The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter on our " parochial medical st in our next. CO r ' tibr.pool nbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1850 OUR columns, this day, contain a brief report of the proceedings at a meeting of the agriculturists of Lancashire, held at Newton, on Thursday last, for the purpose, as stated in the advertisement calling it, of memorializing the High Sheriff to of the county to represent to the legislaturethe existence of severe agricultural distress, convene a meetin s a meeting for such ost respectable one. The speakers were intelligent and practical men; and their observations upon the present position and prospects of the class to which they belong derive increased value from the calm, though earnest ton in which they were uttered. We regret, however the conclusion to which the the resolution, move and to pray for a remedy an objec it was meeting came, in I by Mr. Townley er, to the effect that it was inadvisable to call eeting upon the subject; and beg most y to deny the grounds upon which that a county in emphaticall gentleman attempted to justify the conclusion at Which 1 e had arrived Mr. Parker was afraid that, in he event of thei convening a county mee le agriculturist would he overwhelmed by an attendance from the neighbouring districts favourable to free trad measures; and probably ou !d. Where, we any class of men Ted such mighty 'ask, would he find in this coun upon whom free trade has benefits ? Where _ sperity which it was to have created ? It is not to be discerned. We have cheap bread, it is true ; but we have our manufacturing operatives in weekly expectation of a reduction of wages, proportionate with the re duction in the price of the loaf. We have had, in the first year after the repeal of the corn laws, almost a national bankruptcy, attended by a destruction of capital to the large amount, as esti- as the mated by compete" ling. We have, at the present moment, a large number of our cotton mills working short time ; £2 50,000,000 ster- and the existence of severe suffering amongst tradesmen and shopkeepers, caused by the dimi nution of the home consumption of manufactures, and foreign produce, is almost universally admitted. This is, we say emphatically, a time in which the agriculturist might have safely entrusted his case to the justice of his fellow-countrymen. He could, with his present experience, defy the mendacious spouters of the League to prove that he is the extortioner that he was represented to be; and that he could grow wheat at the price for which it is produced by the foreigner. He might have held up to the gaze of the world the lying prophecies of those men, and shown unmistakeably that, whilst their measures are bringing ruin upon the farmer, the manufacturers are about to feel the recoil, and to be submerged, in company with those whom they sought to render the victims of their selfish ness. The adoption of the bold step of throwing down the gauntlet to their opponents would, we — are satisfied, have won for the agriculturists of Lan cashire a large amount of sympathy and support from the masses in our large towns, who are already beginning to suspect that they have been of late proceeding in a wrong direction. It is a mistake on their part to imagine that they are a weak and isolated class, and have interests distinct from the great majority of the Brit,. was such a wrong impression, as to their influence and position, which led them to neglect invoking the aid of the Conservatives of Liverpool, Man chester, and other towns, in the movement they meditated. For our own community, we can peoplt wnich answer that they would have joined heart and hand in a demonstration, which would, perhaps, have startled the world quite as much as the result of the movement of the Protectionist party in parlia ment Our agricultural friends might have remembered that the colonial proprietor, the ship owner, the shipbuilder, the carpenter, and every class connected with our mercantile marine, have been plunged by free trade in suffering, if not equal to that of the farmer, only less severe because as yet they have not had time to experience its full effect; and these c!asses only burn for an oppor tunity of speaking out upon the subject. THE farmers of Scotland have always been pointed to as examples for their English brethren to follow. With their scientific culture, we were told that they feared not foreign competition; and they confirmed the assertion themselves by their almost uniform return of free traders as the representa tives of county constituencies. From that country, however, the cry for protectionist measures is just now coming with an earnestness proportionate to the greater means possessed by the Scotch farmers of correctly guaging their position and prospects under present prices. Unlike some of the farmers of England, their Scottish neighbours have always adopted an accurate system of keeping their ac counts. They have been enabled, besides, 'to em ploy sufficient capital upon their lands. They have adopted the most approved modes of cultivation and cropping; and to their case no further resource is open. If at free trade prices they cannot live now, and pay rents, there is nothing for them to fall back upon except protection, or the abandon ment of the cultivation of whole districts, the soil of which is confessedly of a quality which can only be forced into productiveness by an outlay in -manure, &c., which nothing save a high range of prices will warrant. These prices, however, are no longer within their reach. In the Scotch counties, distant as some of them are from the great markets of consumption, the rates realized by the farmer are considerably below those in our own country. On the 28th ultimo, we find that a jury summoned by the sheriffs for the purpose of fixing the Fiars prices for the county of Fife, returned the following as the averages of the various descriptions of agricul tural products : White Wheat Red Wheat.. Barley £1 13 0} per quarter. 1 9 34 " O 19 64 " O 17 64 " O 15 Ok " Bere Oats ... Oatmeal Ditto 1 311 per 280 lbs. 0 9 6 4.sths per 1121bs 1 1 01 24 per quarter. 1 0 2 4 24 " Peas and Beans Rye Malt Comparing these prices with those of previous years, it is perfectly clear that the Scottish farmer has had swept away by our free-trade policy, a sum double or treble the rent at which he holds his land. In 1843, the average prices in the county of Fife were for white wheat £2 Bs. 7d., and for red £2 Gs. 7:.1-d.; in 1844, the rates for white and red, respectively, £2 Os. 101 d, and £1 18s. 10? - 01. ;in 1845, £2 9s. 5:1-d., and £2 7s. 5.711.; in 1846. £3 Is.ll d., and £2 175.1- . id.; inlS-17,1:2 125.111 d., and £2 9s. ; and in 1848, £2 3s. Bd., and £2 ls. Bd. The average of the six years was £2 9s. 6d for white wheat, and £2 6s. 9d. for red ; and the reduction from the farmer's produce is, therefore, 16s. 6d. on white wheat, and 17s. 6d. on red. Taking the pro duce of the soil, under the most perfect system of cultivation, at the high scale of three quarters of wheat to the statute acre, the loss, on the two descriptions, is £2 lls. per acre ! What reduction of rent can place the farmer in a position to live with these prices ? It was well said by one of the speakers at the Newton meeting, on Thursday last, that rent must be annihilated altogether. This reduction in price is more than double the average rental per acre of the United Kingdom, and obviously places wheat cultivation entirely beyond the reach of the British agricul turist. It cannot be urged either, that the case of Fifeshire is an isolated one; for we find a similar range of prices existing in Berwickshire, Dumbar tonshire, Paisley, Morayshire, Ayrshire, Dumfries shire, Wigtonshire, Edinburgh (best wheat £1 13s. 6d.), Perthshire, Selkirkshire, Caithnesshire, and Roxburgh sh ire. That ruin to every man connected with the soil must result from a combination of the present de pressed state of things is perfectly obvious; and the only question which remains is, how long will the agricultural community endure in silence ? Not long, we