The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

Ebe iltimpoot &taiittarti. TUESDAY MORAING, JAN. 30, 1844. The Anti- Corn-law League is, a portion of the world imagines, a body of men associated for the purpose of carrying the repeal of the Corn-laws by the effect of facts and reasoning upon the judgment of the British people. The fifty thousand pounds raised by it last year it is supposed was spent in printed rubbish, to be circulated amongst the agri cultural population—in salaries to perambulating spouters—in getting up forged petitions to Parlia ment—in bribing and bludgeoning constituencies; and the innocent of mankind conclude that the hun dred thousand poands to be raised this year are to be expended in the same harmless and inoffensive manner. But the innocent world mistakes the Anti-Corn law League. That pure and immaculate body is, after all, not so very pure as it ought to be. The League has discovered a " great fact"—a fact greater than that of its own existence. It has dis covered that it cannot gull the British people—that it cannot bludgeon the British people. And why ? The British CONSERVATIVE PRESS stands in its way. Yes—our own William Rathbone has turned Up the whites of his eyes, and, with the lungs of a Kentucky screamer, given to the world the as tounding piece of information (?), that there are people who read ourselves, and our Conservative contemporaries, in preference to League oracles, which they believe to be lying oracles. The League cannot make headway. They cannot impel amongst the breakers the noble bark, which bears within its oaken timbers the liberties of Englishmen—because there is a pilot on board, whose voice is heard above the storm of faction and the brawl of agitation; and because the crew who navigate her pay attention to that voice more than they do to the false lights and the treacherous advice of the wreckers on shore, who are gloating on the prospect of her plunder. The Conservative press stands in the way of the League. It exposes the silliness of the small nobo dies who bark and yelp at anti-monopoly tea par ties, and the wickedness of the more potent and in fluential quacks who pull the wires and prompt the pigmy performers. The Conservative press, there fore, must be put down. Delenda est Carthago! was never thundered forth, in the Roman Senate, more impressively and •significantly than the de struction of the Conservative press has been called for in the council of the League. We are to be harassed with writs, ex officio informations, actions for libel, and indictments. We are to be smothered with as much legal slime as a hundred thousand pounds will pay for! Do not start most "liberal" reader, whose toast, drunk in toast and water, at all whip-radical gatherings, has been " Liberty of the press—'tis like the air we breathe—if we have it not, we die !" We tell you a " great fact ;" and we are going to shew you that the very prosecutions, to which we have referred you, have already been commenced. The public no doubt remember something of a League meeting, which took place in Manchester in 'November last, at which the project of raising a fund of a hundred thousand pounds was originated, and a large sum subscribed by the members present. Amongst others, a gentleman, who does the buf foonery at the gatherings of the body,—Mr. John Baooks—narrated a ridiculous story about the effect produced upon him by gruel regimen, and concluded by putting down his name for £5OO. Upon these proceedings our contemporary, the Manchester Courier, commented, in a tone of banter; and call ing to Mr. Brooks' remembrance the fact that he had, once before, promised a similar sum of five hundred pounds, as his contribution towards ano ther object, which promise he somehow or other contrived to back out of, suggested the possibility that the munificent amounts promised at this meet ing might he only baits for the unwary—paper pledges never intended to be redeemed. For this s uggestion, our contemporary has been visited with legal proceedings, and will shortly be brought into a court of justice, to await the verdict of a jury of his countrymen. At this, if John Brooks himself and our contem porary were the only parties concerned, we should not complain. But the prosecution is not Mr. Brooks' at all. He is only the "John Doe" in the affair, THE LEAGUE itself being the real prosecu tors. Yes, this " liberal" and enlightened body it is who are directing the powers of the law, not to protect the character of John Brooks from injury inflicted upon it, which a jury will, perhaps, estimate at a farthing, but to crush, in the person of the Manchester Courier, an organ which beards it in the chief seat of its seditious agitation, and exposes to to the world, with the authority of an eye witness, the hollowness of its composition. It is THE LEAGUE which is devoting a portion of its hun dred thousand pounds to the infamous purpose of annihilating the liberty of the British press. This is no mere supposition of ours. It is the just and only deduction to be drawn from the declara tion in the case. That document states, as the ground of the action against our contemporary, that he " Falsely, wickedly, and maliciously, did compose and publish, and caused and procured to be published, of and concerning the plaintiff, and of and concerning the said National Anti-corn-law League , and of and concerning the plaintiff so being a m e mb er of the said National Anti-corn-law League as aforesaid, and of and concern ing the plaintiff and the said other persons so associated 'and united together as aforesaid, for the purposes in that behalf aforesaid, and of and concerning the said National Anti-corn-law League so proposing and endeavouring to raise and collect the said stock or fund of .£lOO,OOO, in -manner and for the purposes in that behalf aforesaid, and of and concerning the said public meeting so held as aforesaid, and of and concerning the plaintiff so attending and being present at the said public meeting as aforesaid, - and of and concerning the plaintiff so addressing the said meeting, and in the course of so doing making the said statement and promise in that behalf aforesaid, and of -and concerning the said other proceedings at the said meeting, and of and concerning the said newspaper called the Manchester Guardian being so printed and published as aforesaid, and of and concerning the said contents of the said Manchester Guardian herein-before set forth, a certain false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory libel." The League, therefore, is clearly the plaintiff. The League it is whose feelings are so sensitive th t it cannot endure the rough side of the tongue of journalism. The League it is, of which, and to which, we must speak henceforth in taffeta phrase —use honerd wor cis—wraP ou r sentences in scented paper—seal our c:mmunications with perfumed wax—and be thankful if, with all our humility and cautious abstinence from anything which a hungry lawyer can twist into offensiveness, we do not find our names in the next cause-list, as defendants in an action brought by some gruel-inspired idiot, at the prompting and the cost of this combination of sedition-mongers. But will the British press submit to this insolent dictation from a body of men so unprincipled and shameless ? Is the voice of public opinion to be stifled by these grinders of the faces of the poor ? Is the light of truth and justice to be extinguished by a broad-rimmed beaver, or blown out by a half crazy drinker of slops, and no counter effort to be made by Conservatism ? We hope not. On the