The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

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ESJAY MORAING, JA hen Mr knti-M time, that the object in view er, was to the moon to learn ncy wnic Brown as membe eIIOUR ur re prese. jun , " secretar 14, 1845 ns, jun., Secre- kssociation of Liverpool, f would-be free an of that modus 01 !re not with essed at the amping the county :d by the aid of heir pockets sof n-i 3 not climb up ch pur- return to Parliament 'or South Lancashire, ) buy their own quali e a qualification of paper and of e services of that gen e; and Mr. Charles his ap scheme justify a The first of these movements, and one of the most important, is contained in the following letter, dated Bth instant, which has been addressed by the Bishop of Exeter to the clergy of his diocese and Dear Brethren—l have this day had the cation of receiving from his Grace the Archbishop a copy of his 'Letter to the Clergy and Laity of the .eatures of tl in question are ieEcribed in a tech deliver Esq., M.P. recent meeting of n Manchester Hear hill I not raise the whole amount he 31st January, if he had .e-trader and a man of Province of "That letter leaves me under no difficulty bow to act Not only in deference to his grace's authority, but in most willing concurrence with the sentiments which he has expressed, I thankfully accept the prospect of an adjustment of our present diversities, by some general measure, which shall have the sanction of the whole Church. In truth, I feel that I could not more effec 111y labour for the great object which I have had at hart—the restoration of certainty and vigour to the law pounds out of the Church in all that relates to our public worship— m mon sense, complet , nosed to land him £lO or £2O, N. WORKING —Tbev were terbury Mr. Cobden than by now relinquishing my own separate endeavours, and merging them in that common effort, which his grace has announced his intention to promote, when ' the wa , shall be prepared for a final sett, a " Meanwhile, I advise you all to a( d the views so plainly set forth of to continue the servi- iement n confor❑ rchbishop : that is man of in your several churches as they no mare t now are, making no attetny proach ne .er to an ,ii shall, in any observance of th ascertain that 3 of your F such an advance. " One reservation I must, indeed, make, though I hope it is unnecessary. If the practice in any parish at present prevail (I know not that it' does) of omitting or garbling portions of the offices of the Church —especially the offices of baptism and burial—by reason of objection to the doctrines therein involved, or of introducing prayers of private composition, either before the sermon or elsewhere ; such violation of the Church's law must not lay claim to indulgence. " And now, in addressing you on this occasion, most probably for the last time, let me express my deep sense of the value of that support which 1 have received from the great body of my clergy, and of the warm and affec- who bad goal that could be in favor inight b S. it cvtnced by very many of you, under ...umstances of no common trial. These are matters of grateful and enduring remembrance. If there have been some instances of an opposite feeling (as I am bound in sincerity to add that there have been some, however few), I assure those who have exhibited it that they will not, in our future intercourse -- sympathy ,erience any un- pleasing recollections of it on my part : and if, on reflec tion, they shall as readily forgive themselves as I forgive lieir I them, I wish that they may have formed a right estimate of what their duty has required and may hereafter require d virtuo any man , real lest of theological opinions. Many per- arduous efforts : ons are opposed avowedly to subscription to any tests ~ The very limited resources of the society, however, whatever, and they will, of course, consistently object to being inadequate to the full attainment of its objects, this measure. Others contend that the Articles have no diocesan and other petitions were presented to parliament, one meaning—that they were framed on latitudinarian praying for such a revision of the question of education in views—that they were intended to be subscribed in the , this country, as might allow the Established C hurc h to most contradictory senses—that they may be subs cribed share in the funds appropriated to the education of the in any sense which they may be made to bear—that they poor. These petitions having been unsuccessful, the' may be perverted from their natural and obvious mean- operations and the wants of the Church Education So ing, either in the direction of Romanisrn or of some other ciety were in the same way brought before the legislature, A principles, which have been of with the view of obtaining a separate grant for the main - avowed with increasing frequency and boldness, tend i censure of its schools. And afterwards, an application to the annihilation of the Articles as a test of doctrine, I was made to the government, soliciting that the Iris h p art and are plainly inconsistent with Christian mo ralit y . It of the united church might be allowed to participate with 1 seems undeniable that, under these circumstances , the the English, in the grant of money from which the latter mist, University, University, entrusted as it has been by the Ch urch with annually draws support for a sys tem of education in con- ;---- the office of teaching sound doctrines to her younger mem- fortuity with its own principles. These appeals have been bers, is only acting in a high sense of responsibility to that hitherto unsuccessful ; but we cannot bring ourselves to Church, in protecting her Articles of doctrine from dege- -think it possible, that the striking inequality of the mea nerating into mere empty words, which may avowedly and sure which has been dealt towards the Established Church openly be set at nought, or contradicted with impunity. of this country in the important concern of education, and And it is certainly satisfactory to observe, that the aut ho- the great hardship of the position in which it has been rities of the University, who a few years since were desi- thereby placed, can fail ultimately to attract towards it rous of removing some of the securities for the reception such fair consideration as may procure for it due sympathy of the Church's doctrines in the University, have now and redress. We, on the contrary, entertain a confident evinced so plainly her attachment to her articles." hope that, whatever be the hindrances which have hitherto It is foreign to our present purpose .to ask, in obstructed that fair consideration, they are but temporary, reference to the opinion here expressed, what has and that they will pass away, leaving the government free been the source of, or what party has occasioned, to afford the assistance, which is so greatly needed by the by their insidious writings, the necessity here ad- Church Education Society, and to which its objec ts and its milted. We are sufficiently satisfied with the , ~e all, , whogive to areit s i o ot s e t r r e o a n t strong a interested i col aim. themaintenance acknowledgement made, from such a quarter, that and extension of the schools of the Church Education the Articles of our Church have, in themselves, a Society, we recommend steady perseverance, and the em definite meaning, and that they may not be " per- ployment of all suitable efforts to bring its case calmly and verted" from that meaning at the caprice of indivi- effectively before the public. And we cannot believe that our brethren in the faith in England will look on