suspect. Another year will see an amount of agricultural suffering which \l'll' drive half the nation into a state of frenzy; and, however the Cobdens of the present day may sneer at the pro phecy, we dare venture to tell them that a general election, with the agricultural portion of the com munity in such a temper, will a little alter their tone. Our Scottish fellow-countrymen, in parti cular, are proverbially difficult to rouse ; but, when once roused, they pursue a tolerably direct course to their object, and nothing more effectually moves them than an inroad upon their pockets, THE increase in juvenile crime in the large towns,of the kingdom, and in Liverpool in pai ticular, has for some time engaged the serious attention of thinking men of all classes. We have growing up around us, herding in our back streets and courts, a generation of human beings sunk in the lowest depths of depravity and ignorance, whose faculties, such as they are, are employed in a constant war against property and order, and . whose time is spent in a con ti nua l a lt erna ti on betwixt a felon's prison, and the commission of crime on the first moment of their emerging thence into the busy world out of doors. In vain the law puts forth its powers to punish, or to deter from the commission of petty thefts, these hardened young criminals. The police court or the prison bas no terrors for them ; and in their own homes and the haunts which they frequent evil example and bad advice too often await them. Temptations to indulgence in precocious debauchery beset them on every side. The low singing -room, or theatre; the beerbouse, to which thieves habitually resort to plan new scenes of plunder, or to boast of Fast successful feats; the squalid lodging-house, and the beggars' place bf riot and profanity, open their doors in every crowded portion of the town to corrupt and to confirm in vice. We directed attention a few weeks ago to this crying evil, as strongly evidenced in the history of a family of three boys, two of whom were children of eight and nine years old respectively, who had, nevertheless, been continually in the hands of justice for thefts and burglary, one of them (only nine years old) having been seventeen times in all, and the younger (only eight years old) eight, since the commencement of his career of infamy. It was impossible to omit observing the fact, that the whole three were trained to crime, in order to feed the debauchery and idleness of a vicious father, and that on every successive occasion of their discharge from prison, it was only to fall once more into his hands, and to be forthwith urged on to the commission of some new and perhaps, more daring act of crime. On reference to our police report of yesterday., it will be seen that another case of this description was heard. In fact, we may say that they are of daily occurrence. In the course of the past week, the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Rushton, to whom the career of the first family mentioned is familiar, has made it a sort of text from which to address the Town Council and the inhabitants of Liverpool a letter on the sub ject, suggesting remedial measures, which is too important and too creditable to the writer, on account of the motives by which it was dictated, to be passed over without comment. Mr. Rushton reminds us that in the year 1846 the magistrates and the Council addressed a petition to the Legis lature " setting out the evils which arise from the want of an institution, other than a prison, to which juvenile offenders might be sent for refor mation rather than punishment." That petition, he says, had been favourably received, and he had indulged in hopes that the prayer of it would have been acceded to by Government. From some cause, however, the subject was dropped at the time; and now, in the absence of any Government aid, so urgent had the evil become, that he had been induced to consider whether the town did not possess the means within its own hands. We have, he urges, in Liverpool, a parochial school (the Industrial) which has already conferred vast benefits upon the town. Although it might seem to some peop!e that it was unreasonable, whilst 1,150 children were maintained within its walls, in addition to 320 in the workhouse schools, to ask the parish to burthen themselves additionally, yet lie thought both the Council and the Vestry would consent to do something out of the funds at their disposal, if he could show them that, whilst snatching children from ruin, they would, at the same time, be saving their own pockets. Mr. Rushton had traced the history of fourteen, selected in 1842 out of the crowd of juvenile criminals in the Borough Gaol, in order to ascer tain the result as compared with children in refor matory institutions ; and four years after, before sending up his petition to London, he found the following to have been the result :—" I found," he says, " that ten out of the fourteen had been transported, one had died, one was a prostitute, one was in custody, and of the remaining one nothing was known." The expense in prosecuting these offenders had been, up to 1842, £BB9 Is.; the loss by their depredations he considered must have cost Liverpool a similar sum—making in all £1,778 2s. The cost of apprehensions, prosecu tions, support in prison, &c., up to 1846, would have to be added to this, and borne by the people of Liverpool; and the expense of their transporta tion would be a further expense, borne, however, by the government. On these grounds he based his proposition that the Select Vestry should set apart a department in the Industrial Schools for the reception of this class of prisoners ; and that the Town Council should aid out of the funds in their hands a work of mercy, which would ultimately relieve both these bodies from a portion of the expenditure on prosecutions, and relieve the feelings of the magisterial bench by preventing the painful duty of having to deal with those prisoners, who must excite their compassion— " Children having the vices and the crimes of men." It is impossible to withhold approval from a proposition at once so benevolent and so wise in its tendencies to promote the object which every good man would desire to see carried out. We are afraid, however, that anything which can be effected by local means alone must be merely of a tentative character, and qnite inadequate to the vast extent of the evil to be remedied. The people of Liverpool have already taxed themselves heavily for the improvement of the social position of the poor; and unfortunately it is not their own alone whom they are called upon to relieve and succour, by means of our hospitals, our dispensaries, our sel ools, and other charitable institutions. We are peculiarly situated as the recipients of a large amount of the pauperism of the sister country. Ireland sends us over yearly in greater abundance her halt and her blind, her confirmed mendicants and her dissolute classes. Of the offspring of these it is that a great portion of our juvenile criminals are found. We might be disposed to try the experiment of the effects of such a reformatory system as that which Mr. Rushton recommends; but we much fear that by government alone means can be supplied on a scale commensurate with the extent of this evil. We contend, moreover, that by the government, or the country at large, it ought to be undertaken ; for by the country a large portion of the benefit would be derived. The cost of transportation, which is borne by the country, would be materially lessened by any reformatory measure which would diminish the aggregate of crime; and it must be borne in mind that criminals reared in any locality, become, when in the adult state, migratory in their habits. and transport themselves to places where their persons are not so familiarly known to the police. The urchin, no longer able to mingle un observed amongst a crowd to pick pockets, to creep unseen behind a counter for the purpose of ab stracting the till, to pick up cotton on our docks, or to help himself undetectea to the thousand odds and ends, scattered about