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

sji , 7ll - IPfr.!noi ;f7,t7lll.larb. TUESDAY 310 zn !NG. JAN. 30, 1844. The Anti- Corn-law League is, a portion of the world ilnagines, a body of men associated for the purpose of carrying the repeal of the Corn-laws by the effect of facts and reasoning upon the judgment of the British people. The fifty thousand pounds . raised by it last y2ar it is supposed was spent in printed rubbish, to be circulated amongst the agri cultural population—in salaries to perambulating spou:ers—in getting up forged petitions to Parlia ment—in bribing and bludgeoning constituencies; and the innocent of mankind conclude that the hun dred thousand pounds to be raised this year are to be expended in the same harmless and inoffensive manner. But the innocent world mistakes the Anti-Corn law League. That pure and immaculate body is, after all, not so very pure as it ought to be. The League has discovered a " great fact"—a fact greater than that of its own existence. It has dis covered that it cannot gull the British people—that it cannot bludgeon the British people. And why? The British CONSERVATIVE PRESS stands in its way. Yes—our own William Rathhone has turned up the whites of his eye , , and, with the lungs of a Kentucky screamer, given to the world the as tounding piece of information (?), that there are people who read ourselves, and our Conservative contemporaries, in preference to League oracles, which they believe to he lying . oracles. The League cannot make headway. They cannot impel amongst the breakers the noble hark, which hears within its oaken timbers the liberties of Englishmen—because there is a pilot on board, whose voice is heard above the storm of faction and the brawl of agitation; and because the crew who navigate her pay attention to that voice more than they do to the false lights and the treacherous advice of the wreckers on shore, who are gloating on the prospect of her plunder. The Conservative press stands in the way of the League. It exposes the silliness of the small nobo dies who bark and yelp at anti-monopoly tea par. ties, and the wickedness of the more potent and in fluential quacks who pull the wires and prompt the pigmy performers. The Conservative press, there fore, must he put down. Delenda est Carthago! was never thundered forth, in the Roman Senate, more impressively and significantly than the de struction of the Conservative press has been called for in the council of the League. We are to be harassed with writs, ex officio informations, actions for libel, and indictments. We are to he smothered with as much legal slime as a hundred thousand pounds will pay for! Do not start most "liberal" reader, whose toast, drunk in tcast and water, at all whig-radical gatherings, has been " Liberty of the press—'tis like the air we breathe—if we have it not, we die !" We tell you a " great fact ;" and we are going to shew you that the very prosecutions, to which we have referred you, have already been commenced. The public no doubt remember something of a League meeting, which took place in Manchester in November last, at which the project of raising a fund of a hundred thousand pounds was originated, and a large sum subscribed by the members present. Amongst others, a gentleman, who does the buf foonery at the gatherings of the body,—Mr. John Baooks—narrated a ridiculous story about the effect produced upon him by gruel regimen, and concluded by putting down his name for £5OO. Upon these proceedings our contemporary, the Manchester Courier, commented, in a tone of banter ; and call ing to Mr. Brooks' remembrance the fact that he had, once before, promised a similar sum of five hundred pounds, as his contribution towards ano ther object, which promise he somehow or other contrived to back out of, suggested the possibility that the munificent pmounts promised at this meet ing might he only baits for the unwary—paper pledges never intended to he redeemed. For this suggestion, our contemporary has been visited with legal prOceedings, and will shortly he brought into a court of justice, to await the verdict of a jury of his countrymen. At this, if John Brooks himself and our contem porary were the only parties concerned, we should not complain. But the prosecution is not Mr. Briioks' at all. He is only the "John Doe" in the affair, THE LEAGUE itself being the real prosecu tors. Yes, this " liberal" and enlightened body it is who are directing the. powers of the law, not to protect the character of John Brooks from injury inflicted upon it, which a jury perhaps, estimate at a farthing., but to crush, in the person of the Manchester Courier, an organ which beards it in the chief seat of its seditious agitation, and eiposes to to the world, with the authority of an eye witness, the hi lowness of its composition. It is THE LEAGUE which is devoting a portion of i ts hun dred thousand pounds to the infamous purpose of annihilating the liberty of the British press. This is no mere supposition of curs. It is the just and only deduction to be drawn from the declara tion in the case. That document stares, as the ground of the acticn against our contemporary, that he ". Falsely, wickedly, and maliciously, did compose and publish, and caused and procured to be published, of and concerning the plaintiff, and of and concerning the said _National Anti-corn-law League, and of and concerning the. plaintiff so being a member of the said National Anti-corn-law League as aforesaid, an.i of and concern ingthe plaintiff and the said other persons so associated and.united.togoher as aforesaid, for the purposes in that behalf aforesaid, and of and concerning the said National Anti-corn-law League so proposing and endearonring to raise and collect the said stock or fund of £lOO,OOO, in manner and for the proposes in that behalf aforesaid, and of and concerning the said, public meeting so held as aforesaid, and of and concerning the plaintiff so attending and being present at the said public meeting as aforesaid, aticf - of and concerning the plaintiff so addressing the said meeting, and in the course of so doing making the said statement and promise in that behalf aforesaid, and of and concerning , the said other proceedings at the :said meeting, and of and concerning the said newspaper called the Manchester Guardian being so printed and published as aforesaid, and of and concerning the said contents of. the said Manchester Guardian herein-before set 'forth, a certain false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory libel." The League, therefore, is clearly the plaintiff. The League it is whose feelings are so sensitive th t it cannot, endure the rough side of the tongue of journalism. The League it is, of which, and to which, we must speak henceforth in taffeta phrase —use bonnved ,--:-,(N—svrap our sentences in scented cAurrtioications with perfumed wax—and be thankful if, w-,1 all our humility and cautious abstinence from anything which a hungry lawyer can twist into offensiveness, we do not find our names in the next cause-list, as defendants in an action brought by some gruel-inspired idiot, at the prompting and the cost of this combination of sedition -mongers. But will the British press submit to this insolent dictation from a body of men so unprincipled and shameless ? Is the voice of public opinion to he stifled by these grinders of the faces of the poor ? Is the light of tru th and j ustice to be extinguished by a broad-rimmed beaver, or blown out by a half crazy drinker of slops, and no counter effort to he made by Conservatism? We