with duals, "either in the direction of Rome or some apathy, while the church in this country, faithful to its other unsound doctrine ;" and turn from this par- high office as a' witness and:a keeper of Holy Writ,' tion of the letter to Mr. Palmer's views of his inter- is struggling, unaided, to discharge its most pressing pretation of, and the safety with which he can duties, first to the children more immediately committed subscribe the test : to its care, and then to all whom God has placed within " With reference to the declaration itself, it would seem the sphere of its influence. But this will be as God to be well adapted to meet the exigency of the case. It pleases. Let it be the aim of those who are engaged in provides for an honest subscription, but does not define this sacred cause, by His help to do His will , leaving the the sense in which the articles are to be subscribed, in issue of their labours—the time and measure of their any way calculated to throw difficulties in the way of success—altogether to His wisdom. ` And let us not be really honest subscribers. All that the subscriber is called weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if on to declare is (in substance), " that he will subscribe in we faint not. that sense in which he, ex animo, believes them to have been originally put forth, and in which, also, they are pro posed at present by the University as a real test of the subscriber's opinions." This declaration, of course, can not be made by any one who ventures to affirm that the our Tuesday's contemporary is really an oracle, to articles have no sense at all, or no one meaning ;or who which our legislature ought to listen with the most pro claims a right to subscribe them in any sense which he found deference. His last achievement upon financial may judge most Catholic (whether it be Romish, Sabel- matters is the following : Han, Arian, or Calvinisti . c.) But it ought not to create " The revenue returns for the year and the quarter any difficulty in the minds of those who regard the arti- just ended are very satisfactory, and such is the industry cies as real tests of doctrine, and who accordingly consi- and enterprise of the people that, if government would der that they have some meaning, and are willing, from a let trade alone, they would probably never be otherwise." principle of honesty and of reverence, to subscribe the Of course we must deduce from this paragrah—an en articles, when called on by competent authority to do so, tire leader, by the bye,—the compressed essence of what in the sense of the Church of England." the less ingenious London namesake of the Times would The writer contends against the supposition. as spread over some three columns—that the Whig-radical absurd, that the test requires interpretation of the administration, under whose auspices so totally different Articles to be that which may be placed upon them a financial result was attained, did ti9t " let trade alone n re ." It ought, also, to be equall deducible that the sent by the vice-chancellor, or heads of houses, who government, notwithstanding the tariff-regulation bill, may possibly differ from each other ; or that they has all along been "letting trade alone." Perhaps Sir are to be taken in the sense of the compilers, whose Robert Peel will be wise enough to pursue the same names we do not with certainty know, although he course in the coming session, and thus preserve us, by the means which the Liverpool Times indicates, in our admits that some persons signing it may, without present t e trade "very satisfactory eoro io dishonesty, interpret them according to the latterinsugar," position. a ion in ‘‘coffee,ettaraoddeiaol oonthe; mode. He then proceeds to state his own opinion matters, and, " such is the industry and enterprise of the of its requirements : people," that the revenue returns " will probably never " There cannot be any difficulty, I think, in ascertain- be otherwise." ing what the sense of the Church of England in the Thirty nine Articles is. The " plain grammatical meaning" furnishes the first rule ; and in cases of doubt, comparison with the other formularies of the Church will be suffi- TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. cient to remove difficulties. Any person who honestly Pray, air, can you inform your readers whether the interprets the Articles by such rules will be entitled to advertisement in the Mercury of Friday last, or that in make the declaration; and as it is very possible that two the Albion of to-day, is to be regarded as the official persons may differ in their application of these rules, or of document calling the above meeting, as they differ mate any others by which they may endeavour to discover the rially ? The invitation of Friday last is to importers real sense of the Church of England, it is evident that there can be no intention, in putting forward this declare- generally—" the attendance of all importers is earnest l y requested." To-day it rues thus :—" A public meeting tion, to require absolute uniformity of opinion; but that of the merchants of Liverpool, being importers of cotton, the leading object is to insure honesty of subscription. will be held," &c. No signature is attached to either " I do not doubt that persons holding different interpre advertisement. If you can ascertain, before going to tations of the Articles may honestly subscribe the decla press, that the calling the meeting is not a hoax, and, if ration, just as they now subscribe the Articles ; and 1 can not, by whose authority it is called, and what parties are not conceive on what reasonable and just ground any expected to attend, you will enlighten your readers , w ho member of the Church could refuse to make the declare may be in doubt whether there is to be a meeting at all, tion, if called upon by competent authority to do so. For or, if there is, whether it is to be a public meeting , or myself, I can only say, that, after a careful examination what is vulgarly called "a hole-and•corner gathering. ' of the declaration, and after having heard all that has been I3th January, 1815. I. advanced against it, I should, with pleasure, subscribe to [The meeting to which our correspondent refers i s it whenever called on to do so." It is perfectly clear, from the latter portion of called, we believe, by legitimate authorities, and is any the above quotation from the letter, that—with thing but a discrepancyseems to strike our whatever honesty of intention the party, or rather, correspondent as so very material. The notice con v e nin g the section of the party, to which Mr. Palmek belong s, the meting specifies the parties who are expected to be may subscribe to this test—it is not to prevent the present, and though we know the name of the firm by carrying out of their present views of Church whose authority the advertisement appears in our co lumns we do not feel at liberty, without permission, to divulge matters. So far, however, as it extends, the decla- their names.l ration is both important and satisfactory, unless, indeed, we could suspect the reverend gentleman of having fenced with the question. We cannot but be struck, whilst treating of this Whatever else will be found in our columns to-day we with the present position of the entire 'l'racta- have no lack of subjects relative to the Church, and there nan party. In their early writings we were told of fore interesting to churchmen. We publish elsewhere a a coining millenium of concordant opinion and letter from Dr. Pusey to Dr. Hawkins, the Provost of usages in our Church as the results of their agita- Oriel College, Oxford, respecting