The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. In our report last Tu,sclay of the case of White v. Sharp, tried on the preceding day at he assizes, we omitted to say that the judge gave the defendunt's counsel liberty to move the court to enter a nonsuit on the point raised I ,y him. Tne des re, expres-ed by our corresporldent Justice," of a half holiday being accorded to the merchant's clerks of this town, is one in which we fully sympathize, arid which we think oughi Labe granted. But he is is reckoning entirely without his host if he imagines that the example is likely to be set by the Anti Monop y p ity. The love of tyranny is too deeply engrafted in the heart of liberalism to allow the members of that party to relax the hold which they have upon those in subordination to them. With respect to another portion of his remarks, does our correspondent not know that the mer chant, who has been a clerk himself, is generally more ex acting than one who has not, upon the same p inciple that commissioned officers who have risen from the ranks are the greatest marbincts ? " 1.-ticus." We should gladly insert the excellent remarks of "A Constant R« ader" upon the letter which appeared lately in our Saturday's contemp racy, under the above signature. We do not w sh, however, to be involv d in a controversy (which would doubtless be the effect of our insertion of his communication) upon a subject for which the culumns of a newspaper are scarcely a fitting medium. SOUND PRINCIPLE. The entiments of these lines are good, but they w uld be better in a pros.! dress. A Friend to Consistency is assured that men live after being bespattered by the nlackguardism of the popish Mercury. The reviler is beneath notice. Let him rail his full. WRITE V. SHARP.—The facts of this case, as furnished us by " Fair Play," in reply to the p itagrai h in the Mail upon the sribject of this trial, might furnish a ground for a motion for ane.. trial, but we do not see how we could publish them upon anonymous autliortty,' and he ought to apply to the paper which made the mistake, Tax COMECIES.—We cannot inform our correspondent " Neutral" why the parties, who have offered this prize of .W5OO. do not put the cont. ibutors " out of th,.ir mi sery:" or when they intend to murder the many anxious hopes which must he entertained. Perhaps some of them will find that their fate has come upon them quite soon enough, if even it be deferred for months to come. "UNCLE SAM'S PECULIARITIES."—We have hastily perused this entertaining work, but are compelled to postpone our no tice of it until next week. Elm) 7Liberpool otanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1844. The power, which centres in the three " kings of the poor" at Somerset House, approaches its ob jects with a stealthy tread. For years past it has been aiming, unseen, at an unchallenged supremacy over the poor of the empire, and a sole administra tion of the millions annually levied for their mainte nance. Repressed by the legislature from direct in terference with those parishes which possess local acts for the regulation of their poor, (of which Liver pool is one), they have gradually broken through all restraints, until any legal exemption from their au thority has become almost a mockery. But such indfrect wielding of authority does not appear to satisfy this triumvirate. It is not suffi cient for them to lord it unrestrained over the rural parishes of England. They seek now even more extensive rule. They seek direct authority to con trol the doings of vestries and parish boards, hitherto only indirectly subject to them—to unionise, to centralise, to classify, and to render still more shadowy the little of local authority which their past encroachments have left ; and a Conservative government abets them in their endeavours to pro cure these new powers, by clauses in what they have facetiously denominated their " Amended Poor law Bill." We have already canvassed some of the proposed enactments of that bill, and, in particular, expressed our detestation of the clauses relating to bastardy, which are characterised by little less than heartless mockery towards erring womanhood, accompanied by preposterous unfairness as regards particular parishes. We shall now, therefore, confine our selves to those parts of the bill which affect places having local acts for the regulation of their poor. By the 17th clause of the bill it was evidently in tended—although Sir James-Graham escapes under the plea of obscure wording—to procure, in all pa rishes, including those having local acts, differently constituted boards of guardians, by a division of such parishes into districts, and by making the office of chairman in all cases elective. This clause, how ever, with the 56th, which compels meetings of boards of guardians and vestries to be held at least once a fortnight, has been promised, at the urgent remonstrance of deputations from the metropolitan parishes, to be modified so as not to include those places having local acts. By the 28th clause it is proposed to give power to the Poor-law Commis sioners to unite parishes, whether under local acts or not, into audit districts; and its effect will in all probability be to drag the authorities of such pa rishes as that of Liverpool, with their accounts, to whatever central locality, 20 or 30 miles distant, may be chosen by a Somerset House official in which to set up his court of audit. The most objectionable clauses, however, are those which confer power upon the commissioners to establish district schools for pauper children, who are to be removed, say 20 or 30 miles from their own parishes and friends, to some central educational establishment; and to erect district asylums for the reception of vagrant poor, in lieu-of affording them casual relief. Now we put it to our readers, what mu , t be the effect of the carrying out of these two clauses. We are already erecting, at a great outlay of money, schools for our own pauper children. Will these buildings be permitted to be devoted to their original purpose, or shall we be allowed only one of these two alternatives, viz. to contribute to the expense of some huge erection, on Chat Moss, or on some equally lively locality, to which our poor chil dren are to be drafted from the neighbourhood of their homes, or to enlarge out existing building for the reception of the pauper children of some forty or fifty additional parishes ? 