hope not. On the contrary, we are firmly assured, that the manifesta tion of this disposition to dragoon us into submis sion to its dictates, was all that was wanting, on the part of the League, to rouse the spirit of the Con- 'ervative portion of the British people to put down is combination of bloodsucking usurers, and to :tout from amongst us the heartless philosophy, ;vith which they are atte.npting to drug their duped followers. At all events, and whatever be the course pursued by the Conservative public, the independent BRI TISH PRESS must do its duty. The Manchester Courier does not stand alone in the war with which we are threatened. Already another journal in our own town—the Liverpool Mail—has been picked out for prosecution by the same lawyers employed by Mr. John Brooks (one of whom, by the way, is Mr. Cobden's brother-in-law 0 ; whilst we ourselves have had significant hints that we are not likely to be spared. The Conservative press, in self-defence, therefore, must be organized against these move ments to destroy its liberties ; and, as the first step, we would suggest an immediate meeting of proprie tors, to be held in some locality convenient for the whole body throughout the kingdom, to prepare mea sures to meet the crisis which is approaching them. The fact is now palpable. Th;League and the liberty of the British press cannot co-exist. WHICH IS TO GIVE WAY? On Wednesday, we observe by the placards on the walls, the public of Liverpool are to be enlightened by a meeting of " the friends of civil and religious liberty," to protest against the proceedings taken by the government in Ireland upon the pending trials of the repeal conspirators. We are to have a howl raised, of course, upon the subject of the omission from the jury panel of the sixty-nine names, of which the friends of civil and religious liberty will no doubt attribute a guilty knowledge, and perhaps direct participation, to the authorities in Dublin ; and the challenges of the names of repealers on the list is to be made into a great popish grievance —a virtual repeal of the Emancipation Act—an insult to the frequenters of the mass-house and the con venticle, not to be forgiven. It is certainly of little moment to us what may be the charges brought, or the representations made, or who may be the spouters at this gathering of the men "of all denominations." Bu. this much we suggest to them beforehand and publicly, that they should state their complaint fairly; and we will in addition remind them of a circumstance or two which they must not lose sight of. In the first place, let them remember the movement by the repeal party, which had for its avowed object, in which however they were defeated, the swamping of the panel with pledged repealers. Let them re member that, to enable the traversers to avail them selves of this new list, the trials were fixed at a later date than that at which they might have been brought on. Let them remember that, notwith standing this, the counsel for the traversers agreed, when their vexatious opposition to the existing jury had been defeated, to go back to the original list, which had been declaimed against as a Conservative list; and with respect to the omitted names, let it be distinctly stated that of these only 15 were Ro man Catholics. Moreover, with respect to the par ties blameable for the omission of these names from the juror's book, let them tell their motley audience that a portion of the sin has been already acknow ledged to by a Roman Catholic official! As to the challenges of the jury we need say little, save this, that whilst the traversers ex cepted to the names of Protestants exclusively, it was not very likely that, in a repeal prosecution, repealers would he left on the jury, when there was a consti tutional form for their removal. What, pray, is the use of the right of challenge if it may not be freely exercised ? Our readers trust pardon us for the total absence of any remarks upon the proceedings of- the impor tant meetings which occupy our columns this day. We can do no more than direct attention to the reports which we have given—to the debate in the Council upon the subject of the proposed extension of our dock space—to the great Protestant demon stration at the• Commercial-hall—to the noble effort, originated at the Music -hall, for the amelioration of the condition of the British seamen, and the noble speech in which that object was advocated by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. There is not one of these meetings which would not, 'of itself, have carried with it far more interest than any remarks of ours ; and with respect to two of them, at least—the meet ings at the Commercial-hall and the M usic-hall— any lengthened comment at this late hour would be not only superfluous but almost presuming. Connected with the latter meeting, however—the meeting of the Seaman's Reading-room and School Society—we may hazard a word or two. We may exoress the• gratification with which we see the clergy of our church entering upon the task, so appropriate ,to their sact ed character, of rescuing from degradation and oppression the sons of toil — taking their stand between the poor of Great Britain and the avarice which would doom them to the con dition and fatelot the beasts that perish. And more than all, we rejoice to see that the first olikts se lected for the church to throw her sacred shield over, are those long-neglected and sorely-abused men, the merchant seamen of our land. If there is any class to which• Britain owes gratitude—owes her liberties, her wealth, her very existence—it is to this class; and earnestly and fervently we do pray that the noble movement, at length originated, may be rewarded with all the success which it so emi nently and righteously deserves. To the able advocates of justice to these poor men we say now, go on and prosper ; and to the Briti,h public we would say, hold not back your bands from so good a work—spare not that wealth which Bri tish seamen have brought, and are daily: bringing, to your shores, in - the noble work which is now pointed out to:you MERCURIAL MODESTY.—Our contemporary of Fri day, in one of his notices to correspondents, expresses his hope that the selection of a person to fi.l the office of head constable may not be made a " political job"— j thereby meaning, of course, that it is n ,t to be . given to a conservative candidate. This 14'ffieilest in the organ of a party who, when in power, distributed the entire patron age of the council with a political bias, and even removed from office efficient public servants to make places for their political friends. Now, we hope that, in this ap pointment, the question of politics will he permitted to have weight. It is sickly affectation and: squeamishness, on the part of conservatives, to say thatubecause an ap plicant is a loyal subject and a supporter of the conser vative party an:i a con';(n•vative g-vrriiment, be therefore, be disqualified for an office which he is other wise well able to fill. A time like the present, when we have been openly menaced with "blazes in the manufac turing districts," and burning shi pp in g in our own docks, if we do not succumb to the dictation of traitors, is not a time in which conservatives can afford to hoist an op o_ nent into an office involving such great responsibilities, as those which belong to the office - of Head Consstable of Liverpool. SPRING ASSIZES "—The period for ho l d in g the en s uin g Spring A ss i zes for. the N or thern Circuit. before Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Rolfe. have been thus arranged :—Lancaster, Saturday, Feb- " ; Thursday, F e b. 22; ' Curnberfir 17 Wes t m o r land, d, Saturday, .Ftb. 2t; Northumberland and Newcasile, Wednesday,. Feb.. 28; 9 ; Liverp-Nolol,rnShaltTu'lirdaayre,hll4.4a;rcY‘ Durtnim, March . SMOKY CIIIMNIES—We know of no domestic nuisance March 23. Saturday, so great as that of a smoky chimney, nor any more. de structive to health and happiness. The progress of art has, however, so demonstrated the cause of contra drafts, I hat a remedy is now easily effected. - Mr. J. Thomas, whose advertisement appear s i n anot h er c .,l nm o, has at. tained an eminence in this art, and a singliklaiice at the numerous respectable names on his reference list must convince all that it is thoroughly understanding his pro fession that has secured him the patronage of auch distin guished scientific men. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LATEST FROM AMERICA.-ARRIVAL OF THE ASHBURTON. By the arrival of the Ohio, from New York, which sailed on the 7th instant, and the packet-ship Ashburton, which left on the 9th, we have late and important information, the most interesting of which to our readers will be that which relates to the movements in the cotton market. The George Washington had arrived out on the sth, giving, of course, the feeling here up to the day of her sailing, the result of which was a further advance on all descriptions of cotton, and a large business done. Up to the 6th it was calculated that prices must rise in England, from their rate at the departure of the George Washington, fully 11d. per lb. to be remunerative. The New York Morning Herald of the 9th, brought by the Ashburton, informs us that " the same good feeling continues ; the news from Europe has given a fresh impetus to operations, and about 8 to 10,000 bales have changed hands, with an improvement of one-eighth of a cent on sales after three o'clock, on the prices at which the market t closed on Saturday," the 6th. The sanguine anti cipate an advance here of fully 3d. per lb. from the rates of about six weeks past. It is remarked as a fact worthy of observation, that cotton is not the only article of American production which has ad vanced in price, although that advance has, in part, been caused by short crop. The advance is in all articles, and in cotton is uniform throughout the States. This feature is attributed mainly to an im proved state of the currency in America, and to the abundance o f cap i ta l , w h ic h can only be profitably invested in the staple productions of the country. The crop of cotton is estimated to produce at the utmost 1,700,000 bales ; and should it even exceed that, the ruling opinion in the New York market is, that prices must be high, as holders on both sides of the Channel are prepared to stand firm. The advices from Washington are to the 6th inst. The most important proceeding since the last arri vals was a motion in the House of Representatives, on the 3rd instant, to instruct the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill reducing the duties immediately on all importations which, by the pre sent tariff, exceed 30 per cent. to 30 per cent., and, within two years, on all articles, to 20 per cent., and providing that such duties shall be levied solely for revenue. The house refused to adopt the resolution by a vote of 57 to 112. There was also another proposition submitted, that the same committee re vise the present tariff and report a bill based entirely upon the principle of revenue, which was lost by a vote of 83 to 84. On the following day a notice, by Mr.Tibbatts, for re-considering the vote by which the house refused to adopt the resolution, was again lost. Other efforts wre made, during the day, to accomplish the same object by resolutions of various i forms, but which, however, were all voted down. Mr. Hughes, of Mo., introduced' a bill, which was read and ordered to be printed, providing for the establishment of a territorial government over the territory of Oregon. In the Senate, on the sth, a very spirited debate arose on the adoption of the resolutions calling upon the President of the United States to report to the Senate copies of any corre spondence which may have been given by the Exe cutive to the American Minister to this country, on the sabject of the title to the Oregon territory, since the 4th of March, 1841, and copies of any corre spondence which passed between the Government of the United States and ours in relation to the same subject. The resolution was postponed until the Bth instant. In the message which Governor Porter sent to the Pennsylvanian legislature, he takes strong ground in favour of immediate and decisivive measures for paying the whole debt of the state. It appears, from the message of the Governor of Kentucky, that the affairs of the state have greatly improved. The ag vregate amount of the debt has, however, increased 61,717 dollars. In the Stock-market some fluctuations had taken place. Generally the feeling was better. There was a fair demand for foreign exchequer. The rate upon London was 109 to 1091. A'NSDELT.'S PAINTING OF " THE COUNTRY MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENG LAND."—The public of Liverpool are about to have an opportunity of inspecting this splendid production of a native artist—Mr. Ansdell— already celebrated as the painter of the Waterloo Coursing Meeting. This present wt , rk contains faithful likenesses of upwards of a hundred of the leading agriculturists of England, the whole of whom have favoured him with sittings for the purpose. The painting is to be placed in the hands of S. A. Reynolds, Esq., to be engraved in the first style of art, under the management, as publisher, of Mr. Agnew, of Manchester. SPLENDID NATIONAL PicTun.E - -- - - - The splendid -paint , . - ' ing of Prince Charles Edward asleep in one of his hiding places after the battle of Culloden. is now on private view at Mr. Lac.-y's rooms, Bold-street. The subject is a splendid one; and the painter, Thomas Duncan, Esq., A.R A., R.S.A., has certainly done the greatest justice to his conception. The colouring is rich and glowing, and the lights and shades are so beautifully intermingled as to produce a harmony that is at once pleasing and ef fective. The various features of the outlawed Highland er,—and the soft and delicate countenance of the beauti ful Flora M 'Donald, who is watching with anxiety over her revered prince—are most beautifully depicted. This painting is now being engraved by the celebrated Mr. Ryall of London ; and from its being so beautifully adapted to an engra% ing, from its peculiarly effective style, as well as forming a companion print to the entry of Prince Charles into Edinburgh, it will, no doubt, meet with a ready sale. In the mean time con noi-seurs should loose no time in seeing the original. INTERESTING TO INSURERS AND UNDERWRITERS. —Much interest has been excited at Liverpool in a trial just concluded in Edinburgh, and which had reference to a vessel brourzlit there some considerable time since, almost in a sinking state, but which by extraordinary good 'luck, as it was thought, or management on the part of the People having charge of her, was enabled to get into port, although in such a shattered state as to be probably use less; indeed, she was a complete wreck, and it was to the astonishment of all nautical men that she did reach the nort. The name of the vessel is the Laura, bound from North America to Liverpool. She has been lying at Li. verpool for, nearly twelve months, and it seems she was insured for £6500, but