contrary, we are firmly assured that the manifesta tion of this disposition to dragoon us into submis sion to its dictates, was all that was wanting, on the part of the League, to rouse the spirit of the Con- servative Portion of the British people to put down its combination of bloodsucking usurers, and to scout from amongst us the heartless philosophy, with which they are attempting to drug their duped followers. At all events, and whaterer be the course pursued by the Conservative public, the independent BRI TISH PRESS must do it s d uty. Th e M anc h ester Courier does not stand alone in the war with which we are threatened. Already another journal in our own town—the Liverpool Mail—has been picked out for prosecution by the same lawyers employed by Mr. John Brooks (one of whom, by the way, is Mr. Cobden's brother-in-law ; whilst we ourselves have had significant hints that we are not likely to be spared. The Conservative press, in self-defence, therefore, must be organized against these move ments to destroy its liberties; and, as the first step, we would suggest an immediate meeting of proprie tors, to be held in so me l o cality convenient for the whole body throughout the kingdom, to prepare mea sures to meet the crisis which is approaching them. The fact is now palpable. The League and the liberty of the British press cannot co-exist. WHICH Is TO GIVE WAY ? On Wednesday, we observe by the placards on the walls, the public of Liverpool are to be enlightened by a meeting of " the friends of civil and religious liberty," to protest against the proceedings taken by the government in Ireland upon the pending trials of the repeal conspirators. We are to have a howl raised, of course, upon the subject of the omission from the jury panel of the sixty-nine names, of which the friends of civil and religious liberty will no doubt attribute a guilty knowledge, and perhaps direct participation, to the authorities in Dublin ; and the challenges of the names of repealers on the list is to be made into a great popish grievance—a virtual repeal of the Emancipation Act—an insult to the frequenters of the mass-house and the con venticle, not to be forgiven. It is certainly of little moment to us what may be the charges brought, or the representations made, or who may be the spouters at this gathering of the men "of all denominations." Bus this much we suggest to them beforehand and publicly, that they should state their complaint fairly; and we will in addition remind them of a circumstance or two which they must not lose sight of. In the first place, let them remember the movement by the repeal party, which had for its avowed object, in which however they were defeated, the swamping of the panel with pledged repealers. Let them re member that, to enable the traversers to avail them selves of this new list, the trials were fixed at a later date than that at which they might have been brought on. Let them remember that, notwith standing this, the counsel for the traversers agreed, when their vexatious opposition to the existing jury had been defeated, to go back to the original list, which had been declaimed against as a Conservative list; and with respect to the omitted names, let it be distinctly. stated that of these only 15 were Ro man Catholics. Moreover, with respect to the par• ties blameable for the omission of these names from the juror's book, let them tell their motley audience that a portion of the sin has been already acknow ledged to by a Roman Catholic official ! As to the challenges of the jury we need say little, save this, that whilst the traversers ex cepted to the names of Protestants exclusively, it was not very likely that, in a repeal prosecution, repeaters would be left on the jury, when there was a consti tutional form for their removal. What, pray, is the use of the right of challenge if it may not be freely exercised ? Our readers must pardon us for the total absence of any remarks upon the proceedings of the impor tant meetings which occupy our columns this day. We can do no more than direct attention to the reports which we have given—to the debate in the Council upon the subject of the proposed extension of our dock space—to the great Protestant demon stration at the Commercial-hall—to the noble effort, originated at the Music-hall, for the amelioration of the condition of the British seamen, and the noble ' speech in which that object was advocated by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. There is not one of these meetings which would not, of itself, have carried with it far more interest than any remarks of ours ; and with respect to two of them, at least—the meet ings at the Commercial-hall and the Music-hall— any lengthened comment at this late hour would be not only superfluous but almost presuming. Connected with the latter meeting, however—the meeting of the Seaman's Reading-room and School Society—we may hazard a word or two. We may exnress the gratification with which we see the clergy of our church entering upon the task, so appropriate to their sacred character, of rescuing from degradation and oppression the sons of toil— taking their stand between the poor of Great Britain and the avarice which would doom them to the con dition and fate of the beasts that perish. And more than all, we rejoice to see that the first objects se lected for the church to throw her sacred shield over, are those long-neglected and sorely-abused men, the merchant seamen of our land. If there is any class to which Britain owes gratitude—owes her liberties, her wealth, her very existence—it is to this class ; and earnestly and fervently we do pray that the noble movement, at length originated, may be rewarded with all the success which it so emi nently and righteously deserves. To thp able advocates of justice to these poor men we say now, go on and prosper; and to the British public we would say, hold not hack your hands from so good a work—spare not that wealth which Bri tish seamen have brought, and are daily bringing, to your shores, in the noble work which is now pointed out to you MERCURIAL MODESTV.—Our contemporary of Fri day, in one of his notices to correspondents, expresses his hope that the selection of a person to fill the office of head constable may not be made It "political job"— therel)y meaning, of course, that it is not to be given—tga, conservative candidate. murteS t MI - be or'2an of a party who, when in power, distributed the entire patron age of the council with a political bias, and even removed from office efficient public servants to make places for their political friends. Now, we hope that, in this ap pointment, the question of politics will be permitted to have weight. It is sickly affectation and squeamishness, on the part of conservatives, to say that, because an ap plicant is a loyal subject and a supporter of the conser vative party and a conservative government, be shall, therefore, be disqualified for an office which he is other wise well able to fill. A time like the present, when we have been openly menaced with " blazes in the manufac turing-districts," and burning shipping in our own docks, if we d o not succumb to the dictation of traitors, is not a time in which conservatives can afford to hoist an oppo nent into an office involving such great responsibilities, as those which belong to the office of Head Consstable of Liverpool. SPRING ASSIZES.