to thank numbers of our old friends for the promptitude with which, unsolicited by our selves, their subscriptions for the past and the coming half-year have been handed to us. Such a reward of our exertions, and such appre ciation of the general character of the STANDARD, are at once considerate and flattering. liVe are not, on account of this favourable opening of the present half year, disposed to be exacting towards our friends generally. But to some, whose accounts have stood over much too long, we are compelled to say that, if they are not promptly liquidated, we shall be under the neces sity of omitting sending the paper in future. In a majority of cases, however, we believe that it only requires such a hint as the present to pre vent the necessity of our having to resort to such a course. To those residing at a distance, the post-office money order office offers now every necessary facility. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We were in error last week in ascribing the receipt of the London evening papers to Mr. Pearson's successor. Mr. Pearson still carries on his news-agency business in Lord street, with all the promptness and activity which have hitherto characterised his establishment. We think that a person occupying such a tenement as that de scribed will be deemed liable to the taxes mentioned, not withstanding he may derive in his immediate locality no be nefit from the rate. The deficiency will, however, no doubt be supplied were a proper representation made. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. 18s. I On Credit 2os. In Advance Ebt Eiberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1848. THE first step in the ministerial crusade against our sugar-growing colonies has been successful. In a house of 505 members, on Thursday night, the motion that the members resolve themselves into a committee to consider the question of the sugar duties, was carried by a measuring cast majority of 15.- How far, however, this decision shows the ability of ministers to carry through their measure as 'originally proposed, remains to be proved, com prising, as the majority does, a number of honour able members differing from the government both in the direction of free trade and of increased pro tection. From the weakness of the former, how ever, as shewn in the small minority (36) which voted in favour of Mr. Bright's motion, and from the unreserved support given to the ministerial plan by Sir Robert Pee], we fear much that all further opposition will be futile, and that our sugar growing colonists are doomed men. The speech of Sir Robert, announcing the course he is determined upon pursuing, is worthy of that most inconsistent of all modern statesmen. ft is throughout a happy combination of Jesuitical flat tery and insult. He sets out with a glowing exor dium upon the past loyalty and value to Great Britain of her West Indian colonies. He " cannot forget that they shared in our victories and our defeats,—in our hopes and our despondings ;—but he thinks, independent of all this, there are great social considerations which would require us to ex tend a fostering hand to our West India possessions." These social considerations are the advantage to civilization to be derived from the maintenance in prOsperity of the white population,—the planters, — of the West Indies. " I believe," he goes on, " the white population to be a barrier to the spread of barbarism." (Cheers.) "If they should, from any reason, disappear from the colonies, the cause of civilization, humanity, and religion will materially suffer." Naturally these sentiments, so true and so 'just, drew down cheers from the house. Who could suppose that, with the evidence before the house, that this barrier against barbarism was fast disappearing, under the influence of our legislation —that the planter was a ruined man already—and that cultivation was being given up in every colony —Sir Robert Peel was, after this honied expression of sympathy with his interests, and regard for the importance of his. position, about to pronounce his determination to abandon him in his hour of trial ? No one who had not attentively studied the man. Yet such is the fact. Sir Robert was about to affirm his intention to vote for the miserable, in efficient measure of the Whir government. Yet even whilst doing this the Right Honour able Baronet had his reservations, his doubts as to the-eorrectness of our past policy. He entertains "regret that a further experiment of the bill of 1845 was not permitted." But "we cannot revoke," he says, " the settlement of 1846." The " settle ment !" Why we are revoking it by affirming this very measure. Is Sir Robert, after all, about to go a step beyond ministers, and to bid in advance for popularity with the free trade section of the house, by binding them to the terms of the bill of 1846 ? There is not a passage in his speech which is incon sistent with his adoption of such a course. He objects to the proposed protection of ten shillings per cwt. for six years, on the ground that it would not 'benefit the West India body ; that it would check their efforts to reduce the cost of cultivation, and that it would not deter the Cuban planter from extending his poWer to supply us, knowing, as he would do, that at the end of six years, he would have the unrestricted use of our markets. Th e same arguments apply to the limited additional protection granted by the present measure, even more strongly, inasmuch as the latter violates a "settlement" without affording efficient relief to the planter. The latter says, and Sir Rol-mrt Peel confirms the assertion,—that time will be required before an adequate supply of labour can be secured ; and, pending that period, he asks for such a protection as will enable him to continue his cultivation without ruinous loss. The ministerial measure does not afford such protection ; and, undir its pro v isions, cultivation would not be con tinued. The same objection holds with respect to Sir Robert Peel's further specifics for the relief of the colonists. Sir Robert proposes the application of a considerable portion of the £500,000, proposed to be raised on loan for the purpose of procuring an increase of labour, to other purposes—irrigation, thoroughdraining, the formation of railways, &c. The suggestion is undoubtedly a valuable one; and by the by, it is easy for a member of parliament, in his place in the house, with his hand unfettered by practical difficulties, to make suggestions, and to ask why were not these things done before, during the palmy days of prosperity. It is suffi cient, however, to know now that they were not done; and Sir Robert may be assured that, so long as the plariter is subjected to unequal and ruinous competition—so long as his property is productive only of a yearly loss of the capital employed upon its cultivation—they must remain undone. Besides, all these improvements—this irrigation, draining, &c.—are equally open to adoption by the slave planter, who can apply to them the very money which we give him, by his more favourable position in the British market. There is one argument upon which Sir Robert Peel appears especially to rely in his opposition to a temporary protection being given to the British planter. He says :—" You admit that a very con siderable time must elapse before you hive any in crease in the supply of labour to the West Indies; but the stimulus of protection to the East Indies will be immediate, while the amount of available labour there is 'enormous ; yet the East Indies and the Mauritius are to receive an encouragement to compete with the West In dies, though not labour ing under the same disadvantages, which competi tion will be as injurious to the West Indies, in a pe cuniary point of view, as foreign competition." Now, what does the Right Honorable Baronet here admit ? In the first instance, he admits the fact of a large increase of free labour sugar being raised, under the encouragement afforded by a temporary protection. We know the effect of an increase of supply of any product. It is cheapness. He ad mits it himself, when he says that "competition with the East Indian planter will be as