the proceedings ante cedent to the condemnation of Dr. Pussy's sermon. To tion of the public mind. All was to be uniformity — that letter Dr. Hawkins has issuecia reply, dated the 10th all harmony. And yet we see that party now—a inst., from which we extract the following passages : mere fraction of the Church of England—already " You conceive that there is a material variation be divided into no less than three sections, each appeal- tween the two accounts, where the one speaks only of ing to the public through distinct organs ! The recantation, and appears to exclude qualifications of you r language, whereas my letter speaks of your having oppor views of the extreme party—the Newmans, Puscys , tunity offered to you to disclaim whatever meanings and Wards—are represented in the columns of the qmightqualifications a lifi c h a a t ve n b s o een r io im co p r r r o e p c e t rly ns imputed to your expressions, English Churchman; those of the Hook and Palmer and re p resents the Vice Chancellor as desirous to receive io section are represented by the Churchman's News- of your words. He only speaks to I apprehend, of not having been satisfied with paper ; whilst a third party—the moderate party, him m se e e p tr e t i t n e g u I r a e r e r qualifications fi e lt e i r o whichn e s nd ts youwt with e r r e e fe reported to i with the Rev. Stanley Faber at their head—choose, as the vehicle of their opinions, the Church and to the second pap y er sent to you, of which I had no need State Gazette. Surely, this fact should be a proof to speak particularly ; and, again, it is evident to those to the whole Church that its secure foundation and who are acquainted with the statute, that his letter ape its best claim to Catholicit y are to be found alone in where refers to the statuteable word ` Recantation,' es with a copy of the first paper lying before me (to the Word of God itself ; and that the Fathers are which I have also referred to-day), I described it more but a broken reed to rely upon for strength! correctly, according to its real import and actual form, as giving the writer ' opportunity to disclaim any meaning improperly attached to his expressions, and to declare his A noble and unanswerable protest has just been adherence to those parts of our articles and formularies issued by a majority, in numbers and influence, of with which, under such imputed meanings, his expressions the Protestant hierarchy of Ireland, against the had appeared to be at variance." recanta existing system of national education it: that country, t. " Yet in either case, whether we are to speak of which the ministry of Sir Robert Peel proposes fur- je i e o i n ie o n r s di t s e a k v e o n w t a o l, it willoo your lie discourse, apparent and the thee particularsec ? o e t t to endow, whilst they stubbornly withhold the pressions more especially y complained of, must have been assistance of the public purse from :hose schools submitted to your consideration, or there would have for the children of the poor which are conducted I p b e e e e t n iv n e o i t m hi p o r g es t a o io b o e s, recanted or disclaimed. In our res upon the principles of the established religion of the however of the papers submitted to , you, wu cannot of course bee xpected to agree. That they empire. Of the fourteen archbishops and bishops, j were misunderstood is evident from what you state, and now left us in that land, nine have attached their is to be regretted ; but to discuss them further in a news names to the document in question—viz., His paper you will surely agree with me would be most in). Grace the Lord Primate, and the Bishops of Kildare, proper : and indeed it is now too late to discuss them at Clogher, Kilmare, Down and Connor, Cork and all. But lam entitled to speak, of what I cannot but know, their design and intention. That they were not Cloyne, Killaloe and Clonfert, Osso-y and Ferns, satisfactory to you, indeed I have already stated ; express and Cashel and Waterford ; whilst the minority j og at the same time my great regret that endeavours in consists of the Archbishop of Du.'Ain, and the tended in equity and sincerity to do you justice , sho uld Bishops of Meath, Limerick, Tuate, and Derry. have failed. Of these three are Whigs; one was& Conservative; Tu It Po usiness at the and the fifth, Dr. Knox, is residett abroad on Stock ExchilanDgse'haSsAbTevenniAmTiteTtGon-dra.y—,Band prices have account of his health. No doubt, therefore, can undergone little alteration ; but this is not remarkable, now remain upon the mind of Sir Robert Peel with considering the early closing of the markets and the small respect to the preponderance of episcopal opinion attendance of the members. Consols for money and the account left off 100 to I ; Tree er Cents. Reduced, ' , against this anti-Protestant system; and , rode- 100 to 101 n ; Three-a 1 nd-a-Quar h ter per Cents., pendently of the names attached to it, the firm tone Exchequer Bills 635. to 655. pm. Bank Stock, 211 to of the protest itself holds out little lope tha t an y 212 ; and India Stock, 289 to 290. •In the foreign secu mere peddling with details—any corcession short rities, especially those dealt in by the speculators, there of the recognition of those principles for which the was more firmness in prices. Both Spanish and Mexican bishops and clergy of Ireland content —can induce participated in the improvement, and altogether the them to retreat from the position which they have Itanresewtersehowsepdaniinenaivseedpebrutlyeanntecy.26Thtee ifintallecii!horteae taken up in the front of the fabric of Protestantism per Cents. 37 to * ; Mexican 341 . to *; the Deferred, in that land, and of the Church submitted to their 151 to I; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 631 to i ; watchful keeping. , t ß h e e s Fi e v n e , per Cents., 99 to }; Portuguese, 59 1 to 601 ; o 120 Da to 90 ; Colom bi 14/ As a specimen of the style of this :hie docum ent tr? psi ; Chilia , n, t 100 to ; nish, 89 102 ; Buenos Ayres, 40 to 41 ; an, Bra we extract the following paragraph, in which the Zillan, 89 to 90 ; and Belgian, 102 to 103. protesting parties clearly point out tie necessity of ALL SAINTS CHURCH.—It is contemplated to provide the step which they have adopted : this perplexed and scattered congregation with a tempo "lt is with much reluctance and reset that we felt rary place of worship, contiguous to the district , until the ourselves obliged to declare so decidedy and pub licl y erection of the intended new church. against a plan of education established and maintained by POLICE CASES YESTERDAY. —Monday is generally a the state, to which we owe, and are react to render, all " field day" at the Police-court, the offences of two days duty not interfering with that which we ( we to God. But being to be investigated. Yesterday was, however, an this higher duty compelled us to expresathus plainly and exception, there having been only 22 prisoners in all. A strongly our disapprobation and distrust of this system ; young man, named William Taylor, was charged with and we lament that it does not now pernit us to retract, stealing a Tweed coat from the shop of Mr. McTaggart, or to soften, those declarations of our ceinion. We con clothier, Bold-street. It appeared that a bout half- pastsider it to be the more necessary to stee this explicitly, five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a person passing because it is conceived by some persons bat certain mods- along the street saw the prisoner take the article from a fications of its rules, from time to time ntroducad by the nail inside the shop door, and walk away with it. He Commissioners of National Education, have d one much gave information of the fact, and the prisoner being !sur to remove the objection:, on which it Its been from the beginning opposed and rejected by the Fester portion of sued was stopped, with the article over his arm. He was committed for trial at the sessions. —Christopher Kelly, the members of the Established Church And as we are a young man, was charged with having , on Saturda y , unable to form the same opinion of be t e changer, we stolen 311ba* of butter, in a shop in Byrom-street, and the deem it our duty to obviate the misappehension to which our silence might give rise, by statingastinctly, that we case being proved, was consigned to gaol for two months. cannot discern in them any sufficient eason: for with- —Sohn Parry, who was found concealed in an empty house in Beau-street, with, no doubt, a felonious intent, drawing or qualifying the condemnalea, which we have was committed to prison for three months.