was valued at £7500, leaving the owners their own insurers to the extent of about £l5OO. After three days trial it was decided that the Laura, which had gotisuch serious damage at sea by running on hoard an iceberg, and afterwards strained on a bank at Liverpool, must be considered as a total loss, and that the underwriters are responsible to the amount of their insur ance. The amount of the decision is, that the ship would be abandoned by the owners to the underwriters. and the the full value of the ship, £7500, claimed for. The plea set up by the opposing parties, who belong to marine in surance offices in Scotland, was that the ship could be re paired. Her bows were completely beaten in, and yet they said that they could repair her and make her every thing to be desired ! Probably the depreciation in the value of shipping between the date of the insurance and the time of the accident occurring was the reason of the underwriters' refusal to pay the loss. The grand point is, that the owners have recovered the whole amount of their insurance, the same as though the ship had been entirely lost at sea. Some thirty or forty witnesses were subpcened from Liverpool on the trial, in addition to those from other places. _ _ A SCIENTIFIC COINER.—On Thursday week superin tendent M`Donald, of the police of this town, appre hended a man named Morton, at Swansea, on a charge of coining. The prisoner is a well-educated man and had always moved in respectable rank in life. Latterly he carried on business as a wool stapler in Dublin, and being here at the Talbot Inn, Vernon street, about two months ago, he inquired of a casual visitor in the bar if he knew of any one capable of constructing a peculiar machine from drawings. The stranger told him that he knew a gentleman who did such things for his amusement, and named Mr. M'Donald, on whom Morton called,'showed his drawings and offered £25 for the instrument' when completed. M'Donald divined his object, closed with him, and received £5 in hand. Having taken precautions against being cheated, he communicated with Mr. Powell of the mint, who, he found had suspected Morton and had kept him in sight for nearly seven years. Three years ago he traced him to Birmingham, where be had ordered *dies worth £lOO, and a machine called a punching press, worth £6O. The makers and die sinkers suspecting his object, had caused inquiry to be made, and the result was 'that Morton, although he had paid part of the money. never appeared to claim the ordered articles. Since then In had resided principally in Dublin, as a wool stapler, but still persevering to make coin in so perfect a manner as to appear genuine. M'Donald continued to mature the machine, and Morton who came occasionally to see it, said he wanted it tot coin medals, and as it drew near completion, insinuated that he wanted dies struck: Sud denly he disappeared, and Mr. Powell traced him to Swansea, where M'Donald apprehended him in private lodgings. He was taken to Birmingham, and committed to Warwick. The account in the Journal (from which this is condensed) states, that " although he had never coined a single shilling, the machine and dies, and the metal preparations, on trial, had been so skilfully executed, that they produced silver which no ordinary eye could distin guish from good ones. They had the genuine rim!, &c." [There is something very strange in this account. A su perintendent of police agrees to make. and makes a per fect machine for coining, receiving £5 on account and security for the balance! The machine, is also, stated, produced "silver," which is still stranger; and the pri soner " leid never coined a single shilling," so that he has done no harm to th e pu b l i c. I t i s n ot positively stated either that any dies were f oun d i n his possession for the making of shilli ngs or other co i n o f the realm. It is certainly a novel and somewhat questionable way of detecting a coiner for a police officer to make the coining machine for him. If this principle of prevention he car ried nut, perhaps we shall have police officers (in disguise) employed in making false keys, " J ac k s i n t h e b ox ," and selling them to burglars!—EDlT. STANDARD. SECRETS OF THE PRISON HOUSE. When we referred, last week, to the circumstance that, by an arbitrary interpretation of the rules of the Poor Law Commissioners, the unfortunate paupers in our workhouse are deprived of the opportunity of learn ing anything of that world from which poverty has driven them, we were little aware of the kind of authority to which they were subjected. We were not aware that in this conservative town, under a conservative select vestry, whose chairman is the senior rector of our parish, the poor inmates of our workhouse are governed with a despotism so harsh 'and unfeeling as it appears they are. We were not aware that, under the present governor, it is a crime in a pauper to have in his possession a con servative newspaper, even although it may have been -upplied by the kindness of a friend, for a purpose bene ficial to the pauper himself. . . It appears, however, that such is the case. Last week, we are informed, a pauper in the workhouse was discovered indulging in the atrocious gratification afforded by a perusal of the Liverpool Standard. An old man he was—one who had probably paid rates to the town in his better days —one who had friends beyond the walls of his workhouse prison, and thus an interest in the world without, which it is only Christian charity to gratify. But such gratification is not within the contemplation of the representatives in our workhouse of the new poor law philosophy. By them, poverty is regarded as A cnimE. Paupers have no right to consider themselves citizens of the world in which we live. They have no right to know that a friend or a relation is dead, or that there is a chance opened for their own re-establishment in the world. Acting upon this harsh interpretation of the laws, the paper in this poor man's hands was immedi ately taken from him—an inquiry instituted as to the means by which it was brought within the walls—and one of the paupers who refused to afford this information, and perhaps could not afford it, ordered to be put upon disorderly diet for twenty-four hours. Now, this, we submit, is not the kind of treatment to which the ratepayers of the parish of Liverpool wish their poor to he subjected. Already they have been deprived of the privilege, formerly enjoyed by them, of going out of the workhouse once a-week ; and it is a little too bad that they should he deprived of the poor alterna tive which was left them of hearing of the world's pro ceedings through the columns of a respectable newspaper. A workhouse was surely intended as an asylum for age and poverty. This rigour is fast converting it into a gloomy prison -house. It will, no doubt, be said that the exclusion of news papers is in accordance with the orders of the commis sioners, which direct the exclusion of all publications having "an improper tendency, or likely to produce in subordination." The world, however, is pretty well aware that this is a mere pretence. The object of this rigorous and overstrained interpretation of the order in question is to render existence within a workhouse more intolerable ; and the same parties who evince this spirit would not hesitate, had they the power, to forbid the sun to shine upon, or the pure air of heaven to visit, the faded cheeks of their immured and heartworn fellow-be- ings. It is a wretched and unfeeling philosophy which thus manifests itself ; and we trust that its further de velopement will be checked by the select vestry. LIVERPOOL CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening an eloquent sermon was preached in St. Mark's Church, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, and a collection of £47 10s. was made in aid of the funds of the above so ciety, which was established in 1822, for visiting and re lieving the sick and distressed poor of all religious deno mination, at their own dwellings. During the past twelve months this admirable society relieved 2,900 cases, con taining upwards of 11,000 individuals. THEATRE ROYAL, C H URCH -ST REET. —M RS. RAY MONDS BENEFIT.