this busy mart of corn- merce, when arrived at manhood must fly at higher game, and find fresh scenes for his criminal adven- Besides, it must be remembered that, as a com munity so peculiarly engaged, we have already an extensive sphere of duties before us, the perform ance of which will tend to the same end as that which it is now proposed to us to undertake. We have a revolution still to make in the sanatory condition of those parts of the town inhabited by our poor, and in Nvhich the growth of vice is most luxuriant. We _ must root out those dens of iniquity in which the youthful offender finds the accomplices and encouragers of his villainy. Above all, we ought to extend to the poor amongst these districts the means of hearing the Word of God preached, and the blessings of schools, rather than either reformatory schools or prisons, through which the untainted amongst the children of those poor may be snatched from contact with the pre maturely vile to be found in such numbers in our streets. The following paragraph, which :appears in the Christian Times of Friday, giving an account of an interview held last week with the postmaster-general by a deputation from this county, on the subject of postal labour on the Sabbath, will be perused with interest by our readers : " The deputation was ably supported by James Heald, Esq., M.P., and the Marquis of Clanricarde received them in the most cordial manner. The Rev. H. Stowell and Mr. Heald urged upon the marquis the necessity and pro priety of at once putting an end to the business of the Postoffice on Sunday, and more than an hour was spent THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. sszimaimmlmmeediEfda "a %'~etiaa~ s:' 4M=N in the discussion of the subject. The Postmaster-genen admitted the importance of abstaining from all un necessary work on that day,' and stated ' that gre a t con cessions had been made, - and would yet be granted t( public feeling,' but suggested ' that the government be lieved that the country generally would not bear th( entire cessation of postal work on the Sunday; if, how ever, the opinion of the public were strongly expressed and the popular mind made up to the matter r the govern ment were not hostile to the change, but would be pre • pared to carry out the measure in an effectual manner." We entertain strong hopes that the opposition of the Christian public to the movement made by tht government will ultimately be successful. The mind of the Postmaster-general is obviously shaken upon the subject; and, if compelled to retrace his steps, it will not be the first time that a Whig government have had to regret the result of an ill advised outrage upon the religious feelings of the nation. Utilitarianism in these days is powerful, to sap and undermine; but the truth once roused is invincible. Let the public then continue to sign the petitions to parliament as numerously as pos sable. We cannot pass from the question without noticing an article upon it, which appeared in the Liverpool Mercury of Friday last. Our contem porary sets out by noticing the prayer of the peti tion, now being signed in this town ; and exclaims " ' Amen to that sweet prayer,' would be our excla mation if government ordinances, or legislative en actments could make men religious."(!) And he proceeds to admit that " the profanation of the Lord's day arises not from the want of repressive legislation, but from imperfect development of the moral and religious feelings." More loose rea soning we really never met with than the above. Repressive legislation has certainly done much to prevent Sunday trading of every kind ; and at all events has taken care that the eyes of Christian men shall be shocked as little as possible by the sight of persons seeking openly their own gains on that day. The following passage, however, gives up alto gether the religious portion of the question. Our contemporary exclaims : " Close every Postoffice in the land on a Sunday ! What is this but tyranny and cruelty in the guise of religion ? It is to say to the dying parent, You shall not write to your absent child, in order that he may come, before your eyes are closed on this world, to receive your counsel and your blessing.' It is to say to the sick and afflicted child, you shall not be permitted to pray for the pre sence of your parent.' It is to say to the benevolent man, ' you shall not transmit your sympathy or aid to a person in distress.' It is to say to the tradesman or mer chant, whose salvation from ruin depends upon the saving of a post, 'be ruined, for you shall not write.' It is to say to the agonised mother, who has heard that a lost child has been found, restrain your gush of parental affection, for to the lost one you shall not send a single line of hope or forgiveness until to-morrow." ng them so entire For one, upon - whom the closing of the Postoffice on a Sunday will operate as thus described, thou sands will make that day the chief one for con ducting their business correspondence, thus drawing their minds and bodies away from the exercise of that rest and prayer, for which the institution was established by their Maker. But the remarks of our contemporary have already been refuted a hun dred times, and we need therefore say no more. • (Signed) THOMAS B. HORSFALL, President of the Chamber of Commerce, The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, H.P. .5-e. • I The letter was ordered to be entered on the minutes. —A letter from Messrs. W. P. Hammond and Co., London, was read, on the state of our commercial relations with Siam and Cochin China, which, with a copy of the t eaty with that country, and other documents, was ordered to lie on the table for the inspection of the members of the chamber.—A letter from Mr. G. Charteris, jun., of Edinburgh, on colonial postages, was read, and referred to the Postal Committee.—A letter from Mr. Grantham, secretary of the Liverpool Committee for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, inviting the chamber to co-operate with the committee, was read.— The President was requested to represent the chamber at that committee.—The President gave notice that he would bring before the next monthly meeting of the council " the present unequal and unjust mode of levying the Income Tax." A general meeting of the Chamber was then appointed to be held on INlonday, the 18th instant, and due notice of the same to be given to the members by c!rcular. On Sunday last a sermon was preached in the Holy Trinity Church, Walton Breck, by the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, in behalf of the Church of England School Society, when the sum of £l4 was collected. ' RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION.—We understand that a meeting will be held this evening at the Commercial Inn, Cleveland-square, to consider the propriety of forming a ratepayers' association for Pitt-street ward. BANK NOTES V. GOLD SOVEREIGNS.—The Overland Mail from India brings the singular intelligence, that in. the Bombay market Bank of England notes were bring ing higher prices than sovereigns, the former being sold at 10 rupees, 12 annas, and the latter at 10r. 10a. to 10r. lla. A very beautiful model of Her Majesty's yacht Fairy, with screw fixed, and in working condition, executed by Mr. Henry Horn, a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, was placed on board the Fairy when Prince Albert crossed the Solent in her to Cowes, and his Royal Highness was so struck and pleased with the ingenuity and elegance of the workmanship that he took it with him on his return as a present to the Queen. ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.—On Sunday last the estim able incumbent of this church, the Rev. J. Jones, alluded, in terms of affectionate reminiscence, to the recent la mented demise of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth. It may be mentioned, as a coincidence worthy of note, that the first sermon which that talented divine delivered in Liver pool was preached at St. Andrew's Church, for the Church Missionary Society, and the last which he delivered in this town was preached in the same church, for the Jews' Society —a circumstance strikingly illustrative of the rev. gentleman's devoted interest in the spiritual welfare of both Jew and Gentile. INCREASE OF TRAFFIC.