'Would either of these alternatives be ratifying—be any other than most revolting to the ratepayers of Liverpool ? They would not. But even worse than this, so far as Liverpool is concerned, would be the operation of the clause re lating to the erection of district asylums. We have in this town, from its position as the inlet of the masses of Irish labour to the agricultural and ma nufacturing districts of the north of England, a greater amount of casual pauperism—of vagrant pauperism than any town in Great Britain. At a large expense, certainly, we have hitherto dealt with that pauperism, in the old-fashioned way pointed out by the old and humane law of our forefathers ; but if we are to have our present system wholly subverted, and in the place of administering casual assistance to enable poor wan derers to reach their homes or a market for their labour, we are to erect, at a vast outlay of money, a building huge enough to enable us to apply to them the favourite test of the Poor-law Commissioners — the workhouse test—we venture to predict that the ratepayers of Liverpool will find ample reason, in the increased drain upon their resources which will be required, to pray for a relief from that unconsti tutional power which thus roughrides them at its pleasure, and to feel anything but gratitude to that Conservative government which evinces such won derful alacrity in working out its inhuman and op pressive suggestions. May we call the earnest attention of the Select Vestry and of the parishioners of Liverpool to this " Amended Poor-law Bill," which proposes to visit so severely the interests of this parish ? A host of circumstances have recently occurred to shew the extent to which the central authority of Somerset House has fastened its influence —its dictation— upon our town ; have all but rendered nugatory the possession of a local act for the governance of our poor, and taken from us all save the mere shadow of control over our parish funds. It is time that we should be up and stirring in self-protection--- that we sho Id oppose a resolute resistance to those further encroachments of an alien and unconstitu- 1 tional authority, of which, it is plain, we are intended to be made the victims. Already the various pa rishes of the metropolis, more alive to their interests than the authorities of Liverpool, have made a stand against the clauses to which we have referred ; and the voice of the people of Liverpool should not be wanting to aid in an effort for their defeat. A return, containing some valuable statistical details relating to the imports, exports, and con sumption of corn, grain, meal, and flour during the year ended sth January, 1844, has just been pub lished, by order of the House of Common-, from which we *extract the following statements, which may be of interest to our readers : I The total quantity of foreign wheat upon which duty was paid for home consumption, from the sth January, 1843, to the sth January, 1844, was, according to this return, 843,739 quarters ; of British colonial wheat, (under the Act sth Victoria, cap. 14,) 12,406 qrs.; and of Canadian wheat, (under the new duty of ls. per qr.,) 12,412 qrs. The latter amount must not be regarded as furnishing a crite rion for our future trade with our North American possessions, as the reduction of duty to ls. only came into operation last autumn. The total quantity of foreign wheat and wheat flour imported during this period was 948,309 qrs., and of colonial, 119,239 qrs.; against which the exports were 71,236 qrs. The quantities of other foreign grain imported were as follows, viz., barley, 178,686 qrs. ; oats and oatmeal, 84,597 qrs.; rye and ryemeal, 4,872 qrs.; peas, 39,668 qrs.; and beans, 47,999 qrs. The amount of duty received during the above period, upon the various descriptions, was, for foreign, £601,172 ; for British colonial, £2532; and for Canadian, £620 ;—in all £604,324 this year, against £1,093,340 during 1842. Thus, in these two years, or rather from the passing of the Corn Bill on the 29th of April, 1842, a revenue has been derived from foreign grain of £1,694,512, averaging £847,256 per annum. The rate of duty during 1843, was, from January to the end of July, 20s. ; in August and September it fluctuated between 18s. and 14s. ; and in October, November, and December it was 19s. to 20s. The average rate paid throughout the year may be stated at 14s. 3d. The largest quantity of foreign wheat was entered in the month of September, viz., 600,846 qrs. in one week, at a duty of 15s. per qr. ; 46,396 qrs. were entered in the same month at 17s. per qr., and 40,501 at 18s. Under the old Corn Law, the greater part of the foreign wheat and flour im ported was thrown upon the market in the month of September, at a duty of ls. only, the preceding two months being employed by speculators in cre ating an artificial scarcity, in order to raise the averages to the necessary height. During both the years in which the new law has been in operation, such attempts have failed. In 1842, the lowest duty attained was Bs., and last year 14s. Thus a large revenue has been gained from an article which previously contributed little, whilst the supply has not been diminished below the wants of con sumers; and attempts to extort extraordinarily high prices have been checked by the gradual operation of the scale. The highest monthly average price of wheat in England and Wales last year, was 595. 7d., and the lowest 465. 2d., showing a difference be tween the two extremes of 13s. sd. per qr. The real fluctuation, however, of the price of the whole quantity consumed through the year has not ex ceeded a few shillings per quarter. The total quantity of foreign and colonial wheat and wheat flour in warehouse, at the end of De cember, 1843, amounted to 220,743 qrs. The views of th• advocates of protection, as to the low rates of freight at which foreign wheat can be imported into Great Britain, are fully borne out by this return. The largest wheat-importing coun tries to this kingdom during the past year have been Prussia, (which has furnished two-thirds of the whole,) Germany, Russia, Denmark, and the North American colonies. This fact, also, in great part, determines the question, whether, under any corn law, the United States of America are able to con tend with the corn-growing countries of Northern Europe, as we have been told by the Cobden and Thornely school of politicians they would be. Under what has, in effect, been almost a fixed duty, the United States have furnished a mere fraction of our supply. We are told again and again by flippant "libe ralism" how mach of the wrongs and grievances of Ireland is inflicted by the establishment of the Pro testant Church in that country ; but we much question if it has ever entered into the heads of such declaimers, to enquire to what extent the real grievances, —the wretchedness and ghastly poverty of the Irish people —are to be attributed to the exac tions of the Romish priesthood themselves, and the pressure of that voluntary system (!) which is held up to us as the perfection of human wisdom and human justice. We have luckily at hand the means of enlightening our English readers with respect to the working of Popish voluntaryism in Ireland, its intolerable pressure upon the poor Roman Catholic population, and the cormorant avarice of those to maintain whose usurped dignities it is employed. The authority, from which we take our informa tion, is a letter which has just been addressed by a Roman Catholic clergymen, through the medium of a leading Irish Conservative journal, to his co religionists, complaining of the course which has been taken by the Romish hierarchy in Ireland, in rejecting, without any concurrence, or even consul tation, with the body of the priesthood, the proposed, or at least mooted, Government provision in lieu of the present system. The letter, we may premise, was refused insertion in the Liberal papers. The writer maintains that the great bulk of the Romish clergy would gladly accept such state provision, or any provision which would free them from the rapacity of their superiors ; and he proceeds to show the interested motives by which, on the part of the bishops, such refusal has been prompted, by the fact that "no ministry, however profligate of the means of the slate, could dream of allowing them, for the maintenance of their