—The performances at this theatre during the past week have presented nothing upon which we have not already commented ; but last night, for the benefit of Mrs. Raymond, we were presented with a treat, in the revival of the "The Merry Wives of Windsor," cast with all the strength of the company. In thee rowded state of our columns to-day, it is impossible that we can give any detailed notice of the piece. It will be repeated, however, this evening, with other attractive performances, for the benefit of the same lady ; and, whilst we recom mend all lovers of the l'gitimate drama to see and judge for themselves. we must reserve our comments till next week. The house, last night, we need not say, was cram med, and visitors to night, should therefore go early. MISS WELLER'S SECOND CONCERT, AT THE ROYAL ASSEMBLY-ROOMS.—The great success of Miss Weller's first conceit, and the inability of many parties to obtain tickets on that occasion, made it imperative upon the fair benefiiciare to announce a second Soiree Musicale, which accordingly took place on Thursday evening last, and was well attended, the room being completely filled. The programme differed materially from that of the former soiree, the only compositions retained being the Fantasia by Miss Weller, the grand Norma duett, and the ballad of the " Old and New Year," sung by Miss Whitnall. The audience appeared to relish Miss Weller's brilliant Fantasia as highly as before, as also the Norma duett, loudly applauding both. Miss Whitnall was in admirable voice, sang the ballad with great taste, and was en cored. Mrs. Chatfield, who appeared to have recovered from her temporary indisposition, sang with Miss Whit nall Merea_cUnte'a duett " 0 vrce suave," very well : theii voices Tharmontsece on v , nou charming and most pleasing effect. Mrs. Chatfield sang " On the banks of Allan Water" with much feeling and good taste, accompanying herself on the piano -forte, and was encored. Mr. Ryalls was entrusted with one of Mr. Lewis's songs, " Swiftly o'er the water glides," and was encored. The concert went off extremely well, and ap peared to give satisfaction and pleasure to all present. DEATH FROM THE FALLING OF A BALE OF COTTON. —On Satuday, and by adjournment, yesterday, an inquest was held before the Borough coroner, touching the death of Isaac Croasdell. The deceased was a hoop merchant, of Low-wood, near Ulverston. Samuel Carr, a porter, said, that on Saturday morning about ten o'clock he was engaged in sampling some bales of cotton in Mr. Wain_ wright's warehouse, in Wapping. which was going to t n h a es e l d ing M o `N u n la t n he s b h a a le d charge s.After o s f the s b bS h a rt i o l eo e a e e s k i k n 'p l g i oa a i nr d t td : b a a n e l e A d so s m a p i va d tnm i weighed, witness )e thought its assisted ecur e . elklt then I turned in n e d his hack to sample another bale, and directly after heard M`Marms call out that the bale had slipped out of the rope. Witness went to the door of the room (No. 3,) where they were, and saw a bale and deceased lying under it, on the footpath. He went down and deceased was picked up. He was not dead, but bleeding from his mouth. T H h e e w c a . s tat t no ak dn e db n ieel t do o ni a gnea p d u st h ho l o i c mrt l t i ri o . o se, but did not speak after wards,mßei.ch Richard d e srhoapwe andid o t t h b e re b a a k l e . we. r c a w. 2 q n t .way r. , s h 2 u 6 t lb and w . asaft w er a w s a w rd o s rt a h pp X r 4 eh o e r ndld s . . The deceased, it appeared, was passing with his son be tween the cart and the warehouse when the bale fell upon him. His right leg was broken. Mr. 'Wainwright said be had let the room to Messrs. Twiname and Co., and furnished the ropes for taking in and delivering gods. The rope was nearly new. The parties occupying rooms furnished their own slings. The rope was afterwards found to be sound and entire. M‘Manus was in Mr. Shaw's employ. A witness, Roberts, said that the hales were not, he thought, slung in a proper manner at the warehouse; door ; they were raised on end and slung, and ought to have been slung while lying flat. He saw the cot ton lowered, and he considered it in so dangerous a manner that he told a police officer if they were not stopped people passing would he killed. Another witness saw the bale hanging out, saw it slipping from the noose, and called out to M'Manus to hold on. He thought the sling had slipped down the bale to the wrong end, and that M'Mannus was not to blame. The deceased's son was walking by his side when the bale fell, and, conse quently had a narrow escape. No surgeon was examined to give evidence, the deceased being killed so suddenly.— The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death, with a deodaud of £5 on the bale." CALDWALL'S SELF-FLEETING WINDLASS AND PUR CHASE.—We were not a little surprised and gratified by witnessing on Saturday, on hoard the new ship Joshua Waddington, (in the Prince's Dock) the operation of this admirable invention, which, whether as regards extraor dinary power in raising an anchor, or ease and safety in fleeting it out, appears to us to be greatly superior to any of the patent windlasses—and they are not a few—which we had before seen. There are two purchases outside the bit-heads, and also two near the centre of the barrel, be tween the two cables, though these are not necessary in all vessels. The purchase in each consists of a powerful leverage, formed by a stron g km,- or crank- interwurth long iron handles are shipped. To the upper part of the knee is attached a click passing in a curve over a wheel greater in diameter than the barrel of the windlass, and with rounded teeth inclining forwards, so that when the lever is lifted the click passes over several teeth, and dropping, catches firm hold of any one of them. The lever being then pushed down the wheel, and with it the whole windlass is sent round with great force. In the purchase, or upright part of the crank, there are four holes, and by shifting the click end the power may be in creased, or diminished. When in the lower hole one man may . lift as much weight as four men could do if it were in the' upper hole, but the latter would of course have the advantage in speed. One man may lift with this pur chase a weight at the bows of the ship of twenty-one cwt. This process is of course slower. Four men, when the full length of the arm or crutch is put on, will turn the windlass right round once, with the same weight, in four heaves of the lever. Of course when two or four levers are employed, where men are to be had, the power is in creased to double or quadruple ratio. Another great ad vantage, however, of this windlass—aud perhaps the greatest—is the fleeting apparatus attached to it, which on being brought into operation will let down an anchor at almost any speed ; and it may • be* slowed or checked, in its descent, at any depth, by one man, without the least jerking. The rims of the