—The period for holding the ensuing Spring Assizes for the Northern Circuit, before Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Rolfe, have been thus arranged :—Lancaster, Saturday, Feb. 17; Westmorland , Thursday, Feb. 22; Cumberlad, Saturday, Feb. 24; Northumberland and Newcastle W e dnesday, Feb. 28 ; Durham, Monday , March, 4; Yo rkshire, Saturday , March 9 ; Liverpool, Saturday, March 23. SMOKY CRIMNIRS.—W e know of no domestic nuisance so great as that of a smoky chimney, nor any more de structive to health and happiness. The progress of art has, however, !o demonstrated the cause of contra drafts, that a remedy is now easil y effected. Mr. J. Th omas, whose advertisement appears in another column, has at tained an eminence in this art, and a single glance at the numerous respectable names on his reference list must convince all that it is thoroughly understanding his pro fession th a t has secured him the patronage of such distin- guished scientific men. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LATEST FROM AM ERICA.—ARRIVAL OF THE ASHBURTON. By the arrival of the Ohio, from New York, which sailed on the 7th instant, and the packet-ship Ashburton, which left on the 9th, we have late and important information, the most interesting of which to our readers will be that which relates to the movements in the cotton market. The George Washington had arrived out on the sth, giving, of course, the feeling here up to the day of her sailing, the result of which was a further advance on all descriptions of cotton, and a large business done. Up to the 6th it was calculated that prices must rise in England, from their rate at the departure of the George Washington, fully 12d. per lb. to be remunerative. The New York Morning Herald of the 9th, brought by the Ashburton, informs us that " the same good feeling continues ; the news from Europe has given a fresh impetus to operations, and about 8 to 10,000 bales have changed hands, with an improvement of one-eighth of a cent on sales after three o'clock, on the prices at which the markeit closed on Saturday," the 6th. The sanguine anti cipate an advance here of fully 3d. per lb. from the rates of about six weeks past. It is remarked as a fact worthy of observation, that cotton is not the only article of American production which has ad vanced in price, although that advance has, in part, been caused by short crop. The advance is in all articles, and in cotton. is uniform throughout the States. This feature is attributed mainly to an im proved state of the currency in America, and to the abundance of capital, which can only be profitably invested in the staple productions of the country. The crop of cotton is estimated to produce at the utmost 1,700,000 hales; and should it even exceed that, the ruling opinion in the New York market is, that prices must be high, as holders on both sides of the Channel are prepared to stand firm. The advices from Washington are to the 6th inst, The most important proceeding since the last arri vals was a motion in the House of Representatives, on the 3rd instant, to instruct the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill reducing the duties immediately on all importations which, by the pre sent tariff, exceed 30 per cent. to 30 per cent., and, within two years, on all articles, to 20 - per cent., and providing that such duties shall be levied solely for revenue. The house refused to adopt the resolution by a vote of 57 to 112. There was also another proposition submitted, that the same committee re vise the present tariff and report a bill based'entirely upon the principle of revenue, which was lost by a vote of 83 to 34. Oh the following day a notice, by Mr.Tibbatts, for re-considering the vote by which the house refused to adopt the resolution, was again lost. Other efforts- wre made, during the day, to accomplish the same object by resolutions of various forms, but which, however, were all voted down. Mr. Hughes, of M 0.,. introdUced a bill, which was read and ordered to be printed, providing for the establishment of a territorial government over the territory of Oregon. In the Senate, on the sth, a very spirited debate arose on th e adoption of the resolutions calling upon the President of the United States to report to the Senate copies- of any corre spondence which may have-been given by the Exe cutive to the American Minister to this country, on the sabject of the title to the Oregon territory, since the 4th of March, 1841, and copies of any corre spondence which passed between the Government of the United States and ours- in relation to the same subject. The resolution was- postponed until the Bth instant. In the message which Governor Porter sent to the Pennsylvanian' legislature, he takes-strong:ground in favour of immediate and decisivive measures for paying the whole debt of the state. It' appears, from the message of the Governor of Kentucky, that the affairs• of the state have greatly improved. The ag gregate amount of the debt has, however, increased 61,717 dollars. In the Stock-market some fluctuations had taken place. Generally the feeling was better. There was a fair demand for foreign exchequer. The Tate upon London was 109 to 1091. ANSDELL'S PAINTING OF " THE COUNTRY MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENO LAND."—The public of Liverpool are about to have an opportunity of inspecting this splendid production of a native artist—Mr. Ansdell— already celebrated as the painter of the Waterloo Coursing Meeting. This present work contains faithful likenesses of upwards of a hundred of the leading agriculturists of England, the whole of whom have favoured him with sittings for the purpose. The painting is to be placed in the hands of S. A. Reynolds, Esq., to be engraved in the first style of art. under the management, as publisher, of Mr. Agnew, of Manchester: SPLENDID NATIONAL Pt cTURR - -= - Ilie sptenater-pattrt ing of Prince Charles Edward asleep in one of his• hiding places after the battle of Culloden. is now on privatevievr at Mr. Laceyrs• rooms, Bold-street. The subject' is • a splendid one; and the painter, Thomas Duncan, Esq., A.R.A., R.S.A., has certainly done the greatest justice to his conception. The colouring is rich and glowing, and the lights and shades are so beautifully intermingled as to produce a harmony that is at once pleasing and ef fective. The various features of the outlawed Highland- ers—and the soft and delicate countenance of the beauti ful Flora M 'Donald, who is watching with anxiety over her revered prince—are most beautifully depicted. This painting is now being engraved by the celebrated Mr. Ryall of London ; and from its being so beautrrully ~ adapted to an enrating, from its peculiarly effective style, as well as forming a companion print to the entry of Prince Charles into Edinburgh, it will, no doubt, meet with a ready sale. In the mean time con noisseurs should loose no time seeing the original. INTERESTING TO INSURERS AND UNDERWRITERS. —Much interest has been excited, at Liverpool in a trial just concluded in Edinburgh, and which had reference to a vessel brought there some cons id era bl e t i me since, almost in a sinking state, but which by extraordinary good luck, as it was thought, or management on the part of the people having charge of her, was enabled to get into port, although in such a shattered state as to be probably use less; indeed, she was a complete wreck, and it was to the astonishment of all nautical men that she did reach the port. The name of the vessel is the Laura, bound from North America to Liverpool. She has been lying at Li verpool for nearly twelve months, and it seems she was insured for £6500, but was valued at £7500, leaving.the owners their own insurers to the extent of about £l5OO. After