injurious to the West Indies, in a pecuniary point of view, as foreign competition." The consumer, therefore, will not be taxed to the amount of this increased measure of protection. He will still have cheap sugar, the result of an increased supply, produced by free labour in our own colonies, and paid for in the manufactures of Manchester, of Leeds, of Shef field, and Birmingham —n o t the cheap article, wrung by the lash from the blood and sinews of the slave. But there is another important deduction to be drawn from this argument of Sir Robert. He had j ust been saying to the planters ;---" It is only under the influence of competition that you can hope that these improvements—these drains and modes of irrigation—will be bad recourse to ;" and he quoted afterwards, with approbation, the following evidence of Mr. Barklay, as to the effect of increased protec tion in putting a stop to the reduction of the price of labour:—" At the present moment, in those co lonies, we are engaged in a struggle to reduce the wages, which is the only means of putting the cost of production on a sound and satisfactory basis. I think the effect of a differential duty to that extent would be at once to decide the struggle in favour of the negro." But Sir Robert tells us that the West India planter will be still subjected to a severe competition with the East Indian, who has abun dant and cheap labour. He cannot afford, there fore, to stay his efforts to reduce the cost of culti vation. He will be driven out of the market, if he does not make use of all the appliances and advan tages within his reach. It was to be expected, of course, that so consum mate a master would not conclude without at least touching that very important phase of the question, its connexion with the system of slavery and the slave trade. Sir Robert has reserved this point for the close of his speech, and, in our humble opinion, weak as the whole is, the conclusion is the weakest. We quote it here : " I would not despair of the result of competition with the foreigner, because 1 think that the man must be blind indeed to the signs of the times who can believe that this system of slave labour can ultimately be maintained. (Hear, hear.) Now look to what the state of this slave labour is in Cuba. Lord Howard de 'Walden has lately paid a visit there, and this is his account of the condition of Cuba. Being asked if the overseer of an estate was obliged to go armed, he answered, " Yes, I believe, in variably ; the overseer had a cutlass and dagger, and three bloodhounds at his heels close by him. I under stand it was the custom of the island, that no white man belonging to an estate should go unarmed. They would net go on foot at any distance, but ever on horseback they have always their pistols at their sides." (Hear, hear.) When you look to the United States, are you sure that the status of slavery can always be maintained Do you believe that the inhabitants of the United States are easy and confident under the maintenance of it ? What is the reason all discussion of it is put down ? Look to the state of Martinique, and remember also that these events are furnishing a lesson which the governments of Brazil and Cuba—aye, and of the United States—should learn, and, in fact, are learning. (Hear, hear.)- My opinion is, that the events which are happening in Europe must precipitate the time when there shall be a final extinction both of the slave trade and of the slave. I believe that slavery cannot long survive, and that the slave, at no remote period, must be emancipated. (Loud cheers.) How miserably must the man have sunk in his own estimation, and how low he deserves to sink in the estimation of the world, who could bring him self to utter this wretched trash ! Whither have fled all those noble aspirations of British statesmen and of the British people, to be the pioneers of the liberty of the African throughout the world ? Whi ther has fled their determination to carry out, cost what it might, the great experiment of cultivating the tropics with free labour ? To the winds ; and now we have a reputed great statesman—one ac customed " The applause of listening senates to command," instead of standing upon the high and holy ground of principle upon this great social question, taking refuge in the hope that the abolition of slavery is only to be accomplished at last by the negro being goaded to desperation and outbreak. Spirits of Wilberforce and Clarkson, of what value were all your eloquent appeals to the humanity of England and the world, when the great object of your life's labour an English statesman now leaves to be con summated by the same instrumentality which drives a hound to fly at his master's threat ; when at last the real emancipator of the negro is to be some Cuban overseer, with cutlass and pistols at his sides and bloodhounds at his heels, more wicked and cruel than his fellows in crime ? Alas for Sir Robert Peel ! Wt observe that, to some extent, the question of our Water Supply will be again brought before the Council, on Wednesday next (to-morrow), on a motion by Mr. Parker, affecting Mr. Hawksley's appointment. Little hope, certainly, seems to exist that the Council can be induced to deviate from their course by any coercion of argument which can be brought to bear upon them. The Water of Rivington Pike, or the supposed water, for it is altogether in nubibus, and may never come down, is that which it seems determined upon that the inhabitants of Liverpool shall drink and bathe in. It is of little moment therefore whether to Mr. Hawksley, or any other engineer, we are to be in debted for 'bringing it. But we would suggest to the Committee that, putting out of consideration the fact that it has never yet been satisfactorily proved that we have not within our reach, and be neath our feet, an ample supply of water for the in habitants of Liverpool, it is not at all certain that we cannot get the Rivington Pike water without going to the fountain head, or rather to the original rainfall, for our supply. It is notorious that at Rivington, as is the case in all similar localities, where surface drainage is depended upon, the supply is intermittent and precarious; and the bulk of the evidence goes to show that the Douglas and some other streams are, during times of drought, or slight rainfall, barely sufficient, if sufficient at all, to furnish the requirements of the immediate locality. Has it ever entered into the minds of any of the members of the Health Committee, or of their engineers, to endeavour to ascertain whether it is not possible to avail ourselves of the same water, after it has received the subsidization of a portion of the country through which these streams flow before discharging themselves into the Ribble ? Those acquainted with the country know that at Lathom, about thirteen miles from Liverpool, the Douglas, the Tawd and the Elderbrook contain a consi derable volume of water, by which in heavy rains the meadow lands are overflowed and the highways frequently rendered impassable; that at such times there is frequently a weight of water in one day wasted, or employing itself only in devastation, sufficient to keep Liverpool for years ; and that in ordinary and average seasons the quantity available is ample. These streams are within reach of the Liverpool and Ormskirk Railway, down which pipes might be brought at a light engineering cost, in the same way that Manchester is supplying itself from the hills of Derbyshire, by the route of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway ; and there would be these great advantages from a supply from this quarter, over that from the head source at Rivington. First ! there would be only thirteen miles of piping, instead of twenty two miles. Secondly, tin water being brought along the line of railway, there would he no heavy engineering works required, and . no expensive land purchases to be made. In the third place, we should escape the whole of the .claims for compen sation, in money and in water supply, by the inha bitants of Wigan, the canal proprietors, and the millowners in the district. This is one of the most material features of the plan; and would save some thousands yearly of the cost, and remove, at the same time, the most serious difficulty of the Ri vington scheme. We may be asked how are we to get the neces sary elevation for flushing sewers and extinguishing fires. We answer, by mechanical means. Nothing can be easier. We can raise the Bootle water to the highest elevations in the town. We do the same every day with the Harrington. It is not at all necessary, in an era in which the principles of hydraulics are so well understood, that we should draw our supplies from distant elevations at an im mense cost, whilst a couple of engines will give us the same elevation at a tenth of the cost in our own locality. We have merely mooted. this source of supply. It is worth being inquired into before running our selves headlong into the expense of the Rivington scheme. Our own impression remains, however, that we have at home water in, abundance, if we chose to sink for it in our red sand stone formation. SUGGESTED NEW NAMES FOR STOCKPORT AND MAN CHESTER.