breaks clip round the outside of the cog-wheels, in a very simple and efficient manner, and with the slightest care any desired speed, (over hauling the chain out of the locker) may be attained, or any required slowness. In addition to these advantages, Mr. Caldwell has introduced an excellent patent deck stopper and deck pipe. The nautical gentlemen who have witnessed the trials on board the Joshua Wadding ton, have expressed their high approval of these inven tions, which have already been introduced in some of our vessels of war. The inventor brings numerous testi monials from practical men ; but-we are constrained, from want of room at present, entering more into detail. The patent windlass apparatus may be fitted to vessels having the usual wooden windlasses. MEETING AT TH E MECHANICS' INSTITUTION LAST NIGHT. A meeting of the friends of, and subscribers to this in stitution was held in the theatre of the building yesterd 'y evening, fur the purpose of aiding the committee in the establishment of a girls' school in connexion with the institution. The Right Hon. the Earl of Sefton took the chair amidst great cheering, and, rising, said that it was not his intention to occupy the time of the meeting with any remarks as to the object for which they had met; and though he would yield to no person in a desire to pro mote that object, yet he knew hi s p owers o f e l oquence were inferior to hose who would enter into details, and lay before the meeting an outline of the proceedings intended to be pursued, by a series of resolutions, to which he did not think he had any necessity to crave their at tention, as they were not there to promote any political ascendancy—they were there to promote the good of the community—(cheers.) The secretary would read a letter from the Bishop of Norwich. after which an appeal would be made to the hearts and common sense of the audience, and a not less sensitive appeal to their pockets —to which he felt assured they would respond in a man ner suited to their class. The secretary, Mr. Hodgson, here read the letter from the Bishop of Norwich, in which he approved in the strongest terms of the object of the meeting, and lamented his inability to attend. T. WISE, Esq.. M.P., then rose to propose the first re solution, which applied to the establishment of the schools, arid the necessity of providing education for the female portion of the community, and advtered in most glowing and eloquent language, to the progress of the institution since he had last (some years ago) had the pleasure of ad dressing an assembly in that building. He then ventured to hope that but a few years would go by ere such insti tutions would be spread through the land : this he had ventured to prophecy—and other institutions, not oppo nents. but imitations—not to throw objections in the way, but to rival it in doing good, now existed. He alluded to the cramped means formerly offered for attaining know ledge, which made education a manopoly, and its proles. sors an aristocracy; and in an affecting manner pictured the utility, and the blessing, an educated woman was to society, and to the influence women possessed over the masculine portion of tbe community. He depicted the cha racter of the Eastern women, and the influence custom produced on them, and illustrated the progress of educa tion through the women of the more civilized nations of Rome and Greece, proving that the great object of educa tion in women was to produce a corresponding influence on men, as mothers and as wives—for behind the greatest characters of men was seen shining the radiating influence of the mother. He then alluded in stronger language to the depraved condition of the colliery arid factory classes designating them as in a state of heathen blindness and crime, and concluding his most eloquent address, by ex horting to spare no exertion in forwarding an object that would be of so much benefit in improving the moral c dition of a class who had as great a claim on society for education as their more favoured brethren, the male por tion of the community. He retired, after speaking up wards of an hour, amidst great applause. H. Hominy, Esq., in a short address, seconded there solution ; after which The SECRETARY read a luminous report of the corn mitte, which is about to be published, and which is cer tainly worthy of attention, as it treats the subject in a most masterly manner. The report concludes by stating that through the munificence of George Holt, Esq., the committee had made arrangements for Blackburne H ottse, a building admirabiy adapted for the purpose proposed. Dr. BLACKBURNE moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. BRANCRER, and carried una nimouslv. Other resolutions were carried relative to the prelimi nary department of the establishment, and the meeting, after voting thanks to the Chairman and Mr. W.se, sepa rated, all apparently highly delighted, and much interested in the object for which it was called. SURROGATE AT WEST DERBY.—The Rev. Thomas Gardner, M.A., the incumbent of St. Anne's Church, has been appointed by the Chancellor of the Diocese one of his surrogates for the granting of marriage licenses, the probate of wills, &c. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.—We understand that the Rev. Joshua Hughes, vicar of Abergwili, Cartnarthenshire, who is nearly related to the Rev. Wm. Hughes, of this town, preached in the 'Welsh language, to a very numerous con gregation, at St. Paults Church, last Sunday afternoon. We hear, likewise, that the Bishop of St. David's, whose palace is at Abergwili, performed the duties in Welsh at Abergwili church, last Sunday, in the vicar's absence. The inhabitants of the principality can now justly feel proud in having the above learned prelate often officiating in their own ancient language. CHARGE OP CRUELTY AND ASSAULT AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—On Saturday afternoon, and by postpone ment yesterday, Mr. Rushton was engaged for many hours in investigating a case in which an English captain (Peter Petre) master of the barque Lydia, was charged with having inflicted several dangerous wounds on several parts of the body of one of his seamen, Josiah Lawton, a native of Massachussetts in the United States. The defendant, for many years, held a commission in the navy, and had ever since commanded merchant ships our s of this port. Mr. Harden (barrister) appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Owen (solicitor) for the com plainant. Mr. Owen briefly stated the tacts, which in volved a charge of a very grave character. He then called the complainant, who appeared with his fingers bandaged, and both his hands suspended in a sling. Complainant stated that on the evening of the 19th of December, when on the passage from the Brazils, be re ceived orders from the mate to go aloft, a .d take in the top-gallant studding sail yards. He went aloft but of one of the boOrns being too fast for him. He came down= on deck for a marlin spike to unloose it. He asked the mate if he could tell him w' ere he could find one, and the reply was " Do you think I carry a marlin spike in my pocket!" Complainant said " I d on ' t know whether you do or not,' , and the mate exclaimed " I want none of your jaw." The captain then came up, and on being told by the mate what had happened, said "Tut, tut, I never heard the like before. Com plainant said if he were not allowed to cut the heel lashing he could not send the boom down. The captain complainant had to the would not allow him to do s o , t e lli ng hi m h e must go gotaloft