three days trial it was decided that the Laura, which had got such serious damage at sea by running on board an iceberg, and afterwards strained on a hank at Liverpool, must be considered as a total loss, and that the underwriters are responsible to the amount of their insur ance. The amount of the decision is, that the ship would be abandoned by the owners to the underwriters, and' the the full value of the ship, £7st)o, claimed for. The plea set up by the opposing parties, who belong to marine in surance offices in Scotland, was that the ship could be re paired. Her bows were completely beaten in, and yet they said that they could repair her and make her-every thing to be desired! Probably the depreciation in the value of shipping between the date of the insurance and the time of the accident occurring was the reason of the underwriters' refusal to pay the loss. The grand point is, that the owners have recovered the whole amount of their insurance, the same as though the ship had been entirely lost at sea. Some thirty or forty witnesses were subpoened from Liverpool on the trial, in addition to those from other places. A SCIENTIFIC COINER.—On Thursday week superin tendent M`Donald, of the police of this town, appre hended a man named Morton, at Swansea-, on a charge of coining. The prisoner is a well-educated man and had always moved in respectable rank in life. Latterly he carried on business as a wool stapler in Dublin, and being here at the Talbot Inn, Vernon-street, about two months ago, he inquired of a casual visitor in the bar if he knew of any one capable of constructing a peculiar machine from drawings. The stranger told him that he knew a gentleman who did such things for his amusement, and named Mr. M`Donald, on whom Morton called, showed h draw ib drawinaa-AndL-C".....tilrrVTlL- inr,ru um w 4 -iganapleted7 - IVPDonald divined his object, closed with him, and received £5 in hand. Having taken precautions against being cheated, he communicated with Mr. Powell of the mint, who, he found had suspected Morton and had kept him in sight for nearly seven years. Three years ago he traced him to Birmingham, where he had ordered dies worth £lOO, and a machine called a punching press, worth £6O. The makers and die sinkers suspecting his object, had caused inquiry to be made, and the result was that Morton, although he had paid part of the money. never appeared to claim the 0 ,1 -red articles. Since then he had resided principally in Dublin, as a woui but still persevering to make coin in so perfect a manner as to appear genuine. M`Donald continued to mature the machine, and Morton who came occasionally to see it, said he wanted it to coin medals, and as it drew near completion, insinuated that he wanted dies struck. Sud denly he disappeared, and Mr. Powell traced him to Swansea, where M`Donald apprehended him in private lodgings. He was taken to Birmingham, and committed to Warwick. The account in the Journal (from which this is condensed) states, that " although be had never coined a single shilling, the machine and dies, and the metal preparations, on trial, had been so skilfully executed, that they produced silver which no ordinary eye could distin guish from good ones. They had the genuine ring, &c." [There is something very strange in this account. A su perintendent of police agrees to make, and makes a per fect machine for coining, receiving £5 on account and security for the balance! The machine, is also stated, no that any dies produced " silver ," w hi c h i s still stranger ; an d th e pri soner "had never c o i ne d a single sh i ll i ng ," so th a t h e has doneeither harm to the were pub found public. t in is hisn o t possession stated for the making of shillings or other coin of the realm. It is certainly a novel and somewhat questionable way of detecting a coiner for a police officer to make the coining machine for him. If this principle of prevention be car ried out, perhaps we shall have police officers (in disguise) employed in making false keys, " Jacks. in the box," and selling them to burglars!—EDlT. STANDARD. SECRETS OF THE PRISON HOUSE. When we referred, last week, to the circumstance that, by an arbitrary interpretation of the rules of the Poor Law Commissioners, the unfortunate paupers in our workhouse are deprived of the opportunity of learn ing anything of that world from which poverty has driven them, we were little aware of the kind of authority to which they were subjected. We were not aware that in this conservative town, under a conservative select vestry, whose chairman is the senior rector of our parish, the poor inmates of our workhouse are governed with a despotism so harsh and unfeeling as it appears they are. We were not aware that, under the present governor, it is a crime in a pauper to have in his possession a con servative -newspaper, even although it may have been supplied by the kindness of a friend, for a purpose bene ficial to the pauper himself. It appears, however, that such is the case. Last week, we are informed, a pauper in the workhouse was discovered indulging in the atrocious gratification afforded by a perusal of the Liverpool Standard. An old man he was—one who had probably paid rates to the town in his better days —one who had friends beyond the walls of his workhouse prison, and thus an interest in the world without, which it is only Christian charity to gratify. But such gratification is not within the contemplation of the representatives in our workhouse of the new poor law philosophy. By them, poverty is regarded as A CRIME. Paupers have no right to consider themselves citizens of the world in which we live. They have no right to know that a friend or a relation is dead, or that there is a chance opened for their own re-establishment in the world. Acting upon this harsh interpretation of the laws, the paper in this poor man's hands was immedi ately taken from him—an inquiry instituted as to the means by which it was brought within the walls—and one of the paupers who refused to afford this information, and perhaps could not afford it, ordered to be put upon disorderly diet for twenty-four hours. Now, this, we submit, is not the kind of treatment to which the ratepayers of the parish of Liverpool wish their poor to be subjected. Already they have been deprived of the privilege, formerly enjoyed by them, of going out of the workhouse once a-rweek ; and it is a little too bad that they should be deprived of the poor alterna tive which was left them of hearing - of the world's pro ceedings through the columns of a respectable newspaper. A workhouse was surely intended as au asylum for age and poverty. This rigour is fast converting it into a gloomy prison-house. It witr,. no doubt, be said that the excl'usi'on of news papers is in accordance with the orders of the commis sioners, which direct the exclusion of all publications having "ea improper tendency, or likely to-produce in subordination)) The world, however, is pretty well aware that thitris a mere pretence. The object of this rigorous and overstrained interpretation of the order in question is to render existence within a workhouse more intolerable ; and` the same parties who evince this• spirit would not hesirat, had they the power, to forbid the sun to shine upon', or the pure air of heaven to visit,.the faded cheeks of theirimmured and heartworn fellow-be ings. It is a wretched and unfeeling philosophy which thus manifests itself; and we trust that its further•de velopement will be checked' by the select vestry. LIVERPOOL CRARri'ikliLE SOCIETY.