—The great increase of traffic which has taken place upon the London and North-Wes tern Railway since the commencement of the year must be extremely gratifying to the shareholders. The augmen tation for the week ending the 3d instant was £1,375 in the passenger and parcel, and £2,303 in the merchandise and cattle traffic—together, £3,678. The total increase for the last seven weeks over the corresponding period of 1849 has been £18,662, or upwards of £2,000 per week. This increase is exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal, Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, and Manchester and Buxton Railways. FIRE AT THE OLD SWAN.—On Sunday evening last, about half-past nine o'clock, an alarm of fire reached the station in Temple-street, and almost immediately upon the receipt of the intelligence, Inspector Bibby, with two fire engines, and a complement of men, was on his way to the Old Swan, the scene of the conflagration. The fire was confined to a stable, in the occupation of Messrs. EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS -1851. Our columns were so much occupied last week that we were obliged to postpone some remarks that we had pre pared on the subject of the contemplated exhibition of 1851. We have already given our meed of approval to the general object which the projector intended to effect. The invitation to foreigners to emulate us and to compete with us oh our own ground, forms its peculiar feature of inter est. The invitation has been extensively accepted, and in particular we have noticed the formation of a large com mittee in Paris, to assist the people of France,to bring into the field such of their manufactures as it may be sup posed will bear comparison with our own. In this we see no objection. We cannot participate in the fears which this rivalry has occasioned in the minds of many, nor do we think that this will open a wider door for foreigners to learn our secrets than at present exists ; in fact any intel ligent-man may now easily make himself master of the de tails of any branch of our manufactures to which he ap plies himself. It is not in mysteries that our strength lies—it is onithe broad platform of open competition where our strength is to be found—it is the strength which con sists in natural advantages combined with great capital. We can easily imagine that parties can be found who would consider such an exhibition a disadvantage to their peculiar branch of trade, and those engaged in the sale of lane} and ornamental articles have been named as one class likely to suffer by the comparison that will be made, and that a still greater eagerness will be shewn to possess goods of foreign manufacture; but we do not feel any alarm on this point. If such evils are to be the inevitable result of the exhibition, why has not the same effect been produced by the increased facilities for travelling on the continent, which has brought Paris almost to our doors ? What is to prevent the very opposite result to that antici pated ? Why may not English manufacturers assert in this, as in other things, their usual pre-e m i nence ? Wh a t is there peculiar in the Englishman's composition to hin der him from attaining as high a degree of excellence in the design as he has always done in the execution of his work. Hill and Farrell, butchers, and which at the time of the bursting forth of the flames, was filled with cows. Prior to the arrival of the fire-brigade, Inspector Houghton, and a body of men belonging to to the county police, were most active in their efforts to prevent the loss of property ; they had succeeded in bringing all the animals, except one, from beneath the burning premises; the last being much injured was slaughtered on the spot. The entire roofing fell in soon after the arrival of the engines ; con siderable damage was sustained by the flooring also, and a quantity of hay was consumed. Plenty of water being at hand, the flames were soon got under, and before 12 o'clock the fire was effectually quenched. It is not known whether the premises are insured. The total loss will tilt exceed £lO3. We admit that our neighbours may rival us in the cheapness of the article, but that is a question for those to consider who so rashly desire to destroy all those truly legitimate sources of protection which the industrious of all classes havela right to demand. This is not the point which need be considered in connection with the exhibi tion. The struggle there will be principally for excel lence, not for cheapness, and in this struggle we have nothing to fear. But when we turn to those articles where taste and de sign are not called into action, but in which rapidity of production—the effect of capital and good machinery—is a principal object to be attained, we have still less to fear. We speak of course of results generally ; there may be individual cases where the issue may be different, and these parties will cry out loudly, but we must be cautious how we estimate the effects of the exhibition—from such complaints. We repeat, we have nothing to fear, but, on the contrary, we anticipate that the exhibition will be at tended with many advantages; it will promote travelling throughout all England--money will be circulated—while the good-will and friendship of our neighbours will be cemented by the intercourse which it will largely promote. Our own townsmen must remember that they have their work to do. The more wealthy class have pledged themselves to support it. The middle class require no reminding—they are ready to act when they see those in higher positions make a good move. FATAL ASSAULT BY A POLICE OFFICER.---We have been informed, on pretty good authority, that a coroner's inquest was held yesterday, in Chester, on the body of a man whose death it was alleged, had been caused by a police constable in the city force. It appears that for some time past depredations have been committed in the suburbs of Chester, and that consequently the police had instructions to keep a sharp look out. About the middle of last week an officer proceeded to some distance from the city, under instructions; during the time he was out he perceived a man sitting under a hedge, whom, upon a close inspection, he found to be a poacher. The man held in his hand a gun. He was arrested by Hughes, who brought him to the city bridewell. After the lapse of a short time, Mr. Hill, the superintendent of police, entered the prison, when he found the prisoner recently admitted in a dying state. He immediately gave directions for his being conveyed to the hospital, but before he was re moved there he was a corpse. It transpired that the officer, probably in consequence of his prisoner attempt ing to make his escape on their way to the bridewell, had most severely beaten the man with his staff, and in this bruised state he had been admitted by the parties in charge of the gaol. _ The poor among the congregation of St. Thomas, Bir mingham, have presented their estee me d rec t or , th e R ev . G. S. Bull, with a handsome Polyglot Bible. ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—The infant child of George Twist, of Oldham-street, Windsor, on Sunday had admin istered to it a quantity of laundanum, in mistake for anniseed water, and died in consequence yesterday. An important meeting will be held at Birkenhead this week, to promote vigorous measures to complete the docks. Mr. Ellis, Mr. Bailey, and Baron Goldsmid are expected to be present.. REGULATION OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The bill pro posed by Mr. Ricardo to establish regulations for the in terchange and transmission of traffic between and over different railways "in England and Wales," proposes to provide that railway companies may be required to stop passenger trains and to provide them at junctions, under a penalty for not doing so, after one month's due notice from the company requiring such stoppage, of £5O. Such companies as are aggrieved by being required to stop or provide trains may apply to the railway commissioners. Companies are to be bound to attach carriages of other companies at junctions containing a certain number of passengers, and trains arriving after time are to be for warded at the expense of the company causing such irre gularity. Proper accommodation is to be provided for goods and passengers by companies at the junctions. When " two places are connected by two or more railways passengers are to be booked by the shortest route, and the penalty for booking otherwise than by the shortest line is to be £10." A discretionary power to relieve com panies from this obligation is proposed to be given to the railway commissioners. Goods waggons to be forwarded, if required, and minerals within 12 hours after notice. RAILWAY AUDIT BILL.