—The other deliberately and repeatedly pronounced. cases were unimportant, and the principal bus iness of the We wish sincerely that we couleafford sp ace for court—includi g dock fines, felonies , drun k and disor the whole of the protest, so ably antso convincingly deny cases, and begging—were all disposed of b y twelve does it dispose of the whole quesion at i ssue, so o'clock precisely. There were but three cases of assault far as regards the possibility of thi clergy of a Pro- by summons, and they were devoid of interest. MEETING OF COTTON IMPORTERS DR. HAWKINS AND DR. PUSEY Mr. Banner, Chairman of the Directors of the Liver pool and Harrington Water Works Company, has pub lished a book under this title, with a view "to correct or remove misstatements and misapprehensions with regard to the supply of water, which, having been pro- The subject of the total inadequacy of the existing fusely spread, have become matter of public interest." Merchant Seamen's Fund to fulfil the objects desired The writer impugns more especially what he terms the i and to balance the sacrifices made by the body of men " misstatements" made by Mr. Samuel Holme in an affected by it, occupied during the past session of Parlia. essay read by him at the Polytechnic Society last year, as meet the attention of a select committee, by whom a to the supply of water by the present water companies, quantity of valuable evidence was taken and a report pre and also those in a document, by the same gentleman, sented containing the outlines of a bill to be brought be appended to the report and evidence of the sanatory fore the legislature next session. A special committee of enquiry, more recently published, in which Mr. H. the Liverpool Merchant Seamen's Fund has since been alleges that complaints of the scarcity of water in cases appointed to consider such report and the hearings of the of fire, and also as to the price of that necessary commo- evidence, one of the members of which Mr. H. C. Chap dity, are loud and general, and that the monopoly enjoyed man, in a pamphlet, under the above head, addressed to by the two great companies has, he considers, been pre- William Potter, Esq., its chairman, has just published judicial to the health of the community. These and his own particular siews upon the question. Mr. Chap• other statements Mr. Banner endeavours, on behalf of man contends that the supposition of the parliamentary the water companies, to refute, with what success committee that no other fund can be raised for the relief throughout we shall not take upon ourselves to pronounce, of the disabled seamen, and by no other means, than the though we cannot help saying that (in common with many present, is erroneous ; and that ample means for so im of our townsmen) we do not concur in many of his de- portant an object can and ought to be raised. Upon such ductions, and think the object aimed at would have been a question, involving so largely the interests of our national more readily attained had the writer abstained from the commerce and the strength of Great Britain's strongest tone of invective in which he rather unsparingly indulges arm of defence, high ground ought to be taken, and towards Mr. Holme, who, from his professional expe- sacrifices made by the merchant and shipowner, and, if rience, and being, moreover, an extensive owner of pre- necessary, by the nation itself. He proposes the follow in the town, may be assumed to have an accurate ing as his " ways and means." acquaintance with the whole case as between the public Ist. All seamen to contribute annually one shilling a and the company, and who, so far as we can see, can month, and apprentices the same amount after having have no object in boldly expressing his opinions but the served three years. general good. Mr. Holme is, however, well able to pad. Shipowners to pay one shilling per £lOO sterling meet the accusations put forth against him, and as he will, on nett freight. in all probability, feel himself called upon to do so, we 3rd. All exports and imports to pay 6d. per £lOO ster are spared the necessity of entering upon his defence. ling, invoice value. Public opinion, it is undeniable, has for some years been 4th. The present capital accumulated at the different arrayed against the present monopoly, and it is equally ports to be expended in the erection of Orphan Asylums, certain that this has been caused by the want of zeal in with schools attached, for the children of seamen, on the the companies in supplying a prompt and efficient supply principles of Greenwich School. of water at fires ;by the inadequate control possessed by The local district of Liverpool to extend from Holyhead the public authorities over the water works; by the water to the Solway Frith, including the Isle of Man. not being raised for domestic purposes beyond the level These views Mr. Chapman puts forward with his usual of the cellar ; and, last, not least, by the arbitrary powers clearness and business-like tact, not as a substitute for to disttain, or cut off the supply, on any alleged slight the suggestions in detail of the report of the Parliamen. defalcation, without the intervention of a magistrate, tare Committee (which are published at length in the with which the companies are invested. With regard to pamphlet), but as supplementary, and necessary to ren the last point, we know of some instances in which inha- der the bill proposed by that report really and perceptibly , itants have been distrained upon for arrears due by pre- beneficial to the seamen. We sincerely hope that they enants, and who were compelled to submit from may meet with the attention which the humane cones want of pecuniary means to appeal against the surcharge deration of the interests of a much-neglected body of men in a court of law. It does not appear to be generally demands. known that the corporation obtained the first act (in 1784) to supply the town with water. They remissly, how ever. neglected to avail themselves of the privilege, and handed it over to a private company in 1799. To this there could be no objection, provided it were shown that the town were supplied as amply for general purposes; as speedily on all occasions, and as cheaply on the whole, as could the Corporation. If, however, the question be put as to all these points, the voice of the public replies in the negative, and the general opinion is that the corporate body ought to purchase the present companies' works at a fair valuation, and resume their prerogative. Private companies are frequently highly beneficial, especially in enterprises of trade or improved