-011 Tuesday evening an eloquent sermon was preached in St. Marie's Church, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, and a collection of £4; 108. was made in aid' of the fands of the above so ciety, which was established in 1822, for visiting and re lieving the sick and distressed poor of all religious deno— mination, at their own dwellings: Daring the past twelve months this admirable society relieved 2,900 cases, con taining.upwards of 11,000 individuals. Tula-me ROYAL, CHllRCllls . imawr.—MßS. RAY MONDE, BENEFIT.—The performances• at this theatre during the past week have presented nothing upon which we have not already commented; but last night, for the benefit of Mrs. Raymond, we were presented with a treat, in the revival of the " The Merry Wives of Windsor," cast with aft 'the strength of the company. In thec rowded state of oureolumns to-day, it is impossible that we can give any detailed notice of the piece. Ft will be repeated, however, this evening, with otherattraetive performances, for the benefit of the same lady and, whilst we recom mend all lovers of the I , .gitimate- drama to see and judge for themselves, we must reserve our comments till next week. The House, last night, we - need not say, was cram med, and visitors to night, should; therefore ga early. MISS WELFAR'S SECOND CONCERT; AT TUB ROYAL ASSEMBLY-BOOMS.—The great success of Mise Weller's first concert, and the inability of many parties- to obtain tickets on that occasion, made it imperative upon the fair beneXiciare to announce a second Soirle Musicale, which accordingly too' place on Thursday evening -last, and was well attended, the room being completely filled. The programme differed materially from that of the former soiree, the only compositions retained being the Fantasia by Miss Weller, the grand Norma duett, and the ballad of the " Old and New Year," sung by , Miss Whitnall. The audience appeared to relish Miss Weller's-brilliant Fantasia as highly as before, as alto—the Norma duett, loudly applauding both. Miss Whitnall was in admirable voice, sang the ballad with great taste, and was en cored. Mrs. Chatfield, who appeared , to have recovered from her te'nporary•indisposition, sang:• with Miss Whit -" A,doett, ,•'.. 4 z. R. m r i r r a y e , utr n e ti " p 7 , 7 „ rj a vre% iacmon charming and most pleasing effect. Mt's. Chittfield sang " On the banks of' Allan Water" with ranch feeiing- and good taste, accompanying herself on the piano-forte, and was encored. Mr. Ryalls was entrusted with one of Mr. Lewis's songs, " Sliftly o'er the water glides," end was encored. The concert went off extremely well, and ap peared to give satisfaction and pleasure to all present. DEATH FROM ME. FALLING OF A BALE OF COTTON. —On Satuday, and by adjournment, yesterday, an inquest was held befote the Borough coroner, touching the• death of Isaac Croasdell. The deceased was a hoop merchant, of Low-wood, nearThverston. Samuel Carr, a porter, said, that on Saturday morning about• ten o'clock.he was engaged in sampling 'some bales of cotton in Mr. Wain wright's warehouse, in Wapping, which was going to Stockport. A man named M`Manns had charge of the break, and also put Fthe sling on the bales. After some bales had been weighed, witness assisted M'Manus in slinging it, and said he thonght it secure. He then turned his back to sample another bale, and directly after heard M`Manns call out that the bale had slipped out of the rope. Witness went to the door of the room (No. 3,) where they were, and saw a bale and deceased king under it, on the footpath. He went down and deceased was picked up. He was not dead, but bleeding from his mouth. He was taken to a public house, hut did not speak after wards,aas afterwards and died in-a short time. Th e ro p e did no t b rea k. weighed 2 ran away, qrs. M'Manus The deceased, it appeared, was passing with his son be tween the cart and the warehouse when the bale fell upon him. His right leg was broken, Mr. Wainwright said he had let the room to Messrs. Twinarne ans Co., and furnished the ropes for taking in and delivering gouds. The rope was nearly new. The parties occupying rooms furnished their own slings. The rope was afterwards found to be sound and entire. M`Manus was in Mr. Shaw's employ. A witness, Roberts, said that the bales were not, he thought, slung in a proper manner at the warehouse: door ; they were raised on end and slung, and ought to have been slung while lying flat. He saw the cotton lowered, and he considered it in so dangerous a manner that he told a police officer if they were not stopped people passing.. would be killed. Another witness saw the bale hanging out, saw it slipping from the noose, and called out to M`Nlanus to hold on. He thought the sling had slipped down the bale to the verong end, and that M`Mannus was not to blame. The deceased's son was walking by his side when the bale fell, and, conse quently had a narrow escape. No surgeon was examined to give evidence, the daceased being killed so soddenly.— The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death, with a deodand of £5 on the bale." CALM , ' AJ.L'S SELF--FLEETING WINDLASS AND PUB.- CHASE.—We were not a little surprised and gratified by witnessing on Saturday, on board the new ship Joshua Waddington, (in the Prince's Dock) the operation of this admirable invention, which, whether es regards extraor dinary power in raising an anchor, or ease and safety in fleeting it out, appears to us to bo greatly superior to any of the patent windlasses—and they are not a few—which we had before seen. There are two purchases outside the bit-heads, and also two near the centre of the barrel, be-. tweet) the two cables, though these are not necessary in all vessels. The purchase in. each consists of a powerful long iron handles are shipped. To the upper part of the knee is attached a click passing in a curve over a wheel greater in diameter than the barrel of the windlass, and with rounded teeth inclining forwards, so that when, the lever is lifted the click passes over several teeth,, and dropping, catches firm hold of any one of them. The lever being then pushed down the wheel, and with it the whole windlass is sent round with great force. In the purchase, or upright part of the crank, there are four holes, and by shifting the click end the power may be in c.-ease,l, or d'mini.hed. When in the lower hole one -- o,v lift as Lunch wo;ght as four men could do if it were in the upper hole, but the latter would of orntrQe bare the advantage in speed. One man may lift with this pur chases weight at the bows of the ship of twenty-one cwt. This process is of course slower. Four men, when the full length of the arm or crutch is put on, will turn the windlass right round once, with the same weight, in four heaves of the lever. Of course when two or _four levers are employed, where men are to be had, the power is in creased to double or quadruple ratio. Another great ad vantage, however, of this windlass—aud perhaps the greatest—is the fleeting apparatus attached to it, which on being brought into operation will let down an anchor at almost any speed ; and it may be slowed or checked, in its descent, at any depth, by one man, without the least jerking. The rims of the breaks clip round the outside of the cog-wheels, in a very simple and efficient manner, and with the slightest care any desired speed, (over hauling the chain out of the locker) may he attained, or any required slowness. In addition to these advantages, Mr. Caldwell has introduced an excellent patent deck stopper and deck pipe. The nautical gentlemen who have witnessed the trials