—An American correspondent of Blackwood's Magazine speaks of these two seats of the miliocracy as " Cottonburg " and " Calicopolis." We should strongly recommend our Manchester friends to accept of the latter. It is at once euphonious, dignified. and classical. Calicopolis—citv of calico. If it were only for the sake of the reporters for the Manchester papers it ought to be adopted forthwith. It would save them the iteration of " our city " half a dozen times in every local paragraph. " The hon. member for Calicopolis " would sound well in the house, and impart to plain John Bright a majesty of which he is very short. KNOWN THIEVES FOUND ROAMING THE STREETS AT UNSEASONABLE HOURS OF THE NIGHT.—TherO are many persons of this description to whom the attention of the constables is directed by their superior officers. Yesterday, the following were brought to the bar of the Police-court, having been found in various parts of the town prowling.about, with no good intent :—Wm. Sed don, Wm. Tetlock, Thomas O'Neale, Jeremiah Burns, and several others. They had all frequently been com mitted, and were sent to gaol for three months. ENORMOUS POOR RATES IN MANCHESTER. The overseers of Manchester have been compelled, in order to meet the demands upon them, to increase greatly the poor's rate for the coming year. The estimated ex penditure for the past year was £120,000, raised by a rate of 4s. 6d. in the pound. The actual payments, however, have exceeded the estimate by £42,000, a large portion of which the overseers have had to borrow from their ban kers. The funds are now entirely exhausted ; and. whilst laying the rate for the present year at 6s. Bd. in the pound, they have to appeal to the inhabitants for early payment, to rid them of their present debt, and to enable them to meet the very pressing claims upon them, made by the guardians for the relief of the poor. Our neighbours of Manchester have certainly profited little, thus far, from the advent of what was to be the free trade manufactur ing millenium. And, certainly, they seem to be taking a very odd method of relieving themselves, if they rely upon the effects of the semi-chartist movements of the Hume and Cobden school of reformers. A few years of this six-and-eightpenny visitation ought to open their eyes a little to the folly of looking at the every-day business matters of legislation through the spectacles of this hum bug school of politico-economical philosophers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE DIVISION ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND THE SUGAR DUTIES. The market for sugar has been very little influenced by the division of Thursday night, affirming the motion for going into committee. The trade is at present only from hand to mouth ; and anything like speculation is quite out of the question. Among the members of the sugar growing interest the feeling is strong, that a perseve rance in the act of 1845,—the total exclusion of slave grown sugar—preferred by Sir Robert Peel to the " set tlement" of 1846, would have been the most desirable course in every respect for us to have pursued. We were in 1845-6 increasing our production very greatly ; and would in a very few years have been independent of any slave labour supply. The advantage to be derived from the offer of half a million for immigration purposes, is less regarded than it was at first, little as it was then valued. The colonists want to know where they are to find the security, when it is well known that in most of the West Indian Islands there will be no revenue to pledge. The calls on railways, for the month of July, exceed £3,800,000. DOCK ACCIDENT.—On Saturday William Remblance, a boy aged 15, belonging to the schooner Good Design, at present lying in George's Dock, left the cabin to go on shore, and was not afterwards seen or heard of until the grappling was used, when his body was brought up from tha water. A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—The body of a young man named Chailes Batten, was picked up by a boatman on the river near the North Dock walls, on Saturday. De ceased who had lived in Jones-street, Toxteth-park, with his father, had-on the 4th June gone to bathe and was drowned. SUDDEN DEATH.—Soon after nine yesterday morning a man named Moses Slater, residing in Stanley-street, went into a public-house in the street, and complained of cramp in the legs. He then smoked a pipe, and while doing so fell sideways, and died in a few minutes in au apoplectic fit. DEATH FROM BURNING.—Henry Jackson, aged four years, living with his parents in Penryhn-street, Scotland road, lighted a piece of paper at the fire, which he after wards threw upon the floor. He then stooped near it and his clothes taking fire, he was so much burnt, that he died on Sunday. ANOTHER THEFT BY A FEMALE SERVANT.—At the Police-court yesterday, two women, Ellen Crosson and Hughes, were charged by Mrs. Leyland, of Seymour street, with stealing a cloak aLd shawl , also, two silver teaspoons and a pair of silver sugar tongues from the com plainant's house, where Crosson was a servant. She took the articles to a woman, (a pawnbroker,) whose name we did not learn, and who in place of detaining the plate, sent it to a cellar in the same street. The cloak and shawl were found on the prisoner's back when she was appre hended, but she had stated that the spoons, &C., belonged to her mistress. The other prisoner was implicated, and both were committed for trial at the sessions. NEW PASSENGER ACT.—The new American passenger law comes into operation here on the 16th instant. Under this act vessels carrying steerage passengers have, M ad. dition to improved cooking accommodation, ventilation, &c., to provide each passenger during the voyage with, per week, 2 lbs. of oatmeal, 11 lbs. of biscuit, 1 lb. of flour, 1 lb. of rice, 1 lb. of peas, 1 lb. of pork, and a quantity of vinegar. The Black Star packet-ship Ivanhoe, Of 1151 tons register, Captain W. Edwards, now on her third voyage, owned by Taylor and Me:ner, of New York, the founders of the Black Star line of packets, is intended to sail for that port on the 19th instant, and will probably be one of the first packet-ships to comply with the regu ations of the new act. HANDSOME PRESENTATION. There are few COM- M anderA connected by transit with the port of -Liverpool, whose general character and seamanlike conduct has given more satisfaction than that of Captain Watson Ferris ; and it is gratifying to have to record a slight tes timonial to his acknowledged talent as a transatlantic navigator. He was presented, on Thursday last, by Mr. J. C. Taylor, on behalf of a few friends, with a splendid gold lever watch, which, as thn in3(fption justly inscribed, was not presented on account of its intrinsic value, but as a slight testament of the high esteem in which he was held as is social friend and a valonrous and humane commander. Captain Ferris acknowledged in suitable terms his high appreciation of the spirit which had dic tated the gift. SUDDEN DEATH FROM DISEASE OF THE HEART.