episcopal dignity," more than they at present exact from the people ! W e give the heads of these exactions, as laid down by the writer—remember, reader, a Roman Catholic priest. " 1. In the first instance, they must be paid 5s 6d. for every pauper who marries in their diocese; and, no mat ter whether the parish priest, in the conscientious discharge of the power vested in himself, marries a couple gratis, seeing often that, unless he does so, the parties would live in public sin, to the great injury of religion; yet the parish pries. must account to the bishop for every mar riage, and pay him for every marriage, wheih••r rich or poor. Should the parties be in good circumstances, the bishops insist on a proportionate share of the marriage fees." A pretty large slice this of the charge for coupling the males and females of an almost pauper population. But proceed to No. 2. "2. For dispensations in the prohibited degrees of kindred both in consanguinity and affinity. According to the proximity or remoteness of the relationship, bishops get from £3 to £5, according to the state in li'e and na ture of the circumstances of the contracting parties." Sad want of a Luther here " 3. Bi,hops select and set apart two or three of the best par shea in their dioceses ti:r their own u-e, which, in ecclesiastic,! parlance, are designated as nit-nsal parishes, that is, to enable those dighitares to support their establishments and sustain the pomp of their high stations in the church." I-Lppy must be the condition of these " mensal parish?s," whose inhabitants are bled and blistered under the immediate eye, and for the benefit of, the chief spiritual physicians. " 4. Bishops get f rom £3 to £6 f or every a lt a r in.every parish under their spiritual controul, and the money is c.illed praxis money.' 5. Along with getting so much from the parish priests, they also must get from one to two guineas from every curate, according to the supposed means of his curacy. 6. Bishops get from every clergy man whom they may appoint to a parish or parish priest thirty or forty guineas, or more, according to the nature of the benefice to which the clergyman may have been collated. This is called collation money, according to our language, and is the same as the money the tenants give for the leases of their houses and farms. 7. In some parts of Ireland it is the practice for every clergyman to pay £1 or lOs for the bishop's servant. Thus it is noto rious that the servant only gets a small salary out of that fund ; but the remainier goes, of course, to maintain the dignity of the mitre ! 8. Bishops, in fine, have and take to themselves the annual Christmas and Easter collec tions made at their mensal chapels, and do not allow their curates or administrators one shilling of it to support themselves." A goodly collection of profitable items are here, which our " Roman Catholic cl ergyman" instruct us how to sum up—thus : . . " There are in every diocese, arch and suffragan, with very few exceptions—such as Galway, Kilmacduagh, and Killala—at least sixty or seventy parishes, and every parish produces at an average 100 marriages. Every parish has three or four altars—the annual average num ber of vacancies may vary from ten to sixteen. Now, let the marriage fees, the fees for kindred, the praxis money for every altar, the collection charges, the receipts of the mensal parishes, the nominal servants' collection, the curates' episcopal dues—let all this money be added to gether, and the public will be able to say that the bishops are right to oppose with all their power any state provi sion for the Irish hierarchy." We will endeavour to make the calculation for our communicative friend in our best arithmetic. Here it is. YEARLY REVENUE OF AN IRISH BISHOP. 60 parishes, averaging 100 marriages each, at ss. 6d. per marriage £1650 0 0 Say " praxis money," for 60 parishes with 3 altars each, at £4 each 720 0 0 Ditto from curates, at £l. 10s. each 270 0 0 12 vacancies per annum, collection money—or quere, bribe ?—from each fortunate candidate, 30 guineas 378 0 0 Bishop's servants, say 60 parishes with 3 altars, at ss. each Ascertainable regular income of each " titular," therefore £3063 0 0 A sum considerably more than he would receive as his share of any government provision ; and this, too, well paid, for each bishop receives his money all in a bulk at the several visitations from the seve ral parish priests, or from the " vicars foreign," generally appointed in the several deaneries to dis pense in " bans" and collect the episcopal fees. Three thousand and odd pounds per annum of regular income for each of the bishops under a " voluntary system ;" and this with the items taken at the lowest estimate. The highest would give us four thousand, at least. And then add the proceeds of the two or three mensal parishes—the best in the various districts—and which may fairly be put down at seven or eight hundred per annum ; the feel o for dispensations, which we have no data for estimating; and other miscellaneous and casual sources of epis copal income ; and without doubt it will be seen that an Irish Roman Catholic bishop is a much better paid personage than the world has generally imagined he could he in a country so miserably poor We cannot at this moment remember how many of them there are drawing at this rate directly from the packets of the Irish people; but it is clear that their exactions constitute no small amount of the moving cause of the poverty and privation endured by that people. And now let us see, from the same authority— who can be contradicted if he has spoken more than the truth—how their reverences, th • priestood, con tinue to maintain themselves in good case. We quote verbatim from the writer : "1. In the first place, parish priests charge every householder, rich and poor, 2s. 2d. a-year as their confes sion dues, and a day is set apart for every village twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, to receive the people's confessions, and to collect the s. 2d. from every head of a family. 2. It is also a matter of course, whether rich or poor, to have a good dinner and breakfast, with plenty of whiskey, for the clergy and their clerks on that day. 3. The parish priests charge 2s. 6. for every baptism. 4. parish priests get £1 10s. or £2 for every marriage they perform, and, if they have not the cash, they are allowed to cohabit in sin until they make it out ! 5. The parish priests make collections at every wedding; and (6) at every funeral, and insist on the relatives contributing very largely on those occasions. No notice is taken of any person, nor is any respect shown for him, who does not pay 2s. 6d. or ss. at the plate collections ! 7. They make large collections at their chapels at Christmas and Easter, and read out from their altars the names of all who con tribute, and non-contributors also. 8. They collect corn from every village in their parish, and in some parts they oblige their curates to gather it for them without any thanks. If we add together the 2s. 2d. station money, the 25.6 d. baptism fee, the marriage money, the collections at funerals and weddings, the offerings at chapels at Christmas and Easter, the result of the • borane scouring,' —if all this be reduced to one item, it will appear that they will join the bishops in opinion, and say that a state provision would be a great evil. I t would be a sore one to them, and hence their maxim is, nihil innovetur. Beautiful voluntaryism this ! Wretched people who are condemned to groan under its exactions ! Profound philosophy which imagines that a flock of cortnorants, thus battening upon the flesh and blood and prosperity of Ireland, would leave their hold of even so attenuated and exhausted a subject to grasp at the poor offering of a State provision ! THE FUNDS OF SATERDAY NI GHT.