on hoard the Joshua Wadding ton, have expressed their high approval of these inven tions, which have already been introduced in some of our vessels of war. The inventor brings numerous testi monials from practical men ; but we are constrained, from want of room at present, entering more into detail. The patent windlass apparatus may be fitted to vessels having the usual wooden windlasses. MEETING AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION LAST NIGHT. A meeting of the friends of, and subscribers to this in stitution was held in the theatre of the building yesterd•iy evening, for the purpose of aiding the committee in the establishment of a girls' school in connexion with the institution. The Right Hon. the Earl of Sefton took the chair amidst great cheering, and, rising. said that it was not his intention to occupy the time of the meeting with any remarks as to the object for which they had met ; and though he would yield to no person in a desire to pro mote that object, yet he knew his powers of eloquence were inferior to those who would enter into details, and lay before the meeting an outline of the proceedings intended to be pursued, by a series of resolutions, to which he did not think he had any necessity to crave their at tention, as they were not there to promote any political ascendancy—they were there to promote the good of the community—(cheers.) The secretary would read a letter from the Bishop of Norwich, after which an appeal would be made to the hearts and common sense of the audience, and a not less sensitive appeal to their pockets —to which he felt assured they would respond in a man ner suited to their class. The secretary, Mr. Hodgson, here read the letter from the Bishop of Norwich, in which he approved in the strongest terms of the object of the meeting, and lamented his inability to attend. T. WISE, Esq.. M.P., then rose to propose the first re solution, which applied to the establishment of the schools, and the necessity of providing education for the female portion of the community, and advtered in most glowing and eloquent language, to the progress of the institution since he had last (some years ago) had the pleasure of ad dressing an assembly in that building. He then ventured to hope that but a few years would go by ere such insti tutions would be spread through the land : this he had ventured to prophecy—and other institutions, not oppo nents. but imitations—not to throw objections in the way, but to rival it in doing good, now existed. He alluded to the cramped means formerly offered for attaining know ledge, which made education a manopoly, and its profes sors an aristocracy; and in an affecting manner pictured the utility, and the hibssing, an educated woman was to society, and to the influence women possessed over the masculine portion of the community. He depicted the cha racter of the Eastern women, and the influence custom produced on them, and ilf-estrated the progress of educa tion- through the women of the more civilized nations of Rome and Greece, proving that the great object of educa tion, in women was to produce a corresponding influence on men, as mothers and as wives—for behind the greatest characters of men was seen shining the radiating influence of the mother. He then alluded in stronger language to the depraved condition of the colliery and factory classes designating them as in a state of heathen blindness and crime, and concluding his most eloquent address.. by ex horting to , spare no exertion in for:yarding an ob:'net that would be of so much benefit in improving the moral con dition of a dm who had as great a claim on society for education as their more favoured brethren, the male por tion of the community. He retired, after speaking up wards of an holt., amidst great applause- H. Iloarinv, Esq., in a short address,•aeconded there solution ; after - which The SECREThIti read a luminous report. of the corn mitte, which is about to be published, and which is cer tainly worthy of attention, as it treats the' subject in a most masterly manner. The report concludes by stating that through the munificence of George Holt; Esq., the committee had madearrangements for 13Iackbarne House, a building admirably adapted for the purpose proposed. Dr. BLACKBURNE` moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. BRANCKER, and carried una nimously. Other resolutions were carried relative to thalwelimi nary department of tlie• establishment, and the meeting, after voting thanks to the Chairman and Mr. Wise, sepa rated, all apparently highly delighted, and much interested in- the object for which it - was called. SURROGATE AT WEST' DERBY.—The Rev. Thomas Gardner, M.A., the incumbent of St. Anne's Church, has been appointed by the Chancellor of the Diocese one of•his-surrogates for the muting of marriage licenses-, the probate of wills, &c. PAUL'S CHURCH.—We' understand that the Rev: Joshua Hughes, vicar of Abergwil4Carmarthenshire, whoa is nearly related to the Rev. Wm. Hughes, of this town, preached in the Welsh language, to , a very numerous con gregation, at St. Paul's Church, last Sunday afternoon. We hear, likewise, that the Bishop of St. David's, whose palace i 3• at Abergwili, performed the duties in Welsh at Abergwili church, last Sunday f in the vicar's absence, • The inhabitants of the principality can now justly feel proud in having the above learned prelate often officiating, in their - own ancient language. CHARgE OF CRUELTY AND" ASSAULT AGAINST A:' CAPTAIN.—On Saturday afternoon, and by postpone ment yesterday, Mr. Rushton was engaged for many hours in investigating a case in whiciken English captain (Peter Petre) master of the barque Lydia; was charged with having inflicted several dangerous' wounds on several parts of the body of one of his-seamen, Josiah Lawton, a native of- Massachussetts in the United States. The defendant, • for many years, held a commission in the navy, and •had' ever since commanded merchant ships out;of this••port. Mr. Harden (barrister) appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Owe❑ (solicitor) for the com plainant. Mr. Owen briefly stated the facts, which in volved a charge of a very grave character. He then called the complainant, who appeared with his fingers bandaged, and both his bands suspended in a sling. Complainant•.stated that on the evening of the 19th of December, when on the passage from the Brazils, he re ceived orders-from the mate to go aloft. and take in the top : gallant studding sail yards:. M•e went aloft but d..tr ‘..