partlyan d complete a p ta rigging,htask.is When mate cal led to learn what he said of him, and he repeated the words. The captain thereupon cried. " You d—d Yankee son of a—, come down here." He came down, and the captain said, "The mate shall have you slung up, and give you a severe flagging." The com plainant replied " the sooner the better," and the captain immediately struck him two blows on the face. The captain and mate then seized him. The former dropped his hold and ordered two of the crew to take him aft. They obeyed taking him aft as far as the mainmast. The captain then went to the cabin and speedily returned with a sword in his hand : he went up to the man (who was held by the two) and struck him once or twice with the sword in its scabbard; but almost immediately after wards, complainant saw the sword naked. The captain then cut at him with the sword, severely wounding him on the arms, shoulders, head and hands—cutting at such a rate that complainant cried out " for God's sake, spare my life !" He, however, received two or . three cuts pore, when he again cried for mercy, believing at the time that he was bleeding to death. After the second appeal the captain ceased to cut him any more. He then told the captain he was bleeding to death. The captain in a coarse wanner said he did not believe he was bleeding at all. The two men held him whils•the captain struck him with the sword, it being very dark ; but when they found suet) a weapon was used they let him go. The complain ant afterwards asked the captain to dress his wounds. He at first refused, but immediately afterwardS seeing (as a light was brought,) he was bleeding Co piqu- I Y, he had h's wounds washed, and dressed them. Complainant denied that he ever struck the captain or the mate, though it appeared that he had had " a gripe" or tuss'e with the latter, and that they were both successively down under some water casks. Several of the sailors on board cor roborated this testimony, and spoke to the dalagerous . nature of the wounds. Kelly, a passenger on board, dressed them daily, at the request of the captain on the remainder of the voyage. Hr. Harris, of the Northern Hospital, said complainant had• been brought there the day before, and described the wounds on the arms, &c. Half of one of his little fingers had been cut off. The wounds he considered to be at first dangerthis to life, and had evidently been inflicted with a sharp instrument A sheathed s..ord could not have inflicted them, as they were clean cut. Mr. Harding said, by instructions, that a naked sword bad not been used, and that the captain had long born an excellent character. He called the chief mate, who stated that on the coast of Brazil com plainant had, when near a dangerous shoal, steered the ship from aide to side, in order as complainant said, " to have a row with the captain," and that at the time of the affray he had struck the captain, and i m mardr — him Ms.'" ` T'ha — 11150, - 1211 tug its attempted to " gouge the mate. Another passen ger said the captain's conduct was that of a gentleman, and that he had not used undue violence.—Mr. Rushton said that no doubt the complainant had been saucy; that he and the mate had had a previous grudge, but that the conduct of the captain imusing such a weapon was rash and intolerable, and he must answer for it before a tri bunal of his country.—The Captain was admitted to bail until yesterday, as (it was stated that he had some incul• patory evidence to adduce,) himself in £5OO, and two sure ties in £250 each.—Yesterday the captain again'appeared, and Mr. Harden addressed Mr. Rushton at some length, urging that the ends of justice would be satisfied by the case being disposed of, by fine, in that court; that -the captain had had great provocation ; had for a moment lost temper, and done wrong, but that an arrangement forcom pensation might, he understood; be made it with the com plainant. He added that he had some mitigatory testi mony, but when it was called failed to satisfy Mr. Rushton's mind, and after commenting on the over stretched exercise of the captain's legal powers in the case, (though he himself had long known and respected him,) he said that even if a compromise could be come to with the complainant, the pnblic interests and public jus tice must take precedznce of private feelings, and he had no resource but to send the case for adjudication in -the Central Criminal Ccurt. As, however, some :witnesses were absent, who, it was stated, .would throw some miti gation upon the conduct of the captain, he should not then commit, but take the same recognizances for his appear ance to-morrow (this day) at two o'clock. The recogni zances were produced, the captain in £5OO, and two in £250 each, and the defendant was liberated. Most of the witnesses were also bound over to appear at London, the complainant (who is an inmate of the Northern Hospital,) in the sum of £lOO —(We have been requested to give Capt. Petrie's most solemn denial that he used, during any part of the affray, a naked sword. We have also received a written explanation of the circumstances, which, if Capt. Pe' re can substantiate on his trial, will go far in relieving him from his serious position.] Jan. PO, 1844 REVIEW OF THE COTTON MARKET. The repeated and continued attacks of some of the London papers have given a great and unnecessary pr?- tninency to the operations in our Cotton Al arket. This has been another excited week; and the circumstance of two sailing packets being over-due from New York g ave speculators a stimulus to operate upon. On Tuesday 3,000 bales were sold ; on Wednesday 4,000 hales, without change in prices; on Thursday there was some excitement, and holders got rather higher prices, and 8,000 bales were sold ; on Friday the sales reached 7,000 bales, at still hardening prices ; on Saturday buying commenced briskly, and though a half holiday, 10 to 12,000 bales were sold at full prices ; ott Sunday a packet arrived, with confirmatory accounts of damage to the crops; and early on Monday the packet of the 7th inst. arrived, and brought very exciting ac counts from New York, where the market had been rambling, and heavy business done at advanced rates. This induced speculators to go on again, and 14 to 15,000 bales were sold at id. per lb. higher prices than were obtainable on Friday ; speculators taking 8,000, and thus leaving 6 to the trade ; and the market closed much excited. The crop estimate is now almost con firmed at 1,700,000 bales. Since the above was written, we have, by the arrival of the Ashburton, a file of the New York Herald to Monday the 9th instant, from which we learn that the firm tone of the market had been increased, the news from Europe having given a fresh impetus to operations, and 8 to 10,000 bags having changed hands on the day previous to the Ashburton's sailing, at a further advance of an eighth of a cent, established after three o'clock of the day, on the prices at which the market closed on Saturday, the 6th instant. The news brought by the Ohio and the Ashburton will be found in another column. MARRlED.—Yesterday, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. J. Jones, Mr. J. C. Watkinson, of Grove-house. Mobberley, near Knutsford, to Anne, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. M. Frodsham, of Liverpool. HUBARD GALLERY.