intercourse, but their individual object is pain; and the supply of that vital necessary of life—water-- is scarcely a ligitimate object for private speculation and emolument. Our water corn panics have had their trials and difficulties—seldom in separable from extensive projects ;—they have, in fact, not unfrequently been " in low water," and they have struggled through with meritorious perseverance, until they can now afford to divide 10 per cent. Their charge, •ver, of 5 per cent., or Is. in the pound, on the whole d of the borough is heavy ; the division of the supply ngst two companies involves, moreover, the frequent mg up of the streets for the laying or repair of the respective lines of mains, besides causing confusion of ac counts, and the necessity for the amalgamation of the whole of the works, under the Corporation, has become obvious—the inhabitants receiving the benefit of the profits that would accrue to the estate, if any, in the shape of town improvements—of which we have yet great requirement. The Council have recently obtained a bill in parliament to raise a supply of water, independent of the companies, for the double purpose of extinguishing fires and watering the streets. This is an additional argument in favour of the whole supply being in the hands of the Corporation ; for, without it, we shall be subjected to the additional evil of t hree sets of pipes being laid throughout the present streets in place of two, or probably in most parts of only one line of main of sufficient calibre. We are at issue with Mr. Banner in his statement that the new corporation works will be " a large boon to ware house proprietors, at a great sacrifice to the public generally, which might have been spared." The water companies never satisfactorily showed that they could, or would, supply water for fires and for the streets, on equally advantageous terms, and in the destruction of warehouses the interests of the whole of the community of a com mercial town are deeply. if not equally, involved. Neither do we go the length of assuming with our author that it is the feeling of the fire-insurance agents that "a serious fire, occasionally taking place, promotes the business of their offices, as it drives many to insure who before neglected to do so." If their alleged apathy for the more effectual suppression of fires were really attributable to such a cause, they have at least paid dearly for their temerity within the last two years. The " pamphlet," in fine, is a defence, or apology, for the water companies, by one of their principal officers, and as such only will command attention. The appeal, and the professions made, come rather too late to be available. The claims of the shareholders (and these we by no means repudiate) are more successfully advocated than the merits of the present system, which it is admitted requires reformation. But, on the principle of audi aileron partem, we re commend an attentive perusal of it to all interested. There have been large arrivals of oranges at Hull within the last ten days. On Wednesday five cargoe s were ~. offered by auction, three of which were sold at low prices. and two were withdrawn. Oranges have been selling at four a penny, and the Market-street stalls have been loaded with this fruit.—Hull Packet. The commissioners will remove into the new Bankruptcy Courts, South John-street, on the Ist of February. THE CHASE.-Sir William Massey Stanley's hounds meet on Wednesday, 15th, at Gayton ; Saturday, 18th, bt Sutton Station. EXETER DrOCESE.—We have given in another column the letter of the Bishop of Exeter, withdrawing his receni orders. The Exeter Times of Friday says "We have just learned, from the best authority, that the Bishop has received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, calling upon him to retrace all his steps, till the consti tuted authorities have deliberated on the subject of " the diversities." On Monday, the memorial to the Queen, and the pe titions to the houses of parliament, adopted at the recent Protestant meeting in this city, were placed in the Guild hall for signature, as well as lists being opened at other places in the city. At the Guildhall alone the number of signatures to each petition during the day amounted to upwards of 900. Since which they have amounted to about 2000.—Exeter Gazette. LAW OFFICERS OF THE CaowN.—The Globe of Sa turday announces the following changes in the present law officers of the crown. " Lord Chancellor, Mr. Pember ton Leigh, (with a peerage), rice Lord Lyndhurst. Sir Frederick Thesiger, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, vice Sir N, Tindal, who retires. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly. Attorney-General, rice Sir W. Follett, whose impaired health forbids the hope of his being able to resume his official or professional avocations. The Hon. Mr. Wort ley, Solicitor-General, in the place of Sir F. Thesiger, elevated to the bench as Chief Justice of the Common, Pleas." The Times, of yesterday, says, that " this a-- nouncement is in one respect manifestly untrue; in the other it is at least premature." LIVERPOOL PRICE CURRENT AND' MERCANTILE LIST. first number of a publication under this title has just .peen published by Mr. McCorquodale, V. Castle-street, upon a plan which, we think cannot fail to be generally acceptable and useful to the commercial public. The ob- ject Of its publisher is to give in one sheet a much more. general view of the leading features of the commerce of the port than is afforded by the private circulars issued by merchants and brokers ; and in this he appears, so far at least as the quantity of statistical matter is concerned, to have completely succeeded. The work is issued every Wednesday morning, containing eight pages, one of which is left blank for the remarks of parties forwarding it to their correspondents, and is kept in weight within the the half ounce. The whole being only one sheet enables it to pass through the United States as a single letter. Lord Chief Justice Tindal has been pleased to appoint Mr. John Wilson, Clerk to the Justices of the Borough of Congleton, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for the County of Chester for taking the acknowledgmei t of Deeds by 'married women, under the Fines and Re coveries Abolition Act. Cr-rotten LECTURES.—The first of a ser i es of thirteen DIED. discourses, to be delivered on Tuef day evenings, at St. On the 12th instant, THOMAS, son of Mr. Ronr. PALMER, Andrew's Church, Renshaw-street, upon " The Christian i printer, Lord-street. Character and Conduct," will be preached this evening. - ---- --- The title prefixed to the discourse in the syllabus is, " The 4th Doc. SHIPPING INTELLF ,;ISI.O_NoDrAOY.,OcJoA,NFUeoAtfteY, fr l o 3 . .— N W e i , n , d r S o . r E k . ; r ai S ie .W d 2 . Christian's Dignity and Duty, or his High Privilege and ARAM: Honourable Employment." —Smile. Strickland, from Smyrna—Elizabeth Catherine, Jones. fi r o o m m vv i i i e n k d l a o Lk____— SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS. —The concert of aAndavcFnituorare'CßoaT. from f Wells—Ann, Wilkinson, Saturday last was attended by about five hundred persons. The vocalists were Miss Joseph, Mr. P. Crowe, Mr. Ryalls, Mr. Crank, and Mr. Hornby ; and the entertain- Samsn.