—It appears that the move ment on the part of the government with regard to the Audit Bill has had the effect of producing a stir among the delegates appointed by the various railway companies, and caused them to come to a decision on the clauses of the proposed Audit Bill muds earlier than they would had the matter entirely rested with them. The delegates, at their meeting on Friday, at the Euston Hotel, agreed on the leading clauses of the contemplated measure • and on Saturday the discussion was chiefly confined to details of minor importance. Mr. Serjeant Gaselee, Mr. C. Nash, and other delegates, objected to particular parts of the bill. On the motion for appointing the executive com mittee to carry out the bill in Parliament, Mr. Bennett, one of the representatives of the London and North Western Company proposed a list of eight gentlemen; Mr. Wylie's name was proposed, but objected to on the ground that his exertions for the shareholders at railway meetings had rendered him personally disagreeable to directors ; and on the motion being put, nine votes against eight eight excluded him from the committee. It was decided that the executive committee should consist of two representatives of the London and North-Western Company, and one from each of the following railway companies, viz.. the Great- Western, the Eastern-Coun ties, the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, t'se London and South-Western, the Lancashire and Yor:cshire, and the Midland. The meeting rejected names proposed to re present other railway companies, and denied the right of Government to interfere in_any way, dirk ctly or indir:ctly in railway affairs. Bony OF AN INFANT FOUND.—A full-grown, new born female infant was found yesterday morning, lying on some stones on the quay at the east side of the Queen's Dock. No clue has yet been traced as to the party who left it. EMIGRATION.-Mr. Joseph Barker will deliver a very interesting lecture on this subject, at the Concert-ball, on Thursday next, pointing out the comparative attractions of several of our most important colonies and the United States. He will give some good advice to intending emi grants. DEATH BY BURNING. —John Carley, aged three-and a-half years, was left alone on Sunday at the house No. 2 Court, Milton-street. On the return of the child's grandmother, it was found that his clothes were in flames, and lie died from the effects of the burning yesterday morning. WHO WERE THE ORIGINATORS OF BIRKENHEAD ? Birkenhead has been the means of calling into notice a number of men of spirit and intelligence, who perceived natural advantages within a mile of the Town.hall of Liverpool, of which our own Corporation appeared to be in profound ignorance. Two or three Liverpool men did perceive the advantages offered by the opposite shore, and about twenty-eight years ago they located themselves there. One of the first men to do so and to direct public opinion to the locality was the late Mr. Jos. Harrison, then connected with the Manchester Grocers' Carrying Company. He was succeeded by Mr. Hetherington, who, in conjunction with Mr. Grindrod and Mr. Leonard Addison, the father of the present editor of the Liverpool Standard, erected the Birkenhead Hotel, laid out streets, built residences, and became the fathers and real founders of what will in a few years be an important town. Others followed them, and the place_ grew amazingly. M r . Addison, who was then connected with the Liverpool Docks, knew the inconvenience of our graving-docks, and projected the patent slip on the shores of the pool. Before the decease of the last of these gentlemen, tnere was a population of several thousands at Birkenhead, and it exhibited all the elements of prosperity. Other men arose. Sir John Tobin, with that sagacity and quiet, but determined, enterprise which has always characterized this now venerable, but then most eminent and able, merchant, looked with a nautical as well as a commercial eye upon the advantages offered by Wallasey Pool. He was joined by the late Mr. Laird, and a plan was pro jected of having a spacious dock made out of the pool, with a harbour of refuge at the mouth of the Dee, and a ship-canal across the low and flat lands connecting that harbour with the dock in question,--Albion. CHAMBERtF COMMERCE.-MEETING OF THE i LATEST INTELLIGka r nE COUNCIL YESTERDAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) After the usual routine proceedings, the following letter, ______ .ddressed by the president to Mr. Labouchere, was read, Ting in conti nua ti on o f th e correspondence between the COMMERCIAL NEWS. The Port of Odessa is reported to be open again. Board 'of Trade and th e Li ve rpool Chamber of Commerce ST. PETERSBURG, 28th ultimo.—lmports quieted. The on the Merchant Service Bill : forwarding of goods to remote parts of the interior had ceased, (COPY.) as the ice roads were'not likely to last much longer. Liverpool, March Bth, 1850. HAMBURGH, sth instant.--Coffee quiet, but supported. DEAR SIR,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Good demand for Hides at fair prices. Speller, ten marks two. your letter of the sth instant, which I have laid before the Moderate sales. Grain market flat. Vheat cn the spot Chamber of Commerce. declined three to four marks since last week. A few purchases Much consideration has been given to the points to which of Wheat for Engladd effected at from 95 to 110 currency. you advert, and the Chamber learned with satisfaction that you Arrivals scanty. Barley slow of sale. Exchange on London, are tit ill most willing to consider any suggestions with regard three months, £l3 10s. to the details of the Merchant Service Bill. I need hardly state that the Chamber fully and moat cordially concurs in the desire GENERAL NEWS. expressed in your letter, to t a k e , as f ar as p oss ibl e , an a d equate n Office on A Cabinet Council will b e h e ld at the Foreign security that life and prope r ty s h a ll no t b e entruste d to i ncom . Wednesday next. g petent persons, commanding m erc h an t vesse l s ,—t o su b st i tute The Chancellor of the Exche quer has improved in health, and n. some responsible agent, to supe r i n t en d th e execut i on o f con- returns to town this evening from Brighton. tracts between the sailor and his employer, for the present most - FOREIGN NEWS. imperfect and ruinous system of licensed agents, (as required GERMANY, PRUSSIA, BERLIN, Bth.—A conference between by the existing law,) which leaves the evils of crimpage almost the Danish and Prussian plenipotentiaries had been that morn altogether unchecked,—and, lastly, to endeavour to improve ing held at the British Ambassador's. The position of the ne the discipline on board of the mercliant ship. gociations was described as more favourable. On the main provision of the bill,—that for establishing a GREECE.