-44-ore.l, The /met lard:Ong meaatrer exclaimed one of the booms being too f as t-' for him. He came :tanhh: 1 y a marlin spike down on deck for a marlin spike t o un l oose i t. H e know whether asked the mate if he could tell him wh ere h e cou ld fi n d one, and the r you Pl Y a s o r " Do spike in my pocket!" Complainant said " I don't " I want none of your jaw." The captain then came up, and on being told by the mateevhat had happened, said "Tut, tut, I never heard the like. before." Com plainant said if he were not allowed to cut the heel lashing he could not send the boom down. The captain would not allow him to do so, t e lli ng hi m h e must go aloft and complete his task. Whe n . complainant had got partly up the rigging, the mate called to him to learn what he said of him, and he repeated the words. The captain thereupon cried, " You d—d Yankee son of a—, come down here." He came down, and the captain said, "The. mate shall have you slung up, andegive you a severe flegging." The com plainant replied " the sooner the better," and the captain immediately struck him two blows on the face. The captain and mate then seined him. The former dropped his hold and ordered two of the crew to take him aft. They obeyed taking him aft as far as the mainmast. The captain then went to the cabin and speedily returned with a sword in his hand : he went up to the man (who was held by the two) and struck him once or twice with, the sword in its scabbard; but almost immediately after wards, complainant saw the sword naked. The captain then cut at him with the sword, severely wounding him on the arms, shoulders. head and hands—cutting at such, a ra , e that complainant cried out " for God's sake, spare. my life !" He, however, received two or three cuts more, when he again cried for mercy, believing at the time that he was bleeding to death. After the second appeal the captain ceased to cut him any more. He then told tha captain he was bleeding to death. The captain in a coarse manner said he did, not believe he was bleeding at all. The two men held him while the captain struck him with the sword, it being very dark; but when they found such a weapon was used they let him go. The complain ant afterwards asked the captain to dress his wounds. He at first refused, but immediately afterwards seeing (as a light was brought,) he wasbleeding copiou,ly, he had. h's wounds washed, and dressed them. Complainant denied that he ever struck the captain or the mate, though i t appeared that he had had " a gripe" or tussle with the latter,.and that they, were both successively down.under some water casks. Several of the sailors on board cor roborated this testimony, and spoke to the dangerous nature of the wounds. Kelly, a passenger en board, dressed them daily, at:the request of the captain on the remainder of the voyage. 7lr. Harris, of the Northern Hospital, said complainant had been brought there the day before, and described the wounds on the arms, &c. Half of one of his little fingers had been cut off. The wounds he considered to be at first dangerous to life, and had evidently been inflicted with a sharp instrument A sheathed sword could not have inflicted them, as they were clean cut. Mr. Harding said, by instructions, that a naked sword had not been used, and that the captain had long born an excellent character. Ile called the chief mate, who stated that on the coast of Brazil com plainant had, when near a dangerous shoal, steered the ship from side to side, in order as zornplainant said. " to have a row with the captain,"' and that at the time tkf e .the affray he had struck the captain, and — KWOEVed 'Urn iToiwn; that" 116 tia - draiSo - ; - durinelt, attempted to " gouge" the mats. Another passen ger said the captain's conduct was, that of a gentleman, and that he had not used undue violence.—Mr. Rushton said that no doubt the complainant had been saucy ; that he and the mate had had a previous grudge, but that the conduct of the captain in using such a weapon was rash and intolerable, and he must answer for it before a tri bunal of his country.—The Captain was admitted to bail until yesterday, as (it was stated that he had some incul patory evidence to adduce,) himself in £5OO, and two.sure ties in £250 each.—Yesterday the captain again appeared, and Mr. Harden addressed Mr. Rushton at some length, urging that the ends of justice would be satisfied by the case being disposed of, by fine, in that court ; that the captain had had great provocation ; had for a moment lost temper, and done wrong, but that an arrangement for com pensation might, he understood, be made with the corn. plainant. He added that he had some mitigatory testi mony, but when it was called it failed to satisfy Mr. Rushton's mind, and after commenting on the over stretched exercise of the captain's legal powers in the case, (though he himself had long known and respected him,) he said that even if a compromise could be come to with the complainant, the public interests and public jus tice must take precedence of private feelings, and he had no resource hut to send the case for adjudication in the Central Criminal Court. As, however, some :witnesses were absent, who, it was stated, would throw some miti gation upon the conduct of the captain, he should not then commit, but take the same recognizances for his appear ance to-morrow (this day) at two o'clock. The recogni zences were produced, the captain in £5OO, and two in £250 each, and tha defendant was liberated. Most of the witnesses were also bound over to appear at London, the complainant (who is an inmate of the Northern Hospital,) in the sum of £lOO —[We have been requested to give Capt. Petrie's most solemn denial that he used, during any part of the affray, a naked sword. We have also received a written explanation of the circumstances, which, if Capt. Pet re can substantiate on his trial, will zo far in relieving him from his serious position.' Jan. PO, 1844. REVIEW OF THE COTTON MARKET. The repeated and continued attacks of some of the London papers have given a great and unnecessary pro minency to the operations in our Cotton Market. This has been another excited week; and the circumstance of two sailing packets being over-due from New York gave speculators a stimulus to operate upon. On Tuesday 3,000 bales were sold; on Wednesday 4,000 bales, without change in prices; on Thursday there was some excitement, and holders got rather higher prices, and 8,000 bales were sold ; on Friday the sales reached 7,000 bales, at still hardening prices; ott Saturday buying commenced briskly, and though a halt . - holiday, 10 to 12,000 bales were sold at full prices ; on Sunday a packet arrived, with confirmatory accounts of damage to the crops ; and early on Monday the packet of the 7th inst. arrived, and brought very exciting ac counts from New York, where the market had been rambling, and heavy business done at advanced rates. This induced speculators to go on again, and 14 to 15,000 bales were sold at id. per lb. higher prices than were obtainable on Friday ; speculators taking 8,000, and thus leaving 6 to the trade ; and the market closed much excited. The crop estimate is now almost con firmed at 1,700,000 bales. Since the above was written, we have, by the arrival of the Ashburton, a file of the New Vo Herald to Monday the 9th instant, from which we learn that the firm tone of the market had been increased,• the news from kurope having given a fresh impetus to operations, and 8 to /0,000 bags having changed hands on' the day previous to the Ashburton's sailing, at a further advance of an eighth of a cent, established after three o'clock of the day, on the prices at which the market closed on Saturday, the 6th instant. The news brought by the Ohio and the Ashburton will be found in another column. MARRlED.—lresterday, at St. Bride's Church, by the' Rev. J. Joner, Mr. C. Watkinson, of Grove-house, . Mobberley, near Knutsford, to Anne, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. M. Frodsham, of Liverpool. HUBARD GALLI/min—This is the last week of this' unique gallery of paper sculpture. The talent of the' leading artist, who is himself in attendance, is already too well known to' need commendation. Those who value portraits should avail themselves of the present advantageous opportunity.• ST. LEGER Sweer.