—Consols were done at par to-day, bat only for an amount under £l,OOO stock, and it is not supposed that any large sum could have been done at that price. After that bargain the quotation fell to 994, sellers, and so remained until the close of the market at 2 o'clock. In other respects Eng lish securities exhibited little variation. and values were in most instances much the same as those current on Thursday last. Bank Stock was quoted this afternoon, this being the first day of private transfer, 1981 to 199 ex. div.; Three per Cents. Reduced, 99 to lex div.; Three and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 102} to 4 ex div. ; Long Annuities, 12 7-16 to 4 ex div.; India Bonds, 88 to 90 premium ; and Exchequer-bills, 72 to 74 premium. The Foreign Stocks were steady, without any great increase of business, and the house was thinly attended in conse quence of the Easter holydays. Spanish Five per Cents. left off 264 to # ; Portuguese, 46 to 47 ; Peruvian, 304 to to 314 ; Mexican, 36* to 47 ; the Deferred, 161 tot ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 614. to ; the Five per Cents. 1001 to # ; Danish, 864 to 874; Colombian, 15f to 3 ; Chilian, 102 to 104 ; Brazilian, 80 to 81; Belgian, 104 to 105 ; Buenos Ayres, 37 to 38. RAILWAY DOINGS.—As spring opens upon us, the va rious railways are beginning to get their blood in circula tion. and to all appearances the traffic on the leading trunk lines seems likely to prove much greater than has ever yet been seen since the first establishment of the railway system. The month of April seems to open most auspi ciously for them, and we notice a general improvement in all the trunk lines, and in some of those, hitherto regarded as uncertain, and to which the public have been indiffer ent, there is a very marked improvem en t. Th e S outh Eastern and Dover may, perhaps, be mentioned as th e most remarkable in this latter respect, and, according to the traffic returns, is making rapid strides. Its receipts for the week, ending Friday las', reached the sum of £3,581, which is an improvement of nearly £l,OOO on the week preceding, and exceeds by nearly £l,OOO that of the London and Brighton for the same period. One thing greatly in favour of the Dover Railway's prospects, is, that it has only just been opened, and, even yet the Brick layers' Arms branch, which must add greatly to its reve nue, is not completed. These Improvements in railway receipts must give them increased recommendation to public notice as the best and most certain investment for capital. We see by the American papers that our Ame rican friends are beginning to get vastly inclined toward railway investments. All kinds of American Sta'e Stocks had fallen in price, varying from 1 to 5 and 6 per cent. ; railways on the contrary were daily progressing, and the rise was even greater in proportion than the fall in other securities. ROBBERY AND SPEEDY APPREHENSION OF THE THIEVES.—On Sunday afternoon police-constable Ste venson, No. 522, had his suspicions excited by three equivocal-looking fellows in Richmond-street. He ques tioned them, and not being satisfied with the account they gave of themselves, he removed them to Bridewell. On being searched a silver castor was found in one of their porkets, and on consulting the police notice of alarm, it was discovered that the house of Mr. Higgins, H o p e " street, had been entered and robbed half an hour betore. On further inquiry another of the thieves has been appre hended. They were all brotight before Mr. Rushton i n Monday, who committed them to take their trial at the sessions. NISI PRIUS COURT.-YESTERDAY. GOSLIN v. BIDDER.—This case was resumed at the sitting of the court this morning, and several witnesses were examined ti prove that the money had been lent, arid tnat the plaintiff and defendant were on terms of close intimacy. At the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. KNOWLES addressed the jury for the defendant, contending that the latter was not indebted to the plaintiff to the extent of a single shilling—that he could have bor rowed money from his relatives if he wanted any, and that the plaintiff was not in such circumstances as that he could afford to lend the large sum of £1,300 in the short space of 12 or 18 months. Witnesses were then examined for the defence ; after which, Mr. WATSON replied. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that although this was a claim for £1,370, no evidence had been offered to an extent exceeding £BOO, and £3O for rent. The main question in the case was, whether the evidence given in favor of the plaintiff to show that at four different times sums of money to the amount of £BOO had bt en lent, was evidence upon which the jury could safely rely. He thought juries were quite warranted in saying that they would always require pretty conclusive evidence in order to justify them in finding for the plaintiff when a case of this description, without the ordinary vouchers and docu ments, were not forthcoming, and where oral testimony alone had to be relied on. The four loans said to have been made came in order of date in this way. The plain tiff said he lent the first sum of £l2O at Christmas, 1840 ; £l5O in April, '4l; £490 in August, '4l ; and £4O in December, '4l ; making altogether £BOO. The jury retired, and, after an absence from Court for 20 minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £B3O. OLIVZRSON AND ANOTHER V. BRIGHTMAN AND OTHERS. This, which was a special jury case, was called on at 6 o'clock. Only one of the special jury (Mr. Robertson) answered ; and in consequence his lordship directed that the absent jurors should be fined in the sum of £2O each. A. tales was accordingly prayed for, and the case was tried by a common jury. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Wortley, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Tomlinson, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, M r . D un d as , M r. W atson, and Mr. Crompton, for the defendants. The action was brought against the General Maritime Insurance Company. for the recovery of the amount of a policy of insurance effected on part of the cargo of the Penang, which left Liverpool for China, in November, Mr. KNOWLES stated the case. He said this was an action in which the plaintiffs sought to recover the sum of £3,000, being the amount of loss upon a policy of in surance effected with the defendants, who were the repre sentatives of the General Maritime Insurance Company. To the terms of the policy he would call particular atten tion bye and bye, at present he would only say that the policy bad been effected on a cargo of goods, shipped on board a vessel called the Penang, which sailed from this port for China, in November, 1840. The Penang was a Liverpool vessel, and the property of gentlemen resident here ; but the cargo, which was a very valuable one, was the property of different mercantile houses in this coun try. and among others, Messrs. Garnett