—Duke of Cornwall,w N I i nk p r i o n n e i S fo a r le f o o rl , be. Mcnt went off with great applause. Mr. Alexander Dun- Pauline. Jan en, for St. Thomas—Columba , can, professor of education, kindly granted his services, Rio Janeiro—Santos, Ugarte, for Manilla— giving three excellent recitations. Th e Frazer Family for Gibraltar, Cadiz and Brazil. will appear this week ; and we learn that the committee, Martha, Scriven, hence for Lisbon ' at Kingstown with a view of affording the working cla sses an oppOrtu- Portuna, for Valparaiso, has put back, with two of the cre nity of judging of the varied natural and acquired powers injured, having been struck by a sea off Wicklow. The mate i of the human voice, have engaged a celebrated ventrilo- also laid up with fever quilt, who will give an entertainment on an early day. ht m 2 yr ,i re, Ward, from Callao, at this port. On 19th Dec. in. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—In another column will land. On long 37 31 i ' l I W I a. tsp3o7kNe the ,, Sag 3 u 3 e N r:73 l , ,e fr \ o v m Ic h s a h boe l to E n g be found a detailed list of the lecturers and subjects for 3oth, in lat. 39 N, long. 31 W, )" the Robert ' James Haynes, from the present year. A more careful or excellent selection i Antigua to London cou ld scarcely have been rreple, as it comprises those lee- Isaac Allerton, Torry, from New Orleans, at this port ; sailed turers who are now attracting the most cro wiled audi- from the bar 111.1; Dec. Left the Charlemagne, for Liverpool. aground on the bar. tOrieS in the London Literary Institutions. We hope Stephen, "• our townsmen will continue that powerful and in creasing support which they have hitherto given to this institution, in reliance upon which we presume the directors have made such costly engageinei.ts. The ap pearance of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile upon the evening of who nave taken about 6 ' o' opening will give a degree of brilliance to the c ommence- Saturda y last. meat which the subsequent proceedings cannot fail to _ _ sustain. The expectation of an introductory address from this master-orator must attr a c t a crowded audience. i N.,_ BurtGT.AltY.—A little after two o'clock yesterday (Mon- 1 , thing fu day) morning, the house of Mt. Th omas Gleave, No. 34, Mutto n, - - Pall-mall, was broken into , and sonic brass candlesticks - - ---- and other articles stolen away. It fortunately happened I LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN 13. Iliad Mr. Gleavc and his wife were awoke by the stepping I The prices of Butter are fully supported. though we are not up stairs of one or more persons, and upon that the de- able to notice a positive advance upon our last quotations. lincptents made off; they were watched into Tithebarn- Holders continue very fanersine. Pickled Butter remains at 91s to gas, and the demand limited. Beef and Pork of prime street, but suddenly disappeared without any clue being quality in limited supply, and prices the turn dearer. Bacon i s found out as to their residence. The y had bundled up also looking up, with a fair consumptive enquiry. many articles of clothing, &c., for carrying away, but the — s alarm of the family scared them off before they could get their booty ready. It is more tha n p robable that they MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. were not practised thieves, but some private enemies of ..; ANUARY. Boum, 4, John Lythgoe, (audit) .... ........ ..... District Court, 12 Mr. Gleave's, who have often threatened vengeance upon I 14, Margaret Williams, (audit). him for his public opinions. No blame whatever can he 14, Richard Abram, (audit) Ditto, 12 attached to the police, who were upon their beat, and, 14, Thomas Garnett, (audit) with the inspector, made such search, &c., as was possi- 14, John Jasper Garnett, (audit) Ditto, 12 ble, but hitherto without detection. is, Charles Delves Broughton Ditto, 12 17, Isaac Ketchum 2 n d Ditto, 11 B IRKENH E A D POLICE. COURT, YESTERDAY.—(Before 17, John Tarleton;audit J. N. Harden and William Jackson, Esqs.)—Two sweeps, 17, Charles Benn Buchanan a.,d C 0.... named Wm. Jones and William Casey, boys about 13 21, David Cook and Co. audit years of age, were brought up as being suspicious charac- 21, James Metcalf, proof and div. tern. One of the officers found them in Hamilton-square 22, John Johnson, audit Ditto , 11 22 Absalom Francis, 2nd at a late hour on Saturday night, and on being taken to 21' Henryßentley, y2nd Ditto, It bridewell a tin dagger and a whistle was found upon them. 2 ' 3, James Mackay, lnd There was nothing further to warrant their detention, and 23, William Starr Drury, 2nd the magistrates accordingly ordered them to be discharged, 23, John Garnett, proof and div.. the police retaining the two formidable articles discovered 24, Thomas Parr, audit in their possession. — This is the case out of which our 24 Strickland and Brickwood, audit , 24 Bannister and. Simpson, au dit proof veracious contemporary, the Albion, in his publi cation of 23 , William Jackson, yesterday, trumped up a tale to the effect that two men as, James Alexander Forrest, audit were in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the ... late murder of Mr. Peacop. Richard Perry w as commit- e_aearseerea -- LIVERPOOL : ted for trial at the next sessions at Knutsford , on a charge of having stolen a spade, a horse-brush, and a curry- TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1845. comb, belonging to Mr. Whalley and Mr. Noble of Ox- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ton. The other cases were unimportant. I EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday. an inquisition was held aT before P. F. Curry, Esq., Borough Coroner, on view of JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and he body of Daniel Lewis. Alfred Cooke, seaman of the LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, schooner Gertrude, said the deceased was formerly one of • 1N0.4, ST. GEOROB'S CRESCUNT,LIVERPOOL . the hands of that vessel. He was 27 years old. On Satur- Orders and Adertisernents are received by Messrs. Newton and day evening last witness went to a cooking shop in Benn's co , Warwick-square ; Barker and White, Fleet-street Gardens, and found deceased sitting in a chair, He l Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-lane; Charles Barker, smiled at witness as he went in, but did not speak. Im- . Birchin.lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch.lane, Cornhill ; Mun mcdiately afterwards, he suddenly fell forward and groaned cdoeunrit"Timeeqn-sdt'reoe7t,-,LLoern,l;iamradijsdtrLefe,t,;, .Maitechaesltlic2c,oßuretd Corn threeLio- times. Witness with the assistance of another man ; hill; at the London Commercial Coffee-house, Mincing-lane; lifted him up. He was unable to speak. A surgeon was 1 at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; Chapter Cof sent for, but before he arrived the deceased died.—Mr. , fee-house, Paternoster.rovr ; North and South American Woods, surgeon, who made a post tnortern examination. Coffee.house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons, 9. Ave-Maria found the cause of death to be enlargement of the , lane, vih London:, Johnston treet. and Co., C. H. E L d e en s ,QM"ayrllet Dublin Market-street, t$ heart, the result of natural causes.—Verdict accordingly. I E x • c H a a n d i fl e o - e s k , and J. and W: Booth, w i. Booksellers. —The deceased left a chest of clothes, and a small sum 1 Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; and Wright and of wife lived money ; in anCarthmarthenshire,d e beadle havi the oroner gavehorders Terms of Subsc ng ascertained tat bis ' Werald-office, Birmingham, c ' ription for this paper :—On credit, that she should be written to , and that the body should be one year, LI 3s. ; half-year. lls. 64.—1 f paid in uncoffined and kept in the dead-house until Wednesday, so that the might attend the funeral if she thought proper. 