—On Saturday last, Michael Wiltshire, a car driver, and about 40 years of age, was driving a car along Dale-street, when he asked another driver (Picton) to get on to the box with him, which he did. The car went for a fare to a street near the Zoological Gardens. On coming back, and when near the stand in Islington, deceased suddenly pulled up, and exclaimed, " Oh dear ! I'm done for," and called to some men to put him inside, and take him home, He was put inside, and Picton drove him home to Sir Thomas's-court, Dale-street. On taking him out .he was found to be insensible. A surgeon was called, but he died in half an hour after. Mr. Cripps, who examined the body said, that death was caused by disease of the heart. FUNERAL OF THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT BROWN. —The remains of the late respected 11r. Brown were con veyed to their last resting place on Saturday,. with all the honours available, by the body to which he belonged. The police officers who were not on actual duty, and their su periors in the force, assembled in the neighbourhood of the Exchange at eleven o'clock, and proceeded, in order, to the house of the deceased in Exchange-street. East. Shortly afterwards the procession moved forward as fol lows, through the principal thoroughfares, to St. James's (Mount) Cemetery :—The fire brigade, under Superin tendent Hewitt ; the hearse; a mourning coach, with the relatives of the deceased ; the police force, all wearing swords, and about five hundred in number • the inspec tors ; the superintendants ; and, finally. dr. Dowling, the head-constable, on horseback. A vast concourse of spectators not connected with the force, collected on the ground, and all, during the service and burial, appeared to be impressed with regret for the demise, and respect for the memory, of so long tried, active, and faithful servant of the public. _ _ THE FERRIES.—We last week stated that it was, we believed, the intention of the Woodside Commissioners to issue halfpenny tickets for the Woodside ferry, in quanti ties of not less than sir. It is since said that the con tracts are also to be reduced. Nothing definite has yet, however been decided upon : but a new proposition has been talked of in some quarters—the result of which re mains to be seen—namely, to render the ferry transit across entirely free, as if it formed a portion of the high way, the boats. &c., to be kept up by a general rate. This project has been favourably spoken of in some quar ters. Some questions, however, arise as to how such a plan would practically work ; first, as regards inducing an indiscriminate rush to the boats of all classes, especially on Sundays and other holydays, so that two classes of boats might be required; and second, as affected the other ferries which are private property, and which, even at very reduced fares (if they too a ere not supported by a fair share of the rate) would be unable to continue to run at all. CHARGE OF MAKING BASE COIN.-At the Police court, yesterday, John Ryan, Catharine Ryan, (his daughter) Thomas Quin, and a boy named Michael Ca sey, were placed at the bar, charged with being found with materials for making base coin, and several of them with uttering the same. One of Ryan's sons, a mere boy, ap peared to give evidence against them ; but, being alarmed before he proceeded, his evidence was not taken. The whole of the prisoners lodged with an old woman in Beau street, and it was through the information of the boy Ryan that they were apprehended. The house was searched by police-officers, and there were found in the cellar several old iron spoons, some plaster of Paris, &c., but no mould. The boy had told one of the officers that his father used to make ten shillings at a time, by melting metal in one of the spoons which he pointed out. The girl had passed a base sixpence to a party who appeared, and the elder prisoner had endeavoured to pass a base shilling. They were all remanded for further inquiry. STEALING FROM A DWELLING HOUSE.—Yesterday, a servant woman named Ann Mc. Cabe, was charged before Mr. Rushton with having stolen from the house of Mrs. Hannah Harwood, a bag containing £23 12s. Bd. Com plainant said she kept a butcher's shop and house attached, in Mill-street, Toxteth-park. The prisoner had been in her service for about three weeks, but was about to give place to another servant. On Sunday evening, about halt past six, witness went out to go to chapel. It appeared that during her absence, prisoner had gone up stairs to witness's room, and there told one of witness's daughters who was present to go down stairs and she (prisoner) would follow her. Prisoner added that she was going to set up business for herself, but did not know how she should get the money. Prisoner had got leave to go out for an hour or two, and did not return till late. On going to the drawer in which she kept her money in a bag, com plainant found it was gone. She had seen it safe between eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon. A key was found upon the prisoner when she was apprehended, which it appeared would open the drawer ; and it was not corn. plainant's key. A dress and shawl were also missing, and supposed to have been taken from the house by the pri soner. As further evidence is expected the prisoner was remanded. JOHN BRIGHT A PUGILIST SPOILED. The contentious character of the quaker member for Manchester is tolerably well known in his own locality, and on Friday night it was rather amusingly brought be fore the house by Mr. Grantley Berkely. " The hon. member was very fond of making attacks. When he (Mr. G. Berkely) was acting on a committee with the hon. gentleman, he told him with that neat method of expression which so much characterized what fell from the hon. member for Manchester, that when he (Mr. G. Berkely) was made a legislator, there was a very good gamekeeper spoiled. (Loud laughter.) Subsequently he asked the hon. gentleman whether he would pin his faith on any opinion which the hon. gentleman the member for the West Riding entertained, and when the hon. member for Manchester answered that question in the affirmative, he informed him that the hon. memberfor the West Riding had said of him that so great were the hon. gentleman's pugnacious qualities, that if he had not been a Quaker, he would have been a prizefighter. (Great Laughter.)" There is just a chance, however, that Mr. Cobden may have mistaken the mere propensity for bullying, for pluck; and that, denuded of the protection afforded him by his quaker garb, Friend John would become a very pacific and civil-tongued individual. SYMPTOMS OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE PEELITES AND BENTINCKITES. Under this heading the Manchester Examiner gives the following paragraph : "An incident occurred in the debate on Thursday night, which would almost imply something like an approach to a reconciliation between the Bentinckites and the Peelites. Sir Robert Peel, in his speech, adverted to the Committee on West India Distress, of which Lord George Bentinck was the chair man. He said, I have read the report of that committee over which be so ably presided, although I was occupied by attend ance on several other committees, but I read that report on account of the vast itnportance of the subject; and I must state a new light has been thrown upon the state of the West' Indian colonies which would not have been thrown were it not for the assiduity, zeal, intelligence, and knowledge of the noble lord. (Cheers.) [Lord G. Bentinck acknowledged the compli ment in a marked manner.]" Our contemporary very much undervalues the clear headedness of his lordship if he imagines him likely to be gulled by the jesuitical compliments in question. There are in the world a class of men, who are never so much to be dreaded as when they approach you with a smile upon their face, and a compliment upon their lips ; and few know better than Lord George Bentinck, who belongs to the class in question. A political alliance between the protectionists and Sir Robert Peel We should far sooner expect to see an alliance between the Hume and Cobden chartists and that slippery politician. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LATEST FROM PARIS. The latest intelligence preserves the same peaceable character as that which had previously arrived. Tran quility prevailed in Paris, and the judicial inquiry into the causes of the late outbreak progressed. It has already brought to light many important facts, showing that the insurrection was the result of a preconcerted plot of the most.dangerous character, and that a perfect understand ing as to the mode of carrying on the street fighting had previously existed. The project of seizing railways into the hands of the government had been entirely given up, and the attention of the assembly was to be directed to the encouragement of manufactures and exports, and the improvement of Paris by widening the streets, and running broad thorough fares through the most crowded quarters—proceedings necessary both in a social and military point of view. AMERICA. The announcement from Southampton of the arrival of the Hermann steamer, belonging to the New York and Bremen line of packets, with dates from the former place of the 20th ult., is rather unexpected, and shows her to be a craft of the first class. She reached Southampton yesterday, and brings the• account of the contract for the 16 millions loan having been chiefly taken by one house, said to be in conjunction with the firm of Baring Brothers, at rather more than 3 per cent. above par. There were several other competitors made bidding, so that, as we were formerly authorised to state, there has been no difficulty in raising the money. This packet, to the sur prise of, most of the merchants, has again upwards of $lOO,OOO on freight, with an announcement that about an equal sum will be transmitted by the two following steamers.. When every allowance is made for the dis credit of European paper rendering it difficult to dispose of bills of a secondary character, it is impossible to ac count for the continuation of such a state of things, ex cept on the principle that large quantities of goods have lately been thrown into the markets of the United States. There was some appearance, however, of the rate of ex change receding a little, the latest quotations being about 110.1. It has not transpired that there are any later accounts from Mexico, but the papers and letters have not yet been delivered, and it consequently does not follow that there are not' more recent accounts. The reduction of the import duties in the Mexican ports of 40 per cent. from the old tariff rates, is considered by the merchants as certain to give a great stimulus to the trade of the country, and an increase to the revenue, which will greatly aid in restoring their finances. The blacks at Martinique are still in a 'state of insur rection, and are still committing outrages and horrible butcheries. The whites were flying in all directions, some to New Orleans. Business•of all kinds was at a stand. YUCATAN. The intelligence from this place is of the most alarming character. The Indians are increasing in strength, and continue their devastations, slaughtering all who unhappily fall into their hands. A large Indian force near Ticul is advancing rapidly towards the city. Sitilpech was taken by storm on the 18th, and Sisal was crowded with refugees from theinterior,whoselandshad been laid waste. From the town of CHU'', district of Motul, the govern ment troops were obliged to retreat fighting. The Indians occupied the town- 7 -burnt some houses, and left when the troops retired. A letter from Vienna of the 27th ult. mentions the surrender of Palma Nuova to the Austrians on the 25th. The whole of the material of war, including a large park, of siege artillery, were arnongst the trophies gained. The conditions of the surrender are not given. • MONEY MARKET—YESTEunAy. The removal of all apprehension amongst the Stock Ex change people about a loan being required for the service of the year, in consequence of a statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday evening, opened Consols for the Ac count this morning another per cent. higher than they closed on Saturday ; they were done at 85i, but have subsequently reacted to 85k, at which they are now buyers. A good deal of business has been transacted, a . great many of the "bear" accounts having been bought in immediately after the com mencement of business. The" Three per Cent. Reduced have been done at 85R to the Three:mut-a-Quarter per Cents. from 86,1 to 86, Bank Stock 1911, ExCheqUer-bills 295. to 325., and India Bonds 17s. to 20s. pm. Less business in proportion has been done in Foreign Securi ties. Spanish Five per Cents. have been done at 12, the Three per Cents. 21al, Passive 3i, Mexican MI 17k, Portuguese Four per Cents 17 18, Chilian 81, and Dutch Two-a-Half per Cents. 43 tile Railway Share market continues rather firmer, and prices slowly on the advance. The accounts received from Paris, announcing that the Finance Minister 'bad determined not to proceed at present with the bill for the confiscation of the railways, has made sellers pause, although it has not yet infused sufficient confidence to produce buyers to any extent. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY. We still have stormy and unsettled weather. At this day's market we had only a moderate supply of English Wheat, which met a quick sale at a further advance of Is to 2s per quarter over the currency of this day week. Foreign had a better sale at a similar improvement. Indian Corn in limited request; but the article being scarce, late rates were fully realised. __ Foreign Barley sold more readily at a reduction oils. per qr., and some quantity taken by country buyers. Malt and Beans without alteration. Boiling Pease is. to 2s. lower. Our arrivals of Oats continue to exceed the present demand, which prevents any improvement being recovered from the late depression, but buyers showed great disposition to take with more freedom at our previous currency, while any re quired advance checks business. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY, The supply of Beasts is shorter than for some time past ; trade is consequently brisk, at an advance of fully 2d., and in sonic places 4d per 81b. A choice Scot makes 4s 4d pretty readily. We have also a smaller number of Sheep on offer. Trade is better, but prices are not very much higher. Our top quotations are more freely realized, and in some instances rather more money obtained. Trade is still very heavy for Lambs ; a few of the choicest kinds may, however, be quoted rather higher. Calves sold slowly, at late prices. ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The day of sailing for the prize of £5O value, voted at the last meeting, for yachts of the club above 35 tons, is fixed to take place on Tues day next, the 11th of July, a time race, the entries of the yachts to close on the Bth of July. CRICKET.—A match was played on the evenings of Tuesday and Thursday last, between four of the first eleven and seven of the second eleven of the Olympus Club, and the Ist eleven of the Roscoe Club, on the ground of the latter, Edge-hill, which resulted in the Olympus being victorious with nine wickets to go down. THE POTATO DISEASE.—The Gardeners' Chronicle announces the re-appearance of the potato disease in the open ground in the neighbourhood of Ashford, and in Sussex; and tainted specimens, says this journal, "are now before us from Lord Oranmore's estate in Mayo, and from Yorkshire—the latter in as bad a state as any we saw in 1845 or 1846." TIIEFT FROM A SHOP.—At the Police -court yesterday, two women, Bridget Mulloy, and Margaret Burns, were charged with having committed a theft from the shop of Messrs. Arthur Jones and Co., a piece of print. They had entered the shop and priced some articles, but pur chased nothing. Being observed to handle some goods near the door, they were detained and searched, when the print was found in Burns's apron. They were committed for trial at the sessions. THE LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL Ex lIIBITION.