—A telegraphic despatch from Trieste states that hoard, as the medium of carrying out the object of the bill,— the blockade continues. Admiral Parker having been asked if there is little difference of ()Onion ; and the Chamber therefore the intervention of P rance h a d b een accepted, replied that he agreeing with you not only i n th e d es i ra bl eness o f the object had received no information to that effect from home. He also you have in view, but in the general principle of the bill, would positively refused to suspend his proceedings, so they are still again, with great respect, urge upon your consideration the two carried on with the same severity, though with as little success d p er oin tyour n s which,otice. at its request, I took the libe r ty o f b r i ng i ng un - as before. All was quiet. A second despatch of the same date, however, followed the above, to the eff e ct th a t th e bl oc k a d e was First, that at Liverpool and other large seaports, a local board more strict, and that several ships had been fired at. should be established,—a veto being retained by the Board of AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY—VIENNA 6TH.—The Hungarian Trade on all appointments of examiners, shipping masters, &O. refugees, from Scbumla for Kushia, in Asia on the 15th ult. The great difficulty appears, from your letter, to consist in Kossuth having committed his last will to the Turkish Corn conceding what the Chamber considers rather a detail than a missioner, sat buried in his cloak in the corner of a carriage principle of the bill,—that of the right of Liverpool and other top; his wife accompanied him. Some days previously he large seaports to have a representative board of their own, declared that he would rather shoot himself than be removed. amenable to a certain extent to the Board of Trade. Count Bathany planned his escape, but it was frustrated. He You apprehend that a local board will fall into disrepute, and rode on horseback, his wife was in a close carriage. The rest become justly obnoxious to charges of partiality, a n d th a t th ere of the refugees, about 58, followed pelt mell. The procession would be great difficulty in drawing a distinction between Li- had a mournful appearance. vernool and other seaports of less importance. FRANCE—PARIS, SUNDAY With regard to the former of these objections, the Chamber quietly. The accounts in the would respectfully submit, that the constitution of the local extremely conflicting that at beard aeon the nrineinlA which it c• 1 rrernc+r, ....---:,.•:-..- -r - —The elections are proceeding journals on the subiect are so . ......,.... •I, .. xaxwvaatule LUILIIIII ••y , .. ....... pa allcip.c.lll.l it suggestea, consisting Of a any idea Of the probable result. There is, however, reason to certain number of shipowners and a certain number of magis- believe that the majority of the garrison of Paris, which voted trates, with the stipendiary magistrate as, ex officio, a member on Saturday, was in favour of the Socialists ; out in the pro of it. would be, in itself, a sufficient guarantee against the evils winces some regiments scarcely gave them a single vote, and at which you anticipate. And on the latter objection,—the diffi- Rouen and other places the military votes were four to one in culty of drawing a distinction between the larger and the favour of Government candidates. The success of Camote, one smaller seaports,—the Chamber would observe, that they think of the Socialist candidates, is considered almost certain. The it may he effectually met by taking the test of population, as elections closed on Monday evening. The Electoral Union is in the case of defining representation under the Reform Bill, straining every nerve. The respectable portion of the working or the test of the amount of tonnage at each port. classes show a disposition to vote against the Socialists. The lam requested, therefore, by the Chamber, to repeat the hope paper Napoleon, it is Said, will vote, by way of example, for already expressed, that you m a y b e i n d uce d to rel i nquish the the moderates. A much greater number will vote than at, the intention of depriving Liverpool and other large towns, of that last election. The official announcements will be made on local management to which they consid er th emse l ves entitled. v,.41.‘, under the controul of the Board 1 The Funds are rather lower to-day. Fives 93, 25, to 94. of Trade. The second point which I wasagain requested respectfully to • press upon your attenti on , was, t h at i nstead of passing the Bill in TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY. its present form, the clauses to which well founded exceptions COVENTRY STEEPLE CIIASE.—Rat Trap, 4to 1; Farnham, have been taken, should be postponed by further consideration, Bto 1. and should form the basis of a digest of a maritime code, so NORTHAMPTON STAKES.—Harriet, 6to 1 tkn; Belus, 12 to much required in lieu of the present defective laws, which are I tkn; Priestess. 20 to 1 • Mahratta, Bto 1 tkn; B as ti na d o , 20 admitted by all parties to be i n a most con f used and unsatis- to 1-25 to halso laid; dantry. 20 io 1 tkn; Halo, 25 to 1 tkn; factory state; alike incomprehensible to those who have to Mahratta in higher favour. obey, and to those who have to administer them. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.—Cheerful, 5 tot off; Sestator, The Chamber is the more induced t o urge thi s f rom the deep Black Eagle, and Kissaway, each 25 to 1 tkn; Blierslie, 30 to 1 conviction of the absolute necessity which exists for an entire tkn ; Bastinado, 20 to 1 tkn. revision of the whole of the laws affecting the mercantile NEWMARKET HANDlCAP.—Bastinado, 20 to 1 tkn. marine, and putting them in a statutory form which shall be CHESTER CUP.—Roland, 23 to 1: Fugleman and Cossack, clear and intelligible to those for whom they are designed. each 25 to 1 tkn; Horn of Chase, 50 to 1 tkn; Minimum, 66 I have the honour to be, dear Sir, your most obedient, hum- , to 1. ble servant, DEanY.Bolingbroke, 15 to 2 tkn ; Voltguer, 20 to 1; Nig ge.t, 12 to I ,_• Mayors, 22 to 1 tkn ; Milders, 25 t o I tk n. Bu siness very flat. -44 ce t 1 S 0 41;: il ? N E Th at ' I ' 3 TE e Op - tl ' ;: 8 ,;t1 h .ket?. l , l . et N.2l4 ti mil i'°l4: Bl Y Ore 01 ti3; .l (~4 850 N 6 #417'1)1;1 s -.9"1II tuv e v. VIO4 v. ; mac co [ l , k k ptAit r , to4;),kv t„,c 4 -.. it" e W t tri r !leri e .! 10 4 c ttrk r4 117, 1 k°9r Etc, - ,41, 4 .4, , ,, -44 1 k. by ‘ l O ' ; 1 . 1 (1 1 :Zsi i 4,044 -••• 1 I' I PY Wt 4 C 1 1 1 0 14 1 1 L s V:la'h?,, i " ,) '4lO ester all k keN e'en Nl A tlc t !ght ,laYtt.E N k t ; tq f t ev. %,,:Attat V t • t] N i t v u e 4( March 12.1' MR. HUXTABLE A D HIS 111' " First, the natural condition of the s c l; is assumed in page 10,"—land at its ne tg ol d nured, only a single ploughing being be' t i t brel that it "will g r ow 16 bushels per acre, anu,.ll bushels more f rom th e manure of the strool'o have seen, there w ill b e requ i re d 631 b. ?fa g b the pigs have manure adequate to raise o bi acre on 24 acre s o f l an d ! B ut we ca n au4 lower in the scale of fertility. Let us ash energies of the land at 10 bushels onl Y P under the pre v i ous con di t i ons, b y t he ammonia will the fo o d f or 32 b us h e ls be 16} acres ; nay, if the soil will yield . minerals and a res ti ng p l ace to the bare I rous pigs will f u lly f er tili se n i ne acre s of they shall be ar th e same number of b us When we rema r k th a t t h e d ung wh i c h sil yielded to contain th e quant i ty o f n itroge o , 1,.? I be derived fro m th e meat consumed would tons, whilst the m ea t i tse lf i s 24 tons '' " es' table's pigs must be set down as very tor animals, and himself a s no very cre dible au The judges ar r i ve d i n Y ork on Th ur sdo o 7 Sir R. H. In'As, M.P., D.C.L., has bee A Antiquarian P ro f essors hi p i n the Royal srt The Hon. M r s. Ch as . S tanley an d f a ta lly the Marine H o t e l, N ew Brighton. e d gr; 0 I Her Majesty h as grac i ous l y presen t . , enterprising proprietor of Astley's Thest r totll l of pure Arabian horses, that have been re 1t A countryman, named Kirby, returning to Croom, on Wednesday night, was waY,; si o between Ballinacurra and Loughmore , L' oli tl , unknown, and beaten so severely with s w it) died soon after in a state of insensibiiitY , F up L on o a ßD p e S titron l‘ , l° p N re u s A en ir t . ed by Lord able to detail the occurrence. •ltil Brougham, by certain sufferers by the defalcations of Sir J. A gentleman, named Boag, was found 'lg A conversa H ti O on U e S n E sue O d tintTurton, but ended in nothing definite.