1 advance—one year 41 Is, ; half-year, 103, 64. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE mbo River— Stillstrom, for i.cker, •and Tartar, Junchie, hence to Cuba, was spoken 4th Jan. in C. 45, loug. li LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 13 has been eAperiene -4 bales ed to-day from consumers. at prices similar to Friday and LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, J. 13. aye a small supply of Cattle at our market to-day, any quality sought after, and sold at—Beef, s,ict to 6d; ltofi should ha ady laia 3 - g of the so hOPeful and p 1 sciences ❑ accomplish ac sown, by which such demi-lunatics as Ilftee their nronertv and lucadly RiChard Cobder an empl and se: ri earuin at dirt at Ashton ; he ied upc at the F reens ,nt I to se a year had only o at of a 40s freehol, done - afterwards, such convey bat was ers who ery man that won't be ~" (Applause.) He, lie little It mig Landowneis beat ,ht be done )te, which i Let the ie till the 31st binuar all the rest the register; If the money were paid, zs given, the parchments epared after the 31rt January iew league free holders should have a bond fide interest in the soil, of forty shillings per annum. He is not to be an independent man, but the most dependent goose that ever was tethered on a common. John Nokes iat the or Th Snooks, •arehouseman, or clerk, is to take his ten or twenty pounds from the Savings' Bank, invest it in some piece of brick and mortar rubbish, give his free-trade master a note of hand _ . his till )ond slave of that master, to n to the poll, under a penalty h we need not hir to the Le ) vote for whatever ca 4ue mpy select as most likely to do its be persons asinine enough to atarilv under such thraldom to risk - - bidding ! There ma thews n who are ready venture But we h I would io think their number cannot be many. " This last is a subject on whici. '.ook a little further, however, into the de- But lam desirous of saying. with reference to some inch '- There is ;he ordeal of viduals of high station, on whose public conduct I deemed it necessary publicly to remark , that I rejoice to believe n registration cour t to be g one thrcugh. Is it in- that there was much of misapprehension of motives — ;ended by the v irtuous free-trade p lotters that their something, it may be, of mistake of facts. faggots should swear to the possession of a bond fide "I n respect ' to on e eminent person, in particular , I rroperty, worth 40 shillings a-year, where the real cannot doubt the statement made by him of his own ' , Twenty pounds, or perhaps actual conduct; it is plain, therefore, that the terms in Could Dr. Blackburne, for which he had claimed a right to act and speak. in resist ance expressly notah denied) , who has told us that the plan of operations by him to the lawful f o o r r d h e e r o h f a s sl his h b e i e shp Pe o x , League involved " nothing dishonest or im - hehad t o imply exercised ly that right, as his Wor l ds e thern ) se t lve t a I I y and ,hear his mortar grinder, or induced me to conclude. c ,.oona, swear to the possession of a clear income "Of all the harassing and painful incidents of the last if 40 shillings a-year from a property, of which few weeks, these personal c,nflicts have been by far the eaid mortar-grinder or groom did not in reality sio t s h t ev harassing h i o e v e r and e painful.eol But, May they fever m hencefortha have behe been than the door-steps or the window-shut- the temporary results, Ido not arid cannot mayy regret that I' title deeds of which the said Doctor i deemed it necessary publicly to assert those principles of Can any honourable and Church authority which it is alike the duty of all of us ~..anly contemplate and vindicate to recognise and to inculcate. The very vehemence with which the assertion of them has beoefnthreeisrl,teidogprr,sosveerst, d,if . such a premium upon perjury as this ould create ? We cannot think it. We . and of fwe ourre n u e e c v e e s r s avrayfietrhi suffering gn them ec T) fall into oblivion. Aibden has gone a little too far—calcu- 1 "In conclusion, I congratulate. you on the prospect of too securely on the laxity of conscience those principles being, ere long, practically asserted and free-traders ;—and yet we find that enforced by our revered Primate, and thus of his effect being done in all directions!" The I ing, if it he Gou's good pleasure, a final and peaceful m settlementmost part, art of ar arequestions the s uwhichf them)(inconsiderate mmust he f 'repared, and the foundations for aas, settled~ the subjects cad and deliberate perjury are be- 1 the Church of England is to continue to us anytning *ions" I Well, indeed, may we better than an empty name. el the professions of a party l " I am, rev. and dear brethren, your affectionate friend '-ad their dueei, blinded and brother, "H. EXETER." of falsehood, so gross Here, then, is clearly an abandonment, b y the -.! anticipate the cer- right reverend prelate, of those episcopal and autho `it them, p ure and ritative directions which emanated from himself to of their purchase, the clergy of his diocese, with respect to the revival, ' trample them be- by them, of those rubrical obse rvances which, as being regarded in the light of novelties in the present justification of I day, have led to such heart-burnings amongst the that " the and j laity. The use of the surplice or the gown in tae a y, is the en d ? pulpit ; the reading of the prayer for the church militant ; the revival (?) of the offertory, and other :ors in dispute, are now, as far as th bishop is ,oncerned, left to the discretion of the individual utter want of scruple of the part., ... et to members of the clergy, at least un til some ste p s the means which they are ready t o ado p t for the can be taken by the entire chu rch which will insure furtherance of their scheme: ,, of spoliation ? Grant, uniformity of practice, and prevent dissensions, in aid of the League machi- parishes and amongst congregations, such as have ea representation of South Lancashire is, at recently occurred, to the great scandal of the estab vt election, wrested from the hands of Con- lishment and the injury of vital religion. what then ? What is proved ? That By whatever instrumentality or interference this operty and the respectability, or even the step of the Bishop of Exeter has been brought about, rs, of the population of the county are in fa- we cannot but regard it as a heavy blow dealt against your of the repeal of the Corn-laws ? Not at all. that party in the Church to whose extreme opinions The legislature and the nation are only assured his lordship was understood to incline; and we are thereby that there is no sacrifice of money or of cha- led, moreover, to entertain a hope that it will have 1 mercantile and millown- I the effect of, in a great measure, restoring harmony oot submit in pursuit of a measure in his own diocese, and diminish materially the subsidise their own pockets at the ex. number of those of his clergy who—although, best interests of the entire community. with their diocesan's authority for them, they might ~... refore, is attained by the success of the have been willing enough to rush into collisions League's registration projects. Its announcement with their flocks, and maintain unpopular oh- would fall a dead sound upon the ears of the legis- servances—may not be so greatly disposed to enter iature. The liberal members, who might, by means i upon those collisions single-handed. of such a dubious character, be returned to Parlia- Another important event connected with the i.e representatives of South Lancashire, Tractarian movement in our Church is, the an e their seats there as the liveried menials nouncement, by the Rev. W. Palmer, of Worcester What is, then, the very College, in a letter addressed to the editor of The 'hese unconstitutional I Churchman's Newspaper, of his intention to vote for ‘gain we turn to Mr. Cobden for the proposed statute in reference to subscription to Again hear the member for Stock- the Articles, and of his approval of, and ability to sign, in perfect faithfulness of conscience, the de "e done in No' th Cheshire too. claration agreed upon by the framers of that statute. tier, son, and grandson, had It will he known to all who have watched the pro w ''h very slight intermis- gress of the 'rractarian question that, for some trine -I, if we wanted to strike a , t especially in London, during the earlier portion of the movement, Mr. were supposed to have Palmer was one of the most earnest writers, and not -y. That was the bird I the least talented, of the party to which he belonged. ..