—The second show for the present season is to take place in the Corn -exchange, Brunswick-street, on Thursday next, and a rich supply of choice plants and flowers will furnish such a scene for the lovers of these sweet gifts of nature as can seldom be contemplated. Mr. Stubbs will furnish the band, which is composed of those who have been giving concerts in various towns in Lanca shire. The music will consist of quadrilles, waltzes, pol kas, gallops, &c., interspersed with glees and songs ; a description of musical entertainment as uncommon under these circumstances as it is likely to prove pleasing and attractive. Should the weather be fine a numerous and gay assembly is expected. THE BUDGET.-STATEMENT OF THE CHAN CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. _ _ _ On Friday whilst Sir Charles Wood was replying to Mr. Bright's motion on the Sugar Duties, he entered into a statement of the prospects of the revenue for the present year. It showed at the commencement of the session a deficiency of £2,000,000. The Government proposed to equalise the revenue with the expenditure by resorting to increased taxation ; but this having been opposed when brought before the house, they had ap pointed committees to revise and reduce the expenditure of the different departments. Those committees on the miscellaneous estimates had reduced the expenditure from £4,006,000 to £3,770,000, making a difference in that estimate of £236,000. It had not been able to reduce the expenditure of the army estimates, but the £150,000 that was voted for the militia they proposed to abandon. A reduction of £300,000 had been effected in the navy estimates, by stopping certain works, which, under the present state of the finances, it would be desirable to postpone. These reductions would amount to £685,000. He hoped that further reductions would be made before the end of the year. From malt and other sources there would be an increase beyond what was anticipated of at least £350,000. In those estimates he had left out of his calculations the amount that might be received from corn. The Government bad directed the appropriations in aid for the present year to be paid directly into the Exche quer, which taken at the average of three years, would amount to £500,000. This, it was true, was but a tem porary relief ; but it might be taken for the current year. The total reduction in the expenditure was £1,500,000, so that at the end of the year there would be a deficiency of only £500,000, instead of £2,000,000. He concluded by expressing some gratification at the cheering prospect of the Exchequer. Mr. CARDWELL observed, that cheering as the new budget appeared at first sight, he was not satisfied of the accuracy of the grounds upon which it was supported. The Government had found means for reducing the defi ciency from two millions to only half a million, and that state of affairs showed the house was justified in not sub mitting to the increase of taxation proposed by the Go vernment at the commencement of the session: He then went on to show that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's expectation of the revenue receiving no injury was not well founded. He was not satisfied with the budget, but could not vote for Mr. Bright's amendment. THE FREAKS OF FORTIINE.—A poor labouring man named Roscoe, who has been recently employed on the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, has quite unexpectedly fallen into a fortune of twenty thousand pounds. In the Times of Wednesday last, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford announces a morning party for three o'clock. Rather early this ? Perhaps her grace means three in the afternoon , but it would never do for a duchess to call things by their right names. An examination of the children in the North School of the Church of England, took place on Tuesday. The number of children present was above 400. They were examined satisfactorily in Scripture, Catechism, English History, Geography, and Mental Arithmetic. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—It will be seen, by reference to an advertisement in our first column, that Madame Wharton and her talented troupe have been engaged for another week at these delightful gardens. It will also be seen that Madame W. will give a grand morning performance morning next. FEARFUL MORTALITY IN ONE FAMILY.—In the families of three sisters, at Easthaven, near Arbroath, not less than eight deaths have, since the commencement of the last month, taken place. The husband'and four of the children of one of the sisters—two children of another—and one child of the third have, in rapid suc cession, died of scarlet fever. _ _ MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday night, Lieut. Lane, of the 83d regiment, stationed at Castlecomer, Kilkenny, committed suicide in a fit of delirium, brought on by scarlet fever. The unfortunate officer got his fowling-piece, which lay loaded in the adjoining sitting room, and contrived to put an end to himself by sitting on his bed, placing the muzzle of the weapon under his chin, and pulling the trigger with his foot. The shot had pene trated the brain, coming out at the forehead, and shatter ing the right eye. TEIE APOLLO GLEE CLUB.—We beg to refer our readers to the advertisement in another column, announcing the removal of this well-known and long-established Glee Club from the house in which its meetings were originally held—the late Mr. Holden's, Richmond-row—to the Adelphi Hotel. We cannot but augur a great increase of the popularity and efficiency of the club from this most judicious selection of the Adelphi as its place of meeting— a selection quite in keeping with the character of its nu merous, and highly respectable members. THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The resolution (noticed elsewhere) of the ironmasters to reduce the price of iron 30s. per ton, fixes the price of bars at £6 10s. ; rods, £6 10s. ; hoops, £7 ; and sheets, £B. As these rates leave no alternative to the manufacturers between blowing out their furnaces or lowering wages, the latter step will, in the first instance, be resorted to. and the reduction, which is to embrace forgemen, millmen, fur nacemen, miners, and colliers, will, in all probability, commence on the 15th of July. The works of the British Iron Company at Brierly Hall are about to suspend ope rations, owing to the existing depression. This will cause serious inconvenience and loss to the neighbourhood. COUNCIL MEETING.—At the monthly meeting to morrow, Mr. Parker will move :—To rescind the resolu tion of the Council, adopted on the sth of April last, con firming the recommendation of the Water Committee, that that committee be authorised to make an arrange ment with Mr- Hawkesley for the purposes. stated in the report of that committee then•suh - mitted to the Council, and to employ such persons in the engineering depart ment of the Waterworks as may be found necessary for the economical and efficient working of the present esta blishment. That it be an instruction to the Finance Committee, that an account of the receipts and expendi ture of the Birkenhead Ferry be rendered at each monthly Council. The Mayor's communications comprise a me morial from several persons on the subject of consuming smoke. SHIP REGISTERS.—It is well known to be customary in the ports of London, Liverpool, &c., for the registry of a vessel to be signed by proxy—that is, by the pro collector and pro-comptroller, in place of the collector and comptroller themselves. Conceiving that such a practice was not consistent with law, a case has been sub mitted to Mr. Lloyd (King's Bench) to obtain his opinion as to " whether the signatures should not be of the comp troller and collector themselves ;" or, in ether words, whether they can legally depute their authority to any other person to sign either the register or certificate of registy, or to indorse any bill of sale or such certificate of registry. The reply returned was—" lam of opinion that neither the comptroller nor collector can legally delegate 1 . his authority to any other person, to sign either the register or certificate of registry ;" and he refers to the several acts bearing upon the subject. CRUELTY TO A BOY.