- - Thie sweep, which is held at Mr. Whiteman s, Brunswick , Hotel, is managed it a manner that will ensure its speedy close. Those who desire a racy affair cannot do better than visit Mr. W. tan Thurs day next, which is one of the nights for payment ; and those who desire comfort Will find it in patronising this retired and unique hotel. FATAL ACC! DENT ON TEE LIVEVLOST. —About five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a river boat, containing four persons, in endeavouring to reach a barque that had just arrived from Calcutta, came in contact with her starboard quarter and capsized. Two of the hands were saved, but the other two were unfortunately drowned. A strong tide was running at the time; and the wind' was blowing very fresh from the northward'aml westward. Bears AND SHOES. — Nothing is- more dttrimentar to health in retch weather as the present' than to neglect to preserve dry feel ;—cork soles, and'a 'thousand other in ventions, have been brought befOre - the public; but the primary object is to secure good shoes - or beet,. Messrs. Sidney and Co., who have now been -established for a number of years, advertise in another column; and, as we bare worn of their manufactures; We can safely say that in quality they cannot he surpassed, while the price is considerably lower than at many shops in town- LitrERVOOL PBTLHARMONIC Socro77:- ,- -itwilt be seen by a glance at our advertising columns that thefirot un dress concert of the present season takes place on Mon day evening,'the 12th of February, and the first full' dress concert - on the 18th March. When we state that amongst the eminent talent engaged for the occasion is included that of Miss-Rainforth ' one of the best Engl4A- singem of the day, Miss Dblby, Mr. Hobbs, and Henry Phillips; we have said enough to sbew that the lovers of 'song have a treat in store for them. Handel's oratorio of "Judas Maccabens''' will be. performed on the occasion. LIVERPOOVBANXIt7PTCY COURT.—It is 120 a clefitriL tively determined that the changes which have been ru moured in the Liierpoot and Manchester courts will be* carried into effAct. The report, however, of Mri - Jertitnett leaving Manchester ieunfounded. Some communications have been going on between the Lord Chancellor and the two learned gentlemen , wha are about to change places ; and we have to announce that in the ensuing. week-Mr. Sergeant Ludlow-will take his seat at the Liverpool court, and Mr. Commissioner Skirrow supplying the learned sergeant's place in Manchester. Some hostility to this arrangement has -been manifested by the learned pro fession in Manchester. LICENSED VICTUALLERS?' BALL, LAST NIGHT.—The annual ball of the victuallers of Liverpo - d took place last" night, at the Town-hall, and was numerously and fashion ably attended. The Mayor., awing to his engagement to take the chair at the Music-hall, was not present ; and , the Earl of Sefton, who was also expected, was detained hr the Mechanics' Meeting. The company began to ar rive between eight. and • nine &Clock, but the rooms were most crowded about midnight, when not less than six! hundred must have been present. Mr. Horrabin'.s band was stationed in' the large room, Mr. Parker's Chelten ham band in the. small room and Mr. Parker's brass. ban c d trs i .r n om th s e vestibule . The dancin g n w u a m s b k e e r p f entriesup with. great spirit at the hour when , we went to press. of >c~sßrooc.—The o passed at the Liverpopl Customs-house was i n the re— spective years as f o ll ows r —i rt 1843, 203,124; 1842; x 88,155; 1841, 195,807 - ,• 1840,. 197,981; thus showing that a great increase of business has taken place during. thelast year. The n um b ero f ca l cu l at i ons for d uty, involved in so many entries, is of course very great, yet after the usual rigid scrutiny has been completed in London, the error detected are only £3 17s. 2d. in all, (being less than a pound a year,) on a total amount of £16,774,050. This accuracy reflects honour on The in-door department of the customs at this part, while the total absence even of sus picion of frauds, such as have been perpetrated elsewhere, is-creditable to the out-door officers as well as the-men- , chants. FATAL ACCTEMNT AT THE Docxs.—Yesterday, am Inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of John Gent, a carter, aged 21. On Saturday morning, about 11 o'clock, he was employed in driving the tram trains that conveyed rubbish from the Albert dock to the North shore ; and when passing the Trafalgar dock, front some cause or other, he was stopping the train with a handspike, for a break, when the bar of wood he• held, slipped, and he fell to the ground, and the wheels of sev eral of the loaded waggons passed over his breast: lie was killed on the spot being dreadfully fractured, nearly all over, and the left lung much lacerated.—Verdict accidentally killed, with a deodand of £5 on the carriages. The jury expressed a strong opinion that a proper break. should be used and not a piece of loose timber, which was hable to slip out, thus endangering the life of the party using it. DAY'S PATENT WINDGU'ARD.—We had ves`.erday the pleasure of impeding a working model of this Ample and beautiful machit e at Mr. Bennet's, in St. Thomaa', build ings." The object of the invention as it, stated in the ad vertisement "is to create a draft (where otherwise it wonld not exist) by the spontaneous action of the exter nal sir. And it certainly fulfils every object intended to, be effected. Wh tt appeared most strange to es was that the more adverse to ordinary draft was the artificial gale applied to the model, the more the principle developed itself, and a pair of bellows when applied to the top of. the 6 0-land in the model produced a great er d ra f t t h an w h en. they were applied to the fuel, but the instant the guard. was removed a back draft resulted. The Windguard is of an octagonal form, takes up no more room than am ordinary pipe, and is so simple in construction—every-= thing being stationary—that it is next to impossible that it can go out of repair. For cabin stoves it will bc., exceed ingly usefui4--and as we have known numerous instances when cabin fires have had to be extinguished either from their smoking or from the sea making its way down the flues , --both of which by this inventionwill be obviated —we doubt not will soon be appreciated. We would re commend the curious to see the models of this machine. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET, JANUARY 29. Potatoes, 1, ,, gqb s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2A6 0 8. @ 0 91 Pink-eyes Cup 3 - 0 9 Short-tops 1 8— 1 g Straw,Wheat. a , 3i— 0 4i Cattle Turnips, ae. ton .... 17 0 —lg 0 Barley .... ' 3 0 si Carrots 2B 0 —29 0 Manglewurzle-it 0— 0 0 de t s r 3 i p s t higher,ons o butter. t t e h r e . q f ;te all fs LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, J Ax. 29. medium kinds, from other parts, have quite recovered f rom the position of extreme depression Which they h ave so long occu pied. Pickled Butter is yet to be had at 68. s for seconds, but there Is more inquiry for the article, B ee f and Pork at our last Fr li es e h tte ß r el r f aastte.scaarrel Carlow, obtainable s,e w e quotations. Bacon and Barns are looking up. In Foreign pro visions there is nothing extraordinary passing. and it is diffi cult to exterpate a certain prejudici a l feeling which exist in the minds of ship m .sters against their use for stores. Good Ame rican Beef in tierces (of w hich there i s on l y a sma ll quantity here)is, however, steadily held at full prices. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, JANUARY 30. 1844. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, Y of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At N 0.4, ST. &BORON'S CRNSCNNT,LIKERPOOL. Oders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. 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