and Horsfall, of Clitheroe, had a part, and they were in reality the plain. tiffs in the present action, the nominal plaintffs being brokers. The cargo amounted to between £BO,OOO to £90,000 in value ; and when the Penang sailed in Novem ber, 1840, her port of destination was altogether uncer tain, as the jury would be satisfied when they heard the evidence in the case. No doubt the vessel would have made Canton, if Canton had been open at the time; but it would be seen that the state of relations between this country and China, were at the time such, that no depen dence could be placed on any existing peace, and that there was no knowing what port in China was open. Those matters were now recorded in history ; for some years uncertain relations existed ; trade was in terrupted ; and all the openings to Canton had been seized by the Chinese government ; and though there was talk of a treaty it was found that the Chinese had no disposition to concede, and that Mr. Elliott, the British representative there, had not either the power or the in clination to force the Chinese to a concession. It, there fore, became a matter of importance to all who were send ing out cargoes to China to take care and see in their po licies that all contingencies were provided against. Shortly before the sailing of the Penang, it was ascertained that there was a prospect of more amicable arrangement—that the opium, he believed, had been given up and the hos tages restored ; but, beyond that, all was uncertainty, and nobody was aware as to the state in which things would be found when the vessel arrived. Before the sailing of the Penang, the plaintiffs insured their goods with the de fendants ; and he would now call attention to the terms of the policy, for the policy itself helped to explain the case very much. The learned counsel here read the terms of the policy, and proceeded to say that it was impossible to draw up a policy in more general terms, or to invent one that was more likely to give general protection to the cargo, as the risk was to continue upon the goods until the same should be discharged and safely landed. Under those circumstances, the Penang sailed ; in the bay of Biscay she encountered some bad weather, but no material havoc ; but when off the Cape of Good Hope she was attacked by a violent storm, which did her considerable injury. One of the yards fell upon her deck; it stove in some of the deck-planks; and in consequence of the vessel being on her beam-ends for a considerable time in stormy weather, the water got ad mitted into the aperture made by the stoving in of the deck ; and of course considerable injury was done to the cargo. The captain did all he could under the circum stances ; he had lost his masts, but got up what were called "jury masts," and made the best of his way to Singa pore, where be arrived on the 13th of April ; and there he consulted parties as to the length of time it would require completely to refit the ship and continue his voyage. He was told that in three weeks or a month the whole of the repairs might be finished; and this determined him, not to unship the goods and to examine the damage done to the cargo, but rather to proceed as fast as be could to China, where the examination might with greater ease and safety take place. Had he examined the cargo at Singapore, it would have been necessary to unsh p the whole of it, to incur considerable expense in getting it into warehouses, and also to incur considerable delay ; and little doubt would exist in the end that the cap. tain exercised a very wise discretion in determining not to unship the cargo there, but to get the repairs done, and to put off the work of examination until he arrived in China. Accordingly the repairs were done ; this took up a much longer time than was contem plated ; and it was not until about the Bth of June, when all the repairs being finished, the Penang sailed to Macao ; but, in the meantime, the captain had communicated with the parties in China to whom the cargo was consigned. The bulk of it was consigned to M`Viccar and Co., an ex tensive house, having establishments there, at Calcutta, and also at Bombay. Their resident partner was a Mr. Byrn; and to him the captain wrote, informing him of the accident, telling him that beyond doubt the cargo had sustained damage, and poneing out the necessity of having meetly examination at the first opportunity. One of the partners, Mr. Fisher, had been at Singapore while the vessel was there ; and tnerefore he also would have ac culled and communicated information on the subject. The Penang reached Macao on the 22d of June. M r.Byrn was there; and so far from affairs in China having as sumed a more favorable appearance at the time, they were even more unsettled. About a month before, Can ton bad been stormed by the British forces; a treaty had taken place, but a treaty which the Chinese were show ing every disposition to avoid; they were repairing their forts on the river; Mr. Elliot bad issued a procla mation advising all the British residents to leave the place; and accordingly Mr. Byrn lett Canton, and when the vessel arrived be was residing at Macao. SO soon as Mr. Byrn saw the captain, the accident to the cargo came under consideration ; but it was impos-ible to land the goods at Macao, which was nominally a Portu guese settlement, but, in point of fact, entirely under t he dominion of the Chinese. It was connected with the man. land, and it was dependant for its supplies of fresh provi sions on the Chinese. It would, therefore, have been an act of imprudence to land ; and it was equally impossible to go to Canton, for no prudent man would have sent goods to Canton at the time. But it was necessary immediately to examine the cargo, because, if damage were done, it was every day increasing ; and accordingly Mr. Byrn took the resolution, which was best for all parties,—that of sending the Penang to Hong Kong, to tranship the goods and examine the cargo there. At that fime Hong Kong was the only harbour to which vessels could go with any safety. It was a good harbour, partially sur rounded by the land, protected from the winds, and al. ways supposed a secure place ; and, in point of fact, all the British vessels wet e then lying there—the vessels of war as well as trading vessels, to the amount of 200 sail. Having taken this resolution, and having a vessel called the James Lang. both her and the Penang sailed fir Hong Kong on the 27th of June. The Penang came to an anchor in that harbour ; the James Lang was lashed to her; and without loss of time the examination of the cargo was commenced. It was found necessary to take the whole. of the cargo out. At that time the James Lang had on board 500 chests of tea, w hi c h it was the in tention of M`Viccar and Co. to send to Europe; and with the view of supplying the want of ballast, those chests were put on board the Penang, and the cargo of the latter was transhipped to the James Lang, When the cargo had been the most part discharged, and the damaged bales separated from the rest, and only about 200 bales remained in the Penang, an occurrence took place, to which he bad now to call particular attention. The Penang began to discharge on the sth of July, and on the 20th there was a storm called the typhoon. On the 21st it was apparent that this storm would speedily be in active operation ; and accordingly the