—At the West Riding Sessions at Bradford, on Thursday, Thomas Smith, a collier, was sentenced to four month's imprisonment for a violent assault on a boy. The boy is about 14 years of age, and on the 29th of April last he was severely beaten by the prisoner with .a piece of hard wood, in which were several nails, for an alleged fault,,when the lad was without his trousers, shoes, or. stockings. The lad escaping from the grasp of the prisoner, ran to the " eye " of the pit, and mounting a loaded corve, which was ascending, he was drawn to the top, whence he ran off and hid himself in a neighbouring wood, where he was found almost nakedond in a state of insensibility, some three or four days after, by some gamekeepers in the service of Mr. Ferrand. His body and feet presented many wounds, which he had re-, ceived from the violence of the prisoner, and also bore the marks of old wounds. M• GUIZOT AND THE OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP. — The London Times of yesterday has an article con demnatory of the announced intention of some autho rities at Oxford to invite M. Guizot to offer himself for the professorship of modern European languages in that university. Our contemporary argues that the value of the endowment for that office lies not only in the philo logical instruction which may he imparted to the under graduates of Oxford, but in the impulse which should be given to the philological students of England. He also asserts, whilst giving the ex-premier every title to the character of a statesman and historian, that he (M. Guizot) is not a philological scholar. He adds, " This proposition to invest him with the dignities of an office for which he is not directly qualified is nothing less than a gross job, and not one whit the less so that the feelings prompting it may have been less selfish or vulgar than such as usually dictate these transactions." LONDON AND PARIS.—What suggestions do not these words call up ? What sympathy with the sufferings of our own workless and wageless poor ! Compare London and Paris. In both has there been privation, penury, and biting distress. In both have tens of thousands been thrown out of employment. In both have whole families gone to bed without having tasted bread the livelong day, and knowing not whether they should taste it on the mor row. But bow differently have the two people borne their yoke ! In the one, furious hate has been maddened into a brutal revenge ; revenge has sated itself with blood ; carnage and anarchy have revelled in the ensanguined Seine ; and now the energies and industry of a whole people must be taxed to defray the cost of metropolitan license and Parisian frenzy, for London discontent has exploded in two attempts innocently abortive and ludi crously weak. The great mass of those who suffered stood aloof from the work of menace and of outrage; and, fold. ing their arms in patient resignation, waited the day " when things would mend." THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—III the course of last week, a more than usual quantity of rain for the season of the year fell in this vicinity ; and the consequence was to considerably retard the hay harvest. Luckily, the bulk of the crop is still upon its legs ; and that which was cut and not fully dried, does not appear to have sustained any or but slight injury from the heavy showers, drying winds having intervened. The crop of hay generally will, this year, we may venture to say, be heavy, and, added to the old stocks left, and the prospects of a good turnip season, will ensure ample fodder for cattle. The wheats continue to look well and healthy. The black ears that here and there appeared in some fields—not the smut which is so much dreaded by the farmer—have almost entirely disappeared, and all that is now wanted is dry sunny weather. We have seen some amazingly fine fields of oats, very heavy, tall, and already shot into ears of large size. Much of it will be ready for the sickle or the scythe as soon as the wheat. 'Turnips and mangels are proceeding most favourably. A great quantity of both have this year been planted from the thinnings, and from the dampness of the soil have taken strong root. Barley (not much grown here) is well advanced, and will generally exceed last year's crop, a good deal of which was injured by the wire worm. Early potatoes continue to swell, and the slight inroads of the rot, which we before noticed, do not appear to have increased. Garden vegetables of all kinds are abundant and fine, especially peas and brocoli. The nights have latterly been somewhat cold, but yester day the temperature was more genial, and the day upon the whole fine, so that the haymakers were busy. July 4, 1848. THE TREASON PRESS. Reasonable people might naturally suppose that the sanguinary scenes enacted in the streets of Paris within the last week would have cooled the ardour of the Irish revolutionists and alienated men's minds from the con templation of a similar calamity in that wretched country. Those, however, who expected an amelioration of tone in the organs of sedition will be grievously disappointed. So , far from condemning the atrocities perpetrated in the ". French capital, one of those journals (Mr. Gavan Duffy . 's) points out a mode for effecting the purposes of the Irish Communionists, which, if attempted to be put into oper ation, would inevitably lead to results as disastrous and as fruitless as those which followed the late convulsion in Paris. In as plain terms as can be written, the Nation calls upon the peasantry to pay no rents, and to hold the growing produce, estimated to be of the value of £80,000,000, in their hands, for their own use and bene fit, and that if any landlord, or owner of property, should say " Nay " to this audacious proposition, the answer , should be given by a pike-point or a bullet. To the same tune, and with the same ferocity, screams the Irish Tribune. In an article, headed " Blood for Blood," the Tribune distinctly calls for the wholesale extermination of the Irish aristocracy : " Scourge the spoilers from our coast, exterminate the English despots, and crush with them the anti-Irish aristocracy for ever." In answering a correspondent who signs himself "A Pikeman," the Tribune says— "We are surprised at your question ;we thought every . man of your corps had a correct list of the packed jury men. If not, here it is to renovate your memory." The inference from this must be obvious to the meanest capacity. _ In the " war department " of this treasonable print the women are recommended to provide themselves with barrel hoops, each of which is to be smeared with turpen tine or other inflammable matter, then set fire to and thrown horizontally "on the red-coats, whose bayonets would very conveniently serve to catch it, and thus allow it to pass over their necks, when it would do its business." This brutality has not even the questionable merit of originality, being but a bad imitation of a worse model. _ The second number of the Irish Felon was not published until an advanced hour in the afternoon. Its tone is com paratively moderate; and although Mr. T. F. Meagher is added to the list of contributors, beyond schoolboy decla- • mation and a little harmless ranting, there is really nothing very objectionable in any of the articles—certainly nothing that evinces a desire, on the part of the writers, to reach that goal of martyrdom for which there was such hot com petition a few weeks back. Even for this slight symptom of returning sense we here ought to be thankful. Mr. Devin Reilly has not followed up his one-sided correspon dence with Lord Clarendon, as he promised to do. Mr. Morton's name does not once appear in his paper; and Mr. James Lalor's letter contains merely a proposition for the establishment of a monster club, a sort of military organization, of which the Felon office, in Trinity-street, is to be the centre and citadel. The Countess De Grey died in London on Sunday. The Roman catholic bishop of Leighlin has strongly . denounced the ultra doctrines of the repealers. The slight enthusiasm created by the first announce ment of the " Irish League " is fast wearin g it se lf up . The extension line of the South Western railway, from Nine Elms to Waterloo-road, is on a lofty viaduct of 300 arches like those on the Greenwich line. The Prince de Joinville is dangerously ill at Claremont, of a liver complaint, said to have been contracted during his stay in Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean take their benefit at the Haymarket Theatre to-night, when her Majesty and the Prince Consort have intimated their intention of honour ing the performance with their presence.. The annual distribution of prizes at the London Uni versity College, took place on Saturday. Lord Brougham presiding. The senior French prize was awarded to John Thornley, of Liverpool. A HEARTY WELCOME.