—This is the last week of this unique gallery of paper sculpture. The talent of the leading arti s t, w h o i s hi mse lf i n attendance, is already too well known to need commendation. Those who value portraits should avail themselves of the present advantageous opportunity. ST. LEGER SWEEP. —This sweep, which is held at Mr. Whiteman's, Brunswick Hotel, is managed in a manner that will ensure its speedy close. Those who desire a racy affair cannot do better than visit Mr. W. on Thurs day next, which is one of the nights for payment; and those who desire comfort will find it in patronising this retired and unique hotel. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. —.TW O LIVES LOST. —About five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a river boat, containing four persons, in endeavouring to reach a barque that had just arrived from Calcutta, came in contact with her starboard quarter and capsized. Two of the hands were saved, but the other two were unfortunately drowned. A strong tide was running at the time, and the wind was blowing very fresh from the northward and westward. BOOTS AND SHOES.—N,thing is more detrimental to health in such weather as the present than to neglect to preserve dry feet;—cork soles, and a thousand other in ventions, have been brought bcfare the public; but the primary object is to secure good shoes or boots. Messrs. Sidney and Co , who have now been established for a number of years, advertise in another column ; and, as we have worn of their manufactures, we can safely say that in quality they cannot e surpassed, while the price is considerably lower than at many shops in town. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—It will he seen by a glance at our advertising columns that the first un dress concert of the present season takes place on Mon day evening the 12th of February, and the first full dress concert on the 18th March. When we state that amongst the eminent talent engaged for the occasion is included that of Miss Rainforth, one of the best Erglish singers of the day, Miss Dolby, Mr. Hobbs, and Henry Phillips; we have said enough to spew that the lovers of song have a treat in store for them. Handel's oratorio of " Judas Maccabees" will be performed on the occasion. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—It is now defini tively determined that the changes which have been ru moured in the Liverpool and Manchester courts will be carried into effect. The report, however, of Mr. Jemmett leaving Manchester is unfounded. Some communications have been going on between the Lord Chancellor and the two learned gentlemen who are about to change places; and we have to announce that in the ensuing week Mr. Sergeant Ludlow will take his seat at the Liverpool court, and Mr. Commissioner Skirrow supplying the learned sergeant's place in Manchester. Some hostility to this arrangement has been manifested by the learned pro fession in Manchester. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL, LAST NlGuT.—The annual ball of the victuallers of Livetpo took place last night, at the Town-hall, and was numegously and fashion ably attended. The Mayor, owing to his engagement to take the chair at the Music-hall, was not present ; and the Earl of Sefton, who was also expected, was detained by the Mechanics' meeting. The company began to ar rive between eight and nine o'clock, but the rooms were most crowded about midnight, when not less than six hundred must have been present. Mr. Horrabin's band was stationed in the large room, Mr Parker's Chelten ham band in the small room, and Mr. Parker's brass band in the vestibule. The dancing was kept up with great spirit at the hour when we went to press. Currrowns or. Liewurout..—The number of entries passed at the Liverpopl Customs-house was in the spective years as follows : —ln 1843, 203,124 ; 1842 r 188,155 ; 1841, 195,807 ; 1840, 197,931; thus showing that a great incre ase o f b us i ness has taken place during the last year_ Th P numberof e Alour.6...c., antY,involved in so many entries, is of course very great, yet after the usual rigid scrutiny has been completed in London, the error detected are only £3 17s. 2d. in all. (being less than a pound a year.) on a. total amount of £16,774,050. This accuracy reflects honour on The in-door department Of the customs at this port, while the total absence even of sus picion of frauds, such as have been perpetrated elsewhere, is creditable to the out-door officers as well as the men chants. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of John Gent, a carter, aged 21. On Saturday morning, about 11 o'clock, he was employed in driving the tram trains that conveyed rubbish from the Albert dock to the North shore; and when passing the Trafalgar dock, from some cause or other, he was stopping the train with a handspike,' for a break, when the bar of wood he held, slipped, and he fell to the ground, and the wheels of sev eral of the Inad&l waggons pasied'over his breast. He was killed on the spot being dreadfully fractured, nearly all over, and the left lung much lacerated. , --Verdict accidentally killed, with a deed:hid of £5 on the carriages. The jury expressed a strong opinion that a proper break should be used and net a piece of loose timber, which was liable to slip out, thus endangering the life of the party, , using it. -• DAY `s PATENT WINDGUARD.—We hag ves'erdav the plea Sure or inspecting a working mOdel.of this simple and beautiful machi eat Mr. Bennet's, in St. Thomas's build . ityg 9 - 7 ' The abject of the invention a s stated in thead vertisemetit e" is to create a draft (where otherwise it vv,onkl 'not exist) by the spontaneous action or the exter nal And it certainly fulfils every object intended to be effected. Whit appeared most ttr ingelo 13:4 was that the more adverse to ordinary draft was the artificial gale applied to the mole!, the more the prinCiple developed itself, and a pair of bellows when applied to the top of the gland in the model prodUced a greater draft than when they were applied to the fuel, hut the instapt the guard. was removed a back draft resulted. The NA indguard iB of an octagonal form, takes up no more room 'than an ordinary pipe. and is so simple in construction--every thing being stationary—that it is next to impo-sihle that it can go out of repair. For cabin stoves it will be exceed. ingly useful—and as we have known numerous instances when cabin fires have had to. be 'exiinguished either from their smoking or from the sea making its way down the flues—both of which by.this invention will be obviated —we doubt not will soon be appreciated. We would re commend the curious to see the models of this machine. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET, JANUARY 29. Potatoes; iFO S. d. s. d. Hay, old 2lb 0 6® 0 igi Pink-eyes Cups Short-tops 1 8— i 9 •traw,Wheat.• 0 0 43 Cattle Turnips, pp ton .... 17 0 —l9 0 Barley Carrots 2B 0 —2O 0 Manglewurzle 0 0— 0 0- LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 29, re3csovheigrehderi;onmd the echqsathittiy) have so long occu- Better rates are obtainable for - all descripti ons of butter. ad at 68s for s econ d s, b u t t Beef and Pork a t our ' & 4 tppm F hoi r eees e ddri s te.i h iuol Bea,medium rnikc i o f iokf,r: s ed,e t eds C ntßfr a grueo r ui nt from ti o ree w yro f . dtoih t k esrep e rtyr h . ee . t rait e otorsi q t; : be i hvil o eaeh t v. e hi i e quotations. Bacon and Hams are looking up. In.Fpnign.pro visions there is nothing extraordinary p issing ; and it is diffi cult to exterpate a certain prejudicial feeling which exist in the minds of ship m sters against their use for stores. Good Ame rican Beef in tierces (of which there is only a small quantity here )is, however, steadily held at full prices. 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