—Lord BROUGHAM pre- at Chelmsford, of having fraudulently alte i r ie e 5 ed a petition from the Earl of Clancarty, and another Irish peer, Roman Catholics, complaining that in consequence of marriage, at St Runwald's, Colchester. n e! erasure or alteration while pretending to irl s ri ro! a certain pas age in the oaths of supremacy, they were unable heart fi to take their seats in their Lordships' House.—Earl GRENVILE A succession to some property, and the _, O O moved the second reading of the Railway Audits bill.—Lord cer T y h s e ui L t, i a m r e e r s ic a k id R to ep h o a r v t e e rbeen containsthe raaont:Foo STANLEY criticised the provisions of the measure at consider- Sentence deferred. st (4° able length, and gave notice that to-morrow he should brirv , in ejectment of a respectable farmer, named fitO, by his landlord and fifty men:,, e iso° 4 ab i ill establishmentpromot e d o f b y a t n li e e f R R c a i i e la n v t a y a C ud om it, pa a n n i d es w th h e i ni ch s , elv w e h s ils f t or f t r l e i e e ills farm , from the objections to which the former measures was liable, would pffordperfect security to the shareholdersand thepublic.— been dispossessed, but readmitted by'', fe e Lord MONTEAGLE also observed upon the provisions of the Mr. Bevan, the landlord in question. "'f e d farmer was ultimately ejected . measure, and urged the necessity for a governm en t audit.— sued, and one of the Fitzgeralds wa s left ford should BEAUMONT suggested that the s:cond reading of the bill ' should be taken pro f orma, that then its progress should be iThe 11:, THE BIRMINGHAM SIAGISTRATEs.--1-00. stayed until the measure of Lord Stanley had arrived at the cellor persists in the appointment of the ‘ g f ! same stage, and that then both bills should be referred to a select committee.—Earl GRENVILLE, whilst of opinion that ' were nominated as magistrates without - the the measure could scarcely be improved by being sent before a I from the Town Council, and that bodli ge ol W m , select committee, whilst it m i g h t b e greatly delayed, said he Tuesday had a mo ti on b e f ore it which ' would take a day to co ns id er t h e suggestion. The Convicts to the follo w i ng e ff ect : — that the geniOt Prisons Bill w a s po s tp one d t il l Tuesday. The Railway Aban- : 1 ,10 f donrnent Bill, after a short conversat i on, passed through com- appointed justi ces o f th e b orough will not mittee, and was reported.—Th e h ouse adjourned at twenty an d confidence, should they act by virtue minutes to eight o'clock. , THE LATE REBELLION.—At the ” 0 0. ment they have received. l i d: wa ter , i --- HOUSE OF COMMONS —LAST NIGHT. four smart young fellows were found Vl' ,0 ' A number of petitions on different subjects were presented. on the Cappoquin police barrack on the 1 6 t' e s) —ln reply to a question from Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. C last. There were four counts in the ind i F t° o 4ll BAILLIE stated that, in consequence of the publication in some table were forty or fifty dumb, yet te ll loo l , newspapers of incomplete and garbled accounts of certain por- the shape of pikes of different patterns, lir f is ir about seven feet long. At the same ass'''.4 tions of the evidence given before the Ceylon Committee, the committee had reluctantly come to a resolution to conduct the ' inquiry in future with c l ose d d oors. — On the motion of Sir G. were f oun d guilty of the murder of a ba i liff t GREY, the Lords' amendments to the Party Processions (Ire- Sentence deferred. , I c , r oot! f , land) Bill were agreed to.—Lord J. RUSSELL, iii answer to a A HARDENED CRIMINAL.—At ono- if ,‘ , question from Lord R. Grosvenor, decli ne d t o m a k e any alte- Saturday, a woman was found guilty of 110 ,10,', ration in the time he had originally fixed for the duration of ing her child. After the verdict of the P r ' ili/ the Easter Holidays.—Mr. SMYTHE asked the Noble Secretary - !' lre f t for Foreign Affairs whether the dispatch purporting to be from livered, Mr. Justice Erie said she ha d 0 Count Nesselrode, which appeared an the papers of this morn- gaol 10 times.—The prisoner : You maj.,die, : i ing, with reference to the transactions between this country 1 times, my Lord, at once.—The learned Ju.dr t j and Greece, was genuine in substance, and authenticated in I tenced her to 10 years' transportation.--V' . $ 4 you, my Lord ; I Lope you will stay here, I'4 A sej its description as proceeding from the government of Russia.—Lord PALMERSTON replied that a despatch to old —, till I come back, and then I'll hrt,T; ° the same effect as that referred to by the honourable P t tailed monkey.—The prisoner was mutteridal cIP member, as well as others previously, had been communi- ,1,8 utt cated to her Majesty's government by Mr. Brunow not many all the time she was in the dock, and in vy or il, days ago.—Mr. SMYTFIE enquired if there was any objection trial a large heavy nailed shoe fell down fro op to lay upon the table not only this particular dispatch, but any , but it was instantly seized by a turnke%ip, ) other notes addressed by the same power to the noble lord.— said she had intended that for his lords Lord PALMERSTON replied, that he was preparing a continua- ' annear to be growing into a custom ill PY tion of the papers already laid before parliament, and these • • it don e is throw shoes at the judges, as was ,ii dispatches would be included among them.—ln reply to a ques tion from Mr. DENISON, Lord PALMERSTON said he could not time 12 months. tot!1 state when the papers would be ready. The French govern- STEAM to AusraALlA.—There are thre . e ,i7 . l ment had offered their good of fi ces for a settlement, but their government is at present considering. viz,: '„,ileV negociations had not yet arrive.l at Athens, so that it would be inexpedient to produce the papers until the negociations were Good Hope : England to the Cape, 6,50 , u p - y, lii f complete.—The house then went into committeeof supply, when Adelaide, 5,650 miles ; Adelaide to Sye2, o •oo Mr. F. MAULE, secretary at war, moved that the number of nay to New Zealand, 1,200 miles; -" A to i men for the army for the year be 99,139 ; the number being 14,430 miles.—Via" Singapore : Easzlanold 4,126 less than the vote last year.—Mr. HumE moved a reduc- ' 8,130 miles ; Singapore to Sydney, 4,560 O m pi tion to 88,128 men, being 10,000 fewer than proposed In the estimates. Adelaide, 1,080; England to Sydney, 12, 6 4, dey to N ew Z ea l an d , 1,200 miles ; Brnio,e4l 13,890, mil es .— Vi a Panama': England to ,l es; !j , miles ; Pana ma to N ew Zealand, 6,000 reiVelsj.,, land to Sydney, 1,200 miles ; Sydney to be fro with government,thought h ahta swhichrecommendations i s miles; England to ditto, 14,680 miles.-- -4 jos t , ol one of which is that it involves no change 0 , another that it is free from the unhealthi e c o!' incident to the Panama route, and from t he i _„, 0 1 of quarantine which attaches to that by t lO But any one of the routes is available, and 0 is after all a minor matter, if it be resole." the communication. webelievscel"oicilltrP: MANCHESTER SHARE LIST-CLOSING PRIuES MARCH . South-Eastern and Dover, 178 ; London and North-Western, C Quarters, 1-16 pm. ; North Staffordshire, 11 pm., 1-16 dis. ; Leeds fifths, S 8i dis. ; East Lancashire pref., 7a-; West Riding Union, 7 5-16 dis.; Eastern Counties, 71-; Dovers No. 4, reg., 5i ; Shrewsbury and Oswestry, 14. LONDON MONEY MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The English market has recovered from the decline of Sa turday. Consols were done at 96i, but closed at about a frac tion lower. Consols for account and money, 96, b : Three-and n-Quarter per Cents, 98i, ; Exchequer Bills, 56, 9 pm. ; Mex icans, 29i, ; Russian Scrip, 12, 2. LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The Railway market was very much depressed, and eloses at its lowest quotation. Some large sales have been made in North Western and Dover stock. London and North-Western, 104, 5 ; ditto new quarters, dis. ; Midlands, 384, 94 ; ditto halves, 25, 44 dis.; North Staffords, 114, 101; South-Eastern and Dover, 174,1; ditto No. 4 reg., 51, 3; Caledonians, 113, 3 ; ditto preference, 74, 3 ; Eastern Counties, 74, 3 ; Great Nor therns, 144, 14 dis. ; Great Westerns, 57, 8 ; Leeds fifths, 9, 83 dis. ;=.,, Nine Six rA.M. I p.m, LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. A moderate show of English Wheat. Good qualities sold steadily at previous rates; but for the coarser qualities was very dull, and prices a shade lo wer . F ore i gn moved off slowly at barely previous terms. Flour continues dull, and for the inferior kinds of ship samples a shade easier rate accepted. Barley, Beans, and Peas met a slow sale at previous terms. Malt rather quiet at last week's prices. Business in Oats very limited: supplies large: trade very dull, at about last Monday's terms. In. 1 In. Deg. Deg. Deg. 5130•55 30'55 51 46 4 6' 30'60 . 