James Lang cast herself off from the Penang, and dropped anchor a short distance off, but, by the force of the storm, which was one of unparalleled violence, she was driven on an island, where she was shattered to pieces, and where the greatest part of the cargo had been lost. Unfortunately, there wis on b.iard her the part of the cargo shipped by the plaintiffs, and upon which they had effected the insurance. Means were t, ken to collect the cargo, and altogether that part of it which was recovered amounted to £1129 14s. 21d. The insurance with the defendants was foi £4,000 ; and by deducting the sum saved from the amount of the policy , there would remain a balance of £2Bio ss. 91(1., which, with the addition of about £2OO or £3OO of interest, would be the amount of the verdict they sought to reco ver. The defendants had pleaded three pleas. The two first might be treated pretty nearly as the same ; and the third was that the James Laing was unseaworthy when , the goods were placed on board her. He believed that his learned friend (Mr. Kelly) would not rely neon the third plea, because he was in a position to show that she was seaworthy. The first plea was, that the goods were not lost in the manner alleged during the continuance of the risk ; and this would give rise to the question. whe ther, th e r i s k was at t h at t i me d e termined ? he second plea was in substance the same as the first - namely, that The goods were landed at the port o destination before the loss ; and these two pleas would raise the question which would be ultim 'rely sub mitted to the jury, and upon which they would hive to say, whether, under these pleas, the goods had been land, d at their final port of destination at the time the loss took place? He contended, that it was perteetiv idle to say any port of destination had been reached. The object of the policy was to enable the parties to take their goods to any port in China—any port where the goods might be disposed of. All was doubt when they left ; there was no certainty as to what part they should go ; the intention was, to send them to some port where they might be dis posed of; and it was pefectly idle to talk of Hong Kong as a place where the parties sending the goods even con templated that the goods should stay. There were no warehouses at Hong Kong ; if there had been, it would have made no difference, because, under circumstances, they would be just as much under the protection of the policy in a warehouse as they were when on board the Penang. The only part, where a sale could then be expected, was the port of Canton ; and that was not open. Attention had since been turned to the more eastern ports ; but, in 1840, Canton was the only place where a market could be expected for goods. Hong Kong was not such a place ; in point of fact the great motive for going to the latter place at all was, the ne cessity which existed for having the cargo examined ; and therefore the goods were under the protection of the policy when lost in the James Laing. Mr. Knowles con cluded by pointing attention to three period; from which the interest might be calculated, and by stating that inas much as the defendants had thought fit to send a commis sioner to China, they had delayed the tr al of the cause, so that the parties in favor of the plaintiffs, who were present on a former occasion, were necessarily absent now. HIS LORDSHIP thought the real point involved in the case was this—with what intention the transhipment had taken place at Hong Kong ? Mr. KELLY said, not exactly, as the intention of the parties might admit of doubt. The question would be this, whether, assuming all his learned friend bad stated, the goods were landed with the intention of waiting until the hostilities should be at an end,—whether that was not, in point of law, a determination of the voyage? He contended that it was. His LORDSHIP thought the questions would be—what was the intention of the parties in the act they did at Hong Kong ?—and next, whether the policy_ had been de termined by that act ? Mr. KELLY said that when the intention was once be fore the court, on which, he believed, he should not raise any doubt, the following question would arise :—as suming that the goods were transhipped under the cir cumstances with that intention, did that, in point of law, determine the voyage or not ? His LORDSHIP.—The only question for the jury is, what was the intention ? Mr. KELLY.—Suppose there be a question of intention, that would be the question, but I don't think there will be any. The evidence of Hugh Cumming, the captain of the Penang, and that of Thomas H. Pritchard, the captain of the James Laing, having been read, the court adjourned at twenty minutes past eight o'clock. LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT, On Tuesday evening last, this deserving society favored us with a performance, for the first time in Liverpool, of Handel's fine oratorio of " Deborah." The Music-ball was crowded on the occasion—inconveniently crowded— by a highly respectable audience. The orchestra and chorus, which were very extensive and complete, contain ing upwards of 150 performers, were conducted by Mr. G. Holden, Mr. J. Richardson presiding at the organ. The opening " double chorus" was excellently given, as indeed were the ehorusses throughout, which are fine compositions. The recitative which followed Miss Leach seemed a little at fault; but recovered herself in the duet with Mrs. Armstrong, and throughout the rest of the evening carried her audience completely with her. We understand that, with a liberality most creditable to her, the services of this young lady—and most valuable they are—are given on these occasions gratuitously. The chorus "Oh blast with thy tremendous brow," was grand, both in composition and execution, and was deservedly encored. Mrs. Armstrong sang the recitative and air which fol lowed, very chastely and prettily. In the opening recitative of the second scene, Miss Holden seemed to us to be a little off the key, and of course embarrassed a little Miss Leach, who followed her. In the other pieces allotted to her, however, this young lady acquitted herself most satisfactorily. A fine air in the second scene, " Awake the ardour of thy breast," was beautifully sung by Mr. Armstrong, whose fine deep voice was displayed in it with great advantage. The cho rus in the same scene was finely executed, and even finer still the chorus in the next, " Despair all around them." Indeed this may be called one of the best choruses in the oratorio ; that of " See the proud chief" being the other competitor for the palm of excellence. Mr. G. Holden, jun., we presume a son of the able leader, sang a recitative very neatly; and, Miss Holden appeared to great advantage in a recitative and air, but was too much drowned by the orchestra. Indeed we may remark upon this as the prevailing fault of the instru mental performers. There seems to prevail amongst each of these gentlemen an excessive ambition to be heard above his fellow,—fiddle vieiug in loudness with clarionet, and double bass scraping to overpower trombone. As the result of this contest of strength, the airs throughout were sadly marred ' • and, unless in the case of powerful singers, almost lost. It would be far better if a selected portion only of the instruments played in accompaniments. The whole performance went off extremely well, and