-It has been asserted, says the Limerick Reporter, with a good deal of confidence, "that the Queen will visit Ireland in ten days. If she comes to open the Irish parliament she is welcome. If not she had far better stay at home." A vessel arrived at Hong Kong has brought the intelli gence, received from the master of an American whaler, that during a typhoon off the north-west coast of China, seventeen American whalers have been lost with their crews. NATIONAL CONFEDERATION.-At a meeting last night in North Toxteth Ward, a committee of the ward was appointed to co-operate with this body. A long discus sion took place on the subject of direct and indirect taxa tion. CAUTION.—A Court of Queen's Bench jury, directed by Lord Denman, have found a verdict with damages of £lO against Mr. Flint, a draper, of Oxford-street, Lon don, for having turned a lady of the name of Palmer from his shop, on the suspicion that she was a shoplifter. A correspondent of Jerold's Newspaper points out the absurdity of the Irish with their "foreign enemy :" When Lord Lyndhurst called them "aliens," they weregrievously offended. Englishmen only laugh at being called "foreign ers" and "enemies," knowing that they are Toot so, and that only the ignorant portion of the Irish think so. The second amateur performance, in aid of the fund for the endowment of a.curatorship for Shakspeare's• house, took place in the Birmingham theatre, on Tuesday, and was attended even more fully than on the first occasion. The play was the "Merry Wives of Windsor," with the same cast as it was played in this town, with the eXceP", tion of Mr. Leech, who appeared as Slender. eirSPECTED POISONING.—Much sensation b a g 'been excited at Harwich within the last few days, by th e .tate ment, that a hawker, named William Constable, had been poisoned by his sister of Wicks, a village near that • town. He died after a day's illness, and his sister had entered his name in a burial club as only thirty.-eight, although he was fifty-five. He died after one day's ill ness, with all the symptoms of poisoning. Messrs. Brodie and Brodie, the late bankers at Salis bury, - passed their last examination at the Court of ruptcy on Friday. The balance sheet presents debts66,ooo. liabilities to the extent of £134,500, and assets of X . - Ws. in so that there appears a prospect of between Os. and Ist of the pound for the creditors. The deficiency on the January, 1845, in the bank's accounts was 62,000. - u n ' note circulation of the establishment was not more than £23,500. a a n nd The state workshop project of Louis Blanc turns out more costly scheme of communist philosophy for France than was ever an ti c ip a t e d. G rey ca li co s hi rts , it is stated, made in the ateliers nationaux of Paris, have been offering for sale at Brussels and Antwerp for several days past. These shirts cost two francs thirty centimes each to the , French republic (say about ls.• 11d.), and were sold a t ' eight francs ten ce n ti mes eac h to a great Paris house , which was seeking to place them abroad. TESTIMONIAL TO BISHOP LEE.—Mr. GUtteridger like all prophets in their own country, is not successful in Birmingham in his attacks on the character of Dr. Lee. At a late public meeting at that town, it was resolved to present the right rev. prelate with a testimonial of the good wishes of the inhabitants, on the occasion of h is leaving the neighbourhood. A service of plate, weighing} twelve hundred ounces, and estimated a t th e v alue 0 ' £750, is the result of this resolution. It consists of a can' delabrum, a plateau, pair of wine coolers, salad bowl, ice bowl, large salver, and a tray. WOMAN DROWNED ON DUDDON SANDS.—A young woman, named Maria Archer, was drowned last week, while crossing these dangerous sands on her way to Hole' house, Millom. It appears, though the water in the ' channel was low, she encountered one of those treacherou s holes which frequently entrap passengers. She was seed from the Lancashire side of the sands to enter the w ater,. but was never seen to emerge. A bundle a n d a basket belonging to the unfortunate woman were pi c ked u p, bu t the body has not been found. She was about 26 years 0 ' age.—Preston Guardian. THE ORANGE ANNIVERSARIES.—The Repealers of Newry, Old and Young Irelanders. have suddenly found out that the July commemorations are no insult whatever to Catholicity, nor in any way inconsistent with the prin . ; ciples upon which the Irish Confederation is based ; an with this new-born view, they call upon their "fellow Repealers" to abstain from evincing any spirit of oppos e " tion to the intended processions. Nay, so transported ere they with Orangeism, that some of these converts to King William and the Boyno water have actually offered te fraternize—to blend the or ange an d green — an d march together at the approaching anniversary, to the inspiriting air of " Croppies lie down." The hook is ingenious l y baited, but it is extremely doubtful whether the wary fish will be induced to bite. IMPORTANT COUNTY COURT DECTSION.—A case, ill; volving a decision of some importance, came on in th l f court, on Monday. David Rowlands, cart-owner, ,e,„ Toxteth-park. appeared for his dis c h arge an d p r otect on his petition to the court. Mr. Yates, jun., oPP°,. e the application on behalf of the creditors, and stated, vl it an examination of the insolvent subsequently substantiat i _ jo that Rowlands, who, itwas contended, was able to pay ail? creditors in full, had some timebefore presenting hisi:Ttitto r to the court, parted with all his property to a relative l e the purpose of defrauding his creditors. His honour re" marked with severity upon the nature of this transacti on s and adjourned the case to Tuesday, in order to afford W u insolvent an opportunity of restoring the property. ' 11 1; arrangement not having then been made, his Honour de arrangement dined to name a day for granting the final order • en d t he this decision the insolvent's property is vested in ay; official assignees of the court, and the insolvent hinise' riot protected from process against his person. s t he MRS. MITCHEL.—A HINT.—A correspondent 0 " h lic Nation suggests that "Mrs. Mitchel should attend Pa meetings in different parts of Ireland, and address the be, calling aloud for vengeance on those who caused her an d reaveinent—use reproach for cowardice and tepidity 00 work on the passions and feelings of all by her apPee, rs ,,el and complaint—telling them why it was that John great was sent in chains away, with all the minutiae of the " r ue ment he received, and implore of them to prepare e n, blow for Ireland and fallen humanity. Such a wo re o s, thus agitating, like Joan d'Arc, or the Maid of Sorag e pa in such a cause, would lead the most apathetic nation 4 A a child ; but, in Ireland, the effect would be as that u g ul lighted match to a mine. But not to Ireland alone tr d be her labours be confined. France and America eheu'by visited in like manner; and, thus, I do believe, he r woman's tongue, would England, notwithstandief o bed strength, her pride, and wickedness, be totallY e r and broken in a short time.' LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1848. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED INI GO EVERY TUESDAY MORN' " s sd By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, G ro ve street, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4. ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOI; BIRKENHEAD ; TODHUNTER, Chester-street ; Pi NKNEY, Argyle-street; OSBORNE, Chester-strev.; GRIFFITH, Hamilton-street. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION• 209• IN ADVANCE