30'66 52 48 4 7 30•62 30'60 52 48 3 8 1 30'50 33'43 51 44 4 9 30'27 30'25 52 38 3 101 —1 -- -- 111 3018 30'63 —.— 5 ARRIVALS. Qrs. Qrs. British Wheat „ Barley „ Oats 7056 ~ -• „ Malt 10790 „ Flour Beans Casks.. 1534 „ 1211 a - - THE WHAT H E R.-sth : c l ou d e d . _..6o dit . . n t o o o Pt Bth : ditto.-9th: ditto.-10th: bright; at e " . 11th: bright. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL oli o MARKETS' "rr Subsequently to sending the page contain' o t article to press, we have received a fuller acc° kets, which we su bj o i n. , Since the General Brokers' Circular Was pn ilgarei day last, there h as b een more doing i n the ;AN the sales consist of 200 hhds West India, 4 ‘75e.; 39s to 42s for middling to fine white Benares , ,, fine 42s 6d. The g rocers are b are o f stoct , s oe come more freely into the market. The Put c ,',,tio:l l; i: s very flatly, quite contrary to general exPec,, - prir" being Is per cwt. on sales previously made "' o f Rice is still neglected, with the exception it,. JP white,. which sells freely at Ss 6d to 9s P er odl Rum is limited ; a parcel of Demeraras, a gf i d 2s 9d per gallon. Jute is in great request , lona, bales which were offered to-day, the whole on fo r e) at extreme prices, say £l4 15s to Xl6 per good quality, Leing lOs to 13s per ton a prices. [SECOND REPORT.] Trade has ruled dull for English Wheat, and even for the best qualities prices barely supported. Foreign also dull, and for new qualities Is. lower rates taken. Flour met a slow sale at late reduction. Common kinds of Barley a shade easier, but in other sorts and in Malt no change. Oats dull, but not cheaper. Beans and Peas unaltered in value, but a dull sale. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Sugar: refined market—Fair business done in home-made goods, and prices steady at 48s. for brown, and 48s. 6(1. to 50s for fair and good grocery samples.—Coftee remains in a dull state, and but little business expected until the news of the Dutch sales, which commenced this morning. There are sellers of Native Ceylons at 505., and buyers at 54s.—Tea : Common sound Congou quiet at 9ld. to 10(1. per lb., but more inquiry for second Teas.—Cotton continues dull, and but little doinz.— Tallow a shade firmer, and rather more business doing at stiffer prices. P.Y.C. on spot, 375. to 375. 6(1., and for three last months, 38s. 3d. to 38s. 6d. per cwt. The stock is large, and the deliveries less than last year. Home-made firmer, at 375. per cwt. cash.—No change in Metals. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARICE'"nlyt - , We have had a sm a ll i ncrease i n our sui% v joil - ft quality, which met with a f a i r d em and at 1,.. 10 .f 0 1 i d, si- 5 1 . 1 " t o 4 0. 0 40' 4 6 40. " 4d. ° 6 11 , 63d. 9 ' 53,1„' 50. 0 Oi 4.0* A Prime first-elass Heifers Second-class Heifers Prime first-class Oxen Old Cows and half-fed Oxen Prime blethers Second quality blethers . Old Scotch and Irish Ewes SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The supply of Beasts is large. Trade not so good as this day fortnight. Sheep did not sell so well, although choice Downs realized 4s 4d readily, there being but few at market. Calves sold no better than on Friday. Prime Scotch Beasts 35 8d per stone. Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d : Veal, 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d. Arrivals :—Beasts, 3600; Sheep and Lambs 20,220 ; Calves, 108 ; Pigs, 185. Holland Beasts, 138 ; ditto C alv es, 66 ; ditto Sheep, 330. Spanish Beasts, 28. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts, 2100. French Sheep, 200. Scotch Beasts, 500. Leicester and Northampton and Lincoln Beasts, 300. On the 10th instant, at Bury, in o ° l DIED. 40t1 of the ~,n n e JOHN MAURICE CONWAY, Esq., su r g';vo ' • late John Maurice Conway, Esq,of this to SHIPPING. The arrivals reported to-day are moderate. The casualties are rather numerous, but not of important character. SALE OF THE PROPERTIES AT THE LIVER THEATRE.— The sale at this favourite place of amusement, at which silks, satins, cottons, and other wares are hereafter to be exchanged for cash, we trust at more paying prices than the gems of Shakspeare and other dramatists have ; of late been, commenced yesterday, under the management of Messrs. F. and J. Hodgson. The catalogue presented a singularly miscellaneous assortment of effects. The first lot was " Don Giovanni's Horse," a very quiet animal, who was "knocked down" at a very low figure. Seven " flies", and " wings" of all sorts were amongst the lots ; the waves of " a golden sea" were heard roaring, and Egyptian s m iio u r m t,Re m e i v e ve s err w lvy beaerseefft seen t ne r a seb againegseuenn r t eo . dui an iVi under eh a re r a i o i 0 ccuh complete a sm scenessame were introduced to notice, both " d rop scenes " and , o "side andts h e e e a n t e w ri c a l 1 probablyl es t a b lishmentln roof. ----- II tler ? rot. NT, aoppi T anm l i k o e pnh p sl r eh e ta te : n ries s t i b o e n e s n of this Reverend ue n , 4 " AC the agricultural mind how to farm at the r is , i v , , ~,a,,, produce hare been recognised in high ' b traders,G ip ' the under the above title,sad havcc,ll° makes .., I D T o. quoted with great g e of 11 ' ) ,taiinc . Rev. n in tie b m ot a h n the houses of parliament. 0; .0 .... Nir plan, which I TT'' the keeping of pigs, as being the most P r(l ' l yest ' l e, th e.• ing ammonia, for manuring the land for e t a', to 0 r 's t July last year, he tells us in his patnik le ; D t ' l - , r. Hrk sn•v large number of hogs to fatten, and, in tu il l ilk U n,, Frlty ) , consumed of meal, bran, and pollard , 6 ,,,,; hi "` e , tt '"'ill 'a n '' n ,' in meat and attendance of £164 7s• 1 "40 OCsOgensten - creased in live weight, 14,467 lbs.; and , 10! 1-41 'utto, k . t v . weight at forty-five sevenths of bis, or Wile' Do ors - following would be the result of this part?!, l l 7. ze '' t t ' ones Meat sold, 10,152 lbs., at 41d. • • Xl v 7 7,_ 1 1 4 eve n 1 Cost of food, &c. 411 e it s " 8 . n -. 4 .. 0 , or, if P s r o o l fi d t at sd. per pound, the prat i2w6 - 0 ; 11 :el d !' .t., '"ce . The writer of Blackwood's pamphlet, b°"' 4 ' Mr. that iugH t ts h un e o:u p rga r o ibif p tioe o r f snt t h i lp o yeo n rt mokoefabritesnb:eahakddeeevaanasdn.sat::rgeseie'isgxhiolstr tenths'bu ei :i fi . . , itT. 1 i Els ve r (.4 to th e ' it EN C very materially alter the result „., Fir , TH E modeduring price oi thenf twhich a process i .aorcthei article e o f feeding, to 1,524 lbs. of ammonia, hiCh l at the Pr e 'llt, - 'E words : w w o o u u ld ld abpepwlyortttlis£al32st4,os ' O l 31,011.:11):(11,1e THE I ROl ti , A\l "A Nv ,tiatlck)l „Th e ;0 7 ” 4 4 4 ,ate hie 11( t i4 lN the L tt at l o il l a s s t : l ll , p r y,l9 t h h e i t i b a j l iZ Tl th„ a v e Est: '' , l()wi n Y appear I r i f t he o ° 4 r i 411 4 4 : S Ito It RO IPiti I, lll th E N -, ,win res 14 LivP: It The b• Th e li ! ! Pe Rl' v i v i: Ho l % 'llia 30 4 T 1 0_ Ph 're'e;7, t r ri)tcr°o\74 ___ .--__-- -, - " ,i , fs, , A , METEOROLOGICAL REGI S n t O %;;', 4 1 c11 , ZA N , BY MR. C. H. 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