was throughout loudly applauded. LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—A metnorialemanating from the committee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, of this town, and having attached to it the bona fide sig natures of 1,050 members of the trade, complaining of the partial operation of the window-tax, as levied upon them, was, last week, forwarded to Lord Sandon for pre sentation at the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer in his reply states that " the innkeepers and li censed victuallers of Liverpool appear to be in error as to the extent of exemption granted to other tradespeople. The window in the bar-room of a publican, if used solely for the sale of their goods, and not for the entertainment of guests, is considered as a shop window, and there does not appear to the Chancellor of the Exchequer any reason for. extending to these parties any further exemption." Mr. Wainwright in enclosing this reply expresses the sin cere regret of Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have found himself called upon to come to so unfavourable a deci sion. LIVERPOOL SHIPWRIGHTS.—Under this heading the Albion, of yesterday, contains a paragraph, furnished, no doubt, by some anonymous scribbhq - , (for we take it for granted that our contemporary would not deliberately in vent,) to the effect that the agents of the mail steamer Britannia, " being extremely anxious that her repairs should be completed without delay, wished the carpenters to work on Good Friday, to which those individuals had no objection provided they received double pay ;" and proceeded to found upon this alleged fact various charges of blindness to their own interests, obstinacy, political bias, &c. against this body of men; their chief offence, however. consisting in their refusal to consent to " a rect• sonable reduction (!) of wages." Of course with the ques tion of what are reasonable wages and what are not, — whether or not ss. a-day is more than a fair puke for the labour of a hard-working and skilful carpenter, we have nothing to do. Our business is with this Good Friday's fact, which we are enabled distinctly to state is grossly untrue. The agents for the Britannia never " wished the carpenters to work on Good Friday." They only asked them whether they intended to work and were answered no. With respect to the latter portion of our contempo rary's half abusive and half wheedling paragraph, we can assure hitn that the car enters of Liverpool are not the men to mistake chaff for corn, chips and shavings fur so lid timber or the Albion's scribbler fora great philosopher. MERCURIAL IMPUDENCE. — The following appeared in the Mercury of Friday last, and was copied approvingly into the Albion of yesterday. We give it for the sake of shewing the extraordinary glee which these twin lumina ries exhibit whenever they imagine they have caught the LIVERPOOL ST kNDARD tripping : " NEW BUILDINGS IN LIVERPOOL.—Under this title a very swaggering paragraph appeared in the tiny Tory of Tuesday, containing exaggerated statements of the abun dance of employment here for all operatives connected with building, while, in fact, though business is tolerably brisk, numbers of men have just been dismissed for want of sufficient work. If the statement should be copied into papers of circulation and influence, considerable mischief may be done to parties who may flock hither and experience nothing but disappointment." The truth of the statements in our " swaggering pare graph"—what, pray, is a " swaggering paragraph"?—we are quite content to lease to the decision of the public on our respective credits. We must, however, 'have a laugh at the Mercury's crowing over his superior " circulation and influence." as compared with our own. Happy man, who has for his readers such a multitude of bricktnakers! He should really wear his honours upon his face, and " swagger" as THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY ; and _ . _ k ;fseoapeti. sod. u,i_lrr(nsesy, treemeei:thado?aoeettitnulitruiseo.rd.., ewrssutratlichp;)aepuoeobmaarrnl ffecfdisho,tTreo,nai,trffptssuhecgpstreii,alt:f. Brickmakers', Bricksetter7, and Hodmen's Chronicle. THE f VESTRY MEETING.—The announcement by Mr. Urquhart, at the la:t meeting of the Select Vestry, that that " would probably be the last time he should have an opportunity of addressing them," must have fallen as gratefully upon the ears of the members present as a t shower t a u r p e o d n a t e l i i i e se p a a e rc f htebdefta,ecee occupant t u e g f u a st d , r o a r w s i i e l g en . r c a e e u m po i n e Lord-street or Castle-street. The " drurnly" sound of the eloquence of the leeberal Mr.. Urquhart—the philoso tp,hmiiitrirgiionti'etgh.etaodbmeiar,eartoefl phhay;racball,eamaeo,rela,.nasnlidmianitaetlileenci And, almost as blessed, to be spared the infliction of read ing, week utter week, the manufactured sp.eee.htheseßaneniwoddatherhesiest, e m t i s t r h e e p e s e e r n e t u a rt tia .t, n s w of the re t e h ye afraidesaatm Vestry thatree individual iweeedm, eua r s n td t ae h aw e ba c tk o , e l a u sb m ,d, columns h R nebos a est dical faction fromtheptuhbeli witla their . own consent, to favour us with vending u t a o b u s r en g c a e a r a d r , o i t i b r a r t a t r h i s e h y board. They a T bl h e e y te a r r e e t o u r r i e l y e p p u e t e ti n a g s oa g n e a,r,d r e i n t l nd e o r; v7t l i e , ,nirggem,o going, everys off er e b Conservatives Conservative friends ,A,aa fr tl , i iel e ve n egrins d i s s tali ar t , o et. like a thunder lap, when we are not in a state to defeat eir at th rilt: s , l the i ei ni g s e t i, u t y s t a' e a l mti i 0 17 4 Wituehesd:teeit. succeed. c a e r e e d . L et straining there be u l t.ind active THIS DAY ; to be in attendance and force e upine, e n n e o lv d e iv to is s io e n cu_re pull energetically it we would not have this Conservative parish dragged through the mire of Radicalism. DAYS. Tuesday 9 Wednes. 1 • Thurs... 11 Friday.. 12 Saturday 13 Sunday 14 Monday 15 TIDE TABLE. MAN E'er.. 3 46 4 58 6 25 7 46 8 48 9 35 10 15 HSI a DTI HOLYDAYS, STC• 3 15 4 21 5 42 7 8 8 19 g 12 g 56 14 8 Jupiter risee 4h 4finl. 13 3 Mars sets 10h. 14M. 12 6 12 6 Venus sets lih 12n1 e t. 13 4 Saturn rises 3h Om 03 ' 14 8 Ist Sunday after Eas ter 15 5 Easter Term begins• - - 4EETINGS OF CREDITORS von LIVERPOO L ` APRIL. goer 10, Isaac Eck ersley, (Ist) Is, Joseph Ridgwir,.(lst) Ditto, (audit) ' 1 12 2 :. Thomas(Proo m an t d mc d r iv o . v ) e; 13, James Stuart , (proof and div.) Ditto, 0 1 , , Michael Devine. (Ist) Ditto, jt Ditto, 5 0 16. Ralph Lewis (2d) S W e i t i h l (a F tn l i t c H r a n s f k t a nif i d . 1167,, Hen ry Ja me s v,_ilWilliam B m Sproule, Jackson, o onj ,( (anpuer Jones, (audit) ) f) 16, William Evans. (audit , 1$ 16. (proof and div.) Ditto, itto' : 0 1 17, Samuel Ball, (Ist) Ditto, il 17, William Whitley ... ... Ditto, if Ditto, 11 17, Edward Gibson, (Ist) 17, Donald Nicholson, (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 17, C. Humberston and Co. 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I ier 4iYes extend to the 22d ultimo. papers b , o-e us, was ``fu)l" of the l'exas queAion. 11 1 all his trend s h e i s repr% sente d as say i ng that t h's will Mr. 