„ no use trying to shoot mere spar- Of late, however, whether startled by the extreme like our lately. elected member for South Lanes- I lengths to which some of his colleagues were carry (Laughter.) They would not be lieve in London ing their opinions, or by what other considerations could turn out Lord Francis Egerton, till it was L.- , it was done, it would be felt as a body or convictions actuated we know not, this reverend taeger under. And next to turn- gentleman has shown symptoms of flagging in tho Ns,--5 mean standing as high u any 1 agitation, and even been suspected of an inclination f such a nice seri, investment i made is only only twenty pen stand t ed man c iystem lope Mr his fe thus willing to 1 e, and )etray, ' But what, r Is her n sense who will say favour of libe- that a beyond the with res^ n will be held to prove any thing stance, that . by t servatism numb .to which the libera racter ing classes which is t pence of the No end, thei !onspirator served by one end t) port : He wanted Teen airs ing f "ion, jor about blow t"-• auld tell a distance, ruled the for half a centT , blow which they would st wer the gee thing was beisig clone - in all the workr I v' to not be like the =how n gave his note o" v sack [ed to consideration from masters was, " Don't monopolists His advice to t ember I " Brass' for a county can stand for integrity, personat ell as accomplishrnews ; respectability !.avy blow would be to turn out of the repr North Cheshire, Mr. Egerton, of Tatton. le gratification, then, of the spite of vu►gar )f the sweepers of factory floors and pro- Manchester warehouses,—against moted bagmen pedigre 'h is the end sought after ancis Egerton is a nobleman, " standing as any member of a county can `stand for personal character, and respectability, as accomplishments ;" and Lord Francis is, ) wreak their tlier, son, iatton, ink obj ce upon " The rubbers gertons of d grandson, have been sit- I .... Chester) upwards of fifty ton, of 'rattan, is, therefore, a ,t of the - republican spite of men who are Mr. Ege e as to be able t boast of a grand-. h a blow as would be the rejec 1 i not so fortun 1 I father' either of these members, would " tell at a distance, I especially in London :" it would be an achievement ck Cade or Wat Tyler might have been t would tell before a Free Trade mob in 'Free Trade Hall aer. proud Ilen, or in the ; and 1 enable the Cobdens, and Wilsons and Potters, to 1 up their whity-brown calico countenances, in triumph, to their starving and " Behold ye, we are the Ealt of and impudence have beat down xindly breeding !" And this is an justify fraud - Its and perjur he next )verw - orked slaves, ill proelai e eart birth a end which is to tion is akin to such crime; and the tastes ;entlemen of Liverpool who are ready to themselves task of devote betray encouraging taste which is not very creditable and cleanly. One fact there is which satisfies us that the public interests are not likely to be seriously damaged by the machinations in progress. People of a certain character are proverbially given to falling out ; and shall, no doubt, be gratified and enlightened, e days, by a few pleasant revelations " ' me of tf. and the dol wise, when they disco idled I fashion in which We lay back for this amusement greater mag I time, and at no distant date It will come all We have studiously abstained of late from taking any part in the controversy which has, unhappily, been distracting and dividing the members of the Church in this country. The columns of a news paper are not the fittest medium for polemical or theological discussion ; and we have, therefore, confined ourselves to the duty of simply recording, as they took_place, the events to which such contro- Nor should we, in now recurring to versy has the subject, devi: reat import- from the path which w ourselves, but for the k ance of the movements which have just taken plat. parties, and h appear to us to iv remarks THE LIVERPOOLSTANDARD themselves U[ We must, how- to retrace his steps towards the occupation of a testant establishment nixing more secure position. Representing, however, still, the carrying on of such a system. a considerable and most influential portion of the ever, be allowed to quote the description given o f movement party, it may be interesting to our rea ders the disgraceful treatment which the claims of the to know the grounds upon which he now submits Church Education Society in Ireland—in whose to the views of the university to which he be lon g s, schools it is asserted by the right reverend prelates and embraces the test which it proposes to offer, that " there appears no doubt that united education" thus differing from many of those with whom he (the object professed to be stickled for by the has hitherto been allied in opinion. upholders of the present system) " has been effected With respect to the propriety of proposing an in a much higher degree than in those of the national , dditional test, Mr. Palmer says : board"—have received from a Conservative govern it seems there is an evident necessity fer the adop- ment ; and the stirring appeal made by them to the if the Articles are to be Conservative public of Great Britain for aid in their oeasure as this in future an unsouud dc LIVERPOOL TIMES ON FINANCIAL MATTERS. vious t "WATER." Jan. 14, 1845. ....r~r REMARKS ON THE PROPOSED MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BILL, WITH PROPOSALS FOR RAISING A NATIONAL MERCHANT SEA MENS' FUND, BY HENRY CLEAVER CHAP MAN, ESQ. Her Majesty and Prince Albert will take their depar ture from Windsor for Stowe to-morrow. The Oriental Club entertained by Sir Henry Pottinger at dinner on Saturday evening at their house in Hanover square. Lord Auckland was in the chair. William Boteler, Esq., the newly-appo;nted bankruptcy commissioner for the Leeds district, took his seat for the first time on Thursdaj last, at the Leeds court. It is stated that Mr. Pritchard, late British consul at Tahiti, is about to sail, as a missionary, for the populous group of the Samosa, or Navigators' Island. A letter from Tahiti, in the Emancipation of Toulouse, states that, of 600 men composing the French garrison, 117 have been killed or wounded in the different conflicts with the natives. The health of Sir W. Follett has greatly improved. Sir William was to embark at Naples on the 15th instant, (to-morrow,) and may be, therefore, expected here in about three weeks. It is believed that Mr. Frederick Goulburn, son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to be the new com missioner of customs in the place of the Honourable Heneage Legge, deceased.