'Web s te r as in New York, and, according to the the prineip i l que s ti on o f t he d ay in Corn.ress and out of Hellas ,liven, si t s the N ew Y or k H era ld, th e mos:. Psi; anth h at av g e ive r tive assur a n ces thm the Texas treaty has no chance o f receivihg the con-tit ut i ona l vo t e o f t h e S ena t e , or of in volving the forei, n r lations of the coun t r y. Advices had ben rece i ve d f rom G a l veston , Texas, to the 7th ult. It was reporte d t h ere that C apta i n HO? had met a party o f M ex i cans, west of the N ueces , tun atter a short engauement, killed a n d w o un d e d several and n ec i e n iv a e n d ot f ur he ; took five or six prisoners. The prisoners were sent to the seat of Government at Washington. Stocks at New York were all up on the day preceding the departure of the Hottinguer, and a better feeling Pre" vailed among the brokers. COTTON M ARK ET.—SAVANNATI, March 16.—Tbe 0 1 , 4 of the week have been very limited, amounting in all only 1218 bales, 1058 of which were Upland,—viz., 27 ,7 4 74, 34 at 74, 12 at 8, 16 a t Bk, 298 at 84, 119 at S I , 391 '" 81, 71 at 81, 72 at 84, and 16 bales at 84 cents. 160 bales Sea Island, 1 at 18, 3 at 20, 10 at 204, 12 at 21, 14 at 2 1 1 , 21 at 22, 18 at 23, 31 at 24, 5 at 27; 10 stained at 6, 4 ea, 18 at 8, 12 at 9, and lat 15 cents per lb. Quotations'' Inferior to ordinary, 74 to a ; middling, 74 to SI; la id : dling fair, 84 to 84; fair, 84 to 84 ; fully fair, 8/ to "*.' good fair, 9 to —. NEW ORLEANS, March 11.—The sales of cotton °lll Saturday amounted to upwards of 4000 bales at fool° prices, but generally speaking holders are less disposed to meet , buyers as promptly as before. The principal P r. tion of the business is for England. Liverpool clas s ific a ti on —L ou i s i ana and MississipPl Inferior 6 to 61 ; ordinary, 61 to 71 ; m iddli ng, 7I to g o : middling fair, 84 8 1 - ; fair, 9to 9 4 ; goo d fair, 94 to 14 ' good and fine, la+. NEW YORK, March 21.—The market to-day is veg inactive, about 700 b a l es so ld i n smal l lots ; abou t 3W bales taken by spinners residue for export; tied. Several holders are withdrawing their supplies 1 - hopes a more active demand will follow the arrival of tin steamer. Frei g ht s are aga i n d u ll at 4 d. for.square ba lest and 4d. for rou n d bales. prices unset; The Select Vestry have appointed Samuel M'Cullocht Esq., honorary consulting surgeon to the Workhouse ana Fever Hospital. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Sunday evening, the officers of excise found a private still at work in the cellar under a shop in Dale-street. DINING-ROOMS. —We refer our readers to Mr. F• May's advertisement in the first page of our paper, who has establi , hed an eating-house on the American principle• We feel satisfied that if it is conducted with the same spiro that the " Tamony Hall" is, which he names, it must, I S the Yankees say, •' go a-bead." CASHMERE SHAWLS.—We have been shown by ML . • Searle, of Bold-street, (whose advertisement appears another column,) several pattern specimens of shawls for the ensuing summer, some of which are not only exceed ingly elegant in appearance, but possess also the light• ness, firmness, and durability, so touch desired. Thai are certainly worthy the inspection of our fair readers. NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. MYRTLE-STREET."' The Foundation Stone of this edifice will be laid on Thurs• day afternoon next, at four o'clock, by the Hon. Ft° Maule, and in the evening a Soiree in celebration of the event will be held at the Music Hall, as advertised in our present paper. • Mr. Franklin advertises in another column his dining' rooms in George -street. He sets out an excellent dinner' and the celebrity he obtained while at the Shipmaster! Association he seems determined to maintain by, if posse' ble, catering more anxiously for his customers. HI rooms, though no t ex t ens i ve, are retired and select, an d this in a town like Liverpool is no slight recommends' tion. Mr. TEMPLETON'S CONCERTS.—This fine vocalist commenced last night a series of entertainments in tha Liver Theatre, Church -street, before a numerous and highly-respectable audience. It will be perceived by au advertisement elsewhere, that on Wednesday evening 118 will give hi s f avour i te entertainment on the music o f Marp Queen of Scots; on Thursday evening a miscelia' neous selection of songs; and on Saturday evening a n eW entertainment comprising the songs of Sir Walter Scott. On Friday morning he will give an entertainment in tile Royal Assembly Rooms. THE PRESBYTERIAN M OVEMENT. ---The new agitali° ll progress at railroad speed ; and Mr. O'Connell bad better look sharp lest his monster monopoly be not speedilf entrenched upon, and the " interest " attachable to the performances at the Corn-Exchange be not transferred to the proceedings now in operation throughout the provinc e of Ulster, respecting the mixed-marriage question. Ac cording: to the D erry St an d ard, 1,500 Presny::erians at Ramelt. , n, in the county of Donegal, on Thursday las i ' at which, as at Strabane, speeches were delivered that. to: the sake of the ulti ma t e o bj ect i n view, had for the aloe'' part far better n o t h ave b een spoken—eloquent, high-see soned, and exciting though they unquestionably were. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 8• no satient point. at any rate, differing from our last rer_. Being entirely denuded of fine Butters, our market exhibirtta. The stock of indifferent Butter at present on hand. holder . :7 - ; trade for a week or two , but are of opinion tha rather more sought after, and saleable at fully mo2t anvious to part. We may not expect roac b jearrivaiii Butter is e of the genuine, will fetch a longi h figure . pickled last Quota firms. Some very bad Irish Beef Is forced open the Ma." -- & 0 "` .„.",,pt t as low a price as 58s per tierce. Good stuff fit for sailors on a long voyage, is well worth 85s to gas per tierce. Prime Port 55s to 62s lid per barrel; olhzr kinds 45s to 5 s. Nothing at all stirring in Foreign Provisions. There is no good Belfast Bacoa to be dad uSder 38s per cwt. WARRINGTON CORN MARKET, APRIL 2. Total quantities per Price per Imp. Quarter. Imp. Quartef 157 .... 4427 3 5 0 .... 0 0 0 15 .... 14 6 3 0 .... 0 0 0 LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL, INDIRECT. DIRECT. From China.. Jan. 25 .. Calcutta .. Feb. 22 .. Bombay.. March 1 .. Mauritius • . Jan. 5 .. Valparaiso Buenos Ayres MonteVideoJan.lB .. Bahia .. Feb.l7 D gl sCl'' INDIRECT. From Rio Jan. 30 Pernambuco Feb. 29 Maranham N. Orleans .. Mar. 9 Mobile Mar. 10 Savannah Mar. 13 • • Charleston • Mar. 14 • • $ New York Feb.l7 LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET' APRIL 8. Potatoes, Ip , gob s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2' tb 0 7 @ „ C ' 1 : Pink eyes Cup.; Short-tops 2 0— 2 2 Straw,Wheat. 0 4 0 4 Cattle 0 Turnips, s ton ....27 6 —2B 6 Barley Carrots TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 8. Wind at Holyhead, S.W. gentle breeze in the morning; moderate at noon. Off Holyhead, No. 3196, Safeguard Brig, at 10 a.m. yesterday', from Galveston, and No. 376, Milton Brig, at 6 p,ta. yesterday' for Montreal. Off Point Lynas, at 1 p m., has a pilot, No. 2467 crusader Ship. " - - OtY fromOvrzpatarOarismos.haenadd.Nato.loloaB.T.,BNooy.kestotg6B,rMisa.rayt H s Hartley S fr h oto io , Bordeaux. Off the Port, at 6 p. m ., 1 ship, 1 barque, 5 brigs, and -- schooners. Wheat.. Barley.. Oats.... Peas ...